Spiritual Submission

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Every week.

Every week.

We needed a day every week.

Rest.

Rest.

Recuperate.

I feel like there's three.

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You are having a fantastic Sunday.

My name is Brandon.

I'm Cody.

Yes, and we are super pumped that you are here this morning.

And we do believe that there's something special about this day that the Lord has made.

And uh we're gonna rejoice with Landsworth.

Um there is something special about Sunday, the gathering of believers and uh meeting with the Lord and being in his presence together.

So we're pumped about that.

Uh hope that you're just having a fantastic start to your day.

Couple things to note.

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I mean, if you've been tracking with us, we have been in the series called The Way.

The way I was supposed to jump in right there.

So excuse that.

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So we'll just do that in a minute.

Um we've been in a series called The Way to Victory.

And we're literally taking the last few weeks, uh, or leading up to Easter, following along with Jesus' journey to the cross, and then ultimately to Resurrection Sunday.

Uh, and so man, God has been just really speaking to us through this.

It's been really cool.

So go back and catch up on those if you missed the first couple weeks.

But today um we're jumping back into that.

So we'll have Pastor Russ with you in just a minute to continue that series.

Uh but before we get there, a couple things to note.

Yeah, we are gonna download that Church of the Grove app.

Uh yeah, it's just so many great things happening within Life Art Church and stuff.

That's gonna be the best way for you to stay connected during the week.

Um, so just download that.

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And so download that.

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Um but I mean we're we're approaching Easter, which is wild to think that we are already doing that.

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And it's like Easter came early this year.

It did, I did.

And usually it's in April.

But it's not.

It's in March.

So, anyways, uh Easter's coming up.

Yeah, we got good Friday services and um just lots of good things coming out of the time.

Summer is right around the corner.

And so, you know, it's always a busy.

I love the image of Good Friday.

So that's happening at our social circle campus at 6 30 this year, it's the first year in recent years.

I can remember us doing a Good Friday service.

So that's gonna be really awesome.

And then we will have Easter gatherings, tons of Easter gatherings for you to participate in.

So uh at our Wanna Grove campus, we've got 9 a.m., 11 a.m., and then our new 5 p.m.

gathering.

And this is what we're asking for uh our Wanna Grove family.

If you are part of our church family there, uh we are really encouraging you, if at all possible, to come to the 5 p.m.

service.

Uh, because typically what happens is we see double the attendance that we normally run um uh on Easter Sunday, and we are already maxed out at our Wanna Grove campus most Sundays.

And so uh we're asking you to help free up some space for uh lots of guests and visitors that we know are gonna we're gonna see.

And so if you can go to that 5 p.m.

uh if at all possible, but if you're inviting someone to join with you, uh bring in a guest with you, and whatever time works best for them, go to that service.

But uh man, if it's at all possible, consider that 5 p.m.

And then we also have a 9 a.m.

and 11 a.m.

at our social circle campus, and so make sure you're making plans to be there.

Man, God has been doing something uh in our gatherings, and so there's something about being uh physically there in the presence of uh the Lord with the believers, and so uh make plans to join us.

It's gonna be a really great weekend, and we can't wait to see what God does.

And so, with that being said, we're gonna worship a little bit, just prepare our hearts for what God has for us, and uh just tune our hearts to Him and our affections and thoughts towards Him as we sing together, and then we'll hear from the Word and be back on the other side to close us out.

Delivering their hope and their stream.

I speak to you're name is power, your name is Sour.

Break every strong, shine through the shadows, burn the life.

I just want to speak the name of Jesus over fear and all anxiety, every soul help can divide pressure and speak Jesus Your name is power, your name is Healing, your name is Break every short, shine, your name is power, your name is Your name is show, shine through the shadows, for that fire shall Jesus from the mountains, Jesus in the streets, Jesus in the darkness over every enemy, and Jesus for my family.

I speak the holy name Jesus from the mountains and Jesus in the streets, Jesus in the darkness over every enemy, Jesus for my family, I speak the whole day, Jesus Your name is power, your name is kid, your name is every store, shine the shadow, your name is your name is your hold, shine through the shadow.

I just want to speak the name of Jesus.

Come on, church over every heart and every mind.

I speak shit, speaking never Jesus from the mountain, she is in the streets, she just sent the time over every day.

She goes from my family, I think the whole day.

Kind of the center of attention uh uh at a parade, but I I did have parades thrown for me um when I was uh the dad of little children.

I did.

