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Looking back on God’s faithfulness helps us move forward with confidence when we keep Jesus at the center of everything.

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Cameron Lienhart

Cameron is the Senior Pastor of Conduit Ministries

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Good morning, friends. How are you this morning? Good. It's good to see you this morning. Happy new year. Yes, it is. Today is Jeremy Shank's birthday. And I also heard that it is Heather Billstone's birthday as well. Heather Billstone's birthday. And we've had a few birthdays these last couple of weeks. I know Levi Blakeslee's birthday and Brad Swanson's birthday and Galen's birthday and lots of birthdays. You know, as the church grows a little bit, we might just have to have monthly birthday singing because it's getting, we got a lot of people with birthdays. I got a few announcements. Happy birthday to you all. Prayer everyone. Happy birthday this year. And this is the first Sunday of the new year. We talked last week about looking back and looking back on our year and how kind of common, I don't know, maybe pop psychology or whatever tells you to never don't don't look backwards. You know, like what's what's behind you is behind you. And you want to leave that you're always looking forward, always looking to what's next, always looking to what's going to happen that's better than what happened to you behind. And we talked last week about how

That's kind of a bad strategy. That certainly we don't want to go back to those places and look behind us and kind of rehash the emotions and the experiences and let it take roots of bitterness or anger or sadness within us. But there are, there is good, purposeful, redeeming qualities to looking back upon our life, looking, looking back upon our year and recounting and recalling all the times and all of the places and all of the moments where God was faithful to us and building on the foundation of his faithfulness to us in the past so that we can move forward. Like if we, if we have no foundation of God proving himself faithful and loving and caring and providing and merciful and graceful to us in the past, then we have very little hope moving forward into what stands in front of us. And so looking backwards can actually be a really important and really valuable thing in your spiritual life because it gives you, it gives you the material so to speak in order to move forward in a confidence that God has not abandoned me in the past. He is not going to abandon me in the future, that God has not left me there,

That God will go with me into the future. We believe that wholeheartedly. And so that's what we looked at really last week is kind of redirecting our focus to God's faithfulness as we look back upon a year that for some of us was full of joy and maybe some of us was full of pain. Most of us is probably somewhere in the middle, but today is today a day to look ahead. The first Sunday of the new year, looking ahead as to what is coming. And there's lots of ways that we could tackle this. We could tackle it from a church perspective, okay, as a church, as a whole body, as conduit. How, how are we looking forward and what are we looking forward to and what is goals, plans, vision, mission God calling us to in the next calendar year. And we're going to get there, okay. In the next few weeks, we're going to talk a little bit about some of that. But before we can make some corporate commitments to as a body, what we're going to do going forward, it is important that we also take a moment to pause to say like, what is, what about my life and what about my own heart and what about my own priority and what about my

Own focus and what about my own, like, what am I looking ahead to? And what am I looking, what, what is that based upon? This last song that we sang here in this, that beginning worship said, Christ be magnified. Christ be magnified in the altar of our lives. Christ be magnified in me. It is an anthem for what we are going to talk about this morning. We are, we listen, we are here

Because of Jesus. You know, we are here in this room because of Jesus. We are here on this earth

Because of Jesus. And we're not just here because of Jesus. We're here for Jesus.

We're here for Him. Our lives are not our own. Our, our, our dreams, our ambitions, our goals, our passions, while important and can be leveraged in tremendously great ways. Everything that we have, everything that we are, everything that we possess, every movement that we make is for Him.

This is the basis of what it means to declare and proclaim and to describe Jesus as your Lord.

