The truth, okay, well, there's a lot of truth, you know. The lights are on in here, that's true. But that's not the gospel. The sun's shining right now, I think, outside. Yeah, it is. That's true, but it's not the gospel. What is it? What is it? Okay. Okay, well, that's John 3, 16. We all know that one, I think. But what is the gospel? The gospel is as described in Corinthians is this, that Christ died and was buried and rose on the third day. Paul describes that as the gospel. That's the good news. Christ died. Now that seems like bad news, right? But it's good news because of why he died. He died. because of us, he died for us, he died in our place, he died out of his love for us, he died out of the Father's love for us. He died. No doubt about it, he died. He didn't die for anything he did, but he died for what we've done and what we are by nature, we're by nature sinners. And Christ died for us. The righteous for the unrighteous, the godly for the ungodly, the just for the unjust, the pure for the impure. I mean, you can't get it more contrasted than that. The good for the bad. Christ died for us. And then he was buried, proven that he truly did die. He didn't just faint, he didn't just, have a bad experience and pass out and somehow came awake later on. He died and he was buried. And praise God, three days later, he rose from the grave victorious. And he will never die again. He will never endure suffering again. He will never have to go through what he went through for us. That's the gospel. And the gospel is whoever believes that. And it's not just a mental ascent. To believe in the gospel means that you embrace it. To believe means that you actually take it in as being not just true, but is applicable for your life. To believe basically means to obey what you've heard and what you've embraced. So to believe the gospel means more than just saying, well, I know that's true. To believe the gospel means I will live according to it by the power that is promised to me through the Word of God, by the power of the Holy Spirit. I will live according to what is true. It means to repent of sin. To repent simply means to have a change of mind. It means to have a change in your mind that I will no longer live for myself. I will live for the glory of God. I will live for Jesus Christ who loved me and gave himself for me. I will live for him. That's what the gospel's about. I repent and I believe. I embrace. So, I don't know why I went into that explanation of the gospel this morning, but I'm trusting that it's somebody's here that needs that. You need to know that you can't work your way to heaven. You can't do enough good deeds to get into the presence of God. You can't have your sins forgiven by any other means other than total, genuine repentance and sorrow, godly sorrow for your sin. And then you bow at the feet of Christ and you acknowledge you are worthy of all my love, of all my allegiance. You are worthy of my life. You're worthy of everything that I am and ever will be. You're worthy of it. And so I give my life to you and I choose as an act of my will to live for you and for your glory. It's not about coming to church. It's not about, I mean it is, it involves church, it involves worship, it involves being a part of a local body, it involves all of those things. But you know, you can be in a church for all your life. You can be born as a baby and your parents are in church, you can grow up in church, you can be 75 years old and still attending church and be unsaved. I know that, I've seen people that way. They've grown throughout the years, they know everything about the church, they've heard the gospel, they've heard all, but it's always been just something that's a good story to them, it's things that they do, rituals they go through, they celebrate different times of the year, but it's not alive in here. It hasn't made a difference deep in their soul of who they are. It hasn't really changed them. They're still grumpy when they're away from church. They're still unkind to people. They still use words that they shouldn't use. All of those things still go on in their life, and yet they'll say, I'm a Christian. So, if that's you, I'm not mad at you. I feel bad for you. If that's you, I would plead with you today. really examine your heart before God. Ask God to examine your heart. God, am I right with you? If I died this very moment before I left this place, would I enter into your presence as your child, or would I be separated from you forever and ever and ever? without any recourse, without any second chance, without ever having the gospel presented to me again, would I be in that state before you leave this building today? If that applies to you, please do business with God. If you don't know how, come and talk with me after the service. Talk with this man sitting on the front row, Pastor Bill, who is up giving the announcements, talk with us. So with that in mind, I'm gonna set that aside. And I'm gonna go back to the scriptures that were read for this morning in Philippians chapter four. I want us to look at verse four. And I know somebody's gonna say, well, pastor, you have dwelled on these things forever and ever. It's like Handel's Messiah, forever and ever. But the fact is the word of God doesn't change, but it can always be applied to us in different ways. And sometimes we hear something and we kinda chew on it a little bit, but we really don't grab it all. So Lord, I'm asking