Well, it's good to be back together again this morning, and I'm excited to be with you again here, able to, able to preach and open up God's word with you guys. a few weeks ago, we were able to look at Philippians 4 together and I'm really eager about this morning, looking at, at the passage we're gonna be looking at, if you want, if you have your Bible with you, you can open up to Isaiah 52. We're gonna look at the end of Isaiah 52. And before we, before we get started, why don't, why don't I go ahead and pray for us, and then, and then we'll get going.
God, we are thankful for the morning and we come to you, we gather together on a Sunday morning, come to church. God, because we want to worship you, we want to encourage each other and, and help each other become more like you, and we want to hear from your word, God. We wanna hear what you have to tell us this morning. And God, as we come to this particular passage, I just, I just, am, am, am very much affected by this, this passage of scripture, God, and, and I feel helpless to really communicate everything that's here and, and to accurately, communicate your words out of this passage and, and God, What we have to rely on is your spirit working in our hearts as we read this scripture and so that's what I'm asking for this morning, God.
Please open up all of our hearts and all of our minds to hear what you have to say to us. Impress that on our hearts, God, and give us a clear picture of the Messiah through This passage, help us to stand back and look and wonder at what you have done and your love for us. So, God, we depend on you. You're the only one that can do that work and we ask you to do it this morning confident that you want to do that work in our hearts.
And so we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, graduation is upon us. Many of you have recently graduated or you might be about to graduate in the next month or so....
