John 3:22-36 - It Doesn’t Belong To You
Main Idea: We must surrender our entitlement to give Jesus what He deserves.
JESUS DESERVES TO BE THE GOD OF OTHER PEOPLE (vs.
22-30)
Other people aren’t ours to hoard.
Other people’s blessings don’t steal ours.
Other people are God’s prize, not ours.
JESUS DESERVES TO BE LISTENED TO (vs. 31-34)
He possesses all wisdom.
He has lived the life He tells you to live.
He communicates the perfect words of God.
JESUS DESERVES TO BE THE LORD AND JUDGE (vs. 35-36)
Jesus is the rightful Ruler of everything, including you.
Jesus’ sacrifice is the only acceptable payment.
Sermon Transcript (Auto-Transcribed by Apple Podcasts)
Well, we've been studying John 1-4, and John was an eyewitness account, one of Jesus' 12 disciples, one of those that traveled through his earthly ministry with him, and he's writing to us to tell us, you need to believe in Jesus, you need to believe
that he's God, and you should follow him with your life. This is not someone a couple hundred years after Jesus, saying, yeah, I think I heard through the grapevine that Jesus did this or that. This is an eyewitness account.
And so that's what John's doing in this book. And today we are looking at, I'm going to say the name John several times.
When I'm talking about John in today's message, this is John the Baptist, which we'll see as we read through the passage, not the writer of this account. This would be Jesus's earthly cousin. And he was one that had been the herald.
We learned about him earlier in the study. He was the one proclaiming the messiah, the Christ, God's chosen one to bring salvation to the world. He is on the way.
So you need to listen and believe in him. I saw my wife. I thought you were in nursery today.
Good to see you. Looking good, babe. So we are today in John 3 verses 22 through 36.
And the title of today's message is, It Doesn't Belong to You.
I know almost all of my illustrations these days come from toddlers, and it's because my existence is plagued with two of the cutest and most nefarious toddlers that the world has seen to this point.
The most cursed word in the English language is the word mine. It's even worse when... Oh, not the most cursed word.
It's a toddler's most cursed word. The thing you least want to hear a toddler saying is, mine, it brings to mind the seagulls from Finding Nemo. Mine, mine, mine.
And that is exactly how they use it. What makes it even worse is most of the time, when they're saying mine, it's something that doesn't actually belong to them.
It's something that belongs to their sibling or belongs to Target or belongs to their friend, and they want it for themselves. In today's passage, John the Baptist's disciples, his followers, call mine to people that are now following Jesus.
John had been on the scene. He had disciples. He had disciples, as we read in John 1, that when John the Baptist said, hey, look at Jesus, behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, those disciples went and they followed Jesus.
And now more and more people are doing so, and the rest of John the Baptist's disciples are like, hey, mine, mine, that belongs to me. They say technically belongs to John, but it's about that.
And today we're going to learn a lesson along with John's disciples that we must surrender our entitlement to give Jesus what he deserves. In your life today, you have things that you are calling mine that do not belong to you.
And today, along with these first century people, we're going to learn that we've got to surrender our sense of entitlement to give Jesus what he deserves. Let's pray. Dear Jesus, I ask today that you would be glorified in your church.
God, I pray that you would help me to only say what you want me to say.
Lord, I pray that as we consider you and everything that you're worthy and deserving of, that we would freely give it to you, that we wouldn't fight you on it, but that we would joyfully cast the crowns of our life at your feet because you are worthy
of it all. We love you. We pray all of this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
First today, we're going to look from verses 22 through verse 30 at the truth that Jesus deserves to be the God of other people. Jesus deserves to be the God of other people. We're going to begin reading in verse 22.
I would encourage you, if you've got a Bible today, follow along as we're going through.
If you've got one of the sermon handouts, there's the notes on the one side, there's the passage on the other side, there's also some pew Bibles in front of you that you can turn over to John 3 and follow along as well.
It's also going to be on the screens. The most important thing, just in case it wasn't clear, is the Word of God. And so that's where we're going to draw all of our attention to.
After this, verse 22, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean country side, where he spent time with them and baptized. Do you want to give a quick caveat note here in John chapter 4 and verse 2?