you, please help me to share these passages, to bring out the truth of what you have to say to us. Help us, Lord, to embrace it, and not just embrace it mentally, but Lord, with everything in us. Everything in us, Lord, help us to draw near to you. As your word says, if we will draw near to you, you will draw near to us. We choose to do that now, Lord. So speak, Father, in Jesus' name. All right, beginning in verse four, rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice. Now, by the way, that is a command. That's not a suggestion in the scripture. When Paul says this word, it's put in a form of wording that is actually a command. God is telling you, rejoice. Rejoice not in your situation. Rejoice not in what you have. Rejoice in the Lord. And again, I say rejoice. So there's no question that what God wants us to do is to rejoice. to be joyful in God, and to boast in God. Basically what that word is talking about is boasting in God. Boast in God. Talk about God. But boast in your own heart. You know, we can say things on the outward, but at the same time, inwardly, we can be grumbling and complaining. Have you ever had somebody say something to you and you knew it wasn't true? I mean, you could tell by the way they said it. You could tell by their demeanor. You could read between the lines, as it were. You knew they were saying this, but really they were meaning this. You can't put on a mask with God, folks. None of us can. We can look happy here at church, and we can be totally miserable inside. But the fact is, if you are truly rejoicing in the Lord, it's because there's something welling up in you that is the Spirit of God encouraging you and prompting you to say, yeah, God, you're good. I see you as bigger than anything else, any circumstance in life. You're bigger than my problems. And I'm just glad I know you. I'm glad that you're you. How many of you are glad God is God and God's not you? How many of you are glad that God is God and He's not like your spouse? Or, that came too quick. That came too quick. Notice I didn't say your wife or your husband, just your spouse, okay? It takes in men and women. Rejoice in the Lord. I wonder what it would be like if we as believers were so walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, just submitted to Christ in such a way that we were constantly rejoicing with genuineness, true genuineness, I mean real, real genuine genuineness, what would it be like when people saw people that just, they went against the grain, You know, the world is flowing this way. The way of the world is grumble and complain, find fault, get upset with stuff. And it doesn't mean you live in some Pollyanna kind of world. I'm not talking about that. I'm not talking about deceiving yourself. I'm talking about living in reality. See, this world can say, you know, well, you have to have a positive attitude. And a positive attitude's good. I mean, God's gonna talk about that in his word. But it has to be positive about the right thing. It can't just be because I'm having a good day or I'm just feeling positive today. And it's talking yourself into feeling better. There's a lot of people that want Christianity to be all about positivity. It's not about positivity. It's about life. Christianity is about life, the ups, the downs, the good, the bad, the ugly. Christianity is about life lived in a supernatural way, the way of the Spirit. And so when Paul says this word, rejoice in the Lord always, and again, I will say rejoice, he's not some positive thinker. He's a worshiper. This is a worshiper who is being led by the Spirit of God to pour out the heart of God through this letter to us as people. You know why? Because God knows that rejoicing in Him is where real strength comes from. It's not in having a positive attitude. It's in when you recognize who he is, what he's done, the greatness of his name, his character, the way that he is, the way he has worked in all of history. When you get a glimpse of who God is through his word, of how he has worked, with individuals and with nations, and you see consistency, when you see faithfulness, when you see reliability, when you see God as who He really is, all of a sudden your heart comes to rest, and it's like, wow, wow. What do I have to fear if I fear the Lord? The way you get rid of fear, by the way, how many of you know how you get rid of fear? Love. The scripture says that love casts out fear. Perfect love casts out fear in 1 John. Perfect love casts out, it throws it out, just perfect love. When you are loving God, because you know that He loves you perfectly and your heart is set upon Him, it's intent upon Him. It's, God, I just can't get enough of you. I can't get enough of who you are, the beauty of who you are, the splendor of who you are, the faithfulness of your ways. God, you are so amazing. What do I have to fear when I know who He is? and the way he is, the way he deals with his children. Even when he has to discipline me for something. Think of this, even when God has to discipline one of his children, he does it because he loves them. The chastening of the Lord, it's a good thing. Because he loves us. Well, I've dealt with those verses and I shouldn't have maybe gone back the same way, but yeah, I should have because that's what God's putting on my heart today. This is just gonna be a fun time together, I hope, in the Lord. Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. We looked at that, the gentleness. What does that mean, this let your gentleness? We talked about it before. It's a reasonableness. Let your reasonableness. be known to all men. Whoever looks at you can say, wow, I haven't met anybody like you. You have this sweetness about you. You have this, what is it that you have that I don't see in most people? Let your gentleness, gentleness be known to all men because why the Lord is at hand here and he's coming soon, present and on his way. The now and the not yet. That's what it's all about. Right now, he's with us. Wherever we go, he's with us. But he's not yet here in our very presence in the fullness of his kingdom with righteousness reigning over all things and wickedness being put down. That's not here yet. And then he says, be anxious for nothing. By the way, that is also a command. Be anxious for nothing, nothing, no thing. Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer. I better read this because I'm memorizing King James and I think this is a little bit different. Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. So one of the cures for anxiousness, anxiety, you're dealing with anxiety, the first thing is worship. Because remember we looked at that word prayer by prayer, that word for prayer is a word that's used for worship. In everything, in other words, you're giving your heart to God through prayer, and supplication is then asking for what the need may be, either for yourself or somebody else. You're anxious about your son, your daughter, your job. You're anxious about the church. You're anxious about your pastor. You wonder if he's lost his mind. You're anxious about things. What do you do? First, you worship God, and then you lift up those needs to the Lord and say, Lord, this is yours. I can't change it. I can't fix it. I can't undo what's been done. Only you can work on this. And I give this to you, Lord, by prayer, supplication, but always with thanksgiving. If you go to God with a grumbling spirit, a discontented heart, if you're grumbling and complaining about everything and you're going to God, what you're basically doing is you're saying, God, you're not really who you say you are. Because I see things that are so bad and so unfixable, so terrible, that you just can't seem to handle. Think about it, when we complain, what we're really doing is saying somehow God has lost touch with our reality. God has lost touch with where I am, with what's going on in my life, with what's happening in my family, my job, my church. Somehow God has stepped aside for right now and he's letting me figure it out on my own. See, thanksgiving comes out of a sense that God is here. God is present. He's a very present, very present help in time of trouble. God is here. And because of that, I can thank him, whatever situation I'm in, I can say, God, I'm not in this alone. I'm not dealing with this all by myself. I'm not having to scrape up and figure out how to make all this work. God, you're here. And you help me. You're a very present help in time of trouble. So, the way to come through anxiousness is worship. then you're praying and you're praying right. You're not just praying. You know what we do, folks? Here's what we do. We get to a place where something happens in our life and we start to get desperate and we try to figure it out. And then what we do is when we get so desperate, we finally say, maybe I ought to pray. I've got a confession. And most of you know I'm a mechanic. Some of you would question that because I've worked on some of your stuff. But I am a mechanic. And I'll be working on something. I don't work on things as much as I used to, but I'll be working on something. Have you ever worked on something and you start getting frustrated? Then my darling wife will hear me. Why isn't this working right? She'll come out into the garage or wherever I am. You know what she says? She just asked one question. Yeah? Honey? She always uses honey, you know, it makes it sweeter. Honey, did you pray about it? I've never hit her. But when those words come out, but the fact is she's right. I started on this thing in my own confidence and my own abilities, I'll fix this thing. We trust ourself way too much to fix the problems of life. And so I'll start on it, and by the time I'm so frustrated, my darling wife will say those words, have you prayed about it? And I have to, with shame, say, no. No, I haven't. And here I've been going through a half hour of frustration. Now, does that mean automatically if I pray about it, it gets fixed like that? No, it doesn't. That's the amazing thing. Just because you pray about it doesn't mean it gets fixed that minute. It means what you're doing is you're inviting God into the situation. You're saying, Lord, I need you for this. Now, help me to navigate through this, to get it fixed, whatever it's gonna take to figure out the problem, but give me your grace. So whether I fix it in two seconds or it takes me two more hours, I'm with you in this and you're with me in this. That I am focused on you, not on the problem. Oh yeah, I gotta deal with the problem. You always have to deal with the problem. But sometimes we have this conception that prayer is just this, you know, God, you just, come on now, fix it right now. But what happens if your real problem is patience? What happens if you're a very impatient person? You want everything done right away. You want your kids to do things a certain way right away. You want your boss to, or your employees