What Kind of Man Are You? | 1 Corinthians 16:13–14 | Men’s Evening | Guest Speaker | Ps. Mike Bezant

Turn with me to 1st Corinthians chapter 16, First Corinthians

16. Now tonight's little study

together I'm calling what kind of man are you?

And this is both what kind of man are we now, but also what

kind of man is God transforming us into.

Some of us are young in age, some of us are older in age.

Some of us are young in the Lord, even though we might be

older in age, but the Lord is transforming us and what a, what

a blessing that is. Sometimes, what a challenge that

is the right, sometimes transformation can be, can be

hard. 1st Corinthians 16, we're actually just going to read 2

verses together. It's verses 13 and 14.

Now this, this, this portion is right in the midst of Paul's

final instructions to the church in Corinth.

And it's where he gives his greetings to to the people in

Corinth from different people that he's ministered with.

And right in the midst of that, we get these two powerful verses

of exhortations for us. And my prayer is that it'll,

it'll hit you as it hit me this week.

I'm going to read it for you. And then we're going to pray as

we come to the word 1st Corinthians 16, starting at

verse 13. Watch, stand fast in the faith,

be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with

love. The Heavenly Father, as we come

to your word this night as men we ask you, Lord, that you would

challenge us, that You would encourage us if we need

nurturing. Lord, that you would nurture us.

We ask this night that each one of us that you would speak

something into our hearts and into our lives tonight from your

word. We pray in the Lord Jesus Christ

name and all God's people said Amen.

So I want us to imagine a reality and I'm not being

fanciful here, but imagine a reality where where actually

these verses are true. Watch.

Stand fast in the faith. Be brave, be strong.

Let all that you do be done with love.

Imagine a place where all the people of God are actually doing

those things. We're watching.

We're standing firm in the faith.

We're being brave, we're being strong.

We're doing all things with love.

I don't know about you guys, but sometimes within the church,

even we're not very good at loving each other well.

And that's a real challenge, especially when conflict arises.

But if we did these things, what would our families look like?

What would our church look like? What would this church look

like? What would our communities look

like if we were genuinely doing those things as believers?

But instead, when we look around, what do we see?

I'm going to read to you Matthew 24, verse 12.

Matthew 24:12

I'm going to jump around a little bit.

Don't feel like you need to follow in your Bible because we

are going to keep coming back to that verse that you've got up.

So stick with me there. But I'm going to read to you.

Matthew 24, verse 12 says this. And because lawlessness will

Matthew 24:12

abound, the love of many will grow cold.

This is the character of the the age of the tribulation period,

but it honestly, it's the character of this age we're in

now in the lead up through that love within within our country,

within our towns, within our communities, and sadly at times

even within our church is growing cold.

Don't know if you guys feel that Two Timothy 31 says this, but

know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come

for men. Doesn't matter how old you are,

but this is you and me for men. And I want you to try to see who

you are in this because we're all a little bit broken.

And God, God reaches in where we're at.

But I want you to be real with yourself tonight.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,

boasters, proud blasphemers. Have you seen yourself yet?

I've already seen myself disobedient to parents,

unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers without

self control, brutal despisers of good traitors, headstrong,

haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having

a form of godliness but denying its power.

And from such people turn away. Did you see yourself in those

verses, men? First Corinthians 11/3 I want

you to know that the head of every man.

This is totally the opposite of what I just read to you.

First Corinthians 11/3 I want you to know that the head of

every man is Christ. You aware of that?

That the head of you is Christ. You're no longer your own

anymore. You're not in control of your

life. Christ is.

The head of every woman is man and the head of Christ is God,

man. Just as we are under Christ's

headship. In the same way you are the head

of your family. If you don't have a family or

you're too young to have a family, one day you will be the

head of your family. For the young ones among us, up

the front and up the back. This is who the Lord is calling

you into as a man. We are called to be spiritual

leaders of our families and we're called to be spiritual

leaders of the family of God. That's really important that we

understand that. So let's let's start with this

together. And this is a little bit odd

even for me, but we're going to, we're actually going to start

with the end 1st. And you'll see as as we go

through why I'm doing that. But let all that you do be done

with love. Let all that you do be done with

love. Turn with me to Matthew 22 verse

Matthew 22:36

36. If you've got your Bible,

Matthew 22, verse 36. Teacher, which is the great

Matthew 22:36

commandment in the law, Jesus said to him, You shall love the

Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and

with all your mind. This is the first and great

commandment, and the second is like it.

