allows us to go around and do what he's called us to do. But before I get into the presentation and into the preaching and everything, I just want to start out in a word of prayer. I can't do nothing with prayer. So let's just go to the Lord in prayer this evening before we get into everything. God, we love you, Lord. Thank you, Father, for everything you've done for us. God, I pray, God, that you just get the glory. God, I pray, God, that you just use everything said and done this evening. God, I pray, God, if there be anybody here that don't know you, Father, God, I pray that you take the blinders off their eyes, God. Maybe they're playing church. Whatever it may be, God, I pray, God, you just save their soul. God, I thank you, Father, for this church. Thank you, Father, for our pastor. Thank you, Lord, for just everything you do, God. God, I pray, God, you hide me behind the cross, God. God, I'm just nothing, God. God, I just want to be a mouthpiece for you. God, I pray, God, you touch these lips of clay, mold them the way you want them to be molded. God, let me say what you want me to say and not say what you don't want me to say. God, I pray, God, you just bless as we break open the bread of life this evening. In the name of our blood-stained Redeemer, Jesus Christ, precious name we pray, amen. I'm thankful for what the Lord's been doing in our life. I want to start out just with a little bit of a presentation for what we're doing. I'm Tony Urban, or Bubba, with Rock of Ages, as we all know. Pastor called me a little bit ago. He said, just do what you do at a regular church, and for the past few weeks, me and Hannah's been going to churches, and it's about what we've been doing. We've been having all kinds of trouble with the video, the video presentation the devil's just been attacking but where the devil's been attacking the Lord's been a blessing and I'm thankful that the Lord is faithful and when he calls you to do something he's gonna be faithful to get you through and help you through that call and everything you do. I've been going around, the Lord's blessed us and we were allowed to be in about 10 or 11 churches last month preaching. And this week, or next week, I'm gonna be at Revival in Moundsville. We got about six jails and facilities we're gonna be in. We're gonna be in the North Regional Jail. After the North Regional Jail, about one o'clock in the afternoon, we're gonna go to the juvenile facility. We're gonna have a Bible study with all the juvenile, all the inmates in the facility. And then after that, we're gonna break for supper. And I think we're gonna have supper with them inside the facility. And then after that, we're gonna break and we're gonna go and have our service for about an hour and a half, I believe it is. And after we leave there, we're gonna go to the prison. and then we're gonna just meet with them. And the difference, I heard a preacher say, the difference between Rock of Ages and every single other place that goes into prisons is Rock of Ages, we actually go and we meet and talk face to face with inmates. We go up to their cells, we talk with them, we go out in the yard while they're out there working out, just whatever it may be, playing basketball. They'll stop playing the basketball as we walk in. I know I've told a few people, me and Hannah, we went down to South Alabama the last week of February and we saw, we went through and we were all in nine facilities, all the Rock of Ages people, we were in there and we were able to see 186 souls were saved. I'm thankful that God still saves old sinners. We've seen some people saved on death row. We get to go everywhere as long as they allow us. And the facility we were in, they actually let us go into the dormitories. They said that they haven't let any of the missionaries into these dormitories in about three or four years. And they tried scaring me when we first went. They said that when we got there, they said that there's a church up there. They got the chapel and everything, but they said we're not allowed to use it because the inmates got mad at the previous revival. they burn it to the ground. So we showed up and as we're walking in, the gate closes behind us and I get the shivers down my back, the chills. And then we start walking and the officer lets us through and we go up into the yard. And as soon as we get into the yard, all of a sudden about 15 big burly men took off running from the weight room where they were and come running straight to me of all people. And I didn't know why they ran straight to me. But the first thing they asked for was, do you have a Bible? Do you have literature for us to read? And the sad thing about it is most people, when we get into these prisons and jails, not a single one of them knows what a Bible is. Not a single one of them's heard the... A lot of them haven't heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. They hear all kinds of different preachers. There's the Jehovah's Witnesses that go in. Just everything, they don't discriminate, they let everyone in there. But I'm thankful that God allows us to go in there and be able to do what he allows us to do with going on visitation and going and doing the revival. But I've got some material on the back table back there. That's the material that I bring into the jails and prisons with me. On the far end of the table on the back left upper hand corner, If you're looking at it this way, there's some big packets. That's the Prisoner's Bible Institute. So after they get saved, we don't just leave them in prison and just walk away from them. We offer them, we give them a welcome to the family thing. We allow them to be able to go through a discipleship program. And when they go