Pastor Bryan Grant | Stop Waiting on The Porch | May 31st, 2026

Thanks, Craig.

I hate being talked up like that.

But we're here now.

Let's give a hand for Craig and the team that's gonna be out there.

What an amazing morning, hey?

Man, God's already just moved on the move.

I just love what uh Pastor Malachi was talking about with this come and just ask the Holy Spirit to move in.

Uh, this last week, I had a few people ask me where I was, and my wife and I, we went to Halcyon Hot Springs for a weekend away.

Uh, we're coming up to 25 years being married sometime in June.

It's on a particular date that's at the beginning of the month and somewhere before the 15th.

I'm just kidding.

I mostly think it's the 9th.

Right off, starting the day, starting the day right, all right?

If you get the date right, that's uh right.

Well, we went to Halcyon Hot Springs, and you know, when you're away and you spend time uh with your your wife and there's no children, there's no work, there's no cell reception, um, as we're sitting and talking, uh, we got to talk about family and where we started, and you know, 25 years is a long time.

And I remember I want to tell a story because it really does tie in.

I promise you, this will tie in, church.

I'll make sure that it ties in.

But I just wanted to start with a story about the first time I picked her up for a date.

You're not laughing already.

Like so the first time we picked her up, I I remember when we we got married uh in this church.

We met in this church.

So if you're a young adult and you're not married, just so you know, there's lots of young ladies and young men here that you can find the most amazing person at church.

Amen?

That was sad, young adults.

Amen?

Come on, there's more than that.

Um, but we dated, and I just remember um we started off at opposite ends of the Boston pizza table, and then ended up in the middle together, and then me giving her a ride home.

And I remember I probably said something dumb and old because I'm older, and I was like, hey, you want to go steady?

Yeah, like when when I finally asked her to be my girlfriend.

But I remember the very first time that we went uh on a date.

I just remember that um I was driving over to her house in my 1981 Toyota Crusida with the sunroof and powered windows.

It was the ultimate in 80s sports vehicles.

Okay, like it was an excellent car.

It was a blue with blue interior that was worn, it was not in very good shape.

It was it was uh it had an issue where if I stopped at a stoplight, I had to stick into neutral in order for it not to stall.

So it was like an automatic standard, so it was a bit of a weird vehicle.

Um, but I went over and and I'm listening to Petra.

Any Petra fans?

Yeah, that's right.

Petra with one speaker that worked only on the left.

And I'm just cranking it, and I one in the back was fuzzy and it just made some noises.

So I'm going over there, I'm dressed as well as I possibly could be.

I have a black silk shirt.

Yeah, that's right, black silk church, with a silver chain.

My hair was the dumbest hair ever.

It never grew out, it grew up.

And if you see pictures of me in high school, I actually had a teacher take a picture and send it to me.

It's like four inches.

It's terrible.

So four inches tall, silver chain.

I got big baggy pants on, big boots that are like the platform things, because that was cool at the time.

I was the coolest guy ever.

I tried to find a picture to show you, but I couldn't because it was too cool.

But she lived in this apartment building, and it was my first time coming over, and you know, you have to buzz into apartment.

I didn't have to.

And so she I get in because someone had come out and I'm walking down the hallway, my heart is pounding, I have sweat in my hands.

I didn't know how you could sweat in the middle of your hands, but you can.

I have all the all the the it's all nerves.

I'm just all nerves because it's the first time we're going on the official date, and I'm standing at the door and ready to knock, and I do all the checks.

You do the armpit check.

You know what I'm talking about.

You do the breath check, you do your four-inch hair check to make sure it's still square and four inches.

You do everything you're supposed to, you check on your collar, you knock on the door, and I just get ready to knock, and then she opens up the door, and of course, me trying to be cool said, How are you doing?

I didn't say that, I didn't say that.

I'm so old, I'm pretty sure friends wasn't a thing at that time.

But I just, it was one of those moments where I was just, I was, you know, like I was at I was so excited to be there that I forgot how to speak, like legitimately, like that.

And so when you think you're and do you know what?

I think that I'm cool in those moments.

I was not.

I realized as I'm telling the story, I had zero game.

I'm lucky she married me after with seeing my black silk shirt and silver chain.

And here's why I want to tell you the story is that standing outside outside of that door, I had done everything I could to get ready.

