It shook me up. God knows right where we're at. You know that, don't you? You may be able to hide it from others, but you can't hide it from God. I remember the night I got saved. I remember just getting honest. God had been talking to me. I'd been kicking against the pricks real hard. And I remember clearly saying that night, Lord, I fooled a lot of people. But I've never fooled you, and I can't go on trying to fool myself no longer. I'm just a poor old lost preacher's kid. Don't know you. I don't know what all I said after that. I really don't know. I cried and whimpered. I remember when the Lord told me I was saved. Told me I was forgiven. Undeserving as I was and unworthy as I was. He finished it 2,000 years ago. I just found out about it April 29th, 1979. That's when I found out about it. And, oh, I'd gotten honest once in a while, you know, just once in a while. Man, I can't be saved. There ain't no way I'm saved. Boy, it wouldn't take long and I'd be reasoning with myself, not God, but myself. But boy, when God says, come down and let us reason together, when He says, I want to reason with you, boy, then you better listen to Him. Because He don't lie to you. God's not a liar. And if you're saved, according to 1 John chapter 5, the witness is in you. You have the witness in yourself, and the witness don't lie. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit. We are the children of God. He ain't going to tell you you're saved if you ain't. And that's why I'm glad I can know. Amen. I'm glad I'm glad you can know you can know. And I said the other night, I don't know that I don't know that I've preached any of the messages that I've preached to this week here at this church. And God's given me a lot of a lot of places to look at since I've been I've been here this week, just here alone this week. And then God gave me some new stuff just in recent days that I knew was for New Hope Baptist Church. And boy, I almost went back and preached. I almost went back and preached one night on a message I preached on already this week. It was almost as though the Lord said, well, they ain't done nothing with that one yet. They need to hear it again. And I thought maybe that was it. But I couldn't get no real direction on it. I got I got a message on my mind tonight, though. I got something on my heart I want you to go to Matthew chapter number nine. I Don't know that we've been in the New Testament all week. I think we've been in Isaiah and in Isaiah and in Isaiah One night was in Jeremiah And while preached on Isaiah chapter 40 and the voice crying in the wilderness I I've been in Isaiah a lot this week. God's given me... There was a time when it seemed like all I preached out of was the book of Hebrews for years. It seemed like that's all. I know I preached out of more than that, but boy, I was in Hebrews a lot in my own life. And God said a lot of things to me out of that book. God's talked to me a lot out of Isaiah and out of Jeremiah. I believe maybe the reason is because Isaiah and Jeremiah were basically in the same kind of spiritual atmosphere as we are today. It was an atmosphere of apostasy, idolatry, heathenism. And it was all mixed in to the Judeo-religion. They had learned things from this group and this group and that group and they'd interjected it in. God called them an apostate people. Baxlod and Heffer. That's what he called him in one place in Jeremiah. Well, I just feel like God wants me to be in Matthew 9 right now. And I want you to stand with me. Did I tell you what verse yet? I'm glad I didn't, because I'm going to go a little further up than I've been, even in my own thoughts today. Let's start in verse number 10, Matthew 9. It came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. When the Pharisees saw it, they said unto His disciples, Why are you preaching to them southern Baptists? No. No? Huh? Why are you preaching to them independents? You know what I mean? I know some independents that don't like me preaching in Southern Baptist churches. And I know some Southern Baptist that don't like me preaching in Independent Baptist churches. And I know some people that don't like the fact that I've preached in a few Bible churches since I've been in evangelism. And if a Catholic church would ask me to come, I'd go and preach. I'm serious. If a Catholic priest said, I want you to come preach to my people, I'd go and preach the gospel to them. He only might ask me once. My brethren would probably get upset about it. The fact that I even went. You know where God wants us to be? He wants us to be where people need help. I'm going to show you that now. The Pharisees saw it. They said unto his disciples, why eateth your master with publicans and sinners? Aren't you separated in your religious atmosphere? Don't you think you shouldn't be associated with people like that? Y'all hearing me? That's a Pharisee. That's a Pharisee. No doubt. A man got mad at me in Maryland because I was preaching at a Bible church and he found out I preached at a Southern Baptist church. Or he tried to find out if I did, I wouldn't tell him. He said, if I ever find out you're preaching in the Southern Baptist Church, I'll never call you back to preach for me again. I just looked across the table from him and smiled. And then he had a fella come in that preached at a Sword of the Lord conference, easy-believism place. He'd have him preach for him, but mad at me if I preached in the Southern Baptist Church. And I got news for you, friend. I love independence. I love Southern Baptists. I love Baptists. I love people in Bible churches. I even love people in Assembly of God churches, whether you believe it or not. They need God, don't they? I'm Catholic Church. You know, here's the thing. They said, well, the Pharisees said, what's he doing eating with them people over there? What's he doing associating with them? Why would he be associating with them? Why, they're publicans. They're tax collectors and harlots. What's Jesus doing sitting over there with all them sinners? Well, here's what He said. When Jesus heard that, He said unto them, They that behold need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth. I will have mercy, and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repent. Then came to Him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bride-chamber mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast. No man putteth a piece of new cloth on an old garment, for that which is put in it to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break. And the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. Well, I'm going to be reading from a couple other verses of Scripture tonight. Before I do, I want us to pray, because I don't want you to stand while I read all them. I want you to pray with me and ask God to help you tonight, to hear what the Holy Ghost would say to you. Father, I pray tonight you'd help me. Lord, I pray tonight, God, You'd help my friends that are here tonight. Lord, I count all that are here tonight my friends. And Lord, I pray that God you'd help us to all realize that Christ came to bring sinners to repentance, and it doesn't matter where they're found and what atmosphere they're in. Lord, you love to tell sinners what they need, and you love God for sinners to see their need of a physician. And I'm glad that the great physician is here tonight. I pray, our God, that you'd heal the hearts of sinners. Lord, I also pray, God, that you'd heal the hearts of religious sinners. God, who think, Lord, that there's something because of their religion. And I pray, God, you'd help us all to realize, Lord, that right now we're in great need, God, we're in great