And you maybe see it's required in stewards, isn't it? That a man be found faithful. Faithfulness is consistency, reliability, the know-so that if somebody says so, they'll get that done. And it's a great thing if we have faithful men and women in our church, the same commitment out of faithful men who shall be able to teach others also. And so it's a great need. The kids are now gone. And Daniel, thank you for your ministry in my absence, and I wish we could have been here to benefit from it, but everybody else did, and I'm glad for your faithfulness there and the work that you did. You weren't here Sunday because of COVID isolation. I'll just make sure I say that, but thank you for what you did there. All right, 1 Timothy chapter 4, and Verses nine through 11 is our text tonight. Timothy chapter four, verses nine through 11. And if you can remember back the past couple weeks, we've been talking about choosing to live your life for worthy things. And so things that are worthy of your attention. your focus, your time, and your investment, all right? A lot of times people can live their life for a lot of things. Some people's lives is very sad. If you go to their funeral, what you find out at their funeral is that the best thing they have to say about them is about their being a fan of some sports team or achieving something in life that you just look at in the scope of entering into eternity as something that they lived their life for that was really kind of no big deal. And so it's very important for us to look at our life and say, what am I living my life for? And so am I living my life for worthy things? So we talked about... Choose to live your life for worthy things, obtain a worthy goal. And so let's pick it up at verse six, just to remember kind of what we looked at. Preach the whole counsel of God as a parent, as anybody that's giving out the word of God to anybody. Verse six, if thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister. And obviously the primary emphasis is for a minister to do that with his congregation. But we talked about how just anybody that we influence, anybody that we're speaking to about God ought to hear from us everything about the word of God. And that will make us a good minister for Jesus Christ. Thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ growing in God's word. It says nourished up in the words of faith. established in sound doctrine and of good doctrine, mature in understanding, wherein to thou hast attained. We talked about Timothy didn't come to this right away. It was a process of time. We don't expect somebody to enter into our church and right away become a mature believer, but that there's a process of growth. And then on guard against false teaching, but refuse profane and old wives fables. So worthy goal is to get a correct understanding of the word of God, rightly apply that to our life and declare that to other people. And so obtain that worthy goal. And then established in a worthy walk is what we looked at a fortnight ago because of holiday for our family. But we talked about being physically disciplined. Because the Bible does say here in verse 8, "...for bodily exercise profiteth little." There is profit to it. And it's a comparison, so it's not saying that it doesn't profit. It certainly does profit. We talked about even ways that it's right for us to care for our body because God's given it to us. We talked about Self-discipline helps spiritual discipline. So that's a good thing. But the spiritual discipline is the big thing. And so be physically disciplined and spiritual disciplined. So practicing personal holiness, verse 7, it says, unto godliness, for bodily exercise profiteth little." In comparison to what you can get, and you could get a lot out of physical exercise, you could get so much more out of spiritual discipline and godliness. It benefits this life, having promise of the life that now is. And we talked about if you apply this to your life and you're a godly person, what are you gonna have? You're gonna have a God-blessed marriage, you're gonna have a God-blessed family, you're gonna be a God-blessed neighbor, You could have a God-blessed church, if your church is truly godly, and so there's benefits in life, and then reaping benefits in eternity, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. And we looked at 1 Corinthians 3, verse 12, and I wanna read it for us again. And it says, now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire. And the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. Okay, so there's, it could be something that's great, gold, silver, precious stones, or wood, hay, and stubble, which is not great. And it's gonna be tested by the fire. Verse 14, if any man's work abide which he had built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. It'd be a very sad thing to enter into eternity. You're saved, but the fire consumes everything. I mean, that would be sad. But if I'm living my life for that worthy goal of representing the truth of the word of God to those that God has given to me, if I am physically disciplined and I am spiritually disciplined, then I'm already putting gold, silver, and precious stones aside that are going to stand the test of that fire so that when I stand before God there's going to be a reward. But what we're going to look at tonight is also key to this idea of having something that is very, very precious and real and lasting as we enter into eternity. And so what we're gonna look at tonight is accept a worthy truth, okay? So we've got a worthy goal, a worthy walk, and tonight, a worthy truth, all about living our life for worthy things. Let's pray and ask the Spirit of God to help us as we come to the Word of God this evening. Father, we thank you for the grace