Yeah. Way up in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, farther than where you live, there was a preacher. And one of the Flatland preachers down where I live, or do live, got to know him. And he said, I'm going to have you come down and preach a Sunday for me if you'll do that. He said, I will. And so he came down on the appointed time and preached on Sunday morning. And the pastor said, now, before you drive back to the mountains, You're going to be coming over to our house and fellowshipping and eating lunch with us. So that went well, and they was at the table, of course. His wife was serving table, and she asked the mountain preacher, said, would you like to have some corn? He said, oh my, yes, just about a half a glassful. It's water. But it is good being with you. And Brother Mark, he don't think that them and I are as old as we are. He was saying in the 80s. Now, I'm going to tell you just how old we are. And I can look out, and I can remind you just how old we are. There are some people here today, grandmothers and grandfathers, that were just little kids when we were here. So you know how old. How long it's been? It was, I think, 74 when I came. Does that sound about right? When Brother McGarry had the heart attack. And I served as his interim, I think, what, two and a half years, maybe, while he was recovering from his heart surgery and everything. So we have wonderful memories. And as we were coming up, From West Liberty, we were reminiscing this family lived here and this family lived there. And it was saddened to us to pass by where the Allens lived and the houses all closed up. And none of them are here now, are they? None of the Allens? And a lot of people are gone. And we did not know that Gene had passed away. That was new to us. But you know, time goes by. And so we were really blessed. The Lord blessed us to be here. Had a wonderful, wonderful ministry. It was a good experience for me, having never pastored before. And we just had good times. And Tammy never sings our favorite song, do you, Tammy? Heard Tammy say it. Sometimes I really do want her to sing our favorite song. As far as any of you that was here at the time, Dale and some of the others, they were all teenagers and they sung the McDonald's mess. I'm not going to tell you the words to that song because we need to get into the scriptures and preach our message. Revelations chapter 3, we're going to entitle our message A Call to Courage. a call to courage. Today we need to realize that we need resolve. We need to do things just God's way and with the thought in mind that we want to say, our Lord is saying to us one day, well done thou good and faithful servant. I've been studying the seven churches of Asia Minor, my morning devotions every morning. And you know, all these churches, if you notice, the Lord said, I have somewhat against you. And they had different problems and the Lord commended them for some good things, but then he would have somewhat against you. And so you come to this church that we're going to be reading about and preaching about And the awful times that they were living in, they were a courageous church. They had the courage to do and act and react to the Lord of glory. And we live in an age when it's not as bad as it's ever been. It's not worse than it's ever been. It's not as bad as it's going to be. It's not worse now than what it's going to be. because terrible times are coming upon this earth. At the time of this writing, untold thousands were being killed, persecuted, defamed, denied, and it was a terrible time. And so we come down to the Middle Ages and we don't realize 50 million people died for their courage, their resolve, their love of the Lord, love of His truth. And so we as God's church today, we need courage. We need some holy boldness about us. And it will cost us. But the blessing of God far outweighs anything that I've ever gone through. I've never suffered very much in my ministry. I've been cussed out, blessed out, threatened, and everything else. but not like the Lord Jesus. But anyway, read with me verses 7 through 13, here in chapter 3. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth. I know thy works. Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it. For thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from thou of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. Behold, I come quickly. Hold thou fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, He shall go no more out, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God. And I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear. And God gives us ears to hear. He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. As a church this morning, what does it take for us, who've been born again, bought by the blood of the Lord Jesus, sanctified through the Holy Spirit, set apart for his glory, what does it take to please him that saved us? You know, we concern ourselves with so many things, and we want to get along with the world, and get along with the Lord. We want to get along with society and then we want to get along with God's people. So there's that thing that we see over in Romans chapter 7, the things I want to do, I can't do, and the things I can't do, I want to do. Oh, wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me? What did Paul say? I thank Jesus that