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Let's go to the Gospel. Luke chapter number 17, beginning at verse number 11. I just want to say what's up to our amazing spiritual family in New Jersey. Change Global. Just so grateful to you, Love you and always good to see you and be with you. Luke chapter 17, verse 11 says this. Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. And as he was going into a village, 10 men who had leprosy met him. Somebody say 10. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, jesus, master, have pity on us. When he saw them, he said, go show yourselves to the priests. And as they went, they were cleansed. One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back praising God with a loud voice. He threw himself at Jesus's feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Jesus asks, were not all 10 cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give God praise except this foreigner? Then he said, rise and go. Your faith has made you well. I want to talk from this subject in our time together, family. I understand the assignment. I understand the assignment. I want to start this sermon with a statement that may be shocking, but it is significant for every individual who is serious about spiritual quantum leaps. And when we use this term, quantum leaks leaps at this church, we're not appropriating the term in a way that those in the field of quantum physics utilize it. We are applying and appropriating this term in the way that those who are in the personal development space utilize it. The idea of quantum leaps pushes back against the notion that all growth has to be incremental. Some growth can be exponential, that there are some things that God chooses to do over a span of time. And then there are other things. There's other growth he catalyzes in us that he chooses to do exponentially. The Bible is clear. Yes, God is a God who orders our steps. But the Scriptures also declare that God is the God who makes our feet like hinds feet. And I, I don't know if you've ever seen a deer running swiftly. But when a deer is running swiftly, a deer isn't just stepping, a deer is leaping. So God is not just the God who orders our steps, he's the God that will orchestrate some leaps. This is why for the believer, every year can be a leap year. 2025 is a leap year. 2026 will be a leap year, 2027 will be a leap year. Am I talking to anybody that believes there are some areas of your Life where you're getting ready to see some things leap. Well, if you are committed to quantum leaps, you need to lean in to this statement. As we consider our time of teaching this month around the series subject Alterations, where we're exploring the spiritual discipline of worship, I want to lift this up to your consideration. It is impossible to become a good worshiper with a bad memory. And when I say bad memory, I'm not referring to memory loss physically that you can't control. I'm referring to memory loss spiritually that you can control. I'm not referring to physical forgetfulness. I'm referring to spiritual forgetfulness, which is an infection of entitlement that breeds amnesia about the great things God's done in the past because he's not doing what we want him to do in the future. And this is why I would argue that every serious saint should embrace a theology of remembrance. And a theology of remembrance is the notion that strategic recall is a divine attribute of God and it should be a spiritual discipline for humans. God strategically recalls. God sovereignly selects what he chooses to remember. God engages in sovereign selectivity when he choose and chooses what he remembers. God engages in sovereign selectivity when it comes to choosing what he remembers. The only people that shouldn't be shouting should be people that's never done anything you want them to forget. I'm going to this side over here. But there are some people who've done some things in their life, and they are grateful for the scriptural truth that he will remember our sin no more. As one adage says, he will take my sin, cast it into the sea of forgetfulness to remember it no more. It doesn't mean God can't remember. It means God chooses not to deal with you based on what he decided to forget. It speaks to an eternal expungement, not just of your record, but of God's memory. It speaks to his commitment to engage in what we would call mercy, where he interrupts his own law of sowing and reaping. Cause there's some stuff you sowed you should have reaped, but you didn't reap. Cause mercy. Y' all not talking to me right here. Stood in between what should have came to you and what didn't come to you. Come on. You know, there are some people who went to the same places you went to, and something happened to them that didn't happen to you. You know, you did some things that other people did and something happened to them and it didn't happen to you. And the Bible is Very clear. It rains on the just and on the unjust. So since you didn't earn that exemption, you ought to be appreciative of the fact that he chose to forget. This is not only an attribute of the divine, it should be a spiritual discipline for humans. Is this not what the Apostle Paul said? Now, I can't run and skip the day, so I need my Baptist and my Pentecostals because I know y' all know how to talk back to the preacher. Yeah, you've been trained. I know that. I know that there is a tent maker from Tarsus who was in a Roman prison named Paul. And he wrote to believers in