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Since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me, he is not weak in dealing with you, but powerful among you. For to be sure he was crucified in weakness, yet lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in him. Yet by God's power we will live in him in our dealing with you. And this is a verse, kind of key verse A. Examine yourselves to see whether you're in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you? Unless, of course. You failed the episode. Not tearing you down.
Three points today about being steadfast in the faith.
Here's the first one. When we're steadfast in the faith, we are correctable. That means we can receive correction.
Now it's so nice when Glenn makes a comment. Glenn says correction just means to be made correct. And we all want to be made correct. Everybody wants to be correct, right? So why is it not easy to receive correction? Because it sounds very easy to be made correct. Glenn says that, and we all say, Amen. And then an opportunity to be made correct comes. And it's not quite as easy to receive that as it was to hear that on a Sunday morning.
Anyone ever been there? Right? To be made correct. So he says. When we're steadfast in the faith, we're correct. But why? What does in the faith mean? Well, here's what it means it means really belonging to Jesus, right? Really trusting in the gospel, really living under his lordship, really experiencing his transforming power or presence in our life. Paul doesn't say, I want you to be full of faith. Now here's the difference. It's intentional in his wording. He's not talking about the quantity of our faith. Like I need more faith. He's not saying that. He's saying I want you to be Steadfast and firm in the faith. Jude says it like this in three, he says, contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people. He's talking about standing in the saving faith of Christ. Not the amount of intensity that I have in believing, but am I really standing in the faith? Am I really submitting to the truth of the gospel? And one of the evidences, evidently, that we are truly in the faith is that we are able to be corrected by the truth.
I don't know why, but when I was a kid, I got a sister, I have two sisters. One of them is 16 months younger than me, the other one is 10 months younger than me. Scar, sorry, 10 years younger than me. And I don't know why it was so difficult for me as a young boy to say I was sorry. It was like the hardest thing in the I got spankings because I could not say I was sorry. It was so simple to just say, I'm sorry, Jennifer, for whatever it is. And I could not say it. Why? Because I did not like being made correct because I already know I'm right. Now it's one thing to be made correct when you're wrong. It's another thing to be quiet when you know you're right. Woo! It's been a journey for Jonathan. I'm still on that journey. Glory to God.
See, when the Word of God confronts us, what do we do?
I'm gonna ask a lot of questions today. And I want to ask those questions. I want you to really consider them. I don't want you to just hear them. I want you to really let the Holy Spirit question you. As you're asking that question, let the Holy Spirit really search you.
Here would be one when God's word confronts us, do we humble ourselves? Or do we immediately defend ourselves?
You guys have heard me tell a story on myself about me and Jerry 25 years ago now, sitting at breakfast in Argentina. And Jerry says to me, now both of us are really unhealed. And Jerry says to me, You know, John, uh, there's times when I'm hesitant. I have to, I feel like I'm kind of walking on eggshells to confront you about anything or bring anything to you. Because, you know, you you you're kind of defensive. And I said, I'm not defensive. And so we argued there for probably 20 minutes. I mean, I'm embarrassed to say it was years later before it really dawned on me the irony of the situation of me being defensive to tell somebody I was not defensive, right? But that's how blinded I was. So I'm not defensive. What do we do when we're confronted with truth?
You might remember the story uh in 2 Samuel 12 of the prophet Nathan confronting David, the greatest king in Israel. David is sinned with Bathsheba, and Nathan approaches David, and he I, you know, I don't know if they had gotcha moments back then, but it would have been a gotcha moment because Nathan approaches David and he tells him this story. He says there was this rich man with a lot of lambs, and there was this poor man with only one lamb. And this poor man nurtured that lamb. He's a part of the family, took care of him, and this rich man came in and took that poor man's lamb. And David said, That guy has to pay for that. Nathan said, That guy is. You. Now, to David's credit, he humbled himself and he repented before God and he tore his clothes and he was in mourning. And you can go read that story in 2 Samuel 12. He says, I've sinned against the Lord.
