Of David, it is a desperate time in his life, and in the midst of that time, this is what he prays, this is what he writes, oh God, thou art my God. I shall seek thee earnestly, my seretherseth for thee, my flesh yearns for thee, and a dry and weary land where there is no water. Thus I have beheld thee in the sanctuary to see thy power and thy glory, because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips were praised thee. So I will bless thee as long as I live, I will lift up my hands and thy name. My sereth is satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips. When I remember thee on my bed, I meditated on thee in the night watches, for thou hast been my helper, and in the shadow of thy wings I sing for joy. My serr clings to thee, and thy right hand abhards me. Those who seek my life to destroy it will go into the depths of the earth, there will be delivered over to the power of the sword, there will be a prey for foxes, but the king will rejoice in God, everyone who swears by him will glory, for the mouths of those who speak wise will be stopped. May God bless this reading of his holy and infallible word. The grass withers in the flower faith, but not the word of God. Truly the word of God stands for ever. Amen, be seated, please. Perhaps you've heard all you ever wanted to hear about, you might be a redneck if you burn your yard, rather than know it. You might be a redneck if your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat. You might be a redneck if you come back from the dump with more than you took. You might be a redneck if you have the work of taxidermist on speed dial, or if you might be a redneck if your kids take a siphon hose to show and tell. You might be a redneck if you wonder how service stations keep their restrooms so clean. Or that's gross. You might be a redneck if you think a quarter horse is the ride in front of Kmart. You might be a redneck if you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say cool whip on the side. You might be a redneck if you miss fifth grade graduation because you have jury duty, so there we have it. Hopefully Matt won't take offense that day. You might know the real God is the subject of this series. You might know the real God if, last week we said you might know the real God if you call him what? Father. Jesus disciples came to him and they said those religious people all around us, we've grown up in a culture steeped with religion, but you're different than they are. And your relationship with God is different than theirs is. When you walk in the midst of our community, you actually gather yourself to the media, to tax gatherers of the centers, they scorn them, they shun them. You depict God with an entirely different heart than they depict God. We want to know your God. We've grown up in a culture steeped with a set of God. We want to know the real God, how do we know the real God? Convince that in American culture there was a great disinterest in God and yet people are rejecting a caricature of God, they've never met the real God at all. They have no idea who the real God is. Jesus disciples come and say, we have a picture of God presented to us by the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the other religious leaders, but that God they've showed us isn't your God. We want to know your God. We want to know the real God. How do we get to know Him? How do we talk to Him like you do? Because when you talk to Him, your transform, when you talk to Him, you have power. When you talk to Him, you spend the night with Him and then you walk into these villages and you touch people and their lives are transformed, we want to know Him like you know Him. And Jesus said, if you want to know the real God, then you'll know Him as your father. If you want to know the real God, then you'll begin to find yourself with a passion for the howling of His name, for the honor of His name. His kingdom will begin to be more important than your kingdom. If you want to know the real God, you'll find that you begin to have a sense of your weakness so that you get up in the morning and say, God, if you don't protect me from temptation, I'm going down. That's knowing the real God. If you don't provide my daily bread, then I can't take care of my family. I'm too weak. I can't do it on myself. These will be the signs that you're getting to know the real God. Now a church just might know the real God. If it finds itself about the howling it has, if you ask people, what is the chief end of the church? What's the church to be principally about? And people will lay in instantly, won't they, about that and most other things. They'll say, I think the church should be about the kids. It's all about the kids. And when I give my money, I want my money used for the kids because the kids and anything we're doing for kids, we know that that matters and that's my passion. Anything that blesses the kids, that's my concern. And then somebody else will say, not support. It's support. I don't think we should be thinking about the kids. I think it's support. It's the needy. This has been the heart of God throughout the Bible. The Bible mentions this over and over. We ought to be abandoning our self-interest for the poor. That's what the