Are you fully thrusting in His grace this hour? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you washed in the blood and the soul-cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Lay aside the garments that are stained with sin, And be washed in the blood of the Lamb. There's a fountain flowing for the soul unclean, Oh, be washed in the blood of the Lamb. In the blood, in the soul, cleansing blood of the Lamb. Are your garments flawless? Are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Brother Taylor's not here this morning. So we'll proceed on without him. Somebody said he was sick Somebody said he was out of town. So maybe he's both. I don't know Anyway, welcome to the Sunday morning service. Let's pray father. Thank this day the time we have to come to your house and worship you Lord preach your best all the different classes and areas of worship on the property. Lord, it should help everyone to get a blessing out of your word and pray that if there's any here that's not saved, that they will come to the knowledge of you this morning. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. All right, you may be seated. If you would, join me in near the cross. Jesus keep me near the cross there a precious fountain free to all a healing stream close from Calvary's mouth Killed by rapture, soul shall find rest beyond the river. Near the cross I'll watch and wait, hoping, trusting ever. Till I reach the golden strand just beyond the river. Let's go, Lord, in prayer. Lord, we again thank you for your love to us and your mercy and your forgiveness of our sins and your salvation and for your grace. We ask, Lord, you'd be with us this morning as we hear the word of God preached and taught in Sunday school. We pray you'd be the teachers and preachers this morning and fill them with your spirit. Be with those that are here this morning that might be lost. Touch their hearts, draw them to you, Lord. They might trust you this morning. Be with our nation this morning, Lord, and with our leaders we've elected. Pray, Father, you lead them, guide them, direct them. Pray for our military, Lord, and ask you to be with them. Ask you to increase them in number, Lord, and strength, and resolve. Pray for our doctors and nurses and EMS workers that tend to our needs when we have needs. Pray for our police officers, Lord, and help them take care of us. Lord, be with Israel this morning, Lord, and all the decisions that need to be made there. Protect them, be with them, help them. Lord, we ask that you guide us and direct us in all we do today, that what we say, think, and do would please you. God, direct in the services this morning, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Did they not have the microphone on, or we just can't hear you behind back here? I couldn't hardly hear him, so. I can hear me, but I just couldn't hear Brother Perry. Sir? I know. We were trying to listen, too, because I was waiting for you to say amen, and I wasn't sure when amen came. So I had half my eye open watching you, so when your body moved, I knew it was my time to come up here. Good to have you folks back this morning. I've got the fourth, fifth, and sixth grade boys and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade girls, 1st through 4th grade girls, good to have them in, and the teens are in here as well. We had the Valentine's banquet on Friday night. Thank you for all those of you that had a hand in that. It was based on glow sticks. They'll have some pictures up probably later today. But again, a lot of glow stuff, and it was let your light show shine before men. But again, Brother Ross was with us on that night. Brother Ross has been here for many, many years. Those of you that are new, I know that you guys have never heard Brother Ross, and I know y'all haven't. But for the rest of us, we've got to hear Brother Ross a time or two. He's always a blessing. He'll be speaking with us now in the Sunday school. Then he'll speak in the morning. He'll be preaching the morning service. Then he'll preach the evening service as well. So he'll be speaking all the services today. So again, make sure you're back tonight for the evening service. Teenagers, after Sunday school, the refreshments will be in the fellowship hall on the table right through that door there. So I'll mention that now so I don't have to try to remember it later. The new prayer list is on the back table. And again, Pick up one of those if you don't have one. And again, a lot of folks on the prayer list. We have a lot of loved ones that face loss in the last week or two. We have others that have had surgeries and recovering from that. So again, keep all of them in prayer. I'm going to turn to Brother Rosler. Usually he gets through around 930. I don't usually get through that early, but I usually get through about 9.35, but we start at 10.30 or 10.35. Isn't that when Brother Taylor usually gets out at 10.30? So he shoots for 10.30. Brother Taylor at once gets out earlier than the rest of us do. I think it's because it takes old people longer to get to the bathroom and the water fountain and back than for the rest of us. But Brother Ross is going to come speak to us this morning, so grab your King James Bibles and pay