Hebrews 4:1-11 (Rest- Jeff Kliewer)

So Can we pray because I'm just all flustered of all the hectic things this morning. So Lord we come before you. We come before your presence. We invite you here to fill this place. Do among us what you want and what you have according to your will.

We place our trust in you. Because you are the God of all creation. You are greater and stronger than any Anything. You're higher than the heavens. We come before you this morning singing praises to your name In Jesus name.

Amen. You're welcome to stand if you would like. Shepherds amazed at the sky. Angels sang glory on high sing gloria. Gloria. Messiah has come to the earth. Promise fulfilled from the curse. Emmanuel our God our God our God is greater.

Our God is awesome.

Rougher and rougher. They start to get speedy more speedy things start going out of control. So this song prepare him room. We did a few years ago. We've been doing it every year just kind of puts our perspective back on where we need it to be.

The lyrics of the third verse are huge. We're preparing our hearts. So we want to sing this song together.

The Lord's Table and Communion as Rest in Christ

Prepare him room when he had given. Thanks. He broke it and said this is my body. Which is for you?

Do this in remembrance of me in the same way He also took the cup after supper saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes today we come before the Lord at his table and As is the custom for us to do that once a month We gather to proclaim his death until his until he comes that is to proclaim The death of Jesus on the cross Crucified dead and buried and rose again on the third day for us for our salvation.

So as I invite you this morning to take of the elements if you don't have one we can certainly. But this is our time to examine. This is our time to look and Pray to God to ask him to reveal. What is the sin that so easily entangles me?

What are the things that are preventing me from intimacy with Jesus. And so take this time to pray to repent and If you're not a Christian This is the time for you to repent of sin and trust in the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

See communion is Given for the church the cup and the bread. But if you don't call yourself a Christian you can join in this cup and bread to Simply call upon the Lord confess your sin and say to Jesus.

I have fallen short of the glory of God. I need a Savior. The wrath of God rests upon me. I have no hope in myself in my works in my goodness. Because I have none. The Bible says that your good works are like filthy rags.

So if you're not a Christian, this is the time for you to repent of sin and trust in Jesus. Put your faith in the God man Jesus who lived a perfect righteous life and Lived a perfect death. To rescue us from our sin to rescue us from our hopelessness and our despair.

So come to the cross with that expectation that he will meet with you and deliver you from your sin. Deliver you from your hopelessness and give you a hope that cannot disappoint. A rest That never goes away.

A rest that comes in Jesus as pastor Jeff will share in a moment come to the cross and find rest this morning. For you that is a Christian come to the cross and be reminded of what he did for you. He says do this in remembrance of me.

That's the the act that we engage in this morning as to remember what Jesus did on the cross. So a little instruction for you as you take of the cup make sure to lift the clear plastic off first. Not the entire Foil, otherwise, you will trap your bread into the plastic so lift the the thin plastic just like so and you'll you will receive the wafer.

What I want to do is is pray and then I'm gonna invite you to take a moment to be still and To seek the Lord and to ask him to search you. The Bible says that if we confess our sins He's faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So go to him this morning with an expectation that he's going to cleanse you. I don't know what your struggle is today. What you you come what burden you bear this morning. But if you when you come to the cross you can find rest.

You can find hope you can find freedom. So let's pray together and then we'll partake of the bread together and the cup. Let's pray. Our father we are grateful that we can stand on The promises of your word that are yes and amen and as this at this moment We offer our bodies to you a living sacrifice.

Which you say in your word is holy and acceptable in your sight. Not because of us but because of you. Thank you Jesus that you have given us your very righteousness that we can stand before a holy God not based on our works.

But based on what you have accomplished Jesus on the cross. So as we take a moment now to confess our sins to you. Finding forgiveness and rest. Help us to draw near help us. To enter into that rest this morning.

Just take a moment now to confess your sins and I'll close us in prayer and we'll take together.

And then this is the body of Christ. Is broken for you?

Proclaim the Lord's death this way. Let's take a neat together. You take the cup and peel off the foil there and this is the the new covenant in Jesus's blood. This is what this represents that the veil of the temple being torn from the top to the bottom that we now have access To the Holy of Holies that we can find mercy and grace in our time of need.

