Philippians chapter 4. Everybody doing good this morning? Everybody awake so far? We're doing good? Just checking, just making sure. Alright. I saw a quote this week And at first that made me laugh, and then after I stopped laughing, I was like, ooh, that's actually kind of serious. The quote was, if the Apostle Paul came to visit the church in America, we would be getting a letter. I like that. Because we know that in the New Testament churches he visited and heard about, he wrote them letters. And sometimes it was good things. Like Philippians is mostly positive. Hey, keep doing this, keep serving the Lord, be like Christ. But in some of the letters, and we're going to see it in chapter four today, there's some things he's got to address, he needs to address. I think that's a pretty good quote because, and I don't mean this about our church in particular, but I mean the Christian churches in America, I think Paul will look at us and say, y'all need to hear a few things. But as I considered to think about that quote, I thought, well, actually Paul did write us some letters, right? He wrote them to these churches in the New Testament, but now God intends them for us, and so we can take and learn what God wants us to learn through a book like Philippians. I wanna look at chapter four, verse one to start, and then we'll eventually go through verse nine, but listen with me at chapter four and verse one. Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. So you've heard this before, I'm sure, but in scripture, any time you see the word therefore, that's a connecting word. It's connecting what you previously read to what you're about to read. And I really think as Paul writes this short letter, he's really saying, here come my concluding remarks. I've taught you so many things in chapters one, two, and three. I've taught you about how the church should act. I've taught you about The attitude of Christ in chapter two, I've taught you that how your deeds really mean nothing compared to knowing Christ in chapter three. And now he says, listen, I'm about to give you my final words, my final challenge. And he starts out by showing his affection for them. He calls the church his dearly beloved, the one that he longs for. He desires to be with them again. It's been years and he's in prison far away from them. He wants to be with them again to encourage them and be encouraged by them. He calls them his joy. There's that key word in Philippians. We've seen it over and over again as we've talked about this series called Choose Joy in Philippians. He says, you're my joy and you're my crown. The word crown here speaks to an athletic endeavor back in these times when they, you ever seen like the, like the wreath maybe they'd give a winner of a race or something. It speaks to that. It's like he's saying, as I said last week, that they are they're trophies of God's grace. So when Paul hears about how good the church is doing there and how God's blessing the church there, Paul is saying, you remind me that my ministry is worth it. You remind me that my ministry is, that God's called me to this ministry. They serve as the proof of his mission and also the blessing that he's received from even doing God's work. And he says, you are my joy, my crown, the one I long for. And just a side note here, I think we should talk like this even about our church family. We should even say, hey, I love my church family, and I appreciate them. And I know I do this, and I've said it before, y'all have heard me tell dozens of bad stories about church, right? But when I talk about our church to other people, it might be in Florida, or Orange Beach, Tupelo or anywhere when I talk about our church comes up. And I don't do this to try to be profitable about it. The first thing that comes to my mind are positive thoughts, which is a good sign, right? That's a good sign. And I say, and you know, Jesse, I've told so many people over in different parts of Mississippi, they also come to church with us. Like, you don't they'll complain to us about their church and things going on like y'all should come to church with us, where people love the Lord and love the word and love each other and aren't in it for the wrong reasons, aren't in it to be known or whatever. It's just church. And so I hope we do that. And we long for each other. We call each other our dearly beloved, our joy, our crown. We appreciate and love one another is how we should be. And so he gives them this very pastoral kind of love there. And then he says the main command, and this is the title of the sermon, he says, stand fast or stand firm in the Lord. And so We've had a couple sermons like this. You know, I preached just last week, press on, continue on in the faith. And now it's stand firm, stand fast. In chapter 3, he said, there are many who are enemies of the cross. Back in verse 18 of chapter 3, there are people that are enemies of the cross. And so, you Philippian church, you might have some external pressures that would knock you off your pedestal or knock you off the faith or stop you from serving the Lord. And now we're going to see in chapter 4, maybe even some internal pressures. But no matter what pressures you have, Paul says, external from the world or internal from yourself or those around you, You must hold fast to Christ and Christ-centered living, right? There's two things we need to hold on to, our relationship with the Lord and living it out for Him in this world. So this means for us, we're gonna persevere through hardship. So can we agree