Church Service

El Rey welcome this morning

good to have you here. and

maybe remembered that the slides are up up from 9:30 roughly till 10. And 10 service begin, so we're glad to have you here this morning. This wind will repeat again at the end of the service in case you missed the announcement, but the only two really that ours today is the ladies fellowship and next Sunday is the fellowship meal. That's the two main announcements right now. Things are going fairly. Well for me. I have an MRI to make sure everything's all set today have got regular shoes on both feet. It's been about 3 hours working yesterday and then shot down and wished I hadn't but that's okay. So God is good. And we are just thankful for him. We're thankful for the new technology. There should be slide. They will normally get posted right after the service it waits for me to physically post them to make sure if they wanted to make any adjustments or anyting

We're going to begin by saying God Will Make A Way. We'll see it through two times.

God will make a way where there seems to be. virgin Waze cannot

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for each way where there seems to be no way.

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next song trust and Obey when we walk with the Lord trust and obey.

When we walk with the Lord.

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trust and Obey for there's no

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and then we're going to stay Jesus.

songs by Josh Turner

What's wrong, babe? No.

praise to draw Stan Lee Johnston, San Jose Andres

Miranda Frost Andrews and Josh from Excel to buy rash and Troy Graves Broad Street

And I know Bronson why fruit flies are more. Sorry about that. Did never stop sign after the last verse. Okay. Well it is time for junior Church. See what happens when we don't go through a lot of introductory and those things we and so we'll add another song. I think we can add another song. So we'll have a 3 plus a chorus that should work and

Yeah, they're going they're gone. So maybe we'll add one starting next week. I'll have I'll add another song because we can get throwing him have more singing and I think that's a good thing, don't you? We could do one of the end to just have to put it in. So sure we can fight accepted Virginia is out there. So she will have to do it. Acapella. We can do that. Absolutely. We can do a song at the end. What time? solutely

Okay. Well and I should have put a I'm just I'm still learning with the software. But it it's really a big blessing the songs. I had done in 10 minutes on this on the slide, which is a huge help and then also the message.

Works real well, so but what he didn't do is put it I thought I had on there slide in there to begin. Not that I have a video clip for since morning before we can begin so I can another sheet for you just a very basic sheet. You can take notes on if you want but that she gives us and whether this is a two-part message or one part. We'll see how it goes. Okay, you didn't get one. Where we go?

That's all no problem. I should put them in the back so you can grab them when if anybody comes in after I hand them out or whatever. We're still working for the Bob train. So that's why I hopefully not bugs. But anyway and together and makes it Go real well, so we are thankful for that only so as we begin and hopefully next week, I will be standing up. I just didn't want to stand on it for an hour this morning. I did spend a little bit more than I should have yesterday. And so but I think we're about ready on Monday tomorrow morning. I have an MRI to confirm the healing and everything. So we'll do that and Then they'll give me the final go-ahead that I can supposed to be walking on the van. So we thank the Lord for that though. It's really not going to problem. It was just sore from being on it yesterday, but I woke up this morning with no pain and no issues. So that was a good thing. One of the things that as we're in this timeframe. It was suggested that we would consider some of the things that David Jeremiah. And so came well to be able to put together something from his work and I told his partner to take somebody else's stuff. But at the same time these good 10 things and that's what we're going to look at today. If you look at the sheet we handed out willing to do 5 or 10, depending on how how we do this. But anyways says when the world seems to be falling apart, it's tempting to search for an Escape Route. We got instructions to do something much more productive and Powerful stay strong and stay the course in his volume. You learn in Greater depth how to stand firm in the face. What is before you with the common confidence that comes from trusting in God's power and Sprint. God's word describes 10 ways we can develop the kind of Blessed Assurance no circumstances or situations can steal away. And so that's what we're going to look at him again. I don't know. We'll see whether we do this in two weeks. We do it in one week. Let's see if it'll go back to the introduction slide until okay. Let's see just like that.

Is now unrecognizable and God Whispers. I have not changed. The life you love that is now a vague memory time seems to be moving faster than you can manage and you've gone from Simply living to merely surviving. And what was one certain is that? well uncertain and God Whispers trust in me. You face the world that appears to be falling apart foundations have splintered institutions fractured nation's battered people polarized. God Whispers turn off.