The hair, the chain, the car, the petra, the music, all the stuff that I had going on.

I did the armpit check, the breath check, I did everything possible so that when I built this, I built this whole version of myself that I wanted Natalie to see.

So when she opened that door, opened that door, I was the guy that she wanted.

I think it worked.

Obviously, something worked, but I don't know how I said with that per the cologne I was wearing or anything, how that it all ended up being married.

But this is when I was thinking about it this week, this is how we approach God so often.

We approach God standing at the door trying to look like the right person.

We're doing the checks, we're making our smell holy, we're making sure that we sound right, we're hoping that when the door opens, the version of us that we've built enough is good enough to walk inside and meet God.

But this is not how it works, this is not the gospel.

And the door that we're talking about today is not the door that you dress up for, it's not the door that you have to actually earn, it's not the door that opens because I was super polished or prepared or anything like that.

And here's the the whole point of this message today: there's a door and there's a yoke that we're need to be attached to.

The door is how we get in to know Jesus, the yoke is how to walk once you've walked through it.

I was surprised that we continue dating after that first time we dated.

But here's this thing is that once you've walked through, then God teaches you how to walk.

It's the same Jesus, it's two moments, and we need both of those moments to walk with Christ.

So I want you to open up your Bible to Matthew chapter 11, 28 to 30.

Matthew 11 · chapter mention

And I'm gonna read this.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and I'm humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Let's just pray, Lord.

Even already this morning, we've just been singing about how great you are.

We want to experience you this morning, Lord.

We even pray to the Holy Spirit, just have a move in our hearts today.

So we just ask that as we work through this passage of Scripture, Lord, that our hearts are open and we're ready to receive from you all that you have for us in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So we see in this, the first word that we see is come.

It says come, it says it's not climb, it's not earn, it's not fix yourself up, it's not get everything in your life back in order and check back after that.

It's just come.

Like, really, I could probably preach just on that whole thing.

Just it's come.

The Greek word here is I always pronounce it as do it, but it's not, it's dote, which I was really sad because do it sounded cooler, especially in light of come to the Lord, but it didn't work.

It's not a gentle invitation.

This is what I love about it.

It's direct.

When we see this word come, it means come here now.

Not in the the angry come here now, like you hear from your parents after you did something you're not supposed to, but it's this moment.

He's not whispering from a distance to us, he's not from afar, he's saying to us, and he's standing in that doorway saying, Come to me.

Many of you have had a parent or someone, how many of you had to be home by dark if the lights went down or the lights turned on?

There's not very many anymore, because you have to right?

I had to be one of those people, or you hear your dad or your mom yelling from the distance, Come for dinner, and it wasn't a request, it was a hey, you need to come here.

And so I love this scripture because this is what it means is a who is he calling right here?

He's calling all who are weary and all who are burdened.

When we see all who are weary and burdened, and here's what the difference is these two he these two words, weary and burdened, aren't the same thing.

They actually share something different with us.

It's describing one exhausted person from two different angles, weary, those who labor, point to the burden you put on yourself.

It's the active kind of tired, the tired that you choose.

It's the striving, the self-effort, the try harder.

I've talked about pulling up yourself from your bootstraps, the grinding to be a better person or to make more money, to measure up, to prove to God that you're all you're cracked up to be.

Weary is the tired you choose without realizing that you've chosen it.

Burdened, or another translation says it this way, it says heavy laden.

It points to the weight others put out on you.

And this is a passive kind of tired.

Load that like someone else puts a load on you, and they have expectations or perspective view.

In Jesus' day, when we're talking through the scripture, it was the religious system.

The rulemakers, the Pharisees, would pile demands on people that no one could possibly carry.

They couldn't fulfill those expectations.

They just had so many rules.

But for us now in time, it's expectation, it's pressure, it's the things that are laid on us by our family, our work, our culture.

It's a voice that says you're never just doing enough.

How many have heard that voice before?

So one weight we manufacture and the other gets handed to us.

But Jesus in this scripture looks at both, he addresses them both, he deals with them both all in one breath, all in one scripture, because he's not offering to lighten one and leave the other.

He's saying, I can take the whole thing.

I was this last week, I was just um probably I was reading a book or I was reading a uh listening to a podcast, and there was a story or a man in 1957 named Joseph Hart Joseph Hart.

