All Things Are Possible

Dr. Bernie Miller: Your heart makes a terrible GPS. It reroutes you to comfort, to revenge, to hate, pride, and fear. God doesn't give you any of those things. God doesn't just want to correct your choices. He wants to direct your path. New Covenant Fellowship Church. In-person worship Sunday mornings at 10:30, 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. New Covenant Fellowship Church, a place for every race. Now, from New Covenant Fellowship Church, All Things Are Possible.

At New Covenant, we show and grow people in Christ and glorify God. It's what we believe. To say it another way, if you're looking to worship in a place without having to worry about what to wear or a plate being passed for money, come to New Covenant. Every Sunday morning at 10:30, you'll enjoy great music and solid teaching from the Bible. You'll find us on North Moore Road in Chattanooga with directions right to our door at NCF.church. New Covenant Fellowship Church, we are a place for every race. And here's Pastor Bernie Miller.

Welcome back. Good to see you. Wonderful day to be here and be out and about. I thank God for all of you and thank God for all that he's doing in our family. Thank God for having some time to spend with my brother and sister-in-law. Madeleine's brother Jim and his wife Christine. They've been in town for a while. We've been trying to feed them and keep them busy. Had a wonderful time so far and looking forward to having a good meal. Madeleine's been busy preparing early this morning. She came up into my study and she said, "I'm tired." Well, we've got some hungry people and I just thank God for that.

Let me ask you, have you ever noticed families at an airport about ready to go on vacation and they all have on the same T-shirt? "The O'Neal family vacation 2026." Everyone's smiling in the picture and five minutes later, kids are crying, teens are angry, yelling at one another. "If you touch me again, I'm going to tell Mama." That normally gets a little tension. But families can be connected and still struggle with unity. I mean, I've got some relatives, love them dearly, but even families struggle with unity. The truth is just because families live in the same house doesn't mean they have the same heart.

In Ephesians 2, Jews and Gentiles were sitting in the same church with different prejudices, traditions, and labels. Some had titles and others didn't. So Paul says, and this is my summary, "When Christ becomes our identity, division loses its authority." Jesus didn't save us to be disconnected, but to be connected. The title of my message today is, "Our Unity Is Our Identity In Christ." When I wrote that down, I started writing some lyrics down for a song, and so I ended up with a song and a message. I just thank God for all he's doing.

We're going to look at three things today. One, how we were separated. Two, how Christ broke down our division. And three, how we were united because of Christ. I start with the separated part, but let me begin with verse eight in chapter two. It says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God." So grace and faith are both gifts of God. "Not as a result of works so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."

Therefore, whenever you see a therefore, you've got to look back to see what it's there for. What it's there for is it's summing up what I just said in verse eight all the way up to therefore. So we've been saved by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves. It is the gift of God so that no one can boast. Therefore, remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, that means anyone that's not a Jew. As you know, if you read your Bible history, you know that they had Africans and all those others that were part of Jesus's discipleship. So Gentiles is anyone that's not a Jew in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision, meaning you're not a Jew because they practiced a certain standard.

Even if you were a Gentile and circumcised, that didn't mean that you were a Jew. By the so-called circumcision, which is performed in the flesh by human hands. Remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now, I love that conjunction. Last week, or the week before last because we did something for Mom's Day, but "But God, when we were dead in our sins and trespasses," we saw that "But God, being rich in mercy, with which he loved us even though we were dead in our sins and trespasses, by grace we have been saved through faith and that not of ourselves, it is the gift of God."

That "But God" changed everything that came before it because we were dead in our sins and trespasses, but God was rich in mercy. This "But" is here and it's amazing how it connects us with other things that we've just seen. But now in Christ Jesus, you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. I'm going to try to narrow down some things and break down some words and try to explain some things to you. The technical term is exegesis and so I'll just say I'm trying to explain it to you. You need no fancy words.

Paul reminds the Gentile believers that without God's gift, they were separated from the rest of God's people, the Jews. They were strangers. They had no hope. They're sitting in the church together, but they were separated in the church and without God in the world. They were far off, meaning spiritually disconnected from God without a covenant relationship with God because they never received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. They didn't have a covenant relationship with God. But verse 13 says we were brought near, means into an intimate relationship with Almighty God through the Holy Spirit.

