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[00:00:01] Speaker A: Hey, thanks so much for listening to this message. My name is Jason and I'm one of the ministers here at the Madison Church of Christ. It's our hope and prayer that the teaching from God's Word you hear today will bless your life and draw you closer to Him. If you're ever in the Madison, Alabama area, we'd love for you to worship with us on Sundays at 8:30 or 10:30am if you have any other questions about the Bible or want to know more about the Madison Church, find [email protected] Be sure to also check out our Bible study podcast, Madison Church of Christ Bible Studies. Thanks again for stopping by.
[00:00:37] Speaker B: So good to be here and so good to see all of you here, and so good to see our senior guys up here leading. There were a batch of them that led worship this morning, and of course today they did a fantastic job and I'm so thankful for them. You know, I'm trying to imagine back in the days when, when I was going through this very same thing and graduating and moving off and doing all those things. And, you know, whether you're thinking about what you're doing next or whether you're just thinking about what's immediately ahead, it's kind of the same thing, right? There's a sense of accomplishment in that. You get to a certain end. You get to the end of that school that you've been all those years spending time learning, getting all those fundamentals down, and you start in kindergarten and you think it's gonna be 600 years till you reach the 12th grade. And then, bang, you find yourself in this moment. And then you do ask the question, what's next? So whether you're looking to get a job and go right into the workforce, or whether you're looking to do something local and go to school here or trade school and do some of those kinds of things, or whether you're going to go off and go to college, there's a question that comes to your mind. It's like, what is going to happen next? And while there's thrilling excitement about that and exhilaration that comes with this stage of life, there's also something very unique about it in that it breaks, brings with it also the unknowns, the anxieties, the things that cause you fear and maybe worrying about what is going to take place next. And we can find ourselves in this moment just like, whoo. Just feeling the substance of the moment. And if I can remember back when I graduated, that's exactly how I felt. It was a mixture of super excitement, but followed with, okay, what's this actually going to be like? I've always grown up in my home, and it's always been, you know, great and wonderful. But I'm finding myself, you know, now in this stage, being a little bit kind of curious as to about those things. And while they're going through this as high school students and getting to this graduation part, we want them to know how much we love them and how much we want to celebrate with them and are thankful for where you are and how excited we are for you. But if you'll take. Give me just a moment. I want to kind of see this thing from different eyes for just a moment, and that is this. Maybe some of you. You can't help but as you think about graduation and your kid growing up, maybe these are some of the images that pop in your mind. You think about, man, when those boys were born, you know, they were wild and crazy. We had to put them, you know, in a jumpy seat to just keep them busy. They're bouncing those legs all the time. Put them in a little walker. They go scooting around the house, and eventually you pull into that tricycle in the house. Then they bang into everything and break everything. So you move them outdoors with the big wheel, and the big wheel happens. And I don't know if your kids were like mine, but Gage ultimately got a big wheel that had, like, casters on the back wheels, and he could hit the brake real hard and spin that thing around. And then he had a little break at the back where he'd pull it up and sparks would come flying. You know, like, it was really cool.
And you get to a point where the big wheel's not enough. You get to a point where, you know, there's more that they want. They want to be able to get around and go into the neighborhood and find friends and play around and goof off so that they. They move to scooters and then to bicycles. And then it's not long before all that happens. As they go through middle school, you get to high school, and then, man, they turn 16, and then they've got wheels. And what happens is you begin to see a little bit less of them in your home. And it's happening. You can feel all of it. And then it's right after that, it's just. Literally just a blink. And then we're staring graduation in the face.
But what about the girls? I remember when Kinsey came home, we thought of her as a porcelain doll. I mean, she was Beautiful. She was perfect in every way. And we just would hold her, and I would sing songs to her, and I would put her down in her crib and just look at her and go, wow, how beautiful. And then, you know, it transitions over from, she's experiencing the love that you give her, and now she turns around and she starts passing that love off to her little baby dolls. And then after those baby dolls, it becomes like, playing, you know, like tea parties and those kinds of things. Before you know it, you get into these obnoxious things called birthday parties. And let me tell you something.
