 Open your Bibles with me to Psalm chapter one. Somebody said, oh boy, you know what's coming. Psalm chapter one. This is a continuation of our series entitled, Flourish. And today we're gonna be talking about flourishing in community. Flourishing in community. God has designed human beings to not just flourish in the house of God, but to flourish in community. Psalm chapter one is not a very long Psalm, but it is a very powerful Psalm. I want you to look at it with me. It says, blessed is the man. How many of you know, stop right there. You should just like circle that, highlight that, and it's like, that's a recipe for where I wanna go in life. How many wanna be blessed? Anybody wanna be blessed, right here? About 40% of the room wants to be cursed. Okay, I get it. That's, how many wanna be blessed? Anybody wanna be blessed by God? Here's what blessing means. Number one, when somebody down south, here's what I've learned. I travel enough down south that when I meet people, number one, they talk different than we do. Have you figured that out? Well, here's what they'll tell you. Well, bless your heart. I figured out, bless your heart does not mean what we think it means. It means we pity you and you're a fool. But we oftentimes misunderstand what the word bless means. Bless means God's supernatural bias in your favor. So when Psalm one says, blessed is the man. In other words, the man who has God like wind in his sails behind his back, the one who has God's bias and his favor working for him, here it says, is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers, but his delight is in the law of the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night. He's like a tree planted by streams of water that yield its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither. And all that he does, he prospers and the wicked are not so, but they are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous, for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. We have a decision to make in the way that we live our lives. We can either live our lives in such a way that we flourish or we can live our lives in a way that we perish. Those are the options, flourish, perish. And the prescription has been given to us and it's built in, it's hardwired into what God has created on the earth when he created the church. It's this idea of community. Community is defined as this. It's a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Well, that's the church, that's the church. We are the community of God. Community, another way of saying community is common unity or co-unity. That we are unified, we're not just a group of people, but we have a unified vision, a unified set of beliefs in the case of the church. We have a unified Lord, we have a unified gospel, we have a unified love, we have a unified story, and we have a unified mission. And we come together around those things. Ephesians four says there's one Lord, one baptism, one faith, one body. This is who we are, it's the community. The church, another definition of the church might be the people of God bound together by a particular Lord, gospel, location, and mission. This is the community of faith. Eugene Peterson, when he translated the New Testament and what's commonly referred to as the message translation, it's actually more of a paraphrase, but he really illustrates the language that Paul's trying to get across in Ephesians chapter one, especially when he's dealing with the significance of the church and how it's supposed to be our community. Here's what he says in verse 21 and 23 of the message. All this energy issues from Christ. God raised him from the dead and set him on a throne in deep heaven in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments. Come on somebody, Jesus is on the throne. He rules, he reigns over kings, over nations, over governments. He's in charge, but look at this. No name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He's in charge of it all. He has the final word on everything. That's powerful, right? Look at this next part. At the center of all of this, Christ rules the church. The church, the church you see is not peripheral to the world, the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ's body in which he speaks and acts and by which he fills everything with his presence. This is what you and I are a part of. If you're a Christian, you have been engrafted into this divine spiritual that has also a physical expression community that is connected to the reign and the rule of Jesus on the earth. He's at work, he's over it all. He's moving in it all. He's powerful. There's nobody has a higher name. There's no one whose word is more significant, holds everything together than Jesus. But then how does Jesus do it? At the center of all that Jesus is doing, he builds a church. Matthew 16, Jesus said, I will build my church. And what? And the gates of Hades or gates of hell shall not prevail against it. That's what we are a part of as Christians. This is the community that we are a part of. But yet we have a decision to make practically in the way that we live our lives and the way that we also live our faith out. And here's the decision. Whatever or whomever we identify with most becomes our community. The decision that we make is this. Where am I going to practically engage my life and identify that this is my community? This is where I'm in common