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visit bethel.tv or shop.bethel.com. It was kind of funny, your first service. One of our younger pastors was

announcing it's a rise and build Sunday, and he couldn't remember the name of it. And Chris leaned over to me and said,

it's encouraging to have a young man forget something.

So we've been feasting off that memory.

As clear as I can remember, we've been feasting off that.

And then he told us afterwards, he said he was going to call it arise and conquer.

So that's probably a good name too.

Let's just cause this arise and conquer

except it'd be more like a, I guess, a destruction derby out there or something. All right.

Grab your Bibles, if you would. Open to First Chronicles chapter 29. And let me kind of try to set the stage for you in in two separate areas first of all almost strangely so i have i have focused on studying portions of scripture for the last 40 years

that have to do with building but never once was it about building a building i mean it's always been, this prophetic language of scripture is about building the house of God,

which is people.

And so there are so many places, you know, from Ezra Nehemiah to the prophet Haggai and some of the other prophets,

they would talk about the rebuilding of a temple.

For example, you've got tabernacle of Moses

in scripture. You've got the tabernacle of David. You've got the temple of Solomon, the

rebuilt temple of Solomon. You've got all these kind of projects, if you will, and they all

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