It's Time to Drive | Pastor Earl McClellan

The enemy can't stop God's purpose for your life, but he will try to steal your drive. In this message, we learn from Caleb's unwavering faith and discover how to keep moving forward when life throws unexpected detours our way. We'll be challenged to stay committed to God's promises and keep driving toward everything He has prepared for us.

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Hey, if you have your Bibles, why don't you open up with me to the book of Joshua? That's why we're here. Open up God's word and grow together the book of Joshua. We're gonna start reading in chapter 14. Joshua chapter 14. Verse number six. If you didn't bring your Bible, we're gonna put the verses on the screen so you can follow along with us. I do encourage you to bring your Bible, though. Something great about the pages flipping and you feeling those in your hand. Joshua chapter 14, verse number six. It says, Now the people of Judah approached Joshua Gilgal and Caleb, son of Jephuna, the Achenesite, said to him, You know what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Barnaam to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions. But my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. Everybody say wholeheartedly. I love that word. So on that day, Moses swore to me, the land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. There's the word again. Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, 85 years old. I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out. I'm just as vigorous to go into battle now as I was then. Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified. But the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. Just as he said. Come on. Time to drive. Time to drive. It is time to drive. My first car, I have a picture of it. My first car was a 1986 Toyota Starlet. Okay? Baller. Now, some of y'all can't even imagine that people were alive in 1986, okay? When dinosaurs roamed the earth, we were alive and there were automobiles. So this is my very first car, and my dad was not around when I was growing up. I've shared that with you guys in the past. Our relationship is now amended, but my dad was sporadic at best in my life. But one day, he showed up in Providence, Rhode Island on Ruggle Street. He shows up with this car. And he tells my mom and tells me, I bought this car for Earl. Now, the car, I don't know if it may have been a thousand dollars. But when you're 16 or whatever years old, you don't care how much the car is. You're just like, I can't believe I have a car. He put me in the driver's seat and I'm in the driver's seat, and he goes, All right, son, take off. The only problem is it's a stick shift. Okay? It's manual. Now, some of y'all don't even know what I'm talking about, okay? You're so young, you're like, okay, I've never even seen a car like this. There are three pedals. There's a gas, there's a brake, and there's a clutch. Anybody know what I'm talking about here? Okay. Okay. You have to push in the clutch, okay? And then you put the car into gear with your hand. Then you have to let off of the clutch while you're pushing on the gas. If you do not give enough gas, the car stalls out. Well, this is us for the first 15 minutes. Car keeps stalling, car keeps stalling. Eventually, I'm able to get the car moving because I'm letting off the clutch, pushing down the gas, and then we start moving. But we're not moving smooth. Some of y'all know we're moving like this. The whole time down the street. Okay. We get to the stop sign. He says, Earl, pull out onto the road. This is a main road. I'm turning left on a main road. I still can see it in my head right now. I still remember being on the on the street, and I remember looking at my dad, like, are you serious right now? So I'm going to turn left onto this main road, and it's not smooth. It is the entire time I am jerking all the way through. Now, eventually that day, you get in a rhythm. You get in a flow. You're like, uh, uh, uh. You know what I mean? First, second, third, fourth gear, fifth gear, seventh gear. Just kidding. There was no seventh gear in this toyota Starlet. I'm just, I'm just, you, you, you figure out how to do it. Those cars aren't around much right now. Most of our cars are automatic. They shift by themselves. It's an automatic transmission. It goes from first gear to second gear to third gear and so on by itself. But now there's something even different. There are cars that drive themselves. No person in them. O'Neek and I are sitting at a stoplight and turn to the right and we see a Waymo. Now, I'm not trying to call myself an unk. But this was kind of crazy. To look to your right, and there is no one in the car. There's just big things spinning on the top and cameras on the side. And I'm going, I should feel safe right now with no person in there whatsoever. Now, some of you have anybody been in a Waymo? Yeah? Anybody been in? Okay, yeah, we got some early adopters. You're crazy. Uh I I have not been in one yet, but I thought this was interesting. That now we have cars, and and Tesla obviously does this too. That it does not require you to drive at all. You totally are driven by something else. And I was wondering, 20 years from now, will we lose the ability to be able to drive? Right now, most people can't use a stick shift. That's out of style. Right now, most