All right. Hey, welcome, guys. I don't know about you, man, but I love that last song that we just sang because that song has been meaningful to me in some very fearful times in my life, and I love that God gives us songs as weapons, man, to fight against discouragement and fear. Hey, we're going to be in the Book of Exodus today.
That song really tied right in. Man, we're splitting the Red Sea so we can walk right through it. Today, we're going to be in Exodus Chapter 2.
I've got to say this at all of our campuses today and right here. Man, can we just praise God for the ridge opening and all that that represents? Hey, some of you have spent, I mean, hundreds of hours.
I'm looking at a volunteer army here, okay, of people that have helped, and just there's so much to be thankful for with all this. I do want to tell you, if you've ever built a house before, you're going to know what I'm talking about, but I'm going to tell you, we have moved in with the punch list still to be done, okay? And so there's a lot of things that are still kind of in motion, and we're going to be trying some different things out, different parking schemes, different ways of doing different things.
Over the next few weeks, maybe even months, but that's normal, and that's just kind of part of the gig when you move into a space like this. So we're excited, and I do want to say this too. Hey, God uses buildings. Buildings are tools.
That's all they are. We don't celebrate square feet. We celebrate life change that happens in the room, but it's not just here.
I want to show you guys some pictures. Guys, our church plant in Roanoke, Virginia, they have the opportunity to launch a brand new space for them as well, which is really cool because we are not just one church in many locations here. We are that, one church in multiple campuses, but we are really a movement of churches, a family of churches, and man, that is just so cool to see them get their new space. So if you get a chance to encourage them up there in Roanoke, Pastor Carter and Redemption, I'd encourage you to do that. But man, this is the first weekend of the Ridge, and I want to tell you, my last prayer, walking out of the regional campus, which we have been there for 10 years, over 10 years, my last prayer as I walked out was, God, I pray you do 100X.
at the Ridge that you did at regional. And if we even get close to that, we all better buckle up, right? Because we're praying that God's going to pour his spirit out and continue to move, you know, for us, for his name. So alright, Exodus 2 is where we're going to be today. Guys, this is a great time to be new. Alright, we're all going to be brand new together.
So if you're a college student, if you're a young family, if you're a retiree, this is your first time at Mercy Hill, you picked a great weekend to come because we have not been studying this. We're going to dive into something brand new together. We are going to for the next couple of months, unpack an incredibly layered and meaningful story in the book of Exodus, that is about the Exodus, it's about the children of God coming out of slavery in Egypt, and eventually finding their home in the New Promised Land. And it's a story guys, that is a microcosm, it pre figures what God is going to do in the whole world. And so it's very layered, it's very deep. And we're going to try to get inside of this thing and tease it out. Now I know a lot of us know the Exodus story.
Okay. You know, a lot of times people from the south, we even if you're not a real churchgoer, you probably know something about the story. I love that sign. You know, the south is where the tea is sweet.
Summer starts in April and mac and cheese is a vegetable. Amen. Okay, and you guys have seen that before.
And and one thing you could add to that is a lot of people have vacation Bible school or Sunday school or something like that in their background. Now I know that everybody here is not from the south. We welcome you if you have come from another part of the country, we don't want you to make here like it is there, wherever you came from. Okay.
But we're excited that you're here now. And, and, you know, but I don't know what your story is, maybe the only thing you know about the Exodus is you watch the movie The Prince of Egypt. Okay, I don't know. But here's the thing, a lot of us know some of the particulars of the story. Here's the question, do we have the everyday application power that is supposed to come with knowing a story like this, because I'm going to tell you something, the story of Exodus is a story of the world. And if you don't know God's will for the world, how could we understand his purposes in our life? So many of us are fixated on what is God's will for my life. The better question is, how does my life fit into God's will.
He is doing something in the world for the sake of his renowned fame and glory. And we get a chance to fit into that. It starts with God, it doesn't start with us. And the story of Exodus is a microcosm of that greater story.
Here's the story that we're going to chase down. This is really an intro for the series. And it's an intro for this sermon.
Okay. But this is what we see in the story of Exodus. God saves people through his Savior for his glory.
He saves people through his Savior for his glory. God has always had the intention in his heart for humanity, that you meaning us the humans, you will dwell in a place that I prepare for you under my reign in rule. This is the kingdom, God's people God's place under God's reign. You see it in Eden.
