Thank you, Jeff. I want to thank Chad and Joe as well for leading the special music tonight. This morning, rather, is really a blessing to hear you. I hope that everyone got a bulletin as you came in this morning. There's a lot of information in there. Please, please take a look at that. A lot of upcoming things. I did want to also thank the ladies for yesterday morning with the men's breakfast, those that were out to serve us. Thank you so much. It was a wonderful breakfast. And to the guys that were able to be here, thank you very much for coming. I pray that that's the start of a men's ministry that God has laid on my heart here. And so it was a great encouragement to see about 25 guys out yesterday to gather. If you weren't able to be here, I hope and pray that God is still working in your heart to be a part of this men's ministry. I'm asking all the guys that are able to give me two hours on August the 7th. It's a Friday night from 7 to 9. We're going to meet here about 6.15 and head over to First Baptist Trenton and we're going to fellowship with their men and hopefully some other churches too. But that's really going to be the kickoff for us as a church to get into our own men's ministry. So if you want to be a part of that, you don't have to be a member, you don't even have to be a Christian. I just would like to see you come out and join the guys here August the 7th, be here about 6.15 and we'll head over together to Trenton from about 7 to 9. And Christina Bundy also wanted me to mention this morning we're having a Sunday school training event if you'd like to be a part of that. It's on August 21st. It'll be in Cincinnati. Just see Christina and she'll get you more details about that, but that that is available if you'd like some training. If you're going into Sunday school class or have you been in one for a long time, it'll be always beneficial, so keep that in mind also. If you have your Bibles this morning, Mark chapter 6 is where we'll pick up in our series as we continue through the Gospel of Mark. We've been covering a lot of ground with Jesus as he ministers during his three years here on earth. And we come to a place this morning, really a chapter where we've talked a lot about faith the last month. And in the midst of that faith, we've been confronted with a lot of stories in Scripture about unbelief. I think it's challenged us in our own areas of unbelief, and this morning we're going to see really, not just this story, but the whole chapter 6, a lot of unbelief. occurring in different situations. So while you're finding your place there, I wasn't alive at the time, but I've seen a lot of documentaries and I've heard a lot of stories about how difficult it was for soldiers returning home from Vietnam. It was a very strange time, as much is today in our country's history, where there was a big divide. among our people as to how they viewed war. It was the whole free love and peace movement, the hippie movement. And so there was a lot of people that were very, very much against the war, a lot of protesting going on, and the way that some of the soldiers were treated when they returned home from combat was very, very, quite frankly, disgraceful and very saddening to see. And there's been some books written that kind of chronicle the accounts of these men and women as they returned home. One of those was in a book, and the story is told of a man named Frederick Geis. He was from Arlington Heights, Illinois. He was evacuated, this account says, from Vietnam to a hospital in Japan. While there he met a Japanese woman, married her, and adopted her son. When he returned to the United States in 1970, he was in uniform wearing all his medals, including the Purple Heart and the Gold Star. And this is what he says, My family and I were standing in line, when out of the blue a middle-aged lady walked up to me with a bowl of potato salad in her hand. She threw the salad smack in the middle of my chest and spat what salad she had in her mouth in my face. Then she proceeded to call me a baby killer and a warmonger and a lot of other vile names. That was how I was welcomed home. That is how my family was first introduced to America. That's a sad, sad account and there's too many of those stories that happen even today. But we're going to see a similar story today in the life of Jesus Christ. You know that He'd been traveling around Capernaum, He had crossed over the Sea of Galilee and ministered in different places, Gadara with the demonic, and then He returned back and forth. Well, today we see in chapter 6, verse 1, beginning there, that Jesus is coming home. so to speak. He's going back to the place. He was born in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth, and he's coming back home to the town that for so many years he grew up in. He's coming back to Nazareth. And this is, to give you a background, Nazareth was a very small town. It was really just a village of probably, most estimates say, of about 500 people. It's about 50 miles north of Jerusalem, just kind of tucked away. And it was kind of a city that was looked down upon. You know, if you remember, as Jesus called the disciples, they said, can anything good come from Nazareth when they found out where he was from? And so it was kind of just a little town that people didn't think much of, didn't think much of the residents there. It was kind of a mixed breed that lived there, some Jews, some Gentiles, some Samaritans maybe thrown in on the outskirts. So just a strange little town