I know many of us are looking forward to Christmas and perhaps even some of us are looking forward to presents. Maybe there's something you've asked for, something you're hoping for. Maybe there's other aspects of it you're looking forward to. Having your family and your friends near. Maybe some certain foods. And we know, right, that if we love any of those gifts of Christmas too much. It's not right. We know that, right? It's idolatry. But the greatest gift, the first gift of Christmas, we could never think too much of. We could never hold an even high enough esteem. We could give all of our heart to this first gift, and it would be completely okay, for that first gift was God giving Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ. And I'm so thankful for that. I want to continue on this morning with a thought from last Sunday. Our theme is adoration. And we're talking about the transcendence and the imminence of our great God in the face of Jesus Christ. And this word has been on my heart and we're preparing ourselves for this Christmas season. We're looking forward to next Sunday and the choir sharing their program and it's It's my hope and prayer, as I hope it's all of yours, that it's not just about hearing a pretty show, but it's about worship. It's truly about worship, and I know that the Lord can do that, and I know that A lot of folks put a lot of time and effort into that and I believe that would be their heart too. Is that the Lord would be magnified. And when I drop words like this, these five dollar words, I think it's important to define them. And that word adore or adoration means to worship or honor as deity or as divine, to regard with loving admiration and devotion, to be fond of. That's what we're talking about with adoration. We're talking about the attention and the affection of the heart toward God. But not just saying toward God, but we're talking about a couple things about God that we're focusing on. First is the transcendence of our God. Transcending, meaning that He exceeds the usual limits. He surpasses all that we can think and understand. In fact, His being lies beyond our ability to comprehend. He is so much greater than us. In fact, His existence transcends the universe. Material existence. He is greater than all things. We focused on that last Sunday, His transcendence. But we're also talking about His eminence. Meaning the indwelling, the inherent, the closeness of the Lord so that He might be known and so that He might be experienced. And that's contrasted with His transcendence, which means He's bigger than we can know and yet He is imminent. He comes near and He can even indwell us. And that's what we're focusing on at Christmas time, right? As we think about what we're about to celebrate with the birth of Christ. It's really about the dawn of imminence. The passage we use to lay out this thought is in Isaiah 57 verse 15. It says, for thus saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy place." And right there again we see that transcendence. He's greater than all things. He inhabits time, not just space, but all time, all places, everywhere, every time, before time. And He's holy, separate, apart. He dwells in a high and holy place, but also, he says, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit. To revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite one, so the Lord says, just as much as I live in that holy place, I am right there with the one who is humbled and broken. I am near. I am near. They can know me, experience me. I can help them right there in the midst of that. And I want us to pray together today before we go further this morning. Father God, I thank you so much for this opportunity to come and worship you, Lord. I thank you for what you mean to me, Lord. I thank you for the ways that you've come near and that you've helped me this week, Lord, and made your presence so real. And you are worth everything and more, Lord, that we could ever give you. May God, we ask again, for I know it's according to your purpose, Lord, to be with your church today. I know it's according to your purpose, Lord, to guide all that's said and done here, Lord. We want to magnify the name of your son, Jesus, and I pray for your help and your strength, Lord. I pray for the message. I pray for you to guide my thoughts, Lord. I pray that I'd say what I should, not say what I shouldn't. I pray, Lord, The hearts on the other end of this message, the ears, Lord, would be open today, and that you would bring in exactly the things that need to be heard, Lord, and just make them echo and reverberate in the hearts, Lord, whether it's for your people, Lord, for our hearts to be moved, to rejoice in who you are, God, and to be strengthened in that, Lord, or whether it's for the lost who do not know you, God, who live apart from you, maybe know about you, but they don't really know you, God. I pray that you would be near to them today, Lord, in such a way that they cannot escape. God, I thank you for your spirit, Lord, for it is your spirit that continues to bring you near. And I pray, God, today that you might manifest that in a great way in this place. Be with all aspects of all that we do, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Christmas celebrates eminence. We're celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And as I mentioned last week, to really get what a miracle that is, it's such a huge deal. To understand the miracle of His