Hey, this is Kyle Eidlman from Southeast Christian Church, and I'm going to thank you for listening

to the message today. As we open up the scriptures together, I pray that this message inspires you,

challenges you, and is the right word at just the right time in your life. Enjoy the message.

We are making our way through Genesis.

As we study this weekend, we're going to see God's mercy and God's judgment on full display.

One of the ways God often demonstrates his mercy to us is through warning signs. I don't

know how you are when you see certain warning signs on the road. I tend to think that's not for me.

I tend to think that's for all y'all. I tend to see a warning sign and assume I'm somehow

exempt from it that is for less competent drivers than

myself. Or I just get used to drive in a certain path and if there's a warning sign there,

I don't notice it because I've just gone down this path so often the sign doesn't catch my

attention. But one of the things I just want you to catch today in these next few minutes as we study

God's word is that His mercy to you is often a warning sign that you've not noticed.

I had a friend in high school, we'll call him Josh because that was his name.

And still is his name.

But Josh collected warning signs. Like that was a hobby that

now I recognize is aggressively illegal. But at the time, I thought it was just pretty cool. You

walked into Josh's room, and it looked like the Department of Transportation had had a yard sale.

And there's a stop sign

above his bed, and a railroad crossing sign, and a dead-in sign, and a wrong-way sign,

and he even had a blasting zone ahead sign. And these were not knock-offs. These were not

replicas. These were signs that Josh had stolen and hung up in his room.

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