Turn with me to Matthew chapter 17, Matthew 17. And Jackson, would you come up please? Is he here? There he is. When you get old, you can't always see real well, so I'm having Jackson read the scripture tonight. I guess you teach reading over here in school. And so verse 14 through 23. Take this out of your way. And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man kneeling down to him and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and sore vexed, for oft times he falleth into the fire and often to the water. And I brought him to disciples, and they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him hither to me. And Jesus rebuked the devil, and he departed out of him, and the child was cured from that very hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart and said, why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, because of your unbelief, for verily I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of a mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you, albeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto him, the son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him. And the third day he shall be raised again, and they were exceeding sorry. Thank you. Well, let's pray. Father, thank you that you give us your word. Without the Bible, we would not know you. There's no way to know you. Without the Bible, we not know how to get to you. The plan of salvation is clearly given to us in your word. And Lord, it's been preserved. We have the Bible in our hands. And it's what you want us to know. So we're so thankful for it. Lord, help us tonight to just think on these things a little bit and allow you to direct our hearts and our lives. And so encourage us tonight. We know you'll speak to us through your word. And all we have to do is listen and apply it. And we don't ever have to ask you to speak to us. So Lord, help us tonight in Jesus' name, amen. Well, we're glad we're here. We planned to come last fall. I said we need to go there sometime in the fall and last summer, sometime or other, and tried to arrange a time. And so we were gonna come last week. The pastor said, well, we got revival. And we like preaching, but I didn't want to come and have all, you know, he had so many other things to do. But we did get in on it on Wednesday night, but found that Bob had gotten a little worse. But we were glad we were here and had a great time with the family. It's been very special. These disciples, And this portion of scripture, you know the portion, you've probably read it many times. Here they are walking around with Jesus. Jesus is God. So they're walking around the country with God. Isn't that something? God in the flesh. And so they come to this opportunity, an opportunity to do something for God. And this man comes to them and says, you know, I want you to help my son. And I suppose they prayed. Don't you think they prayed and said, God wants you to use us and to heal this man. But nothing happened. You ever been there? You prayed and nothing happened. Now, does God not hear us? Now God always hears us. So sometimes we are hindered in having God answer our prayer because of the way we've lived or our certain circumstance. So Jesus came and he said, I brought him to thy disciples, verse 16, and they could not cure him. Then Jesus, he kind of, Got after him, he said, and answered and said, oh, faithless and perverse generation. Wow, that's pretty tough. I don't know what else you could say. It'd be worse. How long shall I be with you? So he said, look, I'm with you. I'm here. And he says, how long shall I be with you? And bring him hither to me. He said, well, just have him come over here. And Jesus rebuked the devil, and he parted out of him, and the child was cured from that very moment, hour. They came to the disciples and Jesus' apart, and said, why did this happen? Why couldn't we do it? And he's very blunt, he said, I said unto them, because of your unbelief, lack of faith. Get saved by faith, or to walk by faith, live by faith. And here's these disciples walking with Jesus and lacking faith. Isn't that kind of amazing? And he said, for verily I say unto you, if you have the faith as a grain of mustard seed. So he begins to say, it doesn't take much faith. It doesn't take a whole lot of faith. You say, well, I just didn't have enough faith. He's saying it doesn't take much, just a little bit. Then he said in verse 21, how be it? He says, this kind, this kind of faith goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. And so I wanna talk to you a little about that tonight. The world, they try to see how little they can get by with and still try to make it to heaven. That's the world. I went to church one time. I might've even read the Bible one time. And that's about it. So they try to get by with just as, as little as they can do. And the other side of that is some think, what is the most religion you can have and still be lost? Kind of interesting dilemma there. Matter of faith. You know, God's always with us. He's always with us. Hold your place there, we'll come back to it. But look at Psalm 121. Psalm 121. Psalm 121, beginning with verse one. The psalmist says, I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord. which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper. The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil, he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, even forevermore. God is always with us. The source of their problem was