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Pastor Joseph Pringle unpacks the Parable of the Talents to reveal the only measure that truly matters: being a good, faithful servant of Christ. True discipleship is about character, stewardship, and surrendering your whole life to Jesus as Lord — not chasing success or people's approval. Scriptures: Matthew 25:21, Ephesians 4:11, Galatians 1:10, Mark 10:18, Romans 8:28, James 1:2, James 2:17, Luke 6:46, Romans 12:1
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Hey, so we're going to jump into a word here today that I believe is setting us up on a pathway for a series that I'm really excited to jump into. I think it's essential for us to understand who we are as disciples of Christ. Why should we be disciples and not just Christians and just going along with our love? Why should we really pursue having this deep relationship with God, not just for my benefit, but for the benefit of the kingdom, which is working outward in my life? It was the final command that Jesus had. Give, go and make, go and make disciples. And. And so it's important for us to actually understand what a disciple is. How can I be made into a disciple? And we want to be as a church. You know, our main scripture and mission for this church is to equip the saints, which is in Ephesians 4:11, it says, Equip the saints for the work of the ministry and for the building up of the house. And that's, that's the, that's the making of disciples for the building up of the saints. And the work of the kingdom is what you may call ministry in that sense. So today I want to speak out of one of the parables that Jesus speaks when he's talking about the kingdom coming on earth. And it's pretty incredible how much Jesus talks about the end times, about his return, about him returning and coming back to bring judgment and to collect. Because right now Jesus sits on a seat of mercy. He's given us time. He's sitting over and he's waiting for his Father. Because the Scriptures say that not even the Son knows when he is returning. So if there's a preacher out there you're listening to, and he says, August 17th, Jesus is returning, I need you to understand that's a false teaching. Okay? Those predictions, you just go through the history. No one knows. There are things that will highlight the seasons and the times. And so Jesus is saying, not even I know he's waiting. He's leaning over from the throne on the right hand go, God, when am I going? When am I coming home? When am I going to meet my bride and lift up the church? And he's waiting there for his return. So he talks so much about this. He talks a lot about this. He's very interested. And I think that the reason why is so that we do not live just armchair Christianity, that we have an inclined faith within our world to actually have an urgency, man, like, I need to be a part of the kingdom today, that we would wake up with a Mentality ready, like, oh, man, I'm ready for Christ to return today. I'm ready to expand his kingdom today. I'm ready to stand strong, ready to pick up the shield of faith. I'm ready to pick up the sword of the Spirit. And so he goes through a bunch of these parables. And we're gonna look at the parable of the talents. And the title of today's message is the measure the that matters. The measure that matters. In Matthew 25:21, it says this, and we'll talk through this whole parable. I encourage you to go and study the Scripture for yourself. Just listen to me and think that that's your scripture for the week. Go and indulge yourself in the Scriptures yourself. I want to ask God to reveal more and more, and he will. In verse 21, it says this. He had given out all these talents to three different people. Five talents, two talents and one talent. And his master said to the first servant, who had immediately gone out with his five talents and started investing it, he started using. Says that he immediately left when it was given to him, which is really important. Immediately left and it said he doubled it. And when the master had come back, he asked him, you know, where is the return? Like, bring back what I've given to you. And he said, I have not only used the five, but I've now made it ten talents. And his master said to him in verse 21, well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over little, and I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master. There are moments in Scripture where Jesus gives us a glimpse beyond this life, and he gives us the perspective of where we are going to be standing when Jesus returns. Moments where the curtain is pulled back and we are reminded that history is moving towards a day, moving towards a day when every one of us will stand before God and the words that we want to hear. The defining nature of what we want to live our lives as today is as a good, a faithful, and as a servant here on earth. We spend so much of our lives pursuing things that seem so important in every moment. It could be influence, could be money, career, relationships, success, security, recognition. I mean, count all the number of things that we can chase. We worry about whether people understand us or whether they're going to accept us. Much of our energy can become consumed with building a life that is impressive in the lives of other people, in the eyes of other people. I mean, I don't. I do get it, because I used to live it, but we Spend so much of our life trying to impress people that we don't even like. It's like this weird drive that is