All right. Good morning, everybody. Trying to catch my voice after that. That song does go pretty high, too. So sometimes they're hard to hit those high notes, you know? So this morning, I have a lesson that I'm going to teach on. It's something that I've taught on before and it's something that's kind of near and dear to my heart. Just kind of obviously the whatever that was a week or two ago Wednesday that I was able to stand up here and stand before you all and preach. preaching on testimonies and kind of a little bit of my testimony up until when I got saved and just a little bit beyond. But that's not all that makes up a testimony. It's, you know, we live a lot of life beyond the day of salvation and that's a continual testimony, right? And it's not gonna be on testimonies today, but, so turn to Proverbs to start. I'm gonna read a couple verses of scripture, and then we'll pray, and I'll give you the title. So turn to Proverbs chapter 14, and we're gonna look at verse 12 to start, Proverbs 14, 12. And, give you guys a sec, so. The Bible says, there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. All right, so we're just gonna have that verse there in Proverbs. Turn over to Matthew chapter seven. Matthew chapter seven. And we're gonna read a little bit more here. So if you haven't done your morning Bible reading, we'll take care of that right now. Matthew chapter seven. And we're going to start down in verse 13, Matthew 7, 13. And the Bible says, enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction. And many there be which go in there at. Because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life. And few there be that find it. Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore, by their fruits you shall know them. Notice that said twice there. Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my father, which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, we do thank you so much just for, Lord, the ability to gather here on a Sunday morning. Lord, I just pray that the word of God be magnified here. Lord, I pray that you put me aside, and Lord, let the words that be spoken be truth and light to those that are here. And Father, we're thankful again. We just pray and ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right. You can call this message a little bit what you want, but I have it titled cults, okay? I know cult is kind of a bad, bad word, like nobody wants to be in a cult, right? And everyone that is in a cult doesn't realize that they're in one, right? So when you're dealing with people and things like that, well, The reason this is so near and dear to me, so after I got saved, the Lord reconciled my marriage at that point. We were separated. The Lord reconciled my marriage. My ex-wife at the time was going through classes to become Catholic. They call them, I forget the name of it now. It's a catechumen. So they're like a caterpillar, right? So they're a catechumen. Alright, so she was going through all that. The Lord reconciled my marriage. I went back home and I kept going to the church I was going to and I was hearing the Word of God preached and taught and truth and It was straining the marriage, because we're going to two separate churches. Anyone that knows that, you know, it's a struggle. So what I ended up doing, I was saved. I knew the Lord Jesus Christ was my savior. Like I said, I put my faith and trust in him and him alone. But what I did to try to make the marriage work is I started going to the Catholic Church instead. I knew it wasn't right in my mind, but I was like, well, I need to do what I need to do to make things work. I did that for about two years. All of our friends, everything around us, we're hanging out with the priests at different times and things like that. I got to know that church very, very intimately because I got to go through all the, I never joined the church obviously, but my ex-wife did. And so we were dealing with the priests and these classes and everything. And so I got to know a lot. And what I realized was that a lot of what they were teaching wasn't matching what the Bible said. And it was something that, in my mind, I'm like, why? What's going on? All these people, they're nice people. They're good people. good upstanding members of society, dentists and doctors and just good overall people, construction guys, general contractors, you name it, same as in here. So I had to quantify this in my head and ultimately what ended up happening is I started to question. everybody that I was around and I would question them from the Bible. Well, that started to cause some strife and ultimately what ended up happening is I was told I was an occult. I was told over and over and over, over and over and over that I was an occult because I believed the Bible. That was all I believed was the Bible, what it said and what it taught. I was told I was in a cult over and over and over. So what I had to do is I had to go, okay, what is a cult? Why? What's religion? What is all this? Why does this all get messed up? And so like I said earlier, everyone that is in a cult doesn't realize it. And I had to find this out for myself. So turn to Colossians chapter 4. We are going to hit a lot of scripture this morning. So have your hands ready. So Colossians chapter 4. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians. Gentiles eat pork chops. I like that one best. I know there's one that says something about popcorn too, but I just think it's so doctrinally correct that Gentiles eat pork chops and Jews don't, and this is a book to Gentiles, right? So anyway, Colossians 4, 6, or let's read verse 5 as well. So it says, walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. This was one of the verses that really stuck with me when, you know, first time I read it, probably never read it ever in my life until after I got saved. I read my Bible through and read a lot of stuff for the first time that I had never ever read before, right? And so, Grace, but there's also salt in there. Now, salt does a few things, obviously, and I'm sure from this pulpit, you guys have learned about salt. But it does clean, it also stings, right? You know, when you're cleaning out a wound, it definitely has a little bite to it. And so, that grace can have bite, because truth hurts, right? That's kind of like a general saying, the truth hurts, right? Go to Ephesians 4.29. And so what, the reason why I'm giving you these, Ephesians 4.29, is when you're dealing with somebody, you obviously need to not get out the old you know, KJV 1611 66 caliber and put a hole through them, right? And that was something I had to learn as well. I kind of was a little rough, but I was a young Christian. I was only literally saved for three or four months and I was consuming the Bible like with a fire hose. And I just had zeal beyond belief and no knowledge of temperance or any of that stuff. So I was swinging a sword around like, a double-edged sword around like nobody's business. But Ephesians 4.29 says, let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. All right. And so I'm not gonna just particularly pick on the Catholic Church. Like I said, the reason why I'm calling it out is because I was a part of it, and it was a part of my life, and it was something that stole a huge portion of my life. It stole my ex-wife at that time and my daughter away. Now, obviously, the Lord, all things work together for good to them that love God, right? And I have a wife, now I'm remarried. I'm serving the Lord in a good church. I have a daughter, right? The Lord's made it all up to me. It doesn't, you still have to deal with that pain at that time. I didn't know this was waiting for me in the future. So earmarks of a cult. So the first one, if you're taking notes, I got five of them. So the first one is going to be exclusivity. So if you belong to a church, And they say that you can't be saved unless you're a member of our church. That's what exclusivity means. So unless you belong to the denomination that they're a part of, you're on the outside. Now that's, you know, the Council of Trent says that, you know, which Catholic Church still goes by, it was Council of Trent in the 1500s, but there's many other religions that abide by that rule as well. You guys know the religions, you guys have studied your Bibles. If your religion says that, you know, just your group is safe and this group isn't, there's an issue with that. Romans, go to Romans 10.13. We're gonna just look at all these just so that you guys see them and you have them. You guys know him by heart, I'm sure. Romans 10, 13. Pastor John says it every service that he's in, I think. I've heard him say it. Romans 10.13 says, what's the Bible say, right? For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. There's no exclusiveness with that. For whosoever, right? That's not, it doesn't say, oh, here, go to, well, John 3.16, right? John 3.16. Go over there. Look at it. Put your finger on it. Easy verses. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that only Catholics believe in him should not perish, right? Is that what it says, right? What's that say? Whosoever, right? Another whosoever. So there's no exclusivity. The Bible does not exclude. people. Now, there is an exclusion, and that's the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. That's the exclusion. It's Jesus Christ. It's not a religion. It's not you need to do this, this, and this, or you're on the outside. That exclusivity. 