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Hello. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Saved Not Soft. Hello, everyone. That was like a note I held soft, ma'am. God is good all the time. Amen. Amen. Who's ready for today? Because I am ready for today's episode. And just being completely transparent, this has been a topic that the Lord has been putting on my heart probably the past two years that's been really just thick in my spirit. And I believe this is finally the time where the Lord has really sat me down and gave me instruction of how to correctly articulate and come forth with this. With this topic, essentially. And so, yeah, we're just going to get into what the Lord has to say, y'all. And today, if you did not read the title of this podcast, it's Exposing American Christianity. And the biggest thing I'm going to encourage in this episode is to just stick around and listen and to pray and listen to the Spirit. Do not listen to me and what Emmy has to say. I'm not on Emmy's side. I am on God's side. And there's just some things, as an American and as someone who is. Who has their foot in ministry, just some things that have been observed not only within the walls of ministry, but also for those who claim themselves to be Christians. And so if you're willing to grow with one with Christ, I believe that you're going to receive this message and it's going to change your life. And if you allow God to minister to your heart, God can change your life for the better. And that's my biggest encouragement, is to just listen to this episode with an open heart, an open mind, and more so not towards me or like the words that I'm saying, but through the Spirit of God, which he's going to reveal through this podcast. Amen. And so let's pray before we pray, though. Actually, let me tell you who I am. I'm Emmy Moore. Uh, I am the host of Saved Not Soft. And what is Saved Not Soft? Saved Not Soft is a podcast dedicated to let people know that they are heard, seen, and loved by God. And also knowing and understanding that this. That this road to Christianity, it is not an easy walk. Nowhere in scripture does Jesus ever proclaim or promise for Christianity to be easy. If anything, there's a lot of things that come in the midst of Christianity, and this podcast is catered to help you navigate that. That whether if it's really hard or more easier at times, if it's joy or suffering. This podcast is supposed to help and assist you through the Spirit of God with your daily lives and how to be a better steward and a better child of God. And that's simply that. So let's pray and then we're gonna get into our topic for today. Amen. So, dear heavenly Father, I just thank you and praise you, God. God, I thank you for this message that you've burned on the inside of me. God, God, before all things, God, I just lay myself down in humility, God, for I'm not better than anybody else. Neither is anybody watching. God, we are all on the same page, pursuing one God and one spirit. God, God, I just rid the spirit of offense in Jesus, mighty name, Father, and just decree and declare that in any areas where the audience could be conflicted or convicted or feeling guilty and shameful in some areas. God, God, I just ask that your spirit remains in every area where there's guilt or shame or condemnation being infiltrated by the devil. God, I just ask that you send it to the pits of hell in Jesus, mighty name, God and God, I ask that you open up our hearts, you open up our minds, and you allow us the wisdom that you are speaking to us to settle in our hearts. God, God, we ask for the spirit of wisdom. And God, your word says ask and it shall be given unto you. And so, God, we are asking for wisdom, we're asking for correction, we're asking for healthy rebuke. And God, we know that you do not condemn us because your word says that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, God, So we know that you don't condemn us. Instead you love us, Father, that you have a compassion for us. God, let your compassion be the overall tone of this message, Father. And God, let this message seep to the bottom of. Of the hearts of the viewers, Father, and let us just receive your spirit and God, let's also just kill every expectation we may have of you that is not true, God. God, we accept you authentically for who you claim to be, not who we think you are, but who you claim to be in the scriptures, Father, not our version of you, but who you say to be. God, we love that part of you. We love all of who you are. The true, authentic, genuine Jehovah Jireh, that is you. Oh God. And so we love you and we serve you and we can't wait to hear what you have to say. In Jesus mighty name, we pray and seal this prayer. Amen. So where do I start? There's. I feel like there's different avenues and areas where I could start this conversation. I first want to open up the tone of this episode, that it should all be done in compassion. And this episode and what is about to be said is not done with the intention to put people's hearts down or to judge what your walk with Christ is. And I'm only making this a preface just because I've spoken a part of this message already online, and a lot of people who were convicted took it as, you think you're holier than thou and you are judging my relationship with Christ when nobody is doing that. If the spirit of the Lord convicts you, he convicts you. It's. You can't blame the messenger because this is the message of the Lord. I literally accum Accumulated everything by Scripture because it is the truth of God. And I believe this is probably one of the more urgent episodes I've ever made in my entire life. And I had to be very strategic and tedious of how this message was going to come across, because if it didn't come in a loving and a compassionate manner while also staying holding on to the truth and not folding by the truth, it could have had the potential to get received improperly. But I will say this. If you're coming into this episode looking for every avenue to receive offense and guilt and shame, you're going to find it. And so whenever I was praying, that was kind of like the biggest, even on camera and in private, was God. Please allow your people to not hear this message in the spirit of offense. So, children of God, I'm asking you to please hear this with an open mind and an open heart and listen to the Spirit of God. And more importantly, I pray to God, this has been my prayer that this episode encourages people in America who have strong faith to proclaim the same message all across, whether if it's at your workspace, whether if it's at your church, whether if it's in your friend group. That is the goal is for this, this, this word to not just stay here on save, not soft, but for God's word to spread and reach every crevice and corner of the nation. And so when we talk about exposing American Christianity, there's a few things where I feel the disappointment of the Lord and the correction of God that we must imply in order to be good stewards. Children of God and people who are in America. I think the saddest thing we're seeing in American Christianity today is that there are people walking around swearing up and down that they are saved by God and they are not. I need you to listen to me today. Because eternity is on the line. And I'm going to talk about a few attributes to America's spiritual blindness and the corruption in our belief system and how it is then bleeding into our relationship with Christ, which is birthing a deception. And when I talk about American Christianity and exposing certain problems. I went to Canada and spoke at a conference last year. And one of the questions that one of the head of the church, one of the prophets of the church asked me, he said, what do you believe is the leading problem of Christianity in America? And immediately I knew the answer. I stood back and I thought on it. But I said, ultimately the leading problem in America is that we have a terrible discipleship course. Like where there. There is terrible discipleship breaking out. We have a huge discipleship issue to go and make disciples of all nations. It's like people understand and recognize the name Jesus, but what does it actually mean to pick up your cross and carry it? And what it means to be discipled is to be trained up and corrected and taught according to the word of God. And it's almost as if people are believing in the name of Jesus, but they're not executing what he's saying. Therefore we're