WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.260 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.880 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.420 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:31.260 the latest message. 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:32.460 Thanks for listening. 00:00:44.020 --> 00:00:44.880 Well, good morning. 00:00:45.960 --> 00:00:49.740 If you would, take your Bible or your phone and turn to Ephesians chapter 4. 00:00:49.820 --> 00:00:51.560 We're going to start at verse 17. 00:00:51.940 --> 00:00:57.080 I am so grateful to Mark and Jennifer Babb for their leadership in Celebrate Recovery. 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:00.120 You've heard what Celebrate Recovery is about. 00:01:00.220 --> 00:01:05.560 I want to encourage you, if something, if God just spoke to your heart and said, this 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:10.960 is what I need you to do, Thursday night, as Mark said, is the place to be at 6.30. 00:01:11.060 --> 00:01:16.860 And so I'm grateful to them, grateful to Brent Babb, I mean, Brent Hawkins, and the rest of 00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:19.820 the leadership team of Celebrate Recovery for all that they do. 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:22.120 Again, I want to encourage you to be a part of that. 00:01:22.540 --> 00:01:26.880 Before we jump into our message today, we're continuing on in our series on the family reunion, 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:28.600 looking at Ephesians together. 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:32.680 But just got a few other announcements to share, family things to share with you. 00:01:33.140 --> 00:01:37.400 One, our men's ministry here at Willow Ridge Church is going to be putting together a mission 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.860 trip for November the 7th through the 13th. 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.680 They're going to be going to Black Mountain Children's Home, the place where we've gone multiple 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:46.440 times with our students to minister. 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:48.500 They're going up there for a work project. 00:01:48.700 --> 00:01:52.980 So gentlemen, if this is something that you would like to do, plumbing, electrical, the 00:01:52.980 --> 00:01:58.120 hurricane that recently came up through actually did some damage as far as trees are concerned, 00:01:58.240 --> 00:01:59.780 so they're going to be taking care of some trees. 00:02:00.340 --> 00:02:04.480 If you're interested in being a part of that mission trip, just reach out to Pastor Bo, 00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:11.980 Bo.Bradbury at WillowRidgeChurch.org, and he'll be glad to get you on that list. 00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:16.420 Also, any questions you have about that mission trip, he'll be glad to answer that for you. 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:21.800 Don't forget to come back tonight for our family time with games and wonderful hot dogs, 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:24.000 as well as some homemade ice cream. 00:02:24.140 --> 00:02:29.600 So if you enjoy making homemade ice cream, you've got that favorite flavor that you have. 00:02:29.720 --> 00:02:30.700 Bring it back tonight. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.660 Let us all enjoy those flavors together. 00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:38.600 So we'll be starting that at 4 o'clock, and we will have a wonderful, wonderful time together. 00:02:39.160 --> 00:02:41.620 So Bo's not here today, as you can tell. 00:02:42.740 --> 00:02:44.240 We look a little bit alike. 00:02:44.740 --> 00:02:45.500 Not so much. 00:02:47.220 --> 00:02:53.760 But COVID has hit their home, and they're actually going to be on the downside of that this week. 00:02:53.860 --> 00:02:55.380 He'll be back in the office this week. 00:02:56.100 --> 00:03:01.840 So we're grateful that the Lord has cared for his family during this time. 00:03:02.380 --> 00:03:03.960 But it's been a strange week. 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:10.300 I think the staff would agree with me in saying that this entire week, we took phone calls. 00:03:10.300 --> 00:03:15.540 We took text messages about many of our church family members that are battling with COVID, 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:22.500 and many of our church family members who are battling with COVID, some even in the hospital. 00:03:22.920 --> 00:03:30.640 And so it's been, like I said, it's been a different kind of week this week as we've gone through this time together. 00:03:30.760 --> 00:03:32.980 So I want to spend some time in prayer together. 00:03:33.540 --> 00:03:36.980 I want you to pray for people that you're aware of battling with COVID. 00:03:36.980 --> 00:03:43.980 I want us to pray for our world and what we're seeing going on in Afghanistan with our servicemen and women and others who are trying to get out. 00:03:44.500 --> 00:03:50.260 I want us to pray for what's going on in our own community, things that we see going on as well. 00:03:50.520 --> 00:03:54.660 And so as we, before we dive into God's Word together, would you join me in prayer? 00:03:58.420 --> 00:04:01.660 Father, we've already sang about your awesomeness. 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:08.620 And Lord, we know from being students of your Word that you are the great physician, the great healer. 00:04:09.880 --> 00:04:15.800 But Lord, nothing that goes on in this world, nothing that goes on in our life, you're not aware of. 00:04:17.620 --> 00:04:25.180 And so Lord, it is your desire always to give us hope, to give us peace, to give us comfort, to walk us through all storms of life. 00:04:26.420 --> 00:04:30.300 We know in Scripture that nothing in this world is impossible with you. 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:37.120 That Lord, if we even have faith the size of a mustard seed, that you will do great, incredible things. 00:04:38.820 --> 00:04:42.620 And so Father, those in our church, those in our church family that are dealing with COVID, 00:04:42.780 --> 00:04:48.420 Father, all over this world as folks battle with this virus, we pray for your healing. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:53.900 We pray for your comfort for family members that go alongside them as well. 00:04:55.320 --> 00:04:59.240 Lord, we pray for our men and women in the service who are in Afghanistan. 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.220 We pray for all those who are there, Lord, who fear for their life. 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.260 We pray for missionaries who are there, Lord, as they struggle. 00:05:11.380 --> 00:05:14.860 Father, we pray for our community and some of the things that we've seen this past week. 00:05:16.440 --> 00:05:21.860 Lord, as believers, we need to remind ourselves that you are always in our midst. 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:27.240 That you are always there knowing what's going on, but more importantly, there to minister. 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.060 And at times, Lord, you use us to minister to those around us. 00:05:33.500 --> 00:05:35.200 So Lord, help us not to forget that. 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:38.700 Help us to hold on to the hope that we have as believers in you. 00:05:40.260 --> 00:05:44.640 Lord, we gather this morning to once again hear your word and be taught your word. 00:05:45.260 --> 00:05:50.140 And for you, through your Holy Spirit, to speak to us at whatever level it is that we need to hear from you. 00:05:51.420 --> 00:05:55.300 So Lord, we thank you that we have this place, this church, to gather in your name. 00:05:55.960 --> 00:05:58.260 And to be in your midst, to be in your presence. 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.400 And so Lord, we ask this prayer in your name. 00:06:01.940 --> 00:06:02.220 Amen. 00:06:03.880 --> 00:06:07.020 So if you would, take your Bible, look at Ephesians chapter 4. 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:10.620 I'm going to be reading verses 17 and following. 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:13.900 Then we're going to come back and kind of break that down together. 00:06:14.700 --> 00:06:19.940 Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus as believers, okay, as Christ followers. 00:06:20.100 --> 00:06:22.260 I think sometimes we forget that. 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:25.240 You know, Paul's not writing a letter to somebody who doesn't know God. 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:29.900 In this case, he's writing to people who do know God, who are supposed to know God, 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:31.600 who are followers of Christ. 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:33.200 He's writing to the church. 00:06:34.640 --> 00:06:39.640 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:42.160 in the futility of their minds. 00:06:42.980 --> 00:06:48.820 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:50.940 due to their hardness of heart. 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:56.020 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy, 00:06:56.400 --> 00:06:58.360 to practice every kind of impurity. 00:06:59.060 --> 00:07:01.640 But that is not the way you learned Christ. 00:07:02.420 --> 00:07:07.840 Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him as truth is in Jesus. 00:07:08.620 --> 00:07:14.940 To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires. 00:07:15.200 --> 00:07:19.280 And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds and to put on the new self, 00:07:19.400 --> 00:07:23.920 created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. 00:07:28.060 --> 00:07:34.580 I don't know if you've paid much attention to the headings sometimes in the translations that we have, 00:07:34.700 --> 00:07:40.700 whether it's the ESV, NIV, King James, whatever translation is that you read from God's word. 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:46.580 But at the top of certain sections of God's words, it breaks the scriptures down for us, 00:07:46.620 --> 00:07:50.640 or headings that describe the content for which you're about to read. 00:07:51.320 --> 00:07:55.960 It's the translators of scriptures way of kind of giving us some insight on about what we're to read. 00:07:56.740 --> 00:08:01.500 And here are some of the things that, the headings that are throughout different translations 00:08:01.500 --> 00:08:04.060 covering the passage of scripture we're reading today. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.820 It's a description of the new life. 00:08:09.100 --> 00:08:10.800 Description of the Christian's walk. 00:08:12.080 --> 00:08:13.600 Instructions for Christian living. 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:16.400 Living as children of light. 00:08:17.880 --> 00:08:18.920 Live in holiness. 00:08:19.880 --> 00:08:24.880 So it's giving you and I, you and I, the idea that this passage that Paul wrote about 00:08:24.880 --> 00:08:28.900 is telling us how you and I are to live our life in Christ. 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:34.800 In 31 years of ministry, I've heard quite often Christ followers ask the question, 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:36.800 how do I live the Christian life? 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:39.660 The answer is simple. 00:08:40.700 --> 00:08:45.440 Read God's word, and you will discover the life that God wants you to live. 00:08:45.620 --> 00:08:47.080 It really is that simple. 00:08:47.740 --> 00:08:48.580 Read God's word. 00:08:50.300 --> 00:08:54.380 For my own life here in the last month or so, I've been reading through Proverbs. 00:08:54.540 --> 00:08:55.940 I'm reading back through it now. 00:08:57.180 --> 00:09:02.160 Every day, whatever the day is, this is the 29th, so I would be reading chapter 29 of Proverbs. 00:09:02.340 --> 00:09:08.760 And all through Proverbs, God is using Solomon to share his wisdom about how to follow God 00:09:08.760 --> 00:09:11.260 and his wisdom about how not to follow the world. 00:09:12.340 --> 00:09:18.500 And no matter what the case is, you discover all aspects of life by reading the book of Proverbs. 00:09:19.420 --> 00:09:24.320 It's God's way of showing you and I, this is the right way to live, the wise way to live. 00:09:24.900 --> 00:09:28.200 And this is the way not to live, the foolish way to live. 00:09:28.820 --> 00:09:33.160 It takes a lifelong commitment from you and I to be students of God's word 00:09:33.160 --> 00:09:37.720 and to apply God's word to our life, not simply just reading it, 00:09:38.280 --> 00:09:43.380 but making sure that you and I are obedient to it, you and I are following it as God's word. 00:09:45.140 --> 00:09:49.540 You see, this is the area that Paul is kind of giving us that drive-through answer 00:09:49.540 --> 00:09:52.920 to that question we ask, how do we live the Christian life? 