Speaker 1: 0:00

Now, I don't know about you guys, but I never met anyone who just planned to just be unhealthy Because I was going to be unhealthy for the rest of my life. I never met anyone who had a five-year plan on how to be bankrupt. I never met anyone. I never met anyone who said, standing at the altar, looking at their spouse in the eyes and said to themselves, today is the first day that I start to wreck my marriage. Never met that person. I never met anyone that said man, I am going to get wildly addicted to pornography or drinking. I never met that person. I never met someone who said I am going to, I'm going to. I never met someone who said I never met someone who said I'm going to sin, cover it up, lie about it, lose trust of the people they love the most and be okay with it. I never met someone who planned to just ruin their life. I never met that person.

Speaker 1: 0:59

But here's the thing While most people don't plan to mess up their lives, they also don't plan not to. They also don't plan not to. So we're in a series today called Think Ahead, where we're looking at how to pre-decide in advance decisions, habits, choices we want to make before we're too tired, before we're too stressed out or before we're too hungry, which that really leads to bad decisions. So here you go we're going to make our decisions and then our decisions will make us. The problem is, although we have good intentions, many of us are simply not very good decision makers. And that's okay. It happens, and there's a lot of reasons why we struggle with decision. It's actually a thing called decision fatigue. If you're making so many decisions in the day, it actually wears you out. It actually wears you out, and we got so many notifications, so many ads, so many things. That wears us out. But, however, when we pre-decide, our decisions won't be based on what feels good just in the moment, but our decisions will be made based on who we want to be for the rest of our lives. Our decisions will be based not on just what feels good right in this second, but based on our values. Another way to put it is we can make decisions based on what we're responsible for. And here you go, not just concerned about there's a lot of things we're concerned about, but you're not directly responsible for but making decisions based on things that you're responsible for, what your value system is. And so because once you understand your value, once your values are clear, your decisions can become a lot easier. Here you go. I want to ask you a transparent question today. Okay, very transparent.

Speaker 1: 2:41

How many of you, however, given into a temptation and then regretted it? Yep, for all the ones who didn't raise your hand, you're preaching next week. I think most of us have right. We've given it into a temptation and then we regretted it. We all have why. Here you go. Here's the question why do we give into that temptation? Chances are.

Speaker 1: 3:07

In most cases, you gave into the temptation not because you're just a bad person, not just because you just wanted to ruin your life, not because you just wanted to do something bad. Chances are. You gave into that temptation because you weren't ready for it. You weren't ready. You weren't ready, you weren't prepared, your values were not established.

Speaker 1: 3:23

The Apostle Paul puts it like this. He says ready. You weren't prepared. Your values were not established. The Apostle Paul puts it like this he says be on your guard and stand firm in the faith, Be courageous and be strong. I love that. Be ready. Your enemy is attacking. Don't let your guard down. Have your guard up, be ready.

Speaker 1: 3:42

Who in here knows who Buster Douglas is? A couple people. Okay, so Buster Douglas had the greatest upset in boxing history when he beat Mike Tyson, knocked him out. Knocked out Mike Tyson. Now, when Buster Douglas went to defend his championship after beating him, who a lot of people call the best boxer to ever exist, you want to know where they found Buster Douglas the day of his first title defense. They found Buster Douglas the day of his first title defense at McDonald's. They said that Buster Douglas gained so much weight he was so unprepared for his next fight that he was knocked out in that next fight. What happened was he had a good moment where he beat Mike Tyson, but then he didn't prepare for the next battles to come.

Speaker 1: 4:25

What I want you guys to know, lvc, is this you may have had some good moments where you were ready and you got that and you achieved some things and it feels good, but there is a spiritual enemy who's going to keep attacking and we got to be ready for the battle ahead. We got to be prepared. We don't want to be like Buster Douglas. Check this out.

Speaker 1: 4:43

Jesus says this. He says do not be like Buster. Oh no, he didn't say that. He said watch and pray so that you will not what Fall into temptation. Notice that the words he used Fall into temptation. It's like, oh, I'm just not doing anything, I'm not watching, and wham, you fall into it. You fall into it.

