Thank you, Pastor. What a high honor to be in this place this evening. This is my first opportunity to be here, and I can promise you that it didn't take me long to fall in love. WITH THIS PLACE. WE WERE GREETED WITH KINDNESS AS SOON AS WE PULLED IN THE PARKING LOT. AND EVERYBODY HAS JUST BEEN SO KIND THAT HAS SPOKEN TO US. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT. I APPRECIATE BEING AROUND GOD'S PEOPLE, THE BEST PEOPLE I KNOW. AND IT'S JUST BEEN REALLY GOOD SINCE WE WALKED IN LATE. IT'S BEEN REALLY GOOD. Brother Aldridge is here with me and thank God he's young. He was able to drive us down here from the convalescent center. And he brought us through the storms and did such a superb job. And then from the motel to here, we got lost. But I'm so glad he did. He did help us get in here and I'm glad to have my wife with me for many years when I attempted to serve the Lord in different places other than the home church. My wife would stay with my mother for her last years and she was her caregiver and was unable to go with me and many times I'd leave my wife's picture out in that motel room along with our babies and I'd bow and I'd pray and thank God for it. My mother now is with the Lord and my wife's with me and that's a good arrangement and I'm thankful and I appreciate her love for me even after she knows me. Tonight I want to make mention of that youth choir that sang, what a blessing. thank you young people for going ahead trusting God stepping out in your youth believing that the Lord in his kindness and in his mercy will use you and he did tonight he helped me through you and I appreciate you exalting the Lord in song and then to see the good number of young people in the altars tonight is a real encouraging thing. For all of us older heads in the building, it would be wise for us to be their best cheerleader. They are the next generation, and somewhere I'll have to step off the scene, and I want these young folk to know I'm on their side, in their corner, begging God to use them in a great way. God's not dead and God seems like he really treasures the opportunity to work in and through young people's lives. So I thank you for that. Your pastor, Brother Wampler, he's said nice things about me. I was told many years ago by a dear older preacher friend of mine, most of my preacher friends through the years have been older than myself. I found out many years ago that my peers were absolutely as stupid as I was. And so the older men, have helped me through the years, and one of them told me, he said, when people say nice things about you, it'll never, ever hurt you, as long as you never believe it. And so, but I appreciate the effort anyway, my brother, I thank you for that. You have been blessed with a genuine man of God. I say that to you sincerely and I'm glad God's done this for you here. The Powell sisters are a blessing. God has allowed our path to cross a couple of times while preaching in different locations and then to be in this meeting with them. You're really a blessed church. to have people that are serving the Lord in that capacity and I appreciate being able to hear them tonight. I look over here and I see Robin Henderson and my goodness I can't believe she's in the building tonight. And so many other preachers that if I started calling your name, I have a fear that I would miss one of you. So I'll just call one. And it's so good to see Bob Sanders, even if he's Bob Sanders. He just really is. And my dear brother, thank you so much. And I want you to know I did not lie sitting here. I am impressed. Were you not really impressed? I was impressed because I've been in a lot of churches and a lot of meetings. God knows this is true. No man has ever been able to get me to openly confess to two great sins within two minutes of him hitting the pulpit. That's impressive. It really is. But then thank God he didn't preach down to us and he was very kind to us anyway even after he found out we were liars and thieves. And actually he ended up empathizing with us and becoming one of us when he declared he was 198 pounds. Let's take our Bibles this evening, if you would please, and turn with me to Isaiah chapter number six. Isaiah chapter number six. Pastor, I wish I'd had a private moment. I'm not certain. I realize the evening has been very full. According to my watch, it's 1020. I told you, I came a long ways to get here. Okay, all right. I'll try my best tonight by the help of God not to weary you. Isaiah chapter number 6 this evening, the Lord has directed my heart to this passage. Please follow along with me in your Bible. If you brought with you tonight an authorized copy of the Word of God, a King James Bible, you'll have no problem as I read along. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims. Each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried. And the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, woe is me, for I am undone. because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar, and he laid it upon my mouth and said, Lo, This hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I, send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not, and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Each and every one of us tonight who know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior and hold sacred truths and sacred moments dear to our heart, We would have loved to have been hiding somewhere in a corner when this wonderful vision, glorious, heavenly vision was given here to Isaiah. I'm interested in the fact that Isaiah has never been to heaven proper, and yet nobody had to introduce him to the seraphims. The Bible makes it very clear that immediately he recognizes who they are. I am convinced that when I have the privilege to set foot on yonder shore, no one's going to have to introduce me to Peter or John or David of old. And when I see Jesus Christ, I'll be as John, and I'll say, behold, the Lamb of God. No one will have to give me an introduction. What an unusual and grand scene we have here. Now these seraphims are shown to us as they have these three areas of the tandem wings and apparently just enough opportunity moving from those two wings in the upper part of their being that normally covers their mouth And it all becomes so enraptured that they begin to volley these holies back and forth. And Isaiah takes clear notation of all of this and recognizes that this is a scene far above and beyond anything that man knows anything of. Wonderful that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is a place called heaven. It's superintended by one called God. He is real. The place exists. He is alive. They are praising Him there while we're meeting here. I certainly desire to not have to go through a cultural shock when I get there. The thing that interests me most though is when the vision is open to us in verse number one. The Bible says that Isaiah received this in the year that King Uzziah died. I am confident that the Bible is helping us here to chart time as we know it so that we are able to go into the history as we would study it and be able to pinpoint with some degree of accuracy the time frame now that's in the life of Isaiah. And here as Uzziah, the king of that day, dies away, this particular vision was given. So we understand this is allowing us to pinpoint time with some accuracy. But I do believe that it's far greater than just that. because there's much emphasis placed on this here when I see the Bible telling me that it was in the year that King Uzziah died that now Isaiah gets this vision. Now Isaiah didn't do anything to warrant this. Isaiah did not in any way climb a ladder of success to where he would get to a point to where he's now privileged to get this vision. It appears to me that something just got out of the way. Now Isaiah is a major prophet. Here is a man that God has been kind to give him much to say. The Lord has spoken volumes to Isaiah. Isaiah is a usable prophet. There can be no question about that. But until King Uzziah dies, Isaiah never really sees God on his throne. I take from that tonight that if we're not careful, we can be servants of the Lord. We can be right with God in many ways. But until some of these earthly kings get out of our eyes, We may never really know what our God really looks like. We may never really know the glories of the surroundings of the place called heaven that we look forward to because too many times earthly kings are shielding us from seeing him as he really is. Our involvement, our interaction with all that we have to deal with down here clutters the way. It gets between us and our God too many times. Isaiah hasn't reached some level of spirituality that warrants now this vision. It's just that the hindrances now are out of the way. He probably did not mean to be looking that much at King Uzziah, but King Uzziah was on CNN too much. King Uzziah captured all of the media movement. King Uzziah did some great things and maybe Isaiah even had moments when he wanted to be politically involved instead of what God has put his hand to. And in those areas, there is one that is between Him and His God. So now the Bible says to us that as soon as the earthly king got out of the way, then Isaiah was able to see the King of glory. I draw from that tonight that whether it's myself or anyone else in this building tonight, that if I'm not careful, I could end up letting things or individuals come between me and my God. Things that are important, things that may be good things. but if they occupy too much of my attention, then I am distracted from being able to see the King of glory. And if I allow that in my life, if there is anything or anyone I mentioned to you, my wife, we've been sweethearts since we were teenagers, I do not recommend this for you young folks. but I turned 19 on our honeymoon. So we got started pretty early. We just celebrated 48 years of being saved and married. Wonderful bliss. I'm telling you, I had the privilege of marrying the love of my life. I get to enjoy being with the love of my life. I am so thankful for her, but the day that she takes first place is when I'll begin to no longer be able to see the God of glory. One thing I do know about my God is He's not gonna allow anybody to take him away from his rightful position. Oh, that God would help us in this matter. I wanna show you just a few things this evening that should cause us to want to make sure that at whatever the expense, that we make sure that the kings of this world die before us. so that we can really have fellowship and relationship with the King of glory. Notice with me in verse number one. The Bible