This over here in 2 Timothy chapter 4, 2 Timothy chapter 4, the great apostle Paul writing here. I was in Greece. Let me pray for it. Father, help me to say the right words tonight, what I want to say that you'd had me to say. I couldn't get away from this message today and praying. I pray to help me be a blessing to your people. I don't know who needs this. I pray, God, you encourage the saints tonight. Thank you for the morals. I thank God for their friendship for these many years. They've held the rope for a lot of people. and Lord help and be a blessing. Thank you, Lord, for Pastor Kip here now and his dear wife and kids. Thank you, Lord, for this church. And thank you, Lord, the church is moving forward. In Christ's name I pray, amen. Over here in 2 Timothy chapter four, as I said, what would you change if you knew you have 30 days to live and people get that news? And I deal with it all the time. And I tried to help a young man three weeks ago and the family was adamant that I take him, but he had some other issues that I don't think I could, He needed some other help that I could medically and he wasn't ready yet and he went right back out in the world, did more dope and he OD'd on drugs. He went on the glory. I had a little girl I went to see just a few, well about a year ago. I drove in from Delaware and her father was a good friend of mine from Myles Anderson, a grandfather. And would you go see my granddaughter? Would you go see my granddaughter?" I said, well, I'm in Delaware. He said, well, she may die. I said, I'll drive through tonight to see her. So I got in my car and drove all night and got there at about 4 in the afternoon the next day. And she was in Toledo. She was coming off of heroin, meth, and a pretty little girl. She was about Germany. She was about three years old. Her mom went to Howell's Edison, good friends of ours. Got back out that next week. Went back out and did heroin again. This time she didn't make it. Gone. And I got my own brother. My own brother couldn't deal with some issues, some things in his life. Took his own life. And so a lot of folks think preachers have an easy life and we preach three sermons and go home. No, it don't stop at the pulpit. We take it home with us. And so I'm constantly putting out fires, helping people. I was on the streets the other day in Detroit, and I go out there, and somebody said, who taught you how to do that? I said, I'm just going out and seeing me. I'm seeing me. That's who I'm seeing. And I always take food. It's hard to tell a man Jesus loves him on an empty stomach. It's amazing what a dollar double cheeseburger would do with extra onions. Amen. Amen. You got to see the look on their face when you see me bring out that bag. Oh yeah, I want to talk to you. I want to talk to you. You first. And I got talking to a girl. She said, who are you? I said, she said, do you offer you? She said, you just got a different personality. I said, well, I'm just going to talk to you because I don't know how long you had to live. You're shooting all that heroin in your life. And she said, I'm a pastor's daughter. I'm a pastor's daughter. I started crying. I said, what denomination is it, Baptist? So I got angry at Christians when I was a little teenage girl and I got old. 21 years old, I started doing, I did meth for the first time. I wanted more. How long you been out here now? Seven years. I've seen her about five times. I have her on my phone. And she gave a message. I said, if I started a women's home, would you come? She said, sure, I would. She said, I'll run it. And I said, I'm going to help you get off these streets. I've tried it. She said, no. And so I told the pastor what I want to do. And I've already talked to some Amish guys. And I've had over 40 Amish guys come through my program and girls. And they don't forget. They're like the mob. They won't forget. That's good. And I said, I want you to build me a portable shower station. on the streets so I can let the girls come in there and do the girl stuff. I'll have some women there working for Mother Church. They're ready for it. I got people in Dayton, Ohio. I got people in Columbus. I got people in Detroit waiting for that trailer to get made. And the Amish are going to take an old trailer and reroute it, put showers in there, like a little sitting room, a little kitchen in there. I'm going to have one for the women. I'm going to have one for the men. And where'd you get that idea? The Holy Ghost. And no one gave it to me. And I just want to take it down the street and I want to have loudspeakers on there, free showers, cheeseburgers come inside and take about a half hour with them and preach the gospel to them. And some of those people on the streets hadn't had a shower in a month, two months just living on them