The Follow-Through

you would just give us those sensitive hearts and the ability to be in tune to you, Lord, as we study your word, as we pray, as we spend our time with you, Lord, we thank you. Just as we are, we worship you. Would you bless the fellows as they're getting back from the conference they went to. May they be refreshed and encouraged and learn lots. And we just ask that you bless them, Lord, in Jesus' name.

And now as Nick comes up to teach your word this evening, Lord, that you would anoint him, Father, by the power of your Holy Spirit to bring it forth to your power. Be glorified, Lord, and we thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you for joining. I appreciate it. Obviously, Pastor Ryan, he is out, so you are stuck with the B team. Hopefully that's okay. But you know the one positive thing about always having a guest speaker?

They go short. So this is probably a positive thing. We're going to pack it in and then get out, right? Nothing wrong with that. So, hey, tonight we're going to be in 2 Kings. 2 Kings chapter 13. We're going to go OT. So 2 Kings chapter 13. And I've titled this the follow-through. Or if you know anything about this story, it's going to probably be the lack of follow-through.

But 2 Kings 13 verses 14 through 21.

So when Elisha became sick with illness, of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen. Elisha said to him, And so he took a bow and arrows. Then he said to the king of Israel, And he put his hand on it, and Elisha laid his hands on the king's hands. He said, He opened it.

Then Elisha said, And he shot. And he said, And the Lord's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram. For you will defeat the Arameans and Aphek until you have destroyed them. Then he said, Take the arrows, and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Strike the ground, and he struck it three times and stopped. So the man of God was angry with him and said,

You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Aram until you would have destroyed it. But now you shall strike Aram only three times. Elisha died and buried him. And the bands of the Moabites would invade the land of the spring in the year. And as they were burying a man, behold, they saw a marauding band, and they cast the man into the grave of Elisha.

And when the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood up on his feet. Interesting story. There's a lot to unpack, so I'm excited. But before we start, let's get back into prayer real quick. Heavenly Father, thank you so much. God, just for Calvary Chapel, thank you so much for Ryan, Pastor Ryan and Pastor Alan, Lord, that they just continue to give their lives to you, to this church,

to the congregation. Lord, I ask that what you have to teach for us tonight, Lord, that we'll just, that we'll just open our hearts, God, that we'll just turn to you in our troubled times. And Lord, we just look to bless you in every opportunity. We love you, praise you. In Jesus name, amen. So four topics tonight. The first one, the mourning. Second, the test.

Third, the missed opportunity. And fourth, God never stops pursuing. So we'll cover those four and how it relates to the story tonight. So the first one is the mourning. Elisha on the deathbed. If we go back to verse 14, when Elisha became sick with, the illness of which he was to die, Joash, the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him, said, my father, my father,

the chariots of Israel and the horsemen. What does, what does that have to do with anything? How's that significant? Well, if we look at Elisha, he's understanding where he's at in his life right now. There's not much time left. He may be days, he may be hours from where he will be passing away. And so he is laying down. He understands what's taking place next,

but it's interesting that Joash, who is a king, he comes down, he puts his hand on Elisha and he's worried for him. He's concerned and he starts weeping for him. Now, what, what does that mean? Why does it matter? Well, he's a king. First off, and if you look, if you read verses one through 13, it starts talking about how Joash's father and his father, they were not great men.

There was sin that corrupted their kingdom, corrupted them. So obviously their beliefs, their lifestyle was completely different than Elisha. So, how did these two come together? Well, I find it interesting even today, because if we look at how people that we differ from, sometimes they put a flag out in their front yard and we're like, oh, I don't believe that.

I can't believe I'm your neighbor now. Or somebody puts on Facebook of how their, their belief system is different than ours. Like, well, I'm going to unfriend you or you, you can't believe you talk like that. You act like that. I don't want to be associated with you. And we almost start to separate ourselves from those people just because they believe different.

And so I find it interesting. This King is just so overwhelmed that he comes down and he's on his hands and his knees and he's weeping over Elisha. There's significance there because even a King that recognizes the, the power of God through Elisha and what he's done, because Elisha, as we know, it's a prophet. It's amazing for him to come down and spend that time with him on his death bed.