they didn't have an answer to prayer. They didn't get their prayer answered. These are the disciples. They had left everything. They left their fathers. They left their business. They left their friends. They followed Jesus. Seems like kind of in an instant of time. He came by and said, follow me. And off they went. Pretty amazing. They just said, you know, I'm sure they had planned to take over their father's business. They had planned probably many things, but they just left all of that behind and took off. And so they're following Jesus around. And here they come to this place, and it seems like even though they're right beside Jesus, he's not there. He not there? You say, well, they should have had more faith. They should have done this and that. Well, that's what Jesus said. He says, because of your unbelief. And so I look at that and say, you know, if it happened to them, I guess it could happen to us. Do you think? These are the folks that, I mean, they dedicated their life. They were committed to Jesus. They didn't know where they were going from day to day. They didn't know what was gonna happen. They didn't know what part of the country they'd be in. Didn't know who was gonna, maybe a soldier's coming along and just take them to jail at any time. They didn't know anything that was going on. They just blindly followed Jesus by faith. Well, that's the Christian life, isn't it? I hesitate to tell this story, but I think I will. It has to do with this church, so I think it's a good story. It happened to me, so that's why I hesitate to tell about myself, but it seems like 10 years ago, but in April of this year, just before Easter. A year before that, I'd had a CAT scan and different things. They found a couple of tumors. And since they weren't very big, I opted to just say we're going to wait. So we didn't do anything. Well, it got to be February this year, and I said, well, I better check up on those. So I went to the doctor, and they ran me through the CAT scan, did different things. The tumors were gone. They were gone. And whether they were there or not, we start with, I don't know, but they weren't there. But they found a stone, and he said, you gotta get this stone out. And tried to get it out, couldn't do it in the office, said, gotta go to the hospital. So they made a time to go to the hospital. That was about Thursday before, the Thursday before Good Friday, all right? A week before Good Friday. And so they did that, and he said, well, There's some other things I need to do there, and he operated, did some operation. Well, he sent me home on Friday. And then I started bleeding. Blood everywhere, my wife said. We cleaned it up a few times, and I hope this isn't too gory for you, but that's what happened. And so by Sunday night, she's saying, we got to go to the emergency room. And so I went to the emergency room and, is that the way it was? So anyway, I lost track of time. Anyway, they did some things and sent me back home again. Well, that Monday morning I went to the staff meeting. I had the little bag and I had my, you know, I went to the staff, sat around the table with all the staff. And they said, shouldn't you be at home? I was just in the emergency room last night for, well, I felt pretty good. But by Monday night, my leg was swollen. And I was afraid. Remember Brother Kaiser had that operation and died two days later because he had a blood clot. I'm saying, I think I got a blood clot. Who am I to know anything about it? But that's what I said. So I went back to the emergency room Monday night, late, late, it was late Monday night. I called the doctor, he said, go to the emergency room. So we went in there. They did whatever that is. I don't know, Kathleen, what you call it, but they smear your leg and they do this sonogram thing and look for a blood clot. They said, yeah, you have a blood clot. So they put me on Xeralto, which is blood thinner. Here I am bleeding, and they put me on blood thinner. And they put me in the hospital. So I'm in there and it's, they're irrigating, doing all kinds of stuff. I'm not feeling bad, I feel all right, ain't good. I just, kinda inconvenient. But, had the blood doctor, my doctor, and other doctors, they're all trying to figure out what to do. They didn't know what to do. Because if they take me off the blood thinner, then they had possibility of the blood clot moving. And if you, and so they couldn't get the blood to stop. I don't know what they're doing. I don't have any clue. So about Wednesday, the doctors, the doctor's saying, I don't know what we can do. I know what we can do, but we can't do it because these things conflict. And so Wednesday night, I don't know what they were doing, doing some things. And I missed, I had my computer so I could look at the church service on the computer, but I missed it. So late at night, about nine o'clock, I started listening to our preacher preach. And he preached a message on the presence of God. And I, after that, closed up my computer and I turned out the lights, it's dark, door's shut. And I'm laying there saying, God, I don't know what to do. I mean, I don't know. I just didn't know. And I said, Lord, I need your presence. That's what I need. I need your presence. And while I was praying, my phone rang. Well, you know how it'd be, the phone's somewhere over here. I don't know where the phone was. And found the phone. It only rang a couple times, and then it didn't ring anymore. And I looked at it, and I didn't recognize the name. The