John, the apostle clarifies for us, Jesus was there, his disciples baptized, but Jesus himself did not baptize.
A very interesting thing, as you connect it with the Book of Acts, it would appear from both John the Baptist testimony and the testimony of the apostles, that Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit.
He doesn't do the water-baptizing thing, people do the water-baptizing thing. So, Jesus was with his disciples who were baptizing. Verse 23, John also was baptizing in Anon near Salim because there was plenty of water there.
People were coming and being baptized since John had not yet been thrown into prison.
I mentioned this several weeks ago, John the Baptist would eventually fall a foul of the Jewish government in that day as King Herod stole his brother's wife, Herodias, and married her.
John the Baptist, as all good Baptist do, preached against sin and he got thrown into prison and was eventually beheaded as a result. Verse 25, then a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.
So, they came to John and told him, Rabbi, the teacher, the one you testified about and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing and everyone is going to him. Here, there's this jealousy. They are trying to claim what was not theirs.
Can you imagine saying to God, mine? Hey, hey, John the Baptist, we know that you proclaim Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We know you said that you're not worthy to untie Jesus' sandals.
But you really deserve all of these people, and Jesus doesn't deserve to have these people. John responded, verse 27, no one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven. He says, what people have is from God.
You yourselves can testify that I said, I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him. He who has the bride is the groom. Novel, isn't it?
He says, but the groom's friend who stands by and listens for him rejoices greatly at the groom's voice. Back in first century Israel, there wasn't like a ton of, you know, you didn't have massive bridal parties.
You had like two people or so, the friends of the groom that during the in-between time, when the guy proposed to the girl and when the actual marriage ceremony was, the man would be building an addition on to his kind of family house.
So would live in his father's house, John 14, for many of you that have been around the Bible. In my father's house are many mansions, many dwelling places, additions.
So as the groom was putting all of that together, he would, you know, he loves his bride-to-be.
And so he sends messengers, he sends the friends of the groom to go tell the bride, and he's like, oh, he loves you so much, you can't wait, this house is beautiful. You're not going to want to redecorate anything. It's just so great.
And so those groomsmen would go back and forth. And then when the time finally came, the groomsmen would be the ones that would go and tell the bride and all of her family and all of her friends, hey, it is now ready. Come back to the father's house.
There's going to be a giant seven-day wedding feast, and it's going to be an amazing time. Then at the wedding itself, the groomsmen would be the ones that waited on both the bride and the groom. They would bring them their food.
They would do whatever was needed. And the groom's friends would be the ones that would kind of like vouch for the bride.
So if anyone was like, oh yeah, no, like she's really my girlfriend or whatever the first century equivalent is, these would be the guys that would be like, no, there's no way. Like we have been standing guard.
We are the ones that care for this bride. John the Baptist says, this is what I'm doing. I'm not the groom.
I'm not the person that Israel is meant to love and to be with forever. I'm the one that sends the message. I'm the one that stands by.
I'm the one that's protecting, if you will, the purity of this bride that I'm making sure no one's attacking her, no one's messing with her. And that I am for this marriage taking place. And so John the Baptist, he says, I'm not the groom.
I'm just the groom's friend. And I'm excited that he's here. I'm excited that everything that I've worked for is now finding fulfillment.
He says, so this joy of mine is complete. We ought to be happy to give God his due and to see his kingdom grow. And then verse 30, a great, amazing verse.
He must increase, but I must decrease. Jesus deserves to be the God of other people. What we can learn from this passage first today is that other people aren't ours to hoard.
People can leave our church and it's okay. We're not the only racket in town, so to speak. Jesus has children and churches and people outside of just us.
People can no longer communicate with you personally or forget to text you back and it's okay. These people don't belong to us, they belong to him.
If people did everything we wanted them to, we would be their God and they would be our devoted worshipers. But we're not the God of other people.
So let's not act like these disciples of John and complain that someone isn't in our friend group or our church or whatever anymore. Where does the rubber meet the road in this? What would it mean for us to not hoard people?
Don't take such offense to people. If people don't like you or don't talk to you or don't include you, it is okay. It doesn't take any breath from your body, it doesn't take any money from your pocket, any righteousness from your account before God.
So it doesn't actually harm you in any way that truly matters. Love others like God does, and be okay if they don't manage to reciprocate because we have all failed to love like God does. Do you know this is how God loves you?
That you have failed him. You have sinned against him. You have gone portions of time without praying to him or without reading your Bible or without telling other people about him.
But he's not done with you. He's not furious and angry with you. He still views you as his beloved child.
And if God loved us in that way, let's love others in that way. Other people aren't ours to hoard. Secondly, other people's blessings don't steal ours.
So here John's disciples are saying, hey, like Jesus and his disciples, they're baptizing more people than we are. Like, you know, there's a quota. We're in competition with them, and we are losing, we're falling behind.
We lost by a toe. Sorry to all of our Ravens fans. I know, I know.
I prayed that God would only give me the words to say, and I did not listen to him. Other people's blessings don't steal ours. John and his disciples, they were still seeing people baptized.
They were still seeing people turn to the Lord. And instead of rejoicing in the blessings that God was giving them, they were jealous of what God was giving Jesus. But we do the exact same thing.
God causes it to rain, to bring food and provision on the wicked and the righteous, is what he tells us in Scripture.
When someone else gets a promotion, when someone else is taking their 12th vacation of the year, and it's the second week of February, when someone else has a happy family, that doesn't rob us of anything that God has given to us.
In this passage, John's disciples are worried that John's not going to be as popular, but John knows that Jesus' followers are not a reflection of John's failure, but of God's amazing transforming work.
For you today, do you spend all of your time trying to keep up with the Jones? I don't actually mean you, Charlie, it's just the phrase. Are you jealous of someone else's relationship or kids or finances or house?
One of the sins we don't mention as often is the sin of covetousness or of wanting something that God has given to someone else. I want you to say these three truths with me, okay? Number one, the truth is God has given me all I need.
Can you say that with me? God has given me all I need. The second truth is that God will give me all I need.
Can you say that with me? God will give me all I need. And the third one is that I will never lack anything that God knows I need.
Let's say that. God, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I will never lack anything that God knows I need.
We need to remind ourselves of those truths, because our hearts are prone to want it. We're prone to forget it. We're prone to wish that we had something.
We're prone to think that God is holding out on us. And he's not. Other people's blessings don't steal ours.
And here, other people are God's prize, not ours. They are God's prize, not our prize.
I heard an amazing quote yesterday from one of our Send Network Church Planners in North Carolina that Jesus said in Matthew 28 that to make disciples, we baptize them and teach them to obey everything Jesus commanded.
The pastor said, if we try to make disciples any other way, we will be making disciples of someone other than Jesus. And goodness, if I haven't seen that time and time and time again in my life.
Growing up, I was around churches and pastors that had a spotless life plan and image for you as soon as you prayed the sinner's prayer.
You'd wear long sleeves the rest of your life to cover up your tattoos so that no one would see them and want one of their own. You'd wear ankle-length denim skirts to make sure you didn't cause anyone to stumble.
You'd read the King James Bible that Paul wrote. You'd attend Sunday school, Sunday morning church, Sunday evening church, Wednesday night church, and go on visitation on Tuesday nights, and door-to-door soul-winning on Saturday mornings.
You'd burn all your old CDs and movies and just watch Sheffy or Passion of the Christ. Big points to any of you if you've ever seen Sheffy. The Lord has a special crown for you in heaven.
You'd read your Bible through entirely once every year. You'd never drink any alcohol again, not even vanilla extract or Nyquil.
You'd never say a curse word again, and you'd wear a three-piece suit and tie to church for all church services and visitation and soul-winning.
And you'd give a minimum of 10% of your income to God, plus a percentage to the missions program, and a percentage to the building program, not to mention love offerings for any traveling preachers.
There was just one problem with that method of discipleship. It was completely bereft of the Holy Spirit or a relationship with Jesus.
You could dot every I, you could cross every T, and still be a mean, anxious, hot-tempered, unloving person who had no idea what the voice of the Spirit sounds like.
What those pastors and churches missed is that we're called to make disciples in His image and not our own. Are all of those items that I mentioned bad? Of course not.
But they're not the point. The point is to be in God's image.
In the spirit of two verses, number one, 1st Timothy 5 that says, those that sinned, specifically speaking about church leaders, those that sin, rebuke before all so that others also may fear.
And in the spirit of James 5, confess your sins, confess your faults to one another and pray for one another so that you may be healed. Last Sunday, I pulled one of these. One of these other people are God's prize, not ours.
At the handshaking time, you know, I'm trying to, like, you know, get back into the music portion of things, get the service going on.
And in my impatience, I called out the names of two people that I know well, I'm friends with, I have spent incredible amounts of time with.
But as soon as I called out those two people to kind of like, you know, gather everyone in, Holy Spirit stabbed my heart and was like, yeah, bro, this isn't your church. You remember that, right? Like, this is my church.
I didn't tell you to say that. I didn't tell you to do that. I'm very thankful that one of those people talked to me this past week and was like, hey, that's kind of a jerk move.
And I was like, you're absolutely right. I shouldn't have done that. And I apologize and I'm sorry.
But since it was publicly that I said it last week, I need to publicly apologize to you guys because people don't belong to me. They're the Holy Spirits. They're gods.
And so because they're gods, we gotta treat other people like they don't belong to us.
Romans chapter 14, you have a dispute that's happening in the Roman churches between some people that came from a Jewish background, other people that came from a Roman, pagan, polytheistic background.
And there was a fight on whether or not they could eat meat that was offered to idols. And some people thought it's just cheap food, idols don't really exist. And so I can eat the meat, no problem.
Other people said, no, this is literally worshiping these false gods. And so you can't do it. And what Paul tells them is, you've got to do what the Holy Spirit puts on your heart.
And don't judge your brother because he doesn't answer to you. He answers to God, to his own master, he stands or falls. So he says, so why are you messing with someone else's employee?
God's as much not a fan of the quote unquote Karen behavior of like, let me see your manager, as sometimes we are. Other people belong to God. They are his prize.
They're not ours. So if, you know, we see someone saved at church and God ends up moving them to another place where they're able to go to church with a family member that has been, you know, seeking the Lord. Wonderful.
We can praise God for that. If there's times when maybe there's just a parting of ways for any number of reasons, it's okay. If someone was in your life at one point and now isn't able to be in your life, it's okay.
It doesn't have to be something that consumes us like it was consuming John's disciples. We can say, hey, he must increase. I must decrease.
I'm not the point. Other people are God's prize, not ours. Secondly, today, Jesus deserves to be listened to.
And we can see this in verses 31 through 34. The one who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms.
The one who comes from heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, and yet no one accepts his testimony. This is what Jesus was saying to Nicodemus last week.
He says, I keep telling you guys who I am, Nathaniel gets it, my disciples get it, but you guys don't want to hear or believe that I'm the Messiah, that I'm God, that I've come to save you.
Verse number 33, the one who has accepted his testimony has affirmed that God is true. If you accept what Jesus says, you are affirming that what God says is the truth. To ignore or disobey or disaffirm what Jesus says is to deny God.
You cannot be on great terms with God and really bad terms with Jesus. That's not how it works. Verse number 34, for the one whom God sent speaks God's words, since he gives the Spirit without measure.
I find so interesting in this verse, John's harkening back to something that a rabbi had written a couple hundred years prior, that looking at the Old Testament prophets and seeing how some of them were able to do gigantic like miracles and amazing
things. And some of them like just spoke. The old rabbi said, okay, you know, the Spirit comes on each of these prophets in measure, like to a certain amount.
So, you know, the Spirit gives Isaiah 75% of the power, or the Spirit gives this person 20% of the power. And here John says, for Jesus, for God, God gives the Spirit to Jesus without measure.
That even in Jesus' baptism, that the Holy Spirit descends down, and there you have the Trinity, the Father saying, this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased, and the Spirit coming down like a dove and descending onto Jesus.
That Jesus has all of the Holy Spirit, because they are one, as we would read about elsewhere in Scripture. So Jesus deserves to be listened to. This is the whole point of 31 through 34, that Jesus is the one that needs to be listened to.
People aren't listening to him, but the ones that do are accepting what God has said. So why would we today in the 21st century believe in Jesus? Why would we listen to him?
First, he possesses all wisdom. Jesus is God. He is omniscient, he knows everything he wants to know, and he designed this world in accordance with his character and nature, and he knows how it works the best.
So listen to him. When he tells you how to raise your kids, listen. When he tells you how to navigate your relationships and your love life, listen to him.
There is never a time when you will regret having taken God's advice in a situation, but I can promise you that there will be countless times when you wish you would have listened to him to begin with.
So Jesus deserves to be listened to because he possesses all wisdom. He made the world. He knows how it works.
He knows how everything is supposed to be put together. Secondly, he has lived the life he tells you to live. Jesus is not just sitting in some academic tower telling you to do things he's never personally experienced.
He has lived it all. Hebrews 4 says, we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin.
Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Last night, when I told my son to try the dish his mother made for him, I wasn't just telling him something I haven't personally tasted and can vouch for. I've tested the waters and they're safe. So it is with our Savior.
As He exemplified forgiveness and love, holiness, boldness, care and justice, why shouldn't I follow where He leads? It's the old hymn that says, He leadeth me, O blessed thought, O words with heavenly comfort fraught.
Whate'er I do, where'er I be, still tis God's hand that leadeth me. He leadeth me, He leadeth me by His own hand, He leadeth me. His faithful follower I would be, for by His hand He leadeth me.
So Jesus possesses all wisdom. He has lived the life He tells you to live. And lastly, He communicates the perfect words of God.
Where does all of Jesus' wisdom come from? Is He just the first century Jordan Peterson or Sigmund Freud? No, He is the Word of God who proclaims His words to us.
One of the rabbis in the centuries previous to Jesus had written that the Holy Spirit rested by measure on the different prophets. But in Jesus, as Paul states, all the fullness of God's nature dwells bodily.
So He can be absolutely trusted and followed and obeyed. How do you learn these words of God? How do you know to listen to Jesus?
What does He say? Do you just meditate and hum quietly and hope to hear like an audible voice? Do you spin a die or a magic eight ball?
No. You open your Bible and you read what Jesus has said and you obey. Why would you do that?
Because your opinions and the opinions of your friends and loved ones are dumb. Oh, pastor, you can't say that. My opinions are dumb.
We are not eternal God. We are not everlasting. We are not all knowing.
We sometimes make wrong decisions, but God never does. So let's turn to his word. Then last thing today, Jesus deserves to be the Lord and judge.
We can see this in verses 35 and 36. The father loves the son and has given all things into his hands. The one who believes in the son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the son will not see life.
Instead, the wrath of God remains on him. Here in these verses, John the apostle, the writer of this, tells us basically where the rubber meets the road.
As we look at Jesus and his preeminence, as we think about listening to him, John tells us the eternal stakes. This is not just a question of whether you live a good life or a moral life. This is your eternal soul and what will happen to you.
So verse 35, he says, the father loves the son and is given all things into his hands. God created the world. He created everything within it.
And he has given it all to Jesus to say this belongs to him. You are created. You did not make yourself.
You were the special creation of God that he knew from all eternity paths. From Psalm 139, you were the one that he knit, that he sewed, put together inside of your mother's womb. So you belong to God.
And so you belong to Jesus. You are, as I read earlier in 1 Peter 2, you are his own special, chosen possession. And verse 36 tells us about what's at stake for our soul.
Not only just that Jesus, like, deserves to be our Lord, the one in charge because we belong to him, but verse 36, the one who believes in the Son. This is an obedient belief in the Son. The one who believes in the Son has eternal life.
Have Jesus, have life. Don't have Jesus, don't have life. Is that some, like, random cruelty of God?
No. It's because in God is all life. There is no life outside of God.
So to reject life means that you have condemnation and death and existence without your creator, which is what the end of the verse says.
The one who rejects the Son, the one who does not believe and obey what scripture says about Jesus, the one who rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
God, as we learned last week, has no desire that anyone would die without knowing Jesus. God has no desire for our condemnation or for us to go to hell or for us to perish. That is not God's will.
That's why he sent Jesus. It's why he came for us. It's why he died for us and bled for us and was buried and rose again three days later, establishing our justification, our sanctification, our glorification that we're saved once and forever.
We're being saved day by day, and we will be ultimately saved either when the Lord returns or when we die and go to be with him. All of that comes through Jesus. That's God's will for your life.
