Amen. Amen. Well, let me do something a little different. Open your Bible to Mark chapter 5. Don't let me forget, brother. I'll give you time at the end of the service. I don't want to interrupt the service. I'm just trying to mind the Lord. and flow better. I love missionaries. Our church loves God's missionaries. So I don't want to be disrespectful in any way. Somebody help me to remember please. Mark chapter number five. I don't know that I've ever preached this message ever. This, excuse me, this chapter. I don't know that I've ever, it's been preached a lot. And I mentioned it the other day when we were, when I was preaching, maybe, when was that, Wednesday night, maybe? And I thought a lot about some things that, when I was talking about salvation, that often get repeated and talked about. I'm not sure that it is exactly entirely accurate, how sometimes that this, and I'm guilty of it myself. For instance, we shout and praise God over the chains that have been broken. Well, Christ didn't break the chains. He broke the need for any chains. The man broke the chains himself. So doesn't mean he didn't technically break the chains, but he went much deeper than that. He broke the need for any change. Nobody needed change anymore because God went beyond where the law could and got down inside of the man where the problem was. Um, so I, anyway, I just, I want to just go through this and God's laid on my heart and I, I, I feel like, you know, for some time now that God has been dealing with somebody about being saved and, and I can't think of anything more important this morning than somebody being saved by God's grace. And if you're here this morning and you don't know the Lord, I just wanna implore you that the Lord's worked in my heart and wanted me to preach to you and talk to you about the Lord. And maybe you might get saved. And so if you pray, God help me. I wanna preach about this man. I wanna talk about probably the majority of the message. I wanna talk about what uncleanness drove him to. So let's read it together. So Mark chapter number five and verse number one. And they came over under the other side of the sea into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, our precious Savior, immediately there met him out of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit. And so, I wanna just talk a little bit about this spirit that was in the man. If we go through our Gospels, Christ was, demons could hold no power over an individual in the presence of the Lord, could they? Demons are very real, especially in our Gospels, where Christ is casting out demons. And we have different examples of what some of these demons will do. don't, it's not my message this morning, but I have talked to many missionaries through the years and they say that they about unanimously agree that a lot of times, you know the Bible talks about, we wrestle not against flesh but against principalities and powers, which are witnessed in all places. And they go into a location and it seems like there is a certain spirit that works there. Whether it be a lewd spirit, can I use that? Us adults know what I mean by that. A violent spirit. And that seems to bear out. In the gospels you'll see Christ, there'll be some that cause them to cast themselves and foam at the mouth and all kinds of different spirits that manifest in all kinds of different ways. Now, that's not my message this morning. My message is, but I do want to identify what kind of spirit that this man is of. What this spirit is labeled as is an unclean spirit. That's how he's labeled. And so it would only then make sense to you and I that we would have to look at the man and say what his life came to was driven by uncleanness. Is that a fair assumption to make? So, and whatever that means, I mean, that's a fairly vague word. I would put it there beside ungodliness. Well, that covers pretty much everything, doesn't it? Anything that God's not for, right? Anything contrary to the character of God would be ungodly. So what would be clean? Well, whatever God said is clean, right? And so what's unclean? Whatever God said is not clean. I know I'm deep this morning. I know I'm deep. I don't wanna go over your head. I just wanna slow down. I just wanna talk about the realities that I don't think a lot of times that we care to look into, especially in our early years. In our early years, we're living for today. We're living for the moment. We don't look beyond. And it's like we, and I hear this from others, because I'm just now 40 myself, but I've heard many people say somewhere around the age of 40 that they began to look beyond. And I think it's sad that humans live 40 years and don't really consider much of eternity or the next summer. We live basically in the moment. But then you reach a certain age where you do start to really calculate, I guess because you're starting to face the reality that your days are numbered. You don't think about the number of man. You don't think the number of his days at 20. You think you've got your whole life ahead of you. And then, you know, I'm sure that probably increases as we get older. You start considering and seeing your days are numbered, and you're living in a temporal body, in a temporal world, and, you know, you start facing those realities, I guess, a little more. But it shouldn't be, remember thy creator in the days of thy you. So, but it is a reality, I think. And so my heart is, I wanna look at this, what uncleanness will drive a man to? I don't really wanna put a title on it, other than just say, we could just talk about the unclean spirit this morning. And so I want to just look