- [Rick] Hi everybody,
welcome to Saddleback. You know, this weekend,
I'm continuing my tour of all of our campuses
of the Saddleback Church. I wanna say hi to all of our
campuses and those of you that are joining us online. If you take out your message
notes, we're gonna begin a new series this weekend. You know, every Sunday
in the United States, about 120 million people go
to a church worship service. Let me put that in perspective. That means more people in
America go to a church service on one single weekend, 120
million people, than will go and attend every single
professional sporting event in America in an entire year. Now, today, I want to ask
the big question, why? Why do they do this? What are the benefits? Why are over two million,
excuse me, two billion people around the world a
member of a church family somewhere in the world? Why do they do this,
what are the benefits? What's the payoff? Why get out of bed and
attend a service at a church when you could stay home? How would you answer that question? You know, having been a
pastor for over 40 years, I happen to know that most
people who attend a church service have no clear reason
or idea why they're there. And I'm sure some of those
millions that are attending church around the world,
not just in America, but in Berlin, and then in Buenos Aires, and then in Hong Kong, and in
Manila, all the other places where we're reaching out. I'm sure there are some people
that attend out of habit, or out of tradition, or
maybe they go out of duty, or they went to a church
service out of guilt, or maybe they went because
someone pressured them to go. If somebody were to ask you,
why are you a part of a church family, (laughing) what
reasons would you give? What would you say? This next year our church,
Saddleback church, which currently meets in many locations in four different continents. We're going to launch out
into our most ambitious and loving outreach
into our communities and into the whole world then
we've ever attempted. It's gonna be an exciting
adventure that I believe is going to change all of our lives. But first, before we get
into that new year and that new vision, we need to
review who we are and what we are. We need to identify why
we do what we do and what are the purposes of a church family. Now, you need to have clearly
in your mind this foundation. You need to know all of
the ways God wants to bless your life through your church family. So, starting this weekend,
I'm going to teach you a brand new series that
explains the five irreplaceable exclusive, benefits of being
part of a church family. Now, these five benefits
to your life are exclusive to the church, in other
words, nothing else besides the church family can meet
the five deepest needs in your life and provide
the five essential benefits that a church provides. You can't get them anywhere else. They are only available
through a church family. You can't get these
benefits through your work, or your school, or your nation, or even your physical
family, only the church can meet your five deepest needs, and help you fulfill your five
purposes for your life. Now, that's a big claim,
but in the next seven weeks, the next 48 days, I'm going to
prove to you without a doubt that what I'm saying is true. That only your church family
can meet the five deepest needs of your life, help you
fulfill God's five purposes for your life, and I'm
going to be very practical and very, very specific. Now, to fully benefit from
this series, you gonna need to participate in five
different parts of this series that we're starting this weekend. First, I need you to listen
to all seven messages that I teach on the
weekends and the days ahead. Second, you're gonna need to
watch or listen to a two-minute daily video from me for the next 48 days. It's only two minutes
long, and if you'll give me your email, give me your
text, I will mail you a link to this daily two-minute
video teaching by me which is gonna amplify
what I share with you on the weekend. Now, third, I'm gonna ask you
to post what I send to you in that link on social media,
on your social media page, so that others can benefit
too because helping others is a part of your own growth. Next, I'm gonna ask you
to read a chapter or two in my book, Purpose
Driven Church each week. Now, you may have, if you've
been in class 101, you either have this or this. This is the original cover,
and we had a half million sold. This is a later cover when
we had over a million sold. This book is in 17 languages,
Purpose Driven Church is the only book on the church
to ever sell more than a million copies, and
I'm gonna take you deeper as you read chapters in this
book over the next 48 days. Finally, I want to urge
you to form a small group. If you're not already in
one, and I want you to use the application and discussion
questions that I give you on the weekends and in the
daily video that I send you. What am I saying, this is
going to be an intensive, emersion in the learning. How the right church family
can support your right needs and the right purposes of your life. Now, all I wanna do today
is give you a brief overview of where we're going for
the next seven weeks, and to introduce what we're gonna
cover in the next 48 days. Now, the starting point is
to ask this, what's a church? What is a church, how do you define it? How do you describe it? (laughing) When I say the word church,
what do you think of? Now, depending on your background,
your answer's gonna vary. Whether you come out of
