Luke 6:43-49 with Aaron Searles

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Alright, yes, I do have I have props. I have visuals. Again, I can't help it. It's in the scripture, so I I want to use it too. So I've got my lunch bag here. The first visual I want to give you today is fruit. Fruit. It's a pear, a lemon, and a clementine? Orange? Whatever you call it. So fruit. We're going to be talking about fruit today. So this is a visual for you. In our lives, Jesus is calling us to bear fruit. And we want to live in such a way that this is the visual that we have of our life, that we bear fruit. The other visual that we're going to be looking at today is, I got a brick for it, laying a foundation. I don't think you build foundations with bricks, so but this is what I can carry in the building. I thought about bringing in some concrete, because that's what we would do. But I think in the first century they probably laid a foundation of stone and various other materials, but that's that's those are the visuals. So as you think about what we're doing today, think about the what we're talking about today, what Jesus is focusing in on today, this is what we are, these are the visuals in your mind, okay? So before we jump into our passage, I just want to kind of revisit where we've been in this sermon from Jesus. And the first kind of shocking claim and the shocking thing that Jesus taught his followers, taught his disciples was this love your enemies. And how radical a thought that is. To think about an enemy that you have in your life, and God says, love them. Love them. What a concept, what a thought, what a behavior that is not of this world. We only see that in Christ. How radical to love your enemies. The next thing that we talked about and learned about in Jesus' teaching is to not judge, not condemn. I want to give you a quote from a commentary on this. Jesus' words do not forbid making moral judgments, but rather condemn judgmentalism. So this is what we're called to be as followers of Christ, as disciples of Jesus. Another quote, judgmental people are often blind to their own sins, but quick to see them in others. It's like the definition of judgmentalism, right? It's not seeing as Jesus humorously taught and gave us the visual of pulling out the log that is in your own eye before pointing out the speck, the splinter in somebody else's life. And we had I had the two by four last week, and I was trying to look around with the two by four. So we love our enemies, radical. We don't judge or condemn radical. This is the life, this is the mind, this is the behavior of Christ in us and through us. And third, we forgive. We keep on forgiving. This is our superpower as followers of Christ. If you have faith in Jesus Christ, you are an empty container, receiving the strength and the superpower of forgiveness to forgive others. Again, not saying what they did is okay, not saying what they did is not sin. It is sin, but we say, in the grace and the mercy of God, I forgive you. I want good for your life. I want blessing for your life. And we only have that capacity, we only have that ability from God, not in your own strength. And finally, generous. Jesus calls us to be generous. Yes, generous to the church, but generous with your life. I love the word stewardship. You have been entrusted with resources, tangible, physical resources, but your own strength that you have. You've been entrusted to steward that in generosity and for the kingdom and what God has called you to. So today, though, we have kind of some interesting things as Jesus talks about fruit and talks about building a foundation. It's really kind of a paradox. He's kind of saying to do two things at the same time. Doesn't compute, doesn't necessarily work out as we talk about this. And we're going to be asking the question: how do you become a good tree? How do you become this strong building or strong house built on this right foundation? We're going to talk about what is fruit, and again, how do we build this foundation? But I've got three key words. These are my key words. These are words that I would underline if I had a Luke journal in front of me. You may have different keywords, that's okay. But I'm going to focus on three keywords, and I will highlight those as we go through this this morning. So let's jump in. Luke chapter 6, verse 43 is where we'll start today. This is what Jesus says again in this same sermon that we're just talking about. So leading up to this, and this is kind of how he's beginning to wrap it up, wrap up the sermon in the Luke gospel. Verse 43 for no good tree bears bad fruit. Nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit. So Jesus right now is a dividing line. You could even say that Jesus is judging. He's the judge, by the way. He's the perfect judge. He is morally perfect. He is without sin. That's how he dies in our place. He takes our sin upon himself. He is the perfect sacrifice. But he is judging. He's the only one who has the moral authority to do so. He is judging, and he's saying there's a good tree and there's a bad tree. And he's talking about morality, about how we live, how we act, how we think, how we behave. And again, he's using this imagery of a tree producing good fruit. I've learned to love lemon desserts in my older age. Bless chocolate. I still love