The Power of the Holy Spirit

All right, so We're gonna jump into the second half of the book, which is, the first half of the book, the first book in the righteousness of Christ, the second half of the book, the second book in is the Power of the Holy Spirit. and a verse that I just really came out to me is, but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and I like the way the author starts this second section. He says, there's a lot in the gospel and in the righteousness of Christ when, when the shackles, if you will, of legalism or of self-fort and that, that gap or that constant tension of trying to please God and not being able to or getting worn out trying to walk the Christian life or all those other things that we've done. Trying to make atonement for our own sins in small ways, small a's if you will, that God making so clear and putting that first book in on the shelf is righteousness. It's the righteousness of Christ. All of any time we default to what He has done, what He has done is absolutely sufficient. It says in Isaiah chapter 53, When he that is God will see the travail of his soul, that's Jesus, he will be in the Hebrews, he will be fully satisfied. Like that's it. I'm completely satisfied. With what my son has done, taking the sins of the world away, and I'm taking, I completely, that's all I require is in Christ, and that's all I'll accept is in Christ. And so he takes not only our sins on Him, but he gives us the righteousness of Christ, and we walk in front of Him and walk with Him and are before Him as complete in Him. That is complete in every way. He has equipped us with all things it takes to pertain to life and godliness, and we're complete in Him and washed. Clean every whit. Think about all the, all the steps you had to go through to get into the temple and especially the high priest, even to get into the holy of holies, that just that one time a year, all those things that has to be done. And yet if, God forbid, well, unless he wants to, One of us drops over dead right now and we're, we're Christ's, we go from here within a split second into the very presence of a holy God, able to look him face to face. That's not, that's nothing. We did. That's something that's already been done for us. That righteousness carries over to where we won't be a stranger in heaven. We won't have to hide in heaven. We won't have to go, I'm really sorry. We're complete in Him. We're completely washed and clean, so that. Be in the case motivates, it should motivate us to do, go way beyond what the law would want. Like we said, the law said thou shalt not kill, but freedom in Christ and knowing that I am accepted in the beloved all the time. If I turn right now and said, Lord, Father, I can't, he, he'd accept me right away. Knowing that should motivate us. To really want to live right for him, do work for him that he has worked in us, and motivation is great, like the author said, but motivation is is not power. You can get a bad football or a bad baseball team that they're really excited and enthusiastic, and they're ready to go and we can do this, but if they go up against a superior team, all that motivation. Really won't take them far because they just don't have the stuff to do it. We need the stuff. To be able to walk with Christ, and Jesus said, I will not leave you as orphans. I'll come, I will send someone for you. And he's given us His word. He's given us all, all those things that pertain to life and godliness, and yet he says, when I leave, I'm going to send a Comforter to you. He's going to be in you and with you. Because you're going to need it, which tells me if I need, just like I need someone else to do the righteousness before God, I need someone else. Education is not going to do it. You can educate me all day long about the righteousness of Christ and the word of God and how God is this and God is that. You can do that all day long. Education or knowledge is not going to take me very far. He will. The Spirit of God will take me. Him in me is my Christ in you is the hope of glory, and Christ is in you by the Holy Spirit. So I wanted to look at real quick if anybody had a great setup. It was the apostles in Acts chapter 1. So I just want to read a little bit of it, and I like what the author says in page 1 letter B. The gospel's ability to motivate us as believers increases as our reliance on the first bookend grows, but motivation by itself is insufficient. We also need the strength to carry out the motivation. So I wanted to look at this little picture of Acts chapter 1. I think we blow past it pretty quick. Hold on one second. My kids are So Where's that noise coming from over here. Oh, it's over there. Oh, OK. Well, that's just in case they go around. It's OK. Oh look, I closed the door and he comes walking in. He's 20 years older. Have a seat. Wow, how did that happen? We know how it happened. That's right. See, see what I'm talking about? This is our testimony. Yes, that's right. OK. Yeah, no offense, I didn't see it. No, it's fine. OK, so next time what I'll do is I'll shut the door and then, OK, I'm sorry, we all are just, OK, so you need the notes, the notes, yeah, if