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When the role is small and younger, I'll begin. When the role is small and younger, I'll begin. On the bright and cloudless moon, we bring the dead in worship. And the glory of his resurrection shared. And his chosen one shall gather through their home beyond this ground. In the lowest hall of yon, we're all be there. In the lowest hall of yon, In the lowest hall of yon, In the lowest hall of yon, Yeah! In the lowest hall of yon, we're all be there. Let us sing for the master from the dawn to setting sun. Let us love for all his purpose for the king. When all the life is over and the work on earth is done, In the lowest hall of yon, we're all be there. In the lowest hall of yon, In the lowest hall of yon, In the lowest hall of yon, In the lowest hall of yon, Amen. Thank you, Father God, for another day. Thank you so much for this church. Thank you for this morning's service. We ask you to be blessed this morning's service. And the rest of this day, this evening's service. Thank you. In Jesus' mighty name, amen. Amen. Thank you, brother. Let's turn our hands to song number 124. That's song number 124, God Will Take Care Of You. Song number 124. In all his name, but every time, God will take care of him. Even his peace, O Lord of mine, God will take care of you. God will take care of you. Through every gain or all the pain, He will take care of you. God will take care of you. In all his name, but every time, God will take care of you. Even his peace, O Lord of mine, God will take care of you. God will take care of you. Through every gain or all the pain, He will take care of you. God will take care of you. Only we need, we will provide, God will take care of you. Nothing we ask will be denied, God will take care of you. God will take care of you. Through every gain or all the pain, He will take care of you. God will take care of you. No matter what will be the test, God will take care of you. Then when we run upon his breast, God will take care of you. 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He will take care of you. Make sure all those chilis are made from scratch. Make sure they are here by 5 pm. If you want to be entered into the contest and walk in at 5.01, I don't care about the sad puppy dog look you are going to give me. I will break your heart. I know I will be that bad guy. But we have to have a deadline for a reason. 5 pm is the absolute cutoff. The reason is because people have to work the next day, we want to get this thing going, and we want to get out the door. Otherwise people will show up at 7 pm with a chili. We have to have a deadline. Don't forget, I'm going to show them off again. The coveted wooden spoon. This could be yours folks. Who is going to make a chili? Now there is some competition in the room. There will be an additional prize to that, but that will be more of a surprise at the day of. The only other rules are you have to be at least 12 years old to vote. Everyone is going to get to vote on their favorite chili. Just one vote. Everybody 12 and above gets one vote to vote on their favorite chili. However they determine what their favorite chili is, if they really care the way it looks and not the way it tastes, they can vote on that. One vote, and if you enter a chili you cannot vote. If you enter a chili, you just have to hope that your vote is going to be the tiebreaker. Below that we have the home school field trip coming up. Please note that we had to move the date out until December 13th at 9 am. This is due to the fact that they scheduled me on a day, and then they called me back and said that is actually veterans day. We are trying to get the live animal theater, which is a really cool experience. But in order to get that we had to move the date out until the 13th. There will be a new sign up sheet reposted closer to that date. Because it is kind of silly to sign up now for something that is that far out. Schedules change. Below that you have the songs scheduled for the upcoming services. So take note of that if you want to learn the songs for the coming week. A real quick note about the yearbook photos as well. Obviously we have a lot of things set up over here, a lot of chords, so let's keep an eye on the kids especially today. The food will be here probably by the time I am done preaching. So we are going to actually have to turn these lights off in here in order to get the photos to turn out the way that we want. The overhead lamp above the counter will stay on so you can serve yourself. But we would ask that any fellowshipping or eating actually take place either in the foyer or outside of the building. We will set up the picnic tables and things down on this end of the sidewalk down there under the overhang if you want to go down there and eat. You are free to come in and get food and drink and things like that. Again let's not linger back here today and try to avoid coming up and down the aisle while the photos are being taken place. The way I will do this is I just kind of have an idea of who is here and what is going on. So we will just kind of call people in to have their photos taken. So you might have to put a taco down and wipe your mouth and run in here. It should go fairly smooth. Again I am very grateful for Brother Ramon to come down if you haven't met him. Make sure you shake his hand and say thank you for him and his family coming down here today and making that trip and setting this up for them. They are going to turn out great. They always do so I am excited about that. That will do it for announcements though. We will go ahead and sing one more song before we go to preaching tonight or this morning. Song number 449, Willing and Beulah. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming Here is my prayer for thee I am safe forever In evil lands I'm living on the mountain Underneath the cloudless sky Wait, what? I'm dreaming of the fountain Let never shower dry Oh, yes, I'll be speaking Of the weather From a mountain full of sunshine For I am coming In evil lands Living in the words of God I'm singing my salvation Hear me now his blessing For it's my single mighty prayer Telling him the Spirit Hear my prayer Of full salvation That he will lie to me In evil lands I'm living on the mountain Underneath the cloudless sky Wait, what? I'm dreaming of the fountain Let never shower dry Oh, yes, I'll be speaking Of the weather From a mountain full of sunshine For I am coming In evil lands Genesis chapter number 12 beginning in verse 1 the Bible reads Then the Lord had said to Abraham Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house into a land that I will show thee and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that cursed thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed So Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken unto him and Lot went with him and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran and Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother's son and all their substance that they had gathered and the souls that they had gotten in Haran and they went forth into the land of Canaan and into the land of Canaan they came and Abram passed through the land in the place of Sychem unto the plain of Mori and the Canaanite was then in the land and the Lord appeared on Abram and said unto thee will I give this land unto thy seed will I give this land and there builded he an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him and he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent having Bethel on the west and Haai on the east and there he builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord and Abram journeyed going on still toward the south and before the famine in the land Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there for the famine was grievous in the land and it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt that he said unto Sarai his wife behold now I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say