You can kind of compare that with Saul, who was David's predecessor. When God tells Saul, I want you to conquer the Amalekites, and I want you to kill everybody and everything. So then they go in, and Saul allows the people, first off, he takes the king. He doesn't kill the king, he takes the king, and then he allows the people to take the best. Uh spoils of the land, the best animals, and all that sort of stuff. And so Samuel comes and confronts Saul and said, Why did you not obey the Lord? And Saul gives Samuel, he, he, he, he was the spindle. He said, What do you mean I obeyed the Lord, Samuel? And Samuel said, Well, I'm hearing all these sheep. Why am I hearing sheep? Because they should all be dead. And Samuel said, Oh well, Saul said, Oh well, we we preserved the best for the Lord. We reserve the best so we can sacrifice to the Lord. No, Samuel says to him, No, what you did is you disobeyed the Lord. You ever tried to do that? You ever tried to dress up your disobedience as godly and righteous and look good? Has anybody ever done that? And Samuel says, No, you disobeyed the Lord. So he kills the king, they kill all the. Finally, Saul repents, but initially he deflects.
When we're confronted with truth, what do we do? Do we reflect, do we defend, or do we repent? It's a good question.
I like what Glenn has said before. This is a very practical tool that I think is very good. So when someone brings you truth, when they bring something, or even if it's an accusation, raise something on you, it's good for you to ask the Holy Spirit, is there any truth in this? Might only be 5%. 95% of it might be total garbage. But if I'm mature, I'm gonna grab the 5% that's not garbage, and I'm gonna allow the Holy Spirit to work it in me, and I can let the other 95% fall off of me. That's a good practical thing.
What do we do when we are presented with the truth? Do we embrace it or do we just shuck it off and let it go by us? See, both of them sinned. Saul and David sinned. The difference was in what happened after the confrontation. And Paul is saying the same thing to the Corinthians. He said, When I come, are you going to receive the truth? He said, I've been patient. This is the third time that I've been there. But can I tell you that patience doesn't mean that rebellion can just continue indefinitely? Can I say to you that uh at times I think we mistake God's patience for his permission? Because he's so, I think we've misunderstood this is Jonathan's opinion, but I think as a whole, we've misunderstood love and grace. Because we we have devoided, is that a word? We've devoided. We've we felt like that there's grace with no accountability. We've chucked accountability out of the window. That's why you have. Abuses that have happened, particularly in religious context, and people have something happen, and the next week they're in the pulpit preaching again, and we sweep it under the rug. You have people saying, like, get the plank out of your own eye before you get this da-da-da-da-da-da. Quit judging. That's not judgment. I know that's heavy. But we don't understand. We've taken the grace of God that I can just as permission. We've taken his patience as his permission. Now, there's not one of us that is beyond sin, not one of us that's not walking in the flesh in some regard. But what I'm saying is when there's things that happen, we just we just move by it. And it's not even a forgiveness issue. God, there's nothing you can do then for the rest of your life that's not already been forgiven. But there's trust. I mean, there's a whole bunch of stuff there. It'd take a long time to unpack that.
I like Romans 2. It says it's kindness, it's the kindness of the Lord that leads us to repentance. So here's the question for us today: What do I do with correction? What do I do when the truth of the Word of God confronts me? What do I do with it? Because It doesn't just reveal what I did, although it does that. It also reveals what's really ruling in my heart.
Remember telling somebody one time, you know, we always we hate this word, by the way, we hate this word submission. In any context, we just don't like it. And I remember saying to somebody one time, I said, you know, submission is really only tested. When you disagree. Because if you agree, that's not submission, that's agreement. Submission is only ever tested in whatever relationship. It's only ever tested when you disagree with something. What do we do with that? Because it reveals, like in at our very core, even our individual lives before God, it really reveals this. Who's the king of my life? Jesus or Jonathan? It's awful quiet up in here this morning. I mean, it challenges us, doesn't it? And I don't know about you, but for myself, it's like, you know, I would say that my heart is for God, you know, but then there's times when I notice, like, are there are there like parts of my heart or like little issues there that I want to reserve for myself? Like, Lord, I'm not gonna let you into that, or I'm gonna isolate myself in that.
