I can't do Robbie's part tonight, but I can do mine. I was sitting there thinking, I was hearing everybody singing. I appreciate all these young people. I appreciate everybody singing. All the testimonies that we've heard tonight, I really appreciate them. I never had to be number one in my life. I never had to be Saul. And I never had to be first in line. I was at a brother's of mine on Easter Sunday morning, and we was, service was over, and we was getting in line. They ate breakfast that morning, and they kept telling me, said, Charlie, they're waiting on you. I said, honey, I'm used to waiting till last. And that's just the way I do at the church. I wake to last. I'm the least among God's people. And that's just the way I feel about things. And I think that's where God really wants our mindset is to be least among our brothers and sisters. And that way, more people get lifted up, don't they? Amen, and we need that tonight. And so, there's nothing tonight that God can not and He will not do for us if we'll just do what He wants us to do tonight. And it's very important to do that this evening. Over in the book of Hosea, or however you want to pronounce that, chapter number eight tonight, I really, I had a couple thoughts in my heart. I know that Robbie was not going to be with us for a few days, and you bear with us tonight. I don't know how long I'll be before you, but I'll be before you as long as it takes. Amen. For the Lord to do what He needs to do. If it's 20 minutes, that's what it'll be. If it's 10, that's what it'll be tonight. I don't think that we can put the Word of God out there and measure it. Amen. Of how much or how little it takes, but he just takes what he wants. Amen. And so if you want to stay in tonight, we'll read a few verses and probably just had to take my time tonight and get into this thing and dissect and see what we got. But I mean, you know, when we read this, I want everybody to keep an open mind spiritually tonight. Amen. And the Bible said in verse number one, if you're there, say amen. It said, set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant and trespassed against my law. Israel shall cry unto me, my God, we know thee. And Israel had cast off the thing that is good. The enemy shall pursue him. And they have set up kings, but not by me. and they have made princes, and I knew it not. Of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off. Mine anger is kindled against them. How long will it be ere they attain to heaven? And it says, from Israel was it also the workman made it, therefore it is not gone. Let's read that again. From Israel. Was it also the workmen made it? Therefore it is not God. But the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces." Maybe one or two more verses. It said, For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It hath no stalk, the bud shall yield no meal, and if so be it yield, the stranger shall swallow it up. That's where we'll stop tonight and you can be seated, but I trust tonight that we've been praying today and meditating upon the service this evening and that God would just pass by for a few minutes tonight. I didn't ask God, I didn't say reveal to me who will be there tonight, that I can get a message that I think would be fitting for the time. But we've got to depend on what God brings us tonight. If you go out in the field, and Brother Darrell, and you've got seed taters, and you've dissed that field, and you've turned up the fallow ground, and you dish that field and you've got it laid out in rows and you take those potatoes, the ones that you've cut and you've laid down in the ground and you cover it up. My friend in time, that potato that's been cut or dined, it'll rot in that ground. and it'll bring forth the fruit that you put in that ground. Just like coming to the house of God. Brother, you come to the house of God. There'll be times that we'll have to turn the fallow ground. There'll be times that we'll have to look through the field and get the rocks out. And we'll have to take the spiritual disc, if you would, and just get that ground to where we can lay a straight row. Tonight, brother, put the blinders on, my friend, and go down those rows and begin to sow. And then we realize that one planteth and one watereth, but it's God that gives the increase. There's no ability tonight. Me and brother Robbie Daugherty, I could have cut his pockets out of his pants tonight and brought them here and the revival wouldn't be in it. I can cut mine out and the revival won't be in it. My friend, you can cut yours out tonight. But the revival ain't in it, my friend. It's in the Holy Ghost. Amen. Amen. But I thought about this thought tonight. Brother, casting away our confidence. Brother, today there's a danger. Amen. Come with me now. I'm going to take my time. I don't preach like Robbie. I preach the way God wants me to. My brother Daryl, there's a danger from coming down to the house of God time after time. And brother, the word of God being planted into our lives and us denying it and casting it away, my friend. There's a danger tonight. Amen, of coming down and God trying to work in our life. But yet we're like to those ladies there. In Isaiah chapter