The King & His Kingdom: #105 - The Afterlife | Matthew 22:23-33

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Almighty God, you welcome you. Hey there. [00:00:06] Speaker B: If you're new to Restored Church, we want to welcome you and thank you for tuning in. You're listening to a portion of our Sunday worship gathering. We believe the church is not an event, but a family you belong to, so we would love the opportunity to connect with you. If you want to learn more about our church or if we can help you in any way, please Visit our website, www.restoredtemecula.church and click on Contact. With all that said, we, we hope you enjoy the message. [00:00:34] Speaker C: We were singing about the goodness of God this morning, and I just had this moment where I was. [00:00:42] Speaker A: I just felt like God's spirit was [00:00:44] Speaker C: like, look up and sing to me. [00:00:48] Speaker A: And I just like. So I did it and I just looked up and I saw, like, the [00:00:52] Speaker C: tiles in the ceiling. And. Something happened to me, man. It was crazy. [00:01:02] Speaker A: I was like, there's a God in [00:01:05] Speaker C: heaven right now [00:01:08] Speaker A: who has been, like, [00:01:09] Speaker C: so unbelievably kind to me. Dare I say good. [00:01:15] Speaker A: And he's not just up there distant, although he's transcendent. He is on his throne right now. Jesus is sitting on a throne. The God man, Jesus Christ is sitting on a throne right now in heaven. And he's not just up there. [00:01:33] Speaker C: The spirit of Christ is among us. [00:01:37] Speaker A: Like, I'm not trying to sound weird, [00:01:38] Speaker C: but I just had this renewed sense of the glory of God and His presence and his goodness to us. I want you to taste God's goodness this morning, friend. I want you to feel it. And you're not going to be able to feel it if you're distracted. You're going to have a hard time if your mind is elsewhere. I think that's why the Father said, my son, I want you to look up and sing to me. Fix your eyes on me. Because there's a lot of things that battle for our attention. Some of them are wonderful things. They're just lesser things, right? And so that's my hope for us this morning, is that we could really feel his goodness. Not just rehearse it, but feel it. You with me? Awesome. [00:02:23] Speaker A: Okay. If you're a guest, I want to welcome you this morning. So glad that you're here. Our prayer is that you would encounter God among us, like, actually experience God among us. That his grace would strengthen you. His grace and his mercy and his love would refresh you in new ways. And at the chance that there's anybody in the room and you're not yet in Christ. [00:02:45] Speaker C: My prayer is that you would see [00:02:47] Speaker A: him for who he truly is. That he's glorious, that he's good, that there really is nobody like Jesus, that nobody loves you like Jesus loves you. My hope is that after encountering him and seeing him more clearly, that you'd [00:02:59] Speaker C: put your trust in him, you'd put [00:03:01] Speaker A: your faith in him, and the trajectory of your eternity would be forever changed as a result. [00:03:05] Speaker C: One of the things that you hear [00:03:06] Speaker A: me say often is there's a difference [00:03:07] Speaker C: between being in church and in Christ. [00:03:10] Speaker A: Those are two different things. My hope is that every single one of us in this room, each one of us, would experience every spiritual blessing [00:03:17] Speaker C: of being in Christ, enjoying him and obeying him and operating like him. [00:03:22] Speaker A: And so this morning, go ahead and grab your Bibles. They're going to be in Matthew chapter 22 yet again, Matthew, chapter 22. We're continuing our series the King in His Kingdom, where we've been going through Matthew for quite some time. And we are going through Matthew's gospel through the lens of trying to explore as much as we can about the king of the universe, Jesus Christ, and his kingdom, the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. Those two phrases are used synonymously in the Scriptures. And so when we talk about the kingdom. Again, refresher. You know this if you've been here for any length of time, but I'm gonna say it every week because it's helpful. It's important. The kingdom of God is the rule and the reign of the king. It's what do things look like when God gets his way. And we want God to get his way in every single area of life. Because when God gets his way in every single area of life, you know [00:04:11] Speaker C: what happens to human beings? They thrive. And so we are exploring the King and his kingdom through Matthew, So you [00:04:20] Speaker A: can go ahead and find verse 23 in chapter 22. That's where we're going to start. We're going to go through verse 33. [00:04:28] Speaker C: But before we jump into God's word together, I want to pray for us and invite God's spirit to teach us. So I invite you to join me in prayer right now. You're the best leader, Father. Like, you're the best, the most supreme leader. You lead with love, you lead with sacrifice, you lead with wisdom, you lead with grace, you lead with power. And so, spirit of God, I ask you humbly, but yet confidently as your son, lead us this morning. Teach us, show us the way. You're so wonderful, Jesus. There's nobody like you. We love you and we honor you. And we ask that you would Use your word mighty ways with us this morning. We pray these things in your wonderful name, Jesus and all God's people said together. Amen. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Okay, so Matthew, chapter 22, starting in verse 23, it says that same day. [00:05:38] Speaker C: You can pause for a second. We kind of need to know what he's talking about here. [00:05:41] Speaker A: That same day, if you remember from last Sunday, we went through the verses just before this. And what happens is the Pharisees, which was a Jewish group of leaders, like religious leaders, that what they do is they end up recruiting the Herodians. They recruit the Herodians, right? And you have these two kind of enemy groups, the Pharisees and the Herodians, and they team up. And they publicly team up against Jesus. They publicly pose a question to Jesus in order to try to trap him. They say, if you remember the question that they asked him, does anybody remember? Should we pay taxes to Caesar or not? Caesar, you know, the Emperor of Rome, they say, should we pay taxes to Caesar or not? Jesus handles it brilliantly. Cause there's nobody like Jesus. And you remember the answer that he gives him? He says, give to Caesar that which belongs to Caesar and give to God that with which belongs to God. Now, we covered all that in last Sunday's message, but I want you to know this is where we pick up here. So that same day, you're gonna see here in just a second that another Jewish group, the Sadducees, now they're going [00:06:47] Speaker C: to take their shot at Jesus. [00:06:49] Speaker A: All right? So that same day, verse 23, that same day, some Sadducees who say, there is no resurrection, keep that in your back pocket, came up to him the [00:07:00] Speaker C: hymn, There is Jesus and questioned him, verse 24. [00:07:04] Speaker