Well, good morning, folks. How are we doing? Are we defrosted? Praise the Lord for central heat and cars with no snow. It must have been winter time, you know, and people joke about that. Sometimes it's your first car, and you say, oh, I want a beater with what? A heater, right? You could live without the air conditioning if you have to, but it's kind of nice to have a heater. I always tell Maureen, or remind, When I was in college, I had this little job I'd do on Saturday, running around the hospitals around Iowa and picking up lab samples and stuff. And I'm sure they've improved that. Your heater works good in your Subaru, doesn't it? This one didn't. My right foot on the gas would be fine, but my left foot that far away from it would free, I have to stop and rub my feet to get the circulation going in the wintertime. Yeah, so. Okay, enough about cold and snow, right? Prayer requests. Yes, Michelle? Thank you for praying. My parents made it down to Florida safely, and it did not drive America on one. They actually took a hotel. So I'm thankful for that. Yeah. And my dad has a follow-up appointment tomorrow morning. He had that stent put in his carotid artery back in June. So they're going to be doing a follow-up on that. So I appreciate that he looks good. Yeah. OK. Open stent, right? OK. All right. Yes, Mark? and saw a specialist and then he said, I remember it quite clearly. And also, thank you for prayers of my sister. She's been seemingly making progress. I don't have a lot of information because she doesn't share a lot. But I understand you're going to put something in, turn her liver, try and address that soon. Power prayer. Yeah. OK, well that's good to hear. I can talk to you about that later, but if that sometimes that floater will. Go to the bottom and stay there. If it doesn't, it bugs you. Marines got a doctor that's dead eye with a laser. He took hers out. Yeah. Yeah, it takes about five minutes. Or you can be like us, wander around for a couple years trying to find somebody that will take it on and nobody's interested. Okay, yeah. Lindsey's parents made it back to Wyoming safely. Good thing. Looks like Nebraska's where they would have had to drive through is supposed to get snow. So, okay, I think we got all the travelers home now. We have to stay there for the rest of the winter. Anything else going on? Yes. This is sad news. We found out Thursday morning we have a co-worker who's been MIA, missing in action, for about three weeks. Found out he passed away Wednesday morning. He had been in a coma and has a history of brain bleeds. He was the property manager for all 12, 13 states that our company handles. So we're going to have a big meeting tomorrow, but if you could pray for Matt's family. It sounds like he was a believer. He was engaged, no kids. He was 45. Okay, wow. I know you're wondering about him. tests was able to get back home. I haven't heard anything more. Yeah. It's gonna be a long deal. They're saying 18 months or something for that. So Yeah, wow. And we're still waiting to hear back from Maureen Scan. Of course, it's New Year's week. I don't know if all the guys that read it are off or what, but maybe we'll hear something Monday or Tuesday, something like that. It was on Wednesday, so it took six days last time. Maybe it'll take another six this time. Don't know. So, okay, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the day you've given us. Thank you for your watch care over us. Thank you for watching over the many travelers over these past weeks, getting them to their destination safely. Thank you that Michelle's parents made it down to Florida okay, and Allie made it back to Michigan, and Lindsey's parents made it back to Wyoming okay. We pray for Michelle's dad as he goes in for this follow-up for this stint that he's gotten a while back. Make sure that it's working well. Pray there could be good news there. Thank you that they were Though there was a problem for Mark in his eye that it's something that they don't have to go to work on, it kind of resolved itself. Helping to be able to deal with that floater somewhere or another. Thank you for the way you're continuing to work in Sister Sue's life. Thank you that she's kind of up and around and functioning better now. Pray that this liver might repair itself. You as a great physician can Speed up the healing. It's not just the physical needs there though. We pray for her spiritual needs that she might truly be saved and to be looking to you for Help along the way Pray for this Matt's family as they grieve over the loss of of him only 45 and we a lot of lot of responsibility there that somebody's going to have to pick up and learn quick and pray that you'd help them in the decisions that they make and how they deal with what he's the work he's left for somebody else to do now and thank you that he was a believer and that he's home with you at this point you pray for the might Here's some news back from Maureen Scan here before long. And I guess we're hoping that it's going to be good news, but we trust you to give us the right news and pray that they examine it closely and don't come back with some false reports as has happened in the past. And we thank you. Pray you'll guide us in our study here today, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, so we are looking at 2 Timothy, chapter 2, and verses... 