streets. You see, when you go out there and see your kids out there, And see, we're at the last end of this thing. I'm not getting gloomy, but I do know this. I know God put a man in the office for a reason. And do you realize tonight that Israel has a capital for the first time in 1,200 years since King David? They've never had a capital, never, never. And they got one tonight. And I'm telling you, some things are brewing in this world. And the Bible calls Jerusalem a trembling cup. And there's always something moving over there. I've been over there about seven times. And I want to go back every time I go there. But I'm trying to say to you, people are dying. And I just can't stay in my office and run boys and run men and run girls. Hey, I got to collectively pull people together. What are you doing? What are you doing? R.E.Tory was a great soul winner. And he would travel out west. He would work for a deal Moody at the end of his life. And Mr. Torrey would ask people this question. What are you doing for the kingdom sake? And look at him. What are you doing for the kingdom sake? Just think if everybody in here led someone to Christ the next couple of weeks and brought them to church and then double that for about a month, you need another building. But that's what your interest does. That's what your money does. I know money, but it doesn't stick. It goes in this hand, out this hand over here. I know some preachers in ministry that goes like this. No, this is the Christian life. Be a channel, not a funnel. I wanna be a channel for Christ. I was out on a large street, a large city a couple months ago and I helped this young lady out and she's walking down the street and I always got somebody with me and I said, I said, where do you live at? She said, I live over here down the street. I said, why don't you go home? I said, my dad don't want me. So I took her, we took her to a mission over there in Columbus. I said, give me your dad's phone number. I said, I got a cell, give me a cell phone number. And he happened to be a certain businessman. I won't call his title. He was elected official. And I called him. I said, I called him several times. He said, yeah, I know who you are. I checked you out with your name. He said, I know Lester Roloff. I knew him as a kid on the radio. He said, but please don't ever call me again. I'm done with my daughter. I don't want nothing to do with her. And said, God bless you. Thanks for helping her. Click. And I looked at her, and I didn't tell her what he said. He just said he's not interested. You know, it kind of reminds me what they did to Einstein. One day he come home with a note, and Einstein couldn't read, and the teacher wrote something on the note. You know the story. And Einstein asked his mother, said, mom, what did they write about me? He said, well, you're too smart for that school. We have to get you some other education. But that's not what the teacher wrote. How many know what the teacher wrote? The teacher wrote, this boy is stupid. He will never learn. We don't want him in school. But his mother never told him that. His mother said, son, you're so bright and you're so smart that we got to find you another occasion. and that inspired that young boy to study. And the ministry is this with me. I like what Christian McCullough said when he blew up in the shuttle in the 84. She said, I touch the future, I teach. I touch the future, I preach. And so here's the Apostle Paul, we're in Greece a couple of years ago, Karen and I, 09, somebody sent us over there. We took about 30 of us and went over there from New York. I'm standing in Greece and I looked over at the lady doing the lecture. I said, man, can you tell me how tall the Apostle Paul was? And the word Saul means forceful one. And then God changed his name to Paul, it meant little one. Sometimes God changes your name in the Bible, just like he did King Saul. King Saul, the Bible said, he started out a little in his own eyes, but he got too proud and pride, pride, pride has taken more people out than drugs and alcohol ever did. Amen. And I see it in the pulpit, I see it in churches around the country, the pride and so forth. Pride, that's the next word, ride. Pride will take you for a ride. But you know what happened over there and all those kings, the most wickedest king ever lived, and King Ahab, and the Bible said, because you humbled yourself, I'm gonna forgive your land. God told Nebuchadnezzar, because you humbled yourself. You know what I gotta keep, Jack Patterson? I gotta keep myself humble. I like a one preacher said one time, pastor, he said, if you don't humble, then you stumble. I don't want to stumble. I want to finish my race. I don't worry about these legs. I'll get a wheelchair. I'll beat him. We'll get him holding. We have