Now I wonder if we could turn in our Bibles to the Psalm 27. And we're going to read the portion of Scripture, the whole of the Psalm, the Psalm 27, beginning our reading at the first verse of the chapter. It's a delight to be here tonight and to share a word of testimony. Testimony is a very personal thing, and every individual, there are different circumstances that work in their lives, but we all must come the one way, and we must come through the Lord Jesus Christ if we're to be saved and washed in the precious blood of the Lamb. When we read from Psalm 27, beginning our reading at verse 1, The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? Mine enemies and my foes came upon me, to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me. He shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me. Therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord. Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Hide not thy face far from me. Put not thy servant away in anger. Thou hast been my help, leave me not. Neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. Teach me thy path, O Lord, and lead me in the plain path because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over into the well of mine enemies, for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. And we know the Lord will add his blessing to the reading of his precious word to our hearts. Can we unite together at the throne of grace in prayer? Our loving God, our gracious Father, we thank thee for the opportunity of coming to thee again. We thank thee for the meeting. We rejoice in the messages and song that our sisters sang. We thank thee, our God, for the fact that we can come with happiness, with joy in our hearts, with praises unto thee this evening. We can exalt our God because he has done great things for us, whereof we are glad. And we pray that the gladness and the joy that is in our hearts may be the experience of others in our meeting tonight. and they may come and find the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and as their Lord. Bless and be with us tonight for it's in Jesus' precious name that we'd ask these things. Amen. Amen. The Psalm 27 verse 1 is my favorite verse. It's the verse that I will write down if somebody asks me to sign a Bible or something like that, I will sign Psalm 27 verse 1 after my name because it seems to sum up my testimony. It says, the Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? I was born and brought up in Enniskelden, County Fermanagh. I am really of something of a mixed background in that all of my grandparents were Church of Ireland. But when my father and mother, or my father was being brought up, he lived out in Chanter Hill. Now, Chanter Hill in Enniskillen at the minute is where our church is, and it's fairly built up. The town has gone out to meet Chanter Hill. But in those days, Chanter Hill was out in the country, outside the town. And my grandfather had a car at that time, so they couldn't get into church, but there were godly neighbors, Methodists, and they offered to bring my father along to the Methodist Sunday school. And so they did, and they brought him there. Then later on, he got involved in the Presbyterian Boys Brigade, and he was sort of going everywhere. And when he reached the years of maturity, it had to be that he was going to have to choose where he would go. And having been brought up in the Methodist Sunday School, he became a Methodist. And so when I was born, and my mom and dad, when they were married, they got along to the Methodist church in Enniskillen. And at that time, there were little mission halls around the countryside, and a lot of folks gathered at mission halls. The young folk would have gone to the mission halls where they met one another, and where, as it were, the social concourse took place and young people met each other at mission halls and they went to the meetings. So my father and mother would have known the gospel, but when I was growing up they weren't saved. They didn't know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. Now, when I was old enough to go to school, we lived just out on the borders of Enniskillen, just on the town boundary, when I was small. But then, when I was going to school, we moved into Derrachara. Now, if you know Fermanagh, if you know Enniskillen, Derrachara is where the Asda and the Tesco is down. That used to be playing fields. where the Ernst Centre is built. I remember playing there, and it was so boggy that it went up and down under your feet. So I don't know what kind of foundation is there, but it's stood the test until now. But that's where I grew up, around that area. And therefore, I was brought up in a state with all the advantages and disadvantages of that. But I have to say, I had a happy childhood. When, though I say I lived in a state, you just went up the top of the hill and you were out into the fields. You could go across to Holly Island, which is just opposite where the Kelly Heflin Hotel is at the minute, and we spent some times down there and in different places. And I was thinking of my testimony tonight, and I was thinking of the psalm here. And the psalmist here speaks about the Lord being his light, my light, and my salvation. And I just noticed the number of times that he says in the verse of Scripture, my. He's my light, my salvation. He's the strength of my life. And he was given a testimony, but he was seeking to uplift