attention. All right. Thank you very much, Brother Block, and it's great to be back with you. Things are different now in my life. With my wife going on to heaven, things don't seem to run quite as smoothly as they used to. You know, for years, I'd drop her off at the front of the grocery store, and she'd go in, do all the shopping, and I'd do the hard part. I'd stay in the car, take a nap, read a book, have a word of prayer or something like that, and then she'd come out. Then my wife went to heaven. And now it was my turn to not only go back to that store but walk in for the first time. I'm looking like where in the world, where is anything here, you know? I checked the list, oh, milk, okay. So I head in there, I go up and down every aisle and I thought, well, idiot, you know, don't go up and down these aisles, go look for the refrigerators, you know. So I head back there and I finally found milk and then it said head of lettuce. My daughters are the ones that come up with this list. Well, the lettuce was all the way back where I first came in the store, so I'm all the way back over there. And then butter, guess where that was? Back over by the milk. And so life is different. And then, of course, I married the home ec teacher. My wife was an excellent cook and everything else. She used to often say, I don't know what you'd do if I go to heaven ahead of you. I don't know how you're going to get along. Well, she wouldn't believe it now. I kind of hope she doesn't get to look on and see how confusing things can be. But, you know, God is good. With Him, there's no mistakes. With me, there's lots of mistakes. I pulled into San Antonio the other day. A couple weeks ago, I lost my glasses. And that's no big problem. They usually just turn up in a day or so. Well, a day or so turned into a week or so, and then two weeks or so. And I found my old glasses. which was the reason I knew I needed to get new glasses. But compared to no glasses, the used glasses came in real handy. I forgot one thing about them. The lens pops out every now and then. Last night, the lens popped out. It only took about an hour and a half of praying, doing everything, but threatening those glass frames and everything else, and I wrestled it into place. Boy, I went to sleep last night grateful, thankful, just thanking the Lord for getting that lens in there. And then this morning I walked into the front of the church, boom, there it went, it just popped right out. And so what makes it nice is you just reach in there and scratch your eye, no problem, you know. The problem is when you try to read. And there's letters over here that are this big, and there's letters over here that are that big. And so you're moving your head back and forth like that. And I just think, boy, up in heaven, there's no telling what kind of a humor gallery must assemble up there so they can see and watch different preachers go through the things they go through in order to teach the Word of God. But it's so good to see you again, young people that are here. that were at the banquet the other night. I enjoyed being with you. Always look forward to that. That was certainly one of my wife's favorite things too. This was always her favorite time of the year, favorite trip to make during the year. And even though she's with the Lord, I could hear her at every corner of the trip. I'd sometimes get caught in traffic and then get out of that traffic mess and want to make up some time that I thought I lost, so I get a little heavy on that pedal there and I can hear my wife, you know. We're not in a hurry. And so I'd back down from that. And then we'd go around another corner and she'd always point out similar buildings and things like that. And she always told me, I said the same thing all the time. And she didn't realize how often she repeated herself as did I. But one of her favorite things was telling me, you always come this way. I said, well, you know, it's the most direct route to take. That's why I take it. She said, oh, she said, I like to go different ways. So I thought, you know, I'm going to break her from doing that. Next Sunday, instead of just getting on Interstate 30 and go to Arlington, Texas, where I go to church, I'm just going to go the back way and show her how long that takes. Well, I'm back there doing all these back roads and everything. All of a sudden, she says, how come you came this way? I said, because you said the other way was the way I always went. She said, oh, I wouldn't go this way. I said, well, you want to go the way? I said, how would you go? I'd go the way we always went. I said, well, don't complain about us going all the way we went. So, but I'll tell you this, don't get aggravated at your wife if she does that kind of thing. There'll come a day when you'll miss her voice and you'll miss those directions. She was my navigator. I couldn't tell north from south if it hadn't been for, you know, the little gadget on the phone. I wasn't real good at communication. And my justification for that was, if one person's so good at it, why should two people have to be good at it? I just used her. Now, the problem was, this is a woman that talks to me on this thing, this GPS, and then there's my wife. and I can't have two women