to God be the glory, amen. It sure is good seeing y'all. I know you've enjoyed getting to hang out with your people and probably every one of us need to pray and ask the Lord to forgive us for overeating. How many of y'all in that number? Be honest with ourselves and with the Lord, amen. And we haven't done yet, we still Have a little more to go, and I'm sure Lord willing, he'll let us just continue on with some good leftovers. How many of y'all eat leftover? Some people call them warm-overs. We call them leftovers, and I like good leftovers. I eat them. I try to eat them till they're gone, you know what I mean? Some people don't eat leftovers. Stephanie's got a brother, Marvin, he don't eat leftovers. So when we go over there and see them, they always got good eats, we know we gonna get to take leftovers home, amen? Because I eat leftovers, and so to God be the glory. Well, look. I'm glad we're here not just to give God our leftovers, but our everything, amen? So I want you to turn to the book of 2 Corinthians. We're gonna wrap up 2 Corinthians. We've moved into Philemon today in our reading. Tomorrow, tomorrow we'll be in Zephaniah. Zephaniah's three chapters, so y'all remember that. I'll do my best with all that's going on to get a reading calendar out to you. But tomorrow, first of the month. Tomorrow is the first, right? So we'll kick off in Zephaniah, it's only three chapters. You'll probably take a minute to find it in the Older Testament. You can slip right past it, but it's a great word for us. There's some great promises in it to help us. And then we'll move into the Gospel of Matthew, and we'll be in Matthew to the end of the month. So that'll give you a little head step on the Christmas story that you're gonna read about in Matthew's Gospel, and even Zephaniah's gonna point toward that coming of the Lord and that day of grace. It'll give you some really great works of the things and the witness of God and the wisdom of God just to be that witness that he's called us to be. So 2 Corinthians this morning, chapter number 13, and we're gonna look at how Paul closed out this message to the church at Corinth. He tells us he was with them. on several different occasions. We know he wrote several letters to them. We have two of them, and they are extremely sufficient and extremely great words for us. There's so much we can learn from them. He closes out this second message the way he started the first message. and how he had emphasized that he wanted them to speak the same things, that would be of the same voice, that they would have the same voice of what they stood on, that they would have the same mindset, the same vision for what God had given them, and then the same judgment, or that would be the same verdict on the things of life. That thinking will set you apart in a world who's given their minds to other things. When we give our mind to Jesus and we arm ourselves with that mindset and we're asking him to grow us and renew us and teach us that we can all be of the same verdict standing on things that God has declared for us. walking in the same wisdom and living out the same witness, man, we would be those disciples as he closed out this letter. Notice what he says in verse number 11. That's where we wanna key in on on these last couple verses here. I'll probably read to verse 14, but really just focus in on verse 11 as much as anything. He said, finally, finally. Have you ever heard a preacher say finally? And they still go for a little while. Paul's probably done said finally a couple times, right? Yeah, yeah. Of course in the back this morning, they're working on their music. So we'll probably hear them in there. And normally they wrap up with that a little early and they take them outside and let them play. Well, guess what? That ain't happening today, right? So I'd imagine they're gonna be a little antsy for us to not go too, too long or carry over in here this morning. So we'll try to bless them with that. But he says, verse number 11, finally, brethren, and if you really wanna Think about that, when he says brethren, he's not just talking to the men, he's talking to the family of God. That would be men and women, and praise God. So when you see me refer to y'all as brethren, I'm speaking to everybody, right? I send out often things, we get text messages, stuff goes out pretty regular, and sometimes I'll use that word brethren, it's gonna apply to everybody. So finally, brethren, farewell. Be complete, or the old King James uses the word, be perfect. Be perfect and the idea of perfect means of a completion that you are full, you are right where, you are becoming what you are. In Christ we're complete. We're righteous. You can't get any more righteous. than what you are in Jesus Christ when you placed your trust in him. Now, I know not everybody has placed their trust in Jesus, but those that have placed their confidence, they've laid their life down at the feet of Jesus. Their judgment has taken place at the cross. They were buried with him, resurrected and given newness of life in him. The scripture says you are righteous and you can't be any more righteous than Jesus. And that's the righteousness that you have, amen? He gave you his righteousness because you gave him your sin to be judged