Take Your Family

Well I hope you're ready today for the word because I've got something to share

with you. This is part two of our series New Beginnings. Some will say New

Beginnings. Amen. And so I am going to invite you. I'm going to read one verse of

Scripture, actually two. Genesis chapter 8 verse 15. Amen. We read it last Sunday,

Genesis 8:15

but we're going to read it today in a new light. Amen. As you're going there,

church, I want to remind you members that we have a short meeting after church

today, so please stick around for a few moments. Immediately after our service,

we have some updates to share with you. Amen. Praise God. Praise God. Amen. And

if you're in a city group, we want to encourage you to keep plugging into your

city group. I've been enjoying my city group, man. We've been having a good time

at Friends and Faith, and so if you're plugged in, get plugged in. And if you're

missed out this semester, well I'm going to tell you now, I encourage you to get

plugged in the next semester because God's moving in our city groups. Praise

be the Lord. Someone say amen. Amen. Genesis chapter 8 verse 15. Then God said

Genesis 8:15

to Noah, leave the boat. All of you. Someone say all of you. You and your wife

and your sons and their wives. Church, I'm going to invite you today to

incline your ear to limit, remove all distractions because I have a lot to

cover, and it's not just that I have a lot to cover, but in what I'm covering,

there's a lot in it. And so why don't we pray? Amen. Would you join me? Would you

join me in prayer right now? I'm going to invite you to, if you can open up your

heart, if you want to lift your hands, if you want to close your eyes, but I'm

going to invite you to pray sincerely with me that God would speak. Father, we

come before you right now in your name. And we thank you God for, for you woke

us up this morning and you put the breath of life in us, God, but as we have

come together, Lord, for a time of worship, a time of prayer and fellowship, God,

also we have come to hear your word. And I pray, Jesus, for that anointing, that

sweet and precious anointing that we feel in this place, God, would also enable us

divinely got to receive your word, touch my lips of clay, God, so that every word

that comes out of my mouth would be your word, God, and that I simply would

convey to your people that which you have deposited in my spirit, Lord. I take

authority right now and I bind every spirit that is contrary to the spirit

of God. I captivate it right now and I cast it out. I cast it out every opposing

force, every human, not just demonic, but every human spirit that may try to

oppose this word. I bind that also in the name of Jesus and I give you God

free course in this place to speak to your people, God, right now. In the name of

Jesus we give you all the honor and the glory in Jesus' name. Everyone say amen.

You may be seated in God's presence. I'm going to speak on this thought. Take your

family. As I stand before you today, the world as we know it is rapidly changing.

The moral, cultural, and spiritual climate is shifting in unthinkable ways right

before our very eyes. And I as a believer, as a follower of Christ, as a husband, as a

father, and also as a pastor, have never been more concerned about the state of

the apostolic family than I am today. And I've been wrestling in my spirit all

week because on the one hand I am carrying such a heavy burden as you can

imagine and on the other hand I am very familiar with the spiritual and demonic

resistance that I have to face whenever I address these matters. You have to

understand that it's with great fear and trembling that I preach messages like

these because I am fighting off demonic attack all week long, facing

opposition because if there's one thing the devil doesn't want is for our

churches to have healthy strong families. Somebody say amen. Because make no

mistake, the one thing the devil wants to mar, to blemish, and to dismantle, it is

the traditional family. Why is that? Because Satan always from day one has

sought to pervert and to destroy and to destroy God's original design. It's been

his intent that whatever God creates Satan seeks to counterfeit it with

something that is different, something that is perverted, something that is ugly

in order to cheat God out of his glory, to rob him of what belongs to him. So

anything that is beautiful, how many of you believe everything God makes is

beautiful? Whatever he makes is beautiful but the devil seeking to take

glory from God wants to want to mar or blemish that thing. You see God's or the

family was God's idea. Not an invention of man. God ordained it. Amen. He

instituted it and it's always been the plan of God for families to fulfill his

divine purpose in the earth. Starting with Adam's family in the old world or

pre-flood and continuing with Noah's family in the new world post-flood.