unity. This is where I'm developing my relationships. This is where I'm gaining my truth. This is where I'm being shaped by. This is where I'm fighting battles. This is where I'm shoulder to shoulder arms locked. This is the people that I identify with most. You know, in our community, Southwest Michigan and even West Michigan, there are all kinds of different communities that we can connect into. You've got the arts community. You've got the years and years ago, I used to run a lot of trail races and things like this. There's like a whole running community. Some of you are in it all the time and I can tell by your shoes, oftentimes, you're running around with your running shoes and the gear and there's just a community feel about that. I would show up at races and these people would all know each other and talk and ride together. And there's a common language and a common way of life that they share. You've got communities that take place in schools. You've got different groups and different interest groups. Those are communities. And what's interesting is that people that are within those communities have a lot in common. You know, in the 80s, this will date me a little bit. But in the 80s, when I learned how to preach, somebody asked me one time, where did you learn how to preach? I learned how to preach on the streets of Grand Rapids. I was a 16-year-old street preacher. And one of the places that we used to go preach was downtown, what's now Rosa Park Amphitheater. It used to be called the Monroe Amphitheater. And there used to be punk rockers. Anybody know what punks are? You know, punkers, they were like goths before there were goths. They all had Mohawks, spray paint, their hair pink, wore spikes, listened to the sex pistols and the Ramones and wore combat boots and steel studs. And they were some of the original like anarchists. And I mean, they were wild looking and their whole thing was to intimidate. And so we would go down and we would preach them. On Friday and Saturday nights, we would talk to them in the Amphitheater. And they would all be, they would tell us, you're just bourgeois. You guys just all look the same and talk the same. You're like vanilla. There's no uniqueness to you. And I told one guy who had a Mohawk. I said, have you looked at all of your friends? You guys like all shop at the same place. I don't see one of you like wearing pink and lace. I don't think it's not going on. You're all wearing black. You're all wearing the same music t-shirts. You've all got the same language. You've all got the same boots on. Why? It's because that's what we do in communities. You can tell who you are really in community with by the priorities of your life. It's possible for you to be in a family, but not really be in a family. It's possible for you to live in a community, but actually not be a part of the community. And it's possible that you're a Christian and you go to church, but yet you really identify. You have the majority of what you have in common is with groups of people and communities outside of the church. I'm not talking about you, you need to be a separatist and not engage and maybe not even be a part of those communities, the business community, the, you know, whatever the arts community or whatever. I'm not talking about not being a part of it, but your primary identity. Where is your primary identity? Is it shaped by anything other than Christ primarily? If it is, then you may be living a life in a trajectory that doesn't lead to flourishing. Because what we see in Psalm chapter one is a progression. He says, here's how a man lives a blessed life or a woman lives a blessed life. He says, number one, he does not walk in the council of the godly. And here's what I want you to get when you read Psalm one, there's a progression. It starts with somebody walking. Walking in biblical language is talking about a way of life. It's your going through life from day to day, week to week. And it says, a man who's blessed is living his life. He's walking. And then it says he's standing. And then at the end, we find him sitting. It's talking about the ceasing of progress. But it starts with the first step. And it's really, by the way, it's an outline in Psalm chapter one of deconstruction. You've heard many people maybe talk about their deconstructing in their faith. I don't believe what I used to believe. I've reconsidered some things. I've reexamined the evidence of the Bible. I'm looking at culture and I've begun to deconstruct my faith. Another word for deconstruction is just apostasy. Just I'm departing from the faith. And deconstruction is very real, but it's a process. And the process is laid out in Psalm chapter one. It starts with, number one, you're walking in the counsel of the ungodly. If you wanna live a life that flourishes, then you make the decision, I'm not going to live my life based on the wisdom, the counsel, the advice, or the perspective of the ungodly, or as the ESV says, the unrighteous or the wicked. Why? Because I wanna be blessed. So I've gotta make a decision that that's not how I'm gonna live my life. But if we choose to do the opposite, which means I'm gonna live my life day to day, the decisions that I'm gonna make, the words I'm gonna say when I'm putting into my heart, how I'm living, the relationships I'm building, I'm gonna surround myself with the wisdom of the world, the perspectives of people