Opening Call To Receive

So now I'm ready to preach God's word. Are you ready to receive it today? The year was 2011, and we were a family living in Houston. We felt, and you've heard me tell this story before, we knew God was calling us to plant a church. And uh so we had spiritual leaders in our life. We asked them, like, where should we look? What city should we look in? And so they told us, well, we we're we're looking at large cities in the U.S., so we're gonna start on the West Coast, and maybe Chuck and Hersani, you want to look at San Francisco or LA or San Diego or Seattle, and we were like, no, we are not West Coast people. Now I tell my boys all the time, guys, I'm so sorry. We could have lived in the mountains, we could have lived in warm weather, and the Lord brought us to Chicago. But so we we we X'd out the west side of the States, and then they were like, Well, New York City, and I was like, Well, that's too big of an apple for us, so we're gonna skip that one. And then they were like, Well, what about Miami? And I was like, Well, we don't have enough plastic surgery for that one, so that's out, and um, and then they were like, Well, and then Chicago, and we were like, Well, we'll look at Chicago, so we looked at Chicago, Mobile, Alabama, uh, Dallas, Texas, and a small city just south of Dallas, and we visited all four. We wanted to be on site for insight, and um we visited and with the help of our leaders, we're just prayerfully considering. I'll never forget when we the first time we walked down the streets of Oak Park in September 2011, and um, our overseers, Pastor Nate and Dina, were with us, and we had lunch at what was Winberry's Cafe on the corner of Lake and Oak Park. And I remember we were looking at just watched, I watched as like every life age and every life stage every nation walked down the street of Lake Street while we were having lunch, and the diversity was so incredible to me, and the kindness of the people, and and a tear that would shock you, a tear streamed down my cheek. And Urshana looked at me and she said, Don't call it yet. Like, don't, we just got here, don't call it yet. And I was like, listen, I I just I'm moved, I'm moved by this place. And um, so during that week of our first visit, we were with several people, and people would ask us, well, what do you, what do you, what, what brings you to Oak Park? And we were like, Well, we think we're gonna start a church here. We're thinking about it and praying about it, and like, whoa, who, wow, I've never heard of a church just starting. Most of the churches around here have been here for forever. And I'm like, well, yeah, we're gonna, well, we're we're gonna do something new. And they were like, tell us what kind of church. And we we explained what you see in this room today, the atmosphere, the excitement, the the the picture of heaven. And uh they they would tell us, we we don't we don't see that. We we don't we don't have that church around here. And these were people that were unchurched telling us this, and so and then I'll never forget, but our realtor while we were driving one day looking at houses, he was like, Hey, I gotta ask you, we we've been together for a couple days, but how do you start a church? And we were like, Well, we don't know. But we're gonna do our best and we're gonna try hard and we're gonna put a plan in place, but I mean, we've never done it either. And I really was in that year that I never I felt so unqualified. Really, I I mean, I've told you I was born on Sunday in church and the next Sunday, and growing up I didn't miss a Sunday. My parents didn't let me, but that didn't make me qualified to be a pastor or plant a church. I served in ministry and from 93 to 2000 in Dallas, and then from 2000 to the start of 2012 in Houston, and that didn't qualify me to plant a church. And as I was watching people around us plant churches and watching and prayer, prayerfully considering how we would launch, I just I never felt more unqualified in my life than those moments. And even the day before we launched, we launched September 9th, 2012. On September 8th, we had done a series of serve projects. We paid down gas a couple of bucks and a uh a gallon and and and we we we served so many people, thousands of people that day, right at Lake Street in Ridgeland, and the line wrapped around the entire train station there at Ridgeland, and we helped so many people. And we got to our house on Saturday evening, the 8th, and and somebody asked me, So, how do you feel, PC? How do you feel about tomorrow? And I was like, honestly, I'm so scared. I'm so overwhelmed because I feel like we've done everything we can do, and now it's all up to God. And I know we'll show up, but like honestly, I feel so unqualified for this. But it is in that year that I learned mostly what you feel unqualifies you sets you up for God to do something very special in your life. Why don't you just turn to your neighbor and just say, I'm not so sure I'm qualified for this. And then look back at the other one and just say, But thank God you're not the judge. We're in week four of our series, God looks, and I'm just gonna dive right in and tell you this week the theme is God looks for the unqualified. He looks for the