I don't know about you, but for me rhythms are really important. I know there's some of you freedom fighters who are just like, don't bondage me with a plan. Don't make me do the things. I just want to wing it and see what happens. And I think honestly, you need a plan. And I know I need a plan because plans help me grow, plans help me catch the vision, plans help me stay consistent with the things. And that's why I appreciate rhythms and the opportunity for us just to remind ourselves of what God has done. Just to be in the Word, to be grounded in something, to have a consistency. And I think through plans we grow honestly. And so today I get the opportunity to talk to us about the rhythm of worship. And by worship I mean the Sunday morning gathering coming together every Sunday. Do you, do you have a plan for that? Have you thought out what your year or years look like with a rhythm of worship or planning to worship every Sunday morning? How does that look in your life? Or maybe we could sum up the questions with this. Why are you here today? What were you planning on getting? What motivated you to come? And all that. Because oftentimes when we think about Sunday, we think about like, just get me out of the door. And I want to be there by 9:30. I must be there by 9:30. And we just walk over each other to get out that door and be there by 9:30. Why are you here? What is the purpose of you coming? And worship isn't just limited to Sunday. I want to acknowledge that all day long. Worship is a lifestyle. It's a lifestyle of obedience. It's a lifestyle really of following God. It's obeying him, knowing him and denying ourselves so that we can point others to Him. We recognize in worship on a daily basis that God is God and I am not. And I want other people to see that I'm functioning out of someone else's plan for my life, not just my plan. And he's worthy of praise. So worshiping God ought to flow naturally from knowing him and from obeying Him. It ought to flow naturally. It just be the result of it. Two weeks ago I dropped a 13 inch thickened glass pan on my toe. And there was a natural response that poured out of my mouth. And it was good for some of you people who immediately go to negative places, but it was ouch. There was a natural response. Now that's obviously in the negative sense, but when that huge heavy thing fell onto my toe, I screamed. Tears flowed from my face. It hurt so Bad. It was a thickened glass thing and it was full. And there was a natural response. Again, super negative thing. But we have this opportunity, this invitation to know who God is and what ought to flow out of knowing God is a desire for worship. And it can happen. So when we talk about worship, we need to recognize what worship is. It's an expression of reverence and adoration. We, in fact, are created to worship. We have an innate sense that we worship. And let's face it, as Americans, we are tempted to worship so many things. There's so many things that are fighting for our attention, fighting for us to hone in on, fighting for our time and our talent and our treasure. It's a battle that happens within us and in reality, knowing that we need to recognize that if we're not worshiping God, we are worshiping something. Something is motivating us. Something is gathering our time, our talent and our treasure and causing us to make the decisions that we make, to respond the way that we respond. We are worshiping and we are worshipers. Do we worship God? And so when it comes to worship, I think there's a part that kind of gets over looked and neglected and some of us almost don't like to talk about it. It's a little bit easier because you guys are all here and there's many who aren't here. But it's this part about, hey, hey, don't stop meeting together. Hey, don't stop gathering for worship. That part, that part gets overlooked or we get some pushback to that. And I just want to go on a little rant here, okay? It's just a little. Sometimes we hear, you know, sometimes it falls on deaf ears, like, hey, folks, we should gather. We should be consistently gathering to worship. And sometimes we get this response from Matthew 18:20 that says, hey man, wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I am present with them. And I want to address this quick because this is not a statement about leaving the organized church or the gathering of believers on Sunday morning. It has nothing to do with that. In fact, this text is a sweet reminder, the full context of it, that if you have a friend or a brother in Christ or sister in Christ who's caught in sin and you, or you and a friend, go and confront them. It's a sweet reminder that Jesus says, I'll be with you. I'll be with you. I will go with you in it. And folks, I want you to know that if you are at home alone this afternoon, God is with you. God is with you, you don't need two or three to gather for God to be present. God is with you individually this afternoon. He is with you in your car. He is with you in your closet. He is with you in your living room. He is with you. And then when you go out to coffee with a friend this week, God is also present. I mean, it doesn't change. All of God is with you, especially you as believers. God is with you all the time. You need not rally a couple friends for God to be present in your life or active in your Bible study. He's with you. Know that, right? But know that this, this calling, this sweet thing is that Jesus is saying, I want you to confront your. I want you to pursue your friends. I want you to stir your friend up. I want you to call him or her back. And I'm not going to just wait at the door for you. Hey, hope that meeting goes good. Hope you don't get a black