The Best Gift Ever
Transcript
Some people it's like control is your thing, like being organized, having security, like your bank account exists so that you can look at it and know I'm going to be okay because there's money there. And so when Christmas rolls around, it's like we need lists, we need timetables, if we're going to see your family and my family, we've got to organize that. We can't have this – like there's this – we've got to plan, we've got to know what we're buying, we've got to know how we're doing this. We've got to – some people it's just your life is based off of – like life is good if you're comfortable, if you can relax.
And so Christmas rolls around, it's like I'm going to have a little bit of time off. You start stressing out about the ability to relax. This is the thing for college students. It's like I've got two weeks to force all of the nothing into the time that I have. Like I've got to relax. Like I'm going to lay on my couch with one eye open so that I'm kind of sleeping but I can still watch Netflix.
And I'm going to get like a 48-ounce drink and just run a straw into my mouth. So that like there's this level of like I need to be able to see family and friends but I also need to be able to take naps. And I need to be able to have good food but I also need to not have people tell me when to be, where. Like there's just all this pressure that starts going into this weight that goes into. And so we have these moments over the next couple of weeks where you'll be in your car and you're about to get out. You're about to go see family.
And there's this, okay, am I not as bad as I was last year? Do I make more money now? Or you're getting out of the car and you're going, I'm still not in a relationship. There's this weight of like I need to put my best foot forward and I need Christmas to somehow make me feel okay. And when I get around my family I feel this weight of am I doing this right? So you've got your kids and you're trying to like lick their hair down because they're about to see family.
And you know your judgy aunt is there and you're like trying to straighten them out. And you're like what words do we not say at grandma's house? Like those are the conversations you're having because there's this weight of like doing it right. Or you're hosting something and you're like did I cook this well? Did I make this okay? Is everybody going to have a good time?
And then it's over and it's like was that it? Was that all the family moments we were going to have? Was that all the friendship joy I was going to have? Is this all that I'm going to get to do over this time? There's this weird pressure to force all this hallmark into your soul. Like you're like I need to make a memory.
Then there's like traditions which are great. Like you have family traditions. So it's like this is our tradition. But then even those start becoming like we've got to do this well and it's got to be as good and a tradition-y as it was last year. And it's got to feel the same and it's got to be the same as when mom made it. And it's got to be the same as when we had these moments and our kids need traditions.
Or young married couples. You have like the we, my, my, like it's not Christmas if we don't do this. And the other couple is saying well no, no, no. You don't do that on Christmas Eve. You do that earlier in the year. Or why on earth would you watch that movie?
Like you've got to, like these competing traditions or this weird need to make your own new traditions? We've got to have our own traditions. Like we're a family now. We've got to have these moments. And it's like how about yelling at each other about traditions? How about that?
How about every Christmas Eve I'll make you cry? How does that sound? Like there's just this weird pressure. Am I the only one who feels this? I had some people say yeah, you're the only one with that weird pressure. Like there's just this, this, I think we hit January sometimes and we're like did we mess it up?
Was it too fast? Did I not enjoy it enough? Did I not rest enough? Did I not have all the moments we were supposed to have? It was supposed to be Christmassy. It was supposed to be like our culture is bombarding us with all this stuff.
And it's not all bad but it makes us feel like this has to be special. It has to be magical. And I think we go into Christmas sometimes looking for it to make us feel okay. Fill us up. Make us feel whole. Fix us in some ways.
But there would just be, over the next couple of weeks, there would just be a few moments where you just feel perfectly satisfied. And I think a lot of times we roll past Christmas and that never really happened. So what we're doing is we're taking some time to look at who Jesus is, what we're actually celebrating at Christmas. And looking at some Old Testament prophecy where guys hundreds of years before began to tell us that Jesus was coming. And we're going to try to take some time to look at that and actually see how that helps us in this pressure-filled time of year. Actually have some joy.
Actually have some rest. And so let's pray. And then we're going to hop in looking at some stuff. God, we thank you for your grace towards us. We thank you that you do fulfill your promises and that you did come. You did join us in humanity to rescue us and to make us yours.