of us have an automatic transmission. Will there be a day that we might say to someone, can you drive me here? And they say, I've never driven. I can't even imagine that. But let's take it from cars and put it to life. Not just life, even our walk with God. Is a day coming, and is it maybe already here where we ask someone to drive, and they say, I've never driven. I've never taken any ground. I've never seen a giant in front of me and confronted it. I've never has a land promised to me and never gone to take that land that God said was mine. I've never had to be confronted by something that made me feel inferior and made me feel small. And with the grace and strength that God provides, I stepped into it and said, God, with you and me, we're a majority. Let's go in and let's take the land. Are we raising a generation of people that know what it's like to sit in a Waymo, but they have no idea what it's like to get behind the wheel and actually drive and make something happen? Now I'm not mad at all at the technological advances of our day. I'm all for them. DoorDash, your boy does it. Uber eats, let's go, no problem at all. But are we slowly and maybe unintentionally creating a culture of so much convenience that you and I don't even know how to go to the store, find something to shop for, buy it, bring it back, marinate it, let it sit for a little while, then cook that thing and then eat it. Do we know now no longer know how to make any meals for ourselves? And I'm okay that this is happening maybe culturally, but I'm concerned that this is happening spiritually, that people don't know how to make a meal for themselves. They don't know how to sit in the presence of God, don't know how to sit with the word of God, don't know how to trust God in times when I'm not sure. And I here's a problem: you can go to ChatGPT and you can go to Claude and you get an answer almost immediately. When you go to God, sometimes God is silent. Sometimes God doesn't give you an answer right away. Sometimes you're like, Why did this happen? And God goes, I love you. Well, if you love me, how can you let this happen? I love you more than you can ever possibly imagine. I have your back, I'll be with you, I'll never forsake you. That's the only word you have is here. But Claude and ChatGPT are training you and I that we can know everything. And the problem is we have a God that's unsearchable, that He has a mind and a heart that is bigger and wider and deeper than anything we could ever possibly imagine. So you do not have Claude for a God, you don't have Chat GPT for a God. You have the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and He wants to mature you and develop you. Do you know how to drive? Do you know how to drive? Do you know how to be confronted with something and go, man, I am scared right now. And instead of running and hiding, you'll find me, Jesus, on my knees, crying out to you. And even though I'm confused and I feel utterly forgotten, I'm not getting off of my knees until you answer this prayer because I'm desperate for you. This is the drive and the life and the power that you and I will need on the inside of us if we're gonna be the men and women of God that we've been called to be. I am so again, I'm thankful for the day and age God put us in. I'm not anti- you know, everything else. I just see some things in culture that are slowly lulling us to sleep. Like Lauren Hill, they're killing us softly. They are slowly killing us. It is taking us, which is one of the best albums of all time, by the way, if you don't even know. The miseducation of Lauren Hill. With that being said, killing us softly, slowly lulling you and I to sleep. And you and I just think, yeah, I'm living for God. We ain't living for God. We're living for self. You and I are trying to get all this me time. The culture is telling you, get your me time, make sure you're good. How can you ever give out unless you're filled up? That is the biggest bunch of boo-boo. Okay, okay, let me talk. Let me talk to parents for a second. Parents, let me ask when when your kid is crying at 2:37 in the morning, and are you filled up before you go and you serve your child? Come on, don't say, Oh, I want to be married, do you really? Because your spouse will be asking something from you when you don't even have anything to give, so you can't wait to go get filled up. You gotta trust that God can do something through you in a moment that you can't do yourself. The world is trying to paint this crazy picture that everything's convenient and easy, and it's a nice little bow, and it's packaged so nice. And as long as it's packaged nice, then I can step into it. If you wait for everything to be packaged nice, you will not be the husband, you'll not be the wife, you'll not be the father, you'll not be the mother, you'll not be the leader, and you surely won't be the follower of Jesus that you've been called to be. Because what God does, Psalm 23 says it great. Psalm, the psalmist tells us that he prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies. So if you're waiting for a table when all your enemies are gone, you'll miss the table that he's preparing for you while your enemies are all around you. So when fear is all around, God's like, I got a table, I got a table. Confusion's all around. God's like, I got a table, I got a table. So I'm trying to learn even from my own life. Whenever I'm