Baby Jesus Didn’t Bring Vibes, He Brought An Army

A quiet stable, a crying child—and a blitz of glory. We don’t treat the manger like a postcard; we confront it as a landing zone where the uncreated Creator steps into creation to reclaim what’s His. That single shift—from “intervention” to “invasion”—changes how we see Christmas, the cross, and our everyday battles with sin, shame, and spiritual drift.

We walk through Matthew 1 and ask why the virgin birth isn’t a footnote but the hinge. If Joseph could pass on his nature, Jesus would be only another good man; Romans 5 says the math doesn’t work. Philippians 2 and church history point us to the mystery and necessity of Jesus being fully God and fully man. From there, we revisit the sacrificial system as a placeholder and let Hebrews 10 clarify why only the perfect Lamb could settle the debt in full. “It is finished” becomes more than a line; it’s a receipt stamped across history.

Then we get practical. We contrast apology with repentance and talk about moving from learning to living—less head knowledge that sits cold, more embodied faith that risks, obeys, and endures. We name the cultural noise, the counterfeit cures, and the ways we quietly accept defeat. And we swap the script: fight from victory, not for it. Greater is He in us, which means our habits, relationships, and hopes come under new management. If heaven invaded, life cannot stay the same.

Join us for an honest, hopeful journey that blends theology with street-level practice. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs courage, and leave a review telling us one place you’re choosing repentance over routine this week.

Transcript

Framing Christmas: Intervention Or Invasion

Josh 0:00

Alright. So if you are a child and you need something to do, Miss Debbie, Miss Lively, whatever you call her, can help you out with that. Other than that, we're gonna jump right back into Matthew 1. And it's always a little tricky after Christmas to do another Christmas sermon, right? Because this is where we live, right? Christmas happened, it's done, it's over with. Alright, let's move on, let's get into the new year. However, we're going a little bit slower through scripture than that, so we're kind of still gonna be on a Christmas story today. And it actually will make a lot more sense because a lot of us have a misunderstanding in what happened on Christmas. Like, I'm gonna start with asking this question. What is the difference between an intervention and an invasion?

unknown 0:53

One's voluntary?

Josh 0:55

Huh?

unknown 0:55

One's voluntary?

