All right, let's jump in the Word then, jump in the Word. Anybody got anything? Any question on what you've been reading? You're in some good stuff. I'm talking about some good stuff now. We have in our Corinthians, I have Corinthians bunched together in my teaching online, and it's right at 100 messages out of Corinthians. Now, it's more than that, that other series and other messages that tie together with Corinthians, but just in the Corinthians alone, we're right at 100 messages on there, and pretty much everything that can be covered is just about covered in those truths. This is just a reiteration of what you said this morning. In 7.13, talking about Titus, the story of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. The only way it could be refreshed was because his spirit was alive. See, if your spirit's dead, it won't Well, you're right, it can. That's one dynamic for sure, that there is no refreshing that comes. And even if you're backslidden, you can be refreshed temporarily, but it leaves quickly. You take, for an example, in that study we talked about Wednesday night with Saul. Remember when Saul was around an anointed person, David blessed him. He refreshed him. But when David left and he wasn't with him, that bad spirit came on him. But when David would come and sing for him and play for him, he'd be revived. But when David wasn't around him or anointed people wasn't around him, people that were refreshing him, he'd get in that downcast spirit. And he'd get in that place where he was just in blah. And that's an indicator that my heart's not right with the Lord. I only find refreshing when I'm around people who are right with the Lord. I want to be a place that I don't have to be around people to be refreshed by the Lord. But when I am with God's people, they refresh me as well. And I could be a refreshing to them. And that's where you want to live. And that's why he says, and we, we jumped over back in first Corinthians 16 in verse 18, he said that note, those who refresh you, note, those who are refreshing blessing to you. Those are people that fear the Lord and walk with God. God's hands upon them and they are a refreshing blessing when you're around them. And you can't always be around them. because now you've been sent into a place to be a refreshment to other people and you can't revive a dead person unless God gives him life, that's for sure. But yes, yes, those things help us. They go back to chapter one, go back to chapter one of 2 Corinthians, because Paul has already brought this out and he keeps bringing it out of how God comforts us. That comfort always comes through others who have been comforted by God. Titus was comforted by the actions and the belief of the people at Corinth. Paul was comforted by Titus and by the message that came back from them. And they were comforted in the work that they were doing. That's the thing. God uses his people to comfort us in the work, in the work that he's given us to do. And the work can be tough. The work can be hard. And you need refreshing in that work. So, but you wanna be in the work. That's where he said at the close, remember this morning we showed that where he said, be watchful and stand fast in the faith, be alert, be strong. The only way to deal with the enemy is you gotta be steadfast in the faith. You gotta be standing with the Lord. You can't be out rogue doing your thing and expect God to help you with the enemy. That's not how that works. You gotta be, in what God's given you to do. You got to abide under his wings. You know, it's that safe place, that secret place. But chapter 1 verse 3, he said, blessed be the Lord, the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of mercies and the God of what? So God was involved in that comfort of Titus. One, he was working with Titus but he's working through the people and they were a mutual comfort to one another and that just flowed over. Paul said we can't get over the fact of just how joyous Titus is regarding you. You comforted in him. Verse number four, who comforts us in some of our tribulation. Is that what it said? No, in all our tribulation That we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of trouble. That's the idea. You don't have to be in the same kind of trouble that somebody else is to be a comfort to them. You want to remember that you don't have to walk in their shoes to be a comfort to them. You don't have to experience exactly the same thing they're going through. Where's the common comfort come from? That's in the Lord. That's what he's doing regardless of what they may be involved in or what you were involved in, where the blessing comes is God's comfort in your life that come through his people, that come through light from him, revelation from him. You share that and that's gonna be an aid or comfort to them in wherever they are. So we want to get that mindset that that's a worldly way of thinking you cannot help me unless you went down the same road I went down that's for the world It works out of way, but not for us We deal with a whole nother dynamic we can help anybody at any time in any way when God's involved in it and he's involved in helping us through what we went through now, can I relate to To people in that situation, when I've gone through it, of course I can relate. But what's more important, can I relate to God's comfort in a situation than can I relate to you in your trouble? That's what's more important. Because just because I went through what you went through and we've seen the same things as we went through it, doesn't mean that that's comfort from the