If we are alive to glorify God and enjoy Him forever, think how important our work must be in that equation. How many of your waking hours are spent at work? A lot of them. Then surely those hours engaging that occupation can’t be exempt from glorifying and enjoying God! And indeed they aren’t. We are made glorify and enjoy God, and we are made to work (“Six days you shall labor,” Ex 20:9a), and these two things are meant to go hand in hand. In this message, Jason Dohm will survey the counsel of Scripture on this mandate and how we are to accomplish it. 

The title of the message tonight is glorifying and enjoying God in your work. I was saved at a vacation Bible school at a Methodist Church when I was about 10 years old, and I began to be seriously discipled in my mid-teens. That just means I fell in, by God's grace, with a bunch of Christians that were very serious about their Christianity and a lot of us were in our teens, some of them were in their 20s, very few of them were in their 30s, and some of the older ones began to invest in my life and and helped me to understand what it meant to follow the Lord. During those years I'll never forget something that occurred to me one day in Mrs. Harris's civics class.

I think this was eighth grade civics. At that time, that was my work. I was in junior high, and so I was at work in Miss Harris's civics class, and I discovered a wonderful thing there. A wonderful thing there. I discovered that while she was droning on, I could worship God in my heart.

It was so sweet to be with the Lord in those days. Do you remember the days of your first love? That's what one of the letters of the churches in Revelation calls it, the first love where just any opportunity to be with the Lord was so sweet. And I learned I could do that in the middle of class with my eyes open, do it in my heart. Who would know?

No one would know. Who could stop me? No one could stop me." Well, maybe that's not the best analogy because I probably should have been paying more attention to eighth-grade civics, but the point is I was learning that my life needed to be integrated, not segregated. That fellowship with the Lord did not need to be sectioned off into only little periods of time in my life, but I could enjoy fellowship with the Lord really anywhere and everywhere, and that spiritual life was not another category of life to sit beside the other categories, but it was a banner that hangs over all the categories of life. Our spiritual life is intended to be the banner that hangs over all the categories of life, and work is one of those really big categories of life.

Our lives should be integrated, not segregated. Glorifying God cannot be a separate category, but glorifying God is intended to be our life preoccupation that permeates every other category of life. Here's the deal. If we don't cultivate the ability to glorify God and enjoy him in our work, then we won't be glorifying and enjoying him very much on this side of heaven. Anybody work a lot?

Here's the promotional blurb for this session. If you buy the proposition that we are alive to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Think how important our work must be in that equation. How many of your waking hours are spent at work? A lot of them.

Then surely those hours engaging that occupation can't be exempt from glorifying and enjoying God and indeed they aren't. We are made to glorify and enjoy God and we are made to work. Six days you shall labor. Exodus 20 verse 9. And Those two things are meant to go hand in hand.

Let's consider the Council of Scripture together which gives us a mandate and helps us understand how to accomplish it. That's really the thesis statement. Now I have a little bit of time to try to prove to you that that's true and we're going to take a tour through Scripture starting at the very beginning and ending very close to the end. We'll go in order of appearance and we'll make five stops. Let's ask God to help us.

God, we want very much to glorify you in all of life, not to have a little sliver of life that is given to glorifying you and the big chunks of time given to something else. And we want to enjoy you in all of life, not wait till heaven. So I pray that you would teach us how to glorify God where we spend so much of our time during the work that you've given us to do help us God Use your word to help us we pray in Jesus name. Amen. Number one is Genesis 1 so please turn to Genesis 1 this is our first stop.

In the original writing of this I was starting in Genesis 2 15 and I was talking to my co-elder about it, and he said, oh, don't start in Genesis 2. You should start in Genesis 1.1. So let's start in Genesis 1.1. He's very right. I'm so thankful for the input.

I want to give proper attribution. Genesis 1-1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The beginning of a theology of work begins not with man but with God. God is a worker.

The Bible begins, the first verse of the Bible begins with God working, creating, ordering, and we work because we're made in the image of God. And because God is a worker and man is made in the image of God, we are workers. It's really that simple. In John 5, 17, Jesus said, my Father has been working until now, and I have been working. So the Bible begins with God bringing order out of disorder and creating.

