That's the Lord. Sometimes my wife gets a little worried about things. That's the Lord. So I'm gonna address this. Amen. I'll pray about it. And I am. What up, Tennessee? And this thing said, And I'm going to tell you what I preached when I was in Tennessee. I preached about Aitkin. Is everybody all right? Amen. Preached about Aitkin. Amen. Y'all remember that message I preached about Aitkin here? Same message. Amen. Remember, I got Brother Richie and Brother Jesse up front, and I got a couple men up there up front. Made a little example. Amen. And I'm going to say it like this. There was a deacon from this church. There was 50 other pastors up there, and I assure you, if I got out of line, they'd have sent me down. If you want to find out if I was out of line at all, ask that dinky right there. He don't lie. Amen? So, I'm saying it like this. I preached against anything and everything. It's like I did not say one thing up there that I have not said in this church. 30 years ago when the Lord called me to preach, amen, I started preaching against sin. Let me tell you something, I've been preaching And I didn't call anybody's name, but I've been preaching against playing ball on Sunday ever since I've called. I don't care if it's softball, I don't care if it's baseball, I don't care if it's kickball, football, basketball. I'm still gonna preach against it. But I'm not gonna apologize for it. I don't only preach against playing ball on Sunday, I preach against fucking on Sunday. Do I not? I'm preaching the addition on Sunday. I mean, I'm an everybody included preacher. I'm going to preach against anything that pulls you out of the house of God on Sunday. And I'm not going to apologize for it. But you can believe the lies. And if you think from one minute I went up there and bashed this church, friend, you don't know me very well. In fact, I bragged on this church. I told them, I mean, boy, I can't tell you how many preachers come up to me. After that service, he said, man, I'm going through some of the same stuff. And I'm sure glad you preached it, because it helped me. Amen. Amen. I mean, there was 50 other pastors up there. I didn't preach anything out of line. I'm not ashamed of anybody. Like I said, I just said one thing up there. I had a lot of righteousness right here. In this pulpit, in this congregation, I don't run off and preach something somewhere else. I don't preach here. I know a lot of pastors like that. There's a lot of pastors that do that, amen? They'll run off, they'll preach something at your church, they don't preach at their church, amen? But I'm not like that, amen? I love y'all, I love, hey, I love everybody, amen? I am against nobody, amen? And I'll ask y'all the same thing, amen? What do you do? I know all the scriptures about restoring the brothers of low degree. Amen, I know all those scriptures. But what do you do? What do you do, Brother Darrell, when God tells you, amen, to mark them which cause division? My question to y'all would not be why you would be angry with me. But my question would be why in the world would you be worried and concerned that God would tell your pastor not to run after somebody and beg them back? That's the problem. That's what scares me to death. That's what keeps me up at night. That's what keeps me praying for because God won't let me. I mean, time and time and time again, I have. But when God tells your pastor not to, that would worry me. If I really cared about something. I don't know why. Like I said, I haven't said a whole lot. And I've been getting it up on Facebook and everything else. That's fine. I don't care. That stuff doesn't bother me. I want to set the record straight. Amen. So you'll know if you've got any questions, you don't have to ask me. Amen to what I preach. You ask that man right there. He was sitting there. Amen. Yes, sir. And he don't lie. And I'll stand on it. I bragged on this church. I told him, I said, this church right here, back when I got hurt, took me up, amen, and replaced my salary. I said, and God blessed the fire out of it. Amen. I said, if you'll take care of your pastor, he'll do the same for you. And that's what happened. So don't get mad at me, amen, amen. And I said, I don't go on Facebook and hide behind keyboards. Let you make up your own mind. I ain't never mind, but y'all ain't about to see me. Amen. But I will continue to preach against anything that'll pull you out of the house. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Y'all know me. Y'all know me, amen. Amen. If you want to join all the fishing tournaments you can and fish every other Sunday, That's between you and God. Amen. You can do that. I ain't saying you can't fish. I ain't even saying you can't fish on Sunday. But like I told y'all before, you ain't gonna fish on Sunday every other Sunday and hold a position here. Amen. Amen. That's not gonna happen. That's right. Amen. Amen. Sorry. Come on. And I'm not gonna stop preaching against it. Amen. Amen. Amen. I've been preaching against it for 30 years. You realize when I say this, I say I'm gonna come on and drop them down right now. Twenty-something years ago, Brother Mike Freeman had me preach a revival up at Hickory Grove Baptist Church. Frankie Grant, boy, he was a good friend of mine. I still consider him a friend. Anyway, they had joined the softball league, and it was with another association church, and there was going to be some stuff on Sunday, and they was going to miss revivals. And your pastor got up there and he hammered down, didn't even know it. He didn't even know it. He hammered down about that. Softball, pulling you out of church. And Frankie Green and Glen Rowe come up to me afterward. Told me this boy had to get off the softball team. Are y'all right? That was almost 30 years ago. So, I'll believe what you want to. I promise you I've never lied to you in Amos. And if you got your Bibles on my book of Amos tonight, I don't believe you'll be too long. Amen. But I want to be obedient. Somebody say amen. I felt like I needed to set that record straight. I generally don't. I try not to. metal and all that garbage. Somebody say amen. Amen. This is from the heart. The Lord will not let me leave it alone. It bothers my wife. Amen. She's worried about people believing it. Kind of like that one they put out there about me beating my wife. Amen. The book of Amos. I want to read this. Amen. It's in the front of my Bible. It gives a little history here. Amos prophesied during a period of national optimism in Israel, business is booming and boundaries are bulging. But below the surface, greed and injustice are festering. Hypocritical religious motions have replaced true worship, creating a false sense of security and a growing callousness to God's disciplining hand. Oh my. Amen. Plague, death, destruction, nothing, nothing can force the people of God to their knees. Yeah. Boy, that don't sound like a lot like the day we're living in. Everybody's got plenty, but boy, and everything's falling apart, but it seems like nothing gets the church's attention anymore. Amen. And so I want to read this. Amos, a former farmer, turned prophet. Amen. Just a regular old hard working. Is everybody all right? Amen, amen, holy ghost filled man of God. Hey, got up, got back, and preached the word of God. Hey, preached heaven's sweet power. And preached against sin, amen. And set the judgment of God. It's coming, it's gonna fall on those that are disobedient. Amen, listen to this. Amen, if you've got your Bible, amen, it's chapter number one. Amen, I've got a lot of reading to do. Amen, so I just want to lay that groundwork Amen. Name is chapter number one in verse. I start reading verse number three. The Bible said, thus saith the Lord. Somebody say amen. Amen. Who's speaking? The Lord. Amen. Who's giving this instruction here? The Lord. Amen. When you see that in your King James Bible, thus saith the Lord. Y'all pay real close attention. Find out what God's trying to say. And I realize all of it's God's word. Somebody say it, get back there. And I'm telling you right now, thus saith the Lord. But if God's trying to get somebody's attention, I believe today God's trying to get America's attention. And this is what he said, thus saith the Lord. For three transgressions of Damascus, And for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof. And he gives the reasons. He's not going to just, he's not poisoning. But I will send a fire over the house of Hazel, which shall devour. Somebody say amen. Well, we need more fire in the house of God. Chapter one, verse number six. Thus saith the Lord for the transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof. And that there's a reckoning day coming for the actions that these people have done. Amen. Everybody all right? Amen. And this is what he said in verse six. He said, but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour. Verse number nine. Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof. Verse number 10. But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour. Verse number 11, thus saith the Lord. But we better recognize who's speaking. We better open our ears and hear what God's got to say. But we better let God lead us and guide us. We better follow the voice of God as close as we can. We better start getting ourselves ready, amen, and walking in the Spirit. I know we live in the Spirit. He also walked in the spirit. And verse number 12, God said, but I will send a fire upon Timon, which shall devour. Verse number 13, he said, thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions of the children of Amon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof. Verse number 14, but I will kindle a fire in the wall of Raba and it shall devour. Chapter number two and verse number one, thus saith the Lord. Amen, buddy, we better get that down in our heart. Thus saith the Lord. God's trying to get the churches a kitchen. Thus saith the Lord. Amen. After three transgressions of Moab and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof. Verse number two, but I will send a fire upon Moab and it shall devour him. And he's dealing, he's dealing with all these These secular, worldly, amen, groups of people. Is everybody all right? Amen. And it's because of how they're living their lives. And God said there's punishment coming their way. Amen. But then, in just a minute, we're fixing