The Prodigal Son and the Compassion of God

It's a time to pray, a time to connect through our prayers with our God Almighty. This morning, I'm going to ask for you to pray where you are, but I'm going to open up the altars. You can come and pray what's on your heart, but above all, express your love to God this morning. Express how much you love Him and what He may be doing in your life. What He would have you to do in your life. You have these prayer concerns from the church. We have several folks we need to pray for, Jack Merton, Don, and Carol Elliott. I could go down that list. Please take time to look at that and pray for these folks. Above all, whatever God is working in and through your life, would you lift that to Him right now? Just spend time with Him. Again, the altars are open. Come and pray and in a few moments, Debbie will close us in a time of prayer. This is a time for you to connect with God. So let's do that, just for a few moments. Father, we humbly come before you as a church, and we ask for your wisdom. We ask for the Holy Spirit to come and abide among us. We ask, Father, that you lift up our brother Keith, that he be a vessel for you, that he delivers your words to us, and that we receive your words in your direction. Lord, today we talked about compassion. I pray, Father, you see us as a compassionate and loving church. If that's not true, Lord, may you convict us, and may we change our ways. Please be with us as we open your word, and we thank you so much for your son as we ask these things in his name. Amen. Amen. I am so glad you're here this morning. Are you glad to be here? Amen. I am excited. It's been a busy weekend for us at the Bryant household. We celebrated the one-year birthday of our other grandson, Daniel Wesley, David Keith, named after his two grandpas. He goes by David, but I call him Keith. I'm just kidding. We've had a great time. My mom and dad were able to come and be a part of this. My sister and my brother-in-law were here. Amanda, who's stayed home with the one-year-old, he's a little sniffly this morning, her mom and dad were here. We really had a great time of celebration yesterday. I remember back almost 34 years ago, now, you will be 34 this March, right? You're getting old, dude. This is my son, Wes, Wesley Joe Bryant, who's named after his two granddads. 34 years ago in March, coming up March, my wife was pregnant with Wes, and she went into labor. Man, it was a long, tedious labor. It took 24 hours, and she still had not delivered our son, Wesley, which gave us an indication of the kind of life we were going to live with him. After 24 hours, the doctor finally decided to take the baby with a C-section, and so I had to go back into a little room. They didn't let me go back. I still remember this day when they brought Wes down to see me. His eyes were about that big around, it seemed like, and it looked as though that he was looking at his daddy. And I looked at him, and as many of you have experienced in your life, immediately, immediately, I had compassion for my son. I loved him, and I look forward to the day of playing baseball, football, and taking him fishing. I was better at football and baseball than he was. But he's a better fisherman than I am, trust me. He still loves to fish, and he fishes good, and he fishes hard, and he loves to fish. He's teaching his sons how to fish, and my father taught me how to fish. Through the years, we've had a great time, and honestly, we have not had any major problems with my son. He has not been, in the greatest sense, a prodigal son at all. He's had a few prodigal son moments, but not a prodigal son. He's always been dear, close, and not any problems. We've all had prodigal son moments, right? We're going to be looking at Luke chapter 15, a story that's very familiar to you. Now, he gave me permission to share a story. He reminded me of a story that was a prodigal son moment, when he decided to do something that was against the rules. He went to a place that he shouldn't have gone. We were at Super Summer, and I was on the youth evangelism staff. I had duties after the kids were supposed to be in their rooms, lights out, in bed, all those things. One of my jobs was, at the end of the day, as we reviewed all the things that we need to fix or correct, then we would go to all the rooms and dorms, and we would check to make sure that all the lights were out and everything was supposed to be in place. As I got closer to the dorm, I saw a group of young men coming from the girls dorm down to the boys dorm. I said, uh-oh, those guys are in trouble. The problem was, they were my guys. They were from my church, and amongst them was my son. I said, what in the world are you guys doing? You know you're supposed to be in the room with the lights out and ready to go to bed. Well, they said, the girls, it's dark outside, and we need to escort them to the other dorm to make sure that they made it there okay. One of his friends, we were doing the What Would Jesus Do, back when that was around. One of his friends looked at me and said, well, Pastor Keith, what would Jesus really do? I said, Jesus would be in his dorm room with his lights out, and that's where you need to be. Now, that's about as prodigal as my son gets, is being away from the instruction. He has surrendered to the ministry. He is serving the Lord as a worship pastor in Aurora, Missouri, at First Baptist Church. God saved my son. God changed my son, just like He changes all of us. He's raising up his kids in a Godly home, teaching them to sing the