FBC Morning Worship Service

Good to see you on this Palm Sunday. Thank the Lord for giving us this opportunity to gather together to worship him and to serve him by our off with our offerings our offering of praise and Offering of our lips giving thanksgiving and praise to our Lord.

Before I begin that worship service itself Let me share with you a few emphasize a few announcements in the bulletin. One is the special service this Thursday evening. So no Wednesday night Programming at all, but Thursday evening at 7 o 'clock be having our Maundy Thursday service started this a few years ago and just I've really come to appreciate the the time where we we just focus on that last night of the Lord with his disciples time in the upper room Around the Lord's what we call the Lord's table and their meal together and then we read the scriptures related to that as well as leading up to the crucifixion and end the evening with the crucifixion of the Lord so we have the scriptures and we sing some hymns that are related to all of that and Have the Lord's Supper together.

All of that is to just gear our hearts and our minds toward what our Lord has done on the cross and Then the significance and the blessing of the resurrection a few days later. So I encourage you to come Thursday night 7 o 'clock.

It's about an hour-long service and I think it'll be a real blessing to your heart and then next Lord's Day is resurrection Sunday and the Schedule there is in your bulletin. You just want to emphasize the the breakfast time at 845 and Need you to sign up so we know how many to plan for for that breakfast.

So the sunrise service at 8 o 'clock. It's after sunrise. I know but anyway, it's early service at 8 o 'clock and Then the breakfast Sunday school at the regular time morning service at the regular time.

No evening service, but Been giving out on Easter Sunday Like a devotional booklet for you to take home and meditate on the resurrection throughout the course of that day or later in the evening as you see fit and then I just wanted to emphasize also the We call it the stimulus project if you will for no other reason, but last Sunday we announced encouraging people to give toward this goal of Being able to purchase a hundred Salters and that goal was met very quickly.

In fact by Wednesday. I knew that goal had been met. So and and I know that A lot of people didn't have a chance yet to give to that project. So there was another project that we were talking about and Considering and it is a cry room and I think I've sent I sent an email out earlier this week and many of you probably got that email, but Oftentimes, you know babies young children get you know, get a little disturbing in the service and parents and Understandably want to minimize that disturbance and so they take the children out.

We don't have anywhere for them to go and So we wanted to set aside part of one of the classrooms down that hallway for a cry room and We again we don't have a really good accommodation for that we don't have comfortable seating.

We don't have a way to still be a part of the service so to facilitate that we would like to get a screened a TV flat screen TV that will Broadcast the service right there. So the parents if they have to leave the service, they can still see the service and participate at least visually Also gives the gives the children something to focus on so it's like They're still able to look and see what's going on in the service.

And that's what we want to help our children develop the ability to do to pay attention to what's going on in the service so visually that will help them to do that and So I want to provide that as well as just a comfortable place to sit and not on Folding chairs, so if you'd like to contribute to that you can do so in the same way that we suggested for the for the Salter project and you can give either in the offering box or Online and give online for that as well.

So I hope to be able to do that and provide that good space for our parents with young children All right. We've come today to worship the Lord and of course Palm Sunday We're thinking of him Presenting himself as the king coming into Jerusalem.

Psalm 117 Echoes or reflects the praise that was given to him. Psalm 117 says praise the Lord all you Gentiles Laud him all you peoples for his merciful kindness is great toward us and the truth of the Lord endures forever Praise the Lord.

So as we open our service today, we want to do just that. We have the hymn for a thousand tongues to sing in our hymnals. That's not a problem, but you've got the handout with that on one side. There are a couple of stanzas Included in the hymn the handout version that we want to want to use today as we open the service.

So Jim, please come and lead us. Thank you pastor. It's all seven verses. We're gonna be singing on your handout.

Hope you all have one of those. Anybody need one. Just raise your hand and we'll have someone come up and it looks like everybody's got one. So let's all stand together, please and sing all seven verses of all four thousand tongues to sing My gracious master and my God To spread through all the earth The honors of Jesus the name that charms our fears that bids our sorrows.

Cease tis music in Sinners ear to his life and health and in peace He breaks the power of canceled sin he sets the prisoners free His blood can make a palace clean his blood availed for me Speaks and listening to his voice new Receive the mournful broken hearts rejoice the humble poor.

