I invite you tonight to read with me from God's word in the
book of 1st, Samuel, 1st Samuel, and I planned over the next
couple of evenings to talk about two, great women, not only in
the Bible, but in my estimation, in the history of the world,
great Women of Faith, great women of Courage, great, women
of decisiveness, who made a difference in the history of the
Lord's people tonight, I want to talk about one of the greatest.
Mothers who ever lived. I want to read to you beginning
in the first chapter of 1st Samuel, beginning in verse 19,
where the scripture says they rose up in the morning early and
worship before the Lord and returned and came to their house
to ramoth and elkanah knew Hannah, his wife and the Lord
remembered her, wherefore it came to pass when the time was
come about after. Hannah had conceived that she
bare a son and called his name Samuel say because I have asked
him. The Lord and the man elkanah and
all his house, went up to offer, unto the Lord, the yearly
sacrifice and his vow. But Hannah went not up for.
She said, unto her husband, I will not go up until the child
be weaned, and then I will bring him that he may appear before
the Lord and there abide forever.
And elkanah her husband said unto her, do what seemeth be
good. Terry until thou have weaned him
only the Lord establishes word. So the woman abode Road and gave
her son suck until she weaned them and when she had weaned him
she took him up with her with three bollocks and one Eva
flower and a bottle of wine and brought him unto the house of
the Lord in Shiloh. And the child was young for a
little while tonight. I want to talk to you about a
parents promised for anyone who thinks that God does not think
highly of women. They need to take another look
through the Bible particularly The Old Testament because God
emphasizes in his holy book, the role of women in the history of
his people and he places a great premium upon the faith of some
great women. I think of women who had
tremendous faith and they made great decisions.
Based upon that Faith who altered the history.
The course of the nation of Israel.
God's people and ultimately affected are very Redemption.
I think Of Jacob. And a long time ago, who in
faith hid the Baby Moses, because of that, horrible ethnic
that came down, that those baby boys be thrown into the Nile
River. And it was because that she took
and she hid that goodly baby child, and saved him from Death
that Providence, brought him into the household of pharaoh
himself. And some 40 years later, he
would make a great decision and his own life, that later in his
life would lead him to the height of The leader of Israel
out of Egyptian bondage and ultimately the great lawgiver
and prophet of Israel, the nation that God had promised
unto Abraham so long before I think of Ruth, and we'll talk
about Ruth a little bit more tomorrow night, the Lord
willing. And we think about, in this
case, Hannah and Hannah was, as well.
A woman of great faith and we see that in this decision that
she made in her life now, and of course, had a very sad Sad
story. Hannah was Barren, she could not
have children, and it was a particularly blessed thing in
that time for a woman, to be able to Bear children unto her
husband. There was a great significance
in spiritual significance, even upon that among God's people,
and elkanah had married, Hannah and she was not able to Bear
children unto him, but that didn't change.
The fact that elkanah loved her and he favored her.
Now polygamy was tolerated in that day and don't read into
that that Whatever really desired for his people to live
and polygamous relationships because that's not what God
instituted in the beginning. We later read and the 19th
chapter of Matthew that God allowed putting away, for
example, under the time of Moses, because of the hardness
of men's hearts and polygamy was for a Time tolerated by God and
elkanah entered into a polygamous marriage.
He married, another woman and perhaps He married her for the
purpose that she could bear children unto him and I would
doubt that these two women had a whole lot of interaction and
communication from day to day, but every year the family would
make the Journey about 20 miles north from Jerusalem up to
Shiloh where the Tabernacle was stationed at this time and they
would go up for this particular feast day.
Perhaps the Feast of Tabernacles, there were
different feast days and different times that Drew the
people to the temple and great numbers and elkanah His family
would make the journey up here to Shiloh on this particular day
of the year. And this would put these two
women in contact with one another.
And the Bible says that alkane has wife, taunted Hannah, she
provoked her because she was Barren unable to have children.
Well, that greatly Disturbed, Hannah and that's what we read
here in this text. That Hannah was very, very
bitter of Soul. She was, she was very, very
emotionally moved. And disturbed by this treatment
that this other woman was heaping upon her.
And not only that the fact that she herself could not bear
children under her beloved, husband elkanah.
