And one for the young folks. All right. Turn in your Bible to Matthew chapter 28. Matthew chapter 28. And who would read verse All right, so there's two commands we learned last week. What's the first command? Go. This is an important principle. Remember, these are the parting words of Jesus. Jesus has come, he's lived his life in the Gospels, he's worked miracles to prove that he is Almighty God in the flesh. At the end of his life, he died on the cross to pay for our sins, and then he did what? Rose from the dead. The resurrection became the the focal point, of course, the cross, but the resurrection, the cross is useless without the resurrection. So the resurrection proves everything that Jesus taught. Imagine if I said to you, I'm God. You'd be like, yeah, sure. Back that up. So you would have to see a sinless life, right? And Jesus I mean, had his 12 disciples living with him for three years, and he asked anyone else, I mean, the Pharisees followed him around like an Alabama tick. I mean, they're not gonna leave him alone. And, you know, they're just stuck to him, and watching everything, and they knew when he was gonna heal, they knew when he was gonna, and he even asked them, he said, which one of you can convince me of sin? And boy, if they were able to, they would have. So now he's departing. By the way, after his resurrection, how long did he spend with his disciples? 40 days, five weeks. That's an amazing thought. That's something that is often overlooked. And yet those 40 days, more than a month, Jesus, I mean, And by the way, John, if it's doing that ringing, just come back here. The imagine that you could say to any of your friends, hey, Jesus is risen. And they would say, well, I don't believe it. And you say, OK, come and you can see. And he'd say, well, put your finger in the nail prints in my hands. You can lift his shirt up. There's the where the spear went up into my heart, because those scars were intentionally left in his resurrection body. Why do you think he intentionally left those? I mean, he could have raised from the dead with no scars. Why would he have left those scars there? Proof. Absolute proof. So, with no doubt, in other words, he wanted to make sure that his disciples were not like, well, I wonder if it was a trick. I wonder if, you know, maybe He didn't really die and He fainted on the cross and He pretended to rise from the dead. I mean, all of these questions have been raised. Do you think the Romans would have let him faint on the cross and not really die? Do you think you can get a Roman spear rammed up through your ribs, piercing your heart and the water and blood flows out of your body and you're just fainting? No. And then you get embalmed. They embalmed him. You're just faking. You just fainted. All of these so-called empty tomb theories have been evaluated, examined, and thoroughly refuted. In fact, it's at the point now, when I started Bible school back in the 70s, there was a large group of liberal theologians, and the liberal theologians were saying, well, maybe he just fainted on the cross, maybe this, maybe that, maybe the next thing. Now, that's all nonsense. There is not a reputable New Testament scholar, not a single reputable New Testament scholar who believes anything other than that the tomb was empty and that Jesus died on the cross. So, obviously, the disciples then saw Him after His resurrection. See, here's why I'm belaboring this point a little bit, because for Jesus to command us to go and make disciples, for Him to say, go, make disciples, who does He think He is? And we need to be absolutely confident that when we're talking to people, I mean, they're not teaching in the public schools. I remember when I became a Christian in high school, the change was so radical, they sent me to the school psychiatrist. They didn't know what to do. This guy, he was foul-mouthed, fighting, cussing, and now every time we have a class, he raises his hand to answer the questions, and the answer is always Jesus. Who can tell me the age of the earth? Jesus, He's the only way to heaven. And I just thought, you know, no one ever told me when I was in school, and I'm going to tell everybody in every class every single day about Jesus. So that's what Jesus wants. He wants us to be bold and fearless in presenting the gospel. But you've got to be absolutely certain that what we're talking about is real. You know, we serve a risen savior, and we better be sure that he's real. Well, the disciples, in fact, it's interesting, my wife and I were talking about this. She and Penny and Kimmothy were witnessing to a young, no, a Vietnam vet yesterday, right? Yeah. And so, Laurie was asking on the way over, she said, well, when you're evangelizing and they say, well, I just don't believe the Bible, how do you respond to that? And... Right. Yeah. That's an excellent response. It's amazing the power of the Word of God. If a person will just read it, Wow, wow. But we have so many good arguments. So I shared with Laurie this illustration. You say you don't believe the Bible. What are you basing that statement on? And of course, they don't really have anything to base it on. And I say, well, I'm in the same boat as you are, right? I'm a human, I'm on earth, I know in my heart that I'm going to die one day, and when I die, I'm going to have to answer. No one has to tell me that God exists, I know God exists, and I know God is moral and