Welcome into the Wednesday Bible study as you can see as we kind of

scan the room here at an empty broadcast plaza in teleport normally we have

anywhere from 35 to 50 men that are here every Wednesday but

the calls you know we're trying to be good citizens in our society and

the government has has tried to you know as best we can

can do minimize the impact of this COVID-19 pandemic

and those of us here at the show and those of us with demand church dot com

and burgeon's ministries we want to do our part as good citizens and

certainly we have members of our Wednesday audience that here in the

room that are you know my age and older guys as well and we knew that

that was an unnecessary position to put everybody in and we want to do our

part but at the same time not stop having the Bible study and I think

that's one of the things we need to talk about starting out today before we

get into the actual study today I know there's been a lot of people that

have been they've been negative they they've been harsh with some of the

churches that have followed the government's recommendation and request to

not meet in large gatherings for a period of time as if somehow that

selling out or that's a lack of faith or you know choosing the government

over God and and that I don't think you think it'd be further from the truth

you got to remember you know Romans 13 we're clearly told to be good

citizens now if our government worked every mandate that they're going to

outlaw the worship of God they're going to outlaw the meeting and

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