Nick Ferreiro - Built To Last

Church by the Glades, how we feeling this morning? Good to see you, good to see you. Glad you're here. For those that don't know, my name is Nick. I am one of the pastors here at Church by the Glades. And I know we've talked about it a couple of times over the last few weeks, but because I am the student pastor and because I have the microphone right now, I can do whatever I want. So I'm gonna talk about it again. I am still not over all that God did at our student summer camp experience called United Knights. I mean, it was unbelievable. Thank you to your generosity and your investment and your support and some of you, your service, you volunteered. We saw well over 800 students gather right here in this room. 150 gave their lives to Christ and 93 went public and baptized. Did you hear what I just said? Nearly 150 kids gave their lives by faith to Jesus and 93 got baptized. Come on somebody, that's not normal. Unbelievable, truly unbelievable. Really God has been showing off at our church all summer long, but my favorite part about it is that God's not done just yet. There will still be more life change to experience starting this Thursday at First Baptist.

We've got rally loud, people. It's gonna be so much fun. Seriously, do not miss it. Make sure you're in the room. But as the student pastor, I just can't quite get over all that God did at our camp. And the reason is it's because I've not really seen anything quite like it before as the student pastor. If you recall, we kind of branded and themed out the camp this year to learn how maybe we can develop lives and faith and joy and purpose and peace that does not waver with the wind or the waves and storms of life, but that remains standing through all of it because it has been built to last. And as I was reminiscing on this and all that God did at camp and just how powerfully he moved, I was reminded of a passage of scripture found in Matthew chapter number seven. It's at the end of Jesus' famous Sermon on the Mount where after he finished preaching and teaching and instructing a crowd of people that gathered to hear him, he concludes this Sermon on the Mount by saying, therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came, the wind blew, the streams rose and beat against that house.

Oh, you thought Maverick City wrote this lyric? No, no, no, this is Jesus right here. Yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock. What I've learned is that life is far less about who can make it the furthest and it is much more about who can make it to the end. Countless times in scripture, you see people being charged with fighting the good fight and finishing the race and keeping the faith, but this does not happen on accident. No, we must learn how we can fortify ourselves so that we can actually make it to the end despite the many difficulties we may encounter along the way. And according to Jesus, as he concludes his famous Sermon on the Mount, it is not through your talents or your abilities. It is not through the family you were born into or the community that you were raised by. It is not through your positivity or your perspective on life. It is not even through how strong you think or try to act like you are that enables you to live a rock solid life. But it is how well you interact with the word of God that will determine whether or not you live a life that is built to last or bound to crumble. And what I find so fascinating is that this is actually a common theme

all throughout the scriptures, of course, but it's a common theme throughout the ministry and teachings of Jesus, that we need to read the word for ourselves, that coming to church once a week is great, but it's not enough. You cannot just live off of the leftovers that you hear from one sermon, but you need to read the word for yourself on a daily basis. You need to understand the word for yourself. You need to meditate on the word and hide it away in your heart. You never know when you're gonna need it. You need to obey the word and apply the word in your life because that's where the power is found. And then Jesus, he actually goes on to further elaborate on our need for the word if we wanna live fortified and fruitful lives. It's found in Luke chapter number eight. If you have your copy of scripture with you, I'd love for you to turn with me to Luke chapter eight. If not, it's okay, it'll be on the screen so you can follow along. Luke chapter eight, starting in verse number four, the word of the Lord reads as such. While a large crowd was gathering and people were coming to Jesus from town after town, he told this parable. A farmer went out to sow his seed

