The Keeper (Ep #2, The C3 Man)

This week uncovers the single most important word for biblical manhood - and we take a walk in our "Garden."

Christ Community Church Little Rock
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Transcript

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Because you came back this week. So glad to see you, guys. Hey, my name is Tony Burkett. I've been served as one of the elders here at Christ Community. And uh I just want you guys to know, I am personally incredibly grateful that you're here. Uh some of you may not know this. This is about the fourth week that we're having in this space on this campus. So your presence here is just really the answer to a lot of effort, a lot of physical effort, mental, emotional, and spiritual effort as lots of people have been praying for the things that would go on in this place. And so your presence here is an encouragement to a lot of people, but especially to a leadership team here at the church. So I just want to say thank you for being here. So I hope you had a chance to do your homework from last week. Always kind of think if you're going to get up at 4.30 or 5 o'clock, you might as well get your money's worth. So if you didn't do the homework, go ahead and do it. Not now. Okay, you're already late. Do it later. Go back and do it. But I just would encourage you to do uh go work through those questions. Uh so I'm in a I'm in a little fun season of life where I'm getting a look back uh over the last 25 years over a lot of things. And these questions were really just really from the Lord to kind of weave into some other resources that I'm using uh to kind of take stock of a few things. So I would encourage you to go back and do your homework and do it each week. Share those answers to those questions with somebody. Oddly enough, I clean out my garage. This is the happening. I clean out my garage twice a year, before hunting season and after hunting season. And last night I was doing the uh the after season clean out, and I found this picture in a box uh that was uh a box of things that I cleaned out of a duck club, really our first duck club, the place that we called our first duck club. And we had a bulletin board at the duck club, and we had different pictures. All of the guys there had different pictures, and I was the one that closed down camp. And so I brought everything home, and so I was going through this. So this picture is uh the guy on the right uh is the dad, and then the two boys are sons. Uh and so this picture is probably it's probably 40 years old. And uh it was the first picture. My friend is the is the son in the middle. Uh it was the first picture when we said, hey, let's bring some of our favorite pictures from growing up and put them up in our duff club. It was the picture he put on the board. And it's he and his dad and his little brother, and you know, just a lot going on there. I could I could talk all morning about uh friendship and fights and those those three guys. I could talk about failures and successes, I could talk about great hunts, terrible hunts, I could, I could talk about the time. He cussed me out the time he told me he was so glad I hunted him. There just there's lots that go on in a hunting camp at a hunting line. But what I thought was crazy, if you were here last week, when I flipped the picture over, that was what was written on the back. In the wild. In the wild. I thought, man, in the wild. That's what that's the way we were created. Justin talked about. We were formed in the wild to be in the wild. And we'll learn more about what he means by that. But so much of what could be in that picture, so much of what's going to come out of your answers when you go back and do your homework, you're going to find out some of it's glorious and some of it's awful. Some of it's fun and some of it's perfect. But that's living life in the wild. That's living life. This side of the fall, walking with the Lord, walking with one another. So uh just a fun little memory. Uh, I told Justin it was just a total coincidence that I found that picture, and he said, absolutely it wasn't outside of the Lord. You were supposed to find that picture this week. And so, a little blast from the past. So uh we're gonna get started. Week two of C3 Man, being a C3 man. Glad you guys are here. Let's give it up for our pastor, Justin Cow.

