Aren't you glad we've got a high priest this morning? I'm glad I just got done studying through the book of Leviticus. Look at all that we would have had to have done in order to get to this point. I ain't even got to lift a finger, but, Josh, all I have to do is bow my knee and pray. I don't know about you, but I think there's only one word we can think of, and it's unworthy. I'm glad the Lord would ever listen to somebody like me. You know, all you see is the suit, the tie, and the preachers in the room. I know exactly who I am. I think that I can come boldly to the throne of grace and call on God from the bottom of my heart. I think there's such a three times holy God that bowed down his ear and listened to me. somebody answers this morning. Doesn't just entertain what I'm saying to them, buddy. Listens and it comes through. God's far too good to you and I for us to sit here silent this morning. I'm sure as good does, don't you agree? If you've got your Bible, would you go with me to the book of Deuteronomy, chapter number three. Deuteronomy, chapter number three. I woke up this morning, Brother Mike, and this is all I could think about. It was a tall morning, sitting in the service. I was just in bed, taking on this passage. Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity. for the room and everything. I love Brother Mike. I love this meeting. Thank you, Tabernacle Baptist. I like to come to these meetings, and I could care less about the preachers. I like them church people. The church folks. They're the ones that serve in the Lord. They can't book us, and they can't give us a meeting, but they sure do take care of us. Thank the Lord for people that don't care to serve in the shadows. Aren't you thankful for that? Deuteronomy chapter number 3. Would you look with me in verse number 23, if you would. It says, And I was sought the Lord at that time, saying, this is Moses talking, Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand. For what God is there in heaven or on earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might? I pray that you let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain and Lebanon. But notice what the Lord says, verse number 26. But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes. You would not hear me this morning. The Lord said unto me, Let it suffice that ye speak no more unto me of this matter. Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause thee to inherit the land which thou shalt see. So we abode in the valley over against Beth Ford. I want the fellow that travels with me, Brother Johnny, would you stand for me and pray for me, if you wouldn't mind? Lord, we love you. God, we thank you for this opportunity, Lord, to be with us. God, we thank you because you've already done, God. What our ears have heard, dear friend. God, I just ask you this morning, dear old friend. Continue to meet with us, God. Continue to speak to us, Lord, dear old friend. God, continue to meet with us, God. And I ask you, dear Lord God, to put forth the power, God, to break the bread of life. And I pray you put an end to perception about him, dear Lord God, about his selfish mind, dear Lord God. God, I pray you bless every word that comes out of his mouth, dear Lord God, let it be more words. And I pray you give him motion, dear Lord God, to preach, God. Give him the strength to stand, dear Lord God. And I pray this, Lord God, have your way, Father, in Jesus' name, amen. Thank you. We find here in this passage, I dare to say none of us are strangers to the text. We know that we're in Moses' last year of his life. Brother Eric, Moses is fixing to leave this world and step into that throne room that they just sang about. Brother Tim, it will not be very much longer for Moses to finally get to the place and see the God that he served for all of these years. We find that in this last few years of Moses' life, in this last few chapters of Moses' story, we find that Moses has seen plenty of God do plenty of great things. I mean, think about it. Moses was there. In fact, he was the one that held the rod when God parted the Red Sea so they walked the cross on dry land. Moses was there for all the plagues that were in Egypt. Moses has literally been led by a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud. He has been on the mountain and seen God pass by. Moses has seen miracle after miracle after miracle take place in his life. But yet, in the last chapter of Moses' life, in the last year of Moses' story, do you notice what Moses is doing? Though Moses has seen God use him all of these different ways, notice what he's doing in verse number 23. I besought the Lord. Moses, though he's seen God do plenty of great things, Moses still understood that there was only one way that he ever got to see all of those things take place in his life. And it was through the power of prayer this morning. Moses knew exactly where his strength came from. Moses knew that it was the God that he was praying to, that it was nothing of himself, nothing that he could do, but it was all based off the God that he served. May I stop there for a minute and say, may we understand that what we do for God has nothing to do with me and nothing to do with you, but it's all about the one that we serve. Let's say it's not my ministry, it's not my church, but it's all about him this morning. Everything that we do is all because of him. Notice that Moses