How Can I Get a Passing Grade? | Josh Leake

So we're gonna jump into the message today and we are going to study two different passages of scripture and kind of compare and contrast them. It's two very different but also very similar stories of people who interacted with Jesus. And so we're gonna start in Mark chapter 10, verse 17, in just a second here. So this passage we're about to study, the very popular one, brings about a lot of strong feelings. So Mark chapter 10, verse seven, and we'll start there in just a second. Okay, so verse 17 says, as Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him, fell on his knees before him. Good teacher, he asked. What must I do to inherit eternal life? Why do you call me good, Jesus answered. No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments. You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, you shall not defraud, honor your father and mother. Jesus is actually going through the back half of the 10 commandments if you know them. Verse 20, teacher, he declared, all these I have kept since I was a boy. And then Jesus looked at him and loved him. Look at that word. I think it's good to see the tone

in the heart of Jesus's response here. So this is not a harsh or angry response. One thing you lack, he said, go sell everything you have, give to the poor, and then you'll have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me. And at this the man's face fell. He went away sad because he had great wealth. So this message we're about to study really isn't about money, although it mentions money. Really it's about a deeper question, and the question is what this man was asking, which is this. If eternity is on the line, how am I doing? How am I measuring up for the goal of someday making it into eternity? And everyone who has ever lived has wondered this. Now, some people end up not believing or going their own way and deciding their own things, but everybody wonders if there is an eternity, am I gonna measure up? Am I good enough for this? And with most other things in life, we are used to performance-based and measure-based systems. So we generally operate and are comfortable with if I know my goal, I have a system to measure how I'm doing. So this is how it was in high school. I grew up going to Hampton High School. Any students at Hampton High School, wave at me. Okay, hey, look at that, go tell this, that's great.

Fellow Hamptonites. So ninth grade, I had biology class first thing in the morning. I remember walking in one morning, and bleary-eyed, tired, usually take the first little bit and kind of zone out, get used to it. But I will never forget this one day I walked in. This had never happened to me before. I was struck by pure panic, because the teacher said, okay, class, put everything away. It's time for your exam on the biology of a squid. And I had absolutely no idea that we had a test that day. You know the feeling where you're sitting and you're like, I have messed up so bad, and your blood runs cold? But guess who got a 63% on that test, baby? Yeah, passed with flying colors, 63%. So the point is, generally in life, when you have a goal you're shooting for, if you know what grades you want, you can measure exactly percentage where you're at. There's also some things we can measure, but that aren't exact. So when you're dating somebody, you don't have a percentage that you can operate by. You don't know, I'm 38% ready to meet their parents. You don't have that. But you know based on body language, communication, relationship milestones,

there's ways to generally track how you're doing. And then there are some things, if we keep moving down, that we have a very limited to non-existent scope of how we're doing to reach a goal. So for any parents in the room, you know this feeling. I have three kids, nine, seven, and four. And all parents know the feeling of, man, I hope I'm not messing these kids up, you know? Because we've talked to parents before who were like, if I could go back, there's a lot I would change because I didn't know until it was too late. So parenting is one of those things that we all have a goal, but it doesn't always feel like we know clearly how we're doing. And that is the question that this guy was asking Jesus. The heaviest question, a relatable question. If eternity is on the line, where do I stand with God? And Jesus' answer to him was, go sell everything and then come back. So we can all relax and take a deep breath because the point of what Jesus is saying is not all followers of Jesus need to sell everything or give away all your money. His point was much deeper, something more interesting. And he actually adds some anxiety-inducing commentary as this guy's walking away. Verse 25, he says, it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. The disciples were even more amazed, said to each other,

who then can be saved? Okay, so it's not possible for rich people to be saved? Really? So then who can be saved? And Jesus looked at them and said, with man, this is impossible, but not with God. All things are possible with God. So again, the disciples and this man are asking the most important question. If forever and ever and ever is on the line, where do I stand? How can I know if I'm good? And Jesus gives what feels kind of like a slippery answer. Like it almost feels a little bit like how a politician would answer. They're like, be specific with us, Jesus. What do we need to do? And he's like, well, anything's possible with God. It's like, yeah, okay. But like, I need specifics. So we're gonna leave this story hanging for one second, because again, remember, I told you, we're talking about two different interactions that guys had, and we'll compare and contrast them. So we'll leave that one there, pause it, and we'll go to our next guy, a tax collector named Zacchaeus, okay? So he's a Jewish guy working for the Roman government. He is viewed by his own people as a traitor, as an outcast, because he's basically extorting money from his own people.

