Greed and Contentment - 1 Timothy 6:1-10, 17-19 - Gospel Church

Was going on Marcio how we doing hope you're doing well.

Grace and peace to you. My name is Tanner. If you don't know me I am the church planting fellow right number seal which is a fancy way of saying me and my family.

If you my really best friends are plant a church in Norfolk Virginia in 2023 which is a fancy way. Thank you. Please pray for us. I would suggest a phase where Sam going to make disciples were going to tell people that God wants to live life with the amount of, you know that today, was to live life with you. Yes, Jesus died on the cross to take away the penalty of our sins, but he wants to be in step with you every second of the day, the God who made you want to know you want to live life with you and were going to another city to just announce that news. That's what were going to do this while reselling our houses.

We are losing our jobs and were moving there just on faith and yes our church is needed everywhere. But God has put this city on our heart and we are so pumped. We do have an interest meeting upon us and we would love for you to come. It is in the kids space 630 be there.

There's another one coming up at the end of October. You should've gotten a magnet on your way in or something like that. Our our website you want to check us out. You can RSVP or you could just show up and hey, if you can pray for us.

Thank you. If you pray for my family. 14. Thank you so much, just a couple of quick things you can be praying for everyone whose planting a church is trying to be as local and as lost as possible as quickly as possible. Let me explain what I mean to weave going there for lost people for people who don't know Jesus. That's what were going so we want to get as local as possible. Specifically, were praying to be 40% non-Anglo as quickly as possible because our city is already a majority minority city and we want to love also people so if you could pray with us on that. I will be great reprint at 25 of us would leave here. Maybe some we all are some of those 25.

Amen somebody so hey I want to pray really quick for our time together and what is going to have any God's word.

I thought of you. Love you you that you love us that we need you that we need you in the mundane and the big things floor. We need godliness with contentment would you give us eyes to see and ears to hear that we love you so much praise in Jesus name, amen. What we just heard the passage read a moment ago. Here's our big idea if you are taking those this weekend. The gospel church is marked by godliness with contentment.

Some might say godliness somebody say contentment for my sake.

Godliness with contentment. That was great I love it. Hey, I don't know last time you looked up the definition of contentment, but does the best. When I got it's a perfect condition of life in which no aid or support is needed. Yell contentment gets that nothing else is needed. Their satisfaction completeness. I just gotta be honest.

That does not always describe me. Perfect condition.

Okay.

And the way I think about discontentment or or lack of completion really is in two ways. It it's discontent and micro small ways and in macro big ways to start with Mac micro so micro the best way I can kinda describe how discontent I can be. Maybe our culture can be.

It just through the cell phone media consumption stats there just off the charts. Yeah, I saw this this week.

The average person on average day touches their phone 2600 times. I was like even know if you are breathing, 2600 times in a day. You tell me a test this thing that many times and then I like that can be right looked at the average number of pickup today. How many times you just to get up. It was 58. Now I will put myself out there okay I will be on official at airport day. Recently a travel day okay I looked at my number of pickups gone embarrassed to say what about to say.

Give me grace, love me harder and 59 times. Now I could justify and tell you I was only on social media for three minutes checking out a man run a rabbit check out the Bratcher family will Ferguson and midnight mama that is my beautiful wife. I her accountancy cube on our little business thing, but that don't matter. This is justified. I could tell you listen to a Christian book and taking notes and working on the sermon, but I think that 159 times, people that is crazy and it's all it's all pointing back to when I pick it up. I'm looking for something right.

A lot of times discontentment just comes in the form of distraction right surface level distraction can can reveal under the surface discontentment many times in our lives and I can't even talk about the macro. The macro is that the home search and job searching.

What if I can get the job that does this and I like this and this.

It is just like in so many ways this relationship. When the kid gets to this phase will like is like this was a little bit easier. That's kind of the macro discontent golfer on his discontentment is just a constant struggle yell. The good news from for us today from God's word is that contentment is possible in Paul that the author of this letter is writing to a church.

You might've caught it. He said some teachers lopping here teaching godliness is a means to gain like a means to material, worldly gain, said not enough godliness with contentment is great gain. And that's what were going to be talking about so by God's grace God doesn't want us to leave your thinking. Contentment is a pipe dream. It can be ours in Christ Jesus today. That's the good news. So what I want to do is get ourselves in Paul's mind as best we can, were to talk about the destination organ to talk about the essential companion on that destination over and talk about godliness with contentment being right games that sound good. If it sounds good is a good okay here we go number one godliness is the destination.