that Jesus lived in. And in verse 1 it says that he went away from there, and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. So we see Jesus walking into town, and his disciples, as they always did, were following him along. And this really wasn't Jesus just coming home for a visit to see family. A rabbi would enter into town with his disciples to come in to teach and to proclaim a message. And so Jesus isn't just coming home for a visit. He's coming back to Nazareth, as he did everywhere he went, with one single mission in mind. And that was to proclaim that the Messiah had arrived, that he was in fact the Son of God, and that he was going to the cross to die for the sins of the world. And that was his message everywhere he went. And so he marches in to Nazareth. Now, if we were to look back, we won't go there, but Luke tells us in his gospel that about a year before, Jesus had been to Nazareth one other time. And he shows up, much like today in this account, on the scene, goes into the synagogue and he starts to preach, and everybody's astounded with his teaching, they're all amazed at the wisdom and the power and the authority that he teaches with, until he starts to take the scripture that he read from Isaiah that day and starts to apply it to himself. And then all of a sudden the amazement turns to anger, and they're ready to lay hands on him, the Bible says, and throw him over a cliff, they're ready to kill him. Because He, in fact, takes the Scriptures and applies them to Himself. And they just can't wrap their minds around how this boy that they had seen grow up, that was a carpenter in their town, now comes back and is proclaiming to be the Messiah. It was just too much for them to handle. And so a year passes and He comes back. And that, to me, is interesting. I don't want to just skip over that, because how many times Does God come to us? And He wants to speak to us. He wants to offer us grace, and He wants to offer us mercy, and He wants to offer us forgiveness. And rather than respond positively, we, much the same way, harden our hearts, drive Him away, turn Him away, refuse to come to Him, and yet He gives us a second chance. Some of you here today have come to church many times, Maybe just several times, but regardless, God has moved in your life before. And He has offered grace to you, and He has offered mercy to you, and you felt the conviction of the Word, and you've turned Him away, and yet He's given you another Sunday of life to come and hear His Word again. That's grace. You know, nobody, when you laid your head on that pillow last night, could with 100% certainty say that tomorrow you would wake up and still be here. And it's only by the grace of God that you're given that opportunity. And it's only by the grace of God that he continues to speak and deal with our hearts. And we see that here with Nazareth. They ran him away, threatened to kill him once. He could have said, I'm done. You know what? I've got plenty of other places. I've got a short time to minister. If this is how I'm going to be treated, I'm done. But the Lord is long-suffering and patient. And that's not an excuse for you to keep putting off things, because there will come a day when He no longer deals with you. There will come a time when your heart is so hard that you're beyond feeling. And we see that in the Scriptures. You can look at Romans chapter 1 and see how many times God repeats the phrase, He gave them up, He gave them up, He gave them over to a reprobate mind. You know, if you continue to reject God and continue to live in your sins, there'll come a time when He just says, okay, if that's what you want, have at it. Have at it. And that is what some theologians call the passive wrath of God. It's not always that He zaps lightning bolts and rains down fire and brimstone. Sometimes He just lets you go in your sin. And that's even scarier to me. Because when your heart is hardened to the point where you're no longer able to feel, you're to a place where you're no longer able to respond. And that's a scary place. So Jesus comes back to Nazareth, and it says in verse 2, on the Sabbath, so it's a Saturday for the Jews, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many who heard Him were astonished, saying, Where did this man get these things? That word astonished means they were deeply moved with shock. They were awed and amazed. by what he said and how he taught and the assurance and the power that was in his voice. The rabbis were very just plain and bland, to put it frankly. They would just get up, read the Torah, sit down and have just a little talk. And there was really no power in their words. It was just a religious ceremony, an exercise that they went through. They never felt God at work. But when Jesus spoke, there was something different about Him. There was something about the way He communicated the Word of God that astonished them. We see that so many times throughout the Scriptures, throughout the Gospels. In John 7, verse 46, as Jesus spoke, it says, like this man. They'd heard a lot of preachers, a lot of revivals, a lot of evangelists, you know, they'd been to all that stuff. But there was something different about Jesus from all the other preachers. In Luke 4.32, it says, they were astonished at His teaching, for His Word possessed authority. They could feel something when He spoke. The Holy Spirit was at work through this man. And regardless of how they looked at him externally, and we'll see how they did in just a moment, but there