That's all right. Is that thing working? Okay. Okay. You're on. I don't want to be singing those songs. No, I want that I have our introduction. They know you are ready. Can you hear me all right? All right, would it help you if it was a little louder? Can you hear me all right in the back, though? Turn it just a tad. Was that a tad or two tad? OK, OK, now that works. I was told that Linda, where is she? She got up and walked out. Linda got nine people out this week. And this is the only thing she hasn't bought, so I'm going to get this to her. Give her a big hand. Well, it's nice to go to a church people know the Bible. And I enjoyed talking with Dan and some of his cohorts that he's been training here a little by little. I had a chance to meet with some of them last night. And anyway, for the privilege of talking with Jay and Darryl and Dan and three of his disciples here. Almost like Peter James and John. Anyway, after everybody left last night, I got all three of them together and I asked them. I said, um, do you know your Bible? And so yeah, we know the Bible. Dan's in taught us the Bible. So I asked, Jay, I said, Jay, I said, what do you like best? Old Testament New Testament. You know, I like it all. Dan has taught us the New Testament, the Old Testament, Hebrew and the Greek. So we're great. I said, well, tell me a little bit about something in the Bible. He said, well, what do you want to know? He said, I know the Bible. I said, well, tell me the story of the good Samaritan. He said, all right, I'm going to do that. So he got up and sat near watching also. He says, there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, who went down to Jericho by night, fell on Stony ground, and the thorns came up and choked him half the death. He said, what shall I do? So I shall arise and go to my father's house. So he arose and climbed up into a second more tree to see what he could see. The next day, Solomon and his wife Gamora came by and they carried him down to the yard for Moses to take care of. And as he was going through the eastern gate of the yard, his hair got caught in the lamp. And he hung there 40 days and 40 nights. And afterwards he was hungry. And the raven came and said, I was really impressed with Jacob. As he go on, Jacob, tell me some more. He said, well, the next day, the three wise men came by, and they carried him down the Nineveh. And when they were going into the streets of Nineveh, he called the Lila, sitting up on the wall. And she said, chuck her down, boys. So how many times were we chuck her down? Seven times? This is no. 70 times seven. So 409 a time, they chuck her down. And she burst the sunder in the mist. And then they gathered 12 baskets, folds of the fragments that remained. And in the resurrection, whose wife was she being? I was really impressed. That's when Darryl and Dan spoke up and says, we know he's young, but he really knows his Bible. So I do want to say I'm thankful to meet some of the people here that really know their Bible. Dan has taught him real well on lines. But you know, that says a lot of true dust about the way some people get the Bible all mixed up. Just get it really all mixed up. Well, take your Bible and turn to the book of 2 Corinthians in chapter 4. I want to tell you why I refuse to quit. You see, everyone of God's children was served the Lord with other heart, other life, if they just wouldn't quit. But what causes people just to quit? Now, see, once you've trusted Christ as you're saved, you're having eternal life. You're going to happen when you die. but we're not there yet. There's a lot of things God wants us to do with our life. So in 2nd Corinthians and chapter 4 and verse 1, the Apostle Paul speaking, says, therefore sin we have this ministry as we have received mercy. He says we thank not. What he means is, is sin we have a ministry that God's given to us like this? We don't quit. We don't quit. He says in verse 3, if our gospel is hit, it's hid to them that are lost. And they'll never hear it if we quit. Now in verse 7, we have this treasure in earthen vessels. What treasure? The knowledge of how to have eternal life. That the excellence you have the power may be of God and not of us. Now the devil will do everything he can in your life to give you to quit. Well, Paul says in verse 8, we are troubled on every side, but we didn't quit. He says, we're perplexed, but we didn't quit. We're persecuted, but we didn't quit. Cast down, but we didn't quit. Because the reason we didn't quit is because if we quit, there's lost people that will never hear the message. That's why we can't quit. There has to be something on the inside of you That's stronger than anything on the outside Something that motivates you to continue serving the Lord and doing right and being faithful When it seems like everybody else just wants to kind of drag their feet not be involved in Just play Christianity But the order of Christians are not truly dedicated to the Lord Lewis in verse 16, for which cause? The cause? We think not, means we don't quit. He says, though, our outward man perish, because the older we get, you'll find that out. Yet the inward man is renewed day by day. In verse 70, for our light affliction, which is but for a moment. Now, this light affliction, but for a moment, talks about everything you could possibly face in your lifetime. Whatever it is you can face in your lifetime, it's only for a moment and it's a light affliction. And he says, that's no reason to quit. God left this year and gave us all the tools we need to be found faithful. Moreover, it is required in the sure that a man be found faithful. And verse 18 tells you the reason why we look not at the things which are seen, But it's the things which are not seen for the things which are seen or temporal and if that's what you look at That'll cause you to quit But if you look at the things are eternal You won't quit Now take your Bible looking chapter 11 Chapter 11 Now remember if you want a good view of what it's like for the Christian life Many people think the Christian life is supposed to be all of Belarus's It is a warfare. It's a battle Now you and I will never come close in our lifetime of having to face and go through the things the apostle Paul went through. The Paul says, having this history I beused to quit. When you talk about faint, what happens when you faint? You pass out. You ain't good in nobody when you faint. Even in the book of Hebrews in chapter 12 it makes this statement. He says, faint not when thou art rebuke. It means just because God has to rebuke you until you know on something don't mean you have to quit. Don't quit just because you didn't get your own way. We heard that last night. Just because you don't get your own way and God doesn't answer all of your prayers the way you think that he should have or everything didn't happen in your life like you think you should have don't quit serving God. God hasn't done anything wrong to you. Does God done anything wrong to you or to me? No. Now people will. Yes they will. But don't blame God for what people do. Now notice what he says here in 2nd Corinthians in chapter 11. And you'll notice there in verse 23. He says, Are they ministers of Christ? I speak of the fold. I am more. And labor is more abundant, but I didn't quit. in stripes above measure, but I didn't quit. In prison, it's more Franklin, but I didn't quit. Death off, but I didn't quit. Of the Jews, five times, received I-40 stripes, save one. In other words, he got beat five times with a catanine tail. What happened to Christ? Happened to him five times. And that means a catanine tail that had little pieces of broken pieces of glass or metal in them, and it was put into their back and then rippled They crossed their back and they ripped them open and he said, I had that happen made five times, but I didn't quit. How many of us in this room have had that happen to us? One time. We've never even had nobody stone us. Only thing that happens to us is somebody gets mad at us and we don't witness to something because we're afraid of being offended. They might have, I don't want to offend them. You don't worry about offended them. You don't want to be offended. because of fear. Fear of what somebody will say or