Philippi and demonstrated this selective recall. He said, I do not count myself to have apprehended where's my church at now? But this one thing I do. Hallelujah. Forgetting those things which are behind me and reaching for those things that are in front of me. I press. I'm pressing because I know what to forget. Not that I no longer have the memory, but I made a decision not to let the memory have me. I've learned the difference between divine conviction and satanic condemnation. Conviction comes to set me free. Condemnation is sent to keep me bound. But he I feel like preaching. I can't run, but I feel like preaching. He whom the Son has set free is free indeed. As humans, we should not only know what to forget. Like God, we should know what to remember. I'm arguing that at the essence of worship is intentional reflection. Come on here. Intentional reflection becomes a catalyst for organic worship. We don't have to prime you if you just remember. Hallelujah. Did you hear what I just said? You don't have to be prompted to praise if you just remember. Yeah. Some seasoned saints with a godly heritage would say it like this. My God, when I think I need a church of the goodness of Jesus, not some and all I said and all I said and all he's done for me. My soul cries out that intentional reflection is a spiritual discipline. I gotta discipline myself to remember what Satan want me to forget. And then I gotta discipline myself to forget what Satan want me to remember. I'm tired of the devil playing games in my mind. Am I the only one? I said I'm tired of the devil trying to torment my mind. God's gonna renew your mind and you're gonna know what to forget and you're gonna know what to remember. Intentional reflection. There we go. Intentional reflection should be a spiritual discipline. It's not only what you need, it's what God wants. And the text corroborates my claim. This particular passage in the book of Luke gives us some interesting insight on an experience Jesus has with 10 men who are suffering from, at that time, an incurable skin condition called leprosy. Luke, who is a physician, writes with a degree of detail and thoroughness because as a doctor, he's trained to be thorough. So there are some details that Luke lifts up that we cannot and should not ignore. Luke tells us in verse 12, put on the screens for them, please, so that they believe me. Luke says in verse 12, there were 10 men who had leprosy. Is that the text? Somebody say 10. Now, the text says they stood at a distance. Why, Pastor? Because leprosy was a highly contagious disease that required people in Israel to be quarantined to leper colonies. Now, this was not treated the same way in other places. There's an Old Testament figure named Nathan who was actually a military official who had leprosy, and he wasn't treated that way. But they had to be quarantined to a leper colony. And when they engaged in others, they were mandated to keep their distance so that others wouldn't be infected by what they were carrying. Now watch what Luke says. Luke says, Somebody say 10. Come on, say it again. Say 10. It says, they called out in a loud voice, jesus, master, have pity on us. And when he saw them, he said, go show yourselves to the priest. Am I in the book? I said, am I in the book? Now, why would Jesus tell them to go show themselves to the priest? Because the priest was responsible for observing the progression or regression of the disease and determining whether or not the individual could be allowed into the general population of Israel. You missed it. Jesus said, go show yourself to the priest. Do you understand how illogical that instruction is? Because they're still burning and they're still itching and they're still irritated. And Jesus tells men who obviously has leprosy, go show yourself to the priest. So they're walking by faith, not by sight. Did you hear what I just said? And sometimes your miracle, sometimes your anomaly, sometimes the obvious expression of divine intervention is on the other side of your willingness to obey divine instruction that don't make sense. You better learn how to walk. Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. You better walk. And the text says, as they went, as they went, they were healed. They were walking. And then they started looking and they started seeing. Some things were changing as they were walking. Come on, Church. How many of them was it? How many of them was it? How many of them was it? Verse 15 says this one of them, when he saw he was healed, came back. Okay, give me verse 13. I'll give verse 12. Verse 12. Verse 12, and then into verse 13. Verse 12 says they stood at a distance speaking to the 10. That's it. Verse 15 says one of them came back. Okay, verse 12 says they stood at a distance and asked for the miracle. Verse 15 says only one of them came back and thanked him for the miracle. It is a powerful picture of how quickly amnesia can set in. In two verses, they forgot what it felt like to it. And the only people that will worship in their chapter in their verse 15 are people that don't forget their verse 13. Y' all aren't talking to me. You hadn't always been in a verse 13. Come on here. You've been in some verse 15, and you hadn't always been in some verse fifteens. You've been in some verse 13s. But the issue is some of us get to verse 15, and you forget what 13 felt like. You forget what it felt like to deal with the hopelessness of leprosy. You forgot what it felt like to be praying for what you now complaining