The Virgin Birth And Its Meaning

Heaven Arrives: Hosts, Not Hallmark

Why Jesus Couldn’t Be Joseph’s Son

Fully God And Fully Man Explained

Josh 0:56

One's voluntary. Well, sometimes like. Invasions are meant to do damage. Huh? Invasions are meant to like take over and new damage. I'm gonna go with half of that. See, and and this is like what I want us to like frame what we're gonna talk about today. Because a lot of us look at Jesus coming into creation as a divine intervention. When in fact, what the Bible shows us is not a divine intervention, but a divine invasion. Alright, and there's a big difference that we're gonna cover in looking at that. So I'm gonna pray and then we're gonna jump in. Father, we thank you so much for your word, and I ask and I pray, God, that as we go through your word, that it be your word, that Father, by the power of your spirit, we are transformed from the inside out. Father, we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Alright, so last week I told you we're gonna look at the rest of it this week. So Matthew 1, 18 says this. Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Now last week we looked at that, right? Now the birth of Jesus took place like this. And we had the whole Christmas message wrapped up in that. But it's very important for us to understand the rest of what Matthew is saying here. In fact, all three gospel writers talk about Jesus being not fully human. And here's what I mean by that. And why I said three instead of four gospel writers is one. Mark doesn't even talk about the birth of Jesus. He just jumps right into Jesus getting baptized and moving on into his ministry. All right. But in Matthew and Luke, we see this word virgin. All right. And I will tell you right now, one of the things with especially what we call post-modernism Christianity is this is they try to change the meaning of that word virgin. Now, Matthew does use a different word than Luke does or Isaiah, but what it really correlates to is exactly what we know that word to mean. Now, some people will go, oh no, no, no, it just means a young woman. It means a marriageable woman. And yes, there are those connotations, but we have to understand in the first century it meant exactly what we think it means because otherwise you wouldn't have been marryable. Does that make sense? And I only say that because that is a big thing, especially online. Now they all focus on that. They sit here and they talk about, okay, before they knew each other. This is vitally important for us to understand because a lot of us tend to look at the manger scene the same way Ricky Bobby does. And we look at Jesus and we go, this cute little baby Jesus, just eight pounds, six-ounce, baby Jesus. And although at one point it is baby Jesus, we don't fully understand when we think of just the manger scene of the awesomeness that is actually happening in the manger. And I get it, the manger is a very powerful image for us to see. I mean, our Christmas parade was the nativity scene, the manger, right? We love that, but when we dig into this before they came together, all right, Mary was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Now, if all we think of when we think of Jesus is this cute little helpless baby in the manger, then we are missing the point of what is actually happening. What is actually happening is not divine intervention. It's not God using people to accomplish, it is a divine invasion in the minute in the manger. It is literally, this is why when the angels appear to the shepherds, right, in Luke 2, and if you were at the candlelight service, this is what we read from, right? Why, what do what appears with them? And suddenly there was with the angel what? A multitude of heavenly host. See, when Jesus is coming into creation, it isn't just another baby being born, it is literally heaven coming down to earth. And when we grasp that and we realize the enormity of that, we can understand that this isn't an intervention. It's not like a helping, it is an invasion of heaven. It is literally Jesus bringing heaven down, which is why a multitude of the heavenly hosts appeared with them. Because the uncreated creator is stepping into his creation to redeem and restore all of creation to himself. So why couldn't God have used Joseph to do this biologically? Well, Romans 5.12 tells us very clearly why. It says this that therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men. See, if Joseph was the biological father of Jesus, then Jesus would have been just a man, and this would have been divine intervention. We have divine intervention throughout all of Scripture. Think about it. God used Moses, did he not? God used Moses powerfully to pull his people out of slavery in Egypt. Moses was the one who led them. Moses was the one who met God up on Mount Sinai, and Moses was the one that received the law. Like God intervened and God used Moses. Did God use David? Yes, God used David mightily. David stood before the giant and slung that stone and conquered the Philistines. David set up the earthly kingdom and expanded on what Saul had already started. God intervened and used David. God intervened and used Samson, God intervened and used Deborah, God intervened and used Gideon, and the list could go on and on and on. And if Joseph is Jesus' biological father, God could have definitely intervened and used him too. In fact, another postmodern belief is this is that Jesus only became deity at his baptism. And I go, I don't see that because I mean, never ever in the history of the world except for Jesus have we had divine conception like that. So I don't understand where we come up with that, but understand this that if Jesus was just a man, Jesus is sinful just like every single one of us in here. And here's how that works. Anytime, and I do mean anytime, me and JT go anywhere. I can guarantee you at some point, someone is going to make a comment about, oh, can't deny him, or oh, you guys are practically twins, or oh, like that is definitely your child. Now, they don't understand how bad that hurts my feelings, because I think there's a big difference in appearance between us. But just like I passed down genetics to JT, guess what else I passed down to him? A sinful nature. Here's how I know. Because I have never, ever, ever in my life, ever sat down with JT and went, here's how you sin. Like not once have I ever sat him down and went, here's how you lie to me. Here's what I want you to do. I am currently wearing a black shirt. I want you to convince me that it's a blue shirt. And regardless of what I say, and regardless of the consequences of