Awesome. Well, good morning. And uh thank you guys so much for being here today as we are kicking off a brand new series this morning called uh The God You Can Know. And I'm excited about uh this series and this morning and uh just what the Lord wants to do uh in our midst. And so uh I I didn't I have uh maybe a story that maybe you can relate to. Um I I didn't really grow up in a family where we were actively involved in church. We were kind of the Christmas and Easter crowd. We would occasionally go, maybe a few other Sundays. I have a lot of memories of kind of sneaking into the back pew of First Baptist Snellville, and uh the guy that was speaking, man, incredible, gifted communicator, and he would talk a lot about God and he was compelling to say the least, but nothing really sunk down into my soul about not just who God was, it wasn't just information, but that I could actually relate and I could have a personal relationship with this God. Um that was something that was lost on me. I know that he probably explained it, it just never clicked for me. And it wasn't until I went to college and I had just recently become a Christian, I had just recently given my life to Jesus, maybe a year or so before, and I had gone to college, Georgia College, State University, and I can remember being in Tarrell Hall in my dorm room, and every night opening up my Bible and reading through the book of John verse by verse by verse. And some nights I would get through a chapter, some nights I would get through just one verse, and the Lord met me there. And for the very first time in my life, I recognized that God is not just a God that can be known from an informational standpoint, that God is a God that can be known intimately and personally, that God is a God that can be the good father that we long to have. And maybe you can relate to that story. Maybe that's very similar to the story that you have in life, but but what we think about God matters. How we believe about God and who he is matters. And for some of us in the room, maybe we grew up with different impressions of who God is. For some, God is just a generic term and it kind of encompasses all the different faiths and all the different kinds of entities that are out there. For others, maybe we view God as a cosmic cop and he's the ultimate hall monitor, and he's just has his clipboard in his hand and he's just waiting for you to do something wrong so that he can write you a citation and keep record of all the wrongs that you've committed. For some, he's the ultimate life coach. And so he just wants to tell you that you're a winner, and that you're a star, and that you can do all the things that you set your mind to, that you can chase your dreams, that you're amazing. And it's interesting that he never confronts sin, that you can pretty much do anything that you set your mind out to, and all your life choices are basically endorsed. Sounds suspiciously like you a little bit. Maybe you see God as this distant grandfather figure, that he's old, he's knowledgeable, he's got some really good stories, but mostly he's uninvolved in life. He longs to just kind of watch the history channel and talk about the past, but not really relate and connect to you on daily living. I don't know what your story is. I don't know if that's something that you can connect with or not. Maybe God is a God that just tries to kind of perpetuate your personal political agenda. When your God just kind of is a God that kind of endorses everything that your political party believes. That God can sound an awful lot like your favorite commentator on your favorite news channel if you listen closely enough. See, what we believe about God matters. A.W. Tozer said it this way: he said, What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. What you believe about God will drive your purpose in life. What you believe about God will uh put your intentions and your perspective in life in order. For some, God is the reason for the ISIS terrorists that behead infidels, for the prosperity celebrity preacher getting out of his private jet late at night after late night with drinks with Kanye West. The Westboro Baptist picketers outside a military funeral screaming, the Hindu sacrificing a goat to Shiva, the African doctor sacrificing little children, the U.S. Army sniper praying to God before he takes his shot, the peace activist that's risking her neck to stop another war from happening, the singer who stands up at the Grammys after winning an award about a song that she's written about a one-night stand, but they think God. The Catholic nun giving up the normal way of life to live in a vow of poverty. All of these people are driven by what they believe about God. What we believe about God matters. And so that's what the whole series is ultimately about. That we believe that there is a God that is not just to have more information that we can know about him, but that he is a God that we can know deeply personally about. That he can interact with us in the most intimate levels of our heart and our soul, that he can be there with us, that he can be closer than a friend, that he can be not just a God that's out there, but a God that is in here. And so for the next four weeks leading up to Easter, this is what we're talking about. And the overarching idea for this series and for this morning is this is that God reveals himself so that we can know him. God reveals himself so we can know him. That he's not playing this cosmic game of hide and seek, that he's not trying to