through the discipleship program, we give them a New Testament Bible, and they'll start in the book of John, and they'll go all the way through, through Revelation, and then back to Matthew, Mark, Luke. And then after they complete all of that part of the program, they'll be able to mail it in, and they'll be able, Rock of Ages will send them one of our paperback study Bibles, and they'll be able to go through the Old Testament all the way through. And last year, I believe we had, they said that there was about 1,500 people that got saved just by doing the discipleship program. Even when we can't go in there, we get to see that God's still letting us send our material in and people are still getting saved. And there's always opportunities for people that want to come be with us. Rock of Ages, if you want to volunteer and come into a prison or a jail with me, I can send you some stuff and you can start doing your volunteer stuff and be able to come with us and we'll be glad to have you. We need all the help we can get. I believe we have 160 missionaries through Rock of Ages worldwide. That's in 13 different countries and including in just America and we need all the help we can get. We got all kinds of people, all kinds of states that don't have a single person in them. But me and Hannah right now, we're going to be on revival teams. They want us to be in prison and jail at least 40 hours a week after we get all our support raised up. And they want us to be in prisons and jails around 40 hours a week. But until then, right now we're on deputation and we're just going around and we're trying to build up our support until we can get up there and be able to go and go and say we are going to be in prison or jail for the whole week and be able to do everything. I'm getting a little taste of it now. The Lord's allowing us to go into these facilities and we can go little bits here and there, but we still need to go to the churches and we still need to gain our support. That's our main focus. But our also our main focus is prayer. I can't do nothing without y'all's prayers. I can't do nothing without any anything without prayer. And I'm thankful that God is there for us and he's going to help us through through it all. And I'm thankful that he's faithful. I'm thankful everything that I can be thankful for. I'm thankful for I'm thankful that God died for me and rose again on that third and glorious day, and I'm thankful by grace through faith, I've been washed in the blood of the lamb, Jesus Christ, and I'm thankful that we could all be saved through that blood that Jesus shed on the cross at Calvary. If y'all could, turn with me to 2 Samuel chapter number nine. I want to preach a message this evening on the king's table. I'm thankful that one day we have a spot at the king's table. I don't know how it's going to be. I like to use the illustration. Maybe it's going to be just a long, skinny table. And on one side, at the head of the table, there's going to be a man named Jesus Christ. He's going to be sitting right there. And one day, that trumpet's going to sound. We're going to go up. And towards the end of the seven years, we're going to get to this place called the marriage supper. And I think we're going to get up to this place. And there's going to be some squirrels over here. Fried up there's gonna be some turkeys right here some stuff in what it dear what it quail everything you can think of I think we're gonna have the best manna that we could ever think I Prayed and told God when I get up to heaven I'm gonna make him some of my grandma Marie's mac and cheese and I feel like he said I already got some of it but I'm thankful that we're gonna be able to know that we got a place and at the king's table one day because of the blood that was shed on the cross at Calvary. I'm thankful that there was someone that came by my way. He come looking for me. I love that old song that sings that he came looking for me. But can I say I'm thankful not only did he come looking for me, but he sent his men out looking for me. Once you're saved, you've been nominated, you've been enlisted into the army, of Jesus Christ. You're a soldier. You could call yourself a marine. You could call yourself a soldier, a space force airman, whatever it may be. But we are a soldier in God's army this evening if you're in here and you're saved. And I thank God to know that someone in the King's army came looking for me, and I'm thankful that now, once we're saved, we're part of the King's army and we can go looking for them people. that so dearly need them, the people that are lost and dying and on their way to hell, the people that need to hear it just around Ripley, Jackson County, the people in the jails, the prisons, wherever it may be, I'm thankful that we can go tell them. You might not be called to the jails or the prisons or Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, wherever it may be, But we are all called to go out and seek a world that's lost and dying and on their way to a devil's hell. I'm thankful that the greatest missionary ever born was born of a virgin conceived of the Holy Ghost. I'm thankful that He come down here looking for us. But 2 Samuel 9, in order to get a little bit of context before we get into verse 1 of 2 Samuel 9, in the Old Testament times, when a new king would come and take up his throne, he would go and he would kill the entire bloodline of the previous king. So that way the other king's bloodline couldn't rise up and say, that's my rightful spot. I have that rightful spot. But he would go and the new king would just destroy, utterly destroy the other king's bloodline. I'm thankful that Jesus Christ didn't just come down here to destroy us, but he come down to reconcile us and to love us with his blood. I'm thankful that he loved us this evening. 