I'm so excited and expectant this morning, because we are in week two of a series we've called Life in the Spirit, and we're discussing the fruit of the Spirit. One of the things I love so much about what God is doing here at this church is that as we go through the fruit of the Spirit, we're also going through our values. Here's why. When we launched Spirit, we didn't want to create a whole new set of values. Sometimes you go to a church and the church has a set of values, and then you have a set of values at your house and a set of values at your work. And we asked, "What should we value?" And we said, "Shouldn't we just value what God values?" And if God values the fruit of the Spirit, then shouldn't our values as Spirit Church be the fruit of the Spirit? So we're discussing the fruit of the Spirit, and today we're discussing one of my favorites: joy.

Your fruit is evidence of your root

Here's what we learned last week, and it's the entire premise of the series: if you want fruit in your life, that fruit has to be produced by the Holy Spirit. And that fruit is actually proof of our relationship with Jesus. It is the evidence of our relationship with Jesus. Not your bumper sticker. Amen. Not where you go to church. Not the scripture in your bio. That is not the evidence of your relationship with Jesus. The fruit is the evidence.

The Bible actually talks about it. Jesus says this in John 13:35: "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you..." Say it with me: "...love one another." Which is a fruit of the Spirit. And not only can you tell who His disciples are by their fruit. You can also tell who isn't. In Matthew 7:16, Jesus is talking about false prophets, and He says this: "By their fruit you will recognize them." We can't just say that we know God. We have to show that we know God.

And what we learned last week is that you can't just will your way into fruit. "Be patient. Be kind. Have peace." Has anyone ever tried that? You just wake up like, "Have peace." You can't will yourself into fruit. Let me say it this way: you can't self-control your way into fruit when self-control is a fruit. Fruit is not self-generated. It is Spirit-produced. It is the Spirit who produces it in us.

So what do we do? We fall in love with Jesus. We repent. We start following Him with everything inside of us. And then the Holy Spirit transforms us. John 15:5 says that if we abide in Jesus, we will... Say "will." We will bear much fruit. So if you find yourself in a place where you feel like you're not bearing fruit, it could be because you're not abiding. Low fruit, low abiding. High fruit, high abiding. We can tell everything about someone's relationship with Jesus by their fruit, because their fruit is the indication of how they're abiding.

Let me say it this way: your fruit is evidence of your root. Have you ever looked at a tree where the fruit is decaying? That isn't a fruit problem. That's a root problem. There is something wrong in the soil. There is something wrong in the way it's drawing its energy. And what's so funny is that so often we can have bad fruit in our lives, but you can't polish a decaying apple. You can't polish bad fruit. If our fruit is bad, the solution isn't to act it or will it better. "Just shine it." It doesn't work that way. If we're not bearing fruit, what do you have to check? The root. In everything, you have to check the root. If we have low fruit, it means we have low connection. And if we have high fruit, we have high connection. We talked about that last week. And this week we're hitting our second fruit, which is the fruit of joy.

Why have I lost my joy?

How many of you want more joy in your life? Amen. I want so much joy in my life. And it's crazy that this week I'm preaching on joy, because this week I felt like joy evaded me. As I was going through my week, I was nervous. Can I just be real with y'all? Can we be a real church? Praise God.

I got to this place where I was like, "Man, I'm so anxious, and I'm so worried, and I'm so stressed out about all kinds of things." And I said, "God, why is this happening?" And what I realized is that this week I wasn't spending time with God the same way I did last week. I was trying to do a lot of this by myself, in my flesh. So I was disconnecting from the vine and connecting to my flesh. And what happens when you connect to your flesh? You produce the fruit of the flesh, which is worry and anxiety. And God's like, "Okay, boo-boo. You're done trying this all by yourself. You want to get reconnected?" And I had to realize, "Oh, the reason I'm bearing this fruit of worry and anxiety this week is because my connection, my abiding, hasn't been the same." And then I'm able to reconnect to the vine, and then, peace.

In that way, your fruit is actually the warning sign of what's going on. So when you're angry, check your connection. Check your abiding, because you can't polish it. You can't will your way into it. We fall in love with Jesus, and we become like what we fall in love with. So if I fall in love with Jesus, I'm going to start producing more and more of that fruit. It's why we can say peace isn't a feeling; it's a person. And that person is Jesus. And the more connected you are to Jesus, the more you're going to experience that in your life.

The Bible talks about this. John 15:5 says this: "Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain..." Say "remain." The Greek word for that is menō. It means to stay with, to live with. It's almost like having a roommate. Jesus is saying, those who stay with Me, those who live with Me, are going to receive this blessing. "Those who remain in me, and I in them, will..." Say "will." Not might. "...will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing." God's like, "Brad, you're going to try to do this by yourself? Great. Because apart from Me, you can't do anything."

"Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers." Now, Jesus is talking to His disciples here, and what He is saying is, anyone who doesn't remain, anyone who doesn't come home. You're making a conscious decision to leave, not to abide, to never come home. That's what He's talking about. This isn't a one-time sin. This is a lifestyle or pattern where you're saying, "I'm out. I'm not doing this anymore." "Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!" Now, that's not a blank check. If you remain in God, you will ask for the things He wants, and He will do those things.

"When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father." Which, again, is our purpose. We learned that a couple of weeks ago. "I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love." So how do we remain? This is how: "When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father's commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with..." What? "...my joy." We receive His joy when we obey. When we follow the path of life, He says, "You will receive My joy." And then it says this: "Yes, your joy will overflow!"

When we obey, we receive Christ's joy, and Christ's joy becomes our joy when we follow the path of life. People say, "The Bible is so restrictive." No, it's not. It's the pathway to life. And when we follow it, we experience His joy. Joy will always follow obedience. And so often in our lives, when we're experiencing things that don't feel like the fruit of the Spirit, we're reaping a season where we haven't been obedient to everything God has for us.

So my prayer today is this. If you feel like you've been lacking joy, or you're like, "Brad, I don't even know. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. I'm worried. I'm anxious. If I'm honest, I'm nervous. If I'm honest, I don't know how I'm going to get through this. I have fear," I pray that God is going to minister to you today, and He's going to show you how to find that joy. Would you like that? Would you like to find that joy? Great. We're going to do some work today.

What does "the joy of the Lord is your strength" mean?

Nehemiah 8:10. The nation of Israel is in a place of hopelessness and despair. And it says this: "Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength." Do not be broken. Do not be downcast. Do not be filled with grief. Do not worry. Do not stress out. Do not give in to anger or confusion or sadness. No, no, no. Give in to joy. The joy of the Lord.

So what is the joy of the Lord? Let me tell you this. It is a joy that is available to you in the middle of your darkest days. It is not circumstantial. It is based on Christ. The joy of the Lord can be your strength, and God wants you to have it. It's a different kind of joy than the world's.

Galatians 5:22, which is our theme verse, says this: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy..." Love, then joy. Anyone ever read the Bible and wondered, "Why is it the way it is? Why are the words the way they are?" If the Bible is divinely inspired by God, why is joy second? Before peace, before patience? Love we get. God is love. He's the definition of love. "For God so loved the world." Okay, I get love. But why joy before everything else?

I believe there's a reason why joy is second: joy is actually the key to every other fruit. And when you look at the enemy, what does the enemy attack? Love and joy. Why does the enemy attack those two first? Because they're key to everything else. Because he knows what that verse said: the joy of the Lord is your... strength. So if we feel weak, it's probably because we're low on joy.

Why the enemy attacks your joy

It's funny. When you study the brain, you learn about neurological pathways. When it comes to joy, it happens in our prefrontal cortex. When we have joy, we experience dopamine and serotonin and oxytocin, and it makes us really happy, and we feel calm. Anger, fear, and worry happen in our amygdala, and what that releases is adrenaline and cortisol, stress hormones. Did you know both of those can't be active at the same time? If one is dominant, the other is suppressed, because they're opposing neurological circuits.

So if the enemy knows that, what is he going to try to suppress? Joy. Because if he can suppress your joy, he can get you to worry. If he can suppress your joy, he can make you anxious. Fear is our flight-or-freeze response. Anger is our fight response. And worry is that chronic condition where we're always asking, "What if? What if? What if?" The enemy is like, "If I can suppress your joy, I can keep you in fear. If I can suppress your joy, I can keep you in worry."

The joy of the Lord is our strength. It brings new meaning to Galatians 5:16, which says this: "So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh." You can't do both at once. Romans 12:2: "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Another version says, "Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think." "Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

Where do you find your strength?

The joy of the Lord is our strength. The challenge is that so often we don't choose to put our strength in joy. We put our strength in our J-O-B. "The joy of my job is my strength." What's the first thing we ask when we meet each other? "What do you do?" The joy of my job is my strength. The only challenge with that is, if you ever get fired, where's your joy?

"The joy of my promotion is my strength." "The joy of them noticing me is my strength." So when they notice you, you feel strong. But the second that's absent, all of a sudden you feel weak. Why? Because you placed your joy in the wrong thing. "The joy of my substance is my strength." Searching for happiness, trying to find it here, hit after hit after hit. Happiness comes for a second and then it goes away. Why? Because it was never joy.