number was a real strange number. And I didn't realize, I didn't recognize the name. I'm thinking, who, I should know that. You know, I'm kind of foggy, and I'm saying, who is that? So I said, well, I guess I'll call it back. While I was calling, it came to me who that was. It was Kathleen Mikus. Is that right? And I said, well, what in the world? Why would she be calling me? She'd never called me before. I needed money a lot of times. She never called. And anyway, I called her. And she said, well, this is Kathleen. And she apologized all over the place. She said this amazing story. To me. You may not be interested. I don't know. But this is what she said. She said her two and a half year old son, Grant, was playing with her phone. Now I don't know why she lets him play with her phone. I don't know what kind of mother she is or anything, but he has his own phone, I guess. But playing with the phone and he pushed my button. Two and a half years old. And she apologized, he apologized, but she didn't know I was in the hospital. I said, well, Kathleen, I'm laying here in the hospital. I was feeling kind of tough. I just didn't know what God wanted me to do. I didn't know. And so I knew she was a nurse, and so I shared with her some of the things, more detail of things that was going on and what had happened and all these things, because I knew she'd understand. I'm telling her all this stuff. And we had a great talk. I don't know how long we talked, a little while, I guess. Now, I really didn't know Kathleen very well. She wasn't here when we were here, kind of in and out maybe. We went to her wedding, but we didn't, you know, she wasn't here when we were here. I knew her through her folks, and they talked about her all the time, but I didn't really know her. But here we are talking. And I can't tell you. How precious that was. To see how God works. I call him, I never met him. I wish I'd be here Friday, maybe he'd be here, but I never have met him. But I call him Samuel. She named him wrong. His name is Samuel. Because you remember how God spoke to Samuel when Eli was there and he's in the sanctuary there and God's calling him, Samuel, Samuel. And God's speaking to this little boy. Well, God used a two and a half year old boy to bless this preacher's heart. Isn't that amazing? It shouldn't really be amazing. You know, that's how God works. It shouldn't be, but it was so precious and so encouraging. Well, the next morning, let me tell you the rest of the story. The next morning, Thursday morning before Good Friday, my doctor always came in at 6.30 in the morning. Every morning, he was there at 6.30 in the morning. I don't guess he didn't ever go home, I don't know, but he was always there. He came in and said, I'm going to send you down and have this sonogram thing done again, check your leg. So they rushed me down there. They just took me right out and took me down, did that, brought me back to the room. And a little while later he came in and said, there isn't any blood clot. There is no blood clot. Now blood clots usually last forever. You know, they last a long time. It's hard to get them to dissipate, you know, I think. That's all I think about, anyway, gone. So he said, I've got a full slate of operations today, packed full, but I'll work you in if you want to do it. He said, if you want to do it. I was looking a little tired of that hospital, to tell you the truth. And so he did it, and I went home on Good Friday. Now, you can believe whatever you want to believe. but I believe God was in it, every part of it. Now, I don't know why I got in there to start with, I'll figure that out in heaven, I guess, but God's made himself present through a little boy. Is that an amazing thing? Now, I don't know, is that the way it happened, Kathleen? I don't know about how it happened. I was trying to put it together today and say, man, I can't figure all this out, because it was kind of a blur. But you see, God is always present. Now, these disciples, they missed it. They missed it. I'm not critical of them. I mean, we miss it too, a lot of times. But here they are trying to do God's work, in their own strength. And a lot of times we do that very thing. And so he says, this, I can't see the clock. Oh, there's one here. Good. It's upside down or something. Pastor, I don't know what that says. So you're just going to have to hang on. I can't tell what time it is. Is that an excuse or what? I don't know. But I wanted to talk to you about fasting. I know the Matinees fasted, they used to anyway, and as far as I know, they fast every week, a day a week at least. That was one of the back ways. I don't know if they could do that even now, but they always were a challenge to me. I'm saying I didn't do that. But what does God think of fasting? What is fasting? Is it just not eating? I think you call that dieting, right? Is it just taking some time off? Everybody ought to take some time off, you know? What is fasting? Does God tell us what fasting is? He says here, albeit this kind goeth not, but by prayer and fasting. He didn't tell him what that was. Now they had it back through the Old Testament and various different things. We'll close this up by looking at Isaiah chapter 58. I believe this is where he tells us what fasting is. Isaiah, this is God's idea of fasting. Isaiah and chapter number 58. I read this this morning in my devotions, and it wasn't the first time I read it. I saw that and the pastor had asked me to preach. I'm saying, I guess