Morning, church. Good morning to those of you online. Julaine in Michigan and Elizabeth in Wisconsin are there today. And you guys are close enough. That probably makes it a micro location. We'll just call it that. But no, welcome. Glad you guys are with us. Pauldin, Baghdad. Super, super glad that you guys are on the journey with us and to hear what God is doing. Got a little feedback of what God's up to. Exciting things
are happening in both of those places. Even like ministry merging, so locations merging across, which is really cool, and relationships being built. And so just super grateful for that and glad you guys are there today. And welcome to the room. If you're here, welcome to you. Glad you are in the room. Okay, we got to get something out of the way real quick because we got to understand who's in the room and who's online with us today
on the online fam. Okay, if I do this, if I go like this, how many of you are like, yeah, I remember those days? Okay. All right. All right. Just make sure. Maybe throw some radio chats in the emoji. Radio emoji chat. Whatever. In the chat. There you go. I thought I'd bring out the big guns, by the way, just so you know. Some of you got stories. I know it. Some of you got stories of carrying your box and how you breakdanced after. I know it. I know some of you got those
tales. And then they went to iPods and everything just kind of fell apart, you know? But yeah, super, super, super glad you are here. And maybe just kind of walking into going, right, this, this, this, not the specific like layout and structure and all of that and the room and the lights and whatever. But what God intended when he came, died on a cross, rose again, is that a community of people would be born. And you get right. Like some of you are like, wait, we
laughed in church. Yes, we laughed in church. You realize this is supposed to be fun. You get that right. Like like God is the inventor of laughing and he gifted you with the ability to laugh. you should be able to laugh, right? Like it's honoring to him just as much as when you do other stuff. And sometimes I think like when it comes down to community and church, we miss it. If you're not having fun, you're doing this wrong. Okay, four of you believe that. That's
good. Good. That means I got about 96 % of you that I still got to work on. But seriously, if this isn't fun, we're doing it wrong. This is supposed to be something that when we gather together, what happens is that hopefully we're here because we like it. We're here because you get to hear somebody next to you sing. And you're like, I can't sing. I'm glad they're singing. I'm just going to tuck in underneath them and I'm going to sound good because they sound good.
You know what I mean? But it's supposed to be something where you come and you're encouraged and you're around people that have joy. You know you were given by God this immense joy to carry everywhere you go? That means you shouldn't be a lemon face. You shouldn't walk around looking like you've been sucking on lemons. But how often do you run into believers, to Christians, to people who say they trust Jesus and they're the most miserable people on the planet? You're doing
it wrong. You're doing it wrong. This was meant to be something that's in, like when somebody sees you and they see us and especially in a gathering like this, they're like, I gotta be a part of that. Because what they see here is different. What they see here is this thing that they can't get anywhere else. That's what this is supposed to be. It's incredible the gift that we have been given by God. And yet so often,
what do we do? Oh, I got to go to church. I just got to survive the next, I don't know, 33 minutes roughly. 38, thank you. Thank you for clarifying. Somebody's being very kind because I'm speaking, it's probably more like 45. Let's be honest. How many of us, how many of us have the absolute joy sucked out of this life? You said yes to Jesus, and now all you do is feel a weight, this immense pressure of you've got to show up, you've
got to perform, you've got to do. That God somehow is unhappy with you, and he is not towards you, and so you're constantly trying to earn the favor of God and bring him towards you. And just, if I could just get God to give me an attaboy today. God, you see me in church today, right? Nobody wants to be a part of that. Including me. That
sounds miserable. And how many of us, how many of us, if we were really honest, believe that God is this egotistical being that is just waiting for you to screw up so he can show you how much you screwed up. He's just this being that's just waiting. He's waiting. He's got a big old baseball bat. Right? I don't know how many of us are just like on the edge of, man, I'm going to do something that's going to set him off, and he's going to remove all the blessings. And so I'm just here
managing blessings, right? I'm just keeping this being out there, like keep him happy. Can I tell you something? You never got one blessing because of anything you did. That's not the gospel. That's not good news. Good news is that I couldn't do anything to earn a blessing and God showed up and goes, hey, you're the most blessed person on the planet. That's what we have in the person of Jesus. And that's why we should walk around going, have you seen those people? Have you seen
how free they are? It is for what? Wow. Three of you. Thanks for being here last week. Cause you're really encouraging me by remembering that whole thing from last week. It is for freedom that you have been what? Set free. Okay. We got about 10 of you. We're getting better. It is for freedom, freedom, freedom that you have been set free. Okay, so last week we talked about this idea, right? And just so you know, because some people were like, I don't know what you
were pointing to last week. You were doing a lot of this, right? There's a phrase no longer on one side and there's a phrase not yet on the other. Hopefully you can see that. The no longer side is before that, before that, when you were born on this planet, you were born into slavery. What was slavery? You were born into, into, if you were going to get anything, you had to earn it. You had to work for it. You had to figure out your way. You were a slave to your own indulgences.