2 Peter 3.19 says, God is not slack concerning his promises, but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, not willing that any should perish, but all, all, all should come to repentance. I know I missed a bunch of words in it, but overall it's all, right? All is all. I have a note in my Bible next to that verse because Calvinists teach that there's a limited atonement. Well, all is all, right? So there's no exclusivity when it comes to biblical Christianity. The Bible does not exclude. Like I said, so if you're in a religion that excludes, Well, there's, like I said, short of Jesus Christ, that is the exclusion. Now, the second thing that cults and religions will teach is that they have an apostolic succession claim. So what that means is that they have an unbroken line of authority, and that authority then they can have over you. So because the Lord Jesus Christ called apostles, And if you look up the word apostle, there was 12 of them that were chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ himself when he walked on this earth, okay? Another thing of apostles is that the apostles themselves, the 11, because Judas fell after the resurrection, right? Peter, they named Matthias as the 12th Apostle. Paul, the Apostle born out of due time, was chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Now, if there's any apostolic succession, where'd that line go, right? And I know the Catholics teach that, well, Peter was the first Pope and then He, you know, named the next and the next and the next, and they have this whole long lineage all the way back to Peter of all their popes. And what that does is that creates an authority structure, okay? Now, God is a, you know, God is a God of order, and he has authority, and he has authorities in our life. And he has balances and structures and things like that. But when it comes to, what did Jesus Christ say? Let the things that are rendered under Caesar be Caesar's, and the things of God, things of God. Jesus Christ recognized there's a government authority that we are to abide by, and there's a biblical authority that we are to abide by, okay? There's not a, oh, Well, it goes God, Jesus Christ, man, woman, child, right? There's all sorts of different authority structures, but that apostolic succession claim you look at what the Catholic Church represents with that, and they have the pope, and they have the bishops, and then they have, or I'm sorry, the popes and the cardinals, and then the bishops, and then they have the clergy underneath that. And that hierarchy of order is what obviously creates that umbrella of authority. Now, it's not on authority, like I said, it's that apostolic succession claim. Go to 1 Timothy 3, And this is, so what I'm doing is I'm telling you what the earmarks of the cults are, and I'm giving you the Bible, what the Bible actually says about what it says, you know. And this is where, like I said, with me, when I was having to deal with this, I'd read this stuff in the Bible, you know, we'd go to a dinner, big old Christmas dinner, Both priests were invited, you know, the head priest and the secondary priest. And I'm watching one of them just get hammered. And I'm like, wow, that just does not seem right. Like, how is a leader acting that way? You know what I mean? Like, it just, in my head, I'm dealing with this and watching it. And it's like, what is going on? And I'm reading the Word of God, and it's, saying the exact opposite things. And this is where I had to deal with all this stuff. So 1 Timothy chapter 3, let me get there. I'm sure you guys are all there. Verse 1, this is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, not given to hospitality, apt to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy, a filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous, one that ruleth his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity, for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? Not a novice, less being lifted up with pride, he fall into condemnation of the devil, Moreover, he must have a good report of them, which are without, lest he fall into reproach and snare the devil. Right, so you have the calling of a man to preach. The Apostle Paul is giving Timothy, a pastor, directions on the calling of God, right? And the point I'm making with this is there's not an apostolic succession. It says this is a true saying, if a man desire, the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. That is meaning that God calls men to lead churches, okay? It's a God-called thing, it's not a man-promoted thing. So that is going to be your biblical point on apostolic succession. And I'm sure there's many, many, many, many other verses. And some of this lesson that I have potentially can bleed into other areas and things like that. Now, this one is probably one of the most important. And this one is something that all cults and religions and everything everybody deals with except for biblical Christianity. And the reason I say that is that the third thing it's dual authority. So where's your authority at? And I know I mentioned authority just a minute ago, but it's dual authority. So what all religions say and what the Catholic Church will say is that scripture is their authority. But when a conflict arises with what the Bible says, they go to their other authorities, okay? And so a cult has a dual or triple or whatever you want to, they have multiple authorities versus one, okay? Now, the Catholic Church uses tradition as well. in magisterium, okay? And so that tradition in magisterium where the pope sits on and speaks ex cathedra, all that stuff when he's sitting on his