All right, well, let's pray. Yeah, Father, we thank you for your gifts of life, for your grace and your mercy, for these arrows, Lord, for the things they get to do in everyday life as they go forth in the many things that you open up doors for them, and we're gonna praise you for that. We thank you that you make us conquerors and more than conquerors in Christ, champions for your truth, dangerously strong upon the earth. And it begins days like today, as these ladies get to sow into them your precious message. So Lord, we thank you for your seed, for its life, and now we ask you to transform not just them, but us in here today. In Jesus' name, amen. All right, y'all have fun. Well, well, y'all take y'all's copy of the Word of God today, and turn with me to Romans, Romans chapter number Chapter number 12. When you're in chapter 12, we're gonna look at the close of chapter 11 and into chapter 12 this morning. We pray the Lord to help us with it. Anybody have a testimony? Anything you wanna give praise to? Anything you wanna share? I heard from Mary. I've been to Arizona. And she does love you, and you love her, amen? Amen. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. All right, Romans, Romans, Romans. Y'all have enjoyed your time in Romans? We're about to wrap up with it. Finish up with this great revelation that we have. I've mentioned to you already on several occasions, there's been schools and universities and places of thinking that have been established around these great truths that we get to put in our hands every day. that the entire message of the Word of God is circulating through and in and all about what you're reading as you're going through the Book of Romans. Chapter 1 and chapter 2 introduces us to the fact that Paul writing this letter to the church there at Rome, and how excited he was to see them, that he wanted some fruit among them. That's why he was led of the Spirit to pin what he pinned, but he wanted to come to them. He had wanted to come for some time. He wasn't able to make it. His plan was to go to Spain, and on his way to Spain, he was gonna stop into Rome, Italy, and fellowship with the brethren there, and he said, I am not ashamed of the gospel, the power of God unto salvation. And in that gospel, the righteousness, the righteousness of God is revealed in that great message. And he said, as much as was in him, He was ready to give it away and share it with those at Rome. You get into chapter, after that in chapter one, he reveals the heart of humanity and our fallenness and how everybody, as he picked up in chapter two, all the way through chapters, 10 and 11, that everybody, everybody in the world, all humanity has a need for Jesus Christ. It didn't matter where you come from, it didn't matter what background you had, didn't matter how moral and how ethical and how good you had been, you need Jesus. Everybody needs Jesus. And all God's people said, I mean your family, my family, your friends, my friends, your co-workers, my co-workers, my church family, your church family, everybody needs Jesus. And when I say needs Jesus, I'm talking about just need him for salvation, his righteousness, but we need his life at work in us every day. And that's been the heartbeat of this message, and that's why Paul gets so much into detail of this great mystery he describes. It's a mystery. It's a mystery. Look in chapter 11. Look in verse number 25, this great mystery of why the Jews rejected and still today as a whole, not every one of them, but just as a whole, they reject Jesus. They reject him as their Messiah. But God has a plan. All this was part of the wisdom of God. It was part of the plan of God. And one of the greatest illustrations of that can be found in John chapter 12. Now, don't turn there. I'm just giving you a little insight. You can look at this later. There's so many things throughout the scriptures that help us recognize how we do get to come in, why we come in to the kingdom of God. how that happens, what God's gotta do to see that take place, but we also see in John chapter 12 that the Jews would not receive Jesus, because they could not receive him, that they should not receive him, and that was all part of this mystery. this wisdom of God that there was a partial blindness upon the nation as a whole. There were Jews that believed Him. There were Jews that gave their life and died for Jesus. But as a whole God put a partial blindness on them And he says, I've given that a space of time. He calls it the fullness of the Gentiles. And there is a specific number, a specific person. When the last Gentile believer in this purpose of God trusts Jesus with their life and that time shifts, God's gonna reveal himself to the Jew as a whole and they all will see him for who he is. They will recognize him. Y'all remember that Older Testament story about Joseph. You know Joseph is not in the direct lineage of Jesus but the Bible emphasizes Joseph a lot. It covers a lot about Joseph and there's great reasons why he does that. It's a great picture