Who is relying on a physical circumcision for salvation is actually the one who is not in covenant with God. Because a covenant that hinges upon the works of the flesh is no covenant with God at all. And that's why he calls them the evildoers or the evil workers, because these Jews were truly relying on their own works and on the accolades of their own flesh to save them. Like these Jews truly believed that they were workers of righteousness, but Paul knew that they were only workers of evil. He knew that none of their fleshly, external works could ever result in righteousness before God because Scripture says that no one can be declared righteous in God's sight by the works of the law. And then he calls them the mutilators of the flesh because Paul knew that apart from faith in Christ, this physical circumcision that they so depended on for their salvation, it was completely emptied and void of any spiritual significance whatsoever. Making it merely equivalent to the mutilations and the cuttings of the flesh that the pagans themselves would perform. It's like a circumcision of the flesh meant nothing if there was no circumcision of the heart.
And then over here on this other side, or the other side of our chart, we have this group here that Paul himself is identifying with. Okay. He's like, I know that you guys claim to be the circumcision, but I'm telling you, it is we who are the circumcision. And then he gives these three descriptors of those who are of the true circumcision, the true believers, the true children of Abraham, the true Israel of God. And he says that it is we
who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory or who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh Likely quoting Philippians 3:3. Paul says that those who are of the true circumcision are we who worship by the Spirit of God. Can I tell you this morning? It is not by the flesh. It is by the spirit. Covenant with God is not based on the external works of the flesh. No, covenant with God is an internal work and it is by his spirit. That's why
Romans 2 says that a person is not a Jew who is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely physical and outward. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly. In circumcision is a circumcision of the heart by the spirit. Not by the written code. It's why
Colossians 2 says that in Christ we were circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Our whole self, ruled by the flesh, was put off when we were circumcised by Christ. It's this reality that we were not saved by an outward work that was performed by human hands. No, we were saved by an inward work that was performed by Christ and by his spirit. And that is why we of the true circumcision glory in Christ. That's why we boast in him and not in ourselves because we know that he did the work, right? He does the saving. We don't have any confidence in the flesh or in anything that we have done. No, we have a confidence in Christ alone and in what he has done. In
Galatians 6, Paul addresses a very similar issue that's going on in the Galatian church, and he writes this those who want to impress people by means of the flesh are trying to compel you to be circumcised. The only reason they do this is to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ. Not even those who are circumcised keep the law. Yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh. And then look what he says here. May I never boast in anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Like Paul knew that this was the mark of the true believer. This was the mark of the true circumcision of the true Israel. That our boasting was in the cross of Christ alone, because that is our salvation. Our confidence is never in our flesh or in what we can do or in how righteous we can be. No, our confidence is in Christ alone. It is in his righteousness, it is in what he did on the cross.
And each of my points today are going to be in the form of questions. Okay, I like doing this to help us kind of reflect on the way that each part of this passage relates to us and applies to us. And so my first question for us today is this I want all of us to ask ourselves is this the way that I view my own salvation? Like, do I truly know that it is by the Spirit of God that And not by my flesh? Do I truly know that it's all him and none of me? Do I boast in Christ, in Christ alone, or is there still this part of me that's boasting in my flesh and in my own works? Like when I look at the descriptors that are up on this chart, am I truly living as one who is of the true circumcision? Like it's awesome that this is the way that Paul views our salvation, but is it the way that I view my own salvation? In my own life, do I truly know that it is him and not me? And I really want us to think about that today and be honest with ourselves as we move through this passage.
