Certainly grateful for your presence when it’s such a beautiful day outside. And yet The beauty is inside as well. With those that are here. We certainly appreciate that. Let me make a correction on your opportunity to serve sheets that you have. I put Sandy Peterson down there as being absent this morning, but she was here. I just overlooked her somehow. But anyway, just to make you aware of that, my secretary does that every once in awhile. And then my wife pointed out to me later, but anyway, open your Bibles with me. If you will, to the book of acts chapter 27, acts chapter 27, we’re going to read verses 27 through the end of the chapter, verse 44. This is where the apostle Paul is going to be transported to Rome to be, to appear before Caesar and where he will be imprisoned for at least two years time. But what we’re going to read is concerning part of it’s not the entire thing, because that would be the entire chapter, but a part of what is recorded concerning his journey. And so beginning in verse 27, Luke tells us, and when the 14th night was come, as we were driven up and down the atria in atria about midnight, the Shipman deemed that they drew near to some country and sounded and found it 20 fathoms. And when they had gone a little further, they sounded again and found it 15 fathoms, then fearing, …

We certainly appreciate your visit your attendance this morning. We have some that are visiting with us, and we want you to know that we’re honored by your presence. Hope that you’ll come back at every opportunity that you have. It’s good to have Dan and Kim home for a few days. Anyway, wish it could be longer of course, but we are glad that they were able to come home to visit for a little while. Good to have uncle Keith with us this morning from Mississippi. Appreciate him being here as well. One to let you know that the Christian evidences seminar that Curry street had Friday evening and yesterday was very good. Had good attendance there. Some of you were able to be there for at least part of it and or the Jeff Miller did a great job in presenting the material that he intended to present. And we enjoyed being able to be there, to sit in and to glean and to learn more as it relates toward those particular subjects this morning. I want us to think concerning the fact that there is a God. Yeah. Now some may think, well, why are we even having to worry about this particular subject? We all believe that there is a God. Well, I hope that’s true, but it’s not always true. And there are many in the world today, of course, who do not believe that there is a God Genesis chapter one verse one, …

Spend our time this evening thinking concerning rather simple lesson, and yet it can carry great influence In our lives if we will allow it to. I want us to think about when a little is a lot That may sound like it’s contradictory. But in fact, when you examine the scriptures, you find that it’s not contradictory at all. God has used people in different ages, different time periods, Even people of different sizes in order to accomplish his will. So I want us to spend some time studying about some small people that are spoken of in the word of God. If you’ll open your Bibles With me, the second Kings chapter five verses one through three, of course, this is part of the old Testament. We’re not governed by the old Testament. We’re not under the old Testament. No one is under the old Testament today. And yet Paul tells us we are to learn from those things written the four time, Romans chapter 15, verse four. And so we’re going to try to learn something from here in second Kings chapter five. Hi, say it’s now naming captain to the host of the king of Syria was a great man with his master and honorable because by him, the Lord had given a deliverance unto Syria. He was also a mighty man in valor, But he was a leper And the Syrians had gone out by companies and had brought away captive out of the land …

Our number is down morning from what it normally is. We have several that are away on vacation traveling, and we certainly want to remember them in our prayers, sister, Deborah Allen and her three granddaughters, I understand are traveling up to Wisconsin. I think it is in order to see one of her sons and a granddaughter up there. And so we certainly want to remember her in our prayers. Also brother max and sister, Lois smiling. Her are on their way out to the west coast, but she had to have a stay in the hospital in Wyoming because she was having some problems. They weren’t sure if they were going to be able to continue on their Trek out west, but they have, and max is going to take her to their daughters out there in Oregon, which they were eventually planning to get there, but she’s going to go there. So her daughter can help her. And max will then go on to see his brother in Washington state. But certainly we want to remember them as they’re traveling, but also to remember Lois as well. Yeah, there’s an announcement on the bulletin board out there in the four year. I don’t know if you’ve taken the time to look at it or not, but this coming weekend, Friday and Saturday, anyway, at the Curry street congregation in west Plains, there is going to be a creation seminar and it would be great if all of …

Certainly grateful for your presence this evening, You will notice that Cheryl is not here for those of you who had not heard already. She is headed to Michigan in order to surprise her mother for her birthday this week. And so she’s going to be up there until Friday and then heading back to where she can be home on Saturday. So certainly ask you to remember her in your prayers as she is traveling. And she is Spending the night tonight in Springfield, Illinois, with our oldest son, Adam and his family worshiping with them this evening. And then she’ll be taking off early tomorrow morning to go the rest of the way to Michigan. But that’s the plan so far It’s evening. I want us to talk about love. We’ve made mentioned at various times how that We have one word, basically one word that we use and we speak of it as love in the Greek language of which the new Testament was written. There were actually four different words that were used, and yet all four of those are translated into our English version as the word love, but they carry with them different ideas as it relates toward the subject of love. In first Corinthians chapter 13, sometimes we call this the love chapter because Paul deals extensively with love in this chapter, even though it’s in the context of the miraculous gifts, but he says in the last verse of that 13th chapter …