Open your Bibles. Let's go to John Chapter 12. John Chapter 12 and look at Look down at verse 20. The Bible says, we would see Jesus. I want to preach to you today on looking to Jesus. Father, I come before you now. I pray that you'll bless your words. And Father, I pray that you'll please fill me with the Holy Spirit. I pray, God, that you'll speak to your folks today. Give them something, Lord. I know this is just going to be just a little more relaxed and a little more encouraging, hopefully, Father. I pray, God, that you'll speak to your people. Give them something from your words, Father, something to encourage them, Lord. And we pray all this in your son's name. Amen. Now here you've got some Greeks here and the Bible says that Greeks seek after wisdom and here we have some guys that have come to the master. They've come to the greatest teacher of all time and they're seeking to see him. These Greeks have accidentally said something very profound. They're saying, sir, we would see Jesus. And they're saying, we'd like to get a look at this man called Jesus Christ. Now, of course, I'm going to make spiritual application here today. In your life, you're going to have a constant temptation to look just anywhere else. constant temptation. You got a little thing in your phone that calls your attention, or in your pocket, excuse me, that calls your attention all the time. You've got screens and they draw your eyes downward. And it's a constant temptation not to look up. And it's easy to get down and keep your eyes on the hardships and keep your eyes on an election and keep your eyes on football and circumstances and all that stuff. And you need to get your eyes on Jesus Christ and I'm very aware that that's easier said than done. Now, of course, I'm not talking about physically seeing him, okay? I'm perfectly aware that I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes or so here talking about a man that I've never seen. And I'm going to talk about a fellow that I've never physically heard his voice. And if you know your Bible at all, you know that that's not important, because that's physical. And the physical side is not the important side. And I'm talking today about having some spiritual eyes and looking past the physical to the spiritual. And getting your eyes on your Savior. In the Bible there, we talk about doubting Thomas. We talk about a fellow there who doesn't believe that Jesus Christ has resurrected and he says, I gotta see it with my own eyes. And then when he finally sees him, Jesus Christ says to him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are they that have not seen. and yet have believed. I haven't seen them. And I'm blessed because I still believe. And so are you. You're blessed because you haven't seen them yet. But spiritually speaking, you've got your eyes on them and received them. 2 Corinthians 4.18 says, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. Listen, for the things which are seen are temporal. but the things which are not seen are eternal. So today I'm going to give you something just for a few minutes here about seeing Jesus Christ, and I'm not talking about a vision, amen, but I'm talking about looking through some spiritual lenses to this man called Jesus Christ. So the first point is real simple, and I know most of you here, especially in a crowd this size, it's just going to take a minute here to go through it, but you have to look to Jesus Christ for His salvation. And if you want salvation, you have to look to Jesus. There is no phenomenon in the entire universe like the God of this universe, the creator of time and space and matter, coming down and allowing Himself to be bound by the laws of nature that He created. There's no phenomenon like it. The Creator of the heavens comes down to this ball of dirt and He walks around for 33 and a half years. The Bible says He went about doing good. And your Creator goes and He dies for you with you in mind and all a man has to do to receive eternal life is to look to Jesus Christ. You need to look to Jesus for His salvation. Do you realize that before Jesus Christ came down no man could see God in all His glory? And that's an important thing. No one could get a full glimpse of God. God was so pure. God was so holy that when a man died in the Old Testament, they didn't even go to heaven. They weren't pure enough yet. They went down into a place called Paradise in the heart of the earth. And the Bible says that they had to go down and wait for Jesus Christ there. Let me show you something. Look at Exodus chapter 33. Exodus 33, here you have one of the greatest men in Scripture, one of the most righteous men, one of the most holy men, one of the most clean men. And watch, here's Moses, Exodus 33, and look at verse 18. Exodus 33.18 says, And he said, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. That's Moses getting some one-on-one fellowship with God. And he says, can I just look at you? Can you show me your glory? And look at God's response, verse 20. And he said, Thou canst not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live. You know what God's saying? You're too human and