and as he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path. It was trampled on and the birds ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the plants withered because they had no moisture. Other seed fell among the thorns, which grew up with it and choked the plants. And still other seed fell on good soil. Somebody say, good soil. It came up and yielded a crop a hundred times more than what was sown. After reading this passage of Scripture, maybe you're thinking to yourself, hey pastor, I thought you said Jesus elaborates on our need for the Word. Are we reading the same Bible? Because I didn't hear one time Jesus talk about the Scriptures of the Word of God here. Like, what's going on? Well, Jesus actually explained to himself, this is a parable. A parable was a teaching tactic that Jesus would often employ in an attempt to make plain a truth about God that was otherwise unrecognizable to the audience. A parable takes something that you can understand to draw a parallel to something you cannot understand. Maybe about the kingdom of God, or about God himself. So Jesus, what he would do, is simply speak in a language that his audience understood. So he would just talk about things that were in his day and age. Farmers and their fields. Kings and their kingdoms. Fishermen and their fish. Which, by the way, is why we are so creative here at Church by the Glades. It's a parable. We're taking the truth about God, and we're not dumbing it down. We're not watering it down. We are simply putting it in the language of our culture so that it is more easily understandable to those who do not yet call themselves believers. Because we want to showcase that the Scriptures are not some archaic book that have no modern application or relevancy. No, that the Scriptures are still clear. That they're still helpful. That they're still applicable. That they can still transform us, even in our modern context, here in 2026. Which leads me to believe that if Jesus was still walking among us today, he'd still be preaching in parables. They just might sound a little different. It might not be about farmers and their fields, but it might be, I don't know, about pop culture. TikTok trends. How you interact with one another on social media. How you drive in traffic, and what fingers you be using when someone cuts you off. Modern business structures, and movies, and music, and so on, and so forth.

So again, this passage of Scripture is a parable, and it's a parable about the condition of our hearts as it pertains to accepting the Word of God, and it taking deep root in our life. And if you recall, in the reading of the Scripture, there are four different types of grounds that this seed, which by the way, the seed is likened to the Scripture, is the Word of God. Four different types of ground that this seed was sown on. It was seed along the beaten path. It was sown on rocky grounds. It was sown among the thorns. And then finally, it was sown in good soil. And each of these grounds corresponds to a condition that we may find our hearts in today. And the point of the parable is to say that if you want your life to produce the right fruits, then your heart must have the right posture. I was talking to a friend recently about their journey with exercise, and trying to get fit, and trying to stay consistent. And they were telling me that the one thing that has kind of kept them consistent, though it is difficult to remain consistent in working out, is they have just become obsessed with closing their rings on the Apple Watch. Okay, for those that don't know, the way you close your rings on an Apple Watch, you've got to do three things. You've got to burn a certain amount of calories a day. You've got to work out a certain amount of time a day. And then you have to stand for a certain amount of hours a day, all of which the Apple Watch tracks via your heart rate. And they were telling me that one day they were just kind of too busy. They were traveling, so they really didn't get a chance to work out that day. But in an attempt to stay consistent with their workout regimen, while they were at the airport, they put on a workout on their watch, and just started walking around the airport, hopefully to close the workout ring. Well, as they were doing so, they were walking around, and the watch would interrupt the workout every so often, and kind of give this alert that says, Hey, are you still working out, or should we pause this workout? And they were annoyed by that, so they just ignored it and kept walking,

and ignored it and kept walking, and it just kept coming up. The alert kept coming up, and kept coming up. And come to find out, the reason it kept showing up was because their heart rate was not beating at a pace that indicated to the watch that they were actually working out. It appeared to be more like a resting heart rate. And I find this interesting, because the heart rate, because it wasn't correct, because the heart was not in the workouts, no matter how much they walked, the workout never registered. Some of us are striving today. Some of us are laboring today. Some of us are working as hard as we possibly can today, thinking that it's what will get the results that we've been looking for. Thinking that it's what will give us the peace we've been looking for, the power we've been looking for, the joy we've been looking for, the acceptance we've been looking for, the fruits that we've been looking for. But can I just tell you, if your heart is not postured in the right position, no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you labor, it will sadly never amount to anything spiritually productive. We've got to have the right heart posture. And my prayer today, as we read this passage of Scripture and identify the condition of our hearts that we do not want to be in, that God would then give us a self-awareness enough to see where the real condition of our heart is, and then empower us so that we can make the necessary adjustments to have the right posture, right heart posture, so that we can be led down the road that only leads towards life. And in the passage of Scripture, Jesus opens this parable by saying the first ground we see seed sown on is the seed that was sown among the beaten path. And this is to say that there was this pathway that these farmers would walk on that were in between their fields of crops. Now remember, this was a millennia ago, so they didn't have sidewalks and concrete grounds like we have today, but this ground that they would walk on was actually soil. It was actually dirt. But because they walked so frequently on these paths, they would walk on these