Whether it's pre-flood or post-flood it's always been God's desire to express

his purpose and kingdom in the earth through families. If you don't believe

me just read the Old Testament because the Old Testament is really a family

book. It's about how God revealed himself to a patriarch named Abraham in

order to develop a relationship, a covenant with him through his seed,

through his family the earth might be blessed and that through his seed and

tribes of his family, tribes is just but a big family. He gave him sons and

daughters in order to express his purpose so God's design was for the

family and for the family to express his purpose and accomplish his will. But

just like violence ripped Adam's family apart and dangers threatened Noah's

family to bring his family down we also must face the reality of a backwards

world and we have to do whatever it takes to bring our families just like Noah

did into a new destiny, into a new life, into the promises of God. We have to do

whatever it takes. Amen. Indeed there is a blatant, hostile and demonic agenda to

destroy the fabric of the family but I'm not afraid of the enemy today. I said

I'm not afraid of Satan today. You know why? Because I have been empowered by the

Holy Ghost. I've been as strengthened by the Holy Ghost. I've been anointed by

God just like all of us today. I've been empowered by God to deliver a message of

hope and help for our families and I realize that not all of our families

are here today but I hope that everyone will tune in and catch the rebroadcast

because I want every family of this church whether you have children of

your own whether you're married or whether you're not married or have any

kids at all because if you plan to have a family one day this is something we all

need to hear and get into our spirits. Amen. Noah's journey to a new life was not

a solitary one, not merely a personal endeavor. I know we talked a lot about my

personal relationship with God and we all have a personal relationship with God.

That's where it starts but his journey was a family affair. After surviving the

flood landing on dry ground God called Noah to take his family. He said leave

the boat, all of you. Get your wife, get your sons, get their wives, get everybody,

get the whole family and step into a new beginning filled with new possibilities

and new promises. The Lord essentially told Noah, he said Noah you need to

move as a unit, get your family, get your spouse, get your kids, get everybody

together, get their wives, get your daughters-in-law. Amen. Because the mission

is not accomplished unless your whole family goes with you. Noah I didn't call

you just so you could take a solitary journey and experience these things just

as a man. Noah I, it's failure if your whole family doesn't come with you. It's

not enough for just you or just you and your wife or just you and part of your

family. Noah I need everybody to go with you and the mission is not accomplished

for us church unless our whole families are with us and that ought to be our

prayer. That ought to be the focus of our lives. God is those that you have

entrusted in my care or the family that I am a part of Lord. I'm doing everything

within my power, everything that I have, everything that I can do Lord to ensure

that we all enter the ark and then when you call us to new things we all move

together as a unit. This grips my heart because this says something profound

about the way God views the family, about the purposes of God. It says something

about how God views creation and how we views fathers and mothers and children

and how we call heads of household to take up their rightful place and lead

their homes in perilous times. Noah's family illustrates to us three

principles that apostolic families need today and I want to for a few moments

talk about what these are. Number one is faith. Can everyone say faith? Come on

let's say that again. Let's say faith. Every member of Noah's family was a

willing participant in this journey. I don't read anywhere that he had to force

them in, threaten them to get in the ark. I don't read anywhere that Noah had to

use manipulation or any other kind of tactic technique to get his family there.

Especially when you factor in that these were grown-ups making grown-up

decision. It wasn't like they were all miners, little kids that you could just

tell them you know don't worry about where we're going just get in the car.

These are grown adults with grown adult questions like you know what is this?

What are we doing? These were grown-up decisions and Noah didn't threaten

them to follow him. He didn't force them in. He didn't force them out after the

flood. They entered the ark and followed on their own volition. It was a free real

choice. But the question is how does that work exactly? How do you convince a group

of grown adults to take this crazy journey with you into the unknown? How

does that work? How did three adult men and their wives with the freedom to do

whatever that they wanted choose the path of their father? How does that happen?

The answer? Because Noah built his family's faith long before he built his

family's ark. You can't expect your family to enter an ark to go where you

go to go where you want to go if you haven't first instilled in them the

idea that entering this ark is indeed an act of faith. Noah preached righteousness

for about 120 years. Man. And he only had like one message. Get right, get left.

He had one series, 120 years. No, he preached for all those years, 120 years.

