God Welcomes Us to Dine With Him | Jan 27th

Well, if I messed up giving the message this morning, I kind of get a do-over now, right? So no, just kidding.

The first time for me to give him message twice in one morning and it's kind of an unusual morning, but I'm grateful to to serve Cornerstone for many of you know, it was this is church. I feel like that is very Kindred to us. I think they're their there people there that we love we care for their and we are a really I love them their leadership everything. So it's a it's a cool thing to be able to as I was this morning give a message there and kind of partner with them and just kind of connect with them as long as they're going through time of saying Hey, will God. What do you what do you want from us? And what's next so it's fun also because we are working on a series about Hospitality many of you know, Micah seabirds. He actually be here next weekend and him and I are kind of collaborating on this 5 weeks series about the hospitality, so We are calling it welcomed in a Biblical call to hospitality and you can see that on the on the on the screen that the picture of the place setting there. And and so we are going to talk about this kind of flash this out over a 5-week journey a kind of some of it being repetitive but some of it kind of dip diving into different angles of what I believe to be a very very biblical topic that God wants us to press into into jump into in the journey with him on So before I go any further this mess in this message, and before I read into the text, I just want to pray and go for the Lord and ask him to guide my words and to guide our hearts and that we can listen to him this morning. So it's right.

Father God we thank you so much this morning that we can come before you in this place that we can sing of how great you are. You are Redeemer you love us. You're mighty. Your medicine call this your children. As we see in this tropical Hospital you moved us from being strangers and aliens to being your family and that is a wonderful piece of news. It's gospel. Hope This morning Lord. I just ask that as we go through this journey. Is it real journey throughout your whole entire scripture? May we grasped how hospitable you have been to us?

And it would be thankful me we were spawned. Lord I pray for years Hearts Minds as we said and work through this moment and we just ask that you guide us Spirit your name on men

I would ask you to consider or Vision envision with yourself or like step back. if I told you other than the Bible that one of the greatest Kingdom building tools as I'm coming to understand it and then see it when the greatest tools that we have for God's kingdom work and his purposes and growing people and growing his church and and miss being missional to the world is something that is in your house and is something that you sit at every day, would you believe me?

I'm coming to this understanding that are dining room tables and that's what I want us to kind of I kind of think about this at least this message and Andrew this whole series coming about what happens at our dining room tables in and more. So what happens in our house what happens in our homes as being the thing that God can use for grey chlorine for great good. Suzanne and I we you know, we eat we moved into our house in about a year ago and we realized that we had we really needed a dining room table that fit the space, you know, you can go in and buy my furniture and you can buy a TV stand or whatever and it's really kind of like well just put the TV there but for us buying a dining room table became a very important piece because that wasn't just were you kind of serving me. Oh, it's where you invite people to Susanna's house back home. Her parents died in all of this every time I see it happen to her parents have a dining room table that has more leaves than you can count on your fingers. Literally it expands out to be like 22 people long. It is crazy long and that is a crazy meal that when you have expanded is just amazing to see really those dining room tables become a place that for us and our home. We say we want invite people in we want to have people at this table. Welcome them there. Much more we have things that happened at a dining room table like birthdays. We celebrate birthdays and end and come around those tables and as well, we have difficult conversations. Some of us have our devotions at our table. We we drink our coffee read the newspaper. There's all sorts of things that happen at this table. Right many of you we've had you at our tables and we've gotten to know you and and conversations that have just really blossomed into things that I didn't know that I would learn about you and it it's really really cool to see conversations happen at our table.

We have three meals a day 21 meals a week. Obviously, we don't all do those at our tables but that's opportunities for us to gather around that space and end in our home something that I've been journeying in thinking about is how even our table this table this thing that we see how it becomes a a piece of a piece of furniture really almost a holy space the God can use So if you're thinking about your dining room table as you picture that I want to frame that for this message to say can God use that.

For his goodness for his act of biblical hospitality.

The idea of the series came one because of some stuff that got some work in my heart. He's been working on other people's hearts that I not talk to you. It's been a thing that I've seen in our community that we can grow in that we can continue to learn from that we can continue to to care for each other in our church by welcoming people in and then also our neighbors on I would even challenge that what we should be doing rather than inviting people to church as we should be the first inviting them to our tables and having fellowship with them there. I think that would be an extremely missional gospel-centered thing to do.