paths day after day, week after week, because they walk so frequently on them, it's so tightly and densely compacted the soil underneath their feet that it actually stopped feeling like soil and started feeling more like concretes. The the ground underneath their feet had become very, very dense and very difficult to penetrate. It was very hard. And because they walk so frequently on it, and because the soil became so hard, whenever seed would fall on this path, it would have difficulty penetrating through the soil because it was rock solid. So what would happen is the farmers, they would simply trample over the foot of these seeds, or the birds would come and eat them up. And Jesus likens this type of soil to people who have hardened hearts. And the question that arises from this section of the parable is, where have our hearts grown hard that is stopping the Word of God from taking deep roots? And when we really dissect this particular part of the parable, I think it's very easy to identify when in our lives we then have hardened hearts. Where in our lives we have grown maybe distant, or grown maybe resistant to the prompting and work of God. And what I've learned is that some of us have not even put these walls up on purpose. Some of us have not hardened our hearts on purpose. I don't know if you've ever experienced this, but some of us, we can hear the Word of God, or we can read the Word of God, or get a word from God for ourselves, and it just kind of doesn't take root. It doesn't really change us or transform us like it promises to. We kind of just feel exactly the same. And I want you to know that's not because the Word has no power. No, the Word has all the power. But the reason this happens is because sometimes it has difficulty penetrating the walls you've placed up around your heart. And maybe you didn't put them up on purpose, like I said, or maybe you don't even know you have them up. Like I said, these farmers, they would simply walk on this soil day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, and it was only over time, through walking on them so frequently, that this soil became hardened. Hear me. Sometimes it's not the big mistake. Sometimes it's not the monumental failure, but the little compromises you make day after day, week after week, month after month, year after

year, that end up breaking us down and taking us out. It's the little lies here. It's the little bit of gossip over there. It's the DM from that woman that nobody knows about who is not your wife. It's the encounters you keep having with people who you're not supposed to be having encounters with. And when you have these things, when you do all these things, typically what I've found is that you probably experience some type of guilt in the moment. Like you feel like you've done something wrong. You feel just off, like something's not right within you. What I want you to understand is that that is not condemnation or shame coming from God. No, that is what is called conviction. That God will convict you, which is to say, He will show you that you have gone off the path. Hey, you're not on the right path anymore, and He's gonna try and lovingly correct you, which is an invitation back onto the right path, the only path that actually leads towards life. what we end up doing is we ignore the conviction that comes from God and just carry on doing whatever we want to do. But if you continue to do this, if you continue to ignore the conviction from God, if you continue to just carry on doing whatever you want to do without God's instruction, then what over time will happen is we grow numb to the conviction of God. We grow numb to His voice until one day we just simply can't hear Him anymore. And then our hearts become impenetrable to the transformative power found in God's word. And I don't know about you, but if you really want to live a life that is built to last, if you really want to live a life that stands firm when things are going on around you, I don't know about you, but I desperately need to hear from God. I need God's voice. I need God's word. Because all it takes for your life to transform in an instant is a word from God. But why would God continue speaking to someone who He knows will not continue to listen to Him? That is why whenever you receive conviction from God or a word from God, we must act on it immediately. We must act on it immediately because we need God to speak to us.

We need God to trust us to know that we will do what He asks us to do, but you've got to act on it immediately so that we don't grow numb to His conviction or grow numb to His voice. Whenever you hear a word from God, act on it quickly. It's how we prevent our hearts from becoming hard. But maybe, actually for some of us, it's not that we ignore the conviction from God that hardens our hearts. Maybe for some of us it's our experiences. My wife and I, we have really become regulars at this restaurant here in Coral Springs called Sicilian Oven. This is not an advertisement for Sicilian Oven, by the way. They did not pay me to do this, but we just love the restaurant. It's really good. And because we go there so frequently, I've eaten everything on the menu, truly everything on the menu, and there was nothing better for me on that menu than their chicken wings. The Sicilian Oven chicken wings are amazing. Now they're not your typical chicken wings. They don't have like smothered in sauce. They don't have that. No, they are baked in a wood-fired oven. They have so much chicken on them. They come out super juicy. They're cooked in these sauteed onions. They are incredible. You have to try them for yourselves. But I remember this one day, I was at Sicilian Oven, and I ordered my typical order, the chicken wings. I ordered a side of french fries, and I ate it all. It was delicious. I had a great time. But what I did not know is that while I was eating those chicken wings, I also had a stomach