This is amazing grace that we could come to God through Jesus. So let's rejoice in the new covenant in his blood drink and Be refreshed in Jesus name.

Amen. Amen. Let's pray.

So father we thank you for this meal this bread and cup which reminds us of The great sacrifice that you made. We thank you also for this next meal that we're about to eat, which is your word. We pray that it would nourish our souls that it would change us from the inside out.

Change the way we think. Speak through your word Lord God, we pray that it would be a feast to us in Jesus name. Amen. John Bunyan is Famous for writing the pilgrims progress. Some of you may be have read that book.

One of his lesser-known books is called grace abounding to the chief of sinners. Grace abounding was it's not as readable as pilgrims progress. In fact, the first half of the book is kind of hard to read because it seems like just a constant roller coaster.

Up and down. It's the autobiography of Bunyan. He struggled with many doubts. He struggled to have faith and he also had a very sensitive conscience. So he was constantly unsure of himself. Never was able to rest.

Got to the point. He tells a story in on page 116 of the book when it gotten so bad for him he writes these words. I Sunk and fell in my spirit and was giving up all for lost. But as I was walking up and down in the house as a man in a most woeful state.

This word of God took hold of my heart. Ye are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 3 24. Oh What a difference it made to me then. I was as one awakened out of some troublesome sleep and dream and Listening to this heavenly sentence.

It was as if I heard it thus expounded to me in other words. Listen to what that verse meant to him. Romans 324 sinner. You think that because of your sins and infirmities, I cannot save your soul but see my son is by me and I look upon him not upon you and I will deal with you according to how I am pleased with him.

You see Romans 3 24 open Bunyan's eyes to see that God is not looking at his righteousness Bunyan's righteousness, but he is looking at the Son of God. Whose work on the cross has been accomplished? Bunyan goes on to say.

At that I was greatly lightened in my mind and made to understand that God could justify a sinner at any time. It was only his looking upon Christ and imputing his benefits to us and the work was forthwith done.

You see Bunyan came to rest in the finished work of Christ. Bunyan stopped trying to work to earn salvation. He came to rest in what Christ had already done on the cross it was Jesus who invited us saying come to me all you who are heavy laden and I will give you rest for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Finally Bunyan came to that rest now. He would have some more struggles in his life. That wasn't just one and done and he no longer struggled anymore. But whenever he would begin to doubt and those doubts would creep up in his mind He would find scripture to rest on whether it was Hebrews 12.

Which gave him great comfort or some other passage of scripture? He would be reminded that the work has been finished. It was done in Christ. So does that mean that Bunyan's work was done? No by coming to rest in Christ, he was now free to work and Motivated to work and in inspired to work and so he began to preach.

He became a preacher of the gospel. Until the government said you must not preach the gospel in this name. They tried to silence him and they said he could go home. But if he kept on preaching he'd be in jail.

John Bunyan chose 13 years in prison. Rather than to be silenced. He didn't listen to the edict. But instead kept preaching Christ and as a result what he was in prison and don't you know that those 13 years in prison?

Are what gave us the pilgrims progress? You haven't read it for a while. It's something to go back and read from time to time. Just an amazing book. Second only to the Bible and number of book sales in history.

Which you're doing pretty good if the only one who's ahead of you is God himself with the Bible. So Bunyan's book has been used mightily. The main idea of my sermon today is that there is a rest. That's available to you.

When you hear that word rest, doesn't that just make you feel good? In fact, I entitled the sermon rest. Just rest and for those of you who have been busy and struggling the idea of rest sure sounds sweet, doesn't it?

There is a rest. Available to us in Christ and we must help other people find that rest once we've entered into it. So this is what? Hebrews 4 1 to 11 is about today before I read it. Let me just remind you of the context here in the first chapter.

Christ is compared to angels and he's shown to be greater the angels worship Jesus and right after that comparison. There is a warning. Chapter 2 verse 1 to 4 is a warning that you better pay closer attention to what has been spoken lest you drift.

And then the comparison is made between Jesus and Moses and again, Jesus is greater than Moses like the builder of a house is greater than the house he built. Following that comparison there is once again another warning chapter 3 verse 6.