in him at the cross. And when that happens, he makes us, declares us righteous. the righteousness of God. Now what we are, we want to consistently become who we are in him. And that only comes by leaning in on faith, letting the spirit, letting the word have its work in our life. But he says, be complete, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. We don't do that these days. We usually will give the right hand a fellowship or we'll shake hands in agreement. A kiss was saying in that day, just like a handshake does today, is that I'm being honest, I'm being genuine, I'm being authentic with you. You can trust me and I'm gonna trust you. That's what a kiss, a holy kiss. When you speak truth to one another, Proverbs says it's like a kiss on the mouth. when you speak truth to one another. That's the idea, you being straightforward with each other. He says in verse number 13, all the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion or the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And all God's people said. Amen. So, verse number 11. Finally, brethren, farewell. Be complete. Be perfect. That is the objective of the kingdom-minded servant. Here's a kingdom-minded, spirit-filled, truth-led servant who has been guided, governed, and guarded by grace, is saying that very same thing, that more than anything in the world, I want you to be full, I want you to be complete, I want you to be perfect, I want you to be mature in the Lord. That's the goal of the saving grace of the Lord Jesus, that you be all that He, saved you for, and any kingdom-minded servant living for the glory of God wants other people to be complete in the Lord, to be perfect in the Lord. That's not saying your life is perfect. It's saying that you are living single-mindedly in the Lord. You are purposeful in everything you do. You're passionate for the things of God. You make Him the priority of your life, And that's what a kingdom-minded servant always wants for the brethren, the people of God, is to be perfect in the Lord, to be complete in Him, and how important that is for us. To even evaluate in our own life, how often do I think about my brothers and sisters in the Lord, of wanting them to be full and complete and thriving in the grace of the Lord. Well, if I don't even think that away, I'm obviously not walking in that way because it's the ghost. Like cooking, how many of y'all cook? Raise your hand if you cook. When you cook stuff, don't you want it to come out perfect? Come on now, you know what I'm talking about. Don't you want it now? It don't always do that, does it? Doesn't always do that, but when you put your labor and your love in a thing, you put your resources in that, you want it to come out tasteful. Now what you consider perfect, somebody else may not. And what they consider to be complete or perfect may not be to your standards. Why? Because we're all what? Unique, we all have different taste buds, we all have different likes. For an example, you've heard me use these things before, but how many of you don't like liver? Raise your hand. So if I cooked a batch of liver and I said it was perfect, would it be perfect for you? Not if you don't like it. Most people either love it or they what? Hate it. They don't want nothing to do with it. They'll turn their nose up to it and push it away from the table. They're not even gonna try it. They're not even gonna fool with it. But I wanna tell y'all in here today, I sure enough like chicken livers and beef liver. Man, some good old calf liver and smothered down in onions, man, what you say? Make you run around this church wanting. What about fried chicken livers? Wee, man, them things. And I see some of y'all, y'all stomach's turned up. Y'all don't want nothing to do with it. You don't like it at all, get it away from me. So we're obviously looking at things that, there are things in our life that one person would say is perfect and the other person would say, no, that wouldn't be for me. But when Paul's speaking to the brother and he's talking about something common to all of us, and that is this work that God is doing in our life that he wants us to be complete in our lives. And there's only a few ways these things can actually take place and happen. And one, we have to be in the will of God for that to happen. unfold, right? So hold your spot there and let's just go look at a couple places that we see the Spirit leading these writers to say things that will kind of pull this in together for us of how this is gonna work out. First place to go is Hebrews. Go to Hebrews 13. Now, the Bible's filled with this. That's what the entire word of God is about, us being complete or perfect. So I'm not gonna try to exhaust that on you today. That would be for your journey in everyday life of asking the Lord to help you. Well, Lord, show me what it does mean to be complete and perfect in you. But we'll look at a couple this morning. Y'all remind me, Psalm 33. Y'all say that with me, Psalm? Psalm 33. Y'all remind me of that. Don't let me leave without showing something to you there, okay? Okay, Hebrews 13, looking about verse number 20. First off, beyond question, we need to be praying for one another. There's no way that I can be what I need to be unless you are interceding