Defiantly, Unashamedly, Generously | Worship Defiantly

[ Applause ] Yeah, honestly, don't know if y'all lean a sermon today, but you're gonna get a sermon today. So let's just go right at it. Go ahead and get your Bibles out. We're going Old Testament today, y'all. We're going 1 Samuel. We're gonna be in chapter 17. You got your journals with you. I know those things are getting worn out at this point in the year. We have a new keyword and it's the word defiantly. And here's what's interesting about that word. You're gonna hear it a lot around here because that word is directly connected to one of our core values around here, which is simply this. We actually believe. We have the audacity to believe in Jesus' authority. And check this out. Like, in all times, in all places, overall people. Like, we really believe that. And so there's an outcome of our firm belief in Jesus' authority here at Southland, and it's this. So we worship Him defiantly. And defiantly is a really cool word. It simply means like bold opposition. Some of you guys know exactly what that word means 'cause you got a child. And every day you face bold opposition from that little tyrant right there.

You know, three-year-old, or maybe you got a 17-year-old or somewhere in between, but you're well aware of what bold opposition looks like and what defiance looks like because you got a child. Or maybe you're like me and you were a child of the '80s. And your parents had copies of this book called Parenting the Strong Wild Child by James Dobson and focused on the family in, like, every room. So every room they walked into, they could start reading that thing 'cause they had to deal with you in every room. Guess whose mom had that book? This guy, right here. All right, because I've told you this story before, but my third-grade teacher, back in the before times, when you got a real report card with actual letters on it, and the teacher would actually write words on the back of the report card. The words she wrote on the back of my report card were this, Scott is an awesome leader. The problem is he's leading everyone in the wrong direction. And that's true. Like, I could mount a coup with the best of them against the tyranny of a math teacher. I could lead a whole classroom right in the wrong direction. Here's the takeaway from that. Defiance without discernment is dangerous. Like, if you don't know who your authority is or the right authority is, if you don't know good from evil,

right from wrong, up from down, inside from outside, your defiance is super dangerous. If you don't know who to defy, you'll find yourself defying the wrong people and being for the wrong people. So we're gonna take a look at something today. And if you've already gotten the first Samuel chapter 17, here's my fear. You already saw the little subtitle in your Bible that says David and Goliath. And some of us are like, man, I've been in church my whole life. What are you gonna tell me about this story that I don't know? Here's my fear is that we've been inoculated to the power of this event that happened in human history because we have so much familiarity with it. Some of us learned it on a flannel graph for crying out loud. So we're gonna be disengaged today, but I wanna challenge you to lean in today as we set the stage. Here's what we got going on. We got a soft king named Saul. He's leading kinda the nation of Israel. And he's abdicated his responsibility. He was once a mighty warrior, but he's a mighty warrior no more. And he doesn't know this, but he's actually been privately replaced. God through his prophet Samuel has appointed David to be the next king, but he's not been publicly installed. And so we have this soft king named Saul

who's abdicated his responsibility, who is now kinda leading God's people out onto the field of battle. And they find themselves looking over the valley of Ella. And on the other side of the valley of Ella are the famous Philistines. The Philistines were known as the people of the sea because they actually originated on the island of Crete, which is why to this very day, if you call someone a Cretean, that's a derogatory term. Because they were known as evil people. They were immoral people. They worshiped not only pagan gods, but they worshiped demon gods like Dagon, Astra, MBLs, and in other words, they were far from atheists. In fact, I don't have time for this today. There's actually no such thing as an atheist. Maybe I'll hit that on the podcast today. But these guys were far from an atheist. They believed in all kinds of gods. And actually what they did is they valued evil as good and they devalued good. They worshiped these demon gods. And so we have them mounted in the battle lines with this valley in between them, facing one another in opposition as we pick up the story. It says this in verse four.