at the reality because I would have to imagine that this unclean spirit didn't just start out where we find this, where Christ finds this man in Mark chapter number five. So it gives us a little bit of a history of where he is before he faces Christ. We have an insight into his life. For instance, the prodigal son. We think the Lord had that story preserved in our King James Bible, and we know that he was in a hog pen. and we know the swamp and the things that surround. And so we can kind of assume a few things. And so I don't want to misinterpret or read anything into the Bible, but there are some logical assumptions we can come to by reading about where this man's life came and what was driving him. What was driving him was not the Holy Spirit, it was an unclean spirit. What motivated his decisions and what motivated his life was uncleanness. It wasn't holiness, it wasn't godly living that he struggled and battled with. It was uncleanness. The Christian can certainly experience uncleanness. He can partake of uncleanness in his life. Might as well say amen or you're lying. And so, but we have a battle with that, don't we? We battle with that uncleanness of the flesh and we battle to let the spirit of God live through us and the new man put him on and reckon ourselves dead indeed unto sin. But this man is not a saved man. This is a lost man who has nothing but a conscience and the energy of the flesh and society to help his problem. And so what happened was he got an unclean spirit and his life began in a trajectory towards uncleanness. And the unclean spirit did not want to end itself. It didn't really even want itself to die. It didn't even really want to kill the man. It wanted to drive the man to an isolated place where he could successfully eat away at the man like a cancer from the inside. He isolated him and drove him to a place where he could torment him in peace. And nobody would try to bind him. Society is where the chains came from. The chains were society's attempt at the remedy to help an unclean man. The chains represent religion. The chains represent turning over a new leaf. The chains represent AA. The chains represent the 12-step programs, right? The chains represent an attempt of society and mankind to stop a man from destroying himself by uncleanness, because even the world has a sense of a conscience. And a man sitting there cutting himself and destroying himself and running around wild and naked, even to society who so far still has a conscience. Did not think that was a good thing. They didn't want him running around town naked. They still didn't want their kids to see that. Oh, we're a far cry from that. We'll put them in front of it. We'll pay for the plan each month and put it in their pockets. God help all of us. But the unclean spirit that was driving this man's life, even society came to a place and said, our society today has programs set up for people that try to commit suicide or that self-harm. Self-harm and self-mutilation is demonic. That's from a demon spirit. And I am shocked to find out that it is something that's prevalent among young people. I'm shocked, I didn't know that. I didn't know that was a thing. But can I tell you, it is a thing, it's been a thing for a long time, but it's an unclean thing. It's from an unclean spirit. God doesn't want you to harm yourself. God harmed himself so that you never have to. God hung there and no man taketh my life from me. I lay it down freely. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. Pilate said, I have power. Jesus said, you have no power. You only have the power that my father let you have. Amen. But they didn't take his life. They didn't kill him. He said, Father, it's finished. And he gave up the goat. In thy hands, I commend my spirit. That's an unclean spirit. If I can tell you young people, if you're involved in that kind of thing, you need to get some help from the Lord. I'm not here to shame you in any way whatsoever, but that is something that God can help you with. There is hope out of that kind of thing. That is not right. That is not normal. That is demonic. That's demonic. But that's, in a sense, kind of the least of the problems here in this man's life. Though ultimately, the uncleanness of this man's spirit drove him to a place where he could be naked and mutilate himself, but never die. Think about something with me. The Bible said he cut himself off with stones. Well, why didn't he just cut his throat? Same stone that could cut his arm could cut his throat. So evidently the spirit didn't want, this unclean spirit didn't want to wipe him out. It wanted to take him somewhere and isolate him away from any attempt to help him and just eat him up like a cancer. Just, and that's what the unclean spirits that are in the world today that are motivating the lives of people, they'll eventually destroy you because it's appointed and a man wants to die. But their ultimate goal is to bring shame upon your life and to isolate you away from people who are trying to remedy the situation. So, and that's what happens to this man. He has an unclean spirit, is what the Bible calls this spirit. And in verse number three, who had his dwelling among the tombs and no man could bind him, no, not with chains. Well, Here's our first mention of the chains. Now, I am not attacking in any way, because the Bible talks about that, how that sin are like cords and chains that bind us and Christ sets us free. But in the context of the scripture, that's not what is being said. Chains were brought into the picture to try to help an unclean man who was running around naked and cutting himself. He