Outed Sermon Series
“Outed”
Pt. 1 – Get Out
by Steve Ely
Text: Deuteronomy. 32:11
“Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions.” NIV
“He was like an eagle hovering over its nest, overshadowing its young, Then spreading its wings, lifting them into the air, teaching them to fly.” Message
I want to read to you a portion of Scripture that is oft quoted. It is part of Moses’ last song before he is taken by God. This one statement gives us a glimpse of how God deals with His people! How He deals with us! He rouses his young. He waketh up his nest.
Introduction:
It is a safe place. Warm. Cozy. Secure. Comfortable. The boundaries are marked – defined by the outside edges of their living quarters. It is their home. It is their world. It is all they know. It is all they care to know. It is their nest. Food is found here. Camaraderie is found here. Peace is found here. Every need is met. Every desire accommodated. It is their place!
And yet, the day comes that the mother hen or the momma eagle, as referenced in the text, does the unthinkable. She stirs up her nest. What was a comfortable place now becomes a prickly, sticky, sharp, pointed, untenable enclosure. She forces the maturing chicks to the edge. No longer safe. No longer cozy and secure. No longer comfortable. They want to stay there, but she won’t allow it to happen because she knows that for their own good, she must push them to the edge. She knows that they are born to fly and soar. She knows they are destined to explore. If she doesn’t do her job and “out” them the nest will become a prison. The nest will no longer be an incubator but will become a coffin! The day has come that they are pushed out for their own sake and for their own good!
We like things to be safe. We like things to be warm. Cozy is our compass. Security is our standard. Much like chicks in the barnyard we want to remain in our cocoon of comfort and we refuse to venture to the edge. Church is our nest. It is our defining boundary. We huddle together for warmth and protection. We fight venturing out to the world around us. We allow the nest to become a coffin!
According to Deuteronomy God stirs His nest! God must have a split personality or something because in one instance we are told that God wants to gather us under His wings like a mother hen gathers her chicks. He wants to protect us, love us, and comfort us. But then in Deuteronomy, we get another glimpse of God; we are told that He wants to force us to move beyond the enclosure! He wants to out us!
What does outed mean? If someone outs you, they expose you for who you really are. They tell on you. They pull back the covers and let others get a glimpse of the real you. They pull off your mask. They force you to face the truth!
I probably need to warn you that I am going to out you today! But before I out you I need to out me!
I am comfortable in here! I know how to do this. I know how to do church. I feel safe here. The people I love are here so there is often no sense of urgency to go outside these walls. I often see outreach as a duty (what we are supposed to do to be considered a “real” church) rather than an incredible opportunity. Church, if I am honest, on many days has become about me! Did I get my needs met? Did I get my spiritual fix? Did I get my praise fix? Did I get goose bumps? Did I get to use my gift and did I use it well? I am in the nest. I like the nest. I want to stay in the nest.
I have wrestled with the messages I am preaching during this series because they are some of the most uncomfortable, I will ever preach. And because if I am not careful, I will employ every trick I have ever learned to listen, but not actually apply them to my own life! I am outed this morning!
As an eagle stirs up its nest! You must be outed too! We need to be awakened. I hope you become uncomfortable right now.
When I realize that 99.5% of you will never lead one person to Christ it tells me that you are too comfortable in the nest!
When I realize that the average church in the USA spends $250,000 a year and only wins one person to Christ then the nest has become a coffin!
And then we raise our brood to conduct business the same way! Less than 33% of teenagers shared their faith with another person in the last 12 months, and half of all the youth ministries in America did not win one new convert to Christ last year.
Every church should be full this morning. There ought to be people standing in line to get in. Let’s get personal with it this morning. Our church should be full today. Yet, most of you have no sense of urgency about the fact that there are empty seats which equates to lost souls remaining lost! Your needs are met. You’re comfortable. You’re safe. Your eternity is secured, but what about them?
I am convinced that most of us attempt to rape the Bride of Christ and use her to fulfill our selfish, self-centered desires!! My praise, my needs, my wants, my comfort, my nest!
Why doesn’t it bother you that the people you have lived next to for years, classmates that you spend hours a day with, coworkers that know most of your life story, and family members that you have influence over are not here or in some church this morning? Why doesn’t it bother us that we can go decades without personally leading someone to Christ?
You are outed! I stir the nest this morning. Your hearts should be broken.