unqualified. In fact, I would tell you if that's you in the room, you're you're in the right spot. If you ever felt like you don't belong or you don't have a place, or you don't have the skill or the talent or the ability to do what God has put in your heart to do, I'm gonna tell you you're in the right place because God looks for the unqualified. Pastor Matthew would say, He's never, never, he is never ever calling the qualified. He's always equipping the called. And I would let you know today that maybe you have felt like you were on the outside looking in, and that you were watching from a distance and you see great things happening, and it looks amazing to you, and you got this idea like, man, I just I need to just keep my eye on what's happening, and I see something, and man, there's this special excitement, there's something happening that I I want to I want to figure it out, I want to get close to, and today that is our story because today we're gonna talk about a guy by the name of Zacchaeus. And Zacchaeus is not only not in the in crowd, but he wasn't even invited into the room. There was no invitation for Zacchaeus. But yet, even though he is not invited, he figures out something special is happening and he has to see it. What's amazing, though, about Zacchaeus is he doesn't run to Jesus, but he runs ahead and finds a tree. And we'll get to the text in a minute, but I want to tell you this. A lot of times we celebrate the first step that you take to follow Jesus. When you get to know God on the weekend, we celebrate that with all of heaven, and that's that is something to be celebrated. Today at the end of service, we'll have people make a decision. Some of you will make a decision to follow Jesus. We're gonna celebrate with you. We celebrate when people take a next step and they find freedom from their past hurts and their past habits. We celebrate when people discover their purpose or when they start to make a difference and serving on a team and investing back into the church, and we celebrate all those things. But today, today I want to celebrate this idea of curiosity. This idea that when God puts something on the inside of you that says you gotta turn your attention to what God is doing and you will not be detracted from it. You gotta watch and see what he's doing. And that is where we pick up Zacchaeus today, that he runs not to Jesus, but he runs ahead because that's what happens when we feel unqualified. We typically don't run to, but we settle for a distance. And I'm just gonna tell you in here, like, I don't ever want to lose the sense of awe and curiosity for what God might do. The Bible says, I has not seen, nor has any ear heard what God has in store for those who love him. And if you don't have a sense of curiosity, it means you don't believe there's more that he can do. And so I just want to live in a space where I'm, yeah, God's good to me. I love him, I'm thankful, but there is an expectation I have that it's gonna get better ahead. And I want to say sometimes, God, just show me how good it can get. Show me how good it can get for my family, show me how good it can get for my home, for my children, for my workplace. God, just show me because I believe if I'm still here, you're not done. So, with all of that in mind, let's pick up the text in Luke 19. Verse 1. Jesus entered Jericho. Go ahead and circle Jericho, we're gonna talk about that in a minute, and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short and could not see over the crowd, he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way. Who is this Zacchaeus? Let's just get to know Zacchaeus for a minute. The Bible says number one, he was a chief tax collector, meaning he wasn't like he he wasn't he wasn't young, he was he was older. He had uh been accomplished, he probably had um made several steps up the ladder of success, and now he's the chief tax collector, meaning he probably has tax collectors under him. Oh, by the way, he was successful in business, which I would say to this week on Friday is our next level leadership luncheon at 12. And our very own Noel Massey, who wrote the book, Congrats, you've been promoted, will be with us sharing. Uh Adriana Laura Cook, an incredible networker here in the Oak Park area in real estate, she'll be with us, and then Pastor Robbie will be sharing as well. Great leadership principles to be shared for you to kind of improve and take a next level step in your leadership skills and principles in your life and will help you. There's still spots available. There's a registration table down in the lobby. I'm gonna invite you to that Friday at noon. But anyway, so that's Zacchaeus, he's a chief tax collector. The Bible says he's wealthy. Um, he was compromised though. He was compromised because he he was he was an Israelite, but he also worked for the Roman uh government. He he was a tax collector, and so he would take people's money to give to the Roman Empire, but he also would keep a little cut for himself. And the people knew this about tax collectors. It was what all tax collectors did. They they would skim off the top and still give what was due to Caesar. And um, what is amazing about that is because of that, that meant he was rejected. So he was