What Are You Looking For?

Good morning, everybody. Thank you so much for being here today. Glad to see everybody. Thank you so much. If you are one of the folks that are visiting or attending today in support of Cody or Pablo, I just wanna say thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for supporting them and encouraging them along their faith journey. If you’re just here because somebody invited you, I just wanna say, man, welcome. Thank you so much for being here today. Really appreciate it. And if I’ve seen you here for the 50th time, Sam, I love you too, okay, bud? All right. Rick, everybody loves you. You need to know the love there. Man, it is rich. Mr. Arthur, I love you like crazy, obviously. Man, Haas, it’s good to see you too. All right, people get nervous when I start calling names. I’ll stop doing that.

We spend a portion of every single Sunday morning service just praying, ’cause we recognize stuff like baptism. It doesn’t happen because me or Al can preach really good messages. It doesn’t happen just because Michael and Lindsey can sing really well. All of that is because God is kind, and He is powerful, and we need Him to move. You know, something about having a fourth child just reminds me that I never outgrow the dependence of a baby on its mom or her dad. And in the same way, like, I’m feeling right now, I am so dependent on God, right? At least I have to depend on God. And that’s a really healthy place for us to be as a church. And praying together is one of those ways where we actively choose to depend not on us, but on God. So let’s pray.

We’ve been praying this month for your one. That is somebody you have a personal relationship with that is close to you, but far from the Lord. So we’ve been praying for our ones. We’re going to continue to do that. You may have somebody in your mind right now, a family member, a neighbor, a co-worker, whoever it is, a spouse perhaps, that you love, that you are close with, but they are far from the Lord. You just pray for them by name. To spend the next few moments, buddy up with one of your neighbors, pray for them, ask that God would do something in their life that would be undeniable and gracious. I’ll put a bow on it here in a second. Thank y’all.

Seeing Cody and Pablo make their faith in You public reminds me that at some point in my life, about 17 years ago, 18 years ago, I was Luke Harden’s one. He loved me even when he knew that I didn’t love You. He shared the gospel with me. He prayed for me. He invited me to believe. And by Your grace and Your kindness and Your sovereignty, You used his influence on my life to draw me to You. Thank You so much, God. Thank You for doing that for Cody and for Pablo. I see a few other ones in the congregation this morning. Folks who have also gone from death to life through the witness and through the kindness and the prayers and the hospitality and the friendship of some of the believers in this room. And I thank You for that. God, we’ve got a lot of ones to bring toward You. A lot of people that we love, that we feel close to, that we know, don’t know, or love You. And we are praying that You would do something in them, please. Lord, for the next few moments, as I just offer up what I have, would You use this? Would You supercharge this? Holy Spirit, would You breathe on this? That we get a hold of somebody, please. We love You, Lord. It’s in Your great name that we pray. Amen.

Well, this morning, we will continue our journey through the Gospel of John, which we are titling Savior of the Broken. And this morning in the passage that Seth read, we are going to see the very first time Jesus speaks in the entire Gospel. You think about all the incredible things that Jesus says. He calls Himself the bread of life. He calls Himself the resurrection on the cross before His final breath. He says, “It is finished.” When He is resurrected from the dead and He appears to the disciples, He says, “It is I.” What we’re going to look at this morning is the first thing He says. There’s going to be two men that follow Him on a road and He’s going to turn around and He’s going to say, “What Are you looking for? I’m curious if the lights in this room all faded and it just focused on you sitting in your pew. And you look over and Jesus is sitting beside you and Jesus were to look at you and He would ask you, what are you looking for? Why are you here? What would you say? What are you looking for?

Some of us come to church and we’ve had a hard week. We’ve been beat up by the world, beat up by bad news, beat up by people. We’re like, man, I’m just here just to some happiness. Just get me out of this. I think if we’re honest, some of us, we come to church because we hope it gives us some sort of spiritual credit with God. Like if I go to church, then maybe the guy upstairs will like me a little bit more or we want credit from somebody else sitting in here. Maybe they will like me more.

Some of us come to church because we need some sort of purpose and stability in our lives. Like, man, culture is changing like crazy. I don’t really know where my life is headed. Maybe I just go to church and hear some sort of motivational message from the preacher this morning. And that will help set me on the right path, at least for the next six days.

