The Salt Company Conference 2026: Session 2 | Zach Cunningham

Okay, session two, we're back. First Peter, if you have a Bible, get there. First Peter, chapter one. The first Peter, chapter one. Guys, what a conference so far. An incredible message from Mark Vance. Can we thank Mark Vance from preaching that sermon last night? This vision to have your life count, make a difference in the world, to live a lifetime of obedience, to live in fear, to be holy. This incredible call on our lives and this morning, I'm wanting to kind of like double back to Mark's message, 'cause honestly, there's not so much I wanna add to it, as far as like the vision, like the goal, like all the things that he said this morning, I actually just wanna give you some motivation to go out and to do it. Like I wanna try to give you some fuel, some energy, some reasons to actually go and accomplish the goal, 'cause you guys know this, it's one thing to know the goal. It's another thing to have the motivation to go and get the goal. Okay, you know who I think has the motivation to win the national championship, the Indiana Hoosiers baby, okay, the people's champ. Sorry, Oregon, wherever you are, I'm sorry. Honestly, anybody but Ohio State, baby, tough loss. (audience cheering) Okay, my point is this, you don't just need to know the goal, but you have to have some motivation to reach the goal, whether it's in sports, it's in school, asking the girl out, okay, I think, you need two things, two motivations, you need to be unsatisfied with the way things are, and yet captivated by something incredible, unsatisfied, yet captivated. Okay, it kinda reminds me of the motivation I had when I met my wife, Mally, okay, I'm sure it's too quickly, it'll set us up where we're going, okay, I had just graduated from U and T, and I was single. I was lonely at the time, I had dated some girls in the past, didn't work out, thank God. And my twin brother had just gotten married, and so I'm like sitting there unsatisfied with where I was, and anyways, I'm working at this church, and one day I'm sitting up there, and I get a text message from an unknown number, and so I go to and I read it, and it goes something like this. His act, this is Mally, I got your number from so and so. Hey, I left my sweatshirt at the church yesterday, can I come up and get it? Okay, so here's the deal, I didn't know Mally, okay, we had mutual friends, but I thought she was cute, okay, so I'm sitting there thinking, am I about to shoot my shot via text, like, no, is that chill out, chill, okay, don't do that. So I'm like, yeah, I should just come get it. Well, anyways, 20 minutes goes by, and she's calling me, and I'm thinking, Lord, you know, 'cause I had prayed, you know, like, I had prayed, Lord, I'm done chasing, okay, like, let the next girl I date be my wife, okay, I'm trusting you, anybody there right now. Anyway, so I'm sitting there, and she's calling me, and this is what she says, man, I pick up the phone, and this girl says this, hey, Zack, this is Mally, obviously. This is totally weird, but I was on my way to the church, and I stopped to get gas, and at the gas station, my car battery died, and I called my dad, called my boss, I called all of my friends, and nobody is able to come help me. Would you be able to come help me? You're my only hope, okay, so she says that. And guys, I'll be honest, like, at this point, I know the fingerprint of God, I'm running out the door, okay, I got the sweatshirt, and I get in the car, and I'm high telling it to the gas station, like a night in shining armor, and so, nice deal. I'm not a car guy, okay, I only attempted to jump a car battery twice in my life, and it only worked once, okay, so I'm thinking, I got a 50/50 shot of this thing, I'm driving, I'm praying to the Lord, I'm watching a YouTube video as I'm driving, to be like, how do you red, black? Anyway, so, I get to the gas station, I pull in, pump seven, and there she is, and I get out of the car. I grab her sweatshirt, I throw her that her, say something flirty, I'm sure it was great. And guys, listen, I got into the car, or jeep, and I pop the hood, and guys buy the grace of God. I got that car battery started, and, that's great, and, yep, and then three months later, we were engaged, and, and, and five months after that, we said I do, okay, listen, I'm sure that, thank you, thank you, eight months from now, it could be you. I'm sure that, because, because of my life in that moment, some people call it desperation, I call it motivation, okay. I was unsatisfied with where I was, and yet I was captivated by something incredible, and here's why I share that this morning. Because in a very similar way, the call that Mark gave us last night is going to require that same kind of motivation. You're going to need to be unsatisfied with the way things are in your life and in this world, but also, captivated by something incredible. And here's why I double down on this this morning, okay, because we can go and plant a lot of churches. We can plant in Dettin, Corvallis, Santa Barbara, but if we don't look like Jesus, we're missing the point, because the mission is not just where we go, but who we become. And with all of this holiness stuff that Mark talked about, Peter, next in the paragraph, is going to give us some help. He's going to give us two big motivations. They're going to help us and drive our holiness, okay. Right here in 1 Peter 1, I want to show you two things that you need to remember as motivation for holiness, today, tomorrow, back in your campus and for a lifetime of obedience. 