WEBVTT 00:00:01.380 --> 00:00:04.580 Israel wasn't dying because of reptiles. They 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:06.759 were dying because they decided the bread from 00:00:06.759 --> 00:00:11.080 heaven was poison. So God says, fine, you think 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:13.439 the cure is killing you? I'll lift the problem 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:16.559 high enough you can finally look at it. And if 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:25.620 you've got the guts to look, you live. You're 00:00:25.620 --> 00:00:27.699 out there in the wilderness before you even know 00:00:27.699 --> 00:00:31.199 you are. Sand in your teeth, same horizon as 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:34.619 yesterday, same manna on the ground. The pillar 00:00:34.619 --> 00:00:38.420 still ahead, but your soul too tired to call 00:00:38.420 --> 00:00:42.179 any of it mercy. Somewhere near the cook fires, 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.119 somebody says the quiet part out loud. This bread 00:00:46.119 --> 00:00:49.259 is worthless. We were better off in Egypt. And 00:00:49.259 --> 00:00:52.780 once those words get loose, they move through 00:00:52.780 --> 00:00:56.880 the camp like fever. Then something in the sand 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:58.700 begins to move and the people who forgot how 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:01.619 to read grace suddenly have to look up if they 00:01:01.619 --> 00:01:04.560 want to live. And now you've stepped into our 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.340 sanctuary in this little town in Oklahoma. It 00:01:07.340 --> 00:01:09.659 is the middle of Lent where the church dares 00:01:09.659 --> 00:01:13.120 to call this Latare Sunday, a day to rejoice 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.299 before the road gets easier. Because it doesn't. 00:01:16.659 --> 00:01:20.239 The rose candle is lit. The wilderness is still 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:23.840 real. So is mercy lifted high enough to see. 00:01:23.939 --> 00:01:26.719 So stay with us and I'll see you on the other 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:35.719 side. So as I begin this morning, I realized. 00:01:36.939 --> 00:01:39.900 Many of you were with us on Wednesday night in 00:01:39.900 --> 00:01:42.280 Bible study, but not everybody. So for those 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:43.719 of you that were, I'm going to just give you 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.120 a little bit refresher. And for those of you 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:46.780 that weren't, I'm just going to remind you perhaps 00:01:46.780 --> 00:01:49.879 of a familiar Bible story that you may be aware 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:54.200 of and that you kind of take a gander at how 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:58.609 we had reframed that familiar Bible story. Before 00:01:58.609 --> 00:02:01.689 I jump in to kind of the next part of the story. 00:02:01.849 --> 00:02:05.409 Because Wednesday night, we stood in the wilderness 00:02:05.409 --> 00:02:08.930 and we heard something most of us have been stepping 00:02:08.930 --> 00:02:14.069 over all of our lives. That the ground Moses 00:02:14.069 --> 00:02:20.129 was standing on was already holy. And that the 00:02:20.129 --> 00:02:23.069 wilderness isn't necessarily the waiting room. 00:02:24.330 --> 00:02:28.409 And the manna doesn't require you to feel grateful 00:02:28.409 --> 00:02:31.969 before it nourishes you. It just asks you to 00:02:31.969 --> 00:02:38.389 reach down. And then we said that the enemy of 00:02:38.389 --> 00:02:47.069 manna isn't disbelief. It's exhaustion. Because 00:02:47.069 --> 00:02:53.740 when we are tired enough, A miracle on the ground 00:02:53.740 --> 00:03:00.180 can just feel like more work. And I need us to 00:03:00.180 --> 00:03:09.080 hold on to that. Because today, the story gets 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:14.199 worse before it gets better. Israel isn't just 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:20.840 tired anymore. Israel... Israel has started to 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:27.620 tell a different story about the bread. And the 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:32.319 story that they're telling is about to bite them. 00:03:34.099 --> 00:03:39.199 And the camp, it smells like sweat and sand and 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:45.430 40 years of the same arguments. The tents are 00:03:45.430 --> 00:03:48.969 pitched on the ground and they look exactly like 00:03:48.969 --> 00:03:51.909 the ground they were pitched on yesterday and 00:03:51.909 --> 00:03:55.150 the day before and the day before and the month 00:03:55.150 --> 00:04:02.289 before. Pillar still ahead of them. The manna 00:04:02.289 --> 00:04:05.330 is on the dirt somewhere near the cook fires. 00:04:06.590 --> 00:04:11.270 Someone starts to say it out loud. But everyone. 