It certainly is good to be back in the Lord's house. I know I say it every time I get up, I think it will be a lot different. I'm thankful this morning, as far as I know, all is well. We don't really know what's going on. The Lord made a way for me to come to the house of the Lord. I love this place. This place is special to me. I don't know a lot. I still want to see it now, but I'm glad it's here. all together just with one thing on her mind. It ain't, I mean I love everyone that's here, but this morning I didn't come because of these 20 years. We all have that mindset this morning that the Lord to do whatever he'd have us to do. The Lord to have you do something, do it. The Bible tells us obedience is better than sacrifice. I thought last night that I had to go check on a property that I take care of and stuff, but I forgot about it. It was about 9.30 last night when I left, and I was going up South Pole. I was going up through there and there's a coon across the road in front of me and out of my mind I got to just thinking about coons as I was going up through there. I thought about a lot of them in here, I know a lot of them is coon hunting and stuff like that. My mind, as I was thinking about it, I mean, it's been a few years since I've been, but I thought about, you know, when you turn the dogs loose, when they true, I thought about you as a hunter, you've got one thing on your mind, right? I know I do, and that's getting to that true. You know what's waiting on you, that's the reason that you coon hunt, is to go to the true and head on your dogs there at the true and see what the true did. And I, as I was thinking about that, the Lord, I thought about, you know, and I thought about me and Charlie, how I went with him two or three years ago, and as a blade, we went together. And I thought about the dogs, the dogs struck me, treated me. I thought about Charlie going up through there and how hard to ever stop. I thought about another type of person that as long as you're going, I'll keep on going too. I'll be honest, he might have killed me. I might have killed him. But I thought about one thing on my mind, and that was getting to that tree. I thought about that spiritually. I thought about the days and hours in which we live, I thought as a Christian person, we should have one thing on our minds. And I thought about that's getting to the Lord, and we believe God is getting to a better place. And I've got just a scripture, just a couple of verses, and Ben Zinnel was actually talking about it, and he mentioned the third verse. but I've got just, I'm gonna read the first two verses of Hebrews chapter 12. I thought about it, it says, for our sin we also are compassionate about with so great a cloud of witness. Let us lay aside every weight and this sin which do so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. is looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set and he sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. As I was reading, and the Lord has shown me that, the end goal is to get you to a better place. I began to think about, and Joel, I'm gonna use you just for illustration, I thought about, and I, These prayer rocks right here, these rocks, I mean, they're important, but I want you to look at them and a little bit near. Joel, I want you to hold this. Joel, I want you to hold this. Joel, I want you to hold this. Oh, Jehovah. Yeah. Let's me and you go. Let's start up this man. This is anxiety. This is stress. This is the curse of the world. This is everything. That's the way that the sins are holding us back. The Bible tells us that he's the cause of do good and the cause of human sin. Now that's the sins of the world. But now he's telling us, lay aside everything. That's what he thinks we're saying. Let's say this is fear. Let's say that's fear. Let's say this right here, this is the curse of this world. Let's say this right here is a desire to have more of the one we all have to worry about. I thought about money, but we don't. What's that gonna do? By the Lord's hand, the Lord allowed me to lay a little bit of weight. Last year, I tried my best. I tried my best to back you, I said. I wanted to have more in this world. I got more jobs. I got more things I can do. Please don't take me wrong, but we all, we have to work. I thought it would be better to pick guns between me and y'all. We've got to lay the curse of this world. We've got to lay the blame. If we're going to see our lost people, this one right here. I thought about Joe, the burdens of this life. You've got to carry the burden, but instead of Joe, you carry the dog. So let me hear you. Listen, Lord. There's a place over yonder that's got gates, of course. That's just what it looks like. But there's a man over there. That's a man that's up in the woods. That's raised today. He's up there. I've got to get there. The only way we're going