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Well, good morning. Happy Father's Day to everybody. Well, since it's Father's Day today, I thought I'd tell a couple stories about my dad. And don't worry, he's not here with us today. So since he's not here with us today, I thought it'd be the perfect opportunity for us to talk about him behind his back. Don't worry, it's not like anybody's recording the service or anything. It'll be fine. So the scene was uh my 30th surprise birthday party. Uh Amy had instigated this. Uh I'm not normally uh a kind of reserve person. I don't instigate a lot of large social gatherings, but Amy wanted to honor this and the rest of my family. And uh so my parents had volunteered to host this party. So they had a nice house kind of centrally located at the time. And so we invited, or Amy invited, lots of our friends at the time, a lot of them from a small group that we've been a part of for several years. So it's it's a few dozen people, something like that. It's a good sized group. Catered meal, big cake, everything you'd expect in a proper party. So the party's gone on for maybe uh an hour or so, everybody's eaten, and they're starting to take their seats in the living room. Uh a few people are still milling around in the kitchen, it's like one big space. And everything's pretty reserved. You know how you're at a birthday party and you typically pick up the cues from the person having the birthday, which is that's kind of my personality. So it's at this moment that my dad walks into the room and he gives me that look. And I I know what that look means, but I I'm hoping, I'm hoping I'm wrong about what that look means. But sure enough, you know, this intuitively, this cold chill comes down my spine. And sure enough, he looks at me in the eye and he says, quite loudly, so everyone can hear, he says, son, look at all these people just sitting around. This is a party in your honor. I think it's time we get the party started. I think it's time for us to play. Wait for it, sniff the broom. And that was exactly the response, right there. That was perfect. If I could just freeze that. Exactly the response. You have to understand, I'm 30 years old at this point, and I'm 42 now, but at that age, you know, I'm still kind of operating under the probably incorrect assumption that I'm somewhat cool, and I've got all my coolish 30-year-old friends, and I'm in this environment that's familiar to me, you know, I know my dad. But these people, they don't really know my dad. Maybe they've met him in passing a couple times. But they're not ready. You know, dad, you can't just bust into a room with me and all my friends and say, it's time to play Sniff the Broom. I was like, oh man. But as soon as my dad said this, everybody was in. They're like, oh yeah, I have no idea what you're talking about, but I gotta see where this goes, you know. So I think my obvious mortification was probably entertainment enough at that point. So now my dad's encouraged, and he's like, All right, we're gonna play sniff the broom, and then if we have time, we're gonna play stir the mush, and and then maybe pass the scissors. So I'm gonna I'm gonna need a broom and a pair of scissors. Ben, why don't you be in charge of that? Go. So now I'm like six years old again. It's like, okay, dad, I'm gonna go get a broom. Is it still in the pantry? I'm actually gonna get a broom here, by the way. Talk amongst yourselves. Okay. It's a visual thing. And I don't know why I brought a miniature broom. There's no explanation of that. It's not part of the game. I'm just lazy, I think. And uh imagine a regular size broom. So these are just classic uh you know, icebreaker type party games. So, as an example, the second one that I mentioned there, stir the mush. Stir the mush begins with my dad just busting into a room and surprising everyone by announcing that he knows how to stir the mush. And stir the mush, he'll say, it goes like this. And he grabs a broom and his hands are far apart for leverage, I guess, and he starts doing these circling moches and counterclockwise and clockwise. And the whole time he's screaming, stir the mush, stir the mush. And you have to imagine, you know, all my cool 30-year-old friends with deer in the headlights, like, so not what we expected at Ben's party. Stir the mush! And then he slams the end of it down, stir the mush, that's how it's done. And then he takes the end of the broom and he starts taunting everybody else in the room. Like, do you know how to stir the mush? Do you know how to stir the mush? Do you? And it requires kind of a large living room to do this safely, but especially with a regular sized broom. So finally, some brave person will say, Okay, I thought I was paying attention. Well, I'm game, I'll stir the mush. So they'll take the broom and they'll try to duplicate, you know, all the little swirls and stir the mush. Stir the mush. And my dad will inevitably respond, you gotta be kidding. That was awful. That was, I'm insulted that you would do that in my house. Stir the mush like that. I mean, you gotta be kidding. Tell me that was a joke. And he'll just insult him for a while and then try to goad somebody else into doing this, and this can last like 30 minutes while he's insulting people, and and it's all pretty comical if you can pull it off, but the problem is you have to be my dad to pull it off. So, you know, I don't want to ruin the game for you. Actually, that that's not true, I don't