7/19/2020

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We're on this like it for whatever it does for you. For those of you that leave with cynar harder resonates throughout the week or there's a verse or a phrase or something that clicks or whatever. It does the same thing for all of us up here to and and the idea of being together and being Spirit Led man. Just it all goes together the prayer the word the message the kids messages when we have that and then it just all it's amazing the dynamic that happens when you put it all together and it flows and and and how blessed are we that we're back to where we can do it together as a blessing to be able to do it online through technology. I mean, it's better than 9:00 already know. It's More there than if you're just by yourself, but man is so good to have it back.

I am going to kind of combined and I think this is how we did it last week, too. So I apologize for going to try to be a little bit consists with our order of worship. I'm going to come by and kind of Joys and concerns and the offering prayer and will flow into I'll talk to you about the scripture the message and then roll from Roll from that prayer request that were shared ahead of time.

Kurt atteberry had rotator cuff surgery on Friday and he recent areas with us you doing okay? Good good good enough slide like you had surgery and I was like so awesome. Awesome. Awesome been praying. He and Mary up Sandy McDowell of the Aetna Church also had rotator cuff surgery at 2 arm arm injuries are pitching staff would have taken a hit with Kurt and Sandy also had rotator cuff surgery Friday, please pray for pain relief and a complete quick recovery for both Kurt and Sandy, Sue McClure is still having lots of back pain. She will have her next treatment on Thursday July 23rd. Please pray for pain relief for Sue keep Sue prayed up in a powerful way Martha Sherman is experiencing knee and hip issues that may require surgery Martha would really like to avoid surgery if possible. So we're praying for a great position to go in and really I bring strong healing for Martha and turns of knee and hip please pray for pain relief for her and peace of mind. She's also experiencing some depression and she really appreciates our prayer. So let's prep Martha swarming in a powerful way. And then also Martha's best friend Phyllis needs prayer for her mobility issues. She is in the Odd Fellows Rebekah home. So Martha's best friend Phyllis, please pray for mobility issues and she is in Odd Fellows Rebekah. All right couple of Joy's just to add in there. I went to I got to deliver a couple of the yes, Bob. Sorry.

Thanks, Bob builder in case you didn't hear Bill O'Dell. Is in Barns with severe I'm serious medical issues. So pretty please pray up Bill.

