Well, hello Crossing Church. How are you doing today?
Now, I really appreciate that and but I know a lot of you
aren't telling the truth. That you know, you, you, you put
yourself together, all of our locations.
And you know, I'm so glad that you're here, that you're here in
person. Those of you that are inside and
online, I know that you're not able to be here in person, but
and maybe you know you're still in your pajamas or whatever or
whatever you might be doing. But the fact is, is that we want
to always present something, you know, nice and palatable to
everybody else around us. But in truth, a lot of times we
are not what other people perceive we are that there's
stuff going on inside of our lives and we would just rather
not burden them with that. You know, we would just rather
just kind of hold that quietly inside of ourselves and put a
good face on and. And if people ask us how are you
doing? We'll just say fine, when that's
not the truth, It's kind of how we are, right?
I mean, it would take a long time if you actually wanted to
just, you know, back up the dump truck and let it out, you know,
and just say how you doing? Well, why don't you sit down.
True. Yeah.
I mean, for a lot of us that that's how it is.
And we're in the book of Romans and we are getting into some
real practicality in the latter chapters of the book of Romans,
and I'm in Romans 14 and 15. And it really is a discussion on
people whose faith is weak and people whose faith is strong and
how those two groups of people might interact with one another.
And we're in the the part of the series we entitled noticeable
neighbors like kind of how are you living your life in the
context of the people around you.
And one of the things that we're going to be discussing today is
this idea that or this truth that we're all damaged and we
all are to some extent. We're all damaged and damage is
actually a part of life. And I know that a lot of us are
trying to avoid it. The parents are trying to keep
their kids from having to deal with it.
We're trying to avoid damage. We really can't do it because
we're surrounded by it. And we we aren't always the
victim. Sometimes we're the perpetrator,
you know, because human beings, that's kind of what we do.
We live in a sinful world, and it's a world full of damage, and
we tend to damage each other. Some of the worst damage,
though, happens inside of a context, like you're in right
now is in a church. Because I think that we believe
that this ought to be a safe place, kind of devoid of damage.
Like, you know, we we, we should be able to be more transparent
here. We should be able to be more
real here. We should be able to trust each
other more here. But if you've been a part of a
church for a very long for any time at all, you've probably
experienced some of what we might call church damage or
church hurt. And the reason I know we we tend
to want to like label it as the church, like this.
This church hurt me. But the reality is that churches
are full of people, and the people that fill churches are
damaged people. And when you're in the proximity
of damaged people, it can damage your life because that's just
human nature tends to be what we do, and it might take a lot of
different forms in the church. It might be that you felt
overlooked, maybe you felt taken for granted.
Maybe like in a small group or something, you shared some
stuff. I mean, you risked it, you got
open with some other people and maybe they shared it with other
people and they shouldn't have, and you felt betrayed by that.
Maybe you were stabbed in the back, or maybe you were accused
of something that you didn't do. Maybe it was even more serious
than that. Maybe you experienced something
emotionally abusive or physically abusive and there are
people in churches that have been sexually abused.
Maybe whatever happened to you, you experienced when you were
new in your faith and then it made you go, you know what,
church, that's just like another one of these institutions.
It's just another one of these things that you just can't
trust. This is another club and it
really isn't very hard to get cynical.
And church can be viewed as optional by a lot of people.
Like, why do I even need to trouble myself with that?
I'll just kind of stay back and I'll, I'll, I'll keep a healthy
distance between me and all of whatever's happening in that
place. I've had people come to The
Crossing over the years, share stories with me about how broken
they are when they feel like maybe they can trust me with
that story. And they will talk about their
previous church experience. And I begin to realize just what
a major step of faith it was just to walk through the door of
another church again. Some of these people were some
of the hardest workers in their previous church environment,
some of the most committed people in their previous church.
But now if you find if you can find them at all, they're kind
of in the back in the dark and they kind of want to stay in the
shadows. It's hard to reengage.
Boy, I sure would like to stand up here today and say that all
just goes one way, but it doesn't because I have to tell
you that people at the crossing staff at the crossing, they have
done their fair share of hurting others and driving people away.
And I think it's easy for us to make excuses for our own
behavior or to find fault with people for leaving.
But there is no doubt that we've damaged people too.
