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To our worship team and our crew that put that beautiful testimony together of Michael, I don’t know if most people know him or recognize him. Not only does he serve in a life group, but he has served for a long, long time in our parking lot ministry. I want you to understand that serving is leading. We become the best leaders we can be when we have an attitude of serving wherever we’re needed. When we’re willing to serve wherever our church asks, «Could you help here? Could you help there?» If you could just realize that your destiny will never be realized without doing it the Jesus way, which is stepping down — not stepping down in resignation but bending down to help pick people up-because that’s really the only time we should ever look down at anybody else: when we’re bending over to help them up. Amen.

But we have to realize that Jesus said, «The greatest among you is the servant of all.» So if you’re serving in any area of this church and ministry, we’re so grateful and thankful to our Chicago campus leaders and team members that serve here and in our global community and here at Hoffman Estates. Thank you to everyone that serves. Everybody can find the next step of God’s calling for their life by conquering what’s right in front of them and serving in the very thing that maybe you think you are not equipped for, not talented to do, or not gifted to do. I didn’t consider myself talented at public speaking. In fact, in my third year of college, my junior year, I majored in English because I knew it pretty well. All my major was English in college — I already speak English.

On the first day of my junior year, I had these four classes that were all writing classes, and each of the professors said, «At the end of the semester, you are going to give a speech in front of the rest of the class.» I promise you I’m not exaggerating or lying. I left those classes that day and dropped my major because I was afraid of speaking in public. And then God called me to preach. Imagine that! No matter how far we run from God’s calling in our life, we can’t hide. You can run, but you can’t hide from it. God wants you-He’s not going to give up on you. He’s not going to let you get away with being less than who He created you to be.

So those frustrations in your life are holy frustrations. Those things you want to see changed are holy visions. You will do what it takes to bring about a change in your life. Obviously, God does all of that with His grace in our lives, but there’s also some grind that’s necessary. There’s grace and there’s grind. There is the work of working out ourselves. Jesus gives it all to us, and then we cultivate it and work it out from within us to our outside world, beginning with love, beginning with serving, and beginning with ministering to God. If you could only know that all the things you need will be found when you’re ministering to God. All the things you want Him or anybody else to minister to you-all those things will be found when you’re ministering to Him.

All right, I want to pick up where we left off last time together, and today’s teaching is called «Shaking and Breaking Every System Holding You Back.» The subtitle is «There’s a Whole Lot of Shaking Going On.» If you’re wondering what’s happening in my life -all seems to be getting shaken -what’s happening in our world? What’s happening in our country? What’s happening is every system that has defied God is being destroyed. Every system in our world that defies God is ultimately being overtaken, torn down, and overtaken by God’s system. Eventually, we are going to see God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. That’s one of the things Jesus said to pray for: «Pray, Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth just as it is in heaven.» Amen.

The kingdom of God is a series of systems. The kingdom of darkness is a series of systems. The kingdom of darkness is a group of systems-the system of legalism, the system of shame, the system of fear, the system of depression and anxiety. These are all systems controlled by the spiritual forces of darkness. But God’s systems-which is one of the things that kingdom means-the word «kingdom of God,» seek first the kingdom of God-it actually is God’s way of doing things. The amplified describes it as God’s system, His structure, the way He does things, the way things work.

Man’s system is to crawl over everybody to get to where you belong -crawl over, knock anybody over, move anybody out of the way to get what you have coming to you. That’s man’s system. God’s way is to serve your way into the kingdom, into the perfect will of God, to serve your way into what your purpose is and what God’s will is for your life. We have to realize that the reason we get uncomfortable is because something is threatening the system we’ve been addicted to. God wants to deliver us from being addicted to the systems of this world-the systems of popularity, the systems of social media.

These are all systems that are not meant to be systems we subject ourselves to. That doesn’t mean we can’t be on social media, but we have to understand the nuances of it and the nuances of listening to the news and listening to the people that want to tell you what to think, how to behave, and the new definitions of male and female. We have to remember that God is the one we need to look to for answers. It’s not what the culture says; it’s what God says. It’s not what the culture allows; it’s what you allow out of your relationship with God. There are so many mistakes being made in this world by people run and controlled by the world’s systems. The Bible says, «Do not love the world nor anything in it.»

