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Let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name and we thank you so much for your Holy Spirit, because it's by the Spirit were saved. And I asked father that you would come and ministry to us this morning you would use me as a weak vessel in order to speak to these your children whom you love so much. And so Father, I ask for your anointing I ask for your blessing upon each one who's here, and use this time as a time of fellowship with you the living God, I pray this in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen. And oh, Nikki side of the family had a death. And so that's why Frank and Nikki are here the funeral services today. And vice not here, because Frank and Nikki's youngest child Brooke is sick and survives home, taking care of her. And just to let you know, because you're thinking pastor Frank Jr. Supposed to be up here this morning. And it's the old man, you know, you know, and and I'll tell you, there's, there's sometimes there's a there's a trick that the Lord plays on us. And every month I write up what's called a preaching screen. jewel. So each week, Frank and I both know exactly what we're going to be preaching on. When you go through numbers, just some difficult parts. And I came across this part numbers where it talks about a woman's belly swelling in her thigh rotting. And I thought that's a good one to get Frank. So I did. And as cruel fate would have it, Frank said, Here is now I've got it. So we'll see what we can do with it. You know, we have to understand it all Scripture, not only is for our encouragement, but for instructing us as an individual. We have to realize that the primary primary responsibility for ministry is you and I as individuals, you know, it's not big movements or even our church is you and I individually are called to minister to others. And therefore, most of Scripture, not all of them, but most of Scripture deals with The individual, you know how we can become stronger in the Lord? For what purpose that God would use us? You know, a lot of people say, Well, I'm just one person, you know, what difference does it make whether I'm useful to the Lord or not. But I want to share with you a quote from Edward Everett Hale. Some of you might have read some of his writings. He was born on April 3 1822. And he died in June 10 1909. And he was an American author, historian, but most of all, he was a pastor. And here's what he wrote. This is a quote from him. I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything. But still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Yeah, beautiful and simple. When we look at that we understand why God put such an emphasis on ministry to you and I as individuals, that we might be able to grow in the Lord and be useful to him. Because every single one of us, has the Spirit of God within us. And all of us realize that this life isn't about this life, it's about the life to come. And so consequently, our mission is to encourage people in life to come that they might have eternal life. You know, years and years and years ago, I was talking to a neurosurgeon, and he was telling me, he said, You know, there are things that we just don't understand. He said, there's so many things about the brain that you know, we have been able to, you know, diagnose and to look at in this net and through different surgeries. We can help with this, and we can help with that. But he said most of the abstract things about the brain we don't understand it all. And this man was not a believer. But you know,

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Morning, everyone. Let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name. And we thank you for this opportunity to worship you to look into your word, and to be in fellowship and communion with you the living God. I thank you so much father for the salvation that we share together. And I pray, Lord, that you administer to us through your word in a way that enables us to learn, to be encouraged, and to grow. And so now Father, I pray and ask your blessing upon these your people. And on me, Lord, that you would give me wisdom of what to share. I pray in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen. Excuse me. You know, the one thing we have to remember is that you and I are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Scripture makes that very clear. And Jesus and His Holy Spirit will not dwell in an unclean place. And so consequently, it's important for us to be clean, then we can't make ourselves clean. I'm going to do this on Going to do that. We have to allow the Lord to do it. And because we are in the flesh, we have to be cleansed over and over again. For instance, how many of you wished you only had to clean your house once in your life? But it has to be something that you continually do because even though you clean it all up, then you know the world dust and so forth comes in. So the same thing is true, we always have to be before the Lord saying, Lord, here I am, cleanse me of vessel, I'm yours, Lord, use me. And so as we look into this portion of Scripture, we're going to be looking at lepers and, and losing sores and so forth, that people have to be taken out of the out of the camp in order to protect the rest of the body. And we have to realize that so much of what we read in the Old Testament is an illustration of what would come through faith in Jesus Christ. In other words, we have physical examples of a spirit reality. And that's what we're seeing here. So when you read these portions of Scripture, these kinds of verses, where it seems like Well, what's going on? That doesn't seem right, that doesn't seem fair. Remember, the Lord is teaching us a lesson through it. And so our faith is all about having the presence of God in our heart, and in our life. You know, we have to understand the spiritual realm was real. When I was working on the message, it made me go back many years. And when I was much younger man when I first got saved, and we lived in Elmira, New York, and I was part of the gold tree, Gold Key ministry, and what we would do is we would go into prisons and do Bible studies with with inmates, and a Mayra prison is maximum security prison. And it's usually for younger men. And the fellow that I was assigned to was a young young man, very Large man who was in prison for murder, he actually beat someone to death. And I can remember in fact, it was very interesting because we went right back into prison. And we were one on one in private rooms together. And I remember talking to him, and he was sharing with me, he said, I don't know what it is. He said, usually I'm pretty good nature, nature, he said, something would come over me. And I would just get so angry and just lose my temper. And that's what happened in this this particular incident. And so I had a chance to share with him that there is a spiritual reality. And so we have to understand that even though we have physical bodies, just like we're influenced by our environment, there are spiritual influences that we deal with as well. And I shared with him that you need to have Jesus Christ in your life, and he's the only one that can give you freedom over this that comes upon you.

