His Steadfast Love Endures Forever First B Jackson 2018-03-25 Automatically transcribed. Where this and the recording disagree, the recording is the record. ---- Good morning everybody. How are you? Hey. Yes. I was gonna kinda call us to order, and if the if the folks who are out in the vestibule want to come on in, Florine is actually going to start us off with a call to worship. He's been building up progressively. Come on up, Florine, if you would. It's great to be here. Praise God. I love this song. I fall in love with the song very much. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they nail him to the tree? Were you there when they nail him to the three? Oh, sometimes it pauses me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble. Were you there when they laid him in the tomb Amen. Amen. Thank you, Florine. Would y'all stand now? We'll sing hymn number three fifty six but it'll be up on the wall. The words will be up on the wall there if you want to just look up. Redeemed. Redeemed through his infinite mercy, his child, and forever I am. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed by the blood of the lamb, redeemed and so happy in Jesus no language my rapture can tell I know that the light of his presence with me doth continually dwells redeemed redeem redeem redeem by the blood of the lamb redeem redeem his child and forever I think of my blessed redeemer I think of him all the day long I sing for I cannot be silent his love is the theme of my song Redeemed. Redeemed by the blood of the lamb. Redeemed. Redeemed. His child and forever I I know I shall see in his beauty the king in whose mighty light redeemed by the blood of the lamb redeem his child and forever Amen. Thank you. We put it for modest sometimes where there's not one written. Yes, that happens. The old rugged cross, hymn number three twenty seven. As we look forward this week towards Good Friday and we look forward this week towards the salvation secured on that old rugged cross. Let's think about this. Hymn number three twenty seven. On a hill far away where the dear is the best for a world of lost sinners was slain so I'll cherish the old exchange it someday for a oh the old rugged cross so despised by the world as a wondrous attraction for me for the dear lamb of God let his glory above and exchange it someday for a crown in the old rugged cross same with blood so divine exchange its own day for a crown to the old rugged cross I will ever be true it's shame and reproach gladly bear then he'll call so I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last I lay down will cling and exchange it someday Amen. Y'all can have a seat. Alright, that's better. So, we're off for the next two weeks for spring break. All for youth group too. So, 06:30 to eight on Tuesdays, not this week, not next week. Solid Rock Outdoor Ministries is something that the family, the Micas family has had like a history with, I think, in the past but I'm gonna invite Emily Micas up to tell you a little bit about it. Hi, everybody. So, my name is Emily Micas and I grew up here in Jackson. My parents and I have been coming here for quite a while. And, I have recently moved back down to Laramie, Wyoming to intern for Solid Rock Outdoor Ministries. I feel like the Lord called me to outdoor ministries as I was growing up here and in the outdoor community a lot and just recognize the emptiness of the purpose of things like skiing and climbing and everything like that without a deeper meaning to it. And the Lord really drew me in and gave me a purpose within that, and I would love to be able to come and bring that to all the people that I interact with within that community who just really have no purpose in life besides overcoming their next big feat, whether it's mountain climbing or skiing or whatever that is. So, yeah, I followed suit if my with my dad. He was an instructor for solid rock about thirty years ago. And so I'll be going down there this summer. I've given up a lot to go down there, and I am working a job that is fully fundraised there now. And I will be on a course for a forty day, forty night course that follows the idea of Jesus and Moses, both were in the wilderness for forty days before their ministry started. And then I'll be shadowing instructors and learning more about the ministry for the rest of the summer. So I'm just asking that you guys would pray about being part of my team and praying for me this summer and possibly financially supporting me. I still need to raise about $5,000 for the summer. So I actually have to leave and drive back to Laramie, like, now. But, I have these papers here that talk about how you can support me, and they have my phone number on them. So if you have any questions and would like to talk more about it, please call me, and I'd love to talk to you more. Thank you. Thank you. I'll have them with me. That's perfect. Know a little more about it. Am I excited. Thank you Emily for doing that. She's pretty awesome. I was looking back through Palm Sundays in the past and one of our Palm Sundays there was a picture of Emily from several years back, and it was graduation time. It was kind of we were looking forward to what you were doing after graduation. Anyway, baby bottle campaigns happening with Turning Point. Secret Church is something that happens, it's out of Brook, the church at Brook Hills, David Platt's