about. That was a day you were praying. That was a day where you were saying, if I could just have this, I would be fine. And now you got this, and it's like, it's not enough. You've got to your verse 15. And I woke up, I don't know what, baby five this morning and wrote this message. I had a completely different message written. I write my messages on Wednesdays. I had a completely different message written. And the Holy Spirit prompted me, said, you can't talk to them about the motions of worship without dealing with their memory. If they get the memory right, they'll figure out the motion. Some people don't even know some of y' all when you grew up Pentecostal, we know how to shout. Some people don't know how to shout, but they got a good memory. They figure out the motion. Here's what's interesting. Jesus asked a question. Were not ten cleansed. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry. I skipped some verse 16 says this. He came back. I can't skip this. Praising God. Wait a minute. Praising God in a loud voice. You don't have to get loud, but don't make me be quiet. If you couldn't fix my verse 13, let me shout. If you couldn't heal my body, let me thank him. Watch the text. He threw himself at Jesus's feet. And watch what Luke says. I'm about to lose some of you, but I'm standing on business here. Luke says, and he was a Samaritan. He, Luke says he was Luke. See Luke, he's detailed, he's thorough. He says, I need you to know this detail here. He's a Samaritan. He is one that the Jews would have called a sinner. He is one that the Jews would have said, you don't share ideology or theology. He's the one that the Jews would have said, you worship on Mount Gerizim. We worship on Jerusalem. You worshiping at the wrong place. We're worshiping at the right place. But this is a pattern throughout Scripture with the parable of the Good Samaritan and right here, where it shows us something that we can't ignore, that every person, even if they don't carry the spirit of God, is an image bearer of God. So all the good in anybody is God. So? So? So there's this idea of moral or total depravity that will suggest there is no good in anybody who doesn't have a relationship with God. That's an inaccurate understanding of what that movement meant. Total depravity means there is no aspect of you that is not impacted by the reality of sin, but it doesn't mean everything in you is evil. This is why ungodly people can do very generous and good things, but the capacity to do good is because they are an image bearer of God. Did you hear what I just said? And here's the problem. Sometimes the problem is some of us who are not Samaritan forget that other people are image bearers of God. So we, so we get hype and drunk off orthodoxy, which is right doctrine. But then we ignore orthopraxis, which is right practice. So you will claim to love Jesus, but then won't properly love your neighbor. So come on, y', all, come on here. It's a picture of some aspects of American evangelical Christianity which will cry in worship services and say you love Jesus and love your neighbor and then cut Medicaid and cut snap. I, I meant everything I said. And watch the poor starve and throw food away and burn food that could be given to the poor. All this crying and people hungry. All this so called standing for righteousness. But you get loud on everything else and quiet on racism. Yeah, when it's time to stand, you'll stand on I feel the Holy Ghost. You'll stand on everything else but quiet on racism and sexism. And over 300 women of color. 300,000 women of color losing their jobs. I'm in the book. Cause we believe all of it over here. Righteousness and justice is his throne. I'm almost done. Here it is. We'll be critiquing, people. Here's the text. I gotta. I got somewhere to go. I got a few minutes. I gotta get to my points here. Text says, don't miss this. He says, verse 17, we're not all 10 cleansed. That's Jesus speaking, right? It's red in my Bible. We're not all 10 cleansed. Then he asked a question. What? Where are the other nine? So watch this now. Let's. Let's. Let's. Let's debunk. Let's debunk some ideology here. Jesus is in essence saying, I perform 10 miracles, but I got one thank you. And I want to know where the other nine at? I opened 10 doors, but I got one thank you. I protected you 10 times, but I got one thank you. I'm gonna see if y' all can handle this. You went through 10 breakups, but I got you through. I'm only getting one thank you. He's saying, this appreciation is not comprehensive. It's incomplete. It is not taking into account all that I actually did. And Jesus is not expecting Thanksgiving because he needs it. He's expecting Thanksgiving because they need to learn how to be thankful. Them being thankful doesn't change anything for Jesus, but them learning to be thankful and engage in intentional reflection changes everything for them. I want you to check your dominant mood, meaning Sunday to Sunday, generally speaking, 70% of the time, what's your real mood? And then I want you to check your memory, and you're going to see a correlation between your memory and your mood. All right, I'm almost done. The text says, has no one but this foreigner returned? No one returned to praise God except this foreigner. Then verse 19 says, he said to him, rise and go. Your faith has made you well. Here's what's so amazing about the Bible. The riches in the Bible. The riches, the revelation in the Bible is inexhaustible. I've been reading my Bible. Listen