begins to pray. Notice a few attributes of the one that he's praying to by way of introduction. First, we see the superiority of the one he's praying to. We see the superiority of the one he's praying to. Look with me in verse number 23, if you would. It says, and I besought the capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D Lord at that time saying. I got to studying. Thank you, brother Kevin, ma'am, for them books. That's the only way I know how to preach anymore. It's for all the books he sells back there. And I heard if you give him my name, he'll cut you a great deal. But I got to looking at one of them books and reading up now. And anytime the capital L-O-R-V, Lord, is there, it is referencing all three parts of the Godhead. It is directly related to God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. You've got to think about this. Brother Jimmy Moses has seen men cry out to calves. And he's watched men pray to idols, but Moses knew the one that all strength came from. And Moses bows his knee and says, I'm crying out to all three parts. of the Godhead, the one that is above all, the one that is greater than all. Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible. Moses says, I'm talking to the one that stepped out in the midst of nothing. And just with a word of his mouth, everything began to take place. He says, I'm crying out to the one that said, let there be light. And there was. I'm talking to the One that was there long before man was ever made. And He'll be there long after man is gone. And Moses says, I'm talking to the most supreme being that has ever been. Talking to the One that is above all. Isn't it wonderful to know this morning that whenever we bow our knees and pray and talk to God that I'm not talking to some statue somewhere. I'm not talking to some man that's in a grave. But I'm crying out to the one that is above every other thing. I'm glad that our God that we talk to is far greater than the devil. He's far greater than any man. And he's above all this morning. He's above all. Aren't you glad that the Lord is superior over everybody? There is nobody like the God we talk to this morning. Notice we see the superiority of the one he's praying to. But then secondly, notice we see by way of introduction, The strength of the one he's praying to. The strength of the one he's praying to. Look at me in verse number 24. Stick with me, we'll get back to somewhere good, I promise, soon. It says, O Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand this morning. What God is there in heaven or on earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might, Father, not only does he know the one that he's praying to, the one that is above all, but notice he talks about the strength of the one he's praying to. He says, God, there's not a God like you. There's not one as high as you, but there also isn't one that's as omnipotent as you are, that's as strong as you are this morning. And notice the attribute that he says. He says, Thy mighty hand this morning. I got to thinking Moses is the one that wrote back there in Genesis 1. And I got to thinking, I wonder how big for the just the hand of God is. And I found that it's big enough to hold the world, but it's small enough to touch me this morning. I'm glad that God is great enough that just one word of his mouth to create everything that we see. But he's small enough that he reaches down with a still small voice and he speaks to my heart this morning. I'm glad that God has the strength to do anything that we need him to do this morning. Aren't you glad that we are not, some of y'all ain't getting a hold of it this morning. Aren't you glad that God is stronger than any other being that's ever been? I'm glad it does not matter what president is in the White House. It does not matter how much of a stronghold the devil's got, that the God we pray to is far better than any doctor, and far better than any politician, and is far above and stronger than anybody else's. You know what? The neediest you've got in your life, but I just came to remind you, God is strong enough to fix it this morning. Don't matter if the doctors say there is no way. If it's God's will, I promise he can make it work this morning. No matter what is happening in your life, fighting hell by the acre back at the church, suffering with anxiety and depression or whatever it may be this morning, Whatever you're struggling with, he's got the strength. In fact, anything that you do struggle with, he created all of it in the first place this morning. He's the one that holds the key. Psalm 24 says, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Everything here belongs to him this morning. You can take care of whatever you've got. Notice we see the superiority of the one he's praying to. We see the strength of the one he's praying to, but then lastly, by way the statement of the One He is praying to. You see the statement of the One He is praying to. Look with me in verse number 26 if you would. It says, But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes and would not hear me. The Lord said unto me, Let it suffice that ye speak no more unto me of this matter. We find that Moses here is asking that he can go into the promised land. Brother Schuch, he's saying, Lord, I've served You for all of these years, brother Mike, I've been faithful and I know I've messed up, but is there any way you would just let