a Christian background or non-Christian background
or an atheist background or a Buddhist, you know,
whatever, Muslim or whatever, but my guess is that your
understanding of what a church really is, is probably pretty
limited, and not really all God says is a church family is. So, let me first tell
you what a church is not. It's not a building. I mean, most of you when
you think of a church, you think of a church
building, on a location, I'm going to the church
which means a building. Jesus didn't die for a building. Churches meet in buildings,
but they're not a building. Second, a church is not
an institution which is a misconception, we often
think of the institutionalized church, well, that can be
out there, but that's not what a church is, it's not
a building, and it's not an institution. I want you to write this
down, okay write this down in your outline. A church is not a place I go to, and it's not an event I attend. It is a spiritual family that I belong to. It's not a place I go to,
it's not an event I attend. It's a spiritual family that I belong to. Now, there are many,
many verses in the Bible that would teach this truth,
but let me just look at one. Acts chapter 2 verses, 41
and 42 and down to verse 46 which is a clear description
of the very first church which was in Jerusalem,
and here's what it says. Every one of these words
that I tell you to circle, is important so please circle
'em and then we'll come back and talk about it. To those who believed, circle
the word believed, those who believed, circle that,
were baptized, circle that, believed, baptized, and
added to the church. They joined, circle the
word joined, so you've got believed, baptized, joined,
they joined with other believers and committed
themselves to the apostles' teaching, and to fellowship,
circle teaching and circle fellowship,
teaching and fellowship. What is that apostles'
teaching, it's the Bible, and fellowship, and the fellowship,
it says they worshiped together, circle the word
worship, they worshiped together regularly at the temple
courts, and they met in small groups, circle
that, in homes for communion, you can underline or circle
communion, and shared meals, I like this part, people
shared meals with great joy and thankfulness. Now, notice these words,
believed, baptized, joined, worshiped, fellowshipped,
they ate together, uh they ministered together,
they served together, all these different things. According to the Bible,
this verse and many others, here's the definition of a church. A church, I've written
there on your outline, a church is a group of baptized
believers who've joined together in a commitment,
notice the word commitment, I didn't have you circle
that, who joined together in a commitment to help each
other fulfill God's five purposes for their lives,
that's, friends, is a church. It's a group of baptized
believers who've joined together for the purpose of helping
each other fulfill God's purposes for their lives. The purpose of the church
is to help you fulfill God's five purposes for your life. Now, we've talked in the past,
many times about the purpose driven life, but in this
series, we're gonna look at the purpose driven church, and
why you need other people in your life to fulfill God's purposes. So, the next questions
we need to ask is this, why is the church the most
important group on Earth? Some of you say, it is? Yeah, I'm sorry to tell you
this if you don't know it, but it is, the church is the
most important group on Earth. You say, well, why would that be true? Well, let me give you a
number of reasons for that. You might write these down. Number one, first reason
it's the most important thing on Earth is because the
church is God's family, it is God's family, I
Peter 1:3, God has given us the privilege of being
born again, so that we're now members of God's own family. You become a part of the
human race by being born into the world, you become
a part of God's family by being born again into God's family. We are part of God's family,
notice it's says we're members of God's own family,
circle the word member. We're members of God's own
family, you need to be a member of God's own family. Now, what is God's family? I Timothy 3:15 says this,
NC Version, That family is the church, God's family is
the church of the living God, the support and foundation of the truth. Here in California where we
have earthquakes, we know the value of support and
foundation, if you don't have good support and you don't have
good foundation, you're gonna crumble when the earthquakes
happen, and if you don't have a good support and good
foundation for your life, the support and foundation of
truth, you're gonna crumble when the heat's on in your life. So, the church is God's
family, that's why it's more important than any
business, any government, or anything else, it's God's family. Now, number two, it is the
only reason God created the universe, did you know that? The whole reason God created
the universe is because He wanted a family, God wanted
a family, and that family is called the church. So, the church is the reason
God created the universe. If God hadn't wanted a
family, if God hadn't wanted the church, none of this would exist. The Bible says God created
the entire universe because He wanted the church,
that's how important it is. Look at this verse from the
Bible, Ephesians chapter 1, verse four, from the Living
Bible, Long ago, even before He made the world, even
