It's good to see everybody this morning. If you have God's word, go ahead and be finding the book of Colossians. The book of Colossians. And once you find the book of Colossians there in the New Testament, locate chapter three. Colossians chapter three. And then once you find chapter three, be finding verses 16 and verses 17. This morning, I wanna spend some time talking about the power that's in the name of Jesus Christ. I wanna spend some time talking about the authority that's in the name of Jesus Christ. Anybody who was here last week, I talked about New Year's, and I had talked about New Year's resolutions, and I had talked about the many resolutions people would make. One of the things that I had said was the one New Year's resolution that could be made that topped any and every other resolution was to walk closer to God than you've ever walked before in your life. And it wasn't just a sermon, I meant it. And this morning I have tried to start each day not just running down a random list of all the things God has done or a random list of all the people I want him to heal or lay his hands on, but I decided I wanted to take a moment as I walk through each and every day And every time I notice something that he does, I wanted to thank him for it. And I'll start out just briefly with just a couple few things this morning. How many of y'all glad to be here this morning? It's interesting. It's interesting if you can see from my seat. And you can stand and you can see Sometimes the smiles, sometimes the worry, the concern, the tiredness. Let me tell you what I saw when I walked in this morning. When I walked in this morning, I walked in and I looked around and, you know, I got here early and there was just a few people, more people were coming as we went. Miss Willie made back on the back seat, turned, smiles and tells me good morning, and I thank God for it. He'd give me one more day, and he'd give me one more opportunity to walk through the doors and see people I love and care about, just have a conversation. Came on through the door, shook hands, turned and walked to the back, and Brother Frank and Brother Well, Brother Mike and John Michael and Cody, all back in the back. And I walked back there and I just talked a little bit about last night. And I talked a little bit about being on my ham radio and talking and some of the funny stories that I had heard there. And we shared them and we laughed about it. That laughter was something God done blessed me with. And he gave me just a few minutes to share and enjoy. I walk back to the back, see Mr. Becker back there, turn and says, Josh has gotten to Japan safely. We've been thinking about him. We've been praying about him. The Lord says, I'm going to allow you to know your prayers have been heard. Turn around. I ain't been back there long. Walk back to the office over here, sit my stuff down. Go in, get in a little prayer with the Lord. Sitting there for a minute, Brother Frank comes by, and he says, how about a cup of coffee? And he goes off, and he comes back, and he's got me a cup of coffee, and he hands it to me. Y'all don't know how much that means, but I do. And we sit. talk over a cup of coffee and he's giving me just a few more minutes and give me a little bit of slice of a day for people I love and care about. I could sit here and rattle off on this list. I ain't even been here just a handful of minutes and I've already started realizing just how close the Lord walks with me and I've realized how I go through each day and I don't even spend any time thanking him for it. But I found that I stop in each little moment and tell him, thank you, how much closer I am already. How much I can already feel it. I can already see it. Changes everything. And I'm just a handful of days in January. What in the world is it going to be like? If I hold on to the Lord and just continue to walk that way, All of that to say it made me think about Jesus. It made me think about his name, who it is I'm walking with. And I'm gonna start out by reading this morning Colossians 3, verses 16 and 17. Here's what the word of God says. Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly. among you, and I want you to kind of underline that word dwell. That literally means to live with, not just to think about, not just to talk about, to live with. Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you. and admonishing one another in all wisdom, and singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, underline it, everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. Now look at this next part. Giving thanks to God the Father through him. Walk it. Make a decision to walk it. Listen to that last part in verse 17. Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. Do how much? Everything. Doesn't walk through the door this morning. I ain't even got, I'm sure I've missed so much stuff he's done for me, it's ridiculous. Do everything. Do everything in what? Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. Every single solitary thing I do is a conversation with Jesus Christ. Everything. I'm not just doing it and saying, hey, I'm doing this for the name of Jesus. It's a conversation where I say, Jesus, tell me what it is you want me to do. I'm talking while I'm walking. Do everything. Let me ask you a question this morning. Yeah. Why did God make you? I've asked this question before. Many of you've heard the answer so many times. Why? Why did he make you? Why? Why did he create you? Why? Why are you here? You say, well, preacher, that one's easy. He made me to serve him. Nope, he didn't. You say, oh yeah, that's why he made me. I'm gonna tell you right now, if that was his primary reason for creating you, he would have just created the angels, because they'd have done a lot better job. Angels would have done a whole lot better job at service than we do. They'd have done far better, and they'd have been a whole lot more obedient than we do. Now, I'm not saying we're not to serve him. We're supposed to serve him, don't get me wrong. But that's not our chief purpose. Well, then why did he create us? Why? Why did he create us? Y'all ever read in the Bible where it says he created us for his own good pleasure? Y'all ever seen that, for his own good pleasure? Let me tell you your primary responsibility to the Lord. The primary reason you were created. God created you to worship him. Now the question is, what does that mean? At worship, you throw worship out there, all the traditional thoughts about what worship is and everybody wants to run to a definition and most of the time they get it wrong and they start digging into what they really think worship is. God wants us to worship him. Now I want you to follow me. I'm going to run down a hole. Don't get lost. I'm going somewhere with this. You ever heard this? God is love. Have you ever heard that statement, God is love? Let me tell you what real love is between two people. Something that happens with real love between two people. It gets reciprocated. Y'all know what that means? I love you, and then you love me back. That's what that word reciprocate means. It means that when God created us, you know why he made us? He made us to love us. And do you know what he's looking for back? For us to love him back. And when you show him love, I mean true, true love, I'm gonna tell you what that is. You ready for it? That is the very definition of worship. That's what worship is. That's what worship is. And in order to be loved, love has to have a recipient. Love is an act of giving yourself to somebody else. That's what it is. So God created us so that he could pour his love into us so that we might pour it back to him. Let me tell you what, and I want y'all to think about this for a minute. Pouring your love back to God is the greatest thing you can ever do. Why? Why? Let me ask you this. If you give God all your riches, is God any richer? No. Who owns it? He does. You're just a steward. If you give God all your strength, is God any stronger? No. Who gave it to you in the first place? God did. All right. If you give God all your wisdom, is God any wiser? Nope. If we give God glory, and we should, because it is time to worship, does it make God any more glorious? He's glorious whether we give him glory or not. If we give God our power, Is God any more powerful? No. Why? Because he already has everything. There's absolutely nothing that can be added to the attributes of God that we can give. But there is one thing. We can give him one thing. that is ours to give back to him. Only one. Our love. It is the only thing that is ours to give. It is the only thing that you have the option not to give. Your love. When we give God love, I'm gonna tell you what it does. It meets the desire of his heart. That's what it does. Now here's some wonderful news for you. I find it good news for me anyway. There's going to always be people who have more money than I got and they're going to be able to out give me. Y'all know that? There's gonna be always people who have a whole lot more wisdom than I do. As a matter of fact, it's hard to stand up here every Sunday morning and deliver the word knowing I'm delivering it to people who are smarter than I am in the first place. Gonna be people with a lot more wisdom than I have. There's gonna be people who have more power and can give God more from the power that they have. But I'm going to tell you one thing. There is absolutely nobody who has more love than I have. And I can give as much or more as I want to God. And nobody can out give me if I don't want to. We all on equal footing when it comes to how much love we want to give God. And the decision is yours. Nobody has cornered the market on worship when you put that definition to it. Nobody. If you want to worship God, I'm going to tell you what you can do. You can have at it because ain't nothing stopping you. You ain't limited. He didn't put a limitation on how much you worship him because that is yours to give. And you decide whether you want to give it or not. Everything else is yours. You ever thought about that? You name anything else you got, and when you die, what happens to it? You don't own it. Let me tell you what you are. You are a steward of it. You get to decide how to use it properly while you're here, but it's still God. But he won't make you give him your love. You decide. It's yours. decision. And you can do as good a job at giving it to him as anybody else can because you're on equal footing with everybody. Now verse 16 is speaking of worship. Let the message about the Messiah dwell richly among you. That's preaching. Teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. Let me tell y'all what that last part is. That's what we call church service. That last part is what you call a church service, and that's worship. There are different facets to worship. How I express my love to the Lord, there's different facets to how I love the Lord. Church service, that's one way, isn't it? There's different ways you can express worship to the Lord, how much you love him. Different ways. You know, we have worship here at Taylor's Chapel Baptist Church, and I'm gonna tell you something about it. I love it. Folks, I'm gonna tell you something else, though. Worship shouldn't begin and end at Taylor's Chapel Baptist Church on Sunday morning. You want me to tell you what ought to happen? Worship ought to go with you wherever you go. It ought to go with you wherever you go. Notice verse 17, and