telling me to go when one's saying go east and the other's saying go west. So I'll just do the best I can. So there I'll get all my complaining out of the way and let's study the word of God. Turn with me to Colossians chapter three. Colossians chapter three. I want to talk about the five C's of the Christian life. Five C's of the Christian life. And to Brother Price up there, or Fuse up there, or Brother Goulart, there's a, God bless you, I see that, Ann. And I was wondering, I looked up there before and didn't see a clock. And I thought, boy, how am I gonna tell the time? I can't even read my watch. Phone here. So I looked up there and those letters will just about do it. They're about two feet tall and Bold and so I think I'll be okay. Well, let's go ahead and take a look at Colossians chapter 3 and I'm gonna do my best again at reading this and notice they're beginning in verse 12 put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness." And again, I want to speak on the five C's of the Christian life. Our Heavenly Father, I thank you for the good people of Liberty Baptist Church in San Antonio. Lord, this is like a second home to me, and I thank you, Lord, for each and every person who was able to come this morning. I pray you'd meet their needs. I pray throughout the day that if there's anybody on this property that does not know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, I pray today they would come to know you in saving faith. And Lord, for all these things, we'll thank you in Jesus' name, amen. Well, the Lord loves every one of his children, and he expects us to be faithful in every way. One of the greatest attributes of a successful Christian is his or her faithfulness. We want to be faithful, get on a path of doing right, and just keep on doing right. It's when we get off that path and we begin to stray that we begin to get in trouble. Now, as we serve the Lord faithfully, we must do it in a balanced manner. Sometimes people say, well, we need to pray. We need to read the Bible. We need to go to church. We need to be soul winners. All of those things are part of being faithful. But sometimes we get overbalanced and do one thing, we read our Bibles, read our Bibles and read our Bibles. Anything wrong with that? Nothing wrong with that at all. But we still can't forget about church attendance, we can't forget about prayer, we can't forget about other things. Some people get off in the avenue of prayer. Is it wrong to pray much? We'll never pray all that the Lord would want us to. He says, pray without ceasing. So while we're praying, that can't be the only thing we're doing. If it's the only thing we're doing, we're leaving everything else off. So walking faithfully with the Lord is certainly what we need to do, but we need to do it in a balanced manner. Now, there are some things that we ought to keep in mind about our walk with the Lord. And just to make it easy this morning in Sunday school, I begin all five of these with the letter C. So the first one is this, be considerate. Considerate, that means thinking about other people more than we're thinking about ourself. What should we be considerate of? Considerate of what Christ has done for us already, what he has done for us. You say, well, what has he done for us? Well, in the past, he was born, he died, He resurrected and He is up in the Lord in heaven right now making intercession for us. That's what He's doing presently. But He gave us and left us with a way to get saved. That's called the free gift of God, the gift of salvation. How can we not be grateful for what he has done in the past? Now, what's he doing presently? Well, he intercedes for us. He is up there pardoning our sin. He's carrying our requests to the Lord, making intercession for us with the Lord, because the Bible said we can't even begin to carry our request to the Lord with the unction that we ought to, so the Lord takes that. He walks in there with our prayers and lets the Lord know, hey, Brother Block's down there and he needs this. And these folks are down there and they need it. Mrs. Ruiz is over here and she's got to put up with her husband. So he intercedes for her on that behalf. And I'm just kidding, tell brother Ruiz that was a joke. Okay, but what are we considerate of? considerate of what the Lord has done for us. I think secondly, we ought to be considerate of what others have done for us. Let me say this, young people, you're still living at home, be considerate of your parents. You say, oh, Brother Ross, you wouldn't say that if you had my parents. Hey, you know something, young person? God didn't give you to your parents so that you could raise them. Let me say that again. He didn't give you to your parents so you could raise them. He gave you to your parents so they could raise you. I could just see my dad if I tried to tell him what I thought he should do. I told you before about his little speech that he gave to my brothers, Tim, Bob, John, Bill. Two times a year, he'd say, boys, you see that? That's six months in the hospital. You see that? That's sudden death. And he meant every word of that. Didn't take him long to reflect on that speech. And it took us even less time to reflect on that speech if we happened to