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Well, good morning friends. And I just want to say, I see you spring for people at home right now. You have been seen in your Jimmies and your slow wake up nine o'clock 11 o'clock. I see you. I see you in the room. You hardcore people you're ready to get here and lean in during the worship. And again, those of you who aren't ready, I completely understand. I'm not shaming. You, you were up, you were ready to come here. So I'm so thankful to just be in wherever you are just to be in your space. And just for us to share collectively together, I wanted to give you just a little bit of a heads up about Easter, Easter. Isn't just a couple of weeks. It's crazy. I know it feels like, at least for me, time is fine, but I love seeing spring spring right now. And for Easter, just as a heads up, that's a whole weekend that we get to have some experiences. And here at North gate and San Francisco and our Benicia campus, we typically like to have some sort of good Friday experience. That's much more contemplated. It's something that you get to walk through on your own and your own time. And we do kind of a stations of the cross and just some experience like that. So we've been working really hard at making sure that this is safe also, that it's comfortable when it comes to just the things that we're going to experience together. So good Friday, we're going to have spaces available between four and six. You can come at any time . You don't need to register for either campus and you can come through and experience just a time with Jesus and what that Friday looked like and ultimately meant for all of us. And then on Sunday, April 4th, we get to experience the celebration of a resurrection Sunday, just like we do every Sunday. And for that weekend, we're going to be expanding our children's services. We're going to have two services at nine and 11, because we got to go there. We get to go to two services. For those of you are comfortable to make space for that. And then we're going to have nursery our young ins through fifth grade available for you to bring your entire family and experience at either nine or 11. So those tickets are live today. You can go ahead and you can start reserving tickets for that stuff right now. And especially you, people who are early birds get after that 11 o'clock service, it's going to be great. So there's Easter excited about it. Looking forward to just what this new season is going to be bringing, and then got some exciting things that we're going to be doing after Easter. We'll talk about that in a couple of weeks. So now today in the conversation we've been having, we've been going through a series called journey of stones, where we've taken different stories out of scripture and the Jew Testament when it has to do with stones or what they've meant. And we've had different people sharing this last week, we had pastor Ken, he got to got to continue on this journey with us of stones. Ultimately, where we're going to end up is the stone that was rolled away on resurrection Sunday. And for today, I wanted to tell you that there's this thing that you've had before of sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. And we say nonsense. In reality, we , we teach our kids that when they're young, when they're sad or they've been hurt by someone, and here's the deal is people literally throw stones, right? Not as people let's just say it. We literally throw stones at people. And the way that we act in one of those specific ways, we act as I believe that it's judgment and judgment from a distance. And so today we're gonna talk about the stone of judgment. We, a couple of weeks ago, even got to unpack the story of the woman caught in adultery and where Jesus said, those who have no sin pick up your stone and throw it first. And they all dropped their stone. I asked my family, or this week, I said, Hey, we're talking about judgment. You got anything about judgment? Like, what do you think ? And like, immediately my 13 year old said this right here, judgment. It's a bad habit that everyone has. And I was like, well, there's the old man I'm done. That's great. You're 13. You get it. It's a bad habit that everyone has. Amen. Like for reals , we have this habit and everyone has a judgment issue. I got when I was 18, I was waiting and I was young and doing my own thing. And I decided, you know , I'm going to get a tattoo. And it was my 18th birthday. I remember I left early from school or I got out early. Cause there was a senior went and waited and got my first tattoo. And it was like this really silly saying. Right. But it was like the thing that it was only God can judge me. Right. That's right. But let me tell you this. We do a good job at a too , and we even cover it up. And I'll talk about this in a little bit. I'm one of the infamous covers of this. I say, you know , we're not allowed to judge people, but we can certainly evaluate. Right. And we do a lot of evaluating and that's what we call it. No, no, no, no. I'm not judging you. I'm just telling you you're wrong. Just evaluating the situation. Right. So let's hop in. We are going to be in the sermon on the Mount. Again, I've been just sitting in this stuff because really this is like the sum of everything Jesus had to say to us, it was the best message ever given in . There's so much to pull out of this. And what happens is he gives this sermon on the mountain and then he just gets to play it out and live it out and show us how to live all the things he said and talked about out. So this is again towards the end of the sermon on the Mount. And he pops in right here and Matthew seven one and he starts this part out with do not judge. We could just sit in that one for a whole long time. Right ? And for some people who are new to church or there's a lot of people out in this culture, they're like, yeah, this is the golden rule used to be treat others as you would like them to treat you. Right. But this is, what's kind of become the new thing is we're just going to culturally be comfortable and we're not going to judge anyone and you're just going to do you. And you're just going to be who you are. And however you are, and I don't want conflict, right? We're going to give distance to that. And this is like a pretty big thing right here that we're sitting in. It's a pretty good thing, especially in regards to all of us, because this is