But it's been a big brother. It's my right spot here. I'm going to read this this first. I know this is not where you are. So don't don't get. Don't don't get afraid that I trust you the wrong spot. OK, I'm going to please. Yes, he's chapter three. And I'm just going to read one verse. It says to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Please pray with me, if you will. Father, we come to you this morning and Lord, we thank you for all that you've done. Lord, thank you for being such a great savior. Lord, thank you for being as glorious and wonderful as you are. Lord, you just love us exceedingly abundantly. You give us blessings. So many times, I think even when we're just not looking, it's almost like it's wasted on us, but you do it anyway. Lord, thank you for this day. It's beautiful outside. Thank you for everybody here and for the ability to have people that aren't around, that hopefully we can be a blessing to them. Father, I just ask that you would lead me this morning, set me out of the way. Lord, I pray that you'd give me the words to speak. I pray that you'd help us to be a blessing to everybody in the sound of our voice. And Lord, we just love you. It's in Jesus Christ's name, for his sake. Amen. Amen. So let's turn over. Let me get where I told you to be. Psalm chapter one. And you know what, I've got it written down. I won't spend the time. So in Psalm chapter one, verse one, for many people, this is gonna be familiar. If it's not, that's okay, too. This is the very first Psalm there in the biggest book in your Bible. This is a very well-known chapter for good reason. So just starting in verse one, blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law, he does meditate day and night. Now, I'm gonna stop there for just a second, and I'm just gonna give you the little sermonette, right? This is the mini-sermon. Now, you can dig deeper, you can get all that, that's fine. But if you just want the general idea of these first two verses, is that there is never a good thing to do with someone who's doing it in sin. There's never a good way to follow them, there's no good way to walk with them, there's no way to sit with them, and there is no good way to stand with them. There's just no good way. Uh, people, you know, I, and I understand the idea of, but I want to be a witness. You don't understand. I'm saved. I want to be a help. I want to, I want to try to lead them back. I get it. I understand. And you have to be able to speak and deal and be with them in that sense. I understand that. But then in the idea of fellowship, there's just no way. Uh, the Bible says over in the new Testament that evil communication corrupted good manners. If you're rubbing elbows with them, it's a rub off on you. I had a guy, he liked, he was a soccer player. And I know that's not real, it's almost heresy here in Kentucky. I get it. But he used to say, and you're gonna find out why, you can't do this with basketball. He said, if you take a clean soccer ball and you kick it in the muddy field, he said, the clean soccer ball doesn't clean the field. The mud gets the soccer ball dirty. So you can't do that with basketball. Unless you're playing outside and I'm not gonna go there. All right, so anyway, there's your sermon down in verse three of Psalm chapter one. And it says, and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither and whether, I'm sorry, whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Now, if you see, they're talking about this tree and it says fruit. He brings forth his fruit. This is the time of year in general. when plants bring forth their fruit. Now, how many of you guys know what, and I had a debate about this, was Friday or Saturday the first day of fall? Oh, good, nobody's gonna argue with me. I'm gonna say it's Saturday and my wife's not here. So my understanding is it's usually September 22nd. And now, and I don't know if this has to do with something to do with leap years and the way, and if you ever wanna just burn your brain out, go on like Wikipedia and read about leap years and how they do time against different time zones and all this different seconds. You'll get into nanoseconds and femtoseconds, and you'll just, you know, nah, turn it off. That's okay, it's every four years, I'm good. But they've got all this. Supposedly this year, it was one day off, like a few hours. It's supposed to be like 2 a.m. Saturday morning was the first moment of fall. But anyway, I love fall. Now I've got this titled Autumn. Because that's a prettier word, and I'm gonna get into that here in a minute. But the autumn, the fall, we just crossed over. And I enjoy, I love everything about fall, most everything. But as I'm thinking through all of this, see, I find it very interesting when I look at seasons, and the different way that people look at them. Some of you guys have heard me say all this before, and you just forget it, in fact, after hearing it the first time. But it seems like all of the seasons, depending on who you talk to, their opinions will differ. They'll be different. Now, except for spring, as far as I can tell, most people like