praises of God. I wish you could hear my little boy sing, both of them. I love to hang out with my kids. If we love to hang out with our kids that much, how much do you think God loves to hang out with us? Oh, I want you to hear this. If you don't hear anything else, God loves you, and because God loves you, I love you. If I don't, I've got a heart problem. We're going to look at Luke chapter 15 in just a moment, but before we do, let me pray. Our Father, for the next few moments, we want to talk about compassion. We want to talk about what it means to understand compassion from your perspective, from what the Bible teaches us. Lord, may our heart cry this morning simply be to be obedient to what you lead us to do, how you want us to express our compassion to those who are in need. Father, this sermon really pierces my own heart and challenges me to be more what you want me to be. So Father, I know that these words speak to me this morning. Teach me, Father, how to be compassionate to the needy. In Jesus' name, amen. I hope you've opened your Bibles to Luke chapter 15. Hopefully by next week we will have our media shout and PowerPoint and all those things back up so you can follow along with scripture on the screen as well as in your Bibles, but there's nothing wrong with this Bible. It's been around for years, so please open it up, look at it. We're going to look at chapter 15. I'm not going to read all of it to you. You know the story. There was a family. We don't know much about the mom, but we know about the men. We know the father and we know the two sons, and we know that the youngest son had a burr of something that said, I got to go. I got to leave. I need to experience life. And he asked his father for his inheritance and all of his goods, and he took it and he went to a different territory, to a different country, and as you know the story there found, he squandered it. He literally just lost it all, and he spent it on things that were not godly. They were sinful things. He lost it all. He found himself working for a farmer who had pigs, and the only food he got was what the pigs got, and as he waddled around in the pigsty, he suddenly had this awakening. He said, you know, the servants at my father's house eat better than I do. I'm going to repent. I'm going to repent. I'm going to go home. I'm going to beg for forgiveness. I'm going to hope that my father will accept me as a servant. I don't expect to be accepted as a family member again, but I just want to be a servant under my father. And so we pick up that story. We're going to start reading in verse 17 where he says to himself, but when he came to himself, he said, how many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger. I will arise and go to my father and I will say to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Maybe you found yourself there as a sibling or as a son. You find yourself today far away from the heavenly father, maybe far away from your earthly father. He said, treat me as one of your hired servants. So he arose and came to his father, but while he was still a long, long, long way off, I added a few longs there. His father saw him and he felt compassion and he ran and he embraced him and he kissed him. The son said to him, father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, I am no longer worthy to be called your son. But the father said to his servants, bring quickly the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet. Bring the fattened calf. kill it and let us eat and party let's celebrate for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found and they begin to party they begin to celebrate now his older son was in the field and he came and drew near to the house he heard music and dancing as he called one of the servants and asked what what these things men and he said to him your brother's come and your father has killed the fattened calf because he's receiving back safe and sound but he was angry and he refused to go in his father came out and then treated him but he answered his father look these many years I have served you I've never disobeyed your command yet you never gave me a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends but when this son of yours came he was who has devoured your property with prostitutes you killed the fattened calf for him and the father said to him son you're always with me and all that is mine is yours it was fitting to celebrate and to be glad for this brother was dead and is alive he was lost and is found most of you know this passage of scripture most of you know this story and I want you to know that at the end of this sermon today I want you to evaluate this passage of scripture I want you to think about where you are because I will promise you that you will find yourself in one of these three characters you either find yourself as a father who has a son that is a prodigal or who has brought a father a son back into the fold or you find yourself as the prodigal yourself who's gone away and you have created distance between you and your family or between you and God or you find yourself as the older son who just didn't think life was fair and was full of pride and selfishness this morning I have three quick points three quick points if we are to understand compassion this morning and we see it in this story and I wanted to go beyond the story because as you look at this whole text of this Luke chapter 15 Jesus was teaching his apostles he was teaching his disciples he was teaching those who would follow him about what it