this world is gonna help me out. Is that what he said? No. Ungodliness, worldliness is the enemy of Christ. He said, I thank God through Jesus Christ, my Lord. What does it take? Well, we see here in this reading that the church at Philadelphia He never said I have somewhat against they, did he? This church was called the Church of Philadelphia. You know what Philadelphia means? It means brotherly love. Now, when I finish with this message and you go home, you can go over and read the 13th chapter, 1 Corinthians, and think about this message and compare that. See, to please God, first and foremost, above everything else, is a completely sold-out relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and with His New Testament Baptist Church, as is this Church of Philadelphia. You know, that takes courage. That takes off on their part to say, this will I do with no other thing. I went to a church one time. I was visiting there. And the preacher was preaching real hard, and I agreed with him. He said, I want to say that I want this church that I'm pastor of to be just as close as a church possibly could be. According to the pattern of the New Testament, I had to say amen to that. Ain't that great? Ain't that wonderful? Now what do you think about a church like that? I don't think much of it. Because he's fixing the clothes out in prayer. It's a Sunday morning service. And he said this. He said, now everybody come back tonight and bring your friends. We don't believe in close communion now. We believe anybody can take the Lord's Supper. Nobody but the church. It's a church ordinance. We see that in churches. That's what the Lord, you look through these churches and the Lord couldn't commend them. It takes courage to stand up with your pastor and say, Pastor, we stand with you. We believe what you preach us. We accept what you're preaching to us as it is in truth the Word of God that works in us. We need this relationship that's first and foremost, and able to please the Lord. See, God gave this church in our reading words of appreciation. The Lord is honored and happy with his church that he can command. He gives them word of commendation. You know, when we do the Word of God as a church, that's commendable. And words of encouragement. We need encourage. I don't like it when every time you hear a preacher, I have all these experiences. I travel around. I have untold experiences, and some of them you couldn't even believe. But I have these preachers. I'll meet them and maybe preach for them. And they'll say, I don't believe this. I don't believe this. We don't practice this. And we don't practice that. And we don't do this. And we don't do this. And we don't do the other. And I'll say, brother, hold on. Why don't you forget all that stuff? and just preach to your church what you believe and what the Lord says and don't be so negative. See, there's a lot of good stuff in the Word of God. There's a lot of encouraging words in the Word of God. It's encouraging to see among the seven churches that there was a church that I can preach to you about this morning that will encourage you that God never said I have something I can't say. Oh, I can go preach all those things, But what about the good things? See, we need courage and boldness. We need the Holy Spirit of God to work in us. And he encourages this church. Our message has, by the wonderful grace of God, the same intentions today, this church being an example to us as it was to them when the Lord wrote this letter to them. First of all, there's opportunity for ministry. Opportunity for ministry. What did he say? I've set before thee an open door. See, God opens the door of ministry to his churches. I've placed before you He's given this church something. He's given Emmanuel Baptist Church something wonderful and good. You know what that is? It's a gracious gift for spiritual usefulness. He's given them a port of entry into ministering. There's nothing like ministering. I looked out this morning and I see people here. I don't know everyone here. I only know those blessed old people like myself that was hanging around. But you know what? I can go through this congregation and talk to the people. And I can talk to people and listen to who they are. And I look back in the 70s, and it's children and grandchildren of people that this church was ministering to. way back in the day. I was telling Brother Mark when we came back to Lewis County where we now live four years ago. I was talking to this young couple and I told them where it was from. They said, oh yes, we know that church. Said, we used to go there when Brother Grigsby used to pick us up and take us to Sunday school and take us to camp and all that. I said, really? I said, that was good. You need to come back to church. Encouraged them to come back to church I got there talking with him. I said, whatever happened to Brother Griggs? He said, oh, he moved away years ago. We don't know where he's at now. I said, you don't? I said, but you know him. If you saw him, oh, yes, we'd never forget him. I said, it's him that's talking to you. See what I'm saying? Opportunity to minister. One day we went into a, this is right here. When I was a little girl, her last name was Tracey when we were here. We used to pick her up for church, Sunday school. She was about six or seven years old. Not too many years