Hey, ladies, appreciate that. Amen. Romans 12 tonight, if you'd turn there, please. Appreciate them letting me sing. I looked on the schedule. I told Brother Seth, I said, you're supposed to be singing tonight. He said, we switched with y'all. I said, well, that's not what the schedule says. And then he said, Miss Holly kicked him out last week. And so you could have sang with us, right? Yeah, amen. Oh, I'd let you, brother. Amen, amen. The Lord's good to us, Romans chapter 12. To me, this is the, when you look at the book of Romans, this is the kind of the pinnacle of the whole book, right? I mean, we've said all this, we've laid out the foundation that there's none righteous and that we need the Lord Jesus Christ and we've learned that there's no difference in the Jew and the Gentile when it comes to salvation, that we have to come by the way of the cross and we know that Uh, the wages of sin is death. And now we were coming to chapter 12 where Paul is really giving us a practical look at what Christianity looks like. Now, again, you look and people say, well, uh, we're not under law. We're under grace. And, and we've taken that to the wrong extreme brother Barton to say, well, you don't have to live a certain way. But if you'll study the Bible and we look at the Beatitudes and we started this and I, matter of fact, I was studying this today and Jesus told them, he said, you have heard, remember that? And basically, the Pharisees were laying out what they were saying the law was. And Jesus, instead of saying, grace is lower than that. In other words, he said, ye have heard this, but I say. And if you look what Jesus said, his expectation of what we were to do was much deeper. In other words, he was more concerned with the inner man because he knew that if the inner man was changed, guess what? The outer man would be changed. So you can reform and you can control the outer man for a while, but he'll always rear his ugly head. But if you transform the inner man, what happens is we're new creatures. The Bible said old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new. And so now. in chapter 12 of Romans, that's exactly what Paul's talking about. He said, okay, now that we've laid out the foundation of you being saved and realize that it's not law that saves you, it's grace, now we have to understand that there's more to it than just being saved and going to heaven. Shane, most people want salvation, they just want to fire escape out of hell. And let's be honest, Brother Ray, that's honestly why anybody gets saved. Nobody gets saved to say, I want to give my life to the Lord to go to the mission field. They get saved because they don't want to go to hell. But then, once we realize how good God is, then we come to Romans chapter 12. And the Bible said this, it said, I beseech you therefore. So Paul's saying this, he's saying, listen, I'm asking or begging fervently, but also that's what the Lord does. He didn't make you give yourself to him, but he says, I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Now buddy, I'd circle that reasonable service. And every time your pride in your flesh stirs up and says, hey, you're really doing something for God here. You ought to go back to that right there and say, nope, just reasonable service. In other words, what's ordinary, what should be, that's what he's saying. You presenting your body a living sacrifice once you're saved should be the most basic idea of who you are, right? But then he goes on to verse 2 and says, he says, be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove, notice that, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. I've heard people say this and I would say that I have an argument, okay? Now whether I'm right or not, I don't know. But I hear people say, well, he's in the permissive will of God. Well, either it's the will of God or it's not the will of God. Right, and here the Bible said the perfect will of God. So we've had this idea that, well, because God is not judging us, it is the permissive will of God, and I don't think that at all. I think God's long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, and that he is very long-suffering and forbearing, and he'll let us figure that out, but we better be careful with this permissive will of God stuff. Now, again, I'm not a Bible scholar, but I hadn't found it in the Bible. You're either in the will of God or you're not, right? And we've all been in the will of God, we've all been out of the will of God, right? So here, Paul's dealing with the Christian as a believer, right? That if I believe, and I say it often, I didn't come up with the idea, Brother Kenneth, I stole this. My belief affects my behavior. Your belief affects your behavior. I mean, if you come to church and you say, well, I believe it's the right thing to do, I believe it's the right thing to do, you know what's gonna happen? You'll be here. If by chance you go and you believe that you walk in a kitchen and your wife says, listen, that stove's hot, don't touch it. And you say, well, I don't know if I can believe or not. You can go over there and touch the stove and you're gonna believe her after you do it. But if you trust your wife and she says, don't touch the stove, it's hot, then you