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Brandon Cole unpacks the beauty and power of unity in the body of Christ, drawing from Genesis, Psalm 133, and Acts 1–2. Scriptures: Genesis 2:4-8, Psalm 133:1-3, Ephesians 4:3, Acts 1:14, Acts 2:2
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Hi, thanks for tuning in to this Week's message at C3OC. We hope that it blesses you, equips you and fills you with faith. Let's dive in, man. It's so good. It's so wild though because there's like people in the room that I know from Fort Worth, not Dallas. I don't know if you guys have rivalries, but Fort Worth and Dallas are not friends. And if you flirt with Dallas, you have to keep it very quiet. So Fort Worth is the best kept secret. It's the 12th largest city in the country, by the way. But that's cause we know how to draw lines well. And so it's an incredible place. I love pastoring there, but we got buddies. Like your drummer was in our church years ago. Brett is here. I see Brett. Brett and Chanel moved here cause they were trying to find a good church after being in ours for a couple years. No, I'm just joking. Fletcher's being here. I already texted Meredith. She is not happy that she's not here. We had a direct flight from DFW to LAX and it took us 14 hours. So we got to our place last night at 2 in the morning, which if you do the math means 4 in the morning for my 12 year old and 10 year old and my wife. And what was not with us was our luggage. So this is what I wore on the plane. Thank God I did not wear sweatpants, flip flops. And so I let them stay home and sleep in. But we did get noticed. Just a heads up, our bags are on the way. So thank God they're here. So we watched a lot of movies yesterday in tight quarters and we made it. So I'm just honestly thankful to be here. I love the local church and I know your pastor agrees, some of you don't. But I know I'm a pastor, I'm supposed to say that. But I'm tell you something, there are some pastors who don't. They love the stage it gives them and they love the title it bestows upon them. But I love the local church. I love the body of Christ. I love that I can fly 14 hours and be in the body of Christ wherever I go. I love the expressions of the body of Christ. I love that the saints gift gather. I love leaving here and people who went to brunch at 11 o' clock have nothing on me, right? I love that I was just shouting as loud as I could about Jesus. I love that there's gifts and that we all come from Very different backgrounds. And we can't all claim the same past or same experiences. And yet we can come in here, sit in these seats, and we can worship Jesus together. I love that. Like, I think it's one of the most unique, incredible, sacred things on the planet, is that all over the world and because of time differences, for the last 12 to 15 hours, all over the world, there have been others who have been lifting their voices, opening scripture, some of them standing up, sitting down, right? Different variations, different varieties. Maybe not my cup of tea, right? But they've all been lifting their voices on all continents, every single one of them. And what I hate is that we treat that as casual and normal. What I hate is that we don't value what it is to be the sacred body of Christ. That wherever we gather and break bread and drink of the cup, we have become every time, we have become more and more the body of Christ for the world. And it is such a beautiful thing to be a part of something like that. And I don't care size or, you know, there's this weird thing going around that big is bad, small is sacred. I don't agree with that. I also don't agree that numbers make you who you are. I've been pastoring a church basically the same size for a long time. And some people go, well, you clearly don't know how to grow a thing. And I'm like, well, I just grow things differently than you. I also don't believe God's timeline is your timeline. And what I have been and what we have been is not what we will be. But I can promise there have been seeds sown and fruit produced. And I can promise you that what the Lord has done through and in our church is reverberating. And so I'm thankful for the body of Christ. I love this diverse, unique thing that you're a part of and that you get to do it in Orange County. I do. Yeah. I'm not technically from Orange county, but I've claimed it for a long time. I grew up going to Corona del Mar. My grandfather and grandmother are buried just up the street with John Wayne. You know, my cousin lived in Laguna Niguel. And here. Okay, you want a perfect illustration of what I was just talking about? My cousin grew up in Laguna and never went to the beach. What do you. I grew up in Texas, and our beach is Galveston, and that's not a beach. What are you doing? Come on. You are in the church. You are in the body of Christ. Quit treating it like it's not special, right? I'm not saying you are. This church seems like you're fired up. This is a hard time. Hard thing to do is to preach at a church that likes it. It's hard to preach at a church because you don't want to stop. And everything you could ever say comes into your heart and mind. You're fired up and you got these guys leading worship and doing the thing. And it didn't matter if my bags had come, I still, no matter what I would have dressed in, I still would not have the hair of Joe Pringle. Like the beard, the hair. It wouldn't have happened. So I knew. I just walked in. It was all good. Hey, I'm just gonna do a couple things. We're gonna go through a