Hey, we want to thank you so much for watching this message and honestly the privilege of letting us teach God's word to you, we can and we go and we want to give you an invitation now to express your gratitude to God for what he's doing in the world, in your life, in our ministry, through a year in expansion offering and we have people literally from all over the place who say this is a chance for me to say thank you God for fresh life and we wanted to get louder and bigger and reach more people.

That's right, there's always room at the table and so we want to invite you to be a part of what God is doing and the people that he's bringing in and the lives that are being changed so we're asking that you would join us with faith in giving.

And we say join us because this for us is something that's our favorite thing every year to stretch ourselves, to challenge ourselves, to believe God for more, that blessing on our home, on all the things we put our hands to, but also most importantly our hearts.

And so this is a chance for you whether it's $50 if that's stretched then great, if it's $100 if you're able to say hey look I'm going to give $50,000 or $300,000 and make a gesture that I want God to use this ministry to touch more people will be so grateful to be linked up with you in that way.

But thank you so much for considering and asking that question God what would you have me to do and you can get all the information on the outreach initiatives and the dreams for building expansion and all the rest.

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So the first time I ever got slapped in the face in my life I was sitting at a table.

My grandpa one of my mini grandpas I have at least five grandpas some I got grandpas for every day of the week just about but one grandpa this is literally like my only memory with him.

We were sitting at a table and you know we said the prayer and I reached out and grabbed something I remember what it was maybe it was like peas or something it was obviously not peas no child just grabs for peas.

But I didn't ask for it to be passed and it was in front of him and I didn't know this was this grandpa was strict like that and so like a cobra.

Grandpa consequences slap me across the face just reach out I just froze I like look to my parents like are they getting it like they they just know how they dealt with us when we didn't you know please pass the peas you know he just slapped me across the face.

Put me in my place there's manners young man he was saying right and I was like bro I didn't live through the great depression right.

Mad respect for World War II but like I'm a millennial like you can't just do that right and and it was just such instant correction it it just shook me.

And still on over it this day which is why I'm talking to you about it obviously free therapy I've got the microphone what do you want.

The table is what we're talking about in the series we're talking about the power of the table we're talking about how God wants to use the table we're talking about how grace is like a table.

And this is the seventh week we began with a message where a man lived in a place called Lodobar Lodobar represents nothing literally Lodobar means nothing to eat there's nothing a man lived in Lodobar.

He couldn't move his paralyzed he couldn't help himself and he had no way to better his situation and so he expected nothing of life and yet a kind king named King David not because of

anything Mephibasheth had done but because of Mephibasheth's father so because of someone else's performance because of someone else's role in David's life.

He said for my friend Jonathan Sake I want to show kindness to Mephibasheth and he invited Mephibasheth to come and to sit at his table and he said for the rest of your life you will sit at my table.

So it didn't matter that he couldn't walk didn't matter that he was in firm because when he was at the table he looked just like everybody else.

And for the rest of his life he got to be a king's kid he got to be a son of the king a child of the king not because he had done anything but because of Jonathan Sake.

You don't have to read much into the scripture to see wait a minute I understand what's happening here God so loved the world he so loved Lodobar.

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