A: Teacher Moses said, if a man dies having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother. [00:07:15] Speaker C: Okay, pause for a second. [00:07:17] Speaker A: It's gonna be important that for the rest of this time you have a decent understanding of these guys called the Sadducees. Okay? So I want you to picture this in your mind. These are the. They're like the elites, okay? In the Jewish world, they're the elites. They're the ones that controlled the temple, right? They controlled the priesthood. These guys were really wealthy, all right? Now, here's how they got their money. Do you remember the story where Jesus rolls up to the temple and he gets really upset because he sees all the money changers and the thing, the sketchy things happening in the courtyards of the temple, and he starts flipping over tables. He's like, my Father's house is supposed to be a house of prayer, not like commerce, not fleecing the people for money, right? You guys remember that story? So that money that would come into the temple, guess where it would go, among other places, it would go to the Sadducees. So that's how these guys got their wealth. So they're wealthy dudes. They have a lot of wealth, a lot of power, a lot of influence. Okay? Now theologically, remember, you have the Jewish people, right? These are the chosen people of God. God made a covenant with them to go to kind of reveal to the rest of the world, the rest of the people, what God was like. If you follow his. If God is your God and you live life his way, here's how it will look. So God's plan through choosing the Jewish people was to kind of reveal what him and his kingdom is like to the rest of the world, right? All nations will be blessed through Abraham. That was God's promise, right? So you have these different kind of groups of Jewish people and they all kind of. They all kind of had their uniqueness to them. And they had sometimes they had unique kind of theology, beliefs about God. The Sadducees, they were different from the Pharisees. If you remember last week, we talked about the Pharisees. You see the Sadducees, when it comes to the Bible, the Sadducees really only. They only endorse the first five books of the Bible. [00:09:06] Speaker C: It's called the Torah or the Pentateuch. So you have Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. [00:09:14] Speaker A: So those first five books of the Bible, the Sadducees are like, yep, those are great. The rest of the Old Testament, so you have all the prophets, right? Isaiah and Ezekiel and Jeremiah. And you have like the Psalms, right? Those beautiful song prayers. They were like, nuh. Just the first five books of the Bible. [00:09:32] Speaker C: All right? [00:09:32] Speaker A: Now, as a result of just subscribing to those first five books of the Bible, the Sadducees didn't believe in an afterlife. They didn't believe that there was something that happened after you died, right? Now, most Jews, the vast majority of Jews, including the Pharisees, they believed in the afterlife. They believed in the supernatural. They. They believed in angels, they believed in spirits. They believed in a. The Jewish people believe this is pre Jesus showing up. They believed in a bodily resurrection, that after people died, they would literally. That God would raise all people back to life to stand before him in judgment, either for good or for bad. So the Jews believed this, right? They believed in divine judgment. They believed in a judgment day, Jay. Most of them did. [00:10:19] Speaker C: Except for the Sadducees. [00:10:22] Speaker A: The Sadducees rejected all that. The Sadducees were like, nope. No supernatural, no angels, no spirits, no afterlife, no resurrection, no divine judgment, no God punishing evil. Here's why I bring this up. One, you gotta know how these guys thought. But two, [00:10:43] Speaker C: I'd like to propose something to you. [00:10:46] Speaker A: I'd like to propose that a large [00:10:49] Speaker C: percentage of modern Christians are functionally Sadducees. [00:10:56] Speaker A: They're functionally Sadducees. [00:10:59] Speaker C: So what do I mean by that? [00:11:00] Speaker A: The supernatural, the unseen realm is functionally kind of rejected? Maybe you think? Oh, yeah, sure. But I don't think that much about it. I certainly don't engage with that. Spirits. Yeah, anxiety, that's just like a clinical thing. It's exclusively a clinical thing. Not necessarily a spirit of anxiety or [00:11:26] Speaker C: a, hear me, spirit of fear or perversion or a spirit of bitterness or [00:11:35] Speaker A: a spirit even of self harm. All that stuff is just kind of, you know, biological and clinical, right? [00:11:48] Speaker C: Dude, for whatever reason, the last like four nights, I've had terrible nightmares. Last night I woke up, I think like 3:45 or something. Just terrible things like. [00:12:05] Speaker A: Like I just wake up praying, like, [00:12:07] Speaker C: because it was intense. So I've been up for a little while. So if I say anything stupid, it's because of a lack of sleep, okay? [00:12:13] Speaker A: Just wave your hand and be like, [00:12:14] Speaker C: tom, you just said something heretical. But I mean, that couldn't be like spiritual, you know, [00:12:28] Speaker A: the supernatural is explained away or it's dismissed. [00:12:32] Speaker C: Functional Sadducees. [00:12:34] Speaker A: Or how about this one? Like little to no thought of an afterlife, like in your daily life. Like so just zoned in, in the zone, focused on the here and the now. The responsibilities, the circumstances, the demands, even the beauty. Like the good things. Like just so honed in here, not thinking too much of an afterlife. Not thinking really all that much, if at all, about like divine judgment that awaits every single person. I'm convinced. Guys, there are plenty of modern Christians [00:13:06] Speaker C: who are functional Sadducees. [00:13:11] Speaker A: And who knows, you might be one [00:13:12] Speaker C: of them in verse 24. I don't know if you caught it in verse 24. [00:13:20] Speaker A: These Sadducees, they reference something called levirate marriage. They reference something called levirate marriage. And it comes from Deuteronomy, chapter 25. And basically what it was was a man would marry his widowed sister in [00:13:36] Speaker C: law, so his brother's wife after his [00:13:38] Speaker A: brother died, which sounds kind of weird. [00:13:41] Speaker C: Can I get an Amen. [00:13:43] Speaker A: Yeah, little awkward, little weird. [00:13:46] Speaker C: The context is super important. Let me read you a quote from Tim Keller that helps explain, honestly, kind of the mercy with this. Tim Keller says this quote, listen to this. [00:13:58] Speaker A: In ancient traditional, agrarian, patriarchal cultures, the culture that this took place in, if a woman got married and then her husband died before they could have children, she was in a terrible situation. She couldn't just go out and get a job. She had no children to care for her. Because she had been married, she was unlikely to get someone else to marry her. Therefore, In Deuteronomy, chapter 25, Moses provided a law that said if a man died and they were childless, his brother would marry her. [00:14:32] Speaker C: Listen to this. [00:14:33] Speaker A: And keep her in the family. It was actually a very merciful way [00:14:37] Speaker C: of dealing with widows, which was a [00:14:39] Speaker A: great problem in the ancient world. [00:14:41] Speaker C: End quote. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Okay, so this concept of levirate marriage, it might sound weird and it kind of does to us as modern people, but it was a way of ensuring that widows were cared for in the ancient world. Okay, listen, ladies. Ancient women were treated far worse than you are today, like, appalling ways. They were treated as property. It was terrible. [00:15:02] Speaker C: Okay? [00:15:03] Speaker A: Ancient women, they relied on their husbands and their sons. [00:15:07] Speaker C: Listen. [00:15:08] Speaker A: To survive. Now, I'm not endorsing that behavior. I'm just telling you this is kind of how things were back then. Thank God things have improved for you ladies since then. So these Sadducees are going to use a hypothetical scenario involving levirate marriage to try to hear me trap Jesus. [00:15:26] Speaker C: Let's keep reading verse 25. [00:15:29] Speaker A: So here's the hypothetical scenario they posed to Jesus. Now, there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died having no offspring. He left his wife to his brother. The same thing happened to the second [00:15:44] Speaker C: also, and the third, and so on to all seven. Last of all, the woman died. Here's the question they ask him in [00:15:54] Speaker A: the resurrection, in the afterlife, after all people die. Then they're raised back and stand before God in the resurrection. Then whose wife will she be of [00:16:03] Speaker C: the seven, for they all had married her. [00:16:08] Speaker A: Okay, so do you guys see the scenario that they're painting here? [00:16:13] Speaker C: Right? [00:16:13] Speaker A: You have a couple. Husband dies, he's got seven brothers. Brother number one takes his widowed sister in laws, his wife keeps her in the family, right? So she's protected, and then so on and so forth. All the brothers die. Now, if this was like a true crime documentary, I'd be asking questions about that lady, just personally. However, in this hypothetical situation, she basically gets handed down, if you will, to all of these guys. And then at the end, she dies. And they're asking the question, okay, so in heaven, in the afterlife, Jesus, whose wife is she? So what they're trying to do. I don't know if you can catch it, but what they're trying to do is go, isn't the idea of an afterlife and a resurrection absolutely absurd? Right? Marriage is from God, right? So we know that marriage is from God. It's an institution created by God, installed by God. And this is. This is holy. This is beautiful. This is good. How could this possibly be? How could the resurrection, the afterlife be anything but absurd here? [00:17:21] Speaker C: And that's their justification. [00:17:22] Speaker A: That's where they're going, okay, so they're attempting to show that the idea of the resurrection is ridiculous. So let's keep reading. [00:17:27] Speaker C: Verse 29. Jesus answered them. You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God. Hold on. Jesus is so kind and he's so compassionate and he's so loving and he's so merciful and so forgiving. [00:17:48] Speaker A: And he sees people and he meets them where they're at. And at the same time, he is not soft. Like, have you guys seen the trajectory we've even gone through Matthew? Have you seen Jesus get more and more kind of confrontational? [00:18:02] Speaker C: I'm just gonna throw that out there. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Let's keep reading. Verse 30. Jesus tells these guys, you're mistaken. [00:18:07] Speaker C: Cause you don't know the scriptures of [00:18:08] Speaker A: the power of God. Verse 30. For in the resurrection, they will neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. [00:18:17] Speaker C: Verse 31. [00:18:18] Speaker A: Now, concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read what was spoken to you by God? [00:18:24] Speaker C: I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Listen to what Jesus says. He's not the God of the dead, but of the living. And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching. Okay, so that's our passage. There's a few things with the time that I have left that I want to highlight here. Okay, the first thing is this. [00:18:48] Speaker A: Look back at verse 29. [00:18:49] Speaker C: Look what Jesus says to them. He says you're mistaken. That word in the original Greek, that's translated into English as mistaken. [00:19:01] Speaker A: What that word means is. It means to be misled or deceived. You ever been misled? You ever been deceived about something? The idea of being misled, it implies that you're being led by something that's guiding you in the wrong direction. You're not properly led. You are Misled. [00:19:27] Speaker C: Many of you guys know this. [00:19:28] Speaker A: When I was in college, I had a handful of different jobs. [00:19:30] Speaker C: One of the jobs I had was delivering pizza. [00:19:34] Speaker A: And one of the things that would happen. Now listen, this is way back. So this was like before navigation in your car. This is before smartphones. I used to have a Thomas Guide under the front seat of my Ford Ranger pickup truck. And that Thomas guide, for those of [00:19:53] Speaker C: you who don't know what a Thomas [00:19:53] Speaker A: Guide is, it's basically a book that has maps of the area. And so what you would do is you would, instead of taking your phone and just punching in the address and it giving you precise directions, what you would have to do is you'd have to take the time to study the map number one. Or if you weren't super familiar with it, you'd get an address and you'd find in the back of the book they'd tell you kind of what quadrant [00:20:17] Speaker C: on the I'm wasting my time. [00:20:19] Speaker A: You'd have to know, you'd have to use the map, okay? And it would take you a little while, but you'd have to use the map. Now sometimes customers, well intentioned customers, what they would do is they would kind of know, hey, my house is kind of hard to find. So what they would do is when they would call in to place their delivery order, they would give in the instructions and directions on how to get to their house. On the order we would literally have these order tickets. And on the back of the order ticket, whoever took the order would say, you know, second right after in and out or go past the school and then make a left or all that kind of stuff and help to kind of guide or else we get lost sometimes, okay? And I remember, guys, I remember multiple times this happening where I'd get that slip and there'd be directions on the back. I wouldn't even check the map, I would just follow the directions. But the problem is that multiple times, either the directions were given wrong or they were written wrong. And so I'd find myself following these directions to a tee and I'd be like in a field, I'd be like, there's nothing here. And customers would get upset because their food would get cold and it was just