and you're receiving this message because you
opted in to be encouraged. Hey, this is Pastor
Dan, and it's my birthday today. I'm 55 years
old today, and I know you may look at me and
say I look much older or much younger, but I'm
55 today, and soon I'll be 30 years saved, born
again. That's awesome to me, and I'm so grateful.
So, I'm picking a verse that I want to pick today,
and I think the Lord led me to choose it. It's
1 John 1, 3, and it says, We proclaim what we
have seen and heard, that you may have fellowship
with us, and our fellowship is with God the Father
and through his Son, Jesus Christ. And so the
bottom line is this. We just tell people, we
just show people what we know. You don't have
to go to Bible college to be able to tell people
what you know. You don't have to go learn a whole
bunch of new stuff before you can tell people
what you've seen and heard. You just proclaim,
just tell people what you've seen and heard.
And knowing what you've seen and heard, they
might come into fellowship with you. And the
goal is that you would have relationships with
people and that their relationships would also
be with your Father, that is God in heaven, and
his Son, Jesus Christ. And that's how we come
into relationship with God. In fact, Jesus is
the only way to come into relationship with God.
And he chooses to use his church, of which he
is the head, to whom he has given the keys, that
we might overcome the gates of hell. And I am
sure grateful. But all I have to do to do that
is to proclaim what I have seen and heard. And
so I try to do that, and I'm sure I fail on many
occasions, and maybe we will. But the bottom
line is, you can, I can, proclaim what we have
seen and heard so that others can have fellowship
with us. And of course, we know our fellowship
is with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
God bless you today on my birthday.