Identity | The Love of God

Woo, yeah. What's up, Southlin? Hey, I'm really, really honored to be here. I'm like pinching myself. I get to be here. Our church, Mosaic and Baltimore, benefits greatly from Southlin. We learned from you a ton. I have benefited so much just as a man trying to follow Jesus well as a husband and father and pastor from learning from Scott. Scott, you're a brother to me, a big brother. I don't know why you let me hang out with you. I think you're so cool and tough and awesome. And I'm just honored to be here and really excited to play a very, very small part in the larger story that God is writing in this church and in this series. And I want to get us going today by talking to you about something that I'm experiencing constantly as a parent, but it's something that no one told me would happen as a parent. I got blindsided by this when I became a father. Because for me right now, it is becoming a common occurrence that my children will come sit in my lap and ask me to read a book. And then in the middle of this totally harmless children's book,

I get crying and weepy because the book has like these deep spiritual undertones about human relationships and dynamics. Like when I read "Velveteen Rabbit" the first time to my child, I was crying. If you want to feel something later today, go read that book, okay? But a couple months ago, I had another moment where this took place where I thought I was about to read a very simple fairy tale to my daughter, Ayla, who's seven. And suddenly I found myself in the middle of like a spiritual journey as I was reading. And this book is not big, it's only a few pages. It's only got three characters, but the reason it's so compelling is because it captures the primary theme of the next portion of Ephesians that we're gonna read as a church. The name of the book that she handed me that day is called "You Are Special" by Max Lucado. And it feels pretty vanilla because, you know, you are special, we tell that to our kids all the time. But this book, I wanna reference it because it's gonna launch us into a dialogue today. I wanna use it as source material in a way to point us to God's word because in this simple kids book is attention every single person here wrestles with. In this book is a psychological phenomenon that we fail to understand.

In this book is a solution that God prescribes in his word to navigate our own dysfunction. And in this book is practical advice that literally could change your life and your faith if you have the courage to accept it. So I wanna look at this book real quick. The story begins with these wooden people called the Wemex. They're like little Marion at puppets, a picture like Pinocchio, all right? And they're all made by this woodworker named Eli. He lives on a hill above the village. And the book says all these Wemex are different. Some are beautiful and elegant and strong, some are messy and clumsy and chipped, but they're all made by the same carver. And it says all day, every day, the Wemex did the same thing. They gave each other stickers. Each Wemex had a box of golden stickers, a golden star stickers or a box of gray dot stickers. Up and down the streets, all over the city, people could be seen sticking, stars or dots on one another. The pretty ones, those with smooth wood and fine paint, always got stars. But if the wood was rough or paint, chipped, the Wemex gave dots. And in the books, all the pretty ones get gold stars and they start doing things to get more gold stars, meanwhile others get dots, they're not so happy about it.

Punchinello was one of these who got the gray dots. He tried to jump high like the others, but he always fell. And when he fell, the others would gather around him and give him dots. Sometimes when he fell, it would scar his wood so that people would give him more dots. He would try to explain why he fell and say something silly and the Wemex would give him more dots. After a while, he had so many dots, he didn't want to go outside. He was afraid he would do something dumb such as forget his hat or step in the water and then people would give him another dot. In fact, he had so many gray dots that some people would come up and give him one for no reason at all. He deserves lots of dots, the wooden people would agree with one another. He's not a good wooden person. After a while, Punchinello believed them. I'm not a good Wemex, he would say. The few times he went outside, he hung around other Wemex who had lots of dots, he felt better around them. Let's stop here, okay? Now, to be clear, I don't expect you to be impressed with this book yet, okay? This book is basically teaching everything that every kid's book ever teaches kids which is don't let what others think to find who you are. This is what we teach kids. I don't expect you to be impressed.

