North Campus | Seeing Good Days | Connor Bales | Prestonwood Baptist Church ((music playing)) all right good morning morning man we had church amen golly that was fun grab your Bibles and go to First Peter chapter 3 and uh as you're turning there just a quick update um we had a disruption in our Network and email services this week and so in response to last Sunday's sermon if any of you reached out to us and in particular via email we need to apologize guys we probably did not receive those for a few days and so I would ask that if you were bold enough to reach out last Sunday or in the subsequent day or two thereafter uh but you did not hear back it's just because we had that disruption in service so please reach out again call the office or shoot us an email they're back we're online so uh would love to help connect you and resource you come alongside you if God spoke to you uh regarding your marriage and your family last Sunday I also want to encourage you uh to join us this Wednesday night uh for our next Wednesday worship service uh 6:30 right here in this room and can I just ask by show of hands how many of you have been able to participate in one of our Wednesday worship Services since we started these okay so if you'll look around and ask someone who put their hand up uh just what their experience was like I'm guessing they will testify that it was a powerful evening encountering God and so if you have not yet made uh arrangements to join us this Wednesday night is perfect 6:30 for 1 hour guess what we will praise God and pray to him and we want to invite you uh to join us for that now continuing the conversation here in First Peter we know the apostles writing to persecuted uh Believers Suffering uh for their faith that runs in contradiction to the culture and the context in which they live and I just want to remind us that anytime we read a Biblical exhortation as a students of God's word it's important that we understand that God's word and the exhortations like what we're going to read here in 1 Peter chapter 3 that are found there within it are always rooted their origin is sourced in The Ordering of God it's sourced in the design of God so when you read these biblical exhortations that are instructing Christians calling Christians up and and commanding Christians to live in in a in a manner that is uh evidencing uh your genuine conversion your genuine relationship with with God they're rooted in his order they're rooted in God's design and and what we understand about God's ordering what we understand about the design of God is that it exists to accomplish God's design exists to accomplish two very specific things the first is God God's design his ordering is always for his glory God's ordering his design is for God's glory so that God's glory can be seen so that God's glory can be experienced so that God's glory may be known so if you have ever witnessed a beautiful sunrise if you have ever sat on the beach and watched a magnificent Sunset the Bible says in Psalm 19 that the heavens declare the glory of God the skies proclaim the work of his hands that's God revealing to you and I his glory if you've seen a life transformed by the person and work of Jesus that's God bringing you in and showing us a glimpse of his glory here's the second thing that God's ordering his design is always intended for and that is our good God's ordering his design is always for our good I I just want to remind you in love that God is not a cosmic killjoy who's out to ruin your fun or mine but rather rooted in his love God wants good for us why because he loves us Romans 5'8 says but God demonstrates his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died his love is so great he would actually sacrifice his son he would let his son suffer the punishment that was deserving of you and me why because he loves us that's why if you're familiar with Jeremiah 29:11 but you understand it within its larger context of course we've seen this on our coffee mugs and at the bottom of our cute pictures but it's also evidencing that God's love evidences his he wants good for you and me and I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord plans to prosper you not to harm you why because God loves you and he wants good for you so when we read these exhortations it helps us to rightly understand the calling for us to obey them why because they're rooted in God's order in his design that brings his glory and is for our good and so what we're going to read together is Peter's letter his exhortation continuing the same conversation calling Believers living in an unbelieving context sometimes that context is within the family sometimes that context is within the the workplace sometimes that context is within the culture at large and and Peter says okay so in light of your context that holds to a conviction different than your own here's what it looks like to be obedient in your uh following of of Christ and and so Believers are to live and love differently why because we are in fact different as someone who's been changed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ 1 Peter chapter 3 let's start together in verse number eight 1 Peter 3 start with me in verse 8 if you're there say I got it finally all of you now the all of you here at the beginning tells us something about the audience to whom Peter is now speaking we we know that in the letter thus far he's drilled down and had some very specific people that he's talked to he's talked to husbands not everybody's a husband he's talked to wives not everybody's a wife he's talked to Citizens not everybody may be a citizen of Rome he's talk to employees not everybody has a job but but now he's drawing back and he's going back to the uh a very first sentence of chapter 1 and he's writing to the Exiles of the dispersion so what he's talking to is Christians who are now spread out the reason you're spread out is because you are persecuted for your faith