need of knowing the truth in this place. Because the truth will make us free. God, I pray you'd clear up my mind, clear up my heart, Lord, I pray that God you'd give me something tonight out of a text that'll help my friends who are here. Thank you for dealing with me about it. Lord, I thank you, God, that you'll let me study it today. Let me look over these pages. God, let me consider even things in my own life that I need to be considering. Lord, I ask you now to save sinners, and God, regenerate folk tonight. And then, Lord, would you revive those of us that are saved? Oh, Lord, stir in us, God. We don't want to be lukewarm. Lord, we want to be hot. We don't want to be cold. Now, you would that we were hot or cold. But God, I know that cold ain't right. And lukewarm ain't right. So God, I pray you'd help us, Lord, to be on fire tonight as John the Baptist was a burning and a shining light. And I pray, God, that you'd let me burn tonight. And I'll thank you for it in Jesus' holy precious name. I plead the blood of Jesus against the devil. God, I pray you'd bind the forces of evil tonight. I pray You'd awaken sinners tonight. I pray God You'd awaken Pharisees tonight. I pray God You'd awaken scribes tonight. God, I pray that You would awaken the souls of men, and we'll thank You for it, and we'll praise You for it. God, pray You'd just deal with poor old sinners tonight, poor old lost and ruined and destroyed sinners. Oh God! Lord, would You help them to know that You ate with publicans and sinners such as we. Lord, then You saved publicans and sinners such as us. And God, I pray we'd be reminded again, greater, Lord, in a greater way, that God, there's people everywhere that have needs tonight in their soul. I pray You'd help us to be aware of that. We'll thank You now in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Now I want you to look with me in Mark chapter 2, please. The book of Mark, chapter number 2. Mark chapter number 2. And we'll be in verse number 18. I guess we could start about where we started before. Verse number 15, if we start, we'll start there. And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. and the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast. And they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. No man also soweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment, else the new piece that filleth it up taketh away the old, and the rent is made worse. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred. But the new wine must be put into new bottles. Now I want you to look with me in Luke chapter 5. Luke chapter number 5. Now if you want to know what I'm doing, I'm reading A harmonious gospel message, I guess that's how you could say it. Three different apostles of the Lord. Three different men. I know John Mark wasn't an apostle, I'm sorry. Three different men that God the Holy Ghost used to pin down some truths about this message of Christ's loving sinners and sinners following Him and wanting help from Him. I don't believe you'll get any help if you don't follow Him. I don't believe you'll go any farther in life than you are unless you start following Jesus and hearing Him and listening to Him. It's going to take a little extra time to do that, but that's the way they got help. Now Luke chapter 5, and let's see, it got written down here in verse 33, but I'm going to start a little bit ahead of that again. Verse number 29, Levi, that is Matthew, made him a great feast in his own house. And there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answered and said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance. Now I don't know about the other verses in Matthew and Mark, I've never really looked. I have access to an NIV. Don't let that scare you. I don't preach from it, nor study from it. What I'm going to tell you is what the NIV says is this. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners. That's all the NIV says. Because liberals don't believe in repentance. And anybody that doesn't believe in repentance is a hair tip. And anybody that says repentance is only for saints is a worse heretic. Because a man who believes that has never repented himself as a sinner and therefore he's not saved. I tell you nay, but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. There was a message that I read by Spurgeon. In fact, I read the little sermon series, 12 sermons on repentance by Spurgeon. I read them all before I got saved. I read them because I wanted to know if I was saved or not. And I knew the best way to find out is to hear a gospel message and find out what the Word of God and the Holy Ghost would say about it. And I remember them verses came out of the Scripture. I tell you, neighbor, except you repent, you shall likewise perish. And hit me in my spiritual jaw and knock me for a loop. God said, when did you ever repent, boy? See the command is, repent ye and believe the gospel, Mark 1 15. And if Jesus ever tells you to repent, you can. Now if all you know is that you need to and God never tells you to, you can do it until you're blue in the face. But if God the Holy Ghost ever says, repent, repent and believe the gospel, then you can. Then you can. And I'm convinced of something else, you will. Do you believe in irresistible grace? Well, let me tell you this, friend. The night God shared His grace with me, I didn't want to resist it. I wanted it more than I wanted life. I don't remember what they... There was a candy bar they used to advertise. Irresistibly good. I don't remember what one it was. But I'm telling you, friend, if a candy bar is irresistible, the grace of God is much more irresistible than a candy bar. Amen? The only one that was really irresistible to me that I know of was me. But I will say the night God offered it to me, I didn't want to resist it. There was times that I did. There was times I resisted the grace of God. And I kicked against it and I pushed against it. But the night God revealed to me the truth of who I was and who He was and what He could do for me, I wanted that. It was more than want. He let me trust Him for it. But I did want it. He made me want it. The Bible says He makes you willing in the day of His power. Amen. Y'all still with me, ain't you? And so, the reason that I said what I said is because, you see, liberals don't believe in repentance. And neither do lesbians. And a lesbian sat on the board of translators for the NIV, the non-inspired version. And I wouldn't use it. Amen, I wouldn't use it. For that very reason, I wouldn't use it. Now, somebody said long ago, and I picked up on it, you know, we have the RSV and the ASV and the NASV. and the N-I-V and the M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E. And that's just about where it's at, friend. I do believe I have God's Word in my face right now. And any Bible or any people that would take repentance out of the Gospel are apostates. That's right, God said, let them alone. They're blind leaders of the blind. Don't even mess with them. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. There comes a time when God says, don't even mess with them anymore. You can't help them, they've gone too far. Now, Luke, where was I? Chapter 5, wasn't I? Yeah, I've got to keep reading, verse 33. But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. And he spake also a parable unto them, No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old. If otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeeth not with the old. And by the way, the new never agrees with the old. And no man putteth new wine into old bottles, else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles, and both are preserved. No man also, having drunk old wine, straightway desireth new, for he saith, The old is better. I want to tell you something, friend. The old man still likes the flesh more than he likes the things of God. If you ever, listen, you mark it down, God is saying there, Jesus is saying there that no man loves him. No man likes the new stuff. All men like that old way of life. They like the old way of living. And if your life and heart gets changed, it's the grace of God. It's the mercy of God. It's the goodness of God that leads you to repent. Now, I want to preach tonight, I want to preach tonight on this. There ain't no agreement with the new and the old. There ain't no agreement. They say, you don't like that word ain't. Well, that's the title. Like it or love it. There ain't no agreement with the old and the new. They don't agree. And Jesus said that very clearly. When He said it here, He said, No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old. If otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out, and the new agreeth not with the old. I guess I could title it that then, if you don't like my other one. The new agreeth not with the old. There is no agreement, there is no agreement. Listen, now the only old thing I know God's got anything in, is the old path. Where the good way is. That's His path, that's why it's a good one. And old does not mean, old does not mean tarnished. Old means, it's connected to the ancient of days. If it's connected to the Ancient of Days, Rock of Ages, clef for me. Hey, He's the Rock of Ages. He is the God of Eternity. He's the God of all wisdom. But now He said this, the new and the old will not agree. They won't agree. And I've learned that anybody who hears the new and likes the old doesn't agree with me. They like the old. They like their way. They like religious thought. They like the flesh. And they're going to go that way. They're not going to agree with me. They're not going to agree. And the Lord likens the doctrine of the Pharisees to that which is of the old. Listen, I got saved, I'd turn my back on Phariseeism. I'd turn my back on what the brethren thought. I'd turn my back on what the school I went to taught me. I'd turn my back on all of it. Fact of the matter is, I still get stuff from Midwestern Baptist College. I still get it. I get it in the mail. I chunk it. I don't want it. I don't agree with them. There wasn't enough God in that school to get me under conviction when I went there, and I was a lost man. They practiced easy prayerism. They practiced leading people into a prayer. And here's another thing, old Hyles from up there in Hammond, Indiana. When he found out he had to have repentance in his soul winning plan, he just added it. And I told another man one day, I said, what's he gonna do with all them other people that he didn't have repentance in his plan with? Are they still gonna go on thinking they're saved? Is he not gonna tell them he lied to them? You're all quiet right now, but I'm here to preach to you. The old and the new don't agree. They don't agree. Listen, there's not even a semblance of truth in what I practiced in the old. Listen, if you don't turn your back on the old, the new ain't gonna agree with you. Ain't gonna agree. It's gonna say, no, you're wrong. Jesus gonna say, Jesus gonna say anything, anything that the Pharisees practiced in their lifestyles, He's gonna say, He's gonna say, listen to what they say, especially when they're talking out of the truth, but He said, better not do what they do. Listen in the area of fasting, they were right, fasting is a scriptural doctrine. But boy, I've learned something about Pharisees. If they don't see you doing something that they think you ought to be doing... And by the way, most people look, don't even realize it, they look at what you religiously are doing to see if you're successful. You know what you'd find out about old Elijah? Three and a half years Elijah didn't even have a meeting. As far as I can tell, he only had two converts in three and a half years. The widow woman at Zarephath and her son. The rest of the time, he wasn't even ministering to anybody. The ravens were ministering to him. I don't know how long that lasted. If you'd have said, Noah, how many converts did you have, Noah? Seven. My wife, three boys and their wives, and one of my boys, I don't even know about him. Found out Ham wasn't even right. And the Bible says, as it were, eight souls were saved by water. In other words, God got them through the judgment, God got them through the hard time, God got them through His wrath, because God can. The only hope you got is that you have the new wrapped up around you. That's the only hope you got. And I want to preach a little bit on discord. Because I want you to know that's what the Pharisees are good at. They're good at sowing discord. And the Bible said it's an abomination. He said it's an abomination, those that sow discord among the brethren. It's an abomination to God and he hates it. And that's what the Pharisees are professionals at. You know, they have their fast time. They have their time of religious atmosphere and religious activity. And that made them think they were okay. Now listen, false and formal professors often excel others in their outward acts of devotion. I mean, it looks like they're doing more. Jesus was not successful in the mind or the eyes of the Pharisees. And they did their best. It's pretty clear that they were involved in some kind of blowing on some kind of coals of indifference here in the text. They even stirred up John the Baptist disciples. John the Baptist's disciples were one of them that asked Jesus, how come we fast and the Pharisees fast, but your apostles and your disciples aren't fasting? Why? I wonder who made them ask that question. I wonder who brought that to their attention. Boy, you know, I was a professional at getting my brother in trouble. I wanted to do some things, I'd want to do them, and I knew it wasn't right, so I'd get my brother to do it for me. I blow on the coals, you know, I get the fire going, I get Him to do it. Now there really is no doubt in my mind that the reason that John's disciples asked the question they asked was because the Pharisees were saying, hey, how come they're not doing that? How come the apostles of Jesus ain't fasting? Now that brings me to something that God the Holy Ghost talked to me about today. And that is, you know, as long as the bridegroom is around me, I'm a happy camper, man. The joy bells of God are ringing in my soul. When I know the presence of God is in my ministry, when I know the presence of God is in my message, when I know the presence of God is in my means of life, when I know that, I'm hungry all the time, happy all the time, eating all the time, can't get enough, Eat fine, and don't worry about fasting. But I'm gonna say something to you, friend. My appetite goes away when I can't find God. My appetite, I lose my physical appetite. You say, well, Brother Tim, I've never seen you lose your physical appetite. Well, that's because for a long time, it seems like God's right close by me. Now, there are times you don't know about. I'm gonna say something to you. The Pharisees only saw it. And if they didn't see it, it must be you weren't doing it. But Jesus said in Matthew chapter six, when you fast, don't be like the hypocrite. Wash your face and don't act like you're fasting. Don't act like you're hungry. And he said, your father which knows what you're doing will reward you for that. You don't have to know the times I go without certain things because I'm troubled in my heart. You don't know the times I've gone without because I don't tell you. God