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well good morning south point i'm pastor michael i'm here in the youth room right now enjoying myself hey uh we're getting ready to start service off right now so do me a favor grab your remote control go ahead and turn the volume up to a level that's going to be loud enough that you can sing as loud as you want and worship jesus and let's get ready to worship god god bless you guys and i look forward to seeing you soon [Music] hopefully i was buried beneath my shape who could carry that kind of weight it was i met you [Music] i was breathing but not [Music] till i hear you you called my name and i ran out of that grave out of the darkness into your glorious day you called my name out of the darkness to your glorious day [Music] [Music] i know [Music] [Music] out of the darkness [Music] into your glorious day [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you god for rescue thank you for saving us god we thank you for that day lord jesus when we came to trust in you and you gave us salvation father 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jesus father open our hearts to the word that you have for us today god speak to our hearts lord jesus we thank you for this your name we pray amen well i'm pastor brent i want to welcome you to our time together here at south point christian center and a couple things i want to share with you very quickly before we get into the word this morning uh once again to this weekend we're not going to have an outdoor service the weather just isn't cooperating and so here's what we're going to do we're going to just push it back to february 21st so that's when we'll try it again february 21st we don't want to try it every week until then the weather's just getting better and so we're praying that by the 21st of february we'll be able to meet outdoors at 11am and so just kind of look forward to that in the meantime of course we'll meet online facebook or youtube and so uh look forward to that date of hopefully being together on the 21st of february also ladies we have a great event coming up for you the district is putting on an event online and all the information is on our website or on our facebook page and the the the event is on the 5th of february and but if you're busy that night it's pretty cool because you can actually join in anytime in the next 30 days if you sign up but you need to go to our website to get the link to sign up for the district a women's event and i think you'll really enjoy it if you do that well grab your bibles and we're going to get into romans chapter 10 here in just a moment and so get ready for that well hey i'm pastor brent i'm here with a new friend of mine christine and i've asked christine to come on with me today and just chat for a moment uh christine tell us a little bit about yourself and your family your mom and dad go to our church here at south point so let's give them a shout out and then tell us a little about uh your background as well would you do that yes thank you pastor brent for inviting me here really um grateful for the chance to share with the southpointe family um i am the youngest of eight kids i was born in the philippines actually and was blessed to have been born into a family with older siblings and parents so hi mom and dad who were um you know already committed to following jesus so i got a chance to see growing up while i was born in the philippines i did grow up in the bay area here in california and so i got a chance to see growing up you know my older siblings and parents really doing their best to follow jesus and i got a first hand look at the impact and the power of god in their lives and in their relationships and you know i personally responded to the gospel upon hearing it when i was seven years old and made a personal decision to get baptized when i was 11. and then later on in life when i became a young adult in college i desired to go a little bit deeper and had an opportunity to really evaluate at that point in my life you know who is god to me and i wanted a deeper understanding of god's love in particular so it actually led me to pray a very personal prayer throughout college it wasn't a one-time thing but it was just a persistent prayer of asking god god would you show me your love and teach me how to love you and you know without going into too much details you know the lord really answered that for me um and you know he taught me first off what repentance really means and i got a chance to really you know come face to face in areas of my life that i thought maybe were good because i grew up as a good kid you know and i thought i was just perfect you know i'm not i don't have any sin in my life but the reality is compared to the standard of the bible like i am a sinner and so that reality of repentance really came to life for me later in in college and then um the lord also like motivated me to review his word more and jesus said that if you love me you'll obey my commands you'll keep my commands and that's just repeatedly in there and that really drove me to read the bible differently with a desire not just to know his commands but truly obey and that's really shaped you know how i then entered my professional career after college in wanting to be obedient to christ no matter where i am no matter what i'm doing including in my workplace tell us a little bit about your workplace because you're you're over in silicon valley working uh in that world and one of the things you and i have talked about and one of the things i want you to share with our south point family today is is how you've really seen your job and your christian faith come together and and talk to us a little bit about that and uh what that means to you absolutely well first off um i i started with a question you know what does the bible have to say about work that was a very transformative question for me and that led me to an exploration of genesis one and two um and like genesis 2 15 you know the lord god took the man put him in the garden to till it and to keep it and you know and you go on further but ultimately that those words of to to till it and to keep it in the original language right it's a combination of worship and service to god like the lord invited the band that he created to take care of the