Morning church. It's great to be with you in diving into God's Word. This morning,

I'll start by telling you one of the most memorable mission trips I've been on is to the Amazon.

And so the way that this goes down is you fly to Manouse, Brazil, and you get on a boat with some young adults and some doctors, and you go down the Amazon River on that boat for six days.

You get off in villages and share the gospel with people there.

And so the way that it starts is we all gather there at the airport.

And so it's myself and a couple other leaders and then people going on the trips. And I told them

clearly, I said, hey, you're going to have to pack for seven days in one suitcase. That suitcase

has to be less than 50 pounds before you leave the house. Make sure

it's less than 50 pounds. So we're there and we're putting our, you know, luggage on the scale,

kind of one person after the other. And I'm just kind of overseeing. They're checking the

bags and put it on the conveyor belt. And there's this one young lady and she brings her suitcase,

which I thought was a little oversized, but she throws it on the scale and it's 54 pounds.

And I'm just like, come on.

Like what?

I said, you know, don't do this.

What's in there?

And so we do that suitcase shuffle.

I'm sure some of you have done where we pull it off the scale and we unzip it and we open it up. And then I'm like, what are these platform shoes? You don't need these in Brazil, you know? And we start to kind of, your blow dryer? We don't need a blow dryer. And we're trying to find, you know, to make it less than 54 pounds.

And as we did, I pulled out this.

It's a bag of rocks, which is confusing on a number of levels.

I'm like, what in the world? And I look at her, I'm like, why are you bringing a bag of ride? You don't have to take rocks to Brazil. Like, they have rocks there. You want rod. I mean, I'm trying to figure out, like, what this could possibly be. I'm thinking, are they pet rocks? Like, I don't, I just don't understand.

And she's kind of embarrassed, you know, looking around. And it's like, hey, I'll tell you later, but I got to take them. And I can't even begin to fill in the blank. Like, I'm like, okay, what could be a logical explanation? And I'm there, and I'm just like, I'm pulling them out. I'm like, maybe there's some kind of rocks that I'm not like,

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