Amen Amen. Well, good morning church, let’s uh let’s bring it on in. I love how friendly everyone is. Um it’s a great joy to be with you all this morning, my name is Alex if I haven’t met you yet, I’m on staff here at our church. I lead or co lead the college ministry christian challenge here at sewer. The pastors Mike, Shayne, Ben and dan have asked me this morning uh, to preach, they’ve given me and trusted me with the great responsibility of preaching God’s word and it is a mighty task um that I’m I’m humbled to receive. Every time I I prepare to preach, I God graciously reminds me of the depth of my own inadequacy and every time I’m just overwhelmed by how incapable I am. But I, but I know how how capable and how good God is. So I don’t have anything to offer you today apart from what God graciously speaks through me and through his word. So let’s go to him in prayer and just ask that he would bless our time together this morning, jesus. We look to you this morning, we know that you are good and faithful and right in all of your ways Lord, you are a good and gracious king and jesus, we pray that you would set our hearts upon you that you would glorify yourself this morning, that all the glory would be to your name. God, would you bless this gathering of your people in jesus name. Amen Amen Amen. So church today is a big day as Mike was talking about. We we no longer have a church or excuse me, we no longer have a house in our parking lot. We still have a church. We still have a church. Okay, But we no longer have a house in our parking lot are our parking lot size has increased and as he said now we have even more opportunity for more people to come and to hear the gospel clearly. And so I’m encouraged by that recent development. I hope you are too. But I want to use that that house as an illustration because that empty, boarded up house is finally gone. Um, but there was a lot that had to go on behind the scenes in order to make that happen. There were dozens upon dozens of phone calls that had to be made. There were hours and hours of communication. Uh much city government red tape that had to be worked through, much of which was unexpected. Pastor Mike had to present an extensive strategic plan to the city council chambers historic committee, I think I got that name right. And there are at least five false alarms that the house is just about to be torn down just to come to find out that in fact it wasn’t and it was gonna take even longer. So I only know all of this because mike has just been passing on all this information to me over the, over the past couple of months. But here’s my point in sharing that that before, something amazing like that happens in public, like a house in your parking lot being torn down. Um a lot has to happen behind the scenes first. And is that not also true of the people of God? That as you read the bible, you read of so many people, you read so many true stories, true events. There’s so many people who did great things for God in public, but they first walked closely and consistently with him in private and I would argue that for you and I today it’s no different for us than it was thousands of years ago. That in order for us to please God, we must first walk with him in private. That pleasing God is private before it is public. And so what does it look like to live before God? In a way that’s pleasing to him? I think, I think we all want to know that we all want to grow in our faithfulness to God and how we live our lives for his pleasure and not for our own. And I think some one on one is going to teach us great things about this today, So go ahead and turn to psalm 101. There are plenty of bibles on the chairs around you if you don’t have one. And as you’re doing that, I just want to encour…