Let me ask you this question. Who do you think was sitting on the front row? His

sons were. And since no one else was paying attention to what his dad was

speaking, nobody else came to his services. So who was he reaching? He was

reaching his family. And you know what? He won them. Amen. He won them. Primarily

the people that we need to win, most to the Lord, are those within our own

household. Come on somebody. If we can't convince those that get a front row seat

to our lives and our message that this thing that we believe is true and it is

the only way and there's no other way that could compare to this way, then what

exactly are we doing anyways? But he won them and he didn't just win them with

words. He didn't throw cliches at them. He didn't try to trick them and you know

throw riddles at them and whatnot. He didn't not just with words but he did it

with action. Noah was a man of action and between his sermons and his messages

he was building the ark at the same time as he's building the faith of his

family. He's building the ark all throughout the week. He's constructing

the ark. He's developing the ark. What am I saying? He was backing up his

message with action every day. Give God a hand praise right now. Hallelujah Jesus.

Oh I feel something in my heart today. Hallelujah. You see the key to

establishing faith in your family is to preach and practice Christ's message

faithfully and consistently, clearly and convincingly. Amen. How many of you

believe this to be true? You don't need a pulpit in a microphone. I'm trying out a

different microphone today and I kind of like it. You don't need a microphone to

be a preacher. You're a preacher in your home. I say you're a preacher in your

home. All you need to do is communicate the Word of God clearly. Amen.

Passionately, consistently, feel your family's minds with the Word. Indoctrinate

them. People don't like that word today. Well if you don't indoctrinate them

somebody else will. Oh I felt something in my spirit when I said that. Somebody's

gonna indoctrinate them. So it might as well be you. Hello somebody. Talk to them.

Teach them. Discuss with them. Answer their questions to the best of

your ability. You know my son is he's coming up with better and better

questions as time goes on. Sometimes he you know he catches me and I'm like

hey that's a good one. Can I get back to you on that?

But get back to them on that and keep the conversation going. Amen. Church this is

paramount especially in the hour that we're living in because our families

are being bombarded with lies. Deceptions every day. Every day. False messages.

False message. Thwarted and perverted messages about gender identity. Hello

somebody. Sexuality. Mixed messages about beauty. World wants our daughters or

little girls to have a distorted picture of what beauty is. That they have to put

on a certain thing or do something to their bodies to make them look beautiful.

We need to counteract that message. Help me out Holy Ghost. Oh Jesus. Remind our

children of who they are. Mixed messages about parental authority. You

understand the war that has been waged to undermine the parental authority in

the house. To now where children more than ever are being promoted with the

idea that they are to tell the parents how to run the house. The parental

authority is being undermined right under many people's noses. Alternative

lifestyles and many many other messages that contradict Christian teaching. That

contradict the teachings of scripture. So what are we to do? Are we just gonna

sit around and be like well you know I hope they get it. Hope they figure it

out. No we have to counteract every lie with truth.

Hallelujah. Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you

free. How many of you are thankful today for the truth? Amen. Hallelujah. Thank God

for the truth but not only that we don't just got a priest the truth we got to

practice the truth. Noah his sons respected their father why because he was

a man of his word and he was a man of action. He backed up his talk. He put his

money where his mouth was. Oh my God. You could talk all you want about building

an ark but until I see you going down the Home Depot and grabbing some

materials I mean come on what are we doing here? Eventually you got to back

it up. Amen someone say back it up. That's right and he worked on it daily and

his children got a front row seat and they watched dad and mom talk about the

Lord and righteousness and what is right and what is wrong and good morals and

good value all these wonderful things and they talked about but then they didn't

stop there. They were being about it. They were building and constructing and

they viewed this and they were observing this and they were watching that and

they were taking it all in and so when Moses or I keep calling him Moses

that's all right Moses is a good man too. Amen but when Noah Hallelujah when Noah

got into the ark he said come on kid he didn't have to pull them by the ear he

didn't have to you know drug them and all that they were convinced because they

saw the testimony of their father and they went with them hey we got to back

up our talk so that when the time comes to enter the ark our families will go

with us come on give God a hand.

So I don't just ask you what are you preaching but what are you building? Who's

kingdom are you building? Is this okay today?

Are you like Noah putting your money where your mouth is? I want obedient

children good but how obedient are you? I want them to respect authority wonderful

but do you respect authority? You can't expect to reap where you haven't planted

if you want to reap respect you got to sow respect. Oh my God and we can apply

this to a variety of areas in life but many times we are asking things out of

our spouse but I knew my wife to submit the Bible said submit to your husband

but it also says to submit to those that are above you. Let me tell you how to

unlock authority in your home this goes for all the heads of households

especially the men and the husbands. Unlocking authority in your house if you

want to have authority get under authority that's the way God works. Amen

somebody but people today they don't want to answer them. People don't even

want to pastor today they just want a preacher they want a YouTube preacher.