Is the comparison then verse 7 there's a quote from Psalm 95. You must be careful that your heart not be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. Take care verse 12 lest there be in any of you an evil unbelieving heart.

And then verse 19. So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. So here in the third chapter, there's a warning that if you don't pay close attention if you drift and fall away. You could end up like the Israelites.

They all fell dead in the desert. They were promised rest and yet they never entered it. They came short of it. It's a it's a very dire warning. But now we get the flip side of it. So listen up as we read through 4 1 through 11.

Here we have the good news and you'll see the word good news make note of it in the Bible. The good news is there are those who enter that rest and that rest is offered to those who believe. So let's read it and then we'll expose it therefore while the promise of Entering his rest still stands.

Let us fear. Lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it so that there is summarizing what we talked about last week, right? That's the warning. Be careful that that you don't miss this. Now we're talking good news verse 2 and following for good news came To us just as to them but the message they heard did not benefit them because they were not united by faith with those who listen for we who have believed.

Enter that rest as he has said as I swore in my wrath. They shall not enter my rest. Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world for he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way and God rested on the seventh day from all his works and Again in this passage.

He said they shall not enter my rest. Since therefore it remains for some to enter it and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience. Again he appoints a certain day today.

Saying through David so long afterward in the words already quoted today if you hear his voice. Do not harden your hearts. For if Joshua had given them rest God would not have spoken of another day later on.

So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God for whoever has entered God's rest Has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Now all God's people said amen. Trouble is many of God's people are not quite sure what they just read. Right. I see some nods like yeah, I got that but probably there's many that are thinking. Okay, how did that all fit together?

I didn't quite follow the train and thought train of thought. Hebrews is one of the more complex books in terms of the train of thought this author is brilliant. But sometimes brilliance is hard to follow.

Right. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna try to follow just piece by piece. Following the train of thought and see what the author is doing here. So as I said in verse 1 The promise of entering his rest still stands and We should fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.

The first point that's being made here in verses 1 2 is that what God said way back when. Applies to us as we sit here at Cornerstone Church right now. Now that's actually a big statement because remember the Old Covenant applies to Israel.

So what does that have to say to us? It was them that fell dead in the wilderness. Why is that a warning to us but notice in verse 1 let us fear. Now before going any farther. I want you to notice a change that happens in the second half of verse 1.

It says let us fear. Lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. You notice the change? It's from the first person plural to the second person plural and Now all the kids are groaning like oh, no, we're back in school.

What is first person plural? That's the we or the us. Let us fear lest any of you so when the author says we first person plural kids. This means he's including Himself, right. But then he goes on to say lest any of you does that include the author?

No, you guys are tracking. All right. So the author's concern here is that there would be any among them even one. Any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. He's preaching to the church. But he's aware that whenever the church gathers there are likely some who are yet unconverted.

Some who have not yet come into that rest yet. The author knows about himself that he is saved. He has entered into rest. And so there's a change there in the pronoun. He knows he saved but he's concerned not just for his own salvation.

Bunyan knew when he entered that rest. But he spent the rest of his life laboring to make sure his family his loved ones his city. Everyone he meets would come to know and that's how we read the pilgrims progress.

Because he was striving for others in verse 2 for good news came to us. Just as to them. Okay. Well, when did a message come to them? This could be referring to the whole Old Covenant the Mosaic law that they got from Sinai and all of the Torah.

But I think more likely this is referring To numbers 13 and 14 Kadesh Barnea when they're offered the promised land and they don't listen. Do you remember the story? When they wouldn't listen Caleb and Joshua Preached one of the greatest sermons of all time.

One of the things I can never match in a biblical sermon is the economy of words. Try as I may. I Always preach way too long. I'm trying believe me. I am trying to say things as succinctly as I can. But there's so much depth.

There's so much richness. I don't want to to leave something on the table. But in just three verses in numbers 14 Joshua and Caleb they hear the people grumbling saying let's go back to Egypt and Joshua and Caleb say if God delights in us.

Then he will give the land for flowing with milk and honey in that first sentence. What they do is they turn the issue away from what they can see with their eyes to God. It's a God-centered sermon. God gives the land.

