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2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 Hey! If you have your Bibles, open up to Daniel chapter 9. If you wanna do the thing where you just sort of open up to the center, you'll normally hit right about Psalms when you open up to the center, and then just turn right a little ways if you have a paper copy, if you're old school like me. I'm still old school. There's something about having a paper copy to me, I can write on it and see it right in front of me, but no problem if you have an electronic copy this morning. That'll make it easier for you to get to it; you just have to push the right buttons… if your fingers aren't as big as mine, it's easier to do. While you're turning there and finding that, mention a couple of things. It was six months ago and a week that the roof fell and if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you're really new to Calvary. Welcome to Calvary. We love having you. We're actually going to have a Meet & Greet right after this service. We want to meet you. If you don't know anything about the roof, if you don't know about us, we want to meet you over there in the room across the hall on that side of the room [points to his right] afterwards. But, yeah, six months and a week ago the roof fell and nothing looks any different. Have you been peering into the aquarium, through the glass wall over there? Nothing looks any different. The good news is this and I just wanted to give you an update, this week we will be getting back three bids from contractors to repair it so Lord willing that will happen this week and we're really excited. They tell us that as a result of what happened, not only are they going to fill in the empty spot where you can see sky out there, but they're actually going to take down all the HVAC, all the lighting, all the tiles, everything up there, and they're going to reinforce the rest of the roof. Are we happy or what? [applause] When they talk about a once in a lifetime storm, you know, you would assume that it would never happen again but we're going to make sure it can't happen again, so we're excited about that. So that's coming up. One of the things though, it's been going really well working with the insurance company. We still have another step in that process but be praying for us as we work with all these different contractors, insurance company, and all that kind of thing. But one of the things that we're doing to be doing along the way, there are some things that need to get done that we can save a little bit of money if we all just jump in there and do it together and so we're going to be alerting you to those things as we get there. One thing happened this week, Brandon and I sort of lost our minds out in the Café and started wondering what was above the tiles and pretty soon most of the tiles were down and we were starting to tear apart the Café, so we're sort of too far into it to reverse course now so we need some help. If you're a drywaller and want to help us, we would love to hear from you; see Brandon or myself right afterwards. If you are a painter and would like to help us, especially if you know how to spray, see Brandon and I afterwards, that would be just awesome. Or if you're an HVAC person, love to chat with you afterwards. We just need some help this week in wrapping that up. We're going to take down that grid out there and make that ceiling a little bit higher. It's so loud in there so we're going to put some sound panels in there and make it work better, and so that's been a real blessing to have that area. So, your help in that would be great. The other thing I was going to mention is over the next month we're going to be moving towards the first week of school so we don't want to rush that. Right? I don't like the first week of school, but when the first week of school hits we're going to be moving towards having Wednesday night for our children like we did last year and I just wanted to mention we're still in need of a few people to help us on Wednesday nights going into the fall and if you're not jumping in yet with any of the ministries here, jump in with us. We'd love to have you do so. The card on the back of your seats, in the offering afterwards you can just pop that card in there, just write on it, "Hey, I'll help." If you want to help with one of those other things, drywall or painting, just write it on that card and a phone number and we'll call you. If you want to help out with the children on Wednesday nights, write that on there. We're all just jumping in there. –1–

2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 I heard something this week that really impacted me. George Barnett said that by the time you're age 14 what you believe at age 14 is the same thing you're going to believe when you die. That means we need to get to our kids early and we need to teach them this truth early and I'm proud to say that's happening here at Calvary. That's why we put so much emphasis into our kids and we'll do anything to attract kids; that's why we just put in a huge playground out there. We want to attract kids. We want to teach them the Bible because it is so important for the rest of their lives. So, thank you for being a part of that and those of you who are already serving, thank you. If you don't have your kids involved, get them involved. Good things are happening. Our student ministry is second to none. Get your kids into that. It's awesome. Okay, Daniel 9. Do you have your Bibles? Are you ready to go? Let's read this, Daniel 9:1: 1

