And it’s hard to believe that at this point, we are now ready for the final service of this gospel meeting. It seems that time passes so quickly and especially when you’re enjoying and having, I guess, a good time. And I certainly have enjoyed my time here with you. And I appreciate the opportunity of being able to be here. We are with you. We’ve been talking about the church And we spent the last two nights talking about the church. We’ve talked about The fact that you cannot have Jesus without the kingdom. It’s impossible to take one without the other though. Some would seem to want to do that. And we also talked about the fact that The church is here for a purpose and that there are, Are those blessings that we received by being members of the church. And there is indeed the blessing of salvation and the fellowship that we have with one another. The edification that we receive from being members of the body of Christ and our time together, as we labor together in the cause of Christ, Nothing On earth that God has ever brought into existence. He brought into existence without a purpose. Everything has a purpose. Everything has a reason for being here, even at those things that I may not really understand why And may Not understand why it is that those things are here. I can promise You. There’s some reason why Things are where they are …

It makes me mad. And so I just want you to know that the a hour and a half long sermon you’re going to have, I’m not gonna mention max by name, but it’s because of max. So just so you know, you think people would be nicer to you when you visited, but y’all, don’t play cards that way here. You, you, I mean, you just, you don’t, but I had a good time with them and was glad to visit with them today. Last night, we talked about the fact that you cannot, you cannot preach Jesus and not preach the kingdom. You cannot preach about Jesus because Jesus left heaven and came to this earth with a purpose in mind. And that purpose was to establish, to build his kingdom. And so the very idea that we could somehow preach Jesus and not preach his kingdom is just ludicrous. It’s it’s, it’s foolish to even think so, and it certainly cannot be done. And so tonight I want to go a little further in that study and I want to ask us why we need the church. You know, people act like the church is not necessary. It’s not needed, you don’t need the church. And from time to time, I’ll have someone that will tell me that they don’t need the church. They don’t have to have church to go to heaven. That all they need is Jesus. And they’ve got Jesus and they have Jesus …

If I were listening, if I had been listening, like I should have been, I think it has been mentioned three times that there’s going to be a potluck meal as soon as we get through. And so I think that that was primarily for my benefit. Not because I’m going to eat that much, but simply because of the fact that it was a reminder to me to, to not preach, not shoot the whole ward this morning. So maybe this the case I’m thankful to be here. And I appreciate the opportunity of being here and I appreciate you breathing and the work that you do here, and certainly you are in my prayers. And I hope and pray that the work here continues to progress. And I hope it continues to prosper. And I appreciate the work. You do keep up the good work, never give up, never give in to Satan and to his influences. I simply this morning want to begin with basically three simple points that I want to make. And I want you to never forget. I’m afraid that we’re living in times when it’s easy to forget things. And sometimes it’s easy to forget who we are and what we’re doing here and where we’re going. And so I want us never to forget at least these three things. And I want you to keep these in mind during this entire week. I want you not to forget them when the week’s …