2 Samuel 9, verse number one. And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? And there was of the house of Saul a servant, whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David the king, said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant. And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show him the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet. And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Maker, the son of Amiel in Lodabar. Then King David sent and fetched him out of the house of Maker, the son of Amiel from Lodabar. Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth, and he answered, Behold thy servant. And David said unto him, Fear not, for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake. and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father, and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. And he bowed himself and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? Can I stop right there this evening and just say, What is man that thou art mindful of him? When we get to looking at that psalm, when I get to reading it and we see King David goes in and starts saying, when I consider the heavens and thy works and thy hands and thy fingers, what is man that thou art mindful of him? Can I say that's the same thing Mephibosheth was saying right here? He said, what is thy servant that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? Can I say, Paul said, cheapest of sinners am I. We're just sinners. We're filthy, low-down, wretched sinners. The only thing good about us is the blood of Jesus Christ. And if you're lost in here this evening, you're good for nothing but hell. But God loved you enough that he sent his only begotten Son that whosoever should believe in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Now I get to looking at when Mephibosheth says, what is thy servant that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? And then I got to looking at where King David went and sent his men to go get him. If you look up that word Lodabar, we can see where Jesus came for us. He came off of His throne and came down to Lodabar to get us. But that word Lodabar means without order, disorderly, no leader, not governed, rebellious, no shepherd, without pasture, barren, without speech, dumb, and backwards. Just think. We were in the worst place of our life. We didn't deserve anything but hell. We were in the worst place, and we didn't have a God, but we had a God that loved us. The Bible says that we love Him because He first loved us. We didn't love Him first. He loved us first, and I'm thankful that He loved me first because If I had it all up on my own, and I had to work to get to Him, I would not surely be here this evening. I'm thankful that He loved me enough that He sent someone looking for me. I'm thankful that He loved me enough that He came looking for me. I'm thankful that I didn't have to work to get there. My blood is just as filthy as anything I could imagine. But I'm thankful that God's blood is perfect this evening. God's blood is what we need. That's what the world needs. I saw on Easter, I saw Stephen Furtick said that he wasn't going to preach the cross, the resurrection or the blood because he was just scared that he was going to run some of his church people off because they were going to get offended. But I don't care who I offend, the blood is still the only way. That's the only way I'm going to go. the blood, this book right here, the King James Version of the Bible, the authorized version, 1611 Bible, that was actually printed, the first version of this 1611 Bible, King James Bible, was actually printed on May 2nd, 1611, and just a little thought this evening, it's May 2nd, so happy birthday to the Bible, the King James Bible. I'm thankful what Lester Roloff said, this Bible's like a mother to me. birthed me into the family of God, and don't you be talking about my mother. I'm thankful for this smoke. I'm thankful for God this evening, because He shed His blood for me this evening. He loved me. I don't know how much more to say it, but I'm thankful that He loved me. He loved you, the one who holds everything. He knows every single star. He knows every single strand of hair on your head. He knows every eyebrow, every eyelash. He knows everything and anything, and He loved us this evening. I'm thankful that the king came down to a place called Lodomar because he loved me. I'm thankful that he loved me. I don't know why. I'm just a filthy, wretched sinner, but I thank God that he loved me. I thank God that He loves us. I thank God that He loves the prisoner. I thank God that He loves the people out there in a false religion. I thank God that He loves the people in His church that may be just pew warmers. I thank God that He loves us this evening. I don't ever want to be a feather-tongued preacher. I want to be a preacher that preaches God, and I want to be a preacher that preaches the blood. I want to be someone that hates sin, but loves the sinner. I love God, and He loved us. There's not much more we can say, but we've got to thank God that He loves us this evening. Can I say one reason we can love Him is because He came down to a place called Lodabar, and Matthew, I believe it is, that He went a little further for us when He was over in the garden of Gethsemane. Can I say when He came down to a place called Lodabar, He'd come down to seek and to save that which was lost. He was over there in the garden of Gethsemane, and He had that blood running down His face because He was sweating that sweat drops of blood because He was under so much stress that