eye. You go get them, sailor. It'll be fun. No, Jesus says they're walking in sin. We need to confront them. I'll go with you. I want you to know that I'm with you. He's doubling down on a truth that's already true, that he's with you all the time. So when you go into that, it's not a movement away from the church. It's an encouragement for us in a very specific situation that of confronting a friend. All right, end of rant, you guys good. When you hear that text, know that that is the context for that. So let's get back to this worship. Like, what is this gathering? Why do we gather? So if you have a Bible, I would love for you to turn with me to the book of Hebrews, okay? And Hebrews is not the first place that gathering is mentioned in the scriptures. If you go back to the Book of Genesis, you see God gathering his people, gathering the people that follow him unto himself. They try to make a name for themselves. God says, listen, what's up? I'm going to make a name for myself from Abraham. I'm going to create a people. And from there on, you have this group of people, the Israelites, that God gathers to himself, usually through celebrations of what God has done for this group of people. And oftentimes the celebrations come back to this reality that they were at once slaves in Egypt. And God moved. God moved to protect them. God moved to preserve them. God moved to liberate them. And so the people of God in the older Testament, the older covenant, gathered together to worship God, he gathered them at the foot of Mount Sinai to worship. They didn't worship, but he gathered them, okay? And in the New Testament, you see Jesus gathering the people of God around him and he teaches them. He teaches them about himself. He teaches them about the Father through these gatherings. And then in the Book of Acts, you have this thing called the church. And the church begins to gather together. In fact, they sit under the apostles teaching and they pray together earnestly, and they enjoy food together. If you go to Acts, chapter 2, verse 42, we see this lived out in this gathering of believers. And I would then argue that in the rest of the Epistles, Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, you have this idea, this understood idea that there is a church that is sitting under the authority of elders that meets regularly to study the words of Jesus, to study the life of Jesus. And so when we come to Hebrews, this isn't necessarily a brand new, like, oh, my goodness, I've never seen this before. The people of God have been meeting at the feet of God for centuries, recognizing who he is and recognizing who we are and learning and growing from that position. So the verse I want to start us off with, and I kind of want to just show us our cards up front, my cards up front, just as we get into this message. So it's Hebrews 10. I want to start in verse 25. And verse 25 says this, not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another. And all the more, as you see the day drawing near, the author of Hebrews has a clear and concise call to the believers who he's writing the letter to this book of Hebrews, this letter of Hebrews to don't neglect meeting together. It's important. It's for encouraging one another. And this is what I want you to walk away with today. Kind of our big idea. The rhythm of weekly worship encourages us and others with the realities of Christ, his past work and his future hope. Every time we gather, we try to spend some time on the past work of Jesus Christ. And oftentimes we go forward to the future work that, that Christ will do. And I think we see that here in Hebrews chapter 10. But let's go back a little bit further and gather more context. That marches us up to verse 25. So let's find out. Why does the church gather right? And we gather really because of who Christ is. And it seems ridiculous for me to say that to you because you're at church and church Is usually about Jesus. But I want us to, like, really pray and ask the Lord to reveal, like, do I value Christ? Is Christ's work like, a big deal? We all know, hey, Jesus Christ, he died on the cross for your sin, and that's awesome. He not only died, but he rose again in the third day. He's seated at the right hand of the Father. He is king. We know that. But so much went into that. And it's not like making less of that. But do we know how much went into that? Do we know what all Jesus Christ accomplished in. Yeah, Jesus. He died. Whew. Go Jesus. Not a very positive note. He died. Go, Jesus. But he did die. He moved in a way and lived in a way that. So you and I could be saved. But don't take my word for it. Let's go to Hebrews and start in chapter 10. Hebrews, chapter 10, verse 19 says this. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain that is through his flesh. And since we have a great high priest over the house of God, we're going to stop. Okay, I know we're just cutting it right off there at the comma, right? The verse starts out with therefore. What do we always say when the word therefore is present? What's it there for? Very good. Okay, the rest of you need to speak up louder. All right. Well, throughout the book of Hebrews, the author has been building really a case for Jesus Christ. Okay, we come to this part after so much has been written. And in chapter one, you see about the supremacy of Jesus, God's son. And in the next couple chapters, we learn that Jesus Christ is better than Moses. So when you think about the law, and especially when you're writing to Hebrew people, they have a very big view of this guy named Moses, because Moses was given the Ten Commandments. And it's not just that he was given the ten Commandments. Moses let him out