I got to deliver a couple of the Bible school bags to the young and Miller holsapple families in Toledo this morning. So first of all, they greatly appreciated and loved it. So that they thanks. Thanks for everyone that contribute to that. And if you if you didn't on the way in I know we're supposed to exit in a quick and efficient manner or whatever it is, but take a check out the bags back there. It's time to tell me you got a thumb through them or anything, but people went to a lot of work to that and it's very cool how they're organized and packaged and then for those that that were boots on the ground in terms of putting them together. Please know they really appreciate it across the county Jenna Jenna picked up both bags and Jenna young and really appreciate it. And then the other thing I had it is Lily Whitaker is Lily Lily Whitaker. And this is not to embarrass you Lily Whitaker. So take a deep breath and don't let me don't let me be angst you up or whatever. I want to do a humble-brag. So we've been doing this strength and conditioning thing throughout the summer with are out at the school and its non-sports specific so you can have a ball when I do it's literally strength and conditioning and got it at and lilies in one of my groups. I do the Junior. I've got the Jeremiah groups and Louise and one of my groups and now and again, this is a humble brag because she's going to be embarrassed. I don't mean to embarrass her Lily. This is to lift up our and your church family because I want to brag but how well Lily represents and at the credit to her her folks and family but to all of you as well though, it would occur is a sick coming into 6th grade this year now, she's mature because I had her coming into 6th grade last year and Remind me she's not there yet. But now she is she's with us. So Lily Lily comes in and and this is not exactly what you would call mine. So because it's it's agilities is calisthenics. It's running without the joy of a ball kicking hitting throwing whatever so that you know, so credit to Lily number one for coming back the fact that she continues to come in. This is other kids too. If I've got others in here. I know Gracie gresens comes and some of the others the lazy boys may be involved. I don't know but but anywhere high school kids and some of my bed, but Lily Lily keeps coming back and Lily will be the first to tell you that. She does the best you can with what she's got. She's not going to lie to your say, you know, she's an Olympic Athlete or whatever Lily works hard. She does the best she can with God blessed her with and she keeps coming back and that is a good athlete. She's better athlete than she would give herself credit for being out there that out there is kind of cuz I'm there but here's the deal I give him at the beginning this first week. I guess I am a teacher to coach so I got my practice plan and everything out by the way, I'll take this time out of the message. So don't think this tags on at the end. I'll speed up a message and get you out of here. So I don't want to sit there thinking. Oh my gosh, he's not even to the message yet. I'll take it off. I'll I'll skip I'll speed it up. So but I gave him an order of you know, I do a practice plan or whatever. I sent home. I take this to your phone and show him cuz they're going to ask you what you did and you're not going to remember but you can show him this this when's Pacific to Lily. This was all over my dad keeps texting me. So Lily was the only one who asked out of my three grab three groups Lily was the only one who asked what's totd mean on there that had a spot with totd Will totd thought of the day and I do that night and I do that for these guys. I do it for every one of my practices and that's just to satisfy the teacher in me or just because that's that's the part. I really like to be honest with you that's doing those texts. Sometimes the thought of the day is just a something to do with sports or something related to exactly what we're doing. But other times thought of the day, it's something life related or has nothing to do with sports and on the particular day that Lily asked this was at the amino 3 or 4 weeks ago now, I'm just now had the chance to brag on her but this particular day we talked about Juneteenth and Title Nine cuz they coincide anniversary both anniversary or the recognition of both happened at about this. Sometime within a week of one another but but she was the only one who asked only what it was. That was the first time and the second time. She said what's the thought of the day and that's where I share I got to share that. So anyway, I just want to let you know that the people and I'm using will as an example, but the people read and Gracie and Lacy boys and the Peterson girls like men you got like feel good about people walking out of here in representing you and us but most importantly kind of like like what you would want Jesus to be for Jesus to see or know that they're strong work being done and as to all of you and I'm so proud of him, and I'm so blessed in my job. I get to see that more than you know, if I did something else. So anyway, that's a huge joy for me. That was on my heart this week. So having said all that let us bow in prayer. And again, what do enjoy some concerns or go ahead and pray you pray at the offering if you did not. We're able or didn't see it. You can on the way out. There's a place for you to give I believe so, please just find out on your way out if you did not on your way in what's bound prayer. Oh Father God. Thank you so much for again. Bringing us here together. We just want to lift up the prayer concerns were thankful for Kurt's second successful surgery and we just asked for quick healing for him and Recovery that he can get back to we were praying for a hundred percent for him. And so just be with him. If you got to do therapy and everything, we hope that again the healing comes quick in the recovery in therapy comes quick and as painless as possible and we pray the same for Sandy who underwent the same surgery. We lift up sister Sue, please let her feel our prayers and a powerful way for her back pain and God we will be praying for those involved with her treatment, but we ask you to take care of it and a powerful way as well. We lift up Martha, please again who asked for prayers and when one of our prayers God, please be with her we again pray for powerful healing, but just bring her peace of mind bring her healing and then help her. See a clear path for where to go next and just lift that fog and depression a little bit guide for her and then we pray up Phyllis be with her as well as she Valley mobility issues and then Bob mentioned Bill Odell, we all know Bill in various ways to here in town. Please let him feel our prayers as well as pray for powerful healing for Bill and I were thankful for the work that you give us to do because in the rewards we get for that work monetarily we get to give a portion back to you and we give joyfully and happily and ask that you multiply them to do your good work in our community. So father we just ask that you bless it and make it go far and wide in terms of its impact, by the way. Thank you. We have to go. Listen Jesus name I'm in.

Our scripture this morning comes from the guys have it up there. I'm not going to do like a formal reading at the beginning like we sometimes do because I'm going to use it as we have to go through. I'm going to sign it and reference it. So it comes from 1st Peter chapter 4 and 5 is where all our scripture comes from now. I don't know how Others do this like how the messages come it would be interesting actually to I'd like to talk to Jim Whittaker someday and and see how when he he comes up with messages how he arrives at them. Like when we do get asked whether it's Ron or Dustin or Cheryl or Carol Smith or anybody else that's been asked to come up here ours is a little bit different because we're kind of a one-time thing as opposed to where are you hear you complain like a series or a theme or whatever. I like Pastor Rob's talking about I was going on his Retreat and planning forward several weeks or through the end of the year. Whatever ours is a little bit different like the way I do it is when I first asked I take a deep breath and and just immediately say God would have you would have you got for me. What what do you what do you Think might be worth sharing and then I have to listen and sometimes you answer comes quick not in and I'm not talking about in auditory. I'm not talking about that way, but just through the Holy Spirit or whatever. Sometimes it comes quick to you and things are put on your heart and it's just okay. I got this.