And he gives us a pattern in Creation Week for us to work and for us to rest. He even gives us the proportion of time, six days working and a day of rest. Now look at Genesis 2 15, where I would have started without a smart co-elder. Genesis 2 15. What's all the page turning?

It's one page over. It's like, Russell, Russell, Russell, what are you doing? Genesis 2 15. Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. God put Adam in the garden to tend and keep it.

This is actually even before Eve has been created and definitely before Genesis chapter 3 where Sin enters into the world. Adam has been put into the garden and given work to do. Tend the garden, keep the garden. God made us, mankind, people, to work. This is not a product of the fall.

Sin didn't bring work into the world. God brought work into the world. It is His idea. So if you thought that God's original design was full-time ministry for everyone, but other work came into the world because of the fall. You're wrong about that.

That's not God's design. That's not what Genesis teaches. We laugh about that, but it's easy to develop a mentality that there is sacred work, special work, work that glorifies God, and then other work, secular work, work of the world, and never the two shall meet. That a group of really spiritual people pursue sacred work unto the Lord and then the other people do the other stuff. My intent is not to diminish the pastoral ministry.

I'm in the pastoral ministry. I have a high view of the pastoral ministry. My intent is to elevate the other vocations, to elevate other work. God wants us to bring order and improve and bring forth an increase. Why?

Because he brought order and improves and brings forth an increase. He has been working until now. So you might quote unquote go to work, get up, put on your work clothes, get in the car, go to your workplace, or you might be a student in eighth grade civics, or you might manage a home and educate children, but it just means that God has given you work to do, To bring order to things and improve things and bring forth an increase. I want to declare this, God can be glorified and enjoyed in your work wherever He has you now. The doctrine of the sovereignty of God says where you are now is where God has you now.

Whatever God has you tending and keeping, you can glorify and enjoy God in the tending and keeping of where He's put you. So if you are aiming at less and expecting less, stop it. If you're aiming at less, then glorifying God where He has given you work to do, stop it. If you are expecting less than enjoying God where He has you working now, stop it. You can and should glorify and enjoy God where He has put you now.

Before we leave Genesis, we should also note what happens in Genesis chapter 3 in the category of work. Turn to Genesis chapter 3, we'll skip past the sin that plunged the human race into this state of corruption and get right into the curse and the implications of the curse, look at Genesis 3 16. To the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception. In pain, you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." The sphere of a woman's work is often, very often, concentrated in her relationship to and with a husband and children.

Can we agree, based on what I just read, that it just got a lot harder? The sphere of a woman's work just got a lot harder with what is said about the difficulty and pain associated with childbirth and the conflict and tension that has been brought into the marital relationship. Her work just got harder. I look at Genesis 3 17 through 19, just the very next verses. Genesis 3 17, then to Adam he said, because you have heeded the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you saying you shall not eat of it cursed is the ground for your sake in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you and you shall eat the herb of the field In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return." The tending and keeping that God originally intended for Adam just got harder.

You have these words, toil, thorns, thistles, sweat of your brow. Work just got harder. To that I say this, expect headwinds. Just understand with sin coming into the world, difficulties with our work and challenges and frustrations, thorns and thistles, the sweat of our brow, came into our work lives. Expect headwinds.

We're in for a fight, but I'm here to say it's worth the fight. What are we fighting for? We're fighting to glorify God, To bring honor to a Savior who purchases with His blood and to enjoy Him in most of the hours of the day. Is that worth a fight? If you had a Savior who bought you with His blood, Would it be worth a fight to bring him honor in the biggest block of time in your day?

You better believe it would be. If you had a savior who fellowship with him was sweet, would it be worth the fight to enjoy him in the biggest block of time in your day, you bet it would be worth the fight. Expect headwinds. We're in for a fight, but it's worth the fight. Our second stop is Exodus 31.