of Jesus himself even though he's not in the lineage of Jesus. There's so many great parallel pictures in that and one of those is how when he was sold off and rejected by his brothers very similar to how the Jews did with Jesus that when he was sent before them to go into Egypt and God positioned him by his favor to send them to preserve life because they were gonna die if they didn't have somebody that God sent before them to preserve life and that was Joseph. God put him through some horrible things and it was all by the hand of God. God tells us that. Psalm 105 says it was all by God's hand. God did this to him. Every step of it, it was a God thing. And Joseph recognized what everybody had done to him was evil, but God used that evil for his good and his glory. But when they came to Joseph the first time, his brothers did not recognize him. They didn't know who he was. They didn't know. They entrusted themselves to this man. They had no clue it was their very own brother that they sold off in slavery that they wanted to actually kill. But one of them stepped in and said, no, let's not kill him. Let's just go tell dad that we killed him and let's sell him. And they did that, left him in that position. Well, they didn't know it was him. They had no clue. That was disguised from them. But the second trip back to Egypt, the second trip, when his brothers came back, you know, Joseph couldn't contain himself. He had to let them know who he was and he revealed himself that he was actually their brother. And that is what's gonna happen to the Jews who for centuries, at that point, centuries have rejected the message of the Messiah. There's gonna come one particular day in a supernatural way, they're gonna see God sent a man before them. and he sent a man before him to preserve their life. And they are all gonna turn to Jesus. And you know what they're gonna see? They're gonna see God in Jesus. They're gonna see their Messiah. And every single one of them are gonna give their lives over to him fully and completely and willing to fight to the death for him. But right now there's a partial blindness in the economy of God. Now, remember, God doesn't consider a day like we consider a day. A day is like 1,000 years. So God doesn't reckon time like we reckon time. We think in man, a partial blindness, we're talking about 2,000 years of it that has been happening thus far. But look, 11.25 says this, for Paul was telling the church, remember, this is all that he's been leading up to, for I do not desire, brethren, that you should be unaware, ignorant about this. I want you to know that this mystery for fear you should be wise in your own opinion. See, God wants us Gentiles to know that we have no room to be wise in our own opinion of ourself. The reason the Jews have rejected Jesus was all purposeful. It was all intentional. And it wasn't that you were smarter, wiser, or better, or anything like that, that you got to believe in Jesus. This has been a God thing. This has been a God thing. It's a mystery, but a mystery he wants us to be aware of, that he's making known to us. Look, that the blindness in part has happened to Israel, and then God gives a timeframe, a space of time, until the fullness of the Gentiles have come in. We are still in that timeframe. It's still going on. It has been going on, it will go on, and notice what he says. The deliverer, and what's his name? Who's the deliverer? Jesus. Y'all say his name with me. Jesus. The deliverer will come out of Zion and the deliverer, Jesus, you can just say Jesus, and Jesus will turn away ungodliness. And you know what ungodliness is? It's unbelief. That's the evil heart of ungodliness is unbelief. They're unbelief. He's gonna turn it away. For this is my covenant with them when I take away their There is no remission of sin without a shed in the blood. There is no remission of sin unless you put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. So this evil ungodliness was their unbelief and God, Kate is gonna turn all that away. And they're gonna see in all Israel, will be saved. Verse 28, concerning the gospel, like right now, they are enemies for your sake. Remember, we looked at this last week, Greg, where he says the gospel is veiled to them. Even the Older Testament is veiled to them. They can't see it. So the gospel, for your sake, the Jew, they're enemies, but concerning the divine eternal election of God, they are the beloved for the Father's sake. So that generation, whoever it is, whenever it happens, are all going to believe Jesus. Now Jews that die without Jesus today, they perish. Just like Gentiles that die without Jesus today, they perish. When I say without Jesus, that's without Jesus being their life, without Jesus being their trust, their rest, their peace, their reconciliation. If Jesus ain't everything, you will perish without Jesus. You will perish without him. Whether you're Jew or Gentile, you will perish without him because all men need who? Jesus, not just for deliverance and salvation, but for deliverance