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I was at the Wortham Center watching a theatrical play with about five of my friends.

We decided to go kind of at the last minute, and our seats were way back in the back.

They weren't good seats at all. So there was five of us in bad seats with one pair of binoculars.

Yeah, that's really interesting. one pair of binoculars. Yeah, that's really interesting.

One pair of binoculars among five people. Yeah. I can remember watching the play. And I felt so disconnected from the story because I really couldn't see the stage well enough. And I don't know if you're over 40 in here today,

but you know when you can't see, you feel like you can't hear. So I was waiting and waiting and

waiting for those binoculars to make their way into my hands. And when they finally did, I was so excited. I pulled those binoculars

up to my face and focused in on the stage, and it was amazing. I could see the expression on the

actor's faces. I could hear so well. In fact, I felt like I was on the stage with them and part of the story. You see,

my perspective had totally changed because the distance between my seat and the stage was closed.

See, once which was far away became near to me.

Ephesians 2.13 says this.

In Christ, you who are once far away have been brought near by the blood of Jesus.

You see, we've all been far away from God. We've all experienced bad seats,

so to speak. But can I tell you this, that through the binoculars of Jesus Christ, God has drawn us

near to him? He has closed the gap between God, the Father, and us, through the

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