You find some things that God had Ezekiel do, and you're just like, man, I don't have nothing to complain about. I'm not laying on my side in the street for 360-something days and having to cook my food with dung and having to dig through the wall with the spoon. You know, there's just a lot of things. You're like, thank God I wasn't Ezekiel, amen? But there's some phrases and there's some things in Ezekiel that we can learn from. One place is there in chapter 2, Ezekiel says, "...I sat where they sat." May I say unto you this morning, you'll never be able to help people until you sit where they sit. Sometimes we don't always understand what God is doing in our lives. And so often we as Christians, we think of our Christian life as a selfish life. We think about me because salvation was selfish. Now understand, when you say, what do you mean salvation was selfish? Well, understand salvation was all about you. It wasn't about nobody else. Thank God for that. It's all about you. Your personal walk with the Lord is all about you. But your Christian walks are not all about you. It's about others. about serving others, about encouraging others, exhorting one another, edifying one another, bearing one another's burdens, being salt and light to a lost and a dying world, encouraging those along the way. And sometimes we don't always understand the there that God puts us. And if you'll study the life of Ezekiel, and I'll give you a little background about Ezekiel, Ezekiel was one of the Babylonian captivity. He was one of the prisoners. Now he was not put in the palace as Daniel and the three Hebrew boys was. You'll find in Psalms chapter number 137, look in Ezekiel chapter number 1, then we'll go to Psalms 137, you'll find there that He came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month. I was among the captives by the river of Chabar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God." Understand, Ezekiel, that captive there, he was of the Babylonian captivity. They remember the Babylonians had come in, destroyed Jerusalem, captured there, had killed a lot of the adults, captured the children. and took them there as slaves into the land of Babylon, some of the adults that he took there too. But they find themselves there by the river Chabar. And in Psalms 112, the psalmist there records by this, and I'm trying to decide, just mimed the Lord this morning, I'm trying to discern if He wants me to preach on Psalms 137 or Ezekiel chapter 3, you just pray for us. But here it says, "...by the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down." We wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof, for they that carried us away captive required of us a song, and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. And they said, How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" Understand this, these people were held captive by their sorrows. Their psalm town had been destroyed, they had been taken captive to a foreign land under a foreign leader, and they were remembering Zion, but they said, how shall we sing the Lord's song in such a strange land? They didn't want to be where they were at this time in their life. They had never dreamed as a young man, as a young boy or a young woman, the time of life that they were finding themselves in. And I understand this, so often in our lives we find ourselves in time periods and time frames of life that we would never dream of or we never thought the Lord would ever have us travel or the Lord would never have us plod. But the fact of the matter is, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and the children of Israel was there not because of what just that generation had done, but the generations before them had disobeyed God and God had put them into captivity. And they were there because of someone else's doings. And may I say unto you this morning, sometimes our sorrow in our heart is because of someone else's doing. But they were there because of their circumstances. Circumstances were not well. Their circumstances there were fine that you'll study that out. You'll find that they were dwelling there in lands, number one, that was not their own. They had been taken out of their houses. Instead of being a free person, they were found slaves in the land of Babylon. Their circumstances were not the best. But you'll also find that they were held captive by their enemy. They couldn't go back home. They couldn't get out of their situation. They probably went to bed at night dreaming that they could get out of that situation. They probably went into bed at night longing, hoping that tomorrow morning when the Lord's mercies were renewed, their situation and their circumstances might have changed. But the fact of the matter is, as the sun rose in the morning and the Lord's mercies were new, their situation and their circumstances were still, and they were still held captive by the enemy. This was what Ezekiel was dealing with every moment of his life. There was no hope in the life of Ezekiel. There was no hope for change. There was no hope that tomorrow was going to be better. The fact of the matter is that Ezekiel, as we find in Ezekiel chapter number 1, that Ezekiel there was among the captives held by the river Chabar. And understand this, but I wanted to remind you this morning, that beloved, though you may see your vows, And though you may find yourselves in circumstances that you really would rather not be in, I am glad this morning to stand before you and tell you that sometimes He sees what we don't. Sometimes God has something