in every day, in every day, because there's only one person that God will judge all the world by, and that is the righteousness of Jesus. And none of the world matches up to the righteousness of Jesus except those who by faith have put their trust in the Lord Jesus, and then God gives them his righteousness, because he took their sin at the cross, and all God's people said? I mean, that's shouting ground right there, amen? Ask everyone around the church, do a flip, go tell everybody about what he's done for you. Verse 29, for the gifts, because he's talking about an eternal thing, the gifts and the calling of God, they are irrevocable. When God speaks a thing, what he's gonna do, you're not gonna change it, it's irrevocable. It's irrevocable the fact that one day every Jew living when that happens and the Gentiles come in, it's irrevocable God's gonna show the Jew who he is and they gonna see him. Finally, they gonna see him. And when they see him, they turn everything over to him. God says in the book of Zechariah, the whole nation is gonna be like David. Matter of fact, he even goes further and said the whole nation is gonna be like God. on the earth in that day. And you know what God doesn't do? God never considers the odds, amen. You know what David did? David took down the giant that was facing him just like the Jew. All the world's gonna be against the Jew. But when God shows him Jesus, brother Shannon, they gonna stand up like King David, and they gonna stand up and fight the giant of the world, and they gonna be like God, and they not backing down, why? Because who is for them? God is not only for them, but now he's what? In them, he's with them, and he's going, the callings and the giftings of God are irrevocable. He's not turning it back. Verse 30, for as you, the Gentile, us, were once disobedient to God, yet now we obtain mercy from God. through their disobedience. This is where he's getting to this mystery of what God's been doing. Verse 31. Even so, these also have been disobedient, that through the mercy of God shown to you, they may also obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience. Notice that. God has committed them. Josh, the Jew. He's committed them to disobedience. That's hard to process, isn't it? He's committed them to disobedience that he might have mercy on who? That means the rest of the world, including them in a coming day. Verse 33, and what does this get us to? Oh, the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out? What a word, Janet. That automatically, Paul himself says, they were committed to disobedience so that God could show mercy to you, but the depth of the knowledge and the wisdom behind that is unsearchable. You can try and search forever, and we are intended to. of how this is played out, but you'll never get to the bottom of it. It's so deep and so rich and so wonderful, such a rich blessing in abundance, you can't help, the whole purpose of it is to put us in a position where we can't help but just say, to God be the glory. To him be the praise. My life is in your hands, God. You have it all set up. You have it all figured out. Your plan is coming together just the way you planned it because of those Jews not responding to you the way that we think they shoulda. We think oftentimes, man, what's wrong with them? And then we look at ourselves and think, man, we did respond to it, man, look at us. But Paul is saying, no, wipe all that out your mind. Get that all out of the picture. This has all been a God thing. Their rejection and your reception. Your reception and eventually their reception to the glory of these things. And notice what he says. He quotes two Older Testament passages and he says in verse 34, for who has known the mind of the Lord or who has become his counselor? Who has told him what to do and how to do it? Nobody, amen. God does what God does. He is a sovereign God who can do what he wants, when he wants, however he wants, when he wants, with whomever he wants, however he wants, amen? What we do is rest in it. And then he says it again, or who has first given to him and it shall be repaid to him. No, God gives us. And all we can do is fall at his mercy and thank him for what he's given. That's why verse 36, brother Shannon, is a summation of everything he said up to these 11 chapters about righteousness, and about grace, and about salvation, and about deliverance, and the grace of God, and the gift of righteousness in the Lord Jesus Christ, and the blindness upon the Jews, and the reception upon the Gentile. He says this is what? For all things are of Him, through Him, and to Him are all things, to whom be the glory, amen, and what? Amen. This has been a God thing. You are where you are because of God, amen? And we can't help but praise Him. So chapter 12 then, based on that word there, transitions into the practical response from us. and then the application to these great truths in our life. If this is all of him, through him, and to him, what should be our response based on this revelation that we have? Brethren, I beseech you, present yourselves, what? Your bodies unto the Lord. Is that what he says? Look, verse 12, I mean, chapter 12, verse one. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you, what? present your bodies, present yourselves as living sacrifices, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service, and don't be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. And all God's people said. That's the response to this. All this truth, all this knowledge, all this information that he's unrolled Lucas to us by asking question upon question with answer upon answer, difficulty upon difficulty with solution upon solution. He says, what is it all come to for you and me today? Yield yourself to the Lord. as living sacrifices, as those, as Romans 6 would say, who reckon ourselves dead with Christ, buried with him, resurrected to new life, that we give ourselves, we are not dead sacrifices, but living sacrifices who are now alive in Christ Jesus, we give ourselves with that mindset, of faith, that mindset of revelation so that we can give ourself to him so that this world we live in is not what's gonna shape us, the things we're going through is not what's shaping us, the circumstances we gotta face is not what's gonna make us, but God is gonna transform us and renew our minds so that we can be the instruments in the circumstances, in the situations to prove what is his good and is acceptable and perfect will. Oh, man, this is the beauty of knowing these great things that he is unveiling to us throughout this book. So this is a couple things I wanna give you, and we'll come back tonight and pick up on some more of these things later, but just a couple things that I wanna point out to you that we can see in this, and I'll do my best to try to explain it. Tell you the best way I can, I jot it down a note or two far so it would help me bring this out, is that what we have in these passages up to this point, Romans 11, 36 being the pivot, that pivots everything he said before and everything he's gonna say after, it all pivots around it. What we see here is that God's filled us up in these 11 chapters with a lot of information. So much information, that great theological schools have been established to teach men and women around the world throughout time to explain these things. I mean, it's a power of tremendous truths that keep stacking up to the heavens, this information. But you see, information that doesn't become revelation for us only sets us up to be a danger to people. Only sets us up to be trouble for people. So, I want you to think about it like this. Information without adoration, application, and affirmation only leads to twisted motivations hurtful proclamations and spiritual constipation because there's no transformation resulting in someone who can't be free from the waste of polluted thinking and the misused information only hurts them and those they mislead. You see information without revelation cannot produce the right kind of adoration in our life. and this is what happens. Information leads to revelation. Revelation, Brother Shannon, leads to adoration. That's the process. See, God's got a divine order of things and this is what Paul's been doing. All this truth, all this information we have of what God's been doing is to become a revelation to us that we can see Him in this greatness so that we then, in adoration, begin to praise Him and glorify Him as Paul does. All things are what? Of Him, through Him, and what? to Him or for Him, so then we then present ourselves to Him so that God can, through that revelation, begin to transform our minds. because we are properly in the position to give him the adoration that he deserves. And there's no transformation that takes place before adoration in a man's life. And that adoration doesn't come without a revelation. And revelation never comes without information or knowledge from God. It's a whole chain of events that God gives to us in our everyday life that we wake up from morning to morning, what? Seeking God's loving kindness. So that we can praise him in the morning, we can seek him and give him glory that we know Mercies of God are new every day, and that today's a new day with the Lord, and I submit to his ways, and I praise him and glorify him. Miss Barbara, he begins to let me see him for who he is, and I'm trusting him in faith of who he is, and he begins to, Brother Shannon, transform my mind. Why does he transform me? So that I can then what? Apply these things in everyday life. I can go live them out. And you see as I present myself to the Lord, you know what God does? He presents himself to the people he brings me before through my life. But that doesn't happen by accident. That happens because God's given us truth. Revelation, and that revelation then becomes this adoration on our part where we give him ourself in faith and trust in him. Let me just give you a few things. Let me just lay it out for you. This is a chain of faith that is woven together with