Pull Up A Chair

How is everyone doing?. Good, Good, Excited, awake, enthusiastic, hey, I'm so grateful to be, to be with you all today. As Pastor Matt said, my name is Ryan, from Utah, and you're like "No, you're not, Not with that accent", Unless you've never been to Utah. This is how we sound.

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. That's not how we sound. No, I'm originally from South Africa and, and that's a story in and of itself- but, Lord called us to be church planters in, the Salt Lake area.

We're in Utah County and, so, please, I beg you, pray for us, but it is, I'm, I'm grateful to be here.

What the Lord is doing through this church, just from what we've been able to see today, has been so encouraging to us. We just arrived in Utah about six months ago now, right, Six months. Right, It feels like a whirlwind since we, since we moved, And, and we walk into rooms like this and we go: "One day, one day, This is this, is what we're we're, we're contending for. We want to see people gathered in a room like this, and hear the Gospel and become a community together", And, so I just want to say that this church is building our faith right now.

I love hearing the stories of how this community gathered together and how the Lord has brought everyone here, And, it's a privilege, It's a privilege to be here.

Can we thank God for Pastor Matt and Hannah and, what they their faith that stepped out and said, "Lord, we'll, we'll go, We'll go". But I'm, I'm really grateful. So the theme for this whole year is: just like Jesus, And we're kicking off this, this series. Christlike community.

Or Christc centered community, as Pastor Matt said in the in the video.

I think it's Christlike, though, right, It was. He made the mistake. Cool, cool, cool. But, but how many of you are not takers?

Take notes, Please take notes, because here's the thing: , if you are anything like me, all right, my wife will send me a meme on Instagram, okay, And you guys are like "What's a meme"?

A real, a real something, something funny. She'll send me this and she'll go, haha, And she'll send it to me, I'll open it and I'll watch the whole thing and it's like a three minute video and then I go. You know who will find this really funny. My wife And I will send it back to her without like realizing that she sent, and she goes: "I just sent that to you".

And then I play it off with: "Oh, it showed up on my feed before I saw your message", Rather than say like I like something's going on with my brain.

We need to get off social media and start thinking a little bit better. But if you, if you've never taken notes, I just encourage you, have your phone ready, because if the Lord says something, just write it down. Just write it down and then, when you are, scrolling through your notes or something like that, this thing that you write down, that the Lord says, put that down, It may be for you in a future season. And, and if you are a notetaker, my sermon title is called Pull Up a Chair And we're going to look at how, Jesus forms his church around the table And the.

The reality is, if we want to build like Jesus, we have to look at how Jesus built Right.

So what I want to do today is I want to walk through the community of the early church and then ask the question: how did the early church get there? And then we're going to go back through the gospels and sort of trace the footsteps of the early church to say: how does a church end up like this, How does a community look like this And, and we're going to answer answer the question why this life exists. So we're going to start in Acts 2 as the picture, but this is not the entire point of the sermon. We're going to be going back.

Make sense, All right, [snorts].

We're going to start in Acts 2, verse 42- 47. And it says this: "They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles". Now here's the thing: Before you go you're like "Hey, I'm not seeing any of this stuff in today's world".

You need to know that these guys were apostles.

They were establishing a church. The reason these signs and wonders showed up in these miraculous ways was evidence that what they were doing was going to be. It was they. They saw people, saw miracles and said something's happening over there.

It was attractive to the entire world.

As this started to expand, you started to see signs and wonders started to started to taper off in that like very prominent way. Because the church was expanding quicker than the signs of wonders could happen, because people were convinced by the person of Jesus and being radically changed by him. So all believers were gathered together and had everything in common- Verse 30, 45, . They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.

Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts.

They broke bread in their homes and ate together, with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And if you know your Bible, that favor did not last very long before great persecution broke out against the church. It says: "And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved" Jesus, we love you, We preach Christ and Christ crucified. Lord, I pray that as we preach your word today, that the Gospel will continue to minister into our hearts.

It is not a message we hear once.

It is a message that continuously changes us And we ask for your Holy Spirit to rest on us in Jesus name, Amen, Amen. When I say Christlike community, whether you have good theology or bad theology, you have an idea of what that looks like, right And so often what we do. If you're like me, you end up judging everyone else for not being Christlike because you are. You know, I'm like, I'm so Christlike, but no one else is Like: why is no one else acting like this?

