I don't use it much, but I've been blessed. God's been so good to us. What a message last night. As he was preaching this, God was showing me. I thought about all the good little young brothers and sisters and the brother that came up last night and prayed. He about run up here and had a stroke. Still about running up here to this seat to sit down so he could pray and ask the Lord to help him. Amen. Well, we can do that at home and I understand that. But boy, ain't nothing like just being blessed to come to the house of God and been able to come up here and make an open profession. Boy, I just appreciate that tonight. The Bible said to confess our faults to man. one another and our sins to God. Amen. So when we do what he asks us to do, he blesses us tonight. And I'm not ashamed of him. I've been ashamed of myself a lot in my lifetime. And I've done a lot of things that I am ashamed of. But on that day in 1989, I'm not ashamed of anywhere I'm at to tell you that in Valdez, North Carolina, a little 13-year-old boy Met the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He's been the best thing to me. I don't know about you tonight, but I'd say it for me. Ain't he been the best thing in your life? Amen, ain't he been? Some of you ladies, he's the best man, amen. There's a little lady down there in John chapter four, the Bible said she'd been married five times and the one she lived with was just shacking with him. But boy, there's a day she went down there to the well. And there's a man sitting there and he was weary, but I believe he was more thirsty for soul than he was natural thirst. And brother, listen today. She met the man she needed in her life right there. And when he came in, she dropped her water pot, went down to the city, and began to tell them men, said, hey, come down here and let's see a man that told me all there was about me. He's able to do that tonight. Would you let Him witness to you this evening? Over in the book of Acts chapter number 4, I don't claim to be nothing. I'm who I am tonight and I'm going to do my best and you help me tonight. You can help me by praying for me and I know you already have. And I've been pondering this today. We're just having a little fellowship. there at the coffee place today. And I told Robbie I wasn't trying to be antisocial. Amen. But there was a time there, Brother Hubert, I had to slip off and go over there and sit down on the couch and begin to just stare out in space, I guess they thought. But the Lord would just show me a few things. And I'm glad God's still God at Walmart. I'm glad He's still God wherever I'm at. down at the drug store, down at the grocery store, down at the house of God. He's still the same. And I'm thankful for that today. And I'm not ashamed. Are you? Amen. Acts chapter number 4. I wrestled with this. I was talking to Robbie coming up the road. I said, man, I hate to read so much, but I'm going to have to tonight. I'm going to have to read about 20 verses. There in verse number 1, if you dare say amen. 4 and 1, And as they spake unto the people the priest, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them, being grieved, that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold until the next day. For it was now evening time. How about many of them? which heard the word believed, and the number of the men was about five thousand. And it came to pass on the morrow that the rulers and elders and scribes and knights and whatever you want to call him, the high priest, and Cappius, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest were gathered together at Jerusalem. And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power or by what name have you done this? Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel, If we this day be examined of the good deed done to this impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead. Even by Him does this man stand before you, here before you hold. This is the stone which was set at Nauv, of the builders, which has become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation. Boy, I like that, don't you? He said, neither is there salvation in any other, for there's none other name. under heaven were given among men whereby we must be saved. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearning, ignorant men. Boy, they was off on that, wasn't they? They marveled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. That's all I worry about tonight. I care less my name's in the lights. I'm going to get to that in a minute. Amen. And it said, And behold, the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. But when they had commanded them to go aside, of the council, they conferred among themselves, and saying, What shall we do to these men? For that indeed a notable miracle hath done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. But that it spread no farther among the people, let us straightly threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in his disname. And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all or teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Will it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God? Judge