If you've got your Bible, you can be turned over to the book of Acts, chapter 8. And I'd like to read a text with you, several verses, beginning in verse number 26. Verse 26 says, And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south, unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem into Geza, which is a desert. And he rose and went, and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority, under Candace, the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for worship, was returning and sitting in his chariot, reading Isaiah the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he answered Philip. He desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. And the place of the Scriptures which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so he opened not his mouth. In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth. And Eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? Then Philip opened his mouth, began at the same scripture, and preached to him Jesus." Now there's more. It goes all the way down to verse 40. But we're going to cover that tonight. The more I studied this passage, the bigger it got. And so I want to divide. I want to talk about the, my title of my message is a provision for salvation. But before you get to the provision, there's a prelude to salvation. That's true of every one of us. When we were born, before we were born into this world, there was a provision of salvation. But in every one of our lives, if you're saved, there had to be a prelude to your salvation. I want to talk about that this morning. And tonight we'll talk about the provision. It's a powerful, powerful passage. The primary emphasis of the Book of Acts is the work of the Holy Spirit among the apostles and the church to proclaim the gospel to a lost world. I know that title says the Acts of the Apostles. Probably a more fitting title. Some man put that title on there. So I'm not arguing with God about the title, but a more fitting explanation of the book of Acts would be the work of the Holy Spirit through the apostles and the preachers and the people for the salvation of lost souls. You can put that title down if you've got enough room on your page. Let's pray. Father, we just thank you now and give you praise for your Word. Thank you, Lord, for just the blessing of being here this morning. I pray that you be with the campers as they travel. Hedge around those vans and keep them safe. Prepare their hearts for what they'll hear and what they'll see this week. And God, help them to find you precious, in their sight, where they're going and what they hear. Thank you for Jesus. Help us, Lord, to open our hearts to you this morning. And Lord, would you speak to us? Give us, thus saith the Word of God, out of the Bible, by the power of the Holy Spirit, into our hearts. In Jesus' name, I pray. and ask it all, amen. As you get to the Book of Acts, of course, the emphasis is on the expansion of the preaching of the gospel. And there's a founding emphasis, as I've subdivided this Book of Acts, there's a founding emphasis in the first, I'd say the first five chapters, at least the first four, as Jesus handed off the gospel to his apostles. And Peter and the other apostles began to preach. Boy, it's a powerful passage, those first five chapters. There's 3,000 saved on the Day of Pentecost in chapter number 2. And then there's 5,000 saved with the crippled man at the temple on the porch of the temple as they preach again. And there's persecution and they'll have to be, those apostles, there's just a lot they go through. It's a tremendous passage. I call it the founding. of this emphasis of spreading the Gospel. And then you get into chapter number 6, all the way down through chapter number 12. In chapter 6, Peter said, we need to replace old Judas, remember? And he said, in verse, let me get to verse six, chapter six. He said, you look you out seven men of honest report, verse three, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom. There's people that don't like that phrase, full of the Holy Ghost. I love it. I ask him to come today and give us a touch and fill us with the power of the Holy Ghost. Somebody said that's not a good interpretation. It's what I got on the page of my book. And so I'm happy with it. You may not like it. You may be too educated to talk about the Holy Ghost. But the people I've run with, I've seen the Holy Ghost take over. And I've seen the power of the Holy Ghost. I remember the day when that Holy Ghost stirred my heart to salvation. Hey, the preacher preached. I can't tell you what the preacher preached on that morning. I just know the Holy Ghost was working in my heart. So, And then he mentions, and the saying pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith, and the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and then he gives some other names. I'm not going to give you all those deacons, but he says these were men full of faith and the Holy Ghost. We just elected some deacons a year or so ago here. I pray that our deacons will be men of faith and full of the Holy Ghost. I pray that they're not, I had a fella in my church who was vice president of an oil company down there in Houston. I was so excited when he came in. I told Susie he's got business sense and we'll be able