3 through 13, main verse for the day is out of verse three, thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. And so, I don't know about you, sometimes you can read directions And you're thinking, well, it depends, you know, like which country they're writing the directions from. And you're, you know, this isn't coming together real good. But there's some illustrations. Maybe it's one of those things that fold out, you know, and you get it in three different languages or something. And you can start seeing some pictures of how this thing's supposed to be put together. Sometimes those illustrations help. Sometimes they, illustrations also, in a sermon or whatever can stick with you, gonna help put it all together. Well, Paul uses some illustrations here. Again, the whole book's kind of about faithfulness, and he's continuing that on here, but he uses some three different illustrations. of faithfulness out in the world. I mean, Jesus used to do that. He would be talking about something and he'd point to something that they were familiar with and it would kind of click in their mind. Well, Paul's doing the same kind of thing. First one here is that of a soldier. And as we saw there in verse three, he challenges him to endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, okay? So, and apparently here, though we don't necessarily see it, there's a, it's kinda, in the original language, the idea of with, it's kinda like endure hardness with me, along with Paul. What about those soldiers that kind of bail out when things get tough? What happens to them? What do they call it? AWOL? Absent Without Leave? I was trying to think of the guy, and I had to look it up, but... Okay, I wrote it, and I can't... I'm trying to figure out how I wrote that. Anyway, the last guy's name... Army guy was Bergdahl. Does that ring a bell? This is going back a ways, this is back in 2009, but he left his post and ended up getting caught by the Taliban. They had all kinds of people searching for him for days. It seems like there was even a couple people that died in the process. And the Taliban hung on to him for five years. So they did some kind of a prisoner swap or whatever. But, I mean, that's extreme. You know, he, I don't remember all the reasons why he gave that he left his post, but I'm guessing it probably wasn't a picnic with the Taliban either. So, but yeah, he says they have to endure hardness. And I should probably, refer to Mike here, you know, a little bit about tough life in the service. Because we, I'm sorry, we had a pretty good, the Air Force, I don't apologize for it, but we had six weeks of boot camp. That was, that was aggressive stuff. and tech school, but after you got out to your regular job, it was just like having a job. You could live on base, live in the dorms, or you could get an apartment and rent, and you just show up. As long as you showed up for work, that's all that was necessary. They didn't have all kinds of drills and stuff like that. But here he says, endure hardness. You think back, and it was a whole lot different back in Christ's day, in Paul's day, here we got the Roman soldiers. These are big, tough, rough guys, and they were known for being rough and tough, okay? And, yeah, they, They had to put up with difficulties. They were stationed all over, at that point, the then-known world. They would be away from home, and they probably didn't get a 30-day leave to run back home, check things out, all that sort of thing. You were gone for however long they told you. But he kind of compares that to a good soldier of Jesus Christ. He wants us to endure hardness. It doesn't say it's always going to be fun and exciting being a soldier of Jesus Christ, you know. He's not giving the recruiter spin on it, you know, telling you how much fun you're going to have and all this stuff. You know, it's going to be tough. And, you know, Paul's speaking from experience. We've seen that over and over again. When he showed up to a town, the mayor didn't greet him with the key to the city and the red carpet treatment. They say, yeah, we're saving a cell for you. They had opposition. So if you live for the Lord, we shouldn't be. It seems like sometimes we are surprised. Here he is, Paul, doing what he's supposed to do, doing what God wants him to do, and he catches, I mean, not just flack, it's not just people making fun of him, making jokes about him or something like that. Beating him and putting him in prison and stoning him and all kinds of stuff And right now he's he's setting in prison kind of awaiting the death sentence And So again, this is Is there any payday for it? You do all this for the Lord, and it's just like, yeah, well, no big deal. What do you expect? No, there is a payday, but they had a goal in mind. Here he says, he tells us there in verse four, he says, no man woreth, entangleth himself with affairs of this life. Okay. Normally, A soldier doesn't have the opportunity or the time to take on a second job of some kind. He gets entangled. He's probably concerned about his wife and kids and providing for them and everything else, but he's not looking for anything more on his plate. but it's possible to get entangled with affairs of this life so that we can't do our job as a soldier effectively. And as Christians, we can kind of get entangled, and it doesn't have to be sinful stuff. We can just be super busy, to with just stuff going on in the world and