I love all of you, but we're out of control, people. I can remember even when Kenzie turned three years old, we had a party back in the fellowship hall, and I feel like we invited 75 kids. I'm not real sure, but it was a boatload of those kids. And Cindy said, hey, we're creative. We could come up with some fun games and we can do, like, a theme. Like, we found a little cheap, bouncy house that was really small thing that little, you know, a couple of kids at a time could jump in there. And Cindy said, listen, I'm going to need your help big time that day. And I'm like, okay, no problem, no problem, you know. And I said, what do you got in mind for me? She says, well, I need you to keep the kids occupied while me and the parents are setting things up. What that meant is she got to hang out, and I became monkey boy because I had youth ministry skills to engage, you know what I'm saying? And so I was in a sweat puddle. By the time that was over with thinking, what in the world have we gotten ourselves into? And I didn't have a Fitbit in those days, but if I did it probably going, hey, did someone steal you? You know, that kind of thing. Because it was an aerobic workout. I was absolutely spent. And so you move from those birthday parties and you get into these, like, doing nails and all that stuff and getting your hair done. And then you have these slumber parties, and you stay up late and eat snacks and talk about things, and, man, it is five blinks and some nasty dude comes up to the door asking if he can take your daughter somewhere.
And then you're right on top of it. You're at graduation again. So when I think about, like, just from a family perspective, some of those images may be right in the forefront of your mind. It may be right here in a lump in your throat. But I want to challenge us to think about things from this angle, you know, we're a church family, and I love our families and how strong they are, but, man, do I love how strong they are together. And maybe you have images of these little ones and Mommy and me. Maybe you can see them pat, pat, patting the Bible. Maybe you can hear them singing those songs, broken English, just screaming the top of their lungs. Maybe it's. You can imagine them and go back and see some of the faces of those kids as they were going through Bible class and they brought their little Ziploc baggie full of goodies coming back out of there. Maybe you saw the excitement in their faces and how much they were invested into vbs. I mean, let me just look at that face right there. Good gracious, alive. And let me tell you what that grows up into. It's like, go clean your room. And this is what you get. It sprouts hair. And we know what that look is, right? But you look at all these things, and maybe what you're thinking right now about all these kids that grow up here, you're thinking about, hey, I remember when they were baptized. Or maybe you can remember, like, how close they got as a youth group. Maybe they did a mission trip together, or they went on a retreat together, and you saw how close they could be and how they could support each other from a spiritual perspective. Maybe you're thinking about the mentors that have brought them along, the people that have poured their heart and soul into those kids and loved on them and said, hey, you can do good things and you can do big things. Maybe you're thinking about all the leadership training that took place as they were here at Madison. And I'm hoping that all of us feel a collective sense of pride and gratitude for the children that have been given to us, but also the way that we have tried to pour into them and show them our love. And so right now, we're at this next stage, and I guess I want to say to you graduates, we're here for you. Like, this is not a goodbye. This is not one of those things where we're looking to boot you out and send you soaring. We're actually looking to hear great things about where you are in life. But as I was thinking about preparing for this message, there's a passage that came to mind instantly, and I kind of tossed around, maybe thought about other things, but I ultimately came back to it, and it's this.
It's Proverbs, chapter 3, verses 1 through 12. Now, leading up to that, another passage that hit me was this One in Philippians, I was thinking about Paul as he was distanced from the people that he loved so deeply. And one of the things that he says to them is in that absence, he says, I'm certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished, on the day when Christ Jesus returns. That's where we find ourselves today. Excited for these guys, but also praying that God will keep them, that he will continue to work on them, and that they will be receptive to those things. So we're getting into Proverbs, chapter three. And the thing that I love about this text is it's kind of like in these couplets, right? There's a verse that lays out some instruction. It lays out things that God wants us to do. And then immediately following that, there's a beautiful thing about it in that it brings us back to what are the things that God promises as a result of that. So you got God's instructions coupled with his promises. And so I love this text because it tells me that if I do these kinds of things, God is gonna be with me, and he's gonna carry me through some of the things that I go through.
And so I love this text, and I hope we'll enjoy it together. That it's not just one for graduates, but it's one for every one of us to be thinking about what's next in my life. So it starts out with my son or my child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments. Obviously, at the core of everything that we have done here is we've tried to pour God's word into your hearts. That's why Psalm 119, 119, verse 11, says, your word I have hidden or I have treasured in my heart that I might not sin against you. The point of all this is that we want God's instructions to be with you and for that to be your guiding.