and praying for me, and the same thing applies for you and all of us in here. So if I'm not in this ballpark, if this is not on my radar, I won't be praying these kind of things for those that I really believe need to be mature and growing in the Lord. And none of us have arrived, and all God's people say it. And even the things that we know, we still don't know everything about what we know. We know limited in what we know. Now we need to know what we know and we need to walk in what we know, but we also need our wisdom and our love to be stretched by the Lord. You can be a seasoned saint in here that's been walking with Jesus for many years and see things clearly from him. but there's still room that you're growing and God's stretching you in. So your will will never arrive. Even Paul said that in Philippians when he made reference that he wanted to know the Lord. He counted everything lost to know the Lord, the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings that he can be conformed to his death at any cost. And then he says this, he presses on to the prize of the upward calling of the Lord. And he tells us, I hadn't attained to it yet, but I'm pressing toward it. God was still at work doing a work in him, and he's still at work, Lord willing, doing a work in us. But he says that this is important for us to pray over each other's lives. Verse 20, now may the God of what? Peace. Now we talked about him just a minute ago. Remember when we read that, the God of love and peace? May the God of peace who brought up, that would be brought up out of the grave, our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, he is the great shepherd of the sheep, and that you could only become a sheep through his blood, through his blood, that's the idea, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, so we know he's talking about who? The brethren, the sheep, the called, those who have been salvaged by Jesus. Verse 21. May he make you what? Perfect. Or some translations say what? Complete. So we see when Paul closed out that word to the Corinthians, he says, I want you to be complete. Here we see that there is praying unto God for the brethren to be made, what? Complete, that he makes you. Who's gonna make you complete? You're not gonna make yourself complete. Who's gonna make you complete? The Lord's gonna make you complete, but what are we doing for that to happen? We're yielding, we're yielding. So when Paul said that in 2 Corinthians 13, 11, become or be perfect, he's saying yield. Yield to the work that God's doing in you. Yield to him. Submit to him. Let him work what he wants to work in you. And he's gonna explain that for us in this verse 21. Make you complete in what? Every good work. Now there is work that ain't good. How many of y'all ever have done works that ain't good? Come on. That's all of us, right? I want you to think about it like this. Every work we do that's not been guided by grace, governed by the grace of God, and guarded by God's grace is not a good or complete work. And you know what's gonna happen to that? it's gonna burn up, meaning it's not gonna be rewarded. And I'm afraid. that I'm gonna have some works that's gonna get burned up. Some things that I did and I did them under the wrong motive. I did them with the wrong aim. I did them with the wrong insight. Grace wasn't involved in it. Nick was involved in it more than God was involved in it. Therefore it wasn't guided by him and it wasn't governed by him and it wasn't guarded by him. So you know all that effort and all that that diligence and all that strength and labor that went into it was a waste. Meaning it just burned up. Remember Paul said that in the first letter, didn't he? He said, if you labor with things that is of wood and stubble or like hay, those things can endure flame. When the fire hits them, what happens to the wood? Wood becomes what? The fuel source. And when all the fuel's been depleted out of it, all you got left is what? Empty ashes. Same thing with hay and stubble. The same thing applies to it. But if we build with things that are eternal, that is, they're from God and for God, he talks about them like being gold and silver and precious stones. If you put gold or silver or stones through the same fire that would use this wood as a fuel source, what does that fire do to gold, silver, and precious stones? What will it do to it? It just refines it. See, the wood is gonna be ruined, but a stone will be refined. And impurities get burned off, but the stone remains. The gold remains. The silver is refined, but the silver remains, because the fire can't get rid of the silver. It just refines it. So everything that is done in grace gets refined, but everything done in the flesh will be ruined. That's what he's referring to in these passages when he says that he make you perfect, complete in every good work to do his will. How is this gonna happen? He's doing what? Working in you what is what? Well pleasing in his sight and it's always gonna be through who? So when you read Jesus, this is how you gotta read that, through the grace of God. You could interchangeably use the word grace for Jesus because it's on the merit of Jesus. Jesus is at work in you to whom be glory forever and ever and all God's people