this morning, and I know the people I'm talking to, can we agree when life gets hard, we will never quit on Christ? We agree, right? Now, when life gets hard, actually, we should run even harder toward Christ, right? We should run harder toward the church. I've seen people say, well, I stopped going to church because life got hard, I got down. That's the time you should run to church, to the Lord, to the word, when it's hard. Standing firm means we're gonna remain unified. We're gonna see that here in a second. Standing firm means we're gonna be anchored in Christ, not circumstances. That's gonna be our sermon next week. And so all that comes after verse one, in my opinion, and as best I can tell, seems to be supporting this phrase, stand firm in the Lord, stand fast in Him. So, I'm gonna give you, rather quickly, six principles to help us stand firm in Christ, or in the Lord. Six principles. So look at verse two and three, as we see our first principle. He says, I beseech Jodeas and Syntyche that they may be of one and the same mind in the Lord. And I entreat thee also, true yoke fellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers whose names are in the book of life. The first principle we need to have in our lives, all of us as believers, if we're gonna stand firm and stand fast, is to seek peace. We need to seek peace in the Lord. And I think the main thing about this to me is I first read this even a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, we're going to talk about these ladies and kind of their dispute, but the main thing about this to me is it's a reminder that the faith is not about just me. Even as you sit here today and you hear the sermon, it's not just about you, is it? It's about how can the Lord teach you that you might take that and teach someone else, right? Mr. Bragg on Brandy and Michelle and Jesse and our other people that work with the kids, my daughters at least once a week will say, hey, they'll tell me something they taught they learned at church. Not something they learned from me, something they learned from the ladies here at church. The kids do this pretty good. They hear teaching and say, you know what, I'll share that with somebody else. They're kind of proud to say it, right? We should be like that. When we learn something from the word in our personal study or or a sermon or something. It's not that you have to stand up and teach it, but that you can just share it. Hey, I learned this this week. The Lord taught me this. So it's not just about us, it's about others. And so that reminds us to seek and promote peace. But I think even in this letter, which is mostly all positive to the Philippians, there had to be some drama, right? It's like everywhere. But my next thought on that is, don't we all kind of like drama? As long as you're not in the middle of it, don't we kind of like it? And you can lie, but as a culture, we like it. We are the generation of reality TV. Do y'all watch reality TV shows? Them things are kind of insane, right? Kind of crazy, but I remember Survivor. Remember when Survivor first came out? And I was like, this is the coolest thing of all time. I hadn't seen it since season one, but we love these reality shows and we love the drama. Another example that is very relevant, everyone has seen the Coldplay concert meme, have you? Everyone seen that? Where this couple, very wealthy couple I guess, were at a concert not with their spouses and they get put on the kiss cam and they start hiding behind the thing. It's pretty funny, right? There's so many memes about it, so many jokes about it. I saw one that had Miss Piggy holding Elmo to make Kermit jealous. But in reality, that's two families possibly destroyed, right? But we as a generation, and especially on social media, love to share that stuff. And so it's all over the place. It's crazy how it's taken the country by storm. But we can say, most of the time, drama isn't good. right and I feel like for me the older I get the less drama I want to be a part of. There's some drama in Philippians in the church and so there's two ladies, Yodia and Synthike And something's going on here, and what's interesting to me is we don't even know what's going on. He doesn't tell us for sure what's happening. But there's some type of disagreement, and the fact that he even calls them by name, that's, imagine if you're sitting there in the church in Philippi, and the letter shows up, and the church gathers, and a man stands up to read this letter, and he's reading through, and imagine you're Judea or Synthecy, with these ladies sitting there like, and you hear chapter one, you're like, that's pretty good, Paul, thank you for writing. Chapter two, Amen, Paul. I love those words. Chapter three. We need this, Paul. Thank you. Chapter four. The guy's reading the letter, you're sitting there listening, and he says, By the way, these two people here need to get their stuff together. How would you like to hear that? That'd be terrible, wouldn't it? He's talking to me, and he calls them by name. So it must have been something, the dispute must have been well known amongst the community, I feel like, for him to call that out. And they must have been well known, these ladies. And so again, whatever it is, and God didn't intend for us to know, it affirms this idea, and this is what I like about this passage, that good Christian people can still have conflict and work through it and seek peace. Look at what he says about them. He tells them to be of the same mind in the Lord, verse two. So whatever