The Road to Resurrection Pt. 1 | Chris Gross | Radiant Life Church

Well, this morning I am excited. I'm

always pumped to preach. I love getting

in the word of God. And today we are

going to jump ahead a few chapters from

where we've been in John chapter 15 to

John 15 · chapter mention

John chapter 19. Now, if you like things

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systematically done and you want to go

through the rest, just wait. In the next

couple months, we'll go back and we will

go and we'll hit 16 and 17 and 18. We'll

be uh getting there. But first here for

the next few weeks, we're going to look

at this road to resurrection. We're

going to look at Jesus, what he did, who

he is. We're going to look at at the the

pain truly, the suffering that he went

through for us. We believe with all our

heart that next week and the following

week, people are going to come and

respond to Jesus and say yes to Jesus

because of his word and the power of his

word. That is what it is all about. And

so I want to start this morning just by

reading John 19:es 1-15. It's a little

bit lengthy and you can follow along or

get your your Bible or pull your phone

up uh in case you wonder. Every once in

a while people ask me and I use the

English Standard Version, the ESV

version, uh the best version. I'm just

kidding. Whatever version you want,

doesn't matter. But if you're following

along on a phone and you ever want to

jump into it, ESV will get it to be the

same as what I have. But John or 19 1-15

says, "Then Pilate took Jesus and fgged

him, and the soldiers twisted together a

crown of thorns and put it on his head

and arrated him in a purple robe." They

came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of

the Jews," and struck him with their

hands. Pilate went out again and said to

them, "See, I am bringing him out to you

that you may know that I find no guilt

in him." So Jesus came out wearing the

crown of thorns and the purple robe.

Pilate said to them, "Behold the man."

When the chief priests and the officers

saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him!

Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take

him yourselves and crucify him, for I

find no guilt in him." The Jews answered

him, "We have a law, and according to

that law, he ought to die because he has

made himself the son of God."

When Pilate heard this statement, he was

even more afraid. He entered his

headquarters again and said to Jesus,

"Where are you from?" But Jesus gave him

no answer. So Pilate said to him, "You

will not speak to me. Do you not know

that I have authority to release you and

authority to crucify you?" Jesus

answered him, "You would have no

authority over me at all unless it had

been given you from above. Therefore, he

who delivered me over to you has the

greater sin. From then on, Pilate sought

to release him. But the Jews cried out,

"If you release this man, you are not

Caesar's friend." Everyone who makes

himself a king opposes Caesar. So when

Pilate heard these words, he brought

Jesus out and sat down on the judgment

seat at a place called the stone

pavement and in Aramic

Gabbatha. Now it was the day of

preparation of the Passover. It was

about the sixth hour. He said to the

Jews, "Behold your king." They cried

out, "Away with him! Away with him!

Crucify him!" Pilate said to him or

them, "shall I crucify your king?" The

chief priest answered, "We have no king

but Caesar." So he delivered him over to

them to be crucified.

Now when I read this passage of

scripture, first of all, I find it

absolutely amazing that as we went over

and over and over, Pilate continually

said,"I find no guilt. I s find no

fault. He didn't do anything wrong. Why

would you want to crucify him?"

Basically, it makes no sense. Why would

you do this to this innocent

man? But I also see a man who was

struggling with what he believed versus

what the people were saying, what he was

experiencing and what he saw in Jesus

and what the people were speaking over

his life and what this people were

saying. There was this inner struggle,

this inner turmoil of should I do what I

know is right versus should I do what

the people are saying? Should I do even

what is right or maybe what they're

saying, the law or what Caesar would

want? Should I do what I know in my

heart is everything or should I do what

might end up being the easier thing to

do? Now, yesterday, uh I don't know

about anybody else, but I hope you got

to be outside at least some. At least

walk outside. It was so beautiful. Today

is also going to be beautiful. In fact,

it's going to be almost hot today, which

I can say, "Praise Jesus. I'm all here

for it. Get me those 80s. Let's make it

happen." But real fast, tomorrow it's in

the 40s. So, just in case, don't get too

excited cuz it's coming back. But, you

know, that's how it is here in the

spring in Ohio. But Jordan, my my oldest

son, he he loves golf. He loves to play

golf. I have realized quickly, which I

am a I love golf, but I haven't played a

lot recently. Golf is a terrible sport

to get your kids into because it's

expensive. You don't just go and play

for free, right? But I was like, let's

go. We're going to go do it. We're going

to go play golf. And I have decided in

my heart, in my heart of hearts, that I

am going to when I go play golf,

hopefully with anybody at this stage of

my life, not let the frustration of golf

show in my life. That's my goal. Okay.

