Good evening. Good evening. I think Johnny's the only one I haven't already said hi to. Hi Johnny. Hey. I think everybody else, I'll put my glasses on, I'll be able to see what I'm looking at. Jenny and I found what we think is a good eye doctor. In a couple weeks we'll have updated specs. Yeah, hopefully be able to. It's hard getting old and not being able to see. We really liked our eye doctor, and then he and his wife decided they wanted to move to Florida. Packed up and left. But I never actually had an eye doctor. Oh, I thought you did. Nope. Well, I liked him. Thank you, Jim. All right. I don't know what I spilled on my shirt. Oh, boy. Oh, well. Oh, you know what it is? I bet it was watermelon juice. These are juicy watermelon, weren't they? I think we're coming to the end of the watermelon season, aren't we? Pretty soon, yeah. I think watermelon season ends just about the time football season begins. All right. We have $2.60 in the handbook. What a friend we have in Jesus. Hear my prayer, oh Lord. Give ear to my supplications. In thy faithfulness, answer me. Psalm 143.1. You can play one right now. What a friend we have in Jesus. ♪ Our sins and griefs to bear ♪ What a privilege to carry ♪ Everything to God in prayer ♪ Oh what peace We often forfeit Oh, what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer Can we try out that temptation? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer Can we find a friend so faithful? Who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our every weakness. Take him to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden? Comfort with a lot of care. ♪ Precious Savior still our prayer to hear ♪ ♪ Take it to the Lord in prayer ♪ ♪ Do thy friends despise forsake thee ♪ ♪ Take it to the Lord in prayer ♪ Amen. That's an oldie but goodie. Alright, turn over a 264, sweet hour of prayer, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing instant in prayer. Romans 12, 12. Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer That calls me from a world of care And bids me at my Father's throne Make all my wants and wishes known In seasons of distress and grief, My soul has often found relief, And oft escaped the tempter's snare, By Thy return sweet hour of grace. My wings shall my petition bear, To Him whose truth and faithfulness Engage the waiting soul to live. And since He bids me seek His face, Believe His word, and trust His grace, I'll cast on Him my every care, And wait for Thee, sweet hour of grace. Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, may I thy consolation share. Till from Mount Viscount, lofty high, I view my home and take my flight. Then from the flesh shall drunken rise To cease the everlasting prize And shall while passing through the air Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of grace. I love that last verse. All right, let's sing one more. 269. This song always makes me think of my daddy. It makes me think of my mama. Went to be with the Lord February 28th this year. First time I ever heard this song was my dad singing it in the kitchen. He didn't sing it in our church. I don't know where he went. Living below in this old sinful world, hardly a comfort can afford. Striving alone to face temptation's sword, where could I go but to the Lord? Where could I go? Oh, where could I go? Seeking a refuge for my soul. Needing a friend to help me in the end. Where could I go but to the Lord? Neighbors are kind, I love them, everyone We get along, it's sweet accord But when my soul needs manna from above Where could I go but to the Lord? Where could I go? Where could I go? Seeking a refuge for my soul. Needing a friend to help me in the end. Where could I go but to the Lord? Life here is grand With friends I love so dear Comfort I get from God's own Word Yet when I face the chilling hand of death but to the Lord. Where could I go? Oh, where could I go? Seeking a refuge for my soul. Meeting a friend to help me in the end. ♪ Where could I go but to the Lord ♪ Amen. Good singing. All right, we're... I'm gonna let my wife go get me some coffee. I'll do it. You might get a couple. Thank you very much. All right, well, raise your hand Janie will bring around those prayer cards. Onliners, as always, send those to bbfohio at protimail.com. And we'll get you some. Evening, everybody. Cut off the live stream and look at those. Maybe. Alright. Prove that the sound check. All right, thank you sir. That's what the sky looks, it looked like several times in the last week or so. It's really nice. What I forgot to do, I was gonna show you. We had a hot air balloon land behind our house yesterday. Big, red, beautiful hot air balloon. It was just a Christian who does it as ministry. And we didn't know anything about them. But they parked out. I heard them kind of come to a stop real sudden. And I saw that it was a balloon, a truck with a balloon on the side, you could tell it's what it was for. They come right out and they got walkie-talkies and I'm like, oh no, that didn't look good. Just they did have to make a landing, but they wanted to land here because the wind had blown them off course and they didn't want to get near a power line. And yes, where we live, if you're out past our street, there's no power lines for a good way. It's all cornfields and hayfields and all that. So I'll try to remember to do that, maybe I'll show them someday. But the kids were beside themselves, literally. That was pretty, pretty neat. Never had that happen before. Have a hot air balloon laying in your backyard. But they didn't have much wind, but it's weird because usually outdoor it's too much wind. Yesterday was pretty still, so I think that's why. When they went up a certain level, it blew them in the wrong direction. Then they come down to where they could go in the right direction, but it's too low. So, you know, the wind up there changes and everything, and hot air balloons can really be blown off course. So thank you for that coffee, dear. And let's see, we got a couple of prayer requests already sent in. I always have to go in and clear out all the junk mail so I can see all that. And there we go. All right. Well, let's get into our current events update. Of course, we're in