Led by The Spirit | Pastor Eric Morris

I want you to feel encouraged. I want you to feel hopeful. I want you to know that God is still working in your story. Our mission here at Victory City is to help every person take a step closer to Jesus. And can I tell you, man, as you're growing in the Lord, you're taking a step. So let's lean in. Let's see what God has for us this week. And I know you'll be blessed for it. And I love you. All right, we're in the Book of Acts. We're going to go to Acts 8. I want to give you a heads up. If you've got little kids in the room, we're going to be talking about Unix today. If you don't know what a Unix is, Google it. And you should make the decision of whether your child needs to hear that and you want to have a fun conversation at home today. We had some kids at the eight o'clock and my staff said, what do you should like? Give the parents a heads up. So heads up. We're talking about Unix. It's going to be really good. Hey, I'm excited for revival nights. Make sure you're there for that. Bartlett Innovation Unit. What's up, men of God? I'm so glad you're joining us. Come on. Praise God. I'm actually headed tomorrow to meet with the God behind bars direct or nationally to discover how we can continue to partner with penitentiaries in our area to continue to bring the gospel and discipleship into these penitentiaries. And so, man, will you be praying for me with that? Yeah, just pray that God continues to open up doors. As we continue to take the gospel everywhere God opens the door for us. And if there's a closed door, come on to Jesus name, we'll go get it down. All right. I was in UPS yesterday and I was mailing something and there was a guy there. He was a stereotype. They had trap music playing in the shop. If you don't know what trap music is, don't worry. If you do, you know. And I'm trying to send this watch to my dad. And he has this neck tattoo of a dove on the side of his neck.

He's got his accessories as well. And I go, "Oh, bro, you got the Holy Spirit." And he's like, "What?" And I was like, "You're dove. It represents the Holy Spirit." And I was like, "No, I just wanted a neck tattoo." And I was like, "Okay. Well, you got the Holy Spirit anyway, bro." All right. Let's talk about the Holy Spirit. Great saying away, right? Let's talk about the Holy Spirit. Now, we're talking about being led by the Spirit. Now, let's talk about the different ways we can be led by the Spirit. And I want to talk about a unique one that maybe we don't want to consider. We all know in situations where we need some divine direction and we want the Holy Spirit to lead us, right? So maybe I'm in a crossroads at a career situation. And you don't know which way to go. You're going, "Holy Spirit, will you lead me?" And the Holy Spirit can lead us in situations like that. Maybe you're in a dating relationship. And you're asking yourself, "Hey, Holy Spirit, is this the person for me? Is this the person I'm supposed to be with for the rest of my life?" Come on, honey, you're married and you're still praying in that prayer. It's just beginning, guys. Just get ready. Buckle up. Now, here's what I mean. Sometimes we can say we want to be led by the Spirit and we use that in an appropriate way. Let me name this in an appropriate way, for God will you just give me direction. Now, what we have to see is the result of that leading of the Holy Spirit, which is very biblical and good, is limited to you. God lead me by your Spirit for me. Again, that's not a bad thing. That's a good thing. However, that's an incomplete picture of what it means to be led by the Spirit.

Can I tell you that sometimes God wants to lead you by His Spirit so you can be a witness for someone else? The Spirit wants to lead you in spaces beyond you. That doesn't mean He doesn't want to lead you still for you with that career decision, with that dating relationship, with that daily decision. God will you lead me. God wants to have both of those things, but I want to speak today about how we as witnesses are led by the Spirit beyond ourselves for other people. Amen. So if you have your Bibles, we're going to go to Acts 8 and we're going to be in verse 26. And we're going to walk through the Scripture together. I'm going to pause at different moments to discuss it. And so if you've got it on your phone or if you're a rain man and you can just remember it or if you have your physical Bible, that would be great too. Also, if you go to the 930 service, can you consider going to the 830? Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, (audience laughing) go to the eight o'clock service. Rise and go towards the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert place. And he rose and went, and there was an Ethiopian, a unit, a court official of Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship. Kayla Spaz. Say, when God gets specific about a story,

it's important for us to look at the specifics. Last week we looked at a whole city and the specificity of the story tells us that a whole people group was introduced to the gospel and it said that there was much joy in that city. So now, through the power of the Holy Spirit, God's words transmitting through Luke writes to us today in the book of Acts and he gets really specific. Philip, go down to this desert road and there's an Ethiopian unit who's a court official of the dynasty of the kingdom of Kondake, is actually the true, Candace is just an English translation. So whenever we see the specificity, it's important for believers. Now if you're not a Christian, if you're a guest here, my main job is to talk to my church people, to feed them, to equip them with a scripture. So if you feel like a little bit of an outsider, 'cause you don't know what we're talking about, just hang around, I'm gonna try to explain it in a way that makes sense. But my primary target is my church. Okay, so church lean in with me really quick here. When the spirit and the scriptures get specific, let's get specific in our understanding. So that's what we're gonna do.