You shall love your neighbour as yourself.

We are called to love God with all of ourselves, and we're

called to love our neighbours as ourselves.

So let's look at this together, because what we just read, men,

is that we are called to be the spiritual leaders in our homes,

in our families, in our churches.

This starts with yourself. You see what that says there in

in Matthew 22? We are to love God.

That's the first, that's the great commandment.

We are to love God. So that's about your spiritual

relationship with the Lord, if I can put it that way.

This is loving the Lord your God.

But then after that man, we're called to love and spiritually

lead our wives, and then after that spiritually lead our

children and then after that spiritually lead our family of

God, our church. I would argue in that order very

clearly, very plainly. So let's start with your own

spiritual growth to start with your, your loving the Lord your

God. What does that look like?

Because you can't lead anyone to somewhere that you haven't gone

yet. That make sense?

If you haven't gone there, you can't lead anyone there.

And Jesus says the greatest commandment is to love the Lord

your God. So I've got some questions for

you tonight and I'm going to leave you with some of those

questions. I'm I'm going to answer some of

them, but I want you to sit with some of them.

The first one is this. Are you personally?

And I don't want you to answer me.

OK? So don't embarrass yourself or

anyone else. Just think it in your head.

Are you personally pursuing A deeper relationship with God

through His Word? Is that something that you're

doing? Are you doing that?

Does your family see that you're doing that daily?

Are you seeking God daily in His Word and through prayer?

Why is that such a hard thing? Who here, and this is a genuine

thing, show of hands, Who here has struggled with that at some

point in their life, at some point?

Have a look around, guys, keep your hands up, have a look

around. This is a real struggle.

We all struggle with this, but why is that?

It's a struggle, isn't it? I want to challenge you guys

tonight and ask you this question.

Do you give your first fruits to the Lord?

When you wake up, think to yourself, what is the first

thing that you do? And if the first thing you do is

pick up your phone and check Insta or whatever it is that you

do. If the first thing you do is go

and get a cuppa, sometimes a cuppa with the word of God is

nice, but are you giving God the first fruits of your day?

That's the first challenge for you.

We should be starting our day with the Lord first before

anything else. I'm going to read to you some

lyrics Who he has heard of Josiah Queen.

Some of the young fellas might. Yeah.

OK, everyone note the hands came from the back corner.

Josiah Queen. He he sung sung a song called

Dusty Bibles says this. I've been struggling to find

some Peace of Mind. It's the problem of our nation

and in our generation. We're too.

We're too busy and can't find the time.

Are we busy or is it all a lie? We got dust on our bibles by

brand new iPhones. No wonder why we feel this way.

We walk with our eyes closed, blind leading blind folks and

I'm done with these idols and dusty Bibles.

You only get this one life. I don't want to sit and watch it

pass me by. I'm so done being complacent.

There ain't no replacement. How true is that in our lives?

Sometimes the phone never gets dusty, does it always gets used

but the Bible a little more so I want to encourage you guys.

I, I did this at, I did this last year and I was horrified

when I did it. You will be equally horrified.

Do a screen time audit on your phone, maybe tomorrow, not when

you go home tonight. Do a screen time audit on your

phone. You're going to be horrified by

how much time in a given day do you spend on that phone.

When you extrapolate that out to a year, it'll be days that you

spend glued to that screen, days in your year, not just hours,

but days. The question is, can we say the

same about God's Word? Genuinely?

Two Timothy 316 says all Scripture is given by

inspiration of God, and it's profitable for doctrine, for

reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

that the man of God, that's you and that's me, may be complete,

thoroughly equipped for every good work because we can't do

anything apart from God, we can't do anything.

Psalm 100 and 19105 Your word, we know this one.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a lot to my path.

My question is, have you snuffed out that light or is the word of

God truly lighting up your path? Which is it for you?