If you say things like, well Jesus, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. Or if you used a title or description of Jesus as Lord, you're making a proclamation or a declaration about the place of priority that you believe Jesus has in your life. A Lord is someone who, whose, whose authority and permissions cannot be, cannot be questioned. So we are here because of Jesus and we are also here for Jesus. Our lives exist to bring Him glory, to magnify His name, to lift up Jesus so that all men, women, and children may be drawn to Him. The purpose of the church is to bring glory to Jesus, is to proclaim the message that in Jesus Christ, the good news, the gospel of God has come. Everything exists because of Jesus and for Jesus. And so we unequivocally want to say here that we, we, we have, we will be determined to make Jesus first, to make Jesus first in our lives, to make Jesus first in our church. And ultimately our, our hearts, they long, they long for this, for this truth, this ultimate reality to take root in our hearts. Ultimately that is, that is what happened, what our hearts are longing for. Even, listen, even if you are here this morning,

Not knowing why exactly that you're here, but all you have is this sense of like, there's something inside of me that is searching for more than there is in front of my face.

I want you to know even that desire to search for what is true is a desire put there by Jesus himself to draw him to him, to draw you to him. It didn't just magically appear there from some kind of biological process of, you know, long over time, this deep indwelling need or desire to find purpose in the universe has existed by some kind of, by some kind of evolutionary process. God has put a vacuum in your soul that contains a peace that only can be filled by him, that contains an emptiness that can only be filled by him, even the longing that you have for something more. If you can't put a name to it or describe it, I'm here to tell you this morning that the longing and the searching that has existed in your soul for all of your life has a name and his name is Jesus. But something kind of changes in life and in eternity. When you step out from and away from kind of a casual relationship with Jesus and maybe an attachment, Jesus, Jesus as an attachment or an addendum to my normal, important life. You know, Jesus as that thing that simply refills me one day per week,

Rather than is the very life within you. Something changes radically in your life when, when that longing for God turns into a firm and certain determination, a confession, if you will, that Jesus Christ is not just something that I add to my life once a week, that Jesus Christ is not just something that I add, like, it's not some kind of attachment or addendum to an already fairly moral, ethical, happy life, but that know that Jesus Christ has become my Lord, that he determines the direction of my life. He determines the priorities of my life. He determines the positions of my life. He determines the affections of my life, the direction of my life. He determines my thoughts. He molds and shapes my heart. He changes my emotions, all of myself, my family, my goals, my job, my resources, all that I have is surrendered unto him.

Something changes when life changes like that. Something changes in you. Something will change around you when something happens like that. In the book of Romans, Paul says it like this. He says that if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, that you will be saved. It is this determination that must change everything about your life. No more kind of casual patty-caking with Jesus or with faith, but now into passionate attentiveness to my holiness, passionate attentiveness to the worship of the one who deserves it, and to growing and increasing in my capacity both to love him and to love others. So this year in 2026, and it kind of seems silly to say, "Look, let's make this our determination in 2026, " because really, this is our all-the-time determination. This is our all-the-time, from now until he comes back from the beginning of time to the end of the time determination. But in 2026, let us determine to once again make Jesus first.

Our first love, our first desire, our first passion, our first priority, letting that determination flow up and out of us like a spring of living water that brings life and fruit into our lives and then spills out into other lives as well.

And so if we spent last week looking back upon a year, asking God to show us the moments where he's been faithful and providing and protecting and resourcing and taking care of us even when we maybe didn't see it or didn't see him or didn't experience him, last year was all about looking backwards upon a year where God sustained me in his faithfulness. He sustained me in his love. Like today is all about looking forward with a determination to say, "Jesus will be first in my life this year."

And maybe sometimes, you know, like, yeah, you don't need a sermon on January 4th to be able to do that because it is a regular occasion with every breath, really. Our soul needs to breathe this truth. Jesus, I determine you to be first in my life. In every relationship, Jesus, I determine you to be first here. Every day, every moment, it is almost like it needs to become the heartbeat of our soul as involuntary as our inhaling and exhaling must be is this determination. Jesus is first in this. Jesus will be first in this. Jesus will be first in this. Jesus will be first in this because we have an enemy of our souls that is always trying to make it about us.