superficial disciples because the American church is not discipling correctly. And so this is kind of like the posture of where I'm coming from is we have to kill our expectation of our version of who we think God is and go to the Scriptures and accept of everything of who Jesus Christ and God claims himself to be through what the word of God says, not our own perception, not what we've learned in America, but what off the Bible says and the spiritual blindness and the spiritual apathy that is over America is making the people of God walk around almost as tombstones without even knowing it. You're living on the outside, but you're spiritually dead on the inside. And it's because you don't understand biblical text. You don't understand the God that you serve. And we're almost throwing out this passivity as if it's okay because you just have to say the name and you'll make it into the heaven gates. But then nowhere in the Bible does it claim that believing in the name of Jesus not accompanied by action is what gets you saved. The Word says in Ephesians 2:8 through 9, it says, for we are saved by grace through faith. And so faith also requires works that aren't necessarily perfect, but they're progressing. Perfection comes from Jesus Christ. It doesn't come for ourselves. So we can't preach a superficial Gospel that is not truly saving people. And so I want to talk about where the root of spiritual blindness is coming from as it's reigning over America and the two causes of that. I believe there's, there's one aspect of it which is just overexposure. America's spiritual blindness comes from an overexposure which is then partnered with passivity and apathy of Jesus Christ. It's almost as if the name of Jesus Christ is said so much and it's on everybody's Instagram post in America. And you got the Instagram bio with Psalms 119, 10109, or you 105, where you got John 3:16 or Philippians 4:13. And people are proclaiming that they know Jesus and they know the name, but nobody actually knows the scriptures or the attributes of God and let alone lack of relationship. And so the, the spiritual blindness that's happening in America is due ultimately to the worshiping that, the false idolization and worshiping that the American people has been giving to their version of who they think God is. The spiritual blindness isn't, isn't a, oh, we're serving our God in Jesus Christ, which I see on Instagram and I've heard the Bible verses before and I know who he is because I've seen him before. There's a spiritual blindness because people are serve, are serving a version of who they think God is and not who he actually is. When we talk about spiritual blindness and about worshiping a false God that can fall on two different types of spectrums. It could fall from a ignorance and a passivity and an apathy for God or religiousness and selfishness and self righteousness. And I think these two areas of American Christianity has cultivated a lot of destruction here on American terrain because people are failing to empathize with the true authentic gospel and want to send of power and a sense of peace confiding in themselves and in their version of how they think church is supposed to go and who God really is, when in all actuality the truth is found in the scriptures, not in our own thinking. Right? Even when it comes from like church hurt. Right? Church hurt stems from people who are operating in religiousness and operating in a self righteousness and then cultivating what they believe about God even though it's not rooted in compassion or in a relationship and it's turning into a perverted belief system that they're infiltrating on a body of Christ that doesn't know how to receive from the Church and how to go back to Scripture, they just receive the hurt. And now they have a totally terrible perception of who God is for the rest of their lives. Because there are people in these churches and in these ministries who are operating as a Pharisee. And so there's that side of it of religiousness and hyper religiousism and another aspect to where it's apathy, it's a lack of interest and it's ignorance that people are a part of because they say, oh, I know these things about God, but they don't know anything of what Scripture says. They have this version of who God is and they worship that. And they're like, oh, well. And then this is when they bring in all sorts of witchcraft and don't even know it and, and operating in the spirit of error because they don't understand what the truth is and what Scripture says. So there's these two, two sides of the pendulum of people who are operating in a religiousness and then people who are operating from, from almost like this whimsical and ignorant faith by just believing in the name of Jesus but never his nature. And I was reading in second Timothy 3, 5, where it says there, there, there's a form of godliness that the people of God experience but deny its power. And they deny its power because there's a lack of relationship. So these religious people who are in the American ch, they're exercising all these things that are not actually biblically sound. It's because they have a touch of godliness. Like they're understanding the God that, that, that has ruled and made and rests upon us. But there's like a lack of godliness simultaneously because you're denying the power of Jesus Christ. Instead you're accepting the power for yourself, which is why church hurt is so adamant and hurtful because all the power and authority that should be given onto God, man is trying to take the. Of that authority and power onto himself. And so that creates a lot of perversion because all these people are wanting a false power. And it's almost as if, if they think they say the name of Jesus, there's this humility, but it's a superficial humility because instead of getting, having God get all the glory, it's like you're trying to be on the same pedestal as him. And that's not exaltation. And so anyone who's been through the church and has gotten hurt and has had religious trauma, whatever it may that be, whatever it may be, I would just encourage you to look at what the scriptures Say, and not from your perception of your trauma, but look and search for the compassion of God, not from what these religious Pharisaic people in modern day Christianity are saying, but what the scriptures actually say. Because God, before he ever throws a judgment upon sin or has wrath against sin, his number one role is to have compassion for you. And I think it's knowing that is like God's, God's compassion for you will, will never lower because of his wrath for sin. And it's empathizing with that and understanding that and knowing that. But you go to some churches and these religious leaders will say, oh well, God is, is never going to love you ever again because of what you did. Or you need to give this much money to me because I have what God wants me to tell you. And you have like, it's a lot of manipulation. It's playing with your finances, it's playing with your mind. And all these almost sure, in some senses it could be occult practices. They're not aligned with the word of God, they're perversive and it's perverse because we even see in Scripture how enemy, how the enemy takes the word of God and perverts it. And that's the same thing of what these religious people are doing just to gain some sense of power, right? And then there's this other side of people who believe that God is real and believe in the existence of God, but lack obedience in God. And I think that's one of the more toxic traits that we're seeing in American Christianity is that there's a far out way of people who believe, they believe in Jesus Christ and they believe they're getting saved, but they don't live a lifestyle that, that matches up with what Jesus commands. It doesn't align with his teachings, it doesn't align with where he commands us to be obedient. And it doesn't align with the script and with what Christianity defines itself as a whole. And so faith without works is dead. We know that because James talks about that, Paul talks about that. Faith without works is dead and works is evidence of your faith. Works isn't just, hey, if, if I just work my way to the top, I'm going to get saved. Because works is also by itself just in vain. If you work without faith, then none of it matters. First Corinthians 13 talks about that. Like if I'm, if I'm prophesying, if I'm doing all the things of God, but if I do not love, then all of it is meaningless. So it's it's