Easter '25: Who Wants God?

Scripture References: Philippians 3:1-11; Acts 9:15-16; 1 Peter 3:18; John 17:3; Ephesians 2:13; Revelation 21:1-3

Intro:

• Context: Philippians 3, Paul writing from prison.
• Focus on Paul's radical transformation: From Saul, the zealous persecutor who jailed/oversaw the killing of Christians, to Paul, the apostle jailed for Christ.
• What could cause such a complete reversal? (Think: converting core beliefs/loyalties). Paul had a direct encounter with the risen Christ (Acts 9). His conversion wasn't just religious affiliation; it was a fundamental shift.

Key Points:

1. Conversion 1: From the Ladder of Legalism to the Cross of Christ (Phil 3:4-9)
   • Paul lists his "blue-chip" credentials (circumcised, Israelite, Benjamin, Hebrew, Pharisee, zealous persecutor, legally righteous). He had maximum "confidence in the flesh."
   • He counts all this previous "gain" as "loss" and "rubbish" compared to the value of knowing Christ.
   • Contrast: The "Ladder" mentality (perform well = acceptance; fail = rejection - exemplified by the coach clip/ "American way") vs. The "Cross" reality (righteousness comes not from our works/law, but through faith in Christ's work for us).
   • This Gospel truth needs constant repetition ("It's safe for you," v. 1) because we naturally revert to the ladder.
2. Conversion 2: From Life FOR/FROM God to Life WITH God (Phil 3:8, 10-11)
   • Paul's driving desire wasn't just duty for God or benefits from God, but intimacy with God: "that I may know him," "gain Christ," "be found in him."
   • What the Gospel achieves (forgiveness, eternal life) are vital, but they are means to the ultimate end: knowing and being with God Himself.
   • Forgiveness isn't just wiping a slate; it cleanses to bring us to God (1 Peter 3:18). Eternal life is knowing God (John 17:3).
   • Analogy: Seeking spousal forgiveness – the true goal is restoring connection/relationship, not just easing guilt or getting perks.
   • The ultimate question shifts from "Who wants benefits?" to "Who wants God?"
3. God's Desire: Life WITH You
   • God's primary goal isn't just making us morally better, but bringing us relationally closer (Eph 2:13). He desires communion.
   • Consider God's attractiveness: Humble (Incarnation), Serving, Loving (sacrificially), Redemptive (meaning in suffering), Powerful (Resurrection).
   • Does God want me, even knowing my failures? The Cross is the definitive YES. He takes us "as is," confident in His power to heal and restore. He sees, knows, loves, moves towards you.
   • All history points toward God dwelling with His people (Rev 21:3).

Conclusion:

• These conversions—rejecting legalism for grace, shifting from performance/benefits to relationship—aren't one-time decisions but ongoing processes.
• We continually need to recognize the "ladder" in our hearts and choose the Cross, choose life with Him.

Call to Action:

• Acknowledge the need for these conversions again today.
• Consciously choose the Cross over the ladder.
• Seek life with God, not just for Him or from Him. Recognize His desire for you.
• Remain in His love (Jude 21) – that relational space is where you truly belong, wherever you go.

Transcript

All right. 

 I'm going to read our teaching text for this morning. It comes from Philippians 3. 

 This is the Apostle Paul writing from a prison, 

 "Finally, my brothers, 

 rejoice in the Lord to write the same things to you as it's no trouble for me and it's safe for you. 

 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh, for we are the circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. 

 Though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also, 

 if anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more. 

 Circumcised on the eighth day of the people of Israel of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews as to the law of Pharisee, as to zeal, a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 

 But whatever gain I had, 

 I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 

 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord. 

 For his sake, I've suffered the loss of all things and I count them as rubbish in order that I might gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith, 

 that I might know him and the power of his resurrection 

 and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible, 

 I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 

 This is the word of the Lord. 

 For the last three years, I've been in seminary and next week, it's killing me. I'll miss the baptisms because I get to graduate. 

 Yeah. 

 That's an interesting response given a lot of you were very worried about me going to seminary. 