And I Uh, let me just talk to the men for a second because uh, you know, I'm a dude. Let me talk to the guys for a second, ladies. I don't, I would assume this is probably for you to some degree because we're we're human beings, but guys, we could be in a room full of people just like this and be totally alone, totally isolated in our heart. Men have an amazing ability to do this, to be totally isolated in our own heart because we put walls up around our heart. And I say to you, if that's you this morning, man, you're a dangerous spot. You're easy pickings for the enemy. Easy pickings for the enemy. All right, Jonathan, that's me. I don't know what to do.
Well, here's a first step. The first step is to say, God, I do not want this. I don't want to be that.
Here's the second step. 101 just started. Go to 101.
Jonathan, I've done that before. Well, you must not have got it because you're still isolated. Go again. I'm straight to it. I'm sorry. Be find some brothers, find some sisters that you can live life with that really that really know you. Right? They really know you. It's huge. See, maturity is not demonstrated by never needing correction. We I think we subconsciously think we get to this place where like I don't need to be corrected anymore. That's not true. All of it until the day we step from this life into the next, we're gonna need correction, right? Hopefully it's less and less, but still, I mean, hopefully learn along the way, but we never get to some you know place where like we're just around all that. So maturity is not ever is not never needing correction. Maturity is demonstrated by how we respond when the corruption when the correction comes. Now, hopefully we'll be good repenters.
This is amazing scripture. Look at this scripture right here, Psalm 141. This, I mean, let the righteous man strike me. That is a kindness. Wow. Let him rebuke me. That is oil on my head. When's the last time you just read your Bible, got overjoyed over that? Yes. We don't love it, right? But this is a mature and correctable heart. People who know that they're in Christ, you don't have to defend yourself from everything that confronts you. Again, that's one of the biggest areas of my life. The Lord's still working in me. But I I think I've overcome a few hurdles in it. But I gotta be honest: when you preach things like this, have you ever been somebody that preached or shared a devotion, or you know that God works that message into you either before you speak it or after you speak it? So when I preach things like this, I I preach with fear and trepidation because I know, okay, I'm probably gonna have some opportunities to run up on some correction. And how am I going to respond to that? Lord, help me prep my heart, my mind in correction. But see, receiving correction, it requires something that's that's more deep than that. We can't really respond to that correction honestly if we're unwilling to look at ourselves honestly. If we won't really examine ourselves, and Paul says, let the examination, let it start with you, right? We're steadfast in the truth when we're honest in self-examining self-examination. They're demanding. Proof that Christ is speaking through Paul, and Paul turns it on him and said, I want you to examine yourself. That that word examine carries this idea of like really inspecting something carefully. Right? Test means to prove or determine whether something is genuine. And Paul calls the Corinthians to compare their lives to the truth of the gospel. Are you really genuine in your faith? Are you really passing the test or are you failing the test? Are you able to really stand and be proven faithful?
I uh I keep buying these headlamps because I keep losing them. And I've noticed when I'm working on something, I need a little extra light. Sometimes I got to put the glasses on. I do that because I want to really look at it and inspect it. I want it to be illuminated. And Paul is saying, I want you to allow the Holy Spirit to illuminate in you what he needs to illuminate so that you can really inspect it really well. And the issue is not the appearance of it. I want the reality of it. Is your faith really genuine? Not what you can say. Every one of us know people that can talk a good game. It's always a red flag for me when people are telling me great Christians they are. It's like a, it's just, it makes me nervous. I don't know why, but it's like a red flag automatically. It's not called a sinless perfection. None of us could stand in that. But really, it's the question of this is my life marked by genuine faith in Christ? Am I a good repenter? This is hard.
I don't know how many years ago it was, probably 10 years or more. Glenn was preaching over in Owasso. And he made the statement. He's talking about Adam and Eve, and he's talking to husbands. And he said, he said, Adam was responsible. Sin entered the world when Adam took of the fruit. Why? Because Adam is responsible. He said, husbands, you're responsible. That means when you go to argue with your wife, you lead the way in repentance. Be a good repenter.
