"People Suck; Love Them Anyway"
Be The Sinner
♪ Even when you feel low, you can still go ♪ ♪ Even when you feel slow, you can still go ♪ ♪ Even when there's no hope, you can still go ♪ ♪ I never ran so to know, man, I still go ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, [MUSIC] Yo, yo, yo, what's going on? Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. If you host us with the most, it's PK, our pastor, Keenan Riley, back with another episode of People Suck Love 'em Anyways Preach It to the Choir. What's up, Nick? I don't know much, you know, hey, I've spent another week off, so it's what we're doing, you know, we're being very inconsistent, in which we talk about being consistent quite a bit, you know. Don't say we, okay, don't say we, we missed last week because of you, so I don't know. It wasn't because of me, I'm gonna blame it on my mother-in-law. [LAUGHTER] You know, she just had to have family in Ohio. Just remember, if you have three fingers pointing out, there's always one pointing back. That's why I'm pointing with all five. [LAUGHTER] We're all ten, I guess. I totally messed that up, by the way, too. If you have one finger pointing out, you've got three pointing back at you, so I totally flipped it, but it's okay. You were picking up what I was putting down, so it's all good. But yeah, man, thankful to be back, thankful to have another episode. Hopefully, hopefully, we're back in the groove now, man, and we could get back to the weekly drops and things like that. So we don't have anything going on for the foreseeable future, hopefully. For a seeable keyword. Yeah, right, like tomorrow. [LAUGHTER] But thank you so much again to the people who listen every week, who download. Thankful to the 40-some-eye countries. Thankful to the, almost 40 states now, I think, 36. So, man, we are so thankful to be in just different territories of the world talking about Jesus, man. It's a very cool thing, very humbling thing, and we're just thankful to be a part of it, or I am. You can speak for yourself, but I am thankful and grateful and humbled. How do you feel? [LAUGHTER] So, the bar was set pretty high, man. [LAUGHTER] Pick words that can match that, bro. I know I got to say here can be all smart. But no, it's been great. Again, we talk all the time about how we could have been the people out here who aren't reaching anybody, talking to anybody, doing anything. But here we are, and God has granted us a platform and an ability to speak to people in other countries, other states, that we'll probably never meet, and that we have never met. And it's pretty awesome, again, just to be able to reach people. Because not a lot of people can say that. I think they talk a lot of times about how most podcasts don't make a past episode 10. Is that true? I think so. I'm pretty sure that's pretty true. I can't remember the exact statistics. That's why I don't want to butcher it. But most podcasts don't make it that far. Here we are. I think almost 120 episodes in. We're in 40-something, almost 50 countries. We're in almost 40 states here in America, and so it's pretty awesome. We have weekly downloads in India. It's a crazy thing to think about. We're very grateful. We're humbled by the fact that we're such a small... Here we are, two guys in Hodgenville, Kentucky, in the United States of America, and we're reaching people. It really just puts life into, I guess, context into perspective. We're just a small speck in this world, and we're reaching even more. But if we all come together, it makes a louder noise. The Bible is very clear in saying that anything is possible through God. It's crazy to think that Scripture is true, huh? It's crazy to think that the words that are written on there are true. But going back to what you were saying about being those people who can do something with this and be something with this and take this to the next level, you know, let's lead into that segue with what we talked about today with, you know, you can be the Pharisee or you can be the sinner. And, you know, if you're listening to this and you're like, "What's a Pharisee?" A Pharisee was someone who knew the law, who taught the law, who was a religious leader back in Jesus' day, but they never let the law change and transform their life. Think about a modern day Jewish man, basically. Yeah, we just lost viewers. But, you know, it's true. Yeah, it's true. Historically, I can't get that stone. It's already thrown. No, but, yeah, so I mean, it was a person who was basically more worried about what they looked like in their presentation versus being vulnerable and saying, you know, "I need something different in my life. Like, this is so rigid and so routine." And so it's the difference between religion versus relationship, which is something that we hang our hat on here at fruition where we say, you know, "Hey, no denomination, no religion, just Jesus." You know, it's about that relationship that you have with Jesus. And today we went from Luke chapter seven. And there was a point at a time where a Pharisee had invited Jesus over for dinner. And as I said today, man, Jesus, he's a boss. He's a savage. He