Sunday Evening Worship Service
by Nathan Whitley
First Apostolic Church of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Acts 9:15-16, Psalm 105:19, Proverbs 25:4, Malachi 3:3, 2 Corinthians 11:23-30, Hebrews 12:2

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You return to your seats, but just get your Bibles and keep that same spirit of worship. What a day. What a day we have had today. I believe the Lord has been ministering to us from Wednesday night's Bible study, the sermon today, the ministry of our worship team. I think it'd be appropriate to give all of our musicians and singers and choir a great big hand. They've been here all day yesterday, got here early this morning and tonight. We give honor to brother and sister Curtis. These are salt of the earth people. And I've been in music ministry my whole life. Really, my whole life. And uh musicians, singers, we're a we're an odd lot. Okay, that's to say that kindly. But a lot of musicians rely upon their talent and their skill and don't rely too much on the spirit and the anointing. But if we're going to make a difference, the Bible says it's the anointing that breaks the yoke. It's not talent that breaks the yoke. It's not skill that breaks the yoke. We should we should prepare. We should plan. We should practice. But we should pray. Well, I'm preaching already and I'm thankful for the Curtises because these are people who are anointed and led of the spirit. When you talk to them, it's they're talking about spiritual things and I'm so glad that they're here. I'm glad that God has given us uh this wonderful couple to come in and work with us with our team. Can we give them a great big hand of appreciation again? We honor them so very much. They are talented and skilled, but they're also very anointed. studied all week, wrote. I had a sermon to preach tonight. Sent it to the team yesterday early ready. Got in my office tonight and just felt this little tug. Okay, here we go. Then the spirit began to move a little bit tonight. And I feel like the Lord has told me to tell you something. Is that okay? It's not going to be it's not going to be pretty, but I want to I want to share something with you. Acts 19, Acts 9, excuse me. Acts 9 verses 15-16. The Lord said unto him, "Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel," speaking of Saul or Paul, a chosen vessel. someone say chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. But look at what the Lord says he is going to show Paul. For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. I'm not telling him about the kings and the places and the conversions. I want to tell him and show him how much he is going to suffer. I want to speak for a few moments on this this thought. The call to suffering. The call to suffering. That is usually not what we talk about when we talk about calling and purpose and burdens and vision. In the immediate context of an apostolic church, we employ these words like calling and purpose. What's my what's my what's my purpose? Right? We want to know what our purpose is. We want to know what our calling is. And what's the direction? What's God's plan for my life? What does God want to do with my life? And if I've had a question asked of me as a minister or a pastor, it's this one that's asked the majority of the time. What's God's will for my life? How can you help me find God's will for my life? And this is what I try to answer. What does the Bible say? And you think, well, that's just too easy. Yeah, I know what the Bible says. But honestly, what the Bible says also about the will of God is what is not his will. So it's always his will for you to be godly, right? So if if if if you're feeling something that's going to lead you to be ungodly, then it's not God's will, right? It's always God's will for you to be gathered together with God's people. And so if you're feeling like something is God's will, it's going to lead you out of the church, then right there is an answer. It's not God's will. So answering what is God's will for my life? What's God's calling for me? What is what is God trying to do in me? Because we are a people to be apostolic. And we say apostolic is to be like the apostles. Well, the word apostle or apostolic means really to be sent. It is to be ambassadors to be messengers. We are sent out with a purpose to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. is not simply to be uh somebody who graces a building somewhere or sits in a pew somewhere. To be apostolic is to be anointed to do something. And if we're not doing something, then we really might want to make sure we're we're really apostolic. Because to be apostolic is more than simply believing apostolic doctrine. It's doing apostolic doctrine. And doing apostolic doctrine is going out and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. Right? And so when I say calling, you're think I'm called to preach or I'm called to play or I'm called to speak or I'm called to do this. And none of us would say, well, I'm