said don't. Don't let nobody know it. So what they were doing was they were surmising that they never fasted when Jesus... See, they hadn't been there when Jesus preached that in Matthew chapter 6. They weren't there. See, that's what happens when you miss church. You don't know what Jesus is saying. Amen? That's right. See, you might think, well, you know, Brother Tim's this and Brother Tim's that, and you missed the whole message of what I said I wasn't. Y'all get that? Listen, if I'm serving God, if I'm serving God and I'm doing certain things in my life while I'm praying for you, while I'm thinking about you, while I'm thinking about the need for the presence of God, you don't have to know I'm fasting, I ain't gotta tell you! And I may not even be fasting just food-wise, Some people got the idea that the only way that you fast is with food. No, fasting has to do with giving stuff up in your life so you can spend extra time with God. Fasting ain't always connected to you not eating. Could be connected to you not eating certain things. Give up meat for a couple days and just drink a little juice here and there. Eat some vegetables. Y'all hear me? See, the Pharisees all got it figured out. They know what the disciples of Christ ought to be doing. But what they don't know is what Jesus told them when they weren't there in the church service. See, that's what you get for thinking and not knowing. Well, I think, I feel. Well, you better quit thinking and feeling or you're a liberal. They're all in that touchy-feely-thinky stuff. God's in that knowing business, amen? He's in that business of being sure about something. Hey friend, nobody knows they're right with God, really right with God, but you and God. You're the ones that know, the Pharisees know, they think they got it all figured out. And you're the ones that are all messed up. Well I think, listen, I don't think having certain doctrines of separation in my life makes me a Pharisee. I'll tell you what would make me a Pharisee. Me saying that because you do it, you're going to hell. And you ain't right, we're God. Because I heard the other night somebody say something about a television. And I've been around some men, if you have a television, I had a man say one time, if you got a TV, there's a little feller down in here that you ain't got that I got. And I thought to myself, well if you're saying that about the Holy Ghost, you're all wrong anyways, because the Holy Ghost ain't no little feller. He was the lowdown Pharisee and God told me he was and I kept my mouth shut and let it go. I never said nothing to him about it. But I never forgot that he said it. As a matter of fact, it almost seemed like blasphemous, a blasphemous statement when he talked about the Holy Ghost being a little feller down in here. Because God's so big to heaven and the heaven of heavens can't even contain Him. Somehow or another we've lost our depth with God and what God says. We've lost our ability to know that the Lord has spoken to us in secret and we do some things in secret nobody else has to even know about because we're following God in our heart. Now I will say this, I do believe this, I believe going to church ain't Phariseeism. And those that go to church know how good it is to go and be with Jesus. And I'll say something else, the disciples never had to defend themselves in this situation. The Lord Himself did. And He said, well, someone asked you a question, boys. He said, how many of you, when you're in a bridal kind of a thing, how many of you go fasting while you're all happy about that wedding? See, if you ever get happy in the Lord, you're not going to be worried about, you know, You're going to be so full of joy, I guess is how I should say it. You're going to be so full of joy and so full of God. You're going to be so happy serving God. And there's going to be plenty around you and you're going to be so happy about it. But there comes a time when the bridegroom ain't around. And the presence of God ain't the way it ought to be. Around you. You're going to start going without some things. Spending extra time with God. I needed another two or three gallons of distilled water from Wal-Mart and I thought about going and getting it today and God said, no you need to look at something today. You don't need no more water. That water you got over there will be fine. If you drink all that, just get you some water out of the tap, I'll take care of that too. Even though I can smell all that junk in it. I can't hardly get past my nose, that chlorine, that fluoride, I can't hardly get past my nose. I've drank distilled water so long, I put that stuff at my nose and it smells like something come out of a swamp somewhere. But you know what God said clearly to me today. You don't need to go nowhere this afternoon. You need to stay right here. Get in your book and read. You need to get something for those people tonight. You need to feed them. I got something to tell you to tell them. Now I didn't have to tell you I did that, but I'm telling you. See, all I'm saying is, I know what God tells me to do. If I mess up, I'm going to have to answer the Lord for it. I don't need some Pharisee looking down his long snouted nose at me and saying anything. And besides that, God will defend me. He already has so many times. He'd make your head spin if I told you all about it. God has vindicated me at times I never even dreamed. I'm telling you, I was going to say this. I pastored in Olinton, Kentucky. And a little church there was started wrong. And I'm going to tell you what ended up happening. God folded that thing up and shut her down. Because God ain't for double married preachers. And there was a double married man put in authority over that church to start that church. I didn't know it, but God knew it. And I went there and some folk got help and another church got established down the road later on and got started right. But while I was there, the thing folded up and I ended up having to sell the building. And I don't remember exactly how it all happened, but it was a lease kind of a thing. And I signed that thing, but I had to end up signing the lease that released it. I had to sign something that released the lease. I don't understand all about leases. I don't understand all that. But my name was on it, and somehow or another, it looked like I was pocketing all the money, and none of the money was coming to me. And while I was there preaching the revival in 1996, while I was there preaching the revival in 1996, a lawyer called the pastor, Tommy Calloway called him and said, hey, I gotta ask you a question. Do you know a guy named Tim Rutherford? He said, yeah. He said, you know, I can get a hold of him. He said, yeah, he's sitting right here in my living room. He's preaching revival for me this week. Something that happened way back in, in 19, would have been 84, 83 or 84. And I just happened to be in town that week to sign the lease, to take it all off of me, to sign that the others had already dealt with it and taken care of it, and totally released me from any bondage on that thing. I don't even know what all it was. But what I'm telling you is, the old boy in the church there said I was a thief. That very week I was there, the lawyer had me sign papers to prove that it wasn't mine to begin with. I had nothing to do with it. The very week I was there, I didn't have to defend myself. I didn't have to tell Tommy Calloway and I didn't have to tell Orville Kemp where I wasn't a thief. God vindicated me the very week I was there. I was in Richard's living room, drove down to the lawyer's office, signed my name, signed the papers off. My whole name was vindicated that