I can hear what some of you are thinking right now. You are thinking what we need is a revival that will draw people. Or you are thinking what we need are miracles to take place, signs and wonders, manifestations, that would cause people to come? Really? I am all for miracles, signs, wonders, manifestations. I pray for those to happen every week. But don’t we already have the most incredible miracle to show them? Haven’t we already witnessed the most incredible sign, wonder and manifestation? God came in the flesh and lived like us, died for us, and wants relationship with us? That is a miracle. That is a miracle that should drive us and should draw them (if I be lifted up – not if miracles are lifted up, manifestations although legitimate)! The key is that they must be able to see Him! We must make Him seen! If we won’t get out of the nest and talk about, live about, share about that miracle what difference would all the flopping on the ground, foaming at the mouth, bucking, hair standing up on the back of your neck miracles make?
The truth is most of us have enough God to make us comfortable, but not enough God to talk about Him or to be dangerous to someone else’s sins or sickness! We have as much of Him as we want!
I am praying that a divine discontent will take over our lives beginning this week. I am praying that what used to satisfy us will no longer satisfy us but frustrate us. I am praying that we will no longer be able to live our life where we drive to church on Sunday and then drive home only to repeat the process week after week and it never impacts anyone around us. Padding the nest, shifting our position in the nest, but never getting out of the nest! I am praying that through the power of the Holy Spirit that by the time we finish this series you will be outed. Uncomfortable. In fact, that is what Jesus came to do. We know He came to comfort the uncomfortable. But I want you to know that He also came to make the comfortable uncomfortable! We are too comfortable.
I know it is comfortable in here. No one is more comfortable in here than me. This is a nest that I built for myself! It looks, sounds, feels like this because this is what is comfortable to me! But I am declaring to you today that I have been outed. This isn’t about me! It is supposed to be about them!
I am glad you enjoy Passion. I am thankful (more than you will ever know) that you call this home. I sincerely do hope that all of your needs are met here. I genuinely do hope that you get your praise fix here. I do hope that you get your spiritual questions answered and I try to make sure that you leave every Sunday nourished and encouraged. But I also hope you know that once you have made a commitment to Christ that it is no longer about you! It is about them! Quit being disappointed when your wishes/demands aren’t met! You have Him, what more could you need? Passion is for you but not about you!
We’re NOT called to be consumers…but contributors! The question must change in this church from “What is in it for me?” or “What did I get out of it?” or “Is this my style” or “Does this push my buttons” to “How can I serve?” and “How can I reach out so others will have their needs met too?” and “How can my church invade the rest of my life so that others will invade my church?” For most of us church is what we do, it isn’t who we are. It is one hour of duty or thought each week. The only people who are really making a difference in the world are those who grasp the kingdom concept and understand that once we meet Jesus His kingdom should consume our every thought, our ever action, our every minute, and our every motive.
We are called to reach the world through serving it…not screaming at it, ignoring it, or hiding from it!
I am not the first to out disciples. Very quickly I want to point you to Matthew 10:5-16.
Jesus outs the 12. They hadn’t been with him very long and yet He outs them. Wouldn’t it have been more comfortable for them to stay with him? Wouldn’t it have been safer with Him? Wouldn’t they have enjoyed life more with Him? They didn’t have to worry about provision He could multiply. They didn’t have to worry about sickness, He could heal. Staying in the nest would have been better except for the fact that He stirs the nest! He refuses to allow them to stay in the nest forever.
He gives them simple instructions. You can read them for yourself in Matthew. I just want to quickly summarize His instructions. They out us as well.
- Go to the lost.
Didn’t say wait on them to come to us. Go. That requires leaving the nest. That requires being uncomfortable. That requires rubbing shoulders. That requires more than just an hour of your time each week. That requires you to live your life differently! Gather. Grow. Go! The church gathered is actually a time of preparation for ‘being the church’ outside of its walls.” Told to go and then make disciples. Not commanded to stay and make disciples. If we stay in the nest, it is difficult to make new disciples.
We must go to the lost!
- Show them heaven.
Heal the sick. Raise the dead. Drive out demons. In other words, He is saying to the disciples, what you have seen done, do. The same power you operate with in the nest, operate outside of the nest. I’m glad you can pray, prophecy, handle demons when you are in my presence, but are you operating with the same power out there? Do we ever show them heaven or just more of what they always see? Our time in here is a practice field for the real game! If all we are going to do is practice, but never play the game this is futile! - Produce peace.
Jesus says very clearly to enter a house and let your peace rest on it! He didn’t say let my peace rest on it. You should have peace on you! How many of us stir things up so badly that people dread us showing up? How many of our co-workers dread working with us because of the drama? Stir your nest today. If there is drama everywhere you go you may need to take a look at the common denominator! Where is your peace? If there was ever anything this society needs right now it is some folks who know how to bring peace to people’s lives! - Expect rejection and get over it.
