Together - Part 2 (LIVE)

We trace Jesus’ prayer in John 17 to a living picture in Philemon, showing how unity, reconciliation, and practical love become the church’s strongest public witness. A runaway servant, a patient apostle, and a courageous host reveal a path for healing division today.

• Jesus’ prayer for oneness as a public witness
• Unity defined by the Holy Spirit not crowd consensus
• The church’s visible care as evangelism
• Philemon’s context and the web of relationships
• Onesimus’ conversion and restored identity
• Paul’s appeal to love over command
• Debts named and grace that pays the cost
• Seeing people through Jesus not worldly lenses
• Trust, intercession, and preparing a place
• Turning trials and giants into unity training

Continue to favorite these, continue to share these and like these and all that good stuff. It really helps us. Reach another city this week. Use these in your church. Use these for your lost friends, your lost family members. Use these especially for people who are jaded.

Chapters

• 0:59 Welcome And Global Greetings
• 2:14 Jesus’ Prayer For Unity In John 17
• 5:41 Unity As Evangelism To A Watching World
• 10:15 What If Churches Truly Walked Together
• 15:38 Turning To Philemon: Context And Relationships
• 22:25 Onesimus’ Story And Gospel Transformation
• 29:50 Seeing People Through Jesus Not The World
• 35:55 Grace, Debts, And The Church In Action
• 42:35 Trust, Prayer, And Preparing A Place

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:34

Welcome. Welcome. Good to gather here in the Lord's house this evening. And um welcome to um uh those who are visiting with us this evening. Uh we're glad that you're here. Uh we're glad to have you. And um I gotta pray for those who are on the road. Uh we've got a bunch of folks on the road, and we've also got a few folks who are um uh they're sick or um being healed, they're recovering, and we look forward to them being back uh real soon. Hallelujah and amen. And uh welcome those who are listening abroad. Um Antarctica, I still haven't heard from you. Uh but um, you know, bless God, it's a blessing to be on every other continent. Amen and hallelujah. Uh, we're glad to have you as well. Um as always, reach out to us. Uh we want to hear from you. Um email us, phone call us, text message us, and um feel welcome and encouraged to um visit us in person as well. And um gotta thank the Holy Ghost. Um we'll be following up uh from last Wednesday's message, um, but um also following from last Sunday's message as well through Pastor Chris. Um uh really, really thankful for that and the way the Holy Spirit's weaving these things together. And so come on back to John 17 with me. Now we'll start in John 17 and then we'll we'll jump. But uh John 17, starting in verse 20, and uh this is Jesus. Um remind you, this is um one of the most intimate times between Jesus and the Father. So we've got Jesus, the Holy Ghost, and the Father, because you'll remember the Holy Ghost came down like a dove, settled in Jesus, um, and they're talking. And Jesus is praying, and not too long from this point, he would go to the cross. He would be hanging on the cross. But Jesus stops and he prays, and he prays, neither pray I for these alone, uh, the disciples that were with him at the time, but for them also which shall believe on me through your word, and through their word. And if if you're washed in the blood, if you're filled with the Holy Ghost, if you're born again, if you're saved, if you're a Christian, that's you. Jesus prayed this with you in mind. Jesus specifically prayed for you, and he prayed not just for you, but for everyone who would ever believe on me, believe on him through the word of those original disciples. And that's you. That's the church today. That's the church in America, that's the church in Australia, that's the church in Europe, that's the church in Japan, that's the church in Asia, that's the church in Mexico, Latin America, South America, Canada. That's this is every single person, man, woman, or child, who is in Christ right now. This is you. That they all may be one as you, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they may be one in us. And this oneness, this is why I'm grateful for last Sunday's message. Um, the spirit of Antichrist, active today, has a perversion of this. People united against God, oftentimes, sadly and confusingly, using the name of God. Not talking about that unity. This is unity in the Holy Spirit. This is unity. This is, hey, you've got the same spirit I've got. Hey, you're washed in the same blood I am. Hey, we love and we follow the same Jesus. We know the same Father, filled with the same Spirit. We're walking together, and that's all it is. There's a unity in and around and through the Holy Ghost. That's the type of unity we're talking about. And there's a side effect. The world may believe that thou father hast sent me Jesus. World's watching, we said that last week. Hallelujah and amen. And what is the testimony of the church to the world? This one thing that Jesus is talking about, the most underutilized, underrated evangelistic tool that has been forgotten, twisted, and perverted over the course of centuries. That today he wants to bring back in