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Thank you, Toby. You the man? Hey, good morning, men. Here comes Danny, by the way. We got him, we got him. Uh well, like Toby said, my name's Justin. I'm one of the pastors here at C Fury. It really is an honor. And I want to just again celebrate you for being here, to make this commitment to be here. It is no small thing. We could all be rolling over and sleeping right now, but we're we're not. We're here. And so that actually means something. That's a that's a big decision. Um, have you ever raged, raged out? Have you ever been in a place where you are just so angry that you can see like the anger coming out of your ears? You you're turning red. You are that angry. A couple years ago, me and my wife, my three boys, we were biking two rivers on mountain bikes, but on the pavement, and the road there is like wide enough to just nicely stroll, you know, just kind of biking. There's some offshoots you can take, little bumps and gnar and that kind of thing. But we were just rolling down two rivers, and uh Noam was coming on our left, and one of my sons, Axel, was kind of not going all the way over to the left, okay, but just kind of to the middle and back, just kind of sweating. I mean, it's a boy on his bike, you know, just kind of testing, turning, all is well in the world. I'm sure there were birds just flying around, maybe a rainbow. And then come these two bikers, like road bikers, and I love road bikers, but this one of these guys, he took his job as a road biker very seriously, and he comes flying by, Axel's in front of me, and he pumps his brake, and then he looks at my son, who's kind of veering him in the middle and back, right? And he says, Move over, idiots. And I'm like, in your shot, did I just screw that right? And so I pedal up a little bit as he's taking off, it's a little pair, and I look over at Axel, and he kind of looks at me and just starts bawling like wall riding. And so I'm like, things turned red. Kind of, I kind of gear up and I look at my wife, and she's like, you know. So I'm like, I got to go ahead, and so I just start pumping with adrenaline. And I'm not the greatest biker, but like I grew up on in the neighborhood, you know what I mean? Like we bikes everywhere, and I start going. And as I'm biking, I'm like, dude, what am I about to do? You know, I'm psyching myself up, and uh the only picture in my mind was those old Western movies of the cowboys riding the horses alongside the train, and then make that jump. And I know I'm literally thinking, okay, I've gotta, I've gotta, as I jump, I really gotta make sure my left foot gets around the bike so that I can dropkick this guy into a tree. And so I'm just going as hard as I can. We go around this turn, and what happens is he's on a road bike, and I'm on a mountain bike, and so he's gaining on me. And so it's just this moment where he's just doing this, you know, and he's just flying past me, and I am huffing and puffing, and he's still gaining on me. And so we go around the corner, and I'm like, well shoot. So I turn back around, so I can't get him, guys, and uh, I go up to Meme, you know, and kind of rejoin their their their bike, you know, their their just the group, and I just like couldn't I couldn't get them, you know. She was like, maybe that's a good thing. And I was like, no. So then we we go to the car, we load up, and uh I'm I'm calmer now. We start driving out of two river, it's a little windy road, we're kind of going around the playground out there, and here comes the biker. And now I'm in a car. And like my car is really good at hitting people. And so I have to make this legitimate decision. Do I there's a reason why I'm not riding to you guys like Paul from prison? Okay, I did not hit him, I decided not to hit him, I didn't even fake hit him. You know, when he drove by, I just kind of eyeballed him and kept on driving home. And stories like that, that that's funny, but that's real. And and and I'm curious, like the question that I want to kind of parse through this morning is what about that story? What about my reaction, my actions were okay? And which ones were not? Right? What about that was right and godly and righteous and manly in a good sense? And what, especially if things would have gone a certain way, were not good. Well, that's what we want to get into today. What we're gonna see this morning is that God made men strong. And he calls us to do strong things. But our relationship with strength in this culture is very weird. It's a strange relationship. This idea of God calling men to be strong can feel foreign to us, and that's actually very unfortunate. Now we know, and probably what we're all thinking, is that masculine strength has and is abused so much of the time. And so this conversation this morning is very textured. There are layers to it. Um but we want to see what the Bible says and what it is that God has given us. Because what gives? You take a moment like that, and we want to go to parse through what's good and what's not. Last week, man, we covered a lot of ground. We grieved the reality that we don't really have a pathway towards manhood as laid out as other cultures have had in the past. And so we decided this semester we're not gonna get all the answers, but we're gonna start the work of reclaiming that which is ours, that which God has given us. We saw that man is formed