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You know, we put this back up because we're covering the tabernacle. And this is a replica of tabernacle in the wilderness. And we find I put this all together by hand, and the gate that the children of Israel would come to, in order to bring their sacrifice, like the little lamb that we have here. And they would come in and lay their hands on it confessing their sins, and the priests would take the sacrifice, and he would slaughter it on these tables and, you know, take the skin off, and then they would put the meat on this altar, this Brazen Altar where they would burn the sacrifice. And then after the sacrifice was burned, on the Day of Atonement, the priests then would come to the brazen lever, and he would wash himself clean. And after he washed himself clean, the priests Then the high priest, he would be able to enter in the tabernacle itself, and the tabernacle was covered with three layers. First you have the Badger skin, or, and this was to represent the flesh, the outer man. And you can kind of see it on here. And then after that you had read, covering, which represented the blood that was being shed for the forgiveness of sin. And then you had a white covering, which represented the purity that we have, through Jesus Christ, then the inside covering was actually of the shoe kinda, or the angels of God. And so every part of it had a meaning. And so then after the priests was watching the brazen lever, now he was able to enter into the first chamber of the tabernacle called the holy place. And in there, the only reason he could see was because of the menorah. And, you know, there were candlesticks, much larger than this. In fact, when we were in Israel, the Temple Institute already had All the articles for the news, the Third Temple, they're done, they're ready to take up, including your robes actually found. There's a snail that they get the blue dye from. And they found that to die the robes of the priests. But anyway, the only reason they could see is because of this manure the real menorahs like this. It was so dark, no, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, but it was covered with gold. And so when the menorah was lit, you could see very brightly in there. And so then you had the menorah, which is on this side. And this side is a table show bread. And cheese, of course, is the bread of life. And then you went you had the altar of incense. And incense represents the prayers of the saints. And from there you could go into the Holy of Holies which is where the Ark of the Covenant was, which was the very presence of God. Now this has a lot of meaning to you and I as believers Because we have to understand what Jesus did for us. He's the one who entered through the gate. And it's only through Him, He is the gate of the sheep and excuse me, Sony through him that you and I can enter in. Then he himself gave himself as a sacrifice. And he is the one the brazen altar who washes us with the water of the word but and also by his blood, we're at White, we are washed clean, that allows us to enter in and the menorah is the light of the world. Jesus is the light of the world. And through him we can see and he gives us the table of show bread, which is the bread of life, the Word of God. And then through that, and through our knowledge of Him and through our salvation. We're able to come to the altar of instance and lift up our prayers to God and go into his very presence. Because we know when Jesus was crucified in the cross, it makes it very clear, very, very clear. That that veil was separated the holy place from the Holy o...