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.500 Just in these little bit, this small passage here in verses, 00:09:57.000 --> 00:10:02.420 he's giving us a quick understanding of what you and I need to do to live this Christian life. 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:08.500 He's driving home the thought of you and I maturing in our faith and growing in our faith. 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:12.820 The big idea is found in verses 22 and 24. 00:10:12.940 --> 00:10:20.800 That's how Paul sums it up by simply stating to put off your old life and to put on the new self. 00:10:21.300 --> 00:10:24.660 To put off your old self and to put on the new self. 00:10:25.300 --> 00:10:26.760 So let's break this down together. 00:10:27.420 --> 00:10:30.360 The first thing we want to look at is put off your old self. 00:10:30.620 --> 00:10:32.320 What in the world is Paul saying? 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:34.400 What is my old self? 00:10:35.160 --> 00:10:39.960 My old self is that way I used to live before I ever met Christ as my Lord and Savior. 00:10:41.020 --> 00:10:47.820 My old self is the way I used to live before I ever came to know Christ as my Lord and Savior. 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:49.420 That's the old self. 00:10:50.460 --> 00:10:52.720 Look with me once again in verse 17. 00:10:53.980 --> 00:10:57.820 Now this, Paul is saying, now this I say and testify in the Lord. 00:10:57.920 --> 00:10:59.860 It says, this is not just from me. 00:10:59.940 --> 00:11:00.880 This is not my words. 00:11:01.020 --> 00:11:02.520 This is from the Lord. 00:11:02.880 --> 00:11:09.460 This is testifying to the Lord that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do. 00:11:10.180 --> 00:11:15.060 He used that, kind of that phrase earlier on in Ephesians, walk worthy. 00:11:15.640 --> 00:11:19.800 And once again, this time he's saying, don't walk as the Gentiles do. 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:22.380 In the futility of their minds. 00:11:23.420 --> 00:11:26.320 So the first thing of the old self that he mentions here is this. 00:11:26.780 --> 00:11:29.840 The old self keeps in step with the world's way. 00:11:31.060 --> 00:11:34.700 The old self keeps in step with the world's way. 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:39.640 If you remember, there's something else that Paul wrote about in Romans chapter 12, verse 2. 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.620 The first part of that, he says, do not be conformed to this world. 00:11:44.280 --> 00:11:46.140 Don't walk like the Gentiles do. 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.580 Don't be conformed to this world. 00:11:50.020 --> 00:11:52.220 Another aspect that we see in this verse is this. 00:11:52.640 --> 00:11:54.660 The old self has a foolish mind. 00:11:56.660 --> 00:11:59.180 We're going to talk in a moment what the new self has. 00:11:59.880 --> 00:12:06.320 But the old self, that self that relies on itself, that self that relies on the world, it has a foolish mindset. 00:12:07.700 --> 00:12:11.080 It doesn't think the way that God desires for you and I to think. 00:12:12.900 --> 00:12:21.220 Look at verse 18 and 19 as he continues, Paul continues to give us the idea and show to you and I what this old self looks like. 00:12:23.160 --> 00:12:25.000 They are darkened in their understanding. 00:12:27.620 --> 00:12:34.360 That's a pretty vivid illustration of what Paul is trying to drive home about a person who doesn't know the Lord. 00:12:34.460 --> 00:12:36.120 They are darkened in their understanding. 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:42.560 So how in the world can they know what you're thinking as a Christian because they don't know what a Christian thinks? 00:12:43.420 --> 00:12:46.020 They're darkened to the concept of who God is. 00:12:46.520 --> 00:12:56.640 He goes on to say they're alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. 00:12:57.460 --> 00:12:59.260 He's not saying they're ignorant people. 00:12:59.380 --> 00:13:01.480 He's not saying they're not intelligent. 00:13:01.980 --> 00:13:04.400 But what he is saying is they don't know the things of God. 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:12.480 That old self, that life that you used to live was not the way that God would have you to live. 00:13:12.900 --> 00:13:15.960 It's not the life that God describes in the scriptures. 00:13:16.300 --> 00:13:18.800 That's why Paul calls it the old life. 00:13:21.280 --> 00:13:26.960 And as a result of living that old life, what happens is the heart becomes hardened to the things of God. 00:13:28.660 --> 00:13:34.700 The more a person lives opposite of the truth of God's word, the more their life is turned away from God. 00:13:34.760 --> 00:13:40.600 The more they back away from the things that God wants them to do or even to come to know the Lord. 00:13:42.280 --> 00:13:43.440 Verse 19 says, 00:13:43.860 --> 00:13:48.900 I think we all know what callous means. 00:13:49.040 --> 00:13:58.120 If you've worked out in your yard or if you've done anything by having a handle in your hand, you know that over time as you work, you begin to develop calluses. 00:13:59.340 --> 00:14:01.660 They're around your knuckles or right here on your hand. 00:14:02.460 --> 00:14:04.360 I need to do a little more work in my yard. 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:05.840 I don't feel very many of them. 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:15.300 But you know, in our life, when we do the same thing over and over again that doesn't represent God, we become callous to who God is. 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:18.680 And that's the visual that Paul has given you and I. 00:14:18.740 --> 00:14:21.240 They have become callous and have given themselves up. 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:28.460 They've given in to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:34.100 A person that decides to continue to live in the old self just gives up. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:36.740 They say, what use is it? 00:14:37.340 --> 00:14:39.960 I'm just going to continue to live this way. 00:14:41.260 --> 00:14:43.600 The old self has no understanding of God. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.020 The old self is ignorant to the things of God. 00:14:47.400 --> 00:14:49.980 The old self turns its heart against God. 00:14:50.600 --> 00:14:53.900 The old self gives into his or her own desires. 00:14:55.780 --> 00:14:57.480 But I love this next part. 00:14:58.180 --> 00:14:59.440 I love verses 12. 00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:00.080 And 21. 00:15:02.260 --> 00:15:04.800 I have followed the Lord for many years. 00:15:06.300 --> 00:15:10.900 And I don't know how many countless times I have read Ephesians chapter 4. 00:15:11.220 --> 00:15:15.720 And this section specifically, especially back in the youth minister days. 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:24.240 But for some reason, in this moment, as I was preparing for this message, the Lord gave me one of those wow moments. 00:15:25.160 --> 00:15:30.360 One of those moments that says, Dave, I think you missed this the last time you read this part of Scripture. 00:15:32.140 --> 00:15:32.760 And it's one of those moments. 00:15:32.760 --> 00:15:35.640 And it's one of those things that just jumped off the pages of God's Word. 00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:40.120 Look at verse 20 with me. 00:15:41.780 --> 00:15:44.740 After Paul has gone through and saying, this is the old life. 00:15:44.800 --> 00:15:46.720 This is what the old life looks like. 00:15:46.980 --> 00:15:57.680 Remember, he's talking to believers in the church in Ephesus. 00:15:57.880 --> 00:16:01.240 He says, this is not the way you learned Christ. 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.300 And this is what really got my attention. 00:16:05.900 --> 00:16:08.680 Assuming that you have heard about him. 00:16:09.940 --> 00:16:13.280 Now again, these are believers that Paul is sending this letter to. 00:16:14.160 --> 00:16:18.400 Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him. 00:16:20.400 --> 00:16:30.060 How many times have I just gone past that and not held on to that moment? 00:16:31.300 --> 00:16:36.580 You see, a Christ follower has a learned relationship with Jesus Christ. 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:40.840 Before I met my wife, Trish, she's not here this morning. 00:16:40.940 --> 00:16:43.600 She's actually helping with babies this morning. 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:48.780 But before she and I ever met each other and started dating, I knew about her. 00:16:49.580 --> 00:16:51.740 I had knowledge of who she was. 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:59.020 But then as we began today, and then 26 years later, as long as we've been married together, 00:16:59.460 --> 00:17:02.640 I am still learning about my wife, Trish. 00:17:03.900 --> 00:17:07.320 You see, I can have knowledge about who Christ is. 00:17:07.380 --> 00:17:10.100 I can have knowledge about who God is. 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:13.860 But what Paul is saying here is, learn knowledge is this. 00:17:14.740 --> 00:17:18.060 You have knowledge along with interaction. 00:17:18.760 --> 00:17:21.960 You have knowledge along with engagement. 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.740 It's not knowledge that I know about Christ from what I've read in Scripture, 00:17:27.100 --> 00:17:31.940 but it's the knowledge that I have learned about Christ because I walk with him daily. 00:17:33.020 --> 00:17:35.180 I am in relationship with Christ. 00:17:35.180 --> 00:17:40.900 And so, when my life intersects with God's Word, there's something that is happening. 00:17:41.080 --> 00:17:42.560 There's something that's going on. 00:17:42.900 --> 00:17:47.380 I am choosing either to be obedient to God's Word or I'm choosing to be disobedient. 00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:50.900 And I learn about who Christ is in that moment. 00:17:50.900 --> 00:17:54.020 It's something deeper that Paul is saying. 00:17:54.260 --> 00:17:59.380 Not just knowledge, but engagement, relationship. 00:18:00.540 --> 00:18:04.380 If we're just to gain knowledge through reading, what good is that? 00:18:04.540 --> 00:18:07.280 That's not what God desires for your life and for my life. 00:18:07.740 --> 00:18:12.980 God desires for that knowledge of Scripture to bring us into relationship with Him. 00:18:13.580 --> 00:18:20.460 To continue to mold and shape us into the image that God desires for your life and for my life. 00:18:22.380 --> 00:18:26.180 Then Paul asks the question, have you heard about Jesus Christ? 00:18:27.540 --> 00:18:32.520 Have you been in the church of Ephesus all this time and you don't even know the name of Jesus? 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.360 That's a very strong question that he throws in there. 00:18:38.200 --> 00:18:40.160 Have you heard about Jesus Christ? 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:45.140 So, when you and I read this part of Scripture, you and I have to ask ourselves the same question. 00:18:45.500 --> 00:18:47.440 Have we heard about Jesus Christ? 00:18:48.100 --> 00:18:49.680 What does that mean to your life? 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:51.300 What does that mean to my life? 00:18:52.380 --> 00:18:58.900 And then another interesting question that he asks, have you allowed yourself to be taught about Jesus Christ? 00:19:00.600 --> 00:19:01.760 Have you been taught? 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:05.880 Now, this caused me to think about this a little more. 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:08.200 And it's this. 00:19:10.300 --> 00:19:14.680 Every Sunday, within a stone's throw, you and I could go to any church that we want to. 00:19:15.840 --> 00:19:17.780 Willow Ridge Church or any church around. 00:19:18.560 --> 00:19:26.380 If we go to any state along the East Coast and other areas, we could find a church probably at the same hour that we're used to here. 00:19:26.700 --> 00:19:27.940 No matter where we go. 00:19:29.060 --> 00:19:34.760 At any time, we could look at our phone and learn things about God through podcasts. 00:19:36.340 --> 00:19:39.560 Maybe it is other things that we do by engaging in Bible study. 00:19:39.560 --> 00:19:44.980 The important thing is, what are you and I doing to be taught Jesus Christ? 00:19:45.620 --> 00:19:49.620 You and I have to position ourself to be taught. 00:19:50.740 --> 00:19:52.760 I applaud you for being here this morning. 