know what I'm gonna do? I'm not gonna touch it. And so what I'm saying is what you believe affects what you do. If you don't believe there's a judgment seat of Christ, you'll live your life like a lost man, like the devil, and you'll think you're just gonna be ushered into heaven. God's gonna say, we're just glad to have you. Jesus over there, he died for your sins, but that's not a big deal. You're just so special, we're glad to have you. That's if you don't believe the judge. If you believe in the judgment seat of Christ, you'll understand that when he wipes away those tears, I believe this, that those tears are the fact that he replays our life in front of us and we'll see all the opportunities that we had to serve God that we didn't, right? So every aspect of life, your belief affects your behavior, and that's really what Paul's saying here. Paul now begins to deal with the practice of the gospel. See, everything is theory until you're put into a situation where you have to practice it. Right, you can say, well, I believe, here's an example, right? How many of you have ever done the Dave Ramsey thing? Right? He says this and he's right. Uh, financial, uh, budgeting and all that stuff is 20% knowledge and 80% behavior. You know, all the right things to do, but if you don't ever do it, you're no better than people that don't do it. It's all theory. Well, there's everybody that ever names the name of Christ will tell you they know how to get saved and how you're supposed to live. But if you don't live that way, listen, if you say you're a born again Christian, I don't care if you're five years old or 105 years old, the same Holy Spirit lives inside of you and it ought to cause you to live for God, whether you're five or 105. Well, they're just teenagers, brother, and they can't help it. No, they're flesh. just like you and I are, and if they're submitted to the Spirit of God, they'll live different. I've seen kids, listen, that's 12th grade, 11th grade, 10th grade, and they weren't out doing the things of the world, because they believed what they said they had. Well, I've met some 70-year-old men that say they're saved that don't live like they're saved. My point is, if you're truly born again, and you believe this book, you're gonna live like what you say you are. So Paul deals here with our behavior and belief affects our behavior. So Paul deals with the laws of the Christian life and the discussion of the spiritual life of the Christian in these two parts. So I want to deal with two things. Number one, the Christian is challenged as a believer in verse one. The Bible said, I beseech you therefore brethren. by the mercies of God that you present your bodies to live in sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. So the Bible deals here, first of all, with the body as an unbridled sacrifice. Notice what he said, he said that you present it. He didn't say that he had dragged, listen, if you knew, right, and we go back to the Old Testament, and we think about Abraham and Isaac, Isaac knew something was going on. He had to. I mean, your daddy's gonna drag you up there and he said, hey, dad, I know what we're doing here. Where's the sacrifice at? Right? Amen. This time it's not like the other times. Now, I don't know what all that means, but here's the thing. He trusted his daddy, and his daddy trusted God, right? So there was the difference. You can say you can believe whatever you wanna say, but see what he did, and you gotta understand, Isaac had to be a young man, and Abraham was an old man. So he could have most likely overpowered his daddy. And said, no, you're not killing me, dad. But he willingly laid up on that altar because he trusted his dad and his dad trusted God. Amen. So in other words, he willingly laid himself, well, it was a picture of Jesus Christ. See, and now we go to the New Testament and we see the perfect picture of a willing sacrifice in the Lord Jesus Christ. So listen to what I'm saying. What he's asking you and me to do is not something he hadn't done himself. He never asked us to do anything he hasn't done, and so the body is at this unbridled sacrifice, and the Lord doesn't bully us or push us, he just says, I beseech you, right? He's beseeching, he's asking, he's imploring us, right, to do this. Why? Because it's gonna be good for us, right? And see, the problem with Christianity is this. When it becomes a burden to you, and I've said it often, it becomes a got to. You got to, listen, you can't be obedient to God unless you lay your body down so that live in sacrifice. You can't do it. But if it's a got to, it'll be a burden. If it's a get to, it's him beseeching you, right? So, so understand it is the proper thing to do, right? No one, brother John, there's no one who's ever been saved. And I'm going to say this and you say, well, that's a absolute, you can't say that. I sure can. No one who's ever gotten saved, who has not willingly given themselves to Christ is obedient and pleasing to Christ. You're not, you're not a Christian. You say, well, you're judging. I didn't say you weren't saved. I said, you're not Christ-like. Right? And you're not obedient. Obedience is, God, I'm willing to lay myself down. Right? And you know what? God will, he's not going