it, you just stick with what you're saying, JT. We've never done that. We've never taught him how to like push his sister down and take the remote control for him. Or something we just learned relatively recently was this is JT, when the girls were younger, convinced them that metal money is worth more than paper money. So on their birthdays, he would trade them like dimes and quarters for dollars and twenties. In fact, he said one birthday he made like $40 from them and only lost like 50 cents. Never once, though, did we teach him how to do any of this. This was just something he had inside of him, just like all of us. Now, I'm not saying you ever stole money from your sisters like that, but you might have. But see, if Jesus and Joseph are biologically linked, then that means, just like Romans just told us, that Jesus is sinful just like every single one of us. And guess what that would mean? It would be very hard for him to be able to go to the cross, and the cross at that point becomes nothing more than a self-righteous suicide. And that's it. But Philippians 2 shows us a different truth than that, and the fact that it says this, though he, that he being Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God, a thing to be grasped. Here's what that means: Jesus and God are equal. But Jesus went, there is no way in your finite minds that you're going to be under able to understand this. The big theological term for this is hypostatic union. Alright? And what this means is that God is a or Jesus is a hundred percent God and a hundred percent man at exactly the same time. Now, we can't fully understand that because can one thing be two things at the same time? No. Can one thing be in two different places at the same time? No. We don't fully understand that, and that's why it says he did not count this as a thing to be grasped. Do people argue over this? All the time. If you go back and you read through church history, all of the councils that existed, like up to the council of Nicaea in 325, that's what they're arguing about. Is Jesus man or is Jesus God? And the answer to that would be yes. He is. Do I fully understand this? No, I don't. I will tell you right now. It is something I rack my brain about a lot, but it's impossible for us to fully understand that. But that's why Matthew starts the way he does, because he wants us to understand, bless you, that Jesus is not simply a man, that this isn't another form of divine intervention, but that God wraps himself in flesh and invades creation. This is a divine invasion. Now, why did God need to come into creation? To save us? Why? We already had, like we can go all the way back to Exodus, right? What did they already have in the book of Exodus? Sounds true question. They did have the law. What'd they have? Begins with an S. Ends with an acrificing. They had the sacrificial system already in place, right? Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. What would have been when all of the sin of the people is transferred to, you guys ready, the scapegoat, and that goat is sent out into the wilderness to symbolize our sin being as cast as far as the east is from the west. They would then take a bull, they would sacrifice that bull on the altar, they would take the blood of that bull, and they would splatter the ark of the covenant, and that is how sin was covered, right? Because the wages of sin is death. Death had to happen. But we already had that going all the way back to Exodus. So why then does Jesus at any point have to step into that? Well, Hebrews 10:4 shows us this very clearly, for it says this, for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. In other words, regardless of how good a porter house tastes, it will never be able to take away the debt I owe. Why? Because that bull didn't do anything. I did. Because that animal wasn't guilty, I was. So what was this then? This is a sign of faith. One of the questions I get asked a lot is how did people before Jesus get saved? Does anybody want to take a guess on that answer? What? No, and no, we're not even going there with that one. I heard it. Someone said it over here. Jesus! That's how they got saved. What they did was put this placeholder. What God did is he put this placeholder in. And he went, I will overlook and be patient with your sin until the fullness of time comes. That fullness of time was literally Jesus invading, was literally heaven coming down and Jesus going to the cross to pay for sin in full. It would have been like this. You go get a house, right? Or a car or whatever. What do you have to put down with the bank? A down payment. You have to put down money going, hey, here's how I'm promising you, I'm going to pay for this later. That's what the sacrificial system was. It was us putting down that down payment because God it was God putting down that down payment, going, I'm going to pay for this later. Now, here's the problem that most of us run into, though, concerning this. Most of us, and I'm not saying all of us, some of us spend way too much time focusing on our sin. But most people don't spend any time focusing on it. Like most of us downplay that. Most of us look at our sin and we go, well, I'm just, and I'm guilty of this too. Well, I just struggle. And I go, it's not a struggle, though. In fact, one of the biggest arguments that happens, especially between me and Debbie, is this. I don't do sorry. And apparently, like that really hurts Debbie's feelings. Like anytime we've gotten into an argument and she's been like, I'm sorry, and I go, I don't want to hear it. And it's not that I that I'm gonna hold whatever it is against her. It's I'm sitting here going, if you're sorry, then why would you have done it in the first place? And see, and a lot of us, like from the time we were little, when we would sin, that's what we would think we would do, right? Because anytime little kids get in trouble, what's the last thing you say to them? Now what do you what? Yeah, what do you need to say? And and and so we teach from the time we're little that here's what makes this all better. I'm sorry. Is that anywhere in the Bible? No, it's not. What is in the Bible is a different word. It's not, it doesn't start with an S, it starts with an R. It's repentance. And repentance literally means this going the opposite direction. See, nowhere in the Bible does it say we have to apologize and say sorry. What the Bible calls us to is repent, is to be different. See, and the reason I treat sorry the way I do is the same, not that I am comparing myself to Jesus, but I'm sitting here going, if love keeps no record of wrong, yes, ma'am.