Why does no one?

That's kind of how it happens for me. But you'll create a mindset of what Christlike community looks like. And in this passage that we just read in the book of Acts, it's after Jesus has ascended, the church is starting to be organized and the Holy Spirit is moving in a way that's gathering people together and they are so full of joy. It feels like a utopia for a moment.

And this is what life looked like in the church when, when Jesus was still fresh in the bones of the church.

Okay, Like, like. The way it kind of looked is like you could go up to Peter and you could be like: look, I know Jesus created the entire heavens and the earth and all that kind of stuff. But like, was there any food? He didn't like.

Like, did he have allergies?

Everyone's like: no, of course he didn't have allergies, because he No, he was human too. He was human too. Maybe he had something, Maybe he just like he ate an olive. And he's like: I don't know what I did about that.

The chosen makes you think that he didn't like olives.

I don't know, Like I'm, I'm down with that. I don't like olives that much. I like olive oil, not olives, But I wonder what it would have been like They could have just gone and asked some of these questions about Jesus. Hey, tell me a story that you're not going to put in the Bible.

I would like to ask that You know what I mean.

What was the funniest thing? Jesus said, Whatever that was, you could go up and you could ask questions and, and, and. When a disciple sat down and talked with you about Jesus, maybe he started to cry, because he's like "Man, he was my best friend, I knew him well. I miss him so much in this way, but his Holy Spirit is with me and, as a result, we've got a mission and a work to do.

Maybe that's what it was like.

So the driving question of this is: what kind of Jesus creates this kind of people? And to answer that question, we're going to go back into the life of Jesus And my goal today in one sentence and I'm going to give all my points up front, okay, And then we'll go through it one by one, and I sort of feel like it's more movements and everything. Even though I'm going to say points, And this is not an exhaustive list. You could probably go and study as well and get way more out of this, And you should as you should.

But here's what I'm.

What I'm trying to say is, today, to be like Jesus and to build Christlike community, we must learn to be present, allow access and live at the table he prepared. Christlike community is not a personality trait, but this is a practiced way of life. Okay, So this passage is. Our next passage is going to be in John 1, verse14.

It says this: the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.

We have seen his glory and the glory of the one and only son who came from the father, full of grace and truth. My first point is to be present. You see, the, this phrase dwelt, the Greek word of this word, . Dwelt.

It means to tent or encamp, to occupy, as in a mansion, or to reside, like God did in the tabernacle of old, a symbol of protection and communion.

That's what the, the James Strong's Greek dictionary says it. What, what John is trying to do in this passage is. He's trying to say that the word who is Jesus became flesh and tabernacled among us. If you were, if you were reading this letter, you know, sometimes you'll, you'll, you'll read the Bible and you'll go: "What does this mean to me".

Can I be bold to say, "I don't care what this means to you.

I care what this means to the person who was reading it in the first century. I care about what this means to the person who was writing it And once I've understood that in context, I can definitely pull something out of it. The Bible was not written to me, but it was written for me. Right, So that's what I'm.

What I'm trying to do over here is to go as a first century listener of this, of this passage. When you say God dwelt among us, it's going back to Exodus, where they're moving through the wilderness and every time they build the tabernacle, God's presence led them and guided them and rested in that tabernacle, and he was around in the tabernacle and they could see where his presence was resting. But now John is saying the word became flesh. God, God, Jesus is the word of God.

Okay, The word became flesh, Meaning that God wraps himself in human flesh, The flesh that can be wounded The flesh that can be struck with disease, The flesh that can be murdered.

He wraps himself in that flesh and experiences the same kind of suffering that you and I experience, So that when he stands before God- according to Hebrews 2, when he stands before God, he is merciful, meaning he gets you, He understands where you're coming from, because he felt it too, And he gets to say: "Me too, I was also spat on, I was also rejected, I was also all of those things. So I'm merciful because I walked the path that you walked". But the difference is, when I suffered, I didn't disobey, I continued to obey, And because I obeyed, you obeyed God through my suffering. Now I stand as faithful as the person between you and God, And I am communicating and I am the high priest, the great high priest that is making a sacrifice.