said. All right, so when it's of grace and it's of Jesus, guess who done the work? The Holy Spirit's done the work in you, amen? He don't have to mention the Spirit. By mentioning Jesus, he's talking about the Spirit of God in you, because it's the Spirit of Christ, it's God himself. So that's God at work in us. Let me give you, y'all, we get this passage right here. So God's gotta do what? Work in me. And when he's working in me, that means I'm working with him by faith. So he's doing for me what I can't do myself. So now he's gonna work through me and when he works through me because I work with him because he worked in me, he's gonna work through me and he's gonna glorify himself. in other people's lives. And then that has the eternal potential to even go beyond the person that God used what I was doing to help them. Now they helped somebody else and that person helped somebody else. Now it's going way beyond you. Why? Because it's a complete work. It's a perfect work. It's God working in us, and us by faith working with Him, and Him working for us. So everything God's gonna be doing, He's gonna work it in you first. then you get to work with him when you trust in him and follow in him. And then he's gonna, what, do this on your behalf for you, you get to be a co-laborer with him, you get rewarded for it, and now he works through you to bless somebody else, or sometimes he hardens somebody else. God did a work with you that was intended for them, but they wasn't letting Him work in them, and they wasn't working with Him. So what does that do? That hardens them. But you see, you glorified Him in your obedience and faith. And then if they do work with Him, guess what? It goes beyond you. Amen. and even beyond them. And that's what we're looking for, that beyond work, that is out of our control. All we have control of is what? Yielding, believing, trusting, and obeying. And if God decides to do something in somebody else, man, we praise him for it, amen? And if he decides not to do, you know what we do? We praise him for it. Why? Because he knows a whole lot better than we do, amen? That's where we yield to him. Let me give you another place. Go to 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy. Work your way back. 2 Timothy chapter three. 2 Timothy chapter three. Look in verse 16. So we need the Spirit in us at work. That's God at work, working in us what is well pleasing in his sight through the power of the Spirit that he gets the glory and it's for our good as well and the benefit of others. Verse 16, all scripture, that would be the word of God, is given by divine inspiration. That inspiration is of God and it is what? Profitable or beneficial for teaching, doctrine, for clarity, for reproof, for correction, for instructions in righteousness that the servant of God, the man of God is speaking of the servant of God, the brethren, that the servant of God may be what? Complete or perfect. Thoroughly equipped for what? Every good work. Doesn't that kind of run right along with what he said in Hebrews 13? We're talking about a good work, and a good work is a good work because God's in the work. Not only is the Spirit at work, but what else is at work? The Word of God, amen? No good work for God happens without the message of God. Remember, faith comes by what? Hearing, and hearing by what? You gotta have the Word of God at work. So there's no way you nor I or anybody else can be perfect in the work without the Spirit and without the scriptures. You gotta have the Word of God at work in your life. So if I'm staying away from the Word and the Word's not working over and renewing my mind, helping me, it's obvious I can't be in a position for that good work to take place, because it is mandated on the fact that God's gotta be at work in me. I gotta be working with him by faith. That is, I'm trusting what he's doing. And God doesn't necessarily, he's not gonna leave us in the dark on what he's doing. He's working in us, right? He's working in us. I think it was Philippians says that God works in us to will and to do according to his good pleasure, right? So we know what he's doing. We know he's at work because I'm working with him by faith. So man, these two things, if I'm gonna be complete or perfect, that means I'm growing in these dynamics in my life. Look, I cooked a few things yesterday. I don't know how they're gonna turn out. Peeled back the foil yet. So we don't know. I spats cocked a turkey. My first time to it. Marcus cooked one before for us for Thanksgiving. I did a turkey breast a couple days ago for our crew. Man, that thing turned out mighty good. So I said, well, you know what? I'm gonna do that whole turkey. Miss Alona picked up the turkey in Shreveport. That thing was solid as a brick when she showed up here on Monday evening. It was frozen. Told her to bring it just like that though. Bring it just like, had it down in the cooler. As soon as she got here, I brought it over. I brought it over to the church, put it in the refrigerator in the church. So from Monday evening to yesterday, that thing's been in the refrigerator, ain't touched it. Pulled it out yesterday evening, and that joker still had ice in it. Now, it was thawed out, but it still had some little ice pockets that was there, and