And the Germans could handle it. I want to talk to you this morning about the much more and the impossible. The much more and the impossible. Turn with me to 2 Chronicles chapter 25. 2 Chronicles chapter 25 and in just a minute we'll read verses 1 through 9. Well, let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, Lord. I pray that you'd help me to share what you've put on my heart. Father, I pray that you'd speak with other hearts here this morning and give those hearts what they need. In Jesus' name, amen. 2 Chronicles 25, verse one. Amaziah was 20 and five years old when he began to reign. And he reigned 20 and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoiadan of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king, his father. But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. Moreover, Amaziah gathered Judah together and made them captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin. And he numbered them from 20 years old and above and found them 300,000 choice men able to go forth to war that could handle spear and shield. He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor out of Israel for 100 talents of silver. But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee, for the Lord is not with Israel to wit with all the children of Ephraim. But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle. God shall make thee fall before the enemy, for God hath power to help and to cast down. And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this. Amaziah was the ninth king of Judah. And as the Bible introduces kings, there's usually something that tells you this king did evil inside the Lord. did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. But when we get to Amaziah, it's a little bit different. It's usually very clear cut. This said that Amaziah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. Amaziah was the father of Uzziah. This was the same Uzziah that 2 Chronicles chapter 26, he was marvelously helped, the Bible says. I mean, he built strong towers, he built strong forts, he had a strong army, he had armed his army with the best technological advances of the day. And he was very powerful. Verses 4 and 5 says, speaking of Uzziah, he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father did. This is chapter 26. And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God. And as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. And then verse 6 says, or I'm sorry, 15. Verse 15 says, And he made in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad, for he was marvelously helped till he was strong. But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction. For he transgressed against the Lord his God and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense. And I won't read the rest of the verses, but it'll go on to tell you that he was confronted by the priests. And the priest said, King, this is not your place to burn incense upon the altar in the temple. And that just made him more angry. Because who was he? He was somebody. He had earned a name. And he had become so strong that it went to his head. And he figured he could do what he wanted to do. But the priest withstood him, and as soon as he became wroth with them, leprosy rose up in his forehead. And he had to be kicked off his throne and put away from the people. He lost his position. He lost his power. He lost his throne. He was cut off from others, how he died. And you'll probably remember that Isaiah mentions this king who thought he was so high and lifted up and so strong. And Isaiah mentions him in Isaiah chapter 6 when he says, In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon his throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. And it's almost God showing Uzziah who really was on the throne and Isaiah acknowledging God in his rightful place. But we go back to Amaziah and we see that he did that was right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart. He did not have a heart that was completely devoted to God. You know what, he knew what right looked like, and he knew what to do. I see myself here so often. I know what's right, and I try to do what's right, but I find myself sometimes that my heart's not in it. Sometimes I'm just going through the motions, because I know what right looks like, and I know what other people expect from me. And God becomes an afterthought. Maybe I'm not the only one that struggles with that. But here Amaziah is preparing for war against the Edomites. Just historical troublemakers for Judah. Descendants of Esau, and pastor preached through the book of Obadiah a few months ago. that talked about, I think, talked about the destruction of the Edomites. Here he is, he's organizing and he's training his men. And he has quite the force. The Bible describes Amaziah's army not just as 300,000 men, but 300,000 choice men. I mean, this is the special forces that he has here. He has a good reason to feel good about what his army can do. These men could handle spear and shield, but he thought, well, you know what, I'm going to hedge my bets a little bit here. I'm going to go hire a hundred thousand more from the army of Israel. Mercenaries to help me take out the Edomites. So he went and he