Singing Shoulders

MESSAGE TRANSCRIPTION: 

You. Well, I’m Virgil Grant. For those that are maybe new with us today. I’m the senior pastor and one of the leaders around here. And on behalf of Eastside, we’re so thankful that you have joined with us today. And we are concluding a sermon series called Rumble Strip that we’ve been in for the last four weeks. And we’ve been looking at one particular passage. We’ve just. Been in that section, that passage. If you missed any of the messages, let me just encourage you to go back to our website, Eastside. Church and you can listen to the sermons that you’ve missed leading up to this point. So today, we’re going to talk about being filled with Holy Spirit. I don’t know what you think of when you think of being filled with Holy Spirit. It’s probably nothing like what we’re going to talk about today because usually there’s misconstrued examples all on the website, on different YouTube videos, and everything that just really doesn’t do justice to really what being filled with the spirit is all about. And here’s what Jesus said about being filled with the spirit.

John 14:16-17(TLB)

“I will ask the Father and He will give you another Comforter, and he will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit who leads into all truth.”

He says I will ask the Father, and he will give you another comforter. Now, that word comforter is the word Holy Spirit. The word comforter is one of the names that relates to the Holy Spirit. And if you have your program, I just would encourage you to circle the comforter there on your outline. And some of you are here today, and the thing that you’re needing is comfort. Your heart has been ripped out. You are struggling. You have received some devastating news this past week. And as you receive that news is that you’ve been full of anxiety. You’ve been really tense, and you’re needing comfort. Well, guess what? You already have it because the Holy Spirit lives within you. And one of his jobs is to provide comfort to your heart that is broken, or that’s shattered. And he will never leave you. He’s the Holy Spirit. The spirit who leads into all truth. Now, another word for Holy Spirit. There’s multiple words for the Holy Spirit, just like Jesus Christ, Savior, the Messiah. The same thing is true of the Holy Spirit. And you could take that word comforter. And the word comforter could actually be translated in this particular passage as a helper. And everybody just say helper, helper, everybody together. Helper. There you go. Better. Is that the Holy Spirit is the helper. And we’re talking about our lives being actually lived out on the highway. And we’ve been saying that life is a highway. And part of our responsibility is to keep in between the lines and the rumble strips of the external and the internal or the middle or medium of the road. Those rumble strips are designed to keep us on the highway of life and living and moving towards God’s direction.

And I don’t know about you, but what I think about driving down the bypass or driving down the interstate, there’s just more than just me there. I’m worried about, you know, I don’t know about you, but there’s a lot of idiots who’s received driver’s licenses who should have never received a driver’s license. Does anybody know what I’m talking about? If you don’t, you’re probably the idiot. No, I’m teasing. I’m teasing. I am teasing. Father, forgive me; I’ve sinned. All right, now, you’re not the one I’m talking about. It’s your neighbor, okay? Not you. So. But you know, you’re these idiots who received the driver’s license, and you go, How in the world did they ever pass their driver’s test? Like, you’re just worried about that. And if you drive up the interstate going to Lexington early in the morning, I don’t know, if you know, that’s not. But there are women. Who’s driving and just says they’re multitasking. They’re putting on mascara. They’re putting on lipstick, they’re putting on makeup. And I’m going, are they going to run into me or not? I mean, like, there’s idiots, and then there’s women and. And then there are people that they will pow. They’re back in their truck with, shall I say, junk, and they don’t tie it down. And you ever pass in those vehicles. You’re going. I hope none of that blows off while I’m passing by. And then there are trains, and there are wild animals that you have to watch out for. And then I don’t know if this is my biggest fear driving down the highway of life. Have you ever gotten behind a log truck? Is it just me or anybody else? I just envision As I pull up next to that log truck, the log is going to come off and go and just splatter me right there in the middle of the road. And I’m like, I’m like, nervous. I can’t wait to get past it. Is anybody else, or is it just me, that has that fear? Anybody else? A couple of you? Yeah, I have that fear. And so, you know, laugh and laugh. We need a helper. We need the Holy Spirit. And some of you are saying, Well, what do we get? This whole thing of life is a highway. Well, we get it from Ephesians chapter five, and we’ve been looking at this particular passage all four weeks. We’re going to look at it again today. And notice what Paul says. He says.

