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Some lessons over the last couple of years that we cannot trust in our country, and we cannot trust in our finances, in our scientific community, in our health, and our predictions in the predictions of others.

Lord.

I hope they were learning that you alone are worthy of our trust in our confidence.

And father.

I pray that we would be placing more and more of that confidence in you, in these days.

I pray that we would trust you for this year, that we would not live in fear of anything.

But that we would live in holy reverence and obedience to you and father met our relationship with you deepen in this year to come, no matter what other circumstances surround us.

Lord, help us to learn that we can place all of this confidence in you and have joy in our hearts and walked boldly and courageously knowing that you are our strength.

Thank you Lord for this opportunity just to reflect and also to look forward and we do anticipate with great excitement, the return of our Saviour in King.

Thank you for this morning in Jesus name.

Amen.

Thank you, Micah.

It is a new year, how many of you made New Year's resolutions and he 101.

All right.

I've got one for you.

Actually.

This year.

I was actually thinking through and I challenged, our youth group on New Year's Eve.

And I want to challenge the whole church family that every week we do the sermon.

And then through the week.

We have homework.

We pasted, we post on face life, to encourage everyone to dig into the word of God for yourself and to study it out with the sermon in.

And I was thinking, you know, one thing I'd like to add this year in a challenge for anyone who was wanting to take it out, is to say, what if we took each week 1 verse out of the passenger.

You know, what?

That's memorize this together this week.

And in hide God's word, way in our hearts is as David roten.

Someone 19 type in your word in my heart that I might not sin against you and in right before, that is the first I shared with the youth group.

You know, how can a young person stay on the path of Purity by living, according to your commands and it how are we going to know those in in?

We have them hidden in our heart is as David said, and so again, it's just a challenge to you all to consider that.

Each week.

I'm going to pick out a verse of the passage.

And of course, you can always use the one I pick or you can pick your own.

And so, you know, what, we're going to go ahead and memorize and and get God's word hit away in our hearts.

And just if we did that one verse a week by the end of your have, how many verses If you're back in school to get 52, yes, and so yeah, just a way that we can kind of encourage one another then is to say, hey, how are you doing with that verse?

And so I can call them Drew please and say, hey Drew.

How you doing with the verse?

Yeah, he's got it memorized already and then you can say yeah, how about you?

And then I can say oh, yeah.

I got to work on it somewhere, you know, encourage one another, when we had a good time.

Looking at again, this the old story of Christ's coming to Earth over the past month of December.

We're going to pick back up here in Corinthians were in 1st Corinthians chapter 9.

So if you want to open up your Bibles there we're going to pick up where we left off.

Play again, just to try to to get us.

Remind us of where we were at the church in Corinth had a lot of problems and Paul wrote this letter because he had some people from Corinth actually come to him State Park.

We got problems and we need some help.

We need some instruction.

So Paul sent this letter back to address some of the issues that we're going on there in court.

Now a lot of the issues that they had really that the root of it was pride and and quarantine culture was a lot like our culture today where it's dog-eat-dog, you know, everybody's just trying to to climb up the ladder and be better than the next person.

And that's the way they were always buying for, for attention buying for a status.

Well, one of the issues that we saw there in chapter 8 was Meet.

Can you, can you eat the meat that is sold in the market place?

Because back then, they had the expensive me that, you know, you could buy, but a lot of people could afford it.

So they would go to the regular market place where they actually took, some of the animals that were sacrificed up in the temples are recorded the false gods and they would take what was left for those sacrifices butcher it up and sell it is cheaper, meet in the marketplace.

And so, a lot of people would say.

Oh, yeah.

I'm going to be cheap, and, and get the meat that I enjoyed have steak.

Anybody else here, like steak or bacon.

We have bacon downstairs.

If you want any run down quick and grab some Drake, has it somewhere in the kitchen.

Man.

Okay.

Anyway, somebody doesn't believe you Greg.

Oh, okay.

So anyway you had this problem.

Then you had some people who just were newly saved and and they had just come out of the idle worship.

And they were saying and we can't eat that meat.

That was, that's a part of worshiping that I do.

I don't want to be a part of that anymore.

And then some of the other people were saying what you talking about.

That's not even a real gut.

It's a piece of wood somebody, it's a rock that somebody chiseled.

It's not even a God that's just eat meat and be happy and in.

So you had this this fighting going on and it really would have came down to was, was I have the right to eat meat if I want to eat me.

It was about their rights and it was Paul's instructions who them.

He said in 1st Corinthians 8:9, be careful.

However, the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

Really?

That's what it was about.

I have the right to eat meat.

I like it.

I have the right.

There's nothing saying I can't do this.

Suppose, I can't be careful.

The exercise.

Your rights doesn't become a stumbling block, and he went on to say when you send against them.

In this way and wound their weak conscience.

What's he say?

You're sinning against Christ.

You may have the right to eat the meat, but when you are destroying someone else.

And you say my rights?

He says you destroy.

Someone else you're sinning against Christ.

And Paul, then goes on to say, look.

If what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so I will not cause them to fall.

Alameda, personal it said, look, this is where I'm at.

I don't want to send against Christ.

I've done that.

A lot of my life.

I don't want to go there anymore.

And so I don't want.