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7 years ago, is that what it was when that happened?

Oh, I thought you still me.

Save it some time ago.

When her husband was he coded in the end?

I was going from eight minutes and he came back and the gods are.

He's a miracle worker.

Promise keeper, praise God, praise God.

I know Mike mentioned about our veterans.

Do we have any better engine here in the service?

A man? Let's I want you to stand.

I want you to stand.

Hey, man, let's give praise God.

Thank you for your service.

Thank you for your service.

We can have service services like this because of the service you did for our country and we have so many other freedoms because of that.

So we thank you so much.

Praise God, praise God.

I I have been so excited this morning ever since we had three young kids coming to church this morning.

That excites me that excites me that it gives me some new energy when I see them.

Kids come in the door.

So, I I'm so thankful for them and and appreciate him so much for being here.

This morning.

I'm going to be reading this morning from 2nd, Timothy chapter 4 and this passage of scripture.

I I want to be able to say this when I passed on from this world.

It's such a powerful passage of scripture.

It excites me every time I read it and you know, we had something great in store for our future as a child of God.

We have something exciting in store.

And Paul talks about that here in 2nd Timothy chapter 4. It says I have fought the good fight.

I have finished the race.

I have kept the faith.

Now there is in store for me.

The crown of righteousness was the Lord.

The righteous judge will award to me on that day.

And not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

Praise God.

Title my messages, something in the layaway.

I remember, as a young boy.

I remember putting a bicycle in layaway.

And I was so excited about that bicycle and my dad.

If it would, my Dad could have bought that bicycle for me and got it for me, but I put it in layaway and he wanted me to pay for it and I add more yard or do something and in set money aside in the boy, the day that I had enough money to pick that thing up.

I was so excited.

I was excited and I want you to know that there is something waiting for you.

And I on the other side.

Jesus has something exciting for each one of us.

This week we had a a friend of ours and he was a deacon of the Church in Lexington.

Missouri.

We we spoke there several times they was without a pastor for quite some time and we spoke there several times and this man passed away and he was a great man of God.

I went out to his shop and and was working and and evidently had a heart attack out there and and passed away.

And I saw how sad I was.

So, so bothered by the loss of him.

And and thinking about his wife and having what she was having to go through.

And then I got to thinking he's in heaven, this morning.

He was in heaven that very morning.

Praise God.

He went from this world to that world.

Hallelujah.

Can't be any more excited about something like that than that.

But this passage of scripture with it.

We just read is talking about Paul.

Here is telling us about Paul.

Now this man Paul he was anointed man of God.

I love to read about Paul.

I love to hear the stories about Paul.

He was the first missionary he chose to follow the leading of God.

And going to Macedonia.

I thank God for this man, Paul, but I want to remind you that he was no different than you and me.

He was transformed by the power of God.

He was changed.

He was make brand new and an instant, he was made brand-new now where you hear about Paul's past, it was not a good past.

It was an it was not good at all.

You might remember how Paul had stood and have held the coats of the young man, that was stoning.

The Deacon Steven, and how they had Stone Steven, the death You might also remember how Paul had sent out threatenings and warnings against the early church and how he fought against the church early, early church.

He did everything he could to come against the early church.

He was the most vibrant, an early opponent of the church, Paul did everything.

He could against the church.

He did not want to see the church scoreboard.

You'll also remember that one day Paul was on the road to, to meet some Christians and bring them back captive.

You remember how he is the worst of the worst roommate.

His name was saw but Jesus met him on that Damascus, Road that day and he fell from that high ride.

He was on and said, Lord.

And when you say Lord church, that means he is supreme over everything in your life.

And when you say, Lord, he becomes master of your life.

And his name was changed from Saul to Paul that day and posted.

Lord.

What will you have me to do?

There was something exciting that happened on that Damascus Road that day.

I could tell you, those of you that I met Jesus.

You know what I'm talking about.

You know what I mean?

When I talk about a Damascus Road experience, if you had a Damascus Road experience, where you fell from that high ride, you was on and you got down on your knees and said, Jesus would you come into my life and change me?

I want to tell you.

If excited.

I remember my Damascus Road experience.

Jesus changed my life, and I'm so thankful church.

I'm so thankful for what he did for me.

And I can tell you, I'm still thinking him today, for what, he did for changing me.

For setting me my feet on Solid Ground.

I would have went through things.

I, I grew up in a, in a church, I grew up in a in a Christian home, but I want to tell you, I was Go away from God.

I didn't do the things I should be doing.