day. That was just one of the things God reminded me of how He has absolutely made it so that I was exactly what I ought to be as God's man. Listen, my Bible says that God's man ought to be blameless. That's what it says. A man that ain't honest in his financial dealings and calls himself a preacher is a liar. Amen? I don't know if you should say that or not, Brother Tim. Well, I said it and you can like and lump it. Listen, God's Word says that we're to be blameless. Nobody ought to be able to put their finger on you and blame you for being crooked in your lifestyle. Why are you off on all this? Well, I'll tell you why I'm off on all this. Because Jesus vindicated His disciples when He told them, My disciples don't have to fast right now. They're hanging around with Me and that's why they're so happy. You hang around with Jesus, you'll be a happy camper too. You ever known Him to be around? Friend, when He's around and you're one of His, it's a celebration. It's the joy bells of heaven. It's rejoicing in the Lord. But there will be seasons of fasting because there will be times when God's presence and God's power is going to be needed in our lives. And we're going to have to spend those special times alone with God to get help from Him. I'm going to say something to you about it if you're lost. Do you realize that for three days Saul of Tarsus wept before God and fasted for three days before he got saved? Because he didn't have the presence of God in his life. The reality of the need for the presence of God caused him to not want any food in his body. Now, I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't know all the reasons God wants me to preach this message tonight the way I'm preaching it, but I'm gonna tell you, my friend, it's good to be around Jesus, and it's bad when He ain't around! And it ought to move us in such a way that we need Him, that we want Him, that we desire Him, and that we go after Him, and that it costs us, if it costs us food, if it costs us sleep, if it costs us time, then we ought to be spending time with God. And the Pharisees don't even have to know that it's going on. It's between you and God. And if they think you ain't doing right because of some of the people you're preaching to, let them take it up with God. I've had people tell me, if you keep preaching for that Edgar Pascal, I'll never use you again. Bye! Yeah, they don't even care about the souls of men that are here. And one of the very ones, I'm going to tell you, one of the very ones, one of the head honcho Pharisees in the Sadducee club, ridiculed me because I had a daughter that was in her teens that wasn't saved yet. It was my little Rachel. He talked bad about my little Rachel. Talked bad about me because she wasn't saved. Something must be wrong with my ministry. God vindicated me. She got saved. And I'm not trying to be ugly. One of his boys is in a detention camp and the other one is... I ain't going to tell you what he's doing. He ain't right. You ain't right. Now listen to me, friend. I've been around the bridegroom a lot. I've enjoyed the presence of Jesus in my life. And I told him if he opened up a door, and it wasn't far from here in Madisonville, Kentucky, when my daddy was pastoring in Madisonville, Kentucky, where the Lord clearly told me, clearly told me, I'll open the doors for you. You don't need to open no doors, boy, I'll open them for you. And I said, God, if you open them, I'll walk through them. He's been opening them ever since. And it was two days later that that man named Tommy Calloway called me on the phone and said, I want to have you for a youth meeting at our church. And it ended up being a church meeting. The pastor's wife got saved. And she used to be a Southern Baptist preacher's daughter. Don't matter who it is, does it? It don't matter, buddy. Boy, being around God, being around the bridegroom, being around Jesus, what else matters? What else matters? It don't matter what they say about me. I don't care how they talk. Listen, I'd rather be with Jesus and I'd rather have Him and I'd rather be right and I'd rather be true to Him than to worry about what the brethren think about me. Most of them that think that way about me ain't saved no how. They ain't got the love of God in them. They don't care about the souls of men or as long as they're with their crowd. I'll say something. It's easy to preach when you're with your crowd. It's when you ain't with them when it gets so tough. I don't always preach to people that are in agreement with me. Y'all know that, don't you? And there's a man in our so-called circle that thinks that I must be doing something wrong with the gospel I preach because I keep going back to churches that don't believe right. And if I was preaching right, they wouldn't have me no more. I got news for him. I'm going back as long as they ask me back. And I got another preacher friend. He preached to Brother Charlie Garza. He told one of those men. He said, I've been around Brother Tim. He said, I'm going to tell you what God does. God opens the ears of the people in those churches and shuts the preacher's ears so that he can help the people because he knows he can't help the preacher. And he goes back and helps the people. It happens, man. It has happened. I've seen it happen. And now as a result of that, I got about five or six families coming to my church in West Virginia that heard me and my ministry when I preached around there in a bunch of churches that weren't right. And now they're coming to my church where I'm preaching, and they're saying, finally, finally, we got a preacher that preaches every Sunday and every Wednesday the gospel to us, and we are hearing the truth every Sunday and every Wednesday for the first time in our lives. Had I not gone back to some of those churches, some of them long-nosed Pharisees told me not to go back to, I wouldn't have had the opportunity I got right now. I guess what I'm doing is I'm just testifying a little bit. Is that alright? Can I tell you how good God's been to me? As a result, I've met other men. I've met other preachers. I've met other people that need help. Because I've gone to some places where some preachers don't think I ought to go. That's the reason God's helping them now. Amen? You're welcome. Everybody I preach for don't agree with me and everybody I preach for I don't agree with. But I'm telling you who I do agree with. I agree with the bridegroom. I agree with Jesus. I agree with the way He helped people. So I'm going to keep on riding my chariot where God lets me. I'm going to keep plowing my row where God lets me. And I'm going to preach the gospel the same way there. You can mark it down. I ain't cutting no corners for nobody. I'll preach it the same way there as I do here. And I'll tell people everywhere, everywhere I go, they need to repent, even though they never hear the word. I've had preachers sit across the table from me at a dinner table, supper table, and say, my people have never heard that word. And they're confusing them. And I said, then they need to be confused, and you need to start preaching a Bible word to them. And I've had him stand in the pulpit and say, Church, do you want Brother Tim to come back next year? Yeah, amen! And the preacher said, he said, well, I don't want him to come back. I don't care if he ever comes back. But if you want him back, I guess I gotta have him. If I'm lying, I'm dying. I was standing out in the foyer when he said it. I don't know why it works that way, but it does. But here in our text, friend, that's exactly what the Pharisees did. What's Jesus doing sitting over there with them people? Why is he over there with them? What in the world's he doing over there? He ought not be there. Why, they're not part of the ministerial association. Where'd he get his letters? He didn't go to school with us. Oh yeah. A friend, you know Peter, old Peter and John, says they perceived that they were ignorant and unlearned men, but they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus. Boy, I ain't gonna do it like everybody else does. You hang around Jesus, he didn't fit, and if you hang around him, you ain't gonna fit, but you're gonna fit with him! Oh, bless God, you're gonna fit, praise God's holy name! You're gonna fit with Jesus, and what else matters? What else matters? Amen, preacher, that's right, nothing else! I don't have to have the approval of the brethren, or the Sanhedrin, or the Pharisees, or the BBF, or the SBC, or the ABA, or the MICKEY, same old difference, the same old difference, amen. Same old stuff, friend. Hey, I think I'll just hang around with J-E-S-U-S. And then I won't be with the Mickey Mouse Club, amen. But see, here's the thing, here's the thing, friend. The Pharisees, listen, the Pharisees, they are those that sow discord against those that are truly with Jesus. I'm gonna say something to you about this. Jesus got along with his disciples and told them, beware, you better watch out for the leaven of the scribes and the Pharisees. Somebody would say, well, you talk about other men that are wrong, Brother Tim, you got it right, so did Jesus. You say, well, I thought you said it's not right to sow discord among the brethren. That's exactly right, I don't sow discord among the brethren. Those folks ain't brethren. They don't believe right. The fact of the matter is, their testimony tells me they ain't saved. They're of that Pharisee persuasion. They think if you hang around people that just don't cross their T's and dot their I's just like you, you shouldn't have nothing to do with them. I've got people in my church that still don't live right. Did you hear me? I've been there one year as of two Wednesdays ago. Two Wednesdays ago since last night. Been there a year. And I still, believe it or not, believe it or not, all that preaching I've done in a year and I still got some people that ain't right. That's right. But I love them. And I care for them and I pray for them. And they call me on the phone and say, hey preacher, I need some help about this. They're opening up to me. They know I love them. And they know I love them whether they're right or not. Because Jesus was a friend of publicans and sinners. Oh, by the way, He preached in the synagogues. There wasn't no more Bible perverted places in America or in any part of the world. More perverted scripturally than the synagogues were. And Jesus preached in them. I've been tempted, I have been tempted and I'm probably gonna, it's probably gonna come a day because I've been so tempted. And see God doesn't tempt no man with evil and it's not evil so it must be God tempting me. To go around some of the Baptist churches in my area, some of the Lutheran churches and some of the Methodist churches and have a sit down talk with the pastors of those churches and find out what they believe and tell them what I believe. Do you realize that's what Paul did? You know that's what he did? You know that's what Jesus did? He went right down to the priest, buddy. He went right down to where the priest preached. I thought about going to some of their services once in a while. Find out what they preach. Paul would go down there and dispute with them. Sometimes he went, in Ephesus he disputed in that temple, I think for about six months. Went down and disputed with the religious crowd about where they were wrong. I wonder what the brethren would say if I went to a Lutheran church on Sunday night to talk to them about the soul. Some of you are looking at me kind of funny, but that's exactly what Paul did. That's what he did. And when they rejected, he just took his shoes off, kicked the dust off his feet, and said, I'll go down the road where they'll listen to me. But at least they got to know they were wrong once. Amen? I guess the reason I'm hitting this so hard is because it's in the text, that's what the Pharisees did. They lamb-blasted my Savior, who never did anything wrong, and tried to make it look like he was teaching his apostles the wrong things. Jesus said, don't marvel. He said, if they did it to me, they'll do it to you. You. That's what he said. That's all right. He heard me. Amen. Y'all still with me, ain't you? So you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about discord. Discord. And buddy, any time a man tries to say you're not doing right when you are, you mark it down what he is. He's a discorder. He's not in harmony. He's not trying to make harmony. He's trying to make dissension. He's a Pharisee. You just mark it down. Amen. I'm talking about those that say the truth ain't the truth. I'm not talking about somebody who goes in and tells them what the truth is. I'm talking about the truth himself was being told he wasn't doing right. Can you imagine that? They'll do it to you. It's discord. It's discord. Listen to this verse. Most men, now this almost sounds like a 20th century verse, listen to it. Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness, but a faithful man who can find. What he's saying is there's a whole lot of people bragging about what they're doing, and that's where the old saying comes from, I think, he that tooteth not his own horn, getteth his own horn not tooted. You ever heard that one? Here's what it said. Here's what the Bible most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness Most men will tell you how good they are most men will spread about by how how much they know And but he said how who can really find a faithful man? Who can really find somebody that's not talking but doing And what was Jesus and the Apostles doing they weren't talking they were doing Do you know what Jesus said about the Pharisees? Don't do what they do. Do what they say. He did say that in Matthew 23. You know why? Easier said than done. You ever heard that old saying? Acts chapter 1 says all that Jesus began both to do and to say. You need to spend extra spiritual time in your life when the bridegroom ain't hanging around you. That's exactly what Jesus is saying. He told me to tell us all that. He told me to tell me that. He told me to tell you that. He told me if the presence of God ain't around like it ought to be, then the problem is you need to spend more time spiritually in your life. That's what Jesus is saying. I'm not saying that. That's what He's saying. Isn't that what he said? Why would they fast when the bridegroom was around? That's when you celebrate. That's when you have joy. That's when you have camp meeting. That's when you say glory to God, hallelujah, when he's around. But when he ain't, you start doing business. You put your nose to the grindstone. And you start looking for God like you never have before. I'm interpreting that scripture to say that. If you can get any other interpretation out of it than that, the Holy Ghost didn't tell you what it was. Listen, when the presence of God ain't like it ought to be in our lives, when the presence of God ain't like it ought to be in our ministry, when the presence of God ain't like it ought to be in our church, He's saying that's when you spend extra time in spiritual things. Otherwise, you just go on in life going, whoo! And eat. That's what he's saying. But the Pharisees are saying, oh, how come they're not doing like we're doing? I'll tell you something else, too, about a man who fasts and a man who spends time spiritually. He ain't gonna chew you out for not doing