mind. Let me ruin the game for you. Stir the mush, it's basically just one of these unlocking word, unlocking gesture kind of things. So before he stirs the mush, he always says exactly it goes like this. So it's those four precise words that proves he knows how to stir the mush, and the actual mush stirring is is completely irrelevant. It's all misdirection. But it could take like 30 minutes for everybody to figure out, you know, it gets more and more obvious that that's what's really going on. So, as you might guess, in the end, it was really a hit. And I, you know, for years I had co-led that small group with and seen them in so many different settings, and I don't think I'd ever seen them laugh quite that hard or be that uninhibited. And so I have this start the party kind of dad. Uh, as surprising as that is, and it might kind of embarrass me, I might think that's a little reckless or extravagant, but it's a great quality. And the reason I give you that story is the three parables that we're gonna look at today from Jesus, they all have this in common. There's always an impromptu party in each parable, and the party erupts from the joy of the main character. But before we get into that, I'm gonna put the broom down. Don't worry. I'm not gonna taunt you the whole time. No onstage broom taunting. Steve is very clear about that. So all three of these parables are from uh the Gospel of Luke, and kind of like uh, well, since it's Father's Day, I should say all three of these parables are great illustrations of a father. But it's kind of odd at first to think of these as such great father parables, uh, because the first one's about a shepherd, the second one is about a woman, and the third one uh is about a young teenage boy and his older brother. But in the end, they're all ultimately about the heart of the father. So, also kind of like we saw last week, if you were here, right before Jesus launches into these three parables, he's being given a hard time by the Pharisees, they really like to do this, uh, being given a hard time over the company that he keeps. He's hanging out with all the wrong people, he's having these feasts, and so they come at Jesus. So, to illustrate this, I read this in a book a few years ago. Say you saw this this sentence, the beginning of this sentence. The Son of Man came, and then dot, dot, dot. So, how do you think, do you remember like famous verses from the New Testament, how you might fill that in? The Son of Man came. There's actually three main ways that you could fill that in, and a couple of them might immediately come to mind. The first two uh kind of speak to why Jesus came. The first famous one is uh Luke 19, 10, and it said, The Son of Man came to seek and save those who were lost. That's why he came. The second one, the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many. That's why he came. But the third famous way you could answer that and fill in that sentence from Scripture that you might not think of intuitively, is from Luke 7.34. The Son of Man came eating and drinking. And so that was his his chosen way of doing ministry, you know, around a table in the homes of his his new friends and attending a party and having these feasts, and this really got under the skin of the religious establishment of the Pharisees. And so they came at Jesus here in Luke. So this is Luke 15 that we're gonna read, and we'll start uh in verse 1. So the tax collectors and other notorious sinners came to listen to Jesus teach. And this made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people, even eating with them. So Jesus told them this story. If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won't he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. And when he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, Rejoice with me, because I have found my lost sheep. And in the same way, there's more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over 99 others who are righteous and haven't strayed away. So maybe it's just me, but when I when I hear that parable, I kind of think that the shepherd is a little crazy or a little reckless. He's leaving 99 of his sheep unprotected in the wilderness while he goes to search for the one. And notice in the parable that Jesus gives, he does not say that the shepherd leaves his sheep for strategically six minutes and he starts a timer, or however long he can responsibly risk the safety of these 99 to find this one. It just says he goes to find this one until he's found. Losing this one sheep is not an option. So, on one hand, you know, it's it's heartwarming that the shepherd wants to find this one lost sheep. But on the other hand, he doesn't he have this responsibility and isn't this responsibility being stretched to its limits? So maybe a little bit reckless. But then when he finally finds the sheep and brings them back, he becomes not only reckless, but maybe a little extravagant. Because this calls up his friends and throws a party to celebrate this one sheep that has been found. I always like to imagine that the parable actually ends with the shepherd killing one of the sheep to serve at the party. And he's like, Yay! And then he does the math and goes, Oh man, that's totally, totally didn't work out. Some of you are gonna think about that later. The parable ends with this remarkable statement. It says, There's more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over 99 others who are righteous and haven't strayed away. So who's the shepherd in the illustration? I mean, the shepherd is Jesus, but the shepherd is really God the Father, because to see Jesus is to perfectly see the Father. That's the principle. So God the Father finds this lost sheep, puts them on his shoulders, and carries them back. So this joy that erupts before the throne of God that Jesus describes, is this just the angels rejoicing? Or is this God the Father that starts the party? God the Father that is rejoices first, and he's the one that calls up his friends, the angels and us, to celebrate this lost sheep that is found. So that's the principle here that is so striking for Jesus: that God the Father is the one that starts the party and is full of joy. So then Jesus moves on to the second parable. Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Won't she light a lamp and sweep the entire house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she'll call in her friends and neighbors and say, Rejoice with me because I've lost my lost coin, found my lost coin. And in the same way, there is joy in the presence of God's angels when even one sinner repents. So, similar kind of structure here, something's lost, and then it's found, and then this impromptu party erupts. And the second parable seems to highlight maybe the diligence and the patience of God in searching after us. He's not going to leave any stone unturned until we're found. He will sweep the house until we're found. And it's kind of like my joke a second ago, when the shepherd would sacrifice one of the sheep at the party. That concept is maybe even a little bit operative here because she finds this lost coin, which is a silver coin. It's a drachma in the original language. So it's equivalent to like a day's wage. So to celebrate the lost day's wage that she finds, she throws a party. And we, as we all know, entertaining can have its own expenses associated with it. So potentially she's spending a bit of money to celebrate the money that she's recovered. So it's extravagant, maybe even a little bit reckless. Similar kind of concept. So this whole time, both of these parables, Jesus is kind of framing them. So you say on one hand, it's heartwarming that this gal goes and finds her lost coin, but the audience is sort of cast on the outside, looking in, making a judgment potentially on this, and saying, Well, that's great, but shouldn't we kind of keep this in check? And is it really party time? So this brings us to the famous third parable, and that's the parable of the prodigal son. And like I teased earlier, this is a parable about probably a late teenage boy and his older brother. But this one is a little bit different because there actually is a father character in this story. Uh, so maybe the allegory is a little easier to see. But uh, so we'll move into this one. This is right after this, also in Luke chapter 15. But keep in mind as we read this, we'll do it in two sections, uh, that the father character in this story is going to respond in much the same way as the shepherd and the woman just did. So, to illustrate the point further, Jesus told them this story. A man had two sons. The younger son told his father, I want my share of your estate now before you die. And so his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. A few days later, this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living. And about the time the money ran out, a great famine swept over the land, and he began to starve. He persuaded a local farmer to hire him, and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs. The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him, but no one gave him anything. And when he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am, dying of hunger. I will go home to my father and say, Father, I've sinned against both heaven and you, and I'm no longer worthy to be called your son, so please take me back as a hired servant. So he returned home to his father, and while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming, and filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him, and his son said, his son said to him, Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, and I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. But his father said to the servants, Quick, bring the finest robe in the house and put it on him, get a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet, and kill the calf that we've been fattening. We must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was dead and is now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found. And so the party began. So this young son, probably late teens, he demands in advance of his father's death his portion of the inheritance. So if this followed typical like Jewish law, the younger son would be given half the portion of the older son. So he's demanding his third right now before his dad died. And the older son probably could have been given his portion of the estate at that point too, but apparently he elects to stay at home and leave it under his dad as long as he's alive. So he runs off to a far country and loses all the wealth. And we don't really have any details on how he lost it. He probably met some people that were more than willing to help him spend the money. But it's probably some of his initial reckless spending that kind of attracted this crowd, right? So I'm imagining here. But imagine he walks into a marketplace and he sees some jewelry and he says, Well, I need to have