Pastor's Picks Part 1 | How To Read The Bible ("Poor Rob") with Stephen Dunn

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How are you guys today? So my name's Steven,

I'm the youth pastor, and hey, I don't want to

do anything fancy, okay? Right off the bat, we're

going to get started, but first, if you are watching

from home, and you are currently at the beach.

So today we are talking about the Bible. If you

have a Bible, go to 2 Timothy 3. We are in verse

16 through 17. If you don't have a Bible on you,

it'll be up on the Sky Bible. Sound good? The

Bible. It's great. Kind of. If you've ever read

it, I think all of us can agree that it is a

difficult read. Can we agree? I remember the

first time that I ever read the Bible for myself

was in 11th grade. Our chemistry teacher at South

High, go Rebels. If you went to Northside here,

can you raise your hand? Now on the count of

three. One, two, three. Boo! Please don't leave

the church. But no, for real though. First time

I ever read the Bible was at the time I was like

being a Christian and Mr. Fieser, he's kind of

like my spiritual dad. He was a chemistry teacher.

He did a Bible study at South High during lunch

that some of the kids put together. I had a friend

whose name was also Stephen and they had scheduled

to talk about the book of Acts, the martyr Stephen,

which is in the Bible, right? So Stephen comes

up to me and says, Stephen, do you want to read

about Stephen? And then I said, what? But I said,

sure. And I read Stephen in the group. And for

the first five minutes, it was one of the best

stories I ever heard. And for the last 20 minutes,

it was the worst story I've ever heard because

I didn't understand a single thing. Thankfully,

I had Mr. Fieser there and I had my friend Stephen

to guide me through it and find understanding.

But as I grew up, I realized that I wanted to

be more than just a gas station Christian. I

wanted to be more than just a sheets Christian,

an ACNT Christian. And what I mean by that is

I saw myself, I would go throughout the week

doing what I normally did. You know, saying things

I shouldn't say, watching things I shouldn't

watch, doing things I shouldn't do. And then

whenever the Bible study came around or church

came around, like, man, I'm empty. And then I

used my pastors to fill me up. They were the

gas tank, right? And throughout the week, anytime

I would try to pray or try to worship or try

to read the word, I didn't have the skills needed

to access it myself. So I left. I was always

empty in my personal study time to the point

where I said, you know what? I just won't do

it. I'd be more productive playing. Call of Duty.

Anybody else like that? Minus the Call of Duty?

Where you just feel like you can read the Bible

as much as you want and you're expecting this

grand spiritual message like what they give on

a Sunday morning that just leaves you in tears.

But the truth is, you read it and you're like,

who the freak is Nebuchadnezzar? And if that's

you, then this message is for you. Okay? Me.

Mr. John, our children's pastor, he's a nerd.

He's a nerd. If you want to learn more in depth

about this kind of stuff, the meat and potatoes

of being a follower of Jesus, August 5th at 6

p .m. Write it down if this applies to you. August

5th at 6 p .m. is Mr. John's teaching Tuesday.

And I'm pretty sure they do the first Tuesday

of every month and they dive deep. into the meat

and potatoes of being a follower of Jesus. How

to read the Bible, different concepts in theology,

Bible school stuff. Does that make sense? All

right. 2 Timothy 3, 16 through 17. Are you ready

for this? Put your phone away, whoever that was

for. All scripture is God -breathed. And is useful

for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, and

training in righteousness. So that the servant

of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good

work. Before we talk about this technique that

we created to study the Bible, we need to understand

two key characteristics of God's work. The first

is found in these verses. We see that all scripture

is God -breathed. All scripture... is God breathe.

What does that mean? What does that mean? Miss

Billie Jean, I'm going to say four words, and

I need you to write them down on your program.

Do you have a pen? There we go. Are you ready

for this? The beach is Overrated. Anybody agree?

But anyways, what Miss Billie Jean just did for

me was she transcribed my message. The concept,

the ideology, the philosophy, the ideal. It came

from me. I'm the source. She simply was the hand

that wrote it down. Main point number one that

we have to discuss about the Bible is that the

biblical authors transcribed on behalf of God.

Yes, Moses wrote some of the books. Paul wrote

some of the letters. And Mark, Matthew, Luke,

and John wrote some of their own books. But they

were simply the hand that transcribed the word

of God. So before we go any further, we have

to understand that the Bible, first and foremost,

is a divine text. It is perfect. It is holy.