We're gonna get into the details of this story because of its specificity, 'cause it kind of sits in the middle of the book of Acts where you're seeing a whole city, we're about to see in Acts chapter nine, where Saul gets converted, but Saul's kind of already been a part of the story. Now you have this random Ethiopian unit. And it can feel random unless we unpack it and see really what the Lord is doing. And the first thing we have to recognize is that Philip is divinely instructed to go down to a desert road with no other instructions. No other instructions. Hey, Eric, I need you to go south of San Antonio on I-35. What? I just need you to head in that direction. I want you to look at the audacity of God and the lack of specificity God gives to Philip. Philip is in the middle of a revival. He's on revival nights, week, night three. And God says I need you to go to San Antonio, south of San Antonio. How many of you guys know there's nothing south of San Antonio? Until you get to the border. I think you go south of San Antonio in the middle of the desert and then you need to go wait by this road. Does God have the right to pick you and go I need you to do X? So if God reserves the right to ask believers

to do something for him, our response should be, right, but Philip doesn't do what we all do, which is, well, I need a little bit more details God. What am I supposed to do God? When am I executiveist to go God? Well, I don't know, I mean, like, okay, are you sure God? I need you to really try to get into the human experience of Philip, Philip's in the middle of a revival. And God says I need you to go to a desert road and wait for further instructions. Can I tell you believers that sometimes the Holy Spirit will divinely guide your life in such a way that you do not have all the details? You're not going to have all the details. You're going to want the details. God's not going to give you the details. And so, number one, we see the Holy Spirit leading Philip, leading Philip in such a way that he's asking Philip to go to this desert place. The desert place was dangerous. We have to, again, go back to the ancient world. They didn't have police, they didn't have flock cameras. I heard that's been in the news. Right, so oftentimes in desert places whose were bandits would hide out, highwaymen. And if you travel alone, oftentimes you're an easy target to be robbed. So, Philip is being asked to go not only to a distant place, but a dangerous place.

God, you're not really thinking about my well-being. God, you're not thinking about my rest of my life. I can't just drop everything and go to a desert place. I've got plans, we're in the middle revival. I've got a connect group I'm leading. I'm in the prayer ministry. Like, are you kidding me? Now let me ask you church, have you ever told God no, when you know what he asked you to do? So Philip says yes. He heads down to a desert road, and then we pick up with this man who is the Ethiopian eunuch. So let's go to the scripture again. Let's go to verse 27, and he rose and went, and there was an Ethiopian. Is it just weird for me? I don't know about you, but he leads with his race. I lead a pretty diverse church, and sometimes like in the complexity of diversity, sometimes I say things that might offend you. Last week I was talking about the Samaritans, and I made the statement which was historically accurate, but also can be modernly triggering. I made the statement that the Samaritans were a half breed. And if you're of mixed race, you've probably heard their terminology before as a negative against you. Let me just first of all say I wasn't trying to offend anybody, but here he leads with race.

When you tell a story, do you ever feel a little hesitant leading with someone's race, or is it just white people that feel that way? (congregation laughing) Like y'all wanna know what the race was at the UPS store? (congregation laughing) He's a white dude. (congregation laughing) But he leads with race. I know somebody you're like, where's he gonna go? (congregation laughing) What's he gonna say? No, but the significance of this is again, it's a detail here we need to understand. He leads with race. Okay, here's an Ethiopian who's traveled to Jerusalem. So it's really important here. Philip is going down and he's meeting this Ethiopian. There's an important there. Ethiopia wasn't actually modern to Ethiopia. It was more like southern Egypt, northern Sudan, but here's a man who has traveled hundreds of miles to go to Jerusalem. Why? Why? Why would an Ethiopian man travel to Jerusalem wanting to worship God? Hmm. Then it goes, eunuch. Eunuch, now eunuch is really important