And I want to look in verse four together because Paul is about to do something really interesting. Okay, one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. So he's just finished explaining to us that those who are of the true circumcision only boast in Christ. They do not put confidence in their flesh. But then he writes this
though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reasons for confidence in the flesh, I Likely quoting Philippians 3:4–6 have more. Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews, as to the law, a Pharisee. As to zeal, a persecutor of the church. As to righteousness under the law, blameless. So Paul's literally saying look, if any of these Judaizers think that they have a reason to put confidence in their flesh, I'm telling you, I have more. If any of these Judaizers think that they've got some really good works that would somehow result in their righteousness, I'm telling you, I have even more than them. I was circumcised on the eighth day. What's he saying? He's saying I had the exact perfect timing instructed by God in
Genesis 17. I was circumcised on the eighth day after my birth, and I had all the right rituals of the people of Israel. I was a natural descendant of Abraham. I was born into the covenant people of God. I had all of the right ancestry. Of the tribe of Benjamin. I wasn't just some ordinary Israelite. No, I was born into an elite and respected tribe of Israel that was born of Rachel herself that gave Israel its very first king. I was a Hebrew of Hebrews. What's he saying? My mama was a Hebrew. My daddy was a Hebrew, right? I didn't conform to the ways of the Greeks and live like them, like a lot of you did. No, I lived every single day of my life as a true Hebrew. In regards to the law, I was a Pharisee. I had the highest possible standard for my life. I was of the strictest sect of Judaism. I gave my life to studying the law and to observing it, and I was rising in the ranks. As for zeal, I was a persecutor of the church. Like I was so passionate and so sincere about that standard that I literally killed people for it. Like I literally got the papers to start rounding up the Christians and start killing them. That, like you want to talk about zeal, that's how zealous I was. As for righteousness under the law, Blameless. Every outward, external law that I was meant to keep, I kept it. Every standard for a Pharisee outwardly, I met it. I followed it to a T, and in the eyes of man, and only in the eyes of man, I was blameless. Every worldly, fleshly accolade that Paul could possibly have, he had it. Every possible reason to put confidence in the flesh and to boast in himself, Paul possessed it.
But then we get to verse 7, and look what Paul writes. He says, but whatever gain I had. I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing
Christ Jesus, my Lord. For his sake, I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ Likely quoting Philippians 3:8–9 and be found in him. Not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on. Faith. And so Paul lists out every reason that he had to put confidence in his flesh. And then he says, But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Like everything that was a profit to me, everything I thought I could boast in, everything I thought I could rely on for righteousness, everything that I thought was an advantage to me, I met Christ. And I came face to face with the reality that all of that was nothing and that Christ is everything.
And hear me this morning, okay? Because Paul didn't just realize that all of that was nothing, but Paul realized that all of it was a loss. Like these are accounting terms and business terms that Paul's using here. He's describing a spiritual transaction that occurred whenever he met Christ. Christ and when Christ redeemed him, like every accolade, every fleshly work, every accomplishment, every reason to boast had been over here in the prophet column for Paul's entire life. In meeting Christ, it didn't just put an X through it. It didn't just make it all nothing. It didn't just balance it out to zero. No, every credential that had been a profit to him for his entire life in an instant became a loss when he truly saw the surpassing greatness of Christ. He's saying that the day that I met Christ, I moved everything over to the loss column. I counted it all as loss. And then he says, and I still, like to this day, I presently count everything as loss. Why? Because I measured it up against the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus Christ, my Lord. And knowing him is so much greater than anything else that everything else is loss in comparison to knowing him. Like he is the supreme treasure. He is the good thing. He is the glorious one. He is the pinnacle of life. And everything else has a negative value when I compare it to the worst of knowing him. And not just knowing him intellectually, not just knowing of him mentally, but deeply knowing him experientially and relationally knowing him. And then Paul says in this verse that for Christ's sake, he has
suffered the loss of all things. And counts them Likely quoting Philippians 3:8 as rubbish. And I love that Paul says, for his sake, I have suffered the loss of all things. Because it's communicating this reality to us that it might not be easy. Right? Like we love easy. We love comfortable. But can I tell you, losing everything for the sake of Christ, that might not feel easy. Losing everything for the sake of Christ may not feel comfortable. It may feel like suffering in the moment. But in
Matthew 16, Jesus presents us with the great paradox of Christianity that whoever wants to save their life will lose it. But whoever loses their life for his sake will find it. It's this thing that only makes sense in the spiritual. It could only happen supernaturally, that somehow by suffering the loss of everything, we somehow gain even more than we ever could have imagined in Christ. Like that's how we that's how we can
have nothing and yet possess Likely quoting 2 Corinthians 6:10 everything. Like we can lose it all and we can gain everything because of this supernatural transaction that occurs whenever we meet Christ. And this word that Paul uses here when he says, I've
suffered the loss of all things, and I count them Possibly quoting Philippians 3:8 as rubbish. Every accolade, every work, every reason to put confidence in my flesh, I count it as rubbish. And not to be gross, I never ever ever thought I would say this word on a Sunday morning. But like this word that Paul's using, it literally means excrement. It means poop. It means filth. Like, this is how meaningless those things are to Paul now that he has gained Christ. He's like, all right, listen, guys, using the word loss still kind of made it seem like these have value. So now I'm gonna tell you like it really is. These things are literal poop. These things have the same value to me as dung, never needing to be looked at, thought about, talked about again, because that's how disgusting and filthy they are in comparison to knowing Christ. And Paul says that he has done all of this in order that he may gain Christ and be found in him. Paul willingly lost everything so that Christ could be his gain, so that Christ could be his prophet, and so that he could be found in him. What does that mean? That Christ was his, that he was Christ, that he could be identified with Christ and in Christ. And how do we do this? Right? How do we gain Christ and be found in him? Well, Paul answers this question. He says that we do this not by
having a righteousness of our own that comes from the law, but by having a righteousness that comes through faith in Christ. The righteousness from God Likely quoting Philippians 3:9 that depends on faith. Paul knew that no one could ever be declared righteous by the works of the law or by the deeds of the flesh or by a physical circumcision or by a valuable ancestry. No, Paul knew that the only way to be declared righteous before God was through faith in Christ. Paul knew that this list of accolades that he had, they weren't just worthless to him now, but they were actually worthless before God because the only thing that mattered before God was faith in Christ. That was the only thing of worth.
