Galatians chapter number six. Set the Lord to help us. I realize that without him I can't do anything. And I didn't bring revival with me. We call these services revival services. That's a work of God, it's not a work of man. And I didn't bring it with me, and I hope you didn't expect me to. But I'm glad the Lord has it in store for us. If we desire it, seek after it. I'm glad the Lord can help us in these days. And so I trust that he will this morning. I know I don't know you and you don't know me, but if you're saved, we're in the same family. Serving the same God, going to the same heaven, so it'd do good for us to worship together here while we're together. Galatians chapter six, if you found your place and you're physically able, I don't know what the tradition is, but I invite you to stand with us. Of course, by standing, we're just showing reverence and honor to the reading of the word of God. We're fighting off a cold or allergies or something, so if I cough, just don't pay attention to that. We'll do the best we can by the help of the Lord this morning. Galatians chapter six, and I'll begin reading in verse number seven. The Bible said, be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. But he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. You can be seated. I'M INTERESTED THIS MORNING IF THE LORD WOULD HELP US FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE. PREACH ON BEING WEARY AND WELL DOING. Now I thought about what Paul's writing here, the church at Galatia, and we read from the beginning and understand that Paul is in a battle here, and he's battling against confusion that has come up in the church. And there's a new doctrine, Paul says, that they were removed from the gospel in chapter number 1. That's the gospel of grace and of being justified and saved by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves. It's not of works. The Bible said, lest any man should boast. There's nothing that I could do or have done or ever could do, nor you either, to merit salvation. It is not of works. There's a great move in our area where I'm from about, I've heard sinners stand and say that they need to sing a song or do this or do that. It's not of works. Nothing that I did or you did is the reason that you're saved today. I understand that there is a responsibility on the part of man. God is sovereign, I understand that. And he draws who he will, when he will, and how he will. And then when we receive the truth, the Bible speaks of the light of the glorious gospel. And I'm glad for that. That's truth revealed. Salvation through conviction of the Holy Ghost is a supernatural work of God. I understand all of that. and you'll not get saved apart from the preaching of the Word of God. And that's the part of truth being revealed and truth being received into your heart. But when that happens, when the truth of the Word of God through the preaching of the Word of God is revealed to your heart and you receive it into yourself, then there must be a response made toward the revealing of the truth on your part. There is a responsibility that you have THE BIBLE SAID THOSE MEN THERE ON THAT DAY AT PENTECOST, WHEN PETER PREACHED, THEY WERE PRICKED IN THEIR HEART. THAT WAS THE TRUTH OF WHAT THEY WERE AND WHO THEY WERE. AND WHAT THEY WERE GUILTY OF WAS REVEALED UNTO THEM AS PETER PREACHED THAT THEY BY WICKED HANDS HAD CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY. AND MANY OF THEM HAD PROBABLY BEEN THERE ON THAT DAY on that day, but whether or not they were physically present on that day, it was their seeing that had crucified the Lord, and so Peter preached to them, and for the first time in their life, they realized who they were and what they were guilty of, and then they asked the question, sir, what must we do? What do I have to do? And Peter said, repent and believe. And I'm glad today that's all the sinner has to do. It's just repent and believe. That is the response that is made by faith through grace, from our part toward God, plus nothing, minus nothing. The Bible said we're saved by grace, through faith, and that not of ourselves. I'm glad it is the gift of God, not of words, lest any man should boast. So Paul has preached to this church, he's preached to every church that he's went to about salvation and justification by grace through faith. But now Paul has returned to Galatia. This is not the first time he's been there, but now he's returned and he writes unto them in chapter one and he said, I marvel, it amazes me It bewilders me, it behooves me to know that you're so soon removed from the gospel of truth that I preached unto you unto another gospel. And he says it's not another, it's not right, there is no other gospel. But there was confusion in the church about being saved and kept and justified by works of the flesh. We're in that day today. We have, and I don't know, I'm a long way from home. Took us about, between stops and everything, about 11 hours to get here. And I don't begrudge that, I'm glad to be here and thank God for it. But I don't know this area and I don't know any of you and I don't know what's going on here, but I'm glad the Lord does. But I know what's going on back home and I know that there's a lot of people that are, they may not say it and they'll defend against it. but by the way they live and the way they act and the preaching they preach, their preaching and condoning of works, salvation, it's not in works, not of works, as any man should boast. If I could do anything to be saved, I could boast about it, but I'm not boasting about what I did to be saved. I'm boasting like they were saying about the fact that there was nothing I could do. I