eminence, we have to get our mind a bit to consider His transcendence. Because that's what makes it so special. There are babies born into this world Hourly. Minute by minute probably. Worldwide. Babies born. It's a normal thing. It's a wonderful thing. But it's not something that's so extravagantly special that we would stop and pause and celebrate a whole season over it. Although I know some of you like to have birthday months, right? Not just a birthday. But this is a birthday that has forever changed time. In fact, we tell time by this birth. B.C., before Christ, A.D., after death, His coming, His significance coming to this world has changed the course of human history. And what makes the birth of this child so special is because of who He is, because He is the transcendent God born into human flesh. Last Sunday we tried to focus on transcendence. We looked at Psalm 97, that kingly psalm. It talks about His transcendent reign. He reigns over everything in the universe. His transcendent glory. His transcendent righteousness. His transcendent justice and His presence. And we talked about the way it should impact our worship and our holiness personally and our hope. Having such a transcendent God. And we can't understand how great He is in all of those areas, yet we can read about that, we can know a little bit about that. The best is yet to be told, I believe. But if you want to read along with me this morning, I want to read here in the Gospel of John, chapter 1. And I want to focus in today on Jesus the transcendent, Jesus the imminent. Jesus the transcendent and Jesus the imminent. And I wanna make sure that we understand that all of these attributes of transcendence are not just found in the Father, they're found equally in the Son. And John's gospel does a wonderful job of starting us off, anchoring us in that truth, that Jesus Christ, the Son, is every bit as transcendent as the Father. And yet we'll see as we go on, He is imminent in a very special way. So let's start our reading here in John chapter 1 verse 1. It says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same, meaning the Word, was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, And without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. I love the way John writes, and it also befuddles me. Because John writes in very simplistic terms. If you learn New Testament Greek, and you start to interpret from the original language, they usually tell you to start with John. Because John's easy to interpret. Very simple, not like Paul with these huge run-on sentences. He's very simple in his language. But you can't read John 1, 1 through 5 and just go, okay, I get it. Because even though he writes so simply, There is so much, so much in just those five verses that I read. He uses simple words. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was God. The Word was with God. The Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. I mean, that's low-level elementary school reading, right? But the meaning behind those words is transcendent, amen? It's absolutely transcendent. Just think about this. Let's just meditate on this for a few moments before we go further. In the beginning was the Word. Now, who is the Word? Jesus, amen. Jesus is the Word. This is talking about Jesus. So in the beginning was the Word. It doesn't say in the beginning the Word was created. No, He was in the beginning. He is timeless, just like that passage we read in Isaiah 57, which says, He inhabits eternity. Speaking of God, this is the same God, and manifests in the presence of His Son. In the beginning, Christ, He has always been. He is transcendent, inhabiting every place, every time, before anything was, He was. And not just that He was, but He was with God. He was with God. This is speaking of the concept of the Trinity. Right here, out of the gate, John ascribes full divinity to Jesus Christ. And said, He was with God. In fact, it goes on and says, He was God. Now, if you understand the Trinity, you're dismissed. You can go ahead and leave. Because I cannot, I mean, I can tell you about it. I can talk, I can drop the word Trinity. I can say they're three persons, the same God. I can use those words to describe it, but I don't understand it. I mean, this is the very being and nature of God. So it's beyond our comprehension. And he just goes on and he says, he was God, the same was in the beginning with God. And so he just lays it all out. There's no question left about the identity of Jesus, fully God. He goes on and John says, all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. He is the creator of every category of thing apart from Himself. The full angelic realm, the earth, all the planets. the stars, the entirety of the universe, the space-time continuum, everything that has life, the trees, the grass, the flowers, the birds, the squirrels, the ducks right now, right? The deer, everything, and not just all those things, but us too. There is nothing that has existence that did not come through the hands and the mind of Jesus Christ. He is the creator of all things and therefore being the creator of every category of life, He is above and beyond everything that exists. Because every other thing is derived from Him. He was derived from nothing. In the beginning was the Word. And He's fully God. In this Jesus Christ is somebody who is other than anything else you can think or see or even imagine in your mind because we're all created and He wasn't. He