We'll invite you to be in James chapter 1 and Proverbs chapter 30 again this afternoon. And we're just going to try to pick off, pick up where we left off yesterday. James chapter 1 and Proverbs chapter 30. This is not really connected to our message tonight, but after where Brother Crotts wound up and what a tremendous message that was, we just heard. My grandfather had a poem. I'm not a big poetry person, but he had a poem he used a lot. Said a wise old owl lived in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird? I want to tell you, half of wisdom is knowing when to keep your mouth shut, isn't it? That's a big part of it right there. May God help us. All right, James chapter 1, verse number 5. The Bible says, if any of you lack wisdom, do you lack wisdom this afternoon? Let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him." But let him ask in faith nothing wavering, for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." If you lack wisdom, what you say? Let him ask. Let him ask. He says again there in verse number 6, let him ask in faith. The good news about it, he said, if you lack wisdom and you ask God, he upbraideth not. I read over there in Luke chapter 24, there was two disciples that did not believe and he upbraided them for their hardness of heart. But he said if you come and ask him about wisdom, he'll not upbraid you. You know what that means in the original Greek language? He won't say, hey dummy, you ought to have known that anyhow. The other day at the house, we got our garden in there late Saturday night, right before when it was going to rain on Monday and everything, so we wanted to get everything in the ground that we could, and we planted some tomato plants there. Of course, had all the kids out there helping and so forth, and I said to my son, I said, go get us some, go get some water and water these tomato plants. Now, keep in mind, we got one hose pipe on the house. on the whole place. And he said, Daddy, where should I get water at? I said, off that walnut tree that's growing over there. I mean, come on, dummy. There's only one source of water on the place. You know where to just quit your stupid questions and go do the job. That's the way we are sometimes. That's upbraiding. I'm glad God doesn't do us that away. Aren't you glad God treats us a whole lot better than we treat our kids sometimes, amen? But he upbraideth not. Look on back to Proverbs chapter 30. This is where we left off. There's a man in Proverbs chapter 30 named Agur. We talked last night about what he admitted. He said, surely I'm more brutish than any man. I've not the understanding of a man, neither learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the holy. He's admitting what he does not know. And sometimes half the battle about getting wisdom is admitting what we don't know. There's a little fella named Johnny, he was in school, I mean, he just wasn't what you'd call a star student. And his teacher one time, she said, Johnny, tell me what nine times three is. He thought about it a minute, he said, now, Miss Teacher, he said, what do you think nine times three is? She said, Johnny, I don't think, I know. He said, I don't think I know either. Amen. A lot of times we need to admit what we don't know. And that's what Edgar does there in verse number 2 and 3. Let's hasten on from that. Then we see not only what he admitted, but we see what he asked. He begins to ask some things. There's five questions that are listed here in verse number five. He said, who hath ascended up into heaven or descended? So he said, he asked about the way. And we talked about that last night. Who hath gathered the wind in his fist? So he asked about the wind. We talked about that last night. I don't have time to get back and talk about those things again. And so we'll move on from there. But then he said, and hath bound the waters in, a garment, so he has a question there about the waters. And let me say this before we get any farther, that as James said, let him ask. Let him ask. Think about some of the questions in the Bible. Think about Samson's parents when that angel of the Lord told them they had a child coming. They said, how shall we order the child and what shall we do unto him? I tell you, that's one of the greatest questions that every parent ought to ask. How shall we order the child? They needed wisdom. I thought about that Philippian jailer. He said, sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. The first men that are called wise men in the New Testament. came searching Jesus and asked a question, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east and are come to worship him." Listen, the reason that we need to ask God for wisdom, the reason we need to search for wisdom is so we can know the Lord Jesus Christ, so we can worship Him as our brothers just preached so well. And so wonderfully it's all about him and worshiping him, and that's what the Bible calls a wise man. I know you've seen it on church signs around Christmas, and you kind of get where you roll your eyes and say, oh yeah, I've heard that a million times before. But it is still true that wise men still seek him. Amen. And so Agur here, answers for Agur. We're going to see if we can find him some answers. And so I asked a question about the waters. And it's bound the waters in a garment. You can look right there, write it down, look at it later. Job chapter 38, verse number 8 through 