chocolate, but what's the good fruit that we're producing in our lives? So that's my first key word: fruit. Jesus is talking about fruit. He's giving us this visual, this good, pleasing visual, this thing that we all love and we put into our desserts or we just eat off the tree, whatever it is, fruit. It's this good thing. We recognize that. And that's what God wants for us as we follow Christ. So again, uh, thinking about the time, and Jesus will mention this later about you know what would be the fruit in the first century Israel. You know, figs and grapes and olives, and we've talked earlier about uh grain, you know, just the produce of life. And again, a good tree produces fruit. So what's the fruit that Jesus is talking about? Well, we just need to reverse a little bit. This is the thought life, the attitude, the actions of a disciple of Jesus. It is love your enemies. How radical again. And that's the fruit that comes from a follower of Christ, a genuine follower of Christ. They have the capacity, they have the fruit in their lives where they are willing to and actively loving their enemies. The fruit of the good tree, again, of a disciple, again, as we talked about, being gracious towards those, merciful, forgiving, and generous. The bad tree is the opposite of these things: not loving, judging, condemning, unforgiving, and I would say stingy. So we ask ourselves, we evaluate our lives, we evaluate our following of Christ and what is the fruit that we are having in our lives. Again, this is not a sermon to shame you or guilt you. This is a sermon I hope and pray that all of us are, me included, I'm in the front row listening to this, that we are being transformed and that we are desiring the things that God wants us to desire to pursue in our own lives. Verse 44. For each tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. So again, trees, and Jesus is using logic here. He's being plain in this teaching, he's giving this visual of what are we pursuing as followers of Christ, as his disciples. This is again the sermon, this is a sermon too. That's his audience. This is he's saying, This is what I want from you. This is what I want you to be pursuing in your own life. So we don't think of an apple tree producing oranges or bananas. And we have to ask the question, though, what kind of fruit are you producing in your life? What is your behavior? What are your words that you're using? What is your thought life? What's the internal compass your heart pointed towards in your life? And and the desire, the pursuit, the path is for the follower of Christ, for the disciple of Jesus, is to look like Jesus. Look like Jesus. How do we look like Jesus? What do we visual are we going for? Well, we we go to God's word, we we look at his life, we look at his perfect moral character, his behavior, how he talked to people, how he treated people. That is what we want in our life. That's how we want to talk, that's how we want to think, that's what we our compass, our heart is about. We want to look like Jesus. Verse 45. The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. So we get the definition. We get the good person definition. You will be known by your fruit. Again, your fruit is your actions, your behavior, your your works, in a sense. What actions are you committing in your life? What are you giving your strength and your resources, your attention to in your life? Again, there's this paradox going on here. I need to speak to this. You don't earn your salvation through your actions. You don't earn your salvation, your good standing, your righteous standing before God because of what you accomplish, but it is the fruit of your salvation, the fruit of your faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Because you recognize the morality, the perfect, the perfection, the purity of Christ, you want to be like that, but you recognize that's who took your place, and now you live for him. So we should see that in your lives, should see that in my life. Again, nobody is perfect. Nobody can attain perfection. You can be a Christian for 60 years, 70 years, your whole life. You will never be perfect, but this is an aim, this is a compass, this is what we're going for in our lives. This is the fruit. So there's this word being mentioned here, this treasure, this good treasure or this evil treasure. And the word, you know, when I see the word treasure, it's this storing up of resource, this reserve. And how do you store up these treasures, this goodness in your heart? We want to store up the good, right? Not the evil. We want the treasure of good in our lives. As it says, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks. So here's my second key word, abundance. Again, you might have another key word, but my key word today is abundance. And the point that I want to make to you today is this overflow. So the good fruit, the good in you, in the wealth of your soul, in the wealth of your mind and your thoughts, the good in the secret life of God. And what people will see is not that, because that's that's between you and the Lord. What people see is the overflow of that. So the the the fruit is the what people see is what they experience, what your family, what your spouse, your coworkers, your friends, your neighbors, and yes, even your enemies, what they will see is a smaller