And I think all of us need to understand that.

That we're standing on the shoulders of others who have been faithful, who have made sacrifices, who have persevered in the face of opposition, who have

chosen God with their whole hearts.

And then they extended to us an opportunity.

And it's up to us to take the opportunity that was presented to us and do our very best to see that we extend to those who follow us presents to them an opportunity as well.

We don't want to be consumers of the sacrifices of others

while we spend them for successes that we did not invest in.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

We've been working through a little study called Faith Mountains. The idea is pretty simple. If you're

going to make any journey of any significance distance, you're probably going to

have to traverse mountains. And historically some of the most traveled and defended places in the histories of civilizations have been the passes through the mountains

Where you could travel you could you could cross the barrier without having to necessarily scale the heights.

In Tennessee it's the Cumberland Gap in the Middle East.

In Israel it's the Jezreel Valley, but there are many such of those passes throughout

the earth. Well I believe that spiritually we have

some mountains we have to climb. The labels change was the seasons of our lives

change but life comes complete with challenges and what I've suggested to you is with a help of the spirit of God,

he can help us navigate the passes so that we don't have to climb the great height

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