went, even though before this, if you want to backtrack just a second, the Pharisees were already trying to conjure up a plan to kill him. And so, you know, Jesus is basically walking into the lion's den at this point and sitting down with this Pharisee and having a meal. And the crazy part is that a woman, the Bible is not clear about what this woman has done. The Bible says that this woman was a very bad woman. And that this woman found out that Jesus was at the Pharisees house eating. And the Bible says she shows up at the house. She is in the same room with the Pharisee and Jesus. And this wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing takes place. What happens? Jesus forgives her of her sins. Even though the Pharisee is in the wrong, even though the Pharisee thinks that he has it all figured out and that he's doing things right, it is the woman who the Pharisee is actually looking at going, "Well, if Jesus was who he says he was, he wouldn't even be letting her touch him." And that is the crazy part to me about religion versus relationship. Maybe church styles, you know, if we want to go down that route for just a minute. It's crazy to me that what we read about Nick 2,000 years ago in this Bible is still happening on 714, which is Sunday, 714, 24, it is still happening. It is still happening in church houses across America today. It's still happening. Religion is still keeping people bound. Religion is still keeping people from attending church. Because, you know, a lot of times they believe in the process now of what of, "Well, I've got to look a certain way before I go, or I've got to act a certain way, or I've got to be a certain way, or I've got to think a certain way." Where Jesus is like, "Come one, come all." Come one, come all. I didn't come to call the righteous man. I came to build a hospital for the sick, for the broken, for the mentally unstable, shout out. I came to build, you know, a place for the sinners to come in, man, and to learn about my grace, love, and mercy. And it's just crazy to me, man, that 2,000 years later, here we are, still dealing with the same thing that we do, that Jesus did. It's crazy. It's funny because, you know, I was in my absence last Sunday. We were up in Ohio with my mother once family. You weren't here? I don't think so. Yeah, it's very clear because YouTube didn't work. Anyway, we were visiting a church that my mother-in-law's family, or my wife's family, my wife's family, they get tinned and all that stuff. You married to your mother-in-law. I hope not. That's a Kentucky question. That is a question. But again, you know, it just comes down to, we went to a church, and before we went, what I was kind of getting at, when I was packing, I was sitting there thinking, I was like, "What am I supposed to wear to this place?" What am I supposed to wear to this place? It's just that question, though, that we always talk about people who are so concerned. What am I supposed to wear to this church? All these sorts of things. And then it just hit me and said, "I don't care what I'm supposed to wear. I'm going to wear this." They kicked me out. They kicked me out. I think I was wearing these exact same jeans, these holy jeans, and a shirt, the shirt that we made, the one that says less drama more Jesus. I wore that shirt and ripped jeans to this church. I think it's something, though, it's something that's so prevalent in our society here in America, where we're always so concerned with what we're wearing. Before we come into a church building, before we come into the presence of God. And again, I'm not saying that we shouldn't respect God. We shouldn't try to bring our best to him and all that kind of stuff. But we get so bogged down in the details of trying to look good that we neglect being good. We neglect our heart position. Our heart position is more focused on what we look like versus how we behave. Brad Lee, who does a podcast as well, he's a real estate entrepreneur type deal. Anyways, he's got a podcast I think called Truth Bombs or something like that. And so whenever somebody drops a Truth Bomb and you hear a boom in the background. And I wish I was thinking whenever you said we worry more about looking good versus being good, I wanted to do something. I wanted to have a little sound or something to be like Truth Bomb. I guess we could do that, but then we'd probably get copyrighted. This is true. But it is true. People are so worried about looking good. And that is a fair seam mentality. The fairsees were all about, you know, the Bible says that they would stand out on street corners and recite prayers. To be seen, not to be heard, but to be seen by people, not to be heard by God. And, you know, I feel like it's, it's, it's a, I don't know if people have ever tagged this or not, but maybe we can start something today. I feel like it's a fair sea spirit where, you know, it's like, where it's like, look at me. I want to be seen. I want the attention. I want the focus, but yet my life on the inside is a wreck. It's messed up. It's a, it's in a thousand pieces, but hey, this suit looks good. My hair is good. My Bible is thick. I'm at church. I