having a faith that isn't just, oh, I feel this way, but it's partnered with action. And so that's how we're saved by grace, which is what God does. And then faith is our response to God's grace, to us. Amen. And so Matthew 7, 21, 23, which is one of the Bible verses that people say that they're most scared of, is not everyone who says to me, lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, lord, Lord, do we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons in your name perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you away from me your evil do you evildoers. So that shows us that even though you may do all of these things and you're doing all the works, if you lack love, if you lack faith, if you lack putting your trust in the Lord, then it's done in vain. Because you could be doing all these things for Jesus and you could put God's name over anything all day. But what really boils it down is that if you're not truly doing something for the sake of the kingdom of God, of how he's instructed and how he's called you to obey, then it's done in vain, because you're only working off of your perception of who God is and not who he actually reveals and claims himself to be. Amen. And so the lukewarmness that we're experiencing in America and the spiritual blindness of what we're experiencing is people not accepting and seeing the full picture and this real deceit that people are believing of. Oh, if I just say, I believe in Jesus, then I believe in Jesus. And there's a huge percentage of people who think that they are Christian. A lot of people, a part of the American population, that believe that they're Christian, but they are not. And that is not a person judging another person's salvation. That is simply just observing fruits from a tree. Because a Christian is not just someone who says, I believe in the name of Jesus. It's someone who acts in the obedience of his teachings. Not just, oh, I believe in his name, and I'm good. We're going to get into that a little later. But I want to talk about the difference between America and foreign countries, because I believe a lot of people's faith would be shaken and tested and stretched if people went outside of the walls of Americ and saw the persecution and the way that people live who are Christian outside of the walls of America. And so what that looks like is the past year, I had a great opportunity to go to Indonesia and also to go to Canada. Canada is like a sister. She's right up here. But Indonesia, that's on the opposite side of the whole entire world. So I saw two different nations who. Who is experiencing Jesus Christ differently. I went to Canada in April, and on the last day of me preaching at a conference there, I was sitting in a hotel, and I was eating breakfast before I had a ca. My flight with my now fiance. And as we're eating breakfast, we're seeing a protest happening outside. And I'm like, man, what's going on? And we're seeing all the. All these people protesting, and I can't really hear what they're saying. And then a few moments later, I see a man walking with this crowd, and he's carrying a huge cross. And it confused me because I was like, what is it that we are witnessing right now? And so then I pull out my phone, and I'm kind of trying to search what's happening in Canada. And basically what was happening, and I believe is still happening during this time is that Canada was and maybe still is, is experiencing backlash and a conflict to where people are not able to exercise free religious speech. And so because of that, proclaiming the gospel and evangelizing is something that has the opportunity to be taken from Canada. And so I didn't know that. And so whenever I went there and I saw these people advocating to spread the Gospel, it was insane, because we've never seen anything like that in America here. And so that was one of the things where I was like, man, it really opened my eyes of how in different nations, people are really persecuted for their faith and for believing in Jesus. And we're almost privileged, in a sense, to experience and see Jesus and have this overexposure of him here in America. And. But yet we deny his power because we think that we know him, because we see him so much, but it's like you just know his face, and you know the name, but you don't know the nature. Whenever I went to Indonesia in June, at the amazing pleasure and opportunity to take 18 women to Bali in Indonesia to disciple them. And with that came a lot of months and weeks of preparation spiritually of how to operate in this terrain in Indonesia, because in Indonesia, 85% of the population is Hindu. And then we have 5% of the population identify as Christian. And so Indonesia is actually pretty open minded to accepting all religions and beliefs. And I believe that also has to tie a little bit into Hinduism because Hinduism is very open minded. Basically, what Hindus believe is they believe in one God, but they believe that that one God can manifest in millions of forms. So they believe that there is one true authentic God, but there's not just one essence and one being of that God that it can manifest in statues, it can manifest in people, it can manifest in birds and monkeys and animals. And so obviously as Christians, that's what we don't believe. We believe that there is a Father, Son and a Holy Spirit. And so I was coming into a terrain to where I had to know and exercise what the other side believed. And so as we're in Indonesia and as I'm ministering and working with these women and talking to other local people and understanding the cr, The Christians that experience persecution and a separation in Indonesia, it's far more different than what we experience here in America. And it is such a huge difference. And we have to understand that and we have to be aware of that because it's almost as if Americans are not grateful for the faith that is. That is so easily accessible to us. But there are people all over the world who are quite literally fighting for their faith. And people who have to worship and read a Bible, whether if it's underground or secretly or away, like. Like obtaining the Gospel here in America is a privilege and it's something we should take advantage of. And yet it's being used as a pretty image that we could put on T shirts and on hats. And it's like these people who are creating merchandise with Jesus and all these things. It's like almost that there's this prostitution of the image of Jesus to where people are so apathetic and dead in spirit, to where they're walking around thinking that they're saved because they know who Jesus is and they've seen his face everywhere, but they have no relationship and they have no revelation of the Scriptures. And because of that, people are walking around thinking that they're saved, but they're really not. And this isn't supposed to be a harsh message until you, oh, you are not saved and you are not going to see Jesus Christ. This is a message actually urgently telling you that you need to die to your expectation of who you think God is and run to the scriptures and let him reveal himself to you of who he actually is. Because the last thing you want to do is believe for your whole entire life that you believe in the one and only sovereign God, and you ended up being wrong. God reveals himself through the scriptures, so we're failing to come to what's easily accessible to us. And if we're denying the the power of God, it's like, what? Why are we doing all these things in the first place? It's like you say that you're Christian, but then won't do anything to pursue the relationship. Instead, you just prostitute the image of Jesus Christ instead of accepting everything of who he is. And that just comes through humility and seeking him intentionally. Not just claiming him in your Instagram bio, but claiming because Jesus is Lord, not an image and not a name. He is Lord. And that's the thing we have to understand that Jesus is Lord. He is not just an image. Jesus is ultimately Lord. He reigns. And I think that's one of the biggest and deepest problems of American Christianity, is they believe Jesus is powerful and they believe Jesus is God. But is He Lord? Is Jesus Lord to you? Does he reign? Is He. Is he the number one on your priority list? Is he on the throne of everything in your entire life? And I'm going to go back to my original point that I was first making about seeing people outside of the US and why is it? Well, this was just kind of the questions I was thinking and