Well, it's driving down here this morning. It was almost like a new trip had been that long since we've been in this area. And you can just see how God works in mysterious ways. We, you just take for granted that we'll be seeing this area again. and things like that, but God can keep you. He worked in me in a physical way, and I thought I had pneumonia, and I got cold only in the fall of the year, and one time years ago I did have pneumonia, and the doctor said to me, When you felt cold, that's what would bring it on. Well, this time, it wasn't that. And then I noticed I was getting so weak this one Sunday, I went to the emergency room on Monday morning, and they checked me, hurt my heart. She says, you need to get oxygen immediately. And within three hours, they had me in an ambulance, and I went to Madison. How things change. Through you can see how God, though, has His way. When we get up in the morning, and you can be healthy, but we do not know if we're going to see the sunset. It's such a thing when you live through that with that experience. I had never been to a doctor, and I don't know Really, I guess in 40 years. And God blessed me with that health. And then this happened to come about me. But through that, you can just see how everything is in His hand. And when you're laying in the hospital there too, and you can't breathe, And I had a spell, and the nurse happened to come in then, and she gave me more oxygen. Well, then when you're laying there, you know that you're failing. You're not gaining. And it was really something, quite an experience that I had with that all. But through it all, we can see gods in all things. He gives us the health and the strength. And one night I was laying there and the nurse put the light out and I did have one light that I could read by. And when you're so weak that you can't hold the Bible, even just this light, and it was this Bible, You look into God's prayer and that he'll give you, that the Holy Spirit may work in you and give you a comfort. And the words that come to my mind that night were in God's scent, I am the potter, you are the clay. What a wonderful thing when God can give you that memory and I Think back the first time. I've read that in the Bible so many times. The first time we experienced it, we were on a vacation years ago. The kids were small. And we were in Colorado. And I'd just left the Reformed churches at that time and was going to Baptist churches. I didn't know Baptist churches one from the other. I didn't know if they were the United, the Southern, northern Baptist what they were, but we went to this Baptist Bible camp to the services that morning and they had a demonstration there of the potter and the clay, scriptural. Personally, I had never seen a potter's wheel and the kids had been, and it was really quite amusing. He took that clay and he made it and had a ball and put it on that wheel and he humped it with his foot and there come the most little dish right out of that and a base. It looked something more like a dish, this one. And he worked with his fingers and made the top come up. He did everything. Boy, I thought that is really a beautiful thing. He took a string. Oh, he says, this one won't be what I want it to be. What a thought. And he took a thread and he cut that bolt right into and made clay out of it again and started another one. And that, I never forgot to think of that clay was completely in the potter's hand. And then God makes one vessel to honor and one to dishonor. That potter's hand. Oh, what a wonderful thing. That night when I laid there too and that come to me and you see it and you're in a dark room. Oh, it's such a wonderful experience when God gives you that comfort. that you can go to sleep. And everything is in His hand. And I often think, now He's given me health pretty well again, and that everything is in His hand. And I was thinking the other day, well last night I was watching the TV and it was showing pictures of Haiti and so on. and them awful earthquakes and they took the pictures and I don't know, you've all seen them too. All the, everything demolished. And I happened to go to the scriptures. I thought I'm going to look once in the back of the Bible how many times earthquakes were used in scripture. Well, a number of times you read earthquakes. But the one that Isaiah or Elijah had, He expected God when he was going to talk with him, he was so afraid, run for his life from Jezebel, you remember that all. And how he expected to God to come in the strong winds and in the earthquakes, scripture says there. But what did God come in? That still small voice. You can see the sovereignty of God in that too again. But then when you go into Matthew and you find where the earthquake is there, you, who was it? Mary going to the tomb in the morning and she was on the path. Who's going to roll the stone away? God trembled that ground with an earthquake and the stone rolled away. I thought when you read that, there shows salvation, glorified Christ. Think of what we are and how dependent we are upon all His mercies. It is one beautiful thought to see how God in His sovereignty. Going to Isaiah 64, the sixth verse, getting back to 6 through 8 rather, And we see, speaking about the clay, but we are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness are as filthy rags. Think of that. And we are all due, fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken them away. We'll all fade like a leaf. This comes to my mind. It didn't