throne and has his scepter and he's speaking the words of God is what that is, that magisterium. What that then becomes is that supersedes scripture, okay? So they'll take scripture and they'll use it and they'll say it's their authority, but then they have these other authorities. And like I said, you guys know other religions like the Jehovah's Witnesses have the Watchtower Organization, okay? So they have, they use a Bible and they, I believe they use a King James Bible if I'm not mistaken. Or at least it was their base text, and I think they've gone on to other things now. I think we were talking about that the other day, the new new world translation or whatever it was. But then they have the Watchtower Society. So if there's anything in scripture that becomes muddled, that's that Watchtower Society, then that will supersede what the Bible says, and then they teach extra biblical things. Now, let's see what God says about his word. Turn to Psalm 138. Like I said, I know you guys know a lot of these verses. Psalm 138, let's see what God says. Like I said, what does the Bible say? Psalm 138 in verse two. Bible says, I will worship toward thy holy temple and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth. For thou has magnified thy word above all thy name. So you got the Bible, the word of God, that's a small, that's a lowercase w in my Bible anyway. He has magnified his word above all his name. So that's the Lord Jesus Christ, right? The Word of God is magnified above the Lord Jesus Christ in that verse. Turn to Psalm 119, verse 89. Like I said, I'm just reading what the Bible says about the authority of what should be your authority, I guess. Psalm 119.89, forever, oh Lord, thy word is settled in heaven, right? So God has a copy of the word of God in heaven. It don't matter, so you remember back in the 15, 1600s when the, oh gosh, the, Oh, the darkness and delight. My brain sometimes does this when the, what do they call it? Well, I know it was the dark ages, but what, the awakening of the dark ages. I don't know. My brain. When they were burning Bibles, right? If you got caught with an English Bible, they'd burn you with your Bible. And that was the Catholic Church doing that. I mean, there was probably other people doing it and things like that. But for the most part, it was the Catholic Church that was burning people, Christians, and they would burn them with their own Bibles. Tyndale, burnt at the stake with his Bibles, with his books that he had written. And what were they trying to do? They were trying to destroy the Word of God Well, had they known their Bible, the Catholics, the people that were burning people, God's got a copy in heaven. You can't get rid of it. You can't hide it. It says, forever, oh Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. God's got a copy of it. He's going to keep his word on earth for us to find. It's going to be here. All right? So that dual of 30. Proverbs 30. Turn to Proverbs chapter 30. What does the Bible say about the Bible, right? Proverbs chapter 30. Look at verse 5 and 6. Every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Right? So God obviously said I have a word, my words are pure and don't add to them. I know there's other verses that say don't take away as well in Revelation and I think it's in Deuteronomy or Leviticus and he says otherwise you're going to be found a liar. So extra biblical sources of authority are lies because that's what that verse says right there, right? Go to 2 Peter chapter 1. 2 Peter 1. And look down in verse 19. 2 Peter 1.19. So we're looking Old Testament, New Testament, what does the Bible say, right? We're not cherry-picking verses, we're looking at the whole counsel of God, basically. We're looking at what does the Bible say about itself. And the first pope wrote, we have also a more sure word of prophecy. A more sure word of prophecy. Whereunto ye do well, that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. Now there's a lot of other scriptural stuff that goes on in that verse, but we're just looking at that first part. You have a more sure word of prophecy. You have a book that has everything that you need in it. It is the sure word of God. So you don't need other things, you don't need tradition. Paul mentions traditions that to keep them and to watch what he does. But Paul was an example that unlike any other, he was trying to train all these pastors and Christians because what happened in Jerusalem, The Pharisees, they wanted to stomp out Christianity, right? We're in Montana, right? Everybody's tried stomping out a fire before, right? What happens when you start stomping on a fire? Sparks start flying outwards, right? And if it's dry, what'll happen? starts fires everywhere else, right? So that's what the Jews were doing. The Jews in Jerusalem were trying to stomp out Christianity and all of a sudden what was happening? Poof! Fires started everywhere. Because what happened? They were dry. They weren't drinking the water that the Lord Jesus Christ gave them, right? And so what