just had for a really long time, especially, you know, going out internationally and having a lot of friends and close people who work in the mission fields and go out literally for their entirety of their lives to spread the gospel. And it's like, why is it that we don't see miracles being broken out in America, but the same people who are praying in America then go to Kenya and all of a sudden they wipe out a whole urgent care, and everybody is able to go home through prayer. It's like, why aren't we seeing that same impact here in America? And the answer is, is because America does not have enough faith to induce and to cultivate this miraculous power because of a lack of faith. And it's funny, because the American nation, where you think 68% of this nation is Christian, you would think that there would be more spiritual outpour and more miracles taking place. But the statistic doesn't match. The statistic doesn't match the real true, authentic amount of faith that's actually being poured out. And I got this from Matthew 13:54 through 58, and it says in the context of it is that Jesus was coming back to his hometown, Nazareth, and it says, coming to his hometown, he began teaching People in their synagogue, and they were amazed. Where did this man get this wisdom in these miraculous powers? They asked, isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary? And aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? Are all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man gain all of these things? And they took offense to him. But Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor except in his own town and in his own home. And he did not do many miracles there because of their lack of faith. So what does this show us? Because the people of Nazareth grew up with Jesus and they had an overexposure and over familiarity and over familiarity with Jesus that actually limited their faith that they had in him. Because they weren't losing their perception of who they thought Jesus was. They saw him as a carpenter. They saw him as Mary's son. They saw him as a son of another carpenter. And they couldn't believe that Jesus was Lord because they grew up on their expectation of who they thought Jesus was. And so whenever Jesus started performing all these miracles, signs and wonders, Jesus wanted to do the same things in Nazareth. But because they had a lack of belief and they couldn't let go of their own understanding of who they thought Jesus was, their lack of faith limited Jesus performing miracles, signs and wonders because ultimately they lacked faith. And they lacked faith because they thought they knew Jesus, but they actually didn't. So you wonder why all these miraculous things aren't being taken and broken out here in America. I'm not saying that none of them do, because, man, I've seen some stuff that's absolutely unexplainable on the roots and in the terrain of America. But that's being cultivated by people of God who are consulting and contending with God with true, authentic faith. But it's like we're seeing all these avenues where miracles should be breaking out, but they're not. Because there's a lack of faith that's over America. Because they think they know who God is, but they actually don't. And like how I said, you know who God is by. By seeing who he is through Scripture, by having a relationship and cultivating a relationship with him, by spending time on worship and thanksgiving and fasting. And it's like people are just relying on their own understanding. And that's what we're supposed to die to. Not knowing Jesus is what produces a lack of faith. And I think one of the scary, more scary verses, I think we. We talk about Matthew 7 of, Look, God, we Prophesy and do all these things in your name. And he says, well, I do not know. You've done all things, but I do not know you. You do not know me, so depart from me, you evildoers. We think that's a scary passage. Another scary PA passage is 2nd Timothy 24:26. It says, and the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed in the hope that God will grant them repentance, leading them to a knowledge of truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who is has taken them captive to do his will. So the first part of this passage, it shows us our job as the Lord's servant. It's to not be quarrelsome, but to be kind to everybody, able to teach and not resentful. And whenever we do face opponent, opponents, we're supposed to instruct them gently. Now we get to the next part of the scripture where this is actually scary. If you are in the unknown spaces and you think you know God, but you actually don't, it says, in the hope that God will grant them repentance. So what does this mean? An instruction has to be given, which is what's happening in this episode. An instruction is being given in the hopes that God will grant whoever is listening repentance, leading you to the knowledge of truth. So what does that tell us when you don't have a revelation of the knowledge of truth? Scripture says in verse 26 that you will not come to your senses and you will stay in the trap of the devil who has taken you captive to do his will. That is what happens when you are not receptive to the true authentic gospel. Not only are you ensnared by the trap of the devil, but because you don't know who Jesus is, you're actually being prostituted by Satan himself to do his will. And the sick part is that you don't even know it because you think you're focusing and surrendering your life to God just by believing his name. But you're not carrying your cross. Therefore, because you're not operating in the obedience and the teachings of Christ, Satan is actually able to use you as a vessel to do the works of evil because you don't know who God is. Do we understand? So a lack of God is a lack of knowing. God also comes from a lack of faith and from those things married together comes from you actually being used as a vessel by the enemy. Himself to carry out his will. And here's the thing about the enemy. The enemy does not give an absolute dang if you know that if you know the rules to the game. The enemy does not care if you know the rules to the game. The enemy is a liar, he is a cheater, he is a thief. John 10:10 tells us that the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy. Satan does not care if you know the plays to the game. So if you don't know, if you're in the unknown and you don't have that provision and the protection, the wisdom of Jesus Christ, Satan is absolutely going to rob you and most likely going to use you as an accessory for his plots and plans. So we can't be in a position to you to let the enemy use us as open vessels to do the works of evil when God has called us to do the works of good by accepting his spirit and by accepting his truth, which is what second Timothy proves, is that whenever you accept the true teachings of Jesus Christ and whenever you accept the instructions of what the Gospels and what scriptures reveal itself to be, it's in the hope that it will grant a repentance, AKA a turning back from your wicked ways and your deceitful thinking and turning back to the heart into the mindset of God, which then leads you to a knowledge of truth. And then from that truth you will come to your senses, AKA you will get snapped out of the delusion and you will escape the trap of the devil. And so you can't come to your senses if you're not receiving the true revelation of who Christ is. That's it. And this isn't to be harsh. This is literally describing what is happening here in America, because people are walking around thinking that they know Jesus Christ, but they're being used as vessels to fulfill Satan's will. Whether if it's in religiousness, hyper religiousness, or if it's an ignorance and passivity and apathy and we must die to this. One of the bigger things I want to talk about is America's corrupted belief system. And I kind of touched about this a little, but I'm going to dedicate this whole segment to what it means to believe in Jesus Christ and how we should carry it out. And not my opinion, but what God himself says and what the Scriptures say, not your version. We have to die to that expectation. We have to throw off all offense and we have to listen to what God is telling us through the Scriptures and through His Word. Y'all, I'm giving Bible all day, this is not me, this is God. And so there's a difference between. Well, when we talk about America's corrupted belief system, there's a difference between