righteous, and I've not been moral and righteous, so I'm gonna have to answer to Him. But here's the question. We have our faith based on clearly revealed Scripture. In other words, the people who lived with Jesus, followed Him, saw His miracles, saw Him die on the cross, they're standing there watching Him. I mean, we have a detailed description of the beating ahead of time and the crucifixion. We have an eyewitness account of that, multiple eyewitness accounts of that. And then, so he's dead on the cross, they take him down from the cross, they bury him after embalming him in a tomb. Three days later, he rises from the dead. All of the disciples saw all of this. Then he spends more than a month saying, look, I'll tell you everything you need to know. You're going to have a thousand questions, so let me answer those questions for you." And he did. He ate with them, he sat with them, he taught them for 40 days. So here's the answer to a guy like that. We are basing our faith on eyewitness testimony. Now the next question he has to ask, he probably doesn't know this is the question he should ask, but this is the question he should ask is, Well, there's lots of stories. How do I know that they are telling the truth? Maybe, like, didn't the guy say something about the disciples wrote it down to control people? Right, so he's questioning the motives of the authors of scripture. Well, maybe they just wrote it down so they'd be able to control people. And here's the question that you want to ask then is, do people die for something that is a lie? All the time. The Muslim terrorists died for a lie. The communists die for a lie. All the time, people will do foolish things. During the LSD days, you're always hearing stories about people jumping out of windows because they thought they could what? They could fly. Was that truth or a lie? That was a lie, so they died for a lie. So people will die for a lie. So maybe the fact the disciples died, they were lying about it, and then they died for their lie. Why would that not possibly be true? Put yourself in the shoes of the disciples. Jesus didn't really rise from the dead. He didn't really die on the cross. He moved to India and built the Taj Mahal or something. And so What we're going to do is we're going to tell people that he rose from the dead and ascended up to heaven so that we can control them and we can get what? What's the normal motives? Power, money, broads, women, right? We need a whole bunch of women. That's what all the cult leaders do and all the phonies do. Here's the problem with that. I like to ask this question of people at the door. Who's your favorite magician? And it might be David Blaine, or it might be Criss Angel, or it might be Penn and Teller, whatever it might be. Let's say that it's David Blaine. I remember he was real popular for a while. And I say to the guy at the door, do you know David Blaine? They say, oh yeah. Now, picture this scenario. David Blaine is flying from America to Singapore to put on a show, right? His motive is money, right? He wants to make money from this. On the way over to Singapore, the plane has to stop at Iran for mechanical problems. So he's in the Tehran airport waiting to get back on his plane. And as he's sitting in the airport, he thinks, oh boy, I got a four hour layover, what am I gonna do? So he pulls out a pack of cards and starts doing things and making coins roll across his finger. And he does all these little tricks, right? What are little kids in the airport gonna do when they see those? Ooh, cool, hey, look, Joey, you know, or Abdul, look, you know. And so they come over, and he notices they're all watching him, and he does some crazy tricks, and, you know, cards are doing this, and, you know, he's flipping them up, and he's doing these cool tricks. Then one of them goes and gets the parents. Hey, Mom, Dad, you should see what this guy's doing. He's magic. So David Blaine thinks, oh, I got a bigger crowd. I'll levitate. The Tehran religious police, the Islamic religious police, are they gonna be happy with that or unhappy with that? You're a witch. So David Blaine says, yes, I am a witch and I have magical witch powers and I can actually, is he gonna do that? If they say, you're a witch and we're gonna take you and burn you at the stake, What's he going to say? Oh, no, no, it's a trick. Let me show you how it works. Let me show you real clearly how it works. There's no magic at all. I'm not a witch. He's not going to die for what he knows is a lie, right? No question about that. If you know something is a lie, the problem is the Islamic terrorists thought Muhammad was telling the truth. They thought Allah was a real God. So, yes, Allah is telling us that if we die in a holy jihad, we'll get to go straight to Islamic heaven, get our 70 virgins, and sit around boozing it up or whatever they do in the Islamic heaven. That's a lie. But they died for a lie. The disciples did not think it was true if they were lying because they are the first one to tell the story, right? So if you're the first one to tell the story, you're the one who says, I was the... In fact, let me show you something. Turn to the First John, the book of First John, way over near Revelation, just a few books before Revelation. 1st, 2nd, 3rd John, Jude, Revelation. So it's about four books before Revelation. If you go to your end of your Bible and make a hard left. Watch what John, the apostle, the eyewitness says about his experience. 