Not by culture, not by race, not by politics, not by tradition, but by the blood of Jesus. It's stronger than culture. It's stronger than race. It's stronger than politics. It's stronger than tradition. Have you ever been to a church potluck picnic? Someone told us some years ago, "Pastor, I think we need to have a potluck." I said, "Have you been to a potluck dinner?" Let me finish my thought with you before you answer that. Have you been to a potluck dinner that you liked? You don't know how these people cook that stuff. It's lucky you don't die. That's why they call it a potluck.

I don't want to be lucky about it. I want to know who cooked this food. I want to know how clean are you. People be scratching all kinds of stuff and then they want to make you some biscuits. No, I don't want no biscuits from you. No. But I told them, I said, "I think we want to do something else than a potluck dinner. We've never had one here and we will never have one as long as I'm living. Don't pray for my death, please. Potluck dinner, potluck picnic." A family brings a kale salad that nobody touches. One brings fried chicken that they say has been blessed by the Holy Ghost.

He had to bless it so that nobody that eat it died. Another one has something in a crock-pot that nobody can identify. So everybody avoided even sampling it. Someone's grandma says, "Baby, just try it." T-I-D just said, "No ma'am. I'm praying for discernment." But the church should see different backgrounds, races, stories, and culture. They should see different backgrounds around them and cultures sitting around the table eating together. That's why we were doing it every Sunday afternoon until we wore people out. And some of y'all got so special.

We're giving y'all free food and some of y'all act like you paid for it. Then you get all persnickety about, "You're taking too long. Then, I want three boxes to take home." Can you wait a minute? "I ain't got time." And I'm thinking, "This is free." It'd be different if you had to pay for something. So I said look, when the money runs out, we're going to do it once a month. And if they don't like that, we'll just cut the whole thing out. No problem. Because the folks that are doing it, they're doing it for free. They're volunteering to do it and y'all got to complain about it. I mean, we've got to have order.

It's called the fellowship meal. People that get the fellowship meal first, they want to sit around the table and they want to eat it with one another. You want to take yours home and eat by yourself and other people want to eat together. So if you don't want to wait for the food, then don't come to the meal. It's just simple as that. I'm trying to be nice about it. I could say some things that I don't want to regret. But our fellowship meal happens every first Sunday now. And the beautiful thing about it is folks sit around that round table. I love the round tables rather than square because the round table, you're able to look at everybody eyeball to eyeball and that's real fellowship, isn't it?

I think these folks that changed their whole place and they started putting in these different tables and took out the round tables and they changed the whole menu and everything and people got upset about it. They got so upset they stopped going to their place. I can't even name it and if I could I'm not going to give them a plug. But they went back to the old way. They went back to the round tables and they went back to what they started out with. If it's not broke, don't break it. Leave it alone. They got all that together and they're trying to fancy things up, but a lot of people like that old style way. They like sitting around the table and I was told that sitting around the table gives you an opportunity to have a good conversation with one another and so I love having that meal.

There are no visitors, by the way, in our church. You notice we never ask for the visitors to stand. There's a reason for that. If you are in Christ Jesus and you come to our church, you're just coming just want to sample, we don't want you to have to stand up if you're a believer. You're coming to your other home. You're coming to the home of other believers. I don't want you to have to stand up and, "Yeah, I'm visitor, I'm coming from Joe's Third Baptist of United whatever." No, no. We want you to feel comfortable. We don't have you even stand. We don't pass the offering plate. You pass the offering plate when you're leaving or when you're coming in.

There's a rationale behind all that because we found out early on in the ministry we had over 2,000 people sampled in the three-mile radius of our church and we asked them what they didn't like in church. All the things that the people did not like, we don't do. So if you like standing up if you're a visitor, you'll be sitting for a long time because we don't treat you like no visitor. You are our guest. People that some of these stores treat folks they don't know better than some churches do. I mean if you walk into some of these stores and the first thing they do, "Hello, welcome to..." Wow, thank you.