to me. I'm 46. I've been reading my Bible regularly since 15. So I read this story a lot. But I ain't see this when I read it this morning. I say, whoop, there it is. Look at this rise and go. Your faith has made you well. Now I'm confused, because Christian, it says, we're not all 10 cleansed. So I'm like, well, all of them die here. So when you're reading the Bible, if it doesn't make sense, then that means something's wrong with the Bible. It means I need to investigate my gap in understanding. So I said, I know the Old Testament's written in Hebrew. New Testament's written in Greek. I want to look at the words the original writer used when he said cleansed and when he said, well, just to make sure they're not the same word. And what I saw is that when he used the word made clean and when he used the word well, he used two different words. All 10 men were made clean, but only the one who was who returned was made well. The word well, there is sozo, which deals with healing. It has roots in soteria, from which we get so esoteriology, which is the study of salvation. And it speaks to how God does more than make us righteous, but how God makes us well. You see, the leprosy not only had physical ramifications, it had relational ramifications because you were cut off from the community. It also had emotional ramifications because imagine having to live with something there's no cure for and the impact that has on you emotionally. So they got healed physically, but they did not get well comprehensively. They had a limp. Come on. They had modification, but not an alteration because they did not respond in their verse 17 in a way that's consistent with what God did in their verse 13. And I want to know, am I talking to anybody? Can I have five more minutes? I want to know, am I talking to anybody who wants sozo? I wish I could. I wish I could leap or something. Somebody leap for the bishop. I wish I could. I wish I could. I want to know who wants sozo? Lord, I just don't want to be right. I want to be. Well, when people ask me, how your mind doing well, how your relationships doing, how the job going, how the resources coming in, how you doing spiritually, how your children doing, how your mama doing? Somebody praise him if you want sozo. Well. And worship brings presence, and presence brings wellness. And if I want sozo, which is what the man got in the text, there are a few things I see in the text that he did to experience his that we need to do to experience ours. Can I give you these three things? All right, the first thing. Now, these three things have personal and communal implications. It speaks to the 1 and the 10. So as we celebrate church anniversary, I want us to think through this as it relates to what's happening in My life and what's happening in the life of the church. Here's the first thing I see that has to happen. You have to arrest amnesia. Am I making sense? I said, am I making sense? We have a default orientation toward forgetting. This is why I'm calling this a spiritual discipline. You do not remember God's comprehensive goodness without intentionality. This was so important to God, Daeshun. He knew. He knew we needed help with this. So in the old covenant, he gave annual feasts for the purpose of making them pause and remember. He gave them a rhythm of remembrance through the rituals. So Pastor Darin, he was. He would give them Passover feast, say, because once a year, I want you to remember how when the angel of death, Hallelujah was coming through Egypt and I told you, I told Moses to take the blood. Hallelujah. Tell the leaders to take a blood. The blood from a lamb. Put the blood from the lamb on the doorpost. And when I come through Egypt and I see the blood, I'm gonna pass over that house. I'm gonna make that house the exception. I'm gonna make that house the exemption. And he says, once a year, I need you to pause and remember I'm the God that'll make it Passover. Somebody ought to give him a Passover praise here. Cause now Jesus is my Passover lamb. I don't have to have a Passover day. I live a Passover life. Intentional reflect. So, like, when they're like certain spiritual disciplines, like solitude, it's for the purpose of reflection. Meditation. Not Eastern meditation, Biblical meditation. Meditation for the purpose of reflection. Thinking. That is the only way you interrupt amnesia. This needs to happen. Watch this personally. And this needs to happen as a community in this church. That's what anniversaries are about. Remembering where he brought us from. And no matter what inconveniences we currently deal with and no matter what inconveniences we may deal with in the future, may it be the heart of this house to periodically pause and say, with all that's not quite where I want it to be. God, I thank you for how you use in this house to help my life. Number two. Accept absolution. Pastor, what's absolution? It is the act of forgiving someone for having done something sinful. You do know that leprosy is used as a metaphor in the Bible for sin. Am I making sense? I said, am I making sense? Okay, so here's the beautiful truth, though. Just like Jesus had the power to cleanse leprosy with a Word. He has the power to cleanse sin completely and permanently. This is so important. Listen to me. Family, an individual will never have a proper approach to worship. If you don't have Pentecostals. Listen to me. If you don't have. If you do not have a proper understanding of the gospel. And I'm not saying Pentecostals