gave a little bit in the offering. Everything is good. And it's like, no, you have been seen by people. And people will look at you and go, well, look at that. The perfect Christian. And then when the affair comes out or the drug addiction comes out or the, you know, the failure comes out, we are so blown away. We're like, oh, I thought that they were the perfect Christian. And it's like, no, man, they were the fair sea. They knew the law, but they didn't let the law change them. And that is the problem that we have in what we said today in modern day, 2024 Christianity. Yeah. And so trying to be Christ like we have that fair sea mentality of just, you know, I, if, in order to be Christ like I have to look like this, be like this, speak like this, do like this, et cetera. You know, rather than just, you know, again, as we say, you know, getting your heart position right is all, you know, being Christ like is about getting your heart position, right? It's not about what you wear. It's not about, you know, what, what's on your skin or not? If you're tattoo or not, it's not about, you know, this side or the other, it's about being Christ like. It's about taking it every day to be better at being Christ like, you know, and, you know, it's just, it's crazy to me. You know, we never, and I think this is where I think it just gets, because we never see anywhere. I don't think anyway in the Bible where, you know, that Peter was worried about, you know, what he was wearing, walking into the temple. You know, you don't, you don't see, you know, anywhere where Peter or Paul was like, I have to, you know, I have to make sure I'm wearing my best garments before I go speak the gospel to the Gentiles. You know, we don't ever see that. And so it's, it's, it's, it's one of those things where you have to ask yourself, where did that come from? And, you know, if that mentality came from people, then you didn't come from God. It came from people. I, you know, and we're, we're following these as, you know, the Pharisees were doing these man-made laws. You know, they, they were taking God's law and manipulating it to a point where, you know, it looked like they were holier because they, they set the bar so hot. You know, they're like, we're going to, you know, this is what God said the bar here. We're setting the bar up here. I mean, you know, you know, you, you know, this is what God expects of you, but this is what, you know, if you really want to be whole, this is what we expect of you. And I think that that's a very dangerous precedent that's been set thousands of years ago. Again, as we see here with these Pharisees, you know, and, and we have modern day Christians with that Pharisee mentality of, you know, just like, hey, you know, this is where the bar is supposed to be. You know, God, God requests this much from you to come to God, but then you've got to get up here, you know, you can enter in down here on the ground floor, but then you've got to look up here. You've got to keep working and striving and it's not even working and striving. It's more of a looking, you know, you have to look a certain way. I don't care how much effort or work you put in or how, or how big of a mess your life is as long as you look the part. You know, that's, that's, that's what it's all about. And I mean, and we live, I think the reason why we see it more here is because we live in the Bible belt. Like we live in the Bible belt in the United States. Like we are Southern, you know, Southern United States, man. And it's like, you know, who cares about if you're having 17 affairs, who cares about if you've got 37 credit cards, you know, who cares if you're, you know, if you're addicting to whatever you're an addict to whatever. Like, who cares? It's like, you come to church. Oh, hey, fantastic. You came to church, you know what I'm saying? Like, you got that really thick. Oh, you said on the second row behind the Johnson's fantastic, you know, and we're dealing with this mentality again. And to me, a spiritual type situation where, where I don't know if it's a checkmark where it's like, Oh, hey, man, like this family looks like they've got it together or this person looks like they're doing great. And it's like, I don't know if we come to church to want to be left alone and be like, you know, Hey, I came to church today. I listened to the message. Everything was good. I'm good. Let me alone. Now I'm good to go. And that is that faircy mentality where it's like, I'm listening, but I'm not applying. I'm listening, but I'm not letting it change and transform. I'm listening, but I'm not letting it sink in. And, and, and the problem with that is, is that you're going to be so performance based that, that your, your feelings and your emotions are going to be tied. And, and this is a lot of what I struggle with before I went on my fast was, was that my feelings and my emotions were tied to, as I said, thumbs up, which is Facebook, you know, hearts, you know, things like that follows, comments, situations like that. It was, it was performance based. And the problem with being performance based is that your emotions are going to become