11. And the Bible talks about right there how God had created the waters. And I believe when he talks about here bound the waters in a garment, he's talking about the clouds and so forth. And no doubt the hand of God is what hung the clouds in the sky. But we think about a God that can bring water out of a rock and water those thirsty Israelites. We think about a God that could meet a thirsty Samaritan woman by the well and give her living water that would never run dry. We think about a God that opened a spring of salvation and said in the spirit and the bride, say, come and whosoever will, let him come and drink of the waters of life freely. He asked a question about the water. Then he asked a question about the world. Who hath established all the ends of the earth? Now brother, where are the ends of the earth? I know we preached a meeting in Oklahoma last spring, and I thought by the time we got to Oklahoma City, we were pretty well near the ends of the earth. I mean, I just didn't know there was that much real estate out there before you dropped off the edge, but I guess it goes on farther than that, amen. But we know that God, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, but then we think about Isaiah chapter 45. In verse number 22, the verse that the preacher was preaching when Charles Haddon Spurgeon was converted. It says, Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth. You know, men today, they want to be saved by taking the inward look. I will look in myself and find some spark of divinity, and look inward and find some goodness, some good work, some good deed that I can do that would merit a favor with God and earn my way into heaven. And they take that inward look. And then some men, they want to take that outward look. And maybe they want to look to a church, or they want to look to a baptizing hole, or they want to look to the Pope. By the way, I'm glad my head hadn't died. Amen. And listen, I don't rejoice in the fact that the Pope, unless there was some miraculous deathbed repentance that I don't know about, that he died lost and went to a devil's hell, that ought to break our hearts. have compassion for Catholic folks and want to bring the truth to them. But what a sorry system that has men look to a man, especially one that's a socialist and a communist, and look at him as the vicar of Christ, the so-called man in the place of Christ. Oh no, that outward look. And by the way, the Baptist church won't save you anymore than the Catholic church will. Some men, they want to take the inward look. Some want to take the outward look and look toward religion. And then some want to take that downward look. That's what that Pharisee did over yonder where he was in the temple praying, and he said, I thank thee that I'm not as other men are. I want to tell you something. I don't care how low down and how sorry a sinner is, they can always find somebody that's worse off than they are. I bet you've heard it said, well, if old so-and-so, he goes to church, and if he's going to make it to heaven, I don't have anything to worry about. Truth is, both of you probably got something to worry about, amen? I mean, folks always are trying to find somebody worse off than they are. But the Bible said, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. And so we're not saved by the inward look. We're not saved by the outward look. We're not saved by the downward look. But He said, look unto Me and be saved all the ends of the earth. It's the upward look. And then the ends of the world, the ends of the earth, Matthew chapter 28. Jesus said, and lo, I'm with you always, even unto the end of the world. I'm glad it doesn't matter how far we go, doesn't matter what we go through, it doesn't matter what kind of circumstances that life throws at us or that we have to go through, But he's with us. The psalmist said, Yea, if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. The Bible said God is our refuge and strength. I'll get it in a minute. A very present help in trouble. I mean, just right there. Right there. Even unto the ends. Even to the funeral service. Even to the hospital bed. Even to the graveside. Even to the automobile accident. Even through the disease and the financial difficulties and the family problems. He's with us all the way. Yes, sir. And then we gotta turn to this one, look at Acts chapter 13. Acts chapter 13. And we'll look at verse number 47 right there. Acts chapter number 13, this is on Paul's missionary journey right here. Acts chapter 13, verse number 47. For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. Let me tell you, nobody lives so far away. that they don't need to hear the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. I tell you, I know what Rachel was telling somebody about this last night. What a blessed time it's been around our house here lately. second daughter, I mean she had heard the gospel many times and I had talked to her and her mama had talked to her. And you know how it is as parents, you want to have wisdom and you don't want to push them into something that they don't understand or that you don't want them to make a decision for your sake and so forth. And listen, I hate this easy believism and all that kind of stuff. I hate it like I hate a rattlesnake. But I mean she had rejected the gospel. She was old enough to reject it. And our son, old Robert, he said, Mama, I sure want to see somebody get