within us and it's an insatiable thirst because it will never be satisfied even by the applause or by the awards or by the success that can be given to us. And Paul asked a question that I think is really important. And this is. This, I believe, is one of the greatest hindrances that we can face in really pursuing becoming a good and faithful servant. And that is in Galatians 1:10, he says, for am I now seeking the approval of man or of God, or am I trying to please man? If I was still trying to please man, I would listen, not be a servant of Christ. Paul understood something every disciple must eventually settle. That there are two audiences in this life that you cannot live for at the same time in this life that there is one master that we have to serve. Jesus will go on and say in the Scriptures, you cannot serve two masters. There's one master. And if we live under the fear of man, how are we supposed to live with the reverence of God? Because there is going to be a day where being a good and faithful servant is going to cut the applause of the crowd around you, is going to test people. When they start criticizing, when they start coming against you, you're one of them Jesus freaks. What's the matter with you? Are you like flopping around like a fish? Are you doing the Eucharist? Like, what are you doing? You're so out. There's going to be these times, especially in a culture like today, where we, we have sexual identity which is questioned and questioned by culture, where there is abortion that is, you know, up for question. You, you are trying to control everything and this and that. No, but there is a truth that we are supposed to live with a conviction. Because, man, I tell you, if I lived by the comfort of what I believe should be true, then there would be a softening of the truth of this Bible so much. Which is why I need the word of God to sharpen me. For me to think that I can sharpen the word of God or change it or manipulate it is not the way that we're supposed to live. And if I first have a pleasing of God, then man, I will know his word, I will apply His Word, I will speak his word. Because there will come those moments when pleasing Christ will disappoint people. And we have to, we have to come and acknowledge that. We have to be okay with that. That just as Christ, the Scriptures say, for the joy set before him, he endured the cross. For the joy set before me. That, oh, man, one day, standing before our Father, that he would look at me and say, well done, good and faithful servant. It's the words that we want to hear, echoing in our spirit. And no one else can stand before God for you. Not your husband, not your wife, not your parents, not your boss, not your puppy dog, no one. You stand before God with an ownership, knowing that, man, I had choices to make in this world. Why is it important? Because it's not just this ideal that we're hoping for at the end. It's how we design our lives today to be a good and a faithful servant. Because one day, every voice will fall silent and the opinion of people will no longer matter. Titles will no longer matter. Achievements will no longer matter. Money, followers, platforms, promotions, none of that will matter. None of them will accompany me, you and I, into eternity. There will only be one voice that matters. And Jesus tells us the words that every disciple, every one of us should long to hear. That is, well done, good and faithful. Well done, Good. Yeah, that's it. We got there. Okay. He doesn't say. Just notice this. He does not say, well done, good and gifted servant. Well done, successful servant. Well done, influential servant. No, he says, good and faithful servant. They're not simply compliments that Jesus is giving at the end of our journey. No, they are the kind of people that he is forming throughout the journey, and the journey is now. That is the seat of mercy that Christ is sitting on. There is a time for us that we have been developed into and conformed into the image of Christ. The Christian life is not simply about believing the right things. It's about becoming the kind of person Christ is shaping us to be every day. Whether we recognize it or not, we're being shaped. You are becoming someone every day. Our habits are forming us. Our responses are forming us. What you are obedient to is forming you. Our compromises in life, the things that we're neglecting, the things that we kind of, oh, that's okay. All these, they are forming us. The convictions that we act upon, they are forming us. Matthew 25 is not asking whether the servants believe the Master. It is revealing what their relationship with the Master produced. So you and I, we have this relationship with the Master for something to be produced in our life, and that is the fruit of being a disciple. Jesus says that. How will you know who my disciples are? You will know them by their fruit. We will know them by their fruit. That's the fruit of the spirit. Times we can get a little confused. We think the fruit of influence, the fruit of money, the fruit of big ministry, the fruit of whatever it is, but it's the fruit of the Spirit. What is the fruit of their marriage? What is the fruit within their lives? Is there peace, patience, kindness, gentleness? Self control? Are these things operating? Do they love people? Do they love God? Do they. Do they lay down and sacrifice their life for the lowly that are around them? Is there fruit of the kingdom in their life or is it just pompous and pious? And we think that that is the. We