So they view him as an outcast, as a sinner, don't want anything to do with him. Zacchaeus comes to hear Jesus teach, and there's a big crowd, he can't see Jesus. He climbs up in a tree, and this is where Luke 19, verse five is where we'll pick up and read here in a second. Okay, verse five says, when Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today. So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. Okay, ding, ding, ding, alarm. This is so different from the last story already. If you think about this rich man in the first story, came to Jesus, fell on his knees, and Jesus is immediately guarded, and is correcting the guy and redirecting him. But with Zacchaeus, he hasn't even interacted with him yet. He goes and he sees him in a tree, and he's like, we're going to lunch and you're buying. Like it's already way different than how the last story started. And then verse seven says, all the people saw this and began to mutter under their breath, he's going to be the guest of a sinner. So now we jump ahead, and just one verse later jumps ahead a little bit in time to after their meal together. Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, look, Lord, here and now I give half

of my possessions to the poor, and if I've cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount. And Jesus said to him, today's salvation has come to this house, because this man too is a son of Abraham, for the son of man came to seek and to save the lost. Okay, didn't we just read a second ago that Jesus basically said it's impossible for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven? At least that feels like what he was saying. So what's happening here that this greedy, traitor, outcast, Zacchaeus rich man is now being welcomed in? I've actually heard some people talk about this, and I just stumbled across this on accident a few days ago, a debate between a Christian and an atheist, where they were talking about this story, and the atheist said about this, Jesus clearly had a generosity standard that you had to meet to receive salvation. Because for the first rich man who didn't give away his money, he wasn't welcomed in, and for Zacchaeus, all he had to do was give away his money and he was welcomed in. So salvation was a financial standard. So I think that the atheist totally missed the beauty of what Jesus was trying to teach and the significance. So in order to draw out the significance, let's do what we talked about,

we'll compare and contrast these two. So both stories have a very wealthy man, probably both of them are influential, and both of them came genuinely to hear from Jesus with an open heart. But in contrasting them, one was a respected, devoted religious man, the other one was a known social outcast and sinner. Again, verse seven we read said, all the people muttered under their breath, this guy's a sinner. Contrasting them, the first guy got corrected by Jesus, the second guy, Jesus invited himself over to Zacchaeus' house. One went away sad and the other one was overjoyed. So the well-behaved, religious, devoted man missed something and the. immoral, despised, social, outcast, sinner, got something. What is the difference here between these two men? The fundamental difference is the understanding of who Jesus was and what he was preaching. The first guy was totally missing who Jesus was and what he was preaching. I just wanna say, so many people have misinterpreted Jesus because they think they already know who he is and what he stood for. They've made judgments about Jesus after interacting with hypocritical Christians or mean-spirited religious people. But the more you get to know the real Jesus,

you see that he was actually the most harsh on devoted, judgmental religious people. And Jesus didn't lower the standard to say, live others, love others, and then live however you want. But at the same time, he also exposed the hypocrisy of the judgmental religious leaders. And the point is, Jesus preached something very specific. He had a very specific message. And again, in order to really understand him and not miss him like the first guy did, we'll go back to a line that was really important from the first story. So this guy comes on his knees, this rich guy, comes on his knees to Jesus and says, good teacher. Jesus says back to him, why do you call me good? There's no one good except God. Now this line, there's no one good except God, that one always kind of felt like a throwaway line to me. Like I didn't really understand why he said it, you just kind of skim by it. But he already is trying to clue this guy in on what he teaches, on who Jesus is. So in response to this man's question, where he comes to Jesus, and he's basically asking the question, how do I know if I'm good enough? Jesus is answering and saying, there is no such thing as good enough for God. So good enough to enter to the kingdom, good enough to be approved, good enough to be loved,