this is his wife and they will kill me but they will save thee alive say I pray thee thou art my sister that it may be well with me for thy sake and my soul shall live because of thee and it came to pass that when Abram was come into Egypt the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair the princes also of Pharaoh saw her and commended her before Pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house and he entreated Abram well for her sake and he had sheep and oxen and heast asses and men servants and maid servants and she asses and camels and the Lord plagued Pharaoh at his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife and Pharaoh called Abram and said what is this that thou has done unto me why didst thou not tell me she was thy wife why setest thou she is my sister so I might have taken her to me to wife now therefore behold thy wife take her and go thy way and Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him and they sent him away and his wife and all that he had let's go ahead and have a word of prayer dear Lord again thank you for the time that we have to come together in the beginning of the week for the preaching of God's word I pray that you would meet with us this morning that you would help me Lord to edify your people we ask in Christ's name Amen so this morning I'm going to continue on with the series I started a couple weeks ago on lessons from leaders and just very briefly in review all I'll mention is the fact that again the series is entitled lessons from leaders not necessarily lessons for leaders although I'm sure there's a great many lessons that leaders could learn from the series and from the word of God and from these examples of leaders in the Bible but it's something that can really be applied to everybody everybody can learn something from these leaders as we go through the word of God and look at these you know really just I'm trying to narrow it down to just one or maybe two specific things about these leaders while there's many things that could be said what I want to point out is just a few things that we can learn from these leaders if you recall we looked at Adam and we've looked at Noah and this morning I want to look at Abraham and it says there in verse 1 now the Lord had said unto Abraham get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee and it says there in verse 1 now the Lord had said unto Abraham meaning this is something that he's already said to him back when he is in Ur of the Chaldees if you remember he leaves with his father they land up they end up there and he comes to again we're reminded that he was told to to leave his father's house after the passing of his father that's where we pick up the story where he's now going forth into Canaan and eventually down into the land of Egypt so he had said unto him get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that cursed thee and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed so Abram departed from the Lord as the Lord had spoken to him and lot with him and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran so imagine being Abram at this point in his life in the story of Abram imagine God coming and making such a great promise to you know one of us him coming to you and saying hey if you just leave everything behind you leave everything that's familiar you leave all your friends you leave your family you leave everything that you've known growing up you leave all this behind and I will give you this great blessing in fact I will make you such a blessing that all families in the earth in thee shall be blessed and that's a very powerful promise and of course we know Abram is a great example of faith of somebody who believed that and stepped out in faith and was obedient to the Lord and as a result God fulfilled this promise and today truly all families of the earth are blessed in Abram because through Abram came Christ so we see that's where that blessing comes from but what I want to get across this morning is that what we see in the life of Abram although it's this great blessing it is not without sacrifice and really when I think about Abram we might think about this idea of being willing to make a sacrifice in fact probably one of the main things people think about is when Abram offered up Isaac his only son upon the altar and we'll get to that here in a minute I want to start here in Genesis 12 though because I think when it comes to this idea of sacrifice that in the life of Abram there's also this example or this lesson that we can learn that when it comes to sacrifice it's often preceded by inconvenience if we think about sacrifice you say well if you're going to talk about Abram you're going to talk about Abraham you're going to talk about sacrifice why don't we just go right to Genesis 22 and talk about offering Isaac upon the altar I mean that's a pretty big sacrifice when God is coming to you and saying give me thy son offer thy son thy only begotten son offer the son that you've been waiting for and have never had offer the son of thine old age thine only begotten son give him to me slay him that's a pretty big sacrifice but notice before that God in a way tests and tries Abram by what? Inconveniencing him and really what I want to drive home this morning is that you know we're never going to be a people that are willing to make sacrifices if we're not willing to be inconvenienced often we like to think about all the great things we'd be willing to do for God oh how we would be martyrs for Christ if needs so arise how we would be willing to lay down our lives or forsake all that we have and yet we find ourselves very often not even willing to be inconvenienced for the Lord and it's hard to sit there and really believe ourselves about all the great sacrifices we would be willing to make when we aren't even willing to be inconvenienced a little bit for God's sake and really a lot of the things that we today in our modern times what we would call sacrifices for God really I don't even know that they would register as much as even so much as an inconvenience when we compare ourselves to some of these great leaders in the Bible you know Abram was somebody of course who was used mightily by God and he is somebody who was willing to make great sacrifices for God but before he ever got to that place where he's willing to offer up his own son in obedience to God he had learned along the way to allow himself to be inconvenienced for God's sake inconvenience precedes sacrifice you know we see that here in this chapter where it says in verse 1 that the Lord had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee you know this is something that maybe would have carried a lot more weight in times past when we really relied upon our local network of people in our lives and of course the local church can provide that community can provide that but we have to remember that you know in times past it's been a lot harder just to survive and back then especially you know to have been asked to leave thy country you know he didn't just say okay well no problem just give me the coordinates just give me the address of where you would like me to be and I'll just plug it into my GPS unit here I'll just put it into my smartphone and I'll just follow directions and be on my merry way in fact I can even zoom in and see what the land's going to be like when I get there no he's asking him to leave everything that's familiar physically, geographically he's asking to leave the country alone that he had knew where the water was knew where the animals were knew what kind of soil was here where the people were gathering here where this town could be found he's asking him to leave all that I mean that's a pretty big thing I mean that's a pretty big inconvenience in fact you could even go so far as to say that's a sacrifice in and of itself to leave thy country and to what? leave thy kindred he said get thee out of thy country and what? from thy kindred