You know, some of that damage comes from well meaning
Christians. And what well meaning Christians
are trying to do is maybe educate.
Or we use the term disciple, newer believers, right?
And so this is what the Apostle Paul is beginning to refer to in
Romans chapter 14. Let's let's read it together.
It says except the one whose faith is weak without quarreling
over disputable matters also stop right there.
How many matters do you ever face that are disputable?
Like all of them? Right.
So should we be quarrelling over disputable matters?
Maybe somebody is pretty new in their faith.
Maybe you've been in your faith a little longer.
Maybe you were kind of raised up in a different context, this
other person, and they're trying to figure something out.
You think you've got it figured out, and so you want to disciple
this person or help this person along.
And you say some things that may be really discouraging when
you're really just trying to help someone else, maybe because
you're inside of a disputable matter.
I think it's something that we all deal with.
And I think there's a real question underneath this.
And the real question is that we're.
Well, maybe it's a The question is, are we are we trying to help
people to become more like Jesus or are we trying to help people
to become more like us? Maybe that's a little tougher
way of putting it. I think sometimes the real truth
isn't just Jesus. It's Jesus and Jesus and my
interpretation of the Bible, Jesus and my choice of worship
style. Jesus and my political leanings.
Jesus and my worldview. Jesus and my group.
Jesus and my culture. Jesus and my color.
Jesus and my education. You get it.
You talk, you, you get the picture.
The point is there is no and there's just Jesus.
And we keep trying to change other people.
But ultimately changing people is what Jesus does.
It's not what we do. We're supposed to be cooperating
with him, not standing in front of him.
We need to let him do his job and not be a detriment to that.
Now. The Apostle Paul in Romans 14
gives examples of this in the Roman churches context when he
talks about faith and he talks about food restrictions in
verses two to four of chapter 14.
Listen to what he says. One person's faith allows them
to eat anything, but another whose faith is week eats only
vegetables, and the one who eats everything must not treat with
contempt the one who does not and the one who does not eat
everything must not judge the one who does, for God has
accepted them. Who are you to judge someone
else's servant to their own master?
A servant stands or falls and they will stand, for the Lord is
able to make them stand. So now we're in the context of
Romans and food restriction was a big deal in the in the Jewish
world and we've already established through the study of
Romans. Hope you're still doing that,
that the Roman church was an established church with with
Gentiles and with Jews, and so they were having to learn how to
get along together when they're coming from very, very different
backgrounds. And of course, if you were
raised Jewish there, there's a whole lot of rules associated
with your faith. It's called eating kosher or
eating pure. Now, Gentiles, they didn't
follow those regulations and they were not required to follow
those regulations. But that didn't stop Jews from
looking down on Gentiles because of the food they ate.
And it was a big deal to them and it was causing a lot of
problems. How do we, how do we connect
that to our world today? Well, I'm speaking from Quincy.
And in many ways, Quincy is a very Catholic community, right?
There's 8 parishes in Quincy and I I I don't know about like all
the rest of the other ten locations but definitely here
that's a reality. And the story goes of a of a
Jewish man that moved into a new community and it was a
predominantly Catholic community and and so and all of his
neighbors were were Catholics. And so on Friday, one of the
things that this Jewish man loved to do was cook a nice
steak on the grill. And so every evening Sky was out
there and he's cooking a steak on the grill.
And all of these Catholics that were pretty hardcore Catholics
were taught that they could only eat fish on Friday.
And so here comes this aroma wafting over the back fence, and
it's just driving all of his neighbors crazy.
And every single Friday night, this guy is cooking a nice juicy
steak on his grill. And eventually they just can't
take it anymore until they have an HOA meeting.
I mean, they get the neighbors together, you know, all the the
Catholic neighbors, they go, what are we going to do?
This is like, this isn't making it impossible.
I mean, you know, here I am, I'm trying to eat my fish.
I'm smelling. This is killing me.
And so they're talking about it, and they decide, you know, what
we got to do? Let's convert this Jewish guy to
Catholicism. That's what we'll do.
And so they started ganging up on him as neighbors, like, like,
you know, encouraging him and talking to him and working on
him. And over a period of months, you
know, they started to break this guy down.
And before long they had him to the place where he was ready to
convert from Judaism to Catholicism.
So they took him to their to their church.