was like Mephibosheth, lame on both my feet, and loaded bar, afraid of the king, deserving to die for my father's house and his sins and wickedness because of Adam. And I was a partaker in sin, but thanks be unto God, but I couldn't get to him. and he sent a chariot of grace after me, and a servant called the Holy Ghost to bring me to his cell, and he showed compassion and mercy on me, and in that I boast not in who I am or what I've done, but in what he has done for me. And so, Paul preaches to them about their confusion. And I'm gonna tell you something, I don't know, we'll maybe get to weary and well doing in a minute, but I feel good in my heart, and there's such confusion among the people of God today. I've never seen such a day as this day, where people don't know what to believe. and they don't know what to do. They hear one preacher say this, and one preacher say that. You say, what's the remedy? The remedy is to do what Paul said to do. Paul said he didn't send me to baptize, or to be popular, or practice ordinances, though there's some in the Bible, and they're good, and I'm glad for them. But he said, Christ sent me to preach the gospel, and that's what we are to do, preach the gospel. And the gospel says, repent, and believe, repent, It's not about all these other things that can fall by the wayside. You know, there are a lot of things that we major on that are very minor things that we ought not to major on, and the major points of the gospel. One preacher said, and he's exactly right, we major on heaven and hell, and I know they're in there, but that's not the major points of the gospel, and I understand what people mean by that, but the major points of the gospel are the sinner and the savior, And apart from the Savior, there'll be no sinner. But it takes God to work on the heart of a man to show him his laws. And I'm done without God. And at that point, he becomes a sinner. And God'll be his Lord and his Savior if you'll come to him. All this other stuff don't matter. We major on it, but it don't matter. That's what Paul was trying to get them to understand. They might have been walking right and living right, but some of the things they were majoring on didn't matter. There was a group came back in the church and preached to them they had to keep the law. that they had to be circumcised, that they had to follow after the manner of the Jews and the dead religion, the works that Jesus talked about when he was on the earth. And I thank God for holy living. There ought to be more of it in this day. And we've not got to the place that we've got because we've had too high standards or because we've lived too separated a life. But what good is it to preach separation to a sinner that's never been saved until they get saved and redeemed and regenerated? That word means regained, to be made new. The Bible said if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away and all things are become new. A dead man can't do any better. That's what a sinner is. The Bible said they're dead in trespasses and sins. We have to be quickened to be made alive. Paul said you who were once dead now have to be quickened. and made alive by the power of the gospel. And that's what we need. We don't need people to live better or do better. We need sinners to get saved and quit trying to line up with all this stuff and quit trying to fake it and put on. We just need people to get born again and God will take care of the rest. I'm not saying don't preach on standards. I got standards and I'll preach on them if God tells me to. There's standards all through the Bible and you don't have to fall out with me over that. There are. God's always had standards and they don't change to fit the time. We got a bunch of people that claim that God understands that he'll change his standards according to our time. That ain't right. It is wrong in Abraham and Lot's day. It's still wrong today. And if it was right in Elijah and John's day, it's still right today. But let's stop all the standards for a minute and let's preach about getting born again. That's what we need. That's what we need. I mean, if God tells me to, I'll preach them. I mean, it's right. We all live holy. Bible said we're to be holy as he's holy. He said to come out from among them and be a separate people, saith the Lord. He said what communion hath light with darkness and what fellowship hath unrighteousness with righteousness? If you're saved by the grace of God, you'll live right Act right, talk right, dress right, in modest apparel, men and women inside the church and outside the church, but we can't put all those standards on lost sinners. They gotta be saved. What we've ended up with in this day, we've ended up with a bunch of people that know how to act the part and dress the part and talk the part, but on the inside, there's never been a change. Never been a change. You say, should we stop preaching on standards? No. We haven't got where we've got because we preach too much on standards. But we have to understand, we gotta make it clear that the standards are of God and they're for the people of God. And it's not about conforming the outside. Salvation's not an outward work, it's an inward work. Let's give the inside right first. And if God changes the inside, it'll work its way out, I promise. That's right. There's so much confusion. There's confusion about how to be saved. I'm gonna tell you something. You can fall out with me right here if you want to, but I said it in the last meeting. I preached that and I believe it's right. God worked it in my heart. There ain't but one door. Jesus said he was the door. Noah didn't have but one door in the ark, and it