spring. You're coming out of the dead of winter and everybody's just going, oh. Now, I like winter. I enjoy winter. But by the time February, March rolls around, it's like, I've enjoyed it. It's what's next. That's where I get, but I still enjoy winter, but everybody seems to enjoy spring. But then when you go and talk about summer, now how many here like summer? If you're on Zoom, raise your hand and I'll pretend like I counted you. Nope. Oh, I got two. That's two. Okay. I've got three, four. Okay. Now that we've got four. So I got about a half. Now, I think you're all crazy. I think you're all nuts. I hate summer. I can't stand it. If I had my way, we'd go straight from June into like late September. And I'd just be happy and I'd say, Lord, thank you for the three seasons. And I'd just be happy. But see, now my brother and my mom are different. I would rather sweat than shoot. Nessie, I'm dead the opposite. I'd shiver to get up. So during the summer, you guys are all gonna think I'm crazy. During the summer, I keep my thermostat, and you can all pray for my wife, I keep it set on 68. Amen, amen. People are like, you must spend gobs of money on your air conditioning bill. And yeah, I do, that's right. Amen, amen. That's right. But I look at that and I think, no, I would 100% see now I work at home. I have an office and I have a bunch of computers running. I've got screens, I've got a computer here, a computer here, I've got a computer here. And now it's work stuff, okay, mostly. But so these things put off heat. So in my office, it might be 80 degrees with a thermostat set on 68. Now, if I set it on 75, I'm still looking at 90. And I'm not interested. Because in the summer, you can't open the window and air it out, because it's 90 out there too. And there's no good way. So now, but my mom and my brother did the opposite. They love it. They love the beach. They love the heat. I talk about, oh, mom, fall is coming. And she goes, and I think, oh, mom, I don't know how I came from you, but I'm glad I didn't get that. But so many people love summer. They like the heat. They like the activities. This is when you go out and do things. The pools are open. My sister loves, and her kids, she's got a little one, they've got a little pool. She'll go out there and just, all day, all the time, she comes out dark-skinned, and she just loves it when they tan. But for me, nah, let's just skip it. It's too hot, it's too humid, the mosquitoes are out, the gnats are out, the wasps are out, the hornets, the everything, you know what I'm saying? I can make it sound real bad. For me, it's just all around miserable. For better or worse, summer is when a lot of things happen though. So many times, you know, you'll get a little bit in the fall, but you get in the winter and it's like, hey guys, you know, it's all great, isn't it wonderful? All the lights out there, everybody's like, no, stay at home, get the blankets and the heat on. It's not the same way. So in winter, most people I've met, they hate it. One reason or another. They'll say that the snow makes everything harder. You know, it's hard to get to work. Now, see, I have that. I work at home. It's not hard for me to get to work. It's snowy outside. It's beautiful. And I sit my teeth and walk over into the office, right? You all can all hate me, that's okay. Oh, you don't have to shovel snow, but I, now my wife's not here, so I can say this. I do so, I have to shovel her car. Now she's going, you do not. I do sometimes. Now then they say the cold, they make the knees ache. You know, I talked to my grandma, you know, and you don't understand, you know, it just, it makes things, and I, we're only in our thirties, but me and my wife both already, my wife, if it's gonna rain, my wife knows. She knows, she'll know the day before. If it's gonna rain later in the day, she knows the morning of. Strangest thing, but it happens. I think I'm hearing a little bit of revert there. But see, I'm the oddball who loves it. I say that the snow just makes everything beautiful. I love to get up on a morning and it's snowed in, and I don't like this picnic stuff. I don't want it the little sprinkle. I want it, you know, the winter wonderland. That's the way I like it. And I would be just, now I have, I've not always worked at home. I have worked, you know, in offices. So I had to get out in snow and do the snow. Now, was it annoying? Yes. Did I still love it? Yes. People call me a liar, but I'm not. Now playing in the snow, this is one of the things that I've always looked at. You can take any kid, They wake up on some morning and they got the day off school. Now that always helps. But maybe you think of just a Saturday and there's snow everywhere. What does every kid wanna do? I wanna go out and play. You can take the biggest gamer kid who likes to sit around in the house and read books and there's a field of snow out there and it's like, let's put on all the clothes and let's go roll around. You would never catch me doing that this summer. Not ever. I've even, we have a dog, she's a little, I call her an Australian Shepherd. I think that's what she