All right, what is up, everybody? Great to see you all. Man, great to be back and miss you all. My name is Bro, by the way, case we never met, and I get to be on the teaching team here. We want to welcome all of our campuses, and those of me that might be joining us online as well. Super grateful for all of you. And man, I've missed you. It's so good to be back, and you are stuck with me for the next four weeks. sorry about that, but I get to be here

hang out with you.

In the next four weeks.

Sorry about that.

But I get to be here to hang out with you.

And the next four weeks, we're going to do a little series that we're calling the Rebel Way.

And we're talking about the greatest sermon that was ever preached by the wisest man who has ever lived.

And that man, of of course is Jesus and his

sermon can be found in the book of Matthew which is the first book of the new testament of the Bible if you're

unfamiliar with that and it's chapters five six and seven and I wish we had a a few months to unpack

this what's called the sermon on the mount because it was given on a hillside.

But we only got four weeks.

So we're going to just hit some highlights, but I want to throw this challenge out to you here in week one.

As we hit these highlights, I would challenge you every week to read through the sermon on the Mount.

Just Matthew 5, 6, and 7, however you want to break

it down, just take a little daily chunk and kind of chew on it for a while. I think if we will do that for the next four weeks, we will grow deeper than we've ever grown before. We'll get to know more about Jesus and our lives will change. I heard somebody say one time, a black belt is nothing about a white belt who just kept showing up. So if we just keep showing up with God's word

and we keep showing up so if we just

keep showing up with god's word and we keep showing up here on the weekends i really do believe that

god will take us to a much deeper uh place i cannot wait for this journey because i think a lot of us

will start walking in freedom like we've never walked before and you know something about this

invitation that jesus gives us in this sermon. This is so countercultural. This is so

counterintuitive. This is so upside down that we're calling it the rebel way. I don't know if I've ever told you this story or not,

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