This tension isn't really that unique but it is important that we pause because we teach our children, don't let what others say about you shape how you think about you. We say things like sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me, right? And that's fine that we... Major problems arise though when you think about this more than 30 seconds. Problem number one, as adults, we tell kids this and then fail to live it ourselves. We tell kids, "Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt me." But the deepest wounds you carry into adulthood did not come from a fist. They came from a phrase. They came from that parent or that boss or that ex or that disappointment or that thing that you think God says and those wounds mess with you much longer than a broken bone. That's problem number one. Problem number two is not only is it really difficult to not care about what other people think of you, academic psychology has found it is literally impossible for you to not care what people think about you. In 1902, Charles Horton Cooley was teaching at the University of Michigan and he published this book called Human Nature and Social Order. He was trying to understand how do we form an identity? How do humans cultivate a sense of self? And he developed a theory called the Looking Glass Self. And this theory was very simple but very unsettling. He found in his research that no human develops a sense of self in isolation. He said it's impossible. That you construct an identity through a kind of mental mirror and in short he said, "Your self is not what you are on the inside. It's what you think people see when they see you."

And Cooley's theory has held up for more than a hundred years. The Looking Glass Self is a principle that's still foundational in modern psychology. Researchers find that the human heart and its understanding of self is naturally shaped by comments, looks, tones, affirmation and criticism. And what you think about all that is what forms your identity. There is something in the created order in your neurological makeup that mandates you will build an identity of self about what others think and what you think about their thoughts. Charles Cooley famously put it like this, "I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am." Sounds like the darkest Dr. Seuss book in history. Now, honestly, we could stop here and just say, "Hey, everybody, let's go think about this for a week. This is deep enough to wrestle with our own interior because this goes against much of what you and I have been taught. But this social reality, this truth is why everyone right now is trying to cultivate a sense of self. Our world talks about identity more than any time in history, yet most of us are walking around with an interior that is scattered and fragile. We know true identity should be unshakeable. It should not blow with the winds of people's opinions or modern trends, but because you don't know who you are and we don't know how to have a firm identity, most of our sense of self is found in counterfeits that leave you broken instead of whole. If you talk to people today about who they are, they'll talk to you about their trauma, their talent, their sexuality, their personality or who they're voting for. But deep down, those things don't make up who they are. It's what they think others think about those things. That's what makes who you are at your core. No matter who you are, we all struggle with these kind of problems.

It is why all of us will look over a text five times before sending it, not because we're trying to be clear, but because we want to be funny and also unbothered, but also like really unique. It's why when you have critical feedback at work, you spend the next four hours spiraling in a hypothetical argument with your boss. It's why you tell a story to friends and exaggerate stupid details, even though you don't mean to, just to make them think a little bit that you want them to think. It's why when you post something on social media, you check every three minutes to see how it's doing. Our lack of sense of self is why you can succeed in life in the very thing that you sit out to do, but now you live in scarcity because you have to maintain that success instead of receiving the goodness that comes from accomplishing what you wanted. Most of us do not know how to be secure in our own self, and because of it, we do not possess interior strength. We don't know how to live without the stars and the dots that we are given by other people. And because of it, we lack the stability and peace that Jesus in his word says is available to those who trust in him. Some of us like our stickers, way too much. Some of us feel defined by our dots, like Punch and Nello. Many of us have gotten so many stickers of a certain kind that we believe what they say. But here's what I'm trying to establish in this first portion. What if your true sense of self is not about finding out who you are independent of others? What if yourself is derivative of what others think, but you're not listening to the right voices? You were not designed to know who you are apart from the external voice. God made you that way. But are you listening to the voice that can speak wholeness and power? In his book, this man is flawed, but this book is so beautiful. In his book, What's Amazing About Grace, Philippians, he wrote, "In the looking glass self, you become what the most important person in your life thinks you are, like your wife,

your boss, or your father." And then he poses this scandalous question, "How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?" Maybe you are here covered in dots of disapproval. Maybe you are here suffocating under the pressure of all the gold stars you've accumulated. Maybe you've got your own stickers that are basically the sins that you can't seem to stop and it feels like that dysfunction is starting to define you. No matter who you are today, we're going to turn to Ephesians once again and discover that true confidence in your interior comes from being beloved as a child of God and we're going to learn today, how do you live into that practically so that the dots and stickers that seem to define you don't? Our passage is going to come from Ephesians chapter 3, verses 14 to 21. This is a letter by the Apostle Paul written to a diverse group of believers in the city of Ephesus. And in this portion, I would argue, this is like the emotional climax of the letter because Paul says he's on his knees before God trying to get this point across. He's begging them to understand how good and true and empowering is the love of God. And he makes this crazy claim that your capacity to become a resilient disciple who can handle the pressure of the world is predicated on your ability to get God's love for you. So we're going to pick up in chapter 3, verse 14. Paul writes. And this reason, talking all this stuff, I bow my knees before the Father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. This is a prayer for spiritual growth for you. It is a prayer for power and formation and strength by the work of the Holy Spirit. Paul is begging all churches. I would even say South and Christian church to be people who are resilient, compelling,