Lord. Doesn't mean that. You just helping me with something that I went through, but I went through it in a normal, natural way. You can relate to me, but you can't help me with something from God on this. And that's the kind of comfort that he's talking about there. Why? Notice what the next verse says. Verse five, for as the suffering, of Christ. Now see, we connecting this idea of trouble with the sufferings that Christ walked through. It's connecting the trouble to him. He says, abound in us so our comfort, the word consolation is the same word comfort. Instead of using comfort a thousand times or five times in here, he uses comfort and consolation. in the English, how they transliterate. It's saying the same thing though. For the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our comfort also abounds, what? Through Christ or by Him. Now, if we are troubled, afflicted, same way with the word afflicted, the same word trouble, it is for your comfort and what? Salvation. Not eternal salvation, you're already saved. We're talking about deliverance here. Things that go along with salvation. Just because the word salvation is brought to light, we're not always, you gotta look at, okay, who's his audience? What is the setting that he's talking about? Salvation includes more than you just being saved. It includes a lifestyle. It includes the work of grace in your life. It includes the presence of God in your life. It's the whole picture of salvation. The whole thing that he's working out through us. So it's the idea of deliverance, that deliverance. He's delivering me through this. He's delivering me through it. So let's read that one more time, verse six. Now, if we are troubled, afflicted, it is for your consolation and deliverance, which is effective for enduring the same sufferance, which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort and your what? Deliverance. He's saying everything God does in the believer's life is to be a blessing to believers. If you're troubled. It's so that God can comfort you and you be a blessing to people in the delivering work of God. If he's delivering you with comfort, it's so that you could be a blessing to people in the comforting, delivering work. of the Lord. So when he refers to it, when you see him talking to a group of believers as he is, he's referring to the fact that this salvation is not the first time somebody's been saved. He's talking about it's God bringing his presence and his purposes and his ways into your life on a consistent, steady basis. Why? Because I have been saved. I'm being saved and I will be saved. That's how God's salvation works. I've been saved from everything in the past but God's daily has to deliver me in this salvation one from me. I'm my biggest trouble that he's got to deliver me from me. Then he's got to deliver me from a world that wants to mislead me. And he's got to deliver me from an enemy that wants me to operate in terror and be afraid of everything. He wants me to lean in on my flesh and trust my natural instincts on things rather than trusting the Lord. I need to be delivered. I need to be delivered on a regular daily basis. For an example, one of the clearest, I believe, evidences of this is in the opposite side of those that don't have any kind of salvation. He says it is identifiable in them that there's nothing associated with salvation upon their life. You couldn't say that I see Jesus in this, and I see Jesus in that, and I see Jesus doing this in their life. Why? Because they don't have anything from Jesus. And the evidence would be, as he would say in the word, is that as a way of life, they don't seek the Lord. See, I've got to be delivered consistently. My mind has to be renewed. Let's use that term right there. Let's use it like this. What does the scripture say in Romans 12, 1 and 2? I beseech you therefore, brethren, what? Present your bodies unto the Lord as what? Living sacrifices, holy and acceptable. That's saying it's based on grace. Don't be conformed to the world. See, I've got to be delivered from the world. I don't need the world squeezing me out and shaping me in its ways of doing things. I need to be what? Transformed by the Okay, this is the kind of salvation. That is the daily saving, sanctifying work of God in your life, giving you a new mindset on how you look at everything. His fresh presence in your life so that you can what? Prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will. That's the salvation that he's referring to. God comforts us so that we can comfort and bring his deliverance in the people's lives. God troubles us so that we can be comforted and deliver people. No matter how you look at it, comfort and deliverance is the work we're in. So no matter what you go through, if God's doing something, those two things are gonna be practically evident in your life. His comfort, his presence, and his delivering work. That's the point he's making. Didn't he say that? Look, let's read it one more time. Verse six. If we are what? Afflicted. What does that mean? We're troubled. What is it for? It's for your good, your consolation and deliverance. What's verse, what's it say down at toward the end of verse six? Or if we are being what? Comforted, it is for your what? Can you see it's the same exact thing? Sometimes we're trouble, but it has the same goal. Sometimes we're comforted, but it has the same goal, Brother Shannon, to be a blessing to the people we're doing life with. That's the whole, no matter what it is. Whether you in a bad day, a bad time, or you in a good day and a good time, it's so that God can work through you