ye, for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. And that's all we'll read tonight. Now I know that's a great lengthy reading, but it didn't hurt us very bit tonight. But boy, I like this scripture tonight. Amen. The setting, a part of the house of God or the people of God. If you would tonight, I'm glad that this separation, my friends, only come by the Holy Ghost and amen and I'm glad it started way back in the book of Exodus in the 11th chapter if you read down there how the Bible said that God amen said they wouldn't even be a dog wag its tongue and his people my friend you hear me tonight he said for he put a difference between between them and the Egyptians God always had. Now come on with me just a minute tonight. I don't preach like Robby. I preach like God wants me to. Amen tonight. But I'm going to tell you, I begin to think about these scriptures and this impotent man that laid down there by the from the gate outside the temple. Oh, Peter, come to him that day in that same power, amen, that Peter was telling him about. Why, Brother Robbie, he told that man, didn't he? He said, silver and gold, have I none? Amen, listen, God never told you he was gonna be rich. Amen, but he said, you can have the power of God. Amen, Peter said, I ain't got none of that what you're looking for. He said, but I'm gonna tell you about a man. He thought about this, this word right here. He said, all we can tell you is what we've seen and heard. A man today wanted an ice. I tell old brother Paul, a man after that had opened his eyes. I thank God. and called him and opened his eyes. He said that he might just tell what he saw and what he heard. Amen, you're with me tonight. Amen, when God saved you. Amen, he gave you a testimony. Amen, I've seen this last night. All these folk upon the altar. Amen. Now you've got a story to tell. Amen. And a testimony. We're God. I was bringing you through. And I thought about the church today. Amen. I thought about this right here. The Bible said to see and what you've heard. Amen, I thought about this. Over in the book of Matthew I read about a man named Jairus, my friend. I heard Jesus was passing by. Amen, and his daughter lay sick. Amen, down yonder, at his house, brother down, about to die. Amen, but Jesus was on his way. Amen, and Jairus got to him. And boy, he's on his way to Jairus' house. But my friend, that man stood back, and he saw how the crowd I thronged the Savior, amen. They saw a people, amen, wanted to just reach out and grab him, amen, touch him, my friend. Oh, my friend, but he saw this little woman that had an issue of blood, amen, for 12 years, my friend. She had struggled in her life. I'm unclean, unclean. And Jerry'll sit back and watch no doubt in my mind how that woman pressed through the crowd. Why in his mind his daughter was dying at home. Here's this woman holding up the Savior from getting to her highest hell. But can I say tonight, he ain't late, he's on time. My brother, you'll never outdo the Lord. He knows what he's doing. Amen, there's a little woman who reached out and just touched the hem of his garment, pressing through the crowd. She reached out, get a hold of him, and she said, I don't need to hug him. I don't need to fall on him. I just need to touch the hem, the finished part of the garment. Oh no, I'll be made whole. Are you with me tonight? He saw that. Oh, listen. And then, you know, Jesus makes his way down there to this house. My friend goes in, his daughter's alright, and he saw God, Jesus Christ himself, walk into this home and just take his daughter, a man by the hand, and lift her up off her dead bed. He just tell us what he saw and what he heard. Amen, today not thought about. Amen, going on down in the scripture. Amen, this little boy, little man, after 38 years, had to lay by the pool, but there's no one to help him in. Amen, no one to help him in the water. when it was troubled. And Jesus said, What would you that I do for thee? He said, I can't get in. There ain't no man can help me. I in here, they get in before I do. It's just paraphrasing tonight. Amen. But you know what I'm talking about, don't you? Amen. But listen, he couldn't get in. But Jesus, Already saw all his need and he came to where he was. I'm glad the Lord come to me. I'm glad the Lord reached way below the bottom and took my hand. I'm glad he picked me up out of the mire and set me up on a solid rock and established my going. Brother, you can't do it without him. You're gonna have to have Jesus. I'm just telling you what I've seen and heard tonight. Listen to me. Here he was. He meant trouble in his heart. But he left, didn't he? Carrying that man. Robbed him of affliction. There he was. He couldn't walk. But there he went. Mark chapter 2, Jesus is in the house and they saw the great prince and the house was filled and there's no room to get in. The Bible said Jesus preached the word unto them. Boy, it used to be a time, didn't it, when the word of God drew people to the house of God. There's power in the word. It ain't lost its strength. If there's any losing strength, it's in me and you tonight. If there's any shortcoming tonight, brother Herb, it's in me and you. If there's any downfalls, brother