couple different places because I can't choose. I'm a little bit adhd. I'm a little bit of a multiple choice preacher. I stopped using my iPad. Not for any other reason than I just wanted to. I like using quotes and all the things. And you're gonna get New York Times and the Atlantic and then you're gonna get some church historian in all my messages. And I've just decided I'm gonna just preach and see what comes out. And so I have notes on a thing that I found in the place we're staying. I don't know what trocha is, but it's going to be anointed this morning. And so we're just going to. We're just going to go for a ride. And I just want to go through a few things. In scripture. We start in Genesis 2 as primarily an encouragement to you. And then I want to go into Psalm 133, which is one of my favorite psalms. And we're going to end in Acts, chapter one and two. Does that sound good? They might all tie together. They might not. I'm gonna let the Holy Spirit do the work. Sound good? So open your ears, open your hearts, and let's trust the Lord to do what he wants to do this morning. Okay? Genesis 2. Just as an encouragement to you guys. Not necessarily as part of the message, but it's something I feel really strongly. Genesis, chapter two. And I brought the Bible that has really small text and my readers are wearing out, so get there. I'm 45. I need glasses to read. That's how it goes now. All right. Verse 8. The Lord God planted a garden. No, sorry, sorry. Go back up. Go back up. I'm sorry. Verse 4. These are the records of the heavens and the Earth concerning their creation. At the time that the Lord God made the earth in the heavens, no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land. Right? And no plant of the field had yet sprouted for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land. And everybody say, and, and there was no man to work the ground. So I just, I just want to. I just want to be clear about how this is kind of laying out. If the rain had come, creation still would not have been completed. Is that kind of what it's saying? There's no rain. There's no, there's nothing to water the ground. But also there was no person to work the ground that would have been watered. Okay, so from the very beginning, this is your origin story. Don't start later. Start here. Always start here. God created it good sin made it bad. Jesus is coming to make it new. That is your apologetic. We don't start with sin. We start with good creation. That gives us the paradigm, that gives us the framework for which sin has to be dealt with. Because if I'm just dealing with sin to get rid of sin, then what is the point? I'm dealing with sin. Jesus dealt with sin that good creation might be. Be restored, right? So God. So there's no, no rain. And then the man wasn't there. Okay? Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground, breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being. The Lord God planted a garden in Eden and there he placed the man he had formed. Okay, just a couple things real quickly, and then we're going to jump to Psalm 133. Okay? Number one, shape and spirit. Don't ever look like a church without having the spirit of God, right? It doesn't work. How weird would it have been for God to form the man and then just hope something happens? Or how weird would it have been God for God just to breathe, but for nothing to contain it? There is a purpose. This is the shape of a church. And I'm telling you, if you've ever been in other churches, there's a shape with no breath. You're in a church with breath, right? You're in a church with life. Sometimes we spend all our time working on the thing that will hold the vine. Without the vine, we need the breath of God so that we might animate the body of Christ, right? So we aren't just shape, we are also spirit. We're not just spirit, we are also shape. God's given C3OC a shape a purpose, a vision. And it is the spirit of God that's going to empower it to accomplish that vision. Don't ever become good at doing church. Be good at being empowered by the spirit in welcoming the spirit of God. Okay? And then the last thing. And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east. And there he placed the man he had formed. This is so important to me because purpose is a big deal for me. Calling is a big deal for me. I love sitting with people and helping figure out. I'm not sure I'm good at it, but I like doing it. Just like brainstorming. Hey, what are you doing? What are you up to? What are you trying to get at? What's the Lord God in your heart and all that kind of stuff. Here's the thing, though. Sometimes we don't operate like Adam did, right? We go, Let me pray first for the place God is going to send me. And I don't mind that. I don't think that's a good thing. You should ask the Lord where you should go. But Adam didn't get a choice. There was no, like pre prayer time with Adam where he goes, okay, let me just see how this is gonna work and then I'll go do the thing. No, God made a garden, placed Adam and said, do what I'm asking you to do. And here's why that's important for far too many of us, diminish the place we're in and thus diminish what the purpose we have there. So there is a theology of place. There is actually something to the place you're in and it may not be the place you'll be in forever. And I fully understand that. And I'm not telling you there isn't some godly ambition in your life and dream that God's put in your heart. Don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you to stay in places