the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's what I want to do tonight. You know sometimes I think that when people hear a testimony, They think, well, he's trying to portray himself as something better than me, or that he is in some way superior to me. Well, I don't want to create that impression at all because it wouldn't be true. We are all sinners saved by grace, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the only one who can save. And so what I want to do tonight is direct you to my Savior. He's my light. He's my salvation. He's the strength of my life. And I want you to see, first of all, that He deals with the darkness. He's my light. Now, as I say, I was brought up in Enniskillen. I brought up in the Methodist church. But thank God that the Lord is able to dispel the darkness of sin. Now, when my father became a member of the Methodist church, there was an old minister there and he would have preached the gospel. And he would have been one of the old-time, old-fashioned Methodist ministers, and he would have preached the gospel there. But then there came another minister who was very much of the modernist stamp, and began denying the gospel. And I remember the turmoil and the controversy that there was over that, because while my father was not saved, he did know what the gospel was. And he did know that this man was denied it, and that annoyed him. And you know, you may be here tonight, and you come along to a gospel meeting, and you love to hear the gospel preached. You've never accepted the gospel. But you would want to hear the gospel preached properly. You would want to hear the full or gospel of Christ. And my father was like that. He loved to hear the gospel preached, but he wasn't saved. And we were sent along to the Methodist Sunday school. And I have to say that there were godly Sunday school teachers there as well. When I went to Sunday school, the Sunday school superintendent was Gordon Wilson. Now some of you may recognize that name because he became famous after the Enniskillen bomb. His daughter Mary was killed in the Enniskillen bomb and he gave words of forgiveness and that was taken up and he became a senator in the Irish Republic and so on and so forth. But his wife was my first Sunday school teacher and I think one of his daughters was a Sunday school teacher. Now, I don't know about them, whether they were saved or not, but I know that there were godly Sunday school teachers there in that Sunday school. Now, we grew up in that Sunday school, and I remember the gospel being told to me, but I don't really know that I understood it. I do remember going on a Sunday school strike one time. Now, I wasn't the instigator of that Sunday school strike, but there was a Sunday school exam and the whole of the class refused to go to the Sunday school exam. And really, you know, when I think of my childhood and We lived in an estate, there were a whole lot of boys the same age as me, and there was a little gang of us, and I would have thought that we were innocent, and mostly what we did was innocent, but boys being boys, there were times when we got into trouble. And we did things that we shouldn't have done. And we probably were like other boys of the same. But you know, I thought, well, I'm an upright kind of an individual. I wouldn't do that, which is too much wrong. But you know, when I give my testimony, and sometimes I say some of the things that I got involved in, and my son, he's absolutely shocked. He says that if they had have done anything the same, they would have been hauled over the coals for it, and they wouldn't have been able to sit for a week after it, and probably they wouldn't. And sometimes, you know, when we look at ourselves, we look at ourselves through rose-tinted glasses. We don't see the sin. But sin is there. I would have been probably one of the people who probably would have run away from trouble. But at the same time, sin gets you into the midst of trouble. I remember some of the things that we did, and I'm not too proud of the things that we did. You know, we can look at ourselves, and we can think, well, everything's okay. I'm not as bad as the other one, until you actually sit down and think about the things that you did, and about the things that you thought, and about the way that you went. But as I say, we had godly, a couple at least, a sea of Sunday school teachers. And I remember one Sunday school teacher telling us that you need to ask the Lord into your heart. And she actually gave us the prayer to pray. Pray, come into my heart, come into my heart, come into my heart, Lord Jesus. Come in today, come in to stay, come into my heart, Lord Jesus. And I prayed the prayer. And I remember going to what you would call a holiday Bible club now. It was a very rare thing in those days. I'd never been at one before. And I think it was the only one I ever was at. But it was in the Presbyterian Church. And it was run like a holiday Bible club. And we had craft time. And we were sitting at the craft time. And the teacher who was looking after us asked us if we were saved. Had we trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior? And I remember I said, yes, I trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as my savior. And she asked me, when? And I said, last night, because this was the Monday. And I had asked the Lord into my heart. I had prayed the prayer the night before. But you know, I didn't understand