To be your guiding light as you move forward. So it says, don't forget my teaching. Let your heart keep my commandments. Well, let's talk about what that means. Don't forget.
It just means to choose not to be oblivious. Now, you guys are teenagers, and we love you, right? But sometimes we say things to you, and y'all go, uh. And we have no idea if that made landfall at all, right?
But what. This is different than that. This is you saying, I know what God says, and I'm rejecting it. I'm pushing it away. I'm choosing something besides the truth. Of God. And so what I want you to hear is God is saying, don't do that. Don't push away the truth. Don't hold onto anything but that. Let that be your guiding light. But then also let your heart keep those things. And the idea is that you are preserving that internally, that you are taking those passages that you've learned all of your life, the Bible scriptures that have fed you good information. And it's beyond the memorization aspect of it. It's beyond the. I know what that Bible says about that. It's that you take those precepts and you begin to apply them to how you behave and the decisions and the choices that you make. So that's the instruction that comes in the first verse. But what is the promise that follows? Notice this, that as a result of putting His Word in our heart, as following him, what we have is length of days and years of life and peace that they will add to you. Well, that may be a weird phraseology that we may not necessarily understand exactly, but I want to try to help you understand it from the text. The length of days just means prolonged blessing. It just means that I'm going to have blessing. And I wish there were days where I wish the day would end quickly, right, okay, this day needs to end right now. I need to go to bed right now. But then you have some days where you're like, oh, I've got so much to get to. I wish that we could find a way to make these 24 hours last a little bit longer so we can get more done and those kinds of things. This is not talking about the time factor. It's talking about the sense that happens inside of you where you go, God is with me, and he's with me all day long. And he prolongs that blessing all day long. And then also years of life and peace they will add. It's not just about welfare and prosperity, although that's a part of it. What it's saying is there's a peace that comes because you're following God, that there's a satisfaction that takes place, that when we do these things, God brings us to this level of comfort with his will. And that's something that's very important for us.
So if we were to kind of gel that down, I would just say live the truth and savor God's favor. Like, take the time to recognize that when you make these decisions, God is going to bless you. He's going to be with you. Doesn't mean you're not gonna have Challenges. It doesn't mean that you're not gonna have hard times. It just means that he's going to be with you through every bit of that and he's going to prolong those days, help you find his blessing. But then also in verse three, here's the next instruction, it says, never let loyalty and kindness leave you. Keep those things with you all the time. In fact, it says, tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. And you may say, well, I don't necessarily understand that kind of visual of bonded around my neck. How do I bind loyalty and kindness? How do I tie them around my neck? Or all those kinds of things. But I'm guessing I can show you a couple of pictures here that will help you understand what it means to keep something with you all the time. Anybody got any ideas about this? Maybe, maybe so. Because if you were to lose your phone, what happens? It's like you guys lost an appendage. You're, like, running around the house like, where's my. You know, like, we're all trying to find it. You always have that with you. Why? Because it's your communication. It's your ability to know some things. It's ways to answer questions, it's your games, it's all the things that you do. It's also live360, which is a very valuable thing, by the way. And so I'm saying all that to say your phone is very important to you and you keep it with you all the time. What if we took that same mentality, that same concept into loyalty and kindness and put those things with us all the time? Listen to what the Bible says about this. Loyalty is the idea of steadfastness or firmness. It's the idea that I have a. A commitment that is steadfast to God, that He is my priority above everything else. And then kindness is what I do toward other people. It's mercy and goodness. Doesn't that sound a whole lot like what Jesus said when he was asked about what's the greatest commandments? He said, hey, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. These two things hang all the law and the prophets, right? But it's also something that we've learned all of your life, which is the golden rule. And Jesus said this. He said, do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all of the law and the prophets. Do you understand how important it is to have kindness and loyalty with you all the time. That means no matter what you're going through, whatever situation you find yourself in, whatever temptation is right there in front of you, your loyalty is with God.