to, or the people in the church to, or whatever it is. If you're impatient, you know how we get patience, right? All of us have heard the saying, or most of us probably heard the saying, don't pray for patience. Why? Because it says in James, how do you get patience? Tribulation or trials, difficulties, works patience. In other words, if you're in a trial or something, you have to learn how to be patient. You either have to learn to be patient or you'll go nuts. You have to learn how to wait upon the Lord. You have to learn how to say, Lord, here I am in this situation, but I'm not in it alone. You're with me. And I can rejoice in you right now because you're with me. And this thing, whatever it is, does not control my life. It doesn't order my steps. It doesn't make me a better person or worse. I could be a worse person by the way I respond to it, but I can only be a better person by the way I respond to you. And so in the midst of this trial, Lord, have your way. Work in me your good work. So that, what, so that I'm looked like a big spiritual guy? So that I look good in front of others? No. So that Jesus can be seen in my life. So that what we were singing about earlier, about the Lord being glorified, the Lord being honored, he can be honored in my life and that can be seen by the nations. People can see it. And then they recognize, you're living by a power that I don't understand and don't have. You're living by something that energizes you. You're living by something that's so different than me. What is it? And then you can say, it's not me, but Christ. What you see is the effect of Jesus in the life of an individual. He's the one that's good. He's the one that makes it right. He's the one that can take your wild heart that's so rebellious and so yicky, and He can change it. He can put a new heart in you. And then He can shape that new heart to be like Him. Oh, the goodness of God. So be anxious for nothing, everything by prayer, supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which passes all understanding will guard, will keep your heart and your mind, your heart and your mind. I went backwards there, heart and mind. But what's it talking about? The way that you think and the way that your emotions go. Your heart, in this sense, is talking about what we're feeling, what we're sensing inside. But the heart is also the place where we make decisions. But the heart and the mind, the way you think, the way you feel about things, those are the ways that you keep anxiety at bay. Everybody's tempted to be anxious. Everybody's tempted to be fearful. Everybody's tempted in some way to worry about stuff. And the only solution, the only solution is the peace of God that passes all understanding. So he's talking about praying the right way, then he goes into thinking the right way. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things, and by the way, notice he says something here. I noticed this when I read it through this last time. Whatever things, now you could say whatever things are true, lovely, you could say it that way, right? But he's breaking it down, whatever things are true. Whatever things are true, whatever. Have you ever thought that whatever is an inclusive word? Whatever. Now we use it today. The way that we use it today is you'll say something to your I shouldn't pick on teenagers, I won't pick on teenagers, but I'll pick on people. How's that? And teenagers are people, okay? You young people, you're people, okay? I want you to know you're people. But somebody says something to you, and usually it's in a manner of, for instance, your boss says something to you, or a parent, or, anyway, somebody says something to you, The response is, whatever. How many of you, you've said something to somebody and that's the response you get? Whatever. You know what that means? In that context, you know what that means? Whatever. I don't give a flip. It doesn't mean anything to me. Whatever. I have no concern about what you just said. Whatever. But we've used it so much that it's, I mean, it's common slang today, whatever. That really means nothing other than obstinance. So for all of us in here, young and old alike, get that out of your vocabulary. Don't use it that way. Because it's kind of a slap in the face to whoever's just spoken to you. It's basically saying to them, I don't care what you say, whatever. Who cares? It's of no importance, no value. Your words just... But Paul, in this situation, he mentions it, I think he mentions it six times. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there's any virtue and if there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things. The way that you deal with anxiety in life is you've got to think the right way. You not only have to pray the right way, but you have to think the right way. If we set our minds on all the junk in the world, now that's not living in a way that you just deny that life is tough. Life is tough. Anybody who says life isn't tough has not lived. Life is tough. But what do you think about life? You have to purpose, by the way, this is something, this is also a command. You have to set your mind. You have to do it. God's not gonna do it for you. God's not gonna, now God may give you a thought all of a sudden that is a beautiful thought, but guess who else gives you thoughts? The devil does. Sure, who is it that when Jesus is in the wilderness, who is it that comes to him and says, you know, if you're the