confused and whenever I'm frustrated, and whenever I'm like, I don't know what's going on here, God, where's the table? Show me the table, God. Show me the table because you always prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. I'm able to get full, I'm able to be satisfied, I'm able to be covered in the presence of my enemies, in the presence of anxiety, in the presence of depression, in the presence of fear, in the presence of insecurity, I can be table, table, table, shut up. So if we keep on going, oh no, I can I can only wait. God, God, I just got to wait, God, until I, you know, I serve, but I gotta get filled up. Okay. Good luck. Good luck. Okay, now for I don't know, whatever person is gonna say, well, what about Sabbath? And what about getting filled up? And what about vacation? Duh. Yeah. Duh. Of course you gotta go on vacation if you can't. I ain't going on vacation. I'm working three jobs right now. But you got you gotta have your rest, yes. You gotta get filled up, yes, of course. Duh. I'm not saying you don't ever get filled up. I'm saying the narrative of the day is lying to us, telling us we don't have what it takes to be who God has called us to be because we don't feel a certain way. The only problem with that is I'm never supposed to check with my trauma or my or my circumstance to tell me who I am in Christ. I get my identity from the finished work of Jesus on the cross. Jesus said I'm whole, Jesus said I'm his, Jesus says I'm anointed. And the Bible tells me that the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is alive on the inside of me. So, trauma, I know you're real, but I'm not checking with you on whether or not I can live an abundant life. I get it from God, and sometimes it is through tears, but I get it from God. I get it from God. Look at this, Luke chapter 13. This is one of my favorite chapters, one of my favorite passages. I've shared this so many times. It's good every time. Because the word of God is good every time. Luke chapter 13, verse 31. Look at this. At that time, some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you. And look at Jesus' reply in verse number 32. He replied, Go tell that fox. I will keep on, what's the word right there? Driving. I will keep on driving. My engines are already started. I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow. And on the third day, I will reach my goal. In any case, I must press on. I am all for I know Jesus is kind and sweet, and there's a soft side to him. Yes, I celebrate that side of our Savior, but I also want to remind us that Jesus has another side to him where he's like, bring it on. I'm ready. Let's fight. You want to go right now? I'll throw hands. You got Jesus saying, I will stand ten toes down and be faithful to who God has called me to be no matter what's coming my way. Where are those Christians? Where are those Christians? Where are the ones that are saying it doesn't matter what comes my way? I trust them anyway. Where are those Christians? Where are the ones that are saying I'm beaten and I'm bloodied and I'm hurting and I'm praising anyway? Where are those Christians? Where are the ones that feel like God has not answered our prayers and he actually feels like almost like God is working against us? But I know God can't work against me because God loves me so much and I'm his son and his daughter. So though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Where are those Christians? Because that's what God is calling us into. That's who you are. That's what you signed up for. But the problem is too many times we're trying to remove the cross from Christianity. And if you remove the cross, then everything else can be a matter of convenience. But you gotta have a cross in order to have Christianity because someone's gotta die. Jesus was the first one to set the example for us, and then it invites us in to a death that is in him, but there's new life that's found in him as well. You can't skip the cross. Let me talk more about this me time for a second. Okay, look for just one moment, just one moment. I got a lot more stuff to get to, so we're gonna be here to four today. No, just kidding. I can't preach that good. I I the whole idea of me time, and I had to I was confronted with this myself. Because I like some me time. Anyone else with me? I mean, I I I'm into tennis right now, y'all. I'm in it. I'm in it. Okay, I'm in it. I'm not good, but I'm gonna get good, okay? Chris, I'm gonna beat you here in no time at all. I'm gonna get good. My forehands are gonna be on point. I played basketball on Friday. It was fun. Got a couple of hits on my arms. I was a little bit nervous because, you know, in tennis, you don't get any elbows. But in basketball, you know, my body came back a little bit more sore, but I had a good time. But tennis, I'm loving it. So I like going. Hour and a half. Oh no, no, no. Get through the ball, Earl, get through the ball. So I'm I'm all for it. I love it. I'm having a blast, I'm learning, I'm growing, I'm being challenged. It's so much fun. I love some me time. I'm not against it. But when I prioritize my week, do I look at my me time first? Or do I look at kingdom time first? And we live in an hour where it seems like social media and all the voices of today, it seems like it's not all, but it feels like it, are saying, when's your me time and not kingdom time first. Just like