says, in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up. I am very convinced that God Almighty will never be seen in my eyes and in my life as the only sovereign. I'm keying in on that word throne. The only sovereign until I make sure that I've bowed sufficiently. that I have said, dear God in heaven, I want none to be before thee. I want you to be first in my life. I want you to be the utmost. I want you to be everything. I do not want any King Uzziah coming between me and thee. But if I'll do that, I believe he becomes all to me. becomes the sovereign that he ought to be. The sovereign that he is. And I'm able to see him as I should. Now you understand tonight that he ought to be first place. You understand tonight that we ought to be able to recognize that he alone sits upon the throne. And all of these things that are so distracting here on earth to us, they haven't distracted him at all. He hasn't lost a moment's rest over it. He's not agitated in his spirit. Hasn't had to go to a psychiatrist. Hasn't had to take any medication. No matter what earthly kings say, I'm telling you, God Almighty's still in charge. No matter how many countries raise up and want to defy the one true and living God, He's still God. He still sits upon the throne. And I will never ever recognize him as such as long as I allow anything else or anyone else to occupy my time and get between me and him. God help me. And then notice in verse number three. and one cried unto another and said, holy, holy, holy. Now I am convinced in this strange age, as our preachers already alluded to, when mainline religion is now embracing the sins of this Bible as being all right, They're endorsing them, promoting them, pushing them while they are also calling themselves preachers and Christians. And somewhere they don't have a clear picture of who the God of this Bible is. Now, if they would just dismiss some of these earthly kings when they listen too much to all of these who are trying to gain sympathy against God Almighty, who are trying to say right's wrong and wrong is right, If they would dismiss some of the chatter and say, I believe there's one who has the answer. Before long, you'd find out that they would be saying, he's holy. He's holy. You see, if you see God through the eyes of Hollywood, he'll never be holy. If I view God through the eyes of these professors in the universities, he'll never be holy. But if I'll dismiss all that chatter, if I'll get in a private place with him a little while, if I'll get on my knees before him, open this blessed book, learn more about him, I'll find out he's holy. Holy, holy. The only way I'm gonna see him and give him his rightful due concerning the attributes of holiness is when I dismiss all of this down here. And I'm not just talking about dismissing the minuscule things. It's easy for us to dismiss the little things. Isaiah had to dismiss a king. Some of you gonna have to disown Disney. Some of us are gonna have to disown those higher schools of education that have made us feel so good that we lost our babies to. that were trained up in churches like this one until they went and sat in front of that anti-God professor. Some of us gonna have to dismiss some of these kings of this earth. And when you do, glory to God, you're gonna say, my God's squeaky clean. He's holy, holy, holy. Thank God for the privilege to see him for who he really is. And then notice, if you will, in verse number three as well. And one cried unto another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory. Have you ever wondered what's made that crowd so angry out there? I mean, that bunch is just angry. They live angry. They're mad because they woke up. They're just all tore up. The Bible says Isaiah now, he says, wow, King Uzziah's gone, he's not cluttering up my vision anymore. The whole earth is full of the glory of God. In other words, he's getting close to the old fashioned shouting. He said, my God, he's a glorious God. Glorious, everything about him's glorious. All the earth is glorious. Have you ever noticed how weird it is that a tree hugger looks at a forest and they're mad? A Christian looks at a forest and says, what a God. I'm just telling you, that God's glory can be seen in my life when I dismiss all the junk and the kings of this world and I look to Him, I can recognize His glory in His creation. The birds will sing Amazing Grace to you. You can watch the movements in this life see the creation that God in his kindness brought about. Have you ever thought how amazing this thing must have been when the curse wasn't on it? I mean just nothing but a preacher. And God's carried me all over this country. I've looked out across the expanse of the Grand Canyon. I've felt the mist from Niagara Falls. I have seen some of the most beautiful sceneries you've ever seen. And as you can imagine, and God Almighty created all that and never broke a sweat. He's glorious. But I want to tell you about the greatest creation. You're looking at a new creature. A new creature. Nothing but an old, angry, teenage hippie that was joining the crowd, anti-God, anti-everything. And Jesus stepped into my world God forgave me of my sin, saved me. I can't even believe the man I am now. It's glorious. Whoo! When was the last time? When was the last time you crawled in front of that little old mirror? And you're getting