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Got a couple of announcements. Registration for a new session of the secret sisters prayer fellowship will begin next Sunday. There's a letter explaining all the details on the on the table out there. The adults dinner night out on January 14, which is a week from Monday or Tuesday week from Tuesday will be at the retreat in Liverpool. Every in there very nice. Please join us. There's a sign up sheet out there as well. We are going to have a church work be on Saturday, January 18. At 9am we're gonna we're going to just get together and do a few things around here. If you can make it we'd love to have you. And let's see prophecy conference January 24 and 25th which is a Friday to Saturday this year. So it's a little it's a little easier for those of you who have jobs that maybe might be lonely. You're going to break away used to be right in the middle of the week the prophecy conference in the pastors conferences where we're right in the middle of the of the workweek. But they've kind of moved it towards the, towards the end. Probably a good one to attend. You know what I mean? I it's funny because I remember when we first joined up with Calvary Chapel when I was in my early 20s, me and Nikki were just first married. And, you know, all the old guys, you know, I mean, all the old preachers unless it's like, no way we're going another year, you know, no way. And I'd be like, Oh, boy, here goes the old people again. And the older I get, you know, I'm saying, and people think you're a wacko to, like, you know, they're going to nuke us good. I hope they send it to my house. I want out of here. I want to go home, man. I'm ready to go to say like, Okay, well, I'm a bit of a wacko but the prophecy conferences are always always instructive and encouraging. And it's a great reminder. It's a great matter what keep the main thing the main thing don't get caught up don't get caught up oh my goodness gracious you know it's like every time something happens politically in our country now it's like Chicken Little The sky is falling you know what I'm saying it's just like oh and and the the oh my gosh just it's amazing the rift in our in our country and stuff like that we got to remember Christians it's not our fight certify you know have your convictions based on based on the your principles and most importantly the principles of God's Word in the Spirit living inside of you and vote based on that you have the freedom to do so men and women have fought and died for that freedom for us and God has granted it to us and we should exercise that and exercise all the rights that you have as an American but understand that your true citizenship lies in heaven James says it best our life is but a mist appears for a moment and then it vanishes you know he says all this talk and and plan making this is my paraphrase right all this talk and and plan make and we can go here this is like really?

You're mist man. You're mist, you here for a moment and poof, it's gone. Instead we ought to be walking around going wherever the Lord wills wherever the Lord wills. Here's what I'm thinking, here's, here's what I'm going to try here's what I'm going to step out in. But whatever the Lord wills you know, it's you know, if you're if you're dependent on God's Will by how you react when he says no, right, when the door slams in your face, or you trip and fall on razor wire, you know what I mean? And and you get all mad and upset and I said, Wait a second, then if that's the case, if I'm freaking out like that, then I'm not living in the context,

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Alright, well good morning everybody. Hope you all had a nice Christmas Day anybody too much money and never I don't I don't eat too much and it was fine for me I thought it was perfect the perfect amount of food. You know? I can I suggest really, I can just eat and eat and eat and eat and sleep and eat and I never feel bad I never feel sick until the day comes when I have to hold my breath to tie my own shoes and then I realize I'm in a little bit of trouble here. And then we go on a two week diet we start over again. Well, we are in the book of numbers. Numbers chapter three dad started out for say we're going to wrap it up. Some somebody was saying to me after the first service, can't we just skip the book of numbers and you know who you are. And for only $50 I won't tell pop up. Book of Numbers chapter three. Now what is happening here is God is establishing or re establishing the role of his people, not only in their service to him that we pray over the word yet. No, let's do that first right. Prophecy conferences when? 24th and 25th. It's a Friday and a Saturday. There's a signup sheet out there for the prophecy conference, if you can make it. It's Friday and Saturday. So dad was adamant that was you should have no trouble skipping that day of work on Friday and go into the prophecy conference. I'm hoping I can go We'll see. But let's pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you in Jesus name and we're so grateful for your word. This book that we have in front of us, Father That we're so blessed to have Lord and we confess to you we so take it for granted, Lord, that we have your very word and our hands in our laps, Lord, and we don't give it the preeminence, that it deserves Father, we don't give it the time that it deserves. And we're so grateful, Lord, that You know who we are, you know how we are. And you love us just the same father and your grace and your mercy cover where we lack and but we're here today father, and we want to study your words together. We want to hear from you today. And so we ask Lord, that You would speak your speak your voice, Lord, speak your will into our hearts. Give us our portion of daily bread. Each person father here needs to hear something from you today, Lord, they need something that I could never ever in a million years give them Lord but you can because you know their hearts you know every single thing about them father and I pray that you would take this portion of of daily bread father and that you would sustain them Lord, give them the life that they need through it, father and give them the answers that they're looking for. Hope that they're seeking father and put joy in their hearts through this word in Jesus name we pray, Amen. Amen. So God is establishing not only the roles of his people within the camp within the nation of Israel, but more importantly, establishing himself in their lives where, where not just where they fit into His kingdom, but where he fits into their lives and what they owe him. What He requires of them what He requires of their hand, in their service and their service to him. And this is a very, very, very, very important thing. I think for each VC even though we're in the Age of Grace, even though we're not under the law, we always need to remember we always need to understand that God has not changed, right? Jesus said, I have not come to abolish the law, do not think that I've come to abolish the law. I've come to fulfill the law, the essence of the law and the words of the Law Jesus said, not one jot or tittle not one piece of punctuation from the law will pass a...