Your hands is now out of reach that the what-ifs have become the Y meet. But I never thought I'd see the day has already come and gone that one day might never arrived and that which lies ahead seems determined to leave you behind. God Whispers I am with you always. You navigate the ups and downs of a life filled with hard work tough decisions stressful situations and circumstances that seem out of your control you spend day and night managing the highs and lows of a marriage a family your health and your job and alarmed to discover that you've lost yourself along the way. the god Whispers Let me be your strength. And don't trouble assembles all around you and your enemies Prevail against you you attempt to stay centered and confident and convinced that even in the midst of uncertainty. God has a plan and a purpose for your life. God Whispers, I love you and just like that. The world seems a bit more familiar. when God Whispers Ariat Okay, so standing firm in the face of George trusting in God's strength. I remember probably about 10 years ago. We had a woman that came to our our church and her name is Hilda salthill to 399 just about a hundred and I remember when we turned over the year 2000. She said they never taught us how to live in the Year to you know, she was born real early on back in the early when he's right. I think that'd be right and she said we never could imagine the things because you know, she has lived where you know, the the old old cars were being built and probably before the cars were there. I don't know what it is. All the sudden things are changing. Mm. All these things were continuing to change an hour in 2020. You know and life is changing and life doesn't look like what we grew up with and what we were raised with his children in. Raising our own children. And so we need to do something in the world is that is used often called century? Beat the center ourselves and focus on the word of God and the power of God the strength of God if we're going to be able to make it through whatever comes we don't know you and I we have no idea. You know, I know one thing I said this forever, but it's true. These are these are exciting times to live they really are. Very exciting times that we live in because if we have a purpose then we have something to do they sound like well, I guess we'll just sit around wait for Christ come back. I don't know and I mentioned on Thursday night. It dawned on me that what is help me personally is that from the time I was eight years old white rustic price than my thought was okay. What's my purpose? Well, I want to spend whatever time I have the rest of my life helping others to come to know Christ. That was it was so dramatic to me. I didn't know that you could know I didn't know that you could be born again. I didn't know there ever was such a thing is born again. I was raised the heathen. My parents didn't ring me up in church. We say we were invited when I was 8 years old. We were invited that woman camp. And that was really the first opportunity. I've been to be in a church. I went with a friend when I was 5 6 7 years old as they was Alan Talavera. We were very good friends. He lived a little ways away. So when I went to spend the weekend, we'd ride the bus home to his house when I was going to spend the weekend with him. And if you want to Alan's house you went to church Sunday morning. So everybody got up and went to church and it was a different denomination of church that then then when I pass for now we'll say but as we were there, I don't remember very much about what was said. It wasn't much of a didn't impacted the thing that made the impact was we got caught chewing gum and his mother made it smaller so that we weren't you. Church and secondly, it's the end of communion. If there was anything left over you could sneak back into the kitchen finish up the leftovers from communion talk about sacrilegious. I mean, maybe I'm not so sure that's so sacrilegious. It's over the service is over and what are you going to do? My baby is just a sacrificial sacrilegious to throw it out. Right so you can figure out where you stand on that right? Don't leave the church over it. I don't know. That was my upbringing. I had no upbringing until we were invited delivery chapel and it's it just struck me. I was studying we were studying in in elementary school in class were studying Evolution and evolution was like Weighing on me like this is this is interesting and you know, I was No, I was a Kindle monkey. I thought and I would swing from the eaves in the barn, you know, and and I would say things like that that you know, I'm back into a monkey and you know, I'm glad when I heard that life was more that you didn't just lives a as an x-linked in The evolutionary chain, but that it was a loving God who loved us and sent his son to die for us. I remember listening and I remember listening to The Plan of Salvation that was given many services and I trusted in Christ as my savior and things changed and they continue to change in my life. And so that's entering idea is the idea that living according to a purpose on purpose for a purpose on purpose for a purpose makes all the difference and so as we we can Find hear these 10 principles that we can live by that we can stay to stay these different 10 ways and in you doing that. It will help us so that we were able to continue to trust in God strength and whatever happened, you know, there could be jail time for some for their maybe persecution. We don't know. It did very well could be that will face different persecutions, and the one thing we can do is the weekend stay and trust in God and his friend. So, let's Jump by what type of word of prayer and thank you for your love. Thank you for looking your word make rice be honored and glorified and may we truly learn to stand in your strength and your strength alone? And we thank you for that in Jesus name. He meant all right. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to the Bible tells us stay calm. Stay calm John 14 1 2 3.