Hear him ye deaf ye voiceless ones your loosened tongues employ He blind behold your saviors come leapy leap joy. Glory to God and praise and love me now and ever. Given by saints below Saints above the church in earth and heaven.

I remain standing for prayer brother. Ed. Would you lead us please mother your your glory endures forever?

Just pray that you would turn our hearts away from Bleeding things in the world now Lord and help us to focus our thoughts and minds on on the great King and on on his words. And just pray that you would just Soften our hearts Lord to hear your word and that you'd help us to be obedient to it.

Let's pray he sings in Jesus name. Amen. You may be seated. I'd like to read responsibly today part of Psalm 118 on the back of your bulletin. Psalm 118 verses 19 through 29. As we read responsibly you will read the congregation read the verses that are in bold type.

And I'll read the alternating verses so I'll begin in verse 19 and then join in verse 20 and then back and forth and. Again, we encourage you just read right out. Don't be don't be timid. Just like in your singing, you know sing out read out.

Okay, Psalm 118. Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will go through them and I will praise the Lord. I will praise you for you have answered me and have become my salvation. This was the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.

Save now. I pray O Lord. Oh Lord. I say I pray send now prosperity. God is the Lord and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. Oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endures forever.

Lord add his blessing to the reading. This is word today.

In your hymnals this time page 162 162 fairest Lord Jesus will sing all four verses together Joy.

Together today we want to remember our missionary of the week. Scott will acquit. Scott serves with Baptist mid missions in their pastoral enrichment program, which involves Traveling to third world countries primarily places where pastors of churches in those countries, they do not have the freedom and the opportunity to have seminary training and even really any of any advanced training for pastors at all and so Scott goes with others in that program to provide some of those teaching opportunities This year.

Well last year. He obviously wasn't able to go anywhere because of the kovat restrictions and this year The plans are still uncertain. He was supposed to go to Myanmar a couple of different times and Myanmar as you are probably well aware Is in such a state of upheaval that there's no There's no confidence that they're going to be able to make those journeys supposed to do two trips to Myanmar this year.

But so we want to pray for that situation in Myanmar pray for the believers there. And the missionary pastors who serve there and even that Scott would be able to have that Opportunity to go and teach and help and train those those pastors and if not that trip, then he has I think one other trip scheduled for this year as well and We want to pray that Kovat restrictions don't keep that from happening.

So pray for that ministry and then also there's some folks in the congregation who? Have some physical needs just let's remember them in general today and pray that God would be gracious to them. Let's look to the Lord.

Shall we my father? We are grateful for this time of year springtime when? The grass starts turning green again and The crocuses start coming up from the ground and the daffodils and then other flowers to come and follow the color returns to the landscape and we so greatly appreciate the beauty of Spring as it begins to bloom and to blossom.

But as we just have sung we are Reminded that that beauty that is so glorious to us Is nothing compared to the beauty of our Savior our Lord Jesus he is truly the fairest of all and Father because we we cannot physically look him in the face we can easily be distracted and called away by the things of this earth and this life and Lose sight of just how beautiful a Savior we have.

Your word says in prophecy that there is no form or comeliness that we should desire him When he walked this earth in form and in Physical attractiveness. It was just like any other man and of course in the cruelty of the cross There was there was an ugliness that would cause man to turn his face away.

But when we understand all that he came to do as Son of God and Son of Man and The beauty of the horrific cross We realize that there is truly a beautiful Savior that makes him the fairest of all. We rejoice in our Lord Jesus today.

We rejoice in his coming to this earth. We rejoice in his coming as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and Thank you that by his power and his authority he has Established his kingdom which will ultimately rule and reign over this entire globe over all men over all things.

How we look for and anticipate that glorious day. Father we thank you for the privilege of communicating the gospel and sharing it to others and or this is a wonderful privilege that we have and I pray that You would make our feet beautiful as we bring good tidings to those in need we think especially of Scott will acquit today as he has this privilege and opportunity to train pastors and those in Christian work in countries where they get so little training and there's so much misunderstanding of the truths of Scripture and Lord what a blessed privilege he has to give clear understanding to these servants of yours so many things in your word and I pray that you would use that ministry to strengthen and and encourage pastors who can then turn around and Strengthen and encourage their people who can then turn around and more more Clearly and accurately communicate the gospel to those all around them so Lord use that ministry of pastoral enrichment program and Scott and his leadership in it and may May it be an effective work.

