GROWING IN GRACE part 2 / NEIL HOPPER / 3.29.26

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Welcome to the Cedar Lake Podcast. We're a community in Cedartown, Georgia, learning to follow Jesus with scripture, prayer, love, and generosity. We're glad you're here, and we believe today's message will encourage you. To learn more about all things Cedar Lake, visit CLCC.

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Praise the Lord. I'm not joking when I say it's good to be here. You know, when you've been in when you've been in ministry and when you've been in one city for more than 30 years, you've seen a lot of people come and go. And that's that's no knock on them. That's just how God He sends people this way and then they move. But um I I stink at leaving. I'm not a giveupper type of guy. I am I I I I don't um and so we just we felt like if if we just stick to it, you know, we live in a day where people don't have stick to it enough. We live in a world where, honestly, I mean I that I wouldn't throw uh I'll make anybody feel ashamed or any such thing, but you understand in some countries they don't even they still drive in a 1974 Peugeot. Last time I went to Africa, I'm not joking, guy picked us up in a 1974 Peugeot. How many of you never even heard of a Peugeot? You don't even you never heard it's a for real, it's a European car, and I asked the guy, he said, my dad bought it brand new in 1974. I said, say it ain't so. He said, Listen, man, you can get parts for these things. He said, the problem with you Americans are you throw things away. He said, the problem is y'all get rid of stuff. He said, in our country, we just fix it. I said, what you gonna do with this 74 Peugeot? He said, when I get done with it, we're gonna fix it and give it to my boy. I said, what you gonna do when you run out of parts? He said, we got fabricators in Africa. Now that doesn't mean you shouldn't get a new car or any such thing, but here's what it does mean. We we uh there's something about just staying with a thing. Amen? Just sticking to it, man. And if nothing else, your relationship with God is that way. Had a gentleman that called me this week and he's uh or text us this week at the radio station. He's been texting for a while. Now he's under no illusions, he's got some issues and some struggles. And since we've communicated a little bit, I know some of those. He's he's been to jail and he's had his issues and whatnot. You know what I told him? I said, brother, you keep following Jesus. He said, but I'm still, after all these years, I'm still struggling. I said, keep following Jesus. Don't you dare give up. Don't you dare give in. Because there's one thing for sure, I don't believe God's given up on you. Oh, I better get an amen somewhere. Are you the only one that ain't never felt like God? Man, I wonder if God's given up on me. He hasn't given up on you, He has not given up on you. Still working, still moving, still raising people up, still setting the captive free. Amen. So I want to talk to you, and I'm gonna go back to some of the things that I shared last week, but I'm gonna share it in a little more in-depth. And I want to tell you a story. A lot of years ago, a great man of God, maybe one of the greatest men who's ever graced this pulpit, a man by the name of Miles Munro, who was taken home way too early. Dr. Miles Munro stood here and he shared something that was transformational that I have kept in my heart and kept in my mind for all of these years. Dr. Munro said this. He said, if you don't understand the purpose of a thing, you will most likely abuse it. If you don't understand the purpose of the church, if you don't understand the purpose of your medication, you might abuse medication. Right? Anything that you don't understand the purpose for, you run the risk of abusing it. And so a part of uh understanding what God wants to do in and through the church is that very fact is that He wants us to be rooted and grounded, raised up, sent forth, doing His will, living in your calling and blessing, living in what God has for you. So there is always this tendency to abuse a thing if we don't understand. And when it comes to the church, there is a business side to church that we know we have elders and people who deal with that. Many churches these days have administrative pastors. May not mean that they preach. In fact, many of them do not, but they're well adept in business, and uh it's good to understand that there's a business side of it. But when it comes to the preaching of God's word, and when it comes to standing here and sharing, my goal is to mature you, to let you see the word, hear the word, grow up in the word, do the word, and I want to see you mature in the things of God. I want to see you at a place where you're not taken about with every wind and doctrine. When the wind blows, you just say, let it blow. Amen. It just, if it blows, sometimes you just have to deal with what God brings you. And just trust me, there's gonna