My wife, um when I was when I was would come home from work and my children were at that toddler age, she would train them.

And and when I came up the steps to the front door, she would train them to say, Yay, daddy's home, daddy's home.

Notice she had to train them.

It did not did not come natural.

And so, but but I mean every day, every day, she that it was that was my parade.

That was my parade.

Every day, daddy's home, daddy's home, and finally they got they got the gist of it, and it became natural.

And you many of you dads, you you know it, you're experiencing, you might be experiencing it now.

And moms, if if you you if your children are not, you know, saying, yay, daddy's home, maybe maybe they should be saying, yay, mommy's home.

Um but but you know, train your kids to celebrate when when mom or dad comes home from work.

That's just a a sweet experience.

It's a sweet experience.

And so so our kids would would scream, you know, and and and as they got older, did it continue?

No, it did not.

It did not.

When there often times when when their faces were buried, maybe um in a video game, and and and and she would say, hey, daddy's home, and I would get a hmm, or what's up, or maybe just a sup, you know, and that's all that's all it was.

Um and so uh there wasn't as much excitement, but we all like excitement.

We love victory, we love celebration, but often when we experience these moments as quickly as they happened, they're over.

They're over.

And we go back to normal life.

Think about some of the things that we love.

Think about some of the things that we love as a as a city in Atlanta, right?

We we we've had the blessing of recently celebrating some parades.

Just uh just a couple of years ago, we celebrated a World Series championship.

Go Braze, right?

And so we uh don't don't cheer for uh don't cheer about sports if you're not gonna cheer about Jesus, by the way.

Um because uh because you tend to a lot of times you bark.

Don't don't if you're gonna bark for a team, you gotta bark for Jesus, okay?

Uh we gotta be excited about the right things.

But but think about it.

World Series win.

Um there's a parade that goes with it, and and you know, MVPs are celebrated, the whole thing.

But as soon as it's over, what happens?

You're thinking about the next season.

They're making trades, some of the best players.

Your MVP is gone.

He signed with another team.

And so we've had the pleasure of celebrating some parades uh from the other side of the state, from the from the east side of the state.

We got to celebrate a couple of back-to-back championships, right?

And there and there were parades.

But on the back end of those parades, what happens?

You go back to work, you go back to recruiting, you go back to things.

I mean, those things are come and they're gone absolutely quickly.

And so we get a glimpse of how quickly emotions can change, and we see it in the last week of Jesus' life.

That's where we are in the story.

We've been in this series, The Way to Victory, and we've looked at some very specific encounters that Jesus has had.

The one that we looked at in John chapter 9, where Jesus healed a blind beggar.

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And we saw it last week where Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.

And so today we are we are at um the beginning of Holy Week, and we get a glimpse of this spiritual high, and and where Jesus enters into Jerusalem riding on a donkey with people yelling, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna to the king.

And so we we we can see how quickly emotions can change.

In the beginning of this week, emotions are high, but all of a sudden the emotions can go down.

The words that describe the experiences of the week are a litany of emotions that represent the ups and the downs of the week.

We know them.

Hosanna, confrontation, betrayal, denial, trial, scourging, crucifixion, tomb, and of course, the most electrifying sentence ever uttered.

He is not here, he is risen.

And so Palm Sunday is at best, says Wallace Vietz.

He says it's a day of temporary triumph.

At worst, it is an illustration of the fickle nature of the voice of the people.

Luke 19, verse 28 says this.

Luke 19:28

After telling the story, Jesus went on toward Jerusalem, walking ahead of his disciples.

It is what we know as Palm 7, it's the beginning of the end, so to speak.

He planned his own parade.

Why would he plan his own parade?

Because of the prophecies in the Old Testament.

He knew what the prophecies said.

A lot of people think that it just kind of, you know, it happened, but but Jesus had a say-so in how this went.

He had intentionally, up to that moment, avoided public acclaim and publicity.

Now he reaches out for it.

It was Passover time.

The city was full of people who had traveled from all over the world.

And so he enters Jerusalem in a way that would focus the whole city on his arrival.

Verse 29, it says, As he came to the towns of Bethpage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead.

Go into that village over there, he told them, and as you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that has no, that has that that no one has ever ridden.

Untie it and bring it here.

If anyone asks, why are you untying that colt?

Just say, listen to me, the Lord needs it.

Now, would you say that short sentence with me?

One, two, three.

The Lord needs it.

That's an important sentence, because we're going to come back to that.

The Lord needs it.

So they went and found the colt just as Jesus had said.