bug brewing, because my kids are in daycare, so they like to bring home all types of stuff with them and give it to us parents. It's terrible. I was eating these chicken wings, and I didn't know I had a stomach bug brewing, so I just kind of went on about my business. I ate dinner. I went home. I brushed my teeth. I kissed my wife goodnight, and I went to sleep. And then at about 2.30 in the morning, why is it always 2.30 in the morning and never 2.30 in the afternoon that a stomach bug hits? At about 2.30 in the morning, I wake up, and I just know something's off. I don't feel right. This is not great. My stomach hurts. I had a pounding headache, and I just knew something was about to go down. And I will spare you all the details, but what I need you to know is that for approximately the next hour, all I could taste were Sicilian oven chicken wings. And it left such a bad taste in my mouth that ever since that moment, I have not had Sicilian oven chicken wings ever again. And could it be possible that the same reason I have not had Sicilian oven chicken wings again is the same reason you don't trust God anymore? You see, when we face difficulties, when we have a bad experience, if we are not careful, it tends to harden our hearts. It tends to make us distant from the thing that actually caused the bad experience, but what we end up doing is we actually place the problem on what the problem is not. So the problem for me was not the Sicilian oven chicken wings. It was the stomach bug, but because the last thing I ate before I got the stomach bug were the chicken wings, now I have a problem with the chicken wings. So for example, maybe you're here, and you had a bad experience with a person who claimed

to be a Christ follower, and they just treated you terribly. They spoke to you so horribly. They were mean to you. And because they left such a bad taste in your mouth, now you have this aversion to not just the church, but to God himself. Could it be that you have misplaced the problem? Or maybe for others of us, it's the thing that we went through. Maybe you went through a divorce. Maybe you went through some financial hardship. Maybe you went through, I don't know, a health scare. And because of that, you have now just kind of started to question God, doubt God. Whether he really loves you or can really do something about your issue, does he have the power to do so? And if we're not careful, we can allow these experiences to distance us from the God that loves us and wants relationship with us. But can I just remind you for a moment that God never promised us to have a pain free life. God never promised us to have an insulated life, but he did promise us that we can live lives that would showcase to the world that despite whatever difficulties we may face, that we serve a God who did not cause those issues, but can use those issues to bring about development and shape us and mold us and strengthen us and favor us and bless us despite the problems we go through. We've got to start to have a right perspective about the bad experiences we have because God is not the source or cause of those bad experiences. But God is the source of whatever good comes from those bad experiences. We've got to remember who we're talking about here. God is not this this angry person who's up in the sky wanting to curse you. No, he is the God who left the comfort of heaven to come down and pay the penalty for the sin that we earned ourselves. And he didn't do this for us while we were perfect, while we had it all together, while we were all cleaned up. No, for Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This is the God I'm talking about. We've got to remember what he's done. We've got to remember the experiences we have, the evidence he's shown us, who he has already proven himself to be. Do not let a bad experience cause you to be unforgiving or bitter or even fall away from the faith. Don't misplace the problem. They hurt you. I get it.

But they're imperfect. God still is perfect. Let's remind ourselves who we're serving here. So we've got to ask God to soften our hearts, to soften our hearts again. And he is faithful to do so. The Bible tells us that he will take this heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh. But we've got to ask God to soften our hearts. Jesus goes on actually to talk about a next ground. And this next ground is where the seed falls among the rocky grounds. And this is not to say the soil had rocks or pebbles in it. No, this is actually to say from the very surface level, it looked like good soil. It looked good. But lying just underneath the surface of that soil was this layer of bedrock that whenever a seed was sown in it would resist and prevent any seed from developing deep roots and accessing the water supply it needed so that it could grow strong and healthy. And this was Jesus' way of referring to when we in our lives have shallow hearts. Now, my wife and I have been blessed and had the privilege to be able to travel a little bit around the world. And we found in our lives, just for us, that there's no better place to travel to on the planet than Italy. My wife is the most budget traveler on the planet. We like backpacked there. We stayed in hostels. Like it was an experience. Okay. But we got there on our honeymoon and it was unbelievable. We loved it. The history, the food, it was amazing. And I hope to go back again one day because I would love to travel to this little town called Pisa. And if you don't know, Pisa is actually a very well-known tourist destination for one reason and one reason only. There is this tower that resides in that town that is well-known and famous for its structural dynamics. It's called the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Now, what's fascinating is that people travel from all over the world to come and watch this tower lean. It's not useful.