Turn with me. If you can second Kings two 12, I'm going to get a little, a little context here of what's, what's happening. Second Kings two 12. It says, Elisha saw it and cried out, my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and his horsemen. And he saw Elijah no more. And he took hold of his own clothes and tore them into pieces. Well, it's interesting that that's in chapter two,

but then we also see in chapter 13. So we can see the symbolism here of what's happening with Elisha, that he is preparing and this King is aware of it because, in fact, he even repeats it in verses 14. It says, my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and his horsemen. So you can understand that this King has seen the prophet of Elijah. He's seen the prophet of Elisha and he understand there's significance.

Well, why? Because as we read on, there's an army coming towards him and he's concerned. And so what does he do? He turns to what he's hoping will be the, uh, the solution. He turns to Elisha, hoping that he can rely on God to help him fix this problem. He recognized the true strength of Israel. He knew that the strength of Israel was really in the presence of the prophet of God.

Now, Joe Ash seems the same straight slipping away from this earth. And he mourns it because he's concerned as this army, what they calculate around 100,000 people are coming towards this King. And he's concerned. He's like, I don't know what to do. And so he comes down to Elisha on his death bed. So that's the morning. Number two, the test. Joe Ash was confused about the true strength.

If we look into look at verse 15, it says, Elisha said to him, take a bow and arrows. So he took a bow and arrows. And then he said to the King of Israel, put your hand on the bow. And he put his hand on it. Then Elisha laid his hands on the King's hands. He said, open the window towards these shoot it. Elisha said, shoot. And he shot. And he said, he put the Lord's arrow of victory.

Even the arrow of victory. Over Aram. So it's interesting to me. Josh is like, there's a hundred thousand people coming, man. And you tell me, just look that way, open up the window, look East and shoot a couple of arrows. I got to tell you, big guy, that that's probably not going to work that strategy. It sounds all good right now, but you're on your death bed.

Maybe you're seeing things, but I'm seeing what's coming towards me. And I'm a little concerned. And so Joe Ash has this test right before him. He's like, all right, I can do this. I can do this. I came to Elisha to get some clarification. I need help. I need assistance. I need some type of power. I need a solution. And you gave me three arrows. Like this isn't looking good for our people.

I think at this moment, he starts to realize like, I'm getting a little nervous here. And so Elisha, he says, strike a fact. Now what's the significance of striking a fact? Well, if we look in first Kings, if you turn their first Kings 20, Elisha made a clear connection between the East and the Syrians and how that would bring deliverance to Israel. First Kings chapter 20 verses 26 through 30.

At the turn of the year, Ben Hadad mustered the Armenians and went up to a fact to fight against Israel. The sons of Israel were mustered in provision and went to meet them. And the sons of Israel camp before them like two little flocks of goats. First off, I have no idea what flocks of goats are. I didn't know goats were in flocks. Just interesting to find that out.

I thought it was a herd, a group flock. Okay. But the Armenians filled the country. And then, then a man of God came near and spoke to the King of Israel and said, thus says the Lord, because our Armenians have said, the Lord is God of the mountains. So you look at that little G, right? But he is not the God of the valleys. Therefore, I will give all this great multitude into your hand and you shall know that I am Lord.

So they camped over against the other side of the mountain. And they said, here's seven days and the seventh day, the battle was joined in the sons of Israel killed of the Armenians, a hundred thousand foot soldiers in one day, but the rest fled to a fact into the city and the wall fell on 27,000 men who were left. That must have been a massive wall. I would have loved to have seen that.

I it's hard to picture a wall coming down on 27,000 people, but then Ben had had fled into, came into the city and into the inner chamber. So we can see that not all of the army, not all of the Armenians were destroyed. And so we can see the parallel going, coming back of Elisha saying, listen, I need you to open the window. I need you to look East and I need you to shoot, shoot the arrows and strike the ground.