before He made the world, this is before the universe,
God chose us to be His very own through what Christ
would do for us, did you know that before God thought of the
universe, He thought of you? That's how valuable you are,
that's how important you are, that's how much you matter
to God, before He thought of the universe, He thought of you. Look at this verse, Ephesians
1:5, His unchanging plan, God's unchanging plan, has
always been from the very beginning of time, to adopt
us into His own family, God wanted a family, to
adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself
through Jesus Christ, and this gave him great pleasure. So, the church is God's
family, God wanted a family. It's the whole reason
He created the universe. That's how important the church is. If God didn't want a church,
nothing else would exist. Number three, God is using
his church for His eternal purposes, Ephesians 3,
verse 10, in the Bible, verse 10 and 11 say this, God's
intent, that's His intention His purpose, was that now,
through the church, through the church, through the
church, underline that, through the church, the manifold
wisdom of God should be made known to all the rulers and
authorities in the heavenly realms, according to His
eternal purpose which was accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. I love the message paraphrase
of this passage, Ephesians 3:10, it says this, through
Christians like yourselves gathered in churches, this
extra-ordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked
about even among angels. God's plan for all of
time involves the church. No church, no universe, no time, no plan. Now, number four, the
fourth reason why the church is more important than
any business, any school, any government, any nation,
Jesus died for His church. He didn't die for your nation,
or my nation, He didn't die for your business,
He died for the church. Ephesians 5:25 and 27, Christ
loved the church and gave Himself for it. It's like the father dies
for his family, the husband dies for his wife and kids,
Christ loved the church, the bride of Christ, the
body of Christ, the family of God, and He gave Himself for it. He died so that He could
give the church to Himself like a bride in all of her
beauty, and He died so that the church could become
pure and without fault. You wanna know how somethin'
matters, you look at what somebody's willin' to pay for it. When someone's willing to
give their life for something, that shows how much it's valuable. Christ died for the church. Number five, it's the
only thing on Earth that's gonna last forever. Now, think about this, Starbucks
isn't gonna last forever. McDonald's isn't gonna last forever. Wal-mart isn't gonna last forever. No corporation, Toyota corporation
isn't gonna last forever. No nation's gonna last
forever, no business will last forever. The only thing that's gonna
last, on Earth right now that's alive that's gonna
last forever is God's church. It's gonna last forever,
the Bible says this, in Ephesians 3:21, Glory will
belong to God in His church, and in Christ, in Christ
Jesus, notice, underline this, for all time and for all eternity. The church is gonna last
forever, nothing on this planet's gonna last except the church,
that's how important it is. I Thessalonians 4:17, talks
about one day that when the second coming Christ, then
we'll be called up together with Him in the air, in
the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and we will be
with the Lord together forever. Well, that's, who is that, who's the we? The church. Number six, the church is the
only group that Jesus said would succeed, in Matthew 16,
verse 18, Jesus says this, I will build my church,
and all the powers of Hell will not conquer it. Jesus is in the church building business. He's not interested in
building my reputation. He's not interested in
building your reputation. He not interested in building nations. He's not interested in
building businesses. He's not interested in building
clubs or organizations. He says, I'm gonna build my
family, that's why I built the whole universe, I will
build my church, and all the powers of Hell will not conquer it. Yes, there are battles,
yes, there are loses, yes, there are things we
don't win in, but I've read the last chapter of the
Bible, we win, and ultimately the church succeeds. It's the only thing that's gonna last. Number seven, it is the
only group big enough to solve global problems. You know, I've spoken before
the United States Congress, I've spoken before the
United Nations, I've spoken at TED conferences, at
ASPEN institute and Davos World Economic forum, and
I hear people talking about public and private
partnerships, but you know what, the problem is they're
not big enough to solve all the global problems,
there's no nation big enough, there's no business big enough. The church is the only
thing big enough to solve global problems, let's
put this in perspective. There're 2.2 billion church
members in the world, that means the church
is bigger than China. The church is bigger than
India and China put together, and the Bible says in Ephesians
3:20 in the New Living translation, by His mighty
power at work within us, the church, He is able to
accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope. All of the global problems
cannot be solved without one-third of the world, who happen to be members of churches. We have the greatest
distribution, we have the most volunteers, and highest
motivation, love, and on and on. Let me give you one other