our life, that we don't have any time for the Lord or to do anything for the Lord. The goal for the soldier was that he would please Him who has chosen him to be a soldier. The goal for the soldier was to please his superior officer, if you will. Do we have a superior officer? Yeah. Right, we do. Okay, so if we're going to seek to please the Lord, we're going to have to make some choices along the way. You know, maybe some good stuff that we are involved in has got to go if we're going to have any time or energy or finances or anything else left over for the Lord. Okay, so his goal was to please his master. And, okay, so that's kind of the soldier, you know. Is there anything else? I kind of went beyond just these verses, but things that we could learn from a soldier, as far as a Christian life's concerned? Anything that soldiers do or... You're loyal and you fight, you feel you take orders. Yeah, well, that was kind of where I was. You're accountable. You're accountable for your actions. And it's whether you're on duty or off duty, if you mess up off duty, you're going to hear about it then too. But you're accountable to others. But again, we as Christians are accountable. You know, we don't get a report card at the end of the week or the end of the year or something from the Lord saying, okay, here's a B plus, you know, or a B minus, you need to work on this. Let's see if we can't raise that grade a little bit. We see here too that others depend on you. In most cases, other people are dependent upon you doing your best job, you know. If you don't, it can really cause casualties, you know. And I don't mean to be stepping on anybody's toes here, but one of the things, you had to be on time. And we used to laugh as a kid. We had a couple that lived down the street from us, and you could almost set your watch by it, but let's say whatever time it was, they would come in about five, 10 minutes, usually after the first song or two, they'd come in. And he was a carpenter, but she was a schoolteacher, and I thought, Can school teachers be late every day? And it was a joke. It's like, they will be late to their own funeral if they have anything to do with it. But disciplined, you have to, there's not somebody that's going to hold your hand to do your job. You know what you're supposed to do, then you got to do it. And again, you're going to be held accountable for it. So, okay, then he moves on to the next one here. An athlete, okay? And, you know, not all athletes are the same. Most of them have to work hard at whatever they do. If you're a good athlete, you've probably worked harder. You know, there may be some natural talent in there somewhere, but you've put some hours and sweat into it to become good. You have to discipline your workouts. Now there might be some, okay, let's say it's a football team or something. You know, they have practice after school and maybe weekends or other things too that you do. Some of the extra stuff that you might be doing is, you know, going to the weight room or something, or basketball, you know, just because practice is over, Doesn't mean you aren't practicing at home, taking shots. You keep working at it till you can make those free throws. Not just every one once in a while, or the three pointer. But what was the point he brings out here? What about athletes here? He says, and if a man strive, he's gonna work hard at it for masteries, for awards, if you will, Yet he's not crowned, except he strive what? Lawfully. You got to play according to the rules. Anybody come to mind an athlete that didn't play according to the rules? I don't know all these guys, so I had to look back a little bit, but pardon? The baseball players? Yeah, I couldn't remember. After I saw it, then I went, oh yeah, but Mark McGuire, you know, these guys taking, I don't know, steroids, all kinds of stuff, you know, and his arms are like your size of your leg. Of course he's gonna hit home runs, you know. Well, you know, but they finally got found out. And, you know, so they didn't make the Hall of Fame or something else, you know, more like the Hall of Shame. Lance Armstrong, the guy used to ride his bike across Europe and everything else. And then they found out that he was doing different things. I don't know, something with oxygen and stuff. But anyway, He got stripped of some of his medals and stuff. You have to do it lawfully. Do we have any cross-country runners here? You got to stay on the course. You can't take a shortcut and catch up with the guys up front, you know? Yeah, you have to do it lawfully. You have to work at it, though. And we have to do it according to the rules. You know, same thing spiritually. If we, you know, we're gonna serve the Lord, we have to do it lawfully. We have to do it according to God's word. I know some people kind of come down on Christianity, oh, there's too many rules. Well, okay, what are they? You know, okay, you got 10 commandments. What are some of the other rules? Well, what is it that maybe you shouldn't, can't do if you're gonna serve the Lord? How would we break rules? I'm just trying to think practically how we go about doing it. Okay. Yeah. We don't cut the other guy off at the knees to make ourselves look better. Okay. Um, yeah, but just, I mean, things that you're not supposed to do anyway to anybody, but to lie, cheat, steal, you know, they talk about evangelistically