in store for us as His children. Sometimes God wants us to be at a place and that there in our life is not by the river Tzobar finding ourselves wrapped up in our sorrows or wrapped up being held by the captive. But He finds us and He tells us to go and dwell in a certain place because there the Lord wants to exalt Himself to us. May I say to you this morning, it's hard for the Lord to exalt Himself when we find ourselves exalted. It's hard for the Lord to exalt Himself whenever things are going good. It's hard for the Lord to exalt Himself when we have no worries and we have no cares. But you let us find ourselves in sorrow. and in circumstances, and brokenness, and being held captive from freedom. God can, wants to, and will show Himself strong and mighty on your behalf in your situation if you'll just be there. You'll find in Ezekiel chapter 1 and 2 You'll find that God will look in verse number 1. He says, "...I sat by the river Shabbat, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. In the fifth day of the month, with the fifth year of the king of Jehoiachim's captivity, the word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel." I want to say to you this morning, and I want everybody to listen to me, God is interested in you personally. You may find yourselves in situations that other people's dealing with, and understand this, you don't have to look far to find someone who's in worse shape than you're in. You don't have to look far to find someone who's in the same sorrows and in the same hard times that you're dealing with. But I'm glad to stand before you this morning and that the God of heaven is interested in you personally this morning. Personally. He spoke to Ezekiel. He lied to Ezekiel. Notice, the word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel. I want to remind you this morning, it didn't come to his brothers, it didn't come to his sisters, it didn't come to his aunts and his uncles or his neighbors, but the Bible said that the Word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel. That means it was to him and to him alone. And I got news for you this morning. No matter what you're dealing with, no matter where you're going, no matter what's going on in your life, God's got a Word. expressly for you. Expressly for you. He was dealing with personal sorrows, but I want you to understand, as He was dealing with these personal sorrows, He had a God that was interested in Him personally. So often in our lives, we get to thinking about the God's doing this for this person, and God's doing that for this person, and God's doing that for that person, and understand we'll be just like the rest of the crowd. We'll hang our harps upon the willows, And we'll say, how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? We remembered how it used to be, but now things are not going right, and things are not the way they ought to be in our life, and things are not the way we dreamed. So I'm just going to hang my hearts upon the willows. I'm not going to sing the songs of Zion anymore. I'm not going to serve God anymore. I'm going to sit here and sour and soak about what's going on wrong in my life. you can realize that God's interested in your problems personally. And He's expressly got a message for you. You and you alone. Thank God that He's the writer who wrote, For God so loved the world. Thank God for that. But I'm glad over there, you've heard me say this many times before, thank God that He loved the world in John 3.16. Thank God that He loved the church in Ephesians 5.25. But thank God He loved me in Galatians chapter 2, verse number 20. I am crucified with Christ and nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. But the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. I want to remind you this morning that you've got a personal God that's interested expressly in you. You know that God's more interested in you personally than what's going on in the White House today. God's more interested in you personally than what's going on down at the courthouse today or the schoolhouse. God is expressly interested in you and your situation. Notice He said, I saw the visions of God. verses 4 through 28. I'm not going into detail there, but you'll find the vision that he saw. He had the vision of God and the vision that he saw. Understand the word of the Lord in verse 3 came expressly unto him. Now look in chapter 2, verse 1. He said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak, unto thee." May I say unto you, that message that he has is just for you. It may not be for nobody else, but it's for you. Kyla Rowland wrote the song, Between Me and the Storm. And thank God the chorus talks about that he's concerned about me. I'm glad to know this morning that God that's holding this world on His 33 degree axis, that's causing the earth to spin at the rate of speed that it's spinning, that's holding the moon and the stars in the heavens, that's holding the seas at bay, that's causing the trees there to regenerate there in the wintertime, getting ready to spring forth with bud, and now the sap's beginning to go back up the trees. That's feeding the fish. That's feeding the birds. I'm glad to stand before you this morning, and I'm glad to know that the God of heaven that holds the world in all of its being and existence, that He's concerned about somebody like you and somebody like me. The Word came expressly unto Ezekiel. He said, I will speak unto thee. Notice the words of comfort. Go on in the Bible, and I just want to share this with you, these words of