meaning the people that you know those that you're related to your friends, your family those that are in relation to you those that would have been able to help you when you went through a time of sickness those that would have helped you when you were struggling in some area in life as we all do he's being asked to leave all of that and from thy father's house unto a land that I will show thee so he's leaving this convenience he's leaving this security and what we learn from that from Abram is that when it comes to sacrifice it's often preceded by inconvenience if we're not willing to be inconvenienced for God then let's not sit there and talk about how we're willing to make these great sacrifices of God because I don't know that Abram perhaps he would have would have been willing at this point in his life to have offered up his only begotten son I'm not saying he wouldn't I don't really know but I know one thing that before God asked him to do that he went ahead and inconvenienced Abram a great deal and asked him to make a series of sacrifices that ultimately led to that ultimate sacrifice that he was willing to make he asked him to leave a strange land not only that notice there at the end of verse 4 it says so Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him a lot went out of them and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran he's leaving this other land that he'd come into, Haran he'd come out of Ur of the Chaldees with his father his father passed away in Haran now God's reminding him this isn't where I want you keep going but he's leaving I don't know if this would have been considered at his time but certainly in our day that's an advanced age we would call that's how we would put that politely he's old or seasoned but he's an old man in fact even later on in the story not very many years removed removed from this we find him saying how are we going to have children we're old he tells the Lord he's 75 years old when he's asked to leave this land to continue on in this journey that's a pretty big inconvenience isn't it when we've gotten set in our ways he's established in the land that he's been in he's been there for some time he's networked with everybody he has a way of living he has everything set up for himself he's kind of set in his ways God asks him and inconveniences him asked him to make the sacrifice and that's what ultimately I believe allowed him to later go on and make even greater sacrifices if you would keep something there in Genesis chapter 12 go over to Hebrews chapter 11 Hebrews chapter 11 we're going to want to bookmark Hebrews chapter 11 I'll be back there a few times this morning but the beginning of the sermon really what I want to point out is that again Abram was somebody that was willing to of course when we think of him make a great sacrifice for God but what we see in his life is a series of inconveniences of leaving everything that's familiar of going and maybe at an age when people would say it's about time you just stayed where you were and put down roots and maybe we've done similar things in our own lives maybe people have moved for churches people have changed their life around they've disrupted their plans or the way they thought life was going to go in order to serve God but even in those that have done that we would have to still step back and say can we really call that a sacrifice I remember when we moved here to Tempe several years ago whatever it's been and we kind of had our exodus from northern Michigan and we packed everything we brought to Arizona in a Toyota Camry that had nearly bald tires and there was just a few thousand dollars in the bank and there was no job just a one bedroom apartment waiting for me a couple blocks away you know the story my oldest was two I had my second on the way six months pregnant people would look at that and say wow what a sacrifice you made for God whoa you sold your iMac to move what a sacrifice let's get you in the foxes books of martyrs here you're just this great shining example of having forsaken all I would look back at that and say that's barely an inconvenience yeah but you traveled so far yeah and I had a GPS to tell me how to get there and I ate at Applebee's all along the way and I saw lots of sights and I was an air conditioned vehicle I'm not saying it wasn't without its hardships I'm not saying it wasn't without its difficulty that it wasn't something that was a little difficult and obviously it made us nervous we had to step out in faith but God has provided but what I'm getting at is that we're never going to get to the place in life where we're ready to make true sacrifices for God to do what it takes to really serve God with our lives if we're not willing to even be inconvenienced for God and you'd look at Abram's life up to this point in Genesis 12 and say wow what a great sacrifice but it's nothing in comparison to what God would later ask him to do and while it is a sacrifice in a sense really in terms of a spectrum of what we see in Abram's life leaving all that's familiar and sacrificing your only begotten son you know this is just an inconvenience look there in Hebrews chapter 11 of course there's a great hall of faith here we read about all the things that people were willing to do and the great ways that they were used in God this great hall of faith but if you look at verse 13 it says these all died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and braced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth and no doubt Abram would be included in that number I know he's mentioned here in this passage for time's sake we're just going to narrow it in these verses but he was one that counted himself a stranger and a pilgrim on the earth and he'd say well why would someone be so willing to be so inconvenienced why would somebody be so willing just to turn life on its head why would somebody be so willing to make such great sacrifices like an Abram or an Abraham why would they do that because it's something that I've been trying to express here several times you know in the last several sermons is that they were able to do what see things afar off and this is really what we have to learn to do in the Christian life you know so I just don't know if I can be a convenience for God I just don't know if I can make a sacrifice well the problem might be if you're struggling in this area is that you're short-sighted that you can't see beyond the flesh that you can't see beyond this present world and that we really need to adopt this mindset of being strangers that we need to really do adopt this mindset of being pilgrims on the earth and be as those here in verse 14 would say such things say such things they declare plainly that they what? that they seek a country you know we're not seeking a physical country today you and I aren't trying to go settle in some new land and have God prosper us there the country that we're seeking is a heavenly one the country that we're seeking is the one that's in glory now that's the country that we need to seek and if we're willing to make that journey and we understand that that's our destination we'll be willing to suffer whatever inconveniences and whatever sacrifices have to be made along the way and I loved of course the the wording here they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth you know the Word of God is so well written it's so beautiful it's so powerful he says there for they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country and truly if they had been mindful of the country from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to return to have returned I mean a very beautiful passage and a very inspiring passage but what we have to remember about this these were actual people this was their mindset and this is how they're described in the scripture and it's very beautiful but what we have to understand is that such you know romanticism you know such an ideal comes at a cost you know these people