Rob, it's in me and you. It ain't in him. Amen. If we lift him up, he'll save our people. Amen. I don't know what your need is here tonight. I'm just going to tell you what I've seen and what I've heard. Hear me tonight. Old Peter made that declaration. You can say what you want. I'm just going to put it in hillbilly terms. He told old Cappius and them, he said, you can do what you want to do, whether you think it's right or not. I'm gonna tell you what I saw and heard. I'm gonna tell you my story. Amen, that's what you gotta do tonight. The church, amen, has a story to tell. The church, my friend, has a testimony to share. We have power in the name of Jesus. Are you with me tonight? Amen. Amen to see and heard. That's what he said. When we go over to Acts, Acts 22 and 14, and this is at an hour of talking to the brother Paul now, who's been converted on the road to Damascus, an evil man, and they're thinking he's doing the Lord's will. had letters, Brother Herbert, in his hand, and he was causing havoc right in the house of God. He was locking up Christians, causing them to blaspheme. Amen. But there's a day he met a man, a man on the road to Damascus, and the Bible said on the other end, and I said, And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldest know his will, and see that just one, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. Amen. I'm telling you tonight, We had power. I grew up in a time, and I mean, there's people here older than me, and I understand that, and I honor them. But God's given me some experience, and amen, I'm 49 years old. I still remember going to the mountain with the church when I was raised in. I still remember the women shouting up the pathway. I still remember sitting out to honor that maple tree. that night before I even knew what salvation was. Well, I feel it tonight. Amen, Brother Herb. And I said, I don't know what they're shouting about, but I'd like to feel it one day. And then in 1989, the Lord said, here I am. I've got you an invitation. You can sit at the master's table. You want to feel it, you can have it. God ain't lost his power. What do you do with it? When it comes time to die, you've heard the word. You've been around the power. But you ain't got it. Somehow it's escaped you in your life. And I thought, boy, we're living in a sad time, Brother Herbert. And boy, we're living in a sad time. Amen. There's a lot of people being saved, but they're not being born again. Amen. You know what? Being saved, I'm going to tell you this right here. Don't you get me wrong. I know we've got to be born saved. I know what we're talking about. They're just a whole lot of people that's more sorry about getting caught than they are sorry for their sin. Amen. Therefore, they're saved. They're not born again. When you get born again, you don't want to sin no more. Hear me tonight. Listen tonight. And the world sees it. And the world hears it. And they say, if they're gone, I ain't got nothing to worry about. What are we going to do with it? What we've seen and heard. Amen. Listen. Amen. He says this. He said this is the stone the builders rejected. He was the very one, the chief priest, the high priest that Jesus crucified. And here he is again. And he's got all his friends. And he can't do nothing with Peter and John. Amen. You know why? Because the power of God is so great in their life. Church, God ain't lost His power. We've moved away from Him. Listen to that. We don't need to do that. Don't accuse God of losing power when we're not drawing near unto Him. He's not going nowhere. Ain't that right, tonight? He said, listen. He said, you crucified him, Cephas and his friends. But I'm going to tell you, that's the world tonight. You know what the world's afraid of? They're afraid of the power of God. That's why they're trying to quiet the church. They know it's real. The devil knows, brother Robbie, he's real. And he's trying his best to use every instrument they are to stop it. But brother, they ain't gonna stop it. Amen. They tried to stop Christ. He still got up on the third day. He still had captive captive. He still fulfilled the promise under Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He still had them out. I'm telling you tonight, the devil knows when you get where God wants you, you've got power! Am I right tonight? Does the devil try to stop you from telling what you've seen and what you've heard? Why, Sister Rebecca, does the devil try to stop your testimony? We look around tonight, and there's a lot of family in the room. Don't you dare let the devil use that against you. At the end of the day, Brother Darrell, we're all brothers and sisters in Christ, those that's been born again. Amen, not even, don't look at it in a natural way, look at it in a spiritual way. Hey, when they got born again, they became your brother and your sister. It goes far beyond being an aunt and uncle, naturally. He goes far beyond. Brother Robbie, tonight, of being a kinfolk in blood, we're kinfolk in the blood. Do you understand? I may not have your blood type physically, but I have it spiritually. Are you with me tonight? And when you get down, I ought to be able to help you, amen? Because we are