They're always generous and they lend freely. Their children will be blessed.

Turn from evil and do good.

Then you will dwell in the land forever. For the Lord

loves the jost and he will not forsake his faithful ones. They'll be

protected forever but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off. The Bible promises us there's a benefit to righteousness,

that the pursuit of righteousness will bring the blessings of God. Do we earn them? No, but as you pursue

righteousness, God responds to you.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen.

Be blessed.

The topic is a problem and a promise, but I really put this together with you in mind. When does he night has become kind of a special group of, we're the ones that sit in the rain and don't move.

You know, there's a commitment on this service that I'm not saying the others aren't committed,

but there's something unique about Wednesday night and I really put this together with this group of people in my heart

We are very much I know you're aware of it, but I think sometimes we'd like to forget it. I think we get

turmoil fatigue. You just want a peaceful day and so you want to try to look away or not pay attention but we are still very much a nation in turmoil and then there's a lot of layers to that it's not a single thing where we're still struggling with responses to COVID. It doesn't feel like the dire threat it was 90 days ago, but it's still a very real challenge. It's confusing. The messaging is often contradictory.

There's still fear of infection,

even if the infection isn't nearly as fatal

as they thought it might be.

Now they're talking about a second wave.

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