Joash. I'm sure it's like, I you're not making sense there, but like there's not enough arrows right here to kill this army. What's going on? If you know anything about history of war, especially back then, it was very common, which I don't understand how you have this. Strategy apparent, but you would shoot an arrow or throw a spear into a country before you invade

it. I don't think that's a really good idea because if I see a spear in my country, that's like, well, someone's coming better get the defenses ready. Like that. I'm, I just don't understand logic back then, but Hey, they, they made it work for some time. So it was interesting, but Elisha said, take the arrows, just heard, uh, take the arrows. And so Joash,

he takes the arrows and he heard Elisha explain the power and the deliverance. He's saying, listen, I'm going to put my hand on your hand. And I want you to understand that you need to trust me at this moment. I want you to shoot these arrows, aim East towards a fact and destroy them. And he says, strike the ground. No particular target. This is where like Joash has got to be freaking out right now.

He's got to be getting on the cell phone. Like, Hey guys, this is not going to work out. I thought Elisha was all there, but he's not. So we're going to go with plan B because this is not going to work. I thought God was going to be here to help us out. I think it's interesting how we can take this story of shooting an arrow and modeling prayer can come together.

Hang with me. It's a little bit of a stretch, but watch this shooting in arrow requires effort and aim. It's the same with prayer. When we're praying, it requires effort. God wants us to be personal in our prayer. He doesn't want us to be like, all right, God, let me have a great day. Thank you very much. I appreciate everything. Fist pump driving out. I'm going to work.

End of prayer. No, he wants effort. He wants your attention. He wants your time. He wants it to be personal. It requires effort. Aim. He wants you to be clear on what are you asking for? What are you needing? Conversation doesn't go well when it's just kind of vague or it's unclear. What's the point of us talking? Shooting an arrow requires instruction and help.

Nobody just picks up a bow and arrow and they just make nothing but bullseyes. Unless you're Robin Hood. That's pretty cool. But if you line that up with prayer, my children, I'm going to take the time to teach them how to pray. Why do we pray? What's the importance of it? Is there power in prayer? So things like that is where we take the time to really teach them,

guide them. It had to be done through an open window, a target. Specifically, he's saying, listen, I need you to look east. I want you to aim for AFEC. That is your target. Aim the arrow. Go in that direction. If you look at first John 515, turn with me there. If you can first John 515.

Oh, if I can find it here, apologize.

Look at first John 515.

It says, and if we know that he hears us and whatever we ask, we know that we have the request, which he have asked for. What does that mean? Well, it's telling us to be specific, but I like the KJV version because it, it changed the requests into the word petition. Well, if you take the word petition and transfer it into the Greek, it means a tema. And that actually means specific,

exact, explicit, precise, detailed request. This request is so in depth, thorough and comprehensive that there is no room for misunderstanding or exactly what has been asked. And so what's happening right here is that we, when we pray, we need to be precise. We need to be personal. We need to be clear of what we're asking, what we're needing. That conversation should be authentic.

It shouldn't be a, it shouldn't be a check box and say, I'm done for the day. I prayed or I did my devotions. No, it should be very clear. And in Elisha's request, it was very clear, very understanding of open the window, aim East, shoot towards a fact and smite them until they're destroyed. I think I can speak on behalf of all the men. If, if our wives give us direction and we give that nonchalant answer,

we kind of know what's coming next, right? It's going to be the stink guy or the stink face. And then we know we're seriously in trouble at that point, right? Because our wife is asking for a response that we acknowledge. We understand we will follow through. But if we don't, then we know what's coming. The trouble. There was no confusion. What Elisha said to Joash,

it was defined. There was no concern. There was no language barrier. This was simple. Follow these directions. Shooting an arrow and prayer had to be done without knowing the exact outcome. It had to be done without knowing the exact outcome. What is the definition of that? Faith. We are called to have faith in God. Why? Because what God is going to do for us,

what we are called to do, it sometimes doesn't always make sense. Sometimes it can be frustrating, but it's a relationship and we trust God. We put our faith and trust in God. So therefore, by having that faith, we have no idea what's going to happen tomorrow, but we do know that God's going to take care of us. We know that. So don't worry about tomorrow. Focus on today.

It had to be done without knowing the exact outcome. It's faith. And shooting an arrow and prayer, it's failing to shoot the arrows will hurt others, not only himself. I'm guilty of this, but how many times do we, as we're talking to a friend or a family member or someone, a coworker, and they're explaining a tough time, they're going through, whether it's them personally or a family member.

