Amen. Okay, I know you think I'm a harsh old preacher and you're absolutely right. Do I feel bad about it? Absolutely not. I do not. Okay. I've been planning on bringing a message on the Israel with times of the Gentiles and the sides of the times actually there are some things that indicate the signs of the times, but also, I got to tell you, Wednesday night one of the guys brought something up and I had no idea where it wasn't a Bible. Didn't even remember reading it. I couldn't even discuss it because I had no idea what it was all about and I guess those things happened. That's the reason most preachers won't allow anybody to speak during a message or something because when somebody does bring something up, as they might not know how to answer it. Well, don't be afraid to do that around me because if I don't have an answer, I really don't bother me. I'm not that puffed up in that vein. So if you have a question that I can't answer, don't worry about it, I'm not going to get all been out of shape over these things happening. Nobody knows everything. Anyhow, when I went home, Mary called me up and said, I don't know where that is, Pastor. And I said, good, tell me, because I still haven't found it. I was looking for it. But anyway, it was in Judges chapter 11 and 12, but we're not going to talk about that this morning. What we are going to do is we're going to lay the foundation for some things in Joshua, also Judges, and the rest of the Bible. But we're also going to get on the times of the Gentiles, the nation of Israel, and the signs of the times. So take your bottles, if you will, this morning. I really don't know where I want to begin, but turn over to Luke chapter 1, if you will. We're just going to look at a couple of verses here. Luke chapter 1, verse 21. Luke chapter 21, verse 24, if you will. Luke chapter 21, verse 24. And we're almost chapter 11, verse 25, and we're going to kind of hurry through this this morning, so you probably won't get too much out. look good. We got a lot of ground to cover. In Luke 21 verse 24, Christ said, and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations. Who's he talking about? Israel. They shall be fall by the sword by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be troddened down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. This is literally taking place. It has been taken place in 70 AD by the Romans. It's still being fulfilled today and it'll be complete. The word fulfilled means complete. Now, the times of the Gentiles being complete turn of the world of Romans chapter 11, if you will. Chapter 11, verse 25. Paul the Apostle said, verse 25, or I would not brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits. That blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. Now, I'd like to explain something to you here by May. Some people think that the times of the Gentiles and the fullness of the Gentiles will two different things. I don't think so. And I won't tell you why. The fullness of the Gentiles, if you remember, till the times of Gentiles be fulfilled, we just read in Luke chapter 21, and the word fulfilled means literally complete. And then the word fullness in this verse here means complete. So the times of the Gentiles and the fullness of the Gentiles, in my opinion, are the same thing, and the times of the Gentiles will be complete at the end of the seven-year tribulation when Jesus Christ comes and sets up the kingdom to the nation of Israel. And so we are living in what is called the times of the Gentiles, which means simply this. Israel is set aside. They have been for a long time. The times of the Gentiles begin when Israel was taken captive into Babylon. Since that time, we've been living in the times of the Gentiles, which means God is allowing the Gentile nations to rule the earth is basically simply what it means and they will rule the earth until Jesus Christ comes and sets up his kingdom. That means God is not in control, absolutely not. God is just sitting back, allowing the Gentiles to run rampant, to run the earth, run the world. And if you look around the world today, it should be easy to see the times of the Gentiles being fulfilled, being complete. And I'm going to give you some indications of concerning that here, if you will, turn over to Leviticus chapter 18, if you will. Leviticus chapter 18. And I want to do this, give you an indication of what the times of the Gentiles is all about. If you watch the news media, you ought to be able to see the times of the Gentiles being complete, being fulfilled today. In the Bidicus chapter 18, God says to the nation of Israel, in verse 1, the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God. Verse 3, After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein you dwell, shall you not do. And after the doings of the land of Canaan, to which I bring you, shall ye not do, neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. You shall do my judgments, ordinances, and keep my ordinances, statutes, to walk therein. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. I am the Lord. What does he mean by that? Well, if you do it, you'll live in it. If you don't do it, you'll probably die. I see a lot of Christians die prematurely because they don't live the Lord's judgments, his ordinances. Then he goes on to tell them what they should and should not do. You shall keep my judges. None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him to uncover their nakedness. The naked says, Lord, your Father, verse 7. The naked sublime Father's wife, verse 8. The naked sublime sister, verse 9. The naked sublime son's daughter, verse 10. The naked sublime father's wife, verse 11. Daushanada and cover the naked sublime father's sister, verse 12. Daushanada and cover the naked sublime mother's sister, verse 13, et cetera, et cetera. Goes on down. All the things that you should not do. Verse 20, moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife to defile thyself with her. Do you see that taking place today? You better believe it. Verse 21, and thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech. Neither thou shalt thou profane the name of thy God, I am the Lord. We don't want to get into all that, but they were actually literally the people that They were, God was replacing in command and all the abominations of Gentile, the Heathen nations, and they offered their children, their little babies, their little infants as an offering on an altar, killed them. So when you see it take place in the movies, it's no big deal. It's been happening for hundreds and thousands of years. shall not like, listen to this verse 22, thou shalt not lie with mankind as with woman kind, it is an abomination. In other words, God said, if you're a man, you don't live with a man, you don't love a man, you don't marry a man, you don't have a relationship with a man, it's an abomination. And if you're a woman, you don't live with another woman like Rosie O'Donnell, and I hope Donald Trump sticks it to her. He says she's ugly on the outside and the inside. I think he's absolutely right. Doesn't make Donald Trump the nicest guy in the world either, but I'll tell you what, I'll take him over Rosie any day. A man does not lie with a man. I can't imagine anybody doing that. It's beyond me. I can't fathom it. It makes me sick to think about it. hates it and I'm not crazy about it myself. And if someone who is a homosexual come into my church and wanted to be a member, we'd have to go somewhere and have a talk. And if someone who is a homosexual, one of the manufacturers, we did talk to someone about that not too long ago. And I said to him, the best thing you can do is send them to a church where they'll feel comfortable. Because when a homosexual comes into a church, it's Christian. The homosexual doesn't feel comfortable and neither does the rest of the church. and I don't want my church feeling uncomfortable. I would much rather you went somewhere else. I don't have anything to get some, but we'd have to have a talk. And then he goes on down and say, neither shall thou lie with any beast. To defile, I said, that's pretty sick, but you know what it happens all the time? Verse 24, God said to Israel, defile not ye yourselves in any of these things, for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. I'm only playing something to you. So that's a terrible thing. God took the land from the Canaanites and the hitites and all these other sites and he took the land from the given to Israel. So what? They didn't deserve it. You ever read about Sodom and Gamora in Genesis chapter 19? They didn't deserve it. You know what all these things do, they create such things like AIDS. We're supposed to feel sorry for people with AIDS who acquire it from sexual acts. I don't, I don't feel sorry for them. The only ones I feel sorry for are those who get AIDS accidentally, from blood and so forth, that Darnlazi, good for nothing, homosexual, gave so that other people would get blood or would get AIDS, the government would find a cure for it and I hope God deals with him idiots real soon. The homosexual gives blood so that young babies and young children and young people and anybody else will get AIDS so our government will find a cure for it. That's an abomination and all these things are taking place because Israel rejected their God in 1 Samuel chapter 8 and God gave the world over to the Gentiles. Israel is the root of the Prophet. And they go on to say, and the land is defiled, therefore, I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land is self-bombed out her inhabitants. You shall therefore keep my statutes, my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations. either any of your own nation, or any stranger, that sojourn is among you. For verse 27, pay attention to this, if you will. For all these amomination have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled. Let me tell you something, folks. If you don't see a problem in the United States of America, you have a problem. We got people like Barney Frank, a homosexual congressman, making decisions in your government and I'll tell you what, I don't like it and I hope God doesn't like it. I have absolutely no use for Barney Frank. I don't care if he, just because he's a Democrat or a Republican, I don't care what he is. He's a homosexual. You know what he did? He had a young boy in his home, a homosexual, who was selling other homosexuals. called a prostitution, but it was male prostitution in his home, and he was not condemned for it by the rest of the Congress. That is sick, and these are the people that are running your government, and he's not the only one. I'll bet you 30% of our congressmen are homosexuals, and you might not like this, but I honestly think the Hillary Rotten