and filled by God. There in the wild, quietly, intimately, God forms Adam and breathes like, fills him with the breath of life. We see that God very essentially partners with man. Now, this is at the bottom who you are as a man. Is we are we are, God wants to partner with us, not as, he does not create man as tools, as slaves, but as partners. And whatever God calls Adam to and calls you to, he will train you. So what I want to do is recite our definition. We're gonna say it together. The biblical man is formed and placed by God. Remember, we're gonna make and memorize a definition of manhood this semester. It will not be perfect, but it will get the ball rolling. It will be helpful. Every single word of those, of this definition, you can squeeze it, and there will be more that comes out. And so when we talked last week about formed, you squeeze the word formed, God is, or man is formed by God, like God, and for God. And I think a mistake I made last week is kind of jumping into the teaching, just assuming that everyone has spent as much time in Genesis 2 as me over the last couple months. And so I kind of flew through the chronology. So as I talked with some of y'all afterwards, it was like, okay, hold up, I need to zoom back out. When we're in Genesis 2, which is really where we're anchored this semester, we are zooming in on God. And then God makes the wild. He leaves creation unfinished on purpose. Why? Well, then he makes man in the wild. And God has created his portion, and he leaves creation unfinished because that's who man is. At the bottom, you fill gaps. That's what we're doing this this semester, men. We're getting to the very bottom, the primal, the biblical primal of what who are we as a man? We were made to work the ground, to finish what's unfinished. Then together, man and Adam, we're gonna see plant Eden. And then Adam will move into Eden, and then here comes Eve, and then here comes the serpent, and then here comes sin. And so we're in pre-sin, pre-fall world in Genesis 2. And uh I'm gonna read Genesis 2, the first few verses, just to kind of again orient us. And again, here in about a month we'll have big screens, and I don't have to make the font so small, but this is what we've got, and we're gonna we're gonna enjoy it. This is Genesis 2, the first few verses. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the hosts of them, and on the seventh day, God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. Skipping to verse 5. When no bush of the field was yet in the land, and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, and a mist was going up from the land, and was watering the whole face of the ground, then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. A living creature to work the ground, to fill the gap, made in the wild, not in Eden, in the wild to be wow. God left creation unfinished. That's all last week. Now let's get to new territory. This is verses 8 and 9. And the Lord God planted a garden in the east, uh, a garden in Eden in the east, and there he puts the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And so again, then Adam is formed before Eden. And then somewhere in the geographical east, God plants the garden. And I just wonder, and it doesn't matter, I guess, essentially, but I wonder how long did it take for God to plant Eden? Because we read over it so fast, it's possible that God snapped his fingers, called forth with his voice, and Eden just sprung up, which is the rhythm that we've seen in creation so far. It's how Adam was made, it's how the stars and the land and the sea animals, it's how they are all made. So that's very that that might be the way it is. I like to think that it took time. That maybe took a few months, that this planting of the Eden, all these trees and bushes springing forth took time. And so God is training Adam. Adam's getting to watch what it's like as a sub-creator to watch the creator create something because Adam is being trained to do something else. He's going to be doing this himself. At the end of the day, we don't know, and so that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter so much, but what does matter is that Adam is there the whole time. Adam is watching a garden be built. God is training Adam. My dad was a physician, and there's a lot of physicians in the room. I used to ask him, like, what was it like the first time you did stitches? What was it like the first time you did take someone's eye out? What was the first time, and he was like, son, do one. See one, do one, teach one, right? You see it, you do it, you teach it. So that's what Adam's getting to do here. That's the best teaching. You see one done, and then you're gonna do it. And so God is training Adam. And this is our primal truth this morning. Man, please write this down. God is man's trainer, he is more than that. But right now, in this part of scripture, God is not savior right here in how he's working. Because there's no sin. What's happening there? At the bottom, God is trainer. Men, they're at the bottom of who you are. God is training. He is with you. You are always beside God in Christ. And we don't think like that so often. Verse 15 supplies a wonderful summary of all of this. And if you're gonna memorize one verse this week, man, please, Genesis 2, verse 15. Here it is. The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it. And this unlocks the next