It is from God for us. Are we in agreement with

that? It's a characteristic one. The Bible is.

Thank you. Thank you to the one person. Number

two. Number two. We are in Hebrews 4 now, 12

through 13, and it says, For the word of God

is alive and active, sharper than any double

-edged sword. It penetrates even to dividing

soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges

the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing

in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything

is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of

him to whom we must give account. I'm going to

put up a picture of a Bible. What if I told you

parents that have kids in the kids' ministry

that I hid a large print NIV Bible back in the

kids' ministry? Would you be concerned? Eli,

do we have these pictures? Would you be concerned?

Now, what if I told you that I hid an unsheathed

razor -sharp katana back in the kids' ministry.

Eli, do we have this picture? Would you be concerned?

Don't worry, there is no katana in the kids'

ministry, as far as you know. But what if I would

argue with you that both of these, unattended

and in the wrong hands, are just as dangerous?

You see, katanas in the hands of untrained people

is deadly to the body. but the word of God in

untrained hands is deadly to the soul. So my

job is to have a church family that knows how

to read and interpret scripture, and to make

sure that we never accidentally or purposefully

manipulate scripture for our own gain. Does that

make sense? So main point number two is, like

swords, scriptures take training. Scriptures

take training. If you love a sport, you train

for the sport. If you love God, why don't you

train for it? And part within this is the second

key characteristic that we have to understand,

is that the Bible is powerful. It is powerful.

It is not some good story that you can learn

about, you know, oh wow, Moses is such a nice

guy. No. But we're learning deep, universal truths

that is different between heaven and hell. A

20 -minute read could lead to eternity. And that's

pretty cool. Are we all on the same page here?

Divine and powerful. So now let me teach you

how to freak through your reading. Well, I spent

a long time this week studying, getting ready,

and we created this method for you that I think

if you take notes on this and you add this into

your daily study routine. it will make the Bible

easier to study. Make sense? So, Eli, let's put

it up on the screen. Here's what I need you to

remember. Poor Rob visits for some apples. Poor

Rob visits for some apples. Make sure you write

this down. Poor Rob visits for some apples. Poor

Rob visits for some apples. Who? Poor Rob visits

for some apples. It's not broke Rob, it's poor

Rob. visits for some apples. It's not androids,

it's apples. Poor Rob visits for some apples.

Now what does that mean? Is that just as confusing

as the Bible? Well, here's what it means. Each

word stands for a different step in a step process

that you need to do in order to learn to study

the Bible. Make sense? So poor, poor, poor stands

for prayer. Any time before you read the Bible,

if it is a divine text, then we must go to the

divine creator before we read. We ask God, what

do you want me to read? I know one of my high

school students, if he doesn't know what to read,

he'll randomly flip open his Bible, read the

first verse he sees, and then try to find understanding.

You can do that. Or you can pray, God, what do

you want me to learn? And then you locate something

of that sort. And then we're going to pray and

ask for understanding, guidance. God, help me

to see what you want me to get. And I just remembered

I forgot to pray. So let's pray. Sound good?

God, I'm thankful for you. God, I'm thankful

that we got to wake up this morning. God, I'm

thankful for all of our church family here. God,

I'm thankful for the Bible. I'm thankful for

your love for us. God, please let your will be

done. This isn't about me, it's not about any

of us, but it's about you. Let us learn how to

be strong, independent men and women of faith.

Amen. Pray. First we pray. Poor Rob, the R stands

for read. Shocker. How do you read the Bible?

You read. But first you need to decide, what

translation will I read? Because I know a lot

of you are going to go home, pick up your Bibles,

and you're going to read so many these and thous

and shals that you're going to give up. So here's

three translations, okay? These are three translations

that our staff team here at HCD like to use.