me in? Is there any way I could just go to the place that I've longed to see for all of these years? Could I just get there? We find that he comes to the Lord with a broken heart and says, God, would you please let me in? The Lord simply says, no. I mean, he just says no. You know what I find? I got to studying and up to this point in Moses' life, prayers. Most of his prayers have been recorded. The ones that have been recorded, he's prayed nearly 14 plus with Caleb. And you know what you find is God said yes to every single one of them, except this one. God has answered every prayer he's prayed so far recorded in scripture. But then he comes and says, God, would you let me go into the promised land? And God simply says no this morning. The truth is, though Moses knew who he was praying to, And though Moses knew the strength of the one he was praying to, it did not change the will of God. Brother Eric, and even though he knew exactly who he was talking to, even though he served God all of these years, God's answer was still known this morning. The truth is you better be prepared that not every time I pray God's going to say yes. He is obligated by His Word that if I pray out of a clean heart and clean spirit, He's obligated to answer me. But He did not say how He would answer me. God's ways are far greater than yours lies. And we better be prepared for God, because there are times when God says no. There are times when you say, God, will you heal my body? And God says no. God, will you fix the problems in my church? And God says no. God, will you not let them die? Will you heal them? And God says no. And the truth is, there are times when God says no this morning. You better be careful, because God, when God says no, the devil's right there next to you. I can tell you God all of a sudden ain't been faithful. I know I'm only 22 years old. There's probably more qualified men in the room to preach this mission for the con, but I got to looking back about two years ago, just about, a little under two years, I was studying to preach on a Saturday night. Brother Johnny and I was sitting there at my desk, and all of a sudden I started to feel a pain in my back. Back in August, about a year and a half ago, all of a sudden I felt not that pain in my back, but all of a sudden I couldn't breathe, too, Brother Josh. And started to feel like I, I mean, I literally was gasping for air like I was drowning. And I got up the next morning, I went up and told Dad, and Dad, you know how dads are, he said, you'll be fine, just shake it off, drink some NyQuil, take some Ibuprofen, you'll be fine. And so that's what I did. Well, I woke up the next morning, I was feeling twice as bad as I did the night before. I went to Sunday school. I was on staff at the church at the time before I stepped out in evangelism. And I was walking around the church. All of a sudden, I mean, I couldn't even walk. And they rushed me over to the ER and got me in there. And they were doing all these scans. And long story short, they found out that out of nowhere, Brother Jimmy had an 80% collapsed lung. Now, spontaneous pneumothorax, they said it happened because I was tall and skinny. That's the first time I've ever prayed that God would make me fat this morning. Now, I remember I thought, what in the world is going on? And they said it just happens sometimes, but they haven't seen one this bad. It's 80% collapse. They said if I would have preached that morning, I probably would have fell over dead. They rushed me to emergency surgery. A couple surgeons got in there, and they put in a chest tube. If anybody in here has ever had one, you know how miserable it is. They have to cut between your ribs, and they stick their finger in there. And I'm allergic to pain medication. I can't be put to sleep, stuff like that. And I felt every inch of that tube running into my chest wall and popping through. And they try and get that air to come out. Remember, I sat there, and I was sending out texts with all these preachers I've been praying. This would just resolve on its own. I ain't got to have this surgery. God said no this morning. I woke up the next morning, I had to stay in the hospital for two days, and they said, it'll be two days and you'll be back on your feet, everything will be fine. I remember texting all these preachers, praying myself, God, would you just let this be fixed in about two days, like they said. God said no. I was in there not for one day, not for five days, but for 13 days in the ICU, fixing to die. I said that had the air pressure built up anymore, my heart would have exploded, I would have died in the bed. Remember, I had all these preachers praying, and God still said, no, it was Jimmy. I remember about day five or six, they came in and said, we're going to have to pull this tube and put in a second one. The first one was about as big as a drinking straw. The second one was about as big as a water hose. They said, we're going to have to put in this second one, and they ran that thing in there. And I remember literally thinking I was about to die for the 10. I was calling Brother Zorn and my dad, asking them to literally preach my funeral. I was terrified. I remember I'm sitting there, and I feel like I'm dying. And I'm praying and praying and praying. Brother Jimmy, God still says no. The devil got up in my ear and said, I guess God ain't really been as faithful as you thought he'd be. I