He’s not talking about the world of beautiful flowers, trees, oceans, lakes, rivers, and people; He’s talking about not loving the system of this world. Do not love the god of this world system-Satan is the god of this world’s system. He’s not the god of the world; our God is the god of the world. Come on; somebody’s got to help me here today! He says that if you love this world’s system, the love of the Father is not in you because this world’s system is addicted to approval from each other.

Did you hear me? This world’s system is addicted to approval from each other. We get approval from people we don’t even know, and we’re addicted to their approval. There’s a phenomenon that has been proven by science and is reflected in the brain. The greatest neurologists have identified that people who have fame at young ages become so addicted to that fame that they need to experience more and more of it in order to feel fulfilled. It’s the same thing with a heroin addict; a heroin addict just needs the fix to experience the pleasure they used to get, but they need to use a little more since their brain is opened up to the pleasure center.

Don’t shout me down now, but this is true stuff! Drugs open up the neural pathways to the pleasure center. Once that path is widened by those artificial stimulants, it takes more to get down that path to reach the pleasure center. It requires more alcohol, more heroin, more popularity, more fame, more money, and more attention. All of these things are loving the world and the things of this world. Do not love the world nor the things in the world. He’s not talking about the earth; He’s talking about the world’s system.

Satan is the god of this world’s system. 2 Corinthians 4:4 tells us that if anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, notice he explains the system: «For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life-is not from the Father but is from the world.» These are the things that drive people on social media: the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the boastful pride of life. Can you definitively say that social media isn’t addicted to these things? We can all recognize the sensibility and common sense of this: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the boastful pride of life, and people are addicted to it.

In fact, I could take it one step further and say there’s this old rock song-I forget who did it, maybe the Mamas and the Papas or some rock and rollers know it- but it’s talking about how we’re trying to get back to the garden. Anyone know that song? It’s a rock and roll song-trying to get back to the garden, back to the garden. Maybe you heard it a thousand times, but you didn’t realize what it’s saying-that everybody is searching to get back to the Garden of Eden, where there was innocence, and back to the Garden of Eden, where they walked with God. People don’t realize they’re trying to get back to the garden. But every addiction is an effort and an attempt to get back to the garden.

God’s way to get back to the garden is, number one, to be born again, and then number two, to plant the seeds of God’s word in your life that will bring fruitfulness. Three, the thing that causes us to get back to the garden is to realize we’re called to watch over our heart with all diligence, for from it flow the issues of life. The heart is the manufacturing center of life, and whatever seeds we plant in our heart-the word of God seeds, the words we speak out loud, the things we listen to, the things we hear, the things we talk about -these are the things that plant seeds in our hearts. Our heart becomes the fertile ground for good seeds or bad seeds.

When I was young, I wanted to plant marijuana seeds in my backyard because I wanted to get high every day, and I did get high every day. I just wanted to do it cheaper. I guarantee you that I didn’t grow much because I didn’t know much about how to cultivate it or what kind of soil should be used. I know that some of you remember -maybe you grew some good stuff. It' s funny- attachment produces detachment. People who are performance-driven, religious, and legalistic are continually trying to detach from the wrong things.

Okay, I have an addiction here; I need to detach from that. But the real deliverance from these attachments is better attachments. When you attach yourself to God, to His promises, to the church, to a life group community-come on, help me now-when you attach yourself to those things, you end up naturally and organically detaching from the other things you were depending on and trying to get back to Eden through.

Now, you’re truly back to Eden by planting the right seeds in your life. Realize that when God first created man, He put man in the garden-He put male and female, Adam and Eve, in the garden. By putting them in the garden, they were supposed to till the land and take care of the beautiful garden God created. They didn’t even have to water it; there was an ingrown sprinkler system. Every day there was water that came from underneath the ground and watered everything. There was no rain — rain wasn’t God’s will; it was man’s doing. So blame yourself next time it rains.

No, obviously, I’m kidding. But God didn’t water the earth with rain; He did after man sinned. The flood was the coming down of the ban of water that was over the earth and the mist. Adam and Eve put themselves out of the garden by their choice. In understanding this, the first creation-God puts man in a garden. But in the new creation in Christ, God puts the garden in man. Your heart is the garden. Proverbs 4:22 says, «Watch over your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the issues of life.» Out of your heart flow the springs of life-the growth, the gardens of life.

