Thank you, brother, for having me.

Let's turn in our Bibles to 2 Timothy 2.

We will look at verses 1 through 7.

As you're turning there, I will set up the text and say a couple of biographical things

and try to keep that out of the sermon too much.

God writes the best stories, friends. Amen?

I'll say it again. God writes the best stories. Amen. To God belongs all the glory, honor,

and praise through King Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ reigns above all powers, all authorities, and every name that is named, all

governments are on his shoulders, and of the increase of his government and of peace,

there will be no end.

I want you to look at what God has put before us.

We must understand that under God's sovereign guidance,

he has commanded us to, and likewise, we have now committed ourselves to a great work,

a work too great for our self-reliance, a work too strenuous to be done alone, a work too historic to take our hands

off the plow. So, solemn humility before our sovereign God is necessary. In so many ways,

in our nation, in our states, we have forgotten our God, and thus we are

feeling the weight of His judgment, and we should.

A wise nation builds its house upon the rock of the Word of Christ, the Holy Scriptures.

A wise nation built on the rock of Christ will not be shaken. But we are proving

our idolatrous folly in building our house on the sands of self-reliance that despises and

disregards our creator. We have become a foolish nation built upon the same sands that that ancient

serpent laid before our first parents. Envy, slander, pride, the shedding of innocent

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