to be a blessing to somebody else. Everything works for that purpose. Man, that's refreshing, isn't it? Don't that refresh you that nothing's a waste with him? But go to Psalm 119 real quick. Let me show you what I mean by this. Psalm 119. This one you ought to have already locked down in your spirit somewhere. You want to make this one your own. Your own. I bring it up often because I always, I'm thinking about this when I'm around people. I use this to help me measure things. I'm looking for the touch of Jesus. I'm listening for his voice. I'm looking at their actions and their thought process and I'm trying to find him in their life. I'm looking, Brother Shannon, when I'm with people and I meet people in the highways and the byways or wherever it is, Miss Barbara, I'm looking for Jesus. And if I don't have no evidence of Jesus in their life, this is somebody who still needs Jesus. Even if they have trusted him, they may be in a backslidden state where they are neglecting the daily journey of walking with him and they need Jesus. And man, when I come across somebody who is full of Jesus, it's evident, you see it, you know it, why? Because the things that accompany, that associated with his redeeming work are evident in their life, stands out, you know it. This person fears God and walks with him, it's obvious. It's obvious. So look, Psalm 119 and verse 155. Notice the first phrase there, salvation. Salvation. That's anything associated with the redeeming, sanctifying, saving work of the Lord. Salvation in its fullness. Salvation is far. from those who are wrong, who are not right with God. That is, you couldn't find Jesus nowhere in their life. I mean, you can turn up every rock, you could look behind every door, you can get into their closet, you can search all over, and you ain't gonna find Jesus. Because you're not gonna find anything associated with Jesus in their life. Why? They've never been made righteous. They haven't been made right. Remember, to be made right, you gotta have a heart change. The old stony heart that was not sensitive to the things of God is still there. And until he removes that heart and gives them a heart of flesh, they're not sensitive. They can't hear, they can't see. Matter of fact, Corinthians talked about it. Remember when in chapter two, he says to one group of people, we diffuse the aroma of Jesus and it's aroma of life. Smells good to them. They smell Jesus all over you. But to another group of people, what do they smell? They smell death. It's a stink, death stinks. That's the idea. You stink to them because they don't want any part of it. I mentioned to you this morning, there was a time in my life that I didn't even want any part of. People like us today. I didn't want them involved in what I was doing and in my life. They'd just mess my thing up that I was doing. It'd make me always feel bad for doing what I wanted to do. You follow with me? They stunk in my nostrils because I didn't have life. I didn't have Jesus. And the evidence of that was, look, the next part of the verse, what does it say? For they do not, as a way of life, they do not seek the statutes of God. And that would be that which God has decreed, that which God has put into play for His people to live by. They could care less about it because it's obvious they don't seek it as a way of life. and therefore it is evident that they're what not right with God and when you're not right with God you're wrong and when you're wrong the Bible says you're wicked and those things that accompany that are associated with his saving grace will not be evident in your life. So you and I can tell when Jesus is upon somebody and when he ain't nowhere near them. He's nowhere near. Now, we don't leave people in that. Scripture says, bring the gospel to every creature, right? And if you don't have an opportunity to really get involved or say something or help them in their journey, at least you got somebody you can be praying for, that somebody else can get involved in their life. Somebody else can bring the gospel to them. They can't get it themselves. Somebody's got to bring a word to them. So you begin to pray that God, this individual, whoever it is, I might have just met them, but I know Jesus isn't involved in their life in any kind of way, and I may not even know their name, but God knows who they are, amen? All you gotta say is, Lord, the man I met today or the woman I met today, you know exactly who they are. I know without a doubt in my mind they don't know you, but Lord, I'm asking you to send your people to interrupt their life. Send them, Lord. bring a message to them. They can't save themselves by no means, but that's one of them. That's a 155. Salvation is far from the wicked. It just isn't evident in their life, meaning there's nothing attached to them. So let's go back to Corinthians real quick. Go back to Corinthians. This would go, let me show you what I mean by how this is very important. Go back to chapter one again and let's look at how Paul tied this together with even himself and the things that he was doing. Look, if you would, in verse number 17. Remember, Paul had told them that when he went to a certain place, he was planning to stop by and see them, but he wasn't ready to see them now. He didn't wanna see them now because he didn't wanna be a, they were in a position that he would rather not just see them at the moment. He sent it by a message, giving them a space of time to get things right. But notice what verse 17 says. Therefore, when I was planning this, did I plan this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan them according to the flesh? That is with me, that there should be yes, yes, and no, no. That is, he's saying, do I make up the plans where it's in the flesh that I can agree to this, say yes to this, and say no to that? He's saying, God forbid, no. Verse 18, but as God is faithful, our word to you was not yes and no, for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Salvanius and Timothy, was not yes and no, but in him it was what? That is yes. What he's saying here is that I follow him. I'm at God's mercy. He's not at mine, meaning he offers me something and I say yes or no about it. He says no, when God gives it, I'm in it. I don't have the right to say yes to this and no to that. I'm on assignment from him, I'm his, and everything he gives me is yes in Jesus. Yes and yes. That's the idea that he's talking about. I'm all in with yes to all he gives me to do. So I don't, I didn't plan lightly to come to you. This was God at work getting me and I'm surrendered to him. I'm yielding to his will, whatever he wants. And that's important for us. To think about that we want to be in that kind of way too. When Jesus gives us an assignment, it's an all in, yes. Even if we can't figure out how to get it done, that we're depending on Him to do it, we're yielding to Him and saying, I'm doing what He wants me to do. Going where He wants me to go, saying what He wants me to say, bringing what He wants me to bring. I think that's very important. And no doubt, all of the Older Testament was pointing to Jesus. Everything and all the promises of God are pointing toward Jesus. But this goes deeper than that. It goes to the point that Paul is saying, I'm all in. That if God gives me something to do, I don't have the right to say yes or no. All my right is, is to yield to Him and follow His lead. Isn't that how Jesus lived? He yielded every right to His Father and did what He wanted Him to do. And that's how we want to be growing toward that as well. Growing toward that as well. So we need the Spirit for that to happen, don't we? We can't do it apart from Him. I've mentioned to you quite a few times through the years is that we preach a message we can't live on our own. If Jesus ain't living it, It ain't gonna happen. And our message has to be to that point that it's impossible for us to live what we preach if Jesus ain't living it through us by the Spirit. If we're preaching a message we could all do on our own, we're preaching the wrong message. We got a wrong message we're preaching. We preach an impossible word to fulfill. You know, we live in a world that'll say, man, you a hypocrite. You a phony. If you really knew me, you'd talk worse about me. You follow with me? You can call me a phony all day long, and if you really knew me, man, you probably wouldn't like me at all, but he loves me, amen? And he knows who I am, and he knows what I'll do, and what I'll say, and how I'll do it, and he loves me, and he gave me something that can't be lived without him. That's why he would say in John 15, abide in me and I in you or you can do nothing in this world. So we've got to take on that. Don't let them get you all messed up if they say, look, you preaching a message, you're not living. And you just turn around and say, well, if I ain't living, it's because Jesus ain't living it in me because my message is that strong of the fact that he's got to do this and I can't do it. He's got to live this out of me. He's got to deliver me to death so that the life of Christ can be manifested out of our mortal flesh. Isn't that what Paul said? Matter of fact, let's look in chapter one, look in verse number eight. This goes along with this idea. Paul says, I don't want you to be in the dark or ignorant on this. And this wasn't in dealing with a truth toward them. It was just dealing with their life. Brethren, that our trouble came to us in Asia and that we were what? Burden beyond measure. You know how you've heard, have you ever heard anybody say God won't put on you anything you can't carry, you can't handle? Just tell them you ain't walk with him long then, amen? You hadn't walked with him long. 1 Corinthians 1 and verse number eight, I'll read it again. For we don't want you to be in the dark, ignorant brethren, of what happened to us, what came to us in Asia, that we were burdened by who? By the Lord, beyond measure, above our capabilities, that we even despaired of even life. We were so low that we recognize that this is something that it's impossible for us to handle. Can't, can't, it's beyond our strength to do. So that's another member of what we're talking about here is this idea of what God does in his comfort and how he brings comfort in our trouble. And God put troubles on you that is beyond measure. You just can't make it without him. So He will put things on you that are more than you can bear and anybody in here has walked with Him long enough knows He will do it. He will do it. Now He does it to what? Stretch and grow us. He's getting Jesus out of us. He's doing something in us. You ever been around somebody that's done some kind of extraordinary feat, whether it be in athletics or whatever, you take Olympians or horse racing, what do they have to do to those horses or what do they do to those athletes to compete at that level? They got to push them beyond what they're capable in their mind of being able to do. So it's going to come with some heartache and it's going to come with some pain. But you think about all those records, think about how many records year after year get broken that people would have thought 15, 20 or 30 years ago could have never