How about, "The joy of my spouse, or my family, is my strength"? Now, I'm not saying those are bad things. Those are good things. But when good things become God things, they become bad things. When we start pulling our life source from family, from kids, when we make them our functional savior, all of a sudden, if they're removed, who am I? Where am I? It can't be the joy of your job. It can't be the joy of a promotion. It can't be the joy of your spouse. It has to be the joy of the Lord.

So if you want peace, you need strength. If you want love, you need strength. If you want self-control, you need strength. And where does our strength come from? Joy.

What is the difference between joy and happiness?

"Okay, Brad, I get it. Help me. How do I get joy?" Let me quickly define it, and then I want to share some theological truths and some practical ways we can get our joy back.

Let me define joy. Joy is a deep, steady contentment of the soul that comes from knowing and trusting God. And it's different from happiness. We confuse the two. I was researching how to help us understand what is happiness and what is joy, and I came up with a few categories: source, supply, duration, and focus. I have a little chart. Welcome to school, kids. We're going to have a fun time, and we're going to understand what joy is.

Source

The source of happiness is external. Your sports team wins. That's not joy. It's happiness. "Yes! Amazing." Someone buys you something: happiness. It's momentary. Joy is internal. If you've ever just sat on the patio in this beautiful weather we're having and appreciated God and felt that inner something, that's joy. It's internal. It's the work of the Holy Spirit within us. Does that make sense?

Supply

The next thing is supply. If source is about where it originates, supply is what sustains it. The supply of happiness, like I said, is situational. Something happens, it gives you a hit, it makes you happy. "I need one hit. Now I need another hit. Now I need a stronger hit, because my previous hit didn't hit like it's supposed to hit." It's situational. But what supplies joy is salvation and who God is: no matter what's going on in my life, I know God is working it for my good, which is conformity to Christ. It comes from a different place.

Duration

The next thing is duration. Happiness is temporary. It often comes quick and leaves quick, while joy is enduring.

Who's hungry? Anyone hungry? Jesse, you hungry? Jesse, I need you. Come over here. Y'all give Jesse a hand. I know you're starving, because you've been here since 6:00 setting up. And I'm going to give you the greatest thing: chips. Or crisps. What do you call them in America? Chips. Thank God. Now this is beautiful. It looks really good. You want this. Cape Cod. Sounds like a fantastic place. So you want some chips, because I know you're hungry. Grab one. Eat it. It's safe; I just opened it. How do you feel? So good. Grab another one. It feels so good, right? It's like a hit.

The crazy thing is, the more you eat, the more your blood sugar spikes, and then it's going to crash. You're going to be satisfied for a second, and you'll be more hungry after this bag. It looks real good. The world's like, "You want this? Happy?" You eat it for a second, and all of a sudden you're hungry again. That's happiness.

Now, something not as sexy: a sweet potato. I won't make you bite it. Get this. Same thing. Both potatoes. What's crazy about a sweet potato is that if you boil it, it actually has one of the highest satiety indexes. Am I saying that right, Pat? Satiety. What does that mean? It's one of the things that keeps you full the most. Now, it don't look sexy. It don't look good. It don't look like that bag of chips. But if you eat it, it's enduring. There's so much starch and fiber in here that it slowly releases glucose. That's joy. Y'all give Jesse a hand.

Happiness is a hit. Joy don't look as good. It's not packaged. You want it?

Focus

The next thing is focus. Happiness always focuses on what happened to me, whereas joy always focuses on what God is doing in me. Which means you can get the promotion and I can still have joy, because in that moment, God is working something in me. They can get the thing I want, and I still have joy, because God is using that to refine me.

It's why James says in James 1:2–4, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, when you get a PlayStation 5." No. "...whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."

Joy transcends. Happiness reacts. Joy is a practice. Happiness is a feeling. Joy is a fruit. Happiness is not. Joy can lead to happiness, but happiness never leads to joy.

How do you have joy when life falls apart?

Okay, we get what joy is. "So, Brad, how do we get it?" I want to give you a couple of theological truths, and then some practical ways we can live into it.

1. When life seems to fall apart, God is still in control

The first theological truth I need you to understand about joy is that when life seems to fall apart, God is still in control. A couple of weeks ago we talked about God's sovereignty: when we understand who God is, it changes everything about us.

And that's important. If you read the book of Job, the oldest book in the Bible, written before Genesis and any of that, it's wisdom literature where this dude gets everything taken from him. It's one of my favorite books. His livelihood, his cattle, his money, his houses, his kids. Everything gets taken from him but his wife, which I think is hilarious. I'm like, why didn't you take his wife? And the devil was like, "I knew what I was doing with her," because she went up to him and said, "Curse God and die." Okay, that's for a marriage series one day, because we do not say that. We do not do that. But God took away everything and kept his wife, and I'm like, that is awesome. Praise God.