First Timothy. If you want to have your Bible open ready, chapter two, so we're going to pick up. But as always, don't talk over this. Leave your video clips and hold your questions, comments to the end of. Day one, 313 since the October 7th attack. The real news doesn't get reported by our useless news media most of the time. Most of you probably didn't hear some of this, but the national security minister is a man named Ben Gavir. He and a bunch of other Jews went up on the Temple Mount and they prayed. And they're not supposed to. It's under the control of the Muslim imam or whatever up there at the, not the Dome of the Rock, but the other, there's a mosque of Omar, I think it's called. And, but you, well, let me show you here. There's a picture of some of them. They laid face down. prostrate and praying and that's the first time that's ever happened and said that there's been a push now that Jews are the Jews want their Messiah but they don't want Jesus and there's a huge push for Messiah well I'm sorry but the Bible says they're going to embrace a Messiah and it would be a false Messiah Antichrist, Christ meaning Messiah. It'll be a false or counterfeit Christ. And they're going to embrace him. And we went through those scriptures at the end of Sunday's message. I won't do it again right here, but they're going to embrace him. And then three and a half years into the seven-year covenant they agreed to with him, he's going to break it. He's going to desecrate the temple they rebuilt. And he's going to turn on Israel for three and a half years. to end the tribulation where it looks like Israel's gonna be wiped out and Jesus is gonna come in and save them. And that's what all this is leading up to. And it's getting, it's getting, there's no ceasefire in sight. You turn on the news, I flipped through several channels and they're all talking about ceasefire. There's no ceasefire in sight. Here, the report is, Ceasefire talks to take place in Doha, but Hamas isn't even going to attend. How you going to get a ceasefire? That's like, you know, somebody calls me up and says, we need marriage counseling. Oh, yeah? Well, when can you and wife come? Well, my wife won't come, but I'll be there. That's not marriage counseling. That might be pre-divorce counseling at that point. But the real enemy of Israel in this conflict is Iran. They always remember that. Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Yemen, they're all funded and controlled by Iran. But today, Iranian banks were hit by a major cyber attack, and they're calling it one of the largest in history. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of whatevers. But the thing is, there's a lot of this going on, folks. Of course, how many of you have seen what happened in Columbus City? The city of Columbus has been hit. The mayor keeps trying to lie to everybody about it. But there's serious information out there now. And guess what? It includes the script readers at the local TV news. And so that's why they're doing the investigations and exposing this, even though it's a Democrat mayor, because their information is now out there. I saw a screenshot of, what's her name, Colleen Marshall. But she's just one of many of those Democrat operatives in our local news media who are now suffering the consequences of having a Democrat-run city. Now, the most important news clip of this past week, though, as far as the situation in Israel, is this one. That's Abbas from the Palestinian Authority, who is controlled by Iran, Persia, part of the Islamic Confederacy of the Golg Magog War. And we're going to see that alignment with Putin, who represents Rosh, Magog, Meshach, and Tubal. in the nation that Ezekiel talks about coming out of the north parts. So that, and every time you see that with Turkey and Putin and Putin and any of these anti-Israel countries over there, you're seeing the framework being set up for Gog and Magog. And of course, we always want to say we stand with Israel. And to their credit, the Biden administration has done some good things, not everything good, and they haven't stood with Israel as strong as they should have. But the reason why America hasn't totally been in collapse is because they have done some good things. I'm afraid if Kamilah and Tampon Tim Walz, if they're elected, it ain't gonna be pretty. She is buttering up to the far left anti-Israel crowd. So we'll keep an eye on that as well. But as I mentioned, we have these Democrat party operatives pretending to be journalists. And once in a while, you'll find a Republican in there and it's a never Trump Republican. Guarantee you. The mindless script readers, that's all those people are. There might be one in there, once in a while. There was a fellow on channel four, was a Southern Baptist Christian, and he was on there with Colleen years ago. Some of you might remember him, I can't think of his name. Calvin Ray, that's him. Now, I'm not saying he was the best thing in the world, but compared to the rest, he was a saint. But I met him once, and I think he was the real deal. I think he's a Christian, and I don't know a lot about him, so if some of you out there know, but something else, and that's fine. But Ben Gelber seems like a really nice guy, but he's an unsaved Jew. And most of the others are really nice guys and people you like. You find out they're liberal in theology, let alone in their politics. So they're, most of them. Now the weather guys actually, I think, have to do a little bit of work. But most of the news people are just mindless script readers. That's all they do. And every time they get their marching orders, we can see it. And this week, the marching order, does anybody know what the word was this week? One guess? Remember last week or week before, it was weird. JD Vance was weird. Huh? No. It might have been the week before. Momentum. Momentum was the word this week. It's like they all wake up and watch some liberal version of Romper Room. The word this week, kids, is momentum. Say it with me, momentum. Now say it over and over in all your news broadcasts. Say momentum. There's no explanation for this. Battleground momentum. New numbers showing the Harris-Walz ticket is gaining