Does your family? As a man, I'm talking about the

older men here, and as a young man, I'm talking about who you

growing to be. Does your family see your

relationship with God being your highest priority?

If you're young, you don't get a free pass here, all right?

And if you're old, you don't get a free pass here either.

Does your family, whatever stage you're at, see your relationship

with God being your highest priority?

Do they see you actively owning and putting your sin to death,

even if it means admitting it, confessing it, repenting of it,

asking for forgiveness? Men, until we own our own

spiritual growth, until it's a priority in our lives, we're not

going to be able to lead anyone else.

And honestly, it starts and ends to a certain extent in the word

of God. Till we abide with God, we can't

do that. We can't leave lead others

spiritually. So what about for those who have

wives? What about our wives now?

Because after loving God, what's the next thing that we have to

do? Not rhetorical.

Love God with all that you are. And then is anyone awake?

What's the next thing? Love your neighbour.

OK, For the men that are married, there's no closer

neighbour than your wife. No one is closer than your wife.

My question for you is, are you pursuing her?

Are you pursuing your wife? Do you know what's going on in

her life right now? Her cares, her victories, her

concerns? Do you know what's wrestling for

ground in her heart and her mind right at the moment?

Do you know those things? Are you leading her to God's

Word to encourage her? Are you leading her to prayer to

navigate and wrestle with the concerns but also the victories?

Are you initiating that with her?

Ephesians 525 Husbands love your wives just as Christ also loved

the church. If you're not married, guys,

this is what you're working towards.

Verse 28. So husbands ought to love their

own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves

himself, for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and

cherishes it, just as the Lord does the Church.

Many of you nourishing and cherishing your wife.

Are you giving yourself? Are you sacrificing of your own

wants and needs? A good friend of mine said to me

one time and I, I've latched onto it.

He said to me one time, Mike, when I get home, he's got a big

family. He has a number of kids, five I

think, maybe 6. Whenever he walked, whenever he

got home, before he walked through that door, he would take

a deep breath. You try and lay aside all of his

stresses, all of his concerns from the day because as soon as

he walks through that door, he has no idea what his wife's been

going through today. She may need to just thrust the

kids upon him because she's had a rough 1.

He would take a deep breath and walk through that door ready to

take on whatever the Lord had before him.

Are you doing that kind of thing for your wife?

Are you sacrificing your own needs and wants for your spouse?

And I want to say before your kids, before your work, before

your ministry, before your church ministry starts with your

wife, then your kids. But it doesn't end there, and

we're going to get to that soon. Next comes your kids, and for

the more mature among us, your grandkids also.

We have a foundation that we set when we love the Lord, when we

love our wives. If we're doing that, that lays

an incredible foundation to then love our kids, to raise them up

in the ways of the Lord. I'm going to read a few verses

to Ephesians 64. And you, fathers, do not provoke

your children. My son frequently references

this verse to me. Do not provoke your children.

He forgets the next bit, which is classic.

Do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the

training and the admonition of the Lord.

Is that something you're doing with your kids?

The blessing and curse of parenting is that you've got to

be consistent. It's not rocket science, but

it's consistent, consistently training and and admonishing

them in the Lord. Deuteronomy 66 And these words

which I command you today shall be in your heart.

You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk

of them when you sit. Now listen to this.

This is amazing. Deuteronomy 6-7 we're at now.

You shall talk of the commands of the Lord when you sit in your

house, when you walk, by the way, when you lie down and when

you rise up. That's quick.

Who did that? How does that happen?

That's amazing. Does that not cover every part

of your life? When you sit, when you walk,

when you lie down, when you rise up, those are all the times we

are to speak of the commands and the ways of the Lord with our

children. Proverbs 22 Six.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he

will not depart from it. Are you praying for your kids

regularly, men? Sometimes we're like, oh, my

wife's, my wife's praying for, for our kids.

That's enough, right? Are you praying for your kids?

Kids. Are you praying for your dad?

Yeah, awesome. Because we need your prayers

just as much as you need our prayers.

Are you teaching your kids, your grandkids, the truths of God's

word? Are you asking them how they're

doing in their spiritual walks? We're we're very good.

