pray and we would get rolling here. Amen. All right. Anybody slide around any on the roads today? I was I was sliding around. Really? Man. Yeah. Yeah. Your car's rear wheel drive and it's light in the back. Yeah. Wow. It's front. It's front. Her car's like all-wheel ish supposedly yeah my trucks rear-wheel drive and it was fun now I pulled out on the Raymond from Shelby and I was like we what's that yeah stay off the gas that's all I don't think so. It's supposed to be 50 on Wednesday. Yeah. 50. Yes. No joke. No joke. It's gonna all this is gonna melt in two days. So yeah, just in time. A. J. Is gonna bring the heat back from from texas. So he will be here on the 20th. So y'all bother them. Okay. So they're gonna be um taking care of our house while we're gone. So But, uh, uh, we will be leaving on Thursday now. So we won't see him before we go. We'll get to see him when we get back for like two days. So yeah. Common thing. Yeah. We're, but we're going to go see Bob. So y'all see my Bayou Bob on online yesterday? No, that was, that was me. I wrote it, and then I had her, I started writing it, and then she and I were collaborating on it, and then wrote it up. And the riff is actually a riff that Pastor Adams created, what, seven or eight years ago, about Bob. He called it, By You Bob, so we wrote words to read with it, and he played it, and then I took some pictures from her, and made a video on CapCut. Yes. Well, we're not singing the song. I'm reading the song. So it's like, it's like you hear. Okay, we're he likes it. Yeah. So I'm not going to play the whole thing. Okay, because we're live right now. And everybody's hearing this. Well, they already heard it if they saw it. But, but, uh, There's a man that lives way down south in a place called Moss Bluff. There you go. That's all you get. You got to watch it online for the rest. But it's funny. It was meant to be kind of funny, kind of complimentary and endearing. Old Western narrative. Yeah. Like a movie or something. So, yep. Yep. So you got to go find me on Facebook and watch it now. Not right now after the Sunday school, so we're going to start Sunday school. We're starting a bit late. Is there any possible? OK, awesome. Alright, let's pray so we don't have to cram his time much more. Lord, we thank you so much for your goodness. Thank you Lord for getting us all here safely. We pray, Lord, for anybody coming in for the morning service, that you would watch over them, keep them safe on the roads, and get them here. We pray, Father, that you'd keep everybody safe on the property as well. We had a bunch of shoveling and salting and everything, but it's still snow, and it's still wet, and it's still freezing, absolutely freezing. two degrees outside. And so it's very possible that things could freeze over again. But we just pray that you protect your people and give us a good day, Lord, rejoicing in you. And Lord, we pray, Father, that you teach us and speak to our hearts and help us to apply the things that we learn to our lives in Jesus name. Amen. All right. Travis is going to come. Luke chapter six. Luke chapter six. Good morning, everybody. I still can't feel my fingers. I was clearing some stuff out of my car. It was like to the point I was putting stuff in a box and I couldn't tell if I was picking stuff up or not. All right, Luke chapter six. Here, last week, we've seen that, geez, he had kinda gave us some blessings for the poor and the hungry and the broken and the persecuted. And then here within the same, I guess, lecture, you could call it, he gives us four warnings. And these warnings are not so much just for the rebellious and lost people, but he's speaking to those who think that they're secure and they're okay and they have no need. They're all right. Amen. We've all talked to those people before. Here in Luke chapter six, verse number 24, or we'll go 23. Well, let's just go 21 or 20. Sorry. That way we just get our context for where we're at today. Verse 20, it says, then he lifted up his eyes and disciples and said, blessed are the poor for yours is the kingdom of God and blessed are ye that hunger now for you shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now for you shall laugh. Blessed are ye when men shall, hate you, and when he shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil for the son of man's sake, rejoice in that day and leave for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for in like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. Amen, so that was kind of the blessing on the people that are hungry, that are needing the Lord, amen? And then verse 24 is where we're gonna pick up now. It says, Bewoe unto you that are rich. for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets. Amen. And so our first woe here is going to be the woe of self, basically, being self-sufficient or so forth. It says, woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation. What does a consolation mean? What's that word mean? Consol. Oh yeah. Consol, what does consol mean? Comfort, right? And this is what they're putting their comfort in, right? Their rest, their security. It says, woe to the rich, for they have received their consolation. Notice it says they have received. Right? They've already been comforted, but the comfort that they're comforting in, it's a temporal comfort. Amen? It's not going to last for eternity. And it says, he's not necessarily condemning the wealth here, but he's condemning those who rely on wealth, those who trust in their riches, those who have no need for God because they got things under control. Amen? Go with me to Luke