that you give. Thank you for our time that we've already spent with you here this evening. And Father, for blessing our song service. Lord, thank you for the excitement in the hearts of the kids as they got up to go to their class. And for that taking place right now, we pray that the Spirit of God would bless Mrs. Shore as she guides in that time. We pray that their hearts and minds would be tender and open to your truth. And Father, those that are not yet saved, we pray they get saved. Father, we've seen children, we've seen children in our family from the age of four accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. And Father, certainly at five, certainly at six, we've seen that. And Father, I just pray tonight, would you do a precious work in their hearts and that they'd have a really special class this evening, that there would be a quietness in the hearts of the kids as they sit in class and listen to the lesson this evening. And Father, in our time together tonight, we're talking about vital truth. We're talking about truth that we ought to live our life for, that we ought to be able to see these things in our life. And I pray that we can see the growth necessary to understand the Word of God so that we can rightly present it to others. Father, I pray for physical and spiritual discipline. in the lives of our congregation. But then this truth that we're going to look at tonight is vital as well as we focus in on the gospel. And so I praise Spirit of God, would you bless as we come to this truth, may it be anchored in our hearts and minds that, Father, we decide even tonight that this is something worth living our life for. And Father, I can't speak as Without your enablement, we can't listen tonight without the same. And so I pray for that. I pray, God, give us ears to hear. And Father, I pray that you give me grace to speak. And I pray that I preach to the best of my ability, the truth of the word of God. But Father, my ability is nothing compared with your enablement. So I pray, Father, that the spirit of God would enable me. And I pray that I preach lovingly, biblically, practically, and powerfully the truth of the word of God. And we thank you for it tonight. It's in Christ's name we pray, amen. All right, accept a worthy truth. It says, this is a faithful saying, verse nine, and worthy. Okay, as he says, this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. Paul has already referred to this truth back in chapter one of this letter to Timothy. And so 1 Timothy 1, verse 15, it says, this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am worthy. Okay, so we're going to summarize with one word or this worthy truth, it is Jesus, or it is the gospel, the good news about what Jesus Christ did when he died on the cross for men's sins. And so what we do with Jesus, makes all the difference in the world. If we just take the truth of Jesus and convey it as we ought, that makes all the difference in the world. Taking Jesus as our Savior makes all the difference in the world. Jesus said in Mark 12, verse 10, having not read this scripture, the stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner okay jesus is the head jesus is uh the cornerstone uh and uh and uh he's the he's the cornerstone that the the religious people rejected uh but that they should have accepted isaiah 28 verse 16 says therefore thus sayeth the lord god behold i lay in zion uh for a foundation of stone a tried stone a precious stone, a sure foundation, okay? He is the solid rock. If we want to base our lives upon something, we ought to base our life upon Jesus Christ. Ephesians 2 verse 20, are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. 1 Peter 2.6, wherefore also is contained in the scripture, behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone elect, precious, and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Now the cornerstone sets everything about that building or the structure that is going to be built. An architectural website had this definition of a cornerstone. It says, in relation to architecture, a cornerstone is traditionally the first stone laid for a structure, with all other stones laid in reference. A cornerstone marks the geographical location by orienting a building in a specific direction. Everything else goes off of that. So you get the cornerstone and that gets set right. Everything else about that structure is going to be right. If that's my life, my life's going to be right. If that's our church, our church is going to be right based on whether or not our cornerstone is right. Obviously Jesus, our cornerstone, is the worthy truth that we're speaking about. Now humanism has a cornerstone as well, and humanism's cornerstone is themselves, right? They set their ideas of the parameters of what is right. False religion has a cornerstone, it's tradition, or human reasoning, or feelings. But again, Our cornerstone is Jesus Christ, an infallible person of absolute truth. John 14 verse 6, Jesus said unto him, but by me, okay? So somebody received Jesus Christ as their savior, he becomes their cornerstone. He is set as a foundation stone in their life. That's a worthy truth, okay, that we're talking about this evening, Jesus and his death and his resurrection for man's sin and to save men from their sin. And so, accept a worthy truth, and it's a truth that is without fault. Okay, so here we go. Verse nine, a truth that is without fault. It says, this is a faithful saying. All right, in our day, there are a lot of things that are not faithful sayings, such as, and I don't remember the exact date, March 20-something, the mask mandate was to be done. But if you watched the news yesterday, the goalpost has been moved, and that mask mandate continues. In our day, truth is under attack. It's