The Way of Becoming | "The Way" Week 1

Okay, we're going to get into the scriptures today. So if you have your Bibles, open your Bibles with me to Luke chapter 9. That's where we're going to go today. And we're going to kind of be a kind of foundational text that we'll go back to many times during this sermon season. We're starting a brand new season called The Way. The Way. I'm actually very excited about the season. And then during it, we want to come alongside you. Okay. So Dr. Daniel Davis, our director of spiritual formation, is working very hard every single week to create content that complements the messages that you hear. That we don't just hear a sermon and then forget about it until next week. We want to give you resources throughout the week to help you both at your personal level, but also with your families, also with your circles, for our circle leaders. If you're not in a circle, you need to be in a circle. You're in community, which is what we call small groups. It's a circle. So if you want some of these resources, if you're a circle leader, we'll be giving these resources to you. There's a website you can go to called victory.church forward slash resources, forward slash resources. And there, every week you'll find it. We'll be emailing some of these things out too, but you'll find resources. You'll find recaps of my sermon, in case you fell asleep. Like a quick recap. Some every single day activities, day one, day two, day three for that week, that you can come alongside with this season of the way. The season that we're going into is something that the Lord kind of put on my heart a long time ago, but really solidified it. Just several weeks ago, Michelle and I had the chance of celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. And yeah, we got married when we were 10. I'm only 35. And I'm just kidding, obviously. And so I took my wife to the most romantic place on earth. We went to Paris, France. And we had an amazing time. While we were there, we had scheduled this tour guide. By the way, we were in France. If you saw it on your social media feeds or in the news, remember when it was said that France is experiencing the hottest days in history of France? Yeah, we were there. And part of us was like, y'all need to suck it up over here. Y'all, this is just a Tuesday for us. Okay. But I will say, if anybody ever tells you that the place you're going to in Europe has air conditioning, they're lying. Their version of air conditioning is about 78 to 80 degrees in your room. Okay. So that's not in my sermon, but that's just extra. So we scheduled this tour, and I had scheduled it long before we got to France. And guess what kind of tour it was? It was a walking tour. Four hour walking tour of Paris, France, in 106 degree weather. It's great. But we had a great time. We learned a lot. But our tour guide

was this young guy. And he was very eclectic. He was very, very, very knowledgeable, brilliant guy, understood the history of Paris. He understood the history of France. He understood the ins and outs of World War II and the impact on France. And he showed us just incredible things, but he was also incredibly knowledgeable in religion. And he had studied various religions and was very, very knowledgeable. In many ways, he was a lot smarter than me in a lot of ways. And inevitably, if you ever hang out with somebody long enough, what are they going to ask you? What do you do? And as a pastor, I hate it when people ask me that, if I'm being honest. But I will tell you that if you're on an airplane and you don't feel like talking to anybody, just tell them you're a pastor. They won't talk to you the entire flight. It's over. You put your headphones on and enjoy yourself. So we're right at, it's really cool, we're right at Notre Dame, this beautiful cathedral. And we're walking right by it. And he says, so you're a pastor? I said, yeah. And he says, so you're a Christian? Yep. He goes, do you mind if I ask you a question? I said, no. He said, what does that look like on a day-to-day basis? And he said, how do you practice that? And I got to be really honest with you, even as a pastor, it took me back. It took me by surprise because nobody's that forward in America that asks you, what do you do every day to be a Christian? And I think I tried my best to answer that question. And I don't even really know what I said, but I think it was okay, I think. I mean, think about that. If somebody asked you, so what are you, a Christian? Yeah. What does that look like on a day-to-day basis? Can you imagine some of the answers? Well, it's like, you should see my YouVersion Bible app streak. I'm on like 34 days in a row, you know? Oh, it's cool. I got this tattoo on my back of a cross. Oh, I wear a cross around my neck, you know? Isn't that proof enough? I told you I'm a Christian, isn't that enough? Like, I got a Bible verse in my bio on my Instagram page. It's like, yeah, you have a Bible verse in your bio, but your feed needs an altar call. Like, something's not matching up with your Bible verse in your bio. Oh, don't worry, look at my radio in my car. One of my presets is K-Love, you know, I'm good.