1 Peter 1, we're going to start in verse 18. If you got it, say got it. Okay, one of the best sentences in all the Bible, verse 18, for you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb. He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times for you. Through him, you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory so that your faith and your hope are in God. Okay, we can stop right there. That's a big time text here. Okay, and you can see the connection with verse 17, live in fear, live in reverence. Why, Peter, why should we do that? Verse 18, for you know, like there's some truce, there's some things he wants, these people to know, to reflect on as motivation for doing the thing and he gives them, in my opinion, to massive motivations. Okay, the first is quicker and the second one is the most important. Okay, here's the first motivation. Remember what you were redeemed from. So I'll company, remember what you were redeemed from. Don't forget your hometown. Don't forget where you came from. Okay, that's verse 18. He says, for you've been redeemed from your empty way of life that you got from your forefathers. Peter says, hey, you wanna live a holy life? Then remember where you came from. But not only that, remember the emptiness that came with it. Is that circle that word empty? Okay, that word empty means futile, aimless. Something that's unfulfilling, unsatisfying, it didn't work, and it didn't last. And can we just pause and look around, like, ain't this what we're here? Like, what can gather 7,500 people into a room? Because we're people who have tasted the buffet of the world and walked away empty. And Peter here, he wants you to remember that. To never forget the emptiness of your life, the sins that you were once living in, to actually remember it. Not to shove you backwards into shame, but actually to move you forward into holiness. Like, there's value in you right now, remembering where you came from. You see, most people when they hear that, they're like, wait a second, Zach. I don't wanna think about the past. Like, I don't wanna think about my sins. Like, I don't wanna go back there, okay? Which, I think it's a good instinct. But in my experience, there's a difference between visiting a memory and living in the past, okay? Visiting a memory is one thing. Living in the past is what Nebraska football has been doing for decades, okay? (congregation laughing) I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan, okay? I know what it means to live in the past. Okay, here's my argument. Here's what I'm trying to say. There's value in you periodically, thinking about the emptiness of your sin, that your sin took you further than you wanted to go. It kept you longer than you wanted to stay, and it cost you more than you could ever imagine. To remember that sin over-promised and under-delivered, okay, it seemed great at first, but it came back to bite you, okay? It's like eating Taco Bell, okay? Party pack, 12 crunchy tacos, a box of purple, it's fun. You know, you go for that, but three hours later, it's not a memory that you're looking back at fondly, okay? It's like sin, it looks great, but it came back to bite you, it over-promised, and it under-delivered, okay? Sin is like going to the University of Michigan and living the rest of your life with regret, okay? Go green. (congregation laughing) Let's go, sin, it's tough time to be over-ing. Sin, it over-promises, and it under-delivers. It's the moment waking up after a one night stand, or waking up hungover. It's the moment right after watching porn, after you told yourself, you never go back to it, okay? It's living your life for the next experience, the next relationship, the next high, only to realize that your way of life is empty. It's empty living, and God's empty living is not, it's not living at all, okay? And these aren't just words, like, I've lived this, man, I've been there, like, these aren't just words I'm reading in first Peter, okay? This is a life that I've tasted. Okay, I'll never forget my freshman year at North Texas, okay? I was dating a girl from back at home, okay? So I made no friends in college, and all I would do is go to class, I'd come back to my dorm, and I would watch Netflix and play video games alone. But I wasn't just living alone, I was living in sin. And I wasn't just living in sin, I was stuck in sin. Like, sexual sin, I never told anyone, anger towards my parents, pride towards my siblings, I'm just going back again, and again, and again, to the same empty wells looked great, tasted bitter. And my point is this, that just by going back there for a moment, like remembering those days, like even right now, in front of all of you, it's a motivation to never go back again. So I'll company, you need to think about those nights sometimes, those years, okay, remember the darkness. Like, remember the people who, if they found out you were a Christian and sitting in this room, they wouldn't believe you, why? Because of the things