always been under attack, but in particular, it seems like in our day and currently, truth is certainly under attack. We've got the Russian war propaganda. They're trying to justify the incursion into Ukraine, saying that there was genocide that took place by Ukraine. Obviously it's all false, but they're putting that propaganda out there to justify their invasion. We live in the day of cancel culture. That idea that we erase history if we don't like it. If there's something that we disagree with, we just kind of set that aside. We've got political parties that no longer sound like politicians. They sound like children that are arguing and fighting about their ideas. And so they will speak about the same truth, but they'll speak from two opposing viewpoints. We've got news media. Do you believe that news media is unbiased or biased? It's biased and maybe they're coming out strongly for their politicians or whatnot. And so we watch something or we see something in this day and we ask ourselves the question maybe, can I really trust that? You know, somebody says something, you wanna maybe believe it for whatever reason, but you wonder, can I really believe that? And you might find yourself saying, who can I really believe? You know, in our day, who can I really trust? And praise God, tonight, the good answer is God, right? You can really trust God. We have a God of truth who gave us a truth in a book. This is a faithful saying. Numbers 23 verse 19 says, God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good? You know, if God has said something, you can go to the bank on it because God is absolutely faithful to that which he has said. Proverbs 12 verse six says, the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of earth purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. 1 John 5 verse 20, and we know that the son of God has come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true. And we are in him that is true. Even in his son, Jesus Christ, this is the true God and eternal life. And sometimes, as you do evangelism, or as I've done evangelism, somebody will say to me, well, you have your beliefs and I have mine, to each their own. As if it's true, kind of, if you believe it. And it is true that we can have our own beliefs. As anonymous, we agree with that, that somebody has a right to believe as they want to believe, and that they're not going to be coerced or forced to believe something, but all beliefs are not equal. All things that we think are right are not right. What matters is not what I believe, but what is. True. All right, that's what really matters. If you're standing on a beach and in an area that is an island area that is prone maybe to earthquakes and a tsunami siren goes off and you hear that siren, it doesn't matter whether you believe or not a tsunami is coming, what matters is, is a tsunami coming, right? What you believe doesn't matter. What matters is what's true. But the only thing that benefits you is if you believe it to be true, you're going to flee the beach and get to a place of safety when the tsunami comes. And so if it's truly coming, you better believe it and get to safety. Tonight we understand that hell is hot, and hell is eternal, and hell is real, and heaven is gorgeous, and heaven is beautiful, and heaven is sinless, and it's pure, and it's eternal presence with God, and that Jesus Christ died on the cross to save men from their sin, that he didn't stay in the grave, but that he rose again from the dead. And we can say tonight, this is a faithful saying. And it's worth living your life for a faithful saying, isn't it? Praise God. And so let's live for that. It's a truth that is a faithful saying. And there's a truth that can benefit every man. It's a truth that can benefit every man. It says, and worthy of all acceptation. This is worth every single person on earth bowing their knee before God and saying, God, I accept that. Thank you, Jesus Christ, that you died on the cross for my sin. I was witnessing in Princess Street Gardens yesterday morning. God gave me a great opportunity to speak to a young lady named Anna, and she is from Switzerland. She's been here a couple of days, I think. on holiday and she's very polite, very gracious. We spoke for over 20 minutes and having a great conversation. She said to me, she says, tell me, what do you really believe you'll accomplish if you could convince everybody of what you're trying to say? What would happen if you could do that? And I said to her, well, no one would die of cancer because they're smokers, right? because they're not going to abuse the body that God has given to them. No one would be abused by a drunkard or hurt themselves. Okay? So just down from us, there are drunkards that, I mean, their lives are wrecked. It's sad. But that wouldn't happen if they believed the truth about Jesus Christ. Everyone would tell the truth. There would be no divorce. Marriages would be strong. Men and women would be faithful to their spouse and guard their marriage, right? And I said to her, I said, but that's not life. When I speak like that, everyone accepting that, what are we talking about? we're talking about heaven, a place that is absolutely a perfect place where everybody, there's not gonna be sin there in heaven. And again, she said to me, do you really believe that could happen? Well, it can't happen on earth, can it? But does God desire that for everybody? And let me say, when you get saved, It's a little bit of heaven on earth. It's not that it's going to be perfect. It's not that you're going to never sin, but by the grace of God, you've been forgiven. You begin with God's gift of everlasting life. You have a right worldview. You can have a strong marriage. You can have a strong family. You could be