Amen. Boy, I tell you what, folks, listen, I'm not joking. It's a wicked old world out there, and a rough old world. And besides all the national and international nonsense and so forth, and the sin, the wickedness, your personal burdens and loads, it won't hurt you to laugh once in a while. A merry heart doth good like a medicine. And one of the things that you need to do this morning is cast all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. You can't bear the burdens of life. That's why Jesus said, Come unto me, all ye that labor heavy laden, and I will give you rest. A heavy laden. You cast your burden on him this morning, and you know, maybe you say, Reggie, I don't care what you're preaching. I'm not interested. I've got too much going on. Well, at least just try to let God take your burden today. Just visit with the Lord while we're preaching. Acts chapter 12, verse 17. I hope I've got that right. The middle part of that verse says, "...how the Lord had brought him out of prison." Peter was getting ready to tell these people how the Lord brought him out of prison. Now, that's a very important statement because he didn't say that the jailer let him out of jail. He didn't say somebody broke in and let him out. He said, I'm going to tell you how the Lord brought me out of prison. Now, we're going to be praying for the lost for 31 days. We're going to be praying every day, and there's 31 or maybe it'll be more people than that, but we're praying for every day for God to save them. We're going to do something what the Bible calls intercessory prayer for the lost. Okay? If you're out here today and you didn't get in on this, didn't know about it, you call Karen. We'll get you in on it. But we want people praying. We want a 30-day chain of prayer. Now those of you who volunteer, that's a commitment. That means every day you're going to pray. Every day you're going to pray. You're not just going to pray in the morning, but you're going to pray as you're going through the day. You're going to think about this person. You're going to keep this list with you. And you're going to pray without ceasing for that person to be saved. And there's some things, and I don't know how the Lord will lead tonight, but tonight I may give us some specifics, but today I'll give us some specifics on how to pray. The Bible said in James 5.16 that the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." God's not joking. There's more that's been wrought by prayer. This church was birthed and sustained by prayer. My call to preach and salvation was birthed and sustained by prayer. Yesterday, I was at the office. I don't understand this. I was at the office. I wasn't at home, and it wasn't my cell phone. It literally was the office phone. Just happened to be there. I got off the phone with this one person, and Sarah said to me, Daddy, this guy wants you to call him. I looked at the prefects on it, 559. I don't even have a clue yet where this phone call's from. I guess we could look it up. I picked up the phone, and it was a man who used to live in this country down in the Kabul area. And he said, Reggie, how are you? I said, I'm fine. I'm doing real good. He said, Reggie, last night, yesterday, and today, he said, we've been so burdened to pray for you. And he said, I'm telling you, we're praying for you. I said, listen, if the Holy Spirit's prompting you to pray for me, I appreciate it. He said, Reggie, the ministry that that church is doing, he said, Satan's going to try to rip you guys up. He's going to try to tear you guys up. He's going to try to bring chaos and confusion. He said, Reggie, I just want you to know we love you. We love that church. You keep preaching. We're going to keep praying. That's called intercessory prayer. God just had that phone call out of the middle of the blue now just to call, just to pray. That was such a blessing because there's nothing they could do greater for this church and for myself than to pray. And so the Bible said, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Now Isaiah chapter 59 verse 16, God said that he looked and he wondered that there was no intercessor. In 1 Timothy 2, verses 1-4, watch this, it said, first of all, he said, prayers and intercessions and supplications be made for all men. Now this is what he said, first of all, pray. And then the next verse down it says, who says, who will have all men to be saved. God is saying that if you want to see people saved, that you'll, by the way, can I say something to you this morning? If you don't hear anything else I say today, hear this, that if you don't have a burden for the lost, you've probably not saved yourself. I can tell you one thing for sure, that when you get saved, God gives you a burden for the lost. God makes you care about somebody else dying and going to hell. If you've ever been rip-roaringly ever saved, You care whether somebody else dies and goes to hell or not. You might need a little revival every once in a while, and you might need to be reminded. But down in your heart, there's a care for people to be saved. I want to say to you today, if you're sitting here in this church and you really couldn't care less whether people get saved or not, you better check with God about your own salvation. Because one of the very first things that God does to a man that's saved is give him a care about whether other people are saved or not. He said, I wondered, and he said, first of all, intercessions are to be made so that men can be saved. In Isaiah chapter 53, Jesus is called the great intercessor. He said Jesus made intercession for the transgressors. In Hebrews chapter 7, verse number 25, the Bible said that Jesus ever liveth to make what? Intercession. Are you with me this morning? Now listen, don't make me start preaching like a black man. I'll jump out and say, are you with me? Alright, listen, listen, I'm telling you something, you're going to get what you put in this thing today. And if you'll open up your heart and say, Dear God, do something in my heart and life. God use me to lead somebody to Christ. God use me to pray somebody into conviction. God use me in your work. I'm going to tell you something, you'll be amazed how God will lift your life out of the dirt and give you a life worth living and give you a reason for getting up in the morning. In Hebrews chapter 7 it says, He ever liveth to make intercession for us. In Romans 10, verse 1, Paul said, My heart's desire and prayer is for Israel to be saved. He said, I could wish myself a curse for my brethren in the flesh, the nation of Israel. Brother, I'm going to tell you something. We need a burden for the lost. You say, Reggie, do you have a burden like you need? Not all the time. But you know what Paul told Timothy? He said, stir up the gift that's within you. Every once in a while you need to get in the Bible. And you need to get out in the woods. You need to get alone and say, God, speak to my heart. Lord, talk to me. Straighten me up. Align me up. Show me where I'm sagging at in my soul. In Decembers chapter 16, I want to tell you something, this is a powerful passage of scripture where Aaron had the plague there, you know, and there was a rebellion in the camp. And the Bible says that Aaron went out there with a censer with the incense on it, and that's a picture of prayer. And the Bible says, watch