If you remember to pray for the Parkinson family, they're seeking the Lord's direction in ministry. They've got a possible opportunity. So they need your prayers. Let me get rigged up here. Alright, Romans 13. Boy, that song will stick with you. Are you with me tonight? Are you in church tonight? Amen. Aren't you glad you're not in the reform school? Prison? Amen. The hospital tonight? Glory. Alright, we're going to do a couple word studies in this Romans 13 and just touch the tip of the iceberg. But nevertheless, let's pray before we start. Father, we thank You for your word here tonight and for Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God which leads and guides in all truth. And thank you for this special. Thank you for the hymns of the faith, Lord. And thank you for the book tonight. And just thank you for preaching and teaching. And just pray your people would be fed tonight and filled tonight. Lord, truly on higher ground we're heading into a big weekend, Lord, where we're looking to be changed and we're looking to change. We're looking to change this world for Jesus Christ. Lord, the enemy doesn't sit by idle, doesn't take it lightly, and I just pray that You'd burden Your people for the souls of men. Burden us to to want to hear preaching, to want to have our kids be around preachers and preaching, Lord, and that they might follow in that way. Thank You. Bless Your Word tonight in Jesus' name. Amen. Romans 13, verse 8. It says, Oh no man anything in the context of tribute and custom and fear and honor and that, but to love one another. For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." Now that doesn't mean that you're saved by loving someone. But he goes on here. For this, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness. How are you doing so far? Thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended. In this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law. Get Matthew chapter 7. When you consider what he just said, You've got 613 Old Testament laws. You've got 66 chapters in Isaiah, 52 chapters in Jeremiah, 5,175 words in Hosea, 16 books of prophets. I mean, that's a lot of Bible back there. Matthew chapter 7 and verse 12. Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even to them. For this is the Law and the Prophets." Five books of Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Hosea, Obadiah, Amos. That's it. One verse. Matthew 22.37 You'd think he would have expounded and expanded it a little bit. Matthew 22.37, Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. The second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. All this hanging on those two little verses. Galatians chapter 5, lest you think it ended with Jesus. Here it is again, well into the church age. Galatians chapter 5 and verse 14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word. They say, the Charismatic say, good word, brother, good word. Fulfilled in one word, even in this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. How can God, He calls this the royal law in James 2, verse 8. How can God just take so much All of that and just sum it up in this little thing of love God and then just love your neighbor as yourself. Well, let's look at the list there in Romans 13. Every commandment, every prophet's rebuke and reproof and just summed up in that, yeah, just love your neighbor as yourself. Let's look at the first one. Thou shalt not commit adultery. You know what adultery is? Adultery is a sin that's a symptom of a love for self. See, when I'm in love with myself and we are, how do you know that? Because the Bible says so. No man yet hated his own flesh. Now, we get on it sometimes. If you don't talk to yourself once in a while, you just don't have much spirit in you. If you don't just kick yourself around once in a while and get mad at yourself and tell your flesh to stop it and quit whining and complaining, then you're just not real spiritual. But overall, you don't give it to yourself the way you give it to your wife sometimes. You don't lose your temper and come down hard on yourself. You know why? Because no man hates his own flesh. He nourishes it. And he cherishes it. Adultery, and I don't care if it's in person or on a screen or what it is, it's just a manifestation of love for self. I want what I want and I want it now even if I'm not supposed to have it. Thou shalt not kill. Well, you trace back why someone kills someone. They say in the gangs, you listen to the gang, they say, I need respect. I want respect. Well, why'd you kill that guy? He looked at me funny. Because you just love yourself. The rich love themselves. The poor love themselves. The lost love themselves. The saved love themselves. Shall we continue? Thou shalt not steal. I want it. I gotta have it. I, I, I. iPhone. iPad. iPod. I, this. Everything is I. I and my. Thou shalt not bear false witness. You little kids, you just lie because you love yourself. Because you lied one time and you didn't get a spanking because you lied your way out of it. Now you have to lie your way out of that one. And you're just so in love with yourself because you just don't want to be punished. And you just want to get by and get over and lie and lie and lie. Just because I just love myself. I'm number one and I want my way. If you loved your neighbor the way you loved yourself, you wouldn't commit adultery with his wife. You wouldn't steal from him. You wouldn't kill yourself. You're pretty low down if you did. That's why he said, how can all these rules and regulations and all