didn't matter whether it was the big elephant or the little bitty ant, they all went in the same door the same way, and they went in by the door. And if they didn't go in by the door, they wasn't gonna get in, that's gonna perish in the wrath and the judgment of God. But we've got to the place where we preach about all the ways to get to the door. It makes no difference really how you get to it, Your experience getting to the door might be different than mine, but I'll rest assured in one thing, if we all get to the door, it makes no difference how we get there, we'll all go through it the same way. Ain't that right? Now I'm not saying it don't take conviction, it does take conviction on every sinner. And it takes preaching for every sinner. But you understand what I'm talking about, about our personal experiences. I was under conviction for three days, does that mean you have to be under conviction for only three or more than three or less than three? No, that's just how God worked it in me to get me to the door. But whether or not we all get to the door, we're gonna all go through it the same way. And that's salvation by grace through faith. That and all of yourselves. And so there's such confusion. And the confusion is not only affecting sinners, but it's affecting the saints. We don't know what to do. We don't know which direction to go. We don't know what to believe. You say, what do I believe? You believe the Bible. Let everything else fall by the wayside. If you can't find it in the Bible, then you seek God and see if that's what God desires for you. But don't take what I'm saying just because I say it. That's what's got us in the mess today. Search the scripture. Study to show thyself. That's not just for preachers. That's for everybody. Study to show yourself a good steward, not ashamed, rightly divided in the word of truth. Understand what the Bible says for you. So there were those that come in and they were confused. Paul got to preaching to them. And he said, you did. I thought about what he said in chapter five. He said, you did run well. That's a past experience. He said, the last time I was here, the last report I got, you were, you did run well. He said, who hath hindered you? In other words, in our terminology, Paul said, what happened? What happened between then and now? And I look around at our churches, and I'm not singling you out, I'm talking about the church of God as a whole, and I look back at what it used to be, and I say we did run well, but what happened? What has happened? The church of God in this day, what's happened? The people of God, we've been hindered along the journey. Something's tripped us up. Something's caused us to stumble. Something's caused us to fall. There's compromise. We could all spend time on that. All these new things, these new ways and these new beliefs and quote unquote new Bibles and all this stuff, they tell us in this day that we need a new method. you know, about getting sinners in. We need a new method. We need a new message that nobody likes to hear, this whole bloody religion, and they wanna take the blood out of it, and they wanna do away with the Holy Ghost, and they wanna do away with conviction, and the reason for all of that is because they want the power in the hands of man. They don't belong there. It can't belong there. Power for salvation don't belong in the hand of any man. I don't care how big a man he is, and I don't care how well known he is, the power of salvation is not in the hands of man. It lies only in the hand of God. But when it's in the hands of man, or so they preach it to be, then they see success. I only have one problem and I'm not against the church being what we would call successful. I'm not against all that. But I only have one problem with that word success. It's not in the Bible. God don't mention anything about us being successful. It says for us to be faithful. He doesn't say moreover it's required in stewards that a man be found successful. That's the only requirement in the whole Bible. You find him a servant, and that's what we are, stewards, servants of Christ. He's our Lord, our master, we're his servants. And the Bible said it's required, it's a must, you must have faithfulness in a steward. You know why faithfulness is the requirement? It's because it don't always go easy. It don't always sail, the boat don't always sail the way we want it to. It ain't always blue skies and smooth sailing, but some days the winds come, and some days the waves beat, sometimes the lightning flashes and the thunder rolls, and it's at that point we must be faithful and understand the captain is still at the stern of the ship and everything's all right as long as he's on board. So we must be faithful. Faithful not to flee when people say we need some other way. Faithful not to, and it all boils down to what Paul, Paul's not preaching to sinners in this scripture, he's calling the church, the saved folk, the saints of God. He's talking to them and he includes himself. It's a statement to every believer. He says, let us not be weary in well-doing. What Paul's saying is this is a statement, this is an attitude, this is something that affects every single believer. There'll be a day, a time, numerous times, if we were to be honest, in your life and in my life and everybody else's life that say, by the grace of God, that we find ourselves weary in well-doing. And the word weary, I was looking at it some before we left out the house. Weary is not a body. Weary, it's not what it's talking about. It's a heart condition. The word weary means spiritless. And it's not talking about the capital S spirit, though we could preach right there