well, good morning, my name is Ben Lander and I am one of the pastors here and glad to be um With you this morning in Luke, chapter 12 verses 49 through 59? No, the other side. Okay, there we go. Um, so I wanted to um, before we get into the passage, it’s, I think it’s important to mention uh, that we as a church should be praying for Ukraine and uh, and I will be praying here shortly, but we, we really want to pray for our brothers and sisters in christ in Ukraine. They’re undergoing extremely difficult choices right now. They’re fighting for their country and um, and there’s just a lot of uh, difficulty as Russia has invaded their um, there’s quite a few christians there in Ukraine. Quite a few of our baptist brothers and sisters who are being lights and standing for the Gospel in their country. It’s challenging to see, but it’s encouraging to see there are many believers there who faced the reality that their freedom to worship will probably be severely restricted or diminished. Uh, if Russia is able to take over the country. And so we want to pray and they have a choice to follow christ and be faithful to him or to lose everything, possibly even their lives. And they are standing firm in the Gospel. It’s encouraging to see here’s a quote from the president of the Ukrainian baptist Theological Seminary is very encouraged by this. This was from two days ago and he said this, he said in response to, you know, what are you, what are you gonna do if Russia takes over? And he said this, He said, oh the church will go undergrounds. Um we had that under the soviet union. The church has not forgotten what it means to be persecuted. So we will rearrange, we will reorganize and we will do what we always do, preach the Gospel and that was so encouraging. So they are standing firm there in the Gospel. It’s a sobering reminder to us that eternity is what matters are passage today also is a sobering reminder for that from jesus. It’s eternity that matters and what it means to follow him. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to read our passage Luke. Chapter 12 verses 49 through 59. And then I’m going to pray and commit our time with Lord and also pray for Ukraine. So join with me in Reading Luke chapter 1249 through 59 I came to bring fire on the earth and how I wish you were already set ablaze but I have a baptism and to undergo and how it consumes me until it is finished. Do you think that I came here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division from now on five in one household will be divided three against 22 against three. They’ll be divided. Father against son, son against father, mother against daughter and daughter Against mother. Mother in law against her daughter in law and daughter in law against Mother in law. He also said to the crowds when you see a cloud rising in the west, right away, you say a storm is coming and so it does. And when the south wind is blowing you say it’s going to be hot and it is hypocrites, you know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky. But why don’t you know how to interpret this present time? Why don’t you judge for yourselves? What is right as you’re going with your adversary? The ruler make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge and the judge to hand you over to the bailiff and the bailiff to throw you into prison. I tell you you will never get out there until you have paid the last penny, pray with me. Lord God, we do come before you. God above all Gods, King above all kings. Not only do we pray for you to speak to us during this time, but we also pray for our brothers and sisters in Ukraine. We pray for the country of Ukraine. Lord God deliver Ukraine from evil. Draw many to yourself that the people there would hope in God…