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Our text today is often used as the benediction at the end of the service. It is taken from Numbers 6:22-27.
I want to show both the meaning to this blessing as well as examples of how God throughout time has enacted this blessing on His people.
Some fun with origins to start the message.
“God Bless You” - AD 590 Pope Gregory I commanded unending prayer and to say God bless you after a person sneezed, since sneezing was one of the first signs of the plague
“Good Bye” - from 1565, the original phrase was “God be with ye” became contracted
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