And sure enough, as they were untying it, the owners asked him, Why are you untying that colt?

And the disciples simply replied, The Lord needs it.

Say it with me again.

The Lord needs it.

And so they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it for him to ride on.

I've always thought of this experience of sending the disciples to get that donkey as a miraculous event, but in reality, it was probably well planned ahead by Jesus himself.

Jesus had traveled through this area time after time.

His closest friends lived nearby.

We've talked about these friends the last couple of weeks.

This family, Lazarus, who was raised from the dead last week.

As we read John chapter 11, Mary and Martha lived there in Bethany, his closest friends.

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And so Jesus likely knew the owner of this donkey.

And he'd already set up and arranged for the disciples to come and secure the donkey.

Now I'm going to think about it for a second.

I've owned a donkey before.

My brother has a donkey now.

It's right over here on Lunley Farm Road.

And so do you think of donkeys as being noble animals?

Not so much, right?

I don't think of them as being noble animals.

They're just, you know, there's just not a lot of dignity to them.

But in this culture, the donkey was a noble beast.

Generals rode on donkeys during times of peace.

Now you didn't ride a donkey in time of war.

But generals in parades would ride donkeys in a time of peace.

And so they were considered noble animals for kings or generals to ride in a time of peace.

In this case, Jesus rode on one that had never been ridden.

He was not the martial figure that the populace anticipated.

What do I mean by that?

Jesus was not the type of Messiah the people were expecting.

What were they expecting?

They were expecting someone to come in the likeness of King David, a warrior, a warrior, a fighter, one who would who would throw off the oppression of the Roman Empire and set God's people free.

And so Jesus intentionally plans his parade for him to ride in on a donkey, and this was a symbol of him riding in in a time of peace.

I'm not coming to bring war, I'm coming to bring reconciliation.

Now this is important.

If it had not been prearranged and this phrase had not had some kind of signal, the owner might have said to the disciples, the Lord may need this donkey, but he hadn't mentioned it to me.

No, he gives him the donkey.

Verse 36, as he rode along, the crowd spread out their garments on the road ahead of him.

And when he reached the place where the road started down the Mount of Olives, all of the followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles that they had seen.

Blessings on the king who come in the name of the Lord, peace in heaven and glory in the highest heaven.

But some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying things like that.

They didn't like that.

The religious leaders were in opposition.

We talked about that the very first week of this message.

The enemy of Jesus is religion.

And the fruit of religion is pride.

And Jesus came to break the bonds of pride.

The cheers that greeted him were tremendous and loud.

The disciples were caught up in the spirit of things to such a degree that the Pharisees rebuked them and said to Jesus, You should really get a handle on this extravagant, this extravagant worship and claims that your disciples are making.

Anne Weems in her wonderful little book titled Kneeling in Jerusalem captures the spirit of this monumental entry into Jerusalem and a poem entitled Between Parades.

Listen.

She says, We're good at planning.

We're good at planning.

Give us a task force and a project, and we're off and running.

No trouble at all.

Going to the village and finding the cult, even negotiating with the owners, is right down our alley.

And how we love a parade.

In a frenzy of celebration, we gladly focus on Jesus and generously throw down our coats and palms in his path, and we can shout praise loudly enough to make Pharisee complain.

It's all so good the parade.

It's between parades that we don't do so well.

We don't do so well from Sunday to Sunday.

For we forget our hosannas between parades.

The stones will have to shout because we won't.

I don't know about you, but I struggle between the parades.

I struggle between Sundays.

I struggle Sunday to Sunday.

That's why we we, you know, that's why we we come back Sunday to Sunday because we easily forget what the parade is supposed to be about.

It's supposed to be about Jesus.

We forget the Hosanna's and then we curse somebody that pulls out in front of us.

We forget the Hosanna's and we don't get along with our extended family.

We forget the Hosanna's and we argue and fight with our spouse or with our with our children.

And so we do really good during the day of the parade, but it's between the parades that we struggle.

Wallace Vietz calls it the day of temporary triumph.

That's what he calls the um this Sunday, the Hosanna Hosanna, Palm Sunday.

It's an indication of the way in which the day leaves us with a sense of ambivalence.

There's a fluctuation back and forth between joy and indifference.

It begins with joy and Hosanna, but it ends with Jesus weeping over Jerusalem.

What can be said about this first day of the holy week that will be helpful to you and me?

Here's a couple thoughts.

His arrival was greeted with deserved joy.

His arrival was greeted with deserved joy.