to drag you. He's asking you because it's the proper thing to do. And God has saved us from the penalty and power of sin, and when we think of his mercy to present our bodies as sacrifice, it's the right thing to do. What am I gonna give him? Well, he's asking for my tithes. No, the tithe is the Lord's. I mean, that's already his, right? Well, I'm giving 10% to God, that's my money. No, it's all his, and the first 10% he sent is mine, and the other 90, you say, well, the 90's mine. No, the 90's his too. He's just telling you to be a good steward of the 90. So if you won't even give him the 10, you're robbing God right off the bat. But see, he wants more than your pocketbook, he wants everything about you. He wants your dreams and your hopes and your children and your grandchildren. He wants your life. He wants you to be willing to do whatever he asks you to do. And that's how you become a willing sacrifice. God's not going to drag you in there kicking and screaming. See, it's not only the right thing to do, it's the practical thing to do. It's the proper thing to do. It's the practical thing to do. Just makes sense. Well, why would you not? I mean, you know what we did? What was it? Saturday night, we went up that journey through Bethlehem. That was a pretty neat thing. But you know what they do? We went on the wagon. I mean, we were VIPs and all, but you know. We went on that wagon. And they had somebody driving the tractor. And I'll be honest with you, I probably could have navigated through there, right? But it was kind of nice to sit back and let somebody else do the driving. Right? He knew exactly. He'd done that more than one time. He'd done it more than one time that night. He knew exactly where to go, where to stop. He knew where to pick you up. He knew where to drop you off. What's your point? It's practical. It's the proper thing to do. It's the practical thing to do. Why would I want to drive if somebody else is going to? And so why is it that you're trying to figure, you're trying to figure your life out, listen to me. You're trying to figure your life out when God can see farther down the road than you can. Well, I don't know if I can trust him with my life. Well, who are you gonna trust with it? Well, I'm gonna trust me to make decisions. Well, that hadn't worked out. Is there anybody, listen, listen to me young people. You adults, is there anybody, if you had some things in your life to do over, you'd do them differently? Right? How many have you done this? How many have made decisions and never prayed about it? Yeah, some of you are getting all spiritual now. Right? Why? Because you thought that if you prayed, God wouldn't allow you to have what you wanted, right? And how many times when you didn't pray and you got what you wanted, you realize it's really not what you wanted? Amen, I've done it, right? I've got zeros attached to the non-praying decisions that I've made, right? Amen. If we're smart, why would you not trust someone who knows everything instead of depending on someone who knows very little? Right? That's my point. So it's the practical thing to do. God wants us to live a holy life. That's what he says here, that you present your bodies to live in sacrifice. Now, not only that, if we're going to live holy, we've got to be controlled by the Spirit of God. Well, we go to the book of Ephesians, the Bible said be filled with the Spirit. Right? It was Ephesians five. Well, that is a continual feeling. That means I have to submit to the spirit of God for him to, uh, feel me. And in order to feel me, I have to be submitted to him. And when I'm submitted to him, guess what he does? He guides me in the, where I should go. So why would we not do that? If the Holy spirit's in control, then he controls the whole body and all things. So the body is an unbridled sacrifice, but then the body is an unblemished sacrifice. What do you mean by that? Notice what he says, he says here, that you present your bodies to live in sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. So he expresses through the believer the fruit of the spirit. Here's what I mean. The living sacrifice is triumphant. See, here's the thing, Brother Bart, sacrifice and life do not go together. To be a sacrifice means you die. But if you die, guess what? You live. The way up is down. See, you gotta die to self. to be pleasing to God, your dreams and your desires have to die and you've got to let God control all that. Now all of a sudden when you do that, guess what happens? Now you're an unblemished sacrifice because you willingly laid your life down to be this sacrifice God wants you to be. So a holy living sacrifice is a triumphant life. I'll tell you this, I've lived outside the will of God. It's terrible. And before I started pastoring, Brother Eddie, Miss Sante, we had money. We had it. We had stuff, but we almost didn't have each other. You figure out what's important, right? When you realize that, Hey, guess what? You can have all the money in the world. You can have all the prestige. You can have all the glory in the world, but there's certain things. If you don't have it, you don't have anything. So it's a triumphant life. Then Holy sacrifice is a virtuous and it's the virtue of Jesus. You can't do that