And so my next question for us today is this I want us to ask ourselves is this the way that I view my own works in my own life? Like I see that this is the way that Paul views his, but is this the way that I view my own? And for us that are here today, I know that we don't really like cling to ancestry or to circumcision or to like our status in Judaism or to the weird flex of killing people, right? Like those aren't the things that we would boast in. But We might cling to all the years that we've spent in ministry. We might cling to how much theology and biblical information that we know. We may put confidence in how much we've sacrificed, or in how much we've served other people, or in how long we've been a Christian, or in how many spiritual experiences that we've had. We may even be putting our confidence in our own reputation. In the way that the others around us would see us. And I want to ask us today, like deep down in the depths of our hearts, do I truly view my own works and my own accomplishments and my own accolades as rubbish and as garbage? Do I actually know that they are valueless in comparison to Christ? Have I actually placed all of my works in the loss column? Or am I still clinging to them as prophet? Do I really believe that those works could never obtain a righteousness for me and that only Christ can? And this morning, am I willing to truly suffer the loss of my own accolades and my own works if it means knowing Christ? And being found in him. It's awesome that Paul could view his works this way. But the question becomes do I view my own works this way as well?
And then in verses 10 and 11, Paul really brings this passage home for us, okay? He's just told us that it's not about having a righteousness in our own works, but
in Christ alone, the righteousness from God Possibly quoting Philippians 3:9 that depends on faith. And I'm actually gonna read this part out of the NIV. He says it this way he closes out this passage saying, I want to know Christ. Yes, to know
the power of his resurrection. And participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death Likely quoting Philippians 3:10–11, and so somehow attaining to the resurrection from the dead. I want to know Christ. I love that he finishes off the passage this way because this is the ultimate point that Paul has been communicating throughout this passage. This is the peak thing that he wants us to understand. He's revealing to these people hey guys, my circumcision is not my supreme treasure. My fleshly works are not my supreme treasure. My worldly accomplishments are not my peak treasure. Christ is. It's Christ in the peak experience of my life. The whole focal point of my entire existence is knowing him. I want to know him. And I said it earlier, but this knowing that Paul's talking about, it's not just mentally knowing of him. It's not just intellectually or theologically knowing about him. No, Paul's saying I want to deeply and relationally and experientially know him. I don't want to just intellectually know and intellectually comprehend the power of his resurrection. No, I want to experience it. I want to feel the power of the resurrection over my sin in my flesh every single day of my life. I don't want to just know about his sufferings. I want to experience his sufferings. I want to participate in it with him. When's the last time you heard an American say that? Right? Paul's like, no, no, no. I want to feel what he felt. I want to experience what he experienced. I don't want to just know about his death. No, I want to know what it really means to deny myself every day, to take up my cross for him and with him and to follow him every single day of my life. All I want in this life is to know Christ more and to experience him more. And at the end of this passage, Paul creates this true dichotomy. Between all his reasons for the flesh that he listed out for us versus his desire to know Christ that he's depicting here at the end of this passage. He's like, this list of accomplishments I have, I know that it's what all of you would think holds value. But I'm telling you, this is what actually holds value. It's the only thing that holds any value at all, and it's knowing Christ. Knowing him in his resurrection, knowing him in his sufferings, knowing him in his death, and ultimately knowing him at the end. And here's what's so crazy to me, okay? I don't think that there's many people who have existed who like knew Christ as well as Paul knew Christ, right? Like if we have to like make a list, Paul's gonna be pretty high up there on my list. Okay. Paul may have known more about Christ than anyone who's ever lived. And yet here he is in his later life saying, No, no, I still want to know him. I want to know him even more. Paul easily knew more about
the power of Christ's resurrection and the power that it had Likely quoting Philippians 3:10 in our lives over sin and over darkness. I mean, this dude is the one who wrote down
Romans 6. Like he knows more about this than anyone. And yet here he is saying, No, I want to know it more. I want even deeper revelation. I want an even deeper experience. I want deeper understanding. Before the book of Philippians was ever even written, Paul may have suffered more and experienced the sufferings of Christ more than anyone in recorded history. I mean, read the book of Acts. It's just suffering after suffering after suffering, and yet here he is after all he's lived through, after all he's suffered through. And he's saying, No, I want to know his sufferings even more. I want to experience it even more. And if anyone had even come in close to knowing Christ and his death, it was Paul. I mean, outside of Lystra, this man got stoned. They literally thought they stoned him to death, dragged him outside the city, and then he gets up, walks back into the city, and the next day goes to the next city in Derby to keep preaching the gospel. Like, if there's anyone who's ever existed that we would say, you've already obtained all of this. You already know Christ in all these ways. We would think that it would be Paul, and yet here he is saying, No, I still want to know him. I want to know him more. I want to know him deeper. I want to experience Christ in these things more than I ever have before. And I never want to stop getting to know him.
