Who You Love Is More Important Than What You Know First B Jackson 2014-10-05 Automatically transcribed. Where this and the recording disagree, the recording is the record. ---- Good morning, church. Good to see you all. How are we? How about Psalm a 103? Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. It's a good morning to bless the Lord. Would you think? Amen. Shall we? You stand up? We'll sing. Alright. Let's sing I worship your hold. You're rich in love and your slow to anger. Your name is great and your heart is kind. For joy or goodness, I will keep on seeing. 10,000 reasons for my heart to find. Bless the Lord, oh, my soul. Oh, my soul. Worship your hope. On that day, And on that day when my strength is failing, the end draws me when my time has come. Still my soul send your praise on end. Ten thousand years and for holy name I worship your and I have I am glad that you're here. I look up there to see what we're gonna see and we don't have anything up there this week for announcements but they're all right here. So, the black and yellow sheet right here is full of everything that's going on and it has prayer request on the back and we have communion today and we're gonna do things slightly differently. If you have kids that are usually would go down to the children's church that are also kids who would take communion, We're gonna do that. Just hold on to those kids. Send the rest of em when it's time for em to go but hold on to those kids and we're gonna do communion before the sermon today. So, that's the first announcement and I'll remind you of it again but normally, we always do that at the end But I want to blast you out the door today. I want you to do your contemplating during the song service. Think about it. Prepare yourself for it. But today, we're gonna hopefully just charge out of here. And I don't want for it to be somber in the least. And there's a time for it but it's not at the end of this sermon. So, there we go. We have all kinds of stuff going on. Pay attention to it. I'm not going to announce anything else. Would you stand up and greet one another, please? And I will let one announcement happen. Assurance Jesus in mind divine. Heir of salvation, the virtues of God, born of his spirit. This is our story, the gospel of salvation. This is my story. This is my song. Raising my Savior. I'm all done and all. This is my story. This is my song, praising submission of all his at rest. I am my savior. I'll be there watching, waiting, and looking above filled with his goodness, lost in his love. This is our story. And this is my story. And this is my song. Praising my savior all the day long. This is my story. This is my song raising my seal all the day long. Let's sing that again. This is our story. This is my story. This is my song, raising my savior all the day long. This is my story. This is my song, raising my sail all day long. I'm not skilled to understand. I am not skilled to understand. One God is will and God is plan. I only know at his right hand Stands one who is my savior I take him out his word and do Here I start to save me this sire. And in my heart, I find a need for him to be my savior. That he won't leave his place on high and come for sinful man to die. You counted strange souls daydied before I knew my savior. And my savior loves savior lives my savior's always there for me. My God, he was my God, he is my God, he's always gonna be. My savior loves, and my savior lives. My savior's always there for me. My God, he was. My God, he is. My God, he's always gonna be. Yes. Living, dying, let me breathe. My strength, my soul is from this spring. That he lives to be my king. Once died to be my savior. That he won't leave his place on high and comfort sinful man to die. You count it strange so on state I Before I knew my savior. My savior loves, my savior lives, my savior is always there for me. My God, he was. My God, he is. My God, he's always gonna be. My savior loves. My savior lives. My savior is always there for me my God he was my God he is my God he's always gonna be yes living dying let me reign God, again, that's that's not just our our our song. That's our prayer. That living dying, let us bring. My strength, my solace from you. You are our spring. You are the the spring of life, and you don't run dry. And remind us of that, God, throughout the week that you don't run dry. You're the bread of life, and you give life, and you give life to the full measure. Let us not forget it. Amen. Sing that verse again. Gives up, never runs out on me. Your love never fails and never gives up, never runs out on me. And your love never fails and never gives up, never runs out on me. You're in love. And on and on. On and on and on, it just one thing remains. And your love never fails and never gives up, never runs out on me. And your love never fails and never gives up. Never runs out on me. And your love never fails and never gives up. Never runs out on me. You were love. And in death and in life, And then death and life, I'm comforting and covered by the power from your great love. And my death is pain. There's nothing that can separate my heart from your great love. My face never fails never fails and never never Your never keeps keeps on. Never runs runs out out on on me. You're in love. You're love. God, we give you thanks for your ever never changing, ever giving love, for us. And, God, as we enter here in the worship of giving, it's it is just one expression, but it is still an expression of of of our worship to you. We can't out give you. You are a giver of all things, all good things. And so wanna pause for a moment to to truly give you thanks and praise and contemplate how good you are and, realize, God, our frailty too. Thank you God for the hope