percentage of what's going on in your secret life. It's the overflow. And that's the math in this, if we want this life, if we want this pursuit in our life. We, this is the math. The smaller percentage is what people see. The goodness is in the secret. Only you and God know what's going on in the unseen roots of your good tree. Only you and God know what's going on, again, in the roots of your soul. Only you and God know what the conversations that you're having with God about the challenges and the struggles and the things that we prayed about this morning. Only you and God know that. That's between you and the Lord. In transparent, authentic, genuine relationship with God. And that's the secret life of God. And I would say, as I said already this morning, as we had a facilitated prayer time of quiet time before God, this is the necessity for the quiet. Jesus, again, patterned his life. We want to be like Jesus, we want to look like Jesus. And what Jesus did was he regularly went off to a desolate place. He showed us the way. He showed us how to how to have the good fruit, how to get the good fruit in our lives, how to how to again build our foundation in him. It's the secret life, it's the quiet life, it's the it's the getting alone to be with him one-on-one. That's why we need the alone time with God. That's when you can tell God, God, I'm angry. In those quiet times. In those quiet times, in those desolate times, you can say, God, I'm depressed. I'm sad. In those quiet times, those alone times, those desolate times, you say, God, I'm scared. And maybe you do it out in the wilderness, you do it on a long walk, and you do it out loud sometimes. So I have a story I've shared in this church before, and it's one of those stories I'm gonna keep sharing every couple of years. Um it's a story of pain, a story of hurt my own hurt several years ago. I was in um, I was wrapping up my uh missionary experience and missionary career, and um my son was was coming. Uh or he was born. I can't remember the exact details, but he was coming. I knew he was coming, and I knew I needed money. I needed a job. I was had reached the end of raising support and recognizing there was just a logical next step to getting one a job job and uh not raising support anymore. And so I I entered into a long interview process, uh, six months interview process. And it was filled with stress and anxiety and and kind of wondering and wondering what's gonna go on, what's gonna happen. And and in my mind and even in reflection, I see what God was doing in my character because I was putting all my faith and hope into a job and not into God, my heavenly father. I was putting it all into my career and how I was gonna provide for my family, but I wasn't trusting in my heavenly father who would provide for me. So I went through this whole six-month process, and then, you know, just forthrightly, I don't think I was treated well. Um, and in the end of that, I wasn't even told by the organization that should have told me that that job wasn't happening, wasn't being created, and so just not handled well. Again, I'm not saying that was okay or right or whatever. And I was very emotional, and I kind of kept it together as I was told by a third party about this, and then uh got in my car and tears, emotional. Again, the last whole six months of what I was going through all just piled up into that moment. And I'll never forget pulling into my garage, turning off my car, closing the garage door in the pitch black, letting God have it. Pouring out my heart. And I remember telling God, God, your people hurt me. And I'll never forget, um, I I haven't necessarily heard like the sound waves, audible voice of God hit my eardrums, but I've had moments in my life where God used that direct connect to my soul, where I'd almost like describe it like the center of my brain, hearing God. And this was one of those moments where I felt like the actual words of God into my brain, and I felt like God say to me, This is what I want. Now you might think that God wanted those circumstances, but what pearl, what treasure of suffering, of pain, and pouring out my heart to God in that moment, what I what I take away from that was not that, but God wanted that moment with me. God wanted me to do that. To pour out my heart to him. To, as I said, let him have it. Give it all to him. Give him the pain, give him the suffering, give him, give him the hurt, give him the fear, give him the anger, give it to tell your heavenly father what's going on. Don't hold it inside yourself. And and I don't dwell on that process. I love that moment that I had with God, and I call it a pearl. I just hold on to that. That's a treasure that I hold on to, giving and giving, having that moment with the Lord. So again, it's it's about being with him, being attached to the vine, as Jesus instructed us. Jesus said, I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me will bear much fruit. Now it's a paraphrase. Don't quote me on that, but that's what Jesus instructed us. Abide, attach, be physically attached to God. So we we don't get tossed around by the waves or the circumstances and the challenges of this life, but we find our abundance, we find our strength, we find our capacity to bear fruit in that attachment to God, in that alone time with God. And I'm just even reminded