Praise the Lord. Turn with me this morning in the scriptures to Ephesians chapter 1 and Psalm 68.

Ephesians 1 and the 68th Psalm.

So glad to see everybody out this morning.

Appreciate you making the effort to come.

And the thing that excites me is seeing people put God first.

That's the thing that blesses me.

Amen. Whether you came here or you went somewhere else, the main thing is that you put God first, you honor him. Serious Christians go to church.

You know, sometimes people say, well, now you know, I just believe I can be just as good a Christian as

anybody. Staying at home, reading my Bible I just believe I can be just as good a Christian as anybody.

Staying at home, reading my Bible and praying.

I get to watch all the preachers on TV.

Well, you can't.

You're wrong.

Or they're wrong if they believe that.

You obviously don't believe that only, or you wouldn't be here today but uh the scripture says that we're not

to forsake the assembling of ourselves together because we need to provoke one another under good

works that just means we need to stir each other up and you can't do that any other way except by

looking each other in the eye. Amen, being here

with each other. And we need to hear about what God's doing for our brothers and sisters.

Amen. Not only to shout for them, but to stir us up. Right? Think, well, hey, maybe I need to be

believing God bigger than I've been, look what he did for them. I mean, I better step it up, right?

Look how many people they reach.

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