you, in this church, and in your church, as you're listening online. He wants to bring this back to the forefront. And it's right there in red and white. That the world may believe that thou sent me. World looks at the church, whoa. Those people love each other. And then they all got different backgrounds, they've all got different situations, they've all got different cultures, they've all got different, you know, situ and they're they're all humanly different, but they love each other. When one of them hurts, everyone gathers around. Um when whenever when one of them needs prayer, everyone's lifting them up. Whenever one of them has a practical need, look at all the other people who are stepping in. Um when there's a conflict, look at how it's resolved. Not through gossip or slander or strife or division, or not through you know hatred, and not through violence, but through through grace and through truth and through charity, brotherly love. That's that's not the world. It's different. And I'll tell you, it is a sweet testimony to the world. And that's something that the Lord wants for us in this church. That's something that the Lord wants for every church around the world today. And I've got to ask you, this is the plain, simple will of Jesus. Uh, this is the plain, simple will of the Father, plain, simple will of the Holy Ghost. He's been answering this prayer ever since it was finished. Hallelujah and amen. Is it your will? Is it your will? And let me ask you, let me what would happen if this was being walked out in just every church in America? What would happen? Um there would be no lack for anything. There would be no physical lack with the sheer number of churches just within seventy-five miles of King, North Carolina. There would be no physical lack in any of them. Um there would be no lack of people with giftings and with talents and with skills. Uh there would be there would be a powerful ministry. There would be no lack of resources to minister to the lost. There would be no lack of resources to minister to widows and orphans. There would be no lack of resources to minister to addicts, to minister to those who have been abused. There would be no lack of resources. I dare say, and this has happened in America before, it's been a while, but the church could single-handedly lower the crime rate without the involvement of local, state, or federal government. The church, because of the sheer number of people who would be seeing this testimony, yeah, there are going to be people who walk away. There's going to be opposition, but there are also going to be people who are born again. Never forget that. What is possible, not only if you individually walk in the will of the Lord in any given area, because the Lord blesses that kind of thing, hallelujah. But what would be possible if the church wasn't so fragmented in America? Now I'm of the belief, and I believe scripture backs me up on this, um any differences you have with another believer, if that other believer filled with the same Holy Ghost, you filled with the Holy Ghost, under the same Jesus, he's the head of the church, he's the husbandman of the church, the church is his bride. Y'all are related. We had that last week, amen. And you both follow Jesus and eventually you start looking alike. Now, any kind of difference between two such people will eventually be resolved. All you gotta do is get together and talk to each other. In honesty, in grace, in truth before the Lord, and I'd recommend that you both pray with and for one another. Put a hand on the other guy's hand, put an arm around the other lady, whatever the case is. And I bet the Holy Ghost Himself steps in and starts resolving differences. Um but bless God. Um that's uh that's a prayer. And um, the part two part of this, there's an entire book. I believe it's an example of this, um, Book of Phlamon. And flip on over to that. Um you might call it Philemon, or you might call it, but I gotta go with the original Greek on it, the pronunciation, uh Philamon. Real small book in the New Testament, probably on one page in your Bible. Amen. So flip on over to that, and we gotta have that in mind, John 17 in mind, and we'll step through this. And it starts out um it says, Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy, our brother, unto Philamon, our dearly beloved and fellow laborer, and to our beloved Atpia, our Kippus, our fellow soldier, and to the church in thy house. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers, hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus and toward all saints, that the communication of thy faith be made become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus. Let's unpack this. Um walk with me through a bit of history. Philemon lives in Colossae. And Colossae was in what was called Asia at the time. It's about a hundred, ninety or hundred miles east of Ephesus. Ephesus was right on the ocean side. Um, Paul is in Rome at the time under guard. He's a, I like how he disguised himself as a prisoner of the Lord Jesus, amen. Um yeah, the Romans are there, but hallelujah, Paul and Jesus. There's an intimacy going on there, you know, there's a love between them. He's filled with the Holy Ghost, he's writing, he's