ground. Vice President Harris gaining momentum. Momentum in some key states. This morning, Vice President Kamala Harris gaining momentum. Gaining momentum. Gaining momentum. Gaining momentum. But look, this momentum. This momentum. Keeping the momentum. Harris's momentum. Harris's momentum. You can't slow down the momentum. This remarkable momentum. Mission number one is create the momentum and then keep the momentum. What does momentum look like in the polls? Kamala Harris is doing two things here. Number one, momentum. And number two, momentum. But take a look here. Clear momentum. So momentum it is today. Momentum it is. Democrats ride a wave of momentum. She does have that momentum. The Democrats are riding a wave of momentum. a kind of momentum. The Harris team is going to want to keep this momentum. Keep the momentum going. They want to keep that momentum. The momentum here is amazing. The crowds are literally insane. This momentum, it just seems day in and day out to keep getting more powerful by the day. The trend is heavily towards Harris, and it's rushing towards Harris in recent weeks. The vice president at this point throwing the equivalent of a no-hitter in the first three weeks of her campaign, hoping to keep that going with the Democratic convention next week. What that tells you is, what we've said over and over, are these people are airheads, and just like Kamala, who won't do an interview or a press conference because she's an airhead, if you said any of these people in front of a microphone and just talk to them, you'll find out they're airheads. So all they do is read scripts, and the scripts are, it's obvious, and we've shown this over and over and over through the years. How many of you remember the COVID, Going back to the misinformation and the fake news we showed all over the country, local stations and all these national stations. And it's just amazing because what it also shows is that around 70 million or so people who vote for the leftist who's running, Probably about half of those, they really are leftists. They really believe in the Marxism that they've been taught in public schools and in PBS and all the entertainment and Star Wars and in Disney programming and Nickelodeon programming now and everything. It's all Marxism that they're being taught. And in most of the apostate churches, that's what they teach. The Protestant apostates, Episcopalian Church, Presbyterian Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America, all these, they are apostates preaching Marxism to their people. But then there's about 10, 20, somewhere in there, a million people, have you noticed, that swing back and forth between the left and the right candidate? And why is that? Because they're stupid. That's why. I mean, listen folks, if you're against abortion, you're against gun control, you're against sodomite marriage, you're against the castration and mutilation of young children in the name of transgenderism, if you're against Marxism, you don't have to even think twice about who to vote for and who not to vote for. Only someone who's completely brain dead has to even give it a thought. And so what do they do? And they watch the momentum, the momentum, the momentum. She's got the momentum, she's got the momentum. Oh, I gotta vote for the one with the momentum. And it'll be over and over until between now and November 5th. And they're gonna try to keep Kamala, Kamila, in the basement just like they did Joe Biden. So that they can program everybody and you won't hear the real person. Even liberal leftist audiences of late night talk shows laugh out loud at the idea that CNN is objective. Watch this. I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is. No, I know. CNN makes it, and I know this. Is that supposed to be a laugh line? It wasn't supposed to be, but I guess it is. He was not joking, and he said that CNN is objective. And his audience, which is leftists, they couldn't help it. They laughed out loud. They depend on people being stupid. And number three, the COVID vax. They depended on people being stupid, being sheep who will follow orders no matter what the orders are. It does not keep you from getting COVID. Never did, but we were all told it did, weren't we? Wasn't Dr. Fauci one of them that told you that you get the shot, you won't get COVID? He's now had it three times. How many times has he been shot? I got infected about two weeks ago. It was my third infection and I have been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times. Six times! I mean, it's criminal what they've done to people. But you ask about all those people lining up for the shot, how foolish can you be? First of all, line up for a shot. You could ask anybody who got it, tell me what you know about it. I just know it's supposed to be safe. Don't tell me what you were told about it. Tell me what you know about it. And they would look you in the eye and tell you they knew nothing. But they trusted their government. There's nothing dumber than a person could say. I trust my government is one of the most stupid things you can ever say. And we have shown you over and over and over through the years, not just recently, throughout American history. Even when the cause was right, most of the time the government abused its people. Trust your government. I believe Fauci's a victim of his own love of money. Now hear me out on this. His specialty is gain-of-function research in the lab, creating the virus, which is bad enough. That should get you home. I'm just saying. But his role with the vaccine was in promotions, not in the technology. And I don't think he really knew much about these shots. He was behind the COVID virus. He wasn't behind the vaccinations. So he was just as dumb as everybody else and lined up to get the shot. And the shot he promoted will probably hasten his own death. Now, this is from Dr. Peter McCullough. The COVID vaccines have at least three mechanisms by which they could start a cancer or they could promote an existing cancer. Number one, the messenger RNA from COVID-19 injections could severely disrupt the body's ability to repair damaged DNA. This breakdown is basic cell processes could, I'm sorry, this breakdown