and so he's calling he's writing uh to all of us he is writing to the audience of Christ followers and he says find finally all of you this is everybody have Unity of Mind sympathy brotherly love a tender heart and a humble mind do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling but on the contrary bless for to this you were called that you may obtain a blessing for whoever desires to love life and see good days let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit let him turn away from Evil and do good let him seek peace and pursue it for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous his ears are open to their prayer but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil now there's essentially two ideas Peter is showing in contrast one to another he is teaching by way of comparison the Bible does this often uh it it's in fact a way in which Jesus often taught it's the ju appositional method where you're uh comparing two opposites so in an effort to highlight one uh way of living you also expose another a contrary way of of living Peter says so Christians do this and he says so Christians don't do that and it's a way of elevating one by comparing it uh obviously to the other if you think of uh uh the romantic comedy uh how to lose a Guy in 10 Days okay it's that I bet you didn't think you'd hear that this morning it it's the idea of if you if you want this outcome then then live in this particular uh way and if you don't want this outcome then live in a way that is opposite of that and and so Peter's now writing to the church his exhortation to us again he says all of you this is all of us and he says here's how we are called to live and and he says Christians should do these things Christians should not do these things and instead you should do this look at what he says Christians should have a Unity of Mind sympathy brotherly love a tender heart and a humble mind some of these things sound similar all of them should sound familiar the idea of a Unity of mind is agreement in thinking and here's what Peter means is the church should not be divided we should have an agreement in thinking we we should have a a shared mindset and in particular and I think a context here he's saying the church should have a shared mindset about the things that confuse the culture but God's word has made abundantly clear you with me like there are going to be things we disagree about those may be peripheral things but there's things that the culture is confused on the church should be crystal clear and he he says that we should have a Unity of mind this is a shared mindset within the church this is why I want to always encourage you and you hold us accountable we would always want to be a people that are rooted in God's word you don't want my opinion we want God's truth have a Unity of mind the second thing he says is have sympathy um this is the idea of of a feeling of sensitivity or or care uh for someone else's difficulty think about the mindset of the Good Samaritan that when some that you would expect to cross the street and help out did not the the teaching of Jesus is to elevate the one who you would think would not want to help but instead actually did this is sympathetic and he says it should Mark the church have brotherly love this is my favorite because this is the church loving one another so when you read the word brotherly in the New Testament you understand it also means sisters so this is the idea of affection within the community of Faith now it's obvious or at least it should be that we are called to love uh the world we are called to love those who are on the outside but listen what often gets lost is that there should be this expectation that we love well within but think about the damage of our witness when the church when the world is observing and it seems like most of the wounding is friendly fire how many of you would would say that you've been hurt worse uh by someone within the church than by someone without anybody right this is what he's talking about he's have brotherly love the church should be marked by how we love one another and then he says have a tender heart this is compassion it's I would say similar to sympathy but I think it's probably more evidenced in um uh kindness in action like when Paul tells the Ephesian Church in Ephesians 4:32 uh to be kind and he uses the word then tenderhearted and he follows up and he says forgiving one another as God in Christ Jesus has forgiven you so to be tender-hearted would be to forgive people to live in a way that is rooted in the Forgiveness of God so that you are willing to then extend that forgiveness to others look even if they don't ask and then he says have a humble mind this is humility 101 it's a a holding to a mindset where you recognize your own limitation you avoid pride and you seek to prioritize other people's needs ahead of your own I I would argue this is the the teaching of Jesus in The Sermon on the Mount when he talks about the Beatitudes the the blessed are those who are reviled for my name's sake who hunger and thirst for righteousness uh uh those uh who are spiritually bankrupt poor in spirit this is the idea here and you could argue this is kind of the theme of Peter's exhortation that your Christian witness will evidence itself in your humility so Christians should do these things and then he says and Christians should not and listen to what he says in verse 9 repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling now this is exactly as simple as it sounds don't pay back evil for evil don't pay back reviling for reviling it's probably pretty easy for us to Define uh evil but the word reviling it means uh to criticize others abusively it's called Twitter and he and he says here Christians should not repay evil for evil Christians should not uh revile simply because you have been reviled and again this is the idea of living in contradiction to a world that holds to a conviction