captured the essence of what a Savior. Amen. Think where you'd be today if you hadn't come to a saving faith in the person of Jesus Christ. What if he had not gone to the cross? What if he decided to cut his shorts today? You know what? These people aren't worth it. Wow. What a Savior. What a Savior we have. Check in our walk. This is a communion service message today. The background that Paul's writing was what was really known as an agape feast, a love feast. But as much as it was meant to be a celebration of the death, the burial, and the resurrection of the Lord, it had become something other than. Like some church services, which are supposed to be a worship service for the Lord, have become more a social gathering, more of an entertainment than it is actually a worshiping of the Lord. And so Paul has written to them to correct some problems. But as we do it the first month, the first Sunday of every month, It is a reminder that this is something that we should be doing every day of the week, not necessarily going through a communion service. But the conditions of our relationship should be on our mind and our hearts on a day-to-day basis. I'm not talking about the loss of salvation, but the nature and the character of our walk with the Lord. This is not one of those things that I'll mention a little bit later on in the message that we We wait till Communion Sunday and then we kind of fess up everything for the whole last 30 days or so. Every day should be a day that's marked by the tenets of the Communion service. A text haven't been read for us, a key verse is verse 28, but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. Another way of looking at the statement that we have just read from First Corinthians 11, 28, is to ask ourselves, am I who I say I am? Amen? Am I who I say I am? I think I've shared this with you before. And back in the early days, going back into the 70s and the 80s, Christian education within churches and Christian schools were being raised up. And it was a movement that was well-received within churches, but not too much by our government and our local municipalities. And so a lot of these various schools and churches were being taken to court and being sued. The kids were being truant or determined they were truant and so on. And Dr. David Gibbs from the Christian Law Association was called in to defend a Christian school. And the prosecutors asked all sorts of questions, a number of things there. And finally, the judge had enough and he pulled Dr. Gibbs aside, the other lawyer, and he said, you know, Dr. Gibbs, your people have a problem. and that Christian education is not a conviction as much as it is a preference. They prefer it rather than a conviction. Christian education is a conviction, whether it's homeschooling or in a Christian school. And it should never be a preference, although we should certainly prefer it over the secular education, we should have a conviction of that. And so, The judge looked at some of the reasons one of the prosecutors asked this one young man. He said, well, how much time do you spend watching television? So he gave X number of hours watching television. How much time do you spend reading a newspaper back when people used to read newspapers? They didn't have podcasts back in those days. And so how much time? And so he began to look at it, and the question was, how much time do you spend reading your Bible? Well, if you're studying the Bible, you're spending a good amount of time. You should be, anyway. And so that kind of turned the judge attention to him a little bit that there wasn't really a conviction as much as it was a preference. And so as Christians we have got to learn to be who we really say we are or to not tell people that we're a Christian at all. The idea of the word examine is the To scrutinize, the idea is to scrutinize a thing to see if it is genuine or not. So in verse 28, but let a man examine. Scrutinize. At the end of the day, or maybe midway through the day, you kind of know that the first half of the day, you know, you weren't on top of your game, so to speak. And you may have lost it. So you take your lunch break, you get a lunch break, you say, Lord, I lost it. So you begin to scrutinize what led you to make the choices, the decisions to say what you did or do what you did. And so the Christian life is a 24-hour experience, seven days a week, and it's going to be so until Jesus comes. And we need to scrutinize our Christian walk day by day to make sure that it is what it ought to be, to make sure that it is indeed manifesting the character of Christ in our lives. But have you ever noticed, and I'm sure that you have, that when you purchase some groceries and you pay cash and you hand the cashier several $20 bills, that the cashier will take out a special pen and swipe that $20 bill. Because she wants to know if it's a real one or not. She wants to know if it's a genuine one or whether it's a counterfeit. Now, it's a good thing our society doesn't have one of those kind of pens that they can swipe across a Christian individual to determine if they're a counterfeit or if they're real or if they're genuine. But regardless of the number of protections built into the printing of our money, the ability to counterfeit is uncanny and the sophistication of today's printers makes it nearly impossible to detect whether it's a genuine $20 bill or a counterfeit. And so there are other means necessary to check to examine the validity of the money that's being exchanged. Now God does not want counterfeit Christians, nor should we want counterfeit Christians, nor should we want to be a counterfeit Christian. And certainly we should not want to be one ourselves, and so the Holy Spirit has made a number of important statements on this very issue. In 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 5, you might want to mark it down. He says there, examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates. And the other one is right here in First Corinthians 12, or 11, 28. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. It's about worthiness. First and foremost, it's about salvation, but second is about worthiness, if you will. Now both words, which are translated into the English as examined, are actually different in the Greek, but they still have very similar meanings. Sometimes it's just a matter of how their ending is. And so both words examined are in the present tense. And this is important. It's the character of the verb context. And that is both are in the present tense. They're in the active voice. I'm to be doing this and I'm to be doing this on a regular basis. Not something I just wait until the first Sunday of the month. Then I choose to try to bring in a whole bucket load of things I need to confess and get straightened out so I can participate in the communion service. So it's in the present tense, it's in the active voice, but it's also in the, both of them are in the imperative mode. This is something I really need to do. And if we are not willing to do it, then God says, I will gladly step up to the plate. Because he really wants what's best for us, but he also wants us to have the best testimony possible. And so being in the present tense, active voice, imperative mood, they are to be performed by ourselves upon ourselves. And the last thing I'd want to hear is someone turn around, look at me and say, and you call yourself a Christian. Because of something I said or something that I did, because I just lost it for whatever it was for a minute. So interestingly enough, though both words examined are two different Greek words, the second Corinthians 13 verse five, where the word prove, Now, there's another word in that verse, because it says up there, examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith, prove yourselves, is the actual same as the word examined in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 28. And they have, again, the same grammatical structure in there, present tense, active voice, imperative mood. And so God is going to hold each of us responsible for whether we study or whether we are truly saved or not saved. That is, that we having come to a saving faith in Christ, and then for the nature and the character of our walk as redeemed of the Lord. Both of these questions and your answer to each will determine if you should partake of the communion service or not. Well, Father, guide and direct as we look to the message this morning, Lord, challenge us, because Lord, this is an important time. Lord, salvation is wrapped up at the very core of it all. And then Lord, secondly, wrapped around that is our demeanor, our daily demeanor as Christians. And Lord, it's how we function on a day-to-day basis in our ambassadorship, representing the kingdom of God. So Lord, encourage us and strengthen us this morning to resolve that every day is a good day for self-examination. Every day is a good day to take stock of our walk, and our life in general. So Lord, won't you guide, won't you direct us to salvation or to rededication. We'll give you the praise in Jesus' name, amen. And so the first point this morning, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, I'm sorry, 13 and verse five. And the title of it is simply passage is critical. This passage is critical to the communion celebration. Now it appears that a serious question has been raised by some at Corinth as to whether or not the Apostle Paul was indeed a Christian. That is, back in 2 Corinthians. Whether this was a question being raised by Judaizers or some jealous or pious individuals, because we know that there were a number of people who were in the Apostle Paul's day, they were very jealous and very envious of the Apostle Paul. It was one of the epistles, I'm trying to think if it's Peter or John has written. Let me see if I can see that very quickly. This individual was very resistant to the gospel message. I'm trying to think what it is. See if someone else can find it before I do. well. I can't see it right now. It just blew in my mind and it blew right out at the same time. But anyway, this individual was very resistant to Peter and or John with the Gospel message and he said when he came to them he was going to deal with them accordingly. And so the Question was concerning Paul's faith in Christ. And Paul counters that if they themselves were genuinely saved, they would have recognized the marks of one who is saved because they should be self-evident in themselves. Amen. And so when the Bible says, by their fruits you shall know them, we can look at individual without being judgmental and simply say, well, boy, That person claims to be a Christian, and they're very vulgar. They're crass with their language. The innuendos that they often display are not indicative of someone who is saved. And so you