meant to be lost and to be found because he told the story about the lost coin he told the story about the lost sheep and now he tells the story about the lost son though doubt about it the theme in this chapter 15 is about lostness and about being found and being found by the God Almighty and that you never can go too far away from God to be found by him and to have the hope of eternal life God wants you to be found by him in fact that's what church is a group of found people right have been found a desire to go find people for Jesus well first point this morning you're filling the blanks if you're filling in the blanks if we are to understand compassion we'll understand that we will be stirred up with emotions did you see verse 20 look at verse 20 he felt compassion look at he arose he came to his father but while he was still a long way off can you imagine he knows he sees his son and something is swelling up within him as he see his son coming closer and he felt listen that's that's emotional we cannot have compassion without emotion in our life I would warn you we don't live by emotion we have emotion because we live we live by faith we walk by faith but because we are human God has blessed us with this wonderful gift of emotions and this father felt emotions he felt compassion to prove it even more he ran he wasn't mad at him he ran he embraced him and he kissed him because his son had come home I remember a story about our daughter Kendra who is our oldest child when she was it was more than 34 years ago as before Wes was born my wife's mother had cancer at a young age very young age and she was in Houston and was getting some treatment some very serious treatment and my wife went to be with her for a whole week and this is the first time that my little two three-year-old daughter had ever been without her mother let me say it was a real challenge as a daddy because if you know if you knew my daughter you know that she is very particular about the way things happen in life she's just that away she's good at what she does she works hard at it so when I tried to comb her long brown hair and put it in a ponytail it was never like mama did it and it was never good enough and oftentimes she would just simply say I do it myself that was my daughter that's who she is but I'll never forget when we went to go to pick up my wife at the airport and my wife came through the gates and my wife was still a good 30 40 yards away as from here to the end of the building and I held hold of my daughter as long as I could and she just bolted out of my arms and she ran into her mother's arms and jumped up for joy and embraced her as her mama kissed her full of love and passion it's like one of those scenes you you see it in your mind and it's slow motion you know she just sitting there running she loved her mama and the one who could do her hair was back home I get a little emotion when I talk about love I hope you will forgive me today because I'm probably gonna cry again in a minute I'm just that kind of guy if you don't know me by now I'm an emotional guy and I don't mind shedding a tear or two but but that emotion that that she expressed is that same kind of emotion that this father had he had not seen his son for a long time he didn't care what he had done he was back home now listen to me though I want to move us a little bit further because the father moves a little bit further here in just a moment but God's power we can do more than just weep for a world that desperately needs God hear me on this folks we see atrocious things every day in fact we may see them more now than we ever have because the access to communication is there in our very our very fingertips right I could look at my phone and see something atrocious right now if I chose to do that something that's going on in our world that is not godly something in our world that is full of injustice somewhere in our world people that are dying needlessly praise God the pastor from Iran was released this week it's not it's last night amen he didn't need to be in change for years weeping though when we are when we are burned up with that emotion in us and we are weeping because we love people because God places that love in our heart when weeping turns to praying praying turns to helping because God will place on our hearts what we need to be doing about and God will reveal to us the very things that we need to do you and I are the means of God to lavish compassion upon his creation do you understand that God loves us but he he loves us so much that he has given us that love will read more about that in a moment so that we can lavish that love to other other people in the world and and tell people that that God loves you and I love you too Jesus is our example of compassion but because we love people and because we're full of compassion doesn't mean that we get a free ticket folks Jesus is love right that's Scripture why did the world hate him so much to crucify him our love will draw the hate of others in this world I don't understand that but yet God demands for us to love one another regardless Jesus told his disciple if the world hates you know that it hated me before it hated you but that doesn't mean we stop loving our enemies Jesus taught us very clearly that our love is to go beyond our selfishness is to go beyond our family is to go beyond our church family is to go to the world who desperately needs to see and hear the love of God in their lives so compassion is stirred up with emotions but it's also allows for redemption that's the second