do. The apostle Paul says, look what happened to me. And I didn't quit. In verse 25, Thrice, what I beaten with rods, and that doesn't mean he was racing over here at the end of half of 500. He said, once I was stoned, that doesn't mean he was drunk. But he said, I didn't quit. Thrice, I suffered chip thread, but I didn't quit. Night to day, I had been in the deep, but I didn't quit. But I didn't quit, heralds of water, and robbers, and come true men of heathen, city, wilderness, in the sea, false brothers, but I didn't quit. Verse 27, in weariness and painfulness, in walking's often, but I didn't quit. In hunger, in thirst, in fasting's often cold and naked, but I didn't quit. Besides those things that are without that which come upon me daily, they care of all the churches that I didn't quit. Who is weak and I am not weak? Who gets offended? And not on get mad? I don't burn. It's a better than quit. You see, a lot of Christians just can't. I'll always show that you can't take the hate, get out of the kitchen. And some people have no business in full-time Christian work when they cannot handle it. Because it's a warfare. But it is the will of God for every one of His children to serve the Lord full-time. time. Now you may have a full-time job, but you're still in full-time Christian work. Every Christian is in full-time Christian work. Even though you may work a job, two jobs, but even while you're there, you're still on the other side, you're in the ministry. I didn't always understand this, and often wondered why some people quit, and some people didn't quit. That I was growing up, I wanted to be encouraged by people that I saw and people that I looked up to and had a little respect for, so they may not have all been with that I would have liked to see them be. Anybody in here ever heard of a guy named Oliver B. Green? Anybody ever heard of Oliver B. Green? Used to be on a radio all over America. Evangelist Oliver B. Green out of South Carolina. What he used to come down to our church in 1961-62, I remember him coming there, after his Georgia. All of a big grain could steer you to death. They could get you saved and lost in the same service. And you wouldn't know who you were saved, and you wouldn't know who you were lost. But he could so stir you that make your emotions up and just tear you up. But the guy could really hold your attention. They could tell story after story, and put it in your B right there. Well, after I had gone to Tennessee Temple, I heard that Dr. Oliver Biggrain was coming to Tennessee Temple area, and he was going to be preaching at a certain church Bernchetta knew them. I thought, Betty, I got to go here. So I got off work a little bit earlier and I got better in the kids than we went to the church. But the problem was we got there a little late. The church was already packed. The choir was packed. There was no room anywhere in the church. They didn't have their condition. They had three windows on each side of the site and they were open and they were 30 deep on each side. The four year was packed and they were packed Like that side, the front door, people just standing because they were here, Dr. Oliver V. Green. When I got there late, I told Billy, I said, I've got to get in, I'll see you after the meeting. I watched how they used to do it at the Cape Art, Blue Light Special, how they would use their elbows and get to a crowd, so I started, and I worked my way into the back door. When I finally got into the back door, I could see that I had to see over the people, and that's all I can't stand. I've got to get down. I've got to steal. So I finally worked my way until I got into one side of the aisle over there And the preach you got up here and introduced Dr. Oliver B Green. He says I'm sorry There's just not enough room just try to find a place to sit anywhere you can and so everybody was trying to find a place But there's just no places left So we've got all of her B Green. He got a part of his chair He walked up to the platform and when he got here, I started down the aisle I was walking down the aisle. Here I come. I was 22 years old Everybody in the whole church stop and watch become down the aisle Doctor Oliver B. Green watch me come down the aisle Yeah, you can give the invitation. Yeah. I came down the aisle walk right up on the platform What right up there and the only street left was the one he just they take So I walked up there and I said there is not He looked at me, the pastor looked over at me, and then he smiled at me, and they were like, I took the man in his word, find a place in you where you can. That was the only place that had one left. I got the best sleep in the house, and I watched as he preached, and how he had those microphones there, and he'd put his hand right between those two microphones. I just knew he was going to hit one on one of these times, he was going to hit it, but he didn't. And I'd watch his sweat pour off his forehead, he was hot in the summer, And I mean, there was no air condition in there. But I used to think, man, I want to do like that. I want to be in the dance of someday. I had no idea how thankful it would work out in my life. But you've got to have little dreams and little visions along the way. Back in about 1980, 81, I'd already then had to church church about eight years. And I told Betty, I said, we're going to take a vacation. So we got, I had a van and got a trailer. I had three motorcycles who put on and we didn't know where it was going, but any road or roof we're just going to drive. And we drove from color up, when all we done in the Texas got down to El Paso, Texas. And we said, let's just go into Mexico. So we went across the border in the Mexico. We got in the Mexico, went over a thousand miles in old Mexico. Done this decision I ever made. You were the wife and two kids and nobody knew where we were, so I never told them I didn't know where I was going. So we're down in Mexico. Anyway, after almost getting killed a few times, we came out down the South end to take a place called Far Texas, Far Texas, the H.A.R. Art, Brownsville, Mission Texas, McAllen, came up and I thought, I'm going to go by a place and see Dr. Lester Rolloff. Anybody ever heard of Lester Rolloff? Lester Rolloff? Nobody's ever heard of Lester Rolloff. He had what they called the Rebecca Holmes. The girl's home, that in Corpus Christi, Texas. And I thought, I'm going to go see this man and see this great work. I've heard about it for years. The family algebra program on the radio, drove in there in the van. And they had a big sign of celebrating the 60th birthday. I wanted to know what it's like to grow old. Somebody he has to quit, not only here, didn't quit, still going strong. I wanted to be encouraged. I now have to be encouraged if I find out what's more like she's other guy, what keeps them going. Because a lot of people don't keep going. So when I grow up in there, this man walks up to the man and says, my name is Lester Rolloff. What can I do for you? And I said, Dr. Rolloff, I've not heard about you for a year, and I'm already going things like that but I would drop by and just see how things are going here. He says everything's going terrible. He says everything's messing up. He says the states trying to close me down. Who should be calling me on the phone? Who's going to take their kids here at the roll-off home that then they church as they won't give me no money that's trying to help take care of these kids. He says and we don't have any water. The ladies in there that they can't take showers. We don't have water to cook the food with. He said everything's messed. Everything's wrong. And so I listened to him about 15 minutes and I never got out of the van. I made a U-turn and I had it out. And I thought, now this was the giant in the face. This is one that everybody all over the nation knew about. That's the role. Anyway, I wasn't too encouraged. So I ended up, and I'm going to go by and see another guy I've heard about. His name was Dr. W. A. Criswell. He was the president of the Seven and bad just convention. Had a big first Baptist church there in Dallas, Texas, I ain't gonna go see what he's doing and have that man pray for me. I always wanted people to pray for me and I wanted to