Speaker 1: 5:05

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Man, your spirit and I love this, I love this, your spirit that's the part of you that says, man, I want to be a good parent, I want to be a good spouse, I want to be a good co worker, I want to achieve these things. Man, there's something in you, there's something in us that wants to add good to this world. But then there's the flesh, and we keep doing things that we said I'll never do again, and we find ourselves in places that we said I'll never be at that place again. Spirit is willing, but the flesh man, the flesh is weak, and so that's why they're going to pre-decide that we're ready, our guard is up, we are watching, we are praying. Why? Why are we going to watch? Why are we going to pray? Why are we going to be on guard? Because I got two things, two reasons why.

Speaker 1: 5:50

Number one I hate to tell you this, because the devil is coming for you. Now. This ain't a devil made me do it? Kind of message. Why did you cheat? The devil made me do it, did he? He may not make you do it, but I will tell you this.

Speaker 1: 6:08

There is a spiritual enemy that has a relentless assault on your heart, that is constantly trying to come after you. Notice. Notice that any time before you make a decision that you wish you didn't make, notice that there was an attack on the heart first. That communion got me choking up. Wait one second, we need to move back to that pita bread. Okay, here we go. But notice that happens. Right, there's an attack, there's an attack and then it leads to that there is a spiritual enemy enemy and his mission is to steal, kill and destroy. Check this out Anything and everything that matters to the heart of God. Notice the reason why the enemy attacks you is because you matter to God. That's why, because you matter to God, and the way that the enemy will get at God is coming after what matters the most to him, which is us.

Speaker 1: 7:07

In fact, the Apostle Paul said it like this. He said I wrote to you so that Satan will not outsmart us, for we are familiar with his evil schemes. The enemy, he stays scheming man. He's always scheming, he's studying. He knows when you're weak. He's studying. He knows when you're weak. He knows how to attack you, to take you out of God's will, to hurt you and and. But we're going to be ready.

Speaker 1: 7:30

And the second reason why we need to be ready is this you are not as strong as you think you may be. Like, hey, jacob, look at these biceps, I'm strong. Okay, you could. You could believe that if you want. Here you go. We tend to think we can handle a lot more than we can handle. And here's a very interesting verse. Paul says this. So if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall. If you think you're good, if you think you're fine, be careful, because when you're overly confident, when you say, well, I can handle it on my own, I don't need to confess this to anyone, I don't need to bring a support system involved in the mix, I can do it on my own when you begin to be overly confident, those are the people who tend to fall. So you're going to be careful. Here you go.

Speaker 1: 8:22

I live with this reality. This is something that I just personally, I live with, and it's this that I am one decision away from being like anyone else. I'm just one decision away. There's nothing super special about me. You know, I'm not a super Christian. I'm one decision away. I'm one conversation away. I'm one click away. I'm one lingering too long away. I'm one click away. I'm one lingering too long away. I'm one letting bitterness grow deep roots. Decision away. I constantly need to keep coming back to the grace of Jesus. Studies show this. Man, that communion really got me. I'm going to be honest with you All. Right, there you go, okay. Studies show this.

Speaker 1: 9:08

Studies show that most people overestimate their ability to resist temptation. We think we're stronger than we really are. Psychologists even gave this a name. They call it restraint bias. Restraint, bias it's the belief that you can handle more than you actually can. That's why. That's why bias it's the belief that you can handle more than you actually can. That's why. That's why, when you're walking past that piece of chocolate cake and you say to yourself, nope, chocolate cake, no, I'm only eating desserts right now. On the weekend, I'm not going to eat you you walk past it and you're good. Then you walk past it a second time and somehow you got frosting in your hair Like how did I get there, it's because you thought you could handle it but you couldn't.

Speaker 1: 9:58

And why do we tend to overestimate our ability to fight off wrong things? One of the reasons is because we have no idea how much energy it takes to resist temptation. It takes a lot of energy Fighting off temptation. It drains us spiritually. We become fatigued Mentally. We become fatigued that the part of our brain that controls willpower it wears out. And, much like I talked about last week, we have bought into the lie that we can willpower our way to God's best for our lives. When we got to release and surrender to God.

Speaker 1: 10:23

Here you go. Have you ever worked with a crazy person? And if you haven't, I hate to break it to you, you're the crazy one. I'm joking, you're not, you're not. But what do you do? You're working with someone who just aren't reasonable. What you, you, you, you, you hold it all together. You bite your tongue when they say something crazy, like did they really just say that? You know, you stay calm, you be godly, the best, you can, pray for them. And then you get home after having a whole day with that and what you snap on your spouse or your kids do something and you say something a little too aggressive, you let it go. Or maybe you make good decisions all day, but by 9 pm you're binge watching TV and eating chips. Why is that? Why is that? Because willpower wears out and we need to understand that the devil's coming for you and you're not as strong as you think.