come to my mind before, but I had the car washed the other day, and I cleaned the whole inside of that car off. And there I seen in the corner of the, in the front by the windshield, one leaf all dried up, but come blue in the car during the last fall. But you can just see we are faded like a leaf. Just dry it away. Think of it. What's all but God. And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Our sins. Iniquities. I know when I was a young lad, eight, ten years old, and the preacher would say the iniquities, I often wondered, what does he mean by iniquities? But that shows all our sins, all our wrongdoings, or iniquities in God's sight. And all our righteousness are as filthy rags. There is another thing. We can see how unclean we are. And there is none that calleth upon thy name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee. For thou hast hid thy face from us and hast consumed us because of our iniquities. Here it shows exactly what iniquities are. Isaiah puts it out so plainly here. And then the eighth. But now, O Lord, thou art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our potter. And we are all the work of thy hands. Thy hands. There you can see how God, how Isaiah has seen that through with what God is the potter. He forms us. When we speak that I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that, or we take pride in what we have done, it's all given by God. Can you think what we are? because we are all sinful men. We see again in Jeremiah also how he spoke of the potter. And we can just see how he is over us. Go back and think of the children of Israel, how they, when led by Moses, and how they come out of that land of Egypt, and how he took care of them in how he smite the Egyptians. And we can see how God was in that all. He was that potter, told of what was going to be done with the children of Israel. And here we can see of their iniquities and of our iniquities. Then let's go to Romans, the ninth chapter. We can see here who wrote this ninth chapter? Paul. And how God worked in Paul and how he can write here over this also. He was on that Damascus road. Think of that. completely thinking in his mind the devil was in him, yet working and telling him, get rid of these people. And completely against Christ. It hurts me so often when you hear people use as a slander Jesus Christ and swear about that. And how they mention God, oh my God, they'll say. It kind of hurts you when you hear to think of such a righteous, completely sovereign, do whatever in his will. And when that comes, it just makes you wonder how far the world can go with all that. Okay, the 17th chapter, verse rather of chapter 9. For the Scripture has said unto Pharaoh, even for this same purpose have I raised up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth." Here you can see how God spoke here. Seth unto Pharaoh. He didn't say that it had to be in any other way, but no, straight to Pharaoh. For this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee. Just when you take that slowly. And that my name might be declared throughout all the earth. I think we can see in this time right now, it was mentioned here how in our own country here, how God can change things in a week. We had our Senator from Wisconsin a week ago last Saturday speaking on these town hall meetings and how he spoke one way completely in favor of everything going on in Washington. And last night he got on on the radio again or on the TV that made me laugh to see how he could change his mind so fast. There you can just see how they're all working in their greatness, what they can do. You wouldn't have known his same speech of what he had the week before. It was really what God can't do. And where do we read that so plainly? I think it's the second chapter of Daniel, where Daniel says, God rises up kings, and he takes them down. And anyone that's elected, always or anything of all this, as we go through the ages, have seen how God's hand has been in that all. Yeah, it is just, everything is in, God is in control. It's all in His hand. Okay. And for my name might be declared throughout all the earth. How wasn't God... We know when the people, when they were in Canaan, when the Israelites got into the land of Canaan, how they would speak up and how they recognized the Israelites had a God that took care of him. They acknowledged that. That shows when God works. Even the heathen that didn't believe there was that God showed really the greatness of him. The 18th verse, therefore hath he mercy on whom he'll have mercy and whom he will, he hardened it. It's all in his great sovereign power. I can't understand that all, and I know you can't, but we can see what a sovereign God is. He takes care and he hardens it even. Why is it? to show how great he is to it all through this hardness. It's all in that. It's such a beautiful way that Paul wrote this here. Think of that, how Paul, when he was on that Damascus road, had no idea of any of this. And here now, how he can write in this. Well, we have it, the eighth chapter. We all know that strong chapter. And then now we have the ninth one here. And you go right to the First, second, Ephesians. Well, you can pick it up wherever you want. Just put it that way. Nineteenth verse. Thou wilt say then unto me, why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Here Paul puts that question. Who can resist God's will? You can't. He is sovereign. Then 20. Nay, but, O man, who art thou that