Good morning, everyone. It's great to be in the Lord's house today. Let's not take it for granted. There's so many people that don't have a church to go to, so many that have never heard the gospel, much less have a church to go to. And so often it's just an every week thing and every Sunday thing should be every Wednesday thing. And we just we take it for granted. Lord, let us not do that today. First Corinthians chapter 14. So this is a portion of scripture we actually looked at in the college and career class last week. Don't worry, I'm not going to redo the same thing, y'all, so stay awake back there. So this is just actually something that just stood out to me in my study for last week, just one verse. And it's funny how You read through the Bible and you've read through passages over and over again, and sometimes you read a verse and you're like, I don't remember that verse being there before. And just the way the Lord speaks to you as you read that verse, whether it's convicting or maybe just piques your interest, whatever it might be. But that for me was in verse 20. Let's look at verse 19. So 1 Corinthians 14, verse 19. Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. Brethren, be not children in understanding, howbeit in malice be ye children. But in understanding be men. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you for this day. Lord, I thank you that you've given us another day to serve you to worship you, Lord. I thank you for this church, Lord. I pray you bless the services we've got this morning. Now use this time, Lord, your word as it goes out. We know it won't return void, Lord. I pray you just use me as a vessel today to preach your word, Lord, that I wouldn't be seen, Lord, that flesh wouldn't be lifted up in any way, Lord, but that your message, Lord, you would be lifted up and glorified in all things. We thank you. We love you. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen. So let's look at a little context here. We'll look at verse 4. And what Paul was dealing with in this portion of scripture is spiritual gifts that were given to the church in Corinth. Now, this whole message isn't going to be about speaking in tongues or anything like that, but this just is going to provide a little context of where they were at this point in dealing with spiritual gifts. As Paul wrote to them in verse 4, he said, he that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself. but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. So he says here about those that speak in tongue, they're edifying themselves. So this is a thing of just the, you know, you can think of it as just the flesh, right? Let's read forward before I get ahead of myself, actually, before I give away what Paul is writing here. He says, I would that ye all speak with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret. And, you know, I've seen clips before of people with the speaking in tongues, right? And they jibber jabber and they move on, right? And it's just, it's really a thing to be seen because what's gained from it? Who even knows what they're saying? And they say, well, it's in the Bible. Well, if you look at the Bible, it says about an interpreter. So, you know, they don't ever interpret. They just get up, jibber jabber. There's no interpreter, nothing given. And we'll see the purpose Here, what's the point if we just have nothing to say, if we just make noises with our mouth? We know today now that the Scripture, we have the fullness of Scripture. That's not a necessary thing. That's not a thing given as a gift today. But he says here in verse 6, Now brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall it profit you, except I speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying or by doctrine? Verse 7, and even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in sound, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? So he uses an illustration first off, and he says he uses the idea of music. So think about this morning, the song that we just sung. If I was to get up and play the piano for that song, Y'all would be real confused. I don't play the piano. It would be horrible, right? I'd just get up and hit some notes and make it look like I know what I'm doing, but it wouldn't make any sense. It'd be hard to keep time with the song and the flow. You know the right notes and what should be sung. It would sound real off. Or also think about the same time if I could play the piano and I played a different song to what you were singing. That'd be a lot of confusion, wouldn't it? And then the next verse, he says in verse 8, For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? Picture this, you're on a battlefield. You're ready to march into battle. You're ready to do battle, right? Nerves are high. And you're waiting for the sound of a trumpet. And you hear, I don't know, a guitar, or you hear some other sound. What do we do, guys? Some are going into battle. Some are retreating. Again, it's confusion, right? And then in verse 10, no, verse nine. So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye shall speak into the air. There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore, if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Has anyone ever tried to speak to you in another language? Or you came across someone that didn't speak English and you try to speak English to them. How well did that turn out? Like, I've put on, like, ESPN has a Spanish thing and I've seen them, you know, sports