When Jesus Calls

Well, good morning everybody. My name is René. I'm another one of the pastors here at Twin Lakes Church. Who's happy to be in church today? I'm loving it so far. Well, I'm super excited because today we launch our new series, "Flawed Follower," and this is the story of how Jesus transformed an unqualified, unreliable, inconsistent, impetuous hothead into a courageous, consistent, faithful leader. That's Simon Peter, and it's also the story about how Jesus can change you.

Now, this is week one, and this is the week that we start our small groups. We've got over a hundred groups meeting all over Santa Cruz County, also over in Santa Clara Valley and down in Salinas, and the Monterey County area. You can sign up at TLC.org/smallgroups or some of you want to do this with your family at home, family devotions, or with colleagues at work. We made it easy for you. All the discussion questions are in the back of the book that we wrote as a companion to this. You can pick a book up outside or at flawedfollower.com, and if you can't afford a book, we've got you. We will provide you with a book. Just let us know. You can email us, or you can just go right up to the book table and say, "Hey, could I have one of those books René was talking about for free?"

I mean, the book price just helps us cover the cost of the production of this. I don't get a single dime ever from any of this. It all goes back to the church. But we don't want you to miss out on one thing. And when you get into the book, it just adds a dimensionality to the study that you can't get any other way. And the big idea of this series is this. God works through imperfect people. Let's say that together. God works through imperfect people. Raise your hand if that's good news to you, because that's really good news to me. And we're gonna see that this morning in the case of how Jesus calls his very first followers.

You know, one of the things I love about doing these studies is archaeology. I am an archaeology buff. Anybody else just love archaeology, especially biblical archaeology? Well, an amazing discovery helps us picture this story. The year was 1986. The place was the Sea of Galilee in Israel. The lake is low because of drought. And two fishermen brothers, amateur archaeologists, decide to explore the rarely exposed mud flats. They find a Roman-era nail and call the office of famed marine archaeologists Kurt Raba and Shelley Waxman, who happen to be nearby excavating a shipwreck on the coast of the Mediterranean.

They're skeptical, but they visit. They say, "Okay, we're gonna dig 10 centimeters to see if there's any evidence that this is an ancient boat and not just grandpa's rowboat," you know. And they soon discover a 2,000-year-old lamp. And there was a genie inside. No, that's not true. And then they find a cooking pot also from the same era. There's now no doubt this is a fishing boat from the time of Jesus as depicted in a nearby mosaic. Now, they've never actually found a boat because wood decays, obviously, until now.

News gets out. Locals gather. And then local news. And then global news. But it soon becomes clear that time is short. The mud had sealed a boat from decay for centuries, but exposed to air. It's now crumbling. Volunteers spray it with water 24/7 while the archaeologists frantically dig. And then the drought breaks. Rain falls. Water rises, threatening to submerge the fragile boat. It's clear time is limited. The boat must be moved within a week or it's just gonna collapse into powder. What are they gonna do? Every expert in the world is called. Nobody knows what to do.

Then a local comes up with a solution. Spray it with surfboard foam, polyurethane. Spray it onto every crack, every surface, and then just dig a canal from the boat into the lake and float the boat out as the lake rises. And this is what they do. And this boat sails for the first time in 2,000 years. Right onto the Sea of Galilee, over into a custom warehouse. Now it's in a climate-controlled environment where it can be studied and where I was able to visit it recently.

Now, we have no idea, of course, of knowing if they found the fishing boat that Peter and Jesus and others fished in. But one ancient writer says there were about 600 boats working the lake in those days. So there's a one in 600 chance. Yeah, that's not a bad chance. Experts recreated the boat based on what was found in the hull and they know it had a mast and six rowing positions could comfortably seat about 12 or 13 people, which is interesting, and it looked exactly like that ancient mosaic that was found nearby.

Those two brothers found a fishing boat dating to the time of two other fishermen brothers whose lives would be changed in their boat when Jesus calls. If you have Bibles, turn to Luke 5:1–11. Here's the story starting in verse 1. Here we go. One day, as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, a great crowd pressed in on him to listen to the Word of God. Now, I want to help you picture this. Somebody told me that for most of their life Bible stories for them were like going to a play with actors reciting lines, but no scenery. You get that description? They had, it was like a blank stage. They had no idea what this looked like.