these things hang on? Just love your neighbor the way you love yourself. Well, oh, Dad, he's got a temper. No, Dad's got a serious love for himself. And it feels good. It's gratifying when he lets off that steam. And Mom, you know, she's feisty. She likes to get the last word. No, her ego's on the throne and she just loves to have it that way. And when I say something with the sword of the tongue, it feels good and I'm satisfied because I love myself. If we could just come to the place where God is first, and you don't even have to be third. You know, we say Jesus, others, yourself. Just be tied for second. I look at you, I see me. I want something, and I say, well, if I want something, then if I give it to Him, I'm going to get some satisfaction. If I bless my family, if I bless my wife, if I bless the brethren, if I bless the preacher, if I bless the people, love your neighbor as yourself. That's what he says there in Romans. And he continues on. Romans chapter 13 and verse 11. You know when you see young people push the envelope around here, you know what that is? It's a symptom of a serious love for self. I don't care what anyone thinks. We'll get into that. I can't wait for Romans 14. I don't care what they say. I don't care who stumbles. I don't care because I love me first. I almost forgot that. Okay, verse 11. And that knowing the time, He assumes they do, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep. All right, let's look at this. Let's run this word time. Let's look at some times. We're not going to exhaust it tonight. But let's just do a word study on time and then I'll try to give you a little admonition from something concerning this. First we'll look at old time. The Bible talks about old time. Old time is any time that's before your time. Isn't that heavy? Let's prove it to you. Joshua chapter 24. They say, oh, Dad, he lived in the old days. Well, that's right. And then Dad looks at his dad and says, he lived in the old days. And he did. Joshua 24. Joshua 24 and verse 2, when Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood, In what? Old time. So Joshua, he's really a guy under the law, he's looking back before the flood and he's calling that old time. Now go to Matthew chapter 5 verse 21. Jesus speaking, Matthew chapter 5 and verse 21. You have heard that it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not kill. Well, when's that? That's under the law. So what Joshua called old time before him, Jesus just called old time before him. So old time is any time prior to where you are now looking back. Now I want you to get something here. Get Ecclesiastes chapter 7. Because we have to be very careful. There's a fine balance here with this subject of talking about the good old days. Yeah, the good old days, depending on how far you're looking back. Let me tell you, we always paint the picture a little rosier than it really was. That's the deceit of all these pictures that everybody posts. Life isn't really like that. You look at the picture of the vacation. You weren't that happy on that vacation. You know, we'll have the graduates and their things up here. What a wonderful life. I'd better stop. Alright. Ecclesiastes 7, verse 10. I'll show you something here. Say not thou, what is the cause? He said, don't say this. What is the cause that the former days were better than these." Now think about that. That's somebody stirring the pot. Why did it used to be better than it used to be? It's bad enough saying it used to be better than it is, but now you're saying, why do you think it's not what it used to be? Look what he said. For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." Now that's not to be confused with ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. And you'll find rest for your souls, but they said, the next generation, we will not walk therein. Not to be confused with that. Not to be confused with looking back to a time when there was maybe a morality or there was right or there was victory or there was good, nothing wrong with that, and maybe taking that and trying to apply that in your life. But what you don't want to do is sit around and gripe about the present while living in the past, because you're going to waste your life. I like hearing about biographies. I like hearing about great preachers. I like hearing about those of old. But I want to see a God for me. I was walking through that park yesterday and listening to Elijah was a man of like passions and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain. And it rained not for the space of three and a half years. I said, where is the Lord God of Elijah? And then he prayed again and the earth gave rain. I said, Lord, where is the Jesus that healed hurting sons? ever said no to somebody that came with a hurting child. My son is grievously tormented. My son is vexed with the devil. My daughter is dead. And you know what he did? I said, where is that Jesus? And a few days later I got an answer to prayer. He said, here I am. So we don't want to live in the good old days. It's not like it used to be. You're going to waste your life. God is not bound in time. God is not bound by the moral majority in charge. In fact, He works good when they're little in number. He likes remnants. He likes weaklings. He likes those that have sorrow and His strength is made perfect in weakness. So be careful always thinking about, oh, the way it used to be. I like convenience. Oh, the days on the farm when life was so simple. All right. That's old time. Now, Galatians chapter 4, we'll look at the