was no denying the fact that something was different about Jesus. You couldn't walk away from his ministry without saying, I'm not sure who this guy is, but he's not just another rabbi. He's not just another teacher of the law. And so they're astonished, amazed at the way he taught. And drop down and look for a minute at verse 6. As he taught, we start to see the city's unbelief. And verse 6 is a very sad statement, but it's really amazing. It says, He marveled at their unbelief. It was amazing to God's Son the level of unbelief that this town and these people exercised. And I wonder sometimes if he doesn't look at our lives when he continues to just give us so much evidence and so many things right in front of us that are so obvious that God is trying to do something in your life. And you just keep pushing it away. I often wonder if God isn't marveled. by our own unbelief. And I speak that sentence to people that are in church. I don't think he's amazed that sinners who have very rarely heard the gospel and been exposed to Christianity reject him. But I think he marvels at the unbelief of churchgoers that can sit in Sunday services week after week after week and hear the Gospel, and be presented with the Word, and hear people pray, and hear the songs sung, and just see the facts all around them in creation, when you get up and look at the stars, and see the sunrise, and the trees, and the birds, and everything around you, and yet, all the things that are so obvious, that there is a God, and that He loves you, and that He sent His Son to die for you, you continue to show unbelief towards that. You continue to sit unmoved and unresponsive week after week after week. I wonder that he I'm almost confident that he marvels at our unbelief. It's only used two times in all scripture, that word marveled, in that sense, by Jesus. Luke 7-9 says about the centurion, when Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him and turned to the crowd that followed him and said, I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. That was when the man's servant was sick and the man sent word to him and said, look, don't even come to my house. Just say the word and I believe that he'll be well. You don't have to come to my house. I know your power, just speak it and it'll happen. And Jesus marveled at that centurion's faith. But sadly, he marveled at a whole town's unbelief. proverb that probably a lot of you have heard, familiarity breeds contempt. You know, we become so, so used to things around us that we lose and they lose the splendor and the grandeur that they have. And our Sunday school lesson this morning talked about a lot of that, leaving your first love. And it's a danger that many of you face who come to church so often and have been involved in church so often because you walk in and you almost have your mind made up what you're going to expect, what's going to happen, how things are going to go. And so rather than focus on entering into a place of worship with God, where your heart is in tune and you're seeking his face and you're asking him to examine your life, you say, well, here's what's going to happen. Three songs offering, chorus, Chris preach, invitation, frishes. And you've got it planned out. And so rather than enter into any kind of mindset of worship, you're just looking for that routine to happen. So when Jeff decides to do two songs and then two praise songs, you're like, what just happened? And you're looking in the bulletin and saying, well, that didn't follow the order. Or if the microphone makes a noise, then you say, man, Dallas, what are you doing up there in the sound room, brother? It's all your fault. And Chris stumbles and you say, man, the preacher was off today. He didn't hit a home run today. Your mind is so caught up in all the stuff Because that's what you were looking for, that you missed the chance to enter into the presence of God and worship. Familiarity breeds contempt. And don't get to a place where you just show up to church and expect to know exactly how things are going to go. Come with an open heart, ready to receive whatever God's got for you. Whatever He's got for you to receive. We erect barriers of unbelief. We do that in our lives, and I'm afraid it happens all too often. One writer said, if faith is the capacity to receive what God wants to give, unbelief is the willful refusal to receive what God wants to give. Think about that. It all comes back again to faith or unbelief. Are you willing to open up your hands and receive by faith what God wants to give you? Or does your unbelief close your hands, close your eyes, close your heart to receiving the things that God wants for you and is calling you to do? And the scary thing that happens is, look at verse 5. He could do no mighty works there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. That is a direct correlation to verse 6. They are tied together. Their unbelief was the reason that Jesus could do no mighty works in their town. Their unbelief is the reason why God cannot do the things in Freedom Baptist Church that He wants to do. Unbelief is the reason why you have not yet surrendered your heart to Christ and believed and been saved. Unbelief is the reason why you have yet surrendered your life and stepped out in service to God. Unbelief is the reason why you pass up opportunities to witness and to reach out to the lost. And on and on and on we could go. It's a doubting of the fact that God has, if you're a Christian, filled you with His Spirit, empowered