replyest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Go back to Genesis, how man was created, just think of it, right from the dust of the earth. And we can see how everything was in His hand. If we say anything against it, why did He form one this way, one that way? But still to show His greatness, His power in all things. Then the 21st verse, hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another one unto dishonor. Oh, we're to thank God when He shows us the way here of it. And that we don't go along with the things of the world or the things of Satan. And in this day and age, I often think, I can think back when I grew up, then when my children grew up, and then now of all the sin that hasn't come. And in this day and age, they can be, ever since the computers came in and all these, well, And we have all this technology today. And how many times, and I know I have it in my own grandchildren also, where they'll take these little iPods and sit there all night and play with it. And it is fantastic. What you can't do with it, I'll say that. Think of that. But it takes away studying the scriptures. takes away from that. Just think of it. How that's all going one thing to honor and one thing to dishonor. To me, I can just see how that's all so pitifully. And yet, could we live without it in this day and age? I don't know. I really don't know what technology is, how far we're going to go with it. I really don't know. But it's a wonderful thing when we realize that God's hand, though, is in that all. What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endureth with much longsuffering and the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction? We're going to be fitted for destruction. In that last day, we had a neighbor Well, they were neighbors on the farm for us for a long time. And they were of a different faith than we were. And they asked us, and how she got to that, I don't know. But she says, do you really believe that the world is going to burn up someday, like it says in scripture, or that I'm hearing? And Peter speaks of it. They all speak of it. So many really wonder over that. What is it on account of ignorance really? Or in the wrong beliefs? But here we can just see how it's going to be destroyed someday. All this here upon earth. In the 23rd verse, "...and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy which He has aforeprepared unto glory." Here you can see that Sovereign God, how He has prepared all these things. You know, I often, and I know I spoke to Roger here a couple weeks ago, and I On the phone, that was. And I said to him, and I think I said it also to Dave, how a person, when God works and gives your body that you can't maneuver no more, like what I went through there, and you depend on everybody else. If you didn't believe that there was an almighty hand up above watching over you, how dreadful life must be. You just can't understand how when you go through that and when the doctor tells you that you're on the edge, it gives you a way different feeling on life. Who do you turn to? You can only turn to God because He's the only one that gives you comfort. And here we can see, for prepared unto glory. It's all what God can give. Even us, whom he hath called not of the Jews also, but also of the Gentiles. Here we can see his elect are called, not only of the Jews, not only of the Gentiles. For he hath said unto Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people, and her beloved which was not my beloved. And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people, there shall they be called the children of the living God. Here we can see how God has chosen his own from the foundations of the earth. before anything was born. And you and I, in our minds, ever can't even think of how great God is. You can't understand His ways. And we don't need to. But we pray that the Holy Spirit may work in us and give us that. Because what did Jesus say to His disciples? I will send you the Comforter. And that's Christ and the Holy Spirit working in you. Oh, it's wonderful to see. And then the 27th year, Isaiah also cried concerning Israel. Though the number of the children of Israel to be the sand of the sea, A remnant shall be saved. A remnant shall be saved. What a wonderful thing if you experience that. And each one of us have to experience that. That it's all in God. And thank God for it. That you are one of His. And that He gives you the eyes to see it and ears to hear it. I often think how Thankful we should be that we have the Scriptures. And that He gives us eyes to understand it, or a heart to understand it, because it is all in Him. I'm getting a little short on breath right now, and my throat is going. So if you'd like to have a few words, and I appreciate being back here, and pray for Our family out there in Wisconsin, Galvin, Colleen, right now have got a job. It isn't the nicest job. They're working in a canning factory of frozen vegetables they're packing. And it's 10 below in there. And it's, I would say, but they have a job right now. And we're very thankful to get that. because they had their name so many places. Samantha is working in a paint factory where they paint. She's on a paint line, dry paint, painted things, and they have to pack them and ship them out to different places. So all these things are working out fairly good for them. They live in Wapan now. They just got a place where they live there now, right in the city. So God works in mysterious ways with all these different ways.