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Red Rocks Church. How you feel? You sound good. Hey, help me welcome everybody, would you? All the Denver locations. We love you so much. Austin, Texas. Brussels, Belgium. And men and women at all of our correctional facilities. We love you and everybody joining online. Guys, high five. Somebody have a seat. As you're getting settled, tell one person on the side of you that you sounded good. Tell the other person on the other side you look good. You choose. That'll make for some interesting conversations on the way home. Hey, single people. I'm just trying to help, you know, I'm here for you. I got you. Welcome. Welcome back to week two of our teaching series called Kiss the Fire. You guys enjoying this? We are using my new book, Kiss the Fire, as kind of conversation starters as we dig into God's word throughout this series. And I'm so excited to get to share this with you. And I'm gonna give you just a little bit of details that I did last week, only because. Conrad. Where's Conrad? Conrad said not everybody came last week. And so he's like, you got to tell him again. I know everybody boo Conrad as you can. On three. One, two, three. But is he right? Yeah. He goes, yeah. If you're just joining us, I just want to say this because it'll make me feel better. I could care less about this. This. This book. I could care less about being an author. What I care about is being your pastor. And. And I just know. I know what it feels like to. To go through some. Some difficult things and. And then you start to have these thoughts creep up into your mind. I think it's sometimes like our situation just sort of seems to scream at us like, you should just give up. Sometimes I think Satan gets in our ear and whispers lies, things like, you can't trust God. He's not paying attention. He doesn't care, or this wouldn't have happened. Sometimes it's our own. Our own thoughts and emotions that'll say these things. And I just know what it's like to go through really tough times and to deal with those thoughts. I know what it's like to think, maybe I should give up on trusting God. Maybe I should give up on this relationship or this calling or this dream God put in my heart. Sometimes it gets so bad that either we or somebody we love, it even goes as far as maybe I should just give up on life. I know what it's like to deal with thoughts like that. But I also know what it's like that while you're going through something really difficult that the power of the Holy Spirit gets involved, and he starts to do things in your life that you never thought possible. And you start to have peace and joy and purpose and calling in the middle of a difficult time. And that's what I want for you. That's what I think God wants for you. And so I am excited. And one last thing, because I just know this can mess with people. We are selling books in the lobbies during this series, all right? Not trying to. Elephant in the room. Not trying to hide anything. We have to buy those so that we can get them to you. And truth be told, we usually. By the time we give away a bunch of them, we usually lose money on that thing. But if it makes money out in those lobbies, I want you to know that every bit of that is going to our correctional facilities. Men and women, we love you. We believe in you. You are family. Don't you dare give up. And if you or someone you love is really hurting and you go, man, I could use that right now. We could use that right now. And you can't afford one of those. You go out there today and you tell him, sean said I could have one for free. I'll pay for it, or I'll fight them for you. Whatever we gotta do. All right? We good? So, again, in case you weren't here, little recap. Because you could hear the title and be like, huh? Kiss the fire. Sounds dangerous. For insurance purposes, we are not suggesting anyone put any of your faces near fires of any kind. That was important for BZ for me to cover. I, about three years ago, thought I had a pinched nerve and went to a doctor, and the doctor told me, and Jill said, sorry, you don't have a pinched nerve. You have an incurable brain disease. And it just. Man, it rocked us, as you would probably imagine. And I went like. I spiraled and in my mind and in my heart and got dark. And I'm not proud of my response. I'm just telling you what it was. And I did have those I want to give up thoughts, and I was mad at God. Sad, scared, all of it. And I didn't want to talk to anybody, and I wouldn't call anybody back, and I wouldn't text anybody back. And I didn't want to come to church, and I didn't want to talk to God. And my phone rang, and it was a friend of mine. I call him Coach. He's a UFC coach. He was voted one of the 20 greatest UFC coaches of all time, Coach Mark Montoya. And he doesn't just, like, train his fighters by, like, sitting on a chair and going, you should do this. He gets in the cage and shows him what to do. So when he called, I picked up the phone because I'm scared of him. And I told him about the diagnosis, and I'm crying and falling apart. And he said. He goes, well, I'll tell you what, we're gonna kiss this fire and walk away whistling. And I