a long time about the fact that the church is spiritless in this day. that we've lost the power of God. We've lost hold of what really matters. We've decided, like the church at Laodicea did, that we are rich and increased with goods, and there's nothing wrong with having money, and there's nothing wrong with having things, but it's the fact that we realize that our rest lies in that and not in God. And Laodicea said we have need of nothing, and that included God to them. They had their form, and they had their fashion, and they figured they could do it all on their own, with or without the power of God. And you can operate, you understand? You can operate without the power of God, but you cannot worship without the power of God. and you cannot see results, true results, eternal results, without the pair of God. You won't see sinner saved without the pair of God. You won't see saints stirred or have revival without the pair of God. Oh sure, we can come in and we can operate and go through the motions and our routine and our form and our fashion, but without the pair of God, that's all it is. to form in a fashion, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. We are, in essence, in this day, what Jesus, the churches, are like what Jesus described as the Pharisees were. On the outside, they were whited sepulchers, they looked good, they had the part, they dressed right, but on the inside, they were full of dead man's bones. What good is this place? And I'm not, I don't know anything about you. I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying, putting it where we live and in our reality, what good is this place to the community if it looks good on the outside? And I'm all for that. It ought to be the best kept house of anybody's house. It belongs to God. Oh, but what good is the outside to be white and polished if on the inside it's just dead? If we just go through the motions. What good's this week of meeting, these four days of meeting, five services, Lord willing, that we're gonna have? What good's it gonna be? What good, and I don't begrudge that I'm thankful for the opportunity to get in my car and come and I'd do it again if the Lord would allow me to. But what good was all of my traveling and all of your labors and your effort to be here this morning as much as I'm glad you're here? What good is our presence if he's not present among us? That's what we need. And so I warn you, Paul's warning them, trying to help them, encourage them. I'm not here this morning to browbeat or belittle you, I'm here to try to encourage you to not be weary in well-doing. We all get to the place where we lose heart, we feel like there's no use, but Paul said don't get that way. We all get weary. Sometimes we get weary because we don't see any profit in what we're doing. And I'm not talking about material things. Surely we can get past that. I'm talking about results. We feel like there's no results. But Paul is using the illustration of sowing and reaping. He said, be not deceived. God's not mocked. Whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. If you sow the flesh, you shall of the flesh reap corruption. If you sow the Spirit, you shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing. What's he talking about? He's talking about don't get tired of sowing to the Spirit. For he said, in due season we shall reap if we faint not. Now if he's using the example of sowing and reaping, then we have to understand, all of us know enough about it, and I'm from the mountains, and we plant gardens and beans and taters and all them things, and we understand that you drop the seed in today, it don't come up tomorrow. Ain't that right? But we're so, we live in such an age, and it's amazing to me that no telling how long ago Paul wrote this scripture, but he still applies, and maybe even more so to us today, that we live in an age of instant gratification, and if we do it and don't see the results tomorrow, we quit. But it don't always work that way. I won't say it never works that way. There are times God works instantly on what you ask or what you do. But there are other times that it's a process. Paul said, I sown and Apollos watered. And that's not just one time of sowing and one time of watering. It's over and over and over again. Any of you that plant anything know they're sowing that's involved, there's tending that's involved, there's fertilizing that's involved, it takes water, it takes sunlight, it takes a process and progress before there'll ever be a profit that comes up. And so don't get weary when you pray for that one, or you go to that one, or you talk to that one, or you ask God for something, and the next day it doesn't happen, don't give up. He said don't be weary in well doing, we shall reap if we think not. in a due season. See, there are seasons to harvest and there are seasons to harvest with God. And so this may be the sowing season. We may go through, I don't know what God has in store, but I know this, if nothing major happens that we can see tangibly with our eyes in these five days to meet it, then we're gonna probably go home and be discouraged and be defeated, but what if, what if this is the sowing season and the reaping season's down the road? Don't give up, don't lose heart, don't quit, just keep on for God. And so we can't be weary just because we don't see a prophet. We can't be weary just because we don't see any progress, any forward motion. I thought about last night, I was sitting in the chair up there in the room, I was sitting there and I thought about the disciples. when the Lord sent them across the sea and he said, I'm going up a part on the mountain to pray and