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Monumental Private Worship

Joshua 5:1-15

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Following Israel's renewal at Gilgal, the message calls believers to ongoing personal holiness, warning against a soft view of grace that excuses sin rather than welcomes the Lord's continual correction.

Primary Scripture

  • Joshua 5:1-15

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Well, if you would open up your Bibles to Joshua chapter 5 and hopefully you still have them open will be in verses 1 Verses 1 all the way through 15 So we have a good a good amount of scripture again this evening But I think you'll as I have been blessed this week from looking at this passage I think you'll be blessed and encouraged in your life of worship with the Lord So Tonight we'll be working from the theme monumental worship.

This is a continuation this morning service monumental worship part two And we pick up this evening in Joshua chapter 5 And after seeing the Lord miraculously dry up the waters of the Jordan Here we are Joshua 5 let's read As soon as all the kings of the emerites who were beyond the Jordan to the west And all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan For the people of Israel until they had crossed over Their hearts melted and there were no there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel At that time the Lord said to Joshua make flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel a second time So Joshua made flint knives circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeah Herolloth and this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them all the males of the people who came out of Egypt All the men of war had died in the wilderness on the way.

They had come out of Egypt Though all the people who came out had been circumcised yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness After they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised For the people of Israel walked 40 years in the wilderness Until all the nation the men of war who came out of Egypt perished Because they did not obey the voice of the Lord the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give us a land flowing with milk and honey So it was their children whom he raised up in their place that Joshua was circumcised But they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way in verse 8 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished They remained in their places in the camp until they were healed And the Lord said to Joshua today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you and so the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day Verse 10 while the people of Israel were in camp at Gilgal They kept the Passover on the 14th day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho and the day After the Passover on that very day They ate the produce of the land Unleavened cakes and parched grain and the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land and There was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year Verse 13 when Joshua was by Jericho He lifted up his eyes and looked and behold a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand And Joshua went to him and said to him are you for us or for our adversaries?

And he said no, but I am the commander of the army of the Lord now I have come and Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped and said to him What does my Lord say to his servant and the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua take off your sandals from your feet To the place where you are standing as holy and Joshua did so so let's pray Or we thank you for this text and we thank you God for This joy that we have a meeting with you in private or when we are all alone we can meet with this same Living Lord who met?

With Joshua so help us show us your truth your name we pray in there well tonight will be somewhat different don't have an outline for you, but Essentially as we read through this text I want to give you some some elements I would say they are critical elements in your private worship life. I've tried to make this passage Practical but before we get there what I want to do is just set this up as we learn this morning.

This is a This pet this passage of this Old Testament story is a picture of God moving on his people collectively He walls up the walls of the Jordan River Hundreds of thousands of people walk through on dry land they set up stones on the side and this set of stones is now a monument And we always when we worship desire to have monumental worship worship that is memorable worship that makes a difference in our lives Otherwise as we said this morning.

It's just a bunch of rocks, and it's just a service And as the hymn writer says all is vain unless the Spirit of the Lord comes down and Monumental worship if you look throughout scripture is not just Moving corporate worship, but it is also private worship We need to have monumental worship as we gather together life changing messages life changing song services But we also need to have private times with the Lord and all throughout scripture We see both private and public worship as critical If you go back in Genesis for instance Adam and Eve Adam and Eve walked with the Lord in the cool of the day That is a picture of corporate worship between a husband and a wife, and it's a beautiful picture They're just walking with the Lord and we ought to walk with the Lord Noah built an ark After the Lord executed judgment on the earth.

This is the first public recorded event of man slaughtering animals for the purpose of sacrifice we've been learning that on Wednesday nights with our kids and Adam and Eve walked With the Lord Noah built an ark and Noah never would have been the one To go into the ark had he not had a private prayer life Surely you know second chronicle 16 9 for the eyes of the Lord Run to and fro throughout the earth to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless towards him So the Lord constantly looks through the earth to see who are those with vibrant prayer lives?

So he found a blameless usable heart in Job Job told Satan that there excuse me God told Satan of Job that there was no one like him on the face of the earth So Job really you don't see any corporate worship in the book of Job. It's all private worship We see no picture of him in a sanctuary or a temple Basically he's in this inward turmoil and then at the very end God moves and shows up and humbles him But if you look at Job he has a broken heart of intercession for his children Every day he stays up late at night when his children were celebrating he prayed why he was scared that they might have cursed The Lord this is a great Living prayer life of someone who is burdened for the souls of his kids I Can imagine Job praying the very work words of Jesus the model prayer What did Jesus say?

Jesus said Lord let your kingdom come and your will be done You also see Jesus praying not my will but your will be done You hear these echoed in Job's heart We look at Abraham Abraham regular regularly built alters to use in private worship Abraham has many accounts of meeting with the Lord Isaac his son was obedient to God's choice of a spouse Isaac had a vibrant prayer life We know this because he sent his servant to find a wife and when the servant returned with the wife What was Isaac doing he was in his tent worshipping Just an aside young people consider Isaac if you would I just want to challenge you to stay in your house Stay in worship and wait on God If you look at what he did he stayed home He was where he needed to be he was worshipping and God brought a spouse right to his doorstep This is a tremendous testimony and it's a great a great model for you But what of Jacob Jacob Isaac's son met with the Lord and he wrestled with a man Now I hope you see you're seeing a theme here.

These are all people who met the Living Lord Jesus And I alluded to this in my prayer, but Jesus is eternal Jesus has always existed and there are accounts of Jesus showing up in the Old Testament. These are called Christophanes It's a time when Jesus the pre-incarnate Christ comes and meets With man, we know that it was this man Jesus who wrestled with Jacob and so when Jacob is wrestling with a man, this is a picture of his prayer life We ought to wrestle with the Lord late at night in prayer there ought to be issues that the Lord will bring to us and Inevitably, we will have to wrestle with him in prayer over these issues just as Jacob did What about Joseph Jacob's son Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers.

He was wrongly imprisoned He was forgotten in jail and we know he had a vibrant life private worship. Now, how do we know that number one? He was used to interpret it to interpret prophecies, but he was also One to forgive his brothers You can't forgive people who did that Horrible type of things to you unless you have a life of private worship Right forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us Moses had a vibrant life of private worship If you would mark in your notes Exodus 33 11 Exodus 33 11 I'll tell you what let's do this just turn over that should be just a few chapters Let's read one passage one verse in Exodus chapter 33 11 We get a picture of Moses's private worship life with the Lord And Thus the Lord's used to speak to Moses face to face What does it say as a man speaks to his friend When Moses turned again into the camp his assistant Joshua the son of none a young man Would not depart from the tent and so we get to the subject of our sermon tonight Joshua Here's a man who spent the better part of his adult life.

We know at least 40 plus years This was the habit see what happened was if you remember there were 12 spies that went to investigate the land of Canaan and only two gave a favorable report and one of them was Joshua and When the people of Israel were were sentenced to 40 years of wandering in the desert. This was his habit This was his pattern Moses would set up the tabernacle, you know The pillar of fire would go before the people and it would move the people would follow the pillar of fire the cloud And when the pillar of fire and the cloud stopped they would set up the tabernacle the tabernacle was a portable worship facility and Outside of the camp there was a tent meeting and this was a place where Moses and the Lord met But someone else was there and that was Joshua and so as we Look in Joshua chapter 5 and specifically in verse 13 as a principle of her text We see a man who has spent his adult life in the desert with Jesus He's fellowshiping with the father the son the Holy Spirit, but he is interacting with God I Sure, hope that this church produces young men young women who could say that they spent their lives In private communion if we if we develop young men young women Who can spend a life with the Lord in their private place?

It will impact and we will have monumental worship So that leads us tonight. Let's take a look at Joshua and we're gonna look at monumental worship So we have Four truths tonight for you The first truth private worship is a work of God Private worship is a work of God I'll give you a second to jot that down and I will read Joshua chapter 5 verse 1 As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who are beyond the Jordan to the west and All the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel As soon as they heard this Their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them Because of the people of Israel So we see the response in Joshua 5 1 of the pagan people scripture says they were terrified So four words that I want to give you And these are really four principles That we can get from this passage that impact our private worship life number one humility Private worship is a work of God and this produces humility Now you might look and say I don't see the word humility in the text What I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna pull these truths what I get from this now think about this Could the Hebrew people take any credit for?

Anything that happened that day the Lord pushed back the waters of the Jordan Absolutely not as we said this morning the number one rule in karate My son is learning karate is you don't pick a fight with seven people who are bigger and stronger than you but the Hebrew people did and So it was God telling them to cross the River Jordan He holds the river back and all of a sudden these people are terrified of them Now if we're gonna have a vibrant prayer life, we need to realize that anything in our life That is good comes directly from God first our conversion You need to begin your worship Time every day thinking about when the Lord saved you when he saved you How he changed you what has he done in your life?

And if there's anything of spiritual life and vitality within you it is only because of the grace of God Just as he pushed back the waters of the Jordan. He did a work in your life So humility It's the first thing that we need if we're going to have a vibrant private Worship life the second word is gratitude We're saying Jesus. Thank you tonight You know the Hebrew people did nothing Really, but test God They tested God ten times before they were sentenced to 40 years in the wilderness and in that time There's all sorts of grumbling.

They got tired of manna They got tired of not having any meat the Lord sent Quail they were tired of quail they they just really had a bad attitude And if we're gonna have a vibrant Personal time of worship we're gonna have a vibrant prayer life a vibrant worship life This humility must produce a sense of gratitude And every day we should number one begin prayer with humility and we should be thankful The third word I have for you Regarding this work of God is confidence We should have confidence that God will do a great thing in our lives confidence See God had promised that he would completely drive out these nations If you look in chapter 4 we read it this morning Right.

So Josh was telling the people God has just told me and I'm telling you that he will certainly destroy all of these nations If God has done great things in your life today, he will do great things in your life tomorrow now brother Chris and I have done our share of pastoral counseling and This is an issue that we see all the time And people come face to face with an issue that they think is bigger than them.

It's overwhelming to them It might bring them to tears in many cases our trials as they come up will will put us in a place where we're sitting And it's as if we're enveloped by this trial in the cloud But if we go back to step one and worship knowing that God's done a fantastic thing for us in saving us He's given us a fantastic church and church family This should give us humility and gratitude but confidence Especially that he will continue to do this work.

You know, he said he is the author and the perfecter of our faith And he's also said that he is faithful to complete the work that he began So if the work was created it will be completed And finally the fourth word under the first point is praise Praise the Hebrew people could rejoice that the one and living God chose them Called them and was fulfilling his promise So Thanksgiving for what he has done praise for who he is and confidence in his character So under the first point I just want you to remember that the Hebrew people saw the waters rolled back they set the monument and Then they begin this process they had to have been overwhelmed with the sense.

This is a great God We're thankful for him. We're thankful to him. We have confidence in him and therefore we praise him The second point as we move on the second main point tonight private worship requires obedience Private worship requires obedience Or read in verse 2 At that same time the Lord said to Joshua make flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel a second time So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel a gibby-ath Herrath and this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them all the males the people who came out of Egypt all the men of war Had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt Though all the people who came out had been circumcised yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness After they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised So the people of Israel walked 40 years in the wilderness until all the nation the men of war who came out of Egypt Perished because they did not obey the voice of the Lord The Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land The Lord had sworn to their fathers to give us a land flowing with milk and honey.

So it was their children Whom he raised up in their place that Joshua was circumcised for they were uncircumcised Because they had not been circumcised on the way in verse 8 when the circumcising the whole nation was finished They remained in their place in the camp until they were healed and the Lord said to Joshua Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you and so the name of this place was Gilgal to this day now I Know this is a very lengthy passage But it is critical Because if you look at what happens essentially what's happened is for 40 years They've been in disobedience now.

They were in disobedience when they refused to go into the promised land but for 40 years they were under reproach and I'm just gonna tell you right now if there is a controversy is one of my favorite preachers Used to say there is a controversy between you and the Lord then your Personal prayer life is dead in the water Now I'll think about this think about this for a second God said you'll be in the wilderness for 40 years. They're there for 40 years.

He does this great miracle He brings them through but before they can go any further in the conquest of the promised land They got to deal with this issue and he says Joshua one thing All these young people here that had been born Were circumcised when was a young Hebrew boy to be circumcised? on the eighth day They had the law. They already had this information. Okay, but this is why sometimes God can't bring a sin Right certain sin to your to your attention, right because we're not there yet because there's something else in the way Right.

What else was in the way they had to do their time And now as it's time to move on you can't there comes to certain points in your spiritual life Well, you can't move on until you deal with a controversy So the word that I want to give you that is absolutely necessary for real worship is contrition Contrition The other form the word is contrite Our private worship will be hindered by unrepentant church fellowship now think about this Joshua had been circumcised there was Joshua was right with the Lord.

He spent his entire life Praying okay, but the people he was leading were in sin So there was a certain degree to which his personal prayer life was even limited by the sin of the people now That may be difficult for us to understand. I teach my students at school that that here in America. We are an individualistic Culture we think of the world in terms of me if you go to India as our brother Luke goes Quite frequently tells us they are a collectivist Culture right which means they think first about the group so before doing anything How will this affect my family even marriage marrying this person?

How will this affect my family going to this school? How will this affect my family or my community? It's really quite foreign, but if you think about this Right if there is a a group sin right if there's an area in our church where we're just not not where we need to be I Believe that does affect us. I believe what God would want us to do individually as he opens your eyes to this It's to burden you for it Look at Nehemiah and Daniel brother Chris has been preaching on this both Nehemiah and Daniel both repented For sins that they did not commit If you look at Nehemiah most recently Nehemiah says Forgive O Lord the sins of my house my father's house Daniel as well.

These were godly men who were bearing the burden of other people Let's see if you remember this this line this hymn let me at thy throne of mercy find a sweet relief kneeling there in deep Contrition help my unbelief That's Fanny Crosby's pass me not a gentle Savior We sing it here a lot and that word is critical If you do not have a point in your life where you're broken and burdened over your sin and the sins of those around you Then your worship life is not what it needs to be That leads us to the second word that I want to give you under private worship requires obedience That's obedience Obedience Once God makes you aware of the controversy between you and him Once God shows you that there is sin in your life If you are not quick to get that sin out of your life your personal prayer life and worship life is Dead in the water.

It's not going anywhere You're not gaining any ground You're not experiencing the Lord's presence What happened when the Lord went to walk in the cool of the day as he always had with Adam and Eve? They were hiding And when the Lord comes to meet with you to walk with you in the cool of your day if you have Unconfessed unrepentant of sin you'll be hiding from him You will not be running to him The third point Tonight worship private worship requires the blood of the lamb Private worship requires the blood of the land Now we get to the Passover While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal They kept the Passover on the 14th day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho and The day after the Passover on that very day they ate of the produce of land on 11 cakes parched grain and the manna ceased the day after they ate the produce of land and There was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year Now this is a monumental occurrence Okay, so I heard one commentator I read said that the moment in which the Hebrew people crossed the Jordan their home Now they have seven other kingdoms who happen to be living in their house, right?

But God will take care of that in due time, but the minute they cross the Jordan God's people are in God's promised land and this is significant because God's people are now Obedient they have just circumcised all of their people their enemies are in terror But they do something very very special. This is a monumentous occasion.

They Celebrate the Passover there in the promised land If you remember the Passover the Passover critical the Passover you take a spotless lamb a male lamb And you slaughter the blood of that animal and take hissop and you put it over the doorpost Well, this is a picture of Jesus Christ Jesus Christ was the sacrificial lamb who was crucified for the sins of the world his blood As we sing it tonight has washed away my sin All right, the wrath of God Completely satisfied this hyssop takes the blood and it's put on the doorpost Right.