to see God starts talking about the children of God. Amen. Now every couple of verses there, he'd change gears, amen. He'd get on somebody else in the world. But then right here in verse number four of chapter two, Amen, now he's starting to deal with the children of God. Amen. Thus saith the Lord, for three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof. Now listen, because they have despised the law of the Lord. God's problem is because of how they're treating him. His word, His commandments, they know them. The children of Judah know them. This is what it says, this is what it says, they have despised the law of the Lord and have not kept His commandments and their lies caused them to err after the which their fathers have walked. Listen to this, but I will send a fire upon Judah and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem. Listen to verse number six, thus saith the Lord for three transgressions. of who? Israel. Who said I'm a children of God? You put the church right there today. Amen. We are the children of God. I'm not talking about taking Israel's place. I'm talking about being blood-bought. I've been blood-washed. Washed in the blood of Christ. I sang, sanctified, sealed, till the day I'm a child of God. Amen. And I'm going to tell you what gets God angry with me. Amen is when I start stepping outside the Word of God and when I start selling out, listen to what happened here. He said for three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes. I'm telling you, we're seeing it today in which we live. Folks are selling out on God. They're selling out their holy living. They're selling out their righteous living. Are you hearing me right here? They're selling out on God. They've been there running after the faves of the world. They're trying to get popularity and they're seeking after the faves of the world. And God said, hey, because of that church. Amen. I'm not gonna turn my punishment away. Amen. God's not gonna turn his chastising hand away from the church until the church turns back to God. Amen. Is everybody okay? Amen. We can make excuses all day long. Hey, but I'm telling you right now, the church better wake up, amen, and realize we're the only ones that have the power to fix what's wrong in this world out here. Nobody else does. Amen. Amen. We better get on our face before God. We better get back to the foot of the cross. Amen. This is what he said in verse seven. They pat after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the weight of the meat. And a man and his father will go in unto the same maid. Now listen to this. And to the same maid, listen, to profane, to profane, My holy name. We better realize our actions, our actions don't just affect us. It doesn't just affect how the world sees us. It affects how the world sees him. Are you hearing me? If we're walking around, all covered up in the world, acting like the world, looking like the world, doing the same things the world's doing, amen, we ain't got no convictions in our lives, and we ain't got no holy standards in our lives. I'm telling you right now, buddy, we better wake up and realize that we are sinning against God. And we are the reasons, amen? The church better wake up. This is what he said in verse number eight. And they laid themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar. And they drank the wine of the condemned in the house of their God. Amen. They're going after false gods. He said, get destroyed. I know he's telling them what he's done for them in their life. Sometimes God will remind us what He's done for us in our lives. And why does He do that, you reckon? Why do you think God has to remind us so many times from where He picked us up at? Why do you think God has to remind us of the blessings that He's done for us? He's doing that, God, so that He doesn't have to chastise me. Hey, he wants the goodness of God to draw us back to him, not to chastise him. But we better remember how good God's been and get back to him. And that's what he's trying to tell me. Look at what I've done for you. He said, yet, destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the ox, yet I destroyed him. Listen to this, I like this right here. Amen, God will just take it all away. God will take the remembrance of it out of the world, amen. That's what he does. The fruit from above. and the roots from beneath. Amen, He just destroyed it all. They wouldn't come back. Amen, in our life. Amen, to cause us any more trouble. And I'm telling you, God, He'll take those stumbling blocks out of our way. He'll take those lost things out of our way. He'll destroy it from the top and the bottom. They'll never reproduce and grow again in their lives. That's what He done for them. He said, I destroyed their fruit from the top and their roots from the ground. They wasn't growing back in your life. Amen. How many of you remember, amen, when your dad said, there was things that you couldn't lay down, there was things you couldn't walk away from, and God destroyed them from above and beneath. He'd never give you another minute's trouble. You never thought another second about it. I mean, God carried you, washed you, amen, and set