Okay, so the name of the class is Worldview. And I think Pastor really wanted this covered because he, you know, people used to talk about worldview a lot. When I was growing up, it started to become really popular. And like the half a generation or so after that, you know, the, who are they? Gen Y, I don't even remember the names of the generations. But, It was a big deal for all of those people, this worldview thing. And now I just don't hear it really talked about anymore. And you can call it what you like, but it's important. Anybody know what a worldview is or like to hazard a guess? I won't laugh at you or anything. As long as you don't say Google Earth, I'm fine. Okay, no. Okay, we're going to break the ice at some point. Anyway, worldview is essentially the things you assume are true before figuring out anything else in your life, before you take facts or observations or things that other people say and fit it into your knowledge somewhere. You judge it and file it away and categorize it based on your deep presuppositions. Presuppositions are important. Who knows what apologetics is? Anybody want to take a gander on that? apologetics it's not about apologizing it's about defending the faith essentially and it comes from the greek word for defending the faith um so uh apologetics usually uh if you think about apologetics you think about the kind of people who are out there debating atheists or debating roman catholics or other people who are to us in some way um you think about Let's see here, like Answers in Genesis. They're a huge apologetics ministry, essentially. I mean, they do other things, but mostly what they're all about is, no, no, no, the six-day literal creation of the world and a very, you know, short age for the age of the earth is true. And here's why we think it is. And I'll point you to, there's a million pages on Answers in Genesis' site about all this stuff. That's all fine and good. Anybody ever tried to use any of these evidences with an unbeliever? It doesn't work. Yeah, why not? They don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear it, okay. Even if it's true, they have something they believe is better and they don't want to listen. They have to want to listen for it to work. Okay. You were nodding, what have you seen? Yeah, I think it's just anytime the Bible is not your authority, it's just not gonna work. Yeah, faltered in Muscatelazzo too. Man, you like stole three of my days worth of albums here. Okay. That's good. I like to hear that. You know, especially for people who are relatively new to the church, in our church at least, I like to hear that. I'm glad that, yeah, you got the point, obviously. Authority is important. Where, you know, what your authority is based on is important. What I've generally found, when you get really deep down into the arguments that atheists make or evolutionists make or whatever, deep down in their arguments is the fundamental presupposition that This world is all there is. They're materialists. They think in terms of, you know, basically the things that are four dimensions, space and time, that's all that exists. That's it. So they can't see God. They don't have any evidence of God that they can't explain in some other way. Anything works. Anything works. As long as it can be observed. Or as long as we can come up with some grandiose reason why it's not observable, but it's still a better option than a personal God. And what's really interesting, honestly, about atheists, when you dig into their lives and you see the thing that drove them to the limit and the big place where they had to make the decision and they walked away from the faith, so to speak, and embraced this godless idea, the thing that really pushes them over the edge is sex. That's why you're in this class. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, not one of the other classes, because I can talk about this. And I don't have to worry that some old lady's going to faint or some little kid's going to go, what? OK. So that's not all we're going to talk about. Even though I am an English major, we have been accused of such things. But yeah, it always comes down to sex. Bertrand Russell. when he realized that people expected him to kind of keep his marriage vows, and he wasn't able to have the affairs he wanted to without a guilty conscience. And so his grand idea, first of all, get rid of the conscience. You don't need that thing anyway. It's just a monkey on your head. It's true for a lot of these people. Dawkins, anyway, just lots of names that are out there. of people who are promoting these things. Yeah, Stephen Hawking. I think this was maybe even in the movie, but I didn't see the recent movie. But Stephen Hawking is known for, you know, he had an affair on his wife and ended up divorcing her and marrying somebody else. And if you're like me, you're going, dang, that guy must have some serious game. Because good heavens, he's in, I mean, seriously, he's in this wheelchair. He talks through a computer. And still he's got women hanging on the chain around here. It's like... Yeah, not even gonna lie, I was like, how? I love you though. There's no explaining taste, honestly. Anyway, so worldview, I read a really good quote, I think it was last week, I'll read it to you. A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions that we hold about the basic constitution of reality and that provides the foundation on which we live and move and have our being. And that's by a guy named James Sire, who wrote this in a book called The Universe Next Door, which I have not read. Sorry. But I thought it was a good quote. That's