Why are you here? No matter what your answer is, I’m glad you are here today because as we watch Jesus in this moment, we will see more of what Jesus wants for you. Because here’s the news. You did not wander in here by chance, nor was it originally your idea to be here. You are here because the sovereign God of the universe is pursuing your soul and He has brought you here.

So why are you here? Let’s see. As I read the text this morning, I’m actually going to back up to a couple of the verses that Pastor Al preached last week. Catch me in verse 29 of John chapter 1. The next day, John, that is John the Baptist, saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. This is the one I’ve been telling you all about. After me comes the man who ranks ahead of me because He existed before me. I didn’t know Him. In other words, I wasn’t sure who He was going to be, but I came baptizing with water so that He might be revealed to Israel.

John testified when He baptized Jesus. You read about this in the other gospels. John testified, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it rested on Him. I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me, i.e. God sent me to baptize with water, told me the one you see the Spirit descending and resting on, He is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.

The very next day, this happens. John, standing by with two of his disciples. When He sees Jesus passing by again, He says again, Look, the Lamb of God. The two disciples heard Him say this and they began to follow Jesus. When Jesus turns and notices them following Him, He asked them, What are you looking for? They said to Him, Rabbi, which means teacher, we’ll get to that in a moment. Where are you staying? Come and you will see Jesus invites. So they went and they saw where He was staying and they stayed with Him that day. It was about four in the afternoon.

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him. The first found his own brother Simon and told him, we have found the Messiah, which is translated the Christ. And he brought Simon to Jesus. When Jesus saw him, He said, you are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas, which is translated Peter.

What are you looking for this morning? Man, if Jesus were on the journey right in front of you, if He was in the car ahead of yours, you’re going to lunch this afternoon, you decide you can start following Him instead. He’s sitting in the pew right beside you and He looks at you. What are you looking for? I’m curious how you would respond.

So this passage, I think for some of us who grow up going to church or have some sort of familiarity with Jesus, this honestly comes across as kind of boring. It’s the beginning of His ministry. He hasn’t done any of His miracles yet. If We’re being honest, He’s not saying anything provocative yet. It’s kind of like, okay, this is sort of just background filler material in episode one for you to get the idea of where the rest of the season is going to go. If we’re being honest, Miss Diane’s got me. She’s like, yeah, it kind of feels that way. There’s a couple of things, a couple of stones for us to unturn, which would help draw some of the meaning out of this.

The first one is this, verse 36. When John the Baptist sees Jesus passing by, you see what he calls Him? What does he call Him? The Lamb of God. You see, that wasn’t just John’s cute idea. John was drawing off of something predicted in the Old Testament. This is the book of Isaiah chapter 53. He, and this is all prophecy. This is a promise. This is coming ahead. He was pierced because of our rebellion, crushed because of our iniquities. Punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds. We, all, Hebrew word for all means all. We, all, we all have turned our own way. We’ve all gone astray like sheep, and the Lord has punished Him for our iniquity. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. Listen, like a lamb led to the slaughter, like a sheep silent before her shearers, He did not open His mouth. He was taken away because of the oppression and judgment. He, or sorry, who considered His fate? For He was cut off from the land of the living. He was struck because of my people’s rebellion.

You see, when John the Baptist is looking out, and he sees Jesus, and he calls Him the Lamb of God, he is not just giving some sort of cute title, some sort of fun coffee mug idea for us in 2026 to go to Hobby Lobby and buy. It says, Jesus is the Lamb of God. No, what John the Baptist is saying, he’s drawing off of generations and centuries of this practice where the people of God would take a lamb, and they would symbolically put all the sins of all the people on that lamb. They would take that lamb, and they would slaughter it and sacrifice it to God so that God would put the punishment for their sin on that lamb through death. Jesus comes on the scene. John the Baptist says, that’s the Lamb. That is the one whom the sin of the entire world is going to come and rest on. That’s Him. He will be pierced for our sins. He will be crushed for our wrongdoing. The punishment that you and I all deserve for every white lie, every time we look at something we’re not supposed to look at, every time we covet our neighbor’s stuff, every time we think that wrong thought, every time we say the thing we shouldn’t say, every one of those gets laid on Jesus, the Lamb of God, so that Michaela, you and me, we don’t have to suffer the consequence that we deserve from a holy God in our place. That’s Jesus.

