Faith that works | Fight the Good Fight | Pastor Jurie Kriel | Message

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Good morning, Shoreline Church. It's great to see all of you guys, and welcome to those who are joining us online. As well as Eliska mentioned, we're in a series called Fight the Good Fight. And a couple of weeks ago, Pastor Rob kicked it off with a message on I Believe, Help My Unbelief. And then last week, he spoke about Faith Speaks. And it was such an incredible kickoff to the series. And it's really been such a buildup for me as I got excited about what I get to share on today. But next week's gonna be an incredible Sunday as Pastor Rob's gonna share a Father's Day message with each and every one of you. It's gonna be relevant to everybody, but especially to the fathers amongst you. Invite your father, bring your kids. It's gonna be a great Sunday at Shoreline next week. We have a collection of phrases that we share and say out loud every time we gather together like this.

And these phrases is called the Shoreline Creed. And these are words worth repeating. So I wanna invite you to stand right there where you are. If you're here for the first time, you are welcome to just read along. But those who are a part of this church say this with a lot of enthusiasm and passion as we declare the Shoreline Creed. Are you ready? I think I need to get Pastor Michael up here to come and make sure that you get ready because we need some of that superhero energy. Are you ready? Okay, let's do it. I am loved by God. I cannot earn it. I cannot lose it. I am forgiven and made brand new. In Christ, I live with passion and purpose. I am empowered by the Spirit to be the church in the world and to live this love revolution. Amen. Grab a seat. So have you ever traveled? Have you ever gone somewhere, be it visiting a relative or going to someplace on vacation or maybe just being in a hotel for work and you found yourself in a dark room and you knew that there were lights but you didn't know where the switch were.

And you found yourself kind of grappling in the dark, trying to find the switch to turn on the lamp and maybe you found the bed lamp, but you don't know if it's a bed lamp with a switch, a little turn switch or a little pull switch or a little switch on the cord or a little switch on the lamp and you're looking for the switch because without the switch, it doesn't matter that there's power, you're still in the dark because you haven't flipped the switch. If you've ever found yourself in that situation, that's what I'm talking about today is what if you are not living in the light that God has provided for you, not because the light isn't there, but because you haven't flipped the switch. There was 900 days between January 1st, 1863 and June 19th, 1865. 900 days between the day when President Lincoln would sign the Emancipation Proclamation and it would be shared on June 19th, 1865 in Texas where slaves would actually hear that they were free.

900 days between the proclamation of freedom and the living in freedom. This June 19th, this coming Friday, we will celebrate June 10th, which celebrates this day, that they rode in to Galveston and General Gordon Granger made the proclamation that was made 900 days before that all slaves in the United States were free. It was 900 days later that slaves actually started living in freedom in Texas. So for 900 days, although they had freedom, they didn't live in freedom, and it might just be that this is the one thing that might be sadder than slavery, is living like a slave when in actual fact you're free. What if we have the light? We have the electricity. The bulb is in place, and the ability to live in the light is there, and yet we choose to live in darkness. What if there is more to life than what you're living in? What if God has a call, and a purpose, and a freedom, and a life plan for you

that is greater than the life you are living in, and yet you choose to live in less than that because you never flip the switch? This reality is actually found in a tension that is in Scripture, which might be one of the greatest tensions in all of the Bible, this idea of being plugged in but switched off, this idea of having access to but not living in. You see, Paul kind of represents in the New Testament writings the being plugged in reality, right? The fact that we get to access the source by grace. If you read Ephesians chapter two, verse eight to nine, it says, for it is by grace that you have been saved through faith. And this is not from yourselves, it's a gift of God, not by works so that no one could boast. It's by grace through faith that you've been saved. It's by grace through faith. It's not because of what you've done, it's not because of what you can achieve, it's not by works, it's by grace through faith. But then James comes and he writes a letter a little further on in the New Testament, and James makes this statement in James chapter two, verse 17. He says,