fullness of time. Galatians chapter 4. You know, if the good old days were so good, you wouldn't have got saved, would you? But we remember Egypt. Oh, the leeks and the onions. We used to have so much fun and we'd glorify it and we'd magnify it. Why did we get saved then? Because it was dry and awful and empty. Galatians 4 verse 1, Now this I say, that the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all, but is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. He's referring to the law. But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts crying, Abba, Father. I look at those 613 laws, and I look at that bondage, and I think of how the conscience could never be cleared, and how they had to go up year by year, and man, I'd probably just bring up there and bring my little sacrifice to the priest there, and walk away out the temple door and sin again. And the conscience could never be clear. God made a promise. God made an appointment. God, before the foundation of the world, after the counsel of His own will, said, I've got a plan to redeem mankind. And time started blooming. And it bloomed and bloomed. And when God sent His Son into the womb of a woman, you know what happened? Time was full. The fullness of time. It was in full bloom. And I'm glad I'm on this side of the fullness of time. I'm glad I'm on this side of the carnate. Let's split the church over how they got saved in the Old Testament. That's a good idea. It hasn't affected anyone in 2,000 years, but we'll fight over it and split the church. Was it law? Was it works? Was it grace? Was it looking forward? Was it looking back? All I know is this. I don't have to worry about it. Because I've been born after the fullness of time. Old time. Any time prior to where you are. Fullness of time. The Incarnation. Alright, Luke 21. Luke 21-24. Jesus speaking of the signs of the end. They shall fall by the edge of the sword. Luke 21-24. they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." Alright? That's going to run from the time of Nebuchadnezzar and when Israel succumbed to world powers all the way up to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Alright? That's called the times of the Gentiles. Alright? Here's another one. Acts 3, verse 19. So we've got old time, the fullness of time, the times of the Gentiles, and this is a good one, Acts 19. See, God's got a schedule and He's right on it. What's going on in this world? I don't know, but God does. You know, if you really believe this Bible, If the guy got in that you didn't want to get in, you wouldn't fret so bad. You wouldn't think, this is it. This is it. In fact, if you were ignorant of anyone that ever ruled in the kingdoms of this world for your entire Christian life, really not much has changed for you and I in this country. You'd be preaching and teaching and giving out the Gospel. and not know nothing about it. I'm not saying that. We talked about that Sunday. Acts 3, verse 19, this is called the times of refreshing and restitution. Brother Jay prayed tonight. He said, Lord, we need to be refreshed. Acts 3, verse 19. Repent ye therefore. Repent. That's not a popular word today. Why? John the Baptist said it. Jesus said it. Peter said it. Paul said it. Clear at the end of the book of Acts. We've got salvation without repentance. We've got heaven without hell. And we've got a church without holiness. And it's lukewarm. Repent ye therefore, and be converted. Why didn't he just say, 1, 2, 3, pray with me? That's what they say today. And that's what you've got. Winning people with a silver spoon in your mouth. And you've got a bunch of spoiled brats, silver spoon suckers. And be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Did you get that? The refreshing comes because it's going to rain clean rain. because the green goofs are finally going to get their way. No, the refreshing is going to come from the presence of the Lord. And I can tell you something, brethren, whether it be at the second coming of Jesus Christ in the millennial reign when He rules and reigns on earth, or whether it was this morning in your prayer closet, listen to me, if you get in the presence of the Lord, you will be refreshed. And you need refreshing. But the times of refreshing In restitution, He shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you, whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution." Does that mean payback? Yeah, restitution. You know that Bible talks about a dry and thirsty land where no water is. You ever just get parched in this world? You know why? You're not home. You need a refreshing. And there's a day coming when you're going to be refreshed. There's a day coming when we'll no longer see through a glass darkly. We were in Honduras, 110 degrees, and they give you these little bags of water. And you just about eat the whole bag and everything. It was so hot. And you just really couldn't... If you were refreshed, it was for a moment. I'll be glad when Jesus comes back and we're going to be refreshed forever. New body, no sin, and then restitution. Now, in the flesh this is wrong, but you ever like when somebody gets what they've got coming? I'm trying to think. If something ever happened on the streets, you know, somebody cusses you out or something, and they turn around and hit a pole, you know you'd say, yeah! You know what? When Jesus Christ comes, it's payback time. And we will be right, and we will be justified, and we will be righteous, and we will be in sinless bodies, and if we suffer with Him, we shall reign with Him, and