and the guy's up there, blah, blah, blah. I know he's saying something. I don't know what he's saying. And then he yells goal for 45 seconds. You know what's going on there, right? But the whole time they're talking, you don't know. And there's no way to communicate. So you have these examples of music, you have the example of going into battle, the trumpet, the confusion that could be, and then each one of us trying to communicate, if we were speaking in different tongues, what prophet would it be? If I try to give you the gospel in another language, do you think you're going to be able to understand? If I try to give English gospel to someone that only spoke Spanish, it wouldn't go over too well. So what was going on here, so back to verse 20, again he says, brethren, be not children in understanding, albeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. So what's the point? Why is he writing this verse to these people? And you can even look back. He's talking about spiritual gifts. In chapter 13, he says, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become a sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. We should have charity, right? There's different gifts. There's different things that we should do within the body of Christ. And he speaks of charity here in chapter 13. But this one of tongues, they were using it to edify themselves. They were using it in a way to lift themselves up. So we could use different things to try to lift ourselves up within the body of Christ, to make ourselves look better than we are, to, you know, to get up and sing and just use the the talent of your own voice instead of really doing it to minister to God, or to get up in front of people and speak and just use your own ability to speak instead of letting God speak through you. And those are just a few examples. We can do a lot of things other than that just to be seen of men rather than to serve God. So the application here that we can get today, right, no one here is speaking in tongues, at least I hope not, I've not heard you. The application that can be made today is make sure the things that we do, we do for God, we do for Christ. And we do it for edifying Him and the body of Christ, not to just improve our own standing or edify our own selves. So that brings us then into verse 20, this idea of understanding. And that's the heart of what I want to bring to you today is understanding. I think understanding fixes the issue that they had here. He says, again, brethren, be not children in understanding. So what does that mean, being a child? Well, think about a child. What do they do day in and day out? pretty much whatever they want, right? So, if I didn't tell my kids, without parental guidance, whatever they want, right? Yeah, don't take that wrong. My kids, if I let them, right, they always talk about, man, I can't wait until I get older, I get to stay up, right? Or, man, if I left them, they probably, to their own devices, They'd want to stay up and just eat candy, eat candy for breakfast, eat candy for lunch, candy for dinner, right? Just be crazy hyper. Say they want to stay up all night. Give them a few days of that and they're going to be miserable, okay? Well, that's the flesh, right? The flesh has its desires and things that we think that it wants and we feed them those things and then we're miserable. Well, as you get older, those desires, those things change, right? I'm excited about bedtime, right? I get there and I'm here. It's my time to shine, guys. It's bedtime. I've worked hard. But, you know, that's part of working hard, right? I guess bedtime's not as exciting if you don't work too hard. You have those days where you're lazy, you lay around, and you have a hard time going to sleep at night. That's a whole other thing. But being a child, there's things that I guess living after the flesh would be a lot comparable to that. He says, be not children of understanding. A child has to be told to do the right things. A child has to be instructed to do the right things. But then as you grow older, you want to do those things. OK, so again, back to talking about just eating, feeding yourself. You know, they just want to eat candy and cake and chocolate and ice cream and all those things. As you reach a certain age, and I've made it to that point, everyone, my confession to you. I've made it to the point where I can't eat those things in excess. When I was younger, you could eat whatever and garbage food all day, and then you'd just feel fine. I've made it to the point where if I don't eat good one day, the next day I feel sluggish, bad and horrible. And we work a lot the same in spiritual life, right? If we don't feed ourselves the right thing, we feel horrible. It feels fun for a season, right? It feels good then, but long-term, that's a miserable feeling. And you see that. Those that are younger may not completely understand what I'm saying, but as you get older, man, you feel it. You can't do those same things. Stay up late at night, maybe some of you are better at that. I can't. I'm not a night owl. Just things affect the flesh a little bit different, but as a child would desire those things. But notice this next part that he puts in here. So he says, brethren, be not children in understanding. So we shouldn't be lacking in understanding. He says, albeit in malice, be ye children. So I went and looked at this word malice, right? This isn't a word we use a lot. You read over initially, you just think of maybe evil, wrongdoing. The