is. She's a little bit, she's about that tall. And it's my parents' dog, but we had her when I kind of, a year or two there before I moved out, I think. And I used to take care of her, and I can remember the first winter, we had a good snow with that dog, and it was like, you just turned that dog on. She was excited. She went and jumped in the snow drifts, and then she'd come back out and shake it all off, and roll around, and run over the sway, and just having a big old time. Even animals love to play in the snow. That's one of my arguments. I say the cold means you put on sweaters, you pull out the blankets, you curl up with hot chocolate and a good book. I love the winter. For me, there's even something about the smell of heat when it's cold. Whether it's a campfire, you know, even, you know, maybe more like the fall, you go out on a night and make a little fire, you know, oh, smoke in your face, but there's just something about the smell of a campfire. But then there's also, you get up on a cold, wintry morning, maybe it's that first cold morning, and you turn the heat on. You know, you get that heat smell the first time. See, I've got some rolling up their nose, and I've got some going, yeah, I love it. See, but I think this is, and this is the interesting thing to me. depending on who you talk to, you just get different ways of looking at it, different things with these seasons. Now I'm gonna say this, I've got it written this way, I'm gonna do my best to kind of switch it as I go down through here. Autumn, right, now I don't run around, oh, I love the autumn. No, I just say the fall, okay, but there's a reason, you're gonna get it and then we'll be done with it. fall or autumn is one of these interesting ones to me because They're in those two names. We give it I feel like there's also there's almost two different points put writing You find some people Who look at this and I and I do think it lines up with these words autumn, right? It's it's a word that's like you find that in poetry Oh the autumn leaves and all this and it's kind of flowery and it's nice and it's a pretty word Now, who looked at fall that way? I'm raising my hand because I do. I love the fall. I think it's beautiful and it's fun. But then there's fall. That's not really a pretty word. I don't read a lot of poetry necessarily. I have in the past, but I don't think you find that word very much in poetry. Oh, the fall. Maybe if it rhymes, right? I don't know. But it's not so pretty. You know what, you think of a fall, it's a descent, it's going down and you're fading. It's something that happens to you, right? I fell, it's a fall, he took a fall. You've got a fall from grace, right? You've got all these, it's got this negative connotation. Now, kind of comparing my brother and I again, see my brother looks at the fall and he says, everything's turning brown and everything's dying and it's depressing. And I think you're crazy. Everything's turning red and yellow and orange and it's beautiful and the leaves are falling and they're fun to crunch through and do, you know, leaf piles and all of this stuff. Now I'm from Kentucky. Apparently you don't do that in Louisiana. They have snakes. You don't run through leaf piles when there's snakes. Now see, I didn't know that. I watched some show with some guys talking about that and I thought, oh, okay, that changes things. But I still like them. So I look at this and I think, you know, I think your enjoyment of these things, it can come down to just how you look at it. Now, so let's look at a few things here about autumn, the fall. It's harvest time. You know, the plants have already been sown, right? If you're a farmer, you're not putting many plants in the ground in the fall. There might be a few, there might be a handful that's like, oh no, you know, you planted this late fall and it goes through the winter, it comes back. I think two looks are that way. But listen, if you're planting corn and around here it's tobacco, if you're planting all, you know, your squash and your watermelon and you're doing your garden, who's starting that in the fall? Nobody, it's too late. It's not when you're planting crops, it's when you're harvesting them. That work's already been done. They've already had time to grow. They've already had time for the rain to fall on them. Reaping is what's being done in autumn. I was gonna switch it. It's what's been doing, been being done in the fall. Now I've also got, you know, the world begins to take on a different look. The leaves change colors, whether you think they're going brown or red and yellow and orange, whatever, they're still changing color. They begin to fall, they cover the ground. The air even takes on kind of a different quality, both in feel, but also in smell. I noticed that first cool day, it was in here the last about two weeks, I got out around lunchtime. I was going, you know, I was taking lunch and I got out, I think, and I got out of my truck and it was like 70, 72, right at that perfect for me, it's perfect. And I just remember stepping out of the truck, you know, and you've got the air conditioning, right? It's