Ephesians 5:14-21(NKJV) 

“Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light. See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another in the fear of God. “

Now, I don’t know about you, but one of the most confusing passages or verses out of all of that is verse 17 and Ephesians chapter five, verse 17, we discover a phrase and that of anybody else has this trouble not but the will of the Lord is, does anybody else struggle with knowing what the will of the Lord is? Does anybody struggle with it. You might even care about the will of the Lord. Let me just start there. Does anybody care about the will of the Lord? We should care. And sometimes we appear large. But ask the question, what is the will of the Lord? Now here’s what Paul is saying, and I want you to understand this. Paul is saying is that you’ve got to know the will of the Lord. He goes, Don’t be an idiot. Do not know the will of the Lord. And Paul goes, You know the will of the Lord. And you don’t know I don’t know the will of the Lord. It’s like a math teacher saying to you, you’ve got to know math, and you got to know it right now. You go, But I don’t know math, so how do I get to know math? And the teacher you said you got to know math. You go, okay, I guess if I know math, I know math And Paul, is you saying you got to know the will of the Lord and there’s no question about it. You have to know it. And listen to me, my friends is, that what Paul is saying is that you already know the will of the Lord. See some of you right now you’re going, Well, I really don’t know the will of the Lord. I don’t know if the will of the Lord is for me to take this job or not. I really don’t know if it’s the will of the Lord for me to enroll in the school or not. I really don’t know if I should be dating this person or not. And Paul would say to us is that you already know the will of the Lord. And some of you said, Nope, I don’t know the rule of the Lord. Would you pray with me, pastor? Would you pray with me, my home group leader? Would you pray with me, my serve team leader? And we would go, Yeah, we can pray with you, but you already know the will of the Lord. It’s not going to do any good. And this is what the Apostle Paul is saying, is that he said, You already know the will. The Lord, The Lord has already spoken like He did to Olivia. You just have to be obedient. Because here’s what I know about God. When God speaks, he is crystal clear. And when he speaks, you know that it’s God. And when he whatever he asks you of, you already know what the ask is, but we try to complicate it. Would you try to say no? We don’t know what God’s will is? Give me to tell you what God’s will is, which is to love God and to love people. That’s right. Amen.

I mean, love God, love people. Now, some of you said there, But. But, but, but, pastor, but what about this circumstance? But. But, Pastor, what about. What about this? What about this? And how would you say stop it? It’s enough. You know, God’s will love God, love people. And if you can’t do that, why would God share anything else with you? Because he’s now, he says, you know, what God’s will is. Now, I just wanted to get that verse out of the way because it’s so complicated. It’s just. It’s been bothering me, so I’ll just preach that to you. Okay, Now we’re going to get into the message. Okay, That’s just a side note. So life is a highway. The highway gives us two things to keep us awake. The highway provides two things. These two things that the hallway provides for us is not really two separate things. They’re actually one thing. The first thing that we have is a rumble strip. And the rumble strip is the external rumble strip that’s on the shoulder of the road. There’s the internal rumble strip that’s in the median. That’s in the middle of the highway. And we said a couple of weeks ago that when those rumble strips are installed on a highway is that fatalities goes down 51% on that road. And rumble Strips is designed to send a text message to the driver that he or she is moving in the wrong direction. The second thing that we have that is really the same thing is a playlist. How many of you do we love? When you go on a road trip, you create a playlist to listen to. How many of you love the playlist? Huh? I mean, I do. I have a playlist I listen to when I’m traveling. You know what? Here’s the thing about this. When you’re on a road trip, not only do you want the playlist, but I don’t know about you. But I want sunflower seeds. I mean, I hate sunflower seeds, but if I’m on a road trip, I have this hankering for some sunflower seeds. Why? Because that’s the music. The playlist that you have is designed to keep you awake. It’s designed to help you to stay awake and not to drift in lot. Now, here’s the thing that you need to understand. The shoulder is that the road is designed to sing to you. Let me explain to you what I’m talking about. The shoulder of the road is designed to sing to you. There’s a little city in New Mexico that has a problem. I had a problem with speeding, and it was kind of an isolated city. It’s a small city. There’s a stretch of it that is wide open. And people would just fly down this road. And so they couldn’t keep, you know, speeders under control because you know what happens when there’s an open road? Road. What do we do? I mean, well, you said, Wea can make up little time right here, you know, and we make up time. And so this little city, along with the National Geographic Society and the New Mexico Department of Transportation, came together with a creative plan. And what they did is they created little strips on the shoulder of the road. And once you go down this road, and you go the exact speed limit, and you travel on the shoulder of the road, the shoulders begin to sing a song to you. You don’t believe me, do you? Well, watch this video. Now, What was the song that was playing America? The What the Beautiful. And you could only hear the song if you’re going the speed limit and your car is exactly where it’s supposed to be. Again, the music on the road trip is designed to keep you awake, just like the rumble strip on the road is designed to keep you awake. So, in fact, here’s my sermon in a sentence.