00:19:53.100 --> 00:19:56.800 As Moses shared in the welcome, you could be anywhere this morning. 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:00.680 You could be flipping over right now in your bed on the other side. 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:02.700 You could be watching TV. 00:20:02.840 --> 00:20:04.800 You could be out playing golf. 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:05.820 You could be out on the lake. 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:07.000 You could be doing anything. 00:20:08.020 --> 00:20:09.980 But you chose to be in worship this morning. 00:20:10.500 --> 00:20:14.720 And one of the things about when we gather together to worship, we're taught the Word of God. 00:20:15.800 --> 00:20:20.700 But you can also position yourself to be with a group of people learning God's Word together. 00:20:21.580 --> 00:20:22.940 We call that Bible study. 00:20:23.020 --> 00:20:24.520 We call that small group around here. 00:20:24.520 --> 00:20:25.680 We call that family group. 00:20:26.180 --> 00:20:28.920 Gathering together with others to learn God's Word. 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:36.660 But I think one of the most important things that you and I can do in our relationship with God is to spend time with God daily. 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:43.760 Position yourself to be in the Word of God, you and God, on a regular daily basis. 00:20:44.120 --> 00:20:48.800 It's important that you and I position ourselves to be taught about Jesus Christ. 00:20:49.680 --> 00:21:02.160 If you're only allowing one hour a week on a Sunday to position yourself to be taught God, you're going to be elementary in your understanding of who God is. 00:21:02.300 --> 00:21:03.780 Paul also talks about that. 00:21:04.780 --> 00:21:06.740 He says we've got to be growing in our faith. 00:21:06.820 --> 00:21:08.440 We've got to be growing in our understanding. 00:21:08.920 --> 00:21:12.800 That's why you and I got to engage with God on a regular and daily basis. 00:21:14.840 --> 00:21:20.360 We also see in this passage that a Christ follower knows that truth is found in Jesus Christ. 00:21:20.500 --> 00:21:23.080 Truth is found in Jesus Christ. 00:21:24.500 --> 00:21:27.460 That phrase right there that Paul writes is so important. 00:21:28.680 --> 00:21:35.160 You and I live today in a time where folks just really don't understand what truth is. 00:21:36.280 --> 00:21:39.440 The idea that my truth is my truth. 00:21:39.580 --> 00:21:41.040 Where does that come from? 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:47.040 Over 20-something years ago, there was this man by the name of Josh McDowell. 00:21:48.100 --> 00:21:54.880 And Josh McDowell focused his life work, God's purpose that he gave him, on students around the country. 00:21:55.900 --> 00:22:02.640 And he was writing about the thought that if we as believers don't stand firm on the truth of God's Word, 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:06.040 then years later, we're going to be in this mess. 00:22:07.860 --> 00:22:10.180 That was 20-plus years ago. 00:22:11.260 --> 00:22:17.160 And as I hear people talk today, even believers talk about your truth is your truth, my truth is my truth. 00:22:17.220 --> 00:22:17.940 I'm like, time out. 00:22:18.020 --> 00:22:18.620 Wait a second. 00:22:19.860 --> 00:22:23.200 As believers of God and God's Word, there is one truth. 00:22:23.340 --> 00:22:25.640 There is an absolute truth that's in God's Word. 00:22:26.540 --> 00:22:27.800 It can't be ambiguous. 00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:30.460 It can't be cloudy. 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:32.560 It can't be formed with other truths. 00:22:32.860 --> 00:22:34.180 No, it's God's truth. 00:22:34.260 --> 00:22:35.180 It's God's Word. 00:22:36.180 --> 00:22:43.680 And that's what sets you and I apart as believers from the rest of the world is we have God's truth and we've got to be grounded in God's truth. 00:22:44.560 --> 00:22:49.420 There are things that happen in our world around us that are not evident of who God is. 00:22:50.620 --> 00:22:52.300 And we have to be different. 00:22:52.460 --> 00:22:56.860 If we're not different, then who will someone turn to when they need God? 00:22:58.860 --> 00:23:00.320 Let me say that again. 00:23:00.980 --> 00:23:09.180 If you and I are not different, if we're not walking with the Lord, when somebody needs the Lord in that moment in their life, who are they going to turn to? 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:16.660 They don't want to turn to somebody that looks just like them, talks like them, acts like them, plays like them. 00:23:17.020 --> 00:23:23.220 They want somebody who they can look at and say, they must be a follower of Christ. 00:23:25.540 --> 00:23:27.640 And Paul is saying this in this midst. 00:23:27.740 --> 00:23:29.700 He says, you've got to be different. 00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:32.500 That old self can't live any longer. 00:23:32.900 --> 00:23:35.100 That new self has to be evident. 00:23:37.740 --> 00:23:40.720 This past week, I did a funeral with Jackie. 00:23:41.780 --> 00:23:42.600 Jackie Branham. 00:23:42.660 --> 00:23:43.680 Many of you know Jackie. 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:47.240 Jackie has been a part of Willow Ridge for many years. 00:23:47.600 --> 00:23:50.660 We've actually done a few funerals together, sad to say. 00:23:51.560 --> 00:23:55.520 But I have heard Jackie ask this question several times in funerals. 00:23:56.700 --> 00:24:02.180 Do you know that you know that you know that you know that you know Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior? 00:24:03.320 --> 00:24:09.220 Do you know that you know that you know that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior? 00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:14.000 Do you know that your eternity will be in heaven in God's presence? 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:19.100 You see, verses 20 and 21 is Paul's way of asking you that question. 00:24:20.060 --> 00:24:20.940 Do you know? 00:24:21.100 --> 00:24:25.540 It was Paul's way of asking the believers in Ephesus, do you know? 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:29.760 Paul writes in Galatians 2.20, he says, 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:35.700 It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. 