missional disciples who have a redemptive edge and an age of uncertainty. He's calling you to something awesome that most of us want if we are followers of Jesus. We like this stuff. But then Paul reveals the surprising means by which that kind of faith is produced. He says in verse 17, he says, "I pray that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ." That surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all of the fullness of God. Translation, this life of power and resilience and depth that he's praying for comes from being rooted in the height and depth of God's love. And he concludes verse 20, "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations, forever and ever amen." According to Paul in Ephesians, "The power of your faith and your maturity as a disciple and your rootedness to endure suffering and difficulty comes from your capacity to know and experience the love of God." Paul says your maturity comes not from intellect or education, but from experiencing deeply the love of God. And this feels backwards to us because in our modern world, we equate formation with education. If you want to be a great engineer, you go to college and get educated. If you want to get paid more as a teacher in the public school system, you got to go get your masters to be more educated. Even if you're a tradesman, you got to go through some classes before you come a welder. You got to do some training, some information, some forming through education before you can be a mechanic or an electrician. We think formation comes through education and learning is a big deal, but we have been formed by our Western ideas about how we mature and it gets in the way of us understanding what Paul says in Ephesians 3, that true growth and maturity comes from experience, not just education. We get tunnel vision about what we think spiritual growth is because we think the pathway to

maturity is a classroom. Paul says, no, no, no, the start of this type of resilient faith and power in the work of the Holy Spirit comes from living into your life as a beloved child of God and experiencing that on a deep level. You can't get around the statement if you break down the text. Verse 19, there's two things to point out here. Pulses to experience the rich... You've got to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, experience over education. That word to know in the Greek meant to deeply experience. It could have been used to describe relations between a man and a woman. And if you don't know what I mean, you can email Scott at Southland, Christian, whatever the email is. So it's clearly this deeply intimate, engaged experience. That's what it means to know the love of Christ that produces all these things. Second, it says that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. In the Greek, this is a transitional statement that means for the purpose of. So he's saying, may experience the love of Christ so that you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. According to Paul, to know who you are and to live into your identity with God, to live well into the glory of God in the work of the Holy Spirit. You've got to experience Christ's love.

Now this is where I want to pull back out the looking glass self and all that stuff we mentioned earlier and bring it into the fold. Our world of hyper individualism says your true self is what you think about you. But we've established you can't do that, right? We've established you can't do that. And yet, knowing our dysfunction, knowing this would be our block. God in his wisdom by his love has made a way so you never have to wonder what he thinks about you. Whenever we have doubts or fears or insecurity, whenever something detracts us from power or resilience and faith, Paul says, get back to knowing and experiencing the love of God because if you know what he thinks about you, that will frame what you think about you. The love of God doesn't just forgive us of sin or redeem us before our Creator. It is the means by which power and potency in faith is experienced. But it is an act of faith to trust and live into the love of God. In his great book, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Brendan Manning put it like this, he's a genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. It is an act of faith in the God of grace. Translation, living in the love of God

and choosing to receive your identity as a blessed, loved, adopted and freed child of God, it is an act of faith. You've got to boldly trust in what God says about you more than what others have said about you. So with this text and some imagery coming out of this kid's book that we read, I wanna offer a few things that I believe will help you this week live into the love of God so we can combat our identity deficit disorder that we possess as modern people and experience the kind of faith that Paul is elevating here in Ephesians three. If you're taking notes, here's application number one. Name your stickers, dots and stars. I know it's been a minute since we read the kid's book, but it's so good because it illustrates the very way you and I reach for significance when we don't live into the love of God. But to receive what God has said, we have to open our hands to know what he has said and how much he loves us. We've got to let go of what we have typically allowed to define us. Now when it comes to dots, the unwanted disapproval or criticism we get from other people, it is easy to want to let those things down even though it's difficult. I would argue the more important thing for us