run out of bounds. He was a man of few words. And he liked to give us this lecture. I'm going to tell you once what to do. If you have a question, that's the time to ask. But if you don't have a question and you go on, I'm going to assume that you got what I told you to do. Because if you don't get what I told you to do, you're gonna get it. And brother, when you got it, you didn't have any question about why you got it, and you had no problem understanding, I'm not gonna miss it next time. I'm gonna get it, okay? So I won't get it again. Well, praise the Lord. We ought to be thankful for what others have done for us. Hey, not only do we remember our parents, but how about our pastor? You understand how many times the pastor intercedes for you and for me, studies the Word of God, gets from the Lord what he should give his people, then he gives that to us. We're responsible for that. We're without excuse when the preacher has preached to us what thus saith the Lord. Now, there's some messages we really enjoy. Well, I'm not guilty on that point. I'm not guilty on that point. And we even try to help the Holy Spirit send his arrows of conviction. Boy, I hope the Smiths over there, I hope nobody over there is named Smith, all right? I'm just grabbing a name out of the wind. I hope the Smiths over there are listening. Hey, Smith, you understand it? Hear that, preacher? Boy, you need that. You need that. All of a sudden, oh, there's one for the Joneses. Hey, you Joneses over there, I hope you're listening. Also, you take one right in the heart. Imagine how many people are probably looking at you. while they're sitting in the church. Well, Brother so-and-so could sure use a big dose at that point right there. And you say, well, I was thankful for the preacher when he was getting after the Smiths, when he's getting after the Jones, but now he's getting after me. That's, you know, that's meddling. No, that's the word of God. And how is it that one preacher can get up and preach one message and a little five-year-old child might walk the aisle and trust the Lord as their personal savior? and a 55 year old man might walk the aisle and be under conviction about getting things better in their home, getting closer to his wife, getting things reconciled where they ought to be. A whole host of different things are addressed by one preacher preaching, thus saith the Lord. So we need to listen and praise the Lord for that. We ought to be grateful and certainly ought to be thankful for our parents and for our pastor. Then there's our friends. In Proverbs chapter 17 and verse 17, a friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity. The Bible says in Proverbs chapter 18 verse 24, a man that hath friends must show himself friendly and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. The Bible has a lot to say about friends. Your friends can be your greatest asset or they can be your greatest liability. It's very important that you have right friends and that you be a right friend. And don't be a friend that he walks this way when these friends are walking this way. This way is right. This way is wrong. When all of a sudden one of your friends turns around and decides to go in the wrong direction, don't be the kind of friend that turns around and goes with them. You stay on the path of right. What happens? You say, well, everybody says, I might lose my friends. Well, if you've got friends who want to go in the wrong direction, you're better off without them. If you're the only one on the right path, stay on the right path. And so they turn. And here's what happens. They start walking back. in the direction of where they came from. Pretty soon they're aware of something. Hey, where's my friend? Where's my friend? They turn around and they see if you're a real friend, you're up here going in the right direction and they'll get under conviction about that. They're right, I'm wrong. Let them come back and join you rather than have you join them going in the wrong direction. Let me say to mom and dad, mom and dad, when we're rearing children and our children are little, they pretty much do anything we tell them to do. They believe almost everything we tell them is real. You know, like the moon is made out of cheese. There's kids that grow up and some of them get pretty old before they come to the realization, oh, I guess it's not made out of cheese. That wasn't cheese that Neil Armstrong was walking in when I saw pictures of him landing in the moon in 1969. But that's okay. Those little things are not a problem. But mom and dad, you're the problem. I'm the problem. When all of a sudden, it's no longer easy to get our kids to do what we suggest or what we tell them to do. They've got friends at school, they're getting older, they're getting their own liberated ideas and things like that. And they don't always square with what they've been told at home. So what happens? The kids turn around, start joining their friends. Evil communications corrupt good manners. They start going in the wrong direction. And mom and dad, what do you do? You turn around and follow them. Don't do that. You continue to lead in the right direction. I couldn't go too far in the direction of sin without remembering