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But this is what it says. It says, "Rejoice." Somebody say, "Rejoice." In the Lord sometimes, half of the time when things are good. Okay. Rejoice in the Lord always. Then it's a period right there. And he double downs. He says, I will say it again, rejoice. Let your gentleness be evident to all that the Lord is near. Meaning that people should see and it should be evident that the Lord is with you. Verse 6 says, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation by prayer and petition, don't miss this. With thanksgiving, present your request to God and the peace." Somebody say, "Peace." The peace of God which transcends all understanding. My God, that's the type of peace I want. I don't know about y'all. will guard your hearts and your mind in Christ Jesus.
I'm going to read verse four again. This where we're going to drive our anchor for today. It says, "Rejoice." Somebody say, "Rejoice." In the Lord always, I will say it again. Rejoice. Y'all help me introduce our title today. And y'all know how we get down. It's a talk back church. I'll be talking back to PM. So, y'all make sure y'all talk back to PD. Don't have me up here preaching this by myself. Go ahead, touch your neighbor and introduce our title. Say, neighbor. Neighbor. Now y'all know that was the wrong neighbor. Find you somebody else. Say, "Neighbor, neighbor, I choose I choose joy." My God today. If you believe that, put your hands together.
Family. I want to start our time with one another today with one of the most beautiful compliments and also one of the most beautiful testimonies that one can ever have. And it's this. You don't look like what you've been through. Come on. I feel like I'm talking to somebody already. You don't look like what you've been through. In other words, people look at you and what they see in your present day does not reflect what you overcame in your former days. That they see you and they see how you carry yourself today. It doesn't reflect what you went through yesterday. That that that those trials that you've been through, your posture doesn't reflect that. That the betrayal that you've gone through, your attitude doesn't reflect that. That that pressure, come on, somebody that tried to break you, your praise doesn't reflect that, that the heartbreak that you endured, the smile on your face doesn't reflect that.
And if I can take it a step further, may I? If I could take it a step further, for some of us, it's deeper than not looking like what you've been through. But for a lot of us in the room, you don't look like what you're currently going through. Because for some of us, life is lifing right now. For some of us, hell is throwing everything at you right now. For some of us, stress is weighing on you right now. But somehow you still walk through this place. Somehow you still put together. Somehow you still have your chin up high and your chest out. Somehow you still have a smile in your face and joy in your tone. Somehow you still walked up in here and you said, "I barely didn't even make it today." But somehow the Lord has still been keeping you. And for a lot of us, you walked in here smiling. For a lot of us, you walked in here with your head held high. And it's not because things haven't affected you. It's not because things haven't been weighing on you. It's not because things didn't hurt you. But it's all because you made a decision. You made a decision to keep fighting even when you didn't have any fight left. You made a decision to keep praying even though you didn't have the words left to pray. Who am I talking to today? You made a decision and say, you know what? I'm not going to stay with this dark cloud over my head. I'm going to keep walking until I see the light. You made a decision to get yourself up on here today and said, I'm going to make my way to church. David said it like this. I was glad when I came into the house of the Lord. He said, oh, magnify the Lord with me. You made a decision to say, you know what? I'm not going to let what happened to me show up what's happening and who's watching over me.
So today I wish I had about 10 believers in the room who understood that no matter what I was going through, no matter what I was facing, no matter what giant stood before me, I still have a decision to make. and I will make the decision to bless the Lord always at all times. And in the midst of that decision that you made, in the midst of that trial that you overcame, in the midst of that tension you just looked up and you kept recognizing that the Lord just kept on keeping you. My God, today, Chris, it's one thing for God to rescue you, but it's another thing for the Lord to keep you. I thank God for his rescuing power. I thank God for his salvation power. I thank you, God. When I was in my pit, sometimes you came and snatched me out, but it's a whole another thing for you to keep me. That it's one thing for you to rescue me through the fire. Come on, three Hebrew boys, but it's another thing for you to sustain me and keep me through the fire. It's one thing, hallelujah, for you to rescue me from the storm. But it's another thing for you to stand with me in the storm because the my Bible tells me like this that I am the one who can say to the storm, "Peace be still." That I'm the one that I can speak to the winds and the wave and they have to obey me. So, it's one thing for you to rescue me. It's a whole another thing for you to keep me. And I just wish I had a thousand believers in the room. Some of y'all still sitting down. Like you don't understand what it's like to be kept. Like you don't understand what it's like to be going through and it should have took you out. But he kept you. He kept strengthening you. He kept sustaining you. He kept walking with you. And you should HAVE LOST YOUR MIND, but he kept you this whole entire time. I just wish I had a church who can give God about 15 seconds of praise for the TIMES HE DIDN'T SAVE YOU, but he kept you. Hallelujah. Touch your neighbor and say, "He kept me. He kept me. He kept me. He kept me. He kept me. He kept me in that relationship I shouldn't have been in. He kept me. When I made my bed in hell, he kept me. When I was doing things that I knew I wasn't supposed to be doing, he kept me. My God, today. Hallelujah.
