Amen, would you join me? Bow your heads as we pray. Lord, we give you all the glory, Lord. Thank you so much. First service while prophecy updating.

Would you draw us into your word, Lord, that whatever we may hear today, Lord, if it causes some sort of conflict within us, Lord, that you would take us to your word, that you may show us and teach us what you would have us to learn, Lord.

So we thank you for this time. Would you bless the teaching, Lord?

Thank you so much for this place.

And thank you for our pastor. Continue to guide, lead,

and strengthen him as He does your will. Lord. We ask this in the mighty name of Jesus. We pray. Amen.

Amen. And amen. Good morning. Welcome. You can be seated. So glad you're here. Those of you

online joining us. We're so glad that you are. Pardon

before we get started though, I want to mention that Tuesday is our prayer meeting. 7 p.m. here in the sanctuary

really encourage you to come and join with us and pray with us together as a church.

As you know, we're going through the Bible, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse,

and we've made it all the way to the final book, the last book in the Bible, the book Revelation.

And our text today is going to be chapter 11, verses 3 through 13. Now, because of the length of the text,

if you would rather prefer to sit, that's fine, but if not, I'll ask you to stand. He can follow

along just so you know, especially for those of you that are new. Welcome, by the way. We love having you.

We're glad you're here.

And we're amazed that you keep coming back.

But this is not something we just came up with.

This comes out of the book of Ezra.

They would stand for the reading of God's words.

So I just want you to understand the why behind the what of standing for the reading of God's words. So I just want you to understand the why behind the what

of standing for the reading of God's words.

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