saved. She said, how about you start praying for your sister there? And one day he went, hey, he went across the hall from his bedroom to hers. And I don't know what all happened up there, but I know somewhere or another when she came out of that bedroom, brother, she was a new creature in Christ. I mean, I'm not talking about... I'd probably think the same thing you're thinking right now. If I was listening to this, I'd say, well, that's probably kid stuff right there. They're probably just playing around. No, sir. I mean, she got in, brother. and there's a changed life there as best as we can see and best as we can tell. There was a change that took place. I mean, he went in there and led his sister to the Lord. She's older than he is. So what I'm saying, brother, is that whether you're going across the hallway into a bedroom across the hallway, or whether we're talking about the ends of the earth over yonder in Africa or China, or India, or you could go on up there with the Bach family flying around in the frozen tundras of Alaska. I mean, under the ends of the earth, they all need the gospel. Red, yellow, black, and white, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, young, old, rich, poor, male or female, communist, Muslim, Catholic, or anything else. I mean, the gospel message ought to go on to the ends of the earth. Go into all the world and preach the gospel. Yes, sir. He asked a question about the world. But then I see he asked a question about who. What is his name? And what is his son's name? If thou canst tell. Answers for Agur. Brother, he's asked about the way. He's asked about the wind. He's asked about the waters. He's asked about the world. Now he's asking about who. What is his name? And what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? That's an interesting verse, isn't it? As we study this thing out, we find it's a reoccurring theme throughout the Old Testament Scriptures. When Jacob is wrestling with a man who turns out to be God. All night long. By the way, sometimes we need to wrestle with God. You might get halted a little bit, but it'll help you down the road. See, Jacob learned some things right there. Later on there in Hebrews chapter number 11, the Bible said, by faith he worshiped leaning on the top of his staff. He learned some things after he'd been wrestling with God and God touched the hollow of his thigh where he had to limp a little bit. What he learned is he started learning to lean on God after that, amen? And that's the act of faith that is remembered over there in Hebrews chapter number 11. I can't get off on all that, but as he's wrestling there, he says, what is thy name? Tell me what's thy name? He said, wherefore dost thou ask after my name? What's his name? In Exodus chapter three and verse number 13, there we find Moses before that burning bush. And God is in that bush. And God tells Moses, you go down yonder into Egypt and tell Pharaoh, let my people go. And Moses said, when I go down there and they say, who told you? What am I going to say? What's his name? He said, you tell them I am. I am that I am, the self-existent one. I mean the God that is just because He is. telling the I Am sent you. There in Daniel chapter three in verse number 25, there's three Hebrew children in the burning fiery furnace and old Nebuchadnezzar, that wicked king, he walks over there to the edge and he looks down in that fiery furnace and he said, did not we cast three men in bound? And they said, yes. He said, I see four men loose and the form of the fourth is like unto the Son of God. If you got the right kind of Bible. the Son of God. But what's his name? Aviar said, I want to know what his name is. We'd have to wait a little while until New Testament times. When that angel came to Mary, or Joseph, in Matthew chapter 1 and said, "...and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins." Jesus! Jehovah saves! Emmanuel! God with us! And by the way, let me say, it's real interesting right here. He said, what is his son's name, if thou canst tell? And we'll get ahead of ourselves just a minute. In verse number 5 there, he said, every... what is it? Word of God. You know what the Bible said his name was there in Revelation chapter 19 and verse number 13? His name is called the Word of God. There it is. I mean, what is his name? His name is Jesus. It's a saving name for he shall save his people from their sins. There's a lot of folks today, they want to be saved in their sins, but he didn't come to save anybody in their sins. He came to save us from our sins. Acts chapter 4 and verse number 12 said, there's none other name under heaven given among men whereby ye must be saved. In Philippians chapter number 2, we read that God hath given him a name which is above every name. He's highly exalted him. He's given him a name that's above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. Amen. Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Who is it? What's his name? I tell you what his name is. His name is Jesus. That holy name, that wonderful name, that blessed name. I mean that almighty name, the name of Jesus. Thank God for it. I like what Adrian Rogers said. He said, I love the name of Jesus. It fits just right on my tongue. Amen. Well, that's what he asked. Now we'll see not only what he admitted, we'll see what he asked. Let's see where he gets the answers. Did you notice every question that he had, we found the answer in the Word of God. And I don't care what kind of question it is that you have. You might have a marriage question. You might have a child raising question. You might have a church question. You might have a question about who should I vote for in the next election. Y'all don't want me to get off on all that. Well, moving on, moving on. You might have a question about how should I be at the job or what kind of employer or employee should I be? Let me tell you something, the answers are all right here. This is God's answer book. Like I said last night, the answer is not in a Chinese fortune cookie somewhere. The answer is not in a seminar somewhere, seminary, or seminar, or cemetery. Amen? The answer is right here. What's it say? Every word of God is pure. That's all of them. Every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. Add thou not unto His words lest He reprove thee. Thou be found a liar. There's the answers. In the word of God, I see first of all, he says that it is a particular word. Every word. God did not promise just to preserve his doctrines, or his truths, or his fundamentals, or his ideas. But bless God, he promised to preserve his words, every one of them. His words. Psalm chapter 12, verse six and seven said, the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. In Matthew chapter four, Jesus said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Job said, I desired his words more than my necessary food. Peter said, where else can we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. He said every word of God is pure. I mean, this Bible, it is pure, it is, right? It is what it is. I got to reading over there in Matthew chapter number four about where Satan came to tempt Jesus. And I got to noticing Satan talking. You know what Satan said three times? If thou be the son of God, if, Thou be the Son of God. I will give up all these things if thou wilt fall down and worship me." If, if, if. That's the first thing that sorry slimy rascal said when he crawled up there in the book of Genesis chapter number 3. He questioned the Word of God. With Satan it's always an if. It's always a question mark. It's always a doubt. You know how Jesus answered him? It is written. Three times, it is written. It is written. This might not be good English, but it's good preaching. The devil deals in ifs and God deals in izzies. Amen. Yes, sir. Every word of God is pure, always has been pure, always will be pure. The psalmist said, forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Jesus said, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away. I tell you, when these old cookable hills are a-hopping like bullfrogs, When the valleys are on fire and the mountains go up in a flame, the skies are torn asunder like an old newspaper, the Word of God will still stand. It'll still be right. It'll still be just as good as it's ever been. It's settled in heaven. And if you've got a King James Bible, you've got every word God intended for you to have in the English language. People say, oh, you don't think God could have a perfect translation, do you? I think Pilate could. Pilate got his words translated into Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Three different languages. If Pilate could do it, I don't think God have too much trouble with it, do you? Hey man, I think God inspired it and I think he preserved it. 2 Timothy 3 and verse 15, here it is. We're talking about wisdom now. And that from a child that's known the Holy Scriptures, we're trying to make thee what? Wise, there that's it, isn't it? Which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for correction, for reproof, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, truly furnished unto all good works. What we say last night, I mean my little old ignorant, piddly definition of wisdom What I kind of came up with there is God-given common sense. That's what God gives us about how to live, and that's what this Bible is. It's our furnishing, it's our equipment that we can be perfect and fully furnished unto all good works, all things that pertain to life and godliness, right here it is. We say it's a particular word, but we also say it's a protecting word. He said He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him. He's a shield. Now when we read about that Christian armor in Ephesians chapter 6, He said taking the shield of faith. So the shield is our faith. But here the shield is connected to the Word of God. I wonder why that is. You know one time the disciples asked Jesus, Lord, increase our faith. I don't know about you, but I need increase of faith. I find myself a lot of times like that father that said, Lord, I believe, but help thou mine unbelief. You need more faith. You know what the next thing Jesus told them? He said, if you had faith as a seed of a mustard. I used to think that was talking about the size I thought, boy, that's a little bitty faith. It has nothing to do with the size, it has to do with the seed. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever. The Word of God is the seed. And so they said, increase our faith. What do we know about the mustard tree? It grows. And it's alive, and the Word of God is alive, and the Word of God grows and brings forth fruit in our life. And I believe the Lord is telling them, if you need more faith, you need more Bible. You say, that's a little shaky, I'm not too sure about that. All right, what about Romans 10? Now faith cometh by hearing. And hearing by the Word of God. Somebody said God never did tell us to ask for more faith because He gave us where we need to go to get more faith. And so in that Word of God, it is our shield because the more time we spend in the Book, the more the Book we get in us, the bigger our faith gets, and so the bigger shield we have. He said that you might be able to withstand all the fiery darts of the devil. Brother, if a fellow is going to be over there throwing fiery darts at me, You know, back in the Indian days, they'd take those flaming arrows and shoot them into those old forts and stuff, burn those places up. If a fella's flinging fiery darts at me, I mean, a little shield like this, that'd be nice, that'd be better than nothing, but I'd rather have a bigger shield, wouldn't you? I mean, the bigger the shield, I'd like to get something I can just kind of get behind, amen? You want a bigger shield? You want more faith? Get in the book. That'll grow. It's not only a particular word, it is a protecting word. Thy word hath a head in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. This Bible will protect you from alcohol. It tells you wine's a mocker, and strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. This Bible will protect you from being a rebel. It says rebellion is as a sin of witchcraft. This Bible will protect you from being a hippie. It says that it's a shame for a man to have long hair. This Bible will protect you from eating too much. It says if you're giving to Danes, you better put a knife to your throat. That's a pretty good diet plan for New Year's. I mean this Bible will protect you from all kinds, everything, every fiery dart that the devil's got to fling at you. This Bible will protect you if you let it be your shield and grow your faith. Look back, oh, hold your place right there. Look back at Psalm 119. We've got to look at this one. Psalm 119 and verse 114. Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible, and it's all about the word of God. Thou art my hiding place and my shield. I hope in thy word. Depart from me, you evildoers, for I will keep the commandments of my God. Uphold me according to thy word, that I may live, and let me not be ashamed of my hope. Hold me up, and I shall be safe, and I will have respect under thy statutes continually. So, the answers, they're in this book. Shaphan described, said, I found the book. He didn't say I found a bunch of old manuscripts scattered off across yonder somewhere and then get them all put together and there might be the Word of God in there somewhere. By the way, Jesus didn't talk like that either. He said, it is written. He didn't say, well, you know, the best translation is in the oldest manuscripts say this, and Westcott and Hort thought this, that, and the other, and everything. No, sir, he said it is written. He knew what was written. He knew what the word of God was. And thank God we can know that too today. But I see not only is the Word of God particular, it's every word, it's protecting, it is a shield, but it is perfect. He said, add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee. and thou be found a liar. Isn't that something? Did you know there's at least three different warnings in the word of God about changing his word? Deuteronomy, back there toward the beginning of the book, the book of Proverbs right there in the middle, book of Revelation right there in the last just few verses right there. He says, don't add to, don't take away from. He said right here, he will reprove thee and thou be found a liar. The Bible said, yea, let God be true and every man a liar. You take some, I don't care. Brother, if he's got every PhD and every MS and everything else, I like what old brother Mays Jackson said, that all those degrees about like the curl on a pig's tail, they look good but don't make the ham any better. Yes sir, I don't care how many schools he's been to, I don't care how many education or you know what I'm talking about. I don't care how much of that he's been through. There's not a man on the face of this earth that's got a license to lay his filthy corrupted hands on the word of God and go to monkeying with it and changing it and talking about a better translation. There is no better translation. This is what God said. Lest he reprove thee. Can I give you something right here? I believe this will help. Old Paths Baptist, Pilgrim Baptist, any other church you want to talk about. Jesus gave seven letters to seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3. You know, a lot of times, and I'm not against this at all, we've got a website and everything, but we want people to leave us a good review. We want to be five-star, you know. I mean, we don't want to be no three-star church. But listen, hey, I'll tell you something a whole lot more important than that. Reckon if Jesus raided us, how would we rate? But he went through those seven churches, and he said to Ephesus, he said, you're doing a lot of things right. He said, I know thy works. He said, but you've left your first love. He reproved them. about that. He came on over there to Pergamos, and he said, you got that doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which things I hate, and so forth. He reproved them about that. He comes on over there to Thyatira, and he said, you got a woman preacher there that's teaching false doctrine. Yes, sir. I was