Hello again and welcome to the program. We're here hopefully with a little strength for today. We're going to talk about things I have learned in the past 83 years and some of them I learned the hard way and that can be very expensive and even heartbreaking. We're going to talk about it. Hopefully it will help someone along the way. The Word of God has much to say about the subject of learning. The word learn occurs 32 times, learned, past tense, another 22, and learning is found 9 times. Paul said in Philippians 4, 9, those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do. Someone has said we're too soon old and too late smart and unfortunately I fit into that category. So some of the things we'll talk about that I have learned I'm gonna have to say don't do. When I came into this world, I had learned nothing. By the time I was three years old, I had learned how to walk and how to talk. I had advanced from babbling to being able to speak a single word, and then I learned how to form complete sentences. The first thing I can remember learning was when my mother was teaching me as a little boy to say my prayers every night before I went to bed. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. Bless mommy and daddy and help me to be a good boy. Amen. And I would jump in bed. I would do that every night because my mother taught me to do it. I remember when I was in grade five, our grade five teacher was teaching us to memorize scripture from the Bible. That was before the public schools became anti-God and anti-Bible, as they are today. When I was 12 years old, I received Christ as my personal Savior. I have learned many things in the years that followed, some through study, some through experience, which, as I mentioned, we usually refer to as learning the hard way. In the summer of 1956, I was 13 years old, I went to a Bible camp for teenagers. One evening they built a very large campfire and someone preached from Job 5, verse number 7, which says, Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. Several times during his message he would quote that verse and then throw a log into the fire. As a result, thousands of sparks would fly up into the dark sky, and he would say, man is born into trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, during that message I learned that fact mentally. After traveling the Christian road for over 70 years, I have learned it by experience time and time again. Man is born in trouble as the sparks fly upward. The word trouble is in the Bible 110 times in 27 different books. The word troubled, past tense, is another 68 times in 25 different books of the Bible. Peter said in 1 Peter 4, 12, Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you. Paul the Apostle said in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, we are troubled, we are perplexed, we are persecuted, and we are cast down. And after that, he gave the solution on how to handle those situations. We'll look at that in another program. We also read in 2 Timothy 3.12, Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. I have a dictionary program on my computer. I looked up the word trouble, and it gave over a dozen definitions of the word troubled. It can come at us from every direction. In recent weeks, as I have watched the news on television, newscasters are saying we are living in troublesome times. Well, we sure are. Never in the 83 years that I've been on this planet have I seen the whole world in such a mess. We are in trouble. Years ago, I was going through some troublesome times in my life, and I came across a quote by Alan Redpath, and this is what he said. There is nothing, no circumstances, no trouble, no testing that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God, past Christ, through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a purpose which I may not understand at the moment. But if I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and as I accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my heart, No sorrow will ever disturb me, no trial will ever disarm me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I will rest in the joy of what my Lord is.