you did with them or the things you did to them, remember the darkness, remember the emptiness, but also, as you do it, simultaneously remember that we, but we're not living in that world anymore, right? This verb, it's past tense, right? You were redeemed from your empty way of life. We're not defined by our sin, okay? Sin doesn't have mastery over us anymore, okay? We can remember our past, but we've been redeemed by our past. It's not who we are anymore, okay? Reminds me of something that one of these old church fathers, Augustine, used to say, okay, Augustine was this dude in his youth, like chased every appetite he had, fame, wisdom, and especially sexual sin. But then Jesus gets ahold of his life, okay? And sometime after his conversion, he's walking down the street in his hometown. And there's this girl, this woman that he used to hook up with, and she sees up and she yells, Augustine, but my brother just keeps walking, okay, eyes forward. And finally, she catches up to him. And he says, she says, Augustine, it is I. And then Augustine finally, he turns and he looks at her. And he says, yes, but it is no longer I. Like the old Augustine is dead and gone away. I am a new creation in Christ. It is no longer I. Salt Company, some of you need to say to your sin what Augustine said. It is no longer I. Like when sin calls your name, the old habits, the old desires, you need to say, it's no longer I. The old Zach isn't here anymore. The saint me, I got a new number, who's this? Okay, this is what you need to say to your sin. Here's my point salt company. Remember where you came from, but also look how far you've come. Okay, we've been redeemed from emptiness. But let's keep going because perhaps the biggest point here isn't the place you used to be, but what it took to get you out. Not that you were redeemed from something, but it's what you were redeemed with that Peter wants you to see. Remember what you were redeemed with. Okay, let's keep going in first Peter one. Look at verse 18 again. For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold. Okay, back then in Greco-Roman times, you could purchase a slave's freedom with some amount of money, okay, some gold or silver. Okay, there was a price tag for a person. Okay, it kind of reminds me of all the NIL stuff going on like all this money and being spent on students. Like this is what you're worth to our program. Okay, but as you read the Bible, you should have to understand there's not enough gold or silver or booster money in the world to transfer us out of the messy program we found ourselves in. We're not free agents choosing a new team. We're slaves with no way out, but something else happens here. Like there's a new currency, a new thing comes, keep reading what it says, not with perishable things. Like silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ. Like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb. Okay, can you see it here? Peter is gonna make this comparison contrast thing here. Not with perishable things, but with a precious thing. Not with gold and silver, but with blood. You see, I think the key to this entire text and I think the key to your entire holiness is found in understanding that phrase right there, the precious blood of Christ. What does it mean by blood here? That's kind of weird. Okay, we talk about blood a lot. Okay, we sing about blood, we preach sermons about blood, we take communion and drink the blood. Like we talk about blood a lot. Okay, if you're not used to this whole Christianity thing, it gives like death cult vibes, okay? Like why? Why? Are we all about the blood here? It's a good question. But the question I'm asking and the question I think this text begs is this, what makes the blood of Jesus precious? Like why does Peter call his blood precious here? Nowhere else in the Bible is that word used to describe blood. Okay, we see shed blood, innocent blood, unclean blood, but only right here Peter uses that word precious blood, constantly blood or a valuable blood. What makes the blood precious? So all company your entire life might be determined by whether or not the blood is precious to you. Why is this blood so precious? Well, I think our text is gonna give us the answer to it. Okay, three quick things. The first reason why this blood is precious is because this blood was perfect blood. See, this blood was unblemished blood or spotless blood. Or in other words, it was sinless blood. And the point you gotta see is this, like what makes this blood so valuable? Like what makes it so precious? It's not necessarily the blood itself. Okay, blood's a very common thing, very ordinary. All of you have it because all over the room. Blood is not precious in and of itself. It's not the thing itself, but it's who owned the thing that makes it valuable. Okay, you can see this on eBay pretty easily. Okay, celebrity selling stuff. Okay, I read that Justin Timberlake had a half-eaten slice of French toast that sold for a thousand dollars on eBay. Why? Because there's some weird people out there, number one. And number two, because it was Justin's toast. You see, the value came from whose toast it was. And what makes the blood so precious, Saul Company, so valuable is the man whose blood it is. You see, there's something about Jesus that