see how they're doing and I wanted to know they didn't quit. They're still serving the Lord. So we went there on Sunday, a Wednesday night, they had a dinner for everybody. On a Wednesday night, they had a dinner for everybody. It was a Wednesday night. We had a bringing dinner for everybody on the way to the night. The church was packed because I had a dinner on the way to the night for everybody. So anyway, we enjoyed the meal, and after I told Beth, I said, I'm going to see you later. I've got to go see this guy. So I went to his office, and the secretary says, I'm sorry, he's a very busy man. He doesn't have any time. To a eighty years old he had a big huge ministry. I mean a huge ministry They're offerings that Sunday was over one million dollars Over making up that was just their Sunday offering And I said man, I just wanted to have that happen. I worked for it for me She says hey, he's a very busy man. He doesn't have a time. I said man. Could you just ask him? All right, so she went to his office It's got just a minute just a minute. He's very busy So I went into his office, I'm young, and I walked in and he says, what can I do for you? And I introduced myself to him, told me I had to go to Colorado at that time, and I had a church up there, I had just got started, and mixing up, he told me, he says, the ministry is just so hard, he says, so rough, he says, I'm so tired, he says, I've got so much so many burdens. We've got so many problems here. We've got so many people. He says we've got built buildings and we've got all this money we have to raise and we've got so many people. He said, and he went off to about 15 minutes telling me, ah, part of the time he's having. And then the man got out of the seat, walked around to the edge of his death and he got on his knees. He says, Some of you come over here and have a word of prayer for me, I've got some going wrong there. I went over there and I put my hand on Dr. Chris' little shoulder and I prayed for this man. Now, his gospel, I have no clue, I don't know anything about it, all I know is it, but I believe the man in love is the Lord that has been straight for all these years and I just wanted him to pray for me. I wanted to see these giants and the Lord and what they're having the faces they get older. You see, everything they had to face. They didn't quit. They didn't stop just because they're having a bad day or things were rough and things were hard. You and I, if we serve in the Lord, everything's supposed to just work out real smooth. When you read about the apostle Paul and think what he went through, it didn't work. That's not smooth to me. Would you like to walk in Paul's footsteps? but that's what happened to him. I always wanted to ask something like that. I wanted to, I'm mentored, but I thought as I got older, things would get easier. Did you know as you get older, it don't get easier? It don't get easier. You're still battling with everything else, and then now you get battling because you're getting old. You battle an old age. The body starts to wear them out. Everything sorts of wear them out. All the parts. I used to drive down a highway and look at those old folks sitting in a rocking chair trying to get it going and wonder if anything got anything better to do than sitting on a rocking chair. I mean, man, I was young energetic man. For a little bit of a waste of time, son, you know, now it's not so bad. Not bad at all. I'm looking forward to it now. Did you realize that now my ministry has expanded? I used to be able to talk to my age and under. My age and under. Does I get older? My age and under. See how my ministry is increasing? My age and under. Now I consider running top to some people out. How many scars do you have? You've only got 100 stitches. I got 125 stitches. You want to see my stitches? And what's your day like? Well, I go to the bathroom this day, and then I get my prescriptions on this day, and then I have to check with my medicaid on this day, and then I have to go back to the bathroom this day. See, I never had to worry about that before that. I didn't know if the whole new world was. But it don't matter as you get older, there's problems. And one thing I went through, whether it was, let's roll off to a 60 years old, or that guy who was 80 years old, it don't matter. You're going to face things, but the thing is that you don't quit serving God. I don't care how hard it gets on how many problems you have. You got problems? So what? Everybody else does too. You know why I stopped having pity parties? Nobody would come. Everybody was having their own pity party and I found out nobody really cares about my pity party that I wanted everybody to feel sorry for me Don't you feel sorry for me? I don't feel sorry for you. Nobody knows where I go through. Oh shut up, they do too. They do. Get a life. Get a grip. I mean, cause it's true. I remember Dr. Curtis Hudson. I was preaching with him down in South Texas short conference and Zen Antonio. We did it about three times and just last time he got a call from his dad is Not from his dad his dad tied and he had to leave and drive home in a rainstorm all the way from Binder and San Antonio Anyway, he did the funeral for his dad. He got a bone cancer for about three months before that his brother had died And Curtis has never tricked himself because he was a I mean he looked happy. We played golf together and he looked great. He felt great, didn't have a pain. But his wife kept telling him, Curtis should need to get checked. So he went down there in the Florida side. He go to the doctor. He said, your doctor's office and the doctor tells him, says, you know what? You got cancer. You got six months to live. This is Curtis Hutton, who is the editor of the short of the word that took over for John R. Rice. He says, I said to him, he said, I was stunned. He told me, he says, he says, I never thought this would happen to me. He says, my dad and my brother had a different lifestyle. He says, I served God. I love the Lord. And I have a different lifestyle. And I do right. I honor him. I do everything right. He said, I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do anything. He said, he's wrong. I'm I'm serving God. He's I've never thought it would happen to me. I Went by the sea and one day in Tennessee Yeah, I was home when I come through there. Stop and we go pay game and come we did This time it didn't it was sitting on the back porch with a bowl of oatmeal about this day And I looked over the corner and you had a big old basket full of carrots So I thought it was for his horse, he had a couple horses. I said, those are the horses, he says, no, they're from me. He was in oatmeal and carrots trying to reverse what's going on in his body and doing whatever he could do because it was too late. Dr. Hayden gave him as much time to live. He wind up getting another year and a half out of it. He was 58 years old when he got, he was 60 years old and he died, he passed away. Now, I don't worry so much about why God takes a certain individual. I do wonder why He left me. Why I'm still here. But God has left me here. These are decisions that we're not, we'll never understand. But just because you know the Lord and you love the Lord and you're serving God, does it mean things are not gonna happen? And you're like it, you cannot explain. You've got no answers for it. But regardless of what you do or you don't, you are to be found faithful and they're not that quick, not to lose hope, you're not to faint, you don't quit. Just keep serving the Lord. I want to take your Bible and turn to the book of James chapter one. James chapter one, that was my introductory remarks. James chapter one, look there now in verse two, verse two. He's just my By brethren, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations. Know in this that the triumph of your faith works at patience, but let patience have her perfect worth that you may be perfect and complete and in dire, warning, lacking nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God and give it to all men liberally, and that bread it's not, he shall be given him, but let him ask in faith nothing wavered, for he that wavered is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. And