This recording is from Willow Creek Church in Wintersprings, Florida, where Dr. Pete Owinson is our senior pastor. Today's sermon is part 20 in a series on the Book of Exodus and deals with the eighth of the Ten Commandments. This message is taken from Exodus, chapter 20, verse 15, and is called On Stuff and Stealing. Now here's Pete with today's message. All of you have your Bibles turned back into the Old Testament to Exodus, chapter 20, as we continue our study in the Ten Commandments. Exodus, 2015, is today's long, long, verse. Let's say it together, you shall not steal. There it is, there it is. You know, this is a common throughout all of Moses writing in the first five books of the Bible. We typically call the Pentateuch. Moses says this many times. Look at the staccato verses as they come out in Leviticus 1911. Do not steal, do not lie, do not deceive one another. Moses hits us. You know, those things are tied together. They are stealing, lying, deceiving, they are tied together. Then in Deuteronomy 5.19, shortly before, he turns over the reigns of leadership to Joshua who leads the Israelites into the Promised Land. He repeats the law. He repeats all of the Big Ten, the Ten Commandments. And he says it again, you shall not steal. That's about 1400 BC, long time ago. And that's the eighth commandment. And it seems like that would be very, very simple to keep, doesn't it? I mean, don't take other people's stuff. I mean, that just seems like that would be very easy to do, but it's not. As Dr. Kennedy said in his book on the Ten Commandments, he said, stealing is the great American pastime. I think he's right. I mean, it's not as easy. It starts early in life, doesn't it? It's stealing. Those are your girls. I got the picture out of your family. Listen, I got to tell you and I got to confess. My mother will be absolutely horrified when she hears this because I've never told her. She listens to all my sermons, bless her heart. Before I hit middle school, I had perfected stealing. Man, I was good at it. I go to Z-Tan's market on the way home and I could steal, I could steal all kinds of stuff and they never knew. I stole toys. I stole so much stuff. I stole so much stuff. I had an attack of guilt when they actually went back and paid him for a top that I'd stolen. Man, I want to hear your stories. Tell me I'm not alone, but boy, I love the school teacher. You see, we struggle with this stealing and in many ways it affects us all. It's 100%. Maybe you didn't steal and you were good in that regard. But this is the subject that hits us and we struggle with this all our lives, money, the ethics of stealing, stuff, money, all that stuff. I like the story of this teacher who was trying to teach her kids some sound economic principles. She said, what would you do if you found a suitcase full of money? A million dollars. What would you do when little boy raises hand? He said, if a belong to a poor person, I'd give it back but a belong to a rich person, man, I'd keep it. Now, that's what Alistair Begg calls the Robin Hood principal or lack of principle of theft. You know, it's take from the rich and give it to the poor and most of us are poor. I'm poor. You steal and give it to me, that's cool. This is what we're going to look at. We look at this at three points. The why and the why not of stealing, deeper issues according to Jesus and then grace for thieves. Let's talk about it. First of all, the why and the why not of stealing. Why do people steal? And people do steal. Oh, man, this is big. This is big. 56% of all crime in America is, it's largely, a 56% of all crime is stealing. Did you know that a four-year college student has a, what is it? 53% chance of having their bicycles stolen while at college. That's why we wouldn't let our kids take bicycles to college, man, no way. It is a, I'm kidding. It's a bicycle theft is a billion dollar industry. If the elders ever fire me from this church, I know what business I'm going into. There's a future in that. That's a lot of money. There are $29 billion in losses to retailers annually. 44% of that is from employee theft. It's 32% of the shoplifting. I'd say it's not only a part of the American way of life, I'd say it's a preoccupation with Americans. Now, I made up a list as to why Americans steal. And I don't know if this is complete, I'm sure it's not, but let me give you some reasons why I think Americans steal need is one reason. Some people steal because they need stuff and they don't have the money to pay for it. But I think it's rare in America. Certainly it's rare in our community. So this one probably doesn't apply much to us. The second reason people steal is habit custom that comes from sin. Habit and custom. There have been taught to steal. The stealing has been modeled in their family. It's their habit. It's their custom. They just do it. They just steal. It's kind of naturally. They just do it. You know, when I was up a few weeks ago in Cornwall, New York, saying with the stone burners, I told you about this. Everywhere I went with Mark Stoneburner, he had a two-seater truck. And so I put stuff in the back seat. I put it in the front every time we'd pull up. I'd say, you want me to roll my window up? He said, no. He said, you want me to lock this story? He'd say, no. And then my stuff would be in the back when we go into a store. And I'd say, should I