Jesus had been drawing huge crowds for some time.

There was something special about this man.

The people gathered in large crowds to hear him speak.

There's a great rush of people.

Wherever he went, his words spoke to the heart.

They carried authority just as they do today.

When we read the Bible, when we read the word of God, it carries a sense of authority and weight.

The authority of his presence was commanding.

He performed miraculous acts.

He cast out demons.

He healed people.

He performed exorcisms in the last two weeks.

We read stories where he gave sight to a blind man and he raised the dead back to life.

He's able to heal people with physical infirmities, even with sickness from their birth.

The word that surged through the hearts of everyone who pressed in to touch him.

The word that comes to mind is the word hope.

Does anybody here need some hope?

Oh.

We long for hope, don't we?

And we will substitute things temporarily for true hope.

We'll substitute a World Series win for true hope.

It gives us just a little bit, right?

We'll substitute a championship.

We'll substitute a moment.

We'll substitute a person, an event, a drug.

We'll substitute something that we think will meet the need.

That sin and this brokenness of this world has ripped from us.

For one in his presence could dream the impossible dreams, and they came true.

That's what we experience today.

I didn't bless anybody.

Jesus blessed your gracie.

It's Jesus.

It's the presence of Jesus in our midst.

He promises where two or three are gathered.

He will be there with us.

Relatives brought their loved ones, a veritable caravan of the needy, so that he might touch them and heal them.

Depressed spirits were lifted and made whole.

Do we need some depressed spirits lifted?

Oh, yes.

Hopeless hearts dared to hope again.

Make no mistake about it.

He was greeted with joy as he entered the city, and he should have been.

He's the Savior.

He's the one that was prophesied that would come.

And so his arrival was greeted with deserved joy, but also his arrival preceded betrayal.

The triumphal entry on Palm Sunday was the end of public approval for Jesus of Nazareth.

Hopefully, it was a blessing to him because it now was over.

And the rest of the week ensued.

As the week unfolds, you see that it's downhill all the way to Good Friday.

Religious leaders, Roman government, the fickle crowd, and even betrayal within his own disciples would lead to his death.

The challenge that Jesus issued during the week would prompt many to abandon his call and to forsake him.

He would sweat drops of blood and Gethsemane while his disciples snored, having promised to watch with him just for one hour.

He had asked him earlier when he noticed that some were slipping away.

They assured him through Peter.

Through Peter.

He was the spokesperson on faithfulness.

They assured him through Peter, their spokesman, that though they all should abandon him, we will not go away.

Sad.

Sad.

Although a bit humorous.

But now they sensed danger in the air.

They made promises that they would watch with him for one hour, but they didn't keep the promise.

They made all kinds of promises to Jesus by night, but by day they were scattered in fear.

And here we are, 20 centuries later, still feeling the ambivalence of Palm Sunday.

An electrifying moment of public entry and confrontation and a powerful statement about what he stood for: a kingdom of the heart where men and women would be changed forever.

Palm Sunday was the end, though, of any public affirmation of his ministry.

For Jesus.

At this point in his life, that was as good as it would get.

When he was on his way to Calvary carrying the burden of the cross.

His back lacerated from scourgings, a crown of thorns on his brow.

He stumbled.

He needed someone to bear the weight of the cross.

Surely a disciple would leap from the crowd and volunteer.

But no, no, it's a stranger.

It's called Simon the Cyrene.

And he didn't even volunteer.

He volunteered by being commanded by a Roman soldier.

So where were those enthusiastic disciples who had proclaimed, God has given us a king, Hosanna to the king?

Let all heaven rejoice.

They were nowhere to be found.

And they had greeted him with joy.

And so his arrival was greeted with deserved joy.

His arrival preceded betrayal.

The applause always ends.

We hear about the Latin term is vox populi, the voice of the people.

But let me tell you that the voice of the people is a fickle voice, isn't it?

The voice of the people is a fickle voice.

If you don't believe that, ask the relatives of Marvin Griffin.

He ran for governor against Carl Sanders back in the 60s.

His strategy was to have great gatherings around barbecue dinners all over the state of Georgia.

In the early 60s, if you went to Statesboro, you would come across his campaign manager, who was an elder in the first Presbyterian church of Hinesville, and there was a prayer.

12,000 people, 12,000 in the 60s, gathered in Statesboro to eat Marvin's barbecue.

But when the election was over, he had lost decisively.

What's the lesson of the story?

They will eat Marvin's barbecue, but they ain't gonna vote for him.