not fake air, but you know what it means, it's processed. But you step out in the fresh air and it was just like, oh, being wonderful. Oh, it just smells wonderful. And then it got hot again. It got up to about 82 and I went outside and I wanted to do it again. And I'm, oh, that's terrible. And I went back inside. But the air, it gets cooler. You've got a little wind. You know one of the worst, and this is one of my big things about the summer. I used to work, I used to build houses out in the countryside. And one of the worst things in the summer was it would be 90 degrees and humid and no wind, nothing to cool you off, nothing. But then you get the fall and even if the sun's coming down, it's still pretty warm. You can get out here, especially in the afternoon, it's still pretty warm, be about 80, but there'll be a nice breeze blowing and it's like, yeah, okay, I can deal with it. There's relief. But that air begins to change, takes on a different quality. So, Now, Zach, you spent a long time just waxing eloquent. I'm here for Bible. All right, let's get to Bible. Let me give you a couple of points here. Turn over to Galatians 6, and this one's gonna shock you. No one's gonna have heard this before. Galatians chapter 6. Galatians chapter 6 and verse 7 says, be not deceived. Okay, don't be tricked. Don't swallow a lie. Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. It doesn't say only the household of faith, it just says especially. For that said, all. Do good, be good. You reap what you sow. Turn over to 2 Corinthians chapter nine. Helps if I can remember which way to turn. The left, go to the left. Second Corinthians chapter nine, verse six. But this I say, he which soweth sparingly, so this is little. He didn't do out a big bountiful amount, he was sparingly. He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly. And he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Now that goes both ways. If you reap bountifully to the flesh, I'm sorry, if you sow bountifully to the flesh, guess what, you're gonna reap bountifully from that flesh. And we saw from Galatians, it said that they will reap corruption. But if you sow good things, you reap those good things. I wanna give you a couple points here, kind of compare. So the results of what was done before begin to be felt during autumn. Maybe you planted a lot and so you have a lot. Maybe you planted a little, so you only have a little. But maybe you also planted the wrong things. Maybe, you know, I got out and planted some, you know. Anybody here like dragon fruit? I don't care for dragon fruit. I find it sour. So good. Everybody else does too. So maybe you planted some sour plant. Maybe it's dragon fruit. And now you harvest it and you go, I don't want this. That's the way a lot of lives go. I sowed something and at the time it sounded like a good idea. And then now when it comes to reap it, now all of a sudden it's like, why? Why would I have done this? It's sour, it's not even good. But then there is also the idea of maybe you planted good things, but you didn't tend the garden. Anybody ever just gone out there, planted some seeds and all right. Good, you know, good to go. All right, they're planted. What else can I do? You know, the rain's gonna fall. As it is not to anyone who's planted a garden, than any kind of farming, gardening that you know, you have to get out there with a hoe, it's a little on a stick, and it's a little metal piece like that, and you chop weeds. And you're just chopping and chopping, and you're doing the dirt, and you're doing it around, and you've got it all, and it's back breaking. I never understood why they didn't make a long one. Why do I have to bend like this to do it, instead of just, Why can't I just say it? But that's the way it goes. If good things were planted and tended, then the fruits are ripening and they're ready to be plucked and enjoyed. If bad things were planted or things were left untended, then the harvest won't be the bounty that you hoped for. Now, very often, I say, oh, this is gonna shock everybody. Never heard this before. No, we've probably, at least most of us, heard this quite a few times. It gets talked about a lot. But so often it gets talked about and then it's left there. Well, you know, if you did, you'll have, and if you didn't, you won't, you know, and then we do what the head gardener dude does and goes, I told you. So here's where I'm gonna go. That's very true. All of this that we've read, this grieving, this scripture, that's all true. I have no issue with it, but I want to give you a reminder about the Lord and who he is. You can turn here if you like, you don't have to go to a right now, maybe just saw 136. One thing you need to be reminded of about the Lord is that he's merciful. He's merciful. And Psalm 136, and I guess I won't even necessarily turn, I'm not gonna read the whole chapter. You can, there are 26 verses. And if you have that eagle eye, just real good, you're gonna notice the end of every verse ends with the exact same phrase. His mercy endures forever. Now, if you go through, if I sat here and read those 26 verses, you won't be ready to shoot me. You'd be so tired of hearing me say, His mercy endures forever. I'm gonna go back and check that. I think I might've misquoted. Did I quote that right? Okay, good. So for his mercy endureth forever. For his mercy endureth forever. For his mercy endureth forever. For his mercy endureth forever. 