hide himself, but he's wanting to reveal himself to you this morning so that you can know him in a deeper and more intimate personal way. And so, with that said, I'd love for us just to pray once again and just invite the Holy Spirit to come. And so, Lord Jesus, Lord, we thank you for just this morning and for being able to gather here today. And uh, if I was being honest this morning up here on this platform, Lord, um, this morning has not gone the way that I want. And there's a lot of frustrations in my own spirit. And so, Lord, I pray that you would um just remove me from this equation, and Lord, that you would just use me as your vessel to speak this morning. Um, Lord, I pray that your Holy Spirit would even come now, Lord, and just give us ears to hear. Um, Lord, we long to hear your voice. And so, Lord, as we open up your word and we talk through the truth that you want us to learn this morning, Lord, would you speak to us? Um and you have the ability to speak to each person in a personal way this morning that might be different than any other person that's in the room. And so, Holy Spirit, would you come now? Would you meet with us? And it's in your name we pray. Amen. Awesome. Uh, if you have a Bible, you can turn to the very first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis, and that's where we'll be primarily most of this morning. We're gonna be in Genesis chapter 15. Um, but uh before we jump into that, that statement again, God reveals Himself so that we can know Him. Think about just the magnitude of that statement for a second. That the creator God, the one that spoke the earth into existence, can be known by you. That he knows every detail of your life, he knows your past, he knows your sins, he knows your addictions, he knows all the sins that so easily plague your soul, and yet he is a God that still wants to know you. There is no greater study that a person can do than to study about the person of God. It will change and transform everything about us that He wants to know us. And so, just to catch you up, if you're new to Scripture, if you're new to church and the Bible, um, in Genesis chapter 1, God speaks the whole earth into existence. Um, day after day, God speaks and it is and it's good. God creates the first man and the woman, and he puts them in this garden, and he's walking hand in hand with his creation. They're living in a place of perfection, walking in intimate connection, relationship with the creator God. It's this beautiful scene. But then sin enters the world through the enemy, tempting Eve and Adam to eat the fruit from the tree. They eat the fruit and they disobey God's command, and as they do that, sin and death enter. And God brings punishment and judgment on Adam and Eve, and as a result, the rest of humankind. And he tells them that they're banished from the garden. So they had this place where they were walking hand in hand with God, but now they've been banished from the garden, and there's the separation that has taken place. Not because God is mean, not because he's just a God that is trying to ruin everybody's life, but no, it's it's because they've made the conscious decision to walk away from his rule and reign in their lives. And so there's a separation that has taken place. And so the first 12 chapters of Genesis kind of play out the early history of the world. And then we get to Genesis chapter 12, and God speaks to a man named Abram. And Abram is living in this distant land, and he says, Hey, Abram, I want you to leave your house. I want you to leave your land, I want you to leave your home, and I want you to go to a land that I'll tell you about, and I'm going to make you a promise that I'm going to break, make you into a great nation. That he's going to be the father of a great nation, that he's going to have many descendants that come after him. And so Abram begins to walk with the Lord in this moment. He leaves everything he knows and he takes off to the land that God would eventually show him. This is the beginning of God bringing reconciliation into the world. It's the beginning of God working out his master plan to reconcile all of creation to himself. It's this beautiful, beautiful story that he's writing. And we move to Genesis chapter 15, and God and Abraham are still early in their relationship with one another. And God is going to establish a covenant with Abram. Now, covenant is not a word that we oftentimes use in our culture and world today, but a covenant is a more in-depth promise or commitment that you're making to someone. The closest thing we have to it today is the wedding vows that we take. We're making a covenant with our significant other, with our husband or with our wife, right? And so that's what he's going to do. Now just think about that before we read the scripture this morning, because that just should blow our minds. That the creator God, the one that is eternal, the one that has always existed and always will existed, wants to make a covenant with his creation. Like that should utterly blow our minds. So this is what it says in Genesis chapter 15, starting in uh verse 1. It says, After these events, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield. Your reward will be very great. And so right there we see that the Lord is speaking to Abram. Again, should blow our mind that he's speaking to Abram, and he says, That I am your shield, that there's divine protection that the Lord is going to give Abram. That he's saying here that he's going to give divine protection to the