that are not godly, their words, their opinions are going to matter the most to me. I'm gonna allow them to shape me, then listen, that will not produce a life that flourishes. It will end up, as it says in verse number five, the way of the wicked parishes. And so think about the way that that plays out in our lives. To talk about walking means the way that you're living your life. So it's talking about the steps that you take. It's talking about the direction of your heart. And it's moving away from godliness, because here's the two options. You can either walk in the godly way, or you can walk in the way of the ungodly. But if I'm a Christian and I'm saying I'm following Jesus, that's what to be a Christian means, by the way. It's to be a follower of the way of Jesus. If Jesus has a certain way of living and a certain way of being human, and I'm following him, but now all of a sudden I find myself walking in the way of the world, of the ungodly, at some point there has been a U-turn. Because you can't follow both simultaneously. You can't follow the way of the world in the way of Jesus at the same time. You have to make a decision. If you've ever found yourself out hiking someplace and there's a fork in the road and you're just like, I don't know where to go. Jane and I one time were out in the mountains of Northern California. Has anybody seen Mount Murder, the Netflix special about the marijuana industry and all the murders that take place out there? Yeah, that's where we were. And so we were driving up in the mountains and our GPS went dead. Literally, we're in the middle of nowhere and I'm like, I don't know where to go. So it was like we could go left or we could go right. And we took a turn and we ended up in an area that we should not have been. I was gonna get out of my car and go ask somebody, Pitbulls started running at me out of this property. I'm like, yeah, I'm staying right here. Somebody's like, oh, Pitbulls are really nice dogs. It's just that, nope, mm-mm. Not in Northern California, they are not. Not in marijuana territory, they are not. And so I got back in my car until we found somebody at, I think it was at a gas station. I just stopped this lady. I'm like, we are lost. And she goes, where are you trying to get to? I said, she goes, oh honey, you are a long ways from there. She goes, I'm gonna drive, you follow me. She literally escorted us back because that's how in a bad place we were. And I'm so grateful for that. And this is what happens in our lives. The Bible says in Proverbs, there is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. And oftentimes we're following the opinions of our friends, of the world, of the popular opinions on media. We're following along on what other people, just kind of the general community embraces as truth and morality and the way that you live your lives and the priority of your lives and how you shape your family and how you live out your career. And we're innocent, we're trying to do it right, but we end up finding our place where we're lost. And it oftentimes takes somebody leading us out of that. There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end therein is death. And we have to make a decision not to walk in the counsel or the wisdom of the ungodly. Think about this, James chapter three. Who is wise in understanding among you? By his good conduct, let him show his work in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and be found or be false to the truth. This is not wisdom that comes down from above, godly wisdom, but it is earthly, unspiritual and demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure than peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy, good fruit, impartial and sincere, and a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. Two kinds of wisdom. Where are you drawing your counsel from in your life? Who's opinion matters to you? Where are you getting the information and the data that's shaping the values that you are living for your life? Because if you're walking in the way, nobody wakes up and says, today I'm gonna walk in the way of the, in the counsel of the wicked. But if you're living your life by default, the default setting is, well, I'm gonna live like everybody else does. Hey, we're gonna treat our kids the way everybody else in our community treats our kids. What's important to our neighbors is important to us. What I do with my money is what everybody else does with their money. What I believe about issues, morality issues in our community, well, everybody believes that. Well, I don't wanna be the odd man out. I don't wanna stand out. So if they say that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man, then guess what? I just am gonna go along with that because I don't wanna be exed out. I'll tell you what you just did. You just stepped on the path that leads to perishing. But if we trust in the wisdom that is from above, and listen, we've gotta make that decision because by default, you will just automatically get lost. But you've gotta get into the counsel, the wisdom that is from above. This is God's word and God says, look, if you put this into your heart, it is going to produce peaceable fruit of righteousness out of your life. If you want your family to be blessed, if you want your kids to grow up and have a legacy, if you want your marriage to make it past year seven, if you don't wanna end up a statistic