Now I want to start our time today with a question.

And the question is, have you ever considered how different the world would be

if Hitler was a mourning person.

Now hold that thought, we're going to return to that in a second, I promise.

But first, would you turn in your Bibles to First Kings,

Chapter 20?

And in First Kings 20, I want to give to you a message that I'm calling,

this is your wake-up call.

This is your wake-up call.

A soldier is standing before a king.

And the soldier is dusty and he is clearly war-torn.

The battle has just finished. he now is standing before his

sovereign. He's got a bandage across his head. His eye is very clearly puffy and bloody and a little too soon for me to be talking

about damaged eyes but but this soldier has just clearly been through it I

mean he's just got he's got filth and blood caked on him he looks like he's just barely hanging on

and and standing before his king he he speaks to give an account of what he did

during the battle.

And in the 1st King 20, verse 39,

it says the following, your servant went out

into the midst of the battle,

and there a man came over and brought a man to me and said,

guard this man. If by any means he is missing your life shall be for his life or else you

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