what I was praying. I didn't realize the depth of my sin. I didn't know what it was that the Lord Jesus was coming into my heart to do. I didn't know that he was coming into my heart to cleanse me of my sin. And the Sunday school teacher had given us the gospel and had given us the prayer to pray, and I prayed the prayer, but I wasn't saved. I wasn't saved. Because there was no reality, I hadn't really repented of my sins because I didn't know really that's what I had prayed, that's the words that I had said, but I didn't really realize what I had done. And maybe I'm speaking to someone here this evening, and you prayed the prayer in the past. Maybe younger in life, you prayed the prayer. But there was no real repentance of sin, and there was no real reality to your salvation. And maybe you're like that. There was no reality. I had not come under conviction of sin. I just said the prayer. But that will not save you. A prayer will not save you. You've got to come and trust in the Lord Jesus. You've got to call upon Him for salvation. You've got to realize that you're a sinner and cry unto God that He would save you and wash you in His own precious blood. And I prayed the prayer, but I wasn't saved. But then in 1967, there came a mission to what was then Lisbon Free Presbyterian Church. There was a little hall in Lisbon, which was known in the vicinity of the hen hut because it had a tin roof and all the rest. That's what people called it. The Reverend John Douglas was preaching there. And my father went along to the meetings. Now, when you went along to the meetings and list below, there was a real sense of the Lord's presence there. You knew that God was in the place. And he went along and he heard the gospel. And he came and put his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior. And he started going along to the church in Lisbon. And what he would do is that he would go and lift us at the Sunday school in the Methodist church. which was before the service, and while he wasn't saved, he always had gone to church. He had brought us to church. But now that he was in Lisboa, he would take us from the Methodist Sunday School, he would bring us to Lisboa, and the Sunday School in Lisboa was in the middle of the service, and we would go to the Sunday School in Lisboa. So we were going to two Sunday Schools. But after a while, my father, he got fed up with this going from one church to the other, and he said, you've got a choice. He said, you can go to the Methodist Sunday School. This time, my mother was still going to the Methodist Church, although she didn't go as much as my father did, but she was normally still belonged to the Methodist Church. So he said, you can go to the Methodist Church, or you can go to the Free Presbyterian. Now, we weren't saved at the time. We were only young. I was probably about 10 years of age at this time. And we knew that there was a difference. Even though there were some saved Sunday school teachers in the Methodist, we knew that there was a difference, that the Lord was certainly blessing and the Lord was in the midst of that. And so we said, yes, we'll go to the Free Presbyterian Sunday School. Now, as I say, my mother at this time was still opposed to the gospel. I remember, well, I don't remember, but I'm told that the Reverend Foster came to do a pastoral visit in our home, and my mother, and if you ever knew my mum, you would say that this is not her character whatsoever, but she opened the door to the minister and she went to my father and she said, he's your minister. If he wants tea, you give him tea because I'm not going to give him tea. And the two of them went into the room and my mother would have nothing to do with it. And she was opposed to the gospel for a number of years. After that, But we had the choice and we chose to go along to the Sunday school in the Lisbon Law. And God began to speak and God began to work. We said about the Lord being my light. And you know, the light does two things. The light reveals, first of all. And it begins to reveal the iniquity of your heart And it begins to reveal the dark things that are there, and the sins that are there. And then not only does the light bring revelation, but it brings relief. It brings a dispelling of the darkness. There's fear in darkness. But thank God the Gospel of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, dispels the darkness, and dispels the fear, and brings peace. where there is turmoil and where there is all sorts of fear in the heart. And God began to work in my heart. And I glad of the light of the gospel of my savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And he's my light. He deals with the darkness. But then he is my salvation. He deals with damnation. You know the word salvation there is a word that is related to the word safety or the word deliverance. Men and women, we need safety and we need deliverance. You need deliverance from your sin, and you need deliverance from the hell that lies ahead. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death. And I began to realize what that meant. We started going along, as I say, to Lisbon Free Presbyterian Church Sunday School. I was about 10, when I was about 11 or 12, I went into a class in the Sunday School, and I had a Sunday School teacher who took a special interest in me, and he began to speak to me about my soul. And he would stop me going out of the Sunday school class and he would give me little tracts and little booklets. And he wanted me to read them. And I had no intention of reading them. I took them from him, but I never read them. And I began to resent him trying to come and speak to me about my soul, because I knew the conviction of sin, and I knew that he was right, I knew that I was a sinner. I was only 11 or 12 years of age, but I knew that I was a sinner, and I knew that I needed God's salvation, and I resented Him coming and speaking to me. And there was one particular day, and the Sunday school in Lisbon Church was down in the basement. You went down a set of stairs, down to the Sunday school. And there was only one way in and one way out. You could have gone outside to a wall. I don't know if there would have been a fire down there, what would have happened. But anyway, there was one way down and one way up. And this Sunday, it was communion. And I knew that if that Sunday school teacher got me trapped down there, and he began to speak to me, that I would be down there for the whole of the communion. and that I would not be able to get away. So I made a boat for the door, but he got there in front of me, and he began to speak to me about the things of God and about my salvation, and I hated it. And maybe, dear friend, as you have been spoken to about the things of God, you're like many another one in this day and generation, and you hate it, and I hated it. And as a result of hating it, I thought that I would make sure that I would not have to listen to him. And so I began to get disruptive in the Sunday school class. I remember sitting one Sunday school class, carving my name on the plaster of the wall. Now, nobody could see it because it was behind the back bar of a pew. So you couldn't see it. Well, you could see the pile of plaster that was down on the floor, and nobody seemed to cotton that on. But a number of years ago, we were clearing out that little Sunday school place. It had become a hall that was used by the Children's Crusade in Bethel Church. And they had blocked up that basement. They had thrown old pews, old chairs down the stairwell so that nobody could come up it or get down it. And we went to clear it out. And this was the first time that that little room, that Sunday school room, had been open for many years. And we opened the door, and there, low in front of me, was, in white letters carved about that deep, G. Dane. There was no doubt about who that had carved that in the wall, and there was no excuse. But I didn't want to listen, and there was a time when I thought I would shout the Sunday school teacher down, and I did everything I could not to listen to the gospel. And maybe you're the same. You don't like the gospel. And maybe there is a Sunday school teacher here, and there are those in your Sunday school class, and they don't want to listen to what you're saying to them, or maybe even a friend or a loved one. And they greet you with antagonism, and they greet you with almost hatred when you bring up the things of God. You know why it may be? Because God is speaking. Because God is speaking. And that's why I did it, because God was speaking. And God was gracious. You know, if God had have taken my first answer, I would have been lost eternity. But God was gracious and God began to continue to speak on to me. And I remember one night in my own home, in my own bedroom, I remember waking up at night. This was August 1971. And there in my own bedroom, I called upon the Lord for salvation. I knew, behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. And thank God that the Lord saved me from that very hour. I trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior. For a long time I was like Saul of Tarsus kicking against the pricks. But thank God that the Lord reached down and saved me by His grace. and by his power. And I'm glad of that day. What a day! Happy day that fixed my choice on thee, my Savior, and my God. The Lord is my salvation. If the Lord hadn't done that, if the Lord hadn't been gracious to me, I never would be saved. If the Lord hadn't sent his Holy Spirit to convict me, I never would have been saved. But thank God that the Lord was speaking to my heart. And maybe tonight I'm speaking to someone in this meeting, and the Lord has spoken to your heart, and has been speaking to you in past death, and you've rebelled against it and turned your back upon it. But up to this moment, God is still speaking to you. Listen to His voice. Listen to what He has to say. And come and put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior. He deals with darkness. He deals with damnation. He's my salvation. And then he deals with defeat, as it were. He's the strength of my life. Thank God that he gave me strength. You know, there are those that think, well, I couldn't be saved because I couldn't keep it. I couldn't live like that. But you know what I found? That the Lord changed me. And instead of having been disruptive in the Sunday school class, I got an interest in the things of God. I didn't tell anybody that I'd asked the Lord into my heart. I didn't tell anybody that I'd got to see Him for a number of weeks. And it was one day that we were standing at the door of the church, the little hall at that time, I can still in my mind's eye see where it was. My father was there, the Reverend Foster was there, my Sunday school teacher was there, and my brother and I were there. And the Sunday school teacher said to