Sweeter Than Honey

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To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com. Okay. Let’s talk oh, it’s got the thing on. Let’s talk really quickly about, worship and what was coming out of worship. Did anybody feel like, well, I might have something?

Is there anything like is it like any kind of like phrase, anything that you wrote, anything that you want to like say or share or you need to like cook it up a little more? Yes. Do you wanna well, you’re gonna have to sing it. No. Just kidding.

Oh, gosh. Right? You don’t want that. Just kidding. Okay.

So say it, and then make sure to write it down and or send it to Alyssa. Okay. Yeah. Way maker of mountains, holy, creative, and storps. Okay.

Yes. In an order of magnitude lesser than him because it was and everything created has a creator, and that is the God of the Bible. More week of this. I’m pretty confident. I said last week that I think it may go into two weeks.

And this is and, I’ll just give you a quick review. Last week, we talked about the importance the author of this Proverbs and he says, my child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words and don’t lose sight of the let them penetrate deep into your heart for they bring life to those who find them and healing to the whole And healing to the whole And then we talked about, talked to and then we can memorize God’s word. Like, where do I even where do I even start? And what do I what do I try to put into pain point.

And then there are three categories. A pain point. And your I promise you God’s word has something to say about whatever brain, it helps bring pure liberation into that thrills your heart. Like, oh, man, I love it when you say that. Like, oh, it’s so good.

According to Romans chapter 12 verse two says, do not be conformed any longer to the patterns of this world, but instead be transformed by the renewing of your mind. When you get saved, you get a brand new it’s born again. But our minds have to be renewed. How do we renew our minds by getting rooted in God’s word? So is there a verse that touches your mind?

Maybe there’s an area of your life, and you need to discipline your flesh. You can discipline your flesh with disqualified. So maybe there’s an area of your mind. Yeah. Hold of it and and bury it deep in our heart.

Now I know that some people are like still kind of looking around like, oh, what can I and I just want to remind you that it doesn’t have to be like, obscure and recondite? It needs to be relevant to something that’s in your life. To 82. I’d like to get the whole thing buried in there. But don’t worry, it’s not like a big one or a long And it’s just God presides over.

I mean, what do you got? God provides over heaven’s court, takeaway from last week, this was kind of last week’s bottom line, to treasure his word, to follow his heart, and to way. And so if you had your bible with you, would you turn to Psalms and I’m going to turn in myself. Yeah. We’re doing Did you text that, Alyssa?

Yeah. What? What? Okay. Write it down.

Obviously, we could hear you in the room today, but these are for all of our friends and families that are traveling or watching the live stream or celebrating birthdays in Idaho Falls that are tuned in to the live stream, you’ll still get to be a part of today’s conversation. And that’s why we have the mic. So who would like to read for us Psalms 19 for a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven, a seven The commandments of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are clear, giving insight for living. Reverence for the Lord is pure, lasting forever.

The laws of the Lord are true. Each one is fair. They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the comb. They are a warning to your servant, a great reward for those who obey them.

Man, You know, let’s let’s take her on down through the end of the verse because there are some there let’s take it on down to the end of that chapter. Excuse me. Because it’s just so good. 12. How can I know all the sins lurking in my heart?

Cleanse me from these hidden faults. Keep your servant from deliberate sins. Do not let them control me. Then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing to you, oh Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

There’s a Hebrew phrase. It is a musical term. The phrase is Selah, and it means in Hebrew to like stop and think about what was just said. Let’s do that. Man, it’s so good.

The goal for today’s conversation is to just keep things simple, sweet, and poignant. So with that in mind, as you review verse seven through 11 of Psalms 19, I would love to hear from you what observations do you have? What stands out to you? Or what grabs your attention. Look carefully at those verses.

I’m not fishing for something when I say look carefully as if there’s something specific that I want you to find. But I’d love to hear from you. I just, I really like all the different ways, like, different synonyms for commandments or, like, instructions, decrees, commandments, commands, laws. Just all the different ways that, like, synonyms that are all they’re all exploring a different aspect of, like, what God’s law does for us. It’s not just, like, these are the rules and they’re really good, but it’s, like, all the different aspects of those.

Oh, that’s great. That’s probably when you see that, you should probably, for you, just go and, underline those different words and then chew on that. I think there’s more to unpack for you in there. That’s that’s really cool. As our friend Steve Strubing would say, there’s some oil on that.