Now, some of you are like, "Yes, he's

going to tell a story that he blew it."

But I didn't yesterday. I'm very, very

thankful for that. But I want to tell

you something. The only way you make it

through a round of golf without wanting

to break a club or throw a club or at

least make some noise THAT YOU KNOW AH

LIKE WHATEVER IT IS church is you have

to decide before you go I'm just going

to hit the ball and whatever happens

happens and it might still be difficult

but you have to decide it is a

pre-decision in your life that when you

go play golf you are going to stay cool

calm and collected no matter whether the

golf ball is going where you want it to

go or not. And especially if you're like

myself or my son, I'll tell you what, we

want to win. We want everything to be

good. We're doing it, so we should be

good at it. That's just what our view

would be and natural. Like that's where

we're at. So I had some good golf shots

yesterday and one specific golf shot. We

were coming towards the end. I had

worked out that morning. I'm going to

use that as an excuse. I was tired and I

almost missed the ball, but we I my ball

made it just past the lady's tease, so I

felt good about that. Not really. It was

rough. It was really, really rough. But

I want you to know I This is one of

those times. Normally I tell myself the

other direction. I got my club and I put

it in the cart and I sat down and said,

"Well, there it is. It is what it is."

Why? Cuz I decided there's no way in

front of my son I'm going to go and do

anything but that. Now, once again, it

might go a different day. And when it

does, I'll give you another story of the

other side because I try to be real with

everybody. But it's a predecision of our

behavior, of our action, of our belief,

of what we're going to do, of what is

important. And I'll tell you what,

yesterday was important hanging out with

my son. It was important being in God's

creation. It was important having

perfect weather. That's what was

important. And if I got every shot like

I wanted it to,

didn't truly matter.

When I think about life and I think

about this story here with Pilate, I

think of someone who he knew in his

heart what was right. He knew what he

should do, but he struggled mightily to

do what he knew was right. And as we

look through this this morning, I think

the challenge for us is, have we

predecided? Have you predecided on the

things in your life that are important

that no matter what happens and no

matter what difficulty may come that

you're going to keep pushing forward?

You're going to keep moving in Jesus. In

fact, you're going to do your best as we

read about a few weeks ago and studied

that you're going to do your best to

even walk in the joy of the Lord even

when life is hard. Not because it's fun

and happy all the time, but because

Lord, I've pre-chosen. I'm going to

serve you. I'm going to honor you. I'm

going to walk in you. I'm going to do

what you've called me to do. And I

believe today that God wants to

challenge us.

He wants to challenge us to have our

allegiance only to one, to only bow to

one King of Kings and one Lord of Lords

and not let anything else rise to that

level.

And it's a constant battle, a constant

struggle of course, but it's also a

predecision of Lord, you are everything.

I give you my life. I give you my

future, a hard one. I give you my

family. They're they're yours. I'm going

to lead them and serve them as well as I

can, but they're yours, God. Every part

of my life, my job, and my

relationships, it's yours. I give them

to you.

I think the question question is, when

pressure hits your life, which voice do

you obey? The crowd's voice or the

father's voice? Today we're going to

look at a few things and see what the

word of God would speak to us as we

remember and as we look at the story

here from John 19. So first this morning

as we look into it the thought of what

earth mocks heaven magnifies.

Now when we look into this story and

look into John and look at Pilate,

Pilate is here bring he brings Jesus out

wearing a purple robe and a crown of

thorns.

Everything about that moment is truly

engineered to shame Jesus. The robe is

of course not honory honor. It's

mockery. The crown is not glory but it

is cruelty. The whole scene is a joke in

the eyes of the Romans. It's making fun

of Jesus. A cruel performance meant to

humiliate him in front of the crowd and

in front of the people.

But what earth would call mockery,

heaven calls majesty. And in fact, these

things, there's some important things

that we see. Even while the soldiers

think they are degrading him, heaven is

declaring him worthy. Heaven is

declaring him mighty. Heaven is

declaring him the one and only.

When Pilate says, "Behold the man,"

heaven is saying, "Behold the king." And

there's a detail or a couple in this

text that John uses very intentionally.

In fact, when we break it down and we

look at the word used for robe and we

look at what that means and what that

is, it literally is a purple garment.