this, that Aaron stood between the living and the dead to stay the plague. That is a picture of a man who will run right out in the middle of the open. And he is literally saying that I'll do whatever it takes to stop the plague of sin, death, and judgment and hell coming on people. He's lifting up that censor. And what God wants you and I to do is to run out of our, I don't care, I'm not going to get involved, I'm just going to keep on my little weird way of life. God wants you to run out of the crowd and stand in the middle and stand in the gap for people's souls by prayer. The Bible teaches us that there's intercessors throughout the Bible. You look at Abraham, I'm telling you something, Abraham's a bigger man than I was. He loved that lot, nephew lot, that wanted to cheat him out of everything and run over him. He's living down in sorrow. And the Bible says that Abraham prayed, Oh God, if there's fifty righteous people, will you spare the city? Oh God, if there's 45 righteous people, will you spare the city? And Abraham interceded and prayed, and he got down to 10 people. I mean, prayer and prayer and prayer. And he interceded. And you know what God said? God listened. Watch this. God listened to Abraham. He went from 50 to 10 in repeating prayer. And where God said, if there's 10 righteous people inside of them, I'll spare that city. That's intercessory prayer. I wonder about the people that you know today. There's an old song that says somebody's praying for me. Who are you interceding for today? Listen, I'm assuming today that you're saved. You're here at church. You're a Christian. You're interested in the work of the Lord. Hopefully that's why you're here. But I ask you today, who are you praying for to be saved? Who are you praying for to be saved? I think about old Moses over and over and over again. Moses fell on his face when the children of Israel would rebel and murmur and complain and want to go back to Egypt and on and on and on. And Moses would fall on his face. And God literally said, I'm going to wipe out the entire nation. And Moses saw his face and said, God, don't do it. Take me. And he interceded for those people. You say, Reggie, what are you talking about? I'm saying that we need to learn how to be intercessors of prayer and pray people out of the prison of lostness. Now, let's read our passage of Scripture, Romans Acts chapter 12. Now, about that time, verse number 1, everybody there say, Amen. Lord, help us to preach today. I'm praying, Lord, that the Holy Ghost of God will move on the hearts of these people. Lord, I'm nothing. It's kind of like a trumpet, Lord. I can be the trumpet, but, Lord, You've got to be the power and the voice and the wind behind the trumpet. And, Lord, You've got to be the sound on the other side that makes people hear and really hear. Lord, if you don't get in this thing, these folks are here, but they won't hear. And Lord, then they'll hear and they won't do. And dear God, I need that. When you speak to me, Lord, I need something more than just speaking. I need the work of the grace of God, the power of the Holy Spirit moving in me to make me a doer of the Word and not just a hearer. And Lord, today we need you to put an old, big old cup of love down in our hearts today. Till we're running over, we care about people's souls. We think about it while we work. We think about them dying and going to hell. We think about that brother, that sister, that mama, that daddy, that child, that cousin, that relative, Lord, that's going to die and spend eternal torment in the lake of fire. Lord, screaming, gnashing their teeth, weeping and wailing, and they never get out. And God, we've got this time, this time in our life to intercede for them, to step in the gap and try to keep them from going to hell. And, Lord, I'm asking you today, would you, Lord, make it so that these folks that we're praying for, that they'd have to climb over our prayers to go to hell? Oh, God, I pray stack our prayers up against their soul today. And bring old time Holy Ghost conviction. But, Lord, before you convict them, would you convict us? Lord, we just got through reading, the judgment must begin at the house of God. And so, Lord, today I pray, Lord, sweep down the blessed Holy Ghost today. and sweep through our hearts and, Lord, lift us up out of the old selfish life, thinking about us and our money and our work and our accomplishments and what we've got and our problems and our little bits of nonsense. And you're God. Open our eyes and help us to see all men. Clearly help us see these people. They need somebody to intercede for them. Lord, I can preach till I'm blue in the face, but God, unless you move, it ain't going to happen. And dear God, we've got to have something to reach out into their house, into their hearts, into their homes, when they're sleeping, when they're getting breakfast, when they're working. Lord, whatever they do, we need that power of God that reaches in and gets them. Holy Ghost of the Living God, please hear my prayer. Take this message today and work it into our souls, into the fabric of this church. And Lord, would you save people through it for the glory of Jesus Christ, we pray, and his work on the cross. Amen. The Bible says, About this time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James, the brother of John, with a sword. And because he sought to please the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also, put him in prison. Then were the days of unleavened bread. But when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four quarter neons and soldiers to keep him. Intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. Now, I'm going to unhook my little gospel preaching train for just a little bit. I was down in Arkansas. I'm going to do something, teach a little bit, something to help you, keep you out of the ditch. And this ain't my message. I was in Arkansas preaching at a preacher's conference one time. I preached on the infallibility of the Word of God, the eternalness of the Word of God, the preservation of the Word of God, the inspiration of the Word of God, and about the King James Bible. And I got done preaching and pretty soon a guy came up to me and he said, you don't have a clue what you're talking about, Sonny. I said, what are you talking about? What do you mean, sir? He said, you just preached a bunch of nonsense to these people. He said, I'm going to give you one verse to show you that this Gene Jay's Bible is not correct. I said, well, sir, help yourself. What is it? He said in Acts chapter 12 and verse number four, it says Easter and that should say Passover. And those men didn't know what they were talking about. Now, I'm going to show you folks something right here, show you how. Now, let me tell you, first of all, I knew that man hadn't got that himself. He had picked that up from high class theologians. Alright? I knew he hadn't picked that up himself. He was passing on what he had been told. He had never studied this out. Are you ready? If you read your Bible and studied the context of this Scripture, you would know that Easter, there mentioned, could never be Passover. By the way, a lot of your modern versions put Passover there, and that tells me they don't have a clue about the Bible. And they're trying to translate it. Let me show you what it is. Right above, in