comfort. I'm trying to get into chapter 3. But the words of comfort, the Lord had not forgotten them. There was words of courage in verse 6. He said, Be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words. There's words of counsel in verse 8. Be not rebellious. Eat the scroll. Speak My words. Understand, when God comes to you, He don't come as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. He comes to give you encouragement. He comes to give you direction. Not only was it a personal word, but I want you to know this this morning, and I believe this is where most of us are probably today in our lives, we have the Word of God, we believe it, we're around the people of God, but the fact of the matter is we need a touch of God in our life. Look in Ezekiel 2, verse number 14. I'm sorry, it's not 14. Let me find it here. Oh, chapter 3, verse number 14. It says, So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit. But the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. Let me ask you this tomorrow. How many of you this morning need a personal touch of the Lord in your life? You've got the promises of God, you've got the Word of God. How many of you this morning need to see the glory of God in your life? Not the circumstances change, not the miracles, not God doing healing the sick or raising the dead or causing the blind to see. But Ezekiel saw something that changed his life forever. Isaiah there saw the Lord high and lifted up in the temple and it changed his life forever. Peter, James, and John saw the Lord transfigured on the Mount of Transfiguration, and it changed their lives forever. Beloved, what we need this morning is a personal revelation and a personal touch of the God of Heaven in our life. Why? Because our circumstances are not great, and our situations are not great, and our sorrows are heavy upon us, and we can't do nothing about it, and nobody else. But He can. And that's what the Lord was trying to do to Ezekiel. And let's look in chapter number 3, and I want to begin reading there in verse number 22. The Bible says this, "...and the hand of the Lord was there upon me, and He said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will..." There's our Word. "...there talk with thee." Then I rose and went forth into the plain, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Jabar, and I fell upon my face. Then the Spirit entered me and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go shut thyself within thy house." I want you to notice this morning, sometimes your there is a personal pursuit. We've talked about being there in the land of Goshen, in that land of plenty. We've talked about being there last Sunday night, it was down at the potter's house where God sometimes tries to give us an education. We talked about being there in Elijah at the widow's house, there sometimes God is trying to get us to edify and encourage one another. We talked about being there under the juniper tree where Elijah was there and he was fed by the ravens And sometimes God is trying there to edify the saint of God Himself. But here in Ezekiel's life, God is trying to exalt Himself before Ezekiel. And it's not for nobody else. It's for not the crowd. It's not for the congregation. But it was for Ezekiel and Ezekiel alone. He said this, He said, Arise and go forth unto the plain, and I will there talk with thee." Thank God for preachers that God speaks through and preaches to that we can hear the Word of God in the message of the Lord. Thank God for the teachers. Thank God for the songs. But understand this morning, this was a personal message to Ezekiel himself. And God said, This is your pursuit. You've got to leave the crowd. You've got to leave the congregation. You've got to leave everybody else. I want to deal with you. and you alone. I've got something for you and you alone. Understand today in our realm of Christianity and the society that we live in, it's all about the congregation today, it's all about the crowd, it's all about the wondrous things and the bigger we are. But understand this morning, when it comes to a personal relationship with God, it's your personal pursuit That will make a difference in your life. Because guess what? Ezekiel could have got caught up in the crowd. The congregation, he could have got his eyes on the congregation and missed what the Lord had for him. God said, this is your personal pursuit. A.P. Gibbs said, the Christian's highest occupation is the worship of God. A. W. Tozer wrote in the book Pursuit of God, and if you've never read it, you ought to read the Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer. A. W. Tozer said this, one, our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us. Understand this, we're not on some quest of seeking something that we can't find, but we're on a quest and a personal pursuit of seeking a God that wants to manifest Himself to us, that wants to give us direction, that wants to give us comfort, that wants to give us hope, that wants to touch our lives and change us, an eternal change. That's the God that we're pursuing. He's not hiding Himself, but He tells us, go and hide. He tells us to go and hide. Remember over there where He tells us, "...and when thou hast entered into the closet, shut thy door." Remember Jonathan told David, when he shut the area beyond him, he said, it's beyond you. He said, you need to go and hide. The psalmist wrote over there that He would hide us under the shadow of His wings. When's the last time you just went and hid you and God? When's the last time you went and