whatever, as well. 1 Kings 21. Richard, you didn't preach out of 1 Kings, did you? All right, praise God. 1 Kings 21, and if you had, I wouldn't have changed my message. I just said, well, I guess y'all need it. Amen, in the mouth of two or three witnesses. 1 Kings 21. and when you find your place, let's stand as we read the word of the Lord. Thank God we can stand on the promises of God. When I'm talking about the promises of God, I'm talking about the King James Bible. Now, you know, a lot of people talk about being King James, and they're King James until you start preaching King James. But they live an NIV lifestyle, but they say they're King James. They say, I'm old-timey, I'm old-timey. Well, how old is your old-time religion is what I want to ask them. Ours can be traced all the way back to the book of Acts. Not just something started 50 years ago, But thank God for the word of God that we have. It's not just containing the word of God, it is the word of God. And people won't talk about the texts, receptives, received texts, Sinaiticus, Vanakatus, and all them other guys. The bottom line is God's big enough to keep his word like he can keep it. The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. God would not leave it up to man to show the responsibility to keep his word. He has preserved his word for you and I. Amen, that's exactly right. And the people say, you believe in speaking in tongues? I'm like, man, I can't hardly control the one I got, let alone something else. We've got the complete canon of scriptures to tell us how to live in these days, and thank God for that. First Kings chapter number 21, and the book of First Kings, of course, establishes the fact that Ahab, being a very immoral, wicked, and ungodly king, and his heathen wife, Hilary, I mean, Jezebel, was worse than he was. But I want to read a little bit about the actions of a man by the name of Naboth when he was tempted to sell out in First Kings 21. The Bible said that it came to pass after these things that Naboth, the Jezreelite, had a vineyard which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab, king of Samaria. And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house, and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it. Or if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. And Naboth said to Ahab, the Lord forbid it me. that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him. For he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face and would eat no bread. But Jezebel his wife came to him and said unto him, why is thy spirit so sad that thou eatest no bread? I'll stop and say something here parenthetically. She begins to conjure up some charges against him and conspiracy against this man by the name of Naboth. The Bible said in verse number 10, and two men, sons of Balaam, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king, and then carry him out and stone him, that he may die. And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were in the inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. They proclaimed to fast and set Naboth high among the people. There came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him. And the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city and stoned him with stones, that he died. Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned and is dead. Thank you, you can be seated. I do appreciate you standing. Now the king here, offers Naboth a trade, and I guess many people would look at this as a very reasonable offer. He said, you know what, I'm gonna give you even something better vineyard than what you have, and I'll pay you cash for the land, and I'll give you above and beyond even what you're asking for, or even what it is worth, and Naboth refuses that. because it was a lot more than just a parcel of ground to him. This place had a lot of memories and Naboth's mind, and he was saying, sir, it's not about the money. It's not about the parcel of ground. I think a lot of preachers today have sold out because of money. And he said, well, you know, I could have a little money, and God ain't gonna get you having things as long as things don't have you. Amen, and I know people get so hung up about that today. I tell you, I'm not apologizing for anything I've got. If God's blessed you with something, if you've got a Rolls Royce, amen, take me for a ride in it. I don't care if God's blessed you real good, as long as you tithe and give to missions and say amen about 25 times and you go to church, that's good. I praise God if God's blessed you. But the blessings of God, also people, they account that or they equate that. They say, well, God's blessing this man. You don't know if God's blessing him or not, but if he's not faithful to church, and his job keeps him out of the house of God on Sunday morning, Sunday night, constantly, over and over, I know we work in a first, second, third shift society, but the blessings of God, friend, will keep you faithful to the house of God, and it'll make you right. But because you got money don't mean you're right with God, and because you don't have money doesn't mean that you're not right with God. Some of the best people we got at our church. They may not, they live from week to week, paycheck to paycheck, 40 hours, and work overtime and stuff like that. And so don't gauge that by the blessings of God by just looking at what somebody might have materially. But to Naboth, it was a whole lot more about