reason, why we're gonna do this series, because the
greatest privilege in life listen, the greatest privilege
in life is to be part of God's church. To say, I'm a member of God's
family, I'm a child of God, that's more important than your
nationality, or your gender, or your business or anything
else, the greatest privilege in life is to say, I'm
a part of God's family. I Peter 1:3 says it
like this, God has given us the privilege, the
privilege, circle that, this is the greatest privilege, God
has given us the privilege of being born again so that
we're now members of God's own family, circle the word
members again, member, and circle the word family. God has given us the privilege
to be a member of His family. I Corinthians 3:16, Do you
realize, don't you realize, that all of you together
are the temple of God and the spirit of God lives in you? I said this earlier,
but I'll say it again. When you were born physically,
you were immediately were born into the human
family, you became a part of the human race, you
didn't have a choice. The moment you were
physically born, you became a part of the human race. Once you're born physically,
you're in that human race. But when you are gonna be
a part of God's family, that's choice, and you've
gotta choose to let Christ come into your life, and
when you're born spiritually, reborn, born again,
rejuvenated, new life, then you're born into God's
family, and that's choice. I don't know if you've
made that choice or not. You're in the human race,
you're created by God, you're loved by God, but
you're not in God's family unless you've asked Him to
be a part of His family, and accepted Christ as your Savior. Now, okay, Rick, I get it,
church is not something we go to, it's not an event, it's not
a building, it's a family that I belong to, and you
just gave me eight reasons why it's more important that
anything else on the planet. Well, the next question
that comes up is what's the purpose driven church? You've heard that around
Saddleback, any length of time, what is a purpose driven church? Well, if you were to look
up the word drive in a dictionary, you would
find that the word drive means to guide, or to
control, or to direct, to guide, to control, or direct. When you drive a car, you
guide, control, direct it down the street. When you drive a nail into
the wood with a hammer, you guide, control, direct
the nail into the wood. When you drive a golf
ball, hopefully you guide, control, or direct it down the
fairway and onto the green. Drive means to guide, control, or direct. Every organization, every
business, every nation, and every church is driven by
something, guided, controlled or directed. I've listed a few things
there in your outline. Some churches are driven
by tradition, and some organizations are driven by tradition. How do you know if you're
a tradition driven church? They have the favorite
phrase is we've always done it that way. Some churches, and some
organizations are driven by personality, and the
question is what is the key leader want, and the problem
with a personality driven church is when the leader
dies, or retires, or has a moral fare, or whatever,
burns out, then the church is left floundering, and
we've seen that happen to a lot of churches. We don't want a personality driven church. Some churches and some businesses
are driven by finances, and when you have a financially
driven church, the question is how much will it
cost, and they ask that. Some churches are driven
by programs, and you look at the schedule of a typical
church, and they've got programs for Sunday school,
a program for women, programs for men, and some
programs for the choir, programs for children, and
on and on and on, and you get the whole idea of the
purpose of the church is just to keep people busy,
to keep Christians busy in meetings. Jesus did not say, cometh so
that you might have meetings. He said, I've come that
you might have life. Some churches are driven
by their buildings. I think it was Winston Churchill who said, we shape our buildings
and then they shape us. One of the reasons Saddleback
went 15 years without a building, we wanted to
prove to the world that you don't have to have a
building to grow a church. This church grew to over
10 thousand in attendance in a tent, we didn't even
have a building, why? We wanted to prove that a
church is not a building. We move so many dozens and dozens of times in the first 15 years of our church before we finally built a building,
and then some churches are driven by events, keep the
calendar full of activities, but at Saddleback church,
we call ourselves a purpose driven church, not tradition
driven, not events driven, you know, money driven,
you know, ego driven, personality driven,
no, not a guilt driven, not a fear driven church,
but a purpose driven church. Why, well, we base it on
this verse, Proverbs 19:21, it says this, Many are the
plans in a man's heart, but is it the Lord's purposes that
prevail, or last eternally. What does that verse say? I can make all kinds of plans,
but they're not gonna last. The only thing that's
really gonna last is to have a solid purpose of God that says His plans are eternal, His plans last
forever, His plans prevail. His purposes are gonna be
going on forever and ever, and we're gonna look at these in
detail for our church family in the days ahead. Now, all of this has just
been an introduction, but I don't want to leave you
without giving you a short list of some of the many, many