that is different than ours this is the teaching of Jesus we've all heard uh that teaching rooted in Matthew 5 where Jesus instructs uh when you have been slapped turn the other cheek and let them have a shot at it Jesus says if you've heard that it was said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth but I say to you don't resist the one who is evil but if anyone slaps you on the right cheek turn to him the other one also what is the what is the flesh response and certainly the world's affirmation of that if something bad happens to you do something bad to them in response but that is the opposite of the calling of Christ followers why because what God has provided for us is the perfect example in Jesus in that he did not respond but rather Jesus laid his life down for those who did not deserve it and so it's a calling for you and I to live in the same kind of way and then he closes this thought with instead Christians should bless for to this this you were called if you Mark or highlight in your Bibles you might want to underline that phrase did you realize church if you are in Christ Jesus and your life has been radically transformed by God's undeserving Grace then this is your calling this is our calling to bless when we've been cursed to respond with kindness when we've been treated as evil V the word bless means to invoke favor upon others so when you say God bless you what you're saying is I'm praying that you would experience Divine favor upon you the exhortation that Peter gives is to bless even when I would argue most especially when you've been cursed if you want a an example of this think about the Savior hanging on calvary's cross and he says out loud father forgive them right father for them they don't know what they're doing so we have an example we we we have an example in which we can follow and and by the way I would say this is impossible to do in the flesh it is the submission to God's spirit and the only way you and I are able to turn the other cheek or to bless when we've been cursed and Tim Keller calls this uh living according to the upside down kingdom of God it's understanding that that the way that Christ has worked has inverted the understanding of the way the world thinks is uh uh the right way to to go and it's it's our calling and so go back to the text Peter said here's what Christians should do here's what we should not do and then he identifies the most obvious ways for us to put this conviction into practice look again at what he says finally all of you have Unity of Mind sympathy brotherly love a tender heart and a humble mind do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling but on the the contrary bless for to this you were called that you may obtain a blessing for whoever desires to love life and see good days so I titled the message this morning seeing good days because here's what Peter says if if you want to see good days like you know what that is that's New Testament language for if if you want to have a good life according to how God defines good and who doesn't right if if if you want to love life and see good days here's how you're called to live is this going to be easy no but who doesn't want to see good days I do who doesn't want to love life who doesn't want to get up and have an attitude about life that says I can embrace it right I do and this is what he says is the way in which that can happen for us and then he draws upon Psalm 34 and and the reason he does that is is see he wants the church to know this is the attitude of God and it always has been like the attitude of God for for those who belong to him has always been to live in a manner that evidences there's something different about you and the difference can only be explained in him think about the all the ways in which God called his people to be different in the old testate before Jesus Christ was on the scene he's always called his people to live in light of their faith and so here's what he says all of you have a Unity of Mind sympathy Brotherly Love A Tender Heart a humble mind don't repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling but on the contrary bless for to this you were called that you may obtain a blessing whoever desires to love life and see good days let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit let him turn away from Evil and do good let him seek peace and pursue it for the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous his ears are open to their prayer but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil three things happening here two are how Christians can identify ways to put this conviction to practice the third is the reason why it matters to God so if you're a notaker here's what it looks like to put this Christian conviction remember what he says Christians should do this should not do this instead do this and here's what that looks like practically speaking the first is guard your words guard your words verse 10 let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit if we are going to effort as a people to live in a biblically Faithful Way that honors God especially living within a context that often runs hostile to the convictions of our faith we have to pay attention to our words and often times in our day our words are less spoken and more typed uhoh and so our words matter my friend Jeff young used to say uh to our entire Ministry team by way of reminder words matter because they do and he wanted us to appropriately feel the weight of that as Christians as husbands as Fathers as friends and as Ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the half brother of Jesus was a man named James he pastored the New Testament Church in Jerusalem he dedicated a substantial amount of his only letter recorded in the word to the difficulty in uh controlling us our tongue this is what James said in James chapter 3 not many of you should become teachers my brothers