mom. Boy, mom wouldn't put up with this. And mom wouldn't put up with this. One word of this to dad, and I guarantee you, he wouldn't put up with this. And you say, oh, well, you know, you were just fearful of your parents. You got that right. It is healthy to have a fear of mom and dad. You know what that is? That is a little picture of what our attitude ought to be toward God. God says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. not the beginning of weakness, the beginning of wisdom. And so we ought to be certainly grateful for our parents and for certainly our friends. Then let me just say this, we ought to be considerate also of godly leaders and adults. There are people at Liberty Baptist Church that young people through the years who are grandparents in their own right now looked at. Many of you are still sitting here right now. And I think of others who are normally here that I don't see this morning. I think of Brother and Mrs. Ayala. I think of Brother and Mrs. Milliken. I think of numbers of people. I thank the Lord for the prices. And there I go, I start getting on naming names and I don't wanna do that because I'm gonna overlook one. I see the Perry's right there and so many others. And young people through the years. I remember talking to Patty Millican. And Patty would say, oh, Brother so-and-so was such a blessing and Mrs. so-and-so was such a blessing. And folks, you don't realize it, you're like a second mom and dad or a second grandparent, or even in some cases, Brother Block would be a second pastor or a second preacher that kept those kids on the line. And I thank the Lord for that. So we need to be considerate of godly leaders and adults. And then certainly just considerate of others, teachers, coaches, godly elders, and godly peers, being considerate of them all. What else? We ought to be considerate of the needs of others. In Psalm 41 and verse one, the Bible said there, blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. Be considerate of others, consider it. of the needs of others. Secondly, let me go on. Not only should we be considerate, but secondly, we ought to be conscientious. And that means to always just do our best. Let's be determined to always do our best. Ecclesiastes chapter nine, verses 10 and 11. Also consider it to do all things through Christ. The Bible said in Philippians 4.13, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Now the key words in that verse is through Christ. A lot of people have the attitude, I can do all things through me, not me. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. And it's not, don't ever be, don't ever be apologetic for asking for help, asking for advice, for counsel, just make sure you go to a godly source from which to receive that. You're only ignorant, I think, when you just try to buffalo yourself and you know you can't do something, you know you don't know something, but you just bulldog determination, just try to rough it through and go ahead and go. You're gonna come to a short end. doing that. Me, I'd rather ask for advice. I would rather be conscientious to do my best always and to do all things through Christ. We ought to be conscientious to honor Christ. Matthew 5.16 was the theme of the teen banquet the other night, great verse. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father, which is in heaven. Other people will know there's a God oftentimes through witnessing your testimony. They watch you and they come up with his thought in their heart and mind. There's something different about that guy. There's something different about that girl. I remember numerous times we'd be playing football games in our high school football team and be out there on the field. We used the Bethany Stadium in Oklahoma. And we'd go out there and on occasion we played Bethany High School. They were a big old public school. They could mop the deck with us normally in any given game. But they had a big marching band. Their marching band had more people in it than our whole school. And they came out there and they marched and they got in order and everything. Right in the middle of the whole thing, there was a girl out there, I believe she was pounding on the drum and everything, had about four or five little drums going over her shoulder and around her neck. And boy, her hands would be moving so quick, they just looked like a blur. But the distinguishing characteristic of it was she was wearing a dress. Only girl out there wearing a dress. Where did your eyes go? They went right to her. Are you like me? You see a girl wearing a dress, a lady wearing a dress anymore, and your first thought is, well, there's a Christian. We've almost gotten to that point in our society. There's a Christian. I'll tell you this, people's talk changes. When you go through the line at Walmart, have you ever listened as the, if you can find a real humanoid, and you're not dealing with one of those do-it-yourself machines that always, I mean, I go in there, I set off alarms when I walk into Walmart. It's kind of like it tells all the people there, the idiot is here, because I can't understand all that technology. You say, it's not tough, it is if you don't know it. And so, I get, I come up there to the line, had my