he can take something so ordinary like blood and make it precious. And it's the fact that he was the perfect spotless son of God. And listen to me, we got a lot of outrageous claims and Christianity, right? Like the resurrection, miracles, water walking, but perhaps no claim is more scandalous than there was a man who was sinless. And this blood belongs to that man. This blood was perfect blood. But it wasn't just perfect blood. Next, it was planned blood. This blood was planned blood or prepared blood or something about the timing of this blood is important to Peter. Hey, look at verse 20, keep going. It says he was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times for you. Peter says that Jesus, and this precious blood was foreknown. Or in other words, it was chosen or it was appointed. Like it's not about divine prediction, it's about divine purpose here. It means that before there was a world, there was a plan. Or in other words, before God said, let there be light, Jesus said, let me be the lamb. Listen, Saul, come to you, you have to understand the cross was always the plan. It wasn't an afterthought, it wasn't plan B, it wasn't a reaction to your badness. No, the cross was always the plan. Before Jesus took on flesh, he knew that his flesh would be nailed to the cross. The lamb was always going to be the plan. It was always about the lamb and it would always be about the lamb. It was perfect blood. It was planned blood and lastly, it was powerful blood. Or in other words, there was a power to it. There's an ability to it. Like it can accomplish something that no other bloods of other lambs could accomplish. It's categorically different. Hebrews 9 says it like this, see if you can catch it. Jesus entered the most holy place once for all, not by the blood of goats or bulls, but by his own blood. For if the blood of goats and bulls can purify you on the outside, how much more can the blood of Christ cleanse our hearts to serve the living God? There were two massive shifts that happened with the blood of Jesus. Okay, the first one, there's a shift from external purity to internal purity. Okay, like the blood, like back then, they'll testament. Like the bloods of animals, it can make you clean on the outside, but it does nothing on the inside. Or in other words, it could clean your hands, but it could never clean your heart. Okay, it's like clearing your browser history on your phone. Like it cleans the history, but it does not clean your heart. But Jesus does something different. He goes deeper. Okay, he doesn't just make us holy on the outside. He makes us holy on the inside. Or in other words, he doesn't just remove sin. He removes guilt. It goes deeper. That's the first shift, but the second one, it's like it, and it's incredible. There's a shift from temporary redemption to eternal redemption. Like the old sacrificial system, it requires sacrifices again and again and again. Like you sin, you sacrifice. Over and over and over again. Like imagine how tiring that would be. The whole system is just screaming. That's not going to be enough. None of this is going to be enough. But then Jesus comes and something different happens. It says in Hebrews 9, he entered the most holy place once for all. Once for all time, once for all sin, once for all who would believe. Over and over again, they would have to go sacrifice, but not where Jesus, he says on the cross, it is finished, paid and full. We don't have to go back again and again. It's been paid for, why? Because this blood is different. And this lamb is different. There's a progression here. There's a new thing happening here. In fact, if you read the Bible from cover to cover, you're actually going to see like different lamb stuff happening all over. Okay, there's kind of a progression here. You're just starting the first book of the Bible. Okay, in Genesis 22, you read a story about Abraham about to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but what happens? God provides a lamb as a substitute. One lamb for one man, a lamb for a man. And then you turn the page, you get to the book of Exodus and it's the Passover, right? And each family would have to take a lamb, a spotless and unblemished lamb, and sacrifice it as a substitute, paint the blood on the doorpost, and they would be saved and leave Egypt, a lamb for a family. And then you get to the book of Leviticus, and you start reading about the Sacrifice Mark's favorite book. And you start reading about the sacrifices, this Old Testament system, where the high priest would take lambs and sacrifice it on behalf of the entire nation of Israel, a lamb for a man, a lamb for a family, and now a lamb for a nation. But when you get to the New Testament, it's like the camera zooms all the way out. And in one of the first books, the book of John, in the first chapter, one of the first things ever said about Jesus from John the Baptist is what? Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, a lamb for the world. And then you keep reading and that lamb eventually at the book of John, it's gonna go down on an altar or in other words, it's gonna go up on a cross. And salt company, you gotta understand something different and decisive happened on the cross. A once for all, substitutionary atonement has taken place. Guys, don't get bored of hearing this and don't get tired of singing about it. All the penalty that we deserve for our sin and all the wrath of God do you and do me for our empty living was laid on and absorbed by Jesus. What we deserved, he got. And where we were spared, he was not spared. You're gonna read the Bible all over. People are gonna get spared from stuff, but not Jesus. Like the red seed parts for Israel, but it does not part for Jesus. In a sense, he's drowned by the flood of Noah. He's devoured by the lions of Daniel. Like the spear that misses David strikes him in the side and he's crushed for David's adultery, Abraham's fear and Noah's drunkenness, but not just for them then, but also for us now. He was crushed for your sins and he was pierced for my sins. And every lamb on the altar was a shadow of Jesus on the cross. And what John said when he saw Jesus walking is the same thing we say when we see Jesus hanging, behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. You see, Saul company at the center of our gospel, we find a bloody savior and at the center of heaven, we're gonna sing about the blood of our savior. Worthy is the lamb who was slain, who by his blood purchased a people for God. It was always about the blood. In heaven, we're gonna run out of sermons to preach, but we're never gonna run out of songs to sing about the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Saul company, if you hear one thing from me, hear this. Not only is there power in the blood, but there's life in the blood. There's forgiveness in the blood. There's healing in the blood. There's peace in the blood and there's hope in the blood. Everything that your human heart, whatever desire is found in the blood. God's greatest gift and your greatest need is in one place and it's in the blood of Jesus Christ and check it nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ. Saul company, remember what you were redeemed with. Oh, precious is the flow that makes us wide us know. No other found I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus. And if I could just end like I started with those two motivations in mind that you were redeemed from emptiness and you were redeemed with preciousness now, you can move forward to what we've been redeemed to. You've been redeemed to holiness. Okay, we look back at our past. We look back at the cross and now we move forward to holy living, to move forward, to follow Jesus because there's a connection here, okay? If I could just summarize this whole bit, this whole sermon like this. This is what's true in my life. When the blood stops feeling precious, sin starts feeling casual. Like when the blood, like when it stops feeling precious, like when you lose the awe and the wonder of the blood, you also lose the motivation to kill your sin. It's only like in my life, like the further I get from the cross, the closer I get to my sin, it's only when the cross is beautiful, that sin becomes ugly. And listen to me in Jesus, he didn't just die for your forgiveness. He died for your holiness. Like the reason, like when he purchased on the cross, like the reason the cost was so high, is because he didn't just die for your sins, but he purchased your holiness and check it not just your future holiness in heaven one day, praise God, he did that. But I'm talking about your today holiness, like your tomorrow holiness, okay? That's what Peter is trying to help you do here. Okay, thank practically with me for a moment as we close. Like when you're back in your hotel room, or back in your apartment or your dorm room, and you see something you shouldn't have seen, or you thought something you shouldn't have thought, like when temptation comes, Peter wants you to hear him shouting at you. Hey, remember that thing ain't gonna satisfy you. Hey, remember what you were bought with? Like when you're tempted to go back and look at pornography, no, remember where you came from. Remember the emptiness, remember the shame, the cycle, you were redeemed from emptiness. Don't go back to Egypt. And when you're tempted to push boundaries in dating, he says, no, remember the shame in a good way. Remember all of the bad emptiness, the feeling that you had, you're not redeemed from emptiness to go back to it. Like when you're tempted to lie and cover up and exaggerate, remember the price that was paid. The blood was too precious for us to live casually. And so I'll come to you have to hear this holiness. It's not just restraining from sinning, but it's also just truly living. It's not just saying no to bad stuff. It's saying yes to the good stuff. Like when the thought comes into your mind, like should I pursue marriage, even though all my parents are divorced, it's all of my family, it's gonna be difficult. Yes, why not? You were redeemed from that emptiness. You're not defined by your father's mistakes. When the thought comes into your mind like last night, should I go on a church plant? Should I go into full-time ministry? Should I apply to be a connection group leader? Why not? The price on your head, the blood. It was too valuable for you to waste your life. Go for it. This is what Peter is trying to help you see that you've been redeemed from emptiness, redeemed by the precious blood and redeemed to a holy