Lee Morris

Because you've already had 40, 4 months of being loved on, you know what I'm saying? Yes, sir. And if you had four months of being loved on, you probably don't need it like that, man. That's only been here three weeks. That misses whoever it is, they miss that. Everything in them is telling them to run, and they don't even know that's them saying they want to get loaded. They still think they're going to leave for a good reason to, to, to become one, to become one body, one family, one, one voice, one action, one movement. A movement, a move of God, to become a move of God that, that will change and transform the very terrain. Do you know what that means? Do you know what it means? Like my belief, listen, isn't like we're going to change the hearts and minds that's bound to have. Listen, if Jesus and the Holy Spirit live and dwell in you, everyone you come in contact with has the possibility of coming in contact with Him, and you'll change hearts and minds just by being available to the Holy Spirit in you. You'll change them. But what would it mean to change the very terrain? Do you believe that a mountain could respond to your presence? That would be, be made low simply by being obedient to the God inside of you? Yes, that's what I, that's what I'm talking about. That we would change the, that we would change the environment so much that if we start going, growing a garden there, listen, the fruit of it would be so big because nature itself would respond and has been waiting to respond to you in such a way that it's wanting to. Listen, you ever had a woman that's been just infatuated or in love with you, that's ready to give you her everything? The eager to, yeah, I'm not trying to be, uh, take us to a place, but it's, can you imagine, imagine if creation wanted to respond to you in that manner, to give you all of its fruit, to produce for you, to respond to who you are always meant to be, because it was you that was meant to tend the garden, creation? What if you quote Romans 8? I'mma pick. Get no, it was actually when, uh, Jesus says, He says, if they don't cry out, the rocks will. Absolutely. They say that they, they be quiet, that the rocks will cry out, the stones, or whatever it is, in Luke, I think it is, is if we don't worship, the Rock, He'll have the rocks worshiping. What does it mean to worship? What does that mean to worship, though? What does that even mean? Praise to worship? No, that don't mean pray. Praise is a part, I believe that is a part of it, but we can only praise in and by, through Jesus. It says that in Him, we then, then therefore, offer a sacrifice of praise. So without being in Him, we can't even praise. But to worship, to worship, it's so simple. Everything I do, I make my attempt to do it excellently, not perfectly. There's a difference. There's a difference in perfection. Perfection is a standard that you have set in your own mind, that this says, this is the best, above the best, and you don't have the ability to set that standard because somebody will always be better than you out everything, always. They may not be alive now, but, and give them a few years, they'll be born and raised up, they'll be better at than you are. That's just how it works. But to worship means I do an excellent unto God. My goal is perfection is about me. If I want to do it perfect, that's so that you'll see that I did it perfect. But to give my very best, excellent under God, it doesn't matter if anybody says good job. It doesn't matter if anybody says good work. It's a broken place where I ask God just to allow this thing to, to receive this thing, whatever it is, whatever it looks like. And in that, all things respond to you. You may walk away and it not be perfect in your mind, but people will be like, man, it's so good. What is that? Like giving just your all, your heart, your. I think it starts, I think it starts with a request. I think it starts with acknowledgement of, of being an all God and saying, God, will you receive this? If so, I'm a, I think that's where it starts. So I can go and give my best all the time, but have I even taken a moment to petition the throne and say, God, will you receive that? To be in on and set Him in His proper place within my heart, reigning and ruling over me and above me and around me? And God, just receive this that I give it to you. I think it's got to start with that moment, that place. Cuz when I work on anything, I'm like, Father, just let this be pleasing to You. Let this. That's it. That's where it starts. Okay, that's where it starts. That's where it begins. And in that word, listen, in that, you don't have to pursue money. Money will pursue you. That, that's just what it will look like. Listen, because, because, listen, by the byproduct of being of royal blood is all the things that come with being royalty. You know what I mean? That, that every, you have everything you need as you need it. Now, I'm not talking about you get to walk in a room of abundance and just stare at it. That's about you. And the only thing that God compares Himself, He says, you're going to serve God or you're going to serve money. One of the two. You can't serve both. But by serving God, the other is going to follow me because it's an idol anyway, and it serves God. Everything serves God. So why would I choose to worship or serve anything that's serving God? Why wouldn't I just choose to serve God? The old covenant says we're cursed because of what happened in the garden, to work by the sweat of our brow. That is no longer so in the new covenant. Now, do we still do duties according to what goes on? Absolutely. But it becomes worship. What we have now, and this is why, look, there's been so, there's