remember sitting there, not only did I have two chest screws, but they came in and had to put a third one in. I lost 25-some pounds laying in that hospital bed for all 13 of them days. I got out and over and over and over again with Shannon. I said, God, fix it. God, fix it. God, fix it. God said no this morning. Remember, after that, I won't go into detail, I'm not spiritual, or whatever it may be, but I suffer from anxiety from everything I went through. Forgive me if that's a sin this morning, Brother Josh, but I struggle with it, feeling fear. They say it could happen at any time, and I'm living with the constant thing in my mind, and I could be right back in the place I was just in. I was ready to go to bed at night with my hands shaking, Brother Jimmy. I'd wake up the next morning scared to death, Brother Mike. Now, is it all right if I just be real with you this morning? I mean, I'm feeling like the world is falling in. I just stepped out in evangelism and I ended up every time I eat. Brother Eric goes all about it. I was with him every time I'd eat. I'd get so sick. I couldn't keep food down or in. I'd get so sick and I would end up with Nathan have to eat. I'd eat on Sunday night after a goddamn preaching. I wouldn't eat till the next Sunday night. Lost about 20 more pounds and we're going to every doctor and nobody knows what to do. I'm proud talking, I mean, every church I preached at, they gathered around me, prayed over me, and God still said no. I could take you to church after church after church. I came here and I sat right there, and Brother Eli Nelson got up and sang a song, and I got on the altar and said, God, would you fix me? Would you fix me? And I got up feeling like I got victory, and on the way home, got sick again. Couldn't eat for the majority of the time I was at this meeting, because God just kept saying no this morning. times you ask God to do something in your life and God said no. Watch as I pray over and over and if I could just be honest I know I'm supposed to be super spiritual but my faith was gone this morning. I was carrying a Bible, I was shouting Jesus is faithful but I didn't believe a word of it this morning because the devil had got in my head because God said no. And you better be prepared for how to respond when God says no. Just saying all these songs about your faithfulness has proven to be true. God's faithfulness on white pages. Let me just remind you, even when God says no, he's still faithful. Let me print some of this thought for just a few more minutes and I'll get out of the way. When God says no, this morning, God says no. He said, Richard, what do you do when God says no? Well, what does Moses do? I want to show you three attributes we see in Moses' life when God said no. I'll give them to you quick, and I'll take my seat. First, I want you to notice we see the rejection from Moses' sin this morning. We see the rejection from Moses' sin. I won't take the time to read it, but Numbers chapter 20, we find that Moses, we know the story, that Moses, the Israelites are crying out to Moses, Brother Justin, they asked for water from the rock as he had done before. and God tells him not to smite the rock like he did the first time, but to speak to it. Moses gets filled with rage, gets angry and irritated, and he hits that rock, strikes it twice, and that water still comes out. May I just stop there for a minute and say, you can get the same results doing the right thing the wrong way. You can preach with the wrong spirit with your charisma and your outline, and everybody will not even see the difference this morning, but it will be revealed down the road. We find that Moses does the right thing, but he does it the wrong way. We find that God tells him that the reason he's not allowed into the promised land is because of this sin that he committed. We find, and may I just stop there and say this as well, it's camp meeting, hopefully we can shout over this this morning, is that I'm glad that the rock Christ was smoked once for my sins, but I don't ever have to get smoked for my sins this morning. He gave His life once on the cross. I gave my life to Him once on an altar somewhere. And now I've got to put it back on the cross every time that I do something wrong. But all I've got to do is speak with Him this morning. It sure is good to know that because of what He did on Calvary, because of how He died for you and I, now all I have to do is speak to Him this morning. Notice Moses' prayer was not answered because of his sin this morning. Now not every time that God says no is it because of sin, but it is worth noting and making point of that our sin always hinders our prayer life. Notice Moses wasn't drinking, Moses wasn't cussing, Moses wasn't doing no for running around on his wife. Moses just disobeyed what God told him to do this morning. The Bible still says in Isaiah chapter 59, behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, nor is it heavy that it cannot hear, but it is your iniquities that have separated you from your God. The truth is our sin interferes the line between God and I. We've seen a rejection for Moses' sin, but I really wanted to move on. Notice secondly, we see the reaction in Moses' spirit this morning. The reaction in Moses' spirit. Look at me in verse number 26. If you're still with me, would you say amen? It says, But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me. And