people that he is in a covenant relationship with, that he's going to step in, that he's going to hold true to his word, and that he's going to protect them at all cost. He continues and he says, But Abram said, Lord, God, what can you give me since I am childless and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus. Abram continued, Look, you have given me no offspring, so a slave born in my house will be my heir. So Abram's going, Okay, God, this sounds great. This is awesome. The only problem is that me and my wife Sarai, we haven't been able to have any kids. And so if you're going to build a great nation from me, like it looks like it's going to come from one of the household servants instead of actual me and Sarai. Verse 4, now the word of the Lord came to him. He took him outside and said, Look at the sky and count the stars if you are able to count them. Then he said to him, Your offspring will be that numerous. Abram believed the Lord, and it he credited to him as righteousness. He also said to him, I am the Lord who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess. But he said, Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it? So this scene is unfolding. Abraham's been given this promise, and yet the promise has not been fulfilled yet. That he's going to be the father of this great nation, but he's been unable to have children. There's infertility that is going on, but yet there is still a promise in the midst of the infertility. And God says, Hey, it's going to happen. Let's go out into this dark night and let's look up into the stars and let's see all the stars that are out there. Begin to count them. And I can just imagine Abram going, one, two, three. Like if you've ever been in a really, really dark place away from any light, and you look up and you're just amazed at the number of stars that you can see. It's an unlimited amount of stars. Later he would actually say that he was going to have descendants that numbered the uh the sand on the seashore. So we're talking about large numbers here. And he's making a point. He's making a point saying, hey, I'm going to be faithful to my promise. I'm going to be faithful to what I've told you I'm going to do. And it says in Abram's defense, it says that he believed. He believed. He didn't know how it was going to happen, but it says he believed, and it was counted to him as righteousness, but yet he still has a question. And I love that. He says, Lord God, how can I know that I will possess it? How can I know this is going to come true? How can I know that not only am I going to have descendants, but I'm also going to possess the promised land that you're telling me that we're going to possess later down in my lineage? He's asking a question, and it's not a question that was of doubt. It was just a question of, God, I understand what you're saying, and I believe it, but how? And I think we've all been there, right? We've all been to a place where we feel like we have questions or promises from the Lord, but we have questions of how and when that's going to happen. And I love that the Lord is not afraid of the questions. He doesn't rebuke Abram, but instead he says this to Abram in verse 9. He says, He said to him, Bring me a three-year-old cow and a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. So he brought all of these to him, cut them in half, and laid them in laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half. Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. What? Like, come on, like that's what is going on here in this story, right? Abram said, Hey God, how is this gonna happen? And he says, Go get these animals and slaughter them and then put them opposite of one another. This doesn't make any sense in our current world and culture, right? But God is always working in the context of the culture that he's interacting with. And what's strange to us was not strange to them. This was the normal practice for making a covenant between two parties, a contract. It was like wedding vows here, that there was this covenant that was being made. Abraham was to bring the animals that were going to be sacrificed. The parties would enter into an agreement and there would be animals that would be split in half, and it would signify that if the break in the agreement happens, that the same consequences of the animal that was there would be the consequence of the person that was making the covenant. So in other words, it was like saying, if you do everything I'm promising now, if I if I'm sorry, if I don't do everything I'm promising now, I will be cut off, I will be destroyed. May the flesh that lays on the ground to feed the birds of the air and the beasts of the fields also be my destiny if I break the contract and the covenant that is taking place. And so what God is doing here, again, weird in our culture, but very normal back in this time, is he's making a covenant with Abram. He's saying, Hey, listen, Abram's going, how am I gonna know this is gonna happen? And he's going, Okay, let me show you. I'm gonna I'm gonna promise you, I'm gonna make a covenant with you. We're gonna have a contract right here and right now. We're gonna have the sacrifices of animals. And if I don't hold up my end of the bargain, then I will be cut off. And in the old way, if you don't hold up your end of the bargain, you'll be cut off. So let's see how it continues. This is not a normal part of that we're about to read. This is not normally what happened in this culture. Verse 12, it says, As the sun was setting, a deep sleep came over Abram, and suddenly great terror and darkness descended on him. Then the Lord said to Abram, Know this for certain. Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them, and will be enslaved and oppressed. However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterwards they will go out with many possessions, but you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation they will return here for the iniquity of the Amorites. It has not yet reached its full measure. When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals. On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, I give this land to your offspring. And then he begins to describe where that land is, the land of his enemies. And so Abram is sitting here. God has made him sacrifice the animals. He all of a sudden falls into this deep sleep or trance or vision of some kind that happens, and all of a sudden there's a smoking firepot and a flaming torch. Again, weird in our culture and world today. A smoking firepot and a flaming torch that pass between the pieces of meat and animals that had been sacrificed that lay on the ground. And what this ultimately represents, these words firepot and flaming torch are the same words that are used later when God descends on the mountain of Sinai, when he meets with Moses and his people after he's brought them out of Egypt. It's the same words that are used when God says that he led the Israelite nation out of Egypt with a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day. These are the same words. In the Old Testament, God's presence was often associated with fire and smoke. And so what's happening here is that God's presence is coming down, and God's presence is walking through this hallway of sacrificial meat. He's walking through it himself while Abraham sits and watches. God goes through by himself, and it's a double presentation of God's presence passing through the aisle that has been created by these divided animals. And ultimately, it's a beautiful picture of the gospel. Abram has come to God after hearing God promise to bless him, and Abram asked God the question, How can I know? And God initiates this covenant ceremony where typically two parties would pass by. Typically, Abram and another individual would walk through the hallway of meat, but now it's just God walking through. And so here's what God is saying. This is so significant. He says, I will assume my responsibility of the covenant. In other words, I'm gonna keep my promise. If I don't live up to my end of the covenant, I will accept the consequences. But Abram, not only will I assume my portion of the responsibility for the covenant, I will also assume your portion of the responsibility of the covenant. If I fail on my part, I'll accept the consequences. But if you fail on your part of the covenant, if you can't keep the promises that you have made, if you fall short, if you sin, if you step out of line and don't follow my ways, I will accept the wrath that is due you as a result. I have covered you, Abram. I have promised to bless you, Abram. I have promised to be your God and to bring salvation into the world. I have promised to bless you. And if that doesn't happen, if you don't hold up your end of the bargain, Abram, I will take the penalty for your failure. Now, this is ultimately pointing to a scene that would happen thousands of years later when God would send his one and only Son Jesus to live the perfect sinless life and then die on the cross for your sins and for mine. He was living out, fulfilling the covenant that had been made in this moment. That he would give himself for an unfaithful, rebellious, sinful people. This is the God that you can know. A God that says, hey, I'm not going to just keep my end of the bargain, but I know you can't keep your end of the bargain, and I'm going to pay the penalty for you. That I'm going to be the substitute. That I'm going to take the curse of the covenant for both of us. Abram, you're not going to be cut off because I'm going to cover you. This is the beautiful picture of what we'll celebrate in just a few weeks with Good Friday and Easter, where he was cut off. Where he took the sins of the world on his shoulder. And I don't think that Abram understood this in this moment. I don't think in Genesis 15 that he's understanding the full weight of what's going to happen thousands of years later, that God's Son would become the perfect sacrifice and give his life for the sins of humankind. I don't think Abraham understands that. But Abraham's sitting in amazement that a creator God would come down and offer himself and make a covenant, a promise with his creation. This again is the God that we can know. And so what does this mean for us this morning? Well, first, like we said earlier, God reveals himself so we can know him. So we can know him. Listen, the gospel message is not just about going to heaven when you die. I believe that that is one of the worst lies that has pervaded the American church, that our faith in Jesus is just about going to heaven when we die. That's a perk, that's a benefit for sure, to spend eternity with our Creator and with our Savior. Yes, absolutely. That is something that awaits us. But the beautiful message of the gospel is that it's not just about going to heaven when we die, but it's about communing and having an intimate relationship with the God of heaven here and now. That it's not just about going to heaven, but it's about heaven coming to earth. It's about God