Exodus 31. Exodus 31. I'll be reading Exodus 31 verses 1 through 6. Follow along as I read Exodus 31 one through six. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, see I have called by name Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur of the tribe of Judah.

And I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and understanding in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship to design artistic works, to work in gold and silver and bronze and cutting jewels for setting and carving wood and to work in all manner of workmanship. And I indeed, and I indeed I have appointed with him Aholah of the son of Ahisamak, excuse me, of the tribe of Dan, and I have put wisdom in the hearts of all the gifted artisans that they may make all that I have commanded you." This is about Bezalel and Aholahib and a lot of other gifted artisans. God raised up two men to be great at things. The text all but says that. They're great at specific things that God has raised them up to be great at and to lead others that He had raised up to also be great at things to do some specific things that would bring him glory.

This is what he's doing. There's a design for glory and for beauty for his worship, and so he's raised up people to do this work of glory, to bring him glory. And in raising them up, He has filled them with the Spirit of God and with wisdom and with understanding and with knowledge." The text says that they're gifted. Who gave them the gift? God gave them the gift to work like this.

I know it's a gift because I can't do any of these things. This is a team, I wouldn't be on that team. In Exodus, here in Exodus 31, God is speaking to Moses. In Exodus 35, so flip over a few pages, in Exodus 35 it's what God spoke to Moses, now Moses is speaking to the people and we just get a few more nuggets out of Moses relating it to the people. Look at Exodus 35 verses 30 through 35.

And Moses said to the children of Israel, see the Lord has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri the son of her of the tribe of Judah and he has filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom and understanding and knowledge and in all manner of workmanship." we're seeing almost the same words. To design artistic works, to work in gold and silver and bronze, in cutting jewels for setting and carving wood, and to work in all manner of artistic workmanship. And he has put in his heart the ability to teach in him and Aholah of the son of Ahisamah of the tribe of Dan. He has filled them with skill to do all manner of work of the engraver and the designer and the tapestry maker in blue purple and scarlet thread and fine linen and of the weaver. These who do every work and who design artistic works." So God gifted these two men but he also, verse 34 says, he put in their hearts the ability to teach others.

There are others that God has given gifts to and he gives them teachers to help them develop their gifts to do this work that God has given them to do to bring himself glory, to glorify himself. Let me state the obvious here. We're not all the same person just with different experiences and different opportunities. Like just the standard version and I happen to be born in a different place and have different experiences, so I ended up different. God made us different from birth with different gifts from birth.

With a measure of those gifts from birth. And yes, they can be developed, but God made us different on purpose, and He gave us each gifts to be good at things or maybe even great at things. We have some some men here, some artisans here that were made to be great. Does this have a bearing on glorifying God? Of course it does.

It glorifies God When a person whose mouth speaks his praises and whose life consistently demonstrates dependent on him is great at stuff. Meaning it's for the believer to establish those two dots and connect them. What are the dots? Well, to take up his name and his praises on your lips so they know that this God is your God and you are His and for your life to consistently demonstrate that you depend on Him, that's a dot, what's the other dot, to be great at the things that he's gifted you at to be good at those things or great at those things and then that the people see there's a connection. I can do these things because this God has given me gifts.

Does this have a bearing on enjoying God? Of course it does. There's a classic scene in Chariots of Fire, it's an old movie, maybe you haven't seen it, but it's about Eric Liddell who was an Olympic gold medalist as a runner who became a missionary to China, and he has this line where he says, when I run, I feel his pleasure. What does he mean by that? At the time, at a certain distance, he was the fastest man on planet earth.

God made him that way. You could train for 100 years and you wouldn't beat Eric Liddell at that distance. And he had the sense of that, that this isn't just that I like to run, it's that God gave me these gifts And when I exercise the gift that God gave me, I feel His pleasure. Eric Liddell connected the dots. I can do this, there's a reason I can do this.

God made me this way, and when I run, I enjoy God. I feel His pleasure. When you embrace that God made you good at the things that you're good at, or maybe even great at the things that you're great at, you enjoy Him in your work. You connect the dots. I'm good at this, or maybe even I'm great at this.

