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We're going to be in 1 Corinthians chapter 7, verses 25 through 35, 1 Corinthians 7, verse 25 through 35.

This is known as the marriage chapter, but there's a section in there that I think is what we need to hear tonight. I'll be starting in verse 25, it says, Now concerning virgins... I have no command of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. I think then that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you should marry, you have not sinned, and if a virgin should marry, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you. But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have

wives should be as though they have none, and those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, and those who buy as though they did not possess, and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it, for the form of this world is passing away. But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But one who is married is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.

But one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife. And his interests are divided, and the woman who is unmarried and the virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I say for your own benefit, not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is seemly, and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

And all ten of you are free from concern about the things of the world, how he may please these verses that we're reading, deal with undistracted devotion to the Lord. That's really the theme of what's being talked about. And he kind of conditions it on two things. One, that the time is short, the Lord's coming back soon. And then down in verse 26, he talks about in view of the present distress that is coming

upon them. And Paul was writing this in 55 A.D. And he was writing this in 55 A.D. And he says the Lord's coming back soon. We've got this distress that's coming upon us. And here it's been 2,000 years, and the Lord hasn't come back yet. But I want you to understand that at the time that Paul was writing the Scriptures, when the New Testament Scriptures were being written, all the end-time puzzle pieces were in place.

Israel was still a nation. The Jewish temple was still in place. It got destroyed in 70 A.D. But they already had plans to rebuild, and they tried to in 132 A.D. Rome was in power. The gifts of the Holy Spirit were in operation. And the literal method of interpreting the Scriptures was being applied. And the reason that's important is because when Jesus came the first time, he fulfilled

over 300 prophecies literally. And so they had no reason not to take the Scriptures literally. So when John wrote in Revelations about a 1,000-year millennial kingdom, they took it literally. But then the puzzle pieces started falling apart. The Jews tried to rebuild their temple in 132 A.D., and the Romans smashed that, it tipped in 135 A.D. Israel ceased to be a nation.

The Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestine, changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina. The temple was gone. The Roman Empire began to decline after that. The gifts of the Holy Spirit began to be used less and less in the church. And the literal method of interpreting the Scriptures gave way to allegorical and figurative meanings. And that's when all-millennialism was born, which basically takes the 1,000-year reign

of Christ as a figurative reference to the church age. And three-fourths of the churches in the United States teach all-millennialism. They take it figuratively, and they teach replacement theology, that the church has replaced Israel. And they've missed what God's trying to do. But then, in the late 1800s, all the end-time puzzle pieces started coming back together

again. The literal method of interpreting the Scriptures began to be applied in the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, the gifts of the Holy Spirit began to be operating in the church again. You've got the assembly of God, you've got the Pentecostal churches, you've got the Charismatic churches. About half the churches somehow are involved in, or at least believe that the gifts are

for today. And then, let's see. Where did I go? I lost my track. All right. We've got the literal method of interpretation, the gifts, and in 1948, Israel became a nation again. And then, the Roman Empire is taking shape in the revived Roman Empire. So I don't know if you can see, the far map on the far side is a look at the ancient Roman Empire at its greatest expanse.

And the European Union... They have what's called the European Neighborhood Policy and also the Union for the Mediterranean that was started in 2008. And they cover the exact same territory. The only part that's missing today that was in the ancient Roman Empire is Iraq is not a part of it yet. It's the only place missing. And in Zechariah, it talks about how the final world government will be set up in where Iraq

is at in the land of Shinar. So all the puzzle pieces are coming together. This revived Roman Empire... It just hasn't been solidified yet. The Antichrist isn't here yet, but there's going to come a time when that circle is going to become just one entity, and it's going to become a revived Roman Empire. And all the puzzle pieces are back in place again. The Bible talks about four separate regatherings of the Jews to their land.