to do in our context is to name and remove the stars that we have fallen in love with, that we think prove our worth before God. The hardest labels for you to let go of so you can live into the love of God are the ones that make you feel worthy as a person. But we must all put down all of our stars to then receive this identity of love that God calls us into. I mean, this is going to be interactive. Don't say it out loud. Just between you and the Lord and with your journal or whatever, what's one star that you've been carrying? In other words, what is the positive adjective or identity that you take on that if you lost it, you would be undone? Is that you're smart or you're loyal or you're a man's man or you're a good mom? Is that you're just fun, you're a vibe? You're the one people trust? You don't have to unpack your whole life. I'm not telling you to fix it all right now, but what's the gold star that people stick on you that you like a little too much? This is important because the labels that make us feel valuable eventually become the prisons that produce anxiety 'cause then you gotta maintain it. You've gotta be it, and instead of living into the love of God, you live

into this crushing false identity that can't sustain you. it undoes your preexisting validation systems. It sets you free from the need to perform, but it also kills the very things that you use to pride yourself and make yourself valuable. So homework number one, will you this week name your dots and more specifically the stars that you use and get honest about what performance or perception you are cultivating to make yourself a full hole in a way that Christ already died to meet you in. Application number two, this is a lifelong journey, but we need to rest with this. What do you think God thinks when he sees you? A huge step in living within the love of God as a beloved child of God is getting painfully honest about what do you think God thinks when he sees you? If that is a cornerstone of building your own sense of self, based on the looking glass of self, then what do you think God thinks when he sees you? I know I'm the one given the sermon, but I realized recently I got a lot of work to do in this area. Earlier this year, my baby sister, Caitlin, got married in Brooklyn. This is our gang right here, these are my three little ones, I guess I should do it this way, yeah? Yeah, there we go. Those are my three little ones. Evie, Isla, Indie, my wife's there next to me and my baby sister's in the white there. We were in New York for a week getting ready for the sweating, and I love New York City, let me tell you, New York with three young kids, not so fun, especially when all your babysitters are busy and they can't help you. So it was a very stressful week. I did not do my normal rhythms with God. I did not pray. I did not do silence. I was not journaling and not doing all those things, and like for like probably eight straight days that I was aware of, probably more like two weeks actually, I had zero morning time

with God. I wasn't walking in shame because God isn't a God of shame, he doesn't want to shame us, but I also like know I wasn't walking in intentionality and intimacy with God. And in the midst of all the travel and the wedding festivities and staying up too late and not having a babysitter is like I did not spend any time in my Bible for probably ten straight days at least. But after the weekend we got home and I got back to my normal rhythms, I got this chair in our dining room that I sit down and I meet with God and I visualize Jesus sitting across me at the table and that kind of helps me get in the mood to pray and talk. And this is a hundred percent too true, I'm not making this up. And I sat down to connect with Jesus after spending about ten days doing absolutely nothing with him. Honestly, when I visualize Jesus sitting across from me, I literally visualize this. I visualize Tim as saying, "Oh, you're back now, hmm." Anyone ever thought that? I was like, "Oh, you have to preach this Sunday, so now we're talking." And that was the visual that came to mind when I pictured Jesus. That's what I thought Jesus thought about me after not having a quiet time for ten days. I envisioned that Jesus, my Savior, who went to the cross for me, was irritated and slighted because I was busy at my baby sister's wedding. And what God uses to reveal in me is that deep down I still think Jesus loves me as long as I do blank. I just revealed that, Scott will laugh about this, I'm the prayer contemplative guy, I'm the silent guy, everybody, like I'm the guy who preaches that stuff. But deep down within me, I teach spiritual disciplines as a mechanism of resting and maturing in faith. But deep down, I was doing these disciplines to impress Jesus. So he liked me and would bless my church. I had let the gold stars of others define my validation with my Savior, who clearly is unimpressed.