And that was aggravated. Because a week before that, Alicia and I got into a discussion. Hallelujah. And I made this statement to her. I'm tired of being the one to always come back first. I'm sick of being the one to come and say, I'm sorry first. Any men here with guts enough to raise your hand and say, No, don't do that. Don't do that, okay? I just said that. And I was like, Glenn, be quiet. Stop that. What was that? Truth being illuminated, being responsible. Men, are we good repenters to our wife?
Now, ladies, that doesn't let you totally off the hook. It's okay if you want to go first sometimes, lady. I'll just lay down. I'm gonna throw that. I'm gonna help my brothers. I'm gonna throw that out. Throw that out. We've laughed about that. We've had a lot of good discussions around that, but there is something about being a good repenter. Husbands, there is something about leading the way in that.
What does Self examination look like? What does healthy self examination look like? Let me throw some questions out there. I want you to really consider these. Here's the first one. I really trust in Christ alone, or am I trusting in my religious efforts? Here's a good one. Is Christ's word the final authority in my life? Or do I find myself making statements like this? I know the Bible says X, Y, Z, but do I find myself saying that? When I sin, do I defend it or do I repent of it? Is there evidence that Christ is changing my character? Would people around me say that? Am I growing? Do I love Christ? Now, most of us would say that, but here's a big one: Do I love his people?
People make the craziest comments. They'll say things like this: I love Jesus, but I just hate the church. I'm saying that that would be like you walking up to somebody and saying, Man, I love your head. Your face, beautiful, but your body, woo. Or it'd be like walking up to a man and saying, you know, bro, I love you, but dude, you got to do something about your wife. That's ridiculous. So when you make a statement like, I love Jesus, but I hate the church, that's what you're saying. Your face looks awesome, but the rest of your body is like, oh. Crazy. Do I love his truth? Am I persevering in faith even through weakness and difficulty?
See, we're not talking about earning salvation. I'm not talking about that. We're talking about evidence that salvation has happened, that saving faith is alive well in my life. When you're in the faith, you don't need to be uh afraid of honest examination. Because God's not trying to kick you out of the house. I think I had this idea that God was always trying to kick me out of the house. He's not trying to kick you out of the house. In fact, one of the huge perspective shifts in my life personally, when I came to Destiny Life, this is a huge perspective shift. When the Holy Spirit would bring something up, how many know you ever had the Holy Spirit reveal something in your heart that was really ugly? Like, ooh, that is ugly. And I did not want to see that. Anybody heard that happen? Our tendency is to try to push that down because it's ugly and we don't want to see it. I think my perspective shifted when I came to Destiny Life and I heard the teaching about the Holy Spirit is bringing, He's revealing that so he can deal with it. Not to shame me, but so he can deal with it. So when the Lord shows you something, and I know sometimes it's hard because you're embarrassed or whatever the case may be, it's hard to walk through the pain of that, but he's revealing that so that he can deal with it.
James talks about. The book of James about looking in a mirror. He talks about not being just hearers of the word, but doers of the word. He said, if you're just a hearer only, in other words, you hear it, but nothing changes. Don't do it. It's like looking in a mirror and walking away and forgetting what you look like. Now, nobody this morning, hopefully anyway, woke up this morning, you got dressed, you looked in the mirror, you didn't like what you saw, so you got mad at the mirror. Anyone get mad at the mirror? Be like, that dumb mirror, that thing is lying to me. I'm gonna buy another mirror. What are you gonna see? The same thing. Why? Because it's just a reflection of what's there. But when you looked the mirror and you saw maybe I got something all over my shirt or my hair's messed up or something, what did you do? If your shirt's messed up, what do you go in the closet and you change your shirt because it's a revealer of what's actually there? And spiritually, when the Holy Spirit shows truth, what do we do with it? It'd be like seeing something all over my shirt and saying, I'm not gonna take this shirt off and change, I'm just gonna put a coat on. I know it's 150,000 degrees outside, but that's all right. I like this coat. I'm gonna put this coat over my nasty shirt so nobody can see my nasty shirt rather than just going to change the shirt.