I love my brother, but we talk a lot about the weather, a lot

about football, a lot about basketball, and not nearly as

much as I'd like about the Lord. Are we asking each other about

our spiritual walks with the Lord, how we're travelling?

We've talked about brotherly love here tonight.

When was the last time you went up to a brother in this

sanctuary right now and said, hey, how are you going with the

Lord right now? I want to challenge and

encourage you to do that at the end of this night.

Seriously, don't just do it for, for, you know, just for kicks.

Actually be serious about it. Are you having hard

conversations when with your kids about sin in their lives?

Are you teaching them how to handle their sin?

Are you having family times that include His Word and praying

together? Are you prioritising?

You ready for this church attendance and church

involvement? Are you prioritising those

things? Are you involving your children

in serving the Lord? This is all what it means to

love and to do all things in love towards our children.

And of course, this leads us to the next step and that's being

spiritual leaders of the family of God.

And we here are brothers in the family of God because it is

critical that you are plugged in to our solid Bible teaching

church and praise God you have that here.

Not everyone can say that the the back story of our fellowship

in Busselton is that there was not a a solid Bible teaching

church in Busselton. Sadly.

But you know, so many of us don't know about you guys, and I

pray that it's not the case in this church, but so many

Christians and I can see it from here.

Keith can see it. Israel can see it.

When you're standing here, we can see it in your face, your

resting face. Man, this guy is ready to leave.

Oh, that guy looks angry. So many people want the in and

out worship experience. You with me.

So many people want that experience.

Get in, get out so that you can get on with the rest of your day

like churches and inconvenience. Oh man, some guys that come

through our fellowship irregularly, I'm sitting there

and even the amount of time that they sit in that back row, I

know they're not listening and they're only sitting in that

back row for half the time. They just want the in and out

experience. Almost like as I said, it's,

it's just a an inconvenient part of their day.

What's interesting is the thought of what if God was like

that with us? What if God just wanted the in

and out experience with His children?

When we call out to God in the trial that we're going through,

the sickness, the persecution, the grief, the heartache,

whatever it is that we're experiencing, imagine if God

said, man, I'm with you son, but only for the next hour.

After that you're on your own. Imagine if God did that with us.

I want to challenge and encourage you guys to be so

thankful to the Lord for this body that you call a family in

Christ. It is such a gift from the Lord

and I want to challenge you and ask you, does your family men

see you serving this body with joy?

Do you serve together as a family?

And guys, I'm not just talking about Sunday either.

You know, you come on Sunday and the job of a number of people in

this fellowship, their job is to equip you for the work of the

ministry. The equipping in part happens on

Sunday. When does the ministry happen?

In part on Sunday, but it also happens on Monday and Tuesday

and Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, you

get in the picture. Are you serving the Lord every

single day of the week? And that because that looks like

different things for different people at different times.

There's no one size fits all. But are you serving the body of

Christ that you're a part of? I was having this conversation

earlier around the fact that what does it, what does it look

like to serve the body? And part of that is, hey, let's,

when is the one time that for whatever reason, we've set up

that we all come together and gather as a body?

We do that on Sunday, right? Typically that should be our

baseline. That's where we start serving

the body of Christ. But that's that's only one day.

I want to ask you if you celebrate your local church or

do you tear it to shreds? Do you show your family that you

really value worshipping the Lord as you stand and sing, as

you follow along with the sermon, as you prioritise

serving the body in humility Sundays and all the days?

Because if we don't fully commit to the local church, fully

commit to the local church, how then do we deal with a whole

stack of verses in the Bible? I'm going to give you a few.

Let's see how quickly they come up.

First, Peter 410. It was a little lagging that

happened there first. Peter 410 As each one has

received a gift, minister it to one another as good stewards of

the manifold grace of God. OK, let me ask you this

question. If you're not fully committed to

the body of Christ, of being with the body of Christ, being

alongside the body of Christ, how then do you minister your

gift to one another if your pastor's gift was not used to

minister to you on Sunday? If he decided, you know what, I

don't want to minister my gift today, what would that look

like? But your pastor's gift is only

one gift. We've all got gifts.