spent a hundred talents of silver to hire this army from Israel. And as best I can tell, in today's money, that would be millions of dollars. And I didn't do the calculations, I just read some things on it, okay? But that hundred talents of silver in today's money would be millions of dollars. So he's done all this preparation for his own army. He's formed partnerships with Israel. to help him in his battle against the Edomites. And he has spent, the payment was millions of dollars that he spent on this army. All to ensure victory, this preparation, partnership, payment. But I can tell you when we make our own plans and we focus on our own desires, we miss out on much more. God matters. God matters. And how often do I live as if his opinion is secondary or it's an afterthought concerning my life? I talk about my occupation, about my hobbies, about my music, my books, my money, my friends. What do I want? What makes me feel good? What am I comfortable with? If I believe God matters, would I want to know his plans for me? Would I want to know his opinion of my occupation, my hobbies, my music, my books, my money, my friends? What does he want? What pleases him? Is he comfortable with the things I am comfortable with? And I can still go down that path of my, my, my and what I want, what I'm comfortable with. I can still do that. Just like Amaziah. You know what? Amaziah, you go ahead and you go fight the Enemites. You go fight them with that great army you have. You go fight them with your great plans. You go fight them with that army you've hired from Israel. But when you do it, you give it everything you've got. because God is gonna make you fall before the enemy. And then Amos, I wanna know, well, what about this millions of dollars that I've spent? The Lord is able to give you much more than this. And millions is nothing to God. When we make our plans, Based on our desires, concerned with what we are giving up, we miss out on the much more. Let's look over at Luke. I want to, Luke chapter five, but before we get there, I want to mention a few things. In the Garden of Eden, there was this tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And it looked good. It looked good. And Satan made it sound a little bit better. A whole lot better. And Eve took of that fruit. And Adam took of that fruit. And that was their desire. But it wasn't God's desire. And it brought death to all men. We have Lot. Remember the story of Lot and Abraham? They each had too much stuff, and they had to separate from each other. And Abraham brought Lot in one day and said, look, you make your selection, and I'll take whatever you don't take, basically. And you know what Lot did? He lifted up his eyes, and he saw all the planes. Man, did they look good. They looked good. And so Lot's plans were, I'm gonna go that way. And as soon as he pitched his tent towards Sodom, he didn't say, man, I'm going to Sodom. That's not what he did right off the bat. But that's where he ended up, because he gradually took steps to go into Sodom. And what did that do for Lot? Lot lost his testimony. Not because Lot was a wicked man. But because of where Lot chose to dwell and what Lot chose to put up with. So, you know, God would have spared Sodom for 10 righteous people. Man, I think if Lot could have just had an influence on his own family, he might have gotten Sodom spared. But because of where he took his family, he didn't even have the testimony with them to spare the city of Sodom, much less what was going on in Sodom. But that was Lot's desire. What he saw looked real good to him, and that's where he went. And how about David? One day David saw Bathsheba, and he desired her. And I can promise you, not Eve, Not Lot, not David. Said, God, what do you think I ought to do about this situation? Didn't do it. Because if they had, maybe things would have been different. But then asked David, David, after you sinned with Bathsheba, because that was your desire, how was your life? David's life was one of misery. all the rest of his time. He lost children. He had his own son driving from his kingdom for a while. The wickedness that took place and the suffering David went through after that decision that day where he committed adultery with Bathsheba and he had her husband killed because of his desires. Luke chapter 1. Oh, I said Luke chapter 5, I meant Luke chapter 1. Beginning in verse 5. There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias of the course of Abiah, and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless. And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren, And they both were now well-stricken in years. But you know, Zacharias and Elizabeth were the parents of John the Baptist. The man who said he was just a voice crying in the wilderness, who said that he wasn't worthy to unlatch Jesus' shoe, said that Jesus must increase, that he, John the Baptist, must decrease. He said that he was there, but he was sent to prepare the way for the Messiah. But according to the thinking of men, John the Baptist shouldn't have been here. Elizabeth was barren, incapable of having children. Not only that, Elizabeth was old, well past childbearing years. Men would say it's impossible for Elizabeth to have a child, yet