son of God, why don't you just, where'd that thought come from? Yeah, an entity, an individual, somebody who throws darts at our minds all the time, and he throws things that are unlovely, things that are not true. There are so many young people today, and I'm not picking on young people, it's just there are things you learn as you grow, as you get older. If you're wise, hopefully you'll learn. There are so many things today that young people and many adults, older adults, are believing that is absolutely crazy. It's not true. Now I'm gonna mention something because we're dealing with it every day in our culture, okay? This is not a stone being thrown at any individual or any family or anything like that. But you have to understand this. If you were born with XX chromosomes, you are a female. If you were born with XY chromosomes, you are a male. That will not change. It won't change if you have surgeries done, if you have cosmetics done. It won't change if you have, it won't change whether you have certain drugs. It won't change. You are going to be either a man or a woman from the day you're born till the day you die. No amount of desiring something different, no amount of people saying, well, you're really born in the wrong body. No amount of that is going to change the reality, the truth of that. But we have a culture today that is living in absolute denial of the truth and acceptance of falsehood. And they're living according to that falsehood. Now, I hurt for any person that's living with that, that any person that's going through some form of dysphoria as far as their body. I hurt for them. I mean, it's gotta be painful, but listen, if you believe a lie, you will live out of that lie, and when you live out of the lie, there are consequences for it, grave consequences, consequences that you never think about. And there are so many young people today who've been told by a teacher or a friend or a parent or somebody that, you know, well, you were just born in the wrong body. And here's the solution. Change. Become somebody else. If you're a he, become a she. If you're a she, become a he. Or you can be a they or a them. or you can be an it. We're living in a world of insanity today, folks, because people do not think on the things that are true. Truth is, like it says in the scripture, truth has been slain in the street. It's like it's just been beat to death in the street, but truth is not dead. Truth is alive because God's alive and God is true. Let every man be a liar. God is true. So let me tell you, if you know somebody, and the reason I'm saying this is I had a conversation with somebody this week who has a relative that is dealing with this. Okay? Here's what you need to understand. How many of you know who Karen Carpenter was? Karen Carpenter. Karen and her brother were musicians. Beautiful, wrote and sang some beautiful songs. This was in my growing up years. Karen Carpenter had a thing called anorexia. Now most of you know what anorexia is, but I'll explain it just in case. Anorexia is when you think that you are fat or that you are big and you can be skin and bones and you still think You're fat. And because you believe that you're fat, you live out of what you believe. Karen Carpenter literally starved herself to death because she thought she was fat. She thought that she had to lose weight. She thought that she had to, whether it was purge food or not eat, but she lived out of that thought that I am fat. It ended up killing her. It doesn't matter what you think if you're believing a lie. Well, it does matter what you think. It matters a great deal because if you're believing a lie, you live according to that lie. If you think because somewhere along the line you were hurt, somebody told you you were somebody that you weren't, if somebody told you you're supposed to be a girl and you're really a boy, and you're living out of this, and it is a mental issue, I believe it's more than that. I believe it's actually gone into demonic issue nowadays. There's demonic issues with this. When a person thinks that they are born in the wrong body, and then they are willing to go through all the extremes of medicines, surgeries, young women removing their breasts, teenagers, preteens, And then they're going to be on these drugs for the rest of their life and susceptible to more and more diseases and infections because they think they're helping themselves. Young men who think they can become a woman. They're living in delusion. And because of that, it's killing them. It's killing them just like Karen Carpenter. It is a mental thing. It's something that is affecting us where we think wrongly. And part of that reason is because we have so lost contact with the scriptures and the truth of what God says that now people are living according to what they think, what's been told to them. They're living according to lies. And do you know what brought death into this world? Yeah, a lie. When Satan said to Eve, you'll not surely die. God said, don't eat of that fruit because there's a horrible consequence if you do this. There's a horrible, it's called death. Don't do this. But then along comes Satan. He says, you know, you won't surely die. No, that's not gonna happen. Actually, you know what? God is trying to keep something back from you. God is so selfish. He's trying to keep you from something good. You know, that fruit looks so good. Sure, it must be great for you. But God, he's stingy, he's