material. Because this parcel of land was very, very valuable to him. It was not just a piece of property. It held very dear value to this man. by the name of Naboth. And I wanna preach tonight just for a few minutes on the value of a vineyard. The value of a vineyard. There are some folks that would like to try to come and take away what we have at the house of God. Now listen, people say, well that COVID's not real and stuff like that. They'll say the vaccine is the mark of the beast, and number one, I don't believe the vaccine is the mark of the beast, but number two, if it is the mark of the beast, if you're the ones that got your vaccines, what you need to do is gather up everybody's grocery list, then the church, because you'll have to buy groceries for them, if that is the mark of the beast. I don't believe it's the mark of the beast, and I know people get all tore up about that. You need to do what God tells you to do, what you got peace about doing, but it's amazing to me how all the churches shut down, And so we can't go to church anymore, and we can't worship anymore, and we can't shake hands anymore, but it's amazing how they show up at Walmart, they go down to Home Depot, how they can fellowship with everybody out in the world, but when it comes to church, they got all upset and got bent up out of shape. Brother Bobby, I mean, listen, I preached against drive-in church and ended up having it. We didn't know what to do. Nobody really knew what to do. We did live stream and some of it was dead as a hammer. I mean, we tried it all and did it all. But thank God tonight that we can come back and be in the house of God together. Because it ought to make us appreciated. And I think a lot of folks are just giving them excuse not to go to church anymore. I used to preach meetings for different guys. They'd say, Brother Randy, we're not having a meeting anymore. Because I've got people telling me we're just not coming back to church. Hey, we ought to thank God tonight for the house of God, amen? Because it is a vineyard. It is a place that people would like to take away. And God gave you what you have here today. And listen, I don't know the background of the church, and I don't know what all's happening in your church, or in this church, or any other church. But my business tonight is to preach the word of God. But I'm gonna tell you, thank God for church, amen? I mean, listen, thank God for a place that you and I can come apart before we come apart. And you fight the world, the flesh, and the devil. I know how it is to work a full-time job. You want to get up and fight the world, the flesh, and the devil all day long? Thank God for a place that you can come and just worship the Lord and listen, weep with them that weep, rejoice with them that rejoice. And thank God I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. And so thank God for a vineyard that you and I have. And thank God for the people that have not sold out. Thank God for the great-haired preachers that we've got here tonight. And let me say something right here. I'm not just a little rabbit. It beats all I've ever seen. You get some young preacher about 25 years old, he's got a little bit of an education somewhat, and he'll come in and he'll take the old-time preacher, man, and say, well, that preacher's outdated. He don't know anything anymore. And you get some 25-year-old whippersnapper still wet behind the ears, amen? probably still needs to be working, by the way. He probably just needs to get right with God, get him a job, because having an education does not mean God has called a man to preach. Y'all remember the days when you had the gray-haired preachers? I mean, they didn't know what hermeteology was and soteriology was, and I'm not against you having an education. I actually have a bachelor's degree, if you can believe that, and it's not worth the paper it's written on without the call of God on your life, but it's amazing to me how those old-time preachers, they may not have known, you know, they may not have couldn't even sit in my fellowship, but I tell you, they'd been with God somewhere in a holler. They'd been back in a pine thicket somewhere, getting ahold of God, letting God get ahold of them. When they got to the house of God, they had something to say, and they didn't get it out of Dr. Wigglejaw's book somewhere. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen, there ain't no water around here. If you plow a mule, you gotta give him something to drink, all right? That'll just shorten the message, so you don't have to go get none. Everybody say, please don't go get no water, he'll preach longer. Y'all stay here with me, all right? First of all, I wanna look at Naboth's background, his ancestry. You say, why are you saying that? Because I'm saying this because he labored, no doubt, he worked for this property, but people labored before him. Somebody took time to dig and to plow and to fertilize this piece of property before Naboth ever showed up. And I'll tell you this, I know people, they come to church, they say, well, you know, there's problems down at the church, there's a problem with the preacher, and there's problems, they say, thank you so much, they thank you. They say, well, you know, there's a problem down at the church, I don't want to go to church because there's hypocrites down at the church. I say, I'd rather go to church with a couple of hypocrites than I would die and go to hell with all of them, amen? you're