Well, if you didn't close your Bible after church this morning, you're open to the right page, Revelation chapter three. We left off there this morning, we'll pick up there tonight. See folks coming in, a good crowd on a Sunday evening. And I don't know how many of you are faithful Sunday night people, but I will say that God did something the first Sunday night of resurrection that he didn't do on Sunday morning. I might preach that message while I'm here. It's called Sunday Night Church. And there's some amazing things that happened on the first resurrection Lord's Day, but they happened in the evening service, not the morning service. And those who don't come on the evening service miss some things. And the things they miss are good things. I have often said, most of us in this room, think of your dream car. I don't know if it's a Rolls Royce or a Lamborghini, but if you think of your dream car, well then why isn't it parked in the parking lot? Well, because you like the car, but you don't like the payments. And you know that's the way it is in the Christian life, if you break it down kind of in a mundane way. You know, we all like the blessings of God. But we have found out that the blessings of God are conditional. And we just don't like cost. Now, there's no cost to get saved. That cost has already been paid. Jesus paid it all. We just sang about it, His robes for mine. If you sang that song with us and really meditated on those words, you understand this amazing thing called eternal life that God made possible for us, and he has paid the price in full. There's nothing you can add to Calvary. There's nothing that you can add to what Jesus did to atone, and it's by him that we receive the atonement. There's nothing that you can do that would make the sacrifice of Christ any more valuable and any more precious. In fact, anything that you would do to seek to enhance it would actually devalue it. The atonement of Jesus Christ stands alone in the history of mankind as the absolute pinnacle of glory on this planet. And Jesus died for the sins of the world. He paid the price. He said it's finished. He didn't say it's half finished, or partly finished, or mostly finished. He said it's finished. And he bowed his head and gave up the ghost, and he rose again, and he ever liveth to make intercession for those who come to God by him. And he's able, that verse says, to save them to the uttermost. You don't have to do anything when God has taken care of the uttermost. But once you're saved, then you enter into the promises of the Christian life. And those promises are conditional. And if you want the Lamborghini, you have to make the payments. Now, I would prefer a Rolls Royce. But that's because I'm just not into sports cars. But I don't want the payments. A set of hubcaps for a Rolls Royce is about $4,000. I can't even afford the hubcaps. And you know, even if I could buy the hubcaps, they wouldn't do me much good just sitting in my garage. They kind of need wheels and chassis and everything else. No, you know, in the Christian life, we want ease and pleasure, and we're a pleasure-oriented culture. And in this message, I may make reference to what I call Western Christianity. I'm referring to the Christianity of the Western Hemisphere, and primarily what we call Christianity in the United States of America. And I'm going to narrow that down, and I'm going to give a message to this congregation tonight, because you're the people that can hear me. Revelation 3, and let's look at verse 14, and we'll read down through the end of the chapter. The third chapter of Revelation, the letter to the church of the Laodiceans. Let's look at it here. Verse 14, Revelation 3, and unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, These things saith the Amen. That's Jesus Christ. We see that title for him in 2 Corinthians 3 as well. These things sayeth the amen. The faithful and true witness. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the head of the church and he is a faithful and true witness to his people. The beginning of the creation of God. That doesn't mean he was the first thing created. No, he's the beginning of the creation. He began the creation. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. Here's what he says to this church. I know thy works. Pause right there for a moment, Plainfield Baptist Church. Does God know what you're doing? Does he know what this church is doing as a body? Does he know what the individual members of this church are doing? Of course he does. He knows our works, doesn't he? And then he says this, that thou art neither cold nor hot, I would there wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and that's where Western Christianity comes in. That's where the American dream of materialism has put God on the shelf. And you're gonna see it in this passage. He says, so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth, because thou sayest. Now we've read what God has to say, now he's gonna say, this is what the church has to say. Notice what the church said. Because thou sayest, I am rich. And increased with what? Not increased with joy, not increased with peace, not increased with righteousness, not increased with hope, not increased with love. No, goods. Do you remember the man in Luke's gospel who had so many crops that he couldn't possibly store