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans— Now, we've been talking about Daniel for the last couple of weeks and you may remember the king that started out this whole conversation was a guy by the name of Nebuchadnezzar, who was a Babylonian king with huge power and taking over the world at that time, comes into Jerusalem and takes out of Jerusalem into exile their brightest and best to make them Babylonians so that if he brings the rest of the people over from Jerusalem he could use the brightest and best Israeli boys to rule over their own people seeing their own people through Babylonian lenses. But there was this guy by the name of Daniel and his friends who rose up. Well, that was the first king, King Nebuchadnezzar. Well, a little bit later on another king comes and we talked about him last week, Belshazzar, and then today we read about a king by the name of Darius. This is the third king in the time that he's been there. And the time that he's been there, it's very easy to figure out when you read about King Darius because King Darius would have started his rule in about 538 B.C. Daniel would have been taken into captivity under King Nebuchadnezzar in 605 B.C., so by this time he's between 80 and 85 years old. And you may remember, we said this on the first week, Daniel's looking back over his life when he's writing these things down and explaining what happened in these years. Here's what happens in this moment. Daniel is sitting down to read his Bible. I want you to hear these words. Listen to these words, verse 2: 2

in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. — DANIEL 9:1-2

Okay, so, remember what I just said; nearly 70 years before this very moment that this happens, Daniel has been removed from Jerusalem and the people of Israel have been pulled out of Israel into exile in Babylon away from home in slavery. Daniel's now gone through now this being the third king and he's reading his Bible and I would say probably a man rather discouraged. He realized at this point, I was at the peak of my life when I was pulled out of my homeland and now I'm 80-85 years old, and nothing has changed. He's reading the prophet Jeremiah when all of a sudden something the prophet Jeremiah says catches his attention. The prophet Jeremiah indicates that after seventy years of being in exile God's people would be taken back to Jerusalem, and it appears as I read this that Daniel was taken aback by this. Somehow he hadn't seen this before or it hadn't caught his attention before and he starts doing the math and starts doing the numbers and realizes that depending how you do the math he's within three or four years max of this time of going back. And I observe that he's rather taken back by that. Nothing in the world around him makes him think that that's even a possibility. The king that's in place right now is –2–

2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 the last king that you'd expect this to take place and there's no other king on the horizon that looks any better to him. Let me take you to a passage of Scripture that I think it was that Daniel was reading. I believe that he was reading Jeremiah chapter 29. Now, if you want to turn there it would be helpful, but you don't have to, it's just a little bit to your left. If not, I have it up on the screen because part of this passage in Jeremiah 29 most of you have heard. In fact, most of you have been encouraged by it. I want you to see it in front of you. Jerusalem chapter 29, verse 10 says this and this is what he would have been reading, I believe: 10

“For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon,

— in other words, once you've been in Babylon as exiles for seventy years, God says — I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. Take you back to your homeland. He's reading this and all of a sudden it hits him, "That's us!" And then he says in verse 11 words that are incredibly encouraging and let's look at these words here. You see this over here where I'm at now? “For I know the plans” — could we read those out loud together? Okay, read with me: 11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Let's keep going on to the next slide. 12

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile. — JEREMIAH 29:10-11

Can you imagine what was going through Daniel's mind as he read those words? I have a plan for you, Daniel. The seventy years are almost up. And I think those words are huge there: You will call on me. You will pray to me. You will seek me when you seek me with all your heart. That was a major change. It's actually a turning point in Scripture because up till this point there's a lot of talk about what you have to do to be close to God. All of a sudden when you get to this place in Scripture, it begins to focus in on the heart, what's going on inside of you; and as He focuses in on the heart He says you call out to Me, you're going to seek Me, you're going to pray to Me. Well, you can imagine as Daniel's reading this he goes, "I'm in. I'm in." He's just done the math. He realizes this seventy years is almost up. God's telling me call on me, seek me, cry out for my name, and Daniel says, "Oh, I want to do that." And in Daniel chapter 9 we see his response. Let me just say this before we go back to Daniel 9, it is so important that we read the Word of God. This passage in Daniel 9 starts out with the words when he was reading the prophet Jeremiah. And as he's reading that it all of a sudden this passage comes alive to him. It makes sense. He understands it. That's for him for today. For about a year and a half we went through the Bible here at Calvary, one book at time all the way through the entire Bible, and our challenge to each other was read the whole thing every week (not the whole Bible, the whole book that we were studying that week), and so we read a whole book of the

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2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 Bible every week and some weeks that was harder than others, but many of you were involved in that. My fear is is that once we stopped that, we stop saying, "Hey, read this next week," that maybe you backed off a little bit and haven't been reading a lot. And summer is even harder, it just seems like it's even harder to say on course. I want to just say to you church, Church, this is so important. As we read here in Daniel, this guy's a godly man. He's lived for God all these years in this pagan place and here he is reading and all of a sudden in the midst of his reading he gets what God has for him. If you want to know God's will, if you want to see God's next step for your life, be reading; I am confident He's going to show you some stuff. And I find from reading of Scripture the very next thing that comes out of reading oftentimes when I am not even expecting it, it causes me to go to prayer, it causes me to talk to God. And that's what he does. Look at verse 3 in Daniel chapter 9, he says this: 3