I pray that if it would please you that you'd be able to get to Myanmar this year and also to other places where Men need to be trained. I pray that the travel restrictions would be eased enough that he might be able to make these trips.

Father we pray for those in a congregation today who are in need some Are involved in some traveling and I pray that you would grant journeying mercies. We also pray for those who be traveling later this week for the Easter holiday and Meeting with family and loved ones.

I pray that you would grant them a blessed time as they together With loved ones will rejoice on Resurrection Sunday in the living Savior. We pray for those in physical need and Pray that you would give healing and strength to the body and that they might be able to Return to worship together with us very soon.

Father we pray for those who are here today whose hearts are heavy and burdened. They are Weighed down with a load of care. I pray that those burdens would be lifted. Burdens would be lifted at Calvary.

I pray for those who are burdened down because of sin. And they turn from that sin today. Well convict our hearts and turn us from from that which is so deceptive and so destructive And turn to Christ for forgiveness.

There's one here today who needs to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior. I pray that today they'd see that need very clearly and That you would quicken the heart to come to Christ and be saved today. So father we pray meet with us In this service and meet with us through your word and we ask it in Jesus name.

On the other side of your handout your sheet is titled all glory laud and honor. And we'll sing all three verses of that song together. Let's all stand please one more time as we sing together all glory laud and honor.

Please be seated turn your Bibles to Luke chapter 19. For a scripture reading and message today. Luke 19 I just want to remind you about the one o 'clock service this afternoon after we have lunch together.

Join back here in the auditorium at one o 'clock, and we'll be singing some more psalms. Don't yet have those Psalter books to use but we'll sing some of the psalms from that Psalter. We'll do that today and This will probably be the last Sunday where we just do exclusively Psalm singing in that afternoon service.

So Luke 19, I want to begin reading in verse 28 and read through verse 40. Message will go through verse 48. But our reading through verse 40 verse 28 begins when he had said this he went on ahead going up to Jerusalem.

And it came to pass when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount called Olivet. But he sent two of his disciples saying Go into the village opposite you where as you enter you will find a colt tied on which no one has ever sat.

Loose it and bring it here. And if anyone asks you why are you loosing it? Thus shall you say to him because the Lord has need of it. So those who were sent went their way and found it just as he had said to them.

But as they were loosing the colt the owners of it said to them Why are you loosing the colt and they said the Lord has need of him. Then they brought him to Jesus and they threw their own clothes on the colt and they set Jesus on him.

And as he went many spread their clothes on the road then as he was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives the whole multitude of the Disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works.

They had seen saying Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord peace in heaven and glory in the highest. And some of the Pharisees called to him from the crowd teacher rebuke your disciples.

But he answered and said to them. I tell you that if these should keep silent the stones would immediately cry out brief prayer. Our father I pray as we consider this scene before us today. That we would we would place ourselves in the midst of it as we pray in Jesus name.

Several years ago, I think it was probably like 1998 maybe 99. Chris and I had gone out for dinner for our anniversary and We were living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee at the time. So we went to we went to a restaurant that was right on The Tennessee River in Knoxville had a nice meal and after the meal was over.

We left the restaurant and where it was, you know, it's nice balmy summer evening and Still wasn't dark. So we left the restaurant and we're walking back toward the car and we noticed there quite a crowd of people at the one end of the parking lot and they were right at the river's edge and And they were all facing in the same direction.

We wonder what's wonder what's going on. And so like anybody who's got any sense any semblance of curiosity. We walked over to the crowd and he started to observe and look around to try to figure out What was what was happening what was going on.

There are all kinds of people who were there young old. Just a just a bunch of people and I looked out into the river and there's a bridge that spans the river right right by that restaurant and there were a couple of a few boats that were anchored right by the bridge and then I Also noticed this was pretty obvious as well a lot of flashing lights up on the bridge and so there were a bunch of emergency personnel wonder if there was some kind of an accident up there and Then we noticed about 80 feet.