And he gets to this place where everything has been taken away, and he's questioning God for 35 chapters. Eventually God answers him and says, "Where were you when the foundations of the world were laid? Do you even know how to hang a star? Let Me question you like a man." And Job responds, and he says this: "I am unworthy—how can I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth." Great advice. And then Job replied to the Lord: "I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted."

So God is somehow in control of that situation, even though we don't understand it. And it might be because He's trying to do something in us. We know the enemy was attacking Job, because we get that part of the story. We get to see the conversation in heaven. Job didn't. He just had to have faith that somehow God was working something in this. Could it be that God is working something in your life? Joy is the steady assurance that God is in control of every detail of my life.

2. When life seems hopeless, God is working it for our good

The second thing is this: when life seems hopeless, we have to understand that God is working it for our good. Romans 8:28 says this: "And we know that in all things..." How many things? All. Not some. All things. "...God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Now, that doesn't say God is going to work everything out for your good just the way you want it. It says for the good of those who love Him. What is the good? Conformity to Christ.

I went to an Outreach Partners event last night, and it was about caregivers. I heard the story of this beautiful woman. She and her husband had been married for 20 years, and in a moment their life changed, and she became a full-time caregiver. Her husband can't speak the way he used to. He went deaf and blind. Her entire life has changed. She can't work the way she needed to. All of a sudden, everything has shifted. And when she talked about the love she has for her husband, who can no longer even communicate with her, I felt like in such a fresh way I saw Christ, who sacrificed His life for us. And she would say, "No, no, no. He's working it for my good." What good? Conformity to Christ. That I can look more like Jesus. That God can be praised in my situation, and as a result, people can know Him. It doesn't mean it's always going to happen the way we want it to.

Philippians 1:6 says this: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Joseph had everything taken away from him. His brothers sold him into slavery, but God used it so that he could become the prime minister and help in the famine. And when he saw his brothers again, he said this, in Genesis 50:20: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." Joy is the assurance that ultimately everything will work together for God's ultimate good.

3. When I can't see God, He is still worthy of praise

The third thing is this: when I can't see God in my situation, I have to remember that He is still worthy of my praise. When I can't trace His hand, I can still trust His heart. Rain or sunshine, good day or bad day, broke or with money, healthy or not healthy, we can praise God.

Habakkuk 3:17 says this, and this is a bad day: "Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food..." He's like, I'm as broke as a joke. "...though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls..." Say that next word with me: "...yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior." We can praise Him no matter what we're going through.

And watch how this ends: "The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer." Other versions say sure-footed. In other words, you can scale hard terrain. Sometimes God isn't going to remove the circumstance, but He's going to make you strong in it. "...he enables me to tread on the heights."

Before we can even figure out joy, we have to understand that God is sovereign. He is in control. He is working everything for our good, which is conformity to Christ. And even if He doesn't do it the way we expect, He is still worthy of our praise. Amen. We have to have that theological base in order to have joy.

How do you get your joy back?

In my last couple of minutes, I want to get really practical and show you how you can access it. One of the best people when it comes to joy is actually the apostle Paul. He wrote a book called Philippians, which is one of the Prison Epistles. There are four of them: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. He's in a jail cell, because he was about to go preach the gospel in Rome. He was about to do his crusade. So many people were going to be saved, and he got arrested and flogged, and now he's in jail. And he writes this book called Philippians, and 16 times in this book he mentions joy and rejoicing. In a jail cell, in a worse situation than so many of us are in, he says, "Joy. Rejoice."

There are a couple of things he does in this letter that I want to help you with. You say, "Brad, how can we apply joy? How can I access it?" Love God. Love Jesus. Know that God is in control. Know that He is working. Praise Him regardless, and you're going to start seeing that fruit. But also, check this out. There are some things we can do.

1. Stop dwelling on what happened

The first thing is this: we have to get to a place where we stop dwelling on what happened. I'm not saying you have to ignore it. I'm just saying you have to stop dwelling on it. There comes a point when you've thought about something and analyzed something for so long. It happened to you years ago. I don't say you need to ignore it, but we need to stop dwelling on it, because as we do, that rumination can often develop into depression and anxiety. We can't always dwell on the bad things that happen. We need to fix our eyes on Jesus.

Philippians 1:12 says this: "Now I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me..." was terrible? It was awful? "I'm in a prison. This sucks"? No, no, no. "...has actually served to advance the gospel." You see how he can redirect what's happening to him? No, no, no. This isn't terrible. This actually serves to advance the gospel. He had the ability to do that.

