so here the great Apostle Paul writes to us out of 2 Corinthians 13-10 blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ This is this is why just just pray this is why we need the church this is why we need the word this is why we need help and Ministry this is why we have [Applause] security brother don’t know you in Texas Man Don’t Mess with Texas blessed be the god and father of our Lord Jesus Christ watch this closely I want you to watch this closely sometimes when we hear a
greeting we hear it in a monotone fashion as if there were no Revelation in the hello or the greeting or the salutation but this salutation is loaded with the with the perspective of a great man and how he describes God blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of mercies I don’t believe that I have ever heard him referred to as the father of mercies the progenitor of Mercy the manufacturer of Mercy Paul says he is not just the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ he is the father of mercies and the God of all all
all all comfort if there be any comfort it is of him if you can find a soft place in the hard bed of life that soft place is him if you can find something to ease your scorching brow that drop of water has come from him if you have found something that cleared the indigestion and the antagonism and the controversy and adversities that come from the high expense of being you that soft thought that giggle that laugh that that long ride you took in the car listening at soft music to calm your nerves and ease your troubled mind you
did not know that God was sitting in the passenger seat riding beside you because he is the god yes he is is the god he is the God of All Comfort who comforts Us in all our Affliction he Comforts Us in all our Affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any Affliction oh so my Affliction has the purpose of making the student the teacher so sometimes I am attacked so that I can teach on a higher level oh y’all don’t hear what I’m saying to you yeah who comforts Us in all our Affliction so that we may be
able to comfort those who are in any Affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God so both the comforter giver and the comforter receiver have much in common because both of them have been in in each other’s place I am able to comfort you because I have been comforted and if I fail at comforting you please forgive me I cannot give you what I have not received sometimes we are angry at people for not making withdrawals where they never had deposits if you have never been comforted then you don’t know how to