in basic cell processes could lead to uncontrolled mutations, greatly increasing the risk of developing cancers. I tell you, I've seen people pretend to refute him. They don't even discuss this. They don't deal with the facts. They just tell you the same thing they told you about the COVID facts. Well, Dr. McCullough is wrong. He's been contradicted by peer-reviewed papers and others who are experts in the field. So that settles it. That's all they say. They don't actually tell you why he's wrong. So listen, when you hear people say that, listen if they actually give you any reason for why they think that he's wrong. Number two, I don't know all the specifics of what I'm about to read to you, but pay attention to the last part. The S2 segment of the spike protein which you don't have to know what that is to understand, delivered specifically through the vaccine is suggested to critically suppress key tumor suppressor proteins, such as P53 and BRCA. So there's these proteins that suppress tumors. They are being suppressed by what's in the shop. This suppression effectively disarms the body's primary defenses against cancerous cell growth, paving the way for tumors to flourish unchecked. Folks, that's science. That's not propaganda. That's not saying you don't know anything, shut up. That's all they'll tell you in response to this. And number three, the formulation of mRNA vaccines includes DNA process related impurities that could carry proton cogenic properties. And the fragments that are detected are the SV40 enhancer promoter and origin of insertion as well as antibiotic resistance fragments that are used in the manufacturing process. In other words, they are filled with cancer-causing stuff. That's the bottom line. Those are your three reasons. So in summary, the COVID vaccines have at least three mechanisms by which they could start a cancer, or they could promote an existing cancer, and it may occur more rapidly because tumor defense systems are taken down. That's what we call turbo cancer. You go into some websites, they'll say, there's no such thing as turbo cancer. And you hear anybody use the phrase turbo cancer, just turn them off. Why? They don't tell you. They just tell you to turn them off. That's what we're dealing with. But why? Why would big pharma promote something that causes cancer, Jim? But that's a serious question that these people have. Why in the world would they do that? Well, I don't know. Maybe, well, what's this? AstraZeneca looks to cancer RSV drugs for growth as COVID vaccine demand wanes. So they're using up all the COVID vaccine just in time for cancer to explode. Judy and I sat and watched a report where they said that between now and 2050, Cancers, they were focused on men. Cancers in men are going to exponentially grow, in some cases, 250%. And you know what they mentioned as causes? Everything except that vaccine. What's the one thing that we aren't eating, consuming, and in some way doing Now, and between now and 2050, that they did in the past. We are now being given mRNA vaccines. That's the difference. There's no reason for cancer to increase among men prior to COVID. And we're doing the same thing except the COVID vaccines. And they'll even tell you, well, a lot of these cancers are just with people who had COVID. And they don't tell you they're people who also got the shots and had COVID. That's another shell game they play. You got to really listen to what they say to you. In a shocking revelation, Pfizer's $43 billion gamble and the truth about turbo cancers linked to mRNA vaccines. In a shocking move, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has acquired CGen, a small drug company specializing in treating turbo cancers. Now, why would they do that? Because they know their shot is giving people turbo cancers and increasing cancer by more than 100% in some of the worst that you can get, lung cancers and different cancers. I can't remember all of them that they mentioned. Prostate cancer, colon cancer, all these. From time to time, we have to remind everyone of this. When Jesus comes back, he's going to kill them. He's going to destroy those, as it says in verse 15. I'll read the whole verse. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. Whether it's the human beings on the planet, whether it's the environment on the planet itself, Either way, the globalists are destroying this earth. They are going to be behind the Antichrist system, and God's gonna come and kill them all. And you should be on God's side, not their side now, but if you miss the rapture, you better make sure you stay off the mark of the beast and against them. But not just against them, you better turn to Christ. Because there'll be people who fight the Antichrist, and they'll go to the same hell the Antichrist goes to, which would be a very sad thing, amen? Be informed, pray and act accordingly. Anybody wanna comment or question? Yes, Jim. We prayed Sunday for my nephew, Joe, and he did get a decent report from his doctor that the mass he had, they're just gonna keep an eye on, but between that and the blood clots, he did get the shots. He's a federal employee, he's an air traffic controller, And so he's paying the price for that. Yeah. Yeah, because we didn't even get into the myocarditis and the blood clots and the blood itself. People are just having their blood turned to gel and all kinds of crazy shit. And if that happened once in a while, that this is happening all over, and they're reporting it, but they just refuse to mention this one thing that changed everything. Yep, Jane. So, you know, I think we all know people that are like this, but I have a lot of relatives. One relative recently has COVID, and we asked, somebody asked this person, And how many of the COVID vaccines did you get? And this person said, all of them. And then, but still, you know, they'll go get more of them. Even though they got COVID, they'll go get more. Because it's just something wrong. It's sad. I don't know of any spirit-filled, King James Bible-believing, separated Christians getting the vaccine. I've been told there were cases where, because they were afraid they'd lose their job, they got it. And I know a lot of