So I want to help you see the scenery because it's very important to the story. So the Sea of Galilee, what was that like? When I grew up, it seemed like all the Jesus movies were always set in the desert, right? And then when I actually went to Galilee in Israel for the very first time, I saw this, not a desert. The Sea of Galilee is the lowest freshwater lake in the world, 800 feet below sea level. And what I'm looking at there from this mountaintop nearby, most of Peter's early life happened in what I'm looking at. There's Bethsaida where he was born. There's Capernaum where he moved with his wife and his mother-in-law, and there's Migdal or Magdala, and that is where the fish processing plant was.

So this was Peter's whole neighborhood and probably would have been Peter's entire life neighborhood if not for what is about to happen. This was a very nice place. The ancient writer Josephus, rather, writing in the first century, he says, "Skirting the lake lies a region whose natural properties and beauty are remarkable. There is not a plant that its fertile soil refuses to produce, not a desert." In fact, there's thermal springs nearby. In Jesus' day, seven of those springs flowed into the water there, making the water warm. So fish love this corner of the lake.

So much so that a guy over there named Hold, he's a local tour guide and fisherman, he fishes right in this area at night because that's when the fish are there in the warm springs area. And the way he does it is he fishes not with a spear, not with a hook. He goes in with snorkel gear and a flashlight, powerful flashlight, and underwater he flashes the fish and it stuns them into motionlessness and then he looks around and he grabs the biggest one, probably tilapia, stuffs it in his swim shirt, and goes home for dinner. That's the way Hold fishes. That's how productive this place is.

It's very temperate. The average winter high is 57, never freezes. The average summer high is 88. So it's a subtropical climate. These days they grow bananas and mangoes and oranges. It's a bird watcher's paradise. Life is everywhere. Flowers everywhere. There are resort hotels right on the beach. So what I'm trying to get across is that that is not this. I remember when I first visited I was like, "Wow, Jesus hung out in a pretty sweet place." And it made me feel frankly a little less guilty about being a pastor in Santa Cruz.

And Capernaum, where Peter lived, "kaperni" or from Kephar in Hebrew and Aramaic means village, and "nahum" that's a name, but it also has a meaning. It means comfort. So Capernaum literally means comfortville. And that's what it was, a very nice corner of the world. And of course, by the way, I need to say please pray for those in this area and the broader region with all of the upset going on in that region of the world right now. And I don't know if you know this, but Twin Lakes Church supports churches there both in Israel and in Gaza. Churches that provide humanitarian relief in Jesus' name to the people there.

And I got to tell you the Christians there both in Israel and Gaza are truly showing the love of Jesus Christ in remarkable ways. And I would hope if we were in challenging situations like they are that we would do absolutely the same thing. Just showing love to everybody, feeding people, providing shelter for people. They are amazing and we are supporting them with our prayers and also financially through our mission's budget. So this is a beautiful place of the world which plays a role in this story.

Crowds are pressing in on Jesus. And it says he noticed two empty boats at the water's edge for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. So fishermen, we imagine that they were sort of primitive, you know, artisanal subsistence fishermen because of early Christian art or something. But that's not what this was. This was a major commercial enterprise. I had a chance to go fishing with some veteran fishermen there as I was writing the book and I talked more about that in the book. But it was great because I got to learn what they fish for commercially then and now. Same fish like tilapia.

Over there you eat it like this when you go to a local restaurant. You order fish and chips, this is what you get. You've heard of Whole Foods, this is whole fish. They also fish for carp and that is not a fake. They have an international world famous carp fishing contest there every year. Lots of different kinds of carp and the main crop is sardines. That's the main commercial crop. Now their sardines are this size. No, just kidding about that. They are tiny just like our sardines. Boy, you people believe everything I say, don't you? But this is what Simon was fishing for and he was getting top dollar for this because of one thing, two words, fish sauce. Say fish sauce with me. Fish sauce.