weren't described this way just because you know they were just you know God picked them randomly these were people that were willing to make sacrifices they were willing to be inconvenienced that's why they're described in such a way that that's why they're described in such a great way look at verse 32 it says and what shall I say more for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthi and of David also and Samuel and the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtained promises stopped the mouths of lions quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens wow women received their dead raised to life again others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonments they were stoned they were sawn asunder were tempted were slain with the sword and wandered about in sheepskins and goats sins being destitute afflicted tormented of whom the world was not worthy they wandered in deserts we might be able to write with that a little bit more and in mountains and the dens and caves of the earth I mean all these what a beautiful description of these people what a great honor would be to have been described in such a way even if you're not mentioned even though you're named there's no time to mention all these great saints there's no time to mention all the multitudes of people that were described in such a way yet it does say of whom the world was not worthy and we would love to be described in such a way but what I'm here to tell you is that it doesn't come without a cost these people had to give up something they had to be willing to make a sacrifice and you'll never be able to willing to make that sacrifice if you at the very least you can't be inconvenienced you know Abraham we see in his life is somebody that was brought to a place of sacrifice the first time God appears to Abram and speaks to him and even times after that he doesn't say hey you're going to sacrifice your son that's he didn't start there he said let's get you out of away from your kindred let's get you away from all that's familiar let's get you into the land of promise let me make these promises to you let me assure you of these things let you learn about who I am let me show myself to you and what I'm capable of you know that's something that Abram learned throughout his life that God is able to protect and guide and bless and then he's brought to the place of sacrifice keep something in Hebrews chapter 11 go over to Genesis 22 it says in verse 1 of Genesis chapter 22 and it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him Abraham and he said behold here I am and he said take now thy son thine only son whom thou lovest and get thee into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of period you know I don't know that that's all that God said I don't know if there's more details to this conversation but at the very least that's what we're being shown that's what's being expressed here and it seems to me like God's not really explaining why I mean sure we have the convenience of being able to look back and read this and say well what a beautiful picture of Christ and truly it is but imagine being Abraham and being told go sacrifice your son on the Mount Moriah and I'll tell you why later and yet it says in verse 3 Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and claved the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place of God which God had told him and said okay I'll do it and just like that Abraham is willing to just sacrifice his son willing to just obey God say wow what a great example of faith and truly it was but what got him there it's the fact that God had asked him to make other sacrifices it's the fact that Abraham you know Abraham was willing to be in convenience for God he had already made other sacrifices you know physically he had already made other sacrifices geographically he had already been in convenience he had already been able to be led to this place of sacrifice and that's something we really need to keep in mind in our own lives that when God does things in our lives when God starts to move and work in our own lives and we wonder why did God do this why did God allow this to come into my life it might be that he's setting you up that he's conditioning you that he's getting you to the place where he can actually use you in a great way to where you're willing to make an even greater sacrifice and to you when that greater sacrifice comes it'll be a lot easier you know I don't like using myself as an example but you know that sacrifice that inconvenience that we made of moving to Tempe you know 2,000 plus miles that I described earlier it made it a lot easier to just pull up stakes and move down to Tucson a year ago it's like we got this been there done that look that's the same way it's going to be in our lives I'm just using as an example when God does things in our lives when we find ourselves being asked to make this sacrifice and be inconvenienced here and be inconvenienced there and we don't fully understand why maybe God is trying to bring us to a place where one day he'll want to use us in a great way and to make us a blessing to other people and require of us a sacrifice that maybe right now you wouldn't be willing to make allow yourself to be inconvenienced we know the story here it says in verse 4 then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off and Abraham said unto his young men abide here with the ass and I in the lab will go yonder in worship and come again to you and Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon Isaac his son and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they both went up together and Isaac spake unto his father and said my father and he said him I am my son and he said behold the fire in the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering and I love his response he says Abraham said my son God will provide himself a lamb and of course we understand that that's a reference to Christ and we know that that's a great picture of Christ for a burnt offering so they went both of them together whether Abraham understood exactly what he was expressing there I'm not entirely sure we know a ram showed up later so we know this lamb that he's referring to is not the animal the ram that was caught in the thicket later in the chapter but notice Abraham didn't turn around say well I'm just doing I'm told I don't know where that I don't know where you know you're the sacrifice and I'm just doing it because I have to this is a very spiritual response on Abraham's part put yourself in that position I mean I don't know that I'd be willing to do this God appeared to me and said hey you need to offer up I mean I've got one son you know I have other children but even then I would say well I don't know and if I did I don't know that I'd be able to have such a good attitude about it getting up early in the morning that means he fell asleep how do you fall asleep with news like that on your mind knowing what you're going to do the next day and then journey three miles and having plenty of time to contemplate about what's going to happen time to sit there and brood and get angry and say well it made sense at the beginning but now that I've had time to think about it I just don't know that asking me to make such a sacrifice to be given in such a way is really the best thing for our family but notice when he gets there while he's still going up when he's laid the wood upon him and has a knife on his side and knows where they're going and what they're going to do he has this beautiful response doesn't get distraught and bent out of shape and just say take it up with God you ask him why don't you ask God why don't you ask the Lord apparently he knows what's going on no he says God will do it God will provide himself a lamb son we're just going to go do what God asked us to do and maybe today the reason why God isn't asking so much of us in our personal lives is because God already knows something about us that