Godliness is the destination. The Bible says if anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching that accords with godliness. He is puffed up with can see and understand nothing yell godliness may be a term we think we know what it means real quick okay but we gotta get what Paul meant by there's obviously some kind of teaching out there that didn't accord with godliness in Paul Santos people to understand nothing.

So what comes our minds when we think of godliness and a lot of conversations when I pick up is basically people would break it down to character right that the good things you do the bad things you don't do be nice. Don't be mean for Paul, his view of godliness was much bigger than niceness or meanness the word godliness means God likeness reverence for God, godly people are shaped by the reverence for God in every area of their lives. You see, when Paul taught about following Jesus in the resurrection, and salvation by faith he didn't just envision that you be made righteous with God and given a ticket out of hell or a clean slate. He envisioned you'd be so made right so transform that the direction you're headed in your life would forever be changed to see Paul didn't just envision a new vessel on the water, but a new destination. That vessel is headed one month really good friends here is a pastor, Brian Miller said there's a great difference between striving for acceptance by God and striving for alignment with God, and that's what godliness gets, after I tell people all the time. My favorite view of salvation is like you can't hardly see nothing and you get handed a pair of glasses that just life gets crisper and clearer. Your reality is enhanced by salvation is not a ticket is a pair of glasses one fourth century theologian compared salvation to being given a compass and knowing where North is for the first time.

No more wandering no more aimlessness we good young of the song. I think God he said I try with all my my I just can't win the following. I'm slowly drifting a vagabond but justly needed no and he told me that was hello. He picked me turn me around, set my feet on solid ground.

I think the master I think the Savior because you heal my heart. You change my name forever free.

I am not the same. I think the master I think the Savior. I think God I love that song because it communicates now I'm living on solid ground. The Psalms they got you got me out of the miry bug you got me out of the mud. The point of get brought out the mud is so that your feet are stable. Reality is different is not the same.

No more God's goal is to give you a new life and new direction. Does God want to give you character for character sake. Yes, but even more he wants the right character headed in the right direction for Paul godliness was the direction and the destination. Godliness is the destination of the Christian life.

We were made for godliness to reflect him. When God saves of seats picks us up out of the just slavery of living for yourself.

He gives us the gift of his righteousness, and in the path of his righteousness yell Brian one more time and give it to your need to get know Brianna godliness is living in alignment with God by keeping your attention on God. Listen, God is not just after a cross purchase life, he is after a cross -shaped life go where the cross isn't just your foundation is your destination where the cross doesn't just save you from your sins, but it directs your steps the true north of the Christian life on our compass is the cross, he said, pick up your cross daily and follow me. My prayer for us Marshfield that will look back on our lives. One day will see thousands of days. We chose to pick up our cross and thousands of moments where we we we chose to pick it up when you look back you would just make one big cross shape life and will not say because we live across state life is because we got say we want to and are able to live a cross shape life. If you can imagine a fleet of boats raking into each other and just all messed up and then all of a sudden it's like they all just they all know North and they reorient and they are on their way. That's the godly life. When Paul says godliness.

He means a person is walking, of the power spirit chasing the glory of God by faith in the son of God and becoming just like so when Paul hears about a teaching where some people are saying.

Godliness is a means of pain like material gain. He's like that angle work is like when we look back at what I taught these people in acts chapter 20 we learned that he was in the city that Timothy's in right here for three years and it says he taught them the whole counsel of God and he wasn't there that long.

Give him an endless list of rules and behavior stuff he was there given them the clear side of Jesus, his purpose, his power, his destination, you know, in any situation. Any letter, Paul is just busting out a gospel compass based on what he's hearing. Okay some your situation is North let's get it. The cross shapes what we don't do next.

We we been reading first Timothy, hoping to read that on your own. Look at what he said to about the widow situation there. Chapter 5.

Check this out. She who is truly a widow left all alone has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

But she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives command these things as well so that they may be without reproach yell when Paul pulls out the gospel compass over the widow situation you so assuming someone in this position is so full of the love of God is so so at least reorienting to that reality that this is what their life will look like commanders Timothy teach this. This is what accords with sound doctrine.

