This is everyone tonight.

Blessed and happy.

Aren't we happy to be here?

Aren't we glad to be in a country and in a place where we got a nice building,

a church, and we can worship and praise God all we want.

And nobody even, well, some people laugh at us.

We don't care about them, do we?

Amen?

No, no, no.

God is good.

Amen?

Well, let's open our Bibles tonight, and we'll look at the Word for a little while.

Everybody like the Word?

Yes.

I love the Word of God.

Amen.

You know, something that I had noticed, I was actually reading in the book of Matthew.

And if you look at the book of Matthew from about chapter five, middle of ways, to clear into the first part of chapter seven, he is telling people what a good father we have. He's not, you know, he's talking about

lots of stuff, but over and over again, he talks about your father. He doesn't say my father

in those chapters. He says, your father. He's very specific in talking about how good of a father.

He talks in the, I mean, if you look at the whole theme in some of the things that Jesus talks about,

he talks about he is a father, he's his father, he's your father, and he's a good father.

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