Speaker 1: 11:18

And so what I want to do is I want to give us three ways, three keys to fight temptation. Three keys to fight temptation, and the first one I want to do is I want us to pre-decide to move the line. Okay, I want us to pre-decide in advance to move. My straight line wasn't as straight as I wanted it to be. To move the line. Who in here knows that when there is a line, it's human nature to do what? That, yes, but to get as close to the line as possible I'm not all the way over there, for example, let's just say on this side of the line as possible, like I'm not all the way over there. For example, let's just say, on this side of the line, is sin not God's best, not good things for dangerous On this side of the line. This is God's best for you. This is what God wants for you. It's good and a lot of us get right here.

Speaker 1: 12:20

Here's a good example of how most of us feel. The other day we were making teacher presents for all my kids' teachers in the school and we had this big old bag of Starbursts and of course I let my kids have some of them, but we had to fill up the little gift bags we were making and so I said, ok, no more. And so my daughter, kingsley I was like Kingsley, no more, no more Starbursts. We got to use the rest for the teachers. And so I end up looking back at her and she has a starburst in the wrapper, still holding it, holding it in the wrapper, pressed up against her lips, and I said, what are you doing? She's like, well, I'm not eating it, it's just up against my lips. Come on, come on, up against the line. Right, that's a seven-year-old, but most of us we live right here, up against the line, right to the thing, right to the spot, up against the line.

Speaker 1: 13:12

But what we're going to want to do, because we know, since our spiritual enemy is on attack if we're up against the line, one little push, one little bad day, one little call that you weren't expecting, one little hurt, that that person that said they were never going to hurt you again hurt you and you find yourself over the line. So, since we know you know you're smart people, and since we know there's a spiritual enemy, and since we know we're not as strong as we think, we're going to make another line Better. We're going to make another line and, instead of getting as close to the line, we're going to stay as far away from the line as possible. We're going to stay farther away from the line Instead of getting all up on it and potentially falling into temptation. We're going to get over here. We're going to pre-decide to move the line.

Speaker 1: 14:16

Here's another way to put it. Here's another good illustration. Say, you had the spiritual gift of buying things on Amazon. You buy now, click, same day delivery. Still don't even understand how they do it. Like, where is the stuff? I don't even get it. It's crazy. But let's say it becomes a problem. Let's say it becomes a problem. You're spending too much. You keep saying, okay, I'm not going to buy this thing, I'm going to save up, I'm not going to buy this, but the temptation is too close, because the temptation is your phone and it's too close. So what do you do you move the line? And moving the line is I'm going to give my password to my best friend or to my spouse or someone like that, and anytime before I make a purchase I got to have them sign in and approve on the purchase and you may say, jacob, that's just so inconvenient, that's just so out there, that's so controlling. You want to know what else is inconvenient being in a lot of debt. You want to know what else is inconvenient Ruining your marriage because you decided that that flirty conversation wasn't that big of a deal. Want to know what else is inconvenient Stepping over the line.

Speaker 1: 15:36

If you have the ability to prevent something from happening, yet you choose not to prevent it. Secretly in our hearts, we want it to happen. Too heavy today, probably. I have a friend. I have a couple of friends. I have one friend. His name is Parker. I love Parker.

Speaker 1: 15:58

Parker is my spiritual brother and I have this amazing app on my phone. I have it on every single piece of electronics. I have internet capability in my house. It's called Covenant Eyes. I absolutely love it. I love this. I love that it's a filter app and so what it does.

Speaker 1: 16:14

So Parker is my accountability partner on this app, and so my because I want to be as transparent as a person as possible everything I view on my phone, every single thing I click on, every single thing I look at, all goes to Parker. He gets access to all of it. He gets access to all of it, and if I were to even delete the apps off any of my electronics, he would get an instant notification. And why is that? Is that like, jacob? Are you like that pathetic? You have no self-control. You can't, you can't, no, no, no, no, no. I just want to move the line. I'm not even going to give the enemy an opportunity to make me miss out on God's best for my life. So I'm going to move the line, and so that's what I do. And if he got that notification, you want to know what he would do. He would call me, not with condemnation, but with a heart of love.