Can I tell you guys this morning? The ultimate result of a life that has been formed in Christ is a person who knows the surpassing worth of Christ and never stops pursuing him. And never stops desiring to know him more and more and more. And so my last question for us today is this is this the way that I view Christ? Like if I'm gut level honest with myself, do I actually see Christ as my supreme treasure? Do I actually see his surpassing worth? Am I this desperate to know him more? Am I this desperate to not just know of him intellectually, but to know him experientially and relationally, to deeply know him? Does every single day of my life revolve around knowing him more? Is the ultimate goal and the ultimate focal point of my existence is it knowing him? And I'm gonna be honest with you guys. When I look at my own life, I would say, no, I'm not quite there yet. But when I read this passage, goodness, I want to be. I want to know Christ like that. I want to seek Christ like that. I want him to be my supreme treasure. Like that. I want to see the surpassing greatness of him. And I want every moment of my life to just be about knowing him deeper and experiencing him. In a deeper way.
This morning, I think that there are really two invitations out of this passage. One, maybe you're here this morning and you've realized that you've really still been relying on your flesh. But you've been putting confidence in your own flesh instead of putting your confidence in Christ and in his work. And maybe you're here this morning and you're ready to count those things as lost. So that you can gain Christ, so that he can be your only gain and your only treasure. And then, too, maybe you're here this morning and you realize that you've lacked a passion to know him. Like, sure, you know him, but this morning you're feeling a stir to like know him, to experience him in a deeper way. To pursue him in a more real way. Maybe he hasn't been your supreme treasure in the focal point of your life. But this morning you're sitting here like me and you're reading this passage and you're like, man, but I want him to be. And if either of those two categories are you, I'm gonna ask that this morning that you would just kind of open your hands there before you. Nobody else needs to see or know or anything like that. But this morning, I just want to pray this passage over you guys because I really believe that there is a stirring. Where the Lord is just calling us to pursue Him and to know Him in an even deeper way.
And so if you will, just bow your head and close your eyes. And I'm gonna pray over that this morning. God, we come before you and we just thank you for your word. It is alive and it is active. God, it works in us. It exposes where we need to be exposed. It changes us where we need to be changed. And this morning, as we read this passage, God, we just want to recognize before you. That like Paul, we know that our works are nothing. That our works and our accomplishments and everything we've done and everything that we've placed confidence in, all of that, we count it as lost today in comparison to you. God, we want you to be our only gain. We want you to be the only thing that we treasure, the only thing that we put our confidence on in. And God, this morning, I just ask that you would stir up this desire in us to know you and to seek you. No matter how long we've been following you, no matter how long we've been walking in the faith, God, would you give us this deeper desire that Paul had to know you, to know you in the power of your resurrection, to know you in your sufferings and to participate in those sufferings with you, to know you in your death. God, teach us to be a people who take up our cross every single day, deny ourselves, and follow you just for the sake of knowing you more. God, would you work in our hearts until you are the supreme treasure? Until we see you as the one with surpassing worth and with surpassing greatness. God, would you give us a passion and a desire to know you and to keep knowing you deeper and deeper for the rest of our lives? I pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.