let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord, because the double-minded man is unstable in all of this ways. My brethren, tell them all joy when you follow them different testings. You see, God is going to test you from every angle. When you dedicate your life to the Lord, expect God to interrupt your schedule, because he's going to. It's not going to be the way you think it's going to be. You may have a plan for your life, but God has one too. And sometimes the two don't mix. So God is going to change things around. And God is going to bring things into your life, is God free to work on you, in you, through you, in the way he wants, well that's you complaining about it. Or do you dictate to God how things have to be? Lord, if you want me to serve you, you better do this and this and this. Or do you take a blank piece of paper and you sign your name on it and say, Lord, you're free to sell it in any way you want. What most creases want to do is they take a blank piece of paper and they fill it in the way they want their life to be, and they say, Rort, would you sign this on the bottom? They don't work that way. So God says, the thing happens. And he does it because he wants us to learn how to pray, how to go to him and ask him, talk to him. One of the best things I've ever learned how to do in my whole Christian life is learning how to talk with the Lord. Nobody can walk through light holding your hand. There's something you have to learn how to walk with God on your own. Nobody can do it for you. Nobody can make God real to you or precious to you. That's the decision that you have to make. When he makes a statement here, if any of you lack wisdom, me and you do, let him ask of God. Wouldn't it be a shame for me to give my wife a million dollars and there's no stores? Ever be a shame? And if there's a million dollars and no stores, there's no place to spend it. Wouldn't that be frustrating? This is not as frustrating as I'm all-headed hippie. You've got to have some real frustration is when you see your mother log one over the cliff and your new cat like you just don't know what to do. You know, you just don't know. But the Bible says, why should God give you wisdom if there's no problems to solve? The only reason you need wisdom is there's something that needs to be solved. So God has said, he sends us problems, and these problems let us know what we're lacking in. Some things that we don't know yet. And when you think you know it all, I got no speedy, he ain't through it, you get, because he's going to send something down the pipe that will knock your socks off, and you won't know what to do. And God will have to work on you. Now, he makes the statement in James chapter 4 in verses 1, 2, and 3. He says, you have not because you asked not. And then he says, you asked, and you've seen that because you asked to miss, that you can make consummative on your own lust. So he says, you have not because you asked them, just because God knows what you have need of before you ask, doesn't mean you're going to get it. You still have to ask. You need to provide how much more you could have had if you would only asked. Some things in your life probably didn't have to happen. happened because you didn't ask God for something. And you could have, you just didn't do it. And God knows that you are weak in certain areas, so he's the only problem that tests the very area that you're weakest in so that you can go to him and get wisdom. The reason you come to the church and learn the word of God is because you see the preacher knows that he needs to have a, you've got to have a deep well. So as you come to church, he's putting some water of the earth, water in the U.L., and then when you get thirsty down the road you can always draw out some fresh water for yourself. Some Christians are so shallow that they don't have any water in the well, but you come all the time and every time you hear the word of God you're putting water into the well and you put water into the well and there's things that are going to come down the road and you'll be surprised all the sudden verses will start coming up and reminding you and verses to have a thought he would remember. And the Holy Spirit brings those things to your remembrance. The water of the Word put it into your mind. You'll be surprised what God will do for you. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Exodus in chapter 13. Exodus in chapter 13. Learn this because it's so important. And that is always realize that Christians are on a journey. So this journey is from childhood to adulthood. Whenever God took the children of Israel out of Egypt, they had a place to go. They were coming out of Egypt to the land of promise, the land of Canaan. True? Or God sent Moses, and God was going to guide Moses, and the children of Israel was to follow and he was going to read them to the promised land. So God is telling Moses where to go. And you'll find out in your Christian life, going from childhood to adulthood, to get there in the train lies the word of God. And you'll find out there's going to be some detours, some bad ends, some draw holes, That you've got to go through to give where God wants you to go. Now, notice what it says here in the next edition, chapter 13, chapter 13, looking in verse 17. And it came to pass when Pharaoh had left the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, let's prevention people repent when they see war and they return to Egypt. So did God need them the shortest way? No. He says there was another way that was shorter, but God had a reason. Don't always think that you're going to find that God takes the shortest route in your life. God lets you sometimes have to take detours. Now, the NBA is driving its motor home around. We're always having detours. I wish it would just be on one road, go straight to the place where I got it, but you've got a turn here. and engines, sometimes there's real detours. I remember when we first got the motor home down in Florida, a friend of mine, no longer able to drive it. So he sold us, and I hadn't drove the motor home, hadn't even seen the motor home. And so I really didn't know what it was like. I think he outside of it one time. So anyway, I got out and heard, he just became, we started to think up and drove around in the box. He says, I think you're ready. And he says, well, let me ask you this now. Let me give you a scenario. You're driving up this hill and you come up behind an 18-wheeler and you start to pass and over how you get right even with the 18-wheeler and another one comes parallel over the top of the hill. And there's a cliff on the left-hand side and you came back up because another 18-wheeler didn't pull up behind the other one. You came back up, you came, what are you going to do it of what are you going to do? I said, I'm going to wake up, Betty. It's like what you're gonna wake up Betty for, I said, you know, she ain't never seen a wreck like we're gonna have. In your Christian life, you'd be surprised, if you don't let the Lord lean, guide you, you'd be, they know that you're gonna wreck like you picked in the half. If you have a card pushing a rope, that's the way your life becomes when you don't let the Lord lead you. It's like pushing a rope. Everything gets all tangled up, but you can get one into that rope and just start walking and that whole thing will straighten out. I've had to say, well, when I get my life straightened out, I'll get back to church to start serving God. No, no, no, no, you don't get it. You can't get your life straightened out until you get right with the Lord and serve the Lord and do right and follow the Lord. Then your life will straighten out. Some people never listen in the name they never learn. I remember one time I was over there in Athens, Georgia. And I wanted to go down to the Bible bookstore because I knew they had books in there I could sit down and read, and I'd take my little sack lunch, and I'd sit in the corner, and I'd get these novels about the missionaries, and I'd sit there on the floor, and I'd read these missionary books and ate my lunch. It was a fast hour of my life, and sometimes I would forget. Sometimes I'd sit there, and I'd have tears in my eyes. I'd read about