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All right.

Well, we're going to continue a series that we started on in January.

And many of you know this, some of you might not be aware of it, but 2018 was quite a rough year for me.

It was, I had a crash, and it was just a bad, bad year for me.

And if you want the full story, you can go listen to.

It was actually Christmas Sunday message, which is a little interesting to kind of talk about your worst year of your life, but the Lord told me, he said, that was my Christmas gift to you. So I think, well, if it's my Christmas gift, it is now your Christmas gift. So it's on Christmas Sunday, I share the story, but my breakthrough was about most of last year

it was during a really dark night of the soul. And early December, I had a significant breakthrough. And the Lord began to talk to me after I came out of that season. He said, Eric, I want you to wake up in the morning and I want you to say, hello future. It's nice to meet you. So I would wake up in the morning and I say, hello future,

it's nice to meet you. Little did I know that that would actually kick off a series that were

now five weeks in. And it's been for me, if you're not having fun, it doesn't matter to me.

I'm having a lot of fun. And so, I know it's been fun. I've been having fun interacting

with a lot of you just around this. But I want to give a quick, I can't cover all five weeks in review. That would be a waste of time. But I want to give you the concept why it's titled, titled, Hello Future. It's important to understand that we as believers, whether you want a future or not, you have one. In about five seconds, you're about to meet your future. In two days,

you're going to meet your future. We all have a future whether we want it or not. And this is

important. We've covered quite a bit of thing. We've talked about the concept of time. Why time is

fascinating, the biblical Christian view of time that is different from Eastern mysticism.

The biblical view of time, the Bible described it as a road.

It's a journey.

We're going somewhere.

It's not linear in a flat sense, but it's linear in a point A to point B or a point

whatever.

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