was obviously not right in the head. Something was wrong. And it's still not right in the head to run around naked. And it's still not right in the head or normal to be cutting yourself. Okay? But that's not all. That's not all that we're dealing with here. So the Bible said in verse number four, after verse number three tells us, it gives us a little bit of insight that we'll dig up here just in a minute. But in verse three, it said, one of the first thing it talks about is it has dwelling among the tombs. Now, I don't think the man started out in the tombs. Nobody would have known he was there. Who would have attempted to chain up a man that was living in the mountains among tombs? So evidently, this man was what had to be part of a community at some point. He had a mom, right? That still works. It's the only way it does work. He had a mom and a dad. Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, right? So he had a mama somewhere that loved him. I would imagine. Maybe she didn't love him, maybe she hated him. I don't know, but he had a mama. He had a daddy for sure, right? He was part of a family. is part of a community at some point, and evidently a community that had some sense of concern for the man. I mean, there is a grace out there. I think it's a common grace of God that's in people who don't sear their conscience, but I mean, there's an attempt in society to remedy drug addiction. and alcoholism, and domestic abuse, and marital problems, and there is an attempt in our school systems, and in the government, and in society in general, because even they recognize that sin, now they don't recognize it as sin, that's something that is transgressing the law of God. What is sin? Sin is transgression of the law. They don't probably necessarily believe in the law of God. We used to. That's where our country is founded upon. But even they have a conscience that when they see people doing things that are destroying their life, will try to step in and stop it. So even they recognize that there are actions and there are what we would call sin that will destroy a person. This unclean spirit was destroying this man, was it not? They attempted to stop him from hurting himself. You're doing something that's wrong, so that takes care, doesn't it? If they didn't care about him, they just let him do it. But they tried all they could, evidently, because the Bible said no man could, because here's why. They chained him, and what happened? No man could bind him, no, not with chains, because that he had often, what does it say? Been bound with fetters and chains. Now what happened to the chains? This is the same thing that happens to you, my friend, when you try to negotiate with God, make a deal, and you won't repent and believe the gospel. And instead, you just wanna play games, and you just wanna fool around, and you just wanna, but yet you wanna escape the pain of the uncleanness. Well, let's bind ourselves up with chains. Well, that would work. but it doesn't fix the problem, but it would at least stop him from cutting himself, and that's how society operates. They operate in a world that is just band-aiding the problem. And they can just get you to stop drinking so much, but the problem is that there's something deeper wrong with you. It's called sin. I mean, I'd quit one thing, I'd start another thing. I'd turn over a new leaf only to find more sin under that one and have to turn over a new one next year. It never ended because nobody cared for my soul in society. They only cared about remedying the problem so as to much, I guess, at least some concern for me, but they were helpless. Vain is the help of man to actually fix me. I wasn't able to fix me. I couldn't bind myself up, which was the attempt of religion. Go to church, try to do better, try to stop this, try to start doing that, and it's all a bunch of religion and chains, and you know who's gonna break the chains? You will, because it'll never stop you. You may stop cutting yourself, but then before long, you'll start drinking, and you'll take pills, and that'll make you feel good, and you'll get used to them, and you'll have to take stronger pills, and then those won't work, and you'll have to go further and further. It'll never stop. And you'll be bound up and you'll break the chains. You'll bind yourself up and you'll break the chains. A lot of people, that's what they do with sin, because they don't have the power to overcome it. A lot of people that just claim the name, and they call Him Lord, Lord, but they've not ever been saved, they've never been born again. They have no power, and they'll bind themselves up with a chain. I'm not gonna touch that computer again, and I'm not gonna go to that website. And they'll last about a day, and their chains are broken, and they'll run to it like a hog after slop. Because that's what's in their heart. And they don't have any power to oppose that. All they have is the natural man. And so, but there is an attempt of people to try to stop the pain. Sin hurts you and damages your life. And there is attempts made to stop you from hurting yourself, but that'll never change eternity. So the chains represent man's attempt. It represents religion more than it does sin in this story. Everything he tried. Everything he attempted, himself, but also society, people that cared about him and loved him, tried their best, and the best they could come up with was, well, if you wanna stop him from cutting himself, chain his hands up, then he can't do it no more. Seems logical, doesn't it? If he keeps running his mouth, break his jaw, and then he can't run his mouth no more. It's