I remember the very first time I ever preached on a stage like this, I was a senior in high school

in Pastor Chad's youth ministry. And it was horrible. I remember like we tagged team preach.

And he asked me, he's like, Nate, will you preach? I'd love for you to preach.

And like you have to understand I'm preaching to my peers.

You know, like it's really difficult to preach to, you know, people, my peers.

I'm in high school, hormones.

I'm going through puberty.

I smell weird.

I look weird.

You know, my voice is going crazy, and I remember like getting

up to preach, and chat is behind me. We're tag teaming preaching this thing, and I'm preaching,

I'm going for it. Afterwards, like, I walk off the stage, the night's over, and I'm like,

I crushed that. That was so good. And I remember they gave me, like like a disc, a CD of my message. And on my right home,

I was like, you know, I want to hear how good I did. And I remember like putting it in the

CD player. And not even halfway through. I'm like, oh my gosh, that was horrible. Like I pressed

the eject button, took the CD, I literally just threw it out the window.

I'm like, litter laws, who cares?

No, no, just threw it out the window.

So tonight, I have that same message.

I'm going to be preaching.

I'm kidding.

This one's a little, just a little bit better.

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