I like that. Chris Bates. With the prompt that you listen Katie had for us from the song in worship, I have a little sneak peek into the slow cooker I got going. Okay. Oh, yeah.

Lift lift lift Slow cooker. Lift the lid and waft some of it up to us. Yeah. Yeah. So, one of the things so I had kind of five comparisons of God to the little g gods.

And so since this came up with the Lord as, kind of a judge, that was one of the kind of comparisons that that the Holy Spirit started to trickle into my heart to to let simmer. And this is, this is just kinda showing how he makes the law. You You know, he made gravity. He made physics. He made all of this and how it’s it’s clear.

There’s so many very loving adjectives in here. It’s clear. It’s it’s joyful. And how that’s such a just juxtaposition to the laws of the secular world or just the little g gods that pull us away from him outside of his kingdom. Not that, you know, how Jesus says paying your taxes is bad or, you know, but it doesn’t bring anyone joy really.

So I’ll just leave it at that. So a verse about how paying taxes does not bring joy but big G Yahweh does. Okay. Okay. Okay.

I love that. How many Yeah. I hate taxes, but I love you. We could tweak the melody. How many worship songs include the opportunity through lyrics to meditate on God as judge?

You know, we say you reign and and things like that. But like God is judge, like that’s some good theology there to like chew on and to get into our heart. When we sing worship song, well music in general, has a special way of bypassing some of the filters in our brain and can impact our hearts directly, which is why you gotta be careful what you allow in musically because and so, like, through a worship song? Okay. Here’s a few things that that happen.

Look at verse seven. Revive revives our soul. Oh, oh, oh, I know that some of you like really like a a linear progression from, like, top to bottom on the pages of your notes. And sometimes I throw this in at the beginning, sometimes at the middle, at the end. But if you are taking notes this morning, at the top of your notes, you can write the title of our conversation today.

The title is rooted in the word, week two, a great reward. When we are rooted in God’s word, it is a great reward. Okay. Verse seven. Look at what God’s word produces in our lives when we take time to get rooted in the word.

And the best way to root get rooted in the word is when you take the word and plant it deep into your heart. It is planted so deep in your heart that you can recall it from memory. Memorization. In number one, in verse seven, it says revives the soul. What’s that Hebrew word for soul, Chris Bates?

Yeah. Nefesh. Nefesh. It was right right there. Nefesh.

And it means flesh. Our soul, which is everything apart from our spirit. So our soul includes our mind, our will, our emotions, our physical body. Planting God’s word deep in your heart helps transform even your physical body. Number two, look at verse eight.

When we plant God’s word deep into our heart, it brings joy to our heart. Now, you may go to see the latest I don’t know we’re on episode 17 or 18, Mission Impossible. I mean, how many impossible missions does he have to pull off before it’s like mission, like, really hard, but Tom Cruise, we know you can do it instead of impossible. I didn’t write that joke in there. It just kinda came that’s off the cuff, y’all.

Stop. Stop. Logan, Kai, Kai, Logan, Logan, Kai is my son. And, and you two both were like, you know, so you Everything’s the same fault. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. You both laugh.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Okay. So I’ll go to see Mission Impossible for amusement, But it does not bring joy to my heart.

So happiness is an emotion. Emotions come and go and they vacillate like, Or maybe you get married. When Or maybe you get married. When you start dating somebody, it’s gonna end one of two ways. Right?

You will either get married, or you will break up. And if you try to take the middle ground of like perpetual dating, you should dump that guy because you you deserve a guy that will commit to you. Wisdom. But joy is different. Joy transcends circumstances and emotions.

There’s nothing wrong with emotions. Emotions can be a great gauge on our dashboard of our of our soul to let us know how things are going. Pay attention to being hungry, or being angry, or feeling unsettled, or uneasy. But emotions are terrible drivers of our actions. Joy is is a fruit of the spirit, as you read in the New Testament.

Joy is something that cannot be stolen from us by circumstances, or people, or situations. And I would even say that joy is a choice. So when we bury God’s word deep into our heart, it brings joy to our heart. Now, just in case you get a little confusied on where in in a Venn diagram of my the body, the soul, and the spirit, where which circle does the heart go into? It depends on the context of the writer.

Because in some verses in the Old Testament, the Bible says, the heart is wicked and deceitful above all else, and you can’t trust it. That would be that would then, in the context, fit into our soul. You know, that little cute pithy saying on the coffee mug like like, the heart wants what the heart wants. Okay. That’s your flesh.