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:15.360 has begun thinking, but no one had the nerve 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:24.000 to speak and say, the food is garbage. This bread 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:34.319 is worthless. We were better off in Egypt. And 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:39.899 those words begin to move through the camp like 00:04:39.899 --> 00:04:45.899 sickness moves, to tent, family by family, until 00:04:45.899 --> 00:04:52.319 the whole congregation is saying it, not whispering 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:58.600 it, weeping it. Something in the sand begins 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:03.360 to move. Friends, tune your ears to the reading 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.680 of Holy Scripture this morning. Two portions 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:09.100 this morning. Our first portion comes to us. 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:12.120 From the book of Numbers, Hebrew scripture, beginning 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:18.079 with verse 4 of chapter 21. They traveled from 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:21.279 Mount Ord by the way of the Red Sea to go around 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:25.259 the land of Edom. The soul of the people was 00:05:25.259 --> 00:05:28.720 much discouraged because of the way. The people 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:34.800 spoke against God and against Moses. Why have 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:37.740 you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the 00:05:37.740 --> 00:05:42.699 wilderness? For there is no bread, there's no 00:05:42.699 --> 00:05:51.060 water, and our soul loathes the light bread. 00:05:52.660 --> 00:05:57.399 And Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:04.000 and they bit the people. Many of the people of 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:10.009 Israel died. The people came to Moses and said, 00:06:10.069 --> 00:06:13.410 we have sinned because we have spoken against 00:06:13.410 --> 00:06:19.110 Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh that he 00:06:19.110 --> 00:06:23.569 take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed 00:06:23.569 --> 00:06:27.750 for the people. Yahweh said to Moses, make a 00:06:27.750 --> 00:06:31.589 venomous snake and set it on a pole. It shall 00:06:31.589 --> 00:06:34.990 happen that everyone who is bitten when he sees 00:06:34.990 --> 00:06:39.600 it shall live. Moses made a serpent of bronze 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.220 and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten 00:06:43.220 --> 00:06:46.399 any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, 00:06:46.620 --> 00:06:50.360 he lived. Now, let me jump ahead to our gospel 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:51.980 reading this morning. From the gospel account 00:06:51.980 --> 00:06:54.680 according to John, chapter 3, we're getting real 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.779 close to familiar language, but verses 14 and 00:06:57.779 --> 00:07:01.899 15. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:06.680 even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Whoever 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:11.519 believes in him should not perish, but have eternal 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.800 life. Thus ends the reading of Holy Scripture 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:18.660 this morning, my dear friends. In the Hebrew, 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:23.199 the word for serpent is nakash. The word for 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:27.240 bronze is nakoshet. It's the same root. It's 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:32.600 the same mouth feel. The killing thing and the 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:38.529 healing thing. Share a name. The only difference 00:07:38.529 --> 00:07:44.110 is where it's placed and what it's made of. One 00:07:44.110 --> 00:07:47.509 crawls in the dust when you can't see it coming. 00:07:47.589 --> 00:07:51.670 The other is lifted onto a pole where you can't 00:07:51.670 --> 00:07:58.250 look away. And let me go back to what they actually 00:07:58.250 --> 00:08:01.290 said, because the words matter more than the 00:08:01.290 --> 00:08:09.540 snakes do. Our soul loathes this light bread. 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:16.339 The light bread is the manna, the bread from 00:08:16.339 --> 00:08:21.860 heaven, the daily unexplainable provision that 00:08:21.860 --> 00:08:25.519 shows up every morning when the dew is lifted. 