believing in the name of Jesus and the believing in his nature. And so what does it mean to be a Christian? Let's just address, let's just address terms very quickly. What it means to be a Christian. A biblical Christian. The biblical definition of a Christian is someone who follows Jesus, us, believes in his death and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins, and then lives a life in obedience according to Jesus's teachings into the teachings of Scripture. That is biblically what the definition of a Christian is. It's not just believing in the name of God, but it's believing that he has died and resurrected for the forgiveness of our sins and then to live accordingly to what he has taught through the Scriptures. And so the Bible says in Matthew 10:38,39, it says, Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it. And whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. And then Luke 14:27, which kind of mirrors that passage, is, and whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. A disciple is a representative of Jesus Christ to carry out his works. That's why when it says go and make disciples of all nations, to go and go proclaim and spread the good news of Jesus Christ, to go and make disciples, it's to go make advocates of the gospel and of the good news. And so when we see that in order to be a disciple, in order to be a Christian, there's something that needs to be partaken in this process, which is the segment of carrying up your cross. And so there's people who think that they're saved and there's people who are who know the name of Jesus, but they're not picking up their cross and following Him, Him. What it means to believe in Jesus is not just to believe in his name, but to believe in him so much that you're picking up your old life and carrying it to a destination of death for it to be crucified. So what it means to take up your cross daily and follow Jesus, that means all your desires that you have, that's opposing to the will of God. Those are things that you are not supposed to be indulgent in. You're not supposed to be iniquity, which means repetitive sin. If you know you're not supposed to have sex and you keep having sex, sex, that's not pleasing God. If you know you're not supposed to smoke and keep smoking because you're taking advantage of God's grace, that's not pleasing God. If you're gossiping over and over and over again iniquitively, that's not pleasing God. If you're spending all your money on things that don't matter, that's not pleasing God. If you're not being a good steward or servant, if you're dishonoring your parents and you know it like that does not please God. So with like putting your flesh behind and putting it on a cross and carrying it to the destination of death, that's what it means to be a living sacrifice. It's. You're literally taking everything about you of your flesh that wants to conquer and come against the spirit of God and putting it on an altar for it to be sacrificed. That's literally what it is like. Make yourself holy and pleasing to God, not perfect. Because no one on this earth will ever strive or be perfect. Jesus was the only embodiment of a human who could ever carry out perfection. So it's not perfection, it's progression. God is not asking for perfection because if we were perfect or if we had the opportunity to obtain some sort of perfection, then him sending Jesus Christ in the first place would make absolutely no sense. Perfection is found and righteousness and justification is found through Jesus Christ, not through our own works, not through our own strength. It's through confiding in the cross. And so the best thing that we could do as Christians is take captive of every single thought, pretension, imagination and, and lower it. Take it captive next to anything that is trying to exalt itself next to the, to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. It's taken a captive so it doesn't overrule the authority and the throne of God. Like to be a disciple literally means to be disciplined and die. And it's like people are walking around, they're like, oh I'm Christian, but you haven't died to your flesh, which is actually the most crucial part to you being a Christian. And so knowing that your cross has a destination of death is crucial to you walking out the Christian lifestyle. Because it's not a self righteous gospel, it's a self denial or it's not even like a self discovering gospel that we believe in. It's a self denial gospel. We are denying everything of what our sin and flesh is producing and we're saying no to that and pursuing the things of God. It's not leaning on your own understanding, but instead it's surrendering the things to the Lord. And we're saved by grace through faith. So what does that mean? I think people believe in God's grace, but they don't understand that God's grace has to be partnered with the faith of which we profess. So when Ephesians 2:8:9 says we are saved by grace through faith, that means that as Christians, God has saved us by his grace. What is grace? Grace is undeserved favor and admiration. So God loves us and has compassion for us, not because we deserve it or earn it, but simply because he just wants to. God wants to love us. And that's what's beautiful about the faith. And so where faith comes in, Hebrews 11:1 tells us that faith is not what we see, it's what we don't see is confidence in what we hope for. So faith is confidence in what God says in what God says, which is based off of truth and trusting in the Lord. Faith is belief and trust in everything of who God says he is, the true authentic God, not the God that you make up in your head, but who God says he is. And faith, which we, which we know also through Scripture is. Is faith without works is dead. So in order for you to have faith with that, in order for you to have faith which then partners with grace, you have to have faith that is also accompanied by works. Because works is the evidence of your faith, works doesn't earn you to faith. Instead, works is the overflow of your faith. Faith. So what does that practically look like? So because I believe in Jesus Christ, even though it could be really easy for me to be upset with people who have done me wrong and people who have persecuted me and came against me, and whatever it may be, it would be really easy for me to snap on them, cuss them out, whatever that may be. But because I love the Lord, the love of God then overflows into. Into the works of showing compassion and grace, even when I don't want to, or even when it comes to serving. You know, someone may have faith in Jesus Christ, but then they don't want to serve a church, they don't want to serve other people, they're almost apathetic towards others. But when you have the true authentic love of God, that then overflows into you wanting to serve. Because whenever you become an heir of Christ, which Romans 8 supports this. When we're under the adopt, when we get adopted by Christ and we're now under sonship of God, we now inherit everything that God has, whether if it's his glory and suffering offerings. And so we have to understand that whenever you truly say yes to God and who he really is, there is an inheritance you receive because God is now melting you into his heart. And so faith without works is dead. Works is the evidence of your faith. And that faith right there is what partners with grace which then leads to salvation. Do we understand? And so I want to read to you guys a few statistics that are actually scary about, about American Christianity. Just so. Because I think a lot of you may be thinking, oh, Emmy, this may not be a big topic. You know, there's a lot of people I know who are Christian and I, I don't think this is that big of a topic and something that needs to be addressed statistically. Statistics say that 68% of the US nation is Christian, but the spirit of God and the word of God would say otherwise. I'm just going to read a few statistics that are spiritually very scary and just highlights the spiritual blindness that America is facing here today. So a study was done in March of 2024 that supported that 68% of the United States were Christian. That means that two out of the three people that you meet each and every single day should be Christian. Now we just went to the term of what Christian is Christian, what it means to be a Christian. It means to believe in the death of, it means to believe in the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And it also means to live accordingly and to be obedient to the teachings of Christ. So it was a two step process. It's believing in the name and the nature, and it's also carrying it out through obedience. That's biblically what it means to be a Christian. So when we hear that 68% of the US nation are active, practicing Christians, that tells me that two out of three people should be devoted Christians. That, that just tells me that half of the people, you know, should be on fire for God. But we don't see that here in America, don't we? So it's showing us that these statistics in essence are actually wrong in some areas. It actually just shows us that the belief system in America is actually corrupted because people are saying that they're Christian, but they don't actually know what it entails because they believe being Christian is believing in the name of Jesus, but no one is actually picking up their cross. Next statistic. 