ministering. You might say he's a prisoner of Christ as well, in a way. And these two men have never met face to face. Paul has never set foot in Colossae. Presently, Paul is several hundred miles west of Colossae. It would have involved a long journey on the roads, it would have likely involved a long journey by ship. Um, it would have taken a really, really, really long time to get from Colossae to Rome. They've never met. But Paul has heard things. Um, Paul has heard, um, you know, likely from um man named Epiphras, because Epiphras had likely met um, all the historians kind of agree on this, met Paul if Paul was in Ephesus. Ephesus was he was there for two years. Um he disputed daily in um yeah, the house of one time um Tuanos. He was there for two years. Epiphras got saved. Epiphras started evangelizing. Epiphras went to Colossae, spoke the gospel. Epiphras went to Laodicea, which was about twelve miles away, preached the gospel there. Epiphras ministered in that entire valley because he had a connection with Paul. Paul was his spiritual father, and he had spent um probably at most two years with him. And Philamon was part of the fruit of that ministry in Ephesus. Do you see the relationships? The relationships that go back years, even though these two had never met. What's Paul doing? You know, Paul greets his wife, our beloved Atpia, probably his wife. And Arcippus, possibly their son, certainly had a ministry role in the church of Ephesus. The church of Ephesus met in this guy's house. There's a closeness here, there's a bond here, there's a fruitfulness here. The church is being the church. And because the church is being the church, the church is reaching people. He's saying grace and he's saying peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my He got about this man, he prays for this man all the time. Making mention of thee always in my prayers, hearing of your love, hearing of your faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints. What does he pray? That the communication of thy faith become effectual. This is a sharing. He's praying, he's praying for Philemon, that this faith that he's just heard of. That he be able to share it, that he be able to communicate it from a place of deep fellowship and deep affection, not only with the church, not only with brothers and sisters in the Lord, but in Jesus Christ, from a place of deep relationship and affection in Jesus Christ, that he be able to not only share this faith, not only share the joy, not only share the love, not only share the compassion, not only share the kindness, not only share the truth, not only be able to contend earnestly for the faith and to share it and to speak it. But that it be effective and strong. Because he he acknowledges every good thing which is in himself. He acknowledges what the Lord has done in him. And my friend, that's that might sound like a simple thing, but that's a powerful thing. That might sound like something, you know, why do you even need to say that? Well, you're a king in Christ, you're a saint, you're a priest, you've got bold access before the throne of God, you've got at least three separate occasions where Jesus is himself is saying, if you ask it in my name, it will be done. To glorify the Father. Every single born-again man, woman, child, you've got at least one calling, you've got at least one personal gift from the Holy Ghost Himself. You are the walking, talking, living temple of the living God. You're a member of the church, which God made to be the pillar and ground of the truth. You're light of the world, which cannot be hid. You're a city on a hill cannot be hid. You're the salt of this earth. Simply because God's looking, I believe, every day for folk. Okay, who's praying for this nation? Okay, who's praying for this person? Who's praying for this church? Who's praying for this town? God responds to that. Even if you never see it, God responds to it. It's a preservative effect on society at large. Um, been spoken before, we need to have men of prophecy standing up because you're preaching the word of God. And even if people want to run away from it, even if people oppose it, well, God starts to deal with that person. And even the fear of the Lord, and someone that reject the Lord, they're not going to get saved, they're not gonna, uh, they're they're not gonna have anything, but there's a very, very good side effect of the word of God, the fear of the Lord. My friend, that keeps a society together. And my friend, I believe God gives the church a little more time to be the church. Um, but hallelujah. Um, Paul is speaking, verse 7. We, that's the people who are with Paul, we have great joy and consolation. We had a word about encouragement tonight. This man Philemon is over there hundreds of miles away. He's walking in the will of God, he's he's he's providing for the church physically, yes. Um, he's providing for the church spiritually in many ways. He's he's just you know, John would write, I have no greater joy than to hear of my children walking in the truth. There's a joy, there's a consolation, there's a comfort, there's an encouragement that you're not the only one. That there are others, there are brothers and there are sisters, and filled