chapter 12, a couple pages over. Luke chapter 12, verse number 16, or, yeah. And he spake a parable unto them, saying, well, let's go back up to 13, that way we get our context of why he's saying this. So the one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide his inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And he said unto them, Take heed, And beware of covetousness, right? Talking to the man who wants his other man's inheritance. Beware of covetousness, for a man's life consists not in an abundance of things which he possesseth. And he spake a parable unto them, saying, the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, what shall I do? Because I have no room where to bestow my fruits, right? He had so much stuff, he couldn't even, he didn't have nowhere to store it. It says in verse 18, and he said, this will I do. I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, soul, that has much goods laid up for many years. Take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. Amen. What's he trusting in here? His self, his things, his riches, his possessions, right? No room for God. But verse 20, but God said unto him, thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided? So he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God. Amen. I mean, that's the way it is like, yeah, stuff is great. It's awesome. It's cool to look to have what you need. I mean, it's even cool to have an abundance of things. And it's not he's not necessarily talking about that. But he's talking about those who are trusting in these things, right? Because like he said, he says, fool, your soul will be required to the today. So we're all going to die. Amen. And then what's going to happen to all that stuff? Think about it, think about how many people have accumulated some things and then they have these estate sales or whatever, everything they worked their whole life for, you know what I mean? They have all this stuff, all these things, tons of it, you know what I mean? They have multiple houses, they have furniture, they have just, I don't know, I mean, name it, you know what I mean? Cars and jewelry and bank accounts and deposit boxes and I mean, all this stuff that they've acquired, what happens to it? It's worthless, you know? When you actually look at it, it's like, it's fun while you have it, but past that, it's... I mean, somebody's gonna steal, right? Like it says in Matthew somewhere. But anyway, let's keep moving forward here, because we got some ground to cover still. But he says, thou fool, this night shall thy soul be required of thee. In Proverbs 11, 28, he says, he that trusteth in his riches shall fall. Amen? Amen. shall fall. 1st Timothy 617 says, trust not in uncertain riches but in the living God. Amen. Go to Matthew chapter 6. Trust not in uncertain riches. Don't even trust in certain riches. Matthew 6. Say what? Oh yeah, amen. You can't even control the value. 6 verse 19 lay not up for yourselves treasure in heaven where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal but lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust nor doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Amen. That's the point of it. That's why it is harder for a rich man to enter into heaven than the camel through an eye of a needle. Because where their heart is is where their treasure is also. If your heart is full of God and you have barns full of things, amen. But if you have barn full of things and your heart is not full of God, then you're in trouble. Thou fool, this night shall be required of thee, thy soul shall be required of thee. But yeah, this is a warning about, it's not about having money, it's about the fact that he's actually trusting in the money, amen? When our resources replaces God, then we're in trouble because that self-sufficiency, it just turns into self-righteousness and there's no room for God and self-righteousness within the same being, amen? So that's a woe to the, well, I'm sorry, I don't know where I'm, let me get back to Luke. That's a woe to you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation, amen, meaning that you have what you desire, right? you are consoled by what you want. Point number two here is, woe unto you that are full, for you shall hunger, as it says in verse number 25 of Luke 6. It's a warning not about food, but the spiritual appetite that we had talked about previously in Luke 6, desiring the Lord, desiring his word, desiring to be near him and to hear from him and to grow in his grace. It says, go with me to, where we at? Genesis 29. But to be full here, it means to be content, right? Because it says, woe unto you that are full for you shall hunger, right? They're content and they don't depend on God. They have no need for God because they're satisfied, they're comfortable. Genesis 25, woe unto you if you're satisfied and comfortable. Verse 29. And Jacob saw a pottage, and Esau came from the field, and he was faint. And Esau said unto Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, for the same bread pottage, for I am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die, and what shall a prophet this birthright do to me? I mean, he had kind of the first point in mind, right? But he's a little bit off here. And Jacob says, swear to me this day. And he's swearing to him. And he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage and lentils. And he did eat and drink and rose up and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright, right? He was hungry and he was exhausted, right? He's been working, whatever he's been doing, and instead of holding