the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice that ye speak no more unto me of this matter. It says in verse 28, But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. For he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see. So we abode in the valley over against Beth-por, is what it says. We find here that Moses begins to react. Notice a couple of things about the reaction of the Spirit. First notice that he wasn't mad about it. You know what my favorite part of the text is, brother man? My favorite part is between verse 28 and 29 where God says, Whoa, Lord. Moses says, Whoa, Lord, don't you know everything I've done for you? I mean, that's my favorite part of the text. It's somewhere in there where he says, Lord, and he, he cuffs his arms and throws down his brow and says, Well, Lord, I just don't think I'll serve you anymore because you didn't come through. I mean, my favorite part where Moses just gets ticked off and mad at the Lord for what he didn't do for him. No, we don't find that anywhere in the text this morning. We don't see where Moses ever gets mad. And I can't help but think that maybe, just maybe, Brother Jerry, that Moses is remembering in his mind that if it hadn't been for the grace of God, he'd still be a nobody running from the Egyptians on the backside of nowhere. And Moses probably said, how in the world could I get mad at a God that's taken me this far, that's done this much for me? How in the world could I ever get angry when God's been this good this far? Moses doesn't get mad at the Lord because the Lord didn't do what he says. You know what some of our problems are this morning? It's that somewhere a couple years back God said no and we ain't got over it this morning. We've sat here and we come into church and they sing about God's been faithful or God's been good and we thank God, thank you for my house, thank you for my family, my car, all the stuff I've got. But then, Lord, you remember when you didn't do that one thing. The devil gets up and says, you remember when he didn't answer the prayer you prayed the way you wanted him to answer it this morning? All of a sudden, you start reliving all them old bitter feelings afterward. Because ultimately, any bitterness you've got in anybody is ultimately at God's door. If you're bitter at another preacher, you're really just bitter at God. Because you're mad that God used that preacher, whatever it may be, this morning. But the truth is, Moses didn't get mad because he knew where he came from. Wouldn't it be good for some Christians to realize and remember what we used to be this morning? And I used to be a nobody on the backside of nowhere. But then God wrenched out His hand and it changed my life. How could I get mad if God never did anything? How could I get mad at Him, Brother Kevin? How could I get irritated when God brought me this far? My daddy was a drug. My daddy was a dope dealer. My mama had me in high school, didn't even know what Bethlehem was. More or less the story of Christ. How can somebody like me get mad when God doesn't do what I ask Him to do? I don't know what alcohol tastes like. I don't know what dope even looks like. I don't know what it's like to be in the world. How can I get mad at God that's brought me this far? Instead of looking at what God hasn't done in your life. Go start looking at what He has done this morning. All of a sudden you won't be as mad as you used to be. I ask you this, when's the last time God really amazed you this morning? When's the last time you looked at the kids and the doctor said you never have and you didn't see them making a pass, not listening, but you said, God, that was a yes right there. You came through. When's the last time you walked in the house you've got, whether it's big or small, He looked around and said, Lord, I remember when I didn't think I could afford anything like this. He said, God, how could I get mad at you? You've been too good to me. You got in the car and put that key in the ignition and fired it up. And it ran just fine, unless you're an evangelist or a missionary this morning. It ran just fine. You said, God, thank you for the car I've got. When's the last time, instead of getting mad at him for what he didn't do, you got amazed at what he's already done? Can't help but thank Moses rolls his mind back to what he used to be. Notice not only did he move beyond it, but then he also, he didn't get mad about it, but he moved beyond it. In fact, he didn't get caught up in it. Moses didn't die praying the same prayer year after year after year. You know what Moses, God said, Moses, don't say nothing more to me about it. I said, no. And we don't find where Moses ever brings it back up. Moses never says, but Lord, the next day. But Lord, he didn't take it as a maybe, brother of mine. It was a no. The truth is, God answers yeses or nos. It's either a no right now or it's a yes right now. If it's a no right now, it might be a yes later, but it ain't a yes right now this morning. We find that Moses didn't get caught up in it. You know what's sad? Some of us ain't seen God do some of the things he could have done because we've been stuck praying the same prayer for all of these years. But you know God said no to you already. I ain't talking about, I ain't talking about praying for lost people or wayward children. I'm talking about you've been praying that God would preach you out, but God's done