Okay, that's kind of what it was. And you see it all the way at the end of the book, what happens at the very end of the book of Revelation, God's people God's place under his reign. And then right in the middle throughout time, you see little flashes of this story.
And this is a flash of that greater story. I've got to tell you today, the point of the sermon today is not to sign up for three things. The point of the sermon today is not, you know that I know I need you to get off the sideline on the front line of serving or I mean, the point of the sermon today, we try to do this every few months at Mercy Hill. The point of the story today is to understand that God is doing something huge in the world for him. He wants a people a praising people in the Promised Land. That's what he wants. And I'm gonna tell you something, because he's God and he wants it, he will have it. And we have the opportunity to fit our lives into that you ever felt purposeless.
You ever felt pointless, aimless, abandoned alone? Man, God doesn't want that for you. He wants you to be part of that praising people in the Promised Land and to fit your life into that every facet of your life. The beginning of the year, your business getting cranked up with plans. Sports are starting kids are gonna maybe one day get back in a rhythm of going to school if the temperature ever gets above 50 degrees. Thank you, Gilbert County. Okay. But you know, it's like all all of this stuff. There's all these things in our life.
How does that all fit in? Not God's will for you. Not God's will for my life, my life for God's will. All right, let's dive in. This is a deep story y'all.
It's deep and we're gonna try to mine it all the way to the bottom. Exodus chapter two. Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a fine child or that she saw that he was good, she hid him three months. Now why would she have to hide him? Some of you guys already know this story.
I'm gonna tell you why. Because Pharaoh, they were living as slaves in Egypt. They were living as slaves and throwing them into the Nile. The people were getting too strong and he didn't want the people to grow and flourish.
And so he was taking his slave people and all the boys were getting thrown into the Nile. So she's hiding. Mama Bear has come out. She's not just gonna let this happen, right? She's gonna hide the child. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bull rushes and dabbed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the riverbank and his sister stood at a distance.
I want you guys to know what would be done to him. Now this child, I want you to make sure you understand. A lot of you are new to the Bible at our campuses as well.
Mercy has this beautiful mix. Super strong. I've been a believer for a long time and people that are just trying to figure it out. And everywhere in between. Now if you're just trying to figure it out, you gotta understand this. I have just described to you the birth and the beginning of the salvation story of one of the most mountainous figures in all of the Bible. Moses, to put it, I don't know what else to say, he's a big, big deal. And this is his birth story. And the way that his story is constructed so much about his story is foreshadowing what God is going to do in his life. See the one that was just born is actually the one that's writing this story years later. And he's looking back and he's piecing all of history together and he wants us to know first and foremost, look at verse one.
Now why does that matter so much? Well, one of the things I think that we have to see throughout this story is that much of what happens in Moses' life, it ends up being the things that God will use to bring salvation for his people. To make Moses into the guy that could step in on behalf of his people. Now why does it matter if he's a Levite?
Well, later in the book of Exodus what we learn is that the priesthood would come through the Levites. He already knows what's coming later and he's preparing him for his purposes now. One of the things about our God, just a quick application point here, y'all, God prequalifies his people for his eventual purposes.
That is a good thing for us to hear today. Because some of us are like, man, I don't know what God is doing at this season in my life. I'm going to tell you what he's doing.
He's not wasting anything, that's for sure. He's going to do something now that prequalifies you for something that he has later in your life. I mean, it might be something with him. It might be something with heritage and lineage.
It might be something with a job or profession. Y'all, for the last few years, Keith Broderick, and I'm going to tell you his full name, because if you see Keith, you need to grab him and hug him and thank him. There is no Ridge campus without Mr. Keith. And Keith is on our staff as he heads up our maintenance for our staff.
All the different maintenance stuff at our campus and all that. But you know what Keith did for the 30 years before he decided to kind of do a second career with us and help the movement here? He was a civil engineer in Greensboro for 30 years with his own firm.
Now, it's funny, isn't it? He decides to come on with us, you know, just kind of purpose and help the movement, and he jumps on our staff. But God has been preparing him for 30 years as a civil engineer. One of the first things within the first few months of him coming on our staff, we sit down and we're like, hey Keith, you know, we're thinking about building like a new building.