verse number 3, there's a bracket that says, Then were the days of what? That's unleavened bread. That's a feast. How many of you in here know the order of the seven feasts? You ought to at least know this much, that the first feast is what? Passover. Are you listening? In order for Easter in verse number four, which had not occurred yet, to be Passover, do you realize that you'd have the feast out of order according to the New Testament, and you don't take them out of order? They're in the days of unleavened bread right now. They're telling you where they're at in the order of the feast time during the year. You know what that tells me? The Passover was already passed. And Easter was a pagan holiday that Herod and all his crowd celebrated, and they were waiting for Easter to have a celebration to kill a Christian. And if that man had known the Old Testament feast sequence, he would have known that that is not true. That's why you better know your Bible. You can get fooled that fast. Just that fast you can get fooled. If you don't know. That's why you need to know Genesis. That's why you need to know Exodus. That's why you need to know Leviticus. That's why you need to know Numbers. That's why you need to know Deuteronomy. That's why you need to know the Old Testament. Because if you don't know the Old Testament, you'll never understand the New Testament. The Old Testament unfolds itself in the New Testament. And Jesus is constantly going back to those scriptures. And if they would have just known Because you see, if Easter should have been Passover, then that means the Feast of Unleavened Bread would come before the Passover, and that is not true, absolutely black and white. No! It's first Passover, then the Unleavened Bread and the Firstfruits and stuff. Does that help you a little bit? That's just how fast... These big theologians, now you've got people who claim to be doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, and tell you that Easter should have been Passover. If it is, then they've changed the whole order of the Feast in the Old Testament. Not true. Okay, now that's not my message, but I wanted to give that to you because we're so close to it now The Bible says here that Peter therefore was kept verse number five was kept in prison But prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him and when Herod would have brought him forth the same night Watch this now pay very close attention when Herod would have brought him forth. Okay memory. When was he going to bring him forth? Oh after Easter, okay? The same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers. Watch this very carefully. It's going to show you the picture of how God brings a lost person out of the prison of lostness. between two soldiers bound with two chains, and the keepers before the door kept the prison. And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison. And he smote Peter on the side, raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about him, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him, and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision. And when they were past the first and second ward, they came to the iron gate that leadeth unto the city, which doth something. It opened to them of his own accord. And they went out, and passed on through one street, and forthwith the angel departed from him. And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of a hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. First of all, this morning, I want you to understand this. If you've taken notes and got your little Bible notebook, you need to write down that Herod in this passage of Scripture is a picture of Satan, the one who has bound the lost person. Every lost person you know is bound by Satan. They're in the prison of Satan's lostness. He has been bound, the Bible teaches us. But Herod is a picture of the lost man. First of all, I know that by the fact that it says that he thought to vex the church. You know what vex means? The Bible said that Lot was vexed by the filthy deeds of the wicked when he sat in the gate of Sodom. Vex means this, that you are gradually worn down. You just gradually get... You know, some of you, when you first got saved, you did care about where the people died and went to hell. But you don't really give a rip anymore. You're too busy fighting with the brethren. You're too busy nitpicking here, nitpicking there, nitpicking over here, nitpicking over there. You've lost your concern for the brethren. You know what's really happened to you? I don't fault you for it. You've just been vexed. You've just been wore down. I mean, you just learned that instead of having love for the brethren and love for the church and fired up for God, you're just all vexed down in all this religious junk. Herod vexed the church. That's what the devil does. He vexes the church with worldly cares. He'll vex the church with division. He'll vex the church with discord. He'll vex the church with fear. He'll vex you with worry. He'll discourage you and he'll destroy the power and the work of the Lord. Now, I want to tell you something. Listen, he will put people and churches in bondage just by vexing them. And I'll tell you something else, he'll kill the work of God like he wanted to do with Peter if he's permitted by the Lord. This is the work of Satan is to vex the church, to distract us from the work of the church, which the Bible said that apostles said that they should give themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. Let me tell you what our work is. We're to pray for the lost and pray for the coming of Christ and pray for the work of God. And then we're to put legs on our prayer and take the gospel to the ends of the world, starting at our homes and houses. Amen. All right? Now, so that's what Satan wants to do. He wants to vex you down until you're no longer interested in the real work of the Lord. Prayer and the ministry of the Word. Can I just stop and say something to you? If you'll invite five people to church and witness to five people this week along the road of your life, you'll be a lot more interested in getting to church next Sunday. You might even run down here, slide into the audience. Whoo! Bless God I made it to Sunday. You know what some of you need is good old persecution. I'm going to start praying for God to bring persecution into your lives. That's good for you. Happy are ye. Amen. We don't want our little mess bothered. We want God to bless us. We want a God that showers $10 bills down. We don't want a God that says, hey, listen, go into all the world and preach the gospel. We don't want a God who says go to Mission Field. We don't want a God who says go up there in some northwestern town or some northeastern town where there ain't no Bible preaching church and start to work for God. We want a blessing God. He just blesses us and blesses us. And part of that blessing is I never get persecuted for my faith. I want to tell you something, you ain't never got blessed until you've been persecuted. You ain't never been blessed until you got cussed out. You ain't never been blessed until you got a phone call calling you everything but maybe. I've had stuff left on my phone call that's not fit for anybody in this church house to hear. I mean, I'm talking about people who sit and listen to me