they're going through, he says, hey, get unified on this thing. Then he's speaking to someone called a companion or a yoke fellow, he says. He says, help them, which have labored with me in the gospel. So these ladies have served in the gospel. These are not non-Christians. These are Christian ladies in the church who have served in the gospel with Paul. And he says they even have their names in the book of life. So these are believers. This is not some outside false teacher coming in. These are believers who are having an issue. And Paul says, hey, be of the same mind, seek peace. And he tells the companion who's reading this, hey, it's a community responsibility for us to seek peace together. So Paul handles this and I think reminds us that we need a ministry of reconciliation. And again, I'm not even sharing this because there are certain issues in our church that I think about. It's just in general, when there's a conflict that arises, we should be people who seek after peace. Conflict in church can really hurt a church. We've probably all seen it. It could even split a church or destroy a church. But when you see a conflict be resolved or reconciled and people come together, that can make the church even stronger than it was before. So we want to be that kind of people that seek peace in our own lives and with our church and with others. I told y'all this a while back, and this kind of stuck with me. Y'all have heard of the Redwood Forest in California? These trees that are hundreds of feet tall, and some say they're thousands of years old, and their roots, interestingly, are not very deep. So how do these really old large trees stay up with the wind and all the stuff that comes through with shallow roots? Well, what they found out is the roots are all intertwined and connected with the other redwood trees all around them. And so they're held strong, not by deep roots, but by the roots of each other. I think that's a good illustration for the church, that we should stand fast by being unified, peacefully together. So, let's seek peace. Number two, we're gonna rejoice in the Lord. If we're going to stand fast, stand firm when life gets hard, we have to rejoice. And again, this is the central theme of Philippians. Because look at verse four, he even says, he says, rejoice in the Lord always. So when do we rejoice, when? Always. And then he says it again. And Paul doesn't use this a ton, but he uses it some where he kind of repeats himself for emphasis sake. It's kind of like the angels did when they repeat themselves, holy, holy, holy. And we do that too, don't we? We repeat ourselves sometimes to make an emphasis, if you're getting on to your kid or something like that. He says, rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice. And the source of the joy, and it's that phrase in the middle, rejoice in the Lord. Our joy is rooted in our relationship with Christ, not in things that happen to us. Because if our joy is rooted in things that happen to us, it's gonna be a rollercoaster ride, isn't it? Of ups and downs, and when things are going well, you're gonna feel great. When things are not going well, you're gonna maybe not think about the Lord as much. This is crucial, though. Paul writes these words from prison and says, rejoice always. Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice. Charles Spurgeon said this, and I love this quote. He said, people who are very happy in the Lord are not apt either to give offense or to take offense. Their minds are so sweetly occupied with higher things. People who are happy, who are very happy in the Lord, are not easily offended and they don't easily offend others. Does that make sense? I think that's a pretty good quote. Because he says their minds are just sweetly occupied with the things of God, things of heaven, things of the word. It's like the man that I've told you about before that came in one night and basically all but attacked me in church, because I driven from the coast to North Mississippi in a hurricane. Basically, with a van full of teenagers showed up right before church started, I had two options go home and skip church or just show up and leave the music. And so I walked in in my t shirt and jeans. That's all I had. I've been driving all day long. Should have went home and take a nap probably. But I went to church to do my my calling. and all but attacked me and said, you should not be wearing that t-shirt in here, this, that, and the other. Now, there's probably a better way he could handle that if he didn't like my t-shirt. My point is this, that same person is very easily offended because there were multiple times that happened. It wasn't a one-time thing with this guy. Easily offended. One wrong thing and he's going to get mad about it. That's not how we should be as Christians. Now, some things might offend us, and that's life, right? Some things will offend us. There are people, and there's a meme going around on social media about having a drink in the sanctuary. I grew up not drinking, or we had candy, I guess, in church, but not eating or drinking in the place you worship, but I have coffee up here right now, right? I like it. But, man, the older I get, the more I don't want to get easily offended by things like that. or other things. But I also don't wanna offend others intentionally, right? I don't wanna purposely offend other people as well. And I just love that idea. And so, if you are joyous in Christ, in the things of Christ, and in the word, and in just trying to serve him as best you