tithing. When you tithe, you give to God first. Then it requires you to adjust the rest of your finances around prioritizing God rather than prioritizing your life and then giving God a tip at the end. It's a switch. With our whole me time, we're going my time, my time, my time, my time, my time, my time. I'll go to church on Sunday. Did Jesus die to come back from the grave? So you and I could give God a little Sunday tip. Hallelujah. We're good. Yeah, you got me and you got we're good. What about Friday? What about Monday when you go to work? What about in the middle of the night? When you're feeling lonely. It's a reprioritization. It is a realignment of our life. Saying, God, my life is not about me. It's about you. And the better picture I can get of who Jesus is and what he has done for me. It actually helps me adjust my life accordingly. Some of us uh maybe still are thinking that Jesus kind of like did us a favor. You've been out to eat with your friends, and um you don't have any money on you. You're like, oh yeah, I got you. You just pay me back, you're like, Yeah, okay, I'll vemo you later. So they kind of just you know, pay for your Chipotle and walk his extra, and you're like, boom, no problem, okay. I got you. And you're thankful they did that. But it's not like you're in debt to them. You're just gonna go vemo them, you know, $12.89 later. Boom. And I feel like we think that with Jesus. And he just kind of covered a bill for us. But like I could have covered it. If I had my money on me, I could have covered it. But you just happened to be there, so thank you, Jesus, for being my boy. No, he's not your boy. You and I were on our way to live an eternity separated from him, and Jesus stepped in for us and paid a bill that we could not pay ourselves. And when he paid it, it changed everything for all of us forever. The finished work on the cross and the empty grave changed everything for all of us for all time. And when I get that understanding, it helps me go, all right, God. You can have my whole life. My whole life. Go back and leave it to Joshua. We're gonna get done on time, too. I don't know how much how many of these know what time I get through, but we're gonna get through a little bit more. Look at this in Joshua chapter 14. Let me show you this in verse number six. It says, now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal and Caleb, Caleb, everybody say Caleb. Caleb, Caleb. This guy, Caleb. Um, if you're new to the Bible, there's a few different kind of like names being thrown around here. Uh so let me just give you a couple of the main characters of who we're talking about today. Moses being one, Moses. If you've seen like the Prince of Egypt, that's the guy who goes into Egypt, is like, let my people go, and brings God's people out of bondage and is trying to bring them into the promised land. Uh Joshua and Caleb are like young bucks. They are like the next generation. Uh, so if Moses is the CEO, uh Joshua and Caleb, here are some of his, some of the apprentices. These are some individuals that are on the come up. You know, they're not there yet, but but they're leaders, right? And and so Joshua and Caleb are watching Moses lead, and um Moses is trying to take the people to this place of promise that God has for them. And before they get to the land of promise, Moses gets 12 spies, literally like Jason Bournes, to go and spy out the land. So they go on this reconnaissance mission. You can jot this down. This is found in Numbers chapter 13. I don't have time to turn there right now, but in Numbers chapter 13, God says to Moses, get 12 leaders, leaders from the different from the 12 tribes of Israel, and every tribe gets one leader, send them into the promised land to scout the land for 40 days. They go and they scout out the land for 40 days. Joshua and Caleb are two of the people that are in that group of 12. They make their way into the land, all 12 leaders. At least we know Joshua, uh Caleb rather is 40 years old when he goes on this little reconnaissance mission. He's 40 years old walking around with Joshua and the other 12 other 10 leaders, and they come back with a report and they say, Moses, the land that you sent us to, it's amazing. It's beautiful, it's sunny, it's milk and honey. The grapes, they're massive. You will love it here. Joshua and Caleb say, There are some giants in the land, but we can take them. We can drive them out. Joshua and Caleb, they're they're the ones that say, we believe that God can do this. The other ten say everything they said is true about the land being amazing, about the fruit, it's beautiful. But we cannot beat these giants. They're too big. It's too much. This is like before you go play the state championship game and you got the captain of the team like, we're gonna win this. And this other guy on the team is like, well, guys, we're gonna get crushed. Like, bro, we don't want you in the locker room. Get out of here! Why are you talking like this? This is what the ten are like. We can't win. We're good. Before we even start, we're gonna lose. We look like grasshoppers in their sight. And this report of these ten, this negative report, puts fear, insecurity, and doubt into the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people. And the people begin to say, Moses, take us back to Egypt. We'd rather be in slavery than fight that battle. Joshua and Caleb. I can't believe