speaking. Well, what's that? That's kind of like, you know, uh, I got a fish this long. Which one are we going by, this one over here or this one over here? How big was that fish? Well, how many got saved? And we're faking the numbers or something. Um, and, uh, I was looking up for, for some examples and, you know, different preachers through the years have done different things, you know, and I guess if you look, depends on how you look at it, but it was like, okay, do you, uh, and somebody might have a special singer come in just to draw a bigger crowd. And, you know, hopefully while that crowd's there, you're able to present the gospel. So in that sense, probably not all bad, but, you know, do you have a rodeo just to get people in, you know? I mean, I've heard, this is stuff I heard way long time ago, but, you know, when they had, everybody had a bus ministry, you know, that somewhere on one of the buses, there'd be, you know, a $20 bill taped underneath your seat. Well, jump into your seat, go on the bus and reach around under there and see if you've got the $20 bill or whatever, you know. But the Lord wants us to be playing by the rules. He wants us to be faithful. Well, as kind of the saying is, doing God's work God's way, you know. How would God do? Well, remember the little bands? What would Jesus do? Mark? I was going to add to that, in the essence, where the Bible says, he who winneth souls is wise, and then if you go out and take the Lord's Word and you're ministering to people, and people are coming to the Lord, and then you start standing up like It's not you. You're not trying to stand up proud, claiming these people. These are your own. But God does all the work in there through his word to the Holy Spirit. He brings them forward. He changes their hearts. Yeah, and that's one of the things that we read about. I mean, it's exactly not in this lesson necessarily, but you know, the Lord's going to reward us. And where does that happen? judgment seat of Christ, okay? But, you know, he's gonna judge our works, gold, silver, precious stones, or what, wood, hay, or stubble, you know? If we've done it for our own glory, like you say, we kind of throw our shoulder out of, patting ourselves on the back for what a great job we did, or claiming, you know, what we did, no reward for that. Christ talked about that, you know, with the scribes, Pharisees, and they'd stand on the corner, praise the Lord, you know, or whatever, you know, with their long flowing robes, and everybody would go, ooh, wow. He said, that's their reward, you know. All the reward they're going to get is whatever man says. You know, and that's why he tells us sometimes to do what we do in secret, you know, so that we don't get caught up in the applause of men, but just trust in the Lord to, you know, reward us, and he will. God's keeping, that's something we need to keep, God's keeping track. You know, it's not just what we do here at church. I mean, it's great. I'm thankful for those that, you know, sign up for the different things around here. But there's a lot of other work you can do for the Lord too. And a lot of it can happen outside these doors with people, neighbors, friends, relatives, stuff, that not all the rest of us ever know about, okay? But God knows, and He's keeping track, and He's going to be the one rewarding, you know? And we need to kind of keep that in mind, you know? It's just like, we do it the right way, you know, for the right reasons, and we do it lawfully. God's keeping track. God's going to reward us, you know? And He tells us that that's indeed what's going to happen. Okay, Mark, do you have something? Yeah, okay, good point. What do we okay, so we get rewards, we get crowns for this different things. Is that so that we can kind of strut around, you know, look at me, you know? No. I don't know exactly when it's going to happen, but it, scripture tells us that when we worship the Lord, the only thing we, we don't take anything with us. The only thing that we're going to have once we get to heaven is what the Lord's given us. And the only thing that is these crowns that we give them to the Lord because He alone is worthy. And, you know, go ahead. Are we going to use some of those cartels and things? That's what I think. Like in the Millennial Kingdom in heaven, we're just not going to do nothing. I think what we do here is going to depend That might, I don't know. To be honest, I don't know. Maureen's hoping that there's gonna be a piano up there that she can plink away on, you know, because she realizes, okay, you guys know who Anthony Berger is? Played with the Gaithers or whatever. I mean, this guy. Well, he's died, you know, so he might be the pianist in heaven, but there's a lot of other people that play. I'm sorry, Bob's liable to be out of work, you know, not a lot of need for wound care, you know, or other things that maybe we're doing. And the thing is, though, the Lord may give us talents. We're not just going to be sitting around like some people think. We're sitting around on a cloud, strumming a harp. No, that's... Yeah, oh yeah. Right, yeah. Well, yeah, a satisfied customer. Here, look at how it helped me out, you know. Judgment day's coming. Here's the countdown clock. Is it New York where they got the national debt going like this? It might be working the other way. It starts out a thousand years and it's rolling down. People ought