church ought to be principally about. Others will say, I know it's evangelism, trying to the physical needs of people. I mean, it's the people who need the gospel. It's people who are outside the church and don't know Christ. That ought to be the principal aim of the ministry of the church and then somebody else would probably walk and say, it's not the people, it's the world. It's the van, it's mission. You don't think missions is the most important and who are you as a Christian, you know? You haven't caught the bug of what really is at the heart of God. I'm here to suggest to you this morning, it's none of those things. It's none of those things. The chief end of the church is the glory of God. It's not about the poor, it's not about the kids, it's not about the lost, it is principally about Him. It is principally about God. Jesus says, when you pray, as you get to know the real God, the passion of your heart becomes our father, what? Halloween. Be. Thy name. He doesn't say, when you pray, you say, our father, let's talk about the kids. Our father, let's talk about missions. Our father, another, first and foremost, our father, may your name be glorified, your name be hollered, your kingdom advanced. This is what's principally important and I've got blessed people who are passionate about the kids, passionate about missions, passionate about evangelism, passionate for the poor. Goodness knows the heart of God is. But the engine, the fire of the church of Jesus Christ is the calling to worship. The Jesus meets a woman in John chapter 4, she is an immoral woman, she's had five husbands and the man she's living with, she's not married to. And he says to her, the father is seeking what? You know what he says? The father is seeking true worshipers. He said, the father is seeking those who worship and spirit and truth and you want to know something amazing and all the religious people of that culture. When that day ends, this person who is a woman, this person who is a Samaritan, this person who is immoral, is a true what, worshipper, they're a true worshipper, God takes the most unlikely candidates and he makes them true worshippers, people who know him and are passionate for the glory of his name. And so the question before you this day is, will you be counted among them as a true worshipper? Oh my God, give us the heart, the long to be true worshippers. Think you worship the sermon outline if you read. The first thing we want to say about true worship from this passage Psalm 63 is that true worship is revelatory, true worship is revelatory, true worship reveals something about us. What in the world does Howard mean? Howard would be vining, doesn't mean to hurl or something. To hurl or something means that there is something upon which you have set your affections. It is there, it is there. There is something that you consider to be a supreme beauty of, of ultimate value. That's what you hurl. There's something upon which you've set your affections, you've set your heart, you consider to be the most important thing, the most weighty thing, the most valuable thing. And upon that you've, it has the highest weight, the highest importance. And you feel like that if you don't have that, you don't have life itself. Or at least you have a life that's not worth living. There's something that represents to your life itself. Now what was that to King David? What would the evidence suggest from Psalm 63? Look at the very first verse again in our passage. What the David is his heart, most enamored with, David longs for communion with the living God. Oh God, thou art my God. I shall seek thee earnestly, my soul thirst for thee, my flesh learns for thee. Look at verse 8. It says my soul, clings to thee, you might let them see a little note in the margin of your Bible, the word, clings, it might just say, goes hard, my soul goes hard after thee. This is something I want, this is something I've got to have, this is something I need to see the passion of David's heart to say, God, it's you, think about us, Psalm 42, as the deer, what? As the deer, pants, as the deer longs for the water, brook, so my soul longs for thee, oh God, I think of Psalm 84, and my soul longs and even yearns for the courts of my Lord. Now, when we think of worship, what do we often think of? A worship as a hundred and first, no, when we think of worship, we often think of that which is dry, and dull, and traditional, and formal, and lifeless. And here's a man who's saying, God, I've got to have you. I'm desperate for you. I long for you, I thirst for you, I've come in crunch, my thirst, and what does the Bible say? As David does, experiences the cure in the living God, with a verse three, thy loving kindness is better than what? It's better than life itself, thy hatred, thy sacrificial love, that's what the word means, thy loving kindness, thy passion, thy pursuit, thy mercy, thy grace, it's better than life itself. And look at verse five, what does he say? My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness. I am filled, I am shaded, I've got you God, that means I've got life, everything else can be taken away from me, but I've got you. At the will of the woman at the will, Jesus meets her there, he knows that it's the plight