y'all go over to the other side. You think the Lord knew when he put them in the boat that the storm was gonna come? You think the Lord was ignorant to the fact that trouble was ahead? Oh, he knew all about it before he ever put them in the boat. And the Bible said he saw them. Now I don't know what you want to take from that. Many people say physically from the mountain he could see them. It may have been so. I'm not questioning or doubting that. But well beyond the physical eye, there was an eye of his heart and an eye of his spirit that saw the men everywhere they were and what they were doing and the trouble they were in. He saw them. He knew about them. And the Bible said they were tolling and rowing. You know what that means? That means it was taking all of their power just to stay where they were. Are you getting that? All of their power just to not back up a little bit. Say anything about any forward progress, they weren't making any progress across the ocean, they're just trying to keep it afloat. Stay where they were. And I don't know how many times you felt like it took everything in you just to keep from backing up. Took everything in you just to keep from going under or going down or giving in. And the Bible said they were toiling and rowing for the wind was contrary against them. There was opposition. There was a force pushing against them that seemed more powerful than they were. And I'm gonna tell you what, there's great opposition against the church and the people of God in this day. There's the opposition of Satan. Peter talked about our adversary, the devil, walketh about as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. He's not for you, he's against you. We live in this day where people think that they can tame wild animals, and you read the reports on the news all the time. People take animals that are not supposed to be tamed and treat them as pets, and I guarantee you nine out of 10 times, somebody gets bit by them. We're no different. We took the devil as a rowing line, and we thought he could be our kitty cat, our pet. We put a collar on him, petted him, and took him to the house and treated him like he was our friend. You hear me? I'm not being comical and I'm not being funny. I know it's kind of humorous, but you know what? Eventually you're going to get bit. He's not for you. He never has been for us as a people of God. He's always, he's been against our master and against our Lord from the beginning. And the Lord said the master and the servants are no different than the master. If he is against God, he's against us. So there's a force of opposition in Satan. There's a force of opposition in society. The pressures of this world, they want us to conform and mold to their image, but Paul said, be not conformed to this world. The word conformed means to follow the pattern. Paul said, don't patty yourself after this world, but be transformed, be changed. That word is metamorphosis, to go in as one and come out as another by the renewing of your mind. Come in the house of God, get your soul renewed, and go out different than you come in. and prove in the world, not in the building, in the world, prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. We can major on all of them and everybody will say amen about Satan and about society, but you know what? Days of pressure and a force of opposition against you when you get up in the morning and you look in the mirror, that one you're looking at is against you. Ain't that right? Paul said there's a warfare between our flesh and our spirit. The outward man and the inward man. He said, I find it a law, a constant always, that when I would do good, evil is always present with me. I think he was talking about more than just the devil there. I think he was talking about his own flesh. For he cried out, who shall, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? yourself is against you. I come all the way over here and on the ride here I didn't have any trouble from any of you. I don't know many of you, I know a few of you, I've seen some of you, but I didn't have one bit of trouble on the ride over here from any of you, but I had a whole lot of trouble out of me. Went up in that room last night and I didn't have any trouble out of you, but I had a whole lot of trouble out of me getting my mind right and my heart right and ready to come in and try to give you what God said to give you. It's a warfare. So when you don't see progress, don't lose heart. Don't get weary. Just keep going on. Many of you, and I'm done this morning, many of you are to the place, and I see it on the faces of people everywhere I go, many are about convinced that they have no purpose. There's no use for us to do what we're doing. Many of the people, and I'm talking about safe folk this morning, many of the people of God are to that point where they feel like there's no use. There's just no purpose. Why are we doing what we're doing when there is no profit, it seems like, and there is no profit. What's the purpose in all of this? If it can happen to them of old, it can happen to you and I. I thought about, you know, Elijah, he got under that juniper tree and he said, I ain't no better than any of my fathers. They killed all my fathers, all the prophets. I'm no better, Lord, just take my life. I'm the only one. How many times have you felt that way? I mean, be honest with yourself and honest with God. How many times have you felt like you were the only one? But nobody else cares and nobody else is serving. You're the only one. What's the purpose? We all get that way from time to time. Jeremiah said, can you imagine having a ministry like Jeremiah had when the