the same tonight. What the church sees, or what the world sees in the church, is a church falling apart, Spiritually! How can we be attractive? How can we be attractive when God, hey, when God's trying to help us and we're letting the devil stop us from telling what we've seen and what we've heard? That little woman down there, I wonder how many she told. Wonder how many she went and told Brother Robbie about her touching the hem of his garment and being made whole and having her fountain of blood dried up. I wonder how many more the little woman down there at the well told other than them men down there in the city. I wonder how many people that woman and John ate. I went and told about this man that had mercy. Amen, he was wise. He saved my life. She was going to die. She was caught in an act of adultery. Are you hearing me tonight? She's caught, she's guilty. She's guilty of charge. But weren't you caught at one time? Weren't you guilty of charge at one time? Somebody that's saved tonight ought to know what I'm talking about. Somebody's born again to know what I'm talking about tonight. You was caught. God knew you. You was going to hell. You was a sinner. Hey, listen tonight. You was black as coal, but he loved you anyway. Are you with me tonight? God, Jesus writes on the ground. And he gets back up, didn't he? Ye without sin cast the first stone. So he stoops down and writes on the ground. When he gets up, they're not there. The stones are there, but they're not. They can't throw them. Because in the book of Leviticus in the law it says there had to be two through three witnesses. And the ones that witnessed it had to be the first one to catch the first stone. You know a lot of times in our life, in our Christian walk, we've got it in our hand and we went on rumors and we went on and got facts and we're ready to kill one another. Oh, my friend. I believe in living right and clean. I do. You know that. Amen. But listen tonight. There's some time we can't get so religious we can't reach somebody. We can't look up in the air at people and treat them like they're scum of the earth. When, hey, without the presence of God in your life, that's all you are. Am I right? How do you treat sinners, Charlie? You treat them just like you want to be treated. You talk to them like you want to be talked to. You respect them as you expect to be respected. See and heard. What's better than an audible testimony? What's better brother Dyle than an audible testimony? The one you see. The one you look at and watch their life. Not that you're looking for mistakes but God's amazing you. They go through things. They've been through things. They don't understand the sickness. They don't understand the diseases in their body. But they're trusting God. Somebody is watching them. Are you with me today? Hey man, listen to me tonight. What have we seen and what have we heard? It's different, ain't it? What have we seen and what have we heard? Hey man, how has it affected the church? Hey man, you probably, I don't know about churches around here, but I know back up home, it don't take too long to fire a place that's dried up. But the reason it's dried up is they've removed the Word of God from behind the pulpit. Now we've got play sessions, and then we've got story time, and we've got this and we've got that, and we ain't got no gospel being preached, and there ain't no holy living no more, and people is just living loose, and listen, and the good pastors back up, where I can go, I can say for myself, hey man, they hang around a dead body so long, and they vex their own soul, amen, for being around it, amen? I'm going to get loose in this revival. I'm telling you, God's going to... Listen to that. There's everything for a reason. Everything. What's hindered us? Well, last night we had a lotter full. Now these folks here, these young ladies and men, now you have an opportunity. You can take what you were struggling with and what you thought the devil had defeated you with and you brought it to him and he said, come unto me and you came. You took his yoke and he said, take my yoke and I did. And now this is what he's doing in my life. Hey, listen, you don't have to wear a t-shirt with Jesus on it. You don't have to wear a hat with a cross. I've got one that's got a cross right there, but that don't make me a Christian. But it's how I live and how I walk, how I have a relationship with Christ. Listen to that. You want to win somebody, be a child of God. Why can't we just be Christian, Brother Herbert? I feel a lot of love out here. I was thinking today, Brother Darrell, Probably the last time I felt love like I feel out here is when we went to the Philippines. When the people were weeping, pastors would weep when you couldn't come preach at their church. They wanted their people to hear the gospel. Hey man, they didn't care. They just wanted to hear the preaching. They wanted, there's like you guys. Hey, let's get to the Word of God. It don't matter, listen, and you know what? God's given us an opportunity in these next two weeks here to have a real helping from Him. Are you with me tonight? I mean, you cousins has got to get off from I'm your cousin. I'm his