Would you join me in a word of prayer? Heavenly Father, may we sing the mercies of you forever and ever, Lord.

Thank you so much for what you're doing in our lives, Lord.

We thank you, Lord, for this time that we can come together and sing praises to you, Lord, and worship you, Lord, in spirit and in truth, Lord. Would you bless

this time together, Lord? I pray that we will receive what it is that you have for us. And we ask

this in the mighty and the only name, Jesus, we say amen. Amen and amen. All right. Good morning.

You can be seated. Welcome, welcome, welcome. So glad you're here.

So glad those of you that are joining us online are. And we hope that you'll be blessed because you did.

So I want to get right to it today, if you don't mind, a lot to get to. We have two services

on Sunday morning, the first of which is the Bible prophecy update. We've been doing that weekly

for many years now. And the second service, which will be live streamed at 11.15 a.m. Hawaii

time is the actual sermon. It's a verse by verse study through the Bible.

We're currently in 2nd Peter, an amazing book. And today we're going to look at the hopeful

and encouraging truth that God knows how to rescue the godly from trials and tribulations.

So would encourage those of you that are here that like to stay for both to do so and

then those of you online again 11 15 a.m. Hawaii time. Also for those of you that are watching

by way of youtube or facebook we'd really encourage you to go directly to the website at jdfraug.org

there you will find the uncensored uninterrupted entirety of today's update. And with that, let's get started. It is my hope

that today's update will be an encouragement to all of us, myself included, and have the

much needed effect of recalibrating us.

And by recalibrating, I mean adjusting and changing

our thinking concerning the common denominator

in everything that's now happening.

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