can make life. He can make things from nothing. We don't know anything that can do that. The best we can do is repurpose stuff. We can't create things. And so we understand that Jesus is altogether other from us. It goes on in this passage, it says, in him was life. In him was life. He is the author of life. And here I believe it's focusing us in on human life. We're unique about everything else in the universe, everything else in creation in this world. We know that there is a degree of life that exists in the birds and the animals and things like that, but we're altogether different from them, aren't we? We're image bearers of God. That's what makes human life special, sacred, something worth protecting, a soul that's worth saving, somebody that needs to hear the gospel because they're gonna have an eternal existence. You're gonna exist somewhere forever and ever. That eternal existence, even eternity inscribed upon your own heart, you know where that came from? It came from God. God is what made you unique. I don't think dogs and cats sit around thinking about eternity and what happens after they die. But we do things like that, right? because we're different. And my friends, Jesus Christ is the author of that. He is the author, the originator of life, and because He is the originator of life, understand, because this is a super supreme gospel point, because He is the author of life, His death can pay the price for the sins of all mankind. Nobody else could do it. Even if you were perfect, Even if you were perfect, like Jesus was perfect, you still couldn't die for the sins of all mankind. He can uniquely do it because every life has come from Him. You see that? You understand? That's an important point. That's why His death was so special. And it's not just that He has life and can give human life to us, but it says This life was the light of men. I spent some time thinking about that and meditating on what does that mean when he says that life was the light of men. When you think about the word light in the Bible, we understand that there's something with a moral quality to it, a goodness. a righteousness, a purity, right? We talk about light in scripture. Jesus is the light of the world. It's not talking about these things hanging off the ceiling that are helping us to see. It's talking about something moral, something right and pure and true in a place that otherwise is dark. It tells us that the life of Christ is the light of men. We understand from that that Jesus gives us more than breath. He gives us truth. He gives us hope. He gives us the possibility of peace. Because there is an existence that we can have that is apart from light, isn't there? You know where I'm going? There is an existence that we, as image bearers of God, can have that is apart from light, but yet filled with darkness. Do you believe that there is a place called hell, made for the devil and his angels, where those who reject Christ exist forever? Amen? Exist forever. but apart from life, apart from light, apart from hope, apart from truth, apart from the possibility of peace with God. We can exist apart from the light. But Jesus comes to not only bring us life, but to also bring us light, amen? In fact, in Jude, verse 6, it describes hell as a place of everlasting darkness. This last verse here, verse 5, I want to look at before we go on. It says, the light shines in darkness. It's that same word, that same light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. I want to define our terms. Darkness In Scripture here, what does that refer to? If light has this moral principle to it, what is darkness? Immoral. Sin. Corruption. And destruction. And death. That is the darkness, whereas Christ, Jesus, is the light. He's the truth. He's what's right and pure. It says the darkness, the light, shined in darkness. Christ Jesus came and He did what He did. And He shined in the midst of sin and corruption and destruction and death and all of those things. And it says that the death could not, the darkness could not comprehend it. Now, if you're reading the King James, when I think about comprehending something, I think about I understand it. It means more than that. The word comprehend means to have mastery of something. Okay? I know some of you just finished your finals, or are finishing them soon, and hopefully your grade demonstrated that you gained mastery of the subject. That requires a lot of work, doesn't it? But the idea here is the darkness, the sin and the corruption and the destruction and death could not gain mastery, could not overcome the light of Jesus Christ. And that's exactly what we get to celebrate here in a few months at Easter, right? Because when He took upon Him all the sins of the world, and He went to that cross, you know, God decorated that tree as the brethren just sang about, and Sister Lisa too, I don't want to leave her out. As they just sang about, and God decorated the tree on that old rugged cross with the emblem of sin and shame, and He went to the grave. Three days later, He rose victorious. The darkness could not gain mastery over the light of Jesus Christ. He is absolutely transcendent. Those who got to go to Bethel's Renaissance program last week, one of the last songs that they sang there was wonderful. What a beautiful name. Listen to this line. Death could not hold you. The veil tore before you. You silenced the boast of sin and grave. The heavens are roaring the praise of your glory for