But some churches, even early on in my life here when I first got here, I went into this one church and it was like, "Why are you here?" And I was waiting for an exit. So when they said, "Let's pray," I had left. I walked out the door and never went back and they closed that church down. God don't like that kind of nonsense. But we want you to feel like you are a guest here because you are. When you go to your relatives' house, do they say, "Okay, all visitors please stand"? We know who you are. You don't need to stand. That's Pee-wee's cousin. There are no visitors in our church. Non-members are guests and family.

Our slogan is, "A place for every race." And they said, "Well, you know, there's only one race." They always get me with that. I said, "No, au contraire. There are two races." What do you mean two? There's the saved race and there's the unsaved race. Now which one are you? We're all one blood, but there are two races. There's the race of the folks who don't know Jesus and those that do. I thank God that you know him and you are part of the family. Ephesians chapter two, verse 14, I went a little too long there, but we're all in the same family, okay? Verse 14: "For he himself is our peace," who, Jesus? "who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall."

Let me pause here for a minute. What they had in that back in that day, they had a place for the Gentiles. That was as you first walked into the temple. The Gentiles had their place and then they had a partition. You couldn't, and they had a sign, you could not go past this place if you were a Gentile. And then they had another place for the women. The women couldn't go past that partition in the temple. And then they had the other part for all the men. So they had the Gentiles separated, the women separated, and all the men, they were in their own area. Women better not come back there and no Gentiles were in.

So this is the barrier, this is the dividing wall that Paul means here. The next verse: "By abolishing in his flesh the enmity, which is the law of the commandments contained in ordinances, so that in himself he might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the enmity. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have our access in the spirit to the Father." Man, what a powerful verse of scripture that is.

Let me just break some things down to you. Jesus didn't just bring peace. Jesus is peace. He broke down the dividing wall, which referred to a wall in the temple separating the Gentiles from the Jews. It conveys the idea of complete demolition. I remember when I was a kid, I used to go back to North Carolina for the summer and if we collected enough Coke cans, they would redeem those for us and we could get into the movie without having to pay anything. Only problem was if you were black, you had to go up into the balcony. I didn't know that was discrimination. I was glad to go up there because I liked sitting up in the balcony.

So I was sitting up in the balcony looking down on those commoners and saw some of the other people sitting around me. They were throwing spitballs down there. I'm thinking, "What are y'all doing that for? They're going to kick us out of our special section." I didn't know any better. Aren't you glad God gave me some sense? At least a little bit so I could get by. But I didn't know anything about discriminating or anything like that. I just thought we were having some fun sitting up there looking high over those folks that were down there on the bottom. But Christ destroyed the enmity, which means the hostility, through the cross.

Every church has unofficial seating arrangements. Did you know that? Some church folks sit in the same spot every Sunday. I'm not pointing anybody out because I sit in the same spot as well. So I'm with you. If a guest or member accidentally sits in their seat, Sister Annie Rosa May will have a fit. "Oh Lord, give me strength." And if somebody sits in another section, some people will assume they must have backslid last week because they ain't sitting close to us like they used to. "I bet you they sinned this week," as if you didn't.

But in heaven, the redeemed Baptist, Presbyterian, Church of God in Christ, Seventh-day Adventist, and non-denominational will be sitting around the throne together. When y'all get to heaven, God's getting rid of all these labels. Because he didn't create any labels. The only way that you see Baptist is because of John the Baptist, and so they come up with Baptist because of John. He started something and now they have certain churches naming them after the apostles. Peter came back and saw a church for himself, St. Peter's Bethesda, whatever. What? I'm not all that. He said, "I don't want to die right side up. I want to die upside down." That's how he felt about it. He wasn't into all that kind of stuff.

But there are people that hang on to labels and whatever. Neighbors can live 10 feet apart and never speak because of offense. Have you noticed that? But if a storm comes by, knocks the fence down, they suddenly start borrowing tools from one another, sharing food and helping each other clean things up. That happened in our block. Our block is pretty, we have a familiarity with everyone because we know everyone that lives in our area. Small community. But it happened when we had that storm. And we had the storm and our neighbor's tree fell across our driveway on a Saturday. My wife is thinking, "How are we going to get out of here to get to church?"