in your flesh. Okay, then acceptable sacrifice, pleasing, acceptable to God. Well, how do you do that? Well, to be acceptable and pleasing to God, you've got to lay down your life. You've got to willingly be a sacrifice. Your life has got to be sacrificial in every, not just in your giving, right? What about your service? It's Christmas time, you know what? And people say, well, it's Christmas time, you ought to give. It's amazing to me, People get all mushy and gushy around Christmas time, don't they? And they'll do food drives, and they'll do clothing drives, and that's good, but what about the other 11 months of the year? I mean, nobody's cold in February? Nobody needs food in April, right? But there's something about this time of year, it soothes our conscience to do something nice for someone else. Well, for the Christian, that ought to be 365 days a year. We ought to figure out ways, and it's not always giving turkeys and clothes to people. Sometimes it's praying for people. Sometimes it's being there when they need someone to talk to. But see, when we live a life of service, when we're sacrificial, We live a life of service, we're more like Christ. So we look at the body as an unblemished sacrifice, and then the body as an unbiased sacrifice. Reasonable service. Reasonable. What's that mean? It means no extraordinary. It's not extraordinary. Now, here's the thing. You know this, right? I've been pastor in 23 years. Miss Ellen, I grew up 30 minutes from here, 30 minutes, right? But Shane, it was not a huge sacrifice for us to move 30 miles away and pastor. That was, here's the thing. We loved our church, loved my pastor, loved our life, loved our house. So it was a sacrifice. I mean, I'm not dumb. I could walk in here Sunday and y'all can say, you know what preacher, we don't want you anymore. I won't leave, right? I'm not leaving. But then I look at brother Seth, miss Holly. They moved four hours. I look at Jose and Arlene. They moved across country. My heroes are missionaries. I look at these folks. They went to Germany, right? They left their home, went to another country. That, to me, that's, to me, that's sacrifice. But the Bible calls it reasonable service. So when I look at them and look at them and look at Hosea and Arlene, and I'm thinking, you know what, they did that because they want to serve God. It's not that big a deal for me to go from 30 minutes away to come over here to be your pastor. But watch this, it shouldn't be that much for you to drive from your house to get here. See what I mean? It's like, well, you don't know what I've sacrificed to be at the house of God. Okay. Right. And again, here's the thing. Y'all could come in here Sunday, vote me out, vote him out, vote Jose out. And then if I leave bro John, miss Rose, they're going with me. Amen. I've done determined that, but guess what? Your lives don't change. Your address doesn't change. You can go to church right where you're at and all that. So, so my point is before you start looking and looking at all the sacrifice you're making, look at these other folks and say, man, they're, they're given even more than I'm given. And the Bible calls all of it reasonable service, right? And so there's no extraordinary, it's just reasonable. And then number two, how the Christian is changed as a believer. Okay. Verse number two, the Bible said, be not conformed to this world. I want to say something right here. Here's the interesting thing. You're conformed to something. Two things. You will always worship something. And you're always conformed to something. It's interesting to me when I was growing up, you know, uh, miss Ellen, she was growing up. You had all these people that they grew up like we did same life, but they want to be hippies. Right. They wanted to not shave and not take a bath and stank and you know, all this stuff. And, and they, they chose that. Why? Because they wanted to rebel. They want to be nonconformist, right? Now you got, people's got crazy looking hair and tackle box in their face and you know, all this stuff and can't determine whether they're boys or girls and, and all that. You know why? Because they want the rebellion. They want to be nonconformist, right? I don't want to be like my parents. I want to, I want to grow up and I want to be, I want to be, well, you're conforming to something. And the Bible said here, be not conformed to this world. So you're either be conformed to the world or you'll be conformed to Christ. Amen. Not me. I'm doing, I'm, I'm not conformed. I'm my own person. I'm an individual. No, you're not. There's somebody I promise you that almost is identical. Thinks exact, almost identical. And then they may not look like you, but they've got the same thought process, right? And the Bible said this, let this mind be in you. What kind of mind is that? The mind of Christ. So you're going to be conformed to something or someone and it will either be Christ or the world. But the Bible said be not conformed to this world, but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind. So that tells me that automatically when you're born as a human being, You're not conformed to Christ. You're conformed to the world. If I, if my mind has to be renewed and guess what? Then I'm going in