invading our lives and changing and transforming us and making us into a new creation. It's not just something that comes later down the road, it's something that happens here and now. And we have a God that reveals himself so that we can know him. And think about that. Like I know, I know we're so inoculated to this idea of the gospel, but just think about that for a second. That God would die and give his life and want to be revealing himself so he could have a relationship with sinful people. I mean, I maybe we don't get the weight of our sin. That sin is not just something that we do, it's who we are, it's it's baked into our bones. And he says, Hey, I still love you. I still want a relationship with you. Even before, even while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. And he wants to reveal himself to us. He wants to have a relationship with us so that we can know him. 1 John chapter 5, verse 20, the apostle John is writing here and he says, and we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one, that is, in his son Jesus Christ. He is the true one and eternal life. So the word know there, it says, and we know. That's the certainty. That's the that's this uh this confident awareness. It's it's the information that we know about the Son of God. He's given us understanding, but then that second no right there, that we may know the true one is knowing through relationship. It's a personal knowledge. It's not just about facts about God, but it's actually knowing the one true God. It's about having this personal, intimate relationship with him. God reveals himself so that we can know him. It's not that we were looking for him, but he was looking for us. He takes the initiative, he does the work, and we can know him. We can know him. You can know him. That just blows my mind. That we can know God. Not only that, but we're invited to grow in our pursuit of knowing God. It's not just that we get this initial knowledge of God, but that our our knowledge of him and knowing him in this personal, intimate way can grow. That it can be something that in our pursuit of following him and chasing after him, that he will reveal new things and new truths to us as we the longer we walk with him. The saddest thing is older followers of Jesus, and when I say older, I mean people that have just been walking, or the people that have had a relationship with Jesus for a long, extended amount of time, but yet they're not growing in their pursuit and personal knowledge of God. That it's just kind of like, hey, I've checked the box, go to church every once in a while, but they aren't moved by the personal connection with their Heavenly Father any longer. 2 Peter 3.18 says, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. That we can grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus. That you can develop that, that you can make this a priority in your life. And it's not just a one priority out of many priorities, but it is the most important priority of our lives to know God and pursue knowing Him. This is what our lives should ultimately be about. Paul gives us a beautiful example in Philippians chapter 3, verse 10. He says, My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, assuming that I will somehow reach the resurrection from among the dead. Not that I've already reached the goal or that I am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. And this is the Apostle Paul. This is the guy that's writing the New Testament, who's starting church after church after church. And he says, Hey, I haven't reached that goal yet. I'm still pursuing, I'm still chasing, I'm still learning more about him. I'm making every single effort that I can to know him and the power of his resurrection and to know the fellowship of his sufferings. And I'm still growing, I'm still learning, I'm still knowing more about God day after day after day. And that's the invitation that we all have. Whether you are new to the faith and you've been walking with Jesus for a day, or you've been walking with Jesus for 50 years, you can know him deeper than you did yesterday. And there's no end. There's no end to knowing him, there's no end to having more intimate knowledge of who he is. It's day after day being shocked and surprised by his grace and his mercy and his love. One of my favorite things, um, one of my favorite things is again, I kind of bashed older believers a second ago, so let me say some good things. I I love, I love talking to older men, especially, that get this, that love Jesus. And like when they start talking about Jesus, like tears start filling up in their eyes because they're still so moved by him. Like, that's that's what I want. That's what I want my life to be about. That's what I want my life to count for. I want God to so know my heavenly Father that I am changed and transformed by him on an ongoing, consistent basis. And he is a God that would be willing to come to make a covenant with his people, to take the penalty of that covenant, so that you and I could have a relationship with him. Not much about us, it's much about him, but that we could have a relationship with our Heavenly Father. And so I don't know where this strikes you this morning. Maybe you are new to the faith, or maybe you're kind of still kicking the tires and exploring faith. And for you, maybe this is the first time that it's kind of maybe sunk down that God can be a God that can be known. Not just information about, but you can personally know him. Maybe this is a new idea or concept for