BSP - Pastor Collins

The transcription discusses the importance of repentance and preparation for upcoming challenges in the context of a biblical story about Hezekiah. Pastor Rashidi Collins emphasizes the need for a prophetic call to repentance, highlighting the role of leaders in leading sincere repentance at all levels, from personal to public. Repentance is described as a necessary step that cannot be delegated and must be accompanied by cleansing. The story of Hezekiah's reforms serves as a powerful example of the impact of repentance and restoration. Testing, testing, one, two, three, testing, testing, one, two, three, testing, one, two, three. All right. We're good. Welcome to Beyond Sunday. The podcast where faith meets everyday life and where the Word of God extends far beyond the pews. I'm your host, Lorenzo Warren, Jr. I pastor New Life Tabernacle at Carolwood. And, folks, we have a special treat today, a wonderful surprise. I have with me the pastor of New Life Tabernacle, family of churches, my pastor, Pastor Rashidi Collins. Welcome, sir. Glad to have you. Man, I'm glad to be with you. This is exciting. I know it's something we have talked about and, you know, just getting schedules together, but it was able to happen today, and I'm excited to hear what the Lord has laid on your heart to share with us in the Beyond Sunday family. And so I'm going to turn it over to you, sir. Share what you have for us. Well, praise God. You know, I've just been talking to the Lord about a lot of things, and this is actually something that I know I have to kind of preach to the body, but I'm sharing on Beyond Sunday because I believe it's something that has to be disseminated to the body of Christ at large, to the New Life family in particular, and really bringing it home to our own personal home. This is something that I believe affects families. It affects individuals, just people that are living for God, serving God, and it's the preparation for the coming back. I'm saying to the New Life family, I'm saying to the body of Christ, I'm saying to every individual that's listening to the Beyond Sunday podcast, that something is on the horizon, something cataclysmic, something apocalyptic, something that prophecy points towards, that when it hits, everything that can be shaken will be shaken. We're starting off there, huh? I'm saying that we have to prepare for something that's coming down the pipe, that is designed to test our faith, that's designed to challenge people where they are, challenge us as a church, and challenge us as individual believers. In fact, we see all the warning signs here. Parts of it has already begun, but there is yet a battle to come, that the body of Christ will have to continue. And my argument today is that we have to prepare for the battle. And the preparation God has laid on my heart, I don't want to call it so much a strategy, or really it's a step-by-step preparation for what's to come. Now, the background of this is Hezekiah. Hezekiah, king of Judah, son of Ahaz, father of Manasseh. Now, this is important, because Hezekiah is sandwiched between two wicked kings. His father was wicked, and his son was extremely wicked. Granted, his son did repent towards the end of his life, which is one of the most powerful examples of the mercy of God that you can find anywhere in Scripture. Let's start with Ahaz. Ahaz, the deal, what identifies Ahaz, what really sets him apart was a story about him visiting another nation, seeing a beautiful altar, copying a portrait of the altar and sending it back to the high priest in Jerusalem, saying, I like this altar. It's a different pattern from the altar that you guys have. The one that you got from David, the one that you got originally from Moses. The brazen altar outside said, this altar that I'm looking at over here in the enemy's camp is prettier, is more modern, is more sleek, is more aesthetically pleasing than the altar, the brazen altar you guys are working with. Here's the pattern of this new altar that I like. Make that altar, please, because that's what I want to offer sacrifice. That's what I want. So I'm not going to give God what he wants. I want to give God what I want to give him. That sounds kind of like Cain. But anyhow, Ahaz does this. He sends his altar back and they make the altar. And what he does is he actually moves the altar of God out of the way and makes this new altar the most prominent structure in the temple complex, which leads to the decline of Israel in a very real way. So Ahaz causes the decline of Jerusalem because the moving of the altar led to all kinds of other issues. By the time Hezekiah comes to power in second Proverbs, we recognize that not only is the altar moved, basically the temple has been shut. Yes. No instance is being offered. Nothing is happening at the temple complex. It's fallen into disrepair. It's no longer being used. It's no longer being frequented. It's an afterthought. The priesthood is on hiatus. The Levites are not sanctified. The priests are not sanctified. Nobody is focused on God or the things of God because when there is unrighteous leadership, you will have unrighteous followers. Well, Hezekiah comes to power. When Hezekiah comes to power, the Bible says that the first thing he does is he opens the door of the temple and repairs it. So what Hezekiah is about to do is bring about a reformation. It's a reformation that was so phenomenal that it's perhaps one of the most powerful examples of revival that we have in history. From 2 Chronicles chapter 29, Hezekiah is only 25 years old when he comes to power. But I take note that his mother is mentioned, which means that there was some godly influence in Hezekiah's life because his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. This