don't have a proper understanding of the gospel. I'm saying I grew up Baptist and Pentecostal, so I'm Baptista. So I feel like in one tradition, they ain't talk about sanctification enough. It was a whole lot of grace, but not a lot of change. Okay, Now, God do want us to change now, Reverend. I mean, come on, Brother Deacon, we do need to. One wife. One. One Brother Deacon. One. Let me. Let me. Y' all aren't talking to me. One husband of one wife. So it's like it was heavy on the grace, light on the change. Then in the other tradition, it was almost like self modification through self hatred. It's a bit dysfunctional because I've never seen anybody, healthy or holy, who got there through self hatred. So. So when I hear somebody preach like that, I'm wondering where you struggling, because you're using the pulpit to project the intensity of a struggle you must have. And I'm not saying we don't struggle, but you seem to have to be reminded not to do certain things every week. Am I making sense? So when you don't understand the. Without a proper understanding of the gospel, you won't fix stuff that needs to be fixed. And so you will insult the spirit of grace. Should man continue in sin, that grace would abound, God forbid. So you insulting grace God, like, now you're playing in my face. And that affects worship. And. And then there's the other side where there's self modified self modification through self hatred. So you're operating under the identity of a sinner, not a saint. So you're trying to earn something that's unearnable instead of embracing an identity and living out of it. When you believe who God has called you to be, positionally you start acting like that experientially. And a lot of that is a misunderstanding of the gospel because some have been taught that the gospel is just a life, death, burial, resurrection of Jesus. That's not incorrect, but it's incomplete because the gospel is not just the historic act, but is the implications of the act. So if he got up from the grave, that's good for him, so it's gospel for him. It's only gospel for me when I understand the implications of his resurrection. He didn't do it for him, he did it for me. He didn't go to the cross for him. He went to the cross for me. He didn't get up out of the grave for him. He got up out of the grave for me. And when this happens, guys, your worship becomes inconsistent. Does that make sense? This is not all, but it's why some people's attendance is so inconsistent. Because when you have a bad week, you run from the grace you need so we can get in these cycles of self sabotage and sinful behavior. And then we run from the God we need to run to to help us fix it. Because somehow, subconsciously, not theologically, but subconsciously, you and I believe that we earn access. And then number three, this is my whole point here. Address your allegiance. This man had to turn his back on the nine and go back to the one. He literally said, I know where y' all going. I can't go that way because worship in spirit and truth requires addressing your loyalties. And idolatry is undivided. Excuse me. Idolatry is divided loyalty. God doesn't even ask to be the only important thing in your life. He says, but I need to be the first important thing in y'. All. He don't ask to be only he just say, just put me first. He says, the place I have in your life should be a chair, not a couch. I don't share that. And here's this is going to be tough for y' all to handle. Am I talking to grown ups here? God's love is what's called a loyal love. Is that the book? Loyalty? At some point, loyalty has levels. And at some point loyalty requires a choice. And for everybody that like to play the middle, at some point your loyalty will require choice. And you should be choosing based on principle, not person. And some people can't choose because it's about person and not principle. At some point, loyalty requires choice. Choose ye this day who you will serve. What fellowship does light have with darkness? This applies personally, but it applies corporately. As a church. We have to have an unapologetic allegiance to the thing God told us to do 20 years ago. Here's what can happen in churches. People can come in year 20 and have not heard what God said in year one and then try to change or critique something they don't have enough context for. Here's what I know. I'm sitting in a systematic theology class in Princeton, New Jersey at Princeton Theological Seminary. I am grieving the fact that this ain't the life I want. Is this too real for y'? All? Because you know, you can give God a yes and be excited at the yes, and then you start living in that yes, and then that excitement wear off. I'm Lee. I'm not going to law school. I'm following Dr. Seminary. Then I'm sitting in seminary, like, man, this is. And Dr. Darrell Guder, which is the reason God sent me to that school, started introducing us to resources, and he introduced me to a book us to a book called Announcing the Reign of God by Mortimer Aramis. Aramis, a South American United Methodist bishop. And that was the first time I saw that I had been preaching and grew up, not my dad, but grew up in church environments, hearing people preach the gospel about Jesus, but not the gospel Jesus preached. I just kept saying, and he showed us in the gospel the kingdom of God. It's like the kingdom of God is like. The kingdom of God is like King of God is like kingdom of God. I'm like, wait a minute. We talking about Jesus, but not what he talked