something in our natural state that we have to deal with in our heart, that we're born into this sense in which we have this natural inclination to judge people, to look at them and judge them based on either the way that they live, their lifestyle, their money, of course, in the church. You know, we do this as a lot of conversation about that, but we judge them based on what they believe or don't believe or how they do the right things or how we see it as the wrong things. We judge them. If they don't dress the right way, if they don't say the right things, or if they don't act the right way. And this tends to be our heart's natural inclination, you can probably go through the rest of your day. And if you're aware of it, you will find yourself quickly judging just the thinking, right? Looking at that person, putting an evaluation on that person from a distance. And I know I'm right, honest with you right now. I can struggle with this too. I can start with this in a real way, judging from a distance. You know, I have people often come to me in my office and counseling and there's marital relationship issues. And you know, maybe someone has infidelity in there or just dramatic things. And I can find myself sitting across my desk, like looking and thinking, Oh my gosh, what are you doing? Like judgment? Like, this is, this is crazy. I can't believe that you would do this. Or you can even be like, wow, I don't even know how you get there. I would never do that. Right. This is the human nature. Or we can start evaluating ourselves. Like, you know, whether or not our actions are appropriate and good. And I can feel in those moments that God's saying like, Hey, this isn't my people. There's a new thing that I've done in you. And so therefore I'm saying, do not judge. You're not to judge. Cause I need you to see people and I can there. And I say, God like, okay, help me see this woman, help me see this man, help me see this person as a human that is hurting, that has come here and wants to fix these things. And so I can find myself in it too. I'm just saying, I'm not, I'm not resolved from it. Like I have to deal with the same things that we all deal with walking around, seeing someone. And I have to say, God, give me eyes to see people as you see them. So I don't find myself as my heart naturally wants to go to judging. So he continues on and he says, do not judge. When we kind of hung out there or you too will be judged for in the same way you judge others, you will be judged with the measure you use. It will be used to measure you. And so right now, some of us hit the panic budget, right? Because we don't like that part. We like the I'm just evaluating, judging continues on. And he says, why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank or some versions say log or in Greek plank to your own eye. How can you say to your brother, let me take this speck out of your eye. When all of the time there is a giant plank in your own eye, right? Here's the deal. When it comes to this, we know exactly all of the issues your spouse has. I know all my wives issues, she knows all of my issues. What's wrong. And we think I know exactly what's wrong with you. Maybe we can do a couple of counseling sessions and have a talk and you can just work and do a few tweaks and those things, and then we'll be good, right? But they're thinking the same thing about you. Maybe you need to do a few little tweaks and some different things, and I know exactly what you need to do and then we'll be good, right? We , we find ourselves all the time. You know, you've seen those crazy images of, you know , this giant log that you're carrying around and you're pointing and you're judging. And I think that this whole conversation is actually leading itself into a really interesting space or some accountability. But specifically right here, we've seen, now that Jesus is saying, don't judge, don't judge. Don't judge. Don't judge don't judge somebody else, because then you're going to be judged worse. Don't trust somebody else because you've got really big problems too. And you're wanting to just take care of their problems. And you're not really wanting to take care of the problems. You're just wanting to throw it out there and what their problems are. And I know you guys know this is true because I see it on social media all the time, or, you know , just , this is the way we are, but this is leading to a place of accountability because we need people that are going to look at us and lovingly tell us, and have a conversation with us about the log or the plank that is hanging out of our eye, not in a judgment way, but it's the whole, like I got a log, guess what? You got a log, right? This is actually the beauty of a lot of recovery groups. And even the recovery group that we have here that meets every Monday, rain or shine weekly, and you go into recovery group. And a lot of people just assume that recovery group is for like these raging issues in massive problems. In specifically, they'll kind of single it out until I get some sort of substance abuse, not realizing that logs are representative of many things. And there's beauty when you get into a space around other people and you get to say, Hey, my name's Larry, I'm in recovery. And let's talk about my log. And then you can talk about your log and we're going to work on our logs together and do a little logging. Right? Right. We're going to, we're going to make a fire right here and throw the stuff in there. So there's this accountability aspect. And I believe that we see this actually, there's a really great example. I wanted to share with you. It's in second Samuel, which is in the old Testament, 12 one through seven. I read to this real quick with you in just a second. This is a situation where David King David, a lot of you maybe are familiar with hearing this story, whether you've grown up in church or not, but there's a story of a woman named Beth Sheba , right? And David solar on this patio and she was bathing. And then he sent someone to go get her. He ended up sleeping with her. Well , Uriah was best was husband who was actually fighting for David on his army and Shiva had become pregnant. And so David King David sent for her. I'd had him come back, tried to like, have him hook up with his wife or I could cover this whole thing up, ends up not doing it because he felt like bad. Cause he wasn't out in the army. He wasn't fighting. And so