Touch your neighbor one more time and say, "I made a decision." I made a decision. So, watch me. Here's the thing about decisions. Some decisions can change your environment. Some decisions can change your relationships. Some decisions can even change your future. But watch me. There are certain decisions that don't just change what's around you, but they will change what's within you. Write this down. Don't miss this. There are some decisions that will change what's around you, but there are certain decisions that will change what's within you. We're in a new series today called Inside Out. Somebody shout Inside Out. Inside Out. In the premise of this series, y'all write this down. It's external fruit is rooted in internal decisions. Real transformation starts and happens from the inside out. I got you. External fruit is rooted in internal decisions. Real transformation starts and happens from the inside out. Y'all got that? Y'all wrote it down? External fruit is rooted in internal decisions. Real transformation happens and starts from the inside out. From the inside out. Y'all got that?
So the Apostle Paul teaches us in Romans 12:2, let me let me teach this. In Romans 12:2, the Apostle Paul teaches us. She says, "Do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be I'm going to go King James. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." And and let me teach this. The word conform right here in the Greek, it literally means to be molded or to be shaped by. So what he's saying is do not be molded or shaped by the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind because the patterns of this broken he's saying listen watch this don't let the patterns of this broken fallen flawed world have dictatorship over your identity have dictatorship over your thoughts thought process have dictatorship over your lifestyle, your character, or the decisions that you make in your heart. Y'all with me? But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Which means that transformation is an internal job, not an external event. A lot of us look at what's on the outside and saying, "God, can you change that?" But for sometimes, and this is why it's such a blessing when it talks about when I talked about sometimes God will rescue you. Yes. Sometimes God will snatch you out of that situation. Yes. Sometimes what God will change that situation. But you have to propose the question if God if you aren't changing this situation, what are you trying to change in me? Because for a lot of us, the reason why God hasn't changed the external is because he's trying to do a work on the internal. But you're sitting there asking God, and he's saying that you keep looking what's on the outside when I'm trying to get you to look and see what I'm trying to do on the inside. Real transformation starts and happens from the inside out. And we see, let me get back to my notes. And we see that transformation happens when your mind changes. See, I wasn't supposed to say this. For some of us, you're struggling not because you don't have power over the sin that you're struggling with. For some of us, you're struggling because you haven't made up your mind. you haven't made a decision in your heart to say, you know what, I'm no longer going to fall victim to what it's been trying because it's it's not that you don't have power. My Bible tells me is that when we It's not that we have a lack of power, nor do we have a lack of dominion. And as long as we have his spirit, we have power over the enemy and we have power over sin. And I'm not saying that once you become saved, you have the power to become perfect. No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that once you have been saved and now you're filled with his spirit, you have the power to then make a decision that I can make up my mind to say, you know what, I used to do that. I'm no longer going to do it no more. I can make up my mind. And as some of us, the reason why it's such a hard concept to grasp is because you still like it too much. So instead of fleeing from it, you flirt with it. I'm in a book. I'm in a book. Cuz cuz for some of us, we didn't slip up. It wasn't a oops. There were key decisions that you made along the way and you were on the highway to destruction and you just kept passing up the exit. So what looked like a slip end up being a crash course collision all because I didn't make up my mind to get off the road. Am I making sense? Am I making sense?