you are raised to life again. Behold the transcendence of our God in the face of Jesus Christ. But He's also Jesus the imminent. He's transcendent and could not be conquered by everything that Satan threw at him. but He is also imminent, He is near. Here in John's gospel, we're gonna skip down a few verses and start in verse 14. And the Word was made flesh. The Word, God, the Word was God, the Word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. The Word here was, He was made flesh and He dwelt among us and we beheld His glory. the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and he cried out, saying, This was he of whom I spake. He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me. and of his fullness have all we received, and grace upon grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Jesus, the eminent, Jesus, the one who brought God to us that we might see and know what otherwise is beyond our comprehension. It says in this first part here, the word was made flesh. Everything that we said about Jesus remains completely true in His incarnation. He is still a transcendent God when He was born of the Virgin Mary. He had to temporarily lay aside His glory and some natural attributes, I think, but He did not change who He was. And yet he came into the womb of that woman, conceived of the Holy Spirit, to that time and the fullness of time when he was born in very natural and very humble circumstances there in that manger in Bethlehem, to Mary and to her husband Joseph. The Word was made flesh, the shepherds came and worshiped, the wise men eventually came as well, the angels sang and rejoiced in the heavens and Mary wondered what in the world has just happened? What does all of this mean? We read and we see here in this passage, it says, he was made flesh and he dwelt among us. That word dwelt, underline it in your Bible, it's a special word, it means tabernacled. Tabernacled. And it's such an important word because it takes us back to the Old Testament. It takes us back to what we read in Psalm 97 last week, where it talks about our God dwelling in thick darkness of clouds. Now remember I asked the question, how is it that God who dwells in unapproachable light, dwells in a thick darkness of clouds? And the answer is, that's how God can be among men. Because God, in the fullness of His glory, in the fullness of His splendor, we can't handle it. We can't stand to be in His presence in the fullness of that. And so when God has come among us, like at the top of Mount Sinai, there were clouds and there were thick darkness around His presence at the top of the mountain. But when Moses went up there, you know, into the clouds, into the darkness, it says, when He came down, His face, what? It shone. It's shown with the light. And God on that mountain gave Moses the plans for a tabernacle. a special place in the tent of meeting where God's presence would come down and dwell in the holy of holy place at the very center of that tabernacle. And then there was the holy place outside of that. And then there was a courtyard and all of those things were covered up by tents. So you knew that God was in the holy of holies and even the high priest just went in once a year to sprinkle the blood. I mean, it was a place people didn't go. but there God's presence dwelt inside the tent. And everybody else was outside the tent, but God's presence dwelt inside the tent, above the cherubim, above the Ark of the Covenant. And it tells us that when Jesus came to this earth, He dwelt, He tabernacled among us. He came in human form, and within that human form of Christ contained the fullness of the transcendent God. He hid, veiled in flesh, that God had seen. Y'all just sang that a little bit ago, didn't you? We sang that song, Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Veiled in flesh that God had seen. Hail the incarnate deity. Despite the veil of the flesh, the darkness surrounding who he truly was, there were some who could see his glory peeking through. Even at his birth, Simeon and Anna came to see the child and rejoiced, right? There was that great declaration there on the coast of Caesarea Philippi where Jesus asked his disciples, who do men say that I am? Who do you say that I am? And Peter made that great declaration. You are the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus said, blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to thee, but my Father in heaven. And it wasn't too long after that that he took him up on top of the Mount of Transfiguration with James and John, and there Jesus Christ laid aside the veil for just a little bit, and the fullness of his glory shone, and they had to get down on their face because of it. Veiled in flesh, He dwelt among us. And John was the herald of this revelation of the eternal King of Kings. He was the one who got to go and speak about the One who existed in the beginning was the Word, right? He existed before I did. Even though John was older on human time scale by a few months, John said, He existed before I ever did. And he got to herald this one that would come in verse 16. It tells us that of His fullness have all we received. And grace upon grace. Everybody in this place, even if you're lost, even if you don't know Christ. You have received of His blessing. Your life has come from Him. You owe Him your life. You owe Him your existence. You owe Him your blessings and opportunities that He's given to you, even the cry of the gospel