Pastor, boy, it is incredible. Such a great privilege to be back at Thompson Road. I can't tell you how excited we were to be back here with you. I do have a question. Does Indianapolis know that it's the month of March? You know, I stepped outside today. It's the craziest thing. I had this nice warm room where the pastor has allowed us to stay at and so forth. And I stood there at the door and I thought, Do I need to carry my heavy coat today? I'm not real sure. I hadn't looked outside, didn't even check the weather, didn't know anything. I said, I better take it just to be safe. And I stepped outside and there's a blizzard going on outside. What's going on here? No, it's not bad. It's really beautiful. It's nice. Someone was telling me earlier that it was just much warmer just a few days ago. So I thought, yeah, it's good to be back in Indiana. And Indianapolis was just a roller coaster of temperature drops and ups and downs. It's great to be here with you again, folks. It really is. You say, what do you mean be back? When were you ever here? I had the joy of being here back in 2017. So what is that, six years ago? It's February of 2017. And I met your pastor back then. He was an assistant pastor, and now it's just a joy to be with him as he is senior pastor. And to be back with folks that I met days long ago, and yet some of us have never met before. And those of you who were here in 2017, and you're looking at me saying, I don't remember you. The feeling is mutual. All right, I'll just say to you that we'll have to kind of act like we've never seen each other before, never known each other before, and get to know each other as best we can. My wife, Lynn, is with me in town, but she started picking up something yesterday, some kind of a sickness, and this is a rarity. She just needed to stay back and continue to recuperate. expecting and praying that she'll be able to be with us tonight. And so that'll be so, but Lord willing, she will be. I'm sorry she's not here to introduce her to you right now this morning. It really is a delight to be here because honestly, I have heard of and known of and had the joy of being a part of your church for a meeting just six years ago. And it's just a great thing to be able to come back and to see friends again and to be able to open up the word of God anytime, anywhere. And I counted a great, great privilege to do so. Thank you for those of you who have been prayerfully preparing your heart for these days. I'm grateful for a pastor who has set aside on the church calendar and scheduled it to have a season of what we often call revival. And we call it revival. God's in charge of really coming down and meeting with us. A person can have a personal, individual revival, and they ought to. We ought to know what it is to be revived and refreshed in the truths of scripture. Revival is not some kind of a spooky feeling that comes over a person. Don't ever get the idea that revival is some kind of a zap from heaven. Revival is a work of God that he sovereignly brings into an individual's life, maybe a family life, and a church's life. But I will say it like this, most Christians need revival most of the time. And we don't even know that we do. God is the one who orchestrates a moving into our lives that results in bolder prayer. It results in bolder witnessing. It results in tender hearts. It results in active service to the Lord. When you study the book of Acts and you read those first churches, churches of the firstborn, I read this morning, Jesus Christ being the firstborn from the dead, those churches that were established, Jerusalem, and as Paul and those teams begin to spread out, churches all over Thessalonica and Ephesus and so forth, those people, they didn't have revival. They had the vival. They had the original. They had the original work of God that produced gospel truth, lived out in their lives. So what am I? That's a good question. This is exactly what am I. Sometimes people ask me, tell me about your ministry. And I go, well, I'm an itinerant. preacher to churches in primarily North America, though I have been privileged to preach internationally. Primarily it's here in North America. And my burden, my passion is to remind us as God's people, thus saith the Lord. This is what the word of God says. Hey, what are we going to do with this? We gotta obey this. You're not gonna hear anything from me that you've not heard from your pastor and from other preachers that have stood in your pulpit. You're not gonna hear anything unusual. Now, the delivery will be different. The personality's different. Maybe the text that we'll look at is something that you've not looked at in a while, or maybe sometimes it just walks in a lockstep movement with what you've been hearing of recent days. I don't ask, you know, what have you been preaching on, pastor, tell me what the series has been or anything like that. I mean, I love to hear those things, but I'm not trying to grab a hold of what's been done. The fact is, The messages will be those truths that God has told me to proclaim to God's people that serve as a reminder of principles of Bible living, Christ-like living that ought to be exemplified and fleshed out in our lives. And as God orchestrates our time together, I just pray that you'll plan to be here. I'm so glad you're here this morning. I thought this morning as I was driving in, Pastor may be somewhere pacing the hall thinking, I hope that guest preacher remembered this is time change Sunday, you know, hope he shows up. I guess. I guess, you know, let me do some thinking here. Would I have come late or come early? I don't know which it is. I don't know what. All I know is we all lost an hour of sleep last night, you know? And the fact is, I could not wait to get here. I mean that. Folks, I mean this. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning. Now, some of you do that on a regular basis. I don't know. But I woke up at 4 o'clock and I just thought, really? I'm ready to go. I'm ready to get there. I said, okay, I'll lay in bed a little longer. So I laid there in bed till about 20 minutes ago. No, not really, not really, not really, not really. I couldn't wait to be here with you to open up God's word and God's truth. I love to preach and I love to teach the word of God. My heart beats with that of a pastor. My heart beats with that of an evangelist. My heart beats with that of a revivalist. I'm just an exhorter, that's all I am. I'm kind of a cheerleader that stands on the sideline of a local church and says, keep at it. You're doing great. Hey, hey, hey, watch out for this. Hey, have you remembered this? Don't forget this. Hey, you're doing great. I feel like a coach. I feel like someone who just wants to come along beside a pastor in the church and say, let's see what God has for us. So you're the Sunday school crowd and you probably don't miss anything. Whenever the church is doing something, you're always here. That's why you're here right now. I hope that you'll plan to be back for every single service. Just plan to come back tonight, would ya? The next most important service is the morning service, and then the next most important service will be tonight, okay? So plan to be back tonight, would ya? You say, wait a minute. Hey, Morris, have you remembered this is Indiana, and it's March. It's March Madness time. Yeah, I know, yeah. ESPN will tell you the brackets by the end of the service tonight. You'll know if your favorites have made it or not. And I get it, I understand. I'm just as eager to see who's gonna make it and who's not. But let's not let anything distract us. Plan to be here tonight, six o'clock, all right? And then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, seven o'clock. Don't get overwhelmed with, oh man. We got extra nights out this week. I just don't think I can make it. I think I'm coming down with the bubonic plague. Well, maybe you ought to reschedule that for maybe, I don't know, August or something like that during your week of vacation or something like that. All right. Don't let it happen this week. Reschedule your life to make sure you're here. And if you have a job in which you work at night, just quit your job and don't No, don't quit your job. I get it. Sometimes people do have to work at night and they can't make it for the evening services, and that's regrettable, but you can be much in prayer for us if that be the case, all right? I'm thrilled that you're here. Let's make use of our time. Let's go to Isaiah chapter 1. And let's look at something from God's word that we need to be reminded of here as we kick off our set of days together, okay? Isaiah chapter one. Now, Isaiah is what I call a physician's diary. assistant. You know something? I didn't know there were. When you see the name of a doctor, you see these initials after their name, you know what they are, doctor of whatever, practice something. I've seen the PA before But I never knew what a physician's assistant was until, oh, I don't know, about five years ago when I was encountered with the need for medical help in my life. And I discovered that there are nurse's assistants and physician's assistants. And I discovered that the physician's assistants are pretty knowledgeable. I mean, you ask them anything and they're about as knowledgeable as the main physician who can't seem to get around to all of his patients or he's on the golf course. whatever the case may be. And that physician's assistant is what I think what Isaiah was. You say, what do you mean? Well, you're gonna see, as we read chapter one, that Isaiah is bringing the report to God's people about their spiritual condition. Folks, we have a pandemic going on, and I'm not talking about coronavirus. There is a disease that is sweeping across American churches, probably across the globe. There is a disease that has symptoms to it that are in many cases asymptomatic. Many times God's people don't know that they're ill. And you're gonna see that from chapter one. You know, nobody probably enjoys going to see the doctor. We certainly don't like to go see the dentist. And they start taking x-rays, and they start taking MRIs, and they go, I need to talk to you. Oh, doctor, what did you see? We don't like to hear that. But it's important that we get the report to understand where the conditions of improvement need to be made. And we love it when the doctor says, well, everything looks good. Thanks. Do you want to hug his neck or hers? And you just want to say thanks. I'll see you in, I don't know, a year or something like that. But God's people often are spiritually weakened. And the Bible tells us in many places of those areas that we need to we need to deal with that sickness. And so the physician's assistant, Isaiah, got the report from the great, grand, sovereign physician, the Lord God Himself. And he was sent to proclaim the report to God's people. And I'm telling you, he hits the ground running in chapter one. And the entire rest of the book is dealing with the matter of what God's people need to do to repair to revitalize, to re-strengthen them spiritually. So this morning, let's go to the doctor and let's see what he has to say. It says in verse one, the vision of Isaiah, now that word vision simply means the prophecy, the report, the expression of truth from the king himself. The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw, concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Amos, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Now here he goes. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know. My people do not consider, that is, they don't understand. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden, loaded down with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, Children that are corrupters, means it's spreading. They have forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger. They've gone away backward. Why should you be stricken anymore? You will revoke more and more. Now, watch this. The whole head is sick. and the whole heart faint." Stop right there. When he refers to the head, he's talking about the way in which a person thinks. You know, our actions are nothing more but responses to what we think first. We don't commit sin until, unless we first of all thought about it. We don't say something, you know, sometimes people say, ah, I spoke without thinking. That's not true. Wait, the whole head is sick. Then he says, and the whole heart is faint. The word heart is a reference to a person's passions, their emotions, their, again, their activities, what motivates them. Then he says it is faint, meaning that it's weakened. In other words, their passion for the Lord has become weak. Pick it back up there in verse six. From the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness or good health in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying or running sores. They've not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Your land, strangers devoured in your presence, and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers. Go down to verse 10. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah." By the way, he's not talking to direct Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah had been destroyed long before this. He's saying to God's people, you are living a life like... Sodom and Gomorrah. Are you seeing any similarities to America in what we're reading here? I mean, the turning of the back on God and your country is desolate and strangers devour it with all kinds of philosophy. Verse 11, to what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord, I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts, and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When you come to appear before me, who's required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations." That means your offerings are useless. Incense is an abomination unto me. The new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with or I can't endure it. It is iniquity, even your solemn meetings. Your new moons and your appointed feasts, my soul hateth. They are a trouble unto me. I'm weary to bear them. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you. Yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash you. Make you clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow. Now here's a familiar verse. Come now. And let us reason together, saith the Lord. Now, this is a statement that says, let's go to the court. Let's conclude. Let's decide the court case. Let's reason together, saith the Lord. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. This man, Isaiah, was sent with a message that had to have been difficult to deliver. I don't know his personality. You can only pick up things from the reading of scriptures. But can you imagine, right from the get-go, Isaiah had to declare to God's people, you're sick. You're sick. Now again, all of us could sit here this morning and say, America is sick. And I'd be the first one to agree. America's turned their back on God. That's exactly right. And you're seeing the result of it for further reference Go read Romans chapter 1 and you'll see when God turns his back and he allows Sinful behavior just to go on and and he he allows an individual or a group of individuals to live their life He gives up he gives him up. Every nation has gone through this and But let's tighten the focus and let's look at God's people because he refers to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. He's talking to those people who've been taught the Word of God. They've been following the ordained laws of sacrifice and worship that God's people, the Jewish dear people, had been giving for a multitude of years. And God says to them, why do you keep doing it? Why do you keep bringing your animal sacrifices to the worship center? Why do you keep going through the motions? Why do you continue to lift your hands in prayer? Does that disturb you or does that make you question something? Why would God say, why do you do what I told you to do? Because friends, here's the bottom line. They were insincere. They were just going through the motions. bring the animal sacrifice, slay the lamb, slay the bullock, put it up there on the altar, lift up hands in prayer, sing the songs, and go on about their way. And God says, I don't have your heart. In a real sense, he could say, you could say, I don't have your thoughts, I don't have your heart, I don't have you, because you're just going through the routine. I call this the disease or the cancer of familiarity. You know, when you get familiar with something, have you ever noticed that you just, you almost don't see it anymore? Maybe when you move to a new area, you drive by an area where there's horses running in an area, out in a pasture land, you go, that's beautiful, man, I love that. I just love this. But after a few times driving by, you don't see those horses anymore. You don't see the open area anymore. You just got familiar with it. I used to live here in Indianapolis. And