Amen, amen, amen. How are we doing, church? Doing okay? Good. You look great. If you got your

Bibles, I hope you do, grab them, go way to the back. Where do you think we're going to be?

First John, see, your spiritual. Good job. Grab it, go all the way, almost to the end of the Bible.

If you get the maps, go left a little while. First John's, where we're going to be. Hey, by way of announcement,

just thank you, thank you, thank you for the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of you

that showed up on Friday night to Potter's House to their unity night. How many of you were there?

Wasn't that awesome? I mean, it was just amazing. If you missed it, well,

not my problem, all right? It was awesome for those of us that were there. So thanks for being

there. Hopefully more and more of that kind of thing will happen. Today, as we continue in our

Give Love a Try series, we're going to be in 1st John chapter 2. And we're going to talk about

the reality that love obeys because

In this generation in our generation we have a very skeptical generation, don't we?

And I don't know if it's because maybe it's just because all of us, maybe throughout all of human history

have really have really had this kind of sensitivity against hypocrisy, but I know that in our generation,

we really, really cannot stand hypocrisy. And I think maybe it's just because we have access

to news all the time, you know, maybe we have access into people's lives because of social media

and 24-hour news all the time. I remember when I was a kid, I'm not that old. I'm 41, but when I was a kid, you had 30 minutes of news a day.

That's what you got.

30 minutes, the guy would come on and read the news.

And even then, he didn't have enough to fill up all the news, right?

There was a little segment at the end.

There was about just a cat and a tree.

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