gonna find out there's problems in the church. I mean, you might be the problem in the church. I'm not taking no shots, I'm just preaching. You might be the one. I tell you this, let me remind the Lord right here, hey, if you've been four or five or six churches in the last year, and you got a problem with the preacher and the deacon board and Sister Highbrow and all that, You got problems with that and you skip here and skip here and hop here and hop here. You might need to stop and take a look in the mirror and say, you know what, I might be the problem. I might have an issue. Because if you're looking for a perfect church, you're not gonna find it. If you're looking for a perfect preacher, you're not gonna find him. But we serve a perfect God that gave us a church to go and worship in that somebody else has labored. Somebody else, I mean, listen, in Naboth's situation, somebody else had to plow. Somebody else, and I'm telling you, he had memories as a little boy. No doubt, Mr. Naboth's granddaddy would say, now listen, Naboth, there's gonna be a time where somebody's gonna tempt you. There's gonna be a time where somebody's gonna say, son, just sell this property to us. And no doubt, when they come to Naboth, and listen, Ahab said, Naboth, just sell us this property. Naboth said, no. I remember when I was just a little boy, I remember when I'd run these hills. I remember when I'd help my grandpa plow. I remember when I'd help my daddy get up roasting ears. I remember when I'd, I mean, listen, I'd help my mama out there pick the potatoes. He said, I remember these things, and I'm not gonna give it up. I tell you, we need to bring back, people say, well, no, Brother Randy, you living in the past. No, honey, the past is living in me. Amen. Thank God. Now you see now, I don't need no microphone. I mean listen, I preach out west and up north and they're like this right here for about the first 15 minutes and some of y'all are like that, amen. And y'all up here in North Alabama, y'all have heard preaching like this, surely you have. Amen. You say, well, God ain't hard of hearing. No, he ain't nervous either. Amen. That's exactly right. But here's what happened. Naboth came to the conclusion he was just a steward over something that his daddy gave him. Do you know what we're hearing tonight? We are stewards of what a generation gave us. We are stewards of what we should be stewards, and it should mean something to us. You know, the Bible said, remove not the ancient landmarks, and the Bible said this, which our fathers have set. You know, thank God for old time preachers. And thank God for those men of God. that laid with God and had a prayer life and read their Bible. Heaven, they had something to say. And they may not have had all their doctrine right. And I'm pre-millennial, and I mean, listen, I believe that we're not gonna be here for any second of Daniel's 70th week. And if you're here for one second of it, you're gonna be here for all of it. We're gonna be out of town. We getting out of town, praise God, like Superman, and coming back like the Long Ranger riding white horses, hallelujah. I'm part of the saddle club, I hope you are too. And you say, well, I'm not. Well, you gonna be, you'll believe it. Oh, but listen, they may not have had all the doctrine right about second coming, but when they got up to the pulpit, they was full of the Holy Ghost of God, and they hadn't just been influenced by Hollywood, and they hadn't been filling their minds full of things of this world. When they got to the house of God, they was ready to preach. Hey, listen, we need to get back to that. You got people now, I think some of them never believed it to begin with. I think some of them just think to them it's just a show. And here's Naboth, he said, man, I remember me and my daddy and my granddaddy praying too much for rain. There's been too many prayers prayed. There's been too many seeds sown. There's been too many plows buried in the soil. There's been too many battles. There's been too much struggles in Naboth's life for him just to sell out. I tell you, friend, there's been enough prayers. I mean, listen, you've got wavered children. It's a Baptist church. You've got wavered children. You've got problems. You've got issues. I'm telling you, listen, there's been too much prayers that's been prayed. There's been too much, and I don't know nothing about this church other than it's a good-sized church, all right? It's a pretty church. But as long as you don't get down below two around here, you'll be all right. Amen, the Bible said where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst. And I'm telling you, God wants to bless this church, and God wants to bless your church. But the reason being is people, today they just removed everything. I mean, listen, they put up, and thank God for a pulpit, hallelujah. I think, listen, I'm not against screens. I'm not against having a screen. If you wanna have a screen, have a screen. You know, they didn't nobody make me police detective of the independent Baptist movement, and didn't make you that either, amen. Let somebody do whatever it is that they wanna do. But I'm telling you, listen, I thank God for a place where they still got the pulpit, they still got songbooks, you still sing Amazing Grace around here, I hope. You still sing There is a Fountain Filled with Blood. Hey, listen, I tell you, some of this stuff going on now, How they say, well, we gotta water it, we gotta