in the same way, faith by itself is not accompanied, if not accompanied by action, is dead. Now verse 26 of James chapter two, as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead. So do you see the tension between these two ideas? On the one hand, you've got Paul and look at what Paul says. Paul says it's by grace through faith, and James says faith without works is dead. So the one says it's not by works, and the other one says faith without works is dead. This is a little bit of a tension. This is a little hard to reconcile. And it might even feel to you as if these two things are not agreeing with one another. It's like two cousins at the family barbecue that has two different perspectives on the same thing. Is Paul right or is James right? Is Paul positioning Christianity right? It's not about works, it's all about faith and grace. Or is James right that says without works, your faith is dead? But what if this tension, this incredible tension that is actually found throughout church history and has split up churches and split up groups of churches over the ages, what if there's a point where these two

don't stand opposing to one another, but they actually come together? This idea of it being by grace alone, the finished work of Christ, versus by faith without works being dead, this really came to a point when the church lost its way. It's about 500 years ago in the history of the church that the church started losing their way in a very big way. The church was focused on the fact that we had to work our way to God. And more and more of this idea crept into the church all around the world that if we wanted to connect with God, we've got to earn it, we've got to make it work. We've got to pay the price for our sins. We've got to not just ask forgiveness of sins, but when we've sinned, we've got to do penance. We've got to pay the price for the sins we've sinned. We've got to make our way back to God. And the church got into this thing where you couldn't just make your way back to God, but you actually had to pay your way back to God. So at that point in time, the church was building a cathedral, St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, and there was this friar that was going around. His name was Tetzel, and Tetzel traveled around Europe, and he was telling people that they could contribute to the building of St. Peter's Cathedral. And if they contributed

to the building of St. Peter's Cathedral. even their ancestors who have sinned, their sins will be forgiven. So all you have to do is you've got to pay him and he will make sure that your ancestors who have died will, you know, have a better time in heaven. You know, every dollar that you give is helping some of your ancestors, you know? So I was inspired by that. So today I'm launching a project. No, not really. It got so bad that there was a guy called Martin Luther that was a preacher at the time and he kept hearing this in the church and he read some of Paul's writings and as he read Paul's writings, he wrote down what is called the 95 Thesis and he nailed this 95 Thesis to the door at the Wittenberg Cathedral and he started what would be referred to by church, historians, as the Reformation and this is the essence of it. He said, by grace alone we are saved. It's not because of what we do. It's not because of us earning our way to God. It's because of what he has done. He has finished the work. I cannot make my way to God and therefore Christ has made the way for me and he started what we know as the Reformation

because the church had to move away from works. He was so upset with the Book of James that when Martin Luther published a Bible, he moved the order of the books in the New Testament and he put the Book of James very last and he made a little note of it with it. He called it the Epistle of Straw. Not a lot of people like that so later he changed it because he realized what we're about to realize today is that although in his day when he was trying to pull the pendulum back from one extreme, he was pulling the pendulum back and initially he'd call it the Epistle of Straw but you'll read in his later Bibles and he'll say the Book of James, a good book because this is what I wanna recommend to you. This is what I wanna tell you today is this idea of us being saved by grace and the finished work of Christ and this idea that faith without action is dead is not contradicting one another. It's actually complimenting one another because when we grab hold of the one and we lose sight of the other, we miss the plot. If we think it's all about works and we try and earn our way to salvation, we will never be good enough to be good enough for God. You will never make your way to God. You will never be able to do good enough to have your sins forgiven

but I wanna tell you at the same time that Christ has done all for you to be saved but if you don't respond to what Christ has done, then you belittle what He has done because you're not living in the fullness of the finished work of Christ and it's not the one or the other, it's the one and the other. It's understanding that Christ is our source of salvation while at the same time, there is a switch that we need to make and we need to live in the fullness of what He has for us. It's not Paul or James, it's Paul and James. It's the two sides together. It's the source of our salvation. It's the energy source, it's the origin, it's the one that has provided it all for us and at the same time, it is the switch that we need to switch on in the same way that for this lamp, there is a source of electricity that comes to this lamp and this source of electricity is coming from somewhere far off. I don't know if it's a nuclear power plant or a coal power plant or a wind turbine or a solar plant. I don't know, I don't care. All I know is there's enough of it. There's a source of power that's arriving here that is arriving and the source is there, the possibility is there but without the switch,

