Turn with me, if you would, in the Word of God tonight, to 2 Corinthians.

And the Lord doesn't always let me do this, but this is one of my all-time favorite verses of

scriptures in 2nd Corinthians, the 2nd chapter.

And when he lets me preach on it, I so enjoy it.

And it's hard for me to teach much on it

I just mostly preach and exhort when I think about this

but that'll be all right too

whatever is good for the time and for the season

let's look in 2nd Corinthians 2 verse 14

2 Corinthians 2, verse 14.

2 Corinthians 2.14.

He said, now thanks be unto God, which always, oh yes. Always. Causes us to triumph in Christ. Oh, glory. I got to get down here.

Always causes us to triumph in Christ.

If I had a title to my message tonight, that's what it'd be.

Always.

And before we leave tonight, I want that ringing in your soul.

I want that bouncing off the walls of your spirit and your head.

Always. Always. Always what? and off the walls of your spirit and your head always always always what always causes us to triumph

in the Lord Jesus in Christ you know as I was thinking about this I remember when I was in school and we had literature, we studied some

poetry, and they had a poem by a man, I believe his name was Po, and it was about a bird.

Remember that? A black bird.

A raven.

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