you need the notes, go ahead. OK, so Acts chapter 1. And I love this, and I'll just read from the beginning the former account which I made O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach. Until the day which he was taken up after he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen. I don't know if you've ever seen, I've never seen that. He through the Holy Spirit gave commandments to the apostles. to whom he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. OK, so I'm looking at the apostles from, from the start to this point. So, they were chosen by Christ. They walked with the living Jesus for 3 years or so. They heard him teach. They heard him speak. They watched his miracles. They saw him do the miracles that he did. They saw him even raise the dead. They saw his wisdom again, all these things they saw and they witnessed, it said they heard him speak. They saw his miracles. They witnessed his crucifixion and resurrection and beheld His glory. And he was there for 40 more days working with them. If anyone was equipped to go out as is, they were. Oh, that's all we need, Lord. We got understanding the Old Testament. We saw you. We saw you raised. That's, we're, we're ready. Let's go. And first thing Jesus said in, verse 4. Being assembled together, he commanded them, Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait. You're not done yet. There's something missing. All that thing, all that knowledge and eyewitness account and everything you got, that's still not enough for you. For John verse 5, truly baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. And I love how they haven't changed a whole lot because they don't seem to hear that in verse 6. Therefore, when they came together, they said, Lord, you're going to set up the kingdom right now? Like, I just told you about the, yeah, so they're not listening again, but he says it's not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father put in his own authority, but you, verse 8, the key will receive power. When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, then You shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. So if it wasn't enough for them, It's not enough, certainly not enough for us. We can have all the library full of MacArthur's books, but if we don't have the Holy Spirit to give us power to go and to go in his spirit, then we're gonna, we'll be in trouble. It's knowledge will not cut this for us. not everything, nothing can be done without the Holy Spirit. Everything is appropriated by His Spirit. Thanks be to God, we The book end of the righteousness of Christ and of the Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit, it's there. It's not we have to go find it or develop it. He gave it to us already. It's already been gifted to us. Sometimes we don't walk in the awareness of that, if you will, and we try things in our own strength. The first thing I want to look at was what he pointed out first, and this is critical in number one on, on our page, he quotes a verse out of 2 Timothy, says, be strengthened. 2 Timothy 2:1 says, you then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And he's talking to Timothy, and it's interesting. He points out that the instruction, the verb in it is a passive imperative, and what that passive imperative means is that it is something that needs to be done to me. It can't be done by me. If it was an imperative. It would be, be strong, make yourself strong, but here it says. be strengthened by Be strengthened by, by someone else, by the Holy Spirit of God. He, he is the one who supplies our strength, and it's needs to come from something or someone completely other than ourselves. And in the age we live at, God knows we have every single book, instructions. We have seminars coming out of our ears. We have doctors, psychologists, we have everybody that has all kinds of things to strengthen us. Some are good. But he, apart from any and everybody else, he gives us a strength that no one or nothing else can give, period. It comes from Him and Him alone. And we can't live on something other, some other strength. In many cases, so it's not enough to be as witnesses. They need it and we need the power of the Holy Spirit to be strengthened, he says. And number 2, he points out that there's two kinds of power from the Holy Spirit or works of the Holy Spirit that he does. One is privilege. He talks about the things that we have in Christ that are a privilege to us, seated in heavenly places and all that. And then also he has power. And in this case it's power for weaknesses. And in 2 Corinthians chapter 9, I'm at number 1, number 1, and then number 3 on page 12 Corinthians chapter 9, he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you. This is the case that after Paul saw the visions and God said, I think you're going to need a little humbling, and a messenger of Satan came with a A thorn to buffet him and I don't know about you, but I, I, everybody concentrates on the thorn. Well, what's that? Can I concentrate on, hey man, there's a messenger of Satan swinging that, that thorn, whatever it is. That's pretty heavy. So much so that of all the things