your feet on a rock. Lord, God, he established your goals, and you ain't never looked back. Amen. That's right. I don't know, I feel like preaching now. I'm not preaching right now. So with me, like, I might be all night. Amen. Amen. That's right. That's good preaching. And God said, look what I've done for you. Look what I've done for you. Now, listen to this, though. Also, I brought you up from the land of Egypt. I brought you out of the house of bondage. Amen. You was a slave. You was being mistreated. You was being taken advantage of. They was hurting you. And I brought you up out of that land. That's what God done. It's all about God. It ain't about me, it ain't about you. It's all about Him. He's a jealous God. He's the same God yesterday when you got saved. The same God, the same jealous God. He's the same God today that He was yesterday. Amen. And He changeth not. Amen. He's not going to be different tomorrow. You're not going to have to wake up in the morning and wonder what He expects out of you. Do you realize if you're a child of God, God expects some things out of you. That's right. Amen. He's still God. Amen. He still expects the same that he expected out of you when he saved you. He just expects you to be a little farther than him, amen? That's right. God didn't save you and you say, okay, that's it, you're not gonna grow. No, God saved you so now I'm gonna teach you some things. I'm gonna grow you up close to me and if you'll listen to me, you'll just continue to get more and more and more, man, I'll get more of you. Amen. And so he said, look, don't you remember when I brought you up out of the land of Egypt? Led you 40 years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorites. And I raised up, listen to this, of your sons for prophets and your young men for Nazarites. Amen, right there. God give us good children. And you put something in them, amen, to make them want to serve God. Won't we all be shouting the roof off? Hallelujah. said, I raised up the sons of the prophets and the young men for Nazareth. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? Listen to him, church, sayeth the Lord. But ye gave the Nazarites wine and drink. You let them know, man, it's okay, it's okay. You really ain't got to live that way. You can break his word. You can break in promises you've made to God. You know, the Bible says it's better for you not even to make a vow than to make a vow. And so the parents, the parents have always babied and pampered the children and said, it's okay, I know, that's hard. You ain't got to really live like that. That's what they say. When he said you gave the Nazarites one, they made that vow. Amen, they made that vow. He said, I gave you the Nazarites. He said, but ye gave, verse 12, the Nazarites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying, prophesy not. You know what that's saying today? Let me translate that for you. He said, you gave them preachers, and you told your sons, the preachers, don't you preach like that. Don't you preach that hard. Don't you preach like that. What you really need, here's what you need to, you need to go Bible college and everything. Everybody okay? Maybe they'll teach you how to make an outline. I went to the mailbox the other day. Hallelujah! I went to the mailbox the other day. Somebody, I believe from up north somewhere, they said to Pastor Tracy Puckett of Calvary Baptist Church. Boy, ain't that something? I had my name on a piece of paper. and we're gonna start the church, pastor. Pastor Tracy. Here's what he had inside there. He said, I've pastored churches for years. I said, well, hallelujah, I'm reading this. He said, I've pastored little churches, and I've pastored big churches. And I'm telling you right now, what they need is a man with an outline. And I've been studying the Bible, Years! And I've got them outlines for you. You can get an outline on Genesis for $29.95. I thought to myself, now if you really knew who I was, Tracy Bucket, the pastor of Cabernet's, you'd know good and well. You'd know better. Amen. Sent me a thing of outlines to sell. I ain't got nothing against outlines, amen. Hey, if God gives you one, glory to you, man, go ahead and let it rip. Sometimes I have them, amen, but I'm gonna tell you right now, amen, if you'll sit off $29.95 and get you a bunch of outlines on Genesis, you're a lazy preacher, amen. Amen. I believe in gleaning from people. Amen. I believe in gleaning from them. But I tell you right now, if you'll get in the Bible and get on your face, God will give you an outline of Genesis and it won't cost you nothing but a little long time for God. Amen. Are you hearing me? Yes. Oh man, he said he had them all out there. But anyhow, I don't have a guy off on that. But we say, preacher, don't preach too hard. Preacher, don't preach against that. You know me and my wife's involved in that. Preacher don't preach against that sin, you know, I'm not sure they're in it. Preacher you can preach against their, don't preach against mine. Ain't that the way we do? And this is what he said they've done, amen? That they've went to the prophets and don't prophesy. They've went to the preachers of today and said, hey, if you preach like that, we'll replace you. Oh yeah, there's churches that'll do that. Amen. There's churches that'll do that. Thank God we've got a good one here. Amen. Y'all put up with me now for 20 years. Hallelujah. Amen. I ain't about to change. Anybody okay? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, we need more preaching in the day in which we live. America needs preaching. The church needs preaching. Amen goes right there. We don't need these teachers, amen? Hey, heaping themselves teachers, having engineers. I'm telling you right now, we need preaching. He said, for the time will come, the time has come, when they will not endure sound bite. But hear him now. He said, and then he begins to tell them, your strength's gonna fail you. Those that are swift and fast, their flightiness is gonna fail them. They're not gonna be able to deliver themselves. And then in chapter number three, amen. Listen to this. Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel. Talking to the children of God again. Against the whole family, which I brought up from the land of Egypt saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth. Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities. That's right. Right. I'm not saying I'm living under grace. Yes. Amen. Bible said, but shall we do away with the law? What do you say? God forbid. Amen. Amen. This Old Testament is still just as important today as it's ever been. Amen. The old and new, we need it all. Amen, that's right. He said, can two, and I'm just going to read this one because I like it. Can two walk together except they be agreed? Oh, I've got to preach now, hallelujah. Tighten up. Can two walk together except they be agreed? That word, when you come into agreement, amen, is a substantial commitment. We need the church to get back committed to God. We need men to get back committed to the Word of God. If the Word of God's for it, I'm for it. If the Word of God's against it, I'm against it. Please, we need to make some commitments down to the house of God. We need to make some commitments to God. We need to be committed to one another. And as long as I'm in the Word, ain't that right? As long as we're in the Word, as long as we're trying to live by the Word, this right here is our home growth map. This is our conscience right here. This is what dictates to us how we live our lives. Pay me in. Can't sleep without the rug. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Ain't that right? If we're ever going to walk together and make a difference in somebody else's life. And that's really what the church is here for. Amen. That's really what the church is here for. And so in these next couple of chapters here, maybe God's just really going against, or not going against, but hammering down on the children of God. Give them instruction. Tell them what he's done. There's punishment. They deserved it. Amen. And then we get down to chapter number five. And I'm racking it up. Oh man, we ain't even been here an hour. I'm preaching fast, man. Y'all about to wear me out tonight? Hallelujah. Hear ye, verse number one. Hear ye. I like that, don't y'all? Hear ye, hear ye. I like that. I like that. Hear ye. Y'all didn't know where it came from. It's the Bible. This Bible, so when the crier gets out and says, hear ye, hear ye. He's quoting scripture. Y'all didn't know that, did you? I didn't know it until just now. Hear ye, hear ye. This word, hallelujah. Amen, this word, hear ye. Hear ye this word, which I take up against you, even a lamentation on the house of Israel. Oh, it's rough on children of God when they get out of the will of God. Is everybody all right? It is rough. And you know what the hard thing is, is getting back right now. Because the devil's gonna throw every excuse, every stumbling block in front of us to try to stop us and hinder us. He's going to. Amen. The virgin, verse number two, of Israel is fallen. She shall no more rise. She is forsaken. upon her land, there is none to raise her up. For thus saith the Lord God, the city that went out by a thousand shall leave in a hundred. And that which went forth by a hundred shall leave ten to the house of Israel. That's something. Well, if we're not looking at it today, this pandemic, Amen, and it's really, and we're blessed, and we've got some that's usually here on the weekend, they're not here tonight, they usually are. I understand sickness and stuff, amen. And we're very blessed, amen, with the amount that we've had that's come back. There's some churches, man, they can't get them to come back, at all. What happened was they was already almost out. This pandemic just let them get racked on up in the world and filled up our church time with world time. That's what happened. And they've given them an excuse. And then when the doors got opened back up, only those, are you hearing me? Only the faithful. Really. Some tried to, some a little bit. That call of the world, that call of the wild just kept hollering out to them. They'd give them an excuse. And so they stayed away from the house of God. And so what have the churches done? What have the churches done? Well, they closed down every service that Sunday morning. I