All of that, right? You were a slave. Then you met Jesus. And Paul says, because you met Jesus, you are free. It is for freedom that you're set free. So what happens now is right now, here and now, even with the struggles of this life, I'm free. And we'll talk about that more in a minute. However, however, I know we're not there yet. You know how I know? I sat down, second row, right where you guys are, sat down there this morning, crossed my leg. I looked to David,
who was sitting next to me. I go, you know you're getting old when you cross your leg and go, ooh, that hip is tight. Right? We know we're not there yet. We got pain. We got pain. We know that there's more to come. We know the inheritance to come, the new heavens, new earth. We're not there yet.
And so we live in this in between. And what you have in Galatians chapter five is the roadmap that if you like, it's the cheat code from God, how to live this life as a Christian, how to live on this planet with all this stuff, all the stuff, all the messaging, all the things that the media wants to throw at you, everything, right? Like with all of that stuff, this is how you live. This is how you live the in -between
life. where I'm no longer a slave, I'm no longer controlled by everything, but now I'm in this in -between. And so then he starts in chapter 5, verse 13. And he says, you, you, my brothers and sisters, so speaking to church people, speaking to the church, those that have put their trust in Jesus, right? They cross that finish line of faith. We're called, we're called to be free. You're called to be free. That's who you are as a follower of Jesus. Now, we got to be really
clear what we mean by free. Free means what? Free. You're free to do whatever you want. Some of you as parents are going, please don't tell my kids that. But it's the truth of the good news. You're free to do whatever you want. How do I know? You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh. Rather, serve one another humbly in love. What does he say? You're called to be free. Who are you? You are no longer a
slave. You are free. In this in -between life. Who you are is you are free. Now, what does free mean? It's that you have been granted freedom. Why is that such a big deal? Because freedom means that you have the power of choice. If you were here last week, you heard us talk about when you're a slave, you don't have options. So he frees you from slavery. So remember, I don't have an option. Don't get mad at people that don't know Jesus, that live like they don't
know Jesus. Don't get mad at them. They're just doing what they can only do. Right? Let's stop judging them. Let's stop putting them to a higher standard. And let's look at ourselves and go, wait a minute. For me, for me, as a follower of Jesus, I have met the living Jesus. That has transformed me. And now I am free. And the gift that I have been given is freedom. It's freedom. You have the choice. You know, you know, okay, okay. You leave here. And you go out and do the
very thing that God don't want you to do. God, more happy with you, more sad with you. He hasn't moved. Why? Because he made you free. He gave you a choice. And what you did with the choice is you exercise what you have, but it does not change who you are and it does not change what he has done. It's called grace. You can't change your standing with God because you didn't do anything to get it in the first place. We've talked over and over all these last few weeks.
You will never be more forgiven than you are right now. And at some point, we've got to get that through our heads, right? The idea of, man, I have a good day and I have a bad day. Okay, that's human. But that doesn't change who God is and it doesn't change who I am to God. You're completely, completely, this is the good news of the gospel. You are completely. Free to choose. Why choose? Go all the way back to the garden. Remember in the garden, they had a choice, right?