It took him before the priest. And I don't know what it is that
the priest has. It has the water in it, you
know, like the holy what? What is that thing called?
I don't know what that thing's called anyway.
You know, there's a sprinkler thing.
That's the technical term. Anyway.
It's so the the Jewish man comes there and and he gets down on
his knees and the priest standing over him and he's
sprinkling the holy water on him and he goes born at you, raise
the Jew now Catholic and all of the neighbors went yes, that's
it. Solve that problem.
Next Friday, here comes that smell, the smell of a nice steak
cooking on that guy's grill. And they go, we've got him now.
And they all join up in the street and they head over to his
house. They walk into his backyard and
there he is over the grill with his little water bottle.
And he's going born a cow, raised a cow, now a fish.
Brothers and sisters do not determine who their parents are,
even though a lot of you, especially the younger ones,
your older brothers and sisters try to convince you that you
know who your parents were and weren't.
And what does the word accept mean when Paul uses it?
It means not to reject. It means not to ignore.
It means not to treat someone else as second class.
Acceptance is a basic recognition of family.
It's understanding not only who we are, but who's we are.
That it isn't us who determines our siblings in Christ.
It's Christ that's determined by the parent.
We don't have to agree, but when we disagree, we need to disagree
in a very agreeable way. Years ago when I lived in
Indiana and our children were little, we were downtown.
And there's a famous deli downtown called Shapiro's in
Indiana, Indianapolis. And Allison is trying to manage
these children, toddlers at the time, and it's hard to do that
and at the same time order. So she's not just ordering for
herself, she's also ordering for them.
And this is one of those places where I kind of step back and
let her do that, right? Or thankful that she does do
that. And so she's kind of going fast
at Shapiro's. And so she goes for one of the
kids. She says like a ham sandwich.
Shapiro's is a deli. It's a Jewish deli.
Are you? Is it too early in the morning?
They don't serve ham. Now, the person behind the
counter could have gotten frustrated by that, but they
could see that there was a young mom here dealing with kids and a
dad. And I I remember that moment.
I looked at her and I went, Oh my gosh, and and the guy behind
the counter said, hey, wouldn't you like some nice pastrami?
I mean, he didn't make a big deal out of it.
He didn't say, Did you not understand that this is a Jewish
delicatessen and we don't serve ham?
That ham is not kosher meat? He didn't scold her, give her a
hard time. He just said something nice
back. If we're going to disagree, we
need to disagree in agreeable way.
All goes on to talk about how in Jewish culture, one day is more
important to another. And of course that's a core
value. In the Old Testament covenant
law between God and the Jews, part of the 10 commandments was
the 4th commandment, which was remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy. But Gentiles were not a part of
that covenant law. And in the New Testament, when
we see the church established, you see this movement from the
Sabbath day, which was a Saturday.
And by the way, it wasn't a Saturday the way you understand
or I understand a Saturday because a Jewish Saturday begins
on our Friday at 6:00 PM and it goes from Saturday to 6:00 PM.
But that would be the way that the Jewish people in the Church
of Rome would understand it. But Gentiles didn't feel that
way. And when the church was
instituted and acts, two people began to worship the Lord on
Sunday, the first day of the week, and they called it the
Lord's day. So we we see this movement from
the Sabbath, the Saturday to the Sunday.
Now that would have sent a shockwave through the Jewish
culture at that time. Then he talks about things like
eating meat or abstaining from meat and how some people would
only eat vegetables. Now if you go into First
Corinthians chapter 8, it'll get deeper into this, but this is
kind of culturally what would happen anytime you would go to a
butcher shop to buy meat. During this era, all animals
that were slaughtered were taken through like a tunnel and they
were passed underneath an idol. So all of the animals that were
slaughtered, that were killed and then butchered technically
had been offered to An idol was kind of A2 for one, right?
So, you know, they were trying to get credit from their false
gods about the sacrifice of an animal even though they were
going to butcher it for food. Well, there were some people
that were new in their faith that were saying no, no, no,
nothing. Unclean's going to enter my
mouth. This was offered to an idol.
I won't eat it. So they would only eat
vegetables. And other people would say, come
on, the fact that people are doing whatever they're doing
with that animal as far as passing it under an Isles, no
big deal. All this meat is clean.
God's made it clean. They would argue about that.