be some, there's gonna be some strong winds along the way. In fact, it it's it's nice outside today, but I'll guarantee you in somebody's life in here, there's a strong wind. Somebody's dealing with a strong wind. And what we want to do is hopefully cause you to see God in such a way that you will grow and mature so that uh you can be all that He has created you to be. There's a reason you're here on this earth at this season and at this time. We all know the verse for such a time as this. I don't know if you're aware, but how many of you know that verse? For such a who knows if you were brought into the kingdom for such a time as this? Everybody know that verse? You ever read the whole chapter? You know what the chapter says? Just above that, he says, I mean, basically, I'm gonna give you the Neil Hopper version. It's out in four or five years, it will be the Neil Hopper version. But in in uh, I'm only joking. So um what he says to her is you may end up having to die. Oh, you didn't want to hear that, did you? Whoo, that bounced right back. I just, I mean, it's like she just came right back at me. I'll throw it right back at you. She she was being asked to do things that could have cost her her life. And yet we get up and say, I've been brought into the kingdom for such a time as this. And you have. You have. But we often don't consider the price that goes along with that anointing and that gifting and that calling. There's oftentimes a price, a price, right? So I just want you to understand is that what our goal is. There's a lot of churches, people have come and gone and all those things. My goal, if you cut me open, my goal is to make sure you walk where you're supposed to walk. If you have given up on the deeper things, if you have said, well, I'm past my prime and this and this, listen, I still believe God wants to do great things in you and through you. Right? So let's look at a few verses. Anything you don't know, anything you're unaware of the purpose of a thing, you're likely to abuse it. Say it another way. If you don't see something correctly as it is, you cannot engage with it properly. We engage with the church because that's the organism, it's it's a living body, not just this one, but all churches around the globe. We engage with it differently if we understand it and see it clearly. And the goal of the church is to help you walk in everything God has for you. Now, let me show you how this works on a practical level, and then I promise I'll share scripture with you, and you'll think I have preached. Gotta have a scripture there, and I am. I'm gonna give you some. Suppose there's somebody at church, and there may be some here that just rub you the wrong way. Now, probably it happens at other churches and not here, because all of us, we something special up in here. We don't ever rub anybody the wrong way, so I know it probably. You know what I think? You're gonna laugh. So, well, I guess God is giving me an opportunity to love them more perfectly. That's why there's a next week. That's why there's a next week. So, well, I don't I don't know. I don't really appreciate some of the things my husband has done or my wife has done. That's why there's tomorrow. God's giving you another chance to love them more perfectly. God, help me preach, Pastor. Am I right about it? God's giving you another chance. Yeah, but they just get on my nerves. Like I said, they're helping you. Do you know what happens when people rub against you and especially in your immaturity? You know what I you know what I do? I just rub back. And so do you. Right? So I here's the thing. What we don't understand is when we come into the the fullness of what God wants for us, people rub you the wrong way, you can still love them. You're still able to love them. You're still able to uh see Jesus in them. Because here's the deal. If I see Jesus in you, then it ain't just you I'm treating that way. I see him in you. And that's a part of the problem, is we don't really look at the body and say, I just see Jesus in you. Yeah. Pastor, you don't know this particular person. They mean as a snake. Y'all ain't got nobody in your family this mean as a snake. Y'all ain't never met no Christians, but I've met Christians as mean as a snake. I've met Christians that cut your goozle out. You give them a you give them a knife, and they will cut you. It just like a dang street fight. And it ought not to be in the church. It ought not to be in the church. We don't have to be that way. We we we argue and we bicker and and we we you want to know you want to know a picture of a people who haven't matured and grown up in Christ. They they arguing and fighting all the dang time. All the time. Now, my wife and I, this rarely happens, right? Because I'm so unopinionated, and so is she. Last night we were leaving the fundraiser, we got ready to leave, and she said, You going the wrong way. I said, I was driving when I got here. She said, You was driving, but I was watching. I said, I know where