But Jesus is not just a sacrificial lamb. He’s also a rabbi. That’s what these disciples call Him. That was the best they had to understand this, at that point, mysterious wandering teacher. You see, a rabbi, those are kind of like pastors for the Jewish people in the old days. I’m way oversimplifying this. For the sake of time, they would teach God’s word to God’s people. They would inform and instruct God’s people in how they should live. They were the pastors. Every rabbi had a group of devoted disciples, followers. The job of that disciple was to copy everything the rabbi did, to memorize everything the rabbi taught, to live like the rabbi. They would literally, these disciples, they would leave their families and they would start following the rabbi instead. They would leave everything else behind. All of that is lost to them. All of that is in the past to them. The rabbi would say, follow me, and they would follow. Didn’t matter what they were doing. Didn’t matter what sort of industry. Didn’t matter what sort of relationships, what sort of promises for the future they had, they would leave.

These two early disciples of John, Andrew and Simon, recognize there’s something different about Jesus. I mean, their rabbi just told them that He was the Lamb of God. So they said, wow, this new rabbi, He must be a pretty big deal. Andrew picks up on this. He goes and finds his brother Simon. Look at what he says in verse 41. We have found the Messiah. Messiah literally means anointed one. In Greek, it means Christ. Not just Jesus’ last name as if there was a Mr. and Miss Christ and by the time they had a child, this is little junior Christ. That’s not what this is. Christ is a title. Anointed one. Promised Savior. Because we all recognize we need saving. Do you know that? Amen. Thank you. Do you recognize we need saving? Like who among us has ever lived a perfect life? Who among us has never made a single mistake? Who among us can stand by every decision you’ve ever made, every word you’ve ever uttered, every thought you’ve ever had and say, you know what? I still believe I did the right thing. Who of us knows that you need to be forgiven of your sin? Who of us knows that you have done wrong and you are utterly helpless to make it all right? Who of us recognizes that this world is great and beautiful, but there is still a nagging sense in your soul that is not as good as it can be? That’s us. Helpless, hopeless, woeful sinners in need of a savior.

Guess who that is not news to? God. From the very beginning, God had a plan to send a rescuing savior. Someone who would come and defeat Satan. Who would defeat the very one that tempted Adam and Eve in the very first place. The very one who brought this curse of sin on our souls and in this world. Satan would have an end and it would be at the heel of Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

So what does Andrew do? He goes and finds his one. He finds Simon. He finds someone he’s got a close relationship with, but he just learned doesn’t have a relationship with the Lamb of God. And Andrew says, Simon, I found Him. Mary Lou, I found Him. Oliver, I have found Him. The one that God promised that was going to defeat the enemy. The one that God promised was going to defeat the one that thrust all this evil into the world. I found Him. He’s here. But you know, He wouldn’t be recognized because of His greatness. Back to verse or back to Isaiah 53. Who has believed that we have heard? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Jesus, the Lamb of God, the Messiah, the anointed one. He grew up before Him like a young plant, like a root out of dry ground. Anybody seen a root come out of dry ground? Not a whole lot to behold, right, Robbie? Not a whole lot of greenery coming off that dry ground. He didn’t have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at Him. No, Jesus had no appearance that we should desire Him. He’s not on the cover of GQ. He’s not on the cover of Jewish Q. He was despised and rejected. Thank you so much. That makes me feel good on the inside. Jesus was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from. Jesus was despised and we did not value Him. Man, if Jesus comes and sits in this church right now, we don’t recognize Him. We don’t look at Him. We don’t flock to Him. We don’t say, wow, that’s someone worth following. We don’t say, man, that guy’s kind of a stud. That’s not what we’re saying. We’re saying, hey, sweetheart, slide a little, a little further down the pew. Hey kids, come, come stand on this side of me. That’s who Jesus was. Thank you. He would not have been recognized by John the Baptist for being so great and high and mighty. He was recognized because He lowered Himself. Yet even though we rejected Him, He bore our sin and our sorrow.