And they're saying, man, such and such is having a difficult time. Yeah, I'll pray for you. I'll pray for you. See you later. How can I say, I hope everything goes well. Do you think that was really authentic? Do you think that person, you told that person, you told them to, that you're going to pray for them? They feel that you're going to follow through. The question is,

did you follow through? How authentic was that of saying, I'm really sorry that person's going through that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you're having that value right now, but you know what? I'm going to take time out of my busy day and I'm going to make it personal. I'm going to think about you. I care about you. Instead of praying for myself, I want to pray for you.

I care about you. Failing to shoot the arrows hurts others, not only himself. I think Joash at this time, he's sitting there and he's, he's got the window open. He's got his arrows ready. He's like, this isn't going to work. And his knees are starting to like shake. He's getting, getting ready to buckle because that army's coming closer. And he's like, this isn't going to work.

And he, what I think what happens is he starts to question, why did he even come to Elisha? Who is this God that he said, this can work. I think he's in that boat right now where he's saying, man, the waves are coming. I didn't think the waves are going to come. I thought this was going to be a calm sea. I thought we were just going to get from one side to the other.

Now you're telling me we've got a storm. I didn't sign up for this. And I think Joash at this moment, the cookie starting to crumble. I think he's extremely nervous of what's taking place. And he starts to doubt Elisha. And he's concerned. Funny story. So city slicker here. I don't like farm animals. They creep me out. Don't put me near them. I got used to chickens last year too.

They're fine until they start chasing me. Don't get them like 10 times their size, maybe a hundred times, but it's interesting. So when a buddy of mine, we went to consult a homeowner, one of my previous jobs. And so we go up to Homer's house and we're consulting with him. We're telling him his options, what he could do for his insurance paperwork. And he says,

Hey, Hey Nick. Yeah. He's like, Hey, you ever seen an, an, an, a packer? And I said, a what? He said, a packer. I think I'm saying that right. And he's, he said, they're really smart. Like there's some of the smartest animals in the world. And I said, okay, like small, you got them in a tank or something. He's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no,

And he takes me around back and it's all fenced in. And there's like 30 alpacas back there. I'm like, what in the world do you do with those things? Like, do you skin them? Take the fur? Do you eat them? Like, what, what do you do? What's the point of this animal? Very concerned for my own life, by the way. And so he says, Nick, don't worry. They won't hurt you.

They'll just come up to you and they'll lick you. And you just talk to it. I'm like, I'm not going to get a conversation out of it. So no thanks. I'm not going to talk to an animal. And I look like the weirdo. No, I'm not going to hard pass. So as I come up to the fence and my buddy, he's laughing, he's a hillbilly. He knows all this stuff. And he's just, he set me up pretty much.

And so I walk up to the fence and I'm going real slow. And all of a sudden there's like the pack or the herd, whatever you call a group of alpacas. And they start coming at me and I'm like, no, no, no, no, this ain't going to work. I'm out. And I started backing up. Listen, full disclosure. I definitely ran away screaming and I'm okay with that. And I'm confident in myself because they frightened me and I was not prepared for that.

I lost complete faith that that fence was going to hold back in a pack or a group of them. Funny story or not. It's still the same goal. What we look in here through our texts is that I think Joe Ash, he lost faith in what Elisha was trying to tell him. He's like, just trust me. You came to me. You came to me because we have different beliefs, but you saw what my God did because my God has power.

And that's what you're seeking. You're looking for answers. You're looking for help. Why do you question me now when it starts to get real?

Why do you question it now? Brings me to the third point. Missed opportunity. Look at verse 17. He said, open the window toward the east. He opened it. And Elisha said, shoot. And he shot. And he said, the Lord's arrow victory, even the arrow victory over Aram, you will defeat the Armenians at Aphek until you have destroyed them. Then he said, take the arrows.

And he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, strike the ground. And he struck it three times and stopped. So the man of God was angry with him and said, you should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Aram until you have destroyed it. Very specific instructions. Shoot the arrows. Aim east. Look at Aphek and shoot until destroyed.

There's no question. Like what was Joe Ash like? Okay. So I'll take an arrow. Am I destroying like half a third or some of them, the leaders? Like how much of destroyed do you want? Like, how was that questioned? He shot three arrows and he stopped. There are many situations in which we should keep shooting the arrows, but we were content with ourselves in a small effort.

Author trap. He said he should have continued striking till the prophet had said enough. And this is where this application becomes personal. How often in our own lives are we just content? God, I go to church. I tithe. I feel like I'm a good person. I try to do good things. That's good enough, right? That's a good Christian. I'm going to go to heaven.

Joe Ash missed the whole point. The fact is that he had an opportunity to take care of the problem through Elisha because of God's power. And yet he decided to stop at three arrows. He could have kept going because what he did is he started to take the situation and make it his own. He took the problem and said, Hey, Elisha, fix a problem for me with your God.

And I'm going to be really appreciated before you die. And then in the middle of it, he says, Nope, Elisha, give me that problem back. I just don't like the direction you're going to go. Give me that back. I want that. See, the problem is in that situation, he took God and he takes him out of the equation. He says, no, God, I don't want you. I'm going to take it over.

I'm going to fix that problem. I don't like what you're doing. I shot three arrows. It's not working, God. And, he starts putting himself in the equation saying, I, how often do we do that in our own situation? God, I don't like your timeline. I'm going to fix it. Why did we go with God in the first place? Why did we ask for his help? If we're going to try to take it back and fix our own problems,

keep shooting in the battle against sin. Don't stop. The reason why, because sin is going to continue to come at you. Satan is going to continue to knock on your door. You can't just say, you know what? I'm good at church. I'm good at church on Sundays and Wednesdays. I feel really confident about that. Sometimes I pray. Sometimes I read the Bible. I'm okay.

I feel pretty strong. No, you're not. Sin never stops. You have to keep shooting those arrows. Keep shooting the fulfillment of faith. There's not a cap on our faith. We continue to grow every single day until God calls us home. Like you did with Elijah. Keep shooting in the fulfillment of faith. Grow that faith. Get into the word of God. Keep shooting to do more for the kingdom of God.

I love our small group. If you don't have a small group, highly encourage you to get in involved in one. This is by far one of the best for, I probably speak for Erica too, that we've ever been a part of. It's truly a family. And now this year we, we, we have focused more on taking our abilities and applying them to arc city. How can we grow the kingdom? What can we do for the kingdom?

Because it's great sitting in there, our house and having dinner and having a wonderful time of fellowship. But is that what all God wants us to do? No, he's challenging us. Say, listen, I made you certain ways, certain strengths, go apply them, use them. Keep shooting to do more for the kingdom of God. Keep shooting because the world, the flesh and the devil will not stop their shooting.

See, the problem is that he only shot three arrows and he gave up. He decided enough was enough. I'm going to go a different way. What happens if he was shot another one or another two arrows shooting. A few more arrows seems small and irrelevant, but it has a huge impact. Think about everybody in this room right now, or those who are watching online or even pastor Ryan,

the way we were led to Christ at that person who helped lead us to Christ. If they didn't know Christ, where would we be today? Think of the impact and the difference one person can make. The hat can make all of the difference for the kingdom of God. It's funny how God works in small ways and has massive outcome. We have to understand that with sin is going to keep knocking on that door.

It's not going to stop. The beautiful thing is that because we know who Jesus Christ is and we have that relationship, he's with us in our house, but Satan is going to keep knocking on that door. We have to understand that. Listen, if I'm going to be right with God, I've got to trust him nonstop. I'm gonna have to continuously stay in prayer. Talk to him, have that relationship.

Get into the word of God. But so often include myself. We open that front door and we just take a little peek and there comes sin walking right in. Shoot another arrow. I wonder, you know, towards the end when Elisha, he's passed away and Joe Ash is sitting there. He's like, I wonder if I would shot one more arrow. I wonder if that would have wiped him out.

I wonder what would happen if I shot two arrows. I, I wonder what that's what he's feeling like. You know how you watch a sports game like, oh, if he just made that catch or if the referee, if we paid him, then he would have made the call for us and then we would have won. No, that's bad. But if, if we would have done what we're supposed to, then we could have won the game.

The excuses start to come. What ifs all of that comes into play? What was Joe Ash thinking after he shot those three arrows and Elisha's like, what are you doing? I told you to continue to shoot, strike them down until they're destroyed. I didn't give you a number. I didn't say three arrows continue to strike, but Joe Ash lost faith. He started to question the process.