or to be transformed does not exist. God is the only perfect, completely good, holy one. There is no such thing as good enough. Now for a lot of us, especially us that grew up with performance-based religion, this can be frustrating, because we're used to a world that allows us to work based on standards and measurement and performance. And this is how this guy was thinking. Well, it's sort of like a spiritual or moral bank account. And this is what the Pharisees, the religious leaders at the time were teaching the same thing, which is that as long as you maintain your spiritual and your moral bank account, and you keep your sin low, and you follow the law and you behave well, then you're solid. But this is not what Jesus was teaching. And also, this is why Zacchaeus was so offensive to people. They all muttered under their breath, this guy's a sinner, meaning this guy has a terrible spiritual bank account. This guy's basically morally bankrupt. He's a traitor. He's not respectable. He's not devoted. He's not religious enough. He's not honorable enough. He's not a good example. Really, Jesus, him? Humanity always defaults to this position of living by

and comparing our moral and spiritual bank accounts, our performance against one another to what we think the standard is or should be. Even those of us who have been Christians or following Jesus a long time, we drift back to the same way of operating. But Jesus rejected this way of thinking with his last statement. This is the one that I said was slippery or can sound political, but it's important. He said, with man, it's impossible, but with God, anything is possible. So here's the point. My bank account, your bank account, the moral and spiritual bank account is absolutely worthless when it comes to getting anything from God. Your spiritual resume, my spiritual resume is worthless for earning anything from God. And again, there's many of us who grew up hearing the goal of Christianity is to be a good person. You try not to sin. You try to be a good person. And if you are good enough, then you will be let in. But this is not what Jesus taught. Does this mean that good deeds don't matter? Generosity and self-sacrifice and taking care of people? No, they do, but the principle that Jesus is outlining is critical here. And it's what I like to call the contributing to

versus the flowing from principle or lifestyle. Okay, we see this illustrated in these. two different interactions and stories. Here's the contributing to principle. It's the default state that we all drift towards of trying to boost our moral and spiritual bank account through our behavior so that we can earn favor and approval and love or a passing spiritual grade from God. And the whole world drifts towards this. We all drift towards trying to be good enough. Do you know who drifts towards this way of acting more than anyone else? It's the deeply religious people. Why? Because deeply religious people tend to rely on their moral performance in comparison with other people. But Jesus attacked this way of living and thinking, and especially the religious leaders who were trying to prove that they took it more seriously than anyone else. They were trying to show that they were more devoted than anyone else, that they kept the law better than anyone else. And Jesus was saying, this way of thinking is broken. It's corrupted. So let me just talk for a minute to the committed disciples of Jesus in the room. Listen, you and I so easily drift back into this way of living and thinking. We know in our head that we're contaminated by sin, and that we're only saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. But then after that moment of salvation, we tend to slide back into the pressure of proving that we're worth it, or proving that we deserve something, or that we've earned something, or that we're improving, or better than others. We slide into comparison. But listen, this is not how Jesus taught us to live. Because you and I didn't save ourselves in the first place. I am only saved by faith in what Jesus did. I'm only saved by faith that he is who he says he is, by faith that he's not giving up on me, and by faith that the good work that he started in me, that he's gonna carry it on to completion. Come on, somebody say amen. That's what we believe and we come back to. So listen, if you're not following Jesus, if you haven't committed your life to him, this is a critical misconception that we have to understand.

Critical misconception is that Jesus is looking for spiritual or moral improvement when what he actually was teaching is rebirth in the heart. So this is the flowing from principle. Contributing to is, I've got to give enough to my bank account so that I get the ticket to salvation. Flowing from the other end is what Jesus preached, which is being born again. I get a new heart. I'm transformed through the grace of God and then goodness flows out of that. It's the fruit of transformation, not the ticket to salvation. Jesus gives us a new heart and this is what happened with Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus encountered the person of Jesus. I mean you got to think about this, what this was like for Zacchaeus, who's a social outcast. Everybody despises him. He's viewed as a traitor. To his own people. He's ruled by greed. His whole life is led by the pursuit of money. And now he interacts with Jesus and he gives away half his possessions, gives back four times what he took. Why? For a good ethical teaching? Or because he had somebody that he respected, show him love? No, it was the person of Jesus Christ and when you get your eyes on the real Jesus, you're not transformed to try to be better. Jesus transforms your heart. This is what it's about. So here's the main point of this message. Jesus preached a release of control in exchange for a new heart. Release of control. Meaning our spiritual bank account, our moral bank account, is worthless for earning anything from him because he's after our heart and our commitment and our life. For the first rich man, this was terrible news because everything that he had to offer was worthless and the one thing that Jesus was asking him to offer he couldn't give, which was his heart.