for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness for we all stumble in many ways and if anyone does not stumble in what he says he's a perfect man able also to Bridle his whole body if we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obeyed us we guide their whole bodies as well look at the ships also they're so large and driven by strong winds they're Guided by a very small Rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs so also the tongue is a small member and yet it boasts of great things how great a forest is set Ablaze by such a small fire and the tongue is a fire a world of unrighteousness the tongue is set among our members staining the whole body setting on fire the entire course of life and set on fire by hell for every kind of Beast and bird and reptile and SE creature Can Be Tamed and it has been tamed by mankind but no human being can tame the tongue it's a Restless evil it's full of deadly poison with it we bless our Lord and father and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God from the same mouth come blessing and cursing my brothers these things ought not to be so now James has just gone to medin am I right I mean he's stepping all over our toes and he hadn't seen our on line our words matter fam our witness matters your words matter my words matter here's the thing we may in fact you may in fact have a genuine relationship with Jesus Christ the question is do your words evidence that to be true do the things you say the words you text the posts you make evidence to a watching world oh yeah I knew she belonged to God for sure yeah have you heard him talk for sure he follows Jesus I mean that guy just he just conducts himself differently I mean how many of you would say this just thinking about the the power of our words how many of you would say you've had the trajectory of your day changed positive ly or negatively by someone's words to you the rest of you nobody talks I know you're lying you've had we've all had that right the power like Mary has this uh influence in my life and it's a responsibility and I have that in hers and and just the power the significance of our words can change the trajectory of our day our week right well as Christians think about the significance of our words because people are assigning look at me they're assigning every one of them to the god to whom we say we belong and so when we lash out in response when we Post in frustration when we speak in anger and we and listen we're all going to fail and fall short but but when we don't don't Circle back and apologize and take ownership for our words and potentially the damage that they've done what are we saying about our witness as someone whose life has been changed by God so the exhortation is simple to the church he says all of you guard your words pay attention to what it is that you say and and listen watch how God might change the trajectory of the people in your life because of it here's the second thing guard your actions Christians guard your actions look again in verse 11 let him turn away from Evil and do good so the word turn and do those are action words he says next let him seek peace and pursue it seek and pursue our action words so beyond our words Peter's now putting us to action and he says do good and specifically for us to do good is to seek peace and in our seeking we pursue it this is an ongoing calling that is reserved for the church and again I bet for some of you this sounds somewhat familiar if you know Jeremiah chapter 29 I quoted from it earlier but within its greater context it really makes those verses more meaningful because Jeremiah was God's man he's God's mouthpiece speaking God's truth to God's people and at the time in which Jeremiah was raised up to to speak God's truth to his people his people had been exiled they had been stolen out of Jerusalem out of Israel and they had been exiled to Babylon and so now they're living obviously in a foreign land and obviously in a culture that runs in contradiction to theirs as being followers of God and so Jeremiah is writing to them and he warns them because there had to be a Temptation that now they crossed the border surely they can shove their faith now they've crossed the border surely they can adopt some of the cultural practices that might revile evil for evil that might return cursing With cursing but that's not Jeremiah's instruction to God's people here's what he says but seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into Exile and pray to the Lord on its behalf for in its welfare you'll find your welfare so this is to go your actions as a witness of Christ we are ambassadors for Jesus called to do good called to seek peace and doing so in the name of our god this is our calling this is what Peter says for to this you were called it's our calling it's our privilege and it's only possible when we're a submitted to the spirit that means we're no longer surrendered to the flesh we're submitted to the spirit and then B when we're guarding our actions paying attention to the words we say and the things that we do and this matters because if we were willing to hold up our hands a moment ago and talk about how uh the trajectory of our day or our week or our year has been changed simply by the words someone has chosen to say to us how much more our actions by the things we have done to someone else there is a a family in our church and uh the wife's name is Michelle she's a mom and and her mom and dad were crossing the street a few years ago an elderly couple and a young driver who was distracted at best maybe impaired in addition to that was not paying attention and as they were walking across the crosswalk with his head down and and clearly distracted uh he ran over her mother and then fled the scene in response and now she was greatly injured and actually died from her injuries a few days after the accident had occurred and failing to take any responsibility for his actions he attempted to hide um