It's amazing how God gives us a blueprint for the gospel, but yet we were to redesign it. God says here, listen, I'm going to teach you. I'm going to show you. I'm going to lead you. I want what's best for you because I love you. I care for you. And then we were like, you know what, God, I don't know if you know, the style of today, but that doesn't really match.

I'm going to take that out. I'm going to redo this. And I don't really like where you have me going here. I'm going to change that. Yet we question God's sovereignty. Why? He's the one that created us. He wants what's best for us. He loves us. He wants that relationship. But so often we try to recreate what he wants for us. Sometimes people can even lose faith in God because the way is not going the way they want it to.

Because circumstances happen in their life. And like God, well, why are you doing this to me? I thought you loved me. Don't give a faith. Shoot another arrow. Don't give up. Continue. Look at verse 19. So the man of God was angry with him and said, you should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Aram until you have destroyed it. But now you shall strike Aram only three times.

You can hear just the disappointment, the frustration. And that brings me to point number four. God never stops pursuing. He never stops. Elisha, at this point, towards the end, he has passed away. And so if you look, verse 20, Elisha died and they buried a man. Now the bands of the Moabites would invade the land of the spring of the year. As they're burying a man,

behold, they saw a marauding band and they cast the man into the grave, Elisha. And the man touched the bones of Elisha and he was revived and stood up on his feet. It's amazing. The commentary that I hear about, they try to make this so much more glamorous than what it was. And I think that sounds good, but I don't believe that's what it is. I truly believe it's,

it's, it's obvious. God is at work. See, the power was never because of Elisha. The power was because of God, but he gave his power to Elisha to perform miracles, to see more of who God is. And so, because this man was tossed into, to this, this grave with Elisha and this, this dead man, he touched his bones. He came back to life because this, the marauding,

they, it's like a loot or it's, it's a group of people coming through and they're, I guess they're, they're pretty much riding. They're riding through and these people are scared for the life. So they just toss the body into the grave and say, see you later. And all of a sudden this man comes back to life. I think it's very simple. It's because simply God is at work.

The power is always from, from God. And because of Elisha being the prophet, he was able to do miracles and wonderful things. So I want to encourage you, all of you that no matter what you're going through, what value or what issues you may be having struggles first, be personal with others. When we say, Hey, I'm going to pray for you. Mean it, do it, follow through with it.

Take time out of your day to pray for that person. Second, don't stop. Don't stop shooting that arrow. Because, because at the end of the day, we all know that Christianity is not based upon works. It's based upon faith. And no matter what I can do in my life, it's never good enough. And so that means we have to keep shooting. We have to keep aiming towards the gospel,

getting to know who Christ is on a daily relationship. Don't stop shooting those arrows.

And third, I just focus on what is it, what has happened in your life and how can you make a difference for that, for God's kingdom? What can you do to make an impact, an impact on God's kingdom? How can you be used for his kingdom? What can you offer? Because God created us to be on mission for him in this church, outside this church. And he's put a challenge in front of all of us.

Now it's, do we trust him to walk beside us through that challenge? Or do we say, no, I think I'm going to stop shooting at three arrows. I don't trust this or I don't like it. So I want to encourage you. Don't stop. Continue. Live up, live out that faith. Stay strong. Know that God is here. When you pray, be specific in your prayer. Name that person who you're,

you're, who you're praying upon. Ask and tell God, what are you looking for? What are you needing? I told you guest speakers. It's always the best because it's always short messages. Let's pray. And I hope everyone has a great night. Heavenly father. Thank you so much. God, thank you for just the story of Elisha. Just teaching us, Lord, that just never giving up.

On faith on you, knowing where strength and where your courage comes from. Love Lord, that we just always stay focused on you or that we just never stop. Even when times get tough and Lord, that when we, we can make a difference on just reaching out to people, getting to know them. And Lord, especially for a small group that we're going to take some, some leaps of faith here, Lord, that we're going to be in uncomfortable situations, talking with neighbors and, and just having gospel conversations, Lord, that you'll just give us a strength, encouragement, Lord, I ask that you do that for the remaining of the church, that we can make a huge impact on our city.

Lord, that we can see this church continue to grow, come to know your son. And we just don't stop with that. We continue to share the gospel. We love you and give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name. Amen. Have a great night.