unknown 18:19

Nobody has to be perfect.

Sacrifices As Placeholders, Not Payment

Sorry Vs Repentance

Josh 18:22

That is true, no one is perfect, and I'm gonna get to that actually in a second, so good job paying attention, Miss Ashland. But it's sitting here going, I don't need you to apologize to me because whatever you've done has already been forgiven. I'm not gonna hold it against you. The one thing I ask for, though, is that we don't repeat the same argument over and over and over and over and over. Show me that there's a change. That is more of a biblical model, though. To sit here and go, hey, stop going to Jesus and going, hey, I'm sorry, I did it again. Because if you're doing that over and over and over and over, first and foremost, guess what? You're not sorry. Because you're choosing to do it over and over and over and over. So why at that point are you saying sorry? Because you're obviously not sorry. But what the Bible calls us to is repent, is to actually change, is to go a different way. And like I said, we all do this. We all downplay our wickedness, and we all misunderstand how our sin separates us from the Father. And we do it under this guise, and and just because I hear this a lot. Well, nobody's oh, so you guys obviously hear that a lot too. And I go and I get that. I really do. No one is perfect, which is why all of us needed a safe. That happened. However, when God says this in Scripture, be holy as I am holy, is what he actually saying is try your best. What is he saying? Be holy. He's not sitting here going, hey, try really hard. He is literally sitting here going, be holy as I am holy. Now, with that not being a suggestion, how are we stacking up with that one? And I'll go ahead and give it to you this way because here's how the easiest way for us to understand this. Let's say right now, I was like, hey, we are going to run a race. We are going to run from here to Jacksonville. Some of you in this room look like you are in better shape than I am. You may make it to St. Augustine. Okay? I am going to tell you, I'm not making it all the way to Del Tono Boulevard. Like, seriously, I'm going to get like three or four parking spaces into it, and I'm going to be like, this isn't even worth it. I'm going to walk. Now, you may have made it farther than I did. You may have gotten closer to that holy than I was, but guess what? We both still epically fail from getting to Jacksonville. That's why in Romans 3.23 the Bible says this, for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Because none of us made it to that be holy as I am holy. See, none of us in this room, as much as I hate to say this, deserve to be saved. Like none of us in this room are ever gonna bring anything to the like, again, Christmas just passed, right? One of my favorite Christmas songs. And I hate that it's my favorite because if you don't watch The Office, you may not get the reference. But because it's Angela's favorite Christmas, or Angela's favorite song, and she wants to dance to it at her wedding, and I'm like, man, that makes me like her. And if you know her character, that's not the one you want to be. But I go, is the little drummer boy. And the whole purpose of this song is the only thing I have is this song that I play. And this is the only thing I can bring. Do you guys realize that God can do more with just the only you have than you will ever do with the best qualities you think you possess? See, we we all fall short. Not on purpose, most of us, but we all fall short. And if we're honest with ourselves, there is a way we can overcome that. We can drop our pride because I will tell you right now, your pride is what keeps you from moving forward in life. Your pride is what keeps you from sitting here going, hey, I'm actually going to have a better marriage or do better at work or do better just generally in life. Because your pride is what sits here and goes, I don't need to. Nobody's perfect. Why try? And I go, but when we let go of that and we understand that we owe a debt that we can't pay, this life looks a lot different. See, does anybody want to take a guess on what separates Christianity from all other world religions? Go ahead.

unknown 23:39

Um the savior came to us.

Josh 23:44

Definitely. And I'm bet once I explain it, you're gonna be like, yep, that was exactly what I meant. So her answer is that the savior came to us. Alright, so if we look through other major world religions, what is karma? Come on, all you guys say it all the time. I hear everybody in this room go, oh, that's not good karma. What is it?

unknown 24:05

Can you hit me here?

Josh 24:06

JT?

unknown 24:07

So what you do is like what it's coming back to you.

Josh 24:11

Alright, karma is sitting here going, hey, in the afterlife, here's what I'm gonna come back as. Was my bank account more full or more negative? Am I coming back as a cockroach, or is this time I'm hitting the bull? Like that's what karma is. What's nirvana? The height, the most highest state of light you can be in. No one went a band from the 90s? Okay, thank you. What was it?

unknown 24:41

The highest state you can be in the right.