that ring, and I'm gonna buy that. I'm rich now. So he buys the ring, and then he says, Well, I need to have some fancy clothes, so I'm gonna buy a robe. And not just any robe, I'm gonna buy the nicest robe I can find. And if I have a nice robe, I need some nice shoes, he buys some sandals, and then he says, I need to eat really well, and so he buys the finest meal and has it prepared. And pretty soon he's spent all the money. And it's the worst possible time to be poor. A famine hits, and so pretty soon he's begging and he's feeding pigs, the ultimate low in Jewish culture. So he comes to his senses and decides, I'm gonna go back home. And he rehearses this three-part repentance speech that he's gonna give to his dad. He says, This is what I'm gonna say. Number one, Dad, I've sinned against both heaven and you. Number two, I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. So number three, will you please have me back as just a hired servant? So he comes back and makes this long journey home, and when he's still a far way off, his father sees him and runs to him and greets him. Before the son has ever spoken a word of his repentance, the father has already all already showered him with kindness. So the son launches into his three-part speech, and he says, Number one, dad, I've sinned against both heaven and you. Number two, I'm no longer worthy to be called your son. And then the dad interrupts him. So the son can't even make it to this third part of his request. You know, you will please have me back as a hired servant. It's like the father stops him right there and says, Did I just hear you say that you're no longer worthy to be called my son? You absolutely are my son. And about that point, there can be no doubt. So then, look what the father does. He says, Have the finest ring placed on his finger, the finest robe placed on him. Not just any robe, the finest one that you can find. And have sandals put on his feet and go kill the fatted calf, and that is the finest meal that we can have. And they have this feast. So, did you notice that? Wasn't this some of the same type of extravagant spending that got the young son into trouble in the first place? What's the difference? Well, obviously, in this case, you know, the father is, he's not truly reckless because he has great purpose to this, he can spend his wealth however he wants. But you've got on one hand, I mean, imagine you're the older brother, you've got the son that's trying to prove himself to the world in the far far country with this reckless type of spending, and then now the dad has this reckless spending to try to prove to the world that this is my son and prove to him that is truly his value. So that's that's the perspective we see in this this older son in the next part of the story. But before I get to that, um do you remember, or have you ever looked it up, what the what the meaning of the word prodigal is? We hear that and we always associate it with this parable. But the word prodigal, when I looked this up, it does not actually have anything to do with being uh disrespectful or robbing or running off to a far country. All of that is just kind of brought with the association of the story. We associate that with the younger son. But the word prodigal, you know, it's an English word. We get this from the translation, Jesus didn't didn't say prodigal. Prodigal simply means reckless extravagance. Reckless extravagance. That's why I keep using that phrase. So it's it's in relation to your spending. It's an objective kind of term. Like if you're on the outside looking in on someone else's spending habits, then you would look at it and say, that seems a little extravagant, maybe even extravagant to the point of being reckless. So, like the example. Sentence I saw in the dictionary is uh like my prodigal daughter always spends her entire uh allowance the moment she gets it. So if that's what prodigal means, why do we call this parable the parable of the prodigal son? Because you can make the argument, I think, that it is the father that is just as prodigal, maybe even more so. He's prodigal in his lavish forgiveness that he gives his son, who clearly doesn't deserve it, and even admits that he doesn't deserve it. So, what is this difference between between these two? The prodigal father. Totally lost my place here. Okay, so let's go into the second part where we talk about the uh perspective of the older brother. So, meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working, and when he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house, and he asked one of the servants what was going on. Your brother's back, he was told, and your father has killed the fatted calf, and we're celebrating because of his safe return. The older brother was angry and wouldn't go in, and his father came out and begged him, and he replied, all those years I've slaved for you, and never once refused to do a single thing that you told me to. Yeah, right. And in all that time, you never gave me even one young goat for a feast with my friends. Yet when this son of yours comes back after squandering your money on prostitutes, you celebrate by killing the fatted calf. And his father said to him, Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours. We had to celebrate this happy day. For your brother was dead and has come back to life. He was lost, but now he is found. So in the earlier two stories, Jesus kind of frames them so that the audience is always kind of on