Worship Pastor JJ Toledo brings the Words to the Wise series to life with a message rooted in personal honesty and hard-won resilience, preaching from Proverbs 24:16 — "though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again." Opening with the confession of far darker seasons involving addiction, deception, and living a double life, he set up the sermon's central distinction: Godly righteousness is not perfection, it's living in dependence on God and returning to him when you fall. He challenged the church to stop pursuing spiritual appearances without heart transformation and to build their lives on the firm foundation of Christ. The message's rallying cry is both simple and electric: in Jesus' name, you can rise again — not in your own strength, but in his.