Speaker 1: 17:07

Jacob, what's going on? What's going on? We're going to move the line, and then, once we move the line, the second thing we're going to do is we're going to magnify the costs. We're going to magnify the costs because temptation's favorite lie is it's not that big of a deal. No one will notice, no one will see, it's actually another thing that temptation always says is their fault. This is that person's fault, they made me do it, and so we're going to magnify the cost. We're going to magnify the cost because anytime we're tempted to give into temptation, there's always a risk. And here you go.

Speaker 1: 17:45

If you constantly find yourself sabotaging good things in your life, that's because there's an unhealed wound in your heart and Holy Spirit wants to heal you. Today, holy Spirit wants to heal that place in your heart because he does not want you to keep sabotaging God's best for your life. Holy Spirit, he heals, and so here you go. What I want to do, what I want to do is I want to train ourselves, when we're tempted to pre-decide, to stop and ask ourselves what could go wrong, because something could always go wrong. Here's the big question. You can pre-decide to ask yourself what if the worst case scenario comes true? What would happen if the worst thing happened? If I did this? What would be? The worst thing happened if I did this? What would be the worst thing? You could lose your reputation, your ministry, your integrity. You could lose your job. You can lose trust from a loved one. You could financially find yourself wrecked. You could compromise your relationship with your kids.

Speaker 1: 18:39

Numbers puts it like this. It says you will be sinning against the Lord and you may be sure that your sin will find you out. Man, here you go, though. That's not one of those verses that's like you, dirty sinner, no, no, no. There's something in all of us that knows when we do something that we don't want to do, when we find ourselves in compromised positions, there's something in us that says no, this is not what I want. That's the Holy Spirit convicting you, reminding you that you are a son, that you are a daughter of the Most High God, and your value is worth more than that short-term satisfaction. Come on, I'm going to call it what it is. I'm getting heavy today Because I know God has a plan for your life and that God's heart breaks for you when we miss it, when we miss out on it, and so what you want to do is you want to ask yourself what is the worst possible thing that could happen and magnify the costs and that would help you pre-decide to not do which could hurt you later, a practice that I've done.

Speaker 1: 20:01

I did it and then I revisit it from time to time and I read over it is. I wrote out everything I would lose if I had a moral failure. You're like Jacob, that's how you spend your Friday nights Sometimes. But I wrote it out because you know in your head you know, oh, that would be bad. But when you write something out and then you read it out loud, it's different. So this is what I would lose If I had a moral failure. I would lose. I would lose trust with my best friend, my lover Erin. I would hurt her in ways that she does not deserve to be hurt. I would damage my relationship with my daughter. I would add to the list of untrustworthy men to my sons. I could unintentionally cause confusion or harm to others' faith journeys and I would never want to be that kind of leader. And this last one, you're going to laugh at me. You're going to joke me. I would mess up our yearly vacations to Disney World. But for real, I love that trip. It's one of my favorite things to do.

Speaker 1: 21:00

And I got to ask myself is five minutes of gratifying my sinful desires worth losing all of that? Is it worth losing all of it? Is having an affair worth losing that Is going back to a life viewing pornography worth all of that? Is lying worth all of that? Is it worth losing all of it? I mean, I got to magnify it and ask myself is it worth it? Listen to me Five minutes of sin correct, a lifetime of pursuing Jesus. But there is grace for our lives. He forgives us, he frees us. And so what we're going to do? We're going to recognize that we have a spiritual enemy who's going to attack. We're going to be ready, we're going to be on guard, we're going to move the line, we're going to magnify the cost and here's my favorite thing we're going to do we're going to plan our escape. We're going to plan our escape. Funny story. I have a funny story.

Speaker 1: 21:52

When we were in the process of adopting our youngest child, we had to have a fire escape plan in our house. Now, I don't know if you've ever done this and I just got CPR certified last week and I just discovered how not ready I am for emergencies, okay, and so we had to have this fire escape plan. So I was like so if there was a fire? So you had to play out scenarios. If there is a fire, if everyone's upstairs and there's a fire downstairs, how will we get out the house? And what they recommend is that you get one of those ladders, those like rolling ladders and I was like how in the world is a one-year-old supposed to get down that ladder Like this? Ain't good. And so I came up with this idea that if we had a fire downstairs, we'll go out of our window. We got this, we got a porch covering, we'll go on the porch and then we'll just jump into a bush. That's our plan. Might not be the best one, but I think it'll work. But here's the funny part about this In the moment, in the moment, if there was a fire, it's hard to plan.

