I want to remind all of you that God has promised to bless those who bless Israel.

In Genesis 12 verse 3, the Lord said of Israel, I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse and all

peoples on earth will be blessed through you. God spoke that unto Abraham and Abraham of course being the father of Israel.

Secondly, we know from scripture that as Christians we owe a great debt to the Jewish people for their preservation of the scriptures

for over 3,000 years.

Think about that.

The Bible that you have tonight, that you you cherish you study came to us

through the stewardship those of the Old Testament, the scholars,

that in preserving the words so reverent

was the word of God to those ancient scholars

that their process of honoring the word

and transcribing the word

bears the test of not only time tonight, but of all elements of scrutiny, the Bible in its

original languages flawless.

Perfect, inspired word God-breathed Bible.

We're thankful for the Jews that preserve the word.

Think of that. And I'm not going to mention all the other stuff by the way is how if it comes to winning Nobel Prizes, it's the Jews. What's with that? Right? Inventions, your cell phones, your computers, on and

on it goes. They're a people that God said I've chosen you and he reminded them by the way just to keep them

humble in the book of Deuteronomy. He said don't think I've chose you because you're special

than anybody else on earth. He said I actually chose you because you're very

stubborn. And God said yet I'll save you. That's that brings hope to all of the rest of us, right?

But we are endeared to the Hebrew prophets who told us who to look for

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