And every opportunity that he can be given to take the focus of our lives off of Jesus, even if it's a small, casual, seemingly insignificant thing, he will take slivers of our attentiveness away from Jesus as first priority and put it on something else, usually something that is very good in order to distract us away from the things that are great. The one thing that is great.

So every day we are we're making that determination now, but we must make it every day. We must make it in every moment to say that, yes, Jesus is first determined to make things Jesus first in my life because there's there's lots of things, like I said, lots of things competing for first in your life, motivated by the enemy of our souls who would like nothing else to see us distracted by other good things so that our focus remains off the greatest thing.

Lots of things compete for first in our lives. Our careers often compete for being of first priority in our lives. Our family often competes for first priority in our lives. My kids are my world. That's a problem.

Right. You put your kids in danger when you put them in priority over the Lord. Not because God is jealous and angry and must have that spot. God loves your kids before you even knew that they existed. God loves your kids more than anyone. You and anyone else.

But the great tool of the enemy is to distract us in the lordship of our lives so that if if our children become the Lord of our lives, meaning all of our life is built around them,

That it takes Jesus off of the throne and we put ourselves in danger. Lots of things can compete. Our career, our family, our ambition, you know, our hobbies, our passions, our money and our materialism, our appearance and our reputation. The list can go on for everyone. It's different and we all have probably a little sliver of each one in us.

So it's important in understanding that this can be the case that we must determine to make Jesus first. First in my career, first in my family, first in my ambition, first in my hobbies or my passion, first in my money or my resources, first in my appearance or my reputation. It doesn't matter. Christ be magnified on the altar of my life.

Now, in case you think that this is a modern problem, it's not. Both from the very beginning of time, but also from the very beginning of the church, this was an issue. I'm not going to read the whole section of scripture, but in the first couple chapters of the letter to the Corinthian church, Paul kind of has these rhetorical questions that he sends to the Corinthians when he gets word that they're all arguing and bickering amongst themselves in the church about what leader they should actually follow. There's lots of leaders in the current lot of apostolic leaders at that time. A lot of people who poured into the life of the church at that point, and they were starting to argue. And Paul says, or what the letter to the Corinthians kind of reads is that, well, there was a little faction of people in the church over here who were like, well, yeah, I kind of follow Apollos, one of the leaders in the Corinthian church. And another one over here was like, well, I kind of follow Paul. And then another little faction over here, well, yeah, I kind of follow Cephas or Peter. And then still another little faction

Over here that was like, well, we follow Christ. And what Paul goes on to say is like, listen, Christ cannot be divided. And what he means by that is like, we can't, there's no such thing as dividing our lordship to Jesus. He is either your Lord or he is not. He is either first or he is last. And, and, and he, he comes at the Corinthian church to say like, like, listen, Christ cannot be divided. We did not baptize you in the name of Paul. We did not baptize you into the name of Apollos. We did not baptize you into the name of Cephas. You were baptized into the name of Christ Jesus. And so it was for them a reminder to, to determine Jesus Christ as Lord, to determine Jesus as first for their hearts. So it's not a, it's not a new problem to a modern church. This is an old problem to a sinful heart. What's been helpful for me in the past, so I want to offer to you is maybe helpful this week as you're asking this question to the Lord.

Maybe make this a prayer in your life. Michael hit it. There you go. Michael said he wanted verbal commands from the stage this morning. She's getting verbal commands from this. Do I have this prayer up there? Michael, show me what has become more important to me than you and lead me to lay it down in obedience and surrender. This is the question. This is the prayer. This is, this is a prayer that we ask the Lord this week.

If you're brave, I listen. I want to say brave enough. Brave is not, is not strong enough of a word. Cause I want to be really careful here about this. It's a very, it's a very spiritually dangerous game to play to ask the Lord to reveal thing. The things of your heart that stand in the way of your full and true worship of him, for him to then reveal those things to you and then for you to ignore it. It's a, it's a, it's a very, it becomes, it becomes open rebellion to the lordship of Jesus Christ in your life. When he clearly reveals to you the things that you have prioritized over him, and you just continue to say, yeah, but sorry, Jesus, I trust you understand. Okay. So I would really encourage you to pray this prayer this week and to ask the Lord to, to lead you in obedience and surrender. But I would also caution you to not do it flippantly.