But purple was the ancient color

of royalty, of wealth, of imperial

power. What they meant as parody,

scripture uses as prophecy, saying,

"You've got it right." The earth, even

in this case, had it right. They just

didn't realize that they had it right.

They dressed him as a king to mock him,

not realizing they're truly revealing

who he is. But even more maybe than this

purple and this robe, John uses a word

for the crown, this twisted together

crown. And the same idea from the same

background is in Genesis chapter 3 when

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sin is entered the world. And John is

telling the people and telling his

readers and he's telling us today that

even when they put that crown of thorns

on his head, it was like weaving

together sin. It was like weaving

weaving together what we have done what

earth did to Jesus and putting the

weight of sin that twisted thorn that

ickiness on his head that cruelty it

wasn't only something that was evil and

something that was terrible obviously to

put on our Lord but it was a sign of who

he was that the curse that entered the

world through sin is placed on his head

to once and for all be taken away to be

given his holiness, his grace, his mercy

to take that sin away.

What looks like shame is actually a

stage of coronation. The suffering

Christ is not being diminished. But he

is being displayed. He who he is and

what he has done and the words that are

used in this chapter in even those few

words to the readers they would have

understood. They would have seen. They

would have said, "Wow, look at what our

God has done. Look at who

he is."

It's invi it's vital in our life

not to measure our obedience by what

earth would do or what earth would say.

Heaven so often and earth and so often

including in this scripture mocks and

goes against the very things that are

the call and the plan of God. The very

things that he has for us, the earth

around us, the sin nature, our our

culture will push the wrong direction.

In fact, obedience often looks like loss

before it looks like glory. Faithfulness

rarely gets applause. Sometimes it gets

misunderstood. Sometimes it gets judged.

Sometimes it gets mocked.

And I want you to hear today that when

we sign up to to say, "Jesus, you are my

everything. You are my Lord. You are my

Savior." The word of God does not say

that everything is just going to be easy

from here on out. I'll tell you what, I

would I would be fine. I would be happy,

right? That would be great. But that's

not what the word says. But it says

he'll never leave us. He'll never

forsake us. Which means in every

situation, in every season, in every

problem, he walks before us. And we can

trust him. And we can rely on him. And

we can say, "I don't even care if the

earth mocks. If my family or my friends

or my co-workers mock what God is doing

in my life and who he has called me to

be. I'm not here for Earth. I'm not here

for humanity. Now, I am to share the

love of Jesus, but not so they're

pleased with me. I'm here for heaven,

and I want to magnify the things and

have heaven magnified through my life.

I want you to hear today that earth's

mockery cannot cancel he cancel heaven's

coronation. And no matter what they did

or tried to do to Jesus,

church, it didn't stop. In fact, they

played right into the hands of what his

call was to take the sin of the world to

f fulfill scripture and prophecy to line

it up so that he could be the one the

one and for all savior of the world who

took our sin and our shame and our pain.

And in fact later there's going to be an

opportunity to say or you can any time

throughout this Lord forgive me of my

sins. That's why he came. That's why he

died. That's why he was worth and he was

willing to be mocked by earth because he

knew that in the heavenlies he was

fulfilling his call and his plan.

What earth mocks heaven magnifies.

The second thing today is that what

pressure tests faith reveals. And as we

look in those next several verses and

portion of scripture, we remember that

the chief priests are pushing against

Pilate is saying, "Why? Take it. Do it

yourself. I don't want any part of this.

The Jews are are coming over and over

and over again. He's made himself the

son of God.

He's made himself the one that is high.

Pilate even comes and Pilate questions

him and wants to wants to just hear from

him." And Jesus isn't responding or

answering or giving the answers that

Pilate would want because his response

is to the Lord.

Pilate,

the one that had all of the authority

and all of the power in this situation.

And you notice that Jesus wasn't just

begging and pleasing, please, please.

No, he was standing before God saying,

I'm willing. I'm open to do what you've

called me to do.

And there's pressure. Pressure in this

moment came upon both Jesus but also

upon Pilate. Pressure in this moment

came in such a powerful way that he knew

Pilate knew you are not guilty. He knew

that he was he was not the one that

should be put on the cross. There was

pressure that was building up for Pilate

to do what the people wanted, even if it

wasn't what he believed and what he knew

to be right.