you. Do you understand that the Holy Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead lives in you? If you don't think for a minute that He can empower you to open up your mouth and share the gospel and not have to worry about the results of what happens, leave that to Him. But just by faith, open up and speak the Word of God to somebody, to witness and to disciple and to serve God. You don't think that the Spirit that's in you can empower you to do that? It's just you won't take that step. You won't. Because you say, I'll fail. Well, you most definitely will fail in your own strength. But you are victorious if you're in Christ. And you have to just trust that. You have to believe that by faith. It's all an outworking of faith. Everything we do is by faith. And when you refuse and unbelieve, God can't do the things that He wants to do. It's not that we're somehow stronger than Him and that we overpower Him. He's able to do things regardless of what we do, but in the grand scheme of things, God will not do things that deny His Word or deny His character. So God cannot sin. Obviously, He's not capable of doing that. There are some things that God can't do, and sin is one. And God will not operate in the realm of unbelief. It's not that He can't look at somebody's life and say, well, I'm going to do that anyway. He's certainly more powerful than us and able to do those things. But in His Word, He says it's impossible. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. And he's not going to go and contradict the very word that he's spoken and say, well, you know what, I'd really like to do this anyway, so I'm going to bypass and do it. No, if you're unwilling to exercise faith, he will not empower you to carry out that mission in your own strength. Impossible. And that's what unbelief did in this town. He could have healed the whole town. He could have brought revival to the whole city. But unbelief shut that door. Unbelief shut the door to the work that he was going to do. In Matthew 9, 29, it says, Jesus touched their eyes and said, these were the blind men on the side of the road, according to your, what? Your faith, be it done to you. See that? These men were crying out to Jesus. And He came to them, and He could have just snapped His fingers, said a word, whatever He wanted to do. But they believed that He was able. And it was their faith that opened the door to receive what God had for them. It was right there all the time, but until faith was exercised, it would have never been received. And that's the case with many of your lives. Salvation is available. The Bible says today is the day of salvation. Harden not your heart. God constantly presents you with opportunities. The Holy Spirit is working and moving at various times in various lives. And it's available, but unbelief continues to lock that door. By grace are you saved through faith. It takes faith to receive that salvation. And you'll harden your heart in unbelief to the point where you turn it away. Last week, when we looked at the healing of the woman with the issue of blood in verse 34 of the last chapter, he said what to her? She had been a woman with an issue of blood. And after she came to Christ, he called her daughter. And he said, you're what? Faith has made you whole. Your faith has made you whole. She pressed through the crowd as a defiled woman, and she didn't care who she touched, what they thought. She had an issue, and we talked to everybody in this room who has issues. And yet, despite the issue, she said, I'm going to get to Jesus and just touch Him, because I believe He can heal me. And her faith led her to action. She went and did something very extreme, and it got the result she sought. And faith has got to lead you to action. It's got to lead me to action. And I would say that some here today are simply lacking faith altogether. You've never ever yet made that step. You're completely without faith. I believe some of you here today have faith maybe just the size of a mustard seed. And while that's enough, Jesus said you can pick up a mountain and have it moved into the sea with that small faith. The main thing is, is that small faith in the right person, Jesus Christ, and is it growing? And I believe all of us could pray today for our faith to increase. I don't think any of us are, I hope, not satisfied with where our level of faith is. Let me read to you from Romans chapter 4, verse 20 and 21. This is speaking of Abraham and Sarah. And if you're not familiar with that story, you know, God promised to give Abraham a son to carry on his line through. And the problem with all that was that he and Sarah were quite old when God made the promise. And many years passed to the point where Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90. And so I don't think that I have to explain to you that that's impossible. That's not a maybe kind of situation. We've got some odds here. If we're going to Vegas, there's a slim chance we might win this one. That's impossible. There is no hope of a child being born to a 100-year-old man and a 90-year-old woman. And yet God made the promise, and they stumbled along the way. Yes, they go to Hagar, Ishmael is born. It wasn't the plan. But yet, in time, by faith, listen to what Romans 4.20 says, No unbelief, this is speaking of Abraham, made him waver or stagger concerning the promise of God. But, listen, two things here. He grew strong in his faith, number one, as he, number two, gave glory to God. fully convinced or fully persuaded