Other times few days go by or takes a little bit and it's not so it's not so easy or whatever. So there's that one thing about you know, you ask God with what he puts on your heart. So then that the next step is I ask myself of what's going on in the world. that text is worthy of discussion or thought or You know what's out there? Well that came quick right as far as what's in the world right now and there's a lot out there that is worthy of conversation or attention. That that wasn't that wasn't difficult. So between those two things and then I just think in terms of where am I at right now? What am I reading or whatever and that's what scripture which will talk about. We'll talk about the second. The scripture came really easy for me in terms of what we're up to reference in that so. God what do you have for me? What's going on in the world? What have I got going on? So where I'm at right now is struggling.

In terms of it times you and and it's I'm not the only one I assume because of what's going on and just the thoughts. We have thoughts of helplessness hopelessness and depression. And and some of it we control some of it we got a little bit we can do a little bit on others of it is just the world around us and where we're at right now. We've got a pandemic we've got racial tension. We've got and specific to to our world here in this small community. Are we going to have remote or in-person learning or a combination of here in another month? There are riots going on and major cities, but there are riots going on not far away from us. There's the recurrence of the pandemic or what's now is it really the recurrence or is the recurrence yet to come?

And then within that discussion, what numbers do you believe? What how do you find good information are good numbers on that to try to guide your thinking so as not to panic and overly were so these are all the things going on in my head. hence, the struggling and helpless and hopelessness type of thing just being overwhelmed or saddened by What's going on in the world right now? The world is a whole. I don't know our nuclear world right here in Western, Cumberland County.

So my typical solution to struggle and then I also found the pattern of when I have spoken and I don't know this is like the 4th or 5th time. I think I've I've done this may be a little more but typically that the pattern is that I found myself cycling it back cycling back to is I try to go back to the relationship and the relationship is our relationship with Christ with God for answers or support or whatever. I found that that works for myself and what I hope works for others as well. So in terms of so, that's where we're going to kind of settle in or settle on a little bit as to what we're going to look at and then specific to the scripture. I found encouragement from a Bible study group. and we've been doing first Peter all summer going by a now and then going back into the spring or whatever and I I at the time we covered these things and looked at and talk we've talked about it in-depth but then as I started thinking about this on my man that that really strikes a chord or that fits where I'm at and what what's going on now? So I'm going to pull something in it so that I looked at was that settled in on the 1st Peter chapter 4 & 5 unlike my goodness. That's two chapters. Are there never going to they're going to look at that or whatever? I'm glad we didn't have a bulletin cuz if you just seen that you just you to turn around and walked out, you know, you gone to lunch. So I prayed about that a little bit and I'm going to pull piece this what I'm telling you. I'm going to read every verse and we're not again this this will hopefully be something of used to you and something that resonates with you, but they come from those two chapters and I kept praying that God narrow it down for me find a passage. I would find individual passages, but then it would take me to another and then I went from 4 into 5, and I asked that went at 10:35 last night. I still was looking at it and thinking just do for just do for just do 4 and then I thought I had myself. Kendra and I went in and pulled some stuff from 5. So the guys are going to rotate some of it up for me. so 1st Peter 4 first two verses therefore since Christ suffered in his body arm yourselves also with the same attitude because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin as a result. He does not live. The rest of his Earthly life for evil human desires rather for the will of God now.

I apologize. Like I apologize if there's something I skip over like Ron's going to see stuff and others of your going to see stuff if I skip over something. It's not intentional. I'm just going to share the things that jumped out at me for this purpose. Okay, so it's not if I skip something is not that is not important. But I'm so for right now the will of God is what I want to focus on we're going to get to liked what's out of that. Let's focus on what's the will of God say is we can love God and everything and we can take that into her heart and we can we can become a Christ follower and everything and and you got that through grace and mercy, but then can you go to the next step and have a deeper relationship and can you act on it that comes from? Opening yourself up to the will of God. So so we