God will give it to us then he says do not disobey. So he presses on the people the importance of obeying the Word of God and then finally he offers encouragement to them building them up. With these powerful words saying if God is with us.

These people are like bread. Now you remember how they saw themselves. We're like grasshoppers in our own eyes. They're gonna trample us. There's giants in the land. We're gonna get stomped. But Joshua and Caleb said these people are like bread we'll eat them.

He says they have no protection. Who are their gods? Our God is Yahweh. We will take the land and it was like a Braveheart moment like yes Joshua and Caleb this amazing sermon you can read it. It's numbers 14.

Just 7 to 9 read it later. And how did the people respond? All the people turned to those two guys who just preached the greatest sermon you could imagine. Stone them. Kill them let's find some leaders that will take us back to Egypt a Complete rejection rejection.

So when I see in verse 2, they were not united by faith with those who listened. They didn't believe it. They didn't listen. Here are these people preaching the true Word of God and they don't want to listen.

Now there were some who listened that were united in faith and that was the children. The children listen. We were told in numbers 14 that all of the adults who saw what God did coming out of Egypt. They would fall in the wilderness except for Caleb and Joshua but the children very often children have childlike faith and We as adults need to be willing to hear the Word of God.

Listen so this is applying what God said way back then to us. We don't have time to really get into the New Covenant Jeremiah 31. But we're told that God will write on the hearts of the people of Israel in their minds his law.

He will be their God and they will be his people. He'll change them from the inside. But that promise was made to Judah and the house of Israel the north and the south. So, how does that apply to the church.

Well in Ephesians 3 we learned that there's a mystery that God is including the Gentiles in the promises made to Israel of the New Covenant. Jeremiah 31 all that to say the mystery is revealed to us as we sit here now that what God said To them has application to our lives.

That's what's being said in verses 1 2. That promise that they could enter the rest is a promise to us as well. That there is a rest for us now look at verses 3 to 5 the big idea here is actually not that complicated.

It's that God has his own rest. That he's able to grant. It's shareable. That's the kind of rest that we need. It's a kind of rest you can get no other way. You can't get to this rest on your own. Let's read it for we who have believed enter that rest as He has said as I swore in my wrath.

They shall not enter. Keywords here my rest. Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way and God rested on the seventh day.

From all his works. Now when it says he has somewhere spoken. It doesn't mean that he doesn't know. That's Genesis 2 Rest. No, it's because they didn't have numbers that wasn't written into the Bible until like the 1600s when the Bible was translated and Chapter verses were added to it.

So the author knows where to find it. So he just points to the story here. God rested on the seventh day from all his works and Again in this passage. He said they shall not enter my rest. Operative words my rest.

God has a rest. That only he can grant to people that rest is shareable with others now. Men and women cannot offer this kind of rest. Men and women can offer agitation. They can stir other people up.

They can get people into a state of hatred. It makes me think of what happened in st Louis you guys are familiar when people were just worked up into a fit of rage. And they go to a house that had nothing to do with with anything they were mad about and they tore down the gates.

And they trampled through and they began to encroach upon this property heading in. With fire ready to burn a house down that kind of hatred man can inspire and. The crazy thing about our culture is that the McCloskey family came out to protect themselves on their own front porch and Now they're the ones charging charged with felonies for holding guns out on their own porch.

That's insane. And there's been no charges issued to the people who broke down the gates and attacked them really insane. Mankind is very good at agitating and stirring up grievance. Getting people to hate one another man can never grant peace with God.

God has a piece of his own on the seventh day. He rested. This is what's called Sabbath. God can grant this rest the Sabbath rest to whom he will now does that mean everybody enters it. Look at verse 6 since therefore it remains for some to enter and Those who formally receive the good news failed to enter because of disobedience in numbers 14 God is pronouncing judgment on the people after Kadesh Barnea.

They're offered God's rest his promised land a land flowing with milk and honey. We're told in numbers 14 verses 23 to 24. You have this in your notes. None of those who despise me shall see it but my servant Caleb because he has a different spirit and Has followed me fully.

I will bring into the land in which he went. And his descendants shall possess it. Caleb had a different spirit Than what the others had. Caleb and Joshua went into the promised land. But the others fell dead their bodies dropping dead in the desert over a period of 40 years.