It has no benefit to the community that surrounds it outside of bringing tourism. Like it's not an operational tower. It is simply a tourist attraction. It is simply a spectacle. All because it leans. And this tower started to fascinate me. So I researched it and I learned that when the architects tried to understand why this tower began to lean, what they found out was that when they were building the foundation, they did not build the foundation deep enough into the ground so that it would withstand the pressure and weight of the marble that was being used to construct it. And because the foundation was not placed deep enough, when the weight was applied, the foundation started to shift in the layer of topsoil that it was built on causing the lean. Now, I find this to be very fascinating because it was not an environmental factor that caused this lean. It was not a storm. It was not some severe winds. It was not an earthquake. But what caused this lean was a shallow foundation. Hear me. Could it be possible that the reason you are bending and breaking and leaning has nothing to do with the pressures that you are facing in this life? Could it be possible? that the reason you are swaying and bending and leaning and feel all this pressure in your life is simply because you have too shallow of a foundation. Maybe the reason your life lacks the power and fruit you would have hoped it would have by now is simply because your foundation only appears to be deep enough from the outside looking in, but it does not actually possess the depth that is necessary in order to withstand the pressures that are found in your problems or the burdens that are found in your blessings. We're meant to be useful. We're meant to be beneficial. We're not meant to just keep up appearances as Christians. We're not meant to just show to the world that we have it all together. No, we're actually meant to have substance to us. We're actually meant to have depth to us. We're called to be salt and light to the world around us. We're called to actually be beneficial to the people around us, but the only way this happens is if we have a firmly and deeply rooted relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus actually goes on to explain what this parable means because his disciples ask and

in verse number 13 he explains what it means to have rocky ground and in verse 13 it says those that fall on rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no roots. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing they fall away. People with shallow hearts are full of joy when God does something fresh and God does something new and God answers the prayer and the miracle happens, but when a period of waiting comes, when a trial comes, or when testing comes, when some hardship comes their way they begin to question God and doubt God and become disappointed and frustrated and may even fall away from the faith and the reason I found that this happens is because so many of us have this tendency to worship the gift instead of worshiping the giver. We have this tendency to focus on the things that God gives us rather than focusing on the one who gave them to us in the first place, but what I've learned is the things that God gave us are never about the things themselves. They're always meant to point us to the one who gave them to us in the first place. We've got to develop a better theology about God because a relationship with God is not about a blessing. If a relationship with God is about a blessing then when trial and temptation and difficulties and hardships come our way we're going to get frustrated and we're going to become discouraged and disappointed and we may even become angry with God because we thought a relationship was all about blessing but when we understand that a relationship with God is not about a blessing it's about intimacy with him then come hell or high water we will be good not because the things we go through are good but because the one we walk with in all things has overcome the world. He's overcome death. He's overcome hell. He's overcome the grave. So what's a little storm to him? What's a little divorce to him? What's a little trial to him? What's a chain to somebody who can break it? What's a wall to somebody who can move it? What's a seed to somebody who can split it? What's a grave to somebody who can rob it? What's a giant to somebody who can slay it? Are you hearing what I'm saying? I'm saying nothing is impossible with God so it's not about receiving from God it's just about being with God. A relationship with God is about intimacy with him. It's about being with God and the only way you can do this is to spend time with him. To spend time in prayer. Spend time in your word. To read the word of God. Spend time in fellowship with other believers worshiping God together and and crying out to him together. Spending time dependent on God both in the good and in the bad. This is how we avoid having shallow hearts and quickly Jesus then goes on to explain the third and final negative soil which was the seed that was sown among the thorns.

