This is the greatest hour to follow Jesus.

Amen. Amen. You can be seated.

Wow. I'm just a pastor, so I love pastors and I love churches.

I started, Lucy and I started church planning in 1986. Most of y'all weren't even here, but it was real.

Noah had just gotten off the ark and it was real. Noah had just gotten off the ark, and it was awesome. Hey, I want to share a word,

Pastor Michael encourage me. Find John chapter six in your Bibles and turn there to John chapter six, verse five. And I just want to share from our life with you today

and I pray that God will really give us a moment with him that will forever mark your life.

I don't I don't believe in just doing church. I believe in in encountering God and, and I want

him. I want transformation. You know, Lucy and I were commenting on the presence in here today. How

beautiful. And I don't know about you. I know y'all have that regularly. And we have just set our

hearts that we will never do church without the presence of God. We have a church that we serve in

the center of Tokyo, the most unreached people group, metropolitan people group in the world,

right in Tokyo. And for the first time, there is a spirit-filled church in the center, the cultural center of Tokyo, Japan, and they are radical

worshippers. And when I came in your presence today, I was thinking about, and Lucy and I were

commenting how beautiful and tangible Jesus is happy. You're here at church today. And they, you know,

that scripture that says that God's enthroned in the praises of his people.

I love that.

And the Japanese told me, they said, you know, in the Japanese translation of that,

it says that when you worship and praise God, he gets his big chair and sits there.

And I felt God get his big chair this morning and just happy.

Like I'm at home.

I'm with my people.

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