preach, call me up, leave messages. I'm talking about the most vile, nasty, filthy talk you have ever heard in your life. Never in a beer joint here worse than that. You need some persecution. You know how you'll get it? By standing up and standing on the Word of God. By declaring the Word of God. By standing where... Can I give you something you ought to write in front of your Bible? Never take sides with anybody. Stand with the truth. You'll always be where you ought to be. Never say, well, I'm going to take side with this. I'm going to say... No, you stand by truth and mercy and you'll always be where you ought to be. You don't have to worry about taking anybody's side. Listen to me this morning, I'm talking about, now Peter, Herod is a type of the devil that's in the church, Peter's a type of the lost sinner. First of all, look at verse number 6, the Bible said, they brought him forth in the same night. Did you know a sinner is in nightness? He's in darkness. The Bible teaches us a lost sinner is in darkness. You say, I don't understand why they can't see their need to be saved. They're blind! They're in darkness. They cannot see. That's why we need to pray for the light to come. They cannot comprehend spiritual truth. The Bible said that the Bible is spirit. The gospel is foolishness unto those that believe not. I want to tell you tonight, listen to me. You say, well, they ought to know better. Maybe they ought to, but they don't. Can I tell you what? There ain't nobody in this church building, including me, especially me. Nobody in here got saved because you one day decided that you wanted to be a Christian. You got saved because the light of God shone on your dark heart and revealed to you you were a sinner, that you needed to repent, that you needed to place your faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, sacrificial death, and that's why you got saved. Nobody gets saved except the Father draw him. You do not get saved. You don't have natural light. The only light you'll ever have spiritually is the light that God gives you. So first of all, Peter's a picture of the sinner in that he was in darkness. Second of all, he was sleeping. The Bible says he was sleeping there between two soldiers. I'm telling you what a lost man's asleep spiritually. He's not awake to what's happening. There's not a man I've ever met in my lifetime that willfully, knowingly would walk off into hell. Let me tell you something. Listen, they're asleep. They do not realize they're asleep with number one, ignorance. A lot of them don't know God. They don't know the gospel. A lot of them think it's being good that saves them. They compare themselves among themselves. They do not understand that they are guilty transgressors of the law, and that Jesus Christ's death, birth, and resurrection will awaken and be saved. A lot of times, their ignorance is what causes them to sleep. But also, apathy. They really have no concern. Satan can put you asleep in that sense. They're not concerned about death. They're not concerned about hell. They're not concerned about judgment. And let me tell you something, we're going to have to pray this month that God will, number one, give them light in their darkness. Number two, wake them up out of their sleep and make them where they cannot think of anything except dying and going to hell. You give me a man that's thinking and understands he's lost, he's dying and going to hell, I'll give you a man who'll be saved in about six weeks. I'm telling you. You shake a man over hell, I'm telling you something, if you say that ain't true, I don't know a man who wants to walk into a burning house. There's apathy. There's no concern for death. They don't think they're going to stand before God. There's no concern for their soul. We need to pray that God will wake them up, that God will give them life. Number three, he was bound with chains. You'll see that in your passage of Scripture. He was bound with two chains. I believe the first chain that Satan binds people with, the lost man, is fear of man. One of the reasons I believe this, Kenny, is because that is what kept me from getting saved. I was afraid of what my buddies would say, my friends would say. I was afraid of what the public would say. At 28 years of age, I had been selling during auctions. I'm just being honest with you. Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, by that time, I was doing dairy sales in four states. I knew everybody in this brother in this country. I was liked by most everybody. I hadn't been around long enough yet for everybody not to like me. It's a funny thing about it, when you're younger, people, you know, they don't, they just, but when you stick around long enough, stay in business long enough, preach long enough, you'll be lucky, you'll be like Paul, when he finally getting ready to die, he said, no man stood with me. That's where you're headed. But listen to me, you know what I was afraid of, Danny? I was afraid of what people would say if Reggie Kelly was to get saved. Because the one thing I knew, I'd get saved, I'd obey the Lord, I ain't going to be secret about it. This thing's either everything or it's nothing. If it's nothing, I ain't messing with it. But if it's everything, I'm going for it. And it is everything. It's everything. And so I'm saying this to you, bound by the fear of man, that's a chain. Some of you in this church house today, some of you boys, you won't surrender to the priest because you're bound by the fear of man. You're bound by fear of your own personality. You're afraid you couldn't do it. You're afraid you wouldn't be successful. I don't know what you're afraid of. The day that you let God break the chains off your life is going to be the happiest day of your world. Do you know why I'm so happy? Because I ain't bound. I ain't bound. I ain't bound by the fear of man. I'd like you to like me, but if you walk out of this church house, it's not going to destroy my world. Do you understand me? You've got to have that. If I was constantly worried about offending you, Oh, they might not be back. Oh, they might not give him the offering plate. Blah, blah, blah. It's no wonder preachers go nuts. It's no wonder they're going to preacher's conferences and trying to get straightened out. They're living in the fear of man. The fear of man will absolutely chain you to a log. And brother, we need to pray that, by the way, these lost people you're going to be praying for, I know you think, well, he's a tough old boy. He's a tough old bird. He's a macho man. No, he's not. I'm going to tell you about most of the people on that prayer list. They're just like you and me. They're afraid of what everybody is saying. They've got 15 relatives. They've got 15 friends. They're afraid to meet them. You heard you got saved. How long will that last? They're afraid. Number two, they also have a chain of pride on them. I'm a sinner. I wasn't good enough to go to heaven. I was lost. I was an enemy of God. Their self-righteous pride will chain them to hell in that prison. But here's what happened. The Bible said he was bound. Number four here this morning, there were four coordinates of soldiers around them. Did you know what? You might find another four, but I'm going to give you four I thought of. Number one is relatives. The people that you're going to be praying