But it really does make you wonder, it really does make you think, what does that mean? There's this movie that I can't endorse because I've learned that the hard way over the years, so I'm not endorsing it. But you should see it, it's pretty funny. It's called Catch Me If You Can. There's this old movie that Leonardo DiCaprio was in where he like pretends to be, it's a true story, where he pretends to be a pilot, he pretends to be a doctor. He's like going into surgeries. Think about that next time you're on the surgery table. And his real name was Frank Abagnale, and he was an imposter and a thief in a lot of ways. It's a true story. There's another story, it's a book called Morgan's Passing. The author's Ann Taylor, not important. It's a fiction story, but it's similar. This guy named Morgan, he impersonates professions, and he impersonates pastors, and he impersonates lawyers, and he pretends to be doctors, and he just pretends to be all these sort of things. And in this book, it's fiction, but in this book, he is at an event, and somebody yells out, she's going into labor, is there anybody here a doctor? He's like, yeah, I'm a doctor. He's like, just get in my car, I'm gonna take you to the hospital. So they jump in the car, and they're on the way to the hospital,

and the husband yells out in the back seat, we're not gonna make it, the baby's coming right now. And so he pulls over, and this dude delivers a baby. And they get back in the car, he drives them to the hospital, they get out, a couple days later, they're like, hey, where's this Dr. Morgan, we wanna thank him for delivering our baby. And they're like, there is no Dr. Morgan here, we don't know what you're talking about, there is no Dr. Morgan that works here. They leave, a couple weeks later, they're walking in the park, and there's Dr. Morgan. And so they walk up to this Morgan guy, and they're like, thank you so much for delivering our baby, we can't thank you enough. And he literally goes, oh, I have to confess to you, I'm not a doctor, at all. And so he began to explain, and he said this phrase, he says, he began to say, just confess everything to them, but I just pretend to be stuff all the time. And they're like, well, how do you get away with that? How do people believe that you're a lawyer? How do people believe that you're a doctor? And this is what he said, he said, I simply discern in the moment what people are expecting, and I fit myself into their expectations. And they never question it. And it does just kind of make me wonder and think, that is it possible that being a Christian

has the possibility of becoming just another identity that's actually quite easy to impersonate? And I've had time to process this and think about this complete stranger challenging a pastor about my faith and my identity and what that looks like on a day-to-day basis. And I do believe that I've come to this resolve that being a Christian isn't a cross tattoo, it's not a necklace that hangs around your neck, it's not a Bible verse in your bio, and it's not even something that you claim to believe, it's actually something much more than that, that it's measured by something more. And that takes me to the text that I referred to in just a moment ago in Luke chapter nine. In Luke chapter nine, verse 23, this is Jesus's words, and this will kick us off into this season called the way. Verse 23, it says, then he said to the crowd, if any of you want to be my follower, you must give up your own way. Take up your cross daily and follow me. Verse 24 goes on to say, if you try to hang on to your life, you'll lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you'll save it. And this idea of the way is not a new concept. He says you give up your own way. If you go all the way back to the early church, even before the early church was launched in the book of Acts, you'll find even before that, at times there was Saul,

and Saul was a persecutor of people of the way. They weren't called believers, they weren't called Christians, they were called people of the way. And even Saul, he's writing letters to some of the Sadducees and Pharisees, the rulers and the authorities, and saying, hey, and he's writing them saying, hey, I want you to give me permission and give me authority to go and arrest. And Saul, before he came, Paul was obviously persecuting Christians. And one of the things he says, and it's in the book of Acts, he says, he calls them people of the way. And it makes you wonder, why did they say that? that, they didn't say people who believed in Jesus, they didn't say people who follow Jesus, they said people of the way. Because there was something about the people of the way that identified them as people by the way they lived their life. Not by the way they talked or by listening to the right radio stations or wearing Christian t-shirts or saying you go to church, there was something that was identifiable so much so that they called them people of the way. And for the next 13 weeks this is what I want to just kind of dive into. Like I'm challenged by this. Some random guy in Paris challenged your pastor and it made me really sit down and contemplate, yeah what are my practices? Do I do things because of what I believe? Yes we all believe in Jesus if you're here today and you're a believer. We believe in Jesus and that's important and that's where it all begins. But if we truly believe in Jesus, our beliefs should form us and shape us into some sort of actionable items in our lives that