with the Holy Ghost, walking with each other, great joy. The boughs of the saints are refreshed, and uh that sounds a little bit weird, maybe, if you go to the medical terminology of the day. But you know, try this. Um the zeal of the saints is refreshed, the passion, the joy, the hope, the peace of the saints are refreshed. Because bless God, we might be going through hard times. Bless God, humanly, it's rough, humanly, it hurts. And there's a saint over there. All I've got to do is go talk to that saint. All I've got to do is hear what that saint has heard from the Lord that day. All I've got to do is go over there, all I've got to do is make a phone call. All I've got to do is is get in touch, and we can have encouragement, and we can have fellowship, and we can have this a refreshment. All I've got to do is share my burden with this other saint over here. Then all of a sudden, hallelujah. The church gets the opportunity to be the church. See, this is all John 17, and we haven't even gotten up to the part that most people preach of. And so verse 8 goes on, wherefore, though I, Paul, might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee, I might be bold to command you, I might be bold to charge you in that which is convenient. Yet we both love the Lord. We both are filled with the Holy Ghost. We both are walking in the same way in God. For love's sake, the love between you and me, the love between you and Jesus, the love between me and Jesus, the love of two brethren in Jesus together, for love's sake, I rather beseech you. Being such a one as Paul the aged, he's getting old. Hallelujah. He's getting up there in years. And now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. A miracle had happened. I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds. Onesimus was a runaway servant from Philamon's household. Somehow, by the agency of the Holy Ghost, Onesimus ran into Paul. Paul was under guard in Rome. And yet Onesimus, and I doubt he intended to, several hundred miles away had run into the Apostle Paul. And Onesimus, being a runaway slave under Roman law, he could be killed by Philamon under Roman law. Severely beaten, at least. Killed, yes. That was legal. Because under Roman law, Onesimus was no modern property. And yet here Onesimus is with this letter, sort of in his back pocket, handing it to Philemon. At the first reading of this letter. Onesimus took the letter to Philemon himself. I beseech you for my son. Paul calls him his son. Because Paul had met Onesimus, not only met him, but a talk had happened. A sharing had happened. A Holy Ghost preaching had happened. And Philemon believed on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon, well, Onesimus was now born again. Onesimus was made new. Every sin, past, present, and future, that Onasimus had ever walked in, is now under the blood. Onesimus is now a born-again man. Onesimus is now a saint. Onesimus is now a brother. Onesimus is now Paul's spiritual child. And Paul is his spiritual father. And it came out that Onesimus had run away from Philemon. In time past was to thee unprofitable, and this is a play on words, I believe. Onesimus translates to helpful or profitable. In times past, Philemon, he was unprofitable to you. But now, now, under the blood, now in the Holy Ghost, this is a new man. Now he's profitable to you and me, whom I sent to you again. Therefore, receive him. That is my own bows, my own son, my own. This is affection. Whom I would have retained with me. He started ministering to Paul. Paul was in Rome. Onesimus became one of those men who helped Paul and took care of his needs in Rome. And then it came out that, well, he was a runaway from Colossae. And that in thy stead, because I've never seen you, Philamon, that in your stead he might have ministered to me in the bonds of the gospel. But without your mind I would do nothing. That your benefit should not be necessity, that I should not command you, that you should not grudgingly just sort of let him be, but willingly, as a brother in the Lord. And now here it is, my friend, and people in this room. You might be going through this. Perhaps he therefore departed for a season. There was a separation for a season. So that you could receive him forever. Not now as a servant, but above a servant. A brother, beloved, especially to me. And how much more to you? How much more to you who knew him when he was a thief? How much more to you who knew him when he wrecked your house and he hurt your house? How much more how much more? Both in the flesh and in the Lord. If you count me, therefore, as a partner, receive him just like you would receive me. Just like you would receive me. My friends, we need to look at things not as the world does, but as Jesus does. Look at the world through Jesus, through the Holy Ghost, through the Father. Don't look at Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Ghost through the world. You'll get two different things. But look at this situation, look at your situation. As the Lord sees it. Because that's what he's really saying to Philemon. Yeah, he hurt your house. Yeah, he was a thief. Yeah, he ran away. Yeah. Look at this, though. Look at what the Lord did. He would have never met me if he hadn't run away from you. He would have never met me. He would have never met Jesus if he hadn't run from you. If he's wronged you, oh my friend, this is where it gets really sweet. If he's wronged you, you know, Paul doesn't ignore it. If he's wronged you, or if he owes you odd, if he owes you anything, put that on my account. I, Paul, have written it with my own hand, if you don't believe me. I'll repay it. Albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even your own self besides. Epiphras preached to you, I preached to Epiphras. If I hadn't preached to Epiphras, he wouldn't have gone to Colossae. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Do you see the relationship? Do you see the connection? That's what the Lord wants to see to church today. Do you see the deep relationships and the deep human connections between all these men who have been connected by the Holy Ghost under Jesus, by the precious, good, holy will of the Father, who loves this world so much that he gave his only begotten son, so that anybody who believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life. And this is the church in action. This is the church in action. Where did Paul get this? I bet he thought back to Jesus. I thought, I bet Paul thought back to that day when Stephen was being stoned in Jerusalem. And Paul was there holding the cloaks and consenting to Stephen's death. I bet Paul went back to that day on the Damascus Road when the Lord stopped him in his tracks from harassing the church, from breaking in the homes, from throwing people in prison. I bet Paul went back to that day when the Lord Jesus himself personally said to him, Paul, Paul, why do you persecute me? And I bet Paul said that I'm not persecuting you, I'm persecuting them. I'm not ashamed to call them brethren. Those people you're persecuting, that's my bride. You're beating my wife. You're beating my children. You are persecuting me. And I bet Paul understood the fear of the Lord in that moment. I bet he went back to that time when he was blind for a while. And then a man named I believe his name was Ananias or Anis. The Holy Ghost nailed him down. He said, you know, you know, Paul's over there, he's on Strait Street. Holy Ghost gave him the exact address. Hallelujah. You go and you pray for him. And then that man, he had this whole, he had it out with the Lord. He's like, this is the guy who's throwing us in prison. You know, this is and then, but but from Paul's point of view, he hears he's blind. He hears a man come in. How about he put a hand on his shoulder and his head or over his eyes? And he heard the man start to pray, and all of a sudden he could see again. Paul is going back over his own sin. That Jesus became, that Jesus bore on the cross, his sin didn't just poof, gone. His sin was put on Jesus' account. Jesus had no sin. But all of Paul's sin was put on his account. All of your sin, every lost man, woman, and child listen into this. All of your fornication, all of your blasphemy, all of your hatred, all of your grudges, all all of the ungodly fears, all the accusations and the debates, all of that, you know, it's it's it's on Jesus' account. And the only reason you're still in it is because you haven't believed on him. The only reason you're still in it is unbelief. From God's sight, all of the sin got picked up and put over here on Jesus. And when Jesus died, it's all answered for. And now God stands faithful and just to forgive. Will you be forgiven? That's where Paul got this. Church, do you look at people that way? Man, you know, people put you through through the ringer sometimes, man. I mean, people, uh, I mean, you love them, and when they walk away, it's like they tear out your heart. I mean, and and it's misery and it's hurt and it's pain. Number one, if you're there, you got a church. Let the church be the church. Number two, look at them this way. Pray for them this way. Minister to everyone you see this way. Because I guarantee you, everyone you see has hurt somebody, and everyone you see has been hurt by somebody. And understand that you may be ministering to someone's onesimus. They've run away from somebody, they've hurt somebody, and by the precious Holy Ghost, I call them divine appointments, He runs you into them. And as we've heard recently in the church, with something to say. And someone named Jesus to introduce them to, so that they can begin this in their life. And my friend, um, you know it ends and it's sweet. Yea, brother, verse 20. Let me have joy of thee in the Lord. Refresh my bows. I'm in prison, refresh my brow bows in the Lord. Having confidence in thy obedience. He knows this man in the spirit. I wrote to thee, knowing that, look at this, you'll do more than I say. You'll do more. You'll not only receive him as myself, you'll you'll do more than that. But with all, prepare me also a lodging. Get a room ready in your house for me. I'm in prison, I'm hundreds of miles away. Get a room ready, I'm coming to see you. I trust that through your prayers, Paul's praying for him. I trust that through your prayers, I shall be given to you. I trust that you are praying for me in the prison. Man that I have never met. It took a long time for this letter to get to him. But I trust that