ultimately what happened is David ended up sending a note out and having him killed. So it just escalated. It was like a cover up, cover up, cover up. Well, what happened later is David had a really good friend. I call him an accountability partner, right ? That God's sent to him and had a message for him . It says this. Then the Lord sent Nathan to David. When he came to him that now he gave, this gives a story. He said, let me tell you about a story, David. There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. And the rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle. But the poor man had nothing except a little EELAM that he had bought. He raised it and he grew up with him and his children had shared his food drink from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him. It's like you crazy people with your dogs, right? I know you, you got, you got them in like a little outfits and like a little cop at the table for them, half of a meat better than you eat. It's crazy dog people. Alright , you're going now. A traveler came to the Richmond , but rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or his cattle to prepare a meal for the travel who had come to him instead, he took a little Ulum that was belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come. Now, this is what happens, David, like many of us would, he burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, surely as the Lord lives, the man who did this must die. He must pay the price that he must pay for that land four times over because he did such a thing and had no pity, right? This is ridiculous. He took that little baby, that daughter to that man. It wasn't even his, he slaughtered it threat . He had all of these cattles. Why would he did it? Do that? And then Nathan's said , you are the man, not like you, the man, but like, you're that guy, like, here's some accountability. This isn't just coming with this judging and condemning from a distance. But your , that guy, I get asked this question and I asked this question a ton, anywhere specifically, anytime I'm around men and then kind of relationship, I will ask, what's your accountability? Like , how do you have accountability? And , and I know that a lot of you maybe have seen a lot of things over the news over the last couple of years. And even recently in specifically with a lot of pastors, because it's like great news. For some reason, you'll see all of these things where there's been misconduct and , and these like scandals going on. And a lot of that has a do with a lack of accountability. And so I get asked that question too, of like, what's your accountability. I ask other men, what's your accountability. And I'm speaking from a male's point of view. So understanding I'm not going to be able to go as deep in this with women. You need it as well. But with men, you know, like I've gotten some, I'll just say like some ridiculous answers before. And it's like, Hey, what do you do to keep yourself accountable? Like when you're traveling or when things just aren't going right, or you're stressed or you're going through these different seasons. And I remember one of the silliest answers I got that we had to walk through was like, well, I mean, have you seen my wife? And it was like, what ? I guess what I got , that's not accountability. Right? That's a beautiful relationship that you have, but that's not actually going to be like a Nathan in your life. We jumped ahead a little bit. So the question is really, so I'm getting to, what kind of accountability do you have in your life? Who's your Nathan? I know for me, I have a group of here, a board that I get to be accountable to and I get to talk about my life and what's going on. And I get to talk about my relationships or the things that I'm struggling with and things that I'm dealing with and the things that I'm doing to try to make sure that I become better and healthy and that I don't become judgmental . And I don't find myself in a weird spot. I also have a couple of the really good buddies that I share everything with it's. Everything is out in the open. This is literally what I'm dealing with. I have, and I had talked about this a couple of months ago. I have a buddy that I call, we call five days a week, every morning at 7:50 AM. So like, people are trying to get ahold of me from like seven 50 to like eight 30, eight, 45, or somewhere around there. You can't get a hold of me. Cause we're talking in a lot of that has to do. And this is the crazy part. Here's like my, my sins from yesterday or this weekend are the things that I struggled with or me and a dumb thing. I said, you know, like this is it men not just talking about it, but the accountability piece of like, and here's an a do about it. Here's what I'm working on doing about it. And that's the kind of counterbalance that we need to have friends because we don't want to find ourselves in a situation where we're making these mistakes and we just, and people are distant and no one's helping us because we're just like, I don't want to judge. I don't want to judge. I don't want to judge. I don't want to judge and no one will come alongside of you and say, Hey, my name's Larry, I'm recovery. Here's my log. Right? I don't want to talk about just the speck in your eye. Now. Here's a really interesting thing that happens because we're going through kind of exegetically , Ms . Versus we started Matthew seven verse one and we went through five and it's all about don't judge. Don't judge. Don't judge. Don't talk about the speck in someone else's I wouldn't have got a log in your own eye. And then he makes this crazy shift that I really had to chew on. That almost feels like it's contradictory to what he had just said. I'm gonna read it to you. We'll we'll hop into it. And then we'll go all of a sudden he's like, don't do the log plank thing. Now we jump into do not give dogs. What is sacred and do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet in turn and tear you into pieces. So, first off I do this, like you would do, what does that even mean? Like all of a sudden we're talking about dogs and pigs and throwing pearls out to them. And in this, in this continuation of conversation, I'm like, well, hold on. So don't judge don't judge on . Not sure I got that. And then it's Austin. And he's like, and by the way, there's pigs, there's dogs and make sure you that you don't touch those. Right . Or make