we got it, but I cut that old backbone out of it, and man, it was a big old bird, too. That joker was tough. I thought I was gonna have to get my sledgehammer out just to crack the chest on it, but I got it. And I threw it on that smoker and let it start smoking, and I knew when I started that I was limited on my coals. I didn't buy me any more coals, but I figured I could get this done in a reasonable amount of time, and did. And Brother Roy, he was out, we cooked it, what, I pulled it off about nine o'clock last night, but I put a meat thermometer in there, because I wanted that thing to be perfect. I wanted it to be, Perfect. So I'll put a meat thermometer in there and I weighed it and weighed it and watched that temperature rise and watched it rise and you know to get it to that point I had to keep adding a little coals to it and I added hickory to it and I basted that thing and I kept basting it with some white barbecue sauce and I kept basting it and I kept adding a coal or two Eventually I lit me some more coals and threw it in there to bring the temperature up a little bit because it was windy and it was raining and it was chilly so you got to have a little more heat on that on that pit but I kept that thermometer in there because I wanted it to hit at least what a hundred and 65 on that bird. I wanted to get it right there. So to do that, Brother Greg, the elements, everything around me was fighting me, so I had to keep getting it a little harder to get it up to that, and I weighed it, and I weighed it, and it would go in increments of like one degree, two degree, three degree. And about 8.30 last night, it was at 1.47, and then about 9.30, I finally pulled it off, it hit 1.65. But even at 1.65, you still had those legs and all that, and those thighs that may not be right where you want them. So what I did, I took it and put it in a big pan, wrapped it in foil, and I was cooking a ham. And I wanted that ham to be perfect. So I had it on a timer. Didn't have no thermometer. Miss Ilona sampled that thing this morning. I did too. I did open the lid on it and it was good. But I threw that turkey in there while I was cooking that ham and I turned the oven off and just let it finish out. Debra we gonna get a surprise here in a little bit whether it's right how I want it or I may have dried that thing out I don't know but I wanted it to be perfect it reached what I wanted Charles 165 But I had to put the effort in to get it there See I had to soak my hickory It was a big old birch that almost covered my grill and I wanted to indirect cook it I couldn't cook it right over all that had to be what I It had to be purposeful, mindful to do that. Well, the same way with growing in the Lord, amen. It ain't gonna happen by accident. You fed your whole crew, all these grandkids. Hey, did all that food just show up at your house or did you have to cook it, Deborah? You slaved over that stove, right? With love, amen. That's right, but it don't happen by accident. Accident. You'll never be perfect or complete in the Lord by accident. One, it took Jesus. He starts it all for you. Now what he starts, he always finishes. And he's given us everything we need. Everything. If we fall short in any place, it's because we wasn't purposeful in what he was doing. Amen. What was another place I told y'all? Psalm 33. Go to Psalm 33. Psalm 33. There's so much to these few words that we have in this close that we just are not gonna be able to get into. And we've already seen that this takes the will of God. for us to be complete or perfect. And I'm going to give you four things as we close today about the will of God that we see in this psalm. I would encourage you to take a minute and just ask God to help you and just get into Psalm 33, read it from its beginning to its end. It's not that long of a psalm, but it's so rich and good and it's going to cover what we can see in what I would discover as four dynamics of the will of God. The will of God. Four dynamics of God's will rooted in this psalm and then explained everywhere else in the scriptures. Number one, what we see in here is God's personal or purposeful will. God's personal. His personal purposeful will. We're not gonna start in the beginning, but look in verse number six. Verse number six, what does it say? By the word of the Lord, the heavens were what? And all God's people said? And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap and he lays up the deep in a storehouse. As a result, that is saying that God does what God does and ain't nothing in the world gonna stop it. Verse eight, let all the earth fear the Lord, let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him, for he spoke and it was done, he commanded it and it did what? It stood fast. That's telling us that there is the purposeful, personal will of God. Lisa, when God determines he's doing this and set it up that way, there ain't a thing in the world that is able to thwart it or change it or override it. That God has a purposeful, personal will that is unchanging untainted, and it will go from the time that God created everything, history for mankind, to the end of time, and no matter what the world does, no matter what the enemies of the world will do, no matter what, God is always gonna do his