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Let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name and we thank you so much for your Holy Spirit, because it's by the Spirit were saved. And I asked father that you would come and ministry to us this morning you would use me as a weak vessel in order to speak to these your children whom you love so much. And so Father, I ask for your anointing I ask for your blessing upon each one who's here, and use this time as a time of fellowship with you the living God, I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen. And oh, Nikki side of the family had a death. And so that's why Frank and Nikki are here the funeral services today. And vice not here, because Frank and Nikki's youngest child Brooke is sick and survives home, taking care of her. And just to let you know, because you're thinking pastor Frank Jr. Supposed to be up here this morning. And it's the old man, you know, you know, and and I'll tell you, there's, there's sometimes there's a there's a trick that the Lord plays on us. And every month I write up what's called a preaching screen. jewel. So each week, Frank and I both know exactly what we're going to be preaching on. When you go through numbers, just some difficult parts. And I came across this part numbers where it talks about a woman's belly swelling in her thigh rotting. And I thought that's a good one to get Frank. So I did. And as cruel fate would have it, Frank said, Here is now I've got it. So we'll see what we can do with it. You know, we have to understand it all Scripture, not only is for our encouragement, but for instructing us as an individual. We have to realize that the primary primary responsibility for ministry is you and I as individuals, you know, it's not big movements or even our church is you and I individually are called to minister to others. And therefore, most of Scripture, not all of them, but most of Scripture deals with The individual, you know how we can become stronger in the Lord? For what purpose that God would use us? You know, a lot of people say, Well, I'm just one person, you know, what difference does it make whether I'm useful to the Lord or not. But I want to share with you a quote from Edward Everett Hale. Some of you might have read some of his writings. He was born on April 3 1822. And he died in June 10 1909. And he was an American author, historian, but most of all, he was a pastor. And here's what he wrote. This is a quote from him. I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything. But still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Yeah, beautiful and simple. When we look at that we understand why God put such an emphasis on ministry to you and I as individuals, that we might be able to grow in the Lord and be useful to him. Because every single one of us, has the Spirit of God within us. And all of us realize that this life isn't about this life, it's about the life to come. And so consequently, our mission is to encourage people in life to come that they might have eternal life. You know, years and years and years ago, I was talking to a neurosurgeon, and he was telling me, he said, You know, there are things that we just don't understand. He said, there's so many things about the brain that you know, we have been able to, you know, diagnose and to look at in this net and through different surgeries. We can help with this, and we can help with that. But he said most of the abstract things about the brain we don't understand it all. And this man was not a believer. But you know,