Number one, it's super easy to read. Like, that's

actually the name of it. It's called Easy to

Read Version. It is super simple, and it really

takes the translation from the original language

and puts it into about a fifth grade reading

level. Really good for quick reading. Number

two is the one that we use here in youth and

that we use here at church, the NIV, the New

International Version. Good translation, moderate

reading level. If you want a more in -depth Bible

scholar type study, well, you would do something

crazy, but... For this, we'll use the English

Standard Version, the ESV. So, please, if you're

thinking about studying, ERV, NIV, ESV. Make

sense? For today, I chose a mix between the ESV

and the NIV. And then, after we pick what we're

reading, we read. We highlight, we take notes,

we talk to the text as my English teachers used

to say. Are we on the same page? Pour, rob, pray,

read. These are the easy parts. This is what

all of us do already. But now let's get into

the meat and potatoes. Pour, rob, visits. Visits

means visits. We have to time travel back in

time and visit the intended original audience

of the text. If I write a love letter to my wife,

and Chris picks it up and reads it, can he apply

that to him? He better not. It's weird. Likewise,

he has to read, find concepts, find understanding,

put himself into my shoes, and see who I'm writing

to to better understand my letter. That's what

we have to do with the Bible here. This is a

weird one for you guys, okay? This was transcribed

by Moses. This is Leviticus 15. 19 through 23.

That's what we're reading. Leviticus 15. When

a woman has her regular flow of blood. I have

no idea what that's talking about. The impurity

of her monthly period will last seven days and

anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.

Anything she lies on during her period will be

unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean.

Anyone who touches her bed will be unclean. They

must wash their clothes and bathe with water,

and they will be unclean until evening. Anyone

who touches anything she sits on will be unclean.

They must wash their clothes and bathe with water,

and they will be unclean until evening. Whether

it is the bed or anything she was sitting on,

when anyone touches it, they will be unclean

until evening. Have a good Sunday. Whenever you

read this, you think... God doesn't even know

the creation that he created. It's natural, God.

What the heck? And we read this and we see, obviously,

this is sexist. This is talking about stuff.

And we get upset and we make Facebook posts and

we do all this crap. But really, if you visit,

if you time travel the intended audience, you

see modern medicine wasn't invented yet. Tampons

and pads weren't invented yet. So this is not...

sexist philosophy. This is scientific medical

advice. And when you put yourself in the perspective

of that, it makes a lot more sense. And if you

read around it, just before this, it talks about

the same thing, but with men. And I'll let you

guys read that yourselves. Do you see how if

you visit the text, if you put yourself in the

context and biases, of the original audience,

you can start to pick understanding of it. And

it's a good empathy exercise. Does that make

sense? Poor Rob visits, pray, read, visit, find.

Pray, read, visit, find. Poor Rob visits for.

Pray, read, visits, find. And by the way, if

you look this up on the internet, you will not

find this. Literally, Me, Mr. John, and Mr. Jeff

France, who's at HHC right now. Shout out, Mr.

Jeff. We spent hours this week studying this,

studying different ways to break down text, and

we created this specifically for us. Okay? So,

like, please hear the heart behind this. So,

fine. What does that mean? Well, we need to find

biblical themes and specific mentioned details.

We need to find, we need to turn to Sherlock

Holmes. We need to see what names are mentioned,

what numbers are mentioned, what species of plants

and animals are mentioned. Where is the location?

What are these key details that we see repeated,

repetition, over and over again? For example,

in Leviticus, lots of talk about two things,

blood and cleanliness. These are biblical themes

that we see oftentimes throughout all of Scripture

regarding who? Jesus Christ. There's a common

biblical theme. Blood. Cleanliness. Common biblical

themes of salvation, forgiveness, sanctification,

sacrifice. All of these are common biblical themes

that we can locate in any text. Does this make

sense? We're finding. We're turning into Sherlock

Holmes. And then also what we're trying to find

is, any of you ever play Where's Waldo? We're

playing Where's Waldo with the text, but we're

trying to locate Jesus, and it's nothing like

Where's Waldo. Every single scripture in the

Bible points to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Every

Old Testament, even about the period blood in

Leviticus, points to Jesus Christ. The Bible

is not a thesaurus. That's why there's no dinosaurs

in it. It's not that there wasn't dinosaurs,

it's that... Dinosaurs don't have anything to

do with Jesus. Does that make sense? The Bible

is not made to teach us the ins and outs of nature

and all of existence. No, it's made to teach

us about how we can get into heaven. And that

is Jesus. So where is Jesus? Let me teach you

a nerd word. A nerd word, okay? So this is at

your next dinner. with a family or whatever,

you can use this, pull this out of your back

pocket, and sound cool. Are you ready for this?