26 times. Now there's parts, there's about half another half of those verses, but each one ends that way. Why does it need to be said 26 times in a row? Because you need reminders. You need reminders. Now, I want to jump on this. There's always this balance when you're up saying something. You can go too far one way, you go too far the other. And I wanna be very careful, I'm gonna sit right in the middle. This is also not, God's mercy is not an excuse. It's not something to be used. How many say, well, I'll just go ahead because I'll repent later and God will forgive me. You know, you guys have almost certainly heard of, you know, the guys who they go out on Saturday night. All right. And then I'll go to church and repent on Sunday morning. Now, you know, how many of us look at that and go, Oh yeah, that's just one. That's great. No, no. That's first of all, that's not real repentance now. And this is, this is my little thing. I'm going to be doing a thing three Wednesdays from today, from now. I think next Wednesday, I think is the last of yours. So I think the 4th of October. So I think it's the 11th of October. I'm going to do a thing on repentance and I'm going to show you why that's not real repentance. This is like that little ad blurb you get in the middle of a video. So three Sunday, I'm sorry, three Wednesdays from today, I'm going to do a thing on repentance and we're going to see what repentance is and why this idea of the Saturday night and then the Sunday morning Christian, that's not repentance. It's not repentance. Now, here's the thing about God's mercy though. We're talking about this thing of reaping and maybe I have a bad harvest. I've gotten to that time and it's time to reap and I look around and I think, look, this isn't what I wanted it to be. God can still bless you through a bad harvest. God can still bless you. Just because what's in the field went bad does not mean that there aren't beautiful trees around. I grew up on a farm. My dad, the farm was kind of right behind our house. We had, he had a couple of fields he would rotate every so often, but I can remember this one specific field. You know, you get out and you've got the place where he would plow, right? He had his little tractor and he'd go out and plow this field. So all the dirt's turned up, it's, you know, and it gets muddy. But so all of that was cleared, right? There's no trees in the middle of the field. You know, you don't do that. But around that field, all the way around, it's kind of like a rectangular plot, All the way around this were trees. You tore out the trees on this one section, you don't bother with the rest, right? They're there. One of the things about it is no matter what that field looked like come the fall, right? When it's time to harvest and take the plants out and all that good stuff, whether it was a good year, a bad year, whether we had the blight or whatever it was, the trees around the field always turned pretty. It didn't matter what the field looked like. No matter what the crop, no matter what the yield, you still have God's blessings around. It's hard to look at your field and not see what you had hoped for. Now, sometimes that's, I did everything right. I did everything I was told to do. I did everything I was supposed to do. Why didn't this turn out? That's a hard one. I'm not necessarily addressing all of that this morning, I understand. But I will acknowledge that's very hard. There is also, man, I thought this was a good idea and it wasn't. I should have known better. It's hard to look at that field, that stuff you're reaping and go, this just wasn't it, this wasn't what I envisioned. Here's my encouragement to you, don't lose sight of all God's blessings. Maybe that's where you sit, maybe you look around, maybe you have a friend, maybe someone you know needs this, I don't know, but do not forget the Lord's blessings. There's a verse over there in Psalms that says, forget not all his benefits. Now, number next, just because your harvest is bad does not mean that everyone's was. We might have our field over here went bad, but then down the road, his was just bountiful. Sometimes everyone gets caught in a drought, I understand, but sometimes, you know, yours didn't turn out, but that over there did. The answer is not jealousy. The answer is not, it's not thievery either. Well, you know, you've got plants and I don't, I'm gonna come out and take some of yours. None of that's the answer. Go over to Proverbs chapter 11. Proverbs chapter 11, we come down to verse 24. Down in verse 24 here, it says, there is that scattereth and yet increases. There is that withholdeth more than is meet. You guys understand meet there? More than appropriate. But it tendeth to poverty. Doesn't it make sense that, well, and I understand this is crops, this