been somebody that very much disagreed with me because they were like, you're trying to tell those men they don't have to work. And I'm like, no, that's not what I'm telling them. Well, actually, it is. Yeah, but in a different way. You, I'm saying, you're the temple. You're the temple. And wherever the temple goes, there's worship, not work. It's worship. Now, do we labor unto God? That's worship. So if I go with that perspective, I'm not working for that man. My boss is such a man. I just need a Christian work environment. Don't you know you're supposed to be the light? Don't, why would you want to go and be a, a simple light amongst other lights, right? We're meant to take territory. Or are you not warriors? Or are you not like, you're meant to go, go in there and be a light that draws people, and then in that, they become lights. This thing is duplicable. But we want, listen, for some reason, we want to yoke up under other people's bondage because it was familiar and it tasted good at one point. Remember the dog returning to his own vomit? Something in it tasted good at one point. We hear somebody else's vomit. I see so many men that are 70 days in, and a new man will come in, and then be on some for about 10 days, and then that dude that's been here for almost three months will leave behind this other joker. Yeah, that sounds good to me too. Let's go do that. I'm like, wow, let him get some more pain. Pain saved my life. Pain saved my life. My ability not to withstand any more pain is what saved my life because it had me cry out. It had me call out, out and say, I don't want anymore. Amen. I don't want anymore. Thank you, Jesus, for the pain. Everybody walks out the door, man. God, just don't kill them. That's the prayer. Have Your way. Just don't kill them. And even if you do, allow these men to see it happen. Allow them to see it happen so they'll know what the wages of sin are. And that way, the glory out of that man's death is given to all of us. Yesterday was a tough day for me, man. There was just a lot going on. And every time I get home and it's that weight that I can't seem to get out from under, I realize that it's because it was not worship for me that day. I was working. And that man, there's so much work to be done. It's a list that never ends. Never. It never ends. So it's always like, can I do everything to the best of my ability under God throughout the day so that at the end of the day, I'm not overwhelmed with all the things that are left undone, not bound by the curse that Christ set me free from, that I can enter into a place of worship and know that even my ability to show you your mistakes is a place of worship, right? That, that's the most uncomfortable thing is saying, hey, look, this, no, no, no, it's not right. Or, or calling somebody out that's still on some, or has their opinion of leadership, but they've never led a thing, not even themselves. You ever notice that somebody's never led nothing, not even their own family, but I'll have an opinion of you as a leader? Well, keep your opinion. Go die. Because you, and we've all proven over and over, include myself, that as soon as we get under the weight of leadership, we crumble. We can't handle it. If we could, we wouldn't be here. Me included. Only now through His power and strength, if I've been raised up to, not even handle what I have on me at my plate now, but surrender it back to Him. Let's pray. Everybody sit up. Billy, sit up. Was that your first time at Potters yesterday? Did you go last week? Huh? Was that your first time at Potters? Yes, sir. No, it was twice. Twice. Mark, sir, was that your first time? You got to go or second time? Second. Third. Oh, okay. Anybody's first time? No. Well, y'all don't get to go until you get to phase two. It's just not what it, not it. Was your first time there? So, uh, message, uh, you know, the whole goal is to try to tie you to things outside of this place. You begin the process, right? If everybody gets to the first 90 days, something brand new begins. In the second, it's not the same stuff for a year, right? It becomes something brand new and different. Same thing with third phase, it becomes something brand new and different. Uh, I always like when the guys get to go to Potter for their first time and just eat pizza buffet and ice cream. And you know what I mean? It's just like that, that something that seems so simple, right? Let's take a breath. Oh God, I thank You for the breath, breath of my lungs. God, it's often I feel that I fall short. I know I'm a son. I don't, I know I don't fall short of being a son, but I feel like I fall short in all the things that You've set in front of me to accomplish. And I know that even that draws me closer to You eventually. God, I ask that every man in this room has the ability or have granted a moment where they can break in Your presence to know that no matter what it is in front of them, that it's only in You and through You and by You that we're able to accomplish Your will and purpose for our lives. Lord God, and as we grow in our intimate relationship, Your will becomes every step we take. I ask that Your words fill my mouth and my heart, Lord God, that I pour everything out that You would have me pour today, Lord God, by Your Spirit, that it would fill up this room like a river, Lord God, and flow over these men, that it would please You, Lord God, and You would, there would be an aroma that hit Your nostrils and it would cause You to shift in Your seat and look down on Your sons. Ask that You just make in all of us a pure heart and a right spirit, Lord God, that in that place, we would want to worship You with everything we are, that we would understand who we are in Your sight, who You've said we are in Jesus name, I pray. Amen. Amen. We're going to look at, uh, Romans 8. Uh, we're going to go to, I want you to go to Romans 18. We're going to make our way down through a little ways. 8:18. 