value to what God had placed on his life or in his hands, in his control, he chose this temporary relief, right? This temporary, this worldly satisfaction over what God had for him eternally. I mean, think about who Jacob turned into. Jacob's Esau, or Israel, right? Amen? God protected him. I mean, that was Esau's blessing. That was his birthright, was that he was going to be... that nation, amen, but Esau wanted some pottage instead. Think about the blessings that we reject or we remove from our life because there are temporary choices that we hang on, that we want to cling to, that we want to make instead of listening to what, instead of just obeying God, amen, and being content with what we have and so forth. When Genesis 25, 32, he tells us, he says, behold, I am at the point to die, and what profit shall this birthright do to me? Genesis 2534 says, thus Esau despised his birthright. He was full for a moment, right? But he rejected that blessing for the whole rest of his life. In Hebrews 12, let's go there real fast. Hebrews 12. Let me get these papers out of my Bible. Hebrews 12, verse number 16. All right, let's go 14. Follow peace with all men and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Look diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up trouble you, and hereby many be defiled, lest there be any fornication or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected. For he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Amen. No place for repentance. God wouldn't grant him that because he rejected what God had gave him. And so John 6.27 says, labor not for meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life. Amen. And this temporary satisfaction, it can destroy what God has for us, right? He's all, he didn't just lose his blessing through persecution like many other people have. He lost it, he traded it. Right? What God gave him, what God blessed him with, he traded it for some fleshly desire. Amen? And I don't know. I mean, maybe he really was that hungry. But I don't believe it. And God don't believe it. Back to Luke 6 here. He says, woe unto you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep. shall mourn and weep." Go to Daniel 5. And this isn't like God condemning joy or anything. It's that He's condemning the the joy that is joy because it's ignoring the sin and because it's ignoring the things that he tells us to be separate from. I need to quit talking and actually get to where I'm going. I'm just flipping and not even looking. Daniel five. Woe unto you that laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep. Think about this real quick. I've been in this situation where Say people are cussing, right? People know that I'm a Christian and so they'll apologize to me. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. And sometimes I'm like, it's okay, you know, and just laugh it off. But other times God has really got a hold of me and I've changed that to where in circumstances like that, they're like, oh, sorry, I didn't mean to cuss in front of you. Now it's not me that you have to answer to. Amen. It's not me that you need to apologize to, right? And that definitely changes the whole conversation. Let me tell you. Instead of laughing it off and being okay with sin, it puts sin in their face and they realize that this is sin, right? And at that point, they make a decision to continue their in or woe is me, right? Because that's the reality of it is far too often, the reason why the world is where it is, is because too many Christians are laughing off sin. They're okay with it. It's not directed toward them, so it doesn't bother them, amen? But the fact is, is that sin is what has corrupted the world and will continue to destroy our friends, our family, our children, and it's because it's the acceptance of sin that allows this to happen. There's nobody taking a stand. There's nobody saying, thus sayeth the Lord. There's nobody trying to, enforce a need for repentance because we're all okay with sin. And here in Daniel chapter 5, they're living in sin. It says, Shazar the king made a feast to a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand, right? A thousand people at this party. Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and the silver vessels, which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple, which was in Jerusalem, and the king and the princes and his wives and concubines might drink therein, right? So a big party there. Thousands of people there. They're they're all drinking. There's I mean fornication going on and verse 3 It says when they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple out of the house of God Which was at Jerusalem and the king and the princes and his wives and his concubines drank in them, right? So you're also blaspheming God and his things it says they drank wine and praised the gods false worship praised the gods of gold and of silver and of brass and of iron and of wood and of stone and And in that same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall in the king's palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loose and his knees smote. one against another, and the king cried aloud to bring the astrologers and the Chaldeans and the soothsayers, and the king spake and said unto the wise and the Babylon, whosoever shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof shall be clothed with scarlet and a chain of gold about his neck and shall be a third ruler in the kingdom. Right, sin is all fun until judgment comes, amen? It's all fun and joy and happiness and you can laugh it off and you can have a good