wife, when the girls were little, had the girls, and we're going up there, and the person behind the cash register talks to the people, however the people talk to her. So, they come in here, every other word, dude, hey, dude, you know, whatever. I hate that word, whatever. Ask a young person something, tell a young person something, whatever. What does whatever mean? If I'd have done that with my dad, the word would have been wherever. What do you mean? Wherever you find his head, wherever you find his mouth, wherever you find his shoulders, something like that. Whap, I'd have been the first guy to the moon and back. Whatever, that's not an answer. Now, young people, they step up there, the person behind the counter's dude and whatever, and talking like that, all the modern jive and garb and everything else that they can come up with, and they keep looking up the aisle, and they see you standing there. You're standing there in a suit and a shirt and a tie, and your wife is attired, and there are the girls and all wearing dresses and they all have a smile on her face and their hair's combed and they look like they're clothed and in their right mind and they don't know what to do with that testimony. And you walk up there and all of a sudden the word changes. It's no longer dude and whatever, it's have a blessed day. Conversation changes. Attitudes change. Are you walking in there with a great big sign on your forehead? I'm a Christian. Treat with respect, please. You don't have to do that. Just walk in there and be the Christian you ought to be. You'll stand out. You'll be different. I don't go anywhere to be different. But everywhere I do go, I do go to try to be a good advertisement for the Lord. Oh, folks, listen, there's some people that constantly want to dwell in a misery zone. Why? Why do you wanna be there? If you know the Lord, look like it. If you know the Lord, act like it. If you know the Lord, put a smile on your face. All the world's got to advertise these days is a great big frown. If you don't believe that, talk to your nearest Democrat. They haven't had a good day since back in November. And I hate to say this, but the more miserable they are, the more happy I get. Because I remember very well what it's been like the last four years. It's time to get happy. You know, when I see a person drive up all the days of the mask and the social distancing and everything, hey, up in Mesquite, Texas, the cars social distance. They're 20 feet behind the car in front of them. Pull up! More people can get through the intersection. Pull up! What? They finally pull the mask down. You're the only person in the car. You're wearing a mask. You afraid you're gonna infect yourself or something? You're 20 feet behind the car in front of you. And you got a great big frown. And I look over there and say, there's a Democrat. Now, if there's a Democrat in here, I'm sorry about that. You can change. I've seen what you have to offer and I'm not interested. And I'll tell you, you hang on and things are gonna get exciting. We all ought to be praying today, not for the Superbowl, although Brother Block is. He's not gonna fess up, but I'll spill the beans. He's praying for a three-peat. You say, what's that? If you don't know, I'm not gonna talk about it. But I'll tell you this, security is at the maximum level today in New Orleans because of the Super Bowl. On top of that, our new president said, I'm going to the Super Bowl. That ratcheted security up about another 10,000 stories. And one lady said it this way last night. She said, the safest place on earth this Sunday will be New Orleans. It's security. If you bump into anybody, it'll probably be a security guard somewhere in the air, underground, on the sea, wherever. They're going to be security everywhere. Now, listen, folks, we ought to, you know what they are? They're conscientious. We want to do our best. We got to protect the fans. We got to protect the teams. We got to protect the president. They're conscientious about what they're doing. You say, oh, well, they're just sad because they're getting paid to do that. No, they're conscientious. That's why they're in a position to serve in that capacity. Now, when the Lord's looking for somebody to get something done for him, who do you think he's gonna use? He's gonna use a conscientious person like you. Now just step it up and realize, I want to be conscientious. Okay, number three is this, concerned. Concerned. There's another C. We need to be concerned. Concerned about what? Concerned about the lost. concerned about the wayward. There are a lot of people that just seem to be drifting through life and don't really know how to get on board and how to take hold and how to go in the right direction. When a person just gets saved, that's when they need a lot of help and a lot of guidance. You wouldn't just bring a baby after a physical birth, you wouldn't bring the baby home, throw it over there into the, into the playpen where it's staying and say, okay, kid, we did the hard part, you're on your own, raise yourself. The Bible tells us the child left to himself, bringeth his mother to shame. Somebody better be concerned about that. Somebody better be conscientious about that. I could throw another