will of God will lead us but we got to be open and responsive to it. So then we're going to go onto versus 7. The end of all things is near now, you can focus on the end times there which I think is probably what they thought was Peter thought at this time, but you can also focus on put it in the context of our end like this season will end eventually work. This will cycle through okay. We're going to come out of this better stronger. It's hard. It's annoying. It's frustrating. It's rocked our world, but the end is the ends going to come to this. Okay? The end of all things is near therefore be clear minded and self-controlled controlled so that you can pray so prayer. God's will prayer Have a relationship asked him now what I found during this going back to the middle of March and I can date I can see it and feel it the way I've interacted with God has changed and it's not that I quit and it's not that we're necessarily more distant, but I don't find myself doing the long. intentional evening morning meditations for whatever but I've gone but I'm even talking 10 minutes 15 minutes or whatever. Like I'm not. That's really really hard for me right now. What I have on to is the short. And I feel like I'm in constant conversation with god all day long now, I may not always be Keeping like it's two-way street or whatever guy can be shaking his head a lot or whatever as where I ended as I'm having this interaction with him, but that's what I've gone to it's just a lot of real I got I don't understand why. We can't get a handle on this about the virus numbers and God. I don't understand why.

We got a tear stuff up to send the message that we love people or want to be loved type of thing. Not just me. Like don't don't jump that's just short thoughts and there are a million others since this started. But prayer is important and I've maintained that and then again, that's what's pulling your that's what keeps me going in this time of struggling. Is that relationship?

Bursae goes on above all love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins. This is all stuff. We covered in this Bible study group and we talked about it and we gave it its due diligence and everything. But as I again, that's a goddamn your Holy Spirit thing, but it came back or that God placed it on our leaders heart to set it up and then we shared it and talked about it. But now it's resonating work continues to stick love covers over a multitude of sins love each other deeply I think last time I spoke I think I said the phrase with love hard. love deeply

verse 9 offer Hospitality to one another without grumbling Hospitality we talked about so without grumbling is that is an a thing on E concept added to that and comforting to me or you know, take care of people love people be friends two people be the hands and feet of Christ. But oh by the way do it without grumbling do without rolling your eyes shaking your head venting. Can you take a deep breath and do it without grumbling?

Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others faithful administering God's grace and its various forms. So we've all got great gifts take advantage of them and use them be confident. If you've got a talent if you got a gift in terms of ministry Mission something that that you may not typically do on your own but yet there's always a tug that the Holy Spirit and that's a gift from God take advantage confident and take advantage of and if you need a pep talk and come see me or you come up there people here that will lift you up you share with your concern or your frustration are your holdup is or your hesitation it and will talk to you or reassure you that that's that maybe your heart that has dating, but that's the Holy Spirit that's pulling you.

That's the hands and feet. That's your gift.

If anyone verse 11, if anyone speaks he should do it as one Speaking the very words of God if anyone serves he should do it with the strength God provides. So then all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. You speak do it as one Speaking the very words of God if anyone serves do it with the strength of God, you are filled with the Holy Spirit in your voice. And in your body take advantage of it. God loves you. God gives you these gifts when you are frustrated when you are down when you feel hopeless when you feel helpless you have a relationship that is beyond words there to support you.

There's an author named John Gordon has written a series of books. And and what's interesting about him is he writes in Parables which fits the way Jesus taught and if so, he he writes and it and it's usually on leadership or collaboration things like that. But he does in the contact of telling a story and are supremely popular. They're easy to go to Amazon. Whatever you can find John Gordon Jo-Ann Gordon. They had this quote that I had that I came across says what if you prayed about it instead of worried about it. Research shows prayer boost the immune system and enhances happiness worry weakens, the immune system and is a major source of unhappiness and then he left finish with this equation prayer is greater than and you got to imagine the greater than sign prayer is greater than worry and that that's that stuff. During these times it that's what I need to hear is that I can worry I can be down or whatever, but I understand. God is there he's got it under control and he didn't say that there wouldn't be tough times are hard times or hardships or whatever, but I'm not alone. And and my prayer my relationship is greater than the worry.

inverting in chapter 5 he talks about he breaks it down into there's three parts that I want to focus on and if it's heads to there's a message to the Elders of the church trying to church leadership to the younger and then the last part and I will share in the benediction but to the elders he says in verse 1 through 4.

