Morning, guys. They had me come back. So I'm really excited to be here. Uh, if we've not met, uh, my name is Garrett Hufford. Um, I've had the pleasure of serving as one of the elders here for the last ten years. Or maybe a little bit more than that. Uh, my wife, Carly, and I have had eleven of our thirteen children in this place, and it is an incredible, incredible joy, uh, to raise them alongside so many of you. So naturally, Jake picked the guy with thirteen kids to start the family series. You all thought it so. So, uh, yeah, picked the guy with thirteen kids to kick off the family series. Um, and, uh, this is obviously a subject that is near and dear to my heart. And hits close to home, but in reality, it's a subject that we should all be passionate about because it's one of eternal significance. It's an area that we should strive as a church and as a people to reflect God's good design. And this series is titled Families Built for War. And as you can tell, it's a little aggressive. I need, like, a picture of all the things coming down, like on me here. But, um, it might seem a little intense, but I think that that's, that's for a purpose. It's for a reason. Because the reality is that we are in a war. It's just maybe not the one that we're told that we're fighting. And maybe even speaking of Christians at war strikes a nerve or rubs against our post-Christian cultural sensibilities. And maybe that's exactly the problem that needs to be addressed. Have we become, as a people, so content with the trappings of our affluence that we've forgotten the battle that's at hand? Are we being duped into believing that we are, in fact, in a time of peace? When the war rages around us and even in us, we see war language running throughout Scripture. It fills the Old Testament, and it echoes through the writings of the apostles. Peter speaks to this war on two fronts the flesh and its desires, and the adversary that is out seeking to destroy. And we see this in first Peter. Uh, first Peter two says this, beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles, to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God in the day of visitation and later in first Peter, first Peter five uh, he says this be sober minded, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Resist him. Firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world, Paul also returns again and again to the language and themes of battle the armor of God, our fight. Ephesians six says this put on the whole armor of God. That's an active. It's an active thing. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. If we jump to verse sixteen of that same chapter, it says, in all circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. And again, Paul, in his instruction to Timothy, reminds him that he is in fact a soldier with a purpose, and to be vigilant in carrying out the commands of the Lord. Second Timothy two and you then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses. Entrust of faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. We are, in fact, soldiers with a mission and entrusted with a message and a calling to serve the King above all things. And maybe you've never really thought of it in those terms, but we serve at the pleasure of the King. We serve at the pleasure of the King of the universe, the creator, the one who dwells in unapproachable light, the Holy One. Civilian pursuits are not our pursuits, and his mission is to be our mission. His purposes are to be our purpose. This war is being waged on many fronts, and there are many areas that we could focus on and May in future series. But today we turn to the home, to the Christian family, because it would seem that in our day and age, one of the greatest battles being waged is on the integrity, the purpose, and the heart of the family. Even in the church, for the purposes of our series, I think the question that we need to wrestle with is what does it mean to be a uniquely Christian family? See, when God created the world, he declared it very good. He created man in his own image, male and female. He created them. He formed Adam first, making him the head of creation. He formed Eve as a helpmate for him, and in doing so, God established the first family. Notice what God did not create in the beginning. He did not create a country or government. He didn't even create a church. He created a family. And that family would become the building block of every society and every generation to the ends of the age. God created a family and charged them with a mandate to be fruitful, to multiply, and to fill the earth for his glory. It's pretty obvious to us, if we look around that the world around us has lost this God ordained vision for the family in a humanistic and pragmatic world. It has become all too easy to grow ignorant of the cosmic purpose that God has assigned to the family. And in a world that has set itself against the very God who made it. We are seeing Romans one Happen before our eyes. We are witnessing a culture that not only merely tolerates rebellion against God's created order, it celebrates it celebrating the killing of unborn children, celebrating the replacements for biblical marriage, celebrating the dissolving lines between the sexes. It's evil, and it's disturbing to say the least. But maybe, perhaps more sobering is the softening