Good morning. So church family. Good morning to those of you tuning in on the live stream. I’ve been praying for us this morning. I started last night praying for us. And if you could pray for me this morning because I left my glasses at home and I got to read some tiny words up here. So I would certainly appreciate that. Um, and then if you’re a visitor here, my name is dan and I’m one of the pastors here at Sword Church and I would like to welcome you and I do hope that you fill out a connect card and would be able to reach out to you this week. Um, so on that note, guys, we are going to continue our coverage of the gospel according to Luke and we are going to continue in Chapter nine. But while you turn there, I kind of want to set this up a little bit. Want to give you a little bit of history. I was a history major in college. Um, and there’s some things that I think are relevant to the passage that don’t make sense. Hopefully at some point. But how many of you know that today, there’s a half marathon taking place here in Lincoln, I think maybe they canceled it because of the weather, but there’s a half marathon taking place. Um, some of you may be aware of this. Some of you may not be aware of the fact that the first marathon resulted in the individual dying At the completion of 26.2 mi. This was a Greek marathon runner, which in actuality he was a herald of the good news that the Greeks had staved off an invasion by the Persians. And so he was carrying good news to his fellow countrymen who lived, you know, a distance away from the war to pronounce to them that the Greeks should want and that we were no longer going to be under the threat of of slaves to the Persian empire, that we have been saved, that our armies had defeated the Persians. And so the first marathon runner was actually an evangelist. A herald carrying good news. And your Christianity comes to you taking those terms, those Greco roman terms and rifle and rightfully deploying them for the purposes of christ and his kingdom. Because it has always been, I’m sorry, so excited to see this next line. Couldn’t even get that right. All right. But it has always been God’s desire. God’s plan to have a kingdom with this image bearers reflecting his glory, his character and his ways has always been God’s plan from the beginning. And it has always been the response of unbelieving, sinful humanity to prefer another king, another kingdom. And another way for living. But faithful followers of christ know that there is no other name under having by which a man may be saved. There’s no other kingdom that is eternal. That will make good on all of its problems. And there is no other way to live except that we live for the glory of the Lord jesus christ. Before I get to the passage, I want to read to you something that actually shows the contrast between God’s kingdom and the Kingdom of man. Not only does it show the contrast between the two kingdoms, but it demonstrates the context that the Lord jesus christ began his earthly ministry. In an inscription was found on a stone and Prince turki And it was dated to be around about nine BC. I want to read to you what the inscription said. It seemed good to the Greeks of Asia in the opinion of the high priest Apollon ears of Mena Phyllis as an itis. Now I need a bonus for that one. And you thought Shannon was a difficult name to pronounce anyway, in the opinion of the High priest. Since providence, which has ordered all things and is deeply interested in our life, has set in most perfect order by giving us augustus whom she filled with virtue that he might benefit humankind, sending him as a savior both for us and for our descendants, that he might end war and arrange all things. And since he caesar by his appearance, excels even our …