missionaries who wanted to fool in countries and so forth, and then I'd sit there and then I'd want to do that. I wish I could do something like that, but I knew I dropped out of high school. I hadn't finished that school, and I didn't have a high school education. I hadn't been to Bible college. I didn't know there was Bible colleges. I didn't know how God led all this stuff. I was just so confused. And the guys that run the place that have to come in Yankee, your time's left, you gotta go. And next day, I'll be right back down around doing the same thing again. But I'd read these things, and I said to my dream, and I could see me prooting in church, chapter, church, chapter, church, all over America. I pictured it. And I'm talking about I was only 19, 20 years old. I've only been saved a year and two years. But I had a vision. I've said they're not dreaming because you've got to have a dream. You've got to have a vision. Something that you see because if my biggest problem was this, I didn't know God had a will for my life. I didn't know that. I just knew that there was something that I wanted to do for him. He didn't save me, gave me turn of life, I'm his child, I'm going to heaven, I wanted to do something for God, but I didn't know what to do for God, I don't have no talent, no ability, what can I do? And so I got very frustrated, it's one of the reasons why I wound up in the living in five states in a year and a half after me and Betty got married. I was a gypsy before and I was still a gypsy, just to move wherever I wanted to. And I was very unkind at times for people and rude. And I came home one day and I said, honey, the guy lied to me on the job. He promised me a tense in an hour or eight and didn't give it to me, I swear. You know what I'm like? He didn't do that. I did, though. See, I'm home and put the map of the United States and ladies on the hood of the car. I said, where do you want to go? I said, let's go to California. I'm not in Florida. Just a long way. Just like that brother that lives in Louisiana. I can help people go to Louisiana. So, that's how we made down decisions, a lot of prayer, we got in the car and took off. Now I'm out there in the street world of Louisiana, couldn't find a job. One night I told Biggest, I said, I don't even know where I won't have to just go over to Dallas and see if I can find something. And I had enough money that we paid enough for them to have there for a lot of weekend and have to reach the department. Didn't have any to have my grocery did that. I couldn't find a job and So I says I I'm going over to Dallas, so I got in the car the next morning that he Kids are walking me I got in the car and I crank up the motor and I sit there and I look at him and peers Now that man, where am I going? I don't know where I'm going And I'll leave him my wife and kids here Now I felt like a dog, I felt we were in the snake, and I said, oh Lord, you gotta find to have me find something. So I turned the motor off and I told that to them, I'm gonna give it one more day. That day I found the job at M.O. Bat turning company. What I learned at that turning company is what got me to Bible College and paid my school bill. I learned how to do some things. And so close, my life could have been so different, just with little new decisions. And in one night, I was still so frustrated that I went out behind the house and it was my debut, or a January debut, and I laid out there on the ground on a blanket, and I had a peak coat on, and it was dark outside, and I looked up and snow was falling on my face. And I had to have a talk with God. I didn't have anybody sure knew what to do, telling me how I'm supposed to do things. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. And I laid there and I talked with God, and I was so heartbroken. There's nothing wrong with my wife. Nothing wrong with the kids. There's nothing wrong with the job. It's that I was miserable. I didn't want, I didn't like the idea of just getting up and going to work, coming home and watching TV, even going to bed, get up to make stay day in and day out. Day is it? I just got to be more alive than this. It's got to be more alive. But I didn't know what it was. I told the Lord I had to soon die. I really don't have anything I want to live for. It's a terrible place to be. Because I lay there in pierced, going down my cheek, and I'll tell the Lord I said, Lord, I know of it. One of these days, when I'll get to heaven, I'm going to stand at the judge and say to Christ, and Lord, I said, don't you point your finger at me and say, Yankee, why didn't you do with your life what I wanted you to do? I said, Lord, the only reason I didn't do it, because I don't know what to do. I don't know what your will is. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with my life. Remember I wasn't raised in church. I hadn't heard it all my life. I didn't have Christian parents that taught me this. I was hungry inside. There has to be more to life than just living for making money and supporting yourself and paying bills. What's the purpose of life? The purpose of the greatest prayer in your whole life. There has to be a settlement in your mind where you know what is that ultimate purpose by which God wants me to live. When you nail that down and you're just going to serve the Lord with all my heart, regardless of what it may be, and regardless of where it may lead, then you get that done. And then you make all of your little decisions as it relates to that main decision. But if you don't have a goal, any road to do, anything will do them. But when you want certain things in your life, only certain things can get you there. And I told the Lord, I said, Lord, I got two kids in the house, and I said, well, I'm and I speak English to them. I tell them to do this, do this, do this, do this, nothing's made to it. I says, what can't you speak a language I can understand? I had no idea what fasting was, didn't know what I didn't know it was in the Bible. All I know is that I didn't want to eat and I really didn't care to live. But I'd go in the house and I'd sit down and I'd read the Bible, just trying to fit through it. And all of a sudden I came across the 119th song, And it says, how of all shall a young man cleanse his way in by taking heed according to thy word? The entrance of thy word give us light. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my steps. So I found out it is the will of God to know the word of God so you can know the will of God. I've got onto the rescue mission there in Sri Gauravidana, and I would hope that somebody wouldn't show up so I get a chance to talk to them. And once in a while that happens. In the man's arrest, he mentioned, he told me, he says, you need to go to Bible college. I said, I didn't know that we're Bible colleges. He said, yeah, they got a Bible college. I said, where? He said, Tennessee Temple. Chattanooga, Tennessee. I said, all right, I'll go. That's how I made my city. I went home to Old Betty, called her for bad, so as I'm bringing Betty and the kids by, they're going to stay with you for a while. I'm going to Tennessee Temple in Chattanooga, but he didn't mind how he gets the kids. I left with $35 and $34 with the end of them. By the time I got ready to go on my own up there to Canada, by myself, I had $15 left in my pocket, no job. I went up there and it was on a Wednesday night. Highland Park Baptist Church, Dr. Lee Robertson, president of the school. They had a lot of people there on the Wednesday night. After the service was over with, I walked up and Dr. Lee Roberts was standing up there at the podium and I'm standing the way down here. here. And I looked up at him, I said, my name is Janky Arville and I told it come here, that I come here to go to Bible College. And they said that you might have a place I could stay. He told me that it's good under the Rescue Mission. They had their own Rescue Mission. So I went to the Rescue Mission and I stayed there with the Drunks and the Wine O's off the street, and I stayed there for about three months. And a lot of nights I went to bed crying because I had I could not see the future, I could, everything was so dark, it was so black, I couldn't see anything out there, I couldn't see