What do we do with the self examination? See, we don't just examine ourselves so we can see what needs to be changed. We examine ourselves so we can submit to Christ where that change is needed. Paul said from there in verse 7 and 8, he said, I pray that God, pray to God that you will not do anything wrong, not so that people will see that we have stood the test, but so that you will do what is right. So if you're steadfast in truth, you're correctable, you examine yourself.
But lastly, it means you're obedient. The goal is obedience, not just the parents. We don't want to just talk a good game. We want to be truly transformed from the inside out. Parents, every one of us, when you when your kids are young, you've got to put external guards on them, right? You've got to say, I mean, we have to use that line that I hated when I was a kid and I used as an adult because I said so. You know it. But there's times you have to say that because that child is not developmentally, even to the point where they can understand it. But your hope is you put those parameters on so that internally their heart shifts, so that when you're not around and looking and those external parameters are off, there's been a transformation inside. Now they're obedient, not because they're scared to get in trouble, they're obedient because something shifted in their heart. The purpose is the transformation of inside bleeding over in the outside of really being obedience to Christ. Paul says, I'd rather you, essentially he says, I'd rather you obey Christ than for me to have to prove my authority by disciplining you. I'd rather you just obey Christ. And he says there truth can't, we can't do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.
Why? Because truth, truth should lead us to obedience. I can't get mad at the mirror. That mirror, I don't have a spot on my shirt. That mirror's wrong. No, we we we it leads us to ability to obedience. We can resist the truth, we can ignore the truth, we can argue with the truth, we can try to justify ourselves against the truth. But guess what? You can't do change the truth. The truth doesn't adjust itself to accommodate us as much as we would love for that to happen. As much as we live in a society in 2026 that is trying to Adjust the truth rather than adapt ourselves. We see it everywhere in everything. We see it. But the truth corrects us, it examines us, and it calls us to obedience. Jesus Himself said this if you love me, keep my commandments. That means if we say we love Jesus and we don't keep his commandments, guess what? You don't love Jesus.
Jonathan, you can't say that. I didn't say it. Jesus said it. So if you got a problem, take it up with him. I'm saying we don't miss the mark from time to time. I'm talking about willful, blatant disobedience, and rebellion. All right. That word translated fully restored or complete, here's what it carries the idea of something being put back in the proper place, restored. It's a word that they used of like mending a net that had been torn or resetting a bone that had gotten out of place. And I say to you in the fickle, I don't know if anybody's ever had had to have a bone set. I never have, and I hope I never do. Right? I'm sure that is a painful process, but guess what? You can either endure the momentary pain of own being set and then let it heal properly, or you cannot set it and it will heal improperly, and now it's going to be there improper in its healing and messed up for the rest of your life rather than the momentary pain that it took to be adjusted. Biblical correction, this is what it does. It identifies places where we're out of alignment so the grace of God can restore that part. And bring it into alignment and bring wholeness and healing to us. That's biblical correction. I have to know that God is for me. This is why, when we have an encounter, the first session is about the Father's love. Why do we do it that way? Because Saturday morning, when you talk about sin and you talk about sexual wholeness and you talk about all the others where we've missed it, I need to know that there's a loving father not out to get me, but calling me to come home and to come out of disobedience and destruction so that I can come into the house of restoration. That is Christianity.
So let me finish with this. What does it look like to be steadfast in the truth? It looks like we're correctable. Right? We allow the truth to confront us. It looks like we're honest in self examination. We allow the truth to search us. It looks like we're obedient. We allow the truth to change us.
The guys are going to adjust here and get communion. Guys, go ahead and start passing that out, would you?
It's not just the correction. I think it's the next slide. Would you go to that next slide for me? Correction is not the destination. It's not just looking in the mirror.