this mess. And listen, I've thought this multiple times. If I had just let the map guide me instead, if I had just let the map guide me instead, I [00:21:36] Speaker C: wouldn't have been misled. Now listen, we as people, we are misled by all sorts of things in our lives and not just some of us, all of us. [00:21:54] Speaker A: We're misled by all sorts of things. People in general, misled by our flesh, the things that we want, but the things that I desire. Here's the thing. Sometimes the things that you want aren't exactly the best thing for you. Okay? If I had my way, I would eat coffee flavored soft serve for every meal and still have a six pack and be ripped. The problem is that doesn't align with reality. [00:22:28] Speaker C: Huh? [00:22:30] Speaker A: So the desires that we have aren't always good for us and they aren't always good for other people. We can be driven. We can be driven and kind of influenced and hear me, misled by our flesh, the wants that we have, the cravings that we have. People get misled by our emotions, like our feelings. You ever, in your relationships with people, have you ever been like, man, I [00:23:02] Speaker C: feel like that person has a problem with me. Like, I feel like something's between. [00:23:07] Speaker A: I feel like we're not good. Maybe it's a spouse or a close friend or somebody in your GC or a neighbor or whatever. You're like, ah. But we never actually check on that assumption. [00:23:15] Speaker C: Like, hey, Lisa, are we cool? [00:23:17] Speaker A: Like, is everything all right? Yeah, we're great. I just, I have a throbbing headache [00:23:21] Speaker C: and I'm like, oh my. I've been thinking that she's like really [00:23:23] Speaker A: upset with me and she's avoiding me [00:23:24] Speaker C: and she's like, nah, I just have a headache. [00:23:26] Speaker A: But the reason I bring that up is like silly little examples like that where it's like, how we feel can be like the leader in our life. It can mislead us. [00:23:38] Speaker C: How about this one? [00:23:39] Speaker A: Our culture? We as people can be so misled by what everybody else around us is doing. Everybody else around us thinks that that's acceptable. I remember I had a job again in college, another job, not the same [00:23:54] Speaker C: job I referenced, but I was in [00:23:55] Speaker A: it where the work environment was literally just talking trash. It was just gossip. But that was the culture. So you swim in that water and the next thing you know, you're just doing what everybody else is doing. Cause that's the culture, the water that you swim in, if that makes sense. We can be misled genuinely by the culture that we're in, right? The language that we use, the behaviors sometimes. And God willing, when you're in a godly culture, it can call you, it can influence you, it can guide you to do things that you wouldn't necessarily do on your own, which is awesome. [00:24:29] Speaker C: That's kind of the goal of what we want to Be here as a community, as a church, but we can [00:24:32] Speaker A: be led in positive ways. But we can also be misled by culture. [00:24:37] Speaker C: How about this one? [00:24:38] Speaker A: Those algorithms on your social media, they can mislead us. [00:24:46] Speaker C: Hear me, your feed is feeding you. Think about that. It's influencing you, how you think, it's [00:24:58] Speaker A: attempting to provide guidance to you. [00:25:04] Speaker C: People are misled by all sorts of things. Jesus, he tells these Sadducees, hey, you [00:25:10] Speaker A: guys are misled, you're mistaken, you're deceived. And the reason he gives is because [00:25:18] Speaker C: they don't know the scriptures. If you're a note taker, my first point is this. [00:25:25] Speaker A: The word of God protects you from [00:25:27] Speaker C: being misled and deceived. The word of God, the scriptures, your Bible, it protects you from being misled and deceived. [00:25:39] Speaker A: In other words, get this, if you don't know your Bible, you are in [00:25:43] Speaker C: danger of being deceived. [00:25:45] Speaker A: If you don't know your Bible, you're in danger of being misled. I did some research just on kinda like Bible stats among the church. You guys have heard of Barna? Barna's this wonderful organization that does a ton of research and gathers all this data that can help churches learn about [00:26:03] Speaker C: what's the state of the church, like, what's going on. [00:26:06] Speaker A: I'm gonna give you some stats here really quickly. According to Barna and Arizona Christian University, listen to this. Among self identified Christians. So these are people who say I am a Christian. Among self identified Christians, only 50% read the Bible weekly. So just statistically half of this room goes a full week without reading their Bible. [00:26:39] Speaker C: Here's the stat that's really wild. This is the one that got me. [00:26:45] Speaker A: Only 13% of self identified here, born again Christians. So these are people that don't just [00:26:53] Speaker C: check the box in the census. [00:26:54] Speaker A: Like my parents were Christian, so I'm a Christian. Check. These are people that are like, I've had a life changing encounter with God. I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus. I'm a born again Christian, baptized like I am filled with God's spirit. I am a new person because of what Jesus Christ has done. There is perfect life. There is death on the cross. Through his resurrection, I am born again. I'm new. The old me is dead. The new me is raised to new life. I now follow Jesus and the way of the kingdom of God. So 13% of self identified born again Christians listen to this, hold a biblical worldview like Tom. [00:27:33] Speaker C: What does that mean? [00:27:35] Speaker A: Listen, that means the beliefs that they hold about certain aspects of Life contradict what their Bible says. Am I the. That's mind blowing. That's absolutely. So let me give you some examples of what that would look like. [00:27:51] Speaker C: This is from the study. [00:27:52] Speaker A: So this would be like people going, I'm a born again Christian. And yet they endorse. They say people are basically good at heart and should not be characterized as sinners. Which is like the complete opposite of what the Bible says. They would say things like, there's no such thing as absolute moral truth. So in other words, right and wrong depend on the situation or how you feel. [00:28:20] Speaker C: That's crazy. That's. I'm sorry, take that back. Forgive me. That's not consistent with the word of God. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Here's another one. [00:28:34] Speaker A: This is another. Like, again, 13%. Only 13% of the born again Christians, their beliefs line up with a biblical worldview. That means. [00:28:47] Speaker C: What's the math? [00:28:47] Speaker A: 87% fall into this category of saying things like that or like this. Generosity and tithing are optional or only required when convenient. Personal happiness and emotional fulfillment are the highest priority in marriage. [00:29:04] Speaker C: Maybe that's why divorces are so high. Because guess what, Conflict's gonna happen. [00:29:08] Speaker A: And when your personal fulfillment, your personal happiness, your emotional fulfillment is the highest priority, when that takes a hit, you're out. [00:29:16] Speaker C: How about this one? [00:29:17] Speaker A: Some sexual activity outside of marriage is acceptable. And guys, the list. I don't have time. The list goes on and on and on. I'm reading this and I'm going to Holy Smokes. These are people that are like, I'm born again. And they don't subscribe to a basic historical biblical worldview. [00:29:42] Speaker C: So according to, according to the data, is it data or data? It's data. [00:29:47] Speaker A: According to the data, half of Christians [00:29:49] Speaker C: don't read their bible and only 13% have a biblical worldview. [00:29:53] Speaker A: Do you realize what that means. [00:29:59] Speaker C: For most Christians? They're being led by something other than God. The question becomes, if it's not God leading them, what is then misleading them. Hear me. If anything other than God is leading you, please hear me. It's taking you off course. It's taking you off course. Some of you might be off course right now. [00:30:36] Speaker A: Some of you might be off course right now and you don't even know it. [00:30:43] Speaker C: What do I mean by that? [00:30:44] Speaker A: Like, you're not where you're meant to be, like right now, today, in this season of your life, you're not where you're meant to be spiritually, or you're not where you're meant to be morally, or you're not where you're meant to be relationally or physically or emotionally. And the reason is because it's not [00:31:03] Speaker C: God's words that are guiding you. Youth theologian Josiah Queen says it this way. We got dust on our Bibles that didn't go over near as well as I hoped it would. It's a song where he says, we got dust on our Bibles and brand new iPhones. No wonder why we feel this way. [00:31:27] Speaker A: But it's this. He's identifying a Christian cultural reality that the word of God doesn't. [00:31:38] Speaker C: We're bored. [00:31:39] Speaker A: We'd rather do other things. And those other things are actually leading our lives. And in fact, they're misleading. [00:31:47] Speaker C: Many question, do you know the word of God? [00:31:58] Speaker A: Like, is the Bible? Is it a priority in your life? [00:32:03] Speaker C: Now, listen, the first step in knowing [00:32:06] Speaker A: the word of God is reading it. [00:32:08] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:32:09] Speaker A: Okay, but listen, I'm talking about more [00:32:11] Speaker C: than just reading it. [00:32:12] Speaker A: You're not going to know it if you don't read it, so you have to read it. But these Sadducees, guess what they did to the first five books of the Bible? They read them. So I'm not just talking about reading it. Although you got to start there. Okay. They read it, but they didn't know it. They didn't yield to it. [00:32:34] Speaker C: You tracking with me? [00:32:37] Speaker A: In Matthew, chapter 4, verse 4, Jesus said this. He said, it is written, man must not live on bread alone, but on every what word that comes from the mouth of God. Anybody in the room? Eating is a priority in your life at least once, twice, maybe even three times a day. Yeah, most of us right. Eating is a priority in your life. Why? Because if you don't eat food, you won't live. [00:33:06] Speaker C: Huh? [00:33:07] Speaker A: If you don't eat food, you're not gonna be alive much longer. If you don't eat food, your quality of life is going to severely just nose dive. Listen, Jesus says if you don't eat God's word, the same thing is true. [00:33:22] Speaker C: Spiritually, some of you are starving. You're starving. Spiritually, things are off inside, and you know it. Your health is off inside, and you know it. [00:33:43] Speaker A: In Ezekiel, chapter three, Ezekiel the prophet, he has this wonderful encounter with God. It's this powerful encounter with God. And God tells Ezekiel to do something goes, ezekiel, I want you to eat the scroll. [00:33:58] Speaker C: Wait, what? That's. No, that's papyrus. I'm not gonna eat the. I think it's papyrus. [00:34:04] Speaker A: But he's not being literal. He's literally. He's saying, I want you to take the Word. I want you to take my word written down. I want you to take the Scriptures and I want you to devour them. I want you to take them in. I want you to meditate on them. I want you to reflect on them. I want you to get my word inside of you. Eat the scroll. [00:34:26] Speaker C: Listen, Is that something that you do? Is that something that you do? [00:34:35] Speaker A: I know it sounds weird, but like, do you eat the scroll and listen, I'm not even saying you need to read like 10 chapters a day. One verse, [00:34:45] Speaker C: treat it like a fine wine, taste all the complexities, get every [00:34:52] Speaker A: bit out of it. It doesn't have to be a huge chunk, although it's wonderful. Do you eat the scroll? In other words, is the Bible a regular part of your day? Do you treat it with the same level of importance that you do eating? Hear me? If not, if not, biblically speaking, you are in danger, Hear me? Of being misled, you're in danger of being deceived, you're in danger of your [00:35:18] Speaker C: life drifting off course. The word of God protects you from being misled and deceived. Now, really quickly, if you're here and [00:35:28] Speaker A: you're like, yep, I need to get back on track, but you don't know where to start. You don't know what to do. I just wanna pause this. This is not like a commercial. You're gonna get something for free. But if you don't have an Eat [00:35:38] Speaker C: and Speak journal, you can have one today. [00:35:40] Speaker A: We'll cover the cost. [00:35:41] Speaker C: They're in the back. [00:35:42] Speaker A: Get yourself an Eat and Speak journal. What they are is basically it comes with a daily Bible reading plan. And what it is, is I basically just turned my process of engaging with God each day through His Word into [00:35:55] Speaker C: a Bible reading journal. [00:35:56] Speaker A: It's really simple. It's nothing massively profound, but I think it's really fruitful. I think it's really effective if your goal is to engage with God in His Word every day. It's not like a read the Bible in X amount of time thing. It's a read the Bible today God [00:36:10] Speaker C: and encounter God through His Word. [00:36:11] Speaker A: It's this concept of eating the scroll, okay? If you don't have one, listen and you'll actually use it there in the [00:36:20] Speaker C: back, you can grab one on your way out free of charge. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Okay? [00:36:24] Speaker C: The word of God protects you from being misled and deceived. I don't want any of us to be misled or to be deceived. All right, let's keep going. Next thing, I want you to look [00:36:35] Speaker A: back at verse 31, [00:36:39] Speaker C: this is Jesus [00:36:40] Speaker A: replying to the Sadducees. He says, now, concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven't you read what was spoken to you by God? And he's about to quote the Old Testament. He's about to quote Exodus, chapter three, verse six. It's the moment. Do you guys remember the story of Moses and the burning bush? Right. God appears to Moses through the burning bush. This is an incredible encounter that's really changed the trajectory of history. But it's that moment. That's what he's quoting. And this is what God says to Moses in the burning bush. He says, I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And then Jesus continues, he says, he's not the God of the dead, but. [00:37:23] Speaker C: But of the living. [00:37:24] Speaker A: Now, little quiz for you. [00:37:26] Speaker C: See if you've been paying attention. [00:37:27] Speaker A: Remember which of the books of the Old Testament did the Sadducees reject? Everything after book five, okay? Everything after book five. So they only took the first five books of the Bible. Now, outside of those first five books of the Bible, there are plenty of passages that support the doctrine of resurrection. So Jesus, in his brilliance and in his wisdom, he plays by their rules, okay? He takes them straight to Exodus, one of the first five books of the Bible. So he's gonna make a case and reveal to them that they're mistaken playing by their own rules. Cool. You guys only subscribe to these five. I'll teach you about this and I'll demonstrate this to you out of Exodus, okay? And this is what he says. He says, abraham, Isaac and Jacob, those [00:38:13] Speaker C: are the patriarchs, the dads, if you [00:38:15] Speaker A: will, the spiritual dads of the Jewish faith. They all died, right? [00:38:21] Speaker C: But God tells Moses, I am their God, not I was their God, but they died. Theologian Stuart K. Walker says this. If this isn't making sense, it will now quote his Jesus quote from Exodus [00:38:38] Speaker A: 3, verse 6 was taken from the words of God speaking to Moses through the burning bush. [00:38:44] Speaker C: Listen to this. [00:38:45] Speaker A: This was centuries after the life and death of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Yet for God to be the God of these three men centuries after they had died implied that they were alive at the time God spoke to Moses. That is, they had been resurrected to new life. [00:39:07] Speaker C: He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Do you see it? Okay, so Jesus, he's showing these Sadducees [00:39:16] Speaker A: they're wrong about the afterlife. [00:39:23] Speaker C: If you're a note taker, here's the next point. Simple, but can change your reality. Here it is. Here it comes. Death is not the end. So many people, so many people, maybe even here in this room, live as though it is. But death is not the end. [00:39:49] Speaker A: Okay, Hear me. [00:39:50] Speaker C: All of the things that the Sadducees denied, the afterlife, the supernatural, the divine judgment, hear me. They're wrong. Jesus says they're misled, they're deceived. Jesus says, according to the scriptures, all of it's true. [00:40:15] Speaker A: All of it's real. [00:40:21] Speaker C: Think about that for a second with me. Just like, can we just camp out here? Because it is so life giving, it is so encouraging, it is so comforting. Many of you have lost people you love so dearly. Can I just tell you something that's amazing? The Christians that have gone before you, the Christians that have passed away, I need you to hear me say this. Those who die in Christ, hear me. [00:40:56] Speaker A: They are more alive than anybody in [00:40:58] Speaker C: this room right now. [00:41:01] Speaker A: They are more alive right now than we are. Like, we've lost members. Members of our church have passed away. Listen, I miss them. It's hard. It's painful. Many of you loved ones, Christians that you love in your life have passed away, gone away before you. Listen to me. They are more alive right now than we are. [00:41:28] Speaker C: Yeah. The separation's still wildly painful because I don't care who you are inside, you know, death is not the way it's supposed to be. But there's a new life according to the Scriptures, a new life. I'm here to tell you death is not the end. All right? There's one more thing I want to focus on before I finish up. And it's verses. It's in verses 29 and 30. Jesus answered them. You are mistaken because you don't know the Scriptures or the power of God. [00:42:13] Speaker A: Can you just say that with me really quickly? [00:42:14] Speaker C: I want to say with you the power of God. [00:42:16] Speaker A: I want you to say it because I want your mind to be thinking about it. [00:42:21] Speaker C: I know Team USA looked incredible in the World cup game. I know it. But I want your mind to think about the power of God right now for just a second. [00:42:30] Speaker A: For in the Resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. [00:42:35] Speaker C: Okay? [00:42:36] Speaker A: So Jesus says something. He says, hey, guys, there won't be weddings in heaven other than the Christ with Jesus. [00:42:41] Speaker C: Right? But like, among that's not gonna be weddings in heaven. [00:42:44] Speaker A: Okay, now when you read this, some of you might be thinking like, but what about my spouse? [00:42:52] Speaker C: That's a perfectly fine response. Like, what about my spouse? [00:42:54] Speaker A: Does that mean we're not gonna be married in heaven? [00:42:56] Speaker C: Like, are we still gonna be friends? [00:42:58] Speaker A: Like, what's that dynamic look like? I've journeyed for so long with this person. Like, yeah, they drive me crazy, but I love them and I, you know, [00:43:05] Speaker C: all that kind of stuff. [00:43:05] Speaker A: Right. [00:43:06] Speaker C: Tim Keller again for the win quote. Listen to this. This is so good. Okay? [00:43:11] Speaker A: In the resurrection, the love we have with one another and with the Lord, or better put, the love we are going to have with the Lord and all other lovers of God around his throne is going to make the greatest marriage look like nothing by comparison. It will seem like a dew drop [00:43:32] Speaker C: compared to an atomic bomb. [00:43:35] Speaker A: Jesus Christ says the afterlife is a world of love so incredibly powerful that it's going to subsume marriage, not make it obsolete in a sense that our love lives are going to be less than marriage. How could that be? No, it's going to go vastly beyond. Somebody says, well, does that mean we're not going to know one another? Your spouse. Yeah, your spouse you had on earth doesn't mean anything to you? No. [00:44:06] Speaker C: Keller says, look, Abraham is still Abraham. Isaac is still Isaac. Right. [00:44:14] Speaker A: Jacob is still Jacob. [00:44:16] Speaker C: Listen to this. [00:44:17] Speaker A: We will still be ourselves, and yet there's going to be a depth of love and oneness and delight in one another and in him that makes the most rapturous moment in the best marriage in the history of the world look like nothing by comparison. [00:44:34] Speaker C: That's the promise of the future. End quote. [00:44:38] Speaker A: Do you realize what Keller and Jesus is saying here? [00:44:42] Speaker C: Here's your final point. [00:44:44] Speaker A: Heaven is not a downgrade. Heaven is not like, I have the latest iPhone and it breaks and now I have to go down to like an iPhone 10. Like, that's not what heaven is like. Heaven is not. Can't even possibly be mis. If it's understood, it