piece of our definition. Are you as excited as I am? Good. Here it is. The biblical man is formed and placed by God to keep. There is more to the story, of course, but piece by piece we're gonna open this up. The biblical man is formed by God, like God, for God, and placed. Men, where is Adam placed? In a garden. You have a garden. And that's the language we're gonna use this semester. You have a garden. Why a garden? Men, please. This is please listen to this because this will be a paradigm shift for so many of us in the room. Adam is not placed in a farm. A farm is known for productivity. A farm is necessary. A farm is known for efficiency. A farm is known for yield. That is not what Adam is placed in. Adam is placed in a garden. What is a garden known for? Beauty. A garden is not necessary. There might be food in a garden, but that's not the point. The point is beauty. In this series, again, we are trying to get to the very bottom of who we are as a man. Not opinions, just what do we see in the text. And at the bottom, men, you are meant to enjoy more than you are to produce. And a lot of you men haven't heard that. You are to enjoy the beauty of life and produce more of that. Not the other way around, produce in order to enjoy. Beauty is vital to a man's flourishing. Lingering in beauty is what you were made for as a man. And yet many of us think, we wouldn't say this out loud, but we live like we are machines. And you know what's funny? Your soul's been telling you this your whole life. Earning the smile of your wife. That is beauty. Watching the sunset rise when maybe you're you're chatting with friends, you're up early doing something, you see the sunrise rise, the weight of a rifle across your lap, waiting on the hunt, drinking some hot chocolate, drinking some coffee, the first bite of a ribeye cooked rare from your favorite restaurant. That's beauty. You think of a lightning stripes deep across the ocean's horizon. The smell of smoke on your clothes. Maybe a week later they're in your closet, and a week ago you're on a bonfire with some friends. That's beauty. You think of finishing a project with straight lines and tight joints, that's beauty. Listening to a chorus of a song you've listened to a thousand times, maybe it was your dad's favorite. Reading the concluding paragraph of a book you've read a hundred times, you know how it's gonna end, but it gives you that eight. That's beauty. You think of holding an infant and she falls asleep in your arms, and you realize you're trusted. And in that moment, you decide, I would die for this child. That's not even my child in a second. A local legend. Father Tribu, he was the headmaster, the principal at Catholic high school for boys here in town for decades. He used to say the best sound in the world is hearing a group of grown men laughing. That's a statement of beauty. Men were made for it. That's not an accessory. It is vital to our flourishing, and we don't live that out. God wants you to enjoy your life. To enjoy this world He's given you as your partner, God is. In fact, the first command, you can look at it. You have the Bibles, you have the passages in your field manuals. The first command given in the garden is, you may surely eat of everything in this garden. God gives Adam an abundance paradigm. All of it, Adam, it's yours. And then he says, just don't eat this one. And there's good reasons for not doing it. Okay, so good for Adam's garden. That's great. But what about this? Well, then the language I want to use is that you have a garden too. And that's actually not new language. 400 years ago, the great Samuel Rutherford said, the great master gardener, the father of our Lord Jesus Christ and a wonderful providence with his own hand planted me here in this part of his vineyard. He used the language vineyard. We're using the language garden. Sure, Adam had a literal garden, and that's that's great. We don't, but we still have a garden. We still have a garden. It is your life, and it is all that's in it. That is your garden. And for the next two minutes, we're gonna take a walk through yours. And so I'm gonna ask you to be a little brave and bold, okay? Everyone, close your eyes for two minutes. I understand it's weird, but it's a sign of strength to exit your comfort zone. We're gonna take a little stroll through your garden. I just want you guys to try not to fall asleep on me. G-A-R-D-E-N. G for God. Man, picture your garden, picture your life, walk through it. Think of it as a garden. First, God, do you feel the presence of God in your garden? Are you walking with him in the cool of the day? Or do you feel like you're calling out for? Do you feel like he's calling out for you to come out of hiding? Do you feel like you're totally alone? A. Appetites. Your body, your sexuality, your health, relationship to food, relationship to the mirror, addictions you have, down to dopamine, down to caffeine, to screens. How is your appetites in your garden? God, appetites are relationships. This is a big one. What's a smoking crater? What's flourishing? Think of your wife, children, family, extended family, coworkers, friends, neighbors. Here's a question. Is your garden safe for others? God, appetites, relationships D for disciplines. Think through your work ethic right now. As you look around your garden, where do you see Bible study? The state of your finances, the relationship you have