grace, truth, transformation, and application. Each of these I'm gonna mention supersede and the others lead into one another. So information, You can say knowledge, I'm just going to make it simple and use these words that sound alike. You know, preachers use words of illiteration and things like that. So, it helps you remember this information is always truth. Not just any information, because just any information ever puts me in the proper position for adoration. We're talking about information that leads to what? Revelation, what is revelation? That's a revealed truth about who God is and what God's doing. And everything Paul's been teaching, Tommy has been teaching us of who God is. what God's done, what God's doing, who we are in Him, and what we are without Him. So all that leads to, okay, this has been of Him, Kate, through Him, and to Him, so to Him be the glory in all things, and that would be the natural thing that leads us into from this revelation of Him to adoration. So here it is, information, leads to revelation. Or we can say it like this, information always supersedes revelation. We gotta hear something from God. What God says about himself, that's knowledge, that's information. But we want that information to be revelation. If it's not revelation, I'm gonna misuse it. And I'm gonna mislead. And I'm gonna take somebody down the wrong road. So information leads to revelation, revelation leads to adoration. proper adoration to God be the glory. That is, we present ourself unto Him. That adoration puts us in a position for transformation. Transformation. God's got to renew me, transform me. So that transformation leads into what? The application of life. What does our passage say? I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies unto the Lord as living sacrifices, whole and acceptable unto Him, which is our reasonable service. This is all adoration based on the revelation we have. Be not conformed to this world, but be what? Transformed by the renewing of your mind for what purpose? That you may prove that you can apply that in your life, prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So we see a chain that's connected here that if I'm gonna prove, Josh, what is that good and acceptable will of God, transformation has to be going on in my life. And transformation won't be going on in my life if I'm not presenting myself in adoration unto him who has brought me to this place because it's all been of him, through him, and to him. And I wouldn't present myself to him in adoration if I didn't have revelation from him. You see, so this knowledge that Paul's been teaching is to be a revelation to us so that I can live in adoration before him. So that God will transform and renew my mind. That I can go forth and apply what he's teaching me in everyday life. And you see, application always leads to affirmation of the presence and the praise and the beauty of God upon your life. That what you're doing, God is presenting himself to the world that we live in because we presented ourself unto Him. And when we present ourselves in praise, And God gives us the perception that is heavenly, His ways. And this is not a one-time thing, this is what? An everyday, throughout the day thing. That I live with this perception of Him, this adoration of Him, this praise of Him, so that God is steadily what? Not using the circumstances in my life to squeeze me, but God's transforming me in the circumstances that I've gotta face. so that I can go forth and prove what is that good and acceptable will. So this chain, you can't, you can't, there's no, if you bust the link in it, there's no substitutions, there's no shortcuts in this, there's no bypasses to it. This is the problem though, we in our human nature, we would try to get to a shortcut. We try to find a shortcut in this. Just give me the nuts and bolts so that I can go out and do what I gotta do. But Paul says, no, you gotta have some truth. You gotta have some information on who you're serving. So that you can have revelation from him because hearing from God is where faith is what? Generated. You gotta be putting faith in this truth, this revelation that you have. so that you can live in praise and adoration of the Lord and know that, hey, where you are is because it's of God. What you're doing is through Him. And the things you do do or will do will be for Him because you have revelation from Him and you walking in what He's doing to change how you think. So y'all say it with me. Y'all say it with me. Y'all think y'all got it down, Brother Shannon? Come on, Brother Shannon. Information leads to what? Revelation. And when I say information, what are we talking about? Truth, right? Truth from God. A word from God. Everything we've been reading has been what? Truth from God. This has been God at work. This righteousness, this grace, this salvation. how sinners are saved, and why the Jews are blinded, and why the Gentiles get to come. That's all revelation from God. It's mysteries that the rest of the world doesn't know, can't see, but