Happy fourth of july weekend. Good morning. I’m thankful for the opportunity to spend a few moments of you looking at God’s word, I’m gonna share a short story and if I do my job right, I’ll tie it together here. Later in the sermon, this passage today reminded me of my trash this week. I have a have a street I live on and the lady that lives behind me, she’s this retired, sweet dear ex teacher of music and she’s been teaching my kids all sorts of musical instruments. And so she eventually noticed by smelling that a possum died in one of her huge flower beds she has in her backyard. And so she asked that I would dispose of said possum. It was already a week plus old dead. And so I grabbed my shovel that I hardly ever used and I carried it over and I scooped up the possum and I put it in the black trash actually had, I tied it, I spun it and I carried it back to my trash and I threw it in my trash. This is day zero of my trash. My trash can is usually clean. I sprayed out once in a while. Um and it’s, it’s immaculate trash can. Um and so I threw the dead possum in the very bottom of trash and what about my day Week Plus All Dead Possum. Day one you know, some flies, my kids seven, they threw some trash in on top of the possum heap week. Day two, we added some more trash. Day three, you can smell, you know, little width of dead carcasses floating around the house on either side. Day four, Day five, you can smell a strong width of carcass rotting. Day seven I drug that can out to the curb and I was concerned the trash man would not take it. I didn’t take a photo because I thought that’s cruel. I’m gonna explain and describe what it was until I see concerned faces and I’ll stop. But the dead possum remains have produced fluid. Black fluid which made its way out of that sack into the bottom where there’s this pool of hair and fluid and maggots and flies, I’d say a couple 100 maggots and a couple 100 flies. It was insane. It was disgusting, gross revolting. It was like take a breath and throw something else in and close the lid. It was rough. And so I was texting and I’m like anne is everything okay with our trash? Did he take it? You know? And he said he looked concerned, but he took the trash. So I’m gonna pause there, We’re gonna pray. But that that reminds me of my passage I’ve signed this morning, I’ll come back to it. But let’s pray God, thank you for the word of God, I thank you that you are writing stories in our lives and the greatest and grandest story you’re you’re sharing is your story of redemption of all of mankind. I thank you for this word of God. We get we get a hold in our hands. Thank you for the main theme of this story is jesus, the main authors a tent as God’s rescue plan for salvation of men and women on this planet. I just thank you for the great story of writing our lives where we all come nearer to you. You instruct us with, with the Word of God, encourage us with the Word of God humble us with the Word of God helps us submit to the word of God. Help us to yield to the word of God helps to be encouraged refresh and some of us need to kick in the butt. Others need a hug from the Word of God. I pray your word with your spirit to do your work in the grand story of these men and women’s lives. You’re writing, We pray this in jesus name Amen. Today we’re kicking off a new series at our church. We value the bible. And so a quick little shout out to your bible. Your bible consists of 66 books in your bible and they’re written over 40 different authors of men of various diverse backgrounds. Uh profits, priest, tax collectors, I. R. S. Agents, fishermen, shepherds, doctors, Kings, military leaders, musicians, politicians Over 1500 years, several different continents, multiple different countries wrote the word of God a…