to be Oh, wow, five days and it's over with here. But yeah, so Laurel, he's going to give us something to do, for sure. And whether it's exactly Well, they need people driving a truck. Or they just say, over there. Yeah, right, self-drive. Heard somebody the other day tried to steal a self-drive car. Well, they know where they're at. They just shut off the power. You're not going anywhere. OK, we've got another one here. The farmer. OK, again, we think farmers, OK, the guys driving this big, humongous, four-wheel drive John Deere tractor with air conditioning and stereo and everything else. No, these guys are way better than I am. behind a horse, a mule, an ox with a one plow all day long. You go one row down the other. He's not doing 14 rows at once, you know? And then when he goes out to plant, he doesn't have a planter. He drives along this poking little holes in the ground and dropping the seed. He's gonna go out and plant the stuff. And so he's not going to have nice, neat rows where you look down the road and see how it's all planted. No, it's throwing the seed out and hoping that the birds don't get it all, OK? Picking up the rocks and the dirt clods and everything else is hard work. And I guess that's my dad, OK? He's long gone now. But as a kid, they still had horses. And he only went to eighth grade because you had to move to town and live with somebody to go to high school. And they couldn't afford that. So after eighth grade, I don't know what you are. Early teens, he's out there in the fields, tromping around behind a horse all day long, plowing or whatever you're doing. And I mean, mine was anything. I used to go visit my uncle who was a farmer. But again, it's modern day stuff. But there was some hard work involved. My cousin and I, we go out and hoe corn out of the beans. Well, the year before, they probably were raising corn. So there's some leftover kernels. Well, they pop up when you're trying to raise beans. That didn't work too good. So you got to go out there with a hoe. You're going out in the morning when everything's all wet and the bugs all over, you know, and you're out there with a hoe. digging out those corn so it doesn't mess up the crops of the soybeans. Well, if we do that till noon, then we get to go swimming in the afternoon. But yeah, there was a lot of hard work involved. It was physical labor. They didn't have machines to do much of anything. back then, you know? And, you know, the animals helped, but you're tromping along right along behind the plow. And when the weeds grew up, again, it wasn't nice and neat rows. You could walk down and pull out the weeds or whatever, or come along with your tractor and, you know, and spray for weeds. That's why it talks about between the weeds. The weeds are growing right up amongst the good stuff. and you go out and pull the weed out, well, you're getting some of the grain along with it. So it was a whole different ballgame. They put in a lot of long hours. And that even happens in modern-day farming. We only had really one. We had, OK, when we were in Minnesota, a number of people had grown up on farms, had worked on farms, but only one was active. And the thing was, he was a city slicker. He grew up in town. It'd be like Matthew all of a sudden decides he wants to be a farmer. and he rents some ground and finds some old machinery and goes out and he starts farming. And his dad knows what to do, so when he gets done with his eight-hour job, he'd go out and help his son, especially at harvest. They're out there half the night, and they'd quit at two or three in the morning. His dad'd come home, get a couple hours sleep, and then go work his eight-hour job. And if you slack off, Well, the animals still got to be fed and watered. And if you're not keeping up on the crops, you know, the weeds are taking over. I knew some people that were in the dairy farms and I mean, you know, those cows got to be milked morning and night. Do they do it at noon too? I think it's just morning and night, isn't it? But it's $3.65. If you want a vacation, you've got to find somebody else to come in and do it for you. You can't just say, we'll catch you in the morning. No. And so it was a lot of hard work there. But they were kind of the first ones that got to reap. the results of the harvest. They got the first fruits. But each one of these, there was a purpose involved. And they're seeking to please the master. They had to be obedient to it. There was hard work involved. And, but through all this, they had to be faithful at it. It wasn't on again, off again kind of thing. You know, even like the athletes, okay, they have their off season. Well, if they just sit around and don't do anything and their muscles turn to mush, you know, they're in big trouble when it comes time to start up again. They got to keep up, keep themselves in good shape. But, you know, the soldier wants to hear that well done, good and faithful servant. The athlete he wants to be crowned, but he's got to do it according to the rules and the farmer he's gonna Be partaker of the fruits, you know, not too many farmers starving to death okay, there's a food they're available for them and But you know Bible talks about that It's not all gravy, it's not all good stuff. There's some tough times that goes along with it for the Christian soldier and others that there's persecution that may happen. And again, we don't