Then I turned my face to the Lord God,

That word "turned" indicates a change to me. He's looking this way and he turns [he looks up]; he turns his face to the Lord God: seeking him by prayer Just notice the important word in there. He wasn't seeking himself or his needs or his desires, I mean, obviously he wants to go back to Jerusalem, to home. That was their dream from the moment they were yanked out of there in slavery; even though he had had some amazing experiences in Babylon, that wasn't home. But even in that moment he wasn't seeking himself, he was seeking Him. We seek God. We are, ourselves, me, I'm the one that gets in the way of my prayers because it becomes about me. Daniel reminds us that it's about Him. I want to get to the heart of God. 3

I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. Did you capture that? Denying himself of something. Again, there's this, doing things physically to get the attention off of me where it always seems to naturally go. That's the going against the flow. Everything in this world tells us that it's all about me. For me to turn my attention to God and not be seeking for me and what I want and what I need but to be seeking His heart is very much against the flow. But what we read next is even more against the flow because what he's going to do for most of the rest of this prayer is he's going to say, "God, I'm a sinner." Listen to these words, he says: 4

I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, He realizes who God is. He's in charge. And then he says this: who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, Listen to these words: 5

we have sinned — DANIEL 9:3-5

And that word "sinned" means to have missed the mark. The mark was God's perfection, God's holiness, and any time we come short of that we sin and we have missed the mark. And Daniel speaks for himself, he speaks for his people, and he says, "God, we have missed your mark. We are not who you wanted us to be. We have not lived the way that you want us to live." And he says in verse 13:

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As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. — DANIEL 9:13

God, we recognize that we're sinners. Again, that's against the flow. The flow of common thought is: "Actually, we're pretty good. Yeah, we mess up and we zig, we zag, but we're pretty reasonable people." Right? And when I say those words we are sinners, we have fallen, we have come short, there's sort of a resistance that says, "Oh, Pastor, don't go there. We begin to think about self-image that, you know, I need to have a positive self-image and I surely didn't come in here today to be told I'm a sinner. But when Daniel seeks God, he recognizes the reason that he's in the predicament that he's in today is because of his sin. He got all the way through the Old Testament and told His people, "Listen, do what I say. Follow my ways. Do it my way and good things are going to come of it; but if you don't, I'm going to take you out of your land to get your attention." And He says, "I was trying to get your attention all along. I was shaking you. I was calling out to you. I was screaming to you." And God's people would say, "I don't want to hear that. I want to do it my way." And finally, Daniel says, "God, on behalf of myself, on behalf of my people, forgive me for my sins; forgive my people for our sins. God, we come to You and we plead for mercy." I want you to see and I think it's a key in our prayers; I want you to see in the middle of verse 18, listen to what he says in the middle of this prayer to God: 18

. . . For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness,

That's where we'd like to go is making a deal with God. "God, if I do this for you..." "If I bring in three backpacks…" "If I help once a month on that Wednesday night thing…" God says this isn't about what you do. I don't come to you because of our righteousness—listen to this: but because of your great mercy. — DANIEL 9:18

I believe those words are a key to answered prayer where I realize it's not about my righteousness; I can't do enough to be good enough. It's because of a merciful, gracious God who forgives sin and takes that weight and that burden off of our shoulders. So I want to stop here and just be really practical. I have observed as I've been a pastor when a church chooses to confess their sins, it's crazy to me, but I sense it in the room there's this complete change of what goes on in a room. God is looking for His Bride to be purified and to come before Him and to have these sins removed. In the New Testament it is just so clear that if we confess our sins, He'll forgive them.1 So I just want to give us a moment in the quietness of this room just to bow your heads and whatever sins come to your heart and your mind, I'd just like you to confess them to the Lord; just quietly in your heart and mind say, "God, forgive me of that" and just ask for forgiveness. That's what Daniel's doing here. Would you just do that for a moment? [Prayer Pause] “For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” Amen. 1

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. – 1 JOHN 1:9

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2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 So those words that I just prayed, those words were just taken straight from this Scripture: “We do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.” There should be at this moment just a deep breath that's just like, "Oh, thank you, Lord. You forgive. You love us." I love what happens next in this story as Daniel tells it to us. Verse 21: 21

while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel,

Now, Gabriel's one of the messengers or angels. His name means "warrior of God." He only shows up in three different places in Scripture; he shows up to Daniel a couple times, he shows up to Zechariah, and he shows up to Mary. His name means warrior of God. He shows up to bring a message to Daniel. Daniel has already seen him once before and it says that here he shows up in a vision: whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice. 22 He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding. — listen to verse 23 — 23