put this inside? He'd go, no, don't worry about it. He didn't lock us house at night. I got very insecure up there. I mean, I wanted to go out by a gun just to carry it. And he says, don't worry about it. Because it's not custom in that little town. But for much of America, it is. What? I think most people probably steal out of want. They want what they want. And because they have a want list, it's very long. They want what they want. And their want list is long. They take what they want because they're going to spend money on what they want. And so because they don't have much enough money for what they want, they take what they want when they want it. Want? We want things. We take them when we can't. Addiction and insecurity. There are some people. You know, I told you my dad was an M.K. missionary kid raised on the mission field. One thing I learned about my dad is that he raised in an environment of extreme insecurity. They didn't have much food. He was a missionary kid. My grandfather was a missionary doctor. And every time a beggar had come by the door and asked for food, my grandmother would give the food. My dad said, what are we going to eat tonight? She said God will provide. Now that was good for her. But it was tough for my dad. He grew up with an insecurity about stuff. And some people, that insecurity goes into an addiction called kleptomania. Some people steal out of convenience. They see it, they want it, they need it now. So they take it now. I don't have time to come back later. I'm going to steal it now. I deserve it. So I'm going to take it. Desperation can lead to stealing. It really can. If you're going through difficult times, it can make you more desperate to take. And I understand that. And by the way, some of you are going through difficult times with your work. The economy is in a downturn in many respects. They don't want to use the recession word, the R word, but for some of you, it's a downright recession. If you're in development or real estate, it's a very, very difficult time. If you've bought houses, some of you have because everybody was making money out of houses, it's tough. I know that. I pray for you. It can lead to desperate feelings. I know many people that are under employed. And they struggle. Some of you with those houses to sell, I've got an answer for you. Read about it in the Wall Street Journal. St. Joseph statues are just flying off the market. You can go to the internet. They're flying off the market. Apparently some very enterprising religious entrepreneurs are selling these because St. Joseph, Jesus dad, is the patron saint of house selling. And so what you do is you buy a kit. And then you dig a hole in your front yard, bury him head down, facing the street. Yeah, I'm talking about selling your house. We have a proposal before the elder board now of a St. Peter statue for Presbyterians who are trying to sell their houses. I kind of like the name and Presbyterians ought to have their personal patron saint of selling. I don't know. You know, caveat, emptor, buyer beware. It seems a little bit like stealing to me. Why is stealing one of the Ten Commandments? Let me give you four reasons why. First, it's one of the Ten Commandments because God says it ought to be a part of the Ten Commandments because God says stealing is wrong and honesty is right. He who makes the game rights the rule. This is God's world. And he has the way to establish what he wants in this world. It is right because God says it and we could end the sermon right now. Honesty is right. Stealing is wrong. God said it. And that's why secondly he outlawed stealing because perfect honesty is an expression of his character. Perfect honesty is expression of his character. God is truthful. God is honest. That's why we tell you to read the Bible. That's why we study the Bible in all of every page. Every word the Bible is the inspired and an errant word of God down to the grammar, down to the word choices. Down to the very commas that weren't in the original but meant to be God ordained. And you could trust his word. You could trust him because he's the God of truth. And this is the way the Ten Commandment is an expression, the Eighth Commandment is an expression of his character. The third reason God outlawed stealing is because stealing is not how free people live. Remember how we've been studying the Ten Commandments as hey they were already redeemed by God's grace and miraculously saved out of Egypt. And now they're about ready to go into the promised land. And he says this is not the way you get saved or you get redeemed. This is the way redeemed people live. Grace living is honest. People who have been redeemed by grace ought to be gracious toward one another. And one of the most ungracious things you can do is steal my stuff. And one of the most even though you've got nice stuff one of the worst things I can do is come over and take it because I want it. What happens is that God is concerned for the relationship. He says in the book of Proverbs do not steal from your neighbor living in security next to you. See that's the way it's supposed to be. Because when we have the threat that somebody is going to steal from us what does it create insecurity. And we're separate from one another. And that's no way for society to be. But when you trust those who live nearby you, life is a whole lot