Okay. So real transformation starts when you make a decision in your heart. So all all month long in this series that Pastor Matt so graciously let me do. I'm going to talk about internal decisions that produce external fruit. And I'm burdened today in the body of Christ because this is what we're going to talk about today. I'm burdened today because there's a tension that we have in the body of Christ that some of us not only conform to the patterns of this world, but some of us also conform to the patterns of our circumstances. What do you what what do you mean PD? That when everything's all good, we all good. But when it's not so good, we all bad. that when everything is all good, we we have all the faith in the world. But when everything is not so good, it's Lord, Lord, why have you forsaken me? That when everything is going just the way that we anticipated, just the way that we like it, just the way that we want it. We have all the joy in the world. We the most joyful people in the world when we got what we want. But when you don't have what you want and it was not going your way, somehow all the joy is somehow lost.
And in our text today, Uncle Paul teaches us in Philippians chapter 4, he gives us a very clear and critical instruction. He says, "Rejoice." Now watch this. He says, "Rejoice in the Lord, not rejoice in my situation. Not rejoice in my bank account. Not rejoice in my career. Uhoh. Not rejoice in my boo." He says, "Rejoice in the Lord." Uh, always. And then to add more insult to injury, he doubles and triple downs on it and says, "Period." Right there. I will say it again. Rejoice. Exclamation mark to let you know I'm serious. Rejoice.
And he's saying here and and and this is what blesses me, Moot. It's not just what he's saying that is blessing me. It's what he's going through when he's saying it. Can I teach this? Because we we we we preach the Bible here and I want to make sure that I give y'all context because it's one thing to read the word and not have context on the word. So then you misuse the word. Amen. So in context in the book of Philippians, this is Paul writing a letter to the church of Philippi. And he's sitting here writing this letter not from comfort but from confinement. If you really would read and dive deeper into the passage and what he's what he's writing, he's writing a letter. It's what we call Paul's epistles. And he's writing a letter. And he's writing this letter from a jail from a Roman prison. So at this time, he's been beaten nearly to death. He's sleeping on hard floors. They he Paul was so dangerous for the kingdom is that they chained him up to a Roman guard. Meaning that he didn't sit in the cell by himself. They had him chained to somebody and saying, "Man, we can't let you go nowhere." Sleeping on hard floors. Doesn't know whether or not he's going to live or die. And he's sitting there writing this letter to them and saying, "Rejoice."
And we have to we have to know this. This wasn't Paul's first painful season. In fact, on the way there to Rome, he was on a ship and God sent a storm and there was a ship wreck that he had been stoned and still was alive. I don't know about y'all, but don't be throwing no rocks at me. He had been stoned. He had been beaten. He had been persecuted. All these other different things. And we sitting here and he's telling the people of God in Philippi, he's saying, "Hey, rejoice in the Lord always." I'll say it again. Rejoice. Which means that this wasn't just Paul, watch this. Paul wasn't just given an instruction to the people. He was given a demonstration. Don't miss this because we got we got some people who who want to discip be disciples who also have leadership callings on their life. It's not just one thing to preach something. It's another thing to walk it out before the people that are watching you. Paul said, "Imitate me as I imitate Christ." So, he wasn't just teaching them something in theory. He was walking it out practically because I'm sitting in the middle of this cell and I don't know what's about to be next for me but I still have my joy which means and it tells me this and it implies this that joy is not Hold on where my notes at. Okay. Joy is not something that's dictated by our circumstance. Paul just showed us this. Joy is something that we choose. Joy is not dictated by a circumstance. Joy is something that we choose.
Which leads me to my big idea of the day. Y'all write this down. Joy isn't something that you just feel. It's something that you choose in your heart. And this is a hard concept to grasp for most of us because our joy in most circumstances and situations is predicated on our circumstance. And one thing that I've learned is that you don't just lose joy. Please don't miss this. Joy is not just something that you lose. Joy is something that you hand over. It's not something that you lose. It's something that you hand over. You didn't lose that joy. You handed it over. That relationship didn't take your joy. You handed it over. That stressful season didn't take your joy. You just handed it over. That anxiety didn't take your joy. It was a exchange and you just handed it over. You traded your joy for anxiety. You traded your joy for depression. You traded your joy for sadness. You traded your victory for defeat. And one thing that we know is that the enemy is out to kill, steal, and destroy. And one thing that the enemy knows is that I can't kill your joy, nor can I destroy your joy because your joy comes from the Lord. And I can't kill or destroy anything that comes from him. So the only tactic that I can try and only tricks that I can play is I just have to try to steal it. So he tries to throw everything at you to try to rob you from your joy. But the problem is is that we have too many spiritfilled believers who now have dominion over the enemy. And you let the enemy bully you out of what's yours. Because he says, "I have given you authority to all lot to for your heal to crush the head of snakes, serpents, and you allowed the enemy to bully you out of what's yours." And instead of while the enemy is trying to rob you for your joy, God is saying, "I'm looking for you to fight for your joy." Which is why the book of James says this. It says, "Consider it pure joy when you face trials of many kinds, knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. and allow that perseverance to have his perfect work so that you be made perfect, complete, and lacking nothing. Meaning is that in the in the midst of my trials that's trying to test my faith when the enemy is trying to rob me of something, I need to consider it pure joy. And that joy that I consider produces a perseverance. And that perseverance will have its perfect work. And Paul's life gives us a formula of what it looks like for us to fight for our faith. Somebody say fight. Fight for our joy.