And so, God, we praise you and we thank you and we pray, Lord, that we would be able to see in your word some truth today that would help us feel some more freedom, feel some more joy as we walk through kind of this Christmas time. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen. We'll be in Jeremiah chapter 23. What we're doing is we're looking at some Old Testament prophecy.
These were guys, Old Testament, the Jewish scriptures prior to Jesus. And then you have the New Testament, which is here's who Jesus is, here's what he did, here's what he accomplished, and then letters that were written to churches. And so the Old Testament in the prophets, some of it's history where they're just saying this is what happened. But the prophets are people who, on behalf of God, spoke into their situation or about things that were going to happen in the future. And a lot of the prophecies were specifically about Jesus. And then they were fulfilled.
Many of the prophecies were filled, a lot of them were fulfilled in Jesus. And then we get to, on this side of history, look back at Jesus, how he fulfilled them, and at the prophecies as they were made and kind of see what they were saying, how that was fulfilled in Jesus. And so that's kind of what we're doing today. We're going to look at these prophecies that were made by Jeremiah that were fulfilled in Christ and how that applies to us, how that means something to us today. Jeremiah was a prophet to Israel, and he, one of the main things that God gave him to kind of speak into their lives was that they were chasing after things that were not going to fill them up.
They were looking to other gods, other smaller things, and saying, you'll make me happy, you'll give me joy, you'll fix me. And so he's speaking, and one of the things that Jeremiah does really well is he explains to them that it's like going to an empty well. Well, that looking to other things other than God to fill you up, to satisfy you, to make you happy is like drinking dirt. It's just, it's not satisfying. It's not going to fill you up. It's not going to be okay.
You're going back to that same empty well over and over again. And so he's saying, look, y'all love these things more than God. You're pursuing these things more to God, and they're never going to fix you. And as he's prophesying that, one of the things he prophesies is these two prophecies we're going to see today where he's talking about this coming Messiah, this coming Savior. And so in Jeremiah chapter 23, we're going to read verses 5 and 6. Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous branch.
Okay, David was the best king Israel ever had. Like he was the king. Like if you had Israeli trading cards, you wanted the David card. Like it was the best one to get. Everybody, you know, like Samson was good or whatever, but you wanted the David. Like he was the best one to have.
Like he was the king. And so what he's saying is there was a prophecy made to David that he would eventually have a king come out of his family line that would be a king forever. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless he's an eternal king. So unless he can last live forever. So there's this prophecy made, and that's what he means by a branch, like on your family tree, one of the branches.
See how that works, like your family tree? Some of you grew up in South Carolina. It doesn't branch a whole lot, but you'll get it. Just think about it. All right.
Sorry. So I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called. The Lord is our righteousness. It doesn't mean that's actually going to be his, like, given name.
It just means, like, when you make a name for yourself. So it's saying this is what he'll kind of an office he'll fulfill. This is kind of a role he'll fulfill. This is the name by which he'll be called. The Lord is our righteousness. So put your finger there because we're coming back.
We're going to flip to Luke chapter 1, which, if your Bible looks like this, is going to be on page 555. Luke chapter 1, that's in the New Testament, so you're going to go right. And we're going to read about the birth of Jesus. We don't know when the actual birthday of Jesus was. The Bible doesn't say it was December 25th. It doesn't say that we should celebrate Christmas as a holiday.
We just do, at this time of year, celebrate that Jesus was born. And so we're going to read a little bit of that today where an angel actually comes to Mary and tells her that she's going to have a baby as a virgin, that God's going to give her a baby, basically. Verse 26. In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David. All right, so you see that?
See the significance there? He's in David's line. He's on that tree, the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, Greetings, O favored one. The Lord is with you.
But she was greatly troubled at this saying and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be. I think that's a little bit of an understatement. An angel showed up. It's like she was wondering about what he said. It's like, this is an angel? She probably was pretty, this is an intense encounter.
Like, I know if I met an angel, I'd be paying attention. So, verse 30. And the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David.
And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there will be no end. So, this is that eternal king. And that's Jesus is the eternal king that is promised in Jeremiah. So, go back to Jeremiah. We're looking at an Old Testament prophecy that is fulfilled in Jesus.