we're not willing to give what God wants to ask maybe if we're living in our lives and saying well it just doesn't seem like God ever asks us and look I'm not saying God's going to come any one of us and ask us to offer up his son literally upon him who knows but you know it may be the reason why God doesn't ask great things from us is because God already knows you won't give it up you're not going to allow me to use you in such a great way because you can't even be inconvenienced this is God you know maybe that's what God thinks about us sometimes when he looks down and says boy you know I'd love to bless you in your life and I'd love to use you in a great way but you know you can't even obey the Bible you can't even do the things that I've written in my word you can't even be inconvenienced that much maybe that's why God doesn't use us the way we would like to be used maybe that's why God doesn't bless us the way we'd like to be blessed because we're not like faithful Abraham who's obedient to the point where he'll willingly sacrifice whatever is asked of him you know but maybe God's trying to get us there maybe all these little inconveniences maybe all these little sacrifices these things you can't explain all these things that just seem like such a pain to you that just might be the very thing that God is using to work in your life to get you to a place where you can do something great for God maybe we are in a position to sacrifice but are we prepared to do so if you look there in verse 9 and they came to the place which God had told them of and Abraham built an altar and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood and Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son and an angel of the Lord called out of heaven and said Abraham, Abraham and he said here am I and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do anything unto him for now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou has not withheld thy son thine only son from me God knew exactly what he was asking from Abraham God understood exactly what he was asking for exactly the gravity, the seriousness of that sacrifice he said thy son, thine only son so why should anyone be willing to be inconvenienced why should anyone be willing to just inconvenience themselves for God's sake because it might lead you to a place where God can actually use you to do great works for him where you'd be willing to make a great sacrifice for God and to be used in a great world why would anyone want to make a great sacrifice for God because just as being inconvenienced is a precursor or precedes being willing to make a great sacrifice sacrifice precedes a great blessing after this we see that Abraham's blessed if you would go over to Genesis chapter 25 if I don't have you there already just the same way that being inconvenienced precedes being willing to make a sacrifice being willing to make a sacrifice precedes a great blessing in your life you know God wants to bless us but sometimes that blessing has to come at a cost and maybe the reason we're not being blessed is because God knows you're just not willing to play ball sacrifice precedes blessing notice already Abraham had received his son notice also that Abraham received that which he had forsaken now what was it that he was asked to forsake get thee out of thy country and from thy father's house and from thy kindred unto a land that I will show thee and I will make thee a great nation he was asked to leave all those things but notice at the end of his life after he's been inconvenienced after he's been proven and willing to make whatever sacrifice asked of him even his only begotten son even after that then he's blessed and he receives those things which he has forsaken earlier Genesis 25 verse 7 and these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived in hundred threescore and fifteen years seventy-five hundred and seventy-five so we find him in Haran after he's already left the land of the Chaldees at seventy-five years old and now he's living at hundred and threescore in fifteen years he gets all this blessed life after that after he's been willing to make that sacrifice after he's been willing to forsake all those things verse 8 notice how it describes Abraham the Bible doesn't always describe people's death in such a great way some people in the Bible their death is described and it's not pretty and they die slow painful deaths their death is described horrifically but it says of Abraham in verse 8 then Abraham after having lived so much longer after the sacrifice he's willing to make then Abraham what gave up the ghost and died in a good old age you know I hope that I have a long lifespan as long as it's accompanied with a good health span too I mean what's a good is a long life if by the end of it you're just falling apart at that point it's like you know let's just go let's just get it over with let's get that new body right but Abraham gave up the ghost and died in what in a good old age an old man and full of years and was gathered unto his people you know Abraham at the end of his life and if you would go back to Matthew 19 by the time he got to the end of his life by after he was willing to be inconvenienced after he was willing to make sacrifices after he was willing to be obedient even to the place where he's willing to sacrifice his own son without even being told why he needed to do it when he was willing to give up anything and everything for God and after he had even done so and had left everything else really left family left all that's familiar at the end of his life he'd already received he received all those things back again he got to go on and see his son Mary he got to see his grandchildren he got to settle in a land he got to become familiar with another land and he got to have the fellowship of God and be called the friend of God by the end of his life but what got him there? a willingness to be inconvenienced a willingness to make sacrifice you know and a similar promise is made to us you know if we're willing to make sacrifices in our lives if we're willing to make to be inconvenienced in our life you know we also will be blessed in such a way look at Matthew 19 verse 27 then Peter said then answered Peter and said unto him behold we have forsaken all and followed thee and this isn't Peter just you know puffing himself up or talking about how spiritual it is he's just stating you know this is a statement of fact you showed up Jesus and said you know leave the nets behind leave the boats behind and follow me and I'll make you a fisherman and that's what we did we've forsaken all we have families we had a livelihood we've come to be your disciples we've come to be your apostles we've come to take part in your ministry we've been inconvenienced we've made sacrifices we've forsaken all and followed thee what shall we have there for? I don't think that's a selfish question I don't think that's an unspiritual line of inquiry I think that's you know a very reasonable question you know I didn't get into this Peter's not saying well you know you promised us all these things at the very beginning so what's it going to be it's time to pay up that's not what he's saying he's saying look when you called us there was no we to this point in your ministry we still don't know everything we're going to get they were ready to drop everything like that and that's why God used the apostles in such a great way but there's nothing wrong at the same time with asking what also shall we receive I mean we look at Abraham and we look at the way his life ended you know all things considered it ended pretty good I mean I would like to have my life summed up in that same way you live to a good old age and was received unto his people you know Peter here is asking a very reasonable question what should we have there for but notice when he's asking it not it's not well if we forsake all and if I follow thee what shall I have no it's we have forsaken past tense we