time, but then at some point, This judgment is going to come. There's going to be some writing on the wall that you're not going to understand, but you know it's against you, right? And when he saw this. It scared him. It said that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote against each other. His knees were knocking. He was so scared. Let's go down to verse, anyways, they bring all these people in, they try to interpret it, they can't read it, they don't understand what it says. So then they remembered this Daniel who was blessed of God and he served the most high God in verse number 13 here. It says, then was Daniel brought in before the king and the king spake and said unto Daniel, art thou Daniel which are the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king, my father, brought out of Jewry? Go down to verse number 16, he says, and I have heard of the, "'that thou canst make interpretations and dissolve doubts. "'Now if thou canst read the writing "'and make known the interpretation thereof, "'thou shalt be clothed with scarlet and a chain of gold "'about thy neck, and a ruler of the kingdom.'" Right, you can be just like us. You can enjoy all the sin that we enjoy. Verse 17, then Daniel answered and said, "'Before the king, let thy gifts be to thyself, amen, "'and give thy reward to another. Yet I will read the writing unto the king and make known the interpretation. Go to verse number 22. And thou, his son Belshazzar, hast not fumbled thine heart, though thou knewest all the earth. Yeah, he had talked about, after this, he had told him about the fall of his father and how Nebuchadnezzar and how he had, he was so lifted up and he, God turned him into a beast of a field, right? And he was, he was walking around as an animal because of his judgment that was upon him. And then he tells, He tells him here, he says, and thou, his son, O Belshazzar, Belshazzar, sorry, has not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest this, right? He knew about what happened to his father. He knew how God had humbled him and had turned him into an animal, and he lived in the forest, and he said, you had known this, he said, but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven. and they have brought the vessels of the house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine with them, and thou hast praised God of silver and of gold and of brass and of iron and of wood and of stone, which see not, nor hear not, nor know not, and God in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thou not glorified. Right? You praise all these other false gods, right? You worship all these other fake images, but the God who holds the breath of your life in his hands, you have not praised at all. Amen? Then was the part of the hand sent from him, and the writing was written. And this is the writing that was written. No clue how to say this. Mene, mene, tekel, aparsin. Amen, we'll go with that. It says, this is the interpretation of mene. God had numbered thy kingdom and finished it. Verse 22, thou are weighed in the balances and are found wanting. Or 27, sorry. Verse 28, thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians. Right? Sin is fun for a while, ain't it? But at some point, thy soul is going to be required of thee. Amen? At some point, you are going to stand before the living of God. At some point, that judgment is going to come. Verse 29 says, Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, and he should be the third ruler of the kingdom. This is all great. And in that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chondians slain. That night. And Darius, the Median, took the kingdom, being about three score and two years old. That night, in that night, Belshazzar king was slain. Just like Daniel said. And why was it? For trusting in his riches, for rejecting God, for Fill in the blank, right? It says, woe unto you that laugh now, for you shall weep. Amen? That sin is fun for a season, y'all, but after this, the judgment. Back to Luke here. Woe to the comfortable. Sorry, that's my first page. That's why I had titled it. Sorry, William, I forgot that. Daniel 527 says, thou are weighed in the balances and are found wanting. Thou are weighed in the balances and found wanting. That's what he told him in verse 27. Imagine that. Standing before God and found wanting. That's a hard place to stand, y'all, because there's no salvation there. There's no hope there. If you're not securing your salvation before you get to that point, you're going to be found wanting, too. Amen? But God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him, that's all you gotta do. Whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. And He gave us that. We don't have to earn that. He gave us that as a gift of God, right? Luke 6, 26, it says, woe unto you, this is the fourth one here, woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you. For so did their fathers to the false prophets, right? These false prophets, I mean, false prophets today even, they're loved, right? People love a false prophet, why? Because they're telling them something that they wanna hear. Amen, they're telling them something, oh, God loves you. God don't care about your sin. He all have sinned, right? He is without sin cast the first stone, right? We're all sinners. God loves sin. No, he don't. God hates sin. God hates sin. These false prophets, they were praised. I mean, there was false prophets there in Daniel 5. And I mean, there's groups of them. And he said, call them all. And they was like, we don't know what to do, right? Let's go to first Kings real quick. Let's look at some false prophets. This is where I was wanting to go anyways First Kings 22 False prophets their love because they told them what they wanted to hear This the truth though, it's it's often held back and Trying to get there. My pages are sticking together here. But think about that. Why do you hold back the truth? Because it might hurt somebody else's feelings, right? Amen? Because it might hurt somebody's feelings? We hold back the truth because it hurts somebody's feelings. They preach false doctrine to make them feel better. Which is worse? To feel better by hearing a lie or to have some hard feelings because you found out the truth? Amen? Amen, brother. 