wheelchair races for Jesus' sake or something. We'll do something. But what I said, the secret of the Christian life is getting people to do what they don't want to do. And that takes something from the word of God. And how here's a little guy named the apostle Paul, the word Paul, the apostle means sent one. To be an apostle, you have had to physically seen the Lord. And Jesus appeared to Saul, and I asked his lady, I said, how tall was the apostle Paul? She said, four foot 11. And here a little guy, manhood is not measured by your statue. Manhood is measured by, will you do what God tells you to do? Will you do, mom, what God tells you? Daddy, will you do what God tells you to do? Will you listen to your pastor? Will you listen to the Holy Ghost of God, amen? Listen to him, listen to him, yield to him. But I get guys in that program, I get preaching on the grace of God, and I just see tears just streaming down their cheeks of all that pus and all that sin and all that rebellion coming out. And they look at you and say, do you think God can use me? I said, no, I said, I know God can use you. I know God can use you. God bless God, God used women all through that Bible. It ain't a one man show. No, no, it ain't a one. I got dear old saints of God, I can call them up, they can make potato soup. Woo, I gotta be the food tester though. I gotta make sure it's okay. I get the first cup, amen. My name is Jimmy, I'll take all you give me. But oh, I like this guy, little apostle Paul. He was feisty. He was a bounty hunter. God saved the bounty hunter. He killed Christians. He wrote 14 books of the Bible. He wrote them. He's your apostle to the Gentile, not Peter. Peter was to the Jews, he was to us Gentile dogs. But he writes his last chapter saying some things. And he'd been tormented, he'd been persecuted, been lied about. And if you're worth your weight in salt, you're gonna get lied about. When people can't control you, they try to destroy you. And sad to say it's crept into the churches and so forth. Amen. And look over here. I get young folks all the time. I'm telling you, I get the scum of the scum straightened out with the Bible. Then everybody wants them. Why didn't you get them there before I got them? I sent about 50 kids to Bible college. Well, you've done a lot of work, I ain't done enough. ♪ I wonder have I done my best for Jesus ♪ ♪ For he has done so much for me ♪ I ain't done enough. I'm still looking to do something more for him. I get some of you little girls, you're sharp on the computer and everything else. I want you to set up something to write your missionaries once a month. Write them, write them, write them, write them. I had a young man, he said, well, Jack, I ain't got nothing to do around here. I said, write this missionary right. I just pointed, I said, write this missionary. And this kid wrote this missionary. I got him out of jail. He was so mad and angry. His adoptive parents broke his bones, his arms and legs, tried to kill him and the state saved him. I got him when he was 17 years old, went to Bible college, Married, got seven kids now, doing great. But he wrote a missionary back in the day, about 92, 93, and he gave his full entire testimony. That's all he could do. And this missionary wanted to quit. He wrote back, I was in the months away of quitting the mission field. But because of your testimony, God spoke to my heart. And I'm not going to quit. I'm not going to quit. He never met this kid. This kid's never met him. As far as I know, he must have retired because he was about 65 back then, but he was going to quit. And this kid found something to do. He wrote a missionary about sticking with it and being faithful and thanking God. And this last chapter here, Paul writes something, look over at verse one. I charge thee therefore before God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead appearing and his kingdom. Preach the word, be incidental. You better preach the word, you better have one. I'm a King James man. I'm not a Queen James, I'm a King James. I ain't changing my Bible for anybody. Preach the word, be into the end season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. Let me tell you about a rebuke. The day, let me tell you something, I'm gonna test your Christianity. Sometimes your pastor may have to get on you. Can you take it? Can you listen? Can you grow by it? Isn't it getting quiet in here? Come on now. I'm just talking to you. I get on my guys all the time. I told the guys the other day, hey, y'all check that transmission fluid. Somebody gave us a nice truck. I said, the transmission's out. I think it's a fluid. And I said, check that oil. Guy came back, said, well, Jack, I checked it. The transmission fluid, it's full. And man, I drove it. I said, no, there's something