"And there came out from the camp of the Philistines." This is a very important word, highlight underline and circle it. A champion. His name is Goliath of Gath. And his height was six qubits and a span. He had a helmet of bronze on his head and he was armed with a coat of mail. And the weight of the coat was 5,000 shekels of bronze. And he had bronze armor on his legs. He had a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam. and his shield bear went from before him. Depending on the commentators that you read, most people think that this dude was between six foot nine inches tall and upwards of maybe even 10 feet tall. Here's what we got. We got at least the power forward, maybe the tallest center of all time, all right? And he's not like skinny tall. He's not like Minute Bowl back in the day. Like he's more like Yao Ming. He's kind of thick. He's kind of like Shaq. He's kind of like a big deal. He can carry a whole lot of weight. And so of course he's their champion. Now we hear champion and we think of like heavyweight champion of the world against the where a cool belt.

No, no, no, no. A champion in Hebrew was the word Benaeem. And it meant a man in between. So this was the warrior who would step between his people and his enemies and represent his people. In the ancient times this was called representative warfare. It was kind of a zero sum game. And it was like, hey, you pick your biggest baddest dude. We'll pick our biggest baddest dude and you all go fight each other. And you've seen versions of this in the history books. And so Goliath the champion steps out onto the battlefield and then he opens his mouth. He stood and he shouted to the ranks of Israel. Why y'all come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine and are you not a servant of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he's able to fight with me and kill me, then we'll be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us. And the Philistine said, here's our word. I defy the ranks of Israel this day. So give me a man that we may fight together. And when Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and they were afraid. And it kind of makes sense. I'm like, that's a terrifying dude, right? And he's standing in direct opposition. He claims his defiance is against Saul, the soft king

and the ranks of his army, the Israelites. But in reality, he's defying far more than them. But because Saul and the ranks of his armies are clouded by their fear, they're not taking time to discern who his defiance is really against. It's gonna take somebody else to actually do that, enter David. So David is young man, he's a shepherd. His older three brothers are in the army. They're out there. And so his father, Jesse, dispatches him to the front lines with some food and says, hey, go check on my boys. Let me know how they're doing. Take them some food and come on back to me and give me a report. And so David arrives as all this is going down and what we find out as we read through the chapter is this went on and on for 40 days. Goliath would step out and he would give the same challenge that everybody would run and hide and then they would do it again the next day. And so that's when David arrives as this is all going down. It says he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line. This is interesting, shouting the war cry. Question, why are they shouting a war cry when they're not gonna go to war? They know what they're gonna do, same thing they've been doing every day. We're gonna go through the drill

and then we're gonna run and we're gonna go in fear. Fellows look right at me, talking a big game as a dad does not make you a father. Talking a big game as a husband does not mean that you're the spiritual leader of your home that's actually leading towards Jesus. You might be leading in a different direction. Reading leadership books does not make you a leader. Talking like a warrior does not make you a warrior. You have to actually embrace this thing called initiative, which means to go first, which means to step out, which means to take responsibility up to and including things that are not your fault. So we're gonna see David here in a minute, take some initiative when everybody else, all the other men were being passive. Now, the way I figure it, it's been about a month since I've referenced the movie Braveheart, so this seems like a good time, okay? This seems like it might fit, you know? And if you're like, listen, if you're like in Gen Z or younger and you've never seen the movie Braveheart, you need to repent of that, okay? Like, don't just watch reels about it. Like, it's long, you're gonna have to lock in for a couple hours, but listen, there's all these moments along the way, and I could talk about a ton of them, but one of my favorites is when they're just going

through this routine where the Scottish Lords are out on the field of battle and they're negotiating with the English Lords and they each have armies behind them, but the Scottish Lords, like, wing, a fight, y'all just stay out here long enough for us to negotiate, then we'll all go home alive, and the negotiations mean these dudes are gonna get some more titles and some more land for them and all the other folks are just gonna go home right back to the poverty that they've been in because of the English oppression. So he's gonna go through the drill until William Wallace rides up with his boys, right, and they're all painted blue and terrifying looking and all that kind of thing, and he starts circling around and his horse is snorting and all those kinds of things, and his buddy looks at him as he's about to go out into the middle of the battlefield, "Hey, where are you going?" And he looks at him and goes, "I'm going to pick a fight." And sometimes a man of God has to go pick a fight. And that's what we're about to see David do. He's in a similar spot. What he sees God's people doing doesn't make any sense to him. And so this is how it goes down, verse 26. And David said to the men who stood by him,