00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:42.900 In the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. 00:24:44.180 --> 00:24:48.020 Paul says my identity is with Jesus Christ. 00:24:49.300 --> 00:24:50.360 That's who I am. 00:24:50.980 --> 00:24:54.540 That old life I have, it was crucified when Christ was crucified. 00:24:54.940 --> 00:24:57.660 That new life I have, I now live in the faith. 00:24:58.060 --> 00:25:01.340 In this flesh, I live in the faith in the Son of God. 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.000 That is my identity. 00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:07.880 Thankfully, Paul didn't stop there in verses 22 through 24. 00:25:08.280 --> 00:25:12.840 Now he gives you and I that picture of what it means to put on the new self. 00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:17.400 You see, wouldn't it be sad if Paul said, 00:25:17.800 --> 00:25:20.520 Hey, this old life, you don't need to live that anymore. 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:23.380 You need to make sure that you know who you are. 00:25:24.180 --> 00:25:25.840 Wouldn't it be sad if he stopped right there and said, 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:30.380 Oh, Paul, it's like you bring me to the buffet and then you don't let me eat. 00:25:30.460 --> 00:25:31.780 There's something wrong with that. 00:25:32.140 --> 00:25:34.300 You know, I got to have something more. 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:36.320 And Paul does that. 00:25:36.820 --> 00:25:40.840 He describes to you and I what that new self is like that we're to put on. 00:25:40.840 --> 00:25:43.860 Verse 22, to put off your old self. 00:25:44.760 --> 00:25:46.640 Once again, he describes what that is, 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:51.160 which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires. 00:25:52.120 --> 00:25:55.760 He says, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds 00:25:55.760 --> 00:26:01.380 and to put on the new self created after the likeness of God 00:26:01.380 --> 00:26:04.560 in true righteousness and holiness. 00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:09.720 The new self puts off the old self. 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:15.280 Our struggle, our battle that you and I will have is wanting to pick up that old self. 00:26:16.260 --> 00:26:18.800 Wanting to go to the closet and get in those old clothes, 00:26:18.920 --> 00:26:21.680 those old relationships and try to put it back on. 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:24.520 But God's word tells you and I, no, don't do that. 00:26:26.620 --> 00:26:28.840 Put it off and put on the new self. 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:31.500 Put on the likeness of Christ. 00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:35.720 The new self renews his or her mind in God. 00:26:36.740 --> 00:26:39.860 That's what Paul tells you and I, that we're to renew our mind. 00:26:40.040 --> 00:26:41.360 Think about it for a moment. 00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:47.060 When you make decisions in life, where do those decisions originate from? 00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:51.440 They come from the thoughts and desires of your mind. 00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:56.800 They come from whatever you filled your mind with day in and day out. 00:26:57.180 --> 00:26:58.580 That's where it all starts. 00:26:59.580 --> 00:27:03.900 You just don't go out and react and have an action without it processing in your mind. 00:27:05.900 --> 00:27:07.660 Because it needs to be renewed. 00:27:07.940 --> 00:27:09.320 Your mind needs to be renewed. 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:12.800 The other part of Romans 12, 2 that we read earlier is this. 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:17.020 But be transformed by the renewal of your mind. 00:27:18.140 --> 00:27:21.560 If you and I are going to understand what it means to have this new self, 00:27:21.620 --> 00:27:25.640 if you and I are going to understand what it means to walk in relationship with God, 00:27:26.020 --> 00:27:31.000 you and I have to understand the idea of what it means to renew our minds. 00:27:33.340 --> 00:27:38.920 Our minds can only be renewed when we're spending time in God's word. 00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:46.020 Our minds can be renewed when we're spending time in Bible study and conversation with other believers. 00:27:46.860 --> 00:27:53.680 Our minds can be renewed when we're worshiping together in God in song and in reading of God's word together. 00:27:55.840 --> 00:28:01.900 Again, it's why it's so important for you and I to spend time in God's word on a daily and regular basis. 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:06.120 Because in God's word, God is renewing. 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.800 Through His Holy Spirit, He's renewing our mind. 00:28:09.600 --> 00:28:12.100 He's resetting our mind on Him. 00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:14.740 And not on the things of this world. 00:28:16.180 --> 00:28:20.300 The new self is reminded that he or she is created in the likeness of God. 00:28:21.320 --> 00:28:23.080 That's the other part of the understanding. 00:28:24.420 --> 00:28:28.020 If I am a believer, a Christ follower, then my identity is in Christ. 00:28:28.520 --> 00:28:30.860 Therefore, I am a child of God. 00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:33.960 I am an heir of God. 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:38.340 That gives me a total different concept of who I am. 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:44.740 The new self is represented by God's righteousness and holiness. 00:28:45.060 --> 00:28:50.880 We are set apart because we don't respond to life the way a non-believer responds to life. 00:28:51.840 --> 00:28:55.660 When we face hardship, our go-to is to face it with God. 00:28:55.760 --> 00:28:59.660 Now, that's the battle of the old self and the new self. 00:29:00.620 --> 00:29:05.520 What God desires for you and I to do is to face it in relationship with Him. 00:29:08.520 --> 00:29:13.420 Look with me at 1 Peter 1, verses 13 and 17. 00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:13.820 It says, 00:29:13.820 --> 00:29:23.960 Therefore, preparing your minds for action and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:30.080 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance. 00:29:30.900 --> 00:29:36.620 But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in your conduct. 