1st John 1. 1st John 1. See, the value of the Bible is manifold, but one of the key values is that the Bible is the most reliable document in ancient history. That is a provable statement. It is the most reliable document in ancient history. There is no fact of ancient history that we know about the existence of Plato, Socrates, the writings of Aristotle. None of those are as well-documented and as reliable as the Bible, the New Testament. So in chapter 1, look at verse 1, that which was from the beginning, which we have what? Heard. And what's the next word? Seen. What's the next word? Looked upon. What's the next word? What else does it say? All right, now, we have heard, and he's saying this concerning the Word of Life, verse 2, so I'm going to read verse 2. So he's laying out here, this is what is so exciting and powerful. We are not following, let me clarify this. There's two kinds of religion. One is revealed from God. The other is like Buddhism or Hinduism, which is what they call just a burst of enlightenment. Some guy sits on a pole for 40 years and all of a sudden a light bulb goes off over his head and says, oh, now I know what the universe is all about. It just sort of pops into his mind. That kind of rubbish, the pop into your mind stuff is rubbish. We need to base our faith on real facts, real historical, documentable, verifiable facts. John the Apostle was an eyewitness. John the eyewitness says, I'm gonna tell you what I heard. In a court of law, if you say I am a direct hearer, I actually personally heard the guy say, I shot so-and-so. I heard that. Well, that's a direct hearing, right? So John is sharing with all of us what he heard Jesus teach. These are things I heard Jesus teach. What's the next word? So what's the difference between seen and looked upon? Here's the difference. If I see something, something's taking place or you know, you see something, right? You see it. But the Greek word for looked upon means that you go over to it and examine it very carefully. You're looking at it, you know, I can, See a Bible, everyone see the Bible? But if I look at it and I go, okay, it's got one, two, three, four, five little bumps on the back. See, now I'm examining it. That's what the word looked upon means. It means to examine. And then, not only Did I hear the story from the mouth of Jesus? Not only did I see him work miracles, not only did I go up to the person who was born blind and was healed and say, tell me the story again, let me look at your eye. Right, I can picture John doing that. Like, you were born blind? Yeah. and his parents walk over, is this your son? Yes. Well, tell me about his eyesight. How often did he get glasses? Never, he was born blind, right? So what I'm trying to share is that this isn't a whimsical dream John had. It's not a fleeting couple of ideas John had or any of the disciples. This is something they heard with their ears, they saw with their eyes, they looked at, and then they handled You know, to examine something and then to pick it up and handle it, I know what it feels like. That's right. Yeah. Where'd he go? Can I shake your hand, ghost? You don't handle a ghost. That's right. And then again, let me reemphasize, guys, I have seen this. I am an eyewitness and a witness. So what I'm trying to point out here John believes this to be absolutely true. Now, not just one, there were hundreds of eyewitnesses, hundreds of them. And they happened in groups, they happened individually, they happened with a couple of them, they happened with hundreds of them over a period of time. There's no question at all. And the icing on the cake, the seal of the whole deal is this. John is on an airplane, and John is on his way from America to Singapore, the Apostle John. You understand I'm making this up, right? It's for illustration. He's on an airplane, John the Apostle. He's on his way to Singapore, not to do a magic show, but to preach the gospel. And he has been preaching the gospel all along the way, but the airplane has to stop over in Tehran, Iran, for mechanical things. And John goes to the adults directly and says, I want to share with you the most fantastic news you could ever get. I'm an eyewitness of this. I want to tell you things that I've heard and seen and gazed upon and examined with my eyes, things that I handled, things that I've seen. I'm going to tell you an eyewitness account The Islamic religious police show up. You know there is an Islamic religious police in these countries. And you deviate off with their heads. They say to the Apostle John, what you're saying is blasphemy against Mohammed and blasphemy against Allah. If you don't recant, we're going to chop your head off. What's John gonna do? Oh, I just made it up. Don't chop my head off. No, hallelujah to Muhammad. My story is just all made up. I was saying that to entertain the kids. It's a myth. Did he do that? No, you can read Foxe's Book of Martyrs, you can read church history, and you can get the stories of each of the disciples and the apostles and how they were horribly murdered for their faith. Peter, just as an example, was crucified upside down. They were gonna crucify him and he says, I'm not worthy to die like Jesus. He didn't say, don't kill me, I made it all up, it's a myth. He said, it's not a myth, it's absolutely true and I'm willing to die for it. So understand, people will die for a lie, but