- Welcome to the audio podcast of The Father's House. We hope and pray you are both challenged and encouraged by this time in the word. - Hey, while we're making noise, let's welcome everybody else joining us from outside of the room, Napa, East Bay, Roseville, Calgary, Canada, prison church network, live stream. We love you guys. Oh, it's good to be in the house of God. Thank you guys for that. You guys can go ahead and take your seats today. Man, what a great day. If I don't know you or if you don't know me, if we haven't met before, my name is Rich and I help out here with Worship and with our leadership college program with my wife, Hilary. And thank you so much. Hilary actually spoke a couple of weeks ago if you guys remember that. And yeah, she did great, as always. And you might remember in her message, she talked about how our youngest daughter, Millie, told her in the week leading up to her preaching. She said, "Mom, you can't preach on the weekend. "You're just too beautiful to preach." And she is beautiful and that was a very sweet thing of Millie to say to her mom. But we are a two-preacher household and I am her dad. So I'll be honest, I was kind of waiting for a comment from her this week. And I didn't hear one. So by the time Friday afternoon came around, I pushed the issue a little bit. True story, I said, "Millie, hey, "I'm supposed to preach this weekend. "Should I preach?" And she looked at me and she said, "Sure." (audience laughs) Thank you for that. I was planning on doing it either way, so whatever. We have a fun relationship. We've been in a series in the book of Mark. You guys been enjoying this series in Mark. Pastor Dave preached a great message last weekend about the difference between amazing unbelief and then amazing faith, the kind of faith that opens the doors for the miraculous power of God in our lives. It was a great message, Pastor Dave, thank you for that. And if you didn't get the chance to listen to that, please check that out. Today we're gonna talk about pointing our faith in the right direction. Did you know that it's possible for us to pour our time and our energy and our passion into a pursuit of godliness that ultimately yields us nothing? It's true. It's all dependent on what your faith is pointed at. And God has given us clear ways to know that our faith is pointed in the right direction and he's laid those ways out for us in his words. So we're gonna go to the Word of God today and find some answers for this issue. Starting in Mark chapter seven, verse one, says, "Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, "him being Jesus, with some of the describes "who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some "of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, "that is unwashed. "For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat "unless they wash their hands properly, "holding to the tradition of the elders. "When they come from the marketplace, "they do not eat unless they wash. "And there are many other traditions that they observe, "such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels "and dining couches. "And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according "to the tradition of the elders, "but eat with defiled hands?" Interesting question about eating with unwashed hands. I was just spending time with my daughters yesterday and I gave them a snack. Their mom likes to give them cucumbers and charcuterie and stuff. And I gave them cheese puffs 'cause I'm dad. So I gave them some cheese puffs. And as soon as they were done with the cheese puffs, they left the table and went straight to the couch in the TV remote. And so I'd say, "Whoa, hold on, hold on." Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. And Millie, our youngest, you remember Millie, told me I should preach this weekend. Millie turns to me and in all seriousness, she goes, "I licked them." (audience laughs) I'm like kiddo, that's not how it works. It's personal hygiene. So this conversation that they're having with Jesus, this is actually not about personal hygiene. The scribes and the Pharisees are addressing Jesus on an issue of ritual purification. Now this is an act that the Jewish people performed to purify themselves from the defilement of the world around them. And it was important because if they became unclean, it limited their access to the community and to the temple and ultimately to God. So ritual purification was a big deal to them. But we also need to take a look at the wording that they use here when they're speaking to Jesus 'cause this wording is important. They say, "Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders?" They're not confronting Jesus about breaking the laws of God. They're confronting Jesus about departing from the traditions and the rules of men. That's an important distinction for us to make. We're gonna break down this conversation that takes place, but in order to better understand and appreciate this conversation, we do need a little bit of context. So I'm gonna do my best in the span of about three or four minutes to try to hit all of the major context points that we need to know, but just keep in mind that I'm trying to cover several thousand years of Jewish history. So if I gloss over a few things or don't mention a couple of details, please forgive me, okay? But we're gonna jump into some Jewish laws and history for a brief but enriching time. Are