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Scriptures, this Lord's Day, come from the song.

and from a letter of the Apostle, Paul Psalm 119 the first few verses there,

Oh, this is free.

Not part of the sermon.

Psalm 119 is a bit of Hebrew, poetry.

It's called an acrostic, and so it's really long, if you look it up in your Bible, is like the pages is like, you know, it's a song for the reason is so long.

As the writer in the Hebrew writing made an acrostic poem out of his prayer.

And what it is, is every letter of the Hebrew, alphabet from the beginning to the end, begins the verse.

So like an eye in our language and be like a all people love to read God's word.

Be the person who reads the Bible in the sea Comfort Comfort, is what I get.

When I read the Bible, you get the idea.

So each verse, extols the value and of God's word.

What does that mean?

Well, it means It means that the writer is saying everything, humanly possible that could ever be written in the language, is extolling this word of God.

There is no breath, no word, nothing that we can do other than give, everything that we have of our breath of our being to honor and enjoy this word soap.

Happy are those whose way is blameless, whose walk in the law of the Lord.

Happy are those who keep his decrees, who seek him with their whole Hearts.

To also do no wrong, but walk in his ways, you have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.

Oh, that my ways may be steadfast and keeping your statutes.

Then I shall not be put to shame having my eyes fixed on all your commandment.

I will praise you with an upright heart.

When I learn your righteousness, ordinances

and from Paul second letter to Timothy, this is a seasoned Pastor, giving counsel to a young person who is moving on in their service, polish writing to Timothy first, 14 of chapter 3, 2nd, Timothy But as for you continue and what you have learned and firmly believe knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have known at the sacred writing that are able to instruct you for salvation with in Christ.

All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.

So that everyone who belongs to God, may be proficient and equipped for every good work.

This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God, let us pray.

May the words of my mouth meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight.

This day.

Oh Lord our Rock and Redeemer.

Well, this is, this is part two of a three-part Series.

So, let me let me remind us where we were last week.

We're talking about marks of a minister now.

Obviously these remarks that anyone should be concerned about him and applying to their lives with their, especially important for a leader of a congregation or Mission agency or nonprofit Christian organization.

You have to have these marks, the three of them, I believe there's prayer.

We talked about last week.

We talked about the Primacy of prayer and how important it is for the congregation been organizations to let their leaders be in prayer and then nothing about the study of scripture and how that defines the lines.

It would say that image of the equilateral triangle in the visible.

Things we see preaching, we see teaching, we see Administration, you don't know whether I'm praying or not, you don't know whether I'm meditating on the scripture or not, but those are the key to make.

Triangle Balor.

You can just have lines without the angle.

I had a slide last week I think it's Elizabeth's got it for now.

You can just do lunch.

You don't have to have prayer and study of scripture.

You don't have to have any that you can just preach.

I can get it all on the internet and preach a sermon say this.

And I mean, it tells you exactly what to say.

You got it little other things to do the visible.

Things that most of us are satisfied with.

I bet you in six months, I could take any high school graduate and put them in any church in the United States.

And they would do a satisfactory if not a very good job, as evaluators by most people sitting in the pew.

That's sad.

And that's where we need to change the mold.

And that's what the sermon series is about prayer.

Last week, I encouraged us to think deeply about prayer, The Minister's prayer life, praying for you, as a congregation, praying for this ministry praying that God will show that person away to lead this church and any Ministry.

I'm at scripture, scripture, the importance and vitality of scripture.

I talked about and I talk about myself a lot.

I'm not just the egotistical person but maybe I am, I don't know.

You tell me if I and my family in Africa, in Africa.

You often often Came Upon the darndest thing walking in the bush.

Of course, they were incredible challenges but a lot of Joys and God's natural beauty.

What are the things that we felt like was very important, was the distribution of scripture and we did a lot of that we would collect funds, and we would buy Bibles and children's Bibles, and scripture portions in English and Swahili, and Massa language.

And we would take them to the Villages where we were working would work with the local pastors to, to see what a proper charge would be.

We wouldn't just give him out.

we don't understand this in our culture but they are so poor if you give somebody a new book They're just going to go to the market and sell it so they can buy food.

So we work with the local pastors, if they show, how much can they pay for a book that would make it valuable to them?

Okay, a dollar and what whatever it was just a number that they worked out so we were able to distribute lots and lots of scripture.

Flashback 1987.

Wrestling, our motoring across the rift valley, and going out, working at a new pioneering spot in the Owasso, kadang area of the, the dry scrub out there, and we've come across these little boys watching their animals.

And they love come by.

The car, is it went by and we always had either an apple or orange, or, or some, some sweet treat or something like that.

And they would come over and we talked and got to know I'm a little bit one day, we were going out to a village olimpico out in and he waso.

And we saw this little boy and we gave him a portion of the Gospel in the Gospel of John and his language.

Now, that's cool.

Boy, never been to school and of course he couldn't read but we gave it to me anyway.

They took it and we kept doing that over.

So over the years now, fast-forward, 20 years.

That's why our teaching an evangelist seminar 7585 men and women come together from the Presbyterian Church of East Africa.

I'm doing a training at teaching on things that they'll tell you they don't ever teaching seminary things that are like, like spiritual warfare that we kind of cringe when that demon possessions witchcraft, we don't get that in Princeton And we had that we had to find our way through all that.

So we're teaching this course.

And one of the things that I did was meet with each of those men and women to pray with them and hear about their Ministry.

Take note, so I can be in prayer for them.

One, young man came up and he said, hello Toyota.

This my name?

I'm Amos Amos.

You don't remember me.

I said, I'm sorry.

I don't I don't I'm sorry.

Who are you?

He said 20 years ago, You in Nigerian specially drove by Maharaj many.

Many times.

You gave a book.

And we read it in our village out loud at night around the fire.

Our village Walks With Jesus now.

And this man, he is.

He's a very, very powerful evangelist free people.

Now, I'll tell that we didn't do anything, this is that word, the word that is heard and not only the word that is heard, but the word that goes down.

Deep inside a person, that that changes them and makes them.

Somebody else makes them more attentive to God.

The scriptures are that for us, the scriptures are the Living Word of God? Isaiah 40 says, the word of God is forever.