Who's ready for the word today?

You guys see the little more fired up than usual. I think you're ready to hear the word if you're ready

I'm ready to preach the word

Let me just state this for the record just to give you kind of context

For the record I wrote this message before knowing the results. It's once you know that I finished this message on

Tuesday before some of you were halfway through the lines trying to vote

So just so you'll know and I want to be really clear what I'm not trying to do today is I'm not trying to

Make a political statement. I'm trying to make a spiritual statement and my goal is not to

console those of you who are disappointed

Nor to celebrate with those of you who are

excited my goal is to build the faith of all God's people that no matter who is in office in our nation our mission never ever changes

as who were called to be as far as

Jesus

And what we do so what I want to try to do today is just step back and bring perspective

And I want to bring it from a passage that I didn't want to preach

Like really didn't want to preach

Like tried not to preach it was ridiculous. I tried to write like probably eight different messages my office team is with me

They watched me for two weeks trying to find something else to preach and god wouldn't let

me escape from this text

Even though I didn't want to preach it so I'll tell you in a little while why I resisted this text

But I'm gonna preach to you out of Psalm 46 and I want to give you the context because this is a really powerful

Portrait of Scripture

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