went, man, coach, that sounds. That sounds really cool, but I don't know what that means. He said. He said, I'm not saying this fire is not real. I'm not saying it won't be hot. I'm not saying it's not going to hurt. I'm not saying you won't get burned from time to time. He said, I'm telling you, we're not going to run from this. We're going to face it. We're going to go through it. This is not going to take your joy. It's not going to take your peace. It's not going to change your calling. We're going to go through this thing. You'll be stronger on the other side. He said, I'll be with you every single step of the way. That's a friend right there. And then he said it again. He said, we're gonna kiss this fire and walk away whistling. I didn't plan on ever talking to people about that or writing about that. That was just something for me, and I would hold on to that. And on the days when I would wake up and feel like I was just gonna have a pity party for myself, and I would feel like I wanted to give up, I'd remind myself, not today. Today I'm gonna kiss the fire. I'm gonna face this thing. I'm gonna run from it, and I refuse to give up. And that's what I want for you guys. And that's what we started talking about last week. And we looked at this verse, Galatians 6, 9. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we don't give up. What God is telling us is. And we went through this last week, you have to get caught up. But I got a plan for you. And sometimes you have to fight to take hold of that plan. But don't you ever give up, because. And here's what I want our story to be church for all of us, is that, yeah, in 2025, man, we went through some stuff. And me and the people I love and we went through it. It was really difficult. And maybe for you, it's. And we thought about giving up. We'd have thought about giving up on God or our calling or whatever, but we didn't. The power of the Holy Spirit, like, got involved. God's word spoke to us, and we didn't give up. And because we didn't, he did some miracles. And look what God has done. Like, that's gonna. In Jesus name. It's going to be your story. In Jesus name. You're not here by accident. Look, I don't know what you're going through right now. Maybe it's a financial thing and it feels impossible. Maybe it's a marriage issue, a relationship, a broken heart, anxiety, depression, a diagnosis for you or someone you love, a tragedy. Whatever it is. I'm going to tell you the same thing Coach told me, and I believe this. It's going to be true for us. It's not going to take your peace and it's not going to take your joy, and it does not change your calling. Your God is still alive. He's working. He's with you. He's got a plan. Don't you dare give up. This is the last bit of the recap. And then we got to roll. Last week, I couldn't help but think of this conversation again. Me and Doug were talking about it today, something that my friend and executive assistant K back and I were talking about. And she told me she was going to run marathon one day. And I was like, why? Like, running stupid. Why would you run? To run. I grew up playing sports. We ran because we wanted to play in time. You don't run to run. And I said, I didn't know you were good at stuff like that. And she goes, well, I'm not. I said, you must be. You're running a long distance. And she's like, I'm not really. I'm not really that strong, and I'm not really that fast. She goes, I'm just really good at not giving up. Actually, the way she said it was. She said, I'm just really good at not quitting. And that's what I want for us, Church. I want us to get really, really good at not quitting. That's where we're headed. So I'm glad you're here. If you have a Bible, flip over to Daniel chapter three on your phone, on your Bibles, or the words will be up here if you don't have one. Let me set this story up while you're finding that so the Babylonians conquered the nation of Israel. And obviously, there are crazy things going on. People are being murdered and abused and ripped out of homes and lives taken away and plans taken away. And then they take a whole bunch of the Israelites into exile as slaves. And so in Daniel chapter three, we're going to read about these. These three young men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And you want to talk about somebody who has a reason to be mad at God and want to give up, want to be like, forget this. If God was real, this wouldn't be happening. If God cared or loved me, this wouldn't be happening. You want to talk about some people who had a good reason to think that way, it would be them. Friends and family members would have probably been executed. They were all ripped out of their families, ripped out of their homes, taken to foreign countries as slaves. Like, every single plan they had, every single dream they had, it was all shattered, but they didn't give up. See, these guys were really good at not quitting. And so we're gonna look at their story and we're gonna go, okay, what did they do that we could do so that we, too, today could be really good at not quitting? Sound good? Daniel 3. We're going to start in verse 15. Oh, wait, let me set this up a little bit