DEI John 3 16

The transcription is a podcast episode where the host talks about the concept of diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to the teaching of Jesus Christ. She emphasizes that Jesus is for everyone and that no one is excluded from his love and grace. She also shares personal experiences and encourages listeners to surrender their lives to God and trust in his plan. She mentions the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well as an example of inclusion and acceptance. The host concludes by highlighting the importance of changing one's mindset and surrendering to God's will. Good morning and welcome to Sermons for the Soul, bringing life to the culture. Today is Tuesday, May the 23rd, 2023. And I am your host, Tasha. So excited to be with you today. So excited for God's mercy and grace. So excited that He breathed His air into my lungs that I may be with you all today. Just so want to give a shout out to my husband for his love and continual support. And want to just give a shout out to all of you for listening, for tuning in. If we may just go into a word of prayer. Lord, we just bless you so much for today. We bless you so much for, again, your mercy and your grace. We thank you so much for allowing us to see this day that we've never seen. Lord, we ask that you touch hearts that needs to be touched. We ask, Lord Jesus, that you do. Welcome to Sermons for the Soul, bringing life to the culture. Not my life, but His life to the culture. Hello, friends. Today is Tuesday, May the 23rd. And we bless God for today, a day that we have never, ever seen before. Hallelujah. Thank you, thank you, thank you for tuning in. I want to stop and pause right now and give a huge shout out to my husband. Thank you so much for your love and for your support. I tell you what, ladies, I truly have a man that rides with me. Like, we ride together. And it just brings me to that scripture, Ecclesiastes 4 and 12. A cord of three strands is not easily broken. And I'm not going to say that we have not been through some horrible things. Yeah, but God. All right. Yes, and speaking of God, Lord, we just thank you so much for this day. We thank you so much for your love and your mercies that are renewed and extended through to us, Lord, this day. We ask that you send your angels before us, Lord, for we know not what we are set to face this day, Lord. And we just ask that you touch the hearts of every listener, Lord, and everyone connected to the listeners, oh, God. And people are going through so much in this day, Lord. Some people are having the best times of their lives, Lord. And some people are at the very lowest in their lives, oh, God. But through it all, you are still God, and we bless you for that. Just have your way in this podcast and just have your way in however you want to do, whatever you want to do. Holy Spirit, we are welcome, and we are open to you. All right, friends. So today I want to talk about we hear so much about diversity, equity, and inclusion. And many of us are so maybe you're tired of actually hearing about diversity, equity, and inclusion. But I just want to tell you today that, whew, we're going to talk about that today. We're going to talk about that today in a way that makes sense to the life that we live or maybe the life that we should be living. And put it in a way, in context, of someone that is our greatest example. Yep, you nailed it. It is Jesus Christ. So turn with me, if you will, to a very famous scripture, a very famous scripture that many people, you know it even without going to the place that many call the church. I like to call it the building, the building with the four walls and sometimes the cushy pews and, you know, you have all the things, you know. I'm not against the building. Sometimes I just wish the building would come out and meet the rest of the world. In most cases they do, but just a little bit more. All right. So we are talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion. And want to give you the face of diversity, equity, and inclusion as it pertains to the way that I and many of you live your life. And those to join. So we are coming from John 3 and 16 and it reads, for God so loved the world that he gave. And this is very important. So with me, many of you do know that in my podcast when I read the word, sometimes I will just stop and just say what's to be given at that time. And sometimes I will continue reading. So just follow along. If this is your first time with me, thank you for joining. If you are a long-time listener, glad to have you back, friends. All right. So, yeah, it tells us for God so loved the world. He did this thing out of love. All right. Let's be clear on that. He did this out of love. And for God so loved the world that he gave. He didn't ask anybody else to do it. He didn't go and say, hey, I'm putting in $5,000 here, can you put in something so we can make this a whole whatever we need to make it. No, he gave. And not only did he give, the word of God says that he gave his only begotten son. So he gave us all he had. And not only did he give us all he had, he gave us the very best that he had. All right. And that whosoever, and the reason he did this, we understand he did it out of love. We understand that he gave his one and only. We understand that he gave his best. And he gave it to. Here's who he gave