of a very intense season of life, say 400 years in slavery. And so Moses is a very big deal. And Moses led them from Egypt, he led them to Sinai, where they got the law, and he was about to lead them into the promised land. But Moses sinned. Moses was a fallible leader, and he died. And God did not allow him to go into the promised land. And we see in the this text here that for as great of a man as that Moses was, we see that Jesus Christ is better. Hebrews. Jesus Christ is better. Church, Jesus Christ is better. And then we learn over a couple chapters that in Jesus, in him he provides sweet rest. And then we learn that Jesus is a great high priest. And we're going to talk about that in a minute. And just before that, if you look at chapter 10, just at the beginning, you see that Jesus Christ is really the greater sacrifice. In Christ, so much is fulfilled. So much is fulfilled. He's better at everything. Every picture of leader, every picture of servant, Jesus Christ fulfills it, and he fulfills it perfectly, and he fulfills it better. And so Jesus Christ at last, up to this point, is the greater sacrifice. And folks, the sacrificial system that these Jewish people followed is no joke for centuries. You know, if you read the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, a lot of those books cover the laws that went into the sacrificial system. Because God wanted his people set apart from the world. They were set apart. They addressed their sin issues with their God, with their Creator. And so they would pick the best bird, the best goat, the best sheep, the best bull, and they would bring it to the high priest at the temple. And there he would kill the animal, shedding its blood, and he would break its body for the forgiveness of the people. And then once a year, I cannot even imagine what this temple looked like. But all these people, hundreds of thousands of people bringing their sacrifices, desiring to be made right with Yahweh. And then one time a year, the high priest would prepare a sacrifice and I would imagine he'd be shaking right? He prepares a sacrifice for all the people, for all the sin. A one time deal. He would go into the holy of Holies, which was part of the temple. It was the physical place where God resided. It was a veiled room. And some say that the veil was nine inches thick. And this priest, with this sacrifice would open the veil and just be like, oh, God, forgive our sins. And he would walk into this room and really he would atone for all the people of Israel. He would reconcile them back to God through the sacrifice. But all this work, and in reality, none of these sacrifices could cover for their sin. This sheep cannot address my wickedness. This bull could not address the sin issues at my heart level. These ultimately were not complete. There needed to be a greater sacrifice. In fact, if you look at Hebrews chapter 10, verse 4, it says, for it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin. There was a need for a greater sacrifice. And Jesus Christ was it. Jesus Christ was it? No More taking animals to the temple. Christ finished it. The work is done. The perfect sacrifice is made. So when you come into Hebrews, chapter 10, verse 19, like this is huge. We as believers, because of the work of Christ, can enter the presence of God. We don't need a priest to mediate for us. You can be in the presence of God, your Creator, the eternal Father of all things. Through the cross, we can approach him. Christ is not only the greater sacrifice, but he's the greater high priest. We no longer need the priest to worry about stepping into the holy of holies, because the sinless man Christ enters the holy of holies and is the perfect sacrifice. Jesus reconciles us to God. We don't need to work anymore. He's done the work. It's complete. He's opened the veil to those who believe that he is the Christ, the Son of God. And this is our foundation. This is our motivation for worship. This is why we exalt God. This is why we lift him high, because he has reconciled us to himself. Through Himself, Christ has united us to the prize, to the treasure. So what do we do? Is that amazing? Amen. So what do we do with this? So I am a sinner, I am evil, I am wicked. And Christ reconciles me. While I was dead, in my trespasses and sins, God made me alive in Christ by grace, I have been saved. What do I do? What do I do? And so the author of Hebrews kind of walks through three steps, 3 Responses to this, of which coming together for worship is part of one. All right, so let's read these verses. Hebrews, chapter 10, verses 22 through 24. It says, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. With our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. For he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another in love and good works. And so the first, let us. Okay, let us draw near. And sometimes I feel like a broken record in this, but sometimes I feel like we don't quite grasp this, especially maybe some of us who haven't been around the church for a while. Because what I fear is we've moved away from thinking our sin is all that bad. I mean, we're okay and we're not. Nobody's okay. We desperately needed a savior. And how backwards is it that the one who demands holiness makes a way for sinners like us to be in his presence? That's not normal. There are not a lot of places that practice that kind of thing. I have a demand on you. Okay, let's do this. Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam. Pay your quarterly taxes this week. I hope I got that on my calendar. All right, pay. You know what? I'll pay them for you. Uncle Sam. What's wrong with you? I'll make the sacrifice. And on such a grander scale than taxes. Sinful wickedness, selfishness, pride that fuel so many horrendous things. And God says, I'll make the payment. Let me put your pride and your sin on the back of my son and I'll get you in. Because of the work of Jesus Christ, because he addressed our sin, we have the ability to approach God. Getting saved and being freed from sin is not an invitation to learn the rules and cooperate. It's an invitation to draw near to God. It's an invitation to know God. We can have faith that God saved us. We can have faith that he's moved in our hearts and our minds. We can have faith that the Holy Spirit has cleansed us, even our consciences. The conscience that always pesters doing this wrong. You're doing this wrong. You're doing this wrong. And I think what he's displaying here in that verse is this a picture of baptism, right? We sit in a tank right over here and we say through that testimony, like, hey, I was dead in my trespasses and sins in which I once walked. I was following the prince of the power of the air, the Spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedient. But God being rich in mercy because of his great love, even when I was dead in my trespasses and sins, made us alive with Christ by grace I have been saved. And it's this picture that this saving grace of God brings us into the presence of God, addresses our heart, addresses our mind and clears our conscience. This is what Christ has done. It's so much more than just a cross or just a holiday. It's a celebration of God redeeming a people for himself through his own work. And that is the foundation for worship. That is the foundation that fuels our worship. Then he goes on to a second let us statement. This is our confession of hope. This is a good foundation. When you think about hope that God of the entire universe would send his son to die in my place, that's hopeful. I am optimistic because of the sacrifice he made for me. And we need to hold fast to this confession that Christ has led me into the presence of God. Christ's death and resurrection has reconciled us. And no matter what the world throws at us, this is hope. No matter how our sin badgers us, no matter how our history badgers us, we're not named by that. We're named by our Creator, who reconciled us to Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ. Our conscience is clear. We are free. God has addressed these things. And on top of the truth of what Jesus Christ did for us, we have that promise stated. And then afterwards, what does it say? It says, he who does this, he's faithful. And when it says that God is faithful, it means he's not going to backtrack on his words. What he says is truth. His yes is yes. And when he says redeemed, he doesn't drop you. What is redeemed by him is redeemed. And he who said it, he who promised it is faithful. Okay, the third. Let us. Let's go to verse 24 and verse 25 and remember where we're at here. And let us consider how to stir up one another in love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another. And all the more, as you see the day drawing near. Good works come out of the greatest work that Jesus Christ did. He is our motivation. In fact, we love because he first loved us. We forgive. Forgiveness is such a bear. I mean, even when you think about the Christmas holidays, maybe there's funk in your family because forgiveness is lacking. That's a very real thing. But we can forgive because Christ has forgiven. When I look at the impossibility, the improbability of God saving a religious zealot like me, I have a whole lot more grace for other people struggling with stuff. I can forgive because he has forgiven me everything. He has taken my punishment and placed it on the back of Christ and paid for it. And this truth, like, we as people need these reminders. This is why it talks about stirring each other up. Like, let's look at that verse again and let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works. There's this reality that I forget or I kind of move away from the topic. Have you ever done that where you where you know something really well, perhaps in college. And then 20 years later, you're like, what was that again? And then at a reunion, you ask people about it, and then you're like, oh yeah, oh yeah, I remember now. I remember that. I remember that point. I remember how to do that. I remember what we did. We remember when we're brought back when people speak into our life and so stirring up one another looks like this. It looks like reminding ourselves of what Jesus Christ has done for us. Stirring ourselves up into good deeds remembers what Jesus Christ has done. Remembering I can forgive. Remembering I can walk in faith. Remembering I can follow Jesus because Jesus Christ has done a work in me speaking those truths into our lives. Stirring one another up means I ask people about your worship. Are you worshiping? Where were you at last week? How's your heart? How's your relationship with your spouse? How are you doing? How are you walking in holiness in all the trials that you're facing? Stirring one another up looks like caring for each other at a heart level and asking about how our worship is, whether we're working, whether we're playing, whether we're studying. We can't do this Christian walk alone. And throughout the Scriptures, it is continually carried along by community. And in the church, I find community. And what's beautiful about the church is I find community that's overwhelmed with the grace and mercy and love of Jesus Christ. I'm not just out there doing it on my own. I'm not just out there struggling on my own. I've got my people. They too are wrecked by the shedding of blood that Jesus Christ did and the