them in the barns that he had? And what did he say? He said, I have goods for many years. I know what I'll do. I'll tear down my barns and build greater barns. What was he increased with? What was he enriched with? You know, the Corinthian epistle begins telling the Corinthian church they were enriched by him. Any true riches that you have, any true riches that I have are in the person of Jesus Christ. Recently, somebody said this to me. I didn't come up with this. I wish I had. You ever hear something and think, I wish I thought of that? This is one of them. Here's what this person said to me. No man is rich until he possesses things that money cannot buy. But here's this church, the church of the Laodiceans, and they say, I'm rich and increased with goods. And notice this, and have need. of...I don't need revival. I don't need God. I'm saved. What do I need God for? I'm going to heaven when I die. I don't need the Word of God. I mean, days go by that I don't read it. If you don't read the Bible every day, you're clearly testifying to no one else, to yourself, that you don't need it. I don't need prayer. If you go through day after day without a season of prayer, what you're basically saying is you don't need that. But God says, and knowest not that thou art, look at these five words, wretched, miserable, Poor, blind, naked. I want to ask you, what group of people normally is considered wretched? The lost or the saved? What normally would we think of? What group would we normally think of? The lost or the saved when we hear the word miserable? What about poor? What about blind? What about naked? Why does the Lord say that to a church when those are five adjectives normally attributed to unsaved people who don't have God? Then he says this, I counsel thee to buy of me. There's a proof right there that he's talking to Christians because you can't buy salvation. It's already bought. He said, I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the friar, that thou mayest be rich, and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thine nakedness do not appear, and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous, therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any men hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." Now let's pray for a moment. And then we'll look into this portion of Scripture. Heavenly Father, it is with a bit of fear and trembling that we would read these words. It is perhaps with a bit of self-evaluation that we read these words. And if nothing else happens other than that we reassess our lives and realize we really are Western Christians and do something about that, then this revival will have been more of a success than perhaps anyone imagined. I pray you'll do a mighty work in thy people tonight. And may Jesus Christ be glorified in all the results. Amen. I want you to see tonight, first, the rationale of these people, their reasoning. Look what they said. They said, we're rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing. That's the attitude of this church. That's the rationale of the church in verse 17. And it is so true that the United States is the wealthiest major nation in the world. If you go per capita, probably the nation of Brunei is the most wealthy nation in all the world. How many of you have been to Brunei? How many of you know where Brunei is, okay? It's a little emirate in the South Seas of the Pacific, and it covers a small area on the north side of Malaysia. And most everybody that lives there drives gold-plated Mercedes-Benzes and lives in palaces of 50 rooms. It's just an unbelievably wealthy nation. But as far as a major nation is concerned, the United States is the wealthiest nation in the world. We're rich. Even people who live below what the United States calls the poverty level are living in the top 3% of incomes per capita in the world. We're rich. We're increased with goods. Look at what we have. You know, drive up and down the road. You don't have to drive more than a few miles in any direction from this building before you find storage buildings. I'm not going to ask who has a storage building here because I don't want to, you know, be meddling with your life, but I'm called to preach not to meddle, right? Vance Havner used to say, the job of the evangelist is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. So maybe there's some comfortable people that need to be afflicted tonight. But, you know, storage. And we put things in there and, you know, people die and people are going through the world and they find out there's a storage bin that whoever it was didn't even remember that he had. I heard about a fellow that bought up an abandoned storage unit section and there were like 150 or 200 storage units and he bought up the whole thing and he was going through and cleaning them all out, getting them all spruced up and painted and ready and so on. And he opened one of them and there was just a small chest way, way in the back, almost invisible because it was dark in the storage unit. He went back there and it was locked. It was just a small chest. It was locked. He opened it up, got it open. It was his, because he bought the place. Inside was $4 million in cash. Yeah. Somebody left $4 million in a storage unit, didn't even know it was there. Now, I honestly think if I had $4 million, I'd probably