And you can see how there would be divisions in the church and
difficulty and mean spirited talk and people would get
frustrated. They would step away from it
because of what was going on, right?
And you might think to yourself, that would not happen today.
We wouldn't do that in a church today.
Come on, you know what I've noticed?
I don't know about this and all the other our other communities
been in Quincy. Halloween is a pretty big deal.
I mean, some people, like, go crazy, like with their yards and
everything, right? They just go nuts to celebrate
Halloween. But there are some people, well
meaning Christians, that are like, That is the devil's
holiday and no one should ever celebrate Halloween because
you're glorifying the devil. For many years my wife ran the
preschool in here in Quincy and we did a Halloween alternative
for preschoolers. It was called Noah's Ark Park
and kids would dress up as animals to go on the ark.
But there were some well meaning Christians tending to disciple
others. That said, how dare you dress
little children up as animals for Noah's Ark Park because
you're trying to give them an alternative to Halloween cause
it's really just Halloween you pagans.
Now you can see how some people by faith are saying we should
never do anything called Halloween.
Other people by faith, are saying it's not a big deal.
And there's even these positive ways that we can do this.
Would you call that a disputable matter?
Sure, certainly I would, because we all have our opinions.
But our opinions should never be more important to us than the
people that Jesus died for. For goodness sake, look at
verses 7 to 10, it says. For none of us lives for
ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone.
If we live, we live for the Lord.
If we die, we die for the Lord. So whether we live or die, we
belong to the Lord. For this very reason Christ died
and returned to life, that he might be the Lord of both the
dead and the living. You then why do you judge your
brother and sister? Why do you treat them with
contempt? For we will all stand before
God's judgment seat. We have to recognize that it is
not our job to judge or condemn other people.
Leave that to the Lord and you just bring Jesus that not Jesus
and just Jesus to people. Now in our movement of churches
called the Restoration movement there are churches that are
instrumental and there are churches that are non
instrumental. As a matter of fact from this
location where I'm preaching at 48th and main, if you go over to
State Street about 46th and state there is a Church of
Christ. It's a non instrumental Church
of Christ because the people of the non instrumental Church of
Christ do not see instruments being used to worship God.
In the New Testament, they're worshipped in using instruments,
The Old Testament, but not in the New Testaments.
And since the New Testament is silent about the use of
instruments in worship, they don't use instruments and they
sing a cappella. Now they're fine with music in
any other setting, but when it comes to worship, no
instruments, how should we feel about that?
Will? You obviously know how I feel
about it, because you know, we love music and all forms and
instruments. We think that's fine, but what
if I were to invite, and we have before, someone from the non
instrumental Church of Christ to come and speak at the crossing?
What would I do? Would I have an expectation that
they just need to just get over it or would I do something
different? I've literally done this and
I've asked people to come and I I've told them, listen, we will
cover our instruments and we will sing acapella because we
want to honor you. Because whether we have
instruments or don't have instruments doesn't mean
anything compared to who Christ Jesus died for.
And we need to honor each other that way and not get caught up
so much. Indisputable matters because
ultimately we are all going to have to answer to God for this.
That's what that scripture says. Look at verses 12 and 13.
It says so then each of us will give an account of ourselves to
God. Therefore, let us stop passing
judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not
to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother
or a sister. That's the main thing.
We're not supposed to forget it. Let's look at another verse, the
19th verse. It says Let us therefore make
every effort to do what leads to peace and mutual edification.
I wish I could frame that and hand it out to everybody.
Let us do whatever leads to peace and mutual edification.
Edification means to encourage. It means to build up, make
another person feel pretty good about where they are.
So, and it's so. There's two things there, peace
and mutual edification. Here's two questions we should
always ask ourselves before we ever get into a conversation
that is going to devolve into a disputable matter.
Number one, does my part in the conversation lead to peace?
Are the things that I'm saying or the ways that I'm responding?
Doesn't matter if I brought it up or they brought it up.
Is it leading to peace? #2?
Do the things that I contribute to the conversation actually
build the other person up in some way?
I want you to think about before stuff came out of your mouth.
How much different would your life be if before anything came
out of your mouth? You ask yourselves those two
questions and then lived according to them.