it to. Right. And this is the part where we look at the diversity, equity, and inclusion. And we see the face of it. He gave it to whosoever. Now, who is that? Now, who is the whosoever? Like whose name tag, whose name badge, I should say, is actually whosoever. All right. So let's whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Amen for that. God, we thank you for your word. Yes. So we are going to look at the whosoever. And many of us get caught up on because we think, and I'm going to say this because I used to be in this culture of very, very tradition, and this is what we do, and this is how we do it. And if it doesn't look like this, then it may be conscrued as something else. But I think many of us are breaking away from that. But the whosoever is exactly what it says, whosoever, whether it be somebody that committed a murder, as horrible and heinous as that is. But it's no different in God's eye than from somebody committing a lie. Sin is sin. All right. Sin is sin. Now, it's us that breaks down the category. It's us that, oh, it's not so bad if it was this. Oh, this is really horrible. Now, that's the human part of us, right? But God sees sin as being sin. Like, it's all one category. Sin is sin. We don't break up sin. We don't place it anywhere. Sin is sin, and we deal with it accordingly. Just wanted to be clear on that. But the whosoever is for the murderer, the murderer repent and turn, yeah, the rapist. For all those people who have done some very horrible things. And I'll tell you what, many of us don't forget their names. We don't forget their names because maybe we were a victim of their crime. Maybe we were a victim or maybe we are the parent or the parents of this individual or individuals. Maybe we are the individual. It doesn't matter on what side of the coin that you are on. Some of us, you know, let me pause right there because I'm going to tell you that I, and I'm going to be halfway transparent here, okay? Because I don't want to make this about me. I want to make this about us and how we can get back to him. Like, I want to point us in the right direction to get to Christ. And I don't want to get hung up with what you said. Let's just hear what the Spirit of the Lord is saying to the church. And if you're not part of the church, and I do not mean the four walls or I have a membership here. No, I mean the body of Christ. Like, he knows you by name. He knows all of us by name. But you have that relationship with him. Right? So, there used to be a point in time where, you know, I felt like if I wore the right thing and said the right thing and always did the right thing that I was in right standing. Not so. It's good to be these things. But you never know what's in your heart. You never know what's hidden until you have been tried by fire. And then when you say, oh, tried by fire, not literally fire, but just circumstances of life that comes and hold us down and circumstances of life. And I'm going to say this. Life is undefeated. So, if you're living here on earth, if you are alive and if you are breathing, life is undefeated. Everything is not the devil. Everything is not, oh, my gosh, you know, what's happening to me. Some things can be self-inflicted. Some things are just life. Some things just happen. Our bodies break down. Some things just happen, people. And we need to understand what's what and what's happening. But in all circumstances, in every circumstances, count it joy. Count it joy that you are able to go through because I guarantee you that somebody somewhere is wishing they had your problem. I know that sounds crazy, but somebody somewhere is wishing they had your problem. And at one point in my life, I was sick and I was in the hospital. And I'm going to say I can remember someone telling me that was there at the hospital that they had called in the chaplain for last rites because I was just that sick. They come to find out I had some internal bleeding. And I was sick. I was in the hospital for a while. I lost a lot of weight. I've been in the hospital a few times in my life with some crazy things going on with me. But God, but here's the thing. It's but God, right? It's but God. In spite of all that we will encounter in this life, my friends, because we will encounter some things. Expect it. Expect it. And think it not odd. Think it not crazy. Think it not oh, my gosh, I can't believe this is happening to me. Believe it. Believe it. Believe it. Believe it. So when we think about this journey that we are taking, because this life in most cases for many of us are journey through. Like it's the journey through to the other side. And what is the other side? The other side is eternal life if you are a believer. If you not a believer, if you are not a believer, you can today right where you stand, right where you stand, right where you sit, right where you lay, right where you kneel, right where you are. No matter where you are, in every corner of the earth, God reigns. God reigns. And my friends, nothing catches him by surprise. This is why the whosoever is so important because church people don't have a monopoly on Jesus. Many of them need him. Right? We all need him, but many of them feel like in some circumstances from some of my experiences and even from a personal up close experience, many of us believe that we say Jesus. So we can tell you what he's going to do, what he's not going to do. Oh no, he wouldn't do that because you burped him out. Like you were there all along. Like no stop. And many times this discourages and this causes people to draw back. But don't draw back. Come forward. Come forward. God is for everyone. He loves us. This is the reason why he sent his only begotten son to say, hey, I'm here. This is where diversity, equity, and inclusion because no one is excluded. Now, the problem that we have with the diversity, equity, and inclusion that we try to create in the workforce and every other place is because it excludes. Right? Somebody intentional or not is going to be harmed. Somebody intentional or not is going to be left out. Somebody intentional or not is going to be like, well, there's no place for me here. There's no place for this or that, whatever that is. But I'll tell you what, in John 3 and 16, and I'm going to read it again, for God so loved the world that he gave. No, he gave it. He has only begotten son that whosoever, baby, that is diversity, equity, and inclusion. That is even all across the board. It doesn't matter what you did, what you didn't do, how you did it and how you didn't do it. It's for everyone. That whosoever believes in him should not perish. Listen, the only thing you have to do is believe. Believe. Believe. Believe what? Believe that he is God. Believe that he died and he rose again. Believe. Believe that he is eternal life. Believe that he is the fountain of living water. Believe that he is and that he was and that he is to come. Believe. Believe that no matter what you are going through today, that he is still God. That he is, that nothing catches him by surprise. That no matter what we are faced with in this life, believe that he is God. No matter if you're in the lion's den, you're in a situation at work, you're in a situation with your child, your spouse, with you, with another loved one, with someone you don't like, that nothing catches him by surprise in the sense of how it turns out or how it works out. Now where we get off key is where I will use me here, is that we have this expectation of how we want it to work out. That's how we want it to go down. And when it doesn't turn out like that, we're wanting to charge God with it, right? We're wanting to say, God, I mean, what happened? I did everything. I jumped through every hoop. I died at every, I crossed every T and you did not come through. Well, did he say he would? I mean, did he say that this is the way that you were supposed to go? Like, or did you create this path? Did you decide in your mind that, hey, this is what I'm going to do, this is what I like, and this is the way I'm going to go, and you wanted him to get on board and co-sign with whatever it is that you did? Or did you stop and consider and say, Lord, this is what I am thinking, but what do you want? What would please you? Like, you have given me this life, and I give it back to you. What pleases you? I'm going to stop right here, and I'm going to tell you this. For years, I have worked in the addiction and mental health field, been a counselor, a facilitator, and still do some facilitation on the side. But I have worked in this field for years. And to some degree, it's bought me a lot of joy when you see the transformation of individuals, and, you know, they finally have that moment of clarity of, I don't have to stay here. This stronghold doesn't have to be the end-all, be-all for my life. But the point of my message is, excuse me, the point of me bringing this up is I thought that this was the way I should continue, being that counselor in this field and going out, and it was not to be so. I had to, like, it literally broke my heart that I had to let something go. Like, it's needed. I need it. But no, but no. Here's where we're going. This is the path you shall take. This is the path you shall take. And I'm going to tell you that, you know, it's changed my life. It's given me a whole new perspective. It's given me, and like you, when you stop and surrender, like, full surrender will give you peace. And you will know it because you will be all right with it. You will be at peace. Don't fight the process. Don't fight the process. And know that Jesus is for everyone, right? Now, there's a way that when you say that Jesus is for everyone, now, there are consequences because I must say this. There are consequences for our actions here. Like, it's real. There are consequences for our actions. And just because you say, oh, I claim Jesus or I have Jesus, that nothing is going to happen to you when you do X, Y, and Z. You know, sometimes maybe there's whatever. But there are consequences for our actions. That's just life. All right. But don't let that discourage you from giving your life to God. For giving your life to Christ, for coming and laying it all down at the altar, for saying, hey, I tried it my way for so many years, for so long, and kept going around the same old circle, getting nowhere. You know, and this is, this life here, I'm going to tell you, it gets harder, right? Because you have built up this, your flesh. You're so strong in your flesh. Your flesh. And then when you come, when you give your life to God, now you're fighting that thing that was normal to you all along, and you have to surrender. And now that the spirit part of you has been built up. So that conflict, that conflict, that internal conflict of, oh, I want to do this. No, I want to do this. No, no, no, no, my friend. That flesh has to die daily. That flesh has to be laid down. That flesh, your own mindset on what you think that you want to do needs to be brought up under subjection. And we are still talking about diversity, equity, and inclusion. And the face of this, the one that excludes no one, the one that when it was written, because it is written, no one was excluded. Because he tells us here that whosoever, the only thing you have to do is believe, right? You don't have to give a donation of X amount of dollars. You don't have to wear certain colors. You don't have to go harm somebody. You don't have to do whatever. The only thing you have to do is believe. What do I have to believe? Again, believe that Jesus is Lord. Believe that he died and rose again with all power because he did. And many will get caught up on you want me to serve or you want me to give my life to somebody I can't see and somebody I can't touch. I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you something. And there's a scripture in here. I want to say, it brings me to the woman at the well, at Jacob's well. And it just tells me that she went to the well in the middle of the day. And I'm going to paraphrase to get through here because it's almost over. And I wanted to, my thought was to introduce this in the beginning, but I got, okay. So she, Jesus was with some of his disciples. His disciples had left him and went into town to get some food, right? And Jesus caught the squat at the well, if you will. And a woman comes, you know, in the middle of the day. This woman had a reputation, and this is one of the things that diversity, equity, and inclusion, because she was a Samaritan woman. And the two didn't mix, right? And I just want to read just a part of this. And I think I'm going to start at John 4 and 1. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples, he left Judea and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to parcels of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now, Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, set thus on the well, and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat. This saith the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, ask a drink of me? See, she understood. We're from two different places, boo. Why are you asking something that you shouldn't even be talking to me? Why are you here? Let's keep reading. How is it that thou, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. And the woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. For whence, then, hast thou that living water? Now listen, sir. You sitting there, only thing I see is your two hands and nothing else that you have to get some water up out of this well. And here you come talking about me, some living water. Now what's really going on? Are you hitting on me? What's really going on? Are thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? And Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever. There's that word again, you guys. There's that word. There's diversity, equity, and inclusion. We see it all here. No one is excluded. Don't let anyone tell you that. The gospel of Jesus Christ is for us all. Jew, Gentile, white, black, green, purple, all of us. The gospel is for us all. There's room for us all. No one has to build their own temple and say this is what we do here. No, it's a body. It's one body with one head. And we move as one force. And when we all come together and move in complete unity up under the head, oh, what a world this would be. Oh, if you change your mind about changing your mind, because your mind is such the battlefield. Right? We all have our own independent thoughts. So great. But when you surrender your life to Christ, and your ways are not going to be his ways, and your thoughts are not going to be his thoughts. When you hand over what he has given so freely back to him, I tell you what. I mean, take the brakes off. Take the limits off. He does it. He does it. He is all inclusive. And what's so mighty about this God is that he knows it all. Like I said earlier, nothing catches him by surprise. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. He is God. And he is God alone. And in the Bible, and the scripture escapes me in this moment, it says no one can stay his hand. And there's a pastor that I do love dearly that says before there was a then or a there, or when or where. Like before, like he needed not anyone to create him because he created it all. He did it all. He spoke a word. And there it was. And it sounds so hard and so far-fetched to believe. I understand, but all you have to do is believe. Just take that one little step and say, all right, I'm going to give this man named Jesus a chance. I'm going to give this man named Jesus my life. I'm going to see what he can do. Because I guarantee you, and you can take this to the bank. Let me just say this. The bank is only insured for, in most cases, the FDIC, up to $250,000. Like that's their limit. You see, when you walk into the bank, like that thing is etched. We only insure up to $250,000. I tell you what, with God you won't lose. Because some people are going to lose money from their account because, oh, I had more than this. I had more. What are you going to do to make me whole? What are you going to do to make me right? Listen, I'm telling you about a man named Jesus who is the most inclusive, who is the most diverse. So the span, just what he does is just so right. And just so for us all. So when Jesus answered her and said unto her, whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. He's talking like, man, you're going to be coming back to this fountain many times because you're always going to be thirsty. But I have a thirst that you, it's going to quench everything that's going on with you, everything that's so unsettled. Like when you give your life to me completely, completely, I'm going to quench every nook, cranny. I'm going to straighten it all out. Like those crooked places in you, I'm going to make straight. But whosoever, and we see it again that whosoever, but whosoever, whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never. Now, when we use the word never in our vernacular, in our context of today and all of our humanness, it's always some, what's the word I'm looking for? Shoot. It doesn't mean never to put it like that, right? It doesn't really mean never. Because there's some loopholes even in our nevers, right? But here shall never, shall never, like those two just went together, like shall never thirst. But the water that I give him shall be in him a well of water springing up, baby. I'm going to tell you, when you get a jolt, a hit of this Holy Ghost, of the Holy Spirit of God, when he comes through you and he does the work in you that needs to be done in you, because it may be different from the work that needs to be done in Sally. Like this is where the diversity, equity, and inclusion really comes in too because he is so diverse. Like he knows us. Your issues may not be Sally's issues, so he's going to work in you in a way that's dealing with what's going on inside of you. And Sally's going to get what's going on inside of her and John and Jim and John Woohoo, like whoever it is, like individually he does this work and collectively we are the body. We are the body, my friends. And here, let's go ahead and finish this. The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water. She asked for it. You too can ask for it. Sir, Jesus, give me this water that you talk about. This water that you tell me that's going to be living on the inside of me that's going to cause me to never thirst again. That's going to cause me to be so fast and unmovable. That's going to cause springs just to flow up like on those days where you're feeling like, oh my gosh, I don't think I can make it. You're going to tap into a source that is not your own that's going to cause you to get through those hard days. And I hear somebody right now say, well, where was this when John John did this? And John John claimed he knew Jesus. And John John claimed that this was that and that was this. And I'm going to tell you that you do have free will. Like you have to choose this day. Every day that you wake, every moment you have to choose God. You have to choose him. You have to choose him. You have to say, oh, oh, God, I know this. I know what I see with my natural eyes. And I know what I'm going through. And I know how my body feels. But, God, I choose you. Because you said healing is my portion. Because he did it on the cross. By his stripes we were healed. He went through it that we may have the healing. This is why we are more than conquerors. Because you didn't have to go out and slay anything. Hallelujah. You just had to believe and walk into it and stay the course. And 15, the woman said unto him, and I have to read this again, my friends. Sir, give me this water that I thirst not. Give me what you're talking about. Neither come hither to draw. I didn't even come here for this. The picture that you're holding in your hand, the picture of the jug or whatever it was that the lady had in her hand can't even contain this water. Sir, give me what you're talking about. I don't need to see you with a whale or with another whale beside Jacob's whale and you talking about you want to give me something that's going to cause me not to thirst again. Sir, give me that. And I just turned over to 16, verse 16. And Jesus said unto her, go, call thou husband, and come hither. And he's proving a point here. He's not shaming the woman, but he wants to prove a point. He wants to allow her to understand who he is. Because at this point, he has her attention. Right? He has her attention. And the woman answered and said, I have no husband. And Jesus said unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband. For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou hast is not thou husband in that sayest thou truly. Ma'am, you answered right because you didn't have five of them jokers, and the one you with right now ain't it either. How about that? And the one that was not offended. She was not offended. The woman said unto him, sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Like, sir, I'm not getting ready. She didn't put her hand on her hip and shake her head and be like, how you know what I got? Like, she didn't act like this. Like, he had her undivided attention. When you are at a place where you are sick and tired of being sick and tired of everything that you have tried, it has just not worked. Like I said, try Jesus. Try Jesus. It's a foolproof. It's guaranteed. It's something you have