on some divorce website, if you don't wanna end up in some rehab center, if you don't wanna live the rest of your life and at the end of it, have regret, then you aren't gonna do that by just letting the current and the wind take you wherever it wants to. You gotta set the direction of your heart. You've gotta set the direction of your heart and say, I am not going to be one that walks in the counsel of the wicked. I'm gonna get my wisdom from godly people. I'm gonna surround myself with mentors, with pastors, with leaders, with people that are spiritually mature. If I'm gonna learn how to stay married, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna talk to somebody in our church or somebody in our world that's been married 50 years and say, how did you get through difficult times? If I wanna raise kids that are well-rounded and are gonna be agents of change in their generation and not intimidated by the darkness around them, then I'm gonna get around somebody that's raised some kids. I'm gonna read some books and I'm gonna listen to some messages. I'm gonna gain wisdom. Proverbs says in all of your getting, get wisdom. But you know what we do oftentimes? We're not out getting wisdom. The idea of going and getting wisdom means I gotta take an initiative. But oftentimes we're just taking in what anybody wants to give us. I just sit back like, well, we're TV receivers. It's like, just give me, give me, give me. Just give me whatever you got. And we're taking garbage, taking garbage in when we've gotta be decisive in what we are allowing. So it starts with walking in the council of the ungodly that then leads to standing in the way of sinners. This is step two of deconstruction. Here's what happens. We begin to listen to the opinions, get our information from the world, the way of the world and all of a sudden now we find ourselves on a path standing, not making progress from glory to glory, not following Jesus any longer, but now we're at a standstill. And where we find ourselves is we're parked on the way of sinners. Let me tell you what this is and what happens when you step one is you get advice and counsel from the world, it leads to step two where your progress stops and you find yourself on the path of sinners, which is compromise. This will cause you to stop flourishing. I've seen it. Jane and I have pastored this church for 26, almost 27 years and we've been in ministry for 28, 29 years. I can almost smell it. I can see it from a mile away when somebody's beginning to get pulled out of the community of faith and they're getting influenced by other voices and you can begin to see compromise, get embedded into their hearts and they don't see it. Well, I'm dating this guy, he's a really great guy. No, it's like, no, used to be run down here on Wednesday nights and pray for people and jump up and down and worship God. You were the first one with your Bibles and your notebooks and I saw you, you were at every service. You were showing up downtown for prayer meetings and then all of a sudden now I see you in the back, you're not worshiping, you're like holding your guy's arm and this guy looks like he would rather watch paint dry at some baseball dugout than to be in church with you, but he's a great guy, I promise you. He believes in God. He believes in God. So does the devil. The Bible says demons believe and they tremble. Oh, he believes in God. He just sees the best in me. Oh yeah, he sees. Well, he's got plans for our future. Yeah, I know. So does the enemy. He's got plans for your future. Jeremiah 29 says that God has plans for your future. Whose plans do you want? Do you want his plans or God's plans? And I've seen it happen. Then every other week they're here and then once a month they're here. Then when they show up, the passion of their life is not there. Then their Bible's not with them any longer. Then they're not really showing, they're not part of a small group anymore where there's accountability because Proverbs says that a man who isolates himself rages against all wise counsel because he seeks his own desire. So what we do is we start isolating ourselves and the enemy comes in, begins to delude us with lies. Well, you just don't fit in that place. Nobody's called you. They just don't like your friend because they're just jealous of you. And what you don't realize about yourself that everybody else in the community can see is that a wolf just showed up to pick you off. And it starts with compromise, compromise, just one decision. Well, you know what? Maybe my perspective was a little legalistic. Maybe, you know, maybe I just need to dial down my devotion to Jesus. Maybe I don't need to be in church all the time. Maybe I just need to take a deep breath. I just need some time away. How many in a relationship as you know, if you've ever been in a dating relationship, when somebody tells you that they need a little space, how many know what that means? Bye, Felicia. I mean, that's, I mean, it's, it's over. Is it not? It's over. And when somebody says, I just need a little time away from church, I'm preaching. Okay. John 14, Jesus said, I am the way. The truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me. Do you know that early Christians were called followers of the way? Why? Because a way is talking about a manner of living. And when it says a way of sinners are standing in the way of sinners, it means I find myself