Next thing I heard were electric saws or power saws. We looked out the window because one tree went across our driveway and then across the main street. Man, those guys, they came together as a family and started cutting down those tree limbs and making a way so that not only could people come up the street, but they were making a way for us. And I'm thinking, "Wow, that's how this church functions." When somebody has a need in this church, people respond to it and I love y'all for that because y'all respond and don't let it be Pastor's appreciation because y'all appreciate and I appreciate all of y'all all that you do.

But what it showed me was there were fences up there that we probably didn't realize. But what we did when we first saw them move in is when we had the little gift bags that we were giving away during Halloween that had little things in there about Christ and how you can be born again. We invited our neighbors over to our house and we gave them a bag for their son and that's how we connected with one another. But past that, nothing else. Never asked them to have fellowship with us or anything like that. But I sent him a text and I said, "Another one of your trees fell down," and I said, "Now I can call my guy and have him come over and clean that."

"Oh no, no, no, no, no." He sent me back a text or email, says, "No, I'll take care of that." I said, "Okay." And he took care of it. Then I looked in the back and one of my limbs fell back in the backyard of my yard, our yard. I sent him a email. I said, "Do you have something that I could use to cut this limb?" And he said, "What's the problem?" I said, "Well, one of them fell down in the backyard." He said, "Oh no, no, don't worry about that. I'll take care of that." I'm thinking, "What? Yeah."

I mean, that ought to be like church folks. Church folks ought to be like that. They see something, they ought to be able to help one another and put their differences aside. Maybe during the political season they have one sign up that you didn't particularly like. But you know what, when you get in trouble, you need to tear down those kind of signs, the memory of them and help somebody because here's the point I'm making. Sometimes Jesus allows storms because the walls we built are stronger than the bridges we should have built. And you think, "Why am I going through this storm?" You may need to check and see where is there some walls in your life.

And if there's some walls, God sent a storm. And if it hasn't come yet, it's on the way. I guarantee it's coming because he wants you not to build fences. He wants you to build a bridge to connect to other people. The cross destroys the fences because Jesus died not to make us roommates in the church. He died to make us a family in this church. We belong together because we are built together, one unit. We are one body in Christ. That's what the New Testament talks about. He don't care about a denomination. He cares about Jesus.

Do you know him? "Well, I've been Baptist for 50 years." I didn't ask you that. I asked you did you know Jesus. Because if you don't know Jesus, how are you going to get to heaven? Denomination is not going to get you to heaven. There are a lot of folks that right now are not where they thought they'd be because they thought their denomination would get them there. The cross destroys the denominations, the fences so to speak. He died to make us family. We belong together.

Ephesians 2:19. It says: "So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and are of God's household, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole building being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the spirit." Now have you ever tried putting together furniture without reading the instructions? Some of y'all laughing now.

You end up, I don't know how this happens, my wife and I we put up Zach's bed and everything and we had three screws left over. Now Madeleine's very particular. She majored in math, so she knows those figures. And she's counting and she's saying, "Wait a minute. Got three left. Where'd they come from?" I said, "I don't know. You count them. Y'all leave me alone." But people have three screws left over. Then someone says, "You skipped step two." That's the church sometimes. People are trying to build a life without step two.

What's step one? Step one is confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord." Step two is believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and then you will be saved and become a member of the family of faith. Now you can have step one, but if you don't have step two, you've got some screws missing. When Jesus, known as the carpenter, isn't part of our lives, everything in life is crooked. It's not level. Can you imagine a carpenter trying to do a job without a blueprint and an empty tool belt?

Jesus is the master craftsman who uses the word as his tool to work on us, the living stones the Bible calls us, to build a firm foundation in our faith. The Bible isn't only our blueprint, but it's also like a tool belt that helps to hold the hammer, which sometimes is the word, or the tape that can sometimes glue the message together or keep the message fastened. And a tape measure just to see, wait a minute, spiritually how far am I in the Lord since I've given my life to him?