convictions and the worldly accommodations creeping into the lives and the churches of the very people who call themselves the people of God. The. Too often we have settled for a defensive posture, watching the culture with alarm shrinking back and hiding, pointing outwards at the. At the threats on the other side, while all the while failing to recognize that some of the most dangerous enemies may already be in the camp. We may have begun to believe some of their lies. We blame culture while remaining unsuspicious of our own hearts. We blame political figures for not legislating policies that uphold the family, while showing really little concern for following the precepts of the God who established governments in the first place. As we open up this series on the family, my deepest prayer would not be that we arrive at the end simply pointing fingers at what is broken out there, but that we would be humbled. That we would be a humble people who are willing to examine our own hearts and willing to take an honest look at our own families. Because the greatest hope guys for our church, the greatest hope for our city, the greatest hope for our neighborhoods, is not winning a culture war. It's recapturing a biblical vision of what the family was always meant to be holy and set apart with a purpose, to love and serve the glorious God that created us. The simple obedience and faithfulness and devotion of God's people is spiritual warfare, and the family is on the front lines. So what will we do? What can be done here in our church, in this people? Because it would seem that as we Consider our cultural moment, we find ourselves at an inflection point. What will faithfulness for us and our families look like now and in the years ahead? And for the next generation, and for our children and for our children's children. Why don't you turn with me to Joshua twenty four? Um, our main text is going to be verses fourteen and fifteen, but we're going to be using a big chunk of the chapter this morning. So keep your Bibles open there. A little context, as you guys are flipping, we find Israel having officially conquered Canaan, the land that God had promised them through the covenant with Abraham, a land flowing with milk and honey, a land for their possession, a land that was their inheritance. Joshua is the leader of Israel through this campaign after Moses, and he was a great military leader and a great spiritual leader. We find the Israelites at the end now of Joshua's life. He's one hundred and ten years old, is what this passage tells us. And giving his last instructions or his last plea to the people of Israel, desiring that they stay faithful to the Lord that they had served when he is gone, knowing that he is in his last days. So Joshua gathers the entire tribe of Israel and the leaders together, and they present themselves before God. Our passage today is a famous one in a lot of ways, but it starts out verse fourteen with this. It says, now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and faithfulness. As we always know, we want to look for why the word therefore shows up. And in this case it's an account of all the Lord had done, and it's God speaking to his people. Verse two says, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel. So it's God speaking to the people. Now I for an effort to not go fifteen minutes over, we're not going to read the entire passage, but I do want to point out a few things. And I think you're going to you're going to see a theme throughout these verses. So verse two, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates. Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor. And they served other gods. So before God Abraham as his vessel for a covenant. He was a pagan. He was serving other gods, and his family had served other gods for generations before him. But then we turn to verse three and it says, then I took your father Abraham, from beyond the river, and led him through the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac. Verse five and I sent Moses and Aaron. I plagued Egypt afterward. I brought you out. Verse six I brought your fathers out of Egypt. Verse seven and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Are we sensing a theme here? And I brought and I brought you to the land of the Amorites. And then we get to verse twelve and thirteen and it says, it was not by your sword or by your bow. I gave you a land on which you had not labored, in cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant. Mic drop right. Kind of get the same feeling as job when he is complaining and God comes before him and says, were you there when I set the mountains? Were you there when I set the boundaries for the seas? You get a similar feeling. God is reminding him them of all that he has accomplished. And all along the way God was at work in his providence. He was the one by his sovereign hand who was removing kings and leading his people to victory, leading his people to the Promised Land. His plans and purposes were fulfilled despite Israel's unfaithfulness, and they now get to enjoy the pleasures and blessings of God's gracious provision for them in the land that was promised to their fathers by no work of their own. So let's pick up the full passage here. So Joshua twenty four, fourteen and fifteen, we'll read the whole thing. Now