know where it was. But this person had so much, he didn't even miss $4 million. You know, we're increased with goods in this country. We don't have push mowers anymore. We have ZTRs, don't we? And I mean even for lawns that are smaller than this auditorium. We don't have what other nations have. We have everything, the best and the finest and the brand name this and the brand name that. We as a culture are rich and increased with goods. And even though we wouldn't perhaps openly say it, we subconsciously have this idea we don't need anything. The American church, I'm going to narrow that down. Independent Baptists in the United States of America. We just don't think we need anything. That's the rationale. We have everything, so we don't need anything. But the problem is it's things that we have. It's things that we have. We're rich and increased with goods. And what that does, it deceives people. There is a deception that if I have things, God is automatically blessing me. So I don't need anything. I want to ask you something about the Apostle Paul. Was Paul close to God or far from God? And yet he had times of need. He writes about them in more than one place, specifically Philippians chapter 4. He had times when he suffered need and he said, I've learned both how to be abased and how to abound everywhere in all things I'm instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. And then he said this. I can do all things by myself. No, he said, I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me. Because Paul did have need of things. He needed God. He said, I didn't write this to you because I desire a gift. He said, I desire fruit that may abound to your account. His point was this, money will never mean that you don't need God. Things will never mean that you don't need God. Things and blessings and nice houses and nice cars and easy chairs and, excuse me, nice green lawns and maybe a cabin on the lake and a boat and a few other amenities and privileges and luxuries and all of those things does not ever translate over into the fact that I have need of nothing. even though it's very deceptive. So we see the rationale. But God gives the reality. He says that when we get like that, we become lukewarm. We're lukewarm. We're neither cold nor hot. We're not cold, we're not turning our back on God and we say, we don't wanna have anything to do with God, we don't need God, we don't like God, we don't love God, no, I'm not ever gonna go to church again, I'm not ever gonna carry a Bible again, and I'm not ever gonna tell anybody that Jesus saves. No, we're not cold, but we're not hot. We're not hot. We're not boiling. You know what he says here in the end of it? He says, as many as I love, verse nine, I rebuke and chasten, be zealous therefore. The word zealous comes from the root for the word hot in the previous verses. It means boiling, on fire. God said, I'd rather you be cold than be lukewarm, because if you're cold, you might come in out of the cold. But if you're lukewarm, if you're comfortable, you're not going to be stirred. You're not gonna say, hey, I need something. Because of the comforts. The reality, God said, is that they were neither cold nor hot. The reality was that made God sick. I don't wanna be uncouth here tonight. I'm not gonna use gross terminology, but he said, I'm gonna spew you out of my mouth. All of us have eaten something that didn't agree with us. We know what that verse is about. All of us perhaps have had the flu. We know what God is saying. It's not a pleasant experience. You know, when you're down there in front of the john, I call it the great white throne judgment. I count any winter when I don't get the flu a great season. Amen? I don't enjoy those experiences. But God says that kind of Christianity makes him sick. Anybody ever do something that make you sick? You're just like, oh. Does that make you wanna answer their prayers? Does that make you wanna do favors for them? Does that make you want to reach out? No. When people do things that make us irritated and sick, we want to avoid those people. We want to step back away from them. And God is saying, look, the reality, your rationale is that you're rich and increased with goods and you have need of nothing. But the reality is you're lukewarm. That's the proof of lukewarmness. And he says, that makes me sick. And it makes God sick because things have taken the place of God. I think we call that idolatry. When things become our comfort, when the Holy Spirit is supposed to be the comforter, when our richness and our increase with goods becomes the satisfaction of life, when God is to be our satisfaction, we're to be satisfied with Him. It becomes an idolatry. And so here's some more of the reality. He said, you don't know it. You know not. He said that church is a deceived church. You know not. What did James say? He told us, he cautioned us not to deceive ourselves. It's very easy to do. I've been deceived. Every person has been deceived at one point or another. It's easy to be deceived. The very meaning of the word deceived shows how easy it is. In other words, you present enough truth to make something look true and weave in enough lie so that it isn't true, but people believe it because of the amount of truth that is there. Guess what? They just got deceived. Deception is by its very nature and