more. Sorry, I forgot. There's a king named Nebuchadnezzar. Some of you know this story, but if you don't, there's a king named Nebuchadnezzar, and he builds this statue that's like, almost 100ft tall. He thinks of himself as a God. And he said, when you hear the music play, everybody, you bow down to this statue. You worship it, and you worship me. These three boys, see, they refused. They refused to give up on their God. They know what God's word says. I only worship the Lord, my God. So they don't bow down. This is where we pick it up, verse 15. Here's. This is King Nebuchadnezzar talking. If you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, that's very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what God will be able to rescue you from my hand? These guys are facing a literal fire. They're going to be publicly thrown into flames and burned alive in front of everyone. In front of everybody. That's what they're facing. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to him, king Nebuchadnezzar we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it. And he will deliver us from your majesty's hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. And so I read this, and I got all fired up because I'm like, that's what I want to. I want to live like that. I want my boys to live like that. I want our church family to live like that. I want to be the kind of people that it doesn't matter what this world throws at us. It doesn't matter what the enemy tries to throw at us. It doesn't matter what the situation is. You can't have my worship. I worship one and only God. That's it. You can't have it. That's what I want for us. Well, what did they do that we can do? And their response in our Bible is only three verses. And I felt like this week as I was studying, I'm like, I think we could. I think we could talk about these three verses for months. But I want to pull out three things that I think they show us that they're doing. And it gives handles to the whole. Like, yeah, I want to decide in my heart that I'm not going to give up the problem for a whole bunch of us. The problem for me when I got this diagnosis was, but I don't know how. I don't know what to do, because these feelings are so real, these emotions are so real. The situation is real. It'd be nice to not give up. How can I do that? How can I. How can I get back up? Because it feels like life's been knocking me down. How can I get back up and not give up? Let's go back and let's look at what they said to the king, and I think we're going to get some really cool insight. Shadrach. This is verse 16 again, Shadrach. Meshach and Abednego replied to him, we don't need to defend ourselves. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it. Leave that on there, if you would. Those two words, we serve is what jumped out at me this week. And I think if we could talk to them today, they'd go, you want to know one of the things we did that helped us not give up? See, we locked arms with people who serve God. You can't have our worship because we serve God. Now, listen, listen. That's different. They weren't locking their arms with people who believed God was real. They weren't locking arms because this fire is real. Right. And I'm thinking about our lives, and there's times when we face things that are just real. And I think these guys would tell us, you find yourself fighting a real fire in life. Like, you're fighting for your mental health, you're fighting for your physical health, you're fighting for your family, you're fighting for your children. You need to lock arms with some people, and not just anybody. You need to lock arms with some people who serve God. And I wanted to highlight this because I often say to you, if this is your church, I often say things like, we were created to pursue the plans of God with the people of God. And I believe that. And what I thought about this week as I'm reading this passage is I thought, well, it kind of leaves people of God up for interpretation. Right. Like, are you locking arms? I know you're going through some tough stuff. Are you locking arms with some. With some men and women of God? Well, it depends on how you define that, because. Right. Because you could go, well, yeah, I mean, my cousin, he believes in God. Even been in church a couple times. Yeah, I think she's. Yeah. Her family, which. She grew up going to church. Yeah. Her family goes to church. Yeah, she's good. I looked up that word serve in the original language, and it means this. To be devoted to, to worship, to revere, to obey, to sacrifice for. To dedicate one's life to. If you're taking notes, number one, to be really good at not quitting. Lock arms with people who serve God. Now, if you're looking for it, you'll find it. You can smell it. I'm always talking about God. This is what you'll find out from them. I'm always talking about God. I'm always trying to worship God. I'm trying to obey God with my life. I serve, I obey. I sacrifice my time, my treasure, my talents. I sacrifice my time to build his kingdom. I sacrifice my abilities to build his kingdom. I sacrificed my stuff, my resources to build his kingdom. I'm trying to get in his word. I'm not