00:29:37.280 --> 00:29:41.080 Since it is written, you shall be holy, for I am holy. 00:29:42.460 --> 00:29:48.420 As believers, God has set you and I apart in His holiness and in His righteousness. 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:54.660 Last thing, the new self exists in the presence of God. 00:29:55.420 --> 00:29:59.260 The new self exists in the presence of God. 00:30:00.340 --> 00:30:02.680 That's what makes life for you and I different. 00:30:03.940 --> 00:30:07.740 When you're in the presence of God, you don't want to be in the presence of anything else. 00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:10.800 You don't want to be in the presence of sin. 00:30:12.080 --> 00:30:15.300 When you've experienced what it's like to be in the presence of God. 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:22.480 Last Sunday, the praise band was up here preparing and practicing for worship. 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:25.980 And I was back in the back, setting some stuff out on the table. 00:30:26.940 --> 00:30:32.320 And all of a sudden, in that moment, as they were playing, my heart began to worship. 00:30:33.320 --> 00:30:36.980 And in that moment, God simply said those words to me. 00:30:37.320 --> 00:30:42.300 David, it's a whole lot better being in my presence than being in the presence of anything else. 00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:48.460 David, it's a whole lot better living in my presence than living in the presence of sin. 00:30:49.360 --> 00:30:54.360 I had no clue that God was going to place me here in front of you this morning to share. 00:30:55.540 --> 00:31:04.300 But what God did seven days ago to remind me of how important it is for you and I to be in the presence of God daily. 00:31:06.040 --> 00:31:07.660 But we've made that hard. 00:31:09.040 --> 00:31:13.140 And here's how I think we've made it hard to be in the presence of God on a regular basis. 00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:20.860 We've made it hard because our schedules constantly squeeze God's presence out. 00:31:22.360 --> 00:31:26.920 Our schedules constantly squeeze God's presence out. 00:31:28.600 --> 00:31:32.320 I can look at my week and go, man, I've got a lot of things to accomplish today. 00:31:33.600 --> 00:31:38.760 Lord, can I set my word aside, your word aside, and get back with it tomorrow? 00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:42.140 Lord, I need to accomplish this. 00:31:42.840 --> 00:31:45.280 How about you and I get together in a few days? 00:31:46.380 --> 00:31:49.540 You see, our schedules begin to dictate how we're going to spend our time. 00:31:49.580 --> 00:31:50.320 And I get that. 00:31:50.740 --> 00:31:55.740 But a lot of times, you and I, as faithful followers of God, we begin to say, God, we'll get to you later. 00:31:57.660 --> 00:32:01.020 And so that's one of Satan's easy ways. 00:32:01.260 --> 00:32:07.340 He may not throw things out there that we consider big sins, but he's going to slide a busy schedule in. 00:32:08.860 --> 00:32:13.680 And maybe that busy schedule calls you on a Sunday morning and say, you know, I'll go to church next Sunday. 00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.400 Or maybe that busy schedule say, you know, I've hit it hard this week. 00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:25.660 You know, I don't really have time to go and meet with my men's group or my women's group or my family group because I'm just so busy. 00:32:26.820 --> 00:32:33.020 And Satan's sitting off in the distance going, I've won again. 00:32:34.760 --> 00:32:36.420 You see, that's one of the things that Satan can do. 00:32:36.520 --> 00:32:43.660 If he can make his, if Satan can make God's believers busy, it squeezes out the presence of God in our lives. 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:47.680 Here's a challenge that I want to give to you this week. 00:32:48.620 --> 00:32:51.960 It's a way of practicing the presence of God. 00:32:53.100 --> 00:32:57.300 It's a way of starting adding the presence of God back into your life. 00:32:57.900 --> 00:33:02.320 All of us are familiar with reading our Bibles and praying and making that a part of our life. 00:33:03.100 --> 00:33:05.600 But I want to share another aspect with you. 00:33:07.600 --> 00:33:11.600 Go a week without listening to music or a podcast in your car. 00:33:12.300 --> 00:33:13.020 Wait a second. 00:33:14.120 --> 00:33:17.080 Don't be telling me about how I spend my time in my vehicle. 00:33:18.040 --> 00:33:19.700 But I challenge you to do that. 00:33:20.540 --> 00:33:27.380 Go a week with not turning your radio or your phone, however you listen to things in your vehicle. 00:33:27.520 --> 00:33:29.660 Go a week without doing it. 00:33:31.260 --> 00:33:39.360 About eight years ago, I was preparing to lead a retreat on the spiritual discipline of solitude and silence. 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:45.820 And as I read a lot about solitude and silence, because I didn't know a whole lot about it, I knew what silence meant. 00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:53.300 But the idea of practicing solitude and silence was one of the things I was challenged with, and it was that. 00:33:54.300 --> 00:33:56.900 Use the time in your car as a retreat. 00:33:56.900 --> 00:34:03.080 Use the time in your vehicle as a way to shut down with solitude and silence. 00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:04.800 And so I did it. 00:34:04.900 --> 00:34:05.900 I did it for months. 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:11.320 And it was amazing the blessing that God gave to me. 00:34:12.220 --> 00:34:15.060 As I was able to process life with God. 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:21.820 Because when you just shut everything off, and all you hear are car noise, when you just shut everything off, 00:34:22.220 --> 00:34:25.200 you are allowing God to speak to your heart and mind. 00:34:25.780 --> 00:34:28.340 I didn't know, I didn't have questions for God. 00:34:29.240 --> 00:34:31.400 I just, my understanding was shut it off and listen. 00:34:32.160 --> 00:34:33.060 That's simple enough. 00:34:33.120 --> 00:34:33.840 I can do that. 00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:36.520 And so that's my challenge. 