8:8. Oh, sorry. 8. Yeah, 8:18. I thought I made that clear. 8:18. You can see I got the podium or the thing, music stand, whatever it is, so that I can read. But does that mean you have contacts or what? Oh, well, fancy, fancy. Cool. Everybody there? 8, verse 18. It's funny how I identify what suffering would look like now, you know, and how that in that, like, I know that God, so I'll be pressed into a place where I have to surrender over and over and over. But then in all of that, God's glory, His Son revealed in that suffering. If I don't, if I submit to that character within me, right? Is people see and it's elevated. So I feel pressed in this place, but in other people's perspective, there's an elevation that's happening with, uh, with men of Nehemiah, uh, with guys in the program with me, with. Does that make sense? But I'm pressed in this place. I think about you in this first verse, it says, "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing, are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." How many people in the last three days have gotten to a breaking point? That's it. That's this verse. You understand that, right? Our present suffering is nothing compared to what is being manifested, refined, and taken place because every time we get to a breaking point and you choose to stay, you choose to surrender, right? It, it is doing exactly what was meant to happen. We begin to reflect the image of the character of God, of Christ. It says, "For the creation, for the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the subject was, for the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God." Man, that is powerful. Man, that is power. Listen, do we believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand? Yes. Yes or no? If it is, guess what? We, guess what can happen around us? That creation can be set free. If we're submitted in knowledge of who we are in Him, that's what I think it says. That's what I think it says. It happened in Columbia. What the creation, everything that's, and know that's everything that's zucchini and squash and, and wheat and oak trees. And I believe as other things have been created, I think those things in and of itself are are part of it as well. I'm going to read it again, then listen, because I want you to know who you are. Who you are. Even if you have a small Hitler mustache, he definitely looks like a member of the highway patrol in Iowa. Yes. Oh, will you look at that? Oh, my God. Will you look at that? He's speeding. Just look at that. That's what's running my mind right now. Jesus. Father God. Good stuff. Good Lord. It says, "For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God." That's us. Sons of God, reconciled to the Father, right? We're reconciled to the Father. Means we're sons. It means we're children of God. We're now a part of that family. Yeah. Sons of God. Beautiful. All creation is waiting for you. Everybody say me. Got to get higher than that. Me. Me. Yes. Yes. Me. Yes. "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God." Into the freedom and glory of the children of God. I'm going to say it again. Into the freedom and glory, glory of the children of God. It means if we do these things in worship, if we tend the garden and worship, then those things that we are tending are set free because we were originally given dominion over them anyway. And if it's bought at a price back, reconciled to God, pre-approved, then all those things manifest again. In Columbia, there was a little town, there was a massive revival. I don't remember the year. I don't remember the, I just remember the story. And if it was a false story, my bad, but I'm rolling with it. There was a small town in Columbia that all had, like, had a massive revival. Everybody came to know Jesus, and they were producing these massive fruits, like unrealized, whatever it was, right? We'll say tomatoes. So these gigantic tomatoes where you saw, like, you really saw, and I've heard it over and over enough to believe that it's true, you saw creation respond. Uh, you saw a creation respond to all those people understanding who they are in Him and beginning to worship. And I'm not talking about Kumbaya building. I'm talking about working on a car. I'm talking about painting trim and all the stuff that we do, uh, mowing lawns and moving a lady. And the phase two guys know what I'm talking about. In those places, y'all get to see. And in beautiful thing about phase two for me, if y'all are doing it right, when y'all go serve, you instantly see the fruit of this new life. You see who God's called you to be. And if you act and move in it, you will see a fruit in those people's life. God wants to do that to you, to encourage you in your faith. He wants to grow your faith. In this place, if you surrender, you will see something you won't see once you, I mean, you will see it once you leave this place, but not in such a quick succession as you do here. It's wild how it works because He's wanting to grow your faith. He's wanting to grow your faith in believing that He will do all these things. And so we just see this miracles, miracles, miracles, miracles because He's raising you up. He's helping you to embrace your measure of faith. Y'all, everybody knows they're given a measure of faith. How much is a measure? Anybody? Certain amount. What is that measure, though? I think it's as much as you will embrace. I don't know what the measure is. It just says a measure. For me, that