other ones who said, well, it ain't worth dying over. What good is having my job if I die? Yeah, like we know Martha got one set of shots and. She didn't last long after that. No, but you know, sometimes you get so. Jane. Yeah, I was listening to Scripp News today. It's mostly a gay thing, but like HIV, because non-gays do get it, then they try to say it's not a gay thing. But if you aren't having close, intimate contact with people who have it, and almost all the people who have it are in that so-called gay community, then you really don't have to worry about monkey pox. But like HIV, heterosexuals only had to worry about HIV if they used intravenous drugs and used you know, a syringe that some homosexual AIDS person used, or somebody who got it that way and then kept, you know what I mean? If you trace it back, you do just a little forensic research, you find out that it originated with homosexuals. And then, what was I saying? The other way was blood transfusions. And why was it in the blood? Because the gay lobby controlled the Democrat Party, who was in power. And they kept that blood from being tested. And so heterosexuals got AIDS originally. Like Brian White, one of the young men that died, he was very famous. He got it through a blood transfusion. And that's how most heterosexuals are getting AIDS, and monkeypox, and a lot of the, even hepatitis, which is the one, is a hepatitis C. There's one that's more deadly than the others. And most of the people who are heterosexuals who get that, it's from that kind of lifestyle. And maybe they were with somebody who was with somebody, but you trace it, do those forensics, you'll find out that's where it come from. Yes, perilous times, amen? Amen. All right, let's go ahead and pray and get into our Bible study. It's all about prayer, and that's what our strength comes from, the Word of God and prayer. So, I'll give you a second to get your Bibles open. Ask Brother Johnny in the back there if you would, up in the Bible study of prayer. Just to thank you, you continue to protect us from all this, from a lot of evil that's overfilling the world here. We pray you'll just help give us wisdom to avoid it as much as, as much of it as possible. And just to stay true to you and just continue to learn. We're short a few people tonight. Brother John had to work so he can take off this weekend to celebrate his 36th annual honeymoon. Brother Doug's having problems with his eyes. And so if Doug's listening right now, I miss you. I don't know what's going, but we know Jessica's probably with us. She is. Robin's on. Robin Schmitz is on. Say hi to Megan, Robin, and Eric. I said hi to Jessica, and we'll say hi to Mark. He's probably right there with her. and a few other things going on, but let's get into our Bible study tonight. In 1 Timothy chapter two, we're just gonna look at that first verse. Four points in prayer, supplications, prayers, intercessions, giving and thanks, that's a mouthful. And instead just hop, skipping and jumping, we're gonna look at this. So we begin here with a study on the instructions given by Paul regarding prayer. And so with that, we're just going to read verse one together. So if you would read with me. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men. Amen. So Paul gives some specifics on prayer. It is directed towards all men at the end there, but this is a guide for prayer. And we should always be about praying, yes, for our own needs, but our prayers, if you don't include prayers for others, you're not doing it right. As a Christian, we put God first and even our neighbor second before we put ourselves. So what kind of prayer life is it if you're not praising the Lord, praying for others, and also yourself? It's not a biblical prayer. Now, once in a while you'll throw a prayer toward God that doesn't involve all that. I'm not saying you never do that. But your prayer life should involve that, in that order. Your prayer life should reflect that attitude. So, many never meditate on exactly what these are. That's why we're gonna do it tonight. Paul's exhortation to prayer, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings, all in verse one. Now, I wanna give you this reason for close examination. First of all, many seem unaware that there are differences between these words in this verse. And so we're gonna clarify some things here for you. Secondly, many others assume everyone understands those differences. And that's why a lot of preaching, and I'm not gonna name names, I don't wanna sound like I'm up here trying to elevate myself above other men. But I'm just telling you, some of the commentaries I've read on this passage, they don't even talk about it, they just skip right through it. They just assume everybody knows everything about what these words mean and everything. So we're not gonna do that. Paul starts and says, I exhort therefore that first of all, and we'll just stop there for a second. You notice that the first of all applies to the whole verse, the word suffocations, which is the next word in your text. He says, I exhort therefore that first of all, suffocations, prayers, intercessions, give me a thanks be made for all men. That's first of all, the whole verse is first of all. And that's why we say that prayer, your prayer life should involve all these things. I do not believe this is an order either. It's not an order. Every time you pray, you think, okay, first supplications. It's not the way it works. But simply stated that you should perform each in any order, that's the point. Each of these should be a part of your prayer life. I love Matthew Henry, who said, quote, Paul does not send him any prescribed form of prayer. as we have reason to think he wouldn't if he had intended that ministers should be tied to that way of praying, but in general that they should make supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks. ministers a lot of times are basically forced to pray certain specific words. They have prayers they actually are required to pray and they're not their own prayers. In some denominations every church has the same prayers that they're going to read during that service no matter where you attend. And that might be nice