we have in you. Thank you for the the assurance that we we have in you. Thank you God for the love that you have for us. We, we sing of it but I pray God that it would would go from our head to our heart and we would truly walk with that all day. Amen. You can be seated. The words will be on the screen too if you'd like to to sing along. Who cared to feel my hurt. Who might have the bright and morning star, what shoes lie away of my ever wondering heart. And not because of who I am, but because of what you've done. Not because of what I've done, but because of who you are. And I am a flower quickly fading in a day and go on the mountain. A wave tossed in the ocean. I knew. Whom I and the voice of calm sea or call out through the rain or call the storm in me. And not because of who I am, but because of what you've done. Not because of what I've done, but because of who you are. I am a flower cookie fading. And then go on the mountain road, a whiff dust in the ocean. A paper in the wind still. Hear me when I'm cold, and you catch me when I fall, and you told me who I am. I know. Amen. And the kids who are not going to stay for communion can go ahead on down to children's church. I do have one announcement that I forgot. That's just the way it is, isn't it? Actually, Shauna has an announcement. Would you get up and put you on the spot here? Give you a mic Am I on? You are. Okay. This morning, between the services right here in the sanctuary. Nancy is having a meeting with anybody that is interested in helping with singing in or acting in our Christmas pageant which will be on December 14. So, I'm just here to remind everybody. Alright, thank you. And now, I'm going to invite the elders up if they would come up, do communion and this is out of the normal way that we do this and I know that but if you would, come on forward, elders and as we're walking through first Corinthians, he mentions multiple times. I don't need this anymore. He mentions multiple times. It's a security blanket. Sorry. He he's talking about it and in the next few weeks, he's going to mention it multiple times. Actually, when we're talking about today is meat offered to idols and a lot of the folks were coming out of pagan worship and they had gotten used to the way that they worshiped and Christ was mixing that up quite a bit. Today, this is not pagan worship. This is communing with God. Christ in the new covenant with his broken body and his shed blood paid the price for sin and if you have accepted that, if you have opened your heart to him, if you have looked to him and accepted the grace offered by God, you are welcome to take. This is not a closed communion. It's open. If you know that Christ is your savior, please savior, please savor this. Take it in and consider it through the rest of the sermon because I think that this is the grounding in Christ, in Christ, the hope of glory. So, anyway, I'll have these guys come and distribute first the bread because on the night that Jesus was betrayed, after supper, he took the bread and after giving thanks, he said, this is my body that's broken for you and they're going to come out and distribute this and I just want you to think about that. It may not be the way we always do it. It may not be the way you've ever done it but would you take it in if you are a Christian? God, thank you for this bread. Thank you for your broken body. Amen. Father God, as we consider Jesus Christ who came as a sacrifice for sin and we consider his perfect life and his perfect death, lord. He went through a brutal beating. He gave his body though he did not deserve it to take the punishment for our sin. Lord, we remember his broken body when we do this. Now, lord, we ask your blessing on this cup as we distribute it. This Welch's grape juice. It is a symbol of his blood. That taste lord in my mouth reminds me of long long Sundays past where I remember Christ blood. The new covenant that is available through his blood. Nothing removes sin except for the blood of Jesus. Lord, we remember that right now. For the new covenant in your blood and we're doing this in remembrance of you. Amen. Thank you. Do y'all ever feel that that sometimes just kind of tacked on at the end? Maybe not. I feel like sometimes it's kind of tacked on the end. Maybe it's because I'm standing right here looking at that clock. Probably not. The rest of the children who just had communion, y'all are welcome to go. So, we're up to first Corinthians eight and first Corinthians eight, it looks like to us if we get a break actually, most of us. Anyway, it looks like we get a break. Oh, man. We've been talking about stuff that gets really invasive in our lives for the last, I don't know, seven chapters. Divisions, and factions for the first four chapters and then a turn about church discipline and issues of sexual immorality and then kind of a deeper exposition of this and it goes further and further it seems. But now, we see something Paul starts off in first Corinthians eight one. He starts off with Now, concerning things offered to idols and we go, I hadn't offered anything to idols in a long time. So, they look, it looks like a break. I don't really think that it is after studying it longer but the first three verses is what I want to concentrate the most effort on today. The first three verses, I think give the context for the rest of it because we can help this this can help to inform our lives. If we will pay attention to the first three verses. So, now, concerning things offered to idols. We know that we have all knowledge. I think there ought to be quotation marks around that. Remember the now concerning things offered to idols. If you are paying attention to how Paul constructed this letter in the first or second