of women to have to come in that culture, sometimes many times a day to draw water from the will outside the city. It's an arduous thing, and Jesus takes that as an opportunity to say to her, I've got water to give you, but if you have it, you will never, ever thirst, again, now she's interested in that. I've got water to give you, but you'll never thirst again, and what Psalm 63 tells us is that David knows that water, David knows the source, David has dug a row deep into this relationship with God, and he's drinking at the row, and he says, I'm satisfied. Now, we said through worship is revelatory, here's the question, where are affections placed? Because worship reveals what we said are affections on, our natural condition is to stray from God. Our natural condition is not to find God to be our all and all, it's not to say, I've got to have you God. We take the good gifts of God, and we make idols out of them, we put them in place of passion and pursuit of God, things like family, family, one of God's best gifts, right? But there are people in this room that would say, if I lost my kids, then you may as well take my life away, because my kids are my life. Do you think Jesus, one of the most controversial things Jesus said, one of the things that troubles people the most when they're being introduced to Christianity, is Jesus saying, you must love me more than father, and mother, and brother, and sister, and child. You must love me more, that we should take family, and we should say, family is what I say, family is what I've got to have, to have a wife. See, it's like that, the things that pull us away from God aren't usually pornography and wild, revolved, living, that's good things. It's taking the good gifts of God. It's taking the beautiful things He made in creation, and loving the creation instead of the Creator, so it's that relationship I've got to have, it's that person, you take my spouse away, God, you take my boyfriend away, God, it's a job, security, it's my job, it's my reputation, it's the approval of people that really matter to me. That's what I've got to have, I'll be driven, I will work way more than I should, I will take jobs I shouldn't even pursue, I'll entertain them because I've got to have that. I've got to have control, whatever it is, there's something in all of our lives. We say, if I don't have it, then I'm nothing. David says, my sore feast on God, listen, every one of us is feasting on something. Now let's talk about chocolate for just a minute. You can have chocolate in your hand, you can have chocolate in a buffet table, you can see chocolate, and it'll do something for you, it'll entice you, it'll entice you, it'll draw you, but when you taste chocolate on your thumb, how many could just let that chocolate melt there without chewing it, without consuming it, without swallowing, when you place chocolate on your palate, it energizes your whole body. There's the question this morning, is what is resting on the palate of your soul? What have you laid on the palate of your soul so that you're sucking the sweetness out of it to find life? What is it that you've got some, and one of the ways we can tell is when we lose something, when we lose a friendship, or when we lose a certain house and neighborhood and security, when we lose a job and we can't get over it, there's something in your life that you can't get over it, then you can bet what? To you, that was your idol, to you, that's what you have to have, and if there's something in your life, you say you love God, but the love of God does not bring you consolation, then you can bet on the, that you are sucking on something other than God, that is it for you. You know what I mean? It's something pathetic. I look at my life and I say, one of the things that has brought me comfort and consolation is sports. It's not pathetic. You think about an idol and you think, what is it in my life that when I get up in the morning, I'm far more interested in the sports section than I am in the Bible. You don't know the ways you can tell what you're, what you've laid on the palate of your soul, when you let him bet at night and you can't fall asleep and you're troubled, what do you think about to console yourself? If you think about John Gurdon's West Coast offense for the 10th and 10th place, you're a mess. My whole life, my whole life, I've used athletic, my whole life, I mean, if I need comfort, I turn a game on. If I need comfort, if there's early sports center, some of you are saying, this man needs help. Yeah, you know what I really do, and you know what you do to, you do to, because there's something in your life you turn to rather than Jesus, that's how pathetic we are. We are idol factories at our core, and you know what true worship is? It's ripping our affections, you know, in the last couple of years there's times that dabbled in fasting and I've learned something about fasting. One of the great things that's going with our food for a week is when you find yourself hungry, there really is a sense in which we use food often to console ourselves, don't we? We use food. It's a great thing, but you know what I found when I fast, it's far more important it's far more spiritually healthy for me to go without the