Let not your heart be troubled believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many rooms if it were not so I would have told you that I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and we'll take you to myself that where I am there. You may be also so the first thing is we need to spayed calm whenever things are happening because that will give us the stability to think and to remember and the trust in the war. One of the worst things we can do is to get panicked and get jittery and we and we lose our focus and we lose what's going on. And even he knows you're raising kids many things happened to them in their life. We have things all the time happening, you know, and when it happens, I have learned one thing. You've got to stay calm you going to stay real, because if you don't stay come they're not going to stay calm. Do you know that works also within the body of Christ if we're calm I we can focus and that calmness is letting or hard not to be trouble no matter what goes on. Don't be trouble. Don't let your heart becomes Rubble. believe in God believe also in Jesus's name and then you tell him I said he's going to take care of us, you know in just a couple words. He says I'm going to go I'm going to prepare a place and if I go I'm going to take you he say why don't want to know about all the ins and outs. And what about this is what's going to happen there and everybody wants to know all this either one. Isn't that really enough to know? To me that's really enough about believing in God and I'm believing in Christ. Then in my father's are they are the same my father's house. There's places for me that word Heights is Sprint. I'd mentioned in the King James the other translations of all translated room on Mansion comes from the Latin. There was some missing freak there and they weren't able to get the translators weren't able to get that from the king or whoever had them. We're going to give them to him and so they had to go and use lot then other things and the Latin translate sit like Mansion, but the fact is I'm not really concerned. I know we sing that song and I sign is growing up and I love the song. I'm satisfied with just a cottage below little silver a little gold. But in that city with the ransom will shine. I want to gold one. That's the Mansions will shine. I want to gold one. That's Silver Line. I've got a mansion. Over the hilltop, that's fine. I mean it is but I don't think God's focus is you going to Mansion I get a mansion what Mansion is yours and who's got the bigger Mansion who they staying? I don't want to have someone to a next to me in this mansion. That's all of this Earth. You know, what makes the the best is we're going to be with Jesus and we're going to be with him and where we are with him. We're all going to have a place seems to me that's the significant for a place with him a place and I'm sure that it's going to be far different than our own thinking anyway, because we think when humans aren't but the fact is that when we I mean, what about the thing we're going to be there's going to be a New Jerusalem suspended between the new Heaven and the new Earth. And we're going to go there. It appears the same way Jesus when placed, you know, that's pretty significant. It's not going to be with the oil and it's not going to be green while I guess it would be green Jesus. He thought he went by the by the power of thought. You know and just like Philip in the desert got moved in just by thought from one place to another and he was there and then he was gone and Jesus was there and then he was going Jesus goes to his father and he comes back and he goes here and goes but he does that based on a different type of propulsion whether whether it's donkeys or whether it's automobile. That's for this Earth.

He's preparing a place and he's going to take us to be with himself that where he is. We may be also. Please before we move beyond the first point this morning, please understand the most encouraging thing. We know is this promise right here no matter what happens around us. No matter what takes place, you know, when the stock market crashes people survived that by the way What weather is things happen financially and all those things? You don't want he's going to take us to be with him. And he's preparing a place and we will be with him. Be encouraged stay calm. Stay calm in the fact that he loves you and that he is going to care for you and take care of you in this life. And in the next we'll see about that little bit later. Okay? Well secondly, stay compassion compassion. That means no matter what happens. Don't lose your focus on the living for people. Say compassion why?

Surprised also suffered once for send the righteous for the unrighteous that he might bring us to God being put to death in The Flash but made alive in the spirit. It helps us to remember that he was compassionate on us in that he gave his life for it No Greater Love Can anyone sure and that they lay down their life one for another is that what scripture teaches that we would a layer lines down for one another? That compassion, is that a dump a real off? The needs to be at the central point of our existence really we have trust in Christ to love this and gave himself for us and because he loved us and gave himself for us. We on the wall of and give ourselves others. And so part of our life, what's going to help keep us focused. What's going to help keep us on track? One of those things is that stuff was a lot. That's the love that God told Peter. Bes turn the first time do you love me and he says I love you, but he use the you spell that how Jesus said you love me with Selfless Love agape love. Peter had just deny Jesus and so what is he in trees as well Lord. I love you as my friend.