for McDonald's Or, you know, like City Barbecue, any of these, Chick-fil-A. You don't want to go to a Chick-fil-A when you're traveling and then go in there and find out that they, you know, they don't have the standard menu that you order from. And that's what Noah Hutchings said, you know, when he traveled overseas, most, especially in third world countries and places, he always ate at McDonald's. Because there was hardly any other restaurants that were known American franchises. And he said a couple times he tried, and he learned the hard way not to eat there. He certainly didn't drink the water. He always made sure he had bottled water that he took with him on the trips and everything. And that's why, because he could go into any of those, that restaurant in any city, and they had the same menu, the same food. He knew what he was getting. That's why we wanna read and study the King James Bible. You pick up another version, you have no idea what you're getting into. And if you have a parallel, you get a parallel or read both of them at the same time, compare them and you'll see, they're not the same. One's poisoned waters, amen? So we begin with a look at supplications in verse one. I exhort therefore that first of all, supplications be made. He says, this is actually the most common form of prayer, supplications. Why? John Wesley says, supplication is here the imploring help in time of need. I may not admit that my prayer life is frequently punctuated by supplications. And sometimes it is actually intercession, and we'll get to that in a minute. But sadly, the Lord never hears from some people until they become desperate. And then they're making supplications for the Lord to, you know, intervene. Oh, I need you now. God, if you ever hear, and how many times you heard him, if you answer this prayer, I promise I'll blankety blank, you know, and fill in the blank. And then I hear people admit that they pray that prayer. God answers the prayer. Do they keep the promise? Too many times they don't, which that's kind of scary because Go back and read the book of Numbers. God kind of takes those oaths seriously, you know. But anyway, let's move on. Then Paul says something that seems a bit redundant then when he just says that, I exhort therefore that, first of all, supplications and prayers, women. Prayers is separate from pairs. Well, yeah, prayer can be used in a general sense or in a more technical sense. There's a lot of words we use like that. They can be used in a general sense, and then there's a more technical sense for it. And anybody give me an example of that off the top of your head, since I didn't think of one just now? A word that people use, and it's used in a general sense, but sometimes in a literal or specific sense. Anybody? Well, you can, like, I can call Yeah. Think of a church. You hear people talk about the church, but wait a minute. There's the church, which is everyone who's ever been saved. But then you might be talking about BBF. You say, well, I was down, I was hanging out with some of the people from the church. Who are you talking about? You were hanging out with all these deceased saints that are going to be with the Lord. How demented is that? No, that's because you're using it in a, Different sense. There's the general sense of the church everyone's ever seen. Then there's the technical sense of the church, the local church. That's another example. Just, yeah, Jo? I was just thinking of, when you go on a trip, you say, I can't wait to get home. And home could be just being in Ohio. Yes. Because Kenny will say, oh, yeah, we're back in Ohio, yay. Yeah. And then, of course, home is our house. Yeah. Yeah, I lived up here, but I'd go home. I tell people, I'm going home for the weekend, I'll be back next week. Home, you live here, where are you going? Wolfsburg. Walk in the house, hi mom, good to be home. It's exactly right. Of course, we talk about going home, but some of us are ready to go home. So there's another example of that. In worship, prayer is a, solemn address to the Supreme Being consisting of these different facets, adoration, expression of our sense of God's glorious perfections, confession of our sins, supplication for mercy and forgiveness, intercession for blessings on others, and thanksgiving, or an expression of gratitude to God for his mercies and benefits. Then it says, a prayer, however, may consist of a single petition, and it may be extemporaneous, written or printed. You have to, what's the key? What's the word I'm looking for here? There you go. Context. That's it. You have to listen to how words are being, I mean, our language is like that all the time. And when I was growing up, I remember my grandpa, you know, I said, man, that's bad. What's so bad about it? No, I mean, it's good. What you say is bad? Because, you know, I'm an 80s kid. That was bad. Michael Jackson. Because I'm bad. That was a bad imitation. There you go. Prayer can cover the whole model prayer, and I'm gonna look at that. We're not gonna do an in-depth study of the model prayer, but this is not the Lord's prayer. It's called that all the time. The Lord gave us this prayer, but he didn't give it to us to pray. He gave it to us as a model. Matthew 6, 9 through 13. And it was amazing. I played football, and the football team, the coach would always pray this before every game. And a bunch of those guys I was with weren't Christians. Some of them claimed to be atheists and agnostic. But they didn't dare not pray this or repeat this model prayer when the coach told us to. Let's read verses 9 through 13. Read it with me. After this manner, therefore, pray ye, our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Now, that is meant for you to meditate on, and then to model your prayers on this. It's not meant, and there's told denominations who every time they have their church services repeat this as though it is a prayer. Jesus himself said, you know, the heathen think that for their repetition they'll be heard, and that's not how you're supposed to do it. He said it right there after this manner. After this manner. He didn't say quote this or say these words exactly after this manner, therefore pray. And we did a study on that. In Luke, there's another version of that same prayer. But I wanna mention this, the corrupt new Bibles delete portions of this model prayer with many deleting the closing words. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, amen. Look that up in NIV, New American Standards, some of those new versions. You'll see those words are gone. Pope Francis proposed changing lead us not into temptation to do not let us fall into temptation. And because he just thought he was smarter than God, Jesus messed up there, you know, Pope's gonna fix up the words of Jesus. That's scary stuff when Revelation 22, 18 says, for I testify unto every man that hear the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. Verse 19, and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book. Don't mess with the book. So the use of prayers in our text refers to making simple petition to the Lord. And again, don't try to use big words and elaborate phraseology and everything. You should talk to the Lord respectfully, just like you would talk to anyone else that you respect. He wants you to talk to him. It's a personal relationship you have with him. It's not a formal relationship. You don't have to address him, your honor, If I could, I would like to approach the, you know. That's not how you come to God. We have a personal relationship with Him. Now, there's nothing wrong with, you know, using His titles and all that, but what I mean is, talk to Him. And some people make prayer so hard, then they give up. It shouldn't be, it's not that hard. Dear Heavenly Father, I just want to come to You right now because of, or I thank You for saving me. You know, just, So and so I just want to let them up to you. They're going through so much right now and I will, you know, whatever. Just like you would talk to not that I think you understand what I mean by that. Not that any of us are in any way the same, but he's a person. And you have a personal relationship with him. We call him father. So talk to him the way you would talk to your father. When you're showing respect to your father. But then is the reminder to pray for others with that word in verse one, intercessions. I exhort that, first of all, supplications, prayers, and intercessions. Some of you know right off what that means, it's to intercede for others in your prayers. Now, we don't do that a lot, but I was a kid, there was times where I don't know why, but Wade, my brother, would come up and say, go ask Mom if we can do this. Go ask Mom. I'm like, you go ask her. No, she won't listen to me. He would almost always talk me into doing it. But what I started doing was I'd go in there, and he'd kind of walk in, stand in the corner. I'd say, Mom, Wade wanted me to ask you. You know, mom was always gracious. I've ever went to dad about something like that. They listen. Said no a lot of times, but they listen. How many of you know God loves you enough to say no a lot of times? Good fathers do that. So when it comes to loving others, next to confronting the lost with the gospel is making intercession for the brother. The most loving thing you can do for a saved brother or sister is to lift them up to the Lord in prayer. Now, James has a lot to say about the fact that if you know that what you're praying about is something that you could do to help them with, that is connected to that. If you offer a prayer and you could help them out, that's not much of a prayer. But that's what love is all about. First Peter 1.22 says, seeing you have purified your souls and obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, See that you love one another with a pure heart, fervently. So if you want to do that, don't say you're doing that and not be praying for one another. And some people like lists and things, but it doesn't have to be like that. You know, I'm going along the day, there's times where someone just comes on my heart, on my mind, I just pray for them. And then other times when I'm praying, I'll think about it. You know what I do? Because you guys are so, we're not a Baptist church, but you're so Baptist. You sit in the same pew, you know? And so all I have to do is close my eyes in prayer and think about where y'all sit and I'll pray for you. So see, that's a good thing about attending church faithfully. Because if you didn't, I couldn't do that. But I do. Many times I'll pray and I just think about who's sitting here and I think about praying for them. And as in all things our prayers should be filled with what? Thanksgiving. And you know when Thanksgiving is near, Christmas isn't far away. I exhort therefore that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks. Even in the worst of times, we can give thanks to God's goodness, presence, future blessing, and I put dot, dot, dot, because that could go on and on, all the things we could give thanks for. You know, numerous times when I can't sleep, I'll listen to the Bible, or possibly a good book, you know, but a lot of times what I do is I'll just pray, and I'll end up going to sleep praying. There's been times where, okay, well, I've enjoyed this prayer time with you, but I'm gonna sleep now. And I go ahead and go to sleep like that. Sometimes I go to sleep before I know I'm even asleep. I wake up in the morning. I was praying, where was I? But that's a nice way to go to sleep. When we are low, we should lift God up with praise and thanksgiving. When you get low, liberals love to say, when they go low, we go lower. That's why when that Eric Holder said that, he said, when they go low, we go lower, that kind of thing. Christians, when we go low, when we feel low, what's the thing? It isn't to be all about you, pity party, all about me. That's not how you respond. You respond by getting your mind off of yourself and lifting up God. It's an amazing thing that'll happen. Lord, I have no idea how I'm going to get through this. I don't know what's going on. People are crazy. People are driving me crazy. Let me know, whatever it is. But Lord, I'm just going to focus on you right now. I know you're going to take me through this. And I just thank you. I praise you. I love you. So I'm so thankful for you saving me and not going on right here in