the outside looking in, with maybe this perspective of okay, that's heartwarming, the sheep is found, he found the coin. But really, is this responsible? Let's keep this in check. Is it really party time? We have to throw a party. And in this third parable, Jesus cleverly uh takes the the audience and weaves them into the story as an actual character. So in Jesus' case, it's the Pharisees that are making this argument. They're the the muttering people on the outside. So in the parable, they are this older brother. So they uh so he's in a sense he's coming to them as the father and begging them to come join him in his joy. So notice that both sons in the story thought of themselves as slaves. The older son just didn't need to leave the ranch to come to that conclusion. You know, his attitude is I've been a slave for years. I've always been a slave for you. And both sons refused to join the party, at least at first, that started from the joy of the father. The younger son didn't join the party initially because he didn't think he deserved it. You know, my my place is in the slave quarters, surely dad's mad at me. And the older son, he didn't join the party because he didn't think anybody should have a party. He just like categorically, that's not the kind of thing that we responsible people do. Or if he really wanted a party uh secretly, he was afraid to ever ask for that from his dad. Even though from the dad's perspective, he already owned everything. And he certainly could have done that. But from the father's perspective, his joy is targeted at just one thing. He wants to be at home with his kids. He wants them to be there with him. So it's you know, it's certainly possible to be around somebody. You don't have to travel thousands of miles away to not really know somebody that's right under your nose, to not even know your dad. Uh this is this will be a really silly illustration of a serious point, but just follow me here, it'll make sense in the end. Uh this was even longer. Uh I guess I was probably 20, 21 years old, something like that. And I was having lunch with my dad. Uh we were at McDonald's. Actually, this mc McDonald's up here on 92. Uh back when it used to be decorated as a 50s diner. You remember that? So it's just the two of us. We're having lunch at McDonald's, and uh we've got this small table right by the window. And I had ordered my my regular combo, you know, two burger fries and a drink. My dad had ordered, I think, just a burger and a drink. So we're we're talking here and the meal's winding down. We've both eaten our burgers, and the only thing that's left my French fries in the middle. You can see where this is going. As we're talking, I noticed that my dad, he's he's starting to just steal some of my French fries and blatantly eat them. Totally irrelevant that my dad probably paid for lunch. These are my these are my fries. I'm a very mature 21-year-old here. Sad. And so I just, yeah, I don't know what I'm supposed to do here, so I start to eat more quickly to diminish his supply. And that doesn't work, he just increases his rate of stealing. And so I'm desperate, so I decide, okay, well, I'm just gonna bring it up in conversation. I'm just gonna make a joke of this, and we're gonna see. I must have been really hungry. So I say, Dad, what, you just gonna eat my fries? And to this he responds immediately, and I can't quite tell at first if he's joking or not. He just leans in and he says, Son, if you not understand I could drown you with French fries. And that was my response too. Y'all are perfect, y'all are perfect. I at first I was like, okay, my dad just made a quirky joke, he was quirky like that, but then I started to think about it, and I'm like, I said to him, I said, Back up. Wait, are you trying to tell me, you know, I'm an adult now and I'm looking back on my childhood all of a sudden, and are you trying to tell me that all those years of us going to McDonald's, just you and I, and having these combo meals, and you blatantly stealing my fries, robbing me of one of the things that I love most in life, that all that time, if I had simply requested a second set of fries that we could share, you would have bought more fries. And he said, Well, I don't see why not. Uh I just enjoy talking with you. I'm gonna go get some more fries right now. And I just sat there in shock. Like, it's such a sad, sad loss, you know, a sad loss of all those delicious fries, all those years that I thought I knew my dad, and then this great truth is revealed. So it's possible to be around for somebody for years, but not really know what they're like. There is uh there's a great verse in the Old Testament, uh, I didn't put this up on the screen, but it says, the joy of the Lord will be your strength. And we say we actually sing that in a lot of worship songs. I've I've sang that for years. But the joy of the Lord will be your strength. It's real easy to kind of imagine that to mean the joy that we have or we bring to before God will strengthen us because it's a good thing, or something like that. But that's really not the context of that verse at all. The joy of the Lord will be your strength. It's from Nehemiah, and real quick, the story behind that is the nation of Israel has been in captivity and they finally come home, a few of them, to Jerusalem. And this remnant, one of the things that they lost when they're in exile, was their exposure to uh the books of the law, the books of Moses, the first five books of