four verse number one, they said let us be called by your name. But let us wear our own apparel and eat our own bread. Amen, that's where we are today. People come down to the house of God, now you pray for me. Forever, my friend, I'm gonna get the laws to come in and be saved and the church has gotta be what it's supposed to be. Our brother, we're not a greenhouse. Jesus, my friend, our brother, we're not selecting what we wanna grow. Amen, he said, you say that it's four months, I believe he said to the harvest. But as he looked around down there, he looked around at the field and he said, the harvest is ripe and the labors are few. The harvest, my friend, it's all around you. When you go down to workplace, it's there. When you go down at Walmart, it's there. Amen, it ain't a time, is it, to cast it off. Amen, just our responsibility coming down the house of God. Ain't everything there is to live and write. My friend, we come down here, and brother, we get cultivated and planted into, amen, but listen, Jesus, comes down to little, amen, a little tree. And Brother Darley begins to look at that tree. And that tree looks good. That tree's got leaves. Amen, that fig tree. But it ain't got no fruit. Amen, but listen what he said. He's gonna curse that tree. But Brother, the mercy of God. Amen, that old gardener or whatever. that one that tended it. Amen, just like the men of God. Just like the church. Let us tend to it. Amen, let us dung around it. Amen, that it might bring forth fruit. Give us time, God. I'm telling you, brother, God's give us time. He's give us grace. He's give us mercy, brother Robbie. And what have we done with it? Where are we going? My friend, have we cast it aside? Have we laid it down? Listen tonight, don't take it for granted. Take what God gives you and let it grow in your life. Amen. Amen, I begin to wanna think about that casting off. Amen, that's the discard as worthless That's what a lot of people do, my friend. We come down to the house of God, Brother Herbert to preach, Brother Daryl, Brother Bill, and maybe one of these young preachers to preach, and we'll put it off on somebody else, my friend. I'm gonna tell you tonight, the Word of God's for everyone. In the house of God tonight, it ain't for you to perk your head up. and begin to look around and spread the blame on somebody else. But God's trying to either plow you up, sow in you, my friend. And what did Paul tell Timothy? He said, hey, he said for us to be instant in season and out. He said to rebuke, rebuke, didn't he? And to reprove and exhort. I tell my church all the time, Hubert, I ain't going to preach on heaven every time I come to church. I just don't think God would have it that way. And we're not going to preach reproof every time we come down at the church. and we're not going to preach rebuke all the time. Amen. It ain't just the way the pastor feels today. Amen. But I begin to look at that covenant right there. A while ago, I noticed some things down in that covenant, my friend. And I mean, they've took this out of a lot of churches I've been to. Brother, they don't believe in a covenant. They don't believe in an agreement tonight. Amen, it's freelance, brother. I will come when we want to come. And we'll be faithful when we want to be faithful. We'll listen when we get ready to. But pride comes before the fall. Oh, my friend tonight. Amen, I'm telling you tonight, listen. They claim me great big. with their mouth, but their heart was far from me. With their mouth they claim that they know the Lord, but by their action tonight, they don't love God, my friend. They come to church like everybody else, amen, but their life don't give no fruit. I'm telling you tonight, there's gonna be people standing judgment that says, did we not cast out devils? Didn't we do all these marvelous works? Didn't I go down to the church house? Didn't I pay my tithes? Didn't I wear a dress down to the floor? Didn't I cut my hair off short? Didn't I wear a suit like our brother Herbert? Our brother dressed like us? Amen, but God ain't worried about you and another man. He's looking at you as a woman or a man, a child of God. He's got a back, my friend. according to Malachi of every remembrance. And he said, hey, they that love me, I spoke often of me, and I made a book, and I began to write her down. God knows what you do. Outside the double door, you're not fooling God. Amen. I feel pretty good. I'm looking at this covenant. Will not forsake. Hebrews 10.25. Shall not forsake. Do not forsake a similar self in matter of some else. And brother, I mean you just go on down there and look. Amen. When you begin to look at all these things, have we agreed to accept Christian admonition? Amen. We agree to be corrected. You hear me tonight. Amen. You know where the church world is in this country. Nobody wants to be wrong. And they want Jesus to be politically correct. And He's not politically correct. Not in the eyes of this world. But the Bible said He will govern His people. Out with that rod of iron. Amen, he carried the cross, brother. He didn't carry it for nothing this evening. He didn't carry it for you to act like a heathen. Amen, he didn't carry it for you to come down here and get