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Let's go right into the service, recorded at Freechapel. I believe it's going to bless you today.

I want to be considerate of your time. Turn with me

to Philippians chapter 2 and let's look at verse 13. For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Everybody say his good purpose.

Do everything without grumbling or arguing so that you may become blameless and pure children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.

Then you will shine among them like the star. warped and crooked generation.

Then you will shine among them like the stars in the sky.

You can underline that if you'd like, that's what I'm going to talk about.

As you hold firmly to the words of life. When you look throughout the scripture it's

very impossible to miss that God has always spoken and guided us through the stars, really through all of creation,

God in many ways uses it.

I'm not speaking about astrology, I'm speaking about just how God uses all kinds of different ways to speak to us to get our attention.

You could find it in Genesis chapter 15 when God calls Abraham and he says, I'm going to give you a picture of your future I want you to get out of the tent and I want you to go out and I want you to start to count the stars in the sky and so he starts to count one two three four one, two, three, four, 50, 100, 200.

Finally, at some point he gives up,

says, God, I can't count all the stars,

they're innumerable. And and God says you're finally

starting to get it what I want to do in your life there's no possible way you could

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