don't have Sunday School of the Lord, I have Sunday morning service, I don't have Sunday night service, I don't have Wednesday night service. My goodness, man, we've got people that have underlying issues that couldn't get out, amen, and they couldn't come to church. So we start having another service on Tuesday night just for them. I mean, buddy, it's time we get back to more church and not less. Amen. Amen. These pastors, they have no idea. And I don't dislike them. Some of them are my friends. I don't hate them. I wouldn't call none of them's names. But they have no idea how hard it's going to be when they decide, hey, let's open back up on Sunday night and Wednesday night to get their people to come back. They done got wrapped up in dancing with the stars? Are you hearing me? They done got wrapped up in American Idol? Come on now, they done got wrapped up in going and visiting their friends and going out to eat and having barbecues and all these different things on Sunday night. Hell, they don't want to go back to church. Amen. But it's important. Church is still important on Sunday night. Church is still important on Easter night. And y'all be shouting out your healing. I know it's still important in my life. I need it. I need it on Sunday morning. I need it on Sunday night. He won't leave you alone on Sunday night just because you don't go to church. He won't leave you alone on Wednesday. He won't leave you alone back on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, or Sunday. I need all the church I can get. Amen. That's right. And I get down here to chapter number five. Amen, and it's rough. It's rough, brother Darrell. God's telling me, I'm not turning my punishment away. And I remember when the Lord told me, you know what five is? It's my grace. Y'all didn't get that easy. Five is grace. It's God's grace. Is everybody all right? Amen. And so God always, always gives his children Amen. His grace is extended all the time. No matter how far we've drifted, no matter how far they've went down, I tell you the grace of God is there. Verse number four, for thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, seek ye me and ye shall live. I know it looks bad. Hallelujah, that's the God I serve. Yes, his chastisement and his judgment is necessary, but his grace is sufficient. He told them in verse number six, seek the Lord and ye shall live. Will y'all shout after me. And then in verse number eight, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day of dark with night, and that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth. The Lord is his name. Seek him and live. Seek him, amen. And he'll lift that chastened hand off of you. Amen. And as I looked at that, I got down there to verse number 10, and this is where a lot of folks are at. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate. And they abhor him that speaketh uprightly. There's gonna be those. I know we've got a few preachers in here tonight. If you will take that stand in the word of God, and you'll preach what's right, there'll be somebody to hate you. If you rebuke in the gate, them pastors that are staying and try their best to keep the world out, are you hearing me? Try their best to keep the world out of the church and keep their church out of the world, and they rebuke sin, hey, you listening to me, amen? There'll be folks that'll hate him. I'm gonna keep rebuking in the gate. I'm gonna keep standing at the gate with you. Maybe I'm gonna do my best to keep the world out. Amen, I'm not talking about people, amen. I'm talking about changing our ways, changing from this old path. I'm talking about departing from the old path. I'm gonna do my best for us to stay in this old path. Amen, I'm gonna do our best, amen, for us to live by the book. Amen, I'm gonna do our best to say, hey, that don't belong in the house of God. Hey, that ain't the way to worship God. That ain't according to the King James Bible. Ain't that right? and there'll be people that hate you for it. Trust me, I've got a long line of folks that hate me. I'm telling you, I do, amen, and I'm not bragging about it, it breaks my heart. I mean, I know y'all think, I mean, I'm the meanest preacher in the world, really ain't, I love everybody. I wish you could see my heart. Amen. Why you preach so hard? It's just in me, I can't help it. I cannot help it. But I can tell you this, I promise you this, I haven't changed. Amen. Amen. I haven't went with the flow. Amen. I haven't joined up with the good old boy club. Amen. Amen. If they like me, they like me. If they don't, they don't. Amen. I'm not going to change until the end. Right. Amen. We need more men in the house of God, amen, that'll stand in the gate, and they'll rebuke the devil, and they'll rebuke the world, and they'll speak what's upright. Amen. Right. Amen. And then it said, go on down to verse number 14. I'm about done here. Seek good. Boy, I thank God for chapter 5. Amen. Maybe it gives us hope when we've failed God, when we've walked away, amen, when we've allowed sin in our life, and maybe we've not left the church, but maybe we're really not in the church, and we've allowed the devil to plant things in our mind