Loving Your Enemies Because They Need It

Uh we're going to be starting our service. There's not many of us here, but it's okay cuz the Lord's in the house. The Lord's in the house. And he wants to teach us something today. But [clears throat] but he wants also us to praise and honor him. And I wanted to start off our service from Psalm 103. It says, "Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Sometimes we forget the good things that God gives us, and we only remember the hardships, the the negative days in our lives. But God says or the the psalmist says, "Bless the Lord and do not forget those things when he did help you when he did give you. Remember them because that pleases God." And over here it says, "He forgives all your iniquities." He forgives all our iniquities. Oh friends, we need God every day. We need Jesus every day because we fall, we stumble, we make left turns, and only God, only God can forgive our iniquities. Only God can forgive our left turns and set us back on the right path. And that's his grace. That's his love because he wants us not only to do good in life but to reach those who are in the whole of this world. So let us remember and bless him this morning. Lord, thank you for being there for me when I was down. Thank you for forgiving me when I stumbled. Thank you for freeing me when I was shackled. Thank you, Lord. And with that, let's pray. Lord God, we thank you for this morning, Lord Jesus. We're going to we're going to bless you, Lord God, this morning. And we're going to praise you and we're going to honor you, God, because you have the power, Lord God, to deliver us, God, from our iniquities, Lord God, from our sins, to set us free and to forgive us, Lord God. Only you can do that. Thank you so much, Lord God, for saving us, Lord. And if there's, Lord God, somebody here that hasn't yet given their life to you, Lord. God, if there's someone here that hasn't submitted themselves to you, Lord, I pray God, stir their heart and save them in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. And for our first song, we'll be singing Holy, Holy, Holy, [music] Holy, [music] holy, [singing] holy Lord [music] God [singing] Almighty. Mighty, early in the [singing and music] morning, our song shall rise to thee. [music] Holy, holy, holy, [singing] merciful and mighty God in [singing and music] three person blessed Trinity. [singing and music] Holy, holy, holy. [music] All [singing] the saints adore thee, casting down [music and singing] their golden crowns around the glassy [singing and music] sea. Cherubim and [music] Saraphim falling [singing] down before thee. [music] Who were dead in [singing] art and [music] ever more shall [singing] be holy, holy, [music] holy [singing] Lord God Almighty. Early in the morning, [singing] [music] our song shall rise to thee. Holy, holy, [music and singing] holy, merciful and [music] mighty God in three person blessed [music and singing] Trinity. Holy, [music] holy, [singing] holy. Though the darkness [music] hide thee, though [singing] the eye of sinful [music] men, thy glory [singing] may not see, only thou are holy. [music] There [singing] is none beside thee, perfect in [music and singing] power, love and purity. And for our second song, we'll be singing Bless the Lord, oh my soul. Bless the Lord, oh my [music and singing] soul. Oh my soul, worship his holy [music] name. Sing [music] like never before. [singing] Oh my soul, I'll [music and singing] worship your holy name. [music] The [singing] sun comes up. [music] It's a new [singing] day dawning. [music] It's time to sing your song again. [music] [singing] Whatever may pass. And whatever lies before me, let [music and singing] me be singing when the evening comes. Bless the [music and singing] Lord, oh my soul, oh [singing] my soul. Worship his [music] holy name. Sing [music and singing] like never before. Oh my [music and singing] soul, I'll worship your holy name. You're [singing and music] rich in love and you're slow [singing and music] to anor. Your name is great and your heart is kind. [singing and music] For all your goodness I [music] will keep on [singing] singing. 10,000 reasons for my heart [singing and music] to find. Bless the Lord, [music and singing] oh my soul. Oh my soul, worship [music and singing] his holy name. Sing like [music and singing] never before. Oh [music] my soul, I'll worship [singing] your holy name. And on [music and singing] that day when my strength is failing, the [singing and music] end draws near and my time has come. [music] Still [singing] my soul will sing your [music] praise unending [singing] 10,000 years and [music] then forever [singing] more. Bless the Lord, [singing] oh my soul. Oh [singing] my soul, [music] worship his holy [music] name. Sing like [singing] never before. [music] Oh [singing] my soul, I'll worship [music] your holy [singing] name. Bless the Lord, [singing and music] oh my soul. Oh my soul. [music] Worship his holy [singing] name. Sing like [music] never before. [singing] Oh [music] my soul, I'll worship your holy [singing] name. [music] Yes, I'll worship your holy [music] name, Lord. I'll [singing] worship [music] your holy name. Praise God. Praise the Lord, my dear friends, for this morning that we're all able to be here together today. And whoever made it, you know, even though there's not much, but we're still here to praise God and worship his name today. And uh I'd like to do our Bible reading for this morning, which I'm going to open up to Psalms 40. Uh, and for many of you, it's going to be page 806 for the Bibles in the pews. Uh, Psalm 40, page 806. And pretty much in this passage, David's going through a very hard time in his life. He's going through a lot of distress and he has a lot of enemies coming after him. And in these in this moment, even though that's all happening to him, we could see here that he still stays faithful to God. He fully puts his trust in him in those distressful times. And he is still able to praise God's name in that. And I would like to start reading. I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of a merry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth. Praise to our God. Many will see it in fear and will trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, oh Lord, my God, are your wonderful works which you have done in your thoughts towards us cannot be recounted to you in order. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering you did not desire. My ears you have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering you did not require. Then I said, "Behold, I come in the scroll of the book. It is written of me. I delight to do your will, oh my God, and your law is within my heart. I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness in the great assembly. Indeed, I do not restrain my lips. Oh Lord, you yourself know. I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly. Do not withhold your tender mercies from me, oh Lord. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me, for innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart fails me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Oh Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion, who seek to destroy my life. Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor, who wish me evil. Let them be confounded because of their shame, and who say to me, "Aha, aha." Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "The Lord may be magnified, but I am poor and needy." Yet the Lord thinks upon me, you are my help and my deliverer. Do not delay, oh my God. Praise God. And now we'll have uh Pastor Tim and Pastor Gennady uh lead a topic for us this morning. But before that, Tim's going to make a couple announcements. God bless. Sunday school, please come up and we're going to pray for them, but we're also going to pray for our studies. So, let's all stand up. And how we heard over here, it's saying that preserve the word in my heart. And we're going to be learning about loving your enemy. Uh Ruth has prepared a lesson. They're going to be learning something. And may that word that we're going to all learn today, may it grow in our heart to a beautiful from a mustard seed to a tree that blossoms. Amen. Let's pray. Lord God, we thank you for this time, God, that we could come here, Lord, and learn your word. I pray, God, for our Sunday school teacher and students. May you bless them in their lesson, Lord God. And also God, I uh pray that you bless our lesson, Lord God. May your Holy Spirit guide us and teach us your truths, Lord God. May that seed God come into our heart, the seed of truth, Lord God, and grow into a beautiful tree, a fruit tree, Lord God, that pleases those around us, Lord, and you especially. May your name be praised and glorified in Jesus' name. Amen. And let's take this few minutes to shake each other's hands and we'll get into our lesson. [music] Sorry. [music] Oh. Okay, we'll start in just a it. If if anybody wants to share anything, uh, brother Dimma will come up and give the mic. So, we're still in Matthew chapter 5 and we are going through the four loves that Jesus teaches us and we're on the third one. And just a little background on Matthew chapter 5. Jesus was here. Let me read this so we kind of understand where he was and who he was teaching these lessons. Matthew 5. Um, does does anybody have the page number? What is it? 1393. 1393. Let's turn to 1393. So just a little bit before chapter 5, it says this. And Jesus went up went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. And then later in in chapter 5 we read and seeing the multitudes he went up on a mountain and when he was seated his disciples came to him. Then he opened his mouth and taught them saying, and over here all chapter 5 is Jesus teaching the the multitudes and the disciples and seeing the multitudes, he went up on a mountain and he was seated and his disciples came to him. So what is Jesus trying to teach us that he was teaching them? And then we jumped in we jump into verse 43 of chapter 5. This is a really deep chapter and God willing we will actually start from the beginning because it has the biatitudes and um Jesus talking about you are the salt and the light and then murder begins in the heart. Christ fulfills the law. adultering the heart, marriage, it talks, he talks about marriage, and then in verse 43, that's where we're going to read from. It says over here, you have heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. So over here, Jesus was talking to the Jews because in the law, that's what it was said. Verse 44. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your father in heaven. For he makes his son rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so. Therefore, you shall be perfect just as your father in heaven is perfect. So, that's what we're going to be discussing today. [clears throat] What does Jesus mean by love your enemies? And I want to ask us this morning if if anybody wants to share what do you think Jesus means when he says love your enemies. Bless those who curse you. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. I mean this is this is deep. This is this is something so hard to do for for any human. For any human, this is so hard to do. Yet Jesus, he's when he's saying this, he's not saying, "Oh, this is so hard." He's telling them what they should do. And the love over here is also the agape love. So, does does anybody want to share what they believe or what they think love your enemies, how to love your enemies? Okay. Yes. I mean, I do want to um kind of reinforce when Jesus Christ saying love your enemy, a lot of times we thinking, oh, it's the enemy that maybe I don't know personally. It's maybe some kind of uncchristian person. I got to love him. But when Jesus Christ saying love your enemy, he truly means that it's your enemy. It's someone that emotionally you don't like it. It's someone that did much evil to you. Jesus Christ shown be like your father in heaven, but he himself loved us while we were enemies to him. And right here it says in Colossians 1:21, "This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions." So we by our evil thoughts and actions the humanity we were going against God against Jesus Christ and we did lot of harm. I'm talking about as a humanity and emotionally emotionally to Jesus Christ we were his enemies we did lot of harm to him and you know and he actually goes okay for those enemies I'm going to do something in order to change them I'm going to love them and I want to give one example how it works works in a in a true life just this is there is a true example but I'm going to actually kind paraphrase and almost make up. Let's say there is um your your um tribe or someone that your people and there is another tribe there fighting against you. They killing your close ones. they kill in your close families and you're just thinking, okay, those people do so much harm to us. What can we do to prevent this? And you actually take one of your closest person, you send to them and you know that they're going to do this harm to that person, but after that they going to realize, I mean, how long we're going to do that to them? and it will bring them to change and all the sudden we might gain them. That's what God did to us where he goes those people do so much evil towards me but I need to do something in order to reconcile and he had reconciled us. Now he's telling us exactly same thing. When you have enemies in your life and people that do so much harm to you, maybe to God, how can you reconcile them to you? It's by loving them. Because when we love our enemies, what happens is that they just think, man, I'm do harm to those people and they just still do good to me. Why I'm doing this? And we don't know how much by following the God, by loving our enemies actually has the impact on them where they begin to realize and they start changing and all the sudden we begin to gain them. I just explained what it's mean to love the enemies. How to love, maybe we're going to move on to that and how to love. But Bible talks about it's truly your enemy. It's the person, it's the people that emotionally you don't like them and they don't like you. They hate you. And Bible tells us to love those kind people. And there is a reason why Bible saying to love them not just always loved and there is no fruit of it because there's some consequences that happens out of loving those enemies because the first example is just Jesus Christ himself where he loved us and Luke and we actually start following him. Yeah. And that's the thing and the Bible teaches us that our war is not against flesh and blood. Our true enemy is the devil and he is the one who turns people against us. And instead of fighting him, people are fighting each other. And the devil is winning this way because people are at war against each other when the the church should be at war against the evil. But we're going to dissect this passage. And over here I wrote out three things that I saw in this passage. It's first love because love your enemies. Then it says bless. Bless those who curse you. Then it says do good to who? To those who hate you. and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. And so I kind of broke it down and it says and over here I put we need to love not because they deserve it but because that is what Jesus did when we didn't deserve it. So Jesus loved us not because he wanted to, but because we needed it. We needed it. We needed his love [clears throat] on the cross for us to be saved emotionally. Uh like Pastor Henry just already explained, I'm not going to repeat it. So when we love our enemies, it's not necessarily emotional. It's because maybe they need it. They need to see that like Pastor Henry just explained, I'm doing all this harm to this person. I'm backstabbing them. I'm talking smack about them. I'm I'm trying to put um like they say uh like nails under their tires. But in return, this person is saying good things about me. He's saying how, you know, he's such a hard worker or she's such a hard worker. And then the love that you are showing to them is going to start slowly coming into their heart and mind and making them realize what why am I doing what I'm doing? And that's what that that realization came to us when we were living in sin. And it's like, Lord, why am I doing this? I don't want to do this anymore. Save me. Save me. His love made us realize our fallen state. And therefore, because of his love, we realized that we need him and we started loving him. So the love is they don't deserve it, but they need it. They need that love for them to realize their mistake against you. And and right here uh the verse that pastor Tim already