And so when they go to the Tabernacle there at Shiloh, she
outside the Tabernacle near the door, she decides that she is
going to beg God to give her a baby and she just falls down
right there outside the Tabernacle.
Against to pray to God and Eli. The priest is sitting over here
on a chair by the doorpost of the Tabernacle.
And he sees this, the Bible says that she's weeping sore, she's
in great bitterness of soul and he looks over and he can see
her. As she is praying and her mouth
is moving, but he hears no words.
You ever prayed, have you ever been so emotionally distraught
and moved over some great, dilemma or great problem in your
A life that that words almost didn't even seem to come out.
Well, Hannah was in a great position of distress and she's
praying, she's pouring out her heart unto the Lord, and Eli is
able to see her mouth move but not able to hear her prayer.
And he assumes that she's drunk and so he would rebuke her for
being drunk there in the in the vicinity there of the
Tabernacle, but she wasn't drunk at all.
She was distraught and she explains to him.
Who applied and So He blesses her and she goes on her way and
the prayer that she prayed there at the Tabernacle that day was a
wonderful, and it is a powerful prayer that God answered, and I
want to talk to you about that prayer, that she prayed and the
promise that she made to God, that day as she poured out, her
heart unto him. Now, first of all, I want to
talk about the priority that Hannah had in her life and had a
wouldn't be very popular. Earlier in today's world, Hannah
in fact might be ridiculed like she was this other woman but for
an altogether different reason in this day and time because she
may not have had a child at this point, but she wanted a child
and it wasn't that she just wanted a child because children
are fun to watch grow up, wasn't the, she just wanted a child
because she wanted the experience of holding a little
baby in her arms and all of the joy that that brings to new
parents. She wanted to have a Child that
she could dedicate unto the Lord.
She wants to be a mother and not onto that.
She wants to be a Godly mother and so she prays.
Oh God I want a baby. This woman had an instinct if
you please to desire a child because she understands the
principle that's found in God's word time and time again.
And that is that children are an unmistakable gift and blessing
from the Lord, Psalm 127, and verse Three says, low children
are in Heritage of the Lord. And the fruit of the womb is his
reward. Children are a blessing in the
sight of God. Certainly not a burden, and
notice how God describes the husband in the very next.
Psalm, Psalm 128 beginning in verse 3.
He says, thy wife shall be as a fruitful Vine.
But besides of thine house, that children like all it plants
roundabout by table behold that the shall the man be blessed
that feareth the Lord, it was a sign of God's blessing.
Upon a man and upon a woman if they were able to Bear children.
And what does that say about our culture?
Today, when babies, for example, are being put to death by the
millions in their mothers wombs and it's often justified by the
argument that it's a woman's life and it's a woman's body and
therefore, it's a woman's choice, you know, a mother's
womb ought to be the safest place on the face of the Earth
but unfortunately many a mother's womb has become an
execution chamber. For Untold numbers of babies,
who were simply not wanted many children, who are born are
nothing more than an accident. In the eyes of their parents.
Their unwanted from the day, they're conceived.
And as a result, they're often brought into the world to be
shoved aside, and to be, neglected and raised by others
or even abused. For some people children are an
inconvenience, they're an added Financial strain.
They're a distraction from career and other life goes some,
don't desire. Hire a child because they want
more of this world's things. Or they don't want a child
taking away from their time and from there, their dreams and
their Ambitions. And if that's their attitude,
and they shouldn't be parents. But may I remind you that.
The Bible says that children are a blessing from the Lord and
they're one of God's primary means of transmitting and
preserving the truth from what age under the next.
And one of the things that makes Hannah such a great woman and
ultimately such a great mother. Was the fact that she has a
priority that she did not think that it was anything less than
the very best that life could afford her to be a mother.
You know, there were other women in the Bible who were in a
similar situation is Hannah and they long to be mothers.
They besought the Lord to give them children.
They begged God even for a child and God heard their prayers, and
God gave them children and you know, there's a remarkable thing
when you see all of those. Reyes episodes in the Old
Testament, particularly that when a woman was Barren and
begged, the Lord for a child and the lord gave them that child.
That child was always seemingly. Very remarkable and that child
and one way or another change the world, you think about Sarah
who was some 90 years old and she was Barren.
But the Lord blessed her and she had a son and her son's name
was, of course, Isaac. And Isaac, of course, blessed
the world according to Genesis chapter 20.