can, you're going to be much less likely to be offended by secondary issues. Now, we should be offended by primary issues, right? But secondary issues, no. Let joy characterize us. May people walk into our church and say, hey, that's a church of joy. They sing with joy, they pray with joy, they hear sermons with joy. Joy is a simple three-letter word, but it's so deep in what it is for us. It's a deep trust and rest in who God is. Y'all know the old hymn, we sang this when I was younger, but I shall not be moved. Ever heard that old hymn? I shall not, you know, and I'm not saying it's a bad hymn, but a lot of people would sing that and kind of make fun of it, like they would kind of say Christians are just sitting there in church like this, you know, like we're not going to move, we're not going to change anything, do anything different. And the Christian joy we're talking about in Philippians is not a begrudging joy. It doesn't hurt us to have joy. It's a true, honest walk forward for Christ. One of the greatest preachers of our and theologians of our lifetime passed away this week, John MacArthur. So I have a couple of MacArthur quotes I wanted to share today. He said, joy is the deep down sense of well-being that abides in the heart of the person who knows all is well between himself and his creator. It is not an experience that comes from favorable circumstances and in fact can still be manifest when those circumstances are even painful and severe. Emotional fluctuations do not trouble this source of joy for it is a gift of God to believers who manifest it as they cultivate the fruit of his spirit. I read that MacArthur quote about joy being deep down, and I thought, man, if I find myself only feeling joy when things are going great, that is a good gauge that I'm probably not where I need to be spiritually. But if I find myself finding joy in the most difficult of circumstances, I can say, thank you, Lord, because at that point, I feel like the Lord's, I'm walking correctly at that moment with him. So, we're going to stand firm by rejoicing in Him. Number three, we need to have a Christ-like attitude. Verse five, let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. That word moderation, there's so many good, I think, translations of that, reasonableness, gentleness. I think it's a good reminder that our gentleness, reasonableness, patience, should be reflected in our interactions with other people. That's just being Christ-like. But, how many will say, this week you dealt with a difficult person? Who would admit that? Everybody, pretty much? You might live with them, but, that's my wife, she lives with a difficult person. At home, at work, even at church at times, I mean, you can go to Walmart and find some difficult people, right? It can be anywhere, Dollar General especially, you can find some difficult people. But God calls us, even with all that, to be different, to not be like the world, to not be that kind of person. A Christian should not be someone who's difficult. I know believers who, I know pastors, who relish a fight. I don't mean, well maybe a fist, I know some who relish a fist fight, but I mean like, they want to argue with you, right? They'll say something just to make you argue. I know preachers, there are preachers this morning, probably not far from here, who are preaching things almost intentionally so that they can kind of start a fight. Or that's how it sounds when they preach. At the same time, Christians are not weak and, I mean, Jesus was not weak. What's the song we just sang? Jesus strong and kind. So Jesus flipped some tables, didn't he? He was strong, but he was also very patient and kind and gentle toward, in most of his interactions. Christians who seek a fight and seek to argue all the time, it's not a good look. The word here, again, it talks to being mature and not easily provoked, not easily quarrelsome. And again, it goes back to verse two, as he talks about these ladies and this issue they're having. Christians should be reasonable and patient with each other. Not demanding, not trying to pay back wrong with wrong, but showing forgiveness. And he says all this, and then he says the Lord is at hand, and you can say, oh, that means the Lord is near in the sense of spiritually he's near, but also he's gonna come back soon. The Lord is near, and we should be living that kind of life. It's this motivation to live this way. And so I wanna call us, as we stand firm in the Lord, this cannot be just a personal thing we do at home or even in church, but it needs to, the Christ-like attitude we have needs to reflect our lives. And if people that know you from work or from outside this building, if I were to bring in five people that know you pretty well, and say, describe Brandy to me, are they going to say she has a Christlike attitude? I bet they will say that. But when they say that about you about me, or he's, he's always playing the victim, or he's always trying to start a fight, or he's always you know, like, what do they say about us? He says, let your generous, let your gentleness, let your moderation, let your maturity, let it be known to all. Our fourth thing, as we move on here, is to be a person of prayer. We need more preachers, we need more teachers, we need more singers, we need more servants. We need more instrumentalists. Please, Lord, we need a piano player. We need a lot of stuff. But more than all of that, you know what we need? Is more people who pray. Just in this room, and there's not a lot of us in here, if all of us became even