00:08:25.980 --> 00:08:30.339 wafers with honey lying on the ground like frost, 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.379 placed there by a God who has not yet failed 00:08:34.379 --> 00:08:40.679 to feed them in 40 years. And they called it 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:45.259 loathsome, not insufficient, not inadequate, 00:08:45.500 --> 00:08:55.490 loathsome. Their soul despised it. And some of 00:08:55.490 --> 00:08:57.429 you were here Wednesday night and you heard the 00:08:57.429 --> 00:09:00.490 manna story and you know what manna costs God. 00:09:00.649 --> 00:09:03.730 Every morning, 40 years provision that couldn't 00:09:03.730 --> 00:09:07.250 be stored, couldn't be managed. And it's intimate 00:09:07.250 --> 00:09:09.909 provision that required you to keep it close. 00:09:11.429 --> 00:09:15.710 And Israel looked at that 40 year track record 00:09:15.710 --> 00:09:19.529 and said, the words that changes the whole story. 00:09:19.830 --> 00:09:26.919 Why? Have you brought us up out of Egypt to die 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:32.299 in the wilderness? Here's what they're actually 00:09:32.299 --> 00:09:36.019 saying. They're not complaining about the menu. 00:09:36.899 --> 00:09:44.740 They're rewriting the Exodus. The God who parted 00:09:44.740 --> 00:09:50.039 the sea. Drowned Pharaoh's army and led them 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:57.860 by fire and cloud. That God had brought them 00:09:57.860 --> 00:10:04.840 out to the desert to kill them. And they are 00:10:04.840 --> 00:10:09.879 standing. In the middle of daily miraculous provision 00:10:09.879 --> 00:10:14.919 and telling a story that says God is a murderer 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:23.259 and that bread is poison. Here's the hard part. 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:27.360 And I'm not going to talk around it because the 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:32.320 text doesn't. The serpents come after the story, 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:37.320 not before, not during, after. Israel tells a 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:41.039 story. The Exodus is nothing more than a death 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:45.360 march and the bread is garbage. And God is trying 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:52.159 to kill us. And then the snakes come. And then 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:58.070 they die. And I want to pause here. Because I'm 00:10:58.070 --> 00:11:01.610 not going to pretend, my friends, that I can 00:11:01.610 --> 00:11:05.269 fully explain the mechanics of divine judgment. 00:11:06.850 --> 00:11:10.490 I can only tell you what I'm seeing in the Bible. 00:11:11.809 --> 00:11:18.289 Because the text shows that when you live inside 00:11:18.289 --> 00:11:22.529 of a story that says God's provision is actually 00:11:22.529 --> 00:11:26.700 poison, something venomous starts moving. in 00:11:26.700 --> 00:11:31.940 the can. When you're able to rewrite deliverance 00:11:31.940 --> 00:11:37.679 as murder and bread from heaven as this worthless 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:45.159 food, the false story begins to grow fangs. Not 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:51.440 because God is petty, because false stories about 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:55.840 the nature of God are lethal. And eventually, 00:11:56.490 --> 00:12:02.289 They bite. And we know this. Not from theology, 00:12:02.669 --> 00:12:07.710 from life. You watch a person decide, I mean 00:12:07.710 --> 00:12:10.649 deep in their gut, below the level of argument, 00:12:10.909 --> 00:12:15.809 that they were set up to fail, that the good 00:12:15.809 --> 00:12:18.789 thing happened actually. was just the beginning 00:12:18.789 --> 00:12:22.909 of a bad thing, you watch them live inside that 00:12:22.909 --> 00:12:26.210 story long enough and it will eat them alive. 00:12:26.990 --> 00:12:30.669 Not because God sent a punishment, but because 00:12:30.669 --> 00:12:35.929 the story itself is venomous. Israel had been 00:12:35.929 --> 00:12:39.990 bitten by its own narrative before a single snake 00:12:39.990 --> 00:12:48.799 broke the surface of the sand. So, They're dying. 00:12:50.299 --> 00:12:55.600 And they come to Moses and say, rightly, we have 00:12:55.600 --> 00:13:00.379 sinned. And Moses prays, and God's answer is 00:13:00.379 --> 00:13:06.740 the strangest remedy in the entire Bible. God 00:13:06.740 --> 00:13:10.120 does not remove the snakes. Sit with that one 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:15.860 for a second. They asked Moses, To pray that 00:13:15.860 --> 00:13:20.419 God would send the serpents away. God doesn't 00:13:20.419 --> 00:13:27.200 do that. Snakes stay in the camp. Instead, God 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:34.440 says, make one. Cast it in bronze. Put it up 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.659 on a pole. And everyone that has been bitten, 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:43.139 when they look at it, they'll live. God took 00:13:43.139 --> 00:13:49.100 the thing that the story produced and lifted 00:13:49.100 --> 00:13:55.000 it up where all could see it, not crawling down 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:59.419 in the dust where it ambushes you, up on a pole 00:13:59.419 --> 00:14:07.620 named visible and unavoidable. And the instruction 00:14:07.620 --> 00:14:13.679 is not understand it, not repent harder, not 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.320 feel the right thing about it. The instruction 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:22.620 is look. Look at the thing your story has made. 