cannot even, possibly even be mistaken for a downgrade. Listen, guys, God is better than we think he is. He's so much better than we think he is. Our minds can get so misled by the world that we're currently in. The broken, fallen, jacked up, not the way it's supposed to be world. But I'm here to tell you the same thing that Jesus is trying to get these Sadducees and the people around him to understand that heaven, it's not a downgrade. The Sadducees, they were misled not just because they didn't know the scriptures. They were misled and mistaken because they didn't know the power of God. [00:45:44] Speaker C: You might be too. [00:45:48] Speaker A: Listen, for those, for people who are in Christ. The afterlife, hear me, will be infinitely better than the best that this life has to offer. [00:45:59] Speaker C: Why? Because of the power of God. What are you saying, Tom? Do you realize how powerful he is? [00:46:08] Speaker A: Like, do you know? There's. Like, nothing's impossible for him. The power of God. [00:46:13] Speaker C: Listen, let's just start from the beginning. The power of God. [00:46:17] Speaker A: Hear me, to raise dead people from the dead into new life. Listen, if you're in Christ, you're not gonna be raised to your old life. You're going to be raised to a brand new life. Life in the fullness life the way that God designed it to be. Not this old life that's just a shadow of the real one. The real thing. Christians are raised to new life. Do you know what that looks like, practically, according to the Bible? This new life. The power of God to raise people into a new life. It's a life. Hear me, with Jesus. Like, actually with him. Like, seeing him face to face. Like the one who gave himself for us. Like the one who willingly went to the cross because of his love and his devotion and his care for you, the one who opened his veins, the lover of your soul. The most beautiful, glorious person that's ever existed. Like, you get to be with him. Like, I can't speak for you, but sometimes I fantasize just about seeing him. Like, I just want to see him. I just want to touch him. I just want to, like, hear his. Like, actually hear the timbre of his voice. I want to see the color of his eyes. I want to see Jesus so bad. I'm leveraging everything I have on this planet so I can stand before him. [00:47:47] Speaker C: I want to see him. [00:47:48] Speaker A: Don't you want to see Him? Like, nobody loves you like Jesus. You get to be a new life, like, with him. No doubt. You don't doubt Jesus? I don't doubt that. Mike's right in front of me. You know what I mean? [00:48:04] Speaker C: With him. New life with Jesus. How about this one? [00:48:11] Speaker A: New life with a renewed body. Hear me? A renewed body that is animated entirely [00:48:22] Speaker C: by the Holy Spirit. Think about that one for a second. We talked about our flesh sometimes leading us or our fallen emotions sometimes leading us imperfectly. How about just imagine with me for just a second, you in a renewed body that is entirely animated by the Holy Spirit. Imagine the implications. [00:48:54] Speaker A: Imagine the spectacular things that you would do. Imagine the things that you would just never have any desire to do. Imagine if everybody else around you in a renewed body entirely animated by the spirit of God. I mean, the possibilities are incredible. It would be spectacular. [00:49:21] Speaker C: How about this? A new life where there's no more suffering. Many of you have suffered throughout your lifetime. In incredible ways. And I don't say that positively. I say like, holy smokes, you're still here. [00:49:44] Speaker A: It's a miracle. [00:49:46] Speaker C: Some of you right now are suffering in tremendous ways. Imagine. Imagine with me for just a second the elimination of any and all forms of suffering. And not just for you, but the people you love. Isn't it hard to watch somebody you love go through it? Sometimes it's harder to watch people you love suffer than it is to go through it yourself. Huh? Imagine the elimination of suffering. How about this one? A new life where there's no more death. Has anything caused more pain and in the lives of an individual than death? Losing people that you dearly love. The pain involved, the loss. How about this one? Many of you just candidly, you're afraid to die. Imagine where the fear of death. Completely eliminated because death itself has been eliminated. And how about this one? A new life where there is absolutely, positively zero sin. How could that ever be boring? That sounds un. Think about it. [00:51:37] Speaker A: Zero brokenness. Pretty much like everything on the news wouldn't. You wouldn't hear any like, dude, think about this. [00:51:47] Speaker C: I was thinking about this the other day. [00:51:49] Speaker A: If there's no sin, like, everybody you [00:51:52] Speaker C: come in contact with is utterly and completely trustworthy. [00:51:58] Speaker A: Ladies, you could go for a jog at night, no one would mess with. It's like, you see someone, you're like, everybody's totally trustworthy. There's no sin. Like, guys, the implications of this is utterly unfathomable. Like, almost like no eye has seen or ear has heard. The things, the beautiful things that God maybe has, like, planned for those who love Him. Like, the word of God is real. Like, just bear with me. Cause it's wildly comforting. [00:52:31] Speaker C: It's wildly inspiring. [00:52:34] Speaker A: Imagine the new life that God's word says is coming for those who love [00:52:40] Speaker C: him and put their trust in him. Everyone completely trustworthy. [00:52:46] Speaker A: Everyone filled with love for God and one another. [00:52:52] Speaker C: Wow. Those in Christ are resurrected to this new life. How? Hear me, the power of God. Do you have any idea what he's capable of? [00:53:13] Speaker A: Do you have any idea, like, the power of God? Everything that I just described and infinitely more. Get this. It keeps going. Like, it doesn't stop. It keeps going for eternity. Do you know what that means? That means it compounds. Like, do you understand what that means? [00:53:30] Speaker C: That it compounds. [00:53:33] Speaker A: Are you guys familiar with compound interest? Compound? You invest money and you get a certain percentage of return on that money, if it sits there, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger, right? Compound interest. Let me just give you a little. Just so those of you that don't know, maybe some of the youth, you're [00:53:49] Speaker C: like, what are you talking about? [00:53:50] Speaker A: Compound interest is. Imagine you start with $1, okay? And imagine you get. It compounds by just 1%. It compounds by 1% every day. Just a tiny little, like a penny. It would start. It'd only be like a penny, but then that penny gets added, and then the whole total starts compounding. If you had $1 and it compounds by 1% each day, after one year, [00:54:11] Speaker C: you have a whopping $37.78. You're like, oh, that's whatever, dude. After two years, $1,427, big whoop. Three years, almost $54,000. [00:54:26] Speaker A: Four years, over $2 million. Five years, over $77 million. Like, it's just compounding. It means the little that's there, it compounds. It gets