To the elders among you I appeal as a fellow Elder. This is Peter writing a witness of Christ's sufferings and one who will Who also will share in the glory to be revealed be Shepherds of God's flock that is under your care serving is overseers not because you must but because you are willing as God wants you to be not greedy for money, but eager to serve not lording it over those entrusted to you but being examples to the flock and when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the Crown of Glory that will never fade away. That's to the elders. Back to the elders and then we flip it to the younger. Young men and women in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under God's Mighty hand and he may Lift You Up In Due Time cast all your anxiety.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. Be self-controlled and alert.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Keep that like that's that the whole mess like that the whole thing. That'll preach right there. Okay, so and and we don't you know.

is all the stuff going on that we don't have an answer to and there's not any we always want answers you want something to blame or someone to point or whatever just be

Your enemy is prowling around like a lion looking for someone to devour resist him standing firm in the faith because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of suffering that is written in 1st Peter. But how much does it apply to what we're looking at right now in 2020? How applicable is this. That was the Revelation? I have it on my gosh. We talked about this just a week or two ago or whatever and you know, we've been in this and it just

So here's the thing.

Trials bring us closer in relationship to Jesus.

The Holy Spirit and God knows the Travis the tough thing in. My kitten is suffering depression. Help us lonely. Might be illness or in front of something like that might be an economic issue might be a relational issue any number of things whatever you the trial is remind yourself or let it quick at that trial while hard and awful and annoying and frustrating and takes you to the brink it can bring you closer in a relationship. Did Jesus Christ? And the Holy Spirit working in you and father God.

and the wonderful amazing thing is you don't have like because you're sitting there as you contemplate later on or you think Whatever Whenever you don't need to do nothing to get that. There's nothing you have to do. You have stuff figured out. You don't have to have all the answers. There's nothing there's nothing in your life is going on right now that can keep you from that relationship. Because it's given with grace and mercy. All you got to do is accept it. That's all you have to do is say I want I want that I need that some of that whatever did I think you guys have I need that then just accept you don't have to do anything else. That's not in the equation cuz Jesus Took Jesus turn the world upside down work. We'll talk about this. But Jesus Took a situation or a snare where everything was under the law. I created a New Covenant to where you don't have to worry about all those laws to do or get or being good grace or whatever. You just have to say you love him and take him into your heart. Jesus did that for us.

an n and the law is is you can never do all the law and the only person that ever did all the other that reached all the successfully completed the law they hung him on a cross.

Son of God Usos a lot doing it just accept it trials bring us closer United didn't get it just receive it through grace and mercy and then the third part of it, isn't this is where you deep in the relationship. Act in accordance to God's will then now you don't have to do that to get God's love or to take him into your heart. But but as it once you enter in that heart surgery that happens. Makes us want to grow in a relationship or want to do more and we don't do more to be to be in note to get things. Would you more because we love God so much that he drives us and makes us want to be like his son and like him and work toward the end is not about being perfect. Cuz Lord knows I got a long way to go more than any of you I guarantee. I have a long way to go things to do things to be concerned about and work on and do better at so it's not if but it's the encouragement of the holy spirit that pushes us and drives us and wanting to do to do and be better.

All right. So so then so you go through this and you have this message that you craft and and and again I know how it works for you other guys again, I mentioned we had a bunch of people that have done this before.

Did it would be fun to brainstorm again kind of how would our creative process but but I work it out in my head think it through and do all that kind of stuff that will then stuff happens and a couple things happened here at the end of the week that shifted gears or I want or I felt like I had to I had to recognize or was called or pulled to recognize. I keep him in again. I stay this all the times you too or you get tired of it and I understand that that's okay. I'm a history teacher and we lost two to really good men this week. In terms of civil rights leaders one. I knew and when I'm embarrassed to say, I did not know John Lewis. I knew study them. Talked about him and sit when I did teach history. John Lewis was in my Civil Right Stuff. And then there's a gentleman named c t Vivian Court. Eatondale Vivian who passed away. Both in the same week both were at Ground Zero of the Civil Rights Movement going back into the mid 50s late 50s on end of the 60s. They were there are numerous pictures of Martin Luther King with John Lewis on one side and C T Vivian on the other side. And again Lewis. I knew Vivian I did Vivian has Illinois connection just born in Missouri, but the large part of is east of his life. He was raised in Illinois from spend time in Macomb, particularly. He died in 95. He was 95 years old is born in 1923. Thanks, and then John Lewis was ATS turbo for older men, but Vivian 15 years older than they were in the bus boycott. They were in the sit-ins. They were Freedom Riders. They swear at them on the stage at the March on Washington. They were at Louis had his skull crack at Selma on a March. They were at Birmingham Montgomery. They were again Ground Zero. So I never have I looked and read on these guys and