coming to church the other day and one of our men said, preacher, you're kind of getting shaggy. He said, you're starting to remind me of Joel Osteen with that hair getting long like that. I said, oh my, that's not good. So I went to the barber shop and went in there and said, Mr. Barber, they said I'm looking like Joel Osteen. Could you please make me look like Joyce Meyer? I said, amen. I'm just kidding. But anyway, I mean, there she was, old Jezebel, amen, old Joyce the Jezebel, teaching all that stuff right there. And Jesus reproved them about that. He came on over there to the church at Sardis and he said, you've got a name that you're alive. He said, but you're dead. A lot of Baptist churches that way. Dead as a hammer. Straight as a gun barrel, doctrinally, and just as empty. He said, you got a name that you live, but you're dead. And then, oh brother, he comes on over there to Laodicea and he doesn't have anything good to say. I mean, he tells him they're blind, miserable, wretched, naked, and lukewarm, they make him sick. You talk about, you don't want the Lord saying that, that church makes me sick. But he came to that church at Philadelphia, and he didn't have anything bad to say. You know what he said? He said, you've got a little strength, and you've kept my word. You want to know how to keep from getting reproved by the Lord? Keep his word. That's it. I mean, brother, I wouldn't say you come to our church, you're probably going to find some things that's not right, starting behind the pulpit. and going on out from there, and probably where you're at too. But I'll tell you one thing, if we just get a hold of that book, I mean get a white knuckle, bold dogmatic grip on that Word of God and hold it. He said, you've kept My Word. You've kept My Word. This book, this is where the answers are. This is where the answers are. There was a fellow one time, In an old blacksmith's shop, it was a rainy day and too wet to plow, so he brought his mules down there to get them shod. And the blacksmith was shoeing his mules, and so he kind of got looking around, seeing what was looking around the old blacksmith's shop there, and out behind that shop he found a big old junk pile. And there's a bunch of hammers, broken handles, bent, wore out hammers laid on that junk pile. And he went back in there and said to the blacksmith, he said, I got to noticing back there your junk pile. He said, there's a bunch of old busted up hammers on it. Blacksmith said, yes, sir. He said, this anvil right here, he said, it's made out of solid iron. It weighs a hundred pounds. He said, I've been beating on it a long time. He said, I've wore out a lot of hammers beating on this old anvil. And the fellow said, well, he said, that's interesting. He said, you wore out a lot of hammers. He said, how many anvils have you wore out? He said, nary one. He said, the anvil wears out the hammers. The hammers don't wear out the anvil. Now I want to tell you something. That's how the Word of God is. That Word of God is that anvil. The hammers of criticism have beat against it for decades and for centuries and for millenniums. But when the critics and the smart alecks are on the junk pile of history, God's Word will be just like it's always been. Ager said, I've got some questions. I need some answers. And every question he asks has an answer in the Word of God. Harry Ironside, I don't know whether that name's familiar to you or not, but he went to see an old preacher over in Northern Ireland named Alexander Fraser. And he sat there in his home. Brother Frazer was an older man by this time. He sat in his home just amazed at the wisdom that poured out of him and the great truths of the Word of God that he began to learn. And he was just amazed. And after a while he said, Brother Frazer, let me ask you something. Where did you learn all of these great truths and all of these great things that you've been telling me? I mean, the wisdom that just poured out of that old saint of God. He said, I'll tell you where I learned it. He said, there's a little cottage with a mud floor out there in the countryside in Northern Ireland. And he said, I'd sit for hours on my knees on that dirt floor with an open Bible by myself and ask God, to give me wisdom and show me things out of that book. He said, God showed me more on that mud floor in that old cottage out there in the countryside. He said that I could have gotten all the seminaries and colleges across the world. And neighbor, that's where it is. The answers are right here. Now, it's one thing to stand up here and, I mean, holler about believing the Bible and, bless God, we're King James and we believe every word of it and talk about inspiration and preservation and all that, but it's something else to get on down and see what the Bible has to say to us. That's where wisdom is. And apply it to our lives. Let me ask you, how much time did you spend today in this book? When's the last time you got your family around together, and I mean just spent time together in the Word of God? When's the last time you saw what the Bible said and you didn't adjust the Bible to suit your life, but you adjusted your life to suit the Bible? Old Ager, he said, I sure got some things I need to know. He said, I'm brutish. I've not learned wisdom. I need some answers. He asked some questions. Listen, if you've got questions, ask God. Then you know where to find the answers. Right here. This is it.