You can be seated.

So we've got a ceremony, almost a spiritual rites of passage that we'll be doing at the end of our gathering.

I wanted to get right up, share the word, so that those of you who

may need to leave can leave. I still want to get you out of here in a normal amount of time.

I don't want to be too disruptive today, but we got people everywhere we can put a chair.

But I believe our spiritual family loves to see men take their

rightful place. So we okay being in the overflow one week. Come on. So I want to, I want to jump

into the word and I want to call your attention to the Gospel of John chapter 4 beginning at verse number 19.

John's Gospel chapter 4 beginning at verse 19.

I'm in a series here.

It's called alterations. I want, boy, I wish I could just, I wish

we were in an age where you could just really say what you need to say. It's such a

hypersensitive. So I feel like, you know, some people make the connection.

The words are not connected, but I do think one affects another.

The word disciple and the word discipline.

Men who are being disciples should be disciplined men.

Yeah. men who are being disciples should be disciplined men. All kinds of discipline.

So here's the point that I'm making.

This series that I'm on alterations, it's on what's called a spiritual discipline.

What is a spiritual discipline?

It is, the Apostle Paul uses this word when he writes, I think he's writing to Timothy,

he says, exercise yourself into godliness.

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