benefits of belonging to a church family. So, let's just wrap this up
by giving you five benefits of being a part of a
church family, a belonging, not just attending, but
belonging, say that's my family. You can always tell the
difference between an attender and a member, when an attender
comes up to me in the grocery store, and says, Pastor
Rick, I love your church, your church, but when a member
comes up to me and says, Pastor Rick, I love our church. Have you made that hop? Have you made that switch? From consumer to contributor,
from attender to member? From longing to belonging? Let me give you five of the many benefits, we'll look at dozens of
these in the days ahead, but why don't you write down these five? Number one, a church family
helps me focus on God. A church family helps me
focus on God, you know that. Is it easy to loose
your focus on God, yes? Is it easy to get distracted
by details, and distractions, disturbances, dead-ends, and
delays, and difficulties. Yes, and about every few
days, I need to get my focus refocused, and coming
together as a church family helps me focus on God, and
the Bible says, seek first the kingdom of God, all these
other things will be added to you, so if I focus on God,
the bigger God gets in my mind the smaller my problems are. The bigger I see my
problems, the smaller God is. So, I refocus on God. Number two, a church family
not only helps me focus on God, it helps me face life's problems. You know, it helps a whole
lot to know that other people are in the fight with you,
that you're not alone, that you're not by yourself,
that you're not a lone ranger. Let me just get real personal,
do you ever get discouraged? Of course you do, why? Because life is tough, life
is tough, life is a series of problems, and some of you
have this myth in your mind that one day, I'm gonna get
it all together, and then I'll have no more problems
and no more stress and no more tension and
no more anxiety, no more stress the rest of my life. I hate to tell you this,
but you're gonna have stress the rest of your life because
life is a series of problems. It's how you build character. You're right now in one of
three positions, either you just came out a problem, or
you're in the middle of a problem right now, or you're
headin' into the next one because life is a series
of problems, but God never meant for you to go through
life and all those problems and all that stress on your own. See the life God intends for
you, a purpose driven life, is never a solo act. God never meant for you to
have to handle all this stress, all this anxiety, questions,
problems, doubts, fears by yourself, He built a support
group of people around you. It's a spiritual family,
and we call that fellowship. It's part of the purpose of
the church for your life. So, number one, God helps me
to focus my faith, it helps me to face my problems. Number three, church family
will help me fortify, fortify, my faith, do you know what fortify means? It means to strengthen, it
means to develop, it means to reinforce, sort of to make
stronger, and what happens is that when you get with
other people in God's family, you set up your right values,
you get the right support, it helps you establish your
priorities, it helps you decide what's trivial, and
what's really important. It helps you fortify your faith. It clarifies your values. You know this is true, there's
a lot of phony baloney ideas out there in the world today. There's a lot of stuff on
the radio and on the tv and on the internet and on social media that's just not true, and
there's not just fake news, there's fake everything, and
if you don't have a fortified faith, if you don't stand
for something, you're gonna fall for anything, you know that. So it helps you fortify your faith. Number four, a church family
helps me find my place to make a difference, helps
me find my place to make a difference. You have a desire to inspire,
you have a need to succeed. You and I weren't put on this
Earth just to use up resources to take up space, to breathe
air, and then to die. God has a significant purpose
for your life, it's called your life mission for each
of our lives, and God has something unique for you to
do, He has a ministry in the church, and a mission in
the world that He wants you to make a contribution with your life. He doesn't just want you to
be a consumer your whole life. He wants you to make a
difference, He wants you to leave a legacy, He wants you
to learn how to serve God by serving others, how to make
a difference with your heart. The best way to learn how to
do that is in a church family. Are you gonna learn that at
business, no, are you gonna learn that school, no, are
you gonna learn that in the neighborhood, no. Now, let me just say this,
when we get to Heaven, and we're standing there before
God, God's gonna ask a couple questions, the first
question that God's gonna ask you is, and this is the
most important question of life, what did you do with my son Jesus Christ? I hope you know the answer
to that, I accepted Him. His life into my life, I accepted
His grace, His forgiveness I trusted Him with my life,
I repented and turned to Him, but there's a second question
that's just as important. After He says, what did
you do with my son Jesus, and by the way, He's not
gonna ask, what was your denomination, what was my
son, what did you do with my son Jesus. Then, He's gonna ask, what did
you do with what I gave you? That is the question of the
stewardship of your life. How did you use your life to serve others? To make a difference, to give
back, to make a contribution? The first questions determines
our eternal destiny, but the second question actually
determines our eternal rewards, and part of my job as your
Pastor and part of our church's job as the family is to get
you ready for that final exam. Finally, there's a fifth
thing, a benefit, and that is a church helps me fulfill my life mission. Not just how you serve others,
but you were put on Earth to make a difference that
no one else can make. Have you thought about that? That God put, God doesn't
need one of us, or two of us, He only needs one of us, God
put you here specifically for a unique life mission that no one else can fulfill. I can't fulfill it, nobody
else can fulfill it, and if you don't fulfill your life mission, guess what, it's not gonna get done. Now, we're gonna talk about
that in the days ahead. Now, I realize this is just
a little taste of where I'm gonna take you in the next 48 days. As I said, we've studied the
purpose driven life before, but in this series, we're
gonna look at how you need a purpose driven church to
meet all of your five deepest needs, we're gonna look at each
of your five deepest needs, and how to fulfill your life purposes. Now, every week, I'm gonna
give you some homework assignments, and this week, I
want you to do three things. Okay, you're ready, first,
I want you to get a copy of this book, The Purpose
Driven Church, either the old, original cover or the new
cover, and I want you to read the first two chapters
of Purpose Driven Church. If you want to sneak ahead
and read other chapters, that's okay, but I'm just
asking you to just read the first two chapters this week. By the way, those of you that
have been through class 101, know that we give a free copy
of this in every class 101, and it just so happens this
weekend, we're teaching class 101 at all of our campuses,
so if you go to class 101 this week, in which is called
Discovering your spiritual family, you'll get a free
copy of this anyway, and you don't have to go out and
buy it out at the bookstore table at your campus. Now, that's the first thing,
read the first two chapters of Purpose Driven Church. Second, give me your email
or text, everybody take out a card right now, take out a
card, write your name on it, and give me your email, if you
don't give me anything else, give me your email or if you
don't get email, you do texting give me your text number and
I can send you a link to my daily two minute videos that
I'm gonna share with you every single day for the next 48 days. This is gonna be like a
spiritual B-12 shot in your arm every day. Number three, I want you
to form a small group of two to three people if
you're not already in one. Most of you are already in one. We have over 8,400 small
groups at our church, but if you're not in one yet, we'll help you. You can go out to one of
the tables, the small group tables and say, I want to form
a group, just get a couple friends, and say we're gonna
discuss the application questions that I send you
every weekend, and then you can do those in your
small group this week. Finally, if you're not
already a member of Saddleback church, let me just say this,
look right at me, we want you. We don't just accept you in
this church, we want you. We want you in our church family. We want you, we will love
you, we will serve you, we will care for you, we
will help you, we will stand with you, we will support
you, I invite you to take class 101 which is called
Discovering my spiritual family this Sunday afternoon
at all of our campuses. Now, I've just given you a
glimpse of where we're going. We're gonna look at your five
deepest needs and how only the church, the family of
God, can meet those needs in your life in the days ahead. Read the book, listen to the
daily devotional, or watch the daily video, and be here
every weekend, and bring a friend, and by the way,
when you get that link, pass it on to somebody
else on your social media. Let me pray for you. Heavenly Father, I thank
you for our church family. I love everybody whose here,
we come from every different background, we represent
every different age group, every ethnic group, nationality,
we represent different, 60-70 different languages, we
represent different economic strata and background, and
even political differences, but we all come together in this
family called Saddleback, a purpose driven church
that we might learn what You wanna do through your family. Help us to realize that this
is the greatest privilege of our life, there is no greater privilege than to be a part of your family. If you've never invited
Jesus Christ into your life, if you've never stepped
across the line, you're not a part of His family,
but you can start today. Will you take this step,
and say in your heart, Jesus Christ, just say
these words, Jesus Christ, in your mind, I want to
be a part of your family. I want to live forever in
Heaven, but I want to know you and I want to be a part
of your family, and I want to see how my needs can be
met by your family, and I want to fulfill your five purposes
for my life, so today, I'm saying yes to you as
simply as I know how, and I humbly ask this in Your name, Jesus, Amen. God bless you, everybody, I
hope you're as excited about this series as I am. It's gonna take us right
up to Christmas season, then we'll go into the
magical season of Christmas. But don't miss a single week,
God bless you everybody.
