You're going to. Love it. Welcome, friends in the room and in Houston and a friend just joining us

from wherever you are at. How y'all doing? What a March Madness Bracket

Busting Weekend.

I don't know if you had a chance to be a part of anything related to the past weekend's holiday.

Anyone celebrate, you know what holiday it was?

St. Patrick's Day.

What a weird holiday.

Can I get an amen for some of?

I mean, and maybe it doesn't seem weird at all to you,

and just the green beer feels normal and pinching people wherever that thing comes from and wearing green and celebrating the Irish and having horrible traffic if you live anywhere near Greenville around here.

But what becomes increasingly weird

is if you compare it to the original purpose of that holiday,

which is St. Patrick. And I don't know if you know the which is St. Patrick.

And I don't know if you know the story of St. Patrick, but it has nothing to do with

green beer or anything like that. St. Patrick was a guy who really lived a remarkable life that God used to transform an entire country.

St. Patrick or Patrick was born around 400 years A.D. or 1600 years ago he was a guy that lived he wasn't even Irish.

He was born in Great Britain and around the age of 40 he got a vision from the Lord

he would say that he felt like Jesus was calling him to go to the nation of,

or to the island of Ireland, it wasn't even a nation at the time, it was just a bunch of like pagan people groups running around and around 400

AD and he got a vision that God wanted him to go over there and to share the message

of Jesus with these people. He felt like he was called to go over there and so he goes

over there and for three decades,

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