chapter, he said, the the household of Chloe had come to him and given a delegation report and when they came to him, they told him the different things, mostly about divisions and sexual immorality and those sort of things but then, he turns attention about the seventh chapter. He turns his attention to the things that you have written to me about. So, this is, I said, one time, like an Email, Paul received. It is something that bullet points down through then. A concern, how about this and what about that? They had questions for him. At least some of the church considered him an apostle, founding pastor, that he had credence with at least some of em and so they're asking him and he says, now concerning things offered idols. He does this multiple times throughout the rest of the book. He mentions things that they mentioned to him in his letter. So, most scholars agree and some of your versions will say, quotation marks around. We know that we have all knowledge because they probably said, we have all knowledge and we know that such and such is the truth or such and such is the case. We know that we have all knowledge but Paul follows it up with knowledge puffs up but love edifies. The knowledge you see in a slightly different color. I'm going have to remember that color and not use it. Knowledge Right there, right there, right there, knowledge, knowledge, no, no, no, no, no. There's a lot about knowing in this. A ton about knowing what you know, who you know. We know that we have all knowledge. We all have knowledge. I'm sorry. We all have knowledge. Is that what you're saying? I read that wrong. Three times and Tanya's eyes were like this. We all have knowledge. Sorry. We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up but love edifies and edifies just simply means building up. Love builds up and if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know but if anyone loves God, this one is known by him. So, as I was looking over this, there's so much about knowledge. I read the whole passage multiple times and it's interesting that where it starts and where it ends. He knows nothing yet as he ought to know. That's actually, you can see that on fortune cookies. Confucius said something along those lines. The real knowledge is knowing that you know nothing. Socrates said it, it's been multiple times throughout history that wise guys have come up with this because all truth is God's truth, right? All truth is God's truth. If they state it, they hit it on that one. They miss it on some other stuff. Oh, the next confusion proverb was a little weird. But knowledge comes from knowing that you know nothing but if anyone loves God, this one is known by him. The puffs up there. It's used seven times in the New Testament, mainly Paul's writings and six times it's in Corinthians. What do you think their main problem was? Pride. That was gained by knowledge and thinking they knew it all. They were kind of puffy about what they knew. So, that's just interesting. That was free. The no. No. No. No. No. No. No. And then but love edifies and then but if anyone loves God, this one is known by him. Now, this is interesting to me because of this. This love and this love are both active verbs. It's an active thing and the first one tells, it edifies. It it's love that edifies. It builds up. So, it doesn't tear down. It doesn't try to take the legs out from up under your theological opponent. It's building up of the body of Christ. Now, you might have to theologically bring somebody back in but there's no reason for hatred or discord in that case. Love builds up. If anyone loves God actively, loves God, or is loving God. It's a participle there. This one is known by him and that's passive. That's actually good. That is great for us because it means that God knows us. Those who love him. God knows us. To be known by God is a huge, huge thing and it's something that Paul took very very seriously. In fact, in Galatians, when he mentions it, he says, to know God. Oh oh oh rather to be known by God. That's the important thing. He mentions that a couple of different times. Who you love is more important than what you know. Does that make sense? Who you love, loving God, loving others, that's our motto is with all we are, loving God and loving people through Christ, right? Who you love is more important than what you know. Oh my goodness, a seminarian just said that. Somebody who went to school actually said that. Somebody who studies a lot said that. I think it's Sumamenti came to my mind. Spanish. Absolutely more than you can imagine. This is true. It matters more. Who you love than what you know. As I was looking this up the other day, it was talking about when you're considering having somebody on your team at a a class and I've been on several different missions teams and our class called Building and Leading Effective Ministry Teams. It said, when you get the chance to pick and you have to pick between someone who is a and I'll say, cold, theological genius, or a warm I shouldn't say idiot. A loving and careful person who loves Jesus that knows God intimately, been saved out of something. Fine but loves God. Might not be the brightest bulb in the hall. Choose the guy who is not the brightest bulb in the hall that loves God, okay? Now, I'm not tearing down wisdom at all but knowledge puffs up. Wisdom is application of knowledge. Choose somebody who uses all that they have with good application. Who you love is more important than what you know and who knows you follows, who knows you is more important than what you know. If you love God, then you're known by him. That's the context for these next verses. It's about the loving and then he gets back on track. Paul does this multiple times in his