Amen and amen. How we do it, church? Doing good? You look good. You sound great. Let me ask you this. Do you trust your Heavenly Father? That's what we are talking about. The way that we know that he is trustworthy is because the tomb is empty and we are seven weeks away from celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Amen?

And I can tell by your trepid applause, you are not ready. That's why we do this season of preparation.

If you got your Bibles, dive into Genesis chapter 22 is where we are going to start.

And what we're going to be doing over these next seven weeks is we're tracking our way through

seven different mountains. Today we're going to start on Mount Moriah and we're going to end up over these next seven weeks is we're tracking our way through seven different mountains.

Today we're going to start on Mount Moriah, and we're going to end up seven weeks from now on Mount Calvary.

Turns out it's the same exact mountain.

And I don't know about you, but God tends to display his glory up on the mountaintop kind of events and his grace and his mercy down in the valleys.

And every single one of us is either on top of a mountain, down in a valley, or somewhere

in between.

Amen?

And as it's already been pointed out to you about 100 times, it's in line with my first

book, if the tomb is empty.

And I know it's been pointed out, but there's a family discount for you if you're here

in person at any of our campuses. And one of the things I just

want to be clear about is if you buy any, if you buy a book at any of our campuses, all of the

proceeds of that book stays at the church. Because I did not write this to make money. I wrote

this to make disciples, all right? So we want to get it into as many hands as we possibly can.

Now, if you look at the cover of the book,

there are three names there. The first is mine. And I promise you, if my English teacher growing up

would see this, she would say, well, if the tomb is empty, anything is possible, okay? Because,

and then the second name there is Charles Martin. Charles is a New York time bestselling author.

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