over here living according to a pattern that is not the Jesus pattern any longer. That started because I started living my life based on the opinions and the advice in the counsel of some ungodly people. Listenin' to Joe Rogan and I'm gonna say, wow, he's conservative and this, he's living. And the next thing you know, you're snorting mushrooms or whatever you do with it. It's like, because you got some advice on hallucinogenics from somebody who's not a godly person. Interesting podcast, Terrible Mentor, which leads then to number three, which is you find yourself sitting in a seat of a scoffer. The word sit in the original language in Hebrew literally means to make something your dwelling place, to inhabit, it means literally to marry yourself to something. It's covenant, you find yourself in a covenant relationship with a pervasive attitude, which the Bible calls a scoffer which means someone who is bitter, someone who mocks and someone who takes lightly. So you have married yourself to an attitude. Do you see the process of deconstruction? It's like, well, I'm just getting some new information and I've never heard it before. I love Jesus, I've got the Bible, but you know, this is all fascinating. This is what everybody's into. I'm gonna kind of live my life based on that. And now you find yourself in a new community of people who are feeding you, who give you common ideas. And the next thing you know, you're compromising a little bit. And then the next thing you know, you're in covenant relationship with a spirit and an attitude when it thinks about the things of God, it actually takes a bitter, jealous and mocking attitude. Second Peter chapter three talks about this. It says, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days following their own sinful desires. They will say, where's the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation. Scoffing means taking lightly just kind of, Jesus is coming. Come on, it's been 2000 years. Do you think He's still coming? Come on, let's just get real. This is never gonna happen. Oh, you're one of those people that believes the Bible. I used to believe the Bible too. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. So scoffing and just, oh, you all up in church. You all got your hand raised. Like, you know, you're like, wow, what do you all got questions for the pastor? I mean, is that why you got your hands up? Why are you singing the same songs over and over again? You guys are nothing but a bunch of fanatics. Yeah, can I just tell you what a fanatic is? A fanatic is just somebody who loves Jesus more than you do. And if I'm gonna be accused of being a fanatic, there's nothing I would rather be a fanatic about. You begin to see yourself scoffing in the attitude that's pouring out of your heart connected to the things of God. This is a true sign that you are in danger of perishing. Church, I'm saying this as your pastor because the spirit of this age and the pervasive culture and community, ethos is one of doubt and unbelief and logically tearing down what God has said and restructuring moral and biblical concepts and making God in our image instead of us living up to his image and redefining the right and wrong truth and lies. And if we aren't taking a steady examination of our own heart and saying, am I blessed? Am I, as it says here, a tree planted by streams of living water? Am I not, am I feeding on the river of God, the river of God's presence, the river of God's word? Am I drinking deeply so that it feeds my soul so that I can withstand the storms when they come? Am I doing that or am I gonna end up like the chaff that the wind drives away? Pastor Lee, what do I do? How do I make sure that I'm flourishing and not perishing? The opposite of what I just read to you is absolutely true. It's this. Here's the steps of getting out of this place. If you find yourself in a place where your heart's begun to be hard, compromise has taken root in your life and you've been listening to the wrong voices, you need to do three things. Number one, is you need to stand up. You need to stand up out of the seat of the scoffer. You need to stand up. You need to get out of your resting place. You need to unmarry yourself, uncouple yourself from the community that you've connected yourself and from the people that you've made your dwelling place and your residence. And the second thing that you need to do is you need to turn around. You've been moving in the wrong direction. Now turn around. The word repentance means to turn around. A 180 degree turn. I'm standing up out of this place where I have been. I'm coming to my senses like the prodigal son in the pig pen and I'm standing up and I'm saying I'm no longer going in that way. God, I'm putting my direction aimed at you and then you've got to begin to walk against the grain. You've got to push against the grain. You've got to go counterculture. Everybody's going this way but you've got to fight through the crowd, fight through the lies, fight through the pressure, fight through other people's opinions, fight through what has previously been a barrier in your life and you've got to do what Hebrews chapter 12 says. You've got to keep your eyes on Jesus who's the author and the finisher of your faith. You've got to take Jesus at his word when he says narrow is the way that leads to life and few are they that find it. Wide is the road that leads to