"Hey, what's gonna be done for the man "who kills that Philistine?" It takes away the reproach from Israel for who's this uncircumcised Philistine watch that he should defy who? The armies of the living God. David's able to discern that this is far bigger than defiance against Saul and the nation of Israel. He's actually defying the living God. And here's my point. As followers of Jesus, listen, look right at me, we have to learn how to discern the times. The Bible doesn't tell us only what happened. The Bible tells us what always happens. We live in a day of total defiance to the living God as well. Have you noticed? We do not live in a neutral environment. Karl Truman has written a book recently. It's called The Desecration of Man. And his basic point and argument is that our culture now considers good the very things God calls an abomination. There's a Bible word for you. It means completely and totally evil and abhorrent to God. Absent to being a hint of good. So Karl Truman says this, our world is not characterized by a disillusioned indifference to values originally grounded in religious faith.

In other words, this is not neutral times that we live in, rather our culture seems to revel in an ecstatic destruction of all that was once considered sacred. Have you seen that? I mean, he's basically saying what the prophet Isaiah prophesied has come into full fruition in front of our very eyes. When Isaiah said this, what do those who call evil good and good evil? Who put darkness for light and light for darkness. Who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Like translation, if Isaiah was writing today, he would say things like this, woe to you when you have a month celebrating what the Bible calls a deadly sin called pride. Woe to you when you rally in favor of murdering children inside the womb and outside the womb and you fundraise for child sacrifice. Did you see what happened in the Netherlands last week? Probably not because the news won't report on it. Loughly in the Netherlands, you can actually murder a child from birth to 12 years old if you get a doctor's note. So that's what happened. This two year old was cerebral palsy, was in their words euthanized, the Bible would say murdered by parents and doctors in collaboration with one another. And if you don't think that's coming to America,

you're not paying attention into discerning the times. Woe to you when you glorify the objectification of women through pornography and children through pornography and finance the trafficking of them. Woe to you when you vote for politicians on platforms built on the premise of stealing from your neighbor and you further marginalize the poor in doing so. Woe to you when you tell your children to follow their heart and their feelings to their own demise and destruction, woe to you when you pretend that God ordained biological realities have no consequence on the women that you pretend to protect. Woe to you when you have self-proclaimed pastors who went to seminaries and got degrees, but really what they are is wolves and sheep clothing they call good evil and evil good. I could go on all day, y'all. But this is where we live. These are the times that we are in. And when evil is unveiled before our very eyes, it is not enough to simply discern the times we have to act in defiance. It's not enough to discern the times if we're not willing to defy the enemy. I'll say it to all in blue in the face. Being nice is not a fruit of the spirit. Kindness is, they're very different from one another. God's kindness brings us to repentance and God is not always nice, have you noticed? Being passive in the face of great evil is not a virtue,

it's a sin. And here's my theory. I doubt David was actually the only one who could discern the reality of Goliath's defiance against the living God. I bet there were thousands of dudes who sat by campfires for 40 days and 49ths talking a big game. Does he know what he's doing? The distinction between the dudes who sat by the campfire and someone who would go out onto the field of battle could not be bigger. This is why I'm so proud of the men in our church who have gone through Fight Club. And the women in our church have gone to Fight Club for women. These are people who are leading the way in our church. I think we've had upwards of over 1,000 men go through Fight Club now. What's going on in our Richmond campus right now? These are men who are demonstrating with their time, their energy, and their effort that they are willing to go to the dark places of their heart so that they can combat the work of the enemy and their heart, their soul, their mind, their family, and they're going first and taking initiative. So this is why I want to make a special invitation to men who are either currently in Fight Club or if you've gone through Fight Club, I want to invite you to join me for an event that we're calling Fight by the Fire. We're going to do it twice. It's going to be at the Nicholasville campus. There's going to be fire and there'll be fighting, most of which will be in the spiritual realm but we might try to get something done in the physical realm too. And what I'm going to do on that night is I'm going to talk some direction of our church and I'm starting with those men who've been through Fight Club or are in Fight Club because I just believe this because this is what the Bible teaches.