Jesus tells them that everyone won’t listen. But he also says don’t sweat it either. Dust your shoes off and go on. It isn’t the end of the world. They aren’t rejecting you; they are rejecting Him! Why do we fear rejection so badly if it isn’t about us but about Him? Our worth and our legitimacy as a believer isn’t wrapped up in who we win, it is wrapped up in that we tried to win!
I mentioned earlier that it seems like God has a split personality. The truth is this morning both glimpses of God, the one where He is like the protecting, loving, and comforting and the one where He stirs us up and kicks us out of our comfort zones, are correct and true. They are not mutually exclusive. We have just become deceived to believe that we can only tap into His comforting, protecting, loving side inside the nest. I want you to realize this morning that as we go out, we will see and tap into more of God’s love, comfort, and protection. There is nothing to keep you safe from in here! Out there is where we are meant to be!
III. Close
We are being outed this morning. I want you to think about why you are here! Is this about you? Or is it about Him and them? Are you a consumer or a contributor? I want you to think about who is not here? I want you to think about what you are going to do about that! Has this church invaded your entire life or is it just something you do on Sunday?
“Outed”
Pt. 2 -Confusing Words
by Steve Ely
Introduction:
Last week I challenged you that God does indeed want to make us uncomfortable. He desires us to have a nest to which we can retreat every so often for comfort and revitalization. However, He absolutely refuses to leave us here or allow us to become satisfied with a spiritual experience that is “nested”. He “outs” us and requires us to go to the lost! We are too comfortable here! There are too many empty seats and no urgency to do anything about it. I challenged you to think about who isn’t here and what are you going to do about it? I have been praying that you would be very uncomfortable this week.
I want to continue “outing” us this week. If you missed I remind you that “outed” is the idea of exposing you for who you really are. It is basically tattling or jerking your chain. Pulling back the covers and letting others get a glimpse of the real you.
This morning I want to talk about confusing words. Many folks say that English is the hardest language in the world to learn because words can have multiple meanings and because so many words are so similar. For instance, the very title of today’s message exemplifies this truth. When I say confusing words, you think about words that you don’t understand. They confuse you. However, what I mean by the statement confusing words is when we use one word mistakenly thinking we are using a different word. We confuse their meanings. Like the words: reigns/rains; pail/pale; tail/tale; fairy/ferry. Homonyms. These words are confused because they sound the same.
However, there are words that are confused because we believe they mean the same thing.
I am convinced that there are two words that we have certainly confused. The first word that we rely on is the word love. We throw it about glibly and without much thought. We love our house. We love our car. We love our spouse. We love Jesus. May I suggest to you this morning that we have castrated the word by overuse. We can say it and it means absolutely nothing. You can tell me you love me and then your manifestations tell me the truth. “I love you”, but I talk bad about you, I mistreat you, I avoid you, I won’t touch you. Then the truth is you don’t really love me. Think back to dating days for just a moment. How many people told you they loved you, but their actions told you something else? Remember the one who won your hand in marriage – did you say yes because they told you they loved you (if that was the standard you would have said yes to everyone you dated) or because they showed you, they loved you? I know we need to hear it – spouses tell each other right now – mom and dad tell child right now. I love to hear those 3 words. Julie and I have a pact that we won’t go to sleep without telling each other that. So, I want and need to hear it, but the truth be told I would rather see it. Isn’t that true with our children? Tell me you love me but clean your room. Tell me you love me but take out the trash. It takes both. Our actions either validate or invalidate our words. Emerson “outs” us when he said, “What you do thunders so loudly in your ears that I can’t hear what you say!”
I want to “out” you this morning and suggest that the word we should be using because it has more meaning, is more revealing, and more accurate is the word serve.
I want to “out” us this morning and our misuse of these words!
TEXT: John 1:1-2, 13:1-5, 21:15-17
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus. Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?”
“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”
Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me?”
He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”
The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.
These passages out us. Let me explain.
We are taught in Bible College that the writers of the Gospels all had different agendas. Matthew and Mark both write their books from a Jewish point of view in order to point to Jesus as the King and as the Messiah. Luke writes as a historian and points to Jesus as the savior of the entire world, not just the Jews. In each of these books the writers point strongly to the humanity of Jesus. He was one of us. However, John seems preoccupied with convincing us of Jesus’ deity. He doesn’t give us the genealogy of his natural mother and adoptive parents as the starting point of his narrative. Rather, he immediately begins pointing to and declaring Jesus’ deity – In the beginning was the word and the word was with God. And yet, this author with all of his efforts to convince us that Jesus was God and with all the effort to expose Jesus’ Godness, he exclusively, tells us that Jesus served in his final moments on earth – after taking 12 chapters to convince us that Jesus was in fact God in the flesh, he now shows us that Jesus steps down from the pinnacle of His deity throne and takes a towel. He passes over all the other human moments and focuses on this one as the one glaring example of his humanness. He gives us a glimpse into Jesus’ life and ministry by showing us that true leaders come down and serve. Notice the phrase – now shows them the full extent of his love – shouldn’t that phrase have been reserved for the cross? His willingness to dethrone himself and wash their feet reveals a servant heart!
