All right.

Turn to Isaiah chapter 45.

Isaiah 45 and I'm going to preach a message that I entitled,

Steele, STI L L, and you'll understand why I entitled that when we get to the points, okay?

So let me tell you how this message stirred up in me.

I was on vacation this summer and you know I had some back problems just last year.

God's touched my back, but I've noticed that I've got to do my part to exercise and therapy and stuff

like that and so one of the things I've been doing is getting some orthopedic back massages. People who have had some training in orthopedics who also

are massage therapists.

And so about a month or so ago, I guess I went for one of those and the therapist said,

boy, you have a lot of stress and tension in your back today

a lot more than two weeks ago.

And I remember thinking, I'm on vacation. I mean how do I have all this stress and

tension and then I remember I had just watched the Republican and the

Democratic National Conventions.

And if those won't give you stress, I don't know what will.

So I understand we're living in a stressful world and so it began to stir up in me that I want to share some things with you about that and I want you to know that I've just gotten kind of so sick of the news you probably have two.

I changed my internet browser.

You know, you just because you just pops just pops up. It's just so negative.

And one of our Abstolic Elders, who's in the service today,

James Robinson, started Stream.org a few years ago.

If you've gone, I hope you've gone to that.

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