that are not for you. I am saying that wherever you are can and does have purpose because you are the body of Christ with the spirit of the living God in you. And whatever place you've been put, you can work it and watch over it. And I know we love the rule and reign words. I know we do. We love the rule and reign. I get it. We. But that means ultimately when you're the king, you're responsible. So you are to work the ground and to watch over it. Don't condemn creation, cultivate it. Don't condemn it for what the world is going to. World people are going to People get over it. Right? You have to be one who listen. I coach my son's team sometimes, and until I get kicked off by my sons and, you know, sometimes we can get onto each other and not. We can condemn people. We can look for the thing they're doing wrong. I had to correct our guys the other day. They just, oh, yeah, I can't believe you did that. I can't believe you did that. And yet that's what life is. We figure things out. Nobody in the room is perfect. No church is perfect. It's got people in it. Right? But we're not here to point out. I don't need the players on our team to point out the fact that failures of the other players. Guess what? I usually know. I usually do. I usually know when I screwed up. I know sometimes I don't. And I need good friends. I need people who hand me a Snickers bar. I do. You're not acting like yourself today. But I listen. But I. But I. Absolutely. When I'm on a baseball field and the ball goes between my legs and I go, I don't need to stand up and look at eight other people pointing at me going, what are you doing? Right? What I need from them is to look at me and go, we'll get it the next time. Keep working it. Keep figuring it out. Then what we need to be as the church in the world is not one who looks at the world and goes, how dare you? No, we need to look at the world and go, there's more. There's better. Right? And I kind of want to talk about that today. Okay. So that's my cheat. All right. Psalm 133. So I just want to encourage you. Orange County, C3OC. God, you lucky dogs, man. I'm just. I'm waiting for your second location. Just let me know. Don't let anybody else know first. I'll let. You can mentor me for a year if you need to make sure I'm part of the DNA. Like, I get it. I'll work on the beard. But I like. I just. Man, y' all are blessed. I am, too. I love Fort Worth. Don't get me wrong. I do love Fort Worth. It just doesn't have a beach. I can't go surfing in Fort Worth. I ride a cow. Just to be clear, I've never worn a pair of cowboy boots in my life. My parents are from California. They never put me in any boots. And I am thankful for that. Okay. All right. The kind of soil, the work, the ground. The kind of soil I want to talk to you about today is found in Psalm 133, the soil of unity. It's kind of one of my life's messages. And I actually think it's one of the primary messages of the Gospel. I don't think you can read the Bible and think that unity isn't important. I don't think you can read Scripture and think that somehow the way we relate to one another, serve one another, care for one another, is somehow void of Scripture. I don't think you can read this story and think that God isn't trying to build something so united and so together and so intertwined that it in of itself is the glory of God's body, is that we are operating as his body. Like, there's something about being the unified church, being a unified people that is meant to be a testament to the glory of God's creation. And in seeing the church, creation can see itself and see how it should operate and see how it should work. Right? Okay. Psalm 133. It's a short one, in case you're worried. It's three verses. So good. I like to pick the short ones. How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony. How good it is. I know this is true because I have a brother and I have two sons. And it is absolutely beautiful and delightfully good when brothers dwell together in harmony. It is when they sing the same song. I am so in. When they don't, I try to retire. I don't know what to do. I lose it. How beautiful it is how pleasant it is how good it is when brothers live together in harmony. It is like the fine oil on the head running down on the beard. Running down. Running down on Aaron's beard onto his robes. All right, there's a couple pictures happening here. It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the Lord has appointed the blessing. Life forevermore. Man. What? It's good, right? It's good when brothers dwell together in harmony. When people dwell. You know what's better than a great singer? A lot of great singers. Like, I grew up. One of my favorite. This is weird, but one of my favorite. This is White surfer kid who loved Motown. One of my favorite bands. I would literally pull up to school blasting the Temptations. And no, I don't just mean my girl for you. Uninitiated, you know, Papa was a rolling stone Wherever he laid his hat was his home and then the harmony. And when he died. I know you Want him but I refuse to let you. Dude, I loved. I was a 16 year old driving to school. I think that's pretty cool. I'm just. I'm proud of myself, okay? But there's something about harmony. There's something about putting voices together that is. Oh, it's something different now in this world. How many of your favorite musicians sing with anyone else? Not many. They got some background singing. But we are a world that loves the isolation. We love the star of the show. We love that one. Name one person. But back