In the earthly, it would have been

pressure for Jesus to say, "If I just

beg, if I just plead, if I try to get

out of what my calling is, if I try to

get out of this situation, maybe I could

talk Pilot into it." And you know, as

I've been studying and thinking about

this, Pilate is so positive to Jesus. Is

it possible that Jesus wasn't going to

speak to Pilate and give him anything to

build his faith? Because if he did,

maybe Pilate would have changed his mind

and instead he stood there silent before

the Lord, knowing, "Lord, you've got me.

This is going to be hard. But I give my

life and I'm not going to do anything to

stop your plan for me. I'm not going to

do anything to get me off track of what

you want for me." And so he stood there

and he was silent to the point where

Pilate says, "You're not going to speak

to me. You're not going to say

anything."

And pressure began to build. pressure

began to to be so strong and you can

almost just feel it like palable. It's

so so much in this moment for Jesus but

for Pilate

say am I going to do what is right? Who

am I going to bow to

our life? Are we going to throw the club

and ruin our witness or are we going to

be the example

in our life? Are we going to stay true

to what the word of God would say even

when family or friends or culture around

us would say it's not that big of a big

of a deal? We can look at church culture

and even this morning it made me sad

that we drove by a church and my son

asked, "Hey, is that a Christian

church?" And I'm like, "Oh my goodness,

where have we been that churches that

were Christian that all of a sudden it's

like, I don't know, maybe it depends

because we can get ourselves where

pressure rises and where the word

changes us. It doesn't change us

anymore." And it said culture changes us

and we no longer align with his word and

the truth that Jesus is the only way to

heaven where we would have to say, "Is

that a Christian church?" I don't know.

I hope so. I pray they preach Jesus.

Church, it's not that hard actually to

find ourselves in a place where pressure

changes us if we have not pre-chosen who

we are and who'sse we are.

I've mentioned my son and this morning

and I I'm so thankful. We have five

amazing kids and I I say this

periodically, but it's the best

illustration I can possibly give. Before

we decided that we were going to have

children, we knew we wanted to have

children. Before we were like, "Okay,

it's time. We're gonna make this

happen." We sat down and my question is,

Rachel, Chris,

if one of our kids would go to be the

with the Lord early, which I think that

would be the hardest thing in all of

humanity would be to lose a child. And

some of you have walked that journey. Do

we trust the Lord enough that he's still

God and he's still good and he's still

our king and our savior and worthy even

if what we value the most would be taken

from us by whatever means or method

like I don't want to have something so

important until I can pre-choose in my

life that I give them to the Lord and

I'm going to do my best and we're going

to do our best to lead them and to raise

them and to have them serve Jesus. But

if something happens that doesn't align

with our views, the word of God is our

center no matter what.

And maybe in your life there's other

areas, there's other things that we say,

"Hey Lord, I have to give this to you."

Maybe in the area of worry or fear.

Lord, there's nothing. I'm going to

pre-choose that I'm not going to walk in

fear. I'm going to pre-choose that when

something crazy happens, I know I'm

going to be good.

The other night, uh, we were we were in

our bed and I think it might have just

been us at home and all of a sudden it

sounded so clearly like a door slammed

on our house. And I was like, wonder

what that was. No one's here. Like

that's bizarre. So, you have the choice,

which I think a smart choice is to get

up and just go be sure. But are we going

to be fearful and terrified in the

moment or are we just going to go and be

like, "Well, I guess if I mean, if they

have weapons, I don't, so I guess I'm

just dying, so I don't need to be a be

afraid." Like, it just is. It is what it

is. Like, I'm sure it's nothing.

Actually, I think it went just like

that. And Rachel said, "Are you going to

go check?"

I wasn't. No, actually, I wasn't, but I

am now. Yes, I'm going to go check.

And what do you do? You get up and you

go see. But I was not going to live even

in 30 seconds of fear in my life about

something that almost for sure wasn't

going to be. But I was willing to check

wisdom, right? We can have wisdom, but

I'm going to decide in my life, "No, I'm

not going to walk in fear." Now, we were

going over a bridge the other day, and I

believe Chandler asked, "Hey, for $5,

would you jump off this bridge if you

knew you weren't going to die?" And I

was like, "No, no, I would not. It was

high. It was something. Uh, I don't know

if I wanted to jump in that water

truthfully. I might jump off a bridge if

I knew it was safe. But not that bridge.

Not at that moment. Definitely for $5.

And definitely not when it was cold

outside. Now, how much would it take? I

don't know. And I don't that's not fear.

That's wisdom, right? We can have wisdom

in our life. No, I'm not jumping off

that bridge.