have followed past tense we've already made the sacrifices we've already are being inconvenienced what shall we have there for and Jesus said unto them verily I say unto you that ye which have followed me in the regeneration of the son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory and ye shall sweat upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel probably not the answer he was expecting oh you want to know what you're gonna get Peter you're gonna judge the one of the tribes of Israel each one of you I'm gonna set you on a throne and let you judge the tribes of Israel yeah but I left a fishing boat you don't understand how much those nets cost me do you know what my annual gross income was as a fisherman I had a pretty good livelihood you know I was known in my community I mean he probably heard that was like anything else you want anything else you need Lord anything else I can just give up freely to you good night you're gonna make me a judge over one of the tribes of Israel anything else you want but notice this is something he asked after he'd already made those sacrifices this wasn't him bartering with God this is out of curiosity so yeah that's great for the apostles of course Peter's gonna get that but notice Jesus goes on and says in verse 29 read that and that's anyone and everyone that's willing to give up these things to make sacrifices to be inconvenienced for the Lord shall receive in hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life you know if God didn't give me another blessing if God didn't give me a single thing from here on out if God never once again blessed me in any way shape or form for the rest of my life I still have everlasting life I'm still bound for heaven I'm still saved you know that alone should just cause us to say whatever you want God whatever sacrifice whatever inconvenience has to be made to serve you whatever why because I have everlasting life but the goodness of God is this is that not only do we receive everlasting life but in this life also we receive in hundredfold you know I'm one of three children I'm the only son sandwiched between you know two females maybe that'll explain some things about me I don't know you know I left some sisters I left some uncles I left some people to come out here and serve in the local church you know just soul wedding and just being a good church and obviously it's not as as a hard break as it was back in the days of Peter and the apostles and Abraham where it's like we can't just hop on a plane and fly out there we can't just get in a car and drive back in a matter of days back then a lot of times when you said goodbye to family that was it it's like hey we're moving well it's been nice knowing you that was it you say well you could send a Christmas card no there was nothing that was it you know but even then even so the little sacrifice of having to leave you know the land of my nativity you know I could sit here and say I've received in hundredfold I've got brothers in Christ I had no brothers you know I had some sisters but now I have sisters in Christ you know I was somebody's son but now I have my own children you know I didn't have as many friends and now I've got more wife because I was inconvenienced and look I'm not trying to lift myself with some great you know like I'm worthy of Hebrews 11 now but I'm just using it as an example because and many other people could say this that they've given up things in their life that they've severed relationships that they've taken stands that they've upheld standards that they've given up things that they've walked away from even maybe good things that everybody else would just naturally gravitate towards and want in life they've given up those things and they could say I've received in hundredfold more I have more deeper and meaningful relationships now than I did then I've received in hundredfold and even if I didn't have any of those things I still have everlasting life the promise to Peter is that he would receive these things I'll just read to you go back to Hebrews 11 in a parallel passage of Luke chapter 18 then Peter said lo we have left all you're going to Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11 we have left all and followed thee and he said unto them verily I say unto you there is no man no man everyone that hath forsaken there is no man that hath left house or parents or brethren or wife or children for the kingdom of God's sake who shall not receive manifold more in this present time and into the world to come life everlasting those are great blessings that God wants to give us if we're willing to be inconvenienced you know most people understand what sacrifice is you know we're learning about lessons from leaders and we were talking about Abraham this morning and say well you know Abraham is a great example of sacrifice I don't think I need to turn to the dictionary and explain to you what a sacrifice is everyone pretty much understands what it means to make a sacrifice in life to give up something that's dear to you to give up something that's going to cost you something it's going to inconvenience you it's going to maybe even bring damage or hurt you it's going to set you back that's a sacrifice giving up something that you really want or need to have for the sake of another we all get that we all understand what a sacrifice is the problem is that so many of us are so willing to make it so many of us are so unwilling to go ahead and make a sacrifice for God so many are so unwilling even to be inconvenienced let alone make a sacrifice Hebrews chapter 11 look at verse 17 by faith Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac and that he would and he that had received the promise offered up his only begotten son of whom it is said that an Isaac shall thy seed be called accounting that God was able to raise him up from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure it says he offered up his only begotten son that was something that he did willingly you know so many people understand what a sacrifice is Abraham certainly understood it's just that so many people are unwilling to do it he said Abraham when he was tried offered up Isaac he said I'll make that sacrifice you see what's the difference between somebody just understanding what a sacrifice is and actually being somebody who like Abraham is willing to offer up that sacrifice what makes the difference how does a person go from just knowing what a sacrifice is to actually being one who's making a sacrifice and I'll go back to what I said earlier it's faith it's being able to see that you're a stranger to a pilgrim it's seeking that heavenly country that's what it says here by faith it says Abraham was when he was tried offered up Isaac that's what makes the difference faith you'll be willing to make those differences or excuse me make those sacrifices when you really have the faith to believe that there really is a blessing to receive from God that there really is a spiritual inheritance waiting for you that you truly will be rewarded for your works in this present world and in the world to come it's faith that makes a difference faith is the difference between the two it says in Colossians 3 I'll just read to you and whatsoever you do do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto men knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance he said knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the inheritance there in Hebrews chapter 11 I know we're gonna shift gears when it comes to leaders real quick but you know Moses is a leader that we could talk so much about so he's gonna get a little mention here at the end we'll tie it in here with Abram it says in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 24 by faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season so again you know Moses again in the same way as Abraham was able to make a sacrifice was by faith in the same way it was by faith for Moses it was by faith for