Romans were crazy about this. They put it on everything. And the first century was the peak of this. Just crush on fish sauce. In fact, just this summer the Smithsonian reported a Roman-era ship was carrying jugs full of fish sauce when it sank. Marine archaeologists found a Roman shipwreck in the Mediterranean filled with 300 jars, most of them, many of them were still sealed and when they opened them up, most of them, in fact all of the ones that were sealed that they've opened so far, didn't have wine, didn't have grain, didn't have perfume. They were filled with fish sauce. It shows you how much they just loved it.

Now in case you're curious, here's what it is. You get sardines or anchovies, you catch them, you salt them, plus put in vinegar or wine and spices if you want, ferment them, press them and out comes fish sauce. Now that sounds gross to you. The hottest bottled sauce in the US today is something called red boat sauce. It's made right here in the Bay Area. It's an Asian recipe that is almost, in fact, it's exactly the same as ancient Roman fish sauce. And if you've ever had Leon Perron's Worcestershire sauce, it derives from that old Roman formula. Actually, it's just anchovies, salt, vinegar, and sugar. Very similar. So Romans loved this stuff. They just would consume all the sardines they could get to make this stuff. And that meant being a fisherman here, especially this corner of the lake, Sardine Central, that was a sweet gig. It was for Peter and Andrew. Until Jesus shows up somewhat disruptively.

Watch what happens next. Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat and taught the crowds that were still on shore from there. Now later, Jesus will give Simon a new name, Peter, which means rock, as we'll see later on in this series. When Jesus had finished speaking, so it's now later in the day, he said to Simon, "Now go out where it is deeper and let down your nets to catch some fish." For a fisherman, that is not very good advice in the Sea of Galilee. As I learned, their net fishing is night fishing, typically, and net fishing is shallow fishing. That is when and where the sardines are, not daytime and not deeper.

Master, Simon replied, "We worked hard all last night, and we didn't catch a thing. And you know, we're the professionals here. I can tell you're a clergy because you don't understand real-life skills here. But if you say so, I love that he says that, "If you say so, I'll let down the nets again, but it ain't gonna work." And so I imagine they kind of floated on out there, you know, lazily, "Let's give teacher a boat ride." And bam! This time their nets were so full of fish, they began to tear a shout for help, brought their partners in from the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking.

Now, as we know here in the Monterey Bay, sardines and anchovies school into these big bait balls. We've had a ton of them out there the last several weeks, as you might know, and apparently one of these schools just blasts into Peter's net. Boom! And he goes from zero fish to in an instant hundreds. When Simon Peter realized what had happened, he fell to his knees before Jesus and said, "Oh Lord, please leave me. I'm such a sinful man." Interesting response. "I'm such a sinful man, for he was awestruck by the number of fish that they had caught, as were the others with him. His partners James and John, the son of Zebedee, were also amazed.

Can you relate to Peter's response? "Oh Jesus, you're great. Love Jesus, but I'm such a sinner. I don't belong here at church. I can't do the Christian thing." Now look very carefully at what happens next. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Come on, you're not that sinful. You're awesome!" No, that's not what he says. He says, "Don't be afraid." Like, you know, you're not wrong Peter. You're not telling me anything. I don't know. You've got some issues brother. We're gonna see those come to the surface. But don't be afraid. I got you. Jesus nails it as usual. Often what keeps us from following Jesus is fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear I'm not good enough. Fear of what people might say. Fear of how my life might change. And that's a big one, right?

I mean, remember for Peter, he's living where? Comfortville. But you need to be willing to leave Comfortville at some level to follow Jesus. I mean, maybe Comfortville for you is your reputation. Follow Jesus, your friends might think you're crazy. Or maybe it's just the comfort of your long-held worldview potentially being challenged. Or maybe it's the comfort of some familiar addiction or compulsion. Jesus says, "Don't be afraid." And then he kind of just gives Simon Peter a little hint of a new purpose. He says, "From now on, you'll fish for people." In the book, I also tell about when Steve Jobs recruited John Scully to be the next CEO of Apple. Scully was the CEO of Pepsi at the time. And Jobs famously said, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" Scully came to Apple. And that's kind of what Jesus is saying here.