As we read the story, Rachel prayed and she said, Lord give
me children or I die. And the Lord heard her prayer
and gave her a son. His name was Joseph, one of the
greatest men who ever live and one of the grace greatest types
of the Lord Jesus Christ, in all of the Old Testament.
Elizabeth later, did not have a child and her husband Zacharias,
and she prayed and God gave her a child.
And his name, was John, the Baptist who became the
Forerunner of Of the Lord Jesus Christ and of whom Jesus said No
Greater had ever been born of woman and here we come to
Hannah's a woman who desperately wants a son and God gives her a
son. Little Samuel, who was the
greatest and most influential man to live in the Old Testament
between Moses and King, David for a fact, children are a
blessing of the Lord and God blesses, those who desire to
have children to raise for him. If you ever thought about what a
difference, what a difference. We would see in our world
tonight. If every child brought into this
world, with a result of prayer. If every child brought into this
world were given back to God In Prayer.
What would the world have been like?
Had there? Been no icing.
Had there been no Joseph had there been no John Hannah's.
A marvelous mother because she wants to be a mother.
She wants to have a child. And sometimes you hear women and
they'll say someone will ask them.
Well what do you do? And they'll say well, I'm a
so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so and
oftentimes that's very impressive.
I know a lot of women that they're so, and so's.
And so, and so, and they're very good at what they do and they've
made their Mark in the business world or in the classroom or
wherever it might be, and they can do that.
And if they can raise a family for the Lord, Jesus Christ,
that's wonderful. But then you turn around to some
woman. Here and you say and what do you
do? And she says, well, I'm just a
housewife or I'm just a mother just a housewife just a mother
Folks, there's no greater calling that you can have in
life as a Christian woman than to raise a child for the Lord
Jesus Christ. And if you can be a so-and-so
and so-and-so and so-and-so and still raise children for the
Lord, Jesus Christ more power to you, but I want to tell you your
number one responsibility in this life and this is not a
demeaning thing to say, it is not a degrading thing to say.
God values you as a woman, God values you as a wife, and as a
mother, one of the most impactful And influential and
Powerful things you can do and all of the world is to raise a
child to know the Lord Jesus Christ head.
I wanted a baby and I want you to not only see Hannah's
priority. I want you to see Hannah's
purpose. She didn't want to just have a
baby in order that she might have the joy of holding a
newborn baby in her arms. She didn't want to just see a
little boy, grow up and wonder what he might grow up to be
loyal. She knew before she ever
conceived this child when she poured, our her heart to God,
she had a plan for this baby. Listen in Just 10 and 11 of 1st
Samuel one, she was in bitterness of Soul, she prayed
unto the Lord and wet sore and she vowed of Hal and said, O,
Lord, of hosts. If thou Wilt indeed look on the
Affliction of thine handmaid and remember me and not forget,
thine handmaid, but will give unto thine handmaid, a man-child
that I will give him unto the Lord, all the days of his life
and there shall no razor come upon his head.
What does that last state in the mean?
There's still no real. Razor come upon his head.
Well, you have to understand something of course, about the
Old Testament and that means that she would give her son to
be a Nazarite, has to do with the Nazarite vow.
Now, the nazarites were very special group of people who were
given over to God in a very special way and Numbers Chapter
6 and verse 5 tells us how these nazirites were to be raised.
Their Moses says all the days of the value of his separation.
There shall no razor come upon his head until the day's be
fulfilled in the which he It's himself unto the Lord.
He shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his
head grow. Here's a very special situation.
It is an exception by Nature. A man's hair is to be short.
A woman's hair is to be long. But in this particular case in
that culture and that dispensation of time this
Nazarite vow, this was marked by the growing of their hair and it
was a sir and that this person had been set apart to the holy
unto God. God and that's what Hannah's in
essence, pray. She is saying God, I want to
have a holy child. I want a child that is separated
unto you. She's asking for a child as a
gift from the Lord, which they are.
And realizing that that child came from the Lord, he purposed
in her prayer that she would turn right around and give that
child back unto the Lord. Do you pray for your children?
Surely, you do we all pray for our children?