one of the more concise versions of this. You are committed, your worldview commits you to starting from that point when you make any decisions at all. And by the way, if I'm ever like shouting at you, let me know. I think they're the loud ones. I can't tell. She's probably like, I can hear the children screaming, I'm gonna end. If I talk about something for a really long time with my wife, you know, eventually she's sort of moving down the couch and then eventually she starts going, you know, at some point finally she's like, you don't have to shout. What is our fundamental presupposition? What kind of things do we as Christians believe deep down that cause us to change everything else we hear and see and think about and categorize and put into our histories? Oh, Grace, as you can guess, I don't mind. You know, probably it's semi-right. We'll fit it into the real answer. Whatever. What was the question? What are our basic presuppositions? What do you assume going in that you can't personally prove, but it is the foundation of everything you think. Jesus was resurrected. Ah, that's a good one. Yes, the resurrection of Jesus, yeah. And that's a remarkable presupposition because it doesn't, you know, it doesn't really connect with our experience at all. Have any of you seen someone rise from the dead? And I mean actually dead, not in your death experience. Nobody? Anybody? Okay, good. Because if there's one of you people in here, we'd have to talk about that. There's a bunch of charismatics who claim that they have risen people from the dead, but they also say that they really need your money, and I haven't really put those two things together yet. Anyway. I'm getting so nervous. Okay. I don't know why. I can talk in front of that huge group of people upstairs. I can preach sermons. A limited number of people, each of whose face I can see. And, you know, I mean, my stomach won't stop doing that. tango or something in there. I mean, wow. All right, anyway. Yeah, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That's a good one. That's a great place to start, yeah. Because that's something that we accept and none of the other, you know, people who are Christians don't. Or people who call themselves Christians and yet you press them. Because there's plenty of people who say, oh no, I'm a Christian. And then you really, really push on them. And they're like, well, I'm sort of an enlightened Christian. I mean, I believe in science. And well, you know, I don't know about that whole virgin birth thing. And you know, Jesus didn't really have to rise from the dead for him to be a good teacher. And you know, everybody can learn something from him. And at that point, it's like, oh, you're not a Christian. You just took the label. You identify as one. I get that. I hear it all the time. People identify as lots of things they're not. Okay, yeah, maybe they don't want to talk about this anyway What why do you believe in the resurrection though? I mean, where did where did this come from? You didn't one day wake up and think there was a man 2,000 years ago who was crucified and he rose from the dead Yeah, yeah, where did where did this idea come from I Well, the idea, I suppose, came from the Bible, but the faith came from God. Oh, that's it. That is a... Oh, boy. Again, blowing away hours of outlines here. Gotta watch you two. All right. That's good. That's a really good point. So, yeah. First of all, the Bible. The Bible is the authority that we base everything else off of. We know He rose again because the Bible says so. We know He was born of a virgin because the Bible says so. We know He's the Son of God, which honestly means that He is God in a sense, in a real, true sense, because the Word of God says so. That goes for everything we believe. And that, obviously, is something that we would differ from our imaginary liberal Christian over here that I was just talking about, who says, I'm a Christian, but I don't believe this. I'm a Christian, but I don't believe that. Yeah, but the Bible says it. Well, you don't really think the Bible's entirely true, do you? Because that's an old book. At some point, we are so going to talk about that. But not today. Anyway, but I wanted you to start thinking deep down, logically, about where you got ideas from. And, you know, if you thought something else and then were convinced of an idea, what convinced you? Why would you now argue for it? What changed deep down that just flipped the script for you and made you somebody else in your brain? Really, the only thing that does that effectively The thing you need to have a good worldview is the indwelling Holy Spirit, and that comes to people with faith. And you mentioned faith, and you called faith a gift, which that's exactly what it is. Yes, that's a big deal in this church that, you know, you can't gin up the faith yourself. You can't sit there and go, I'm going to believe this, although some of my prayers sound like that. But, you know, they're not great prayers. But, you know, you can't just sit there and drive it into existence. You can't imagine it into yourself. You can't brainwash yourself to believe anything. That's not true, actually. Plenty of people brainwash themselves, but not that. Oddly enough. And Yeah, that's because that, that change, that deep down change is something that's entirely supernatural. It's entirely driven by, it's what happened when you were saved. You know, and if you, you know, and I don't, I don't mind, you know, I'm not one of those people who says, to everybody. When will you say it? No, there has to be a specific time. Why didn't you record it somewhere? Why