called to suffer. None of us would say, well, this is my call in life. My call in life is to suffer. But I want to help you this evening. And I'm not trying to be a wet blanket of what God is doing here tonight because I really believe he's about to do something. But any call of God includes the call to suffer. Any call of God, any ministry, any vision for your life, any purpose is always going to include the call to suffer. And let me say this to young people in the room, students in the room, as we come, we are already at the end of March. We're going into spring and the school year is going to end and some are going to be graduating. Some are going to be moving on and moving up. Let me just stop and say this to some young people tonight. In 20 years of ministry and being involved with youth ministry and here at at Apostolic Christian School and Christian education, I've known many students and young people whose parents and family have tried to remove difficulties and hardships. They fight their kids' battles. They shield them from suffering only to see them shrivel on the vine of life after high school. You're doing your children a great disservice when you're trying to remove hardship and suffering from their life because that's really not the real world. The real world is not made up of clouds and rainbows. There's going to be some rain and some thunder and some lightning. Whether you believe me or not, the next the next phase of your life, whether you're graduating, going to college, or you're graduating college, the next phase of your life is going to be quite different. Can I just go ahead and say this? Professors in a college campus, they're not going to have a meeting with your parents about your makeup work or the extra credit. There's no child pilot messaging at your school for your parents. Either you do the work or you don't do the work. Either you pass or you fail. Or not taking a call or a meeting with your mommy and your daddy. Let me say this too. Your the the boss, the manager of your job, they're not going to take your mom and dad's phone call about why you're late. They're not Are y'all All right. Talk about suffering. WHEN YOU TRY TO REMOVE suffering from life, it's going to cause people to shrivel up on the vine because life is full of hardships and trouble. RELATIONSHIPS DON'T WORK OUT. JOBS DON'T work out. Ministries don't work out. Moving doesn't always work out. AND IF YOU'RE ALWAYS AFRAID OF SUFFERING, GUESS WHAT'S going to happen? You're going to suffer. >> Jerry Seinfeld has made a living out of making people laugh. For the last couple of decades, he has developed a cult-like following due to his work ethic. In an interview, he was asked about his work ethic, to which he replied, "He had the same work routine since 1975, writing something new every day." And this is what the interviewer's reply was. He said, "That sounds torturous." And this is what Jerry Seinfeld said, and it stuck with me. He said this and I quote, "The blessing in life is when you find the torture you are comfortable with. That's marriage. It's kids. It's work. It's exercise. Find the torture you're comfortable with and you'll do well. You've mastered that. You've mastered life. That's life. You find the torture and the suffering that you're comfortable with. That's calling. That's purpose. Anything worth doing involves suffering. The suffering of discipline. The suffering of work. The suffering of study. The suffering of staying up late or getting up early before the sun rises. You have to find the torture you're comfortable with. You must realize that purpose is married to struggle and frustration. IF YOU'RE GOING TO FEAST at the table of purpose, then you will always drink from the cup of suffering. If you are going to sit at the table of purpose, your calling, your purpose in life, YOU'RE GOING TO DRINK from the cup of suffering. It's unavoidable. Jim Roman said this, "We all must suffer one or two things. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment." John Maxwell said this. Most people want to avoid pain and discipline and it's usually because it's painful. When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand of us. I read a book last year. It's a it's an old book. It's a very popular book. Sold millions and millions of copies. It's by M. Scott Peek. It's called The Road Less Traveled. and the introduction of the book is worth the price of the book. He wrote this book over 40 years ago. He says that studies show that the majority of the time mental illness is the result of the avoidance of suffering. Let's say that again. 40 years ago he wrote this book. He said the majority of the time mental illness is the result of the avoidance of suffering. He quotes in his book Carl Young. He says, "Nurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." In other words, avoidance of suffering leads to suffering. Avoidance of hard things will only lead to more and more difficulty. You can quit, you can leave, but you will never get far. I'm not saying to endure abuse. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying you need to be sadistic. I'm not saying you need to persevere in a dead-end job or a bad relationship. That's not what I'm saying. But if you always have a tendency to quit everything when difficulty arises, THE DIFFICULTY WILL FOLLOW YOU AND HAUNT YOU everywhere you go. The avoidance of suffering LEADS TO SUFFERING. DON'T LET YOUR KID COME ON SOMEBODY. DON'T ALWAYS FIGHT YOUR KIDS' BATTLES. SOMETIMES THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND DRINK THE CUP OF HARDSHIP. WHY? IT WILL MAKE THEM BETTER. They didn't get the part and THEY DON'T GET TO play and well, we're going to leave. Well, guess what's going to happen? They're not going to play at the next place. I want a meeting. And all you're doing is you're doing more harm than good. Because what you're doing is you're making your kids think that everywhere they go, it's supposed to be easy. Trip of the Holy Ghost. This is not easy. WE HAVE GOTTEN SO COMFORTABLE in the American church that we will do anything to avoid conflict. So we we we allow church to become like golden corral. It becomes a buffet. I don't like this. I don't like that. I like this. I don't like that. Let me go somewhere ELSE WHERE I FIND SOMETHING THAT I WANT. AND GUESS WHAT? ALL YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IS MORE TROUBLE. WHY? BECAUSE YOU'RE THERE. >> It's the AVOIDANCE OF SUFFERING THAT LEADS TO MORE SUFFERING. >> If you're constantly moving FROM STATE TO STATE, CITY TO CITY, FROM CHURCH TO CHURCH, FROM JOB TO JOB, IT MIGHT NOT BE THE STATE TO CITY THE JOB. MAYBE GOD'S TRYING TO DO SOMETHING IN YOU. Every once in a while, I have TO ASK GOD THIS. What are you trying to do in me, y'all? All right. Told you it wasn't going to be pretty. Those that learn to suffer quietly, doing the work, preparing, and planning, always get ahead. The talented might have short-term victories, but they will fade like a shooting star. The Northstar employee, minister, student, and entreprene entrepreneur learn to face their work head on. And they don't procrastinate. They choose to suffer now to enjoy the rewards later. Problems don't go away. They can be ignored. But greatness is found in accepting the suffering of working through problems. You want a raise. You want a promotion. When you get a promotion and get a raise, you know what they are doing? They are promoting you to more problems. If you can't handle THE PROBLEMS OF WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW, you will never be elevated to the next place. If you I want I want the braise. I want the promotion. But do you want the trouble? There are some THINGS NOT WORTH THE PRICE. I GET THAT. BUT IF YOU'RE ever going to do anything, there is a price tag for it. It's the process of which by which God makes great men and women. It's the iron of trouble sharpening the iron of your will. It's fire of affliction to smelt the dross from the silver and the impurities from the gold. It's the pressure of the tribulations to yield a shiny diamond from the darkness of the coal. Hard things await. Suffering is calling. You can avoid it and end up like the mediocre OR YOU CAN TRY TO SIDESTEP IT AND HOPE TO GET THROUGH THE TOP FROM A SHORTCUT. BUT SUFFERING COMES for all. You can either choose to suffer now through grit, hard work, and determination. Or you can suffer through regret, stagnation, and missed opportunities fostering your low self-esteem, unhealthy habits, and financial struggles. I'm preaching. You can either suffer momentarily or perpetually. Can I give you a few examples, Bible definitions? Is that all right? Let's talk about Noah. Noah built an ark by faith. He built an ark. But Noah wasn't called to build an ark. He was called to suffer. Think about it. took 100 years to build an ark. God gave him the blueprint, but God didn't build the ark for him. You see, that's what we want. When God calls us, we want God to do all the work for us. I WANT TO PREACH, Brother Nate, do you like to study? Do you like to pray? Do you like people? If you don't like that stuff, you're probably not called to preach. God gave him the blueprint, but God didn't build the ark for him. Noah married faith and obedience to hard work. He had to cut down the gopher trees, chop them so he can move them, carry them to his workshop. He had to remove the limbs and the leaves. He had to cut and form the boards from the logs. Gopher wood was dense and hard. It had to withstand the storms and carry the weight. The only thing tougher than the gopher tree was Noah. >> You You didn't hear me. I said that THE TOUGHER THAN THE GOPHER would was Noah. >> Tough with to withstand the mocking. Tough to withstand the doubting. Tough to withstand the questions. Tough to withstand the fear. Tough to preach judgment while the people ate, drank, and were married. tough to get in a boat with only your family and not another soul who BELIEVED YOUR MESSAGE. GOD DIDN'T TELL HIM HOW MANY YEARS IT WOULD TAKE. If you want to build anything, a career, a ministry, a family, a legacy, then it will take the unyielding effort and rel and RELENTLESS RESOLVE. NOAH BUILT AN ARK, BUT GOD BUILT a man. >> Come on. NOAH BUILT THE ARK, BUT GOD WAS BUILDING A MAN. THAT'S WHAT WE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT GOD GIVES US A CALLING SO HE CAN MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF US. HE GIVES US A MINISTRY. HE GIVES US A BURDEN SO HE CAN MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF US. BUT DON'T AVOID THE PROCESS. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE ARK. IT'S ABOUT YOU. And it wasn't about the results or the numbers that God was necessarily looking for. He built it big enough for multitudes to get in. But it was the faithfulness of a man that God desired. Then there's Joseph. How about Joseph? Young, the young son of Jacob, the son born in Jacob's twilight years. He was the favorite, clothed with privilege and blessing. Then there were those dreams. Everybody like to have a dream. Everybody want I had a dream. I've got a dream. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to I'm going to do But they don't like the process between the years between Joseph's dreams and their fulfillment was around 21 to 22 years. God gave Joseph the dreams, but he didn't give him the details. God left out the rejection, the pits, the false accusations, the prison, and people forgetting about him. But it wasn't the dream that made Joseph. It was the process. Psalm 105:19, until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him. The word tried in Hebrew describes the purifying process of a refiner which heats metal and takes away the dross and is left with a pure substance. Proverbs 25 and4 says take away the dross from the silver and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. There were a group of men women who were studying the Bible together focusing on Malachi 3 and3 which says he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. He will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Puzzled by the imagery, one woman decided to visit a silver smith to learn about the process of refining silver. At the silver smith's workshop, she watched as he carefully placed raw silver into a crucible and held it over a hot fire. He explained that the heat melts the silver, allowing impurities to rise to the surface where they can be skimmed off. The process requires constant attention as too much heat could damage the silver but too little wouldn't purify it. The woman asked this question, "How do you know when the silver is fully refined?" The silver smith smiled and said, "It's done when I can see my own image reflected clearly in it." God is trying to do something in you. You can either accept it or you can find it or you can fight it. But I'm telling you, if you will stay in the fire, if you'll stick with it, if you'll have some faithfulness, if you'll have some perseverance and endurance, I'm telling you, he's going to see his image in you. Come on, somebody. IT'S MORE THAN INFORMATION. IT'S MORE THAN TRANSFORMATION. GOD IS LOOKING TO CONFORM US INTO his image. Would you lift up your hands right now? I feel his presence in this room. God, do something in us. Oh God, how about David? In a field surrounded by stinky sheep was a future giant killer, a leader of men, and a king of a nation. Next to him stood an old prophet with a horn of oil in his hand, ready to pour it on the head of a ruddy teenager. There is no mention of mocking brothers, jealous kings, or cold caves. There's no mention of the songs he'd pinned that would last millenniums. But David's songs came through the crucible of suffering. David was a teenager when he was anointed to be Israel's king. But it would be 10 to 15 years before he became king of Judah and another seven years before he became king over all of Israel. Between the pasture and the palace was patience and perseverance. Samuel didn't tell him what those years in between, the anointing and the consummation would entail. But to be a man after God's own heart, is to be a man willing to trust God with your heart. It's the breaking of your heart. It's the crushing of your pride and ego to become what God has called you to be. But let's return to Acts. And I'm almost done. If musicians want to get ready. Paul had ravaged the church and had just had his Damascus road experience. He was sitting blind and shaking in the house of a man named Judas. God didn't tell Paul of all the great places he'd go. He didn't show him all the people he'd win. He didn't show him all the miracles he'd work. Instead, he says, "I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake." Listen to what Paul says of his ministry. You want a ministry? Let me tell you what Paul says of ministry. He says this in 2 Corinthians 11:23-30. Are they servants of Christ? I'm a better one. I'm talking like a mad man with far greater laborers, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the 40 lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. A night and a day I was a drift at sea. on frequent journeys in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, dangers from my own people, danger from the Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from frostbars, brothers in toil and hardship through many sleepless night, hunger and thirst, often without food and cold and exposure. And apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me from my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak and I am not weak? WHO IS MADE TO FALL AND I am not indignant. IF I MUST BOAST, I WILL BOAST IN this my weakness. Not how many conferences I've preached, not how many books I've written, not how many souls that I've won, not how many miracles I've worked. Let me boast in this. Let me boast in my weakness. Because when I understand that I am weak, I realize his strength is made strong and perfected in me. You have to understand what God might have to do to break you down and tear you down. Why? So he could be lifted up. >> I've talked about it before. I'm almost done. He in that same chapter in that same book, he says, "I was I was given a thorn in my flesh." He doesn't say what it is. He said, "Three times I asked God to take it away and God didn't answer that prayer. God said, my grace is sufficient." Sometimes grace doesn't look like grace. Sometimes grace looks like a thorn in your flesh. Sometimes grace looks like trouble. Sometimes grace looks like trouble in your life, problems in your marriage, problem with your kids. And you're asking God to remove it. And God says, "IF I REMOVE IT, YOU'LL STOP PRAYING. IF I REMOVE IT, YOU'LL STOP WORSHIPING. IF I REMOVE IT, YOU'LL STOP COMING TO CHURCH. SO, I'M GOING TO LEAVE THAT THORN IN YOUR FLESH." WHY? SO YOU CAN GLORY IN ME. MY GOD, I FEEL HIM. I'M TELLING YOU, THERE IS A CALL. THERE IS A CALL. STAND. Stand to your feet. Many want a calling, but they don't want the suffering. Many want success, but they don't want the suffering. Many people desire the accolades without considering the anguish that's involved. Let us look to Jesus now in our conclusion. The ultimate example of calling wed to suffering. The writer of Hebrews declares, "Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Before there's a crown, there's a cross. Before the glory, there's Golatha. His calling was to redeem a lost world. But the path to that purpose led through betrayal, agony, even death. Jesus in his flesh prayed this in the garden. Not my will, but thine be done. Choosing the suffering of obedience over the ease of escape. On the cross, he bore our sin, refined in the fire of sacrifice, until the father saw his perfect image, holy, spotless, victorious. His suffering wasn't the end, though. The cross led to an empty tomb. The power of his resurrection proving no pain, and God's plan is wasted. Jesus invites everyone to walk this path. your trials, rejection, doubt, sacrifice. These are the refiners fire shaping you to reflect his image. I had planned on preaching the gospel according to Job tonight. I'll save it for another night or another day. The book of Job is a fascinating book, right? One thing that I have noticed is that at the beginning of the book it says that he is a man of integrity. One who is choose or rejects evil. Chapter one shows us that he's a man of character and integrity. He's godly. But that does not keep him from suffering. Chapters 2 through 38 is this narrative between Job and his three friends and another man by young man by the name of Elhoo. Then God answers but God does not tell Job why he suffered. You see THE THE THE STORY OF JOB, the book of Job is not about Job. It's about God. THE BOOK OF JOB IS NOT ABOUT JOB SUFFERING. It's not about Satan. It's not about the narrative and the debate. It's about God. So, at the beginning, Job is wise. He's man of character, integrity. He's godly. Goes through this awful suffering and then at the end he becomes a new man has twice what he had at the beginning. You see the deeper life, the deeper ministry, the the depth in wisdom that one might desire comes from chapter 2 through 38. You don't get all of the blessings and the ministry and the no anointing and all of the ALL OF THAT WISDOM AND depth without the chapters between that involves the suffering. You see, we all want the end, but we don't want the journey of the process in between. We all might not suffer the way Job did. Your suffering might look different than mine, but if we try to avoid it, we're going to miss out on what God is trying to do in us. But here's something about Job, book of Job, that we have that Job didn't. We have a perspective that Job didn't have. Right? We know of the conversation that went on in heaven. Job never did. God at the end of that book didn't say, "Hey, Job, let me tell you why you're going through what you're going through, bro." I'm telling you, man, you wouldn't believe this Satan, man. This this this Lucifer, this devil. He came up here and he was talking