actual definition for malice is extreme enmity of heart or malevolence, a disposition to injure others without cause. But notice this next part, from mere personal gratification or form or from a spirit of revenge, unprovoked malignity or spite. And I don't want to say it seems necessarily out of place where it's put in the verse, but it's just interesting. It's talking about different gifts and how they use the gifts and edifying themselves, edifying the church. And then we get to this verse and it says to not be children in understanding. And then it just says, albeit be a child in malice. And the idea that's contained here with this word malice is injuring one another or causing harm to one another from mere personal gratification. This would be then lifting yourself up, making yourself look like something that you're not, or doing a ministry for the Lord. You say it's for the Lord, but you're really doing it for yourself. Who does that really injure? Well, it does injure you, but also injures the body of Christ, right? We're brothers and sisters in Christ. We should all want each and every one of us to succeed and do well and And when someone gets a blessing, we should be happy for them. We should be excited for them. Those are things that we should all have spiritually within ourselves, that ability, that maturity. But here it says the idea of to be children in malice. So we saw what a child was, right? You didn't have to be instructed to do wrong, but you had to be instructed to do right. You had to be instructed to do those things. Well, it says to be a child in malice. It's the idea of being innocent towards that. Have no knowledge of it. you know, don't operate in that life. There's things that my children would have no knowledge of because they've not entered that part of life. Well, malice should be so far from us as a thing we don't think on. It's a thing that we don't exercise. It's a thing we take no part of. And then at the end of this chapter, it says, but in understanding, now be men. So he started off, said, to not be children in understanding. We should be children in malice, but also now to be in understanding to be men. So what does it mean then to be men? It says the idea of maturity. As I said, as you grow older, there's things you're no longer having to be told to do, right? No one tells me to go to work every day, right? Because I know if I want to eat, I need to work. No one tells me to go to bed. I usually tell my wife I'm going to bed now. I'll fall asleep on the couch. You know, no one has to tell me to eat better, okay? I'm not exactly the ideal of the perfect diet, but you know, no one has to tell me, you just can't eat garbage all the time, right? The body feels it. There's a lot of things in life you don't have to be told anymore as you grow and mature, but the same thing can be applied to our spiritual life. There's things that we shouldn't have to be told anymore. You know, and it says here in understanding to be men with the respect of understanding. So then what does that mean? We'll look at this word understanding. We'll look at some different places it is used. You know, there's probably some verses that you've already thought of right away when we talk about understanding. It says to be men in this subject, to be men, to be mature, to be, you know, not have to be instructed in this idea of understanding. Because again, think about the context that we're here, serving in the church. This is what he's used in this verse. So if we get understanding right, we'll get a lot of things right within our own life, with our relationships to one another, but mainly with our relationship with God and how we serve God and church. Go to Proverbs 3, and I'm sure this is one you've probably thought of right away. Proverbs 3 is the first one that popped into my mind. A lot of you could probably recite this verse. But let's look at some things. First of all, a life without understanding. Our instruction was to be men, right, as far as understanding is concerned. In Proverbs 3, verse 5, the instruction is, trust in the Lord with all thine heart. You know, the Bible contains a lot of things that are easy to understand but hard to live. Okay, so we read this. That's easy to understand. Does anyone not know what it's saying, right? Trust in the Lord with all thy heart. But what happens when a trial or some tough thing comes in your life? You start to figure out how you're going to fix it in the flesh, don't you? You know how I know you do that? Because I do that. We start to figure out, you know, how can I fix this problem? And some of you can probably think of stuff just this week, things that you're facing that may be coming up in the future, and you let these things consume you, and you think on these things, and we don't trust in the Lord with all our heart. We give Him part. We say, okay, God, I'll trust you this bit, but I've got to do this other part, right? And we rely on our own selves so much. The command here is to trust in the Lord with all thy heart. But notice the next thing it says, lean not to thine own understanding. And I tell you what, we live in a generation, a time where leaning to our own understanding is the norm, right? That's the thing that's pushed. There is no right or wrong in society today. Okay, you take what we have going on today to its logical conclusion. You take the Bible out of things, and they say, well, I don't need the Bible to tell me to be a good person, to do right. I know it's wrong