They'll eat your barbecue.

They're not voting for you.

I mean, the fickleness of people, the voice of the people cannot be relied upon.

It's a fickle voice.

Today's hero is tomorrow's goat.

Crowds have a short memory, don't they?

They are usually asking the question, what have you done for me lately?

I just I just chased, I went down this rabbit hole.

There's a movie that came out called Napoleon.

I watch a movie like that and I go down a rabbit hole because I want to know, I want to know the true history.

I want to know, I want to go deeper.

And so Napoleon was traveling through Switzerland with his army, was greeted with thunderous applause and enthusiasm.

One of his supporters said, It must be delightful to be greeted with such demonstrations of enthusiastic admiration.

Bah, said Napoleon.

This same unthinking crowd under a slight change of circumstances would follow me just as eagerly to the scaffold to be hung.

And that's exactly what happened to Jesus.

The same folks who cheered him on Sunday, one week later, were found to be yelling, crucify him.

Crucify him, crucify him.

Give us Barabbas.

What they said.

They greeted him with joy, but the applause has ended.

It's ended.

And so the applause always ends.

But what else do we see?

We see that his arrival is accompanied by tears.

His arrival into Jerusalem is accompanied by tears.

Look at verse 40.

He replied, If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers.

This teaches us a lesson about worship.

God will be worshiped.

Jesus will be worshipped.

If we do not worship, if we don't raise our voices, if we do not raise our hearts to the Lord, it says the stones will cry out.

All creation is going to worship God.

Let me tell you something.

God will be worshiped throughout eternity.

So we need to learn to worship him here.

And so his arrival is accompanied by tears.

Verse 41, but as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead, he began to weep.

He began to weep.

Why did Jesus cry?

Why did he weep?

He wept because he knew the condition of the people.

He knew our true need.

He knew that our need was not a political figure.

He knew that our need was forgiveness.

He knew that our need was reconciliation.

He knew that our need was the gospel, the good news.

He knew that our need was hope and joy and love.

And he knew that it would only come through the events that were about to take place.

Back to Anne Weems, here's what she says.

She said, There is but one face whose holy eyes won't turn away, but focus on us and weep.

He wept because he knew the condition of the people.

He knew our need.

He wept because that he knew that true worship was necessary to keep the heart focused and warm to the things of God.

There's two instances in the New Testament where Jesus weeps, where he wept.

The first was when he heard of the death of his friend Lazarus.

He wept, but he provided life for Lazarus.

The second is when he wept over Jerusalem because he saw it as a place of lost opportunity.

He explained his mission over and over, but they never got the mission.

I'm so glad that now we have received it well.

Sarcasm.

We still need the gospel.

We still need somebody to preach it to us.

Until Jesus comes, right?

We're going to keep preaching the gospel.

He explained his mission over and over.

Even his close circle of followers, his disciples were a hopeless muddle.

Each of us have our own agenda, our own ambitions, jockeying for what we think is most important.

Even in the church.

Even inside the walls of the church, we we we jockey for what we think is most important.

What is most important?

Is it this ministry or is it that ministry?

Is it this type of building or that type of building?

What type of activity should it be?

Is it for this type of service?

Is it for this type of service?

We jockey.

And so our own ambitions, we think that our own issue is much important.

One disciple would betray him and all would flee the city when the chips were down, save one.

It was enough to make anybody weep.

His disciples knew there's danger there, you should not go, but he persisted.

Why?

Because he knew that somebody needed hope.

This past week.

So they can sign up for classes.

She has several hundred kids in this program at different places around the city of Atlanta.

But right here in Loganville, right here in Walton County, right around the corner from where you and I are sitting.

This past week, a 15-year-old girl decided that life was not worth living anymore.

And she took her own life.

She took her own life.

And what would it what would happen in the heart and the mind?

How hopeless must she be?

And the part that breaks my heart is hearing that she just kind of held her head down, never spoke, and went through life mostly being unnoticed.

Is there anything worth living for?

I know her family loved her.

Maybe they had problems, don't we all?

There are probably some people here carrying some heavy weight.

And you just want to hold your head down and walk through the crowd and hope nobody notices, but I want you to know that Jesus notices you.

Jesus notices you, and we church, we believers, we are responsible to notice people.

We are responsible to make eye contact with people.

We are responsible to speak to people.

We are responsible to love people.

When was the last time that you shed some tears over someone that needed Jesus?

When was the last time you shed tears over somebody that needed Jesus?

That's why Jesus persisted in going to Jerusalem.