when we lived on the, I'm pointing in a direction I think it was, when I lived over in that way, I remember being home for a few days and I wanted to put a bunch of the stuff that we weren't using up in our attic. And so I put the ladder up and I climbed up into our attic and there was no flooring up in the attic. I don't know if you've ever laid flooring in an attic, but I decided I'm just gonna lay out some sheets of plywood and put it down here and give myself some flooring so I can bring some boxes and some items up here into the attic. And so I happen to be home during one of those hot seasons of time and of course in an attic. Average temperature is about 180. And so I was climbing up there. The first time I got up in the attic, I was looking at all the cross beams. And I was dodging them. I was learning where to avoid them. But the first thing I noticed when I first got up to the top of the ladder was a receptacle there that the builder had put there. And it had three wires hanging down out of it. And I said, OK, what? Oh. That's for me to be able, if I wanted to, to install a light bulb and I could install another receptacle into those three wires and have myself a light bulb. Well, I only had a few days at home and I said, I don't have time to mess with that. I got to get this done and I can see okay. And I did. And folks, I had about four days to get all this stuff done. So I was laying down the plywood. Now, the first day I was avoiding those cross beams and so forth. And as I came up to the top of the ladder into the attic, I would avoid those wires and so forth. And I was just putting it all down and so forth. Everything was going fine till that final day. I got up there to the top of the ladder into the attic that final day. And at some point while I was working, I don't know what Compelled me to do it. I don't know Just just used to it being there. I reached up to brush those three wires out of the way and That's when I realized Those wires are live and It was a shocking experience. Can I just tell you, it was electric. I'm telling you, those are dad jokes. I mean, all of a sudden, I realized, and I'm telling you what, I mean, I just sat down on some of the flooring that I had put down. I mean, it just jolted me all throughout my body, and I looked down to see, do I have any hair left on my hands, you know, or anything? Or on my head, you know? I'm thinking, you know, what did that do to me? And it really took me off guard. I had grown familiar with those wires, and I just, I didn't think much about it. Sometimes God's people get so familiar with the Bible that when they hear it proclaimed and taught and read, They hear it and they go on about their life with no transformation. The Word of God is not just for our information. It's not just for a bunch of data to be dumped inside of our head that we just kind of go, okay, yeah, yeah, okay, I learned all this theology, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get all this fact, yeah, I get all these truths, yeah, I get, but it doesn't transform you. Friends, the Word of God is not just for information or just for inspiration. It's for transformation. into further Christ-likeness. And God's Word has been given to us to show us where we are and to show us our God, who is the one that we are, our example to pursue, to get to know. And as we come to the Word of God, even in our few days together, may we recognize that there is a disease creeping up into every one of us. of familiarity. You ever been around a new convert? Someone who just recently got saved? Every song that the church sings, every special that is sung, it's like, wow, man, I love this song. Oh, that's so good. And you'll see them crying in the service. And they'll come up to the pastor and they'll say, Pastor, I got a few questions, which means he's going to be tied up for about an hour and a half, you know, because he's a new believer who's just thirsting after truth. The only thing you fear is that he may get around somebody who's been around the Word of God for so long that puts a wet blanket on them. And I'm not saying that's where you'd do it, that you'd be that way. I'm just simply saying to you this morning, it might be wise for us to find out if this disease is spreading in us. You say, well, I don't know, Morris. What does it look like? Good question. Go back to verse two. He says there in verse two, Now, this is the description. Here are our symptoms. It says in verse 2, Give ear, O earth. Stop right there. What's he saying? He's saying, let me have your attention. By the way, I'm not a Hebrew scholar, but the words hear and give ear are written with volume of noise. It's like the old days of the herald, the criers that went through cities and they'd say, hear ye, hear ye. They spoke with loudness of volume. I have a message from the king. That's what's going on here. God is sending his physician's assistant to God's people and he's saying, let me have your attention. It's like a mother looking at a child saying, look at me when I'm talking to you. And don't look at me like you've got angels for children. You know exactly what I'm talking about, all right? Or a wife saying to her husband, are you listening to me? And he's over there switching between ball games. Uh, yeah, yeah, I'm listening. You know, you're in trouble because the next thing she's going to say is, then what did I just say? Uh, did you already forget what you said? Why are you asking me? You know, Mr. Go bury yourself in the backyard. You're not going to get, you're not going to get beyond that one right there. God is saying to his people, number one, the first symptom is that you've become spiritually deaf. You're not hearing my message. Now, this is an overstatement. I've already said this. But the very first thing you see is God is saying to his people, I don't have your attention. What do I have to do to get your attention? You're not listening to me. He repeats it down in verse 10. Look at verse 10. Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah. What was he saying? He was saying, you have heard it, and you've heard it, and you've heard it, and you've heard it, and you're not listening. You know, after a while, even in a faithful Bible teaching, preaching church like Thompson Road has been for however many years, You can get so familiar with the voices and the sounds and the delivery, and you can get so familiar with the setting to where you're not hearing it. It's fascinating to me. It dawned on me not too long ago that throughout the Word of God, we are challenged. In fact, can I use this word? We're commanded. to cry out to the Lord. He tells you, cry out to me. I'll be a refuge unto you. Cry out to me. This is one time God changes it and he says, I'm crying out to you. You want me to listen to you, now I want you to listen to me. How crucial, how important that is. You think about people who stop listening to God's word in the word of God, guys like Samson. Demas, who hung out with Paul and some of the faithful missionary evangelistic pastors of the New Testament early days. And yet somewhere along the way, he just stopped listening and looked at the world and went that way. Lot pitched his tent toward Sodom and Gomorrah. Why? Because he knew the truth. He was with Abraham, and Lot was a believer. We know that. The Bible tells us he was just Lot. That is, he'd been his righteous soul. He was a believer. We're gonna meet Lot in heaven someday. But somewhere along the way, he stopped listening. It's a disease that creeps over you. How long has it been since you heard God speak to you? When's the last time you read the word of God and you said, oh, that's good, let me mark that. Lord, thank you, that's a wonderful promise. Lord, thank you, that's a great warning. The first symptom is spiritual deafness, and it leads naturally to the next thing. We become spiritually desensitized. Look at verse three. He says, the ox knows his owner. That is, an animal knows the voice of his owner. Then he says, the ass, or the donkey, knows his master's crib. He knows the one who feeds him and takes care of him. He was saying this. Animals respond better to their masters than my people respond to me. I warned them, but they're not listening. Sin doesn't bother them anymore. He goes on to say in verse five, why should you be stricken, that is disciplined, anymore? You will revolt or rebel more and more. The whole head's sick and the whole heart is faint. He's saying, I'm doing everything I can to get your attention. He goes on to say, your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Who allowed those cities to be destroyed? God did. What was he saying? Let me have your attention. What else do I need to do to get you to come back to me and to give your whole being to me? You're not responding to me. Here's the way Jeremiah put it. Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 6 and verse 15, Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed. Neither could they blush. Ezra said this, this is a powerful statement, powerful in the statement of Ezra the priest. He said in chapter nine in verse three, when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle and I plucked off the hair of my head and I sat astonished. What was he saying? He was saying, I repented. I turned to the Lord and I said, God, I'm so sorry for what we as a people are doing. We can get to the point to where we come to church, sing the songs, hear the message, sing just as I am, and leave just as we were. because we're not responding. Now, folks, I have no motive behind that statement. I'm not trying to trick anybody to say, I guess the preacher wants me to walk the aisle every service. Friends, I am not an arm twisting kind of a preacher that's going to beg people to get on their knees. But when God speaks. We need to respond to him, whatever that means. He says, my people have gotten sick because they've become deaf and they've become desensitized. So what's our medicine? What do we do for this sickness? Well, it walks hand in glove. First of all, the first prescription that we need to bring healing is this. There needs to be sincere worship from the heart. Look at verse 11. He says in verse 11, when you come to appear before me, who's required this at your hand to tread my courts? Bring no more, now here it comes, useless or vain oblations, offerings. Your incense is an abomination unto me. So God is saying this. People, who told you to bring these offerings? You did. Who's told you to lift your hands in prayer? You did. Don't do it anymore unless your heart is in it. That's what he's saying. So what is the thing that's gonna bring healing to a Christian life that tends to drift into some realm of familiarity? He says to us to be sincere. Sincere in our service to Him. Sincere in our singing. Sincere in our giving. They were giving animal sacrifices. Sincere in our praying. He says don't lift up hands that don't sincerely mean it. There needs to be a sincerity in your life. We get super excited about Sports, again, the March Madness. We get super excited about technology and all the gadgetry that's available to us today. We get excited about vehicles, cars, trucks. We get excited about going shopping. For most ladies these days, it's online. We get excited about, I don't know, garage sales, whatever you get excited about. Is there an