Amen. They don't want to pastor. People don't want to be pastor today.

I'm going places today. I'm taking my time is that all right?

They don't want that. Come on man that's old you know that's archaic but if you've

ever needed a pastor you need one now. If you've ever needed that kind of

covering in your life it's now. Praise God so we need faith I'm talking about

faith someone say faith this is how we establish greater faith in our families

the second concept that we see is unity. Everyone say unity. I don't know how

Noah's family would have ever succeeded in their journey if they were not united.

It's quite remarkable when you think about it I mean when you really stop to

think about it it is amazing it's remarkable how this family came together

they had to be of the same mind of the same spirit huh to persevere all those

months in the boat they had to be united they had to lean on each other

amen and believe in the mission that they were on as a family if your family

is going to survive this perilous hour that we're living in it's got to be

united and if there's anything the devil wants to do is to divide drive a wedge

in the family between fathers and their sons and daughters and husbands and

their wives and children with their parents he wants to divide the family

because if he can divide it he can conquer it. They were of the same mind

there are all sorts of theories novel ideas you can find you know Amazon just

Google or search unity and how to build you'll get all kinds of results but

unity unity I believe as seen through this example is built through a common

vision and a shared mission I mean nothing builds unity more there's a lot

of things that can aid unity that can develop unity spending time as a family

and you know everyone hold hands and you know we can you know light a candle or

whatever we can do a lot of things that sort of you know give off unity vibes

you know but true unity is built through a common vision and a shared mission

nothing like a vision and a mission for your home will bring people together so

you cannot talk about unity without talking about vision and a lot of

families today in the church in all Christianity within the body have no

vision no direction no mission where am I leading my family where is it we are

going what are we in pursuit of as a family and when you cannot answer that

question let me tell you today church the family unit starts eventually to

break down the unity starts to break down no as family got a hold of the vision

they bought in to the mission that their dad was on they understood it they

internalized it in fact it became their mission as well they believed with their

father that they were also sent by God to make it to the other side and dry

ground and repopulate the world we have got to instill in our homes and our

families the idea that we are not just here to make memories we are here to

make a difference somebody give God some praise today

hallelujah come on clap your hands today

they knew that this was not just a boat ride just another tour a little three

hour tour huh they did they knew that they knew that they had a purpose and

their purpose was when we get on the other side of this thing we're gonna

repopulate the earth we've got a mission to fulfill and they understood and they

share this understanding about their future and this is what Bible he brought

and kept them together as a family so let me ask you some hard questions today

church what is the vision of your family why does your family exist what

purpose does God have for it these are big questions but important one and have

you communicated to your spouse your children your mission as a family I

realize that today we've got a mixed crowd I know that some of you have yet

to start your family we've got you know to marry folks and premaried folks and

all that but even the premaried folks you need to get this too you know the

problem is is that people start painting the people they don't start paying

attention to stuff until it's too late some got married started their family

and then they're wondering why you know you're trying to build the plane while

it's in air

trying to build the ark while the water is already here and it's hard to do that

so young people amen you need this too are you using vision this is a good

question man I really like this one are you using vision affirming language

vision affirming words in your home like is it a topic of conversation that

gives your family a sense of purpose and destiny son you don't just go to school

to get an education that's part of it but you're also there to be a light

oh my god you're not on that college campus just to get a degree you're on

that college campus to be an ambassador for me I have you on a Simon there I

have you on a purpose there you are meant to be the salt of the earth the

light of the world hallelujah praise be to God telling your children who they

are is one thing and you got to do that but don't just tell them who they are

tell them why they are my kids know they they know their apostolic tell them why

they're apostolic who my god how why they're apostolic not just that you are

apostolic amen but why am I apostolic why apostolic families are not just

different because we look different or because we act different we're different

because we're on a different mission she me I God we're different because this

world is not our home we're different because we're pilgrims just passing

through we're different because oh my god greater and see that is in us

we're different because ultimately heaven is

marh илиita burn for a chosen generation call that a darkness that's why

We're on mission. We're a royal priesthood

You know what a priest is a priest breaches the gap between heaven and earth a priest represents the needs of the people to God

We are a holy priesthood. We're a priest a royal priest

And what does that mean that we've been sent as priests into the earth to bring people to God?