30% of the US regularly, regularly goes to church. So just mirror that right real quick. So 68% of the US claims to go to church, where 68% of America claims to be Christian and then 30% of US claims to go to church. So that means that there's a 38% of quote unquote Christians who do not attend church at all. So these are people who attend church on Easter Sunday, whether if it's Christmas or whatever it may be. These are not people who, who actively plug themselves into community, which is an essential part of actively being in the faith and practicing Christianity. Another statistic. 30% of churchgoers read their Bibles outside of service. So what does that show us? So let's take 30% of the US regularly goes to church. Okay, so let's take that 30%. Let's take. Now it's going to go into a hundred percent. So the 30% of the, of, of the, of people in America go to church. So let's just take people in the church. 30% of those people read their Bible outside of service. So we have 70% of people who are in church today who don't read their Bibles outside of service. So that shows us that faith is being cultivated by the leaders of the church and people are dependent of their faith, faith upon the leaders on the church and not necessarily seeking a faith for themselves. That's terrifying because the reason as to why we believe what we believe is because it's, it's aligned with the scriptures. Like even whenever God was, was leading Joshua into the promised land, he says, meditate on the word day and night. Do not fall from it like the word of God. Like in the beginning, the Word was with God and the Word was God. Like, understanding the word of God is pivotal to your spiritual walk. So when I read that 30% of churches, church goers, only read their Bible outside of service, that's insane to me because that just shows me that 70 people are 70% of people and of quote, unquote, Christians are showing up to church as a, as a checking off the box thing. That's insane to me. And then we said 30% of churchgoers read the Bible outside of service. And then one out of five regular church attendees have never read their Bible Bible. One out of five church attendees have never read their Bible. How is it that we're a 68% Christian nation and one out of five people in church have never read scripture on their own in their entire lives? Does that sound like Christianity? I wish y'all could go outside of the nation and you could see how devoted people outside of America are to Jesus Christ. They are devoted through scripture reading, through prayer, through fasting, through obedience. And we're just seeing the spiritually dead cultivation of Christianity here in America because people believe that they're saved by believing in a name but not exercising God's nature. And so just to break down these statistics, how many people are, are in the U.S. i'm going to give you numbers now. 30, 334.9 million people currently reside in the U.S. 68% of the U.S. actively claims themselves to be Christian. So this is 235 million 474, 186 people roughly then 30% of the U.S. are church goers. So that is a hundred million. So that is roughly 100 million people. 470, 000 or I don't know how to say that number, but you know why I'm saying 100, 100,470,000 people. People go to church. So that already shows us that 68% of the US that number claims themselves to be Christians. And then 30% actually go to church. So that shows us that there's roughly like an 135 million people difference of people who claim Christianity and people who go to church. That's terrifying to hear. And then the next part. 30% of churchgoers, goers who read, or 30% of church, excuse me, 30% of churchgoers read their Bible outside of service. So that is 30,141,000 people. So what does that show us? That show us that about 70, 70 million churchgoers don't even depend on the word of God. That only 30 million of the 100 million people who are going to church read their Bible. And, and what do the other 70 do? They just show up to church, raise a hand, and then they're, they're done for their week. Like tearing up your cross daily, just not on a Sunday. And it's like we have this corrupted version of what we think, of what we think Christianity is, but we've Americanized it because we've overexposed and prostituted the face in the name of Jesus to where we're actually putting ourselves in spiritual despair because we're failing to come to repentance and truth. Truth. That's it. And this is terrifying. Like, and then also one out of five church people who have never read their Bible, that's two. That's roughly 20 million people who actively go to church regularly and have never read their Bible. So why are you going to church? Why are you going to church? So that means, like I said, roughly 70 million people. Of churchgoers don't depend on the word of God. God. So what that actually means is out of everybody who goes to church, reads the Bible, serves, actively supports, that's roughly about 30 million people. 30 million people. Out of the 235 million people. You want to know what percentage that is? That means that about 9% of the US devote their lives to God through the accumulation of Bible studying, church attention, attendance and active participation of being a disciple. So the real true statistic isn't 68% of the nation is Christian. It's roughly probably about 9%. But because there is a corrupted definition of what it means to be a Christian, people are actually operating in spiritual blindness and have devoted falsely and superficial and superficially because they don't understand what it actually means to be a Christian. And a lot of that also has to do with the discipleship problem that's happening in American churches. I'd even write this down as a leader. And I'm only saying this because, you know, I've never been a pastor, obviously never been a pastor. I've never known what it's like to be an elder or host over a church. I do know what the Bible says though. As a leader, it is your job and responsibility to disciple who you're shepherding. And so a lot of these problems of. A lot of these problems of people being discipled properly starts from the headship in these churches. If these pastors are not discipling properly and reaching people to share the authenticity and the conviction of God's word so it can transform them into the things of God. If they are not doing that, then it is done in vain. Then these people are just showing up for tithes and offerings. They're being used, used as a support system to keep the church building. And it's being done in vain because people are not discipling properly. And that ultimately falls on the headship, that falls on the pastors of this church. It falls onto pastors and apostles and prophets, evangelists and teachers of the church who are not operating in the spirit of God, excuse me correctly, because they're looking to make a profit for themselves and not for God. And so I think a lot of the reason as to why people say that they believe in God, but they don't actually align with what God says means, and they are not actually aligning of what God actually says of what it means to be a Christian. A lot of it could be off of self deception, sure. But then another part is based off of what these American teachers and Pastors have been teaching to the pulpit pit and what they've been teaching is that you could say the name of Jesus and you'll be fine. But the Bible does not support that. Nowhere in the Bible does it say if you say the name of Jesus alone, you'll be saved. It's a declaration, it's an awareness, it's an acceptance