that Paul went through that, that's recorded, he only asked out for one, like, Lord, please take this away. I can't. It was this. Like whatever that thorn in that guy demon was, it was way past his level, tolerance level. He asked 3 times for it to take away, but he said, My grace, God says in response, my grace is sufficient for you, for my strength. is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly I would rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs and persecutions and distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, I am strong, and this is particularly there's a weakness in infirmities and all the things. That we go through that make us weak and we think oh this isn't good. I need to get unweak and it's like no this is a place for not other help but a place for the Holy Spirit where he comes in outside yourself and he's the one that strengthens us in these infirmities. He didn't take the guy, the demon with the thorn away. Take it away, Lord. He goes, mm, no, my grace is sufficient. So I'm, whatever you're going through, his strength by His Holy Spirit is sufficient to carry us through, to get us through. Power for weakness. number 2 on your, on your first page, the role of the Holy Spirit. There are several things that the Holy Spirit does. You can't put the role of the Holy Spirit in this class. In fact, there's 4 more messages, and I don't know if they cover everything, but the role of the Holy Spirit, we'll look at, I'm just going to look at 2 this morning. the first one applies the righteousness of Christ to our lives. and I like what he says, quote from the book in letter A under number 2. Although all of God's blessings are in Christ, They're distributed and applied to us by the Holy Spirit, and I love the quote where he, this is the effect, not just the righteousness like, oh, I declare you righteous, but bringing some of that eternal heavenly righteousness right smack dab into an earthen vessel and doing some amazing things such as, and such in 1 Corinthians 6:11, and such were some of you. But you are washed. But you are sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. So it's the Holy Spirit that takes those declarations, if you will, or what Christ has done, and he streamlines them. He's what we plug into to bring those things, if you will, to life in our actual person. And before the throne of God. And such were some of you, but you are washed, you're sanctified, you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus. The second thing, in this chapter that, that really struck me is that the work of the Holy Spirit transforms and conforms our lives to the image of Christ. Top of page two, transforms and conforms our lives to the image of Christ. Sometimes we think we're stuck. Being what we are. Man, I'll, I'll never change. This is horrible. I'm always like, and yes, yes, there are things that keep popping up and they won't go away till we're gone. Can't you wait until you, if you get a chance when your body's laying on the ground, if you get one more shot at looking at yourself going. Or thanks for nothing, yeah, just one more shot, maybe, but just little pop on the back of the head like, man, you made me miserable and then you're able to go into glory. I don't know if I'll get that chance, but I'm looking forward to it. so transform and conforms our lives to the image of Christ and I, in Romans 8 alone, which is an interesting study. Romans 7, when he talks about law. I think it's 23 times the pronoun I is all through Romans 9. I can't this. I don't do that. I don't this. I don't do that. I want to do what I want, but I can't do what I can't. Romans 7. I'm sorry, did I say 9? I'm sorry, Romans 7. Romans 8. It Completely turns around to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit, Spirit, Spirit, Spirit, Spirit, spirit, and it's not an accident because that's what this poor man, Paul, who in his journey to try to keep, be righteous in his own self, and all the eyes turned into, O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death, I thank God through Jesus Christ my Lord, and this is how, and in spirit, spirit, spirit, spirit, all through chapter 8. And in chapter 8, Romans 89 to 11. It says, but you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he's not his. I love that verse. It's an identifier, number one, that scary parable where Jesus said, he come, these people come and say, Lord, Lord, didn't we do all these wonderful works in your name? And he looks at him and he goes, depart. I don't know you. That's the thing, it's not like, Do me? It's I don't know you. Why don't Him? Because one of the, one of the signs is they have the spirit of Christ in them. Those that are His have His spirit. If you don't have the Spirit, you're not his, and it makes that separation of, and sometimes it's hard to tell because so much of our Christian is so doable, it's so lookable, it's so able to be imitated even by anybody. But the Spirit of Christ in someone. So God, that's one of the things in Romans 8. He identifies his own people by His Holy Spirit. And if Christ verse 10 is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. He