Why could he not give that? Because he was already ruled by something else. So that's why this message really is not about money. Money was a topic, but it's really about the heart. So when Jesus said to him, go sell everything and then come back, he wanted to see where is your heart at? What is the master of your heart? Money had a grip on this guy. He already had a master that he was serving and his master was money and this is why Matthew chapter 6, Jesus says no one can serve two masters because you're gonna love one and you're gonna hate the other. No one can serve both God and money. So this is the point that Jesus was making when he said it's difficult for wealthy people to enter the kingdom because money so easily becomes our master. It's one of many things but Jesus talked about money in particular because it's a very seductive master. Makes us feel safe, makes us feel secure, it can guide our lives, we can live for money, we can live for our career but for Zacchaeus who was ruled by his money, money was his master, when he encountered the person of Jesus Christ and his message of grace he got a new heart and giving his money away was just the fruit of his heart being changed. Money as a master lost its grip on Zacchaeus's heart when he understood who Jesus was. So I remember I had a conversation with my son a few years ago, he's nine now, I'm just gonna share with you a proud dad moment I had. So when he was probably five or six years old we were having a conversation about things that can have a grip on your heart because he started to get obsessed with video games. So I grew up with video games, me and my brothers played all the time and so that's something me and my son have connected over, love playing Mario Kart, things like that and he started to become obsessed with it and so I was trying to explain to my five or six year old son the concept of things that can have a grip on your heart and I was like I don't know if he's gonna get this but I just asked him not long ago about again about this and I was like do you remember I was talking about this I said there were three things, three signs you can tell something has a grip on your heart and he was like yeah dad it's something that controls your emotions, something that you can't stop

thinking about and something you can't take a break from and I was like he got it that's good well that's awesome that was exciting for me as a dad but so those three things this is not like an exhaustive list that you find in the Bible but I found that it's a good measure for how to tell if something is becoming your master it dominates your attention can't stop thinking about it it tends to guide or control your emotions and you have a very hard time taking a break or stepping away from this thing because that's what Jesus was asking of this guy it was never you you can't make money ever again he was saying I need to see that money isn't ruling you it's not the master of your heart because experiencing who Jesus is what he has to offer means releasing control and making him king and then he transforms our heart and good things flow out so how do we position ourselves to hear from and respond to Jesus so that we don't end up like the first guy because the problem with the first rich guy that we talked about is that he came with his own framework of how things work and when Jesus said no no no that's not what I'm looking for he walked away it was less about money it was more about control remember the main point we said is Jesus preaches a release of control of our lives in exchange for a new heart so how do we posture ourselves to not miss who Jesus is and what he's really preaching okay three ways first of all first way we got a posture ourself is powerlessness so this is the heart posture that says I cannot save myself the heart posture that says there is no such thing as good enough to earn anything from God or to earn a ticket into the kingdom of God because we have to recognize that sin contaminates us our rebellion our disobedience contaminates us and there is no freedom from our sin without God this is why Jesus said with man it's impossible but with God anything is possible meaning you cannot based on your own effort work yourself out of the sin contamination but with God it's possible so I need the grace and the leadership of Jesus to help me out of this pit of sin that I'm stuck in every one of us has to come to that place of powerlessness you know what's interesting about this concept of powerlessness too is that I have found

in my experience it is much easier for people who have struggled with an addiction and worked on recovery to get this concept than it is for deeply people why is that because religious people are used to maintaining the state of their behavioral moral bank account they try to do do good, they try not to do bad, but then they don't really live surrendered. Whereas people who've struggled with addiction and have worked on recovery, every single one of them has to come to the realization that I do not have power over this behavior. It's been an illusion. Everybody has to let go of the illusion that their life is fine. And that's the point that Jesus is making with this guy. The first rich guy comes to him and is like, I know I'm doing good, I've been behaving good, my bank account's in a good place, but I need to know, am I good enough? And Jesus is actually saying to him, actually, you're not doing very good. It's not because you haven't been behaving good, it's because you are thinking that there is an eventual point that will be good enough and that will never be enough. Jesus said, I've come to seek and to save the lost. He also said, I've come for the sick, not for the healthy. That was not to say that some people are sick and some are healthy. The point is, every one of us is lost. Every one of us is sick,