Then the writer takes us into this account of Peter’s interaction with Jesus after Jesus’ resurrection. The passage in John 21 has been preached to death. Jesus asks Peter if he loves him 3 times and 3 times Peter answers. Sermons have been preached on how significant the 3 times are because Peter denied Christ 3 times. Preachers have looked at the terminology for love that Jesus used compared to the terminology Peter used and said that Jesus is using one word for love and Peter until the end isn’t using the same word and therefore not matching Jesus’ level of love. All well in good. But I think we have missed the important lesson. It was a lesson Peter, the one who tried to stop Jesus from washing his feet in the earlier narrative, should have already grasped, but apparently still has not laid hold to.
According to the dialogue that Peter is having with Jesus, Jesus is trying to drive home the truth that love demands and requires action. Do you love me? Peter responds, “Yes I love you.” Jesus 3 times comes back with action. Then do something about it – feed my sheep.
Listen to me this morning, the lesson that Jesus taught by washing feet and that he drives home to Peter is that love repeated verbally, even repeated repeatedly, is never an adequate substitute for service! In fact, it is service that substantiates and validates the love.
We are lying to ourselves and to our world if we say that we love Jesus, but we either refuse or fail to serve. If our songs of love don’t transform into acts of service, we are wasting our breath!
Most of us hide behind love as an excuse not to serve or as a substitute for service. We have deceived ourselves into thinking that if we say the word love that translates into and is credited as service. You never see that more clearly than in church. You ask people what they think about Jesus and they will say the love Him. Oh, I love Him. I am so in love with Him. And yet, you can’t get them to serve!
The truth is this morning that most of us are more than willing to love, we are just unwilling to serve! Loving is easy. Serving requires that we leave the comfortable and secure confines of our nest and expose ourselves to dirt and hurt!
We want to love Jesus. We want to worship Jesus, but we refuse to do what Jesus did!
We use the word too much! The difference between us and Jesus is that He actually acted out love. We just talk about it. He served – healing, touching, feeding, reaching, talking, doing.
We love . . . how? What solid, tangible, real way do we love? Love is measurable by service. Our community should be better because we are here, right? Are we here to serve them or are they here to serve us?
“Most people use the city to build a great church; rather use your church to build a great City.”
I have a few questions for you this morning!
Is there much joy in the city because of us? In Acts 8, Philip goes into the city of Samaria and declares the word of the Lord and the writer says there was much joy in that city! Who is happy this morning because we are here? Would anyone weep if we closed? Or would people say just another startup that couldn’t make it?
The truth is this morning the only way we can bring joy to a city is by serving that city!
The truth is you can’t be around Jesus for very long and not wash something. We avoid the stinky areas of people’s lives and Jesus grabs a towel and a basin of water and not only gets close to the stinky areas He handles the stinky areas. He touches them. Love isn’t real unless it is manifested in tangible ways. It is one thing to love the people that walk in here that all cleaned up and smell really good, but what about those we think stink?
Jesus is calling us to the level of service He operated at in Philippians 2:5-8, 15
Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn’t claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion. Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
We are being challenged to become servants who will lead – not leaders who will serve – humility isn’t thinking less of yourself – it is not thinking of yourself at all.
This morning I “out” you.
- We must begin speaking with our actions!
Words aren’t enough! - Our “greatness” scale must change.
We cannot judge each other’s greatness by our gifting or by your worship. We want to pedestal folks based on those things. What reveals greatness and should garner our respect and esteem is our service. You aren’t great because you can preach, sing, dance, hoop, shout, but if you can serve. What did Jesus say, “If any among you want to be great – love?” No serve! The Son of Man (our example) came with love – God so loved the world – but that love turned to service – He so love the world that he gave! Jesus did love, moved to tears, moved by compassion, but he also tells us whey came, He came to serve not to be served! - We must develop a culture of service in the nest that then moves out of the nest.