I'm too holy. It would obliterate you, Moses. My holiness would annihilate you. You can't look at me. You can't look on me. He ends up passing by and lets him get a little piece of him, but he couldn't look at him straight on. And he just wants to look at him like a friend, but he's an Old Testament saint without a New Testament sacrifice. So when Moses dies, he goes down and waits in Abraham's bosom. He can't look at God yet. So God comes down. And the phenomenon of the universe is that he's all holy and all human. Before, God was too holy, man was too human, and now you've got both in one. The Lord Jesus Christ. And you've got to look to Him. Look at John 1. And Jesus Christ comes down. God comes down. John 1. And look at verse 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Now verse 14. And the Word was made flesh. And because of that, mankind could get a glimpse at God Himself. Jesus Christ comes down. Every single bit of God's holiness is wrapped in flesh. And man could just look at God straight in the face. And His name was Jesus Christ. Look at John 3 and look at verse 13. And no man hath ascended up to heaven. Uh-oh. Why is that? Because Jesus Christ hasn't died yet. You know what happens when a saved Christian dies? Absent from the body, present with the Lord. That's New Testament. This is before Jesus dies. He says, no man has ascended up to heaven. He can't go up and wait up there. He can't get to my Father yet. Watch. No man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. Now, that's back in the book of Numbers, the children of Israel have murmured and complained and God's mad at them, and the Bible says He sent fiery serpents in there, and the snakes are killing all these Jews, and the Jews go to Moses and say, hey, can you get God to calm down? Can we figure out a way to get His wrath appeased? And the Lord says, I want you to make a serpent of brass, and I want you to stand that thing up. And this is what He says, all they've got to do is look at that thing. That's all they've got to do. They're out in a tent somewhere dying to that fiery serpent and they're going to die soon. And Moses goes in there and says, come on, brother, come on. All you got to do is look up at that serpent. And all that they just had all they could just use every last bit of strength they had to get outside that tent and look up there and look at that thing. They'd be healed. Now, that's a picture of New Testament salvation. When you go into the house of a lost sinner there and physically they could look just fine, but spiritually speaking, they're poisoned with sin. That fiery serpent of sin has bit them and they're gonna die and go to hell. And you're just trying to get them to look up to the cross. And if any man will just look to him, they'll live. And you need to get your eyes on anything and anyone else, excuse me, you need to get your eyes off of anything and anyone else. And that's the problem. People want to look to something else. Don't look at anybody else. When it comes to salvation, you better get your eyes on Jesus Christ. And you need to look to Jesus. If you get to looking at others around you long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that nobody is saved but yourself. And if you look at yourself long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that you aren't saved either. You can't keep the focus on others or on yourself too much. You'll either come out an egomaniac or a manic-depressive. That's it. And you'll either think you're the greatest saint that ever lived or that you're so sorry there's no use to even try. So get your eyes off everybody else. Get your eyes off you. Get your eyes on Him. That's how you get saved. And you can't look to religion for salvation. I really believe what I'm about to say. I believe that religion is the first step to atheism. I really believe that. You know what religion is? It's forcing a man to work and fail and work and fail and try and fail and worry about a God that's sitting over him with a hammer of judgment just waiting. You keep messing up, I'm going to knock you down. That's what religion does. Come do your sacraments. I know you got drunk over the weekend, and God's got his judgment on you. You're going to hell, but you better come to the church and get it right. That's religion. And it eventually pushes a man to say, I don't want to deal with a God like that, so I just won't believe in him. That's how religion represents God, but that is not the God of the Bible. It's been said like this, religion is man reaching up to God, but the God of the Bible reached down to man. And you have to look to Jesus Christ. There's an old hymn that says, it's called, Look and Live. Look and live, my brother, live. Look to Jesus now and live. And you've got to look at Him if you want salvation. I think everybody here is saved, so I'll move on. But you need to look to Jesus Christ for strength as well. Look at Matthew chapter 14. And it's not your own strength. You need to look to Jesus Christ for His strength. Look at Matthew chapter 14. Here's one of the most well-known stories in the Bible, especially in the Gospels. It's the account of Peter walking on the water. And they're out on a storm and Jesus Christ comes to them through the storm, walking on top of that water. And we'll just pick up the story about halfway through, verse 28, Matthew 14, 28. And Peter answered Him and said, If it be thou bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. It's a miracle. What a crazy thing. Watch. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased." Now folks, it says that when Peter saw the wind, So here he is, he's stepping out on the water. I know this is simple preaching that most of you have heard, but he steps out on the water and he's looking at Jesus Christ and all of a sudden his eyes start wandering. And he starts sitting there, he sees the wind and those waves are getting high. And when his eyes get off of the Savior, the faith goes down. Notice what Jesus Christ says to him, O thou of little faith. He had enough faith to get out on the water, didn't he? Nobody else in the boat had that faith. He had enough faith to step out and all of a sudden he starts looking around and the thing starts to waver and he starts to sink. You've got to get your eyes on Jesus. Let's just be real honest. It's hard to look to Jesus when the storm is raging. Sometimes the wind starts howling and it's hard to hear Him. Isn't that right? Sometimes that wind starts howling real loud and you can't hear His promises as loud as you heard it when the sea was calm. Sometimes those storms start to hit you and the waves are going so high it's hard to see them through all that rage and all that stuff. But if you want a Christian life that has some victory over storms, you're going to have to look to Jesus Christ for strength because you don't have it. You can't get through the storm without Him. Look at Hebrews chapter 12. You've got to look to Him for strength and it can be in all aspects of your life. That's a classic one to consider when you're going through troubles and trials, but just in your life, in your own race, in your own Christian walk, you've got to get your eyes on Him. Look at Hebrews 12. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. You know verse 1 is talking about the great cloud of witnesses. What's that? It's the last chapter. The last chapter, we call it the hall of faith. You've got men like Enoch and you've got men like Abraham and men like Moses. Great, great men of God. And he says, you see all those guys? Don't look at them. You catch that? Now listen, let me make this real clear. Paul says, follow me as I follow Christ. There's nothing wrong with getting behind the right guy. If God has his hand on a man, you follow him as far as he can go. If he gets off the track, go right on past him and keep following Jesus Christ. I'm not saying you can't. I'm not telling you that you can't get good testimonies and good examples, but at the end of the day, see the great kind of witnesses? Look to Jesus. You know why? Because they're great men, but they fall. We can sit here and look at somebody like, it mentions Moses. Yeah, Moses had some sin. You can think of some great men like David and have good examples. Yeah, they fall. Jesus never fell. Looking unto Jesus. And that ought to translate right into your own life. You know why? Because you shouldn't look. When you're looking at your life, you need to stop looking at all the people around you and worrying about what they're doing. and worrying about other people's ministries and what they have going on. You need to run your own race. You know what you'll be tempted to do? You'll be tempted to look at the victories in somebody else's life and start comparing your life to theirs. And the Lord says, don't look at them, look at Me. Follow Me. You'll do the same thing. You'll look at past victories in your own life sometimes. And the Lord says, forgetting those things which are behind, looking unto Me. And you need to look past it. And you know what some of you do? You try to run somebody else's race. Cut it out. The Bible says to run the race that's set before you and get your eyes on Him. I heard it said like this, for the truly dedicated there are only two things that count, God above and duty below. Those are the only two things. God above, what's He think, and then the duty He has for you. And so you need to quit worrying about everybody else. You need to get right with God, you need to follow Him. I had a buddy of mine down in PBI, and when I first got to school there, he was a pretty big guy, and he worked out all the time, and he gave me the best advice I've ever heard for working out and getting stronger. He said this, he goes, find the biggest guy at the gym and do whatever he's doing. Now that's solid advice, man, I've followed that. And what I think about, though, is in the Christian life, we get to looking around at all the weak Christians around us and think we're doing okay. You get to looking at everybody else and sometimes you look at the faults and failures and sometimes you'll get messed up looking at their victories and strengths and you get down on yourself when you should be looking at the strongest guy in the universe. Looking at Him and doing what He does, following His example. You know what you need to do? You need to look at the life and the victories of Jesus Christ and get your eyes on Him and you'll have a much, much better chance of growing stronger and getting some victory. Look at Hebrews chapter 4. Hebrews 4, look at verse 14. And I understand the doctrinal application of all these verses in Hebrews, but you can make spiritual application. 