Clinton is a lesbian. Now, I know you won't like that, but I don't care what you like. That's why our husbands keep going. Yeah. I don't blame him. Bill Clinton hired at least six lesbians when he was in office, the whole high political positions. One of them, as a matter of fact, marched with her lady lover, a judge in a parade in San Francisco. Hopefully, it's a great world we live in, isn't it? Well, hey, we live in the time of the Gentiles. God said, I don't like it for all these bombinations. Verse 27, have the men of the land done who were before you and the land has defiled. That the land spew not you out also when you defile it as it spewed out the nations that were before you. For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, this is what God said, for whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit him shall be cut off from among the people. You say, why doesn't God do that today? Because He was talking to Israel. He finally gave Israel over to the times of the Gentiles. And that's why God doesn't spew them out today. I'm sure he would like to, but he doesn't. Therefore, shall you keep my ordinance and that you commit not any of these abominable act customs, which were committed before you and that you defile not yourselves there in. I am the Lord your God. Turn from over here, if you will, to chapter 20, a little bit because chapter 20. Go if you will, verse 13. And I'm going to tell you what God has to say about this. This is not my words, but I feel pretty much the same way. And if a man also lied with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, they shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them. Now, I didn't say that. I just read it, God said it. But I feel the same way. think homosexuality is okay with God thinking again. Sometimes they said, well, God created them that way. No, he didn't. If God created them, then God is a liar and hypocrite. God is not a liar and he's not a hypocrite and he did not create them. Well, but he was that way from his birth. No, he wasn't. No, she wasn't. You have a poor little rosy, she can't help me unless she is. The heck she can't, I don't like rosy. I'll tell you the truth. And I don't have to, by the way. Well, the preacher you're supposed to love. I don't love rosy. I don't know. Who will the Joshua? I'm going to ask you a question. Joshua chapter I'm going to ask you a question this morning. Now we're going to go through parts of Joshua and parts of Joshua and we're going to touch on some of these things with a good idea to make some notes in the Bible. In Joshua Chapter 6, you have to remember some things here. Now we're going to touch on some things that Jews were on to make, but we won't have time to do that. But in Joshua, the Nation of Israel, and I remember this thing, look up here for just a minute that you will, I'm going to explain some things for you, historically. God took Israel out of Egypt. When He did, and due to round the chapter 1, He put them in the wilderness. You know what the wilderness is? The wilderness is the type of a Christian testing ground. God told Israel it's 11 days journey from the wilderness where you're at to Gidech, 11 days. You know what that is? That's your Christian journey. 11 days, just a short 11 days. I'm sure many of you have had a vacation. Probably lasted for about 11 days and it was over with. It was not very long. So God put you in the wilderness. That's your testing ground. From there it's 11 days to the promised land. You know what the promised land is? That's where every Christian goes when they're serving the Lord Jesus Christ the promised land. It's the land of plumbing. It's the second rest. It's where you go when you're serving God. Israel failed and so they wandered into wilderness for forty years that entire generation died in the wilderness because they would not go into the promised land. You know what they said? We can't go in there. There's all those hit nights and all those And he said, Jerry, God said, I gave it to you, go in and possess it. They said, we can't. And so God said, because you didn't believe me, you didn't trust me, you didn't believe in me, you're going to wander in the wilderness so they died. All you have to do is read Deuteronomy Chapter 1. And so your Christians, every Christian has the same opportunity. You can believe God, serve Him by faith, or you can wander in the wilderness your entire Christian life. You know how many Christians I know that are wandering in the wilderness today? For 40 years their entire life probably, because they will not stop their lousy lifestyle and serve the Lord Jesus Christ. You know how simple it is to do it? we just won't and then there are those who claim to be serving by faith, but their life is all built on works. It's just as bad. Joshua, Chapter 6, they finally went into the Promised Land. You know who went into the Promised Land? All those that did not, all those that were not alive when God told them to win the first time, they all died except for Joshua and Caleb. Joshua and Caleb went into spy-out to Promised Land. They came back and said to Moses, we can go. We can do it. And so they survived the 40 years wandering. Joshua took the place of Moses. So they come to Jericho in Joshua chapter 6. God said, I'm going give you Jericho but the city will be destroyed but God said here's what I want you to do. So go down in verse 17 if