Listen, is there anybody who has arrived to this place?

Okay, 2025, it's not personal, it's spiritual.

Anybody, like some move, I'm going to be moving a little different.

And 2025, don't take it personal boo boo I promise you

It's spiritual I'm trying to grow I'm trying to get clarity I'm trying to get understanding I'm trying to get self-control

I'm trying to get disciplined I may communicate different may not respond to your DMs the happy hour you might stop inviting me I'm not

saying I'm gonna cut you off but I am gonna cut some things off that's caused up for me to mirror

anything that I did in 2024 it's not personal it's spiritual so I just I just want to applaud all of us for starting. But my question is,

will I see you in June though? Everybody's in the gym now. Everybody's coming to church now.

But what about gym though? What about June though? What about March? What about when

you experience that layoff? So I want to strive to help us grow. This is going to be more of a

teaching style sermon series. I want to get straight to work. It's okay if I do that. There is a

foundational scripture that we're going to go to in just a few

moments. But before we do that, I want us to read the gospel of Mark chapter four. The gospel of

Mark chapter four. And the reason we're going to read this particular verse, verse 33, is because not only

is it going to serve us as a waiter for this afternoon's

preaching presentation, but honestly, it will be the nucleus of every sermon that you're

about to hear in this series over the next several weeks. And I want us to look at what the text

says in Mark chapter 4, verse 33, and

verse 34. God, you're awesome. Thank you for this moment. Thank you for allowing us to see a new day,

a day that we never saw before and a day we'll never see again. Simply for allowing us to

cross over to a new year we say

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