you guys ready for this? It's gonna be really great. Okay, starting in the book of Exodus, the people of Israel were enslaved to the Egyptians for 400 years. You can see Prince of Egypt or the Ten Commandments movie or just read the book of Exodus, okay? They were enslaved to Egypt for 400 years, 400 years in a pagan culture with pagan gods and pagan forms of worship. God takes Israel out of Egypt, but he still needs to take Egypt out of Israel. You see, 'cause they were conditioned in this other culture and they worshiped these other gods and they weren't used to worshiping the holy one of Israel. So he took them to Mount Sinai where he made a covenant with them. And in this covenant, he said, you will be my people and I will be your God and you will no longer worship those other gods, but you will worship me and you're not gonna worship me the way you used to worship them. I'm holy and you are gonna approach me as holy and I'm gonna make you holy by setting you apart from all the other nations of the earth and in Exodus chapter 19, God tells them, now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth for all the earth belongs to me. It's important for us to understand that when God gave them his commandments, it wasn't just because he wanted to see them struggle through a bunch of commandments. God wanted relationship with Israel. He wanted them, the commandments were for the purpose of them distinguishing between the pagan gods that they once served and the one true almighty God of heaven. He wanted relationship with them. So these commandments became known as the written law and they are the divinely inspired word of God and you can find them throughout the first couple of books of the Bible. The written law gave Israel a way to know that they were in right standing with God. It gave them a clear lane to run on, to know that they were in right relationship with God. Just a little side note, Jesus never once broke the written law. He lived a perfect and sinless life on this earth. In fact, you'll see this a lot of times throughout the gospels. He'll heal somebody and then he'll tell them, go and show yourself to the priest and bring them the offering that Moses commanded. What's he doing there? He's observing and obeying the laws of God. All 613 commandments, Jesus kept perfectly all the time that he walked this earth. He's amazing, only he could do that. So there's the written law, but there's also another law that the Jewish people observe known as the oral law. And Jesus did not follow the oral law. The oral law started as traditions, convictions, wise ideas that were meant to come under alignment of the written law and to help people live right with God. But these traditions over time caused them to drift out of the clear lane that the written law had laid out for them. Several years ago, my wife Hillary and I were on the freeway. We were in the far left lane, the passing lane, because we were passing a semi-truck or attempting to pass a semi-truck, because much to our surprise as we were attempting to pass this semi-truck, it very suddenly and very quickly started merging into our lane. So keep in mind, we're in the far left lane. We don't have a whole lot of options of other places we can go. So I did what you should never do in that situation, and I panicked, and I jerked my wheel to the left to get away from him. But there was a concrete barrier, just a few feet to the left. So I once more did what you should never do, and I panicked, and I slammed on the brakes and jerked my wheel to the right. You know what happens when you do that? I overcorrected, and we spun out across all four lanes of the freeway. We started on the left shoulder, did a full 540 degree spin, ended on the right shoulder facing the opposite direction. Thankfully, obviously, I'm still here to tell the story. Hillary's still here, so we survived. Thank God. My car got beat up, but we survived, and miraculously, this was on the causeway between Davis and Sacramento, which can be a tricky place, Roseville campus, you know. And I discovered that day driving there could be tricky. No other cars were involved, but here's what I learned that day. I learned a valuable lesson. When you're going fast, even the smallest course correction can change your trajectory in a major way. And that's exactly what happened with the oral law and the people of Israel. The oral law started as these great ideas, good, strong convictions, to follow the written law and to help people follow that. And they were running hard after God. They were running fast in the lane towards Him. But over time, as happens with people, sin, compromise, failure, the influences of the nations around them, they rightly realized we need to correct our course here. But their way of correcting their course was turning those traditions into laws. And what happens when you do that is now you've got people who are held in judgment, not only by the written law, but by the man-made additions to the written law. Now people are being held in judgment by someone else's convictions of scripture. And when that happened, slowly over time, the oral law, man-made, was elevated in their eyes and put on equal status with the written law, which is the word of God. And when that takes place, a shift happened. And they were no longer worshiping God, but they started worshiping the appearance of godliness. And that is called legalism. And unfortunately, it