is seeds, I get all that, but let's put it in a little bit more terms we are more used to. Let's talk about money. I'm not asking for your money, don't give me your money, I don't want your money. But let's just put it in money. Isn't there this idea of, well, I say, hold on to, right? Because once you let it go, it goes away. No, hold, hold back, keep. I'm not saying interest is bad. I'm not saying don't put your money in the bank. I'm not saying that. I'm just giving you this idea of if I, if I give it all out, I have money. So I will hold. Well, there's this idea here. Now this goes into crops that, you know, well, okay, maybe it's seed even, maybe do this back in the summer, but maybe it's, I had a good crop and he didn't. And the idea is, well, this has to last me through winter. What about me and my family, me and mine, right? What do you do? What do you hold? There's a parable over in the New Testament, I believe it's Jesus Christ speaking in one of the Gospels, talks about, you know, the man built a bar. I can't talk this way. And you know, so that he could store all of his stuff, right? But what happened? Well, he died. And then what did the barn with all full of all the stuff that he had, what did it do for him? Not a thing. That's the idea behind this verse. Let's find my place again. There is that scattereth and yet increases. That's the opposite of the way we think. And there is that withholdeth more than his meat. Now it doesn't say not withhold any, it just says more than his meat. And it says, but it tendeth to poverty. Verse 25, the liberal soul, this is not political, this is giving. The liberal soul shall be made fat. And he that watereth shall be watered also himself. He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him, but blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth it. What you'd also notice, it doesn't even necessarily have to say you have to give it away. Now it doesn't say hike the price up. You guys remember toilet paper? No, I heard these stories, and this is wrong with me, I get it. But I heard the stories about these people who got stuck with garages full of toilet paper, and I thought, good. Good, that's one of you, I'm sorry. Well, I'm not terribly sorry, but I'm not trying to be mean to you either. But I looked at that, I thought that's what this verse is. Withhold. Now, but it doesn't say you can't sell what you have. Doesn't mean, you know, oh, they're desperate, they'll pay more. No, there's a such thing as kindness. There's a such thing as, but at the same time, listen, this did cost me seed and time and effort and work. It is not wrong that someone says, you know, listen, you know, I understand you're having a hard time. You know, I might sell this to you at a discount. That's great. But you know, I will, I'll part with it to you. This idea that everybody just, you know, what you have, you should just, you should just get, you're richer than I am. I'm sorry, it's not Bible. It's not. Now, well, yeah. There's the, so, and again, remember I said there's always this balance. There's other verses that talk about the rich, brother, I know your name. I'm liking it. The good brother on Wednesday nights, dude, he's been doing James, Billy. All right, on Wednesday nights, he's been doing James, and I think he just covered these verses on the rich. It's funny because I was reading another verse, I think it's over in Timothy, where it talks about this too. There's plenty that the Bible says about, you know, hey, rich man, right? But then there's this other side too, you know, the poor eat the poor. I'll forget everybody else's name too in that way, we'll even out. So I read down there with verse 26. He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him, but the blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it. This is one of the things that so many people with a bad harvest need. Remember, the answer is not jealousy, the answer is not thievery, and the answer here is not even demanding. The answer might be that I go to someone who has had a good harvest and who can share, even if that share might mean a price for me. Now, you know, there's, again, there's all this stuff, oh, too high, too high, you know, oh, you want me to give it away, you want me to give it away. There's this meat in the middle, isn't there? But the idea of, no, you just have to give, because I'm having a hard time, not necessarily. They can. They're allowed to, and it's even a good thing to do. But there's no demanding, there's no jealousy, there's no thievery. You know what I think a lot of people who've had a bad harvest in life need, Now, and I'm usually, I'm not one of these big ones. Oh, you gotta be, you know, church, church, church. I know church. Church is a great thing. It should be where you find great people. What so many people who had a bad harvest need is to find a church full of good people who have had a good harvest and are willing to share and are willing to help. It might be that, you know, I just, I don't, maybe I'd feel like I don't really bring much in I just, I kinda, you know, all I'm useless. No, you're