They got to choose. Why? Because they were free. And out of that choice, they chose something. They chose what? To display what they loved. And they chose that they loved themselves. What do you have? You have the freedom to choose. What are you doing with your freedom to choose? You get to put it towards what you're saying is valuable. And what he says here is don't use your freedom. Don't use your freedom. This life you've been given, these options you have to
do whatever you want, whenever you want. And by whatever you want, I mean whatever you want. You can do it because you're free. But he says, don't use it to indulge your selfish indulgences. Don't use it to indulge your sin nature, what I inherited from Adam. Don't use it. Don't use your freedom. And so the original language at this point, it talks about, or it says to indulge the flesh. That is actually, it's hard to translate
into English. But what it means is don't set up a base of operations to get from here to there. So what he's saying is don't take your freedom in this in -between life. Don't take the freedom you've been given and now use it like a launch pad to set off towards what your sinful desires want. He goes, you can because you're free. But don't do it. Because why? I'm no longer a slave. I'm no longer a slave to the sin and the self -indulgence and the self -centeredness and the
selfishness that I had before. I'm now free to what? To use my freedom. And what does he say to use it towards? Rather serve one another humbly in love. You see what's amazing with freedom? Is freedom means I don't have to act like that no more. Which makes me free to act like this. So it means that, let's make it real practical. In my marriage, I don't have to take this thing that is beautiful, that's God designed, and make it all about me and my wants and my selfish indulgences.
I don't have to. Why? Because I've been given freedom. And that freedom is best served, best used, what? When I humbly serve my wife in love. I mean, if we just pause there for a second. If every marriage relationship under the sound of this microphone went, you know what? I'm going to take my freedom and I'm going to serve my spouse humbly in love. What would happen to our families? They'd be stronger than any you've ever seen. Why? Because that's what freedom does.
It gives me the freedom. I'm not bound to go serve myself. I don't have to go back to this old life and try and rally around this. I am free. I am free to serve you. I don't have to. I'm not stuck just making myself happy anymore. Jesus set me free. And he's saying, use this launch pad. Use this launch pad to what? To see others. Don't go back and see yourself. What does the enemy want to do? Remember the enemy has a battle plan from last week? What does the
enemy want to do? He can't touch your new identity. He can't steal your future, but he can steal your life. So what is the enemy's game plan? He wants to convince you that what? You're still the same old person you always were. You're still a slave to those desires. You still can't control them. He wants to tell you that you're never going to have victory over the thing that you're struggling with. He wants to tell you that there is no chance that you will ever overcome the
struggle that's in your life. That same old vice you go back to over and over. That same old thought pattern you go over and over. That same old mouth, right? When you open your mouth. All you got is gossip for everybody else, right? Like you're going, you're going, I can't. The enemy is telling you, you can't. God is telling you, you can't. The enemy is telling you, you will always be the same. Sorry, you're not the same person. You were transformed by the person of Jesus Christ.
You were made free. And so those old patterns, they do not have a hold on you anymore. So use your freedom. And so he continues on. He goes, for the entire law is fulfilled in keeping one command. Love your neighbor as yourself. Love your neighbor as yourself. If you've been around church, you've heard this before, right? But what he's getting at is you go back to the law, and we'll just take the Ten Commandments for right now. But you go back to the Ten Commandments,
and if we just pick a couple. Don't covet your neighbor's stuff, or specifically your neighbor's wife. If I'm going to love you as I love myself, I'm not going to covet your wife. Why? Because I don't want you coveting my wife. Right? She's not yours. She's mine. Think of another one, right? I'm not going to steal from you. Why wouldn't I steal from you? Because I don't want you stealing from me. Right? You're now free to what? To love
your neighbor the way you want to be loved. Because my eyes aren't on me and I'm not trying to get it. So he goes, listen, you fulfill the entire law. By just loving your neighbor as yourself. Because that'll put your eyes off of you and onto what? Onto other people, which is what your freedom was designed for. But notice he pulls it now to a specific problem in the church in Galatia. If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. Like
another translation says backbiting. If you go about backbiting, like that's a phrase we should bring back. Right? Like it's so graphic. Like, just think about it for a second. You run around backbiting each other. It's like, oh man, a bunch of wild animals up in here. That's the imagery that he wants them to get. You see, somewhere along the way in the church in Galatia, they were using their freedom as a launch pad to what? Tear each other apart with their words. They
were fighting with each other. And the imagery here is, if you were hearing it for the first time in this original cultural context, within Greek culture, the same phrase is used for wild animals that continue to go at each other until they tear each other apart, and more than likely, both of them are left dead. What he is telling them here is very real in the early church, that if they carry on the way they are using their freedom to go at each other, because you're free.