whatever you do, whatever you do, in word or in deed, listen to it, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Does it say do everything while you're at church on Sunday morning in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ? That is not what it says. Verse 17 is still speaking of worship. And that means our worship doesn't end when we walk out that door on Sunday morning and step into the world. When you walk out that door on Sunday morning, it ought to go with you. It ought to go with you. And when you come to church, I'm gonna tell you something, something you need to understand. When you come to church, you're not coming here to merely get in the mindset so that you can worship, you're supposed to bring worship through the door with you to share it with everybody. Two different things. You're supposed to bring it with you to share it with everybody. We bring our worship to church. We don't come to church to just worship. We miss that whole point so many times. Real worship. Real worship, now listen to me. Listen to me, this is, you need to hear this because if you don't, you're gonna miss the whole point of the whole message. Real worship involves every single solitary area of your life. Real worship is. Real worship involves it all. Every day, every place, wherever you are, whatever you're doing, Every single thing you do in the name of Jesus Christ. When I walked through the door this morning, I was already worshiping because I was already talking with the Lord. When I saw everybody and I spent time with them, I was already thanking the Lord. I was worshiping the time I walk in and I ought to be worshiping when I walk out. Everything, everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, give thanks to God the Father to Him. Worship is doing everything in the name of Jesus and giving God that thanks now Why would I call that worship? Yes a question and I've asked this Always say worship in love Lord When you love the Lord what happens you give him glory you can't help it You give him glory. Every time I say thank you, you know what I'm doing? I'm giving him glory. Every time I stand up here and tell y'all what he's giving me, you know what I'm doing? I'm giving him glory. Every time I walk in and I share a blessing in my life, you know what I'm doing? I'm giving him glory. You know, when I walk through that door and I say, you know what, the world's got me down on the ground, the Lord's with me, but I'll tell you, I sure would appreciate y'all praying for me. God's the only one who's gonna be able to help, and I need my brothers and sisters in Christ gathered around me. Y'all pray for me, you know what I'm doing? I'm giving him glory. Because I know He's the only one who can do it. And I know He's given me y'all to stand around me, to lift me up when I can't lift myself up. Giving Him glory. Giving Him glory. That's worship. If worship is giving glory, then when you go to work, you'll be giving glory. Your friendships ought to be glorifying God. Your bank ought to be glorifying God. Your recreation ought to be glorifying God. And if those things glorify God, you worship it. Let me give you another couple of verses of jot down. 1 Peter 4. 1 Peter 4, verse 11. I want y'all to listen to this. 1 Peter 4, verse 11. What does it say? 1 Peter 4, verse 11. Here's what the word of God says. If anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God's words. I want y'all to listen to that closely. If anyone speaks, does it say when? If anyone speaks, period, every time you open your mouth, if anyone speaks, let it be as one who speaks God's words. If anyone serves, serves where? It doesn't say where. If anyone serves, wherever you serve, in whatever way you serve, if anyone serves, let it be from the strength God provides. So that God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. Listen to it. in everything. Everything that I do, everything that you do ought to glorify God. Why? Because everything you do ought to be out of love for him. And that love ought to glorify him and you ought to be thanking God. You ought to be giving Praise to him in the name of Jesus Christ. Everything. That's worship. That's worship. Now if God's being glorified in all the things that I do, now I'm gonna spin this on its head a little bit. If he's being glorified in everything that I do, then all the things that I do are worship because worship is Worship is glorifying God. Now I want you to follow me. I'm not trying to trivialize worship. I'm trying to show you how it's gonna magnify your daily life. We're supposed to bring our worship with us to church when we come. We're supposed to carry our worship with us wherever we go. Let me give you another verse real quick. First Corinthians 10, verse 31. Now this is where we're gonna get ready to spin it on its head. First Corinthians 10, verse 31. Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for God's glory. If you listen to the Lord there, If you walk with the Lord there, if you do what the Lord would have you do because you love him and it says here that whatever you do, do everything for God's glory. You know what that does? That eliminates some of the things you do. It eliminates some of the things you do. You say, no, I don't know what I'm following. I don't know that I'm following. How does it eliminate everything? How does it eliminate things? Whatever you do, do everything to God's glory. Some of you may have a nicotine habit. Who, preacher, you stepping on toes? You say, well, preacher, let me ask you a question. Is there a Bible verse that says, thou shalt not smoke a cigarette? Is there anything in there that says don't smoke a cigarette? Not that I can find. Somebody says, well, well, smoking cigarettes send me to hell. No. Might make you smell like you've been there. You sure won't send you there. Can you find a verse in the Bible that says, thou shalt not smoke a cigarette? No. But I'm going to tell you what to do. Next time you get ready to light one up, you go ahead and say, Lord, this is to your glory. This is to your glory, Lord. I'm going to smoke this for you. As a matter of fact, Lord, I'm going to smoke this and all that health to you. I'm going to take the health you've given me, and I'm going to pull that dude out of my pocket, and I'm going to take the money you've given me with that cigarette lighter I bought, and I'm going to strike it up, and I'm going to smoke a cigarette, and I'm going to smoke them every day for your glory until I wreck the health you've given me. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to wreck the health, but I'm going to wreck my health for your glory. Let me ask you something. Can you do that? Can you do that? That's a hard pill to swallow, isn't it? Maybe you're watching a television program. Maybe you're spinning through TikTok. Whoo! Mercy preacher getting rough this morning. Maybe you're scanning your phone. Maybe you're doing all these things and you flip through something you know you ought not have. You ought to be looking at, ought not be on. Question is, can you look at it? Can you watch it? Can you read it? And as you do it, can you say, Lord, I'm doing this to your glory? This is for you. You know why I'm doing this, Lord? Because I love you so much. That's why I'm doing it. You say, preacher, don't you think that's a little bit extreme? Absolutely it is. Absolutely, it is. You say, well, then why you talk about it? Well, let me ask you this Bible verse here, 1 Corinthians 10, 31. Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything for God's glory. Don't you think the word of everything is extreme? That's what he expects. Everything. That means your dinner is to be an act of worship. That means washing dishes after dinner. is an act of worship. And somebody told me that, I read this somewhere, that Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Billy Graham, had a sign that said over her kitchen sink. And it said dinner, it said divine service is held here three times a day, washing dishes to the glory of God, that's what it said. Whatever you do, it should be to the glory of God. Now listen, this is not Jason Barrett talking. With me, I'm just gonna read what I see. Paul the Apostle is doing the talking and he's doing it on behalf of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So who wrote it? God did, not me. The Apostle Paul penned it. Who really wrote it? Hey, it's all done in the name of Jesus. It's all done in the name of Jesus. Therefore, whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do everything for God's glory. Again, 1 Peter 4, 11, that God in all things may be glorified. So tomorrow morning, you kids, when you go to school, you go to glorify God, whether you know it or not. Whether you do it, it's a different story, but that's the reason. Parents, when we go to work, When we get ready to go back to school to teach. When I get ready to go back to school with that spun Bob I'm ready attitude. Can't wait to step in after I've already been out for a couple of weeks. When I go, I go to worship. You ever thought about going to work so you can go worship? That's what you're doing. When I step back into that place, I'm stepping back in there to worship. Right now, we are under this roof, but tomorrow, we're going to step out in the cathedral of the sky, and every place that you go ought to be an act of worship, because your worship goes with you wherever you go. See what we're talking about? We're talking about taking the so-called secular and sanctifying it. You realize when we step out these doors, that's what we ought to do. Wherever our footsteps, it ought to sanctify. Whoever we talk to, the words that come out of our mouth ought to sanctify, wherever we are and whoever we're talking to, whether they want it to or not. We're talking about taking the everyday and edifying it. Why? So that in all things, God is glorified. We don't just come to church and worship, turn it on, turn it off. This is a concept that has to get out. It's a concept that has to get out. It has to get in our hearts. It has to get in our mind. You know what the average Baptist concept was when I was a kid growing up in church? If you wanted to be a super-duper Christian, super-duper. If you just wanted to be a super over-the-top Christian, Here's what you did. Sunday morning, you got up, you got ready, you went to Sunday school, you went to morning service, you went home. And then Sunday night, you got ready, and you came back, and you attended Sunday night service, and then you did Sunday night, and then you went home. And then on Wednesday, Wednesday you get up, and you go to church on Wednesday night, and you go home. And then you, You tithe. And then after you tithe, you look at it and you say, look here, I've given God at least a seventh of my week. I give him Sunday for the most part. I mean, Sunday morning, Sunday night, but if you throw Wednesday in there, it's all day. And I've given him a tenth of my income. That's what people thought being over the top was. As a matter of fact, nowadays people think that you're a religious nut. if you're doing that. Everybody gets excited because they have given God one day and a dime out of every dime. And everybody gets real excited about it. And they look at it, and a tenth of the calendar belongs to God, or a seventh of the calendar belongs to God, and a tenth belongs to Him throughout the week, folks. I'm gonna tell y'all something. Ain't biblical. Let me say it again. Ain't