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I'd like you to open your Bibles along with me to Leviticus chapter 26. And I do have a few announcements I want to make right off though. And there is a sign up sheet out in the foyer actually a couple and one is for the women's cookie exchange, which is going to be the 19th and Nicki Thomas's house. And so if you ladies would like to sign up, it's a great time I understand. And for you guys, this is a great time when the ladies come home because they have cookies that everyone made, it's just absolutely fantastic. And also, this Monday was the adult dinner night out and it's going to be at feetoes is the old Rico's feetoes Rico's, and it's on bridge street, and I really encourage you to come. It's a great time to get to know other people in the church is super time of fellowship, and good Italian food. So anyway, I mean, I encourage you to sign up for that because I have to call in and make reservations. And also next week is our church session. That's another wonderful time to get to know people in the fellowship. You know, it's a dish to pass an old fashioned covered this dinner we meet downstairs, it's awesome.

And also just reminded that will be having a Christmas Eve service at six. It's an old fashioned one we just, you know, praise God and talk about why he came and sing Christmas him. So we encourage you to come to that as well. And so now, let's go to the Lord in prayer.

Father, we come before you and Jesus Yu Shu, his name and how thankful we are the through him, and by him and to Him, we are able to sing praises and to receive blessing and to also have assurance of salvation of eternal life. So now, Father, come and Minister your word to each one of us, that it might speak to our heart and soul, that we might be encouraged in all your ways and strengthened in our faith. And Father, I pray that nothing that I share would be of my own words, but would be yours that you give me. Now, Father, come 19 Use me to minister to these your precious people I pray in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen.

You know, it's amazing to me how lightly many people take the Bible, the Word of God. This is absolutely the most amazing book you'll ever studied, you'll ever study. I mean, I went through a number of years of college, studied all kinds of textbooks and courses, nothing equals this. As a matter of fact, if you really want to find truth, you're going to find it here. And the Scripture tells us if you know the truth, the truth will set you free from what sin and death but not only sin and death in the life to come, but it also sets us free from having to perform like monkeys on a string to this world. We enter this world has very definite ways that it wants us to behave and to do and to not do and, and we're free in Christ. I mean, all you have to do is just watch the news and you realize the bondage of this world. But in Jesus Christ, we're free. We have an assurance that is out of this world. It's absolutely awesome. You know, one of the things I would encourage you to do as well as you study your, you know, scripture on your own as you study the Bible on your own, mark your Bible up. Don't be afraid to do that. You know, it's not like, Oh, yeah, I can't do that. This is a book that has the word of God in it. But the book itself, it's not holy, but what's in it, the Word of God is holy and righteous and true, but underlying things and make notes in the side because there's so many things you can find.