selfish, he's... Go ahead, it won't hurt you. And then she gives to her husband who's sitting right there with him. Dumb, won't say anything. No, it's true. I mean, here he is sitting silent while his wife is being tempted by the devil. And he's sitting there like a lump on a log. Doesn't say, whoa, stop, back up. Doesn't say a word. He just compliantly takes what she gives him and says, okay, And you wonder why we have a world right now that is spiraling towards destruction? Go back to the lie. Go back to the lie. And what God has done is he has brought truth into the world. Grace and truth has come through Jesus Christ is what it says in the Gospel of John. Grace and truth. And he's brought truth to come into our lives by the Holy Spirit, who is the spirit of truth. And he brought it in by the word of truth. And he says, now, you be a people who live by truth. Organize your life by truth. Submit to the truth, love the truth. And life comes forth, life comes forth. Oh, I wish I, I wish I could have gotten to the passage I wanted to preach from this morning. Meditate on these things. Meditate on these things. I gotta quit there. If I don't quit, I'll start preaching more. And I gotta quit because I gotta quit. Because you gotta respond. You gotta respond. What I've just said, I believe everything that I've said this morning, I've said by God's goodness and God's grace to us. Am I a perfect person? No. Could I have said it in a wrong way? Probably. Could I have said it with the wrong inflection in my voice? Could I have said it some way that was harsh? All of that's possible. But the fact is, I know that what God put on my heart today is true. I know that we need to respond to it in our own lives. Don't you dare, don't you dare buy up the lie. If you've been buying the lie that's been coming down the pike about anything in life that goes against God's word, repent. Ask God to forgive you and help you to walk in the light as he's in the light. Ask God to, God, just please, give me the grace that I can walk out a life of purity and of hopefulness and joy and help me to live my life, Lord, according to your word, according to truth. That's what you have to do now. I've done my job. Now all of us, me included, I've got to do it. I'm not just preaching to you. I'm not just saying this to you and now you got to do something. I'm saying it to me. I have to do it. I have to live this out. And I'm trusting that you will. I'm trusting that as I pray that you'll just make some commitments to the Lord. Lord, work in me. You know what's going on in your life, and you may even be blind to some of the things going on in your life. Be open enough to say, God, will you open my eyes? Let me see things that I cannot see without the grace that you give. Ask God to give you eyes to see so that you can live out your life in a way that's honorable to him. So would you stand with me as I pray? Lord, I'm so overwhelmed, Lord, by your goodness. I truly am, Father. I'm almost speechless when I think of the ways that you show mercy to us time and time again. You speak to us, you love on us, Lord, you provide for us, you bless us, all because you're good. Everything that comes from you, Lord, is good. Lord, as your word says, you are the giver of every good and perfect gift. You are, Lord. And I thank you for speaking to my heart this morning. And I know that you've spoken to other people. Lord, I ask that you'll grant us the grace that we can leave this place and live out the truth of your word. that we can make decisions based upon your word. That we can make those choices, Lord, that we need to make in a gracious way, in a kind way. Father, I'm asking that there would be a renovation, as it were, within our hearts. Lord, I know that I'm not always as close to you as I need to be. I know, Lord, that for me, I have to wrestle just like my brothers and sisters have to wrestle. But God, I want the zeal of the Lord to consume me. And I would pray that for each one in here, Lord, that a passion for you, a passion for your holiness, a passion for your justice, a passion for your righteousness, Lord, that that would consume us, Lord. that we'll be a people that are truly on fire for you, God, that there would be a flame upon us, God, the zeal of the Lord. I ask, Lord, for those that are wrestling with difficult circumstances and situations, God, that you would speak to them and help them to know how to navigate through those things as they draw near to you, Lord. I thank you that you tell us to bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. I thank you that you tell us to help others, Lord. But God, I pray that you'd teach all of us how to draw strength from you and our resource from you more than we do people. Help us, Lord, to see you as our true comforter. And God, give us the grace to live out our Christian faith in such a way that you are truly seen, that people see what we have and they marvel because they see something supernatural in us, you Lord. Would you work that in us? Cause us to be a people, a people of grace, a people of faith, that we truly live out, Lord, what your word says about us, that we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Help us to live as victors, Lord, and not victims. God, I pray now that you dismiss us with your loving kindness, guide us through this coming week, And help us, Lord, to be the very best we can be by your grace and power. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.