I'm still working on this, but can I humbly invite you to wrestle through that question? What do you think God thinks when he sees you? Is he angry and irritated? Is he disappointed? Is he impatient? Or do you see him as he says he is in Scripture, compassionate, gracious, slow to get angry, abounding in love, rich in mercy and justice? If you're in a small group itself in here, honestly, this question of what do you think God thinks when he sees you? I think that's the only thing you should talk about from this whole sermon. Forget everything I say. Talk in your group in vulnerability and authenticity about what do you think God thinks when he sees you? For our final application, I want to finish the story before we get there, okay? For our man Punchinello, gray dot guy, all right, with the Weimicks, we're going to get back to this. I'm not going to start the book and I finish it. Come on. So here we go. What happens? One day Punchinello met a Weimick who was unlike any he'd ever met. She had no dots or stars. She was just wooden. Her name was Lucia. It's just that the stickers didn't stick. Some of the wemics admired Lucia for not having dots, so they would run up and give her a star, but it would fall off. Some would look down on her for having no star, so they'd give her a dot, but it wouldn't stay either.

That's the way I want to be thought punching Elo. I don't want anyone's marks. So we asked the stickerless wemic how she did it. It's easy, Lucia reported, "Every day I go see Eli." Eli, yes, Eli the woodcarver. I sit in the workshop with him. Why? Why don't you find out for yourself? Go up the hill, he's there, and with that, the wemic with no marks turned and skipped away. But will he want to see me? Punching Elo cried out, Lucia didn't hear. So Punching Elo went home. He sat near a window and watched the wooden people as they scurried around giving each other stars and dots. It's not right, he muttered to himself, and he decided to go see Eli. He walked up the narrow path to the top of the hill and stepped into the big shop. His wooden eyes widened at the size of everything. The stool was as tall as he was. He had to stretch on his tiptoe to see the top of the workbench, a hammer was as long as his arm. Punching Elo swallowed hard. I'm not staying here and he turned to leave. Then he heard his name. Punching Elo, the voice was deep and strong. Punching Elo stopped. Punching Elo, how good to see you. Come and let me have a look at you.

Punching Elo turned slowly and looked at the large bearded craftsmen. You know my name? The little lemmic ass? Of course I do, I made you. Eli stooped down and picked him up and set him on the bench. Hmm, the maker thought spoke thoughtfully as he inspected the gray circles. Looks like you've been giving some bad marks. I didn't mean to, Eli, I tried really hard. Oh, you don't have to defend yourself to me, child. I don't care what other wemics think. You don't? No, and you shouldn't either. Who are they to give stars or dots? They're wemics, just like you. What they think doesn't matter, Punching Elo. All that matters is what I think and I think you were pretty special. Punching Elo left, me, special, why? I can't walk fast, I can't jump. My paint is peeling, why do I matter to you? Eli looked at Punching Elo, put his hands on those small wooden shoulders and spoke very softly, very slowly, because you're mine. That's why you matter to me. Punching Elo had never had anyone look at him like this. Much less his maker. He didn't know what to say. Every day I've been hoping you'd come, Eli explained.

I came because I met someone who had no marks. I know, she told me about you. Why don't the sticker stay on her? The maker spoke softly, because she has decided that what I think is more important than what they think. The stickers only stick if you let them. What? The stickers only stick if they matter to you. The more you trust my love, the less you care about the stickers. I'm not sure I understand. Eli smiled, you will, but it will take time. You've got a lot of marks. For now, just come to see me every day and let me remind you how much I care. Eli lifted Punching Elo off the bench and set him on the ground. Remember, Eli said, as the woman walked out the door, you are special because I made you and I don't make mistakes. Punching Elo didn't stop, but in his heart, he thought, I think he really means it. And when he did, a dot fell to the ground. Nothing like a kid's book to help you understand what it means to be a child of God. That ending is why I wanted to share it with you. Because in the potency and simplicity of the story, we can capture what does it mean to live into the identity of being the beloved, being a child of God.