happened as all these fires were starting, so the Apostle Paul is saying, hey, follow me, do what I'm doing. I'm showing you, I'm giving you an example. I'm writing books for you guys to follow, read this. He wrote a book to the Colossians, right? And he said, share this with the church in Laodicea and also read their letter. Now we don't have a Laodicean church letter, but that's because God didn't count it as scripture. So God didn't put it in the canon. All right, so dual authority. So the Bible says itself is its authority, right? That sure word of prophecy, don't add to unto the words, lest thou be found a liar. The Bible itself says it's its own authority. Now, when it comes to that, here's the next verse of it. So stay in second Peter. So that dual authority happens. And kind of what adds on to that is the fourth thing is gonna be private interpretation, okay? So what that means, if you're part of a church or a group or a religious group that says you cannot understand the Bible without us, okay? That's what private interpretation is. So that's saying that you read a verse, and I was told this by one of the priests. I asked him, oh, what did I say? Well, I got thrown under the bus, we're out to dinner, and my ex-wife goes, well, Matt doesn't think you should baptize babies. And the priest is sitting there with us. And he's like, oh, you think that, huh, Matt? I'm like, yeah, I do. Show me in the Bible where they baptize babies. I asked him and he started going into this long dissertation and talked about Lydia. I think it was Lydia, wasn't it? In the Bible where they baptized her and her household and there just had to be babies there. And he kept going into that, and so that was, I don't understand what that verse is actually saying. And I looked at him, dead in the eyes, and I was there with my family. I had my then ex-wife and my daughter, Meredith. And she was probably 12 or 13 at the time. I said, what about my house? Do I have any babies in my household? How can you just, I asked them, I said, how can you just read into that verse babies? Not every household has babies. Cranes, you guys got any babies in your household anymore? Nope, Bert and Bonnie. Oh, you guys do, okay, right. So each household is gonna have a different makeup, right? And to read babies into a verse where it isn't, you're starting to take that edge of the word of God and you're starting to make it your own interpretation. And so look in 2 Peter 1, verse 20, you're right there. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation, for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, right? So what that says there is that the writers of the Bible were moved by the Holy Spirit to write down these things. And that's what we have to go by, okay? It's not saying that, oh, you need somebody to interpret it for you, and what's the other verse there, that you're to interpret spiritual things with spiritual things, right? Well, the only spiritual thing that we truly have on this earth is we do as Christians have the Holy Spirit of God dwelling inside of us, but just like Pastor John's been teaching, what also is connected with us, right? Our flesh, right? And so to say that we're so spirit-filled that we can speak the words of God while we have this flesh is, well, I think it's laughable. But the only spiritual thing that we have on this earth is this Bible. It's holy, right? It says it right on the front of it. Holy Bible. It's the only holy thing on this earth that's physically here. And like I said, you can burn this thing. I'd be kind of mad because it's got all my notes in it, but you could burn this. I can go get another copy and God's got it settled in heaven, so it doesn't matter, right? So that private interpretation, if you belong where they say you can't understand the Bible for yourself. This Bible, the King James Bible, is written with like fifth and sixth grade English, okay? So if you've made it through fifth or sixth grade, you should be able to understand this book. Now I know there's some words that are used a little differently in this book than what you may know or understand, I can say that I made it all the way through 12th grade. I'm a high school public educated high school graduate. But boy, I tell you what, I forgot everything. I can barely form sentences. And now my spelling, because a spell check is atrocious. I literally have to write words in a text screen. So then it autocorrects me so I know how to spell the word. smart when it comes to the English language anymore. The second I could stop taking English in high school, I did. So there was a lot of words I didn't understand. And guess what they have? They have dictionaries. Get a dictionary. Webster's 1828 is what you need if you're reading the King James Bible. And look a word up. If you don't understand something, look it up. This Bible was written so that everybody could understand it. God wrote the Word of God for understanding, okay? Now, the last thing, and I want to spend a few minutes on it, so private interpretation, right? The