You think you can help with that, right? I wonder if, I wonder for Keith, you know, and I've never asked him this, but I think I know the answer. Let's say 25 years ago, he's been running that civil engineering firm for five or 10 years. Do you think he ever had the thought at that time? Oh, one day God's going to use this to help me help this movement in Greensboro build their new campus that's going to be the home and hub and the center of activity for the next 20 years. I bet you that thought never crossed his mind.
But you know what? God was pre qualifying him for the purposes that he had later. He does that in all of our lives is what I want you to see.
There's nothing that he's wasting now, even things that are hard. We have a thriving student ministry, middle school, high school. If you got kids that are younger than that, you better buckle up because when they get there, it turns into hair on fire, spiritual formation. And I mean, it's happened to our kids ministry too. But I think about our middle school and high school ministry. You know what makes that ministry run? It's the adult leaders.
It's the everyday, just day in and day out faithful believers. I'm seeing some of you guys here right now that show up there and are just time, talent, treasure man I want to pour out for the next generation, right? And you know what some of you that are in those adult leadership spots, you look back on your childhood man, and it was broken. It was man that you ain't seen nothing but your dad's back your whole life. It was it was chaos in the home.
And I want to make you hear me I want to make sure you hear me very clearly. Man, God doesn't cause things like that. God is light and in him is no darkness at all. But he also don't waste it.
He's like a judo fighter using evils weight against itself. Who could be more qualified to do ministry among teenagers that are the product of the divorce generation? Then people who have a broken past like that. You understand, even hard things God is using in your life to pre qualify you for the purposes that you have. We see that with Moses. Man, he's thoroughly Levi for what God would do in his life decades later. Corey 10 Boom said it like this.
This is what the past is for every experience God gives us every person he puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future. Listen, that only he can see. Oh, my. So true. Some of us need to hear that today.
All right. So we got we got we got Moses being born. God's pre qualifying him for what he's going to do later.
Lead the people, Red Sea, you know, getting them right to the edge of the Promised Land, all of that. Now, let's continue the story. The woman conceived and bore a son, I want you to pick up some of this language as we're going through y'all. And when she saw that he was a fine child, or maybe you could say it like this, she saw that he was good.
Okay, she hit him three months. And when she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bull rushes and dabbed it with bitumen and pitch. Now, is there another story you can think of in the beginning of the Bible where there was a basket of sorts that was dubbed with pitch so that it would be waterproof so that it would save people that were in it.
She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the riverbank. Some of us have heard this story 100 times in our life, and it really puts us in a position that maybe sometimes we end up overlooking some of the things that are powerful that can be here y'all anytime we end up telling a story that many of us have heard many times I tell a story that some of you guys have heard at different times, but I'm going to do it again because it makes the point so clearly for us y'all, we can't be people who have heard this story so much that we lose its power. All right, one time I was right up the road actually Pleasant Ridge Road. If you drive out here, just right up the road a couple miles, me and my dad were putting together a fence for a horse that I had to move that night.
Okay, and, and I was a man I had moved her away from where we were. She was at our house, I was moving her to this new pasture, the guy had given me a pasture, but I had to build the fence. And so we've been building a fence for a week and my dad was up here and we were finishing the fence, but the fence was electric fence, and it didn't have anywhere to plug in so I was doing a solar charger for the fence charger but I have never done that before and I know it wasn't gonna be as strong, but I needed to be at least strong enough for you know to keep the horse in and all that. And so we got done building the fence, and we're like well we don't have a fence tester but we turned it on, and we're gonna do the old old old method right you take the piece of grass, and you put it on the fence you guys have some y'all done this and, and I put that piece of grass on the fence and I couldn't feel anything. And I was like man I can't feel it at all.
Is it on? I'm not sure if it's on and I told my dad I said hey man you're gonna have to just touch it. He was like man it's your horse. Okay, you touch it. I'm like okay okay I've been I've been shocked a hundred times by fences I don't love it obviously nobody does but I'm like I gotta feel like this thing's on and so, so I kind of touch it right. And man it's nothing. It's just going like this, in my hands.