And then you've got to have a speed square. You've got to have a utility knife and you've got to have pencils and fasteners. Christ isn't just our foundation, he's also the master carpenter who fits us all together into one body for his Father. And we're all built together because that's how God wanted us to be together. In every family, there are though some loose screws. Can I get an amen? Even some believers in church are some loose screws. Can I get an amen?

Paul says believers are fellow citizens, members of God's household, built together. Then he shifts from strangers to family and a holy temple. The phrase "fitted together" describes stones carefully placed into one particular structure. We all support the structure. We're part of a body. If there is someone feeling pain in the body, we go to where the pain is. If someone's just lost a loved one, you know what we do? We run to where the grief is. That's what we do naturally as human beings.

But we as a church, we just do that because that's what God told us to do. And each one of you have your own deacon. Whatever your last name is, just go online and you can find who your deacon is. It's on our website. They all have their own assignments and they have their own people. And sometimes the chairman of the deacons, Brother Ken, he's on speed dial with me because I give it to him or Elder Alex and they take care of things immediately for me. But unity isn't uniformity. I want y'all to understand that. Because everybody want everybody to look alike, dress alike, and talk alike. No, God didn't want that. If he wanted that, then we'd all look alike. But we don't all look alike. Thank God for that.

We aren't united because we look the same, grew up the same, worship the same style. We are united because we all were sinners saved by the same blood of Jesus Christ. The cross tore down every wall that hell tried to build. Paul says we are no longer strangers, we are no longer outsiders, no longer divided. But the devil knows if he can divide the church, he can distract the church from their mission, which is to show people Christ, grow people in Christ, and to glorify God. That's our mission statement.

Show people Christ means evangelism. Growing people in Christ means discipleship. Brother Jerry does a great job of that and some of you others as well. But in all things, glorify God. So whenever you want to do something, we ask ourselves a question, will it match up with these three things? Will it show people Christ, grow people in Christ, and will it glorify God? If not, we don't do it. That's just the simple solution for us. But we're no longer outsiders, we're no longer divided. When we stand, we stand together.

When we stand, we pray together. When we stand, we worship together. The world sees Jesus when we worship together, when we stand together, and when we pray together. That's how the world sees Jesus. Jesus said, "How will they know that you are my disciples? If you have love one for another." Because our unity is our identity. We can't have a community without being part of the community. The Christian life was never meant to be isolated. Have you ever heard people say, "Well, you know, I can worship God at home"? Yeah, you can.

But at home, your worship service has one worship song and then you're back in the kitchen with the pancakes and the omelet and the bacon. Then you're scrolling social media. Then you put yourself in your recliner and take a nap and the worship service is still going on while you're napping. Our unity is proof that Jesus is transforming our identity. That's why the writer of Hebrews commands us in chapter 10 and verse 24: "Let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the day drawing near."

What day? The day of Christ drawing near. It's closer now than it's ever been. But the word "consider" means to observe carefully, to notice attentively, and to think deeply about it. The word means intentionally pay attention to other people. If you see them going through something emotionally, that's your opportunity to come alongside. You don't have to say anything. But if you see someone hurting, an arm on the shoulder does some wonderful things. And men, don't be putting your arms around no women around here if they're crying. Don't do that. Let another woman do that for you because you may get things all mixed up because women are vulnerable when they start those tears and stuff and they're spiritually vulnerable at that time. And then you put that arm around there and then there's a connection of some kind and it ain't healthy, it ain't good. They're going to remember, "Oh, he put his arm around me, girl."

We don't want to have none of that stuff in here. We want to be caring for one another, but we don't want to overstep the boundaries. We don't want to get too personal. Some believers notice everything except people's needs. They can walk into the church, "That picture is crooked." Ain't even got in the sanctuary yet. Or they walk in and one person said, you know how we do when we open up the welcome ministry, they welcome all guests. And then during the shaking-handy time, this is what I call it, you go around, they tell you to go around and meet other people. But some people don't move. That's okay.