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14 So Jesus had all the same points of temptation you have. The temptation you're gonna have is to look at the other brethren and look around, well he's fallen, he's doing the same thing, he did it. And the Bible says don't look at them, look at Jesus Christ. Get your eyes on him, why? Because he won. He went through the same temptations you're gonna go through and he had victory. So if you want victory, you're gonna have to look to him. Look at Hebrews 2. Hebrews 2, 9. The Bible says, "...but we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man. For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering." I love that verse. Once again, it's looking to Him. We see Jesus, it says. But I love that verse because that means He's my captain. That means he's your captain. You'll notice that the theme of the songs today that Brother Isaac picked were about being a soldier. I didn't ask him to do that, but I'm glad he did. And if you're gonna be a good soldier, that means you're gonna have to follow your captain. You know what the problem with some of you is? You've got your eyes on some YouTube teacher, and he's no captain. You've got your eyes on some man who's going to let you down, a leader who's not a good leader. And you need to get your eyes off that and you need to get your eyes on him because he'll never let you down. You need that captain. It's important. Brother Matt was talking about today, the importance of having a personal relationship with your captain. You know why? Because if you put all your stakes on a man, when he falls, you'll fall with him. But Jesus never falls. He says, I'll go with you all the way. He won't mess up. And you've got to have that. That thing has to be your emphasis. I was talking with my cousin Donovan here the other day, and we were talking about a church that we both knew about growing up. And the pastor there, man, that guy had all the personality, had all the charisma, great speaker. And one day that guy fell, and half his church just fell too. They just left with him. And he stayed preaching, he just messed up. And they all left, and now they're all way worse off than they were before. And we both were sitting there talking, we both went to PBI, and I said to him, I said, you know, it's interesting, with how much of a character Dr. Ruckman was, it was never about him. It was about the book. And it was about your personal relationship with Jesus Christ. As much of a great preacher Brother Donovan is and how much that fellow has helped me, he emphasized two things in that school. Your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and getting in that book and knowing that book. And it wasn't about him. So you know what happens when Dr. Ruckman dies? The thing just keeps on going. Because it wasn't about him! Brother Donovan the same. When he dies, the thing, as long as that thing just stays on him, then it'll keep on going. Why? I'm following the captain. That's what you need to do You gotta follow the captain. So when Jesus Christ is tempted in Matthew 4, he goes straight to God's word and he says, it is written. Is that what you do when you're tempted? You following the captain? When Satan shows up and attacks Jesus Christ, Christ resists him. Is that what you do? You following the captain's lead there? There's some blind men that show up in front of Jesus Christ and he gives them sight. How about you? Got any blind sinners coming your way, lost and without hope and without God? Have you followed the captain's leading and his example and used the light of God's Word to heal the blindness of some lost sinner? It's a pretty good example, isn't it? You're supposed to be following Him. Sometimes people would come to Jesus Christ and they were just down and hurt and think about the woman at the well and He gives her hope and encouragement. What about some people in your life that the Lord brings along your way? Are you able to encourage them and follow your captain's example? And every once in a while, just like we were reading this morning with Brother Matt, sometimes the Lord sits there and says, oh, you generations of vipers, how can ye being evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. And he just sits there and just tears their hide off, man. Well, sometimes you need to be just like your captain and somebody needs a rebuke. But you've got to be close to the captain to figure out what his will is in those kind of things. And then the most important thing, at the end of Christ's ministry, he's called to climb up a hill and sacrifice it all for others. And the question is, are you going to follow the captain? Are you going to give of yourself? Are you going to be