And that helps hold you fast. That gives you that steadfastness, that firmness of conviction to do the right thing. But then in turn, you're not so hardened by these things that you don't turn around and extend kindness and mercy and goodness to other people. Well, what happens as a result? What's the promise that comes from this when we decide to hold those things close? Well, then you're gonna find favor with God and people. You'll earn a great reputation. Isn't that amazing that God says, hey, this is a promise that I'm gonna give you? If you'll be loyal to me and if you'll be kind and show mercy and kindness to other people, guess what I'm gonna pour on you? Oh, man, I'm giving you a great name. Not with just people, but with God himself. He's gonna look down and be so pleased you. This is exactly what it says about Jesus in Luke, chapter 2, verse 52, right? Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and man. What was he? He was absolutely loyal to God. But then he also extended kindness and mercy and goodness to other people. Do you see how reputation is built when we do those right things? So I guess I would gel that down by just saying, be kind and a good reputation. Find we all want you to have good reputations. When you leave here, you represent all of us.
Understand that. We don't take that lightly. So when you go, we want you to hold onto your faith and to keep yourself strong because you represent all of us. But then in chapter three, verse five and six, get to the next one. And this is probably, in my view, the most important part of this 12 verse passage is, trust in the Lord with all your heart.
Don't depend on your own understanding. Seek him in all that you do. That's important, to trust God with all your heart.
Sometimes that may be difficult because as I view it, there's kind of this road, this path that we follow in life, right? And my dad used to talk about, he said the direction to God is straight. It's kind of a narrow way, it's maybe even a difficult road. But you travel that road and you go on that road and you. You do your very best to move straight toward God.
But you're going to make mistakes. Be patient with yourself. And when you have those mistakes or when you have things that happen, that take you off course. Understand, you may take a road that leads you in a place that's not good for you, but the moment that you find that reality, you get back. That's an important part of it, right? To turn back. My dad used to say, if you realize instantly you've done wrong and you turn back, that path back to God is so much shorter. But if you allow yourself to make a bad decision, a bad decision, a bad decision, a bad decision, and you keep moving off, you're gonna find it more and more difficult to come back.
But listen to what it says about this.
Seek his will in all that you do.
And it says he will direct your path. What I want us to understand is what that means is directing your path is. It means that he'll straighten that path. Literally. God draws us closer when we make those choices, those decisions to stay on that path that follows him, and we trust him with all of our might.
Then he rewards us for those decisions and brings us ever closer to who he is. That's biblical, right? Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. You know, I've used this analogy I don't know how many times, but I can't help but find it over and over again as something that's helped me in my life is you don't know what's on the horizon, you don't know what's over the other side of that hill, right? And so if you're traveling down this road and you're looking to see what's next, and you got questions about those kinds of things, you're not always going to have the answers.
But you can look back in the rearview mirror and let your experiences in your past, your mistakes, your successes, your failures, your bad decisions, the consequences of your past behaviors, the love that people showed you, the mercy that God gave, you can see all those things in your rear view mirror. And when you look in that rear view mirror, that's the thing that builds your confidence that God is still with you and that whatever is on the other side of that horizon, it does not matter. So as our direction is pointed, so he says, while you're on your journey in all that you do acknowledge him and he will make your path straight. So I would say it this way, trust God over self, that you may visualize his way of help. You won't know exactly what it is, but you'll know to keep moving forward. And there's something in that for us. And that God expects all of us to keep moving forward in life. Keep Pushing yourself. And I need you to know this.
We hear all these statistics about young people who leave their home congregations, and they go to other places and they have these new experiences and they eventually start drifting off. And it says that we're losing a lot of you. Listen to me right now, you guys. We love you. I can't tell you how much we love you. And there is not a bigger cheering crowd for you than this audience. There's no one that will love you the way we love you. And you always have a place here. No matter what you've gone through. You can come back here and find that love and support, but know beyond anything else that it's God who's going to get you through everything, whether we're here or not. We need to hear your faithfulness down the road.
But then let's move on to verse seven. And this is important, too. And I almost laugh every time I read it. Don't. Don't be impressed with your own wisdom. You ever thought that about a college student that came back home and visited? Oh, man, they go off and listen, we want you to get educated, okay? Go get your edumacation. All right? But I also want to say to you that while you are learning these things, don't begin to presume that the things that you're learning somehow are greater than the biblical wisdom that you've been fed all of your life. There's a lot of ideas out there, and I think all of those are interesting to study, but they always have to be compared to God's word. Don't be so impressed. Sometimes our folks come back and they want to tell us what all they've learned. And it comes off a little bit almost arrogant. Like, I've had this new experience, and so, like, everything that they've experienced here may not meet their approval anymore. And so you hear them talking, and I just want you to know, when you come home and you do these things, you may think that you look like this, but to us, that's what you look like.