The health of this church can never exceed the level of health of the men who are serving inside it and so I'm starting with these men as we talk about the direction of our church over the next few years. Make sure you're there. Now back to David. David just discerns but then he makes a decision that he's also going to defy. Pick it up in verse 32 and David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him, this giant, your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." Word reaches Saul. "Hey, this David dude's talking about like fighting the Philistines." I was like we'll bring him in and he doesn't talk a big game. This is just a matter of fact if you notice, he's just like, "Yeah, man, don't worry. I got this. We'll take care of this dude today." And Saul's like, "Hey man, I don't know if you've looked at your reflection and a pond lately, a little shepherd boy. I don't know if you actually went out there onto the field of battle and saw that dude that we've all seen day after day, but you can't beat that dude. There's no way that you can beat this guy." And David just calmly tells him some stories. Your servant David has struck down both lions and bears and this uncircumcised Philistines is going to be like one of them. For he, he sees it clearly, has defied the armies of the living God. And David said, "The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, he'll deliver me from the hand of the Philistine." I love this. And Saul said to David, "Go and the Lord be with you." I don't think he's got any confidence at all. But what he does do is he tells David to wear his armor. This is just a theory.

I think because Saul wants people to think it's him. I think he wants to get a little bit of credit just in case this goes well. But David is so discerning. He tries that armor on just to satisfy the king and he's like, "Man, this stuff's ill-fitting. There's no way I can wear this." And he's basically saying, "Hey, my plan, my tactic is not to fight Goliath in a phone booth. I'm not getting near him. I'm not going to grapple with this dude. I'm not going to put hands on this dude. I'm going to work the advantage that I actually have. And so what does he do?" He goes and he grabs five smooth stones. And he takes out his sling and this is not like a, some of us think like Dennis the Menace, like, no, that's not what it was. It was a long, it was cords that you could take baseball-sized rocks, plant them in a pouch. And the dudes who were good at this, they could throw these things over 100 miles per hour with precision. And here's the question. Do you think David was the only one in all of the armies of Israel that could actually do this? Here's the answer. No. There's tons of dudes who could do this. But it doesn't really matter what they can do if they won't do it. The willingness to actually fight and engage the enemy is what distinguishes David from literally everyone else. And so he takes the sling in his hand. And he approached the Philistine and the Philistine moved forward and he came near to David with

his shield bearer in front of him. And when the Philistine looked and saw David, notice, he disdained him. For he was with a youth. He's ruddy. He's handsome and appearance. And the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog that you come to me with sticks?" He's like, "What's that in your hand?" He sees a sling. He thinks it's a stick. And the Philistine cursed David look by his demonic little G gods. The Philistine said to David, "Come to me and I'll give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field." The very appearance of David draws out something from Goliath and it's this, "Hate." And y'all, I got to just tell you, this weird desire that This is what I call it. I call it cafeteria Christianity. Far too often, we act like a sophomore who's transferred from another high school, walks into the lunch room for the first time holding a tray, and we're just hoping upon hope that we'll get to sit with the cool kids. We don't want to see at the cultural cool kids' table, we want to see that Jesus' table if we're followers of Jesus. That's the way that works. So we have to stop wanting acceptance and affirmation from people who will not accept or affirm our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, especially if we actually want them to know Jesus. If we want them to actually meet Jesus and have a life transformed by Jesus, we don't sit down at their table and become more like them. We sit at Jesus' table, become more like Him, and invite them to come on over and sit at Jesus' table. That's the way we do that.

So we just want to be liked. We want people to post nice things about us. We want to be the cool kids, not David. Let me just remind you of something that Jesus said. This is tucked away in the gospel of John. He said, his words, not mine in case you think I'm wrong, if the world hates you, like if you're being hated by the world, just know I hated me before it hated you. That's the way this works. If Jesus is our leader and our Lord and our Savior and they hated Him, what do you think they're going to think about us? If you were the world, they would be in love with you as its own, but because you're not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. And so we have to be willing to understand that we're going to be hated, but if we actually want to love people well, we keep following Jesus and so Goliath, man, he hates David. Have you ever noticed that bullies don't like to be confronted? They don't like to be punched in the nose. They don't like that direct attack and so the exchange gets even more pronounced than David said of the Philistine. And this is great because the Philistine, like Goliath, he's a pretty decent trash talker. This is another level trash talk David is about to deliver. Like I always call it, this is Larry Bird lever, level trash talk. Like that's for all the 80s people out there. He says, you come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied, this day the Lord will deliver you, Goliath, and to my hand, I'll strike you down and cut off your head. That's pretty dark. That ain't nice. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth that all the earth may know that there is the God