it. Why would Caleb have so much tenacity? Why would he be so hurt by this? Why would the Bible tell us that he came back with conviction? Why? Caleb is forty years old. Him being forty years old now means Caleb was born into slavery in Egypt. For 40 years of his life, he has had somebody's foot on his neck for 40 years of his life. He's had a culture telling him he's less than. For 40 years of his life, he has had a taskmaster, he's been a slave, he's seen his mother be a slave, his father be a slave. All he has known is slavery his whole life. And then God, with a mighty hand and outstretched arm, comes in onto the scene, and this powerful nation of Egypt, it crumbles before the mighty hand of God. Caleb saw the ten plagues. Caleb saw the blood on the doorpost and the door frame. He saw the angel of death pass over. He saw how the Egyptians gave their money and their jewelry and all of their precious commodities to the children of Israel as they were leaving out of Egypt. Caleb saw them come to the Red Sea, and he saw Moses stretched out his staff, and he saw God begin to part the waters overnight. Caleb already walked through on dry ground. Caleb was there when the glory of God came down on the mountain. And Moses came down with the Ten Commandments in his hand. Caleb had seen the hand of God and time and time and time and time and time again. So now, when it comes time to talk about some giants, Caleb is not thinking about the giants. Caleb is thinking about his God, it's God that God amount of slavery, it's God that put his feet on a firm foundation, it is God that parted the Red Sea. So when you and I are faced with the things that are trying to confront us, and they keep trying to remind us, you're never gonna make it, you're not enough, you're smaller than this. You and I have to have some type of uh, you know how your phone uh gives you old memories? You're gonna pop up on a picture, like, oh my gosh, I forgot that happened. We need the Holy Spirit to bring some pictures back to our minds. Bring some pictures back. Remember when you were in college and you didn't think you were gonna make it, and I brought you all the way through that? I know you look good right now, but don't you dare forget who you were back then that I carried you and sustained you. Don't you dare forget who you were when you were eight years old and you thought you were forgotten, but my hand carried you and protected you and sustained you. Don't you dare forget that when you were 42 years old and you were at the end of your rope, that my goodness and my grace overshadowed you, and I brought you through a situation you did not think you were going to get going to get through. I need you, I need to bring that memory back. Bring it back, bring it back, Holy Spirit, bring it back, bring it back to your sons and daughters because we're forgetting too easy, scrolling past all these amazing accomplishments of the Lord, and never letting anything sit and digest and marinate because we're on to the next thing. I'm trying to slow down and be like, okay, God, that's why I've been enjoying my walks. God, help me just to be thankful. Wow, my body's working. Because I remember when my knees were acting crazy and my back was all jacked up, and I just wish for a day that I could run and move and play with my kids the way I am right now. Oh, thank you, God, for the breath that I have in my lungs. Oh my goodness, thank you, God, that I'm not in a hospital bed. Because I remember that last time I was in a hospital bed and I just prayed, if you got me out, I would give you my life, but now I'm out, and I don't want to forget now that you gave me your life and I want to live this life for your glory. Thank you, God. Bring it back to my mind, bring it back to my mind, bring it back to my mind, bring it back to my soul, bring it back to my eyes. So Caleb here, his name actually means uh it's derived from a Hebrew word meaning dog. Dog, for some of y'all, dog is a bad thing because you used to date a dog. So, not that kind, not that kind of dog. The dog that we're talking about here is somebody who's loyal, tenacious, present. You got any friends you've been with since you were a kid or in college? You're like, that's my dog. It's like we're connected here. We got each other's back. And Caleb here has that type of devotion to the Lord. You ever met anyone um who has gone to like an alternative high school experience, not because of, you know, they got in trouble, but because they wanted to focus on some particular craft tennis, soccer, what have you. There's all these prep academies now, and it doesn't seem weird to us at all that a person would go, I'm not going to do traditional school, I'm gonna put that aside, and I'm gonna do this unconventional school, I'm gonna go to school for a couple hours a day so that I can focus in on this craft, whatever it is. We see something like that, we celebrate it. When we see an entrepreneur going all in, giving so much time, effort, and energy to get a business off the ground, we're like, yeah, go for it. We understand whole-hearted devotion. We do, and we also understand half-hearted devotion. Why is it that we will so quickly celebrate someone laying down traditional high school and focusing on their career or what have you? When it comes to our walk with God, we're trying to count and make sure we don't give God too much. Where is this coming from? Why is this the norm? Is God no longer calling people to the mission field? Is God no longer breaking people's hearts to cry out to him for revival? Is God no longer tearing down all the idols of our day? I think he is. I just think maybe we just got so caught up in I don't know how to drive. Just give me away, Mo. Plug it in. I'll let something just kind of take me. And God's like, no, son, daughter. The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is alive on the inside of you. I'm not done with you yet. Caleb is 85 years old, talking crazy. 