today. you owe to His love. But my friends, if you're saved, you have truly received of His fullness, haven't you? And grace upon grace, blessing upon blessing. You know what I'm talking about when it comes to Christ. We move on down here to verse 17. It says, For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John points us back to the Old Testament. We have the law. In that law was the tabernacle, and the temple, and all the different things, the rules, the commandments, the sacrifices. And it was there in that Old Testament revelation when the Lord first came to Moses in that burning bush. And Moses came to the bush to see what was going on. And what did the Lord tell him? He said, Moses take your shoes off. Right? Drop your shoes. Don't worry, I'm gonna keep mine on. I think you get the point. You're on holy ground. You're on holy ground, Moses. And right there with that revelation coming to Moses and all the things that would proceed from at Sinai, we talked about the tabernacle, we talked about what God revealed, and these people learned so much about the greatness and the holiness of this God, right? Who dwelt in unapproachable light, and He was worshipped at the tabernacle, He was later worshipped at the temple, and that's where God was, and they learned so much about Him. Well, the law came by Moses, but Jesus gave us something more, didn't he? And it's not, it's not negating what Moses said. But his eminence, the nearness of Christ revealed even more of God's glory. Because what truly what Jesus does is that Jesus brings the transcendent God near to us. Jesus is the one who makes it possible for us little finite people, sinful people, unholy people. Jesus makes the way for us to be able to come to know, to start to comprehend a bit more truly about, to come into the presence of. this transcendent holy God. That's what this Jesus does. The law came by Moses, but grace and truth come through Jesus Christ. You think about the truth of the example of his life. We just preached on this a week or two ago, and it always amazes me. It always humbles me because I'm not this guy. But Jesus, after healing so many people, doing so many things on the west side of Galilee, tells his disciples, let's go away to a quiet place, and they go across the Sea of Galilee. But word gets out, and there are probably, it says 5,000 men, but there's more people than that, because there were women and children, because there was the boy with the loaves and fishes, right? There may have been 10, 15, 20,000 people waiting when they were trying to get away and have some quiet time, because they were so busy. And Jesus, when he gets to the other side, I would be like, let's go back. But Jesus goes and he sees all those people and he has compassion on them. And he starts to heal them. He starts to teach them. He tells his disciples to feed them. He sits them all down and he feeds all of those people. And then when it's all done and he's taken care of all of those needs, he sends them away and the apostles. Then he goes up into the mountain to pray. Think about that example of just selflessness. Something about the giving of God that we just can't perceive when we read about those things, but yet when He comes to earth and He lives in this human body, He somehow makes it tangible and real in a way that we can start to get a little bit better. about His compassion, or the truth of His teachings. Right? This is Holy Word. This is Holy Writ that we're talking about here. We can toss around the, in the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God. We can think about stuff like that and realize there's no bottom to this, is there? There's no bottom to this. That's exactly the type of thing Jesus did when He taught, when He spoke. And the wisdom, the wisdom, I just, and it's never ending. I just think about this all the time. When you take God's Word in your heart, and you learn it, and you try it, and you don't understand it all, but you try to take it into your heart and try to memorize and hold on to these truths. And those times when you really start to cry out to God in times of need, My friends, His Spirit will just take that truth and just start opening it up to you. And just start showing you and start revealing it to you in powerful ways and telling you what to do. It's simply the teachings of Christ. It's simply the truth of the Word. And here is the Word of our eternal God. And through Christ we have all of these things given to us. There's no bottom to it. Such truth in human flesh conveyed. And grace, grace and truth. The whole picture of Jesus coming and you think about being born in that stable and stepping down from the thrones of glory, you know, to come down here in our mess and walk as a man and go hungry and get tired and get hurt and face all the different things and have to meet all of these needs and all the stuff that he went through. I mean, that condescending and experiencing our sickness and our sin It tells us in Hebrews, for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Unfathomable compassion, but yet is coming. The fact that He came somehow helps us get a bit more of an understanding, doesn't it? I mean, to think about what that means about the compassion of God. You can say somebody's compassionate, but you see it in what Jesus has done. And of course, that greatest act of compassion, that greatest act of grace, the sacrifice of love, both the Father and the Son. The Father giving the