think the American Dream fruit is the fruit of the kingdom. But let's be sure to define what we're pursuing in life as good. And what we are faithful to and what we are serving is that of the kingdom. Amen. The same question that is asked then confronts us today. Do I not just do I believe in Christ, but this question. What kind of person is my belief is my faith producing? What kind of person is my belief is this faith I have in Christ? What is that producing in my life? Amen. Number one, we're going to look at those three qualities. We're going to look at good, faithful servant over the next three hours, one hour on each. It's going to be incredible. Number one is the measure of character. The measure of character. I have a question for each of these points that I want us to write down and I want us to take away and meditate on this week. It says, am I becoming like Christ? Am I becoming like Christ? Jesus begins with the word good. That's Agathos is the original word that is used, describes something that is intrinsically good in its character and beneficial in what it produces. Our culture might define good as what is comfortable, right? That's a good. That's a good chair. That's a good bed. Because it's comfortable, that's a good job. Because it's cushy, that's a good thing. Because it's comfortable. If something feels pleasant, we call it good. If something is easy, we call it good. If something makes us happy, we call it good. But Scripture will consistently define goodness differently. Biblical goodness is rooted in the very character of God. Where Jesus was called good teacher in the Scriptures, his response was remarkable. Mark 10:18. This was his response to someone who said, good teacher. He said, no one is good except God alone. It's a big statement from Christ, right? This is the Word Incarnate. This is God, the Godhead. Three in one. Jesus wasn't denying his divinity or his deity at that time. He was forcing the rich young ruler to think carefully about what goodness truly is, is. If only God is truly good, then goodness is not measured by our circumstances. It's measured by God's character that becomes so important for us as we're reading the scriptures and we're interpreting things. Romans 8, which is one of those scriptures, says this. And we know that for those who love God, all things do. We know this one work together for good. For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son. So I love this because we know that for those who love God, all things work together by God's character, all things work together for good. Meaning God can take any situation and by his character redeem it in a moment. Paul, he is not saying that everything bad that happens is good, okay? Sin is not good. Loss is not good. Brokenness is. It's not good, okay? But our God is so completely sovereign that he is able to take what is broken and work through it toward his good purpose. And that. That is our faith in a living God. We live in a broken world that breaks things. But we have a God who is full of grace and makes ugly things beautiful. He makes things that have been pulled apart by the world that when they are put into Christ. In Christ, all things are held together. It's all pulled apart out there, but he pulls it all together. His Word says that he washes as white as snow. He's in the cleaning business. You think, oh, my life is so dirty. It's so marked up. The good news is his blood cleans and washes white as snow. Paul tells us exactly what the purpose is at the back end of that. Not simply that life becomes easier or that our circumstances improve in life, that we. That we get a good comfortable life after that, but that we are conformed into the image of His Son. God's highest priority. God's highest priority in our life is not our comfort. It's our Christlikeness that changes how we view every season in life. We might naturally ask, why is this happening to me? Why, screaming at fists in the sky, why is this happening to me? Maybe the better question that we should ask is, what is God producing in me through this? What is God bringing to the surface through this? There are depths of dependence that only trials will reveal in your life. There are idols that only disappointment will expose in your life. There are prayers that only desperation teaches us to pray in our life. And God refuses to waste any season of our life. And I'll tell you, this suffering will accomplish in our lives what comfort never will. And I know that it's hard. I know that it sucks. I know that scriptures like James 1:2, where it says count it all joy, count it pure joy. My brothers and sisters, when you face trials of various kinds, it's so hard to swallow sometimes, so easy in the good times to roll off the tongue, so easy to tell other people. But when you're faced with your own suffering, you're faced with your own trials, it's so hard to actually put it into play. I'm telling you, don't waste your suffering. Make it pay you in this life. Don't, don't just let it spend all of you. But anytime suffering comes into my life 10 years ago, walking away from all of that addiction, it was not easy for me. There was a lot of pain, there was a lot of confrontation with self. There was a lot of bad things that I did in my last life that was now so visibly in front of me. I'm telling you, make your pain pay because Christ paid a price so that any of your suffering would be redeemed and become a testimony of goodness. Telling you your strength that you've been putting, praying for