right, one stone on the top. All of us connected together building a [laughter] a a dwelling place for the Lord. And the cornerstone is precious. And it says here in verse six, for this is contained in scripture, behold, I lay

[Music] when i see the examples of those in scripture and those that i've known over the years who've are not who are not walking with the lord

conversation. And it's not written here in scripture, but I can put my imagination to use and say, "Lord, what would that have looked like?" And James is asking, "What? What's going on? Why are you crying, Mom? Why are you taking your bags and

and you can read with me galatians 3 8 the scripture foreseeing that god would justify that god would justify the nations by faith preached the gospel beforehand to abraham saying all the nations will be blessed

is there thirst y if anyone is thirsty let him come to me and drink he who believes in me as the scripture said from his innermost

you are the man and for us too as well as we read through scriptures as God's word comes to us prophetically we need to hear that words you are the man we are the man because we could hear it over and over

our midst I'll be a wall of fire around you and the glory in the midst but I want to see this tell you the thing that I see in the scriptures the sad story of what

far from each one of us is God distant from you or is he close and throughout the scriptures we see that there's many places where there's a picture of some spiritual reality how do I see the death of Christ on the

progress of his gospel. And that was an encouragement I got through the scriptures for me and I want to share it with you so that when you're going through circumstances in your life, you can also

whom God was pleased God has given us in the scripture one person. He says my my life is an example of how God could use a person who the devil had put havoc in my life and destroyed my life.

priest. He says, "Search the scriptures. Is a prophet going to come out of Galilee?" He says that to Nicodemus. He knew the scriptures. Search it. You tell me. He could argue and all of that. But the words of salvation that was coming out

the They answered him, they answered Nicodemus, "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee." The Pharisees knew the scriptures so well. Today, when we need to look up a verse,

and the giants are going to overtake us." Some sort of evil is going to befall us. Disaster is going to befall us. There's a promise in the scripture. It says in Psalm 91, turn with me to Psalm 91 verse 10. Psalm 91 verse 10, it says, "No evil

were living such wonderful Godly lives and you've seen it we read it in the scriptures as well Godly men but years later something goes wrong they get offended at something correction or anything but sometimes it can be traced

And so as I was thinking about these things, I was thinking about something that Jesus said in John chapter 3. If you turn turn with me to John chapter 3, John uh Jesus was talking to a man named Nicodemus. And Nicodemus knew the scriptures. He

the people of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was going to be born. And now all these chief priests and scribes, what are they doing? They're going through the scriptures and they're knowing And verse 5, they said to him, "In

sorry. You may misunderstand me, but I've not heard from the Lord yet. We can't go." Sometimes scriptures doesn't record what has happened, but on that day when we meet the meet Noah, we'll ask him, "Noah, how was that last two and a half

scriptures he was a teacher in jerusalem and so he probably had memorized most of the scriptures he knew the scriptures he could teach the scriptures but yet after knowing all the scriptures jesus says you must be

Spirit." I've never seen that anywhere else in scripture where when one person gave a greeting to another, they were filled with God's Holy Spirit. And I see that with Mary's life. There was something about Mary's life that

did he do he sent them to the priests why did he do that why do you think he sent them to the priests I think you did that so that they would go and look through the Scriptures and say you know

scriptures turn with me to isaiah 53 isaiah 53. isaiah 53 verse 2

it says verse 4 for whatever was written in earlier times was for our instruction Romans 15:4 4 so that through perseverance and the encouragement of scriptures we might have we might have

God there's tomorrow and there's people like that in scripture we read Paul went to a Athens if you come turn with me to Acts chapter 17 Acts chapter 17 he went to Athens and was telling

instances that we have in Scripture maybe he did but at least in these two instances he just made it at the shore then gets back on the ship and leaves but this man who published into capitalists it says here in verse 20