Good morning. before we actually jump into the meat of the message, just a brief announcement. last week we were unable to bring your attention to this, so, Milton asked me to do it here today. Um-hum.
about 8 days ago on a Friday evening, we had a number of young people participate in the Ina quiz. And it was my first opportunity to participate in that in the sense that as a dad, I spent quite a bit of time with my son Andrew, making sure that he had his verses nailed, some 30 plus verses that he had to have memorized verbatim absolutely perfectly. In whatever version of the Bible it was, it was pretty unbelievable. And then to be at the event and to observe these kids, during the speed round of the competition, buzz in and then come up to the microphone and quote these verses perfectly, that was a pretty amazing experience.
I would commend the Awana program to anyone, to your parents. get your kids signed up with Ina because, it's a wonderful way to get them into the word of God to memorize the scriptures and if we believe in the power of God's word, if we believe it is living and active and sharper than a two-edged sword, that the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul and we believe that God will use it to bring about godliness in the life of a person, then what better thing to do than to get our kids to have God's word memorized and I was just really impressed with my son Andrew, who's 10 years old, he's just Way ahead, way ahead, light years ahead of where I was when I was 10 years old, and just what a blessing to know we had a number of young people participate in this competition. of course, my son Andrew participated. He was on the team with Ruth Frash, Jake Riding participated.
Noah Ley and Noah Fresh, along with Brianna and Vincent and Hannah Boone, they all participated. Don't want to forget Joshua Berry, he participated in that. He helped, in, in the practice. and in the rehearsals and practice quizzes and stuff, so he was a real blessing too, seeking to get our, our kids prepared for this crazy competition., you got these kids coming up before like 3 or 400 plus adult people quoting God's word, just an awesome event....