followed by obedience and not necessarily perfection. It's progression. Amen. And so, man, it's really wild to think about that, that out of the, out of all, all the people in the U.S. america claims it's 68%. But realistically, when you boil down to Bible studying, church attendance, active participation of being a disciple, that percentage quickly boils down to roughly about 9%, which sounds a lot more accurate if you truly are an on fire devoted Christian who lives on a day to day basis and speaking from someone who has even had, had people in their lives or friends. And they say, oh well, I'm Christian. It's like I, I speak Bible and I speak thing and it just goes one ear not the other. Because they actually don't know Jesus. They know his name, but they don't know who he actually is. It's like, it's almost like hearing something about someone your whole entire life and then you think you know them. So like, who's like a celebrity? I could think of like on the top of my mind that isn't controversial. Like I'm gonna say, say let's, let's take, let's take like Leonardo DiCaprio. That's like the first one that came to my mind. So people could watch all Leonardo DiCaprio's movies, right? And they could read all about his autobiography, they could watch, you know, his videos and all these things. But if they lack to have a relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio, they actually don't know who the heck Leonardo DiCaprio is. Because your perception is deceiving if you're not fully pursuing a relationship. And so that's the same thing, thing with, with people who are pursuing God. People are pursuing God based off of what they know and not based off of what they're actually experiencing relationally with Christ. And so I want to talk about what it means to believe in God and how we could declare our belief system. And I said this on TikTok, I think about like five months ago, and I think it reached the wrong side. I think it reached the, the, the, the Christians that were actually, the Christians that were super offended by what the Bible says to believe. I'm Just going to let Scripture speak for itself and then we'll talk. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or sister without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, go in peace, keep warm and well fed, fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, you have faith, I have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith by my deeds. So that show us that. It shows us that our belief system isn't just a proclamation, but it's also an action that's being accompanied by your faith. Faith, right. So what it means to truly believe in Jesus. And if you feel like you fall into that 68% and you don't fall into that nine, my biggest urge onto you is that you have every opportunity to turn towards the truth and pursue Jesus Christ for who he actually is. The question is, are you actually willing to do that? Because what that means isn't just, oh, I believe in you, Jesus, but it's actually obeying his, his teachings and carrying out the deeds of what it means to be a Christian. And so the question is more so, so not do you believe in Jesus, but are you willing to actually do the things of God? That's it. Are you willing, Are you willing to accept Christ as Lord? Are you willing to change? Are you willing to repent? Are you willing to turn away from evil? And it's like we're seeing this spiritual apathy and this inconsistency over and over and over again because people are failing to understand and see what true biblical faith in Christianity really is. And so I want to go to the next, to the next verse, because people will say they believe in the name of Jesus and believe that's enough. But the Bible says in James 2:19, it says you believe that there was one God. Good. Even the demons believe that and shudder. So here's my question. Is your belief system better than a demon? Because you just believe it in one true and sovereign God alone is not going to be enough if it is not accompanied by repentance and obedience. Demons believe in the name of Jesus. Demons believe that there is one and only God. And so the, the question that I have for America is, is your belief system better than a demon's belief system? Because a demon believes in the existence of God. And we see statistics that 68% of the US believes in Jesus Christ, but we're actually seeing a True authent Number of 9% being executed through biblical teaching, through walking out their lives in obedience and church attendance. And the other roughly 60, 60, 59% are people who are walking around spiritually dead on the inside, acting as if they're living because they're in a state of not knowing. And as an American and as a leader in ministry, I would be doing America a disservice by not addressing that America is stuck in a spiritual apathy and blindness and could be resolved if America just repents. If America is honest about we actually do not know Jesus. And if America actually turned back to the scriptures and just and discover God for who he actually is and not worshiping an unknown God because they want to focus on their version of who they think Jesus is and not live by who Jesus actually claims himself to be. So is your, is your belief system system better than a demon because the demons believe and they shudder? Do you? Do you? That is my question. This isn't condemnation. This isn't me trying to tell you if you're, if you're really saved because only you and God know that this is what the Bible says and this is what no one in America is teaching. And so humbly I have. And I could even just cry because I'm so passionate. I've known people throughout the course of my entire life who have think that they're in right standing with God, but they are a walking cemetery on the inside. Like we cannot teach people that they are with God when they are really not. And we have to accurately teach doctrine because people are not receiving Jesus. They are not. You go outside of these four walls of America and people are on their face desperate for God and then you come into here and then there's images being images of God being mocked and misused and, and prostituted and used for debaucherous reasons. And people laugh. It's like there's people really outside America being persecuted for their faith. And it's like because we have one understanding of what we think Christianity is, it's deceiving us to do the will of the enemy. And it's almost as if like Satan's just laughing upon all America because we've fallen for his trap. Because people are apathetic to the name of Jesus Christ and they don't actually want him him, like they don't actually want Jesus. I could stand confidently like I want Jesus so much to where I had to sit down and deliver this message regardless how, how Crucial how, how crucial and harsh it may have. It may have sound like this is the will of God and it burdens me and it hurts the inside of me because I see people following, falling into spiritual corruption time after time after time. Time. Because people don't know who Jesus is. And then the heads of the churches and etc aren't teaching true discipleship. And it's like it's not just a feeling, it's an action. And we're, we're walking around spiritually dead. And something has to happen because who knows what's going to happen next? And we don't even know if we're running out of time. Like tomorrow is not promised. We do not know anything. It's like surrender unto God, God. Repent. Seek him for who he really is. And not just your version. Because it's not just a oh, I believe in the name of Jesus. That's not what gets you saved. It's exercising what he has commanded you to do with love and compassion right behind it. It's being fueled by the love and compassion that you have for God. If you. This is my question. If you love God so much, why will you not obey him? You love God so much, but when you see something in the Bible that you don't like, you won't listen to it. Oh, but you love God and you think that you're saved, but you won't listen to what he says. It's almost as if America's com is committing adultery on God and sleeping with the world. You're claiming to love God. You're claiming to have a covenant with him, but on Monday through Saturday you're sleeping with the world and its desires. Don't you think Satan's laughing? Because I do. I think Satan is absolutely having a fit over the deception that America is believing, living. Because they believe they're married to God, but their