It’s the perfect scripture to grab hold of and say it’s my job to guard what goes into my heart because whatever goes into my heart is going to flow into the springs or the issues of life. When you take control of your heart, nobody can do this for you. There’s no husband or wife who can do this for you; there’s no parent, government, system, or politician who can do this for you. You must do it for yourself.

The order of God and man and then the state: God and man and then the community. God is above everything; He puts man underneath Him, and then He puts all forms of government underneath man. But what Satan does is put government over man, wanting man to be ruled by what is inferior to him because that’s what Satan is ruled by. We are superior to the devil. We have more power than the devil. Look at Luke 10: 19 to discover this. The Bible says that He said, «I give you all authority to trample upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means injure you, hurt you, or harm you.» Jesus gives us authority to trample over serpents, scorpions, and the enemy’s power.

How much does that leave for the enemy? If you have all of it, he has none. His only power is to trick you into doubting this truth. That’s all Satan can do: to deceive you into thinking, «Oh, I don’t have that kind of power or authority.» But when Jesus rose from the dead, He gave it to all His disciples, and He said, «I don’t just give it to them, but I give it to everyone who will listen to the word through them, who will hear the gospel through the ones I’m giving it to.» They will equally have this authority over every serpent, scorpion, and all the power of the enemy. Amen.

What a beautiful God that we serve! The Bible says, «For God has made man a little lower than Himself.» A translation of that verse says God has made angels a little lower than Himself. But that’s not the word angels; it’s the word man. God puts man over angels, man over devils, and man over governments. We can’t subject ourselves to Satan’s control, to government’s control, to people’s control. God is in control, and God is the one we bow our knee to -not politics, media, or anything else.

Listen, I said something last week that I want to correct myself on. I said all politicians suck. I really meant that most of them do, and that politics itself is a corrupt system. Winston Churchill said that democracy is the worst of all governments except for all the rest. If you look at it from that perspective, you realize the only government that truly should govern us is God’s kingdom and God’s way of doing things.

When you subject yourself to the bitter expressions of divisiveness, you are stepping down from your position of being directly under God with man’s systems beneath man because man’s systems are designed to change and evolve into something better for the next generation. If you got offended by me saying any of this, love God’s word more than you love your feelings. Love God’s word more than you love your emotions. Love God’s word more than you love being right! I better go home right now; somebody’s going to get mad at me.

Okay, now listen to me! Where did the time go? You know where it went. Yes, sir, I got it. What you’ve been hearing for the last few weeks and what you’re hearing today-it will not only just be something you heard; it will break things open, shake the room, wake your heart, and set people in motion for God’s purpose in their life. I refer back to the scripture for the last month that we’ve centered in and focused on- Matthew 28:2: «And behold, there was a great earthquake.»

At Jesus' resurrection, there was a great earthquake. This wasn’t just a geological tremor. I know I’m repeating some of these things, but it was a divine disruption: a shaking of every system that stood in the way of closeness with God. It was a shaking of every system that kept us distant from God. This is what happened at the resurrection. Jesus didn’t just shake the ground that day; He shook the systems, powers, dominions, distance, fear, shame, and time itself. He shook time itself. Time has no power over you.

What God does is eternal in your life. God can give you back time like that. The Bible says He will restore to you the years (Joel 2:25). He’ll restore to you the years that have been eaten, devoured-the years that the locust has swarmed and the worms have taken and destroyed in your life. He will restore the years! The time of Jesus' resurrection has taken the limitations off of time. You could be born again in one second. You could live for the devil. You could be the Antichrist. You could have 666 tattooed in every part of your body! You could be far from God!

But in one moment, God can do anything. He can restore anything; He can fix anything; He can turn anything around! In the very day (Esther 9:1-2) when Israel’s enemies thought they could put Israel under complete control and domination -in that very day, God turned it around and gave power to the slaves who were the Israelites over the world’s system that was in charge at the time.

We need to know there are parallel systems operating in this world right now: The world’s way, the world’s system-lust, pride, fear, anxiety-all that stuff is from the world’s system. And then there is God’s system. We must choose which system we are going to follow and honor in our lives. When Jesus shook the systems-the powers, the dominions, the distance, the fear, the shame, and time itself-He was shaking the things that kept us distant, stuck, silent, and small.