of when Jesus called the disciple Nathaniel, he said, I saw you under the tree. And we don't know all the details of that moment, but that was all Nathaniel needed to hear. That was only, that was all the relationship that he needed to recognize you're the Son of God. And from that moment on he was a follower of Christ. So, all this is assuming fruit, all right, that we be good trees bearing good fruit. And we need to ask the question again: are we bearing fruit? Am I bearing fruit? Is this what my life looks like? Is the gospel taking root in you? Is there a transformational process, little by little, that God is transforming you? And I would just say, like I said, you will never arrive at perfection. None of us will. It's not about arrival. We're never a hundred percent there, this side of heaven. But it's always willing and humble before God, seeking his transformation, seeking the work to the little things to give to God, the thoughts, the attitudes, the words, the actions of our life. And I would say, if you think you've arrived, that looks and smells a lot like a Pharisee. Again, that's where you start having this blindness to judge other people because you've arrived. And that's not the fruit that we want. That's what you would call the bad fruit. The Pharisees again arrived at what they thought was good fruit, but were deceived. And blinded by their own pride. And I would say again, I confession, I deal with this all the time. Just pride. Just taking my thoughts captive and saying, oh, that was a bad thought. That wasn't good. That wasn't a good thought, or a good word, or good action. And repentance. Again, the Pharisees, Jesus called them this. He called them whitewashed tombs. On the outside, they looked good. They had the white walls that looked good. They looked like that nice building, but he called them a whitewashed tomb. Their heart was death. Their heart was decay. What an insult, but a truth, a conviction that we have to stay away from. Okay, verse 46. So now we're switching over to this new visual. That's the fruit. Now we're going to talk about how we build our house, how we build our foundation, and how we do that in a secure way. Verse 46. Jesus, again, continued. Why do you call me Lord, Lord and do and not do what I tell you? Let me say that again. Why do you call me Lord, Lord and not do what I tell you? Again, Jesus is not about lip service or pleasantries. He's not about the fake. He's not about filling the air with empty words. Again, Lord, Lord is what we call God. He is our King. He's our Savior. He is creator. But Jesus is again about action. Again, not earning your salvation, but it's the fruit of your salvation. Jesus is saying, don't just throw me these titles, but show me that you're a follower of me, that you're a disciple, that you're actually following me. Verse 47 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like. So it's important to recognize there's relationship. He who comes to me. That's the importance of relationship. But now we're all with the disciples, the followers of Christ, waiting with bated breath, anticipating what Jesus is going to say next. This is what someone is like. Another visual that Jesus is giving us. Attention now, as was pointed out with the fruit and salvation. You know, in a commentary highlighted this point that, you know, I would just even say in this moment, and this can be for all of us, have you ever ridden on a plane and sat in the beginning of the plane and you hear the flight staff give the safety announcement? Are you waiting on every word that they're saying? Or are you like me sometimes and you have your book or your iPhone game out and you've moved on from the safety instructions, assuming that everything's gonna be fine, you don't need to hear any of this. But they got to say it anyway, right? We haven't just got to be hearers. We're not just reading this. Hopefully, in this sermon, you're being transformed by God's word and by the Holy Spirit. We're not just hearing the instructions, but that we're being transformed by God. Verse 48. So this is what Jesus, this is what we'd, if we were waiting for Jesus, what is Jesus about to say? He is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it because it had been well built. So we have this other visual. Houses built, have you ever seen um I I always feel bad, but the house is built on the ocean, I want to say in New York, and it looks like they're built on stilts, and then for whatever reason the ocean just sweeps them away and they're gone. Or a house next to a river. Again, it's it's sad. It's hard. And if you're terrible like me sometimes, I wonder why did you build your house right there? Right? I'm judging. Instead of having empathy for these people who just lost their house.