that's it. It says, verse one, Isaiah chapter 58, cry aloud and spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and show my people their transgression, the house of Jacob, their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a nation that did righteousness and forsook not the ordinance of their God. They ask me the ordinances of justice. They take delight in approaching to God. Wherefore have we fasted, say they." They're saying, why are we fasting? Thou see us not. He said, God, we fasted and you didn't see us. You missed it. He said, wherefore have we afflicted our soul and thou take us no knowledge? He said, you know, we've suffered and God, you didn't notice. Behold, in the day of your fast, you find pleasure and exact all your labors. So God is saying here, He's saying there's more to fasting than the outward appearance. And more than not eating or not going anywhere or giving up something, those are the outward appearances of it. They were doing that. They were going through the motions. And He said, you find pleasure in exact all your labors. He said, look, you can say, look, I fasted. And God didn't bless, but I fasted, I did with my part. Kind of arguing with God, kind of saying, well, God, you're missing it. Verse four, behold, you fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickedness. You shall not fast as you do this day to make your voice to be heard on high. He said, what you're doing isn't gonna get anything done. He said, your voice isn't gonna be heard. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? I mean, is this what I really wanted? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast? or an acceptable day to the Lord? Wow, that's pretty heavy, isn't it? Verse six, is not this the fast that I have chosen? So now he's gonna tell us what he thinks a fast is. Well, it's not what he thinks it is, that's what it is, amen? That God's not thinking. Here he says, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, that ye break every yoke. Wow. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked and thou cover him, that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall bring forth speedily, and thy righteousness shall go before thee. Wow. What's this life all about? God gives us a few years on this earth. Some more, some less, but no matter how many it is, it's a few years. Compared to eternity, Bible says it's like a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanish the way. And the Old Testament says it's a shadow, just a shadow. It's not really the real thing. The real thing is heaven. This is just time when people can decide whether or not they want to go to heaven. Jesus has provided for every person. He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Every person can go to heaven in the whole world. Every person. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. And some people don't believe that, but which ones did he die for? I mean, those people who don't think he died for everybody, they always happen to be the ones that he died for, you know? I never run into one of those hyper-cal people that said, well, I guess I can't make it to heaven. No, they think they're going, but everybody else can't go. I mean, it's kind of a strange thing, you know? But no, Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. Everybody can go to heaven. But here's the fact, not everybody's going. Not everybody's going. I told Jim the other night, when I started talking to him, he's telling me all these things he's relying on. You know, he's going, hey, I'm doing this, and I'm doing this, I'm doing this. I said, well, if you want to go to heaven, you have to go with Jesus. If you're not going with Jesus, you're not going. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 1 John 1, 7. Hath not life. That's not true. That's 1 John 5, 12. All right. But if you're going to heaven, you have to go with Jesus. He said, I am the way. Amen. So this life is a life of choice. And so God gives us these years. So you come to a place. Everybody that's saved here tonight has a time, a particular time and place where they got saved. Somebody told them the gospel. Somebody gave them the gospel. Somebody said, this is how you get saved. This is what you need to do. Somebody used the word of God and showed you how to get to heaven. Isn't that true? All right, so now you're going to heaven. And it's just as if you're already there. Amen? The moment you got saved, It was just as if you're already there. Nothing else had to be accomplished. Nothing else had to be done. Everything's done. And it's just a few years in between. And with God, you know, it's just a moment's time. Diane, you'll be with Bob in that one moment. There's no time in heaven. Amen. Only one day in heaven. One big day. There's no night there. Just one day. It's a long day. You know, just one day in heaven. And we'll be there soon. So now what do you do? You got saved. Now you're saved. All right. So what do we do with this time that we have here? What is it for? Why doesn't God just take us out when we go, when we get saved? Could. Nothing else to do. No other procedures. Everything's done, right? He could just take us out when we get saved. But he doesn't. He leaves us here. Some longer, some shorter. And here we are. Let's go to church. We got church. Wonderful, wonderful church, isn't it? Singing here is so great. Danielle, you did a great job. Lost her, she's here someplace. But that was good. And you know, it's just a