wrong with this thing. And so I opened it up, and I checked the transmission fluid. It's empty. I checked the oil, it was full. I just think a kid was checking the oil, wasn't checking the transmission. Don't expect, inspect, amen. And so forth, I got on a little bit and so forth. And I said, look, I wanna teach. So I said, look, man, I want everybody in here to have a daily, day-by-day class on how to check eight spots of oil on a vehicle. So the next two days I had my guys teach those guys that. You don't like what people are doing, teach them something, teach them about it. Teach them how to win souls, amen. Teach them how to bait that hook. I got guys right now that are better soul winners than I, but I'm glad I put something in them. Hey, look over here, verse number three. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts, they'll heap it themselves, teachers having itching ears. This country was not built on teaching, it was built on preaching. What we got on the internet now, Joe Osteen and all the rest of them dudes out there, they're teaching, they're not preaching. I got a friend of mine got a sermon on Joe called, What Joe Don't Know, okay? And thank God, you got a church like this, a Bible-believing church that believes the Bible, where men look like men, women look, you ought to shout glory to God. Amen, that's worth $25 right there. And hey, 25, make it 50, all right? But hey, I go to some churches, they're dead. Only difference between them and the morgue is they're sitting up. That's how dead it is. And the music, forget about it. Forget about it. And I'm up here, I'm trying to get them pumped, you know, and they're over there. Oh my goodness, where's Chris Hedgerton when I need her? Where's my man Pink Shirt when I need him back there, amen? But you know what happened? You know what happened to the Apostle Paul? Some Christians fell by the wayside. Why is it that some Christians never grow? Why is it that some Christians never go to the next level? Look at it. Look down here, verse five. But watch thou on all things and your reflections. He told you a dear sound document, now he tells you a dear... Brother Chuck, how do you get through stuff? You put up with it, you put up with it, you put up with it, you put up with it, you put up with it, and learn from your problem. Learn from your mistakes. You don't think I've made mistakes with 5,000 people in my homes? Sure I have. But when I make a mistake, I apologize. Don't carry no baggage. I'm gonna give you one for your mom and dad. When you offend your kids, apologize to them. Grandparent, apologize to them. Hey, I made a mistake, I'm sorry. Don't put that barber in their heart. Are we doing all right? Apologize. Hey, husband, you offend your wife, apologize to her. Hey, wife, you offend your husband, apologize to him. Amen. Karen was mad at me a couple of years ago. I came home and she said, talk to the hand. I got cold shoulder and hot tongue. I tried to preach my way out of it. She said, talk to both hands. I gave her a kiss and she's saying, I surrender all. Amen. God bless you. All right. Don't you tell her I said that. All right. I'll deny it. Amen. Jesus name. I didn't do that. I didn't do that. Come on now. Amen. And what are you saying? Hey, I'm saying don't go to bed mad. Hey, let not the sun go down upon your wrath. I remember one time I told some staff members they're going to do something, take them to a game. And I forgot about it, booked a revival meeting and they're all ready to go to the game. And brother Jack didn't show up with the tickets. Woo, they had barbecue preacher. I came in town next week, went and got some other tickets to another game, and I apologized to them. And they were laughing, they were acting like they were mad, they all started busting out laughing, they were just getting me back. Ah, we got you, you know, I got you, I'm sending it to you, minor league, I ain't sending it to a pro game. But I made sure, hey, don't go to bed mad, don't carry no baggage. You know why some Christians quit? They get offended. Oh, I like this. Look at verse six, verse five, but watch out on all things and do reflections, do the work of the evangelist. Watch it, make full proof of thy ministry. Quit worrying about everybody else. You make sure you hold your own role. Here's the message I want to talk to you tonight. For I'm now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I fought a good fight. I didn't fight dirty. I fought a good fight. I fought a good fight. I fought a good fight. I finished my course. I've kept the faith. And come over here to Romans chapter one. Let me show you another nugget over here. And why? I'm gonna tell you some words tonight that motivate Brother Jack more than anything in the world. And I get feeling sorry for