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Amen.

Just wanted to say a few things about our brother.

Blaine will be bringing us the lesson this morning.

But he and Terry they both live in Roland.

I would think both of you is living Rollins.

And.

And so they worship with the church and our Brethren over there and Rollin and they are currently looking for a preacher.

So you might think about that.

But the other plane is retired US Navy naval officer, who served in the Navy for 21 years.

Hoorah, is that half of the Navy?

He worked for 15 years at on the staff of the University of Oklahoma where he served in the area of budgeting finance and HR.

And also, if you need help with taxes, I'm sure he can help with that.

They have four grown children, two grandchildren, and they have been active in the world English Institute Ministry, since 2015 and they serve as volunteer ambassadors to help recruit and train the Wei teachers, material, face-to-face and Brazil in Mongolia, and he, and Siri have a love for the people of Guatemala.

And they have taught the Wei material in Guatemala City.

So, brother come preach to us this morning.

Pleasure to be back with you this this morning.

And I feel like that we're kind of old friends and the way we have this is our second time to be here.

But we met several of you back in July at the area wide sing in Sallisaw and we have some really good memories, even though this is only our second time of the fellowshipping with you.

The last time we were here of the rains and the beaches.

We went to the out here at this soda, Steve's Fin and Feather.

We have nice plants.

And course.

I always enjoy talking with brother Doug and those type of things.

And, of course, as I told Brother beach, this morning, we really did like those lemon cucumbers and so we may be back next time or just to get a load of those.

Okay.

So we really appreciate the opportunity to come over here.

I'm not a professional preacher.

I'm just a Christian like you.

I enjoyed telling other people about the Saving Grace of Jesus Christ, and we're really excited to be a part of the world.

English Institute Ministry and I'll talk about that later on.

I will tell you, I know you had your affiliated with the Indian Mission Terry and I we have been supporting that that Ministry for.

I was just trying to calculate in my head.

It's at least 30 years.

And so, when I retired in 2015, when am I golden?

Retirement was? Okay.

I've been supported, we have been supporting that work for for many years.

I'm going to go and I'm going to see for myself.

Because I read the numbers.

And yes, you may need to know brother Clayton and he a died earlier this year.

And so they have a new team that's for me.

And they're right now not able to go to India because India canceled, all the Visa, so they have to everyone has to apply.

And I have a Visa, that was a thought was good till 25, but I learned it's no longer any good.

I have to apply if I want to go.

But anyway, in 2016, I went over and I spent a month in India with brother Ron and sister Clayton, sister Karen, and it's amazing Ministry and everything you read in those up.

Those Mission reports their true from what I could see.

And it is just there are more Christians in India there more Churches of Christ in India than there are in the United States.

And Ron's philosophy was you know in case someday, we can't go back to India.

You know, what I'm going to do is I'm going to train them.

I'm going to trust them and then I'm going to turn them loose and that's what is his philosophy.

And I think it's worked out really.

Well.

We went over, I went over and if it's a hard place to go, I will just tell you that if you want to travel in India, you got to be ready for some hardships and They don't use Western toilets like we do and if you're especially if you're a lady it hits.

Turn to to to be there and I think a sister Karen and how she dresses try to be, you know, like an Indian and to fit in and to take care of business and to do that.

It's it's 50 and I asked Ron I said what's been the greatest change and I think they've been to India and not 30 years or so.

And he said, you know, we used to have to boil water for hours so that we could have fit water to drink and now we got these things and you don't realize how much time every day that saved us in to do other things and then yell course, cell phones, and other things.

And so I commend you for supporting the work in India.

I recommend it, highly the numbers are real.

The people are hungry for the gospel there when you're a Hindu, And you're in that lower caste, you have Hinduism offers.

No. Hope for you.

No, hope whatsoever.

You're just going to die and maybe if you've lived a good enough life, you're going to come back cuz either a dog or a human or a cow or something like that and it offers no hope for salvation.

And so a lot of Twilight of the people that are converted to Christianity through.

The missions are poor people because they're in the lower castes, and they've been shunned for the entire life and the gospel gives them hope.

So you're to be commended and I would encourage you to a continue to support that good work.

And if you have any questions about that, I can answer, of course, you know, my information will be as of 2016.

So it's going to be a little David.

So go ahead and turn back in your Bibles to the book of Acts chapter 20.

Let me see.

Again.

I really do.

Thank.

Thank you for allowing me to be here this morning.

My brother, Doug read that, and I'm up that section, acts 20:32, verse 17, through 24, but I'm just going to go back and talk about, you know, he's telling the Ephesian Elders, you know, things are going to get rough.

Every place.

I go to the holy spirit, says our chains and tribulations.

It is beginning at verse 24.

She says, None of these things.

Move me.

He says, you know, I'm not afraid, I'm not going to change what I was put here on Earth to do.

Nor do I count my life?

Dear to myself.

You know, I'm he's playing now.

My life is in the hands of God.

It's too.

It's in the hands of Jesus.

But she says, I do not do nor do I count my life, dear to myself so that I may finish my race with joy.

And the ministry, which I received from the Lord Jesus to testify to the grace, to the gospel of the grace of God.

And so that last phrase testifying to the gospel of the grace of God.

That's where we're going to put most of our focus on this morning.

And of course, you all know you've been in church many, many of you for a long time, you know, the gospel means good news and you know that Grace means unmerited favor.

And so when you put those together to testify to the gospel of the grace of God, what we're basically staying, his God has provided a way of Salvation and that he has done this without the Christian or the individual having to earn or Merit their salvation.

And so if you're a person who likes to take notes, we're going to, we're going to have three columns in your notes today or three headings.

We're going to talk about the need for this grace of God.

We're going to talk about that provision of this grace and then we're going to talk about the reception of this grace.

And then I'll talk a little bit about world English Institute.

And then we will the lesson will be yours.

So in Romans 3:23 of us were familiar with that.

Says for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

We need this Grace was Paul's Ministry and then in James 2:10, it says, for whoever shall keep the whole law yet stumble.

In one point.