You see, when Paul uses words like sound doctrine and godliness.

He's not just talking about not doing bad stuff is like is your church like going north the wheel doing well just sit on your boats trying to clean up the dock. You know to me like what are y'all doing. That's kind of the question he was asking so Mercy Hill when you hear the term godliness.

What do you think of when you think God wants with your life.

Do you think he's after just giving you a ticket for a ride. One day, or given us a pair of glasses and changing everything we come to church just to hear this.

Does that the person speaking. I have something I need to go check the deck on our Wii comments and is not compass but like God help me got in my MR viewing reality correctly. Please help me.

Are we just come like I didn't hear anything.

None. The cleanup was key role in his constant reorientation for the destination of godliness. Point number two.

Contentment is the essential companion.

The Bible says among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining he said imagine that that godliness is a means again, but godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world and we cannot take anything out of the world, but if we have food and clothing with these will be content godliness with contentment is great gain.

There's a sense in which godliness makes contentment possible right, someone could argue you could be content and not be a Christian, I would say in some sense, I agree the Greeks at this time. They viewed contentment is like a virtue like it. You almost like put it on your brand like I'll need not write a lot Eastern cultures minimalism.

These things point out like a detachment from the material and that's a good thing. That's a great thing at simplicity, we should all be simple people. We all Christian contentment to Paul is more than not needing stuff. Remember godliness with contentment is great gain. Contentment alone isn't great gain.

Godliness alone is its godliness with contentment.

Contentment in conjunction with godliness. Is this idea that I have no knees because I have God in the midst of whatever situation I'm in River.

The text that with food and clothing, we will be content being okay with food and clothing and knowing what true North is that's enough contentment gets to having all you need.

In Jesus, the famous passage on contentment comes from Philippians chapter 4, check this out right quick.

Paul again is running for prison right here.

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of facing fluency and hunger abundance and need I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Y'all, the path to contentment is not changing our situation. We skeleton setting that's so opposite of how we operate. Contentment can be found in the midst of any situation in Christ. Where does contentment come from golf the root of contentment is not willpower its union with Jesus. Paul does not leave us thinking. Show me how good you are at losing stuff. He leaves you thinking do I know Jesus like Paul don't have that kind of connection and union and grace. We are content were so united to Jesus and leaning into that relationship with him. It transcends the reality of our circumstances, so that's the root of contentment.

What does contentment look like the fruit of contentment is not detachment, its devotion were not talking about you being able to say I'm removed from reality were not after a Gnostic view of reality or antimatter view of reality were after union with Christ. At least two devotion with Christ.

Now somebody might look in us that you don't need nothing. And that's great. That's a testimony to the world is not that I'm anti-stuff is just my content with God where I met are you rich are you poor are you content church we don't aim for detachment. We aim for union with Jesus. We find ourselves devoted to him church is your life characterized by union with Jesus.

He has purchased the union a myth. We don't currently union a man I we just swimming you want to mercies us women that you know that's where we live. That's our address church you could live in a hut and not be content or you can live in a castle and not be content. Contentment is less about what you have and more about you are and what your feasting on for satisfaction. Contentment is about what were satisfied by an women were not satisfied in Christ, we will look elsewhere. Look at the next verses after our text here today, but if we have food and clothing with these we will be content with the food and clothing that's where we'll be content, but those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction the love of money is root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many thanks God is not a money sermon. We can't miss out said that the desire to be rich is the temptation we can fall into and that's contrasted with just being content with food and clothing. The love of money is the root of all kind of evils, not having it.

What our hearts are tempted to do with it is the problem. Money serves as unique tempter. In some instances we can trust it want that long for find ourselves confident we got it in.

Not confident when we don't that kinda sound like a god to me with the love of money does it, it boils our reality down to living in alignment with the rest of the world it changes our North like we start loving it.

North changes it, it starts to dictate our behavior more than anything else. Eventually anything beyond this world such as God in eternity is just not a priority. Delegates languages says those who desire to be rich that that says nothing about what you have. You have nothing to fall into this trap or have everything fall into it is the love of money that is the root of all kinds of evil and having little does it make you content right like it.