read. So it says you have heard that I have be it have been said thy shall love thy neighbor and hate thy enemy. So this is natural. Yeah. Whatever been given on in old testament it says that love your neighbor. There's someone that close to you. It's someone that may be part of your group, your nationality, but hate your enemy because this is the natural way for a carnal person for me. That's how naturally people live right now around us. Those who doesn't know Christ or know Christ but doesn't want to want to follow him. the natural reaction and it's the I would say the just way it's to actually love the people that close to you and hate those that are against you. So that's a just way. But that's why Jesus Christ, he goes then, but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them. All the sudden Jesus Christ goes, I'm giving you something very different, something new that it's not natural for carnal person. And when he again using the word love, he use an agape, not a filio, because filio is uh something that I love or like a person emotionally it's it's my friend it's maybe my family it's my close one I have the emotions agape it's my duty Bible saying love man but I cannot love that person and do do I should I have emotions toward that person no Bible are not asking you to have emotions Bible saying just do things what's right when this enemy is in need. Go and help him. When this enemy is hungry, go and feed him. You don't have emotions toward that person. But you know how later when you start gaining that person, you also might have a feel of love towards him as well. Then it start growing. It start changing in more and more. So that's why first we got to follow what Bible is recommending to us. And when your enemy is hungry, we got to feed him. That's what mean love. In uh in many American translation, the love is used to be as a charity. Charity, it's something that I do regardless what those people will do in return to me. So that's why it says that's how you should love your enemies with agape love. It's a duty that I do. And then when I start doing it, let's say that person did so much harm to me and I start do good to him. I fed him. He was in a need. He had something going on and I was there to help him. And he's like, why why are you doing this? Well, I I'm a Christian. I'm a follower of God. I just do this to everyone. And then he start thinking man why I'm being so um evil to that person it start convict convicting him he start meditating and then when hard times comes to it says when when the time of um time comes to them the difficult times all of the sudden they start thinking that person he's a special person and then he start coming to you and he's like, "Man, why are you doing this?" And you're like, "I know Jesus Christ." He's like, "I want this, too." And now you have gained a friend. Now you can love him as a filio as well as a friend. And now you see that Bible works in my life. Man, it works. I follow the Bible and I've gained a person. That's why we should follow what Bible recommends to us. And when we following all of the sudden we see the results of it because we have faith in it and it changes us. That's how we should love our enemies because Jesus Christ telling us to do this and then later we will gain them emotionally as well. If anybody wants to say anything or like share a story, just raise your hand and we'll give you the mic. But we'll uh continue. And um well to that maybe if someone can share when you in your life did something right to the people that hated you and you were able to do good to them. Uh is there anyone that able to share this uh that that would be good good to hear what kind of results it brought and over here like uh pastor her just said just raise your hand and we'll give you the mic. Um but oh Dimma yeah I could share a story. Um so for me at least in my life uh even on my work right there's uh people who would see how I kind of act in a way and would make fun of me at first because they didn't realize like why is this person acting like this like either you know just uh fleeing from sin like drinking and stuff and they realized and they would make fun of me and like why don't you do this kind of stuff and I wouldn't really say anything and I just kind of kept quiet. And then after a while, one of them asked me like, "Okay, why why do you act like this?" Like I generally wonder like why do you just why don't why don't you follow the normal pathway a 22-year-old would go drinking, go party, go all do all these things. And I actually shared him who Christ was and I'm a follower of Jesus Christ. And and I realized like I can just see it by his face like like all those times maybe he made fun of me. He was like man like you're different you know and and after that he never made fun of me again and he maybe it planted a seed. I don't know. Oh yeah it did. But it did for sure. That's at least in my life what happened with one story. Amen. And that's that's using what the Bible teaches in in our actual lives. And over here it says I put over there, pray for them. Pray for those who who spitefully use you and persecute you. Prayer has so much power, friends. Prayer has so much power through our prayers. God, he can break that hardened heart. Through our prayers, God, he can stop that enemy from doing harm to you. through our prayers. And I want to share a story. It's not about me, but I remember one of the brothers who came to our church a while back and he shared this story. He said that it was still the the communist times and there was a pastor in