with your alarm and getting out of bed or staying up late, watching something that's then killing your morning. Are you coasting or are you cultivating? God, appetites, relationships, disciplines, be for emotions, what men are known for as our best thing ever? No. Men, how is your joy? Where has your wildness gone? As you walk your garden, do you feel anxiety? As you see certain things? How is your mental state? How's your heart state? As you're dealing with God, appetites, relationships, disciplines, what feelings are surfacing? Any stir of inspiration, any dread or an urge to look away and avoid something? What if right there that's when you call out to God for help? And garden for neglect. This will always be your next best step. Men, where are the weeds? What smoke are you pretending isn't there? What sin is buried somewhere and it's hidden, but the smell of it is growing. Again, this neglect portion is the best next step as a biblical man. Okay, some of y'all are starting to fall asleep. You can wake up. Man, some of you are proud of your gardens, and that's amazing. You know, there is great reward in being a biblical man. But we all have a lot of work to do. We all have a lot of work to do. And so welcome to your garden, gentlemen. Your homework this week is gonna, and your field manual is gonna help you kind of walk through a little bit more. But the question you might have is okay, what do I do here in this garden? What do I do in this garden? And suddenly we're back to Genesis 2, verse 15. The Lord God took the man, put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. Keep it. There's our word. Last week I told you, hey, next week, you're gonna get the most important word of masculinity this week. And there it is now. Keep. You are. This is what you do in your garden because this is who you are at the bottom. You are a keeper. And then when you think keeper, you might think goalkeeper, like a goalie from soccer, and that's actually not the worst. I remember at Catholic High, I put on the soccer team, I shot a ball one time, I was a forward at the goalie. He blocked it, he had some attitude, and he said, You want some more of me? And that's actually an incredible way to think of the word keeper because it's shamar. Do you want shamar of me? Okay, that's how you're gonna learn Hebrew this morning. Shamar. Keeper. I did want shamar of him. I gotta hatch that game. Sit down, kid. So what the heck is a keeper? What the heck is shamar? Adam is a keeper. What the heck is a keeper? Always go back to the primal truth. God is training you. And if God is training you to be a keeper, what do you think he is? God is the original keeper. And so this is a dignified role that man is receiving. Eve will receive a dignified role soon. But we see in Psalm 121, verse 5, the Lord is your keeper. The Lord is your shade on your right hand. Or the famous blessing of number six, may the Lord bless you and keep you. What does that mean? Well, it takes a lot of English words to get through this one Hebrew word, but it the word means guardian, protector. You can write these down. Steward, nourisher. In order to keep, you must be strong. You cannot be weak and be a biblical man, because you cannot be weak and be a keeper. Now I'm not just talking about biceps there. Okay? We are talking about strength. The strength in which God has called us to. Keeping demands an outward facing strength and an inward facing strength. And how I want to illustrate this is everybody get your hands out. We all down. Okay? Form them into fists for a second. Okay? Think cudgel. A blunt instrument made to attack, made to be on the offensive. Okay? Now open them up, kind of soften them. Hands, fingers kind of close like you're cradling the cheek, the neck of someone you love. Cudgel, cradle. That is a keeper. We protect and we nourish both. This is not another word. If you are a keeper, you are both. Strength is demanded of both of us. As we think about cudgel, real quick, the Hebrew, if we were to read it literally, to keep shamar, it means to hedge about with thorns. So when you're keeping, you are creating a barbed wire blockade around your garden and those that you love and you're protecting. Your eyes are on the perimeter and you are advancing. You're going into the wild. You are protecting your garden. And the Bible gives us an incredible word for this. Okay? I missed that slide. Here we go. Genesis 1.28. And God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. And have dominion. Subdue is a violent word. Uncomfortably violent. And we remember that Hebrew because it's like from a Batman comic, it's kibbosh. Kabosh! You want shamar of me? Kabosh! That's pretty good. I deserve a little bit more laughter. That's what I deserve. Thank you. When you are subduing as a keeper with your cudgel, you are taking something and you are subjugating it under your feet. That's viral. That's strong. That is manly. God invites you and expects you to take hold of your life and all that is ungodly and put it under your feet. To dominate. Now I use the word dominate, and we start to feel this textured, layered, nuanced conversation of where masculinity and our strength can be abused. Then we've got a lot to say about that. Especially next week. But as the weeks unfold. But it does say this in the Bible. But one thing to think about is that even before sin, Adam was not called to an easy life. He was not just strolling around in the garden. Sin didn't make life harder. Sin made life harder. But it's not what made life hard. Adam's life was going to be hard. It was going to be so rewarding, so beautiful. But he was going to subdue. He was going to advance. He was a keeper before sin. Men, you are not called to an easy life. And we would have it no other way. What else is all the strength for? We want the heart. Well, how did Adam do? How did he do, keeping? We know that an intruder comes in in the next chapter. Skips him, goes right up to his wife, who we haven't met yet, and asks, did God really say? How did Adam do? He did not create barbed wire, did he? He did not hedge her about with thorns. What should have happened is he should have killed the snake right there, pinned it to a tree. As a warning, this is what happens when you enter my domain. If you mean harm here, especially to my brat, you're dead. That's what should have happened. It's not what happened. Men, as a pastor, I am a shamar. I am a keeper. There are men in the city who are not welcome here. As a husband, I am a shamar. There are family members who have to go through me if they don't want to talk to my wife. As a dad, I am a shamar. There are road bikers in the city that I still have to kill. It's not you, Annie, don't worry. I know it wasn't yours. Man, do you remember The Patriot? That great movie. The turning point of that movie, you need to go watch that movie again, is when a keeper doesn't keep. A father doesn't step up, so a son has to. The son dies picking a fight, the father should have finished. Remember Mel Gibson's line? Someone tried to comfort him saying, You haven't done anything you should be ashamed of. Remember his reply? I have done nothing. And for that, I'm ashamed. The whole movie turns. That's a keeper. You must be strong to form a cudgel. You also must be strong to form a cradle. Let me run through this quickly, but this is not an either or. As keepers, we must be able to cradle men. We use our strength to cradle. Our strong hands, cradling cheeks, and we nurture. That too is manly. We see it of God. If you were to go home and just read Genesis 2 a few times this week, take 10 minutes to read it a few times. God is almost anxious and providing Adam every need. He's just like, it's not good for him to be alone. He brings Eve, right? Everything Adam needs. God is anxious, not in a bad way, but just like, I want to nourish you, Adam. That's how God is for you. He wants to nourish you. Nurturing is not feminine. They don't just own that. That's masculine too. It is keeping. If God does it, then we do it. Remember, manhood is theology. Who did this perfectly? Jesus. Who spent hours fashioning a whip to bring you to a temple to flip table? Who confronted powerful, powerful men to protect the vulnerable? Jesus. Who did shamed women feel safe around? Did the laying come hobbling towards? Where did vulnerable children feel safest? Where were they safest? Jesus. He is the perfect keeper. Men, you have a garden to keep. And that requires strength. It requires partnership with God, and I'll tell you why. Because you will run out of strength. But he won't. You know what's so amazing about God wanting to partner with you? He wants to give you what he has. And men, if you don't hear anything else this morning, please hear this. Whatever got Jesus to the cross in joy and willingly is the manliest thing on the planet. I'm going to say that again. Whatever it was inside Jesus as a man that got him to the cross with joy and willingly, that is the manliest thing on the planet. And that's what he wants to give us. That's what he wants to give you. And that is keeping his own blood. And we're going to talk about our own blood. We believe for others. That's what we do with our strength. Man, you have a garden to keep, not a farm, not a couch. However, you picture your garden. I want you to picture real quick. Just that if you don't have to close your eyes, a big tree, out pops out Jesus. And he kind of looks around your garden. He sees what's withering, what's flourishing, and he looks you in the eyes and he smiles. And he says, Shamar, we've got a lot of work to do. You ready? Because a lot of us are intimidated by our gardens this morning. Remember what Jesus says in Matthew 11? We've all known this. Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. A yoke is a gigantic wooden beam that would go around a big old ox and a young learning ox. And it was for the young ox to learn how to walk. The old ox was doing all the work, but the young ox was trying to figure out the rhythm. That's what Jesus is saying to you. He's saying, Hey, keeper, Shamar, come on, come to me. Let's work. My burden is light. Then we all have unfinished work in our gardens. Some of us just need to start over in grace. The cross happened, the grave is empty. We can all start over in grace. And with Jesus, say, yeah, let's get to work. Let's get to work. You have more going for you in Jesus than all that is arrayed against you. All in your life right now, in your garden that's just on fire, if Jesus is for you, you're in a good place. Amen? Amen. Alright, men, let's get to our tables. And maybe you can start with which activity you did this last week. And if you didn't, then you gotta take seven laps around the church. We're gonna start calling that Jericho. Alright, get to your tables.