sure you do judge those and that also, you never put Holy things in front of those pigs or the dog . So here's the balance that we've just gone through and learned right here. Never judge. Totally, always judge. I'm like, Whoa, what does this mean now? Now what does this shift he just made? What is this about? And as I kind of walked through this and wrestled with this, we see verse one through five is not this current blond prohibition against critical thinking. And that we should never critically think about things that we should never dismantle and kind of tear things apart or never push back or push against that. We should never confront. It's not that what verse one through five about is not judging people from a distance and condemning. We shouldn't be judging people from a distance because we're walking through the grocery store with logging and out and we're like, no , look at them. Look at that spec. Right? And that's what we're thinking. That's what that is talking about. We don't want to do this from a distance. Now, verse six says that there's actually a place in life where you actually need to make sure that you're confronting or you're discerning or you're critiquing. And you're calling out in this pushes back against this idea of like, you know, only God can judge me. I'm not going to judge anyone. I'm not going to do this. They're going to do that. And they're gonna make those decisions and whatever, right? That's not how this that's not how this works. And to kind of dive in just a little bit deeper to this, you see things that Paul does in acts 13 or acts 19. You can read through some of those and see, as they kind of dismantle this idea that there's accountability that we need to have, but it's an appropriate accountability and how we treat it . Or we look at something that we kind of really wrestle with. If you've dug into, through the new Testament in Matthew 18, there's this whole conversation about discipline in the church. Now that leads to my role in the church or the role of elders in the church, which is to protect or take care of the flock as a shepherd and Jesus, you know , people ask Jesus, what can I do for you? And he's like feed my sheep, feed my people, which means like loved them as I have loved you and care for them, not just in all kinds of freedom, but there are times when things happen in situations arise. And in Matthew 18, it talks about this discipline thing where he's saying, Hey, if you see someone struggling or doing something that they shouldn't do, and they are a follower of Jesus that they made this shift where they said, I'm going to live a new life. I'm going to live a surrendered life to you, Jesus, in a I'm living in this life. But then yet you're still making these decisions in life that it talks about how you need to go to another person and have a conversation with them and call them out and push into that, right? And help them then go on some sort of rehabilitation to fix their marriage or fix their issue or this addiction problem. That's hurting them and hurting other people. And then it talks about how, if, if the , it doesn't happen with the one person that you bring a few people and you have that conversation. And then it gets to like this really crazy picture where it's like, if that doesn't work and they're still not understanding that what this is causing that you actually then go in front of the church, the community of other believers and talk about it and say it and call it out and tear it down. Now, I don't want a lot of you guys to freak out right now. I'm not going to throw a picture up here right now and be like, now this is the person we're judging. It's not how this works, but there is a place where we need to be held accountable to what we're doing. Not just this hands off all of the time Barney research as a group that does surveys, they went out and they asked a handful of people who are non-Christians that don't do the Jesus thing in the top three things that they hate about church. If they are asking about, and one of the top three things, 87% was that the church is judgmental right now. I think that we have been called as followers of Jesus to lean into that verse one through five, because what people are talking about is judging from a distance. It's not a relational thing. So we can get caught up and saying, this is my life. This is how good I am. I am changing , transformed. You're not right. Or, or you can just quickly be pointing out in gossiping and saying these things about others targeting their back, which is a form of judgment. And people were far from Jesus. Okay ? I don't want to be a part of that. I don't do that. There's a lot of people who've done it. And it's all a reflection of the greatest commandment to love others. As I have loved you, as Jesus loved us, it's not Intel people say, Hey, I'm a part of this community. Now there could be accountability because it's a relational conversation. I get asked all kinds of questions from a distance about opinions or theologic or things, or just our views and where we stand in the statements of faith. In many of those conversations, aren't had well through an email or a phone call. Why that's like a, yeah. A phone call. That's, that's like a situation where you want to sit down and have a conversation because then you can understand my heart. I can sit there and say, here's my log. Let's talk about the log that you want to talk about. And the hurt that other people's logs have done, right? How they have done damage to others. Now, how do we know what kind of discernment to have and in how we have conversations and approach one another and encourage one another. Again, this is a continuation of a conversation he's having in the Bible. If you reading through that, it has all these little like breakups. That's not how it was originally written. So in this message, it goes right into this says, ask, it will be given to you seek, and you will find knock. And the door will be open to you for everyone who asks, receives the one who seeks and finds into the one who knocks the door will be opened. Now, a lot of people like will shift and be like, Ooh, this means something else. This means this is like , now the Jesus, it's like a slot machine, ask him, he will receive seven, seven , seven baby, right? Jackpot. Remember this is a continuation of this conversation. So it's pointing right back at this. When you're trying to understand,