been broken. Why? Because somebody was pushed to a limit they never thought they could ever reach. Because of the pressures that were put on them to do more to go further and that's where Paul said over in 1st Corinthians 9 That they do it for a goal or a crown that's going to burn up one day But we do it for an imperishable crown That'll last forever, amen. Meaning it's worth it. So he says that they despaired even of life. And then he's gonna reiterate, yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves for what reason? That we would not what? Trust in our capabilities, in ourselves. But who would we put our trust in? God, who what? Raises the dead. We died. And God raised us up with strength that wasn't ours. That wasn't ours. Verse 10, who God delivered us from so great a death And does deliver us in whom we trust that He will what? Still deliver us. You see, that's the things associated with salvation. He delivered us from so great a death. We believe He's delivering us now. And whatever we gotta face in the future, he's gonna deliver us then. That's things associated with salvation. That's what transfers through us to be a blessing to other people. And he said, but we didn't do it alone. Verse 11, you brethren. helping to gather in prayer for us, that thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf for the gift granted to us through many. Ain't that a sweet deal that everybody gets a part of it? That Paul and him had a sentence of death, but people were praying for him. Praying that they would put their confidence in the Lord and wouldn't leave. Long as they would trust in themselves, they would keep trusting in themselves. And there is no resurrection power if you're trusting in yourself. There's gotta be the sentence of death and God'll put us in those impossible situations where we just gotta trust him. And then what does he do to people around us? It causes thanksgiving to be. Abound through others. So one's thanking, one's praying, and one's going through the trouble. And while they're going through the trouble, and while they're thanking, and while they're praying, what's being happened? Life's being transferred through it all. And God's being glorified, amen? God's being glorified. So yes, man, those are some beautiful things. Look in chapter four. Chapter four, when he says in verse number seven, we have this treasure. What treasure? Jesus, the gospel, light. We have this message of the knowledge of God in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ, what he's talking about in verses four, three through six, we have this treasure. Where do we have it? It's in us. What are we? We're clay pots. What is a clay pot? Something that's easily what? Broken and shattered. A clay pot don't get the glory, but what's in the clay pot gets the glory. That's what he says, that the excellence of this power may be of God and not what? We're just a clay pot. We're an earthen vessel. God put himself in us. He is where the glory comes from, but because he's in us, when we hard pressed on every side, but we're not what? We're not crushed to the point of distress. Here it is, we're a clay pot, and as a clay pot and earthen vessel, we're being pressed on every side. We should break and fall to nothing, but because of who's in us, who's in us, he won't let us be crushed. And then he says, we're perplexed, but we're not in despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Struck down, but not destroyed. That is, we keep getting up. We keep getting up. We keep getting up and believing and trusting. Verse 10, what's happening in all this? Always caring about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ in these clay pots. that the life of Jesus also may be manifested, what? In our body. The light of the clay pot is shining through. Verse 11, for we who live, that would be like he's gonna say in chapter five, the living, who live no longer for themselves, we who live, the believers, are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. Wow, that's what God's doing, amen? So what is he doing, verse 12? So then death is working in us, but what is it working in you? Life, life. What he's putting you through, he's getting life out to other people. He's delivering you to death, but the resurrected Jesus is shining. He's delivering me to death and you are blessed by it. He delivers you to death and I'm blessed by it. It's just the cycle of life of the believer. We can't help but praise him, amen? We can't help but praise Him. That's why, any questions in there? A lot of times we look at this is what the world's doing, but no, this is what God's doing. God's putting us in these things to deliver us to death. Why? If He didn't do it, Jesus, we would never manifest Jesus. We'd get too comfortable in our own skin, too comfortable in this old world doing our thing, But God does this so that his purposes can continue through our life. And we're grateful for it, amen. Now in his first letter, Paul never brought any of these things up, did he? Why? Because the church wasn't even in position to even talk about these things. They had to be dealt with in their disputes that were going on. They wasn't even in the place to be delivered to death. They had to get that right. And when they got that right, now troubles come, suffering comes for getting right. And now Paul's got, he's teaching them saying, look, you know why that's happening? God's doing this. Don't blame it on the enemy out there. This is God doing it, getting Jesus out of you. You praise him for it, and you thank him for it, and you give him glory for it. So you get over