Okay. So the question, why, why should we determine to make Jesus first in our lives? What, why, why should we determine to make Jesus first? What's so great about him?

It's an honest question, right? Because there are, there, there are, there are lots of, there are lots of things competing. Man, aren't my family super important to me? Why shouldn't my family be first in my life? Why, why should it be Jesus? And maybe it seems like too obvious of a question to even ask, but listen, sometimes the heart needs to be injected with fresh truth about why, or maybe not fresh truth, but maybe the first time you've heard it. Why should we make Jesus first? We should make Jesus first number one, because he is the only one who is worthy of being first. He's the only one who is worthy of being first because Jesus is God.

He's God incarnate in flesh. The apostle Paul in Colossians chapter one and chapter two says this of Jesus. He is the image of the invisible God. He's the first born overall creation. For by him, all things were created. Things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things were created by him and for him.

He is before all things and in him, all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning and the first born from among the dead. So that in everything, in everything he might have supremacy. He goes on to say in Colossians chapter two verse nine, for in Christ, all the fullness of the deity lives in bodily form.

So the fullness of God lives in bodily form in Jesus Christ, God incarnate in flesh in our midst. Why do we determine to make Jesus first? Because God is worthy of it.

He is the center of all creation by him and through him and for him. All things that do exist have existed. It is by the breath of his mouth. It is the will of his heart. It is the thought of his mind that all things that exist, exist. We determine to make Jesus first because he is worthy of it. He is not simply some moral or ethical teacher. He is not a story in a page. He is not, he is not the background for a Christmas or holiday celebration as a little baby in an activity. He is the King of heaven. He is the creator of heaven and earth by him and for him and through him. All things have been created and he will have supremacy over all things.

Why should we determine to make Jesus first is our second reason, because Jesus is the savior of the world.

We determine to make Jesus first because Jesus came to save and redeem. We're gonna, gonna hit a couple fast verses here. Luke chapter 19 verse 10, Jesus came to save the lost for the son of man came to seek and save the lost.

Jesus Christ came not so that he could save all the good people, not so we could make sure all of us and our good friends, you know, us good Christian people were all said, no, Jesus, Jesus want Jesus came to seek and save the lost. Paul says in the book of Romans that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us, that Christ's target was not those who are already cleaned up and looking like they should be, but it was the lost sheep of Israel. Jesus says,

I have come to find those who have been lost. Jesus mission as savior was to come and see and save those who were lost. In Mark chapter 10 verse 45, it says that Jesus came to give his life as a ransom for many to serve, not necessarily to be served for even the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. The gospel of Mark there goes on to talk about, about how in the gift of Jesus of himself, he, he, we are, we are justified by faith and saved from the wrath of God. And so, Mark chapter 10 verse 45, Jesus came to give his, give his life as a ransom for ours. The sin in our life requires of it in the justice of God, the penalty of death. And we were held hostage to that sin, but Jesus came to give his life as a ransom that we might be set free from the consequence of our own sin and released into eternal life. Jesus came as our savior to ransom our lives. John chapter 14 verse six,

We know this verse is fairly, a fairly famous one. Jesus answered. He's saying this to Thomas, one of his disciples. He says, I am the way, I am the truth and I am the life. No one comes to the father except through me. This is really important. Leave this one up here for a minute. Cause I want you to see it. Cause a lot of us who've been in church, most of their life here, a lot of people have been in church, a lot of their life hear this verse. And I mean, listen, honestly, kind of like in one ear and out the other, right? Like on the way of the truth of life, no one comes to the father except through me. Yeah. Got it. Memorized it in first grade. Right. But here, here's what I want you to hear really, really clearly. It's not teaching about Jesus that saves us. It's Jesus himself. Okay. Jesus here is not saying, Hey man, you got to get your theology, right. And your belief, right. And your knowledge, right. And your intellect, right. And your mind, right. And your thoughts. You got