And this resonates. It says, "So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything, and followed him." Now, left everything. You got to understand, we do see them in their boats, and we do see them fishing later on. I think this just meant at the moment, they just like drop their nets and they're following Jesus. And their commitment grows. Later on in the Gospels, Jesus says, "If anybody wants to be my disciple, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. In other words, be willing to die for me." But he doesn't drop down that challenge here. That comes three years later. Here, he realizes Peter doesn't know Jesus well enough yet to decide to make that choice. Right now, it's just, "Follow me. Tag along and your life's gonna change."

And Peter did become a fisher of people. I was thinking about this. There is not a single record of Peter successfully sharing his faith with one person. He is "Oh, for life!" Until shortly after Jesus is resurrected. And then Peter preaches a sermon and 3,000 people come to faith in Christ instantly. And I was thinking, it's just like that day fishing. Peter goes from zero to thousands in the net. BAM! All at once. And you know, Jesus has a greater purpose for you, too. You might not even have to leave your job, like Peter apparently did. Your purpose might be to stay there at work, at home, at school, in your neighborhood, and abide in Jesus. And bear the fruit of the Spirit where God has planted you. Love and joy and peace.

What does the world need right now? What is your work? What is your school? What is your neighborhood need right now? More than that. You can be part of the kingdom of God, blossoming into earth. Now, Simon does not instantly get perfect. Until that scene in Acts, he's up and down so many times, his life is like one long blooper reel, as we'll see in this series. And not just him. Think of his brother Andrew, who was there. This is the great man of faith who, when later a crowd needs food, says, "Here's a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make?" Mr. Eeyore, right? Or his partners, James and John, who later, when a village kind of insults Jesus, eagerly say, "Lord, should we call down fire from heaven to burn them up?" And Jesus says, "No, thanks, guys. But no, no."

Or the women, like Mary Magdalene, from that nearby town of Magdala or Migdall, the fish processing place, who, it says, was demon-possessed. That's how she is when Jesus finds her. And Jesus delivers her, and she becomes a leader of his early female disciples. Look, Jesus is clearly not hiring based on resumes, right? He's showing what he can do with anybody. He's showing it's not about your worthiness, your performance, your knowledge, your past, or your potential. It's 100% about his grace. Amen? Because by his sacrifice on the cross, he made a way for you to be forgiven and cleansed and transformed.

There was nothing Peter was doing to prove his worth when Jesus just kind of finds him and says, "Let me change your life." And I think this is why this story has resonated with people, the call of Peter, for 2,000 years now. I was thinking about this, and I think there's three big reasons this resonates with us, three things it inspires us to do. And of course, the most obvious is, number one, start to follow Jesus. No matter how little you think you know, no matter how unqualified you think you are, it's amazing to me that all Jesus says to Peter is, "Come, follow me. Just follow. Not understand me perfectly. Not pass this theology test. Not sign the statement of faith in conduct. Not even..."

Before we begin, let me clarify a few things, set your expectations. Just follow. In the book I share an article by Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks called "How to Find Your Faith." He wrote this earlier this year in the Atlantic magazine. He's a Christian, but, you know, Harvard professor and so on. So he has an entree into a world that's maybe different from a world a lot of us would have credibility in. And so I love the way he shares his faith. He says, "Because of the growing body of scientific evidence that faith is good for you, a lot of his unbelieving friends have come up to him and said, 'You know, I'd love to find faith. I'd love to find a church, but I don't even know how to go about it because I'm not a believer right now. Yet science shows it's good for you, so what am I supposed to do?'"

So he writes about what research has discovered about the formation of religious faith or any lifelong commitment. Three components. First, practices, then feelings, and then beliefs in that order. First, you start the practice. Attend church. Read the Bible. Serve together. Do a Bible study like this. Experience worship. Then you find yourself moved by a verse, calmed by prayer. You enjoy the fellowship. Third, you're intrigued. You're motivated to study the beliefs. You start investigating. You decide. That's how it typically works. Now the problem is, most of us, Christians and non-Christians, think it happens in reverse. Beliefs, then practices, then the feelings.

From the Christian perspective, we think we need to talk people into our theology, kind of argue them into it. But the way it usually happens is this order, and look at that. That's exactly the order that Jesus works, isn't it? He says, "Follow me, be with me," and then they have feelings like astonishment and awe as they just watch and listen. And then finally, like three years later, they start connecting the dots and actually believing. It happens this way to this day. This weekend, as you heard Mark say, we're doing baptisms at Capitola Beach. One of the people being baptized is a man named Don. Don and his wife put their kids in school here at Twin Lakes Christian School, not a believer in Jesus then.