newspaper and to go without TV and to go without anything related to athletics and every time I find myself wanting to move in that direction for consolation, I say, God, you know what, I'm really hungry for you. It's you that my soul really needs, it's you that my soul really craves. And true worshipper rips off the power of his soul whenever he's resting there and places Jesus there instead. We would be a true worshipper because worship reveals our heart's passion and our heart's desire. Second, I want you to see the true worship is restorative, it's not just revelatory, it's restorative. When David writes, if you had your Bible opening and worked up at the very top of Psalm 63, you'll see a little heading there that tells you the context of this Psalm. It says, David in the wilderness of Judah, what in the world is the king doing out in the wilderness? What's he doing out in the desert? He's out in the desert because his son is trying to kill him. That generally qualifies as, you know, as a no good, very bad day. When your own son is after your life, you have to understand that David's son Absalom has fallen into rebellion. He's executed a coup, he's taken over the throne, he's taken over the power, he's taken over the capital city, and he has run off his father. His fathers had to grab those who were loyal to him and flee the city. His father has lost, his father has ruined David has ruined, but he's not just ruined. This is what the hand of his own son is humiliated, he's shamed, he's a failure. When he sleeps with his concubines in public view, a way of publicly expressing that I am the man of the house, I am the Lord of this domain, everything that was my father's mind. I claim it all, David's dignity is lost. He's humiliated by his flesh and blood, his own son, he's out there in the wilderness. Now, when we face that kind of attack and bitterness and hatred, what's our response? We can sell ourselves with what? That low down, no good scum, second, we pour out vitriol and bitterness and we can sell ourselves just what David can't do that. Because you have to know that David in the wilderness has to say, every bit of this is my fault. You see, David had an affair, he succumbed to temptation, he took up with a woman other than his wife, and when she became pregnant, he had her husband, executed her, happened to be one of his most loyal military commanders. When David's confronted with his son and then he confesses his sin, God forgives him, but God through the prophet Nathan tells him that the seeds of deceit and the seeds of distrust and the seeds of treachery that you have shown in your family will bear a bitter fruit. And so David's son Absalom kills his brother and Absalom is treacherous and Absalom overthrows his father. And so when David's out in the wilderness, he has to face the fact that what? Everything that's happened to me, I am responsible for, I can't lay this at Absalom's door, it's me, I'm the big sinner in this house. And David says that your David has to face the fact that he has been a crummy king, he has failed as a national leader. He has failed as a father, he has failed as a husband, he has failed that everything laid to his account. And then we read Psalm 63, that's the context of the song. Wouldn't you think that David would be utterly crushed? But listen to what it says, I want you to see that worship is restorative. David says in verse 11, this king will rejoice in God, verses 2, look at what it says to David there does in the midst of his anguish, he sees and knew the worth of God. Rather than being crushed by his plight, David is drawn to take his attention, offers himself, offers his circumstances, and places attention on the awesome majesty of his God. He says in verse 2, I have the healthy and the sanctuary. He says in verse 6, I remember thee on my bed, when I lay on my bed at night, I meditate on thee in the night watches. And when David thinks about his God, what does he think about? What does this Psalm tell us? He thinks about the love of God. He thinks about the glory of God. He thinks about the power of God. He thinks about the shelter of God, the protection of God, how the right hand of God holds him. He thinks about the mercy and the kindness of God, and in the midst of this horrible events in his life, he can say, I sing for joy under the shelter of your wing. How in the world do we get there in our lives? That our circumstances can be abysmal, and we can say, I sing for joy, because I am so busy recounting what you are worth, God, and your power, what it was of video we started the service. When I remember what you have done, I can't help but worship you. When I remember, David is drawn to remember, so the greatness and the glory of God that absolutely blows away the dire straits of his circumstances. Let me ask, you ever get knocked off shelter? You ever get obsessed with your situation, and you get in a rut, you can't get out of it? Of course you do. You get in a rut of bitterness third somebody or whatever that happened. You can't stop, and you know that what's coming out of your heart and your thoughts is now, but you can't stop. Write a bitter, some of you are bitter towards parents, they have been dead for ten years. Write a bitterness