human, come on, laugh. Humans attempt it. If we come out with a new law or we open up a new program, I'll tell you what we'll do, this will fix it. We'll make it legal. What has changed the law? Drug use kills people. Amen. Instead of society standing against that, They're gonna make laws and just, well, we'll fix the problem. We'll just make it legal to do, and then you don't have to worry about it anymore. All these people that are put in jail for minor crimes, and that's the argument, you know. So let's just make marijuana legal, and then you don't have a crime anymore. Well, there's a problem. Well, there's a lot of problems with that. But there's a problem with this matter with God. You can't change His law. His word's forever settled in heaven. And so His law remains the same. You can say that you're okay with two men getting married, but God never will. You can say you're okay with committing adultery on your wife, God never will. You can say it's okay for you to run around and do whatever, and you can come to whatever conclusion you want to, and so can our country, but God's word will never change. Just stays the same, whether it cuts me or cuts you, God's word remains forever the same. The world, as it changes, proclaims the world, proclaims the Lord forever the same. It never changes. And so the chains were an attempt at mankind to deal with an uncleanness in the person that they loved and cared about. Is that a fair assumption of what we've read so far? And I've done this as a parent. I've seen all of us have had our kids lost at one point or another, right? And you see that in them because you can identify with it. You know how they got that spirit. They come by it honest. And so you do everything in your power to try to remedy the situation, and we should. I thank God that society tried to stop the man from cutting himself. It just doesn't want to fix it. But I appreciate the attempt. I appreciate a lot of the world's programs that they have to try to help people. I'm for it. I'm for helping people. I just know if they don't get saved, it's not gonna last. But anyway. So I appreciate the chains, the fetters, and trying to bind the man. But they attempted two different things. So the first attempt was to try to just stop him from doing it altogether. So we're gonna just put things in his life that will stop him from being able to do what's evidently in his heart to do. Now, as a parent, That's a great decision. And we should do it. I can't put God in your heart, Chris. I can't do that work. That's the work of God. He's got to do that with you. But by the good grace of God, I can put as many chains and fetters on you. And if you're going to go run after women, you'll have to go around me to do it. And I think that's good parenting. Nothing wrong with that. Now kids hate it. I hated it. But I look back on it now and I thank God I had a mom that tried to chain me up. The problem is it just wasn't ever going to work. At some point I'm going to get on my own and do right. But I think it's a good thing. So I'm not against the chains. Don't misunderstand me. I'm trying to awaken any person here that's lost this morning, awaken them to what the uncleanness is going to take them. Sin is taking you somewhere. And so this man starts out This much we know about him. We know he was naked from Luke. Don't see it here, but we can go to Luke and see it in Luke. He was definitely naked. And we know he was cutting himself. With that much we know about him. And that evidently drove him to some places. So we've talked about what society attempted to do. First, they tried to bind him, which was an attempt to just say, to put guard rails up in his life and keep him from getting to it. putting plastic covers in the electric socket, so Junior over here don't. Boy, that tickled, let's do it again. Some of you dumb. That's what we do with sin, isn't it? Boy, that hurt. I think I'll do it again. Oh, man, the flesh is messed up, isn't it? Every one of us can amen that. Because most sins we've committed, we didn't just commit once. And it didn't just hurt us once, it's hurt us many times. And it'll keep hurting us. But I want to do all I can to awaken you up to a reality. At best, the best we could do is bind you up. That's the best I can do. Best I can do is put your cell phone up on the counter. Best I can do is set you a curfew. Best I can do is have your location on my phone. Come on, parents. I mean, just doing the best we know to do. That's the only options I have. These people were as powerless as we are. We're powerless against it. The only hope is their personal faith in Christ. Right, I'm talking about in our abilities. You think they ever tried to shame him? I can't believe you're doing this. It didn't work. I'm gonna be honest with you, I think he was ashamed of it. The best a man could do is try to handcuff him. You know why? Because some of us have been in the tombs. Some of us have been in the mountains. Some of us have been naked and lonely. And sin, what better definition would it be than self-harm? We were all self-harming. We were killing ourselves slowly with sin. But there was a God in heaven that looked down and great love wherewith he loved us. I love you young people so much. The best I can do, the best your parents can do, the best any of us can do is try to handcuff you. And then you know what happens? You break the handcuffs off. You tear the chains off. You go back to cutting. But at least those chains we put on you were at least stopping you from killing yourself with sin. Y'all making the picture of the connection here? So then as a parent, then you