And Jesus in the second time. Do you love me Peter Agape? Do you love me selflessly? Peter says I love you as my friend third time. He says Peter. Do you really even love me as my friend? Peter says Lord, you know of it. I love you as my friend and then he was told feed my sheep. Something to do is not Emotional Love its self sacrificial giving love that is based on not how we feel. But how we can display the same selfless while the Jesus had for us? And so what is he telling us? He's telling us State compassionate. Be compassionate. It's amazing trials tribulations difficulties. They will push people wanted to Waze they will either continue to be compassionate or they like, I don't know. I got to watch out because I might not have enough for myself. Whatever the case may think. He says you don't want love one another be compassionate one to another and the life is bigger than we are. Life is the opportunity to live christ-like in the world with that. He's left us with so secondly stay compassionate thirdly then

constructive constructive John 13:35

by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another and here we go on Beyond not just compassionate but constructive be helpful and being kind and again and it also for the bring down for us the idea that if we have love one for another it's not the love of friendship friendship is good. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not just friendship as in

Our friendship but it is love it is again tagumpay. Love if you have love one for another that's how the world will know. That's what they just buy they really do. They judge is fire a life of love and 2 degree that we demonstrate love one to another each other those who know price and also those who don't know price the number one thing that they will be able to see that helps us understand that if they can see there with his disciples. That means that's how he wants to write. Okay, the disciple does what his man what the is Master tells it right the disciple does what? He's instructed what he's taught. And so the disciple is being told have one for another because that's how Jesus one. He was a man of love and kindness and compassion. And then I mentioned this before to you think about the Miracles that he did for people, you know, anything credible to think that walking alongside a funeral procession. Well, there's a little girl if I'm remembering right he stops the procession now, they would have been moaning and crying and weeping and there were they they actually had paid mourners. They would go along sign the funeral procession Maureen helping to demonstrate how greatly this family was mourning the loss of this person, you know, by the way, can I take just a little bit of Robert drill there? There is nothing wrong with mourning the loss of off the one we're not told not to mourn. We're told that we all have sorrow but not as those who have no hope so that's a big difference. It's one thing to Storrow. It's a nothing to sorrow as those who have no hope but there's nothing wrong with Sorrowing over the loss of a loved one. It brings to light the reality that the physical life and that physical relationship here is gone. And I understand we want to push people right away to but you know, they're in heaven and everything's fine. And and that's true. But that's American culture to push through the grieving process. I can't tell you how many people have said to me. I mean what's going on close to 100 funerals now that I've done and I can't tell you any people said it was somebody is point out. I've got to be strong for my family. I've got to make sure that I hold it all together because that's great. That's nothing like what Middle Eastern culture was Middle Eastern culture did not have to hold it all together. So because somebody might see them crying or might not gain enough strength because we weren't strong enough for them during that time and I'm not saying that means you have to lose it because these do you go to a you know, Jesus was very emotional. We went to funerals make when he went to the funeral and Lazarus very emotional. And I know many times. I don't know but other frigate, I don't go to anybody else's funerals unless there's somebody that was close with and I want to and I'm not doing the service. I don't go to too many I go to song not nearly as many as I've gone I've had done myself but many times I will get choked up and doing the service whether I knew the person or whether I barely knew them because I tried to spend time with the family out front trying to prepare something would be fitting that they would feel very fitting for what we're billing. And so it doesn't matter who it is and then I see a few people crying, you know, and and having a hard time and and in that I see other bills I can't do none of that. None of that. No, that's not true. That's not true. Jesus was a man of compassion. He was a man who loved the people And there's nothing wrong with loving people and being compassionate with them. And sometimes we just sit quietly. So. They have to say something all the time. Sometimes people just appreciate somebody there. You know, if you say too much then maybe it's more self-serving that it is for their help. And sometimes I'll just ask I know when I did the funeral for the young lady who died there in her bedroom back last fall and when I did the research for I felt bad, I felt like I need to be saying something and I and I realized very quickly. I didn't mean to be just that I was there was comforting to that. Just said they needed to just maybe just to ask a question. I was there to answer a question but I didn't have to send him and I and I told them we stood around her bedside commode. She was I think she was going really the moment that she she died. They brought her back and they had her body going through the motions you can stay but there really wasn't any indication of life from the time they brought her in and the fact would be that we would stand there though, and we would pray and I would pray and I would pray silently and you know, I was there to answer any questions with you going to date is really a lot of questions. They just wanted to be near their daughter and to see what was going to take place until I just was there quietly and they said they finally said to me, you know, how you've been here a long time getting late and we appreciate that you're willing to stay this long. You can go home now and Time to go, you know and they were packing up to go to the Shelf there one night. I was there three least three of the day one day. I got to take down two other days. I was there and then I was just discovered mishap, but we resolved that pretty quickly next day. But anyway.