And this morning, as we close, I really cannot think of a better passage of scripture for us to be in as we partake in communion together. What an opportunity for us to remember and to meditate on the power of Christ's resurrection and his sufferings and his death. And so the ushers are going to pass out the elements to us, and James is going to come up and he's going to lead us. But I really want to encourage us this morning to use this as an opportunity to experience Him. Paul said that I may attain unto the resurrection. I've been thinking about this for several weeks now about the resurrection. Paul said that we were dead in trespasses and sins, but we've been made alive. And I want to add on another question. Are you simply waiting until you die and are raised from the dead physically to enjoy a resurrected life? This I believe is what Paul was talking about, Moran, as you were preaching. I just it was it I saw that. That it wasn't enough. To wait till one of these days, I want to get into the resurrection. I'm not discounting anything to come. But Paul wanted to know the fullness of the resurrected life in Jesus Christ. That's what he was pressing for. And you know, as we partake of communion this morning, We are declaring that we have been raised from the dead in Christ, and we have been joined together with Him, with the bread, and with the fruit of the vine, experiencing the life of Christ because we have been joined together with Him. In covenant relationship, just as husband and wife are joined together in oneness of life and partaking of life. And as we partake this morning, you want to open up your little cup there, the bread on the top. Jesus said, This is my body broken for you. And then he said, Eat it. Why? Because you are partaking of the sufferings of Christ. Join together, partaking of the same life together. Just as when you got married, you said that you were sharing life together and joining in covenant. So we are joining and declaring our covenant with
Jesus Christ. And he said, take the bread, and Possibly quoting John 21:13 he said, eat all of it. Lord, as we've come to partake of your life, symbolized through the bread, the wafer that we are going to partake of. That we're saying we are joined together with you, as Paul said, in your sufferings, that we're no longer our own, but we've been bought with a price. So we declare: I'm in covenant with you, and I remember, and I join together with you in your sufferings. In your name, let's partake of the bread.
Then he took the cup and he said, This cup is a new covenant in my blood Possibly quoting Luke 22:20. The shedding of blood for the remission of our sin, and that all of our sin is cleansed away. Your sin has been removed from you
as far as the east is from the west Likely quoting Psalm 103:12, the scripture says, and it's actually symbolized by the blood of Christ that cleanses us and has cleansed us from all of our sin. And as you partake of the cup this morning, Receive it as the fact that you have been cleansed. You have been cleansed, and his righteousness is now yours. Lord, I thank you that you shed your blood and brought us into that covenant relationship. with you, and that it has been sealed with your blood, and we have been cleansed. For
the blood of bulls and goats Likely quoting Hebrews 10:4 could not do it. But your blood has cleansed us, and we are in covenant relationship with you. I thank you for that in your name. Partake of the cup this morning, cleansing from all sin. Hallelujah. Lord, I pray this morning, as we have partaken, declaring our joint, our joining together with you. Thank you that we are no longer our own, but we've been bought with a price and we've been joined together in covenant relationship that we may know you and the power of your resurrection. I thank you for it. In Jesus' name. Amen and amen.
John is coming to close us out this morning. James. Thank you, Miranda. Don't you guys love Moran? Man, that it's so apparent to me, Morin, just your growth and development and even just truly being washed in the Word of Christ. Thank you for your vulnerability with us and for challenging us today. It was a really, really wonderful word. We're going to continue with our worship now and our tithes and offerings. The reason we say continue in our worship is because there's actually one of the root words given for worship is work. And so when we go and we we work every day, we're Monday through Friday, or maybe you're working weekends as well, but the work that we do truly is worship unto the Lord. Worship isn't simply, you know, the praise we do on Sunday mornings, but it's in everything that we do, including our careers, including our jobs, and bringing God glory in those ways. And one of the ways of which God has called us to do that is with our tithe. And so we have a few ways that you can do that. There's an envelope in the seat back in front of you. Just check the tithe box on that. You can put a cashier check in there and put in the offering buckets located on each side of the double doors here. You can also do the text to give option. That's what Whoopshayen and I do. And then also you can go to dlc.tv as well. Go to the website and you just click give there, and it'll take you through all the prompts to get that done. So let's just prepare our hearts in that. Pray to the Lord. The Father. You are our provision. God, you are everything that we need. And I asked if there be a need in this house that it would be you who meets it. God is the provider. If there is work that's needed, that you would provide the work. God, and in our careers, in our jobs, Lord, our professions, the places that we go um day to day, that that your name would be glorified with every ounce that we work, Lord. And the same way that we come into this house and we praise your name and we cry out, holy, Lord, that we would see every moment with you as holy, including. the time that we spend working. Yeah, we love you and we thank you for it. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
Well, good morning. If I haven't had the opportunity to meet you, my name is John, my wife Shine and I. We come over here every now and then. We're typically over in the Owaso campus, but we've been trying to make a real point to be over here more frequently, just frankly, because we want to know everyone here better. So it's nice uh nice to see all of your beautiful faces. Um if you are new with us today We have this welcome card. It's in the C pack in front of you. Just ask for your name, your email, and your phone number. If you wouldn't mind filling that out and putting it in the offering buckets as you're leaving today, we'd love to get in contact with you and let you know of a few ways that you can get connected here at Destiny Life. Um, and additionally, um, if you are regulars here, you know that we've got our black books um located at the sides of your seats here. If you don't mind filling that out and passing it on down the row as we uh watch our announcement video, that would be wonderful. So let's take a look at what's going on here at DLC.