in the day, man, it was like everybody's singing together and there's something absolutely stunning and beautiful when all the voices sing the same song. Look, your church is meant to sing. And I don't just mean during the worship set. I mean, when people come in, they hear a harmony, they hear something that resonates with them that is so much bigger than one person or one gifting or. Or one skill set or a guy up here who can talk on a microphone. There is something about the gifts and the body of Christ when it is working together that is so beautiful. Here's the thing. It's easier to sing by yourself. It is. That's why we choose it. It's easier to do my own song. But, man, when you put that in this, it doesn't work when we're all trying to sing our own song. You know, the hardest word in the Bible is the word you. Because it doesn't mean you. I mean, it does. Don't get me wrong. There is a personal nature to the word you. In scripture, it does mean you and you and you. But. But more often than not, it is encapsulated by you. In other words, it starts with you, not you. No offense. You were great, by the way. That was very good. So good. It starts with you and then it gets to you and we flip it and we try to find me before we find us. And it's why we keep trying to find me over and over and over again. The issue with the church is that we come in looking for. And I don't mean, oh, I always apologize a lot, but thank you. I received that word. We come into church so often, and the first person we think about, the first person, even we're on team when we're serving, it's like, I don't, I. And again, I get it. I understand. But what if you walked in today and the first thought you had was, what's the Lord gonna do with us? Or maybe pick somebody. Pick somebody next to you. And for the next five Sundays, I want you to think about, I wonder what the Lord's gonna do with Brett today. What's the Lord going to do in his life? I say, oh, Chanel, I didn't see you when we first got here. Okay, how are you? What's the Lord going to do in their life? And here's what I would say to you. Do you know what's going to happen to your church when you begin to just start picking people out of the crowd? What's he going to do? Well, one, you'll notice if they're not here. And I promise, when you walk in that way, your expectancy will go through the roof. Because I've heard that the Lord wants you to have overflowing life. And what I think we do with that phrase, and with that scripture is we say, well, the overflow. Have you ever seen a cup overflow? Do you know what it doesn't do? It doesn't overflow, like, back into the cup. But that's the way we think about overflows. No, no, you are springing forth. You are one who takes a drink and gets rivers. That's the grace of God. You take a singular drink and he gives you many singular to plural. That's the way the Lord works, right? Five of those two fish become baskets left over. God always does things more than you think. All right, but overflowing life means that it doesn't just land on you, right? It is meant to flow out of you. So when we come into church, man, if I'm living overflowing life, I want to pour out on the person next to me, because maybe they aren't. Maybe they're having a tough week. That's what the body of Christ looks like. When you're not doing so well, and I am, you get to have some of what I got. And next week, when you're doing well and I'm not, I need some of what you got. And then it says. And then it says. It's like the do. No, wait. Is it oil first or dew first? Well, thank you, guys. Appreciate it. The oil represents anointing down the beard of Aaron, and it would flow onto the robe again. The picture of God's grace is that it's more than enough. It's not just a little. Can you think about how much that is for it to, like, flow down your face, onto your beard, onto the robe? That's some oil, right? But that's the way the church. The church, when it is in unity, should feel like that. It should Feel like something is pouring down over us. It is anointing us for the work God's called us to, right, to be the church. And then the dew of Mount Hermon. Now, the topography of that area would have been that most of it's desert, most of it's dry, most of it's arid. It's not growing anything. And yet there's this little spot in Hermon where the way the mountain hits certain things, there's just one spot where there's water shows up, dew shows up, and things grow. I want you to think of the picture of the church in a desert, arid land. When we are in unity, the dew shows up, and we can grow something where everybody else can't. We are not dependent upon the circumstances we're in. We aren't. I know it's hard sometimes to think that sometimes circumstances are tough. It's not easy. But we can grow things wherever we are. The dew of Mount Hermon is refreshing. And then the last thing, it says what that is, where God does what commands the blessing. So there's three things that Psalm 133 tell us about unity. When we start singing the same song, finding our parts, because it's not easy. It's not. It's not easy to sing all the parts. Not just because of the technical skill, but also because we all have an ego. You ever watch, like, do the American Idol and you got to sing in a group and everything falls apart because for so long they were the center of their own world, and they were the reason everything was going to be great. And then you put them with three or four other people, and all of a sudden they don't know what to do, right? How many of us