they don't know it's a lie. You will not die for what you know is a lie. You just won't do it. David Blaine won't do it. You wouldn't do it. If you make up some fairy story and mythical, magical nonsense, imagine getting J.K. or J.R. Rowling, whatever, who wrote Harry's Pots or something, Harry Potter. Harry Potter. And, all right, we're gonna get you, put you on trial. Did this actually happen? Well, sure, it's real. I saw it. Is she going to answer that way? No, it's a made-up fairy tale. So I want you to know that as you go in obedience to the command of God, you are going based on absolutely reliable. In fact, the New Testament is the most reliable document in all of ancient history. There is no other... In other words, if you don't believe the New Testament, You cannot say you believe in Napoleon. You cannot say you believe in Caligula or Nero or the Roman Empire or any other ancient event because the evidence for the New Testament is not just a little bit more. You know, it's not like the evidence for, you know, did Plato teach these things is this much and the New Testament is this much. I mean, it's the difference between… I saw an illustration would be if you took all of the manuscript evidence for these Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and put it on a table, it would be, you know, a few inches high. You take all the manuscript evidence for the New Testament and it would be as high as the Eiffel Tower. So it's not just a little bit more proven, it is overwhelmingly more proven. So when we go out in obedience to the Great Commission, go back to Matthew again with me, I want you to have the kind of confidence that the disciples had, the kind of absolute, fearless, absolute, unquestioning confidence. Now, before they saw His risen body, They were struggling because, oh, man, I thought He was the Lord. I mean, He worked miracles and, you know, maybe He was just a great prophet or something because now He's dead. So for three days they were confused. But when He showed up and spent 40 days teaching them, they weren't confused anymore. They weren't like, hmm, I wonder if Jesus is someone we should follow. They're like, there's no one else to follow. This is what we need to devote our entire life to. We need to devote every waking breath somehow to advance the kingdom of God, somehow to live for Christ, somehow to follow Christ, to obey Christ, to live every moment that we can, because this is absolutely true. So in Matthew 20, he says, go is the first command. And then the second command that goes with that is make Does everyone remember the best modern definition of a disciple? Anybody else? A follower is good. That's part of it. A learner. an apprentice. Why? As I mentioned before, a carpenter doesn't sit in a classroom and draw a picture of a hammer, now draw a picture of a nail, now draw a picture of a piece of wood. That's not how he learns to be a carpenter. A carpenter is on the job, and he's got a master carpenter who has spent, how long was it again, Kim? to become a master carpenter, was it 10 or 15? 10, 12 years. To become a master carpenter. Now you can teach the apprentice carpenter, here's how it works, here's how to do it. This is what should be happening in churches. Sadly, what has happened is they've done away with the concept of a disciple because, does anyone remember what the old King James word for disciple is in Matthew 28? Go therefore instead of make disciples, what does it say? Teach. Now that was a good word back in those days. I mean, I suppose if you were learning to be a carpenter, you would be taught to be a carpenter. But that's not how we use the word nowadays. Teaching in our world is cerebral. You sit in a classroom and you learn these interesting facts. That is not discipleship. In fact, I see it time and time again where I've gone to churches, preached in churches, been a guest speaker at a church, and the church has not practiced discipleship. And you ask the folks, you know, do you believe in the deity of Christ? Yes. Do you believe in the Trinity? Yes. They know great facts, but it's not worked out in their life. It's not lived out. So on your notes, If you'll look at your notes for a second. Number three, conforming to Christ. Who would read conforming to Christ paragraph? On number three, question three. Anybody? Yeah, someone to read question number three. to teach you to be the world's teaching. This is called discipleship. Now, underline the phrase, conform you to Christ. An apprentice carpenter is being conformed to the master carpenter. He's learning the right way to make the angles on the cuts. He's learning the right way to join pieces of wood in different angles and different corners and odd shapes and things so that when it's all done, it is tight, You can't hardly see the seam. It's structurally sound. In other words, a good carpenter gets the job done right. And if he's done his job with an apprentice properly, that apprentice is learning. In fact, I remember I was talking with a member of the church previously, and he was an apprentice drywaller. And he went to work with a guy who does drywall. And the, the drywall guy that was teaching him, he said, okay, put the drywall up here and put the nails in. And so he did. And the guy came back and he said, that is the worst job I've ever seen. Let me show you. And he put some mud on it and there was bumps. Every nail had bumps. And so it was