just some of us are blind or pretending. We all have to drop the illusion that our life is fine and say, Jesus, I'm lost, I need help. This posture is precious to the heart of God. And listen, even if you're already following him, when we say to God, even if you've been following for decades, we say to God, I don't have all the answers. I'm not good enough, I can't figure this out. I'm not God, I'm not the Messiah. Jesus, I need you to shape me. I need you to change me, I need you to lead me. Every time, God is faithful to answer that prayer. The posture of powerlessness is precious to the heart of God. So first, posture is powerlessness. Second, posture is faith. So we say, I can't save myself in faith that says, Jesus, I believe that you can. I believe that you're real, I believe that you're trustworthy and that you're capable of changing me. Faith is number two. Final one, number three is the posture of surrender. So I can't save myself, I need help. I believe there's someone who can, that's Jesus. And now, Lord, I surrender my life. You can lead me however you tell me to live, I'm gonna do it. It's releasing control for a new heart.

This is what repentance is all about. Admitting, I'm a sinful person. Managing my sin, managing my bank account is never gonna be enough, I need a new heart. And so as we prepare to close, let me just talk to two different groups for a second here. So first of all, if you are a committed follower of Jesus, let me just remind you of the truth that we tend to drift away from. Jesus is not looking at you every day and deciding whether he loves you or whether you're good enough based on your performance. It's a simple truth that a lot of times we know up here, but it doesn't make its way here. We default to performance-based religion and way of relating to God. There is no such thing as good enough and God is not checking the state of your behavioral bank account. So if you have been comparing yourselves to others, to saying, I'm not sure if I'm doing good enough, I'm not sure if God accepts me or if he loves me for he wants anything to do with me because of my performance, or maybe you've been feeling really good about yourself because you look at other people and you think I'm doing so much better. We have to come back to the center that Jesus is calling out here, which is he is after a surrendered heart,

not trying harder, it's fresh surrender to his leadership on a daily basis. And then he brings the fruit out of us. So before we move on to the second group, let me just pray over you. If you fall in that category, just join me now. Lord, I pray for every disciple of you in this room who has committed their life to you, who's doing their best to live for you. Lord, bring us back to the place where we remember that we didn't save ourselves. It's not our performance that saves us. It's your grace, it's your mercy, it's faith in you. And Lord, if there's anything that has a grip on our hearts, anything that we are surrendering to, anything that's becoming our master, Lord, convict us of that so that we can come back to a place of fresh daily surrender. We pray that in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, let me talk to the second group now. Maybe you believe in a God, you're visiting or you're newer here, you believe in a God. Maybe you even believe in Jesus, but you have not committed your life to him. Let me just talk to you for a minute now. I really believe. that you can see God's creative hand in every corner of creation. I believe that meaning and order and purpose

and beauty is encoded into everything we see. God created this world. He created humanity to be good, but humanity said, God, I don't want you in charge. And when we said to God, I don't want your leadership, I'm gonna do it my way, we invited in pain and destruction and corruption through sin. And when you look around at the state of the world and at the state of the human heart, abuse, corruption, manipulation, greed, I don't think there's any other good explanation for the darkness in the world and the human heart other than sin. So we invited in sin and separation from God because of our contamination of our own rebellion and disobedience. But God's ultimate rescue plan is what we celebrate during this season, that God himself came down in the form of a human, fully God, fully man, and he suffered and died in our place after living a perfect life to pay the penalty that we owed. He absorbed our sin upon himself so that now you and I can be made right through what Jesus did on the cross. And then three days later, on Easter morning, he defeated death. He ascended into heaven

and someday Jesus is coming back to restore all things to the way that they should be. That is the hope of what it means to be a follower of Jesus. So again, let me talk to you if you have not given your life to him. Experiencing true life the way that it's supposed to be and experiencing eternity in heaven with Jesus rather than separated from him in hell starts with admitting that you need help. It starts with admitting I have a sin problem and I can't climb out of this pit on my own. Jesus, I'm powerless, I believe in you, and I want you to have control. It's faith in and dependence on Jesus that transforms us. And so if you wanna commit your life to Jesus, it's a journey, but it starts with a simple prayer of the heart. So would you bow your heads, close your eyes with me? I'm just gonna lead us in a prayer. I'm not even gonna ask you to repeat after me. I'm just gonna lead us and you can pray along with me. And if you're praying that prayer for the first time, again, it just starts with that posture of powerlessness, faith, and surrender. So let's pray together. Jesus, we believe that you are the son of God, that you came to this earth fully man, fully God, to bridge the gap between us and God, that we could never climb out of this pit because of our own sin,

