And we're excited about that. So, man, let's keep that in mind. All right. So I want to get right to work.

There is, we're in a series called God Didn't Say That. And there's a message I want to share today coming from the book of Philippians chapter number three, beginning at verse number 10.

I think y'all had an extra hour today. So I know these amans,

they're about to be coming in hot. I mean, it's just, you all ready, right? Okay. So Philippians

chapter 3, verse 10, Paul says this, I want to know Christ. Yes, to know the power of his

resurrection and participation in his sufferings becoming like him in his death

and so somehow attaining to the resurrection from the dead not that have already attained this

or have already arrived at my goal but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.

But one thing I do, forgetting what is behind, straining toward what is ahead,

I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God

has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. I want to stop the reading of scripture there and

talk from this subject in our time together. It's above me now.

Clap your hands if you're ready for God's word it's above me now as we leap into this lesson on

today i want to lift up a quote that i think warrants repeating and warrants being reflected upon

and the quote is simply this great men and women are only born for the time

they are needed the most great men and women are only born for the time they are needed the most

in other words if god is a god of providence, pro video, a God that sees before,

then it means this, that my birth is not accidental. Come on. That I am not the consequence of

some cosmic coincidence. I'm not the result of some relational accident. I'm not the fruit

of some fling. That even if my parents didn't plan

my arrival, God did. And that God orchestrated and arranged that I would be placed on this planet

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