to get some things done that we haven't been able to get done with our men now. I found out he had business sense, but he didn't have Holy Ghost sense. He could tell you how to run a business, but he couldn't tell you how to walk as a church. He did not have, he was not full of faith. He was full of head knowledge. There's a big difference. I learned a big lesson with that man. I'm looking for people that have holy ghost sense, have a head and heart that are focused on the things of God. So in my outline, the forward emphasis now, we're in our chapter here in chapter eight, we're in the forward emphasis. Remember those first five chapters, they sat there in Jerusalem and the church bloomed. And then God brought persecution on the church. And the Bible says, I believe it's in chapter six, that they whenever were preaching the word, They begin to preach everywhere. God pushed them out. See, the emphasis, our emphasis is not this place, not this location. Yes, this is a holy place. Yes, it's a dedicated place. But this place is dedicated to the cause of Christ, the preaching of the gospel, the spreading of the good news to the lost. He said Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria. And so you come through these passages now up to chapter eight where we are. I'm still dealing with this forward emphasis, I call it, of the book of Acts. And in these passages, we've seen Stephen rise up and preach. and was stoned while he's looking on Jesus, standing at the right hand of God the Father, full of the Holy Ghost and faith. Now we've come down to the second deacon. His name is Philip. Peter's still around, and Peter's still being used and coaching, and he's gonna come down and check old Stephen out in this chapter. In chapter number eight, he's going to find out if all the preaching's right and if all this church doctrine is being held together right. He's going to come down and check them out. So I call the forward emphasis, the founding emphasis, he said the foundation, was who? The apostles. But the forward emphasis is Peter. You know, it started over, started over there in, in a, well, I'll talk, I'll tell you about it in a minute. Peter had to go to a Gentile. And here, here we're dealing with a Gentile. He said, Acts 1.8, go into Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, and then go into the uttermost parts of the earth. The forward emphasis is away from Jerusalem. Now we're out into Judea and Samaria and those areas around Israel. That's the forward emphasis. And men like Stephen and Peter and Philip are charged with that. But we're gonna go, if you get over to chapter 13, from 13 to 28, You don't see Philip, you don't see Stephen, you don't see much of the apostles except Paul. And there's a new apostle on the scene, his name is Paul, and Barnabas, and those folks that were used in the churches of mid-Asia, the Timothys, Titus and all of those as as God spreads that Gospel not to not from a founding emphasis not from a forward emphasis But to it I call it a foreign emphasis into the whole world That hadn't ended yet We're still there you run out you go all the way to 28 of chapter of Acts and And the last phrase you hear from Paul is, I'm still preaching down there at the temple, at Caesar's palace. I'm still preaching to the palace guards. And God, help me to have the power of God. Give me a faith and a fullness of the Holy Ghost to accomplish the spread of the gospel around this world. As far as I can see, it was an unfinished task when Paul finished. You and I have to pick it up. The church is the vessel that carries the gospel to this world. So when you trace this expansion of the gospel, you're gonna have to find the church. You can't build the gospel. Hey, there's a whole generation of hypocrisy and a mistake doctrine that says it's the Kingdom of Heaven. And that work of a scholar is wrong. And out of Rome comes all the splinters of that day when the new awakening, so to speak, happened. Hey, we're not a part of that. We've never been a part of that. That is not who we are. Make it right to Jesus. Take it back to the preaching of John the Baptist. Take it back to those old angels and those hidden saints of God under the trees and in the caves, feared for their lives and being pardoned at the stake. Take it back. Hey, that verse says Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. We're the church. We're not. We're not anybody great. We're nobodies from nowhere, but we're the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I believe if you disregard the church, I'm going to claim this the quickest I can stir it up. At first then, Ephesians chapter 5. I can't remember the verse. He asked me to have the sermon. I'll get it for him. Ephesians said, Christ loved the church as his wife, as his bride, and gave himself for the people. If you step on the toe of my pride, I'm going to be upset. If you ignore my pride, I'm not going to like you. Jesus, the Lord said, Christ gave himself for thee. Come on. He loved his bride. He gave himself for his church. You don't love his bride if you're not faithful to the bride. You don't love his bride if you've got an excuse to go somewhere else. I don't have to deal with the bride. It's holiday time. It's family time. Family gift to gift retirement. It's sometimes that I just