Music in your mouth can lift your day, but God’s melody in your heart will light up your life. Now, isn’t that good? Is that God’s melody? Well, in your heart will light up your life.

Now, folks, music is powerful. And let me just say something. You don’t even have to be a follower of Jesus for music to be powerful. And let me just say something to you. If you’re here today and you’re not a follower of Jesus Christ, I just want to say welcome to East Side. East Side is open. Welcome. We want you to be here. And here’s the thing about East Side is that you can belong before you believe. See, in a lot of churches, you have to believe in order to belong. You can come, and you can scout out. You can test drive the East side. You can come. And as inquisitive questions. And if that’s you. I just want you to know that we’re glad that you’re here. And why do I say that is? Because you don’t even have to be a cross-follower for music to make an impact on your life. Dr. Tim Keller. He’s a famous pastor in New York City. He’s got cancer and not doing really well right now, but he’s written all kinds of books about believing in God and about atheists and agnostics, and he’s just a fantastic pastor. And he said that atheists, people who believe that there’s no God, who wish that God didn’t, wasn’t even in the vocabulary. Intelligent, smart individuals they have recorded, they have gone on. Interviews on the record books saying that music oftentimes makes them rethink their position of being an atheist. Now, let me say that again is that music will cause a fierce to rethink if there’s God or not. They’re wanting to believe in God. They say that there’s something within them, within them, that is tugging at them. There’s something in them that is telling them that they should reconsider and that they should think again. He goes on to say in that article, There’s something in music that tells you that there’s meaning in life. There’s something in music that steers you towards hope. There’s something in music that he says is trying to evangelize you, the lost person. And here’s a direct quote from that article. Dr. Tim Keller said It’s almost impossible to commit suicide. Listening to the Hallelujah Chorus. Is that music? Well, help an atheist to reconsider if there’s a God or not. But what does music do for you? And I, today. Right now, in this very moment for us, who are believers? What does music help us to do? The music helps us to be filled, if you will, with the Holy Spirit. The music helps you not to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Now, here’s the thing that we’re asking. Here’s the question that we’re considering is how do you get filled with Holy Spirit? You know, I’m not asking for myself. I’m asking for a. Friend. One person got that good. I guess it is really bad on my part. But I’m asking for a friend. I mean, how is the person filled with Holy Spirit? I mean, Paul, can you give us an example that is so simple, so elementary that a fourth grader can understand it? Paul goes, Yeah, I can give you an example. You just consider somebody filled with Holy Spirit. Compare that individual to someone who is drunk or under the influence of alcohol. Oh, okay. I see my mom and dad drunk enough. I can make that comparison. Right. Here’s what Paul says. The Vision Chapter five, verse 18.