start thinking, well, Brother Ray, some of you reach a certain age. I don't know, I don't want to say that you, the Bible ever says you reach an age where you not whip, but Taylor's 17 years old and be honest with you, I'm not whipping her. I don't know, you reach a certain age where you just, I get tired of whooping people too. You know, you get tired as a parent. You reach a certain age where you realize that ain't all the handcuffs and the fetters and the chains. that you've broke through time and time again. The Bible said often. I mean, we can blame society. Most of the times when you hear this preach, it'll be, oh, the liberal preacher down the road was trying, you know, the psychologist, you know, they attack all that. And I do too, because it's vain. But oftentimes, they cared enough to do it again. He broke the chains off, and evidently somebody tried to bind him again. Somebody loved him enough to know, stop killing yourself. Don't do that to your, why are you doing that to yourself that way? And they bind him up. And they break him, start back at sin. It's driven, like a mad person with uncleanness. They chain him up. Love would chain him up again. They break him off. So then we realize, well, we're running out of chains. You're getting too big for the chains. You're getting too old for the chains. The chains evidently aren't working. And so, then the Bible said they tried to bind him. And the next thing they tried to do is they tried to tame him. Well, we can't stop you from hurting yourself with sin. I can't stop you from running to the world. I can't stop you from running to sin. I can't stop you from hanging out with those people. I can't stop you from going to those websites. You understand? I've tried, I've done, I've changed. Maybe I could at least tame you. Maybe I could just negotiate with you a little bit. Let's sit down and have a chat. Maybe if I could just tame you. Why don't you just not do it so often? Why don't you just don't, and they start reasoning with him. Look, if you want to be naked, just do it over here and run around, but don't cut yourself. I don't know what was said, but you understand the Bible said neither could any man tame him. That's a totally different word than, secondary attempt to try to stop this man from hurting himself. So they, no doubt, they tried to reason with, why are you doing that? What's wrong? What's driving you to chase after the things that are killing you? And nobody could reason with them. They couldn't tame it. And the young people, we love you. I can testify as a parent, I've tried every one of these things. But there just comes a point that if you don't get God, I can't bind you and I can't tame you. This is so serious. Eternity is at stake. And so, let's finish with this. I just wanna warn you. I've searched, I can't say like the preacher, but I can say I searched high and low in this whole world to try to find remedies to my problem. I never could find it. And I'm gonna tell you, I've tried most every single one of them. And I was still unclean. Until I met Jesus in the way. And I know that beautiful picture of his chains breaking, but it's just not so. It's not what happened. But what did happen is when he saw Jesus afar off. Sometimes that's the first glimpse you get of him. He's just far off. But it's a good enough picture you want to get closer. And so he runs to him and he falls down at his feet and worships him. Now, your guess is as good as mine. I'd like to romanticize the story a little and say it was his great faith that took him after Jesus. I don't know. Even the demons are subject to him. In context, may have been the demon. I don't know. I guess as good as mine. But I can tell you this, if you don't by faith see Jesus and believe on him and worship him, my father seek us such to worship him, is what the Bible says. He's seeking worshipers. But let me leave you with this, because we kind of hit that the other night, and I thank God for the marvelous power of the gospel to cast the uncleanness out of us. I'm not driven by uncleanness anymore. I'm not saying it's not there, but I submitted myself to the Lordship of Christ. But let me just finish. I want to spare any person from the scars of this world. I'm 40 years old. I got saved some 16 years ago. I can remember sins I committed when I was 10 years old. Sin will just scar your life up. It will ruin your life. And I want to save anybody I could from that kind of life. What kind of nut job would glorify sin as though it's something to be proud about? That's the only time I cringe when people go into details of their past, because I know there's some young man sitting there going, I want to do that one day. glorify it in their mind. I'm not ashamed of what you're saying it and witnessing to it. I thank God, God delivered you from it, it don't bother me. But I know there's some young person that looks at that and they glorify that in a way and that's so dangerous. Nothing to glory about a crazy man all by himself. So, what happens? What happened to him? Let's read these next verses and I'll just stop because it's time to stop. So he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by nobody else but him. Wasn't a mean friend that come by and plucked them off. He plucked them off himself. A lot of times, you want to blame other people, but I'm here to tell you this morning straight from God, there's nobody else responsible for where you are but you. You're the one that tore the chains off. Maybe then somebody come up and whisper to you, boy, you'd feel a lot better if you get them chains off. You could run wild and start cutting again. It's