said no this morning. He doesn't want your schedule filled up. He wants you to sit there and pastor the church you're at this morning. You've been praying, God, give me more people. My dad has been praying for God to grow our church for nine years since we've been there. And we've never gotten really far above 60 this morning. Does that mean God ain't faithful or God wants him to move beyond it this morning? He wants us to keep moving forward. Brother Mike said it, there's only one direction, two directions that the church goes upward and forward. Some of us need to quit getting so caught up on what God said no about it and just move beyond it. Notice not only did he not get mad about it, he moved beyond it. But then we find he ministered because of it this morning. Look at me, I think it's in verse number 28, he ministered because of it this morning. It says in verse number 28, But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him. For he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt steal. Notice we find that Moses is told and commanded by God to encourage somebody else. It was a no for Moses, but it was a yes for Joshua. And it was not Moses' job to say, Joshua, I'm just going to tell you this. You're going to serve him for all these years. And one time you really want to do something, he ain't going to come through. I didn't want to do it, but Tim, he wrote all the things God had done in the book. And he recited them in the ears of Joshua. And he said, God's good, God's good, God's good, God's good. Even when it seems like he's not, God's still good. It doesn't matter what the devil says, God's good. And he ministered to somebody else in Scotland I know he hadn't seen at this point. I remember when I was stepping out full time in med school, I'm starting my third year this year. I was talking to a fellow and he began, we began talking. I said, Preacher, I'm nervous. I'm terrified. I mean, my schedule's all right, but I'm terrified. And at the same time, that precedence changed. And all of a sudden, it cost $50 for a dozen eggs. And I thought, man, my life is going to be a wreck with orange. And I said, there ain't no way I can do this. And I remember sitting with this preacher who's got a lot of influence, a great man. And he began to talk with me. And I said, Preacher, the Lord's already told me and he's pushing me out. I got to go full time. And he said, you really expect God's people to take care of you all your life. Talk about a gunshot to the child in a blow. I thought, here I am. I'm trying to do what God's told me to do for the cause. And this fella, I mean, he's established. He's a great man. And here he is saying, you really expect that God's people's going to take care of you. Then I got to thinking about that and realized I ain't expecting nobody to take care of me this morning. It ain't God's people, it's God himself. And I realize, I wonder if somewhere along the line, that fella asked for the same thing and God said no. And I wonder if he asked for the same thing I was asking for and God said no. He's still better about it this morning. Better understanding is not our job to tell anybody about what God hasn't done in our lives. I'm in church just so I've heard 47 sermons in the last 14 days. Anything that's going to be preached this week, I've already heard it. I've stolen every illustration that I've heard Colman tell, too. But I mean, I sit there in church almost every night of my life. Brother Kevin, it bothers me when a Christian gets up with gray hair, saying to God, stand up and say, preacher, pray for me. Now, I'm just trying to give glory to the Lord. But everything in my life is just terrible. Everything's fine. Are there any pastors you've got? You know you've got at least one person in your church that's just like that this morning. Y'all's real quiet because you're worried they're watching the live stream, but you know it's true. We've all got that one person with God where he said, we think, Lord, just don't let them stand up and ruin this for everybody else. They stand up and they complain about everything that's went wrong in their life. Sit there and think, and then we wonder why there's teenagers who don't want to come to the house of God, when the ones who have been serving all these years don't want to complain about what he hasn't done. Maybe we ought to take the nose that God gave us, take the wisdom we got from them, and pour into the next generation. Instead of saying, hey, be careful, God ain't going to do this for you. Say, hey, don't worry, God's been good in your life. It sure would be good, as Brother Mike said, if we just get back to loving on Him and telling Him how good He's been in our life. God's been far better than you and I could ever deserve. He's been far greater than your letting on this morning. He's been the best to all of us, and we all ought to be able to minister because of how good he's been in our lives this morning. I don't care what he said no about. It could be an early grade. It could be an empty pew. It could be a bunch of different things. Hospital bills, doctor's visits, all this stuff. It don't matter what he said no about this morning. He's still been good to you. You've still got breath through your lungs. You can still praise this morning. God's still been good in your life. Notice we see the reaction of Moses' spirit. We see the rejection of Moses' sin. It doesn't look like