And so he'd heard this verse, and he was a he was a young man, he grew up in the church.

I believe his parents were in the church, but he grew up in church, especially in 1957.

Um, he'd been religious his whole life, but then he kind of left the faith.

Started wandering, and he did some you know things that wayward people do.

Um, and he was broken, but then he finally made his way back and he gave his life to Jesus.

But he was listening to a song and he wrote this.

And the song is called Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy.

And I want to read this part, and there's a one at the end that we're gonna we're gonna lean into.

It says, Come ye sinners, poor and needy, weak and wounded, sick and sore.

Jesus stands to save you, full of pity, love, and power.

Come ye weary, heavy laden, lost and ruined by the fall.

And here's where I want us to listen.

If you tarry till you're better, you'll never come at all.

I'm gonna say that again, that last one again.

If you tarry until you're better, you'll never come at all.

Tarry just means wait.

If you wait until you're better, you're never gonna come.

Hart didn't write this story as just a theory.

When I was reading his story, he didn't write it as a theory.

He wrote this as a confession of something that he experienced in his own life.

He wasted years standing on the porch in front of the door, wanting what he wanted, doing what he wanted to do, never actually leaning into what God wanted for him.

He didn't think he was clean enough or worth enough.

And then he's saying this line and he's preaching to his younger self.

How many of us have something that we would say to our younger self?

I would tell my younger self, choose a different shirt.

Not black silk.

But this is the thing, and that this is him preaching to his.

If you tarry till you'll better, you'll never come at all.

But this is the lie that keeps us from knocking on the door.

The lie that says we have to get everything back together, the lie that says uh if I want to meet God, I have to quit my drinking, I have to stop watching porn, I have to fix my whole marriage, I have to be better, say better, do bet.

Do you know what he's saying in this moment?

And we always we always say this pray harder, just like we heard from Peter Desire.

Pastor Brody's been speaking about this for three weeks.

Know God, find freedom, discover your purpose, make a difference.

Is that we can do all of these things, read our Bible more, pray more.

Those are all good things.

Hear me.

Pastor Brian did not say not to do those things.

Amen?

Those are all good things.

But I want to say this maybe for some in this room, in order for you to move forward, you have to maybe feel something first.

You have to be sure first.

The religious version of this lie says, I'm not good enough yet.

The cultural or the worldly version of this, I'm not healed enough, I'm not ready yet, I need to work on myself, I need to do more self-care.

Same lie, different language, and both of us keep us from knocking on the door and walking towards what God has for us.

Both keep us standing on the porch, both keep us wandering around, wondering what to do next, both keep us away from what God has for us.

So I wanted you to hear me when I say this is that Jesus didn't say come when you get better.

He said, Come because you are weary.

Come because you have struggles.

Come because you have issues.

He's not saying wait until everything is perfect.

I heard it said this way, he says, You weariness is what qualifies you, and the burden that you carry is the password that gets you through that door.

Here's the question What are you waiting for before you come to Jesus?

So as I was preparing this, I realized this is kind of a twofold message.

It's for those in the room that don't have a relationship with Jesus yet, and it's for those in the room that have a relationship with Jesus.

I was one of those people that said all the right things, did all the right things, worshiped the way you're supposed to, looked a certain way, did what I was supposed to, all the things that you're supposed to do, but still didn't have a relationship with God.

Still, I didn't want his input or his direction into my life.

So so often when we we look at this, it's the door, it's not the ladder.

Most people picture salvation as a climb.

It gets better, or you try harder, you fix more, and maybe God accepts you.

I remember even when I was a young kid believing that I wasn't good enough for God's love because I didn't perform well.

Is that just me?

That's not the gospel, that's just exhaustion with like a religious hat on it.

This is what it says in John 10, 9, I am the door.

If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go out in and find the pastor.

The pastor means a place where there's plenty.

Matthew 7, 7 and 8, just gonna read the first part, ask and it shall be given to you, seek, and you will find, knock, and it will be opened to you.

John says, I am the door.

Whoever enters through will be saved.

It does not say climb up to me.

He said, Come through me.

And if there's any requirement, there's only one, and that is that you just come through the door.

There's no addition, there's no resumes, there's no ID checks, there's no behavior checks, there's none of that.

Our whole culture is exhausted exhausted by that ladder.