myself, Lord. What about this? What about this, Lord? I'm sorry. And I get to whining. I'm sorry. I don't have this. And then the Holy Ghost. Then the Holy Ghost comes up and whispers to you. He says, hey, boy. Woo, look at verse 16, 15. So much as in me is, I'm ready to preach the gospel to you at Rome also. You know, when he goes to Rome, he ain't coming back. They're gonna cut his head off. But look at verse 14. I am debtor, both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. So preacher, what are you saying tonight? I owe, I owe, I'm a debtor. I heard a story about an old slave or something got bought and he got mad and telling the owner he wasn't gonna serve him. The master turned around and said, I didn't buy you to enslave you, I bought you to set you free. And you know what Jesus Christ did to us? He bought us to set us free. So Budzak, you mean all these years you've been going and going and going? Yes, we were. Oh, I'm debtor, I'm debtor, I'm debtor. Four years my life was stooped in sins, no friends without, no friends within. I needed someone to wash my sins away. And then I heard about a man called Jesus dying on the cross. He had the answer that can wash my sins away. Christ paid my debt, the debt I owe, I owe the debt. All the travels, it doesn't compare what Christ did for me. I owe Him. I owe Him. I owe Him. Those three words ought to motivate you when you're down and to get up, when you can't see your hands in front of your face, when your best friend turns on you, I owe Him. I got to keep my Christian life in proper perspective. I owe Him. I owe Him. I owe Him. to go without, to go on, to do without, to take the sarcasm, to take the criticism. Well, for him, I owe him. I put him on that cross. He never said a word. And he went to Calvary and he opened not his mouth. Hey, Job, you come home, your kids are gone. Nobody can make laughter like little kids. When Job came home, there was no laughter. The kids were gone, 10 of them. And you know what Job did? Blessed be the name of the Lord. I've never reached that level. My wife get killed in a car crash tonight, I'd fall apart. Job didn't. Then he said to his preacher, and all this, Job sinned not with his lips. Did you hear about so-and-so? He did not sin with his lips. Did you hear about so-and-so? Job didn't talk that way. That's in your Bible too. Many years ago, three boys from Michigan set our dormitory on fire at the lighthouse. We're watching it burn. We're on the pew singing Thank God for the Lighthouse. And all of us just crying our eyes out. The boys just burnt the dormitory. They didn't know what they did. And the state says, you got to get rid of all those boys off that island, brother. They ain't going nowhere. He said, I've already got a tent on the way down there. They're going to sleep under a tent. I've already got sleeping bags. We slept on the ground. We slept on army cots. I mean to tell you, he got on that radio, stuff came from Russia. Stuff came from Poland. I couldn't read it on what it was, but we got it out. It was quilts and blankets and cookies from Poland. We took care of those, amen? And we didn't tell them we had those, amen? God bless you. And so forth. And we got 10 times, brother-in-law had to get on the radio. Stop, don't send no more. We got too much stuff for the night. I mean, we had to put stuff in storage. We were stacking stuff in boats and everything else. We thought we didn't have it all. No, we had way more than what we needed. And all this Job sinned not with the lips. But wait a minute, Paul's leaving now. And the Bible said, some forsook him. Barnabas forsook him. Hey, Jesus goes out and he comes back in John 21. I'm talking about finishing right. I wanna finish right. I didn't say you didn't have failure. The Bible says in Psalm 12 one, for the godly man ceases for the faithful fail among the children of men. You're gonna fail at something, but you don't have to be a failure. Edison had over 1000 patents over 999's failure. 900. He took their failure and flipped them inside out. You know what a F is? A one-legged A. Why don't you go home at night and turn your house around? What a winning type attitude. I don't have a job, but go get one. I got people who are trying to hire me now just to be a foreman, a general foreman at companies. I know them. Jack, would you come here for just for three months and turn my company around? No, I got a job to do. I may come here and speak to them, but I said, I got a job to do. I said, no, I get caught up in that and I may like it. I may like that nice house. I may like that nice car. I may like that nice salad. We all like that. But God, you have a calling of God, but all of us have a calling to help to win souls of Christ. Why? I'm a debtor. Those three words bother me. I'm a debtor. I owe. I owe. I owe. Paul, there was a guy named Paul, Saul of Tarsus. And there was a guy in King Saul in the Old Testament. King Saul was a blue blood. And one day God changed the apostle Paul's name to Paul. King Saul of the Old Testament, he was a blue blood, he had a good start. He had it all going for him. Hello? Okay, so some of your dreams and plans didn't turn out right. Okay, give them to God, let him take care of them. You know, submit yourself and everything give thanks. He said, submit yourself therefore to God. You know why the devil attacks most of us? Because we got something that he wants. We got something that he wants. Oh, I'm serving God. Yeah, but you got something that God wants and you won't let go of it. As long as the devil knows you, when you submit, it's the same word of submarine you come under. Lord, what do you want? He said, I want that, I want that, I want that. Now, Lord, what does that have to do with what I'm doing? Nevermind, I want that. He'll tell you. Amen, Brother Jack. King Saul was a great king. He started out right. The Bible said he was little in his own eyes, but he got proud and he got arrogant. He ended up dying a suicide on Mount Geboa. Listen to me. I preached this message, I thought tonight and a millionaire said, if I'd have heard that message a week ago, I'd still have a million bucks in my pocket. I said, won't you get right with God and go back and get it, give me 10%. That's a joke, it's funny. But King Saul had a good, he had a good start, but he had a bad finish. Now the apostle Paul, he had a bad start. I'm talking to some of you here tonight, you've had a bad start in your Christian life. Won't you flip that around and get a good finish. Won't you get a good finish? Won't you teach your grandkids how to get a good finish? Get a good finish. We got 15 grandkids. They all homeschool. We won't let them darken the door to public school. And we make sure of that. And they're all well-qualified, all college graduates. We teach them some things. And those kids are reading two or three grades higher level. They're reading biographies. They're reading missionary stories. And they're already talking about maybe, I want to go to the mission field. No, little boy, nine years old. But Papa, he said, what's Africa like? Hello? What's Africa like, Papa? I'm reading these stories. I mean, they got to work and pay your, I don't understand that. You got to go to work and get an education. I understand that. One little girl said, Papa, she said, I like Susanna Wesley. I sure like her liking Susanna Wesley than I do Madonna. Hello? Hey, what I'm trying to tell you is bless God. God has a plan for our life to finish right. Oh, he didn't, he had a bad start, but he got him a good finish. You know what I want to do at 66? I want to get a good finish. I want to get a good finish. I try to encourage my young men. I call this message putting cargo on board. I was, I don't know, about five years old. I'd walk up down the alleys of Detroit, and my dad and them would be out there working on a car. And I'd pick up an old ball-ping hammer and an old roll of duct tape. And I'd walk up to my dad and say, hey, Dad, I got you something. And he'd act like he liked it. And he said, hey, Jackie boy, what you got? I said, I got a little. And I told him what I had. I was going up through the alleys of Detroit picking up junk. I've been going up down this country for 47 years picking up junk. And one of these days, I'm going to get to take it home. I said, hey, Dad, I got you something. I brought you something home. What I'm saying tonight, I refuse to go home empty-handed. I refuse to go home empty-handed. And I got a lady in Detroit, she brings her daughters with her on the street. They're both about 14 or 15 years old. And one time they got back in the van, the daughter looked at the mom and said, Mom, I want to get more closer to you because of what I saw tonight. I want to get more close to you, Mom. Those girls don't have a home. I have a clean bed to go to, a shower every night. And Mom, I've been taking things for granted. My mother told me that. I said, that's a free education. What are you saying? I'm saying put your Bible, put your Bible, put your money, put the will of God, put soul winning, finish the job. Many years ago, my dad was dying and my dad got saved. I told the preacher, he was a real kind of a rough shot kind of a guy. And they were finally going to do my life story and unshackle and they want all the juicy part. I said, no, you ain't getting all that. And, but my dad looked at me, he said, he said, Jack, he said, I want you to come here to the hospital tonight and spend the night with me. And the nurse says, you can't do that. He said, look, lady, I'm dying. I can do whatever I want to do. I