Is it contributing to peace? And I am I encouraging the other
person in some way? I would imagine a lot of us
would have a lot less to say. I imagine that a lot of us would
be spending a lot less time on social media and it and and we
would look at our phones and when it got we got our screen
time thing, it would say, well you're really down.
You know it's like yeah, why? It's because of that if those
things are not happening, we need to ask why.
Could it be because we have this Pride issue that we want to be
right, That we just want to be right here?
A couple of weeks ago, I received an e-mail.
Some people had come to me and they had asked me to use my
influence as the publisher of Christian Standard magazine to
promote something. And they were being so nice to
me. And I took them out and we had a
meal together and, you know, was sharing with them.
And then immediately I got emails back.
Just really positive. Boy, I really appreciate your
time. Really appreciate the things you
shared with us. I'm so excited about this.
I'm so excited about that. But as some people do, sometimes
they don't realize that they have other emails to one another
attached to the e-mail that they sent to me.
And the two guys were emailing each other back and forth
talking about me and hadn't realized that they sent that
along, that that was somehow attached.
You know, you'd never do anything like that.
That's never happened to you. So I'm reading this and I'm
like, wow, that. So that's what they think.
That's what they really think. One guy was saying to the other
guy, I, I, I, I'll place a bet that he doesn't call, he doesn't
e-mail us back for two weeks, stuff like that.
I showed it to my wife. She got really upset.
And so there's a part of me that's going and I was working
on this sermon and I went great sermon illustration, but it
doesn't lead to peace or mutual edification Flood go right and
some of you are going are going well that never that's never
happen Anything like that's ever happened to me.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Well, maybe it hasn't. Maybe it didn't have an e-mail
issue like that. But maybe to a person's face,
you've said the things you know that they want to hear.
But when you get with somebody else and you talk about that
person, the conversation is very different.
And we're all guilty of that. Look at the 22nd verse.
So whatever you believe about these things, keep between
yourself and God bless. The One is the one who does not
condemn himself by what he approves.
That's some really, really good advice.
Have you ever gotten into it with someone about some petty
thing? And then after the damage is
done, you look back and you say to yourself, it would have been
just better if I would have kept my foolish mouth shut, keeping
some things just between you and God looking.
It's okay if you want to say to God, this person just really
hacks me off. I don't know you.
God can handle that. You keep, you know, you complain
up. It's OK, he'll work through
that. He'll remind you of all the
things that you do right. But this other direction is not
good. This direction from 22 is really
good advice. And the other thing that you see
from this is that Jesus takes it personally when people insult
you because of your faith, it offends you.
When people insult you because your faith, it also offends him.
And you might go, OK, all right, it's nice to have someone stand
up for me. That's a good thing.
But wait, he also takes it personally when you and I talk
down to someone because of some shortcoming they might have.
Or maybe not to someone, but about someone to someone else.
Chapter 15 verses one to three says, we who are strong ought to
bear with the failings of the weak and not to please
ourselves. Each of us should please our
neighbors for their good, to build them up.
For even Jesus, even Christ did not please himself.
But as as it is written, the insults of those who insult you
have fallen on me. Truth is, sometimes we know just
enough about the Bible to hurt people and we need to step back.
And we need to do our best to learn practical ways that we can
walk out our faith and live out our faith without hurting other
people, because that hurt can be profound.
I want to close with this. When I read a story in the
Bible, it's not uncommon for me to want to identify with whoever
is the hero because I want to be that person.
I want to be the one who does the right thing.
Isn't it interesting that so many of us tend to want to
identify with the hero in the story, but when it comes to our
own intimate, personal relationship with Jesus, we have
to understand there's only one hero and it's never us.
Jesus is always the hero of the story, and the glory goes to
him. Doesn't go to us, right?
Well, maybe you're going well, you miss me on that one, Jerry,
Because when I read a story in the Bible, I'd identify with the
victim. Okay.
Maybe you identify with the victim because, you know, we
kind of live in a victim culture.
And so, yeah, this because we're not thinking about maybe being
the good guy. Maybe we're thinking about the
other person being the bad guy and me being recipient of that.
I'm not saying that those things aren't valid, but when you try
to identify with the victim of the story, you're doing the same
thing that I'm doing if I identify with the hero, the
story, Because ultimately there's really only one victim,
and that's been victimized to this level, to to the highest
level, and that's the same person as the hero, the story.
Has there ever been a greater victim than Jesus?