not. No, there's people that'll love you. There's people that, you know, they've got this good crop. And I always think of it this way. I think a lot of people do too. There's so many people who there's this pride, right? I come to your door and I'm thinking in the idea of, you know, next door neighbor, his crop failed and then this guy over here did it. So the one who failed has to come to his neighbor, right? It's that hat in hand kind of idea, right? You know, hey brother, you know, I just, I really need some help, you know, I just don't really have, you know, can you help me? You know how many men are just never, nope, I'll starve to death, I don't care. Nope, never. There's humility involved in I had a bad last. This is what it is. And so this guy over here, look, you know, you seem to have, you know, will you help me out some? I don't, you know, I'm not asking for everything, right? There's not this, give me, give me, give me, but there's, you know, look, I need help. But see, then there's this also this kind of thing of the person who's standing there, you know, who has the good hearts. See, pride becomes a problem on that side of the doorway too. Oh, come back in now, have you? That's not right either. So maybe you sit on the one side of the fence or the other, and wherever you're sitting, leave your pride out. Kick it out the door, put it out the window, get rid of it however you can. If someone comes in and needs help, There's no rubbing noses in it. There's no, you know, let's see you growl a little bit first. You know, let's, you know, you know, there's none of that, but then there may be also, it doesn't mean you have to come. Come and very humbly and he agrees. And you just come and say, look, you know, I just need help. Would you help? Yeah. And that can be it. What so many people have had a bad harvest need is just to come to somewhere with people who have a good harvest. You realize that as a Christian, that's supposed to be us. I understand it's not all the time. We all have, you know, backgrounds and histories and we've all got this and that and the other thing, but we should be coming out with a good harvest, shouldn't we? Remember that verse we read about over there in Galatians, talked about sowing to the spirit. Is that not what we're trying to do this morning? It's what we want to do. We should be coming up with a good harvest, but it's not just support. It's also to help these people over here who don't have a good harvest. All right, next, I'll move on. You start to see the world around you a little differently than those in summer. I'm back on fall. You start to see the world around you differently than those in summer, solid. It's amazing how much this can be different based on who you're talking to. And again, my brother hates fall. I love fall. He says it's brown. I say it's beautiful. I think there was another page here and that's not it. So we'll freestyle. As you're looking around, it's amazing how much the world can start to look a little different to you. You get in this autumn, you get in this fall. I think there are times in life when where the world just somehow tilts and just looks different. I'm about 32, and I can remember being, you know, this little girl's age. I can't remember being Benjamin's age. But I can remember, you know, the teenage years, and I can remember the early 20s, and I can remember starting my career and being, you know, mid-20s, and I'm trying to this, and then, you know, 30s now. And I've, you know, people talk about kids change the way you see the world. Kids change your life. As you're going through and you get into some fall, I think there's this idea of, you know, some people look at this and say, oh, I hate it. I hate this. I want it back the way it was. See, it looks different than it did in summer. You get in this autumn and this fall and things are changing, but see, the thing is, you can look at, you know, well, these leaves fell on the ground and they're all muddy and dirty and I just hate them. Or you can look up in the trees and go, wow, reds and yellows and oranges. It's gorgeous. It all depends sometimes on how you look at it, but also where you're looking. I got one little story and I'll finish on this. This is an old story. You guys may have heard this before. There was a man, he was kind of an older guy. Now, he might've, you might've said he looked like a mountain man. He had one of these great big beards, you know how it goes. Now, for whatever reason, this man liked Lindbergh cheese. You guys ever smelled Lindbergh cheese? I had a guy bring one into the office one time. Hey, you guys wanna try this? No, and I thought, I've never actually been around it. I should try it and I didn't, it's gross. But so he liked Lindbergh cheese and he had a hunk of it. He ate him some cheese. Well, see, you know how it goes, right? He got in his beard. Well, this man, he went up to the shops, he went in town. He walked in the first shop and he said, this place is terrible. You know, you guys, it just, it reeks in here. I'm not shopping in here. So he left and he went to the next shop. And that was the same