We want you to be smart. We want you to be wise. We want you to learn great things. And we want to challenge you to do all that you can to grow in your knowledge. I encourage everybody to learn, not just from the Scriptures, but in all kinds of disciplines. But understand, God's word is the wisdom. It's not a wisdom. It is the wisdom. Don't be so impressed with yourself. What does it say instead? Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. That's why we say these things, because you're gonna be given all of this new information and people are gonna tell you there's no right or wrong. They're gonna say this way is as good as any other way. God created everything, so therefore, everything that we experience must be good. Bull.
I want you to hear it from us. That's not truth, but God's wisdom is true. And you can hold onto it forever and ever. Don't be wise in your own eyes. Don't think so highly of yourself. That kind of being puffed up is the very thing that God says. When we exalt ourselves, he humbles us, he brings us back into submission. But what's the promise? If we trust in his way and we turn back from sin, says, then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones. Interesting terminology there, healing for the body. If you look at the actual Hebrew language, it says health to the umbilical cord, health to the navel. Which is weird. It's an expression that they use to talk about the inner person and the person that needs to be nourished. And so the analogy is used that a mother, when the baby is inside the womb, is feeding that child and giving them all the nourishment that they need. And so what he's saying is, if you turn back to God, instead of following all those things that lead you away, God is gonna keep replenishing you in the same way your mom would have done with you in the womb, but also it's gonna be strength for your bones. Some translations use the term marrow. Like it's the idea of that life giving substance, the thing that builds blood cells and all those kinds of things, it's replenishing and nourishing your body. It's the inner person. And that's what God is saying here, is that if you do these things, if you don't think too highly of yourself, and if you recognize that his truth is truth and so you come back to it, then you're going to be refreshed over and over again.
So good to have mental agility, right? But better to speak with spiritual humility.
Verse nine. Here's the instruction. Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your produce. And you may not necessarily understand what that means. I'll simplify it. It means give to God, financially and otherwise. The Bible says, you know, whatever you do, do all in the name of the Lord. Whatever you do, do it heartily as unto the Lord rather than men. I would say God expects your best in every single thing that you do. But he also expects you to recognize that the blessings that you have come from him and to be willing to return those things back. So when it's financial, it means if you've been blessed financially, you have a responsibility to give back to God and to show him that you trust in him to provide the things in your life. Isn't that like Matthew 6:33, you know, seek ye first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness. And all these things, the things that you need for life, will be added unto you. So it's important, right? Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first fruits of your produce. Let's hit a couple of words there. Honor means feel the significance, the weight of this command that you give God your very best and the first fruits is from the beginning, the sacred, foremost, the very best. God is not interested in our leftovers. He's not. He is, however, wanting us to say, I trust in you. And so therefore I give back to you the very best that I've got. So let's say this. You know, the promise that comes as a result of that is it says, your barns will be filled with overflowing and your vats will brim over with fresh wine. Well, I don't know how many of you have vats. I don't know how many of you have barns that you need to fill up. But the point is not what those things are. The point is that he's saying to you, when you have these needs, God will take care of you and he'll give you more than you need.
That's why this challenge is there in Malachi, Chapter 3. As God is speaking to the Israelites through the prophet Malachi, he tells them, hey, bring the full tithe into the storehouse. What's going to happen as a result? Hey, test me. Put me to the test. Give me your all. Give the full tithe. So when you do that, you can see that I'm still in control. And will you not find out that I will pour out, open up the windows of heaven and pour out blessing upon blessing on you? And God says, there, put me to the test. That's kind of shocking for us, isn't it, that God would say, you can put me to the test. But he says this, why? Because he's going to provide for us. So here's how we gel that down. Give God your best. Put him to the test.
And then Proverbs, chapter 3, verse 11.