brings that bread. You must be born again, born again by the Spirit of God. He brings new life, brings that life. The law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death. he raised Christ from the dead. He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Likewise, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. Again. He goes back to helping our weaknesses, so he's he's here for us, for us, this mortal crock of clay, this earthen vessel. That's why he says we have a treasure in earthen vessel that the excellency of the power may be of God, not of us. This is all from Him. Likewise, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't even know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. Now he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. So when we can't even pray. He prays for us, that's cool. So you have Jesus praying for us as our high priest, the Holy Spirit praying for us as he dwells in us and knows, he, he sifts through all the weird things that we think, and he, he, he gives the real issue to, to the, and the Father is for us. So it's like just, just give me the information. I'm for them. So they're all for us. So we, I'm sorry, but we can't lose. We can't lose. So, but he sends him to us for two things transforms and conforms our lives, the image of Christ. Romans 8. Also 2 Corinthians 3:18, but we all with unveiled faces beholding as a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as by the Spirit of the Lord and What's a blessing and why they'll just have to live by faith. All we see and all we're aware of is the sameness. We don't see any transforming going on. It all looks the same to me. Sometimes it's worse than others, but it seems like it's bad or worse, bad or worse, bad or worse, and maybe there's a good, good day, but that's all we see or feel. But God says, no, we behold His face as in a glass. There's something going on by His Holy Spirit that we have really nothing to do with. His transformation, transforming us into the image of Christ. It's happening just as sure as we are sitting here. Well, I don't see it. You got to believe him. He says it's happening. That's part of the reason why he's here, is to transform us into the image of his son. And he can do that. He gives us the power of our mortal bodies, and he also works on this transformation that we have. Our role in this number 2, letter C, on page 2. Our role always, it's not just sitting around wondering, looking around going, I don't see anything. It's an active faith. An active faith, I think again sometimes we just, we may be a little bit too just flopping around, not really engaging in prayer and in faith what God has done and plugging into by faith, plugging into what he says. Oh good, I thought Jonathan looking at the clock scared me. No, no, sorry, plugging into by faith what he has done. and it does take that because look, if everything inside of you and outside of you in your thoughts, everybody is saying, saying this, you're not transforming at all, there's no difference there's nothing going on. Everything inside of me tells me I don't see anything. What's going to go the right way, which is God says there's transformation taking place. It's trusting Him, leaning on Him, trusting His word, renunciation and reliance, renouncing our own efforts and our own feelings. It's like. And reliance completely on Him and He gives that, that's the power he gives by His Holy Spirit even to Plug your faith in. Even that's a gift from, from God. And the other point he made that's somewhat associated with with what he does, he, he made a point out that the Holy Spirit enables us. He doesn't just help us out. I use the term help and I'm comfortable with it, but actually he is the one that because of him, he enables us to be able to pray. He doesn't, we're not like doing a great job and he's watching from the sidelines and oh we missed. Oh hang on, I'll get that for you. OK, go ahead. He's not doing that. He's not helping us out. He's not our assistant. He is the one who enables us to do all these things. When we look at the next couple of sections, we'll see there's a synergy with the Holy Spirit, but even that, he supplies all the material and everything else, and we just walk in what He has already called us to do. So number 3 on page 2, the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit. This is one of my favorite parts, the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit. And this is where we get in trouble. So It says our faith does not confine the Holy Spirit to any course of action. Like, Lord, I prayed and I this and I that and I committed it to you, so now I know what you're going to do. You have to do this. And the Lord said, do nothing. I'm not here to conform to your patterns of what you think and how you think I should act. And he even points out in the book, he goes, did you ever have those happen? Sometimes you pray if you're in a time of temptation, and boom, oh thank you, Lord. Other times, other times he lets you twist in the wind for a while. Why that's what he wants to do. That's his business. That's his knowledge and his wisdom. That's his way. He is