biblical, y'all, I kept saying that term. Ain't biblical. You say, well, the Bible talks about time, and it does. Bible talks about the Sabbath, it does. Bible talks about the Lord's day, it does. Bible also says you give him everything. Everything. That's biblical. That's biblical. We like to pick and choose the pieces we want. And we like to pick it and choose it to the point that we want to obey it, that it don't hurt. But once it starts hurting and it starts encroaching on our time, that's where we like to draw the line and say, well, here's what it really said. But we like to go after people who twist the words to their own use. Mercy. Let me let y'all in a little secret about how we split the pie. The whole pie belongs to him. Y'all do realize that. The whole pie. Not just a tenth, the whole pie. You say, well, priest, do you bring your entire paycheck and just drop it in the plate? Well, I don't just drop it in the plate. But what do you do with it? Well, let's see. He wants me to raise a godly family. So I take every dime I got and I pour every single dime I got into my family. I pour every single dime I got into those in the church. I pour every single dime I have into people who are sick and hurting and need it. What do I do with it? Does it just get dropped in the plate? It gets distributed wherever God wants it. Now do I fail and take pieces of the pie? Absolutely I do. Am I supposed to? It belongs to him, not me. But the bottom line is we like to limit what we give him. And we like to keep what we want. It's not biblical. The whole black pie belonged to him, not just him, it belonged to him. And not one day, but every day. Listen, when God, when the judgment day comes, When the judgment day comes, I'm going to tell you what God's not going to do. He's not going to lift that piece of pie out and say, all right, well, let me, let me, let me just get that. Let me just get that Sabbath. Let me get that Lord's day. Let me lift that out of there. I just want to see how you did on it. Cause the rest of it's yours. Let me see how you did on this Lord's day. Yeah, you, you know, about 90% of the Lord's day throughout your whole life. You did pretty good. Folks, he don't do it that way. He's not just gonna say, well, let me just look at that 10th that I was supposed to get. Don't worry about that other 90%. I really don't care how you spent that. Let me just look at that 10th. I need to take a look at that 10th because that's really the only thing that I was demanding. That is not the way it works. That is not the way it works. I'm gonna tell you what that is not. It is not worship. It is not love. That is the very definition of self, and boy, we get in there all the time. Heck, I'm guilty of it, too. Find myself sitting on the throne, and hey, what am I gonna do? I don't know. I really need to go to church, but it's raining and snowing outside, and this real funny episode of Andy Griffith is coming on. I got to see it. I got to watch it. He's not just going to look at the sermons I preached and say, you did a good job. He's not just going to look at the songs we sung and say, you did a good job. He's not just going to look at the Sunday school classes you taught. He's not just going to look at your school grades and say, yeah, well, they did what their parents did, told them to, and they focused on school. He's not just going to look at school grades. He's going to look at your whole life. He's going to look at your business life. He's going to look at your recreation. He's going to look at your hobbies. He's going to look at your whole life, all of it. Because it says, and whatever you do. Whatever you do in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. So when you go to work tomorrow, doing whatever it is you do, whether you're a teacher, or whether you build in widgets, or whether you sell in watching college, I don't know, whatever you do, if you do it in the name of Jesus, then it's worship. God's receiving glory for it. That implies something. There is no ground that's not holy ground. I'm gonna say it again. There is no ground that's not holy ground. And there is no time that's not sacred time to the child of God. Oswald Chambers said this, and it takes you a while when you try to wrap your mind around it. It says in all natural things, we are to be spiritual. And in all spiritual things, we are to be natural. Therefore, we're to be naturally supernatural. And supernaturally natural. Now I want you to think about being supernaturally natural for a minute. I want to explain this a minute. Because this also has to do with worshiping God. Really loving him. I'm going to tell you what I like. I like people to be natural. You say, well, what in the world does that mean? I don't like it when people act spiritual. But then when you walk away from them two days later, you see who they really are. You ever known anybody who walks in and all of a sudden their language changes? the way they talk, the way they speak. Folks, let me let me let me let you in on something. We are not actors. You'll notice when I get in the pulpit, I'm generally the same. I usually talk the same way, whether I'm in the pulpit or whether I'm out there. You don't act spiritual, you are spiritual. You can't just act it. And if you're just acting it, when you walk out that door, you're going to have a problem for the other six days of the week. We're not actors. We are called to be spiritual, not to act like we are. You ever see people kind of turn it on and turn it off when they come in church? Y'all seen that before? Just kind of turn it on, turn it off. They'll act one way. But then when they're outside, it's completely different. You know, I've seen it. I've seen it amongst preachers. You