that direction. Okay. That you may prove notice that word prove. Well, what's that mean? Well, it means you're, you're the actions. That you say you believe you're proving them, right? So in other words, the Bible says you prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So how is the believer changed? And that's what it, it's a metamorphosis, but it's not, I've turned over a new leaf of life. It's the fact that God has changed me from the inside out. And that only happens because of verse one. that I present my body, a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is my reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So, here's what happens when a man gets born again, or a woman gets born again. It's not, I decided to do better, I decided not to drink, or do drugs, or I decided not to have an illicit lifestyle, but here's what happens, he's morally changed. So in other words, the word conform means that the outward appearance does not coincide with the inward, right? In other words, he's saying, listen, if you're conformed to this world and you say you're a believer, and that's where we are today, everybody's like, well, I believe in grace. No, what you believe in is not this verse. Because this verse is saying if you're born again, right, you're not to be conformed to this world. You're to be different. You cannot be a Christian and be conformed to the world. You can't do it. Nobody's preaching that today, because guess what? It doesn't put people in the seats. But you can't have it both ways. You cannot be conformed to Christ and conformed to the world. You can't do it. Right? So the work, your, your outward man ought to reflect your inward man. And so we're not to be fashioned by the world. It shouldn't, the world should not influence us. That's what I'm saying. Right. And so the world signifies the condition of humanity. Well, we live in a wicked day. And so his life is not molded from without, but from within. Right? We sang that song, I'm glad I know who Jesus is. Not I know about who he is, but I know him. And when you know him, something takes place, you're transformed, right? So he's morally changed, but then the Bible said he's mentally changed. He thinks different. When you're born, listen to me, when you're born again, see the flesh is selfish. The flesh wants to satisfy itself. Right? Everything about Christianity is anti-flesh. I'll give you an example. Your flesh is coming up on Christmas. Again, we liken it to kids, but there's some adults the same way. They'll get tore up if they don't get what they want for Christmas. I mean, just tore out the frame. Wow. Right? Why? Because this flesh is selfish. Right? You don't believe it? I'll tell you. You ready for this? Next time we have a dinner down here, you watch and see. You got some people act like they haven't eaten in seven years. Right? And don't matter if you get anything to eat. They gonna get theirs. Amen. Am I wrong? They do it up in West Virginia that way too? I mean, every Baptist church I've ever been to. You got, I remember, listen, our old church, we had this guy, he'd have a dessert plate, man, he'd put up those cheese strips around it as buffers. They'd fit more food in there. I'm like, my goodness. Right? Why? Because you're going in that line and your body's saying, hey, if you don't get that now, somebody else is going to eat it. You ain't going to get none. Right? Get that dessert table. Ain't going to be no nanner pudding left if you don't get a spoonful now. Right? Amen. Same thing with everything else. We're selfish. Some of you walk in here, first thing you say, it's hot in here. Really? Then you can talk to somebody. I'm about to freeze to death in here. You know what they're doing? My flesh, right? Can't park. Hey, can't park. We got all these parking spaces, lines, right? Lines. And people park wherever, right? They don't park down there until we're eating. And all of a sudden it's like, it's like you can't even get in down there. Why? Because I don't want to walk 15 feet. I'm just, I'm trying to help you. I'm making a point. Hang on, some of you going, a lot of people doing this now, ain't they? No, it ain't praying time. We ain't praying just yet. Hang on with me. Why do we do that? Because we're all made out of the same stuff. We're made out of flesh and our flesh saying, you know what? You pay your tithe around here. You park where you want to. That preacher, he ain't got the right to say nothing to you. You sit where you want to. Brother Bart, you sit there for how long? Somebody sits in that seat, your flesh and soul. What are you doing sitting in my seat? Usually if you sit in the front, you're safe though, ain't you, in a Baptist church. See, when you're born again and you've laid your body down as a living sacrifice, it changes the way you think. Now all of a sudden, it's like, well, I don't care if I get desert. I don't care if I park up front. I don't care if I get to sit here. Somebody else can have my seat, right? It changes the way we think because we're not thinking about the flesh. We're controlled by the spirit and so it signifies a glorious change. When you start acting like Christ and it's second nature that you don't have to think about it, right? You don't have to make