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Endless days, Father, in your presence through Christ by the Holy Spirit,

adoring you, loving you, treasuring you, delighting in you, satisfied in you forever.

Would you come and feed us now on your word to fit us for that day?

I pray through Christ. Amen. You may be seated.

May I welcome you who are here to learn about Bethlehem College and Seminary and add my

greetings to those who have given them already. I love this school.

I love its leaders. I love its

its faculty I love its students and I love its vision to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.

We We treasure some amazing things together here. We treasure above allible Bible. We actually treasure an infallible Bible. We actually treasure the inevitable gift of a lifetime of suffering.

And we treasure in it all the invincible joy of the Holy Spirit.

That makes this place pretty unusual, not unique, just pretty unusual.

So I love it.

I'm glad you're here to consider it and my prayer has been early morning at the 630 prayer meeting and

then last night and on through the morning that there will be extraordinarily clear guidance for you.

Some of you definitely don't belong here, and others of you would be crazy to go anywhere else.

And only God knows which is which.

My theme is rejoicing in hope and I invite you to open your Bible to Romans 5

verse 2. We'll get there in a minute. If you focus on the main word for

rejoicing in the New Testament, Cairo.

There are eight commands with that verb

in the New Testament that we must rejoice.

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