measure is how much will am I willing to embrace? How much faith? How much am I willing to say, okay, God, that's Your voice. I'm walking it out. And then, listen, and my favor will meet me wherever that's at. I will have the favor of God on my life to the point that my faith is exhausted. Come on. Me, say He's, because He's going to be there with you. He wants you to now, not ridiculous stuff that's out of order and doesn't line up with His word, right? He don't want you to leave your family, abandon your family, and go and do this thing in Africa for, for, that, that some things just don't line up, right? Right? They're not gun. I have, I have faith that this girl is going to just come on. But a wife and a son, see him show up on Sunday, right? She came on Sunday. You thought she'd never talk to you again. When she was here, a smile on her face, brought some stuff. Even look at how creation cries for you to know who you are. She's been waiting on you to leave this entire time. And it's crazy how God will put a woman to support us that sees in us what we were never able to see. But Jesus always has. Begin to worship and all you do, and everything will respond to you. Not in a way that you know the world will, doesn't look like that. It looks like God turned in the clock. I never got to watch my sons grow up when they were little, but I had those guys in the office. But my grandson is in my office every day from the time he was born until that he's about to be a year old, and I've got to watch and see all the, he took his first step in my office. Wow. See what I'm saying? Like, see how good God will be if your eyes are open? If you don't contain it in a certain way, that He would allow those things to occur right in front of my eyes, even though He's put me to task and has made me very busy like a bee, not like a dope fiend. You know, there's a difference, right? Yeah, I was a dope fiend. I can say that. I was busy tearing up. That's right. I'll work on, don't let me work on a lawn mower. There'll be six days and you'll get kind of a helicopter that maybe, or at least the idea of one. But now in this life, it's this task and it moves into this, and then the doors open. And if I'm listening, I'm watching, I get to see where He's drawing me for His purpose to be fulfilled through the steps that He has me take. 22 says, "We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pain of childbirth right up to the present time." I got to expand on that a little bit. Who here has been in the delivery room? What? Okay. Describe what, what happens from whenever you first get in the room until about the time that baby pops out. The contractions. There we go. And then so what happens with contractions? Closer, closer. They get closer and closer and closer and closer, closer and closer. Uh, in up until I was 25 years old, from the time 1980 to 2005, uh, or till 2004, there had only been one reported Category 5 hurricane. Right? But there was Andrew and some other ones that were C3s, C4s. Only one from '80 to '04. And then in 2005, Katrina hit. Anybody have any idea how many Cat 5 hurricanes have hit, uh, the US since then? Eight. Like eight. School. Creation. But, well, look, Texas just had a 5.3 on the Richter scale, uh, earthquake yesterday or the day before. Texas. Texas out far West. We have Sweetwater. Whole time. Listen, but, but, does anybody remember the early, whoever's been alive, remember the big earthquake in LA? You, they've had like three of those this year that were that big. They just, you know, they re-engineered everything to prepare for it. So it does have of destruction. But what I'm saying is, volcanoes, Italy, the fires in, in Hawaii, the, you see how nature, creation, as if in childbirth, is closer, closer, everything's it because it's something's got to come from it. This is the beautiful part. Is those child, those birth pains cause, cause us to cry out. Did you know, like, we think it's something superficial, right? No, no, no. If that earthquake wets your entire city and kills part of your family, you're either going to hate God or cry out to Him. And even in hating Him, you, that means you believe in Him. You know that, right? If you're mad at Him, at least that says you believe He'll work with that. All these things, man, are causing people to pray, to choose to seek Him, and get rid of their understanding of who God is. I believe that song. We, we got to go to the Cory Asbury concert. I want to just pause one second, talk about something that happened in that concert. When he first came out, I thought he was drunk. I literally told him, I say, is he drunk? He said, he did the one song, and then he started doing the joy. So I saw God reveal something to me in that moment. I saw him as a, a spiritual warfare ninja, like straight up, like master ninja. And he started speaking and having everybody else speak in environment. I lead them in that joy, joy, joy thing. By the end of it, there were so many people hilariously, uncontrollably drunk in the spirit, that everything else he did then lined up with where we were at. He took control of that environment, and he knew he did it. So sometimes some things happen, you don't know you're doing it. He knew exactly what he was doing. It was amazing to watch. So he took a step back, recognized spiritually what was going on, had everybody do this thing to drive everything out, but the Holy Spirit. Wow. So that then there was this environment where everyone could receive, and then he ministered. He actually ministered the gospel. I don't know if y'all up on it, but I just was able to watch him in a way, seeing somebody that, that knew God had revealed to him how to do that. He had been