Church in Birmingham, Alabama. And so this is a simulcast sort of thing. Yes, it is actually from 6PM until 12:50AM. It really is almost seven hours long, but it's a time to come together and spend some time studying about, in this case, this particular one, is studying about cults and how they have influenced some in the world and also underground churches. If you want to know more information about it, get in touch with Samantha McVeigh, and that's going to be a good and interesting time. It's a long time, but it's going be a good and interesting time. Next week we're having one service. It'll be at 10AM and we're having a pancake breakfast, sourdough pancakes in the tradition that is long established forever in the past. We're gonna have sourdough pancakes, but it's gonna be at 09:00 before the 01:10 o'clock service. Guatemala mission trip, most of those who are going to Guatemala were here this morning, but a lot of them have already left for spring break. So would you be praying for that team? 33 people, 19 it's it's mostly it's just a little bit more as far as adults versus kids. I think they're nineteen and thirty, 19 and I can't even think right now. Nineteen and fourteen. Nineteen and fourteen. That's what it is. Nineteen and fourteen folks are going. 19 adults and 14 kids. And so it's a pretty awesome time to go down to Guatemala, Hope of Life International. Be praying for them if you would. We did a commissioning after the first service this morning. The fundraising went very, very well, and thank you. I think we have been provided for all of that has happened. For any other announcements or prayer requests, you can check-in your bulletin. They should be in there. Y'all have anything else? Y'all going to have a lot to say in a few minutes. Trust me. Anything else? Anything else? Would you stand up and greet one another then and we'll bring you back together with a song. I did not. Love send my savior to die in my stead why should I long him so meekly to Calvary's cross he was led why should he love me so why should love me so why should he love me so why should my savior to Calvary go why should he love me so males pierced his hands and his feet for my sin why should he love me so he suffered sore my salvation to win why should he love me so why should he love me so why should my savior to Calvary Amen. Amen. Come Holy Spirit. Hymn number three eighty two. Amen. Y'all can have a seat. Can I get the frontline team to come forward too, please? Oh God, our help in ages past. Lord, I thank you for all that you have done, for all that you have provided, for all that you have given in our lives, lord and I'm talking about life. I'm talking about resources, everything. Thinking specifically about my little girl, lord, today that you have given this gift at Easter, Paschal. Thank you for her and the joy that she is, Lord. Looking into the sermon and looking back throughout history, Lord, the things that you've done, your mighty and great deeds, and how you work, and how you progress. Lord, I'm blown away by it. God, I pray that you would take right now from your willing and obedient, happy, joyful servants. Lord, this gift, this offering, and that you would do with it as you will, that you would advance your kingdom of grace, mercy, and love to those who need it. Because we all need it. In Jesus name, from this point right here forward, Lord, to the ends of the earth, would you advance your good gospel, multiply the gift, and the giver. In Jesus name, amen. My Jesus Christ, till I am just alone of God. Amen. Pascal Grace McDaniel. Sorry. It's gonna take me a minute. Pascal's birthday is March 30. She was forecast to be born on Easter of 2006. And Pascal is her great grandmother's name, Pascal, like the Pascal lamb and Grace like Grace, my grandmother's or her great grandmother on my side of the family's name. And what a blessing she is. And I knew she was gonna be singing that. And so I was thinking of it during the operatory prayer. And I'm really, really proud of her and I love her. And seeing her and seeing that and thinking about this week, Easter and where God has his only begotten son given. Paschal grace. It is the grace of the suffering lamb of God. Okay. Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday, 03/25/2018. I'm going to go over a couple of things. One of em is Psalm 113 through one eighteen. That is the lesser Halel. The lesser Halel in the Jewish tradition. It's a praise of God. It's something that they would do in anticipation of the Passover season, so they're already beginning and already starting to think about Passover. And then the greater Halel is one that is normally done on Passover. In between those two, we have Psalms from about one twenty up to one thirty four, one thirty five, one nineteen, one thirty five, somewhere in there. We have a whole group of Psalms that are called the Psalm of Ascents, the songs of Ascent and since it's Hill Climb Weekend, it's the Psalms of Ascent. We have been hearing since Thursday at this church. They've been going up and down these songs but they would sing the lesser Halal in anticipation of. And then the Psalms of Ascent were actually Psalms walking up from Jericho to Jerusalem, and walking from Jericho to Jerusalem is about like walking from Wilson up to the top of the pass. It's 3,500 feet of elevation over the space of about 11 miles or so. So the