the Bible that they had. And so Ezra the prophet knows this. So he assembles all the people, and they're standing before him, thousands of people, and he stands on this large wooden platform that's been built just for this purpose, and he reads the books of the law, and for hours he reads. And the response of the people to all of this is absolute weeping before God, and they're mourning because they listen and they're they must be thinking, we have messed this up in so many different ways. And the response of Ezra and also Nehemiah too is surprising. From from up here on this wooden platform, he stops them all and says, No. Because I'm hearing from God now as the prophet, and God says, This is not a day for mourning. He says, This is a day for rejoicing, because I, the only one in the room, I have great joy today. Because my kids have come home, and I am at home with them, and so this should be a day of rejoicing. And it's at this point that Ezra commands them from God to throw a party. And there should be food and drink and gifts, and the people go and do this, and Ezra explains and he says, I know you're weeping right now, but let the joy of the Lord be your strength. And so that's what we have to take from this that the party starts with him. The joy begins with the Father before the throne of God, and then it infects everyone around there. So when you're not strong, when when your every instinct is just to take selfish fear and cower before God and call that righteousness, and just assume that must be the response that he wants, and there's really no sense in even talking to him about it, then at that moment let his joy be your strength, and then it will change from there. But you know, for so many of us, this isn't this isn't the father that we're really familiar with. Worship team if you want to start coming up. For so many of us, the father that we think we deserve is instead the father that would say, you know, I think you've run off for the last time. And so this is gonna be an awkward conversation, but I don't think this is really the right sheet pen for you. I'm gonna have to let you go. I think it might be wise for you to start looking around for another shepherd. Or the dad we think we deserve is the one that would say, you know, daughter, if you get yourself lost one more time, especially in some frustrating kind of way, like a a coin lost down in the air conditioning grade and into one of those dusty return ducks, then you have to understand at some point that it's just not worth it. You just aren't worth the time. Or the dad we think we deserve is the one that would say, son, if within a couple weeks of me try finally trusting you with power of attorney, you take a third of my 401k and take it all out and fly to Vegas and lose it all in a couple half drunk rounds of blackjack, I'm sorry. But you know, Thanksgiving dinners from now on are gonna be awkward. That's on you. And if you don't even make it home for the holidays this year, then I'm not sure that's really such a bad thing. Now that's the father that we think we deserve. That's the God that we can wrap our heads around and just make sense. That's the God that is not extravagant and reckless. But God's love for us is perfect. It's perfect, but we're not. So we can't fully understand it. So our action, our action item in this is just to step into his joy, step into his love, not to try to stand on the side and justify it or even fully explain it. God loves you. Don't twist that into God loves me, but dot dot dot. There's no but. God the Father loves you. Because it's at that moment, y'all stand up, we're gonna sing one more song here. It's at that moment when we are at home with God, when we make our home with him, that God possesses what for him, amazingly, is of most value. That pearl of great price. And at that moment, you know, all the other things that seemed important, uh, all the other work still to be done in the fields, and all the robes and rings and sandals that need to be replaced, and the new calf that needs to be chosen for refattening, it's unimportant. You have to hear that for yourself. You gotta boldly go into that party and corner him in one of those small tables in the back and just pull up a chair and ask him. And you'll probably start by saying something like, you know, Dad, is there any grace that you could give me? I've done so much and I've squandered so much, and he's gonna interrupt you right there. And he's gonna say, This smile erupts on his face. One of those smiles that's just all in the eyes and can't be faked. And he says, Son, daughter, don't you understand I could drown you with grace? I already have. You are the reason that I threw this party. And so our action item is to stop telling our dad when he should be happy, especially when the reason that he's so joyful is us, is you. So we're all invited to his party. Count me in.

And I want the youth to come up here because they got some uh energy and we're gonna stir this thing up in the loud, y'all ready? Alright, if you haven't been here before, this is just showing we're all this together. We're gonna see y'all Jesus on three after we stir it up, y'all ready? Let's stir it up. Just a power double. How did I get here? What have I done? When will I? We don't look in the look in the face gives a shine. I hear those love And as I watch this evening go my heart start to overflow. Where do I find the words to say? How do I teach him? What do we play? Bit by I realized.