ago, we went in the dentist's office, and we was waiting for Thelma's appointment. And this young lady come in. She was 28 years old at the time. That's how many years it had been. She came in. She started to sign the registry. And she looked around and looked back at the registry and went back out, come back in. looked around, and she come over and said to Selma, would you all happen to be the Grigsby's? Selma said, we are. She said, oh my, I saw that on the registry. She said, you won't know me, and I'm going to tell you who I am and where I'm at now. And she told us that we used to be grandmother of the Grigsby's. And she said, you know what, I'm saved now. And she said, I've been in church for years, I've got a little girl and I'm raising her in church and teaching her just like you taught me. Ministry. We don't know what God can do but be faithful in ministering. He opens the doors of precious gift, a blessing that God gives to us as he opens that door to minister. to minister the gospel, and once people are saved, to minister them baptism, and teach them to observe all things, and teach your children's children, as the Bible says, and leave behind an inheritance. But when she come back, and I'll tell you the rest of that story, she pulled a picture out of a manila envelope, five or seven pictures, she said, look at that. I looked at that, and then Thelma looked at that picture, You know what we were looking at? We were looking at a little girl that looked just like she did when she was six or seven years old. That was her little girl. Now she's taking her to church. See, heaven will reveal the blessing that God gives when one ministers, one sows the seed, another waters, and God gives the increase. Spiritual usefulness, an open door. In 1 Corinthians 16, 8, 9, Paul said this, Oh yes, there's adversaries. Those people will say all manner of things. They will try to discourage you in every way that they can. But you know what? Just keep on keeping on. Have the courage to be like this church And see this church as an example. A great door means a point of entry, a place. And you know, let's go back to what I said. We need to go back and look at first things first. See the door of Christ's blood-sanctified church is open to every child of God. Let me ask you this morning. Are you a member faithful and in good standing with Emmanuel Baptist Church? You know you're saved and you're a member of this church. You need to be taking advantage of ministering. All of us. Every day there's that opportunity. I never go out without meeting people. We don't live on an island. There's people that we can minister to. Give them a track. Love them. You can't always witness to people, but you can always love them. I don't knock on the door of houses because they don't welcome me the way I think they should. No, I find opportunity to love them. You know, friends win friends. And we have to be a friend that sticks closer than a brother, as the Bible says, and love people in spite of themselves. I think last week. I was trying to witness to this man. Oh, he was an atheist. What's that mean? Don't believe in God. So Brother Tim kept talking to him about this and that, asking who his family was, and he finally found a point where they could agree on something, and he was talking to them, maybe it was hunting or fishing or whatever, and they got talking about that, and Brother Tim says, I've got this tracker. I think you ought to read this to see what you think about it. He said, maybe it's not just the way you think it is. You say you're an atheist. Let me just give this to you, and you read it. He said, OK. And then he said this. He said, you read that, and you think about it, and let me come back and talk to you about atheism as compared to Christianity. He said, OK. You know, the better way of handling that is if you said, I'm an atheist, would have been to say, why, you're one of them ignorant, no good, foolish. I mean, you put a lot of other negatives in that. How in the world can you live in my world and not believe what I believe? No. It takes time. It takes love. It takes caring. God opens the doors to his gospel as we're going to see. Because in Acts 2 it says this, I think verse 41, And they that gladly received his word were baptized, and there were added unto them about three thousand souls. Do you have scriptural baptism? Are you a member knowing that you're saved and in good standing with the Lord's church? And then it goes on and talks about the door that was opened to them that were saved. They continue to say the Apostles' Doctrine, breaking the bread and prayers. See, they minister. They minister to one another. They worship God in the church and they took the message out to others outside the church. He says it's an effectual door that's open. See, our Lord provides for us. He always has provided. I look out and I thank the Lord. the way the Lord blessed this church to see all you in here this morning. It's a far cry from the day I hear this story. Sixty-one years ago, I don't know what day it was. I don't know what one hour of the day it was, but this fellow came. He was a stranger in the community. He ended up down here in Bloomington, a little old grocery store, and walked up on the porch, and this man was sitting there. He said, you're a stranger. He said, I'm a preacher. I'm looking for