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Everyone.

All right.

Make sure this is going to work.

It is.

Would you like to see my wife and my son?

Okay, where are they at by? Letting you want to come up here real quick.

So people can stare at your beauty.

Landon come on up here.

Alright.

So this is my first wife.

And my oldest son.

They say behind every good man is a surprise woman.

And so this is my surprise woman.

This is Violetta.

Everybody.

Say hi, Violetta.

And this is my son, Landon everybody.

Say.

Hi, Landon.

And Landon is seriously contemplating coming to Southern.

So

All right.

He just got back from Australia, like 4 days ago, where he's been living for the last eight years going to University there.

But Australia is a long way away and right now in the midst of the covid, pandemic, they're locking it down.

Like it's some kind of a prison Colony surprise, surprise Joseph, you know about this?

You're a escaped prisoner yourself.

So anyway, this is what they look like.

Thanks guys for coming up.

Preciate you All right.

Now this microphone sounds Extremely Loud to me.

Does it sound that way to you or kind of weird?

Is it fixable for those who are operating sound?

If you can make that make me sound really great.

There we go.

Excellent.

All right, so I wanted to introduce my family.

Oh, I wanted to say that last night.

I said that I am going to be speaking 5 times, but I was reminded that I'm actually going to be speaking six times because apparently on Thursday morning at 11, you have something called convocation.

Is that, right?

So one of the presentations around the Gap will be at Thursday morning 11.

I think it's online.

So we won't be meeting in person.

But if you want to continue to keep up with the ideas and the themes that will be exploring, you'll want to be there for that Thursday morning meeting as well.

Just before we get into the presentation.

I just want to say and this will save you a really nicely and what I'm going to talk about tonight.

I woke up this morning and had so much thankfulness in my heart.

I don't know if you know what I'm talking about.

We can always live in a kind of place of thankfulness in an attitude of gratitude and sometimes said but but there are those mornings those those days where you're just overwhelmed, almost to the point of Tears with thankfulness.

You're just like, wow.

So much goodness, so much joy, so much happiness, and I had one of those days today and it started off like this and in this might be a little hard for some of you to really appreciate.

Because most of you, the vast majority who don't, yet have children.

None of you.

I imagine that southern students have teenage children.

But what happened this morning was, I woke up and I was Denny's off.

Thanks buddy.

I was a little.

I was awake before by 11 to wait before Landon and we're staying in the same room and I didn't want to wake them up.

Well, actually, I didn't want to wake them up but I resisted the Temptation and I just would have laid there quietly and was praying in my mind.

And then eventually, I couldn't take it anymore.

So I started like nudging Violetta and whispering to her and I said him and wake up Landon.

No, don't go wake up land and let him sleep.

So then finally everybody was up and I was like, all right.

Now everybody's awake.

Turn the light on and Landon had this idea.

I don't have a picture ID, Atlanta to mine, but we said, hey, let's do our devotions together.

And so we all just kind of early this morning crawled onto the bed and we read this incredible passage.

I said to Violetta and Landon I said, there's this section in Colossians 3, and I just love so much and I've been doing a lot of reading of it and meditating on it.

And I said, I want to Commit This to Memory.

I just I want to memorize this, it's really good, especially in the new international version.

We took our devotion on that this morning and we had this great conversation about gratitude and about thankfulness and Landon, or you just met a moment ago.

My oldest son, 20 year.

Old son was saying, dad, just before I came here from Australia, Luke and I Luke is his best friend in Australia, Luke.

And I, we sat down and we made a list of our top 10 favorite songs, and I looked at his list of his top 10 songs in my list of my top 10 favorite songs, we compared list.

And it is I was sitting there with with my wife that I've been married to for 22 years.

And I absolutely love and my 20 year old son, who I was away from since last November and were talking about Jesus.

And we're just basking in the goodness of God, talking about Psalms and gratitude and thankfulness.

My heart was flooded with gratitude and praise and thanksgiving to God for the life that I have.

I said to Violetta, and I don't want this to sound, you know, macabre.

Or or anything like that, but I just said I have lived such a great life, already.

49 years young.

I have so much to be thankful for that.

If something were to happen to me and I would have had nothing but thankfulness in my heart to God.

I just don't feel entitled to any more blessings.

Like God has poured out.

His Spirit upon me.

God has done something in my life that I could have never imagined or dreamed or help for.

That's what I want to talk about tonight.

Over the course, of our Series.

In entitled The Gap, we're going to be looking at a lot of sort of issues in, and around, identity, and authenticity, we started last night.

In fact, let me see if I've got this here.

Here it is.

So tonight, we're going to talk about a God, that can be loved our presentation last night was titled.

Who am I in?

If you guys could leave that up there for most of the night, that would be great.

Just A Brief Review.

Actually, we'll have prayer, and then A Brief Review.

Father in Heaven, be with us tonight.

Made this presentation, met this sermon made this message, be tailor-made to appeal and to apply to every person in your father.

That is not anything that can be done by natural or radiation or natural elocution.

Father, your spirits going to have to come and do that to take a single message and Taylor make it fashion it so that it will be perfectly applicable and appealing to every person.