actions say otherwise because they are being penetrated by the world and that's that. And you could take it how it is. This is what the Spirit of God says. And if there was any of the old prophets, like Isaiah or Zechariah or Abodiah, whoever it may be, they would have said the same exact thing because they've already said it like nothing is new under the sun. We have to be a better people. We have to be a better people to see and search the things of God and be true, real, authentic Christians. And this is urgent because people are walking around thinking that they're saved when they're actually not. And only the spirit of the Lord can help them, but it's our responsibility to teach accordingly and correctly and not to infiltrate this false doctrine which is accumulating this spiritual sickness and disease that is happening in the spirits, hearts and minds of Americans all over the nation. And so my last point, which is, what does it mean to become worthy of Jesus? Because the last thing I want people to believe is that, man, I have to become perfect. I have to change my life completely overnight in order for me to be with God. And just from a testimonial point, whenever I believed, whenever I believed that God was true and that God loved me and that he wanted to save me. Did I stop partying, smoking and drinking the next, the next day? No. But I started getting convicted from party, drinking and smoking the next day. I accepted Jesus Christ as Lord. And so it's a sanctification process of, of you getting saved through all the tragedies and the desires and lusts of the world that God is, is, is pulling you out of. And that takes time and there's patience. But what makes you worthy of Jesus? Jesus, it's not your works. It's not operating out of your own strength and accumulating a salvation for your own. To be worthy of Jesus is just to see Jesus as worthy. I think of the parable of the wedding banquet. And God sends out, well, the master is celebrating his son's wedding, and so he sends out invitations to the, the whole city. And he says, hey, my son is having wedding banquet. Come, you do not need to bring anything. Just come, sit, celebrate and eat. And it says that the people received the, the invitation, but instead of coming to the banquet, they went about their own business. And so this mirrors the kingdom of God because God is sending an invitation out to everybody to just join the feast. And in order to you in, in order for you to inherit the feast. Feast. You just want the feast. If you want to be in right standing with God, you're just going to have to want God. What makes you worthy of Jesus is seeing Jesus as worthy. That's what the kingdom of God is like. You become worthy of Jesus once you truly believe that Jesus is worthy of it all. That's it. It's not, how much can I tithe, how much can I offer? How quick can I get over this sin? It's, it's. Do you see Jesus as worthy and are you doing everything in your strength right now because you believe he is worthy? And that was my original point. It's practicing Christianity and you can't enjoy playing the game if you never showed up to practice, right? So it's denying yourself and becoming a willing sacrifice for God. And my biggest and biggest like encouragement in earth is just repent, seek the heart of God, come into his presence and apologize. Ask him to reveal to you where you're spiritually dead on the inside areas where you could have been deceived, what salvation actually looks like, how your faith could be increased, how you could put your trust in him, how you could pray more and fast more and, and go into church and etc like there are opportunities for you to return back to the heart of God. If you are still breathing, breathing, you still have a chance to reconcile back with God. You breathing is a testament of him not being done with you just yet. So know that God has compassion upon you just by allowing you to breathe and to experience breath alone. And you have the chance right now to repent to him and to turn to him and, and receive him of everything, of who he truly is and not just your own perception. Amen. That's really all I'm bringing to you guys today. And another main encouragement is to seek this on your own. This isn't your salvation isn't based off of what your pastor just tells you. Because whenever you go up and you see the face of God, it's not going to be you, your pastor and God. It's going to be just you and God. It's also not going to be me, Emmy, you and God. It's going to be you. So how much do you know God? How much are you personally devoted to God? How much do you have a personal relationship with God? Not just oh I believe in his name, but are you actually devoted to Him? Do you have a relationship with Him? Are you carrying out the covenant of what you agree to or are you just lying to yourself? And I think if we were just all a little more honest, we'd be making a lot more progression in American Christianity and hop out of spiritual blindness. Amen. So that's that announcements really quick. Well actually I feel led to pray. I just feel led to pray and then I'll go into announcements. Father God, I just pray over your people right now. Father, Father, I ask that this word convicts them only by the Holy Spirit, God, not by man. God, I just ask that you convince that you convict your people that God, you lift up the scales up and off of their eyes, God, and you reveal your glory. God, God, I ask for the crucifixion to not just be something that's normal and something that we fail to empathize with God. God, let the crucifixion be something that we meditate on and wound. Weep. Let us weep over the crucifixion. Let us weep over what you have done for us, Father. God, let us become knowledgeable and full of wisdom of what it means to accept you. God. Interrupt every area of our lives, God, and meet us with a compassion, meet us with a grace. Encourage us to repentance, remove the scales of our eyes, bring us to the knowledge or truth. Gods, we're no longer entreating, trapped by the devil to do his works. God we will not be open vessels for Satan, Father. Instead we are open vessels for you. Work through us. Remind us that it's not perfection, it's progression. God and we are a people who is willing to progress in the things of who? God we are willing, Father. We are willing, God and even if a person wants to be willing and they feel like they're not, extend their willingness, extend their unbelief. Help your people with their unbelief. Help. Help America, God Help America with their belief system. Reveal yourself, God, for who you truly are and God, I ask for the leaders of the church of America, God, that they no longer operate in selfishness and self righteousness. God and God, I ask that the leaders that are in America that are truly discipling correctly and pursuing people towards the things of God not for self gain, but for the kingdom of God, continue to exalt them and use their voices to reach people all across this nation. Father, I pray for this nation. I pray for the leaders of this nation. And God, I ask that you're. That you're. That you're exalted above all things. Father, thank you for using me as a vessel and speak to your children. I say this prayer in Jesus, my name. Amen. Few announcements down below. If you've been saved through this podcast or if you need prayer, there are two links to help you down below. And then if you feel led to tithe by any means, there's also another link down below. And then there's two tithe links down below, one which is towards this ministry. And if you feel led to donate to Malik and I's union, that's also down there. I really don't care if y'all give money. It's literally just an opportunity to give if you feel led to. If you don't. Prayers is the number one thing that means the most to me because like messages like this have to be covered in prayer. And I know that God ultimately protects me but the prayers of his people is truly what I admire the most. There's just resources if you guys want it. And then if you want to save, if you want to shop, say, not shop. Safe, not soft merchandise. It's also down below. But besides that. That's basically that. But yeah, go pursue the things of God and be encouraged that God wants to see you and he wants to know you, and he wants you to know Him. Him. And it's such an honor that we get to breathe and live for the sake of Christ. Amen. So I love you guys. I will see you next week. And until then, be blessed. Love you guys. Bye.