Pastor Podcast - Acts 2:14-41 - A Spirit-Filled Sermon

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Thirty-four baptisms in one day will do something to your soul. We sit down to process a big Sunday at LifeHouse: baby dedications, taking communion as a gathered church, and a baptism celebration filled with raw, honest testimonies of how Jesus changes real lives.

We dig into why baby dedication matters even though it isn’t an ordinance, and how it functions as a public commitment for parents and a shared promise from the church family to come alongside them. Then we clarify the two ordinances Jesus gives the church: communion and baptism. Both are symbolic, but never shallow. Communion re-centers us on the cross together, and baptism publicly pictures the gospel, the washing of sin, and the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. We also talk through the tension around children’s baptism, why some churches set age limits, and how we try to guard the sacredness of baptism without becoming spiritual gatekeepers.

The conversation turns to Acts 2 and Pentecost, where Peter’s first sermon shows the “Acts of the Holy Spirit” in motion. We unpack four themes: the Spirit powers the messenger, presents the message through illumination, proclaims the Messiah, and pierces hearts with conviction. That conviction isn’t condemnation; it’s God’s kindness that wounds in order to heal, leading from salvation into real sanctification.

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Welcome And Sunday Highlights

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Well, hey Lifehouse family. Welcome back to our weekly time to reflect on this week everything that happened on Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Sermon Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

A lot going on here at church. Beautiful day, ordinances, and glorious day on many in many regards.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

I mean, the weather was absolutely beautiful. I think about had

Baby Dedication And Family Commitment

SPEAKER_01 0:35

this been last week, we'd been in trouble because we're playing an outside baptism celebration. But yeah, so started off with baby dedication. You know, I think it was gosh, I lost count. The first service, there are many more than the second service. But beautiful, an opportunity for families, for mothers and fathers to dedicate their children. You know, that is not an ordinance of the church. There are two ordinances that the Lord gave to the church. We'll talk about those in a moment. Baby dedication is not one of them, but baby dedication is biblical. Like we see baby dedication in the Old Testament, we see it in the New Testament, in the Old Testament, 1 Samuel chapter 2, when Hannah dedicated, I think the wording is lent her son to the Lord Samuel. She prayed and prayed, and God blessed her with a son, and she acknowledged that and honored God by dedicating him back to him. And then in the New Testament, Jesus himself, right, as was the custom at that time, was presented at the temple by Mary and Joseph. Luke chapter 2 tells us about that. And so it really doesn't the one thing that I want to make sure our congregation knows and understands is that by dedicating their child to the Lord, it is not affording them any special grace. You know, it's not going to make or convince or coerce God to love their child more than he already does. I mean, he created them. Really, it's an opportunity for a family parent to acknowledge their child as a gift from God. And furthermore, their commitment as Christians to do their best to point their child to the Lord Jesus for salvation and to God's word for truth. And so it's really more for the parents than it is for the children, but also an opportunity for our congregation to express and commit hey, we're going to come alongside you. We affirm what you believe, we're going to do our best to point them to Jesus too. And so, but it was just beautiful. So many beautiful children, you know, I loved it. I mean, I look at those children and my heart swells. Totally.

SPEAKER_00 2:28

Like you said, also for the church, for us to recognize these parents and the commitment they're making. And as you said, come alongside. It takes a village to raise a child well. Unfortunately, in our culture, that's the you can't get involved and more isolation, even in that. But when we are the body, we can pour into the city. It takes a village, like literally.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

So yeah. That's kind of so that's what baby dedication was

Communion As A Church Ordinance

SPEAKER_01 2:53

about. Then we did we celebrated communion. So the two ordinances that Jesus gave to the church, his followers, are communion, right? Remember, he tells us at the Last Supper, he told his disciples, do this in remembrance of me. Eat the bread, drink the cup, you know. And so we did that. And it's a very powerful time for us as a community. I believe that community, communion is to be taken place within a church setting. I've learned that, you know, my position on that has changed over the years. I remember doing communion at a wedding one time, and I I know the heart was good, it was to honor God at that time, but really the proper place is when the church is gathered, when believers are assembled in that way. Because we do it together. We see in 1 Corinthians, you know, I think it's 12 or 11, something like that, where or nine, somewhere on there, where Paul really admonishes the church, rebukes them for not celebrating communion in the right way. They were they were to do it together and they weren't in that situation. They were not waiting on one another. And so it's a beautiful thing when we come together and proclaim the Lord's death until he comes again, as it says in the scriptures, by taking communion. We'd say this is what we believe. There's an individual aspect of it as we reflect on our own sin, we examine our hearts, but then, you know, at the same time we do it together, saying and communicating, this is what we believe.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

So I don't any thoughts? I agree. And yeah, like you said, the heart can be there, and this is something I know we'll get to baptism, but the two ordinances, and it's for the church for us to do together, to remember together, to encourage the children. It's a profitable thing to do that, yeah. It's not meant to be done solo, you know, by yourself or in private, but truly the ways that we remember Christ, as well as you know, baptism in terms of memorializing and symbolizing those things. Being a symbol, not a you know, transubstantiation, all those things.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

It's not different denominations and a means of grace, but a ordinance like we believe that it is symbolic, you know, but at the same time powerful. It is impactful, inspiring, motivating, humbling, you know, all of the above to be intentional, to think about Jesus, his sacrifice, his blood, his body that was broken on our behalf, and it does reorient our thinking, our perspective on things, and so it's a very profitable

Baptism Stories And What It Means

SPEAKER_01 5:14

thing to do. So the second ordinance is baptism, which we gloriously, you tell me, I I lost count. It was thirty-four. Thirty-four men, women, and children actually participated and followed the Lord in obedience through baptism. And we again, in the same way communion is symbolic, you know, so is baptism. Uh we don't believe that baptism saves people. What we see in scripture are people come to saving faith, repenting of their sins and believing, and then to express that faith and that heart, they are then baptized. And it is very symbolic in many regards. It's a picture of the gospel of our sins being washed away. It's a picture of the death. Like when you go under the water, you come up out of the water, the death, burial, and resurrection. So, in many regards, being immersed, right? The word baptism or baptize is literally from the Greek word baptizo, which means to be submerged in water. And so, for many reasons, it's a very important thing to do. It is not something that believers do when they reach some level of spiritual maturity. That's not what we see in scripture. What we see is people come to saving faith and doing it. Where it gets a little confusing in our context is many people come from different backgrounds where baptism's not important, or they were in different situations where they believed baptism to be a different thing, right? They maybe were sprinkled as a baby. It's called baptism, but a different thing. And so they never had the opportunity, never knew the importance, and so they've been saved for many years, and so there are people who are mature in their faith who come and say, Man, I never did that. And so they participate. It's a beautiful thing to hear the testimonies. I don't know. What was your thoughts on your Yeah?

SPEAKER_00 6:53

I think that's the most powerful part is hearing that life change, because like you pointed out, it's the external way that we symbolize an internal change. So hearing people share how their lives have changed, how Christ has impacted them, where he found them, so many people who were in such meaningless, hopeless feeling situations, and Christ reaching out and saving them, putting them on the new path. So hearing that, and yeah, even children who have found the way early, you know, that's sometimes kids feel, or maybe you came to faith early, but God impacting them in an amazing way. Like you said in the Bible, Jesus uses kids as the humility we have to have. We have to come to Christ as a child. So just seeing the range of stories, how God works in many different ways. It's not a carbon copy of formulaic. The Holy Spirit is, you know, just able to work in all circumstances.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

And I want to address just for a moment the whole children thing, you know. So there is tension in that. You know, children different thoughts, different schools. Yeah. And so there are churches that will not baptize children under a certain age. Some churches even go so far as saying by the age of 18, like so they will not baptize a child, even though they may acknowledge and say, well, that child child is saved, you know, but they won't do it till the age of 18. And the heart behind that is because they want to like protect the sacredness and not for baptism not to be treated flippantly, as many churches do, you know, sometimes they just, hey, who wants to get baptized today? And you know, there's a like a free-for-all, and people come and get baptized. So we we really we believe baptism to be a very sacred and serious thing. But uh, you know, so we want to do we do we want to protect or guard, you know, the the baptism, the the the work here at our church, but also coupled with that is Jesus' command to let the little children come unto me. And one of the things he really rebukes the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the scribes, the religious leaders in Jerusalem in his time, because they make themselves the gatekeepers, right? Like they're the mediators. And I just don't want to be that, you know. I do want to have conversations with children. We do that. We do here at Life House lean very heavily on the parents who know their children best. You know, do you see fruit in your child's life? You know, do you really think that they understand the gospel and what it means and have sincerely placed their faith and trust in Christ? And so we lean on the word of their parents and trying to help us assess whether this child understands or not. But I know, you know, I believe that at least my oldest daughter truly, you know, and again, I was in the boat myself as a father, like assessing, and I really believe she came to saving faith at the age of six, six years old. And I tried to kind of like push her down and you know, oh, she's too young, she doesn't understand. And really, you know, we're we're told to have childlike faith. And it's not rocket science, it's it's very simple. And the Holy Spirit can illuminate the understanding of a child, to understand the basics of the gospel and that we need Jesus, that he is the solution, we have a problem, it is sin. And and if we're gonna be with God and have a relationship with him, that we need to place our faith and trust in Christ. And children are able to understand that, you know, and so it's just it's challenging though, because like to get kids to articulate that in a way and before hundreds of people, you know, in that moment is kind of overwhelming. But but we, you know, we'll just continue doing our best to kind of assess and have our conversations. But we do baptize children when we believe that there is, according to their parents and just ourselves as well, uh an understanding of the gospel and belief in the gospel.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

So the gospel is simple and profound. It's so simple a child can understand it, but we never get past the mysteries of it. So, like you say in baptism, children can get it. You know, we hear lots of testimonies. Yep, I was five, six, seven years old. I understood my sin, my need, trusted Christ. Now, like we say, that doesn't mean you'll live a perfect life or everything will be smooth, we know that, but God being able to touch little hearts and minds, VBF coming up, that's what it's all about, is helping kids understand that need.

Salvation Beyond Better Circumstances

SPEAKER_01 11:05

So you know, one thing as I listen to the beautiful testimonies of every person sharing, which I'm so glad that we've implemented that into the celebrations that we do here. One thing that I felt, you know, that I wanted to just reinforce is so a lot of people were talking about how Jesus saved them and how their life, you know, they had peace now that they didn't have before. Jesus is the Prince of Peace. And so that totally, you know, they have joy that they didn't have before, that their lives have changed. And I felt, and I feel just kind of thinking about it all, one clarification or point that I just want to reinforce. And I think that all these people getting baptized understood this, and we understand this, but you know, Jesus doesn't just save us from our circumstances or situations or from our despair. You know, one of the things that the Jews were upset about is they wanted Jesus to save them from their temporal situation, right? From the Romans. Jesus wanted to save them from more than that, right? From their sin and sinfulness, from condemnation, from hell, from the wrath of God. And so, really, yeah, that's what salvation really truly is, first and foremost, right? Yes, he delivers us from situations and circumstances, and he heals us and he encourages and comforts us, you know, and blesses us. But first and foremost, he saves us from hell, from sin. And so, yeah, to know that each and every one of those people, you know, not just is their life better here and now, because eternal life does begin not in heaven when we die, it begins when we believe. And I heard a lot of that spoken of, but just want to clarify and reiterate that point too: that it's from hell, from condemnation, from separation. Like now through Christ we can be at peace with a holy, righteous God through peace.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

It's the vertical peace that then plays out into horizontal peace. Our circumstances, our relationships. Once we have our identity in Christ, and now that peace with God, that will radically transform our other relationships with others, with ourself, with creation was something we were talking about in our Wednesday night class last week. Like you get this right, and then that's what change.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added, and his righteousness, and then all these things will be added unto you. Matthew 6 33. Well, we've been a sermon.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Yeah, we got sermon to get to, too.

Acts 2 And The Spirit’s Work

SPEAKER_00 13:25

So beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

Yeah, Jeremy Alrich preached an awesome sermon. His first sermon preached on Peter's first sermon preached, which I think is kind of with just kind of a cool parallel there.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Pentecost Sunday being on Pentecost Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

And it was Pentecost Sunday, yeah, uh last Sunday, you know, and then this, yeah, that first sermon, first sermon. So yeah, what'd you think?

SPEAKER_00 13:47

I mean, I love it. Yeah, Jeremy did an amazing job. I think he brought that out and the point of you know, the true focus on the spirit, you know, all sermons, if it's God's word, and that's what Peter uses so much here, is God's word. That's what we lean on, that's where truth is. So Peter wasn't just, you know, feel good, whatever. It's this is what God's word says, and this is where the Holy Spirit is leading. And that's what a good sermon's all about. And I think Jeremy emphasized that's what I'm trying to do. So any of us, I know yourself, myself, when there's a sermon, it's meant to be all about God's word and the spirit, not human tricks or anything.

SPEAKER_01 14:23

Yeah, and so that's kind of this kind of goes back to so Acts, the Acts of the Apostles is kind of the official title. That's not inspired, right? Like we believe God's word is inspired. So human men gave the title of the book of Acts, Acts of the Apostles, but really it's the Acts of the Holy Spirit. There could be a make it made an argument there. And one of the things that Jeremy was really pointing out, even in his points, is this isn't about Peter. This is really this is about what the Spirit was doing using Peter, right? And we know all about Peter from the Gospels, Matthew, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. And Peter, you know, followed Jesus sincerely, you know, he but in the gospels we see him fail. We don't see the boldness that we see here all of a sudden because of the spirit, and the you know, what Peter was doing was beyond him, right? And it really was amazing, like for him to stand in front of, you know, thousands of people, the fruit. If you can imagine, you know, 3,000 people at the end of this Peter sermon were told repented of their sin and were baptized, right? The same people that crucified Jesus. And he calls them out boldly. He said, like, you crucified him. You use the Romans, you know, in here, men of Israel hear these words, you know, verse 22 of Acts chapter 2. He calls them out, like you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men, but God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death. He's looking at them. I mean, there's no backing down, there's no apologies, bold preaching the truth of the gospel. And they were, I love that word, uh, cut to the heart. You know, I mean, they, you know, they were pierced. The third, fourth point, the spirit pierced the multitude, cut to the heart, and they believed and repented, and and then from there that the church was born.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

Yep. And like you said, spirit powering, proclaiming, presenting the message, all about what the Holy Spirit is doing at this point, following Pentecost.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Let's walk through those first those four points. I think that's the best way. There's so much in this text. But his first point was, and maybe you can just break it down, the spirit powers the messenger.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

So we're gonna the Holy Spirit is what gives us words to speak. I think we talked a little bit about it last week in relation to Pentecost, but the Holy Spirit's gonna give us words. A lot of times we're afraid to share the gospel, or do I know, but God will give you the words through the Holy Spirit. He will power us to proclaim. It's not just because Peter was a super apostle, like Jeremy pointed out, he was just a guy. You know, he was just an ordinary fisherman. Had the power of the Holy Spirit and was able to have that message.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

I mean, I can imagine the rest of the disciples literally like sitting there with their mouths or jaws on the ground saying, Who is this guy? Like Peter rose up because they were Peter denied Christ. I mean, like behind the scenes, he he, you know, he was Malvi, you know, and he was like, you know, Jesus, I'll die for you. But then when it came to the opportunity, no, he went and hid and ran away and scattered. But this fisherman from Galilee, thinking all the way back to Matthew chapter four, when Jesus said, Follow me and I will make you fishers of men, Peter followed him. But all through the gospels, we see Peter insert foot in mouth time and time again, and we see Peter not faithful, but here, like he is faithful through and through. He doesn't back down, he doesn't sugarcoat coat, he preaches the word of God with boldness and with power. What's the difference? The spirit. This is about the spirit, not Peter, but what the spirit did in and through a willing vessel like Peter. The spirit powers the messenger. All right, second point the spirit presents the message.

SPEAKER_00 18:16

It's not just the, you know, necessarily the power, but there is a message to be presented here. There is, and that's the gospel. Very plain and simple, like we're talking about in relation to kids. It's not something that is super complicated. It's just truly the truth, you know, the truth of Christ, the truth of our need, the truth of the death, burial, resurrection. That's spirit. You know, that's the spirit is going to open. That's why we constantly, when we pray, you know, for sharing the gospel, is for hearts and minds to be opened. And the spirit is going to power.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

And he quickens and illuminates the word of God. I mean, I think I one of Jeremy's points was, you know, prior to this, prior to the spirit descending and falling, and you know, the promise of God fulfilled, Peter had read Joel, probably had conversations, the book of Joel, chapter two, where it there's a prophecy about the coming of the spirit. So Peter had read that, but now he understood it. Not just cognitively, but experientially. He was experiencing it. And so the spirit presents the message. And so Peter's using the word of God in the power of the Spirit, really illuminated by the Spirit. I mean, the Spirit of God was opening the eyes of the blind, essentially spiritually, so that they could understand and see what Peter, what the scriptures were saying. And so Peter was saying the words, but the spirit was literally the one to present the message, right, with the word of God that Peter was preaching.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Trevor Burrus, Jr.: Good theological term you used, illumination. We can, and that's uh our VBF, illumination station. We think of that as just shining light in a general sense, but God's word through the Holy Spirit. A lot of times if you're just reading words on a page, you know, what does that mean? But that's why God's word is active, because we can read the same passage 20 times, and through illumination, through the power of the Holy Spirit, that's going to hit us in different ways. It's going to speak very uniquely. And that's for everybody. If you haven't heard of illumination, that's for us the belief that the Holy Spirit is what enables us to really understand the message. Absolutely. Thankfully, he's our guide in all truth.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

So lastly, the Spirit proclaims the Messiah.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

You want to break that down for us? It's all about Jesus. Sometimes we then when I first came to faith, I was like, ah, the Old Testament, maybe I don't need the Old Testament. You know, we got the New Testament, but all of the Bible is about Jesus, and we have to look at all of it. Christ is the center, it is all the Old Testament is pointing to him, and the New Testament is pointing us forward to ultimate restoration. So all of Scripture we should interpret through the lens of Christ. Proclaim the Messiah. And I think, like you said, that's what Peter is seeing here. Joel is now making sense because he's seeing it in Christ. So wherever you're reading in the Bible, we can see Christ in. It's proclaiming the Messiah.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Jesus was lifted high. You know, I loved uh Jeremy's illustration about the church that had above their doors, we preach Christ crucified, and the ivy grew, and then over time, you know, crucified got covered by the ivy, we preach Christ, and then the ivy grew some more. Well, we preach, you know, and then ivy grew some more. It's just we, you know, and it really kind of is an illustration of kind of the progression of churches in our day and time where they lose focus. Like our eyes, the focus should always be on Jesus Christ, Christ crucified, and even furthermore risen, you know. And so Peter's sermon was all about that. Like he preached Christ crucified. And in the power of the Spirit, presented by the Spirit, he proclaimed the Messiah, lifted high Jesus. I think about, I mean, Jesus said, If I be lifted up, I will draw all men into myself, John 12 32. And so I believe that that I see that play out, you know, like we we we need to everything we do should be glorifying, should lift up, magnify Jesus Christ. Is it Psalm 34 where David says, Come, magnify the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together. And we do that, whether we serve, whether we give, we live our lives like it should be in a way that exalts Jesus Christ. My favorite verse, my life verse is Philippians 1:20, where the Apostle Paul, when he was in prison, said, It is my earnest expectation and my hope that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but that so now as always, Christ will be magnified by my body, by my life, whether by life or by death. Like no matter what happens, I want Christ to be exalted, the Messiah to be lifted high, proclaimed, right? And so that's what Peter did in the sermon. Last point the spirit pierces

Conviction That Wounds To Heal

SPEAKER_01 23:00

the multitude.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

That's right. We proclaim Christ and the power of the Spirit with the message, and then the Holy Spirit is what opens hearts, convicts. Jeremy talked about the conviction that ultimately coming to faith starts with conviction. That's what we're praying when we share the gospel, that people will be convicted, that they will see their need, they will recognize their sin, they will come to that realization. And that requires a piercing. You know, there it's not just a mental okay. There's, you know, we always say there's a heart and mind. It's believe in your heart, confess with your mouth. It's a both and, not an either or. You know, and that was me before I came to faith. Having knowledge up here, but has it pierced your heart? Yeah. And that's where it has to come to that point of really recognition.

SPEAKER_01 23:46

Absolutely. I mean, I loved how he pointed out the difference between conviction and condemnation. And when he was talking about how the spirit, and I'm probably gonna mess up the quote, but how the spirit wounds, but with the purpose of healing. And there were three other points or four other that kind of goes along with that line. But can you relate? Have you ever, Nate, been pierced, cut to the heart by the word of God? All the time. All the time. The word of God is a two-edged sword. It absolutely is. I mean, sometimes it's sweeter than honey. It is, you know, but sometimes it's a hard pill to swallow. I say that. But yeah, like the word of God cuts, you know, the the truth of God reveals, you know. I I just got to read it. Hebrews 12, or no, it's Hebrews 4, right? 412. Let me just read that here. It's a good thing I have tabs.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

And while you're finding that, it's always a hard prayer to pray, but you know, if you have family, people you want to come to faith, a lot of times it's praying that God will bring them to their knees because we don't come to faith, you know, by you know, prosperity gospel and all these kind of easy believism. Right. It truly has to be that recognition of a need and being pierced.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Yeah, Hebrews 4.12 says, for the word of God, and that's what Peter preached, is living and active sharper than any two-edged sword. I mean, that's sharp, right? Nothing sharper. Piercing to the division of soul and spirit of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. Man, I'm like, God, cut me. Like it like it's like heart surgery. You know, I mean, you think about literally, literal heart surgery. I mean, that's a aggressive, I don't know, violent, you know. I mean, they gotta cut you open. And, you know, I don't want to get into all the ins and outs of that first thing in the morning, but it's not, you know, a walk in the park. It's not roses and rainbows. I mean, it is surgery opening up. That's what the word of God does to us spiritually, and that is not always a pleasant process. It's not. The word of God pierces like real, I mean, just really and in a good way. The Spirit of God wounds with the purpose and intention of healing, you know. And so I can relate to that last point. I'm thankful for the word of God.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

You know, that's salvation will lead to sanctification.

Next Sunday Preview And Closing

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Yeah. Which is something we'll talk more about next week, getting into the devotion that follows, you know. So, all right, as we have been pierced, what does that mean? What is the healing process? How does that change our life in a very substantial way? So you guys are in for a treat because this guy is preaching this Sunday. So that's why he's ready.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

I'm ready. So yeah, Nate will be preaching, not his first sermon. Not first. No, he's a pro by now. But I'm looking forward to that. Any any you want to I know you were just giving us a little preliminary.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

We see all of those who were pierced, those who repent, those who are baptized, we start to see what that does in their life, how that changes them, how it changes them individually, how it changes them corporately, what it leads to. And we know this is what would change the world. This is how it would play out going forward, is not through half-heartedness or you know, laissez-faire attitude towards this, but a true devotedness that comes from that heart surgery when we have that new heart. What does that look like? How does that play out for us? So we'll be talking deeper on that. Yeah, well, I'm pumped up. Looking forward to it, God's word, because it is sharp, we lean entirely on that, but it gives us a great picture of just how that should change us and direct our life in a in a different way. So cool. Well, Lifehouse family, thanks for joining us. We do look forward to seeing you next week, continuing this journey through Acts. Hopefully, we'll see you on Sunday. We will be away next week, so we will unfortunately miss a video week, but that's why I be there Sunday so you can catch the sermon. We'll be here Sunday, but not during the work week one way through. Yeah, yeah. So we'll see. Yep. But thanks for joining us, and we will see you next time.