Don’t give in to what your heart wants. Yeah. The heart does Yeah. That is true. The heart does want what the heart wants.

But in this instance, in verse eight, brings joy to the heart. The deepest most interest part of you, your spirit. It brings joy. Should we keep going? Any thoughts on this?

Clay. I have five of these, by the way. We’re on two. So we’re doing good. So it’s funny you should bring this up because at work a couple months ago, I was a little bit down, beat down a little bit, and, I made the comment that I wanted the joy back in work like I used to have when I was back in Alabama.

And I’m I’m getting ready in the morning and looking in the mirror and I’m like, hey, you. You’re the reason that you don’t have joy. You know, it’s a choice like you said, it’s a it’s a choice to get up and be joyful and to take that with you throughout the day. Scripture about healing was just magical. And then the video that Alyssa, I think it was, that sent it to me on Memorial Day, I listened to it over and over and over again.

And you just I don’t know. It just it it it touched me in a incredible way. So thank you. Praise the Lord. Thank everybody for all the encouragement and scriptures, and then God just laid a lot of scriptures on me.

It’s crazy. Praise the Lord. Joy is a choice, And we don’t manufacture that from our flesh because it then comes forward as wax fruit like you’re wearing a mask. Great. Everything’s great.

People see right through that. And they’re like, Oh, there’s another fake wax fruit Christian. Chooser to allow it to come forward. And so the other thing that you said is, the impact of people’s prayers and, a video that Lissa sent to you, the word that you used to describe it was magical. That’s alright to say here in church.

When it said in its proper context, which you nailed the context, I don’t know how to describe it. There’s no logical reason for it. It was just magical. We’ll allow it. I’m seeing through some lines here, or reading through the reading between Mhmm.

Throughout Yeah. All over the Venn diagram you mentioned. I had a thought of how our God will allow people to uniquely produce joy and and experience and choose joy through grief and sadness, which I think is very unique aspect of his kingdom on earth now that we live in. Yes. Paul says in the New Testament, we don’t grieve like those who have no hope.

So, yeah, there’s something different that is intended to come out of a Jesus follower. And it comes from spending time with him, meditating on his word. Check-in with you again. We’d love to hear it. Here comes the mic.

Come on, Jean. It’s very small. I’m reading a book by John Piper right now and the whole, like, premise behind it is that joy is a gift. And that, like, we can’t force ourselves to have it. Alright.

Or we can’t, like, muster it up within ourselves. Like, if we have it, it’s because God gave it to us. There you go. Okay. So how about this?

Instead of a gift like, well, I’m just waiting for the present of joy to fall in my lap. What if the present has been put in your lap, but you need to open it? Have you really received the gift if you just go, thank you so much. The wrapping paper is so pretty. And then you put it on a shelf.

Like, that’s insulting to the gift giver. The best way to honor the gift giver is by ripping and shredding the paper and tearing open the box and grabbing a hold of what’s inside. Joy. And grabbing a hold of what’s inside. Joy.

Okay. Number one, God’s word revives the soul. Number two, God’s word brings joy to the heart. Number three, Was that a is that a like a something you’d hear on K LOVE? Like, isn’t there a radio segment by like the old Southern Baptist preacher?

Insights for a living. What’s a guy’s name? Renee thought he was Don Knox. No. Doctor Doctor.

Charles Stanley, Insights for Living. Help me, Joy, maybe? Okay. Anyways, anyways, I mean, I don’t mean that in a out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. Okay.

Okay. So, number one, when we bury God’s word deep into our heart, it revives the soul. Number two, it brings joy to the heart. Number three, it gives insight for living. And It very well may include going humbling yourself.

Like, wait a minute. I thought insights for living means how I can like, you know, like, Xunxi in the art of war, like defeat and destroy my enemies. That’s not necessarily the way of God. Serve your enemies, it’s like what on their head? Heaping burning coals on their head.

Do you know the, do you know the the supposed historic significance behind that? So the idea is in in Semitic cultures, if you were going from one camp to another, that you would have the fire from that morning and you would keep several of the embers burning hot in this clay jar with ventilation to keep the coals burning so that when you got to the new camp, that you wouldn’t have to start all over from scratch and you could, like, get that fire going again when you move to your new camp. Are you with me? And the the idea was the very safest place to keep those precious coals burning was not in a backpack, not under your arm, not on the on the camel, but sitting right on top of your head. And so the idea we like to think of heaping burning coals is like, take that.