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But this is the visual that we're given in this moment. But Jesus is saying here, what are we building your life upon? And you could say your house is the visual of your lifestyle. Like, what are you putting all of your energy into? Again, if you're a good tree gets good fruit. And now overflow. But how do we do this with this visual that he's talking about? Here's my last key word for you today. I waited, like foundation, rock, no, I'm going deep. Keyword number three here, my last keyword is deep. Someone who is obedient to the truth of Jesus is someone who builds their house on a deep laid foundation, on the rock that is Jesus. Again, if you build your foundation, if you build your life, you build your lifestyle, your behavior, your secret life, your public life, if you build it all upon the truth and the word of God, your relationship with Jesus, you will have a strong foundation. You will be able to resist the reality that's coming. The circumstances of life, the reality and the logic of this life that things are not always going to go smoothly, that we're gonna have tough times, that that relationships, that people are gonna let you down, people might sin and betray you. And and what are we rooting ourselves in? What are we building our foundation upon? It's the truth of the gospel, it's the truth of God, it but I would say it's the relationship with God. Where do you turn in tough times? Where do you turn when everything falls apart? You built your foundation, you built your eternity upon Christ, the rock. And again, I would just highlight this these two things here, if you notice it. You know, if a good tree bears good fruit, but it it's the secret life of God in the roots. And I'd say the secret life of God in the foundation. It's deep, it's underground, it's in the unseen life, relationship with God. Verse 49, last verse today. But the one who appears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great. So again, this is the visual. If you don't root and build your foundation upon Christ, if your life isn't built upon being with God and the words of God, circumstances will come and sweep you away, and it will be great, it says. Total destruction. So, in conclusion, just some summary of this. Again, uh of the roots and the fruit of God and the foundations that we need to build. I would again highlight the unseen necessity of your relationship with God. You're not gonna get any credit, no one's gonna think you're spiritual. It's a secret. It's your prayer closet, as some would say. It's the desolate place, it's your favorite spot with Jesus, wherever that is, that nobody knows about, no one's gonna give you credit for or thinking anything of you. You that's just just between you and Jesus to talk to God, to pour out your heart. That's the, and again, it's it's the challenge in this this passage, too, is the external versus the internal. If we want the fruit and we want the strong house, we've got to start on the inside. We've got to start in the internal. If we want the actions, the words, the behavior, we've got to start with that in our lives. So, how do you pour a strong foundation? How do you transform the roots to produce good fruit? Okay, I hope that you're you're in a place right now. Obviously, you're in a good spot, I would say, listening to biblical preaching to encourage you. But how do you how do you do this? Where do you start? And so some of you may need to do this. I would say I needed to do this when I was a freshman in college, raised in the church, baptized when I was seven years old, but when I was a freshman in college, I again I had that moment where I'm like, have I really given everything to God? Have I surrendered not only the external, but the internal? Have I given my secret life to God? Is there anything that I'm holding on to that isn't been surrendered to God? So how we build this foundation, how we again focus on the internal is complete, total surrender to the Lordship and truth of Jesus Christ that we find in his word. Complete, total surrender to Christ. Again, we can have the pleasantries. They call me Lord, Lord. But only you know your heart. Only God knows your heart. Might look good out on the surface, might look like you're going through the motions, but have you completely, totally surrendered all? Is there anything that the Holy Spirit might even be convicting you of in this moment that you're holding on to? Maybe it's control. Is there control that you're holding on to? Again, it may not be tangible. Maybe, I mean, it's just in your head. But have you surrendered all control to God? Have you trusted Him completely? You know, maybe it's a career. Uh for me, again, confession, it's the it's the esteem of man, it's the it's the pleasantries. And I've got to surrender that. Like, where am I getting my esteem? You know, where am I getting my confidence? Where am I getting my value, my worth? So again, I I don't know. I hope you have a conversation with God. I hope you pour out your heart to God. I hope you've surrendered. But in that surrendered place, we ask God, is there anything I'm not giving complete control, total surrender to you? Is there anything that I've got my hands clawed upon that I'm overvaluing more than Jesus in my life? Again, we bend the knee to the gardener of creation. We bend the knee to God who set the tectonic plates of this earth. He is in control, whether we recognize it or not. We let go of control. We trust in him. And in that quiet place, in that desolate place, alone with Jesus, we invite him to wash over us, to replace your attitude, your thoughts to his truth, to the mind of Christ, to the leading of the Holy Spirit, to listen for the whisper of the Holy Spirit in your life. I want you to imagine the best relationship that you've ever had. Maybe it's with a friend or a sibling, a parent, a spouse. I