And when you exclude yourself from the body, the body loses

out. You lose out because you lose

all the gifts, but the body loses out because we lose your

gift. You each, no matter your age.

OK, who's the youngest in our fellowship here?

How old? 6 Anyone younger than six.

No. OK, anyone older than six.

Who's the oldest in our fellowship here?

No pressure. How many, Keith?

Fair bit. Fair bit.

It doesn't matter the age. We all have gifts.

Like I just moved on there, Keith.

Well played. We all have gifts that we need

to use to minister to one another.

It's so important Romans 12/4 for as as we have many members

in one body, but all the members do not have the same function.

So we being many are one body in Christ and individually members

of one another. Having them gifts differing

according to the grace that is given to us.

Let us use them men. Let us use the gifts that God

has given us. I was speaking to a man earlier.

Ian. Where are you?

Ian. Yes, Ian is the groundsman here,

Are you not, Ian? Guys, doesn't matter what your

gift looks like, you've got to use it for the Lord.

He decided to use his to beautify what's around here.

How are you going to use yours for the body at the moment?

There's so many verses in the Bible that refer to command us

to use our gifts for the body, to build up the body, to

minister the body. Therefore, therefore, my

brothers, 1st Corinthians 16 verse 13, watch, watch.

It means to wake up or stay awake, to live, to give strict

attention to, to be cautious, to be on God lest you be led to

forsake Christ or fall into sin first.

Peter 58. Be sober, that is self

controlled. Be vigilant, that is watchful,

because your adversary, the devil, walks about like a

roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Acts 20, verse 29. I, Paul speaking, know this,

Acts 20:29

that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you,

not sparing the flock also from among yourselves.

Men will rise up, speaking perverse and misleading things,

to draw away the disciples after themselves.

Therefore watch and remember that for three years I did not

cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

Watch Christian, Be watchful, be on guard, be self controlled, be

disciplined in your walk with the Lord.

Watch. Stand fast in the faith.

Stand fast in the faith. That means to stand firm, to

persist, to persevere in godliness and righteousness.

And in the faith is a strong belief in Jesus Christ as

Messiah, through whom alone we obtain salvation. 2

Thessalonians 215 Brethren, stand fast and hold the

traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our

epistle, how hard it is for us to stand firm on the commands of

God when the world washes over us with all of their ways and

pleasures that they do. Christians, stand firm.

Persevere in your conviction of the truth.

Persevere in your fellowship with the Lord.

Watch. Stand fast in the in the faith.

Be brave. That word brave means to make a

man of to show oneself a man, to act manly.

Notice that the Bible intrinsically links that word

with men. It is described as a masculine

character trait. Now this doesn't mean that women

don't have it. It just means that men should

have it. We're inbuilt with it.

Now I just want to pick two things alongside each other.

So you get it. Bravery means boldness or

fearlessness. Courage means doing something

even though you know the risk. Even though you may be fearful,

you're doing it in spite of that fear.

Bravery is a fearlessness. Courage is doing it even though

you fear. Both typically work hand in

hand. Bravery is more spontaneous.

Typically boys have that thing. How often have you seen a a nine

year old girl climb a tree and jump out of it and do dumb

stuff? It doesn't happen that often

because 9 year old boys have a fearlessness about them.

That's bravery and sometimes it's stupidity, but that's what

bravery is. There's a spontaneousness about

it, but notice what the Lord uses.

He, he, the word he uses is bravery.

It's not courage. Be brave, be fearless, be bold

for the Lord that is so important.

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave.

That is, be fearless. Guys, we have nothing to fear.

Psalm 27 One, the Lord is my light and my salvation.

Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my

life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Romans 831 What then shall we say to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us?

We have nothing to God has put in us this fearlessness that he

nurtures as we grow in the Lord. Men, show yourself a man.

Be bold for the Lord. Be fearless.

No matter the consequences that may come, no matter the pushback

from your peers, no matter the pushback from your family.

Be brave. Watch.

Stand fast in the faith. Be brave.

Be strong. We're almost finished, I

promise. Be strong.

It means to strengthen, to be made strong, to grow strong, to

be strong. Ephesians 610 Finally, my

brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

The words be strong there doesn't mean in and of your own

strength. It means to be strong in the

Lord. We must be empowered.

We'll be strengthened by God. Our strength comes from Him, not

from ourselves. Not be strong by the Lord of the

Lord, but in the Lord. Our strength comes from being in

Him, which comes full cycle back to the start.

Abide in me. We've got to abide in His Word.

John 15-4 Abide in me, and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in

the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches.

He who abides in me, and I in him bears much fruit.

For without me you can do nothing.

All right, pop quiz. Let's see who's listening up the

back there. Apart from Christ, what can we

do? Shut it out.

Nothing. We can't do anything apart from

Christ. Nothing.

I was chatting to a mate a while ago.

He wrestles a lot with the Lord. He we had a laugh one time

because he came to this realisation that this, this

skill that he had, he was really good at something.

He's not really good at a number of things, but he's really good

at this something. But he came to the point where

he realised that that something was actually from the Lord.

He's actually not good at anything apart from the Lord,

and that was a sad realisation for him.

But that's the reality of our lives.

Apart from God we can do nothing.

And you know what, it's actually encouraging as well.

You don't have to try, you just have to abide in Him and he's

going to do it with you, in you, through you.

True Christian strength comes from recognising our utter

dependence on God. Philippians 413 I can do all

things through Christ who strengthens me.

Notice the opposite. I can't do anything apart from

God. I can do all things through

Christ who strengthens me. To be strong in the Lord means

to abide in Christ. What's the best way to abide in

Christ? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Every day, guys, every day. Pick up the word of God every

single day. You won't always understand

everything that you read. That's OK.

I pick it up every single day. Abide in Christ, be strong in

the Lord. I can't remember what verse out

of Samuel you read earlier, but I'm going to read 1 right now.

Two Samuel 1012. Be of good courage and let us be

strong for our people and for the cities of our God.

As men, we are called to be strong for God's people.

That's Our Calling. That's the calling upon your

life from as young as 6 to as old as many.

That's the calling upon our life.

Watch, stand fast in the faith. Be brave, be strong.

Let all that you do be done with.

Love everything guys, everything that you do, your words, your

actions, the love of Christians towards Christians.

We get this horribly wrong, but it's our witness guys, John 1335

and we're going to close here by this all know that you are my

disciples. If you have love one for

another, How are you going with loving one another?

How are you going with loving your wife, your children, your

grandchildren? How are you going with loving

your brothers? Brothers sharing with each other

how we're going? That's not a natural thing for

us, is it necessarily? But it's required of us to love

one another. A level of vulnerability is

required of us. You saw all the raised hands

earlier about how we all struggle with how often we pick

up God's Word sometimes. It's no different for all the

other struggles that you're experiencing.

There's a bunch of brothers here that are struggling with the

same thing. We just need to open our mouth,

make ourselves vulnerable, and love one another in all that we

do. Men, as we close, watch, This is

your challenge this week. Excuse me, this is your

challenge this week. It's your challenge for your

within your family, within this body of Christ.

Here, take this challenge seriously.

Watch. Stand fast in the faith, Be

brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with

love. Let's pray together now, the

Heavenly Father. Thank you so much that you love

us, that you've forgiven us, that you're so patient with us.

Lord, we don't deserve your patience.

We don't deserve your mercy and your grace, but you gifted to

us, Lord. Lord, we pray that you would

strengthen us with your Holy Spirit because we can't do these

things apart from you. We we just read that we can do

nothing apart from you, but we can do all things through you,

Christ who strengthens us. So Lord, strengthen us this

night. Lord, our witness is our love

one for another. Help us to do that.

Well, Lord, help us to be the spiritual leaders of our homes,

of our families, of this church, of our friendship groups.

Lord, what would it look like for each of us to watch, to

stand firm in the faith, to be brave, to be strong, and to do

all things with love? Lord, that is the charge for us

today. And I just ask here, Lord among

us, that you would strengthen us for that challenge, that you

would encourage us every time we fail, whether you'd pick us back

up and we'd keep charging towards you in all the things

that we do and say. Thank you, Lord, for this time.

As men, we commit it into your hands in the name of the Lord

Jesus Christ. And everyone said Amen, just to

know you.