it. Let me give you a man that was full of God in the Old Testament. His name was David. He slew Goliath. He cut Goliath's head off with Goliath's own sword. Then he picked Goliath's head up by the hair and took off after the rest of them old blaspheming Philistines. I was going to say Pharisees, that's the word that's on my mind, but they were Philistines. You know what he didn't do when he picked that old giant's head up? You know what he didn't do? He didn't look around and see what the brethren were gonna do. He just picked the giant's head up and said, and took off after the Philistines! You know what a real spiritual man does? He doesn't look around and see what everybody else ain't doing. He's killing the giant and chasing the Philistines all by himself if he has to. He ain't worried about what everybody else ain't doing. He's out there fighting the enemy and he don't care if anybody follows him or not. Ha ha! He ain't looking back. Oh Peter, you know, you'd think Peter learned his lesson. Jesus says to Peter in John 21, follow me. And Peter looks at Jesus and says, what about John? He said, what's it to you if John sits here until I come back? I told you to follow me. Don't worry about John. You do what I tell you to do. Say, well, nobody else is seeking God in the church like they ought to. Nobody else in the church is praising God like they ought to. Nobody in the church is singing like they ought to. Nobody's shedding tears like they used to. Nobody's praying like they used to. Well, friend, you happen to be part of the nobody. Amen. If you're here and nobody's doing it, then you're one of the nobodies. We can sing on that one, can't we? Amen. We're getting it, ain't we? I'm thankful for the Holy Ghost putting His finger on a text of Scripture saying, here's what we need tonight. Now, how can discord stop around us? Can discord cease? Could what the Pharisees say have no bearing at all on the church if we're right with God? Yeah, because there's going to be somebody there to defend you. God's going to give you liberty and freedom to keep on doing right. Isn't that what happened in the text? After Jesus rebuked the Pharisees? What did that do to the disciples? It made them say, hallelujah, we're doing right. We're following Jesus. And it made what they said nothing. It didn't even affect them. You need to get this tape and listen to it again. You need to hear it the second time. You'll hear a little bit more about your need to seek God whether anybody else is or not. It'll help you to know you ought to pray whether everybody else is or not. You ought to weep whether everybody else is or not. You ought to hold your hands up in the air and praise God whether everybody else is or not. You ought to fast and pray whether everybody else is or not. You ought to follow Jesus whether everybody else is or not. You need to read your Bible whether everybody else is or not. Thank you, Lord. Man, this is helping me. This is helping me. I'm encouraging myself like David did. I don't know if anybody's ready to stone me yet, but I'm still encouraging myself. Probably close, yeah. Huh? Discord. Discord. Hmm? Well, let's go to Philippians 2, let's look at something. I ask you a question. Is there any way that we can all be doing right together? Philippians 2. I mean, you know, if the brethren don't like it, and the sister don't like it, if just none of them like it, How are we going to be right with God ourselves, and keep from that being a hindrance to us? Is there a way? Yeah, the Lord said... I read it last night, and this is strange, I read it last night, and I went to bed with this thought, and I said, the Lord wants me to preach something on that. He must want me to preach something. And so I got up this morning, and God wasn't on that verse, or on these verses whatsoever. And I thought, man, I was totally mistaken last night. I thought God wanted me to say something about these verses. I thought He wanted me to preach from them. And I got to praying today, and I got to looking today, and God said to me, clearly said to me, you need to go in them verses where the old and the new don't mix, they don't get along together. You need to go there and look at it. And I got there, and I got on this thing about discord being sown. And then I thought about the fact that it's good for brethren, it's good and pleasant for brethren to dwell together in unity. For the church to be unified. How does a church get unified? When you got people talking against you, and you got people trying to sow discord, and you got people trying to keep things all flustered all up and keep festering up like a puss pimple. I'll tell you what friend, ain't nothing worse than an old puss pimple. Especially if it's right on the end of your nose where everybody can see it. And even if you pop it, it leaves a bad spot when you get done for a long time. I won't go into that. But anyways, if you ain't careful, it'll get on things around you when you pop it too. But anyways, if it's big enough. Philippians chapter 2, he said this. He said this in verse number 5. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Before he says that, back up in verse number 2 he says, He's talking about us being one. Is that what he's talking about? He's talking about us being in agreement. How do all of us agree? When all of us have different backgrounds in life. Some of you's daddy slapped you upside the head and some of them just let you run wild. Some of them let you run around in shorts and no shirt all summer long. And some of them told you you had to clothe yourself off. You got different backgrounds in life. How in the world are you going to be one in the church when you got all these different atmospheres of life around you? My mama can't stand loud music. My daddy's loud. He was loud. All of his brothers are loud. My mama was an only child. My grandpa and grandma Warren didn't like music. and my daddy played a guitar and a mandolin, and I played a bass, and I played a piano, and we sang the top of our lungs downstairs, and mom would holler downstairs sometimes, hey, could y'all do it a little bit quieter? You're making me nervous up here. It wasn't no one accord in that, because it's a different cultural background, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? I mean, man, it was different as daylight and dark, my mama's side of the family and my daddy's side. How you gonna be one when you got all that different stuff going on? Well, Philippians 2.5, there's your answer. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. I don't know if you know this or not, but the word mind means opinion and direction. Well, I have a different opinion. Well, you want to stop discord? Ask them, what's God's opinion? What would Jesus say about it? What would Jesus say about a gossiping tongue at the church? What would Jesus say about somebody who was slandering the pastor at the church? What would Jesus say about somebody who was slandering the evangelist at the pastor at the church? What would Jesus say about the money the preacher gives to people? See, your opinion don't mean nothing if it don't go along with the opinion of Christ. You know how to make the church to be one? Let this mind, the same opinions Jesus had, you don't have any personal opinion. You're welcome. The church ain't for you. Brother Tim, don't say that. Well, it ain't. The church wasn't made for you, it was made for the Lord God. All you gotta do is go home and read 1 Chronicles 29, you'll find out. This is the Lord's house, not man's house, not the people's house. It's not the saint's house, it's the Lord's house. And we just get to come in because we belong to Him. Now, if everybody has the same opinion, Well, that can't be, Brother Tim. Oh, yes it can. Well, if everybody's going in the same direction, well, Brother Tim, that can't be. Oh, yes it can. How? Let the opinion and the direction of Jesus be in you as it was also in Him. Well, it gets quiet when you get on that part, but What'd Jesus think about faith? What'd Jesus think about repentance? What'd Jesus think about the work of the Holy Ghost? What'd Jesus think about the Word of God? What'd Jesus think about the church? It's gonna clear up a whole lot of stuff when the mind of Christ becomes our opinion. When the way He thinks becomes the way we think. Oh, I wasn't taught that way. Well, Jesus said that He would bring a sword He said, He'd cut out the way you think. What are you doing? I say, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Amen! Everybody just might as well go ahead and sing it. It's right. He said, Paul said, be of one accord, be of one mind, and then he says how? Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Well what kind of mind did he have? Well, we'll just go down to text and look at it. Here's the kind of mind he had. Who being in the form of God, thought it not right to be equal to God, but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant who was made in likeness of men. What was his mind? Even though he had every right to demand the authority in his life that he had, he made himself of no reputation. What's that mean? He did. That means He surrendered His will to God the Father. You want to have the mind of Christ? Surrender your will to God the Father. Do those things that please Him. What would please Him? Well find out. Find out what Jesus did that pleased the Father. Oh, it's quiet in here because you're thinking. See, if you're not going the way of Christ, you're going in the way of discord. So he had a submissive heart, submissive life, surrendered life, selfless life, a servant's heart. Look at what he says, look what it says about Jesus. Verse 7, He made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man, and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Hey, you want to have the mind of Christ? Die to self! Well that's too much, that's too much brother Tim, that's too much to demand out of people. Holy Ghost is the one who said it. Let this mind, and then he speaks about what kind of mind he had. What kind of mind did he have? He had a servant's mind. He had a submissive mind. He had a surrendered mind. He had a selfless mind. He had a scripture mind. Man, I ain't got to my point yet. Well, I really have got to my point, but I ain't told you what it is. So, that's my point, what I've been preaching. See, the outside tried to get in and sow discord. Y'all hear me? The enemy does not want this church to run smooth. He wants Sister Wiggle Jaws and Dr. Bottle Stopper to talk on the phone. Why don't you come ask the preacher what he said? I mean, every man of God I know has a big enough backbone to take it if you don't agree with him. I'll tell you why most people don't do it. Because they know if they did, the preacher would just Prove that what he was preaching was right and they'd be stuck in the same corner they were in before he started. Amen. Amen. What kind of mind did Christ have? I showed you. Do I have to go over it again? He had a submissive mind. A surrendered mind. He had a servant's mind. He had a scriptural mind. He had a selfless mind. See, if you have the mind of Christ, what others think, the Lord will back up that you're right and you can go on with it. That's what the disciples could do. After Jesus got all done telling the Pharisees, the disciples were over there saying, man, it's good to be with Jesus. Ain't it good to be with Jesus? Man, He's my high tower. He's my defense. And he closes with this. He says, the reason you don't understand what I'm preaching, to the Pharisees is what he said, is because you still have that old mind, and you haven't got the new one. How did he say that? 2 Corinthians 5, 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. And behold, all things become new. Do you know why the old things pass away? Because they don't agree with one another! The old flesh, the old ways of the flesh, the old way of thinking doesn't agree with the new life in Christ. So it leaves you, you turn away from religion, you turn away from your works, you turn away from everything you're holding on to other than Christ, and you turn to the new. You get a, listen, in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth anything but a new creature. You know what happens when you put the new on the old? It makes the old. See when you put a new piece of garment, the word new means it's so brand new it's not even been used at all. You know what happens when you wash something that's brand new the first time you wash it? It shrinks. So you put something new on an old garment, you put something brand new on it, boy, man, it fixed the old garment. I put something new on the old garment. But when you wash it the first time, it goes, and it looks worse. And it literally pulls the threads out of the old, because the old's old. And then it starts messing everything up. And you don't put new wine in old bottles. Because old bottles, actually, the bottle that's talking about bottles in the times of Christ, they weren't glass. They were made out of leather. Skin. And leather stretches. And if you put new wine into an old bottle, that leather bottle's already stretched as far as it can get. When that new wine gets in there, it starts moving and it gets bigger and it blows up the old bottle. Because new stuff gets bigger. Yeah? Y'all get some of this? The new stuff gets bigger and better. So you don't put new stuff in old stuff. You don't even put the old in the new because it don't fit right. That's what Jesus said. He said the old and the new won't agree with one another. They will not agree with one another. That's why I don't get along with religion no more. That's why I don't get along with the world no more. Because the new will not agree with it. You know what Jesus is saying? He's saying the things I preach won't agree with the religion. The things I preach won't agree with the world. The things I preach won't agree with your thinking. So you need something new. Because the old ain't no good no more. Simple as that. How simple is that? Simple as that. You know what that's called? It's called truth. You know what truth is? Truth is something you can't fight about. Truth is something you can't win against. So, old and the new, they just don't agree. They ain't gonna get along. Lord, I've done my best tonight to preach what you laid in my heart. Ain't no doubt, God, we need to spend some more spiritual time with you. God, we need your presence. We've even said it this week, God. And if we're gonna have your presence, what you said to our hearts tonight is, we're gonna have to spend more time with the spiritual things of Christ. We're gonna have to spend more time with Him. Otherwise, ain't gonna get what you need. God, would somehow you make it real to our hearts tonight, as only you can. I've preached what you asked me to preach tonight. I pray, Lord, you'd help those who heard it, go home stirred in it, think about it a little bit more, I know, Lord, I kind of preach a little different tonight than I normally preach in some ways. But, God, I ain't worried about that. I just did what you asked me to do and I got perfect peace in my heart that I did what you asked me to do tonight. Lord, I have to answer to nobody but You. So, God, I pray You'd help us tonight. as to what we've heard, apply it to our lives. Help us, I pray, in Jesus' name.