thing that god himself had made and as you look ahead up in genesis 2 verse 8 who planted the garden it was the lord himself who planted the garden so it's like wow what a privilege that mankind was created in the image of god who is a creator himself to create or to work and so that sort of revelation so to speak in in seeking the word of god to and seeing that work matters to god yeah and i am designed um to work of course we know in genesis 3 work after the fall due to sin um was impacted right but the bible does not end in genesis so as we keep going you go to ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 you know the for we are god's workmanship created in christ jesus for good works which god prepared in advance for us to do so what was broken by sin is redeemed in christ and so it's with that sort of understanding that my work matters to god and it's redeemed in christ that really motivates me differently to think about work and how i define success in my work yeah wow that's good one of the things i'd like you to to help us with today because because for most of us tomorrow morning monday morning the alarm clock's going to go off we're going to not want to get out of bed maybe not want to get out i know it might be a rainy monday morning and uh so so give us a couple of uh just really key thoughts that'll help us as we go into work tomorrow or maybe our work is you know staying home with the children whatever our work might be just give us a couple thoughts that are really going to help us to see our work from god's perspective can you do that yes i my first encouragement to everyone no matter what it is that you do you know outside of sunday worship services you know outside of your south point activities whether you're at home or like myself i'm currently working from home while i work for a tech company i have an opportunity to work from home but whatever it is that you do you're a student or you're you know you're working in a hospital etc again as because of who god is and because of who he says you are that you are his son you are his daughter you are a minister of reconciliation you are again a temple of the holy spirit you name it you have to believe who god is and remember who he says you are and remember that you carry that identity that power that authority that calling with you no matter who you're with and no matter what you're doing including what might seem ordinary like your daily work so i really invite you to always remember that your work matters to god remember who god is who he says you are and you're there for a purpose that's good your work matters to god and you're there for a purpose you know in just a few moments i'm going to open the bible to romans chapter 10 and you're going to find out that christine stole my sermon and she preached half of it already today but hey it goes together so well i think god's wanted to speak to us today about about our whole life not just our sunday morning life but our the way that we work the way we think about our work uh the way that we interact with each other and uh so christine i want to just thank you for hanging out with me today for a little bit and uh i'm glad you're a part of our church and your parents are part of our church family and uh i'm gonna throw you a curveball right now okay cause i didn't ask you this before but let's close this section right here would you just pray a blessing over our church and over those that are uh heading off to work tomorrow that we would just see ourselves as god's hand extended wherever we go and let's just close out this session with the word of prayer i would love that thank you pastor heavenly father you are so good to us lord you love us so much that you sent your son jesus christ to this earth and he lived a perfect life and he chose to be obedient to you even to death on the cross lord but we know that jesus didn't remain in the grave he rose again and he is alive in us today and we carry with us um as your followers lord the the power and the authority of jesus christ and so i pray father for all my brothers and sisters here at south point that we would continue to be conscious of this truth that we are sons and daughters of the most high king that we are temples of the holy spirit we are ministers of reconciliation and allow us to think about what we do each day differently because of who you are and who you say we are thank you father for hearing our prayers and promising us in your word that surely you will be with us always to the very end of the age in jesus name amen amen amen well thanks again christine so much for hanging out with me today and god bless you we'll see you again real soon thanks well good morning again i hope you have your bible or your tablet or your phone or some way of staying with us this morning romans chapter 10 yes you'll see on the screen i've got some good news for you today many of you have told me pastor romans is hard to understand and you've been maybe having a difficult time the last couple weeks especially i've got some good are you ready for some good news today's message is simple it's from a familiar text that you maybe have heard before and the message is going to be easy to understand and easy to get a handle on so so good news on that front you see on the screen here the question that we look at today is very simple how am i saved and paul tells us romans chapter 10 we'll look at just a moment remember where we've been the last couple weeks two weeks ago we talked about the the truth from romans chapter nine is that god saves people not nations remember that and we all have to our own individual relationship with jesus christ god doesn't save us because we're americans or because of the color of our skin or because the family background we we have each of us have our own individual relationship with god through jesus christ and last week we talked about this great truth that god is sovereign from the last part of romans chapter nine and there are times when we don't understand god there's times when we don't we can't figure out what he's up to in our life or in this world and that's okay we just have to do this don't let what you don't understand about god keeping you from worshiping him and loving him from what you for what you do understand so take great comfort in the truth that