By the way, let me pause and say we have open communion at Destiny Life. And what I mean by that is you don't have to be a member of Destiny Life Church. You're a part of the family of God today, you're a believer. Feel free to partake with us. Just hold the elements. We'll pray over those at the end. Correction is not the destination. It's the correction that comes, a truth that was revealed to me. Examine my heart. I walk in obedience. Restoration comes. Out of that comes what? Maturity. This is a life process that never, ever ends. Jonathan, I don't like correction. I'm sorry, it's going to continue. And the more that you dislike it, the more that you need it. And the more that it's going to come, it's going to be an opportunity for the Lord to work in our lives.
So here's the question for us today. You ready? Everybody here, I know this distracting all you ADHD folks, people walking around. It's I know hard, distracting. Here's the question for us today. And I this is what I want you to really consider. You might even need to close your eyes in it, but I want you to really consider this. Is Christ actually ruling in us? Is Christ actually ruling in us? Paul is confronting the Corinthian church. They're indicting him, saying, Prove it, Paul. And Paul is saying, before you put me on trial, because remember, it's not about him on his own personal defense, it's the gospel. We've preached that in the last few messages. So it's not about Paul, but he's I want you to examine yourself. Are you genuinely walk in the faith? Are you genuinely repentant in your heart? Is his word really governing my life? When he confronts me, am I correctable? Right? When he searches my honest, when he speaks to him, am I really willing to obey him?
Why don't you stand with me? I think it's a beautiful point.
Can I grab one of those? Yeah, thank you, Ed. I think it's a good time to go into communion because communion allows us the opportunity to really reflect. He talks about, the Bible talks about doing this in remembrance of Christ. I think we're going to have a message later in the year, towards the end of the year, where we talk about, we're going to preach a message on communion and gather around the family table. It's going to be a fun, fun time. But it's an opportunity for us to really examine ourselves. It's really an opportunity for us to ask the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, what are you doing in me? What do you desire to do in me? Or the things in me that You need to show me. For some of us this morning, there were some areas that are just obvious to you. You know though, God's been dealing with you about it. You know it. We used to say to our girls when they were little, slow obedience is no obedience. Why? Because of slow obedience. So something that the Lord is dealing with us about that that we need to say, Lord, I submit to that. Surrender to that. Thank you. Maybe this time there's something the Lord shows you that you you haven't even thought of. Examine yourself.
I want to pray over these elements. And I want to ask as I do that for you to just right there. I'm praying over us, but you, you and the Holy Spirit, right there. Holy Spirit, would you show us today? Show us areas maybe in our own heart that we've compromised or we've shielded from you. Would you show us? We take this bread together, this representative of your body broken for us. We eat this together. We thank you for showing us. Father, we take this juice together. You show us this juice representing your covenant of your blood. This is why we can stand before you with the forgiveness of sins. Lord, you don't just cover our sins in covering them up, you cleanse our sins. So I pray that you would help us today. Let's take the juice and drink together.
Ladies, would y'all just sing over us for a moment? I just want to take a moment of worship here. Sing and just allow the Holy Spirit really to examine us. Thank you, Lord. Just invite you right where you are. Why don't you just close your eyes? Just bow your head there, right where you are. Just let the Holy Spirit really speak to you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that you've already made a way. You've already made a way. Lord, you don't leave us. You don't leave us how you found us. Thank you that we don't have to walk in condemnation and shame this morning because you don't leave us like you found us. Sing that. Let's sing that. Makes us white as snow. No. Thank you, Lord. It's nothing but your blood. Come on, let's sing that again. Sing that again. Church, let's just lift that up to the Lord today. Just sing that to them. Precious. White as snow. Nothing. Nothing but your blood. Come on one more time. Sing that Jim go ahead and come. Sing that one more time. Sing that one more time. Come on, sing it up to the Lord. Precious. Search us. Search us, Lord. Search us, Lord. Search us, Lord. Search us, Lord. Thank you.
