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Hello, everyone. Hello, online church. Good to see you. It's good to be here. I have that

like a familiar tremble like oh what's about to happen. That's how I feel right now.

Sweet worship team's waiting because we're gonna pull them back up in a second.

It's so good to be with you. Chris sends his love. He was in D.C. and Pennsylvania and New York

and just absolutely having the best time of his life. And then he picked up some kind of virus.

And so he's getting way better, but preaching on a Sunday is like a marathon. And so while he's getting better, he decided not to run a

marathon while he's recovering. And so I'm sure he's actually watching at home. We love you,

Chris. We're so thankful for you. So I get to sub in today off the bench. So I'm excited. I'm so

excited to be with you. When I got the call, I was asking the Lord, you know,

what you want to do? And there was like, like familiar kind of like, okay, what am I going to preach on in like 48 hours?

And I, I woke up the next morning and I just felt the Lord say, just follow. Follow me.

When I said that, I didn't walk up on stage just following the Lord.

I did follow him the rest of those hours and listened and wrote down some notes.

But I did just get back from Germany about a week ago. I was with my very good friend,

and he's visiting a friend of this house. Would you stand Ben so we can say

hi to Ben Fitzgerald? We're so glad to have him and he is going to be preaching tonight.

So you don't want to miss that if you can come out, make yourself come out. It's going to be

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