a place to start a church here. The Lord's laid upon my heart to start a church here. Does this sound like something you know? He said, oh, my wife Esther needs a church. I don't go to church, but Esther needs a Baptist church. He said, you come back next Saturday and talk to me. Meet me right here. And you come back the next Saturday, and there was the old school bell and ready for them to start having service. Wasn't that right? It was her grandfather. Grandfather, OK. Anyway, I thought it was beat. But anyway, what's happening with that? Ministry. Look at this. Look at all the people's been saved, and lives have been touched, and the blessing has been. You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you. And you'll be witnesses unto me. I'm going to open the door for you, he said to his church. And you're going to be witnesses. You're going to start Jerusalem and Judea, Samaria, and go to the uttermost part of the earth. And here we are this morning, because they had that holy boldness. They had the courage to go out and do it. And you know, it went here, and it went there, and finally it went to Europe. And then from Europe, it came to the United States of America. Then it came to Saintsville, Kentucky 61 years ago through the preacher. And then what's happened? Just taking the time to minister. The courage. God wants us to be courageous. He wants us to be a blessing. He fills us with his love, and we're to share that love, and that love is through the gospel. See, he's the one that prepares hearts to receive the gospel. In John 6, 44, no man can come unto me except the Father, which hath sent me draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day. You know how the Lord draws sinners to him? How did he draw you? I don't know how he drew you, but I'll tell you how he drew me. He drew me through the cords of love. Yeah. He drew me through the cords of grace and mercy. And a three-fold cord is not easily broken. And so he ministered unto me through grace, mercy, and love. And that person that gave me the gospel and prayed for me, He made that effectual. He brought me to repentance and faith and to salvation 48 years ago. And then he prospers the work of the word, causing it to flourish and be fruitful. Our problem is we get discouraged. Why should we get discouraged? Well, I witnessed the 20 people. I thought at least 19 and a half of them would get saved. and the other half is on the way. It's not the way it works. See, our blessing is in the fact that the Lord gives us opportunity and blessing to take his gospel and give it to people, and the Holy Spirit uses it. I look at my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters. You ever notice it's not an easy thing to witness to your family? But you know, years, down through the years of my life, I saw my mom and dad saved. I saw Thelma's dad saved, sisters. I saw her dad, her brother pass away six months ago. He told me the day he died, he said, I'm just tired. I just want to go home and be with my Lord. You know, he was just a little boy, but he got saved about, what, two years ago, a year and a half, two years ago? See, it's not left to us to dictate to God. Lord, I witnessed to 30 people this month. You save all 30 of them. Well, we can witness to them as if we think they're going to be saved and know they're going to be saved, but we leave that effectual work to God. He prospers His work. He causes his word to flourish in 1 Thessalonians 1.13, that wonderful church that Paul established in Thessalonica. For this cause, thank we God without ceasing. Because when you receive the word of God which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of man, but as it is in truth the word of God. Look here, which effectually worketh in you also that believe. God makes his word effective. We have to have the courage and the fortitude and go out daily as we go. You know the best way to see people saved in the church? You're going to live in this world and you're going to go into this world, and I say it like this, go into this world and then go share the gospel. That's the most effective way to see a church prosper in the spiritual things of God as you go Give out the gospel. What about the commendation? Remember what he said here. Thou hast a little strength. Thou hast a little strength. This is a word of commendation. It's by no means a complaint. In other words, you know what you need to do, you're doing it, and you need to be commending that your obedience is commanded, and that you're being obedient, that you are loving other people. Their name is brotherly love, and you're loving people, you're loving one another. You know, that's where everything starts right there. God loves us, shed abroad his love in their hearts. And what do we do? We pass on that love. God didn't ask us just to love one another if we could. He said love one another. Love one another. You know the best illustration I can give of that? Thelma and I will be married 52 years pretty soon. Has it been all easy? Has there ever been a time when I didn't love Thelma and she didn't love me? No. If you're married, you know what I'm saying. Sometimes I don't want to do everything she says, and that causes me problems. It's funny, about a year and a half back, I said, 51 years, how in the world did it work? I said, just do what she says. That's the way it