And three out of four of those regatherings have already happened. The first one was when Moses led them back into the Promised Land from Egypt. The second one had to do with Babylonian captivity. And the third one was when Moses led them back into the Promised Land from Egypt. The second one had to do with Babylonian captivity. The third one had to do when Israel became a nation again.

The fourth one doesn't take place until just before the thousand-year reign of Christ at the end of the Tribulation Period, when all the Jews will be gathered again for the Millennial Kingdom. So three out of four of them have already happened. And the next event on Israel's calendar is judgment. They refer to it as the time of Jacob's trouble. We refer to it as the Tribulation Period.

And this judgment that Israel is coming next for Israel is going to come across the entire world. And everything is moving towards that direction right now. There are only two times in history when Israel and the church have existed side by side. The first time was when the church was born in 33 AD. Israel didn't cease to be a nation until 135 AD. So for around 100 years, Israel and the church coexisted side by side.

And the church was being grafted in. When you graft something into a plant, you can't just stick it on them. You have to hold them together and they have to be beside each other for a while. And so for about 100 years, Israel and the church lived side by side. But then in 135, when Israel ceased to be a nation, the church took on and off and grew. Now since 1948, Israel and the church have once again been living side by side again.

But this time, it's Israel that's being grafted back in. And Israel's been a nation now for 76 years, almost 77 come this spring. They've been a nation for 77 years. And I don't think it's going to take as long for Israel to be grafted back in as it took us as the Gentiles because we were a part of the wild olive tree, and we were grafted in contrary to nature.

But Israel was a part of the original olive tree. So I don't think it's going to take them 100 years to get grafted back in. I don't think it's going to take that long. In fact, there's a lot of similarities between Israel's history today and the Hasmonean dynasty that existed. It existed at the end of the tribulation period after the Maccabean revolt.

I need another stand. Let's see how I do this.

The Hasmonean dynasty, it only lasted for 80 years. That's as long as the Hasmonean dynasty lasted. It started in 142, and it ended in 163. Well, actually, the Hasmonean dynasty kept going, but they lost their independence in 163 because Rome took over. But the Hasmonean dynasty was led by Levites. And Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Notnew is a Levite. A lot of people don't realize that, but he is the longest-ruling Levite since the Hasmonean dynasty.

In the Old Testament, the high priest was from the tribe of Levi, and the king over Israel was a descendant of David from the tribe of Judah. In the Hasmonean dynasty, the Levite was both the high priest and the king. There was no separation of powers. Today, the Knesset in Israel wants to weaken the high court so that, by a simple majority, the Knesset can overrule any decision that the high court makes.

This would weaken the separation of powers in Israel today and make it more like the Hasmonean dynasty, even more. During the last several years of the Hasmonean dynasty, the Jews were in a state of civil war. Today, Israel is politically divided. They've had five elections in four years, and the country is divided. The only thing that's holding them together right now is that they're fighting the outside forces.

But if you watch Israel's history, I mean, look at the news and stuff, you realize that Israel and the side of Israel, they are still very much divided. Toward the end of the Hasmonean dynasty, both sides of the civil war that took place, both of them called out to Rome for help, and in 63 B.C., the Roman general Pompey obligated them, obliged them, and took control of the divided dynasty. So in 63, they lost their independence. Today, Israel has a covenant relationship with the European Union, which is the revived ancient Roman Empire territory, and at some point, the Antichrist is going to come on the scene, and the region will be solidified, and it will not be surprising if the divided Israel invites the Antichrist to solve their problems,

just like the Hasmonean dynasty did. So there's a lot of puzzle pieces as far as end times concerns that are taking place. Paul started the Christian church in Acts chapter 18, probably about 49 to 50 A.D., and Paul said, Paul had been experiencing persecution himself on a regular basis since chapter 13, and this impending stress that was talked about, and I will look at it here a little bit more anyway, he'd been experiencing persecution since chapter 13, but he could see that there was more distress coming on the church like they hadn't had before. And when he came to Corinth the first time, and Paul's writing from Ephesus, he's writing this letter to Corinth from Ephesus, and when he gets to Corinth, he meets Aquila and Priscilla,

and they came from Rome, because in Rome, they made it where it was illegal for Jews to live inside the city of Rome. And so they came down to Corinth, and that's where they met up and started ministering together. There's another couple of brothers in Romans chapter 16, Adronikos and Junius, who were credited with establishing the church, and the church in Rome were in prison because they refused to leave. But early in the thirdly stage of Christianity, the church was looked at as just a part of a sect of the Jewish people.