didn't you write it into your Bible? I'm not one of those people because sometimes it creeps up on you. You know? I mean, sometimes you wake up one day and you're like, oh golly, I believe all this stuff. I've been believing it for weeks. When did that happen? You know? And it just floors you. That does happen. Not too frequently because these days you kind of have to be shaken out of the tree and you remember falling over. But you know at a moment in time somewhere in your life if you are a Christian a real Christian, it means that God took your dead spirit that hated him, if it could hate anything because it was dead. But, you know, if you had any choice, you are a slave to sin. You hated God. We all started out that way, every one of us. And I remember being like that. I remember hating God while I claimed to love him, while I had brainwashed myself to tell people that I believe in him and that I serve him. You know, I've been a Christian all my life, but I know I wasn't. Oh, really? Yeah, you can claim to be a Christian and not be an actual Christian. I hope all of you realize that. Some people think, oh, well, I got my card punched. I'm in a church. I identify with Christians. That makes me a Christian. Phooey. No, it doesn't. You know, that's like going into McDonald's. So I'm a hamburger. No, no. Proximity means nothing. Membership in a church means nothing. Even if you got baptized, that should mean something, but it doesn't have to. You can be lying to yourself and get dunked underwater any number of times. And every time it was because doctrine shifted a little bit for me, and I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing last time, but this time it's gotta be it. Thankfully, I am done. I have been baptized since I was saved, and I know it, and we're not doing that again. I don't have to, you know, because Jesus only rose once, and we are buried with him. in death, in His death, and we are raised with Him, and baptism demonstrates that to everybody. Coming up out of the water is a symbol, but it's a powerful symbol. It's a commandment of God's. It's not just a symbol. It's your way of saying to the world, either in the first century or today, these are my people, and this is my thing, and that's my God, and I'm gonna stand here against all of you if I have to. You know, I can be eaten by lions. I can be delisted from my Instagram and TikTok. You know, whatever you want to do to me. It doesn't matter. You know, and that's when you're being persecuted, which we don't have general persecution in this country, honestly. Yeah, there's plenty of things that people jeer about. There's a few times that the law has turned against us faith community in ways, but honestly, you know, we don't know from persecution. That, you know, not like the first century people did. I mean, those people, you know, if you were Jewish and you believed in Jesus as the Messiah, they kicked you out of your community. And then, if you go out into the bigger, wider world, and you say, there are no gods but one, And Jesus is God who came down in the flesh to us and for us. And no other name can save you. Well, right there the Romans are like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We deify almost every emperor on the throne because Well, if we didn't, they'd burn in the pagan version of hell forever because they're terrible people. Seriously. Well, at least according to Suetonius, that's the reason that Olivia, Augustus' wife, demanded of later descendants of hers on the throne as Roman emperors, demanded of them, you have to deify me. You have to build a temple to me and have people worshiping me. Get priests, have sacrifices, because then I'll be a god and I will not suffer forever." And you're just like, wow, that's all it took, huh? There's no sense in her mind that you could just bamboozle everybody. That's what really happened. the throne for three, four generations. Anyway, never mind. I'm not going to get into that. I'm not going to talk about those things. All right. Wow, we're running out of time. All right. So the first and most important thing that we need to cover so that we have a place to go in this class is that we need to know right up front, because this is not This is what's hard for me, honestly. I work so much better when I'm going verse by verse through some piece of scripture. I love doing that. That's my favorite thing in the world to do. And if you haven't figured it out from me teaching adult Sunday school previews, I get excited about it. It's the one thing I look forward to some weeks, honestly, especially when I'm out of a job. But this isn't that. This is a topical study this year where we're just going to jump all over the place in the Bible. We may look at other pieces of literature. We're going to talk about philosophies in the world and the philosophy that stands against them in Christianity. We're going to talk about modernism and postmodernism and all sorts of things that It can be very boring, and I hope I don't bore you to death. I'm going to try really hard. We'll see. If anybody has to be carted out to the funeral home, then I'll change it for next week. The remaining people, hopefully, will have a better show next week. Anyway, the next thing we need to really talk about to lay a foundation for all of this What is the gospel? What's the good news? This I am going to entirely rely on you people for. Are you all Christians? Is anybody here not? And it's okay. I'm not going to yell at you. We're not going to make fun of you. And we're not even going to come over and get on our hands and knees and say, please, please, please repent. Not right now. Might do it some other time. Does everybody here identify as a Christian? Everybody? I came from a Catholic church, so I'm here to learn more. Oh, really? Oh, wow. Okay. I'm sorry. I already said one bad thing about the Roman Catholic Church, and there'll be more. But, you know, I'm a Protestant. I'm so Protestant that every time I see a church door, I want to nail a list of the pain points to it. Lutheran history joke. Anyway. Okay. Wow. Hey, that's awesome. I'm really glad to have you here. And maybe you can feel free to jump in and clear up a misconception I might have about the faith of the Roman Catholic Church. It is an ordinary Roman Catholic Church, right? Not a set of vacantists, not one of the weird ones that broke away because they didn't get to keep their property. Because there's a few of those in St. Louis, in the Archbishop. In the diocese, I should say. OK, good, good. Cool. Oh, golly, this is going to be so great. No, I like diversity. Have you talked to Miss Lisa? She came from a Roman Catholic church and she told us all about it. You should go talk to Miss Lisa. Who's Lisa? Lisa. Flies. The kid in the wheelchair. Oh, right, right! I have talked to her. Yeah! This is good. Wow, I've got such bad luck. I'm sorry. I'm also almost face-blind. Entirely face-blind. So, if I see you, in the future, and I don't act like I know you. It's because right that moment, I don't recognize you. I mean, you know, when my wife cuts her hair, I wonder who that person is. You just came through the door. It's that bad, actually, sometimes. I get used to it, but it takes a while. You know, when she says something, as soon as she says something, I'm like, oh, hi, Tracy, my wife, you're home. Anyway, it's caused some moments. Well, she cut off all her hair once in solidarity for a cancer patient. And that was weird, because she looked exactly like my best friend at a job I had, who was a dude. I mean, in my eyes, because again, in my memory, people are just caricatures, essentially. I can remember maybe one fact about her. You know, like right now, if I met you for the first time, I've seen you enough that I kind of have a gestalt of you. But if I met you for the first time right now, I'd be remembering long hair cowboy boots, long hair cowboy boots, long hair cowboy boots. And next week, you don't come with cowboy boots. And I'm like, have we met? It's really bad. You know, I'm a mess. Anyway, well, this is fancy. We're Protestants, of course. The rest of us are, right? I'm sorry. I didn't want to leave it. But yeah, we are Protestants. You're not a Roman Catholic, are you? I didn't think so. They haven't done a whole lot in Nigeria, so, you know, I didn't know. I mean, there's churches, but... Wow, okay, cool. Well, we will definitely be talking about the differences between the faith you grew up in and the faith we're talking about. We are going to cover that. Oh, I'm so happy. I'm sorry. I love the diversity of opinion. I really do. You keep laughing at me, but seriously. I don't know why I keep looking at you, either. Not like you're more than anybody else here. I'm in the front row. That's why. That is it. And again, you are probably the only person here that I recognize almost all the time. Yeah, I've got a fire under my eyes. Because again, I've known you for most of a decade. So, all right. Anyway. Cheers. Okay, so let's talk about what the gospel actually is. What is the gospel? All of you who believe that you are saved, anybody who thinks that they are going to heaven, what was the good news? You heard it at some point. You must have believed it. Anybody. You can just say pieces of it. We're all sinners and deserve death and we have a Savior in Jesus who lived a perfect life and took our sin on the cross and rose again and defeated death and now has a seat by God in heaven. And if we believe that, and we are gifted faith from God, then I guess we're on the wheel. Is there a difference between the last two things, believing it and being gifted by faith? Gifted? What's the word? I don't know. Yes. Anyway, I guess it depends on the person that's saying they believe it, but true faith is a gift. So yeah, I guess I would say it's different. OK. Yeah. I think it is, too. There are people who assent to the fact, but they don't trust. You know, they haven't, you know, they wouldn't jump off a cliff and say, you know, I, you know, I trust this like I would trust a parachute or a base jumper's costume or whatever. Not that I would know. I've never based jumped, but I am in one shape. But yeah, it's, that was pretty good. That was pretty good. They put it all together pretty much. And all the little pieces of that, Each of those come up in turn in some way, and you kind of, you know, sometimes, especially if people are resistant to it, you may have to dwell on it a bit. The whole idea that, you know, everybody sins. Well, I didn't do anything to that. Plenty of people sin more than I do. What would you say to that? Well, that's what my mother says, so... A lot of people are very fundamental. I try to be a good person, so I should go to heaven and those things. But I think we're pretty much all united under sin. Yeah, yeah. And God really, really, really will not put up with any sin or imperfection in His presence. what we call holy. And holiness is not perfection. I know a lot of people think it is. I did a whole sermon on this back in June, which I think I kind of rambled a lot. So, you know, go back and listen to it. but I'll talk about it now really quick. God's holiness, holiness in scripture is being set apart. If you are holy, you're special. You're set apart for a special purpose. So, you know, the utensils and instruments that they use to perform temple worship in the Old Testament, you know, the things you would use to you know, slaughter a sacrifice, drain the blood, put it up on the altar, burn it, all of those things. Every single thing that was a part of that needed to be something that only was used for that purpose and had never been off the temple or tabernacle grounds because it could be made unclean out there. Who knows what it touched? Who knows what it was near? And it's not that God is, you know, OCD about cleanness. You know, not cleanness in the sense that we think of Him. It's because God demands that, no, you will treat me uniquely and specially. You have to. And He even says, I'm holy, therefore you should be holy. You all should set yourselves apart as if You only have one dedicated purpose in life, and that apparently is glorifying Him. And the good news is that we can do that in our lives. You know, God created us so that we would have ordinary lives and ordinary, and jobs, and families, and even the problems we all have. We can do all of those things and still be set apart for Him, because He's the one who does the setting apart. It's not us, really. We're not good at that. We don't even know what it looks like, honestly. But He's holy, and that holiness definitely extends to sin. You can do what you like, but if you have any sin at all, Not only do you not go to heaven, I mean, you know, you would die instantly in God's presence. You know, you think Moses was a great prophet? Moses was one of the greatest prophets ever. And when God, and he says, you know, God basically is like, what do you want, Moses? You know, it's been a tough 40 days here. I gave you 10 commandments. They started worshiping a golden calf. You had to go down there and destroy them and we're making a new set now. You know, and it's been crazy. And then I said, I wanted to destroy Israel. And you were the one who said, no, no, no, no, no, no. You have to keep Israel. You made promises. Which God really wanted Moses to be that guy. That's why God sort of threatened him with the whole, you know, I think I'm just going to destroy them and start with you, Moses. And Moses is like, you can't do that. Come out and keep your promises. You're God. You're testing me. It's like, you're right. So after all of that happens, this is a very close moment between Moses and God. He, you know, he talks to God almost like it's face to face. He hears his voice frequently. This is a guy who actually can have conversations with God. I believe almost nobody else ever does this in scripture. I mean, much less in the modern world. You know, there's a ton of people out there who claim that God's talking to them all the time. And I'm like, oh, really? Well, where's chapter 1? Where'd you read it? You know, I mean, tell me where He said these things to you in His Word so I can read them too. Share it with me so I can be blessed. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no. He didn't say anything that was in the Bible. He just said something in my head. which they don't really understand what that means. That is a scriptural phrase, but they don't know what it means. And they really get mad when you start pointing out, you know, if anything you ever say that God told you isn't true, if this were the Old Testament, we'd take you outside and throw rocks at you until you died. That's the penalty for being a false prophet. One slip up. One thing that doesn't actually happen. One idle word that can't possibly be something God said because it contradicted the rest of his word or something. And you're out. You're dead. You're gone. And everybody's ashamed to be associated with you and your family. It's going to be like, oh, yeah, well, yeah. I'm not affiliated with them. So it's a big deal. Yeah, no, God is so holy, though. Oh, I'm sorry. Moses, that's what I was talking about. So Moses, I mean, Moses is right there. He's the closest anybody ever gets to having a face-to-face relationship with God. And Moses says, you know, God's like, what do you want? Because, you know, we've been through so much together. You know, you've really pulled it through, Moses. I mean, you're their, you know, lowercase s, savior right now. So what do you want? And Moses says, show me your glory. And God's like, ah, okay. I will mostly fulfill that request, but I can't completely fulfill it. Because he even tells Moses, no man can see my face and live. Moses? Moses can't see his face. Moses is a pretty good guy. I mean, Moses, as far as I'm aware, is only listed as making two major mistakes in Scripture. You know, things that you might actually classify as sins. One of them is he doesn't carry out the Abrahamic covenant in the law on his own son, and his wife has to do it for him. And that's another little moment. And then, way later, You know, God tells him, well, you speak to the rock and it'll provide water for them. Moses goes up and smacks the thing with his staff. And God, God will back up Israel prophets. So water shows up. And the next time God speaks to Moses, he says, you know, you didn't do what I told you to do. You don't get to go to the promised land now. Can you imagine? Moses spent 40 years of his life insane sometimes, you know, through the wilderness he brought God's word down to them. He, you know, he built up this entire society of slaves and turned them into free people ready to conquer, you know, a land. And God's like, oh, you missed it. You're not going to get the desire of your heart. Wow. That's how holy God is. Anyway, yeah, and when God showed him his glory, he said, tell you what, you get into the rocks here, and when you might see my face, I'll put my hand over you so you don't see it, and then I'll let go, and you'll see my back, and it's okay. That's good enough, and it was. I mean, we don't hear Moses complaining. That's how holy God is. his holiness, combined with that perfect justice he has. That's the other thing. He is a just God, which means he doesn't ever let an infraction of the law go unpunished. Sin must be not just, it's not punishment, because he doesn't really want you to learn. I mean, he does want you to learn from it. But the fact is, you've incurred a debt with him when you sinned against him. That debt must be paid. Now, the unfortunate thing is, a lot of people think, well, you know, I'm doing really good things. I'm doing righteous and good works. And that will cover for the sin I did. And God says, you should have been doing those things anyway. You just got a little bit closer to a zero balance. But, you know, any good thing you think of that you should be doing, that you could do, you should be doing it. I expect that out of you anyway. You can't, you can't put anything into this bank account and fix the fact that you have a debt to me. In addition to that, God is so holy and perfect, he created the world, he owns everything and everybody in it, and to sin against him is an insult against his character. And you, a finite being, insulting the infinite eternal God, You can't really make that up. That's an insult that never gets repaid. So, what are you going to do? You can't fix this. Your righteousness doesn't matter for squat. Wow! But, as you said, that debt is transferred to the only man who can carry everybody's sin, because he himself had none. And at the same time, Because again, you can't stand without positive works either. You can't stand without a righteous life. He doesn't want a zero-sum person. They don't go to heaven either. There isn't a zero-sum person. He needs somebody who has a positive balance. People who enter his kingdom, when they die or at the end of the world or whenever, they must have good works associated with them. They must have done righteous things. And, you know, like I said, they never can. So God says, OK, I tell you what, we're just going to swap. I'm going to take Jesus's righteousness because he was perfect. I'm going to drop that on you and I'm going to take your sin. I'm going to lay that on his shoulders. So whenever I see him on a particular Friday for about six hours when he's hanging from a tree and I look at him, I am going to pound him. I am going to punish him for the infinite insults of every single person who will ever trust you to save them. My own son, by the way, you know. Well, you know, you can't ask God for anything more than that, because he gave you his own son. And he pours it all out on him. And then when he looks at you, he just sees Christ's righteousness. He's like, hey, Charlie. Good to see you, man. What you been doing? Whenever I, you know, you look exactly like my son does. And, you know, he did so many good works. He's going to inherit the whole kingdom. He sits on a throne. And you look just like him. So welcome home, man. You know, take your seat with him because you will sit on his throne alongside him according to scripture. That's an insane deal. We get off scot-free. It's a travesty of justice. No, it isn't, because the justice was served. It was just against somebody else. Somebody was willingly able to step in there and say, well, I'll do the time. It's just about life in prison. It's six hours of unthinkable torture on the cross. That's the best news in the world. And because of that, we're stop free for the rest of our lives, too. I can sin now, and I don't have to go through this whole process again. I don't have to do anything for my sin. It's already been paid. I can, and I often do, terrible things. Okay, not that terrible. Ooh, I see that sounds bad. But, you know, I sin frequently because I'm a human being. I'm stuck here with a fleshly body that just wants to sin all the time. He'll come up with new ways to sin. Hey, you're old enough now, you're not gonna have a lust problem anymore, but you really love food, don't ya? Yeah? You know? Okay, well, we're gonna be at one for the next ten years. Okay, great, yeah. That's, uh, that's my life, right? And every time God looks at me now, after those sins, or in the middle of them, all He sees Oh, hey, you look like my son. Yeah, I'll grant your prayers. I'll answer your prayers. He never promises to do everything you want him to do. But he does say that the reason you don't get what you want is because you're not asking. We don't put prayer first, do we? Anyway, all right, that's the gospel and we are I don't want to let you out late, but let's be honest, I will frequently. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I have time. That's really a sin, because I'm not taking other people's time seriously. Anyway, if you have any questions, I would love to talk to you. It can be now. It can be after the service. It can be some other time. If you've got the church app, I'm certainly in there. you know, text me or whatever, call me, my phone number's in there, I can give it to you all individually. I should've written it up here, it doesn't matter, I'll do it next week. But yeah, please, keep coming back. That is the foundation of everything else we believe. And from there, yeah, we're gonna build on it, so. I prayed at the beginning, so I'm not going to pray now. Dismissed. It's been great to see you all. I hope you get something out of it, and see you next week, hopefully.