get the crowd in here. That's what we gotta bring in the world. Hell, we gotta bring some mop-headed feller up there a-whoppin' and a-whangin' and trying to get a crowd in. Hey, listen, I tell you what got you saved. What got you saved is you had a man of God for the Holy Ghost of God, hung you out over hell, told you you was a drunkard, and if you didn't get right with God, you was gonna go to hell. You know what happened? You got saved by the grace of God, and that's what changed your life. That's right, I believe we're living in a day now. I've seen it come full circle. I've seen churches, and y'all got them probably in this town somewhere. I mean, Oasis Church, Rejuvenate Church. Hey, y'all just tell the truth. Liberal Church, amen. Tanning bed church. Gotta be, amen. God help somebody get to lay around in a tanning saloon 30 minutes a day. Amen, hey, if you got a tan from picking beans, hallelujah, praise God for that, amen. All right, well, I've hit a little snag right there, but I think everything will be all right. You know, you don't put time in things that's not valuable to you. Naboth said, no, friend, this is valuable to me. There's too much time. I think it was Dottie Rambo that wrote that song, Too Many Miles Behind Me, Too Many Trials I've Come Through. He said, I mean, listen, there's too much to gain to lose, friend. Hey, we cannot afford to lose what we have. That's what Naboth said. Naboth's ancestry is background. but not just that, because of the blessings. It was a vineyard. That means it produced fruit. It was something that the fruit in these days was abounding. And you got this parable, and I'm not gonna preach all of it, but in Matthew chapter number 20, you got this landowner that comes out, and at 6 a.m. he hires men to work in his vineyard. at the usual day's wages. It must have been a pretty good-sized vineyard, because the man that owned the vineyard, he came at six. That had got most people right there getting six a.m. I mean, a lot of people get up at 11.45 and pray till dinner. God help somebody like that. But he came at 6 a.m. and then at 9 a.m. again, and he returns to hire more workers. He returns at noon, and then three o'clock, and then five o'clock. And the typical work day was 10 to 12 hours. I mean, some of y'all's old enough to remember those sort of things now. I mean, if you get somebody to work four or five hours a day, that takes them four or five days to get over it. Lord, help us, amen? That's why we've got such a weak generation right now. That's why we got so many weak-kneed boys right there, amen. Praise God, pull your britches up and put you a pair of car hearts on, amen, and get out of them old skinny jeans. You say, yes, ma'am. No, listen, number one, you don't want to see me in a pair of skinny jeans, all right? I promise you that. All right. Amen. But look what the Bible said in Matthew chapter number 20 verse number four. And he said to them, go ye also into the vineyard. Whatsoever is right, I will give you. And the Bible said in verse number 12, saying, the last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, there's your complainer, which have borne the burden and the heat of the day. But he said unto them and said, friend, I do thee no wrong. Didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way, and I will give unto the last, even unto thee. And what happens here, we understand in this parable, God is the landowner, because he owns everything. And everybody say, well, you're being unfair. You're being unfair to us. And listen, you know what the problem is in Matthew chapter number 20 about this vineyard? The issue is, they are not grateful that they have a place to work. They're not grateful that the landowner came to them and said, go work in my vineyard. I'm telling you, honey, when we get too big to pick up a mop, when we get too big to go to the house of God and pick up a piece of trash, you remember when you first got saved, you didn't have to have an Attaboy button, you didn't have to have your own parking place, they didn't know about how to put your name on the, out in the parking lot or on a sign somewhere. They didn't have to put you on a flyer. You didn't get bent up out of shape when they didn't get your way. You didn't get mad because somebody didn't call you and ask you what kind of toilet paper to buy. You're just glad you're saved. You didn't know facts from Sikkim. You thought Hezekiah was a book of the Bible, but you're just glad you're saved. We need to get back to that. We're just glad to be able to work in the vineyard. Amen. I may hit a snag right here, but now I feel like, I go to some of these big meetings, I feel like I'm in the Baptist hospital. Doctor this, and doctor that, and doctor this. Now listen, I ain't against honoring a man. If you're a doctor so and so, I'll call you that. But God help a preacher that demands to be called that. Amen, and I tell you, I feel kind of uncomfortable. If you can write me a prescription, I'll call you doctor, amen. Right, you're saying, I don't believe in taking no medicine. You ain't never had kidney stones. Amen, that's exactly right. Hey, listen, thank God for a place to come apart. Thank God for a vineyard that we have. And that is the thing that we need to understand. I tell you, when I pulled up in the parking lot, I'm glad I was pulling up in a Baptist church. Now, I don't believe Baptist's the only ones going to heaven. I know the closer you get to Mississippi, the closer