sovereign. He does what he knows is best. He takes our requests. He works with us. He answers many of our prayers, but he also has something else going on, and that's his agenda, that that other bookend holds the rest of the stack up, and part of it is because, I know what you want, but I also know what's best, like a parent. Delays or non-answers. Delays or non-answers to our prayers are just get this delays or non-answers to our prayers are just as deliberate as timely responses. Delays or non-answers to our prayer are just as deliberate as timely responses. That's a hard one to hold on to, but it is so true. When Lord, our brother, the one you love is sick. Oh, go tell him. Oh, they'll tell Jesus he's not that far away. He'll be here. He'll heal him. It's all good because he loves us so much. He does love them so much. And when Jesus heard the news about Lazarus, he goes, OK, and he decided to camp out for another 4 days, making sure he died. And then he finally comes, and I love, I love Martha in this because she's honest. She says, Lord, if you'd have been, and it wasn't, Lord, if you'd have been here, it was like more like. if you'd have been here, he wouldn't have died, like, taken him to task. Because that's how she felt. He delayed, and he delayed on purpose, but we can see it now in the rearview mirror and say, oh well, of course, because he delayed for a purpose of raising Lazarus from the dead because that was going to provoke the Pharisees and the Sadducees to get that crucifying thing into high gear. If he'd have just healed him, they might have been waiting, but it was time. So he raised Lazarus from the dead because that did it. It and they got what they wanted. He blessed them ultimately, and it was his timeline that was kicked off into high gear. So he, he does these things. So delays or non-answers to prayer are just as deliberate as timely responses. Then he talked about two of the works of the Spirit. The synergistic work. And then the monargistic work. And I kept misspelling monargistic. Because I go, I've never heard that word before. So, First, the synergistic work of the Holy Spirit, and he was very careful to point out that it's not like we work with the Holy Spirit and like we're equal partners and you do your part and I'll do my part and it's all good. It's like No, it's actually qualified synergism where God supplies everything. And then we just carry what he has given us the power and equipped us to do and just go do it here, here, wait, yes, here's $10 million. All right, see that bank over there? Yes, go deposit the $10 million here it is. Here's the card. Go to banker Joe Blow. He'll know what to do. So I just go over, give him, OK, task completed. OK, so I guess I worked with the Lord, if you could call that synergistic. So he supplied everything, the money, the card, the bank, the guy to see. I just walked over and did it. So in in Philippians chapter 2, verse 12 and 13, therefore, my beloved, as you have also always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, he says, Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which works in you, both to will and to do for His good pleasure. So in other words, work out what he's worked in, and I think, I believe the fear and trembling is not just one of disobedience that you're going to be disobedient. Work out your own salvation and fear and trembling. It's more or less whatever he's put in there to work out, make sure you don't leave it there. Make sure you get everything he's put in, worked in you. Make sure you get it worked out. Make sure the shelves are empty at the end of the day. That's what you should be afraid of, that he has worked a work or something in you that you are sitting on hiding under a rock. You're not walking in. You decide, oh no, I'm not going to, no, get everything off the shelf and get it worked out. I think that's the emphasis, if you will, that's my opinion, of fear and trembling, for it's God which works in you both to want to, to will and to do. The ability is good pleasure. That's, that's a good verse on. If you want to call it synergistic work with the Holy Spirit, Romans 8:13 also is quoted, for if we, if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. So it's not just, it's not just you need to put the deeds of the body to death. No, it's by the Spirit, you put the, the, the death, the deeds of the body. So he gives us the power and the ability to do that. We just do what he says, right? Mortify the works of the flesh that are in you by the power of the Holy Spirit. It's beyond mental ability. It's beyond any anything you can find in a book. It's beyond human help. It's beyond everything. It's by the power of the Holy Spirit that we can do these things. The Spirit's monogistic work number 5, the Spirit works alone in us and for us, but completely independent from us, and I love the examples he gave John 35 and 6. Jesus answered, Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. And if you want to go back, want to find something where it's just the Holy Spirit, look at the work of salvation, not just in its completion, but even up prior to. These people used to come, you