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Put that song out for you Okies.

Okay, because we got a bunch of storms coming.

Okay, get ready for it, but there will be a place where there is no clouds.

How do you follow that?

Roy.

If you wanted to take a few more practice steps up here if you need to.

Let's go to our Heavenly Father and pray.

I love you.

Father in Heaven.

We Are.

Again, grateful to be here today.

and, father, we know that we live in a world that Right now is filled with chaos.

There's so much confusion.

And there seems to be desperation in the part of many Souls.

Many are worrying.

Run the precipice of perhaps War.

So, much illness.

There's so much hate.

The mistreatment of people.

By the way, we pray.

Flat Tender Mercies.

If I do, we pray for that piece.

That peace, that surpasses all understanding.

And we prayed.

Through the loving.

Care that you will be with each person here today.

Other that you bless them.

Give them good.

Health bless their families.

Bless us all with.

With a renewed enthusiasm.

May we all come to know?

That.

We're not here alone.

We have one another.

And above all, father.

We know that you have said you would never leave us nor forsake us and father were thankful for that promise.

And father were grateful for.

The word that we can preach that we can teach.

And father help us all to put our trust in you.

And then we all realize.

The significance of that life-changing word you have provided for us.

In Jesus name we pray.

Amen.

I can remember my football coach telling the team that the program was getting better and better.

We started out.

Losing.

But over the years we got better and we became Champions.

Now remember that last year, the coach saying, you know.

We stand on the shoulders of all those who played in this program.

So we think about the hardship in the pain and the struggle and the practice, and that's true.

Every sports team every business, every Foundation, every cause every program stands on the shoulders of the people of the past.

And right now our congregations going to be celebrating 100 years of service in this community.

100 years.

Think about that.

So we to stand on the shoulders of those Saints, those Christians who began meeting for 100 years ago.

And so, we stand today because of them.

We're still continuing and that's something to be proud of.

Pride in a good way and in a good sense and maybe a hundred years from now because of what we do today.

And because of what we do in 2 years because of what we doing 10 years and twenty years that a hundred years from now, this congregation might still be going.

Only wish that it will we pray that it will and we know that as long as God's word is in our heart, the church will continue.

And we need to know that.

So, as we get it to her text today, John chapter 5.

After spending some time, in Galilee.

Jesus is now making his way to Jerusalem.

And we do read a bit about that and John 5:1 and he's making his way to Jerusalem for one of the feasts when I told exactly what this fief is, but we could make a good educated guess that it was the Passover based upon the information that we do find.

But he's expected to make his way to Jerusalem for that Feast the same way, all the Jews throughout history made their way to Jerusalem for the three great feasts.

Remember, the Jews were required to come to Jerusalem, 3 times a year.

One was for Passover.

And then 7 weeks later was Pentecost or the Feast of Weeks.

And then in the Autumn time would be the Feast of Tabernacles Feast of booths.

They might call it.

And so those were the three great feasts.

And now, Jesus is Entering this town in on the Sabbath.

In fact, the entire chapter of John chapter 5 takes place on the Sabbath.

And it's quite interesting to know as we studying our Bible class this morning.

What does Sabbath meant to the Jews, especially to the leaders of the Jews?

But it was, certainly something that was.

Reminds us of a rest.

The Sabbath was a day of rest.

God, rested on the seventh day.

and if you been with us in our Bible classes on Wednesday night, brother Roy's, been leading us, and we've been talking about this rest that the Hebrews writer talks about and Hebrews chapter 3, Hebrews chapter 4, And it's this racks that we are waiting for right now.

Write the rest of entering into heaven.

The rest of being with Jesus.

It's so every think about this rest, you think about the Sabbath and we think about what that day was for.

The Sabbath was kind of like a mini Festival that pointed to those three.

Great feast days.

And so those three great feast days, they would gather to worship.

Gather, the praise.

And remember especially for the Exodus, how they left bondage in Egypt and how God LED them into freedom.

But mommy, come to the Sabbath.

That's primarily what they're doing.

They're doing the same thing.

They're remembering the goodness of God on that particular day.

They're worshiping God.

They're praising God and they're giving God all the glory and that's what Sabbath was about.

So as we think about what's taking place on a Sabbath?

We think about the fact that this ain't working.

There it is.

I think about invalid.