point this morning it allows for redemption look at verse 22 through 24 again but the father said to his servants bring quickly the best robe put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring the fattened calf and kill and let us eat and celebrate for this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found and they begin to celebrate oh man that is good news right there folks the father was willing to forgive and bring him back and you understand that when he gave him the robe he may have given the very robe that he wore you understand that when he put that ring on his finger that that was the family ring that meant he now belongs I don't care what you did in the past son you are my family and you belong and you're gonna wear that ring and we're gonna you're gonna be fed we're gonna celebrate folks when when when people come to know the love of Jesus Christ in their lives it is cause to celebrate and we should be excited about that in our church family when when someone is is been born again and and and and allowed to go into the kingdom of God because I guarantee you angels are singing and things are happening because people have been redeemed from a sinful life to a whole life to a new life to life everlasting and that is something to celebrate for eternity and I can't wait to celebrate an eternity with our God who redeems us who brings us within the fold years ago I went to a suitcase college in Clarendon Texas and I know where Clarendon Texas is I was a junior college I was a trainer for the basketball team I loved my two years there but it was a suitcase college I mean it was a ghost town on the weekends and the first year I was there I was going home every Friday afternoon For a couple of reasons. Number one I wanted to go home and watch my home team play football. Number two mama did all my laundry. Number three she cooked me a lot of good meals. I mean I really enjoyed going home and I went home every weekend. And one weekend my dad had a heart-to-heart talk with me. He said son said I'm glad you're home said but you go down and you charge the gas every weekend to Skelly. We had a Skelly service station. We had a charge account. I just go down there and say James fill her up. He'd fill it up. I'll sign for it. I signed for it and I go back to school. It was only 50 cents a gallon back then. That's a lot of money. Dad didn't make a lot of money. He said not only that but your mama works all week and then you make her work all weekend by doing all your clothes. He said you don't realize how hard that is on your mama. He said I'm glad you come though I do get a good decent meal cooked. He said but if you could maybe make it once a month rather than every weekend. He said that would really be good. You know what my reaction was? Well dad if you don't want me I just won't come back home at all. It's a bit selfish of me wasn't it? That's what I said. I got in my little 1966 Chevy 2 Supersport Holley 4-barrel 327 did I say that? And I made it back to Clarendon. When I got back to Clarendon there was somebody on the phone. Now this is way before cell phones. Not only that we didn't have phones in our rooms we had one phone and it was in the lobby. I walked into the lobby and soon as I walked in the guy on the phone said it's for you. I said wow. Dad knew how long it would take me to get back to school. It was my dad. He said son sometimes we don't wait long enough to let God work these things out. Come on back home. I'd like to tell you that was my only prodigal moment in my life and I went back home had some good chicken fried steak. My father redeemed me. My father had compassion on me. My father loves me. We may disagree about a lot of things but he loves me. What we don't disagree about is this word and that God and that Jesus Christ is the way to eternity. I must read to you a favorite passage of mine and as you know God's Word is all my favorite but this truly is one of my favorite. When it comes to talking about love and compassion you must read 1st John chapter 4 verse 7 through 12. All of us should commit this to our heart. Verse 7 says in 1st John beloved let us love one another for love is from God and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Let me tell you there's something special about having a relationship with Jesus Christ because through him and only through him can you really understand God's love. Anyone, listen to this, anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love. He's the very essence of love folks. In this the love of God was made manifest among us that God sent his only son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation or the sacrifice, the one, the atonement for our sins. Beloved if God so loved us oh we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. I don't understand it but I've literally have heard this in my life in the ministry. I truly don't understand this. I've heard people who call themselves born-again believers literally tell me I hate that person and that person was a member of the church. They were both members of the same church and I go and read this passage of scripture and I say how in the world can that be? God says we are to love one another. There is no room for hate in our vocabulary as believers. Absolutely no. That doesn't mean we don't disagree. There will be times we disagree but let's do it in love. Always, always, always in love. Well I need to move on. Compassion will stir our emotions. It will always lead to redemption. It should lead to redemption, allows for redemption and