I'm getting out of the way. I'm done. Lastly, we see the rest of Moses' story this morning. We see the rest of Moses' story. I want you to take the time and go with me to Deuteronomy chapter number 34. Deuteronomy chapter number 34. Deuteronomy chapter 34 and verse number 1. I apologize if I killed the meeting this morning. I just wanted to preach, but the Lord laid on my heart. I hope that's alright with y'all. Deuteronomy chapter number 34 and verse number 1. It says, And Moses went up from the plains of Moab into the mountain of Lebo, to the top of Pisgah that is over against Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead, and Dan, and Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain, and the valley of Jericho, and the city of palm trees, and Azor. And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I swear unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed. I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over it. Still no this morning. Verse 5, So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab according to the word of the Lord. And he, talking about the Lord, and the Lord buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Bethphor. But no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. Skip down to verse number 10 if you would. It says there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, notice this, whom the Lord knew face, to face this morning, whom the Lord knew face to face. But Tim, at the end of Moses' life, though he never brought it back up, it was still another. Even though he did everything right from that point on, it was still another this morning. But Joshua got to go in. But I can't help but think, when you compare Joshua and Moses' life at the end, Moses got the better end of the deal this morning. I mean, I got to thinking, Joshua got to go into the Promised Land. But Moses got to go into the glory land this morning. You've got to think of Moses. Joshua got to go and see the walls of Jericho fall. But Moses got to see God face to face this morning. Moses got victory. God, Joshua, got victories. But Moses got the ultimate victory as he stood there with God Himself. I can't help but think that Moses got the better end of the deal this morning. The truth is sometimes God knows. Let us see us. Let us see Christ better than we've ever seen Him before this morning. He got to see God face to face. His no led to something greater down the road. He got the better end of the deal. But then I really got to thinking driving down the road. And brother Lord, I got to thinking about the end of Moses' life and the end of Joshua's life and all this stuff. And I found that because of how Moses reacted to when God said no, he got to be a part of one of the greatest things that's ever happened this morning. I mean, I got to thinking about it now. Understood. Moses is not allowed. What's he praying for? But like he's saying, Lord, let me step into the promised land. He wants to rest his foot into Israel, into the promised land. Moses is told no, but then he responds the right way. And you know what I found? Is that one of the last times Moses ever mentioned Zilker in the book of Matthew this morning? When it says in Matthew chapter 17 in verse number one, after six days, Jesus taking Peter, James, and John, his brother, and bringing them up into a high mountain apart, and was transfigured, what a day that was, and was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light, and behold, there appeared unto them Moses this morning. Knowing how fine Moses might have got, told no. But the first time he ever set his foot in the promised land, the first time he ever got to step into Israel, he wasn't with Joshua, he wasn't with Caleb, but he was with the God of all glory. He was with Jesus, well God, in his glory, with eyes of fire, and a reign that might have snowed. He got a better yes down the road. Moses might have been told no back then, but he got something better down the road. I can't help but think, Brother Caleb, in my mind, I'd rather be there with Jesus and Peter and Moses than I would want to be there with Joshua and Caleb. And Moses got a greater yes. It's all because of how he responded when God said no. See, some of us could have got a greater yes, but we got all mad and pouted and huffed and puffed. You ain't ever going to see Christ like you wanted to see Him this week. Somewhere along the line, you got ticked off over it because God said no. But for those of us that said, Lord, you've been good. I can't get mad from a column. I can't get upset. Maybe, just maybe this week, though God gave you a no somewhere along the line, you might just step down on the mountain of transfiguration and see Christ like you never saw Him before. I promise God so it will always be true. Strong the right way. I'll give you this and I'm done. I told you the story with my mom, right? I got done. I'm done. I'm gonna give you a story. I'm finished. Told you about all that stuff went through and please don't take me the wrong way. I ain't trying to get a penny party or get upset or get anybody to feel bad for me this morning. I suffered with that stuff for about a year, struggling with it hard. I remember, I don't even talk about miserable. I don't want to go into detail. It still bothers me when I think about it. But great that I remember all those nights where I couldn't sleep. All those days where I couldn't