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We got a great, great, great text today.

The best way to get a word from God

is to open the word of God, amen.

So open your Bibles to Romans,

chapter 13.

We're looking at the Christian's relationship with government.

And I'll just say it's really curious timing

because what weekend isn't?

It's Memorial Day weekend where we honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice giving their life to defend our freedoms because for them our freedom came at the highest price.

Amen. So we stop to honor those.

We start by thanking and honoring first responders,

police officers, those who are soldiers,

veterans and those who are family members of veterans,

particularly those who have fallen and given their life.

And what's really interesting,

we're spending about a year going through the book of Romans.

And a lot of times people say, we can't take that long of a series and go

through a whole book of the Bible instead you just need to every week figure out

what is topical and relevant so you could stay current with events, when I laid out the book of Romans,

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