I'm going. I'm the one that got us here. I said, We rode right out this way of some gravels right up here, and I was worried about my tires getting nasty. I know what I'm doing. She said, I'm telling you, you don't know where you're going. I said, Well, we're about to figure it out. And of course I was right. Right, Dave, I was right. If she comes in here in a minute, I might not be so right, but you see what I'm saying. The point is, sometimes we have to understand what God's trying to do in us. And so let me share a couple of scriptures with you because I think it's important for us to take a look at some things here. Um let's go with our uh, Sheila, if we can, let's go with Ephesians 4. We'll go 15. That's where we started. That's a foundation scripture for the last two weeks. And here's what I love. Understand what he's saying here. Ephesians 4, 15. But speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things. Now, last week I focused on growing up. Look at what it says, growing up into him in all things. This week I want to start with the verse that I kind of just jumped over right there. Learning to speak the truth in love. Right? Learning to speak the truth in love. You understand what I'm talking about? Knowing how to say a thing and when to say something, it's okay to speak the truth, but we need to do it in love. So uh just understand when we come together as a body, you want to know a mature people, they're able to speak the truth in love. Because you know these same people, right? They'll be just like the garden. You come to get Jesus, I will whip my sword out and cut your ear slap off. Right? I'll just yield it. I used to have a friend who mentored me in the early days, and he used to say, you know what, I'm just gonna take the sword and cut them, and I'll believe God to heal them. He was serious. He said, I take the sword of the word and I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna slice and dice, and I'll just believe God to heal them because somebody's got to circumcise these folk. Yeah, he wasn't, he wasn't, he didn't understand Lionel when he was singing easy like Sunday morning. He didn't get that message. This brother was intense. And we may need a little of that in the world that we're living in today. We may need some intensity of somebody saying, not in a bad way. I told you last week, it nothing makes me not want to grow up or make all my flesh rise up, than you saying, well, you ought to just grow up. Well, that don't make me want to grow up. Right? That don't make me want to grow up at all. That makes my flesh want to rise up. So you're speaking the truth. You're telling me, you understand? You're telling me the truth. I need to grow up, but you said it with a spirit that was to, you might as well have slapped in my face. You like that, don't you? Yeah. So what what do you do? The better way to do is sit down and say, let's, we probably ought to have a conversation about this. Right? Told a group of people this week I said, you know, when you don't have that conversation, 9.30 or 10 o'clock at night. Both of you are tired. It's been a long day. And and what you gonna do? You're gonna have that conversation at 9.30 when you got up at 4? That's a negative, brother. That that is a that's a ticking time bomb right there. You you don't even understand the implications of about what's to happen there because now we're not just talking, we're not able to speak the truth in love. We speak the truth out of our frustration because we're tired and eel. Oh, I know this is too practical for you, but you're talking, we're talking about growing up, right? Let me just move on to the next scripture because we won't ever get where we need to go, and I'm running out of time quickly anyway. So um, let's go to uh a couple of what I call key aspects of growing up. One is maturity that is reflected in behavior. Now, before you jump to conclusions and think I'm taking you back to legalism, I want you to understand, I believe that when you mature in Christ, it shows up in your behavior. Thank you to the two people that agree with me. I hope uh I hope y'all all can get on board. Listen to what he's listen to what Paul says. Let's go to 1 Corinthians 13. It's a favorite passage of scripture for all of us. 1 Corinthians 13. We're gonna go 11 through 13. So 1 Corinthians 13. 