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Amen, Lord, you are stronger than Satan.

You are stronger than Hell.

You are stronger than death.

You are stronger than sin.

You're stronger than cancer. you're stronger than the recession, you're stronger than all the

global forces in the universe, and we praise you that you are our father and our friend through Jesus Christ.

We commend Bethlehem to you for another 140 years as we thank you for your faithfulness and all the people

said.

Amen.

You may be seated. I want to thank you. I want to thank Kenny for stepping in this morning at such late notice and doing such a good job.

I heard great things about the message and regret that I couldn't be a part of that

worship service I have been more sick in the last four days than I've been in years

with perfectly miserable.

So I'm so thankful that Kenny was willing to do that for me.

And we can all understand, I think, that someone might say,

it's hard to be excited when you're sick.

But for me this past week it's been just the opposite. It's hard to be

sick when you're excited. And I've been increasing in my excitement about this event for a long time and I want to give you some reasons why.

When I felt this coming on Wednesday,

that little video clip I made

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