That's because of God. So when I'm enjoying my work, I'm actually enjoying God. Number three. This is really not a single passage. This is a character study and it's Daniel but you can turn to Daniel chapter 6.

We'll use Daniel chapter 6 as sort of an example. We started in Genesis, God works, we're in His image so we work. We went to Exodus to see people who God had gifted. Now our third stop is Daniel and we're in Daniel chapter 6. This is after Nebuchadnezzar interviewed Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and found them ten times better than all the wise men in the kingdom in chapter one and after Nebuchadnezzar promoted Daniel to be the chief administrator of all the wise men in the kingdom in chapter two.

Now Kings have come and gone but Daniel's still there and there's a new king Darius in Daniel chapter 6 follow along as I read Daniel 6 verses 1 through 5 it pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 sat traps to be over the whole kingdom and over these three governors of whom Daniel was one that the satraps might give account to them so that the king would suffer no loss. Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm so the governors and Satrap sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom but they could find no charge or fault because he was faithful nor was there any error or fault found in him then these men said we shall not find any charge against Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Daniel distinguished himself in his work so that King Darius was thinking about elevating him so that all the governors would be under him and he was so very faithful and so very blameless that he sets in motion events which end up with a pagan king rendering praise to God.

Daniel chapter 6 after the lion's den ends up with a declaration at the end by King Darius to the whole kingdom that you should honor Daniel's God now is your work life likely to be filled with the supernatural events of Daniel 6 figuratively speaking I've been thrown into a lion's den or two in my work life, but only figuratively. I didn't make it out of all of them, by the way, but that was figurative too, and that's a story for another day. It's not likely that your work life will be filled with supernatural events of Daniel chapter 6 but you can distinguish yourself in your work as very competent, very faithful, very blameless in ways that bring honor to God. You bet you can. Don't you know that you can?

And recognize that Daniel 6 is fundamentally about Daniel's radical commitment to keeping up his fellowship with God. The whole thing is about Daniel going and continuing his practice to throw open his windows and cry out to God, pray to God three times a day. And he just wouldn't break the practice no matter what the king decreed. That's what the whole chapter is about. Fellowship permeated Daniel's life.

Fellowship permeated Daniel's work life. Kings come and go in the book of Daniel, but Daniel being in fellowship with God is the constant. He glorified and enjoyed God in his work. I skipped over Joseph for the sake of time. We left Joseph in the dust back in Genesis but it is clear that Daniel was cut from the same cloth as Joseph in his work life had we spent time there in Genesis 39 we thought we would find Joseph so good and faithful at overseeing his master Potiphar's house that Potiphar ceased to even know what he had.

Why not? He didn't need to, it just always kept increasing. Daniel was so good at his work that it was there was no use even keeping track of it anymore Daniel had a Joseph had a handle on it and it kept increasing then he's unjustly thrown in prison and the circumstances just repeat themselves in Genesis 39 22 and 23 we read this and the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners who were in the prison whatever they did there it was his doing The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph's authority because the Lord was with him and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper. That happened in Potiphar's house, then he's unjustly accused and put into prison, and the same thing just happens all over again in the prison. Joseph was like this, Daniel was like this, God brings honor to himself in the world by transforming his people to be good and faithful at the things that they that he puts into their hands.

That's what God does. He transforms his people to make them good and faithful at the work that he's given them to do. And unless I make this sound gender specific doesn't this describe the Proverbs 31 woman can you just put her right in there Joseph Daniel Proverbs 31 woman when I read that three words just seem to summarize the description of her. Faithfulness, competence, diligence. And at the end of Proverbs 31 We learn what's at the bottom of it all, the fear of the Lord.

That's Proverbs 31 verse 30, end of the chapter. It says that she is a woman who fears the Lord. That's why she is how she is. That's why the description of her is true of her because she's in relationship with the Lord she fears the Lord she walks with the Lord so this description of what she likes of what she's like is intertwined with her relationship with the Lord. Our fourth stop is Ephesians 6.