If you, today, if you reject Jesus, if you say, I'm not going to repent and believe in him, I'm not going to turn from my way and turn to Jesus alone, your eternal soul is not going to be damned because God did not love you.
He loved you so much that he gave himself. If you die, it is because, if you die and go to hell, it is because you have rejected the only son of God. God's perfect expression of love, his very nature.
The love of Christ compels us. Since we've reached this conclusion that one died for all, Jesus died for everyone. Jesus didn't just die for the good people, the bad people, the white people, the black people.
Jesus died for everyone. Amen? Amen.
And therefore, he says, all died. If Jesus died for everyone, then it means everyone was under condemnation. Everyone needed to be saved.
And he died for all so that those who live, us, should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised. If you know Jesus today, don't live your life for you. Live it for him.
As you are a stay-at-home mom, as you are working in the workplace, as you're at college, as you're in school, I don't know if she's in school yet, but eventually when she gets there, wherever you are, if you know Jesus, you are Jesus' ambassador to
that place. You are called to love people. You are called to tell them about Jesus. You are called to live like Jesus, to live a Christian way, a way that says, I know what God wants me to do, and I am doing it.
I know the voice of the Spirit, and I'm listening to him. I have heard the testimony of the Son of God, and I am walking and obeying and believing in what he has for my life. We are not called to live for ourselves.
Jesus is the rightful ruler of everything, including you. Do you act as though you have someone in charge of your actions? Do you act as though you have someone in charge of your words or calendar or credit card?
Do you live your life day to day as though you belong to you, or as though you answer to someone else? I love this new hymn that someone wrote within the last year or two. The one who made the heavens made my heart and soul.
Before I drew a breath, I was loved and known. I am his creation, the maker's masterpiece, and all that he designs will be done in me. My body is a temple of the living God.
The Holy Spirit lives inside of you, if you know Jesus. I'll worship in this house that his blood has bought. As I bear his image, oh, may I not profane the holiness I hold in this earthly frame.
The Holy Spirit is with you each moment. I am not my own, and now my heart is free. Maker, come and make what you will of me.
There is nothing broken that you cannot repair. So Lord, I leave my life in your loving care. I belong to the Lord.
Oh, I am not my own. I belong to the Lord. I am not my own.
I will honor him for this I know. I belong to the Lord. I am not my own.
And then lastly today, Jesus' sacrifice is the only acceptable payment. God made this world very good. He made mankind to flourish in it, to enjoy life, to know him, and love him and each other.
Mankind rejected God's plan, plunging us into condemnation and death and separation from God in this life and in eternity. But Christ loved us. He came to rescue us by taking the punishment of our sin.
He died in the cross on our place so that the justice that was deserved because of our wrongdoing, our sins, the things we've thought and said and spoken and thought, said, yeah, thought, said and did against God that all of those wrongs could be
paid for through Jesus. He was buried and he rose from the dead three days later. So now the response is, will you accept Jesus' payment for your sin? There is no life or forgiveness outside of him.
Don't roll the dice to try and see if you can spit in God's face and say, your son is not a sufficient payment for me. Turn to Jesus alone. Believe in him and trust in him.
Today, learn through things. Number one, Jesus deserves to be the God of other people. Are you spending more time trying to get people to like you or to befriend and think well of you?
Or do you spend your time trying to help people accept Jesus, to have them think well of him and make him their God? Jesus deserves to be listened to. So are you hearing from him?
Are you following and obeying him? And lastly, Jesus deserves to be the Lord and judge. He died for us.
He created us. And so he ought to be the one that calls the shots in our life. We are called to live our life for him.
And he is the Savior, not only our judge, but he is the Savior, the one who loves you and wants you to turn to him for salvation. Today, will you surrender your entitlement and give Jesus what he is deserving of?
It's something that we give our life to Jesus. We give our words. We give our time.
We give our treasure. We give our like care and love. And then just a little bit by little bit, we take it back off and we're like, oh, actually, I need this for a little bit.
Pardon me. Let's put it all back on the altar to say, God, everything I am, everything I have, everyone I know belongs to you. And so I'm going to act like it all belongs to you because it doesn't belong to me.