god is sovereign and he's in charge of this world and he always has been and he always will be and that ought to help us all sleep a little bit better at night but let's go to today's message again a very simple but a very profound very important our one point sermon is this from romans chapter 10 how am i saved four times in the first part of romans chapter 10 we see the word saved saved saved saved saved it's a bible word but it's often for us it can be a cliche we throw it around and we we don't maybe even think about it we say well i'm saved i'm saved without even thinking about what that means save from what well be very clear we're safe from our sins in fact when before jesus was born the angel came to mary and told her that you will call him jesus why because he will save his people from their sins name jesus means jehovah or god saves it's all about that the name of jesus and sometimes that word saved is is so ordinary and common we don't even think about what it means but the good news today is that we can be saved from our sins you see if and once we recognize that we're sinners this question is the most important question in the world if i realize that i'm a sinner the question is well how can i be saved from my sins how can i be saved from the penalty of my sins how can i be saved from the guilt and the shame that i care carry around with me day after day after day after day you see if you look deep inside you'll realize perhaps i i don't even live up to my own standards let alone the standards of a perfect and holy and just and righteous god i can't save myself i'm a sinner and i need a savior so this is good news this morning and this is a very very important question but before we answer it how to be saved the apostle paul in the last part of romans chapter 9 kind of reminds us how not to be saved we see this in romans chapter 9 let's back up a little bit to romans 9 32 where israel did not attain salvation we've seen that all over and over again in romans why not paul says because they the jews pursued it not by faith but as it were by works they stumbled over the stumbling stone so once again paul says listen you're not going to be saved by keeping the law you're not going to be saved by doing good works you're not going to be saved by avoiding sin because you can't do that without jesus you're not going to be saved by trying hard by belonging to the right race or the right family or right religious group that's what the jews try to do but it was not by faith but it was by works and they missed it they did not attain salvation the good news for us is we don't have to try to earn our way to heaven we don't try to have to try to work our way to heaven we couldn't do it anyway that's good news isn't it but paul says something here i want us to look at real quick he says they stumbled over the stumbling stone paul uses a word picture here and i want to put up on the screen a picture of what he may was talking about imagine walking through the walking down the path of life or walking down the path in the in the forest or the meadow like this and you come across this stone paul says the jews stumbled over the stone of jesus jesus is that stone in the middle of the path that we can't avoid we've got to do something with him or about him the jews stumbled over the stumbling stone he wasn't the messiah they were looking for they wanted a political answer they wanted a strong ruler to kick out rome they wanted uh someone to come and and be mighty and powerful in the eyes of the world they wanted a general to throw off the roman oppressor they wanted an impressive leader and they stumbled over the stone of jesus but god sent jesus he put jesus in the pathway of mankind as a stone the question is what do we do with jesus that's really the question of the ages what will we do with jesus he's the stone in the middle of our path or will we stumble over him or paul here is quoted from isaiah chapter 8 that we can either stumble over him or we can build our life upon him as our foundation you see this stone could be a stumbling stone but it also could be the foundation or the cornerstone you build your life upon the choice is ours the choice is mine the choice is yours what will we do with jesus paul here again says many people stumble over jesus even today think about it in our world people say things like this i don't i can do it on my own i don't need a savior i'm a pretty good person at least i'm better than he is or she is they say things like i can't believe that a man dying 2 000 years ago has anything to do with my life today and people today stumble over jesus they don't take him seriously and they try to avoid him and that's that's the thing with jesus we've got to make a choice either we'll trip over him as a stumbling stone or will he will be the cornerstone of our life you see the gospel is good news let's just pause for a moment could you do that just pause with me for a moment and let me remind you the gospel is good news that we we don't have to make it on our own that we can't do it on our own that god sent jesus to be our savior and if you're saved today i hope right now you're rejoicing with me saying thank you jesus thank you that i'm not stumbling over you as a stumbling stone but i'm building my life upon you as my foundation stone you see if it's your plan to enter heaven because of your good works or because of your righteousness or because of the family you came from or because of the color of your skin or because of the country that you live in good luck with that you're not going to make it but the gospel is good news it's not about any of those things it's about having a faith and trust in jesus christ and not stumbling over the stone but building our life on him as our foundation so going on in chapter 10 verse 4 paul says christ is the end of the law as far as the law being a way for us to be saved and again if you're counting on good works if you're counting on being a good person to get you into heaven it's just not going to work so let's go to our text let's go to the the good news and the answer to that question how can i be saved we'll see it here on the screen a very famous portion of scripture paul says in verse 9 of romans chapter 10 that if you confess with your mouth jesus is lord and believe in your heart that god has raised him from the dead you will be what you'll be saved for it is with your heart that you believe and we are justified and it's with your mouth that you confess and are saved as the scripture says anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame for there's no difference between jew and gentile the same lord as lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him for everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be what will be saved what a great scripture what a powerful scripture and it really is very simple but very profound so we look here at the screen we notice that we have believe highlighted there we have confessed highlighted there we have saved highlighted there and it all kind of comes together here for paul it's a great summary and it answers that question for us today in 2021 how can i be saved well paul says it this way confess confess what confess that jesus is lord believe believe what believe that god has raised jesus from the dead it's very simple message but it's one we want to make sure we really understand you see what must be believed is that jesus is lord now this is important we don't just believe that jesus was a good man or he was a good teacher or he you know healed a lot of people or he was a great leader or yeah i think he's a pretty good guy none of that will make it paul here is very direct and very pointed in his answer he says you must believe that jesus is what is lord that's a powerful statement lord means lord lord means that he is a ruler and the boss not just in this world but of my life this is an amazing statement if you think about it for example many of you know the old testament and maybe you know from the old testament one of the names of god was yahweh in fact six thousand times in the old testament that word yahweh was used as the most respectful and the highest name for god that same word translated into the greek is now here used for jesus in other words paul is saying confess that jesus is lord that jesus is god that jesus is yahweh amazing it means that jesus authority is absolute it's unlimited it's universal he's not just my buddy he's not just my friend he's not just my pal he's not just whatever he is my lord it means i do what he asked me to do my life does not belong to myself my life belongs to him you see there's no such thing as salvation apart from lordship i've met people maybe you've met people or maybe you've been this way perhaps in your life at some point with a thought says well i want to go to heaven but i want to live my own life i want jesus to be my savior but not my lord there is no such thing that is not a new testament possibility or a possibility today either we can't do we can't say well jesus i want to go to heaven but i want to do my own thing here on earth and maybe right before i die i'll kind of turn the page on that and you can be my lord no listen jesus is lord that doesn't mean we're perfect or we're sinless we never mess up but it means that we recognize that he is our authority he is he is our boss he is our leader he is the lord not only of this world but of my life we confess that we say that and we believe in our heart that god raised him from the dead that's so important it's not just the teachings of jesus but it's what jesus did for us on the cross that he died for our sins and he rose again on the third day and we believe that from our heart what he did on the cross he did for me what he did on the cross he did for you as well so i believe in my heart and i confess with my mouth that jesus christ is lord now it's important to let me just add this because even though paul doesn't specifically say this here it's certainly the testimony of the rest of the new testament is that believing and confessing is not the end it's the beginning it means that a changed life will follow again i've met people that that you know that want to believe that well at one time i said jesus is lord way back when and my life's never changed there's no fruit from that but i still think i'm going to heaven that's that's not what god's after god wants us to confess that jesus is lord and to believe in our hearts that he's raised from the dead and that's going to change our life again we're not earning our way to heaven but because i am saved my life ought to be different so these aren't magic words you're not simply you know well say these words and you're going to be saved even though it doesn't reflect anything deep in your heart that's not what paul's saying it's not like a magic incandation hocus pocus that just okay just say jesus is lord and you're good your ticket is punched for heaven no it comes from a deep place of your heart to say this is what i believe this is i'm staking my life in the fact that jesus is lord i'm it's not just words that i'm going to say that kind of open the door to heaven for me and i go on living the way that i've always lived or go on living the way everybody else lives no simply saying the words jesus lord as a magic formula is worthless it's got to reflect what i really believe and who i am and from that confession my life is going to change so let me ask you this morning it's a simple question but it's the most important question i could ever ask you as your friend and as your pastor let me ask you this question are you saved excuse me are you saved have you confessed do you believe that jesus christ is lord that god has raised him from the dead have you confessed that have you have you made that the the focal point of your life now i can't think of a more important question to ask you i know many of you with me today worshipping with me today i said pastor yes i've made that decision i've confessed it i know that i'm saved but i also know that there's probably many of you that haven't or maybe haven't understood to this point what it takes for me to be saved well today could be your day today could be the day that you simply believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that you are saved you can go back to the scripture and say on this date january 31st 2021 i confessed i believed in my in my heart i confess with my mouth that jesus is lord my life is gonna change from this time forward and i can be assured from the authority of god's word that i've been saved wow today could be your spiritual