necessarily experience it all here in our country. You know, we've got freedoms that other people just dream about. I mean, that's kind of how our country got started. They came here, I don't know what the textbooks are saying nowadays, but a good number of them came over here for freedom to worship, that they didn't want to have to worship with a state church and do everything that the king or somebody else told them they had to do or couldn't do. And we kind of think, well, I guess it's that way for everybody, but it isn't. Sometimes I think we get to, We don't get the whole story. You know, we think, okay, where might it be tough to be a Christian? Well, Iran, Saudi Arabia, a few places like that. I looked up, there are 52 countries in the world where the Bible, it's illegal to have a Bible or to give out Bibles. You could end up in jail as a result of that. And many of them are where somebody we know goes. And so, but he makes a point here. Our times are flying here, but he says, Verse nine, he says, wherein I suffer trouble as an evildoer. Okay. Paul's in prison. This evildoer is kind of like, is the same word that they use to talk about the thieves on the cross. You know, it's only used a few times, but they considered him a big time lawbreaker. Okay. And so he's, he says, I suffer trouble as an evil doer and he in bonds. Okay. He's in bonds. He's shackled or, or whatever in prison, but he says the word of God is not bound. Okay. And for, like I said, our time's kind of gone here, but, and there have been times throughout history where they've tried to ban the Bible. They would go into homes and try to find all the Bibles and have a Bible burning and just try to destroy everybody's Bible so nobody had one. But it didn't snuff out Christianity like they hoped. In fact, it came back stronger. For those that knew the Lord, I guess that's, We probably think, well, they'll never take away our Bibles. Maybe they won't, I don't know. But how much scripture would we know? if we just relied on our memory, you know? What do we memorize that's in our minds, you know? And that's kind of what brought some of the guys in Vietnam and other places that ended up in prison. They didn't have Bibles. They weren't handed out from the Vietnamese, you know, here's a Bible to give you something to read while you're sitting here in jail or in prison. They had to rely on what they remembered, you know? And, but it brought him through and God's word is not bound. It has freedom, and it can work in the hearts and lives of people. And you never know who it might touch, you know? Sometimes we might look at somebody and say, oh, well, they're a pretty rough cookie, you know? They probably wouldn't listen to me anyway, or maybe they've shut you down a few times and say, well, I'm not even going to try anymore here. You know, that's what Paul was. He was a pretty tough nut to crack, but God got ahold of his heart, turned him around. Now he's not gonna do the Damascus Road on everybody, you know, knock them off their horse, the bright light and everything else, but God has a way of getting through to people. And I was just talking with a pastor friend of mine here the other night, was telling about some guy that, The Lord used him to lead to the Lord, or to share the gospel with him. He was a biker and tough guy and everything, but he shared the gospel with him. And then when he was in hospital, his wife had asked him to go up and talk to him, and he did. And later he talked to him when he was at home. And he was sharing the gospel with him, and he said, well, I've already done that. You have? Well, yeah. When? Well, after you told me in the hospital. He says, well, did you tell anybody? No. Was I supposed to? Yeah. Well, did you tell your wife? No. Well, go tell her. Of course, she's a Christian. She just dissolves in tears. Probably been praying for this guy for years. And a couple of weeks later, the guy passed away. just knowing that, hey, they're saved. You know, that's amazing. You know, and yeah, there are going to be some rough spots along the way. But God, He wants us to be faithful. And I think I mentioned that here the other week. He wants us to be faithful all the way to the end. Okay. Finish well. Okay. And the Lord can strengthen us and help us. You know, we may not be as some of these guys were here, a soldier, an athlete, or a farmer, but there's, God wants us all to be faithful at whatever we're doing and to keep at it. All right, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word, it's truth, thank you. For these illustrations that we find in scripture, we pray that you'd help us to apply them to our own lives, to realize that it's not just a requirement for these three different occupations, but it is for our lives too. And one of these days, we'll have to give an account for what we've done in our flesh. and we'll stand before the Lord, and we won't be able to point the finger at anybody else or try to excuse ourselves. We're just gonna have to come face to face with it, and it'll be rewarded accordingly. We won't lose our salvation, but depending on what we've done and for what reason we've done it, whether there's rewards given or not. And we thank you for your help now in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, thank you for coming out on a chilly morning. Sun's out. Can't get sun and heat, right? Unless you're in Florida.