the third thing is we must be evaluated for possible blind spots. It's possible to be well up with emotions and still have some blind spots when it comes to what we ought to be doing because of that compassion. You understand what I'm saying? Look, let's look at verse 28. We're going to be talking about the older son now but he was angry and he refused to go in. His father came out and treated him, talked to him, loved on him but he answered his father. Kind of like my response. Okay I'll just leave and I'll never come back. Look at it. He says look these many years I've served you. I've never disobeyed your command yet you never gave me a young goat that I might celebrate with my friends but when the son of yours came back you devoured your property with prostitutes you killed a fattened calf for him. The older brother loved his power, he loved his place, he loves his position, he loved his pride, he loved his possessions more than he loved his own brother and his father. I want what I want. Why aren't I getting the same treatment? Let me tell you something folks. Awareness of our sin in our life is the first step to truly being compassionate. You may be a believer here today, you may have accepted Jesus Christ and the love of God is all over that but sometimes we fall away. We get just like this older son, we're part of the family of God but we let selfishness, we let pride, we let position, we let power, all those things begin to ruin and run our lives and we turn a blind spot to true compassion. We turn a blind spot because we do not do what we know we should do. We do not love the way we should love. We do not look at the sacrifice that Jesus did on the cross and have that same kind of action in our life. We need to be moving toward sacrifice when it comes to compassion. Now once again the father shows his compassion to his son. Listen to verse 31, and the father said to him, son, your family, you're always with me and everything that I have is already yours. Now it was fitting to celebrate and be glad for this, your brother, he was literally dead. Not literally, but he was away from me. He was dead from this family, but he is alive. He was lost, but he is found. That father loved both his sons. The older son had a weak moment, had a selfish moment, but indeed if we could see the end of this story, the older son got everything when the father passed away. It was his. It belonged to him. But he needed to learn the father's compassion. Today you and I need to learn the father's compassion. We need to understand that the living Jesus Christ lives within us and God is love. And if God is love and he lives in us, then we have that same love that God demonstrated on the cross of Calvary living within us. Should we not show that to a world that desperately needs to know the love of God? Absolutely. I think there's two ways to handle the injustice that we see in this world today. We should weep. I love the passage of Scripture in John 11 35. It's the shortest verse in the Bible. It says, Jesus wept. Say it with me. Jesus wept. He was full of emotion. He cried. Of course, he cried because he saw Martha and Mary crying over the loss of their son, of their brother Lazarus. Of course, he knew there were greater things planned ahead. But that's not the only time Jesus cried. He sat up on the hill and he looked over Jerusalem and what did he do? He wept. He wept because the people were turning away from God. He loved them. He wanted them to know. But just a few verses in Luke chapter 19, a few verses from that time that he wept, what did he do? He went into the temple and he turned over those money stands. Why? Because there was grave injustice being done. Listen folks, and this is where the sermon gets personal for me. Our love, we should weep bitterly when we see injustice going on in this world. But we should demonstrate when there is injustice going on and we should take action when there are things that are going wrong that are not godly. And we should do whatever God leads us to do. But again, do that in prayer folks. There are several places that we could go and be involved in. One of the grave injustice that's happening, not far from here, maybe even here, I hope and I pray not, I don't know that it's here. But you know that young girls are being caught up into slavery today for purposes that are unimaginable in my mind. And it breaks my heart and it's not far from way here. We know that that is happening in Wichita from time to time. And yet there are people who are burdened that do things for that and in that to try to save and rescue those young girls. It's happening all over the world. I've heard testimony after testimony. But that's not the only atrocity. We see what's happening in Europe. We see the hunger that happens in our own land. We see all the orphans that are all over the world. And we do things about it and you probably give to some of those things. Those are good. We cannot solve all the problem because evil is present in this world. But we can do something when it's confronted right into our face. You're challenged every day to help someone that is in need. Let me just get it down on the very very local basic level. Let me ask you this question. How do your neighbors know that you care about them? Answer that in your own mind. How do they know if you care about them? Our first thing is how much is that going to cost me to care about my person, my neighbor? It may cost you something. I don't know. It may cost you some time. It might cost you Cost you some money. But the reason we