better. Number four, God outlawed stealing because God believes in private property. Private property. Properly legally, lawfully acquired is yours. Enjoy it. Keep it. You ought to be able to keep it. God's into private property. Now that's an economic principle that you need to keep in mind. And some of you might say, hey, yeah, but back in Acts 2 in the early church the Christians began sharing all of their stuff. There was this spontaneous sharing of stuff that were selling property and bringing the money that were given there was kind of a communal lifestyle. I know, wasn't that cool? Wasn't that read it in Acts 2? It's marvelous. But it wasn't commanded. It was just spontaneous. Never required God's into private property. And that's why it's all that more miraculous when you just give it up for him or for others. So in Israel's history, this principle, this eighth commandment became very central, very central. And by the time of Proverbs, the Godly, the wise, they prayed like this. I love this prayer. Proverbs 30 verse 8, keep falsehood and lies far from me. Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much in disown you and say, who is the Lord? Or I may become poor and steel and so dishonor the name of my God. That's around 950 a long time down the road from when the eighth commandment was given. But this is how the Godly thought. But what happened in Israel? What happened? Did they become a nation of honest people? No, no, they didn't actually. And stealing became endemic in the nation. Amos 8, 4 through 6. I'm not going to read it, but look down there in verse 5, they were skimping with the measure, boosting the price and cheating with this honest scale. There was a study done. Somebody took 50 products off the shelves, randomly, and emptied them out and counted the count in the product as opposed to what was marked on the outside of the product. And it was something like 50% of the products that were studied, that didn't have the count that was advertised on the front. Well, that's happening to this day. I'm going home, I'm getting my box of goldfish out, not want you to know. Those old crackers, I'm going to count every one of those suckers. It's happening today, it happened back then, it happened in Israel, Jeremiah 7, 8 through 10. Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and purge? But you get the idea, the Israelites didn't live up to this. 625 BC. And so Jesus comes along at 30 AD and gives the deeper issues. Jesus always gives us the deeper issues on everything. That's why I love about it. He gives us the insight into the Ten Commandments. He always manages to give us the spirit. He's the hero of the Bible, of course, the hero of our lives. The deeper issues according to Jesus, because by the time of Jesus, the Pharisees had managed to become the most unscrupulous when it comes to money and religion. You know those guys that ran the temple and the temple sacrifices? They were millionaires by today's standards, a lot of money. And they were using religion to get it. And Jesus threatened their economic livelihood. He certainly threatened their economic games as he does ours. And so this is what Jesus is, Matthew 6, 19 through 24. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth. Where moth and rust destroy, where thieves break in and steal, but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven. Where moth and rust do not destroy, where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, let's say together, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. If your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness. How great is that darkness? No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one or love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the others. Together, you cannot serve God and money. There it is. We know that Jesus gives us the deeper issues. Now I've got three of them. I had four points about why God said stealing. And now three point, and that's why we give you an outline. So you'll write this stuff down if you want to, the spiritual people do. The legalists already have this down. Three deeper issues according to Jesus, and the first one is, is that we must go beyond this eighth command of thinking just in terms of not stealing. In other words, don't just construct your life. You're one of God's people. You've been redeemed by my grace. Go beyond this idea of just not stealing. Now that's important. Not stealing is a Jewish virtue. It's a Christian virtue. Honesty is a Christian virtue. It's a Jewish virtue. But Jesus says, I want you to go beyond that because you see, for many people, the prime mover of their life is money. Stuff and money. Jesus says, hey, I want you to go beyond. Is money important? Yeah. First of the month, they don't want to use his love Jesus, right? They pay the check, pay the mortgage. Money's important. I'm not denying that. We're building a building. Money's important. That's why I'm talking about this today. Money. I've been talking about money a lot. Talk about it. It's important. You got to eat. But Jesus says, yeah, but the bigger thing here, I don't want you. I want the prime mover of your life to be spiritual. When Jesus summarizes the law, takes all of the Old Testament. What does he say? You shall, two things. But the word is not money. The word is love. You shall love the Lord your God