some kind of cheap grace and walk out the door and act like the world, listen to the world. Amen, participate in the world. He didn't send his son down here. Amen, for me and you to trample all over his blood. Amen, this cheap grace that people's got won't even keep them coming to the house of God. Amen, ain't it a shame today that we've cast away our confidence? Amen, in the book of Hebrews it tells us better than that not to cast your confidence away, my friend. Hear me tonight. I was coming down the road and I thought about that. That old car out there's got a button you can push. Hey, we never had nothing like that. I could push that button, it'd keep me between the lines, I had my Bible open. And here I'm on the hook, I'm confessing tonight. Amen, listen to me. Confess your faults to man, your sin to God. Ain't I right tonight? I begin to look at it, and I thought, whoa! Don't cast it away! There's a great reward for you, dog! Don't cast it away! Listen to me! Don't cast away what God's trying to do for you! I ain't never had a time like I've had in the last 33 years. People get mad at the truth. I had a family leave the church. I told the whole church one Sunday morning. Michelle, I believe, was telling about that the other day, and I didn't even have to ask where it was. I already knew. Hey man, I went down there and I think it was the 26th chapter, the book of Matthew, where old Judas there, hey man, he was a money buyer, but brother, he was a thief. And I want you to know something tonight, the thief come but for the kill to steal and destroy. Hey man, God didn't put you in this church to be a thief. and to rob his church and to rob your brother. Amen, you be honest with yourself. You don't want God to help you tonight, you be honest with him. Amen, it don't matter if you wallowed in sin all week, you be honest with him. When you come out the house of God, you won't help, be honest with God. Don't go back out and do it again. Say, God help me out of this mess, help me that I won't be that lukewarm person that God's gonna spew out, amen. Hear me tonight. Hey! Amen. Isaiah said them women though, they said we just want to be called by your name to take away our reproach. You don't go to church brother to just take the reproach off your life. God already knows your heart tonight. You can't sneak around on God. You might sneak around on your boyfriend and you might sneak around on your girlfriend and you might even sneak around on your husband and wife, but you won't sneak around on God. You won't commit adultery in Him, a spiritual adultery, and Him not know about it. He's got an all set. He sees both good and evil. He knows you're down-shaded. He knows you're upright. You won't escape tonight. There's a danger with just coming to church. But now there's a danger of just being religious. I try my best not to be religious, but every now and then I get that way. I'm religious. Amen. But at the end of the day, I've got to look at myself in the mirror. It's not somebody else. It's not my wife. It's not my children. It's not my grandbaby. It's not my son-in-law. But it's Charlie that needs help. When you get the message at the house of God, regardless of who gives it, God has sent you help today. It's not for you to put over in the tater basket over in the dark place in the corner until you need it. but God is trying to prepare you. It may not be for today, and it may not be for tonight, it may not be for tomorrow, but there's some word down in your life, God knows you're gonna need what is being said behind the pulpit, amen, to help you in this life, you hear me? Hear me tonight. Oh, man. What did the Bible say in Matthew 7, 21? He said, let's go around and look at it. Amen. Matthew 7, 21. Look at this. I mean, these things come to my mind, and I like to go to them. I love a reference in the Bible, don't you? It's helpful tonight. Some people read it like a magazine, and you ain't getting nothing out of it. You can read the Reader's Digest, but it ain't going to help you spiritually. Amen. If you just read that Bible like you do the Reader's Digest or something, and you remember them? I remember when I was a kid, ma'am, I used to read them things. That won't help you a bit to scape over it, and you'll miss the nuggets in it. Listen to what he said. Over in the book of Matthew, I believe, what'd I say, 721. I get in a big way and I forget, but listen. At 721, we'll just read the Bible and see what the Lord says about it tonight. Now listen to what Jesus said. Let's listen to what Jesus said. It ain't just coming out. Listen to what he said. Not everyone that saith. It ain't everybody that claims Jesus. This is the one he said, unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. It's dangerous just to go to church. You're so into the wind. You're so into the wind. He said, but who is it, brother Darrell? But he that doeth. It ain't him that's doing all the talking, but it's them that's doing all the doing tonight. Faith is action. Love is action. Loving God is action. Loving God, he said, I'll make you not ashamed. He said, loving God is action tonight. Oh, Lord have mercy. He said, but he that doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven. Amen, are