Typology of Christ. Typology of Christ. Write

that down. Typology of Christ. This is a big

word. Typology of Christ, what does that mean?

Well, let me show you. Let's read Daniel 3, 19

through 26. Daniel 3, 19 through 26. A lot of

you have probably heard this before. Then Nebuchadnezzar

was furious. And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Yeah, they're from the Bible. They're not from

Brandon Lake's song. And his attitude toward

them changed. He ordered the furnace heated seven

times hotter than usual. And commanded some of

the strongest soldiers in his army to tie up

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them

into the blazing furnace. So these men, wearing

their robes, trousers, turban, and other clothes,

were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace.

The king's command was so urgent and the furnace

so hot that the flames of the fire killed the

soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

And these three men, firmly tied, fell into the

blazing furnace. By the way, this is poor Rob

reading right now. Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped

to his feet in amazement and asked his advisors,

weren't there three men that were tied up and

threw into the fire? They replied, certainly,

your master, there was. He said, look. I see

four men walking around in the fire, unbound,

unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of

the gods. Nebuchadnezzar then approached the

opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, Shadrach,

Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High

God, come out, come here. So Shadrach, Meshach,

and Abednego came out of the fire. Bind. Typology

of Christ is any time in the Bible that mentions,

alludes, or hints at Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

The fourth in the fire who looks like the Son

of God, it's not just that he looks like him,

it is. It is a representation of how Jesus saves

us from the hell. Jesus saves us from the fire.

Even when we're at our worst, even when everybody's

against us, we should be innocent, but yet why

does car insurance keep not covering it? We see

that God is still in the midst. Typology of Christ.

If you want to know how to read the Bible, learn

how to find Jesus in everything. And if you learn

how to do that, then you'll be making a peanut

butter and jelly in the morning, and you'll be

able to find Jesus in that too. Oh, don't you

know that how the jelly was crushed up and put

in this jam is how Jesus' body was crushed up

and put in my life. You know what I'm saying?

You can start pulling things out of everywhere.

You know? That's a good one. Pour, rob, visits

for. Pray, read, visit, find. And next is sum.

Which stands for summarize. Summarize. Now that

we have the puzzle pieces together, we have to

now put them together and find meaning and purpose.

We've looked at the scripture. We've looked at

the audience. We've looked at the different...

connections and relations within the scripture,

and now we have to ask ourselves, what is the

purpose? A question that I like to ask is, what

does God want me to learn here? What is the purpose?

Why? Why? Why? Something that I like to do is

take what I learn and create what's called quotable

quotes. These are quotes that you write, main

points, that sound good. And because they sound

good, they're easy to remember. And whenever

a friend is struggling with something, you can

go ahead and pull it out of your pocket. And

they don't get all weird because you're talking

about Jesus. Because it sounds good. A .K .A.

these are good Tumblr posts. If you know what

Tumblr is. Sorry, guys. But anyways, for example,

a quotable quote. would be katanas and untrained

hands are dangerous to our body, while Bibles

and untrained hands are dangerous to our soul.

Another quote would be from the story we just

read. Don't fear the fire. Don't fear the fire.

I got two F's in there. I got alliteration. It

sounds good. It's easy to say. And it's fun to

create. Does that make sense? Create quotable

quotes. That's just a little tip. So poor Rob

visits for some. So let's summarize. you just

learned about the furnace. So, they were supposed

to be killed, they were supposed to die to the

fire, but we see that Jesus' presence protects

them. That's the key concept. Jesus' presence

protects us. Wow, we just read and understood

the Old Testament. And then next is apples or

apply, meaning we apply it to our life. We take

the concepts and the summary and we apply. We

read, we find meaning, and then we shut up and

do. Men, don't you know our wives would love

us a lot more if we just shut up and did? Right?

And this is also where we apply our personal

testimony. I remember whenever I was a freshman

in college, man, I felt like fire was all around

me. I was living in sin. I was doing whatever.

Everything that I thought I built was crumbling

down. This is, I can see myself in the fire with

it. And just the look of absolute amazement.

I should have been dead. I should have been dead.