with our heart, soul of mine, and you shall love your neighbor. In other words, all of the law is summed up in what we can do to honor God, serve God, worship God, and serve and love people. So Jesus says that take this principle of love to be the prime mover of your life and let money be one of your vehicles to love God, love people. So that really what you're doing is you're laying up treasures in heaven and not on earth. You're hoarding in heaven. Horting is good, depending on where you're hoarding. Hort didn't have it, Jesus says, and not on earth. And he goes to this next step. He says, do not worry. Matthew 631, do not worry saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear. That's what most people were worried about in the first century. I hate that. You know, last night I was thinking, what tie should I wear with the suit? What suit should I wear? And the first, you know, I'm kind of trying to figure it out. We'll look best. I put a tie on this morning. I said, can't I look good? You can't pick another one. I'm worried about it. In the first century, they're thinking, how can I stitch up the hole that's in this my one? Do not worry. What shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear for the pagans run after all these things. And your Heavenly Father knows that you need them, but seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be out of to you. See, that's how Jesus puts it in a perspective. See, first is kingdom. That'd be the prime mover of your life. Skip Ryan, a PCA pastor put it this way. In capitalism, the money is yours to do with what you want. In socialism, it belongs to the state and the state uses it for what the community needs. In Christianity, it's God's and it must be used as He directs. Wow, elections coming up, 2008. My picks and I've got, I'll have it all ready for you to download and how you should vote. It's coming. It's kind of just not done with it all. But I'll tell you, there are economic principles that will come up. But it's interesting, in our culture as it moves, it's moving in two opposite directions. One is a direction, it's going pale mel toward capitalism. The other direction is going pale mel towards socialism. Skip Ryan says that we ought to go toward an understanding that God owns it all. And it's got to be freed up for Him to use whenever He wants. I've got more verses for you on capitalism than I do for socialism. But I've got more verses for you on the fact that God owns it all and it all ought to be freed up for Him to use whenever He wants to use it. Then even capitalism. That's the biblical perspective. So Jesus is saying that the deep issue here is the lay up treasure in heaven and know what the prime mover of your life is, a spiritual ministry orientation. The second deeper issue that from Jesus is that the opposite of stealing is, what is the opposite of stealing? I asked my wife this this week, she was wrong. Well I think she was wrong, she might be right, but I think she's wrong. What is the opposite of stealing? The opposite, I don't want you to embarrass yourself in public, but the opposite of stealing is working. Ephesians 4.28. He who has been stealing, he says to new Christians, must steal no longer, but he must work doing something useful with his own hands that he may have something to share with those who are in need. Not to be dependent upon other people, unless we need to be dependent upon the church or on the government, but only if we need to be, only if we need to be, we ought to be workers. Some of you are just dying to get out there and work, you don't have a job, you just lost your job, two my elders are struggling with that. I pray for those guys, this is tough. They want to work, good, that's biblical, it's an urge, it's a right and biblical urge that we ought to have. Notice doing something useful with his own hands that he may have something to share with those who are in need, take care of yourself, but also work so that you have what excess for what purpose to help other people. And so working is the opposite of stealing, but we don't just work for our own needs, we work for the needs of others and the good of other people. So we can have an excess, and I got in trouble with this in the first service a little bit because we've got an advertiser and a marketer or church, some of you might be advertisers, but I tell you know what I feel like advertisers are? And my father-in-law was an advertiser. I feel like advertisers are too big wrestlers who've got me by either arm, and they're just standing at a kind of, they're twisting my arms back like this and they're breathing down my neck and they're saying bye, bye. Or you're dead. Millions being spent to get us to buy more than we need so that I find that what I end up with is that I kind of almost have an addiction to get him to do stuff when I get off the, I get the one thing crossed off my list that I want. I'm going right down to the next thing off my list and I have not thought at all about how I can help somebody else. There's one third deeper issue that Jesus brings up. Here it is. Ultimately God owns all the stuff. Psalm 24-1. The earth is the Lord's in everything in it, the world and all who live in it. And Psalm 50, God says, I have no need of a bull from your stall or of the goats from your pens for every animal of the forest is mine. I was raised