to not murder. I know it's wrong to murder. It's not wrong to not murder. I'll correct that real quick for my safety. It's wrong to murder, okay? It's wrong to steal. These are things that we take for granted in a society that's based on the Bible. And so many people don't realize the simple fact, you know, they want to push evolution, and they push this survival of the fittest, and they say that, essentially, we're just animals. We came from nothing, a bang, and a tadpole, and it lost its tail, and it became a monkey, and then here we are. And that's the short of things, right? And it sounds ridiculous on its face, but they want to tell us, That's the truth, so what's the end of that? Why is it wrong to kill? Why is it wrong to steal? Survival of the fittest, right? If you've got something I want, the logical conclusion for that, what is right, what is wrong? It's scary to think that's the direction that it's going. But that's a world without God. You know, that's a world where, you know, they want to take God out of everything. But lean not to your own understanding because that's the logical, that's the end that we get to. So then our own understanding, what does that do? Our own understanding is full of worry, right? All we can do is see the things that are around us and see those things coming up that we know we might need or the things that have happened in our life or whatever it might be. We lean to our own understanding. That's a life not of peace. That's a life of turmoil. That's a life that I don't want to live my life in my own understanding, because I know, man, left to my own thoughts sometimes, and I don't know if you're all the same way, but sometimes, man, I'll think myself in all kinds of trouble. Man, I'll think in some crazy trouble. All of a sudden, then I'm not sleeping. I told you I like to go to bed at night. It'll get into your mind and things like that. We're told to trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not to our own understanding. That's a life lived without understanding, proper understanding. Proverbs 18. Go to Proverbs 18. And we'll be in Proverbs here for the remainder. Turn to a few different spots, but all here. Proverbs 18, verse 1. Through desire, a man having separated himself, seeketh an intermeddleth with all wisdom. A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. I don't want to be a fool. It says, what does it say about a fool who has no delight in understanding? Okay, so this would be someone that, you know, no delight in reading the word of God, no delight in hearing preaching, hearing the truth. And again, man, don't we live in a society full of that? Not only do they take no delight, they just pure, full out hate it, want to ban it and get rid of it. But it says a fool here take no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself. No pleasure. And then at the end you see in verse 2, where it says the heart may discover itself, this has the idea of an outward show. There's no actual benefit, we just do these follow through the motions, right, a full, it takes no glory in understanding, but may come to church, may open the Bible, may say they're praying, all these things, but no delight in it. And it says that his heart may discover itself, may show itself, just an outward show. And again, doesn't that relate back to what we saw there in 1 Corinthians? And I guess it all comes back to the point of what do we do everything we do for? Is it for an outward show? Is it to be seen? Or do we do it to glorify God, to edify the body of Christ? And that's what... Paul was really trying to drive home here in 1 Corinthians through this idea of understanding. So a life without understanding, it's not a life that I want to live, partake in. And in my days, a life lived that way. Now, so you say, then, how do you get understanding? Go to Proverbs 4. This is nothing deep, shouldn't be over anyone's head here this morning, but this is a truth, a fundamental thing that we always need to keep in mind. It's one of those, there's a lot of things, again, in the Bible that we look at, we need to get the simple things right. Sometimes I think we're too worried about big things or worried about, you know, I don't know how to put it any other way. We don't focus on those things that are the basics, right, and we get ahead of ourselves. We need to focus on these small things. What is understanding? How do we get it? Proverbs 4, verses 1 through 8. Hear ye children the instruction of a father and attend to no understanding. So notice what he says first of all is here, right? How often do we, we somewhere and someone's preaching or someone's, you know, the word of God and, and we don't really, we don't really hear it. You know, it's going on, but we don't really take it in. It says the instruction of a father and tend to no understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also and said unto me, let thine heart retain my words, keep my commandments and live." Where do we get God's word today? God's Word. Word of God. We get in the Bible. I mean, it's that simple. But how often do we neglect it? How often do we... Have you ever been reading your Bible and you don't really hear it, right? What I mean by that is you're just reading through. You've got to knock out your two, three chapters, four chapters, five chapters. You've got to stay with reading through the Bible through the year. And you get through the end of the third chapter you're supposed to read and you didn't retain anything that