to get there is lay aside. Every way. Get rid of it, church. We've all got to. I thought about, I went to my restaurant the other day. I thought about, I thought about, Leslie, I thought about, I asked her, Leslie, would you come back to church? I thought about church, our lost people. This girl, I'm telling you, this girl, the prayer of God on her, and I thought about the shame that she's in, This world is not my home. He said that. He's a pilgrim and a stranger, a seeker and a meditator. Church, we've got to get there. We're not there yet. And we've got to listen to the things that Jesus said to us and let us run this race with patience. I want to make you proud, Joe. I want to walk the streets of Melbourne with you, my man. I want you to see the power in God that you're talking about. Oh, when we were children, we'd say that God was highly just. He's not telling the truth. I'm going to make you still be lifted up. It's our job to lift you up. Amen. Hello. My church. I was a senator in Eisenhower. I begin to just begin to think about some things. Church, there's nothing in this world that's more important than you. There's nothing in this world. I love to hunt. Me and I know we all love to hunt. But church, it's not more important than you. It's not more important than you. I know. And like I said last week, there's nothing wrong But if it's between you and God, it's not that easy. I thought about the relationship, young people. I thought about me and Chris and all of the embassadories. We was talking this week to him and Jonathan. And I was telling them, I said, they was asking about different things. And I said, whenever you want a girl, make sure that she loves God more than she loves you, every one of you. It makes sure that they love God more than they love me. And if we do that, it'll all work in the end. Because there's things in this world, if we put them before God, it's not anymore. I'm saying, if we'll put him first, listen to what he told us to do. He said, I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. But he told us, he said, I'll go with you all, even to the end. I said, I'd like to walk with you. He told us, he said, take my mule. I'm on my own. I'm hurt. My life is so hard. Life is so hard. And I know, I know what I have to say. My teacher said, my church is going to take the H-N-1. And I thought, well, I love our past. So Charlie Pink here in the front, I'm going to run this church. I thought best. We've all got to come together. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to help one another. We've all got to help one another. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay aside. We've all got to move forward. We've all got to lay Anchored in the blood of the Lamb. Oh, the billows are raging, and we're tossed to and fro. ♪ Of the precious Lamb of God ♪ There is no other fountain ♪ So somehow so sweet ♪ For it has washed away my sins ♪ Gave me peace and joy within Hope is anchored in His blood, His precious blood. Now only one thing will matter when my time shall come to die. The treasures of this world won't mean a thing But the joy of knowing Jesus Will banish all my fears For He took away destiny And my hope is in the blood ♪ Of the precious Lamb of God ♪ ♪ There is no other fountain ♪ ♪ So smooth and so sweet ♪ ♪ For it has washed away my sins ♪ ♪ Gave me peace and joy within ♪ Hope is anchored in His blood, His precious blood. It's been a long journey, but I have Him blessed. Walking with Jesus, I have no regrets. The way's been long, but I'm blessed. Each day that I live is more than I need. I can never distrust His goodness to me. You ask how I make it. Day after day, there's only one thing I can say. It's been a long journey, but I have been blessed. Walking with Jesus, I have no regrets. I must confess, the way's been long, but I'm blessed. All that I need, I'll find at His feet. When I'm hungry, He feeds me, with manna so sweet. When my soul is weary, He sends peace and bliss. ♪ And all I can say is I'm blessed ♪ ♪ Now I've had my share of sunshine and rain ♪ ♪ Days filled with laughter and nights filled with pain ♪ ♪ But every mile as I travel this way ♪ The journey gets sweeter each day. This little long journey, will I have been blessed? The Lord came with Jesus, I have no regrets. ♪ He is so good to me, I must confess ♪ ♪ The way's been long, but I'm blessed ♪ ♪ The way's been long, but I'm blessed ♪ ♪ One day I was walking ♪ ♪ Down since lonesome road ♪ ♪ I've heard about Jesus ♪ And what he could do ♪ Then I cried out for mercy ♪ It was then I prayed Oh Lord, I'm so happy that I learned to pray. I'm headed for heaven. I will on my way. ♪ I've chosen the way too ♪ My Lord's faithful few ♪ I've started forever ♪ And I mean to go through ♪ All the trials I grow weary of All shiny and new. I started for heaven. And I mean to go through. I've chosen I once was lost but now I'm found. was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved. How precious I first believed. Through many angels, foes, and snares, His grace that brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home. shining as the sun, with no space to swing on. Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. Praise God. ♪ That God, I'm overwhelmed by His goodness ♪ ♪ And the mercy that comes to me as a friend ♪ ♪ Like no other, He'll bear my burdens till the end ♪ ♪ I'm unworthy of His love and by His grace I am redeemed ♪ Oh, He is my everything. That's my God, my shelter in time of need. And can I tell you, He's done all He said He would do. That's my God. He is faithful and true. In the wilderness and he's my fortress in time of need. He's my roar, my thunder, I'll be gone. He's my strength when I need him. ♪ It's what I'm going through and He is all I need ♪ ♪ Lord, He's my God, the Savior of my soul ♪ ♪ That's my God, oh, He is my every need ♪ Tell me a time when he's not been faithful and you can't find more. God we have. When they talk about him, when they run him down, it's only because they don't know him. Because if you ever met him, he'll change your life. Anybody else this morning? It's good to see you here. Thank the Lord. It's good to see some back. Even though he's been out sick and we've been missing. Amen. Hopefully now next Sunday we can just get everybody in here together. I'm glad that you're here and still got a good crowd that the Lord has blessed us with. I was talking to a brother there yesterday. Tell me to go to your church. I said, I don't know. I said, we don't count. I said, the Lord has blessed us. There's only one that I'm concerned with, and it's him. And if he's not here, we might as well leave now. We might as well just go to the house now. But I'm glad that he knows even where Cherith Brook is at. I'm glad that he loves us enough to bless us with his presence. And book of Psalms, if you'll look with us there. in Psalm 56. I'll read the whole Psalm to get to just three words. Bible says in Psalm 56, Be merciful unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up. He fighting daily oppresseth me. He will daily swallow me up, for they be many that fight against me, O thou most high. What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust. Will not fear what flesh can do unto me. Every day they rest my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves. They mark my steps when they wait for my soul. Shall they escape by iniquity? In thine anger cast down the people, O God. Thou tellest my wanderings, even put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in the book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back. This I know, for God is for me. In God will I praise his word. In the Lord will I praise his word. In God have I put my trust. I will not be afraid what man can do unto me. The vows are upon me, O God. I will render praises unto thee, for thou hast delivered my soul from death. wilt thou him and deliver my feet from falling, that I will walk before God in the light of the living. Help me pray. Thank you, Lord, for the privilege. Time, God, it is to be in this place one more time. Can't thank you enough, Lord, for health and strength, the well-being of God to be here. I pray, Lord, you'd use us, God, for just a little while today. Hide us, Lord, I beg you. Face anything between me and thee. I pray you'd remove it, Lord, and get it out of the way. Forgive us of our sins and our failures. Use us, God, for just a little while today. Lord, we need you more than we need our next breath. We need your help, Lord. We need your touch. Use us, God, I pray, to help your people. Thank you, God, again for our church, everyone that's here this morning in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Say this a lot about every time that preach out of the book of Psalm, there's so many verses in that Psalm that a man could take and with the help of the Lord, he could preach from. I've always, in my life, I've always been able to run back to verse three. Talk about what time I am afraid. I will trust in thee. Glad we got a God we can trust in. As the sea is stood up and sung about, that's my God. It ought to excite us to know, amen, that we have a God we can trust in. Amen, that he's our God. I'm glad that he's your God today. Amen, but it really stirs me, Joe, to know he's mine. that it belongs to me. I wanna talk to you. Get on down in the verse number nine. He said, when I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back? This I know, for God is for me. I ain't gonna keep you long. I wanna talk to you just a little while on this I know, this I know. I was going down the road the other day and my mind was wandering, seemed like we'd been there of the cares of life and things that we don't know the outcome of. Things come up and we don't know, there's not