part of a strong church, a strong community, right? And that is a wonderful thing. And would to God everybody had that, right? But everybody doesn't have that. But I'll say this, God desires everybody to have that. 1 Timothy 2, 4, God says in his word, who will have all men to be saved and to come into the knowledge of the truth. God's desire is for every single person to stop, look, and listen, and say, Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life. It's worthy of all acceptation. They ought to receive it. They ought to believe it. 2 Peter 3, verse 9, the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to us. We're not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. How far has God commanded us to take the gospel? Go into all the world and preach the gospel to you. Think about it. Every creature. Why? Because it's worthy of all acceptation. Now is that worth living your life for? I think so. I think it's worth living my life for the gospel, for Jesus Christ, something that every single person in this world ought to accept and ought to believe. You know, praise God, Jesus Christ died for them. Now they might reject that. I witnessed the three people yesterday that absolutely blasphemed God. But does Jesus Christ still love them? Did he still die for them? Does he still want them to get saved? Is the gospel message worthy of their expectation? Yes. And so again, it's a great truth to live for. Let's live for it. It's a, it's a truth that can benefit every man. It's a truth that's worthy of effort. Okay. It's worthy of effort. And if we ask the question about this truth, how vital is this worthy truth that we're talking about Jesus Christ and the gospel, how vital is it? Well, it's important enough that God, the father sacrificed his son to secure it. John 3 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. God saw it as so vital that he took his son and he crucified his son. It's important enough that without it, men will perish in hell. We've already touched this idea, but it's fire, it's eternal, it's separation from God, it's a pit. The sounds you'd hear in hell are weeping and gnashing of teeth. It's eternal separation from God. That's how important it is that somebody gets saved, because without salvation, that's where they'll spend eternity. 1 Corinthians 118, for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. So somebody that's gonna perish, they look at the cross and they say, that's foolishness. It's worthy of their acceptation, but they rejected it. but it's worthy of our effort to get the gospel to them because without it, they'll perish and they'll spend eternity in hell. Verse 10, Paul said this, for therefore, because of the gospel, for that worthy truth, we both labor. And he's gonna go on and speak further, but we both labor. This is not true, but what would you think if I told you this about the war taking place in Ukraine? If I said this, Ukrainian soldiers do not work on weekends. Or if I said, the emergency workers in Ukraine are on strike. Or if I said, doctors have taken their holidays during the conflict. I mean, your response would be, you'd be irate. You'd say, how could they do that? How could they go away from their posts when people are perishing? Don't they understand that their job is to seek to rescue these people? You know, praise God, the response is actually the opposite of that. They don't cease to labor, do they? They're getting very little sleep. Untrained people are coming out of civilian life and getting into the military. Because they see what they're doing is worth what? Effort, right? It's worth the work that comes with it to defend their country and their democracy. You know, let me ask you tonight, do you believe the gospel is worthy of labor? It's one thing to say it with our lips. It's another thing to show it with our life and to say, you know, I'm going to invest in this. I want to invest my life in something for which Jesus Christ died. I want to invest my life in something for which will save somebody. Somebody! from eternity in a lake of fire. Paul looks at this worthy truth that we're talking about tonight. He says, you know, this is worth labor. That's worth some effort. And then again, another truth about this truth. It's a truth worthy of suffering, worthy of suffering. It says in verse 10, for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, suffer reproach. You know, people aren't going to pat you on the back and say, that's great. I'm so glad that you've decided to live your life for Jesus Christ and good on you. And that's great. And maybe somebody that is a moralist might look at that and say, well, you're making your life better. And they might say things like that. But generally speaking, there's going to be a lot of people that are going to oppose you. for speaking out against Satan and his lies and standing for the truth of the Word of God. Many in his ranks, Satan's ranks, are going to persecute you. The BBC Had an article on it yesterday about the Russian TV journalist that protested on Monday on live TV. She held up the sign that protested against the war, no to the war, stop the war. And they cut quickly from that to a recorded news report. It happened live on Russia's main nightly news program, which is watched by millions. Before the incident, she recorded a video in which she called events in Ukraine a crime and said she was ashamed to work for what she called Kremlin propaganda. I'm ashamed that I allowed myself to tell lies from the television screen, ashamed that I allowed Russians to be turned into zombies, she explained. We just silently watched this inhumane regime. I can't say her name. She's got a very Russian name. Said her father was Ukrainian. Called on the Russian people to protest against the