not done properly and the pieces weren't joined properly. So he said, tear it down, throw it away, we've got to start all over again. So that's how you teach someone as an apprentice to do the job properly. I remember I went into a house that was being built And a particular man was wanting to show me, and he said, let me show you what the drywallers did. And he held a level up against the drywall, and it was wavy. So you could see, you know, behind where the level was, where it wasn't up tight. He put a big X, tear down, big X. He went all through the house. They had done almost the whole house. It was all done wrong. Well, put that in a church setting, a church that has not practiced discipleship, D-I-S-C-I-P-L, discipleship, where the people are taught, and what are they to be taught? We use the word base, B-A-S-E. What does the B stand for? beliefs, there are definitely things you have to believe. Jesus said, if you don't believe that I'm God, you're gonna die in your sins. Jesus said, unless you repent, you will perish. Right? We know that heaven is real, we know hell is real, we know Christ died on the cross for our sins. We know that repentance... What's the A stand for? Attitudes. And What does the S stand for? Skills. And the E? Evangelistic reproduction. This is all the average church covers. As a result, people in the church have attitudes that are atrocious. I was in a church and they had a Masonic Lodge member as a deacon at the church. And it was funny because we were shaking hands on the way out and he's trying to shake my hand this weird way. I'm like trying to get a hold of his hand. I'm like, why am I having a problem shaking your hand? Oh, I didn't know if you were a Mason. I say, absolutely not. That's a demonic, demonic false religion. It teaches that the God is Lucifer. I mean, the Sonic Lodge is not a good thing. It is horrible. And they got the guy as a deacon. I mean, I could tell you story after story of people. A guy, I was in a church in Fort, Fort, not Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers. And one of the deacons came up. He says, oh, I've got a great N-I-G-G-E-R joke for you. So there's no such thing as a great NIGGR joke. That is wicked. We are all just varying shades of brown. There is no black race, white race. There's the human race. And I mean, it's just shocking how these things are not dealt with because there's no discipleship. In a discipling relation, and I've had deacons in years gone by come up and tell me dirty jokes. I mean, if you ask them, do you believe in the Trinity? Oh, absolutely. I had one that was a part of the Klan, KKK. I mean, you know, this is extreme wickedness, extreme demonic infiltration into churches, and because the church is not practicing discipleship. If you're out talking with someone and you're taking them out witnessing and they're like, oh, don't go over there, that's a NIGGR neighborhood. Hold on, pull the car over. We need to talk about salvation. Let's talk about what it means to be saved. Let's talk about what it means to be a Christian. Let's talk about what it means to love other people. So in other words, in a discipling relationship, attitudes start being dealt with. The person's rotten attitude toward their wife, or rebellious attitude toward their husband, or with young people, their rebellion against their parents, right? That's what I was when I was a kid. I was just a rebel. I didn't think my mom knew anything. And then skills need to be taught. You see that under skills, learning how to do Bible study methods. For example, here's what I was taught. If you don't know what a particular passage of Scripture means, look it up in a commentary. So whose commentary, right? Is it the Mormon commentary, the Jehovah's Witness commentary, the Presbyterian commentary, That's not how you find out what something means. There's a process for doing Bible study so that you can understand the support for a particular view, the problems with a particular view, how to identify those various ways to support something. I remember when I was in my first year of Bible college, The professor said something, and it disagreed with what I had been told. And I said, well, I looked that up in three commentaries, and all three commentaries say such and such. And he says, oh, we're determining what the Bible says by majority vote now. And I thought, I don't understand what you mean. He's like, you can't just say, well, I got three commentaries. What if someone comes along and says, I've got five commentaries that say the opposite? That's not how you determine what's true. That's not how you figure out what Scripture means. But these are things that people haven't learned. Or if they are taught in their church, well, this is what our denomination, for example, in the Presbyterians, they have what's called a confession of faith, called the Westminster Confession. And some really good men many, many years ago sat down and said, we think the Bible means this. Problem is, there's some big problems with that confession. One of the things is it says you're supposed to baptize babies. Anybody have a Bible verse that says we're supposed to baptize babies? No. There's nowhere in the Bible, is there an example of baptizing a baby? There's nowhere where anyone says, yes, when I was a baby, I was baptized. There's no teaching on baptizing babies like with babies, you know, put them in this way or by their