So, when we celebrate Christmas, we're celebrating that Jesus was born. And we're celebrating that he fulfills these promises that were made by God for us. Jeremiah 23. We're going to read that one more time, and then we're going to read where he makes a very similar prophecy a few pages later. Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely.
And this is the name by which he will be called. The Lord is our righteousness. Okay, flip over to 429, if your Bible looks like this. Flip over to chapter 33. Jeremiah is going to make a very similar prophecy. Just a little bit is going to be changed, but he's making the same point.
Alright, Jeremiah chapter 33, starting in verse 14. Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah. In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called. The Lord is our righteousness.
Okay, so, first time he says this is the name by which he will be called, the Lord is our righteousness. And then it says this is the name by which it, being the city that he's over, will be called, the Lord is our righteousness. So, the Lord is our righteousness is this beautiful promise made to us by the prophet Jeremiah that's going to be fulfilled by this coming king, who is Jesus. The Lord, that God, that this coming king, this coming Messiah, will be our righteousness. How excited are we? Well, first, what does that mean?
Sounds like a nice promise because it's got big words in it. But what does it mean? What's he saying? Righteousness really just means that we'll be made okay. Righteousness means to be holy, to be good, to be blameless, to be right. You ever get in an argument and you just know you're right?
Like you just know? Like you're going to make a bet and you know you are correct? My brother and I were betting the other day on whether it was Iowa or Iowa State that we're going to be in the, they were ranked number four. They're not ranked number four anymore, unfortunately, if you're an Iowa fan. I don't know why you would be. But we were arguing and I was saying it was Iowa State and I was incorrect and he was like, how much money do you want to put on this?
And I was like, dude, it's Iowa State. And the reason I was saying that was because I had just seen the ticker say that Iowa State was number four. But he had paid attention to the fact that that was like men's basketball or something or like ladies volleyball. And I was like, it's Iowa State. I just saw it on the TV. And he was like, how much?
How much do you want to bet? I got off on a technicality because Iowa State was number four. We did not specify football. So I was able to wiggle out of that. With video evidence. But he knew he was right.
That's what righteousness means. It means that you are right. You are correct. You are valid. A lot of us were walking through life trying to prove that I'm okay, that I'm correct, that everything is good. We're trying to use something to be able to verify that for us.
And this promise is that this coming Savior will be our verification. We'll do that for us. We'll complete that for us. That's the promise. So I've got an eight-month-old.
And one of the things you start doing as a parent, and I didn't know this, other than smelling diapers, like that's a thing that you start doing as a parent that I wasn't prepared for. You just have to like smell your child on a regular basis, which is really weird. But it's like the quickest way to be like, I don't know. All right, yeah, you're good. And people that don't have kids are like, that's weird. And it is.
It is weird. But other than that, one of the things you do as a parent is that you'll look at kids and you'll say, you're okay. Like you have to tell the kid they're okay. Like they'll fall, smack their face, blood will squirt out, and you're like, you're okay. It's okay. You're okay.
Like that's one of the things that you do as a parent is you chase your kid saying, it's okay. You're okay. And really, when your kid falls, because they're not used to this stuff. Like he's trying to learn how to stand, and then he just like is holding something and then just wants to grab something. So he just moves his hands, which you and I know if you're leaning on your hands, you can't just move them.
He doesn't know that yet. So his face just like picks up the slack. And he's like, I'll hold you up on the table here. And so one of the things when your kid does this, there's a range. Phase one is he didn't hurt himself and doesn't care and is still focused. And phase one is the best phase because he just like rolls and immediately hops back up and starts doing his thing.
And you don't have to parent at all. You don't have to do anything. He just fell over. You're like, and then he's just like doing something else. Like sometimes he just falls and completely forgets what he was doing because he sees something else. So he just falls, hits the ground, and he's like, ooh, something else I can stick in my mouth.
Like that's kind of, that's phase one. Phase two is he's looking at you to see, should I freak out? Smacks the ground and then looks. And if you go, oh, he goes, ah! Like I don't know why I'm scared, but you're scared. I'm probably going to die.