That's application. That's apply. But here, let's

practice, okay? Let's practice. We are almost

done, my peace. Does anybody know what time it

is? 925. 9 .25? Oh, sorry. I didn't pray, read,

visit, find, or summarize or apply. Hey, can

I get Cross out here to make this more emotional?

Cross, I need some piano. All right. You should

always read the word with Scripture. All right.

Poor Rob visits for some apples. Let's pray.

Let's pray. God, show us what you want out of

this reading. Let your will be done. Amen. And

then we read. We're reading Genesis 22, 1 through

14, NIV, the New International Version, Modern

Reading Level. Sound good? If you really lock

into this, you'll learn, and this Bible verse

will hit hard. Genesis 22, 1 through 14. We see

that sometime later, God tested Abraham. He said

to him, Abraham, here I am, he replied. Then

God said, take your son, your only son, whom

you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah.

Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a

mountain I will show you. This is where most

of us stop reading. God, you want me to sacrifice

my son? Early the next morning, Abraham got up

and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of

his servants and his only son, Isaac. When he

had... cut enough wood for the burnt offering,

he set out for the place God had told him about.

On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the

place in the distance. He said to his servants,

stay here with the donkey while I and the boy

go over there. We will worship and then we will

come back to you. Interesting. Abraham took the

wood for the burnt offering and placed it on

his son Isaac and he himself carried the fire

and the knife. As the two of them went on together,

Isaac spoke up and said to his father, Abraham,

father. Yes, my son, Abraham replied. The fire

and wood are here, Isaac said, but where is the

lamb for the burnt offering? Abraham answered,

God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt

offering, my son. And the two of them went on

together. When they reached the place God had

told him about, Abraham built an altar there

and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son

Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the

wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the

knife to slay his own son. But the angel of the

Lord called out to him from heaven, Abraham,

Abraham, here I am, he replied. Do not lay a

hand on that boy. He said, do not do anything

to him. Now I know that you fear God, you respect

God, because you have not withheld from me your

son and your only son. Abraham looked up and

there in a thicket, he saw a ram caught by its

horns. he went over and took the ram and sacrificed

it as a burnt offering instead of his son Isaac.

So Abraham called that place, the Lord will provide,

or in the original Hebrew, the Lord will see

to it. And to this day it is said, on the mountain

of the Lord it will be provided. We prayed, we

read, let's visit. You see, in this culture,

in the ancient Hebrew culture, any time that

you would sin, Something, someone had to pay

for your sin. That's why animal sacrifice was

so big. It's not that they were against PETA.

It's in their culture. They believe that if they

don't put their sins onto this ram or onto this

goat, then goodbye. I'm going to go to hell.

So that's what the sacrifice was about. And then

we see it goes into deeper that in this time,

women had no rights. So if Abraham would have

lost his son Isaac, not only did he lose his

son, he lost his legacy and every possession

he's ever worked for. So not only did God say,

I want you to sacrifice your son, he said, I

want you to sacrifice your job, your livelihood,

your legacy, and I want you to doubt the promise

I made to you years ago. Because God originally

said to Abraham, yo, I'm going to make generations

out of you. Do you see how we're visiting the

text? We're putting our perspective into Abraham

and we're seeing what's going on. Does that make

sense? Purah visits four. We find. We find similarities.

Right off the bat, I noticed a donkey. Specific

species. Who else rode in on a donkey leading

to their death? Hmm. I also see the wood. I see

who carried the wood to the sacrifice. Isaac.

Who else carried the wood to their sacrifice?

Wrong. It was kind of Jesus, but it was also

the other guy. And see, that's the kind of point

I'm trying to make here, that Isaac is not Jesus.

The typology of Christ is in the ram. They got

up there. Isaac was supposed to be sacrificed.

You were supposed to be sacrificed. And then

they looked in the thistle, or in the original

Hebrew, it is a tree bush. So who was stuck in

the tree, surrounded by thorns? Jesus. That's

pretty cool. And after that, we summarize. God

loves us enough to send a ram. Only if we trust

him. At the beginning, Abraham said to his crew,

he said, me and Isaac will go up to the mountain

and we will be back. He didn't lie here. He knew

God was up to something. He knew God never told

me to sacrifice humans before. So I know he's

not going to start now. God is up to something.

I might not understand it. I might not see it.