birthday now back in the day when when we had maybe be gathered in the same building we might have an altar call and have people come to the front you know that's always a cool thing to do here's what i want you to think about today our altar call so to speak is to be baptized in water so i could also go on and say you know if you if you're making this decision for the first time you're coming back to really understand what it means to be a follower of jesus christ i'd follow that up by saying have you been baptized in water have you made that public confession of your faith and again if the answer is no let me know reach out to me right now on facebook or on youtube or call the church office or do something we'll baptize you next sunday i mean there's no reason to wait you see that baptism then becomes my public confession of my faith god wants you to be saved if you're hearing the message today the door to heaven is open to you god wants you to believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that you will be saved i can't think of better news to share with you today but let me close real quickly with just one more thought because paul doesn't stop there paul goes on to say okay if i am saved i'm gonna want to help others to be saved isn't that true if you if you're a follower of jesus today if you're saved it's you realize it's not just all about you you want others to to be in heaven with you you want to bring other people with your family your friends your neighbors people you don't even know you say hey i want you to be in heaven with me i want you to be saved so paul goes on in verse 14. let's look at this verse as well how then can they call on the one they have not believed in so paul answer asks four questions here and how can they believe in the one who of whom they have not heard and how can they hear without someone preaching to them and how can they preach unless they are sent as it is written from isaiah how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news so for so paul answers ask four questions the answer is so obvious he doesn't give an answer and there's really a great chain here of events that have to happen for the gospel to be preached so let's look at look at it in reverse okay god sends people there we go god sends people to preach or to share the gospel so that the unsaved can hear the unsaved then can believe in jesus and call on the name of the lord and be saved that's a beautiful thing and here's what i want you to see very quickly that we all have a part to play in this chain as it were if any one of these links in the chain is broken it doesn't work no matter where you are today in your christian life god wants you to see yourself as not just as a bystander or a spectator you are a part of seeing this happen in your world in sacramento and around the world so let me make two very quick applications that we can all if you're saved you're going to want other people to be saved and this scripture gives us two great applications two great things for us to understand what does this mean well the first thing we can say very clearly is that missionaries are important paul here talks about sending people and we realize that we can't all go overseas we can't all you know leave our world our life right now and and go overseas learn learn a new language or and do that i get that but listen the work is not finished the gospel still needs to be preached in places where it's never been preached you see here at southpointe i'm so proud of the fact that we support 45 missionaries every month that's a great number 45 missionaries are counting on us every month to pray for them and to send them financial support and the good news is even the difficulties of the pandemic year of 2020 we met every missionary pledge you know what we gave extra because as the money came in we wanted to give it away so we made it a goal this year we're not going to keep that missions money in an account somewhere we want to zero it out at the end of the year we sent it all out i mean we just if you give it we're going to give it away because we understand that god's call us part of our job as a church here is to support missionaries and as you give we're going to give and i'm so proud of your faithful giving to missions 45 missionaries here in america and around the world are supported every month by your missions giving you might say pastor why do you why do we do that we could use that money here i mean we need to work on our building we need to pay down our mortgage maybe we could hire more staff listen that that's not the way to think at all god's called us part of our job as a church is to support missions and to spread the gospel it's not all about south point it's not all about south sacramento it's not all about us here we are part of a global community and we're part of that beautiful chain of sending people and and setting them to go places where we can't go and say we're going to support you financially and we're going to pray for you and we're part of your team even though we can't go there so even today we have missionaries all around the world in countries that we can't even publicly talk about because they're there kind of in a secret sort of way and they're preaching the gospel they're building churches they're seeing people get saved and if you give to missions you can have a part of that and that's so exciting one last application i want to make very quickly and as you saw the interview earlier today i mean christine pretty much stole my thunder at this point didn't she do a great job of talking about this and and here's the here's the the uh the quote from the scripture you have beautiful feet now you look down at your feet right now and you think well my feet are aren't all that beautiful well paul here is talking about the beauty of people that wherever they go they recognize that they are bringing the spirit of god with them paul says how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news and here's the point that christine was making earlier and i just want to re-emphasize here as we close is that you are sent by god wherever you go this week if you have a job the alarm clock goes off tomorrow morning and you may not feel like getting up but i want you to know when you get up and go to work you are bringing the gospel