As we think about welcome in a Biblical call to hospitality. I want to start us off by reading three text and they're going to be really short quick text. How you can join me there if you want but I'm going to be flipping through these pretty quick these three. This is where the we see the word come up Hospitality three times in these three different vs. The Apostle Paul. He says in Romans chapter 12 verse 13 after he's talked about being a Living Sacrifice and we'll talk about this verse in a couple weeks. He says contribute to the needs of the Saints and seek to show Hospitality. We should seek it we should desire to do it. Likewise Peter speaking to a church in 1st Peter chapter 4 verse 9. He says this show Hospitality to one another and here's a kicker without grumbling. He gives us how do we should do it?

Next week. We'll look at this passage in Hebrews 13 Michael common free Chung summer. This this message Hebrews 13 verses 1 and 2. Let Brotherly Love continue do not neglect to show Hospitality to strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unaware 3 versus where we are called to hospitality Paul Peter and the writer of Hebrews. They all mention it. I could also add that if they call for the leaders in the church to be hospitable 1st Timothy these versus all speak to something that we are called to do. And the question is is this just an arbitrary law a another thing that got added to our car Christian to do list that we say OK I invite someone over for dinner and I can check the box. I was hospitable done been there done that. Or is there something more here that as I am learning and seeing is pervasive throughout the scriptures and it's all over the place God welcoming in people. I think we calls us to hospitality. What he's trying to do is to elevate and and show to the world through us what he has done to us. He's trying to speak about something about his personality because if you take nothing away from this other than what I'm about to say, I want us to trust and believe and start to meditate on the idea that our God is a hospitable God. He's a welcoming God in this message. This morning is titled. God welcomes us to dine with him. Not only does he welcomed his into his family, but he welcomes us to his dining room table the place that we see in our living room as or in our kitchen rather as our dining room table God welcomes us into his home into a meal with him and we see that throughout the scriptures and that's what I want to take us on a journey on this morning.

God welcoming us into his dining room table and and I think that that's part of the reason why I believe that welcoming people to our dining room table is such a huge deal. Because that's what God does for us.

Before we go there though. We have to consider a couple things. Many of you and your mind are our thinking the term hospitality and I don't know where your mind goes, but I'm guessing that some of you are our thinking about the entertainment industry you go to a hotel and they are all about Hospitality. Are you go to my favorite restaurant Chick-fil-A and they're all about Hospitality or if you go to an entertainment entertainment Park like like when I worked and yes, I worked at SeaWorld for summer. I didn't train dolphins I serve churros.

We were all about hospitality. Giving to those who had paid big money to enter into the park. They had given him paid something and there was a return there is kind of a a partnership a mutual giving and taking in this in this Mutual relationship or I think for many of us will we will also think of hospitality in terms of inviting family over for Christmas or friends over for holidays this idea of inviting people we know into a relationship. which underneath it really kind of has this reciprocal action that I invite you in and you invite me in because we have the same last name or are because we have to entertaining becomes this idea of hospitality where we put on a show we put on the best meal. We possibly can we got to make sure the house is picking span. We pulled the Martha Stewart magazines and we read through them and we find out how we can be more and more hospitable.

But is that really what Biblical hospitality is?