trained up in the ability to do that. And I saw him like operating in his gift of the Gospel. It was, it was powerful for me. It was, it was, it was so, so good. Uh, and then he was really funny too. I was surprised. Like, that dude is like, legit funny. Uh, he just do what I like, put so, man, to know who we are in Him would allow us to do that. He knows who he is in Him. That, that's what I got to witness. That's what all y'all got to witness is somebody who truly knows who they are in Christ, fully realized, anointed, and, and called into an office, and to, uh, to, uh, you know, to do something, an appointment, whatever you would call it, uh, and then walking that thing out. What I think I realized, just what he did at the end, you notice, cuz how you were saying that, it's like he got everybody singing Amazing Grace and not focused on him. And then he took off. He said, I'm not the goat. He said, yeah, he covered that up. He got everybody focused on God, and he left. So he didn't get no claps. So all of that went into play with how I saw him operating in his, in his calling and in his anointing. And that's what creation is waiting on us to do. That's it. That's it. Not so people will know that I'm a minister of the Gospel. Yeah, right. But so that one man, one man. Listen, most days, I, man, there's a lot going on, and I, I'm just as sick as most everybody else in here. But I'll look around, I'll find that one guy that's getting it. I can always look at Matt Jones, he's always getting it. But I'll look around, I'll find that one person that I know is receiving, and I'll key in on that. And then I'll see that one person that really needs to receive, and I'll try to drive something home to him. And I'll know at the end of the day, it doesn't matter if there's 30 people in here or not. If that one person got it, then I did my job. Cuz I'm just here to throw out seed. The soil is up to God. The soil is up to you. You're either going to get everything we have to give here and receive all the goodness they got, God has for you, or you're going to submit under another, cuz you're going to serve something. You are not your own. You will serve something. Most people choose to serve another swinging dick, that's just what it looks like. Or you can step up, stand out, be a light, and go take the, take the light into the dark places so that other people have an opportunity to let their light shine. Eventually, that you would begin to teach people how to turn their light on. Oh, I'm read some more real quick. 23 says, "Not only so, but we ourselves who have the firstfruits of the Spirit groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." Man, I'm glad that's ain't a rehab. I look, that's what that, I don't want to rehab you back to what you had already had, right? 24, "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?" What, what are y'all hoping for that you're going to get back? All the things you've already lost? Or like, you, God wants to make you brand new? Or you want everything made new with you? Are we looking for things that never sustained? This is a ministry because, but if we have, if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. For a year, phase by phase, one minute at a time, as it comes. Me, and then it goes. One year at a time. And then you know that you've been called, and He shows you so much that has to be done, done. Sometimes you get impatient, even though He's already done so much. That's my story. "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness." Everybody say weakness. Weakness. We've got to surrender and know that we're weak. You can't do it on your own. Look, you're, you thinking that you, you having self-control makes you arrogant, prideful, and not worth a damn. Amen. That's what it does. Makes it where you're of no use. God says He hates a haughty, look, hates a prideful look, an arrogant stare. I've got this figured out. If you had it figured out, why are you here? I don't have it figured out. Casanova, do have it figured out? Me neither. Then we do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God. God, You know my heart. I know You're sovereign. Your will be done in Jesus name. You're going to have to have a revelation of His goodness for that to be a real prayer of your heart. You're going to have to have a revelation of God being good beyond your understanding of what good is, because without that, how can you surrender to His will? You always question it. You always want to know what's going to happen. You always want to figure it out. You always want to know what's going to be next, unless you have a revelation of His goodness. And in that, then I say, God, have Your way with me. I know that in this, I may have suffer for what, what did the first one say? It said, "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." That only comes with the revelation of God's goodness. And I can resign myself to, to God's will being done in my life. And not, it's really what you want. You want what you want. You're just hoping to put a little Jesus on it and skate by and get what you want. But the reality is, what you want isn't most of the time good. Even Jesus said, "Who are you calling good? The only thing that's good is the Father, right?" The Rich Young Ruler, "Good teacher, good teacher, who are you calling good? The only thing good is the Father." Well, would we ever want you? It's man to know that we're submitted to His will, not knowing what His will is. Goldfish, right? And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit because the Spirit intercedes for God's people in accordance with the will of God. Right? Spirit is constantly seeking out the will of God. That's the cool