If you've not been with us on great offering night, it's a different night.

And it's going to take a while.

I said it's going to take a while.

So you need to relax and just don't be in a rush.

I'm telling you ahead of time.

It's going to take a while.

But, you know, you need to examine yourself

if you think you can't stay in church for an hour or two or three.

People routinely watch movies that are three hours long.

And sometimes watch two or three in a row.

And so if you can do that but you can't be in church, that's a priority thing.

But the reason we do this is I believe by the leading of the Lord, some, I guess,

assumed being, what, 20 years ago in this meeting, the Lord directed us to.

And for years, I would endeavor to, we would have the offering and preach.

Have the offering and preach.

Have the offering and preach. You know, and preach, have the offering and preach.

You know like the usual flow. And at one point the Lord corrected me, he said, no, let

me read it the way he said it to me. He said, the service is the offering and the offering

is the message.

So, you know, all times we'll share something in the offering about our faith to give and that kind of thing,

didn't go to the message after that. But the Lord said on this night, there was not to be any kind of rush of the offering that the service is the offering.

And the offering is the message.

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