Baptist. I heard this every other Sunday. And the cattle on a thousand hills is mine. I know every bird in the mountains and the creatures of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell you for the world is mine and all that is and it God owns it all. Everything I have, everything you have is belongs to him, not to you, ultimately not even to you. Stephen and a brown were hit by hurricane Andrew years ago and frankly I'm glad it happened. As my new England friends would say better you than me. And I'm glad it happened. I mean, after all, it wiped out his home and how he's up here. It's preaching at our church, Kathy too. I'm glad. But it also gave him a lot of incredible sermon illustrations that you can only have when you go through a hurricane. One of them is this. That a couple days after the hurricane had hit and they went out and their car had been damaged. Their car had been stolen. Had a big gash in the side. He came back in the house and said, Anna, somebody stole God's car. I remember back when Karen backed into my car one Sunday morning. We got back from church and she said, did you look at your car? I said no. She said you better go look at it. And I went out and looked at it.
I responded as a godly Christian man ought to but I didn't say honey, you backed in to God's car. I should have. But you know, it's so freeing. It's so freeing when you understand it all belongs to him anyway because it's taken away. It's taken away. That's cool. The man moved into town and he wanted to come check out a pastor at a church. He got to the church sometimes. He wanted to see if that church was where he ought to be. And so he made an appointment with the church secretary to meet with a pastor because he wanted to check the pastor. I asked him about his priorities and stuff. And so shortly before the meeting the pastor calls this guy up and says, we're still meeting, took a clock. Yeah, we're still meeting good good. He said when you come bring your checkbook. He said I didn't know I have to pay to see you. He said you don't. I just want to see what your priorities are.
That's true. Our money reveals our priorities. It reveals our heart. I got a bunch of good emails this week from you guys. Some of you got that on the bottom of my outline and you sent it. One lady said I was wondering if not tithing could be considered stealing from God. Like in Malachi 3 where it says the Israelites that they have been stealing from God by not bringing him their whole ties. I think it's a stretch but would like to know what you think. Yeah, I agree with you. I read Malachi 3. You don't tie. It's stealing from God. Now another email came like this. This is stealing, right? Claiming deductions on your tax return that are not really legitimate. The time you spend surfing the internet at work when you should actually be working. The time you spend on personal business at work when you should actually be working. All those office supplies you have from work at home. The time spent writing this email. Oops. Yeah, listen, there are a million ways that we steal. Jeff Fogan said, how about copyright infringement? You just burn a CD. You take, don't buy his CDs out of the church. Bookstore don't take one and burn them for your friends for Christmas because you heard Jeff. It all applies. By the way, in the Old Testament, what did they do to thieves? What was the penalty for stealing? Simple. Restitution. When they caught you, you paid and you paid more. Restitution. You paid back. Now in the case of a child, we call that kidnapping. If you stole a child, it was a capital offense. It should be still today. Is there any grace for thieves, of course. Is there any sin that Jesus didn't die for? Let out a sigh of relief. We're all thieves in one way and Jesus went to the cross to die for our sins. You don't have to pay for it. If you stolen, confess it and move on. But sometimes it's hard to admit that we're stealing. I like the story of the little boy who was walking out in his backyard and he was dragging a baseball bat in the backyard. His dad was in the garage. He didn't know his dad was there. He's walking out his baseball bat. He adjusts his cap. He takes the ball. He throws it up in the air and he goes, I'm the greatest hitter ever. Throws it up. Swings misses. He goes strike one. He takes the ball again and goes, I'm the greatest hitter ever. Throws it up. Swings strike two. He misses it. I think I'm the greatest hit. Try the third time. Throws it up. Swings misses it. Strike three. I'm the greatest pitcher ever. We have been so influenced by this humanistic culture that we can almost not ever see if we're bad or if we've sinned. We almost seem like we're immune to sin. We've sinned in this area. Confess it. Jesus died for it. And then let's move on. Men teach your kids to be honorable. Parents teach your kids to be truthful. Teach impeccable honesty. And if you've missed up, then they move into restitution. This was a great email from one of the guys in our church. I got to read it for you and I'll let you go. This is so good. This is so good. I'm keeping his name silent between him and me pending a huge gift to our building fund. He said this. I broke into a stranger's home when I was 15. I climbed through an unlock window and stole some old coins and a pocket knife from the house. I accepted Christ about 10 years after I