rejected by the Romans because he was he was compromised, and he was rejected by the Israelites because he was compromised. So you might say that Zacchaeus was successful, but he didn't have peace. Always living, looking over his shoulder. That he had power and influence, but he didn't have any intimacy. And then you might say that he had wealth, but he had no worth. Everything he was doing, he was doing on his own. And Zacchaeus, like some of us, these two things could be true simultaneously. You can have it all and still have nothing. Or you could be really full but still feel empty, or you could be surrounded by a lot of people but still feel really alone. And so, even through all of that, something still stirred inside the heart of Zacchaeus. And I don't believe he climbed that tree to follow Jesus, I think he climbed the tree to figure who Jesus was. Like, who is this person coming down this street? I want to see. I'm curious, I want to know that. And Jesus always rewards curiosity, and I'm gonna get there soon enough, but let me just give you a spoiler alert. Jesus didn't go home that day with the most religious person, he went home with the most curious person. And let that sit for a minute. Because a lot of times we would think, well, we're the most religious, so that's who Jesus is looking for. He's looking for the one. He didn't come for the one who's healthy, he came for the one who needs a physician. So let's lean in. Ready? Number one, Jesus sees the curious or the one at a distance. You need to know that. Jesus sees the one at a distance. Luke 19, 5, the first part of that says when Jesus reached the spot where he was walking, where Zacchaeus was up in the tree, it says that Jesus looked up. And uh, I want to let you know that I think Zacchaeus was climbing a tree to see Jesus, but Jesus had seen Zacchaeus from a way down the road. He knew it. He knew he was going to see Zacchaeus. In fact, I I could even I I would even conjure, like, put this out to you that Jesus knew this encounter was gonna take place so well that he is the one who planted the fig tree there in the beginning. Like Jesus knew this moment's gonna happen, and for this moment to happen, there needs to be a tree. So I'm gonna put a tree there so that when Zacchaeus gets the desire and the curiosity stirred in him to see me, there's something for him to climb because if he tries to do it on his own, his stature, his ability, his own acceptance in this culture would not be enough to get him in front of Jesus. Well, I'm gonna put a tree there, and I wonder. I wonder what Jesus has put in your life that's waiting for you to get something stirred up in you, and then you'll really recognize, oh my God, Jesus put that there for me so that I could see him. You think your sickness is knocking you out, but it's actually driving you to the cross. You think the pain you carry is something that just that puts you out of out of the space, but it's actually setting you up. What's he put in your life? Jesus intended to pass through Jericho. No, that's that's the other note. Let me go back to this page. Zacchaeus was living to see Jesus, but Jesus had already seen Zacchaeus. And I would say this that that is attention right there, because I wonder if Zacchaeus he wanted to see Jesus, but I wonder if he really wanted Jesus to see him. And how many of us were like, we're content to see Jesus? I'm content to go to church on Sunday. I I kind of know the vibe. It's gonna be two good upbeat songs. We're gonna settle in a couple of songs. PC's gonna preach, or Pastor Matthew's gonna preach, and I can go home. It's gonna be about 11, 12, 15, and I'll be on my way. I know enough to see him, but I'm not sure if I want him to see me. Because if he sees me, he's gonna see the wreck that I am. He's gonna see where I'm at in my life, he's gonna see where I've been in my past. And if he's like most people, he's gonna judge me and move on to somebody more qualified. But Jesus doesn't just look and see the face, he sees a future. And he doesn't just see the past of Zach, he sees his potential. And so when Jesus looks down the road, he sees someone worth stopping for. You see, I think this God, God's looking for you. When he sees you, he doesn't see you like in your condition, although he's moved with compassion about your condition. He sees you through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. And what that means is he is setting up for you a beautiful story to be told where all things become beautiful in their time. But listen, he loves you too much to leave you where you are, to leave you what you are, or to leave you as you are. But he sees you. And it doesn't scare him away, no matter where you're at or what you're doing or how you are. It doesn't scare him. Now it scares us away. It scares us away because men. You know what? Sometimes we get in a spot where we're like, did you hear what that? Did you see that? Do you know that? That doesn't scare Jesus away. He looks for the unqualified. Number two, Jesus shifts his schedule. Luke 19. The second part of Luke 19, after Jesus looks up, he says to Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today. And this is where I said that wrong note a couple minutes ago, but Jesus intended just to pass through Jericho. He he intended, because first of all, we know we all know about Jericho, right? In the Old Testament, Jericho is where Joshua, we used to sing it as kids in Sunday school. Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down. And what's amazing to me is that really the plan is Jesus has to go through Jericho to get to Jerusalem. And by the way, when he gets to Jerusalem, it's gonna be that little day we call the triumph of entry, which is gonna be the holy week, which is gonna lead Jesus to the cross. So how many know Jesus is on a mission? There's a plan to be fulfilled, but he runs into Zacchaeus and he shifts his schedule. He didn't intend to stop in Jericho, but you know what? He's like, listen, I gotta prove a point. And I'm gonna shift my schedule because people matter more than plans. And I would tell you, there's probably two great two types of people in the room today. There's one group of people, and that group we're task-oriented, we're driven by getting stuff done, and then there's another group of people that are people-oriented, and people-oriented people are driven by relationship and connection and community and emotion and feelings, and parties, the celebrations. I think it's why Arshana and I get along so well because I am a I like to get stuff done, and I'm driven for that, but she is a people person and she is the life of the party. So together we get stuff done and have a lot of fun doing it. But here's the thing for people who are driven to get things done, they're task-oriented, sometimes people become an interruption. And for people who are people-oriented, sometimes the task seems overwhelming. But Jesus balanced both. As we should as well, to some degree. And so the tension is that we get stuff done, but we don't overlook the people in the middle of the project. We actually will pause our schedule for one. Can I just say something out of my notes? I told you about our story of moving from Houston to here to Planton Church. We are part of a great church in Houston. I'm still very close. I was with our pastor last week. Spent some time together, just had just great fellowship, great communion. We're still very close. We celebrate family together. We'll be on vacation together at the end of the summer again. We're so close. And if you ask me, in fact, somebody asked me in June of 2011, will you ever leave Houston? I said, I'll never leave. I'm a lifetime Texan. I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could. I'll never leave. First of all, Justin Bieber's right, never say never. But secondly, my plan was set. This is what I'm gonna do, this is the plan, this is where we'll retire, we'll all grow old in rocking chairs together. But God is moved by people more than he's moved by plans, and he shifted our schedule. And look at the beautiful results, and we're just getting started, we're just getting started. So I want to say that like sometimes our very own plans have to be moved a little bit because of people. We came for one, I'll tell you that. Pastor Brett, one of our other pastors, prayed over us. He said, if there's only one, it's worth it. But thank God, look, there's more than one in the house today. But you know what? There's still room for more. There's still room for one more. There's still it's still worth going out to find the one. It's still worth going to the well to speak to the woman. It's still worth going to the graveside to speak to the one who's been uh possessed. It's still worth it to find the one up in the tree. Man, I'm telling you, God, shift our schedule. Shift our schedule so that our plans and men, the Bible says the successful have a lot of counsel and well-made plans, but the Lord's plan always prevails, and the Lord's plan actually is people. All that to say, if you wonder about what kind of person you are driven to task for people, that's one of the things we cover in the freeway. We can help you discover your purpose. Share that personality profile, and then actually give you a survey of a spiritual gift assessment so that you know this is how the Holy Spirit has gifted me. This is the personality God has built me as, and this is how I can serve to make a difference. So Jesus sees the one in the distance, he shifted his schedule. And then he shaped life through closeness and proximity. Look at this. We read Luke 5. I'm gonna read Luke 19, 5. I'm gonna read it again. It says this when Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to Zacchaeus, Zacchaeus, first of all, he knew his name. Like, don't miss that powerful thing that he knows your name. And he knows where you're at. Remember, last week he might ask you what's your name. Not because he doesn't know it, because maybe you forgot. But today he calls Zacchaeus by name. And I and I wonder, because I think Zacchaeus was probably always answering to a label. There's that tax collector, there's that cheater. That dude's ruthless. Oh, yeah, he serves he serves another kingdom. Anyway, I I'm sorry, I'm preaching too long. When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today. So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. Zacchaeus came down at once and welcomed him gladly. And then verse 7. All the people saw