would decide, I'm not going to keep company. I'll pray for that individual, but I'm not going to keep company with that individual. But then he was someone who praises the Lord, and loves the Lord, and is walking with the Lord. You can recognize that in the demeanor of their walk, and those individuals that you want to be around on a regular basis. And so he's simply saying, it should be self-evident, if you are truly saved, that you would recognize in me the same things that are taking place inside of you. But nevertheless the question is an important question of which there is only one way to answer that question in the affirmative. Either you are saved or you're not saved. Either you have come to a saving faith in the person of Jesus Christ or you have not. Now some folks believe they are Christians because they are overall a good person. Some folks believe that they are Christians because they go to church. Sometimes every week and sometimes on the holidays. Some folks believe that they are Christians because they have a church membership. My mom and my dad, they were original charter members of a church. And when I turned 18, I was just put on the rolls. I'm going to heaven because I'm a church member. Well, if you haven't gotten saved, you're not making it. Some folks believe that they are Christians because at some point in their life, they were baptized. Maybe as an infant. Listen, wouldn't it behoove an individual, rather than to just simply take socks and say, well, I was baptized as an infant, therefore I know my original sin's been dealt with. You better check the Bible out. Because that's not what the Bible teaches. And so, if you've been baptized as an infant, all your mom and dad went home with was a sprinkled wet baby. That's all they went home with. who was headed out to a crisis eternity. Well, some folks believe that they are Christians because their mothers and their fathers are Christians. Listen, my children, all five of my children had to come to a saving faith in the person of Jesus Christ. They weren't going to heaven because Peg and I were saved. They weren't going to heaven because I was in the ministry full time. And they weren't gonna go to heaven because they had a godly mom or godly grandmothers on either side of the family. they were going to go to heaven because they came to a saving faith in the person of Jesus Christ. So the answer doesn't lie in what we think constitutes being a Christian. The answer lies in the Word of God where God clearly states what it is that makes someone a Christian. Now the word Christian appears only one time in the scriptures, and the word, I should say, Christians, plural, whereas Christian only appears twice. And in Acts chapter 11, verse 26, it was used to identify the disciples as followers of Christ, and it was used somewhat in a derogatory term. These people are followers of Christ, and so they were called Christians first. But you know, an interesting thing, if you erase the last four letters, or the last three letters of the word Christian, What do you have? So, without Christ, oh, I should say, you erase the first word, I'm sorry, I get it backwards, you take out the word Christ, and what are you left with? I am, for I am nothing without Christ. It helps to get it straightened out the first time. But anyway, you take out the word Christ, and I am nothing without Christ. And Jesus himself said, without me you can do what? You can do nothing. Folks, Christ is not just only worthy, he is everything in our lives. And so it is used to identify the disciples as followers of Christ because they preached Christ crucified, buried, and risen from the dead. And that's what Paul said, when I went into the city of Corinth, I preached the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ. And so, before one can become a follower of Christ, they must come to a saving faith in Christ. Let's just go back a little bit to John chapter 3. In John chapter 3, most of us are very familiar with this portion of scripture. Nicodemus comes to the Lord by night. Now remember, he's a religious man. He's a very devout man. He's a very devout Jew, a very devout Hebrew. I'm sure keeping as much as he could to the tradition and the letter of the law. But in all his devoutness, he still felt that there was something missing. It did not satisfy. And folks, that's the difference between genuine Christianity and counterfeit Christianity. Genuine Christianity, you can find satisfaction. But in counterfeit Christianity, it's really basically just an empty shell of a person. But he says, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. The same came to Jesus by night and said unto him, Rabbi, that is master, we know that thou art a teacher come from God. For no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Now, Jesus didn't go into a long theological debate with him at that point. Jesus simply said, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except the man be born again. Because he knew the missing element in Nicodemus' life. He knew that Nicodemus was feeling somewhat empty, dissatisfied with things as they were, and so he gave him the answer he came looking for, except a man be born again or born from above, he cannot enter or see the kingdom of God. And so Jesus plainly tells Nicodemus one must be born again. All the things that I mentioned before, whether it's church membership or baptism, all these