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Morning, everyone. Let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name. And we thank you for this opportunity to worship you to look into your word, and to be in fellowship and communion with you the living God. I thank you so much father for the salvation that we share together. And I pray, Lord, that you administer to us through your word in a way that enables us to learn, to be encouraged, and to grow. And so now Father, I pray and ask your blessing upon these your people. And on me, Lord, that you would give me wisdom of what to share. I pray in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen. Excuse me. You know, the one thing we have to remember is that you and I are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Scripture makes that very clear. And Jesus and His Holy Spirit will not dwell in an unclean place. And so consequently, it's important for us to be clean, then we can't make ourselves clean. I'm going to do this on Going to do that. We have to allow the Lord to do it. And because we are in the flesh, we have to be cleansed over and over again. For instance, how many of you wished you only had to clean your house once in your life? But it has to be something that you continually do because even though you clean it all up, then you know the world dust and so forth comes in. So the same thing is true, we always have to be before the Lord saying, Lord, here I am, cleanse me of vessel, I'm yours, Lord, use me. And so as we look into this portion of Scripture, we're going to be looking at lepers and, and losing sores and so forth, that people have to be taken out of the out of the camp in order to protect the rest of the body. And we have to realize that so much of what we read in the Old Testament is an illustration of what would come through faith in Jesus Christ. In other words, we have physical examples of a spirit reality. And that's what we're seeing here. So when you read these portions of Scripture, these kinds of verses, where it seems like Well, what's going on? That doesn't seem right, that doesn't seem fair. Remember, the Lord is teaching us a lesson through it. And so our faith is all about having the presence of God in our heart, and in our life. You know, we have to understand the spiritual realm was real. When I was working on the message, it made me go back many years. And when I was much younger man when I first got saved, and we lived in Elmira, New York, and I was part of the gold tree, Gold Key ministry, and what we would do is we would go into prisons and do Bible studies with with inmates, and a Mayra prison is maximum security prison. And it's usually for younger men. And the fellow that I was assigned to was a young young man, very Large man who was in prison for murder, he actually beat someone to death. And I can remember in fact, it was very interesting because we went right back into prison. And we were one on one in private rooms together. And I remember talking to him, and he was sharing with me, he said, I don't know what it is. He said, usually I'm pretty good nature, nature, he said, something would come over me. And I would just get so angry and just lose my temper. And that's what happened in this this particular incident. And so I had a chance to share with him that there is a spiritual reality. And so we have to understand that even though we have physical bodies, just like we're influenced by our environment, there are spiritual influences that we deal with as well. And I shared with him that you need to have Jesus Christ in your life, and he's the only one that can give you freedom over this that comes upon you.