Be Holy: Falling Short And Pride

Josh 24:44

Yeah, nirvana is this. I have achieved perfect harmonious balance with the universe. In other words, my good and my bad have equaled out. Now, I'm gonna give you guys a really hard one. Does anybody in here know what House of Songs is? Oh, you ain't got an answer for that one? What kind of videos are you watching? This is a Persian belief, actually. And here's what it means is that you have more good thoughts than bad. In Islam, what's what's the highest form of worship? I'll give you a hint. It literally is already in the name. JT? Submission. See, Christianity is the only world religion in which the divine went, I'm gonna go into my creation to redeem my creation. Christianity is the only world religion that says this: you will not achieve perfection, but God Himself, who is perfect, took your place in that. Think about this. Like this is huge because remember last week we talked about this, that because of Christmas, we can have what? Man, y'all forgot, in a week? Hope? You guys remember the king of hope was born? Yeah, and some of you you look just like every kid when I go, okay, the answer is this, and you're like, oh yeah, I knew that. Guys, there's a podcast you can listen to throughout the week that says all this too. See, last week we looked that we can have hope. This is why. Because here's what we didn't get in the manger. We didn't get a great prophet. We didn't get a good man, we didn't get an amazing teacher. None of that is what we got in the manger. In the manger, what we got was God Himself stepping into creation, invading creation because it was a takeover, and going, I'm taking this back for myself. Do you understand how powerful that is? That the one who spoke all things into existence, who holds all things together, went, I'm taking that back. See, it's hilarious to me when like JT takes something from the girls. Because JT is powerful enough to take whatever he wants from his sisters. And what always happens though when one of his sisters cries out and daddy steps up? JT ain't powerful enough to keep it from me. And I know in his 18-year-old mind he really thinks Daddy lost a step, which is why every chance I can, I show him I'm faster and stronger than he is. See, that's what God himself did. When the devil went, hey, I'm taking your creation, I'm taking your people, I'm taking your kingdom, I will ascend to the throne of the Most High, is how he words it in Isaiah 14. God himself stepped into creation and went, No, you're not. This is mine, and I will take it. God invaded the kingdom of darkness and went, hey, you cannot prevail against me. God went, regardless of how wayward you think they are, Satan, they are mine. And nothing can pluck them out of my hand. And yet some of us walk around defeated all the time because you ready? I did it again. I failed again. I messed up again. You know how many Christians I see like on social. Here's the reason why I don't get on social media. All right, one, it's from the devil. Okay, New Year's is coming up, some of y'all need to like really hear this one. Social media is from the devil. If you don't talk to the people in your life, but you talk to the people on social media, understand you're doing it backwards from how God created this. Social media is from the devil. Here's why. How many Christians have I seen on any whatever social media site that are like, oh, rubbing my crystals together? Or how many Christians have I seen that think they're magical potions that come in the form of these little bottles?

unknown 29:21

Come on.