1 Kings 22. It says, and they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. Am I in the right? Yeah, okay. Says, and it came to pass in the third year that Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel. And the king of Israel said unto his servant, know ye not that Rameth and Gilead is ours, and we'd be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria, right? We can go take over this nation. It's ours. We can take it. We're strong enough. Verse four, so then he said unto Jehoshaphat, wilt thou go with me to battle at Ramath Gilead? And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses. And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, inquire, I pray thee at the word of the Lord today. And the king of Israel gathered all the prophets together. and four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Rameth-Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up, for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides that we might inquire of him? Amen. Isn't that the crazy thing, though? These people that are listening to these false prophets, they know that they are false prophets. Amen? They know that that church is not speaking the Word of God. They know that that man on TV is not preaching the Bible. Amen? But it makes them feel good, so they listen. So it agrees with what they are doing, so they entertain it for a while. Amen? Go to verse number 14. It says, There is one that speaks the truth unlike these other ones here in verse number 14. Micaiah said as the Lord liveth What the Lord saith unto me that will I speak see he had to tell him that because He said there there is one that speaks the truth one that holds to God But we don't like him because he'll never say nothing good, right? They didn't want to hear from him because he always said something bad about what was going to happen instead of saying good like all these other ones Well, you say there's like 400 of them He says, and Micaiah said, as the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak. Not what you want to hear, right? May be what you want to hear, may not be, but thus saith the Lord. Verse 15, so he came to the king and the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth Gilead to battle or shall we forbear? And he answered and said, go and prosper for the Lord shall deliver it into thy hand of the king right he said that in a sarcastic way because look here verse 16 and the king said unto him how many times shall i adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the lord amen he knew that he wasn't telling him the truth there he knew that he was just Phineh's itchy ears, verse 17 he says, and he said, I saw Israel was scattered upon the hills as sheep that have not a shepherd. And the Lord said, these have no master. Let them return every man to his house in peace. And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me but evil? And he said, hear thou, therefore the word of the Lord. I saw the Lord sitting on his throne and all the hosts of heaven standing by him. on his right hand and on his left and the lord said who shall persuade ahab that he may go up and fall at rameth gilead and one said in this manner and the other said in that manner amen so you have you have these uh I guess you can call them seducing spirits or whatever. They're going into these false prophets and they are telling them what they want to hear. But then you have one that stands there and tells them the truth and they didn't want to hear that, right? He says in verse 8, he says, I hate him for he doth not prophesy good concerning me but evil, right? They love those who lie. It was all about them, God. They had them come first, right? But the sinful, They're offended by truth because it reveals there is a judge. Amen? It reveals that every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Amen. It reveals that sin is fun for a season. After this, the judgment, it reveals that it is appointed and the man wants to die. But after this, the judgment is it is revealed that we're going to stand before God. And so we don't want nothing to do with true. We don't want nothing to do with God. We'd rather go over here and just listen to what we want to hear. Right. And just be blindly led and just be ignorant of God and his things. But God is very real, y'all. Galatians 1, 10, it says, if I yet pleased men, I should not be a servant of Christ. It's not our job to be people pleasers. It's our job to preach the truth, amen? It's not our job to go with the flow and to laugh at sin and to be okay with things. It's our job to rebuke, reproof, and correct, amen? That's our job as a Christian is to stand, stand in the way. What is that, stand in the gate? gap stand in the gap amen and preach the truth second timothy four three says they shall heap to themselves teachers having itchy ears but if pleasing people matters more to you than pleasing god then you're i don't