Yeah. Man, I'm just here to close in prayer because they already got you crying and

let's do the altar call and go from there. Hey, that's more than an inspiration. That's a walking,

talking demonstration of what it looks like to be right in the center in bull's eye of God's will.

When he talks about what pure worship

looks like, looking after orphans is the bullseye. And so many of you right now, your heart and

soul may be kind of stirred going, man, maybe that needs to be a part of our story. I would challenge

you to go to this informational meeting. It's going to be on March 29th. It's a partnership that we

have with all God's children. These are folks I know and trust implicitly. They know what they're doing. It's just an informational meeting. Go check it out on our website. Sign up for it today. All right. Y'all ready to go to work? Got your, got your Bibles, got your journals. Go ahead and get them out. I told you last week that we were going to be in part two of basically one sermon this week.

Our key word again today is truth. And we're going to pick up right back where we left off in John chapter 8. But we got to get a little bit of a running start on this one. All right. So if you remember, Jesus is in the temple and he's got kind of two groups of people.

He's got those who are leaning in to him and believing in him and trusting in him. Those are just

a regular old folks. And then there's the religious folks that are out to get him. And the mere

suggestion to these religious folks that they had once been enslaved at all just totally triggers them in the midst of

their fragility they get all up in their feelings and they're like hey we haven't we never been

slaves to anyone minimizing and missing the fact that the central point of their heritage was that

they had in fact been slaves in Egypt for 400 years they've been taken in captivity time and time

again enslaved by foreign powers.

And at that very moment, we're living under the rule and reign of the Roman Empire. So yes, they had in fact

been slaves. And then Jesus delivered this message to all of us that we are when we're not with him,

when we're not in him, we are in fact slaves to sin. So Jesus is just kind of all up in their face

with this truth. And this conversation continues today. We pick it up in verse 37. It says this,

I know that you are offspring of Abraham, but here's the problem. Y'all are seeking to kill me

because my word finds no place in you. I speak of what I've seen with my father, and I want you to underline father, and notice that's a capital F, and you do what you've heard from your father. Underline that, notice that's a lowercase F. We'll get to that in a little bit, and they answered him, Abraham is our father. Now, quick show of hands. How many of y'all grew up going to church? Maybe you went to Sunday school show hands. How many of you? How many of you served in kids ministry over the years? Something like that. If that's the case, you might have familiarity with a song and it's going off in your mind and your heart right now. And it's called Father Abraham, all right? And some of you all know what I'm talking about. It goes like this. Father Abraham, had many sons sing it with me.

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