I worked in corporate uh Canada, I was gonna say corporate America, I worked in corporate Canada for about three years.

And everything is driven by numbers, driven by how qualified you are, or how good you are at your job.

So we see that people are just exhausted from this whole self-optimization, the self-improvement, the self-help, the wealth, the wellness, the mindfulness, the all that kind of stuff.

This is an endless climb.

Every step on the rung promises a top that when they get there, they will finally be enough.

And not one of them delivers.

Because the top is always as far as you can get.

As soon as you get to the top, there's always the next top.

As soon as you get further, there's always the next top.

Jesus isn't at the top of the ladder, he's downstairs at the door.

He's waiting for Brian to knock and so he can open the door and say, God, I have I want all that you have from me, God, and we'll walk through that door.

This is what he says.

He wants to come and rest so that we see that he gives us rest.

The last part of verse 28, if you want to go to Matthew 11, 28, says, I will give you rest.

The word gets tossed around in culture.

It means like oftentimes we kind of look at it like it's a vacation or a long sleep or it's a spa day or a weekend at Halcyon.

This isn't when Jesus what Jesus is talking about in this moment.

When he says rest, he says, rest for your souls.

He's quoting Jeremiah 6.16, where God was telling a worn-out people, walk the ancient path and you will find rest for your souls.

And Israel was saying to him, We're not gonna walk in that.

The Lord's saying, Come to me and I have rest for you.

And Israel's saying, We're not gonna do that.

So, so often in our own walk with the Lord, our my my response, me, I will just say me, just say me, is that my response is I know what you're asking of me, Lord, but I don't necessarily want to do it.

Like I said before, the the vacations, or you can sleep.

How many of you have slept 10 hours and woken up and just felt just as worse as you did when you went to sleep?

Or you've been away for a week and you need a week from a week's vacation from the vacation.

I had someone that tell me they would they had a whole weekend and they went away and they came back and they need to spend more time on vacation just to recover from their vacation.

That's just the way it is.

But this is not what the Lord is saying when he says, Come to me, all who are weary and burdened.

He says, I will give you rest.

And here's the rest word means that he will settle in your soul.

That your body will feel rest, that your soul will rest, that you will have peace, you'll be able to walk through what you can walk through, and you're not feeling weary by the world.

And I gotta tell you, my whole married life, my wife has always been like Brian, you need to rest.

I can be a workaholic because I like to work, I like what I do, I like most of the jobs I've been in, I like being at the church, I like doing the stuff that's going on, but I've only learned to rest in God probably in the last three or four years.

Where I'm going on vacations, my phone is turned off, I'm focused in on what's going on here, I'm spending time in the Word, and I'm actually receiving and resting in God's presence.

And I can tell you the difference from one to the other is staggering.

Where my rest comes from matters.

What my rest is matters.

How you rest matters.

Because if we do it in our own strength, we do it in vacations and do it in spas or do it in whatever you want to do, those are all good things and they will help.

But when you are soul weary and you are tired and you can't face the next day, and you wake up and you have everything is just weighing on you, you have health issues, you got finance issues, and you're soul tired.

The only thing that's gonna help you is God.

Only thing that's gonna bring you in and is gonna bring you healing and health is gonna be who God is, and that's where you'll rest.

Is this okay, church?

Because weariness, that Jesus isn't talking about this, isn't just a physical weirdness, it's something that happens so deep.

This is what Hebrews says, and how we receive it from the Lord.

It's a weirdness, and I want to say this, it's a weirdness that comes from fighting and striving.

And I think I heard Sir Norm say it like this.

It's from fighting and striving to earn a place that he's already given you.

If you are a Christ follower, you are a co-heir with Christ.

That means you're an overcomer, that you are victorious, that when you lean on him, he will give you energy, he will give you strength, he will give you wisdom, but he will pull you in.

Amen?

This is what it says in Hebrews 4 16.

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in a time of need.

Do we see where this door leads?

When we walk through, I'm using lots of imagery today because it helped me.

When we walk through, we're not waiting into a meeting room, we're walking up to the throne of God.

We have access to God's throne.

We have access to the Holy Spirit.

We have access to receive these things with confidence.