writings. It's called an Anakaluthon. When you have a thought and you're going along, I do it all the time. Y'all see me doing it all the time. Sorry. When you when you when I'm talking along and I'm going one direction and then I think of something else and I've gotta go after that. Not really a rabbit trail because it's important stuff. Maybe in my case it is. Paul's is all important stuff but he does that. If you look back to these verses, he says, now concerning things offered idols, he could've answered the question right there. He quotes them and as soon as he quotes them saying, we all have knowledge. It immediately thinks but knowledge puffs up. I gotta say that. Oh and I gotta say this. Oh and I gotta say this and I gotta say that and then he gets back to it right here. Therefore, now that I've said all that, concerning the eating of things offered to idols. Now, it's about not just things offered to idols but eating things that have been offered to idols. We know that an idol is nothing in the world and that there is no other god but one, right? We all know that. There's one God. It's the Shema from Israel. They know that this is what they're supposed to do. We believe that there is one God and he says it and that's good theology and he says, we know it. We know it. Meaning, I and you who wrote the letter, who trust me, who are strong in conscience, loving Christians, good theologians, we know that an idol is nothing in this world, nothing in the world, and that there is no other god but one. We know that. Duh. That's what he's saying. Okay? Duh. So what? If you know that. For even if there are so called gods with a little G, whether in heaven or in earth, as there are, you know there are parenthetically. There are many gods, small G, and many lords. There are things that people bow to. There are things that people have allegiance to. There are people that people follow, lords and whatnot. Yet, for us, we, strong, theologians, good Christians. We, for us, there's one God, capital G, the father, capital F, of whom are all things and we are for him, capital H and one capital L, lord, Jesus Christ, all capital. Strong, strong statement of the divinity of God. Through him, through whom are all things or all things exist came into being and through him we all live or exist, came into being. Yet for us, there's one God. That's all good theology, right? This is theologically correct. Other gods do not really exist. Now, people so called gods exist. There are people who bow to him all the time. We know that but other gods really don't exist. Good theology, right? That's correct. Duh. That's what Paul says. Yes, there are are no other gods. It's funny you look back to Isaiah. I mentioned this from time to time that we find it odd that people would chop down a tree and then use half of it to warm the house and the other half, they try to build an idol that will not topple and they bow down and worship to it. Other gods do not exist. They're made by human hands. They're made up in the human mind but they do not exist. Now, in chapter 10, Paul comes back to this and I wanted to preach that today but I'm not going to. He comes back to it. Other gods do not exist but demons do. However, there is not in everyone that knowledge. What is he just saying? He said, we know for us there's one God, father, of whom are all things. We know this. We know this. Duh. But he says, however, there is not in everyone this knowledge. You are not considering that not everyone is a theologically correct believer like you are. Not everyone has attained this level of holiness that you have. Not everybody knows this yet. There are some who don't yet know it. For some, some with consciousness of the idol. Now, where were these folks current? They had been pagans. They had been bowing to these idols their whole life. There is a strong residual understanding of what that idol is and why they are doing what they're doing if they're eating meat that was offered to this idol. There's a very strong spiritual sense in that person. I cannot any longer do this. I must cut this part of my life off. I cannot do this. Now, for those of who are theologically correct and say, meat is meat and it is good and let's eat it. We don't have any association whatsoever with those idols but they do. Some with consciousness of the idol until now, eat it as a thing offered to an idol but and their conscience, being weak, I'll give you that. Being weak, okay, they don't understand everything like you do. Having a weak conscience, they are defiled through it because for them, it is sin. To him who knows to do good and does it not, James says, it is sin. To go against what you feel in your inner being before God to go against that is sin and for them to eat that meat offered to an idol, it's sin. Now, wait a minute, Ray. It's sin for them and it's not sin for us. That's what the saying says. That's what it says. That's exactly what it says. Because the next verse, he goes, but food does not commend us to God. Neither if we eat, are we the better, nor if we do not eat, are we the worse? For us, chapter verse eight says, for us, those of us who have arrived at the spiritual enlightenment. Who understand good theology. For us, it really is equal before God whether we eat or not or don't eat. It does not matter at all. It is a moral, not immoral but it is without a moral stance. You can eat or you cannot eat because it does not matter. It does not really matter to us before God because we're not convicted of that. Now, that's dangerous to think that way. I have liberty in that issue whether or not to do that. So, this is what Paul's warning is. Actually, let me quote Jesus. I always say, all of Pauline theology is grounded in dominical tradition. Jesus