therefore, fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. So God speaks. And now Joshua is challenging the people of God on how to respond to God speaking to them, and he gives them two main instructions. says, number one, fear the Lord. Number two, serve him in sincerity and faithfulness. Two instructions. And the first instruction leads us to the second. So let's start there. See, when we see the work of God before us, we must respond in awe, understanding his holiness that we are nothing in light of his infinite power and in light of his power. Our weakness is evident and it's clear that he is worthy to be feared. He is worthy to be revered and sinful offense toward him should be a weight on us because we understand the weight of his glory. You see this response in Isaiah when he encounters the holiness of God in Isaiah six and he says this woe to me, for I am lost or I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Everything else fades away when we are undone by the holiness of a holy God. We realize that the Lord is our only hope, and our response should be the same as Isaiah when he says, here I am, send me. I am undone. This awesome fear of the Lord leads us to the second instruction of Joshua. Serve him in sincerity and faithfulness. You see, service is a natural response to the fear of the Lord. Service is a natural response to the fear of the Lord. When we are undone by the Holy One, what else is there to do? Joshua also adds qualifiers to the service that we would serve in sincerity and faithfulness. This service to the Lord, this submission to the Lord. It's to be a glad one, not of compulsion, but joyfully to serve the author of life, not turning to the right or turning to the left, but following his instructions in obedience. The sincerity is one thing, right? Because sincerity can be misguided. I can sincerely believe something or do something in sincerity, but I could be sincerely wrong in doing it. But sincerity and faithfulness is an important distinction. It's almost like in spirit and truth. They must be found together. If our worship and our service is to be true and right. This was a call to fidelity, to love, and a singular obedience to the commands of God. It's clear from Joshua's challenge to the people that Israel had a worship problem. They had an idolatry problem over hundreds of years. You see this throughout the Old Testament, that they, being the people of God, would gravitate towards and find themselves worshiping the idols of the nations around them. You saw this in our series on Daniel bowing to Nebuchadnezzar's statue. God called them a stiff necked people, an adulterous people and unfaithful people, they would proclaim with their lips. That they were devoted to the Lord, but attempt to keep their man made wooden, lifeless, mute idols and gods. Joshua was exposing their hypocrisy. God spoke to them, reminding them of the incredible ways that he's been faithful to them, to their fathers, and to their fathers before them. And yet they were still entertaining the same gods and the gods of the cities that God had just conquered to give to them. He's like, do you not see the foolishness of this? To think that they could serve the one true God and and still hang on to the idols of the nations around them, Um, was a fool's errand. And Joshua makes one of the most famous statements in the Old Testament after this. He says, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua makes a resolution. He makes a declaration about his intent to serve the one and only true God, no matter what anybody else would decide. So much so that he was saying, whatever you decide, right? He says, um. And if it's evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, it's kind of a rhetorical question. Choose this day whom you will serve. He's saying he would put himself against the whole nation of Israel if it meant that they chose other gods. He would serve the Lord. He was making also a declaration for his family, how he intended to lead the people that God had given him in his own home. He makes a distinction between himself and his home that is the leader of his home. He's resolving to serve the Lord and would bring his family along in that work. See, Joshua's declaration was rooted in his rightful understanding of worship. He saw the power of God, his faithfulness, his victories over foreign gods. Again and again, his victories over the people in Canaan to fulfill his promise to his people. He remembered who he served, and he feared the Lord. He had tasted and seen that the Lord was good. One last observation from this text before we go to some application and a challenge for us as a church. The word serve shows up fifteen times in this chapter fifteen times. The Hebrew word for serve is abad specifically used to designate worship, labor, and allegiance. It signifies a total life of loyalty or, as Joshua would say, faithfulness. We see this same word in a familiar place like Deuteronomy ten, and it says this. And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you? But to fear the Lord? There's that fear of the Lord shows up again. But to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. Get that to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord, which I am commanding you today for your good. To love him is to serve him. In Matthew six, we get a similar understanding