We see the doorpost is symbolic of the cross so when the blood of Jesus is poured on the cross for you and I we have redemption and Your private personal worship life requires the blood of Jesus. So let me explain what I mean When God shows you that there is sin in your life that there is reproach that there is controversy Then he produces contrition You must obey But you must have the blood of the lamb Every day we need the blood Now the blood was a once and for all sacrifice Hebrew tells us the blood of bulls and goats had to be spilled out every year The blood of Jesus Christ was spilled once But I tell you I need the blood of Jesus every day If I don't have the blood of Jesus covering me My personal worship life is dead in the water But also under the blood of the lamb I want you to see we must have the word We must have the word So under the third truth private worship requires the blood of the lamb we must have the word Now why the word the word is here because God specifically told the Hebrew people how? right to engage in the Passover and This is no this is really nothing Fuzzy the word of God tells us everything that we need and If you don't have the word of God living and active and breathing in your life, there's something amiss in your worship life To our fourth and final truth Private worship is a work of God only he can do it It requires obedience requires the blood of the lamb The private worship requires the presence of God If you're going to have a living vibrant private Worship life God must be in the midst of it If God is not in the midst of your prayer life You don't have a prayer life So let's read This is for Joshua That the reproach is gone the people are obedient They are about to move and to conquer Jericho and let's look at what happens with Joshua When Joshua was by Jericho He lifted up his eyes and looked and behold a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand And Joshua went to him and said to him Are you for us or for our adversaries?

And he said no, but I am a commander of the army of the Lord now I have come And the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua Take off your sandals from your feet to the place where you are standing. It's holy And Joshua did so This is nothing more than a manifestation of God's Very nature now, there's always debate in the Old Testament.

I heard Brother Chris tell me with his own lips that he was in a Seminary that the seminary an Old Testament professor said boys Be careful not to look for Jesus under every rock in the Old Testament Right I did the same thing There are very educated minds who would pick apart all of The Old Testament and look at it through a very secular mind right through you know under the guise of higher criticism But let's let's not Bear bones or let's not Beat around the bush with this this was Jesus Let's look how we know it's Jesus from the text Because it says here that Joshua says are you for us or against us and He he says no, but I am the commander of the army of the Lord now I have come There's only one commander of the Lord's army All right, it's Gabriel is a mighty warrior for the Lord's army, but he's not the commander of it Right Michael is an archangel Who has a high ranking place?

Those those angels would not want me to mention their names That they desire glory for the Lord only But they are not the commander. There's only one commander and also look at what happens No, but I'm a commander of the army of the Lord now have come All right, and then we see Look at what Joshua says Joshua calls him Lord and Joshua bows if this were an angel if this were an angel The angel would have said do not bow every time when you see an angel Confronting a man of God a woman of God they always do the same thing They always bow down to worship and the angel always says don't worship me, but this this Armed man is not resisting worship So therefore this is Jesus Now I know we say Christmas time Jesus is born.

He's in the manger Jesus has always existed. This is Christology 101 Jesus is before time He was with God in creation John tells us that so Joshua is coming face to face With his Lord Jesus now think about this for a second Think about the audacity of this before he realizes this is Jesus. He walks up to this man and says are you for us or against us? Now think about that that arrogance do we ever do that with the Lord? Do we ever say Lord are you with me or not? Do we ever bring our plans before the Lord and look he's doing the Lord's work Don't we sometimes get an idea of what we think?

God wants us to do and we say well Lord how we gonna do this. I mean come on Lord how? God we have this ministry project I mean come on how are we gonna get this done and then we take that attitude into the prayer closet into worship and God Smokes us down and cuts us down like that. I Mean have you had those moments in worship? Were you just humbled where you realized that? You were barking up the wrong tree with that attitude I've had those moments with the Lord in prayer where sometimes over months He has revealed to me that I've had attitudes.

I've had a hidden arrogance hidden pride and Look at how Joshua is corrected Joshua says Are you are you with us or against this and the Lord says no, are you with me? Are you against me? And this is what I find fantastic about this You know, it's just like Job the Lord tells Satan that Job is unlike anyone on the face of the earth.

We learned at the beginning of the book But the whole book is basically God humbling Job and doing a work in Job and it's the same thing here This is God's chosen people the one true living God has chosen the Hebrew people and they're about to Conquer the promised land and here's this man who has lived over 40 years in the presence of God communion communing with God And God's not done with them God still has to correct an attitude God still has to give him a greater understanding of God's holiness and this is the beauty of worship It's that we don't ever get it, right?

We will we serve an eternal living Awesome God and we will spend all of our days being completely amazed at who he is We are finite. He is infinite. We are not all powerful. He is all powerful So under this private worship requires the presence of God I want to say this Your personal prayer life needs Reorientation That's the word reorientation from time to time God will reorient you and In your personal time with the Lord if you've never been reoriented Corrected Even even if there's no sin at this point Joshua was it was as right with God as He could have been At this moment, however, the Lord said even you need to be reoriented Just like Job you Job need reorientation Another word that I want to give you is supplication Supplication now, this is a word that you may not be familiar with but it basically means You hear it in Jesus's prayer Jesus giving the model prayer And Jesus is praying to the Lord at the end nevertheless not my will but your will be done that's supplication Joshua says has to kneel and he has to basically communicate to the Lord Lord whatever you want Whatever you want me to do I'll do The supplication is necessary in your personal prayer life Ian Bounds Has a great book on prayer and he says in this book That when you bring a matter to the Lord that you are asking God for the very first thing that you need to do Is you need to reckon in your heart that you will be okay with whatever God says Say God I've got this issue I have this loved one and they have cancer well Ian Bounds says You take that cancer to the Lord and say Lord.

I wish that this person be healed But I realized that that you know better than me It could be that this trial and this tragedy that you have in your life God is has a greater plan for it And wants to use it and that requires supplication To get to the point where you are willing to Continue on in a trial to continue on in a difficulty because you say not my will but your will be done Your personal prayer life needs that You you need that in your life And the last word that I want to give you here is Holiness Your personal worship life needs to be in the pursuit of holiness There are two things there's two types of holiness There's holiness imputed and there's holiness imparted Imputed holiness is the holiness and the righteousness that The father sees upon us if we are covered by the blood of Jesus, so when you are saved Imputed righteousness is the blood covering us in forgiveness We're justified before the father just as if I'd never sin But we also need imparted holiness Imparted holiness is is something that many people don't think is possible This is when God begins to give you his nature and God begins to give you himself We're in a day in an age where people believe That God loves me so much and I listened to I listened to Christian music and I heard a song on the radio I don't know why I do this to myself.

Oh, but the this song says God could not stand to be in heaven without me God sent Jesus because he could not bear to live without me Okay, that's heretical. Just gonna tell you God did not send Jesus because He was he would have just had an eternity without you that puts you in the center of the universe And you're not in the center of the universe No, you deserve to be apart from God and God Did not gain anything at all from saving you he saved you simply because it was in his Will and his good nature And so when God saved you and brought you into his kingdom His desires to make you holy But we are in a day when church culture is just telling you that the prodigal son can go off into a far distant country and Squander his inheritance with wild riotous living and Find himself in the pigpen and the father loves him so much He will just come and just give him a hug in his messiness Is that our Christian culture today?

Cares nothing of holiness We really don't believe it's possible But God let me tell you God Desires your imputed holiness. He wants you to be forgiven But he also wants that nagging bad attitude that you have out of your life That nagging besetting sin that you have in your life. He wants it done now nobody in The Hebrew encampment would have said that Joshua needed a tune-up But Joshua needed a tune-up but as he's a finite person and God will always be giving us a tune-up. We always need an adjustment Praise God that in his grace. We always can get one Amen praise God that as a part of his church.

This is the business that we're in is Coming together to be made more like Jesus That we would be like him Well, I Don't have anything in closing because the whole sermon has been application. I Hope that you've been challenged. I certainly was challenged as this was this was coming together. I Want to say a prayer I want to ask the Lord let's do what we did this morning I want to give you just a few minutes.

Maybe just a few seconds to think about this There's one specific area the Lord brought to your mind That challenged you convicted you just write this down if you would and pray about this in your prayer closet Father God we we do come before you And I acknowledge to you that Lord all all Leaders all spiritual leaders especially need this message. I need this message