where it was all leading to. And so I would wonder how God is going to work things out. You know what I was doing? I was learning how to walk with the Lord. It got so dark. Faith is born in despair, and buddy I was in such despair that I didn't see any way how God was going to get me out of the mess that I always seemed to get myself into. And so, one night they had a guy that got a third and sung the song. It was called the Haven of Rest, which sung at the other night, the Haven of Rest. That's why we sung that song. Because I still remember that song after all these years. That was back in 1964. And so I heard and sing that song. And it was the first time I've ever heard it. The Haven of Rest is my ruin. And I sit back there with those drunks and white nose and off the street. And I cried tears just to running. I didn't have another young man, my age, that wanted to do what I was doing. It's great when you've got somebody you can go through with somebody else that is the same age and you can share those in. But I didn't have that. And I didn't know what was gonna happen. My wife and kids in another state, here I am. I don't have a job, and I'm living in a rescue mission. And then I came by sign, and then it said, the will of God will not lead you with the grace of God cannot keep you. Is there a church around you? The will of God will not lead you with the grace of God cannot keep you. Of course I was questioning whether or not the God would lead me in anything. I really didn't know. I was just doing the best I could with the nails that I had. Little did I understand that it would be long before I wanted a Florida Bible college, I had a Miami Florida. When I got down there and I decided to go to Bobbock College, to go to Bobbock College, I finished summer school at Tennessee Temple. And I had an heck of a fendicititis, lost my job. Two kids got sick with barnacle pneumonia. What if in the hospital for two weeks had no hospitalization, no job, no money? And then it was in the first semester and I had no money to pay my school bill. I went outside and Betty had a clothesline outside the house there, and I hung my hands on both of those clotheslines, and I looked up into the starry sky and I talked to Gunn. I hadn't had lessons on how to pray, but I was getting lessons on how to pray. You see, you don't really learn to pray, but as I lay me down to sleep, I prayed to Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wait, I pray to Lord my soul to take. A man, John, then shot a road to guilt. Again, chicken dad, proofs to cry. I ain't just satisfied. That ain't gonna cut it. I went out there and I talked to the Lord and I cried. And I said, Lord, my kids are gonna do well soon. And I don't know what I'm gonna do. I don't know how long I'm gonna pay the school bill. And I said, Lord, I'll never stand in the pulpit and tell anybody that you'll ever meet their needs. If you can't meet mine. If you're not gonna build for me, then I'm not gonna tell anybody you're doing. I said, your reputation is at stake. I said, your testimony's on the line. I never thought of mine was. I just tried to remind God to try to remind me. And I finally laid up. Man, I should never play some of the things that I played. But it was too late. I mean, I didn't know any better. I was just hurting. And I hated to go and get my kids. Because I didn't know how I was going to tell them, man, I didn't have the money. And I thought, Lord, I don't want him to know that I go to Bible college. You know why? Because I was ashamed. I was ashamed to walk in there and face a guy, and I can't pay my school bill, and I'm serving God. I've been God to Korea, the heavens of the earth, and it has a cattle in the thousand heels. And I thought, why can't you sell some of those cattle? But I went down to the hospital to get the kids, and I walked into the office, and the man, he looked at me, the first thing out of his mouth, you go to that Bible college down the road, don't you? I thought who told? who told. I never knew who told. I don't know how to work. He hasn't, I never told anybody. I never told him. And he looked at me and he says, we need blood, more than we need blood. He says, we know that it's hard for young guys to go to the bottle of school and wipe them two kids. He says, do you think it's possible that those students on the Bible College would be willing to donate a pint of blood and will knock off $25 on your school bill 30 times blood we get. But how much do I owe? $1,000. So I need at least 40 people to go down here. I said, can I use your phone? I called Dr. Sanca from his office. Dr. Sanca was just about to go into chapel. And I told Dr. Sanca what was going on. He says, consider it done. They'll be down there. And so I told the man and I said, they'll be down here. He said, man, we're so thankful. I thought, God has failed me, that he hasn't failed me. There's always in the nick of time, his nick of time. I wish I could retract how I thought, when I was after hanging on that close line, and how I thought God would be failed me, do let me down. And I'm so ashamed to go see that man. See, God is always working behind the scenes, and he does things that you and I don't always understand how things are going to work. you by the look there in chapter 14. It says in verse 3, for Pharaoh will say of the children the miserable, they are entangled in the man, the wilderness has shut them in. Who was leading them? God. What did he lead them into? A dead end. Didn't God know he was leading them into a dead end? Yes, he knew that. He knew there was a dead red sea as Pharaoh's army come in behind them and yet God led them there. Well what were they supposed to do? Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Just trust the Lord. See what he wants to do. And he says, Diner in verse 13, and loads of sudden to the people, here you not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you this day for the Egyptians whom you have seen today. You will see them again no more forever. The Lord shall fight for you and you shall hold your peace. In last quarter, verse 50 says, that they go forward. You see a full back usually is running full steam as fast as he can and that quarter back will take a throw run and look at Paul running as gut and he's running as fast as he can before there's a hole made. If he waits until he sees the hole, there won't be no hole. He has to run, trust in his line that's going to make a way so he can split between them. Do not propose to run the race, believe in that our Heavenly Father is going to make a way when we don't see how he's going to make a way. That's when you're living by faith, trusting God. You see, the devil is going to do everything he can to hit you to quit. Quit serving God, quit church, let little things happen. Just make a mountain out of a mobile. You know what a mountain? mountains, they don't get between a mountain and a mohill, more dirt, call it is. The God has a way. Look there next to this in chapter 15. Here's to the chapter 15, look at verse 20 here. So Moses brought Israel from the red sea and they went out into the wilderness of sure. And they went three days and the wilderness found no water. Who led them there? God did. God led them through detours and dead ends and dry holes. There's been times in my ministry where it seems like I have had an abundance of hardest. I mean, just a lot of people trust in Christ's Savior. And I've also had times when it seems like there's a drought. I'm just as faithful, Christ the God will just as much, Christ is as hard, do everything right that I know to do, but some things you can't may happen. But you just stay faithful. He just keeps serving the Lord. Like it don't quit. It don't quit. Just don't stop serving God. Don't get mad at God. And then in verse 23, when they did find water, the waters were bitter. So in verse 24, the people murmured against Moses, and what shall we drink? And he cried unto the Lord and the Lord showed him a tree. When he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There he made for them they started an ordinance and they approved them he touched them. All of our trials were bitter until you put the tree Christ and the mist of it. Did you know if you take everything