feet or... And the word baptized doesn't mean sprinkle. The word baptized means dip, means to immerse, dunk. In fact, one of the terms that they used to call Baptists was dunkers. So, you know, these are important things, but how do you determine what does the Bible say? Those have to be taught, and then evangelistic reproduction. I have spoken with pastor after pastor, Sunday school after Sunday school teacher, deacon after deacon, and asked, do you know how to share the gospel with somebody? If somebody, you go to visit them at the hospital, and they're like, I think I'm going in a minute or two. Tell me how to be saved. All right, you've got two minutes. Tell them how to be saved. Can you lead that person to Christ on their deathbed? Or the pilot says over the loudspeaker in the airplane, sorry folks, both engines are out. We are heading nose first into the ground. We have approximately two minutes. If anybody here knows how to be saved, we all need to hear that. And the guy says, you go to church, don't you? Tell me how to be saved. Would you know how to tell them clearly how to be saved? where somebody comes up to you and says, I prayed a prayer when I was six. And as soon as I got out of my mom's house after rebelling and rebelling and rebelling against her, I lived with my girlfriend and then I started dealing drugs and I get drunk every weekend and I robbed a few liquor stores. Do you know how to explain to that person whether they're saved or lost? What scriptures to go to? How to lead them through that? This is what discipleship is. Let me give you another important part here. When you come to Christ, if you've been genuinely born again, let me ask you if this is not a true experience for you. When you got genuinely saved, all of a sudden your mind changed about your sin. Before you got saved, yeah, let's go sin. Then you got saved, it's like, oh man, I sinned against God, I need to change. But then after you got saved, you're still sort of attracted. And some old friends call you, hey, let's go to the nightclub. Hey, let's go do this. Hey, let's skip church and go fishing. And you're sort of tempted. And sometimes you fall. Is it not true that as a genuine believer, you do not want to fall, number one? And number two, you want that out of your life. You want to be a holy living Christian. Am I making that up or is that true? That's true. If it's not true, you're not a Christian. That's where you need to be born again so that you have a new heart, new nature, new drive, new will, new desires in life. You're going to be a changed person. How do you dig sin out of your life? How do you get victory? Say it again. Repentance is the first step. Bible memory is, yeah, how, in fact, the psalm says, wherewithal shall a young man keep his way clean? By taking heed unto the word of God. So how can a young man live a pure life? Study, to show yourself approved, memorize the word. So there's all of these things that happen that if we're, we meet Christ, and we're climbing, we're on a rock climb, so to speak. And if you don't know how to climb rocks properly, And you don't hammer the peg into the, whatever those are called. And then you hook your thing onto it, and then you go the next one, you hammer it in. If those don't get in there properly, they're not gonna hold your weight. And it's a long way down. Well, we're not being taught how to, how to head in the right direction up the mountain and hang on and not go careening down. That's part of sanctification. God has promised on the one hand in His divine sovereignty, I will get you to the other side. I'm not going to let Satan steal you. But on the other hand, he says, you better be a hard-working farmer, a hard-working Olympic athlete, a hard-hitting boxer. What other pictures? A long-distance marathon runner. There's all kinds of pictures on getting your life in conformity to Christ. This is called sanctification. And sanctification is a combination of us and God working together, and you've got to know how to do it. Otherwise, you're going to lose years in your Christian life just fumbling and fumbling and fumbling and fumbling and not having victory. And in a disciple... See, if a person just shows up for church and then leaves, and you don't see them all week, you don't know if they're growing in the Lord, you don't know if they're a serial killer, you don't know anything about them. But if you're in a discipling relationship, you can say to that person, hey, I noticed that you have struggled, like I remember one young man that I was discipling, and we would go to lunch afterwards and talk about the Word. We'd go witnessing in the morning, then we'd go to lunch afterwards, and we would often go to a restaurant. And I noticed this, as I'm talking to him, he's like, what's he doing? Checking out the babes. Every waitress that walks by, every girl that walks by. And so, because he's in a discipling relationship with me, I could say to him, Sam, let's say his name is Sam, I notice that girls look good to you. On the one hand, that tells me you're not a homosexual. On the other hand, that's going to get you in trouble. because you've got to get over that lust. You've got to get victory over the lust, right? All right, so that's what this is we're talking about. Hang on to this to be continued. Never enough time. All right, let's pray. Father in heaven, we love you and praise you. We pray that we would draw close.