I have a definition here

The definition is a working definition. There might be some things you like about it. There might be some things you don't like about it. There might be some things that are confusing but this is the definition that I've worked on and I've kind of consulted a couple others and just said hey, what do you think about this and it's kind of the definition that were using as it as one throughout the series of how we're going to Define Biblical Hospitality. I want to read it says: "Hospitality is the critical and consistent Act of welcoming strangers to become family by offering what is most needed out of that which God has given us again." The critical and consistent Act of welcoming strangers to become family by offering what is most needed out of that which God has given us. Some of the words in there critical it's this need it's something that we have to do. It's an interesting idea that that hospitality and Hospital come from the same route where the same idea of Housing and we seeing in hostels. It's like that's necessary. We going to house these people who are sick. There's a critical aspect to that. It's urgent it's needed and it's needed part of our discipleship. It's consistent. It's something that we don't just do on an occasional basis. It should be part of a lifestyle something we're taking on and and doing all the time thinking, how can I welcome others in An action it's active. It's not passive. It's not waiting for people to show up at our door and it's showing up. I think I'm going to go find those who are in need. We're doing it to strangers. The Bible also uses aliens sojourners others, those who are foreigners to us or people that they're they're strange to us. That's right. Some of you hear that you're younger and used to look at older people as strangers or or vice versa or someone who comes from a different background. He's you is a stranger. There are things about them their story their upbringing those things that you don't know about and so they would be classified as a stranger. And you're willing to offer to them material things time, Emil. Welcome to your table. You're offering them open handedly what you have what God has given to you which is to suggest that God gives us all that we have. And we are to be stewards what he's given us. You were giving where there's need. For some people in our day doesn't quite look like the Bible times in in biblical times the needs their most important that we see in this topic hospitality is food and clothing and lodging for those who are traveling to and fro they would need a house for the evening a meal and to make sure they were warm I think now in our time and we'll flush us out in a couple weeks most importantly. I think people need our time a listening ear and maybe relationship. This definition that you see on the screen and it's again, it's not perfect. But I think it starts to grasp of a God has called us to do. That because you wants a to-do list not because he wants us to just check a box, but because it is built out of God's character and that's what I want to take us through this morning that God is a hospitable God that welcomes our sin and much more than that the gospel the good news is that he has done that. The gospel is not I think we messed this up and we think the gospel is God getting us out of hell. And we forget the part that God welcomes us into a better reality that welcomes us into his his home his family into melee is having a meal with him. That is good news. And so we need to see this as God's hospitality is part of the Gospel message for us. So when a journey over the next handful of minutes through a bunch of passages, I normally I spend time in one passage. This is going to a little bit different and I and I pray that you can buckle up and you don't get biblical whiplashes we go through these stories, but I want to trace really some of the picture and some of the places that we see this through the scriptures starting with Genesis. Genesis 1 if you open their we know the story of creation we know in the beginning God created and we see him create the heavens and the Earth and me we see him create the water and we see him create the plants and the animals and everything and he says, it's good. It's good. It's good. We think oh he's creating the world. But really what is creatine there is a home. He's quite crazy in the dwelling place for man. But again, it's not man's house that he is that got the man built. It's actually gone to the only place he could describe. This place is his footstool. This is his home. He reigns over he is domain he is the king of his castle the world and we need to see that he welcomes us in looking for 26 then God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let us let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heaven and over the livestock and over the Earth and over every creeping thing that Creeps in the year. So God created man in his own image in the image of God. He created him male and female he created them and God bless them and God said to them be fruitful multiply and fill the Earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds that they have in and over every living thing that moves on the earth. This is the first that I want Key in on 29 "and God said behold. I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the Earth and every tree with seed in its fruit you shall have them for food."

God creates a house he creates a space and environment for us to live in decrease the Garden of Eden and it's wonderful and he puts man in there Adam and Eve and he says welcome to my house. Welcome in make yourself at home be family be fruitful fill up this house with your people. And then he says all the trees, all the plants, are all the pomegranates, are all the oranges, all the brussel sprouts. Ok, maybe not them.

You can have them Feast on them eat the light enjoy. Welcome to my table the garden starts off with a feast. Giving everything for the people. Of course, we know that sin enters in instead of instead of the feast that God had prepared for them. They took the one thing that they couldn't have the Happy Meal that the apple of the tree and they took it in age and they disobeyed God you'd one house rule. Don't eat of that tree. That's mine.

Senators in and he ends up kicking them out of the garden which seems anti Hospitality. But really what it is is God protecting them because if they would have stayed in his presence he is so holy they would have been destroyed. He's actually doing a good thing because from there on he's going to say, okay. I need us to get back to this place where we can be fellowshipping in my creation purely without any hindrance. I want to get back and welcome you back into my home without any problems.