Well, I want to say that again! When Jesus shook these systems at His resurrection, He shook the things that kept us distant, shook the things that kept us stuck, shook the things that kept us silent, and shook the things that kept us small. No more delay! No more denial! No more shrinking back! No more spiritual sleep! Jesus got up, and when He got up from death, He brought us up from death simultaneously. If He’s getting up, we’re getting up! If He walked out, I’m walking out! If He shook the grave, I’m shaking the grave! If He shook the system of distance, I’m shaking the system trying to keep me distant from God.

I now know there is no barrier except for the deception and illusion of separation-not a reality of separation-between me and God. Jesus is ever-living to preserve that connection. The only thing keeping me distant from God is my belief that my sins or mistakes are greater than my Heavenly Father. I found the verse in John chapter 9, where Jesus said, «My Father is greater than all.» My Father is greater than all! God is my Father, and He’s greater than my sin, greater than my guilt, greater than my shame, greater than my condemnation.

There are no perfect people here, gang. There are no perfect people here — just happy imperfect people. Those words go together because perfection will always make you unhappy. The pursuit of perfecting something will always make you unhappy. But the acceptance of imperfection will deliver you from unhappiness because Jesus understood all of our imperfections, and He died for us so that He alone is our perfection. Now He is our righteousness. Now He is our sanctification, and He is our redemption (1 Corinthians 1: 30 — 31).

Life is messy, gang. Every leader, pastor, preacher, and person in this world has a mess in their life. When you’re born again, you have righteousness and a righteous mess. You have both. Consider the trend that prevailed in scripture among the people whom God used. Adam, the first man, was a blame-shifter who couldn’t resist peer pressure, and we see that in Genesis 3. Eve, the first woman, couldn’t control her appetite for knowing more and, shall we say, had the first eating disorder? I’m just saying-it’s true! Look it up.

Cain, the firstborn human being, murdered his brother. Noah, the last righteous man on earth at the time, was drunk and sleeping in the nude. He must have thought it was a nudist colony where he landed after the flood. Abraham, the forefather of faith, let other men walk off with his wife on two different occasions. That might be a curse or a blessing to some of you. That’s between you and God, so go get that fixed!

Sarah, the most gorgeous woman by popular opinion, let her husband sleep with another woman and hated her for it to bring the promise to pass-and it didn’t bring the promise to pass. Lot, who lost his father early in life, had a serious problem with choosing the wrong company, the wrong people, the wrong tribe. Job, a contemporary of Abraham, epitomized faith through suffering. He had a nagging, faithless wife who gave him this encouragement: «Since you’re having so many problems, Job, why don’t you just curse God and die?»

That’s the modern-day version of telling someone to go to hell! Job, why don’t you just curse God and die? Isaac was nearly killed by his father and talked his wife into concealing their marriage. Rebecca, the first mail- order bride, turned out to be a manipulative wife. Jacob, who outwrestled God, was pretty much a pathological liar. Rachel, who wrote the book on love at first sight, was a kleptomaniac (Genesis 31:19).

Reuben, the pride of Jacob’s firstborn, was a pervert who slept with his father’s concubine. Moses, the humblest man on the face of the earth, had a very serious problem with his temper; he struck the rock rather than speaking to it, as God told him to do. Aaron, who watched Jehovah triumph over Pharaoh, formed an abominable idol during an apparent episode of attention deficit disorder and perhaps colossal amnesia-this is Aaron’s life (Exodus 32). Miriam, the songwriter, was jealous and greedy for power (Numbers 12).

Samson was hopelessly enmeshed with a disloyal girlfriend and ended up taking his own life. Eli, who ruled over Israel, was a hopelessly incapable father who lost his sons and ultimately faced death. Saul, the first and powerful king of Israel, had psychotic manic bursts of anger, episodes of deep depression, and traces of paranoia, too. He committed suicide. David, the friend of God, concealed his adultery by committing murder. Solomon, the wisest man in the world, was arguably the world’s greatest sex addict with 1,000 sexual partners.

