Well, tonight we have a guest speaker, Pastor Russell Takehasa and his wife,

LaVan.

Don't you please stand?

Hi guys, how you folks doing?

Hasn't God given us another beautiful night that we might come to worship him?

Amen, guys?

Praise the Lord.

What a good looking crowd you are.

And you know, we're so excited to be here.

And God is so good. He's given us

this beautiful time that we might come to worship him. Why don't we pray as we begin our study

tonight? And Father God, we do want to thank you for this night, Lord. And you are truly an awesome

God, Lord. And we thank you for loving us, Lord. We thank you for the power, the moving of the Holy Spirit,

that you might come and draw us into fellowship, Lord, that we might come to worship you in spirit

and in truth, Father. We thank you, Father. We praise you, Lord, for this night. We pray just

a blessing as we continue to worship you now through the study of the word Lord we thank

you and praise you for what you're going to do in Jesus name we pray amen

hey guys God bless you folks why don't we what why don't we turn in our Bibles to

first Thessalonians chapter one as we go with our study tonight through First Thessalonians.

I got a message to Pastor J.D. I said, you know, it's just always an honor and a blessing for me to be here with you guys and to get to share the

words. So I hope that it's all good with you guys too. You know, First Thessalonians chapter

one, you know, again, it's a blessing to be with you all. And I want to bring greetings in love and

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