pursued God and nothing else? Just the pursuit of God. It was a personal pursuit. He says, Arise, go forth into the plain. May I say this to you, young people, and I'll say this to the older people, if there comes a time in your life as a child of God, where it's not you're pursuing God because of the pastor, it's not you're pursuing God because of your parents, it's not you're pursuing God because of your brethren or your sisters, it's not you're pursuing God because of your co-workers, but you start pursuing God for yourself. I'm afraid today, there's not many people pursuing God for themselves. But we have a personal Savior that does a personal business with just us. You don't know how the Savior deals with me. I don't know how the Savior deals with you. May I say to you this morning, thank God that the Savior don't air my dirty laundry. Thank God that the Savior don't air my frailties and my insecurities in my life. It's personal. He's personal. But He came to Ezekiel and He said, Arise and go to the plain and there I will speak with you. And I want you to understand this pursuit that Ezekiel went on. Understand it was to see God and to hear from God and to be encouraged from God in his life. Notice what he said. Verse number 23, Then I rose. I rose and I went. May I say unto you, so often in our lives, we want our whole Christian life to be like salvation. You say, what do you mean? Remember, salvation is just the door. It's the greatest thing to ever happen to me and it's something I'll never get over. It birthed me into the family of God, made me a new creature in Christ, Adopted me. Created me a clean heart. Forgave me my sins. All of that stuff all at the same time. And all I had to do was simply trust Christ as my Savior. I had to choose Him over my sins. And at that moment, in that instant, God done the rest of it. But you know what, after we get saved, there's more to it than that. I'll be honest with you, and please don't take offense to what I'm saying this morning, and please don't misconstrue the statement that I made. Salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ, listen to me, is a lazy man's religion. You say, what do you mean? I didn't have to do nothing for it. I didn't have to work for it. For by grace are you saved through faith. That not of yourselves is the gift of God. It's not of works lest any man should boast. I didn't have to do nothing. All I had to do was repent of my sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and I was saved. But understand this, if I want a relationship with God, I must pursue Him. I can't come into the church on Sunday and just hear from the preacher on Sunday morning and expect to have a relationship with God. I can't even come Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday night and expect to have a real relationship with God. I have to have a personal pursuit. Oh, I need something from the Lord, and thank God for the house of God, and you pray that every time you come into the house of God that God would give you something, and that God would meet us here because that's why we're here. But beloved God, help us if the only time we try to get something from God is when we walk in the church doors on Sunday morning. I'll be honest with you, the atmosphere of our services would change if we'd get something from God throughout the week before we come into the house of God on Sunday morning. But nobody wants to pursue Him. He said, I want you to go there, and when you get there, this is what I'm going to do for you. There's a plane over there that I want you to be. When you go there, all by your lonesome self, when you've left the crowd, you've left the congregation, you've left the security of the people around you, and you go and you get along with me, I want you to notice what he said. He said, verse number 22, "...I will there talk with thee." May I say this to you this morning? And I'm careful of how I say this, Brother Green, because I don't want you to misunderstand me and say, well, the preacher said that's the only place God could talk to me. Here's what I want you to understand. You need to get you a there in your life, where it's just you and God. That there is not a particular place, it was just a plane. But there was a there, and God said, that's where I'll deal with you. That's where I'll talk with you. That's where I'll reveal myself with you. You need a there in your life. As I've said before, thank God for the church. Thank God for the congregation. Thank God for the crowd. Thank God for the music. Thank God for the preaching. We can get on social media and YouTube and sermon audio and all that other stuff. But what about that there in your life? You need to hear from God, and God said, that's where I'll talk to you. That's where I'll speak to you. That's where I'll show myself to you. He said, I will talk with the... May I say unto you this morning, it's one thing for you to hear somebody else talk about the Lord, but it's another thing to hear the Lord Himself talk to you. So often in our Christian lives, we want what somebody else has got when we can have it. But our full faith is not in what the Lord says to us, it's what the Lord has said and done for others. Understand, and I want to remind you again, we have a God that's interested in us personally. Because understand, Brother Grain, if God's not interested in me personally, Personally, I'm a husband. Personally, I'm a daddy. Personally, I'm a pastor. Personally, I'm a son. Personally, I'm a brother. Personally, I'm a nephew. Personally, I'm a