What Sets Christianity Apart

Fight From Victory, Not For It

Greater Is He: Live Like It

Josh 29:26

How many Christians do I see that try to take a little bit of this and a little bit of this and a little bit of this, and let me put it together, and then I sit here and go, why doesn't this work? I did everything that the article told me to do. I said the magic incantation as I rubbed east to west on my tummy to release the bowels. I put it under my pillow every night as I fell asleep. Because we believe in divine intervention. We just have completely lost that it wasn't that, it was divine invasion, and that's the hardest part is believing that. Fight from victory, not for victory. Like understand the difference between those two. When God Himself wrapped himself in flesh, he invaded all of the darkness. He went, there's no sin that you're gonna be able to do that's gonna be greater than my cross. He went, there's no way you yourself can't even run away from me. And we'll get to this eventually, but if a shepherd has a hundred sheep and one goes missing, does he not leave the 99 to go find the one? You can't even run away from God. Think about this. Is there anything that your child could do to stop being your child? Regardless of how they go wayward, regardless of their conspiracy theories and all of that, they're still your child. You can't separate that. And that's what we're seeing. The hardest thing we have to do is just put our faith in that. See, the reason Jesus can be the perfect Lamb of God, the reason Jesus can be the sacrifice on the cross, the reason that Jesus can be the payment that satisfies, the reason is he's not just some guy who did good things. The reason is, is he is God choosing to die. That's why in John 19, 30, Jesus' last words are what? What? It is finished. Thanks for putting it up there, buddy. Like his last words as he's nailed to the cross, as he's sitting there going, I have done everything I came into creation to do, because at that moment all sin, past, present, and future, was paid for by the all-powerful, all-atoning death of Jesus. Because God went, I'm not trying to intervene, I'm trying to invade. And here's the deal Satan may be powerful. And if you've ever been caught in temptation, or if you have those voices in your head that just seem to never get quiet, or if there's just that situation that just keeps coming up again and again and again, you understand that Satan may be powerful. But guess what? The invading army of heaven? Like in Armageddon, and I know I'm fast-forwarding to the end of the book. What does Jesus do to defeat sin and death in the devil in Armageddon? Does anybody know? Like, is it a great battle? Is it like the Battle of New York, or not the battle of New York? Is it like endgame where it's like Thanos and like Captain America's just like beat down and all of a sudden all these people show up? What's he do? He just shows up. That's it. He doesn't even talk. He just shows up and it's done. How come none of us live our lives like that? Going, that that's the God that lives in me. See, we hold to like verses like, greater is the one living in me than he living in the world. But if you really believe that, what's that mean for your life? That means that when those voices come that tell me how I'm worthless and tell me how I'm not valuable, and tell me all of these things, that I can look at them and go, shut up. That's not true. That means that when my body feels the way it does almost every morning, I can sit here and go, yeah, I snap, crackle, and pop a lot more getting out of bed than I did at 18, but guess what? As long as there's a breath in these lungs, I have the ability to tell someone else about Jesus. That means that when that temptation comes, I can fight that temptation. I can have victory over that. I can break those chains. I can move past all of my past because greater is the one living in me than he who is living in the world. And that God of creation invaded creation to restore creation. Why don't we live like that though? Why do we live so defeated? And why do we live so joyless? And why do we live so selfish? And why do we live in those kind of ways? If we're sitting here going, I believe this is true, shouldn't that have an impact on our life? Shouldn't that have an impact on our day-to-day? Shouldn't our lives be different? Shouldn't we have repentance? Shouldn't we have all of those things? If I literally am sitting here going, yes, I believe this is true. So if we don't have those things, what are we actually saying? There we go. That I don't believe this is true. It is not rocket science. Jesus says, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, therefore, if Jesus doesn't come out of my mouth, he is not in the abundance of my heart. Jesus says, Greater things than these you will do. So if we're not doing greater things than Jesus, why? Because we don't believe that we can do greater things than Jesus. Even though Jesus himself said that. This is what faith is. This is what putting trust in this is. It is not learning more information. Learning more information is seminary. And I'm gonna tell you, it is very hard to remain a Christian in seminary. Because it is very academic. And you start looking at all these things and you start going, what difference does any of this make? I became more nihilistic in seminary than I ever did growing up. I went, okay, I can answer all of these questions, and yet I feel completely dead on the inside. I have all of this information, and it in no way, shape, or form changes anything throughout my life. I'm not knocking seminary, I think it's a good thing. I'm just trying to show you a difference between having more information and having more faith. Faith is sitting here going, I believe this is true, so I will do. You can have all the information in the world. The devil has way more information than all of us in this room combined. Information will not change your heart. You can know every question I answer or ask. And you know what's never gonna change? Your heart. But the more you start looking to Jesus, and the more you start seeing Jesus for who Jesus is, and the more you start understanding that this isn't divine intervention in the manger, but it is divine invasion against sin and death, then the more I start looking like Jesus, the more I start sounding like Jesus, the more I start acting like Jesus. That's a big fancy theological word, who knows it? It's sanctification. It is looking more like Jesus, which is the goal of our life if we are in Christ. Because I can either look more like or less like. Those are the only two things I can do. But I can't just stay here. Does that make sense? So as we close this morning, maybe today is the day you're ready to believe this divine invasion. Maybe you're sitting here today going, you know what, I do need saving. If that is you, then as we pray or as we sing, come pray. Maybe you're sitting here today going, hey, I've already done that part. Maybe you're sitting here going, hey, you know what? I need to get back into the rescue mission. Then if this is you and you need to know how, come talk to me. But it is time for us to do something one way or another. And that's the problem. Choose this day whom you will serve, whether the God of your Father and in the Lamb we have come across the Euphrates, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Are you talking to me or? So, Father, I ask and I pray that if there is any among us that this morning, God, that that still looks at divine intervention as more important than a divine invasion, that God, you just show them what an invasion is. You invade our hearts, Father. You you just root out and push out and open eyes and open ears and and go, Father, here's who I am and here's why I came for you. So, Father, I ask and I pray that as we sit in this moment. That Father, if there's heart work to do, that God, by the power of your Spirit, you do that heart work. You are the great physician that can work on us like no one else. And Father, I just ask and I pray that in people in this room today that you light fires and that Father, you just go, I'm invading all of it. It's all mine. Father, I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.