and it's gonna be important for the part of our discussion here. How many of you guys have no idea what a eunuch is? Perfect. How many of you guys googled it and then I said it? (congregation laughing) A eunuch was a man who had been castrated. So his penis and testicles had been cut off. Now let's talk about this for a little bit because this is gonna be a little interesting and if you just like Juicy Tea, this is gonna be fun. Okay, so there was a system of slavery in the ancient world where many political royal aristocrats would want slaves for their household and for the political administration of the state. And they wanted them docile, they wanted them obedient. Oftentimes they wanted them effeminate. And so what they would do is anytime there would be a war or they would capture a territory. One of the things they would do is they would find prepubescent boys and they knew that they could mold them and shape them and control them. And one of the ways they did that is as soon as they took them into the service, they castrated them. So this eunuch is really important. He's a very complex individual that we need to understand and we're gonna walk through some of the layers. In fact, the idea of the slave trade in the ancient world

was eunuchs were at a premium because of who their clientele was. They were not selling to just the normal population. They were selling these eunuchs to the top of the political, the socioeconomic. They were basically rich people were buying them. Well, I need to explain that. They came at a premium. And oftentimes in the ancient world, again, they were all throughout the ancient world. There was a subcategory of the population, much like we would maybe say trans people are a minority but a people group within our population. So this was a subcategory of people eunuchs. Everybody knew what a eunuch was. And because they were captured prepubescent, there was a lot of things that happened to them. Number one, they would never have children. So the ability to father children was taken from them. I mean, you know what that feels like to walk through seasons of infertility and the pain and the struggle of God, our deepest desire the kingdoms of the world, he was also never allowed to go through puberty. Because his testicles had been removed, he would never actually become a man in the terminology that we would use today. Most eunuchs would never really develop facial hair, their voice would never drop. Their body composition would look more feminine because testosterone at the levels needed for puberty would never take place. So you can imagine locker rooms in the ancient world would probably be a little awkward. I remember being an eighth grader and I had puberty yet either and all my friends had hit puberty and I'm in the football locker room and I don't have any hair anywhere and all my friends have hair everywhere. There

was like my whole eighth grade year I never showered. Literally. Because we would have football practice in the morning and I was really insecure about the way my body looked and why doesn't it look like everybody else what's wrong with me. I remember I talked to girls on the phone and I would intentionally try to lower my voice to the point where I would be hoarse because I wanted to sound more masculine. Masculinity is a big topic in our world today but here's a man who was robbed of his masculinity. But not only that he was a court official so he's powerful. He climbed up the ranks, he had authority, he had connections. If you watch Game of Thrones you know the unique character in the Game of Thrones. He was the lord of the whispers I think. What is it? Master of whispers. Game of Thrones fan right there. Okay so he probably would have been politically connected. He knew how to maneuver people. He knew how to use people but he was what I have to understand. This man was robbed of any future lineage of fathering children and the reason why the aristocrats of the people in power would do that is so that he had nothing to live for except whatever we need you to do. You are a slave. You serve the kingdom. We don't want you to have anything else only be loyal to what we want you to be loyal to. This man being a unit says he was also a court official and look what it says in the text. Let's go here again. It says, I want to make sure I get it right. It says that he was in charge of all the treasure. Again, very complex man. He's an Ethiopian. He's a unit. He is politically connected and he has access to all the money of the kingdom. But yet he had come to Jerusalem to worship. What made that man worship? Was the unit going, you know what? I'm really having financial troubles. I really need to go to God for my financial troubles. I'm being a little silly here. I'm trying to get you to see into the text. Again, he had power so like materially this man probably lacked nothing. He was well connected. He has enough money. Again, if you do any historical study, nobody traveled in the ancient world unless you were desperately poor and had to go as a refugee or you were ridiculously wealthy and you could. This man has traveled hundreds of miles searching. He's searching. Why? What about his story do we see that could have caused him to go searching? Could it be that because he was a unit, he was unjustly treated and something was broken on the inside of him that he was a victim to? He did not decide to become a unit. At five years old, he was robbed of a future. His bodily body was mutilated in such a way that would alter his appearance so that everybody