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I'm sure glad you're here. And if you want to open your Bibles line with me, we are in Numbers chapter three. But I want to mention that we have a prophecy conference coming up. It's January 24 to the 25th. It's a Friday to Saturday. So for a lot of people where it's not during the week, it might make it easier for some of you to be able to get off and and be there for Friday and Saturday, it's going to be a great conference. And we have a sign up sheet in the foyer. Now you can register online but the purpose of the signup sheet is if you would like to have a room to stay overnight. I worked out a good deal. I'm a wheeler and dealer when it comes to hotels and I try to give it get as good hotels for a good price. So sign up if you'd like to go to the conference. So I have your name down there. And you know we have new year coming up so we can make new year's resolutions and my new year's resolution Just to keep this year's New Year's resolution and you know, we normally keep them for at least Actually, we don't keep them. It's just, it's just in our mind, we make these resolutions just where you know, in the new year starts, I'm going to do this and this and I'm not going to do that and that and usually anyway, anyway, so I encourage you to sign up. I agree. I agree. And I know most of you have enjoyed the longer daylight. I mean, on last Saturday was not yesterday, but last Saturday prior to that was the winter solstice. That was the shortest day of the year. And from that time on, we had been increasing 43 seconds of daylight. So you know, so I'm sure you've all noticed a great daylight hour we've had. Okay, let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name and there's nothing more wonderful than to have the opportunity to handle your handle your word. And I pray, Lord, as we go through this portion of Scripture that it would speak to us and encourage us, that we might draw closer to you and realize the importance of following the living God and not the dictates of this world or even our own heart, because our hearts are deceptive beyond knowing beyond finding out. And so Father, I pray that you would anoint to use me to minister to these your precious people, I pray in Jesus, holy name, amen. Amen. You know, it's interesting. Science has made almost a full circle. When science and the scientific method first came on the scenes. If you had true faith, it seemed to be taking us away. But as science has continued and continued and continued, it's bringing us right back. Like for instance, the whole concept of evolution is becoming more and more even among academics. a fallacy you have Many very well known scientists that have accepted what they call

What do they call it? intelligent design? That of course, they don't want to recognize who that intelligent designer is, but they call it intelligent design. But the reality is that there is a designer and his name is john Elway. You know, it's so interesting. You have, like, for instance, Maxwell plank, he came up with Planck's constant. And it which led to what is called quantum mechanics, and some of it is very accurate. Some of it's very interesting, but a whole lot of it is just a bunch of bogus. Did you know science changes every 50 years? Look it up every 50 years science change. I mean, and not that many. Well, quite a while ago, maybe 150 years ago, 200 years ago, if if you had certain problems, you might go into see your physician and they drill a hole in your head and sometimes they bleed you In order to make you feel better,