Abraham that's what made the difference from being somebody who's just willing to make a sacrifice or willing to understand what a sacrifice is and actually being willing to make that sacrifice it's faith that makes a difference that's what you see with Abraham that's what you see with Moses the problem with us and human nature is that we're more likely to hold on to what we have rather than to give something up even if we're promised something better say hey if you give that up I'll give you something better well I've already got this I don't know if I really believe you you know you give a kid a little piece of candy and say you know I've got another one behind my back I've got a Snickers bar back here and if you give me that little butterscotch I'm going to give you that I'll give you the Snickers bar they're going to go do you really have a Snickers bar behind his back? because I've already got this butterscotch and I would really like a Snickers bar I mean they're bigger I mean maybe you really like butterscotch I mean I do but Snickers bar come on right? the problem is we're like that little kid's like nah just hang on to this they have done experiments where they put kids in a room and they like set a donut in front of them or something and say if you don't eat this donut for five minutes we'll come back and give you like two donuts and like half the kids just can't wait they just eat the donut it's something I know that's not an exact citation of the experiment okay but it's something to that effect you'll set something in front of them that they really want and say if you just hold out and wait you'll get you something even better what's the difference between those two groups of children? it's faith saying well I believe that person I don't have any other reason I know I just met this guy who walked out he came in the room set this down I don't know but it's faith he's just trust just saying well I'm willing to believe that you know Moses here was willing to just suffer afflictions and forsake all the good things that he had in Egypt in the world since he for what? forsook the pleasures of sin for a season he forsook the pleasure of the world he forsook the pleasures of sin for a season he was willing to forsake all that by faith because he believed that God had something better for him you know and Moses and Abraham were willing to make these sacrifices not just because they understood what they were but because they believed God and that's what we need to do go to 1 Peter chapter 1 1 Peter chapter number 1 the problem is that we just we can't see it sometimes so why serve God in this life? you know I'd serve God if it wasn't so inconvenient I'd make more sacrifices for the Lord if it just didn't cost me so much yeah well who wouldn't? but then again you know then it wouldn't be a sacrifice would it? because that's what a sacrifice is and we all understand that the difference is do we really believe what we say we believe do we really see him who is invisible do we really have like Moses respect under the recompense of the reward can we really see that spiritual inheritance that's awaiting us so far off and say I'd give up anything for that like Peter I mean he was able to see the Lord and say well I'll just give up anything why? because he could see it and that's what we have to learn to do to see him who is invisible and that's when I think we'll go from a place of not being willing to be in convenience not being willing to make those sacrifices when we can get that spiritual mindset we can truly begin to see these things spiritually that's when we'll go from a person who just understands what a sacrifice is to actually being a person who's willing to forsake anything and everything anything that God would want 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 3 blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a lively hope by the resurrection from the dead notice what he's begotten us unto folks to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you that's where it is folks it's there it's reserved in heaven the reward is there obviously there's blessings in this life God helps us in this life we receive many full blessings in this life God helps us but that ultimate thing that ultimate blessing the one that's going to compel us more than anything to be willing to make those sacrifices is reserved in heaven it's a heavenly reward and this is something that I know I preach and something I just keep stressing over and over but this is the one thing I think it's important for folks to be willing to make the changes to make the sacrifices to inconvenience themselves if they could just get a hold of this one truth they would start to begin to make those sacrifices that there is an inheritance reserved in heaven for you it's real there really is that new body there really is that recompense of reward reserved in heaven for each and every one of us we have to learn to see it it goes on and says in verse 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that faith is not a way reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in this last time wherein ye greatly rejoice though now for a season if need be you're in heaviness through manifold temptations that the trial of your faith being much more precious than that of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire might be found unto praise and to honor and glory at the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ notice verse 8 whom having not seen ye love whom having not seen ye love why were these people willing to have their faith tried why were they willing to go through heaviness and manifold temptations because they could see and love him who is invisible they could see and love the Lord in heaven they understood that their that their inheritance was reserved there for them not here on this earth whom having not seen ye love in whom though now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory why is it some of us just go through the Christian life with no joy the Christian life is just some drudgery that we have to drag ourselves through we never get anything out of our Bible reading we never get anything out of our Bible reading we never get anything out of our Bible reading we never get anything out of the preaching the Word of God if we do any soul winning it's just to get the preacher off our back you know we go along with our roles in marriage we go along with our roles in our homes we kind of just do the thing God says to do just because well you know it's because I have to that's a joyless life and look that's not the life that God has intended for any one of his children to live this joyless you know hopeless life but why is it some do why is it there's some people that live their whole Christian life and they can't say that they rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory why is it some people can look at God's creation and just say meh why is it some people read God's Word and just never move by it because they haven't learned to see they can't see him which is a far off and if you can't see him there if you can't understand that with your mind's eye you're never going to love him and if you can't learn to love God by faith that everything he asks for even the smallest little inconvenience that God would ask of you oh I guess if I have to that's going to be our attitude oh well if I have to I guess if that's what God says and I'll do it well maybe that's why God's never going to ask us to go up a mountain and have our child carry up the wood that we're going to burn him with because he knows that we'll just turn around and have some smart answer we'll just be bitter by the time we got there we won't ever have a spiritual reply like Abraham did we wouldn't even be willing to do it go to one last place, Romans chapter 12 excuse me Romans chapter 12 look we're in the same boat folks as the apostles we're in the same boat as Moses we're in the same boat as Abraham we're in