brokenness of Christ's body. And they are motivated by that. That's what it looks like to stir one another up. And then let's not forget that. Just sitting here with you, listening to you sing with me. Listen, Lord, I need you. Oh, I need you. Every hour I need you. It motivates me. The calling to holiness is no joke. And I'm not doing it alone. There's at least a few of you in this room that are like God. I need you. Help me follow you. Help me treasure you. Help me value you. Help me go after you. There's a quote from a theologian of our day who says people don't drift towards holiness. I don't get holy on the weeks I'm apart from you. I don't get holy on the weeks I'm outside my Bible. I don't grow in holiness when I'm away from the church. I need the church to check my heart and remind me of Christ's work. And then another thing that I'm very weak at is I often don't think about the day that's coming. There's this picture that Christ is coming again, we win. And I often don't. I don't think about that enough. And I need to work on that. But not only has Christ done a significant work in the past, but he's done a significant work for the future. And because of him, I get God my prize, my treasure, that he who I live for, day in and day out. And I need you to remind me of that through song and worship and through the teaching and preaching of the Word. I need that reminder. We need the church to stir us up. We need people to ask us, how are you? And not. Let us say, fine, fine. Good. Tough week. I made it. Meh. Here I am. We need people to ask us, like, how is your heart when you are struggling? How is your heart when you are succeeding? Because the heart can be incredibly wicked when you're succeeding as well. How is my heart? Where is my heart? I did some research this week on Google, and it tells me that the gathering of the church in the United States has been in steady decline. Different studies say the church. About 42 to 44% of people in the United States attend church. And some of those churches, just to be honest with you, I wouldn't recommend to you. But nonetheless, there are people who are actively attending church. And of the people actively attending, that means two Sundays a month. Two Sundays a month. What's more concerning to me as a pastor at Veritas Church is that when we look at our data, it's exactly the same. People attend church at Veritas Church two Sundays a month. Veritas Church. What are we worshiping? What is capturing our time, our talent, our treasure? What is distracting us from consistent worship? Sure, there's sickness. Sure there's business trips. Yes. Right. Lots of grace for that. Sure, there's sickness. Yes. But this is 12 months in a row. What are we worshiping? And it's interesting that statistically over time, that church attendance is going down. We know it's happened in Europe, we know it's happened in Canada, and we know it is happening here. When the verse says this, go back to that verse. Okay? Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another. And all the more, all the more, all the more. As the day draws near, our churches should be growing, should be overflowing. In fact, I know that if everybody at Veritas Church who calls this place home showed up on one Sunday, this remodel wouldn't cut it. We'd be plum full. You wouldn't be invited to scoot in a little bit. You'd be invited to hold somebody and you'd hope they were light. Right? That's the state of our Church. It's the state of our church and our nation. But even as the day draws near, this day of the Lord where all of us who've been worshiping in private and celebrating the things of God and the movement of Christ in our own hearts and the awesomeness of his crucifixion and that he saves sinners, get to have the day of the Lord where Christ ushers his bride to His Father and says, see, look at who I've washed. Look at what my crucifixion did. These are the people that I died for. Look, Father. And so many of us have walked away. We're busy. We got stuff. There is a day drawing near and I don't want to forget that. It is both an awesome thing for those who believe and for those who do not believe. It is a terrible, awesome thing. There is a God. Every knee will bow. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved. Be revolutionized by the shedding of blood and the brokenness of Christ's body for sinners and worship God. Why is attendance so spotty when day after day we only draw closer to the day of the Lord? Why is Bible reading so tough if Christ is our treasure? The day of the Lord is coming and this church ought to be preparing their hearts. And even as we gather in worship, this is still a small picture of a greater worship service that we will be a part of in Christ Jesus where we will stand in the presence of God and we will worship Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty with all the saints from all the ages and all time. The day of the Lord is coming. Let us not walk away from Sunday worship. Veritas. Let's be a church that has a rhythm of weekly worship. I want us to spend time in worship throughout the week. And then I want us to gather and worship him together. Let us prioritize a rhythm of gathering for worship where we can be encouraged by one another in things of Christ or we can push one another, or we can speak truth to one another in love. We speak truth in love for the sake of pushing people to Christ the King. So what does it look like? What can this look like? As you think about making a rhythm of worship weekly, we're in this year, a couple weeks. Last I checked, there's about 52 weeks in a year. So that means 52 Sundays. There are undoubtedly trips. Sure, but what's your plan? We just