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Well, good morning, everybody. For those of you who are watching on our website or via Facebook, good morning to you guys as well. And this is definitely strange. This is definitely a very, very different thing than we've ever had before. But we're gonna try to soldier through it and we're going to be faithful to the scriptures and just continue to move on through and and hopefully we hopefully will be a blessing for everybody. And we'll keep it we'll try to keep it short and sweet too. So let's start with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you in Jesus name and we're so grateful. We're so thankful, Lord, for your provision for your love and your grace and your mercy towards this father, and we ask Lord God that you would be with all of our families and all of our friends and all the people around the world father who are suffering through this Corona virus, Lord, and for Every person who's who's just fine Lord, there's there's somebody out there who maybe isn't her know somebody who isn't Lord, we want to be compassionate towards those people, father who are hurting and sick and maybe who have lost loved ones. And we pray, Father, that you would give us hearts to minister during this time. And that would be always our goal or to serve you through serving others. Father, we pray that you would bless our service this morning, we pray that you would strengthen us and equip us through your word that you'd have your way in our lives would help us to not be fearful or be afraid, but to trust in you Father, for everything in our lives, Lord, everything that we need is found in our relationship with you, Lord, and stems and flows through that so we asked and pray that you would establish us this morning Lord and in that faith and strengthen us and Curtis up Lord, however, we have your way in us and through us. In Jesus name we pray, Amen. All right. So, we are in the book of Numbers chapter 15 Shifting gears here just a little bit as we follow the children of Israel on their way from Egypt to the promised land, of course, you know, the exact same thing that that we've been talking about every single week, holds true that God had planned on rescuing his people and bringing them to the promised land for hundreds and hundreds of years. Going back to Abraham. He told Abraham that he was going to bring the people out he was going to bring them to a promised land, the same ones he had promised Abraham and he was going to establish them there. And of course, now, the time has come and they've been liberated from the land of Egypt through God's mighty hand and miracles and plagues and all the things that the Lord did and brought out into the wilderness and God there at Mount Sinai gives them his perfect law. He begins to establish this relationship with them through sacrificial worship through the sacrificial sacrifice system, as he begins to implant in their hearts and implant in their minds. The idea that there has to be a propitiation for sin, there has to be an atonement. God is beginning to work in the lives of men in this sense and beginning to help them to understand that we are separated from him, that our relationship with him is broken not because of physical circumstances, not because of earthly circumstances, but because each one of us in our hearts are separated from him because of sin. And sin has to be atone for there has to be a sacrifice may and this goes all the way back again, to the Garden of Eden, after Adam and Eve fell, and the Bible says that God clothes and when the skins of animals and in order to do that, of course, an animal's blood had to be had to be shed. And so God is now beginning to really work amongst his people in this sense,