you will. God said you're going to go around the city for seven days and then on the seventh day I'm going to give you the city just blow the trumpets and shout with a loud voice and the city is going to fall. But he said, when it does, verse 17 here, Joshua chapter 6, and the city shall be accursed, even it and all that are in it, to the Lord shall be accursed to the Lord. Only Ray have the harlot shall live. She and all who are with her in the house because she hit the messengers that were sent. Now then, I want you to look up here in chapter 7, if you will, verse 1. He said, and God also said, the city shall be a curse, and then he said, don't take anything out of the city, don't take the animals, don't take the gold, don't take the silver, don't take anything because God said, it is a person. It is a curse. Look, if you will, in verse 1, chapter 7. But the children of the visual committed a trespass in the a cursive thing. For a can, the son of Carmine, the son of Zaddai, the son of Zera, of the tribe of Judah, took of the a cursive thing, and the anger of the Lord was candle against the children of Israel. Let me ask you a question. Don't answer this out loud. What is the a a cursed thing. Don't answer me out loud. What is the a cursed thing? Look in verse 11 if you will. Israel has sinned, God said, and they have also transgressed my covenant, which I commanded them, for they have even taken of the a cursed thing. And have also stolen and disassembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff, I like that. Do you have any accursive thing among your stuff? Everybody has stuff, don't they? You kids leave my thing alone. You leave my stuff alone. Get out of my stuff. Everybody has their stuff, don't they? I got stuff out in the barn. I keep the barn locked because it's my stuff. Everything out there is my stuff. You got stuff. You got stuff in the barn. You don't want anybody to touch it. got stuff. Verse 13, up, sanctify the people and say, sanctify yourselves with tomorrow. For thus saith the Lord God of Israel. There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee. O Israel, thou canst not stand before that image until you take away the accursed thing from among you. What is the accursed thing? What is it? Verse 21. Now Joshua went to A. Can and he said, look, you took me a person thing. What did you do with it? In verse 20, and A. Can answered Joshua and says, indeed, I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel and thus and thus have I done. When I saw among the spoils a beautiful or a goodly Babylonish garment and 200 checkles of silver and a wedge of gold and fifty shackles weight, then I coveted them and took them and behold they are hidden in the earth and amidst of my tent and the silver under it. My question is, what is the accursed thing? If you want to answer me, go ahead, but you may be wrong. Now look at what he took. He took a beautiful Babylonian garment. I can imagine looking at this, can't you? It was probably rare or purple or whatever, covered with gold trimmings and silver and it was probably, it probably did look beautiful, probably did. And he took the silver and he took the gold and he coveted it now. What was Bill? Didn't take you away from Christ. Didn't? What were you going to say? I was going to take ten. Ten? Well actually… There were not some ten with a lot of doubt that they were going to land. They told him not to take it, and they took it. Well, David, anything that David has probably… You're all close, but I think David has the closest answer. Anything that came before God is the accursed thing. They took the silver, yes. But here's a secret word. He said in verse 21, coveted them. Anything that you covet above putting God first is an accursed thing." He said, I coveted these things. Now let's go on down here to chapter 8 if you will, and I want you to look at something. After they took Jericho, God said, leave all the stuff there. If there was nothing wrong with the cattle, nothing wrong with the Babylonian garment, there was nothing wrong with the silver, nothing wrong with the gold, nothing wrong with that, but the fact that they took it when God told them not to. That's what they covered in that. And then they hid it in the dirt under the tent. All of them wonder how many Christians have things hidden in the dirt under their bill. That's true. Yeah. Oh, that's good. That's a good point. It was a person. Yeah, it It was a cursing, but it wasn't, let me show you my point, it is a cursing, yes, but it's not the thing that's a cursing, it's the idea behind it, it's a cursing, go down and chapter 8 if you will. Remember the word coveted then? It wasn't the silver and the gold and the garment that was a cursing, they were just items, things, stuff, horses. Did the effect of worship idle from the material planet? Well, they did, yes. And that's what it leads to. Idol worship, materialism, worldlyism. Now, we'll go down to chapter 8, verse 1. And the Lord sent a New Joshua fear not. Neither be thou dismayed. Take all the people of war with thee and arise, go up to high. Now, remember what happened. They took the stuff, and then the very next time they went to war, they failed. God wasn't behind it. And so they said to I, hey Ken, Joshua said. And so going down here to, well let's back up here if you will, go to verse 24. And Joshua and all the children visual with him took a