blessing to be in church. I'm so glad for church. We have the word of God, we can study it. Is that all there is? Or does he have a plan? Does he have something for us to do? Well, that's what he says here. Fasting is doing what God wants you to do. You see, putting aside our own wants, putting aside our own desires, our own plans, and saying, okay, God, I'm here. And do you think God has something to do? Is there anything around this world God has that you kind of like to get done? Like somebody to hear the gospel, you think? Somewhere around the world? Well, that's the work of God. Hold your place there and look at John chapter six. Pastor will get to this as he preaches through John. You wanna know what the work of God is? Jesus said this. Jesus said, John chapter, I think it's chapter six. He said in verse, 28, then said they unto him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? That's a good question. And we ought to sit here tonight. Here we are in church tonight. This is the cream of the crop. People here tonight, everybody ought to be in church on Sunday night, but everybody's not in church. Why is that? Why is that? In my experience, you have a full church on Sunday morning, about two-thirds come back on Sunday night, and about half on Wednesday night. Preacher, why is that? If you're a member of the church, you ought to be here every time the doors are open. Now, I know some people might be working different things if you can't make it, but it ought to be a plan, don't you think? Amen? You with me? No, don't go anywhere, all right? I'm still here, all right? Yeah, Dr. Robertson, how many times did he say it takes three to thrive? Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. Never seen anybody grow up and didn't go to church. You can be saved and not go to church. You can go to heaven and not go to church. But you can't be a good Christian. and not go to church. Amen. That's free. It didn't cost you anything. Write it down. All right. And so he said, what should we do? Well, Jesus said in the next verse, Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God that you believe on him whom he hath sent. That's it. Don't make it too complicated. Amen. We get saved, now you've believed, the work is somebody else needs to be saved, amen? Somebody else, people you work with, people in your home, in your family, you know, down the street, around the corner, literally around the world, amen? That's why we're here. Now we do a lot of other things, good things, not bad things. He listed all these things here in Isaiah chapter 58. He didn't say they were bad things. It just wasn't the right thing. He said, is not this the fast? And so we fast, God's idea of fasting is putting aside our own desires and our own thinking and our own thing. Now you can do that in a lot of different ways, but that's what it's about so that we can invest our lives in others. The Christian life is not about you. If we could get that, we wouldn't have any trouble at all living right. Say, well, you know, I think I could do this. The pastor was talking about it this morning. I think I could do this. I think it wouldn't hurt anything. What's wrong with this? Whenever you ask what's wrong with this, you already know the answer. You don't have to have anybody tell you. You're trying to make an excuse. Why should we dress in a certain way? Not for us. We're already saved. Can't get more saved. You only get saved once. And when you get saved once, you're saved forever. You can't get more saved. You say, well, I did this and I feel more saved. I'm really working on my salvation. No, you're not. Jesus did all that on the cross. It's already done. So you can't get more saved. So living for God is not for you. Say, well, this church, it has these standards and to try to hold these things. Appreciate the music here. Hasn't moved. Pastor hadn't moved. Well, you know, may have, but in my opinion, hasn't moved. Not an ounce. That's not true in many, many churches today. You'll go a long way to find music like this church. You'll go a long way. I've been around. Like pastor says around the barn, you know, and I know what's on the other side. Amen. I use that all the time. I've never even seen it, but, uh, you'll go a long way. Haven't changed the Bible. Amen. Forever. Oh Lord. Thy word is settled in heaven. God told us to study his word. How can you study something? You don't know for sure if it's his word. This is the Word of God. Get yourself a King James Bible and read it. Stick to it. Don't be moving around. Every time they come out with another version, they've changed something or it wouldn't be another version. Think, you know, it doesn't take too much to figure that out. Every time they come out, they leave things out, they add things, they change things around. And every time it's different. God's Word doesn't change. It doesn't change. So get yourself a King James Bible and stick to it. I'm still reading, I'm still, I'm still in the same kind of Bible I started with. When I got saved, I was 18 and went to Ohio State and that great Bible school of the North. And, and I went downtown. I never had a Bible before. And I went downtown, right across from the courthouse, and there was a, somebody told me there's a Christian bookstore there. I went down there, walked in, looking around. This lady came up, said, what do you want? I said, I need a Bible. And she said, well, here's a, here's a Schofield reference Bible. This is what you need. Been using it ever since. Now, I don't read everything, all the notes. The notes aren't inspired. But they're helpful. but the Bible is, and you use any kind of Bible you want as long as it's a King James Bible, amen? So the Bible's the same, the music's the same, and the other way God gets into the church, usually the first way he gets into the church is through the way that people live and look and act. Don't fight biblical standards. We went to Tennessee Temple. I don't really have a clue what time it is. What time is it? You know? It's a quarter after? Huh? It's 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock? What's this? 6? It can't be 6. 