me, he said, Gordon, have you got saved? And I thought, how does he know? However does he know? And I said, yes, I put my trust in the Lord as my savior. And the reason that he knew was because of the change in behavior in the class, and because of the change that had taken place in me. You see, the Bible says, if any man be in Christ, He is a new creature. All things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. And you know, everything became new. And that was a start of a new life. A new life with Christ. You know, sometimes people think that if they came to Christ, they would lose friends. And maybe you will. But I found that I gained friends. I met people that I didn't know before, and I came to know them as wonderful friends. There were a few boys who were at the school that I went to at that time, and they were Christians. And I remember just very soon after I had come and put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, it must have been very shortly afterwards, and we were making our way to the pool. The school that I went to had a pool. It was an outdoor pool now. but there was a pool, and this was the first time in the year that we were going to the pool, and we were making our way to the pool. I had been put into a new class. I didn't know all of the folks in the class, and this fella came up to me, and he said, I saw you at church on Sunday. I'd never seen him in my life before, but he had been at church on Sunday. And he said that he went along to the church and we became friends. And that friend was Nigel Dodds, who is now the MP for North Belfast. I went to Batur and Enniskillen. And when we moved to the bigger school at 14, there was a religious education teacher there. And he was a Church of Ireland minister, an Ordean Church of Ireland minister. And he was a modernist. And he denied all of the Bible stories. He said that Jonah was not swallowed by a great fish. He said that the little boy in the feeding of the 5,000, he was so ashamed of not sharing his lunch that he shared his lunch. It wasn't a miracle after all, it was just that he shared his lunch and then everybody else was ashamed and they shared their lunch. And that's how he explained the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. And you know, I was still young, and when I went there, I must admit that when I heard these things, I'd never heard people denying the Bible before. And when I heard the denial of the Bible for a little while, that affected me. I began to wonder and take in, and it caused doubts in my heart and in my mind. But you know, as we grew up through the school, that old modernist teacher When we got into the sixth form, there was still compulsory RE education, and we were divided into different groups. And the group that I was in had a number of Christians in it. And this old teacher, in all of the groups, he criticized the preaching of the gospel, and he had been criticizing Dr. Paisley, and he had been using the class as a means of undermining the gospel. So it came to our class, and we were ready for him. By that stage, we were able to answer his arguments. And you know what the old teacher did? He never mentioned it. He never mentioned the criticisms of the gospel that he had made in every other class. And he knew that we were ready for him. And you know these men come and they proclaim and they would want you to believe that they're scientists and they're men of intellect and all the rest of it, but it is the old Christ denial. And we came out of that, and by the time that I was coming out of school, there were probably a majority of Christians in that class. And we thank God for the way that he moved in that. Then I went to college in Birmingham, and when I was in college in Birmingham, God began to speak to me about full-time service. And I thought that this was homesickness. I thought that I was missing the fellowship of the young people and the young people's fellowship and missing the fellowship of the friends that I had. And I thought, well, this is homesickness. This is not God calling. So I put it off. And then I got a job in the housing executive, as a management trainee in the housing executive, and I worked there for a little while. And then God began to speak again and began to give me verses and began to make me realize that God was calling me. And I thought again, well, this is just, you know, I'm not just taking to this job as, just taking to it as I should, and I was actually bored out of my mind, really. I don't know if anybody works for an executive here, but I was bored out of my mind. But I thought that's what's wrong. So I kept putting it off. And then one day I was sitting in the prayer meeting in Enniskillen, and I could take you again to the spot where this, and I cannot explain to you what took place. I could explain that there was like a light that came. But I knew there that it was now or never that God was calling me. And I had to go and I spoke to the minister and went then to the Whitefield College of the Bible. This was 1982. 