but you lived a perfect life and you died on that cross to take our place, to pay the penalty of our sin. So we say thank you, Jesus, for dying in our place. Thank you for the intense pain and suffering that you went through for us. Lord, we ask for your forgiveness. We recognize that we have tried to say many times we wanna do life our own way, that we think we know what's best. But this morning we're saying, Jesus, we are powerless to save ourselves. We believe in you and now we surrender our lives to you. Lord, make us new, give us a new heart. We want you to be the master and the leader of our lives. In Jesus' name, everybody said, amen, amen. Awesome, let's all stand to our feet now as we prepare to close. And the worship team's gonna sing here and we'll just kind of allow this to seal in our hearts. But I do wanna do this. For those of you that are your parents and you are gonna get ready to take your kids through the egg hunt, I'm gonna go ahead and dismiss you now so that you have a second to beat the stampede of the rest of the room. So you can go ahead and make your way out to grab your kids. Everybody else just hang tight for one minute. And I really believe in the principle of ending in worship,

not to just hear a word and then leave, but just to worship God and say, Lord, help seal this in my heart now just to surrender to you. So let's worship and then I'll come back in just a minute. ♪ Lord I need you, oh I need you ♪ ♪ Every hour I need you ♪ ♪ My one defense, my righteousness ♪ ♪ My righteousness, oh God, how I need you ♪ ♪ Lord I come, I confess, I'm bowing here, I find my way ♪ ♪ I rest without you, I fall apart ♪ ♪ You're the one that guides my heart ♪ ♪ And Lord I need you, oh I need you ♪ ♪ Every hour I need you, my God I need you ♪ ♪ My one defense, my righteousness, oh God I need you ♪ ♪ Sin runs deep, your grace is more ♪ ♪ And grace is found, it's where you are ♪ ♪ It's where you are, Lord I am free ♪ ♪ Holiness is Christ's demand, Lord I need you, oh I need you ♪ ♪ Every hour I need you, my one defense, my righteousness, oh God I need you ♪ ♪ Every hour I need you, my one defense, my righteousness, oh God I need you ♪ So before we dismiss now, would you just join me in this posture here? Just put your hands out in front of you as a way of just now physically representing to Jesus, physically representing to the Lord. God, I need you. Lord, I'm powerless to figure out life on my own. I can keep up the illusion for a little bit,

but the truth is, Jesus, I'm desperate for you. This posture, again, it's so precious to God, to just come to him on a daily basis, say, Jesus, I need you. I need you in my family, I need you in my job. I need you as I navigate the world and life around me. Your way is better than mine, you know better than me. So I depend on you. And now I just wanna pray. I feel like we're supposed to pray for those of you that have just been wrestling with the idea of, I'm not sure how God sees me, wrestling with if my performance is good enough. So let's just pray together. Let me pray over you. Jesus, we come before you, and we recognize you are here in the room right now. Thank you, Jesus, that your presence is active among your people. Lord, and we remember what your word says, that we are not sons and daughters because we are good enough. We are not sons and daughters because we have earned it. We are sons and daughters because of the blood you shed. Because you took our penalty, you took our place on the cross. Freely we can step into the presence of the living God, not because we've done anything to earn it, but because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you welcome us in. So Jesus, we say, remind us of the truth of your word,

that you have forgiven us, that you love us. And Lord, we just now freshly surrender to you. We say, lead us, guide us. Come on, just call out to him for a minute. Jesus, we need your leadership. We need your wisdom. We need your clarity. We're not gonna lean on our own understanding. We wanna trust in your ways above all else. You know better. Lord, you know what's better for this church, for this country. You know what's better for our world, for our families. So we trust you. We say, Jesus, we need you. We need you. We need you. In your name we pray. Everybody said, amen, amen. Awesome. Guys, thanks for being here. Have a great weekend. Enjoy the egg hunt.