Well, when did you start praying for your children after they
were born or whether that's a little too late, Hannah prayed
before Samuel was even conceived, not just that she
might have a baby. She wants to have a baby in
order that she might raise him for God and literally, turn
around and give them over to the service of The Lord.
What do you pray for your children?
You pray for your children to be healthy.
Well, there's nothing wrong with that.
We all desire that our children would grow up to be healthy.
Do you pray for your child's success in life?
There's not necessarily thing wrong with that.
Do you pray for their happiness? Do you pray for opportunities
and education and career? Do you pray?
That they'll find friends and acceptance and there might be
any list of things that you regularly have or continue to
pray for for your children and for your grandchildren.
Children and we've all prayed those prayers to one degree or
another. But is that really your priority
for your child? What is your desire for your
child? Because let me tell you, your
desire is going to be expressed. Consistently in.
What you pray for? What do you really desire for
your children? What is most important?
Do you desire for your children? A good education.
Do you desire for them? A high-paying, lucrative,
career, full of opportunity. Do you pay for them?
A desirable spouse. Certainly nothing wrong with
that. We should hope that our children
grow up certain to make Christians and people that will
help them get to heaven. Do you pray that they'll be
happy and healthy and give you grandchildren one day to enjoy
and so forth. Do you dream?
What do you dream about? When you bring a baby boy or a
baby girl into the world and you hold them and you gaze at them
and you try to imagine the future and wonder what life will
hold and what they will be. You know, there are many people
who would think that it was a great tragedy.
They would think that somehow they went wrong.
Wrong. If their children grow up
without the things that I mentioned, but yet know the
Lord, they would somehow think that they've fallen short.
If their son grew up in simply said, I want to be a gospel
preacher or if their daughter said I simply want to be a
preacher's wife. Oh no.
We want Little Johnny to be a star athlete.
We want Little Susie to be a movie star or a famous musician.
That's the attitude of most people in the world and to one
degree or another. Sadly, that's the attitude of
some people in the church. They think a lot more about the
financial future of their child than they do about the spiritual
future of their children. You know what my desire is for
my children? If my heart deceive me, not
tonight and I believe I can honestly say this my desire for
my children was worded by the Apostle.
John long ago in 3rd John verse 4 when he said I have no Greater
Joy than to know that my children walk in truth and
that's it. I have no Greater Joy than to
know that my children. Walking truth and I'm not nearly
as concerned with them being poor in material things.
As I am to being poor in spiritual things, I have prayed
many prayers throughout their life, that they will grow up to
know. The Lord, that they will always
serve him all the days of their life.
I think that's what a parent should pray for.
I think that's what a parent should promised unto the Lord.
God has given me this child, they are a gift from the Lord.
They are a solemn and sacred responsibility.
And I have an obligation to the Lord to do everything within my
power to take this child and to dedicate them under the service
of the, under the service of the Lord and the service of his
kingdom. It's a sad thing to me when I
see Christian parents, who are obviously more wrapped up and
more worried about whether their kids succeed in the classroom,
or on the ball field. That's the big one today on the
ball field, whether they're rather than what whether they
succeed in the eyes of the Lord. There's a brother down in the
south Not far from where I live. I was holding a meeting and his
home congregation a few years ago, he raised five children.
One afternoon, we were driving through the countryside on our
way to a meal appointment. And we were talking about the
challenges that young parents face in today's world.
We were talking about how difficult it seems to be to
shelter, our children from so many of The Temptations and the
evil influences of the world. And he said, you know, he said,
I had five kids, they really didn't give me much trouble.
He said I was very blessed. My children were always pretty
easy to raise. He said I had one rule in my
house. He said one steadfast Rule and
that was a curfew He said and it was kind of a strict curfew.
I mean, it was an early curfew dude.
Most kids, of course, wouldn't like that but he said I said
that curfew fairly early and my children do the when it came to
that curfew. I meant business and he said, I
couldn't go to sleep until I knew that all of my children had
kept that curfew and were in my house.
He said Friday night whenever the time would come when other
kids were out with, who knows what involved, in whatever he
said. It was a wonderful sound too.
Me to hear the door open and close one, two, three, four,
five times. And to know that all of my
children were safe and sound under my roof, where they ought
to be and he said, I could go to sleep.
And then he said and this was very moving to me.