That we have love one for another it's not love as in you know, what they really talk a good game. It's that we live out the game that we play the game. You could say that we really know what it is to be compassionate one for another. Okay. Let's jump ahead again and number 4 and I think we'll go to 5 and I think we'll bring you something about an hour when we're done. So I think we'll do that and next week. We'll pick up the second five things that they will help us to stay focused. So I stayed challenge 2nd Peter 3 14.

Therefore beloved since you are waiting for these be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish and at peace now. He says therefore beloved. Who is he talking about when he's calling people beloved. Obviously, that would be what is believed his disciples. Are there other fellow Believers and sends you you who know Christ you who are believers in Christ, since you are waiting for these things. She's talking about all these things are going to take place. She can look back in the groove greyed-out area. It says and the heavenly bodies will melt away as a verb. But according to his promise. We are waiting for a new Heaven and a new Earth in which righteousness dwell. Right when there's a new Heaven and new earth with righteousness 12. When is that last even beyond the tribulation? That's the new Heaven and the new world and we still believe the Bible teaches that Jesus was going to come again. He's going to take us to be with him. There is something to be by different people about whether it's the beginning of the tribulation the middle of the end and I always have been torn and believe that it's at the beginning he's going to keep us from the tribulation others feel from the what they call the Great Tribulation, but the fact of the matter is is that we are waiting or waiting for these things to take place and we know what has to take place that there's going to be one of falling away and there's going to be a there's going to be some other leadership taking over the the global because the individual nations are going to just I mean you can see what's going on. We're losing A lot of a lot of freedoms and those things but everything's going to Pieces. It's just you look all around the everything is going to be the way it used to be in. This is in the way God created to be an all these things are going on this not just here. It's happening everywhere. And all of these things are happening and Jesus going to come he's going to take us to be with him. And then and then the Antichrist will be revealed and then will be 7 years of tribulation but cut short because it wasn't cut sure. They're there wouldn't be anyone left and then he's going to come back in the air on a horse and there's going to be the battle of Armageddon and he's going to stand for Israel and we're going to be riding horses with it coming back and going to set up a thousand year reign of Christ on the Earth. And that sounds in your rain is still not have and have nots that is where he's ruling and reigning with righteous, man. But that's a thousand years and that's a long time and I believe we'll be there to there something to believe that this is going to take place in our heart and that's why you're play people like your witness is another there was a time where Jesus return but didn't take anybody and they sell. Well, we kind of got it wrong you return this time, then he returned that time and then they stop making Gates that he was going to return. But there still was a huge amount of people that think that there is not going to be a thousand year reign of Christ. By the way. I read the Bible it appears. There's going to be at that. I don't remember any time that the lion and the lamb lay down together. That's what you talked about for the thousand year reign of Christ and the baby is going to play with the snake not too many mothers. I know while I mean a lot to do the white snakes nowadays, but we're not talkin about poisonous. That's a boy and I don't be a fool. He's in his and the babies are going to play with poisonous snakes. Maybe the tale of the rattlesnake becomes their rattle, but the fact is is that during the Thousand Year Door price everything is going to get along and everything's going to be in harmony. They will be people coming from the tribulation end of the thousand year reign of Christ who were born that people say well if you live through You don't know Christ you live through the Rapture happens and you live into the tribulation. Can someone get saved? I don't know. I don't know whether those who have already heard. My teaching has always been that if you've heard you had your opportunity, but that may or may not be true. People may have that opportunity. I wouldn't wait to find out by the way. If you don't know a price, please make a decision. Don't wait to find out by there will be people born during the tribulation. Or maybe those were born and they're unable to understand yet. So they go through the tribulation and Jesus comes back and he sets up the thousand year reign of Christ the millender in the Millennium. And so they and our walk we come back with him in the clouds and on the horses and and then he said sit up and we're there we have our new bodies in those things, but those that live through into the tribulation and make it through all of the devastation. If they they will survive our sinful nature and they will they can still do things are wrong and says Jesus is going to rain with an iron fist at that point. and anyway knowing that these things are all going to happen. What did he say who he says therefore beloved since you are waiting for these things. Listen to I think he jumped at the look you're looking for these thing waiting for these thing. What do we do? Sometimes we think that when we are looking for something that means standstill on weight.