you get to Baptist's broader country. And they say, well, Baptist's the only ones going to heaven. You believe that, Brother Randy? I say, no, I don't believe a bunch of them's going. I was a lost Baptist for years. I'm not going to heaven because I'm a Baptist. I'm going to heaven because I've been washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. But I'm gonna tell you what, if the church of Christ was right, I'd hook up with them. I really believe I'd go to where the truth was. Amen, so if Pentecostal was right, if the holiness was right, wouldn't that be where you'd wanna go? Amen, I'd wanna go where they have the truth. Here's what beats all I've ever seen. The holiness and the Pentecostals, they run around, I mean, listen and shout and praise God and all that, and they can lose their salvation on the way home. If you believe what they believe, somebody pulls out in front of them, they get mad, they've lost their salvation, if you believe that doctrine. Praise God, I'm glad we got a Bible that teaches badness doctrine. When I got here, it's a Baptist church. Hey, listen, I'm glad I didn't pull up in the Mormon church. You say, would you preach in a Mormon church? I would one time. I would one time. You preach Catholic church? I would one time. And that'd probably be all it'd take. I mean, there'd be rosary beads flying everywhere. And they'd put me in, they'd say, man, he ain't getting out of purgatory. I mean, listen, nobody can get him out of purgatory. Hey, thank God for a place. We got the truth. It ought to mean something to you. Things don't mean nothing to nobody no more, because church is just a social club. That's all it is. Hey, listen, thank God for a place that you can come. Thank God for a home. I'm telling you, families are the incubators of love. And thank God for a place that we can come and raise a family. Hey, if you've got family here, you ought to thank God for it. Hey, man, I mean, listen, it's very, very important. We need some structure in the house of God. We need some people who are wise. We need men to man up. I tell you, thank God for Naboth. That was the man of the house. I know we're living in a day right now where mama goes out and she earns a living and daddy's sitting there watching ESPN and reruns of Gilligan's Island, eating mayonnaise sandwiches and raising the kids and the mama's out in the workplace. That ain't what the Bible says. It's still in the book that a woman ought to be a keeper at home. That's still in your Bible. I appreciate the amen right there. You said, how'd it go over here? It goes over here about like it does everywhere else, but that's still in the Bible. Amen. It is. You say, we can't make it without, oh, you can make it. You're telling me God can't take care of you? If you do it God's way, I promise you, honey, it don't matter if gravy goes to $5 a sop, you're gonna be sopping gravy. It don't matter if there's one cracker left in Hartsell, Alabama, you'll be nibbling on one corner if you do it God's way. Amen, that's right. Amen. That's right. Mama's not gonna stand before God. Ms. Naboth didn't, Ms. Naboth didn't say, oh now Naboth, well honey, now listen, we can sell this and we can move on into town. Naboth's like, I don't wanna go to town. He said, my granddaddy built this place, and his granddaddy built this place. We're not selling out because of the background, because of what he believed. And I'm gonna say something tonight. I mean, listen, thank God, we need to have something in the house of God more than just an emotional attachment. We need more than just, y'all can tell, I'm an emotional fella, I mean. You look at this, you say, well, he just loved it because it's sentimental. And maybe that was some of it, maybe he was sentimental about it. But it just wasn't a matter of sentiment, it was a matter of the scriptures. Back in Leviticus 25 verse 23, the Bible said, God said this, the land shall not be sold forever, for the land is mine. God had expressly forbidden this. God said in his word, do not sell your property. Do not sell the land. Numbers 36 verse seven, said so shall not thine inheritance of the children of Israel be removed from tribe to tribe. I know, Brother Bobby, you face it. If you're a preacher and you'll face it in your town. You'll get people saying, well now listen, if you just avoided a couple of things, if you didn't say anything, about Hollywood, or if you didn't say anything about television, or if you didn't say anything about a woman looking like a woman and a man looking like a man, let me say something right now. Some of them old time preachers had a lot more foresight than what a lot of people gave them credit for. They'd preach about a woman need to look like a woman and a man look like a man. and they'll preach that, and now, that's why we got these shims running around, and that's why we got that fella that says he's a woman, and he's beating the daylights out of everybody else in a swimming contest. That guy's a man. He ain't no woman. That's not good English, but it's right, amen. And that's why we got the problem now. If you got a baby on the way, if you got a grandchild on the way, praise God, if it's a boy, put you some John Deere green out there on them L-box. Put you some blue balloons out there. You got a baby girl on the way, put you some pink out there. Amen, everything in the house will help. And that's the problem, friend, we don't stand for nothing no more. Hey, you say you love them, yeah, I