Psalms of Ascent gave them something to sing, and they were supposed to be a unified nation and even more so when they were coming to Passover because that was what bound them together. So as they walked and they climbed, they would sing these things together. I'm gonna sing a few, or I'm not gonna sing, but I'm gonna say a few of these lesser Halal Psalms. But I wanted you to tell you why I'm doing this. I had a guy say between two service, he goes, he was in the first service and he said, I have never heard of Palm Sunday like that one and I've been around a while. So, I was not expecting that. Well, this is your typical Palm Sunday passage, right? It is from Matthew 21. So, the disciples went and they did as Jesus commanded them. They brought the donkey and the colt and they laid their clothes on them and they set him, Jesus on them and a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road and others cut down branches, palm branches, palm Sunday. They cut down these palm branches from the trees and they spread them on the road and then the multitudes who went before and those who followed after cried out saying, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. So, the triumphal entry into Jerusalem is what's this is describing. Hosanna, blessed be the one who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest hosanna to the son of David. So, I'm going to read a few selected passages here. So, before that, this is where this comes from. Are these lesser Halel and Halel is in Halel Uya, okay? Yahweh. Halel. Praise be to Yahweh. Praise be to God and it starts off like this. Psalm one thirteen, praise the Lord. Praise oh servants of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. From this time forth and forevermore, from the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised. The Lord is high above all nations and his glory above the heavens. Psalm one fourteen starts off. When Israel went out from Egypt, so he's looking backwards into the past and seeing what he's done. The house of Jacob from a people of a strange language, Judah became his sanctuary. Israel has dominion. The sea looked and the sea fled. Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams. The hill like hills like lambs. What ails you, oh see, that you flee? He's saying, creation, fierce God. Creation bows before the Lord. Trem below earth at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, who turns the rock into a pool of water, and the flint into a spring of water. Psalm one fifteen and these were all sung together. These are different songs, different tunes, tunes have been lost over time, I assume. Not to us, oh Lord, not to us, but to your name, we give glory for the sake of your steadfast love and for your faithfulness and when the nation should say, well, where is their God? Our God is in the heaven and he does whatever he pleases. Their idols, other gods, their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths but they do not speak. They have eyes but they do not see. They have ears but they do not hear. They have noses but they don't smell. They have hands but they do not feel. They have feet but they do not walk and they don't make a sound in their throat. Those who make them, those who make these idols become like them where they can see and say and do nothing. And so do all who trust in those idols. The Lord has remembered us and he will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel, his people. He will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless those who fear the Lord, both the small and the great. May the Lord give you increase, you and your children. One sixteen says, I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy. Almost every time when I go into a hospital situation where somebody in a difficult or desperate situation, almost every time I find a Psalm and it's not hard to find because you can look and find them. 85, 86, you can look around and it says, I call out to you lord because you answer me. I call out to you because you respond. Psalm one sixteen says, I love the Lord because he's heard my voice and he's heard my pleas for mercy. He's inclined his ear toward me and I will call on him as long as I live. Though the snares of death encompass me, the pangs of shield laid hold on me and I suffered distress and anguish. Then, I called on the name of the Lord. Oh Lord, I pray, deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord and righteous and the God is and God is merciful. The Lord preserves the simple and the lowly. When I was brought low and humble, you saved me. Return on my soul to your rest for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. That's one sixteen. One seventeen starts off. Praise the Lord all nations. This morning, we had six people up here in a band and they were from five different countries. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Praise the Lord all nations and there were four or five more represented out in the congregation. Praise the Lord all nations. Extol him all you peoples for great is his steadfast love towards us and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord. That's all of Psalm 117. It's just a refrain. Praise the Lord all nations. Extol him all peoples for great is his steadfast love towards us and the faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord and it's a command to do it. Now, I'm going to give you an opportunity here to be doing this in just a minute. Psalm 118 starts off, oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his steadfast love endures forever. Let Israel say, his steadfast love endures forever. Let the house of Aaron say, his steadfast love endures forever and let all of those who fear the Lord. Let all of those who fear the Lord say, his steadfast love endures forever. Amen. The Lord is my strength and he is my song and he has become my salvation. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents. Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous. I love the verse that says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Say so. Let's just speak it out. Say so. The right hand of the Lord dwells valiantly. The right hand of the Lord exalts. The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. I shall not die but I shall live and I shall recount the deeds of the Lord. The Lord Save us, we pray, oh Lord. Oh Lord, we pray, give us success. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord. The Lord is God and he has made a light to shine upon us. You are my God. I'll give thanks to you. You are my God. I will extol you. I'll give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his steadfast love endures forever. That that's Psalm one eighteen and the end of it. So, Psalms 113 through 118 are the song that you sing in anticipation of the Passover, the lesser Halel, you're building up towards it And then there is the greater Halel. Now, I'm gonna go into this. Psalm one eighteen twenty five. There's a word in there, Hosanna. Hosanna, Hebrew word. If you look at this in Hebrew, you start over here and you read it this way. In Greek, this is Septuagint Translation. It's this way. I love how God does neat little things. All of the scriptures before Jesus were leaning towards him and all of them since then have been leaning back. That might be a little bit creative and artistic for you but we're reading them in opposite directions. The Hebrews were looking forward to Jesus just like we look back to him. If they were looking forward to Messiah, then that's how they were saved. We look back on Messiah and we see him and that's how we're saved and actually Hosanna, the word is right there translated. Oh Lord, I beseech you, Hosanna. Save now. Hosanna had two meanings in Hebrew. It has two meanings. It depends on when. Up until about the first century, the old Hebrew translations always give the older one as save us now. It's a plea for God to be rescuing them. Save us now, oh Lord. And so, when they're calling out on this triumphal entry, Palm Sunday that we celebrate and the crowd is laying down palm fronds. Palm fronds are a national symbol of Israel. It's a very nationalistic symbol of Israel. They were oppressed by the Romans. They were allowed to have some freedom of government. They were really under the hand of the Romans and they wanted for someone to overthrow the Romans and what they had expected from their Messiah, son of David, Hosanna to the son of David. Save us now, son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Save us now in the highest. We want to whip these Romans and take over. You no longer want to be under their thumb and so Hosanna, save now I pray, oh Lord, from one eighteen, 25, and 26. So lord, I pray, send now prosperity because that's what we want and anybody that we think can give it to us, we will vote in. Won't we? Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna, save us now, we pray. So that's part of the lesser Halal. It's the closing part of the lesser Halal. Like I said, there were the song of ascents in between these two, but the greater Halal is what they would do around time for Passover. And I want to go through it, and I'm going give you a chance. Now I've said, I'm looking back and I was thinking of Paschal and I forgot. Y'all don't get the chance to talk back a whole lot. I do. I get a chance to say what I'm thinking. Sometimes, I do it through tears. Y'all don't get a chance to talk back. I want you to talk back today, okay? I want you to talk back to me. This is the symbol. It was a hieroglyph before it was ever language, like written down language. This is the symbol for hallelujah. So if you do that, good on you. Okay? I know this is a less likely service to see any of this happening, but this can happen. It doesn't have to mean touchdown. Alright? This is hallelujah. Okay? So that's that. Psalm one thirty six begins the same as several other Psalms, one zero six, one zero seven, and one eighteen, all start off with the same way. They start off talking about the goodness of God. For God's goodness, we praise him. So I'm gonna read the white part, and I'm gonna ask for all of y'all with enthusiasm as one in one accord to read the green part and it'll go something like this. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good. Amen. Give thanks to the God of gods. For his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords. For his and for creation. Think about this. God didn't need us. He didn't really need creation. He just needed nothing but he created and to him who alone does great wonders. To him who by understanding made the heavens. To him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever. To him who made the great light. To the sun to rule over the day. Now, you know you can sleep through liturgy, right? I had somebody after the first service say, we don't do that very often and I said, no, we don't. So act like we don't do this very often. Come on, you're getting a chance to talk back, okay? He made the sun to rule over the day. Are you glad the sun is shining? His steadfast love endures forever. The moon and the stars to rule over the night. For steadfast love endures forever. For his gracious provision in the past. And this I'm gonna ask individually just like popcorn. What is God provided for you in the past when you thought there was no way and he did it anyway? Somebody, just one person right here. Grace. Grace, when there was no other way. Anybody else? Mercy. Grace is God's unmerited favor and mercy is not getting what we do deserve. Yep. Healing. Amen. We're praying for folks right now for Bob's granddaughter and he is seeing God heal his granddaughter. And he built our faith last year by having a friend. Really? For his gracious provision in the past. We thank him and it goes, and he brought Israel, the people of God out from among them. With a strong hand and an outstretched arm. Amen. Think about this. I've mentioned Charis Grace in the Greek is a leaning towards with an arm out stretched. He is reaching to pull us in. Grace, mercy. He's reaching. He's mighty to save and he's willing to save. Not just willing but also able. So, he's leaning towards when we are in our most destitute place and rock bottom, he is reaching toward an outstretched arm for his steadfast love endures forever. To him who divided the Red Sea into two. And made Israel pass through the midst of it. For his steadfast love endures forever. But he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea. To him who led his people through the wilderness. Consider that. His steadfast love endured even when they were wandering in the wilderness. He was still providing for them. When they were complaining. He was still providing for them. He was still taking care of them. His steadfast love endures forever. To him who struck down great kings. And he killed mighty kings. Or steadfast love endures forever. You know, God resists the proud. How often do we see that in scripture? It's the story of the Old Testament is God resisting the proud. Whether it's the enemies of the people of God or whether it's the people of God. When someone raises up their head in pride, God resists but he gives grace to the humble and we go forward. Sihan, king of the Amorites. And Og, the king of Bashan. So Bashan is one of the richest places in all of what we now know as Israel. So it's a very, very rich, rich place. So rich and luscious that the goats and the cows from were parts of a a young beau when he's speaking to his bell. And he says, oh your teeth are like the goats on the hills of Bashan. It's a strange reference for us, but these big, rich, well fed cows too were the cows of Bashan. Og was in control, and Og was a mighty king, and he was struck down in his pride, in his self sufficiency, and king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures forever. God does resist the proud. And he gave their land as heritage. I lost a couple people in the first service right there too. And gave their land. That's the kings Og and Sihan. He gave their land as a heritage. A heritage to the people of God, Israel, his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever. It is he who remembered us in our low estate. And rescued us from our foes. If you look at this and you see the us and the us there, he's talking, yes, God does resist the proud and we are saying that God is good and God was great in creation and God is great in the ways provided for us and he has struck down mighty kings. Wait a minute, that doesn't sound loving. It is loving but God resists pride. If it's he remembered us in our lowest state. God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble. You don't see a whole lot of things that multiple human authors say in scripture. You won't see anything they say more often than this. Peter says it. John says it. Paul says it. Proverbs says it. Psalm says it. It's all over the Bible. God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble. He who gives food to all flesh. That says, all flesh. It's not just us. The common grace of God. He makes the rain to fall on the just and unjust. He makes the sun to shine on the just and the unjust. He gives to all flesh for his steadfast love endures forever. It's not just about us. The interesting thing is this, you see that verse number right there? That's 25. We're only going to 26. This is a 26 verse Psalm. A lot of 26 verse Psalms because they were alphabetical, A, B, C, D, all the way down the line. There are 26 Hebrew letters also and so it's going down through there and it's trying to teach this to the kids. It's trying to teach this to the people. It's put it in a format that you can easily remember it and understand it and we have been singing God's praises for his goodness, for his provision, for the way that he works. And it's not just about us. Do you remember the story of Rahab? So, Rahab, the harlot and I was saying to somebody that asked, do you remember the story of Rahab? He goes, Rahab. Great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmama, Jesus. She's in Jesus's line, right? When we have the genealogy, she's in Jesus's line. Rahab was right