cousin. You're their sister and you're their brother in Christ. Hear me? Hey, we got to get out. I'm their brother and I'm their... No, I'm talking about spiritually tonight. If we're going to help, we're going to see one another through the eyes of God. Amen. Ain't that right? Amen. That's true, ain't it? I was thinking about today, the church, how it's seen and how it's been portrayed. What a shame it is today. Amen, we got what not knows today. We got pastors, children participating in things. It's whirling. It's eating us up up at our house. I'm telling you, he said, your zeal is eating me up. The zeal of thine house is eating me up. Amen, listen, people so quick to jump in the world. Oh, listen, we need to come together. Honey, we need to press into this thing. We need to pray for one another. Amen. Listen, we need to dedicate this time to Him. Amen. Listen, don't be distracted. Don't be distracted. You want to be blessed, keep Him in front. Are you with me tonight? Amen. Peter said, hey, whatever you want to do, this is the way we're going to do it. This is the way we're going to do it, Brother Daryl. I'm just going to tell you about the resurrection. See, they didn't care how much they preached as long as they didn't preach in the name of Jesus. You know why? That name they was trying to kill. That name they was trying to get rid of, Brother Daryl. That name, hey, that's got power in it. There is no other name given under heaven whereby man must be. And the devil knows it tonight. We're preaching. They're telling about Mohammed. They're telling about Buddha and they're everyone dead. Their bones are probably powder right now. Amen. When we tell them about Jesus, people get offended. You can go over there and look. He ain't there. His bones ain't there. He's resurrected. We just celebrate the resurrection. I didn't celebrate bunny rabbits and I didn't celebrate the eggs, but I celebrated a risen Savior who's coming again. And brother, if we ain't ready, we ain't going. Is that right tonight? If I cross you on the Easter Bunny, too bad. The only one I like is chocolate. It's in trouble. But I'm telling you tonight, folks, we've got to get ourselves out of this world. Hey, Paul said to crucify this flesh. Hear me tonight. Hear me tonight. There's certain people that gets up every day, guys. They don't think another thought about hell. They don't think about heaven. A lot of people think you're just born to die and be like a dog kicked in the ditch. Who told you that? Who told us and convinced us of that? They're trying to take Jesus off everything. They're trying to, hey, Transgender Sunday on Easter Sunday. You hear me? They're trying to get the attention from off Christ. Hear us tonight. And a lot of churches is letting it happen. For another button of seed, another 20 and offering plate, another 100. They're letting Christ go right down the road. Amen. Are you with me tonight? That Peter said, whatever you think is right or not, he said, this is what we're going to do. Hey, you can judge it if you want to, whether it be right with God, but he said, we're just going to tell you what we've seen and heard. This young man, he was 40 years old, and he laid down our body, hey, hey, hey, asking for off, begging for money, but he got something better than money. We think all the time, I'm gonna come to a close here in a minute. Hey man, I didn't do no acrobat moves tonight. I ain't gonna ever do that, probably. So, I'm gonna tell you this tonight, and I didn't say it to make you laugh, but I just do me. That's another problem in the church, I told my church. A lot of times we come to church, we get that the man's doing actions. Jumping on this, jumping on the pews. But they're letting the most important thing go in this ear and out this one. It's nowhere around this. That's why there's a whole lot of people saved, but they ain't born again. You hear me? If you're drowning and I throw you a lifeline and I pull you out of the water and you run back and jump right back in, that's not being born again. That's just being saved time after time. I've heard people say, I've been saved four times. They said, I've been saved four times. I said, well, you need to be born again. It's a transformation. God changes you. All things pass away. Behold, all things become new. He didn't say some of them. Hey, if you've still got that fleshly trait, you need to pray and get it under the yoke of God. That's what it's about. Living a Christian life is about decreasing and him increasing. Am I right tonight? Amen. Peter, them boys have been in prison. They've been whooped. They've been struck. Hey, Paul's in prison. History, I guess, teaches he died somewhere out there. But listen, the thing about it is he wrote 14 books of the New Testament. A lot of them sitting right in a dungeon. You see, they could stop Paul, but they could not stop God. They could stop the voice of Paul, but they could not stop the voice of God. See, in our life, there's people that's fighting spiritual battle sitting in our congregation that's still trying to tell somebody about Jesus. Oh, what a warrior that is. You think about that tonight. What a warrior that is. At the end of the day, I