you with me? but he that doeth, not him that saith. It ain't him that says a good game. I got this, I got... You ever met them people? If you get a new guitar, theirs is better. If you get a new Bible, theirs is better. Same word of God, but they like theirs is better. You get a new pair of shoes, theirs is better. There's people like that in the church, ain't there? I'm talking about spiritually. I want you to know you ain't got nothing unless he give it to you. Jesus, amen. Oh, my friend, listen. Amen. It's not them that sayeth, but them that doeth, Brother Robbie. Hey, listen. God's not looking for saying. He's looking for somebody that's going to do it tonight. The church can't grow if we ain't willing to go knock on the door. Are you with me? Did you hear Daryl the other night? Did you hear him? I remember one time in the trailer park, when I got called to preach, there's a bunch of us young boys, got called to preach. Man, we was fired up, Rob. We'd get preaching right there. We caught the tater hoe down there on the other side of Granite Falls, North Carolina, and I was a young boy. We'd get down there on the corner in the trailer park, begin to pray together. Then all of a sudden, one of us cut loose, start preaching. There's a woman one day start throwing rocks. The world don't want the truth. It was then and it's now. But here's the thing, it's come into the church. Church has become a place of recreation. Am I right? Church has become a place to go see people. Is that right? Church has become that place. Church has become a place where we can go down to our brother Robbie and we can see brother Robbie. And we can hear Brother Bill sing. We can hear Brother Bedell testify and get out. But how about you? Are you with me? God said to work it out with fear and trembling. There ain't a lot of fear and trembling no more. Mom, it ain't. I mean, these ought to know what I'm talking about tonight. It used to be people show love. Nowadays we got cell phones and you never hear from nobody. Huh? Am I right? I remember when I was a kid, I'm 49, I guess that ain't too old to some, but it's old to me. And I remember when I was a kid, Brother Bill, we didn't have a phone in the house. The only time I seen my papa was when he come out there. That's the only time I get a chance to go home with him. You hear me? And if I wasn't there, if I was up the road playing, listen, I didn't get that opportunity. I want you to know something tonight. You ain't gonna get right when you wanna get right. There gotta be conviction in your life. I'm not gonna tell somebody they're saved when they ain't. If there's no drawing, if there's no conviction, hey, if there's no sorrow, then you can't get right. Am I right tonight? There's danger just coming to church. Is that right? Listen to what he says. Israel hath cast off the thing that is good. How about Ogedeon? There's a time Israel sinned, and God sent the men in ice and ammocots down there, didn't he? And spoiled Israel. Every time they'd have a harvest, they'd bring their cattle, and they'd come on them like grasshoppers, they'd destroy the increase. You know why tonight? Hey, listen, I know people, I had my pastor get mad at me over years ago. I said, there's a big difference between, amen, troubles and trials, and the wrath of God in somebody's life. A chastisement in a person's life. You think God's just gonna let you go out here and play church and not have nothing to say about that? You read the wrong Bible. You're reading the wrong Bible. I need to give you mine. Because I read every word, Brother Darrell, that the children of God went back on God. He sold them off. He said, I'll divorce you. You backsliding heifer. That's what he said, ain't it? He called him backsliding, didn't he? He called him a heifer. Backslid! That's where we are, boys. It's rough, ain't it, I guess? I spent time with Jesus today, because there wasn't nobody else to spend time with. Don't take that wrong. I spend time with the Lord. Brother Ackley, that's where we are. We're in a way, it seemed right, we're in a way to come to church where we've had people pray. Yes, we have. Thank God for that. But we can't stop now. We've got to press into this thing. We can't cast away things. We can't lay it down. We can't say we don't need it no more because we've been saved for 20 years. That's dangerous. Dangerous! Dangerous! There's a doctrine going around. You don't have to go to church to be saved. That's not a doctrine that's been around for years. And it's a lie. And the devil's convinced people. But how about Gideon down there? The devil's stolen everything. but God wants to give it back and get him, don't he feel worthy? But God sent him down there by the winepress, and brother, he was thrashing the wheat. He was trying to keep the enemy from seeing what he, hey, he was hiding and eating, but I'm gonna tell you something now, when you serve the Lord, you don't have to hide from nothing, amen. You come and worship, you come have a good time in the house of God, you ain't got nothing to worry about. Hey, but listen, the only time you hide is when you're guilty. Ain't that right? If you're guilty, you'll hide. Woo! That's why a lot of people wanna go big churches. They can go in, get out, nobody don't know they're there, but we went to church today. Listen tonight, I want fellowship tonight. That's why the Bible said to fail not to assume yourself. That's why we put it in our covenants, and that's why we agree on it. That's why we have rules at the house of God. We just don't let anybody who wants to join, join. And Jesus don't either. It ain't about how much Jesus you talk, but it's about how much you walk. I'll be done here in a minute. Gideon said, hey, you call me a mighty man of valor, what's wrong? He said, I look around, and brother, we're running, we're hiding, and brother, the enemy's got us on the run. Why are you on the run all the time if you love Jesus? The Lord will destroy you if you ain't careful. Play in church. Jealousy in your life. Robbie preached on that the other night, didn't he? First night of revival hit jealousy right off the bat. Yes, his crew in the grave, but I'm gonna tell you something tonight. Love is stronger than death. Do you know how love's stronger than death? He's always give hope. The Lord has always give hope to us. Out of seven churches in the book of Revelation, five he had somewhat against, didn't he? Five! He said, let us see it. He said, I find you not hot or cold, for you look warm. He said, but if you look warm, I'll spew you out. Now what makes us stay? We can come in here and be religious. Is that right? You might want Robbie to come back, I guess, tomorrow. I'll take my time. Where we at tonight? Revival's been all week. I said, Lord, have mercy. I was reading this and I had a thought and I thought I was going over there and the more I, when I got back home today, I'm just glued to what I'm doing right now. And that's evidence, ain't it? That's good enough for me. I'm not gonna not do what God wants me to do. It's awesome to sing. It's awesome to participate in the house of God, but it's awesome also to have your heart really where it needs to be. It's a dangerous thing just to be religious. It's a dangerous thing. Ask Judas about it. Sister sung this song a while ago and I thought about what I was going to say. I mean, you know, what the scriptures were. It's a dangerous thing to get to feeling like a Christian when you really ain't. You get to acting like it when you really ain't. There's a lot of Hollywood in church. There's some good actors. They know how to dress up. They can convince you that they are who they are. But, but, but, God said you have an unction. If you hang around Sister Laura long enough, we're gonna find out if we're Christian or not, ain't we? Hey, I'm gonna tell you something. There's a difference between a sheep and a goat. I ain't no farmer, but I know that much. You better not turn around. I don't know, sheep might do it too. They do every now and then. I know the church, brother. I lost a family because I told them it wasn't good for them to miss revival and go to ball games. Bye. I can't help it, guys. I'm not changing who I am. 33 years, Robbie. If I compromise now, I've got to turn around Brother Darrell and tell them for 33 years I lied to people. You cannot compromise to get people in the house of God. God ain't bargaining heaven with nobody. The debt's been paid and you gotta come his way. He settled the rules a long time ago. Come unto me, not going to the world. Come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden. I'll give you rest. You won't rest, you gotta be in hell. You won't rest, you gotta be in hell. Huh? Everybody wants the blessings of God, don't they? They want victory, but they want to do what they want. He said, look what you've done, Israel. You've took all the gold, everything I blessed you with, you make gods out of them. Robbie preached on it last night, didn't he? You've took that gold, you made a calf, and it's threw you off now. Where's it at now? The very thing that you depend on, where's it at now? Well, I'll tell you, mine ain't a thing. It's God. He's real tonight. It's not a thing. It ain't a cross on a wall. It ain't a picture of Jesus. It's Jesus. I've got a relationship with him. I talk to him. Hey, he shows me the way. That's a real God. I'm not better than nobody, I don't claim to be better than nobody, but I try to be ready when it's my time. I don't get up here with nothing in my life that I can't preach to you what God gives me. Hear me tonight. If you're bored, let's go outside, I'll be done. Amen, listen to me. We got heart problems right in the house of God. And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, we'll eat our own bread. That's what we want. We want what we want. Teachers having each in years. Huh? Hey, they got a car allowance. I don't want it. They got a gas card. I don't want that. I don't want all these things that they offer men that's going to sell out. I mean, I get it. Some have it. Most of them have. We wear our own apparel, don't you tell me how to dress. We will do what we want to do, only let us be called by thy name and take away our reproach. Everybody that goes to the house of God wants to be seen as a Christian. Everybody wants to be in the crowd. Take them out to Walmart and begin to give out tracts and see how long they want to be in this crowd. Take them down to the street corner and preach a while. And let a few people come by and scoff and see how long they want to be identified in this crowd. The world's gonna hate you. But I say, write my name. I say, write my name in the book of life. That old song says, he said, the world's gonna hate me if I write, he said, if I write your name, the world's gonna hate you. Then I said, that song says, just write my name. What you're gonna figure out is the world ain't gonna be there that day, that day you draw your last breath. The world, those pleasures that we put in front of God's not gonna deliver you. No way. Titus 1 and 16 says they profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable. You hear that? And disobedient. And to every good work, reprobate sinners, professing godliness. You hear me tonight? How dangerous is it just to come to church? How dangerous is it just to be part of the crowd? Ask Judas. I bet, hey, he realized he did wrong, Robbie. Too late. He went out and hung himself. Oh, did he go to heaven? No, he killed himself. How could he go to heaven? He committed murder. People argue up and down on some stuff like that, but I ain't arguing. That's ignorance to think a man killed himself and went to hell or heaven. You hear me? You hear me tonight? But there's a lot of murder that goes in the church. There's a lot of killing going on in the church. See, church people, every time I say church people, you're killing the influence of the church by the way you live. You're robbing the house of God. I've never seen people in these days like we're in, brother Dog, getting mad at the truth. And the truth, all it's doing is trying to prepare you for a better place. He's trying to scope you, scope you. He's trying to make you what He wants you to be. What's wrong with running back down to the potter's house? I'm mired in His hand. But He began to work in my life. He began to apply the water in my life. What is that? Representation of the Holy Ghost. He gave it to me. He formed me. He's helping me tonight. Making me what I ought to be. I don't want to be a vessel of honor, Darryl. I don't want to be a vessel of dishonor. I don't care if I'm wood, clay, or mud, whatever. Just let me honor God with what he's given me. Amen. Ain't that right? Just be what God wants you to be. Don't be some false thing. Got to watch going to flea markets, buddy. They'll sell you fine china that ain't nothing but parsley. You hear me? But God knows who you are tonight. He knows when you go out there tonight, Christian folk, what station you got your radio on. He knows what you go home tonight and watch on your TV. He knows your mind. He knows your heart. You cannot escape. Hey, if you practice that, you're religious and that's all you are. You're like the prophets of Baal. You're up there trying to strike a match, trying to light the fire. Elijah, he prays what, a 63 word prayer? God sends the fire. Woo! Ain't that something? That's all it takes. Hey, because he had a relationship with the man. Behold the man. You can say that in your life tonight. He says, he said, for they have sown the wind. Man, I'm gonna tell you. The Bible says if you sow to the flesh, you shall of the flesh reap what? If you sow to the spirit, you shall of the spirit reap what? What are we sowing to? In here, we'll sow to our spirit because we want everybody to think we're somebody. When we go out there, we're sowing to our flesh. Guess what you get? Corrupt fruit. You'll bear the fruit from the roots you're hooked to. How many believe that tonight? Your heart, from the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. They overcome in the book of Revelation by what? The blood of the lamb and what? The word of their testimony. Amen, the word of their testimony. These children, man, this is awesome. You youngins don't ever quit telling what Jesus done for you. Be the example. Hey, I love my children back home, but I wish they was on fire. I wish they was on fire, Bill. I wish he's on fire, Rob. Hey, I've got my girls, love the Lord. They do, but I'm talking about our youth. Our young people, we get on fire. But if mom and daddy don't enforce, if they're just religious, this is just something we do. This ain't no different t-ball to them. It ain't no different flag football. They'll give flag football more, and they'll give baseball more, and they'll give soccer. They'll go there and buy a hundred dollar cleat. Won't give five dollars to church. That's the way it is. They prime religious. Dangerous. It's a dangerous thing to be religious. We're sowing to the wind. One day, the storm's coming. The wild wind's coming. And brother, if you're not found on the rock, it's gonna tear your house down. Am I right? Everybody wants Daryl when somebody's dying. Everybody wants these preachers when somebody's dying. Stand over them, say something good about, better not call me, amen. Listen to that. Hey, we've just gotta tell the truth. Here's the truth about the matter. You're preaching your funeral right now. Right now. I can't preach your funeral. You're preaching your funeral. If you're inconsistent at church and you're not faithful at church, that's what people see when they see