He's going to pay back Satan by binding him a thousand years. Payback! Payback for all that temptation! Payback for blinding them which believe not! Payback for just deceiving and lying and messing our kids up! Payback! Payback! Payback! Times the what? Restitution. Restitution. Refreshing. He's going to rule with a rod of iron. You think he's going to be turning the other cheek? I don't think so. His eye offended. Put him in the court. Pluck his eye out. Put him in the lake of fire. It's not that there's not going to be bad people during the millennium. It's just that there's going to be no devil and they're not going to have an excuse to say, the devil made me do it. I want to show you that you are living in the last days. 1 Peter 1. You think this is the last days? Brother, I know it's the last days. 1 Peter 1. The last times. We've got old times, fullness of time, times of the Gentiles, times of refreshing, Restitution, now the last times. Watch. 1 Peter 1, verse 19, "...but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these..." What? Last times. Last times for you. Hebrews 1. Verse 1, God who at sundry times, several times, different ways, times and diverse, different manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these what? Spoken unto us by who? His Son. Is He speaking unto us by His Son? Then we're living in the last days. The last times. He said in Acts chapter 2, Joel said, in the last days it will pour out His Spirit on all flesh. And he said, this is that which was spoken of by Joel the prophet. So we're living in the last days. But then there's the latter times. Go to 1 Timothy chapter 4. Last times, but the latter times, I think, is the last days of the last days. 1 Timothy chapter 4. Listen, he said to the Romans, you know this time. 1 Timothy chapter 4. In verse 1, "...Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times..." See, we're in the last times, but now this is the latter times. I think it's the latter days of the latter days. And not the latter day saints. I'm a latter day saint. If this is the latter days of the latter days, you are looking at a latter day saint. Amen. "...Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith." Giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies and hypocrisy. Having their conscience seared with a hot iron. Forbidding to marry. There's one of them. That's a doctrine of a devil. And commanding to abstain from meats. That's a doctrine of a devil. If you think that's going to get you closer to God. which God has created to be received with thanksgiving to them which believe and know the truth." Alright? I think the last days of the last days, the latter times, includes perilous times. 2 Timothy chapter 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3 and verse 1. You know these verses. This know also that in the last days perilous times shall come. Who is this man Timothy? What does he do for a living, Robbie? Timothy? Help your brother, Timmy. Your name's Timothy, right? He's writing to a young what? Preacher. Perilous times shall come. I think when this list moves into the church is when you better look up for your Redemption Drawth 9. Let's look at the list. Men shall be, here it is, lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, That means you're going after your own gender, children, just wickedness. Truth-breakers. False accusers. Incontinent. Fierce. Despisers of those that are good. Traitors. Heady. High-minded. Watch this. Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof." Alright, now go back to Romans. And I see some of you dozing off on me, so we'll just perk up a little bit. We'll only be a few more minutes. Old time, fullness of time, times of the Gentiles, times of refreshing, last times, latter times, And now Romans 13 verse 11, "...and that knowing the time, that now it is high time." High time to what? Wake up. I caught a copy of Sleeping Tonight. And if I was sitting down there listening to me, I'd probably be fighting it too on a warm day like this. It's high time. It's the right time. It's about time to wake out of sleep. If he's saying that back then, what's he saying today? He says, awake to righteousness. God's Word to the church is, wake up! And I'm just going to look at two quick instances. When someone fell asleep. Matthew chapter 26. First we look at sleeping soldiers. And He cometh to the disciples, Matthew chapter 26 verse 40. He told them to watch. That's what soldiers do. You put them on a watch. What are they watching for? You think they are armed because Peter lopped one of the guy's ears off. But watch! He's talking about praying. He's talking about He's heading for the hour of temptation. If there's ever a time you can't let your eyes be heavy, boys. It's now. I'm going to go off and get with the Father and you've got to get with the Father too. And what did He find in verse 40? He cometh and He findeth them asleep. You know who wasn't sleeping? Those soldiers that were on their way. Now go to Acts chapter 12. Verse 5, Peter's in prison. They're going to kill him. Verse 5, Peter therefore is kept in prison, but what? Prayer. Prayer. Prayer. The prayer that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and rulers. These soldiers weren't sleeping. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for Him. And when Herod would have brought Him forth the same night Peter was sleeping, he couldn't do anything about it. He's always sleeping, Peter. Watch this, "...between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the keepers before the doors of the prison. And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and light shined them in the prison. And they smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off." You know what those soldiers were doing? Those soldiers, they were sleeping. I know God put a little something on them. Those soldiers were sleeping, but God's soldiers were praying. Are you sleeping when you're supposed to be praying? Isn't that a deep thought? Because if you are, it's high time you wake up out of sleep and start watching and start praying. If we're in the latter times of the latter times, and it sure does seem like we are, and if we're not in the latter times of the latter times, we are in the latter days because we know that because this is the time He speaks to us by His Son. We need not be sleeping when it's time to pray. Some of you are going to be sleeping on the couch this Saturday night. You know what God says to you? Awake thou that sleepest. Christ shall give thee light. Sleeping soldiers. And then Acts chapter 20, sleeping assemblies. What a night to preach this message when I see some of you. I know the feeling. I sat in a Bible institute for five years. There would be nights my eyes would be rolling back just like this and I'd say, I'm not sleeping. I'm not sleeping. And you know you kind of rub your eyes You're almost trying to sleep by the few minutes that you're rubbing your eyes. And you know what's amazing? I'm going to be done in about four minutes. Bing! You're going to wake right up. Hey brother, how are you doing? What's happening? Where are you going? A pizza after work? Isn't that amazing? This flash! Acts chapter 20 and verse 9. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus. He wasn't just doing like some of you with your eyes rolled. He was in a deep sleep. He was like those Ron Martin sons used to be when they were little. They'd suck the flies in. And as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third loft and was taken up dead. We're going to just run through some Scriptures. Go back to 1 Samuel chapter 4. Many are called and few are chosen. It's been said that many are dead and a few are frozen. You know what the Christian's death is called? Sleeping. So if you're sleeping, He's dead. 1 Samuel chapter 4. I want to clear something up here in the Bible. I'm a loud mouth. Did you know that? Thank you, Dan. I've always been loud. I like to talk. I like to shout. I'm emotional. I'm passionate. But sometimes I find myself if I say, Amen, brother! You're like thinking, oh, I wish he would culture up a little bit. And that Rob Searcy, they didn't do that in the Catholic church. Let me show you why people shout in the Bible. 1 Samuel 4, verse 1, And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle and pitch beside Ebenezer. And the Philistines pitch in Aphek. And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. And when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines. And they slew the army in the field, 4,000 men. And when the people were coming to the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the Ark of the Covenant. What's in the Ark of the Covenant? The presence of God. Of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that when it cometh among us, it may save us. Now they was a little bit shaky here. Verse 5, "...and when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel..." What? What? "...with a great shout..." Look it, I love this. I love the King's English. "...so that the earth rang again." But we shout, the earth rings. They didn't say, I wonder what the Philistines will think of us. In fact, when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, what meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was coming to the camp. And the Philistines were afraid. They said, God is coming to the camp! And they said, woe unto us! For there hath not been such a thing heretofore. When God came, the shouting started. 2 Samuel 6. I miss old Doug Schwader. He's probably shouting on that live stream right now with those dogs of his. 2 Samuel chapter... You see him on that thing, the missionary connection or anything? He started howling. He said, hoo! And that dog went, hoo! Right on the camera. You thought he was a dignified missionary. 2 Samuel chapter 6 and verse 15. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with what? And with the sound of the trumpet and the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michael Saul's daughter looked through a window. She was dignified. She had one of those big, wide, brimmed red hats. I heard a preacher say one time this real dignified lady came into his office. His office was a little disheveled, a lot disheveled, and she said, And she was having big, serious problems in her life. And this was kind of a rough preacher, the way they used to be years ago. And she said, it's an awful mess in here. She came for counsel. It's an awful mess in here. He said, so is your life, lady. Sit down. Saul's daughter looked through a window and saw King David, the king, leaping and dancing before the Lord. And she did what some of you do when Doug Schwatter run the aisle. And she despised Him in her heart. You know what David said in verse 21? I wouldn't put on no show for you. It was before the Lord which chose me. And if I remember correctly, had no child until the day of her death. Be careful who you're judging for getting happy. Be glad they're not dead like you. Amen. All right, 2 Chronicles chapter 15. Oh, don't run too far with it, Sharon. 2 Chronicles chapter 15. 