Andrew is able with spiritual eyes to recognize who Jesus Christ is, and he goes and finds his one, Simon, and he says, come, we found the Messiah. Andrew brings his brother to Jesus. Jesus looks at him. You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas. Translated Peter. Cephas and Peter, this Aramaic and Greek respectively, both translate to rock. I tried to figure out what Simon means. I couldn’t really get that far in the study, but we know what Cephas and Peter means. It means rock. Jesus later in the gospels would ask His disciples, who do the people say I am? The disciples are just reporting news. People say all sorts of things about you, Jesus. Jesus looks at them, says, hey guys, who do y’all say that I am? Peter says, you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus says, “Yes, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church.” Peter’s name is both a new identity for who he is. He was going to be an early leader for the church, but also Peter’s name was a signifier of the message that Peter had. Whoever confesses Jesus as the Son of God, who is the Christ, the Anointed One that God would send, that person is now in God’s family. So you have this sacrificial Savior who transforms the identity of people He interacts with.

What, what were, what was Andrew and Simon looking for? What were they looking for? Not sure. But in verse 39, this final nugget that I want to unpack, we see something incredible that Jesus wants to give you this morning. They start following Him. Verse 38, “What are you looking for?” They said, “Rabbi, where are you staying?” Verse 39, “Come and you will see.” The reason you are here this morning, the reason that God has brought you here, either through the invitation of somebody else or through some sort of prompting or just through Sunday morning regular attendance, is this: God wants a love relationship with you. God doesn’t need your obedience. He doesn’t need your perfection. He doesn’t need your money. He doesn’t need you to sing loud and proud. He doesn’t need all those things, any of those things. What God wants for you is to have a relationship with Him.

At the first opportunity Jesus got, Jesus is inviting people into close relationship. “Come, you’ll see. You will see.” It’s interesting, verse 39, they went, they saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about four in the afternoon. The understanding is that it was too late in the day when they were done talking for them to make the trek through the night back to where they’re from. So when Jesus invites them to come and see, what He’s inviting them to is, “Hey, stay at my place tonight. I’ll make you dinner. We’ll talk long into the evening over dessert and coffee. We’ll wake up in the morning. I’ll scramble you some eggs, some more coffee.” Sounds pretty good, right, Becky? “We’ll talk some more, then whenever you guys want to, we’ll leave.” That’s what He’s inviting them to. That’s what He’s inviting you to right now. God wants a love relationship with you. You are here this morning because God wants your soul. Not to abuse it or to use it or to wrangle it or to destroy it. No, God wants you because He loves you.

But I do need to make you a promise. Following Jesus will change everything about you. Following Jesus changes your identity and your activity. It should. I think about Cody and I think about Pablo. I think about the other folks that we are having these baptism conversations with. And something that we say consistently is that, “Hey, if you are gonna get in front of the church, if you are going to wear the shirt and say your testimony and answer the questions and go underwater, then how you live ought to change.” Amen? When you start following Jesus, your life ought to look a little bit weird. When you start following Jesus, you ought to stop doing some of the things that you used to do and start doing new things that you never thought that you were going to want to do. Right?

I think about Peter. Elsewhere in the Gospels, we learn that Peter actually has a flourishing fishing business. Peter and Andrew and their dad, they’ve got the corner market on fishing the Sea of Galilee. They make a lot of money doing this. Peter decides to leave that all behind to follow Jesus. Whenever people today begin to follow Jesus, similar things ought to happen. Jesus might call you to leave a career path. Jesus might call you to leave relationships. He might call you to leave old habits and old directions and old dreams. Jesus will change you. But I’ll also tell you that what Jesus has for you is always better than anything this world could ever offer you. What Jesus has for you is better than anything this world has for you.

Man, I remember that night, Cody. Man, I remember being at camp with you and Al, Becca, and I had shared our testimonies and we had talked about the sacrifices that God had called us to make along the path of being disciples of Jesus Christ. And I remember looking at you, and I still mean it, that everything I have given up for Jesus pales In comparison to what I gain in Him. And that’ll be true for the rest of your spiritual life, man. Pablo, it’s the same thing, man. Everything God’s ever gonna call you to give up for Him, it doesn’t hold a candle to anything God has for you. Man, we look at our lives and our bank accounts and our relationships and our social media and all this stuff and we say, man, how in the world could I leave any of this? How could I let God impact any of this stuff? Man, God is so much better. He’s so much better.