11 through 13. If you're there, say amen. 1 Corinthians 13, 11 through 13. Look what look what Paul said here. Now he's relating this to spiritual maturity. And he says this, when I was a child, I talked like a child. I spake like a child, I talked like a child. I understood like a child. I thought like a child. So I spoke, I understood, and I thought like a child. Right? But when I became a man, he said, I put away childish things. When I became a man, I said, I gotta put some things away. It's it God will grace you to put things away, but you have to make an intentional decision. I'm gonna put some stuff away. Right? He's not gonna just float down in an angel from heaven and take away all of this nonsense. No, you have to say, I've got to put away some childish things. Let me tell you a quick story about coming here. I came from a church that way back then, over 30 years ago, already had 1,200 members. We had a big church. Meant you could hide in the back and do very little. They didn't even know if you came. I mean, people spoke and were kind, and it was a very loving church. I actually loved being there. The pastor was a great man, awesome preacher, so I loved going to church. But when I came to a smaller church and we came next door, and you realize that there isn't 18 staff members to take care of everything, and there's just the pastor and his wife and two or three others around here. Margaret Adams will remember those days. Um came along not too long after that. Tanda came along not too long after that. Howard and Shannon came along not too long after that. But here's the thing you realize when you enter a real small congregation, some of my brothers around here have pastored uh small congregations. You you know what you do in a small congregation? Everything becomes your responsibility. It doesn't matter. You say, well, I gotta go over and I gotta do this and I gotta do this. Here's the thing it helps you mature really quickly when you can't say that's somebody else's job. Well, I you know, you cut you come across the parking lot and you say, Well, Lord, there's some there's some trash on the ground. Somebody ought to pick that up. That somebody just became you. Right? You say, Well, grass needs cutting. Well, we got Elder Tony, and we thank God that the grass is cut every week. But if we didn't have an Elder Tony, somebody would have to say, I've got a I I've got to go. Anybody ever had to cut church grass on Saturday? Amen. Look right here. Look, look, look. Yeah. Because somebody's got to do it. Well, ain't somebody it. Yeah, but I don't know nothing about so somebody could be anybody, but since nobody does it, it becomes everybody's responsibility and nobody still does it. You see what I'm saying? So I'm just saying to you, there's some things that happen, and you begin to realize I came here and there wasn't nobody on staff to do nothing, so you did everything. You know how I learned to sing in church? Y'all hear me singing all the time? You know, I learned to sing in church. We didn't have a praise and worship leader. And I didn't know no better. I just I watched the guy that led praise and worship with the church I came from, and I said, Don't look that hard to me. Now it was a little harder than I thought, but you know me, I'm like, I think I can do that. I can do that. Is that what y'all need? I need they man, we really need somebody to lead worship. I can do that. I can do that. Now, I knew I could sing because I heard myself going down the road in the car and I didn't make myself nauseous. Right? But you know what I'm saying? You just you just you learn whatever needs to be done. You know what you do in your family? In your family at home, you know what you do? Whatever needs to be done. It ain't nobody else's responsibility but your family. And what I talked about last week was how if you go in Longhorn and they don't bring your water and your bread pretty quickly, you be looking around like me, like, what's up around here? Why? Because I came there to buy a service. You did not come to buy a church service this morning. You came to participate in a worship experience and serve God Almighty, and we're glad about it. Amen. We're all learning to grow. So this is what he said when I was a child. I spake as a child, understood as a child, thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face, now I know in part, but then shall we, shall I know even as I am known? Now I want to take a minute to point out here, he says something here after saying, I put away childish things. He says something here that's vitally important. He says, For now we see, that's all of us, the church, we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face. I know in part, but then I'll know even as I am known. There's some things that you will that you're still human and you will still fail, and you will still you'll still trip over these things. He said, why? It's because I'm just seeing as God allows me to see and opens up the blinds, and I'm still seeing through this glass darkly. In other words, I don't have this all figured out, and neither do you. None of us do. We're always seeking his face, we're always going after what he's apprehended us for. And so we don't, we don't always, he says, I'm seeing, we're talking spiritual growth here. We're talking about putting away childish things, and he said, even after I did all that, I'm still seeing imperfectly. That's what he's really saying. I'm seeing, and he he likens it to seeing through a glass darkly. He said, But one day I'm gonna see face to face. One day I'm gonna know. I'm gonna know as I am known. He said, I see darkly, see, and then he goes on to say, I and I see in part. But one day, in all of our growth, you are likely to still make mistakes. You're likely to still make mistakes. Now, this isn't in my notes, but it's true. If you've ever moved in the spirit, prophesied in the spirit, prayed for people, felt the gifting, felt the anointing, you say, I don't know about these people who speak in other tongues and they prophesy, man, it just freaks me out and all that. And I know some of them they're really flawed. This is true. And I know some preachers who don't believe any of that and they're really flawed. Let's not stop. So you say, Well, what do we do? That's the reason when we when we grow up, we understand there's an imperfect vessel that's declaring divine things. But there's an imperfect vessel this morning declaring divine things to you right now. There's an imperfect vessel that's declaring divine things to you. If you are a parent in here, you know of all people, you are an imperfect vessel, but you declare divine things to your child, to your children and your grandchildren. But we know that we're just we're people. That's the reason we have the backdrop of God's word. That's the reason we have uh that's the reason we have spiritual leadership, that's the reason we have all of these things, because we need each other to stay balanced. We need, we need the the Holy Spirit flowing through us, yes. But we also need people who can judge that prophecy. Say, well, how does that even work? Well, it's that's why you don't get out of church and go to prophesying out in the parking lot in craziness, you know, down at down at Wendy's. Have I ever done it? Yes, I have. But I wasn't telling somebody, you need to leave that man. And what I, you know, I was giving a word of encouragement, right? So that's what you do. You give somebody a word of encouragement. I wasn't giving them a word of correction or direction. I was giving them a word of encouragement, right? So anyway, so number one is behavior, uh, is maturity and behavior. You will start being more responsible, not only in your own, not in the physical, but in the spiritual. You'll realize that it's nobody's responsibility. There has to be some intentionality on your part to get what God has for you. So then, secondly, as people mature, they begin to be more independent. If you've ever had kids that grew up, you understand this. And all along the way, you had to allow them to make some mistakes and be a little more uh independent and try to, you know, we've taught them all we can teach them. Now we've got to let them go out here and make some mistakes. Right? And that's how it happens. So independence is number two. You know you're growing up. Now I know what God is saying. And spiritually, we say, I know what God is saying to me, and I know what my calling is, and I've got to start walking in it. I know what God is calling me to do. So um, people grow to the point that it's time for them to make their own decisions and plan for their future. They grow to a point that we have to listen to the teachings and know the Holy Spirit and figure out what I need to do to follow my calling and my destiny. Right? And then in the next, we have what I would call responsibility and integrity. Maintaining, you grow up, you mature in the natural, we're looking for maintaining personal values and integrity, even when faced with difficult situations and choices. But in the spirit, we we have to take responsibility for our own walk with Christ. Let me say it another way and you'll understand. I'm gonna wrap it up. I promise I've got way more than I could ever preach this morning. But so if if somebody hurt you along the way, maybe it was uh a pastor or a church or something, and many of us have been church hurt. We took a poll this morning, probably a lot of us that have been church hurt at some point. You you have to understand we acknowledge that happened, but if ten years, fifteen years later you're still holding on to that, that's being immature. It's it's you say, Well, what if I don't ever get the the apology that I think I need? You probably won't. Especially if that person is proud and arrogant, they may never apologize to you. But you can't, what I'm saying is you can't keep letting that hold you back from what God has for you. You can't keep pointing back at somebody else. Somebody else, and he did this to me. How long ago this happened? It was 22 years ago. Look, get over it. I I'm I I don't see that sounds like I'm not being nice and kind, but listen, what what would you do with Jesus? You ever thought about this when Jesus comes? There's a man who says to Jesus, the Lord's already called him and he says, You need to follow me. And he says, I've got to go back and bury my dad. Now, for those of you who that would be offensive, and what did Jesus say to him? He wasn't trying to be cruel. He said, Let the dead bury the dead. Lord have mercy. Can you believe that Jesus, the King of Glory, would have really said that? See, we hold some things as sacred. Jesus had already called them, and I understand what he was saying, okay? I I he wasn't, by the way, if you go back and look, read that chapter and do a little research, you'll figure out he wasn't being unkind. What he was saying was, is I've called you and there's a greater work over here. I I've you you you need to understand that's a part of your life. We don't make light of it, we honor it, we respect it, but I've got a greater work for you. And you can look back on things all through your life. Mama didn't do this, and daddy didn't do this, and what a you listen, we got to put that away. That's childish talk. That's childish talk. God is calling us to mature. God is calling us for our roots to go down deeper. God is saying to us, it's time for us to be a body. The reason I talk about family is because if you see this as a business, it's gonna be an issue for you. But if you see this as a family, when I show up at Longhorn, I'm at a business. When I show up at my house, can you imagine me sitting down and going, hey, Lori? Girl, can you not see that I'm sitting over here wanting some water and some bread? Can you see that? Do you guys understand godly fear? I mean, I'm just asking. Shane, do you go home and beat on the table and wonder when Carrie's gonna show up with the bread and roll with the rolls and the water? I don't know. I mean, I'm just asking. Ron, do you sit down at home and wonder? Slam your hand up, hey, excuse me. You know what I say? Get it yourself. Why? Here's what they would say. This is your house, too. You're not at a restaurant, this is your house. Let me say it a different way to you here. You're not at a restaurant, this is your house. Pull up to the table and eat all you want. And we will do our best to serve you the best we can. But sometimes the rolls are already on the table. Sometimes the meat has already been put out. You just gotta belly up. You just gotta come to the table. Right? See what I'm saying? How this works? Listen, everybody has things to overcome. But what God's doing for us is He's trying to mature us. The last thing I'll say to you is this. Bob Mumford taught me this many years ago, and I've used it a dozen times, and I'll keep using it for the rest of my life. The last thing I can say to you about knowing that you are that you're growing up is that there's three things that you don't do. I'll say this, you ladies will hear it, but as a man is specifically to our men. He does not run away. He does not run away. When things get tough, when stuff gets broken and things are happening, you do not listen to me. A man doesn't run away. He doesn't run away from his responsibility. A man takes his responsibility, squares his shoulders, and said, By the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, I'm gonna do what God's called me to do. I'm not gonna run away. So a man doesn't run. He doesn't hide. Where's this guy at every time you need him? He's hiding. He doesn't run, he doesn't hide. And lastly, listen, a man don't shift blame. It ain't nobody's fault. Somebody could have wronged you, yes. How you respond to that lets me know your level of maturity. How you respond to that. You don't run, you don't hide, and you don't shift blame. Well, it's all, it's all, yeah. Y'all remember it happened in Genesis when he said, God, that woman you gave me, we are in this mess because of her. And the best I can figure by reading the book of Genesis, he was standing there watching the whole time and didn't say a word. He best I can figure, now I wasn't there, obviously, but the best I can figure, Satan beguiled Eve and she took of the tree, and it says she ate, and then she turned and gave to her husband. It means to me she was he was pretty close. It means that he probably could have stopped it. So you don't run and you don't hide and you don't shift blame. It I understand you would love to say it's all her somebody else's fault. It may be their fault, but a man knows how to respond. He says, I'm gonna square my shoulders, I'm gonna lean in on the grace of God, I'm gonna lean in on my faith, and God is gonna grace me to get through this. And I don't have to run away, and I don't have to shift and hide, and I don't have to do any of those things. How do you know you're maturing in the things of God? How do you know, well, um, here's how I'll close you. You'll love me for this. So we start as a kid and we say, Boy, they sure do grow up fast, don't they? And then they get a little older and we say, Yeah, I'll just be glad when they get out of this stage, these terrible twos. So they finally mature to a certain point, and you realize when you get older, like folks like me, you get a little older, you realize the older and more mature we get, the closer to end of life we get. Amen. Let me tell you, spiritually, the closer you get to the end of you, the closer. I can tell you why. Because every kid knows one thing. If you take something of theirs or something don't go right, they go mine.