survived fall sickness and spring sickness is coming, right? I hate to say it, but it's coming. What's your plan for coming back, it'll be taxing. It'll be tiring. One kid will be sick, and then the next kid will be sick, and then the first kid will get sick again and the husband will get sick, and then you'll get sick. What's the plan? How do we prioritize this? And I want to recognize that, sure, you can watch it online, but it's not the same. I can't see you in the hall and ask you how you're doing. I don't benefit watching you worship. You don't benefit watching others worship. When we don't gather together, when we only sit and watch online, though, it's a blessing in the season. What's the plan for sickness season? What's the plan for coming back in and setting that up? What's the plan for those days? You're just tired. You had a tough weekend, folks. And I don't mean to be punchy here, but if you were to go to your boss today and say, hey, I've got a new plan for 20, 25, 50% out of the next 20 days, I commit to being here for 10. It'll be awesome. I'll see you when I see you, or, what's the plan for baseball? Right. Hey, Coach, I know we've got 16, 20 practices here. I'll be here for eight. Let me know which ones maybe I should be here for. And I don't want us to see, like, God saying, you must worship. But I want to say, like, why don't we want to? In view of what Christ has done, in view of the work of God to reconcile us to himself, like, why don't we come and gather? Why don't we have brothers and sisters in Christ speaking into our life, asking us hard questions. What does it look like to prioritize worship in the summertime when fishing's good and the golf courses are open, the grass is green, when the kids are in baseball. What does it look like to worship during that season? Friends, I, as your pastor, like, there's a reality. I don't think golf is wrong. I don't think sports are wrong, But I think it's wrong to elevate those things higher than worship. There is a small percentage chance that your child will be a professional athlete. There is 100% percentage rating that we will be there at the day of the Lord. We will meet the Lord, and you might not meet. I don't want to, like, bring up, like, come to Veritas. Come to Veritas. I'm saying Go worship. Go worship our God, our King, the Creator, who sacrificed his son so that you might be able to come and worship. The world is going to throw like, let's keep them busy. We had so many tournaments. The weather's so beautiful. Let's keep these people busy. Aside from let's throw an argument in there on Sunday morning. This will be good. Let's see how they worship. So busy. What does it look like now before the schedules hit? To plan. Like, I'm going to commit to Sunday worship. I'm going to commit to gathering. I'm going to commit to being stirred up by one another in corporate worship and by sitting under the word with brothers and sisters in Christ. It's hard to succeed at something without a plan, without a rhythm. What your plan? I want to encourage you, I want to challenge you to consider that. I want to challenge you to stir, be stirred up enough to confront. And by confront I mean have a conversation with the friend or family member who is foregoing corporate worship, who is somebody that you could talk to and encourage them to come back to church. Set aside Sunday morning for the worship of the King. Those are three things. Prioritize Sunday even if you don't want to worship and you're tired. Make a plan. My wife and I have three boys and we discovered that on Sunday morning we couldn't get it all together. And dads, this is a great opportunity for you to help. So we moved our preparation to Saturday at 9pm that didn't work either. So we had to move our preparation to get our boys and ourselves here on Sunday morning by 9:30. We had to move it back to like Saturday at about 4 and we were hoping that the clothes didn't get misused and abused in that time. But nonetheless we laid out and honestly, who cares what your kids look like? Come and worship. Worship the King. Be motivated by the work that he's done. Make the sacrifice. Consider the invitation of the King to come and worship and be stirred up by one another. What steps do you need to take as we enter this time of communion? Consider that. Are there areas where you've just been like, God, I just, I've recognized. Maybe I don't, I don't value you. Where we need to confess our sin before we partake in communion. Maybe we need to pray over the plan. Maybe we need to be unified between husband and wife. Maybe we need to pray over that. But folks, consider it. Let's not forget, let's remember the work of Christ In Hebrews, chapter 10, verses 19 and 20. It says this. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, let us draw near so as we remember the shed blood of Christ and the tearing of his flesh, if we are able, let's partake in communion and let's value worship together. Let's pray. Father. God, you are very good. God, you are awesome and huge. Lord, your kindness to us in Christ Jesus is priceless, unimaginable. Father, I pray that we would recognize that, God, that we would consider the sacrifice that you made and we would be motivated to get to know you better, to worship you on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And that it would culminate in a gathering of others who have worshiped all week. At that weekly gathering, we could be challenged and stirred up. We could encourage one another, thinking both of what you have done, but what you are doing and being reminded of the fact that you are coming again. You win. So may your church worship you and may you be glorified in Christ's name. Amen.