definition subtle, hard to detect, and we can be deceived. We can know not the real condition, and he goes on with the reality here that they're wretched. It's a wretched condition, dear church, when you go days and days and days without a real prayer time. What's a real prayer time? It's not three minutes. It's not three minutes. That's not a real prayer time. I understand there are moments when you have only a moment to pray, and you cry out, God help me! Because you need his help in an instant. But that's not the sum total of your prayer life. Jesus rose up a great while before day, and he went out into a mountain place, and there he prayed. There was another time he prayed all night. There was other times that he was, even though he was with the disciples, he was praying while they were talking. Our Lord had a prayer life. Our Lord was a person of prayer. The apostles were people of prayer. The prophets were men of prayer. David lived and wrote many, many, many of the Psalms, and many of those Psalms are nothing more than the intercessions of a holy soul to a great and mighty God in the midst of trials. I want to ask you, what was David's position? He was the king. He was rich. He was increased with goods. He had, if you read the amount of money that David left behind when he passed away, listen, you could combine the assets of all the people in this church, you wouldn't meet what David had when he passed away. David was very wealthy. Not as wealthy as his son Solomon, but he had enormous wealth at his disposal. But he understood the need not to trust his wealth. It is wretched when we abandon prayer, because we're rich and increased with goods, and we don't pray. We pray over our meals. We pray beside a hospital bed. We come to church on Wednesday night. We pick up the prayer requests, the prayer sheet, and we pray for the common time of prayer. What about your prayer life, dear Christian friend? We are wretched people when our Bibles get carried more than they get read. Do you understand what this book is? Just as Jesus is the living word, this is the written word. I tell people this is Jesus Christ on paper. Paul's prayer in Philippians 3, that I may know him. How are you going to do that? Right here. We are wretched people when we read a devotional in the morning that's half a page long that has one Bible verse at the top and somebody's commentary and a cute little story and a saying at the bottom of the page. We need to get into this book. The United States is biblically illiterate. I don't know how much time you spend in the Bible as individuals, I want to ask you a question. Do you spend even half as much time in the Bible as you do with your electronics? Keeping up with people on Facebook that you'll never meet? You're going to meet Jesus one day. You might want to keep up with him. Amen. We are wretched people when we replace church with fun activities. I'm not against fun. You know what? I'm having fun right now. Are you? Church is fun to me. I love the singing. I love thinking about the words that we sang tonight. It doesn't matter if it's a song written 400 years ago or four years ago, if it's a good song. And by the way, we had good songs here tonight. Well, thank God for your pastor and his discernment and his willingness to introduce good music regardless of its age. Amen? We are wretched people when church becomes an option. And yet, for many Western Christians, you say, well, we're here, preacher, what are you preaching to us for? Just to remind you, thank God you're here. I don't know if you came to hear the preacher from Indiana or if you're always here on a Sunday night. I hope you're always here. I hope you're always here on Wednesday night. I hope you'll be here Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night, unless you have to work. I understand the work schedule, but I hope you'll be here if you can be. You know, we're wretched people when we're gonna make payments on our new toys, but we can't tithe. Yeah, I can go on, folks. I've been a pastor for many, many years. I have the advantage of having many years of experience doing what this man has done and is doing, and let's say will do for many years to come. He's young. His whole life is ahead of him, unless the Lord comes. And if he comes, we don't need church anymore, amen? We're gonna have a great assembly in the presence of Jesus. I'm looking forward to that. Wretched, and then he says poor. I've already commented, or miserable, that's the thing. You know, I wanna go back through and rehearse some of these things. You know, I talk to a lot of Christians who say, Pastor, I can't remember the last time God answered a prayer for me, a real prayer. That doesn't make for happy Christianity. It makes for miserable Christianity. In fact, what it makes for is Christianity becomes a ritual and a lot of people just get disillusioned because, is he there or isn't he? Is he real or isn't he? I know people who say, Preacher, I just get discouraged reading the Bible. I just don't really understand it. And I want to go back and say this. If you read two verses a day, it's going to take you a long time to get through this book one time. You realize you can get through the Bible in a year if you read three chapters a day and four on Sunday, and you'll even have a few days to spare. Next year, you'll have one extra day because it's a leap year. You'll have one more day, you don't have to read the Bible, and you'll still get through it. Amen. No, you don't have to read a lot to get through this book in a year. You wouldn't have to read much to get through it in two years, or twice a year. Six chapters a day and eight on Sunday. It doesn't take that long. It's a great book. It's a good read. And you won't be disappointed in the things, and your life will be less wretched, amen. and poor, poor. Oh listen, we have money in the bank but we're poor spiritually in the United States today. We're losing members out of our churches and we're losing family members and we're losing people who started off well and they're ending poorly and we're wondering what is going on and the bottom line is we're rich and increased with goods. And God says no. You're miserable and poor and blind. We can't see. Peter talks about that blindness. He said to add to your faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. Things that you ought to add into your life after you're saved. And he said if you'll add them in, if you'll do these things, you'll be fruitful. You won't be barren, but you'll be fruitful. But he said if you don't do this, you will be blind spiritually. You'll even forget that you were purged from your old sins. Add to your faith. You know, it's possible for a believer to be blind to things and naked. Hebrews chapter 4 says we're all naked and open under the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. It's one thing for God to know your heart. It's quite another for you to become careless about your Christian life until your testimony is ruined and you're naked in front of everybody else. So the rationale of this church is the rationale of the American church, the Western church, the church of the United States in the 21st century. The reality is what God had to say about it. But I want you to notice the recommendation, or we could say the remedy, He said, verse 18, I have some counsel for you. I like this. He didn't say, I command thee. He didn't say, I command. He said, I counsel thee. I have a recommendation for the church, he said. A remedy. Here's what he said. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire. so that you really will be rich, that thou mayest be rich. That thou mayest be rich in white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear, and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mayest see. In other words, what he is saying is, my recommendation is you have a revival. My recommendation is that you throw your rationale out the window and see the reality. I do not know the individuals in this room. There may be some people in this room who love God first and most and best. You love Him with all your heart and soul and mind and strength. You love your neighbor as yourself. You're as faithful to God as you can possibly understand to be. It's very likely that in a church of this size, there are a number of faithful, godly people who love God and serve God and their hearts are sincere and they're quick to repent when they're wrong and they're quick to honor God in any given situation. They open their mouths with kindness and joy and peace, and they speak the word of God, and when they meet lost people, they tell them about Jesus, and when they meet saved people, they give them a promise from the word of God to encourage them. But it's just as possible that in a church this size, there's some lukewarm people. And you know what the Lord is saying? He's saying it's time for revival. I counsel thee. And I'll tell you why he's not commanding it. Because a revival that is forced is not a revival. You have to want it. Jesus said, if any man thirsts, let him come to me and drink. You have to be thirsty. You have to want it. You have to want God more than you already know him. or you will never know him more than you already know him. You have to want more fellowship. We just sang, draw me nearer. I didn't tell the pastor what I was preaching. He didn't tell me what we were singing. Oh, the pure delight of a single hour that bethore thy throne I spend when with thee, or when I kneel in prayer and with thee, my God, I commune as friend with friend. Draw me nearer. That's a revival song. We're so familiar with it, we're unconscious when we sing it. We've sung those words since we were this big. We were build ads. He was a shoe height, you know? Some of you will get that, you know, you'll wake up in the morning, it'll dawn, ah, it's coming now, all right. Like the lady in the back, she was fanning herself before church. I said, I wish I had a fan. Oh my. The remedy here, the recommendation is to have a revival, to get with God and get from Him the things that He can give. Listen, I would rather have the peace of God. Listen to me. I'd rather have the peace of God. than be the mayor of Grand Rapids. Amen? I'd rather have the peace of God than to be the president of the United States. Because I'm quite certain that if I were the president, I wouldn't have the peace of God. I would need it. But isn't peace valuable? Wouldn't you rather have hope than a bigger house? Now the God of hope, Paul's writing to the Roman church, to the believers, now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. Oh listen, hope is such a glorious and precious commodity. We need God in this