perfect, but I'm trying to get in his word. And I'm trying to obey. I'm trying to dedicate my life to Him. That's the kind of people you want to lock arms with when you're facing A fire. They locked arms with people who serve God, not just believe in God. And it's interesting, I was thinking about this this week I have experienced right after I gave my life to Jesus in a less than a 12 month period, the difference and it's game changing. Right after I gave my life to God, I was at. A friend took me to a church in Illinois, I went back to LA where I lived and me and all my friends were. Alcohol was an everyday thing, drugs were an everyday thing. Chasing girls was an everyday thing. And we were all trying to work in the film business. And so we had agents and managers who actually told us, you guys should be going out in Hollywood or around there every single night you can, because you never know who you'll meet. This town's about who you know. So we thought we were being responsible and pursuing our dreams, but by going out and partying every night, and I know it sounds funny, but it's like we really did. That's how we saw it. So I give my life to Jesus in Illinois, I come back to LA and I'm sitting in my apartment in Hollywood and my buddies are going out every single night. And I'm just sitting. They're like, what are you doing tonight? Sitting. And in my head I'm like, don't sin. That's what I'm doing. I'm just trying not to sin, just sitting. Don't drink, don't smoke, don't chew, don't date girls who do. It's not easy. From Kansas, you know, and about three weeks into it, these are, these are like, these are good guys. They cared about me, they loved me, I loved them. They just, they weren't serve God kind of people. Now if I would ask them, we would never have talked about it. But I know them well enough that every one of them would have went, yeah, I believe in God, man. Yeah, they were worried about me. And so like, bro, just come out, man. I'm like, ah, got a lot of plans to sit tonight. They're like, come on man, just come out. You don't have to drink or anything. I know you don't apparently do that anymore. Just come hang. We went out and one of my friends brought me a drink. I was like, come on, bro, just one. It's like, want one? Can't hurt, have another one. Pretty soon we're smoking some stuff, then I'm doing some cocaine. Ended up doing everything I promised God I would never do again and more than I'd ever done in one night. Almost OD'd. And the next morning, I remember looking in the mirror in the bathroom, just hating myself. And I remember that day, I thought, I'm done. Like, I'm not cut out for this Christianity stuff. I tried. I gave it an honest effort. Man, I'm just sitting here for three weeks. I don't know what to do. I can't do this. I'm out. Craziest thing. That day, someone from the church in Illinois where I gave my life to God calls me. It was actually the pastor's wife, and she ran the youth and young adults at the church. And she called and she's like, I just wanted to check on you and see how your Christian walk is going. I was like, lady, wrong day for this check in. Gonna have to give a bad report. She said, why don't you come to Illinois and just be around the church for a couple months? We'll put you up with a family in the church. I was so desperate that I just did. I couldn't even believe I was doing it. And I did. I thought I was gonna go for a couple months. And they put me up with a family in the church, and they gave me a orange rusted out station wagon that someone had donated to the church and let me drive it. And I remember I pulled up to a stoplight one night, a couple girls were next to me. True story. And I looked over and I was like, I kid you not. They went. They put their window down, and I was like. And I thought like, we were like. And they were like, dad let you borrow his car? And they drove off. I'm like, I hate my life. So I end up being there for about six months, and all of a sudden. And then I start volunteering at the young adults group. They have a young adults meeting on Thursday nights. And so I go early and I set up and I hang curtains from the ceiling because we're trying to make the room look cool for young adults. And I'm hanging these lights from the ceiling and. And then I was in a small group, and about six months goes by, and I was like, man, this sucks. Like, I have a college degree. I've been living on my own now for a few years in la, and now I'm in Illinois at a church living with some family, like, it's going nowhere. And I decided that day I'm out. I tried, and I really tried this time. God, I did this for months. But I was like, well, I promised him I'd set up for this young adult thing. And so I go on Thursday. And I try to help him set up. And then I tell my buddy Dave, who's also in small group with me. I said, hey, dude, I'm out after this. He's like, what do you mean? I said, I'm just. I'm out, dude. He's like, what are you gonna do? And I had already figured it out. I'd already went to the atm, took out money. So I'm going downtown, man, and find some seedy little bar, and I'm just gonna go be me, man. I just. I can't do this anymore. Probably find some