that God was able to do what he had promised. God presented him with an impossible situation. You're going to have a child in your old age, and he's going to be the heir through which I build my nation. And we know that Isaac was eventually born to him and Sarah. But all along the way, Sarah laughed, But Abraham remained strong. He did not stagger. He did not waver at that promise. He said, I will trust in confidence what God has promised. And that is what faith calls us to do. It calls us to look at situations that are far beyond our control, far beyond our power, and look to the other side of eternity where Christ sits on the right hand of the Father and say if He's promised it, If He's empowered me with the Holy Spirit to go, I trust Him. And by faith, you can have that confidence to move. And as we get ready to close, I want to share with you a couple of things from this chapter 6. Real quick. about unbelief because we can we can look at that and say well it's really not a big deal you know I'm kind of just working this out right now Chris and you know I know someday I'll get back on track and when I'm ready you know when the kids are grown when when I have more time when when my life is straightened out and I'm not quite as sinful as I am now you know I'll really I'll really start exercising my faith. Well, I want you to see just how dangerous unbelief can be in your life. I'll give you four things real quick about unbelief, the effect it'll have on your life. Number one, unbelief obscures the obvious. Unbelief obscures the obvious. Look at verse 2. It says, And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished. Like I said, there was no doubt that something was going on with Jesus. They'd seen the miracles, they'd heard the power behind His preaching, they'd seen the power in His life. And yet, look at what it says in verse 2. Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such many mighty works done? All the evidence pointed to the fact that the answer to those questions was, there's only one answer. He's the Son of God. He is who He said He was. He's healing sick people. He's raising the dead. He's giving sight to the blind. He's preaching with power and authority. He's calming storms. What is the answer? I mean, if you saw a guy coming along, and a tornado coming at your house, and all of a sudden he says, peace be still, and the sun comes out and the tornado's gone, I would think that maybe you'd stop and say, man, there's something different about that guy. I don't think he's normal. I mean, I'm just taking a guess there, but I think that we would recognize something. But unbelief obscures the obvious. And it went on like that all through Jesus' ministry. John 10, 37 and 38, he said, If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works. Believe the things you see, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father. John 14.10, he says, Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. You see, Jesus made the claims. It was obvious. He did those things because He was who He said He was. But unbelief obscured the obvious. And some of you are in this room today, and all over the world you see it, and you refuse to believe because of silly skepticism. And I'm not saying turn off your brain and not think and not search for answers and ask questions and seek. Christianity is not a brain-dead faith. It's the result of serious inquiry and intellectual study to the point where you weigh out the facts, you look at the evidence, and I don't think you can come to any other conclusion unless you obscure the obvious. Listen to what one writer, one scientist says about just the human eye. You stop and think about, look around at creation, look at your body, look down at your hands, how they're moving. While I'm speaking all this time, your heart is pumping blood, your lungs are breathing air. You're not even thinking about that. It's just happening. The intricacy of the human body alone. Think about the human eye. Consider the human eye, this writer said, man has never developed a camera lens anywhere near the inconceivable intricacy of the human eye. The human eye is an amazing interrelated system of about 40 individual subsystems, including the retina, pupil, iris, cornea, lens, and optic nerve. It has more to it than just the 137 million light-sensitive special cells that send messages to the unbelievably complex brain. About 130 million of these cells look like tiny rods and they handle the black and white vision. The other 7 million are cone-shaped and allow us to see in color. The retina cells receive light impressions which are then translated into electric pulses and sent directly to the brain through the optic nerve. A special section of the brain called the visual cortex interprets the pulses as color, contrast, depth, etc., which allows us to see pictures of our world. Incredibly, the eye, optic nerve, and visual cortex are totally separate and distinct subsystems, yet together they capture, deliver, and interpret up to 1.5 million pulse messages per millisecond. That's just your eyeball. You think that's an accident? Really? Do you think that's an accident? In all the silliness that Christianity claims to be, do you really think that by accident something that intricate happened and that's just your eyeball in a universe as big as this? But unbelief will obscure the obvious. Number two, unbelief elevates the irrelevant. Look at verse three. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, and Joseph, and Judas, and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us? Who cares? Who cares? Who cares if it's Mary's son? Who cares if he's got brothers and sisters? Does that matter? Does that change who he is and what he's done? But you see, unbelief elevates the irrelevant. How often do people want to argue about things that have no meaning? You know, you present the gospel with them, and they want to know what happened to the dinosaurs. They died. I mean, they died. I mean, you know, let's get back to the point that, you know, we're talking about your soul. And we're talking about someone who was seen by 500 people after he rose from the dead. And we're talking about a book that has hundreds and hundreds of prophecies that have been fulfilled perfectly over the course of hundreds of years. And so many things that we talk about that point to the evidence that, you know, Jesus is real. Unbelief elevates the irrelevant. It looks at things that don't matter, and it keeps you from ultimately surrendering your life because you're chasing rabbits all your life about things that don't matter. I'm not saying you can't go out and search those things, but let's make the main thing the main thing, you know? Let's worry about the big question. We'll dive into the little stuff after. Unbelief assaults the messenger, number three. Look at the end of verse three. And they took offense at him. That literally means they were scandalized by him. It was a scandal what he was saying. To claim to be the son of God was too much. And they attacked him because of that. And I know that some of you have tried to share your faith and been attacked for it. Because you try to open up the truth to people and when they're confronted by the truth and they're backed into a corner, Nine times out of ten, they'll result with ad hominem attacks, and try to besmirch your character, and try to compare their life with yours, and whatever they do. Because unbelief will always end up attacking the messenger. That's the last resort. And finally, as we close, number four, unbelief spurns the supernatural. We said in verse five, he couldn't do mighty works there because, as we said, of his unbelief. Because every time Jesus did a miracle, it was to attest and to prove who he said he was. He wasn't just out shooting off miracles just because he could. It was to substantiate the fact that who He was was being shown to them in their very works, just like the early church. We often hear people say, well, why don't we still have the power to raise people from the dead, and why can't we call down fire from heaven if that's in the Bible? Because those were acts given to the early church to substantiate the claims of the apostles and prove who they were. The church is now established. The Word of God is now complete. We walk by faith and not by sight. I don't need to call down fire from heaven. God is going to rain down fire on this world someday for those that persist in unbelief. And so the call to repentance and faith is today. That is the option that you're given, to walk by faith. And unbelief shuts you off from God. It will shut you off from His power, and ultimately it will shut you off from His presence. Because one day, when you leave this world without Christ, your eternity will be certain. Hell will be forever for those that know not Jesus. Unbelief, John MacArthur says, chooses hell. Unbelief chooses Satan. Unbelief chooses sin. Unbelief chooses to go it alone my way in the kingdom of darkness with no divine intervention. That's a scary place to walk. And my prayer this morning as Jeff comes is that if you're walking that path of unbelief, that you will stop that you will turn from your sins and turn to Christ who offers mercy and forgiveness and a way of escape. Jesus said, He that believes on the Son has everlasting life, and he that believeth not shall never see life. That's black and white, as it gets. There's no wiggle room in that statement. The choice is yours today, as we stand and as we sing. Do you need to come? Do you need to come and surrender your life to Christ? Do you need to come and join this church and begin to get active? Do you need to come and finally take that step of obedience and baptism? Do you just need to come and pray? God knows your heart. You need to make that move. There is none like you. There's a lot of gods, but there's only one true God. No one else can touch my heart like you do. I could search for all eternity. Are you tired of searching? He's right there in front of you. There's none like you. Name above all names. There's no name given under heaven whereby man must be saved, the Bible says. His name is Jesus. Do you know him? Are you walking with him? Are you pleasing to him? Are you surrendered to him? I could search for all eternity long And find there is not life for you There is not life for you, Jesus No one else can touch my heart like you do I could search for all eternity long and find there is like you. God bless you all. Thank you for being here to our guests. It's great to see you. I hope that you felt warmly welcomed, and I hope that you'll come back and see us again to our regulars. Appreciate you all very much. Continue to pray. A lot of exciting things coming up. We've got our business meeting tonight, so if you're able to come back, if you're a member, we'll have some information there tonight for you to look at. So thank you all again, and Lord willing, we'll see you tonight. I'm going to ask Chad, do you mind to close us in prayer this morning?