she had John the Baptist. Verse 13 says, But the angel said unto him, unto Zacharias, Fear not, Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard, and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And that happened. And later in verses 26 through 35, In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Mary. And the angel came in unto her and said, Hail thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great. and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end.' Then Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?' Mary was the mother of Jesus, a virgin who had not known a man, yet she gave birth to the Saviour of the world." And according to the thinking of men, Jesus should not have been here. The birth of John the Baptist? Impossible. The birth of Jesus, impossible. That's just how we think. But just as God matters in our plans, He matters in His plans. Verse 37 of chapter 1 in Luke says, For with God nothing shall be impossible. The birth of John the Baptist, the birth of Jesus, impossible with man but not with God. What do I think is impossible? And then what do I know? I am so limited in my knowledge, it's, I'm pitiful, I really am. I went to the Air War College and I sat in a class with some really smart people. If anyone thought I was smart before that, I found out I'm pretty dumb. I told my classmate, I think I'm the dumbest person in Air War College. There's like 500 people there. I found out how little I knew compared to these folks who had been other places, done other things, assignments at the Pentagon, assignments in foreign countries, just way out of my league and somehow passed. But I found out, man, I don't know anything. I don't know anything. Let's go back to kindergarten or maybe even preschool when we sat at the feet of our mom and mom did this wonderful thing for me. She put objects in front of me and she picked up one object and she said, one? And she picked up the other and she said, two? She picked up the next and she said, three? Man, my mom taught me how to count. One, two, three. I started with one, right? Naturally, you start with one. Well, there's zero objects, and then I have one. No, you don't do that. You start with one. Those are natural numbers, by the way, that you learn to count with. One, two, three, four, five, right? And when you're small, you think, man, 20 is a huge number. Sometimes you get older and you get older and you get older and then you realize, man, numbers don't stop. They just keep on going and there's this thing called infinity. And I don't even know where that is. I can't count that high and if I could, I'd spend all my life counting and doing nothing else. That's just how far on it would go. And that is all I knew when I was little. That's it. Thought I knew a lot. Come to find out I didn't know very much. And even what I did know of what I knew wasn't all that much because it's infinity. Then one day, somebody blew my mind. This was in school probably. I don't know what grade. But they said, hey, we're going to, this group of natural numbers that you use to count with, it's infinite. It goes on and on and on. But you know what we're going to do? We're going to put a zero in front of it. And I said, man, did you just add one to infinity? Man, that's incredible. But that reminds me, Jacob, when he was little, and we were in Alabama, and he's probably a year and a half. No, he wasn't two yet, I don't think. He was in Sunday school class, and his teacher said, This, talking about Naomi, said to Jacob, Jacob, the God who took care of Naomi is the same God who takes care of us today. And Jacob goes, what? She had to come tell us about that. So when I was a little man and they added one to infinity, I was like, what? How'd you do that? And you know, zero, you put that zero in front of all those natural numbers and that zero looks like Oh, right, it's a whole, it's a whole, it's a whole. Looks like a whole. And they call them zero on those whole numbers, right? So all I knew, well now I knew above what I knew. Just a little bit, but I knew above it. And then I got into a grade, and I don't even remember which, and they put up this number line on the board. And that number line had arrows at each end. It went infinitely in both directions. We're really going to blow our minds now, right? That's what happened. Because from zero on into infinity in a positive, the number line for you all, positive direction, and then the opposite way in the negative direction, Whole numbers and their opposites are integers. And guess what? It goes infinitely in the other direction. So now, now I knew. I got to get my words right. It's hard to think backwards. Abundantly, yeah. I knew abundantly above all that I used to know. I did. Then somebody told me one day, you can always divide numbers in two, in half. And in between one and two, there's an infinite number of numbers. I said, whoa! Because you can always divide it in half. Yeah, you can have fractions and decimals. Right? Now I knew exceeding, abundantly, above all that I used to know. And you know there's a verse that talks about that, right? Ephesians 3.20, unto him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly, above all that we ask. Those are things