As I went down in the river to pray, studying about that good old way, and who shall wear the star re-prowned good Lord, show me the way.

Oh, sinners, let's go down, let's go down. Don't you want to calm down? Oh, sinners, let's go down, down in the river, too.

All right, Porch, how are we doing? We doing okay tonight? Amazing. Hey, it's so great to be here with you.

Thanks for making the time to join us here. Those of you that are in the room, it's always a pleasure

to spend a little bit of time with you. But all of you that are tuning in online, thanks for giving us

your evening as well. We're so grateful to be a part of a generation where God is doing something

really significant. That's kind of what we've been journeying through as we've been looking at this

series. But before I get ahead of myself, let me give a special shout out, not just to those of you

tuning online, but also Porch Live, Greater Lafayette, Fresno, and Scottsdale. God is doing a great thing here.

He is doing a great thing in so many different places, and we're just glad to be a part of it.

Hey, let me just lead off with this.

The topic that we're working through tonight is of considerable importance.

And because that's the case, I don't necessarily want us to

rush all the way through it. I sat down and I considered me and what can I cut from this thing.

And I had others do the same alongside me. And we said, no, there's not much here that we feel

like we can discard. We believe that God wants to speak to you from the passage we're going to study,

and it might just take a little bit of time, but sometimes things deserve an extended

opportunity for the Lord to work. But before I get there, let me just open up with a story.

You might be sitting there thinking to yourself,

Kyle, did you get a little sun this weekend? And the answer would be, yes, I did get some sun

this weekend, but not by way of how most people would. I wasn't sitting by the pool. I wasn't

sipping something nice. I wasn't working on my tan. You see, this white boy, he burns much faster than you might think.

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