Man, simply put, the early church, they were called Christians. Do you know what Christian means? Little Christ. The people all around this early church in the book of Acts, they were looking at all these early followers of what they at that time called the Way. And all these people who didn’t yet have a relationship with Jesus, they saw this group of people that lived in really weird ways. Man, they met together every day, they shared their food. All the children that they were just ready to abort, these followers of Jesus were grabbing them off the streets and raising them after their own. They were pooling their money to take care of medical needs. This is weird. And they said, you know what we can’t deny though is that they live just like the one that they say they follow, Jesus Christ, that guy that we hung on a tree a hundred years ago. Man, that’s like they’re little Jesuses, they’re little Christs. And that’s how the name Christian was born.

When people look at us, let me just be offensive to absolutely every follower of Jesus in the room. If you are not yet a follower of Jesus, I want you to just relax. If you’re a follower of Jesus, you’re supposed to look like Jesus. There’s not supposed to be any sort of congruence between how you live and the way people outside of Christ live. Your words are supposed to be different. How you spend your money is supposed to be different. What you think about is supposed to be different. How you use your time is supposed to be different.

And this process, I just confess to you guys. Some of y’all know, last August, it’s felt very clearly that God was calling me to give up social media. And I had the audacity to look at God and say, God, if I don’t post on Facebook, Sauldam Baptist is not going to grow. Isn’t that so stupid? Thank you. Who said yeah? Thank you, Camden. Thank you. You’re one of the best truth tellers in this room. Thank you. It’s ridiculous. It’s asinine. It’s arrogant and it’s wrongheaded, but I believed it. God was kind and He was gracious and He walked me through this path of recognizing I’m supposed to get off. It was bad for me. It was bad for my marriage. It was bad for my life. It was bad for you guys. Had some months of peace. We’re cool. I felt that sort of nagging come up again, Kacera. This time, YouTube.

A couple weeks ago, felt like the Lord just really pressing me. He’s like, Jeremy, you waste a lot of time on this. Jeremy, Jeremy, Overcommit to your wife a lot, and instead she finds you watching junk on YouTube. Jeremy, your time serving this church is way too valuable for you to be on YouTube during the workday. Jeremy, this is just filled with junk. Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy. And I had the same thing. God, I can’t give this up. Man, I feel like two inches tall right now. But this is really clear. If I’m going to follow Jesus and He changes my identity and my activity, then there are certain sacrifices that I need to have faith to follow Him in.

So I shared with a couple of the other guys here at church. I said, hey, just deleted it off my stuff. I need you to pray for me. I feel the withdrawal is already kicking in, you know. And I still feel it. I’m one weekend to a not fun process. Because I keep finding my soul wanting to gravitate toward wasting time on YouTube. It is so hard. I am trusting that what God has for me on the other side is so much better. Do you have faith that if God calls you to change, then what He has for you on the other side is better? Do you have faith for that? I hope you do. Otherwise, Christianity is going to be terrible and boring and arduous for you. Always climbing the mountain with Never getting to a summit. Always slogging through plough mud without ever getting to see the beach. That will be Christianity for you unless you believe that on the top of the mountain or on the beach that God has something for you that is so much better than anything behind you. Do you believe that? These early followers of Jesus did. They recognized we’ve got a flourishing business back home. We’ve got great family relationships back home. But there is a Lamb of God who has come to rescue us from our sin, and He is worth following. We don’t know that much about Him yet. We don’t know everything He’s going to call us to leave yet. But He’s worth it.

And these two brothers become the first two followers. And it is no surprise to me that one of these two brothers would be the preeminent leader of the early church for the first decades of that bad boy. Who else? Man, who else wants a relationship with Jesus like that? I want that. I am willing to give up whatever it takes to have that. Are you willing to give that up? Followers of Jesus in the room, now you relax. If you’re not yet a follower of Jesus, this is where I’m talking to you. Jesus is so much better than anything else. While you were still a sinner, Christ died for you. While you had no spiritual worth of your own. While you were stuck in your mistakes. While you are not just a wrongdoer, but you are wrong like in your soul. Christ said, I love you. While you were running away from God and His good design for you, Christ was following you, running after you.