more committed to prayer, there's no telling what God would do in our lives. And he says in verse six, And some of us need to underline these verses. Be careful for nothing. In other words, don't be anxious, don't worry. But in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. Does God want us to ignore our problems? No. Does God want us to pretend like they don't exist? No, that's not what he's saying. But he is saying, Paul is saying here, do not let your problems dominate your life. Do not let your problems paralyze you. Instead, when those problems arise, instead of being paralyzed, instead of being dominated and that's just bringing you down, immediately pray. Prayer is the medicine, it is the antidote. He says in this verse, if you look closely at verse six, be careful for nothing but in a few things by prayer and supplication. I read that wrong on purpose, did y'all see it? Be careful for nothing but sometimes by prayer, in some things, that's all wrong, right? What's he say? In everything by prayer and supplication. This means that you can pray about the smallest thing. You might think it's the smallest thing, and you can pray about it. And this means you can pray about the biggest thing. And I think we should pray for the small things and the big things and everything in between. It might sound simple to us, but even a simple, Lord, thank you for this food, amen. If you mean it, right? Lord, thank you for this day, amen. Lord, it could be a simple thing. My coffee was really good this morning, Lord. That's okay, if you're talking to the Lord, that's okay, right? Or it could be a huge thing you're praying about, whatever it is. Judea, Syntyche, church. Seek peace, rejoice, be gentle, have a Christ-like attitude, and instead of worrying about these things, pray about them. supplication, which is like specific requests and general prayers mentioned here. An attitude of thanksgiving is here. Praying to God, you know, make sure you're not just talking words, but you're actually praying to the Lord is mentioned here. Notice verse seven. As we pray, the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. This is a peace that we all need. Because I don't care if you're the most godly person in here, there are times when, I assume, when life can get you down. It might just be self-doubt, it might be sin, it might be a problem, whatever it is. And he says here, as you pray this way, God gives you his peace. And this is the kind of peace that allows, watch me, this is the kind of peace that allows people to lose a child and still trust the Lord, right? Trying to think of the worst thing, right? This the kind of peace that you can lose your dream job and lose it and still find peace because you've prayed about it and the Lord's giving you that peace inside. This the kind of peace that can also help you just when it's just a daily grind. He says about this peace, it shall keep your hearts and mind. The word keep your hearts and minds, that phrase there speaks of like a military defense. like a country with an amazing military that you don't have to worry about being attacked because you know you have the best offense and defense when it comes to a military. He says the peace of God will guard your hearts and minds like that. So no matter what the enemy throws at us, no matter what the world throws at us, we have a strong barrier in Christ. And even if things get through the barrier, he's with us through those things to give us the peace. So we need to be people of prayer. I challenge you, and it's always a good challenge, all of us in here, I imagine, could pray more and would be benefited if we did. So let's be men and women of prayer. Number five, we need to think on godly things. Verse eight. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. I remember preaching this when I was a lot younger, and I went through and preached like every single word something different. True, honest, just, pure, lovely, good report, virtue, praise. Kind of went through and preached them all kind of like separately. But I think the more I've studied this, the more I think it's not about those individual things as much as it is about the compilation of those things, the combination of those things. True, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, praiseworthy. Think on these things. Fill our minds with these things. And to be honest, around us in the world, there's not many things that qualify on this list. There's the Lord, His Word, the church, and that's about it. Most everything else in the world is not true, honorable, just, pure, and lovely. It's been defiled by sin. As I read verse 8, it's not just a... I think it's not just a suggestion, he's telling the church, he's telling us, finally, think on these godly things, think on these good things. It is a foundational thing to put good things in our minds. All of you who have kids or have had kids, at some point you've told your kids, don't watch this show, right, or we're not gonna watch this movie, or we're not gonna listen to this music, why? And we'll say things like this, if you put trash in, right, it's more likely to come out. You put junk in, it's more likely to come out. This is not a perfect illustration, but sometimes Jessie will be making like hamburger meat for a taco or whatever. And everybody in the house is like, this is going to be nice, tacos. But then she'll start cutting up onions or whatever, right, to throw in there. And the kids are like, ooh, we're out. Onions? No. It's like, so she messed up. Everybody's