could pretty much like how you dress, and I pretty much like your strict way of living, but I'm going to tell you what. It's what you are behind closed doors. It's what you are down at Walgreens. It's how nice you are to somebody down at the restaurant, huh? That's at the end of the day. People see who you really are. It's easy to come in them doors and put on a good show. Dress like everybody, look like everybody, but if you ain't careful, you got a big old skeleton hanging right behind the curtain. Am I right tonight? You pray. If you didn't like how I preached tonight, just pray real hard. Maybe God will give me something. something else. I don't know. But all I know is the Word of God, guys. That's all I know. All I know is I want to tell you what I've seen and heard. I've seen God work in my life. I've seen God work in my girl's life. I've seen God work in some of y'all's lives. I saw you be blessed. I've heard good things. And that's what they're doing. They're telling the story of Jesus in their lives. And that's what we've got to do. No matter what, first we got to tell about Jesus. He's got to be number one. Papaw can't be Papaw. He's got to be your pastor. Am I right, Herb? Am I off base? Brother Dale, he can't be daddy and uncle. He's got to be the minister of God. He's got to be the preacher. He's got to be the one delivering the word of God to my life. I can't look at him and say, that's just dad. And that's just Uncle Darryl. No, no, no. The devil has tricked us. The devil has caused us to lose respect for our elders. Amen. For them that teach us. and has therefore set a boundary between us. I don't know why God want me to do this tonight. You can't do that. Hey, you're out here, and I know, I'm just telling you like I feel tonight, and I know you feel left out. And I know you feel like you're just a part of a certain place. And that nobody knows about you. But can I tell you something tonight? My God is the same one when they exiled John the beloved out on the Isle of Patmos 50 miles away from everybody. The power of God come upon him. And he ascended into third heaven. God can use you. You ain't so separated. God can help this church in what it needs. God's able to do that. There's still people that love the Lord. You ain't by yourself. There's people listening. There's people watching. What are we looking for? Are you looking for the power of God in your life? or favor with man. Can I say tonight a holy life ain't popular? A separated life is not popular, guys. I've got a lot of friends up to the house, but when I go home on Sundays, I don't see nobody. Brother Errol, I don't. I talk to Robbie on the phone, a few other brothers on the phone. Nobody comes down my driveway. But you know what? I'm happy. Would you like to have more company? Well, yeah. If I can help them, I'd like to have them. Amen. Amen. But I'm not going to debate with the devil for nothing. I don't have to. It's settled. It's settled, guys. It's settled. You don't have to massage the devil, honey. If people ain't going to live right, I'd get away from them. I mean, that's just the way I am. And what I mean by that, you can't practice what they do. You can't do what they do. You can't say what they... I'm just being honest with you tonight, church. Separation sometimes... The Word of God does two things. It brings us together or it separates us. It is. It's two-edged. It's two-edged. But we as Christians, if we're going to kill with it, we've got to be slain with it. What are you talking about? Well, I can't tell you to live like a certain something if I don't. I've got to get in this Bible and live for myself. And then I can give you instructions and try to help you. Amen? I used to get mad at them old men for taking me out on the back road and say, Charles, if you don't watch that, that old girl's going to have you chasing her down the road. And you ain't going to be preaching no more. I'd get so mad. I'd suck my lip and get mad at them old men of God. But you know what? They was absolutely 100% right. I've seen so many men pick a relationship over their ministry. Are you with me? Young folk, don't do that. Don't do that. Live for the Lord. Live for the Lord. At the end of this thing, when you die, you're standing before Him. He sees you. He knows your life. I wouldn't go to hell for a hundred women. Amen. You women, I wouldn't go to hell for a thousand good-looking, tall, dark, handsome men, either. Are you with me? I'm going to tell you, it's a trap. It's a trap. The whole time, Samson's mommy said, don't go down there. Don't you take a wife out of the Philistine. What'd he do? First thing he went and got him was a whore down there, a harlot. Then he didn't get her so he wouldn't be defeated. He wanted to go down there. There's Delilah. Finally, he found the one he loved. But you know what? No God used him at the end. He cost himself. Big. Big. Now he's down at the mill grinding with no eyes. Now he's asking a little lad, would you put my hand up on the pillow so I can feel it? And his hair and his strength began to come back. But he died. And he killed more people in his death at the Philistines than he did the whole time he was living. But he didn't