eat. All them different things I struggled with. I remember texting a preacher from the con right before I came up to y'all's meeting. I remember texting him and saying, I just don't even feel like doing it anymore. I mean, I've been in evangelism for a year and a half at the time. And here I am wanting to quit. I felt like I was doing something wrong, Brother John. Remember, I'm sitting there struggling. I had all these different things, all these doctors visits, all this stuff. And I've had every test for the stomach you can have. Been put under, done everything they can do by the time, and the doctors just said, we don't know how to fix it this morning. Said, it's clear you've got a problem, but there's no medication. There's nothing you can do. Struggled and struggled and struggled and struggled. Remember, I was preaching a meeting in North Carolina there in 2022, I think it was. Briggs Revival got extended, and it's supposed to be the happiest I've ever been with Jimmy. I was miserable. I wanted to go home. People getting saved. The Revival's blowing out. It's been wonderful. And I can't help but think how much I hate being there. Remember, I sat there, and I got a text on my phone that says, when you get back to the house, we need to talk for a little while. And I texted the man and said, all right, his name's Johnny Talbert, really, Mike. And I'm living in the midst of God saying no over and over and over again. And I'm saying, God, I'm sitting here trying to serve you. You just won't say yes. I said, Lord, wouldn't you rather have a fully effective preacher that ain't struggling with all this stuff? But I found that verse that Paul said, that through suffering the power of Christ may rest upon us. He said, I might be able to have one that can run right up him, but I won't have one that can preach like that this morning. That can have the power on him. I ain't saying I have any power. I'm saying it's through suffering that we get the power this morning. Remember, I said, Lord, you keep saying no. I got back with Johnny, you come up here. I got to the church and this is after that meeting that got extended and I drove in and this fellow is a preacher out of our church. He got saved under my dad's ministry, been saved about five or six years. He's got a wife, four kids, great, great preacher, great man. He texted me and said, would you meet with me whenever I get back? And remember, I'm living in the midst of God saying no over and over and over. Remember, we got to talking and he looked at me and he says, is there anything that you've been praying about that's been going on? But Johnny's eyes started to fill up with tears from Josh. He looked at me. He said, I don't know how to say this, but I work a six-figure job. He said, I work at a Toyota plant, got some of the best insurance in the state. I've got all of them. Nine or 10 years away from retiring, I've got a wife, four kids that are all in high school sitting at the house. Tears started running down his face, but he said, but God, it's been raining on my heart for the last couple of months. Watching you struggle, and he wants me to quit my job. Come on the road with you full time and just pray for me while you preach. He said, all I want to do, I don't want nobody to know my name. I don't want nobody to pay me. I don't want nothing this morning. He says, I want to go tuck away in the pastor's office somewhere. And I'm just telling this because this can't be, and I ain't trying to brag about it this morning. He said that all I want to do is pray for you every time you preach. Whether you believe it or not, I believe God does spooky stuff this morning. The time he quit his job, I got booked for my first full week revival. Alright, go. I ain't had none of the issues that I used to have. And though God had said no in my life, it's because there was a greater yes waiting down the road. I watch as Johnny packs up the car, leaves his kids at the house. He's got a wife that struggles with a sickness. And he gets in the car and goes down the road. And may I just tell you this morning that a thousand collapsed lungs and a thousand anxiety issues are worth one Johnny Talbert. This was my mouth transfiguration. Though God had said no in my life, somewhere along the line I had to decide that I wouldn't get mad about it. And God did something greater down the road as well. I just came to tell you that it might not be something physical you can see, but if you respond the right way, God will do something right for you this morning. It doesn't matter what God said, though. You struggle with cancer, health issues, whatever it is. Though God says no, if you just respond right this morning. God is always faithful to his children. There's not one time that he's never not come through, love Eric. There's not even though I would take all that I fought within years over again, if I could get one Mount Transfiguration this morning. There is a greater guest waiting down the road. Thank you, brother Johnny. I'm done and I might be done. But what it is you've been praying God to do, it might be a wayward child, it might be family put together might be the church to grow, whatever it may be. God might have said no this morning. It'd be good if some of us would come down and just love on Him for a little bit and say, God, in spite of the no, you've still been good. Maybe just maybe we'll see Christ like we've never seen Him before.