There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word. Each weekday on enjoying the

journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of Scripture. Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length Bible message given

through Scott's pulpit ministry.

These messages were recorded live in a local church or gospel event in recent days.

It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today.

Thank you. prayer that the message will be a help to you today. I told the sound. I told the sound men if if they'd just record the first message and play it, I'd try to lip sync this time.

So we'll see if that works.

All right, fellas.

Great to see all of you.

And what a great crowd this morning.

Had a great crowd in the early service.

And then this is tremendous.

And I have met a number of west virginia mountaineers in

the last hour or so how many of you're from west virginia i'm just curious would you raise your

hand that's great how many of you've been to west virginia how many of you know west virginia's a

state would you raise your hand that's good yeah started the civil war and i and your pastor I have this in common, and we have many things in common.

But I've been looking forward to being with him and being with all of you.

What a great privilege.

And this is a special time in the life ministry of your church.

I know we'll talk more about that this week, but I'm honored to be here with you,

and I really, really mean that and covet your prayers. I want you to take your copy of the Word of God and go with me, if you will, in the New

Testament to the book of 2nd Corinthians.

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