To get all those things right. If you just think rightly about me and the things of God, and then you will be saved. Jesus says, no, no, no, no, it's not. I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. No one comes to the father except through me. Jesus is the door through which we walk into eternity with God. Another extraordinarily important verse that most of us have probably seen if not seen it in real life, we've seen it on a poster in the end zone of a bills game, right? John chapter three verse 16. Well, we read chapter, we read John three 16. We, we, we, we don't regularly read John three 16 and 17. I think never should be separated in all eternity. Okay. For God so loved the world that he gave us one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Listen, why, why determined to make Jesus first? For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. You know that Jesus does not condemn you.

You experiencing condemnation and shame. Do you hear the voice of shame and condemnation in your own heart, right? It's not, it's not coming from the Lord. It's not. Because the very reason that Christ came into the world was to free you from the condemnation of your sin and bring you into freedom and eternity through him.

The very reason that he came, the incarnation was all about saving us and not saving us as just one way amongst a bunch of other different ways to save us. But listen, we would determine to make Jesus first because of the exclusivity of Jesus as the only way to be saved.

In Acts chapter four, verse 12, Peter says this in one of his sermons, he says, salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Jesus saves exclusively. There are not many paths to the same place. It is all Jesus and only Jesus. There is one date. There is one path. There is one savior. There is one Lord and his name is Jesus. So we determined to make Jesus first one because he is worthy. Number two, we determined to make Jesus first because he is the savior. Number three, we determined to make Jesus first because he has called us into an eternal purpose. He has a plan for your life. He is a design for your life. He has not been left up to chance. You are not out there just having to figure it out all on your own. God has designed you in your gifts and in your abilities and in your intellect and in your resources and in your life to reflect his glory and use the things that he has given you as a way to point people back to him.

We're going to talk about this almost exclusively next week, this passage of scripture, but we're going to read it for us now. The great commission from Matthew chapter 28 verses 16 through 20. As Jesus was departing from the earth and his ascension, this is after he had been resurrected from the grave, he had come back to life. He had appeared to his disciples. He was now ascending back into heaven, kind of the last words that Jesus said to those who were following him. He said, "Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.'" That's kind of the qualifying state. I'm going to preach my whole sermon next week. That's kind of the qualifying statement, right? "All authority on heaven and earth has been given to me." So it's like everything else is built off of that truth. Everything else comes out of that reality because all authority on heaven and earth has been given to Jesus. It stands to reason that what he tells us to do is fairly important and we should listen

To it do it, right? It's not really like, don't really have like much, we got choice in the matter, but the choice is not great. "Then Jesus said to them, 'Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. Then surely I am with you always to the very end of the age.'"

I'll say this and we're going to talk, like I said, exclusively about it last week, but the goal and purpose and mission of followers or disciples of Jesus Christ is to make more disciples of Jesus Christ. It's to make more disciples, letting the life of God that is within you through the Holy Spirit overflow into other people's lives, extending the mercy of God, the grace of God, the truth of God, leveraging your gifts, your talents, your personality, so that others may know him and be drawn into relationship with him. You have an eternal purpose. God has a plan for you and God has a plan for others because of and through you. There are people in this room right now that are in this room because other people in this room got them in this room.

Okay, there's a plan for your life. Number four, the final one for this morning. Why determined to make Jesus first? Because of this, we determined to make Jesus first because he redefines life, death, and our perspective on both.

Jesus completely redefines life and death and our perspective on both of them. What do you possibly mean by that? Well Paul, the Apostle Paul is a good example. Sitting in a Roman prison, he wrote a letter to one of his churches in the city of Philippi.