This one is a little bit more of a kind of a warning, a challenge to us to know that we're going to have some setbacks. Listen to what it says, my child. Don't reject the Lord's discipline and don't be upset when he corrects you.
Anybody ever enjoyed a good correction? Someone setting you straight, putting you in, you know, back in line? Nobody really enjoys those things, right? In fact, Hebrews says those things are not enjoyable in the moment, but what they ultimately bring is bring us back to kind of a godly righteousness, right? That discipline is meant to bring us back to where we need to be.
And so the proverb is saying that there's probably going to come a time where you're going to make those decisions that take you away from God.
And what I want you to understand about something is when you step away from God and this is for all of us, there's kind of a guilt that takes place in our heart.
It's not to make you feel trashy, but it's meant to be a reminder and a wake up that God wants you back.
Like the guilt that we feel is not just so we can be sick about it for a few minutes and then keep on moving. No, that's a reminder. It's a trigger inside, inside of us. Because we've been conditioned by good instruction and the Holy Spirit. And when we are convicted of something, what happens is we feel this burden of our mistake and our sin. And too often what happens in those moments, and this is what I warn all of us about, is in that moment where we sin, we think, oh, I can't be good enough to be received by God. And instead of going back to God, we turn and we run away from Him. So it says, don't reject the Lord's discipline and don't be upset when he corrects you. Well, why is that? Here's the promise. For the Lord corrects those he loves.
Are you with me?
He loves you. He wants so badly for you to be back. And if you feel that guilt of the sin or the burden in your life, instead of running away from God, what I want you to do is reach to him. I'll use this illustration. I can't think of a time in my kids existence in our home where if we discipline, if we administered some type of discipline on them that they did not immediately reach up to us for love and acceptance. I mean, hey, get that spanking, daddy.
What is God telling us through that? Isn't it that in that instruction something happens where we pass off a little bit of the goodness of God? May be painful in that moment, it may be Something that we hate in the moment. But if it's done in love, it helps shapes the boundaries of our lives and it gives us a sense of comfort of where we need to dwell.
And in the same way God is saying, if you've done something wrong and you're feeling that burden, that guilt, what I want you to understand is that's a trigger to say, come back to me. Reach your arms up. Notice what it says he loves. Just as a father corrects a child catches in whom he delights.
Are you going to disappoint us from time to time? Sure.
You going to make a mistake here and there? Absolutely.
But I'll tell you, we're going to delight in you. We're going to do our best to delight in you the same way God does and love you and accept you when you're ready to come back. So I'm saying don't go away. But if you do make those mistakes, let that trigger bring you back to God. Don't let it run you off. So let correction have you reaching for God.
So here we are, and it's a wild time for our graduates.
But I want us to understand that it's not just about their life.
It's not just about what's next for them.
And I want to say to you guys very specifically, don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid for whatever's out there that you don't know about.
Just trust God. He's going to love you through every bit of it. And you've got a support system here at home that loves you and will be there for you as well.
But I think it's actually a question that maybe not just graduates need to ask. Maybe all of us need to ask that next question of ourselves, which what is next in my life?
My speculation is that all the things that we just read because it's God's word has application to every one of us and a reminder to every one of us that we need to put God first, that we need to give him our best, that we need to trust him with all of our heart and don't lean on our own understanding. We know that God gives us reasoning abilities and we can lean on some of those things that are shaped by God's Word. But he's saying, I want all of your confidence, all of your trust. I want you to believe what I say and live those things out. And when you do those things, he's going to prolong your day. He's going to bless you in all these ways, and then he's going to discipline you from time to time. And it may be that there's someone here this morning who is feeling the sense of that discipline, has felt that trigger of guilt.
And what I want you to know is God is still reaching out for you. He still wants you to come back. He still delights in you. He still loves you, and he's ready to offer that mercy.
But it may be that there's someone in the audience who is saying to themselves, I've been thinking about becoming a Christian for a long time, and I've been paralyzed about what's going to happen next.
Well, the reality is, step out in faith, keep moving forward, submit yourselves to God, die to yourself, be buried in baptism and to be raised up to walk a new life. And in that newness of life, feel the refreshing beginning anew and a church family who will support you with all they got.
Maybe we all need to ask the question, what's next? If there's anything that any of you need this morning, let's do it today. While together we stand and sing.