you. And so maybe if that's you this morning, or maybe you're on the fence, maybe the prayer that you need to pray is just simply, Lord, if you're real, would you reveal yourself to me? And I think that the Lord, if that's uh coming from a heart that's full of faith and you're actually genuinely praying that, I think the Lord will answer that prayer. That's a prayer that the Lord will honor. And you say, God, like if you're real, I think you are, I believe it, but I'm just having a hard time wrestling with this. Would you reveal yourself to me? If you put your faith in Jesus and you've walked with him maybe for a little bit of time, and it's not that you don't believe in God, you absolutely believe him, and you've experienced some personal knowledge with him, but you still long for something deeper. Maybe your prayer is just, Lord, I want to know you more. Help me to want to know you more. Help me to prioritize you in my life. Teach me to hear your voice and to walk with you every single day. Reveal new mercies of who you are to me in the morning when I wake up. As I go to bed, remind me of your faithfulness. Maybe you've been in church for a long time. Maybe you've been around faith and Christianity for a long time, and there's just something that's kind of dried up within you. Maybe your prayer is, God, wake my heart up again. Wake me up. I've experienced your grace and your mercy and your love and your compassion and who you are. But Lord, wake me up again. I want to experience the depths of who you are again. And I believe that when we pray prayers or similar prayers to these, that the Lord will meet us there. He'll meet us there because he's a God that wants to be with his people. He's a God that meets us where we're at. He's a God that personally wants to be known by us. He reveals himself so that we can be known by him. And so, in a minute, our band's gonna come and kind of lead us in a response. But we thought it was also very appropriate this morning as we talk about the sacrifice of Jesus to also celebrate communion together. Abram knows or asks the question, Lord, how can I know? How can I know you're real? How can I know you won't leave? How can I know that you're going to be faithful to your word? And God says that he will make the covenant, and if Abram doesn't own up to his end of the bargain, that he would take the penalty, that he would send his son, that he would be the ultimate sacrifice for us. And as we come to the table this morning, that's what we're remembering. We're remembering the sacrifice that Jesus made on our behalf. That he went to the cross, that his body was broken, his blood was poured out for your sins and for mine. Not just so we could go to heaven when we die, but so that we could have a personal, intimate relationship with him here and now. And so as the band kind of leads and comes to kind of lead us in this moment, um, this is an opportunity for you to really reflect on that. Don't just do this because everybody else is doing this, but just slow down long enough to reflect on the truth of what we are celebrating and remembering this morning. That we are remembering the sacrifice that Jesus has made on our behalf, that he gave himself so that we could be with him, so that we could become the righteousness of God in him. And so, Lord Jesus, we thank you. Lord, and quite honestly, the words thank you don't seem to quite um express the magnitude of our emotions. Lord, we don't like to sit in our sin, and I understand why. But just for a minute, Lord, would you just would you just right now, here in this moment, would you just reveal to us the depths of our sin? Maybe it's the most shameful thing that we are just ashamed to even admit or talk about. Maybe it's an addiction that we still carry. Maybe it's a relational breakdown that we have been kind of the leader in. I don't I don't know. But Lord, just show us the depths of our sin. Because we can't understand the magnitude of your grace and your mercy until we understand that. You're a covenant-making God. That you make a covenant with your people. I promise. We can't even hold up our end of the bargain, Lord. I can't even I can't even do that for a day. And yet you still covenant. And Lord, you were willing to go to the cross for my sins and for the sins of the people in this world and in this room. Lord, so that we could once again be reunited with you. And so, Lord, even in this moment, Lord, just overwhelm us with that truth. That you're a God that we can know. Lord, to those that are new to the faith and they're still stumbling their way through this like we all are, Lord, would you just help them to, would you just reveal yourself to them? Maybe there's somebody here that's yet to take that step of faith. Lord, I pray that today would be the day of salvation. That they would step out and trust you as their Lord and Savior. For those of us that have been in and around the church for some time, and maybe there's something that's dried up within us, Lord, would you fill us again? Lord, would you help us to understand just the message that we're talking about this morning and let it overwhelm us. Lord, as we come and we take in communion this morning, Lord, help us to remember your broken body and your spilled-out blood that you did on for us. Lord, we thank you for this moment, for this time. Lord, we thank you for your blood. We thank you for your sacrifice. And Lord, we just respond to you in this moment. And so come, Holy Spirit, help us to respond to you now as we wait on you.