tied to that. So you're constantly going to want to have people looking at you validating. Well, the problem with that is Nick is that we want people to look at us, but only in a positive light. And, and so whenever people don't look at us in a positive light and they start kind of going against the grain, which is what Jesus was doing. He was going into the temple, uprooting religious services, casting out demons, running out change collectors, tax collectors, like he was messing up some stuff. And now he's looking at people in a negative light. He's looking at the Pharisees and bringing a negative light to the Pharisees. And, and so that's the reason why they're trying to conjure up a plan to kill him, you know, because he's now raining on their parade. And that's the problem with performance based mentality is that I'm always going to try to look the part, but I'm not living the part. And, and you know, we set ourselves up for disaster in, in that regards because we're never, ever, ever going to always look the part. You know, that's, that's the thing about it. That's why we have grace, love, mercy, forgiveness, all of this good stuff we talk about because we're never going to live up to the part. And I know yesterday you were probably thinking, I was like, just out on a cloud floating out and now I mean, I text Nick yesterday and, and we were talking. I told him I was in the gym and, and, and, you know, I said, I was in here chasing ghost and things like that. And he's like, what ghost are you chasing? And, you know, it's like, no, not parent normally, you know, I was like, you know, I'm chasing, I'm chasing a better me. There, there, you know, the thing about that is, is that I will never be perfect. I will never arrive. I will never be high up on that platform type situation. So, so I'm always just trying to chase a better me that will never arrive. And, you know, with that mentality, it's like, you know what? I'm, I'm still going to keep working on myself every day. I'm still going to keep working on myself, man. There's been so much, and I know I'm, I'm getting here there everywhere, but there's been so much that I've listened to over the last little bit of just, of through different podcasts. I listened to a brain doctor, just a couple of weeks back, maybe last week, something like that, man, that was talking about the, the, the psychological part of, of ministry. And, you know, and how we neglect, like, you know, it's so, it's so cliche. And I'm not talking like, you know, all you need to have this type of faith and this type of faith and this type of faith. But it's so cliche, Nick, to look at somebody and go, you're not praying hard enough. That's the reason why God's not answering or, or hey, just keep praying or hey. And it's like, we have so much man going on between our ears that we're not transforming our way of thinking. We've got old processes, and we're trying to get new promises, and it's not working. And it's like, why isn't I working for? I'll tell you why it's not working for, because, because we've got this old mindset, we've got this old way of thinking, we've got this old mentality. And, and, and we're trying to, to take up new ground and do new things and be new people and all of this good stuff. And it's like, oh, okay. Well, let me introduce you to Pharisee 101. You know, it's like, I want to reach people, but you know what, I want to do it based on what I know. I want to do it based on what makes me feel good. I want to do it based on what I can comprehend with my own mind. And, and, you know, I think that's one of the biggest fights that we, that we fight in modern day Christianity in churches. I don't even know if we fight the devil, bro, as much as what we fight people. And then people are going to blame it on the devil. And it's like, no, bro, get your mentality out of the way. Get your mindset, get your performance based mindset out of the way. You know, get your agenda, get your schedule, get all that stuff out of the way. And then come in and serve God. Not people, serve God. And, and God will tell you what to do. God will show you where to go. God will do that stuff, but get the mentality out of the way. You know, come in here with a clear mind, a clear heart. What are you going to do today? I'm going to serve God. Well, fantastic. What does that look like? Don't know. It might be go get the donuts. It might be help set up for a podcast. It might be clean the bathroom. It might be count the money. It might be work the welcome desk, but I'm doing what God wants me to do. What he's guiding me to do. And we've said this many times, a lot of people think I'm directly going to walk into the door and go straight to the platform. Straight to the pool pit. And it's like, you can't handle the pool pit, though, if you're not willing to push a broom. There's different, different, different, different levels of serving. And people automatically think, well, if I'm serving, I'm preaching. If I'm serving, I'm praying. If I'm serving. And it's like, no, bro, I got so much deeper than that. And so much more simple than that. And I thought today's message was a good viewpoint