this and began to mutter. He's gone to be the guest of a sinner. Can I just pause here? I'm not going to preach long about this. But I do want to just off of this verse this week, as I was studying, I want to just put this out there for all of us. Every church, we are a church of second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, twentieth, thirtieth, and hundredth chance. The only thing that makes you a righteous person is just the ability to get back up again when you fall. Isn't that what the Bible says? A man falls six times, but a righteous person gets up seven. So I just want to tell you like this is the part of scripture that kind of makes me want to be a pastor and step on some toes because all the people saw this and they grumbled that he was going to the house of a sinner. Let me just say, when you start to categorize yourself based off of your own works and your own righteousness and how good you are, and nobody else is that way, you're in trouble. And I'm not saying you gotta sit in a spot where you are a wretched sinner, woe is me. No, but listen, the ground around the cross is all level ground. You don't have to fix your life to come to the cross, you don't have to be better than anybody else to come to the cross. And honestly, if you puff yourself up, the Bible says pride goes before a fall. So in this house, a few things are true. Every member is a minister, every task is important, everyone is a ten in some area, but no one is better than anyone else. There is none, no there is none righteous, no, not one. Which means we all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory. And honestly, I don't know if we'll be able to be sinless, but we our goal is to sin less. Because the problem is the church is good at categorizing sin. And sin sometimes is listen, sin a lot of definition is what you do, but the biggest thing about sin is the gap between you and God, the distance. The distance. But we we like to categorize it in events, in actions. But can I tell you? The word tells us if we break one of the commandments, we've broken them all. So then, because of that, it is not my responsibility to judge you for the one you've broken when I've broken others. Furthermore, it's not like one is more egregious than the other in God's eyes. It's all sin. He hates it all. He hates it not because of the act, but because of the distance.

So stop catering, like stop trying to climb a ladder that makes no sense in the kingdom of God.

Grace Over Comparison And Judgement

Real Change Shows Up In Generosity

Come Down Today Altar Invitation

We're only righteous through the shed blood of Jesus. We have right standing and we're justified just as if I'd never done any of it through the blood of Jesus. So whether whether or not we've arrived, Paul wrote most of the New Testament and he's like, I'm telling you, I've not yet arrived, but I keep pressing towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of Jesus. I'm sorry, I'm preaching too long on this point, but you need to know this. So Zacchaeus, this is what I want to tell you. Zacchaeus responds. Look, look at what Zacchaeus does. He responds immediately, comes down immediately. He opens his home. He doesn't even he doesn't say, like, he doesn't have a cell phone to call or text ahead and say, hey, get the house ready. Jesus is coming over. He's like, come on, Jesus. And then he welcomes him personally at the table. Listen. If you're like, PC, we need to stop by the house today, I'd be like, it's not today. Because it's a Sunday. And on Sunday, it takes a little work to get out of the house. So there are some clothes spread out that I was trying to decide what to wear because Roshana's out of town this weekend and I have to work all this out on my own. And so I had to put together a lot just to get one. And the dogs are a little crazy on Sunday morning. There's probably dog toys all over. It's not ready. I saw this ad for Mother's Day, and they were asking the little kid, Who cleans the house at your house? And the little kid said, My mom. And she said, When does she clean the house? And she said, On Thursday. And they asked her, Well, why does your mom clean the house? And she said, Because the cleaning lady comes on Friday. Like, we can't overlook the fact that Zacchaeus just said, Come on, Jesus, come to my house. And how many of us, when it comes to the house of our heart, Jesus, the Bible says, Behold, I stand at the door and knock. And if anyone would hear me and let me in, I would come and dine with him. But we're like, Jesus, I hear you knocking, but there's things I gotta fix. I need to clean up my heart before you come in. And Jesus is like, No, I'm not looking for a spotless heart at this moment, I'm looking for a sincere one. He says, I'm not looking for perfection, I'm looking for permission. So, so what? I mean, so what do we do with that? So I'm asking you, can you respond immediately? Don't wait. In a minute, I'm gonna have an altar call, and I'm telling you, don't wait. You feel the tug in your heart right now, don't wait. Make space, invite, like, don't try to clean it all up, just make space for him today. You know, part of that is reading God's word and prayer time and being around God's people, and