your corpse up here. If you love the Lord, you want to please the Lord, it shows in your life, when you die, they know, they look at that corpse, they look at that body, and they say, hey, that's what they was. It don't matter what I say. I say, priesthood of living, the dead know of nothing. Are you with me tonight? I know it's far. I ain't jumping on the pews. But I don't mind being second. I don't mind being least. And I ain't talking about Robbie. He knows. We've got to be leased. Every one of us. Darwin, you stand tomorrow. Hey, if you stand tomorrow, we've got to be leased. I've got to decrease and he's got to increase. And it don't matter what you're thinking right now. Hey, if the Lord's sowing the seed, you better receive it in your lives. It ain't always going to be easy. Look here, I found it in the covenant. We've got to be willing to be admonished. to be corrected, you take a person that can't be corrected, you can't help that person. They're always right, they ain't never wrong, and there's no way you're gonna show them they're wrong. I'm gonna tell you something tonight, you'll never get lost until you, or never get saved until you're lost. Amen, you'll never be found until you're willing to admit, hey, that you took the wrong turn. Am I right tonight? Amen. Maybe I'll get more energy later. But listen tonight, folks. I'm doing what God wants. Listen! Hey, listen to what He's trying to tell us! Be careful what you're sold to. If I was you tonight, if there's something other than gospel in my CD player tonight, I'd go out there and break them up, throw them away, burn them, whatever you gotta do. Hey, be ye holy as I'm holy, you said. Separate yourself. Anything that bring out reproach in your life, get rid of it. You'll cut the power off in your life. Are you with me tonight? I don't know why I'm saying all that. I wanted to preach in Joshua. I wanted to preach to you, that wall standing before you, you're going to have to shout it out. You're going to have to be obedient to God. We're going to have to realize that they just didn't walk up to the wall and there's the wall and they run around a few times and made a big act. No, no, no. God said do it this way and that's what He says tonight. Do it His way. Amen. I love the church. I love this little church. I love you children. Everybody here has been good to me. Hey, the least I can do is tell you the truth. That ain't a popular thing today. Brother, I'll just tell the truth. If you want to examine my life, if you want to know all my ins and outs, just sit down out there. I'm very transparent and I'll tell you anything you want to know. Because I know that in me that is in my flesh will have no good thing. If Paul wrote 14 books in the New Testament, he's quoted that. He's told you, hey, there's nothing good in me. He's sent in prison. He's in jail for loving Jesus. And he's saying, there ain't no good in me. Bless your little heart. You may not go over the speed limit, but there ain't no good in you either. You hear me? Hey, you may be, I don't eat pork, that ain't no good in you. At the end of the day, if you ain't saved, that's about what we are. We're as low as one of them swine. Amen. I'm about ready to close it out. But listen tonight. We've come to a point to where we're identifying. See, we got this thing today that they'll identify. Out there at home, they identify as a cat. So they will get, in their schools now, they'll put litter boxes. They identify as a dog. One woman got mad because the veterinary wouldn't look at her son. Try to sue. Ain't that the dumbest thing you've ever heard? The totally stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. You can't look in the mirror and tell who you are. But we got the same problem in the house of God. People's identifying as Christian, but they're not Christian. Am I right? Build the same old time, Holy Ghost power. Hey, Brother Herbert, years ago, Riley Priest, my Papaw priest, and my great-grandpa priest, they took it then, it's gonna take it now. I don't care if you live in California, Louisiana, Alaska, Tennessee, Virginia, it's gonna take the same blood of Jesus to cleanse your eyes. and you still have to come down this road right here to get there. Am I right or not? I'm not trying to be mean. I love everybody. I hope you know that. Visitors, I love you. I ain't got no time to get up here and play patty cake over here. I'm running out of time, darlin'. I'm 49. Most of my life's over. I heard them tell you, hey, most of our life's over. I'll say this, the best, as far as this body is concerned, is behind me. But the best, as far as my spirit goes, and this man on the inside, of the best is yet to come! Woo! He saved the best for last, brother! Last of the night! And you know what it'll take? It'll take cleaving this back tonight! Living it outside, living it inside. When you fail, pull up to the altar. If you fall, old preachers used to tell me, if you fall, fall forward and learn something. Get up, dust yourself off, be a better person. And for your failure, use your failure to help somebody else, not look down on somebody else. I'd love to have a house full of my church tattooed up, pierced up. I'd love to have a house full of homeless. I'd preach to them, buddy. I'd tell them about somebody loves them tonight. Hear me tonight. If my God couldn't save their tattoos, I'd get rid of Him. He'll save you. He'll save your life. He'll save your whole heart. But brother, He ain't gonna be put last. You'll be like Israel. Every time an increase comes, the enemy will take it. I'm going to say this tonight. Let me tell you this story. A true story. Me and some buddies of mine, we started a little old Brush Harbor meeting in Bayleton down in Greene County when I was a young preacher. I guess back in 2005, I was a younger preacher. 