about. He kept talking about a kingdom, the king's way. And the Holy Spirit spoke to me in Stuart hall in Systematic theology in the year of 2002, and said to me, that's what I called you out of law school for. You're upset because you think I called you to build what you saw. And that ain't worth sacrificing for. We don't need another one of those churches. He said, darius, you build it my way. And if you build it my way, I will raise you up and you will do more with less. He said, be biblical. Don't worry about being big. Listen, I'm grateful we can help people, but I don't mean please. I'm so grateful. Please don't hear this the wrong. Please don't hear this the wrong way. I ain't. I didn't come. I ain't getting this for big. I didn't know this was gonna happen. That's not even why I came. I came to. Oh, gosh, this. That first building we bought in GWINNETT, we had 800 seats down at first. I. I didn't. I ain't in it for this. That's not. We're not just a big church. Who. That's what God don't count. He weigh. It's not how many you got, it's how much of him. How much of the kabod, how much of the Shekinah? The heavy the weightiness of God is on the inside of him. So he told me three things. I'm done. Everybody standing, y' all ready to go? I don't wanna. When everybody start walking out. That's distracting. Here it is. It is. So I'm gonna pray. He said three things to me. These three things not negotiable. I'm never changing them. He said number one, you do kingdom. And that's why the name of our church was Kingdom Church. Not we have, we have, we have modernize the language. And now we call it third way. Not culture's way, not church's way, but the King's way. And here's what happens. God calls different churches to carry out. The church's mission statement is in Matthew 28:19. That's the mission statement. But God calls different churches to make different kinds of contributions to that mission. Because different people not need different things. So what will happen is people will come from a place that contributed to the mission in one way, then come to a place like this and start critiquing something cuz it's not a replica of what they left. Can we have the grown folks talk today? And he said no, no, no. He said do kingdom kings way. But the king, king did it away. That's missional. He thought like a missionary. So we say we not this or that. We this and that. We do church for three seats. Unbeliever believer and mature believer. So I want, if you've been walking with Jesus your whole life, to come and leave and say I got fed and I want you to come here and you don't know the difference between Corinthians and Chronicles yet. I want you to be able to say I got something. Does that make sense? If you are, if someone's lower class, middle class or upper class, we want to minister in a way that hits all of those seats. We think like missionaries. So what happens is that many people are accustomed to like these spiritually homogeneous churches where it's all about unbelievers or all about believers. And the unbelievers confused. And so they come. Am I making sense? And God said no, no, no, no, no. You don't have to change the message, diversify the methodology. How long we gonna be singing songs? I leave that alone. I grew up singing hymns every Sunday. I don't know, I don't know past the second stanza. Then I get to the part where I know pass me not. And then number three is this. He said I was doing a three night revival. We gotta go in Chicago. Illinois. I had a Toshiba laptop. It was 2006. I was sitting at Denny's in Oak Brook, Illinois. We had just had a conversation at Mother's Day with my cousin, and he was talking about First Kings. And I opened that laptop and I looked up first Kings, chapter 10. And I read a story about Sheba coming to visit Solomon. It says when she saw the house that he had built, the seating of his servants, their attitude, it was no more breath in her. It took her breath away. And the Holy Ghost said, that's the way my kingdom is. It's excellent. It's breathtaking, that. And what happens is we have lowered the standard so much in church that excellence is interpreted as showing. You're being showing because we will accept things in church we won't accept anywhere else and then say we're the most important institution on the planet. God's work deserves my best effort. And excellence is doing the best you can in the season you in with the resources you have available. But breathtaking. I'm done. Isn't just excellence. I added this. It's integrity. Listen to me. For the gospel to be transmitted, it must be embodied. This matter. Because in order to do kingdom, you got to be credible. Can't live these different lives. And if a person is living that way, we want you to. To come here. That's why we need people to come here, not lead and work here. Because if there's no integrity, there's no safety. If there's no integrity, it's not different. It's just the same. And as we celebrate 20 years, I want you to know if I back off any of that, I'm doing like Saul and I'm committing idolatry. I'm acting like I know what's best for you more than God knows what best for you. I understand the assignment. Because worship isn't just about actions. It's about your allegiance. I will put nothing in front of you or in front of what you told me to do. And your conviction needs to be. Anybody who asks me to is a person who hasn't learned how to love me. Right. We're done. If you're here today, you've never given your life to Jesus.