about all this nonsense. And I we had a little, you know, we had a little conversation. God never told him that. At the end, God says, "Who do you think you are questioning my ways? Were you there when I laid the foundations of the world? Are you there when I gather the water in the sky and pour it out? Are you there when I feed the birds and I feed the animal? Are you there, Job?" And Job's like, you know, we might have more questions than we get answers. And we may never have some questions answered. Why did this happen? Why did this take place? But if we'll say, God, your ways are higher than mine. Your thoughts are not my thoughts. Your ways are higher than my ways, oh God. And Lord, right now, I know you're trying to do something in me that I might not understand, and I'm uncomfortable, and I'm I don't feel good. I don't I don't I don't like going through this, but God, you're trying to do something in me. And I pray, Lord, that you would let your will be done in my life. And I trust you more than I trust myself. Would you lift up your hands right now? I don't know who I'm preaching to. I don't know why God maybe changed this message tonight to something else, but there's somebody in this room who needs to understand that the call of God comes with some suffering. It comes with some hurt. It comes with some rejection. It comes with some questions you might never have answered. But if you'll trust a holy, just God, if you'll trust a wonderful, holy, loving God with your life, the anointing will come and the blessings will come and the and the favor will come and the doors will open and he'll show you the path of life. >> But if you always run from it, IF YOU ALWAYS TRY TO AVOID IT, IT'LL follow you. It'll follow you. It'll chase you down. So, you can either go through it and allow it to take place and let God yield the harvest he's looking for. >> I trust in God. >> Oh, yes. I say one who will never fail. >> Come on. Do you trust in him? >> I trust in God. >> My savior. >> My savior. The one. >> The one who will never f I saw the Lord. >> I saw the Lord and he heard and he answered. I sought the Lord and he heard and he sought the Lord. I saw the Lord heard and he answered. >> That's why I trust him. That's why I trust you. I sought the Lord. >> Come on. >> He's going to answer. I saw the Lord. >> He might not answer the way you want him to, but he'll answer. >> I saw the Lord and he heard. >> That's why That's why I trust him. That's why I trust in God. Myior one who will never He will never fail. Listen, let me read you a quote and I'm going to get out of here and dismiss you. I love CS Lewis. But this is what CS Lewis the writer said. God who foresaw your tribulation has specially armed you to go through it. Listen, not without pain, but without stain. He's especially armed you to go through what you're going through. Not without not without pain but without stain. I had a thought a few months ago. I think I said it in a service. We say this. I'm just trying to get through. I'm just trying to or I'm going through something. I'm if I can just get through what I'm going through. I feel like the Lord kind of just put this in my brain. Maybe he did. Don't blame him, blame me. But maybe we need to stop trying to get through what God is trying to get us to grow through. Maybe we should stop trying to get through. And God's saying, "If you would just grow. I'm trying to grow. I'm trying to make something out of you. I know it's hard." Listen, there's no growth without resistance. There's no growth. I'm not a I'm not a bodybuilder. I'm not a I'm not a weightlifter, but listen, if you're going to grow muscles, you got to you're going to have to have some resistance. You're going to have to have some weight. You're going to have to get behind something. You look at Dax over here. He's built like a brick house. You know why? He He works. He gets He gets behind the weight. He can He's six 16 years old, 17. He can bench press 405 pounds. Listen, you don't get muscles like that without moving some weight around, some resistance, right? Listen, maybe God's put some resistance in front of you to get you a little stronger. Maybe he's put some resistance around you so you can get a little stronger and grow you a little bit. One more time, would you lift up your hands and say, "Lord, do in me what you've got to do, oh God. Whatever you're trying to do with me, Lord, I may not understand it, but God, I'm going to grow through it. I'm not just going to go through it. I'm going to grow through it. Would you give your neighbor a high five, a hug? Greet somebody and say, "Growth through, growth through, growth through, growth through." Wednesday night worship in the word. We make disciples of all men. We've got ministry taking place here. We've got be free. We got adultish. We got kids quest. And right here in the sanctuary, we're study the word of the Lord together. Greet somebody. Invite somebody and grow through what God's trying to do in you. We'll see you Wednesday.