I guess there’s a lady that does a thousand a day now; she must have broken Solomon’s record! Hosea, an incredibly forgiving man, grappled with the pain of a wife who could be described as a nyomaniac. The prophets, even as they spoke for God, struggled with impurity, depression, unfaithfulness, and broken families.

So what is the point? Where’s the encouragement from this list? There’s nothing really encouraging here except that God did not hold those things against them, and He did not require them to fix themselves in order to be used by God. I know this is a struggle for those who deal with self-righteousness, who would like to say, «I’m not like that-I’m not doing any of those things.» But Jesus made it so simple. He said, «If you lust for a woman, you’ve already committed adultery.»

So we think, «Oh, but lust isn’t as bad.» Well, according to Jesus, it’s equal. Hate is murder! The Bible says hatred is the same as murder. What Jesus did was make us all realize our unholiness so that He could give us real holiness. Real holiness is agreeing with God. For the sake of time, may I just say when, in John 5: 6, Jesus said to the man who was lame for 38 years, «Do you want to get well?»

This man’s passivity was disguised as patience, and he said, «I have no one. I have no man that can help me.» So I can’t-I need somebody to help me. What’s happening here is he’s making excuses and disguising his passivity as being alone, but he had 38 years to make some friends. He had 38 years to get to the front of the pool before the angel stirred it up and roll into the pool, but he didn’t do that.

He used excuses like, «God’s not moving right now; it’s safer to delay, to wait for a better time.» But Jesus said, «Do you want to get well?» Jesus is calling us to choose whether we want to get better. We have to choose. It’s our choice! He doesn’t make us get better; He gives us the choice! Jesus is calling us to something we’ve always wanted but never knew we could do something about-something we could go to God for.

The throne room is open so we can go any time, and we have no excuse to stay distant! We can come from that throne and exercise our identity, authority, and royalty in this life and this world. Jesus says, «Do you want to get well?» Jesus is calling us to do something completely contradictory to the comfortable, passive condition we’ve accepted for years! Jesus bypasses the system of man depending on man.

Jesus defies passivity in this man and says, «You’re disguising passivity as patience!» This man wasn’t waiting; he was stuck. Jesus didn’t reward his waiting; He disrupted his waiting. He called him out. It’s not when it’s easy; it’s when it’s time. Being near a miracle doesn’t mean it’s the same as a miracle. Just because this man was in proximity to healing didn’t mean he was healed; he needed to decide he wanted to get better.

Jesus delivers him from an identity tied to dysfunction. We can go on and on about these great discoveries in some of these amazing scriptures, but Jesus wasn’t asking the man who was lame for 38 years for his life story. I want you to think about that! But when Jesus said, «Do you want to get well?» this man gave Jesus his life story!

Jesus already knew his life story; He didn’t want to know his story. He didn’t need him to tell his story. He needed to offer him a decision. We are, today, being offered a decision. Jesus gives us the power to decide, «Do you want to get well?» Then he goes into this excuse-making with his story, limitations, and years of «No one’s helped me. I have no man. I have no person. I have no help.»

Why is he doing this? Because he got comfortable acting as if he wanted to get better, but he really didn’t. He protected his paralysis rather than attacked it. No longer protect your paralysis! No longer protect the thing that’s keeping you stuck! Kick it in! Use your power! Use your authority! He said, «Get up and walk!» And he did because Jesus said, «I’m not listening to your excuses. I don’t need to hear your story. Rise, take up your bed, and walk.»

I want you to see the progression here: the only thing this guy really has to do first is rise, then take up your bed, and then walk. There’s progression. There’s 30-fold, 60-fold, and 100-fold. There’s forgetting what lies behind, reaching what lies ahead, and pressing on to the upward call of God. There’s always this progression in scripture: the good will of God, the acceptable will of God, and the perfect will of God.

Most people just say, «I can’t walk!» Well, He didn’t say walk first; He said rise first. You’ve got to get up before you can walk. Then He said, «Take up your bed and walk!» Just do the next thing in front of you. Just do the first thing you know to do. You’re already saved by His grace! You’re already seated with Christ in heavenly places! Now go to the throne and go to God and decide and declare you’re not going to allow distance to remain in your life between you and God anymore!

