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We take you to the pulpit of the Ninth Avenue Church of Christ into this place.

This morning to bring us to this time that we have had to open up our hearts and song.

And and and worship already today, God.

We thank you for the opportunity that we've had to gather around the table of communion of the table of thinks of Blessing by this morning, to remember, your son's sacrifice that makes all of this possible to make our hope possible.

Our Salvation possible, that makes the grace that we receive possible.

God.

We are so grateful that every week we get to just stop and pause and, and be United in that moment of remembrance.

Thank you for that today.

God, now, as we open up your word.

Help us to.

Help us to be honest, help us to be real with their own lives.

Help us to be convicted.

Help us to be pushed help us to grow God.

In this moment, as we study from your word, help us to be true to it.

Be understanding of it.

It's in your son's name.

We pray.

Amen.

So last week, we opened up into the book of 1st Thessalonians, and I'm talking about my identity in Christ.

And we have spent time through the first part of this year through.

I probably the longest kind of group in in Tom's of lessons that we're going to have together talking about Jesus, talking about his wife, talking about his teachings, and his ministry and all the things that surround that in the hoping to go that's holding the golf goal is as we spend more time, talking about Jesus that those things other, Jesus become more and more in us and our life.

I love the song symbolize great song.

Beautiful song.

We have a habit and I don't know why.

We why we have this habit.

We kind of talked this happened as song leaders.

Sometimes that it's okay to leave verses out of songs.

And if it's a, if it's a song with Ford versus, if you're leaving that on a c, Night or something.

It's just kind of habit about me to get up and leave.

Send the light and I'll go 650.

Send the light.

I'll be singing the first and last verse first and last verse.

Why do we sing the first?

And last verse of songs?

I think one of it is because we're scared to death to be up leading the song anyway, and if I seen the first and last verse, that's just less of a song that I've got to lead to take us so much time, but I have One time I led singing in Savannah for a.

Of time.

Is there kind of Maine song leader?

And I was the same way first and last verse first, second last verse always, skip a verse in there so we can sing more songs and she came.

She was a self-proclaimed poet.

I never read any of her poetry but she got after me one Sunday and she said, I see said you're a great singer and I don't like the way you lead singer.

And I have been told a lot of things in my life and had never had anybody.

Tell me if they didn't.

Like the way that.

I led singing that just kind of hurt my feelings.

Anybody ever had their feelings hurt by people.

I have just joined the club.

I said, well, why don't you like the way that I leave thinking she goes, you don't sing all of the song.

And I'm sure I had some reason it was probably smart alec cuz at that point in my life, that was my default position and had it not been for Blair that would still be my default position most of the time.

She said, these people are poets and they've written something that only makes sense.

If you read, or sing all of it, and I went and got to literally reading some of those verses that I always leave out and they're just as beautiful just as wonderful and just as powerful and yet, we leave them out for a lot of different reasons, but this morning, while we did not leave out a single verse and send the lights.

Matter of fact, you tried to add a few in there along the way, but y'all did great and kept on going and Nathan.

He actually admitted, it was his fault and not your fault this morning.

So we're moving in a positive direction together.

Verse 3, really is about what we're talkin about through this study of 1st, Thessalonians transitioning, from a study in the Life of Christ into a study of the church and US individually.

He says, let us pray that Grace May everywhere of Bounce in the lights in the light.

And here it is and a Christ spirit in everywhere.

Be found.

A craft spirit in everywhere.

Be found if I was riding that for us and making it fit our lesson.

I would ride in a Christ spirit and everyone be found.

That's our goal that the more we learn about Jesus the more his Spirit, God, Spirit, the Holy Spirit lives and dwells within us.

And when people look at us as individuals and as the church, I don't see us but they see Jesus.

That my identity is no longer mine, but rather my identity is who Jesus is Christ.

And that's what we're trying to do here.

That's what we're trying to end in the first one.

I can church here.

If that's the only ensure they had gotten that, they had understood that they had head, really kind of grab ownership of that.

And they were living this in a great.

Wonderful and Powerful way.

Now, as the scripture reading kind of ties in it, really sets up the whole story.

Here is Paul wanted to go in one place.

And God says, no, I want you to go somewhere else and any went to to the this part of the world and he began to preach and teach the gospel.

They are even though it's not what he had planned.

He wanted to give in to what Christ 12 when it crashed spirits to be the one that rains and leaves and directs.

Okay, and I love and we talked about this last week that because they went there that church, especially the Thessalonian church because of what they did and because if they went there, they began the message began to ring out from that place.

The message began to ring out from that place.

Really and truly, I believe that maybe he knew that, if you go hear the messages going to ring out further than if you went and tried to do it your own way and I love that idea.

I love that he win and did what God wanted him to do and because of that, he was able to have the word of God ring in a way that he never could have spread it on his own.

Let's go to the next slot police.

Last week.

We begin talking about this idea.

We began talking about our identity, and we looked in chapter one at some different things that that we're trying to live in our life.

And in chapter one, he kind of goes through this list of things that these people were, we talked about that last we talked about, you know, we talked about love and we talked about endurance and hope we talked about our faith that these are things that have to be strong about being deeply convicted.

We talked about being imitators of all these things and then letting our life ring out.

Okay, and then serving God and then go to the next line.

After we talk about these things.

We ask this next question.

What keeps us from becoming this type of Christian.

We said three things are relationships are routines and Desiring blessings from God.

More than God himself.

We also talked about how those things which were the first two.

If we really focus on those things in the right direction, then did they become a strength and not a weakness.

OK.

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How does this transition into the next chapter?

Well, Let's just look at the next one.

The next fly.