know, I've sat down in multiple services and in conferences and different things, and I'll sit and I'll talk with other preachers, and we'll sit down and we'll talk, and they seem like they're pretty natural. Yeah, they're natural, and we'll talk, and you know, great crowd tonight. We got a good crowd tonight. We're going to have a good time. What are we going to do after service? And you have this good conversation going and good time. Then all of a sudden when it's time for service to begin, the speaker stands up and he fires it up. Dearly beloved, brethren, sisters. Now he don't ever use that language anywhere but when he steps in the pulpit. Why? Why? If you use that language, that's fine. My whole point is this. I ought to be spiritual. And I ought to be the same person in this pulpit as I am when I'm on that floor. Y'all ought to be the same people in church when you are outside of church. There should be no change in the way you walk. There should be no change in the way you talk. There should be no change in the things you do because you ought to already be spiritual, not just acting like it. not just acting like it. Folks, listen. We don't need to act spiritual. We are to be supernaturally natural. We are to be naturally supernatural. In all natural things that we do, all of our work that we do, We do them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and it becomes supernatural. He's the one who makes it supernatural. But we're supposed to naturally love him. We're supposed to naturally worship him. So that he can take the natural and turn it into something supernatural. Let me ask you a question this morning. How are you living life for Jesus Christ? Are you living life to glorify? Are you? Are you? And not just part of your life, but are you living out every area of your life to glorify God? Listen to me. He gave his whole life, not just part of it. He gave his whole life to save you. What are you giving him back? This morning, take time to think about your life. Is it glorifying God? Are you living life to the fullest by living it for him or are you just kind of giving him scraps from the table? Are you giving him a small piece of the pie when he's the one who really owns the whole thing? Maybe today, as you look at your life, you find that you've been weighed in the balances. And maybe you find that you've been found wanting. Folks, I tend to find myself that way on a daily basis. All the things that I could have done were the things he'd given me in all the ways I fall short. Maybe today, you realize your life isn't all that it can be because you haven't given it everything. Listen. He gave his only begotten son. To save you from eternal hell. Period. Everything you have. He's given you. Don't you think it's time to give back? Don't you think it's time to love him? I mean, really, truly love him. Don't you think it's time, if you haven't already, to accept Jesus as your Lord, Savior, King, and give him glory and honor? Don't you think it's time for your life to be a life worship. I know it is. Bow your heads with me. Dear Heavenly Father, I just thank you for another day. Father, I thank you that you've given us another day. Every second of that clock is a gift. And every second of that clock belongs to you. And oh, how much better our lives would be, Lord, if we would spend every second of that clock embracing your love as it's coming to us so many different ways, through so many different people, through so many different ways in our life. Father, we need to take the time to embrace it, knowing it's coming from you, and to smile at it, to laugh, Lord, to enjoy knowing that you're with us. We need to take the time, Lord, to feel your love, Lord, and to give it back to you. Giving you thanks as we smile, as we cry. Lord, as we just spend time right there at your feet, talking to you, Lord, we just really, really, really need to give you our worship, our true worship, and glorify your holy name. Father, I pray if there's anybody here who's not doing that, Lord, that they would, Lord, that they would heed the call. We talked about it a week ago. You laid the message on my heart. We really all need to just walk closer to you than we've ever walked before. We need to love you and we need to take every second. We need to embrace it. And Lord, we need to turn our love back around to you. Worship you and give you glory If there's anybody here lord, he's not doing it. I pray that they would rededicate their lives and do that If there's anybody here that know jesus is lord saving king lord, I just pray that you would touch their heart You would help them come to an understanding of your love How many people give their own son to die for somebody that's not worthy And yet you looked at us and you saw us You loved us when we were unlovable You took us when we were unworthy, and you made us worthy. I pray for anybody here that doesn't know Jesus, Lord, Savior, and King, Lord, that they would look at him and see him on the cross. It'd break their heart just how much it cost you. That they would ask forgiveness in the name of the one who suffered, bled, and died in the name of Jesus. And Father, that they would see that the grave couldn't hold him, that you raised him. And all those sins, Lord, they've been carrying, Lord, they can call out to him and ask forgiveness and ask to be saved and forgiven and washed clean, that they can live their life for you. And they can see Jesus smile back and say, Father, I pray for anybody that didn't know Jesus as Lord, Savior, and King that come today, that would accept him. If there's anybody here who needs to rededicate their life or make a commitment, I pray they'd do it today. I ask it in the name of Jesus. Amen. That's all I'm saying.