even want to call it the gospel your gospel is no longer true amen your message is not true you're living a lie just as they are And so here we see comfort now or glory later, right? Applause from people or being approved of God, amen? And you weigh this in the balance as far as what is more profitable, right? You think this is more profitable because you're accepted, but where are you leading them? You're leading them straight to hell where they was going, right? Matter of fact, you're walking along with them. You might be saved, but they're not. And you think about just like Esau, the blessings that he could have had and what God could have done with him, but instead was rejected because of it. You think about trusting in the riches and the things of this world, and you start realizing how pointless they are because they're all just going to burn up one day. These woes are here. Let's go back to Luke 6 real quick. These woes are here for us so that we can Understand them because it's not woes against having money. It's not woes about being comfortable. It's it's woes of Not desiring the Lord not living in His will, not doing His will that He has sent us to do. He says, but woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation, right? It's as good as it's gonna get for you, amen? If you're focusing on your riches, if you're trusting your riches and you haven't trusted in God, enjoy that now, amen? Says, but woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full, for ye shall hunger. When you're so full that you don't think you need anymore, when you don't need anything, right? You're full, you're okay, you got it, you don't need God, amen? You're gonna be hungry one day. And I'm not talking about stomach hungry, I'm talking about spiritual hungry. Says, woe unto you that, where am I? Woe unto you that are rich, for you is a constellation. Woe unto you that are fools, for you shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now, right? Woe unto you that are okay with sin, that laugh it off, that think it's a game, that go with the flow. You shall mourn and weep, because you're gonna stand there someday, and your friend's gonna stand before God, And you laughed with their sin, you joked with their sin, you was okay with their sin just as they were. And they're gonna say, God, I wasn't that bad, I didn't kill nobody, I didn't do this, I didn't do that, I knew this person, I hung out with them all the time, right? They went to church, I knew them. He says, depart from me for I never knew you. And he throws him into a lake of fire. Woe unto you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets. Mark 8, 36 says, for what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? That's the summary of this text here. What shall it profit man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Deuteronomy 30, 19 says, I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. That's what this section here is, blessing and cursing. It's called beatitudes and woes in my Bible. I have set before you blessing and cursing, therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live. Amen. That seed is anything that comes from you. Yeah, it's your kids. If you don't have kids, same time, anything that comes from you, your relationships with anybody that you meet, your friend, your family, your neighbors, whoever it is. It's all reflected based off of what you put out or what you allow or what you correct and tolerate or what you testify as. Amen? And so it's important that when we take on these things that we don't, not only do we not fit into these descriptions to where we don't desire God, to where we think we have enough, to where we don't need him anymore, to where we're okay with life, to where we just focus on our own stuff. That's a horrible place to be in. If you realize there is any part of your life that you do not need God in, you really need to pray. And search me, oh God, and know my heart. Amen? Try me and know my thoughts. Understand that it's a constant battle to be conformed to the image of God, as we should be, because we have this flesh that battles within us. But at the same time, we have to be the difference. We have to be able to take a stand for the word of God, because these people that are comfortable, they're OK. I don't know how many people I've handed a tract to, and they're just like, no, I'm OK. I'm good. But you're not. You're going to be found wanting. Fool, thy soul is going to be required of thee. Amen? Amen. You reminded me of that when you went to Jacob and Esau because of what you said when I asked for information from you. You said, sell me your birthright. All right. It's good stuff. I had a bunch of thoughts and we don't have time. So, amen. We're going to pray, take a quick break, come back together for our morning preaching hour. Amen. Lord, we thank you so much for your goodness. Thank you, Lord, for your word. We thank you, Lord, for the blessings that you give and the warnings that you give. And as you say, woe unto them. Although there is a direct context and then there's the spiritual application that Brother Travis focused on today, we pray, Lord, that we would not be forgetful hearers, but doers of the work. We pray, Father, that we not be self-sufficient, that we not be looking for popularity, but rather just seeking to please you and have you be our all in all and have you be our everything. And Lord, we just pray, Father, that no matter the circumstance, Lord, that we look to you, that we count on you for everything. And Lord, we just pray your blessing on the service to come, in Jesus' name, amen.