That's phase two. You have some control over phase two. And then phase three is he does not care. He has legitimately hurt himself. He doesn't need you to tell him that this is a problem. He is going to just cry.
And this sometimes will start off with the non-breathing cry where he just like smacks his head and then goes, and you're like, I think you're going to pass out. I want to smack your head again to get you to breathe. And then he just screams like a psycho. So phase two, you got some control. So here's what I've started doing.
When he falls, because I'm a great parent, I point at him and laugh. And here's my theory. If it is a phase two fall, he thinks it's funny. We're cool. The problem with that is phase three falls. When he is legitimately hurt and I'm his dad going, my wife thinks I am evil.
So like he smacks his head and he rolls over and I'm like, and then it's like a welt and there's blood. And he's like, ah, she's like, what is wrong with you? He's a baby. And I was like, I thought it was phase two. I'm sorry. I messed it up.
I'm miscalculating. I'm miscalculating. But he's judging whether or not he's okay based off of us. So like you run over, you're like, you're okay. It's okay. You're good.
That's all right. That's what he's doing. And there's this, you get told that throughout the rest of your life. You're okay. You're going to be okay. And sometimes it means more.
Sometimes it's more helpful. You're getting sued. You have to hire a lawyer. Your lawyer comes in, looks at the case and says, they have no ground to stand on. You're okay. That feels better.
Like that's a really good, you're okay. That's not the same as when someone breaks up with you and your friend says, oh, you're going to be okay. It's like, am I? Is it okay to die alone? Like you just feel that. Like that okay doesn't help.
But the lawyer's saying it helps. Like the doctor comes in, is looking at your charts and says, oh, you're okay. It wasn't what we thought. Like that insurance adjuster. That's what you want them to say. You're okay.
We got this. This is fully covered. You're good. Jesus being our righteousness is a cosmic, eternal, you're okay. It is a, at the highest level, at the most true, real center of reality, it is the God of the universe saying, you're okay. You see, because in the Old Testament, the big question was, how are we going to get out of this mess?
God is good and holy and we have rebelled. I know that I'm supposed to worship him, but I love money more. I know that I'm supposed to care about his opinion, but I care more about the people around me. I care more about what they think. There's this, I've rebelled. I've chased after other things.
And the question is, how are we going to be made okay? And there's this promise of a coming King who is going to be our righteousness. Who is going to be the one that fulfills for us everything that needed to be fulfilled. That's the promise of Jesus. So how does that help me when I'm turning the ignition off and I'm about to have to go be around family?
How does that help me when I'm sitting at my house this year and I've moved and I'm at school and I'm not going to get to see family. And I feel like Christmas won't be Christmas if I can't see family. How does that feel when it rolls back around and I'm still single? How does that help me? How does Jesus being my righteousness actually work in there? Well, the promise is that at the most fundamental and real level, you have nothing to prove.
If you've placed faith in Jesus, you have nothing to accomplish, nothing to achieve, nothing that you have to work out to point to and say, this makes me valid. This makes me okay because Jesus was born. Jesus lived perfectly. Jesus went to a cross to pay for our sin, to set us free. And he is what makes us okay. Second Corinthians 521 says it this way.
For our sake, he, the first he is God, God the Father, made him, that's Jesus. For our sake, God made Jesus to be sin. To be sin. Yep. To be sin. Who knew no sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus fulfilled this prophecy for us. Fulfilled this prophecy for us that we become the righteousness of God. So Jesus, when he went to the cross, became your sin. Became all the times you fell short. All the times you failed. All the times you came up empty.
All the times you messed up. All the times you were greedy and selfish and hurtful. He became that. He didn't earn it. He didn't deserve it. But he became it so that we who didn't earn it and didn't deserve it can become the righteousness of God.
That you are made blameless and holy. And guess what? Having a relationship at Christmas won't take away from that and can't add to it. Finding the perfect gift won't take away from that and can't add to it. Making more money this year than last year won't take away from that and can't add to it. So when you're about to turn the ignition off and you're about to go hang out with family and you feel this need to have the perfect children, to have the perfect life, to make yourself look better, to suck in your gut a little bit and strut a little bit more and make yourself sound like your work is more interesting than it is.