enthusiasm for your God? that brings about a sincere worship of Him. You know what He's calling us to do? He's telling us to put the wow back into our worship. That when you're singing, your heart is praising God. You're singing praises unto Him and you're telling Him, I honor you and I adore you and I look to you for all of my direction. Put the wow back into your worship just to spend time with Him. You know, when I was a young kid, My family would take us to go see my grandfather, the only one that was alive. And I always enjoyed doing it because at his house in that area, there was a gymnasium nearby. I could go over and shoot baskets or there was, we'd stay in a hotel. There was a swimming pool. I loved it, man. Yeah, let's go see granddad. Hey, granddad, can I go swimming? And there was fun stuff to do. But when I got older, I discovered I just want to sit still and listen to granddad. One of the stories he's got to tell and the experiences of life, I just want to be with him. At some point in a Christian's life, you know, you say, I love to be a Christian because look at all the, man, I get to go to heaven. Hey, hey, hey, man, I get to hang out with good people. Hey, you know, I can get prayers answered. Yeah, I love this. At some point, it's just, I just want to be with him. How do you get healthy? By spending time with Him. I mean, sincerely. Sincere worship. Sincere reverence. And finally, look at verse 16 and I'll finish. He says here, if you want to get healthy, wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. Now, wait a minute. Time out. Catch your breath. In this verse, the doctor is saying four times the same thing. You talk about emphasizing it. Wash you. He's talking about spiritually. Wash you. You could put a period right after that, but he doesn't. Make you clean. Same thing. He could stop right there, but he doesn't. Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Same thing. Fourth, stop doing evil. Okay. I think he's emphasizing something here. All right, folks, I'm gonna conclude with what the doctor says here. Ready? Not only should there be sincere worship from the heart, there needs to be a sincere or a serious cleansing of the heart. The fact that it's emphasized four times is an underscoring from the doctor. It's like the doctor sits down in a chair and he looks at you and he says, now what I got to tell you, you really better do what I say. You're gonna have to change your diet. You're gonna have to start an exercise program. You're gonna have to stop eating so much candy. You're gonna have to stop doing whatever. And he gets serious. God is saying to you and to me, there needs to be serious cleansing. of my heart. What does that mean? It means this. You call sin by its name. I'm sorry for my attitude. I'm sorry for my language. I'm sorry for the the thoughts that I've had. I'm sorry for the gossiping that I've been doing. God, I am sorry for the unfaithfulness that I have displayed towards you. Lord, God, I'm gonna call it what it is. And you call it out and you say, God, cleanse me from this sin. That's what the word of God is telling us to do. You wanna be healthy? Then keep your heart clean. Keep sin confessed. Is there anything between you and the Lord today? You need to confess it between him and you. Wash you, make yourself clean. James said, cleanse your hands, ye sinners. Purify your hearts. Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he'll lift you up. He'll make you healthy. Now, whenever you do decide to have spring around here, whenever it comes, I don't know about your yard, but so often in the spring of the year, it seems like all of a sudden you see these little weeds that crop up in the front yard again, or the backyard, all over. And it's like you go, I thought I killed you rascals last year. I put fertilizer on you last year. In some cases, I brought some professional guy to come out here, and I spent a lot of money for him to put chemicals in the soil to kill you little yellow, what do you call it, dandelions, whatever those things are, that they just kind of wave at you. We're back. What is that? Well, the seed germ of weeds is in the soil, and you can do what you can to get rid of it, and you get rid of it, but then they keep coming back. And that's what sin is because in my nature, I'm a sinner. And every once in a while, like let me think here, every day, some weed of sin comes up and I have to say, oh God, I'm sorry. I look forward to the day in which I don't have to confess sin anymore when I get to heaven. But until then, I wanna keep killing off those sins. I gotta stay healthy. Is there a pandemic creeping over you this morning? The disease, the cancer of familiarity. May these days be days in which we will genuinely be encountered by the truths of scripture and we'll say, God, I wanna be healthy. Let's bow our heads for prayer. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. We're just getting started. in the quietness of your heart right now, why don't you even pray this way? Lord, give me a personal revival during these days. Just tell him right now. Revive my heart these days. Lord, thank you for these dear friends of Thompson Road Baptist. Lord, I don't know that there's any guests here today. I would assume they're all attenders or members of this good church. Thank you for the fact that they've sat and listened to an exposition of the message from Isaiah, who got it from you. Now, Lord, I pray that we'll take the next steps forward in the service to follow and the services to follow. May we be drawn closer and closer to you. We look forward to what you're going to do. We say all this in your wonderful name. Amen. Pastor, anything?