Jesus took the distance away! What if it doesn’t work? Passivity is disguised as caution. «What if it doesn’t work? Let me get things in order.» Passivity is disguised as order. The guy said, «Let me bury my father first,» and Jesus interrupted him, saying, «Let the dead bury the dead, but as for you, go!» Passivity is disguised as order!

I already shared that one, too. Passivity can also be disguised as stillness. I’m just being still before the Lord, but Jesus said, «Why are you standing here idle all day? Go into the field and work, and I’ll give you whatever’s fair.» They were just standing still, disguising their passivity as waiting for the right time. It’s time to break the system, gang! It’s time to step out of the system-if you’re ready to step out of that system, stand with me, and let’s step out together!

We’ve been in that system too long-the system of «one day» rather than «day one,» the system of «I’m not ready yet» rather than «I don’t need you to be.» The system of «maybe after I fix this part of my life,» and God says, «You can’t fix that part of your life without me.» In fact, He said you can do nothing without Him! If Jesus called Lazarus out of the grave, He’s calling you out of delay, denial, excuses, fear, shame, and indecision. He’s calling you out!

If you’re ready to step out of passivity, hit the life group expo when we dismiss. Become a member, become a leader, become a follower, and then become a leader. Get in a life group! Offer to start a life group-do one online or do one in-house, at your house, at somebody else’s house, or at a coffee place! Step out of your seat of standing by and waiting for everything to get perfect, and step into connection, community, and communion! Step in!

We’ve been standing still too long. Step in! Rise! Just do the first thing! We’re not going to be controlled by that invisible prison of passivity anymore! Jesus isn’t asking for your resume; He’s asking for your agreement with Him. Because he who agrees with God is most holy; she who agrees with God is most holy. The most holiness of all is to agree with God.

That’s why when you say Jesus is Lord, you’re just agreeing with God. God already made Him Lord; you’re just coming into agreement with Him. And that makes you saved! That’s how you got saved! Confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord; believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead! All right! Are you ready to step out of the system of passivity?

Then I want you to move — just as a symbol, step back for a second. If your row is right behind you, then step forward. Just go back for a second, just so you have a little room, and step up. Or you guys who are on the aisle, step out! Or you guys who want to give it all and lay it all down, come up! The altar is open, the welcome is made; God has something for you. There’s something greater than what you’re experiencing right now, and the system of low expectations has to be destroyed by the system that says God will do exceeding abundantly above and beyond all you can ask or think!

Step out of the system of being lazy and not serving and not improving yourself! Get on this path of letting God take you higher, deeper, and farther! You can go farther with each other! We can go farther by accepting that we have been passive and that we have been waiting for somebody to stir up the waters. We’re not going to wait anymore! The waters are stirred! Step into them! Step into the deep! Step into the water! Step into God’s way and watch what happens 24 hours from now, 48 hours from now!

Just say this: «I step out! I step out of the system of passivity, and I step into the system of faith! I step into the system of acting, activating my faith by taking the next step, by conquering what is right in front of me!» In the name of Jesus! In the name of Jesus! Amen! Come on, give the Lord praise in this place today!

Listen, today’s altar call was for everybody to take a step out of passivity. If you’re not saved, the only step you have to take is to receive Jesus as your Savior. Believe that He died for your sins and rose from the dead. Can we do that right now? Can we just pray out loud?

Everybody, pray this: «Heavenly Father, I believe Jesus died for my sin and rose from the dead. From this moment forward, the blood of Jesus that has already cleansed me of all my sin and all of Adam’s sin-the blood of Jesus brings me into a covenant with You. And from this day forward, I’m a child of God.»

If you prayed that prayer for the first time, on the count of three, would you raise your hand? One, two, three-quickly, right where you’re standing! God bless you! God bless you! Come on! God bless you! Who else? God bless you! Come on! Put your hand up high! God bless you! God bless you! Come on over here! Who needs -who says yes? That’s my first time! God bless you! God bless you! God bless you, city! God bless you, Chicago campus! God bless you way in the back! God bless you guys all around the world! Thank you for accepting Jesus! You have just made the greatest decision of your life!

Go and enjoy the expo, and we can’t wait to see you next Sunday right back here! You’re dismissed, but come up for prayer if you need it at all. In Jesus' name! Amen!