Don't you know you don't sit and wait for him to come lift up your eyes your Redemption draws not you know, just keep looking up. But the fact is that we are to be busy doing something. He wants us to continue living for any says be diligent since you're waiting for these things be diligent to be found without spot or blemish live in such a way that it we please or we won't be perfect. But we can live living for him and doing right and then he says secondly and at peace and that's a really good instruction for us during difficult times. Live right inside that goes along with one of the points from Thursday when we were here. We were looking at living and we gave three things that we can do to win people to Christ. And one of them is to live the best Christian Life we can not because we're living that way so that we get into heaven. We already that's been taken care of.

Our Testimony is Believers is vitally important isn't people evolving around people who talk the talk but walking the walk is a different story. We are we are not just talk the talk we had to walk that walk and so that we would be found buying him without spot or blemish and at peace and the table. How do you have Pete's get Peace by trusting in Christ living your life for him? And thirdly fourthly. Sorry, what's up with the fifth one today? Stay connected stay connected. Stay Channel. Stay connected Hebrews 11 24 and 25.

And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works not neglecting to meet together as it is a habit of some but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day Drawing Near. There's all kinds of things that we could have applied as to when it comes to living connected but it's vitally important. We need the connection of one another we need to do these things and wanted to stir up now staring up is one thing right here knows how many. Oh, I just know that pretty just always are stirring people out down in it. We artists are up, but we are Disturbed people up to what to love and a good works again this theme you will find an End even before looking at this year. This this message here. As I was thinking about what is what is the most powerful witness that people have when it comes to Bringing others to Christ and I would like to take some time and look in just to see how many times as Christians are we told to love. How many times are we told to love and good works? That's the continual message of the New Testament is to live like Christ Living in love and in and by good works and our good works demonstrate our lot and so we should stir people to love and good works towards each other and to ensure that it has the idea of encouraging Stirrup. Maybe that's a good translation. But to be encouraging it so important encouragement is needed encouragement is needed when we say it again encouragement is needed. And the way that takes place is that we would encourage one another. And good works. And one thing they can do you can do it by them seeing your love and your good works and encouraging them to follow the same to do glove and good works. And then he says not neglecting to meet together. We all know there are people who feel it's okay, and I'll never have to meet together the church's one body. So, you know, if we go out to the fields today, you know, me and my family we can worship God they're just as well as I can in church or wherever it is, and I'm not saying that that's what you know, but I am saying that he tells us the not neglect meeting together. It is important to me together. That's how believer stay together and help and encourage one another and encourage one another to Waban the good work and it says as a habit of some I have a habit of some we really need to encourage each other. Hey, we need each other. We need you and sometimes people don't come they don't feel like they're need did you know and everyone is needed member were told about the story of the body and the the body of Christ is very much like a physical body. Right? And we all have different jobs to do in that you know for if the ankle says I'm not of the I'm not of the body Is it not of the body? I don't know if that's the word the Bible used but I'm telling you when my ankle decided not to be part of the body that they got fractured and I didn't want to be part of the body. Well it wanted to but I kind of forced It Out by phone and landing on it but a know it was important to Willits on horse. Just an ankle you got one other one. Yeah, right. Just you got another one. So hop around I couldn't get up. I'll tell you the hardest thing for me was the word in it and I really never did very good at it carrying a little bit more weight than I would like to do and then they wanted me to hop up the steps to the apartment there to the house over here. You known this about six steps and hopping down wasn't too bad. You know, you always get to the bottom one way or another copy up is another thing and I would hop and I would hop and man about two steps up. I might know this isn't for me. I'm getting on my hands and knees and crawling up the thing and I was glad when I can finally start they took the cast off and I get Starly finally start