identifies us as people of the way. That maybe it's not enough, maybe it's not quite enough to just admire Jesus or to like Jesus or to agree with Jesus or even just to believe things about Jesus. Maybe it's to learn to live like Jesus and to become people of the way. So please hear me. I want to give my very first disclaimer, alright? And I'll probably do this a couple of times during the season. Because if we're not careful, if I preach this in the wrong way, you'll become religious and you'll start doing actionable items to try to prove yourself. I want to be very clear, your salvation is not by works. Ephesians says that we are saved by grace through faith, okay? It is by the grace of God, by the belief of you in believing that Jesus died on a cross, was buried and was resurrected on the third day for us. Period. End of story. Romans chapter 10, in fact Romans chapter 10 says that if you'll confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus is Lord, you're saved. So I'm not suggesting that we have to earn salvation or we have to earn love or earn acceptance from the Father. That's nothing of the sort. He will never love you more than he loves you right now, no matter what you do. He loves you. But maybe I am suggesting that what we believe to be true is meant to become a way of life. That if we truly believe it to be so, then there's nothing about that that shouldn't impact us and create a new us on a day-to-day basis. Let me read you another passage in John chapter 8. This is again the words of Jesus in John 8 31. He says this is as Jesus said to the people who believed in him. So he's talking to a crowd of people who already believed that he was the Messiah. It wasn't about believing. They already believed. And he says, you're truly my disciples if, come on, somebody say if. If you remain faithful to my teachings. If you remain faithful to my teachings. There's another passage in Matthew 28 that I won't read. You can go to, it's in verse 18 and it's one of the last things Jesus says on earth. One of the last things he says before he ascends. And he's given this instruction to his disciples and he gives them this charge. He says, go into all the world and make disciples. And even in looking at this and in reviewing this and thinking about this, I came to this realization that Jesus

didn't say go into all the world and make believers. He didn't say make believers. He said make disciples. And I think sometimes the capital C Church, and when I say capital C Church, I'm not talking about all those other churches and we get it right. Sometimes I think even I get it wrong. Because we focus so much on raise your hand, repeat this prayer, just say that you believe and you're done. You're good. Go live your life. Put a Bible verse in your bio and you're good. There's so much more to becoming a disciple of Jesus. And yes, when we believe and when we confess with our mouth and when we believe in our heart, you are saved. You're good. You're going to heaven. I believe that with every fiber of my being. But my greater conviction is that if you really do believe, I want to become more like Jesus every single day, every single day of my life. James 1, that says don't just be hearers of the word, but doers. Like, it's not okay to just hear the word. We have to actually do the things that we hear. I'll read you one more passage in Luke. Luke chapter 4, I'm sorry, Luke chapter 6, verse 40. I love this. This is Jesus's words too. I love this imagery as an educator, former educator. Verse 40 says, students are not greater than their teacher, but the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher. Jesus is our rabbi. He is our teacher. We are the students. So every single day we wake up and one thing should be at the forefront of our mind. How do I become more like Jesus today? And it says become. It's such a key word. It says become, become, become. And it begs the question, when this guy in Paris challenged me and asked me this and I'm like stumbling over myself and I'm usually not a guy that's short for words. And it begs the question, what am I becoming? It begs a further question, is what do you want to become? What do you want to become? You might say, well, I want to become a better dad. I want to become a better wife. I want to be, I want to become, I want to become more joyful. I want to become less angry. I want to become more generous. Whatever it is, hopefully you have something that you're striving toward or that you're wanting to become. And again, disclaimer number two, I'm not suggesting that works save us. I'm not suggesting that. I think the