love them, God loves them. And a man that'll love you will tell you the truth. That's why we've got now all this stuff going on right now. That's why we got this transgender and the LBGTQ and all that stuff, they so many letters they've added to it now. You know why? Because nobody say nothing about it. Nobody in the church will say nothing about it. Well, they're gonna take away our taxes. They'll take away our tax exempt. Hey, I'm gonna say something. If the IRS don't have nothing better to do than to tune in to this church in Hartsville, Alabama on a Monday night, I mean, honest before God, they got bigger fish to fry, I hope, I hope. But even if they don't, truth is truth, right is right. Amen it is. That's exactly right. I'm not talking about calling them bad names. You see people holding these signs up, calling them things that God don't call them. I'm not talking about that. But I'm telling you, honey, tell them the truth. Tell them the truth. Tell them what the Bible said. Tell them how God made them male and female, and until they know the truth, they're never gonna be made free. And I'm telling you, it's got a lot more to do. Just about, just send them in. And here's the thing, you say, well, you know, you can't win them if you can't get them here. Hey, there's gonna be people at this church and your church and where I pastor at too, they're gonna be one and done. I know that, I know that. But I don't know how many people that have come in, they ain't been back in a while, and I said, well, they're not coming back. Hey, there they come. And there they come. And one of them just flat out said, he said, I don't agree with it. He don't call me Brother Randy, Pastor Randy or nothing, and I don't care about that. He said, what I like about Randy, he said, I may not agree with everything he says, but he don't spend 15 minutes apologizing for what he says. Praise God, if it's the truth, if it's right, if it's rubbing you the wrong way, then just turn around and get right with God. Put your big boy britches on and say that's right. Get behind the preacher when he's preaching truth. Amen, I'm not mad, I really am a nice feller, but I'm just telling you, I'm up to here with it, I really am. Does that, is it not bothering you? You see things now that's happening in churches that you never thought that you'd ever see. I read something today where there's having something down in Florida, some church of Christ in Florida, and they was having a gender whatever, you know, a transgender something get together at a church. I thought what, first thing needs to happen is whoever that fellow is that's a pastor of that church, they ought to take him somewhere and get a hickory after him. Amen, I know you ain't gonna say amen right there. That's the problem. That's exactly right. And here's the problem. Somebody just needs to straighten that fella around. And that's the problem right now. Let me just get right in here. Hey, listen, sir. You say, well, I got a problem, man, with my child. They won't be quiet. There's a reason God put some extra padding in a particular place. I'm not talking about child abuse. Somebody that abused a child, I mean, listen, prison's too good for them. I'm not talking about child abuse, but I am talking about discipline. I am talking about, hey, they wonder why in the world our schools are in the shape they're in. I remember Miss Overton, my first great teacher, she'd read the Bible to us. She'd pray with us. I mean, I got a pattern every day, every day. And you say, what happened? I needed two a day or more, amen. We've lost all that, because everybody is afraid. Is that not the truth? Everybody's afraid. But I want to say something. You know, this stuff now about social distancing. You say, you believe in social distancing? I believe in social distancing. I really do. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loved the world, the love of the Father's not it. That's the social distancing I'm talking about. Amen? Our dress standards are biblical. We're biblical. We didn't come up with this. We didn't come up that a woman looks like a woman and a man looks like a man. We didn't come up with that. God come up with that. I mean, listen, if you're a man, you're right with God, your legs ought to look like they've been dipped in coal rocks. Ain't that right? And some of these spindly-legged fellas running around look like post hole diggers upside down with hair on the handles. Amen, that's right. You say, why does that cause us nakedness? Defies nakedness. I ain't got time to preach all of this. You want your preacher running around in town with his flip-flops on and his short shorts on and his little old shirt buttoned down to about right here and y'all don't even know who Magnum P.I. is, but I'm dating myself. But they got the little shirt right here and their two chest hairs hanging out and they're going through town saying, why don't you come over to our church? Everything's groovy over there. I thought what you need is slam your hand in your car door about five or six times and get right with God. Hey listen, I tell you what I want my preacher to do, and I'm not talking about a hobby horse, but I'm telling you every once in a while, you ought to thank God if your preacher gets up just like he shut his hand in the car door about four or five times and chased it with some diesel fuel and drank about a half a bag of 16 penny nails and praise God, got up and preached. We've got so many people