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:29.620 See for yourself what God has brought us out 00:14:29.620 --> 00:14:34.360 here to die actually produces when it takes shape 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:42.100 and starts. Biting people. Look at it. And live. 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:50.779 That's not gentle. That's not God rubbing Israel's 00:14:50.779 --> 00:14:54.340 nose in it either. But here's where the grace 00:14:54.340 --> 00:14:58.879 breaks through. The result of looking isn't shame. 00:14:59.539 --> 00:15:05.460 It's life. The confrontation that should have 00:15:05.460 --> 00:15:09.100 been the final humiliation turns out the doorway 00:15:09.100 --> 00:15:14.220 to healing. Nobody earns that. The text doesn't 00:15:14.220 --> 00:15:17.840 say they got their theology straight first. It 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:22.600 says they looked up and they lived. And the word 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:24.980 for serpent and the word for bronze again share 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:29.480 that same root. Nakash and makoshet. Because 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.399 the text is telling you at the... at the level 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.000 of sound that the killing thing and the healing 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:41.360 thing are made of the same stuff. The difference 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:47.139 is altitude. One is in the dust. One is on a 00:15:47.139 --> 00:15:50.659 pole. Same word, different direction of eyes. 00:15:52.139 --> 00:15:58.559 And then Jesus, centuries later, standing in 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:02.399 the dark with Nicodemus, man, who he himself 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:05.860 organized his entire life around not being seen, 00:16:06.059 --> 00:16:12.059 says, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, 00:16:12.100 --> 00:16:18.860 even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. The 00:16:18.860 --> 00:16:24.399 cross is the bronze serpent, the thing that kills 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:30.500 humanity. The whole machinery of sin and violence 00:16:30.500 --> 00:16:33.940 and the stories we tell ourselves about God who 00:16:33.940 --> 00:16:40.299 doesn't love us, taken up, cast not in bronze, 00:16:40.460 --> 00:16:46.460 but in flesh, lifted up on wood where everyone 00:16:46.460 --> 00:16:51.620 can see it. And the instructions are the same. 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:58.370 Look and live. And the very next sentence out 00:16:58.370 --> 00:17:02.570 of Jesus' mouth is John chapter 3, verse 16. 00:17:03.750 --> 00:17:09.289 The most famous verse in the world. And most 00:17:09.289 --> 00:17:12.589 people do not know, they've heard it a thousand 00:17:12.589 --> 00:17:16.130 times, but they don't know it actually is completing 00:17:16.130 --> 00:17:21.549 a snakes on a pole argument. Centuries later, 00:17:22.329 --> 00:17:25.470 Israel is burning incense to that bronze serpent, 00:17:25.609 --> 00:17:28.710 worshiping it for remedy instead of the God who 00:17:28.710 --> 00:17:32.450 gave it. Until a king named Hezekiah smashed 00:17:32.450 --> 00:17:36.650 it into pieces and called it buhushtan, just 00:17:36.650 --> 00:17:40.029 bronze. That's a different sermon for a different 00:17:40.029 --> 00:17:41.930 day, but I did want to point out that the bronze 00:17:41.930 --> 00:17:44.269 serpent doesn't stop here in the wilderness. 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:49.079 And today, as I mentioned, is Latare Sunday. 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:53.380 The rose candle. The breath in the middle of 00:17:53.380 --> 00:17:57.140 Lent. Church has been walking for four weeks 00:17:57.140 --> 00:18:00.140 through dust and ash and honest wait. And today, 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:04.619 the calendar says rejoice. Not because the desert 00:18:04.619 --> 00:18:08.960 isn't over yet. It's not. There are two more 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:12.420 weeks before Palm Sunday and the road ends at 00:18:12.420 --> 00:18:18.170 the cross. But the rejoicing is real. Because 00:18:18.170 --> 00:18:21.230 the bronze serpent tells you something the wilderness 00:18:21.230 --> 00:18:23.609 has been whispering all along. You don't have 00:18:23.609 --> 00:18:27.589 to leave the desert to be healed. You don't have 00:18:27.589 --> 00:18:30.950 to arrive at the promised land before life breaks 00:18:30.950 --> 00:18:35.990 through. Healing is available inside the wound, 00:18:36.190 --> 00:18:41.109 not after it, inside it. The snakes are still 