All right I want you to turn to John Chapter 8 in your Bibles,

and we're finishing up the series Blessed Families.

Next week I'll do a Christmas message,

and then we'll have our production and our candlelight service the next two weekends after that.

But this is the last message in the series, Blessed Families.

Now if you're at the South Lake campus, you don't know if you notice that the other campuses, but the stage

is a little higher.

It's because of our Christmas production, and so I feel a little bit farther away, and I'll have to really,

to try to spit on you guys, so I'll have to really try to spit on you guys I'll have to really go for it here.

But they tell me this stage can actually just kind of spin, you know, where it spins around.

So if that happens while I'm preaching, please keep listening,

and I'll just come back around, all right?

So it'll work out.

So we've been in this series called Blessed Families,

and I couldn't leave this subject without talking about the ultimate blessed family.

And that is the family of God. The family that by his grace, Titus says it this way, not by works of

righteousness which you have done, but by his mercy he saved us. By his grace we've all become a part of

this family now but we were raised in another family. Now I'm not talking

about your biological family. I'm talking

about a spiritual family. We were born in the family of Adam and Eve after the

fall and now we've been born again into the family of God.

Think about Moses who was a Hebrew and yet he was raised by an Egyptian family that didn't know God

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