Because The Did Not Repent | Matthew 11:20-24

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All right, as they are going back to their seats, I'm excited to be back with you guys.

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Whoo! Hoorah!

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Oh, yeah, hmm, hey, hey. That's a good word.

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Glory!

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Glory! All right, I think I got all of our sermons from the last two months in like 30 seconds. So it was really good to be back with you guys. Ohio was wonderful, but Ohio is not Florida. And so, you know, we did get to will the Bengals into an amazing win against the Ravens. So, you know, there is hope. In December, it is a month of CAM-like stats, if you didn't notice the last two weeks. In December, anxiety and depression and these things grow with us in that time because of the darkness. There's not as much vitamin D, there's not as much sunlight, all that kind of stuff. And so, there is hope in December, whether you light the Hanukkah menorah or you celebrate Christmas. We can all agree on one thing, the Bengals still have a playoff chance. You're welcome. Praise God. God is working in our favor too, even on the college side of things. Looks like Oklahoma is potentially gonna get Alabama. That's really bad for Alabama since Oklahoma has already beat them. I was a little worried about the Notre Dame thing. The Catholics still have their traditions. And so boomers, sooners, cheats, and thieves, I don't know, going up against the Catholics. But we're going to Alabama, or Alabama's coming here. And so everything is good. We should be singing joy to the world, right? Okay, all right. Couple of housekeeping announcements. Hanukkah parties are coming up. For those of you who watched the announcements, but don't let anything that Emma says permeate your brain. Hanukkah parties are coming up. They are going to be at the Wallace's household, at the Castellanos' household, at my wife and my household, and then at the Day's household. So they're kind of spread out a little bit all over South Oklahoma City, all the way down to New Castle in that area. And so if you aren't in Church Center, please get in Church Center and understand what's happening to RSVP. It helps us understand how many people to have, especially at our party. There's normally like 100 and something people that RSVP. If you've been in my house, I don't have a large house. And so I'm normally like super stressed out right before the party. And thank God that only like 75 to 85 people show up because that is somewhat manageable. But we do need to have some sort of an idea, especially since our congregation is no longer 30 people anymore. You know, we're not living in, you know, the fresh Prince of Bel Air house in any of our places. So Hanukkah parties are coming up. Second, on November 15th, I hated to send Brent out to do this, but Brent has always been very kind to do this. Brent gave you guys an update on the house of his presence fund. In the history of this church, it come in the first Saturday of February, we will mark 11 years as a church. Pretty crazy to think, I know I'm barely old enough to be a pastor of a church for 11 years. Thank you very much. But 11 years, this church will have been in existence, and we've never owned a place. We've never had a place that was our own. This church has predominantly survived off of meeting in Paneras and then in a church on Saturday morning. And while Pastor Glenn and Sean and Curtis and all the amazing people at Westmore have been absolutely amazing to us the last two years, our time at Westmore in this facility is done in the end of January. And so while we continue to contact churches and knock on doors of event centers and stuff like that to find our short term meeting place, we started looking at commercial real estate. Any of you have looked at commercial real estate anywhere in Oklahoma City, South Oklahoma City more, even North Norman, that's just not feasible. We're gonna have to start passing the plates a lot more, and we're gonna have to start locking the doors if we want to start renting our own place on a triple net lease, somewhere to the tune of eight to $10,000 a month. We currently spend $3,000 a month on rent in this place. Now what are the benefits of a commercial lease or a commercial purchase? It is for the first time in 11 years, we don't have to worry about cars driving through the meeting center at Panera. We can actually meet in our own facility. We can have men's meetings, we can have prayer meetings, we can have celebrate recovery meetings, we can have all of these types of things, ladies meetings, we can do cooking days, we can do knitting days, all the things that I have no passion in, we can do those in that building together.