Son, the Son willingly going You see that drawing near, it didn't diminish his glory, did it? It made it shine even more brightly. Drawing near did not diminish his glory even though he humbled himself so far. It made it shine that much more brightly that we human finite sinful people could start to grasp the transcendence of who this God is. And not just start to grasp in our minds that Christ came to make a way that we might actually know this God. And our occupation of eternity will to be in a live in a place where transcendence and eminence are both perfectly married for we get to be there in his presence with a transcendent God. and He will always be transcendent. Finally, verse 18, no man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. The Garden of Eden, we were cast out. Sinai God was up on the mountain and He was distant, but He was glorious, but He was distant. We couldn't touch the mountain. Then He put a tabernacle in the midst of the people. But it just meant that He was there and we could worship at a distance. And then the temple, right? But now, Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us. And the coming of Jesus was the dawn of the age of eminence. A dawn of a new age of the nearness and God expressing himself to us in such a way that he might be in our very midst. As Jesus told the woman at the well, when they argued about where to worship, Jesus said, look, there's a day coming when the where's not gonna matter. All that's gonna matter is the how. The spirit and truth. And when Jesus died on that cross, sure enough, the veil was torn in two. Jesus told his disciples, if a man loves me, he'll keep my words and my father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. You've been saved, you got the transcendent God dwelling in your heart. And he even created the church And he sent forth this organization to scatter throughout the world, to take the gospel to the remotest parts of the world, and to set up churches of people who had the transcendent God indwelling them so that when they might come together as a people, just like we are this morning. that we might be able to come together and experience and realize the presence, the eminence of our God in a special way as we worship in this place because of what he's done. You understand that what happened with the coming of Christ, that our model and what we get to enjoy of the nearness of God, I don't want us to take it for granted. Because it is so special and it is so precious and the birth of Christ through Jesus Christ, the transcendent becomes imminent and the unknowable can be known. And that's the gospel, isn't it? That's the gospel. You've not been saved. There is a separation between you and God and you can know all sorts of facts you want to about God. But there is an infinite distance between you and Him. And if you die in that state, that separation and the reality of that separation will be eternal and more clear and apparent than you've ever experienced it. but through Christ has been a way paved, a way made that you might come to know this transcendent God through humbling yourself and seeking His face and turning to Him, seeking Him until you find Him. And when that God comes to dwell in you, it may not be fireworks and lights and sparks, but there is a difference when you really get saved. if God's Spirit comes to live inside you. He takes the burden of sin and He gives you peace. He gives you His presence and His Spirit will begin to bear witness with your spirit that you are His. You are His child. It's like a glorious sunrise. Mary and I, a couple mornings ago, maybe it was yesterday, we were both up early and the sun was coming up and looking out the windows and it was just on fire. It was just this purplish, reddish, gorgeous thing. It just kind of took us both by surprise when we saw it. And I could tell you all about it, but you got to see it for yourself. You gotta see it for yourself. And that's what Jesus does. That's who Jesus is. And as we close this morning, I want us to have a song of invitation. And I wanna ask you today whether you know him. I wanna ask you today whether God is near to you through Christ or whether he feels a million miles away. I wanna ask you whether you got peace with this God, the Prince of Peace. And Jesus has made you to know not just life, that you have breath, that you exist, but he's made you to know the light, that you've come to see the light, that you've been cleansed by the light. Or whether you feel the darkness upon your soul, and you feel the separation. And you feel the weight of the sin and all the things of the world. And my friends, I tell you, there is peace in Christ. That is the surest evidence of someone coming to know Christ is that He will take away that burden of sin. And He'll give you peace. His Spirit's not gonna continue to convict you if that sin's under the blood. We have a place up here, but quite frankly, there's places all over the place because we have a transcendent God and He is all places at all times. And my hope and prayer is even as I stand up here that God's working back there where you're at. And He's dealing with your soul in some way. And if He's doing that today, would you bow the knee to Christ? Would you seek Him? We'll pray for you. I'll pray with you. But I can't do it and no one else here can either. But He stands ready to save all who would seek Him with all their hearts. Seek Him till you find Him as we stand and sing.