2 Chronicles 15. Oh, I just long for this day. Verse 11, 2 Chronicles 15, 11, And they offered unto the Lord the same time of the spoil which they had brought seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul, that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death. That's why you're glad you're born after the fullness of times. Hey, we're going on for God. Anybody not want to go, we're going to kill you. This is a crazy book, isn't it? You don't need Star Wars and all that. Get in this book. Whether small or great. Whether man or woman. And they swear unto the Lord with a loud voice. And with shouting and with trumpets and with coronets and all, Judah rejoiced at the oath. And they had sworn all their own hearts. They had a fit over there. Ezra chapter 3. What weren't they doing? Sleeping. Why? The presence of God was there. You know if you heard those rumbling of planes over here once in a while, it gives me the creeps. Why are they flying so low? Is this another one of those Taliban's or something coming through here? But if you heard a bunch of people rumbling and roaring, you say, what's going on? I wonder if that's not what our God does. Ezra 3, verse 10, And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple, I mean, they're not even preaching. They're just building something here. But these people are excited about the possibility of the presence of God. They set the priests and their apparel with trumpets. And the Levites and the sons of Asaph with cymbals. Where did my cymbals go? to praise the Lord after the ordinance of David, king of Israel. And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord because He's good and His mercy endures forever. And all the people shouted with a great shout. It was holy chaos going on. Because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. But many of the priests and Levites and chiefs of the fathers who were ancient men that had seen the first house, when the foundation of the house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. And many shouted aloud for joy, so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy, for the noise of weeping. For the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off. And everybody said, oh, thank you, thank you. Revelation chapter 5. I won't walk you through Psalms and what it says about shouting, but you do yourself a good... Now you say, I'm not that type. I understand that. But maybe a holy grunt once in a while. Maybe a nod. If my wife nodded, that would be like me saying, Glory! I heard one preacher say, if you're not like that, put gunpowder on your cereal and eat it in the morning. Revelation 5, verse 11. Verse 8, let's just go to heaven. You might as well get used to it. See, you know why you don't want to shout at your flesh? You know why they're all shouting here? No more flesh. Because he's worth shouting about. If the stinking bills are worth shouting about. Isn't it crazy? The Rochester Americans. The Red Wings. You weren't shouting at that ball game last night, were you boys? I get into the game. I almost got in a fight at a Christian high school basketball game. Yeah, Felicia's brother. I went there to support him. I was feeling a little bad. Think what you want about it. That's for another day. But this other team, they was all dignified. You could tell they had a lot of money and they had a whole bunch of cheerleaders. In this Christian school, they had four cheerleaders. And they'd get up there and they had the music and they were doing all this stuff. And then these four little measly cheerleaders, they weren't too much. And we were winning at halftime. And our cheerleaders got up there and did their little thing. And I said, I stood in a gym half this size. I stood up and I said, it was quiet. You could have heard a pin drop. We only got four, but look at the score. And this guy stood up. You imagine, pastor gets a point at a basketball game. That's why I don't get too involved. Verse 8, And we have taken the book, the four beasts, and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb. Don't you long for the power and presence of God? in your quiet time and in your assembly time, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints. So you've got to have it all. And they sung a new song saying, Thou art worthy to take the book and open the seals thereof, for Thou has slain and has redeemed us to God. See, they're in the presence of God. By Thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and has made us to our God kings and priests. And we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands." Now saying, this is in unison, with a loud voice, worthy. We're talking gazillions of glorified bodies saying loud. If loud is loud here, like I'm bothering some of you right now, what is loud up there? What is perfect, holy, righteous, sinless? No flesh inhibiting loud up there. to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. What time is it now? Where are we now? I mean, the Mayan calendar says this and goofball on the radio says that. What's his name? Harold. May we have the next caller, please? You're a no-good, dirty, rotten, Bible-denying infidel! You don't teach right! You're wrong! You're in the Antichrist! Thank you for calling and sharing. May we have the next caller, please? I don't know about all that time, but I know right now It's high time to awake out of sleep. He says in Romans, for our salvation is nearer than when we got saved. Let's stand. Come on preacher, come lead us in a song. Let's be awake on this one.