putting a little bit of weight on it, but that ankle is important and how about this you ever have an ingrown toenail, you know or a smashed toenail ate just yet, but you got 10 fingernails and on your feet. How important are they if one of them is hurting have attitude Bible talks about the problems with tooth out of joint. Anybody have a tooth out a joint. When are you coming out of joint? I'm losing them. But the fact is that they really I'll tell you what probably wouldn't well, I don't know now. I can't compare the ankle when I first fractured to having an abscess an abscess one time and it just didn't seem to matter what I did what I talk and it was a painful thing. It's important. The factors people are needed people aren't answering. I'll tell you what we need to remember that. We we met we need to remember to let people know that I want to hear people saying I love you and I'm looking forward to seeing you again. You know what that's a wonderful thing to I mean, this is one thing to say, but you know other people do I can tell right by the way they do and it's a blessing and we should we should say we love each other every one that we could be the last time we see each other we did walk out of here today and not see each other again. and one of us and I remember I played the song last week in the introduction thing my you may notice we say brother and sister around here. It's because we're a family in the folks are so What's the word dear dear when one of the heartache we all share? The tears and rejoice together with his family so dear. I'm so glad I'm apart of the family gone. It just goes along and continues again and again and again loving one another and letting people know how important they are. Picking up the phone drawing sending a note Hamish Hamish Hamish and the god uses those things that help people to know. They are in Horton are they would have talked to someone else and been there for a little while this week again and last week and they said I'm really glad you should see if you should see me soon. I said good praise the Lord. I want to see you again soon. I said there's nothing that would encourage me more than to see you again coming regularly. And so, you know, sometimes things happening and it's easier things happen and God puts us there to encourage one another to oven to good works. Okay, so it has a habit of some more but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day Drawing Near as we get closer to the coming of Christ and things start happening around again, who would have thought covid-19. But we all live like we never thought we'd be sitting at home for a year and you know. those first three four months or we won't even know we're afraid to breathe the air in our house and we're afraid to breathe air out of our house and we were afraid the well, not really but some and we were we were locked down and boy if you were seen outside, you know and all this stuff and I remember when you started going back to church didn't happen here, but other places they were watching people license plates now, Can you imagine that even probably outside they said we were sitting in our cars with the windows off having a church service and they were taking the license plate number? That's crazy. And you haven't seen anything yet. I'm sure I mean, I really don't think that things are going to be getting much better. But I know one thing they'll be better for us because we can continue to focus on these things and they will encourage us to stand in the strength of. See all these things all 10. We looked at 5 this morning, but none of these things are things that have to be done in the power and strength of prank. It can't be done in our own strength and has to be done in his strength and really isn't it different times. Maybe I am not thought that not that I didn't really know that it's true. But we live life different ways and sometimes and I mentioned this before one of them's I want to stop doing is just living day to day every day. Just getting through the day just got to get through the day. You know, there's no encouragement. I just got to get through the day other than you made it, you know, and what we need to do is we need to just Center on Price Center on the things of God and let him work them out. It's still a really good time to be a Christian. It really is and it's a really good time to share Christ with others and you know, there's something dark and I want you know, what we don't do worried about that. I learn in the coaching. I was receiving that so often people are trying to you know, it's one thing I agree with being able to argue a point and be able to prove because people need to see different proof and that guy understand. What do continue in the Hound against people and people make that their hobby? That's what they they do. They just continue to do those thing. You know one there are plenty of people that need crying no more Jesus. Jesus said to the disciples when you go into a city. If that City doesn't receive you. They don't want anything to do with what you have to say. They don't want to welcome you in probably the way that's kind of like the stranger code, right?