excited. She put one little thing in there and messed it up. And I'm just like, more for me. Oh, girl, throw whatever you want to in there. But the point is, yes, we have the word, we have good things in our minds, but we also are allowing things of this world at times to get in there. And that can truly be detrimental to our faith. You see, right thinking is foundational for right living. What we truly think on and eventually believe will affect how we behave. So this whole sermon is really about our Christian character, our Christian conduct, and as Proverbs 23, seven says, for as he thinks within himself, so a man is. So to counteract all the ungodly worldly things we hear and see, we better make sure that we're putting good things into our hearts and minds and in front of our eyes. There's so much more I could say on that top, that point. The thing that really, again, just, pure, lovely, it's really Christ, right? He is the one who's all these things. The Lord is all these things. Let me go to my final point, number six. Again, our behavior is important. Our godly character is important. What we think about is important. All these things, if we're gonna stand firm in the faith, it will not be by word alone. It will not be by just going to church once a week. It will not be by saying every once in a while, I'm a Christian. It will be by walking the walk. Not just what, talking the talk. It is faith in action. Verse nine, our final verse of the day. Those things which you have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, do those things. And the God of peace shall be with you. So he's been talking in verse eight about this inward thing where you're putting in good truths. Now he says, live outward. Let the inward become outward. And he points to his own life as a model. He says, the things you've heard from me, you've learned from me, you received from me, go and do those things. Follow my example. Imitate me, Paul says. As I said a moment ago, good, and let's talk about this for a second, good theology should lead to good doxology, or good theology should lead to good life living, Christian living. Because it doesn't really matter You might say, I believe all the right things about the Bible, right? But if we live like the world, what's that really matter? If we treat people like trash, what's that really matter? And that's a sad thing to be, right? That's a way to lose our testimony if we say the right things and then don't do the right things. Paul lived in such a way where he could say the right things, and then he could say also, follow my example, imitate me. And so this is a good time to examine ourselves this morning and say, is my behavior lining up with my beliefs? In all these things, we're not alone because he says in verse nine, as you do these things, the God of peace shall be with you. God is in us and God is with us to help us every step of the way because as I look at these six principles here, I have a review for you there. As we review these six principles, every one of those I look at and go, That's hard. That's difficult. That's tough. All six principles. Hit that next slide for me, Drew, please. I think I have it up there. I want you to just take a look at these. Yeah, there it is. Look at those those six things. Which of those do you say, hey, that's that's an easy thing to do. I'm doing I'm making a plus on one of these things. I hope you are on some, but these are not easy things to do, right? But with God's help, with his strength, we're going to see that next week, we can do these things. We can be men and women who seek peace. We can rejoice in the Lord. We can have a Christlike attitude and display that attitude in the world. We can be people of prayer. We can think on godly things and we can walk the walk. I'm gonna conclude with another John MacArthur quote, and MacArthur, of course, taught through Philippians, I'm sure, many times, and he, again, he passed away this week. Again, I think one of the greatest pastor theologians of our time. Again, just a man, not a perfect, there's no perfect person but Christ, but he certainly influenced some of us in this room, and if you wanna read some good books, John MacArthur has plenty, or listen to good sermons, they're online. But I wanna finish with this quote And I hope this will kind of encourage us in faithful Christian living. MacArthur said, the source of most of the problems people have in their Christian lives relates to two things. I wanna read that part again. The source of most of the problems people have in their Christian lives relates to two things. Either they are not worshiping six days a week with their life, or they are not worshiping one day a week with the assembly of the saints. And MacArthur says so plainly, we need both. If we're going to live the Christian life, if we're going to stand firm in the faith and do these principles, we need to worship one day a week with our church family. Two really count Wednesday, right? But we certainly want to be together on the Lord's day. But then the rest of the week, we want to also be worshiping him with our lives. And if we're not doing, whichever one of those you might need more help on, and I imagine for most of us, it's the one about six days a week, right? Let's ask the Lord to help us. Let's beg the Lord to help us. Let's try to become the people that worship him Monday through Saturday in our lives, and then come together and just make Sunday morning just another celebration of Christ. So, church, let's stand firm in the Lord. Let's bow.