is on the other side of saying, God, I will stand on your truth through this trial. I'm not going to waste a day, I'm not going to lay down in it. I'm not going to light the candle on my self pity party cake. Instead I'm going to use this as fuel to draw closer to God. For I know when I draw near to him, he draws near to me. Amen. And it teaches us, if I can speak plainly, it teaches us that not to rely upon our emotions. There's. So there's some kinds of teaching or maybe just old cultures that are like if you don't feel it, then it must not be true. Maybe you have to feel the presence of God. And I understand feeling the presence of God is amazing, feeling his peace. But man, I rely upon truths to actually establish the foundation of faith in my life. So when he says, like we prayed before, where two or more are gathered, there I am in the midst of them. I'm waiting for the feeling. I'm waiting. I'm just. I might have a bit more of a struggle here today. I'm a little bit more anxious in my heart. I'm a little bit more distracted or I just don't feel. I don't like that song. I don't like that worship leader. I don't, I don't like, you know, and it's like we think the worship was prepared for us, you know, or we think that this, this word was meant to really be conformed to my life and not have it conform me. But I'm telling you, when we actually lay down our lives and we pick up the cross that has been given to us and it doesn't feel all that great, there is a truth that you and I get to rely on. That's the word of God. And so I love the feeling of the presence of God. But my faith, nor my obedience, nor my dedication, nor my definition of goodness of God is dependent upon it. Because I know the truth. I've lived in the dark before. I know how dark it is. And the light when it is put and is spoken into the framework of our life. I'm telling you, living your life on that kind of truth, that kind of. I want to say something, but it might come across wrong. Is that, should I say it? You dare me? Like, I have? Well, I just don't want it to be misconstrued the wrong way, okay? I have a cold hearted faith, okay? You don't need to warm me up to worship God. You don't need to warm me up to pray to our God. My faith, like, I want it to be warm. Like, trust me, I stir that up, I stir that hotness up. But I'll tell you, I don't need to be made to feel like faith is in the room. Faith is in the room in my heart because Christ died on a cross for me. His blood is powerful today. I would say even more powerful than it was back then. So I feel like it's more needed right now. So this truth, it's not dependent upon like, oh, I need to feel really good before I praise God. No, Bless the Lord, all my soul and all that is with that sounds like a command. All that is within me, all that depression, all that anxiety, all that doubt, you will submit and bless the Lord in this moment. And so these, these emotions, I'm just saying they're good indicators in your life, but they're terrible masters. Terrible masters. So the invitation of discipleship is this, that God is not simply trying to make our behavior better, okay? He is transforming our nature, our heart, our desires, our motives, our mind. And he is producing his character within us. And when Jesus says, well done, good and faithful servant, he's speaking of someone whose life increasingly reflects the character of the Master. I'm Telling you this is our calling. Not merely to know Christ, but to become like Him. It takes a people who would lay themselves down understanding that good is a big call. Good is the character of God. Good is not. You know, my English teacher might say, don't use good or nice to describe anything. Go a little deeper. But good in the Bible is so large that it encapsulates the character of God. And so for us, it's understanding that we on this earth want to pursue being conformed into the image of Christ. Amen. Number two. The measure of stewardship. The measure of stewardship. Here's the question. Am I being faithful with what he's entrusted to me? Am I being faithful with what he's entrusted to me? He goes on. Good and faithful servant. There's a difference between faith and faithfulness. Faith receives, but faithfulness responds. Faith trusts, but faithfulness obeys. Faith believes in God's promises, but faithfulness builds a life upon them. And Matthew 25 unfolds that beautifully. The Master, he entrusted these talents to these different servants. One, five, one two and another, the other servant. One talent, and the talent was enormous. It's a lot of money. It was 20 years wages was one talent. That's a fair whack of responsibility right there, right? Jesus, I believe, intentionally uses these extravagant amounts. Because the point is, is not financial management. The point is stewardship. Stewardship of what he has given you and I. Everything the servant possesses has first been entrusted to them by the Master. Everything we have is being entrusted to us by God. Every breath, every opportunity, every spiritual gift, every relationship, every resource, all of these things have been entrusted to you. Every time you have the opportunity to serve someone, to serve the church, to serve the kingdom. Every opportunity for generosity is these resources that he has given to us to steward in those moments, none of these originate within us. They have been entrusted to us. The Christian life, it begins with receiving right. We receive mercy, we receive salvation. This incredible gift. We receive