thing about it. We're lined up with Him all the time. You don't, listen, if you're submitted to seeking Him intimately today, you're in His will. His will is being done. That's His will. It's for you to seek and submit, and then the Spirit is doing the rest. That's what I mean by God will do the heavy lifting. You can't be good. God knows what you need before you need it. And the Spirit is in you crying out to God on behalf of you all the time. And then to top it off, anything you say, Jesus is at His right hand saying, "Yeah, yeah, Dad, yeah." Oh, we got, we just called to worship. It's what we're created for. Our purpose is to worship in all that we do for His kingdom and His glory, for His creation, even the ones we think we don't like, they need it the most. They need it the most because they're going to have to get some more pain, and it's going to be hard, and we hope they live through it. And we know that in all things, God, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. The goal to look like Jesus, to surrender to what's already been given freely, freely given, to surrender and become, to set, constantly surrender my opinion, my idea, my whatever it is, for His goodness, for His glory. If not, is it even eternal? Do you truly believe that it's eternal? Have God search you out on that one. If you have a hard time surrendering to His will, that just have search me out, God. Show me, Lord God, the parts of my unbelief, cuz I want to believe of His Son, that He might be the first for firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those He predestined, He also called. Those He called, He also Justified. Those He justified, listen, check this out. Everybody set up real tall. When I read this part, this part, listen, you got to, you got to get in awe of God real quick. He is the very God that gives you breath in your lungs. That He is the God that calls you. Some, because in this next line it says, "Don't He justified?" He, being God Himself, glorified. You are currently being glorified by God Himself. Have a revelation of His goodness to be in awe of God. And then know what God thinks about you. That God Himself will glorify you. Who just opened something? Don't do it again. We, we only have cups with lids. So set it to the side. We're almost done. Got five minutes. They just replaced all the carpet. Everybody know everybody got a cup with a lid? Yes, sir. Third. Okay. Brandon, the putty, the distractor. Think I'm going to stop there, man. I, I encourage you guys. Romans 8 for me has been one of the most all in, right? I introduced you guys to the Romans, R. Did you, y'all make copies of the thing that was supposed to? He got sick. Okay, so I'm going to make got that right in the hole, kind of. Um, anyway, that, that, that, that part, the part in Romans, man, that identifies what it would truly be to walk as a son, a son of a living God. Is the God we serve alive? That's a big question. Quit moving. It's not time to move. Is the God that we serve alive? That to understand what it means to be the son of a living God and do all things in worship and in all of Him, walking obediently, not because of what we have to give up, but because of His goodness, so that all the things around us are restored. Don't you know that that's what you're supposed, you're supposed to be such a thing prototype? Knew that as you walk into a room, everything responds. Even the wood itself would be drawn to you, that you would bring life and peace and hope and joy. Who stinks too far? Who is that? You horrible human being. It's so offensive. Only the power of Jesus would overcome this. So bad. I can't even think now that I'm trying to come. I'm trying to recover. Uh, to listen so we can get caught up on every. Are you going to rehab or what? This is not a rehab. Do you, you go into rehab? Physical therapy is rehab. That's, we have medicine now. Come, what kind of medicine did they put you on? Sports medicine. Oh, the sports part. He said, like an athlete. Fair enough. Professional. Uh, to embrace, no, and understand who you are. That's the goal. That's the goal of the place. That's the goal of the Gospel. That was the goal of Christ on the cross, is so that you would know how absolute madly in love with you that God is, that He created you so that He could just spend time with you. He made you uniquely like Him, but your own, in and of yourself, so that He could walk in the cool of the day in the garden and just spend time with you. But in that, there's a purpose. We have to have purpose. We have to tend the garden, and we want to be there tending the garden when He comes, right? We want to be there in position so that He knows exactly where to find us so that He can spend that time with us. Yeah, to be in position so that all creation can respond, and it's been waiting to. And I think in part and in places and in some things, it has, and it's, it's got that right. But we here need that same thing, and it needs us, and it's waiting for us. Comes with surrender. Surrender, not only to that, surrender my life, all the things that I know. God, teach me Your ways. Oh God, cuz I don't know. I want something new. I don't want what I had, and I don't want to think I have something new and then go back and end up with the same thing that I already got. So take it all for me, Lord, and fill me up with something brand new. It takes that, for real. A real prayer from a real place. Father God, I thank You for who You are and who You are in these men, Lord God. Allow them to awaken to who You say they are, that they would be able to step and ride, and that creation will begin to respond around us to the knowledge of who You say they are in Jesus name, I pray. Amen.