a one soul that's in here this morning that knows what's gonna happen tomorrow. There's not a one of us today, amen, that we know what's gonna happen when we leave church. We might have the idea of where we're gonna go and the things that we're gonna do, but in reality, we do not know. I don't know what I'm going to face this week. You don't know what you're going to face. But there are a few things that I know. There are a few things that I have been persuaded here. And I'm glad that man cannot change what God has done. I'm going to take my time. All right? There ought to be a few things that we know. Now there are some things that I know, Brandon, that I wish I didn't. I wish I didn't know what sin was. I wish I didn't know what backsliding was. I wish that I didn't know what it was like to walk away from the Lord. Thank God for the young people that we have here. And you listen, I realize that we get teenagers and everybody's dumb, but us, ain't nobody knows what we need. Everybody's against us, but you, if you don't hear anything else I say, you do not want to know what it's like to walk away from home. You do not want to know what it is, honey, to lay down at night and wander the fair, and wonder where God's at, and wonder if you'll ever get back to where you was before, and wonder, honey, hey, but if God'll ever deal with your gift, you don't want to know what that's like. Oh, if we could call back in time and talk to the prodigal son, he'd tell you that he wished he didn't know what the hog pen was. He'd tell you that he wished he didn't know what it was like to waste everything that daddy had given. If we could call him back and hear him talk this morning, he'd tell you that it ain't worth it, that it ain't worth it. Listen, Brother Emma sings that song, but I've been to Calvary, and I've never tasted Oh, listen, there's things I wish I didn't know. But, honey, there's no shame in staying with the Lord and hanging on to the Lord. Listen, if there's one thing you know, it's He's faithful. He's just. He's merciful. But we better stay with Him. I fell now, Tracy. I fell even now. There's things that I've done this week that I wished I didn't know. Listen to me now. Amen. Somebody said it the other day, I believe it was you. Remember, if you never do it, then the devil can't bring you back up again. I mean, there's things keep me up at night. Things I know that I wished I didn't. It's gonna get good. It's better to just stay where the Lord is. I realize we're in a time and a society, amen, honey, where if it ain't all a show and all a gimmick, that nobody has much interest in church, that it's better to name you where the power of God is. You're with me. Amen. Little old David said, I'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God. He'd rather just be present where the power was than to die where it wasn't. I look around this morning, and we're all flat. Amen, we're all flat. There's things you know that I wish you, amen, that you say, you know what I wish I didn't know? These places I've been that I wish I didn't know where they were. I'm not bragging, I'm trying to help you. Just think that I have been involved in and been right in the middle of that I wish I didn't know anything about. Hey, man, listen. And in life, I realize, man, it ain't cool. And I couldn't help. Don't let me embarrass you. I couldn't help. The talk was standing up here, opening up. And I looked over, and I seen the tears. They ain't gonna roll down that girl's face. Hey, man, if that's all she knows, honey, that's good enough. If that's all she's ever loved, That'll be all right. There's nothing that can take the place of the spirit and fire of God. Honey, we're in a pan. Brother, tell our children to go out and show your own. You'll be all right. You can die the same out there as you can anywhere else. That's right. Man, we got some about grown Nicky. Yeah, about grown. I seen my wife stand in the doorway of her bedroom the other night and said I'm about to go crazy. I've won, but I've grown, Tracy. But her job's about over. And I know I ain't done everything right. I know I've failed, and I know I've fallen. Oh, but if I listen, there's some things that you don't want to know. I've accursed only one thing, but it makes the difference. It's Jesus and her, yeah. Praise the Lord. All calls back to her. Praise the Lord. Her thinking my skin red. That I wish I didn't know. Y'all with me? There's things I've looked at, Alan, and observed that we've done together that I wish I didn't know. Now let's get on to what we ought to know. Let's get on to the important part. Yeah, man. Listen, if your backs were hit, they're still whole. But if you ain't ever walked away from the Lord, you don't want to know what it's like. You're gonna hear the words of this little old fat preacher saying you wish that you didn't know what it was, that you didn't know