So why don't you go ahead and grab your Bibles and turn to Matthew

26 for this evening.

Matthew 26.

Lord, we do ask your blessing.

As we study this scripture, Lord, I pray that you'd cause us to be receptive to your

word, to really take it in and be changed and transformed Lord and

give us the right heart the right attitude as we approach scripture now we pray

this in Jesus name amen amen well a little over a decade ago I remember the

Oregonian came out with an article, and the Oregonian

was excited about a new Bible translation.

Now, when it's the Oregonian, yeah, some of you are groaning over here, it's appropriate.

It's called the Green Bible, and it uses the new revised standard. I remember when

that first came out, just thinking, oh boy, you know, it boasts, it's the green letter edition.

Verses that speak to God's care of the earth and creation are highlighted in green ink.

It's printed on recycled paper using soy-based ink

with a cotton-lined cover.

With over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible compared to 490 references to heaven

and 530 references to love,

the Bible carries a powerful message for the earth.

Essays, poems from leading conservationists,

and theologians on how to read the Bible through the green lens, as they called it.

With a forward by Desmond Tutu of all people,

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