But he starts hanging out, comes to school assemblies, a Mexico service trip with our junior hires, but he'd still argue with the pastors, "You know, I don't believe this stuff." Lately, Don and his wife began coming to services weekly, and he said just a few weeks ago, it was like he heard a call in his soul, "Now you need to decide if you're on the bus or off the bus." And Don placed his faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. But that's exactly the order I'm talking about here. You just start hanging out and then you see what happens. Just follow.

Now, I realize most of us here are believers in Jesus already. So what does this story have for us? Well, number two, it reminds us to stay astonished that Jesus calls me. Stay never let that feeling lead. Jesus called me. Like Jesus said later, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit." Now, here's why this is so radical. In those days, rabbis, teachers, never recruited students, students applied to the rabbi. It was kind of like going to university, prestigious, only the cream of the crop were selected. And you applied as a teenager. And if you weren't accepted, you went into the trades.

Now, Peter and his buddies, they had a fishing concern. He had partners, multiple boats. So it was years on from his teenage years. They'd probably all already been rejected for school as far as anybody's disciples, students. They were washed up, too old for school and too settled for change. But Jesus chooses them. And Jesus says, "I have a whole new chapter of life ahead for you." And Jesus says, "There's greater things ahead for you too." Listen, maybe you've been rejected. You've been fired, divorced, let go. Or maybe you think of yourself as the opportunity has passed, water under the bridge, you're too old, too young, too sick, too limited in some way. Maybe you even think, "I had my chance to serve God, but I blew it." Well, do you understand what this story shows us?

This is why it's just this captured people's imagination for so many years, I think. Jesus finds you and Jesus chooses you even when you kind of feel like that boat has sailed. And Jesus says, "I have a whole other chapter in life for you." And then finally, this story inspires me to see others as Jesus sees me, right? See others as Jesus sees me? One time later, when Peter and the disciples are surrounded by Samaritans, Jew Samaritan, there was tons of racial and religious and political tension. Jesus says, "Wake up and look around at these Samaritans. The fields are ripe for harvest." In other words, see them like I saw you, what I called you, as people that he loves and has a purpose for.

So here's my question. Can you do that in our divisive era to the people you kind of find off-putting? To the people you think, "Yeah, you know, their best years are behind them?" Or the people that you disagree with politically, the people whose yard signs and bumper stickers really bug you. Can you see them like Jesus sees them? Because in that too, Jesus says, "Follow me." Jesus is always saying these two words, no matter where you're at in your spiritual journey. That's what it means to be a Christian. So the question is always, "What's my next step?" Just think about it for a minute. What's my next step in following Jesus? Just take that next step, Jesus says, and then let's see what happens.

I'll close with this. This weekend, I spoke at the funeral from my good friend, Dan Adronia. I mentioned him a couple of weeks ago. It was an interesting memorial service. It was up in Folsom yesterday. And it was joyful because Dan was a joyful person, but also because we all were aware that Dan was decades into what he called his bonus years. See, 25 years ago, Dan died the first time. In fact, he died four times a quarter of a century ago. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago how on his way to Christmas Eve services in 1995 here at Twin Lakes, he suddenly couldn't breathe. Rest of the hospital, they didn't think he would survive the night.

Up to that moment, Dan was successful. He was a single dad, recently divorced. He was an electrician. And then pneumonia attacked. Dan slipped into a coma. And as I mentioned, in that coma, which lasted for months, Dan coded, flatlined, basically died four times. Gangrene set in to save his life. Doctors cut off both legs. His voice box was lacerated by tubes that they had to put down into his throat. After months in the coma, Dan wakes up, carved to pieces. He can hardly speak. Talks like this. Could no longer do his electrician job, which involved crawling around in tight spaces. But his attitude as a brand new believer was so joyful and so expectant. Somehow he told me, God's going to use this for good. That's how he talked.