that no one can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other, or will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Excited for Ian to preach on money this series? I'm sure that this will come up again. Um. But to serve him is to worship him alone. To serve implies sacrifice and implies action. It's purposeful and it implies obedience. So why why is this an important message for us? Why? Why is this passage apply to the family in a message about the fight for the family in an individualistic age, in an age where the self is the highest value, in an age where self worship and self care and self actualization and self pleasure and self important self-improvement and self importance and self-love and self-help, and on and on and on are the language and air that we breathe. We need to consider Joshua's plea to God's people. So how will we respond? Will we serve the Lord sincerely and faithfully? Will we make it the purpose of our home, or will we bow to our own desires, to our schedule, to our success, to our greed, to our comfort, to the next vacation. To our reputation. To the couch. To our feelings. To the feelings of our children. Will we fear the Lord, or will we simply give in to our selfish pride when the call to obedience and boldness and holiness is at hand. So how are we to fear the Lord? How are we to fear him in our families? This is an area where the Bible is very much not silent. There are clear, albeit difficult, countercultural and challenging instructions for us throughout God's Word. And they are for our good. They're for our joy and they're for our flourishing as a people. If we are to say that we will serve the Lord like Israel said, what we are saying is that we will obey the Lord. That our allegiance is to the Lord. That whatever he has asked of us, we will do, and because that because of all that he has done for us, because he is God and we are not. It's easy for us to look out at culture and say who we don't want to be, but I want us to look at God's Word and see who we're called to be. That we would be able to be resolute about who we are in Christ and who he has called us to be, and therefore who we will be, not by our own power, but by the Spirit of God who is already victorious over the world, the one who is already conquered. At Veritas we are Bible people, so we look to the Bible for these answers. We don't explain away God's Word with our cultural lenses or self-actualization, or what Carl Truman calls expressive individualism that looks to the self. We obey God's Word because he gives it to us for our flourishing, for our good. He gives it to us so that we might honor him and live as he designed us. We don't look at God's instructions as a burden. We look to them as a joy because serving our creator is what we were created for. So how are we to fear and serve the Lord? I want to kind of go through a few different groups of people. So we're going to talk to husbands and wives and talk to your marriages. And then I want to speak to the kids that are in this room. Um, and while I don't have time to go through all of these passage, I would say that all of these are really distilled from five kind of key key passages that, you know, that deal a lot with the family. There's obviously many more, but these are these are good ones for you to go back and look to. Um, Um, first Timothy three, uh, Titus two. Ephesians five and six, uh, Colossians three and Proverbs thirty one. Um, these are all really helpful things for, I mean, I'm going to kind of go through a lot of stuff pretty quickly. I think it's really would be really good for you to go back and read it on your own, study it, pray through it as we consider these things and what the Lord has for us, that these are not my opinions. These are not the opinions of our church. It is God's Word, and it's our job to submit our lives to it, not the other way around. So I want to start with husbands. Husbands, you are to love your wife as Christ loved the church, sacrificially laying down your life for her as he did for you. It's a high calling and one that you cannot do on your own. The Lord has entrusted you with the authority of headship in your own, in your home. You are responsible for the spiritual leadership and care of your family. And this is a holy wait, a sacred responsibility entrusted to you by God Himself in creation. You are to love your life, your wife, faithfully, to not be harsh with her, to live with her in an understanding way. To be devoted to her alone, loving and cherishing her above all others. Keeping yourself from sexual immorality and pornography. Ordering your life with integrity and purity and transparency so that there is never any question of your wholehearted devotion to her. Wash your wife with God's word labor to see her grow in holiness. Seeking to present her blameless before the Lord. When one day you stand before the Lord face to face. Lead your children well. Teach them God's word. Model Christian character before them. Take your own personal holiness and devotion seriously so that they can see what faithful worship looks like. Bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. You're called to discipline your children. Though this is unpopular in our day, the scriptures do instruct loving physical discipline. Your discipline must always pursue your child's good, not the