never experienced. And if you have experienced and your life is going the way that, take your hands off of it and come on back. Because sometimes you do need a refresher. Sometimes we go, this is so, this is so, I already know what this is. Well, maybe you need a touch. Right? It's a continuous relationship. Come. Come. And give your life to Christ. All right. And he said, now answer, I mean, listen, it's true. And the woman said, I perceive thou art a prophet. And our fathers worshiped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. And Jesus said unto her, woman, believe me. The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the father. Listen, there's going to come a time where you don't have to, like, I'm going to be inside of you. Right now I'm walking with you. But it's going to be a time where I'm going to live. When you have God's Holy Spirit, when you have the Holy Spirit, you're going to, it's going to dwell inside of you. Like, it's going to dwell, the paraclete is going to come right alongside of you and it's going to be with you always. As long as you choose to allow Holy Spirit to dwell. All right. So I, let's see where. Okay. And the woman believed, and Jesus said unto her, woman, believe me. Believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the father. Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. Listen, we don't even, salvation is only for the Jews. It's only for, it's not even for me and my people. Like, what are you talking about? But the hour cometh now, but the hour cometh and now is when, and it's right here, it's right in front of you. It's this hour. When the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit, ooh Jesus, and in truth. For the father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship. Now this is how you must do it. You must worship him in spirit and in truth. And the woman said unto him, I know that the Messiah is cometh, which is called Christ. When he is come, he will tell us all things. And this is what I, ooh baby, and Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. Listen baby, I'm here. I'm right here, the hour is now. Like the hour is right here in front of you. What do you need? I already know what you need. But just be open. Be honest about your situation. Hallelujah. The woman could have just went sideways with Jesus when he called her out on her life. Don't be afraid to be exposed in love. Don't be afraid to be exposed in love. Then you allow truth to come in and make its path through your life. Hallelujah. Don't be afraid to give all that you have to God. Open up your hands. Hand it over to him. Be like, God, listen, I've been trying to build this, this, and that. I've been trying to date Jen, June, Gigi, God, whoever that is. But Jesus, now, I ain't been trying at all. I just want you. I want you. Just tell me what to do. Just tell me where to go. Just tell me. Listen, he's saying in spirit and in truth. And this is what happens. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion is so what it is here in the context of the word of God that we can make applicable in our life when we give our lives to Christ. Now, you cannot expect someone to be whole that's broke. Right? You cannot expect someone to be light when they're full of darkness because they do not know Christ. Not that he can't move on somebody and have them to do something because he can't. I hope that part made sense. And so we are in 27. And upon this came his disciples and marveled that he talked with the woman. Listen, forget that she was a Samaritan. Forget that she was of Samaria. Forget that. We were of a different sect. Now the gender roles come into play here. Isn't it good, you guys? Aren't you seeing how diverse and equitable and inclusive the Lord Jesus Christ is? Because they marveled that he talked with the woman. And yet no man said, what seekest thou? Or what talkest thou with her? And the woman then left her water pot. Like she left what she came for because she was already full. She was already full. Like her thirst had been quenched. Like she was ready to go. And it didn't say this, but whoever was probably in her house, she was probably like, boo, she got to go. I done met a man that did what you came that I've been searching for out of five of you jokers. All right. That's me having fun. All right. And let's see. I was at 28. And the woman then left her water pot and went her way into the city and said to the men, come see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? Listen, he done told me all about my life. This can't be nobody but the Christ. This can't be nobody but the man that we were speaking of that we thought his hour or his ways to come was so far down the line. I met with him. I was at the well with him. Then they went out of the city and came unto him. In the meanwhile, his disciples prayed him, saying, master, eat. He said unto them, I have meat to eat that you know not of. My friends, I have gone over my time, but that's okay. I just want to thank you. We're going to stop right there. We're going to come back up hopefully at a time in the near future and continue to talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion if that's the way we should go. But I want to thank you so much for tuning in to Sermons for the Soul, bringing life to the culture. Not my life, but his life to the culture. Be blessed.