Bible is not to be privately interpreted. It is to be interpreted by all, and it's very easy to understand once you actually start reading it. The people that want to dispute the Bible are people that haven't even read it. They wanna say it's wrong, but they haven't read it through. Anyway, works, the fifth thing is every cult will have this one, and there is not one that doesn't, and that is works salvation. They want you to work to get saved and to stay saved, because what that does is that keeps you Connected to them if you have to work and do things and and be a part of that group that exclusivity They gotcha you're theirs You can't it's hot and boy. Let me tell you it's hard to break through that It's hard to admit that grandma might be in hell grandpa my grandpa was a Catholic born and raised and And he's still alive. And he's 86 now, I believe. 36, maybe 87. He might be 87. 1936, I believe, February 8. But he had a lot of that religion. He was born and raised altar boy, all that stuff, Catholic church. When he was like 84 or 85 years old, he would come to our church services with my grandma over at Berean Bible Baptist Church in Hastings. And he didn't like it. He didn't like the preaching and the long services and the songs. He just didn't like it. There was one guy he didn't like in particular, and what ended up happening is that guy was preaching that morning, but he spoke on a subject that my grandpa really liked, fishing. The preacher preached the whole sermon, and by the end of it, you pray at the end of your service, and my grandpa got up. And he started going to the front of the church. And I was like, oh, no. Bathrooms are out the side door, not out that door. Like, I thought he was getting up to go use the bathroom. No. He went up to that altar, and he knelt down and prayed and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to save him at 84 years old or 85 or whatever it was. It was a couple years ago. And that is where that works salvation. His testimony prior to that, he had a God moment when he was in AA. And it's not about works, right? Ephesians 2, 8 and 9, Titus 3, 5. Go to Titus 3, 5, right? That one's an easy one. It's close to where we're at. Titus 3, 5. Third Timothy, right? Titus 3, 5. Not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us. and by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. That regeneration is that new birth. That's what I talked about on that last Sunday, right? That regenerated Christian, that new birth. It's a birth day that you have. It's that new birth. Christ said you must be born again. It's not a process to salvation, it's a new birth. And that is what my grandpa ultimately came to understand and that light bulb moment happened for him. And I tell you what, he's different. Like, he enjoys coming to church now. Like, for years he did not enjoy coming. He enjoys coming to church. He enjoys fellowshipping with Christians now. Prior to that, he didn't. It literally was like a transformation. Now, obviously he's 84. or 87 now, a lot of habits, a lot of things, personality set. I don't think he's going to quite change that yet, right? So he's still the same guy he is, but that was that where religion connects you with works and cults. you can use them interchangeably. Like I said, I know cult is kind of a mean word, um, but was it nice that it was put on me and put on me and put on me and put on me? No. So I'm going to put it back out cause, um, I guess that it was something that I had to deal with and that works salvation. Like I said, the final point of that fifth one, that is the, um, Yeah, that's the five things. And so if I get another opportunity to come on up here, what I'll do is I can go into some specific religions. Like I said, the Catholic Church is one that I've really studied. I studied Mary, the doctrine of Mary, the doctrine of transubstantiation, the doctrines of infant baptism. So I've studied all those doctrines very extensively from what the Catholic Church believes and and yeah And I have a good whole nother lesson on it, so let's pray and we'll be finished up Heavenly Father Lord. We do just thank you so much for the Bible and Lord what it says and Lord that we can depend on it and that we can put our faith and trust in it and what it says. Lord, I know religion muddies the waters, and Lord, I just ask that if anybody here this morning or anybody watching online, Lord, that is tied up in religion and is confused, and I pray, Lord, that the word of God and what the Bible says is clear to them, and Lord, that they can make their salvation put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and him alone. Lord, when you were on the cross, you said, it is finished. And that's all we need is that finished work of you and shedding your blood. And so we're thankful for that. I do ask that you pray or you bless Travis this morning with main service. And I just pray and ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right, you are all dismissed and we will start main service at 11. Yeah. Yeah.