Ken, the son of Zara and the silver and the garment and the wedge of gold and his sons and daughters and oxen and s's and sheep and his tent and all that he had they brought him unto the Valley of Acord. And Joshua said, why has thou troubled us? Now wait, was this a silver, and the gold, and the garment, and all that was that? What troubled them? No. What troubled them was Akin's attitude. His attitude, he put this stuff among his stuff, and he put it all before God. God told not to take it. Now look at, look if you will. Why has thou troubled us? The Lord shall trouble thee this day, and all is real stone him with stone. Boy, for digesting, huh? You know why it's not drastic? You know what God said? Let's put a stop to the problem before it starts. I'm going to tell you something. If you've got somebody in your church that is a problem, put the end to the problem before it gets into the whole church. Sound harsh? I have done it. We have a small church, but we don't have a problem. There are times when I have gotten rid of the problem before it started. Sometimes I've done it discriminately, sometimes I've done it openly. We had some people that left our church not too long ago, they were a problem. We had some people that left our church way back when we started this little church in Perry's school. They left the church. You know what? I let them go. I didn't ask them to come back, they were, get rid of the problem before it starts. And they stoned them, not going down the chapter yet, if you will. After they got rid of the problem, now they're going to go back to war again, they're going get rid of all these people in the land that have the abominations, the homosexuality, all these other things that create sin problems that create diseases. Listen, you have sexual abuse. That's going to cause a disease, isn't it? You better believe it. You have any sexual diseases there are out there today that cannot be cured. And all these originated If I have a false God that says it's okay to do that, my God said it's okay. My God said it's okay to do all these things. That's what false God should do. Bale was a false God. Asteroff was a false God, the God of the Son and the God of the Moon. Asteroff was also the virginity God. Add it all up. one. Fear not, and the Lord said in Joshua, fear not, need to be done this made. Take all the people of war with thee, arise, go up to I. See, I had given in to thy hand the king of I and his people, and his city and his land. Isn't that something? You see, I finally got rid of the problem and Israel. Akin was the problem. I told the people of Israel not to take to the silver and the gold and there's nothing wrong with it, but I told you not to take it, it was a person because you put it before God. Anything you put before God is an accursed thing. If it's a worldly thing, a thing that takes your vision off of God, your focus off of God, your surface off of God, it's an accursed thing. And then he said in verse 2, Daesh, I'll do to I and its king. Now did some two Jericho and it's king. Pretty good, huh? But most of God said, only the spoil of it, that's the silver, the gold, all the goods, all the precious things, the spoil of it, and the cattle thereof shall you take for a prey unto yourselves. Well, isn't that strange? When we went into Jericho, God said, don't take anything. But now we're going to come into I and God said take it all. It's yours. Lady and Ann Bush for the city behind it. What's the difference? What's the difference? Well, I'm going to show you the difference. Go to Matthew chapter 6, verse 33. Matthew chapter 6, verse 33. And I think you'll see the difference. Go to verse 19 first, okay? In verse 19. Now we have here in, in, in chapter 19. How do I think you'll see the difference? Verse 19, verse okay. In verse 19, now we have here in chapter five and chapter six of Matthew, excuse me, no, tickle. We have here how God said, how Christ said, a servant of Lord basically. And in verse 19 he said in verse chapter six, lay not up for yourselves treasures up on earth where moth and rust just corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust of corrupt, and where thieves do not break through to steal. Verse 33, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. You get that? You know what? When I look at the world. Remember in Matthew chapter 4, Satan took Jesus Christ up on the mountain and he showed him the world. And he said, look, Satan said to Jesus, he said, I'm going to give you all of this if you'll worship me. Remember that? First, he took him up on the pinnacle and he showed him Jerusalem and he said, I'll give you all of this. Then he took him up on a high mountain and he showed him all the world. He said, look, Jesus, look at all that. I'll give it to you if you'll just worship me. Do you remember that? Do you know what that is? The worldly possessions. Anytime a worldly possession comes before God Almighty, it's an accursed claim. Satan was offering Christ the accursed thing. I'll you view the world. Of course we know that Christ is not going to accept that. He's God. He already owns the world. But you know what I've got to say? Look, you put aside all that worldly garbage and all the worldly religions and all the worldly treasures. There's a lot of worldly treasures out there. I know a lot of preachers that could be filthy rich, if they served the world, but they gave it