From the very beginning, God planned it this way. You see, that promise of a savior came all the way back in Genesis 2 before you or me were ever a twinkle in our mom’s eye. God set His sights on you, not to hurt you, but to embrace you in love. You see, we all have a problem. That God is holy and He is good and we are not. The Bible says all sin and fall short of God’s incredible standard for us. If you ever told a white lie, that’s you. If you ever wanted something that shouldn’t be yours, that’s you. If you ever taken something that doesn’t belong to you, that’s you. And God in His kindness doesn’t just look at us and push us away because we’re dirty. God in His kindness, He takes that arm which could and rightfully should push us away. And God instead puts it around us and pulls us in. If you know you’re fighting me, I love you. I know you’re going down this bad path. I love you. I know that you don’t like me yet. I still love you. He loved you so much that He sent Himself to the cross so that Jesus would pay for the punishment that you deserve. And in that place, you get to have the embrace and the love and the holiness of God for you.

Don’t you want that? All the striving? Done. All the trying to please God through your good actions? Done. All the living as a slave to the cares of this world? All the searching for meaning and purpose in your career or in a relationship? Done. Don’t you want that? I mean, at 15, that offer was given to me by God’s grace. He helped me to say yes. And 18 years later, as God has been slowly walking me through this change process, I’ve come to find that Jesus gets better and better. And this world gets lamer and lamer. Now, don’t get me wrong. There’s great things. Careers, families, beautiful places. Yeah. But you weren’t made for any of that. You were made for Jesus.

My invitation this morning is that if you are not yet a follower of Jesus, would you come and see? Would you give your life to Him this morning? And if you are a follower of Jesus, my invitation to you, come and see. Come and see that He is better than anything He asks you to give up. In fact, I want to start to close the service this way. Please close your eyes. Bow your heads. I’m not going to manipulate you into anything. Anything you do from here on out is your choice. You’re cool. If you’re not yet a follower of Jesus, if you would say that you have not given your life to Him, you just answer this question in your mind. Why not? What’s holding you back from giving yourself to Jesus? Has that thing ever actually Delivered on what it promises you? Don’t those people disappoint and use you? Doesn’t that money evade and enslave you? Don’t these bodies fail you? Don’t those substances leave you feeling empty and depleted? There is something holding you back from Jesus this morning. Would you give yourself to Him? You do it like this, okay? You do it like this. Jesus, I love You. Don’t know You yet, but I love You. And I give my life to You. Help me.

Everybody, keep your eyes closed. Keep your heads down. Would you just do something for me? Would you just applaud? Somebody just prayed that prayer for the very first time in their life.

For everybody else, if you’re a follower of Jesus already, what’s holding you back from loving Him more? It’s like me. Is it YouTube and Facebook, social media, Instagram, TikTok? Is it money? Is it your career? You’re making choices for your finances instead of for Him. Is it these pet sins that you don’t want to give up? The gossip, the lying? Is it even some sort of abuse of a substance? You can’t stop drinking. You can’t stop taking pills. You can’t stop smoking weed. Whatever it is, what’s holding you back? I want to ask you this question. Has that thing ever actually delivered on what it promises? Or is it better than Jesus? Is it?

In fact, if you’re in the room this morning and you know you love Jesus, but there is something holding you back from loving Him more, would you raise your hand? So I want you to do something with me. You say, Jesus, I love You. I want to love You more, but something’s keeping me from You. Here’s what it is. And You tell Him what it is. Why’d you raise that hand? You just tell Him right there. You say, Jesus, Jesus, I give this to You. Give me strength to really walk away.

Lord, I believe that there’s a few people in the room that just made some big decisions for You. I know one buddy just went from death to life in Christ and I’m so proud, I’m so proud of you. I know there’s others in the room that have loved You for a long time and they are loving You more now. God, would You give both him and all of them the strength that they need to walk out this life to follow You, to come and see that You are good, please. God, help us to worship You and sing to You like we really mean it, amen.