That's why he went.

You know why?

Because people need hope.

John 3.16 says, For this is how God loved the world.

He gave his one and only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life.

Thank you, Jesus.

For the hope that we have.

Oh, how I wish that that young lady had heard these words.

The Lord has need of me.

Have you considered how God might use you this week?

We begin Holy Week today.

I want to encourage you to pick a gospel or pick all four and read through the events of Holy Week.

We will gather as a church and social circle at our campus there on Friday night at 6.30 to have a good Friday gathering.

And then we'll end the weekend with celebrating the risen Savior.

It's going to be awesome.

I need some of you, many of you, to choose to come at 5 p.m.

on Sunday evening to our 5 p.m.

gathering because we're going to be overrun on Sunday at 9 and 11.

I need some of you willing, hopefully, come and join us at 5 p.m.

It's the same day.

It's Sunday.

We celebrate Jesus at 5 p.m.

just as well as we can celebrate him at 9 and 11 a.m.

Go have brunch with somebody and then come and meet at 5 p.m.

so we can have room to gather everybody on our campus.

But what you need to consider most importantly is this question.

Have you surrendered to Jesus?

Have you surrendered to Jesus?

Have you surrendered to Him?

The Lord has need of you.

The Lord has need of me.

He has come that we might have hope.

He has come that we would understand his mission.

He has come because he loves you and he loves me.

Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, may I not forget tomorrow.

That tomorrow is just as worthy as a parade as today.

Tuesday is a great day for a parade.

Wednesday is a great day for a parade.

How about Thursday?

Let's do a parade on Thursday.

How about Friday?

Saturday.

How about next week?

Let's end this week praising a risen Savior.

Amen.

Would you stand with me?

Let's stand together.

Father, we come to say glory, Hosanna to the King.

We celebrate you because you were good.

And you came to bring hope.

You came to notice, to notice everyone, whether it be like a 15-year-old girl that's got her head held down, or whether it's somebody that's an extrovert, like some of us, that are walking around seemingly full of joy, but maybe deep down, we're we're feeling the desperate need for hope, just like everybody.

And God, we acknowledge that the only true place for hope is not in a parade celebrating a ball team.

It's not in a parade celebrating a person.

It's not in temporary things.

It is found in the person of Jesus.

And so, Father, we come to honor you because you are worthy.

It's in Jesus' name we pray.

Amen.

Amen.

Hey, thank you so much for just worshiping with us today and being with us.

Man, we hope that God spoke to you and challenged you, encouraged you with uh just just his words this morning.

Um, especially as we've been journeying through uh kind of Passion Week, going uh headed to the cross uh and in the Resurrection Sunday next week.

Uh so man, we're just hope that God's been uh meeting you in that.

And so, whatever next steps he's calling you to, we would love to partner with you in that because we believe that that's this thing is a journey.

It is a lifelong journey of taking step after step towards Jesus and into what he's calling you to.

So we want to help you in that and so give you some resources.

So tech start to follow to 9700.

Start to follow all one word to 9700.

And again, we just want to give you some resources, start a conversation with you, and help you along on your journey.

Yeah, man, we're so excited that you guys hung out with us again.

There's so many different places that you can be visiting online this morning.

The fact that you're with us, uh, it just means a lot.

So thank you.

And don't forget, like Brandon said earlier, come join us, come hang out.

It's uh the Spirit's been thick with two C's.

And so um, you need to come and just hang out with us because uh it's the Lord's up to something and it's good, it's fun.

We don't buy, we don't do anything weird, I don't think.

Um, but just weird.

We're a good group of people.

Just kind of we're fine.

So just come hang, uh come meet us, yeah um, and uh we would love to meet you.

So um, don't forget Easter services, Good Friday.

Yep.

If you're a regular attendee, maybe try to come to the house.

Uh yeah, with that's how you set up.

5 p.m.

listening at 5 p.m.

Um to to make room, and so um, yeah.

So grateful that you come and joined us today.

And I'm just gonna talk slowly until we respond out.

Yeah, yeah.

You all let me know Zootopia.

It's a great movie you should watch, by the way.

Zootopia.

There's a scene where they go to the DMV and the DMV like person is a slow.

Oh, I've seen that.

And it's the most painful, painful scene, but it's so good.

Yeah, yeah.

Anyways, that's it.

I felt good.

Man, we love you guys.

Hope you have a fantastic week.

We'll see you next Sunday.

Do we do both of these hands?

We both have a lot of people.