committed the burglary when I was 26 years old. Since I committed the theft, it has occurred to me perhaps three or four times that what I'd done was wrong but I never thought to do anything about it. A little over a year ago, Steve Brown gave a message about stealing and I was reminded that what I had done and was convicted that I should do something about it. On that Sunday and for the next four days after I was so convinced of the harm that I had done that I went to a trusted friend and talked to him about it and he suggested that I go make amends for what I did. I got my old coin collection that I kept stored in an old wooden box. I then made travel arrangements. I don't remember exactly what I stole from the house so I took the entire coin collection when I arrived at the house that I had broken into 29 years earlier. It had changed a little bit. I hope so. But it was obvious to me that it was the right house. I pulled up into the drive and saw two men sitting on a patio deck in the back. One of the men got up and walked over to me and he asked what he could do for me. He was a tall fellow wearing a camouflage t-shirt and cap and big muddy boots as long as sleds. He had a belt buckle I was at eye level with and he was that it was as big as my head. I looked at him and asked him if he had lived in this house 29 years ago. He said he lived there a lot longer than that. I told him that 29 years ago I'd broken into his house and I was sorry for what I'd done and I wanted to make amends for what I did. He told me that he had wanted to kill the person that had broken into his house. He said that his house had been broken into three years in a row. I told him I'd broken into the house only once. I brought the coins with me in a wooden box that I thought that box. It had been mine but I'd kept them in that box and it was a little smaller than a cigar box. I handed them in the box of coins. The man said the box after he looked at it had belonged to his father. I thought I'd gotten the old wooden box from my grandmother but I wouldn't sure. I got the box from since it was such a long time. The man kept looking down at the box and he began to cry. I began to cry too. I don't know if I was crying because I thought the man was going to kill me or if it was because I could feel the man's pain. At that moment I finally understood the harm and pain. I'd caused that man for all those years because of my selfless action 29 years ago. During the tearful discussion I had with the man, the other man at the table kept looking over at us wondering what was going on over there but he never came over to find out which made me a little more uneasy. It was like the big guy told the other guy to sit still while he finds out what I was there for. The man asked me why I was doing this now after all this time. I told him I was sorry for what I'd done and I wanted to make it right.
I wish I'd done it sooner. Now that's a real man. That's a real man. Jesus builds real man, real women. If Steve Brown can get illustrations like that why can't I? You got to make restitution, do it. You'll be free. You'll be free. God will be honored. Teach your children. Teach them impeccable honesty because they've been saved by grace. Model impeccable honesty because you've been saved by grace. Now if you're not a Christian I got to end with this real quick. You know the law, this eighth commandment is representative of all the laws in the Bible. There are three reasons why God gave the law. The first reason God gave the law this is not a third sermon. Trust me real quick. God gives the law to show redeemed, forgiven people how to live, how to live a grace lifestyle. This is the personal use of the law. The second use of the law is for our community. Theologians call this the civil use of the law, but it's for life together. For people living together in community, the third use of the law was Martin Luther's favorite use of the law. It was for conviction. He says, the law tells us that we need a savior. And if you don't know that you need a savior you do, listen to this real quick. This is so good. The law shows us that we need a savior. We know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law so that every mouth may be silenced in the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore, no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law. Rather through the law, we become conscious of sin. We maintain, Paul said, that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. And it may be that you may not be a murderer or an adulterer. If you might have stolen, if you commit one sin, you need a savior. His name is Jesus Christ. You take it to heart. If today would be the day that God in his sovereign plan would change your heart to embrace Christ, this would be a good day. It's beautiful outside. But it's a great day to say, Lord, I've stolen many things. And the guilt won't go away. Would you forgive me? I'm tired, Lord. I'm trying to control my life. Today I'm ready to have a savior. Come into my heart. Lord Jesus, I embrace you today as a savior for paying for my sins. Remake my life and make you and others the prime mover and not myself. Lord Jesus, we thank you for showing us how to do life the right way, setting us free. Thank you for your forgiveness. Send us out in this week. Alive as we serve. We pray and we're holy. Good day.