to that work environment maybe you're not employed anymore you're retired and but wherever you go you're bringing the gospel to that place where you go this isn't just for missionaries that travel overseas you and i need to see ourselves that wherever we go god has sent us there we're sent we're sent to our workplace we're sent to our neighborhood we're sent to wherever we go our family gatherings we're sent to our online presence whenever wherever we go we are sent by god to be missionaries to be people that carry his word that bring god the glory with our lives now i know we're living in a time when we're not going very very many places we're not gathering like we used to but to understand that wherever i am able to go i go and i bring the gospel with me how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news not just those that travel to africa or asia or south america but who go to the workplaces who go to their neighborhoods who go to their family gatherings who who reach out to people on social media wherever it is and i bring good news wherever i go to see yourself as someone who is sent and that's why i had christine share what she shared a few moments ago so you and i could have a better understanding that we are sent by god wherever we go this week well friends it's been great to share these thoughts with you this morning and as we just closed this service today i want us to pray together and again i wanted to give you a challenge to see to ask ask you the question i asked you a few moments ago are you saved are you saved if you're not sure if you can't answer that with a resounding yes i want you to make sure that today you say jesus would you come into my life i confess you as my lord i believe that god raised you from the dead i give my life to you as my lord and my savior and then again i would encourage you very strongly to be baptized to make that your public confession of your faith reach out to me i'd love to be able to to put that together for you even this week and then secondly if you say pastor i'm saved i'm thankful for it i'm so glad that i'm saved i want to challenge you as christine has challenged us earlier to see yourself as being sent wherever you go this week and again you may not be going far but wherever you go hey i'm sent by god to be a part of this situation i'm sent by god in my workplace i'm sent by god to wherever i am to see myself as having those beautiful feet that bring good news to wherever god wants me to go let's pray together shall we heavenly father i thank you for the privilege of sharing your word today thank you for this very clear and profound message from the apostle paul thank you lord that the offer is still open and whoever calls upon the name of the lord will be saved i pray lord for those that are listening today to this sermon worshiping with us lord that that if they've never done this if they're unclear that they would confess you as their lord believe in their heart that god's raised you from the dead and that today would be their spiritual birthday january 31st 2021. lord you're still saving people you're still calling people lord and i pray that that there would be those that today under the sound of my voice would give their hearts and lives to you the father for the rest of us lord who might be able to say oh thank god i'm saved but lord help us all to see ourselves as being sent sent to our workplace sent to our family sent to a family get-together sent even online lord that's probably where we're mostly we're having those kind of gatherings lord to be able to be an influence to be able to be a light wherever we go and lord i thank you for our missionary family lord i take a moment right now and and pray a blessing over them lord you know what they need you know where they are you know what their what their uh situation is and and uh we just pray a blessing thank you for the partnership we have with these men and women who are here in our country and all over the world spreading the gospel lord bless and encourage them we pray thank you for this time together we give you praise for it in jesus name amen amen god bless you [Music] and i can see strongholds coming down i can see strongholds coming down i can see jesus reaching out reaching out and i can see strongholds coming down i can see strongholds coming down i can see jesus reaching out reaching out and i can see strongholds coming down i can see strongholds coming down i can see jesus reaching out reaching out i [Music] jesus reaching now [Music] crush is the power of the grave but jesus [Music] but jesus [Music] no other names so once again i want to thank you for your faithful and generous giving to the work of the lord through south point christian center and of course you can give online that's probably a easy way for most of us to give you can set up as a recurring gift if that's helpful to you as well or you can mail it in or drop it by our church office and once again i want to just offer this book to you it's called the treasure principle by randy alcorn a great little book it's been around for about 20 years i've read it several times it's really helpful as far as what god's word says about giving and how to understand the blessing and the privilege that's ours when we give and if you have questions about giving or you just aren't sure about tithing or what that's all about let me know call the church office and ask i've got a bunch of these i'd be happy to give one to you and it's an easy read and a lot of great stories and i guarantee it'll help you understand about giving and it'll be a blessing to you so our board and our staff have just finished reading it and i think you're gonna love it so let me know if you'd like to do that also as i mentioned in the sermon you know thank you for your faithful giving of missions and i want to just encourage you to continue that and keep that up and here as we're done with our worship time today i want to send you out with the blessing if you want to receive a blessing the lord i invite you to lift your hands to him and as your pastors my privilege to bless you and say may the lord bless you and keep you may the lord show you his kindness and have mercy on you may the lord watch over you and give you peace and all god's people said amen amen god bless you and have a great week