The bridge is about 80 feet above the river the river's surface there was a guy standing on the railing of the bridge just barely holding on and Intending to jump and to take his life. And I observed the crowd as we stood there and finally figured out what was going on.

I wondered how are people responding and most of the people who could look around and most of the people were obviously Concerned they had definite Expressions of concern on their face had no idea who this individual was and there was not a thing in the world.

Anybody could do about it there there in the midst of crowd. But they were obviously concerned. It was a little distressing to see a few people kind of joking and cajoling about the matter and you have to wonder if If they were up there at where this guy was at the bridge Would they be cheering him on would they be saying go go go jump jump jump, you know they just seem to have that kind of a an air about them an attitude about them and then of course there were the emergency personnel and they were trying to talk him down from From that intended act of Ending his life.

There's quite quite a variety of people as they were watching this scene as we were watching this scene unfold before us. Fortunately the man was able to be talked down and he stepped away from the side of that That bridge and we were pretty thankful about that.

That is not something you would want to see somebody do. But a few things struck me about that whole scene one of them is that How is how a crowd can draw a crowd? Small crowd you've seen you've seen the you've seen the scenes right where you know somebody somebody just one person stops in the middle of the street and just looks up and Then a couple other people see him looking up and they stop and they start looking up and then before you know it a whole Bunch of people have stopped and looking up at what who knows nobody knows.

It's just the crowd has formed and as that crowd has formed the the crowd attracts a crowd. I mean after all how did we get into the middle of that thing? There was a crowd and we were attracted by the crowd.

A crowd attracts a crowd and Of course the larger the crowd the more diverse is the character of that crowd. Now that's a general observation and it's a general observation that holds true on this Palm Sunday scene before us in Luke chapter 19 there is quite a crowd and the crowd attracts a crowd and it ends up being quite a diverse crowd and as we consider this crowd today, what I want us to do is to to place ourselves in it somewhere as Somebody in that crowd.

Because it is quite a diverse crowd and I want you to see several different types of people that comprise this crowd and the most obvious right off the bat as we begin this Account recorded for us in Luke is that there are some in the crowd who are obedient servants.

They're obedient servants in other words These are the two whom Jesus gives the assignment to go and get this cult that he's going to Ride on and these two out of the twelve Jesus twelve disciples Are given this special assignment now the thing about this is we don't know who those two are.

Was it Peter and Andrew was a James and John, you know, who were the two that were selected? We don't know you know the this. The speculator in me kind of wonders. I wonder if one of the two was Judas.

You ever think about that? I Don't know. We don't know who it is. But anyway two of these Twelve closest disciples of Jesus were given this special assignment to go and get this cult and these Obedient servants notice they go where he sends them to go.

Jesus tells them to go into the village Opposite you and in verse 32 It says so those who were sent went their way and found just as he said. So Jesus gave them specific directions gave them a specific place to go and these obedient servants Went and followed those directions exactly and I think it's important to emphasize that you said well, yeah, I know the story.

Yes, you know the story but let's put ourselves in that story. Am I an obedient servant of the Lord Jesus Christ? See, that's what we have to ask ourselves. Am I obedient to what the Lord gives me to do?

Am I am I going to the place the Lord has given me to go? So he go they go where he sends them and they seek what he is after He tells them to go to this place and to find this certain thing. What is he to find?

What are they to find they are to find a cult tide a cult on which no one has ever sat and that's an important Distinction. He says I went there's gonna be this cult that nobody's ever sat on before. He doesn't tell them this but the point is he's going to be the first person who's ever sat on this cult and It had to be a cult.

It couldn't just be any animal. It couldn't be the cult's mother. It had to be the cult. Why? Because God said so Back in Zechariah chapter 9 you in your bulletin that I don't have my bulletin up here with me.

But in your on the cover of your bulletin you see that quotation from Zechariah 9 9 That there is that the Messiah is going to come and be presented as the king and he's going to be he's going to come and and enter upon the cult the foal of an ass and This has to be so Jesus gives us very specific instruction of where to go and what to what to do what to do when they get there find this cult and then he gives them specific directions regarding what they are to say.

An Obedient servant will do what Jesus tells them. They will say what Jesus tells them to say. So in verse 31 he says if anyone asks you why are you loosing it then you will say to them so he doesn't even give them the The freedom if you will to come up with their own story.

