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Hello friend, this is Max Locato.

Thanks for tuning in.

It's an honor to be with you.

As we study God's word together, may our time uplift and encourage you.

If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today. You know this world is not Paradise. It doesn't look like the perfect

Garden of Eden as described in Genesis chapter one, devastating weather events, ongoing wars, famine and illness.

All symptoms of our fallen world where Satan prowls.

But a day is coming, my friend.

A day when Christ is crowned and Satan is bound, and we will reign with Jesus and God will have his garden. In search of utopia, I drove to utopia. It's a quiet and quick and pleasant trip.

Raise your hand if you've ever been to Utopia.

Yeah.

Take Highway 46 out of Bernie, Highway 90 out of San Antonio, and you'll soon enter the city limits of Utopia, population 227.

That's where Rick Nacrott. population 227.

That's where Rick Nicosia and I went to research this message.

I conversed with half a dozen folks, each one as friendly as the Texas sky is blue.

There was a couple who worked in the feed store, another who runs a convenience store.

I spoke with two ladies at a restaurant, one a server, the other,

the owner. And all were pleased to offer a response to my question, how did Utopia get the name Utopia? The word as you may know was

coined over 500 years ago by Thomas Moore a Roman Catholic philosopher and it

designates a fictional idealic society located on a remote island somewhere in the Atlantic and the

word has come to symbolize a place of perfection, equality, harmony, justice, and prosperity.

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