thing that if I'm being super honest, and I always want to be really, really honest, because if I can't be honest, then you can't either. As your pastor, I want to be very honest with you that as I processed what he said and as I've dug into the ways of Jesus and the daily practices of what it means to be a Christian, I came to this realization that I do wonder if at times I've become more of a consumer of Christianity than a dedicated follower of Jesus. And many times Christianity becomes this crutch or this thing that I need Jesus to help me so I can just get through life. And Lord, if you'll just answer these checklists of prayers that I need, then I will be a great Christian. And I think in some ways we've reversed it because Jesus didn't say that. He didn't say, come unto me and I'll make you a great consumer of Christianity. He says, die to yourself. You know what Jesus says? It's not about you. It's about us denying ourselves and picking up our cross and following Jesus. And no one's excited. No amens. I get it. But this is the way. This is the way. And in a culture that we live, y'all, part of it is just the culture in which we live. Everything is about consumerism. Everything in America is about consumerism. And I just fear that in America we've settled for a version of Christianity that asks for our agreement, but never our surrender. You're like, John, can you go on vacation again? We kind of liked... So this is what we're going to do for the next 13 weeks. What I need you to know is I'm not one time am I going to preach at you. Not one time. I'm going on a journey with you. This is a journey for me as much as it's going to be for you. Because I want to become better. I want to know Jesus more. I want to become more like Jesus. And so if no one's listening to me, I'll get up here every week and preach and it's going to hit the back wall and hit me right between the eyes and I'll just preach to myself every single week if I need to. And I'm inviting you on this journey. And I know this sermon's different. It's not like point number one, point number two, point number three. Like this is a trailer to a movie you're about to experience. And I invite you to go on this journey with me. We're not going to deal with, in this series, we're not going to deal with who we were yesterday or who we are today. All those things are great. We are

going to deal with who are we becoming? Who are we becoming? What are we doing with our lives? There's this quote that's very popular in military, all through different ranks. And it says, you don't rise to the level of your intentions, you fall to the level of your training. The Navy SEALs say, I love Navy SEALs. I nerd out over Navy SEALs. are just fascinating to me. They have this thing, and I've talked about this before in sermons, they have this thing where they say, slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. Because Navy SEALs are some of the quickest. I mean, if you're not a Navy SEAL and you're in the other military, don't throw anything at me. But they're incredible, and I'm sure you can do it too. But they can unrack a gun, take it apart, clean it, put it back together in seconds. But they didn't do it by doing it fast. The way they train is they say, slow is smooth. So we don't practice fast, we practice slow. We practice correct. We practice, not fast, not quick, we practice doing it correctly. And we do it slowly, correctly, until we do it quicker, and quicker, and quicker, and quicker, and quicker, and quicker. Slow is smooth, and once you understand that slow is smooth, then all of a sudden, smooth is fast. And we understand this in every other walk, in every other area of our lives.

This is no surprise to us. Like if I came to you and you're really good at something, let's say you're really good at golf, and I came to you and I said, I need you to help me learn how to golf. You know what you're gonna tell me? Practice. You're not gonna be like, yeah, go ahead, just go on out there, you're gonna shoot a 77. It's gonna be great, it's gonna be a great day. You know, just keep your arms ready, go on out there and do it. Like if you wanna become good at basketball, you practice. This is not rocket science. If you want big muscles, what do you do? You don't know what to do? You work out. It's funny when somebody always tells me that they lost 20 pounds, 40 pounds, like my first question is always like, how'd you do it? Duh, I ate less calories than I burned, you know? It's the same thing in our faith, y'all. Practices of the way. And then Christians, we get into trouble, and we get anxious, and we get depressed, and we get worried, and we're fearful, and we don't know what to do with our life. I would propose to you is because you haven't been practicing the way. Yeah, but the way's hard, John,

because I gotta fast, and I gotta pray. Yeah, that's why they call it discipleship, because it requires discipline. And we're not surprised at this in any other walk of life. Like we're not surprised that anybody who's good at anything practiced. And that's all I'm saying. I think the problem is when I was faced with this question from this guy in Paris, I had a hard time identifying off the top of my head practices, practices. What are we practicing? And practicing will always reveal these things. So why are we anxious? Why are we depressed? Why are we defeated by the enemy over, and over, and over, and over again? Could it be that we have no practice in our faith? We don't practice. We don't practice our faith. And Daniel has this crazy encounter where the king says, everybody that doesn't bow down, you can be thrown into the lion's den. And the Bible says that Daniel went up into his upper room, and he opened the window. And the Bible says he got down on his knees, and he prayed. And then the very next sentence says, as he was accustomed to doing three times a day. Daniel didn't decide to start praying when he was faced with pressure.