Not all people enter this rest. There's two different destinies. It remains for some to enter it. Others who hear the good news fail to enter because of disobedience. Then it says in verses 7 and 8 that there's an urgency then that you today Would hear this and enter again.

He appoints a certain day today. Saying through David so long afterward in the words already quoted. Today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts. This is where a lot of people get lost. What does Joshua have to do for if Joshua had given them rest God would not have spoken of another day later on who brought the people of Israel into the promised land.

Joshua if that's the only rest that God had in mind then why is it that 400 years later? David writes psalm 95 and applies that word to the people of Israel. That's the idea here. David spoke because this promise still stands.

Today if you hear his voice and now the author of Hebrews has written this for us as we sit here today God is still speaking. He's saying look Joshua didn't settle the matter. David said something about it 400 years later.

Here we are today. You better listen. This is urgent. There was an urgency to this call so that others would be brought in Caleb. Just 45 years after giving that big speech when they said stone him remember that They didn't want anything to do with it.

45 years later he was an 85 year old man, and he went to Joshua when they crossed over the Jordan and he said Joshua remember when we spied out the land and Moses said God will give it to you Caleb and your descendants will live there.

Caleb said to Joshua look at me. I'm 85 years old and I'm as strong right now as I was back then. Now I kind of doubt that might have been physically the case many of us are kind of like Younger in our own minds than we really are especially me on the basketball court.

I still think I can do things that I can't. Maybe some of you are the same way, but Caleb at least in his mind Saw himself as just as strong as a 40 year old man. Maybe he was maybe supernaturally. He was just as strong.

I don't know. But the point is he says to Joshua. Give me that hill. Let me go take it and he goes with that kind of urgency. Why he wanted his descendants to live in that land? He was willing to fight for that.

There is an urgency communicated in the word today as We hear this word today. It is urgent that all of us here and believe Believe what well look at verses 9 and 10 now. This is what I'll call pure gospel.

This is pure gospel. So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his at the heart of the gospel is this idea.

That we must come to an end of ourselves. We must stop working to earn something from God. The good news of the gospel is that with empty hands We can come to a holy God bringing nothing to the table and Be found acceptable.

No work. No goodness, no righteousness of our own. Clothed in filthy rags we can bring that to God and he will take off the filthy rags. Clothes clothes us clothe us in his righteousness. Give us the gift of faith.

I've often described the gospel as five major ideas all of them essential. Number one the person of Christ. If you're gonna preach the good news to somebody you need to tell them who Christ is. He is the Messiah The Son of God God in flesh.

Number two the work of Christ. To preach the good news of the gospel. You must tell people that Jesus died on the cross was buried and on the third day he rose from the dead and that he did this to atone for sins as A substitute to turn the wrath of God away from the sinner.

That's what he did. Third. You need to tell people that this is according to the scripture. That God has spoken through the prophets and all these things are fulfilled. This is God's gospel. Forth the good news to us is that he's giving us forgiveness of sin and eternal life.

That's what's so good about it. You get your sins washed away and you're given the gift of eternal life and you will live forever. Isn't that good news? But the fifth point is one we often miss and Very often we assume people who utterly deny this.

We assume they're fine. The fifth point is sola fide faith alone. You see the gospel here we are taught very clearly is for those who have entered rest. What is this rest. The word rest here corresponds to salvation?

Being saved one must be born again be made new a new creation and This is described as a rest no longer working. You see all the religions of the world prescribe work for a person to do for them to earn righteousness from God.

It might be the sacraments of a church or the Mormon temple rites. Or the Ten Commandments for Jewish people who are trying to obey those in order to be justified. It might be the eightfold path of Buddhism.

It could be the five pillars of Islam or any other man-made system that involves working to earn salvation. But what makes Christianity the true gospel the true gospel different from all the rest is that God has done the work and We must enter rest.

We cannot come with boasting. No haughtiness. There must be an utter humbling of the sinful man. Who then comes to God and says I have nothing. Save me rescue me forgive me the sinner the beating of the chest.