perfect will. It's gonna be accomplished. You don't have to question it. You don't have to wonder about it. God's going to fulfill it. This is God doing what He does and He don't need your input on it and He don't need the world's input on it. He don't need nobody's input on it. It's already set in motion. He's going to do it. And I'm glad for that. Amen. I'm glad for that. And you'll find that throughout the whole truth. of the word of God. This is God's unfailing, undeviating, unstoppable will. This is God's will for God. This is his own eternal purpose driven by his own nature, his own character, and his own decrees. Psalm 33 anchors this reality. By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made. He spoke and it was done, he commanded and he stood fast. And if he's the creator, Kate, he's got the authority over it all. And we praise him for that. Nothing's gonna interrupt this will, nothing competes with it, and nothing can modify it. It is the ultimate plan for his glory and it cannot fail. This will is above us, before us, undergirds everything around us. Everything's in play because of that. But then you see, number two, God's permissive will. God's permissive will. Within his personal, perfect, purposeful will, God permits things. And look what verse number 10 says. The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the plans of the people of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations, and blessed is the nation of the peoples whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance. That is God's permissive will. He lets us in this world think on things, devise things, governments plan things, and that's God's permissive will, and then God, what he does in his permissive will of letting us choose stuff, then you see God's providential will. That is God intervening in man's fallenness. Just because a man plans it don't mean it's gonna happen, right? Just because the government says they're gonna do, so the permissive will. This is what God allows fallen humanity to choose. Even when it fails, including the wasteful things, believers do this when we are not rewarded because whatever God gave us wasn't guided, governed, or guarded by his grace. See Psalm 33 10 describes it. He brings the council, that would be the choices of the nations, the nothing, and he makes his plans, their plans of no effect. God permits the wills of nations, leaders, and individuals to move within the boundaries of human freedom. He allows man to think, choose, attempt, and act, but because man has fallen, The permissive will of God always fails for man, but never fails against God. God always overrides man's permissive will in the end. Man's counsel will collapse, man's plans will crumble, and man's wisdom will prove to be empty. But what God permits, he never depends on. What God allows, he ultimately overrules. And that's important for us to recognize. You see, God's providential will, in these things. This is God aligning and overruling and redirecting and governing all things toward his unfailing purpose. If his permissive will lets humanity choose freely, his providential will guarantees that human choices cannot prevent God's purpose. Providence is God taking all things. the wise and the foolish, the righteous and the wicked, the intentional and accidental, the success and the failure, and weaving them into his ultimate purpose. Aren't you glad you serve a God like that, amen? That it ain't dependent on mankind and us. So see, we need God working these things out. in us. Man's failures cannot sabotage God's faithfulness. He is constantly steering the broken wills of humanity back onto the tracks of his eternal plan. What man ruins, God reroutes. What man corrupts, God corrects. What man bends, God bends back toward his glory. And then you have, and this is where we want to camp out and live in, I call it God's prescriptive will. That is what He has prescribed for us. And you can read it all the way through the psalm and you will see it. This is God's revealed will for the believer. His instructions, His commands, His desires, His grace. If his personal will is what he determines, his prescriptive will is what he declares to us. It's like us going to a doctor because we need help and the doctor prescribes a plan of attack. We got Dr. Blake in here and he could write you, if you was in the military, he could write you a prescription today. But he could prescribe you medication to help you or prescribe you some rehab that can help you you would take his advice if you was in the need. We see that all us believers are in need for God's perspective will, right? We want him to prescribe for us how we live life. If his personal will is what he determines his Prescriptive will is what he declares. This is the word of God, the way of God, Missalona, the race that he's to set before us, the commands that we're to obey, the cross that we're to carry, the course he calls us to run. And what we see in here that the believers in Psalm 33, he's gonna say it, what do we do? Our soul waits on the Lord. and let your mercy, oh Lord, be upon us. This is the will of God we trust because we trust him. And this is the will we walk out because he works in us to do of his good pleasure. His prescriptive will is the