towards some business partner that you feel like shafted you. You are in this rut of, a semblance of rut of depression and anxiety, and be angry at a family member, angry at a church that treated your family, you know, and you get stuck in that. It's one of the great Psalms of Psalm 73. You know, the Psalmist is bent in Psalm 73. People want to read it, the Psalmist says, I am so ticked if you, because I am faithful to you, and the people who despise you are doing so well, and I am scraping by, and I am sick of it. You say you're for your kids, you say you're for your family, you say you'll be mighty for us. How come Mike Tyson has been a 10 million dollar house? How come the people who despise your name have everything, and the people who are faithful to you are suffering all over the world? Get off your dust, God, and do something about it if you really got. And I mean, he is, he is giving God an earful. And even if the verse 17, some of you are turning there and saying, can you really talk to God that way? No, you probably can't. The best Psalmist did, and when he gets the verse 17, you know what he says? And then I went in the sanctuary, and then I went in the sanctuary, and tell you something, worship is restorative. When we stop thinking about our plight, and having our word of pity party, and how rotten everyone is to us, and how much we deserve better treatment, and how much we are constantly being mistreated by people who don't recognize our dignity and our value in our word, and we begin to focus on the awesomeness of God, and I don't mean to make light. Our circumstances are crushing. They are crushing. There's stuff in our lives that is horrendous. You go to worship, and I have to confess that about a month ago I was angry at my wife. And I mean, a lot of you are just saying, I've never known this about my pastor that he could ever be that way, but there was a time where I was angry at that child that I married here, and I found myself trying to suppress it, trying to act spiritual, trying to get the rut continued, and I find myself finding fault with her, and picking at her, and whatever she said, and whatever she did, fell short, and this went on, oh I don't know, two, three minutes. I said, God I don't want to be this way, some foul stuff is coming out of my heart. I don't want it to come out, but do you see what she's like? You know, and it's back and forth and back, but trying to get my heart to go the right way, and my heart wouldn't go the right way, and I went, and one morning I got up, and I opened the Bible, and I said, God I can't make my heart go the right way, and I'm reading the Bible, and there's something just happened in this time with God, something happened in worship because of me to say, I'm so obsessed with myself, it's about you, it's about you, it's about your glory. You're the gracious God who's forgiven a sinner like me, if I'm the big sinner in this house, and more and more I'm understanding that I am the big sinner in this marriage, and the big sinner in this house, and in all my relations with my wife and my kids, it's me, I'm the principal sinner, but in my relationship with you, there's no doubt about that, I'm the sinner, and your grace is poured out on me, and it's transformed me, and it's precious to me. I surely would be gracious to the people I live with, they've been gracious to me, if I'm the bigger sinner than they are, then they've been given me more grace than I'm ever called on to give them, and something happened in worship that set me free to begin to get back in there in my marriage, and to cherish my wife as I ought, and as she deserves. I want you to see the true worship is restorative, if there are any situations you're in in which you could not go and recount the great deeds of God, and the great saving mercy of God, and the great power of God, and stop and ask yourself, what in the Sam Hill am I worried about? Is there any situation that you could not go there, or the senior thing the other night, and here in the, put up on the screen pictures of our kids when they were little, and there's my little daughter up there, and I think, I don't like her leaving my house. 13 years I've driven this little girl to school every day, and now I'm going to bring her to a college with all these test-tust-or-on-racing guerrillas walking around, and I'm going to drop her there, and drag her away, who's your roommate going to be, who's going to look after, who's going to take care of her? Maybe it's not a problem, I don't think I can pay for it anyway. You know, I feel myself present with worry and anxiety, and then I stop, and I begin to remember what he has done. What am I worried about? Has not God shared his hand of faith in us, and has not God heard my children of some chronic illnesses they've had, has not God preserved our family, has not God provided for our family, has not God done things spiritually in the lives of my children that I've just been a spectator about? Can you not do that in your life? Can you not run to the great deeds of God and feel the restorative power of worship and remembering? Psalm 63, David's wife is a wreck, but he runs to the sanctuary, he runs to the remembrance on his night bed, he meditates on the greatness