Lord, we thank you so much for this morning that we get to be with your people on the Lord's day. We acknowledge that your word tells us that where 2 or 3 are gathered in your name, there you are in the midst of them. Doesn't mean that you're not omnipresent or you're not with us when we're by ourselves, but there must be some way in which you choose to make yourself especially known when we're gathered together with your people. And we acknowledge, Lord, that we are the New Testament temple and you choose to.
fill us, particularly when we're gathered together. And so we just acknowledge your presence this morning. We ask you to bless those that are teaching our children and bless our time together as we just consider this second temple period and all that, you were doing in your sovereignty and And also that your spirit would just apply it to us today, help us to see how this text speaks today. In Christ's name we pray.
Amen. All right. So, we are in the middle of a quarter called God Protects and restores. This is gonna take us really the end of the Old Testament.
So, believe it or not, so if you, those of you guys who have been with us since the beginning, we started way back in Genesis, we've been moving through, not verse by verse, but basically book by book, historically. And then, once this quarter's over, we'll be jumping into, the New Testament. This morning's lesson is called restoring worship. So we're gonna be talking about the post-exhiic period....