At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, — DANIEL 9:21-23

Check that out. At the moment that Daniel began to cry out, "God! God help us!" a word went out in Heaven. Something happened in the spiritual realm. Grasp that. We're not dealing with the same old physical stuff when we're talking about this stuff. We're delving into something unseen. We're delving into something spiritual. God's Holy Spirit is at work. And if you put your trust in Him, He gives you His Holy Spirit and wow! What a blessing it is to be able to trust in the fact that God is at work and that even though you haven't heard or seen anything you're still praying, you're still waiting, that God has not been unaware. That God is active, that He's involved, and the angel Gabriel comes to say, "Hey, listen. We were dispatched the moment you started praying." Tell me, Church, does that not encourage you this morning? That's why these things are written down on the pages of specific. Not just merely to let us know what once happened, but to let us know that this is how God works. It's how God's working today and as you say, "God, God, show up," He is. He's already active. You go, "Well, where is He? Why hasn't it changed? Why hasn't it happened? What isn't it taking place right now?" I'm just telling you that God hears your prayer and what I want you to hear is from chapter 10. Chapter 10, verse 12, says this: 12

. . . “Fear not, Daniel,

I love that, because is that not true? A lot of our prayers we're caught up in fear because things seem so ominous, things seem so difficult. The results, the possibilities where this might lead seem so difficult and the angel says don't fear, Daniel. Listen why not: for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, You see, he read about this in Jeremiah. He just followed what God's Word said, he just did what God's Word said, he humbled [himself before] God and sought His face. That's why I felt like it's important for us to do it here. This is what the Word of God sets out as a template. From the moment you sought God's face, the moment: –6–

2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, — listen — your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words. DANIEL 10:12

I love those words, "From the first day." From the moment you started praying. From the first time you ever prayed for that, the words were heard in Heaven; in the spiritual realm. I hope like crazy that makes you inspired to just start bringing things before God. To realize that God cares and that He's listening. Over the next weeks, the month of August, we're going to be going into a new series called SOMETHING ONLY GOD CAN DO. Those are the words we like to use around here when we begin to talk about prayer because we realize that we have tried and we have tried and we've come up empty. The normal way of doing things is to try to fix things ourselves, but when we come up against the flow we go, "God," we turn and we seek His face and we learn here that from the moment we do that God is listening. So for the next 100 days, we're going to start next week, 100 Days of Prayer. We've done this before here at Calvary and we begin to seek His face for something that we believe only God can do. In fact, over the next four weeks what I'm going to be talking about things that only God can do. We're going to talk about the unseen. We're going to talk about healing. We're going to be talking about saving a soul from Hell. We're going to be just coming to you with each of these things that we know only God can do. Things that we pray for that we can't make happen but that God can. So that's what we're going to be talking about for the next bunch of weeks. And starting next week we're going to start 100 Days of Prayer and pray to God for something only He can do. And I want you to know as we wrap up Daniel, this sets for us a template of why you need to be here for next week because we're going to kick this off. God says from the first day that you prayed and we're going to start that 100 Days counting next Sunday morning and we're going to begin to watch and wait on God and we're going to report to each other over those 100 Days, coming up to really just right before Thanksgiving, we're going to report to each other what God did during those 100 Days. We did this a couple years ago and just recently someone came up to me and they said, "By the way, you remember that 100 Days of Prayer? The thing that we had been bringing before the Lord for that 100 Days of Prayer, God just answered that prayer." Well, that took a little more than 100 days. He said, "Yeah, but we kept on praying for that thing." God is in the business of answering prayer. I want to show you one more thing, Daniel chapter 9, so when that angel showed up in verse 21 and in verse 23 he says: 23

At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out,

— he says — and I have come to tell it to you, — listen to these words — for you are greatly loved. — DANIEL 9:23

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2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 feel like there's nothing lovely in me for God to respond to me. And God says, "No. No-no-no-no-no. I love you." You of all people. Can you imagine how many prayers are going up to God at any given time? All the time prayers are going up to Him and He says to one person, individually, specifically, "I heard your prayer the first time you mentioned it. In fact, we dispatched an answer for that prayer on that moment." And you need to know this: YOU ARE LOVED BY GOD A LOT. I know there are some of you right now that don't feel loved at home. I know there are some of you that don't feel loved at work. I know there are some of you that something happened in your life and that's not you; you don't feel worthy of love so you reject it even if it tries to come to you. I just want you to know this this morning: God wants you to know—individually, personally, this is very personal—God wants you to hear these words: I LOVE YOU. Don't miss it. In the New Testament of our Bible a man who was extremely close to Jesus known as the Apostle of Love says some incredibly powerful words about Jesus and God. First John chapter 4, it's right at the end of our Bible right before the book of The Revelation; there's three John's there, it's the first one of those three. First John chapter 4, John speaking about love says these words: 10