prison. There was a pastor in prison and uh there were these guards and they were just beating him. They were beating him like for him to denounce Christ, but he wouldn't denounce. And uh one day they decided that they're going to beat him until he denounces. So he this this guard came with another guard and they started beating this pastor. And that guard was saying that when we were beating him and torturing him, we started seeing something different. This pastor was praying and he was saying good things to us. And we saw like an angel, like as if he was an angel. His like whole body was shining. His whole body was shining. And he had this huge smile while we're beating him. And he was the this guard was saying that we we beat him to death. He died. And later the person who was testifying, he was like he said, I was that guard that beat him to death. And he was saying that because of his love towards me, I got saved. And that's the true love of God. When the enemy is persecuting you, you're praying and that seed like Dimma just said that seed it was sown and later that person he couldn't he couldn't leave that from his mind. Why was this pastor so happy, so joyful and praying and it saved a soul? It gained a soul for heaven. And that's what prayer does. And and you know uh Tim brought this uh example and there's many examples like this in other countries in United States uh Christians were not persecuted and uh but in most countries Christians were persecuted but if we think so when God actually brought us into his family I mean he could take us right away into the heaven uh just to make it easier for us But why does he keep his people in here? The reason why it's so we can testify to other people. And sometimes our testimony is through those type of examples. Yeah. So we can pray for other people. Our job as a God's people to also shine and bring light to those people who actually perishing. That's our job and we see that many many people are perishing and this life is very short. So therefore we should understand even though here we're not persecuted the way I can actually shine the light to other people is do something good and pray for those enemies so God can save them. And in other countries actually they sometimes would even put their lives in order to die for God and maybe save some souls. But it's so much easier for us in here. So we should actually pray for our enemies. And maybe at first it's like what? I got to pray for my enemy. No, there is no way. I want God to bring um harm wrath into his life. But we heard this example. Some people put lives for Christ. Can we pray for our enemies? Can we maybe feed our enemies in order for them to see the light? I think we can in the name of Jesus Christ and with his help. So we should start thinking okay from now on I'm going to follow what Christ telling me to do because it will bring a certain fruit in their lives and in my life because I will see that Bible is working and I'll be happy as well. Yes. So we've like we don't have much time left maybe like five minutes but uh we went through love those who don't deserve to be loved but they need to be loved and uh how we talked about uh pray because prayer it breaks the heart and heart and can save a soul. And third do good to them to those who hate you. And uh Pastor Henry, he already touched on that, but I wanted to also read uh Romans 12:17 through 21. It says, "Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable. Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone." Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the scripture says, I will take revenge. I will pay them back, says the Lord. And over here says, instead, if your enemies are hungry, feed them. What pastor Henry was saying, if they are thirsty, give them something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals of shame on their heads. Don't let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good. Over here it says burning coals of shame, meaning that conviction. And we talked about they're doing harm and we're doing good in return. They're like, okay, they're doing harm again. We're doing good in return. Hey, um, like you need money for gas, here's 20 bucks. What? Why is he like I'm making fun of him and he's helping me? And then the conviction, the burning conviction comes into their heart like, why am I doing this? making them realize and leads them to repentance, apologizing, and even like we heard even gaining a friend and heaven gaining a soul. That's the power of loving your enemies. by doing good to those who hate you, that seed will will be sown and the work will be done. Well, I think does do you have anything else to say, Henry? Um, and just a golden rule, treat them how you want to be treated. Treat others the way you want to be treated. Therefore, you shall be perfect just as your father in heaven is perfect. The perfect love of God. And that's what he's teaching us. When we have God in our life, we're going to not just love emotionally, but have that perfect love to love them because they need it. And over here the Holy Spirit is is really necessary in our life because the Holy Spirit also will um guide us and teach us and help us and stop us. That's why like pastor Henry was saying and and many of you guys were saying that like how do I love him? I want wrath of God. But the Holy Spirit is like love them. Love them. Help them. And it's stopping you from doing more more evil back. Conquer evil by love. Conquer evil by love. And that's what the Holy Spirit helps us to do. Any questions? If not, then let's stand up and