you read. That's not hearing the Word of God, right? That's just, that's just breezing through it. That's just checking a box. That's not really receiving instruction to have understanding. He says, then after he says, here in verse four, let thine heart retain my words. So this would be understanding, right? Keeping it. He says, keep my commandments and live. And then in verse five, he says, get wisdom, get understanding. So does this just happen? This is something we have to seek after. We have to actually get. And I think so often in life, we do things without a purpose. And again, I talked about coming to church here this morning. What was the purpose? Are we just here? Is this just another thing to check off? It says we got to get understanding. We have to get wisdom. These are things that we have to pursue. You don't just get something without pursuing after it. You don't get it after having a purpose to retain that day. And we get ready. It's Sunday. We get ready. We come to church. Why are you here today? It's Sunday, right? That's why we're here. So often we fall into that trap. Or are we here to receive something from God's Word? Are we here to get understanding? Are we here to get truth? Are we here to get closer to God? It has to be with a purpose. It says, get understanding, forget it not, neither decline the words of my mouth. Verse six, forsake her not and she shall preserve thee. Love her and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom. And with all thy getting, get understanding. And then notice in verse eight, exalt her and she shall promote thee. She shall bring thee to honor when thou dost embrace her. So our purpose, our goal should not be to promote ourselves, to bring ourselves up, to say, hey, look at me. Because that's what was going on in the church of Corinth. But it says here in verse 8, exalt her and she shall promote thee. I'd rather be promoted by God, right? I'd rather be promoted by doing those right things. I'd rather be promoted in right and understanding than trying to get it on my own. Because at the end of the day, that's going to be a lot better result. Proverbs 2. How do we get it? Proverbs 2 verses 1 through 11. My son, if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments with thee, right? There's some commandments here, right? Some things that we're told to do. We have to receive it, first of all. And so it says, hide commandments with thee. Verse two, so that thou will incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding. Again, these aren't things that just happen. It says we have to incline, right? It says apply thine heart to understanding. Verse three, yea, if thou cryest after knowledge and lifteth up thy voice for understanding, Verse four, if thou seekest her as silver and searches for her as hid treasures. How much of our life do we spend seeking after silver? I mean, you say, I don't do that. We focus on our work. We focus on our job. We focus on those things a lot and concerned about promotions or, you know, if you have your own business of where things are going, if things are, you know, if enough business is coming in and different things like that, worried about prices and all those different things. We seek after treasure enough here in the flesh, don't we? And we don't have to be told to do those things. It's natural in the flesh. But what if we, in verse 4, we sought after wisdom and understanding with that same fervor, with that same desire? If we went after the things of the Lord the same way we go after the things of this flesh, things of this life, we would have a lot less to worry about. And that's what he was trying to convey to the church at Corinth. With this understanding comes the fact of seeking the things of God, to edify the church of God, to bring glory to God. If we get those things straight, that letter would have to be written, you know, to get things straight in the church. A lot of things would be straight in our own lives if we'd seek the kingdom of heaven, if we'd seek the things of God instead of the things here on this earth. And again, this is not a deep thing. This isn't a light bulb, oh wow moment. All this is brought to bring our attention back to these basic things, to seek God and to seek those things that are His, those things that are above. And again, everything we see, day in and day out, we see the things of the flesh, don't we? We touch and hold the vehicles that we have to make payments on. We live in the house that we've got to make payments on. We have to have food, we have to have clothes, all these different things. We see these things, and if we're not careful, we let that be our focus, and forget of those eternal things, those things in heaven, those things we can't see, but they're more real than the things that we have here on earth. These things are gonna be gone. One day when you die, you're not gonna have them anymore, and there's gonna be an eternity to live, and it's gonna be in heaven or hell. And what treasures have you put up in heaven? Are you too busy putting these earthly treasures, these silver and gold here on earth, instead of those things in heaven? And I tell you what, It's so convicting, convicting of a thought. And then verse 5, Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord giveth wisdom, and out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. Again, the things that come out of God's mouth. We have the Word of God here today. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous. He is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of saints. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul, discretion shall preserve thee, and understanding shall keep thee." A life without understanding is what we looked at first. How do we get understanding? It's in the Word of God. We have to seek it. We have to desire it. We have to want it. But then a life, a life lived with God's understanding, Proverbs 3. We already looked at verse 5, we'll look at verses 1 through 4. My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my commandments. For length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thy life. These are the things that I'd like to have, right? Length of days, long life, peace. And I've said this before, as I've had the opportunity to be before you at other times, that peace is a more valuable thing the older I get, a real peace. I tell you, as you're younger, a lot of your peace comes from your parents, especially if you have good parents, as I was blessed with. A lot of peace in my life came from parents that did right and raised me right and did those right things. I had a lot of peace, and you take that for granted as you're a child. And then you grow up and you realize that the peace you have in your life is on your own shoulders. Decisions you make are going to determine what peace you have in your life, whether you have sleepless nights, whether you have regrets, whether you have all these different things. It's up to you to have peace. We get it from understanding. This is a promise. It's for length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thee. I believe the Bible is a promise. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck. Write them upon the table of thy heart. So shall thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Go down to verse 13. Here's a man of understanding. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that forget that that getteth understanding. I sure would like to be happy, right? I like that you ever had someone that every time you see him they just look grumpy and sad and mad and some people just have that mad face regardless, but some people just man they're just they're just down you know all the time. How you doing? I don't even ask after a while you know. How you doing? No, just it's good to see you. Happy is the man. Man, I'd like to have a life that's happy, full of joy for the Lord. Verse 14, for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver. Money can buy a lot of things, right? There's things that we can have and enjoy here on earth. You can see that in Ecclesiastes. There's things that money can buy and that you can enjoy. But it says, for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and gold. Those things that can be gained from understanding, following after God, those things are better than things that money can buy. And the gain thereof, the profit, those things are better than gold. Again, talking about it, we go after gold a lot, we go after money. But the gain that we'll have from understanding, following the Lord, is much better. She is more precious than rubies and all the things that thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. And a lot of you, you know, you probably think of things that you desire right now. They're probably things that you're working towards here, earthly things. But the Word of God says that thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Man, how much greater are those things of God that we can gain through understanding. Verse 16, length of days is in her right hand, and her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. And what a life, man. All the paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her, and happy is everyone that retaineth her. A life lived with God's understanding. So today, the conclusion of all this, as we look there in 1 Corinthians, and it told us to not be children of understanding, but to be children in malice, those things that are evil, that would harm one another. But it says for us to be, as far as understanding goes, men. We don't have to be told as men, as mature men, we don't have to be told to do the things that we should do to take care of our own selves. apply that then to understanding. We should get to the point of our life where we don't have to be told day in and day out to do right. We shouldn't have to be told day in and day out the things that we should desire. We shouldn't be told day in and day out to serve the Lord. These are things as we mature, as we gain understanding through the Word of God, that shouldn't have to be told to us every day. We will then desire those things because then what's the outcome? The outcome is happiness, peace, joy, All the things that says the length of days All these things that we want to desire and try to can get and contain as far as the flesh is concerned We would get through God and man I tell you that and then the closest the rubies that said all the things desired here are not as great as that thing To have God as understanding Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, I thank you for your word, God, and as you spoke to my heart, Lord, I pray that the same was conveyed to the people that made it this morning, Lord. God, I thank you for all your blessings, Lord. Again, thank you for this church. Bless the services to come, Lord. Use the pastors he preaches. Fill them with the Holy Spirit. We thank you. We love you. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.