Lord said, you preach, but I'm gonna tell you, before you ever utter the first word, they won't hear what you have to say, but you preach anyway. And Jeremiah did, he was faithful, but there come a time, he said, I've been very jealous and nobody's heard. And he said, I'm not even gonna make mention of his name. He said, I'll close the book and go to the house. And I'm gonna tell you something, if you'd be honest with yourself and if I was honest with you, I'd say we've all been to that place sometime in our life. I was in a meeting and I don't, people say I ought not to get too personal, but it's just the way I'm geared. I was in a meeting last week and I preached the first night and it just didn't go like I thought it ought to go. And I'm gonna tell you something, there's a lot of times and a lot of situations in our life that things just don't go like we think they ought to go. And the meeting just didn't go like I thought it ought to. And I went home and I was so discouraged. And so I don't like the word, to use the word disgusted, but I was with myself, not with God, but with myself. And I got up the next morning, they started the meeting. It was a different type of meeting. They did Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which is fine, whatever the pastor wanted. And so I got up on Saturday morning. I didn't have to go to work. I went out on the back porch and I thought, Lord, if this is all there is to it, what's the use? What's the use in going back? I don't wanna go back tonight. I'm just being honest with you. That's the way I felt in my heart. I said, I ain't going back. I'm just gonna call the preacher and tell him I ain't coming back. He said, what happened? I got weary and well doing. I lost my desire. That's what spiritless means, to lose heart. Lose your desire, lose your motivation. I'm not talking about somebody working something up in you, I'm talking about the Holy Ghost working in your heart and you seeing a use for what you do. Many people say there's no purpose for me in all of this. I thought about old Noah. I'm sure there were days if he preached for 120 years, which is the common belief, in 120 years and he never saw anybody affected. I'm sure there were days Noah probably thought, what's the use? What's the purpose? I mean, to build this ark and to preach this way and people walk by, no doubt, and mock and make fun and laugh. And Noah probably thought, brother, out and on days, what's the use? But then Hebrews chapter 11 said he built an ark for the saving of his house. And he got all his family in. There may not be any use but your own family. But if that's the only purpose, ain't that purpose enough for you to get your family in? I want more than just my family to get in, but what would it be if I went to all these places and preached to all these places and my own family didn't get in? That's enough for me. I want your family to get in. I want you to get in. I've come all this way for you to get in, not because I'm somebody or because I brought something special. I don't have to preach, but I've come with a desire in my heart to see you get help and see you get in. That's purpose enough. How about you this morning? Do you see a purpose? and all that you do. You see a purpose in being here this morning. A whole lot of people say, I could be a whole lot of other places. All of us could be, but there ain't no place of being that has the purpose like it does being here. This is eternal purpose. We're not dealing with just fun and games. And the things that go on in here are not just talking about affecting tomorrow or a year or 10 or even 100 years down the road. We're talking about eternity. The church has an eternal purpose. And Paul said, in due season, we shall reap if we faint not. I'm telling you, every day may not be payday, but one old preacher said, there's a payday coming someday. And all of your labor, the Bible said God's not unrighteous to forget your labor of love that you showed toward his name. All of those letters to the church is in Revelation. He started off with a statement and he said, I know thy works. He knows what you're doing. You say nobody else recognizes it? I understand. Your husband may not recognize, your wife may not, your children may not, the preacher may not, I may not, but there's a God in heaven that sees you. And he sees what you're doing. and he won't forget about you. The Bible said he put Noah in that ark and shut the door, and then after all that time, and it wasn't just 40 days and 40 nights, that's just how long the rain came and the waters came. He was on the ark for over a year. But the Bible said in the next chapter, and God remembered Noah. and sometimes it seems like here we are all shut up and all the trouble's going on around us and the storms of the world are brewing and we feel all forgotten, but God remembers you. Who you are and where you are. I wonder about you this morning as we stand all over the house. Everybody stand. Brother Craig, you come on. I wonder about you. I wonder about how you feel on the inside. I'm not talking about how you feel physically or all that. I'm talking about what is it like in your heart. Have you gotten weary? You feel like there's no use, no purpose. Feel like maybe we ought to just throw in the towel and give up. No benefit. Maybe the Lord's come by this morning and spoke to your heart. I want to encourage you to keep on. Don't faint. Don't give in. In due season, we shall reap. Let's not be weary in well-doing. Maybe you need to come this morning and talk to the Lord. Ask Him for grace, strength, help, a measure of revival in your own heart so that you're not weary. And you will do.