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Good morning, everyone. And I'm glad each one of you are here and I hope you're blessed. Pastor Frank Jr. His message did he did the first service, you really want to watch it online. It was really, really good. It was a blessing. And I hope all of you picked up one of these in the way in, did you? Okay, you're going to need it as I go over the teaching. We will not be having Wednesday night prayer Bible study this week or next week, because it's Christmas Day, New Year's Day. But we will be having a Christmas Eve service on Tuesday. And I encourage you to come. It's a great time for us to just contemplate the fact that Jesus Christ came. I mean, historically, and it's not the actual problem is probably not the actual time of year that he came but he did come he came to earth that he might free man from all of his sin. And so that is the purpose of our Christmas Eve service. When you think traditional No Christmas carols and and we also have a little teaching I teach Why did Jesus need to come and then pastor Frank jr will teach the purpose of His coming and what it accomplished. And then of course we end with the candles and silent night you know the traditional Christmas Eve that we encourage you to come. And also you get to see me my Christmas tie if you come and if you wonder what my Christmas tie is the first year bionaire together 50 years ago, she gave me a tie for Christmas. I gave her a car but anyway but she gave me a tie a tie for Christmas. And I have worn it every Christmas Eve since then. Nicole and so it gets a little you know threadbare and and stuff like that, but you get to see my bright Christmas tie. And plus we have a great time together. And so anyway, let's pray. Father, we come before you in Jesus name and we thank you so much for your word. Your word is a lamp unto our feet and a light to our path. It gives us wisdom and direction. And I asked Heavenly Father, that you would use the teaching this morning, to truly minister to each one who is here, that they might be encouraged in you and in all your ways. Father, the things of this life can be so discouraging. And so, just so burdensome, but in you we have, we have peace in you, our burden is lifted. In you we have purpose and direction. And so Father, I pray that you would come and Minister your wisdom to each one here this morning, I pray in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen. You know, probably this morning as we go through the through this teaching, you're going to see the old science teacher and me the old math teacher and me because I like to look at numbers and lay them out in such a way that it has meaning because we have to understand that everything that was written in this book that we call the Bible had a purpose and reason for it to be put in there. This is the most Accurate book that anyone can ever read. And some of the things that we find in Scripture, as we dig in our mind blowing, you can't exhaust this book. I don't know how many times I've read it. I don't know how many times I've taught through it. Because you know, in our fellowship, we teach every word we go right to the Bible. And every time something more comes out, something more comes out. So this morning, we are in Numbers, chapter two. And, you know, when we look at portions of Scripture like this, it might seem like, Wow, what's in here? But in reality, what's in here is very mind blowing. Because one of the things we have to realize that all of Scripture points to God, it points to the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. You know, there's some people that have a problem with the Trinity.

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Good morning. Glad to see you guys all here today. Nice day. Nice day today think is supposed to get a little warmer. We're down for that right? Goodness gracious.

Alright, well we are in the book of Numbers today starting a whole brand new book. And I'm going to do the introduction to it this morning. And then dad's gonna get us going in chapter two. Let's start with a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you in Jesus name. And we thank you so much Lord God for your holy word, father and for preserving it for us, Lord and for keeping it for us father so that we can have it in our hands, Lord, to this very day, from the long days past, Lord and to receive That same word, Father from you that you gave to Moses Lord. on Mount Sinai Father, we can read those words and Lord, all the truth and the depth and the meaning that it still has for our lives today, father and how we can see ourselves. Lord represented in the children of Israel in so many different ways. Father, we pray that you would help us to take our lessons, Lord, from their mistakes, and also learn from the things that they did, right, Lord, and then also to take joy, Father, from all of the ways that Jesus Christ is represented. Lord, and the way that you work with Israel and days in days past father, and that everything that you were doing father was pointing to that day, when a son would be born, child will be born a son would be given, Lord and then and then and then we can still look for future tense Lord to the day when the government will be on his shoulders. We're all excited about that, Lord, and we ask and pray. Father, as we study your word this morning that you would write these true is that we're going to learn about today, Lord on the tablets of our hearts and we would take encouragement from it files and then she would just build up our faith, Lord and then our understanding of your word through the study of this book. In Jesus name we pray, Amen. Amen.