just, just drive me nuts. You, you need to get saved when I was not saved. You need to save right now. I go, What are you talking about? You need to accept Jesus now. I go, There's nothing here. There was nothing activated. There's nothing. I didn't feel it. I go, like, how? What are you talking about? Found out later there was so much work that the Holy Spirit was doing prior to my conversion, bringing me to the cross, bringing and enabling me to fully, completely surrender my life to Christ and receive Him as my Lord and Savior and walk with Him from that point on. But that was his work. All those weird things that happened, all those, I'm doing something really evil and bad for years. Oh, this is fine, this is fine, this is fine. All of a sudden one day it's like, oh, this isn't fine. Why isn't this fine anymore? Why does this bother me now? Why? Because of his monoistic work, he had already started putting that in me, and I had nothing to do with it at all. I didn't know what it was. He was doing that by me and drawing me to himself. John 6:44. No one. No man can come to me unless the Father through the Spirit draws him. I love that drives some of my Christian friends nuts. They don't like that verse. I do because no one can just make their mind up to come to Christ. They have to be drawn by Him. Today if you hear his voice, harden not your heart. You've got to hear the voice first before you harden your heart. He does that work, that mysterious work that he even he said the wind blows where it wills, it goes from, and you don't know where it's coming from and where it's going. So is everyone born of the spirit, man. You can't put your finger on that stuff. You can't figure it out. Yes sir, I just, I want to just tie together what you just said with the raising of Lazarus. So Lazarus was dead, stinky dead, right, because when Jesus said the stone, the sister said, Lord, by this time he's stinky dead. And Jesus called Lazarus. Um-hum. It's, it's all three of the members of the Trinity are there. Yes, he called Lazarus, and Lazarus was raised by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Lazarus heard the voice of Jesus. To your point, when you're dead, unless the Spirit is there, you cannot hear the voice of Jesus. The call is. Constantly there without the Spirit you can't hear it because you're dead in your trespasses and sins. But when the Spirit begins to work, you begin to hear the voice, you begin to hear the call, and then, as you mentioned, at some point in the fullness of time, the Holy Spirit says, come forth. Have Yes, and man, I couldn't have jumped on that bus fast enough. When it pulled up, I was, I just jumped in. I was ready, but I was 2 years before that, 3 years, I was just as lost as I'd ever, worse than I'd ever been. So, yeah, it's him. It's all of him. A monarchistic work, the seamless application of monarchism and synergism. Hebrews 13:20-21. Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Him make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen, it's him working. In you and thus working out what he's already worked in. real quick, the differences and similarities of both bookends righteousness of Christ, the Power of the Spirit. Both are solid, steadfast, because they are supplied by God and God alone. They're not something there's no, there's no effort on your part or my part to establish these bookends. Ours is faith, faith according to His word by His Spirit. Both require faith on our part. Both are blood-bought, life changing fountains of grace that glorify God. So when we're held up, our life is held together, we can glorify God, not ourselves, because God put those things into place. The difference is the righteousness of Christ is complete and finished. Our faith is more or less a passive reliance. It's not a work. It's more or less a passive reliance on resting on what's already done, and I have to add nothing to it so I can lean hard on it. The power and the work of the Holy Spirit to be is ongoing and active, so this is required. There's a lot of activity, a lot of work, a lot of walking, a lot of, working with him, if you will, his way. Our faith is the first in the first book end is more passive, where our faith in the second bookend is more active, so. That's just starters for the whole power of the Holy Spirit. Next week it's Chapter 7. Dependent responsibility. So this is going to be good. Yeah. All right. Any questions? I'm sorry, I always leave so much room for questions. Oh, you're good. Yep, that's right, Father, thank you for today, for your loving kindness. Thank you, Lord, for your word and for the power of Your Holy Spirit. We're so grateful for how you have. Oh, your plans, you've, there's nothing undone. You have equipped us in every single way. You've called us when we were in darkness and dead, as Alvin said. You've given us life and that life is very, very pertinent to our lives here. It's our strength and our help to walk in the spirit, in a spiritual way, to war in a spiritual way. We just thank you so much for your equipping. We're grateful for your care for us and love in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you guys.