did not die out with Pharisees. It's still very much alive and well today. We've seen it throughout church history. And from generation to generation, Christians can equate holiness or right-standing with God with refraining from, dressing a certain way, or eating or drinking certain things, or going to certain social gatherings like parties or concerts or movie theaters or apparently bowling alleys back in the day. That was a thing. Maybe it's refraining from certain kinds of entertainment. And look, sometimes those things are good ideas. They're good intentions. It's good to be mindful of how much of the culture is getting in you. We're not of this world. We're of the kingdom of God. So don't misunderstand me. Those things can be good things. But when we elevate them to the same level as the word of God, and then we put that on other people as well, that is misguided faith. That's legalism. And then we would go about and we would equate our righteousness with, well, I'm only righteous and you're only righteous if I read the Bible this much, or if you go to church this much, or if you worship in this way, or if you pray this much, but that is an overemphasis on man-made additions to the word of God. And that's exactly that kind of misguided mentality that renders our faith ineffective. So these Pharisees and these scribes, they come to Jesus and they say, why don't you make your disciples follow the traditions of the elders which we view as the same level as the written law? Jesus responds to them in this way. He says, well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites. As it is written, this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. Jesus is saying you scribes and you Pharisees. You play the part, you look the part, you sound the part, you're following the rules, but you're just going through religious motions. You're hypocrites because your heart isn't in it and because your heart isn't in it, you worship God in vain. Whew, that's a weighty rebuke for anybody to give, let alone the very Son of God. And here's the thing guys, a lot of times when we read these stories, it's easy for us to paint the Pharisees as the bad guys. It's easy for us to justify our own lives and say, well it's different for us than it was with them. We're different, but honestly they were people just like we're people. They had a sin nature just like we have a sin nature. They were just as susceptible to legalism as we are. So why should Jesus' rebuke of their legalism be any different than it is of ours? This is a hazard that any of us can fall into. We need to understand that our so-called righteous actions don't add any value to us in God's sight. In fact, the book of Isaiah tells us that your righteous deeds are like filthy rags before a holy God. So God doesn't need your Bible reading, God doesn't need your church attendance, God doesn't need your daily prayer. All of those things are great, wonderful things, but the purpose of those things is to help you bring the fullness of your life and your heart to God and reveal God's heart to you. The purpose is for relationship. But when we go about going through religious motions, checking boxes, giving God lip service when our heart, the core of who we are is not in it. And we're checked out and we're uninvolved and we're uninterested. Jesus turns and he calls it hypocrisy. Jesus does not want our religion. He wants our heart. And when we bring him our dead religious form without our heart, he says, your worship, your prayers, your faith, it's not working. It's pointed in the wrong direction. It's pointed at something other than God. The Bible has a name for things that cause the people of God's hearts to turn away from him. They're called idols. Legalism is not just unchecked religious zeal. It's not just a personality type that's stuck up and not fun to be around. Legalism is idolatry. And idolatry does not have to be the action of bowing down to a physical statue of gold or silver. Book of Ezekiel tells us this. It says, this message came to me from the Lord. Son of man, these leaders have set up idols in their hearts. They've embraced things that will make them fall into sin. Why should I listen to their requests? That's a heavy thing. God says, you've got an idol in your heart. Why should I listen to your requests? And the good news is we don't have to act like the Pharisees did. The Pharisees kind of had a reputation or they have a reputation because of how things played out of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. And we don't have to act like that. We can come to Jesus with humility. And we can recognize, I don't have it all together. There's some things in my life that need to change Jesus. Will you help me with that? The book of James tells us that God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. So there is hope for you today if you feel like you're bound in this thing of legalism. Jesus wants to break you out of that today. So the question becomes, how do we cleanse our hearts from the idolatry of legalism and come back into a right relationship with God? Well, first and foremost, it's acknowledging it and repenting of that thing. But then, how do you live from there? Where you go from there? That's exactly what we're going to spend the remainder of our time today talking about. I have two points for anybody taking notes today. We're going to talk about a heart that's right