if I don't respond to the source, I can't make this source happen. God is the source but I have to flip the switch because if I don't respond to the source, it doesn't matter how much energy is in the source, it makes no difference to the light in my life and some of us are plugged in to the source of all sources, to the one that has done it all and we're living in darkness because we've never flipped the switch. We've never caused faith to flow over into our deeds, to flow over into our works and I wanna tell you today that God wants us to have a faith that works, a faith that is seated in the finished work of Christ but that transforms the way we live our lives, that flows. out into our lives. So let's dig into the source a little bit, right? So if you are unplugged, you can flip the switch all you like, it'll make no difference. Isn't that true? Have you ever been there? Somehow people in hotel rooms love to charge their things where the lamp gets plugged into the wall, which means in the middle of the night, when you eventually do find that switch, you're switching the switch all you can, but the light isn't coming on, why? Because it's not plugged in at the source.

And if we don't have the source, if we don't understand that Christ has done it all, and we don't plug into the source, flipping the switch will never save us. It'll never get, he is the source, he has done it all. I love the statement Jesus makes on the cross in John 19 verse 30, he says, it is finished, it is finished. The Greek word there is the word tetelestai. Now, tetelestai was the statement that was made when you ran a race and you crossed the finish line, the crowd would cry, tetelestai, it is done. When an artist would create something or a carpenter would build something and it was complete and it was ready, they would say, it is finished, tetelestai, this is done, this is over. I wanna tell you when Christ died on the cross, he proclaimed the tetelestai, it is done, it is over. Every sin that will be committed, every sin that has been committed, every little bit of distance from God and humanity, every little bit of death that had its hold on us, it was finished and forever it is finished. There is no sin, no power, no thing on this world or that will come that can separate you from the love of God because Christ has finished it all. He has paid the price, it is done, it is finished. You cannot add one bit to your salvation. You cannot do anything that will make God love you

any more than he already does. It is impossible for God to love you more because God loves you completely and it doesn't matter what you do or where you go or where you've been or what you've experienced, it doesn't matter what you will do for the rest of your life, you cannot cause God to not love you any more because God loves you and there is no sin, there is no demon, there is no activity, there is nothing on this earth that can separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus because it is done, it is finished. He has done it and you cannot add anything to it. You don't need anything but what Christ has done in order for you to be saved. It is finished, it is an endless power source that was started that day and that will never run out. It is done, finished, tetelestai. But the reality is that just because it is done doesn't mean you live in the fullness of what is available to you. You can be plugged in but switched off. You can have access to forgiveness. You do not have to carry one bit of unforgiveness in your heart towards any other human being for any moment of time. You never have to be subject to the sin that enslaves you. You do not have to be under the yoke of sin or the yoke of heaviness or the yoke of not being good enough.

You don't have to live in hopelessness because forever He has done it all and He has made the way forever for all of us but whether we live in it or not depends not on whether He has finished it but it depends on whether we're accessing it, on whether we're grabbing hold of it because it's available. I love how Paul continues what he writes. He says that we're saved not by our own works but by grace through faith, right? That's Ephesians chapter two verse eight to nine and then verse 10 comes and this is what he says. He says, for we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works. It doesn't end with the source. It doesn't end with Him finishing it all. We are created in Christ Jesus. We are resourced in Christ Jesus. We are given it all in Christ Jesus. We have the fullness of the finished work. of Jesus Christ, but not only do we have that fullness, we've been created to do good works. It's not the one or the other, it's both, and there's a source, but there's also a switch. We have to respond. We have to cause the finished work of Christ to do a work in us, to change the work we do. We can't add anything to our salvation,

but we have to walk out our salvation. We can't earn our salvation, but we've gotta respond to our salvation. We've gotta grab a hold of our salvation. We've gotta walk it out, we've gotta practice it, we've gotta live it. It's not just, it's not whether or not the source has the ability to, it's whether or not we're accessing what he has done. It's whether or not we're taking it, whether or not we're appropriating it, whether or not we're owning it. It's time we flipped the switch, which is what James was arguing for, right? So James, in James chapter two, verse 14, says this. Read with me. It says, what good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you say to them, go in peace, keep warm, and be well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? If in the same way, faith by itself, if not accompanied by action, is dead. There is a dangerous way to read what James is writing here and to read that I need to do more for God to love me more, but I think it's clear that that is not James' intent