and Israel. This is all about making him known. Don't miss that. And all that assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. Don't miss this. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands. My question for you is, do you believe that? The battle is the Lord's. We spend way too much time wondering if God's on our side, not enough time asking, am I on God's side? Because, listen, if you're on God's side, the battle is the Lord's. He's already won. Did you know that Goliath was a dead man walking? This battle was over before it began, and everybody watching in the valley of Ella with great anticipation didn't know what David already had confidence in because of his experiences in the past with the lion and with the bear and what he knew to be true about the living God. So they're all eager with anticipation, but David knew. When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, I love it ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine, and David put his hand in his bag and he took out a stone and he slung it, and he struck the Philistine on his forehead, the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell with his face to the ground. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and he struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David, then David ran and stood over the Philistine, took the Philistine sword, drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistine saw that their champion was dead, they ran. And then all of a sudden, all the men in Israel are like, let's go. These dudes have been paralyzed for 40 days, all of a sudden get all brave when their champion

steps out onto the field of battle and does for them what they could not do for themselves and slaughters the champion of evil. In a couple of weeks, you're going to get to hear one of my favorite Bible preachers. He's a good friend of the brother. His name is Aaron Brockett. He preaches at a church up in Indianapolis called Trader's Point Christian Church. the first thing I noticed was right behind his desk was this famous picture, this famous portrait. And my first thought was, I wonder if Ali will let me get that tattooed on my back. And I don't have a lot of real estate left back there, but I also don't think she's gonna say okay to that. So I'll get one of those pictures to hang somewhere. But here's the question, many of us grew up in church. Did they put that on the flannel graph for you? No, they didn't. But that's probably closer to what it looked like. Listen to me, the battle belongs to the Lord. And at the name of Jesus, just like those Philistines ran demons flee. Satan goes on the run at the very name of Jesus. Do you know that we have a new and better champion than David, we have Jesus. Our champion, the Benaean, the man who got between me and the wrath of God that I deserved, he absorbed it. He got between you and your sin. He got between you and your shame. He wasn't just nailed to a cross between two thieves. He was nailed to a cross between us and the damn nation that we deserve.

And he won the war over sin and Satan in death, which means that the battle belongs to him. This all his, which means your battle with cancer, your fight against pornography, your struggle with eating, the war that you're waging with temptation, the conflict that you're in with your family, the stalemate that you're in with your spouse. This is what the Bible has to say to you. No, and all those things you are, we are more than conquerors through him. That's Jesus who loved us. How do we know that he loved us? Because he went to a cross for us on a day in human history. And here's my question. Hey man, how can you be more than a conqueror? I'll tell you how. You don't just defeat your enemy, but you stare at that enemy at your feet and you'll go get up. You're my slave now. You were once against me, but now you serve me. You once stood opposed to me, but now you're gonna do my bidding. That's how you become more than a conqueror. And what I'm telling you today is because of Jesus, everything that has stood in opposition to you and subservience to Jesus will now serve your good and your benefit and the good of those

he's called to you to serve and to bring him glory. Don't believe me? Who's best suited to help someone who's enslaved in addiction? Someone who was once enslaved in addiction and now that addiction that they were once enslaved by serves not just their benefit, but the good of the person who's currently enslaved and brings glory to Jesus, they're doing it. Who's more than a conqueror? The person who once they stood over the grave of their child, like many of you have done and now somehow miraculously in God's way and his work because of his son, Jesus, you are able, like no one else can, to wrap your arms around someone as they stand over the grave of their child. The thing that threatened to take you out, your worst nightmare now not only serves you, but serves them and brings glory to Jesus and I could go on and on and on. The battle belongs to the Lord. The way Paul said it was this, hey man, once you're a follower of Jesus, it works like this, to live is Christ. I'm gonna tell people about Jesus, I'm gonna follow Jesus, I'm gonna be a disciple of Jesus, I'm gonna be a gritty disciple committed to following him, no matter what, but if I die, that's gain 'cause I get to be with Jesus. You can't beat somebody who has that kind of mentality