businessman. Personally. And if God can't touch me personally and help me personally, then I can't be all those other things that God has put me to be in my life. God's interested in you personally. And there comes a time in your life where you've got to have that pursuit of God on your own. Ezekiel got up and the Bible said that he arose and that he went and he saw a personal message. But I want you to notice this in verse 24, in this personal message. Then the Spirit entered into me and sat me upon my feet and spake with me. I'm going to say this to you this morning. God will always speak through the Holy Ghost of God to you. Not in visions, not in apparitions, but through the Holy Ghost of God. Jesus said, when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, will testify of me. Well, I think this is what the Lord wants me to do. Has the Spirit of God told you that? Does it line up with the Word of God? Because let me say this to you this morning. When the Spirit of God speaks to you, it will be in the confines of that Bible. I know that's not popular. But when the Spirit of God speaks, it will be in the confines of that Bible, because when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth. What is truth? Thy Word is truth. Well, you know, Grandma said this and Grandpa said this. God bless them. But if it don't match that Bible, they told you wrong. Well, you know, I had a Sunday School teacher that said this. Did it line up with the Word of God? May I say unto you this morning, so we as Christians today are so far removed from allowing the Spirit of God to lead us, guide us, and direct us in our life. The Bible said that He would guide us into all truth. Are you trying to make decisions in your life? Why don't you get in the Word of God and let the Spirit of God speak to you and let the Spirit guide you into all truth. Are you looking for comfort? Are you looking for help? Are you looking for strength? Why don't you go find you a place of there and get along with God like Ezekiel did? I understand he had a personal message. I'm preaching fast. I'm not preaching tonight, so I'm preaching fast. Brother Larry Sills will be here tonight. And I'm finishing. The natural man can't bear the truth. Without the Spirit of God, it just becomes law and judgment. The natural man receives not things of God, and neither can he know them if they are spiritually discerned. I want you to show us this one. He says, "...then I rose and went forth in plain. Behold, the glory of the Lord stood there as the glory which I saw by the river." I want to say there's four things I want to bring out by this. Number one, it was a personal revelation. You say, well, I thought you said we're not to have visions and dreams. Thank God that the Spirit of God revealed to me that there was a God in heaven. Thank God the Spirit of God revealed to me that there is a Savior who died on the cross for my sins. Thank God the Spirit of God revealed to me that there was a hell to shun. Thank God that the Spirit of God revealed to me the truth of God's Word and allowed me to see God high and lifted up and allowed me to see myself as a wicked sinner on my way to hell. Thank God for the Spirit of Revelation in my life. Amen. But thank God for the revelation of God Himself to me personally since I got saved. Personally. I didn't see no dreams, and I wasn't as Isaiah, and I saw the Lord high and lifted up in the temple. I wasn't as Ezekiel over there, where he seemed God, and it took some thirty-something verses there. I'm to describe the glory of God. I'm a beloved thank God for the times in my life where God has revealed Himself personally unto me. You say, well, He's never done that for me. When's the last time you pursued Him? Understand this, you're not going to see Him in the crowd. You're not going to see Him in the congregation. You're going to have to go after Him. You're going to have to find that there. And when you're there, you're going to have to listen to what the Word of God tells you. And when you're there, when the Spirit... It was a personal revelation. But I want to say this to you this morning, it was not about the place. Now, let me say this this morning. We've heard the terms, and we've been in services years and days gone by, years gone by at different places, and we've heard the term, and we've said, man, the glory of God fell. And we associate the glory of God with places. Right? Understand this, this place here is not any particular place. But it was dealing with a particular person and a particular God. You say, well, I've never seen God out in the wilderness. I've never seen God. I understand creation declares there's a God. Well, I just don't know if God can do that here. I've never felt the glory of God there. You understand you're pursuing the wrong thing. Because God will reveal Himself to you if you pursue Him. Seek the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Draw nigh unto God and He'll draw nigh unto you. Cleanse your hands, your centers, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. You want to see the glory of God in your life? You need a touch from God in your life? You want to see the Lord high and lifted up in all of His holiness and all of His glory? Why don't you get along with God somewhere and start pursuing Him? It's for yourself. He said, and the Lord, when He got there, the Lord revealed Himself there to Ezekiel. It was a personal revelation. I thank God for the first place in my life when He revealed Himself to me. But understand, you should drive a landmark up there, that place that I got saved, where God revealed to me His goodness and grace and glory and righteousness and holiness. And I can take you back to that place even though the tree is gone. I can come within ten feet of it. Thank God there's a landmark drove up there. But I'm glad that's not the only time I've had a personal encounter and a personal experience and see the glory of God in my life. Understand, this was just the plain. It wasn't even by the river. Don't tie God to a place. This is where God wanted Him now. Remember Peter over there on the Mount of Transfiguration, when the glory of the Lord appeared there, the Lord was transfigured in Moses and Elijah. In Matthew 17, there where Moses and Elijah there appeared, and Peter and James and John and the Lord, and Peter said, Let's build us tabernacles here. This is a good place. Thank God for those good places. The Lord said, No. You say, What are you saying? Don't tie God to a place. Tie God to His person. Don't tie God to a place. If when you do that, you're putting God in a box. It was about the person there, it was not about the place. It's a reflection place when one's alone with God and has communion with Him. I want you to notice this one. Notice what he said, "'Then I rose and went forth into the plain, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chabar.'" Notice the prophet's reaction. Notice what happened. He said, "...and I fell upon my face." God had honored Ezekiel with his presence. Ezekiel honored God with his prostration. God had showed up in Ezekiel's life and Ezekiel said, "...I fell upon my face before the Lord." Now understand this. God never has and God never will. revealed Himself to a proud, arrogant person. The Bible said, God resisteth the proud. That means that He pushes him away. Pushes him away. But when God showed up in Ezekiel's life there that day, the Bible says, he says, I fell upon my face. Ezekiel realized who God was. Ezekiel realized how unworthy he was. And may I say unto you this morning, we all need a fresh revelation of the Lord in our lives. When Isaiah saw Him, he fell upon his face. When Peter, James, and John saw Him in the Mount of Transfiguration, And they fell upon their faces. And when Ezekiel saw Him, He fell upon His face. We all need a clear presence or a revelation of the person of God. And we'd fall on our face before Him and realize, beloved, that we're nothing without Him. Psalms 42.5, and I'm closing, Ms. Evelyn, come to the piano. The psalmist wrote it and said this, Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God." Listen to what he says. Everybody listen. This is important. He said, "...hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance." You know what the psalmist was saying? If I could just see the Lord. If I could just see Him. He's saying, why have thou cast down on my soul? Why is this confusion within me? Why have thou disquieted within me? Why is my heart slung upon the well? Why do I feel the way that I feel? He said, if I could just see His countenance. Then he says, hope thou in God. And then in Psalms 42, that's verse number 5, and then down in verse number 6, I'm sorry, verse number 11. He ends the psalm with this, and he says, Why art thou cast down on my soul? Why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God. Then he says this, For I shall yet praise Him who is the health of my countenance. You know what happened? When he seen the Lord and His countenance, it helped the psalmist. in His countenance. So often in our lives, we try to trudge through and press through and keep going and thank God we ought to. But I want to remind you this morning, there is not a place that you can go attend church There's not a crowd that you can worship with. There's not enough ministry that you can get involved with that will take away or match the personal pursuit of God in your life. We're looking for something in our Christian lives today. We're all empty. We're hoping the preacher has it when he comes in to give us something. We're hoping that maybe the singing will do it. When if we ourselves had just pursued God on our own, had us a there in our life, that that's where we're going to do business with God. Understand, it wasn't about a special place or a particular place. It was just about the pursuit of God. And when he pursued God, God showed Himself, encouraged Him. And I never find again, and you go home and you read and listen to how important it is, listen to me, how important it is for you to have that personal relationship with God. Because I never find again, and I'm not a scholar, and I may have missed it, Brother Green, but I never found my place again where God showed Himself to Ezekiel again. But Ezekiel had that ministry, and as I said before, thank God He didn't give me the ministry of Ezekiel. He laid on the side of the street out there for 369 days on one side. Then He turned over and laid on the other side for 49 days. And then he cooked his food out in the middle of the street with cow dung. God told him to use human dung. But he said, Lord, please, just let me use cow dung. So he cooked his food before the people with cow dung. You'll find that God had him to preach in his fruit of the looms. You'll find that God had him dig a hole through the temple wall with a spoon. You say, how could a man be so obedient to God? Because of what God done for him in the plain. What God done for him in the plain. So often in our lives we want more from God. And we need more from God. But we're not willing to pursue it on our own. We're standing all over the house.