and nor is it in line with biblical narrative. But what is true is that James is saying that faith without action is dead. If your faith doesn't change the way you live, it doesn't produce fruit, it doesn't live. But we need to learn to respond to what we believe. And I love his example here, which is amazing. If somebody was cold and come to your door, the problem is this is Texas. So if somebody was cold and came to your door, you would be like, how did you manage that? How do you do that? Because we're hot, right? It's hot in Texas. So we're gonna translate the parable James uses here a little bit, okay? So you're sitting at home, you're having dinner. It's 199 degrees outside as it is in summer in Texas. And you're having a lovely dinner in your air-conditioned home and just enjoying that iced tea, the iced tea that isn't sweet nor is it unsweet. It's half and half, right? And it's not just iced tea. It's iced tea with a glass full of ice. If you don't have half ice and half tea, then you don't understand iced tea, right? So it's iced tea that is iced and tea and half sweet and perfect with a little slice of lemon just to top it off.

Well, you're having a lovely dinner at home and you're having this dinner in your air-conditioned home. It's hot outside and there's a knock on the door and you come to the door and at the door, I mean, you open the door, you've got your iced tea in one hand, you open the door, the condensation from outside hits and the condensation on the glass just kind of goes extra cold in your hand as you're enjoying a sip of iced tea. Well, this guy tells you about how hot he's been and he hasn't had a drink to drink all day and he has nowhere to escape the heat and you being a good Christian, look at him and you say, you know what, sir? I pray that you will have a respite from the heat and I wanna tell you, bless your heart, which I've learned means something else, but I wish that you would cool off and I wish that you would have a drink. In fact, my prayer is that you'll have an iced tea as good as this iced tea. Good day to you, sir, and you slam the door. Amen. Faith without works is dead because if you really believed it, then you would do something different and you won't just say it. So I guess James's question to us, which is an uncomfortable question

as it's growing very quiet in this room, is do you really believe it? If you don't live it, do you truly believe it? In 1968, Darley and Latane did a research study and their research study was, when given the opportunity. opportunity would people help? And this was basically their study, is they had somebody in distress in a public space act as if they're having a seizure or having a heart attack and then they asked the question if other people would help. And the good news is that when they were the only people around, 85% of people helped. They stopped to help the person in distress. I know the 15% that didn't help isn't at church today. You're probably online. I'm kidding. We love you online. But the reality is most people helped. But when there were more people around, guess what? It went down to 31% of people. Why? Because there's this thing in us called diffusion of responsibility, the belief that someone else will do it. And you've seen it. You've seen it with the dishes at home. Someone else will do it, right? You've seen this diffusion of responsibility in society. Someone else will do it because your hope is

that someone else will do it. Here's the problem though, is we don't just have diffusion of responsibility when it comes to helping others. We have diffusion of responsibility when it comes to living out our faith. Because here's what happens is we believe it, we know that Christ did it, we know that we can live in it, but we're waiting for someone else to do it for us. We're waiting for someone else to ask us to read our Bibles. We're waiting for someone else to post a little devotional on Instagram or TikTok so that we will be devoted to God. We're waiting for someone else to read the Bible for us. We're waiting for them to ask us to give. If they really ask us, if they really need it, I will give. But we're not responding in obedience to what Christ has done so we have a diffusion of responsibility. We've given away our responsibility for our faith. We're waiting for a sign. You're waiting for someone else. You know you need to get baptized. You know God's spoken to you, but you've never taken the step to get baptized because you're waiting for the perfect scenario, the perfect circumstances to do it in. You have a diffusion of responsibility. Your faith is without action, and because it's without action, your life is in the darkness.

Not because Christ hasn't done it, not because He isn't finished, not because it isn't available, not because it isn't fully yours. No, because you have never flipped the switch. So, what James says is true, right? And I love how he points to people who flipped the switch. If you look at the book of James, you read the rest, you'll see he brings up Abraham in James 2, verse 21, and he says, was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did? Note that phrase, for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar. You see, it wasn't that Abraham just believed in the promise, Abraham believed in the promise enough that he was willing to sacrifice the promise because he realized that the promise wasn't in him, the promise wasn't the one that promised, and he is faithful, and if he could do it once, he could do it again. So, Abraham was willing to sacrifice the promise, but his faith wasn't proven in what he believed, it was proven in what he did. Keep reading the book of James, and he brings up Rahab, the prostitute, right? So, he goes from the patriarch, Abraham, to the prostitute, Rahab, and read with me in verse 25, he says, in the same way,