is in 2 Chronicles chapter 29, verse 1. Verse 2 said, He did what was right in the sight of the Lord according to all that David his father had done. And then he launches into this reform. So I'm going to give you some step-by-step stuff that the Lord laid on my heart, and then I'll show you why it was necessary for this to happen in order to be ready for the battle. So the first thing that happens is this. There's a call to repentance. In order for the church to be ready for what's coming, we got to repent from the pulpit to the people. Everybody needs to turn to God with an attitude, a posture of repentance. Sincere repentance. Now repentance is not something we should take for granted. God is the one that leads us to repentance. And God actually has to grant repentance. It's not something that's automatic. But God knows the heart. There are some people who they're sorry for being caught, not really sorry. And there is a difference between those that repent authentically and those that repent for show. God is not looking for a repentance for show. He's looking for actual repentance. So Hezekiah issues a call for repentance, and he issues the call first to the leadership. He tells the priest and the Levite, hey, we got to get together. We got to turn back to God. You see what's going on. You see that the whole temple complex has fallen into disrepair. It's not being used. We're not doing what we ought to do. So we need to repent. There has to be a national repentance. There has to be a mass repentance. And I'm saying that to the body of Christ, that in order for us to prepare for what's coming down the pipe, there has to be mass repentance. Everybody needs to get together. And so we've got to repent. Preachers that are listening to this podcast need to issue a call to repentance to their congregation, to their leader, to everyone connected to their sphere of influence. And they themselves as preachers, as men of God, as pastors, we need to lead in this repentance. We need to repent in our homes. We need to repent in private. And then we need to repent in public. We need to have private repentance and corporate repentance. As individuals, as families, as churches, as organizations within the body of Christ, we've got to come to the altar of repentance. The first thing is the call. That call to repentance has to be made, and it is the responsibility of the preachers to issue the prophetic call to repentance. This is what happens here. That's the first step. You know, there's a word you used right there that I think if people aren't careful, we'll blow past it. You said the prophetic call to repentance. And I think sometimes that's missed, that it is prophetic because when we look, that's what the prophets did. The prophets were always pointing people back to God. There has to be a turning back. And so it is absolutely prophetic, and it's a watchman-type call to, hey, there is a problem in the camp. There is. And we must change. That's right. And, I mean, to be honest, we have to be real. We have to be authentic. If we see the proliferation of unrighteousness, if we notice that battles are being lost, if we see that a small city like Ai is causing too many casualties and we should have taken it already, we've got to go to God and ask, what's the problem? What's the problem? We have to acknowledge that there is a problem, clearly. And then we've got to say, Lord, where is the issue? There has to be a call to repentance. It has to be issued, but it has to come from the top. Absolutely. It has to come from the leader. It has to come from us as pastors. We have to say, God, we see there's a problem. I'm coming back to you, and I'm going to call everybody in my sphere of influence back to you. That looks like pastors in churches, pastors in their homes, dads and moms at home, just kids. We have to be able to recognize that this business of repentance is not something you can delegate. Wow. You can't delegate repentance. Can't delegate. It's not something we can delegate to our prayer team, delegate to the usher board, delegate to whoever we have in place. No, this is something that every pastor must lead. Every minister must lead. Every head of department must lead. Every auxiliary head must lead. Every father must lead. Every mother must lead. Everyone that holds a leadership role, whether at the family level, whether at the ecclesiastical church level, no matter where you are on the spectrum, leaders have to lead the way in repentance, and they must seek to call their entire sphere of influence to repentance. That's step one. Step two, the repentance actually has to happen with a cleansing. The repentance has to happen with a cleansing. Listen to this. In 2 Chronicles 29 verse 16, Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord. So they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days, and in the sixteenth day of the first month, they made an end. Observe that it wasn't something that happened overnight, but rather it was a systematic, intentional cleansing that took place. It took them eight days just to get stuff, watch this, from the inner court out to the porch. So that means the mess was so prolific that it was even in the inner court. We're talking in a place that nothing that defiles should have ever seen. So pervasive was the defilement that the inner court was defiled. This is not just something that was happening in the outer court. Well, this was just something surface. This is just something superficial. No, which means the Levites had to... The only way it could have got in there is if the leaders brought it in. That's the only way it could have gotten in. Watch this. And it was so bad, it caused people to stay away from the temple. That's bad. When there's defilement present, that causes the opposite of revival. When it causes the opposite of evangelism. When it causes the opposite of discipleship. That means there's some defilement that has to be removed from the inner court all the way. It took them eight days to make it happen. That kind of cleansing has to take place. The call to repentance was step one. Then the cleansing and the repentance took place, which is step two. Now, those two that I just mentioned are so imperative because they come back to Hezekiah and say, we've done what you've asked. We have cleansed all the house of the Lord. The altar burnt offering, the vessels, the showbread table, the vessels there. Everything that Ahaz in verse 19 had cast away in his transgression, he said, we got them back and we cleansed. That's good news for somebody who's wondering if a job can be done. It can absolutely be done if we put our minds to it. If the posture of our heart is cleansing, God will empower us to retrieve that which has been cast away. This is good news because that which has been cast away has not been utterly destroyed. It simply needs to be picked up and cleaned. That's what revival is really about. So these two steps now precede the third step. Here's the third step that it's got to take place. From verse 20 of chapter 29 onwards, the Bible says that true worship was restored. Which then means that there was worship happening. Oh, absolutely. But it wasn't true worship. It wasn't true worship. And it wasn't to the one true God. It might have even been where worship was happening, but it wasn't effective. Or worship and praise was happening and some were connected and some were disconnected. For true worship to really be effective, we've got to get to a place where we worship in one accord. And we can't get there if there is a commitment to righteousness by some and unrighteousness by others. Which is why it has to start with leaders. It has to start at the top. Really, we have to search ourselves first because we cannot take people to places that we have not been. I heard a preacher say you can impart, but you don't possess. Well, folks, there you have it. Revival has to start in the home. Revival has to start in a place of individual consecration before it can proliferate to anybody else. We have to get it right at the top. If we get it right at the top, it will proliferate to everybody else. Let me invert that. Really, the leadership, we're foundational. We've got to get it right at the bottom. Look, we're serving everyone else. So it's not really a top-down fix that we need. We need to start at the foundational level. Jesus Christ is already the chief cornerstone. No other foundation can be laid but that. But then it's built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Meaning that the leadership becomes part of that foundational structure. We've got to get it right. Because if we start building on anything other than what we should build on with the wrong pattern, it's going to end up in destruction anyway. True worship has to be restored in the house of God. Listen to me. We have to be worshipers. We have to be true worshipers because there's power in praise and worship that is sanctified and in order. When we get in order and praise God, like 2 Chronicles Chapter 20, it said that they were sanctified and praised God when they were faced with the threat of the Moabites and the Edomites and the inhabitants of Mount Seir. Their praise was enough to set ambushments against the enemy. Angels were released. And the enemy was defeated when the worship was consecrated and won. Now, I want to ask you something here because this is beyond Sunday. Beyond Sunday. So it's easy to hear that and begin to think of what that means in a traditional service on Sunday, right? But what's entailed in that when we're talking about the lifestyle? Because this has to be the lifestyle, right? This has to be what happens after the final amen. Yes, sir. At a service. Yes, sir. What does that look like? It looks like everyday consecration. It looks like I'm the same way 12 o'clock midnight as I am 12 o'clock midday. It looks like if I don't cuss in service, I shouldn't cuss at home. It looks like having a relationship with God that's not predicated on your eyes but predicated on God's eyes. In other words, I can praise God before you at church, but I need to be able to connect with God at home when no one's looking. It looks like a single person not looking at pornography when they're by themselves. At home. It looks like a husband not abusing his wife when they're away from church eyes. It looks like me not gossiping about my sister and my brother and not allowing slander, Diablo, the devil, to take a hold of my mouth to destroy people that I should be lifting up, people that I love, people that I care about. It looks like living for God in the dark and in the light. That's what true worship looks like. Worship is a lifestyle, not just something we do on Sunday, not just something we do when we come to church. Worship God. Your posture should be worship. It's like when Paul says pray without ceasing. That's a posture. That's a disposition. That's a way of living. Not just having a prayer life but having a life of prayer. Well, not just coming to church and getting involved in praise and worship, which we need you to do, and that needs to be done without offering up strange fire. But we also need to make sure that our lifestyle at home matches our lifestyle at church because if we switch up when we come to church, it's strange fire. It's strange fire. So really then, and it rings what Paul tells us in Romans 12, right? I beseech you therefore, brethren, present your body, living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, right? It's what we do. It's what Paul's talking about when he says walk in the spirit so we don't fulfill the lust of the flesh. Yes, sir. And then it's allowing that fruit to be present. Yes, sir. Every day, all day, all the time. Yes, sir. Right? And it's always at work in us. Okay. I wanted to call that because I know many times the first thing we think of is we've got to restore true worship. That means we've got to have red hot service, and we do. Yes. But if it stops there, as you said, that's strange fire. Strange fire. Why? Because at the end of the day, it's the coals of your repentance at home and the coals of your lifestyle at home that ought to burn the altar of incense when we come together. We have to remember that the fire that lights the incense in the holy place has to come from the brazen altar in the outer court. Yes, sir. We can't shout over unforgiven sins. We can't dance over unrepentant sins. We can't glorify God if we don't go out to the brazen altar and deal with the sin issue first. And that is something that we have to live out in our daily life because they went to the altar of incense daily. This is something that we have to do all the time. Here's the thing about the brazen altar outside. The amazing thing about that fire was this. That fire was started by heaven. Folks, we don't want anything in our church as fire that didn't start in heaven. Because the only fire and smoke that pleases the nostril of God is the one he lit. Well, folks, his only instruction about that fire is don't let it go out. Fact. I light it. You keep it. Keep it stoked. Yes, sir. That fire was the fire that not only gave me the altar of incense. It's from that fire that you lit the menorah, the candlestick. Same fire. Same fire. You come with any other fire, it's a strange fire. No problem. Unfortunately, in a lot of our churches, there's a lot of strangers. The reason that people aren't dead is the mercy of God. Thank God for mercy. Thank God for mercy. But know of a surety that we are in a season where we've got to restore true worship. There's a call to repentance. One. Repentance and cleansing takes place. Two. Restoration of true worship. Three. Number four sounds like number three. But it's where corporately there is a coming together for the Passover. And it's a Passover that hadn't been held in a long time. It was an amazing Passover. But the interesting part to this is that now there can be evangelistic and restorative worship. Evangelistic and restorative worship. We've established true worship. Why do I say evangelistic and restorative worship? Because the interesting part, when you get into 2 Chronicles chapter 30, is Hezekiah getting ready to do this great Passover. And when you think of the Passover, what is this symbolic of? Christ. Christ, our Passover, is sacrifice for us. It's pointing to the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. And this Passover was evangelistic and restorative in this sense. It hadn't been done in a long time. So God's about to restore some things that the body of Christ has lost. We're about to see some things that we haven't seen in a long time, which I believe ushers in the supernatural, ushers in the miraculous. But also, Hezekiah sends out a call to the northern tribe to join in the Passover. Now, that might not seem significant when you just read it first, but you realize the northern tribe is completely— the ten tribes of the north are completely backslidden at this point. There is no interest in anything that has to do with God. They don't worship in Jerusalem. They're not connected to all of this. From the time of Jeroboam until now, they've set up their own thing, Bethel and Dan. You don't got to go there no more. Don't have to deal with this anymore. So when Hezekiah sends out emissaries to try to bring them back, the Bible says in 2 Chronicles chapter 30, "...posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun." Notice, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them. They tried to get some folks back. They just laughed at them like, who's keeping the Passover? Who's doing that? We haven't done that in a long time. Listen to this. How many times, apostolics, have we heard about things that happened yesteryear? And this great revival that took place here. This great revival that took place there. Now we got folks that say it doesn't take all of that. Laughing people to scorn when they yearn for things that God did before. I'm not advocating old methodology in terms of, well, we shouldn't use the podcast because they didn't have a podcast then. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the level of consecration and commitment that the elders put out there. We have to rediscover it and call people back to it. But this is restorative in this sense. If you look at the very next verse, verse 11 of chapter 30, nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. Brother and sister, let me say this. This is the restoration of backsliders, y'all. If we follow step one, call to repent. Step two, let repentance and cleansing take place. Step three, true worship happening. The next step, which is the fourth step, we're going to see evangelistic and restorative worship in the house of God. That is, we're going to see souls saved, and we're going to see backsliders coming. And some of those backsliders are necessary for this end time battle that I'm talking about. I need you to get this in the Holy Ghost. That there are people that God chose before the foundation of the world that are otherwise distracted right now. And the Holy Ghost is going to prepare their hearts to hear a call to bring them back to the house of God because they're going to see where they are out there that the end is near. I'm telling you, some of the greatest end time preachers will be backsliders who are restored. Glory. Because they are seeing what sometimes we're ignoring. They're in it. They're living what sometimes we're in denial about. While folks are in the church with their face turned towards Sodom, there are folks in Sodom saying, get me out of here. There is going to come a restoration of backsliders and an influx of new souls that's going to blow our minds. This is the Passover principle. The Passover principle is Christ died for sinners of whom I am chief. And I want you to understand that God Almighty is getting ready to bring sinners like we've never seen before, and he's getting ready to restore backsliders like we've never seen before. This is the fourth step, the Passover principle, because this is the preparation for a battle. Are you sure we have enough time? We got enough time because I think I've gone too long. No, no, no. We got enough time. Bring them all home. Keep them coming. Step five. You would think that after all the cleansing that has taken place, it wouldn't have to be the step five that I'm about to describe. But step five in 2 Chronicles chapter 31, Hezekiah has to issue another call for the complete and utter destruction of idols. I want you to get this. We can have good church. We can even feel like we're okay. Matter of fact, we can repent of sin and cleanse the temple. But in our personal hidden closets, there might be one or two idols that are still there. They might not be used, but they're present. And the risk of them resurfacing as a rival to the temple is always a danger. So watch this. The first one says, Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah and break the images in pieces and cut down the groves and threw down the high places and altars out of all Judah and Benjamin in Ephraim and Manasseh. Until, here's the term, they had utterly destroyed them all. So I'm looking at the scene we have here. Leaders, Levites, priests, kings, everyone gone into repentance. They were cleansing. They were sanctifying. The temple is now cleansed and sanctified. All of the vessels that are being used, everything's good. Bring that to 2025. Church has gotten right. Yes. But at home, in the community, immune amongst the family, yes, sir, still some foreign altars. There's still some foreign altars. And it mentions groves. That's dealing with those pagan places they were worshiping. Every green tree. So there's still some things that they were holding on to. Let me tell you what that looks like. Yes, yes. You've got apostolics who should know better still reading their horoscopes every now and then. I know that sounds crazy. Even if you're not reading it, you still associate with being a Leo or a Scorpio. Or a Cancer. I don't know why you'd want to be a Cancer or a Scorpio. I'm just using that. Yes. But there are Pentecostals that have talismans that our family heirlooms passed down from their grandmothers. Yes. On the world. But it's still part of their reality. Yes. There are people that still engage in things that run contrary to the word of God but are very much a part of our culture. There are folks that think that because it's cultural, it's acceptable. But if your culture is against kingdom culture, then you have to surrender that culture to kingdom. Because you're an ambassador. And you're not from here. You're in the world. Not of the world. But not of the world. And does that make me look a little weird? Yes. But it's time to tear down some altars and tear them down utterly. Man, I might say this. Should I say this? I was talking to somebody in my office, and we got talking about a popular entertainer who became a billionaire in the culture. How did he become a billionaire? Well, first he became a millionaire. And how did he become a millionaire? By dressing in drag and entertaining the church. And we brought it into our home and exposed our children to it as if the word of God wasn't very clear on what men and women should look like. Now, here I am messing up Beyond Sunday. I'm sorry. No, no. We were having good Beyond Sunday. But, you know, when you start talking about those high places and those idols that have to come down, right, because it's not, you know, trap music, because it's not rated R, because it's been in churches, because it's been acceptable in the culture, even celebrated because there's a man behind it, right? It came from nothing. It started from the bottom. Now we're here. And we love that. And everybody loves an underdog story. But if the underdog story is buttressed by sin, we have to call sin what it is. Sin is sin. Our entertainment choices are the idols that we need to cast down. Saints of God, we're entertaining ourselves to death. We are. We are glued to entertainment. I don't watch TV. That's true. But you spend all night on YouTube. Newsflash, YouTube is TV. That's the same. And you're not watching preaching all night either. At all. We're entertaining ourselves out of consecration. How can we spend hours on Instagram and just a few minutes in prayer and expect to have the same power of the apostles? We're wondering, well, how come we don't have the same power of the apostles? Why isn't my shadow healing anybody? I don't know. Maybe you've been looking at shadows too long. You know, the podcast was going great tonight. I've come to realize that this usually has to happen. When you start talking about, okay, we're entertaining ourselves out of consecration, the common thread there is, or the thing that's really kind of at the heart of that is, entertainment is what pleases us. But we could be entertained by God if that's what we so desire. Meaning, his word could be, that could be our desire, our entertainment, but we're not choosing it. Here's our word. One of our pastors is a pretty fit guy, pretty into nutrition. And I was talking