But the idea of heaping burning coals on your enemy’s head is this idea of adding fresh By like, let me add two fires so you don’t have to well, that one maybe save your phone for after church. Moving on. Number number one, God’s word revives the soul. Number two, brings joy to the heart. Number three, God’s word gives us insight for living, whether it’s a work situation, a family situation, investing situation, financial situation.

And then here is the fourth one. God’s word warns us of danger. Like Admiral Ackbar says Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

It’s a trap. Yeah. I gotta make up for lost time. Not my son. My son.

So here’s the thing about danger. Some of you have a proclivity for despite the blaring signs and the warning, you’re like, Oh, that looks cool. And you run right for it. Most of us fall into danger because it’s camouflage. That’s That’s why it’s a trap or a snare for us is that it’s camouflage.

Offering or proclaiming or advertising life or fulfillment or happiness or something to fill some hole in our heart. But it’s actually dangerous because whatever is being advertised as life, life, life does not have the capacity to actually provide deep nourishing life. And so when we read God’s word, it helps to warn us of danger. This situation, continuing down this path, is not good for your heart, is not good for your investment of your energy. What if Maybe this is just a question for me.

What if God’s word only ever kept me from stepping on a rake that would then snap up and hit me in the face? I would be so thankful. God’s word does so much more. But when you bury God’s word deep into your heart, it will help you from snap stepping on rakes and have it. Heart.

Number three, God’s word gives insight for living. Number four, God’s word warns us of danger. And when we take all of those, it brings us to the fifth one. God’s word is itself a great reward. God’s word itself is a great reward.

Sometimes with some of the things I say, I’ve had people ask me, wait a minute, Brian, do you believe in a prosperity gospel? And they have a sensitive area, especially to that phrase, prosperity gospel, Because it has been abused that that following Jesus leads to your very best version of life. That people with that revelation and that they march with that message, it gets off into the weeds and is most often mistaken for just material blessings. And so I have to clarify. And I usually get their theological undies twisted in more of a bunch by saying, yes, I do believe in a prosperity gospel.

Is more prosperous than eternal rewards? Even if your life is destitute and homeless and as a vagabond, you can still be joyful. You can still have your soul revived. You can steer clear of danger. Have $0 in your bank account and have God’s God’s word buried in your heart be a great reward.

Let’s go back to the top, click through these one at a time, and then I’d love to hear any thoughts that you may have on any of these, and then we’re gonna land the plane. Simple, sweet, concise to do. Efficacious for right living. Oh, yeah. Alternative title.

Don’t ask me how to spell it. God’s word revives the soul. It brings joy to the heart, gives insights for living, warns of danger, and is a great reward. Kat, I can tell that your wheels are spinning. Any thoughts?

Sure. I would say this is a good reminder of exactly what it’s supposed to do. I would say I’m not good at getting in the word, And this is a good reminder for me personally of what it’s actually transforming in me when I do. So I guess that’s why my wheels are turning. It it was just been a good reminder for me personally.

And sometimes it doesn’t feel like this when you’re in it and your flesh convinces you that it’s just reading black words on white pages. Mhmm. But it’s not. It’s alive, and it’s transforming you. Mhmm.

Again, good reminder. Mhmm. Do you know there are lots and lots and lots and lots of verses about righteous government and the and the execution thereof in this book. So In Psalms. In Psalms.

So when so find something that touches your heart. Okay. Don’t write this down, or you can write both of them down. But I was thinking about, like, what’s the bottom line takeaway for today? And I came up with two statements.

So I wrote this statement earlier in the week, and I was meditating on it. I was considering it. I was chewing on it. And then, but I’ve been like, it could be better. It could be more accurate.

It could be more potent. And then this morning, I was I was like, oh, let me take another run at that. And then I was like, ah, that’s better. So let me share with you the first version of today’s bottom line. Where God’s word is planted, a great reward is harvested.

So I had that all week, and I was like, oh, that’s good, Brian. But then I was like, and then I could be, it may not be as fun for you to hear. And wouldn’t it be great if this just were automatically true? That all I do is bury God’s word in my heart and then a great reward is harvested. But that’s not theologically precise.