fun. Start sinning again. Start destroying your life again. That's going to be so fun. Yeah, and they'll answer to God for that, but you're the one that took them off. He plucked them off. The fetters were broken in pieces and neither could any man tame him. Now look what happens. I think we've established this has not been every single day of his life, but now it is. Let's look at where he ended up. Always night and day. I came to a point right before I got saved and my sin consumed me. Even when I wasn't committing it, I was thinking about it, and not always in a positive light. I was thinking about it a lot of times, wanting out of it. It just consumed you. And this consumed this man in the end. Night and day, always, he was in the mountains. And I want to just read this. I wrote it, and then I'll just The unclean spirit brought him to a dark and a lifeless place, represented by the tombs. Uncleanness brought him to a lonely and a shameful place, represented by the mountains. He was all in the mountains by himself. Eventually people will get tired of fooling with you. And uncleanness will drive you to a life of loneliness. It brought him to a hateful and a hurtful place. He was cutting himself. It brought him to a bare and an evil place. He lost everything. Man didn't have a home. There was no family up there in the mountains with him. Just all alone by himself with nothing. And there he is in those mountains, cutting himself, and nobody can help. And right when the town has already given up on him, and right about when everybody thinks there's no hope for old crazy, step off the boat onto, coming to where he was, When the crazy man couldn't get to Jesus, Jesus crossed the waters. The mighty gulf he did span. He crossed the waters. And he came to us. He didn't make him do it, but he fell down at his feet. All alone, all by himself. Everybody gave up on him. I said, why y'all act so crazy? And shouted. No one ever cared for me like Jesus. He loved me when I was unlovable. And when everybody had a right to give up on me, he never did. And so here he is. And, uh, the uncleanness had to isolate him because as long as he was around others they kept trying to stop it. So he had to drive him somewhere that he could operate in uncleanness all alone. I'll say this there could have been others in the tombs as far as I know, but there certainly wasn't anybody that cared anymore to try to tame him or bind him. just lonely, living among the tombs, surrounded by dead people, surrounded by corpses that couldn't help him at all. That's where sin will take you. It'll take you out with others that are just as dead as you are. They can't help you either. And so, night and day, he was in the mountains, in the tombs, And I don't know why, but I read this verse and it broke my heart. I could not get past this one word. He was in the mountains and in the tombs. Yeah, he was cutting himself, but he was also crying. I don't know if you can remember back to being lost, but can you remember that helplessness? Can you remember those tears of desire to be delivered? Yes, I continued to sin. Yes, I couldn't stop it. Yes, people tried to help me and I wouldn't listen. Yes, I went that direction headlong. Yes, I chose it. Yes, I deserved it. Yes, I went that way, but I cried the whole way. I hated it. I enjoyed the pleasures of sin for a season, but my conscience, I hated it too. And there he was crying. But when he saw Jesus afar off, and I'm gonna close hoping and praying to God. And if you're here, Or if you're listening online, and if you didn't hear anything else I said, that God will take this one verse and won't let you find a comfortable place in this world to get away from it. When he saw Jesus afar off, I don't know what life has in store for us, folks, and I don't know where sin's gonna take you. And I may not be there when you get there. God. If I could, if I could tell my kids anything, I tell you this. I want to tell you when you get there, that when you see Jesus, run to Him as fast as you can, because it's the only hope you've got. And when he saw Jesus afar off, the Bible said he ran. And he worshiped Him. Every young person in here, I want you to know something. When I desire most of anything in this world, I know you feel pressured to be made to look a certain way, you feel pressured to be performed a certain, but in my heart, as long as God lets me pastor this church, My desire for you is that you worship Him. Just worship the Lord. Be a worshiper of Christ. So I'm done preaching if you'll stand with me. It wouldn't hurt all of us to come down probably this morning and have somebody on our heart. Maybe you're thinking of somebody and you all know I don't do that. But I'd say in every family here this morning, we've got somebody in our life we've thought about during this message that we'd like to see saved by God's grace. And let's just pray that when Jesus presents himself to them, that they'll run to him and worship him, okay? So Lord, we do love you this morning. Thank you for just so much I could thank you for. If there's anybody in here this morning lost without the Lord, I'm begging you, Lord, please help them. And I know that's not even necessary. You want to help them more than I, but that's just what's on my heart. Lord, please, please don't let them get out of here. Maybe somebody's listening online. Oh, please don't let them have to experience the loneliness and the destruction of uncleanness. Help them to run to Jesus while they can still see Him. In Christ's name we pray, amen. All right, if you need to come, Brother Reed's gonna sing. You come and pray, okay?