Good morning and welcome to our first service on Sunday morning. We have two services, the first

of which is our weekly Bible Prophecy Update, and then second service, which will be live

streamed at 11.15 a.m. Hawaii time is our verse by verse study through the Bible, and we are

currently in the book of Hebrews and Lord willing today we will complete

chapter 5 in its entirety and we're going to look at those warning signs in our Christian lives

that indicate we are not growing spiritually we We are not maturing.

So we'd encourage you to join with us at 11.15 a.m.

And for those of you that are on YouTube or Facebook, you might want to go to the website directly at this time.

That way there's no interruption, and you will be able to view the uncensored entirety of today's update.

So with that, we'll get started.

The title that I chose for today's update is playing while the world is burning. Isn't that perky? It's a play on

words from the idiom, fiddling while Rome burns. And fiddling while Rome burns is an idiom that was derived

from the popular legend that Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned. It's akin to the better known modern day idiom

of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Both idioms describe the utter futility of playing with frivolous pursuits in the midst of catastrophic crisis.

They can also describe the occupying of our time with normal business as usual in the face of imminent disaster.

I'm hoping, and my prayer is that you'll hang in there with me today to the end of the

update because believe it or not, this is actually a message of hope.

May not seem like it right now, but if you'll just hang in there with me.

Now I have to confess that I've struggled as of late as it relates to the updates.

I just want to share my heart with you because week in and week out it's always the same

warning about the same thing.

And I'm reminded of this every week as I continue to be excoriated and eviscerated

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