front of you. That's how you pray. And it's an amazing thing. You do that for not a, it's not a time thing. You do that for a certain amount of time though. And suddenly, It's almost like you turn around and, now what was I upset about? It's an amazing thing that happens. If we'll do it. And we're told in 1 Thessalonians 5, 18, in everything give thanks. For this is the will of God and Christ Jesus concerning you. I just have to say, this does not mean that we give thanks for being raped or having a loved one murdered or for the Holocaust. There's some weird teaching out there saying we should, Give thanks to God for everything, even the bad stuff. And that's, the Bible never says that. It says in everything give thanks. So when I was going through a really bad time, and I'm gonna give specifics so you know what kind of things I've been going through. I'll give you an example. Whenever I was ousted from a church by a denomination, looking back I'm glad it got me out of that denomination, I was done with it. But at the time it was really hurtful. And hurt me on several levels. And some of the men were just betrayed me. And it was just horrible for a young preacher. I was a kid still. And that happened. I didn't say, well, Lord, I thank you for these betrayals. I thank you that these men are not good for their word. I thank you. I didn't do that. What'd I do? I said, Lord, I'm thankful that no matter what these people say about me, you know the truth. No matter what's going on, you're going to carry me through. No matter how this turns out, I'm saved and going to heaven. I mean, that's how you give thanks in everything. It doesn't mean you give thanks for everything. Yeah. Wouldn't that be more Calvinistic then? You know, if you are thanking him for the rape or the murder, like assuming that God caused it. Well, if you are that, Honest of a hardcore Calvinist, you shouldn't thank him for that because they believe he's responsible for all that. But yeah, thanking him for those things is wrong because we know he's not responsible for those things. Those things happen because sin entered the world, not because God preordained everyone to go through what they go through. Now, there is this text here in Ephesians 5.20, it says, giving thanks always for all things, but there's not a period there. Giving thanks always for all things unto God. and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We do give thanks for all the things that he gives us, all the things he provides for us, all the things he has done for us. Not for all things, period. And to keep that in the back of your mind, we give thanks for what God does, not for what Satan, the wicked, or sin, et cetera, does. I mean, we're not giving thanks for October 7th and what happened to the Jews down there. but we give thanks because God is protecting his nation, and God's got a plan for Israel, and God would save every single one of them if they'd turn to him. We can thank him for all those things, and thank him even in the midst of all that, in the midst of all that, we thank him for those things. So it takes a little bit of thought, meditation, and discipline, Of course, this is a very important verse in this context, Romans 8, 28, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. It does not say God causes all things, but it says no matter what you face, God is going to work it out. That's what we understand. And He'll work it for good to them that love God. By the way, for help in remembering everything you've heard tonight, Ginny Albaugh, the creator of amazing acronyms and parodies, came up with SPIT. Supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanks. So if that helps you remember this study tonight, when it comes to your prayer life, just SPIT. Did you really come up with that? Yes, you did. Yeah, we've got to watch with him though. His can be dangerous. Whether or not you use spit, you certainly must admit it has a charm of wit and will be difficult to forget. And so we close. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men. And that's what we're going to pick up next time. But I want to close with a short reading in the Psalms. Psalm 66. Psalm 66. If you do not keep a sense of humor, you will go insane, amen? Some of you started insane. We can't help that. Psalm 66 verses 16 through 20. I'm just going to have you read All five verses with me. Give you a second to get there. Psalm 66, beginning verse 16 through 20, read with me. Come and hear all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me, but verily God hath heard me. He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me. Can you say amen to that? Amen. God is always listening. So let's always be praying, amen? Pray without ceasing. Doesn't mean you're praying 24-7 like a monk or a nun or whatever they do in those monasteries. That's not biblical, but it means you're always ready, instant in prayer, ready to pray at all times. Amen, amen. Father, we thank you, Lord, for this time in your Word, for all that you've taught us, and we thank you for Those who are able to make it tonight when there's some who aren't here for reasons we know of and others reasons we don't know, but we just pray. For each one making intercession for them because we love them. And we know you love them more than we ever could. And we just on their behalf ask for your help for whatever it is going on with each of them. And father, we thank you for this time that we're about to spend singing and Fellowshiping will have prayer again. Lifting up the request of those who send them into us and those here in the building. After we go off the live stream. And we thank you for that ministry that we can have. The honor and privilege it is to pray for others. And all these things we thank you for in Jesus name, Amen. Amen, alright. Stay if you can. As we close with the song, The Lord bless thee, and keep thee, the Lord make His face shine upon thee. and be gracious unto thee, and be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up His countenance on thee and give thee peace. The Lord bless thee and keep thee, All right, let's say goodbye to the onliners on three. One, two, three. See you here, there, and in the air.