You're free to yell. You're free to gossip. You're free to, you can do all that, right? Because you've been made free in what? In Christ. And you won't be, you won't be what? Punished for it. Why? Because Jesus already received all your punishment. And so you can go about that way, church. Is what he's saying. But what he's getting at is if you, and it's to the point where he goes, if you carry on, there's a chance that the church in the Galatia area, you're going
to destroy each other. There'll be nothing left. So it's a practical example of what it looks like to use your launch pad for yourself. I don't know. It's worth saying. If you make this all about you, you're going to destroy it. Right? You make this about you and what you like. My latte wasn't hot enough. Right? Nobody said hi to me. Well, did you say hi to anybody? Did you choose to become a door greeter so that you could say hi to fix the problem? I can't get in a life
group. There's no life groups, man. I tried. There's a wait list. Okay, so did you go, hey, how do I become a leader? Can you train me to become a leader? What does that look like? Would you disciple me to be a leader so I can help fix the problem that's there? Isn't it interesting? Like when we take our freedom and make it about us, we can make this about us. And you just need
to know what Paul's saying. When you make this about us, when you make it about you, you're going to destroy it because it's not about you. That's how churches come and go. It's not long. I've lived in Prescott long enough. I've seen the crowd move from church to church to church to church. Me and God got an ongoing conversation. How long is it till heights? We do something, say something. All of a sudden it's like, boom, we're going to pick a church. That's not what
this is meant to be. You know that, right? This is so much greater than we give it pictures for. And what he's getting at here is if you choose to use your launch pad for your own selfish indulgences that used to be who you were, instead of living in the freedom in this life, he's going, now let me teach you how to live. And look what he says next. So I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires. of the flesh. Walk
by the Spirit. Okay, people in the room that you're like, man, I just love me some promises of God. You know who you are. You got them on your wall. You got them in your car, right? And you've been naming and claiming all kinds of stuff. You've been pulling it from everywhere you can find it, right? So half the time I sit with people and they're like, yeah, I got this promise from God. And they read it. I'm like, that's not even written to you. That was written
to somebody else. That ain't your promise. If you're looking for a new tattoo, this is your tattoo. So I say, walk by the Spirit. Okay, so let's just all get on the same page there. When you said yes to Jesus, when you crossed the finish line of faith, you were given the greatest gift. that God himself would now indwell you in his spirit. He would make his home in you. You became the temple of the living God. Generations would have longed for what we have. And you became
the temple of the living God. The Holy Spirit's presence is with you wherever you go. So there is no reason you can't do what this says when it says walk. By the Spirit. Walk in the Spirit. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is with you everywhere you go. That word walk is to conduct your life, everything that you do, in the Spirit. But here's the beautiful part. You ready? Those of you that maybe, maybe we're in church, so maybe we'll be honest. Y 'all got that stuff that you just
always struggle with? You just can't seem to be. It just always seems to have a control on you. Remember, you were what? You were made free, so something's wrong. What's wrong is we're not living the promise that we've been given. See this language, this language right here? This language is promised language. In fact, if you go back to the original language, Because sometimes in translation, we lose stuff. Go back to the original language. There are markers on here
to say it is a guarantee. It's a promise. It's an assurance that what it is saying will happen. So now let me read it to you. So I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Walk. by the Spirit. Walk in the Spirit and you will not. That's the promise. You will not. It is not possible for you to live out my selfish, self -centered indulgences that I once was. It is not possible in the new life
in Christ, in my freedom. It is not possible in the in -between life for me to live for myself and walk in the Spirit at the same time. It's not possible. And so what it's getting at is that if you want victory in this life, it's not about, hey, I just become more self -disciplined, like I'm going to Tom Brady this thing. I'm going to stop eating anything. Right? That's not what this is talking about. It's not talking about you just get a few more rules, which, by the
way, church people, we love to throw those. Right? Oh, you met Jesus? Oh, you need to start doing this. No, you don't. You need to just enjoy Jesus. We get all these self -disciplines. If I just get enough of these, I won't do that anymore. That's not how the Christian life works. That's slavery, not freedom. Freedom is what I commit to. I'm going to walk by the Spirit of God, and if I walk by the Spirit of God, I will not, will not live like I once was. What does the enemy
want to convince you? You can never, that struggle you have, you're going to have it until you die. Oh, that thing that's got control. That's who you, it's not who you are. Stop believing lies. You have been set free by the very Spirit of God. You have been empowered by the Spirit of God. And the Spirit of God tells you that if you will walk in the Spirit, you will not gratify the sinful nature. It's a promise. It's a promise. So, big question. How? How do I walk in the spirit?
