Amen and amen. Good evening. You can be seated. Welcome. So glad you're here tonight. So glad those of you that are joining us online are joining us online tonight.

Trust that everyone will be blessed that they did. A couple of things before we get started. I'm hoping to provide a Maui missions update on Sunday, Lord willing, and then also

on Sunday, Steve White is on island, and I've asked him to provide us with a brief missions update

from the Philippines, and that's this Sunday prior to both of our morning services. So looking forward to that.

Tonight, Ezekiel chapter 32, we're making our way through this amazing book, for like of a better word.

Tonight we kind of end, we really kind of hung in there with these chapters. They've we kind of end we really kind of hung in there

with these chapters

they've been kind of brutal

and tonight is no exception

good news

next week we turned a very

sharp corner

in Ezekiel

and sort of

I better qualify that because it's still I mean but it's not quite like

what we have before us tonight. So let's pray if you would join with me. Father, please we

first of all we thank you God so. And we're so grateful to you

for your word. And as tough as it is, as hard as it might be, it is good. And Lord, you always have a word

fitly spoken for us. No matter where we're at in your word,

it's where we're at in our lives. And that's because your word is alive. So Lord, tonight,

would you as only you can, we so look forward to these Thursday night Bible studies Lord

that's our time together and we know that you are going to speak to us in and through

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