And it leads me to my first point of the day. Y'all write this down. Is he focused on his source, not his situation. Paul focused on his source more than circum more than his circumstance. Can I propose a question to the room? Where are your eyes? Where's your focus? Is it on the situation or on the ruler of the situation? Is it on the problem or is it on the solver of the problem or the problem solver? Is it on the burden of your life or is it on your help? David said it like this. Chris, I believe this is the book. He says, "I will lift up my eyes to the heels from which cometh my help." If you go to the book of 2 Kings, Elijah and his servant was surrounded by the enemy. His servant said, "What are we going to do?" Elijah prayed and said, "God, give him the eyes that he may see that there are more with us than there are with them." And then the servant looked up and saw chariots of fire all around them. And what I'm trying to say to you, your church, is that too many of us are looking down when our help is up. You got to stop looking down at that bad situation and you need to look up. You got to stop looking down at that bad report and you need to look up. You got to stop looking back at your past and the things that used to have you bound and you need to look up. Some of us got to stop looking at other people and comparing ourselves to what they got going on and what they got going on. And we need to You need to look up. Stop walking with your head held down. Your help not your help's not down there. You need to look up. I will lift my eyes to the heels from which cometh my help. And too many believers are looking down at their situation rather than looking up at their God. We need to look up.
Now watch me hear what I'm not saying. But hear what I am saying. Don't hear what I'm not saying. Hear what I am saying so you can don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying that life don't be life. I'm not saying that we shouldn't acknowledge our reality. I'm not saying that we aren't allowed to feel what's from the things that's happening in our reality because emotions are important and emotions are good. Amen. But what I am saying is that what's happening to you shouldn't have more of your focus than who's watching over you. That what's happening to me shouldn't have more of my focus than who's watching over me. Some of us are more devoted to our problems than we are devoted to our God. How do I know this? If you open up your phone right now in them group chats, it's problem after problem after problem after problem after problem after problem instead of God after God after God after God after God instead of solution after solution after solution. We get together and we fellowship over our problems, but we struggle to get together to fellowship over our God. Which is why we always push that you join a B group. So you can fellowship over your God more than you fellowship over your problems. And you can bring your problems to a group of community who knows the answer to them. And you can shift your focus from your circumstance and now fall into a community of people who have joy. Somebody say amen. Amen. So if we keep and this is why this is so important because circumstances change, situations change, heartbreak, it comes and goes, but one thing that will never change. One thing that will forever be constant is our source. He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever more. that he's the only thing that's constant in our lives. And if we keep our focus on the things that's fickle, it'll always sway our mind and sway our heart to be back and forth on what it is that we should be rooted in. Amen.