Ephesians chapter 6. Familiar territory. Ephesians chapter 6 verses 5 through 8 follow along as I read Ephesians 6 verse 5 bond servants be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in sincerity of heart as to Christ Not with eye service as men pleasers, but as bond servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with goodwill doing service as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord whether he is a slave or free." Wow does this tell us a lot about our work life. This is how Christians who are acting like Christians approach work. Do Christians always act like Christians?

Sadly I don't. There are two sides of the coin here. It honors God when we work hard and well whether or not the boss is watching, because then we are doing God's will unto God looking to Him for the reward. What's the other side of that coin? It dishonors God when we only work hard and only work well when the boss is watching.

Because then we are not doing God's will, we are not doing our work unto God, and we're looking to the wrong source for the reward. The point is this. Your work is to be God-focused, not boss-focused. And this doesn't make us worse workers, it makes us infinitely better workers, infinitely more valuable workers. If your boss only knew the truth of scripture, how true that it is, he would want you to be God focused in your work.

It means that you're working hard and well even when he's not there. Paul says something very similar in Colossians. Listen to Colossians 3, 22 through 24. You can turn if you want or you could just listen. Colossians 3, 22 through 24.

Similar language being used. Paul writes, bond servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh not with eye service as men pleasers but in sincerity of heart fearing God and whatever you do do it heartily As to the Lord and not to men. Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve the Lord Christ. This is God-focused work. You have these terms again.

Eye service. Not with eye service, not only working hard and well when the boss is watching, but if he's never around, you're still working hard and well. Not as a man pleaser, but God focused in your work. Question, Does this have a bearing on enjoying God in your work? In other words, could it be that I will enjoy God in my work the more I glorify God in my work?

That these two have an interrelated relationship where one actually leads the other. That as I glorify God in my work, God focused in my work, that I begin to enjoy God more in my work. The more I glorify God in my work, the more I enjoy him in my work. I think The answer to that question is, how could it be otherwise? You do realize that if you can only enjoy God in your work, if you really enjoy your work, you are a slave to how you feel about your work.

That has to be true. If you can only enjoy God in your work, if you love every second of your work, you're a slave to your feelings about work and you don't even have the ability to glorify God in your work. Is that the position you want to occupy? Surely not. I hope the light bulb just went on for someone and you're thinking maybe I should just get focused on glorifying God in my work.

It's possible that will lead to enjoying God in my work. I think you're onto something there. Consider these two verses from Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes 2 24, nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw was from the hand of God.

You want to know something that's from the hand of God? That your soul should enjoy good in your labor. Ecclesiastes 2.24 actually says God gives that from a gift. I'll say this, I don't believe that you have to overwhelmingly like your work to enjoy good in your labor. Do you buy that proposition?

That you might love your work more or less but in any event you can enjoy good in your labor. Listen, none of this eliminates the sweat of your brow, thorns and thistles, toil. Work is that. There are the headwinds. We still have remaining corruptions.

Even those who are born again have these remaining corruptions and we're still in a world of sin we're not in heaven yet don't expect heaven in your work Ecclesiastes 3 13 listen to this other verse from Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes 3 13 every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor it is the gift of God You want to know something that's the gift of God? That you would enjoy the good of all your labor. There is a lot of good that can come of your labor or from your labor? Think about that. What's good that can come of your labor that you can enjoy?

Or good that could come from your labor that you can enjoy? It is very good for a husband to provide for his family. It actually glorifies God when a husband cares for and supports a wife and if God has given them children by doing honest work honestly well. Which is why 1st Timothy 5 8 says that if you don't you've denied the faith and you're worse than an unbeliever. In other words, In other words, supporting a family with honest work done honestly honors God, not supporting a family because you didn't do honest work honestly dishonors God and you should be considered worse than an unbeliever.

It's like you denied the faith. Second Thessalonians 3 10 says, if you don't work you shouldn't eat well that's pretty simple. Ephesians 4 28 says that we should do honest work so we can provide for ourselves and have something left over to give to those who are in need that is good to have enough to provide for ourselves and to have something left over to give to other people who have needs we can and should enjoy that here's a secret I'm gonna tell you a secret are you ready it's really fun to give away money and you have to have extra money to give it away. That's the corollary. You can't give away money you don't have.