It was a practice that he had already gotten in his life. He faced an impossible situation, not because he mustered up the faith to pray all of a sudden, no, he was already in the rhythm of practicing the way of faith. Even Jesus modeled this. The Bible says that Jesus often withdrew to pray. It's a practice, it's a practice. So every single week, every single week when you come to church, over the next 13 weeks, we're gonna do this all the way to November, all right? We're gonna preach a very practical message about a practice, okay? Every single week, we'll have the same boring title, the way of blank, the way of blank, the way of prayer, the way of worship, the way of fasting. Every single week, we're gonna get super practical and just talk about the way and what it means. Because what I believe is pressure, pressure won't create your practices. Pressure will reveal your practices. And I hate to break it to you, but pressure's coming. Practice, practice. And these practices of the way will create and prepare us for these things. What are we becoming? What are we becoming? One of the weeks that I'm wrestling through, Michelle and I have been talking about this a little bit. One of the weeks I think I'm gonna do the way of joy.

Sometimes Christians are the most depressing people to be around. They're just, like I'll hang out with heathens and I'm like, man, you guys are way more fun than Christians. I think it's because joy, we think joy is an emotion. It's not, it's a practice. It's a practice. The joy of the Lord is our strength. All right, I won't preach that right now, sorry, sidetrack. Our practices, okay, our practices will always determine who you're becoming. Every time, full stop. Every time. If somebody followed you around, this is a very sobering thing for me to process. If someone could secretly, secretly follow me around every day for three months, and then they didn't know me from Adam, and they had to write an essay on what I think John's practicing for. Whatever you practice is what you will become. So I would also say it this way. The life that you want, remember that while ago, I said, what do you wanna become? Well, what you want, the life you want is on just on the other side of the practices that you choose. And this is, this is, this is what I'm processing for me. Like I'm gonna, I'm not here telling y'all today

that I figured this out and I've come back to you and said, let me show you how to do this. We're gonna do it together. Every week, we're gonna do this together. We're gonna go on this journey together. One of my, one of my really deep convictions has been every single week, if you're new to Victory Church at all of our campuses, every single week, since I've been the lead pastor for 12 years now, every single week, we end every single gathering the same way, say, we live life. And it is my deepest desire. Like I want all of us to live life to the full. And it's one of the things we say. But what I've come to realize even more so after my studies and my convictions is that life to the full, we're not going to experience life to the full because we declare it after every gathering. Just because we shout it out and say, life to the full, doesn't mean we're going to experience it. Life to the full is going to be cultivated through a daily practice that is slowly but surely shaping us and forming us into the image of Christ. That is where life to the full is found. And that's part of that journey that I want to go on. If you, I'll just close with this, I'm done. If you want to know like my deepest, my deepest passion as a pastor, like we're all, the vast majority of my conviction

lies as a pastor, as my deepest desire for this church. It's not buildings, like at all. It's not, we need them, because I don't like to get rained on when I come to church. Like we need a roof. Like we need buildings. We need something that when people drive by, it becomes a staple in the community as a place of hope. And they see it as a place of hope. It's important, but it's not my passion. I've been ridiculed by other pastors for saying this one, but it's just not my passion. My passion is not numerical growth. It's just not. My deepest passion is your growth, your growth and mine, mine, that each and every one of us wouldn't become believers. Not that each and every one of us would attend church. Not that each and every one of us would have a Bible verse in your profile pic. My deepest desire is that all of us, myself included, would become disciples of the way. Because I don't think the world has changed when churches grow. I think the world has changed when people grow. And what I believe is that when we grow, our church will grow, when we grow spiritually. And so I'm all for salvations in church. Like we'll celebrate them. We celebrated youth salvations.

We'll do a call to Christ every time we meet. We'll celebrate it. We'll do all those things. You know what I'm even more passionate about? I would be way more passionate instead of you bringing someone here and getting them saved, which do it. I'm cool. I'm cool with it. I would get way more excited if you went out there and led five people to Jesus, you. So one of the weeks, I'll just warn you. In advance, one of the weeks we're gonna do a sermon, a practice on the way of leading someone to Jesus. I don't think most Christians know how to do it. I'm passionate about that. Then get them saved and bring them here. I'm excited about discipleship and formation. We call it spiritual formation. We have a director of spiritual formation. Like I want you to grow in your faith. I'm super passionate about that. I'm passionate about discipleship. We'll do it here. I'm way more excited, way more passionate about you going out there and discipling five people yourself. We can't change the world, y'all, by you just bringing them here. There's not enough seats.

