All right.

And good morning and welcome to the Church of 1122.

My name is Pastor Ryan Britt, and I have the incredible honor to be able to open God's

Word and teach this morning.

And so thanks so much for being here.

We are in a series where we've been walking through the book of 1st John for quite a few

weeks and we're going to continue that this morning.

So if you have your Bibles, you can go ahead and get those out. If you don't, there's one in the seat back in front of you.

And if you don't even want to do that, then we wrote it down in the nose for you. We're pretty

serious about you having access to the scriptures. On your way in, you passed a big honking trailer

in the parking lot that we are partnering with feed northeast

Florida in a food drive this weekend and we are we have the opportunity this

weekend to underwrite a summer feeding program that they do across our

community that feeds upwards of 50,000 kids in our community here underresourced

through the summer and so we get a chance to be a part of that.

And so if you brought food and participated in that, we thank you.

And if you haven't, it's cool because there's a public's right across the street and you can

go right after service and pick something up and bring it back.

The truck will be here all day.

I know if you go to that publics and it's not your publics, it's kind of like cheating on your publics, but I think the Lord will forgive you. Amen. All right. All right. If you have

your Bibles, open them up. Let's dive in. We were in a series called Give Love a Try, like I said.

And the idea behind what we've been talking about for the last few weeks is that we believe that God

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