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We're going into a new year and as we go into a new year, many times will still wear day 2 of 2022.

How's it going for you?

Is a better so far than last year or you cannot tell a difference or what's going on too early to tell, right?

What are your plans?

What are the resolutions that you have made?

Every other year that you roll over to this year because you haven't done them yet or you think maybe now is a better time to do them.

And why do we make those resolutions?

We don't follow through on them.

Have you ever asked yourself that question.

It's a good idea.

Okay.

Yes.

I need to do this.

Yes.

I take care of myself.

Yes.

I need to lose some weight.

Yes.

I need to take care of this and do that.

All these things that we can throw out there.

But if we don't ever follow through on them, why do we ever even make them?

Have you asked yourself that question?

How many you going to, don't raise your hand, your Sandra?

I'm going to read the Bible through this year.

I said, don't raise your hand.

Yeah, I know.

I know but we all know, we got to ask Debbie now, every, have you ever done that have you made it through that?

And it's easy to do in the beginning.

Hey Genesis, who acts as yet?

Numbers and Deuteronomy, right?

But it's always a great wonderful thing to do, you know, if you read 3 chapters a day, you can get through the Bible in a year.

But that's reading 3 chapters a day.

But what about those days when you're too busy to read 3 chapters?

What about those days when, when life is begins to fall apart?

And because you said well, I won't do it this morning.

I'll do it this afternoon.

You need to find that time where you can spend some time alone daily daily with God.

And once it take to read 3 chapters, maybe 15 minutes on your life watching, commercials on television.

Amen.

And I'm not saying okay wait till the commercials.

Come on pause.

The commercials are read the Bible then that's not what I'm saying.

Make a specific moment in time in your life where you can spend some time with Jesus.

What a beautiful name.

It is the name of Jesus.

Amen.

That's why we're here.

That's our purpose.

This morning.

I hope we're going to go to the book of Acts and chapters night.

We're going to talk about Saul of Tarsus and in his position as the one out.

Persecuting the church is when, when God. Came up with an idea to change his ways.

But there's a specific question that he asked Saul of Tarsus.

Ask that question in chapter 6, I believe that are adverse effects of chapter 90 of the Lord.

What would you have me to do?

That's what I love my message this morning.

Lord.

What would you have me?

To do.

He didn't ask Lord, how, how can I get other people to change?

Lord?

How can I get other people to do the right thing?

It's for and how what would you have me?

To do.

That's an important question for us, as Believers.

Here saw was he wasn't yet a Believer, but God was directing him and using him and drawing him to a certain position.

And you know how he was doing that?

By using other believers.

By looking at the life of those that he was out persecuting, the one that he was calling name for, give me the name of these people in these people, so I can go and I can persecute them and their household and possibly anybody else related to them.

That was Saul's position.

He was climbing the ladder of success.

If you will, and his world in his day, in his time, by being the one going out and threatening it and carrying out those threats.

And yet as we see what's going on.

In the life of Stephen, who was stoned as Saul of Tarsus, stood there, and held the coats of others who threw the stones.

They would do, when they had a stoning, they would call the community together.

They would put the accused into a pit in the community, would then pick up stones and stone, the accused?

So which you starting the one who's being accused of the wrongdoing?

And how many of those communities do you think believed, maybe a Steven dead?

That were stoning.

Steven.

Well, if I had to do it, I guess I feel this phone, but I'd miss.

Yeah, but not everybody knows you're missing.

The office is very important that you know, that is very important even as a Believer what we say and what we do is not only important on a Sunday morning.

It's important 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

How we live our lives.

It's important.

Because others others are watching you.

Others are looking at you there.

Seeing how you live your life, as a Believer, as a Christian.

And if we're not going to live up to the standards that God wants us to live up to, then whose standards.

Are we going to live up to?

Each and everyone of us have a purpose.

God desires for each of us to know him.

Through his son, Jesus Christ.

But beyond that Beyond salvation, he has a plan for each and every one of us.

Did you know that?

He's got a plan for you?

He's got a plan for me.

Listen to the newest before.

We're even for us together in our mother's womb.