So the book of Numbers, begins chapter one and verse one. Right off the bat, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting on the first day of the second month, in the second year, after they had come out of the land of Egypt. So now we move from the account that we have in Leviticus, where the Lord was speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, giving him all of the laws and the regulations that pertain to the ruling of the nation itself, how they were to be governed and how they were to live their lives day to day the way that they were to conduct themselves, and then also the way that they were to worship Him. The prescribed methods to prescribe ways that prescribe sacrifices that God was very detailed about in the way in which they must worship Him in the tabernacle, and future tense in the temple it was going to be, but for now, God is explaining to Moses to the people through Moses, this is how I want to be worship. This is how I must be worship. This is what I require of your hand, and this is what I require of your lives. If you're going to be my children, and I'm going to be your God, these are the things that I'm putting in place for you to live your lives by. And it was very important it was to it was supposed to consume every aspect of their lives. He talks about talk with your children about it as you sit at the table as you rise and when you go to sleep at night, when you walk along the way. Talk about these things have these things on your mouth, you know, be thinking about these things be contemplating about these things.

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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 ...

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Open your Bibles along with me to Leviticus chapter 26. Leviticus 26. Couple announcements. This Thursday at Nikki Thomas's house, there's going to be the cookie exchange. And so any of you ladies who would like to go there's a sign up sheet out there in the foyer, just put your name down. And it's a great time. And I love chocolate chip cookies, and also those peanut butter ones with the Hershey Kisses, not putting any pressure on anyone what they're going to bake. But anyway, sign up for the cookie exchange if you'd like to go to that. And also, this Wednesday, there's going to be a youth Christmas party here at the church. So the adults will be meeting up here for bible study. And just to let you know about that, let's pray.

Father we can be for you in Jesus name and how thankful we are for your word. And how thankful we are for the nuggets of truth and wisdom that we can pull out of your word, that it might minister to us and encourage us in all your ways. Father, we look at portions like Leviticus. And oftentimes we think, well, what's in there? But it's your word, Lord. And it's to us. And so I pray, Father, that your Holy Spirit would make known the wisdom in this portion of Scripture, and that you would use me as your humble servant, in order to deliver your word to these your precious people. I pray in Jesus name, Amen. And Amen.

And you know, one of the things that we talked about last week, and we'll be getting into it again this week as well, that we have to remember is that the Lord, his discipline is out of love. The Lord disciplines those he loves. In fact, in in Proverbs chapter three and verse 12, it says this, for whom the Lord loves, listen, for whom the Lord loves, he corrects, just as a father, the son in whom he delights, doesn't say this tenant whom he can't stand. It's the Son in whom he delights that he disciplines because If you really consider what the very purpose of discipline is, is to Train up a child in such a way that they will be someone who is useful not only to society loves in the family, but also to be able to express God's love to the world. An undisciplined person has a difficult time expressing God's love, because everything else they do is so distracting. And also we find in Hebrews chapter 12, verses five through six and verse 11. It says, My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him, for whom the Lord loves. He caissons and Scourge is every son whom he receives. Verse 11. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the for the present, but painful, nevertheless, afterwards, it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it now I think there's anyone who's who would say I love discipline, I love being chased and none of us do. But if we learn the lesson that that chastening and discipline is bringing us, it really brings out a harvest of righteousness in our lives. It enables us to behave in such a way that brings glory to God. And for this reason, when we read portions like this, because this portion is seems very negative, like oh, all these horrible things are going to happen if you don't obey and, and this net. But when we read portions like this, we have to understand it is God's desire always to bring us back into right relationship with him. You see, we have to understand, the God is love. But we also have to understand that God is also a truth. And so he cannot have the people that are outwardly expressing their love for him, but don't obey Him.