00:34:37.500 --> 00:34:41.180 But not only that, my additive to that is this. 00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.080 Add to it by focusing your thoughts on God. 00:34:47.640 --> 00:34:49.480 Now Satan's going to do a few things. 00:34:49.560 --> 00:34:52.580 He's going to throw schedule at you in that silence. 00:34:52.580 --> 00:34:54.140 What you got to accomplish that day. 00:34:54.660 --> 00:34:55.280 Let it come. 00:34:55.540 --> 00:34:56.040 Let it go. 00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:57.800 Don't try to deny it. 00:34:57.840 --> 00:35:00.280 If you're denying it, all you're going to do is spend time thinking about it. 00:35:00.900 --> 00:35:02.160 Just let it pass through. 00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:04.380 Enjoy that solitude. 00:35:04.540 --> 00:35:05.300 Enjoy that silence. 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.320 And let God build off of one day into the next. 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.900 If you just try it for one day, you're not going to see God's work. 00:35:14.180 --> 00:35:16.640 Allow some time the entire week to turn off. 00:35:16.700 --> 00:35:18.580 Just in your car to turn it off. 00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:21.360 I know if you listen to Christian music, that's great. 00:35:21.600 --> 00:35:24.200 If you listen to podcasts about God, that's wonderful. 00:35:25.260 --> 00:35:32.340 But to get an idea of what solitude and silence is, to practice the presence of God, I want to encourage you to do that. 00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:36.000 And send your mind towards the thoughts of God. 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:39.440 Here's what Philippians 4 verses 8 through 9 tells us. 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:54.380 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable. 00:35:55.000 --> 00:36:04.040 If there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 00:36:05.520 --> 00:36:10.220 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things. 00:36:10.980 --> 00:36:13.140 And the God of peace will be with you. 00:36:15.020 --> 00:36:16.480 Put off your old self. 00:36:17.700 --> 00:36:19.080 And put on the new self. 00:36:22.040 --> 00:36:23.380 Lord, thank you for your word. 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:30.860 Whether we read it individually, whether we read it corporately, or read it when we're with other believers. 00:36:33.080 --> 00:36:35.060 Your word always speaks. 00:36:39.780 --> 00:36:47.820 Lord, in those moments that we gather together and you start talking, you start challenging our hearts, and you start challenging our mind. 00:36:50.060 --> 00:36:55.980 And Lord, we know from your word that it is there to give us instruction on how to live our life with you. 00:36:56.460 --> 00:37:00.900 But also to give us instruction on how to live our life with others. 00:37:03.800 --> 00:37:07.380 Father, help us not to stumble through this life wondering what we're to do. 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:14.080 Because right there within your word, we see our old ways and we see the new ways in which you desire to live. 00:37:14.080 --> 00:37:21.560 Father, I know the struggle to live life our way is real. 00:37:21.680 --> 00:37:24.020 I know the struggle with sin is real. 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:28.920 And I know Satan doesn't make it easier on our lives. 00:37:29.860 --> 00:37:36.420 Because the last thing he wants us to do is live in full and meaningful relationship with you. 00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:45.420 Lord, whatever our struggles are in life, help us to know that you're there to walk with us in the midst of those struggles. 00:37:46.620 --> 00:37:53.700 And Lord, you have also given us as fellow followers of Christ to walk alongside one another. 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:55.040 To carry those burdens. 00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:58.760 To be ears that listen to pain and worry. 00:37:58.760 --> 00:38:04.860 But also to be a voice that speaks your truth in the midst of those pains and worries and decisions of life. 00:38:08.380 --> 00:38:11.760 Lord, no matter what stage we are in our understanding and relationship with you. 00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:16.000 Lord, may we continue to press in to drawing close to you. 00:38:16.100 --> 00:38:18.100 Knowing that you will draw close to us. 00:38:21.240 --> 00:38:23.200 Lord, we thank you so much for your word. 00:38:23.300 --> 00:38:24.960 We thank you for all that you do. 00:38:25.980 --> 00:38:27.500 We ask this prayer in your name. 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:28.240 Amen. 00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:31.760 I don't know what you're going through in life. 00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:33.580 I don't know what you're dealing through in life. 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.000 Part of our prayer team, Tim Rice and Maggie Rice are here down front. 00:38:39.220 --> 00:38:41.680 I'll be in the back corner back there. 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:49.740 And if you don't know that you're a follower of Christ and you need to solidify that in your mind, we would love to have that conversation with you. 00:38:51.140 --> 00:38:57.380 Maybe there's some struggles that you've been facing this week or month and you just say, man, I got to talk to somebody. 00:38:58.560 --> 00:39:03.960 We're there to listen to what you've got to say, to pray with you, to give you guidance, whatever the case might be. 00:39:05.220 --> 00:39:10.880 Whatever God is prompting in your heart, I just pray and ask that you follow what God's leading is in your heart. 00:39:11.720 --> 00:39:13.200 Let's continue to worship together. 00:39:23.200 --> 00:39:26.400 Thanks again for listening to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:29.020 We hope that you enjoyed listening to this week's message. 00:39:29.640 --> 00:39:38.080 If you'd like to learn more about who we are or explore additional resources, visit us online at www.willowridgechurch.com 00:39:38.080 --> 00:39:41.640 or by searching for Willow Ridge Church on Facebook and Instagram. 00:39:41.640 --> 00:39:51.700 We hope that you've got to learn more about who we are and learn more about who we are and learn more about who we are. 00:39:51.700 --> 00:39:53.020 We hope that you've got to learn more about who we are.