There has to come that point of humility in order to be born again. This is the rest of God notice in verse 11 so that no one may fall. I'm sorry verse 10. It jumped ahead there. Then we have one more verse.

Whoever has entered God's rest Has also rested from his works. That is an essential point of the gospel when you're teaching this gospel to your children and to the world. Please help them understand.

Titus 3 5 he saved us. Not because of works done in righteousness, but by his mercy. Romans 3 27 it's so that no one may boast. If I quote Ephesians 2 8 9, I'm sure many of you can follow along. Don't say it out loud.

They'll be distracting but for by grace You are saved through faith sola fide not through works not. I Kind of lost it there. Let me just read it that way. I'm not twisting it. For by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not your own doing it is the gift of God.

Not a result of works so that no one may boast. This is the point. That's what this passage is about. It's entering rest. Where you stop striving and you trust in the finished work of Jesus his completed work lastly.

Verse 11 let us therefore strive to enter that rest get it. Now. This is what threw me because I didn't get it. When I first read it I said strive. Rest you have to strive to rest. That's a paradox and I thought well, maybe this is just paradoxical language to help us to understand resting better.

I Was confused anybody else here confused. You know what unlocked it for me. Seeing that note that we made earlier. Remember chapter 4 verse 1. I Think there's a parallel here with that idea. I told you to make note of this.

So if you weren't listening, this is why you're lost right now. Pay careful attention chapter 4 verse 1. What does it say? Let us fear lest any of you Should seem to have failed to reach it us the church all of us here should fear less any even one of You the church should fail to reach it now look back at verse 11.

Let us Therefore strive. I'm like the author of Hebrews right now in that I am at rest. I Know that I'm saved. I don't have to strive for this rest. I'm at rest. And many of you know what that rest is like.

But what are we to strive for we are to strive to enter that rest? So that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. Same sort of disobedience as what as the people who fell in the wilderness.

When Caleb preached he knew God. He knew his God already those were the powerful words of a saved man and so he was Striving with the people. Did you know in numbers 14 when he preached that sermon? He ripped his clothes.

Everybody would pay attention if I rip my shirt collar right now, wouldn't you? You guys be like, whoa. Okay. What what are you saying? I'll pay attention now. You see what he was doing. He was striving with the people.

He knew God he knew the rest but they didn't know it they would they would miss it and we are in danger. Let me tear my clothes. We are in danger that there's someone here who has not yet entered that rest.

Have you been born again? Have you experienced a new birth? Have you coming in to the end of yourself and called out God have mercy on me the sinner. I'm striving for you right now. Brothers and sisters you need to strive for one another.

Don't assume Salvation, but encourage one another as long as it is called today. Exhort preach the gospel. Write notes to people in this church. Exhort one another with the gospel. So in closing, that's where we are.

It's a good promise of entering his rest. You can be at rest with God through faith in Christ if you've never put your trust in Christ. Right now in the quietness of your your own heart nobody sees your heart, but you know it.

Confess how wretched you are. Confess your sin to him. Open your hands and say I have nothing. Save me the sinner. He will save you but you have to come to that end of your working stop trusting in righteousness.

You say well, I don't do the Buddhist eightfold path or the Ten Commandments or the five pillars. No. But you still think you're fine. You still think you're a good person. The Bible says your Good deeds that means the best things you do for your family when you cook them a meal.

The good things you do are filthy rags in his sight. Imagine every rebellious Disobedience in the course of your life. Bottom line is you need a Savior. You need to look to Jesus to take your sin away.

Enter that rest through faith in Christ alone. You've never prayed to receive him. Do that today. Lastly and this is really fun. This is an announcement as A saved person. You should have the heart of a lion.

Caleb was a descendant from Judah the lion of the tribe of Judah. Genesis 49 10 is Christ. We should have a Caleb like spirit to take the hill for the king. And we have a Caleb in our midst Ben. Come on up here.

We have an announcement to tell you. This is really exciting. The Lord at our last board retreat. This is in March of this year. Eric and the other elders and I and the deacons all prayed together and we came out of that retreat.

Believing that God was calling us to plant a church by 2024. Sometimes God's plans are Even faster than the best we can imagine. Caleb's this is your 2020 right in the year 2020. Most people in the world are falling back.