But when pressure arises, have you

predecided

what the future looks like for you? And

not every detail, but I'm going to

follow Jesus. I'm going to listen to his

word. What happens when you have

feelings that maybe you shouldn't have

or you look at things you shouldn't look

at? Have you decided, no, I won't. I

will trust the Lord and follow the Lord.

What happens when there's emotional

things that go on and all of a sudden

just being real, there's somebody that

could answer those emotional needs, but

no, no, I'm called to my spouse, to the

Lord. I won't do that no matter what.

Have we predecided difficult things in

our life?

Have we predecided the easiest things in

our life?

I uh every time I go to a movie theater,

I'm reminded of one of our students that

when he would go to movies, he would go

and he was cheap. I appreciate the

cheapness. So, he wouldn't buy uh drink,

but he would, which is disgusting. Liz

is going to start freaking out over

here. He would go to a trash can and get

a cup out of the trash can and go in the

bathroom and wash it so he could refill

it so he could have free drink. Now,

that's disgusting and it's stealing,

right? It's both of those things. Have

we preddecided that even if I could do

something, no, I won't do it cuz it's

not right.

And my question for us today is if it's

something silly or ridiculous, please

don't do that students or adults. That's

so disgusting. He's still alive. So, and

I hope he doesn't do that anymore, but

he is alive.

But my question is, are we a people that

we have given every part of who we are

to the Lord? We've offered him

everything and we're here and we say,

"Jesus, whatever you want. I will do

what you've called me to do." Worship

team, if you want to make your way back

up here this morning,

as we look at that pressure that tests

faith, the last thing is what you avoid

decides for you. And I think when you

think of Pilate in this moment, we see

Jesus. He's chosen. I'm going to do what

God has called me to do. But Pilate is

given chance after chance after chance.

And what you will not decide in truth, I

want you to hear will be decided for you

in pressure. What you have not decided

prehand in the pressure moment, you will

decide something. And who knows what it

might be.

I want us to hear today that if we truth

choose truth now

that's the only way because if not

pressure will choose for you and in the

things that matter most in your life to

the smallest to the biggest things have

you given everything where you've

offered him Lord I give you my life I

give you every part of who I am and I

will choose truth beforehand so that I

am never in a place where like pilot

where I know what I should do but family

or pressure people, society or culture

pull me the wrong way. Jesus, he never

shifted his allegiance to fit the

moment. His allegiance remained true no

matter what.

And this portion of scripture gives us

such a clear

right or wrong. It gives us such a

clear, am I going to follow Jesus or am

I going to follow the world? Am I going

to be like Pilate or am I going to be

like Jesus? Am I going to be someone who

knows who I am? I know who's I am. I

follow him. I love him. I've given him

everything and even the difficulties of

my life. Things I don't understand.

Things I'm I'm never going to

understand.

Lord, I know your word and I trust you

and I rely on you. I stand true in who

you are.

I really want us to hear that what you

predderdecide specifically in his

presence becomes your strength in the

moment.

That that's the whole thought this

morning. Have you pre-decided? Have you

got with Jesus and his word? Have you

spent time in his presence saying,

"Lord, who am I? Who am I in my

marriage? Who am I in my family and

parenting? Who am I as an employee or an

employer? Who am I? Lord, let me choose

your word. And even when pressure rises,

Lord, I'm going to do what you've called

me to do. I'm not going to be Pilot,

but I'm going to act as Jesus acted as

he gave us the guide. I'm going to offer

him every part of who I am. And today, I

want to invite you that if you need

courage, ask him, Lord, give me courage.

If you need clarity, listen for his

word. Get in his word. Hear him.

If you need strength today, receive him.

And today, if our prayer team, if you

would come, if we could stand to our

feet all over the room, we're going to

close this time by praying, by

believing, by asking Jesus, Lord, help

us. Strengthen us, build us up in you.

We're going to go after him. And if

you're here today and you need Jesus,

you want to give him your life. You want

to offer him every part of who you are,

I want to invite you today to come to

come talk to one of these and say, "I

need Jesus. I want to offer him my life.

He'll do it.

If you need healing, come. Let's pray.

We're going to pray and believe that the

God of the universe will heal and

restore and make you new. If you need to

just be in his presence, come. Come to

an altar. Raise your hands where you are

and ask him, "Lord, let me pre-choose

today." And you know what? Maybe there's

an area of difficulty in your life right

now. The pressure is high. I would

encourage you, come to one of our prayer

teams. We want to worship. We want to

pray. We want to believe with you that

you're going to make it through the

pressure situation to experience his

love and his power in your life.