wonder where I get that from. I don't know. And he said, Jack, when you come back, bring me a, bring me a thing of sharp cheddar cheese and almond joy and a new grape drink. He says, you can't have that lady. I'm dying. I can have anything I want. And so I went out and got it all that night and I'm on my way back, you know, and he was so thankful that I got saved. And he called my mother in and asked her to forgive the way he treated her all those years and she loved him. And my mom never spoke a bad word about my father. She loved my dad. My dad beat her down and never hit her, but he beat her down and just wore her out. And that night before I got back, my dad passed away. My dad looked at the nurse before I got back and she told me, she said, your daddy loved you. Listen to me. Your daddy loves you, Jack, he loves you like you wouldn't believe. I said, why didn't he tell me that? When's the last time you told your kids you loved them? When's the last time you kids told your mom and dad you loved them? When's the last time you told your nana and your grandpa? When me and Karen go see the grandkids, they all line up. They don't wanna say, hug papa, they wanna talk to nana. Old nana gets all the lovin'. I say, hey, hey, I'll bring out the money, then they'll come runnin' over to me. I got a dollar over here. Can't buy me love, yeah, dollar'll buy you love with them grandkids. They want some, I gave them some gum the other day, they don't want the green gum, mentos, they want the blue gum, that's too hot, they spit it out. I want the green gum, that's not hot. And I was filling out the papers and that nurse told me, she said, your daddy loved you. And your dad died singing. I said, my dad couldn't even speak above a whisper. As long as we're filling up the fluid, I've taken everybody home. I'm gonna come back spend the night with a sharp cheddar cheese and new green. Are you listening? She said, I was filling out some paperwork and I heard, When the roll is called a yonder, when the roll is called a yonder, when the roll is called a yonder, when the roll is called a yonder, I'll be there too. Gone! Oh, but I thank God when I see him again on the other side of chilly Jordan, he won't be paralyzed no more. He won't have polio in his life again. But I'm saying, I'm glad while he was here, while he was here, I did something for him. I loved him. I prayed for him. I took him places. I spent time with him. I spent time with him. I didn't have any remorse at the funeral. Daddy, daddy, daddy. It's always for those who never did nothing while they were here. And I'm trying to flip it to you tonight, church. You got sinners out there. They need you. They need your tears. They need your joy. They need your laughter. They need to know that you care. Because you are a debtor to that Jew who died on the cross and went to hell for you. and went to hell for it. You don't think I would love to have been an executive somewhere and get a nice home. There ain't nothing wrong with having dinner at a nice home, but there ain't nothing wrong with you having nice things. Don't forget where you got it from. Old man was tired. I'm done, preacher. I'm not done, but I'm gonna quit. Old man was tired and he said he's gonna quit, old missionary. And he said, I think I'll go to Africa for a couple of weeks, pray about it. Been on the field about 50 years. He's tired, weary, body aching, frustrated. Over there in Esther, the Bible says, and they frustrated our purpose. The devil knows how to frustrate us. We all have a different frustration part that he pushes. Remember that. He gets off the boat, true story. The man's name is Tom Friedman, president of BIMI for years. He goes to Africa and he gets off at a boat dock and for some strange reason, he meets this little leper kid. And he's got an attitude. That's a leper kid, the preacher does. He's wanting to quit. He goes over and he, for some strange reason, this little leper boy got his, had no leg, had nothing above just a little bit low of the knee. He crawled everywhere he went at his arms. About 14, 15 years old. He leads this little leper boy to Christ. He leaves him and spent some time with him. He left him and he did his job with him. But something happens in the heart of that little leopard boy. He liked what he heard about going to heaven one day, that Christ will never leave his heart. He couldn't lose his salvation. Woo! Oh, my Amherst friends, I get on, and I said, man, you guys are getting happy because you're Amherst. I'm getting happy because I'm out of here one day. I know I'm going. And they said, Jack, how do you know that? I said, the Bible says I've been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. I don't have to work it. He did it all at Calvary. I just can't believe that. Well, I can't. If a knucklehead like me can get it, you can get it, amen? I'm banned over in Fort Wayne because I preached eternal security to about 400 Amish one night. And most of them come out, hey, I believe that, I believe that, I believe that. I said, well, tell your bishop that, okay? Tom Freeny goes in Africa and he stays there two weeks and all of a sudden he's coming over and he hears a big roar over here and he goes over to a tribe over here and he said, this is honest truth. He said, what happened to you? They said, he said, Mr. Freeny, did you tell a little leopard boy about a home in the sky that he can go there one day? Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, he trusted. Well, he came and told us in our own language and he's telling us how we can go to heaven. how we can trust in Christ, and we all trusted Christ as our Savior. He went to about four or five different villages in the course of two weeks, and this leper boy crawled everywhere he went about Jesus Christ and about getting saved. He just found out himself. but he's telling everybody about it, everybody about it. Tom Freeny goes over here and he beats him to it, he beats him to it. Now he's getting a little mad because they're stinking boys making them look bad. Hello? Amen. And he goes and goes and goes. At the end of two weeks, he comes back from wherever he went to the region and he meets that leper boy at that boat. He said, boy, you've been causing me some problems. What have you been doing? He said, I was there when he told this story. He said, the little boy started crying. He said, no one ever told me about Jesus Christ. No one ever told me about Jesus Christ. And I get to see him. I get new legs and new body. I don't have to earn it. He said, it's a free gift. It's a free gift. He hugged him and left. He said, Mr. Freeney, would you tell me his name one more time in the English language? Would you tell me his name one more time? So yeah, his name is Jesus Christ. Thank you, Mr. Missionary. He gets out about three or 400 feet. Hey, Mr. Missionary, would you tell me his name one more time in the English language? That his name is Jesus Christ. He gets out about a quarter of a mile. He looked back to that boat dock and that little leper boy is on top of that dock with little old nubs for legs, waving his arms. Would you tell me his name one more time? Would you tell me his name one more time? And Tom Preeny, people were looking at him. And he started this time, he's yelling back. He's not whispering back. He said his name, and everybody on the boat heard him speak. Long story short, he yelled back, his name is Jesus, waving his hand and tears coming down Tom Preeny's eyes. And Tom Preeny said that meeting, I decided that day. to finish my tasks in Africa too, I can't go no more. Oh, because of a little leopard boy got lit. When that little leopard boy was saying, I'm a debtor. I'm a debtor. The last time you all, some of you folks in the family, but not old fashioned altar, you pray with each other. My wife and I, we don't go to sleep till we, if we don't talk to each other, we say, hey baby, come here. Hey honey, come here, let's pray. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, I'm telling you. If I'm lying, may God kill Pastor Kip right now. Say, hey honey boy, come here sweetie, come over here. I'm mad at you, but come here. We'll just start praying. I don't know if her heart may stop in the middle of the night. Maybe mine may stop. and I want us both to go to bed on the same page. We're right with God and we're right with each other. Let's stand for prayer. Father, thank you for the Bible tonight. Lord, I preach what I thought I should preach tonight, finishing right. God, would you give us some people in this church tonight to finish, to finish right, to finish. I know we're gonna make mistakes along the journey, But God, by the grace of God, we can finish right. I heard you bow out your clothes. I know God spoke to your hearts. I know God has spoke to your heart. In just a moment, music is going to play. And God spoke to your heart about your Christian life. I want you to come as a family, come as a team. And come and tell God what difference you're going to make in your life. Why don't you come and tell God tonight, what are you going to put in your wagon for him? Go the extra mile. Learn how to be a soul winner from Pastor Kip. Go to work a better soul winner. I'm talking about winning people to Christ, giving things, helping people, getting involved more, get involved in the church more. You know what's more important than money? Time. Giving people time. I know God spoke to your heart. As pastor comes, I'll pray and he'll take over. Father, bless the invitation tonight. God, give us some people tonight that'll finish right in Jesus name.