of that, where you had this woman who was so broken and so desperate and so tired and so frustrated and so anxious. She came to Jesus and got forgiven. And you got this dude who sat at the table with Jesus, having a meal with Jesus in the conversation. And he thinks that he's done nothing wrong whatsoever. And we talked about this time again, but we have to start getting desperate for Jesus again, just where it's not what I have is satisfactory. What I have is strong and all that kind of stuff. It's just that matter of just pouring everything out and coming to God with nothing but your tears. The Pharisee thought he had everything together, thought he had wisdom, thought he had knowledge. And he was what I would consider your standing on ground with Jesus considering himself an equal. He saw himself as an equal with Jesus. He thought he had it just as together as Jesus did or however you want to swing that. But then we see that woman who came and just fell straight to her knees with tears running down her face so much so that it soaked the feet of Jesus. And then she used her hair to dry the tear. Again, these are all things that as you pointed it out in service that we would be like, most people would say you. You want me to get down on my knees where I'm crying and snorting and use my hair to clean the feet of Jesus. And that's how desperate we need to be. We have a sense of entitlement. That's what I think. I think we have a sense of entitlement where it's like this church was created for me, by me, through me. And we insert ourselves into that instead of this church was created by God, through God, for God. And we have that mentality of we're entitled. Like, my time is my time, you know. So I don't know why you keep preaching for so long for. Don't know why we keep singing for so long for. My time is my time. Entitlement, you know. Selfish. Yeah. And again, it goes back to that, to that me mentality or to that faircy mentality where it's like, I come into this place for me. You know, I invited you Jesus for the meal. This lady shows up. I don't even want a meal. I don't even need a conversation. You know, if you go back and read the Bible, the Bible says she stood behind Jesus. That was the coolest part to me out of the whole deal, was that this woman is in this room and she doesn't butt into the conversation. She doesn't say, she doesn't walk around to the front of Jesus and be like, "Hey, Jesus." You know, she walks into the room, stands behind Jesus, gets on her knees, cries so much that it causes his feet to get wet. And to me, as we said today, the faircy had Jesus' attention, but he did not have the intention to change. And that's where I feel like we are as churches, where it's like we have Jesus' attention. We're here. We're singing. We're praising. We're worshiping. We're doing stuff. We've got Jesus' attention. But here's the deal. What is our intentions of being here today? Are we going to change? Are we going to transform? Are we going to lay down our lives to serve him? What are we going to do? And so I feel like that's the reason why we have a lot of fairies or like we have a lot of religion in churches. Don't have a relationship. We got religion where it's like, "I came in. I sat down. I looked good. I left." "I came in. I sat down. I looked good. And I left." And man, it just makes me think to myself. It makes me even question and go, "We've got people sitting at the table with Jesus having a conversation, but never changing. Why is that?" And to me, it's because, again, we talked about today, our heart placement and our mentality is not where it needs to be. We're serving us, not him. Yeah. And selfishness is one of the biggest downfalls to modern Christians. You know, we want, again, if the church doesn't sing the songs I want, if the preacher doesn't say the words I want, I was about to drop the consumer mentality before I got choked on my donut. But yeah. And we talked about that. I think there's an episode like consumer versus parasite or something like that. We talked about that with Christians. Or comparing consumer Christians, parasitic Christians, where they're just coming to take and take and take and take and never giving or pouring anything in. They're never adding value. They're just taking from other people. Because, again, I don't care how or which way you want to say it. Most Christians that walk into a church building, most people that are walking around America or the world are selfish. They struggle with selfishness. They want things to be done for them the way they want it done, how they want it done, when they want it done. And that's very, very selfish. They think that they know better. I think back to, I was telling the youth the other night about some of the Israelites who rose up against Moses and Aaron and said, "You guys don't know what you're doing. We're going to do this. We're going to take control." Because they were waiting in the wilderness for 40 years. They were like, "God," and they were saying, "Moses and Aaron don't know what they're doing, but what they were really saying is that God doesn't know what he's doing." And they wanted to take