yourself do it. Now all of a sudden, guess what? You're thinking different. It's a change of character. And then thirdly, he's motivationally changed. The Bible said, notice what it says that you may prove that which is good, acceptable and perfect will of God. So I want to know what God's will is for my life. Here's what's this. I'm going to help you. I can tell you, I can tell you what God's will is for every single person in here to bring glory to him. Now that's going to look different for each one of us, right? And what that looks like in your life is for you to spend time with God and figure out. But God's will for your life and mine are the exact same. He left us here to bring glory to him, right? So we have to discover what God's will is for my life, right? Nobody else is going to be pastor of this church right now because it's God's will for my life, right? Where you're at in your life, if you're in God's will, nobody else can be there. But if you're not, what you got to figure out is okay, where's God want me and what's he won't be doing. And we realize that the will of God is good for us. Man, it's good for you being God's will. It really is. It's profitable, right? The Bible said here, it's the good, acceptable, perfect will of God. So God's will, God will not ask us to do what we cannot accept. Now he'll ask you to do what you can't do, right? But he'll empower you to do it. People say, well, God won't ask you do more, uh, won't put more on you than you can handle. He sure will. It's not about what you can handle. It's what he can handle through you. Right? So, so if, if you can handle it, what do you need him for? I'm glad praise God. He puts more on me than I can handle. You know what does it drives me to my knees in prayer. I cannot handle being the pastor of this church. Some days I'm like, and then you wake up and go, all right, we're good. God said, listen, I got you, right? You can't handle your life sometimes. I mean, I look at Miss Deb and her family. I mean, to have two losses like that, you know where she's at tonight? Church, right? Well, you can't do that in your flesh. Some of you been through the same thing. You can't handle those things in your flesh. You, you got to have God. How do you do that? You've got to lay yourself on the altar. Now you don't have to, but what you'll find is that when you do God's will is perfect. We can't improve on it and it will be acceptable to you. Right. Man, I remember when God called me to preach, I'm like, ah, I can't do this. Now Lord, you obviously don't know what you got here. I'm no Bobby Robertson. I'm no Joe Arthur. I'm no Noah Fry. Those are preachers. But finally I said, I'll do what you want me to do. But I don't want to be no pastor. I want to be an evangelist, right? I want to go in there, stay where I'm at, and just stay at my home church. But you know what? I figured this thing out. I travel just enough to where I realized if I was an evangelist, I'd be a basket case. I hate sleeping in hotels. I hate driving. Amen. I like preaching to you people as crazy as y'all are. You're my people and I like preaching to y'all. Right. And it, it's hard brother. You go, I preached to Brother Paul's brother just a few weeks ago. It is hard to know what to preach. You go in there, you want to be a blessing, right? But you're like, I don't know these people. I don't know what they need. Then you try to get some help from the preacher. You're like, hey, anything you want me to preach on? Anything you want me to? Oh, just preach whatever God lays on your heart. I'm like, could you not help me a little bit, right? And I'm like, man, I just couldn't imagine having to get in a car every week, get on an airplane. I hate airplanes. I hate airports. I like that bed over there across the road. And I figured out, this is acceptable for me. And if I'm in God's will, it's acceptable to Him. And it's God's perfect will for my life. And I like it. And I'm telling you the greatest place you'll ever be is in the will of God. And the way you do that is you decide to lay yourself on the altar and say, I'm presenting myself a living sacrifice. It's opposite of what the world, sacrifice means death, but sacrifice of God means life. Right? And then God said, okay, you're serious about this thing. Let me give you some direction here. Take this step, right? I was telling, I think I was telling brother Seth, I working on a message, uh, on Abraham. And here's the thing. We all know the story of Abraham, right? Abraham knew the Lord. Well, he didn't tell him where he's going. He just said, I'll show you land. When you know the Lord, you don't need to know the land. When you don't know the Lord, you're going to need to know the land, right? And so when you just know the Lord, it's like, okay, well, that's where you want me, that's where I'll go, right? Next step, he didn't show me just get out of your country. He went there, he said, okay, now we're gonna go here, now we're gonna go here. And what we want is for God to show us the end and say, okay, well, here's where you're gonna end up. Well, faith doesn't work like that. If you know the Lord, you don't have to know where the land is. You just wanna be with him. Amen. Let's get around the altar and pray tonight.