But when he wrote this letter to Corinth, and he warned them about this impending distress that was going to come upon him, it would only be nine years later than when Nero would begin to start persecuting the Christians very hard. Now, one thing about... I find interesting... is that just as all the end-time puzzle pieces were in place in Paul's day, they're in place again today.

Just as Paul could see the impending persecution that was coming then, if you look, you can see the impending persecution of Christians increasing today. And historically, whenever persecution increases, there is revival take place. And if you watch the news at all about Christian activities, you realize that around the world, there are revivals starting to take place.

We only have a few... years left before we're going to see a major shift take place in our world where humans will be valued less, the economy oppressed, and the lack of freedom will become very real due to digital currency and artificial intelligence. On the digital currency thing, a lot has been happening.

On November 8th, 2023, the 50 in 5 agenda was launched by the UN. Its program is to push digital... digital public infrastructure, which includes digital IDs, vaccine passports, and central bank digital currencies, and data sharing in 50 countries by 2028. The 50 countries are located in Africa and also included India. The plan is to rule out digital IDs globally by 2030

to include all citizens of UN member states. So that's the goal of the UN is that everybody will have a digital ID by 2030. Now, Biden had... they were doing a lot to increase the digital currency that's coming on. And it looked like it was going to be rolled out in 2028. We would start seeing a digital currency here in the United States. But on January 23rd of this year, Trump signed an executive order

revoking everything that Biden had set in motion for this central bank digital currency. And so everything's on hold right now. So, but it's not going to go away. It's going to be happening at some point. But right now, we have been given a pause because of the stuff that Trump's administration is doing. On the artificial intelligence end of it, this year, China is starting to produce humanoid robots.

They're producing them to sell. And there's a bunch of other companies too that are doing it. But China is the first one to get started with it. But starting at least in 2028 through 2035, it expected that up to one in every four human jobs will be impacted by or replaced by robotics and artificial intelligence. By 2035, humanoid robots will have a profound impact on society and the world economy,

especially in the areas of manufacturing, health care, construction, transport, hospitality, and more. So, and as these things continue to increase, so is the persecution of Christians.

You can tell I'm no Ryan. I have to have notes. Global persecution has increased rapidly over the past 30 years. Open Doors Ministry reported in January 25 that last year, 380 million Christians around the world suffered high-level persecution and discrimination in 2024. That is one in seven worldwide, one in five Christians in Africa, and two in five Christians in Asia.

Even though the persecution of Christians is increasing, the U.S. United States is taking fewer persecuted Christian refugees in. In 2016, the United States took in 32,248 persecuted Christian refugees. In 2022, the United States only took in 9,528 persecuted Christians. That's a decline of 70% in just six years. We used to, anybody that was a Christian refugee, we were taking them in, and we've stopped doing that.

We're not doing that hardly anymore.

Hostility and vandalism against places of worship in the United States has surged over a six-year period, with the number of such acts in 2023 exceeding more than eight times the number of instances in 2018. Eight times, in just six years times, the number of churches that have been vandalized and had things happen to them has increased eight times in just a six-year period. During the past four years of Biden's administration, nearly two dozen pro-life Christians were sentenced to prison for praying peacefully, demonstrating outside of abortion clinics. Trump, one of the first things he did when he got in the office is he pardoned all them, got them all out of prison. The Department of Education sought to repeal religious liberty

protections for faith-based organizations on college campuses. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sought to force Christians to affirm radical transgender ideology against their faith. The Health and Human Services sought to drive Christians out of the foster care system. In 2024, Biden's administration declared Easter Sunday as Transgender Day of Visibility.

