Hey, I want to welcome all of our Atlanta area campuses, those of you who are watching from all over the country and more and more all over the world.

So excited that you're joining us today, especially as we launched this series.

This series is kind of the culmination of some things we've been talking about for years, and I decided, hey, let's just talk about it directly.

Today we're beginning this brand new series entitled The Last Kingdom. And for some of you,

when you saw this, is going to be the title of the series. For those of you who follow us on

social media when you saw this, if you were hoping, some of you were hoping, I would begin like

this. I am Utrud, son of Utrud. A few of you get this right, no idea what I'm talking about. Anyway, I'm a huge Bernard Cornwall fan.

He's one of the best historical fiction writers in the world.

I think I've read, I think everything he's read.

I'm written.

And years ago, we started this series that Netflix then turned into this Netflix series called

The Last Kingdom.

I think there are 13 books in the series.

I read them as they came out. Then once they all came out, I read all 13 again, and then I watched the Netflix series.

Some of you remember that.

But here's the thing.

Even Bernard would admit that England or Engeland was not, in fact, the last kingdom.

Because the authors of the New Testament, here's what we're going to talk about for the next few weeks.

The authors of the New Testament make a compelling case that the last kingdom will actually last

forever. And the reason they were so convinced, the reason the authors of the New Testament were

absolutely convinced is because they had met, camped with, laughed with, learned from, wept with,

celebrated with the king, God's final king, who came to establish the last kingdom. So I have an

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