what it was like. It's better. We look at it like a children's song. But the Bible, you read in that hymn, Jesus loves me. This I know. If you know that, why you frowning? If you know Jesus loves you, why in the world are we sitting here looking like a cave, looking at a big cave? What more could you want to know than Jesus loves you? As unworthy, as undeserving, as dirty as you are, he loves you. There's some things I know. Well, and then he said, this I know God is for me. I don't know how anybody else can explain the plan of salvation. I ain't really got no explanation for it. If you do, share it with me. Explain to me how a holy God looks at unholy men. Explain to me how a sinless lamb would look at you. Explain to me, Lord, how I, the Lord, would have so much love. Why God would so love the world, and yet guilt is only a begotten son, that you might not perish, but have eternal life. I don't understand it, but I believe it to be right. It's true, this I know. Explain it to me. You know what Webster's calls the word no? You know how it defines it? I wrote it down, I'll tell you. To be aware through inquiry, information, or observation. You know what, ain't no information here. Don't get excited. Don't get excited. That just means I'll be back anytime. I preach this all the time. And if you get bored with it, turn me off. But John got over there one day. John got to looking. Haven't seen the bug sealed. Haven't no man was worthy. Put on the seals and loose them. Oh, but honey, way back there, oh, when John got to looking, yeah, man, beat it down, John, and kill him. The taser lay him, a slave from the foundation of the world, of the table, of the squealing, that's worthy for the loose to see him, and get their name in the blood. John's standing there crying. Don't cry, John. You tell him. Don't you weep, John. You tell him that a way's been made. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. How do you know, Tim? How do you know this is right? I've asked about it. I've observed it. But you know what makes it real special to me? I've felt it before. I've seen it, I've heard it, I've felt it, I've walked with it, and I've taught myself. Praise the Lord. This I know. We get so worried about things we don't know when we ought to rejoice over what we do. Jeff Bundy, we get so caught up in things that we don't know. When we ought to be able to raise our hands to heaven over what we do know. Do I know what's gonna happen tomorrow? No, I don't. But I do know this. He said I'll never leave. Everybody all right? So why in the world do we worry so much about what's going to happen tomorrow when the same one that walked with us yesterday and the same one walking today will be the same one that'll walk with us when we go home tomorrow? Does it change? Does it change? Praise the Lord. I feel like I'm losing something. That's how I see it. And that's when you get to know him, you want everybody to know him. Well. Abby gets aggravated at me. You know, I got my own business. I don't know where, I don't know what gets paid. I don't know the passwords for no accounts. I don't know nothing. All I know to do is work. And you know why I'm not worried about my bills getting paid? Because I know I can trust her. I know I can depend on her when I don't remember the password, she does. When I don't know how much money I got, she does. Oh, but honey, I got one that can go further than she ever thought about going. I got one that's already went further than any man has ever gone. And honey, why should we worry? Why should we fear? He's the same God. And he's always been. I've observed, I've seen what he's done. I've seen how he's blessed in your life, and in your life. But I know what he's done, down in my soul, what nobody else could ever do. Praise the Lord. I know. Dios, I know. I know he didn't come to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance. If you're not a sinner, just go ahead and leave now, because there ain't nothing I say that's going to make any sense to you. If you're not a sinner, I'm not talking to you. If you've never been a sinner, go with me. How low was you for God's sake? If he was righteous before the Lord found you, he didn't come to save you anyway. Ain't that right? I know what it is. To be a sinner. I know what it is to go just as far away from God as I know. But I also know what it is. I'm gonna let him reach down and pull me out. And pull me up. I know what it is to be out of this wheel, but I also know what it is to find mercy in the time of need. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. This I know. I know He come to say, But Tracy, I know I'm saved. Anybody else know that? I mean, walk into the courtroom, Adam. They call your name for jury duty. We honor that. I love you now. Let's let Trump and his whole parade roll down Vernon. There won't be nobody sitting. They'll lie on the sidewalk trying to catch a glimpse. Don't even know what car he's in, but boy, they'll be looking. Ain't that right? Christian, Tate, Amon, the governor's been here. Representatives, and boy, everybody wants to get right up in front of the line. Y'all with me? Tell our governor, hey, really, they don't even want to talk to him. They just want to look at him. They all asked him, and the holy God of heaven, and he shamed them. And seemed like nobody's as concerned. They would cross their arms and yawn. But I know where I was, and I know who he is. My name is in the book of wine. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. Sleep on. I rise above all doubt and strife. And read my title clear. I know. I know. Help me. My name. What else could you want to know? What else is so important? What else could you desire? Honey, listen, my name's never been wrote down in Washington. Nobody knows who I am. Up in the throne room of heaven, there's a holy God that knows, that knows. Praise the Lord. Yes, I know. God is for me. Well, Jeff Mundy, we get so discouraged when Paul told the church at Rome, for we know that all things. That's what it says. We know that all things worketh together for good to them that love God. We have no reason to be discouraged. We have no reason to hang our head. Catherine and Blake, as much as you watered the bed over that baby, we know, we know that all things work together for good. As much as you may be here wondering how your bills gonna get paid, we know that all things work together for good. Everybody smile real big. If you don't know nothing else, Jesus is a name. If you ain't got nothing else, Jesus is a name. Hunter Hamlin, you find me somebody that that has ever saved. Find me somebody, hey man, that the Democrat Party and the Republican Party ever reached down and pulled out of the pits of hell. Find me somebody that Facebook and Instagram and YouTube ever saved. Find me somebody that the job and the money and the TV ever saved. But Jack, I know somebody that possesses the power not only to save, but to walk with, or to go with, or to listen. If you know him, what more do you want? Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Do we owe him? Some of them I'm worried about. No emotion. No zeal. No desire. Your people's dying and going to hell. And we walk around like we don't know the one that can save them. I don't know what's going on in your life. You don't know what's going on in mine. But I know one, that in all points tempted, like as we are, that tells me everywhere I've ever walked, he's already been through. All points, Nathan, like as we are, yet without See, you know what that means? He done it so we can. He endured it so we can. It's just Jesus. When he got over there in the garden, a man of the devil come up and was tempting him. He endured that, so we can. They marched him up to Pilate's hole, and they beat him, and they mocked him. He endured that. If you'd have read the next verse this morning, it say in the book of Hebrews, chapter 12, verse three, for consider him, which endured such He endured the cross, despising the shame. Oh, but not only did he endure it all, he sat down on the right hand of the throne of God to make intercession for yours, I know that. Never seen such a time of doubt in believers. Never seen such a time of people that say they love the Lord and are so unsure about His abilities. I guess it's the weakness of our flesh. Our flesh likes to doubt. I'm gonna tell you how I am. Jeff Monday walks up to me, asks me to pray for something. I can pray for Jeff and fully believe. You know when I doubt? When it comes to me. I can pray for Nikki's objects and fully believe God is able. But when it comes to my own, this gets involved. You know what I mean? Well, little old Thomas had heard, here he was, he came in a hearing about what them other fellers knew. Thomas, we sing the Lord. I just don't know if I believe that. I see it on some of y'all's faces. I just don't know if I believe it. Well, Thomas, we seen him. No, you didn't. They kept saying, Thomas, we seen him. No, you didn't. Thomas said, I'll not believe. Branded him unless I see them scars in his hands and his feet. Crossed my fist in his side. I'll not believe. Well, here's little old Thomas. They say here he was sitting in Cherith Brook one Sunday morning. And with the doors being closed, we act like that was way back then. He's come in here with the doors closed. We've had the windows and the doors closed, and I still felt him blow through. Sitting up there, and then all of a sudden, here he stood out. I can't find where he walked through and talked to everybody else. Right straight face to face with Thomas. I said, Thomas, look. There's my hands and my feet. Thrust your fist in my side. He said, Thomas, handle me. Thomas, see for yourself. That's what the Lord's trying to get us to do today. Just handle