hope you guys are doing well. My name is dan. If I haven’t met you, one of the elders here, as you should be aware of by now, um still thankful for the church and the gifts and the letters man, what a joy it is to be a part of the body of christ. Amen. Well this morning we are going to kick off a new series. Looking at paul’s letter to the colossians and we’re gonna look at chapter one verses one through 14, so go ahead and turn there and while you’re turning there, I I got a couple of questions I want to pose to you guys first. I wanna, I wanna ask the parents in the room, there’s a few of you in, in the room this morning and um, I just want to ask you, you know, could you imagine what it felt like for you when your child went off on his or her own for the first time? Can you imagine the feelings you felt at that time, the burden you had for your child, wondering if that child would indeed be successful and whatever it is they were going off to pursue, wondering if that child would surround him or herself with the right people, the right folks to be in their life to help them, that they could be a blessing to as well, wondering if your child might encounter the wrong kind of company that might try to lead them away. People meaning to do harm to them, people, meaning to lead them him down a path that that wouldn’t lead to blessing and God, do you remember what that feels like now for some of you in here who have younger Children, you may be saying yourself, well, I don’t really know what that’s like when my kid leaves my sight for a few minutes. I am concerned that he’s gonna do something to himself or my house. Okay. I know what that’s like having young kids. But you can still relate, you can still relate because if you can think back to the first time you left home or the first time you took on a new venture or the first time you stepped into something that was completely new that you’ve never done before. The feelings you felt at that time, The insecurity that you had at that time? The questions you had about whether or not you might meet the right kind of people to help you to be a blessing to you, that you could be a blessing to or if you might meet the kind of people that might cause you harm or lead you away or lead you astray now, wouldn’t it be helpful for you? Young people and parents if the child or in the case of the young people, if you were reminded of the fact that it’s not your job to please everybody, wouldn’t that be a comfort to you? Wouldn’t that be something you’d want as a parent for your child going out into this world, that there’s some people that are gonna be difficult to please. There are some people that are gonna mean to do you harm, and then there are gonna be some good people, but ultimately, you need to know you have the freedom that it is not your responsibility to try to please everyone. And as a young person, that would simply be something I would want to be reminded of to be encouraging. And the fact that man, it’s not my job to try to please everybody. So this morning, the title of my sermon is you can’t please everybody logically, you can’t, but spiritually as it relates to our relationship with God, that should not be your goal, That shouldn’t be your goal to try to please everyone. But and I’m drawing this from The passage this morning in verse 10, that it would be your goal to please God, to pursue the things that pleases God, that that would be your goal. So, the title This Morning, you can’t please everybody. The main point I want you to get this morning is that it is your desire. It should be your goal to please God and to pursue the things that pleases your God. And so, we’re gonna look at this letter, verses one through 14, and we’re gonna see very early on in this letter, Paul, havin…