ready to shave that ugly face like we all have. And you looked in there and all of a sudden it dawned on you. God Almighty, the God who created everything, cared about the likes of me, stepped into my world, gave his darling son for the likes of me. Saved me. Gave me a new appetite. Caused me to love people I used to hate. Hate things I used to love. Cleaned up my filthy mouth. Wild glory to God. Now that's glorious. Glorious. I only have the privilege to see that when I don't allow so many kings of this world to get in my eyes. If I allow them too much space now, I can lose sight of the fact that my God's glorious in His creative work and in the wonderful soul-saving work. I want you to notice as well, look with me if you will in verse number four. Isaiah said, I'm amazed at this, I marveled at this. The post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried. We're not even given clarity as to exactly who's speaking, but it's so powerful. It's so powerful that these huge pillars and columns in a place as solidly constructed as heaven, they begin to move. Which indicates to me that once Uzziah was out of his eyes, he was able to recognize the power of heavenly language. When was the last time just a verse shook your world? When God Almighty put a little verse in your heart and it felt like Mount St. Helens was getting ready to go off. If it's been a little while, Maybe we're looking at King Uzziah too much. I have the privilege of knowing a word that has power, that can move things, that can shake things, that can eternally change things. But apparently, if I give too much space and time, to other things or other individuals. I can lose sight of how powerful this book is. You don't have time for all my stories tonight. I'll be as brief as I know how to breathe. I'm telling you I was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. My mother, she had gotten saved as a teenager and then she violated the word of God. She married a young man that my grandfather had taught him how to make liquor and steel. She fell in love with him and she thought, I can change him. Long story short, she could not change him. He eventually walked off and he left me and my mother. My mother picked up three jobs so she wouldn't have to put me in an orphanage. My little mother went down to Haines Hosiery Mill Pasture and she worked. And she would stay a steady job down there when all those young girls down there were trying to get her to go out on the party, go out to town. She was still beautiful. And all of them trying to tell her, that's not your fault. And that little boy, he's just holding you down. And she'd come home, that little boy. And she'd take me from the neighbor's hands. And then she'd walk me around our community. She'd knock on the doors and she'd say, I'm wondering if you might have some ironing I could do. Maybe if I could just clean your house for you. Coach is trying to get a little bit of money. I know what it is to sit down. My mother called me into the kitchen. She'd say, Tony, it's time to eat. And she'd put a little bowl of soup right there. She'd rattle around over there in the kitchen. And I'd say, Mom, you're not going to eat? And she'd say, I'm not hungry. I'm not hungry. I got work to do. I didn't know I was eating the only thing in the house. My little mother would run down there to that nasty little motel. That's the reason I try to keep them cleaner when I leave them than when I came into them. My mother would go down to those nasty little motels and she'd clean up after people so she wouldn't have to put me in a hole. And my mother would run me up to North Wilkesboro up in bootleg capital of North Carolina and she'd deposit me there into the hands and the trust of my little granny. My little granny knew God. Everybody in that area thought Granny was crazy. You couldn't be with her five minutes for what she's telling you about Jesus. I couldn't tell you how many times, and I'm telling you, I kept rejecting and kept rejecting, but my little Granny, she was faithful. She never was allowed to get into a pulpit and preach, but buddy, she made that little old couch in that little old drunkard's home a pulpit. She'd set me down. She'd throw a big old black Bible in my lap, big as a piece of Samsonite luggage. She taught me John 3.16. And my grandmother with confidence, she'd look at me and she'd say, Tony, I know that your world doesn't look like God loves you, but this book says he does. And God cannot lie to you. Glory. And you want to know why? You want to know why she felt like if she could put enough of this in me, it'd make a difference someday? She believed that there were words from heaven that would shake things in this universe. She was convinced of it. You want to know why? because during the day when Gramps would be down there at the steel and he carried me down there many times trying to get me to follow the same path. Many times I'd come back out of there and Granny would be in that house and I'd think somebody's come to visit Granny. There wasn't anybody in there that I could find. She'd be walking through there, she's talking to Jesus. She's fellowshipping with Jesus. She's beginning to sing a little bit. My Jesus, I love Thee. I know Thou art mine. I was playing in the dirt below the kitchen window. And in a drunkard's home, in a liquor maker's