other things that you might consider that Christians should do, yes, but they do not make one a Christian. That one must be born again. Now it didn't matter how good he was, it didn't matter how religious he was, whether he was faithful to the synagogue, but that he must be born again. Nicodemus, I'm telling you right now, the missing element in your life is you have not been born again. Now, it confused Nicodemus. Can a full grown man enter into his mother's womb a second time? That means that we are born again when we are preached or hear the word of God concerning our being a sinner, like Romans 3.23, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And then, of course, we have Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, for by grace you say through faith that none of yourselves is a gift of God, not of works, nor sin, nor man, nor ship, both. We have John 3, 3, 16, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten. We could go down a litany of verses here this morning and show that unless we're born again, we're never, ever going to see heaven. We're never going to get into heaven at all. And it must be a receiving of Jesus Christ as one's personal Lord and Savior. So the fact was that Nicodemus came to Christ because he knew something was missing in his life that religion wasn't able to satisfy. Religion cannot satisfy anything. But having a relationship with Jesus Christ, that can be satisfying. if we will walk as we are ordained to walk. Now in Acts chapter 16, if we can turn to the book of Acts, and again we have multiple verses and multiple illustrations that reveal that we must be born again. and that we must believe that Jesus Christ. These are not two things, but they're all one and the same. To believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that Jesus came to take our place on the cross so that we could escape the wrath of God, then it is all our faith. that we must come to Christ in. But in Acts chapter 16 verse 25. This is about the Ethiopian eunuch. He had been in Jerusalem. He was on his way back to Ethiopia. And he was reading from the book of Isaiah. And he was intrigued, but he couldn't understand it. And so the Holy Spirit of God brought Philip to the scene, to the chariot, and told him to go up and speak to this man. And he saw that this eunuch was reading from the book of Isaiah and asked him if he understood. And he said, how can I except some man tell me? And the point that he was reading was from Isaiah chapter 53. And so it is not anything that we do in and of ourselves. I'm sorry, I got ahead of myself there. The Philippian Jailer, earlier in the Book of Acts, is the other one, because I was going to use that one, but I changed over. So anyway, the Philippian Jailer. Paul and Silas had been beaten to it with an issue of their life. Now, beatings in those days were not like anything you and I could possibly imagine. I mean, they would just, not only leave you with wealth, they would break skin, tear muscles, whatever. It was gruesome, painful, and it was horrible. And they had been beaten to within an inch of their life and then thrown into a prison locked in stocks. And during the night an angel came and everything opened up. Earthquake. And the Philippian jailer, supposing everybody had escaped, was going to take his own life. And so we pick it up there in verse 25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God. And the prisoners heard him. Now, when you find yourself going through some difficulties in your life, do you mutter and sputter? Or do you praise God? That seems so inhuman. What human does that kind of stuff? What human responds that way? or doesn't respond that way when we talk about muttering and sputtering. But here they were. I'm sure that the pain was every bit as bad as it was earlier. Hot, sweaty, dank, stinky place that they were in. And the Bible says at midnight they began to sing praises. Wow. We don't lose our song in our trials and tribulations. We should exercise those songs because you know what it expedites? the recovery so much quicker, so much faster. But he goes on, and he said, and suddenly there was a great earthquake. so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bands were loose. And the keeper of the prison, waking out of sleep and seeing the prisoners' doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, do thyself no harm. We are all here. Talk about something earth shattering. Literally, physically speaking, I should say, Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do? To be what? To be saved. Well, you've got to go down to the creek down here, and you've got to go over to this church over here, and you've got to be a part of this synagogue over here. He could have a bazillion of things that people lift up as evidence that they think that they're saved. But his answer was very, very, very simple. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord into all that were in the house. But he said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Wow, talk about simplistic. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Oh, come on preacher, it's too simple. It's got to be more complicated than that. Why? Why does it have to be more complicated than that? God's certainly more intelligent than you and I, and He knew that we needed to have it about as simple as we could have it. Amen? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. But to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ is to also recognize simultaneously that I am a sinner, and that He is my only hope. And I'm going to place all my hope All my confidence is going to be placed in what Jesus Christ did on my behalf. So the question in verse 30 was, what must I do to be saved? And so the word saved is in the Eorst, tense meaning a particular action at some particular point. For some they may not get saved until they're later in years in their life. It might be much older. Sometimes it makes this easier to reach children than it is to reach a full grown adult. But for the moment of time that you've heard the gospel, that Jesus loves you, and that Jesus died for you, and you now believe He is the Son of God who died for you, and that He is the only means that you have for salvation, and you believe that with all your heart. Then that's the moment, that's the point in time, if you will. And so It is in the passive voice, meaning he receives this action, meaning God will save this man, because it's also in the passive voice. So I do not save myself. I recognize the means by which I can be saved, and I surrender, and I submit to that. And it's God. That's why in John 3, 16, it says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. No, I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. John chapter three and verse three. He said, verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again. Meaning being born from above. God, who knows the human heart, says this person is truly repentant. And so God is the one who saves us. God is the one who puts our name in that land's book of life. And so in verse 31, Paul replies, the word is to believe, the word believe is in the imperative mood, meaning to trust in Christ and Christ alone is absolutely imperative in order to be saved. It's not plus, plus, plus Christ, or Christ plus, plus, plus, or it's not Christ minus this or minus, it is Christ and Christ alone. It is imperative that we understand that we are saved by what Jesus Christ did on the cross, and that the faith that we place in what He did is what saves us. See, Christ has done the work. What God wants from us is an absolute faith in Christ, in Christ alone. So if one is not saved by faith and faith alone, one is not saved. Amen? He or she is simply not saved. And they have no business participating in the communion service. And yet there are many people out there who they just assume, well, this is somehow... Listen, the communion service is a remembrance of what Christ did for you. And when you partake about it, you're acknowledging that that's what it took to get my soul saved. What Christ did on the cross for me, I'm identifying and I'm witnessing to that particular fact. That's what he did. And if you're not saved, you're not witnessing to it, because you haven't believed in it. You haven't accepted it, and you have not received it. You may be thinking, this one boy preacher, you're being harsh. Just telling you what the scriptures state. Which brings us to the second point, which is shorter than the first. 1 Corinthians chapter 11 to 28 verse 28 is written to you and I, although 2nd Corinthians also was written to us, to examine ourselves whether we be in the faith or not. It should be self-evident whether we are or whether we are not if you know the scriptures. But here 1 Corinthians 11 to 28 is also critical to the communion service for the redeemed of the Lord. Once we are saved, having placed our faith in the person of Christ, and that he is able and will save us from the wrath of God, it is important for us to be in his word continually so we can know what he expects of us as his children, and we don't have to come to the communion service and say, What did I do that they shouldn't have done? What did I do that, you know, so you have to almost bring a tablet and sit there and in the short time we have there to try to confess all these little things and say, Lord, I want to get right with you. I want to be able to participate in this here. And I don't want to, I don't want to be chastened because all week long I was not the child of God you'd have me to be. So without being in the Bible, even taking the time to study the Bible, we will have little to nothing. in which to compare where we are as to where we should be in our daily living for the Lord. How are you going to know how you and I as a Christian ought to be conducting ourselves on a day-to-day basis? How are you going to know? I mean, we already know there's a lot of freewheeling people out there who live their lives any way they want to live their lives. And they call themselves Christians because they're a good person. But they have no clue what God expects of them. But you and I who are the redeemed of the Lord, if you're in the Bible, we know what God expects. And so simply put, the things the Holy Spirit is stating through the Apostle Paul in First Corinthians 11, 28-34 is about our conduct. Our daily conduct as those who have come to a saving faith in Christ, and not so much about our salvation. We are to examine ourselves, it says in verse 28, and as verse 28 has it, it is my testimony. I ask myself, is my testimony genuine? Because that's the idea of the word examine, is my testimony genuine? Am I real or am I not real? Does my life reflect a true relationship with Christ? Am I more off than I am on? The failure to discern, verse 29, where it says make a distinction, the idea is to make a distinction, is where I stand, leads to damnation or condemnation brought on oneself. And later on it is about chastisement. Whom the Lord loveth, he will chasteneth. And so verse 31 says if we take the initiative and judge, meaning making a distinction about ourselves, by ourselves concerning our spiritual walk in life, because if we will not, then God will. Verse 31. And I better get over there. In verse 31. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. The point in these verses is to take a daily inventory of how our lives are being influenced by the Word of God and how it is being influenced by the Holy Spirit as well. And so it's either being influenced by Christ or it's being influenced by our flesh, the world system. and the devil. There is no other way in between. It's one or the other. And so just because we are saved doesn't mean that we can live like the rest of the world. I got my ticket and I'm going on my way. See, God doesn't like that. God wants good witnesses. God wants solid witnesses. And he wants us to grow. And He wants to bless us. He wants to be able to fulfill His promises to us as He is redeemed of the Lord. And so, be it ruined lives, ruined marriages, ruined families, the loss of health, or such actions that hastens one's death. He says in the Scriptures there, if I can find my spot there again. Well, he says in verse three, he says, for this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. Now the word sleep there is koimeo or koimea. It has several meanings of which one is a metaphor for death. And there have been times God has had to terminate Christians because their testimonies were so offensive, offensive to him. He says some are sick and weakly. Now he's talking about spiritual weakness, a spiritual sickness. The inability to really be able to grasp what it means to be a Christian and living under the auspices of the world and the world's priorities rather than godly priorities in one's life. And so I don't know about you, but I want to have a clear channel for wisdom and discernment in the decisions that I must make. Wouldn't you want to say? But you can't have that if we are living according to the dictates of the flesh. If we're not walking in the spirit, as we are commanded to do, then we cannot make the kind of decision that are going to please God. And he says, I will chase you because I love you. And at some particular point he's going to simply say, okay, enough's enough. And so then when it is time for the communion service, it is truly a celebration of rejoicing. Amen. We come together on the first Sunday month and we say, man, this was a good month. This was a great week. I just kind of really felt the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit of God. I had an opportunity to be able to share the gospel here. Someone came and asked me certain questions. I was able to give them the right kind of answers along the way there. And you really kind of went, oh boy, this has been a wow week, oh Lord. Amen. How good is that? Well, I don't believe we can always come that way. because God has spoken to certain things in our lives about certain things, whether it's through messages or reading or whatever else there, and we're just not complying. We're like a Missouri mule. We're kind of, we're dug in and we're not moving one way or the other. And so, when it's time for the communion service, it is truly a celebration of rejoicing for a relationship that is more important, more meaningful, and more purposeful than any relationship will experience this side of the rapture. So the question is, are you in the faith? No. Why not accept Christ right now as your savior? It is a community celebration, a jam session in which we play catch up. Why not purge to examine our walk before the Lord and its character each day, or better yet, throughout the day? Make a note to yourself. I want to review my morning. I want to review my ride to work because a lot of times we can lose it on the ride in. And then we have to fess up before we can get into the workplace. So, hey, there are great times and wonderful things that we can do. That's called our walk with the Lord. Walking with the Lord. Evaluating ourselves. Evaluating that relationship. with the Lord. Father, thank you for this time that we can be together. Lord, we're about ready to go into communion service, but Lord, we need to really fully understand the impact, the importance and the necessity of the communion service. And Lord, this is not something that's to be taken lightly, but Lord, at the same time, this is not a means of salvation. It is a picture and a representation of what it took for us to be able to be saved. Lord, thank you for those individuals who prayed for us. Thank you, Lord. for those individuals who shared the gospel. Lord, those who brought us to that place where we accepted you as our personal Lord and Savior. Lord, thank you for so great a love, not only on your part, but their part as well. And Lord, as we come together today and we prepare now for the communion service, Lord, all are invited. But Lord, we pray that all hearts will be right, first with salvation and then with service to the Lord. And Lord, We'll give you that praise and that honor and that glory for the work you're about to do. In Jesus' name, amen. A.J. and Brother Steve, thank you for coming.