now that won't holler. They wouldn't holler or say if the hogs got after them, because they're afraid they're gonna thin the crowd out. I tell you today, in 2022, there are people looking for truth. You know why? Because they've run the gamut. They've seen these liberal churches. They've seen the little old preacher that I've just described, and all it is is fluff, and there's no God at all. All it is is Las Vegas, it's an atmosphere that is created that is sensual and devilish. Amen. You say you got a praise team? You got a praise team leader at your church? Yeah, I sure do. You're looking at him. Amen. You say you got a drama team at your church? I do. You got one too if it's a Baptist church. You don't call it a drama team, but I promise you, if you got a Baptist church, you got a drama team. You got a drama team leader. Amen, probably. Whoever come in your mind right now, that's your drama team leader, amen. That's right. Amen, that's right. You know, you think about this. What I like about this, Naboth, he don't speak but one time. In this whole narrative, he says one thing. He says, no, I'm not selling it. They wouldn't know negotiating. They wouldn't know higher offers. They wouldn't know let me think about it, let me pray about it. They'd say, well, let me pray about this. Well, Brother Randy, we're praying about leaving. Or we're praying about going to another church. Isn't it amazing that when they leave and go to another church, it's never a step up. We ain't got the only church in town. I'm sure there's probably not the only church in town. But isn't it amazing, isn't it amazing that where most of the time when they leave, when they leave, here's what it is. It's mama saying, we're getting out of here. And the little old husband, yes ma'am, I'm sorry. That is right, amen. I've been saved 25 years, not long as some. Ain't that the way it is? We're going over here, cause he's scaring my babies. No he ain't. You say you believe in children's church, you believe in junior church? Yes, I believe junior ought to be in church. Oh my goodness, amen. That's all right, do it like you want to. All right, there's a boundary, there was a boundary. It was a boundary. You say, why is that? Because it was valuable to him because there was a line that was drawn. That's what a boundary is. That's what a border is. A boundary. There was a fence around this vineyard. That fence was not just to keep the bad out, it was to keep the good in. A boundary around this vineyard was an identification marker. Somebody tell me why I pray tell, is there a wall in heaven? There is a wall in heaven. Jasper walls, that's in your Bible. Why is there a wall? Is it to keep the bad out? No, it's to identify who's in the inside of heaven, who's inside those walls. It's an identification marker. And don't apologize because you're King James Bible. Don't apologize because you believe we're saved by grace through faith, plus nothing, minus nothing. That's a Bible, that's a boundary. and Naboth drew the line. Do you know how they marked the fences during those days? Naboth would say, listen boys, this fence hadn't always been here, this boundary hadn't always been here. Back in those days, the way they made their walls and the way they made those fences around their vineyards is they would drop a plow. And I don't know how far back you go and how many generations you go in Naboth, but Mr. Naboth's great, great, great, great granddaddy, somebody back there, got there, they were nothing there. And Naboth, Mr. Naboth's great, great, great granddaddy and his boys said, boys, right here's a good piece of property. There's nobody claimed it, and they started plowing. And every time they'd dig a rock up, every time a rock would come up, when they'd drop the big dig, see, when they'd drop a gee whiz, y'all know what that is, y'all from Alabama, all right? And listen, when they'd drop the gee whiz, when the rocks would come up, they'd take the rock and they'd put the rock and they'd say, boys, you go put that rock over there in that corner. And then they'd say, boys, go put that rock over there in that far corner back yonder. Boys, go take that rock and you put that in that corner and put this in this corner. And they started out and they had four corners. And the more they plowed, the more rocks would dig up. And they'd say, boys, go back and put those rocks. And then they'd start making a line. Well, I don't know how high the wall was then. I don't know how high that it was back then. But that vineyard was made by the rocks that were dug up by plowing in that property. And so the more they dug and the more rocks came up, the more those walls became marked. The more those boundaries became visible. And do you know what happened? As they would lay those rocks, and they would make that distinct line, they would say, right here is the boundaries, and we're not going any farther than that. They're not coming in here, and we're keeping these things on the inside that's very precious to us. And he drew the line. There's an identification. There's a hedge. People say, Brother Randy, we're supposed to build a bridge. Oh, no. No, one of the really good friends I've got, that was the motto until he stepped down from the pastor. That was the motto, it still is the motto of their church, build a bridge. Well, I don't see that. But I see where we're supposed to build some walls, amen. I see where we're supposed to, there's supposed to be some marked lines, there's