Has there ever been someone treated more unfairly than
Jesus? And so if you want to get up on
the pedestal for hero, maybe you should step out.
Maybe you step off. And if you want to get on the
pedestal for the victim, maybe you should step off.
And maybe all of us together need to look to the one place
where the truth is the one place, the one person who was
the hero of every story, and a person who was victorious, even.
But this kind of victimization truth is we are a collection of
victims and perpetrators. And to be honest, probably
everybody I'm talking to has been both at one time or
another, maybe even now. But Jesus is here, the ultimate
victim and the ultimate hero, and he is here to heal the
victims and to turn the hearts of perpetrators back to him.
If we'll just lean into him today, this place was made to be
a place of healing, a place of burdens, lightning, place of new
life and new perspective. A place where old is laid down
and the new is freely and gratefully received.
Let's be that place we're moving to a time of decision.
Earlier this week, Allison and I were at We sit at the dinner
table and we work there. And Abby, my youngest daughter,
came over with her. One was at preschool, the other
one is younger than that and brought the younger one.
And I'll tell you, these two kids of hers, I love these two
kids so much. They are all boy and they are
like 2 Tasmanian devils. Like if there is something on a
shelf or there is something put away, that is totally a wrong
thing. It needs to be fully displayed
on the floor for all to be able to see and maneuver around.
Sometimes that irritates me. Doesn't really seem to bother my
daughter. She's a great mom with them.
Doesn't seem to bother my wife. So we're sitting there and Abby
and I are talking about some of the different struggles that
we're dealing with, and she's sharing with me.
She's being transparent. I'm trying to share with her and
being transparent. And she said something to me
that kind of hit me. She goes, I'm such a
perfectionist, but she really wasn't talking about how she
viewed others. She was talking about how she
viewed herself. And she always falls short of
what she feels like she ought to be or ought to do.
I don't know if you guys connect with that or not.
And I was trying to think of something I could say to
encourage her. And for some reason, she took
her eyes off of me while we're in this conversation.
Maybe she heard something that her son was doing right next to
her on the other side with Allison, with him bouncing on
the lap, watching train videos. And I saw that, and it occurred
to me, I go, Abby. I know that may be how you feel
and how you think, but you need to understand that when God
looks at you, it's just the same as when you look at Avery.
That's what he sees. He sees you that way, and Avery
comes into this house and he makes all these messes.
It doesn't seem to bother you that much.
It certainly doesn't change the amount of love that God had that
you have for Avery. And it doesn't seem to bother
Allison much. Doesn't really change that level
of love there either. As a matter of fact, you have a
lot of grace for a kid who just turned 2.
And if you know this scripture, and I know she knew this
scripture, if you then, being evil, know how to give good
gifts to your kids, how much more will your Heavenly Father
give the Holy Spirit to those who ask you?
Some of you are here right now, and you're trying to manage this
stuff all by yourself. Trying to carry all your own
load, trying to be tough enough, Pull yourself up by your own
bootstraps, Buck up when maybe you just need to be the little
kid that runs to the parent and needs to feel the nurturing arms
of a Heavenly Father. Encouraging and reassuring.
That's what these steps are for today.
For you to just spend some time with the Lord.
To be reminded that he loves you.
To be reminded how He sees you. And to be reminded that we've
talked about a couple of weeks ago, that he has more grace than
you will ever require for you. Some of you are here today.
You've never come into an intimate, personal relationship
with God. You think you're so tough.
You think you're so strong. I want you to know right now
that you are surrounded by a whole room of weaklings, and the
guy you're listening to is one of the biggest weaklings of all.
And you can let go of that today, and you can let the Lord
Jesus have his way in your life, and it'll be messy.
But what do you think he expects out of an infant?
There's going to be somebody right over there by that
baptistry that would love nothing more.
And just to share with you some of what the next steps could be.
And you could leave this place today completely different than
when you walked in. Here's an opportunity.
Would you stand with me? Let's pray together.
Let's give this moment to the Lord.
In Jesus name, Heavenly Father, I pray take this moment.
It belongs to you anyway. But help it to belong to you as
far as we're concerned, in our hearts.
And if there are hearts right now that are struggling, I pray
Father that we would put down those defenses.
Be transparent before you and let you have your way in Jesus
name. Amen.