life. And when you feel like, it's just too hard. Like when you feel like, exact, that bar's high. And I keep falling. Peter, it's fun what he's doing here. After all this hype stuff, motivation stuff, he points us to the reality that we don't believe in a story that ends in a grave. We believe in a savior who walked out of one. Okay, first Peter, he says, "God raised him from the dead and gave him glory." Can you see what he's doing here? Okay, with all this hype and motivation stuff, he ends with what? The resurrection of Jesus, why? Because if the blood of Jesus is our motivation, the resurrection of Jesus is our power. Whereas the blood of Jesus emotivates us like his resurrection enables us to do it. Where holiness, it's not just the command on your life, it's now possible. Like the same spirit that raised him from the dead lives in you. He who began a good work will complete it. And so here's how I want to end. Okay, I want to give you some space here to consider your life. In light of all this, you've heard like, "Blessed 15 hours or so." And there's two things I want to say, two types of people in this room, two encouragements. Okay, the first group of people it's unique. You know, every year we hear stories of people at this conference making the decision to follow Jesus. Like they believe in Jesus for the first time. New birth miracles happen in this room. And it's amazing every year. And so I know for a fact that there are people in here like that who are listening to the sermon and go, "Nah, Zach, I have been redeemed from emptiness. I'm still living in emptiness. Listen, if that's you, I'm so happy that you're here. I want to extend an invitation to you." And it's actually in the form of some lyrics from an old hymn that I used to sing growing up. My grandfather's favorite hymn. And it goes something like this. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. And sinners' plunge beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. Listen, if that's you, I need you to hear this. The message for you this morning is different. Like all this holiness stuff. Listen, the message of Christianity for you, it's not swim harder, it's surrender. It's not try to stay afloat. It's take the plunge, not the ice plunge, but the sinners' plunge. Because sinners who plunge beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. You know, it's crazy 10 years ago today. January the 3rd, 2016, my wife took that same plunge at a conference, just like this. Where for the first time, the blood became precious to her. And Jesus became real to her, and he saved her. You see, there's a moment where it hits her. And I think it hits you. And you realize it's not just a lamb for a nation or a lamb for a world. It's a lamb for you. It's a lamb for me. You know, it blows me away more than getting 7,000 people in this room, the fact that I get to be one of them. That Jesus would save me. Listen, that's my hope for you this morning. Not that you leave here and try to fight for your holiness, but that you would bank on the holiness of Jesus. That's my invitation to you, have faith. This conference gets a billion times better. And worship tonight gets a whole lot better when you're not just saying words as a stranger, but you're singing them as a son or a daughter of the king. Come to faith. Today's a great day to go all in on Jesus. That's my invitation to you. And finally, to my brothers and sisters in Christ, let me just say, take heart. Go live out of the grace that God has shown you. Remember the emptiness of sin. And remember the blood of Jesus, the joy of obedience. For most of you, none of this is new. It's not new information for you. But listen, you don't need more information this morning. You need to surrender. Like you don't need another conference. Notebook full of notes. You need a new heart posture to stop managing your sin when Jesus calls you to put it to death. And so whatever decision you need to make, like whatever you need to do to put sin to death or to live for righteousness, go forward with it. Tell somebody because the cost was too high for you to live casually. And so let's do this right now. Before I pray, I want to give you a moment to consider your life and to consider the blood of Jesus and what he might be calling you to do in light of it. So right now, take a moment and then I'll pray to end this year. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] God, right here in the middle of this conference with so much excitement, Lord, and you're speaking to us in so many different ways, breakouts, worship. God, I pray that in this moment help us never forget the blood of Jesus. Help us never forget the cross. We confess that oftentimes we forget the cost and we get casual with it, but Lord, not this morning. God, give the eyes of our heart just vision and clarity to see the cost of the cross. God, we're not move on from that. Help us to remember the emptiness that you pulled us out of. To remember that our freedom wasn't bought with silver or gold, with performance or perfection, but by the blood of Jesus Christ. And so Jesus, Lamb of God, would you do what only you can do? Silent shame, breakchains, and cause dry bones to come alive. Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. You guys can stand and sing.