knew, "Oh, I know what happened to you downstairs." I mean, how awkward is that? How much of a sign to everyone he meets, "Oh, I know you're a unit." He was stigmatized. how much power he would get, he would still always feel a little broken. I wonder in what way you have felt broken in your life. What has been done to you that you had no part, no decision in, you were just irreversibly wounded. Who used you, who took advantage of you in such a way that for the rest of your life you carried the scars that no matter how much money, no matter how much power, no matter how many things you accumulated in your life, you never got over this. That is the man we need to see here. This man has money, this man has power, but he has a wound that won't go away. Can you imagine the psychological trauma? This had to have an effect on him? Like, use your imagination historically in this situation. Gosh, what kind of things does this man wrestle with? What does his, let's use a modern term, what does his mental health look like? - Father. - Every day he's reminded of the potential that he will never realize. I'll never know what it's like to be a real man. I'll never know what it's like to have children. My name will die with me. Fathers, do you have sons in the house? Any fathers in the house of sons? Come on, how many of us are we still a little medieval?

My name will live on. Come on, any fathers? Come on, how many of you guys? My, you carry my lineage. I still do that, I have two sons. The name Morris will live on. It's not that interesting, it's kind of boring, but it will live on. It's better than Smith. Okay, can't even, if there's any Smiths, I love you. It's just seven fun, Fernandez. Okay. (congregation laughing) So let's go back to Philip. Here we know, we have the portrait of this man, and the spirit said to Philip, go over and join this chariot. Again, we have to go back into this. The spirit is leading Philip. Philip's already gone down to the desert road with no details. He said yes to God, not knowing what lays before him. And here's this Ethiopian that is searching. A lot of us, when we think about telling people about Jesus, we think about cold calling, and it's just like this chore. And we gotta find someone who's belligerently against Jesus, and we gotta kick him in the stomach, and say Jesus loves you, and we gotta argue them into the gospel.

Do you believe now? Approving you wrong over and over again. But this story actually shows us something different. This story shows us that the spirit of God can be at work on both in simultaneously. Philip had no idea about this Ethiopian man. God just said, I need you to go. I need you to be in a spot, 'cause I got somebody I'm working on that's gonna cross your path. Ooh, that doesn't preach. Here's the deal, this week God might say, I need you to go. And you won't know who he's already working on on the other side. He just needs you to be in a specific spot, at a specific moment, and God might give you a little bit of a nudge. (audience applauds) 'Cause he might say, they're wounded, and I'm working on them. They're hurting, and they're searching, and they're looking for answers. So Philip runs up to the chariot. Now this is still a wild detail that you can look over. Again, if this is a court official, usually court officials have what? Guards. It's like I see in Trump's motorcade. God says, run up to the motorcade.

(audience laughs) You wanna do that? How many of you guys know you'll be laying prostrate on the floor if you do that? So Philip, again, is being asked to do something that potentially could be really dangerous to himself. Go run up to that chariot. Philip does it. So Philip in verse 30, ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah, the prophet, and asked, do you understand what you're reading? And he said, how can I, unless someone guides me? And he invited Philip up to come sit with him. And now with the passage of scripture that he was reading, that he was reading was this. Again, a scroll in the ancient world would have been of high value, paper was rare, common people didn't just have scrolls of the Word of God laying around. So, again, it shows us a detail that this has means and has used his wealth to search. He's wanting to understand. There are people in our world right now that are trying to read the Bible. There's people late at night at 2 a.m., their life's in trouble. Come on. Have you ever been in a life situation where you've hit a situation where you're like, "I don't know what to do," and you've tried the Miracle Bible Reading Plan? Have you ever heard the Miracle Bible Reading Plan? You've never heard of the Miracle Bible Reading? Have you ever heard of the Miracle Bible Reading Plan? You know it? You know it? Have you ever heard of it?

No? Have you ever heard of the Miracle Bible? Okay, the Miracle Bible Reading Plan is this. God, will you please help me? Ezekiel 16, 23, and after all your wickedness, whoa, whoa, whoa, to you, declares the Lord. Okay, that's good. Okay, what I just did right there, that's what this Ethiopian is doing and he's reading Isaiah. Have you ever read Isaiah? You ever read the prophets? Prophets are wild and I will strike you down, right? I mean, imagine that, okay? So he's reading that and he comes onto this passage right here. Acts chapter 8 verse, I'll throw it on the screen for me, I lost my place in the Bible. Right here, 32. And it says, "Like a sheep, like a sheep was led to slaughter and like a lamb before its shear is silent so he opens his mouth not." In his humiliation, justice was denied him. Who describes this generation for his life is taken away from the earth? Who wants to unpack that scripture for me this morning? Who can explain that for me? You meet somebody Tuesday, they're at this passage, "What do you say?" So this is from my believers. This is my believers listening here. Do we know our word? Enough to sit down and go, "Yeah, I can explain that to you." Or are you going, "Bro, I don't know either, let's call it Chad GPT." The next question, and the eunuch said to Philip, "About whom I ask you, does this prophet say this? Is he talking about himself or someone else?"