with God. A heart that's right with God is sanctified by learning and obeying the Word of God. God's heart, his emotions, the things that he loves, the things that he hates, his preferences, all of these things are revealed through his Word, through his commands. And when we come to know the Word, when we come to learn the Word, it helps us to distinguish between what's God and what's not. Learning his commands helps us to distinguish between righteousness and wickedness, spiritual life, spiritual death, the worship of the one true God and the worship of worthless idols. And this process of learning how to tell the difference between those things and acting accordingly is called sanctification. Sanctification is a big Bible word, but I'll explain it as we continue on here. But sanctification is so important to the life of a believer. And the Word of God plays a vital role in sanctification. In the book of John, John records this amazing prayer, this lengthy prayer that Jesus prays, and we get this inside look of Jesus' conversation with the Father, and he includes praying for his disciples and anyone who would believe in him. And in John 17, Jesus prays to the Father for his disciples. He says, sanctify them in the truth. Your Word is truth. It's the Word of God that sanctifies us. Ephesians chapter 5 tells us, Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word. And to present her to himself as a radiant church without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. So if we're trying to tear down the idol of legalism in our lives and come back into right relationship with God, we must have regular washing and sanctification by the Word of God. Here's what that looks like. I've been trying to put this into practice this week 'cause I've been studying, preparing this message. I wanna make sure, by the way, all of our teaching team and pastors do this. We don't just stand up here and tell you to do something that we're not trying to put into practice ourselves. That's exactly what the Pharisees did. We're trying not to be Pharisees. We're trying to put these things into practice. And so this week, as I've been reading my Bible, here's what I've been doing. I've been slowing down and I start off by praying. I say, God, I know that your Word has the power to sanctify me. I know that your Word has the power to wash me from the inside out. I need to be clean. God, all the things that I pick up in this life, the stress of this life, the culture around me, I know that I need your help to be clean in your sight. So let this time be more than just me reading words on a page, but by faith, I give you my heart. Cleanse it, God, make it right in your sight. And then I begin to read the Word and let it read me and wash over me and I begin to do what it says. So it's important that we go through this process of sanctification. And if you're not sure where to begin in reading the Bible, if you don't really have a habit yet of reading the Word of God, there's a lot of really great resources out there. You can get the Bible app, you can get a reading plan, you can join a T.F.H. group, that's a Bible study, you can join biblical studies program, or one that's near and dear to my heart if you're between the ages of 18 and 30. And you haven't done leadership college yet, honestly, just do it. You should do it. You should do it. Here's why. You don't wanna just go to college or the rest of your life with an infirm foundation in your faith. And our commitment to you in leadership college is that you will learn a lot of scripture, like a lot of scripture in nine months' time, more than maybe you even thought you could, so that you'll be prepared for the rest of your life and you won't be able to be shaken in your faith 'cause you have a firm foundation in the Word. (congregation applauding) It's important for us to learn and to know the Word of God, but more than just knowing the Word, it's important for us to obey the Word. And you might be thinking like, okay, I thought this whole message was about how it's not about the rules, don't worry about the rules, don't worry about obeying and all that stuff, it's about the heart behind the rules. It is about the heart behind the rules. God's heart is revealed through his commands. And so don't misunderstand. It is not a bad thing to be passionate about living in God's ways. It's not a bad thing for a person to submit themselves to the authority of the Word of God. It's a noble thing to live according to the Word of God. And in fact, we need more of that in this day and age. Christians who are applying the Word to their lives and living by it. But here's the thing. Jesus says this in John 14, 21. He says, "Those who accept my commandments "and obey them are the ones who love me." Okay, so remember this is about relationship, but he's equating relationship with obedience. Says, "Those who accept my commandments "and obey them are the ones who love me. "And because they love me, my father will love them. "And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them." First John 2, 4 says, "If someone claims I know God "but doesn't obey God's commandments, "that person is a liar and is not living in the truth." But those who obey God's Word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him. Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. This means that we obey the Word of God down to the smallest and simplest instructions. And I was reading through the book of Titus this week, great little book, three chapters, the Apostle Paul writing the Titus who's the leader of the church in Crete. And I just came across this passage and I thought, well, this fits really well for this part of the message. So I'm gonna read it to you today. Titus 3, 1 and 2, he's telling Titus to relay these instructions to his church. Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. Very clear, simple instruction. So my question to you, Bible believer, Christ follower, is how are you doing with the very clear, simple instruction of the Word? Bible says, be obedient and submissive to authority. Are you a person who is obedient and submissive to authority? I realize that's a loaded question to a bunch of Americans. It's complicated, it depends. Do they deserve my obedience? Look, I get it, so let's just move on. The Bible says, Bible says, be gentle and avoid quarrels. Are you an argumentative person? Do you just live for that conflict? Or are you trying to be at peace with everyone? Do you understand the value of gentleness? And do you exercise that in the people around you, in your life with the people around you? Bible says, to speak evil of no one. I looked up no one in the Greek, guess what it means? Got some Bible scholars in here. It means no one. That's exactly what it means. Speak evil of no one, doesn't matter who they are, doesn't matter how you feel about them. Even your family member who can't seem to get it together. Even that person at work that annoys you. Even that guy who stabbed you in the back and took your money. Even that person with a different ideology than you. Even the current or former president of the United States. Do you have to agree with them? Absolutely not. Can you speak evil of them? Absolutely not. Why not? 'Cause the Bible says, and we obey the Bible because we wanna be close to the heart of God. This is the process of sanctification. The book of James tells us that if we are hearers of the word but not doers, we are simply deceiving ourselves. We need to apply the word of God to our lives. And as we do that, as we go through this process of learning and applying the word of God, it prepares us to see Jesus face to face. But that's for all of the believers. Now we turn a corner here for just a moment. If you're in the room or at one of our other locations and you would not call yourself a Christ follower, we wouldn't call yourself a believer. That process of sanctification that doesn't apply to you but there is another kind of washing that is available to you today. That is more immediate and more urgent, not a process but an event. And I'll explain myself here in a moment. Let me give you the second point and I'll ask the band to join me on stage today. A heart that's right with God confesses sins to God and is spiritually born again. Let's go back to our story in the book of Mark for a moment. The Pharisees say, "Jesus, why do you let your disciples eat with defiled hands?" Their concern was appearing pure and holy before God. And just as much, they were concerned with removing themselves from the stain of the world around them and the people involved in that world. So Jesus rebukes him, calls him hypocrites. And then he goes on a little bit later to debrief this conversation with his disciples. And he says this, "It's not what goes into your body that defiles you. You are defiled by what comes from your heart. For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. All these vile things come from within. They are what defile you." When we have a wicked and defiled heart, it doesn't matter how much we try to dress it up. Doesn't matter if you do a couple of good deeds a day. Doesn't matter if you're a generous person. Doesn't matter if other people consider you to be nice or a hard worker that contributes to society or a good person. Doesn't matter if you refrain from coarse language. None of our measures to dress ourselves up on the outside make any difference when we have a heart that's filthy. And you were born with a heart that's filthy. Bible tells us that we were shaped in iniquity, sinful at birth. So from the moment that you were born, you were corrupt, defiled, sinful, unfit to stand before a holy God, unclean. But you know what's so great about Jesus? He's not like the Pharisees. Jesus is not concerned with keeping his hands clean. And all throughout the gospels, Jesus goes around to people and places that neat and clean religion would never dare to go. And Jesus goes and he shares meals with backstabbers and traitors and thieves and sinners. And he has conversations with pimps and prostitutes. He goes out of his way to find the rejected and the marginalized and the misunderstood people with contagious diseases. Jesus goes to them and embraces them. And I want to tell you, if he wasn't afraid of their filth, he's not afraid of your filth either. Do you feel unworthy? Do you feel dirty? Do you feel like a sinner? Do you feel like you can't measure up to the laws of men or the standards of God? I got good news for you. Jesus came for you. He came for you. He came to set you free. He came to show mercy and kindness to you. He came to show grace and forgiveness to you. He came to cleanse you. And nothing that you can do about it, you can't earn your way into salvation. You don't need to. He loves you that much. And when Jesus cleanses us from the inside out, this