And that's why our final application is to meet with your maker every day. And especially folks, this week, try to go every day for seven days to meet with your maker. I love the details of the story. There's so much theological depth here. Punching Elo doesn't understand why meeting with Eli makes a difference, but he still shows up. He wants to be fixed immediately, but Eli says it will take time. Eli says come back every day, not just once for a Hail Mary miracle. And after the first encounter, it doesn't say all the dots fell down, it says one did. And I know this is a kid's book, but this truth is rooted in the wisdom of scripture and what Jesus himself calls us to do. In John 15, Jesus says abide in me and I in you, as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. He says stay rooted in me, stay connected to me. it is the only way by which your identity can be rooted in my love. Living and knowing the love of God means you must have proximity to the one who made you. And your invitation today

is to authentically meet with your maker so that your identity is informed by what he has said more than what the world does. The astonishing claim of Christianity that no other faith possesses is that we have a God who bothers to know your name. You have a creator who is willing to bend a knee and get on your level to call you his own. We ought to be seized by his great affection for us and what he did in Christ on the cross. And it is by resting and seizing our vision on what God has done and living into his kindness that we can understand, not just in our heads, but in our hearts on a deep experiential level to know the love of God and live from the encounter that comes. Followers of Jesus, hear me. If we don't learn how to experience the love of God regularly, we will become unconvincing spiritual ambassadors handing out invitations to a love you've never tasted. You will talk about the love of God but not experience it. You will proclaim the gospel but not live into it. You will claim that Christ makes all things new, 2 Corinthians 5, 17, but you will live into the old self because you do not know the love of the Father. What do you do when you love someone deeply and they love you back? You know what you do? You waste time with them. I want you to waste time with God this week. Waste time with them.

Spend time with them. Meet with your maker and if you do, it is the real work of faith. Henry now would put it like this. He said the real work of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices, that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing. That demands real effort. Will you do real work this week to connect with God, to meet with your maker, to make space amidst the claims and cries of our daily life to hear the voice of your heavenly Father and to live into what he thinks about you so you don't have to live in insecurity. Even before you leave your seat today, my challenge is that you would set a time and a place for tomorrow where you will meet with your maker, talk about your dots, talk about your stars and slowly let them fall as you live into the grace and mercy and goodness of God and what he's done for you in Jesus Christ. Let's pray. Lord, I thank you for the power of art and even like silly kids' books because it taps into something within us. I just don't know if we could get on our own. Lord, I pray for the man who is suffocating under the pressure

of all of his stars and stickers and everybody thinks he's doing great but he's barely hanging on. Lord, I pray for the teen girl who feels like she's covered in gray dots and she has no idea how much she is beloved by you. I pray for the mom who feels like she's failing every day and every day is a struggle of trying to get more stars than dots. God, I pray for me in all the ways that I project certain things because I want to be known for this instead of just knowing who I am in you. And so God, meet us in the interior. Draw us out from our hiding and help us live into your love by meeting with you regularly, receiving what you have said and being anchored in what you have already done on the cross, knowing that victory is ours and love is what defines us, Jesus. Help us trust that. Help us believe it. Help us live into it. Buy your name and buy your spirit. Jesus, we ask these things in your name, Amen. Right now is a time of response and there's three things we invite you to do. Number one, our band is going to lead

some more songs, and so we invite you to praise and just with your heart experience what God can do when the people of God worship her. We also invite you to partake in communion. This is an ancient practice because Christ told his followers to eat and drink in remembrance of me. And so if you've put your faith in him, if you've repented and believed in the work of Christ, eat that bread and drink that juice and just consume the love and goodness and forgiveness of the Father, poured out on the sacrifice of Christ. But then as you know, many of you know, there's these carpets up front. And I love how Scott says it. You know, this is where we invite you to come do business with God. And by the end of our time this morning, I know we're not going to see anything, but I just wonder if by the time the service is over, there's hundreds of dots and gold stars all up here because we're leaving them at the altar and taking up the love of God. If you have some dots, you've got to get rid of. Or you've got some stars that have been defining you and you need to do business with God to live into his love, come forward to pray, wrestle with him,

do the real work to hear the voice that brings blessing upon you because of Jesus. So you can be transformed and live a different story of faith after. Let's do it. [BLANK_AUDIO]