But I'm going to do what he told me to do. I'm

going to live my life out in faith. And my God

is up to something. Summarize. Next time that

we feel like we are left at an altar and we have

to sacrifice our life to God. Our livelihood

to God. Our hobbies to God. Going to the club

for God. Watching that for God. Smoking that

for God. We have to give that up for God. And

we see that God will give us something in place

of it. And that is eternal life. And after we

pour Rob business for some apples, we apply.

How can we apply this? Anytime we're talking

about the breaking of bones and the shedding

of blood of our Lord Jesus, I think it's important

that we take communion. Here in our youth ministry,

now, real quick, they're going to pass out our

communion elements. All right? If you need gluten

-free, I think you're supposed to do two hands

in the air. Right? In our youth family here,

we take communion very seriously. I don't do

the individual packets. We literally buy bottles

of Martinelli and we literally get like fancy

bread from Martin's and we partake in it. Because

what communion actually is, is it is a representation

of the death of Jesus Christ. You see, the bread

that we will eat together represents his body

that was broken for us. The blood that we drink

is represented for the blood that is spilled.

This is also the same blood that just like it

covers our throats, it covers our sins. And then,

must we not forget that while Jesus was on the

cross dying, what else was around? His community.

A lot of times people forget his mother was sitting

right there. Oh my. And Peter was off in the

distance. hating themselves and watching. And

the Apostle Paul tells us that we cannot take

communion if our heart is not in the right place.

A lot of times what people don't talk about is

this is a communal thing. If there is anybody

in this room that you have not forgiven, your

spouse, your dad, whatever it be, you are supposed

to find it in your heart to ask for forgiveness

before you partake in communion. I don't care

if you've got to take this home and wait till

it gets moldy. Jesus himself says that before

you place the sacrifice at the altar, if there

is unforgiveness in your heart, you drop the

sacrifice, you go forgive, and then you come

back. So let's pray, and then we'll partake in

communion together. Sound good? God? Let your

will be done in me. I should be dead. I should

be the one on the altar. But you sent a ram.

The ram didn't deserve it. He was just there,

stuck. But he was stuck in my sin. Thank you,

God, for sending me your son Jesus to die on

my behalf. It's not about my legacy or possessions,

because everything I own will be owned by somebody

else one day. But is it about you? Eternity and

giving me access into heaven, even though I told

you I wouldn't watch that or do that, but I did

it anyways. God, please give me strength, just

like you, as you were in the cross feeling like

death and you looked us in the face and said,

forgive them. Please give me strength, as I feel

like death, to look in the face of that person

and say, I forgive you. Oh, I don't want to,

because it hurts like... hell, but I know that

my God is up to something and in unity we will

be back. God, please give us wisdom. Amen. And

then Jesus had the bread, so we'll get the bread

out. And he said, disciples, this is my body

which will be broken for you. Eat it in remembrance

of me. The bread is kind of dry. But thankfully,

Jesus has living water. And then he took out

the wine or the juice. And he said, this is my

blood that was spilled out for you. Drink it

in remembrance of me and the forgiveness of your

sin. Well, poor Rob visits for some apples. Seriously,

I encourage you, study the word. Become a strong,

independent Christian, okay? Real quick, if you

are a youth student and you are not plugged in,

or you are the family or the parent of a youth

student who's not plugged in and you want them

to get plugged in, drag their tuchuses to the

Welcome Hub. We have a gift for them. You will

see my wife Janine and... One of our other leaders,

Kirsten, there to give you a gift. Also, if you

need a Bible, if you need a Bible, at the Welcome

Hub, I have a free Bible for you. Don't leave

here without getting it. And if you're like,

I don't know where to start, start in Mark. Mark.

It's about 69, 71 % towards the end. Mark. If

you need prayer, it'll be up here. I encourage

you to get prayer. I encourage you to read the

word. Anything else? Poor Rob visits for some

apples. What? You got some? Hey, hey, hey. If

you need help forgiving someone in your life,

the prayer team is going to do that today. You

hear me? That's your words of knowledge. If you

need forgiveness, we got right hips and forgiveness.

For some of you old people, that's both. All

right. All right, you guys get out of here before

I say something stupid. I love all of you, for

real. Thank you. Poor Rob visits for some apples.

On your way out, our youth team will say bye

to you. I love all of you. Cross, thank you.