to a pastor the other day who, you know, he just got real fit. And I was like, man, what did you do? He said, well, you know, he eats a particular way. I said, well, how do you eat? Well, you know, he cut out a lot of processed foods. He doesn't eat anything processed. Everything is clean. Everything is organic. Everything is clean. He doesn't use excessive sugar in anything. Any sugar that he's dealing with is naturally occurring in fruits, et cetera. And he says there are taste buds that you don't even know how to use anymore because you're so acclimated to processed food. He said, but if you detox from processed food, he said, all of a sudden the way you taste food is completely different. He says when he eats a fruit, he says the experience he's having of sweetness is different than what another person who doesn't eat the same way he does. Because his taste buds just work. His taste buds work the way God intended them to work. We have modified our taste buds based on what we like. Well, that's how it is with the things of the spirit. Spiritual things are not immediately pleasurable because they bypass the flesh. Jesus said the words that I speak unto you, your spirit and your life, he said the spirit is the one that is affected. The flesh, he says, profits not. The spirit is what's quickening here, not the flesh. And so to get to that place, you literally have to pierce the veil of the flesh to find any enjoyment in the spirit. You have to go beyond your flesh. Like people listening to the podcast right now, you can start reading the Bible and be sleepy, and your eyes are droopy, and it just seems like, well, I'm not getting anything out of this. However, if you're intentional enough to stay there, you'll find that all of a sudden the word of God begins to come alive to you, and now it's sweet to your soul. But if you didn't make it through the veil of the flesh, you'd never get there. Idols have to be smashed, and our idols are entertainment choices. Our idols are holding grudges, unforgiveness. There are idols we have of extremism in so many different areas. There are just so many things we could go into, but we don't have time. I've got to move to the next one. Number six, this is where we might definitely lose part of your audience, but I pray that God keeps them there. Tithing was restored. Whoa. Tithing was restored, Nick. From verse 5 of chapter 31 forward, you find that tithing and giving is restored so that the priests could get back to doing the work of God. Verse 10, And Azariah, the chief priest of the house of Zadok, answered and said, Since the people began to bring their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and have left plenty. For the Lord has blessed his people, and that which is left is this great store. Tithing and offering was restored. Watch this. Hear me, for those who are listening. Financial miracles began to happen amongst the people. The blessing was so much that they had storehouses. So pretty much, they got into the right economy. And what I'm saying to you is that a lot of times the church is trying to jump to stage 6 and they haven't dealt with the first five stages yet. And they're wondering why we don't have stage 6 financial miracles because stage 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 have still been left neglected. Then, not even going to stay long on that, from 11, chapter 31, verse 11 going forward, organization took place. That is, they organized now. The level of organization increased exponentially so that things were put in order that had been out of order for a long time. Now, why are these seven stages so necessary? Organization is extremely important for the next level and the last level, which is the Bible itself. In chapter 32, they were going to be faced with a superpower led by a king named Sennacherib. And if the church was out of order in the Old Testament here, that is, Judah, the people of praise, if they hadn't done these seven first steps, they would never have the miracle of supernatural deliverance from the armies of Assyria. There would have been no laying out of the letter, which is one of my favorite passages, Hezekiah praying to God and God stepping in on their behalf and fighting for them. It would not have happened because they would have been out of alignment. And part of the way that God brings us back into alignment is allowing the enemy to do stuff that he couldn't do. Many of us have been chastened by the Lord. The devil was doing it to us, but the Lord allowed it to get us back to repentance so we could become what God called us. I'm going to leave it at that. Glory. I think more than ever, the call we just heard, the information we just received, we have to take that and begin to move on it. Because as you said, I think we experienced something and we've seen the other side of it in 2020. Something came, rocked the world, and we've seen how it hit the church especially. And we know that things aren't, Scripture lets us know things aren't going to all of a sudden become all wonderful and pretty and beautiful again. So then we got to prepare ourselves. And I pray, if you take a moment, go through the word. Scriptures were given all throughout. So for every step we heard from Scripture, we heard the word, we heard the direction. I'm encouraging each of us to go, take heed to this and let's get started. Because I don't know about you, I don't like losing battles, especially ones that I was built to win. When we're built to win, because we're following God, we can't be like AI. We can't let AI take us out. So thank you, Sharon, for dropping, sharing that with us. I look forward to being a part of what God is doing in preparing us for the battle. Well, folks, that is Beyond Sunday. And until next time, God bless.