self-centered, self-willed, and selfish, and stubborn, and have all the emphasis on you all the time? Well, you're not going to be like your captain. And the Lord's called you to be like him. And what you have is a captain that left a perfect example for you to follow. But when you get your eyes off Him, you're going to sink. So you have songs like, Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. All right, look at Matthew 17. I'll give you my third point here. You need to look to Jesus Christ for salvation. You need to look to Jesus Christ for strength. And you need to look for His second coming. Look at Matthew 17. Matthew 17, and what you have here is a picture of the second advent of Jesus Christ. This is the Mount of Transfiguration. We'll read it to get the story, Matthew 17, verse 1. And after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart. And he was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And if you know Revelation, that's a picture of him coming back. And so he's giving them a sneak preview of what's going to happen when he comes back. Now, look at verse 3, And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias. What's that? Revelation chapter 11, the two witnesses show up, Moses and Elijah. And so Peter, James, and John are getting something special here. They're seeing him just like he's going to be when he comes back the second time. They're seeing Moses and Elijah show up. So Peter just, you know, sticks his foot in his mouth as usual. Verse 4, Then answered Peter and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here. If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them and said, Arise and be not afraid. Watch. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man save Jesus only." Now this is a picture of the second advent, but I'm going to make spiritual application here for you that you need to get at your eyes on His second coming. And that's once again easier said than done. But it's not about Moses and Elijah showing up. And they're sitting there looking at Moses and Elijah and thinking that they're important. And they weren't. And Peter, James, and John weren't important. They shouldn't have been looking at each other. They shouldn't have been thinking about the other disciples that were left down below thinking they're something special. No, their eyes should have just been on Jesus Christ and Him glorified. It's supposed to be about Jesus Christ. You know what's interesting? One of my favorite passages, maybe one of my favorite chapters in the whole Bible is Revelation chapter 5. When we talked through it, I talked about it a little bit, but I'm going to kind of give it to you again here just as an illustration. Revelation chapter 5, John's up in heaven, and God is sitting on the throne, and he's got a book sitting there that's sealed with seven seals, and no one can open it. The Bible says a strong angel steps forward, and he says, is there anyone worthy to open the book and loose the seals thereof? And the Bible says they searched. They searched. They went looking for somebody who was worthy to open that book. And the Bible says they searched under the earth. That's hell. They searched the earth and they searched heaven. and they couldn't find anyone worthy. Now that's a wild thing. They went looking for someone. At least that's how I envision it in my mind. And it makes sense they didn't find anyone in hell. They could go down there and find Nebuchadnezzar and he wouldn't help. They could go down there and find Nero and they could go down and they could find any number of popes, amen, just down burning in hell. And of course they weren't worthy to open the books, amen. Then it says they searched the earth. I mean, I get it. You know, the world would look around and see famous people, and they'd look around and they'd see the King of England, and the Lord goes, no, not even close. And it doesn't matter who wins this election, neither of them are going to be worthy, amen? Not even close. Go over to Hollywood and put up all the stars and the angels and whatever the flip you want to call them. No, they're not worthy. You could go to all these celebrity Christians like Chris Pratt and Justin Bieber, and they might be saved. I think they are. But I'm telling you that they're not worthy. Then it says he went to heaven. They searched heaven out. And there's some great men there. And if John went and talked to David to see if he was worthy, David would have to step back. And John said, but the Bible says that you had a heart after God, a heart that was like God's. And he'd say, no, I'm just a wicked devil sinner. I'm here by the grace of God alone. I ain't worthy. He could go over there and he'd find Daniel, and he'd get down on his knees in front of Daniel, and Daniel would say, no, no, no, get up. This happened one time before, and that's why I'm not worthy, is I took worship from a man when it was supposed to be to God. And he'd go to Job and say, you were righteous, and he said, yeah, I was so righteous, I was self-righteous. I'm not worthy. And the Bible says that John just weeps. And then one of the elders steps up, and he says, behold