the reins. They wanted to take control. They wanted to make sure, again, if you come into this church, you're going to look this way, talk this way, believe this way, pray this way, sign up to this roster, serve on this team, this, this, that, and the other, rather than, again, allowing God to transform people's lives and be humble and vulnerable enough. If you were sitting in this, if you're sitting in a pew on a Sunday and you're unwilling to stand up, come up to this altar, even though God is telling you to, that is selfishness. Because you're worried about how you look, not what God can do in you. Because we've talked about this before. If somebody comes up to this altar that's never come before, that may free somebody else up to come up to this altar. They're like, "God, if so and so can make it up there, I can make it up there." And so we have to get over this selfishness. We have to start doing and behaving in a way that is going to bring more people to Jesus rather than serve ourselves. Which is what we're so guilty of doing time after time week after week, month after month, year after year, is constantly be worrying about me, me, me, me, me, how I look, what I get, what I receive, with the social media thing. I mean, I'm guilty of that just as much as you have been. If I post something, if I don't get enough likes or if I don't get enough heart reactions, if I don't get enough laugh reactions or whatever else it is, then I'm like, "Well, screw them." It's just like, obviously they don't get it. Obviously. And that's something that we try and we work to let go of. Because again, it's not about us when we walk in here. We're not coming into church on a Sunday. I guess we could say it this way. We're guilty of coming to church, wanting to get poured into rather than looking for someone to pour. Looking for someone to pour into. We always want to get served. We always want to get handed things. We always want that blessing, but we're coming to God for the wrong reasons. We're coming to God with the wrong heart position. We should come to God. I think back to that song, "Help me want to give her more than the giving. Help me want to heal her more than the healing." This is about God. This isn't about us. It's not about our problems. It's not about our anxieties, our fears, our frustrations. God already knows those things, just like with the woman we've been talking about. The lady didn't have to tell God or Jesus how bad she's been. She didn't have to say every sin she's ever committed. Jesus knew her heart. Jesus knew what she was. Jesus knew what she's done. We the same way. We shouldn't have to come up to this altar and always bring every single need, every single want, every single desire to God. He already knows those things. What he wants is you. He wants your heart. He wants your willingness, your obedience, your servanthood. We need to get better about, again, as you said today during service, we need to get better about, stop bringing everything to God and treating Him like a genie and just being humble enough to sit or kneel at His feet and ask God, "What can I do?" And say, "Here I am. Use me." We're not talking performance-based. We're not talking again, "Oh, well, if I bring this and if I do this, then I'll be okay." It's like, "No, bring yourself. Bring yourself." Like this woman brought herself. She brought a little bottle of perfume with her, and that was it. She brought that, and that was it. She used her tears, she used her hair, she used her lips. She used what God had blessed her with, and that is what brought the worship, and that is what brought the heart position. "Hey, Jesus, I don't need your attention. I don't need your focus. I just want to be in your presence. I just want to be in the same room as you." And I can worship like that, and I can get down like that, and I can be healed like that. And at the right opportune time, Jesus transformed the conversation between Him and the Pharisee to, "Hey, young lady, I've noticed you this whole time you were here." You didn't need to know that I knew you were here. No, no, no. You were just happy that I was here. You were happy that I was in the room. You made it to where you needed to be, and now let me address you. You're going to be healed. You're going to be delivered. You're going to be set free. You're going to be forgiven in the name of Jesus. Now go, and it's like, at that moment in time, man, it makes you realize, it makes you understand that the presence of Jesus is where we need to be. It's not about a focus. It's not about an intention. It's not about any... It's in the presence of Jesus. If the presence of Jesus is there, be thankful. Be grateful. But be in it. Be in it. And be a part of it. Not to come to say, "Hey, I came with 37 needs today. Here's my needs." He already... Newsflash, he already knows your needs. He already knows your struggles. He already knows the desires of your hearts. He knows the number of hair on your heads. So there's no need to wear him out for another 37 minutes over about what's going on in your life. Come and what do we say today? Once you give what you have, you forget about