Speaker 1: 22:52

When a fire is happening, it's hard to plan your escape. In the moment when there's stress and there's worry, and how are we going to get out here? But before those things happen, that's the time to plan. So when those things happen, you're ready to escape, you're ready to go out. Too many times we're trying to plan our escape when we're in the wrong spot. We're already compromised. But we're going to plan ahead of time. We're going to decide ahead of time how to get out of the temptation. Here we go.

Speaker 1: 23:24

The good example of this is a guy named Joseph in the Bible. Now, if you don't know who Joseph is, he's great. This is what scripture says about him. Joseph was a very handsome and well-built young man, relatable, and Potiphar's wife soon began to look at him wistfully. Uh-oh, come and sleep with me, she demanded. Whew, okay, imagine how easy it would have been for Joseph to give in, how he could have thought this isn't my home. My family has no idea where I am. We're alone. No one will ever know. She's attractive. She made the first move. I was out here just minding my business, cleaning things. I'm young, I'm single. Everyone else on the gram is doing it.

Speaker 1: 24:18

Or you could have done what a lot of us do Use disappointment with God as an excuse. God, I didn't do anything wrong. And when my brothers beat me and sold me into slavery, why should I keep doing what's right when you didn't protect me? And so often we feel like well, since God didn't do what I wanted him to do, then why should I do what God wants me to do? And often we use our disappointments to justify disobedience. Well, my spouse isn't meeting my needs, so I got to do what I got to do. Well, my boss didn't give me the promotion I got to deserve, so I can take a little bit off top, but no one knows. Now, holy Spirit told me this morning, when I was prepping to tell this story.

Speaker 1: 25:03

And a year ago we were on one of our trips to Disney World the most magical place and my daughter wanted to ride one of the rides and she wanted to sit in the back. But because she was six years old, she had to sit in the front of the car and I had to sit behind her. But she was like I really want to sit in the back because the back's faster. And I was like okay, and so I told her. I said, well, you got to be seven. She was six at the time. I said, well, just tell them you're seven, just tell them you're seven. And so, sure enough, we got to the line and they asked her. They said how old are you? And she said, uh, seven. And she, you know, she lied and sat in the back and then we had the ride. It was fun. Here you go.

Speaker 1: 25:45

Ten months later I'm minding my own business and the Holy Spirit Mike Tyson's me, not Buster Douglas, because you know. The Holy Spirit hit me and said you told your daughter to lie. You instilled in her that it's okay to lie to get what you want and that as a family, we don't have to follow the rules If following the rules prevent us from the things that we want to have. And I was like dang, I just wanted her to ride Space Mountain. So I went to her and I told her this is what I did. Dad was wrong in that and that is never okay to lie. It's never okay to lie to get what you want. Friends, holy Spirit told me to share that story today, because just because something's not going our way doesn't mean we compromise what God wants us to do Doesn't mean we compromise what God says about us.

Speaker 1: 26:54

So Joseph had to pre-decide that he was going to honor God. She came on to him and he faithfully resisted. He told her no deal, he was like your husband trusted me and, as a man of God, how can I sin against him? How can I sin against God? And so he resisted the temptation. And what happened? When he resisted the temptation? She stopped, the angel sung and he was never tempted again. Nope, you want to know what happened.

Speaker 1: 27:19

She kept getting all up in his business. He said hey, you're looking good there, you're looking kind of lonely, let's hang out. And day after day, she kept hitting on him. Day after day, she made moves on him. And in the same way, day after day, the devil is going to keep coming after you Day after day. He'll keep attacking you Day after day. He'll keep pressing you Day after day. He'll keep pressing that thing in your life, that un-dealt-with thing in your life. He'll keep pressing at it. He'll keep pressing at it until you make the step, the courageous step, to find healing from it. He'll keep going. He'll keep going after it day after day. So now, so now you might say well, Joseph, that was a strong dude. He resisted temptation. He was no, he wasn't strong, he was just ready. He was just ready. He was smart. He was smart enough to pre-plan his escape.

Speaker 1: 28:09

Because scripture tells us this One day again, they're all alone. Potiphar's wife comes up, she has her moves, she's saying her stuff, and then she actually grabs him by the coat. And this is it says in Genesis 39. It says but he left his cloak in her hand and ran out of the house, and his plan was this it's better to lose my coat than to lose my good name. It's better to lose I'm going to let that thing go than lose what God has for me. I'm going to let go which was holding me back and hold on to what God has for me. He predetermined. If she grabs, I run, I'm out of here.