Which leads me to my second point of the day cuz I just asked you where are your eyes? My second point is this. This is what Paul teaches us. He trusted God with what he couldn't see. He trusted God with what he couldn't see. I just asked you where your eyes were. I just asked you where is your focus. The next question that I'm going to propose to the womb is where is your faith? Because here's what y'all got to understand. It takes faith to have joy. Because what if I can't see God in this situation? God, what if I can't see what you're doing? I know that you said it's going to work out for my good, but nothing looks good. Apostle Paul also writes this in the book of Romans chapter 8. I love Romans 8. I'm going to read verses 17 through 18. This is what he says. And he's teaching us something. He says, "Now, if we are children," talking about being children of God, then we are heirs. Let me tell y'all something. Y'all are a royal priesthood. heirs of God and co-airs with Christ. If indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also somebody say also also share in his glory. My God today verse 18 verse 18 this word blesses me. It says, "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." So, what am I saying, church? Paul gives us a principle and affirms us that glory is coming. That hardship may be at your front door, but glory is coming. That things may be breaking you right now, but glory is coming. You may be suffering. You may be going through. You may be down on your last. That account may be in negative. I've been there before. But glory is coming. Touch your neighbor and say, "Glory is coming." Glory is coming. Glory is coming. David said it like this. He said, "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy is coming in the morning." Sometimes you got to choose joy in the night when you're weeping because I know that joy is coming in the morning. I got to have faith to know that it'll be here. I can weep right now, but I have faith and I can find my joy knowing that glory is coming. That breakthrough is on the way. Healing. It's on the way. Success. It's on the way. The thing that you've been praying for, I'm here to tell you that is on the way. That job that you've been praying for, it's on the way. That baby that you and your wife and your husband been praying for, it is on the way. That thing that has been weighing on your heart and on your mind, it is on the way. And I can find my joy trusting and believing that it is on the way. That's why Paul says, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation by prayer in petition, I can present my request to God in the with a with a heart of thanksgiving and the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and mind in Christ Jesus." We don't have to be anxious. We don't have to be stressed. We simply just have to believe. We don't have a joy problem in the body of Christ. We have a faith problem in the body of Christ. Watch me. Faith is tring is trusting God's heart when I cannot trace God's hand. Faith is trusting God's heart when I cannot trace God's hand. Paul's confident I mean Paul's confidence wasn't in what God would do. Paul's confidence was in who God is. Joy doesn't come from knowing what God is doing. Joy comes from knowing God.
Which leads me to my last and final point. Now, write this down about Paul's life. It's the formula. I told y'all he focused on his source more than his situation. He trusted God with what he could not see. And the last and final point is he learned to be content. He learned to be content. I asked you Earlier, where are your eyes? I asked you, where is your faith? The next question I'm pose to the room is what satisfies you? What satisfies you? Is it money? Because the moment money get funny, you lose your joy. Is it people? Cuz the moment somebody lets you down and disappoint you, you you lose your joy. Is it success? Because the moment you fail at something, you lose your joy. We have to ask ourselves what satisfies me? Where do I find my satisfaction? And Paul goes on to teach us a secret. If you continue to read further in Philippians chapter 4, if we go to verse 11, I'm going to read verse 11 through13. He teaches us a secret. He says, "I'm not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content, whatever the circumstance, I know what it is to be in need and I know what it is to have plenty." He's saying, "I've had a lot. I've also had a little. I learned the secret of being content in every situation, whether fed or hungry, whether we're living with plenty or in want. Verse 13, here go y'all favorite. Here go y'all favorite. We be using it out of context all the time. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. What is Paul saying? He's talking about joy and he talks he's talking about contentment. And it's one thing that Paul is putting great emphasis on this is because he understands something about joy. The book of Nehemiah says that the joy of the Lord is our strength. So when he's saying that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and he's saying that we must rejoice in the Lord always, it's because he's trying to let us know is that you won't make it in this life. You won't be able to go through what you're going through without the strength that the joy of the Lord provides you. Some some days I look back and I I look around and and now being with Christ and walking with Christ, it's like I don't understand how people do it without him. Because Jesus said very candidly, he says, "Man, in this world you will have trouble, but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world." And and I don't know about y'all saints, but it's some things that has happened in my life. It's some heartbreak that I have suffered and endured that I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the joy of the Lord. If that wasn't an option for me cuz what the world offer, can we just be honest, is is it's not enough. It's not enough alcohol in the world that can fix some of these things. It's not enough weed in the world. Can we be honest today? It's not enough. It's not a person or not enough people in the world who can help us be strong through the midst