it, just get a hold of it, and we'll know. I don't think that when Thomas left, him in the upper room that day, that he said, you know what, I still have my doubts. Jesus stood over there and said, boys, who do men say I am? Well, he said, well, Lord, we got some calling you Isaiah. Some are saying that you're Jeremiah, him and one of the prophets. And he looked at Peter and said, Peter, who do you think I am? Little old Simon Peter said, I say thou art the Christ. The Son of the Living God. And we believe and are sure. I still don't understand why some of you ain't smiling. We believe and are sure that you are who you say you are. A little old blind man was sitting over there one day. We all know this, act like you don't. I believe the Bible said he was born blind. John chapter nine. And the Lord combined the disciples and said, Lord, who did sin, this boy or his parents? Hey man, that's how carnal they was. Well, Jesus made clean, ain't that right? Rubbed on his eyes, told him to go wash in the pool of Siloam. Hey man, come back and see. Never one time did this blind man have the eyesight when the Lord was in front of him. All he heard was the voice. All he heard was the voice of the Lord. All he felt was his hand as he put the clay on his eye. He never laid his natural eyes on it. When washed in the pool, came back to see him. Who touched you? I don't know. I heard him and I felt him, but I don't know. I don't know. Was he a prophet? Who was he? Tell us. Whether he was a prophet or not, I don't know. He said, but let me tell you what I do know. I once was blind, but now I see. I've never laid my natural eyes on him, but I've heard him, and I've felt him, and that's enough. This I know. Little John wrote over there that we know when we shall see him, we shall be like him. He didn't say I think. we might, he said, we know. Now before you get too excited and shout me down, all that means is when your eyes behold him and who he is, in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, this'll be gone, I'm envious sometimes of them old saints that's left out. Uncle Michael, I'd love to see what Zena Selkins is doing right now. I observed him enough to know. Y'all with me? I'd love to see what some of them old, you reckon, That little old feller was blind and went and washed in the pool. You reckon what he's doing? You reckon Lazarus is saying I wish I was still laying down there by the gate? Letting the dogs lick my soles? Aren't you gonna listen? It always excites you to know we're gonna doubt in this life. Oh, but honey, there's a day of coming when all the doubts gonna be laid off. All the unbelief's gonna be laid off. Come forever, be in the presence of the Lord. Paul said that he will descend with a shout and the voice of the archangel, dead to Christ arise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up to meet the Lord. No, please, please, don't get too overwhelmed. All that is is our hope and we're leaving. I pray, I preach this all the time. You're gonna hear it one more time. He ain't gonna come steal nothing, honey. He's gonna call and man's gonna answer. Praise the Lord. I don't know what it'll take to get a hold of some of them. I don't know, maybe a different preacher will make his move. Maybe somebody with more power can make his move. I don't know what else to do. I don't know what else to say. I don't know how hard it'll be. But listen, I know he's alive. Praise the Lord. Yes, I know. I'm glad I know him. More than head knowledge, I'm glad my heart knows him. He's been entwined with my heart. He's moved in. And when he moves in, he'll change us. Our old desires, well, hey, now they still rise up sometimes. They gonna rise up as long as you in this place. Words that we used to say, they gonna rise up sometimes. Places we used to go, the fun we used to have. That young people, if you don't know about it, won't bother you down the road. Let's go out on the street corner and find a prostitute, Tracy, and ask them if that's where they wanted to be. If they had of knew how life would turn out, they'd have never made the wrong turn. Let's go up in the hollers and find him and the meth head that's cooking meth this morning. That we look down on so much. I guarantee you he would tell you that he wished he didn't know about where he was. Christian, let's walk through the jail cells. and ask them. Anybody that's sincere will say, I wish I didn't know what it was like to be here. Paul wrote to young Timothy over there to continue what you've heard, what you've known, what you've been assured of. I realize it ain't cool. It ain't popular. A lot of places they ain't meant to preach the truth, there's just a handful. Praise the Lord for this place. There's things you don't want to know about, but there's only one thing that you must know about. I've given you my heart today. Yes, I know. Let's stand. Do you know your heart?