Ephesians 5:18. (NKJV)

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,

Do not be drunk with one in which dissipation, which is a descent, which is a downgrade, is what he’s saying. But be filled with the spirit. Be filled with the spirit.Here’s what Paul is saying. Paul is saying that when you look at someone who has drunk in excess or has drunk too much in excess, is that they are. Here’s what he says. They’re similar and dissimilar to someone who’s being filled with the Holy Spirit moment by moment. If you’re taking notes, write this down. Being filled with this spirit is to get what people get drunk trying to get. Is that being filled with the spirit is to get what people get drunk, trying to get so drunk, people trying to get what the spirit is already given. You know, you asking yourself the question is, what? Why do you get drunk? Why do you? What do you try to get when you get drunk? You try to get to things. You try to get courage, and you try to get happiness. Am I right or wrong? I mean, you get courage, and you get happiness when you’re. And I wish we could talk about alcohol in a spiritual way that doesn’t include beer and wine. Oh, there’s the word spirit. Spirits. When you’re under the spirits. You’re intoxicated, but you can also be under the influence of the Holy Spirit and people who are under the spirits, under bourbon, rum, gin, all of that stuff. Here’s the thing. Is what you’re looking for. You’re looking for courage and happiness. And some of you said, Well, why would you say that? Well, have you ever heard anyone say, Man, I just need a drink of liquid courage? Right. Just need a little courage. Now, here’s the thing that you need to understand that alcohol helps us to feel courageous. It helps us to feel invincible. And how does that work? How does alcohol make you not feel invincible? Because it’s a depressant and it depresses your ability to see and perceive reality. Now, let me say that again. Alcohol is a depressant. It depresses your ability to see and perceive reality. Now, folks, listen to me. Is that when you’re drinking, and then you’re alcohol, you drink in excess, and you get drunk. What happens is, is that all of a sudden, the cares of the world no longer exist inside of you because you’re happy, because you don’t need the spirits, Right? You’re happy. But you know, the problems are still there. Absolutely. Getting drunk does not get rid of any of your problems. Getting drunk does not get rid of any of your problems. Does getting drunk eliminate any of your anxieties? No. You come down off getting drunk. Let me ask you a question. Are your anxieties and problems still there? Yes, 100%. It doesn’t solve any of your problems. It just dulls your ability to care about them. Right. For the moment. Like, I don’t care. You know what? When someone’s drunk, you’ve seen this. Maybe you’ve even done it yourself. You feel invincible. You feel as if you can do anything. You feel like you can even fly. If they just gave you the opportunity. Right? Because why is that? Alcohol is a depression, and it causes you to see the world in a distorted way. And even though the world is distorted at the moment, is that all the realities are still there. But Paul says, just like you’re under the influence of the spirits and you’re underneath that, it dulls your senses, it dulls your how you perceive reality when you’re underneath the influence of the Holy Spirit. It actually heightens your perception of reality. You have a deeper, richer instinct inside into reality because what that is, is what the Holy Spirit does. The Holy Spirit helps you to somehow or another to develop the fruit of the spirit, that is called self-control. That is mentioned in the book of Galatians Chapter five.

And the Holy Spirit helps us to have a heightened understanding and perception of what’s going on in the world around us. Remember, in acts chapter two to some of you. Just so you know, this is not an anti-alcohol sermon, okay? It’s not that, as I said, that used to be filled with the spirit of the living Lord and not the spirit. Remember, in acts chapter two is, the Holy Spirit comes upon the believers. Remember, Peter is preaching the gospel. He’s preaching with authority. He’s telling the Jews, Jews, you, the religious leaders. You’re the one who knelt Jesus to the cross. You’re the one that sent him to the cross into the grave. You’re the one to blame. His blood is on your hands, and you know no one else. And you remember that people were getting saved left and right. People were rejoicing. They were shouting. They were singing. They were declaring the greatness of God. They didn’t care if they got arrested. They didn’t care if they went to prison. They didn’t care if they got beaten. They were just filled with the Holy Spirit. And you remember what the religious leaders of that day and age came the accuse Peter and the early believers of. They said you are sloshed. You intoxicated. And Peter goes, We’re not intoxicated. It’s only 9 a.m. in the morning. We are filled with the Holy Spirit. And when you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, there is excitement. My friends, when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, there’s a sense of celebration in the air. There’s a sense of anticipation because you have a heightened sense of an awareness of what God is doing in the room. That’s at chapter two. Very important that you understand that. And here’s the second thing I want you to write down if you will.

We make foolish decisions when we look for what is already ours. 