If I'm an overcomer and I'm a co-heir with Christ and I Jesus is, I'm I'm brothers with Christ, I can walk in what God's called me to in confidence, not with the the the cringe of a stranger or the the the sometimes the nerves of a stranger.

We can walk into God's kingdom with confidence.

We can walk into his throne with it with confidence and say, God, I need something from you.

You walk into what God's called you to be.

You walk into rest.

You walk into the throne room, you belong there.

And because in Jesus you do, we get to have access to what he has for us.

And I want you to see this is that that confidence is not an arrogance.

We see this in the scripture right before in Hebrews 4:15.

Hebrews 4:15

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses.

But we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are, and yet he did not sin.

Jesus isn't looking at us with disgust or disdain or embarrassment or failure or whatever I tell myself when I make and what I miss.

He's not looking down on us like that.

He's looking down on us and empathizes with it because he went through some of this.

He took the pain of the world and the sin of the world on himself.

So when you come, you're not coming to someone who needs you to fake it, you're coming to someone who knows what you're going through.

We go to Jesus who has already known and suffered and has experienced these weaknesses.

That's the Father that we serve.

And this church is where rest lives.

It's not the absence of work, it's the presence of someone who understands already.

Then he gives us this yoke.

This is what it says in 11, 20, or 29.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me.

We're just gonna stop there.

He just promised us rest, and the very next thing is he's saying a yoke out of his mouth, and that sounds a bit like it's a bait and switch.

When I was reading it, I was like, okay, Lord, there's got to be something more to this.

The yoke is not the fine print that's buried under the rest, the rest.

The yoke is where a rest actually lives.

You don't rest from Jesus, you rest with him, shoulder to shoulder, pulling the same load, going in the same direction, and know that you're not pulling alone.

That's when we talk about the you the yoke.

Come as you are, but you don't stay that way.

You walk through the door, that means we changes, do we change directions?

We hear this, it's called repentance when we walk through.

Repentance is not cleaning ourselves up before we get there.

Repentance is cleaning yourself up.

That's the price of the admission to walk through the door with God.

The cleaning house happens inside.

When Jesus comes in here and we move and with what he's called us to do, then we start moving where he needs us to go.

We stop walking our way and we start walking his.

And I think I said this before, but the Pharisees of the day, they had hundreds of rules.

Think the list of rules is nearing like 657 or something like that.

Of rules that you follow.

They would call it the yoke of law.

And it was absolutely crushing to people because how many I can I can't, you know, even get up and early and make my bed if that was a rule.

What are the things that we have in our life that we can't reach?

And meanwhile, we have like 600 rules that we have, or they would have 600 rules they had to follow.

And the big difference of this yoke is one big detail, and I'm gonna show you a picture in a second, not yet, Deb.

It's called uh when Jesus says take the yoke upon you, he is stepping on the other side of the yoke with you, and you're not pulling solo, you're pulling with him.

Go ahead, Deb.

I found it incredibly difficult to find one where I was smiling because I don't do selfies very often.

And then I asked AI to do one with smiling, and a boy did I look creepy.

AI did not get my teeth well at all.

So we see that this is the yoke.

Is that Jesus is walking this yoke with us, he's moving us together, we're going in the same direction.

He's not pulling us, that doesn't mean the work is less, that means we are working with Christ.

We're standing shoulder to shoulder, going on the mission he's called us to, go leading our families the way he needs us to, but he is with us, walking with us in all that we do.

Amen?

So we I was just researching this.

They would call this in in Israel when they're the rabbis, would call it like this.

They say the day they took in a student, they called it the yoke.

Meaning that you submitted to his way of reading the Bible, the rabbi's way of reading the Bible, the rabbi's way of living the scriptures out.

When Jesus in this moment says, We take the yoke, we come to him.

And we take the yoke, that means he's not handing us a new set of rules, he is saying, come under my way.

Come see the Father the way I see the Father.

Learn from me.

This is what he says, for a yoke is easy and burdened light, but not because the work disappears, but because we're not alone anymore.

We could probably take the picture down, no doubt.

I'm finding it just distracting looking myself.

So I just want to call the worship team up.

I want to say this.

How many of us have heard that in church?

Come as you are.

And I'll tell you in my walk with the Lord, sometimes come as you are was a burden and not a freedom.

I found it incredibly hard sometimes to approach the Lord, knowing what my mind was like, knowing what my life was like, knowing the things that were happening.