See, if you've been around church long enough, you can give the Sunday school answer to any passage of scripture. What's the Bible talking about here? And we all go, "Jesus." But how and what? Now let's look at something that I think probably, can you go back, can you go to x3832 for me on the screen? Oh, go back one more. No, that's not it. In his humiliation, yeah, in his humiliation right there. In his humiliation, justice was denied. I wonder if this eunuch has experienced humiliation before? When he gets around the bros, does he feel humiliated? Let me just know when you're humiliated, there's something in you that wants justice. I want them to pay for what they did to me. Come on, is there any people group in here? Do you want to pay for what has happened to you? Do you carry an individual in your heart because of your wrongdoing? You humiliated me when I was nine years old. I want you to pay. Philip goes, "This man is about Jesus who is humiliated yet justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation is a weird way of saying he has no lineage. He has no children. His life was taken away from the earth." Philip begins to explain the gospel of Jesus through the book of Isaiah because that's the scroll he had. Which tells us a pattern believer. When we share the good news of Jesus, we start with Scripture and Jesus is our lens. What does the scripture say? Use the scripture to minister

'cause Jesus is the lens. What's so significant about this prophecy in Isaiah is what he's saying here. You guys can take it down, is this. Is that Jesus is a God who does not stay distant from human pain but steps into human pain in such a way that connects in our hearts where he goes. I've experienced the same thing. So for those of you who have been wounded, Jesus says, "Yeah, me too." Those of you who have had an injustice committed against you, Jesus goes, "Yeah, me too, bro." And Jesus goes, "I took it all the way." All the way. Like you were humiliated, but you kept getting to live. Jesus says, "I was like a lamb before the slaughter. "I was willingly, I went to the cross for you. "I stepped into every human evil, "every human machinery, every broken space in the world." And I stepped in and I said, "Me too, bro." Which then tells us somebody that we can trust Jesus because he knows what we've gone through. He knows the pain, he knows the humiliation, he knows the brokenness as an innocent man. That's why he says, "Trust me." But the story of Jesus doesn't end in this humiliation. Three days later, what does he do? He walks out of the grave and he tells you this. Humiliation doesn't end in defeat.

There is life after this. But check this. Isaiah 53 was where the eunuch stopped and Philip began to explain. And here's my imagination, historically based, of course. There's the passage three chapters later in Isaiah. Imagine like sitting together, bro, you gotta check this out. I know you've been reading Isaiah 53, but let me show you something. Go to Isaiah 56. You have your Bible, it's go to Isaiah 56. You need tabs in your Bible. If you go to the table of contents every time, that tells you you're not reading it. So I'm page 6, 16 in my Bible. Isaiah 56 is a prophecy that God gives to eunuchs. Specifically, God's speaking. Again, there are subcategory of people in the population. They're in every major city, every major civilization. They've been part of a slave trade used and abused, never realizing their manhood, a feminine for the rest of their life in a way they did not choose, didn't go through puberty, can have no children, no reason for living except to serve other people. Wounded. Scar is real, literally and figuratively. So imagine, Philip goes, I say at 56, let's take a look at this.

At the very bottom of Isaiah 56 verse three, it says this. And God speaking says, "Let not the eunuchs say, "behold, I am a dry tree." This is a poetic way of saying this, "I will never be fruitful." He's talking about children here. I look like a tree. I should have fruit, but I'm a dry tree. And God's saying, "Do not let the eunuchs say, "behold, I'm a dry tree," 'cause it says here in verse four. For thus says the Lord to the eunuchs. He's naming them. Hey, all you boys who are robbed of your childhood, robbed of your adolescents, robbed of your manhood, robbed of having children. You're now just a piece of meat in the machinery of evil people. To the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast to my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name. Okay, I need you to connect these two things 'cause it's really important. It says the eunuch was an official of the court of Candace. Do you see the irony of a man who would have no children serving a royal line My life is so worthless that I don't get to pass anything on. You have to put yourself in the ancient world context. That was everything to them. And he says, I'm going to give you a name. Now,