We make foolish decisions when we look for what is already ours. Now, here’s what I’m saying, is that if you are a believer, you have the Holy Spirit who lives within you. You already have everything that you need. But because you’re not filled with the Holy Spirit, you don’t give full access of your life to the Holy Spirit. Then what happens is you make foolish decisions, searching for something that you already have. And how do we make these foolish decisions? Well, alcohol is only one way, my friends. It’s gambling. It’s going to the casinos. It’s pulling the slot machines and expecting the slot machines to fulfill something inside of you that God has already promised to do in you. It’s going after possessions. It’s going after accumulation of possessions. It’s going after this prestige and having a name in the community that you have. You live in its searching for all of those things, and you are searching for all those things. You make foolish decisions because you already have something that you don’t have to go searching for. Does that not make sense? And then I just kind of closed this out with an illustration from Second Kings chapter six. We don’t have time to go and read the whole chapter. But I would encourage you to go read Second Kings chapter six. And there is this apprentice. He’s at work with the preacher, and the preacher’s name is Alicia. And the last is a godly man. And he is concerned about his apprentice Gaza. He’s is worried. He’s a frown, he’s frowning, he’s frightened. He’s nervous. He’s full of anxiety. And Alaska. Ask him what’s going on. Why are you afraid? And he says, because, you know, there are all those troops that are out there that’s surrounding us, and we’re just here in this little house, and we don’t have any protection. And I just want you to know that all of those troops are going to come in, and they’re going to eliminate us, and they’re going to kill us. And what are we going to do? How should we respond? And he goes, Don’t worry about it. Everything’s going to be okay. Now, here’s what Alaska could have done. A lawsuit could have given Hasan a bottle of bourbon because we live in Kentucky. You have to use bourbon as an example. I could have given him a bottle of bourbon. Hayes, I could have drank that whole bottle of bourbon, and he wouldn’t care what happened, right? They wouldn’t matter what happened. Because why? Because he had courage. He had a depressant. He didn’t have a clear view of reality. He could care less if there’s one soldier or couple thousand soldiers out on the hillside. But Alaska could have done that. But Alaska didn’t do that. And let me just say something to all the young people that are in the room right now, all of you young people, is that you’ve just come out of COVID. You’ve come out of a very bad season, just like us as adults. And some of the things that I’m learning about young people right now is that they don’t have any coping mechanisms. They don’t know how to cope with the reality of life and what’s going on. And let me just tell you what’s going on with a lot of young people is that they’re turning to alcohol to numb the pain because they don’t know how to deal with the reality of the world that we live in. And young people, before you lean into alcohol too much. Do you know what the most common thing among alcoholics is that they’ve found to be true? The most common thing among alcoholics is that they started drinking at an early age. Before you lean into alcohol, let me just give you caution. You know, that thing that’s helping you to numb the pain right now could be the thing that would destroy your life in the days ahead. So you got to be really, really careful. Alaska didn’t give all the highs are a bottle of bourbon. You know what he did? He gave a prayer. Look at the prayer that he prayed. Second Kings chapter six, verse 17.

2 Kings 6:17 (NLT)

“Then Elisha prayed, ‘O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!’ The Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire.”