the Lamb. Get your eyes on Him. You know what I thought about? I thought there were going to be some Roman Catholics that get up to heaven in spite of their church, and when they get up there, they won't look for a single pope. Their eyes are going to be on Jesus Christ. There's going to be people down here and big contemporary churches and stuff that have their celebrities like Osteen or whatever, and they won't look for them if they're there. But they won't look for them, amen? They're going to look to Jesus Christ. And you know what? A Bible-believing church right now, you should already have your eyes on Him. There should already be a desire and a longing to see Him. Do you know what the church is likened to in the Bible? A bride who's waiting for her bridegroom. And I remember Brother Donovan describing this one time. He said, you know, the bridegroom comes up, and he stands here, and he's waiting for the bride. And sometimes that bride comes walking down the aisle, and she's doing this, and she's waving, and she's looking at everybody like this. But man, there's something real special about when that girl comes through there, and she's looking at that bridegroom. There's nothing she desires more than him. And Christian, that should be your desire, is to see him, to get your eyes on him. I was thinking about my, of all things, to go from a bride to a dog, but it makes sense in a second. I got a dog over there, just a little pooch, man, and I'll tell you, sometimes I just watch him, and he has got his eyes on me. And I can just change the expression of my face, and he'll look up like, we gonna do something? Because I'm ready. I look at the door, and he goes, you want to go out? And I'm looking at that stupid, low IQ, little soulless animal and he's got more character in him than I do sometimes because he's attentive to whatever the Master's doing. Are you attentive to the Master like that? You got your eyes on the Master? Let's look at one more verse and we'll be done. 2 Timothy 4. 2 Timothy 4. looking for his second coming. 2 Timothy 4, 7, I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. You gotta see him. See how simple of a thing that is? You know what that is right there? That's a reward that God promises you. Laying up a treasure in heaven that if you just have your eyes on him and you love his appearing, you get a reward for it. How crazy is that? He's coming back for you. Isn't that reward enough? No, if you're looking for him. You know, the Bible says he's gonna come back in the clouds, so every once in a while, when there's a cloudy day, I get a little excited. And I look up there and I see those clouds and I say, why not today, Lord? Why couldn't you come back today? You know what the closing prayer in the Bible is? Even so, come Lord Jesus, amen. The closing prayer is, can you come fix this? You know what happens when Christians go through hell on earth? They start desiring heaven a lot more. I'll close with this. There was a fellow working up on top of a roof one time at his house there. And he had a ladder set up. And he's up there working along. And he'd been working a little while. And suddenly, he hears his boy crying out for help. And he goes over to the side of the roof there. And he looks over the edge. And his boy's about halfway up hanging onto that thing like this. And he looked down and got too scared. And his dad looked down on him and just leaned down and said, son, just look straight at me and come on up. And that boy looked up at him. And once his eyes weren't down on everything else and he got his eyes on dad, he just climbs up, gets up to the top with no problem at all when he just kept his eyes on dad. And Christian, such a simple, simple illustration. But sometimes the world will get you looking down. You're just going to grab on that thing and sometimes it might just feel like you're hanging on for dear life. And the Lord's just looking down going, hey, just look up at me. Just look right here. I got you. And what you need to do is just get your eyes on Him, and He will take you safely home. And in fact, one of these days, He's going to meet you halfway and take you the rest of the way up. Amen? All right, let's all stand. We're going to have a pianist come. We won't have a long invitation here, but if you need a few minutes to talk to the Lord before the revival, I'd recommend you do it. Father, I pray that You'll bless Your words, bless the preaching. Father, speak to Your people now. Please. Lord, I love you. I'm thankful for you. Thanks for being so kind and so gentle to just a poor sinner like me. Thanks for blessing these folks, Lord. I pray that you'll bless them now. you. Mm, mm, mm, mm. I'm sorry. Amen. All right, well, we're gonna have some food here and then probably won't take as long as normal But the afternoon service we're gonna come in here and we're gonna spend some time in prayer before the meeting tomorrow So stick around we won't have a real long lunch or anything and the prayer meetings don't take real long Maybe they should but they don't normally but brother Tyler if you would just please bless the food and the service, please