war, saying that only they could stop the madness. And then she said this, don't be afraid of anything. They can't imprison all of us, she said. She was taken, she was abducted by the police, basically. She was taken away without any legal counsel. And for 13 hours, she was grilled. She wasn't allowed to sleep. So when they interviewed her yesterday or today, she just apologized, said, I'm sorry, I haven't had any sleep, had to get some sleep. but she's gonna suffer for taking a stand. But she looked at it and she thought, you know, this is worth suffering for. She said to everybody else, this is worthy of suffering. You know, I wonder tonight, if we're not giving the gospel, why aren't we? And again, it might be that point we already talked about. We're not, we don't really want to labor. We don't really want to work. We haven't viewed the gospel as important enough to put that investment into it. But I think many times it might be this idea of suffering that people look at that and say, but I don't want to, I don't want to suffer for the gospel. It might be something like this. What will people say? But you know, if I really come out and stand up for the Lord Jesus Christ, what is somebody going to say about me? Or what are they going to do? Right? What are they going to think about me? You know, it might be more than one person, peer pressure, you know, a group of people. What are they going to do or think about me? What about, how's it gonna make me feel? Are they gonna do something to me? I mean, it's this idea of fear of that, but as we think about that tonight, aren't you glad that that wasn't a consideration for Jesus Christ before he died naked as a thief on the cross because of our sin? That Jesus Christ didn't look at it and say, well, that's not worth suffering for. We ought to look at it tonight and say, you know what? This is something that we ought to live our life for. We ought to labor for this. We ought to be willing to suffer for this. Paul said, for therefore, because of this worthy truth that's worthy of all acceptation, therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, right? It's a truth worthy of suffering. It's a truth given to us by the living God. A truth given to us by the living God. It says because we trust in the living God. We enjoyed our holiday. I haven't talked to everybody about it, but it was great. God really refreshed us. It was a wonderful time away. I'd say it's one of the best holidays that we've had as a family, just the place and everything about it. But the lady that owned it, it had been a B&B, And then it became a self-catering cottage, and so every room had an en-suite. It was really nice for a large family to be there. But the lady whose family had owned it, it was a family home, she lived right next door to it. And so we weren't dealing with an organization, we were dealing with an individual, and we were good guests there, but I can imagine that if we weren't good guests, she might have come over from next door and said, get out of my house. You can't treat my house like this because we were dealing with a person instead of an organization. Now I think an organization could maybe sometimes care less about something maybe like that. As we think about what we've been entrusted with, we're not dealing tonight with an organization. Now, our church cares. Our church cares deeply about the gospel, desires to get the gospel out. But what we are dealing with tonight is a living God that is aware of what we do with the gospel, that cares very much about the truth that he has entrusted to us because we trust in the living God and that truth that God has given to us. Jeremiah 10, verse 10, says, but the Lord is the true God, and he is the living God, and an everlasting king. At his wrath, the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Our God, and you look at this term in the scriptures, and I think it's there some 30 times, this truth, the living God. He's a God that is very aware of the gospel trust that he's given to us and what we do with that. And Paul looked at that and said, we trust in the living God. We look to the living God. And then it's a truth that will save all men who believe. It's a truth that will save all men who believe. It says, who is the savior. of all men, especially of those that believe. All right, especially means particularly, or perhaps we would say specifically. And so if we put that this way, who is the savior of all men, specifically of those that believe. All right, Jesus is the savior of all men in that he is the only savior for all men and has done all that is necessary to save every man. Does that make sense? I can say it again if I need to. But He is the Savior of all men, and that He is the only one who can save all men, and that He has done all that is necessary to save them. But we know tonight that not all men are saved, right? It says that He's the Savior of all men, but that doesn't mean tonight that all men are saved, and that's because all men have not believed on Jesus. Hebrews 4, verse 2. Says, for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith, and then that hurt it. Now, we could go out tonight and we could witness to a lot of people and we could share the true gospel with them about the true Lord Jesus Christ. It's a gospel that is worthy of their expectation, but it doesn't mean that they are going to receive it unless they will believe it and put their faith in Jesus Christ. Ralph Carmichael wrote the hymn, The Savior is Waiting. It says, the Savior is waiting to enter your heart. Why don't you let him come in? There's nothing in this world to keep you apart. What is your answer to him? Time after time he has waited before and now he is waiting again to see if you're willing to open that door. Oh, how