way. And then he went to the third and the fourth and he's just, I can't, you all are terrible. I'm not coming here. And he thought, well, I'll go out to the countryside. So he got out and maybe he went out to the orchard. He went out here, all the fresh air, right? And he got out of the fresh air and he thought, what's wrong with this place? This is a terrible place, I'm going home. He went home, he got in the house, he walked in and finally, the place that I have done, right? I keep this place clean and good and all this stuff. And then he walked in and thought, well, this place sinks too. And it wasn't until he went and looked in the mirror that he realized that he had been the problem all along. he'd been carrying the stink with him. You see, one of the things that we wind up doing, we go through life, we go through wherever it is and we go around and if everywhere just stinks, you might be the problem. It might be. Sometimes it's an attitude, sometimes it's just the way you're looking at stuff. But as you go along and if you look out at fall, I tend to look at it this way. If you're looking out and oh, it's just terrible and ugly, A, if you're sniffing around in the sewer, then yeah, it's always gonna stink. If you're looking only at ugly things, it's yeah, everything's gonna stink ugly. So look up. A, let's just talk about looking up. You look up in the trees, right? That's where the pretty stuff is. Well, where the Lord is, is where the beautiful things are, too. We talked about his mercy, and there were meant to be a couple of verses on here that I was gonna turn to. One I know was in 2 Peter, and I think it's, I'm gonna say it's 2 Peter, and it talks about great and precious promises. See, that's a beautiful thing. Now, I'm not saying there's not some ugly things in Scripture. There's some stuff there. Now, it's true, it's truth. Sometimes truth is ugly. but not always, and it shouldn't be necessarily the only things you look at. If you choose one favorite verse, you're no better than this other guy over here who chose a different favorite verse, who we always wind up having problems with. So you've got great and precious promises, but then there's also, I think it's in 1 Timothy, I wanna say it's chapter six. It talks about that the Lord has given us richly all things to enjoy. As you go through life, now listen, you might look around and say, you know, this, oh, this is terrible, this is bad, and this guy's doing this over here. There are still beautiful things. It might just be the Lord. But maybe you just need to keep your eyes stuck on the Lord tonight. If y'all bow your heads. Now I'm not gonna keep you very long, and our piano player's on baby duty. But so I'll give you just to hear a few moments. Not very long, unless you all just really want to. But, you know, we're just thinking about this idea, right, of where we keep our eye, where we keep our vision. Over in Proverbs, it says that without, oh, and I don't want to misquote it. Without a vision, the people perish. Where's your vision at? Where are your eyes set on? Are they set on all the ugly stuff around you, and all this is terrible, and all this is bad, and this person's doing this, and they're getting away with, and that one's doing that, and that one's, and can you believe? Or is it all right, Lord? You know, I've got me and I've got you and I've got all the blessings of people that you've put around me and given me. Thank you so much and it's wonderful, it's beautiful and we praise you for it. We sang that this morning, you know, glory to his name. I believe it's in the book of James, it says, every good and perfect gift comes from above. If you look around and you see that you've got any good and perfect gifts, you know who to thank this morning. All right, praise the Lord. I'm glad that you guys have come this morning. Go ahead and pray, and we will close out. Father, we come to you this morning, and Lord, we thank you so much for all you've done. Lord, too often we are ungrateful. Too often we forget or we just miss the blessings. Lord, we ask you forgive us when we've done that. And Lord, we ask you to help us to be better. Pray that you return us to you, help us to love you more every day. Lord, pray that you help us to certainly not to be deceived, not to look around and just think that, you know, oh, There's no things, there's no sin, there's no whatever. We know from your Bible, from your book, Lord, you've given us much negative truth, but we also have given us much positive. Thank you for being a merciful God. Thank you for being so good to us, for giving us everything to enjoy. Pray that you would help us to enjoy all of the good things. Pray that you help us to keep away from the ones that are bad, that would cause us to have a bad harvest. Pray that you help us to keep close to you. It's in Jesus' name, for his sake. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. You guys have a good week. And whether tonight or Wednesday, Brother Coffman will be back and take over. We'll see you guys on Zoom. Hope you guys have a good rest of your day. Be back with us tonight at 5 o'clock.