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How will we have these relational

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Conversations ask me, and it will be given to you. I'm going to give you discernment and wisdom knock. And you're going to find it. The door is going to be opened, right? For everyone who asks is receive as the one who finds these things. And the one who knocks the door will be opened. He saying , bring these things to me. And I'm going to partner with you as we walk through this and deal with this. Now this whole conversation that we have had many of the way that Jesus talks is all done in something called a hyperbole. Right. And we get to like the little sections and that's like, the thing we'll take in other sections, we don't take. So we're already, we're going like, eh , I'm not going to do the whole dog pig thing. Right. Or earlier in the his message, just a couple chapters ago, you see where he's saying, Hey, if your eye causes you to lust, pluck it out. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. And we get in , we're like listening. And we're like, yeah, this is good. Yeah, don't judge. This is really great. And then we get to the , like the eye thing and they're like, he's just, over-exaggerating, it is not a thing. Right. We're not going to get our handoff. Right. So why would we stop and think suddenly that all of this wouldn't be in hyperbole, right? This whole ask. And it will be given to you knock. And so we switched and we're like, yeah, don't judge, don't judge. This is so good. And now anything we won't , we go get

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It's hyperbole.

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It doesn't mean everything that we ask for everything that we pray for. We're going to get. And most of you know, that's not reality, right? But when we're in situations where we need God's guidance in direction or help in somebody that we can feel can actually come alongside of us and scoop us up and say, here's my log. I'm not judging you. But look, we got some work to do. We have work to do right now, friends. So what work do you need to do?