It kinda goes both ways, just as I got nano make you content you know it is good you got some domain you love money we have food and clothing with these will be content. Contentment is a state of being. Contrast that with those who desire to be rich level so they love money. They have a craving you see the contrast don't you church are we content or are we craving is there just a undercurrent of craving to our lives. Contentment is an essential companion only comes if we are united to Christ really leaning into that number three let's talk about godliness with contentment. The great gain go back to Paul's argument. This is the root of what was bothering him. He was like that up now among people who are deprived of mind and deprive the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. I just can't imagine him right in that imagining that godliness is a means of gay but godliness with contentment is great gain go the root of the issue seem to be not that this church was saying let's get rid of godliness, but let's make it a part of the chase of something else.

That's what text like this are are particularly dangerous. If you are a follower of Jesus he income for people who don't follow Jesus you know that if you not a believer, I want you to be content, and is going to happen in Christ or it won't happen, but believers, we gotta listen when we start hearing that there's this unique temptation to make godliness a means of gain a set of godliness with contentment being great gain. One time the contagion and the water was that godliness was the mean to something else and pause like none of that.

When you have a net godliness with contentment does lead to gain but more importantly it is gain some I say is and is circled out and if you got a Bible circle. It is is a mean it is gain in Jesus. Right now we can.

We have all we could ever want or need. Contentment is like a satisfactory fee. So when somebody offers you something like good you just like I I'm good in our relationship with Christ, who is where were going are abiding our destination. All that are good and the Psalms are loaded with verses like this right here, check this out whom have I in heaven, but you and there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you yell is in our hearts today know if you will read that song. I encourage you to memorize a lot of verses in it. This is how it starts, he says, surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

God is good and he says, but as for me I had almost slipped for. I was envious of the arrogant. When I saw the prosperity of the wicked what he's saying is my I started seeing something in my compass started you know shaken around what he saw, got to his heart and he started dwelling on and meditate on it you need to go check that Psalm out because it's not till he goes to the sanctuary that he gets right.

He said all like a beast towards you, nevertheless you hold my right hand. Amen. And we back, maybe thinking that you hold me you keep me when I'm tripping.

Is this our heart. Today I want us to consider the state of our heart with contentment is there's there's two incomplete ways that this could hit us, and I wanted to talk about those because I want us to get the great gain. I want a great game for me, my family, I want for you. Contentment can be misappropriated as telling somebody to tone it down. So what we begin to hear is chillout social people with a more laid-back temperament like I'm content and people who are more driven or like there must be something wrong with me, and both of those are potentially dangerous. So I just want to I just want to push for a minute, yell first.

Contentment is not a resignation from life is not in deadening of appetites. It's a satisfaction of appetites. Contentment is about satisfaction, no matter the circumstance one when we think of a content person. We should think laziness or resignation, if anything, it's our union with Christ in our devotion to him that pushes us to take big risks and do crazy stuff. I me Paul wrote this from Jay Leno roll out a lot of stuff from jail because he was so living for Jesus that he was like getting in trouble. He wasn't checking out all life, it doesn't remove you from chasing after big things. It redeems your motives power and methods of chasing what you're chasing you say like this contentment doesn't diminish ambition. It redeems ambition and also some of us maybe we lean a little chill and we can't allow our personalities to tell us were doing something deeply trusting in spiritual, when in reality were just comfortable. Contentment is not complacency. The true north of the Christian like the godliness should be pushing us know we often don't find ourselves fight in a big battle like we've already what we can't lose in this Christian game.

You know I write because he want. I can't lose. Let's get it and we should take huge risks of the gospel isn't pushing us for the glory of God and the good of our neighbor's stuff. Don't bother us in this world if we don't take risks if we don't want to hop on planes. If we don't want to do stuff. Maybe godliness isn't pushing us, maybe work closer to complacency than we are to contentment.

On the flipside to my hustlers don't hear Paul beat you up. Paul hustled harder than you. I promise. But he did it with contentment underneath the surface of everything he did. Contentment allows you to take massive kingdom risks do crazy stuff like end up in jail for shared about Jesus and then lead a jailer to Christ like Paul, did you know it can make you do can make you go really fast and stop on a dime and just be present and just be there some hustlers on the sound of my voice like me want to know how I know I struggle with contentment is not that I'm naturally driven is that I can't be present. Content people are present.