you, I don't know what your voice sounds like, but I trust that you are before God for me. And I trust that you want to see me. And I trust that God is going to smile, that God is going to honor that. So I I want you to get a room ready for me. Church, do we have that level of trust in each other? Is there that level? You're praying for them, they're praying for you, and you trust that those prayers are the effectual, fervent prayers of righteous people that avail much, that cause the Lord to move, that are pleasing to the Lord. Is that your experience? If not, bless God. Look at what God did through about 400 words in the English. Look at what God is doing here. Look at what in the spirit, my friend, I want you to in the spirit. What would God do if even twenty-some people of our membership prayed this way for one another? How about the level of trust? How about the level of relationship? How about the level of unity? How about the level, you know, you know, I really believe God has put, He's left a couple giants. Why did God leave the giants? And nothing like a giant to get people unified. There's nothing like a seemingly impossible situation to get people together, if they're people in the Holy Ghost. Nothing like it. Nothing like a fire to purify out the old dross. Nothing like it to see the old giant slain. Not just look like it was slain, but really taken care of. And this is God's method. Because what you learn here, church, you will carry past this season. You will carry it to the ministry. You will carry it outward. You'll be just as unified. And that's what this world needs to see. You'll be just as unified when we're ministering to the addict, when we're ministering to the drunk, when we're ministering to the abused, so you're ministering to the widow, to the orphan. It's sort of like um old David. When he took care of the lions and he took care of the bears. Then he saw Goliath come. And then he said, Well, bless God. Is it gonna be just like those lions and bears? You got the lions and the bears right now, some of y'all in this room. You watch God knock them down. And then all of a sudden, that old giant, even though everybody else is scared. There's not a man in Israel in the army who's gonna step up to him. But you can. Because you've got what David sang about, you've got what David pre prophesied about. You've got the Holy Ghost on the inside, you've got a deeper relationship with God than David did on his best day. You've got a deeper relationship with God than David did on his worst day. You've got a deeper, more intimate fellowship with the Lord. Because the Holy Ghost is inside. And my friends, prepare for me a lodging. Hallelujah. There salute thee. Never skip these. Never skip the greetings. Epiphras, my fellow prisoner, see, Epiphras had left and to go visit with Paul. Archippus took his place in the ministry while he did that. Marcus, Aristarchus, Damas, Lucas, my fellow laborers, and the grace. This is how he leaves him. He began with grace and he leaves him with grace. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. All the church tonight. Whether you're in this room or whether you're halfway across the world. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. And we'll come to a time of invitation in the house. And um, the altar is open, my friend. Um if you need to be saved tonight, don't wait. But come forward as these people play behind me. Um, come forward as the music plays. I'd love to have the opportunity to pray with you. And church here and church abroad, uh, my friends, I hope you've gotten a refreshed vision of what the Lord could do and what the Lord wants to do if his people get together in the Holy Ghost, if his people come unified in the Holy Ghost. And um I understand you you may have some questions, you may have some hurts, you may have some hangups. Um you you your denomination, it's entirely possible, may have a centuries old rivalry with another one. It's entirely possible. But my friends, remember this if they are filled with the Holy Ghost, and you're filled with the Holy Ghost, I bet the conflict would Be taken care of faster than you think. For your own sake in the Lord. And for their sake in the Lord. And for the sake of all of the lost around us. May you believe the Lord tonight. And come together in the Holy Ghost. Amen. Any sin can be covered by the blood. Any lie, any deception can be taken care of by the truth. Amen. So may it be a blessing to you tonight, amen. Not only tonight, but going forward. And if our musician come forward, thank you for being here. Thank you for being with us on the stream. Continue to favorite these, continue to share these and like these and all that good stuff. It really helps us. Reach another city this week. Hallelujah and amen. And you're a part of that, thank you. And use these in your church. Use these for your lost friends, your lost family members. Use these for folks who need to hear the Lord. Use these especially for people who are jaded. Because this is the way the church should be. And if they've seen otherwise, well, that's a different spirit. Amen. But they may become a little less jaded after they hear this. But amen. May the Lord continue to richly bless you tonight. Amen.