It is not. The reason, like when you feel all that weight, take a second. And remember that the reason you're about to go into this party, the reason you're about to hang out with your family, the reason you're about to go hang out with friends you haven't seen in a while is that you're celebrating Christmas. And at Christmas we're celebrating that Jesus fulfilled this prophecy. And you have nothing to prove and nothing to earn and nothing to achieve and nothing that will take place in that party and nothing that will take place in your life will add or subtract from the fact that Jesus has already made you full, already made you complete, already made you whole.
When you're at the store and you're trying to figure out last minute how to find the perfect gift, how to cook the perfect meal, how to have the right stuff, how to make your house look the right way so that people will feel, how to have the perfect memories. It's the weirdest thing to try to force yourself to have. Make a memory. Take a second. Remember that you're celebrating Christmas, which is that Jesus was born to fulfill this prophecy, to go to the cross for us, and that we have been made complete and full and holy because of him. That's what we're celebrating.
You're complete. You're okay in the most real sense possible. You're free. You just get to go enjoy all of the stuff we get to partake in. You get to have fun. You get to rest.
You get to hang out with family. You get to take a nap. You get to one-eyed watch Netflix and suck down a Slurpee. Go for it. But you don't have anything to earn from it.
You don't have anything to prove. You don't have anything to accomplish. And when you get passed into January, you didn't mess it up. Because it couldn't add to you. It couldn't take from you. You're good.
Because what we just celebrated was that Jesus fulfills this on our behalf. And we don't have anything to prove or to work out. We actually get to rest because God, when we place faith in Jesus, became our sin so that we could become righteousness. That's it. So at this time of year, we try to take a minute to press pause on some of the consumeristic stuff to push back on a little bit to all the pressure that we have around Christmas and to say we're going to do some things to rally as a church family to be generous.
Put our money somewhere else. Put our time somewhere else. And so this year, we may have gotten a little ambitious. Just so y'all know. We talked about it, prayed about it, and decided to do two gift projects and kind of wrote a check that we're then saying, all right, church family. What do we got in the account?
Like, what are we doing here? Because we're saying we're going to do two things. And really, we're saying we're going to do both of these and want all of our church family to participate in both. I think we can do it. I'm excited about it. But it is going to involve all of us hopping in, getting on board, and choosing to take some of this time to be generous and to give.
And so the two things we're doing this year. First one, we talked about last week, is we are giving to City Church, which is a church plant in Knoxville. And I am pumped about this opportunity. First of all, we love church plants. We are one. So we're for them.
In case you didn't know, we're pro-church plant. We love to see more churches get started, more people being on mission in more cities. And the really beautiful thing about getting to give to the Knoxville church plant is that we're going to get to tap into what God is doing in a city that we won't go. Like, unless Carolina has an away game there, and unless I suddenly have a change in my financial statement, I'm not going to Knoxville. I might one weekend, if someone gives me a ticket. That's it.
Like, that's the only reason I'm going to Knoxville. It's not to be on mission. It's to eat some food, watch a game, and come home. Like, we get to, by giving into City Church, tap into all the stuff they're going to do, all the times they get to serve, all the times, all the relationships they get to build, all the times that they have baptisms. And they celebrate that more people place faith in Jesus. We won't be there, but we'll have gotten to tap into it.
We'll have gotten to give into that. We're going to show a video of City Church, of Kent Bateman talking. He was here the other day. We're going to show that, and we're going to keep talking about them, and then we're going to talk about our second gift project. He's wearing a plaid shirt and has a beard. I trust him and think it's going to be great.
We know them. They're part of Midtown Fellowship right now, which is in downtown Columbia, and we're a part of the Grassroots Network to try to plant more churches. I'm very excited to be able to partner with them. Here's some of the things we've started dreaming about for them. They've got 25 people that are going to be moving there, and they're going to go ahead and start some groups because they're like us. They're groups first.
