that you would speak to us out of your word we have come as the kings of old came and said we would see

Jesus Lord we would see Jesus this morning in the message and I know that you would say

I would see Jesus in your life Jack or John or Karen or whoever you may be today, Lord, we know that it is your will,

that we shine more and more, the brightness of Christ, love, grace, and glory, and truth than ever

before in the days that are darkening. Here we are. We thank you for the power that we have in

the Word of God. We need not fear. That would be absolutely wrong

and worthless because of your great, great ability to keep us. And thank you, Lord, for the

family of God in which we'll learn about today. We pray in Jesus' name, and all God's people

said, amen.

So, church, before we stand, as I said a moment ago, to read the Word of God together.

And by the way, if you missed coming in, at about 15 minutes before service today, I did a tribute

to the fact that it's December 7th, and we looked at the issues and remembered Pearl Harbor.

If you missed that, you missed it, but we'll try to somehow include it into all of the social media.

So we want to make sure that people are reminded.

But that said on this December 7th, Sunday, today, a very, very special day for our nation and for our memory as a people.

With that said, the Bible makes it very clear, folks, as we look at a title series, One Family, One and All,

one family, one and all.

As Paul now begins to land the plane as it were regarding his epistle his

writing to the book of Romans or to the people of Rome through the book of Romans he is now beginning

to give his benedictions to people he's it's an interesting thing because from Corinth where he writes

this book to the believers in Rome,

he's intending to go see them. He's intending to go and minister in Rome. Now, you all know

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