the incident the event all together and so he fled the scene and then ultimately he tried to get rid of the vehicle and he fled the state and he tried to cover up any evidence of the crime this is a family in our church ultimately uh he was clearly caught and quickly convicted and and this family had an opportunity to attend the trial for his sentencing and to issue Victim Impact statements and the lawyers that were at first advising this family on how to respond had had adopted a very worldly understandably uh outraged mentality encouraging this family on how they should respond and again I I want to just say that simply because you belong to Christ and have experienced his grace does not absolve uh people from accountability and Justice our God is a God of Justice and we hold people accountable uh when wrong has been done that they would make it right but this family getting external counsel and advice from the world uh to throw the book at him and to pursue every available legal option to see this young man punished instead in every Victim Impact statement expressed forgiveness to the victim read out loud in the courtroom and then asked the judge to to apply the minimum sentencing that the law would allow and it was done in a courtroom and it echoed throughout that a municipal building and then in that City and that community at large it's the power of someone who's paying attention to their witness for Christ because it looks totally different than that what the world would say they should do and this is a family in our church and so Peter says guard your words and he says guard your actions and here's why look at verse 12 because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayer but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil fam the reason we must guard our words the reason we must guard our actions what Peter says do this don't do this bless instead is because God's paying attention God is paying attention he's paying attention to our words he's listening that means he's reading what we write he's reading what we text and God is paying attention to our actions he's watching how we live in fact this is the exact same warning that he issues to husbands at the end of verse 7 remember Peter's instruction likewise husbands live with your wives in an understanding way showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel since they are heirs with you of the grace of Life why so that your prayers may not be handed because God's watching he's listening he's paying attention to how it is that we're living in light of our faith and I think sometimes as the church we wonder why our fellowship with God is disrupted and I do mean disrupted it can never ever ever be lost if you are in Christ Jesus if you have been born again the Bible says you are saved by Jesus Christ you are secured in that work of Christ you are sealed by the holy spirit of God and there is nothing that can separate you from his love but the fellowship can absolutely be disrupted and I think sometimes our fellowship is disrupted because our words and our actions are not in keeping with our character as someone whose life has been changed by Christ and so God's looking down and and thinking man I heard you and how you spoke to her man I saw you in the way you treated him and and it's really hard for us to commune because you're trying to profess to the world that you belong to me but you're living as as though you do not and so God is opposed to evil and any who perpetuate it and this is a weighty warning that Peter gives deserving of our attention today and so here's a couple of diagnostic questions and then I'll close with one last story to share my first diagnostic question is this how are you doing at reflecting Jesus to others remember he says Christians should do this Unity of mind and sympathy and brotherly love right how are you doing it reflecting Christ to others do your words and your actions evidence your faith and and then this one knowing that God is watching based on your life do you think he's pleased with what he sees because a god think about the power of a Godly witness I was super disappointed that because of our uh disruption in Network Services this week we we needed to move our gather online uh event uh from a broadcasting here and we had to move it online to our homes and Mary and I watched uh gather 25 I don't know how many of you were able to join for some part of that as well but it was a really remarkable just to see what God is doing around his world and over and over when they were having these segments uh sharing stories of of what God is doing you were hearing someone's testimony that was something like a missionary came and shared the good news of the Gospel with me my life was transformed by Jesus I was born again because I got saved I went home and took the missionary with me that person shared with my family my whole family was transformed my family then went across the street we shared with our neighbors our neighbors got saved and our neighbors then began to share and our entire Street was born again our street got saved and every family was transformed and then eventually our village wanted to know what was different about us and we were able to share and our entire Village has come to Faith in Jesus Christ and you are getting to see and hear these little pockets of Nations around the world that are being transformed and they are transforming not only families and communities and Villages but Nations because of the power of a Godly witness but there is a Temptation in all of us when you hear those kinds of things to think well man that's way over there but here's what it looks like right here when Libby was a little baby uh she needed to to have a number of of surgeries because of the medical complications that she had and and so we were referred to an incredible pediatric surgeon named Dr Herman at one of the children's hospitals here in town and just the kindest