up to serve Christ and be poor. The only thing is, when I give up the accursed thing and serve God, most of what he gives me in verse two, the spoils, God might even go far as to make you rich. If you just put, that's the point, that's the key, put Christ first. And he'll give you the treasures of the world. Isn't that what Jesus said? Seek He first, the kingdom of God in His righteousness, and all these things will be added. You see, I or A. Can rather, coveted these things. He said, I coveted them. That's what was a person. The covetousness, the coveting, putting the world first, wanting all this treasure, all this silver, all this gold, the beautiful garment. I want that. But it comes from the world. And as soon as you begin to compromise and begin to neglect God first, you begin to compromise. The world comes first. You're headed for a ball. God calls it, but that's the accursed thing. It wasn't the goods, the material things. was my attitude behind it." You see. And so Israel now, as finally, accepted the accursed thing, and now you see God has withheld all the fine things that he would give him. Well, they've got a lot of gold, a lot of silver, they're wealthy bankers, they're this, they're that, but they lack. They lack the fellowship with the loving God, they lack all of that because they haven't put his righteousness first. And now we're living in the times of the Gentiles, and I think times are going to get worse. And you know, if you look around the world today, it's pretty disgusting, isn't it? It's pretty tragic. There are so many things out there in the world that take my focus off of Jesus Christ. There are buildings, there are people. There are things, attitudes, everything out there in this world to take my focus off of Jesus Christ and serving Him. It's sad. And we look at the world and we say, well, the poor little homosexual, I suggest accept Him. Not me. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to put anything before Christ. Look, poor little leavened, they're just so sweet, no, they're not. I don't have to accept it, and I don't intend to. And all these lovely little politicians, they're just out there to do things. No, they're not Nancy Pelosi. What a joke. Did you see that? Raise that devil up. I'm the most powerful woman in the world. I got news for you, Nancy. When you meet God, face to face, you'll just see how powerful you really are. You hypocrite, pretty little Nancy Pelosi. She's pretty on the inside, on the outside. on the inside she's a joke. In closing both by the way I just want to mention something you know why these politicians want to raise the minimum wage. Do you think they care about you or do you think they care about the person that you know why they want to raise the minimum wage you know how much tax money they're going to get out of it. Do you? You raise the minimum wage two dollars an hour you know how much tax money that is? I don't care about you or it's a crazy world we live in. You know why? We live in the times of the Gentiles. God has backed off and he said, well there's your world. You got it. You go ahead and live in it. Anyway, let me ask you something before we close. Are you going to haven't won't you die? Or do you know? Do you believe Christ died on the cross for your sins? Well, if you do, you're going to have it. If you don't, you're a false Christian. If you're here this morning, you don't know you're going to have him when you die. I know I'm a household preacher, but I don't care. I don't care. Anybody likes me? I don't care about that. Then my wife's dog. I hope the little rascal likely. That's the only thing I care about. I'm kidding. If you're going to have them when you've either there's only one way to know that's to put your faith in Jesus Christ. That's the only way. Christ died on the cross for your sins and all you have to do is believe it. It's that simple. Let's have a word of prayer. I went over a little bit. I apologize, but whatever. Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, we thank You for Christ who died on the cross for us. Give us the ability to put him first, not the world, to seek his righteousness, to serve him by faith that's all he wants. When I serve him by faith and when I am willing to give up the world, then that's when he gives me the world. We just can't see it. I have to be willing to give up the world, the things of the world, the accursed thing, because if I don't give it up, it's an accursed thing. But when I'm willing to give it up and serve him, it's no longer the accursed thing. He is willing to give me all those things that were actually accursed when I put him first is so simple it's so simple only a fool would reject it we thank you for Christ in his name amen okay thank you very much and I suppose we are seeing one verse of the 455 I guess it was one verse archipelago We'll sing the last verse, verse number three, please rise if you will, and then we'll have, we're going to wish Vincent and Gory and Tim a pleasant trip, and I guess they've got some cake downstairs for that, don't they? Somebody brings some cake, I think they did. Ok, to be my endless theme in glory, with the angels I will sing, to be a song with glorious harmony, when the courts of heaven ring. In my heart there rings a melody, there rings a melody, with heaven's harmony. In my heart there rings a melody There rings a melody of love Okay, thank you