I mean to make the point I grab it with both hands I'm standing there holding it. We're like man this is this is this is bad. It's getting dark. We've got to get this horse moved over here. I'm feeling the pressure of it. I'm getting kind of you know starting to get a little frustrated, and and my dad is just a farm smart guy. Okay, he's a genius. Okay, and and he says well hey man here's the problem with this whole thing. You know how the fence feels to you, but you got to figure out how it feels to the horse. I said well I'm listening. He said well you know you got them rubber boots on. A horse ain't got rubber boots on. I'm like that's really smart.
Okay, and so I said what else do you propose? He said well the other thing is you know a horse has four points of contact on the ground, and you've only got two, and I was like well what do you propose? He's like well I think you get them boots off, and you get down on all fours like a horse, and and then you touch the fence.
I'm like sounds like a great plan. Okay, get them boots off, get down on my hands and knees, and I remember thinking as I got down why is it so wet right where I'm at? Okay, it had rained.
It's so wet. Y'all reached up and touched that fence, and I don't remember what happened. My dad says what happened was I got hit so hard that I stand up, go running through the pasture, take my shirt off, and start yelling it's coming out my back.
Okay, it's coming out my back. Alright, now I tell that story. I tell that story many times whenever we end up with a story like this because here's the point of that story, and I think it's the point of this story alright that we need to understand.
Sometimes the power being there isn't the problem. The problem is we got so many layers on. We got so much insulation. You get that rubber off. You get on the bare ground, and here's the thing. Many of us have layered up because we think we've heard this story so many times. Man, I've heard this story. I know what's going to happen.
I don't know that it's got any power there. Strip all of that away, and let's try man to see what God has for us. We know the story.
We need the everyday application power of what happens when you understand what God is doing in the world. I read this slow. Many of you guys probably picked it up.
Read it again. When she saw that he was a fine child. When she looked upon him and saw that he was good. Some of you guys are students of the Bible. Where else have you heard that type of language before that he saw that it was good, right? This is kind of hearkening back to creation, isn't it?
Then what you have is the very next thing. Remember, Moses is writing this, and he is piecing all this together for a purpose. He's trying to show us something here. She took for him and made a basket and put pitch on it, made it waterproof. Where else do you hear a story like that? Creating the basket is sort of like creating an ark, sealing it with pitch. It hearkens back, actually, literally, in terms of the writing of it, in terms of the language. The only other place you see this idea of the pitch and making the ark and all of that is actually in the story of Noah.
Well, what's happening with that? She saw that it was good, creation. We see a story of the ark, recreation. I'm telling you. Remember, go back to the intro here.
Go back to the intro. What is God after in the world? God is after appraising people in the promised land.
God is after a people under his reign and rule in the place that he has prepared for them. Because he wants it, he will have it. It was his point in the beginning. It's going to be his point in the end. This story hangs in the middle.
What he's saying is this. Man, God was involved in creation. God was involved in the recreation. Like those events that are marching toward that end of praising people in a promised land, here comes Moses. Here comes the Savior.
Let me deepen it that much. There are 16 special birth announcements in theology, our commentators would call it, in all of Moses' writings. Sixteen. Guess which number this is? The last one.
Number 16. His point is this. God is doing something in Moses that furthers his creative work. It furthers what he's going to do. He's going to take his people out of slavery using this Savior. They're going to cross the Jordan. One day, they're going to enter into the promised land. It's God's vision for the world. It's still his vision for us. My friend and pastor mentor J.D.
Greer says it like this. The book of Exodus is a melody of salvation. It's a salvation song. You see, because you and I, we end up getting saved this way. The people of God, they end up getting saved from Egypt this way. One day in the end, a praising people will be saved this way. The Savior will come, will remove us from slavery, we will cross the Jordan, and we will end up in the promised land. Cross the Jordan. Have you ever been baptized?
Have you ever been baptized? You understand? This is our story, it's their story, and it's the story of the entire world. It's God saving a people for his glory.
I know there's not a sign up for this and go to serve. That's not the point today. The point today is God is on a mission, and you and I fit into that.
We fit into what he is doing. This happens in verse five here. This is just kind of moving the story along. Here's the story. The Pharaoh's daughter said, yeah, go. The girl went and called who? The child's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. Now, I want you to think about that.