of God. What about this church? You get anxious about this church, the health of this church, the future of this church? Are we going to have enough to make it? I mean, God might sometimes just want to go, I'm going to kick you in the tail. I'm going to kick you in the tail. Three years in the life of this church, I got a phone call, one, when Friday morning, my dad was crying on the phone and he said, your brother's dead until I was happy. And I got in a car that Friday, I drove to telehathy to be with my sister-in-law and pick up my parents at the airport and make arrangements. And there was nobody else here, so I drove back here on Saturday morning to write a sermon. And that sermon was about starting a Christian school. And I preached that sermon on Sunday morning, and a man walked out of the Christopher Smith school cafeteria where we met and handed me a check for $100,000 and said, here, use this to start your school. I'm the lowest day of my life. God said, little boy, I'm not going to let you ever feel alone. The power and provision of God. Do you know how shocked I was to do that for so Scott Lyon sitting in our church? God, shocked I was, what's he doing here? What's he doing here? I mean, you're just for good people, right? To transform hearts and lives, to see Jesus capture the heart of Scott Lyon. To begin to take this rascal and use his, and use his gifts and his talents to bring glory to God. Where were we ever dealt? Where did this God have come from? We never had come from the come from the pit of hell, doesn't it? Rorship is restorative. We've got a God and we see the great deeds of our God. We see how can, how can I replicate shelter under the refuge of your rings? No matter that it sells me, are you going there in your life right now? Whatever it is that's assailing you to say I'm taking refuge in you, Lord, because you are faithful and you are good and you will never fail. About a year and a half ago, we searched for a school headmaster for about two years, we gathered in my office and we had three female candidates for a new headmaster and every one of them had tanked. And now we had zero candidates, another year was going by, we didn't have anybody, we didn't have any prospects, we didn't even have any vowsy prospects. And we gathered in my office and we said, what do we do? And somebody made a little cross suggestion, why don't we pray about it? And so we prayed and in our prayer, we said, God, we don't even have a reason to meet, we don't even have any prospects, we don't even have anywhere to go. We've got nobody. And about two hours after the meeting, the phone rang and there was this tinder with a voice coming from calling from South Carolina saying, I don't think I even want the job, but tell me about it. And it was Joel Satterley, I mean, other end of that line. The provision of God for this place and staff and people and personnel, listen, do you ever walk by Sashika Jones and doubt the power of God, sitting at a dinner, actually interviewing one of those headmaster candidate and hearing Ann Jones describe her word for India and her people of India and having her spout out the idea that someday, you know, I mean the pen ultimate thing in my life would be to adopt a child from India. And somebody with a table said, why don't you? And she said, you didn't believe how much money it costs. We'd never ever have that amount of money. Like $15,000. And somebody with a table said, what if somebody provided that money? Would you do it? And as you ask an Adam, was, could we do it? Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why are we really, let's get dessert? And they came to me a couple days ago, a later, and they said, we would, we would do it. And I called one person in this church and I said, I don't know if you have any interest in this or you could ever do this, but once you talk to some of your friends and see what could be done about that. And before the day was over they called me and the money was raised. And God brought that photograph from India to the Jones family, Sashika. Friends, don't you understand? We are living in the midst of this laboratory of the power and faithfulness of God that we get to witness every day in this place. When I remember what you've done, I can't help but worship you. Worship is revelatory. Reviews the affections of our hearts, worship is restorative. And the last thing I want to say before we move to the ground breaking is that worship is responsive. In the midst of the greatness of God, what does, what does David do? Read the verse three and four and five, right through the whole passage. My lips shed praise thee. I will bless thee as long as I live. I will lift up my hands in my name. My mouth offers praises with joyful lifts. In the shadow of thy wings, I sing for joy. True worship is seeing in near where God is worth and then giving him what he alone is worthy. It's expressing. It's seeing that God is beautiful and then telling him that he's beautiful. You know what this is like? You know that expressing something is a cardinal part of enjoying something. So the life that comes to your husband and says, you never say you love me. And the old cadre says what? I told you on the day we were married and if I changed