The prophet Jeremiah had, like, the worst days. He wrote an entire book called Lamentations, which is basically "I had a bad day," remixed, Bible version. He says this in Lamentations 3: "I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me." But watch this: "Yet..." Say "yet." Some of us need to have a "yet" moment. "Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning..." Some of you are like, "I'm going to need some new compassion tomorrow." Yeah, you do. You need to get into His Word, because it comes new every morning. "...great is your faithfulness. I say to myself..." He made a choice. Sometimes our problem is the things we are saying to ourselves. "I say to myself, 'The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.' The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."

Isaiah 43:18: "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past." Say that word, "dwell." "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." We can't dwell on it.

2. Look for new opportunities

The second thing we have to do is look for new opportunities. Paul went to go preach a crusade, and everything broke down. He had a bad day, but he was the kind of guy who could turn lemons into lemonade. That Forrest Frank anointing. Some of y'all get that. Somebody's going to have to research that. "Wait, what does that mean?"

Philippians 1:13 says this: "As a result..." In other words, because I did not preach. "...it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ." He was basically saying, "Since I can't preach to them, I'm going to preach to y'all." Now they all know he's a Christian. "And because of my chains, most of the brothers and sisters have become confident in the Lord and dare all the more to proclaim the gospel without fear." He's like, "If I'm going to be in a prison, I might as well write." And thank God he did. Hot take: I'm so thankful he didn't make it to Rome, because he gave me the book of Philippians. I'm so thankful.

I don't know what happened to you. So much of the time it's not even our fault. But how can we get to a place where we don't dwell on it, where we can find a new perspective? Because if we're dwelling on it, we can't stop to recognize what God is trying to do in that situation. There's purpose in your pain. Is that helpful? You have to find new meaning in the thing you're going through. When I was in South Africa and I was deported, I was like, "What am I going to do for two years?" And then I was like, "Wow, I just got two years to focus on what God is going to want to do once we get back. So maybe I should prepare while I wait."

3. Adopt an eternal perspective

The final thing is that we have to adopt an eternal perspective. We get so locked into the temporary, but we have to focus on what's to come.

Philippians 1:15 says, "It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry..." There were people badmouthing Paul. "...but others out of goodwill. The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel. The former preach Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing that they can stir up trouble for me while I am in chains." But get this. People are attacking him, and he says, "But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached." What an amazing attitude. "And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice."

Even in the bad, we need to adopt an eternal perspective: we are here to bring glory to Christ. Sometimes it's going to be in the most terrible, dangerous things, or in the times we feel like we're struggling, the times we have worry, the times we have fear. But in those moments, God is trying to make us like Christ. And when I realize that, when I realize that He's in control, that He is good, that He's working it together for my good, and that I can praise Him regardless, I get to access an inner kind of joy that doesn't feel like happiness. It's not temporary. It's not fake. It doesn't fade. It's deep. It's sustaining. But if we don't have a theology of God, we cannot access it. And if we don't abide, we will never access it.

For the joy set before Him

I love Jesus, who experienced one of the most gruesome things in the world: crucifixion. And it says this in Hebrews: since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let's get rid of all the stuff that holds us back. Let us run the race set before us, "fixing our eyes on Jesus..." Not on you, not on what God's giving you. No, no. Fixing my eyes on Jesus, "...the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross." The cross wasn't happy, but He felt joy. My brain can't even get that. It was His joy to be on that cross for me. He was thinking about us. And now, in every situation, no matter what we're facing, we can think about Him and what He's trying to do in us so that He can be praised.

Father, we love You. God, I want to thank You for every single person who's here. Jesus, I thank You that as You chose joy, we can choose joy too. That if You could choose joy on the cross, we can choose joy in whatever situation we're in. And Father, I just pray that You'll move in such a powerful way. I thank You for every single person who's here.

With every head bowed and eyes closed: some of you here today have never received the ultimate joy that comes from the Father, and that comes when you give your life to Christ. If you're here and you don't have a relationship with Jesus, who died on a cross for you, who loved you enough that, as it says, while we were still sinners, He died for us; if you've never put your faith in Him, we just want to give you that opportunity. So we're all going to pray a prayer together for the benefit of those praying it for the first time. If you're here and you're like, "I'm ready to go all in with Jesus," I want you to pray this prayer. Repeat after me: "Dear Jesus, I believe that You're the Son of God and the Savior of the world. I believe You came to this earth, You died on a cross, and You were raised so that I may have life. And right now, I make You my Lord. I make You my Savior. In Jesus' name."