President Trump's administration has given us great positives. He's gone through and he's revoked all these things that Biden's administration has done against Christians. He's revoking all those things and giving us back our freedom. The thing that bothers me the most right now is that just before elections, there were a lot of Christians that were very serious about prayer. They got very dedicated in praying for the elections. But once the elections were

over and they got their prayers answered and they got what they wanted, they stopped praying and they went back to just living their lives. And that bothers me to see Christians not continuing in, and we should be. Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 1 Speaker 1 We're living in the end times. We've gone through that. Persecution is increasing. It's time for us to recognize that the need to have an undistracted devotion of the Lord is what we need to have now.

So we're going to go through these scriptures now, and we're going to look back through them. And we'll start in, let's see, I'll get my other notes here ready. Here we go. In verse 25 through 28, it said, Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one who by the mercy of the Lord is trustworthy. I think that this is good in view of the present distress, that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

Where he says present distress, in the Greek it actually implies more of impending distress, something that you can see that's starting to take shape now, but it's on the way. And I like what it says in the Amplified Bible. It says, I think then because of the impending stress that is even now setting in, it is well, expedient, profitable, and wholesome for a person to remain as he or she is. Then it goes on to verse 27.

It says,

When you get married, you take on extra responsibilities apart from persecution. When you get married, you take on extra responsibilities. You have a spouse, you have kids, you have extra bills. That's just the way it goes. And I remember when I was 21, and I'd only been married for a little while, and we were at my dad's house, and I told my dad, I said, you know what?

It was a lot easier being single. And my dad just looked at me and grinned and said, Yes, son. There's a lot of things that are a lot easier when you're single. But just because it's easier doesn't mean it's better. And I've never forgot that. That's just always stuck with me. But what Paul's referring to is a time of persecution. If you're single and you don't have anybody else with you,

it's a lot easier to stand for your faith than if somebody's trying to get you to denounce your faith or they're going to harm or kill your family in front of you, and you want to protect that family. And it's a lot more stress on you to be able to stand for Christ. It's a lot more difficult. That's why he's saying it's easier to do it in persecution. And he said persecution's coming, so stay in the condition that you are.

Those of you who are single need to seek the Lord's will for your life, whether to marry or not. That's something that's between you and the Lord. By having an undistracted devotion to the Lord now, while you're still single, gives you the opportunity to realize that ultimately it is Christ. It's Christ who completes you, not your spouse. Your spouse will complement you

because you'll have characteristics that you don't have, and the two of you kind of complement each other. But unlike the popular romantic movies, that other person is not the one who completes you. There's a, in my footnotes, in my New Living Translation, I want to read it. It had to do with this, in verse 26. I want to read this to you. It says, Many people naively think that marriage will solve all their problems.

Here are some problems marriage won't solve. Number one, loneliness. Number two, sexual temptation. Three, one's deepest emotional needs. And four, life difficulties. Marriage alone does not hold two people together, but commitment does. Commitment to Christ and to each other despite conflicts and problems. As wonderful as it is, marriage does not automatically solve

everything. It can solve every problem. Whether married or single, we must be content with our situation and focus on Christ, not on loved ones, to help address our problems. And I thought that said that really well. So if you are a single person, and you're looking to get married, if you could focus on your relationship with Christ and understand that He is the one who completes you,

and you find your completeness in Him, then as you're looking for a spouse, it's not, what can that person do for me? How can that person contribute to my life? As you're looking for a spouse, you're thinking, how can I complement their life? What can I do for their life? When He's the one that completes you, you're giving, and you're serving, and you're reaching out this way.

You're not trying to say, what can that person do for me? Then he goes on to say in verse 12, in verse 29, those who have wives should be as though they have none. Paul's not saying, shuck your responsibilities to your spouse, because he's already said in verse 3 and 5 earlier in the chapter that you're, he's already instructed them to be responsible in meeting the sexual needs of their spouses and stuff. And I think that it goes without saying that you should be responsible in meeting the other needs in your marriage as well.

What does he mean then when he says to be, to be as though you only have, as if you have no spouse? He's not talking about isolating yourself from your spouse. There's a good book that I would like to recommend to you guys that are married. It's called Staying Close by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. The book deals with the tendency to be, where there's a natural drift towards isolation in marriage.

My wife and I have been married for 24 years, and we've gone through this book twice, because it's really helpful, and it's about time for us to go through it again. But when you first meet your spouse, you're very talkative, and you talk about all, you're trying to get to know each other, and you're just talking about all kinds of stuff. And then the more you get to know each other, the less you talk, and the more comfortable you are with just being together. You're not talking so much, you're just being together.

And then pretty soon you start developing different interests, and then pretty soon without realizing it, you're two people who are just living in the same house. You're married, but you're each alone. You've allowed that drift to take place in your marriage, and a good marriage takes work, it doesn't just happen. And you have to be, and the best way to do that is to put Christ first in your life.

You've all seen the triangle, where you're here and your spouse is here, and Jesus is up here, and as you draw closer to the Lord, and she's drawn closer to the Lord, as you do that, you're both going to get closer to each other. And what he's trying to say is that you need to keep your priorities right. You have to keep Christ first in your life. When I married my wife, before we got married, she was kind of taken aback at first when I made this statement, but I told her I love her, but I would never worship her.

But I had explained to her that Christ will always be first in my life, and I love her and everything, but Christ will be first. And if you do that, then you'll be able to love her in the way that she needs to be loved. In verse 30, he starts out, he says, And those who weep as though they did not weep, and those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice. Well, I can understand if somebody's weeping, it'd be nice for them to start rejoicing, but he's using, if those are rejoicing, be as though they don't rejoice.

And what he's trying to say is, don't be led by your emotions. Most of us make decisions, whether we like to admit it or not, based upon emotions, how we feel. That's how we make our decisions. What we should be doing as believers is making our decisions based on faith in God's Word. There's a real simple illustration of the choo-choo train, where the engine is the fact,

the train car behind it is faith, and the caboose is the emotions. And it's the fact that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. By faith, you put your trust in the fact that Jesus died for your sins. And the emotions follow. The caboose is never meant to lead. God's Word is meant to lead, and we're to put our faith in God's Word, and the emotions follow.

Ryan shared the other day about how, when you first get saved, there's like, you get poured out a double portion of grace, and you just have all these emotions, and these feelings, and all this peace, and just everything's new. And then it starts kind of wearing off, and it's because you start having to learn to start walking by faith, and not by your feelings. And when it comes to times of, difficult times and stuff, it's important that we learn to walk by faith. And the way you do that is, you have to have your faith placed in God's Word, which means you have to spend time in God's Word, and you have to allow God's Word to be implanted inside of you.

So if you want to grow in faith, you're going to have to spend some time in the Word. Second part of 31 says, And those who buy as though they did not possess, and those who use the world as though they did not make full use of it, for the form of this world is passing away. Don't get caught up in materialism. In Matthew 6 verse 24 it says, No one can serve two masters, either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

You cannot serve both God and money. And it's real easy to get on that treadmill chasing after that dollar, instead of just focusing on the Lord. In Matthew 6 verse 33 it says, But seek ye first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. It's important that we keep our focus on those things that are eternal, because the things around here that we put our stock in, our houses and our retirement plans and all that stuff, there comes a time when those things don't matter anymore.

And we're really facing eternity. When you're comparing eternity to just right now, we really need to be focusing on what's going to be taking place later on. In verse 32 through 35 it says, But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But one who is married is concerned about the things of the world,

how he may please his wife. And his interests are divided. And the woman who is unmarried and the virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit. But one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. And this I say for your benefit, not to put a restraint upon you, but to promote what is seemingly

and to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord. So what does undistracted devotion to the Lord look like? Well, in 1 John 2, verse 1 through 6, it says, My dear children, I'm writing this to you, so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate who pleads our case before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who is truly righteous. He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins,

and not only our sins, but the sins of the world. And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments. If someone claims, I know God, but doesn't obey God's commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth. But those who obey God's word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.

Now, I want to point something out to you right now off the bat. It is impossible to live the Christian life. You cannot do it in your own strength. It's impossible. I've been a Christian, this April I'll have been a Christian for 50 years. I still struggle with cussing. I still struggle with lust. I still struggle with pride. I'm as dependent upon the blood of Christ today as I was when I first got saved 50 years ago.

And the only way that you can do what 1 John 2 is telling you is that you allow Christ to live his life in you. You surrender your will to his will and let him live his life through you. In Ephesians 2.8-10 it says, God saves you by his grace when you believed, and you can't take credit for this. It is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done.

So none of us can boast about it. For we are God's masterpiece. He who created us anew in Christ Jesus. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus. So we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. We do good things as a result of our salvation. In response to what he's done in our life. In response to the moving of his grace in our lives. It's not something to earn the grace.

You do what God's word says to do out of showing gratitude for what he's done for you. You devote yourself to prayer and worship. In Colossians 4.2 it says, Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart. This is just simply spending time in fellowship with him. And whatever service that you want to do for the Lord needs to grow out of your time of fellowship with him.

You need to just be fellowshipping with him. And just bathing in his presence. And worshiping him. And God will open up doors for you to do stuff. And it's going to be because it's going to grow out of your fellowship with him. It's not because you're seeking to go do something. It's just going to happen because God, you're just fellowshipping with him and he opens doors for you.

Devote yourself also to fellowship of believers. In Romans 12.10 it says, Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Give preference to one another in honor. And so, to be, to live in undistracted devotion to the Lord takes the basic things. One, you put Christ first in your life. You have to be spending time in the word. You have to be spending time in prayer.

And you have to be spending time in fellowship with other believers. You just have to do the basics. I'm going to close by reading Romans chapter 12, the last few verses. Because I think it really shares a lot about what an undistracted devotion looks like in practicality, in practical terms. Starting in verse 9 it says, Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil.

Cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Give preference to one another in honor. Not lagging behind in diligence. Fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. Rejoicing in hope. Persevering in tribulation. Devoted to prayer. Contributing to the needs of the saints. Practicing hospitality. Bless those who persecute you, and bless and curse not.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as dependent on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved,

but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, Vengeance is mine. I will repay, says the Lord. But if your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals upon his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. That's all I've got to share tonight. But I really believe that we're living in the end times.

And if you watch the persecution around the world, and you watch what has happened in the last few years here in the United States, you can kind of see the trend that is coming this way. And I think it's important that as believers, we don't wait till things get bad, but we, start developing an undistracted devotion to the Lord now. And not just start falling asleep and not paying attention. I think it's very important.

And I think we're just a few years away from seeing a whole bunch of changes in our lives. And I don't want you to wait till that happens to decide, oh, I need to start getting things together. Now's the time to start getting those things together. So let's go ahead and pray. Father, I just thank you for your word. And I thank you for your Holy Spirit. And I pray that you use, by your Holy Spirit,

we would take the word that was shared and implant it into us, Lord. We can't live the Christian life on our own. We can only do it as we rely upon you and allow you to live your life in us. And I pray that we would yield and surrender our will to you, that we would allow you to be the Lord of our lives. And you make the decision that we would walk by faith in your word.

And we will allow you to do that. And we will allow you to do as you want to, Lord. That we won't lean upon our emotions, but we will walk by faith. And we will trust you in every circumstance that comes our way. And with this, Lord, we just praise you and give you thanks. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, thank you, guys. Appreciate you coming. You guys, for blowing in.