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Mine.

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When God begins to take his hand to move this away, if all you scream is mine, he said, No, no, no, that's mine.

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Mine! That's just mine. Mine.

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And he goes, No, I gotta I gotta move this. You gotta trust me. You gotta trust me. So in the natural, we get older, but then what did Paul say? He said, Um, I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. I've already come to the end of myself. I've already come to the end of life. Not the end of my physical life, but he said, I've already come to the end of my life. I've come to the end of me. And how do we know when when you're spiritually mature when it's not about you? When it's not about you. Ooh, that's a tough one, ain't it? Do you know there's grace for that? You're not gonna get there by yourself. You know there's power for that, you're not gonna get there by yourself. You you just understand he's growing us up. And the truth is, what happens is all of us, as the body of Christ, become one man. We're one man, one body, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father, one Lord of all, who's in all, through all, and by all. He that's what we're talking about today. We grow up into him where I don't look like him, but we look like him. I don't look like him, but we respond like him. We grow up so that little old petty things that used to bother us don't bother us no more. We say, I know who I am. You're a little bit like Popeye. You just am who I am. I just am who I am. Amen. And you grow up and you let him continue to mature you. I've been doing this over 30 years. I still need him to do this in me. I still want to grow. I still think there's some places where we can grow, we can go deeper in the spirit. God can use us in a greater way. God can absolutely eliminate pride in your life where you just, you know, you you recognize it quickly enough that you can deal with it. It may not be just totally gone in terms of I don't ever have to deal with, but you'll recognize it pretty quickly and say, ah, that's that's pride trying to put its ugly head back in here again. We're not gonna do that. We're not gonna do that. Amen. Stand up on your feet. Tonight at 5 o'clock, I'll be with Apostle Mosley in Cartersville, All About Jesus Ministries. You can find them online. Uh I'll probably even go a couple, at least a couple times. I'll be here on Wednesday. And then uh we'll have Friday night communion. Saturday we'll have a treasure hunt for the little ones, Sunday be right here for Resurrection Sunday. Is everybody alright? I I want Lily, Lily, can you look at me? Wave at me, Lily. Turn around right there. Would y'all uh just point your hand? Lily needs a miracle, Lily needs a touch. Amen. Hallelujah. Would uh Karen, would you walk around there and lay your hands? Wanda, yes, absolutely. Miss Lily, we love you. We're so glad you're here. Please come back. Amen. Let's believe for her miracle. And if you need one, let me know just by the raising of your hand as well. You need a miracle you need to touch, raise your hand. Anyone else need a miracle? Father, in the name of Jesus. Thank you for touching Lily today. Command every rebellious cell to leave her body in the name of Jesus. Her body will line up in Jesus' name. In the name that is above every name. The name of Jesus. Lily, I just I hear the Lord just saying this over you. I'm trying to pray, but I just I really hear the Holy Spirit, and he's just saying, I love you, I love you, I love you. That's the Lord. The Lord's letting you know you're loved. Sometimes it's hard for people to feel his love or to receive his love, but I hear the Lord saying, You are loved by the Heavenly Father. You are loved by the Heavenly Father. We thank you, Lord, that healing is released in her body. Healing is released in Karen's body, healing is released in the people. Lord, in Travis, Miss Della. Denise Tinkin. We thank you, Lord, that her body's healed in Jesus' name. Her eyes are healed. We thank you, Lord. Just pouring your love out on Lily today. Just pour it out like a Lily, it's like a bucket. He's just pouring liquid love on you. I hope you can feel it. He's just pouring liquid love on you. We believe for a completed miracle. And if you agree with me, say amen. Amen. God bless you're dismissed in the liberty of the Lord. Thank you for coming. Don't forget to be with us this coming Friday for communion, if not before.