First Corinthians one. I was thinking the other day. Just doing some thinking. And this scripture popped into my mind and some other scriptures. And after thinking about him. I had a little bit of an epiphany. I realized. Do you know what I want to be? You know what I want to be? And again, this came from reading this scripture and reading some other scriptures, and it really hit me. This is what I want to be. I want to be not, N-O-T, not. Based on what God has said in His Word, that's sincerely what I want to be. That is sincerely what I want to be, not. Verse 26, 1 Corinthians 1, verse 26, it says, For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh Not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world And things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not. To bring to naught things that are. That word not, N-O-T. And that word not, N-O-U-G-H-T. Really, they ultimately mean the same thing. Nothing. That's what they mean. Nothing. Nothing. God hath chosen the things which are nothing. God hath chosen the nothings in order to bring to nothing the things that think they are something. That's what he's done. which that describes every man and woman on this earth by nature. Every man and woman on this earth, every single one. Let's look at a few scriptures here. We're going to, I don't, this is going to be a big turning night. Okay. I'll just warn you. I was going to cut some out, but I'm not going to, we're just going to turn to some scriptures. Go with me to Psalm 39. Psalm 39 verse 5. Behold thou hast made my days as a hand breadth and mine age is as nothing before thee. Verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. You know our We think our age is something. We start out into this world and, you know, I'm not three anymore. Now I'm four. I'm five. Now I have two digits. I'm 10. You know, I'm 16. I'm 18. I'm 21. I'm 25. I'm 30. I'm 40. I don't know that anybody wants to see 50. But maybe after 60, a little pride comes back. I'm 70. I'm 80. I'm 90. I made it to 100. My age is nothing compared to you. Nothing. Really, nothing. David said, my age is nothing. I'm nothing. I'm altogether nothing. Turn over to Isaiah 40. Isaiah 40 verse 12 says, Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counselor, hath taught him? With whom took he counsel and who instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and showed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket. and are counted as the small dust of the balance. Behold, he taketh up the isles, all of these islands on the earth, as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beast thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than nothing. and vanity, nothing and less than nothing. Turn over to Daniel 4. Just after Ezekiel, Daniel 4. This is after the Lord took Nebuchadnezzar's mind from him and then gave it back to him. Daniel 4, verse 34. And at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me. And I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored Him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation, and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. Man is nothing. We are nothing. Turn over to 1 Corinthians 8. 1 Corinthians 8 verse 2 says, And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing, yet as he ought to know. Nothing. Man is nothing. Man knows nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Turn over to Galatians 6. Galatians 6 verse 3 says, For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. And that's what I don't want to do. Really, I do not want to do that. I do not want to deceive myself because the thing about it is the whole world is nothing. This whole world is nothing. But only God's people know that to be so. Only God's people know that to be so. Only God's people know that they are not. The world sees their own flesh as being something but they're deceiving themselves. God's people know the truth of the matter, they know it. Look back two or three pages to 2 Corinthians 12. Verse 11, it says, I am become a fool in glorying. You have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended of you. For in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. Paul said, when you get right down to the heart of me, You have nothing. He said, as far as the rest of these apostles go, I'm called to be an apostle. He said, I'm just like the rest of them. But when you get right down to the heart of all of us, we're nothing. Though I be nothing, Paul said, I am not. That's all you can say about me. I'm not. And I say that with Paul. I really do. That's all you can say about me. I believe in my heart that I mean it. I'm not. I'm not. But by God's grace, that's all I want to be. That's really all that I want to be. I want to be nothing, and I want Christ to be all. By God's grace, I really believe that. I really say that in my heart. I want to be nothing, and I want Christ to be everything. I want Him to be absolutely everything. Just let me be nothing. And here's the reason why. Go with me back to 1 Corinthians 1. Verse 26 says, 1 Corinthians 1.26, it says, For you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen, Yea, in things which are not. You know why I want to be not? Because that's who God has chosen. Really, that's who God has chosen. That's who God chose to save. That relieves me so much. If this scripture said God chose to save the President of the United States, then I'd do everything I could do to try to be the President of the United States. But this says that he chose the nothings, the nobodies. That's who God chose to redeem, just sinners, just sinful men and women. Good for nothing, worthy of nothing, owed nothing. That's who God chose to quicken. That's who God chose to call. That's who he chose to call to himself. Call to his glory, draw near to him the knots. He chose the cans. That's who he chose, the cans. Those who know that with man it's impossible. What's impossible? Everything. Anything and everything with man. You know, everybody is trying so hard to be somebody. God's people are just trying to be not. Not unto us, oh Lord, not unto us. That's what we want, not, not for us. They asked John the Baptist one time, are you Elijah reincarnated? Are you that prophet? He said, I am not. That's what I am. I'm not. No, I'm not Elijah. I'm not the Christ. I'm nothing. What's your name? Doesn't matter. I'm nothing. I'm just a voice crying in the wilderness. saying, don't look to me, I'm not. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of this world. He's everything. He is everything. He is all. He is the Savior of his people from their sins. He's the Savior. And here is how he saved his people from their sin. This was just so beautiful to me, okay? This was so precious to me when I was studying the word not. This is how he saved his people from their sins. Turn over to Acts chapter four. Acts chapter 4 verse 10, it says, Be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders. He was considered to be naught. He allowed himself to be considered by this wicked, evil world to be nothing, less than nothing. Set at naught. That's what he allowed man to do to him. Set him at naught. How did he save me from my sin? How did he save you from your sin? He set himself in our place. He humbled himself. He made himself to be naught, of no reputation. He emptied himself all the way to nothing. He emptied himself of everything. He emptied himself to nothing in the eyes of God and so sadly in the eyes of man. And he did that that he might raise his people to something. That's why he did it. He did that so he could make somethings out of nothings. That's the whole reason he did it. So he could make somethings Go with me over to Romans 4. Romans 4 verse 17. As it is written, I've made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were. He takes things that are not and he says, Let them be, and they are. Oh, the glory that awaits every soul that is not, not in self, therefore totally reliant on Christ for everything that is and needs to be, not in self. completely reliant on Christ for everything that is and everything that needs to be. Glory truly awaits all the nothings and nobodies who are desperately looking to Christ for everything. All things. You know the story of Enoch. All right, you know the story of Enoch. Turn over to Genesis 5. He was one of the two people, Elijah being the other one, he was one of the two people in the scripture who went to glory without dying. And Genesis 5 verse 18 says, Jared lived and 160 and two years and he begat Enoch. And Jared lived after he begat Enoch 800 years and begat sons and daughters. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine that? All the days of Jared were 960 and two years and he died. And Enoch lived sixty and five years and begat Methuselah. And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years. And Enoch walked with God And all of a sudden, he was not. He was walking with God one day, and just, he was not. For God took him. That's what I want to be. By the gift of God's grace, by the mercy that's in the blood of Christ, one of these days, I want to be not. I want God to take me from this land to that land. Can you imagine that man was walking with God, one foot in front of the next, and all of a sudden, one foot, let me see how that works. Opposite arms to feet, one foot and one hand entered glory and then the rest of his body stepped on in. Can you imagine? I want that to happen to me. I want it to be said, he is not. All of a sudden he was just not. I want to be not. I mean this, I want to be not, and I want you to be not too. I want you to be not with me. I want us to be not together. That's what I want. Nothings, nobodies. Christ to be everything. I pray God will take us all. I pray God will make all of us to be not. Just like Enoch, just take us all to be with him. Oh, the blessing of being not, knowing that Christ is everything. What a blessing. To him be everything. Amen.