You can take your seat and live in the presence of the Almighty God.

Hallelujah.

Somebody came to give God praise on today.

Can I tell you something real quick?

God still has time.

You missed it.

The year is not over.

God still has time to make good on what he said.

And that's just something for somebody in this room who has been patiently waiting,

fervently praying and digging deep in their word, trusting God.

And can I let you know, today is December the 14th and there's still time that his word will

come to pass and he does not lie. And so I'm just excited about today. My name is Lonnell Williams.

I'm the executive pastor here at 2819 church and I'm just so grateful to be able to preach on this morning. I know some of y'all are wondering, where in the world is Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell? You know, these the last 11 months have been so challenging and yet rewarding. And, you know, when we moved here to Greenbrier, he did not take a sabbatical. He came to me and said, now I think I'm going to take off the whole month of June. I said, wait, wait, no, don't do that.

Don't do that. We just moved here. Don't do that. But he said, but we said, let's talk about the end of the year. And he's just been going so hard for the Lord. And so I said, man, just came to us is that let's take a break. He said, I just need a couple of weeks to just replenish, to refresh,

restore. came to us and said, let's take a break. He said, I just need a couple of weeks to just replenish,

to refresh, restore. And so he and I talked yesterday. He said,

encourage the people to be consistent, not only in their presence in the gathering and online,

but it doesn't matter who mounts the stage. The Bible's very clear in Colossians

128. Him we proclaim. So it doesn't matter who's up here because he used the donkey.

All right. Here we go. He used the donkey. So he can use some fallible person like me to be able to preach his words.

I'm just so excited. And to all of our digital disciples online and those who are in the room, we are just so humble and grateful for your presence.

I got a lot of work to do in just a little bit of time as we close out this section of Matthew 26 in our series

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