pray. Lord God, we thank you God for this uh message, Lord God, that we could discuss, Lord God, and help us Lord. Holy Spirit, I pray help us God. If there's anybody who is trying to do harm to us to love them back, not to do not to do evil back to them, but to love them back. How you are teaching us to love those who are not deserving but needed. To do good to those who who are making fun of us, but we're doing good to them. So the burning coals of conviction can transform their lives and we can gain a friend and heaven can gain a soul. May you bless us to follow your word in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. For the last song we'll be singing goodness of God. I love you, [music] Lord, for your mercy [singing] never [music] fails me. All my days I've been held [singing] in your hands. [music] From the moment that I wake [singing] up until I lay my head. Oh, I will sing [music] of the goodness of God. [music] And all [singing] my life you have been faithful. [music] And all my [singing] life you have been so so good. With every [music and singing] breath that I am able. Oh, I will sing [music] of the goodness [singing] of God. I love your voice. You have led [singing] me through [music] the fire in darkest night. You are close [singing] like no other. I've known you as a father. [singing] I've known you as a friend. I have lived in the goodness [music and singing] of God. And all my [singing and music] life you have been faithful. And all my [music and singing] life you have been so so good. With every [singing and music] breath that I am aable. Oh, [singing] I will sing of the goodness of God. Your [music and singing] goodness is running after. It's running after me. Your goodness [singing] is [music] running after. It's running after me. With my life [music and singing] laid down, I'm surrender now. I give you everything. Your goodness [music] is running after. It's running after me. Your goodness is [music and singing] running after. It's running after me. Your [music] goodness is running [singing] after. It's running after me. With my life laid [music and singing] down, I surrender now. I give you everything. [music] Your goodness is running after. It's running [singing] after [music] me. And all [singing] my life you have been [music] faithful. [music] And all my [singing] life you have been so so good. With [music] every [singing] breath that I am able, oh, I [music and singing] will sing of the goodness of God. And all my [singing] life you have [music] been faithful. And all my [singing] life you [music] have been so so good. [music] With every [singing] breath that I am able. Oh, I will sing [music and singing] of the goodness of God. Praise God. Amen. Praise God, my dear friends. I hope we learned something this morning and may God give us the strength to apply it in our lives. Um, so [clears throat] a couple announcements. Um, we kind of need some help if anybody can help Saturday at 2 p.m. to come down to the gym and kind of clean up the mess over there. Um, and just like organize things. the clothes, the shoes. Um, we'll buy like little stands. So, if anybody can come help us and clean the gym at 2:00 Saturday, that would be very helpful. And also, we need some help. Yeah. Oh, okay. Scratch that. Forget that I said that. [panting] [laughter] I will I will um let you know I guess next Sunday when we plan for that. Also, we're going to pray for for Allan. Uh as you can see, he's not here. He's in the hospital and um I guess they found like a bump in his face or something and they're cutting it out to make sure to see what's if it's cancerous or not. Um then brother Vlad, our worship leader, he wasn't here as well today. We're going to pray. He end up he ended up in the hospital also last night, so he couldn't make it. We're going to pray for good health for him and his family. Also, um [clears throat] there's going to be some some announcements that we're going to be announcing in the next few weeks. there's going to be these minor changes hopefully for the good of the church and uh the good of God's ministry on this on this earth in Idaho. And uh those announcements are going to be I guess in two weeks since we're going to have guests coming over and service schedule today 9:00 am every Sunday. Tuesdays 8:30 I would love to see people there. We read the Bible. We talk about it. Uh we talk about, you know, things during the week. Uh we encourage each other and pray for each other. And also Thursday, it's more official Bible study. Uh we're going through the book of Acts. Very fun book. So we invite everybody also at 6:00 p.m. Thursday. Uh does anybody have any needs? If not, then let's pray. Lord God, we thank you once again, Lord, for this beautiful time, God, that we could discuss your word, Lord God. But most importantly, Lord, let us be doers of the word, not just hearers only. Lord, help us, Lord. Holy Spirit, I pray, help us to apply these these um these things that Jesus was teaching us to our lives, Lord God. And if we ever come across this situation, Lord, uh help us to to resolve it the right way and to love to love the way you loved us, God. I bless our church. I bless everybody here. I bless each person's week, Lord God. And we also pray for healing upon the sick, [cough and clears throat] upon Allen, and upon Vlad. God, we pray for healing upon them. May you restore their health, Lord God. May you restore their health, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sinned against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For your kingdom, your power and glory.