It's really fun to give away money. Now Let's talk about fulfillment in work. I want to say this. It is fool's gold to chase fulfillment in your work. I'm not saying there's no fulfillment in your work.

I'm not saying you should desire fulfillment in your work, but it is fool's gold to chase that in your work. Look, gold. No, that's iron pyrite. It's not worth anything. Iron pyrite, fool's gold is the nickname for iron pyrite looks a little like gold when you take it in they tell you yeah that's not worth anything I've seen people chase fulfillment in their work and be continuously disappointed and they flip from job to job like a bee flits from flower to flower and they're never anywhere long enough to actually get really good enough for it to be fun.

So it eludes them. I always had a much more utilitarian view of my work. Here was my view. It's not work It's not wrong to work for money. I spent 19 years in secular employment and some of the things some of the aspects of my work I liked, Some of the aspects fit well with my gifts, some of the aspects of my work I didn't like, some of the aspects of my work didn't fit well, but work supported the things that fulfill me my relationship with the Lord fulfills me my home life fulfills me my church life fulfills me you look to work with toil and sweat and thorns and thistles and frustrations and challenges for your fulfillment you might end up flitting from job to job hoping that the next job will bring the fulfillment that your relationship with the Lord can give you.

Only your relationship with the Lord. That your family life can give you. That your investment in church life can give you it's not wrong to work to support the things that can fulfill you our last our last stop Titus to our last stop Titus to good news I can see the end of Titus 2 verses 9 and 10. Titus 2 verses 9 and 10. Paul writes, exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters to be well pleasing in all things not answering back not pilfering but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

That's interesting. What's Paul teaching? He's teaching that How we relate to others in our work and how we go about our work either makes our Christianity lovely or brings it into contempt. Surely you've seen both. If you've got any gray hairs at all you've seen both.

How someone who is known to be a Christian goes about their relationships in their work life and goes about their work either makes Christianity to the onlookers lovely or brings it into contempt Paul says relate to people in your work, your co-workers, your customers, your suppliers, and go about your work, how much you produce, what the quality of what you produce in ways that quote adorn the doctrine of God our Savior is it right to say that's the gospel it's probably the gospel plus it's our faith people know we profess Christ Christ and they're observing us while we work and they're noticing the output of our work. They see how we treat people and they see whether we do good work or don't do good work. They see whether we do a lot of work or only a paltry little bit of work. Is there a match between our profession and our relationships and the output of our work, if there's a match, it honors God. It adorns the gospel.

If there's a mismatch, if our profession of faith is mismatched with mistreatment in our relationships at work or our works not good or there's just not very much of it because we don't work hard that dishonors God it brings our faith into contempt let me say two things in wrapping up let me say one thing in wrapping up I don't live a segregated life of sacred and secular live an integrated life where you are conscious that God is there with you at work and he ought to be honored there with you at work. And you should enjoy him at work. You can enjoy him at work. I was originally going to say, take God to work with you. And then I thought, no, that's exactly what I'm arguing against.

He's already at work. He's already there. When you go to work, He's there, you meet Him there. Honor Him there. Enjoy Him there.

You can have fellowship with God at work. Who will know? No one will know. Ms. Harris didn't know and eighth grade civics.

Who can stop you? No one can stop you. God, so much of our life is spent doing the things that you've given us to do, our occupations students doing the work of students wives managing homes mothers investing pouring their lives into the lives of their children it's most of our hours God hold us back from a life where Our honoring of you and our enjoying of you happens in other hours smaller slivers of our time. Give us a life where this big block of time in our day is filled with honoring you and enjoying you. Thank you for the gifts that you've given us.

Help us to use them to bring order to things in our work and improve things in our work and bring forth an increase in our work. May you be honored by how we relate with the people and do the work and help us to enjoy you in it we pray in Jesus name amen. Thank you. Thank you.