home, I'll tell you, they can fashion it all they want to up around Gatlinburg and all those places, but that part of our heritage was rotten! Ruined! Many homes. That home was a pitiful home. But my little granny would get in there, she didn't have two plates that matched. She didn't have two glasses that matched. There wouldn't have been two forks that matched. You couldn't find two spoons that matched. And I'm out here playing in the dirt under the window with trucks that none of them have a full set of wheels. And all of a sudden, I hear Granny up there in the sink with the dishes. She's washing dishes. And then a little bit, I'm thinking, it's starting to rain. But it wasn't rain. Granny started to flip some water. And then a little bit of our hair said, whoop, whoop, whoop. Well, glory to God, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I'm saved. I'm born again. I'm going to heaven. I saw my granny live. Watch y'all sing. And God Almighty, when she would open that book and she'd say to me, God says he loves you. She said it with such conviction. She knew that it would move the heart, the hard heart of a young hippie boy. She was convinced of it. She was right. She was absolutely right. Because she didn't allow all the things in this world in. She walked with him, she talked with him. She wouldn't allow King Uzziah in. And so the word was powerful. Then notice, if you will, mama, daddy, granny, gramps, mama, papa. What about those babies that are around the world? I can't afford to get so caught up in the kings of this world. Now there's some real important things going on in this world that I guess it's my business to know a little bit about them. But they don't need to have too much of my time. I need to keep my mind on the God of this Bible. I need to keep my eyes on Him. I've got nine grandbabies. And I'm sure out of the nine, seven of them are little girls. Whoo, I stay a broke man. And I love those nine grand babies. I promise you there's a devil in hell. He has them on a drafting board right now. He has those devils on a drafting board right now with my baby's names on them, trying to destroy their world. There's a real devil after my babies. They need a pawpaw. They need a pawpaw that's got his eyes on the one true and living God. Enough to where they are able to know that there's a book that's real. That there's a word that changes lives. I can't afford, I can't afford to let this world distract me too much. I'm gonna have to run. Look at verse number five. Then said I, woe is me. Is that not interesting? Wonder how long King Uzziah lived and reigned. And in all those years, I don't find a great man of God, a great man of God saying woe is me. in all those years. I'm talking about a man used of God. A man my superior. Absolutely my superior. I don't know of any man of God in this room that would want to stand up and say, I believe I'm as great as an Isaiah. And yet, did you notice that in all those years he never really cried out, woe is me. until all of a sudden that earthly king's out of the way. And he's able to see the one true and living God in all of his glory. This is why it's important to stay in places like this and meetings like this. Because I'm telling you, I don't know what it's going to take. This is like a stick of dynamite to break some of us away from this world and from all the attractions of this world and all of the people that draw our attention. In all those years, Isaiah never did cry, woe is me. Woe is me. Uzziah had to get out of the way. But when he did, but when Uzziah was taken out of the way, and by the way, death comes by the hand of God because issues of life, issues of death are in the hands of God. God showed Isaiah mercy by getting rid of Uzziah. I don't want God to have to go on a killing spree to get me to look at him. He never really saw himself as he really was until the worldly kings were gone. This is the tragedy of tragedies, always has been. I don't care who your worldly king is, I don't care what it is. Whether it's prestige, or whether it's money, or whether it's a political figure, or a sports figure, whatever it is, whoever it is, I don't care who or what it is. As long as we are giving them enough time, they will never tell you how rotten you really are. They're never going to be honest with you. They won't be honest with me. They will not be honest with me. If they think they can get a little morsel out of me, you'll find one. Yeah, they're going to keep you puffed up. And about the time they get out of the way, God Almighty looks at us and says, Oh, you're a sorry rascal. Even your best day, works, deeds are nothing but filthy rags. And it's so good for us to get to where our pride is burst. It's so good for us. I'm telling you, it's good day, good day. You wouldn't be born again tonight if God hadn't done that for you somewhere along the way. You'd have thought you were able to go on to heaven on your own because you went to Sunday school. Because you had an uncle that said he knew something about God. Of course, he didn't go to church in 10 years, but boy, he's a theologian. He told you God understands. As long as that's your Uzziah, we'll never see ourselves as we really are. Oh unto God. As soon as God breaks through all of the world's kings, then all of a sudden we're laid bare before the one true and living God. And he helps us to recognize that I'm nothing. I'm less than a speck of dirt. I'm nothing. Nothing. But God showed me mercy and it all turns back toward Him. Oh, I need to see myself as I am. Young people, young people, you need to see yourself as God sees you. Can't do that if you allow too much of these worldly kings in your life. Notice with me verse number 8. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Here's a man that has spent his entire life serving God. He's a major prophet. And now all of a sudden the worldly king is gone and he has an audience with God. And the very first thing that starts happening is he hears God give him a personal call. The missing element in so many Christians' lives, as they sit across my desk many times, many, many times through the years, I just don't know what God wants from me. I just don't know what God wants from me. I don't know. I don't know what I need to be doing. Surely I have place in this thing. Surely God wants to do something with me. I don't know what it is. I don't know anything about it. Uzziah is still in sight. As soon as we decide we're going to get rid of these earthly kings, Then before you know it, God Almighty's gonna start knocking on your heart's door. He's gonna start saying, I need a little worker over there. I need somebody to do something. I need a young preacher. I need a missionary. And all of a sudden you, I mean, people all around you never hear from God. But you hear from God. What a privilege that God would speak to any of us. And then all of a sudden, notice verse number eight. Then said I, here am I, send me. I mean, just a few verses before that, he said, I'm a man of unclean lips. I'm nothing, I'm nobody. God deals with that nobodiness. God deals with all of that. And God says, I need somebody to go. He says, I'll go. I'll go. You ever wondered why when you get right to that threshold and you knew in that meeting or in that time in your life that God wanted you to do something, you got right there. I mean like you were pawing in the valley. You were ready to go and then all of a sudden, you backed out of that thing. You's eye was sitting over there and you cocked your eye over there and looked at him like Peter when he got his eyes off of Jesus. and you begin to sink. There is only one way that I'm ever going to look at the God of heaven and say to him, I'll go. I'll go. When I don't even know where I'm volunteering for. Look here Lord, I'll go. Sir, where are you going? I don't know. I'm ready to go. The only way that ever happens in any of our lives is when we have our eyes on the one true and living God, the King of glory. But for anybody in this congregation tonight that may be searching for purpose in life, I want you to look at what happens in this text. Amazing thing, it happened to me years ago, back in 1979. And he said, go. Now I'm gonna tell you what, when you volunteer, to the God of heaven, to be his servant. You're just like I was. You're saying, I'm gonna volunteer, but man, I'm nothing to nobody. He can't use me anyway, so it won't hurt to volunteer. And all of a sudden he says, okay. Go! And then your life ends up being lived with purpose. I'm crawling up on that 40th year pastoring the same church, never pastoring anywhere else. Every man doesn't have to do that. But that's just the way God worked it in my life. I'm blessed with people that will come back in there. If I can get back, it's a long ways. I'd like to fellowship with y'all a whole lot down here because I've had a lot of good liberty tonight. Can you tell? And I'm not going to be able to come back often. That's a long road. That's a long ways from Cholesty. But if I can get back there on Sunday morning, if I'll be able to open my eyes and get upright and get myself in a pulpit, there'll be families that'll come back in. They'll get their little children together. They'll dress them. They'll say, we get to go to church today, babies. Let's go down to the house of God. Some of them will remember that in the last little bit God saved a few and they'll say, never know what God might do today. And they'll come on back in and some of them before they leave, they'll hug my neck and they'll say, pastor I love you. And a little boy that grew up wondering if it was ever possible to have a home and a family and something stable. God gave me a little old wife that after 48 years rides in the back seat of a truck to go with me down here and all over this country and tells me several times a day, I love you. It wasn't a secret, was it, babe? You didn't mind me telling him, did you? Glory! Glory! I'm talking about you don't have to live a wasted life. Things I never dreamed God's blessed me with. Your life can be lived with purpose, but we're going to have to intentionally beg God if necessary Would you kill that Uzziah out of my life? He's taking too much of my time, taking too much space. I need my attention on thee. And if we'll do that, I'm telling you, God will let you live with purpose. He'll let you wake up of a morning and say, Lord, not a whole lot right here. In fact, a whole lot of nothing, but I'm reporting for duty again. Happy to do so. Living with purpose. I know why I got up this morning. It's so I could get back in this thing called preaching again tonight. Life with purpose. Wonderful way to live.