believer's joy, direction, assignment, identity, and path. And man, you need him prescribing how you live life, amen? That goes back to what? What is grace gonna do? It's gonna guide us, it's to govern us, and it's to guard us. Why? God always knows better. And if you went to Dr. Blake and said, Dr. Blake, I got this issue. He's gonna ask you, are you taking other medications? Yes, I'm taking this. and he's got to be able to prescribe something to you that's not going to interact with what you're already taking for this other problem. And then you go to the pharmacist and he's got a record of what you're taking and if Blake misses it, the pharmacist ought to pick it up. Are you with me? Why? Because the prescriptions they're prescribing for you are only going to hurt you and not help you. but you don't ever have to worry about God hurting you, amen. Now will he put you through some things in his will? Oh yeah, but what is he doing when he does that? He's just getting Jesus out of you, amen. So what we say the four dynamics of the will of God is his personal, purposeful, perfect will, Can't change it. Only he functions in that realm. But he invites us to join him in it, in his prescriptive will. Then we have what? The permissive will of God. That's where he lets man make a fool out of themselves and he's able in his grace to redeem and get us back on track. But everything the world does without him is gonna come to nothing. Why? He permits it, but it's not part of his perfect will. That's where his providential will comes in and redirects and intervenes and gets everything in the direction that he intends it to go. And that's where we wanna be part of and with him, amen? And he's given us so much to know. So when Paul said, be complete, he just wasn't throwing no loose word out there, was he? He was saying, look, we all have our part. Yield, yield to the Lord. Yield to Him. Be of one mind. Be of one voice. Be of one judgment. Strive with the Lord. Walk with the Lord. Let Him work in you to work out His will. Mine's in your life, in your life. Gotta have the Spirit. Gotta have the truth. Gotta have the truth in us, amen? And when we do, God will speak His will out of our life. And other people will see His hand and His touch and His grace at work in us. And then as we started out, do we need one another praying for each other? Oh yeah, it ain't gonna happen. Do I wanna be a kingdom-minded servant? Yes, do I want other people to join in with us and we still got other people to reach and other families to bring in to the fold of what God's gonna do so that we could all be complete in Him, amen? Oh, he's at work. But at the same time, hey, we know it's perfect will, it's to save. God doesn't will that the wicked shall perish or die, amen? He made provision for that. He's got an answer for that, and it's the Lord Jesus Christ. So you can trust him today with your life. And when you do, you just keep trusting him. You just keep looking to him. Keep leaning in on him, amen? Amen. Father, we bless you, we thank you. Ask you to help us with these things as we close out and say farewell. We want the same word to be over our lives, that we would be perfect, we'd be complete in you. So we're asking you to work in us your way, your work, that we can join you and celebrate you and know that you are at work in us, with us, for us, through us, and even beyond us on this day here. In Jesus' name, amen. Would you stand with us? What we gonna sing, brother? 596, 596. Amen and amen. Well, we love y'all. We pray y'all have a great day. And those that are continuing to celebrate with family, that you have a great time with them and tell them we love them. and look forward to continue walking through this life with you, amen? Always glad to have Brother Roy and Miss Lona with us. They're heading back to Shreveport tomorrow. And as they travel as well, appreciate you praying for them. Any other immediate needs that we need or anything like that? Traveling mercies for the grands, yes. Always, always, for sure. Any others? Look, let everybody know, if y'all see somebody wasn't here today with you, a lot of people still out in various places, send them a little text, let them know you missed them today, that you love them, amen? Amen. Anybody else? Tyson's gonna be heading back to Seton, the South Carolina, Brody going with you, right? So y'all be heading back, and y'all probably be over there for a couple more weeks, three weeks? Yeah, so y'all remember them as they work over there. And they found them a church they connected with over there in South Carolina, and so we delight in that for sure. Amen, amen. Anybody else? All righty, all right. Miss Alona, won't you close us today, if you would, with a word of prayer. Mm-hmm I pray, Lord, for all the needs that were mentioned today. Father, as we go out, help us to be mindful of others, to be thankful for what you do for us, Lord, and to give you the patience and the love and the peace and everything that happens in our lives. I pray for safety for all those who are traveling, Lord, that you'll get them where they need to be. And Father, I just thank you for my family, and I thank you, Lord, for the blessings of life. I thank you for your grace, your mercy, and your forgiveness. Amen.