I will give you wages in order to nurse the child that is already yours. That's an interesting fact, isn't it? It's deeper than that. Everything in this story is layering up what God is going to do later. They're going to pay all of their gold and all of their wealth to get what? To get the Hebrews to leave. They're going to be plundered by the Hebrews because of the plagues and all this kind of stuff.
You see a little allusion to that here. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses because she said, I drew him out of the water. Remember why they named him Moses as I continue to walk through, right? Mama Bear wants to save the baby because she's not just going to give him up to be thrown into the Nile. Now, many of us have this picture that they put the baby in and just sort of push him off into the Nile and just kind of pray. Maybe that isn't really what it says.
What it says is they put him by the reeds. Some commentators have speculated this is probably not a once occurrence. This might just be a hiding place, in other words. They run down there, they hide him in the bushes, and then they come back later and get him. Maybe Miriam's done this a hundred times.
I don't know. But this time, Pharaoh's daughter comes out. Now, I think many of us have a picture that this is by some big palace or something. Because it's Pharaoh's daughter.
That's not the case either. Y'all, Ramses II had 60 daughters. Do you know how much Lululemon that is? Okay, 60 daughters. They are spread all across the kingdom.
He has all these hunting properties. This is probably a little no-name place. One of his daughters is there at one of the outposts. They hear the baby crying. They go to get the child. They see the child there. She picks him up, and Miriam comes running out of the woods.
Can I just stop and just say this? Can you imagine the courage of Miriam to run towards Pharaoh's daughter and to say, hey, hey, hey. I know something about this. To use her wisdom and her smarts and her courage. In fact, one of the things about this story that is so important is you understand there is no Moses and there is no salvation without the people of God in terms of the women in this story. Even Pharaoh's daughter.
She's not a believer, obviously not part of God's people, but she takes pity and wants to have this adoption story happen in her life. There is so much courage that is here and that persists today. Y'all, if you look throughout history, if you look at our own mission board today, man, do you know who the people are that go to the hardest places among the unreached by percentage? You know who they are? It's single women. That's who goes.
That's who has the heart of courage and a backbone of steel. We see that here in this story as well. Miriam comes running out and she says, hey, hey, hey. I know somebody that can nurse this child. This is what's interesting about this story.
It's all God moving throughout all these things. Nursing the child, we have an image of that. In the ancient world, they would nurse this kid until he's four or five years old. This is a little different than our culture today. I would like to say something about that, but I've learned the fastest way for a preacher to get canceled is a lactation joke. You don't do that.
You move on. Holy smokes, okay, why is that such a big deal? Where do you think Abraham learned about the God of his fathers? How do you think one day when he's standing before that burning bush and he says, what is your name?
You see, there's so much here. Moses is learning to be a child that ends up learning how to navigate two worlds. Even think about his name. His name means Moses, right?
Remember I told you to footnote that. His name is Moses. It means what?
He was drawn out of the water. Sure, that's what it means. In Hebrew, you know what it means in Egyptian? It means son. It's one word with two meanings. What does that mean?
It means that God is perfectly bringing up his savior to understand how to be a child of God's people and a child of the Egyptians, a son of God and a son of man at this point. Listen, I know this. This is a complex layered deal. I get it. Some of you guys are so new that it may end up being like, man, I'm having a hard time following this. Then just keep clawing if that's you. Keep grabbing on the best that you can.
Don't turn into a victim and say they're going too fast for me. Instead, decide that you're gonna catch up. Keep showing up. Keep coming sermon after sermon.
Keep studying on your own. But here's what we're gonna learn for those of us who have been around for a little while. When I get into the guy has two names and he's a son of one kingdom and a son of the other, in my opinion, we are now at fever pitch. We've gotta understand the melody of salvation here. This is not just a savior of the people. Moses is prefiguring the savior of the people.
You could say it like this. Moses points to the true savior, Jesus Christ. Who else do we know that was a son of God and the son of man? Who else do we know that was saved from the destruction of a tyrannical leader that wanted to kill all of the baby boys in Bethlehem and in the Hebrew nation? Who else do we know that spent time in Egypt? Who else do we know that was drawn out of the water?
You say I don't remember that story. I don't remember that Jesus was drawn out of the water. Oh yes you do when he was baptized and he has come up.