a little bit bigger. A little bit bigger. Little bit better. Little bit better, A little bit better. It just continues to grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow. If you had $1 and it got 1%, it compounded by 1% each day, after 10 years, you'd have almost 6 quadrillion. That's after a trillion $6 quadrillion dollars. That's compounding interest. It's powerful, right? [00:54:56] Speaker C: Imagine compounding glory. [00:55:02] Speaker A: Imagine the compounding glory in heaven, huh? [00:55:06] Speaker C: Can somebody give me an amen? [00:55:08] Speaker A: Amen. Goodness. Like, guys, some of you, you're thinking way too small with your investments, man. Like, imagine this. [00:55:17] Speaker C: I'm here to tell you what the [00:55:19] Speaker A: Bible says and what Jesus says. Heaven is not a downgrade. Heaven is not a downgrade. It's compounding beauty. The most beautiful thing you've ever seen can't even compare to day one. [00:55:36] Speaker C: Eternity. [00:55:37] Speaker A: To the paradise that Jesus has prepared, the place that Jesus has prepared for [00:55:41] Speaker C: those who love him. [00:55:43] Speaker A: Compounding beauty, compounding pleasure. Compounding goodness, compounding joy, compounding fun. Compounding laughter, compounding love. [00:55:58] Speaker C: But are we going to be married in heaven or not, friend? [00:56:04] Speaker A: Do you know the power of God? Do you know the power of God? Or are you living like a Sadducee? [00:56:15] Speaker C: Do you have any idea what he's capable of? Heaven's not a downgrade. All right, I'm gonna close. Ben, will you come up? All right, that's my long way of saying to you, the Sadducees were wrong. Okay? [00:56:49] Speaker A: The Sadducees were wrong. [00:56:50] Speaker C: The Scriptures. [00:56:51] Speaker A: The scriptures are clear. There will be a resurrection. Okay, Everybody, everybody who dies will be raised to stand before God and give [00:57:03] Speaker C: an account and listen to me, listen to me. [00:57:07] Speaker A: God will either say, he'll say one of two things. [00:57:12] Speaker C: He'll say either, well done, good and faithful servant, enter into your Master's joy, or he'll say, depart from me. I never knew you. Just like you could read the scriptures without knowing them. [00:57:43] Speaker A: Just like you could be in church [00:57:44] Speaker C: but not be in Christ. What will he say to you? What will he say to you? Are you unsure? What if I told you you could be sure? What if I told you you could be absolutely certain? What if I told you you could be so certain that you, I don't know, bet your life on it. [00:58:26] Speaker A: Not in the like heroic sense of like, yeah, I'll jump in front of a bus for you, Jesus. [00:58:30] Speaker C: I mean in like the day to [00:58:32] Speaker A: day, seemingly mundane, lay down your life, [00:58:36] Speaker C: bet your life on it. Because you can. It's literally the message of Christians for [00:58:44] Speaker A: 2000 years is the gospel of Jesus, that when you trust what God says through His Word, you, you actually yield to it. Something happens. God has the power of God comes on your life and it transforms you and it secures your salvation. And you demonstrate your faith through obeying Him. You don't obey him to earn. You obey because he earned. And you're, you're so thankful. [00:59:09] Speaker C: Do you know what he would say to you? Hebrews, chapter 9, verse 27 and 28. And just as each person, say each [00:59:27] Speaker A: person, that means nobody's off limits. Just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment. So also Christ was offered once for [00:59:45] Speaker C: all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. [00:59:53] Speaker A: He will come again, not to deal [00:59:56] Speaker C: with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly awaiting for him, Eagerly waiting for Him. I just want to see you, Jesus. That's all I want. Are you eagerly waiting for Him? Here's my hope. My hope is that if you've been living like a functional Sadducee, that would die today. That would die today. And God would resurrect a new person in you. [01:00:38] Speaker A: God would resurrect a new person in you. A new person who knows the word of God, who knows their Bible. And as a result, they're not misled, they're not deceived. A new person who knows the power of God, that the place he's prepared for those who love him is more [01:00:57] Speaker C: spectacular than our imagines. Can even our imaginations can even comprehend. Listen. That those in Christ. For them, the afterlife is beyond their wildest dreams. Will you stand with me? If you're able. I want to pray for us. All right. I want to ask you to do something that God asked me to do about an hour ago. Would you just humor me? And would you just look up? Like, actually look up? He's really there. He really cares. Keep looking up. Don't stop right now, please. Maybe you're here and you've forgotten the power of God. Maybe there's deep things in your heart [01:02:36] Speaker A: that he didn't intend to die, but [01:02:38] Speaker C: somewhere along the way, they died. [01:02:41] Speaker A: Godly desires in you. [01:02:46] Speaker C: Maybe, just maybe, he wants to resurrect some things, because that's what he does. Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That's our desire. [01:03:13] Speaker A: Yeah, we want you to meet our daily needs. We want the daily bread, but I don't want to move on from that. [01:03:23] Speaker C: I pray, Holy Spirit, that the power of God would fall on us. [01:03:30] Speaker A: That your Holy Spirit would, like, fill [01:03:34] Speaker C: us, [01:03:36] Speaker A: that your word wouldn't be boring anymore, that our lives wouldn't just be, like, kind of trite. And we just do these things and give ourselves these things and invest in these things that don't have eternal significance. God, I thank you for the lengths that you've gone to prepare a place for us that is so glorious, so magnificent, so incredible that our minds can't even, like, we can't even wrap our minds around. Gives me confidence that matter what I face, that death is not the end and heaven's not a downgrade. And so, spirit of God, I invite you to comfort us and fill us [01:04:19] Speaker C: with power now in the way that only you can. Each heart, each mind, each person right where they are. I love you and I bless you. Jesus, worship you. It's in your name that we pray. Amen. If you're on the prayer team this morning, would you make your way to the front? Friends, there's going to be men and women who are up here, trusted, trained, that would love to pray for you. [01:04:50] Speaker A: If you need the power of God [01:04:51] Speaker C: to touch you, I'd come forward. If you need anything, come forward, receive prayer. Here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna respond to God. We're gonna praise him because he's do it. [01:05:05] Speaker A: He's worthy. [01:05:05] Speaker C: He's wonderful. We're gonna fill this room with praise. Maybe even just maybe look up when you sing to him. I love you guys very much. For the next 10 or so minutes, we're gonna respond praise and prayer, and then we'll close, okay? I love you guys a lot. Enjoy him.