Well, my lord, I'm gonna preach on that someday. Hallelujah a

Family cannot enter a new destiny if it's divided. I'm still talking about unity by the way

Jesus once said that a house divided against itself cannot stand

So what is division division the root words for division are die meaning to and vision

So division simply means two visions

Competing visions

Can I tell you something in every home and every marriage there should only be one?

And when there's more than one vision when there's two or more when there's competing vision is going to be complete

It's gonna be discord there's gonna be a lot of things that can drive families apart

So the prayer ought to be perhaps for someone to do God unify our vision

Jesus one vision one vision

Division or this unity a home in a home occurs when there is more than one vision or when the vision is not clear

There should only be one vision in the home not multiple just one

And this is what unites us and the clearer the vision the more united

Amen somebody

Because we're not just doing life together now we're doing ministry

There's no greater

Joy or purpose I have as a father than not just to raise good kids

Have a good healthy home, but so that my children grow up not despising the things of God

But accompanying me and serving God together

Serving the Lord as a family amen that should be the desire of our hearts

Changing the world together someone say together

Doing ministry together say together helping people

Expanding the kingdom making a difference

Worshiping praying

This is God's heart and desire for the church is that we as families would do things together

And when we do things together as family we can come together as a church and all my watch out devil

Because when you've got united families in a united church there is no devil in hell that can stop a church like that

Whoo my God hallelujah

So we're moving in the same direction as a family you see I don't just want to bring my kids to church

I want my kids to be the church

Let me tell you something don't just raise church kids

Raise Kingdom kids

I'm talking to the parents here future parents, you know don't just raise church kids

Because because you can bring your children to church and some have a hard time even doing that

You can bring them to church, but do they take church?

Or are they just checking in

Is this still all right

You can you can be at church

You can you can be at church and not connected

To what's happening in the kingdom

to the mission

This doesn't mean that you said well

This unity mean that we

We agree on everything unity doesn't mean that you're always gonna agree on everything as a family

you know

If you figure out how to do that man, you have really solved the puzzle

But you're gonna have disagreements from time to time. That's life

Huh, that's life

You can't even agree on what restaurant we want to go after shirts on Sunday sometimes, you know, I

Want burgers you want tacos is like what can I get a taco and a burger together?

That's just like

Trivial things that's fine right little things but but not when it comes to the thing that matters

The third concept and I am taking a little longer today, and that's all right

But the third concept is this that we see you know his family is love everyone say love

You won't find a verse in the Bible that says no one loved his family I

Looked really hard in all Genesis and I didn't find any

You won't find a verse that says that but you will find verse that says he walked with God

And you know, I don't know anybody who truly walks with God who doesn't also walk in love

Because God is

So if there's no verses says, you know that he was a loving man

But he was a godly man. So if he was a godly man, he had to have been a loving man

Moreover you won't find any personal love notes in the Bible from Noah to his wife children. No

No, no cards no letters to them

But and those things are good those I'm not saying those things are bad wonderful

But what you will find is love's most powerful expressions

You will find a father doing everything he can

To bring his family

into a new desert

Love is more than an emotion

I said love is more than an emotion

Love is a choice

And I'll take it a step further love is not just a choice. Love is a series of choices

It's a series of choices so

In my closing part of this message, I want to just look briefly if I can at some of the ways in which

Noah loved his family

Rather than looking at what love says, why don't we look at what love does number one? Let me give you there's three here

Love protects

Someone says

Love protects someone say protect

Love protects

See Noah didn't he didn't write any love notes

But I'd rather have this and a love note

His words are cheap

He he said the Lord said go into the boat with all your family and

Noah's primary concern was the safety and the security of his family and

Me and he made sure it was his it was his

Main prayer his soul prayer. I think

That his family all got into the ark. That's what love looks like in an apostolic home

It is sheltering and protecting our family from the dangers that lurk in this society

It's being vigilant and sober-minded

from the spiritual to the physical to the emotional to the mental over our

Families and Noah's concern was that I love my family so I've got to do everything I can to protect them

Because this world wants to do nothing but rip their lives apart

No one lived in a day like ours. It was filled with violence

It was filled with uncertainty and sin and wickedness before God and he said I've got to do everything

I can just shelter the parents hear me out everybody you

Shelter your children for as long and as much as you can

Protect them with your prayers, hallelujah

With your discernment and with your wisdom and with your guidance. That is what love is

Love protect number two love provides

The Lord told Noah

In verse 21 and be sure to take on board enough food

For your family and for all the animals don't leave out the pets, huh?