This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. Y'all there are so many allusions to this and I think the point is this. God is showing us a mountain but behind that mountain there is another mountain.
I always say it like this. There's a mountain behind the mountain. Did you guys ever drive west on 40 and you start driving west on 40 and you get around Hickory?
What happens? You start seeing the mountains but you know what? You and I both know if you keep driving the ones you see when you get into Hickory are not the ones that are beyond the mountains. Those are the foothills. There is a mountain here and Moses is that mountain. I get it. Man he saves, we're gonna see throughout this story.
I hope you come back in the next couple months. He does save the people and he brings them up to the promised land and all of that and it's awesome but there is a mountain that stands behind that mountain and Jesus Christ is the one who ultimately saves us. See through Jesus' life, death and resurrection.
He doesn't just take us to a place that God has prepared but he cleans our heart. See that's what Moses could never do. Moses can take the people to the promised land but listen Moses could take the people out of slavery but Moses couldn't take the slavery out of the people and this is what Jesus has come to do. Jesus has come to say Moses took you out of slavery. I'm coming to take the slavery out of you so that one day when you're in the place that God has prepared for you, he will reign over you and you will love it. You will love his law. You will want to live for him every single day.
This is what God is doing in the world and it's what he can do in your life. Man he brings you across that Jordan and brings you to the promised land. I pray you'll accept him today. Listen, we're gonna go into an application time here.
I'm gonna call you to one big application this weekend. Trust God's salvation. Just trust it. Now that means two things. It means trusting him for the very first time in your life. It is what it means. It means see that grand story and realize this is what God is doing in the world and I want to throw my life into that story.
Here's what it looks like. Admitting your sin. Believing what Christ has done for you on the cross. Confessing him as the Lord of your life. Noah was carried by an ark.
Moses was carried by a basket. Jesus wants to carry you by his cross. He wants to carry you from slavery to freedom by his cross. He went to the cross for you. He died to cancel the debt that you owe God for your sin.
To cleanse you. That's what he wanted for your life. That's why he went to the cross for you. And if you believe in him, he will save you. He will cleanse you.
I pray you'll trust him in that today. But for others of us, for others of us, we gotta figure out today where are the areas of my life that I am not all in on this journey. This is the story that I am starting to tell here about God's salvation, about what he's doing in the world. What areas of rebellion do I have where I'm kind of pulling back from opening my hands fully to what God wants out of my life as it fits in. Some of us right now, even as believers, we're so concerned. God's will for my life.
God's will for my life. And what's the next thing? What's the next thing? When I go to school? What's the next job?
Do we have another child? All this kind of stuff. Wait. Pause all that this weekend. How about we just ask this question? How does my life fit in to what God is doing in this story? Praising people in the promised land.
How does my life fit into that grand narrative that's for him? That's what we need. And my prayer is that what we'll decide today is, man, wherever the areas of my life of resistance are, I want to throw myself in. I want to go all in. Christianity is like a pool party. It's only fun if you go all the way in. I'll put my feet in.
You understand? Many of us are looking today at church as a hobby. Church is a terrible hobby. I want you to think about it. You've got to get up early. You've got to fight all the parking lots. They're always asking you to do stuff. They want you to come early, stay late.
They want you to give. It's a terrible hobby. But if the point of our life is fitting into God's grand story and that plays out in the local church, it's not a hobby. It's our life. This is our family. We dive all the way in. That's my question for you. Are you all the way in today?
The Spirit is going to be putting his finger on different things in your heart. You've got to answer that question. Are you all the way in? Guys, I don't know if you ever had this experience, okay? At Christmas, I tried to teach my mom, me and my nephew tried to teach my mom, my sister, and my daughter how to play Texas Hold'em, okay? And it did not go well, all right?
It was crazy. But I was trying to tell them, like, hey, here's the deal. When you've got the good hand, what do you do? You push all the chips to the middle. You go all the way in, right? And that's what I'm asking you today. Are you all the way in? Are all your chips in on this story?
And if not, what are those resistances? And can we ask that the Lord would free us from those things today? Let's pray. We want to go all the way in on your story for the world. We want to live our life for you. We want to exist for you, not the other way around. And so I pray you do that at our campuses today. You do it at the Ritz today. In Christ's name we pray, amen.