That's where the scriptures ends, right. Flip over the Revelation 19 the story of the new heavens and the Earth is coming in before we have this marriage supper of the Lamb that will Usher in this new creation. And there we hear John he gets this Vision that says in Revelation. Then I heard what seems to be the voice of a great multitude like a roar of many Waters like the sound of the money Pearls of Thunder. Crying out Hallelujah for the Lord. Our God is the Almighty Reigns. Let us exalt and give him glory for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride has been made has made herself ready. It is was granted her to close herself with fine linen right here for the fine linen of the righteous Deeds of the Saints and the angel said write this blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb and he said to me these are true words of God and I fell down and worshipped at the feet of him, but he said to me you must not do that. I am a fellow servant with you and you and in your brother for her who holds this the testimony of Jesus worship God. This idea at the end of our scriptures from beginning to end is God is going back to say I want to invite my people back in. I want to make strangers into my bride. I want to welcome in my home. I want to have a meal with them. I want to dine with them again. That's the art. That's the the whole storyline of the scriptures. So, how did God get back to that?

We know that from Genesis one until Genesis 11 the the world kind of spirals out of control. It keeps going downhill and in Genesis 12. At takes a stranger named Abraham one man who has really nothing to offer to God that he's a faithful man, but he has nothing else to get God and God says welcome to my family. I'm going to make you my my my son. I'm going to bring you into my family. I'm going to give you a blessing in chapter 12. He says, I'm going to give you a land a place a people. I'm Evie tons of blessing. I'm going to welcome you into my home. Abraham's welcomed in and we know that Abraham Isaac Jacob the family keeps growing and growing but where do they end up the end up in Egypt, right? In Egypt the end up in slavery. They end up with a Taskmaster there in a place of foreign Gods far from God. They're distant from where God wants them to be back in the Promised Land. Then we have this guy named Moses show up Genesis or Exodus 3 and turn there for a moment. Exodus 3 1 through 12 is the story of the burning bush.

Moses is out there and then he turns to see what God has and inverse 7 God shows up this hospitable God he shows up with Moses proactively and he says I've seen the afflictions of my people who are in Egypt, and I've heard their cry because of their Taskmaster. I know their sufferings. I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of Egyptians and to bring them into the land and this is where I wanted to focus in on a land. To a good and Broad land a land and we forget this sometimes flowing with milk and honey. This is a land of feasting he wants to bring God's people back to it. He goes on verse 9 and Now Behold The Cry of the people of Israel have come to me. I've see I have also seen the oppression of that was Egypt Egyptian to press them, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people that you may bring them the children of Israel out of Egypt until we see the story of slaves people that are are in a foreign land. They are in a place and I would even suggest that we seen that they're probably even worshipping other gods in that land. Is there worshiping they're not offering God worship and God has he decides I hear them. I hear her cry, and I'm going to bring them out and I'm going to bring them to a place and I'm going to give them abundance. Walking them to my home. It's interesting. You can note this verse down and we won't turn their but in Leviticus 25 later. Is there getting the law what's interesting is God there says that the land that they're coming to the land the promised land of land of milk and honey. It's not going to be there land. They're not going to own it. God says, this is my land. They're just Stewart's. They're just tenants that are being welcomed into God's land of milk and honey. It's not theirs. It's God's dwelling place that he's going to welcome them into.

Course, we know how did they get out of it out of Egypt through a meal? I asked God is about to bring them out. He welcomes them indoors as as death and and and and the the need of being rescued from the cloud of death. It's passing by outside as the Egyptians are dealing with that God welcomes them into a house for what a meal God is showing the set the menu a lamb eat it Feast on it eat all of it. We don't think of that as a positive fees, but God is welcoming them in so that he can bring them out.

We know a number 13 they get to this land they endorse. Yes, it's full of a fruit. It's full of milk and honey has got his promised and yet they fear that they turn and they don't trust God is offering hospitality and they reject that hospitality and end up wiping out of generation as they wander in the desert for a long time. Eventually they do get in this is again. This is just a journey through the tax to say that eventually got people they do get in under Joshua and they start to settle the land and they they expand and they take over this land that belongs to God and they start to set up a kingdom in and eventually they have Kings like David and Solomon they build a temple for God says build me this home and and and and they build a house for God and he shows up and then what happens after that they Feast there's this relationship when God shows up in his home. They have a great celebration a meal with God.