How long have they been there? My friends, they’ve been there the entire time. Is that just because Hasan didn’t have the eyes to see it. He didn’t have the ability to see it, but his mentor prayed the prayer, and his eyes were open immediately. And so helping you to see more of reality, that is what the job of the Holy Spirit is. So in a practical way, how are you filled with the Holy Spirit on a day to day? How does someone know if you’ve filled with the Holy Spirit? Let me just give you the most practical suggestion that I can give to you. Then we went to the last point, and we were done. The most practical suggestion I can give to you is to have an attitude of gratitude, is to express thank you’s to other people, to say thank you to your spouse for cooking the meal, for cleaning the house, for getting the kids ready for bed, saying thank you to your kids for doing their chores, saying thank you to the person who waited on you, is that here’s what I would challenge you to do. I would challenge everybody in this room this week. If you want to be filled with the spirit, just send out 20 thank you cards to different people. Send out 20 thank you text messages to people because after Paul gets through talking about being filled with the spirit, notice what he says next. In the next verse, he says, Give thanks always for all things is that’s what you’re supposed to do. You’ll be filled with the spirit. Give thanks for all things he said. Get into the rhythm, the habit of saying thank you. And finally, the last point is this worship is more than singing, but it’s not less. Worship is more than singing, but it’s not less worship. It’s not just singing. And some of you, you sing well. What is worship? How would you define worship? Worship is this Ephesians chapter five, verse 20. The Bible tells us it says to worship in this next verse. Oh, I’m sorry, go back. You’re not worshiping in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Worship in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, worship in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Is that a television show that you’re watching? Can you watch it and sing a song to Jesus? The business deal you’re about to do. Can you sing a song of worship? Can you say the name of Jesus in that business to that text message that you’re about ready to send that email that you’re about ready to send? Can you do it in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? Can you do it in His name? The things that you’re doing, the activities that you’re involved in? Can you do it in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ? Because, friends, here’s the thing that we don’t understand. Here’s the thing that we don’t understand. We think that worship is the first 15 minutes of this service. All of life. It’s worship. Everything that we do is worship, my friends, the way that we serve, the way that we drive, the way that we give, and the way that we read the Bible. If we even read Bob, the way that we interact, the kindness that we show or we do not show everything that we do, every human interaction that we have. Listen to me, my friends. All of life is worship. But you think it’s just the first 15 minutes of this service, and maybe that’s my fault. Maybe it’s not your fault. But let me just say something to you. Some of you, you’re just This is your attitude. Well, I’m just going to get my coffee. I just go get my donut. I’m just going to hang out in the atrium just for a few more minutes because all they’re doing in there is singing. No, my friends, we’re worshiping. See, here’s the reason why we don’t like singing because we think that we’re singing to God. What you need to understand is that God is singing with us. You wanna know the game changer. The game changer is this. The game changer is knowing. That in worship, you realize that God is singing as well, that God is singing as well. He’s there with us. He’s singing. And we forget that he’s singing. We forget that he’s present with us.

What will change the game for you in worship, is when you realize that He is singing too.

We forget that he’s worshiping with us. And some of you, you forget that God wants us to sing and shout and to praise and to clap and to applaud and do all of those things. We forget those things. God is in the mist with us worshiping with us. Now, some of you said, Well, give me a verse for that. I have to have a verse for that. Okay. I can give you many verses. Do you understand that the second most command in all of Scripture outside of prayer, the second most often repeated command, is to sing, to worship the Lord? Is the second most quoted command is to worship the Lord. So you, we’re just going to have a scripture every second of Scripture. I’m going to give it to you. Just hold on. Listen to me, Luke. Chapter 15. There’s the story of the prodigal son. The story of the lost coin. And there’s a story of the what? The lost sheep. Remember, the shepherd goes and looks at the pen he kills. There’s 99. There’s one missing. What is the shepherd? What does he do? He’s. I forget about that. I’ve got 99. Forget about the other one. No, no. He goes, Oh, that’s my son. That’s my daughter. There’s someone that’s missing. I’m going to go, and I’ll go find them. And here’s what you need to understand is that God won’t leave you. He loves you. He cares for you. You were foolish. You shouldn’t have gone. You knew better. He doesn’t care at all. He rumbled you. Now he’s chasing after you. He can’t stop. He won’t stop when he finds you. If you’re wounded, if you’re sick, if you’re in the mouth of a lion, if you’re an addict, or if you’re high strung out on drugs or even high from what you did last night, he would do what he’s going to come after you. And when he finds you, what is he going to do? He’s going to take that one sheep that’s drifted off, and he may be you. He’s going to pick you up, and he’s going to put you on his shoulders. And when he puts you on his shoulders, what does he do? Then? As he walks back to the pen, it says, What in Luke chapter 15, verse five, that he’s doing what he is. What, my friends, What does he say? He’s rejoicing. You are rejoicing in that passage. He’s humming. He’s singing. And when he comes and picks you up from whatever mess you’ve got yourself in, he’s singing, he’s rejoicing. He’s singing to you. He’s singing with you. He’s a good, good father. Amen. He’s a good, good father. And today, we get to worship. We may have messed it up on the front end, but we’ve got one more chance this morning to worship with the Lord.