supposed to be some distinction. And listen, I'm not against having a good time, but there'll be some visible markers in your life. Your neighbors ought to know, you know what, we're not missing church for balls. We're not missing church for ball. You got big league stuff right now, you got traveling baseball teams, and I mean, listen, if you throw the ball over in hell, then 90% of America jump in after the thing, and I'm not against ball, I like it. Go Dawgs, we beat Alabama, finally, finally, finally. But quit trying to spiritualize it, Brother Bobby, don't you, that aggravates me. Quit trying to spiritualize sports. Just quit, just say you like it. Just say you like it. Well, you know, I go out there to the deer stand and I spend time with the Lord and hey, it's relaxing, it is. I mean, I enjoy that too, I enjoy it. I enjoy all those things. Everything you do don't have to be spiritual, just as long as it ain't sinful. but people try to spiritualize sports, and they say, well, you know, it builds character. Brother Randy, don't you know? Hey, listen, I could put on a football helmet right now. I ain't always been built like I'm built right now. I could put on a football helmet right now, nail you coming across the middle on a drag pattern, and like it, and fold your shoulder pads up in around your chin, and turn that helmet around where you're looking at your ear hole, and I'd love it. I'd enjoy it right now, and ain't a bit spiritual about it, not nothing. Well, Brother Randy, sports, you gotta get sports because it'll build integrity and character in your children. It'll build character and integrity. Oh, so I guess that's why all them NBA players and NFL players, I guess that's why they got so much character and integrity, huh? I mean, listen, if you're a pro football fan, you need to get right with God. I knew I'd go over, amen. That's the truth. When they started kneeling and all that stuff, I mean, you got men and women that shed their blood in foreign land to give us the freedom we got, and somebody won't even stand up, and I mean, listen, they pay them a gazillion dollars to run zipped up air up and down a green grassy field. Oh my goodness, hallelujah. That's right. There needs to be some marked distinctions right here, amen. Get Brother Sexton here, he'll clean this mess up. You say, what's the big deal right here? Well, there was a boundary that he had set. Now listen, there's probably some times when Naboth probably got his tater pats plowed. There's probably some times when the man of God come over at Naboth's house and said, Naboth, you're letting some things slide around here, son. I seen your boy down there, and I mean he's running around, he's running around with his shirt off and his chariot riding around downtown. And I seen your girl down there, I mean look like 50 pounds of flour and a 10 pound sack. They both probably got upset at the preacher every now and then. Hey, some of y'all probably got upset tonight over something I said. I'm not taking it back. Listen, I'm not trying to be no smart aleck. What I'm preaching tonight is right. What I'm preaching tonight is what our church has been missing. It's not because I'm some great grand something or other. I'm just tellin' you, we need to get back to some preachin' on sin, gettin' right with God, gettin' right at the house, gettin' some, you may have to go, you may have to go home and throw your Harry Potter stuff out. You may have to go home and jerk some CDs out and throw them out. You may have to, I mean, listen, well, Brother Randy, why, I let my, I let my kids watch that Twilight. They're good vampires. Why, he's a good bank robber. It's the same thing, ain't it? He's a good vampire, they're good. Oh, uh-huh, no, you've let things slide. You've let things go in your life. There's things going on in your house you would have never allowed. You've let your children do things you would have never allowed them to do, but you're influenced by Aunt Joan and Uncle Bobby, and they're pulling on you, and they say, well, you know, you're gonna make them backwards. They're not gonna be able to go out and socialize with anybody while you're gonna contaminate them. That Christian education you're giving them, that old homeschool, you're just gonna make them so backwards. Well, I'm gonna tell you what, one thing. Hey, listen, what we teach and what y'all teach, and y'all got a Christian school here, I guess, or whatever, they need some Christian education. They say, well, you know, Brother Randy, don't you understand that they need some deeper learning. I tell you what they need to do, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Amen. Homeschool kids don't believe we come from tadpoles and monkeys. That's right. Amen. Well, Brother Bobby, I've killed it dead as a hammer right here, brother. I'm just telling you, y'all, listen, I didn't come in here with no agenda or no chip on my shoulder. I want you to look at me. I'm serious about what I'm doing. I want your church to be right. I want you to be right. I want you to have your joy back. Man, when you start letting things go and you start letting sin in your life, if you're saved, you're grieving the Holy Ghost of God. I mean, man, listen. Get those things right. Go on with God. You may have to return some things. You may have to go do your first works. There's some things that are valuable to us that cannot be compromised. And they bought from you the value of a vineyard. Preacher, I'm finished.