holy, but you invite us to call you Father, and in your Son Jesus we are known and we are loved, and through all of our failures and through every difficulty, as you are for us and he draws deeper into who you are, so we pray that your spirit would move freely and your word would grow deeper and deeper roots and we would just know Christ together in this time, God, what a waste if we’ve done anything besides that, we just say we love you and we want to be surrendered to your spirit, we just say that in Jesus’ name, Amen.

Well, good evening, thank you kiddos for singing for us, with us, it’s Family Worship Sunday, so good to have everyone in here, thank you Zemira for sharing who Jesus is to you, that’s so, so encouraging, so thank you so much. We’re going to be in Revelation chapter 2, verses 8 through 11.

Revelation chapter 2, verses 8 through 11, if you want to turn there with me in your Bibles, and Jesus continues to give his letters to these churches, it says, and to the angel of the church in Smyrna write, the words of the first and the last, who died and came to life, I know your tribulation and your poverty, but you are rich, and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan, do not fear what you’re about to suffer, behold the devil’s about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches, and the one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death. There’s a popular children’s poem, and it’s since been turned into a little short children’s movie. But it’s called, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, if you’ve heard this one or not. But it’s these children going on a bear hunt, and they come to these different obstacles along the way. The first one is, oh no, grass, long wavy grass, we can’t go over it, we can’t go under it, we’ve got to go through it. And they come to a river of deep cold water, we can’t go over it, we can’t go under it, oh no. We’ve got to go through it. And they come to mud, oozy, thick mud. Can’t go over it, can’t go under it. Got to go through it. And they come to a forest, a big dark forest. Can’t go over it, can’t go under it, got to go through it. And then they come last to a snowstorm, and then finally to the cave. Can’t go over it, can’t go under it, got to go through it. And I think that that children’s poem, or maybe just talking about…