here in Jericho. Mighty fortified city, her house was a part of the outer wall, and Joshua sent in spies, and she protected the spies. And while she was protecting the spies, she asked them for something. I'll let let's just read a little bit of the story. This is from Joshua two ten and this is Rahab speaking to those spies and she says, for we, this is the people of Jericho, have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea. Wasn't that in the great Halel? He dried up. He split the Red Sea in two so that Israel could walk across. Where do you think she heard that? We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt. And what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihan and Og. Did we just talk about Sihan and Og? Sihan and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. You whipped them. Sihan and Og. Now, the Psalm says that God vanquished these kings. He killed them though they were mighty and proud. You utterly destroyed and as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted. So, this great and fortified city, their hearts within them, the people, did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you. Oh, little bitty Israel. Humble little Israel because of you, for the Lord your God, he is God. In heaven above and on earth beneath. Rahab expresses faith just knowing what they had heard about the God of Israel. Does this make sense? Are you getting this? And she asked for them to remember her and her family and they did and she was saved and she comes to be a part of the line of Christ. Let the nations be glad, people. She is somebody that was not hit, were not, she was not his people and now they are his people. He's calling people into the family of God and how does he do it? In our habitually praising him, God will make the way for others to know and trust in him. Can do you believe that? I believe that. And I believe that that's why it was such a thing that teach this to your children and y'all be singing these songs. Be saying it over and over again because not only does God hear and listen to our praise but he uses it. Hosanna has two meanings. The one meaning, the older meaning is save us now. But around the time of the first century, there was a change in usage. You know how words change meaning over time? Instead of just being a crying out for save us now, son of David, around the time of the first century, a new Hebrew understanding of Hosanna is, yes, salvation because it had been accomplished. The last verse in this whole Psalm, one thirty six, the great Halal is to give thanks to the God of heaven. Amen. Now, think about this. His steadfast love endures forever. It is available to all. But not all will accept it. That's such a shame. Are they more likely to accept a message of a good God who cares and is leaning towards them or one of condemnation and retribution? God resists the proud. He gives grace to the humble. If you recognize that it was when you were in your lowest state that God saved you, you are much more likely to be a good witness for him. So, it's available to all but not all will accept it. No one will stand without it but no one with it will be defeated. Does that make sense? Because his steadfast love endures forever and that is worthy of our praise. And here we are. Is there somebody else who wants to say thanks to God for something right now? Anybody? For his protection. Amen. For salvation. Hosanna. Yes, salvation. Yes. Many blessings this past week. Amen. Provision. Oh God, our help in ages past and what's the next line? For strength. Amen. God's faithfulness. We, that's the other thing that always strikes me about Palm Sunday. I don't approach Palm Sunday with all the hosanna, hosanna, hosanna talk because I know the same people are going say crucify him before the end of the week. We are fickle beings. It does our hearts good to remember what God has done and to say it out loud. There's a lot of brain science research that's going on right now and I've been reading a couple of different books lately that are talking about how joy, joy is something that some people seem to have in abundance and some people don't seem to have and joy, They say, that the thing that they can link to it with no doubt about it is Thanksgiving. If you're thankful, it increases your joy. I like to hear that schools have a ten minute period at the end of the day that is a thankful moment. Give thanks to the God of heaven for his steadfast love endures forever even when we're wandering, even when we're at our lowest place. He is leaning towards with an outstretched arm. When we raise up in pride, he resists us. I think that's the last slide. We'll come back to it for the benediction. But would you stand with me? We're going to sing a song, a song. I'm thankful for y'all. I'm thankful for y'all as a church. God be with you till we meet again. Daily manna still provide you God be with you till we meet we meet God be with you till we meet again. Amen. And for the benediction, I want you all this week to give thanks to the God of heaven. Amen. Lord, in anticipation of the celebration of the resurrection of Messiah Jesus, I pray that you would impress upon us your good deeds, your good works, and appreciation for your creation, and lord, I pray that your praises would be ever on our lips, flowing out of a heart that's full of love for our savior God. In Jesus name, amen.