There's not enough seats in all the world at all the churches combined to change the world for Jesus. And we've messed up the church where it's like, just bring them in here and we'll fix all your problems and we'll get them saved and we'll disciple them. It's more so, the Bible says in Ephesians that the church is to equip the saints to go be the church. That's my passion, is to equip you to become everything that God has called you to be in church. In America especially has become a place of comfort and consumerism. And church is not for our comfort. Church is not meant for when your favorite worship leader leads your favorite song and then church was good. It's not about when your favorite preacher preaches and if John's not there, I'm not coming. And if John's on a video screen, I'm not watching. And if it's not a live preacher, I'm not. We have royally messed this up. Church is for formation. It is to craft us and shape us and mold us into the image of Christ. And church is a practice. So here's my challenge, if you don't hate me yet. You're like, John, go back on vacation, man. Like you come back, fired up. My one last thought, my first challenge. Okay, so every week is gonna be a challenge of a new practice and we're all gonna go

and we're gonna do it together, y'all. Like we're gonna figure this out together. Here's the very first practice that I wanna challenge you with for the next 13 weeks, all right, through October. My first challenge to you is to try your best to come to church every single week, every single week. And I get it, you got vacation planned, you're gonna be out of town for work. Listen, don't quit your job to come to church. That's not a good idea. So don't misrepresent me, okay? That's what the great thing about camera is, is if you miss a week, you can catch up. I get a text from a guy in my circle and he was like, he took a picture, he's laying on a beach. First thought was, I hate your guts. But then he said, I'm watching you from the beach. I'm all in, I'm with you. So you can be a part of church no matter where you're at, okay, my challenge to you is to be a part of this every single week. Not because it makes you a good Christian, not because it makes God love you more, because attending church is a practice. It's just a practice. It's you showing your family that this is what we value in our home. We value the local church. So my challenge to you is to make it a practice

these next several weeks. And I dare you, I double dog dare you, okay? Every week, ask yourself the real question, is this more important than church? Double dog dare you to pick the church over the lake. Double dog dare you to pick going to church over your son's soccer game. We are teaching our children what's important every single week, not by what we say, by what we do. And going to church doesn't make you a better Christian. It doesn't make you a better person. It's not about checking the box. It's a practice that makes you more and more like Jesus every single time you do it. And that's one of many practices that we're gonna cover in the next 13 weeks. And here's my commitment to you, all right? If you missed me, you might get tired of me because I think in the next 13 weeks, I only, I think I only don't preach maybe twice. So you might get sick of me pretty soon. Be like, will you go on a vacation again? We're like, we don't want you around here anymore. My commitment to you is every single week, I will come locked and loaded, not with condemnation, with encouragement, with inspiration, something that makes us all wanna become better at what God's calling us to become. I hesitate to say promise, but I don't think I need to. I think it is a promise that if all of us, including me,

if we will commit ourselves to be here or watch online and actually live out the practice of that week, whatever it is that we talk about that week, I will show you that I'm not making this up. It's in the Bible. It's a practice of the way. If we will commit ourselves to it, my commitment to you is November 1st, you will be a different person than you are today. You'll be a different person. You'll be a better father. You'll be a better wife. You'll be a better husband. You'll be a better son. You'll be a better boss at work. You're gonna be better steward of your money and all of those things. That's my commitment to you. And I don't think I've ever been more fired up about a sermon season than the one that we're about to embark on because I'm excited about it for myself. I'm excited about it for myself. Let's pray. Father, let me start, Lord, by just saying I'm sorry. If there's anything in me, Lord, that has made Christianity something that you'd never intended it to become, I'm sorry. And Father, my prayer for all of us, for this entire church and whoever else decides

to embark on this journey with us, is that you would come alongside us and show us the way. The Bible says, Jesus, you are the way. You're the way, the truth, and the life. And so, Lord, show us that way. Show us the practices, Lord. We invite the Holy Spirit on this journey, individually and corporately. We invite the Holy Spirit to convict us, to nudge us, to encourage us, to challenge us. Our desire, Lord, is to become more and more like you every day, not because we have to, not because we were trying to earn your love and earn your acceptance. We all start with an A plus because we're sons and daughters. But Father, show us, craft us, and mold us into the image of Christ. We thank you for it. We're so grateful that you joined us today. At Victory, we pray big prayers to a big God, and we expect big results. If you would like to receive prayer, you can submit a prayer request by visiting victory.church.com. If this message or any of our messages have impacted your life, and you would like to partner with us through giving, you can do so at victory.church.give. Thank you again for joining us.

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