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If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to Psalm

Chapter 139.

Let me invite you to pull out those notes that you received when you came in tonight

that are going to guide our time in the word

Psalm chapter 139

a few weeks ago I found myself standing in the middle of Cairo, Egypt, and Tahir Square,

where just a few months ago, if you watched the news, you saw masses of Egyptians gathered together in this square to stand for freedom and to celebrate freedom,

just historic picture just a few months ago, and sort of stand there to talk with Egyptians,

especially to talk with various Christians, pastors in Egypt, and to hear them talk about freedom

and entirely new ways for them.

To hear, on one hand, just the excitement as they talked about freedom and what this might mean for them

at the same time, to be completely completely honest to hear especially our brothers and sisters

talk with a bit of hesitancy even in some senses fear nobody really knows what's going to happen

in egypt in the days ahead nobody knows who's going to lead in egypt and and our brothers and sisters

know that that that leadership in the wrong

hands could bring about greater harm for for the church and so we need to be praying for our

brothers and sisters in in Egypt really all over North Africa in the Middle East and just

historic changes that are happening there.

But all of that to come back to, as I sat there thinking about what has happened in Egypt,

listening to them, I could not help but to, on one hand, thank God for the freedoms that we enjoy,

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