day. We need to have a communion with Him that we know that we can stop what we're doing and drop on our knees and cry out to our Father, and He's gonna hear us. He's gonna hear us. And He's gonna act. Because we're His desperate children who need Him. We're not children who have need of nothing. We're desperate children who need Him. Somebody wrote the song day by day. And the story goes that another believer was singing that song one day and became aware of the fact that that's not enough. And that person wrote the song, I Need Thee Every Hour. And later on, somebody else was singing that song and think, that's not enough, and wrote the song moment by moment. Yeah, we need Him all the time. He said, I counsel thee, buy of me gold. Listen, buying has to do with what we earn with God, and we don't earn salvation. But I will tell you that when you get on your face before God and you humble yourself, He gives grace to the humble. I'd rather have grace than goods, because I need grace. And I need a lot of it. I need a lot of it. Notice the remedy. And this is where we'll close tonight. I didn't say how long the closing will be. I just said we'll close. He said, I stand at the door and knock, if any man, notice it's singular. You know what he's doing? He's talking to the church, but he realizes that not everybody in the church is going to respond. But there might be one. There might be two or three. If any man, hear my voice. What voice? What he's just said. If you'll hear what he says, Here's what he said. He said, I stand at the door and knock. If any man, hear my voice and open the door. Oh, listen, I will come in. This shows us something. It shows that Jesus is on the outside. Isn't he supposed to be in church? Why is he on the outside? Why is He knocking? Why doesn't He just walk in? He's the head of the church. He owns the place. He bought you and me. He owns us all. Why doesn't He just barge in? Because Jesus waits to be invited. He waited for you to invite Him in as Savior, and He will wait for you to invite Him in on every other score. He doesn't push His way into your life. He stands outside and knocks. And He said, if there's one man in this church, if there's one woman, maybe there's one couple, maybe there's one single woman, maybe there's one single man, maybe there's one teenage girl, one teenage boy, maybe there's one family. He says, you know what? We heard His voice tonight. We're going to open the door because we want more of Jesus. Not more of Jesus in salvation. I'm not talking about that. When you got saved, you got all there is of Jesus to save. I'm not preaching heresy here. I'm preaching revival. Paul said that I may know him. He wrote that 30 years after he got saved. He already knew him as Savior. He wanted to know him better. He said that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death. He wanted to know Jesus personally, powerfully, painfully if need be, and permanently. It's Philippians 3.10. The remedy is that you open the door and let him in. And he said, I'll come in, I'll sup. and you with me. In other words, we're gonna have sweet communion together. We're gonna have more than just a redemptive relationship. We're gonna have a sweet fellowship. I've been pastoring long enough to know that there are many couples who share an address and a last name and that's it. They sleep in separate rooms. There's nothing sweet about their marriage. I've lived in the ministry long enough to know that there are families that are shattered and scattered and broken and estranged and ruined. I've seen way too much of it. And I've been involved in church work. Since the day I got saved in 1974, 45 years ago last week. Last week was my spiritual birthday. Two weeks ago is my physical birthday. October is a great month. I got born and born again the same month. I've watched way too many churches lose the wonder of it all. Gypsy Smith preached all over England and all over the United States. And way up in his 80s, he made one final trip to the United States. And Al Smith, who wrote many of the songs probably in use in this church, he was known as Mr. Singspiration. And those of you that have been around Grand Rapids for a long time, you're familiar with the name Alfred B. Smith. Al Smith heard Gypsy Smith, no relation, just same last name, when Gypsy Smith was well into his 80s. He said, I heard you when I was a boy, and you still have the same zeal, and you still have the same joy, and you're still thrilled to be saved. What's your secret? And Gypsy Smith looked at him with that twinkle in his eye, that little mustache of his. He said, I've never lost the wonder of it all. That answer rang in Al Smith's head, and he wrote a song, and that's the title of it, and it's in your songbook. Once so aimlessly I wandered round the tangled paths of sin. That's in your songbook. And the chorus says, I've never lost the wonder of it all. Since the day that Jesus saved me and a whole new life he gave me, I have never lost the wonder of it all. That's revival. Open the door. Let him in. 10 times a day or 20. Welcome him into your thought life. Welcome him into your business life. Welcome him into your family life. Welcome him into your recreational life. Welcome the Lord Jesus into everything you do, whether therefore you eat or drink or whatsoever you do. Do all for the glory of God.