come into the church and we go. Our paradigm is that Christ community calling that Jesus called the disciples. He called them, so it's plural. He called a community. He called them to be made. And so we go, Christ community calling. I know it's not clever. Everybody does it just in different ways. But it is Jesus, it is people, and it is purpose. But sometimes we do two of the three well, and a lot of times we'll go, I found Jesus. I'm gonna go pursue my calling. When we forget his people, but it is his people where we are developed. Do you ever wonder why Paul makes sure that you know that love is important when you get the gifts of the Spirit? When he says the phrase, he's giving you these gifts for the common good of all people? Have you ever wondered what the fruit of the Spirit are actually for like, maybe two or three, you can say, I can handle those by myself, but most of them for everybody else. Patience, kindness. We're not talking about be kind to yourself stuff. No, no. Kindness, gentleness, love. It's for people. What the spirit is doing in you is not just for you. Right? So Psalm 133 says what? Where we are dwelling in harmony. Where we are playing our parts, where we're all singing our parts. Where forgiveness comes easy. Right. Where purpose is primary. What the kingdom is at the beginning, it's the top. It's the thing that everything flows from. When we are in unity, that is where God gives us anointing, refreshing, and blessing. I'm in. Right. Good, pleasing, perfect trifecta. Right? I want the anointing of God. I want the refreshing of his people. And I want the call. I want the blessing of God upon my life. Okay, I want to go to Acts 1 and we'll close with this, I think. Yeah, we got. Yeah, yeah, we're good. Okay, cool. Don't say plenty. People define that very differently. Acts, chapter one. Let me say one scripture I haven't read yet. Ephesians, chapter 4. Just because it needs to be mentioned. Ephesians, chapter 4. Make every effort to dwell in unity of style, unity of location, unity of favorite worship band, unity of church clothes. Come on. We all know that church. Okay, sorry. In forward, not everybody dresses cool all the time. We've gotten better. And so I used to go into coffee shops, and I would walk in and I would immediately know who's on church staff. I have no joke. I would walk in and go, oh, my God. So I'd go down the one with. I would go down to the coffee shop that does New Age and incense and all this stuff. And I was like. Just because I needed better conversation and so sorry. I don't know. I just. I'm a little contradictory. I'm a middle child, so I instigate, and then I peacemaker. So that's the way it works. I'm gonna poke the bear, and then I'm gonna hug the bear and hope everything works out. But. But unity. We make unity about all the wrong things, but make every effort to dwell in unity of spirit. Right? Body, spirit, shape, spirit. So when Acts chapter one and two. I love this. Okay? We skip Acts one way too often. Cause we want to get to Acts two. We love. We love what happens in Acts Chapter two. I just want to be very clear. It doesn't happen without Acts chapter one. It doesn't exist. So Jesus died He's risen. He's shown back up to the disciples, and they're all excited, right? That means some things. And something's changed now. And he floats. He goes through doors, you know, he shows up as a gardener, which John is giving you some glimpses of what he's trying to do. When people mistake him as the gardener, he. He's recreating his creation, right? When Jesus resurrects, John is looking at it going, hey, here's your gospel. Here is new creation. It's in Jesus, right? And so. And so they. They, they. They are. They're probably a little bit like whiplash, right? I would imagine even with 50 days of seeing Jesus resurrected, it's still probably a little weird. I find it. I just think we make this whole story and what Jesus did way too normal. Like, we sit in here and we go, yeah, he did come from heaven. He lived for 30 years. God, you know, chilling, making tables, getting lost. And then he dies on a cross. He goes in a grave, and then he comes out of the grave alive. And then the best part ascends. Just, phew. And you want me to act like that's totally normal? No, I think the whole point is it's not. It's not normal that God would come out of heaven into the earth to embrace humanity, to show us what it is to be human, die on a cross, resurrect, walk out of the grave. And even the angels look at the disciples like, why are you. What are you doing? Like, get on with it. And they're like, give us a second. Like, this is different, right? And so Jesus has then said in Acts, chapter one, he says, hey, don't leave until. Until the Father gives you what I promised you. So first thing to walk in unity is to do what Jesus says, right? Obedience. We need to be a people of obedience. We need to be a people that when the Lord says something, we do it right. We don't give any caveats. We don't add to the equation. We don't go. God's word plus this equals my decision. It is God's word. God, right? I say that. I fail at that a lot. Okay, I missed the mark here. But that is what we're trying to become as people who hear and do, right? So he says, okay, don't go anywhere. But in Acts 1:14, I just. This is where I want to end with unity, okay? In Acts, chapter 1, verse 14. I really shouldn't ever bring this Bible again. It's so small. All right, verse 14. There it is. I found it. Y' all chill out. They were all continually. Everybody say continually. It's like the guy, the restaurant with the flashlight on the menu, you know? They were all continually what? Continually united. It is there, but this is a good bit. I'm gonna run with it. No, just joking. They were all continually united in prayer. Okay, now go to Acts, chapter two, verse two. Ready? And suddenly a sound like that of a rushing wind. And the fire. Just a reminder. The fire was one that split again. Oneness is all over. It's just all over. Jesus prayer over his disciples, over his people. Is what those you gave me. Would they make them what one? Oh, I'm telling you, it's not easy. It's not. That's why we need it to be by the spirit. Not by skill or by style or by song. It needs to be. It needs to be by the spirit. A gift of the spirit. The bond of peace. Okay, but so catch something. Acts, chapter one, verse fourteen. They were continually. Everybody say continually united in prayer in Acts, chapter two. And suddenly there's a sound. Okay, I think sometimes we just think suddenly things happen suddenly. Don't tell that to Daniel, who had to get in alliance, then overnight, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Any second in the fire is too long. I mean, I would have loved for God to have shown up on the steps. I would have been just as happy with that miracle. You know what I'm saying? But there's something about. There's something about being united consistently, regularly. The things that you are doing continually will usually birth what happens suddenly. So sometimes we can get tired in the continually. We can get worn out in the continually again. It's why you're not doing it by yourself. It's why you're not choosing this. You're not on American Idol. Oh, you got giftings. Please don't get me wrong. You have something God has uniquely given you, but it isn't just for you, and yet it is for you. Oh, it's like. It's so cool. Like, I can have it and you can have it, and then I can have it, and you can have it, and we can all have it at the same time. No one's got an ego. No one's going, no, no. I love that my gifting is being used at the same time as theirs and same time. Like, we're all doing this thing together. This is awesome. Continually united. Could you imagine? Jesus ascends and then. You got to wait with. You know what? We always assume. We always assume the Disciples liked each other. Like, we genuinely think, like, John loved Peter. Like, I just, I can't find anything wrong with him. You know, he looks me in the eyes and I just lose it. I just, I don't. I just think we assume that that was just an easy group to keep together. Like, none of them had dreams and aspirations. None of them had like their own giftings that they thought would be so much better out front or we actually see that clearly. They did a couple of different occasions, right? And it was usually the American Idol mom going, hey, you should, you should hear this. You should hear this. Here's the thing, right? We just assumed that that just happened because Jesus just picked the perfect people who all liked each other and all their skill sets and all their personality test just jive there. It's just perfect. No, it's because Jesus announced the kingdom and they saw the kingdom and they said, that's what I'm going to do. And whoever's going to do it with me by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, we're going to go after it. Oh, C3 Orange county, you are meant to sing a song that is different and yet collectively good within the body of Christ in Orange County. And there are people who are going to come through this house and hear this harmony and they're going to go, oh, I've been waiting for that. I need that anointing, refreshing and blessing. I need to be a part of something like that. But it will not happen just suddenly. It will happen because you continually, you kept showing up, you kept doing the thing, you kept praying together, you kept serving one another even when it got difficult, even when one of you said something you shouldn't have said or did something you shouldn't have done. I just, I'm just, I just am not surprised when things go wrong. Do you ever get tired of people doing bad things? No. I mean, yeah, I wish it wouldn't happen, but it's kind of built into the cake at this point, like it's just how it goes. But I, but I also know, but I also know that this is a kingdom of forgiveness and grace. And I love that you already, I mean, you already illustrated with your pastor. He's already talking about the story of people who just keep their arms wide open, continually united in prayer. Listen, prayer will be the primary way you find unity and unity of spirit. Prayer. Don't skip the early morning pre service prayer meeting. Don't skip it when it's time to pray here. Don't stop listening when they go, hey, we're doing a prayer night at 7:30. You may not be able to make it every time I get it, but show up and usually even with your family. My grandfather used to say that prayer is a place of agreement and agreement is a place of power. And you've got a part to play. There's zero doubt, zero question right here. C3 Orange county, in the place you have been put to work it, to watch over it so that it might be blessed, anointed. Come on. Refreshing to this county, to the city, that you would be the body of Christ. But it all is built upon the foundation of Christ. Hey, thanks for tuning in. There's a bunch of different ways that we connect throughout the week, including Sunday mornings, and we would love to see you there. You can check out all the details@c3oc.com.