Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

If you got a Bible, I want you to turn to two spots,

Leviticus, chapter 8, and Revelation, chapter 1.

How about that for a scriptural duo?

Leviticus and Revelation.

And let me just kind of poke fun on myself a little bit.

On the flight home last Saturday night after the service,

I watched the message on the plane.

And one of the things that was very, very apparent was

none of my sarcasm landed last week.

And something you got to know, remember, I told you last week, my twin,

Pastor Tim Ross, if you don't know what that means, we've been best friends for a decade and a half.

My twin was a stand-up comedian at the beginning of his career, okay?

And you can tell. And I can tell that you can tell because he gets a third of the way through a joke

and you people are falling out in the aisles and stitches.

I tell joke and you don't even know what's a joke.

So I'm not even going to try and be sarcastic and for years, for 20 years, Pastor Robert's

tried to tell me, Preston, you need to put more humor in your sermons.

When he comes back, if he asks you, did Preston put any humor in his messages?

Here's what I want you to tell him. He tried in week one and then we told him to please stop.

Okay? My jokes aren't funny and I know it, I own it.

...