ignore whatever church issue is going on, and I'll go on and do my thing. What do you think the group thinks about that? I dig what he thinks. You're going to pay the price. You ignore the bride, you're going to pay the bride for the groom. So the transition is from the apostles to these preachers, Philip, and David, and Peter. And then it's going to transfer out through all of them, all of them, out into the foreign fields. It's amazing to me. Here we are in chapter eight. I don't know if you've ever considered this, but God takes three chapters to say, this is my church. This is my church, not dealing with a little clique, but this is my church that deals with the whole world. This is my church that has the only Savior for any of the world. This is my church that if you ignore the church, you'll ignore the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And when you ignore the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, you don't have a Savior. Well, that's a big introduction. We are the ambassadors of Christ to a lost world. Look at these three chapters with me. chapter 8 we have an Ethiopian eunuch. The Ethiopian is a descendant over in Genesis, I just had a lesson on the whole Bible with my, with the Sunday school class over in Genesis chapter 9. In Genesis chapter 7 and 8 the flood and And you get through with the flood in the end of chapter 8. 120 years of preaching and 600 years of Noah's life and the ark is built and the whole world could have been saved from the flood on that ark. But out of the whole world there were eight souls. The Bible says, eight souls. There was Noah and his wife, and his three sons, and their wives. Noah and his wife, Ham and his wife, Shem and his wife, and Japheth and his wife. Now look here. We're in Acts chapter number eight. Here's an Ethiopian eunuch who is a descendant of Ham. I don't have time to go there. You can look at all this. In Genesis chapter 10, the Bible scholars call it the statement of the nations. And in Genesis 10-11, you'll see a descendant from Shem, Ham, and Japheth. I'll read you one verse. Over in 10-1 it says this, Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And unto them were sons born after the flood." And you'll go ten chapters digging out sons, and when you get over there to Ezekiel, Daniel, some of those folks that they mentioned over there in those books point back to their lineage as children of the sons. of Noah. So here's an Ethiopian. Some of you have read your Bible enough to know that Ham had a curse because of his ungodliness and sin. Here's an Ethiopian who is a descendant of Ham. In chapter number nine, that's chapter eight. In chapter eight, we're talking about a descendant of Ham. Chapter number nine, who gets saved in chapter nine? Come on, you know. Saul of Tarsus. And Saul of Tarsus is a descendant of Shem. Israel, the Jews are the descendants of Shem. Our savior was a descendant of Shem. And so in chapter eight, it's Ham. Chapter nine, it's Shem. Chapter 10, come down to chapter number 10, Peter's gonna have to go over to Caesarea and deal with a Roman centurion, remember that? A man who was a godly man and been faithful and Peter's on the roof, he sees that sheet let down and God says, you go with those two men that are coming to call you down to that house to this descendant of Japheth, the Gentiles, are the descendants of Japheth. Everything in Europe is a descendant of Japheth. Those Caucasian, that's the Japheth. The Mid-Asians, that's the Shemites. And then, of course, south of there, the Ethiopian, the Hamites. And there's marriage, intermarriage. Chapter number 11 of Genesis, one of the Hamites decides that, hey, he says, the Hamite says in chapter number 11, let's build us a tower. the top may reach to heaven, make us a name. What he said was, let's ignore God and let's build us up. And chapter 11, you know, he divided the nations and sent them out. The whole world, as far as God's concerned, and God's economy in the Old Testament, the whole world is populated with the sons of Shem, and Ham, and Japheth. And the admonition to the church in the book of Acts is, you be a witness to Jerusalem, and Judea, and Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth. Be a witness to who, God? To this world, this whole world population. Mark 16, 15. Go into all the world and preach the gospel to who? To every creature. So here's a good, faith-filled, Holy Ghost-filled deacon who has made his way down to Samaria and revival has broke out. I mean, it's exciting when a revival breaks out. You ever been there when it got on? And folks were getting saved. I mean, the singers singing, and the shouters shouting, and thankers. Have you ever been there? I haven't been to all of them, and I haven't been as far as I'd like to go, but I haven't got the taste of those seasons of the tribe. And once you get a taste, that's all you want. You want to go back to them all? Well, here's Phillip. I'm not going to read those intervening verses, but Phillip is down in Samaria. I mean, it's broke down. Folks are getting saved. Folks are changing everything. God's on the place. And hey, no accident, here's a man full of faith and the Holy Ghost. That's who God uses. I mean, Did I mention he finished off the roof of the house in such good fashion? We came out of