drugs tonight and just. I'm gonna be me. And he took me aside, and he's like, look, man, I've lived that life. And he goes, so have you. And he's like, you could do this. You can go back to the old way of doing things before you were trying to pursue God. And you'll probably feel okay for a little while. Because let's be honest, bro, six months is gonna go by. You're gonna wake up one day and realize how lonely and unfulfilled and purposeless you feel, and you're just gonna come back to God. You're just gonna have wasted six months. You got to start over. It's like, why don't you just stay here tonight? And I did. Then I went to small group with them, and I kept going. And then they started asking me in this small group. But I know this is kind of a long story. I'm going somewhere. They started asking me in this small group to tell them what Jesus had done in my life. So I started telling them. And every now and then, they would ask me again. I'd tell them again. And then I went into the pastor's wife's office one day, and I was like, we gotta talk. She's like, what's up? I'm like, I'm not happy. She's like, what's up? I go like, my favorite day of the week is small group night. And they keep asking me to talk about Jesus, and I like it. And I don't know what to do with this. It's a true story. She goes, hold on a sec. She grabs a journal off of her bookshelf. It's dated on every page. She flips back six months. She goes, read this. And she wrote six months ago in her journal. There will be a day when Sean will come to me and say he wants to tell people about Jesus for the rest of his life because he's got the call of God on his life. And he's supposed to be a pastor. And I start crying. And then I interned, and then I became a pastor. And I met my wife in that small group. And 20 years ago, we came out here to join some friends and start Red Rocks. And I'm here today telling you how good God is, no matter how bad your situation might feel. Now listen. I locked arms with some people who believed God was real. Almost lost my life in the same window of time. I locked arms with some people who served God, and it changed the direction of my life forever. That's what you need. That's what you deserve. So let us help you. Don't just come in and out. Jump in, dive in the deep end. Go to the welcome party on Saturday after service, on Sunday, after the 10 every weekend. All of our Denver spots will help you get plugged in. You need to be in a group and on a team. I was in a group and on a team, and it changed my life. It'll help you lock arms with people who don't just believe in God, but who serve God. And that's what you want. We good? That's kind of a long story. I know, I know. Number two, get really good at not quitting. Trust God, period. I put a period in my notes, but forgot to check for it. That's on me. It sounds real simple. Trust God. Let's reread what they said to the king. If we are thrown into a blazing furnace, the God we serve is able. My God can get me through anything. He's able to deliver us from it. And he will deliver us from your majesty's hand. This is kiss the fire faith right here. But even if he does not, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold that you have set up. They had what I call even if faith church. There's a difference between I trust God and I trust God. When he carries out my agenda, I just trust God. He's God. When he doesn't do what I ask in the time frame that I ask, I'm not sure if I can trust him. But when he does the things I want, I definitely trust him. Do you see the difference? And here's the thing. This. We get on autopilot. This takes a decision of the will. This takes, I think, the power of the Holy Spirit. But listen, listen. God's promise is if you'll do this, you can stand in front of any fire and you can have peace and joy and hope and confidence from God. If your Trust is in him, not in what he does or doesn't do. In your estimation. Romans 15:13. Watch this. This is a promise. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you, as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. So here's what I think we gotta do. At least I know I do. I gotta pray. God, would you, through the power of your Holy Spirit, help me to learn to trust you? Not the answer or not answers to my prayers. Would you help me to trust you? Would you remind me that you love me? You love me so much. Your son died for me. That you're with me, that you're working, that you care. That you have a plan. That your ways are higher than my ways. That you are God and I am not. Would you help me trust you? Not my list of to do's for you. Now, notice these guys, I love that they're not messing, they're not pretending they're not in a fire. They're like, no, no, my God's able. And we're gonna believe he's gonna get us out of it, and we're gonna believe he's gonna get us through it, because I know he can. But we've already decided in our hearts with some finality that we trust him even if he doesn't do what we want. And I'm not telling you to do. Go, go be perfect at this like I am. I'm telling you, I'm in it right now with you. I'm in it, I'm in it. And this is a daily decision because situations change and