for have relatives that they're afraid of what they'd say. And by the way, those relatives are suddenly guarding them from being saved. Yes, sir. Some of you have got relatives guarding you from surrendering to the Lord. You just don't realize it. It's quiet in here. What's wrong? You remember, you say, Reggie, I'll give you another story. How many remembers the movie Sheffy? How many remembers that them relatives, remember his aunt jumped up from the dinner table when Sheffy walked in there and sat down and said, I got saved. Everybody dropped their forks, their mouths fell open, the whole table went Did you know what part of his problem was? Was his relatives. Did you know what Jesus Christ said? That he came not to send peace, but a sword. You need to understand something. Can I just tell you kids something? You're living in a depraved, nasty, filthy, sin-cursed, hellish world. You just won't get used to it. Now you can be happy in the middle of it with Jesus. But you better understand something. Even your relatives are going to oppose your walk with God. I'm going to tell you something. Oh, some of them don't mind you going to church as long as you don't get too far out with this thing. Isn't that right? Why, some of them wouldn't mind you preaching if you'd just be a nice little tame, shame pastor. They wouldn't mind you preaching as long as you didn't preach on their sin. Relatives might be one of them coordinates. Another one might be some friends. Some of you kids in here, you got friends. I'm going to tell you something. Listen, that you would be surprised how many people you're praying for this month that has a friend that they don't even know how they're going to deal with this. They know, they know, they know they're going to lose that friend if they get saved. How many of you lost friends when you got saved? Yes, sir. How many lost fellowship with some relatives when you got saved? Yes, sir. See, what we're trying to do is figure out how to be saved and not go to hell and make everybody still like us. That's our problem. Another thing is religious people, not be another accordion that's guarding. I'm going to tell you something. Everybody's got relatives and friends around that's religious. They'll try to throw all their stuff at you. It might be co-workers and associates on the job. I don't know. But I'll guarantee you this much, that every lost person has got, he's surrounded, four quarters of something that's guarding him, trying to keep him from hearing the Gospels, trying to keep him from surrendering to the world. Now, the Bible said there was three wards. We're going to get on those a little bit. But let me say this, there's a first ward, second ward, and third ward. the first ward, the second ward, and then the iron gate. Let me give you a suggestion what these may be. I think all of them are applicable. Number one, the first ward, I think, is the world. The first ward, I think, is the world. The second ward, I think, is the flesh. But I think that iron gate's the devil. When I got saved, the night I got saved, I was sitting three seats from the back on the outside edge. And the Holy Spirit of God, and by the way, If you think this prayer meeting next month don't work, first of all, please don't pray because you don't believe anyway. Okay, now you go ahead and pray. That's why I like this passage of scripture. Those people didn't, they had trouble believing. They were shocked when Peter got out. I mean, when I got saved, I can just, I can remember Satan fighting me there in the seat of the church. I'm going to give you a little something. How many of those in that passage of scripture that the iron gate, the Bible said when they went through the first ward and the second ward, the iron gate swung open of its own accord. I'll never forget this in my life. You remember this. I was sitting in that seat where Brother Larry is, three seats in the back, sitting on the edge, and wrestling the whole time I was in church about getting saved, about getting, I'm talking about settling out to God. Never will forget this. I'm battling. Going through my mind a thousand miles an hour is all the friends, people, relatives, this, the religious people, on and on and on, and all this stuff's battling. But you know what? I finally decided, Brother Lonnie, I ain't going to hell over what anybody thinks or what happens. Now watch this. What I was doing was going through the first and the second ward. Now watch this. This has blessed my heart up one side and down the other. Brother Dennis, the moment that I decided, I don't care any longer what anybody thinks, and I stepped out, the iron gate swung open. Let me tell you something. There's a devil who is standing in front of you today and he's throwing all this junk and all these lies and all this stuff at you. But the second you say, I'm going to Christ, he will literally have to flee and get out of the way. And you know what I found out, Brother Dennis? I headed toward that altar. He wasn't even there. He was gone. And the second I moved out to Jesus Christ, all that junk that was barring the way, all them things, all them bars, all those chains, Brother Queen, they just fell off. The chains fell off. And there's a song in your songbook, Oh, And Can It Be? And it talks about, and the chains fell off and I was free. And let me tell you, I'm getting ahead of myself. Anyway, the next thing here, Herod, he was going to take his head off. Now we're going to see how God was going to... By the way, Herod was going to do what? Did y'all catch that? What was Herod going to do to Peter? He was going to take his head off in the morning. That's a picture of Satan is going to take you to hell. If somebody doesn't intervene. Are y'all still here this morning? If somebody doesn't intercede, Peter's head's going off. If somebody you love does not intercede, they're going to go to hell. You mark it in your book. Now, let's see what he done. Peter is a picture of a lost sinner that God's going to save. Verse number 5, Peter therefore was kept in prison, but what? Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. That's why we're going 31 days. We ain't going to stop for 31 days praying for these people. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. That's going to be the key. He's in prison. They're going to pray. Now, you watch what God does. And I'm expecting this, and I'm ready for it and looking forward. Are you ready? Look what happens. Verse 6, And when Herod would have brought him forth the same night Peter was sleeping, between two soldiers bound with two chains, the keepers of the door before them kept prison, watch God start to move. Number one, the angel of the Lord came upon him. Did you read that? Can I tell you, when you got saved, the Holy Ghost of God came upon you. The Holy Ghost of God. You know what? The angel of the Lord came upon him. You're going to have to have a visitation from heaven. We're going to pray, and this is how I want you to pray. He said, Reggie, we're going to pray for the last 31 days. How do I pray? Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. Number one, you pray that the Holy Ghost of God will visit him in the prison. Does that make sense? You and I, you know what? I can go to their house, Brother Kenny, but I can't go in their spirit. I can go to where they work, and I can give them the gospel, and I ought to, and we ought to, but I can't go down inside. Only the Lord from heaven can come and visit a man on the inside where he's really bound in his prison. So you're going to pray, now, number one, for the angel of the Lord, for the visitation of God. Well, I'm going to tell you something. Hey! Listen to me. When God comes on a man, he don't even remember what the preacher's preaching, because God's the preacher to him. Amen! How many knows that? When God comes, it's a visitation from heaven. It's no longer Reggie preaching. That's what we need in this church. In fact, if it is, I've been thinking about just stopping preaching for a few weeks. We're just going to stay here, wait for God to come. Y'all be bored with that. I want Reggie to preach. I don't want God to come. If we're not careful, folks, that's what we really want. We want somebody to preach to us, but we don't want God to come. You need to pray, number one, for the Lord to come. Pray the Holy Ghost will come. Number two, what happens when he does? And light shined in the prison. When the Lord comes, light comes. God is light. He was in darkness, now the light's going to come on. And you know what's going to happen? No one who didn't care and didn't think he was lost and thought he was okay, and if the rest of them make it, I'll make it, and I'm not worried about that, and I'll take care of that. All of a sudden, the light comes, and you know what? All of a sudden, the first light that God will show him, that God is holy. And that the wrath of God is upon him because of his sin and transgression law. And no longer will he see his lion as little old stuff that's underneath the rug at the house. All of a sudden that lion will look like an elephant coming down the middle of his bedroom. All of a sudden, his pornography and his immorality won't be something that nobody knows about. It'll come down and down through the living room of his house and jump right up on top of the kitchen table. And all of a sudden, those secret sins will become giants in the room. And all of a sudden, he'll say, Oh my God, I'm a sinner wicked before the Lord. What must I do to be saved? Oh God, I'm in trouble. And the light will come. And the light will say, You're a transgressor. And the light will say, Death is coming. And the light will say, Judgment is coming. And the light will say, Hell is moving to meet thee beneath thy feet. And then the light will say, but here's the cross. And that's why Jesus died. And until a man gets to that place looking for mercy, he'll never be saved. Listen, we're talking about a supernatural visit from heaven. Can I tell you something? If it's just going to be me up here preaching this morning, I'm going to close this Bible right now and head to the house and get an early dinner. I am serious as death and hell itself. I'm serious. I hope you're serious with me. I hope you'll get a burden. I hope you'll believe that God can shine into a man's heart. I hope you'll believe that God can give him light. I hope you'll make him believe today that God can make him understand what you and I can't beat in their brain. The light shone in the prison. The Bible said, if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world, little G, hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ should shine unto them. That's what happened in that prison. The Bible said in verse 6, for God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness. What's this? In the beginning, God created heaven and earth, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. God commanded light to shine. He's taking you back to Genesis 1 and showing you that there's darkness upon the face of the deep of a lost man. And then God said, let there be light. That's what prayer does. You can't, I cannot do it. But God can talk to man's soul and spirit and say, let there be light. And that light comes on. Man, I'm going to tell you, that light will dispel darkness and all of a sudden they'll know God. You say, let light to see God. Light to see their sin. Light to see that there's a hell. Light to see that there's judgment. Light to see that there's a Savior. Light to understand the substitutionary gospel. And then look at the next thing. Well, this is good. I love it. Look at the next thing happen. Anybody see it before I got there? He smoked Peter on the side. What's that do? He goes, Now I'm going to tell you something. Why do you smoke, Peter, on the back of the head? What's in your side? Your heart. Where do they sword people at? Under the fifth rib. Now, I love this. God don't come along, Kenny, and go whop. He comes along and smites you in your heart. And that angel reached down to old Peter First of all, it came to visiting. Second of all, light came and then he smote him. And the old timers used to say, until you're smitten with conviction, you'll never get saved. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know when I'm going to preach. I got a message sitting in the warmer oven. It's called the cries of those who have fallen through the cracks. Let me tell you who it's about. It's about Christian kids in churches who will die and go to hell. It's about mom and dads who sit in church and die and go to hell for 20 and 30 years. We're never saved until he smites us with conviction. I want to tell you this morning, you're repeating a prayer after somebody did not save you. You're listening to this preacher today. I'm trying to keep you out of hell. I'm not preaching that message right now. The next thing, he's smoting. You know, you smote him with conviction. I tell you what, you get a man convicted, you ain't got to tell him, now listen, you repeat after me, he'll just be a praying, God save me! You know what we're missing in our churches? You know one reason I don't give invitations very much? You know why I'm not twisting people's arms trying to get them up here? It's because without conviction, I'll produce a false convert! And I'm sick of false converts! I want no more false converts. I want no more twofold more child of hell than they were before they ever started. I want somebody who said, listen, I'm lost. I'm going to hell. I need somebody to tell me how to be saved. I need to be saved. I don't need somebody to repeat a prayer. I don't need somebody to tell me this and tell me that. I want God to save me. Where is that at? Pray tell me in our churches. And because we won't pray and haven't prayed, then we've had to devise substitute ways of getting people to quote make professions of faith. And I fear that some of you, I fear some of you young married couples are going to bust hell wide open. You've been raised in a godly home. That's all you've ever known. You said your little prayer. But I sometimes wonder, where is the fruit? Where's the vitality, the joy, the reality of serving the living God? I sometimes wonder about that. I mean, you know, then he said something. Then he did something. Look at verse number seven. Angel of the Lord came upon him, number one. Number two, the light shined in prison. Number three, smote him on the side. Number three, four, raised him up. Did you know what? You don't raise yourself up. When God saves you, He's the one who raises you up. He'll lift you up. I'm telling you what, He'll pull you. And then He said something to him. Rise up quickly. He'll