But one Sunday one particular people came in and they were upset with me. "I came to your church fellowship, New Covenant Fellowship. Nobody came and shook my hand, nobody came and said hello to me." And I said, "Oh my." And so I said, "I'm sorry that that happened." And I said, "Hold on a second." And behind them were two of our members. I said, "Can y'all take care of this for me?" "Pastor, yeah, we got it." And so they took care of that and they came back to me and said, "Pastor, we took care of that." I said, "Thank you." But I was thinking in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "Well, why didn't you move around?" I mean that was my first thing, but I didn't want to say that because I'm pastor. You understand what I'm saying?

James says, "Be quick to hear, slow to speak." Thank you. I was practicing James because I really did not want to... I wanted to say a whole bunch of things, but that would have been in the flesh and I didn't want to get in the flesh with that because I wanted him to come back. "Stir up" is used first of all, caring for one another, and then the word "stir up" is used negatively for irritation, meaning to provoke and incite intensely. Now here's what it means in this scripture. It means church people are going to provoke each other anyway. So Hebrews says instead of stirring up drama in the parking lot over politics, why don't you provoke each other to become more loving or to become more like Christ and more holy?

Not get into a Facebook argument. Not stir up love to call them folks' names. I don't think you're going to stir up no love like that because Facebook arguments are not going to stir up any love. But we're to stir up love, generosity, and also prayer, encouragement, and service. "Exhorting" means just what it means, to come alongside and encourage them not to quit, not to forsake assembling. The word "forsaken" means abandon. Parakaleo is the Greek word where we get Paraclete from, which is what the Holy Spirit does. He comes alongside.

It's the Greek word for him coming alongside to provide whatever is needed for that moment. And so when we are exhorting people, we come alongside and encourage them not to quit, not to give up on their faith. Forsaking means to abandon. Now can you imagine a choir how they would sound if everybody kept singing the same note all the time? I mean, what's the use? No, choirs were made to sing harmoniously. Amen. And so Revelation 7 lists the diversity that will happen and that will be in heaven. All nations, all tribes, all races, and languages are there praising God in Revelation. Different voices, but the same song.

So your seat, your voice, your praise, and your faithfulness matters because you make up the united part of the unity, being together. So don't stop showing up. God didn't design Christianity to be a solo concert. The church isn't perfect. It is a hospital for healing, a family for fellowship, and a community for compassion. When we attend church, come prepared to be used by God. You know, it's so funny. People prepare harder for football season than eternity. They'll paint their faces, buy jerseys, tailgate six hours early, sit in freezing weather, but say, "I can't come to church because it's too cloudy, look like it's going to rain." Or, "it's too cold" or, "it's too hot and they don't have adequate air conditioning in there and I'm going to stay home." Stop it.

Paul wrote in Philippians 2:4, I'm going to finish up here: "Do not merely look out for your own selves and do not look out for your own personal interest, but also the interests of others." To do that, we need to one, consider the family. Two, continue in fellowship. Three, challenge the faithful. Do you know someone who comes up with this excuse, "Well, you know, I can worship God at home"? You may can. And my wife when I'm off, we'll watch Brother Jerry. But you know what? We sit there and think, "Man, it's not the same." Is it? It's not the same. I was a stay-at-home pastor, y'all remember during COVID? It wasn't the same. And I was at home talking to myself.

The question, are you a member of God's family? Next question, do you want to be? Step one is confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord." Step two, believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead and the Bible says you shall be saved.

Guest (Male): All things are possible from New Covenant Fellowship Church. Connect with us anytime at NCF.church/connect or on social media @NCFChattanooga. Worship with us every Sunday morning at 10:30 in person at 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga or online at NCF.church/messages. New Covenant Fellowship Church, a place for every race.

Dr. Bernie Miller: There is no way anything or anyone can separate you from the love of God. There's nothing that you can do to separate yourself from the love of God. It is a done deal and sealed by the Holy Spirit of God and we're sealed until the day of redemption.

Guest (Male): New Covenant Fellowship Church. In-person worship Sunday mornings at 10:30, 1326 North Moore Road in Chattanooga. New Covenant Fellowship Church, a place for every race.