Start of a kind of a tangent as we're looking at David this idea of hospitality. God David. This he knew it wasn't just about the physical land, but it was about dwelling. With God, but we know Psalm 23, right? It's says what we can pry all say together. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want he makes me lie down in Green Pastures and leads me beside Still Waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in Paths of righteousness for his namesake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil for you are with me your rod and your staff they comfort me. That's the part that we remember most off and then we are sometimes at least I will kind of Life offers 5 and 6, which I think David is getting that God's Hospitality here. U-god you prepare a table before me a feast in the presence of my enemies you anoint my head with oil my cup overflows surely the goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever gets it. God is a God that has welcomed him in it. He is saying I want you to die with me that is what we should desire and God says I'm offering that to you. Weave journey through Isaiah recently and I won't pull up the text there but in the midst of God judging them because they had again they were bailed they going after other gods after other Idols got it is saying I'm going to boot you from the land. I'm going to judge and and send you away to Babylon. But at the same time in the midst of that he saying I am going to welcome you back. He starts the promise of servanthood come the Messiah who would come we known to be Jesus that will bring you back in and give you a meal. He will welcome you into relationship again. Let me see Jesus show up on the scene, right? Jesus shows up in and throughout the gospels. We see Jesus often doing what? Eating with people welcoming in those who have nothing to offer those who the world won't accept Sinners tax collectors and we'll look at that and a couple weeks. He's welcoming them in his welcoming people to him, whether they're young or old children, whether they're sick rich-poor. He's welcoming them and saying come

one particular place the only miracle that comes in all of the gospels all four of the Gospels. Is the feeding of the 5000?

It is truly a a story about Jesus being hospitable.

Look with me at Matthew 14. 13221 says Jesus heard this he was Drew from there in a boat to the desolate place. So he's out in the wilderness by himself. When the Crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the town's when he went ashore. He saw great crowd and he had compassion on them.

Mark adds that they were like sheep without a shepherd and says he healed the sick. No one it was evening. The disciples came to him and said this is a desolate place and the day has now over send the crowds away to the villages to buy food and forgiving it out food for themselves what the disciples are doing. There. Is it is they're saying Jesus. There's all these people here. It's not safe to be out at night and there's no food here. There's no lodging. This is not a send them back to the Villages. They're being anti hospitable. Jesus has no welcome them in. Jesus said they need not go away. You give them something to eat. They said to him. We only have Five Loaves here in two fish and he said bring them here to meet any order the crowds to sit down on the grass and taking the Five Loaves and two fish. He looked up in heaven instead of blasting and then he broke the Loaves and gave them to the disciples and the disciples gave them to the crowd. That's an interesting principal. God gives us the food to pass on to others. We'll talk about that more later. But he says and the age and they were satisfied Jesus gives a meal and it wasn't some small little snack. It wasn't some bread crumbs a little morsel to get us by it says they were satisfied out in the wilderness. Jesus invited them in he was hospitable to their needs he welcomed them what they had need for and they were full off this piece. Since they picked up twelve baskets full of broken pieces left over those who hate we're about 5,000 besides women and children. There was this giant feast in a desert Place. Jesus said, I am the one that welcomes them in. I'm the one that's going to take care of them out here. a physical needs but much more he knew that they were spiritual they'd spiritual needs and ultimately that's where that's going as they as he goes to the Cross. He's going to welcome him into his family by going and being a servant by laying down his life by giving us what we need most Is life God's son. From this day. I want to pull out quickly six principles that we can see about hospitality and he's really frame Our God who is hospitable in our tax that I have kind of journey through as I studied all these things there, six big things that came out. God welcomes us first. He welcomes strangers us to become family. He takes those who are sinners who are distant from him were far off and he says come and not only just come into my house, but I will call you children. I will call you my bride. I will call you family. God welcomes us from strangers to become family. Only that but God welcomes us proactively he doesn't wait around for us to sit there and knock on the door and say Jesus. Can you let me in now? He says I go I welcome you in I'm going to do what you need to bring to meet your need and bring you into my house. He's proactive. He doesn't wait.

thirdly God welcomes us with nothing offer him. What's the storyline of the scriptures Adam and Eve in the garden they didn't have anything offer why does God created them Abraham was out in in the world he didn't have anything to offer but he got shows him the Israelites they had nothing to offer of this as it was slaves and he brought them in he brought them out and brought them into a land. God welcomes in those who have nothing to offer in as we look at our relationship with God in our sin in our in our Brokenness. We have nothing to offer God to come to him. What do you want them to send?