He said, you know, now what the greatest and sweetest sound to
my ears is on the Lord's Day. At 10:30, in the morning, when I
hear the door closed at the back of the church building for the
last time, and I turn around and I see all five of my children
sitting in the house of God. Now, I will tell you that in
happened by accident, that didn't happen by itself that
happened because there was a Christian father and a Christian
mother who took their responsibility.
Seriously, it happened because there was a Christian father and
a Christian mother who had the priority when they had children.
And Raise their children to raise their children for God.
And as a result, the church was their life and the church is
there life yet today. Does that describe your family?
Does that describe your children?
Rather than praying for your children to be rich, rather than
praying for them to be successful.
Let me give you a prayer to pray for your children and is right
out of the word of God. In fact, you ever struggled with
what to pray for. If you're on praying turns with
God, I don't think you can do any better than to Simply pray.
A Bible prayer and let me read you.
A prayer of the Apostle Paul over and Ephesians chapter 3.
And here, Paul was, praying for Spiritual children.
So to speak is a prairie, offered for the church.
I don't want you to listen to this, and I want you to see if
this isn't a wonderful prayer to pray for your children.
Beginning in verse 14, for this cause I bow my knees under the
father of our Lord, Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in
Heaven and Earth is named that he would Grant you.
According to the riches of his glory.
To be strengthened with might, by his spirit in the inner man,
that Christ May dwell in your hearts by faith, that you being
rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with All
Saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height and
to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge that ye
might be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now, on to him, that is able to do exceeding, abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that
worketh within us, isn't that a wonderful thing to pray for your
children? If they might know the Lord,
they might be strengthened in the things that count and the
things that matter. Had a had a purpose and our
purpose was God, I want a child that will serve you and listen
she wasn't just making a promise to the Lord in order to get a
child. She kept Promise, little
samuelosborne, little Samuel and she tells elkanah the first time
that the sacrifice comes around and there to make the journey to
Shiloh. She says, I'll not go this time.
She was going to attend to her responsibilities in her Duty as
a mother to this new little boy. And she says, when he is weaned
which back in that time probably would have been about three
years old. She said when he is weaned I
will take him to Shiloh. Whoa, and I would imagine in
those three years, she sang to him as she rocked him the songs
of Israel. I would imagine that she told
him about God and maybe told him the stories of Moses and the
children of Israel that she recited to him, perhaps The Ten
Commandments and the law. When that little boy was
probably about three years old, she took him to the Tabernacle.
She took him to Shiloh. And she left him.
She took him to the priest Eli and she committed him onto the
service of the Lord. You talk about faith.
You talk about courage, here's a woman who meant what?
She prayed for and shit. Takes a little little toddler of
a boy and entrusts him in the keeping of the priest there at
the Tabernacle to remain there, and she would see him from year
to year as they would go back to the Tabernacle to offer
sacrifice, and she would even make a sweet little story in the
Bible. Of course, she'd make a little
coat for him, and she would take it to him there at the
Tabernacle, and he would grow up, of course, to be the great
prophet of God. She not only had a priority, she
not only had a purpose, she not only prayed a prayer.
She not only made a promise. She kept her promise and she
influence that child for the Lord.
Jesus Christ. Don't underestimate your Godly
example. Take your children to Shiloh.
Mmm. Immerse them in the things of
God, seek first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness.
Don't underestimate the power of that.
I wasn't raised in the home of a Preacher.
I wasn't raised by parents that you might consider influential
in the kingdom of God, rather inconspicuous.
But I was raised by two parents who believed that.
Three times a week. We went to church I was raised
by two parents who believe that the church is having a gospel
meeting. We go.
I was not immersed in football and baseball and basketball and
that's all. All right.
And it's Place into a point that wasn't our life.
Our life was the church, there was no debate, there was no
deliberation, we didn't have to wonder, will we go Wednesday
night? We didn't have to wonder if
there was a gospel meeting where we go tonight, where we go
tomorrow, night will be attending the meeting this week.
If there was a gospel meeting, we win if there was a meeting
within driving distance of. Our congregation.
If it was at all possible, we went and my life from the time.
I can remember was the church. And one of the most one of the
most Vivid memories that I will always have Of my time at home
and my mother particularly was early in the morning when I
would get up to go to school, my mother had her chair there in
the living room. She had a little side table and
a lamp and every morning you could just count on it, you
would walk in the room and there would be an Open Bible laying
there on the table into that burning lamp.