because you can't take Jesus away from that person. To live is Christ, to die is gain because we have our champion and because we have our champion Jesus, we have everything we need. So let me personalize this and then we're gonna respond and listen, we're gonna respond today. There are things I can say today that I wouldn't have been able to say even just a few years ago, but I can say them today. When I look back at my life, when I consider things like my parents' divorce and all the ramifications downstream of that in my life and in my family's life, when I think about, when I came here as like a little fourth grade kid in like 1989 and how I just felt like I didn't fit among the Lexington elite, when I think about Allie's miscarriage that she had before we had our other four babies and all the fear and the doubt that that created. When I think about how I felt like a failure because it felt like my calling cost my children their home in Colorado. When I think of the disillusionment "Hey man, we don't want you to be our lead pastor. "We want this other guy over here." When I think of the pain that came with me, when I came back here in 2017, looked right at me, I can say this today,

I wouldn't change a thing. Because today I can tell you that I am more than a conqueror because from this perspective, I can see how all of that and so much more in my life that was marked by pain in the moment is now not only serving my benefit and serving you all, but glorifying the name of Jesus. And so that's why today, and I may listen, I may be the only one who defiantly worships in response to all that today, that's fine, but I'm praying that you will respond as well. Because listen, we began this day by saying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. He was, he is, he is to come. He's worthy of all of our praise. And so today as we stand in defiance and we bring praise to his name, we're joining with all of heaven, and we're practicing now for what we are going to do and eternity. And listen, we're gonna pray today. You got a battle in your life today? You're facing something that feels way too big for you to face alone today, come down front and put your face down in front of your father and put that battle in front of him and say, I know and I trust the battle belongs to you. You battling sickness, come pray. You're struggling with addiction, come pray. You got a person in your life who doesn't know Jesus

and you desperately want them to, come pray. You in a work environment where everything is adversarial because of your love for Jesus, or your worn out, or your weary, or your tired, or you feeling defeated, come pray. Or maybe listen, maybe today you're like, yeah, I don't even have the words to pray. I don't have the energy to pray. I don't even know what to pray for. If you've got a Bible in your hand, if you don't, there's some down front that you can come open to Romans chapter eight. And here's the beautiful thing that you'll find out as you come to pray today, just open up to Romans chapter eight and read through that. And here's what you're gonna learn, the spirit, the Holy Spirit actually prays for you, intercedes for you when all you got is a groan. And you've been there, you can't utter a word. All you have is a painful expression of the reality that you're currently in. You can empty that out before the Father today, come and pray, read Romans eight, and what you will see is that there is nothing that can separate you from the love of God that we have through our champion, Jesus Christ, our Lord. And we're gonna partake, yeah, go ahead. (congregation applauding) It's all for him. We're gonna partake of communion,

we're gonna remember this reality as we break that bread and remember his body and drink that juice and remember his blood. Listen, it's by his wounds, our champions wounds that were healed. So it's all stand and I'm gonna open up our response time through prayer and then we're gonna move. Father, as we stand here today across all of our campuses, we're in a fight. We're in a battle. Father, we know the battle belongs to you. Sometimes we just lose sight of that. We get so fearful at the sight of the enemy. We get so fearful at the sight of our culture. We just wonder, is there any hope? Father, our prayer will be reminded today. If we ever doubt your love for us, we can look to the cross and know that our champion did for us what we could not do for ourselves. And then we can look to an empty grave and know that Jesus stepped out of that grave, conquering our biggest enemies of sin, Satan and death, far bigger than some giant named Goliath. So because of that, Father, we can trust you. So, Father, I pray that your Holy Spirit will move in this place across all of our campuses and we will move in response to the reality of who you are and what you've done. As we praise, as we pray, and as we partake. In Jesus' name, our champion, amen.