have to go down that road. There was a choice to be made. You didn't have to. My friend, by running from the Lord, you're going to cost yourself more than you're willing to pay. I'm telling you, you ain't got the check to get you out of sin. You ain't got a check to write you out of hell. We have a good friend, preaching friend, we was talking about the other night, guys, this is how deceived the world is. This is how deceived the world is, Brother Hubert. We got an older preaching friend, Leo Reimers is his name. He preaches at my church and Brother Robbie's too, at times. Said he went to what, I think his sister-in-law's funeral or something. I guess Catholic or something. But anyway, her husband died. Well, her husband died. And Leo said they're beginning to pass the offering place. He said, well, that's the nicest thing I've ever seen done for a widow. The church is taking up an offering place, you know, going to help the widow. But you know it turned out to be for the priest. So he could pray him out of purgatory. They was paying a man to get him out of trouble with God. Don't work. Don't work. People follow men like that right there. And they call them father when the Bible said not to call no man father. You bring your reference nobody but him tonight. He's not going to have his glory took from him. But that's where we're at today. And people look at that stuff and they say, that's the church. Yeah, you're right. And I know if you're here tonight and you say, well, if they live like that and they can go to heaven, I ain't got no trouble. I'm going to tell you something. I wouldn't go to hell for nobody. Amen. They say up the church, and I know I'm rambling on, but I'm going to tell you something tonight. They say up my way, well, I would go down there, but they're a bunch of hypocrites. But they go to Walmart with them. And they'll go to the same steakhouse and eat them and wave a hand. You know what I'm saying? But that's where we are tonight. That's where the church is tonight. That's where people are tonight. Am I right? Somebody said, well, you don't know the world from the church. Yes, I do. Yes, you do. We have an unction. God's people knows. Amen. He don't deceive us. Amen. He said, my sheep hear my voice, and they will not fall. He knows his sheep, and his sheep know him. Is that right? Are we going to rip John out? Do you hear me tonight? Go ahead, brother. You want to play it? Make an honor call, folks. Listen, I'm going to go home tonight, and I'm going to go over and we're going to have fellowship here in a little while. But I want you to know, Dad was going to work on me. He said that didn't go over. That's what you're going to do. I know by experience. I know what's going to happen. Herbert's been there. Darryl's been there. All these men that preach, you know what I'm talking about. You've been there. But I'll tell you, I did my best tonight. We've got to come together guys. This church just so happens to have a lot of family. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. There's future preachers in here no doubt in my mind. There's future song leaders, deacons sitting right in amongst you tonight. Don't let the name, don't let the name weaken God's power. What you need to do tonight says, Lord, what can I do to make it better? What can I do? If you're here tonight, listen, I don't go home with you, and I'm not mad at you, and I'm not trying to be mean at you, but if you can't go home tonight and lay down with a pure conscience toward God, why take the chance? If you're lost tonight, what are you waiting on? He makes all things new. It ain't going to get no better. It ain't going to get no better. It ain't going to get no better. We can't let the world water down what God's trying to do for us. We've got to tell what we've seen and what we've heard. That's where the power is tonight. They knew if they could shut Peter and Emma up, 5,000 men was just added to the church. They couldn't do nothing to them, there's too much power. But Scott, I believe today we still have the same power. It's not being unlocked in our life because we let these things hinder us. Huh? If you're born again tonight, you have something the world really wish they have. Pride comes before the fall. Don't it? Pride destroyed a lot of great cities. Pride has caused many great men to fall and ladies. You may listen to me. Don't you limit one another for being familiar with one another. You pray for one another that you can be your best for Jesus. You keep telling the story, it's going to pay off. What would you do tonight? If you'd go out there tonight and the black skies would turn even blacker, and the heavens roll back like a scroll, what would you do then? What we do then? Hear this. What can I do? Anybody else tonight need to pray? I know several come last night, but there's several that didn't. I'm not trying to pull you over, If I was here tonight and I didn't know Jesus, I wouldn't go out the door. I would not go out the door without knowing Him. He's got blessings for you if you'll accept them. That's the message tonight. I've done the best I could. Amen. You pray. God will do a great thing. How about that little lady there? Amen.