have you noticed that we all have strong opinions about oh I don't know everything um how about just like the best of things like you have a best restaurant you have a best movie A Best Book a best just talk to each other real quickly about just one of those cuz you've got a strong opinion about oh I think this is the greatest and then you can fill in the blank go ahead you just tell some people around you real quick All right. Okay, we just got to stir in the pot a little bit here. We talked about this in the summer. This was mentioned, we talked about it two years ago, but I want to go back one more time. We even have a title for things that we think are the greatest of all time, right? We know what that is. It's the GOAT. The GOAT. And people have these conversations about who is the greatest of all time. Who's the GOAT when it comes to NFL quarterbacks? Is it Mahomes or is it Brady? Ooh, people are going to have big arguments about that. When it comes to women's tennis, is it Serena? Is it Steffi? Is it Martina? It's Serena. So that's just the answer there. Oh, here's one, here's one. Is it Taylor or Beyoncé? Oh, yeah. People could throw down on that one right now. They could. Is it Jay-Z or Tupac? Some of you are like, "That one isn't interesting to me at all." Well, I think it's a very interesting discussion. Okay, how about this? Is it Johnny or Hank or Garth or George? Which George? Is it Dolly or... Nah, it's just Dolly. So we have these titles, and we have these ideas and these opinions about the greatest, and we're going to look at a title today that is ascribed to Jesus. And we've talked about this before, but I think it's so important for us to understand this one so that it unlocks where we're going in this series. I promise you, I promise you, we need to understand who Jesus is. You want to understand the greatness of Jesus? Well, think about it. The most humble man who ever lived is also the most confident man who ever lived. The boldest man who ever lived is also the most gentle man who ever lived. The most powerful man who ever lived is also the most vulnerable man who ever lived. How does all of that fit into one life? He truly is the greatest, and if you need a thread running through his life, through this story, through our souls, I really do think it's his love. If you want to understand the greatness of Jesus, this title starts to get us to something, but it's his love. It's his love. And we just sang about his greatness, didn't we? Who else is worthy? There's no one, only you, Jesus. Let's pray. Father, we come before you now. We're going to open the word that your Spirit has inspired to tell us the story of your Son. May we learn things just as last week, Lord. May we enter into the room, may we begin to notice details. May we allow ourselves to hear things that maybe we haven't heard in a while. May we allow ourselves to learn or to be surprised. But God, more than anything, would you give us the courage now to apply these truths to our lives? No matter if we are early, early, early on the journey, or we know these words by heart. Jesus, you have brought us here for a reason. Now lead us. Holy Spirit, we invite you into this. Amen. So if you were with us last week, we jumped in, we started this series. It's the middle chapters of John, and the setting is the upper room. The upper room. It is the last night, the worst night of Jesus' life. If you want to understand what is going on, part of the intensity of this is you've got to remember, this time tomorrow, Jesus is dead. When we look at this evening, just these few hours in this conversation, we've got to remember that in under 24 hours, Jesus is dead and in a borrowed tomb. You must feel the weight of this, and so many of us last weekend were drawn, quite literally, to our knees in powerful moments of prayer and worship and confession last week. Many of you from your seats, many of you would contact us later in the week. Let me just say this. We entered into the story and learned from, of all people, Judas, and the mistakes of Judas. Do you remember that? Let me just say it one more time. There is a distance between verse two and verse 27 that we need to navigate. We have an opportunity to make a decision, one more time. In verse two, Judas is prompted by the evil one. In verse 27, he gives full in to the evil. And if you are someone right now, even now, if you are someone who is saying, "I'm flirting with that thing, I'm tolerating that moment. I've made excuses about this thing that is going on, a habit that I have, a way that I speak, a way that I treat people," whatever it is, if there is something in your life between verse two and verse 27 and you want help with that, you want to talk to somebody, you want to pray, then you come find us right after the service because I believe victory is still available today. Jesus is still offering you his love and his life today. But at the end of our time together, Judas took the bread that had been dipped into the bowl, into the sup. You remember what the quote was? The theologian, he said, "Judas took the sup, but not the love." And in that moment, there is satanic possession. There's no other way to put it. Satan enters into Judas. He has now given into this. Jesus says, "Go do what you're going to do," and he leaves. He leaves into the darkness, and it seems like the night got just a little bit darker. How many times have we said this? Because now it really is only a matter of time. Now Judas is going to the authorities. Now Judas will take them to Jesus. It's only a matter of time now before he's betrayed, before he's beaten, before he's killed. We're on the clock. I want us to sense that now. Now, now, now is when the discussion starts. Now is when we're going to learn these words to hang onto. Now, because the betrayer has left. If you look at verse 31, just the first part, it says, "When he was gone, Jesus said, 'Now...'" It's almost like you can sense that the atmosphere has changed. There's still emotion flying in the room, but Jesus knows the betrayer is gone. "Now, now I can talk to my friends. Now I can talk to the disciples. Now I can pour my heart out. Now I can prepare them for what is to come." The rest of 31. "Now," let's just put that up there. "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself and will glorify in him at once." We clear on all of that? I'm not going to ask for a show of hands, but do you ever read the scriptures and you come across a verse and you're like, "I'm never going to get that one," and you just keep moving? I know you're not going to say this out loud, but you're like, "I'm just going to go back into the plot and the narrative, but I don't know what's going on there." Whatever is going on there, it must be important because it's the first thing Jesus says after the betrayer is out of the room. Okay, he's gone. Now. So something is about to happen, and Jesus wants them to know what it is. For us to understand it, I think there's two things we need to do. First, there's a word that shows up five times in those two verses, right? Glorify. What does the word glorify mean here? Well, let's just put this up there. It can mean to honor, to celebrate, to declare and reveal the worth or the greatness of something. So now in this discussion, something is going to happen that's going to reveal the greatness of God. Something is going to happen to declare his character, his goodness, his love. Jesus is saying to these fellas, "Now something's about to happen, and you're going to get the glory of God on full display." Now, what is that? Well, for us to fully understand the weight of this, we probably ought to understand that title that I was talking about earlier. This is the Son of Man. It's Jesus' favorite term for himself. He uses it 80, 81 times, depending on your translation. It can mean two things, okay? The first one is common sense. The first one, and this is how it is in the prophet Ezekiel, it means human. If you're the Son of Man, then you're a son of humanity. You're a son of... You had a mom, you had a dad. You're a son of man. You'd be a daughter of man. That's how that is. But there's a second meaning. It's extraordinarily mysterious and powerful. Theologians still wrestle with it. There's a reason Jesus, the wisest man who ever lived, uses this to point to himself, but let's just understand where it comes from. There's an apocalyptic section of the Book of Daniel, Daniel chapter seven. Just picture this. He gets this vision, and all of the symbolic stuff is going on, right? And so it's a picture of the end of days. This is the judgment You're looking at the throne room of God. You're looking at the eternal God of the universe. Daniel says, "I saw thousands upon thousands who were attending to him." This would be the angelic host serving the Holy One. "And then I saw 10,000 times 10,000 gathering around him." Again, these are all symbolic numbers saying it's as if he saw all of the rulers, all of the kingdoms, all of the nations gathered around the throne. They're all around this one, I would say El Olam, the Everlasting One, but this isn't even written in Hebrew. This is the biggest chunk of the Hebrew scriptures that isn't written in Hebrew, it's written in Aramaic. And so we're now around the throne of Yatikh Yomen, the Ancient of Days, the Timeless One. And then Daniel says, looking at this stunning vision of how it's all going to end, the beasts, the enemies of God, they've been defeated. And then Daniel says, "I saw this. I saw one like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days," that's God the Father, "and was led into his presence. He was given authority and glory and sovereign power. All nations and peoples of every language worshiped him." Notice that. "His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed." What I want you to see is that Daniel saw this kingdom, this everlasting kingdom being given to one who is called the Son of Man, and did you catch it? Somehow he is being worshiped. There are those who look at this and see a precursor of Jesus. There is something going on here. This Son of Man is co-equal with God, ruling and reigning with a kingdom that has no end. This is a loaded term. When Jesus uses this term and he's on trial for his life in front of the high priest just later this night, he says, "You're going to see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven." And he takes Daniel 7, and he puts it up next to Psalm 110, and he says, "You're going to see him seated at the right hand of the Father." And they lose it. They punch him, they spit on him, they demand his death. I promise you, they knew this was a loaded term. Jesus keeps saying, "I am the Son of Man. I am the one who was predicted. I am the one who is coming." Listen to me. There are some people, and maybe this is you, you're early in your journey and you're trying to figure things out, and at this point, you're looking at lots of things outside of scripture, you're hearing a lot of people outside of scripture. And somewhere along the way, somebody is telling you, "Well, I don't know that Jesus ever even really claimed to be God." I want you to know when you read the Gospels, he says he's God over and over and over. I believe this is one of the places that he does so. But let me give you another. All the way throughout the Gospel of John, there are these "I am" statements. Can you put these up here? John loves-- He's got his own symbolic language. He's got seven of these "I am" statements. "I am the bread of life, the light of the world." You go through these, and many of you will have heard these. Well, these are big declarations of who Jesus is and what he has done. But then there's also something else that is going on here. "I am" in the Greek, if you look at it in the Greek, it is "ego eimi," okay? So that's how you say "I am," but it is an echo of the covenant name of God. We don't even know how to say that name, but the consonants are there, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh. We're not even sure of the vowels because they stopped saying this out of reverence to the Eternal One centuries earlier. But we think, our best guess, is that the covenant name of God is Yehovah. It's an echo all the way through, "I am, I am, I am." There's a point, we won't even get to it, but in John 18, this is when the betrayer brings the thugs to Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus sees them coming up the hill. You can go look at this. I think it's 18:4 through 6. But in four through five, Jesus is there in the garden, and he says, "Who are you looking for?" And they say, "Jesus of Nazareth." And he says, "I am he." Then something really interesting happens in verse six. If you look at it, it says that they fell back and on the ground. Well, if you really want to understand what's going on there, understand that in the original language, the word "he" isn't there. The English translators put it there so it flows for us. Now go back and listen to the scene. "Who are you looking for?" "Jesus of Nazareth." "I am." And they all fell to the ground. I want you to know, time and time again, Jesus says, "I am. I am." I mean, later in this chapter, Philip, God bless him, says, "Hey, Jesus, just once, we'd like to see the Father." And you can hear the disappointment in his voice. He's like, "Son, how long have we been together? Don't you know who you're looking at?" And he says something pretty thick and deep. We'll get back to this. "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father. I'm in him, he is in me." There's such a oneness there. Jesus, time and time again, is saying, "It's me, fellas. I'm here. I am the exalted King. I am God in the flesh." Right here, he says the Son of Man is going to be glorified. Now we're beginning to get a sense of what that means, but we've been waiting for Jesus to be glorified since the prologue. Just so that we can all be really clear on the Book of John, we chunked it out last week in these ways. This is actually what scholars will say. The prologue, this is John 1. This is where John says just upfront, "You need to know I think Jesus is God." In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, y'all the Word was God. I mean, he says it verse one. He's telling you this. And then he becomes flesh, and so there is this moment. But right in the prologue, John says, "We beheld his glory." You need to know, "We saw the glory of the one and only Son. This is the one the Father sent, full of grace and truth. We saw his glory." But then if you'll remember, we get into the book of signs. This is like the front half of the book, and there are all of these signs, but every one of them points to glory. In Cana, the water is turned to wine, and it says, "And this was the first time that the glory of God was revealed." And it keeps going through the book of signs till you get Lazarus, who was raised from the dead. It's all pointing to somewhere, but where is it pointing? It's pointing to all of the glory that is now going to be revealed. But let's just say it out loud. It is all pointing to the cross. If you want to understand the glory of God, if you want to understand what Jesus was saying, what he was saying is, "Now the Son of Man is about to die on the cross, and I will show you the glory of God." You want to know the love of God? You want to know the power of God? You want to know the justice and the goodness of God? Look to the cross. But remember that love flows through it all. I think sometimes we know this, but we talk about the God forsakenness of the cross, right? I mean, we need to understand that. There's that moment, that heartbreaking moment where Jesus says, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He's quoting Psalm 22. They both knew this moment was coming. This is the moment that the Father has to turn away from the sin that has been laid upon the Son. We know about the God forsakenness. I need you to hear me. Listen really closely. They never stopped loving each other. There's an old Scottish theologian who, looking at this, references an old hymn, like from the 1800s. We don't sing it. It's got thees and thous. We don't do a lot of thees and thous here. I'm okay with some thees and thous, but we don't do a lot of thees and thous. But the hymn that he references, "My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine. For thee all the follies of sin I resign. My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art thou. If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now." Ferguson, old hymn ringing in his ears, says, "I can hear the Father singing the last part of that hymn to his Son on the cross." If ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. You want to understand the love of God? Look to the cross. That's where his glory is revealed. Love's running through all of this. The very next thing that Jesus says to them is, "Guys, I'm going someplace, and you can't go with me." But the words that I love to hear is he says, "My children, my children." You just hear the tenderness in it. "My children, love each other the way I loved you." Now we're going to come back to this. We're going to spend a whole week on this. But he says, "Love, love the way you have been loved." I want us to stop for just a second, and guys, just so we know online, you guys are going to talk about this at first. Guys, if you'll just keep the music going even after that. This is a two-parter. The first part is for everybody, and then online, you guys are going to join us. First part is this. Have you ever experienced something that was more than you thought it was going to be? Like, "Oh, I thought this-- Oh, I totally underestimated the greatness of that." Were you ever shocked by something? Here's the question, here's the way that we word it. When were you shocked after you saw something more fully? So maybe you'd always read about this place and you finally got there and you went, "Oh, that was a little bit more than I thought it was going to be." Or maybe you drove someplace for vacation, but it was at night, and then you woke up the next morning and went, "Oh, I didn't know that mountain was right there." Or maybe the fog lifted and you saw the lake, or you saw the ocean. What is it for you? Go ahead and talk to each other. We want to get in this sense of awe. When were you shocked? When were you gobsmacked by something that was way more than you thought it was going to be? Go ahead, talk to each other. Okay. All right. Yeah, let's just keep the music going. Somebody gave me a couple of answers, like what was something that you were just overwhelmed with the greatness of it. Anybody got anything here? The birth of a child. Okay, so two people saying the birth of a child. Okay. All right. Anybody else got anything? You're like, "Well, I'm not saying anything after that." It's okay. People have said the Northern Lights. People have said the Grand Canyon. Anybody got anything over in these sections? The pyramids. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's turn it differently now. Now that your awe is stirred up a little bit, I want you to go back to some people. You don't have to share this one out loud to the rest of us. When were you ever in awe, shocked by someone's-- Maybe it was their generosity, maybe it was their patience, maybe it was their forgiveness, maybe it was their courage, maybe it was their love. It was like you were with someone, and you're like, "I had no idea. I had no idea." Go ahead. Go back and talk to each other real quickly. Okay. Those stories are a lot more fun to tell. Those are those moments that we're in awe, and it's like, wow, there's a lot more to that person. There's a lot more to maybe this relationship than I thought. So hang on to that for just a second. Let's just keep pushing through the story a little bit. I want you to know that at this point, and we're not making fun of him at all. I love Peter. The reason we love Peter is because we see ourselves in Peter. Amen? Amen. Yeah. It's the truth. Peter right now is at a place where he's worried, he's afraid, he's anxious. He is not in control, and Pete likes control. And so this is where he starts to say things to Jesus about, "Well, I'm going to go where you're going." "No, you're not." "Yes, I am." "No, you're not." And then he makes this bold prediction, and Jesus says, "You're going to fail me before morning." So now Peter's in free fall. It's not written here, but I want us to just, again, let's stay in the room for a second. If Peter is going to fail Jesus before dawn, what do you think the rest of those guys are thinking? Oh, man. If he's going down, how am I going to handle this? You see, these guys, they're unsettled, they're worried, they're afraid. And Jesus, ever the good shepherd now, looks at them and says these famous words. This is as far into John 14 as we're going to go today, but he says, "Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe in me." Now, if you were with us last week, you might at this point be saying, "Hey, wait a minute. Time out. Last week, Jesus was troubled." Remember, it was a violent word. He's torn up. He's looking at the injustice and the darkness and the hatred that he's about to face, this storm that he's about to go in, and he's troubled. So is he being inconsistent here when he's saying, "I'm troubled, you guys don't be troubled." Is that it? You ever been on a long vacation in the back of the station wagon? You ever had mom or dad reach-- They're reaching back somewhere. And you know what they're saying. "Don't you make me pull over." And really, did it ever happen to you where they were like, "You guys stop fighting." And five minutes later, mom and dad are going at it because somebody missed the exit? I don't know, maybe those things happen. Do you ever look at your kids and say, "Do as I say, not as I do?" Yeah. Yeah. Well, this is not one of those moments. Jesus is completely consistent. Let's just say this, the trouble that he is facing is completely different from anything anyone else will ever face, and it is his burden alone to bear. He knows that. But I think what he's doing here is he's entering into this storm, he's entering into this suffering. He's entering into this to overcome it, and he's looking at these men that he loves and says, "Don't face this alone. You believe in God, believe in me." Every one of these guys would know Psalm 46:1. "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble." Every one of them would have known that by heart. I believe part of what Jesus is saying here is, "If you believe in God that way, believe in me. I'm right here. Don't underestimate me because I'm doing this for you. The Son of Man is doing this for you." Watch this. We're not in John now, but we see the Son of Man didn't come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many. So he's going to offer his life as a sacrifice. Now, that word ransom there can mean compensation for an injury or for a crime. It can also mean to buy someone's freedom. But at its root, it means to loosen chains and to set someone free. So watch this. I think part of what's going on here is that the exalted one to whom all worship and honor and glory is due, he has chosen to serve in such a way that while we were still sinners, while we were still shaking our fist at heaven, he chose us, he pursued us. And in the moment that breaks chains, in the moment that kicks doors down and prisons are opened up, in the moment that brings healing, in that transcendent moment, Jesus gives his life so that I can have freedom. How much does he love us anyway? I'm free. Isn't that what we were singing earlier? How much does He love us anyway? Now let me just see if we can get through this to where we apply it to ourselves. First of all, I know that there are some of you here who are early on your journey. You're not sure if you believe much of this. You're not sure how this applies to you. Let me give you a Son of Man verse that is just for you. In Luke 19, "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost." Now, when we say the lost, that isn't a looking down kind of a thing because it's all of us at one point or another in our life, okay? The ground is level at the foot of the cross. But what I want you to hear is that this Son of Man pursues the lost. That's an active word there. He pursues the rebellious. This exalted king, this one who's going to reign over a kingdom that will have no end, has entered into the story. Here's something. This is just ... I don't know. This one's for free. There was a survey by Lifeway a few years ago of all Americans. 80% of them said that they believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Now, that was a little high for me. I wouldn't think it would be that. If you take out people who don't attend church even at Christmas or Easter, the number goes down. But let's just stick with the 80. 80% of the people surveyed in America said, "Yeah, sure. Jesus is the Son of God." 80%. Only 43% believed that Jesus existed before His birth in Bethlehem. So what they're doing is they're ignoring the prologue. Maybe that's where you are. You're going, "I do believe somehow. I don't get it. Son of God, I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, Christmas, all of that, I get this." I want you to understand He is more than you think He is. He is the preexistent one, and He chooses to enter into the story to come for you. And when you look at the Gospels, you see Jesus welcoming the lost, hanging out with the lost, getting in trouble because He enjoys being with the lost, laughing with the lost, telling stories, listening, answering the questions of the lost, forgiving the lost, healing the lost, and yes, at the end He dies for the lost. Aren't you grateful for that? Yes. Jesus seeks the lost. If that's you today, I want you to know that part of what He's doing is He's putting people on your path. He's putting conversations. He's putting invitations to come to a church. Maybe it's a song, maybe it's a memory, maybe there's something. But Jesus is pursuing you. Yes. And the invitation is to just notice that and to step towards Him. Now, for some of you, you've been at this a long time, and you've been walking with Jesus a long time. But if we're going to be honest, things have grown stale, maybe even cold, and you're kind of in that routine thing that we were talking about last week. We know the routine. We know how to look the part. Some of you aren't even sure what you believe. You're not even sure that He believes in you. Some of you have invited trouble into your life. Some of you are flirting with danger right now, and you're this close to stepping across a line. Some of you, the loss, the hurt, the worry that is breaking your heart, you didn't choose. It's not of your doing. That trouble found you. I want you to know that each of you in that moment, Jesus sees you, loves you, hasn't forgotten you. Let's go back to the other song that we sang earlier today. Psalm 23, The Lord is my Shepherd. Right? I love that song. I love that song. I love the comfort. I love the encouragement. I love everything about it. But man, I love the honesty of David in that song because if you read it carefully, he says there are such things as valleys and shadows and enemies and death. Such is life in this broken world. But then you get to verse six. We sang it. Yes. Do we know what we sang? "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." I was reading and was reminded just a little bit ago that that word follow isn't as casual as it sounds. It's not like my 70-pound puppy who follows me around. Okay? It's different. It's active. The word there in the Hebrew is radaph, and it means to pursue or to hunt down or to chase. You know what that says? The mercy and the goodness of God hunts you down. When? What did he say? All the days of your life. Yes. Yes. David said, "The goodness and the mercy of God chases me down when I am the best king Israel ever knew, and when I blew it so badly through my lust that the whole thing fell apart." Yep. "He chases me down when I write the most beautiful songs that are still being sung today or when I'm hiding in a cave wondering if I'm going to live out through the day. He hunts me down with His goodness and mercy when I am triumphant and when I am afraid, when I am joyful and when I am crying out for justice. My God keeps chasing after me." One more time, how much does He love you anyway? My friend Scott Sauls kind of sums this up for some people with these words. He says, "Your moments of deepest discouragement, disappointment, and even self-disgust do not push Jesus away. They draw Him closer. Jesus runs toward you just as the father ran to welcome his prodigal son, interrupting your rehearsed apologies with an embrace that asks for nothing in return. Even the journey home isn't something you have to figure out on your own." Whether you have been a longtime believer or you are trying to figure this out, I want you to know that that's how much He loves you. The Son of Man who pays the ransom to free you, the Son of Man who seeks to save the lost, the Lord God whose mercy and goodness will chase you down all the days of your life. One more time, how much does He love us? Yes. So a few years ago, I am scuba diving with dear friends. We're actually off the coast of Central America. It's what they call a blue water dive. So you're about 25 miles off the coast and the water is- Blue. Guys, I don't know why you hesitate on these things. It's not just blue. It was like almost navy blue. We're past blue. It's like it doesn't even look natural blue. Part of that is because of where you are and because the sand and all of that, and part of it is it was deep. It was hundreds of feet deep at that point. So it's a blue water dive, which means open water, you got to figure out, you got to pay attention to your depth gauge. You don't want to go down too deep. You're down there 80, 90 feet. That's cool. That's fun. But it also burns up your oxygen, so you got to kind of pay attention to things. But what I'm going to tell you is we saw things that you don't see any place else. I remember seeing these eagle rays that have these white spots on them, and it looks like they're flying, and they go beneath you. I remember three bull sharks that were kind of tracking us maybe 175 feet below us. I mean, it's deep. I remember looking off to my right and thinking, "Man, this is hundreds of feet deep," but there's like this indigo wall because the shelf was there and now that's a mile deep. I remember letting my brain go there for a minute and then going, "Nah, I think I'll come back to this." And I remember, I know y'all remember this. I remember this whirlwind of life. They were snappers. Our guide told us later that in some of these tornadoes, like 100,000 snapper, these are not small fish, have been counted. So you're seeing it almost from the depth of the ocean floor all the way to the surface, and it's just this whirlwind of life, and you're kind of undone going, "Oh, man. What is that?" God asks Job in chapter 38, "Have you ever walked to the springs of the sea? Have you ever stepped into the- The answer is no. What's my point? I thought I knew how big the ocean was. I've stood on many a beach. I've even flown over the ocean. I've been on a boat on the ocean. I had a pretty good sense of, wow, the ocean's big. I had no idea. I had no idea. Y'all, I need you to know something. I thought I knew what deep was when I was sitting in 10 feet of water trying to start my certification with the mask and all, and this was pretty deep. I thought it felt deep when I was 25 feet under, and then you're doing it in open water. I had no idea what deep is, and I'm barely scratching the surface of the depths of the ocean. Are you still with me? Because maybe you understand what Paul says, what he prays. I just want you to grasp. Let's read it together. In fact, let's say it out loud. Can you put that up there? Paul prays that we would grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge. Do you want to know why the love of Christ is so much? Because Christ is so much. Yes. He is the Lamb of God, the Son of God, the Son of Man, and the Lord of all, and he is saying to you right now, "Whatever your embarrassment, whatever your shame, whatever your struggle, whatever your past, whatever your moment is, whatever kind of family you grew up with, whatever kind of wound that you have that you don't even think it'll heal, whatever color of your skin, whatever ZIP code you live in, whatever your education, whatever your BMI, whatever your tax returns look like, come to me, and I will give you rest, and I will heal you, and I will forgive you." Jesus says, "I'm the one. I'm the way." He's the only one who says, "I am God, and I have died for you, and I did it so that you could have freedom." Muhammad didn't say this. Buddha didn't say this. Moses didn't say this. Vishnu of Hinduism didn't say this. That's not even a historical figure, but the other three, they never claimed to be God, and they sure never said, "I'm dying so that I could have life with you." That's right. Yes. Now, I'm telling you what, his love changes everything, and it leads to the most controversial, I think maybe one of the most controversial sentences that Jesus ever utters. It's in the Gospels. It's in chapter 14. But that's for another week. So I pray that as you leave, if you have questions, if you would like to pray, if you'd like to know how to take another step towards this Jesus, come on. If you're saying, "Wait, I need that love to find me again," come on. But my prayer for each of you is that you'll be undone by the greatness of Christ, his mercy, his goodness, his patience, his healing, his love. I mean, who else is worthy? Amen? Amen. Amen. We'll see you.