00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:44.579 in the camp when the pole goes up. Nobody has 00:18:44.579 --> 00:18:47.660 crossed the Jordan yet and people are living 00:18:47.660 --> 00:18:54.220 anyway. And some of you have been bitten, not 00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:57.980 by snakes, but by the story you've been telling 00:18:57.980 --> 00:19:02.319 about your own lives. Story that says God set 00:19:02.319 --> 00:19:06.880 you up, that the provision is worthless, that 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:08.880 the good thing that happened was actually just 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:13.170 the setup for the bad thing. And friend, that 00:19:13.170 --> 00:19:19.710 story has fangs. You've been feeling them. I'm 00:19:19.710 --> 00:19:22.190 not going to ask you to stop telling that story 00:19:22.190 --> 00:19:26.009 today. I'm just going to ask you to look up. 00:19:26.730 --> 00:19:30.609 The thing that has been biting you, it's been 00:19:30.609 --> 00:19:34.490 named. It's been lifted. It's up on a pole where 00:19:34.490 --> 00:19:37.619 you can now see it. And the God who put it there 00:19:37.619 --> 00:19:40.440 isn't asking you to understand it, earn it, or 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.220 feel the right way about it. He's asking you 00:19:43.220 --> 00:19:48.059 simply to look and to live. That's the tare, 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:52.559 joy in the middle. Not because the snakes are 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.079 gone, because the pole is up. And the looking, 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.700 which should be the hardest thing you have ever 00:19:58.700 --> 00:20:02.140 done before, turns out to be the thing that finally 00:20:02.140 --> 00:20:06.539 lets you start breathing again. So go from here 00:20:06.539 --> 00:20:11.680 carrying this, my dearest. The fangs of the snakes 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.500 are real, and the remedy is real, and neither 00:20:15.500 --> 00:20:18.980 one of them cancels the other out. May the God 00:20:18.980 --> 00:20:21.940 who did not remove the serpents but lifted one 00:20:21.940 --> 00:20:24.140 up where you could see it give you the courage 00:20:24.140 --> 00:20:27.950 to look at the thing you've been avoiding. May 00:20:27.950 --> 00:20:30.849 the Christ who said, I must be lifted up, who 00:20:30.849 --> 00:20:33.609 became the bronze serpent for a world that had 00:20:33.609 --> 00:20:35.990 been telling the wrong story about God since 00:20:35.990 --> 00:20:40.509 the garden, meet you in the looking. May the 00:20:40.509 --> 00:20:44.210 spirit give you this. Not escape from the wilderness, 00:20:44.430 --> 00:20:48.750 but life inside it. Real life. Like bite marks 00:20:48.750 --> 00:20:52.109 and breath and bread on the ground tomorrow morning. 00:20:52.829 --> 00:20:57.680 Look up, my dear friends, and live. Amen. Amen. 00:21:03.940 --> 00:21:06.819 Maybe something in that story found you today. 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.299 Maybe you recognize the road, long, dusty, familiar. 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.819 Maybe you heard your own voice in the camp, tired 00:21:14.819 --> 00:21:17.799 enough to start calling God's provision something 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:22.000 else. If that's you, take heart. The wilderness 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:25.380 doesn't cancel mercy, and the snakes, they don't 00:21:25.380 --> 00:21:28.849 get the last word. Same God who let Israel see 00:21:28.849 --> 00:21:31.950 the wound also lifted the remedy high enough 00:21:31.950 --> 00:21:34.410 for them to live. Grace doesn't wait for you 00:21:34.410 --> 00:21:37.369 to get the story perfectly straight. Sometimes 00:21:37.369 --> 00:21:40.910 it simply asks you to look up again and breathe. 00:21:41.609 --> 00:21:44.589 And remember that life can break through right 00:21:44.589 --> 00:21:47.930 in the middle of the desert. And if somewhere 00:21:47.930 --> 00:21:50.450 in all of this you heard something, maybe something 00:21:50.450 --> 00:21:52.690 you'd never quite considered before, something... 00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:55.539 You've heard a hundred times, but today it just 00:21:55.539 --> 00:21:57.980 landed differently. Well, that's the moment we 00:21:57.980 --> 00:22:00.519 used to recognize back home when we'd throw that 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:02.900 old like in the offering plate, not pressure, 00:22:03.019 --> 00:22:06.519 just witness. And if you'd like to walk with 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:08.900 us the rest of the way through Lent as we head 00:22:08.900 --> 00:22:11.140 towards Jerusalem and Resurrection Sunday, go 00:22:11.140 --> 00:22:14.680 ahead and tithe your subscribe. That way, you'll 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.240 know when we've set our eyes on the Holy City 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:20.779 again. And until then, friend, be blessed.