forgiveness and grace. We receive the Holy Spirit. Receive a new life. But eventually the question changes from not just what have I received, but what am I doing with what has been entrusted to me? This is where faith becomes visible, where faith becomes faithfulness. James writes in 2:17, Very famous passage of Scripture, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James isn't saying that work saves us. He's saying that genuine faith always produces movement. Faithfulness is simply faith that has taken shape in everyday life. The first two servants, they understood this at once. When they were given the talents, they Went to work with it straight away. No hesitation, no holding back, no fear of man, no fear of the master, no fear of anything. They went straight ahead and they were diligent with what God gave them. No endless waiting for perfect clarity. How many times have we asked over and over, God, just make it clear, clearer to me. Just, oh, just. No, no, no. I need like 17 doves to land. Three take off. And then I want a sunset to be purple and green and the northern lights to fall upon California. And if that happens, then I will know it's from your will. Waiting for this. Yes, God, wait for this endless clarity to come. But instead, we simply respond because he's given us something. He's given us an opportunity. Obedience has a remarkable simplicity to it that we as humans love to complicate. The Spirit speaks in this instance and the servant moves. We postpone obedience while calling it wisdom. We delay, surrender while calling it discernment. We convince ourselves that one day we will begin serving, begin giving, begin forgiving, begin leading, begin sharing our faith. Yet there will be another delay after another delay after another delay. God is wanting to know that you will steward what has been given to you. And it's a gift. You've got gifts. There's not one person in this room that does not have a deposit from God in their life. A gift that is operating within you, that is waiting to be unwrapped, that is waiting to be used, that is waiting to be put, to put to the battlefield for his kingdom. And it is formed in our lives, this faithfulness with what God is. It's formed by daily obedience. Because every time we choose Christ over comfort, I mean, how many times is the excuse screaming loudly, come. Too tired. I'm. I don't have time for this. I don't have the resources because I'm not smart enough for this. I'm not Christian enough for this. I'm not, you know, whatever it is, I'm just not enough for this. The excuses go one after the other. He's just looking for small steps of daily obedience that you would choose Christ over comfort. Every time we forgive. When resentment feels easier in your life, oh, it's like a juicy steak. You're like, oh, yeah, bitterness feels so good. You just want to take a big bite out of that tomahawk steak. Because hating that person is a lot easier than forgiving them. Every time we serve, when nobody notices, is it just, we want to serve so we're seen? You know, I did this thing. Every time we remain steadfast when Quitting seems justified in our lives. Faithfulness is not spectacular Christianity, it is sustained Christianity. When the times are tough, where are you? I remain faithful when the times are hard, I remain faithful when the times are really good. I don't think it's always just in the heart when the times are really good and life has taken off and do I remain faithful and steadfast to what God has entrusted to me? Tragedy of the third servant is that not that he received less, it was that he buried what he received. I have a saying in my life I say over and over again where I say I. And you can say this, say, I am a tool. I am a tool. It means the same thing here as in Australia, right? Like, But you are a tool to unbury treasure. And there are people to your left and right who are buried talents in their life. When we moved to Orange County, I felt God say this, that you are, your church is going to be a shovel, a shovel of prayer and a shovel of activity that is going to dig up talents that have long been buried in the soil here by people who were not faithful by what God gave them. And so for you, man, I want to encourage you, dig up the talent that has been buried by doubt, by some kind of tragedy in the past. I'm telling you, dig it up in faith within you. Don't leave it buried like this last servant. And one of the reasons why this servant kept this talent buried was because he had a wrong theology about God. He said in verse 24, this is what he said. He said, master, I knew you to be a hard man. I knew you to be a real tough man. And so what I did is I buried what you gave me so that nothing would be lost, nothing would be gained. He said, why did you put it in the bank? At least it would have gained a little bit of interest. You buried it in the ground like you did absolutely nothing with it. Everything that followed him, just burying this came from a belief within himself. His fear was rooted in this distorted theology that God was harsh, that God wanted to be very mean or he was strong. And he is strong. He is a God of truth. But man, he's a God that has graced you with strength to carry forward what he has given you. How we see God, I'm just telling you deeply, shapes how we follow him, how you steward what has been given to you. If we believe he is withholding from us, we will cling tightly to what he has placed in our hands. We will try and control it by our own means. Every