Some of you love your pets don't leave them out in other words stock the pantry

Stock the pantry Noah

Providing you know so providing for our families is the base of responsibility

It's basic

Don't get married don't have children until you're ready to do that

Hmm I get any mental that one

Hey

Talk about I want a wife. You can't even pay your own bills. Maybe that's why you want maybe that's why you want to

Wife so she'll pay your bills for you

So you can use your credit score. Oh man, I better get out of that one

You build up your credit, you know Paul said

Paul said this in 1st Timothy 5 8

But if anyone does not provide for his own and especially for those of his household his own family

He has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel or an unbeliever

So God takes this serious. We have a moral spiritual obligation to provide for our families

It's very simple. You don't work

Don't eat

That's simple

Number three what else does love do love?

prepares

to bite the

board is to come up

Noah started preparing

His family for a life of promise

From the time his sons

were born

That's when the training Bible says

Noah was the father of three sons

Shim

Ham

And Japheth now if you'd like you could do a study on these names

find out

How out of all the major people groups of the world starting with Shim?

We get the Semitic

lineage like the Jews

Israelis

You could do a very thoughtful study on that

So they were all filled with promise and potential

But as you know oftentimes names in the Bible carry significant meaning

They carry

Symbolism and that's the case here with Noah

He starts preparing them the moment they're born

By naming each of his sons a name that carried with it something that would be useful for them in their future the name Shim

means fame

fame

It carries the idea of not just being famous but of but of reputation of

a good name glory

Ham means warmth

The name just sounds good

War brings warmth, huh?

Japheth means expansion

Out of Japheth there would be great increase in expansion all over the world

And so when Noah's sons are born each of them

He prepares them before they even learn how to talk

Before they could crawl before they could walk he gives them a sense of purpose

So you're not just anybody your God's child

How is preparation an act of love because love sees beyond the present I

Show my family love

Not just by telling them I love them squeezing them tight. I

Show my family. I love them by pointing them in the right direction

By preparing them for a life with God

By the legacy that I pass on

the spiritual inheritance that I

Give on to them

And I leave them

That's what love is no wonder Jesus told his disciples. I go to

Prepare a place for you. That's what love is

That's what love is

I feel the spirit of God in this place today and

I want to pray this afternoon

I want to pray over all of you, but those who feel like maybe this message

Was dialed up just for you as a father as a mother as

Spouse I just have a burden in my heart today

I'm claiming victory for the families of this church. Oh

God

I'm claiming victory. Oh

I feel the Holy Ghost

Here's the thing church

Here's the thing as I'm getting tired

I'm getting tired of fighting for families

who don't want to fight for themselves

I'm getting tired of fighting for people who are not gonna fight for themselves

I'm tired of praying for people's children who are not fighting for their own children

That that that wears me out more than anything else

People today are coming up with so many different excuses

So many different reasons so many different things and and listen, I'm not giving up on you

But I've I've got to encourage you

I've got to tell you the truth today that it's our time to step up. It's getting late church

I love about my she calama. Yes, Shambhala is getting late read the signs wake up open your eyes in this hour

Open your eyes in this hour

Read it the writing is on the wall. Jesus is coming soon

And we don't have time to play games we love time to fiddle faddle with God and to play games with our church

Schedules and play games with this with that if ever there's been a time to love our families and to get them to where they

Need to be in God and to my Lord and take them into the promises of God that time is now

The time is now

God give your church what it needs Lord baptize us today Lord with the burden

Baptize us when holy goes fire Lord. I pray Lord that boldness would rise up

I pray that courage would rise up. I pray that faith would rise up

I pray that the people of God would rise up

I pray Lord that husbands would grab their wives and their children fathers and mothers

Even if it's just a single parent home whatever the case might be

But that we would get our families together and start looking at what are we going to do as a family to serve God together

Oh my Lord.