care is because we have a father who stands with his arms wide open. In fact, he runs to us, he loves us, he cares about us. He wants us to share that same embrace to a world that desperately needs to hear it. To sense it, to feel it, to be redeemed. We need to remove all the possible blind spots that are in our lives as believers. And not only do we have compassion, but we do something about it. We feed them, we celebrate, we do whatever it is God leads us to do. And I believe a lot of times when I am confronted with a need, I go to prayer, I say, God, what is it? Do I need to give? I ask the Holy Spirit to lead me, what I need to do to help in those situations. Sometimes I do something, sometimes I don't. But we go from weeping, to praying, to action as God leads us. So as God's church, we are called to do that. The old saying, and it was in our Sunday school lesson this morning, people will not care how much you know until they know how much you care. It's true. People know if you care. They sense it, they realize it. Our key verse this morning in Sunday school was in Psalms 82, three through four. Defend the weak and fatherless. Uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy. Deliver them from the hand of the wicked. The greatest thing we can share is the love of God. And sometimes we can do that through a physical, emotional touch by meeting a need. Sometimes we just get to hang around and see new people being born again. That's exciting, isn't it? Now, I told you to think about this and I'm through this morning. Where are you this morning? Which one of those three characters are you? I want you to ask yourself that this morning. Are you like the father with arms extended, ready to accept someone back into your life? Are you like the father and you're ready to go out there and meet the need of someone who was once was lost but now is found? Or are you like the prodigal? Maybe you're running as far away from God as you possibly can and you need to come back home. You need to come back into the folds of the heavenly father. Maybe you are in the family of God, but you have pride, you have selfness, and you're much like the older brother. I will promise you that all of us today fit in one of those three categories. Where are you? Will you respond as God tells you to this morning? We will have a time of invitation. It is a time for you to respond in whatever way God is telling you. We would love to visit with you. We would love to pray with you. You can come to these altars and get before God. You don't have to come before us. We believe in the priesthood of all believers. We do not have to go to God in prayer for you, but we would love to pray for you if you'd like to pray together. But get things right with God today. Run into his arms. He's ready to fully embrace you. Father, we come before you to say thank you for your love and passion. Lead us today as we have this time of invitation. May we respond accordingly. May I respond accordingly, Father. Sometimes I'm cold, I'm selfish, I run away. Sometimes I play the part of the prodigal, and I want to run back into your arms, Father. I want to care, genuinely care, and make a difference in people's lives. Help me to do that, Father. Help me to do that. Lead us now, Father, in Jesus' name. Would you stand with me as we have a time of invitation? You respond as God tells you. Thank you, Father. ♪ I have decided to follow Jesus ♪ ♪ I have decided to follow Jesus ♪ ♪ I have decided to follow Jesus ♪ ♪ No turning back, no turning back ♪ ♪ Though none go with me, I still will follow ♪ ♪ Though none go with me, I still will follow ♪ ♪ Though none go with me, I still will follow ♪ ♪ No turning back, no turning back ♪ ♪ My cross I'll carry till I see Jesus ♪ ♪ My cross I'll carry till I see Jesus ♪ ♪ My cross I'll carry till I see Jesus ♪ ♪ No turning back, no turning back ♪ ♪ The world behind me, the cross before me ♪ ♪ The world behind me, the cross before me ♪ ♪ The world behind me, the cross before me ♪ ♪ No turning back, no turning back ♪ ♪ No turning back, no turning back ♪ All right, if you would, just for a second here, I want to introduce to you Judy. Please stand right here in the center, Judy. Come over here. This is Judy Goodman, and she's been visiting with me for the last several weeks, but I didn't know the process of bringing someone into the membership of this church. So she was sick last week, so this week I asked her to come down forward. She's got her card, and she comes seeking membership in the church. She knows Jesus as her Lord and Savior. She's been immersed, and she comes today, saying, I want to come in, plug in, be a part of this church, serve in this church, and love people with the glory of God. So if you're excited that Judy's come to be a part of this church, and you're going to promise to pray for her, would you give a hearty amen? Amen. Amen. So you come by and get to know her. I'm going to ask Debbie to stay here and just be with her as people come by and just shake her in and get to know her. Let's sing our closing song, Denise. Okay. Fill My Cup, 631. We're going to do the third verse. So my brother, if the things this world gave you, you'll have to get your hymnals, leave hungers that won't pass away. My blessed heart, come and save you. If you kneel to him and humbly pray. Fill my cup, Lord. I lift it up, Lord. Come and quench this thirsting of my soul. Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more. Fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole. Most of you didn't get your hymnals.