Amen. And amen and good morning and welcome. You can be seated. Hope your Christmas was blessed.

And if we're still here, I hope that your New Year's is the best. That rhyme. You notice that, right?

Before we get started, I want to thank you for a couple things. First, I've said this often.

This is a very giving and generous and thoughtful church.

And I just want to say thank you to all of you who are very thoughtful.

You're very gracious to me, to my family, generous with us.

So I just wanted to thank you all

for all that you gifted us during the holidays.

I thought about sending out 1,528 thank you cards,

but that wasn't gonna work. So this is the thank you card right

here. I'd like you to take a look at it. Secondly and more seriously, and we praise the Lord

for this. I want to thank you for your continued prayers for my wife. And this is really more for the benefit of the online church

that have been asking for updates. For those of you who don't know, she's been battling

an aggressive form of breast cancer. And by the grace of God and because of the power of prayer,

she is doing much better. We're not out of the woods yet. We would really very much appreciate your continued

prayers for her. But she's here, and so thank you so much for praying for her, and please don't

stop. Revelation chapter 14.

The first seven verses is going to be our text.

If you're able to stand, I'll ask you to do so at this time.

You can follow along as I read.

If not, where you're seated is just fine.

We're going through this book, the last book of the Bible,

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