I know some of you right now listening are thinking, come on guys, you're going to do a whole

podcast on the life of a man. Aren't you elevating a man? Shouldn't we focus on the Lord? I just want to read a few passages of scripture just to set us up as we do that. First Thessalonians 5, 12 to 13. And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and to esteem them very highly in love for

their work's sake. And so I think I think that's key to remember. You know, we go to extremes

oftentimes. We see the error of the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, where they elevate

saints and basically worship them. And we kind of go in the other direction where there are times

we don't recognize that we're called to give honor and especially those whose lives have impacted

us. Hebrews 13-7, remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you,

whose faith follow considering the outcome of their conduct. So again, we're called to remember them. We're called

to imitate their faith. Paul in Philippians 317, brethren, join and following my example and note

those who so walk as you have us for a pattern. And then of course, 1st Corinthians 111, Paul said,

imitate me just as I also imitate Christ. I almost went too fast for you guys the year. We got one in.

Yeah. So anyway, just to set us up there a little bit and we'll go from there. Mark Spence,

John MacArthur, a giant truly. What MacArthur did was for me, he introduced expository preaching

unlike anything I've ever seen or experienced.

I didn't know exist. I only thought topical preaching existed until I heard MacArthur, and I

didn't know how to explain it. I didn't know what was happening, in fact, right? Just expositing

the word, going through passages as opposed to just using topics. Now, you can obviously

have expository preaching with topics, but he would just go through the word and doing that

was so beneficial to my soul. It set me free. And you guys experienced this, obviously,

where you are going through something, and then the

preacher's teaching on something, and that's like exactly what you're going through.

And you're like, hey, did somebody share with you my issue?

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