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The All right. Who's excited to be in church today?

Come on anybody?

Amen, amen.

Well, I'm so excited, so fired up to be with you guys today.

I want to take a moment to say hello, of course,

to our amazing church family, every campus, every location across Alabama,

and over in the state of Georgia, we welcome you. Of course, anyone joining us online or on demand at some point down the

road. And as always, the men and women of the Alabama correctional facilities, come on one more time,

put your hands together for our amazing church family. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Well, I'm excited to be here. I'm excited to jump into God's

word with you guys, but I just wanted to reflect for a moment in worship today. I was just kind of

took a moment, turned around, looked at the room, and then just imagined all you guys through the

camera. And just had this thought is that no one is here by accident today. And what an amazing God

that he would bring us all together

for this moment and always to teach us something from his word. And so I don't know how you got to church

today. Maybe you're brand new. This is your first time ever. You've been at Highlands for years.

But let's not miss the moment. If God brought us together, then he has something to say. Amen,

everybody. And I pray that honestly builds our fate, for what we're about to experience. We are in

week three of a series on the fruit of the spirit. I'm so grateful for our pastor, PC, Pastor Chris,

back in the spring in prayer, he really felt led to take us through this journey of the nine

fruit of the spirit, specifically this fall,

because it's, honestly, we'll talk about this in a minute, but the perfect series to deal with

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