And a notebook nearly full and she did that every day she would
get up before anybody else. And she would spend an hour
reading and studying the Bible, we didn't have a lot of times in
my home of sitting down and having what you might think of
as a structured time of Bible study and so forth.
But I grew up knowing that the Bible the word of God was an
important and a sacred book I grow up knowing that it knowing
that it's worthy of our time and worthy of reading it and Worthy
is studying it and certainly worthy of obeying it and I'm
reminded Minded of a tender and a sweet passage in the New
Testament. When Paul wrote the young man
Timothy, and second Timothy chapter 1 and verse 5.
And he said, when I called remembrance the unfeigned faith,
that is in thee, which dwelt first in my grandmother, Lois,
and my mother Eunice and I am persuaded that in the also.
Well, Louis grows into a woman, she gets married and she has a
little baby girl. She names her Eunice, she holds
her and she rocks her. You probably sang lullabies to
her and I'd like to think that she whispered in his ear or
whispered in her ear rather in those formative years God loves
you. The she sang to him the songs of
God's people. And years later, Lois, she would
grow into a woman and she would fall in love, and she would get
married, and she would have a baby, and she would name that
little bouncing baby boy, Timothy, and just as her own
mother had done, she would swaddle him, and she would rock
him. And she would whisper in his
ear. Jesus Loves You Timothy.
And now Paul says the unfeigned faith it is in thee was in your
mother, it was in your grandmother.
A father has a powerful influence on a child, but a
mother makes such a deep deep impression and shapes and molds
that child, Hannah was persistent.
She persuaded that little boy, Samuel, she dedicated him unto
the Lord. And listen, she changed the
course of history. There's nothing greater than to
raise a baby for Jesus Christ. And for his kingdom, I want to
close tonight with two true stories.
Nancy Hanks was a woman who arose out of a dark and Troubled
life, she lived a humble. And in many ways, a very
difficult life, but she was a woman of deep faith.
For many years, she was illiterate and it said that she
learned to read by reading the Bible.
She was married, she had a son when he was just a boy Nancy
died at just 9 years of age. That little boy helped his
father, build his mother's Coffin by whittling, the pegs
that held the wooden planks together.
Some 50 years later when he was the president of the United
States Abraham, Lincoln recalled, the prayers.
That he'd heard a mother pray and he said, all I am or ever
hope to be. I owe to my angel mother.
You've probably heard that story.
You certainly heard that quotation.
But there was another young man who lived about 100 years later
and he had a very different story.
This boy also had a mother. She was a mean.
Cruel dominating woman. A selfish woman.
She had no time or love or anyone else but herself she was
married three times. It said that her second husband
divorced her because she abused him.
This little boy, when he was a child never experienced.
Love he never experienced discipline.
He was neglected, he was shoved around, he was overlooked one
time. It said that his mother Then
when he called upon her at work and said, don't you ever bother
me while I'm at work? I don't need you pestering me.
He felt totally rejected. This boy had a high IQ but he
dropped out of high school. He tried the military, join the
Marines, but was given a dishonorable discharge.
He really had no Talent no skills, he was lost in life.
He later ended up in a foreign country.
He married a woman from that country.
The marriage began to fail and she left him.
He hit the bobbin. He felt he was a failure.
He begged her to come back. She eventually did come back and
they moved back to the United States.
The only appreciable skill that this young man had was handling,
a rifle. He learned that during his time
in the Marines and on November 22nd of 1963, he took his rifle
up into the upper story of a book storage building in
Downtown Dallas, Texas. And he fired three shots.
That changed the world that changed the world.
Any historian will tell you that, that was the moment that
America changed forever. And in many ways, the world
changed at that moment in time. Ever wondered how different the
world might be had Lee Harvey Oswald had a mother who actually
loved him. If he had a mother who took him
to church, had he had a mother that read the Bible to him, who
prayed to him, who sang to him? Jesus loves me this.
I know for the Bible tells me, so how different the world would
be you as a mother. You as a parent tonight, have
the power to change the world. You certainly have the power to
change the course and ensure the future of the kingdom of God
upon this Earth. And I hope you take that promise
to the Lord very seriously. We thank you for listening to
our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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