Fourth day God welcomes us even though we may reject him. All the stories the storyline of the Bible is God is offering hospitality and welcoming Us in in the garden. They were ejected is real. They were ejected the people Jesus his own day. They rejected him and killed him. Diagnose this gospel, which he welcomes Us in but sometimes as he's open innocent here it is take my gift. People say no. Thank you. Try to do it on my own.

He welcomes us watch for filling our greatest need. Ultimately, that's the story of the Gospel. Is it Hospitality to find in the Bible is is is a meal. It's lodging it's closing its that which is most needed but God knows greater than that greater than some Earthly meal or some clothing to wear to keep me warm. What we altimate Lee need is what we missed when we broke fellowship with him. What we were created to do when the garden was to have a relationship with him. God welcomes us in our greatest need is in our sin you offers an offering for us he offers as a sacrifice to bring us righteousness so we can come back into his presence. He helps us by filling are fulfilling our greatest need. Finally he welcomed Sassoon with abundance. God doesn't hold back when he gives he gives out of the fact that he has tons and tons to give any doesn't Reserve anything. He says welcome my house. It's all for you. Welcomes us with abundance.

Have you been writing those things down or if you want the list of those things? I'd be more than happy to give those to you again. But really what is going on as you look at these six items is that is what we find in our definition. This definition that we built this Hospitality that's critical inconsistent. It's an act of welcoming strangers to become a family by offering what is most needed of that which is God has given us. No God didn't need to give himself anything. He just had for this definition that I've called on us for as Christians. We are doing this based off of what God has done for us him being the hospital one.

One more text for us.

Can be familiar Matthew 26 The Last Supper? The Bible ends with a a meal in the garden. It's going to end with a new creation Emil. But Import in the middle. There is this important meal that we know when we take it that we don't deserve it. And Jesus says to his friends there be reminded judases at the table who will reject him. Peter will deny him shortly thereafter. He welcomes them to the stable and he says this Now as they were eating Jesus Took bread and after blessing that he gave thanks, he gave it to the disciples and said take eat. This is my body.

You took the cop and when he was giving thanks, he gave it to them saying drink of it. All of you for this is my blood of the Covenant which has been poured out for many for the Forgiveness of sins. I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit in the vine until the day when I drink of new with with you in my father's Kingdom. He says I am giving you what you need most which is the Forgiveness of sins. I ain't you need to be restored and I give you this meal knowing that I'm going to the Cross knowing what's ahead and I want to give it to you so that you can drink again with me for all eternity.

Again, we know we don't deserve to have that meal will celebrate it next week, right? We don't deserve that meal. But we get to he welcomes us to his dining room table. He welcomes us to supper with him. And as we think about this message of of welcoming ending in God God welcoming us to eat with him what I want us to see it as we enter into this this 5-week look at Hospitality. Why should we do this? The important thing to see is that it's not just a to-do list. It's not a moral. We are a better person because of it we need to see is that we want to welcome people in because God welcomes Us in first. Part of his character. It's what he's done for us. And I will see you next week that our act of worship is to respond by showing that to the world. So this week that the hope is that we were flagged in our hearts God you've welcomed me in. Thank you Lord for doing that. Thank you for wanting me to be at your table with you. Thank you Lord for just thinking of me when I had nothing to offer you.

It's morning as we turn to prayer and in a moment, we will sing about Christ. We are reminded of what he did reminded of who he is and the importance of what he's done by saying you are no longer strangers. But now I call you family as I welcome you into my home. Let's pray.

Father God we thank you so much.

We thank you so much that you

Didn't leave us outside in the cold you brought us into your home. We thank you Lord that you didn't leave us without a meal, but you give us you the bread of life and and you will give us a meal for eternity as we Feast with you.

You didn't leave a unclothed you cover us with your righteousness Jesus. So that we can be in your presence God.

We thank you Lord that this morning that we can reflect just on how hospitable you have been to us how your hospitality is pervasive through your Redemption story to bring us back to you from where we rebelled.

Lord I ask that as we go from here that we can look at our dining room tables that we can look at our homes that we can look at what we have and say all this these things reflect Jesus what you have given us they are are just reminders of how much you love us.

May we be thankful and we worship you with them as we consider how we can welcome others in to our worlds.

We praise you this morning. Because you walk on this into this house this family and we worship you together as Community Bible Church until you take us home or until you come again. Thank you. Jesus your great name. Amen.