we caused Him because of what Adam did in the garden. He was under so much stress for you and I. But yet He still said, Father, not My will, but Thine will be done. I thank God that He said in John 17, He said, Father, I will, them whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me, whither I go. And I thank God to know that that's how we're getting to the King's table, because Jesus Christ prayed for you and I to go to a place called Heaven, and then one day the new Heaven and the new Earth. We're going to be with God one day for all of eternity. I've been saying that we're just good for nothing but hell, but I thank God that He loved us. If you were to die without the blood of Jesus applied to your life, there's no hope. You wake up your eyes in a place called hell, and hell's just a holding cell. For one day, there's going to be a great white throne judgment. There's going to be a man named Jesus Christ. He's gonna come out, He's gonna step onto nothing, for heaven and earth shall pass away, and death and hell shall bring up that which was in her, and all of us that are saved, I believe that we're gonna be, maybe it's like this choir box right here, we're gonna be standing right here, and we're gonna, See everyone that God told us to go tell. We're going to see our family members that died without the blood of Jesus. And I believe that if God told us to go tell them, we're going to be standing right here, and we're going to be behind Him. And He's going to say, depart from me ye that work iniquity. And He's going to cast them into the lake of fire with Satan and the false prophet. And they're going to be bound for all of eternity in the lake of fire. but I believe if we were to look down on our hands, we'd see their blood dripping off of our hands, and we'd be bawling our eyes out. The Bible doesn't say that He'll wipe away our tears until Revelation 21. Revelation 20 is where they talk about the great white throne judgment, but Revelation 21 talks about the new heaven and the new earth adorned like a bride unto her husband. I'm thankful that one day, We get to have no more tears and no more sorrow, no more pain, no more hospital visits, no more doctors, no more glasses, Pastor. We're going to have perfect vision 2020 all the way. I'm thankful that one day we're going to be in heaven and it's going to be the greatest time we could ever think of. But can I say we need to bring everyone we can because He came looking for us. But I'm thankful that He sent someone for us. Because when He come down looking for us, and He died our death that we deserved. We didn't deserve the cross this evening. The Bible says that He descended into the lower parts of the earth. And then on the third and glorious day, He ascended back up. and he went and he brought his blood up to that new tabernacle in heaven, the holy tabernacle, the better tabernacle, the perfect tabernacle, and he put his blood on the mercy seat in the holy tabernacle up in heaven, and now we have the blood applied. If you have been saved by grace through faith, not of our works, lest any man should boast, I'm thankful that one day I realized that it wasn't my worst. I was sitting back there on that back last pew when we still had the green church and I was going through and I came in, I was on crutches, I couldn't move, I didn't know what was going on. The pastor got up here behind the pulpit and he preached on being a nobody that brings a somebody to Him. and I felt my heart a beating, and I didn't know what was going on. My mama, she come running up the aisle, she was squalling, bawling her eyes out, just fell down on the altar, and she got born again. And then later that evening, we went back to the house, and me and dad are just sitting there, and mom said, we're going back, boys, and we're like, what you talking about, Willis? And we went back, we came back that evening. I can't tell you what pastor preached on, but I can tell you that the Holy Ghost come down, sat down, built up shop, on my lap, and I realized that I was a sinner, and I didn't get saved right then and there. I made it all the way back to Laurel Commons in Ravenswood. It was 9D. I can take you to the place. I can show you where it was. I'm thankful that God, that He didn't leave me alone. He came looking for me. And I thank God He came looking for me. It was up on that second story at 9D Hall Commons in the bedroom right up front, right overlooking that. Called a sack. God done got up on me and He said, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. And I didn't know what was going on. I started squalling. I'm like, Oh God! I fell down on my bed. I made my bed in the altar. I don't ever want to lose the story. I don't ever want to forget where I was. But I made my bed in the altar and I fell down on that bed. And I said, God, I'm a sinner. Save my soul! And I put my faith and trust in Him. And I believe that He saved my soul right then and there. And then shortly after, He called me to preach the Gospel. And I didn't know what He was doing, but I'm thankful that He knew what He was doing. Like I always say, I'm ok to talk to every single person. I'll talk your ears off. I'll do whatever you want. But I never liked getting up and talking in front of a crowd. I always hated it. But I'm thankful that he knew what was going on. And we went down to that homeless shelter. As soon as I got to talking to Pastor Preston brought me down to the homeless shelter. We went down there and I gave my testimony. I found that little message I preached the other day on Facebook. It was about three minutes long. And I got in, and right then and there I realized that that was exactly where God would have me. And then we get to where we are today, and