then welcome him personally into your life. How do you welcome Jesus personally into your life? Not only do you confess to be a follower of Jesus, but you actually bring Jesus into your daily life. Like, it shouldn't be a shock to your coworkers that you attend church on Sunday. Like, wait, you go to church? No. It should be like after they've done their whole bit about their weekend. You ever notice when they're great weekends, how exhausted they are from them? Oh, it's great. What'd you do? Oh, I'm a wreck. They and you're like, you know what? I had a great weekend. I went to church on Sunday. The power of the presence of God moved. My life has changed, I'll never be the same. God moved, He healed me, He freed me. I saw somebody else get healed. I'm in an experience of community. Like, welcome Jesus personally into your life. Man. Here's the thing. In verse 8, the Bible says Zacchaeus stands up and says, Based on this closeness with you, Jesus, that you would come to my house, that you would sit with me, and you gotta imagine Jesus like He broke down, he broke the bread. It's what Jesus does. He broke bread and revealed himself to Zacchaeus. And then at the end of that meal, Zacchaeus stands up. He says, Jesus, half of my possessions I'm gonna give to the poor. And if there's anybody I've cheated, I'm gonna pay them back four times more. What a release of generosity in his heart. I thought about this. What was once Zacchaeus' liability, the way he handled money, became Zacchaeus' availability in response and generosity to a relationship with Jesus. Meaning, meaning this. Jesus is not demanding a change in your life before you begin a relationship with him, but a real relationship will always produce real change. And the way it shows your response to the invitation is a change life. And I just I just want to let you know that there was a gap. Isn't it interesting? Here's Zacchaeus. I did some study, I didn't tell the first service this, but I did some study. Zacchaeus actually came PM from a Christian home, like a not a Christian home, but a religious home. Zacchaeus actually means that word translated means righteous. But he wasn't living it. So there was a gap. And and Zacchaeus even made the gap greater by running far ahead and climbing a tree, but Jesus closed the gap. And that's what he does, that's what he's done for you and me. The gap was sin, and he closed it on the cross. For you and for me. And see, listen, you don't have to put it all together and get it all right in this moment, but you know what you gotta do? You gotta come down. You gotta come down from that position in your tree. I want everybody to stand together. In a second, Julian's gonna come up and close the service. He's gonna encourage you to use the tap technology and all the chairs around you. In fact, if you're right there, just tap your phone to it right now. He's gonna encourage you to tap to get our connect card for this weekend. But I want to let you know, I feel like doing an old-fashioned close to a service, if that's okay. Uh I want to, I really want to compel you. It's closeness that creates the change. So I want to compel you, if you're here today, I think there's just a few ways to do this. Number one, if you've never confessed your belief in Jesus, I'm gonna invite you down to this altar to make that confession today. We don't normally do it when you come forward, but I feel something like right now you're in a tree, and Jesus is saying, Come down. And so I would I just want to encourage you to take a step. And the Bible says that if you confess Jesus before others, he'll confess you before his heavenly father. The second thing is maybe you have been in a position where you're like, I'm a follower of Jesus, but maybe there still feels to be a distance, and you want to grow your relationship with the Lord. If that's you, I want to I want to open this altar and I want you to come down and just have a moment where you just make a commitment. I'm not just gonna be called a follower, I'm actually gonna live close to you, Jesus. And then maybe some of you are like, I'm a follower of Jesus, but I I want to just, I really want to be used by the Lord to reach the people in my life. And I I'm just I'm gonna just say it's an old-fashioned altar call. If you've never confessed to Jesus, come on, take the first step. Come down. Come down. Don't be shy, just take the first step. If you if you're a follower, but you want to build your relationship, come on down. If you're somebody that's just like, you know what, I want to see my life transform. Come on down, look, they're coming. They're coming, come on, come on, keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, come on, go away, have the no way, help the door. Come on. Father, I thank you for every person for what you're doing. And I pray for every person who makes the decision to follow you today, who makes the decision to draw closer to you. God, that you bless them. I pray for our church family that we be the family that will help people take next steps along the journey from where we are to where God wants us. And we declare that in the mighty name of Jesus. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Come on, let's just worship for a minute.