To put things in their own words. He gives them the words to say. If anyone says to you, what are you doing? Why are you loosing the colt? You shall say to him because the Lord has need of it. Because the Lord has need of it not because Jesus wants it not because the Lord wants something to ride on.

But tell them this the Lord has need of it. They are to say what he wants said and in verses 33 and 34 This scene exactly unfolds as Jesus anticipates. It comes to the place they come to the place where this cult is tied up and they start loosing the colt and the owners why are you loosing the colt and They said Quote the Lord has need of him and quote.

I Say what the Lord gives them to say. Do what the Lord has told them to do? By the way, isn't this a rather humorous scene when you think about it? These two individuals say they walk up to where this cult is tied and they don't say anything to anybody.

They just start untying this colt. Now you were the owner of that colt. What would you do? Let's put it in the let's put it in the modern a modern scene. Okay. You look out the you look out the door and you see somebody Starting to get into your car.

You don't know who they are. You've never seen them before in your life. They start to get in your car. What are you gonna do? You say somebody's trying to get in my car. Look at that. Isn't that interesting?

That's a fascinating thing. I wonder why he wants my car. Oh, well, it's just a car. Is that what you can do? No, it doesn't it doesn't even matter. It doesn't even matter if your car is a 1995 something or another or a 2021 brand new thing if you see somebody trying to get into your car and you don't know who they are.

You're gonna you're gonna ask some questions about that. You're gonna go out there say hey buddy. Whoa. Whoa, wait, wait a minute. What are you doing? That's my car. What are you doing getting into my car?

Why are you in my car? You're gonna you're gonna ask some questions. Well, this is what these these owner the owner does. Why are you loosing the colt? Now then the answer. Well, we're loosing the colt because the Lord has need of him.

Oh Okay. So that raised a bunch of questions and nobody has any real answers to it just gives some speculation answers, you know. Like well, how come they just let the guys take this colt? They never thought I mean, they might have never seen that cold again how did how are they to know and so the question is what did Jesus prearrange this or were these Were the owner was the owner of the colt was the owner Already a follower of Jesus a disciple of Jesus and and was perfectly happy with it.

You know, we don't have the answers to those questions. All we know is the owner said, okay Have at it Have at it. I find that I find that rather amusing but they said what Jesus gave them to say and and I emphasize that because I Emphasize that because something I saw this week.

There was an article I read it was It was put out by I think church leaders calm showed up on my Facebook feed and. And The title of the article was ten things churches need to stop doing now. It's okay.

This would be interesting. I want to see I want to see what they have to say. What are these ten things and I I opened up the article and I started reading it and you know honestly, most of them were things that were like, okay, so what big deal it's kind of like the the day used to used to be the day in our churches where You had the Sunday school attendance pins, maybe you don't remember those things.

I remember those as a kid. You got this you get this. So you get this award if you attended Sunday school a little wreath thing that you could put on the lapel if you attended Sunday school a certain amount of time and then every year that you had Perfect attendance or nearly perfect attendance you get a little bar that would attach to the wreath and And you could you could have this thing Accumulate over the years and I remember as a kid.

I mean just a little kid knee-high to a hymn book seeing some of these old people in the church, I remember this old guy in the church, he had one of these things on his lapel and The bars were like halfway down to his bellybutton.

I mean he had these huge things as guys man I thought this guy must have been a in Sunday school for Ever and never miss Sunday school. Well, you know We don't do that anymore and it's not a big deal, right?

There's nothing in the Bible that says you have to give out pins for perfect attendance in Sunday school. So it was that kind of thing. Well, let's do one more that kind of thing until I got down to number ten and Number ten.

So the number ten thing to stop doing in church is preaching. Preaching. The Lord said to preach the Lord said to preach and I replied to the Irish put a put a little thing on there, you know, yeah in Sunday school this morning I talked about the exercise of the will and you see a Facebook post and you at that point Have choices to make are you going to ignore it?

Are you going to hit the emoji? Are you gonna comment on it? What are you gonna say if you comment on it? You got all kinds of choices at that point well, I made the choice to comment on it and my comment was Second to me for one and two.

Preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering in doctrine and the the person writing the article who said stop preaching basically was saying people don't want to people don't want that and The passage goes on to say.

Yeah, the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But will you know heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and what this person writing? This article is telling churches to do is to stop preaching and instead tickle ears.

So no, no Obedient servants will say what the Lord once said and he wants preaching. Said so no, we say what it needs to be said obedient servants also bring what he asks in verse 35. They brought the cult to Jesus.

Just as he asked so some in this crowd are Obedient servants. Is that you are you one of those in the crowd? That is an obedient servant a Second group of people are ardent followers. Verse 35 Says then they brought him to Jesus and they threw their own clothes on the cult.

So the first they are the two that went to get the cult the second they in verse 35 are the rest of the the rest of the twelve those closest disciples of his these Ardent followers of Jesus and these ardent followers of Jesus notice how they gave up their stuff for him.

Verse 35 says they threw their own clothes on the cult and set Jesus on him gave up their own stuff for him and They not only gave up their stuff. But they gave him the honor and the respect that he deserves and I think both of those things are important to emphasize because there are some who you know profess to be followers of Jesus and profess to be believers and all the rest that's a and and the limit of their Ardor in following Jesus is their checkbook.

They're giving they they they're ready to give. Because they like the tax deduction or they like the recognition or whatever. But do they give him the honor and the respect that he deserves? These ardent followers not only write the check if you will they not only put their clothes on the back of this cult.

But they set Jesus on that cult. They said Jesus on top of their own clothes and what they are doing in that act is Showing respect and honor for him. They're elevating him and they're beginning a parade.

With Jesus as the focus of this parade and it is the parade. That is that of a king and a conqueror. In fact turn with me back to first Kings chapter 1. And I want you to see in first Kings the Precedent for what Jesus is doing here with riding on this cult.

Before he does he goes into Jerusalem first Kings chapter 1 and the context here is David is being asked to determine who's to succeed him as the king and David had promised years earlier that that Solomon would be his successor as king.

But there's been some competition for that role. And so now they come to bet to David and they tell David you have to you have to make a public declaration of who your successor will be. So verse 32 King David said Call to me Zadok the priest Nathan the Prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.

So they came before the king the king also said to them take with you the servants of your Lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule and Take him down to Gaon. There let Zadok the priest and Nathan the Prophet anoint him king over Israel and blow the horn and say long live King Solomon.

In other words this scene in Luke chapter 19 and the triumphal entry is a Reenactment if you will to some degree of what David did with Solomon presenting the king to his people. A Solomon is paraded through the streets and he's declared to be the king and long live King Solomon the successor of David.

As Jesus rides on the back of this cult he's being he's being paraded and brought to Jerusalem as the king the successor of King David. Well ardent followers ardent followers. Well, let's think about this.

We look at this crowd. Does my attitude toward worship and God's house? Does it reflect the honor and the respect that he deserves. Do I just go along with the flow do I just Go along with the routine.

Do I just do what? I'm supposed to do. Is there any sense of of earnestness and there's any sense of eagerness in my In my worship of the Lord showing him the respect and the honor that he deserves. And do I willingly willingly sacrifice my stuff for his service.

I Think of years years ago and two different pastorates. No, not here not here the two different pastor. It's two different individuals that show a stark contrast both professing to be followers both professing to be ardent followers of Jesus.

But one not so much. The one that truly was an ardent follower of Jesus. He he not only gives to Jesus the respect and honor that he deserves he loved to gather with God's people and worship the Lord on the Lord's Day and and.

And he just he just loved it was always always there. But he also was willing willingly sacrificed his stuff. He shared with me one time that. What his attitude was when he got a raise from work. His attitude was, you know, I've been living on X number of dollars all this time.

I don't need that extra money so. You know unless something comes up That's like an emergency or an unknown expense or some may something major happens. I just I just figure out give it to the Lord give it to the Lord's work.

Now, I'm not. I'm not telling you that's what you have to do or anything like that whatsoever. I'm just expressing to you the heart of somebody who is an ardent follower of Jesus is the way he expressed.

That love and his willingness to to give his stuff. The contrary though. There was another guy who also showed his ardor in following Jesus by always being at church. I mean he was there Sunday school Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night anytime the doors were open kind of a guy.