85. 85. I love this. My wife and I have been married, what, these 29 years now? I can't wait till we're married like 79 years. And we're walking and she's kind of holding my pants. You know, I'm like, yeah, girl, hold them. Hold them. I I can't wait. I look forward to, I don't want to be good for just a little while. I want to be good for the long haul. I want to sow seeds now for a future that's incredibly bright. I want to keep trusting God all the way to the end. No, no, none of this milly vanilli. You all know who I'm talking about? None of this one-hit wonder lip-sinking stuff. It's in my heart, Jesus. Who you are and what you've done has changed me forever. I don't understand it all, but you can have my whole heart and my whole life. Wholehearted. Let me read this last little thing and I'm gonna get you all out of here. He puts this on the screen. Wholehearted in this passage describes someone whose entire being the will emotions and intellect and actions aligns with God's purposes without reservation or hesitation. It's not merely emotional enthusiasm, but sustained practical fidelity across decades of testing. Wholehearted this is what we're being invited into. Wholehearted devotion. Or try to take this message and turn it into some type of self-help message. Like I better just drive. And that's not what I'm saying. I want to make it very clear. What I'm saying is connected to verse number 12. But the Lord helping me, I will drive them out, expect but the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. But the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. But the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. How am I gonna get through this pornography? But the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. How am I gonna stop this cycle of divorce and addiction in my family? But the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. This is not you and I just all of a sudden trying to muster, no, no, but the Lord helping me, I will drive them out. There's some things I can't do on my own, and there's other things that the Lord won't do on his own. If your life is in park and you are asking God to take you someplace, you're gonna have to get out of park and put the car of your life in drive, and trust that the Spirit will lead you and guide you where God is wanting you to go. This is what we are invited into, ladies and gentlemen. Start your engines and let's drive them out for God's glory. For the name and fame of Jesus. Start your engines. Come on, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, come on, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines, start your engines in the name of Jesus. Start your engines, start your engines, start your take off all this other lot. Start your engines, take off the culture of the day. Start your engines in the name of Jesus. Man, I sense the grace of God in this place. If you wouldn't mind, have a seat and bow your heads for just a moment. We're gonna get out of here. Holy Spirit, would you do what only you can do? We invite your presence and your power, change us, convict us, encourage us, challenge us, do whatever we need so that we can be all that you've called us to be. As your heads are bowed, just for a moment. If you're under the sound of my voice, you've never given your heart and your life to Jesus. You never made him first, you never made him number one, but you're under the sound of my voice today, you're saying, I don't want to go my own way, I want to go the way of Jesus. I don't want to be first in my life, I want Jesus Christ to be first. I don't want to be number one, I want God to be number one in my life. If that's you, you've never given your heart to Christ. Or at one point in time you didn't, you slipped away. And today you're saying, I don't want to go my own way, I want to go his way. I literally just want you to throw your hand in the air right now and say, Yup, that's me. I want to give my heart and my life to Jesus. Ready? One, two, three, just lift it up. We got friends all over this room right now in the balcony on the floor, friends online. You're saying, Yeah, that's me. I want to give my heart and my life to Jesus. I want to make him number one in my life. I don't want to go my own way, I want to go his way. I don't want to live for my own glory. I want to live for his. I want forgiveness of my sins, a fresh start, and I want to be saved, I want to be made new. Everyone, do me a favor, put your hand over your heart if you would not mind. And I want everyone to repeat this prayer out loud after me. Say, dear Jesus, I ask you to forgive me of all my sins. I admit I made mistakes, but today I give you my heart. I give you my life. Give me the power to live for you in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Can we lift our heads up, clap our hands?