we can talk about or think. Or think. You know, every invention is from your imagination. But God can do exceeding, abundantly, above all that we ask or think. Do you know that there's another set of numbers? You probably know this. There's another set of numbers called imaginary numbers. Yeah, there really is. They even use them in quantum physics. That should cause you to question that thing. But anyway, no, seriously, they do use it in quantum physics, and it's to express a number that doesn't physically exist, like one, two, three, four, half, or whatever. Like the square root of negative one doesn't exist. Because, what, 1 times 1 is 1. Not negative 1. Negative 1 times negative 1 is 1, not negative 1. So there's nothing times itself that equals negative 1. But if you want to try to use the square root of negative 1, you can. It's called an imaginary number. It's the only way you can solve some problems. Well, God's able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we ask or think, or think. Now, take everything that you know, everything that you know and everything that I know, bundle them all together, wrap them up real good, right? Now we have this massive knowledge that compared to God's knowledge is an unnoticeable speck on that wall of this whole church, right? That's how much we know compared to what he knows. I want to read another verse. Let me try to summarize some of this. Christians, your plans without God, you're missing out on much more. Unsaved people, what's it impossible for God to do? Nothing. Some people think, God can't save me because I've been too wicked. He can't save me because of this. But there's nothing impossible for God. You know, God died for Osama bin Laden's sins. He died for Hitler's sins. He died for Herod's sins. Herod was an incredibly wicked man. But He took all those sins and He put all those on His cross and He paid the price for every one of those sins. Past, during that time, and future sins. All paid for. So is it impossible for God to forgive me for that? He's already paid the price for that. It's already nailed to His cross. So you know what? You can take all my sins and all your sins, put them all, mix them all together, put them all on that cross. Because they're all paid for. And it's not impossible for God to save anybody from anything. 2 Peter 3, 9 says, God is not willing that any should perish. Well, that included Hitler. That included all those other people I named. That included me. He's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 1 John 2 says He is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. How do I limit God? I limit God because I don't consider His opinion, and I miss out on much more. I limit God by doubting His ability, and I settle for the possible. At Calvary, the cross where Jesus died is the place where the much more and the impossible meet. Romans chapter 5 verse 20 says this. Moreover, the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. You think it's impossible for God to save you? He took all our sins and nailed it to the cross. And you know what? When you take all our sins and you look at that and you put that as a speck on this wall, it's unnoticeable when surrounded by the grace of God. You think it's impossible for God to save you? Your sin's too great? Great? Grace is greater than your sin. As the pastor comes, why not trust your soul's destiny, trust your heart's desires and your life decisions to the God who lives and rules in the realm of the much more and the impossible, in that realm which is exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think? Everybody just bow your heads and pray. I want you to think about what he said this morning. Even that last phrase, we live looking to the possible instead of the impossible with God. My goodness. If you're not saved this morning, He can forgive you of all of your sins, no matter how guilty you feel. He already bore them on the cross. And if you are not right with God this morning and you know you've lived distant, cold, you can get your heart right this morning. Have a fresh start, a new walk. Slate clean. And go out and start living in the impossibilities of the goodness of God, the grace of God. Anybody who's a preacher, pray for me. I want God to do something in my life. I need a change in my life. Realize how much grace, how much abundance, forgiveness, and love, and mercy, and strength, and peace, and power is there. And I want to walk in that and live in that. Anybody? Take a step of faith, come out of this altar. Let somebody show you how to be saved. Somebody to pray with you to get your heart right. If you are saved, recommit your life to him. Anybody. Father, I pray to the word of God, the seed of the word we planted. Lord, that you would challenge our hearts and our minds. I pray that you'll deal with those that might be lost, those who might be so far away from you, thinking that you'd never take them back, you'd never forgive, you'd never help them to restart, you'd never get them back on their feet, but you can and you would, and you will if they would. And I pray, God, that you'd show them that. Help them to hunger and desire for it. Surrender their life to you. they could live in through the impossibilities