We love each other. We're on mission in the city together, and we believe that people will see that and come to know Jesus through it. And so what if we give enough for each of their groups? They start three groups. What if we give enough for each of their groups to have a $300 party budget, a $500 party budget? What if we get to tap into that?
What if our money goes towards bacon and fried chicken to help people meet Jesus? You know how beautiful that is? What if we're able to give enough for them to get a tailgating spot at Nylund Stadium? Nylund Stadium. I don't know how to pronounce it. Nylund?
I think it's Nylund. Yeah. What if we're able to give them a tailgating spot so they can throw parties all year long and get to build relationships with people and get to know people? What if we give enough for them to buy their own baptismal? We borrow Midtown Columbians, but that's going to be too far for them to drive. They're going to have to have their own.
What if we give enough for them to buy one? And we get to be a part of every single one of their baptism gatherings? I don't know. I don't know how much we're going to give. Here's what we're asking. That all of us will begin to pray and ask God, what does it look like for us to give?
You can write a check and put for City Church and put it in that box. You can go onto our website and through our Give link, you can click a drop-down tab and give specifically to City Church so that we can know this is how much we're giving them. We can write them one big check and we can celebrate together. This is how much we rallied to help your church get started. See, more people meet Jesus in Knoxville. And a bunch of those people from Columbia, maybe they'll help them become Gamecock fans.
But it's something that we get to be a part of. Something that we get to join in and we're very excited about. The other thing, that's why I said we may have bitten off more than we can chew. We're going to find out. It's going to be great. The other thing that we're going to do is there was a family affected by the flood, the Staley family.
Affected by the flood over off of the North Main area. The wife had just had surgery. They have three children. The husband was only able to pull some carpet out. And otherwise, they have left two rooms that were flooded untouched. Mold and mildew have taken over those rooms.
And they are now unsafe for their family. And so this coming Saturday, the 12th, and the following Saturday, the 19th, we're taking crews over there to make their house safe again. And then in January, we're going to come back and help them rebuild. That's the plan. And that's going to take manpower. The first one is going to take money.
This is going to take manpower. And we want everybody to be involved with both. Let me show you a few pictures of that house. This is the Staley residence. It's over in North Main. Kind of on out towards I-20.
This is Miss Staley. We met her and her daughter. And I do not remember her daughter's name, but it's like a Zola or Nola. It's got Ola in it. And I should have remembered that or not brought it up. But we are where we are now.
That's Miss Staley. And that's little Miss Staley next to her. That is their back patio room. That glass was broken prior to the flood, and the whole back patio just filled up. And they have not done anything in that room. And so show the next picture.
That room is filled with stuff. That chair, you can't see it in the picture. You can kind of see it looks speckled. That is completely molded out. That's the technical term. Molded out.
Everything in that room is covered in mold and mildew. And we are going to have to wear suits and masks and go in and very slowly bag it all up. There is now mold and mildew growing in the ceiling. We are going to have to spray everything with shockwave, pressure wash the inside of both of these rooms. They have completely locked that room off. They're not going in there, and everything in that room is getting thrown away.
That's what we're starting with on this coming Saturday. The next room is on the side of their house. That's the entrance door to it. The front of the house is here, so you're kind of walking up to the house here. This is actually the door they use to enter into their house, and they've got mold and mildew growing in there. So every time they walk through that room, they're tracking mold and mildew into their house.
The only thing they've done is pulled up the carpet, but there's still carpet over here that they're growing mold in and taking it inside. That whole room back there has a washer, a dryer, a freezer that we're going to have to clean out. We're going to have to pull all this stuff out. Show the other side of the room. There's mildew growing all in the corner. We're going to have to take everything out of this room, throw it away, pressure wash it, clean it to make their house safe again.
And that's what we've signed up to do. That's our gift project. That's what we get to be a part of this year. They're rolling into January. Their daughter, their other children can play in their house, and they don't have to. While we were there, the daughter was in the room.
She sat down one of her toys. There was an adjuster with like an assessor with us. She sat down one of her toys on the couch, and he said, you're going to need to throw that away. She doesn't get to have that anymore because that's not safe anymore. And they're walking through this every day. And so here's what we're doing.
We want to give to City Church.