we see that He'd have me be a missionary to the rock of ages, and to go to the prisons and the jails, and we still get to go to the homeless shelters, the nursing homes, and I don't know why God loved me, but can I say He came looking for me this evening? And I'm thankful that He come looking for me because one day I got a place at the King's table and it's going to be far greater than any table I've ever been at down here. I believe it's going to be solid. It's going to be sturdy. It's going to be made with the most precious, maybe fine oak that it may be, Brother Calvin. It's going to be the greatest wood that we could think of. But can I say, it's going to be sitting on a solid gold floor. It's going to be absolutely perfect. We can't even imagine how good it's going to be, but I'm thankful that God loved us enough to bring us to the king's table. He loved us enough to come looking for us. I'm going off my outline this evening, but the Lord told me to flip over here. We're just going to follow the Lord this evening. I've got a couple more minutes. I'll finish up right quick. Revelation chapter 20, verse 12, And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And they were judged, every man, according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And right here next to Revelation chapter number 20 verse 15, I got a little note in my Bible that's got a bunch of exclamation points that says, My name is there. Revelation 20 verse 15, And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. Can I say when Jesus Christ came looking for you, when He shed His blood on that cross at Calvary, He descended into the lower parts of the earth, and on the third and glorious day, He rose again. Can I say the moment you get saved, the moment you get washed in the Lamb's blood, the blood that Jesus Christ shed on that cross at Calvary, can I say that your name's wrote down in the Lamb's book of life? With the blood that He shed, I'm thankful that my pardon It wasn't signed by a governor. It wasn't signed by President Donald Trump. And yes, he's still President, I believe. And I'm going to keep calling him President Donald Trump until he wins again. I thank God for what He allows us to have. But can I say I thank God that He wrote my name down in the Lamb's Book of Life with His own blood. Can I say the blood of the covenant that He shed, it was good, it was perfect, it was everything to me this evening. People get to saying that we don't need the blood, and I get to thinking, it's already too late for me, Pastor. I already got the blood. I'm already on that whole ship of Zion. I'm going through. And I just want to tell them one more time about the blood and what the blood is. I said all that to say this. I believe that this might be a little bit of what we're going to... See, when we get up over there, I know this is after the marriage supper of the Lamb, but I like to think that we might be continuing on, we might be feasting on everything that God has, we might just... The Bible says, if we ask, we shall receive. I believe that everything that we ask Him, we don't have to worry about the riches of this earth or this world. I believe that that God loves us enough that He's going to give us all of His riches according to how He sees fit for each and every single one of our lives. And I'm thankful that one day He sees fit to take all of the riches that we ever need and put them into a town. Revelation 21, verse 1, And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride, adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them and be their God. and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. And He said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain, of the water, of life freely. He that overcometh shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. Miss Lauren, if you'd come on, get on the piano, please. I'm almost done. I'm thankful that God loved us enough that he says right here, he told John to write that what we're gonna see one day, I'm thankful to know that it says right here, and He said unto me, it is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto Him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. Can I say, if we go over into the gospel of John, I believe that we see someone that got to meet that fountain of life. The Bible says he'll give us a well of water that springeth up to everlasting life this evening. I'm thankful that we can say that we're saved, that we got that blood, that we're there. Not all people, they say that we're saved, but a lot of times people go on and say that they're saved, but they're not really saved. It's the Satan pulling the wool over their eyes. They're trying, they're going, and they're seeing everything, and they're doing everything. It's starting to look good. They're saying, oh, we're almost home, we're almost home, but they don't truly. have the blood of life, of Jesus. They don't truly have that well of water that springeth up to everlasting life. I don't know why I got on this, but I do know that it's of the Lord because otherwise I wouldn't be saying it this evening. There might be someone in here that has been saying they're saved for years. But yet, they've never acted like it. They've never done what the Lord has them to do. But they don't have the blood applied to their life. We see it all the time in prison. We go in and they'll say, I'm saved, I'm saved. And then they're the first ones to be running up to the altar saying, I was wrong, I was wrong. I was wrong, I was wrong. I don't want to be wrong when that day comes, that great white throne judgment. I don't want to be wrong. I want to be right. I'm thankful that I believe if you're saved by the blood of Jesus.