7? It's 7 what? 7.06? Is it? What time am I done? All right. We went to Tennessee Temple in 1973. I was 29 years, 1971. I was 29 years old. I left my job, quit my job, sold our house, we had a new house, and took my two kids and went to the middle of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and we thought we fell off the earth. I'm telling you the truth. We went from the farm to the inner city. I mean, there was trash everywhere up and down the street. I had a nice car when I went there. It looked like a tin can when I came back. It was just all beat up. And I went in. They had orientation time. And I told Brother Townsley this the other day, but they had orientation time. Dr. Lockery was a registrar. He was a real subdued sort of guy, really good guy, but just didn't have much personality really. So he gave you a handout, the rules, and he read them. It was a shock, I'm telling you. We didn't have any, I never heard any of that, never heard any of it. And my wife wasn't going to school right then, but she had to sign it too as my wife. And there were things on there we couldn't even understand. And I said, we talked about it, looked it over, and said, wow, this is really something. You know Mrs. McKeever. And said, this is something. And we looked it over, we couldn't find anything wrong with it. It was biblical. It made sense, you just think about it, just haven't ever thought about it. And we're nothing, but we, I mean, I've probably written 10 different handbooks for colleges and schools and different things. Never changed anything the whole time. All these years, never changed one thing. Because it's biblical. People fight it all the time. You got to loosen up here. This is the 21st century. Do you think God knew there was going to be a 21st century? You think he did? Submit, see. You're not going to get your prayers answered until you let God guide your life. That's what he's saying. God has, you read those scriptures. He lays it out to them. And all he says was, this is what you ought to do. You ought to invest your life in the lives of other people. And to do that, you got to have your life right with God. And that's what he calls fasting. Now you can do that by not eating because you're putting other things aside. It doesn't really have anything to do with eating. Or by taking a day of prayer, that's be a good thing to do. Put yourself aside, get the world out of your life, that'd be a good thing. A lot of different ways to do it, but there has to be a purpose. What is the purpose of your life? What are you doing? Don't retire. Don't give up. Don't sit down. Keep on going. Amen? Serve God. I have these rest home services. Older people. I mean, I'm older than a lot of them. I just don't look in the mirror much. Amen? But you know, I feel good and I'm in there. But I tell these folks, some of them in wheelchairs, some of them kind of have dementia and can't, but look, as long as they can breathe, God has something for them to do. Do you think that's true? God has something. I tell them, look, you can't do everything you used to do, I can't do everything I used to do. I try to do it, man, takes me three days to get over it. I say, man, I used to be able to do this and I'm just wore out. But, you know, God never asks you to do anything you can't do. Because he knows what you can do. So don't think you have to do what somebody else is doing. Find out what God wants you to do. Set your life apart from this world and the things of the world and your own desires, that's fasting, and trust God to lead you in it. Amen? Keep on going for God. Now I know this church does that. And by being here last week, the church was full Wednesday night, shows you support, the revival and those things. Great church, great people. But we can all make sure that we're right where God wants us to be. Are you? Could you say you are exactly where God wants you to be? Can you say that? Well, if not, you ought to come forward tonight and say, God, I want to do whatever you want me to do. I want to do that thing and show me what you want me to do. You think he would? You think God would show you? Do you have faith enough? They had unbelief, you see. Do you have faith enough to believe God will actually show you exactly what he wants you to do tomorrow? You college students. God uses you too. Even though you're in college, you can live for God. It's okay. All right? You don't just have to study all the time. You can live for God at the same time. Amen? Don't get tangled up in all the things you got to do. Let God lead your life. And he will. You're good. I'm so thankful for a little grant. God used a little child. If God can use a little child 2,000 miles away, who I've never seen, if he can use him to encourage this old preacher, he can encourage you. Do you think? Let's pray. Father, thank you that you love us tonight.