he wants to come in. If you'll take one step toward the Savior, my friend, you'll find his arms open wide. Receive him, and all of your darkness will end. Within your heart, he'll abide. Time after time, he has waited before, and now he is waiting again to see if you're willing to open the door. Oh, how he wants to come in. Oh, how he wants to come in. And see, it's worth living our life for a gospel that somebody's gonna believe, as soon as they believe it, Jesus Christ enters into their life. They have everlasting life. It's a gospel that can transform their life. He is the Savior of all men, specifically, or especially, of those that believe. And then lastly, tonight, It's a truth that is not optional and is not to be omitted. It says in verse 11, these things command and teach. You know, I remind us tonight, we've talked about this before, but the gospel is a command. These things command, this gospel of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, worthy of all acceptation that is going to save all men who believe in Jesus Christ, command it and what? Teach it. And so we're to put it out there with authority, and we're to get it out there consistently. You know, I have a question for you tonight, a few questions here. Do people like absolute truth? Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by him. This is an infallible, authoritative book. Is that a popular idea among men? If I shared this on the streets, are people gonna embrace that and say, that's great, I really believe in absolute truth? They're not. Do people like to be confronted with their sin and think about hell? No, I mean, that's something that they don't wanna hear about. They don't wanna hear about the fires of hell. They don't wanna think about the coming damnation. And so what should we do? Well, we should do what the word of God says, right? These things command and teach. We've got a message that we ought to live our life for and consistently share with these that need the truth because God has entrusted it to our care and really commanded us to carry the gospel to the world. There's a pastor that I've enjoyed recently listening to. His name's Pastor Jerry Ross. And I guess people that know him would think that he grew up in a safe family, but he was actually born into a family where his parents were totally clueless as far as God or the truth of the Bible. But they had neighbors that were burdened about them that would come over and invite them to go to church and again and again invite them. And he said he thought his dad had a book that said how to avoid going to church or something like that, because he's just coming up with all these different reasons not to go. And he said this couple just wouldn't give up. And so finally they came one day and they said, I tell you what, since you're not gonna go, can we just take your kids? Can we take your kids to church? And he said his mom got really upset. She was in another room, came in and said, nobody's gonna take my kids to church. I'm gonna take my kids to church or something like that. And so the next Sunday, they all went to church with this neighbor family. And then in a week of meetings, his dad on a Friday night went forward and he got saved. Why? Because somebody lived their life for a truth that was a vital truth. Right? And that encouraged me, and Molly, that's really why, that was a message God used in my heart, even to come back and knock on your door again, and praise God you guys are here tonight, Nathan, you've trusted Christ as your savior. That's vital, right? So we look at our life and think, you know what? I've got next week, I've got next month, I've got next year, I've got the rest of my life. The gospel and Jesus Christ ought to be an important part of that. Why? Because there's families that need Jesus, right? It's a truth that needs to be communicated because of all the things that we've considered tonight. Obviously, I praise God tonight, everyone here has accepted this as a worthy truth with regard to salvation as best I know, right? But we ought to look at that and say, by God's grace, I want to get that message of the gospel out. Why? Because that's gold, silver, precious stones. That's a worthy thing to live your life for. You're not going to regret someday when you get to heaven, oh man, I wish I hadn't lived my life so much for the gospel. I think many people are going to get there and think, man, why didn't I understand that that was a vital truth worthy to live my life for? So God help us to do that. Let's pray. Ask God to bless this word to our hearts tonight. Father, we thank you for the opportunity that we've had to look to the Word of God. And Father, I just pray in your mercy tonight, would you touch hearts? Lord, I know that we do evangelism as a church, and I praise God. We've got people inviting people to church. We've got people giving out gospel literature. We've got people that are speaking to other people about faith in Jesus Christ and sharing with them the truth. We've got other people that want to learn this so that they can do this. That's great. Praise God. And Father, I just pray for every person here tonight that it just be a reaffirmation of our desire to say, you know, I got to be involved in this. I can't go a week or two weeks or three weeks without doing something to impact somebody for eternity. And Jesus, you're the cornerstone. You're the truth. You're the truth that is worthy of all acceptation. And Father, I do pray tonight, if anybody's hearing this message and they're not saved, Father, pray that they'd get saved, that they'd receive the truth that is so vital to their eternity. It's in Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. All right. So praise God, the gospel, worthy truth to live our life.