uh gentlest U man I maybe I've ever met and he was obviously a very skilled pediatric surgeon because he was referred over and over and over again and so I can remember when we met with him the first time there was something Al together different about this guy when he walked in the room he just had this Joy this kind of contagious kindness and and joy and very quickly we discovered that he was a follower of Christ and uh and you know often times in um those medical conversations they can feel and I don't mean this insulting they can feel very sterile and I understand the nature of that and very transactional but not terribly warm and Dr Herman made every one of them warm rooted in his kindness and Care in fact I can remember one surgery in particular when Libby was little bitty she was laying on a gurny and and they had already gotten the IV started and they were just about to take her off for anesthesia back to the O and she's so little on that big gurnie and normally what happens is you just say goodbye you say your prayers you hug it out and then they wheel her to the O but this guy this surgeon prayed with us at Libby's side and then didn't put her on the gurnie and wheel her into the O he picked her up and carried her there like he's that kind of guy and what we kept hearing over and over is every time after an operation or we were referred to a subsequent specialist they would say oh you're with Dr Herman oh she was cared for by Dr Herman and every person would say something like isn't he the best what a kind man what a good guy he is brilliant but man is he sweet and he began to transform a hospital and he began to transform a practice he began to transform our perception and he has changed thousands thousands of lives and that's right here where we live see the power of a Godly witness isn't only what happens in a remote Village around the world it's in your village in your home right here I've seen the power of a Godly witness transform a team a family I've seen the power of a Godly witness transform a school an office a business I've seen the power of a Godly witness literally transform a community all because we were willing to take seriously this command to which we have been called don't do this do this instead the world has no category for you and I when we choose to exude Jesus in the way in which we live our lives and love others in his name and so like you saw the power of a Godly witness in the baptistry a Godly and patient wife waiting on her husband to return and and then a dad who's willing to love and Lead his family in light of that faith and he's in the waters with his son like pay attention parents wake up this is the power of a Godly witness and the way in which God wants to use your life and mind to change the world in which we live and so the question is knowing that he's watching is he pleased with what he sees there are some of you here and today is the day when you need to get your life with Christ right come forward at the invitation and talk to a minister and tell them that you want Jesus Christ to save there are others of you you've been kicking the tires of membership for far too long look just join the church man like what are you waiting on we're an imperfect Place let's be imperfect together we worship and serve a perfect God and King come forward join our church some of you need to be baptized you saw Hayes and Nick and their courageous testimony in the waters here this morning that needs to be yours Jesus saved you it's time for you to show that to the world around you there are others of you you have prayer need in your life come forward and let us pray with you and for you but my request of you is this Christians in the room I'm asking you to start now praying for God's spirit to move and others I'm asking that being the most sensitive part of our morning let's keep the movement in the room to a minimum this is not the end of the sermon this is the beginning of what God's spirit wants to do in me and you so I'm going to pray when I say Amen we'll stand to our feet we'll lift our voices in song and the invitation is yours to respond as God's spirit directs father in Jesus name I ask that you would move thank you for your love and your grace father move in our hearts As you move in this place we acknowledge helplessness without you and dependence upon you so we pray to you and through you in Jesus good name amen you look up let's stand up we're going to lift our voices up the invitation is yours so I'm asking that you would be obedient to ((music playing)) respond Jesus in the street Jesus in the darkness over every enemy Jesus for my family I speak the Holy Name Jus God spoken to you you come God spoken you come Jesus the mountain Jesus in the street Jesus in the darkness over every eny Jesus for my family I speak the Holy Name ((music playing)) Jesus your name is power your name is healing if God is spoken you come is break every stronghold shine through the shadow her ((applause)) life your name is power your name is healing your name thank you Lord break every stold shine through the ((music playing)) sh God's spirit is moving and uh if he has prompted you uh to come forward for prayer or you want to have a conversation with someone about what it looks like uh to become a member of our church or to be in a right relationship with God through Jes Jesus uh then when we're dismissed in just a moment we'll meet you right out in the middle of the atrium at Guest Central we would love to have a conversation my re question for you young lady did you give your life to Jesus hey let's go Church come on that is awesome that is awesome we celebrate with you guys nothing could matter more than that God is adding to his church and I am so grateful to God uh to get to be a part of it I love you Church uh more than you know and I pray you have an awesome rest of your week God bless you your dis best ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing))