Priceless | Donovan Rillion | Price Defined

So, I have been sick the last few days, so if

I don't shake your hand or give you a hug, I'm

looking out for you, I'm not trying to be rude.

Also, I did tell Phil, like this is the first

time that I've been out of the house and doing

stuff. four days maybe. So I told Phil, if I

pass out up here, the notes are on my screen.

Just come up and just keep rolling, okay? But

seriously, I'm super excited to start this new

series called Priceless with you. It is no secret

if you've been here since I've been here that

I've spent the last year or so challenging us

as a church family. I will blame that on my personality

type. My Enneagram is the challenger. I like

to push boundaries and I like to pull people,

pull more out of people than they're used to

being pulled out of. I think in another lifetime,

probably I was a coach because that's just, I'm

not good with just being content to be how I

am. I feel like there's more. There's more to

every person. There's more we can be doing. There's

more we can be. And so I have been challenging

us a lot. But I do feel like as a minister, I

need to also encourage. And I also need to help

people understand that while there is more to

you, while you have been made for more, that

what you are is also just fine. That what you

are is still good. And so I want to encourage

you, and the way that I'm going to do that is

by starting with a question, and the question

is, what am I worth? Now that's a question that

most all of us have asked before. Maybe we've

asked it in different ways, and many of us have

never actually said that out loud, but we've

asked the question, what am I actually worth?

And when we ask that, we're not asking what our

net worth is. We're not asking what the bank

says or what the life insurance policy says.

We're asking, what am I? What is Donovan? What

is this person? What is this person that lives

in a community that is a citizen, that is a family

member, that is a father and a husband and a

brother and a son? What am I worth? Because there's

a moment, and I think everybody in this room

has had this moment. Where you do the math on

your own life, you start looking at your life

and you don't really like the number that comes

back. For some, that moment came at a young age.

Maybe you didn't make the team or nobody sat

with you on the bus or in the lunchroom. Maybe

you waited all night and your mom or your dad

didn't come home like they said they would and

that night turned into weeks and then those weeks

turned into months. For some people, this math...

starts coming later where maybe you were a somebody

at work. You were really, you had the position,

you had the prestige, but then you retired and

the phone stopped ringing and nobody seemed to

need your services anymore. And it turned out

that the world kind of keeps spinning without

you. For some of you, it comes when or came when

the kids grew up and they moved off and the house

got quiet. For some, it came when your body quit

doing what it used to do. You used to be the

one who carried things and who would fix things

and who would solve any issue, but now you need

a little more help than you're actually able

to provide yourself. And some of us, some of

you are sitting here this morning, and it isn't

a moment that you've had, but it's the constant

reality of your life where you sit and you look

at yourself and you ask yourself, what am I worth?

Because you've never in your life felt like you

were worth much of anything to anybody. And so

we start this series called Priceless. And over

the next few weeks, we're going to be asking

the question and answering the question from

a few different perspectives. But really, the

question is simply, where does human worth actually

come from and who defines it? What are you worth?

What is your neighbor worth? What is that person

that you can't stand worth? And what is the person

that the world has written off worth? But to

do that, to answer that question, we have to

start with ourselves because we can't believe

the right thing about anybody else's value until

we believe the right thing about our own value.

So let's start with this question today. How

does a person get to where they say, I am worthless

and actually believe it? Because believe it or

not, there are people in this room right now,

and you may be one of them, that you believe

that you don't have much value, that you are

worth less, that nobody really needs you, that

if you were gone today, that everything would

be just fine. In fact, it may be better if you

weren't here. And so I sit here and I ask, and

working with teenagers helped me with this, because

I wonder, how do you get to the point where you

feel like you're not worth anything? Like, I

had a pretty rough upbringing, but I never once

thought I wasn't worth anything. Like, I never

thought that I was worth less. Now, I thought

I was worth less than other people maybe, but

I never thought I was worthless. And so how does

somebody get there? Well, here's how. We live

in a culture that assigns value the way a store

assigns value. And unfortunately, we've all bought

into that. We've all bought into this idea that

if something is better than the next thing, or

if people want this more than they want that,

then it is worth more. And really what it all

boils down to is it's comparison. What it boils

down to is we compare ourselves to other people.

And we sit here and we look at other people's

walk. We look at other people's lives and we

say, well, they've got it made this way, or they've

got these things, or they've got this friendship

and they've got these relationships and they're

a part of these clubs and these social groups.

So they must be worth more than me. But that's

the world's metric of value. I think of this

book, the second book in C .S. Lewis' Space Trilogy.

And in the book, there's this like angelic lady

figure. And she is described as like beautiful.

And like I said, angelic. So she is this larger

than life deity type being. And there's a human

from earth. He's made it to this planet. I think

it's Mars. But he makes it to this planet. And

he is with this angelic woman. And he's being

chased and tormented by this Satan type figure.

And this Satan type figure, he figures that he

can maybe mess with the way that this woman and

this man's relationship is. It's not like a romantic

relationship, just like it's a kind of a, he's

trying to figure out where he is and what's going

on on this planet because he doesn't know how

he got here. And so this woman is very secure

in who she is. She's like a lowercase g god,

a goddess, I guess you would say. Well, the Satan

figure gives the woman a mirror, and she had

never once seen her reflection. She had seen

other women. She had seen other angelic -type

beings. She had seen other people, but she had

never seen what she looked like. And again, she's

described as this beautiful, angelic being, but

now she starts to doubt herself and question

herself, and she starts to feel like she's not

good enough. You see, comparison truly is the

thief of all joy. Comparison is what allows us

to start thinking that we are worth less or in

some cases that we are worthless. I want you

to think about how the world defines worth. The

world gives worth to people who can do things

that other people can't do. If you can throw

a football, if you can sing on key, if you can

build a company up, you can look a certain way

in a photograph, you are all of a sudden worth

more than everybody else. And so we look up at

those people, the talented, the accomplished,

the wealthy, the beautiful, the famous, and we

say, well, those folks, they have value. And

then we look down at our ordinary lives, and

we look at our own ordinary jobs, our own ordinary

faces in an ordinary mirror, and we do the subtraction,

and we start deciding that they're valuable.

I'm not one of them, so I must not be valuable.

And I want you to notice something about that

system. It's built on comparison, and it only

works by measuring you against others. Lucky

for us, though, the Apostle Paul saw this issue,

and he addressed it 2 ,000 years ago. He says

this about the people who are doing it. When

they measure themselves by one another and compare

themselves with one another, they are without

understanding. They're without understanding.

He doesn't say they're mean. He doesn't call

them arrogant or proud. He says they're ignorant.

Or as Greg and Tim would say, they're idiots.

They don't get it. They don't understand. They're

measuring their worth in a foolish way. And this

is an issue. Paul sees it and he says they don't

understand. That their worth isn't about what

they look like up against the next person. That

their worth is from something else. And the other

issue with the world system is that the world

likes to move the goalposts. Like, think about

what was considered beautiful today was not considered

beautiful 40 years ago. And what was considered

beautiful 40 years ago was not considered beautiful

40 years before that. What was considered really

good at some, like, we think about music, right?

Popular music today would have gotten thrown

in the garbage 50 years ago. And rightfully so.

But the world moves its goalposts. And so these

values start to change. Have you ever bought

something at full price? You didn't get a discount

or anything on it. You bought it full price.

Let's use shoes for an example, okay? So you

go to the shoe store. You find the exact pair

of shoes you wanted. They're not cheap, but you

wanted them. So you thought about it. You talked

yourself into it. You paid the money, and you

carried those shoes out feeling pretty good about

your purchase. And maybe this has happened to

you before, but after you buy the shoes, maybe

it's a week later, you're scrolling through Facebook,

and you see an ad, same shoe store, for the same

pair of shoes, but now those shoes are on sale,

and they're 50 % off. and you look at your pair

of shoes that you're wearing, and you're like,

so I paid $200 for these, but I could have got

them for $100 if I would have just waited. Well,

the shoes didn't change. Like, nothing changed

about the shoes. The shoe store didn't change.

But something happened along the way between

the day you bought them and the day they went

on sale that caused the shoe store to decide

they aren't worth as much anymore, so we're going

to mark them down so that more people will buy

them. See, the only thing that changed was the

price tag. And that's exactly what it feels like

to let the world tell you what you're worth.

One day, you're valuable to them. One day, they

can't go on without you. One day, they need you

in order to make it through till tomorrow. I

think about like my kids, right? You have a baby

and... Right now, if it's a baby, they need you

for everything. They can't feed themselves. They

can't put themselves to sleep. They can't change

their own diaper. They need you for everything.

But two years later, they need you for a little

bit less. And two years from there, they need

you a little bit less. And before long, you've

got a 25 -year -old. And they don't need you

as much. Maybe they call you when they need a

little bit extra money. But they don't need you

as much as they did. 24 years before. You see,

things change. Your price tag changes because

the world changes it. Time passes, something

newer or more exciting comes along, and all of

a sudden the world decides that you are worth

less. But the truth is, nothing about you changed

except your price tag. That's what you're trusting

to tell you who you are. A tag that someone else

can change whenever they feel like it. Now I

want you to listen to what Paul says to a church

that's facing a similar issue in Colossians.

And so we're going to look at some different

passages today, but these passages from Colossians

are kind of our root for this lesson. So let's

look at Colossians chapter 2, starting in verses

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6 through 8. And if it's underlined, I would

love for you to read along with me. Therefore,

as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk

in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established

in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding

in thanksgiving. See to it that no one takes

you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according

to human tradition, according to the elemental

spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

He says, see to it that no one takes you captive.

When you hear the word captive, you probably

think immediately of like a prisoner or like

somebody that's been kidnapped, somebody that's

been captured. Paul says there's a way of thinking

out there, that there is this logic, there is

this philosophy, there are these things that

people will put in your brain that they will

put in your heart and in your mind that can take

you captive, that will throw a sack over your

head, tie you up, throw you in the van, run off

with you. And it's this invasive way of thinking

that you get talked into. Paul calls it empty

deceit. It's this hollow logic. What it does

is it looks full, it looks enticing, but in reality,

it has no weight to it. It's like a bag of chips.

You know how you feel like you could just keep

eating a bag of chips? I have this bad habit

that if I get, it's like we buy the family -sized

bags of chips, right? And sometimes I'll go home

for lunch, I'll sit down, I'll make a sandwich,

and I'll go and I'll get the family -sized bag

of chips. And because I'm the dad of the house,

I get to eat out of the bag. So I will just,

also my hygiene standards are really good. So

I get to eat out of the bag. So I'll put this

family size bag of chips on the table. I'll finish

my sandwich. And now I'm a little full, but I'll

start eating the chips. And the next thing I

know, I've eaten like almost the entire family

size bag of chips. You want to know the bad thing

though? I could keep going. But I look at the

bag and visually I see that's not good. But like

physically I feel like I could keep eating. And

that's what I think of when I think of this empty

deceit. Like it looks good. It looks enticing.

But it doesn't really fill you up. It's kind

of like dessert. There's always room for dessert.

I don't know why that works, but you get tricked

into believing that you can take on more than

you really should. And this empty deceit, it

tricks you because it sounds reasonable. I want

you to think about it this way. Nobody in this

room, nobody who's ever doubted themselves, ever

sat down and decided, you know what, today, I

think I'll let a stranger at the grocery store

define my worth today. You know what, I'll let

the co -worker that, you know, that... Who cares

about their... I'll let them decide. my value

today. Nobody ever decides that that's what they're

going to do. It just happens a little at a time.

These subtle messages on the TV screen or on

social media telling you that you need more or

that you're not doing enough. The only thing

you hear from that miserable parent or relative

who no matter what you do, they can't seem to

be proud of you or happy for you. You know what

I mean? Like these people, these thoughts, these

circumstances that take you captive. And Paul

says, don't let that happen to you. Do not let

them take you captive. You have been taught better.

And now here's what I want us to understand about

our situation this morning. And it's not just

simply to stop believing the lies. It would be

really easy for me to get up here and say, hey,

stop believing that. But that's not what Paul

does. Paul doesn't just tell them to think better

thoughts. He actually calls their attention to

what's happened to them. So I want you to see

what Paul says in Colossians 3, verses 1 through

Colossians 3:1–4

4. If then you have been raised with Christ,

seek the things that are above where Christ is

seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind

on things that are above, not on things that

are on earth. What Paul is saying is, When you

came out of the water, when you gave your life

to Christ, you were baptized, you came out of

the water, you didn't just get forgiven, you

got transferred from one market into another

one. Essentially, the old scale, the way that

the world would judge your worth and your value,

the way that you might have judged your worth

and your value in that old life, that has no

jurisdiction over you anymore. You died. to that

way of thinking. You died to that logic. And

where does Paul say your life is now? He says

it is hidden with Christ in God. And it's bound

for glory. I love that. Like your life is not

sitting on a shelf where the world can walk by

and calculate a price and decide to discount

you. You're not up for appraisal. Your life,

your value is hidden. It's held. It is stored

somewhere where the world cannot reach in and

discount it. The world has no jurisdiction over

your worth. And so when the world tells you what

your worth is this week, and it will, it will

try to at least, you can respond back to it with

the truth. You don't have any say. You don't

have access to that kind of definition of my

life. In Romans 12 too, Paul says it plainly.

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed

by the renewal of your mind. You know what conformed

means, right? It's like if I pour jello into

a mold. Do people do that anymore? Jello molds?

Hopefully you still do. I don't like jello, so

I don't do that, but hopefully you do because

it's cool. But so like when you pour jello into

a mold, it's liquid, but then it sets, right?

And it comes out in the shape of the mold. And

I can remember as a kid, like for Halloween,

we'd get like the little cheap plastic molds

at the store, and we'd do like the pumpkin, you

know, the jack -o' -lantern jello molds, or for

Christmas we'd do, for some reason, we could

just do jello molds for everything, right? I

think we did an Easter bunny jello mold one time.

But that's what happens to a person who lets

the world define their worth. You pour yourself,

you pour your life, you pour your thoughts and

your abilities and you pour everything about

you into a mold that the world will shape and

decide what you are and what you're worth. But

what Paul says is don't do that because you're

not like them. And the truth of the matter is

if we are in Christ, as Paul says, we are a new

creation. We are not like the world. And so we

don't do what the world does. We don't judge

ourselves like the world does. So we don't get

into their little jello molds. You see, that's

what happens to a person who lets the world define

their worth. But what Paul is trying to get us

to do is stay away from the molds we used to

pour or we used to be poured into and instead

become something entirely different, which leads

me to the point of today's lesson. If we understand

that the world doesn't get to define our worth,

we have to ask the question, who does? If the

person next to me doesn't get to define my worth,

if my spouse doesn't get to define my worth,

if my employer doesn't get to define my worth,

if my friend group, if my social group, if my

church doesn't get to define my worth, then who

does? Well, I feel like that's a pretty Sunday

school answer. But let me ask you a different

question then. Same question, different way.

How does anything get to be valuable? You've

seen it happen before where maybe somewhere in

your family there's an item that really isn't

worth anything special, but it's worth everything

at the same time. I have a guitar. It's actually

in my office. I have a guitar that is not worth

much at all. I mean, it is, I could probably

sell it for 20 bucks, and that would be just

because somebody wants a guitar and they don't

get them for free. But for me, It's valuable

because my grandpa gave it to me. And I'm not

giving it away. I would not sell it. I actually

have two guitars that my grandpa gave me. And

one of them is worth a little bit more, but they're

not worth anything as much to the next person

as they are to me. Because my grandpa gave them

to me. Maybe it's a quilt. Maybe you've got a

quilt that if a stranger walked through your

house or they walked through an estate sale,

they saw this quilt on a table, they would walk

right past it. Maybe it's faded. It's a little

worn out in some places. And you probably couldn't

get but five or ten bucks for it. Now, I wrote

this, and then I realized, like, quilts are pretty

expensive. So, yeah, just go with me, okay? But

so you couldn't get much for it. But for you,

you would run into a burning house to get that

quilt because your grandmother made that for

you or your great -grandmother made it for you.

And you know when she made it and for what occasion.

You know the story behind each square of the

quilt. To the stranger, it's just pieces of fabric

stitched together, but to you, it is so much

more because you know who made it and you know

why. You see, our worth. Just like the quilt,

just like my guitar, our worth comes from who

made it or who gave it to you. And y 'all, that

is the entire argument of the Bible about you.

In Genesis chapter 1, we are told that God made

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us, he made man, he made woman in his own image.

That we are not some chemical accident, that

we're not just some anomaly, that these atoms

collided and this all just randomly happened.

That's not the truth. First of all, it's not

what scripture says, but like if you just need

scientific proof, go do some research. Science

says that's not what happened, okay? So we weren't

an accident. We were intentionally made in the

image of God. You were made on purpose by somebody,

capital S, in his own image, and that is where

your value comes from. That's where my value

comes from, and that's why the world cannot touch

our value. They cannot define it. They don't

have the right to. And I want you to listen to

how God talks about what he made. In Isaiah 43,

Isaiah 43:4

verse 4, God's talking to his people, the Israelites,

and so I want you to see how God feels about

his people. Because if you can understand how

God feels about you, maybe it'll help you understand

your value. You are precious in my eyes and honored,

and I love you. God... looks at his people. He

looks at you, regardless of your stains, regardless

of how faded and worn out you might be, regardless

of your age, what you've done, where you've been.

God looks at you and he says, you are precious

in my eyes. I love you. And this... that God

is giving to his people, the Israelites, this

isn't, they're not on their best day here. This

is not them and like, they're doing great, they're

honoring God and everything is great. No, no,

no. This is one of their worst moments. But God

looks at his covenant people and he says this

about them. And if you are in Christ, I need

you to understand you have been brought into

that family, that covenant family, and that is

God's word to you, that he is. He loves you.

He is in love with you. He sees you as precious,

as priceless. Or maybe if that's not enough for

you because you're like, well, that's the Old

Testament. I want you to see what Jesus, the

Son of God, says in Luke 12, verse 7. Why? Even

Luke 12:7

the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear

not. You are of more value than many sparrows.

And this comes after Jesus is telling this crowd.

of nobodies, these poor people, these working

class people, these people that are constantly

overlooked, overworked, and stepped over. He

looked at them and he says, hey, you might worry

about what you're going to eat, what you're going

to drink, where you're going to sleep, but don't

the sparrows, don't the birds of the air, doesn't

God take care of them? Well, look at you. God

knows every hair on your head. If he sees you

as precious, I promise you, he cares more about

you than those birds. And if they don't have

to worry about anything, what do you have to

worry about? You see, Jesus is telling us that

God cares enough about us that he has counted

the very hairs on your head. I love my kids.

I will never, if you've seen my kids, you know

they've got full heads of hair. I will never

sit down and try to count every single hair on

their head. I love them to death. I'm not doing

that. But God, he knows every little detail about

you. And even still. He says, you're valuable.

You're priceless. Serious question, are you ever

going to hear the world say that about you? Is

the world ever going to tell you that you're

precious? Is the world, is the screen, is social

media, is the news, are they ever going to look

at you and tell you, I know every little detail

about you and I find you to be lovely? Is the

marketplace, is the employer ever going to say

I love you and nothing could ever change that?

No. So why on earth do we still let them define

our worth? See, creation isn't even the strongest

thing that God has said about your worth because

you can make something and you can still walk

away from it. I like to write songs. I've written

several songs that I wrote once and I've never

looked at again. They're stuck in a notebook

somewhere. You know why? Because they weren't

that good. And so I just don't care about them.

But I've also got songs that I've written that

I'll go and I'll just play all the time and over

and over and over again. Why? Because I love

those. So you can make something and still walk

away from it. You can build something and lose

interest, but God didn't create us and walk away.

Like this isn't something where God created the

world, set it on spin, and just walked away from

it. So there's another way to know what something

is worth, and it's the way that we actually settle

it. Well, it's the way that we actually realize

in the real world. So you don't find out what

a thing is worth by asking what it's made of.

You find out what a thing is worth by watching

what someone is willing to pay for it. So I can

look at, you know, this beautiful home that you've

got. And you may think it's great. But I might

look at it and say, oh, maybe I would pay $100

,000 for it. You're like, this is a quarter of

a million dollar home. No. Which in today's market,

you'd be like, yeah, that's awesome, right? But

like, so. We can look at these things and say,

no, I don't think they're worth the same thing

that you think they're worth. So you find out

what something is worth by watching what someone's

willing to pay for it. And if you've heard nothing

I've said all morning, because I'm sure I don't

know what I've said, some of this might be rambling,

but I want you to hear this, because this is

the most important thing I'm going to say this

morning. 1 Peter chapter 1. You were ransomed

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from the feudal ways inherited from your forefathers.

not with perishable things such as silver or

gold, but with the precious blood of Christ,

like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

Not silver, not gold. Peter says God looked at

the currencies of this world. He looked at the

way things go in the marketplace, and he looked

at all of this, and he saw. that the things that

we spend our whole lives chasing, the things

that we let assign our value, he saw that those

things weren't enough to purchase his people.

Now, truthfully, because there's like a sacrificial

system, right? There has to be some perfect in

order to make some imperfect people whole. And

so God looks at this. He says, none of that is

enough for what I'm buying. You see, the price

for you and I to be free, to be free from the

painful reality, the scam of a system that is

this world, the price for that was the blood

of the Son of God. That's our worth. The word

ransom means that there is absolutely a price

demanded, that there was a price demanded for

us to be freed from captivity, but there was

no price too big for God to pay for his children.

That's what priceless means. It doesn't mean...

Nobody ever put an evaluation on you. It doesn't

mean that nobody ever said you were worth or

you cost this much. What it means is when it

was time to pay up, the only thing in the universe

big enough to cover it was Jesus, and God paid

it anyway. Now, I want to be careful here. What

I don't want to leave you with is just the idea

that you're valuable, you're special, you're

enough, believe in yourself. This isn't one of

those feel -good sermons like that. What I want

you to hear is I want you to know what you actually

are, to know what you've done, because you know

who you are and what you've done. You know what

you're capable of, what you're incapable of.

You know the thoughts that go through your head.

You know the person you've been. And any message

about your worth that requires you to forget

all of that is not good news. It's not. Because

if you forget the bad, then Jesus coming and

sacrificing his life to forgive you of the bad

doesn't make sense. So I don't want you to have

this nice little feel -good buzz of, that's so

good, God loves me. No, I want you to understand,

we are bad people. We have done bad things. We

have been bad places. We've said bad things.

We have hurt people. We have sinned against God.

What makes it so special, what makes this good

news truly good is knowing that God doesn't care.

He would purchase you back anyways. And see,

that's what the Apostle Paul says in Romans 5,

8. God shows his love for us in that while we

were still sinners, Christ died for us. Not after

we cleaned up. Not once we became worthy. Not

once we figured it all out. God knew exactly

what he was buying and what it would cost. And

he went through with the purchase anyways. See,

this is somebody who knows exactly who you are.

He knows exactly who I am. And he paid full price

with no hesitation. Only a good God could do

that. And see, the world will try to price you.

They'll move the price tag. They'll change the

number. And if you let it, it will take you captive

before you even notice. But we have a maker.

We have a creator. We have a purchaser. who says

our worth comes from him, not from our condition,

not from our performance. And our maker defines

our worth by paying a price far greater than

what we could ever imagine, far greater than

we deserve. And he bought us back at the cost

of his own son. So maybe there's a voice telling

you that you're worthless. It might be the world.

It might be somebody in your family. It might

be a friend. It might be your own voice in the

middle of all of the chaos that is your life.

I want you to hear this clearly. That voice is

lying to you. You are not worthless. You are

not worth less. You are priceless. And so today,

I want you to stop letting the world deceive

you. Stop eating the bag of chips, this empty

deceit, this hollow, shallow philosophy. If you're

sitting here this morning and you've never given

your life to Jesus, then I need you to hear me

clearly. The price has been paid for you to have

a full, abundant, substance -filled life. Nobody

is asking you to earn it. Nobody is asking you

to purchase it. Nobody is asking you to do things

in order to get it. We are simply asking, and

I'm begging you. to just receive it. It is a

free gift. I don't know why we're so resistant

to taking free gifts, but it is a free gift.

Just receive it. And if you have received it,

but you've drifted, you didn't lose your value,

you just changed who you're letting define it.

I need for all of us to remember that our value,

our value is only defined by one person, and

that is God. It's not me. It's not you. It's

not the people around you. The only person who

can tell you what you are worth is God. And if

anyone says anything other than what God has

said, they're lying. It's empty deceit. Do not

be taken captive by it. And so this morning,

no matter where you're at, if you've been taken

captive or if you've just simply never received

this good news free gift, of being purchased

by the incredible, perfect, precious blood of

Christ. Whatever you need, we invite you to come

now as we stand and as we sing.