taught on this, when the Pharisees were fussing at him about the way his disciples ate, he said, when he called the multitude to himself, he said, hear and understand, it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a man but one comes out of a mouth because out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. It's theologically correct. Eating is not what defiles us. It is not. That is theologically correct. Duh. We get that, right? Most of us. Some of us. I tell you what, this may not be a big issue for you. It's a huge issue for Melissa Landis. Melissa, Steve's daughter is in South Africa in the Zululand where they have ancestor worship practiced as a normal thing. In normal family life, it is a normal thing for them to offer meat to an ancestor and then after a certain time to eat that meat. That's, wait a second, I know that meat is good and I'm hungry and there it is and they've invited me to this party. They've invited me to this wedding. They've invited me to this funeral. They've invited me to be here. What am I going to do? Well, I know that their ancestors are dead and that they are not gods and that they have no spiritual control over me or this life. I I it's fine with me. It's meat. But she doesn't eat it and she's made a decision in her heart a long time ago there's a reason. Let me go on. Maybe I'll be in turn again. If I don't, Steve, give me the nod, okay? But beware because for you, it's neutral. Does not matter whether you do or you don't. Beware. Lest somehow this liberty of yours to do whatever you want become a stumbling block for those who are weak. Now, in South Africa, there are folks who have come out of this Zionist movement which is a pseudo Christian movement, Shembe, different gods, prophets, spirits, whatever. That those guys, those so called gods, so called lords, They call themselves Christians but they're still practicing this all the time. I'll bring it up again in chapter 10. If Melissa were to go in as a missionary coming from the outside with no other purpose to be there except for to share the love of with these people and if she were to take in that meat in front of the new Christians who are coming out of that background, it would be an incredible struggle for them to say but but but wait a second, I know what that is. I know what that means. So, she does not eat the meat and she explains it every time she gets the ground to explain it. Praise God. I think that that is the way that it should be. She receives criticism from time to time because she even goes to the parties in the first place. Because that's where they practice that sort of thing. But if it's a matter of conscience for the people who are complaining, they need to share it with them. Alright, let's go back to but beware, lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak. For if anyone sees that you have knowledge, you're the smart one. You're the theologically advanced one. You're the one that's ahead. You have knowledge, you're a mature Christian, and you're eating in an idol's temple will not their conscience, their conscience of him who is weak, be emboldened to eat those things that have been offered to idols. Do you get that? That's hard. This is a tough teaching because it's dealing with your Christian liberty. Yes, you do have the right but isn't Christianity more about not demanding all of the rights that you have out of love for other people? The first part of this is, it's not so much about what you know. Good theology is great. But it's about who you love. If you love God and you want to express to these people, you can bring them along through your action. You can bring them along, show em that you love em enough not to do that. You eat whatever set before you once when you go to somebody's house, right? You eat whatever is set before you. But in this case, oh my goodness conscientious, abstaining, not demanding all your rights is helpful to those people. How do I know it's helpful? Because the next verse says, and because of your knowledge, shall this weak brother be destroyed. It says, perish in the New King James Version, be destroyed is a better translation only because it's passive again. This outside influence is something that can cause destruction for these folks and weakness of your knowledge. Now, is for a Christian brother that doesn't understand as much. For whom Christ died because of your knowledge, because of your liberty, because of what you're doing, it cause damage to them. When you thus sin, oh my goodness. Now, your liberty has a constriction on it. It is actually sin if you do this and they will wound their wench weak conscience. Wow, you've wounded them and because you've wounded them, now you're sinning against Christ. Therefore, if you're, if food makes my brother stumble, let me see. Sin, sin. Therefore, let's go to this. Good theology applied without love is sin. That's what that just said. Those last couple of sentences. Good theology, we had two points of it earlier and then we see that the application of that theology in the real world and real context is actually sinful. Ugh. I hate that. But it's true. Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, this is Paul's summation of the whole thing. If food makes my brother stumble, I'll never eat meat again. Lest I make my brother stumble. He's saying, I care enough about them to to let it go. You remember another, I think it's Romans nine one but Paul says, how I wish that I could be the one that was accursed so that all of you may know Jesus. That is Pauline theology that's the medical tradition right there. Jesus said, it's for all of you that I'm willing to die and have that curse, suffer the curse, be numbered with the transgressors. It's for everyone of you who does not know God, love him, care about him at all. I'm dying for you. Give him my perfect life and dying a perfect death. Paul says, if food, big deal, makes my brother stumble. I'm not going to ever even meet eat meat again. Lest I make my brother stumble. Everything that we do should be motivated out of love. It should not be. I can do whatever I darn well please. That is the way of our society. I can take my right and I can claim my rights and I can hold on to em and nobody can take em away from me because I got the bill of rights. I got all this stuff to protect me. Yes. But is that the best way for the gospel to spread? You holding on to your rights. You're holding on to your good theology. Let's go forward. Who you love is more important than what you know. So I have questions for self evaluation today. These are not really it's not really a takeaway slide but it's close. What is it that I think I know? What is it that I think I know? All of them are pointing basically in the same place. Who do I really love? If I really love God, I'm going to listen to what he said and I'm going to care about other people before myself but if I really love myself, I'm going to do whatever I want. Because I can, because I have the right. Is there an issue right now that I am selfishly insisting on doing in spite of the convictions of others around me? Does love currently motivate my actions? Or does my theology, my liberty, my self. Does love currently motivate my actions? And then the fifth one is the last one. Will I allow God's love to motivate my actions? So, if in the first one you say, what is it that I think I know? I think I know this and I've been arguing with somebody over this point of theology for a long long time. I think I know that. But if I'm honest with myself, it's a little unclear and I could be wrong. Hold on loosely. Who do I really love? It's either self or God. If you love God, then you will love others. Is there an issue I'm selfishly insistent on doing in spite of the convictions of others around me? And does love currently motivate my actions? If it does, praise God from whom all bless and flow. That's he gets the credit for that but if it doesn't, will you allow that to happen? Will I allow that to happen? Self evaluation and then, I liked your personalized verse last week, Steve. Very much. If you take this seriously, then this is a form letter for a prayer. Therefore, if blank makes my brother stumble, then I, Raymond Wade McDaniel, state your name here, will not blank. Whatever that first blank was filled with. If this is what causes my brother to stumble, why in the world would I do that? Lest I make my brother stumble. Okay. Now, we're going to go completely, completely in exactly the same direction but a different author. First John four seven through 11. Actually, God authored both but I want you to look at this and this is what I wanted you to charge out of the door with today, okay? Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. There's that slightly different blue color. He who does not love does not know God. For God is love. In this, the love of God was manifested towards us that God has sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love. Not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. Ain't that something? That is the opposite of that first part about knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing, knowing. It's about loving. In fact, I want to go back because I'm a grammatical nut and say that where it says, God is love right there. I'm going to just fill in all of the other places. Since God is love, every time he's mentioned, I'm going to turn that the same color as love, okay? This pinky pink color. Look at how much love is all over that verse and that's about who we are as a family. When you commune with one another and with Christ, this is what we need to be about, about love and it needs to be so apparent that it doesn't override but it almost overrides what we know, okay? Knowing is important but love is more important. God is love. Duh. Alright. Would you all stand as we sing? I'll get Carl and the band back up here and if you figure out something this week that you just go, but I want to keep on doing it, dog on it and it's okay. Please, come talk about it. I'd love to talk to you about it. In Jesus name, I'd love to talk to you about it. They will know we are Christians by our unique and grand theology. No. Here we go. They'll know we are Christians by our love. And we will walk with each other. We will walk. And and we will walk with each other. And we will walk in and out together, spread the news that God is in the land. And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes. They'll know we are Christians by our love. We'll work with each other. We will work with each other. We will work side by side. We will work with each other. We will work side by side. And we'll guard each one's dignity and save each other's pride. And they'll know we are Christians by our love. By our love. Yes. They'll know we are Christians by our love. And I'll praise to the father. And I'll praise to the father from whom all things come. And I'll praise to Christ Jesus in his only son. And I'll praise to the spirit spirit who makes us one. And they'll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. Yes. They'll know we are Christians by our love. Amen. Would you go this week and love one another and reach out and try your best to pull somebody in from the fringes? In Jesus name, I have one more announcement. The ladies weekend is next weekend, October tenth, eleventh, and twelfth and don't forget about that and I'm sure if you see Anne, she'll get you more information. In Jesus name, go and love one another.