People discontentment is often just in the form of distraction work you know contentment so dials me into where I'm at with Christ because Christ is there a mask in question. Lord, what are you doing how you call me to be a part of it Holy Spirit try to keep in step with you. Let's get where you at low skill so is not that the personality eight. The issue in yell listens what what starts in our minds and the restlessness here always becomes restlessness here no direct that's while gramophone harm 59 times rest. What what starts in our minds always in our hearts. Just always gets out into our words and actions in her deed's are discontentment our lack of being present. We feel it sometimes don't we were just chasing something we all listen to me church. If we can't find Jesus and contentment. Where were at.

We can't find it anywhere. Contentment eight. There is right here. If I can't find it here. It ain't anywhere I'll be contentment know you won't is it it it it don't way.

It just doesn't work like that discontentment is like a cloak that fits itself to your contextual frame in your circumstances and we convince ourselves. Oh, I got out the cloak by change my circumstance to guess what it do it just fits back to you.

You are like me and I'll be so I'll be so present when I'll be sold as I'll be so that in the cloak. It just should fits back to you but also you know contentment is a cloak to contentment can also be the one that tore frame. Contentment can become a reality.

All discontent contentment is available right here is not out there. We don't need a contentment coach. We need a contentment cloak do not go to the bookstore of steps to be content put on Christ. Jesus is not your contentment coach easier contentment cloak just put them on. Just put them on one time the great gain is a godliness with content contentment.

These false teachers imagine that godliness was a means of gain pause like now. So our personalities don't need to change today, but our hearts do our personalities and stories never excuse our worship of God. They always inform our worship of God.

So whether you're naturally a go-getter or your naturally dial back.

Do some heart work, don't beat yourself up.

Feel invited by the King of Kings to life and godliness with contentment. Which brings us to our application for today. Learn godliness with contentment. Some I say learn one thing I pray for us is just the grace to start learning yell so many things the Christian life.

You can't earn it, but you do gotta learn. You cannot we just got a learn. There's a grace of learning. Once you realize your father loves you and you are safe.

You ain't getting kicked out. Stop trying to earn and let's get where we can learn is such good news is the greatest news because what it means is I don't have to strive to get in on him because he's good. Now let me learn from a father who loves me not. A coach is going to cut me. Amen. Somebody let's learn godliness with contentment. Are we headed north we headed from the cross to the cross. Are we content. I don't know was going on in your mind when asking those questions, but you gotta remember, Paul didn't say he could do it. Paul didn't say I can be content. He said I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Friends left to ourselves. We choose the wrong true north every time discontentment is so often a reality because even if you are a believer today.

They're still in dwells in you. Some things and we need race don't feel the guilt trip. This is a field trip yell listens.

We are so guilty of discontentment. We just are.

There is no amount of conjuring that can get us out of that we settle for just being thought well of. We strive for the lowest things I so quickly want to just settle for people like you and me.

I aim for no cross so often. That's my reality. But the good news of the gospel is that Jesus Christ died for the most sinful self consumed self oriented busted compass person version of you eating died to give us a blueprint to salvation. You get he died to give us salvation to give us newness is Jesus isn't on the other side of contentment say hurry up. He is the path to contentment. He is the path you see Jesus was the most godly and content man who ever lived at the end of his life. He made it north. He made a baby and what he did was, as he said, take this L and all the awful joy do not. It is you get the victory that I earned. That's the good news of the gospel is not our coach. He is our cloak when you're when you're a believer the mindset of God is not hit me up when you get out is I'm inviting you. He is wooing you to trust him today frame we should leave here beating ourselves, we should hear inviting call from the King of Kings, Dell Psalm 23 one, says the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Other translations say I have everything I need.

I got everything I need.

God wants us to get there is inviting us on a journey to get there in the two types of people in the room unbeliever or non-follower of Jesus. I just want to talk to for second and let you know that contentment cannot be found anywhere else. For many people when they look back on their story of how they started following Jesus. It often starts with exhaustion worse. Just like wasting my life. That's what happened to me.

12 years ago I was like, just exhausted. I didn't have words for it, but I was done being my own God is doing the monkey I was so done and if you started telling me the story of the world. In the story the gospel story.