you know how it works. He might answer a prayer and for like 45 minutes, you're like, God is good. And then life happens again. You're like, I don't know if I can trust him. He says, if you can, if you can, if you can get it in your heart that you just trust me, it'll actually bring you peace, you joy. And you hope no matter what you're facing. These guys were really good at not quitting because they locked arms with other people who serve God. And they decided we trust him even if he doesn't do what I think he should. To be really good at not quitting, we lock arms with people who serve God, we trust God and we worship through the fire. Last time we'll read it. Let's put up just 18. Or you're just kind of fast forward on your thing down here on the deal, you know what I mean? If we are thrown into the blazing furnace. The God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from your majesty's hand. But even if he doesn't, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up. It doesn't matter how hot this thing feels. It doesn't matter how high the flames are. You can't have our worship. We only worship God. And we don't just worship him on the days we get a raise and get the girl and get the promotion. We worship him on the days when the fire gets real real and real hot, but we worship him and we worship him only. And you can't have our worship. Now, the first time somebody alluded to me that I ought to praise God in the middle of, like, problems, I kind of wanted to fight them. What do I got to praise God for? Praising God's for after the fire. So I thought, I'm in it right now. So if he starts to answer some prayers and gets to work and gets me through this deal, then I'll put up both hands on this side. And you laugh, but it's kind of how we see it. Get me through this God. So I got something to praise you about. Right here's the problem. And this is what I was always missing. Put that side third up, if you will. You guys could take a screenshot of this if it's helpful. If not, I'll just talk to you about it for a second. These are promises in God's word of what happens when we step into his presence in worship. You get peace. He says, I give you a peace that you can't get anywhere else. Peace I give you that the world can't. There's fullness of joy. In your presence, there is rest. In your presence, there's confidence, there's guidance, there's protection, there is power. These are the things that we need when we're in the middle of the fire to hold on to our faith so that we can wait for God's plan to take action. So why would we wait to get peace and joy and rest and guidance and protection and power. Why would we wait till we're not in a fire to go get those things from God? I've never needed those things more than standing in the middle of a fire. And you're the same. But. But I think it's deeper than that. It's more than that. And that was a decision that I made sitting right there at this location a couple Years ago. If you're visiting, we get real here. We say this all the time. This is not a courtroom. This is a hospital courtroom. You get dressed up a little bit nicer than you normally do, and you go pretend you're better than you actually are. That's not what this is. This is a hospital. In a hospital, you come into a place like this and you go, I don't have to pretend. I'm not hurting. I'm going to tell you exactly how I'm hurting. And will somebody help me until I can meet with the great physician? That's what this place is now. So I want to be real with you on this. This was really, really hard for me when I got this diagnosis, and I'd love to tell you that. I'm just. I'm so pastoral, guys. I'm just amazing. I was so mad at God. I didn't want to come back to church. I didn't want to go to church. I know it's not very pastoral. I didn't want to go to church. The problem is I work here, so I kind of had to. I didn't want to preach. Problem is, it's my job. And so I prayed as I would walk through that curtain back there, God, speak through me. Even though I don't even know if I want to be with you right now, but would you speak through me to them? I didn't want to read the Bible, but if I didn't, I wouldn't have anything to say when I got this. Had to. But you know what I had decided in my heart. You know what I don't have to do? I don't have to worship. And I didn't. And it was the hardest part of every single church service for me for a long time after I got this diagnosis. I don't want to worship you right now. God, I'm mad at you. Get me through this. We'll have something to talk about. That's how I felt. Some of you know what that feels like. I was sitting right there, and I got a text from a friend. He sent me this text. He said, I'm just praying for you today. And it was Jeremiah 17:14. In fact, it's been my screensaver. I have two screensavers for the last three years. It's either my wife and my three boys or this verse. And I have a way of changing them while I'm putting my phone in my pocket accidentally. I don't even know how it works. Different story. Jeremiah 17:14 says this, Heal me, Lord. And I will be healed. Save me and I'll be saved. And then here it is. But you're the one I praise. And I realized