look at this right here. I'm going to give you a name. Look what it says. Better. Come on, somebody say better. Better than what? The thing that was robbed from you. I'm going to give you something better. The thing that was stolen from you. I'm going to give you something. What? You see, God doesn't regrow his bits. Some of you are wanting God to reverse what happened to you. He can't. There's life in the brutality and the brokenness of our world. And some of you have been deeply wounded. You carry the scars, maybe literally, and on the inside. And you're wanting God going, God, why did you let this happen to me? And God's going, it's a broken world, but I'll give you something. And look at this. I love what God says. And this is a little gangster, and it's meant to have a little double meaning where it says, and I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. I know it's a little graphic. And you're like, whoa, but imagine, his name was cut off, and God's going, I'm going to give you an everlasting name that'll never be cut off because it can't be robbed. It can't be stolen. I'm going to give you something better. I'm going to give you something greater. And look what it says. And this says in the Old and the New Testament that the, the, the Ethiopian comes up to some water and he goes, what prevents me from being baptized? And Philip says, nothing, nothing, nothing. You may have been excluded. You may have been ostracized. You may have been wounded. You may have been taken advantage of. You may have thought that there's all these barriers in your life, but can I tell you when it comes to Jesus, nothing prevents you. You can walk to Jesus, and he'll give you something better in Jesus' name. Now here's the thing. What if Philip said, no? Way back when? What if Philip goes, nah. I got a binge Instagram. Nah, I got a business to build. Nah, I got soccer practice for a little Johnny. This week, you can trust that there are spiritually equivalent Ethiopian unix in our city today. And look what that did. It just opened up a whole new mission field because there were unix everywhere. In every court, in every kingdom, in every civilization, in every like rich neighborhood. And the minute this specific story gets made public and goes around the world, guess what hope it gives to every unit? Who's the subcategory in our population that needs the hope of Jesus? Who are the people in our world that need Jesus? And God might be asking you to do something a little wild, a little uncomfortable, a little crazy, and he needs you to go south to San Antonio. Please don't do that unless God actually shows up. Are you even praying Lord? Who? Who's path am I going to cross this week? What customer is

going to walk in my shop this week? What person's grocery cart am I going to run into this week? Who am I going to be sitting next to the sideline at Little Johnny soccer game this week? Who's going to slide into my DMs this week? One Tinder. As such to my Christians, here's what I want to say. Go be Phillips. Go be Phillips. Now I told you to my wounded. to His commandments, and God will give you something better, better. If you're here today, and you are far from God, everybody looking at me, you don't know Jesus, you know, following Jesus, maybe you're this Ethiopian eunuch, maybe your situation is not that you're a eunuch, you're definitely not going to do a raise your hand if you're a eunuch in the house. But if you're here today and you're far from God and you've been wounded in your life and you're searching, I'm not going to get into all the debates you see online. What I am going to tell you is this, Jesus loves you. Whatever pain you've gone through, He knows what pain feels like. He took it on Himself so He could stand in the gap for you so that He could give you a life beyond the pain, but you got to trust Him, you got to put your life in Him. Is everything going to make sense right now? No. But can you believe in the name of Jesus? Every head up and every eye open, if you're here today and you're going, "You know what? I want to give Jesus a shot." On the count of three, we just put your hand in the air just like this, one, two, three. If that's you, Sam, and I want to trust Jesus, thank you, thank you. Yeah, thank you, sweetheart. Thank you, man. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anybody else?

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Great story. That's awesome. Hey, church family, we've got, I think, eight or nine people here who have just raised their hand. Praise God. Yeah, right here. Right here. Okay. We're going to close with this. Now we do the prayer. And if you prayed that, if you raised your hand, I want you to simply pray this prayer with me. It's not a formula. It's just a confession. It goes like this. Jesus today, will you come into my heart? Will you fill my soul with your spirit? Jesus, I don't know how, but I'm trusting you for my better. Will you help me to follow you tomorrow? And God, let me stack a lot of tomorrows next to one another. You are Lord, you are King, and you are my Savior. And in your hands, I place my life. Pains, hurts, brokenness, and all, I give them to you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Come on church, let's celebrate every person.