of the storms that life throws at us. And can I be honest with y'all? 2026 is one of the roughest years that I've ever gone through in my life so far. only six months in. I was raised by a single mother and I was super blessed because it wasn't just my mom, but I was raised by a village. I come from a big family and my mom never had a problem with me having a babysitter. I was just going to one of my cousins out. I had aunts, I had uncles. So, I was raised by multiple people. And I got married this year and we were wedding planning all these other different things. We had a small wedding, intimate wedding. So, we're making a list of who's going to be there. And we just wanted our closest friends and closest family members. And then the month of January happens and my mom has a cancer scare. She beat cancer back in 2023. She went and got her checkup and this this month and and they said, "Man, we found some lip nodes." And I'm just like, "Okay." The next week after my mom's doctor appointment, I'm trying to stand in faith and battling and juggling that and I get a call and said, "Man, my my uncle randomly passes away." My my grandmother is battling dementia at the time and Alzheimer's and it's my uncle and my mom who was the primary caregiver for my grandmother at the time. One's having a cancer scare and one of one of them just we lost them. On that same day, I'm on a FaceTime call with my aunt while she's at her doctor's appointment. She's been battling cancer for nine years and the doctor tells us there's no nothing else that we can do. Two weeks later, she passes. Fast forward to March, the night before my wedding, I get a call the night before my wedding, 11 o'clock at night, trying to sleep. My grandmother's getting rushed to the hospital because her blood pressure has dropped too low. She's now getting admitted into hospice. She spends the night in the hospital. Moments before I'm about to walk down the aisle, my mom gets a call. I see the look on her face. I say, "What's wrong?" The hospice doctor told me and called me and said like, "Man, we need to start making plans." March happens. She passes and I had to make a decision. Sitting in a dichotomy in my life where one of the most joyful things is happening but one of some of the most heartbreaking things is happening. And can I tell y'all like God stretched me and and and and hear what I'm not saying like I had to make a decision and it didn't negate that I was hurting. It didn't negate that I had mornings where I was crying in my wife's lap and I had to get up and go to work and and and and help pastor this church every single day. It didn't negate none of those things. But what I am saying is because I found him. I found joy. And that joy didn't always put a smile on my face, but it gave me strength so that I can endure and keep pushing through. And I'm letting you know today that we all have that decision that we can make. And I wanted to tell us not that just joy is important. I wanted to teach us how. And it's I have to focus on him. more than my situation. I had to trust God with what I can't see. And I had to learn how to be content. That's the formula. And Paul showed us that it's work. That it worked. And I'm telling you that it works. So we all have. Bless God. And like I said from the start, you don't look like what you've been through because you chose joy when you wanted to quit. You chose joy when you were grieving. You chose joy when you were disappointed. You jo chose joy when you didn't understand. You chose joy with tears in your eyes. And my prayer for all of us is that we just keep on choosing. Can I pray for you? Father, you are our strength and our redeemer. And we will put our hope and our trust in you. God, we thank you for the times that you saved us from the storm. But God, we thank you for the times that you sustained us through the storms. That rain came, winds blew, but I'll put my trust in you, oh God. So for everybody under the sound of my voice today, God, we don't always get decisions right all the time. But let us never go a day where we don't decide to trust you. Let us never go a day where we don't decide to choose to rejoice in you. So, Father, thank you for being our anchor. God, thank you for being our peace and chaos. Thank you for being our stability when things were unstable. And God, may I pray over everybody in this room. I feel this. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Who is hurting, who is grieving, who is sitting here asking God, why? God, may you comfort them. May you wrap them with your warm embrace. And God, may you remind them, God, that they can find you, they can find the joy that they need, the strength that they need, the peace that they need to be able to make it through. God, we love you. We honor you. If there's anybody in the room today who has not made the decision to dedicate their life and give their life to the source, I'm going to give you a moment here in a second. But I want you to understand this. The gospel is really simple. For God so gave his only begotten son that for those of us who believe in him should have everlasting life. And Bible says if we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart that Jesus died for our sin, that he rose and that he's Lord and our souls is secured with him. that you don't have to do this life without the source. So whether this is your first time giving your life to Christ or whether this is your 100th time and you want to rededicate your life to Christ today on a count of three, I just want you to raise your hand as high as you can and we're going to celebrate you because all of heaven is rejoicing. One, two, 3. I see your hand over there. I'm proud of you. I see your hand. My God. We're going to say a prayer and it's not the prayer that saves us. It's the faith behind it that saves us. So, if you just raise your hand, if you're in the room, if you're a believer, I want you to say this prayer with me. Say, "Father, I thank you for Jesus. I believe that he lived, that he died, and that he rose for my sins. Come into my heart. Be my Lord. I am yours, and you are mine." Come on, Blueprint. Y'all know how we do in Jesus' name. Amen.