Scripture teaches us to prefer our brothers over ourselves. Serve one another. You know how I can tell who gets it? Just watch and see those that serve without being asked to do so. Many of you do that. Others don’t. If the thought when you see trash on the floor in here is – that isn’t my job. Then when you see “trash” out there you will pass by without touching! - Service is what must distinguish us!
I am not talking about what sets us apart from other churches. Our worship does that. I think our Pentecostal side does that. Hopefully the preaching does that too. No, our service should set us apart to the world!
Martin Luther King said it best, “Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity” to serve. You don’t have to know the Second Theory of Thermal Dynamics in Physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love, and you can be that servant.” “Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
He went on to say this, “If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning.”
I am afraid that the Mormons are out loving us. I am afraid the Muslims are out loving us.
What is it that is supposed to be our distinguishing mark?
They will know us by our “?”. Our love. Just because we say we love? If that was the case, they would know us well. They will know us when love becomes a verb and we act it out? It is our service that stands in stark contrast to our culture’s self-centeredness, apathy, and lack of care. Our service opens their eyes, if only for a moment, to catch a small glimpse of a savior on a cross dying out (not living out) ultimate love!
I out you this morning. If your hands aren’t marked by service, then you don’t love Christ at the level He requires His disciples to love. Say I love you all you want, but until it shows up on your hands it is meaningless!
Bill Hybels said, “I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncalloused hand — a hand never dirtied by serving — and shake the nail pierced hand of Jesus.”
Look at your hand. Is there any dirt on it? Is there any residue of service on it? Is there any mark of love on it?
III. Close
We are being outed this morning. Last week I asked you to think about who is not here? I want you to think about what you are going to do about that! Has this church invaded your entire life or is it just something you do on Sunday? This morning I ask you another question. “Do you love Him?” If so, how does your level of service answer that question? Does He need to repeat the question again and again until our life answers correctly?
God give us a church full of people who have water wrinkled hands. Who although they have been given all power will take up a towel and wash feet.
“Outed”
Pt. 3 – Preached to Death
by Steve Ely
Introduction:
Well we are at week three in the “Outed” series. I have said some pretty mean things to you. You should be bleeding a little. Things like, “We are too comfortable in here. It should bother you that there are empty seats around you. It should bother you that you can go decades without winning anyone to Christ. That this church is for you, but it isn’t about you. That saying that you love Jesus repeatedly doesn’t make it true if our service doesn’t substantiate and validate that statement. If there is no dirt on your hands, then there is no love in your heart!
Most of you are probably thrilled to get to this week. If you can just make it through today some of us are thinking “I can go back to my nested condition”. Like an eagle I am going to stir up the nest this morning! I refuse to let you settle back into comfortable!
I want to draw your attention to Acts 20:6-12 . . .
We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas within five days; and there we stayed seven days. On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight. There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together. And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead. But Paul went down and fell upon him, and after embracing him, he said, “Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.” When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left. They took away the boy alive, and were greatly comforted.
A few thoughts. Paul was a great preacher. Most of us would have stood in line to hear him. He would have been on all the popular Christian magazines of our days. He would have had his own TV show. But Paul had preacher disease. He was long-winded. He began preaching to the folks and preached until midnight. Notice if you will there were no miracles that took place during his message. He preached for hours. In fact, he preached so long that a young man who was sitting in the third story window fell asleep and fell out of the window to his death. The meeting broke up for a few minutes and Paul embraced him and then went back to preaching till dawn!
Here is the truth that I want you to catch = he preached all night long and the only thing it produced was death. I can preach to you week after week for hours on end and it can drone on and on and even put you to sleep and never see any life produced. In fact, we walk past the dead to hear more preaching.
But notice if you will, that it was when Paul embraced the young man that the young man came to life. If we are not careful, we will keep having church and people all around us will continue to die and nothing will change until we embrace them to life. There are people laying in the street dead and ya’ll want me to keep preaching, but the world won’t be changed by my preaching. It will be changed by your preaching! You may say, “I’m not a preacher!” Yes, you are! Your embrace is your preaching and it will bring them to life.
So, I am kicking you out of the nest this morning! We need to stop doing church and be the church.
I am dismissing you to go out and embrace them.
How? I asked you last week to bring $20. I told you that you would leave with your cash. I didn’t say you would get to keep it after that. The ushers are bringing you cards that have our church name on them and a list of ideas that you can use to embrace people and give them a glimpse of Jesus. There are some here who don’t have $20 – take them with you. Pray for divine assignments with people.
I am asking you to come back at 12:45 – that gives you an hour to do this. We will come back and take a few minutes and share some of our experiences. Let’s see if we don’t see God work outside our nest!
Don’t hang out in the lobby! We are locking up. You are outed!