Can you can you see what’s wrong with this or what’s not precise about this? What does your tell you? Joy, because you’ve got a really strong Well, just like a seed in a garden, where a seed is planted, you don’t just leave that seed alone and then show up in the fall and there’s a harvest. There it takes it takes tending, it takes, cultivating, it takes all the things that, it doesn’t just it’s not a one and done thing. Yes.

Wouldn’t it be Yeah. Wouldn’t it be great if this were completely true? Set it and forget it like a vending machine. Yeah. And where it’s planted matters too.

Jesus had the parable where he talked about the environment in which the seed is dropped. Yeah. Tell me go on. Tell us a little more. Being rocky soil Mhmm.

There’s not gonna be a harvest there. Nope. You can’t plant well, volcanoes can eventually grow stuff, but if it’s thrown on a sidewalk Yes. Birds go and pick it up. And then there’s good soil.

Good soil. And a good farmer. A good farmer. There’s gonna be a harvest. There’s gonna be a harvest.

Come on down. Come on down. And now the real bottom line at the most critical moment has cut out. Isaac’s gonna work on it so you can get the real bottom line. One more thing, and I thought of mentioning this when Clay was talking about healing last week and I chickened out.

But last week you had when we were talking about healing, we’re talking about a seed to an oak tree. And I thought that was such a good comparison because of the time factor that is involved from seed to tree. And just a reminder that as we are putting God’s word in our heart and we’re cultivating it and continuing to take care of it, it’s not a vending machine. It does take time. And just because it takes time, doesn’t mean it’s not working.

The same thing with, like, the ground and a seed. The seed has to die in the ground, and there’s a long time that you don’t even see anything happening. Yes. And then it starts to come. So just because you’re not seeing things on the outside There you go.

There you go. Yeah. So just remember that time factor and that just because we’re not seeing it with our eyes doesn’t mean it’s not working. And one more thing. And then remember the seasons too of winter being part of the four seasons.

If you watch a tree, besides the evergreens, but in winter, they don’t look like they’re doing so hot. They usually look pretty dead. But now we can look out at the trees and we can be like, woah, look at all that new life that came out of that little tree that looked like just dead sticks. And just reminding ourselves that there’s seasons that things that even though you don’t see anything going on, and it feels and looks real dead, the spring is coming too. Ladies and gentlemen, Joy Abad on our teaching team, who is and is always bring such wonderful insights.

Sorry. I know you have a point that you’re trying to get to, but, The real bottom line for today is forthcoming. Just wanted to go back to what Kat was talking about before, that like there are times that you can be looking at your bible and it’s just black words on a page. And and like and I’ve been in that place where it’s like, I know that I’m supposed to do this, and it sounds like that. I know I’m supposed to be doing this, and so like I’m reading, and I’m reading, and I’m reading.

But then I’m like doing it in my own striving. And so there can be a step before that. And one of the things that I’ve done that’s been very, very helpful is before I open my Bible, I say, which is also a verse, but I say, open my eyes that I might see wondrous things in your law. Woah. The thing that I’m supposed to do for him.

Yeah. You know? And like, that just makes it so I’m not doing it my own striving. And it really has like opened up the Bible. And I wasn’t going to him with it because it felt like it was something that I should be doing.

So I should be doing it on my own. Yeah. And felt like it was something that I should be doing. So I should be doing it on my own. But like even in that, going to him first and being like, help me do this.

There is absolutely nothing that God asks of us that he doesn’t also supply us with the gumption to do it. We can do some of those things out of our own strength. And he’s like, those are called dead works or works of the flesh. That’s a different sermon. But but he’s the author and source of everything.

Let’s put up a better bottom line. Where God’s word is planted, a great reward grows. How about that joy? Where God’s word is planted, a great reward grows. It still needs to be cultivated.

And what’s great about a harvest, especially like a fruit tree, how many times can you harvest that fruit tree in the life of that fruit tree? A lot. Help us. Let’s take just a moment and tend the garden of our hearts for a moment. Walk among the growth that’s happening.

The holy spirit may highlight weeds to you. Do you know that he does not pull weeds from your heart? He will point them out and it is your job to pull the weeds. It is also your job to plant the seeds. His specialty lies in causing seeds to germinate and sprout and grow.

And it’s almost, oh, what was the word that was used earlier? Magical in the way that it happens. Holy Spirit, just like you walked with Adam in the cool of the evening in the garden, walk with us in this moment through the garden of our heart. You just take a moment and be with him in the garden of your heart. As I was, listening to Gretchen share, and as we transition into this next form of worship, I was reminded of a quote from good friend of Tribe, Carla Waters.

And she said, you can’t have it stacked your way to sanctification. And for me, like, I grew up memorizing scripture and then like did theater. So like memorizing things is like there’s a system to it. And when I think about it that way, I’m like you can’t just like do the practice of like, well I’m gonna just memorize these words and and get it down. There’s an extra piece of it of asking God to help embed it deep within our hearts, not just locked in our minds that we could just recite it.

But that he wants it to be deep within us. That it’s not just about the doing. We could do so much, but he wants it to be deep within us. And thinking about our tithe and above that above and beyond that our offerings, Psalm fifty one sixteen came up in my head. You do not desire a sacrifice or I would offer one.

You do not want a burnt offering. The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart. Even in the old testament, where the law was sacrificed, it was God wants our hearts. And the same goes for our finances.

Like, God doesn’t just want us to, like, check the box and do our 10%, but he he gets all of us. And he wants our heart. And we get to pour out and give from that place rather than just checking the box. Yeah. Why don’t you guys bow your heads and pray with me as we pray over the tithe and the offering.

Father God, we give you all that we have. We ask that you open us up as we surrender every part of our lives to you, God. And we ask that you take our finances, God, and multiply them. Use them to further your kingdom, God, here at Tribe and in Jackson and all the surrounding areas, God, until the uttermost bounds of the earth, use us, Father. We wanna partner with you.

This is you you didn’t just you don’t need our money, but instead you invite us into the sweetness of doing kingdom work with you. So use us father. Pray this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

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Still, missing, and unaccounted for. And so, we believe that God’s heart is for the Jewish people, and we love getting to support our local Jewish community, and go out there and stand with them. So 05:00 on the town square, first Sunday of every month, and it is a beautiful rhythm that we get to engage in with loving on them. There will be, prayer meetings that we’re gonna start doing, every few weeks here through the summer. And the first of which is this Wednesday at 6PM here at the TMC.

It’s gonna be a beautiful opportunity to just gather together, pray as a community, just for what’s going on here in tribe, what’s going on in Jackson. And I’m really looking forward to getting to just join in prayer for about an hour, once or twice a month with all of you guys. So 6PM here this Wednesday, and then we’ll have a few more days through the rest of the summer. I think that’s all we got. You gonna come and pray us out?

Yes. One more thing. I think we have a graphic for it. There is a film that the local Jewish community is sponsoring to show, where is the venue at the wort? And I would encourage you to, at a bare minimum, look up a preview for this film.

You can rent it and watch it. I would strongly encourage you, watch this film and then come support the local Jewish community as they work to bring awareness about the lies of the enemy, the narrative that has been spun as a result of what happened in October October seven. The film is called October 8, and it is all about the the deceitful, mendacious lies of the enemy trying to be propagated here in The United States to poison the minds of many college students, against Israel. And so watch the film, Habab, Wyoming, Jacked and Old Jewish Community Drive, and Cornerstone, the other Christian church, were partnering together to bring this film to the ward. And so, it does say RSVP RSVP required.

So take a picture of this. We’ll also send it out in a graphic. Last thing is this, our we are getting a real legitimate 10 digit phone number for text to give. That transition happens tomorrow, June 2. And so if you use the old text to give number, 84321, you will get a reply that says, hey.

This is Tribe’s new number. Change the contact. It’s gonna be really easy. This week, we will send you a text blast reminder about the transition of the number of texts to give. And then for the next couple of Sundays, we’ll have a graphic with instructions on that.

But it’s pretty seamless and easy. Even if you text to the old number, it’ll say, hey, here’s the new number. Sound good? -Mhmm. -Would you stand up?

Can I pray for you, Shay, and the rest of you? And the rest of you? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. For the the potency of the potential of your word, that if it is only recited from our mind and our intellect that it’s just. But when it’s buried deep into our heart, it transforms our life. And so Lord, we thank you that your word is the great reward. I pray the great reward of your word over each and every member of our tribe fam here today.

I command a blessing over them. Students to go strong to the finish. The end of school is coming. Give us a great week. We pray these things in Jesus’ name, the strong son of God.

And everybody said Amen. I love you guys so much. Have a great week. And remember,