that generation, back in the 60s, when the church got the idea that the crowd means everything. And so we, whatever it took to make the crowd, that's what was going on around us. I had a big bus of ministry, and he said, we'll have a certain number this week. I'm going to get on the roof and eat a goldfish. And he was hoping to, you know, why would a preacher do that? He was sold out to having a crowd. If he didn't have a crowd, he couldn't do anything. That was kind of the idea of it. You didn't have that craft, you just wanted to get it done. Right? You ladies can't do it. No. Wasn't that the way it was? I mean, little old independent Baptist church on the other side of town. You don't have any big show. You don't have a, you know. How do you, what do you accomplish? The film's over, but they're getting it done. But we're in the prelude of more than what I've said yet. Look at verse 26. And the angel of the Lord spake to Philip. Let me say, he could only speak to Philip because Philip was a man full of the Holy Ghost. If you're saved, there was a day when the angel of the Lord spoke to you. If you're really saved, you're only saved as you answered the call of the angel of the Lord. Come unto me, all ye that labor heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you'll find rest to your soul. Remember that? For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Remember that? Remember that day when it sunk in? He's talking to me. When it sunk in, hey, that's the Holy Spirit convecting my heart. Do you remember that day? If you don't remember it, you're either lost or you're backslidden. and you need to get back to it. Here's a man that the Bible said over in chapter six, here's a man that's full of faith and the Holy Ghost of God. Now the angel of the Lord speaks to him, saying, arise, go toward the south under the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is a desert." Tell me this, why in the world would a preacher who has surrendered himself to Prince Jacob say, why would he leave the revival and go to Gaza which is a desert? I'll mention them for you. The gulchies full of the Holy Ghost. because he's familiar with the knowledge of God and the power of God, and he's sold out to this servant attitude, I'll do whatever he wants me to do. And we got up with our pastor, and the man called me. He said, Brother Langley, we're just going to come and go to church. I thought, I don't believe you. I said, no, I don't believe you. Believe you can go to heaven, to heaven's church. His objection was different. He had a different objection. He wanted to go to the church. And he did. And when you think about it over a couple of years, You can do a step now, I promise. the apostles had to say. They were building down that foundation for the church. But now we're moving over to the forward stage. Now it's not the apostles, now it's our deacons and those converts that you dreamed at first of where it said they went everywhere. Well, the apostles stayed in Jerusalem. They went everywhere preaching to God. And Phil was one of them. And now he's preaching the gospel and the Bible is on him. And the angel of the Lord said, go to the desert. Nobody's out in the desert. There's nothing there. There's no community in the desert. There's no people in the desert. It's dry. Well, that's wild. Isn't that what Paul Jones said? You don't think about it when you think about it. Hey, there might be a camel out there. Of course, the people, they're over somewhere under a palm tree or something, where the water is. Why'd you leave, Philip? Because I know God. That's the only answer. See, Romans 5, 8 says this about God. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. Hey, you go down to Calvary, there's nobody there. You go down to Calvary, it's a despicable place. It's a filthy place. It's a wicked place. It's a dark place. There's nothing there but inhumane torture and cries of those in there. The filth, the insects. You pour that blood out. I said to you not much ago, a desert there on a mountain that he crossed on a sunday. The rocks were so thin in that place that you just wondered how he could have been there. What the man told me is that in that desert, he felt emotion. There was a lot of, a lot of problems that people had. They never had a home. And so that there is a place where the cattle come and they make all that. And it's a comfortable place. while we were dead sinners, while we were fly color in the desert of sin. Why? Why would you die for such a sin? Especially us in our sins. Why would he send a preacher to the backside of the desert? The foreknowledge of God. Here's what I, here's what I Here's what I wrote down. In his foreknowledge, God knew a man. God knew his position. God knew why he was in Jerusalem. God knew, look at this verse with me. Verse 27, behold a man of Ethiopia. One of the things I wanted to say in this message is, and I wanted to say it for every one of us. If the whole world is made up of Hamites, Shemites, and Japhethites, just let me say to you, if you're a Hamite, or if you're a Japhethite, or if you're a Shemite, doesn't buy you one thing with God. God does not want one soul to die. We used to sing it when I was a kindergartner, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. In God's full knowledge, he knows who we are, but he died for us anyway. God's love transcends all the lines we can draw. Transcends all the discrimination that we can discriminate. Transcends our self-righteousness that says I'm somehow chosen. No, we were chosen as sinners. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He died for the ungodly, that's what he said. He said, I know this man from Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace. who has charge of all her treasures. I'm going to get to the social condition of the eunuch in a minute, maybe. But look at verse number 27. And he had come to Jerusalem for to worship. See, even as sinners, God bless his brother. Here's a sinner that has knowledge. He can know how to read the Bible. He can sit up there and read the Bible. He's got the ability to buy a scroll of Isaiah. Now he's got the Isaiah phone, and I say, the Gospel of Isaiah, you get closer to the cross, and Isaiah 53, that you can get in Luke and Matthew and Paul. They weren't there. Isaiah was there through the Spirit of God. Here's a man that had knowledge enough to read. Is that you? Can you read your Bible? Next question is, do you read your Bible? God's given you knowledge for a reason. God's given you a Bible. Hey, how is the world going to say this? some part of this message, I want to say when you get to that passage that he's reading here tonight, It's Isaiah 53, verse 7 and 8. When you get to Isaiah 53, verse 6, everything about this servant of God changes. He talks about his appointment with Saul, and he knows three things. But when you get to verse 6, he begins to talk about that sheep that opened up his mouth. but went all the way to the cross for the sins of every sin of every race, all the way down to 6 through 12, coming down to the order of marketing, marketing the radio, the freedom to be an unidentified person. That pure gospel is all about Him. It's not about the surroundings. It's not about the Roman soldiers. It's not about the beings. It's about Him, His suffering, His love for His, those He would save. That's what it's about. And here's this man. Think about that. Think about the goodness of God. He's given him an ability to buy the scroll. He's a pachyclomancer trying to read. He's got the ability to read the Hebrew. But so have you. Whether you're a man or a lady, I don't know anything. But he's reading a single passage in the whole Old Testament that says more about the death, burial, resurrection, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ than any other verse in the whole Old Testament. You think that's an accident? No, it's God. God directed him. He came down. Something in his heart said, can you get the picture of this view? Something in his heart said, I need to go down there to Jerusalem for a purpose. I'm not going down there to do business for a queen. I'm hurt, I'm hurt, sorry. Yes, I am. But I've got a life and I need to go. Hey, why are you in church this morning? What's your purpose? Did you come for the purpose? This person, he came to worship. Can you imagine? I need to go to church. That's down there where the priests are. That's down there where the temple is. That's down there where the Pharisees and all the scribes and all. I'm going to go down there and make some rough shelters. Maybe I'll get a duck over to the high priest here to say an amnesty or pay office. Hey, I'll get a duck. And now he's on his way home. And he's still studying the book. Go join yourself He came to worship If you read his passage He knew something about the Bible. He knew what worship was, and he knew what baptism was. Read your book. Read the passage. Before Philip ever got a hold of him, he knew those two things. He came down there. I'll answer your question. Why did Philip leave? Because he had the heart of the Savior, who was willing to lead the crowd from one lost soul So It wasn't fine when he gets there, that's I'm stopping right here If you won't trust this message you'll have to come back tonight and there is more See He's a Hamite. He's not a Jew. He has no status as a Jew. You can go to Jerusalem if you're not a Jew. There's places you can't go. Not only that, he's a eunuch. And the Bible says over in Genesis that Noah and Deuteronomy that the eunuch He wasn't even eligible to become a proselyte to the Jews. Even if he was called a Jew, he couldn't go into the temple of being a eunuch. Read it in Deuteronomy. I've got a verse for you. On the other hand, he didn't have status. He didn't have moral status. Now, John did say over the course of chapter two, I'm not worthy of anything in the world, but all that's in the world applies to life. Some of us live in a little world, don't we? I mean, how the world reacts is how we want to be. Popularity, in the end, is going to be the world. Now, here's this man, Will. Now, he's got a status. He's the treasurer of the queen. Out of that, He's got the keys. He's got the money. That's the inverse of poverty. There's something like this. There's nobody here. You came in, got on something. You got something. You do something. You got it. You got the money. You're broke, man. He went down to Jerusalem, but he didn't get to worship. He went over there where the soccer club was playing, but he didn't do anything at all. He's religious, don't you know? I'll be out of five. I'll