That sounds pretty mystical, right? Is it like the force? Well, maybe the radio can help us. Not just because it's cute. So the radio has an antenna, right? What the antenna does is the antenna helps put you into proximity. Into presence. Here's what's interesting with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is present in you right now. Are you present with the Holy Spirit? I don't say that judgingly. I have days just like you.
You ever go through a day and you're like, I did not even think about the Holy Spirit today. All day. I got busy and I was just doing stuff and then got to the end of the day and I'm like, oh, we miss that. But see what the antenna does. I have to intentionally put the antenna up to help get inside of the radio frequencies. And so for you with the presence of God, you with the presence of the Holy Spirit, what it means to walk in the Holy Spirit, and we have a list
we can put up. But you have to intentionally, you have to intentionally recognize that the presence of God is here right now in the form of the Holy Spirit. And he will be there tomorrow morning. And he will be there tonight when the walls start coming in. And he will be there next week. And he will be there when you guys go back to school. He is there. And so we have to make an effort to put ourselves in proximity. The next thing is that the Holy Spirit's got a voice.
You know that, right? And so we have to begin to go, well, what does the Holy Spirit's voice sound like? And if we're really honest, can you guys hear that? I can't tell. It's all static. Just kidding. It's supposed to be static. But you realize that if we're really honest, this is for a lot of us, this is what the Holy Spirit sounds like, right? We just don't know what his voice sounds like. And so we try and listen and
what we get is static. You know that just like with somebody in your life, to hear their voice, right, to recognize their voice, it takes time. It takes intentionality. And so I recognize the presence and then I begin to tune. And this is why nobody listens to the radio commercials. Oh, we got a head bob. Okay, we'll take a head bob. Yeah. I think he was high when he read this,
just saying. Isn't it? Isn't it interesting that if I was to ask you, just off that short clip, if I was to ask you, we tuned to a voice, what would you say the purpose of that radio station is? What kind of music? Easy listening, pop of old, right? Verses. This is so dangerous, by the way. Anything could come on. What is that? Lyrics just aren't the same nowadays, huh? Just not the same. Just going to put that out there.
What about this one? Not helpful. So much stuff I could say about Christian radio right now that I won't. What's the purpose of the one you just heard? Positive, uplifting, right? Like they want to bring something positive to your world. It's going to have a Christian vibe to it, right? But here's the thing. You had to listen. You
had to listen to gain the purpose. And if we're really honest with God and we're really honest with the Holy Spirit, too often we are too busy talking at God and telling God what we want that we don't just shut up and listen to the Holy Spirit. But there is a part that if you are going to tune into his voice and you want to know his purpose and direction and discern it, that you have to listen to what he's saying. Right. So this is a tuning of my ear to the Holy Spirit.
And as the Holy Spirit then begins to show me stuff. See if we can do one more. Country fans, come. And here's what would happen, because I know country fans enough, that if we listen to country long enough, it wouldn't be long until you're kind of scooting. It wouldn't be long until some of you are like, we've got to get rid of these chairs and we've got to line dance in this room. Why? Because what happens is there's
a beat that's being played. There's a beat that's being played and you begin to follow the beat. But what it requires is that you are willing to follow and not lead. You know what's amazing about the radio? You don't get to choose what the programming is. Somebody chose it for you ahead of you. When you walk in the spirit, you don't get to pick the program. The program's already picked in front of you. You know that the Holy Spirit is never going to lead you to
do something the opposite of God. He never will, which is why the guarantee is you won't gratify your sinful nature because he won't lead you there. And so what happens then is the last part is it requires action. That if I'm going to follow, it requires that I move. A different picture, a different scenario is I was following my wife recently through an airport. And if you know my wife, she's literally five foot nothing. I measured her in Walmart one day to make sure
she was five foot nothing. True story. And for a five foot nothing lady, she walks so fast. Right? And so we're walking through this airport. If I'm going to follow her, because I didn't know what we were doing. She knew what we were doing. If I'm going to follow her, I have to be what? In her presence. I got to be able to see her. And then because I don't know where I'm going, over time, I have attuned my voice
to what? To know who my wife is. So with all the noise of an airport, I could pick out her voice over other people. Why? Because there's taken time to get to know. And she can tell me the purpose of what we're doing, where we're going. But it requires that what? I listen. The information does me no good if I don't listen. But there's a point then in following her where I have to what? Physically let her lead and stop