What is up, DLC fam? My name is Darius Murphy, and we are glad to have you here with us today. Let's take a look at a few things that we have coming up here for you and your family here at Destiny Life Church. Next Sunday, October 25th, is our DLC Together night on the Awasso campus at 6 p.m. To all the men in the house, our men's steak dinner is this Tuesday, October 20th at 6 30 on the Claremore campus. Today is the last day to register, so please scan the QR code on your seat flyer to sign up or go to dlc.tv slash events. For all of those interested in Christ College, our Old Testament survey begins November 2nd on the Owasso campus at 6 p.m. To apply and enroll, go to Christcollege.us. If you have any questions, please contact the office. Well, that's all that we have for you this week. We look forward to connecting with you at one of our Sunday services at 9 or 11 in Claremore or Owassa. And as always, we want to pray with you. So if you have a prayer need, please let us know. Have a great week, DLC. All right. Right, all right.
Before we dismiss, just want to challenge you today. If if the message has brought anything into your heart, I mean, I assume it's brought a little something into everyone's heart, because we're all still on this journey, right? We're all still walking this thing out. If you found that you've put any faith in works, or perhaps even um, I mean, for lack of better words, idolized comfort in your life, or idolized even the way that you're praying, um, praying praying for that comfort rather than praying to know Christ at whatever the cost. You know, if there's anything in your heart that the Lord is touching, um, we're gonna invite our prayer teams forward. Um, and they're they will be available to you. And we would love to pray with you about that. And so if you guys would stand with me and prayer teams, if you would please come to the front, just pray us out here. Man, Lord, we thank you that you are so gracious and kind and loving to us to bring a word like you have today. To remind us, Lord, that at the end of the day, you are the one that we seek. God, you are the one who is righteous in us coming into righteousness in you and you alone, God, not by works that anyone should boast, Lord, but in you we come, completely humbling ourselves before you. God, we thank you for that. And we thank you that it's not by our own works. Because every one of us would fail. Every one of us has failed, and we would fail again. But that is by your righteousness that we cling to, Lord. Help us to know you. Help us to seek you. Help us to see you. God, even in our own prayer and in our own hearts, as we go about the day today. Lord, that comfort wouldn't be the primary thing that we seek, but it would be you. In reckless abandon, we'd all come to you. Desiring to seek your face. In Jesus' name. Amen. Again, we have our prayer teams up front. Otherwise, y'all are dismissed. Have a great day. Yesterday I didn't understand. Driving thirty-five with a rocket inside. Didn't know what I had. Not enough. But I oh much. Sure. Sure. Where's the bag? Let me tell you, oh, my friend. About this Joy I am living there. Let me take the one testify my elmo's dead, and there I came for us. No more living. Oh my heartbreak fades away. I go quin the pill. Let me take no more testify from a spin and every train for us. No more living in our God from the No we are there. The elders are not there. Yeah, someone deserving, and yet we worship, giving all the praise, just humble servants, sweating tears, throw no more fears, singing the glory of the gospel every air. You cover me with grace, and allow someone who's got me on my face every day, God. Goes the praise of the saints. So I praise every day. Yeah. I got stronger than any sand that I hold. More precious than any silver revolt. Yeah. I told myself that my sin made me unworthy, but truth is I'll never be perfect, but Christ took the burden. Despite my downfalls, when any seeming town, only will see me prevail, okay? Drop stuff about the One is balls, sure has been across the small camera. So far. You put my eyes to me. You capture my heart with this love. This is a lot of the same thing. Unfolding the same thing. Yep. Yeah, you got to have to