1984, I went to preach in the Clodagh Valley. And when I was going out of the church, Baskin-Boyd, the late Baskin-Boyd, who was the clerk of session there, said to me, I'll see you this afternoon. And I looked at him. How are you going to see me this afternoon? He said, you're going to Auchinacloy, you're going to preach in Auchinacloy. It was the first I'd heard of it. But they had thought that I should be placed in Auchinatloy, and this was the first that they said that I should go to Auchinatloy and preach there. So I had to go home, and in those days I was just a student. I hadn't very many messages, and I had to get one out of the storage, because I had only dinner time to look at it, and went to Auchinatloy with this message that I'd only got time to look at for a few minutes. And as a result of that, I was placed in Auchinatloy as the student minister there. I was placed in July, and we got married in August. And we had happy times in Auchincloy. I was the first minister there in Auchincloy. And we have happy memories there. It was all young families about the same age as ourselves in that time. And seeing precious souls saved and seeing their work built up and so on, we rejoiced in what God did. But then in 1991, I remember that the Reverend William McRae came to preach for me. Now he was to come to a harvest, but for some reason he was not able to come to the harvest. And he rang me. We were very disappointed that he couldn't come and preach. I don't know who else we got, but we got somebody else to preach. But he rang me afterwards and he said that he felt that the Lord was still wanting him to come to preach in Otnatloy, that God had a message for someone. And so he came and he preached, and he preached in Acts chapter 8. And he came down and he emphasized the verse, verse 26, arise and go to the south. unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza." And when I heard that, I knew that the Lord was calling me to go to Qoregari, go across the border. And I wondered at that, but I knew in my mind that that's what God wanted me to do. Now, You think about 1991. My father, in all the years, for many years, had never stepped across the border. And we, like Ulster Protestants as we were, and Loyalists, wanted nothing to do with the South in many ways. And here God was calling us. And I remember sitting in the meeting where I was installed and thinking to myself, what ever have I done? But you knew God had called me. And those years in Corrigare were some of the happiest years that we had. Our children grew up there, and we rejoiced in God's blessing. We had missions. The church was burnt down during that time. That wasn't one of the blessings. The church was, well, it actually was in the end, because the church needed renovation, and it needed an addition, and we put an addition on. And what men want for evil, God meant for good. and God blessed us there. And then in 2003, I remember reading the verse, you've dwelt long enough in this mount. Now we lived in a village of Drum, and Drum in Irish means a hill, a mount. And I knew that God then was moving me on, and we came to Crossgar, and we've been there for 16 years now. Where that 16 years has gone, I don't know. You know, what I want to say is this. I've been trying to cut this short for a little while here because we don't want to keep you all night. But what I want to say is this. There were people, when I left the housing executive, and it was a fairly good job that I had in the housing executive, and there were good prospects. And people said to me, you'll lose out. You're doing a stupid thing. But I want to tell you this, you never lose out with God. Now I could tell you of times when we hadn't much. We hadn't much of this world's goods. We moved into a house in Ochniploy and we hadn't carpet on the floor for three months. Indeed, I remember my Sunday school teacher that I told you about, the man that had a burden for me, and I remember him coming to visit us one Sunday afternoon when we had moved into the house. And I was trying to move furniture in the back of a Mini Metro. Now, if you know what a Mini Metro is, you'll know that you didn't get much into the back of a Mini Metro. So I brought one chair, and we had one chair in front of the fire. And we had coal because the woman who had lived in the house before us had drowned herself in the bath and had left coal. And that's the reason why we had coal to put in the fire. And we were sitting, my wife was sitting on the arm of the chair and I was sitting in the chair. And we had to get up and give it to the man who was come in. And then he was very, he was sort of taken aback that he was getting the chair and we had to stand and prop ourselves against the wall. There were times when we didn't have much, but I want to tell you this. When you have the Lord, you have everything. Little is much when God is in it. Never think that you'll lose out if you come and put your trust in the Savior, because He's a loving Savior, and He's a mighty Savior. And he not only will bring you to heaven, but he'll look after you throughout this life. And he'll give you peace and joy and blessing. And we're not going to be without hardships in this life, because he said, in this world you shall have tribulation. But he said, be of good cheer, for I've overcome the world. And I commend to you my savior. He's my light. He's my salvation. He's the strength of my life. Have you got his light? Have you got his salvation? Have you got his strength? Dear friend, if you don't, well, will you not come this evening and find the one who can be yours, my light, my salvation, my strength. And you can say that when you go from this meeting this evening, if you put your trust in Him. Will you come? Will you call upon Him? Will you trust Him as your Savior? May you come and find Him as your Lord tonight.