destruction that everybody's on. I'm looking for the narrow road. I'm looking for the eye of the needle that I have to crawl through. I don't care if I got to fight through on bloody knees. I'm getting to Jesus. I'm going to his purpose. I'm going to his place. I'm getting myself in the house of God because I want to flourish. I want to be blessed and I want to leave a legacy in Jesus' name. This is how we live our lives in a way that we're bearing fruit and we need one another. Stand with me wherever you're at, please. Listen, we need one another. This is why we need pastors, teachers, and leaders in our life. This is why we need accountability in groups. Show me those who are closest to you today and I will show you where you will be five years from now. Who's speaking into your life? How much of God's word is being sewn into your heart, shaping you, forming you? How often are you examining your heart to see whether you're really in the faith? How often do you ask the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, create in me a clean heart? Oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from your presence, oh Lord, take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of my salvation. How often are you yielding to the Holy Spirit? Listen, here's a question. When's the last time you asked God, God, when you look at me and when you see me, is there any wicked way in me that's not pleasing to you? See what we often do, all of us, we often try to justify ourself to God. God, well, I did this because of that and you know I'm better than so and so, but no, humility says God. Is there anything in me that doesn't please you? Is there any lies I'm listening to that are affecting me? Here's the compromise in my life and I'm done with it. I will not be dominated by anything. I'm not a slave unto sin, I'm a servant of Christ and so God, I'm saying you can have it. When's the last time we've done that? Because if we don't do that, what will end up happening is we're gonna get swept away by the current that's getting stronger by the day. That Jesus said would cause many in the last days their hearts to grow cold. I don't want us to grow cold. I want us to be red hot. I want us to be flourishing, fruitful, growing together in community as a people of God. Would you bow your heads with me please? And I want you to ask the Holy Spirit this morning. Holy Spirit, what are you saying to me today? Lord, sometimes my own flesh bucks up against you. It's like Lord, I don't want to go there. I don't want to talk about that. I don't want to think about that. I don't really want to repent right now. But Lord, if you would apply the oil and the wine to our spirits today and grace and mercy and just give us the ability to say, Lord, I need you, we need you. We know that your desire is to bless us and today we choose no longer to walk in the council of the ungodly. And we'd say, Lord, we only want your truth, your wisdom, your worldview. Lord, today we say we will not stand in the path of the sinner any longer. We're gonna follow you on the narrow path. And Lord, we say we will not sit and make our residents in the place of criticism and judgment and taking you lightly and having a worldly, almost accusatory stance towards you or your word or the things that rub us the wrong way. Lord, we want to be humble before you and your word because we want to be planted by rivers of living water. We want our leaves not to wither. We want our fruit to come in its proper season because we trust you. Wherever you're at this morning, you've asked the Holy Spirit, what are you saying to me? If there are things this morning that you feel the Holy Spirit highlighting, saying today you've either found yourself listening to ungodly counsel, there's areas of compromise or you've become callous, bitter, hard and scornful in your approach to them. But today you're saying, today I repent and I'm asking you, Lord, help me to stand up, turn around and walk against the grain. And you're responding, saying, Jesus, I'll do it with your help. Wherever you're asked, I want you to raise your hand. This is you to Jesus. I want to pray over you. There's a tenderness of the Lord today. Today, if you hear His voice, hold your hand up. Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your heart as in the day of rebellion. If that's you and you're saying, Jesus, today I'm surrendering it to you. This isn't salvation, you're saved. Maybe you are, maybe you're not. But you just know today I need to surrender some things. Thank you, you can put your hands down. I want to pray over us. Lord, today, Holy Spirit, would you release the oil and the wine upon our hard hearts, cleanse us, wash us and purify us that we might rightly love you. Holy Spirit, only you can do this in us. And we need you. And here we are, we're just yielding to your leadership, Lord. Saying, God, save us, our great shepherd. Save us from ourselves. Save us from the snares of the enemy. Save us from what we don't know. Rescue us and lead us. Lord, release grace into our lives. At this moment, as we even repent before you that Lord, today you would reignite our heart to see the need of community. Lord, that we would embrace relationships that are iron, sharpens iron, strengthen us. And our hearts would be deeply connected in the community of your body, your church, so that we can flourish and grow in these last days. In Jesus' name.