amazing thing takes place and by faith, we are spiritually born again by the spirit of God. And inwardly, we are made new. We are a new creation according to 2 Corinthians. The old is gone, the new has come. We are now the righteousness of Christ when he washes us, no longer led by our sin nature, but now led by the spirit of God. And this is the story of every Christ follower and it can be your story today as well. Titus 3-3, once we too were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other. But when God our Savior revealed His kindness and love, He saved us, not because of the righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth and new life through the Holy Spirit. He generously poured out the Spirit upon us through Jesus Christ, our Savior, because of His grace. He made us right in His sight and gave us confidence that we will inherit a new life. When Jesus Christ washes you from the inside out and you were born again, it doesn't matter what your past looks like. It doesn't matter what today looks like. You can have a hope and assurance and a certainty that you will live in eternity with Him forever. You don't have to earn it. He loves you that much. It sounds too good to be true. And honestly, it is too good. And it's also true. It's something that we don't deserve. But the love and the grace and the kindness of God for sinful and broken people is just that strong and all you have to do is take Him up on His offer. And this is what our part in the process looks like. First John, one nine says this. If we confess our sins to Him, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. So there is humility required. We have to come before Jesus and acknowledge Jesus. I'm filthy inside. I have sin that I can't wash away on my own. I can't be made right in your eyes by my own actions. So Jesus, would you wash me? Would you pour out your grace and your mercy and cleanse me and make me holy and righteous again? And the promise of the word of God is that when you repent of your sin, you believe in your heart and you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, you are saved. And so at all of our locations in just a moment, we're gonna give you an opportunity to take God up on that offer. In fact, right now, all our other locations, your campus pastors are gonna lead you into a ministry time. Here in this room, before we pray, just wanna acknowledge one more thing. When you make that decision to give your life to Jesus and to allow Him to wash you from the inside out, it doesn't mean that you're gonna be a perfect person. And you don't have to be a perfect person. (gentle music) First John tells us, I'm writing this letter to you so that no one would sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate in heaven. And the person of Jesus Christ, he's standing continually before the Father, advocating on our behalf, saying, "Father, don't look at their sinfulness. "Look at my righteousness within them, "my righteousness which covers them." And here's the mind-blowing thing. It is the delight of the Father in heaven to listen to Jesus' request on your behalf. And so even if you mess up, even if you fail, even if you sin, which you probably will, we all do, you have an advocate in heaven. It's not about being a perfect person. It's about living by His grace and trying to walk that path of sanctification every day, just taking one more step towards Jesus. So right now, if you would, every eye closed, every head bowed, when I extend an invitation, and if you're here, and you say, "I know I have sin in my heart. "I know I need Jesus to wash me. "I wanna live forever with Him. "I wanna confess that I've been a sinner, "but I wanna be made right with Him and live forever with Him, "just very simply with no one else looking around, "and just lift your hands so that I can agree with you "as you're making this decision. "Thank you, thank you. "God sees you, and He loves you. "I see you, thank you. "Thank you, God sees you, He loves you. "You are not too far gone. "You are not too filthy, you're not too dirty for Him. "He runs to you, He loves you, He wants to embrace you. "He wants to bring you a new hope and a new life with Him forever." If I didn't see your hand, Jesus did, that's the important thing. I see you up there, thank you for lifting your hand. God bless you. Right now I'm gonna pray a prayer, and I would ask that everybody in the room repeat it after me, and just say, "Dear Jesus, I acknowledge my sin, "and today I repent. "I believe that you died on the cross for me, "to wash me of my sin. "I believe that you rose again, "so that I can live forever with you. "Today, by your grace, I make the decision to follow you. "Come and be the Lord of my life. "From this moment until I see you face to face. "In Jesus' name, amen, amen." Come on, can we celebrate with those? We just made that decision today. God loves you so much. He loves you so much. If you made that decision, you got a card here, we wanna put in your hand and connect with you and give you the first couple of steps on your faith journey. Other than that, God bless you guys. Thanks so much. You can stand your feet, pastors, and prayer team, come down to the altars. If you need prayer for anything, come on down. Have a great Sunday. - For more information on our church, log on to our website at TFH.org, or check out the TFH app. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) You