my mind, I'll let you know. And what is the life saying? That's not going to cut it. That's not good enough. And so worship is, it's not just saying I believe in God. Believing in God is not enough because if you don't express it, you don't believe it. Believing in God, having the right doctrine, having the right convictions is not enough. There has to be an expression of it. And that's what worship is. You see the worth, the beauty, the glory of God. And then you give them what is lived and is alone. You give him your vows. You give him your praise. You give him your prayers. You don't need your fears. You're concerned. You give him your attention and your devotion. That's what worship is. True worship is delighting in God but there is no true delight until it is expressed. It says something, I love crembrilay. No crembrilay. If they don't have that, I'll take one. But I love crembrilay. And then they give you crembrilay. And why did they give it to you in a little cup? I want a big saucer of crembrilay. And when you get your spoon in and you better get a lot, by the way, if you're with your wife, because their wife, would you like to do it? Or I don't want any. And then when they serve it, they eat it all right. So every bit of crembrilay that you can jot is a good thing. And when you get your spoon in the crembrilay, you say, what, you don't just eat it like you're eating corn flakes. When you get your spoon in that and you put it in your mouth, what do you say? Oh my, jot, jot, jot. And you look around the table and you look with insecurity at everyone else and you say, no, why are you eating carrot cake? You're good to have crembrilay. You see, a part of your enjoying of it is you're expressing the joy in it. When you see up on our stomachs the same thing is true of growth, by the way. You know, when something bad happens around here, and I tell the staff about it, Adam Jones always was, it's the patented Adam Jones side. That's the same thing. You've got to express it. If you feel it, you express it. And you see a beautiful mountain vista, you turn in the car and you say, look at that and they're playing, you know, they're game boy, like you. You know, look, look at this. I remember going to Fredericksburg, Virginia on a civil war tour, the rapahonic river running by this picturesque, herb, beautiful downtown postcard. And as we drove through, I looked around this bus pole of other men. And if you're a guy with men, you can go, look at this, look how clean, look how lovely. Look at there's a tee shop. Let's get a croissant. You don't do that with men. That's their work, a sports bar. But I remember thinking, I've got to show this to my wife. I've got to bring my wife here. I see it, but the joy would be don't tell you how I'm hersy, it's her stress, it's a tower about it. I can't wait to tell her about it. When something grabs you, you can't enjoy it around. There's a joy that demands to be expressed. Expressing the joy is part of experiencing it. If you can't get at the joy until you get it out, that's why we come here preachers preach. Very rarely when the preacher preachers, the reset, I never heard that before. I didn't know that before. It's the joy of the preacher representing the heritage expressing the passion and the truth and the awesomeness of Almighty God. God can't be enjoyed without worship. In the worship is the, this is so good, the worship, the singing, the dancing, the lifting of their hands, the playing of instruments, choruses and ensemble. All that makes up worship, the reading of scripture is all saying to God, I can't help but worship you. I see your beauty and I've got to express it. I've got to tell you how beautiful you are. We are now going to break ground to build a sanctuary. God's people have built buildings to His honor and glory for thousands of years. We are going to build a sanctuary. Why? Because we can't help it. The architect has to express with his hands the glory of God in what he designed. The builder has to take that design and lift up an edifice that says, God is beautiful. God is great. God is awesome. The building committee and all others have to give their laborers to see that it comes to pass. And the whole congregation has to join together and say, Lord, we taste it of your glory. We taste it of your beauty. We taste it of your goodness. It's too much to hold inside. We've got to express it. It's like the whole creation when God makes the whole world. And Genesis, chapter one, He makes everything He's the creator. And then He says, what? It's God. Wow. Look at that. It's so fine. And the Bible says, the whole creation looks up to the creator and says, no, Lord, you're good. That's what worship is. It's when the creation dollars together and say, no, Lord, it's you, you're glorious. You're beautiful. It's not the creation. It's the creator who's good and glorious. That's why we're building a sanctuary. Because we have to. Because for a church to have tasted of the goodness of God like this church, God has smiled on me as virtually our theme song. For a church to have tasted the sweetness of the beauty and grace of God like this place, then we have to express it. We simply, because in our heart of hearts, we want to be true worshipers.