Speaker 1: 28:48

And I love what the Apostle Paul says. This he says and God is faithful he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted notice that he says when, not, if not, maybe, but when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so you can endure it Every single time he provides a way out. There is no temptation that the devil will bring your way which God has not given you an escape route from. There is no lust, there's no financial temptation, no breach of integrity, there's no relational loss in which God hasn't already said there's a door and there's another way. So we're going to pre-decide, we're going to choose ahead of time. The devil is going to attack. I'm not as strong as I think I am, so I'm going to pre-decide to move the line, I'm going to magnify the cost and I'm going to plan my escape before it happens.

Speaker 1: 29:38

So the question I want to ask you guys today is this how does your spiritual enemy attack you? How does your spiritual enemy attack you? Is it in your pride? How do you justify sin because you're mad at God? Well, if God hadn't done that, I wouldn't be doing this. Do you find yourself compromising financially Because there's security there? Do you worry, always playing out situations that haven't happened yet and try to take control? Do you gossip about other people to make you feel better about yourself? Do you judge others? Are you overly critical? Are you carrying on forgiveness in your heart? Do you find yourself becoming lukewarm in your faith? You used to be passionate about the things of God, but now you're not. We're going to pre-decide, we're going to put a distance between ourselves and the temptation, because we're going to know we're not that strong, that's okay. We're going to know there's an enemy who is on the attack. And here you go.

Speaker 1: 30:41

Last thing I will say it's a personal example, guys I'm just a normal person like you. Like I said already, there's nothing special about me. I don't have, like all these different superpowers, that I'm a pastor or whatever. People actually believe that, but whatever, I'm just a normal guy. And so if I had the ability to prevent something before it happens, wisdom, love, courage says I'm gonna do that thing before I get to a place where I don't want to be.

Speaker 1: 31:16

And so, friends, what is the thing? Who is the person that you need to invite in your life? Who is the thing? Maybe it's the content blocker, maybe it's talking to a friend. Maybe it's talking to a spouse. What is the thing that you need to invite in your life? Who's the thing? Maybe it's the content blocker. Maybe it's talking to a friend. Maybe it's talking to a spouse. What is the thing that you can do? Who's your Parker, like my friend that you know can hold you accountable and love you if you did make a mistake. Who's your person?

Speaker 1: 31:38

And the reason why I say all of this is because God has a plan for your life that is so good, man. It is so good. It's better than what you can ever think, dream or imagine, and we do not want to let the enemy steal the good plan that God has for us. Okay, two questions of application for us today when in your life do you need to move the line? First one where in your life do you need to move the line? And two, what escape route do you need to plan? Now, before temptation shows up, I encourage you this week to think on those two things and put some action to it. Okay, let's pray.

Speaker 1: 32:17

God, jesus, holy Spirit, thank you for your love, thank you for your goodness, lord, god, we thank you that you always plan an escape route for us, meaning that we are never by ourselves. That's what the Holy Spirit reminded people that he never leaves you, nor forsakes you, nor forsakes you. Come, holy Spirit, come into this place. Lord, we say more of you, more of you, lord.

Speaker 1: 32:56

If you're in here today and you know you need to move the line, I'm not gonna call you out. Have you come up front? Nothing like that. But you know there's some areas in your life and you know you are walking right up against the line. If you want to move the line, I just want you to toss your hand up in the air so I can see what I'm praying for. Bless you, bless you, god. You see the hands. Give them the courage and strength and the accountability to move the line. See, I'm not going to get as close as I can, but I'm going to get closer to you, god.

Speaker 1: 33:33

Come, holy Spirit. We say more of you, jesus. That's for the Holy Spirit saying not to just magnify the costs, but to magnify the goodness of obedience. It's not just about what you lose, but it's about what you gain when you say yes to Jesus. It's about what future generations gain, what your kids gain, what your marriage gains. Come Holy Spirit. Yeah, lord, we're going to magnify the cost, but we're going to magnify the blessings, lord, the blessings of an obedient heart and an obedient life. And, jesus, we thank you that you planned the ultimate escape when you went to the cross for us, and it's by your grace that we are saved. And we thank you, lord, that you're so good. We love you and we need you In Jesus' name, amen, amen. Let's give God some praise in here today.