what you need. That is a mind-blowing experience. Instead of being up here praying like, "Lord, oh God, I need this and I need this and I'm struggling with this." "Hey, what do you have? Oh, you have tears. Hey, crime. Oh, you have lips. Use them. Hey, you have hair. Dry. Hey, you have a shirt. Give it to somebody. Hey, it's all of these things that God has blessed us with and we're out here going, "I need more. I need more. I need more. I need more." Let's give what we have. And once we give what we have in the presence of Jesus, man, I tell you what, there's going to be a lot of stuff set free, man. I'm done. I'm out. What else you got? I mean, I think we need to be so busy serving that we don't have time to complain or even that we forget to complain. There we go. I think we need to get so busy and I know everybody's got schedules, again, selfish. If someone comes to you, if we're up here on this stage or if we're speaking through you through a podcast or the video or whatever else and we're saying serve, and your first reaction is to make an excuse, you're being selfish. I mean, be blunt and 100% honest with you. You're being selfish. If you immediately make an excuse, you're being selfish. We need to be so busy serving, so busy giving, so busy, whatever God has called you to do. We need to be so busy at that that we forget to complain. We forget to bring our needs to God because He's already taken care of them. I think that's where we need to be as Christians. I think back, my last thing I want to bring up is just where during service today when you were on your knees turned around facing the back screen and stuff back here. You said when you're down on your knees in front of Jesus and you're looking at His feet, you can't see anything behind you. You don't know who's going to the bathroom. You don't know who's raising their hands or not. You don't know who's crying. You don't know who's getting ready to leave. You don't know who's gathering their things. You don't know who's ordering pizza or on their phone or on Facebook. You're only worried about Jesus. You're only worried about being at His feet and being in His presence. Until we as a church, until we as Christians get to that point, we are never going to experience unity. We're never going to move forward or make progress towards what God wants for us to do because we're too worried about everybody else. We're too worried about what somebody else is doing, what somebody else thinks of us. I used to be in that position. I used to be in that point where I was worried if I was in a church service and I raised my hand what somebody was going to think of me. And that wasn't God that was Satan. I was worried about what other people thought, but again, that's not God. And so now I stand over here in my corner behind this camera over here during service and I'm praising God. And I see myself where no one else in this room, I close my eyes and I put myself in a moment in a situation where there's nobody else in this room. Because at that moment, nobody else in this room matters. It is between me and God and I'm worshiping Him. I don't care what anybody else is doing, who's making noise, who's moving. You know, sometimes Keenan has to like smack me to shake my hand or something because I'm in the moment worshiping God. And you know, I think that that's one of those things that we need to get to that point because these people around you, their opinions, their thoughts, their ideas, they don't matter. What matters is you being obedient and serving and worshiping Jesus. Absolutely. Let's end it on that, man. Yeah. A little short episode today. Why? Because we got plans. That's why. But we did not want to drop it. We didn't want to go another week without dropping an episode. So I was like, hey, we can do this, man. We can knock this out quick. We can stay on point. And I think we did a pretty good job, you know. But, you know, yeah, last but not least, man, be the center, not the Pharisee. Be the center. Be the person who knows. You ever hear another pastor say that? Yeah, absolutely. Well, you probably hear a lot of stuff here that you won't hear other places. But yeah, be the center man, not the Pharisee. Be the person who knows they're jacked up, who knows they're messed up, who knows they need Jesus and come with a humble heart. Pursue Him and see what He wants to do in your life. Thank you so much for tuning in. We thank you so much for being a part of this. Again, hit that down low button, tell a friend, tell a family member. And, hey man, let's just keep on taking up territory. Whether it be in other countries or other states, let's keep doing it. We love you until we see you again. Be blessed. [music] As always, this is BKR and for my sidekick Nick, we say thank you very much for hitting that down low button on people's suck level many ways. Be sure to tell a friend, tell a family member to hit that down low button as well. And as always, we say thank you. Be blessed. Even when you feel low, you can still go. Even when you feel slow, you can still go. Even when there's no hope, you can still go. I never answer to no man, I still go. [music]