2005 or so, I guess. Long story short, we set it up, and we're just preaching. This man showed up one night, had a beard. And I was strict on beards. And I thought if a man had a beard, he couldn't preach. That's just the way I felt about it. I thought, he's going to try to preach, ain't he? He got up there when nobody else had nothing. I didn't have nothing. I preached the night before, I think. He got up to preach, and I thought, Lord, this is going to be a mess. Yes, Rob, it's going to be a mess. That's what I was thinking. Hey, he preached one of the best messages I ever heard. And then you know what God said? He said, give him $20, and tell him to come to your radio broadcast now. I didn't do it, Rob. I didn't do that. About a week later, transmission went out of my car. It cost me about $1,500, $1,600 later. God said, oh yeah, give him $20 and ask him to come preach at the radio broadcast. And you know what I did? Yes, yes, yes. So I let him do it. Old Bobby Isley still comes to see me today and he's a good brother. I love him. We've got love and I feel the Lord. You hear me tonight? God's able to get hurt. Even an old stubborn preacher, God's able. Something about that pocketbook. God gets in that pocketbook. Boy, you'll get after it then, won't you? Amen. But I'm going to tell you something tonight. Young folk, keep doing. Please don't let down. The devil will get right in that weak spot if you do. The old saying is he'll take an inch and take a mile. Don't give in. Don't give up. Don't be religious and don't just come to church. But be who you're supposed to be. You might fool the church, but you're fooling yourself. That's all you're doing. You're costing yourself in life and at the end of life. He said there was no man, brother Darrell, for houses and land and mother and father. He said he wouldn't be rewarded. This is a paraphrase. He wouldn't be rewarded in this life a hundredfold in the life to come. God said, hey, he told them over there, don't cast your confidence away. Let's look at that. Just real quick and I'm gonna be done, brother. Herb can play. Play that. But listen to what he says. Lord, help me. Let me find it. I think it's right here. One more Scripture and I'm going to sit down. Right here it is. Hebrews 10.35, casting all away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. Okay. Don't lose your faith. Don't throw away your blessings. Take what God is sowing into you if it kills you. Take what the preacher says if it offends you from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet. If you go to church and you get raked, you say, praise God. Dig up the insufficiencies in my life. Get the rocks out of my garden. Till my garden. Roll that fallow ground out of my life. Roll it. Set the straight row. Plant a seed. And help me be for you what I'm supposed to be. Help me bear fruit that you put in me. If you're here tonight and you struggle with love, He's sowing in your love. If you're here tonight and you're struggling with greed, He's able to take it out of your life. Drugs, alcohol, fornication, adultery, pornography, whatever it is, in your closet, guess what? It's not in the closet, God already knows. You have no skeletons, God don't know about. Can I say this tonight? If you're here this evening and you felt God so miserable that you feel like you're dragging your head, I know what we've seen. And I know what we've heard this week, and it's awesome, but God don't send something for nothing. Here's what you gotta understand, Sister Gloria, as much as you can fail God, and boy we do, don't we? We may not cuss, we may not go out and drink, we may not do all these things, some of you may not do nothing I've said tonight. Some of you may be struggling with that tonight. But can I say this? God knows it and still loves you. Enough to tell you the truth. Amen. Ain't that right? Ain't that exciting tonight? That old preacher could dig you up, spit you out, chew on you, and God said, hey, if you'll come, there's bombs still in Gilead. If you'll come, hey, there's still a chief physician, there's a physician down there. He said it, didn't he? He said, well, why in the world's my, why in the world, what's wrong with my people? If that's the case, what's wrong with you? And we know it to be true tonight, don't we? Amen, I love you this evening. Go ahead, Brother Herb. If you need to pray, won't you come? Preacher, I've been here every night. Come one more time. I won't take no more or less of you. God sure won't. You get close to God, don't matter what anybody else says, you let them think. But I'm gonna tell you, just let them think.