Dan got prosthetic legs. And if he was wearing long pants, you couldn't tell that he didn't have actual biological legs because he could walk, he could run, he could even skip and dance with these prosthetic legs. That plus his joyful view of life kind of got him into trouble at times. I will never forget before one of our Saturday night services. He says, René, I have to tell you about what happened to me today at Great America. He's over at this amusement park, Great America, with a friend and he's wearing long pants and his prosthetic legs. You know, so he just looks like everybody else. And they both decide they're going to ride in vertigo.

And here is a picture of what that ride looked like back in those days. And vertigo was a roller coaster that launched out of the gate at super speed. And then you went through all these loops and twists and turns and then you went almost straight up in the air and stopped suddenly. And then you went back along the same tracks. Plus crucially to the story, the seats are arranged so that you are facing the other people on the ride. And even more crucially, the tracks above your head so that when you rode in vertigo, you sat down and your legs dangled. Don't get ahead of me.

So Dan and his friend, they decide they're going to skip the line and do the single rider thing. So you know how to put you with people you don't know to fill in the seats. And Dan sits down and he's facing about a fourth-grade girl who he's never seen before in his life. And they sit down and the ride starts. They get launched out of the gate at full speed. And Dan tells me that both of his legs immediately whipped back over his shoulders at a biologically impossible angle. Boom! And he says the girl's just looking at him like she's forgotten all about the terror of the roller coaster. She's thinking, what's happening right now?

And then they go through these loops and twists and turns and Dan's legs now loosened up or just pinwheeling around crazily. And then they go straight up and they stop. Dan's facing forward, right? The girl's been riding backward at this point. And his pant legs straighten out and both of his legs launch out of his pants over the little girl's head, just into the clear blue California sky. Now they go backwards, Dan's facing the girl, she's riding forward and his empty pant legs are whipping toward her. He said, "Like flags in a stiff breeze." Just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he says now the little girl's grabbing her own legs, screaming, "No, Lord, no!"

They finally drift to a stop and Dan told me that as soon as the safety restraints were released, that little girl went running away terrified, "Ah, ah, ah, like this!" Dan's not going anywhere. He's sitting there until they find his legs, which were fine. He said, "I pop my legs back on and me and my friend looked for that little girl all afternoon to try to tell her that she had not just witnessed somebody's legs coming off and they never found her. So somewhere years from now, there's still some woman, maybe she's a mother by now, saying, "I do not want you to ever ride a roller coaster because your limbs can come off. I personally saw it happen."

Well, I told Dan, for crying out loud, why didn't you just tell her when the ride ended that those were prosthetic legs? And here's his answer, "René, I tried to, but I was laughing too hard." Where does a guy who's been through all that get his joy? Well, Dan was able to begin a Christian ministry to the special needs community. This is Dan right there, wearing his prosthetics. And he went around the world fitting amputees with wheelchairs and prosthetics. He's in Africa in this photograph. He instantly had a connection, of course, with other paraplegics in a way that transcended any barriers. For 29 years, this was his new chapter.

And when I asked him, "What's the source of all your joy?" He said, "René, I was a divorced dad, then an amputee. I could have felt that life was over, but I clearly sensed Jesus saying, 'I have only begun to show you what I can do through you.'" And Dan is just one more example of exactly what we're talking about here. This is the call of Jesus to you. You think your life is over? You think you're not good enough? You think you're washed up? You think you've got limitations? Well, I still choose you, and I've got another chapter for you. You are going to do great things as you follow me. Let's pray together.

Would you bow your head with me? With our heads bowed, I'm going to invite Trent and Grace and Jen back up because we're going to close with a song and prayer. But with our heads bowed, I want to ask, what is your next step in following Jesus? Is it deciding to trust Jesus with your life? Is it leaving something behind to follow Jesus, something holding you back? Is it serving a neighbor in love? Would you just pray this along with me in your heart if it reflects where you are at today? "Lord, show me my next step in following you and give me the faith and the strength to do it." But help me do that not out of my own strength or my own self-will, but because I am with you, and you are changing me by your strength and grace.

Now with our heads bowed, I'm not going to say amen. We're going to close with a prayer and song that Trent just wrote right out of Peter's story because maybe you want to follow, but sometimes you're afraid like Peter was. You can tell Jesus that too. I want to. Please give me the faith. Maybe you can make this your prayer today and we give this to you, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen.