Amen. And amen and good morning and welcome. So glad you're here. You can be seated. Those of you joining us online were equally as glad that you're joining with us. Though I can't see you, you can see me. So all right. Well, I got a surprise for you.

We're going to start the Gospel of Mark.

I didn't tell you.

But you guys didn't even ask, hey, what book you're going to go to?

You finished Revelation last week?

What book?

What's up with that? So I figured, okay, I'm not going to tell

them. Well, I got some explaining to do here. So having completed the book of revelation

ending last week, only took us 20 years. We'll circle back to the Gospel of Mark beginning

this week. And here's why. When I first planted this God's Church in 2005, I sensed that the Lord would have us to go straight from the gospel of Matthew

right to and through the book of Acts.

And the reason being is that in the early beginnings of our church, God began adding to our church like he did with the early

church. So after prayerfully and carefully inquiring and seeking of the Lord.

He made it clear that the book of Acts was where we needed to be.

And the book of Acts was what we needed to go through.

So we did.

Wait a minute, Pastor.

Are you telling me that you skip Mark, Luke, and John?

Yeah.

I did.

Because after Acts, we continued our verse by verse study through the entirety of the New Testament

all the way through to the book of Revelation,

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