God has revealed it to his people. That's revelation. Remember, faith is what? Seeing, agreeing, and acting on what God reveals. You can't have faith unless God reveals something to you. Now you can have faith in things, but we're talking about the redemptive, eternal kind of faith that's faith in him. That meant God had to speak. And what we're reading in Romans again and again, we looked at it Wednesday night, the scripture says God says through Hosea in the present tense. That means he's still saying it. And what he's still saying is he calls the Gentiles, those who wasn't his people, he calls them his people. Those who wasn't righteous, he calls them righteous. Those who wasn't beloved, he calls them the beloved. I want to tell you, my friend, that's revelation. But that revelation came by information of God's teachers who teach the word as we have it here in the book of Romans. And so information leads to what? Revelation. Revelation leads to adoration. What is adoration? That's praise, right? We are adoring God. We are praising God. We are thanking God. We are praising him for the revelation that he's revealed of himself, who I am, what he's done for me, and what he's doing in me. That's adoration. Does adoration always precede transformation? It does. You gotta know who's transforming you, amen? You gotta know why he's transforming you. You gotta know he's capable of transforming you. And you gotta know the beauty of what this transformation is all about. So praise is always gonna precede transformation. Why? Because praise is gonna be a natural product of faith. Remember we've talked to you about this before, that the platform of praise is obedience. That when a man trusts God and believes God and acts in faith on that, that's obedience. So obedience is adoration unto the Lord of the revelation you have. Well, what do you do? You present yourself. and humble adoration to Him, then what does God do? He starts transforming and renewing the mind. So you don't think like you did yesterday. You don't think like you did a year ago. You're not thinking like you used to. You're thinking like He's thinking now. You're thinking the way He's thinking. He's showing you things that He sees. And you're agreeing with it. And that transformation then leads to application. God transforms us so we can apply these truths. What does the scripture teach us? Don't be a hearer of the word only, but be a what? A doer. You got to put it to what? Work. It's useless if all you have is information with no work. That's why it leads to misleading people or this spiritual constipation if all I have is knowledge but I'm not living that knowledge out. See, wisdom is knowledge lived out. That's applying the word of God in everyday life. You know who's gotta do that? Me. You know who's gotta do that? You. Who's got to do that? All of us, amen. And it's in that application, Ms. Barber, that God uses us then to affirm to a world around us of His presence, of His promises. of His purity and what He's done in us. So this application leads to affirmation that the brethren can see the perfect and acceptable and goodwill of God being manifested in your life. You think God's going to show Himself through my life if I'm not presenting myself to Him? You see, when I'm presenting myself to Him, Pam, it's then that God begins to present Himself to the world through me. and around me as he sends me out as his missionary in this world, amen? So y'all say it with me one more time. Y'all ready? Let's try it one more time. Information leads to what? Revelation. Revelation always leads into adoration and adoration leads into transformation and transformation leads into application and application always leads into the affirmation of God upon your life. It's an unbreakable chain. Throughout the Word of God we see it. We'll see it, we'll look at it tonight from an Older Testament Psalm that David, everything we're reading right here in Romans, we'll see it right in the midst of David's life prior to all this revelation we had. Because see, you don't have to have all the revelation, you just need to have what God's revealing to you. And whatever he reveals, you need to see it, agree with it, and act on it. And you know what God begins to do, Lucas? He begins to change your perception of how you see things. And all of a sudden, you're seeing things the way he sees it, and now God's got us in a position that he can present himself through us to the world that we live in. No different than what the rest of the New Testament teaches us. As Paul would say, it's no longer I who live, but Christ Jesus who what? He still lived, but the life that he lived, Jesus was presenting himself to the world around him, why? Because Paul lived in the revelation that he had. That revelation produced this adoration in his life. This adoration produced this transformation that continued to renew him and refresh him. And then that led right into the application of God's truth. And every letter we see in the New Testament that the New Testament writers write, they tell us this information, this truth, this doctrine, all these great things, And then it closes out in the last bit of the book, he ties it together and says, this is how we apply it in everyday life. Why? Because the information is to lead to the affirmation of God's purpose upon your life. That can't happen unless we're applying it. That won't happen unless we're being transformed. That's not gonna happen unless we're presenting ourselves in adoration as living sacrifices. And that doesn't happen without a revelation that comes from God. Amen? It's an unbreakable chain. So every day of my life, these things should be filled up in what's going on with me. God, I'm hearing from you. I'm seeing you. I'm worshiping and praising and adoring you. You're changing how I see people and how I see life. I'm seeing them like you see them. I'm treating them like you're treating them. It's not of me, it's been of you. It's been through you and it's been for you. I can't pat myself on the back in this. I can't help but say to God be the glory, amen. And now people are starting to see Jesus, what? In us, amen. Isn't that the aim? Isn't that the aim? Paul said, I've been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ Jesus who lives in me. It's how Jesus lived. Jesus said, if you see me, guess who you see? You see my daddy. Why? Jesus always lived on the revelation, the information that he knew and had, why he was flawless. He lived in adoration. Father, I've glorified you. You glorify me in the Son. I've done what you told me to do. I'm doing what you tell me to do. I've glorified you to your people who you gave me. And we constantly see this affirming work of the Father upon his life. So he says this, if you see me, you see my daddy. You see my father. And when they see us, you know what they wanna see? If you see, you wanna see who? You wanna see Jesus, amen? You want people to see Jesus. I like old Lucas, but what Lucas has without Jesus will only mislead me, will only corrupt me, will only hurt me. Same way with Nick Holden. What you get from me that's not based on the truth, and revelation of God doing a work in me, and all you see is me, I'm just gonna, my proclamations are gonna hurt you and hinder you and cripple you. They're not designed to set you free. Because the only thing that sets you free is the Son and the truth that He reveals to you. And that you believe and act on in faith in, amen? And that freedom is to show who sets you free. To Him be the glory. Father, we thank you, we bless you today. We pray that you help us with these things. We are humbled in the fact that you would even reveal them to us, that you would speak life into us through your son and through the revelation of your message. So Lord, I pray that we would take it, that we would give ourselves over to you as those who have been raised from the dead, that we no longer live for ourselves, that we have not only died to sin and abiding in law, but we are under the reign of your grace, under the reign of your righteousness. So Lord, we wanna be vessels of your mercy that display your glory. So Lord, we know that it won't happen apart from your divine order of what you're doing in and through us. So help us learn these things as we walk with you and continue to teach you so that we can go help other people, so they can see Jesus in us. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Look, we don't want to, that's one thing about the revelation of God that comes in. As the scripture says, unless God build the house, they that labor, labor in what? thing. Unless God watched the city, those who watch the city stay awake in vain. You see, that's what? Revelation. Like these little arrows here, you know, what we put in them, what we share with them, we don't want to mislead them, amen? He's got ahold of my beard, getting it, huh? We don't want to mislead them in any kind of way. We don't want to pollute their thinking in any kind of way. They already come in bent in this old world. We got to reshape them, amen? As precious as they are, we understand. That's what Romans has helped us with. We understand the condition of man without Jesus. So with all that, we just get to say thank you, Lord. Thank you for unveiling yourself to me. Thank you for doing what you've done in me. Now Lord, use me. Use me. As Romans is gonna tell us, as you read yesterday, look, let your love be sincere, abhor that which is evil, and cling to that which is good. That's the application of all these great truths that we learn. Amen? Amen. Anybody have anything before we go? Y'all hear that back there? He is alive, amen. When Lauren was a little bitty thing and she could sing and talk, she would go around singing that song and she'd say, him is alive. God's not dead, him is alive. So every time Stephanie sings it, I say that, she said, you're gonna mess me up and I'm gonna do that with them kids back there. But she would walk around just singing, God's not dead, him is alive. And we said, amen, him is alive, that's right.