Good morning. Thanks for coming. It’s good to see you all. Coffee will be good churches good the last few months, but it’s even better of coffee. So thank you for grinding through this without some just to give you a little heads up. High level we are. This is a workbook that’s in the resource library. Terrorist named, which is wonderful. That is out there in the library. Um, if you need one of these, grab one of these. We’re gonna play a little catch up this week and next week. We had a guest preacher a few weeks ago and we told him, brother, share whatever on your heart. Just share the word of whatever is on your heart. And he did great, but I’m playing catch up a little bit. And so we’re gonna cover an extra chapter this week and next week. But the high level strategy is that come Easter because all your neighborhood in your networks, your friends, your family, they’re gonna get invited by you to come to church. And they’re likely to come around Easter season usually. Um, come Easter, we will be concluding this before Easter. Samuel will be starting a new Siri’s first Peter following Easter. And I love first Peter. I’ve preached that before. Other times it’s been excellent. And so we’re excited about Easter. Excited about today, Excited about everything. We’re looking at what God has been doing. Um, but just I’m gonna play a little catch up this week and next week, and that will be fine. So let’s pray, Val, your heads. Shut your eyes. Let’s pray. God, thank you for today. Thank you for what we’re looking at. In your word. I thank you for your word is powerful asset people would hear from you and your your scripture. I set your spirit convict hearts I set your word would instruct hearts pray to kick people in the But I need a butt kicking approach. You encourage and support people that need encouragement that need a hug from you, Lord Heavenly encouragement. Lord, I ask that you just really give us what we need. Three a word today I pray people would hear from you and your scripture in the book of First Samuel, we just love you and commit today to you in Jesus name. Amen. Okay. So when you when you preach, there’s There’s parts of the Bible. You you gotta preach in parts of the Bible you wanna preach and there’s preference preaching. And I’m a rehabilitated preference preacher who who, uh, check the wrong thing there. I’m a rehabilitated preference preacher who doesn’t always prefer to preach certain sections of the Bible. There’s parts I prefer, but today is lucky for me. Ah, part of the Bible I do enjoy was looking at. I do enjoy this subject we’re looking at today. We’re looking at transitions, um, transitioning of leadership. There’s usually stereotypically at a church. When you talk about it, this kind of theme of a sermon, it’s because someone’s getting fired. Someone’s taking a job somewhere else. Someone’s going out on church, plant someone’s feel called emissions or something. And then we’re breaking some very unfortunate or fortunate news to you guys because one of us pastors is leaving or something that’s stereotypically when people covered this topic of transition plan, succession planning and all that stuff, to my knowledge, into the first service fasters knowledge. We don’t know if anything big that’s happening like that in our church, but it’s okay to preemptively preach through a passage that is usually steeped with excitement. Um, if that’s okay, so first annual 89 10, 11. We’re covering a lot today. The nation of Israel is transitioning from, uh, theocracy to a monarchy king leading a kingdom. The Nation of Israel is looking around at all the other nations around them, the Philippines, Emirates, and they They want to be like the other nations around them. And they approach Samuel and they and they lay out, lay…