in your hands and put it in the God's hands it won't be longer for you to see God's hands and everything that you have. Some people never see God's hand in their life because they never put anything they had in the his own hands. Learn to walk with God and trust the wrong. That will surprise you and do more for you and your Christian life and anything else in the world. And Christ ought to be more real to you than the clothes you have on your back. Nobody can make God real to you. Nobody can make him precious to you. Nobody else can make you want to study the Bible. Nobody can make you want to witness. All that comes because that's a result of you loving God. If you love him and you want to serve him, then all these other things will take care of themselves and it'll work, but sometimes it seems like the Christian life that God turned out all the lights, locks all the doors, closes all the windows, and four walls are moving in on you, and it seems like the seal in his brass. You ain't been there yet. You will be. There'll be times when you don't know what you're going to do about your kids, or the grand or your job or your health. We're living in a society where there's so many unknown things that can change so quickly. Your situation today can be drastically changed tomorrow and you don't know what you're going to do. What are you doing? You don't know what to do. Maybe you just have to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. See what God can open up for you. And these faithful when it seems like everything's just a dry hole, things like it's barren. No fruit, nothing happening. And God will come through just a found faithful, crushed in the Lord. Let me give you this where I close. I had a man that lived in Georgia. When I told Betty, Dad, that I was going to go to Bible College. He took me out to see a man. The name was Mr. Massey. Mr. Massey was an old farmer. He was a tall man. He was a big man. He must have milked cows from the time he was three years old. His hands were huge and he had big hands. I mean, whenever you do what you know he does, and milked him in cows. But I'm talking about he gripped my hand and like to crush every bone in my hand and he was an old man that his dad took me out there to see him. Oh, run down house. We walked in there and my father-in-law looked at him and says, Mr. Massey, Mrs. Yankee, he wants to go to Bible college. And I was scared to death to go in the Bible college. I pictured myself in a little attic. I kind of liked for books from the floor, always to the ceiling, all over the room, and I could see me sweating it out, you know, in the late hours of the night. I don't know why it was kind of like stayed out at pictures of Abraham Lincoln, I don't know what it was, and I was going back in time, and I thought, how am I ever going to do this? And I wanted somebody to pray for me, but I was scared to go to Bobbi College. I didn't have a job, I don't have too many And so he says, Yankee wants to build a pile of cards, and I just want you to play for him. The people will not talk and let's get it done. And I'm standing there in the living room. And he got down on his knees, and Mr. Jackson said he's dead. He got down on his knees, and I'm still standing there. Next thing I know is, oh God, what's this young man? And I had my head done. I didn't pray. I didn't pray. I was listening. I never heard nobody pray like this in my life. Lord bless this young man. Lord, where's the work of this life? Lord, protect this man. And he sounded like he's talking to God. It sounded so real. I was scared of my eyes. I thought I'd see God. He prayed for at least half an I mean, he prayed, he seemed to let it rip. I have never heard nobody pray like that man. When he got through, he said, in Jesus' name, man. And when I got up, I could have walked into the dim of lions with Daniel. Nothing more like that. And then he said, nothing could stop. That man didn't pray for me. I mean, God is on my side. Well, I walked out there and I was on cloud nine. After about six months, I called my father, I don't know. I'm sure I need to go see Mr. Massey again. And I did, I went to go see him again, all the way through to it. Went up there and see, I had to go see him again. You'd be surprised just because somebody can get off long with the Lord. And it's just not, you know, some great big man. I was in front of there, and I had, I don't remember where David was, but trying to stand in behind the street. They didn't have to have seat belts like them. Should always stand behind the street shoes like that, if you're in the room. I'm driving. She's been here. And so I'm going, and all of that, you just start it flooded. Just rain and so bad. And I'm driving behind some cars. I can't see. I can't see. I've got the wipers on. It's fast. They're going. These do it. Don't do them good. I said, I can't see. I thought the car was in front of me. I didn't know whether to slow down or if somebody hit me from the beginning. I didn't know what to do. I said, I don't know what I'm going to do, huh? And look, train the same guy because he said, why don't you ask God to stop it from raining? I ain't walking into that one. So if I ask the Lord to stop it from raining, they don't stop raining. No, how do I make me look? I'll swallow that. You pray. but she says, Lord, stop it from raining. In Jesus' name, amen. Not another drop in the windshield. She expected it. Little child like him, he said, I don't work that way. Let me take you this. I was in Minnesota. My son Eddie, now about 19 years old, big little young to the man. But was up in Minnesota and they were talking about all the bears that they killed. One guy didn't kill the 150 bear. That was the test time. Since then, he didn't kill another hundred. So, he said, no, he said, Daddy, God wants me to see a bear. And they kept talking about some of them and Daddy, God wants me to see a bear as a nine. Here he is. And I said, can thou take this to a place where there might be a bear? there. So we can check that and learn the dance. So we got in the back seat and this couple of they took us down the road. Went into this dump and then they put on the bright lights and see if they could see some bears in the trash that garbage, you know, all the dumpsters. No bear. I said there's no no bears here tonight. Eddie. God won't need to see a bear tonight. I said, there's another dump. I just got about 20 miles away. 20 miles. You have mine, do you know? No. How they go, is it done? If that's the service at night. It's like getting through the night and knowing I'm tired and wearing worn. And driving another 20 miles. Turn on the lights. No bear. I'd like to admit, there's no bears tonight. Not no bears tonight. God wants him to see a bear tonight. So we started back home down the road. I held him in the lap, and he turned over to look at me. God wants him to see a bear tonight. He went to sleep. All of a sudden, the God driving the car, he didn't pass it. He slammed on the brake. So there's a bear. And right in some of us, right in some of our headlights, was a bear one down the road. That he jumped up and he looked so, that he looked out to the windshield and he sees the bear. He got big smiles in the face. And then the bear turned to the right, went up a little hill, went into the woods. He looked at me and said, told you guy, when you see a bear tonight. I'm 66 and a half years old. It's never happened before, it's never happened since. I drove all over those Minnesota roads, I would just up there for a month, never show up there, but that night, I did, you say God doesn't do that, you don't know everything God can do. God did life and child life, Jesus, just for us to trust Him. You'll never see God get you out of anything if you don't let God get you into anything. So sometimes He's going to put you on a theater or a dead end or a draw hole, but that's only because you're on your goal to get where you're going. So your main prayer has to always nail down what's your goal in life, what's your purpose for living, and then there's points in time God will bring things into your life that will make you really pray. You see there's a natural everyday prayer we ask for God's blessings and protection and those things