tell you how it is in the morning. When you get up, you put on the clothes you don't wear the rest of the time, and come in looking like somebody you're not, just for a moment. You decide to be tall. Doesn't say to him, you say, won't you please? He said, I can't. He said, I don't know a name. I used to hear the lady sing a song, but I don't know a name of the man. He'd fish the line back. He'd pick up the grip. I know a man who can't. I sent a message this week to a girl named George at the Catholic Society of Maryland, Howard. His testimony was, I was amazed at the development of his life. George had been on his own ever since he was four years old. It's an amazing story. He walked into his home with a baseball bat on his back and said, welcome to Atlanta, sir. I heard you come in here. I said, here I am. He cleared out the place. He was the bully of the whole family. I had to talk to him once. I had to meet him at the church. He had already met our bus captain. He had a lot of them. He said, well, I'm proud of him. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way he did it. I'm proud of the way I had to swallow that vomit in my throat. I said, George, I need to talk to you now. I walked out the room. I said, George, God won't let me go on this. I said, I need to know if you ever trust in Jesus and you're saved. Do you know that you're saved? I've never seen him before since. I saw him a few weeks before down at the retirement home. He got up off my bench later. He was safe on the road ahead. He said, I want to talk to somebody about this. We got on the floor in my office, and the gentleman got up and said, Here comes, here comes David. Take a shot. You can do it. He went down to worship, but he didn't worship. He went down to find the Savior, but he didn't find the Savior. He's got a hole in his heart. You know who he is. He's somebody that sits on these pews every morning. He'd come to private, he'd come to church. He'd sang him a song, he'd heard it all before. But he does not know what to say. He's got a picture of his son, he's got him in prayer. He said, brother, one day I'm going to let you know. I'll play it for you. You don't have to get Jesus into your head. He sent me down here this morning to tell you. You can get past him, you are, if I need you. All I have to tell you is that it's not a day in the world. You can be saved right here, right now. He's your husband. He died for you. He paid your price. He suffered your hell when you lost your family. And you can be saved right now. You don't have to go to the room. You don't have to go over there complaining about his age. You just need to look and see. All we can do to get us finished is to promise to die for our brothers. That's what you need to say. Don't even know what you're saying. I'm kidding. We can get us finished. I'm just asking you to just look on us, take a step and get past who we are and look over to you. Help us understand, Lord, that we need you. We don't need a new car. We don't need a new house or clothes. We need you. I ask you, God, for your mercy today, from the heart of that one who's playing the church game or looking for some particular thrill or something, for example, to see Jesus as the author and finisher of everything. Like this, like this unity, Joseph, that you have for me. Please have for me. And for our brothers and for our anchors, for whom it serves, Jesus, may my heart be filled. You need to come to God. Come out of here and take it. The Bible shows you exactly how to be saved. You don't have to wander about. There's some spirit filled, Holy Ghost filled, full of life Christians in this room. That's what I want you to do. Don't go out here tonight. I don't care what happens after that. It doesn't remind me. It doesn't understand me. It's too good to be true. It's too hard for me. All the same, if you don't want to. As I don't want to. After thy will. After thy will. I do not know what to do today. I've got a way, oh Lord, I've got a way. Golden and weary, help me, I pray. Power, oh power, surely He's been down there. He's on his way home. You can't believe what you're about to leave. My son said, sir, drop it. Look at me. When you said that, you said, I'll just be out of your heart. You know who I am? I'm yours. I need your help. Are you living with him every day? First of all, this week I started getting this message. I was trying to fulfill an obligation. We all need you. We're nothing without you. I'm not going to preach anymore, because I'm tired. I'm going to finish this up tonight, but I'm going to go like he did. He represented you. Come in, go out. Come in, go out. That's it. No difference. God wants to make a difference. I want you to feel what he gives you. First of all, when it's all over, I think he's guilty of the best of any Muslim, in all of that barbaric country, if he'd have been with Jesus. Why don't you let him come with you when you're gone? Have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way. Let's have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day. Thank you for Brother Wayne and his message, Lord. I pray that you'll have your way in our life today and we'll draw closer to you. Lord, please dismiss us now as we go our way back home and bring us back safely tonight to hear the rest of this message.