sitting right there that I don't have to wait till this fire goes away before I can start praising God again. Because I got a lot to praise him for already. I'm a king's kid. I'm an heir to the throne. I'm going to heaven for all of eternity. So I decided I'm a praise God in the fire. So I did this thing. If you're new to church, sometimes in worship you'll see people with their hands up in the air. You don't need to be freaked out by it. I was when I first came to church though. I was like, wrong with you freaks. The Bible actually talks about raising our hands in worship to God sometimes. For me, it's excitement. It's not weird. Go to the Broncos game, we scored touchdown. Look around. Be a lot of hands in the air. So we do. Sometimes for me, it's I submit to you, I surrender to you. But for me, when I really feel it, I'm a two hander. I didn't want to put my left arm in the air because the right side of my brain is degenerating. So it affects the the left side of my body. And sometimes it affects my left arm. And I was afraid if I put it in the air, it might shake. I read that verse, I went, now heal me and I'll be healed. You've already saved me, but I'mma worship you through this fire. And so now sometimes you may see me with two hands in the air. But oftentimes I only put my left hand in the air and I say, God, I'll worship you today with my bad arm. And it's how I give Satan the middle finger at the same time. Sometimes we worship because he set us free from something. Sometimes we worship until he does. But church, we don't have to wait till the fire subsides to put our hands in the air. Stand on some promises from our God and say, I choose to worship you today. I will not give up. And Satan, you can't. You can't have my worship. Would you stand up with me, God? We all come in here today and watch and listen to this from all kinds of places, carrying all kinds of different things. And I pray you would speak to us, to every single one of us, about our situation, about our loved ones situations, about our family situations, whatever it is. And I pray God that as we declare in this song, that we will not be afraid anymore because you are with us. I pray that it would feel like weights are coming off our shoulders as we declare this with everyone's eyes closed, I want to ask two questions. And then we're going to sing. And you can put your hands up or not, whatever you want to do. When we sing, if you or somebody you love is going through it, you say, we need a miraculous touch from God. Raise your hand. I'm just gonna pray with you today. We're gonna believe. Amen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Second question is this. You may not have had any idea why you were tuning into this service or coming to one of the buildings, but while I've been talking about what God can do in our lives, something's going on in your heart and you've all of a sudden realized, like, wait a second, I need to start a relationship with Jesus so that I can then go spend time with him and he can be with me and he can get me through fires that I can't get through on my own. Maybe some of you just realized today, like, I need to ask him to forgive me of my sins and this is my moment. If that's you, you go, I want to ask Jesus to forgive me of my sins today. I want his spirit to be a part of my life. I want to go to heaven for all of eternity. And today I'm making that decision today. I. I say yes to Jesus. If that's you, raise your hand. I'm just going to say a prayer for you where you're at. My gosh church. Hands all over the place. Thank you, Jesus. Look up here for a sec. I'm letting pray. You know what these guys found out? I never finished the story. You know what these guys found out? Not. Some of you know the story. When we decide to lock arms with people who serve God. God and trust God and, and never surrender our worship, you know what they found out? Jesus gets in the middle of the fire with us, and miracles are what happens. They threw those boys in the fire. You go read it. They threw them in the fire. The fire was so hot it killed the soldiers who threw them in. And then all of a sudden, King jumps up and goes, what's up? What's going on? On. I thought we put three in the fire. There's four. And they go, yeah, I think the fourth one's God. And they bring him out. And the Bible says that they didn't even smell like smoke. Not a hair on their head was singed. Jesus got in the fire with them. Jesus got them through the fire, and now they had a testimony that was going to go change the world. That's going to be your story. Let's pray. God, I thank you that we're here. I thank you for what you're doing in our lives, in our families, in our church family. We need your miraculous power. In Jesus name, would you heal? In Jesus name, would you set people free from anxiety and depression and suicidal thoughts? In Jesus name, would you mend marriages that feel like they can't be fixed? In Jesus name, would you heal broken hearts? In Jesus name, would you remind us, no matter what we're going through, that we don't have to be afraid anymore because you are right here with us? In Jesus name. And everybody said, amen. Let's worship church.