and in our hearts, and can hinder us from worshiping God like we should. Thank God for the grace of God. He said if you'll seek Him, you can live. Amen. Praise to God. takes care of us. Amen. Verse 14 says, seek good and not evil. Seek good and not evil that ye may live. And so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you as you have spoken. Amen. I want God to be with me. Amen. I want his presence in my life. I want his spirit on preaching. Amen. I want his anointing. Amen. That's right. Hate the evil, verse 15, and love the good. Amen. Not my words. That's the words of that King James Bible. That I'm going to live by and I'm going to die with. Amen. Ain't that right? I'm going to live by and I'm going to die with. Amen. And they're going to bury one with me. Ain't that right? They're going to bury one with me. Why? Because when the devil shoots up to my courts, Amen, I want him to look over there and say, he even carried that book to the grave with him. Amen. Amen. That's right. Amen. That's right. I want you to know, amen, this book right here is precious to me. Amen. It's King James Bible. That's right. Put one in the coffin with me if I go for a rapture. Amen. Somebody say amen. I ain't looking for the grave. I'm listening for the trumpet. Amen. But if I happen to go by the grave, Don't you worry, amen. Bible says, be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. I'm gonna be in His presence. I'm gonna be where He's at. Yeah, because on December the 17th of 1989, He came where I was, a lowly sinner boy, broken, needs salvation. And He saved me. Hallelujah. And it only took one time. He got it right the first time. Amen. And all my silly ways couldn't mess that up. Amen. That mean I'm always been perfectly in His will. Amen. But I ain't never walked out of salvation. Amen. Hate the evil, love the good, and establish judgment in the day. Amen. Yes. Oh my. Yeah. Well we don't like that. We don't like that anymore. Amen. But it's still in there. Amen. It may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. Unto the remnant. Amen of the children of God. Amen. Unto the remnant of Calvary Baptist Church. Amen. I will stay true to God. Amen. Amen. I love my brethren. Amen. I love those that come. Amen. I love those that I love those that are at other churches. I love other pastors. Amen. I'm gonna do my best to stand with them when I can. Amen. Ain't that right? Amen. And they'll do their best to stand with me when they can. A lot of times I shave them off. Can't help it, amen. I'm just who I am. Just who I am. Amen, I love that. More than half. If we ever do get outside of the will of God in our life, there's always a chapter five. Amen. There's always a way back. That's right. There's always the grace of God. Amen. Here's the problem, until they get tired of the chastening hand of God. That's right. Amen. Go ahead. You can't do a whole lot for them. You can just be here for when they turn back to the grace of God. Are you hearing me? When they turn back to the grace of God, we can be here. Just like, you know when the prodigal came back? We talk a lot about the brother. But you know what the prodigal said? How many hired servants in my father's house? We don't think a lot about them servants. that just kept the farm going. They kept the grass cutting. They kept the walls painted. They kept the herds fed. They kept the lakes clean. They kept the garden growing. They kept going out harvesting and bringing it in. So when the prodigal came back, he had somewhere to come back to. So thank God for a chapter five. Thank God for his grace. Somebody start coming to the PM. Because there's always a way back. And I don't care where they're at tonight. I don't care what they've done. I don't care how far they've gone. Amen. I'm not of that crowd that says, well, they just went too far and they're going to die. No, I'm going to pray for them as long as I can. Amen. But if God tells you to take your hands off, best thing you can do is take your hands off and let God have it. Amen. Amen. Amen. That's right. Let God deal with it. Amen. Just keep praying. Amen. And just leave them in the hand of God because there's a chapter 5. Amen. Somewhere, if they ever got saved, they're still saved. Amen. Right. Are you hearing me? And there's a chapter 5. Amen. For them and their life. Out of the hog pen. Amen. There's a way back. He says, seek me. Hey, when they start seeking Him, Amen. Amen. I love you tonight. That's what the Lord give me. So tonight, if you need me to pray, amen. Feel free to do just that. Amen. Tonight, if you would stand to your feet, we'll get her to play a little something. They may give you an opportunity to come down here and talk to the Lord. Maybe you've got somebody on your heart tonight that you know is maybe not exactly where they need to be with the Lord. Maybe they're way out there. Maybe they're just not living quite like they should and you're worried about them. Tonight would you come and ask God to go where they're at and show them there is a way. And it's a chapter five in their life. It's the grace of God. Amen. Well, turn back to him. Hey, he take care of all us and all the problems in their life.