he was not even Rahab, the prostitute, considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction. She helped out the spies of God. She was a prostitute, she was destitute, and the Israelites was about to take over her land, but because of what she did, she was included in the promise. Why does James use the patriarch, Abraham, who was righteous because of what he did, and the prostitute, Rahab, who was righteous because of what she did? Because he's trying to prove that whether you feel like you can earn it, or you feel like you can't, it doesn't really matter, because it's not whether you feel like you can earn it, or you feel like you're good enough, or you feel like you deserve it, you're not, but because you're responding to what he has done, you can live in the promise. It's because you are doing something about what he finished, you get to partake of the promise. We get to be included in it because we're responding to it. Verse 22, do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves, do what it says. Don't just listen, do it. So we went to London a little while ago, Cara and myself too, and we went to Harrods of London. If you've ever been to Harrods of London,

it's an incredible store. It's a little bit of a fairy land, different, you know, it's like La La Land, it's just out of this world, okay? So we went to the store and it has these displays. I mean, I know your grocery store looks that way, mine doesn't, but the reality is it has all these displays and different confectionaries and different fruits and different meats, and I mean, just look at that, right? So if you weren't hungry yet, my pleasure, okay? And I'm sorry to refer to my pleasure on a Sunday because there's something you can't get on a Sunday, which I always feel like on a Sunday. But anyway, besides the point, the reality is as you walk through Harrods, it's an amazing place, right? It's a beautiful place with the most amazing food and we were walking around taking pictures, oohing and aahing around every corner at the amazing food that was everywhere in this amazing place. But I wanna tell you, we could take pictures all day long, taking pictures and looking at the different displays, we had nothing on taking a bite. We sat down for a piece of pizza and that pizza changed my life. No pizza would ever be the same again after having the pizza because this is what happened. We tasted and saw that the Lord is good. The problem is that we're living, we're reading the Word, we know the Word, we know all these great ideas about God.

We go to church, we show up, we do the things, but we don't live the life. You're not allowing it to change your life. You're taking the pictures, you're making the Instagram posts but you're not living the life and therefore you're living in darkness and not living in the light. Faith without works is dead. The pictures without the substance was nothing. But the substance, the reality of making it your own, the reality of grabbing a hold of it, don't just take the pictures. We need both. We need the source and the switch. Where is your switch off? Remember the picture? It's there's grace and there's works, right? There's faith and grace that saves us. There's faith and works that gives us the light. It's the source and the switch. Where have you not switched on the switch? Where have you not responded in your life and said, hold on a minute, I'm gonna apply what I believe. I'm not just gonna read the Word, I'm gonna do the Word. How different would your life be if you applied even just half of what you know about the Bible? How different would your life be if you just did what you believed, if you just lived in what you were convicted of,

if you just took God at His Word, if you just took Christ at His finished work and you walked like you believed it? You didn't just say it, but you believed it. How different would your life be? There's a little riddle that goes like this. Three frogs sat on a log. If one of those frogs decided to jump off the log, how many frogs sit on the log? Right, three frogs sat on the log. If one of the frogs decided to jump, how many frogs sat on the log? Okay, let me try this side. Three frogs sat on the log. If one of the frogs decided to jump, how many frogs sit on that log? Three frogs sat on the log. One of the frogs decided to jump, how many frogs sat on the log? Three frogs sat on the log. If one of the frogs decided to jump, how many frogs sat on the log? Three frogs sat on the log. If one of them decided to jump, how many frogs sat on the log? Three frogs sat on the log. If one of them decided to jump, how many frogs sat on the log? Three frogs sat on the log. Why is three frogs on the log?

Because they just decided to jump, they never jumped. Don't be a frog in a log, that's the bottom line. Don't just decide to jump, jump. Don't just decide to believe, believe. Don't just say God's gonna provide, live like it. Don't just say I'm gonna forgive, forgive. Don't just say I'm gonna love. People love on them. Stop saying we should join a group and join a group. Stop saying I should really start serving at this church and start serving at this church. Stop setting up a calendar to read your Bible. Read your Bible. Three frogs sat on a log. One of them decided to jump. How many frogs sat on the log? Three frogs. Don't be a frog. Jump. Stop speaking about it. Jump. Stop saying I should be baptized. Be baptized. Stop saying I should make a commitment. Make a commitment. Stop saying we should really tithe and tithe. Don't wait for the perfect circumstances. Stop visiting churches and say we should really join a church one day. Join a church.