works. But what am I saying? The Lord saved us, and we've been in this church all the years that we've been saved, 48, over 48 years, almost 49 years we've been in the Lord's church. And we still have this wonderful relationship. You think about that all those years. You know, when God saves us, he sends the love of God brought in our hearts. And you're here this morning, you might have fought against someone right here in this body of believers. And you know what? That person you have fought against may not even know it. You know what we need to do in a situation like that? We need to go to that person and express our love to them, sisters and brothers in Christ. He said in John 13, 34, a new commandment I give unto you that you love one another even as I have loved you. See, that's commanded of God. We are to love one another. And then he says we're to love all men. It's not easy. I'm not saying it's easy to love people, but we're to love people. We're to find ways in which to love people. A commendation, now that's a little strange. They depended on the Lord. Their daily occupation was to work for the Lord. in obedience and in love. Hebrews 10, 24, it commands love, that we're to love one another. We're to provoke unto love in the good works. How do I provoke someone to love? It's to love them. Find ways to express that love. Love is expressive. We don't just run around saying, Brother Mark, I love you and I love you and I love you and I love this other person. No. We don't have to always say we love somebody. Find a way to express that love, that merciful kindness that we can expand to them. They were a working church. He said, I know thy works. This was their daily occupation. There's a work. We'll work. We'll work till Jesus come. Then we'll all be gathered up. Let's just keep on working. Let's have the courage and the fortitude. How did they work? They kept the Word of God. It says that. To them it was a trust to be guarded over and watched over, which requires great effort and due diligence. God entrusted us with this Word. Remember Jude verse 2, when I thought to write unto you the comment Salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and to exhort you that you would earnestly contend for the faith which was delivered to you. It was given into this church as a trust, into this church as a trust, and we're to keep that trust. We're to do the work of God. Paul, at the end of his life, out of all the things that happened to him, negative things, positive things, he said, I followed a good path. See, everything wasn't positive. There was some negatives. I thought a good five. I finished my course. I have kept the faith. See, they received the Word, and they hid in their hearts, and they faithfully acted upon it. And they did the work of God in their daily lives. What was it James said? We're to be doers of the word and not yours only, not like the natural man that looks in the glass and goes away and forgets what person he was. I started to use that verse of scripture one time and I looked over and this person was sitting there. I said, you have a big smudge right there under your eye. They started going like this and I started laughing. I said, you shaved this morning, didn't you? Yeah, I shaved this morning. I said, ain't nothing on your face. I said, you forgot. You know what I'm saying? Is that the way we are with the word of God? Do we read it? It goes in one ear and out the other? No, we're going to hide his word in our heart. And we're going to act upon that. That's the work. They were consistent in something here. What did he say? Thou hast not denied my name. See that was a great problem in his time, in the time when this was written to this church. Then as now, there's always that controversy. See the great inspired prophetic utterance in Isaiah 9, 6. Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Everlasting God, Father, and all that. And then in 7.14, they said give us a sign. What was that sign? Behold a virgin shall come save him, bearing her womb, and she shall bring forth a son, and call his name Emmanuel. Well, you go on and look in Matthew chapter one, verse 22 and 23. What was it that the Lord told Joseph? He said, this child that's gonna be born to Mary is a son of the highest. His name shall be called Emmanuel, which being interpreted is God with us. See, God came down and tabernacled among men. and you go through the gospels and you look and you see everything that he did, prove it, he was God. He healed the sick, he raised the dead, he made the deaf to hear, he spoke to the storm and said, peace be still, it was quiet and he changed the water to wine, on and on and on. See, to us, that's a reason for praise. The song that Tammy sang, that wonderful. He's in the midst. There he is in the midst. Not only all those illustrations in that song, but today as we worship God, as I preach to you the word of God, as I proclaim and exclaim and exhort you to faithfulness to the Lord Jesus and courage, guess where the Lord is today? He's in the midst. He's in the midst of Emmanuel Baptist Church this morning. Praise be unto God that he is. And then, look in verse 10. This is our closing statement. Verse 10. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth See, this is right before the great tribulation, the seven years of tribulation. You notice something there. I'll keep thee from the hour of temptation. He didn't say, I'll keep you through the great tribulation, this hour of temptation. In 1 Thessalonians 5, 9, God has not appointed us to wrath. but to obtain salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. See, that's in the end of 1 Thessalonians. If you read that and study it, I'm sure your pastor's preaching this to you. 1 Thessalonians talks about Jesus coming for his saints. It tells us in chapter four of that great coming, when the trumpet will sound and the dead will be resurrected, then we which are alive and remain be called up to be with the Lord. And then in chapter five, He's keeping us from the hour of trial, not through it. We're not going through the tribulation. He delivers us from the wrath to come. We're delivering in salvation. So since we know we're gonna be delivering, let's be faithful. And listen, we believe in the imminent return of Christ. You know what that means? While I'm preaching to you this morning, Lord can come back. Lord can come back just now. The trumpet could sound and the dead would be raised incorruptible according to 1 Corinthians 15 and will be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the sound of the trumpet. And this man just the other day, he was talking about the secret turn of Christ. I don't believe in the secret return of Christ. The trumpet's gonna sound. There's a sound of the trumpet, and there's the voice of the archangel, come up hither. I'm gonna show you great things you can never imagine. And then the dead raises incorruptible, and we're gonna be changed at that moment. It's wonderful, isn't it? Let's be filled with the Spirit of God. Let's be occupied. In verse 11 and 12 as we come to a close. He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. And to the angel of the church, well, I'm going beyond. Let's go back to verse 10. Let me read the end of that. You shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death. and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath neared a year, let him hear what the Spirit saith of the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt on the second day of. Occupy. God gave us a place of occupancy. You know what that is? His church. We're to occupy and serve him and minister So he comes back. You know, New Jerusalem is a rejoicing to the faithful saints of God. I don't have time to read all this and preach it to you, but in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, Paul said, I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband, even Christ. that I may present you as a chaste virgin to him. And then in Revelation 19, he talks about our faithfulness, our working, our laboring. And he talks about robes. And those robes are the righteousness of the saints of God, the righteous act of saints, those that have been courageous in the ministry. courageous enough to get the gospel out, waiting until he comes and looking for his coming and praying for his coming. In 2 Timothy chapter 4, we'll read this one scripture and then I'll be finished. 2 Timothy chapter 4. And let's see if it's in verse 8. Well, look in verse seven, I fought a good fight, I finished my course, I've kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing. That's a crown of faithfulness. You know, there's five crowns recorded in the Bible. You know what those crowns, what's gonna happen to those crowns? It's not something that would glorify us. It's something that we can lay at the feet of our Savior and worship Him there in Revelation chapter 4, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and strength and honor. See, that's the end of it all. And New Jerusalem rejoiced of the faithful. He's writing to this faithful church. You know what he says? And you'll go no more out. New Jerusalem is the bride's home of the bride. You'll go no more out. But what does that mean? If you just read on after that, you know what you'll find? and the nations of them that are saved shall dwell in the last pit. And they'll go in and out of the city, for the gates will never be shut. They go visit. But who are those that never go out? That's the bride. That's the faithful ones. That's the ones that kept the faith. That's the courageous ones that go day by day and week by week and month by month and year by year. doing the will of God, going through that door and serving him faithfully and joyfully as a church at Philadelphia was filled with the love of Christ. Father, we thank you this morning for the message that you help us to deliver. Lord, I know that it should mean so much to us that you've honored us, that you've blessed us, that you've saved us. and given us the privilege and opportunity to be a part of your church and to minister through this church. And Lord, there may be some here this morning, they don't have scriptural baptism. They don't have a saving relationship with you even, so they can't receive baptism until they're saved. May you speak to their heart and show them what they're missing and bring conviction upon their soul and repentance and faith and salvation. And to those that need to be united with this church, Lord, may you bring them forth this morning. Show them the great blessing and the great need of that wonderful relationship that this church has. Bless now we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.