Jim's gonna come. Would y'all put would you put that last scripture, that scripture in the Psalm? It's a famous Psalm here, Psalm 139. I think there's a good heart posture for us to leave the day with. Search me. Search me, oh God. Know my heart. Test me. Know my anxious thoughts. See if there's any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. This is a prayer, David. This might be a good prayer even for us this week and in the coming weeks to pray over our life. Lord, search me. Because there's things we can't know. We just can't know unless the Holy Spirit shows us. Search me, oh God. Know my heart. We can't even know our own heart. Search my own heart. Show me. Is there anything and that's maturity, church? Maturity that seasoned saints, that is really being steadfast in the faith. You can be seated. Thank you. Thank you, Jonathan, for sharing the truth of God's word. That truth may smack you in the face. But it's its kindness. Now we don't interpret it right there. But it's his kindness. It's the kindness that leads us to repentance. Thank you.
We're going to worship, continue. Worship this morning. Just in our giving this morning, if you're giving by text, the information there on the screen, there's three ways to give. And if you're giving by text, you can just put the amount in there and the whether it's tithe or your giving offering or towards missions. And then if you're giving a check or or uh cash, there's an envelope right there in front of you in the seat back, and you can fill that out and drop that in the bucket in the back of the auditorium as you leave. Also, if you're our guest with us this morning, there should be a card just like this, a welcome card with information on the back. If you don't mind filling that out for us, we'd love to have a record of your visit with us and have the opportunity to get more acquainted with you, and we'd love that. So if you don't mind doing that, and then you can drop that in the offering bucket back there in the back of the auditorium as you exit this morning. Amen. Let's pray over the offering as we prepare to give. Father, I thank you, Lord, for your goodness, your kindness. Father, you're faithful. Faithful to us, Lord. And Father, we honor you, Lord, today, even in our giving. Father, we honor you with a repentant heart. But we also honor you in our giving today, Lord. We just thank you, Father, that you're going to bless the gift and giver. We thank you, Father, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
As you give, check out the announcements that's happen around DLC. What's up, DLC fam? My name is Teddy. We are so glad that you're here with us today. Let's take just a quick look at what we have coming up for you and your family. Alright, guys, it's Thursday Sunday, and you know what that means. It's house church night. These nights have been amazing to see a deeper relational and spiritual connection amongst everyone within the Madi. For a list of host homes and locations, visit dlc.tv and click the third Sunday button to see that. Or scan the QR code in your seat flyer. Hey men, you miss our next men's breakfast that's happening August 29th at 8.30 a.m. right here on the Claremore campus. For more info and to let us know that you're coming, visit dlcsignup.com. Our intro to mental and emotional health and healing class starts August 20th at 7 p.m. in the Awaso campus. This is an educational course for men and women over the age of 18. And if you wish to better understand your emotional health while also growing in spiritual maturity, then this is the class for you. Well that's all the announcements that we got for you this week. If you have a prayer request, please let us know. We'd love to be in prayer with you. But with that being said, have a good week, DLC.
Yeah. Also, I want to make mention uh our groups fair will be happening uh September the sixth. Which is right after Labor Day and that Sunday. And so I just before the Sunday. Yeah, before Labor Day. Yes, the sixth. I'll calculate it straight. And there is going to there's a sign-up there on the website. And so if if you would desire to be a small group leader, uh be sure to avail yourself of that. There are signups that are opening for this fall semester. So go to the church website there, DLC website, and you can sign up there. And then that'll be available. And then we'll introduce the groups fair that'll have you happening September 6th. Amen. If you don't mind putting the map back up there of the house church, That are meeting this evening, the different places. Avail yourselves to those. And uh we just have a great time together as the body of Christ. Go ahead and stand one more time with me as we as we head out. Lord, we just thank you, Father, for your faithfulness to your word. And Father, we just thank you. Your Holy Spirit speak into our hearts. And Lord, we we've looked into the mirror and we've seen your truth, Lord. And I pray that, Father, that we would not walk away from the mirror of your word and forget. But Lord, we would just run to you. For what you're speak our hearts, Lord. And I just thank you. Father, we go in your presence. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless. Love on one another as you go this morning.