Which the thorns because they were in the soil would then grow up with the seed and choke out whatever fruit was in it and and this is Jesus speaking to people who have crowded hearts and I find this one fascinating because the the the sower would have almost certainly seen these thorns in the soil because these thorns were accompanied by weeds and if you've done ever any gardening or you have grass you know that's weeds are not good for your plants so the sower would have known this and he would have removed whatever weeds he saw but what cannot be accounted for are the the roots that remain embedded in the soil though the weeds were removed from the surface and because the roots remain these weeds would then grow up with the the plants and choke out the fruit that was on it and Jesus actually again describes what this could mean for us in verse number 14. What these weeds might be in our lives. In verse number 14 he says the seed that fell among the thorns stands for those who hear the word but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches, and pleasures and they do not mature. You see so many of us are making a relationship with Jesus about Jesus and something. It's Jesus and influence is what will really bring me fulfillment. It's Jesus and money that will really bring me fulfillment. It's Jesus and success that will really bring me fulfillment. But what Jesus is trying to identify in this passage is if there is anything that is still embedded in your heart that is trying to take the place of only what God can do in your life it will end up choking out the fruit that he wants to birth in you. So what we have to do is weed out all of the things that we have been looking to to satisfy for us what only Jesus can satisfy for us. Money will not satisfy you. Riches will not satisfy you. Fame will not satisfy you. Fortune will not satisfy you. Sexual encounters will not satisfy you. They may for a moment but what you have probably recognized by now is that at some point they will actually only end up making you feel worse. Lacking something like you're missing something in your life. But there is only one source that can actually provide for you what it is that you have been really looking for. The real desires of your heart. I'm not just talking about fame and fortune and money and influence. No I'm talking about your longing for acceptance. I'm talking about your

desperation to belong. I am talking about this hunger you have inside of you to just feel seen and feel fully loved without condition despite everything you've ever done. And there's only one thing that can do this for you. One source that we must place our foundation on that will enable us to live rock-solid lives that we can make it to the end. And this thing it's not actually a thing. It's a person and his name is Jesus Christ. The whole point of what I'm trying to get across today and my prayer for us is that as the word is being sown week in and week out. As you read the word for yourselves that we would not have shallow hearts. That we would not have hardened hearts. That we would not have have crowded hearts and try and place things alongside Jesus to find fulfillment. No. But that we would have hearts that that this seed would fall on good soil. That this good soil would then produce this seed to develop deep roots and produce a crop and a fruit a hundred times more than we could ever ask of dreamed or imagined. Which is to pray that we would have receptive hearts. Receptive hearts to the message of the gospel. To the truth about Jesus Christ. To the Word of God. Because the truth of the matter is our ability to have faith in Jesus is dependent on our ability to interact with the words of Jesus. Our ability to experience the power of God is completely correlated to our ability to understand and apply the Word of God. Romans chapter 10 verse 17 puts it this way. Consequently faith comes from hearing the message and the message is heard through the word about Christ. So if you want to live an unshakable life. A life that is full of power and joy and peace and fulfillment and satisfaction and purpose. Then you must answer for yourself who Christ is to you. And then build your life upon the standard found in his word. If you've not done that in just a moment there'll be some pastors and prayer partners who would love nothing more than to help you navigate what it means to give your life by faith to Jesus. The God who left the comfort of heaven to put on human flesh and walk a perfect life here on earth. Not because he had to. Not because he was forced to. But because he loved you. Because it was the only way to reconcile us back to the Father. Because we were separated eternally from him. But

Jesus Christ became our mediator. Our bridge. So that if we were to place our life in his hands and give it to him by faith we would have eternal life and abundant life. This is the Jesus I speak of. So if you've not given your life by faith to him they'd love to help you navigate what it means to have a receptive heart. But for the rest of us let us let us remove the weeds. Let us uncrowd our hearts. Let us soften our hearts. Let us not have shallow hearts but but deep deep roots in a relationship with the Lord. So that we can actually build our lives upon the solid rock and firm foundation that is Jesus and his word. It's the only way to be built to last father. We bless you. We thank you. We ask for your your power today But we ask for the strength to actually walk out what it is that you've instructed us to walk out help us to apply this word Help us to obey this word help us to read this word Help us to actually put it into practice so that we can be like the wise man Who built this house on the rock whether the rain comes or the wind blows? It doesn't matter because we will still be standing because we are standing on a firm Foundation we love you Lord. We thank you that we're not doing this alone Come be with us fill us with power fill us with your strength and fill us with joy. We love you Lord It's in Jesus name. We pray as the church said loudly together