C in there and say somebody better be compassionate about that. The Bible tells us In Galatians chapter 1, I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you unto the grace of Christ unto another gospel, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and would, let's see, I'm trying to read this with one eye, would pervert the gospel of Christ, though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received, let him be accursed. We ought to be concerned about our testimony. It is so important. Fourthly, fourth main point, is to be constructive. Let me ask you a question. Does your life build up or does it tear down? Have you ever just been somewhere and somebody walked in the room and the whole atmosphere in the room changed? Sometimes that happens because that's a person of respect. That's a person of authority. Not all people in authority are people of respect. I respect some people just because of the position they hold. But I respect others in the same capacity at perhaps a different time who hold the same position, which I'm gonna respect, but they hold it with honor, which calls for me to respect their person. Now, if we're gonna respect their person, they are probably in that category in your heart and mind because you know they respect you. That goes both ways. Respect is not something you purchase, not something you buy. Respect is something you earn. You stay at it and at it and at it and at it. I remember the story of a Glenn Cunningham. First athlete that ever ran a mile in less than four minutes, Glenn Cunningham. He almost died in a house fire. And doctors told him, you will never walk again. He said, oh, yes, I will. and determination and everything, as a young man, he would not be quit. He would not be deterred. I'm gonna walk, I'm gonna walk, I'm gonna walk. And when he learned how to walk, I'm gonna run, I'm gonna run, I'm gonna run. And the first man that ever ran a mile in less than four minutes. We don't think much of that today. But I'll tell you this, it still takes quite an effort to run a mile in less than four minutes. Glenn Cunningham did it, and he did it and had all the excuses in the world available. Well, I said I'd never walk again, and now I'm walking. I'm not only walking, I'm running. And so he didn't rely on everybody else's estimate of what he could do. He said, I'm going to be determined to go ahead and do this. I am going to do it. What was that? That was confidence. There's your fifth C right there. He was confident. He was confident in the fear of the Lord, confident in his coming. And folks, I'll tell you this, there's so many reasons why we ought to be confident. We've got the promises of the word of God. We live our life based upon the truth and the power and the authority of the word of God. We are confident. Now I'll say this about confidence. Our confidence is not in the flesh. And our confidence is not in our ability to boast. I'm the greatest, I'm this, I'm that. Hey, why don't you learn how to speak? You know, we've had so much emphasis and discussion about pronouns over the last few months and years. Why don't you get rid of these three, me, myself, and I? Try talking without using the words me, myself, and I. You know, some people are gonna go mute. They won't have anything to talk about, because their favorite subject has been removed from the conversation. People like to hear about things other than just you. A preacher gets up, me, me, me, me, me, sounds like you're getting ready to participate in a choir or something. I, I, I, I, I, I, I is right. I had an I, I, I moment yesterday. I pulled into a crowded parking lot and I said, oh Lord, I really, I don't have much time. I need a parking place. Give me a parking place right up there close. And my goodness, I drove up there in faith, expecting the Lord to give. Would you know, the very first parking lot and parking spot was open and there was no handicap sign there, no employee of the month sign, nothing. That belonged to me. And I got in there and got out. Man alive, I thanked the Lord all the way into Walmart. I got what I asked for. I got more than I asked for. Coming out, I found out why that was open. It was underneath the big tree. And this is that time of year when you've got 10,000 grackles up there per square foot. And 5,000 were right up on top of my car, which used to be dark gray. If you see a gray and white vehicle out there in the parking lot today, you'll know why I got the first place. I didn't pray with enough detail. Lord, give me a spot right up close that's not anywhere near a tree. That's gonna be my prayer from now on, all right? He'll probably say, okay, you fat little guy, you're gonna walk, you're gonna exercise, you need to lose some weight. Well, let me just say again and reiterate, in our lives, May we just purpose to be considerate, conscientious, concerned, constructive, and confident. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for this day. Thank you, Lord, for Liberty Baptist Church, Brother Nichols, Brother Block, the good people that make up this ministry. Lord bless, not only in this Sunday school hour, but continue to bless in the morning service, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen, Brother Block.