like that which is great, But there has to come a few calamities along the way that you didn't plan on to drive you through your knees to pull the rug out of Monday so that you can see that God is a God of provision only because you become a child of need God knows what he's feeling. Trust your Heavenly Father, love him with all your heart. Now if you're here tonight and you've never trusted Christ as your Savior, you're as lost as a hound baller when the end of a shoe phone, you're not going to heaven when you die. That can all be changed. All that you have to do, look up here. You've never seen this before. Learn how to do this. This is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin on us. God says that loves us. He hates our sin. And because we've sinned it, we're all condemned. And the pain of this eternal separation from God in a place called hell. God doesn't want us to go to hell. He wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God and nobody's perfect. Nobody's good enough to go to heaven on them. God says, because of sin, we can't get in. So no man can save himself. It's impossible. This man represents Jesus Christ. He's the Lord. He's God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from them. Christ who had no sin didn't have to die. He took our sins and he died for us. He came back from the dead. The payment for sin has already been made. But this payment is not put to your account because you believe he did it for you. And the very day, the very moment you believe that he did this for you that he paid for your sins, he puts this payment to your account and you go to heaven because you pay for all of your sins. They're all paid. See, the law can't touch you because it can't condemn a death man. When Christ died and you accept his death as your death, then you died. So as far as the law is concerned, you met the demands of the law. You paid the debt in full. Of course Christ did it for you. But God sees as you paid it. And you get to go to heaven because of what Christ did. And He says you'll never be condemned anymore. There's no condemnation to those who are in Christ. That's news in all the world. You see, if I offer to my Bible and you accept it, what would you have? If I offer to my Thai and you accept it, What would you have to die? No, something like this. When would you have the time? Well, when you accepted it. If offered you my wallet, you accepted what would you have? Yes, you offered. If Christ walked in here right now and offered you eternal life, and you accepted what would you have? Eternal life. Now, if it's eternal life, how long will it last? Well, if it lasts forever and all you send your page, where would you go when you die? So, can you know you're going to heaven before you die? Of course, that's the best news in the world. No choice to die. So, you're going to heaven, that is great. Now, what you have, when you get there, depends on what you do for him. But me getting there depends on what he did for me. Best news I ever heard. That's my challenge. Every head, Bob, and every act goes and no one looking around. If you're here tonight and you've never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you right now I'm just taught to the Lord and say something simple like this or I know I'm a senator. I don't understand at all. But I believe Christ died and paid for my sins and I'm going to trust him to pay me to heaven whenever I die. Friend God said, if you believe it yet it for you, it saved you. Save you means he saves you from hell. Saves you from the penalty of your sins that you had to pay. Means it gives you eternal life and you become this child. Means you get to go heaven when you die. So doesn't that make sense? The trust crisis is your only hope of going to heaven? Especially you can't earn it. You can't work for it. It's a gift. I'm going to ask you just a moment to raise your hand. Raising your hand doesn't save you. Just let's me know that what I said made sense to you. And you said, yes, that made sense to me. And preach, I like you to pray for me and cozy. Now if you've already done that before, you don't have to do it again. But why not write around the kindness of this moment, if you will trust Christ's Savior, let me know by not put it at hand. Just spit it up very quickly and put it right back down. Say, yes, pray for me. I'll trust Christ as my Savior tonight and preach I like you to pray for me, which I spit it up very quickly. Yes, God bless you. You can put it down. If you trust Christ as your Savior tonight, God saves you tonight. He has your eternal life and he'll never pass you out and never lose you. You're anyone else. You that have already trusted Christ as your have you ever had that journey that burning desire inside of you to want to do something for the Lord? God has a will for you, it's found in His Word. You study the Word to know His will so that you can do it. Have you been facing something lately that caused you to be maybe a little upset with God because you don't understand? And maybe you get a little bitter put out with God, maybe don't want to be as faithful as you ought to be. You're worried about things you ought to be trust in Lord's door. When is the last time you've literally just been crying between you and God? Have you ever done it? Let the Lord be real to you. Talk to Him. If you hear tonight and you say, I needed that message and that was especially for me and preach I'd like you to pray for me. I'm not going to have you phone now the inversion. But would you have found my show? You want special prayer tonight? Would She's just at the end of her quick interview and she left it down. Yes, God bless you and you'll hear her hand all over. Yes, God bless you. I appreciate that. I call the way you thank you so much. For the free gift of eternal life and the individual is the indication that they will trust you, Savior, your parent, peace of eternal life. They become your child. They turn out to be a cashmot, never lose them. And follow, I'll also pray especially for these that indicate that I'm not put to hand for they're your children, they know they go and they have them when they die. But probably they may be struggling about a thousand things that nobody else even knows about. Maybe personal things, something on the inside of them, something they've happened years ago, but maybe it has to deal with something they're going through right now, some heartache, some pain, some person of whatever it is Lord, I pray that they would just look to you. They don't have to understand at all, don't see how you're going to get them out of it, it doesn't matter. Just don't quit. Just don't quit. Not pray for all of it. You'll bless each one of them and strengthen them. Grant their prayer request. We ask you to bless this church for gaining this wife and all that they remain here that they've people and this is a good body for laborers. Just watch over and protect them and put a hedge about them and use them in a great way in Christ and reprise. Amen. Thank you so much. I've really enjoyed being here with you. stay out of trouble, keep your nose clean and do right. See you in a year. If I got any questions, yes. I'll turn it over here to Dan. Well, I don't have much to say. I'm kind of speechless. But can I have a couple fellows come up and help with you? I would take up the argument if you would. What you're gonna bless if you get ready I do want to thank Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold and his wife for being here. It's truly been a blessing, and we're looking forward to seeing him again next year. And I do want to thank everybody that's come out to listen to Dr. Yankee Arnold. I hope you got as much out of it as I did. Please rise if you will. Oh, by the way, we do have a few refreshments downstairs and probably some coffee and maybe some pop. I don't know, but you're welcome to stay if you like. The first verse of page 389, if you will. I did a pretty good job the last time, so I thought I'd try it again. Among her delinquent charm by the world's sea life, things that are higher, things that are and over. These have a little Christ's eye. Will hasten to hasten to land and flee to the greatest high. I will come to thee. Thank you very much