the same boat as all those great saints of old that aren't mentioned by name in Hebrews chapter 11 that we're all seeking a heavenly country we're all destined to that same promised land we're all going to end up in the same place we're all in the same boat and if you want to live a life of joy if you want to live a life of happiness if you want to live a Christian life that actually results in something then you have to start to behave like these people did you actually have to be willing to do what they did and make the sacrifices and that's what the Bible tells us over and over again and we'll close in a very familiar passage here it says in Romans chapter 12 verse 1 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice and so many, today, so many of us we just, we don't even want to do that we don't want to present our bodies a living sacrifice we don't want to give up our time in prayer we don't want to give up our time in Bible reading we don't want to present our bodies we want to put whatever we want into it we don't want to be told we can't drink or smoke pot or look at porn we don't want to be told we can't do any of those things we want to just do whatever we want with our body we want to go to fornicate and sleep around we want to do all this and the Bible says look you need to make a sacrifice out of that body And if we can't even do those basic things, where's the joy gonna be? It's not gonna be there. We can't even do that. Oh, yeah, but I'd do great things for God. No, you won't. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Well, God just seems to ask so much, you know, that church down there just, they just want so much out of me. You know what, I don't remember ever telling you to take your child up Mount Lemmon and sacrifice them. I don't remember ever telling you to, you know, leave everything behind, change your occupation, and come follow me. And I would never do that, because I'm not God in either circumstance. You know, and all God is asking us today is to just look back on these people who did make those sacrifices, who are willing to be inconvenienced to such a high degree, to just look back and just look at them as an example. He's not asking to ask us the same things, literally. All he's asking is just behave like them, and present your body a living sacrifice, and be inconvenienced to serve God a little bit. Would you? And I'll have an inheritance waiting for you in heaven, and I'll bless you for having done so. All we need to do is wrap our minds around that and see that. Verse 2, and be not conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. You know, God blesses the faithful, doesn't he? If there's one thing we can learn out of the life of Abraham, is that God blesses the faithful. Abraham was faithful. God said move, he moved. God said move again, he moved again. And I'm not focusing on any mistakes in this series, but you know Abraham made some mistakes in his life. God forgave him, had mercy, still blessed him. He was faithful. God blesses him. We saw that in the latter end of his life. God blesses the faithful. He ended his life in a good old age, full of years. But you know what? God tests the faithful too. I mean, how can you be faithful? How can you say you're faithful if you're never tested? How can we say that we're making a living sacrifice if we're not willing to give these things up? Even things that are sinful. You know, God blesses the faithful, but the faithful are tested. And in life, if all you're willing to do is make small sacrifices, just little ones, just little inconveniences, well you know what? Small sacrifice, small reward. You know, it's like that great example that I got Friday night when we were roasting marshmallows by the fire. I caught a lot of heat, no pun intended, for not being one of those people that just sticks the marshmallow directly in flame and just instantly burns it to a crisp and then pulls it out, you know, and leaves half an uncooked marshmallow on a stick. You know who you are. You know, I'm one of these guys, and it took me time to get here. I didn't appreciate it as a child. You know, once I got a little older, it tastes more refined. You know, I'm one of those people that likes to slowly, you know, keep the distance from the coals to get that nice golden hue on the outside, get the gooey center in the marshmallow, get the whole thing. Right, I know Miss Joanna knows what I'm talking about because she came around on this on this doctrine of mollos, you know, do the slow cook, don't burn. She took it to the next level. She did the cook, you know, get the gooey center and then burn it. You say that sounds good. Yeah, but you know what? There's risk involved in that. Because when that center gets gooey, it can just slip right off the stick, right? You burn it, the center's cold, you know it's not going anywhere. But you know what? Nothing ventured, nothing gained. I know it's a very carnal illustration to close with, but it's applicable. It's the same way in our Christian life. You know, if we're not gonna hold ourselves closer to the fire, so to speak, and take time and be patient, you know, don't expect to be that warm, gooey Christian either. You know, if we want things in the Christian life, we have to be willing to sacrifice. You know, and if all we're willing to do in the Christian life is just be inconvenienced a little bit or maybe make a little sacrifice here and there, you know what? Then small reward. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. But you know what? The example in Scripture that we see is that God blesses the faithful immensely. God blesses the faithful to the degree which they are allowing themselves to be tested. Abraham was called the friend of God. Abraham at the end of his years died, I believe, a very happy man and had received many blessings along the way. I mean, he was barren. It didn't look like he was gonna have a son at all. God still gave it to him. What a blessing. But also, notice, he was willing to what? Make the sacrifice. Let's go ahead and pray. Lord, again, thank you for this great example in Abraham, a man who is an example us to this day, Lord, of being blessed and being willing to sacrifice and to leave everything, Lord. And Lord, I pray, and I know, Lord, that you don't ask anywhere near as much of us today. Although you might, Lord, we never know what you'll be in tomorrow. Lord, I pray you'd help us to understand that if we're not willing to be faithful in the little things, if we're not willing to make sacrifices and be inconvenienced in small ways, Lord, we'll never do truly great things for you. I pray you'd help us to be willing, people who are willing to follow you, to forsake all if needed, and Lord, to be faithful to you and to your work, Lord, so that you can bless our lives and Lord, so that you can use us in a great and mighty way. We ask in Christ's name. Amen. All right, we'll go ahead and sing one more song before we go. We go on Christmas, love Jesus, sing his praise, we earn his praise. Make the nations bright and blessed, we'll be there for us to praise. When we all fix your hand, what a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the victory. While we walk the building, that plain glass will unloose red the sky, but the traveling days are over, not a shadow of a sign. When we all fix your hand, what a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the victory. Let us now be truly thankful, just each Saturday and every day. Just one glimpse of heaven for real, we'll look towards the life we've made. When we all fix your hand, what a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the victory. Our words to love cries we for us to give, we will behold. To love we'll be gates we'll open, we'll shine through the streets of war. When we all fix your hand, what a day of rejoicing that will be. When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the victory. Thanks, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.