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Now if you go back to Revelation two one, the very beginning of the series, we talked about Jesus said, I'm the one who walks through the lampstands, which is symbolic of the churches. I walk through the churches, but here, he's only at the door. You know what he's saying? He said, you've shut me out, but I'm here anyways. Jesus had been removed from his church. He he here's a church that had so much, yet they were doing church without Jesus. And he's saying, look, I'd love to be invited back in. Invite me back in. And I think the reality is for most of us, we can be so busy with our personal lives and our personal agendas that we kinda move away from him. We move away from our time with him. And what he's saying is, I want you to be I wanna be lord of everything. I wanna be lord of every part of your life. But, again, we're so busy, and we live lives with such little of any margin that he typically could be the first thing shoved down. And even though he gets shoved down and gets forgotten so often, this patience is there, and he says, I'm still here, and I wanna come in with you, and I wanna eat with you, and I wanna do life with you. He wants to be invited in.