leading. And some of you need to stop trying to tell God where you're going and start following. And then then I have to move, because if I stand still in an airport and she walking, she's gone. Right. I've got to move. I've got to move to follow her. And here's what's amazing about this, this passage. Verse 17, for the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit and the spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They're in conflict with each other so that you are not to do whatever
you want. What that just said is in your chest as a follower of Jesus, in your soul, inside of you right now, there is a battle, a cosmic battle being fought. You are at war right now. You're at war. And inside of you, There's a battle taking place for how you will choose to launch or use your freedom, whether it's a launch to where you're following the Spirit and doing what God is doing, or it's going to be to my selfish indulgence, right? There's this battle that's
taking place. And I'll tell you guys, I've taught this passage, I don't know how many times, and every single time, I've never seen what I saw this week. And what I saw this week is this, that if you go to battle alone, you lose. You know, in this passage, the pronouns are all plural. It's about all of us. So yes, you can teach it individually. You need to walk in the Holy Spirit. You need to walk in the Holy Spirit. You need to walk in the Holy Spirit. But you know where
we're supposed to do that is in community. We go to war together. Why? Because inside of you, there is a war taking place. And inside of me, there's a war taking place. And it is a cosmic war that we need each other to fight for one another. That I fight for you, right? Because there's going to be a day when I come in this room and I can't sing because of what's happening in my life. And I need to hear your voice. There's
going to be a day when I come alongside. I hope that when you leave the church, when you leave this hour together, you're uplifted and encouraged. You're empowered for life. That's what this is supposed to be. Why? Because we recognize it's a war and we need to rally. This is a rally to not only one another, to what God tells us. And you realize, church, we need each other. We need each other. I need a space, as James says, where I can sit and confess my sins so that those sins
don't have a hold. I need a space where I can walk in and go, you know what? The enemy's been telling me this and I've been believing it lately and here's how it's being lived out. This is the sin that's overtaking my life. These are the thoughts. This is the way my mouth's been going. It's not good. These are the actions. But you guys, we have to be a community where we recognize we are at war together and we need
each other to fight this battle. If you try to fight the battle of your flesh, you will lose on your own. You're not strong enough. And if you try to go, okay, I can walk in the spirit. That's my own personal. Yes, it's personal. It's also public. If you only keep it personal, you will fail. But don't miss, don't miss what God has and what he's given you, right? The next verse is explain what the sinful nature is. And Pastor Todd was like, I don't think we need to
cover those. Like everybody, the minute you mentioned sin and sinful nature and desires, instantly everybody's got their own, right? Like we know. But then in verse 22, it says this. So when I take my freedom, right, I take my freedom and I use it to launch into walking, walking in the spirit. Listen, listen to what happens from you. But the fruit of the spirit, what is flowing out of your life is love and joy and peace. And by the way. Flowing out, you can't control it.
It's not like, oh, I'm going to make an apple. Right? It doesn't work that way. You can't control it. It flows out of you. Why? It's a byproduct of what? Attuning to the Spirit, to walking in the Spirit. The byproduct is that you love, that
you have joy, that there's peace. forbearance or patience right there's kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self -control against such things there is no law these things flow out of you you need to understand something that when you walk when you take your freedom in this life in this in -between life i take my freedom i attune to the holy spirit right i listen to his voice i know his voice i listen to his purpose what happens is when i follow and i take my actions
what starts to flow out of you What is coming to everyone else around you is a taste of heaven. The soundtrack of heaven is played through you. And it sounds like love. And it sounds like joy. And it feels like you're at peace. And you've got patience and kindness. And gentleness. And control of the self. That's what the soundtrack of heaven sounds like. And God has gifted you to be that today. You are a taste of heaven for someone else today. Can you imagine? I don't
know how many people are in this room. I don't know how many people are in the sound of the mic or through a screen. I don't know. But what I do know is this. Can you imagine a group of people who go, I'm going to walk in the spirit. And when I walk in the spirit, the soundtrack that comes out is this taste of heaven. That'll change everything. Your community, your school, your homes, your marriage, your friendships. It'll change all of it. And so I feel like we
got some things to thank the Lord for. So if you would stand. You realize you, you are free today. I can thank the Lord. You realize that there's no account. There's no count. If God's scrolling your highlights of sin, it's blank because the blood of Jesus has covered it. You today, today, church, you today, you today have a reason to thank the God. Thank God, but only you can do it. Let's sing.