Jump in. Do it. Stop saying God has forgiven all my sins and start living like your sins are forgiven. Stop saying I should really deal with this addiction and go get some help and deal with your addiction. Three frogs sat on a log. One of them jumped off. How many frogs sat on that log? Jump off the log. The source has done all the work. It's in there. This lamp has absolutely everything it needs to be light. But it takes someone flipping the switch. The darkest day in the history of humanity, the darkest time in human history was when humanity lived in utter darkness, separated from God. No way for humanity to connect with God. No way for humanity to make their way to God. No measure of obedience would be enough to be reconnected with God because sin and darkness has overtaken the earth. Even though God had chosen us in Christ before He lost us in Adam, even though He so loved the world that He gave, He's only begotten Son, still the world was wrapped in darkness. And maybe you feel like your life is wrapped in darkness.

Maybe you feel like there is no light, there is no hope, there is no way out. But I wanna tell you what Romans 5 19 says happened for just as through the disobedience of one man, the many were made sinners, the world was plunged into darkness. So also through the obedience of one man, the man Jesus Christ, the many will be made righteous. You see, Christ didn't just think it was enough that God loved the world, but He made a decision to come and give His life as a ransom for many. And that day on the cross, He didn't just say, I love you. He didn't just say, I forgive you. He didn't just say, but He said, Father, not my will, but your will be done. And that day, Jesus flipped the switch and Jesus switched on the power for every single one of us. And now from that day on forevermore, there is light and light for all of us. Will you flip the switch today and allow His light to shine in your life? Let's pray. Lord, I thank You. And You have done it all. You have finished the work. You have brought about the forgiveness. You've taken away the distance. Lord, You have done it all. And Lord, You've provided for every single one of us.

Everything we need for life and godliness. The power source is the cure. It is by grace, the free gift of God that cannot be earned, that we cannot make happen. We don't have to be good enough to. We have been given it for free. But Lord, today I wanna repent for the areas of my life where I have not flipped the switch, where I have not stepped into what you've provided for me, where I have not responded in obedience, where I have not said yes to the life and the light and the calling of God over my life. So Lord, I pray that today is the day that we flip the switch. Lord, we will no longer be frogs on a log speaking about it, but God, we choose to jump in, we choose to live it out, we choose to give you our everything. Lord, grace by faith, but also faith and works. In Jesus' name. Amen. I wanna also take a moment for some of you today that's been listening to this Word and as you've been hearing about what Christ did, you maybe felt as if you're in a space or in a place where you've never plugged into that source, you've never accessed what Christ has done on the cross. And if that's you today, we wanna pray with you today. So I wanna invite you, if you wanna say yes to Jesus,

if you wanna say yes to His finished work on the cross for the very first time or as a reaffirmation of your faith, would you be as bold as just to put some hands in the air and say, that's me, I need that prayer today. I see hands going up all over. Anybody else that needs to commit their lives to say yes to Jesus, I see you, I see you. Hands all over, I see you. Can we pray out loud and at once, whether for the very first time or as a reaffirmation, are you ready? Dear Lord Jesus, come on, let me hear you. Dear Lord Jesus, I commit my life to you. I accept what you've done on the cross for me. And so from this day on, I will live for you by your power, by your grace, in Jesus' Name, amen. Man, can we give them a great hand? If you made that decision today, you'll see some people with signs that says, made brand new on my left and on my right. You'll see them there. And if you would go to them, they have resources for you. They looking forward to pray with you today. Also, we'll have the prayer partners at the front here in a moment to pray with you. Can I invite you to stand for a moment as I speak a blessing over you before we dismiss. Just stand right there where you are. I wanna speak a blessing over every single one of you today. Amen.

May you in this week and in the season to come, not just know what Christ has done, but may you experience it in every facet of your life. In Jesus' Name, amen, amen. Have a fantastic week. Thank you for coming to church today.