of your mercy and grace. We pray, Lord, as we finish up this day of honoring our veterans, we thank you, Lord, for Brother Jerry. We appreciate him so much. Been a member of our church and serving you, being a friend, serving in the military, Lord. Challenging time. I pray, God, you'd help us, Lord, to pray for him and his family, to strengthen them and help them, Lord, to be a light and a witness Lord, just give him the power and the strength that he needs, Lord, to walk for you. In Jesus' name, we give thanks and we pray. Amen. Now, for sake of time of standing, I will need a microphone. Brother Bob, give me the red microphone. I'm gonna get Brother Crosby to come up here and Brother Jimmy, if you'll come on. And then I need all the other veterans to come up here and just kind of stand in line. We're going to let you guys just announce. Now, let me do this real quick. You can stand right here, Brother Crosby. I want to read. This is Sean. You coming all the way up? You stay down there. You stay down there. You stay down there. I'm going to come down there to you guys. I feel weird being this down here. He's 20 foot tall to me, amen, that's all I can say. I sure feel weird standing above him. But this is Brother Sean Patterson who went on to be with the Lord. This is his information. He was a First Sergeant. His name's Sean L. Patterson, U.S. Army, retired, 67 years old. And it goes on to tell us about his service. And he was an Airborne Ranger Jumpmaster and Pathfinder. He was a graduate of the Sergeant's Major Academy and the German Head Start CRS course. and he graduated also from Phoenix University. And these pictures here show the towers that he jumped from and part of pictures of his service. And then Brother Jared, my son, took a picture of Sean and Janet one day behind him, sitting in the pew with his arm around her. in the middle of a church service and we we got this made for him and this is one she wanted to share with us but we miss him. He would have been here today and he is gone but he is not forgotten in our church service. Alright, we're going to let you go first. You can tell us your your method of service. MOS, you tell us where you served and what branch you were served. Just give a little word of it, okay? After World War II, I joined the Navy Reserve. A year later, I joined the National Guard for three years. After that, I joined the Air Force for 18 years, and I retired in 1968. I'm sorry. Our savior. God bless you people. God bless your pastor. I love everyone. And I pray for the increase of millions of people to come to Christ this very day. And don't forget, If he took care of this thing, he's got y'all. Amen. He's got you. Amen. All right, we got this gift bag for you. And we appreciate your service, Brother Crosby. We love you so much. And you can go back and sit down, if you'd like. We're going to let these older gentlemen just hang in there, fellas. I know Bob and y'all thinking y'all feel old, but Jerry's going to have to be last, I guess. All right, Jimmy, we want you to share your military service. Give us a little information about that. In 1971, I left home just a child, really, because I had never been away from home. But I knew the thing that my father had taught me about being a young man. He told me one time, he said, Always remember, you only have two things in this life. One, God gave you this life. Two, is wherever you go, whatever you may do, remember, your name is all you have. But there in Vietnam in 1971, early in the morning, I was pinned down in the rice paddy. I was a Vietnam vet. I still am. I always will be. If you cut this arm open, it'd be orange, Clemson orange. If you cut the other one open, it'd be red, white, and blue. I was a specialist for infantry soldier. My MOS was the 11B10. which qualified me to be whatever I needed to be. But there that morning in Vietnam was the day of my life when I realized, Lord, if I'm gonna ever see the United States again, it's gonna be by power greater than me. And that was the day that I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me and make me a vessel of his. So I say to all of you this morning, if you don't know Jesus, oh my goodness, please, please, please do. Whatever it is that separates us from God is sin. Sin has no dominion over me this morning because of my life that day that I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me and he did. He said he'd never leave me or forsake me. What a friend. What a friend we have in Jesus. All our sins and griefs to bear. All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. God bless all of y'all and this church this morning. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much. Hey, we appreciate your service. I appreciate you too. And here's a gift bag for you. You can go back there and check it out. Amen. All right, gentlemen, you come on down here if you don't mind. We'll get a little closer and we'll finish up. We'll pray and go eat. And all right. We'll let Bob go first. We'll let him go. Brother Bob, go ahead. Okay, I was a sergeant in the Air Force. I was doing pretty good. Two years I've been a sergeant. I had a vehicle accident. We used to travel. to the missile sites. Our job was to feed the troops out there. They said they had to fly me by helicopter to the base. I almost died. They said the only reason why I didn't die was because I was in such good health, but I know it was because of God, not because of my health. He knew before I needed that strength. He knew what I needed. I laid in the hospital bed, and I felt a funny feeling in my body. I thought God had cured me from my injury, but he was just telling me, you're not going through this alone. I'm with you for the rest of your life. He knew I had to raise three sons to become Christians and be part of the family of God. He knew before I did. And I wanted to thank him for all he's done for me and who watched over me. That's all. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Bob. I appreciate that. We love you and appreciate you. Thank you. All right, Randy, we'll let you go. I'm Randy Crosby. I just served in the Air Force Intelligence Division. I'd rather talk to you. I was discharged honorably. So I'd rather talk more about my dad. He didn't tell you how he's 100 years old. He also had two brothers killed in Pearl Harbor, and he also had another brother that made it through World War II with him. That brother became a Baptist minister and served God religiously, if you'll forgive that religiously word. I don't like it. He led me to the Lord, my uncle, his brother, when I was 16 years old in my dad and mother's living room. And like some people, I went back and forth for years and thought I knew more than anybody else did, you know. You could tell me anything about God and I'd just say, well, that's your opinion. You know, I got into that situation where everything was just really cold. And I'll finish up quickly, because I know everybody's hungry. But I was crippled, basically, for many months. And the VA wanted to amputate my legs. And this all goes to the glory of God. There was no hope for my legs. They sent me to a civilian doctor, thank God, and he tried some things and did two major surgeries in my femoral arteries. And I'm walking better than I did before my legs got bad. And I just smiled at my doctor at the VA and said, well, here's your legs you were going to cut off. But they work so incredibly. God works his miracles in many different ways. You may not just snap into a healing because somebody prayed for you. I've actually been prayed for for my dad and his prayers come true every time he tells me he prays. He loves the Lord and he blesses me every time I talk to him. Just serve the Lord and continue to believe in His prayers. You never know what God will do for you and how He'll do it. So just walk steady and fight the waves and hang in there, man. Thank y'all for your time. I was in the Air Force in the Intelligence Division. I know nobody believes I was intelligent, but some of us do. Thank you, Randy. Appreciate your service. I enlisted in the Army Reserves on 2 November 1987. Served for eight years. I was a sergeant. Got out. Had a four-year break in service. Went back into National Guard November 1st, 19-something. 1991? It's been a while. No, 1999, sorry. Wow. 1999. And then went to officer candidate school. I've been a signal officer and adjutant general officer, which is just administrative duties for 23 years. So 33 total years of service, or 23 active. Thank you, Brother Jerry, appreciate you. Thank you. All right, let's give a collective hand to all of them and just stand up, let's stand up. Be good for you to stretch, amen. Amen. All right. I thank you for being a part of this today. We're going to say a blessing over the food, inviting again to come. Now, our veterans, we want them to get in line first and get their places first, so you find you a place and table. And we probably, with the crowd we got who will stay, we probably have plenty of area downstairs. If not, can always go into the gym, amen, and sit somewhere there. But I think we got plenty of space. But let's make sure our veterans get their areas first, sit with their family, and enjoy this day together. And thank you for being a part of it and making it what it was. And again, what an honor to have Brother Crosby with us, 100 years old and World War II vet. We thank the Lord for putting him in our life. We thank him for being a part of this church and having his family here. Amen. All right, let's pray. Lord, we thank you for the day. Thank you, Lord, for allowing us, Lord, to be able to hear these things, the messages, Lord, and also the testimonies and those sharing their time and service. And Lord, we just hope we could be a blessing and encouragement to them. and they would feel loved and honored today. And I thank you, Lord, for the testimonies that give you glory and honor as well, for the salvation and for the work in their lives. We ask you, God, to help us all to take this challenge, to learn our lives as we go out to be soldiers of the cross, as we try to live for you, Lord, and walk for you as believers. And I pray, Lord, that you'll help us, God, to serve you with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind. We pray you bless this meal for the nourishment of our bodies, Lord, keep us safe. Help us have a good week as we walk, try to live for you. And thank you, Lord, for your blessings of the day in Jesus name. Amen.