And you see this in the scriptures, and you do, you come as you are, with all of our plans, with all of the chains and the four-inch hair and the black silk shirts, with all the issues and all the struggles and all the weights that you carry, you do come that way, but you don't stay that way.

And that's the part of the learning where it says, Come, all who are weary and heavy burdened, take this yoke and learn from me.

So I just want to say this in this moment, when I was praying about it this morning, some of us have walked away from the yoke.

We knocked on the door, we went right through, we experienced all that God has for us, but then over time, somehow, somewhere, somewhere along the line, we've actually unhooked ourselves from the yoke that Jesus was walking with us.

We stopped pulling with Jesus and we started pulling the everything behind us on our own without Him.

And I know that in my life I've done that way too many times to count.

And I know that the moment I step back into that relationship, even starting with what Pastor Malachi was saying, come allow the Holy Spirit to work, just that confession, just that confession can shift everything just like that.

Just that just saying, God, come, I need you.

When you step out of that yoke, you're not stepping out of the door, God's not looking at you differently.

Now it's a moment for us to actually say, God, I want to be back in this yoke with you.

And there was a scripture in in Revelation where he was talking about or talking to the church, and they were lukewarm, they were drifting, they were far from God, or doing things that they wanted to do.

And this is what he said to them Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

If anyone, if anyone, this is why this message is for those that don't know Jesus and those that do.

If anyone, because I am that if anyone, if anyone opens the door, I will come to him and eat with him, and he with me.

You see who he's talking to in this message?

He's talking to us that have unyoked ourselves from what God has for us and walking with him as we move forward.

So, if this is how you're feeling this morning, you feel like you've pulled away, you've been doing your own thing, and the Lord, you feel like the Lord is asking you to step into this.

Hear this carefully.

The call is not to get back through the door, the call is to get back to the yoke and walk where God has us together.

Can you stand with me?

Over the last four weeks, Pastor Brody has been walking us through some amazing messages.

Through four destinations, to know God, to find freedom, to discover your purpose, and to make a difference.

This is what I had written.

Make a difference.

The one chasing purpose discovers that purpose isn't a project, it's a partnership with God.

And those that are longing to make a difference in this world, everyone, me included, you are called by God to do something amazing.

You are called by God to be the best dad you can be, the best mom you can be, the best employee.

You are called by God for a purpose.

But this is what I was listening to Pastor Brody's messages.

There's four destinations, but there's only one door, one yoke, and one Jesus.

All of those destinations lead us to this door where if we knock, it will be open.

When we walk through, we get access to Jesus and walking with him.

And I don't know how many times in my own life I have pushed him aside.

And here's the thing is that you'll never feel ready.

And if we tarry till we're better, we're just not going to do it.

So I want to read Matthew 11 before we close.

It says, Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened.

Can you just close your eyes with me?

Come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

So here's the call that I have for us this morning.

First, I just want to reach out to those.

If you've never given your life to Jesus, you've never experienced the come and experience Him.

You don't have to fix yourself first, you don't have to have everything ready first, you don't have to be perfect.

You just have to make the decision.

I want to follow Jesus today.

If that's you, well, our eyes are closed.

I want you to raise your hand so I can see you.

If you want to give your life to Jesus this morning.

And this church, let's just say this with me.

I want to go through this together.

Lord, I am tired of walking this life on my own.

I want to walk with you.

I believe you died on the cross and rose again.

I repent.

I make you Lord of my life.

I take your yoke.

Thank you for saving me.

If you gave your life to Jesus this morning, just look up this way.

There's a number on the screen.

You can just text Jesus, and this is an amazing opportunity for us to connect with you and start you down that path of discipleship and getting to know Jesus better.

For the rest of us in this room, still with our eyes closed.

If you have walked through the doors and have been in the yoke with Jesus before, but have stepped out of that and you're doing life on your own and you want to get back in, I believe that this is the opportunity for us this morning.

Jesus is here and he wants to be with you and walk through this life with you.

If you're sitting in the building, but you've locked Jesus out of the room, you put him onto the other side, and he can do his own thing, and you want, but you realize that you need him.

So I just want the team just to close in a song.

Then I'm gonna come and do just do a prayer, final prayer for us.

And I have the worst prayer team come forward as well.

Let's just close in a song.