 You've seen a lot of good pastors go south when they go to seminary. You know that more information doesn't equal more transformation, right? So a lot of you, you're now applauding because I've come through, I guess. 

 But a lot of you were like, hey, we got a good thing going, please don't screw it up, you know? 

 So I did what I could not to screw it up. My family was incredibly supportive and then got a little bit suspicious themselves when I came home with this book, 

 the Genesis of Gender. 

 And I remember my kids going, what are you reading? 

 What's going on here? You know, I thought you were going to school for God. What is this? 

 And this is a book that I would recommend. I recommend you read it and I recommend you not read it in a coffee shop because the cover is kind of steamy and everyone's going to stare at you. 

 But this book tells the story of a lady named Abigail Favalli and it tells her story. And she taught feminist theory in a university in Portland. 

 She taught gender theory and was a part of a department and she started to question what she was teaching while she was teaching it and then had the courage to genuinely explore those questions. 

 She's now Catholic, having babies and teaching at Notre Dame. 

 And the story is fascinating because she's not on the outside trying to deconstruct ideologies and arguments. She knows these things very well because she herself was convinced of these things. And so she's armed with two things. It's incredible the compassion that she has and the conviction that she has. 

 So she actually, again, she believed and was convincing others of these things. 

 And then it's like in this book she blows up the death star from the inside. 

 It's an incredible read and I would recommend it. She's a really unlikely convert. 

 And I love the stories of really unlikely converts. 

 Not just religiously speaking but anybody who is convinced one way, becoming convinced of another idea. And of course you realize we can, oh you did already, great. 

 It's a little distracting. 

 You realize that when we read the book of Philippians and when we read the words of the Apostle Paul, this is what we're reading. 

 This is what's going on. The Apostle Paul used to be Saul of Tarsus and he had quite the conversion, right? He used to throw other people in jail for believing the claims of Christ and now he is in jail for believing and proclaiming the gospel of Christ. 

 He's now in jail. The man who used to tear the church apart with his orders is now building up the church with his words to this day. To this very day he'll build up the church with his words. And he used to order the execution of Christians. 

 He was killing people who believed what he would one day be killed for believing. 

 It's incredible. 

 He used to go house to house dragging people into the streets and would eventually be put to death for the Christian faith. 

 Can I ask you a question? 

 What would it take for you to convert to another major world religion? 

 Not just to convert from being nominal to being convinced, but from one convinced camp to another and to the point where you're now building mosques and riding the Koran. 

 What would it take to bring you there? What would it take for you, a diehard Giants fan, to root for the Dodgers? 

 This year, this year when they're so easy to hate, what would it take? 

 What would it take for you, a Trumper? You're a farmer, you're a Trumper, you probably have a concealed weapon on you right now. What would it take? 

 Why is that funny? 

 Oh my gosh. Okay. So what would it take for you to go door to door to get others to vote for Gavin Newsom in the next election and die for the cause? 

 What would it take? Just consider it for a second. 

 Just consider it. The biblical answer to this is a whole heck of a lot. 

 You would have to meet God and have him speak to you, which is exactly what happened to Saul. He gets knocked off of his horse. 

 He sees the light in the middle of his rampage. 

 He gets converted and he stops persecuting the church and this unique call comes to his life and this is what God says over him. The first half of this prophecy is a winner. The second half, you don't want to hear God say this. He's a chosen instrument of mine to carry God's name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. 

 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name. 

 So Saul is called to help non-Jewish people find the God of Israel through Jesus and he didn't just convert from Judaism to Christianity. 

 There are a few things that I think he highlights this morning and I think there's a conversion that's supposed to take place for us here this morning. 

 My favorite story about what happened in Paul's life is that there was a church planted in Antioch and it was planted because people were fleeing for their lives. 

 So he's dragging people from their homes and people are like, "I'm getting out of here." When they flee, they don't stop sharing and proclaiming the good news of what Jesus has done and these migrants become missionaries. 

 And when they get to Antioch, they're not just sharing the good news with Jews. They start to share the news with Gentiles and they have the very first mixed church with both Jew and Gentile. The church in Jerusalem gets news of this and headquarters sends Barnabas. You got to go check this out. Barnabas gets there. He gets there and he goes, "Oh, the grace of God is all over this." 

 Don't do anything different. Keep doing what you're doing. I know exactly what you guys need. So in the middle of full-blown revival, he says, "Wait, don't do anything different. I'm coming back with exactly what you need." Do you know what he gets? 

 The very man that was dragging them out of their homes, they fled for their lives because Saul was on a rampage and Barnabas is like, "Hold tight, guys. This is so good. You need something." There's this guy with this unique call to help Jews and Gentiles get along. "I'll be back." 

 Comes back and he's like, "Tada!" And they're like, "Whoa, you can't change one letter in this guy's name and expect us to believe this." 

 That guy was going, "We know this guy." 

 "Oh, no, he's going to say something to you." Say what to us? 

 His orders have us living 300 kilometers from our homes. We lost our homes. We lost our jobs. We lost our family members because of that guy. And he stays there with them and he builds up the church with his words. It's incredible. It's incredible what happened to his life. And I want to say that he didn't just convert from Judaism to Christianity. 

 That's not what happened. When I read this text, I see a couple other conversions happening. He converted from the ladder of legalism to the cross of Christ. 

 He says, "If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I got more." 

 Circumcised on the eighth day of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew, of Hebrews, as to the law, Pharisee, as to zeal, a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law, blameless. 

 But whatever gain I had, I counted as a loss for the sake of Christ. The ladder of legalism is all Paul knew. 

 All he knew was the stairway. 

 All he knew was taking steps up. All he knew was perform and you'll have a place. 

 And he is confronted with the cross of Christ. And now he wants to know the God of the cross. 

 We have to be consistently reminded of the gospel of Christ because the ladder lives large in us. This is not a one-time conversion. 

 We don't do away with the ladder once and for all. I catch myself almost on a daily basis living with this ladder of legalism. If I do good, I get good. I have a place with God because I've performed. And if I haven't performed, then I've got no place. We constantly have to be reminded of the gospel. Paul starts this. He says, "It's safe for me to remind you." And it's no problem for me to remind you because we have to be continually convinced of the gospel of Christ, that the cross would live in us and not the ladder of legalism. 

 I was watching that March Madness just passed. 

 Dang it, just watered the plants. March Madness just passed. 

 And any fans, I don't watch college basketball. I love March Madness and got to go to a game with a couple of guys here this year. 

 I was watching this clip from Tom Izzo that I think he's the coach of Michigan State. And I think it really epitomizes the ladder that lives inside of us. And I just want to show you this clip because we're inundated with this message. And this is why we need to be reminded of the gospel. It is what it's supposed to be. 

 You play good, 

 you play more. 

 You play real good, you start. 

 You don't play as good. 

 You work your way back in. It's the American way, except America has gotten soft. 

 But that is the American way. That's the way it works. And so I apologize to nobody for that. 

 There was part of me as I, it was, some of it was his voice. 

 Some of it is that I longed to have a coach like that in my life. But there is half of me that's like, heck yeah. 

 That is how it works. 

 You perform, you have a place. You don't perform, you don't have a place. I'm not apologizing for that. That's the American way. There's something that some of you were like, yeah, that's the best part of the sermon yet, Travis. 

 Do well, you start. Don't do well, you don't start. Perform, you have place. 

 Don't perform, you don't have a place. You lose your place if you don't perform. We live in a world of ungrace. 

 You're inundated with this. So we constantly have to be reminded of the gospel, the cross of Christ. 

 The gospel is for us, it's an event. It is an event. Jesus lived, died, rose. It's an event in human history. We celebrate that event today. It's also an achievement. It achieved some things for us. And when it achieved those things for us, there are implications for our lives, for almost every area of our lives. There's an implication. But we're celebrating today an event that achieved some things for us. That we have a place not because of our performance, but because of his. 

 Paul touched this. 

 After a life of legalism, he touched the cross of Christ and he was like, I must know him. 

 I know the ladder. 