satisfaction of your own anger. Do not exasperate your children, but lovingly train them. Train them in the ways of the Lord. That implies consistency and work and effort. Train them. Warn your children of the dangers of sin. Protect your family. Manage your household well. You are also responsible for removing idols from your home. You may not have a shrine like my Hindu neighbor with statues lining the shelves, but it is remarkably easy to adopt the values of the world and to bow before the idols of greed and self and sport and entertainment and comfort and wanderlust and success and reputation. Examine the values of your home. Hold them up against God's Word and test them. And when they fail, tear them down. The Lord made you with unique strength. He gave you an innate sense of responsibility and leadership. And these are good gifts not to be despised. And he intends them for the flourishing of your wife and your children in our church. Too often, however, we spend that strength pursuing careers and chasing the American dream and seeking respect and accolades and reputation because we want to be extraordinary. We want to be known. While our families receive whatever is left over. May that never be said of the men and fathers of Veritas Church. Would we be about the King's business and his kingdom, not our own? Would we fight for our families and go to battle for the wives and children God has entrusted to us? May we refuse to shrink back in fear or settle for complacency. Work hard at your job as unto the Lord, but work even harder for your family, remembering that God has entrusted eternal souls to your care. Serving the Lord requires us to cast away our idols, to repent of our sin and walk in joyful obedience to the one true God. So die to yourself and resolve with Joshua. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And turn to wives. You are to submit to your own husband as the head of your family, a God given role given to him. You are to respect your husband and esteem him and willingly follow his leadership. Speak well to him of others. Don't embarrass him. Don't tear him down. Don't make him feel small or incapable. Respect him not merely for his sake. And this is an important piece because this submission gets a bad rap. And I think a lot of this is that you really do. You submit to your husband because you submit to Christ and it's not for his sake only, but for the sake of the one who laid down his life for you, for the sake of the one who laid down his life for you, who has asked you, who has asked it of you. Love your husband, care for him. Encourage him. Die to yourself. You were creator. You were created to be a helper fit for him, faithfully partnering with him in the work God has entrusted to your family. And it is a wonderful, beautiful, Gracious. Incredible work. This is God's good design, and whenever we see it lived out in faithfulness, we recognize its beauty, don't we? We recognize its beauty. Even the watching world can see the goodness of a husband and a wife who genuinely love each other, who cherish one another, each willing to lay aside their own selfish ambitions for the good of the other. And part of your God given calling is to watch over your home, to love your children, to care for your children, to teach them the things of God. These are among the primary ministries the Lord has entrusted you. God has also given women the glorious privilege and unique calling to bear and nurture children. And this is not something to be diminished or despised. It is a gift. It is a gift. in the face of a culture that shouts from the rooftop that children are a hindrance to personal advancement and fulfillment, we must recognize that that is a lie from the pit of hell. God's word says something completely different. Children are a blessing, a reward, an inheritance in a heritage from the Lord. So pursue the calling that God has given you. Submit and respect your husband. Love him well. Love your children faithfully, manage your home, pursue holiness, nobility, purity, and character. But above all things, fear the Lord. And that's an instruction to both men and women. Above all things, fear the Lord and God brought together this couple in marriage and in this marriage he created, you were given the call by God to be fruitful and multiply. And yes, he is talking about children. You were given the responsibility to show your children the beauty of God. Marriage is all about God. It's not about your personal fulfillment and your personal happiness. Primarily, it is about God. It's a picture of him. It's a picture of Christ in the church to a watching world. And it's important. When you get married, you become a family, and your job is to display the covenant keeping love of God and to show them to the children that the Lord may bless you with. And John Piper's book, This Momentary Marriage, which is a great book for anybody who wants to continue to read on this. He says children are absorbing from dad his strength and leadership and protection and justice and love, and they're absorbing from mom her care and nurture and warmth and intimacy and justice and love. And of course, all of these overlap and all of this is happening before the child knows anything about God, but it is profoundly all about God. What a holy and amazing calling. What is better than that? What is better