The good news and how much saying that all the stuff in Jesus and cross and resurrection like okay I want that in the moment you want out, of the slavery of sin, then the reality comes that you can't get out. You are trapped and we are complicit in our disorientation, we have chosen the wrong compass and for that we are guilty. But God in his goodness wants to give you new life clean slate new compass whole deal. He just wants to give it to you and in and what happens is is we go from exhausted to like that can't be true and is like it is true is free.

Jesus came to put an end to your searching all you want.

All you need is found in your creator God who made you in his Sica lay down that which is killing you the perfect spotless Lamb of God, godly and content all his ways offers to trade his place amazing is that you put your trust in him today. We do have baptisms coming up next weekend if God is been moving your life if you've gone from death life.

If you put your trust in Christ, if this is a conversation you have with one of our pastors. Remember somebody fill this form out will be in touch with you and if you want to put trust in Christ today, and in will have prayer team down here like any weekend man. Laura can do it he can do it believer, what would it look like if we collectively were content people just to harbor full of boats just in aim North across from the cross, not from complacency and not from craving, what would that look like for our neighborhoods in our cities that look like for Norfolk. That's what I dream about man using your godliness with contentment starts is your gain what he can become somebody else's gain his here is what happens when you start playing a game like you don't need to win, but you've already won and you start playing so they can win a like for you and what you got like an alien from outer space you play by a different set of rules you can look at people say already one baby I love this don't need it to you and us what happened to me. I saw do.

It was like this dude was just just from another planet. It was as if he was the Lord Christ himself which he was in the smart got to know, but nonetheless when somebody's a minority like I'm doing that day. Me, I'm blessed him. I messed up so when we put on godliness with contentment. Y'all we become that the countercultural aliens who have already one and we can take losses and take a backseat to just are contentment drives us to big risk drives us to think we can play for others to win because we've Artie won all the gospel transform us from living for contentment to living from it. I'm no longer chasing been found, now I can go get it, but I can get a like I'm already got my identity ain't based on what we talk about more that we arty purchase baby and is a gift and now I can give it away give it away give it away now.

I'll need all need to know more.

If contentment is not your experience today. So okay we get to learn the Bible read Psalm just overload also overload on perfect people read books and spiritual practices read biographies of old saints in just the way they think they were like Lord hello hello orienting give me the north help.

Have you found your person yet that your like menace personages gets me like Marie everything they've ever written yours and mine. I was in the word of the day and I saw this in a somber site and this is right here. Visit check this out. The psalmist says return, O my soul to your wrist for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you, for you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears my feet. I will walk but you love how it starts out by saying so, and they start talking to him like it right.

The good you see that that's a lot that's a quiet town about a way to stop O'Neill self atop Indio King solid global biblical contentment is a daily battle not planting a church to be contentment because I am an win that battle comes up. We got a fight to not shame ourselves, but to hear the Savior saying it's okay lay down again lay down again with my people look at our lives and see us chasing great things and taking a risk, but not as want to her plan to win and were or were doomed. My identity is crushed. If this don't happen but were playing like we've already made people see our lives that we go so harbor. We sleep so good content so our souls are at risk want what would people see us as want to know where we are no warmer going live in on solid ground but also as want to know whose we are. We are walking with God until her final day, we will walk is 12 already been found by the Lord, find us godly and content was very father Lord.

It doesn't make sense that this is the way just to be lower for the way we live for the way we've just made a shipwreck of our lives. The sin we've done and continue to do in the ways we continue to trust it word, forgive us, God you're so gracious, so kind and you chase us down in your other God praise your name and they will work in you, God, you invite us to live a new way and give us the grace to become new.

God, please let me true this church, please would be true course a church in Norfolk, Virginia. Please God, that we not live for contentment, but from a guy would you set us free. Laura Prater, somebody in the sound of my voice, you need to be set free, it would happen today from a guy would change the broken for your glory. We pray in Jesus name, amen.

They all every week here we pray, we bring we sing a fancy way of saying there's always an opportunity to come pray at the front of every campus we have people want to pray with you who love you want victory for you go, you can bring. We can respond worse by bringing our Tyler offerings once ways of doing downstream and we sing about the goodness of God. How is our good Shepherd. We stand sing me