 I know what it is to do that. I must know him. This is not good advice today. I'm not going to give you good advice about something you need to leave and do. The gospel is good news about something God has done in Christ and it's changed everything forever. 

 And we can have a place with God even when we don't perform. It's the symbol of Christianity, that cross, not the ladder. The ladder has been destroyed. There is no stairway. 

 The ladder has been destroyed. The cross of Christ now stands in its place and we put them around our necks and we put them on our ears and we put them on our walls and we tattoo them on us because we want to remember the cross. 

 That the grace of God is unmerited. And that Jesus Christ has performed. 

 And now his death is our death and his resurrection is now our resurrection. And we can be found in him. We've got to remember this. And this is not a one time prayer. Oh yeah, I heard that. Well hear it again because it's safe for you and it's no problem for me to say it again. 

 The second thing that I want to draw your attention to is that I think he was converted from life for God to life with God. 

 Indeed, I count everything as lost because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for his sake. I've suffered the loss of all things. 

 I count him as rubbish in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ. The righteousness from God that depends on faith. That I might know him, 

 the power of his resurrection, and may share in his sufferings becoming like him in his death. That I, that by any means possible, I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 

 Can I ask you a question? 

 When you accept the gospel, this event, this achievement with its implications, 

 what do you get? 

 When you get the gospel, 

 what is it that you get? 

 I know many of you have probably heard sermons that one of the things that was achieved for us, and it's true, is that our sins have been forgiven. 

 Pastors, preachers will commonly say you can be forgiven. 

 It's one of the things that was achieved through his death and resurrection. You can have forgiveness. Another appeal that's commonly made is that you can have eternal life. You can get eternal life if you get God's gospel. 

 And I know a lot of us, those things are true. 

 And I don't mean to like minimize the importance of both forgiveness and eternal life, but I want you to understand that forgiveness is a means to an end and not an end in itself. 

 Forgiveness is not ultimate. God cleanses you in order to bring you to himself. 

 It's not just a washing, it's a bringing. 

 He's not just cleansing you because he's annoyed with you and done with you. He's actually cleansing you because he longs to bring you to himself. 

 Eternal life is just a means to life with God. When you get eternal life, what you get is God. When you get the gospel, what you get is God. 

 Eternal life is just where he happens to be. He says to the thief on the cross, remember there's two guys hanging next to him. And he turns to one and he said, "Hey, buddy, don't worry about it. Today you'll be in paradise." 

 No. 

 He says, "Today you'll be with me." 

 And guess where I'm at? 

 Paradise. 

 And what I want you to understand is God's not a means to getting forgiven. And God's not a means to getting eternal life. 

 Eternal life and forgiveness are a means for us to get God. And so the question becomes not who wants to be forgiven or who wants eternal life. The question becomes who wants God? 

 Who desires him? Who treasures him? There's no one in heaven who only wanted heaven. And they're like, "Oh, it's a sweet place. This is what I wanted." 

 There's no one forgiven who only wanted forgiveness. It's a cleansing and a bringing you to himself. 1 Peter 3, 18, "For Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God." When you get the gospel, you get God himself. 

 I think we understand this. 

 I'll help illustrate this and ask that you would use your God-given imagination. 

 When I say, let's just say that Tiffany and I got in a fight. 

 And I was harsh. And let's just say I overreacted. 

 And we go to bed that night and I still haven't resolved it. We wake up the next morning and I come into the kitchen. This is all hypothetical. And there's ice in the air. 

 And there's ice in the air. And what I need to do is really simple and really difficult. It's really simple in theory, really difficult in application, right? I just don't want to do it. It's easy to do. I just don't want to do it. It makes it hard to do. I need to ask for forgiveness for being harsh. And I need to ask for forgiveness for overreacting. 

 But why? 

 Why do I want to ask for forgiveness? 

 Is it so that she'll cook my favorite breakfast? 

 Is it so that I can just get out from underneath this nagging conscience and go about my day in peace? 

 Is that why I want forgiveness? 

 Is it so that I don't sleep on the couch? Is it so that the kids don't see us argue? Is that my motivation? 

 Is it? This is a good one. I've used this one before. Don't recommend it, but I still use it. Is it so that she finally realizes the error of her ways? 

 I'm going to get this conversation started with a sorry, 

 and I expect it to be followed with a sorry of your own. 

 Let me tee it up for you. 

 All those things may happen. I may get off the couch. 

 I may get to eat breakfast. 

 She may apologize as well. 

 But that's not why I do it. I do it because I want my wife. 

 I want to be connected to her. And I want you to hear me say this morning that he doesn't want to cleanse you because he's done with you. He wants to cleanse you because he wants to bring you to himself. 

 He wants life with you and forgiving you is just a means to that end. He wants a forever with you. And eternal life is just a means to that end. So who wants God? 

 I know we want to be forgiven and I'd rather avoid hell myself. I'd rather not be under the wrath of God. But who wants God? 

 John 17. Three and this is eternal life that they know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 

 Ephesians two. 

 But now in Christ Jesus you were once a far once far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 

 Not just a washing but a bringing and not just better. He doesn't just want to make you better. He wants to make you closer. 

 Please hear it. Please hear the heart of God. He doesn't just want to make you better. He wants to make you closer. 

 And it changes everything when we see our sin as in the way of communing with the God that we know love and want. 

 I'm still trying to work this out. 

 I'm still trying to work this out. But I want you to say this with me if you don't remember anything this morning. Remember this. 

 Dealing with death and sin is a means to life with him. Say it. Dealing with death and sin is a means to life with him. 

 He's ultimate. 

 He's the one we get when we get the gospel. 

 I'm still trying to work out what life with God looks like. I know what life for God looks like. And I think Paul knew that too. 

 We know what it is to do duty. Right. 

 And we know what life from God looks like. God if you help me ace this test I swear to you I'll follow you with my whole life. You know. We know what it is to want life from him and we know what it is to do life for him. I'm still trying to figure out what it looks like to do life with him at the DMV. 

 Be like you're here with me. This God forsaken place has God in it. There's probably someone here who works there. I'm sorry. 

 I'm sorry. Life with God is the trajectory of human history. 

 Listen to how your Bible ends. 

 John has a revelation. Chapter 21 verse one through three. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and the sea was no more. 

 And I saw the holy city new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. 

 Prepared as a bride. 

 What? 

 Prepared as employees. 

 Prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 

 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying behold the dwelling place of God is with man. 

 He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God. 

 Do you desire him? Do you treasure him? The events that we're celebrating this week have always helped me treasure him. When I ponder the God that we're singing about helps me, helps me to desire him. 

 And I just want to help you if you're here and you're like yeah yeah I think so. Let me help you. 

 How desirable is the God who would humble himself in Christ? 

 How easy is it to love him? 

 The God who before he ever asked you to serve anybody else served you. How desirable is the God before he ever asked you to love anybody else he first loved you. 

 That God how easy is he to treasure? How attractive is the God of the cross? 

 The God who would sacrifice himself. The God who would throw himself in the volcano. 

 How desirable is that God? 

 How attractive is the God who would bring meaning to our suffering and one more and one day end our suffering with his suffering? 

 How beautiful is that and how beautiful is he? 

 John Stott says this, "The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man." 

 Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be. And then God sacrifices himself for man. 

 And put himself where only man deserves to be. 

 This is the leader we long for. 

 How valuable is the God of resurrection power? 

 How nice would it be to be with the guy who holds the keys to death and hell, the one who has all authority in heaven and earth and now gives us his very spirit, his power, his power and presence. He empowers us with the spirit of God. 

 Paul's like, "I gotta know this guy. 

 I've done it. I did the latter. I'm done with the latter. I did life for God. I did life from God. I want a life with him. And I want him so bad that I want him even when it gets dark. 

 I want even in my suffering to know him." 

 He touched something and he was like, "I'm done with the rest of it. 

 I'm done. I count it all as loss. I want to know life with him." 

 I know that some of you are here. And I think if you got up this morning and you got dressed, you probably do want life with him. Maybe you don't want him as much as you want to want him, but you're like, "I'm here, man. I'm doing what I can. I sang those songs. 

 I want him." And maybe the question you have deep down, you wouldn't say this, but deep down, there's another question, which is, does he want me? 

 Does he actually want life with me? 

 Or does he just want it from me? 

 I know that he wants my money. 

 Preachers have told me that before. 

 I know that he wants me to do better. Heck, I want to do better. That's why I'm here. 

 I know he wants abortion to end, but does he want me because I had an abortion? 

 Does he want me? 

 And the events of this week say and scream in a really loud voice, "Oh, he does. 

 He does. 

 I've always longed to be the type of guy who could buy something as is. 

 I love those guys. 

 I've got some friends who can look at just about anything and take it as is because they know they're capable enough to handle whatever they've been dealt. 

 But I walk through the as is section of IKEA and go, "Oof. I don't know if I'm putting that back together." 

 Or I go look at the car and think, "Man, if it's not running well, I'm not going to buy it because whatever happens, I won't be able to deal with it." And I have friends who don't even need to look at the car because they know whatever's happening with the car, they can deal with it. And I have friends who know I'll buy that house sight unseen because whatever's happening with that house, they know they can fix it. 

 Let me say this to you. God is so confident in his ability. He'll take you as is. 

 He doesn't even necessarily need to see what's going on because he knows he's capable of sorting it out. He'll take you as is. 

 He doesn't just know you and know what's broken and damaged and off. 

 He knows you and loves you. 

 He sees you and he's moving towards you. 

 And the events of this week scream that to us. Worship team, would you guys come? 

 I want to end here today because I look, I... 

 There is a moment and a marker where we put something in the ground and we say, "I want to know Jesus and I want to follow him as Lord." 

 But then from then on, we keep saying it. 

 There's a day that we repent for the very first time and receive Jesus as Lord, and then our whole lives is one of repentance. 

 There is a moment where we crush the ladder and we see the cross for the very first time and we fall at the feet of the cross. 

 And then we do that probably weekly for the rest of our lives. 

 We recognize ladder thinking and we go, "Jesus, bring me again to the cross." 

 And I just want this conversion to take place once again. 

 That you today, based on the events that we're celebrating, know something's going on. Something's been achieved for you. 

 That you would quit the ladder and receive the cross of Christ, the unmerited favor of God. 

 And that you would quit the life for God or from God. And that you would say, "I want life with you. I want to go where all of human history is going. Let's go there now in this life." 

 So if you're here and you're like, "You know what? It's good for me to hear this again. 

 I want the cross of Christ and I recognize the ladder living inside of me and me placing that ladder on others. 

 I'm going to ask you to stand. Not yet." 

 If you're here and you're like, "Yeah, I want life with him. 

 I want to know him in my suffering. 

 I want to know his resurrection power." Not just information at seminary, transformation. 

 I want to be transformed by the power of God. 

 If those are things you need to be converted from, I want to ask you to stand now. 

 Don't stand because you feel bad for me. 

 Doesn't make me feel better. Just as a sign of humbling yourself and recognizing your need. 

 Jesus, bring us to yourself. 

 We want you. 

 Some days we know it. 

 Some days we're really out of touch with it, but we treasure you. 

 We celebrate your life inside of us. 

 I pray for every person here that you would fill them with resurrection life. 

 Life abundantly. 

 That we can somehow get off this treadmill that's going nowhere and really start to walk with you. 

 Draw near to your people. 

 Thank you God for dealing with everything that stood in the way. 

 And now there's nothing between us. Thank you for tearing 

 God has done something in Christ that changes everything. 

 He's achieved something that has implications for all of life. 

 We were interviewing one of the gals who's getting baptized and she didn't grow up in a church and she walked in here and the sense that she had was she said this, this is where I'm supposed to be. This is where I'm supposed to be. And that's not a statement about that place, this place. It's a statement about God's heart for her. It's where she's supposed to be. 

 I just wanna charge you, keep yourself in the love of God. 

 This is where you're supposed to be, in this place. 

 And as you go from this place, don't leave that place. That's what I'm trying to say. So there's coffee and connection to be had out these East doors. If you gotta run to a family event, we get it. See you guys next week, we'll celebrate.