in chapter six, before we go tonight, over in chapter six, he tells us that, hey, regardless, we are servants. No matter what case you find yourself in, just serve. Be a blessing to people. Well, we talked about them big three last week. Remember how one of them we said was just not being grateful or having a glad, joyful heart? Gratitude, ungrateful before the Lord, that's one of the big threes. And then we said not blessing people, not being a blessing to them. Beginning like with our parents, that's where God said, look, you honor your mom and dad. You honor those that God's put over your authority. He'll bless you with long life and good days. And then he even expands that and says, look, if you wanna continue to inherit the blessings that Jesus has for you, you need to be a blessing to people. Well, we do that by serving. And that's what Paul is saying in those next verses. In chapter six, he's gonna talk about how we serve. And y'all notice those words, how we use those three little words? In verses number three, on the verse number 10, y'all look at them, how he grouped these words together, like in, by, and as. Each one of these speak for an example. Verse four. But in all these things, we commend ourselves as servants of God, ministers of God, in what? In much patience, in much tribulations, in needs, in distress, in stripes, imprisonments, intolerance, in labors, in sleepiness, and in fasting. Remember, you are a servant regardless of the circumstances. Serve. Those are circumstances that would make it difficult to serve, wouldn't it? But you're a servant. So regardless of the situations and the circumstances you in, you always keep it in front. I am a servant. I am a servant of God. I can serve him when times are good and I'll serve him when times are bad. I'll serve Him when it takes much patience. I'll serve Him in troubles. I'll serve Him when needs come. I'll serve Him when distresses come. I'll serve Him when strikes come. I'll serve Him when I'm put in jail, in prison. I'll serve Him in torments, in labors, in sleeplessness, and in fasting, going without. I'm a servant. It doesn't matter the circumstance or the situation. We are servants. and regardless whatever the world does. I'm gonna serve him, verse number six. Notice the by. The world might not serve him in purity, but I'm gonna serve him in purity. The world might not know about who he is and his knowledge, but by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left hand, by honor and by dishonor, by evil report and good report, You notice the by is how he does that, the in and then the by. And I believe what he's saying that we are servants regardless, no matter what others do or how they do it, we gonna do it this way. We're gonna serve him in it all and we're gonna serve him by his strength and not our own. Man, these things help me. They speak to me. And then what's the final? Look at verse number, close of verse number 80 says, as deceivers, yet true, as unknown, and yet well-known, as dying, and behold, we live, as chastened, and yet not killed, as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. regardless, no matter what others confess about us, no matter what they say, no matter what they say, they may say, we doing it for this reason. They may say we are worthless and are no good, but we know who we serve. Amen. No matter what they convey. Cause that's the point when he says, as, as how the world's viewing us, but that's not how we see ourselves. That's how they see us, but that's not how we see it. And that's what he's saying. As unknown, they make a big deal. Who are these guys? Nobody knows them. Yet he says, y'all know us very well. As men marked for death, but he says, look, we're full of life. As chastened, Yes, we see God's disappointed in them. That's why they keep getting put in prison and getting stripes and being beat. But he says what? Look, as yet not killed. God's not done with us. So it's how people speak about them and how people see them and the contrast in that. They can see us as this all day long. It's not gonna affect how we serve them. They can talk about us, we're gonna serve them. regardless, no matter what. And that's where we want to go back to. We're servants. We don't have to be appreciated to serve people. They don't have to thank us for it. They don't have to commend us for it. They don't have to praise us for it. They don't have to toot our horn for it. They don't have to put it on the news and let everybody know what we've done. They don't have to put it in the newspaper. They don't have to say anything in the world. And we're still going to keep serving. That's what he's making, regardless, regardless, regardless of how hard it is, what other people are doing, and what others are saying, we gonna serve. We gonna serve. And man, is that a rich reward? Amen. And do we wanna help other people do the same thing? Yes, we sure do. So man, These are some good things, some good things. This is one good book, ain't it? All right, well, we love y'all and thank Jesus. Thank Jesus for you. So let us pray. Father, we bless you. Thank you. Ask you to help us. Continue to deliver us over to death. We want Jesus to, the resurrected Jesus, to live out of our mortal flesh. So thank you, thank you. Thank you for your comfort, for your deliverance. Thank you for making us your servants, and we often miss the mark on that, but thankful for your consistent and careful love over us that continues to draw us back. Thank you for your compassion and mercy with us, and we ask you to use us to go tell your story. In Jesus' name, amen. Love y'all.