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Ask,

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Seek, knock, and allow God to do a work in you. And then I love how kind of ends this part of the conversation. At least as far as we're going to go today, it says, which of you, which of you, if your son asks for bread will give him a stone. Or if he asks for a fish will give him snake. If you then though, you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children. You know how to give good gifts to your children. How much more will your heavenly father give good gifts to those who ask him? So in everything do to others, what you would have them do to you for this sums up the law and profits . And this isn't just like a nicey nice conversation right here do to others. Be nice. So everyone's nice to you, right? No, it's like do some hard loving with others because you want people to love you hard back. And sometimes loving somebody hard is just being there for them and you know, gifts to them and caring and , and coming alongside of them. And other times that hard love doing to others is saying like, Hey, you got my blind spot. You got my blind that you got my six , you got my back. Are you taking care of me? You know , the whole Maverick goose thing, someone else's looking behind you telling you where the bogeys are going to come in and get ya. That's what you want to do to others in a healthy way. Cause you want him to do that to you. She didn't go out there beating people up with your log, but that we can recognize that God laid us for community and this beautiful thing that he's created in us. So , uh, do you got your phones? You can bust out your phones. So we're wrapping up today. We're going to do a worship song about how God is , how God has really just our keys. He's he's all for us . But I want to give you a , these questions here, took us up and take a picture with your phone. These are questions to ask. First one is what log do you need to work on? Or plank? My middle schoolers out there are giggling. And that question, what log do you need to work on? What's that thing that's causing damage. What's that thing that is hurting other people in reality, it's hurting you. And if you need help, remember that whole conversation, your, your spouse or your close friend. You want to know the answer, just ask. They are probably ready and willing. They're probably going to be like, I thought you'd never asked . Right? And then they bust up this list, okay? Where to start, right? What log do you need to work on? And seriously, who's your current ability? Who's your accountability. Who's your recovery group. Who's the person that you can sit there and say, Hey, my name's Larry. I'm in recovery. Let's talk. It's seven 50 in the morning. Right now let's have a conversation about what I'm struggling with or what I did or what I said or how I'm feeling or how I'm going into this day and check it, check me, be my accountability. And one of my favorite parts of the accountability is it's not, you know, all these things, but it's just like, this is the way I'm feeling I'm running into this day. And there's a heart check . A posture to be like, perspective is a beautiful thing, right? A picture that's given. They're the one who's going to take a picture of you and hand it to it . And you're like, Ugh. Right? So we forget what we look like. It's a mirror who is your accountability? Who's your accountability. And maybe this week, you need to ask, seek, knock, and ask God, will you lead me to someone that can be my accountability, make me new help make me better. Help me walk through this crazy life together.

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So that way,

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Since stones, don't just break bones and words. Don't hurt others too , because judgment is a habit that everyone

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Struggles with. For sure.

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So let's stand . We're going to respond in worship.

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So , uh, my name is Larry I'm in recovery Sunday . Today, you're sitting here and you just need to say, my name is Larry. Jesus. I need to recovery. Then you're ready to say, I want to let you be the King of my heart. I just want to sit and let you do a new thing in me, do work on me because I can't do it on my own. And you get invited in and you get adopted in as a son or daughter into his family for attorney and on this earth into a faith community that will sit with you and say, Hey, I'm going to recovery to where a people in process taking new steps towards Jesus. So welcome to a grace-filled community. And if you're wondering like, okay, so how do I do that? What's the next step. We just got an easy step for you. That's going to help you in this process. It's a little journal you wrote. It's called this changes everything. Because when you get, when you are adopted as a son or daughter into his family, into this family, it changes everything truly. And I want you to experience that. He wants you to experience this as a free gift. And so this is a free gift to you. We'll mail it to you. You can text TC E one to nine four zero zero zero. Or if you're here in the room today, there's a little spot. You, as you leave, you can go stop like there. We're going to give this to you and follow up with you as a next step. And so once you have this, if you're new with us today, or maybe this is one of your first times, or maybe you just want to let us know, Hey, I'm ready to tell you who I am. I've been here a couple of times. We would love the opportunity to get to know who you are online or here in person. We have a gift for you want to give you just some information about what's going on, answer questions and just get you in wrapped into community. And like you heard early starting point is a great place to start when you're going to go. Like, so where do I start? Like, where do I learn? How do I get involved with things starting point right there? Just start there. We have it every week. You can hop in whenever you want. So man, maybe allow Jesus to be the King of our heart. I want to send you off with a blessing. We have this posture of giving up and receiving and so made you may. You just enjoy the presence of Jesus as you eat . As you ask, as you seek, as you knock the man, he comfort you. And may he do hard work on you and I this week? I love your friends. I'll see you next week.