In this is love, not that we have loved God

You see, it just keeps coming back to that, "I tried. I tried to be good enough. I tried to love God. I tried to sing out this morning. I tried to show my love to God." It's not that I tried. 10

In this is love, not that we have loved God

— listen — but that he loved us and That's the words that he sends through Gabriel to Daniel; I love you. Not that we have loved God, but that He has loved us. How? He: sent his Son — Jesus, and it says — to be the propitiation for our sins. — 1 JOHN 4:10

And that word "propitiation" is a big Bible word and you're going, "What's that mean?" Remember that target that was missed earlier, to miss the mark, that sin? Propitiation is where because of the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross that sin is covered up and God sees it no more. It is the ultimate picture of grace, God's unmerited favor. It is the picture of mercy. You remember what we read there a minute ago? It's not because of how good I am that I call out to you, God, it's because of your mercy; because I know that You want to save us. John says, hey, this is love that God would send His Son Jesus as a propitiation of our sins, to cover it up so that it is forgiven, it is gone, it is done. And we have the opportunity to just say, "I want to respond to that." Who does not respond when you seek true love? Yeah, some of you are blocking it out because you've been so burned by stuff that's called love that's not love. This is the God of the universe saying to us, "I love you so much that I would solve the problem of the thing that separated us by sending Jesus to cover that sin, and all you have to do is trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of that sin." I'm going to invite you to bow your head.

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2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 Lord God, We come into this room this morning with a people that many of us have trusted You, Jesus. We want to feel that love this morning. And Lord, with having asked for forgiveness of our sins, I pray that that love would flow in and through us right now. We thank you for the love of Jesus. If you're one of the ones in this room going, "Wow, I never felt that love before," you can today. Trust in Jesus as the One who will cover your sins, forgive your sins, and just ask Him to come into your life and forgive you of those sins. The Scripture says that everything changes at that moment. You move from death and into life and that you have new life. I know many of you just wanted to feel that love of God and now that love of God is demonstrated in your life through Jesus and we grab onto Him and follow Him. So Lord, for those who have put their trust in You, Jesus, this morning I pray that the love of God will flow through them and they'll sense that and feel that in a way that they never have, and that your Holy Spirit would begin to move in their life and empower them in ways that they never dreamed were possible. We just thank you for the response of those in this room responding in that way this morning. It's in Jesus' Precious Name we pray. Amen. As Louie mentioned to you earlier love can talk to you if you've put your trust in Jesus. Don't hesitate to come and talk to me or one of those people with red shirts that says "Pray" on, we'd love to talk to you, pray for you, or one of our pastors. Right now we're going to give our gifts and our offerings back to the Lord. The Bible says God's a giver. He loved this world so much that He gave His Son and so because of that, that act of giving of becomes something that overflows from our hearts also so we're going to give right now. If you're at the end of the row, especially at the end of the row there, at the end of the row there, here, and here [points them out], just reach under your chair. There's a bucket there and just grab that bucket and pass it across your aisle right now as you give back to the Lord. Thank you. Thank you for giving to God's work. [Break] Let me pray for you. Lord God, I pray that your love would just shine down on each person in this room this morning; that the grace and mercy that You have placed on our lives that we'd feel that all week this week. Lord, for the people in this room right now that are at their wit's end I pray that You would just speak those calm words into their ear, "Fear not." I pray that the words of Scripture will echo through their minds this week from the first day that I prayed. Bring comfort in this room right now, Lord God. We love You. We turn to You. We seek You. Be glorified in our lives. We ask in Jesus' Name. Amen. Make sure next week you're back. The first week of 100 Days of Prayer we're going to be armed with wristbands that say on them, "Something Only God Can Do." You gotta just come and get one of those started on this 100 Days of Prayer. Be praying this week, encouraging each other. We're going to have a Meet & Greet right now on the other side of that wall [he points] straight across there. I'm going to be over there; I'd like to meet you and pray with you and get to know you. If you're new here, really new here, I just need to know you. I feel bad when I don't get to know you, so if you wouldn't mind coming

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2016-0731. AGAINST THE FLOW: DANIEL | Week 4 over and saying hello, that would be awesome. For the rest of you, have a wonderful Sunday. It's nice and cool in here so you don't have to rush out. It's awfully hot out there, so just go in the Café and hang out and encourage each other. We need each other. Right? God bless you. Have a wonderful week. You're dismissed. Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/176943419

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