Worship:

The first song in this recording was the communion song. The first song during worship was only partially recorded so it was removed from the track.

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All right. Stupid thing. That guys' all right. Yeah, yes. If a, man oh man, that part when we're free we're free forever Amen that's was arrested and our life began because of what Jesus Christ did for us. And like pop was saying this morning no other reason than he loves you personally, you know, for what I remember growing up in, in, in in a different lot of different things we thought of things a lot lot differently and a lot of ways not that we were in a way anyway. But when the Lord began to really teach us about grace and really teach us about God's mercy and God's love, and I remember when we first started listening and and and to Pastor Chuck and the Calvary Chapel preachers And then going systematically through the Word of God. And I never heard the parables taught the way Pastor Chuck taught them. And I remember as a kid, you know, we were always taught that the parable of the man who the kingdom of heaven is like a man who found a treasure in a field. And so in order to purchase the treasure, he went and sold everything that he has, so that he can purchase the field and thereby the treasure. And, you know, I was raised and we were always taught and thought that, you know, Jesus Christ is that treasure. And so we sell everything that we have, because he's worthy of that and, and we we sell everything that we have so that we can purchase that gift of Jesus Christ and it was kind of the thought process. And then I remember Pastor Chuck saying that's completely backwards. You can purchase what you can buy Jesus Christ, you can't buy the kingdom of heaven. The field is the world. You are the treasure, and Jesus Christ gave everything that he had To purchase the world, that's why in Revelation when it says who is worthy to loose the seals on the scroll, remember john says, I wept much, for no one was found on earth who was worthy to open this the seals. And then I heard a voice in heaven say, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world and He is worthy to lose the seals. And that's this, the scroll is the title deed to earth, and Jesus Christ because of his sacrifice, he purchased the earth for himself a possession and thereby You and I, you are his great treasure. And listen, I don't know how to make you feel any better about yourself, then right there. There's nothing I could say to you. There's no personal compliment that I could give you. that's greater than the simple truth of the matter that you are God's great treasure. And you were worth it to him to give his only begotten Son and you were worth it to Jesus to lay down his life. Remember what he said and No one takes my life away from me. disciples are getting all worked up. He's like I could call 12 legions of my father's angels in heaven. No one takes my life away from me. I lay it down freely, and lay down freely. That's the God that we serve. Amen. He is so good. So I want to start a couple of announcements. First of all, it's communion Sunday, so we're going to have our potluck after church. So you're all welcome to that. That's the first announcement. The second one is we're going to have a cookie exchange at my house. It's I think it's just for ladies. And that's this coming Friday, babe. this coming Thursday. Okay. It's this coming Thursday cookie exchange in my house. I think there's a signup sheet out there. So ladies, please make yourselves. Welcome to come to our house and sign up for that we'd love ...