morning church. Hey, I like that. Some response. That’s great. My name is derek grumpy one of the pastors here. Um, I also get the pleasure of heading up our college ministry. Yeah, thanks brian. It’s exciting for him. I paid him, paid him little 20 slipped in there. But I, so I had, it’s exciting what’s happening on the campus. I just want to say thank you to solar church to you guys for blessing us. Uh the work we’re doing on the campus, praying for the work supporting the work. And it’s exciting to see the fruit. That’s, that’s God’s bringing about on the campus and the last, we’ve got to celebrate some of that with some baptisms and um this is exciting to see a church come behind the work that’s happening and bringing the gospel, making disciples on the campus. So thank you for that. With that we’re gonna be in Luke. Chapter nine continuing on in the book of Luke and Let’s Pray father God, we worship you this morning. You are our God, the one true God who is good, right and true, who is holy, who is merciful? Who was faithful? Well, we ask that you would direct us this morning as we look into your word that you would open our eyes to understand and behold the wonders of your word, pray this in jesus name. Amen Amen. Alright Hope and change make America great again, unite for a better future. Sure. Some of these might sound familiar to you and these are three of the slogans that have been used in the past by the past three presidents and their presidential campaigns. Uh when I think about these slogans bring up these slogans because these slogans address uh, some of the longings of our hearts, right? They weren’t just come up with in a couple of minutes by uh people who didn’t know what they’re doing. There are people who are paid a lot of money, spent a lot of time to say what would relate to the most amount of people. And up came the slogans and they speak to, like I said, the longings of our hearts and that’s why they uh they are used, that’s why they impact and our ra memorable, memorable for us. So what do they speak to? What are the longings of the heart piece is one of them. Justice is one that these slogans and things like them address uh prosperity, Freedom. These are things that we long for that we want to see and that we see represented in these slogans. And every four years we build up a fervor. We build up a hope that we can get the right person in place in this area of life, the sphere of life, the civil government area, and they’ll put the right policies in the place, the right actions into place and bring about the peace, the prosperity, the freedom, the justice that we all long for and desire? Now? This is not a new thing, right? This is old and and ongoing. In fact, we see in the second century with the Jews, the people of God. So about 150 200 years before Christ they were under the oppression of a Greek king named Antiochus and they were prevented from purely and freely worshiping god. They were restricted in their worship and under this oppressive king and people now they had this, you know, familiar with the old testament that the jewish people, God had given promises to his people that they would have a messiah that they would have one who would come and deliver them and bring about his kingdom and established his ways, his peace and prosperity. So they had these, these promises and then they’re under this oppression. Well in steps a man named judas, Maccabees, a god fearing man a jew. He also was known by Judah the hammer which is a cool name and uh maybe a nickname I can give to to one of my sons be fun. Uh so due to the hammer brought together a small militia and he defeated the greek king. This this greek people that was in their land and he restored the temple cleansed the temple, restored the templ…