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I'll have to work a little bit.

Thinking about that song.

That's a beautiful song.

Certainly a beautiful song when you have throngs of people singing it together and but it is pretty and especially like the the women who backed that up pretty voices, that glint in, we're thankful for that.

We're thankful for all the songs because they're about our God.

They're about Jesus and I can't emphasize enough.

What Roy had said that, I really hope and pray that you will come in and worry about Jesus.

We're going to be studying Jesus.

In Bible class.

We're going to be preaching about Jesus from the pulpit, and we're going to be studying more about Jesus and you've ever studied Jesus in your life time.

Now, where the Church of Christ What is the possessive word?

And we find here the possessive nature that we belong to Jesus Christ?

And because we belong to Jesus Christ, why not know more about the one to whom you belong.

And so we need to do understand our Lord, and, and maybe that you'll come away with a more intimate knowledge in a more intimate understanding of who Jesus really is.

And above, you have friends and family, especially children, young children, even the children are going to be learning about Jesus in the classes.

Now, I can bet you.

A bottom dollar that there are many children out there in the world.

You don't know Jesus.

They may not even heard the name Jesus.

And so if you can reach them, and if you can invite them and just give them the influence that Jesus can bring to their lives while you're talkin about a good start.

Because it's sad to think about so many young children and you and I we're older folks, and moms and dads brought us to church.

We learn about Jesus.

We learned about the fundamentals there.

So many today that have no idea about the fundamentals.

Have never been grounded in the word of God, but certainly have never been grounded in Jesus Christ.

That's where we all need to be grounded in Christ.

Jesus, why?

I encourage each of you to come beginning on January 9th, about the study of our Lord and Savior.

Jesus Christ.

How do you do?

Noah field.

When he was in that ship with his family.

And hearing all the cries outside her.

How you feel.

And I wonder how Abraham Phil.

When he knew that he had to bring his son up the mountain, to be sacrificed.

I wonder what was going through his mind.

And I wonder how the Israelites feel felt when they were walking through the wilderness.

Probably should have taken him a couple of weeks to get to where they needed to go.

But because of their hardness of the hearts in the Sin, they walked in circles in the desert for 40 years, a whole generation of people died off in that Wilderness in those desert travels, and I wonder how they all fell while they were walking, but I wonder how old Joshua fell when he was walking around that city called Jericho and he was looking up at those magnificent walls around the city and I just wonder what was going through his mind, whether any doubts.

Yeah.

God said, walk around seven times on the seventh day.

Is it really going to fall?

And I wonder how the disciples felt.

When Jesus was hanging on the cross.

And I wonder how they sell.

when the next day came, And then the next day came.

What was going through their minds?

You can read about the anguish in the lives of many, of these people that we just spoke about.

We can read about the hard times of life that came their way.

Now, if you were disciple of Christ and you put all your hope and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and he comes to you and he says I'm going to be raised up.

Day one.

Day 2. Morning day 3, what's going through your mind?

Are you hopes dashed?

Certainly, some of the disciples were weaned agreed about to on the road to Emmaus.

Where they were just disheartening and broken hearted until they realized the person next to them, that was walking with him, was Jesus?

Imagine that.

And so, as we think about this morning about The Seven-Ups, I'm talking about The Seven-Ups.

And this morning, we talked about give up.

We need to give up.

We need to quit.

So this morning.

I'm calling on each of you to become quitters, right course, you know, the expression quitters never win, and we always talk about Dad would say, never never give up, never give up.

Never quit quitters, never win.

Well, there's some things in life that we need to quit.

and one of the things that we need to quit is given up hope Giving up where anxiety and where depression, and we're fear, and, where Rory, and all kinds of anxieties enter into our lives.

Now, this is not a Panacea.

Because anxiety is real.

And it affects millions of folks, millions of Christians, it affected even the people in the Bible.

And so the Bible tells us that were to cast all our fears, our cares, our anxieties upon him, because he cares for you.

But have you ever felt anxious?

Have you ever felt?

I mean, fear and dread?

Have you ever been in a depressed state of mind?

And then you look at that passage into say, am I sending?

What's wrong with me?

How come all these other folks out here?

All these other Christians, all these, my brothers and sisters.

How come Satan doesn't touch them, but he touches me.

Well, that's certainly a misunderstanding because we don't know what goes through the minds of folks, especially our brothers and sisters and how Satan gets to them on a daily basis, but part of living is having to deal with the ups and downs of life.

We can escape them.

Our Lord and Savior.

Jesus could not Escape them.

He would part of humanity and because of, what are mommy?

And daddy did in the garden.

Adam and Eve.

Because of them?

Because of them, we have to suffer.

Now, if it wasn't them, who would have been you or me.

It didn't matter.

Humankind is humankind.

And so, we have to suffer and deal with the consequences that's been brought in.

Because of Sin Sin and death entered the world.

And so with that comes disease, was that comes pestilent when that comes hurricane, when that comes tornadoes and fires and all the things that you could think about, in nature earthquakes, you can think about head-on collisions with cars.

Right, you can think about boats sinking and Josh coming up to eat you, right?

You can think about the all that answer the world because of what happened in the garden.

Everything else is perfect otherwise, but because of that, we have to deal with a life of issues and a life of problems.

So let's get back to the text that we had just read.

In Psalm chapter 3 Lord, how they have increased who trouble me, many.

Are they who rise up against me?