want you to imagine that relationship. Present or past. Now take the values and the reason why that's the best relationship, and I believe multiply that times infinity with God. And that's our eternity, that's our future, that's the glory of God. So we just think about the best parts of that best relationship you have and multiply times infinity. That's that's the that's the horizon, that's the dream, that's the that's our future eternity with Christ. He will you know love us, and he does right now, as we sang about today. But that's the abundance, that's the overflow, that's the source of fruit, that's the source of this foundation strength. David was chosen because he was a man after God's own heart. David lavished his love to God and spending time with God, singing and writing songs to him, worshiping him, and saturating the hills of Bethlehem, loving God. He was a man after God's own heart. And I will just tell you, someday I would love to go to Israel. And if I go to Israel, yes, I will go to the tourist spots. But I tell people this: I want to go and spend a week on a boat of the Sea of Galilee. I would love to go walk in the hills of Bethlehem and just imagine what it would be like thousands of years ago. So, application, this is my end end, I promise. You know, I as a pastor, as teaching, I love doing this. I love preaching. I love sharing God's word with you. And I hope you know my heart, and I try to do this every sermon. I try to end with application. Because I'm not just preaching for knowledge, I want to preach for transformation. And I recognize I have no control over that in you. That's God and His Holy Spirit and His Word transforming you. But that's why I end my sermons because I'm not just trying to fill your head with knowledge. I'm I'm I want to be authentic followers of Christ together. Again, nobody's perfect, but that's what I'm I'm doing then. And again, I'm I hope I'm not just safety instructions on a plane. I hope in your heart and your mind are being transformed. And again, we do that in confession as we did today. We do that in repentance, we do that in humility before God, in a realistic state before God. And we cry out to God, recognizing if we don't have fruit, if we don't have that foundation, we in a humble state before we just say, God, help. Help God. Help me with surrendering completely with you. Help me. I want to have abundance of fruit. Because it's real in my life. We've got to take inventory and reflection and notice the chambers of your heart and your mind and what you're thinking about. We need iron sharpens iron. We need Christian community to help us. Let's say you're doing it right now, but we need those authentic confidants, brothers and sisters in Christ, so we can say, Man, I'm struggling. I'm struggling with this, I'm dealing with this. I need help. Pray for me. We need to replace our thoughts with the mind of Christ. And again, listen to the Holy Spirit. So I want to give you an immediate application right now. Okay, real quick. So, to a non-family member in this church, I would like you to say this right now. I'm giving you instructions right now, and I want you to mean it. It's an encouragement. Just tell someone that's a non-family member near you that say this. I'm glad you're here. Ready, go. Encouragement. Encourage one another. We're glad you're here. What a joy, what a privilege, and honor it is to be in the church, to be the family of God. I'm glad you're here. I'm gonna end with this verse. I've I've concluded other sermons with this, it's one of my favorite verses. 2 Corinthians chapter 3, verse 18. And we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. Let's pray. God, we want to be your disciples, we want to be your followers, God, we want to be your ambassadors, we want to be your representatives, and God, we just confess we need your help, God. We are completely, totally dependent on you, God. Help us take our thoughts captive, God. Help us prioritize alone time with you, God. Help us to take our thoughts captive, the temptations of the enemy, the lies of the enemy, God. Protect us from the enemy, God. To remind ourselves that you love us, that you died for us, that you conquered death for us. And God, help us to be transformed from one degree of glory to another. God, I trust in your Holy Spirit as you prompt us, Lord, in this moment. As you highlight things in our lives that you want to transform. And I pray that you would give us the courage, give us the strength to have faith in you, God, to have faith in your transformation, to trust you, God. God, help us to surrender to you completely. Help us to know that we can only be satisfied in you. God, we love you. And God, I just pray for anyone in here that needs to be reminded of salvation, God, is in you and you alone. I pray that they put their faith in you as their Lord and Savior. God, if we need to recommit, I pray for those recommitments today. God, I pray as we all have not arrived, but today want to be transformed a little bit more into who you are. We want to be like you, God. And we just pray for that transformation as we go from here. God, we again just pray for Amy and Phil in this moment. Just pray your blessing, your peace, your protection, your healing, your favor over them in this moment. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.