Thought about what was going on and everything. I realize there were some some things that they said that really resonated to to kind of the message. I was drying up which by the way the to pray songs at the beginning were both relational to and we didn't talk about that that just happened but but the Lord I need you that's that's this and everlasting God that's this stuff. Both of those praise songs were very relational. Now the Holy Spirit somehow connecting through Dustin. I think I'm kind of helps the rotation or whatever. They know he nudged him and it worked out but I could have chose to better song. Okay. So CT Vivian sorry CT Vivian

Said leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you. Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you whatever is goddess down whatever we're struggling with the it's the action to defeat. That's what would defeat you you are made by the struggles you choose you pick your battles you pick which Hill to die on summer not worth it. Summer not wear then we got to take a step back and do that process. Then you also know the ones that are and that may vary between us in terms of terms of what we choose or prioritize or whatever, but you pick them.

I didn't know that that struggle it makes you and pulls us closer into relationship. And then mr. Lewis Mitchell Lewis was a congressman and how did wouldn't have always I would vote for John Lewis. If you were my in my district, I would vote for John Lewis. Now, I will tell you I wouldn't always agree with some of that maybe summer several things that over the years. Mr. Lewis might have been in favor of we might have different on some things around sink, but I respected him and I would vote for him as well as I later before before I know enough about John Lewis to a thought and I don't agree with him on that but I have always had profound respect for him on a deep level. But Lewis said when you see something that's not fair not right not just you must have the courage to stand up to speak up and find a way to get in the way.

stand up speak up and find a way to get in a way which then

leads to this and this is the one

do not get lost in a sea of Despair be hopeful be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day a week a month or a year. It is the struggle of a lifetime. Now you can talk. Let's look at it from civil rights perspective, but you can look at as a Christ follower perspective to

our struggle is not the struggle of a day a week a month or a year is the struggle of a lifetime never ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble. Necessary trouble and that phrase good trouble really resonated with me as someone who is positive at X subversive smeargle a way like stir the pot a little bit and a good sort of way. Bad idea of good trouble Jesus got into good trouble. He stirred the pot a little bit. He picked his fights orino. He he prioritized But he also knew what was worth fighting for and he knew the good trouble to get into Jesus turn the world upside down again by switching out the law for grace and mercy. Jesus we all know that the Pinot the people that Jesus struggled with where the religious leaders and the money changers those were the people he got after or that he really went nose-to-nose with a little bit for where's temperature Road some To get into good trouble in the course of acting in God's will don't be afraid do that again at the Holy Spirit calling. Alright, I would like to.

Well, first of all. I want to make sure that if there I can I think we're all cool. Like we all get this or whatever but if there's anybody here who is here for the first time or you know, maybe you've been here and you're like I am not I don't understand the relationship thing, but I want to wear I don't you know, I, but I'm not sure whatever you need. You want to have the conversation we have amazing people in the church family that will talk to you and help you and understand you do not have to have it all figured out by that. I mean this for this you have to know everything or have everything figured out you got to have you can eat your feeling like you're having heart surgery and that's being tugged at and that's you say I want to go deeper. I want to know more or whatever if they're if you're like that are you know, first of all team know somebody who's not here, but it's like that that's God telling you to reach out to them. follow that lead man

step out If there's anybody here like that, I know we're socially distancing or whatever. But if you email Margaret Brew at the church off of she will get you connected with somebody or you can go to Facebook. Are you great at your catch a parking lot. We have people that would will

take care of you and love you. So so there's that and again I say that to those of maybe here and I say that for you if you know of somebody out there and you you can feel it. They may want a relationship if that's God told me who is Spirit working through you and don't hesitate to reach out and if you're not confident, then you be the person who brings them to somebody that will sit down and we may I know whoever may I ask you to sit there to type of thing, but that's how we grow in the body of Christ. That's how we get stronger. That's how the relationship deepens. So there's there's that I think guys I told you. We're going to do some 3 in the benediction. I want to do the benediction and then end in the song and we'll go out on a high note, So we're going to flip gears here just a little bit. I'm going to do the benediction want to sing and then you guys go and Know that you are loved know that we are thinking of you. We are glad you're here with us and then man has a church family love up on one another and reach out reach out to others. So the benediction is actually from the last two verses of chapter 5. It's a short prayer.

Actually, it's not the last two verses but it's it's chapter 5 verses 10 and 11.

And the God of all Grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ after you have suffered a little while will himself restore you and make you strong firm and steadfast.

To him be the power forever and ever. Amen.