When kings bow, Pilate bowed to the

crowd. But Jesus, he would only bow to

his father. And let's come and let's

only bow to the King of Kings and the

Lord of Lords. Lord, today we give you

all of the glory and the praise. It's

all yours. We hail you as the only king,

the only one worthy. And Lord, as we

pray, let our faith arise today. We do

not bow to culture. We do not bow to

family. We don't bow to situations. We

don't bow to difficulties. We don't bow

to pressure, but we bow to you and you

alone. So help us strengthen our call in

you. And Lord, right now, anybody in

this room that is not a follower of you,

Lord, I pray they would take that step

just to pray, Lord, forgive me. Make me

new. I repent and I give you my life for

the rest of my life, Lord. And we're

thankful. It's that easy. And we're all

together. We're all apart. So Lord, as

we sing this closing song, don't let it

just be a few minutes of filler, but

Lord, let it be a time of prayer in this

room. We give you everything. We commit

ourselves to you and to you alone. And

we predecide in your presence

who we are, what we believe, what we

stand on. So we have strength in the

moment when we need it most. Lord, we

love you today. We praise you. Let our

worship and our prayer be sweet to your

ear. In your name we pray. Amen. Come

on, let's worship. Let's pray. Let's

seek the Lord together.

There was a moment when lights went out.

When death had claimed its victory,

the king of love had gi up his life.

The darkest day in history.

They're on a cross they made for sers.

For every curse is blood atone.

One final breath and it was finished.

But not the end we could have known.

For the earth began to shake

and the veil was toilet.

What sacrifice was made

as the heavens roar.

Oh hail King Jesus.

Oh hail the Lord of heaven and earth. Oh

hail king Jesus.

Oh hail the savior

of the world.

Hallelujah.

There was a moment when the sky lit.

A flash of light was breaking through.

When all was lost, he crossed eternity.

The king of life was on above.

For in a dark cold too,

where all was laid,

one moreous

and we're forever

changing

together. Oh h

Jesus.

Oh hell

of heaven.

Oh hell king Jesus.

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Jesus.

Oh,

hell

of heaven.

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Jesus.

Hell.

Hallelujah.

Come before the king of kings.

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lift up your shing

We're singing.

All hail King Jesus.

All hail the Lord of heaven and earth.

All hail King Jesus.

All hail the savior

of the world.

>> Jesus, today we are thankful. You're our

savior. You're our leader. You're the

one and the only one that's worthy. And

so Lord, today in the middle maybe or

before the pressure, Lord, we choose

you. We put you first in our life. We

put you first in our marriages, in our

families, in our relationships, in our

jobs, Lord. And even the the fun things

that we do in life, Lord, we put you

first in all areas and say, Lord, your

word is our guide. You are our our our

morning star. You're what we need. We've

come to you in all things. And Lord,

when you speak, we will say yes. So

Lord, let us follow you. Let us go after

you. Let us love you. And Lord, maybe

somebody today that's walking through a

difficult a difficulty, a struggling

moment, a health thing. Lord, whatever

it might be, Lord, right now, I pray

your blessing on them, your life on

them, your peace on them. Fill them with

you, Holy Spirit, in a mighty and in a

powerful way that we leave here saying,

"Lord, it may still be there, but Lord,

you are good. You're our God. You're

going to see us through and we've chosen

today. We're going to be faithful as we

know, God, you are our faithful one. We

love you. We thank you. Bless these

people today. As we go, let us walk in

you and your goodness, Jesus. We thank

you. We praise you and we worship you.

In your name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Well, thank you for coming. Before

we leave this morning, I want to remind

you Wednesday night altar of revival

midweek 7:00 sharp. We are going to

start. We're going to worship Jesus.

We're going to go after him. spend time

at the altars. Would love to have you

join us. Bring some people with you.

We're going to pray for healing,

miracles, the Holy Spirit. We're going

to go after Jesus on Wednesday night.

And be sure to sign up for this next

Sunday, our egg hunt. And be sure to be

here. Let's fill the house with us. And

we're going to have a ton of guests as

we're going to worship Jesus and see a

bunch of people come to know him. One

more for Jesus this week. Be careful

what you watch. Be careful what you

listen to. Be careful what you talk

about. Savor the presence of Jesus. Have

a great week.