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A few announcements. We have the adult dinner night out, and also a cookie exchange women's cookie exchange it Mickey Thomas is my daughter in law's house. And there's a signup sheet out in the foyer. If you just put your name down, that would be great if you'd like to attend that. And I think that's all the announcements that I I have to make right? I usually looking fine. She tells me if I'm yes, no, but she's homesick she's she came down with something yesterday. And so far, we haven't shared it, which I'm thankful for.

Okay, let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name and we thank you so much for who you are. For the love that you so showed on this world you bestowed love and the incarnation of your son Jesus Christ, that anyone who believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. What a blessing. We thank You, Father for that promise and for that hope. And Lord, I asked you what anointing you Use me to minister your word, your truth to these your people, that they might be encouraged in all your ways, and help us father to go through your word in such a way that we allow it to speak to our most inner man. And I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen.

You know, we live in a sick world. Did you know that? We really do and it gets sicker with time. I was driving somewhere yesterday. And the reason I say somewhere is I don't remember where it was, but I was going somewhere. And probably a lot of you know that there's one channel this time of year that plays only Christmas music. And so I had that on, and I'm listening to it and and then this advertisement comes on. I'm just trying to show you how weird our world has gotten. This advertisement comes on. And this is a woman with a very smooth, you know, soothing voice, and she's saying, you have the perfect marriage. You have kids You have a home. But through time you and your spouse have drifted apart. And the thought of spending another Christmas together is devastating. And so if you contact the law firm of blah, blah, blah, we can work out a quick, an amicable divorce. I thinking, What? Very Christmas? Wow, this is the kind of world we live in. And the next song was Joy to the world. But the point I'm getting it, where have we come to. And the only reason that our world in our society has decayed to the level that it has, is because we don't take the Word of God seriously enough. This is the word of God, the logos, the Word of God to man. And God gave us his word for no other reason. Then he loves us. And he desires to show us the way that we should walk because understand In this as we have seen our world reject, you know, biblical theology. And the way a person should live according to scriptures, the world has rejected that it's done nothing but decay, right? Send nothing but decay. And some of you probably know that there was a shooting at destiny. And I didn't know the whole thing behind it, some guy got shot in the leg or something like that. And, and they had to, you know, evacuated with people from our church kids that were there, they had to be locked in the stores and that kind of thing.

And so anyway, the the chief of polices and I criticized him, but he's, he's making a statement. You know, we can't let a couple crazies you know, ruin our Christmas. And the whole point was don't stop coming to the mall. I mean, really, if you think about it, that's what they're saying. And the point I'm getting at is our world has become more more debase and Sometimes I think even in the church, we wonder why, why? It's because they've rejected the Word of God. And so you and I, as believers, it's not our responsibility to make everyone a Christian. It's our responsibility to share the truth of Christianity.