jesus and his disciples went onto the villages around caesarea philippi on the way. He asked them who do people say I am? They replied. Some say john the baptist, others say elijah and still others, one of the prophets. But what about you? Who do you say? I am? Amen. Welcome. Good morning. If you’re on the live stream, welcome If you’re here in the room, welcome. Um, you reminded me Chloe of what I interaction I had with my daughter this week. I was at my son’s basketball practice and I turned to my five year old daughter. I said, maya, do you want to go with me to the daddy daughter dance? And she looked at me like this is like we’ll see. So I don’t, I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but I’m hoping I can woo my five year old to join me. So dad’s come on down, it’ll be fun. We’ll have a good time. It won’t be a long, long night. It’ll be a little power hour of hanging out. I don’t know what dances we’re going to do with five year olds in whatever age, some of you have a multiple daughters. So you have to work cut out for you. But we’ll figure it out. Welcome. Thank you for coming. I’m also reminded of uh, I was thinking of this message this morning, this passage and I was thinking, it reminded me of a conference I went to when I, when I first became a pastor, I got invited to multiple little conferences. Big conferences, Small conferences. I was the new shiny object in our old network of churches and I’ve since then retired thinking I’m not that big of a deal and I enjoy spending my time with you and Lincoln in this church. But there’s just one conference I got invited to. Whereas like 3000 people at the conference and then they had these breakout sessions where they had uh, junior speakers speaking at the breakout sessions and I was one of those newer preacher speakers at those sessions and you got a little blurb and you got a little bio. Um, and then you would be fishing for Those 3000 people had to go somewhere and they would go to your session. Maybe if your wife helped you write a creative enough blurb in bio. And so I feel like this is one of those things where if you had a choice, you would not pick this session if you had a choice unless I was slated up against how to suffer. Well how to share your faith, how to give money, how to, how to endure under persecution. If those were my competition, I would, I would get some of you. But, but this is not a topic we enjoy speaking on. Just to be honest, every time I speak on this subject and I think it’s probably a dozen or more, probably two dozen sermons I’ve given on this subject my entire life. I feel like a a cold wet legalistic blanket we slip on has a congregation and that’s not my desire. I understand this is not a strength of ours, some of your flipping head trying to find work. This is not a strength of ours as a church, as christians as people. But regardless of gifting or current strength, this is the reality of the kingdom of Heaven. This is what jesus has for us as people and we need to grow and it’s okay to grow. And so in light of that tough, bleak mountain we’re gonna climb today as we work through this topic, will you bow your heads with me? And let’s let’s pray God, I thank you for the word of God. Thank you for those passages that we give out of our strength. And there’s passages, we look at out of our weaknesses as christians and this might be a passage that is the strength of brothers and sisters in this room. This might be a passage. That is a weakness of brothers and sisters in this room. Ultimately, we all don’t measure up and we all fail. We all need you, jesus. We need your gospel. We need your help to accomplish anything that is in the bible. I pray. We as individuals would do business with you and we as a, as a congregation, as a church would do busin…