And guess what?

It's not just any sacrifice, It's me. I'm the sacrifice too. That's what's going on with all of this. And you don't get that kind of Jesus without that kind of savior that wraps himself in flesh, The- the Latin word for it is incarnation: God incorporated as flesh.

God incorporated as flesh Jesus.

What? What John is saying is that Jesus set up his tent among us [snorts] That the creator of the universe steps over the infinite gap and is now within creation. What kind of a God do we serve? Who would stoop that low?

For you and I. This is not just any man that we serve. Jesus doesn't save from a distance, He moves right into your neighborhood. John is saying that God doesn't shout instructions from heaven, but he shows up in the flesh, And.

We need to recognize what truly happened when Jesus was born: This baby crying in a the town of Bethlehem, screaming because he's a baby, He's flesh, but he's also God. He didn't just become God later on. He was, . Always God, Amen.

So Christlike community begins with the one thing that Christ offered, first and foremost, his presence, not just some shared ideology. As we know throughout the Bible, Jesus comes against all the shared ideology of that day, But he gives us himself. So what this means for you and I is that if we are going to follow Jesus, who gave us the gift of his presence, our goal should be to give the gift of our presence to one another. We had a friend of ours who, was in the hospital a few months ago and I was out of town but my wife and kids showed up and our friend sent us a photo.

You know, like if you, if you're scrolling on your photos and something shows up on your memories, if you have an iPhone, if you have an Android- I don't know how that works, but, but it shows up, and, and she just sends us this text message and she wrote this.

She said: "I realized a few weeks ago and failed to mention to y'all because she's from North Carolina. But it hit me that for all the hospital rooms our family has been in, there's never been one that you guys hadn't stepped a foot in. And she goes: "A picture of that". She calls our kids the Bubbas.

She says: "A picture of the Bubbas with me in the hospital bed during that week reminded me of that.

I know, God forbid, if there was ever a scary moment or scary hospital stay or a happy one that you guys would be there". And she said: "Faceetime counts". And we're like "Cool". But the thing, the reason I say that is not to toot our own horn or anything like that.

They're just friends of ours.

We showed up, But what we sometimes fail to realize is what a gift it is to just show up. It's not always convenient to go to a hospital. To find parking in a hospital. You're like, "Why do I have to pay for parking to come and visit someone".

Like you know what I mean. It's not always convenient for you when you get a call and it's late at night and someone says "Hey, help". It's not always convenient. But what it means when you show up, that will never be put into into words of what that truly means to someone And we underestimate our presence.

You and I cannot underestimate the gift of our presence.

But presence alone isn't enough. It's not where Jesus ends, It's just the beginning. Jesus doesn't just simply show up, but he invites people in. In Matthew 12:46, our next passage, it says this: that while Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside wanting to speak to him.

Someone told him: "Your mother and brothers are standing outside wanting to speak to you" And he replied to him: "Who is my mother and who are my brothers".

Jesus was so complicated, Like half like I, I don't know, Like they told me they are like. And then he points to his disciples and he says: "Here are my mother and my brothers, For whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother". Look how many of you watch The Office, . Okay, I'm not going to be your friend right now, I don't.

I'll tell you why. It's a really good reason, why I feel awkward watching it. It makes me so awkward. My life is awkward as is.

I don't need any more awkward that I'm watching and I'm like: why do I feel embarrassed?

And I'm watching a show that I can pause at any point. I just can't do that yet. Okay, I'm building up to it. Everyone tells me: hey, just skip through the first season.

And then the other people are like: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The first season's the best season. You don't skip the first season, You watch all of it". And I'm like: "I don't know, I just feel awkward". That's what it must have felt.

That's what I feel when I read this passage of Scripture, because I'm trying to put myself in the shoes of Mary and her sons and they're like: "We want to speak to Jesus" And Jesus is like: "Who are you" And they're all like: "Wow, wow, Jesus.

Like you don't remember, like we. We were hanging out last week and we were cool. Now, all of a sudden, you're going: "Who are you? Who's my brother and my mother's"?

And you're pointing to these other 12 dudes and you're saying, "These are your brothers AND YOUR MOTHERS, COME ON".

But what's going on over here is that Jesus is redefining what family is in his kingdom. We so often have got to realize: how is he talking? Because he's talking both as God and man. He talks as both.

And here he's going that physical kinship is not going to matter in what he's building in the future, because he's building a spiritual kinship. That's way more important. And his response is so shocking in this honor and shame culture. So now you, what you understand is: this is not your permission slip to go and cut ties with every friend in your life because they are not serving Jesus, or your mom or your dad or anything like that.

That's not what this passage is saying at all.

What Jesus is doing is he's using this moment to redefine what family is. And my second point is this: to allow access. This is what Jesus is doing. This is what we need to do.

Jesus is not rejecting Mary or his brothers here, but he redefineses belonging.

He redefineses belonging in this kingdom. It's not based access, is not based on biology, status or proximity. It's based on following the will of God through obedience to God's commands as we follow Jesus. That's what Jesus is saying: Follow me and you're- you happen to be- a brother.

Well, what are we?

Are we like, like, how does this? How does this sort of work? And- and the reality is so often, when we talk about church, family and all that kind of stuff, often what happens is you're like: "Hey, I remember someone talking about church family and then it mattered and they didn't show up". And a lot of us can walk around with church hurt.

You want to know something about me.

The most church hurt I ever experienced happened to be the church that God entrusted me to lead. I didn't get to just leave. I wanted to, I wanted to pack it up. Oh, my goodness.

So often I would go to my wife and just say, "What, if we just left, No one would miss us".

But you show up and for weeks I would walk in because of what I had experienced, with my fist raised, ready to get into a fight with whoever. This is a church, and I'm like someone's like, "Hey, pastor, can I talk to you". I'm like, "What, what do you want to talk about" And they were like, "Can you pray for me" And I'm like "Oh, I'm sorry". That's what it was like And very slowly I started to see good people grab my hand and pull it down and say, "Relax, No one's coming after you".

I was in therapy for it and everything Go to therapy.

By the way, It's a good thing, But understand that your healing is not going to come from therapy, It's going to come from Jesus, And the place that I was trying to run away from is the same place that hurt me And it's the same place that began to heal me. And I understand what it means to have family. You argue with your family members, sometimes best friends. All of that I do all the time.

All the time, The church is family.

Everyone is going to. If you haven't experienced church hurt before, you're going to at some point, You're going to. Well, my wife and I, we say this phrase. We say people are, peopleley, .

And didn't Jesus know that better than anyone?

That, yes, it can hurt and the church will hurt, because the church is imperfect. You know why? Because you're here. That's why, Like if you think the church was supposed to be perfect?

Why'd you show up?

Cuz now it's not perfect, cuz you showed up?. Right, . None of us are perfect.

All of us are going to make mistakes. All of us are going to hurt one another at some point, But what Jesus is saying over here is: figure it out. Sort it out between you two. What does that mean for us?

If Jesus words are true, it means that we are in his family, adopted through the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross And through his blood.

We have now become sons and daughters of the most high God And we need to treat one another like that. Anyone have, siblings, kids, cousins, best friends that you fight with or have fought with, or you, your kids, fight by themselves and all that stuff. Yeah, Right now, the place where most of the fighting occurs in our family, between our two kids, is in the car, right, You're like trying to do this, Stop it. And you're like worried about like getting off the course and everything like that.

That was today showing up- Okay, That was just today showing up this morning, And I'm like Lord, please give me the grace to preach this sermon afterwards, and everything.

And our kids aren't listening and all of that, and we're just trying to tell them that we're going to a church and dad's got to preach a sermon and they're not wanting to hear that at all because they're trying to measure each other's hot chocolate to see which one got the most. I'm like I wonder if God looks at the church sometimes and he's like man, just the church is like that car ride, Like you got. This is the place where the arguments just happen naturally, like it's just a place where things can happen. And God's saying: "No, no, no, no, You need to sort it out, .

You've got each other.

You are brother and sister, You are family. You need to sort this out", . And he's like: "I'm driving to heaven, Figure this out", Like "Don't make me come back there". He's like.

He's like "That's what is sort of going on".

And- and, by the way, we're supposed to love one another And so many people will use that that passage: love your neighbor. What you need to understand about that passage with love your neighbor is like when, when, when they're talking about it, Jesus says: "Love your neighbor". Okay, And, and the Pharisees go: "Well, who's my neighbor? Who is my neighbor".

You see, what they want to know is they want to know: is my neighbor is, is my buddy John, He's my neighbor.

We believe the same things, We hang out We, we. We vote the same, We talk the same We. We like the same kind of food We like. That's my neighbor.

And Jesus goes to a Pharisee.

He goes: "Let me tell you about the good Samaritan. That's who your neighbor is, The one that you're not supposed to hang out with, the one that you say is unclean, the one that you would rather keep at a distance, the one you've got an issue with. That's your neighbor. For you guys, your brothers, It's different.

So for you and I is to love our neighbor is to love those who do not have the same kind of covenant or relationship with us, .

With with Jesus, Same kind of relationship that we have with him. But to love as brothers is we are, we're in this together-. We love the same God. We don't get the opportunity like we.

We may have disagreements, We may, but we got to figure this out, .

We got to figure this out. You and I are not neighbors. We're brothers and sisters. And the place where family as Jesus is redefining, what family is?

The place where that really happens is at the table.

My third point is this: to experience communion. Be present. Be present, Allow access, Experience communion. In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul writes to the Corinthian church And he is mad at this part.

See, what happened in the early church is that they would gather around something called the love feast And it was happening every every week.

They would gather, They'd all have meeting like a meal together And they would conclude this meal with communion. Beautiful, Isn't that great? Do you know that most of Jesus's time, if you read throughout the Bible, most of his time, over twothirds of his time spent, is around a table having a meal. He's either going to a meal, coming from a meal or at a meal.

He's my kind of guy, I'm like I, I like him, I like him a lot.

And what would happen in this in the in the early church, is that all the wealthy people would show up early because they were like time is money, right, And they got a lot of time because they're running the businesses and all of that And they go. I'll take off a little early, go to church, go to church, hang out, I'll bring all my food. It'll be like a sort of like a like a potluck kind of thing. And I'm bringing the ribe eyes, I'm bringing the prime rib, I've got the good stuff And we're going to arrive early and we're going to get started.

We're going to start eating and we'll stuff our faces and we're even going to get drunk on the wine, And then what happens is, when the sun goes down, the poor show up at that same church and they don't have anything.

Sorry, I came from work And maybe they're even working for some of the people that are at the head table. And the thing is, all the rich people would be sitting at the main table that when the poor people arrived, there was no space. You're going to have to go to the atrium And what they do is they begin to mimic the Roman culture of classism. They said: "This is where the wealthy sit, This is where the poor people sit", And before you know it, you have a church that is absolutely severed And Paul is mad.

Paul is mad and he writes this.

He says: "So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat, For when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private dinners. As a result, one person remains hungry and another person gets drunk. Don't you have homes you can eat and drink in, Or do you despise the church of God by humiliating those who have nothing? What shall I say to you?

Shall I praise you?

Certainly not in this matter. You see Paul's saying: "You may be eating bread, but this is not the body of Christ. Don't call it that. This is not the Lord's supper".

Verse 23, .

"For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you", and he anchors his whole teaching back to the communion table with Jesus, The Lord Jesus. On the night he was betrayed. On the night he was betrayed by someone who said: I love you, by someone who was supposed to be a part of this family. On the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said: "This is my body, which is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me" In the same way, after supper, he took the cup, saying: "This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood.

Do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me, For when you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Jump down to verse 33. So then, my brothers and sisters, when you gather to eat, you should all eat together. Don't be rude.

Remember your manners.

Tell someone to pull up a chair, Someone who looks a little different than you, thinks a little bit different than you, in a different class than you, because you were one, You should all eat together. Anyone who is hungry should eat something at home, so that when you meet together, it may not result in judgment. And when I come I'll give you further instructions. Christlike community is built at the table, with radical hospitality, And here in the early church, we begin to see that even what Jesus built begins to fracture, And Paul's saying "Remember communion", Wait for one another reverses the social order, And at the table is where status dies, because now we have become one in Christ.

Communion forms us into one body.

It's not enough that we treat one another as brothers and sisters. What Jesus does in communion is he's saying. This is what he's saying through this whole sermon that I'm trying to illustrate for you- is that he goes in order. For me to save, I need to wrap myself in flesh, And through my obedience and denial of sin, I will be the perfect sacrifice needed for people.

I will show up with my presence, And then I'm going to redefine that.

If you follow me, this is what family looks like. And then, through communion, he says: yes, brothers and sisters, but one one: you are part of my body, You participate in my body. You cannot deny the flesh, You cannot deny one another and still think that you're a part of the body. That's not what.

It's not how it works over here.

Communion forms us into one body. Not only have we become brothers and sisters. You may, you and I may, not share the same blood physically, but we share the same blood, The same blood that unites us. It's not where you were born, but it's who gave himself for you and I.

Paul's point is here: that you cannot receive the body of Christ while disregarding the body of Christ.

To discern the body is not just to recognize Jesus in the bread and the wine, but it's to recognize Jesus in one another. That's to discern the body. When I'm looking at you, I see past you and I see Christ in you. And when I treat you, I treat you not only as brother and sister, but even further than that, I treat you as part of me.

You are me.

In South Africa we've got this phrase. It's called abuntu And what it means. It's so beautiful, It's my favorite South African word- that, that exists. And it means this.

It means I am because of you.

That's what that means. It's this idea of like this, this communal way of living. So when I look at the church, I'm going Ubuntu. I am because of you, You are because of me, We are because of him.

Communion isn't just remembrance, but it is formation.

Communion declares we belong to Christ and therefore we belong to one another. This is what Jesus is leading us to See, and it's so hard because you and I will always look at life through our physical eyes. I want to take the blinders off for a moment and for you to see one another, as I don't know your name. I don't know your name or anything like that, but we're one.

We're one because of what he did for us By reentering the meal on the cross.

Paul calls us to abandon status and to practice equality and embody the self-giving love they proclaim. Communion, then and now, is me meant to form a community where all belong equally as participants in Christ. So Jesus comes and he dwells among us. He pitches his tent among his people, gifting us with his presence And therefore we give our presence.

Then he redefineses family based on obedience to God, through following Jesus, And our role is to recognize one another as family.

And then he institutes communion, as he radically gave himself to us And through his blood. We are one, And everything I've just mentioned is as a result of the incarnation. God incorporated as flesh His birth, his death, his burial and his resurrection. The incarnation shows that God came near.

The cross shows us why he came near, And the resurrection creates a new humanity.

That is what you and I are a part of. Jesus doesn't just invite us to the table, but he becomes the sacrifice that makes the table possible. We are united to Christ. You and I are not only saved by Christ, but we are saved into Christ.

We are participants with Christ.

We are united to him, united to one another, And communion is what makes that visible. The Bible says that when you take communion, you proclaim the Gospel until the day of our Lord, That is, until he comes again. Every time we take communion, we are saying that God wrapped himself in flesh and then obeyed when he was flesh And as a result of that, he was perfected so that he could be the sacrifice that was needed for my sin. And because he did that, I am alive, I am free And I've got a new family that I'm a part of, And I am one with that family.

I am part of the bride of Christ.

I am part of the bride of Christ. [music and applause]. So in a moment we're going to receive communion together. If you don't have one of these communion things, you could just kind of raise your hand and we'll get that to you in a bit.

But why don't we stand to our feet? But before we do that, I want to pull up a chair for you chair and invite you to the table that is to receive Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. So I'm going to ask that every head is bowed and every eye is closed And we're going to pray this prayer out loud for the benefit of those who are coming to Jesus for the very first time. Repeat after me: Lord Jesus, I come to you as sinner in need of a savior.

Thank you for dying on the cross, for washing away my sins, for being raised to life so that I could have life.

I choose you now. Help me as I learn to love you. Help me as I learn to follow you. If you just prayed that prayer, giving your life over to this Jesus, I'm going to ask, at the count of three, that you just shoot your hand up.

1, 2, 3.

If that's, you raise your hand. Come on, let's celebrate. Come on, That's awesome.