blessing, every gift that has been given to us. False views of God will always produce a weak discipleship in our life. But when we know the goodness of the Master, faithfulness becomes an act of trust. The invitation is simple. Be faithful here, honor God here, serve here, lead here, pray here, Steward today. Well, because faithfulness is preparing you for tomorrow's capacity, he said to the first two servants, he said, enter into the joy of your master. Because you've been faithful over little, I will make you steward over a lot. I will give you more. I'm telling you, you're today's stewardship. Don't think about. I only have one talent, you know, I didn't get as much as the 2 and 5 guy. Live in comparison. Envy is wicked. It'll distort everything in your world. Instead, use what God has given to you and begin stewarding it in a good way. Amen. The last measure here today is the measure of lordship. That question is, does my life belong to him? Now, speak on this quickly here today, does my whole life belong to him? This is the Greek word doulos, and it means servant, means bond. Servant. It means slave. It's pretty controversial language. Because we live in America, we're like, I'm a slave to no one. I don't want to be a slave to the man. Come on, we free. I live off the grid and have my chickens. It's okay, you can laugh. It's fine. It sounds about right. Yeah, there we go. But. But we kind of love this independence. I'm servant to no one. I'm the master of my own outcome, a purpose, and all of this. So when he's saying servant, he's saying that there is a will and a purpose that you don't get to decide for your life. Sometimes I wonder if the service that we commit to is the one that we define most comfortably for our own life. I'm not saying God's. This guy is like, you know, you don't desire to be in Afghanistan, and all of a sudden he's sending you to Afghanistan just at the whim of a hat. No, I think he wells up desires within us. But I do think there are going to be days where you might be in a garden of Gethsemane saying, God, maybe you could take this cup from me. If Jesus faced it, then we might be facing the same thing. So the question that I want us to really consider is, does my whole life belong to him, or have I just cut out some of the pie and given him reign over this Area of my life instead. Being a servant means my whole life is yours, Father. Does that mean we're perfect? No, it's the importance of being in a gathering where we can encourage one another, where we can actually encapsulate the heart of God. Showing forgiveness to one another, lifting one another up in prayer, confessing to one another, finding healing in Christ with one another. A servant does not define the terms of service. The Master does. It's difficult because we want that control. In Luke 6:46, it says this. Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and not do what I tell you? I mean. Here, let me read that again. Because it's the Scripture saying this, okay? It's the Scripture saying this. Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and not do what I tell you? That question still echoes for us today. Lordship is more the confession. It's submission. It's surrender. It's allowing Jesus to shape every area of our lives, not just simply worship on a Sunday. Amen. Our marriages, our parenting, our language, our work, our finances, our speech, our relationships, our ambitions, our priorities. Being a servant of Christ means my life no longer belongs to. To me. Paul, he understood this deeply. Everything he did settled flowed from one settled foundation in his life. I belong to Jesus. And that changes everything for us. Service is no longer occasional, but it becomes identity in our life. Obedience is no longer selective, but it becomes worship. That's so good. Romans 12. Romans 12 says this. You know, sometimes we get caught up in worship. Worship was, you know, that's Sean, look. He's bringing worship. We sang some songs. You know, Paul would say in Romans 12, he says this, that your. Your worship, your good and spiritual worship is laying down your life at the altar. Laying down my flesh, these doubts and designs that I have. Laying down unforgiveness, bitterness at the altar. I mean, that is worship. So when we obey, when we become a servant of the most living God, know this. You're worshiping God with your life. The remarkable beauty of Christianity is this. Our master is unlike any other. He did not demand our lives before giving his own. He laid down his life for us. First, let's all stand here today. I thank you, Father, That you are a God who has designed a pathway for each of us. I thank you, Father, that you would give us strength to walk strongly down that narrow path that you have given us. Thank you, Lord, that we will be shaped into good and faithful servants. I pray that there is a deep desire within each and every one of us, God, to challenge ourselves, to live as a conformed image. And I pray that it would be our joy. Our joy in serving you, in being faithful to you, in handing over our lives and living a good, a pure, a holy life for you. Father thank you, Lord. You fill each and every person here with a new faith, with a new fire. Father, I pray a summer. God, it's hot outside. Make it hot inside. Heat up our faith that even in the hardest of days, we would lift our eyes, we would praise your name, and you would inhabit our praises. In the mighty name of Jesus, we all said amen. Amen. 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.