Amen and amen and amen. Hey, if you got your Bibles, I hope you do, First Timothy is where we're going to be, or you can be in your journal.

For those of you there are bringing it right now, look, I see some journals coming out. You guys are, you're the gifted class. Way to go. We'll talk more about you later.

This whole series is called a field God for the family of God.

That family of God part, the text that we're going to study today, this is where we get this kind of language.

And we're picking it up.

This is week seven.

We're going to talk about mortification and vivification.

I'll explain those a little bit later.

But before we get into it, I just want to thank the says, give honor where honor is due. And I want to thank Pastor Adam and Pastor Britt for just doing such a fabulous job the past two weeks, amen.

Way to go.

Especially last week, Pastor Britt says, some very nice things about me.

I don't know that I deserve it, but, you know, it's better than the alternative.

So thank you for all of that.

We're going to pick it up in chapter 3, verse 14. Paul, writing to Timothy, who's the pastor at the Church of Ephesus, says, I hope to come to you soon.

And a part of what we're going to see in these pastoral epistles is Paul's love for Timothy, how relationally deep this thing is.

Paul loves Timothy, Paul loves this church, and as I was studying this, you know, I hadn't preached in two weeks here.

I just want you to know, man, I love you.

I love this place.

I love being here.

I love preaching here more than anything else.

I get to do some other stuff.

But when I hate missing here, however, it is better for you to hear more voices than just

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