than that? Will it be hard? Yes. Will there be valleys? Yes. Will there be hardship? You betcha. Will there be inexpressible joy. Yes. And will the Lord be with you? Yes. Show your children that God is more. Than just words on a page. But that he is the living God. That he is personal. That he is love. You want to turn the tide of culture and be salt and light in this broken world. Lead your children to the feet of the one true and living God that we serve. Finally, children, you have one responsibility in your family. In a. Ephesians six says this children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother. This is the. This is the first commandment with a promise that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land. Your instruction is simple obey your parents. All the parents said, Amen. The Lord who made you is asked of you one thing to obey your mom and dad. And Ephesians gives you more than just a command. It gives you a promise that it will go well with you. You may not be able to see beyond the next school year, your next summer camp, or even what your family is having for lunch today. But consider this even on your worst day, your parents love you dearly. You may not be able to because they love you. They've established boundaries to protect you and care for you. They are responsible before the Lord for these things, and I have a feeling that they take them very seriously. Even when you do not understand why they have asked something of you, it's still your responsibility to obey. They do not owe you an explanation. In many ways, this mirrors our relationship with the Lord. He is not left us. Uh, sorry. Uh. He often calls us to obey without providing a detailed explanation. But his instruction is simply this. Trust me, and it will go well with you. The Lord created the family for the flourishing of mankind. He has not left us to guess how we are to live, but he has graciously given us His Word so that we might experience the life he designed for us. And these instructions often run contrary to our cultural sensibilities, and they confront our fleshly desires. They challenge what we think we need and what we think will satisfy us. But we are not God. We are his people. We serve at the pleasure of the King. So, church, who will you serve? Who will your family serve today. Before Joshua called Israel to choose, he reminded them of all that the Lord has done. Every meal that they ate was his provision. Every danger they escaped was his deliverance. Every battle they won was won because the Lord fought it for them. In every city that fell did so because God Himself brought it down. And the same is true for us. We are in a war, but the King has gone before us, and he has already won the victory. We are under attack. Yet God has given us everything that we need to stand. He's worthy of our obedience. He's worthy of our trust, and he's worthy of our complete allegiance. Wherever he leads, we will follow. Wherever he commands, we will obey. He is God and we are not. Your family has been set apart for a holy purpose, resolved today, that your home will belong to the Lord and to him alone. Joshua concludes with these words, and I think it's fitting for us to end on him as well. Joshua said to the people, you are witnesses against yourselves, that you have chosen the Lord to serve him. And they said, we are witnesses. He said, then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel. If your answer today is yes, we will serve the Lord, then do what Joshua commands and put away the idols of the world, and incline your heart in the hearts of your family to the Lord our God. Guys, the future health of this church is inseparably connected to the health and devotion of the families who make up this church. Your pursuit of Christ in your home is not only for the good of your wife, your husband, or your children, or your grandchildren. It is for the good of the entire household of God and for the The future health depends on it. Christ exalting churches are built on Christ exalting men and women who cultivate Christ exalting homes and raise children to know and love and worship the King. These are the types of families that stand firm against the schemes of the devil and the lies that swirl around us. These families wage war when they gather to worship, when they. They fight. When they sing hymns of praise, they. When they pray together, when they open God's Word around the table, when they speak often of his greatness, when they joyfully obey his commands, and when they fear the one true God above all else. So today, incline your heart and the hearts of your families to do the same. And may it be said of each of us, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Go ahead and pray with me. Um, Lord. What our declaration not simply be lip service, revealing our hypocrisy, but by your spirit, would you enable us to please you in our homes, Lord, that we would be informed by your Word, that we would be informed by the Scripture that we would not seek our own understanding, but in all our ways acknowledge you and would you make our paths straight? And Lord, would we fight the battle that is waging in our own hearts for our own desires? And would we repent and turn to you, incline our hearts to you, and serve you alone? We love you. It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen.