Pastor Brian and Jacque Lother, Pastor Jeff Orluck
Brian: Well, thank you Kelly, for putting that together. I listen to the announcements now that they are up on the screen. Do you too? That was kind of that two or three or four minutes segment of the service where everybody was just... Their minds went every place else, but we are getting you. This is attention deficit disorder that we are all dealing with here, so we have to do these things like this.
I want to draw your attention to one more very important item that is going to be coming up also this coming Saturday. This is a nationwide opportunity that we have to participate in. I'm so thankful for Sean Jones and the Crossroads Chapel at the Minnesota State fair grounds. This coming Saturday, there is a national event called The Return. How many of you know that Zachariah says that if we return to the Lord, he will, in a sense return to us. Not that he has abandoned us, but the fact of returning to the Lord, it has such a positive effect upon our lives, doesn't it? And of course, the life and wellbeing of our nation.
This coming Saturday from 8 o'clock in the morning until late in the afternoon, I think it's 6 o'clock. Is it 6 o'clock, Sean? It's a national day of prayer, a prayer for our nation, a prayer for our government leaders, all the way from our federal government, all the way down to our local city governments. I really personally believe that the future of America does not lie in the hands of anybody, but the believers. That's my personal belief. The scriptures teach us that in II Chronicles 7:14, God says, "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear them from heaven and I will heal their land."
From that verse, it's very clear to me that the future wellbeing of our land, of America and the future wellbeing of the world is in the hands of believers around the world, and particularly in America, believers in America. The reason I mentioned Crossroads Chapel is Sean has made arrangements for this event to be live streamed at the Crossroads Chapel. Instead of hosting it here, we wanted to cooperate with Sean and all the work that his team is doing out there. What a great thing to do to have a prayer gathering at the state fair grounds when there isn't even a state fair this year, but we can go there and pray. Isn't that great? Isn't that great? They've done a lot of renovations out there. Those of you who are in the metro area, who are watching by live stream, we invite you to come to the Crossroads Chapel, this coming Saturday. You don't have to stay from 8 in the morning till 6 at night, just drop in for an hour or however long you can be there.
This is going to be, I believe a time that we, as believers control or help control the destiny and future of our land. So if you love America, we need to pray. If you love America, we need to pray. There is nothing better in prayer than praying with other people who are of like mind with you. There is great encouragement and great faith that comes from it. Hopefully you can be there or at least a portion of the day. Thank you, Sean, for all the work that you guys have been doing to set this up.
Jeff: I might just say that if you look back in history, and I think there is a great concern among many believers about the state of our nation right now, but if you look back in history, back in the 1700, Christianity was nearly lost to America during the time of the enlightenment, the French enlightenment. It was at that time that God brought the first great awakening and rebirthed faith again. Whenever you think it's getting dark in your land, just remember that Jesus said that the church is like a light on a lampstand, or like a city on a hill. You never notice the beauty of a city until it is night. Have you ever driven into a city late at night when it's dark? Has anybody ever driven into a city? Our first trip to Vegas, we drove into Vegas late at night and the lights of the city we could see from 20 miles away. We could see the light coming up. It's just remarkable what a city does in terms of bringing light around it.
Every time it gets dark in your world, you have to understand you've been born and you've been called for exactly this time. This is where we belong. We belong right in the middle of the darkest hour as a light. The more that we release the beauty and fragrance of the Lord, the various things that you've been talking about for months, the greater that light will shine, that city will shine. We got a great opportunity right now.
Brian: I remember as a child, we would drive to Winnipeg because most of my relatives, our mum and dad were from Winnipeg. Their family was there, my cousins were there, their siblings were there and we would drive to Winnipeg. Of course, dad was pastoring a church in Northern Minnesota and then we would take after church on Sunday night. So we would be pulling into Winnipeg about 4 o'clock in the morning, something like that. If it was cloudy out, when you just crossed the border, Winnipeg is about 60 miles north of the Canadian border, but you would just barely get into Canada and you could see. If it was cloudy out, you could see the lights from the city of Winnipeg shining off the horizon. It was like a glow and it was a guide to where to drive to.
That's what we are to be. We are to be this glow in the darkness in the cloudy times. God has given us the ability to pierce the darkness. I think for many years, some of our mentalities, and maybe this was kind of God's plan, I don't know, but the idea was to kind of push back or hold back the darkness. I think God's plan for this hour is not just a whole back to darkness, but to penetrate it and to pierce it with the light of Christ. Let your light so shine before a man, a city set on a hill, like you said, you put a light in it. We are the salt of the earth.
These are wonderful encouraging scriptures for us to have a sense of empowerment for this hour, for this hour, because I tell you what, if all you do is listen to the newscast and read the paper, you can get depressed. It can be worse than that episode on Hee Haw, where they keep talking about gloom, despair, and misery on me. It can be worse than that. When we read the word of God and we see God's promises that he will hear our prayers from heaven and he will heal our land.
Jeff: As we said a couple of weeks ago, I think that if you give in to fear, fear will always find the information needed to legitimize its existence. Let’s think about that for a second. Fear will always find whatever information is needed to legitimize his existence, but we don't have to find that information. We've got different information.
Brian: We've got the inside scoop.
Jeff: That's right.
Jacque: So on Saturday, go over in the morning and pray and then ladies come and let's break the power of fear in the afternoon.
Jeff: I was thinking of that just as they said that.
Brian: Yes, yes, yes. Last week we kind of jumped in with both feet to a book that we don't normally talk about very much in the church. It's the Song of Songs. Many years ago I heard Pastor Jeff actually do a teaching on this book. As we started to come down to a place of really the importance of God's presence and our personal relationship with God, the intimacy that God really desires have of us, and the problem at times when we start using words like intimacy because of just the overt inundation of sexuality in our culture today and even in the world, that we kind of go tilt a little bit when we hear words like that. There is a heartthrob that God has to be intimate with us, to be at one with him.
This book is extremely metaphorical or allegorical. I just thought that it would be really a great opportunity for a few weeks for us to just kind of unravel this a little bit and let a picture get painted in our hearts and our minds as to what is God's heart for us? What is God's heart for you? What is God's heart for the world? What is God's heart for mankind? And so with that, Jeff, why don't we just kind of dive in. We looked at chapter 1 last week, verses 1-4.
Jeff: Yeah, the first four verses.
Brian: That was the essence of God that completely captures us. This was the Shulamite woman speaking in this portion, but let's jump down to the next portion of scripture that you want to bring to our attention here. That's found in the fourth chapter verses 10 and 11.
Jeff: Maybe for those who didn't hear last week's message, maybe we can just take a moment and set the stage. What this really brings out, of course, in what both the Hebrews and the Christians have seen Song of Solomon as for most of history is a depiction of the relationship between God and his people. Obviously, the depiction is a love relationship. Where this takes us is to a place of intimate relationship with our savior. It's deep and it's real, and that's what's amazing about it.
I remember the very first time that the words lover of our soul ever came into my heart and it was actually in a prayer session. It was a meeting with friends a long time ago. We were praying over a young person who was moving out of our ministry and moving into a new ministry that was at about the time that Alpha was just beginning to launch in the US and she was taking a position with Alpha. We were praying over her and the Lord spoke to me and said, I am the lover of her soul and I ended up speaking that over her, but that's the first time I ever remember hearing those words, was when the Lord spoke them to me saying, I am the lover of your soul.
Those words became kind of alive in me. Studies like this are the things that really began to make a live this reality that Jesus is the lover of my soul. When you step into… When you step out of your evangelical doctrine into an intimate relationship with the savior, you just experienced a whole new part of God's kingdom that awakened so many good things. That's what we really want to have happen here. We really want it to awaken in ourselves, a renewed or a new or rekindled sense of how much our God loves us and how much he is affected by our love for him.
In the first four verses, we were looking at our love for him, how he affects us and why we love him, because of his great mercy, especially. We are a few chapters in, but now we see almost a reverse section of scriptures, whereas when we are reading Song of Songs 1, 1-4, we were looking at the Shulamite woman of her love for him, but now we are going to look at the Lord express his love for us. So it's in the other direction. This is song 4, 10 to 11.
Brian: What did we discover in essence, before we read this? What did we discover in these verses?
Jeff: The first four?
Brian: Yeah, chapter four.
Jeff: What we discovered is that being in his arms makes everything right with the world. There is nothing quite like it.
Brian: And his, shall we say feelings towards us are the same in a sense, as ours towards him. It's not just... There is this whole mentality at times in so many cultures where gods have to be appeased, whereas in Christianity, it's completely different, opposite, completely different universe in a sense, because we do not have to appease this angry God that requires us to give what meager things we have to him. He is enraptured by us as we are by him. That's part of what we are going to read here in this portion of scripture
Jeff: Yeah, that's right. Actually, before I should give just one quick shout out. Cheryl and I are celebrating our 45th anniversary today.
Brian: Congratulations. Good book to be reading.
Jeff: The woman of my dreams. I get to share it all with her. That's pretty exciting. Here we are talking about the Song of Songs and I get to be married to her. Not much better than that.
Brian: You and I are two lucky guys.
Jeff: We are; no doubt about it. We married up, totally.
Brian: We did way up. Well, I know I did. I can't speak for you.
Jeff: Oh, yeah. I did. There is no doubt about it. She makes me the man that I am. There is no doubt about it. If I am any man at all, it's because of her. We are going to read this. How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride? How much more pleasing is your love than wine? There is that same allegory that she alluded to; the fragrance of your perfume, more than any spice. So we got the same pictures. Remember, with the Lord, I really came to understand that his perfume, the fragrance that wins our hearts is his mercy. I never actually asked the Lord what perfume we were that attracts him, but I know that one thing that he really loves is when we praise him and when we worship.
Brian: I think humility too.
Jeff: That really, really, really draws him.
Brian: And humility.
Jeff: And humility. Yeah. He loves a contrite heart. Your lips drop sweetness as a honeycomb, my bride. Milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. Of course, Lebanon was a huge forest of cedar trees. The fragrance, when you walk through a forest of pines is just kind of overwhelming. What we see here is that we see a lot of the same allegories, but what I think is most important without trying to delve into too much of those is to recognize that the same passionate love and hunger that she expressed for her lover, he expresses for her. The same passionate love and desire that we express for our savior is the love and passion and desire that he expresses for us.
I don't know. That's not something that I was able to comprehend quickly, but it's a really significant thing to understand that he really, really longs to be with us. He looks forward to being with us. I shared a little story I had where the Lord said to me, I've missed you. This is something that until you really begin to experience some of his presence, you don't quite get. When we find ourselves in the presence of the Lord, we can find ourselves slightly, that might be an understatement, overwhelmed. Anybody has ever been overwhelmed? I've had times when totally unexpectedly, I mean, without even thinking about him sometimes or in a situation where I just didn't expect it, all of a sudden it's like his love and his presence is suddenly around me. Anybody had that happened to them?
Brian: Yes.
Jeff: I almost get afraid. It's almost just like, okay, so why? Why are you here? We don't expect it. We don't expect God to be that way, but that's the way he is. That's the way he wants to be. He loves you. He loves me. He passionately longs to spend time with us. He loves when we come to worship him. He loves to join us when we are together worshiping. He loves when we sit down and spend time with him. Jacque shared a little bit last week about how she has kind of reset her prayer time, and what you shared.
Jacque: I just felt like, oh, I've got to get my devotions in this morning and I just heard the Lord say, "Just sit there and let me love you." So now I just run to that, my white couch on the front porch because that's our meeting place. I just sit there and say, okay, I'm here. Love me now. Can I just tell you fast what happened on last Monday?
Jeff: Sure. Tell us.
Jacque: So I just said, “Oh Lord, thank you. Will you just love me?” I just had a whole bunch of thoughts, welling up in my mind and some fears and some frustrations. Do you know what I heard? I just heard him just, "Shh". Just like I would comfort my children, like crying babies, or even an adult who would come to me just full of fear. You even do that, you just go, "Shh". Did you feel it?
Jeff: Yes.
Jacque: I was just like, the peace that just fills my soul. Thank you.
Jeff: I don't know about you guys, but for most of my life, I felt like the burden of prayer time was on me. I'm the one who had to keep the conversation going. I had to come up with stuff to say. I would do prayer retreats; I would go and take a one or two day prayer retreat. And then the first hour and a half, I would have prayed everything I could possibly think of and I still had 24 hours to go. And it's like, what do I do now? I'm done. I felt this pressure, like the whole prayer thing was about what I had to do.
Brian: And to make sure you use the right words too.
Jeff: Oh yeah. You've got to pray it.
Brian: You've got to say it just the right way.
Jeff: You realize that... Until you see God answer children's prayers then you realize something is wrong here. No, you are absolutely right. When it went from me having to carry the weight of my time with the Lord to me being loved by him, the whole prayer experience changes. When we finally become comfortable with being quiet when we are sitting with the Lord is when we will begin to actually hear him speak, because he has a lot he wants to say. He doesn't want our time with him to just be listening to all our stuff. Do you like to spend time with people when all they talk about is their problems?
Brian: Or themselves.
Jeff: Or themselves.
Jacque: And everything they need.
Jeff: Right. Don't you enjoy a two way conversation? I sure do. So does the lover of our soul. He wants a two way conversation and he has things to share with us. I'll just share this quickly and then we can go on. A week ago, Friday… I've shared before I have a pretty difficult job working with my brother. It has brought me closer to the Lord than anything I can think of in the last [crosstalk 1:06:53] years.
Brian: The job is difficult, not your brother.
Jeff: My brother is really a wonderful man and we get along great, but yeah, the job is very difficult. I'm the finance guy. A week ago, Friday, we had an unexpected hit on our AR, a pretty big unexpected hit that really put us in financial jeopardy. It was right at the end of the day on Friday. I just took it in stride and let it go. When I woke up Sunday morning, before coming here that morning, it was on my mind. Maybe it was even two weeks ago. I was trying to pray and the Lord has really taught me how to pray for our company and how to really release the purposes of God and how to declare everything that he has purposed over my brother's life and his son's life and my life and our team and the calling that is on this company. I've always been able to pray into that, but that Sunday morning, those prayers just fell flat. I just didn't... There wasn't the connection or the faith or whatever. I needed to actually feel like I was accomplishing anything. Finally, I just stopped and I said, “Lord, how should I pray?” It's so wonderful when you ask the Lord questions. He gives you answers. The Lord says, "Why don't you just let me take care of it?" Oh, wow.
Brian: You mean, you want to take care of this?
Jeff: Cool, okay. He says, "Would you like to watch me take care of this?" I said, “Yeah, actually I would.” End up prayer time. That's how wonderful it is to commune with this God who loves us so much, because he speaks to us and he cares for us and he enjoys being with us. He enjoys his time with you. He looks forward to it. We can be delivered from the sense of our prayer life as a duty to make good. Isn't that good? Okay, so let's move on.
Brian: Let's move on. Chapter one, again, going back to chapter one...
Jeff: We are continuing with the Shulamite woman.
Brian: Yeah. These next couple of verses, they kind of address or speak to the issue of the pressure that we feel to take care of everything; that we have to clean ourselves up as it were, or change a situation to please God. We don't really realize the depth of his passion to actually do that on our behalf and to at the very least partner with us, but really be a leader in a sense to us in the situation. Let's read this portion of the scripture.
Jeff: Okay. We are in a song of songs, chapter 1, verse 5. There is a lot we could say here. We won't get into the whole thing, but this is her speaking. She says, "Dark, am I, yet lovely daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the 10 curtains of Solomon." I think it was interesting, you referenced the Passion Bible. If you really want a good read of the Song of Songs, read it out of the Passion. The guy who wrote the Passion just really brings a lot of metaphorical beauty to this book.
Brian: Let me just read this one verse here from the Passion. It says this, "I feel as dark and dry as the desert tents of the wandering nomads."
Jeff: Yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking when I got here.
Brian: You ever feel just kind of dark or dry as the tense of someone who was a wandering nomad. Sometimes it feels like the heavens are brass or whatever, the prayers aren't being answered, et cetera, et cetera. And yet the shepherd king goes on to say, yet you are so lovely, like the fine linen tapestry hanging in the holy place. Wow, what a description.
Jeff: Yeah. This section, what we can do is we can really identify with how she sees herself because we tend to see ourselves as dark. There might be somewhere down deep, the realization that there is something good inside of us, but so often our sense of shame and our sense of all the lies that have been pounded into us over our years even as children.
Brian: Or even our failure.
Jeff: And our life experience and our failures and all of the things that we do wrong in our lives. Nobody has to tell you that you are doing something wrong. We all know it, even when we defend it. We live under the weight of that and all of that tends make us really identify with this woman saying I'm dark and I'm dry. What's really interesting here; she says, “I'm darkened by the son. My mother's sons were angry with me.” Interesting- my mother's sons.
Brian: Not her brothers.
Jeff: Not her brothers, my mother's sons. I think there is something really significant about that. “They made me take care of the vineyards and my own vineyard I had to neglect.” What most of us spend our entire lives doing is taking care of other vineyards than our own. If the vineyard is a picture of your soul, for most of us, most of our life, we've taken care of all kinds of other vineyards. People have required stuff of us from day one, and they've required that we spend our time, our energy, they required that we care about all kinds of things other than ourselves. They have pulled us away from the one thing that is really essential, and that's the care of our own soul. Most of us grow into adulthood and spend our life through adulthood, not taking care of our own soul. We are too busy taking care of everybody else and everything else that has been put on our shoulders. Anybody can identify with that? That's what she is explaining here. She says, "And all this work I've been doing for everybody else, I have been out under the sun. It has been hot and it's been hard and I'm tired and I'm dark. I'm really not anybody that you could love." Somewhere down here there was something beautiful, but it was gone a long time ago and the makeup isn't helping anymore.
Brian: Can't put on a happy enough face any longer.
Jeff: Nope, it doesn't work anymore. Isn't that at sometimes how you feel with the Lord? I mean, certainly, we just like, did it again. I got angry again. I lost it again.
Brian: All these demands on us and it dries us up. It can wear us out, create a lot of wrinkles. And then at times our response to the pressure is not very attractive.
Jeff: Not very attractive.
Brian: And that's kind of in essence what she is saying here. I'm dark. I'm not very attractive at all. What in me would you be attracted to? Yet, if you go to chapter two...
Jeff: This is interesting. Let me just give you a little insight in this. Again, in chapter two, this is a comparison of how she sees herself and how her lover sees her. She says, “I am the Rose of Sharon, a Lily of the valleys.” She is not flattering herself. The Rose of Sharon is not a flower like the roses that we treasure and grow in our gardens. The Rose of Sharon was just a common flower. It was just a weed flower that grew along the highways. It was nothing special. Lilies of the Valley, even today, Cheryl kind of treats them as weeds.
Brian: I remember a former youth pastor that we had years ago and he was over at our house and we had some lilies of the valleys. He said, "You need to get rid of those right now." He said, "They are going to take over."
Jeff: Yeah, they are invasive species.
Brian: They are worse than things Creeping Charlie or whatever. I thought, wait a minutes, I've had this image since I was a child here. “He is the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star”, the song that we used to sing.
Jeff: We got that picture wrong.
Brian: Yeah. It's like, man, Jesus is this Creeping Charlie weed that goes everywhere. That's not a good picture.
Jeff: Yeah. What she is actually saying, she is not saying I'm beautiful. She is saying I'm plain. I'm just as common as anything else. There is nothing special about to me. That's what she is really saying about herself. How many of us feel that way about ourselves? There is nothing special about me. I wish I could be like them. I sure wish I could be like them. I sure wish I could be as successful as they are. I remember 30 years ago listening to Dr. Dobson and he said, "We always compare our greatest faults against other people's greatest strength." And funny thing, you always come out on the losing end of that comparison. But isn't that what we do?
Brian: Yes.
Jeff: We tend to look at everybody else and how great they are. You look at your pastor, you look at people around the world, you look at people in your own church and you just think, ah, man, I'll never be like them. That's exactly how she felt, but here is the response of her lover. He says, "Like a lily among thorns, you may be just a Lily, but everything else around you compared to you is like a thorn." Would you rather be lily or thorn? She is saying I'm nothing special. He says, are you kidding me? You are the cat's meow. Bon appetite, you are the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life. That's his response to her. You are like a lily among thorns. My darling among young women, you were the most beautiful woman among all the young women. So if you are just a Lily of the Valley, I hate to even think what they are.
Brian: A number of years ago, God started to touch my heart with the importance of our, how we view ourselves and as opposed to how God views us. That's what this portion of scripture is just really talking about. It really is. The way that we view ourselves often determines the course of action and direction in our life. She is just expressing this very thing. All these pressures are on me, all these demands have been put on me. I haven't been able to give attention to myself. I've given myself to do this, this, and what have you. At the end of the day, it was all a reason why she felt she was not lovely. She didn't see herself in the same way that God did.
Even in our culture today, we can see people who have maybe a lot of failure in their life. I did this a lot of years ago when I would see someone with a homeless sign and they would have a sign that says we'll work for pay or whatever. I thought, well, doesn't everybody work for pay? I would have just… we'll work for food or whatever. I just had no heart for them. And then one day it hit me that these people were created in the image of God. When I began to see them as someone created in the image of God, I began to ascribe value to them, because probably if I would have had a conversation with them prior to that, I would not have ascribed value to them. Isn't really that the world that we live in, a world that rarely ascribes value to us, each other, to you, unless you are doing something great?
In our world, it's a world of what have you done for me lately, isn't it? What's the last thing that you've done for me that was good? If the last thing you did for me wasn't very good, then you are expendable. So our value is completely based on our job performance, whereas with God, our value is in how he has made us and the image we've been made in. Do you want to share something Jacque?
Jacque: I just to have to ask God, how do you see me? And I need to train my brain to see me the way he sees me.
Brian: Yes, yes, yes. I want to stop here, because if we get into the next part, we'll go until noon, the next couple of verses. Jacque and I are going to sing a song for you here, a song that we started singing probably 20 years ago. It was one of the first songs that Micah and I ever recorded with his whistles and stuff back in the day when we did our Love Is Calling album. This is really about an invitation that we can actually give to God who is the lover of our soul, like that expression that you used there, Jeff and so forth. As we sing this, let's just reflect upon the fact that our value to God is not in what we can do for him, because he doesn't need us for anything that we can actually do for him.
He encourages us to partner with them like the prayer thing this Saturday and so forth. God is complete in and of himself and yet his heart is so full of mercies. We sent out a video just this past week about that and I liked the picture that went with it. It just oozes out of him. It spills out of God. His mercy is just spill out of him. As we put this video together, there was this picture of this waterfall, just the mercy coming out of God all the time. There is such a need in us to understand that God doesn't love us for what we do, how we look, the talents we have or any of these things. He loves us because we are like him. He made us in his image. He made us in his image. So let's sing this song together.
[Song 1:23:14-1:27:54]
Brian: We thank you, Jesus, that today you come across that dance floor and you say, “Can I have this dance with you?” Lord, help me remove these images out of the central realm and bring them into this spiritual realm of what your heart is for us, that this is your heart for us, This heart that was so great and so longing to have a relationship with us, that you were willing to leave your throne and leave your heaven and become a man, become incarnate, walk among us to feel pain, sorrow, rejection, exhaustion and then to suffer so that we could have life, that you put yourself in our place so that we wouldn't have to be wasted. What I love you have for us.
So we say to you today with you, I will go because you are our love, you are a fair one, and that Lord, when you come into our lives, winter is something of the past and springtime comes. I just thank you father, that our shame is washed away by your presence. You pick us up and you whisper in our ears to just be quiet because everything is okay. Lord. I pray that today, these beautiful images from this book, we will have indelibly etched in our hearts and minds, that Lord, when things of this earth get overwhelming, when others require things of us that go beyond our strength and it feels like we've become more and more unlovely and the darkness seems to crash in on us, may we remember, Lord these words that you've said, the images.
When the enemy wants to come in, oh, like a flood, you will set up a standard against him, the standard of love in our hearts. Nobody can steal that from us Lord, because it's not something that was just rationally put there, but it was something that we experienced with your presence. Oh, the song of all songs, the song of Jesus and his love for us. You have come over the hills. You have come over the mountains. You have run after us Lord, and you've captured our hearts with your love. What a great story. What a wonderful story to tell the world. May we revel in you today, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Let’s raise our hands together, shall we?
Now may the Lord bless you and may the Lord keep you. May the Lord make his face to smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord turn his face toward you and may he give you his peace. May you know the love that never ends from the Song of Songs, the lover of your soul, Jesus Christ. This, we pray, in the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen.
God bless you. It was great to have you here today. Thank you for watching by live stream as well. We are going to have a Zoom chat for those of you who want to have a little bit of a chat after. Hope to see you soon. God bless you. Everybody come to the picnic. If you didn't bring a lunch, stop by and pick up some Culver’s or something and join us out there, here in a little bit.
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