And listen, if I ever get put in prison, don't be expecting these happy, happy joy, joy letters from me, okay? Like, I got, I'm gonna have, I'm already telling you I'm gonna have a bad attitude about it, okay? But I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try. I'm asking God already, recalibrate my perspective on life, death, life and death through the power of Christ in me. I don't wanna, I don't wanna see everything as a way in which Jesus is gonna get the glory. Let me see everything as a way in which Christ is magnified in my life. No sad situations, only happy little accidents.

Where Jesus gets an opportunity to be magnified and glorified through this thing, in this moment, in this relationship, through this sickness or suffering or pain or death. Paul says this as he's sitting in the prison, he says to his church in Philippi. Now, I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. This is Philippians 1 here. I want you to know that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel. Now, think of Paul's in prison and what he's being like, he's like, hey, I'm just gonna tell you this awesome story. What has happened to me is serving to advance the gospel. As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ. And because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear.

It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill. The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains. But what does it matter? The important thing is in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this, I rejoice. Yes, I will continue to rejoice for I know that through your prayers and God's provision of the spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance. I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now, as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. If I am to chew, if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between

The two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far.

Paul's determination to make Jesus first changed the way that he looked at every situation, especially the bad ones of his life. He goes on to say in Philippians chapter three, later in the same letter, whatever gains to me, I now consider loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ, yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so somehow attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Listen, this is the creed of everyone who has determined that Jesus would be first in their life. Paul is able to, in a moment of great suffering and pain, be like, "How? I don't know. What do I want? I kind of just want to just go and be with Jesus, because that's like the better thing. If I stay here, okay, some fruitful labor will come from

That, but departing and being with Christ is better by far." So I consider everything in my life a loss compared to surpassing knowledge of knowing Jesus Christ as my Lord. That's what Paul says.

Now, I don't think most of you have heard the news by now that our brother, Larry Barmore, passed away yesterday, okay? And Larry was sick for quite a while and was here with us for as long as he could be in church, but I can't tell you how many times I had conversations with Larry where his carol would just be like backhanding him, because he was like, "I am ready to go.

Get me off of this rock, " type of thing. Like, "It is better for me to depart and be with Christ."

There was such a perspective shift in his mind about suffering, life, and death, because he had no fear of what was coming, because his hope firmly rested in Jesus Christ, and he considered everything else a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Jesus Christ as his Lord. And so he died not in fear, not in anguish,

Not in suffering or desperation. He died in joy, because he lost all things for the sake of knowing Christ. Death no longer has a hold on him.

When you determine to make Jesus first, he will rewrite your life with hope and with purpose.

Candidly, this is one that we must also keep at the forefront of our church, determining that Jesus is first, always and forever, not a man, not a woman, not an issue, not an opinion, not our favorite ministry, not our theological issue, not our platform, not our soap boxes, Jesus, always and forever.

Listen, it's especially important in a church like Conduit. I'm sure if you've gone here over the last maybe year or so, you've recognized the growth,

Probably recognize it as you're fighting people for parking spots out in the parking lot or the street or wherever, or you're struggling to find a seat when you get in here, but it's especially important, listen, as we are growing, as the Lord is blessing the church, we might be tempted to believe, we might be tempted to believe that this place is about something else, something other than it is actually about. And we might want to try and protect that thing that we think it's about or the things that are especially important or sentimental to us about this place, our ministries,

Our positions, our traditions, our history, our style, our whatever. But listen, I want you to hear me say this loud and clear. It remains about Him. It remains, it's all about Jesus. Christ be magnified, the altar of our lives. And so even as we grow and things change, we must always stay determined on this one thing, Jesus over everything.

Jesus over everything. There is no one but you, Jesus. You are worthy. You are our Savior and our Redeemer. You have given us and called us and created us for and in a purpose.

You recalibrate our perspective on death and life. Lord, you and you alone are worthy. We determine, Lord, to make you furt above all things. May you be magnified in our life.

Conduit, have a great week. We'll see you next time you are loved.