give you command. Repent. Move. Do something. Hey! Right? Rise up. How? Quickly. Don't put it off. Today is the day of salvation. And what happened when he did that? The chains fell! I told you all ago, the second I moved out of that bench and headed toward that altar, the chains fell! Brother, I want to tell you something. I'm not trying to be... and sometimes I just want to throw these glasses to the moon. I am burdened. We are not seeing old time conversions. Just be honest about it. We're not seeing old-time conversions where men are changed, and they come out clean for God. They're not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'll show you something. Can I just say to you, chains fell off, there's more to that than that. They'll say, well, I got saved, but I ain't quit my drugs yet. I got saved, but I ain't quit my liquor yet. I got saved, but I ain't quit my custody yet. I got saved, but I still watch pornography. I'm going to tell you something. When the chains of a dick went, when God saves a man and the chains fall off, I wouldn't give you a nickel for a salvation that couldn't take a cigarette out of my mouth. I wouldn't give you a nickel for a salvation if you couldn't take a drug out of my mouth. Let me tell you something, the gospel is the power of God unto salvation. It's deliverance from prison. We're trying to give people those tickets to heaven and say you don't need to repent, you don't need to change nothing, but the problem is we can't change them so we're giving up changing them, which we ought to quit trying to change them, but we don't have the power for God to change them. I'm telling you one thing, you ever get yourself in a position where you've repented of your sin? I mean, I'm talking about you repented of your sin, and when He said, He raised you up, and He said, get up quickly, and your heart's moving with God, I'm going to tell you, the chains will come off your soul! You don't need, let me tell you something. Somebody says, Reggie, why don't you start a night for this and a night for that and a night for drunks and a night for druggies. Hey, I'm going to tell you something, this Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night won't get it for you. I ain't messing with you on Thursday night. What you need to do is go home, have family, have a family, amen. I don't know. You know, look at the next thing he did. Look in verse number 8. Angel said, gird thyself. Now, you know what he did? You ever heard that in the Bible before? Girded with truth. That's putting on the gospel armor. The man is saved. Now watch this. The man is saved. God says, now you gird yourself. That means you get the truth around yourself. Amen? Next thing he says, put on your sandals. He said, bind your sandals on. You know what? He's going to be a pilgrim and a stranger in this whole world now. We're just traveling through. We're just passing through. But you get your shoes on with the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ, because I'm going to send you out of this prison into this world to be a messenger for Jesus Christ. I'm just trying to run through this real quickly. And so then he said, you gird yourself with truth. Bind on the sandals. Then he said, put that garment on you. Look what he said, cast thy garment about, verse number 8. Cast thy garment. You know what he said? Put on the righteousness practically of Jesus Christ. You have the righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to you judicially when you got saved. But he said, hey Peter, watch this. He said, put on that practical garment of righteousness. When you go out there, live right, do right, spend right, treat people right, don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't commit adultery, do right. Put on righteousness. I'm getting you out of prison. You don't go out there and live like the devil. Look at verse number nine. And then look at the next thing. Follow me. Tommy, I had a good Sunday school lesson. You get a man saved and God's going to command him to do something. What is it? Follow me. OK, look what he did. Number nine, he went out. If you ever got, can I, please, please give this. He went out and did what? Followed him in that deep theology. I bet he went to seminary to get that. I bet he went three years of Bible college to get that. Can I tell you something? Watch this. Listen to me good. Listen. A salvation experience that does not produce obedience in your heart is a false experience. You ain't never put down the shotgun of rebellion yet. I get up here, preach my guts out on something. You still going to do it. You don't care. You're full of rebellion as hell itself. Judgment day is going to come. You're going to look at me. I'm going to look straight at you and say, I preached it from the pulpit. Don't talk to me about it. John Wesley's mother had 21 children. Lined them up. She told John Wesley expressly, I have taught you the precepts of Jesus Christ and at judgment day as your mother, I will witness against you if you disobey the word of God. I will not ask God to have mercy on you. That's what your kids read to them. You know why some of your kids are going to die and go to hell? Because all you've ever done is take care of them when they did wrong. All you've ever done is intercede for them in the wrong way. You've pittered and pandered them to death, and they think God's like you, Daddy. They think God's like you, Mama. Well, I've got news for you kids. God ain't like your mom and daddy. He's a holy, righteous God, and he will know wise and acquit the guilty. And you reject the Word of God, I'm going to tell you something, you don't tell me that you got saved and then you say, but I ain't doing that. You didn't get saved. You got religion. You didn't get saved. I'm telling you, listen, you say, Reggie, now some of you is getting tight right now. I'm going to tell you why you're getting tight. Because you're not hearing obedience preached from the pulpits anymore. We've got a Christianity that gets saved. Get your ticket to heaven and then slide on, sister. You listen to me. The Bible said in coming in flaming fire, taking vengeance upon them that obey not the gospel. Obedience. You know what? Your mom and dad's one out of your kids. You don't want them to tap dance. You just want them to obey you. We think God wants us to tap dance religiously when all he's not quit that tap dancing and take the junk outside. Do what they do. I'm just honest with you. I love you. I love you. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, I can't hardly wait to preach that message on why Phil Robertson won a fight against queers. Biggest reason he did is because he loved truth above everything else, including his money, including his family. He went out. He obeyed. He followed. Jesus said, my sheep follow me. Now, you know, old Peter went out there. If you ever got saved, you know, sometimes hard. How many of you had a hard time believing you were saved sometimes? Peter had saved. He wist not that it was true. Did you read that in your Bible? He said he wist not that it was true. So every once in a while, when you look around you and say, where's the Lord at? I wist not that it be true. But it is true. Amen. God saved you. He saved you. All right. Now, listen. It was all, by the way, this was all done by the angel. And that tells you the salvation is of the Lord. It's not of you. Amen. God did it. This is real salvation when God did it. God delivered a man. Now, there's something in here kind of sweet. Now, I'm going to give you something about being saved. You need to go in verse number 10. You're going to find out that the angel departed. Somebody said God left him and he lost his salvation right there, just right after he got out the gate. No, he didn't. But I'm going to give you a practical thing. You listen to me. You're going to get saved, and you're going to feel like Jesus is in your pocket, shirt pocket, and He ain't with nobody else in the whole world, just you. And you're going to have such a sweet walk with God, and you know what? And God's just carrying you through trials, and God's carrying you through everything. But you know what He's going to do? You're a babe in Christ, and one of these days you want God to do something with you? He'll set you down on the ground and say, why don't you try walking a little bit? And do you know someday your mom and dad is not going to be where you're at? Do you know someday your mom and dad may go out of the house or go away from something just to purposely see how you get along? Did you know God's going to put you and want you to grow up and get off the meat of the Word and on the milk of the Word? But I want to get off, but there's something else. Look at verse number 11 about this. Y'all didn't get this. How many in here know, how many in here are saved? Number one, say amen. How many in here know you're saved? Amen. That's good. Because we're seeing rules. Look at this. This is so sweet. Has anybody seen this yet? No. Verse 11, Peter came to himself. He said, now I what? Now, I hope I got out of prison. He didn't say that. He said, I know of what? Surety. You know what God's giving you there? He's telling you that after you're saved and you start growing in the Lord, that you ought to start having, you better be sure you've got assurance about your salvation. He said, I know of a surety that the Lord has sent his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod. And this is really funny. Everybody else thought you was going to go to hell, but God saved you out of the expectation of the people that you, Isn't that sweet? Is that good or is that not good? Now, I'm going to give you something, a little bit of, I mean like some Christmas candy this morning. Out of the Bible. I was just studying this and all of a sudden the Holy Ghost just lifted the veil back and showed me something. Watch this. Look in verse number 7. The third and the fourth words are what? The angel. Counting with the number one the angel look down in verse number eight and the angel Twice look verse number nine, and he went out called him with not this true was done by what the angel three times Look at verse number ten and get down at the last part of verse number ten. It says in fourth with the angel That's four times departed from him All right. Now watch first number eleven. This is sweet. I All up to this point in time, for Peter, it was THE angel. Look at verse 11, "...and when Peter came to himself, he said, Now I know with surety that the Lord has sent his angel." On the fifth time, it stopped being THE angel and became HIS angel. Grace. God is showing you that you're saved by grace. Watch this now. Now, y'all hold on your seats a little bit. In the Old Testament, a theophany is an Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ as the angel of the Lord. And by the way, that's a true doctrine. Okay? I don't know all about this passage of Scripture, but I know that this angel is a picture of the Holy Ghost coming, but also a personification of the Lord Jesus Christ becoming His Savior. Because up in the first four times it was THE ANGEL, THE ANGEL. You know what? Can I tell you this morning this? That it's THE SAVIOR, IT'S THE SAVIOR, IT'S THE SAVIOR, IT'S THE SAVIOR until it becomes YOUR SAVIOR. By grace. But oh, it gets sweeter than that. You go down to verse number 15. Watch this now. And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirms even so. And then they said it is what? HIS ANGEL. They didn't believe Peter was there. Now, there's one more time in this chapter when the word ANGEL comes in. And this is so sweet. This whole chapter tells you what's going to happen to the saved, the lost, the devil, and everybody. Go over from verse number 20 down to 25. The same Herod now came out one day to make a big speech. Y'all remember that story? He was arrayed in all that fancy garment and all that and made a big speech. And the people gave a shout in verse 22 and said, it's the voice of a God and not a man. Did you know that's what Satan wants to be is God? And immediately, verse 23, immediately what? The angel. Now, I want to give you something. When you're lost, he's the angel. When you get saved, he becomes his angel, your angel. If the angel killed Herod, it was his angel that brought Peter out of prison. Jesus will either be your savior or your sentencer. And that seventh time, watch this, is the completed work of redemption when he destroys Satan. All that typology. I forgot to say something. Go back over to verse number 12, you'll see something here. Verse number 12, and when he had considered the thing, this is Peter now, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John, whose surname was Mark, where many were gathered together doing something. Why, they were praying. Now, I want to tell you something about this saved man that just got out of prison. How many sees what he's just done? He went down to the creek, got in his canoe, got his fishing pole, said, I don't have to go to church to worship God. I can worship right down here in the trees. You see what he did after he got saved by the wrath? He went and joined himself to other believers. Now, the most astounding thing about this whole passage is verse 14 through 16. And when she knew Peter's voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in and told how Peter stood before the gate. They said unto her, Thou art mad. God don't answer prayer. We're just going through the motions here. Don't you understand? This is church ritual. We're supposed to pray. How many of you in here have ever been on your knees praying and the devil say you're wasting your time? You know what, I am so glad, Brother Bill, that God put this in there. They said in verse 15 to her, mad, but she constantly affirmed it was even so. Then they said it's his angel. But verse 16, I like this, Peter going, Hey! They're in there debating about whether God answers prayer or not. He's already answered it. And while you're yet speaking, I will hear, he told him. And Peter continued knocking, verse 16, when they had opened the door, they saw him and were astonished. I'll be astonished if some folks get saved. I'll just have to admit to you, but you know what, I'm glad that God's bigger than my doubtfulness. And so I leave, I do that to tell you all this. And you're praying someday in January and you're just saying, I don't know what Pastor Kelly thought we was doing. This is a big joke. I'll tell you what, that ain't doing no good. Just keep praying. Just keep praying. Just keep praying. Let's stand and go home. Karen gave me the signal. How many of you know that Karen gives me a signal when to quit preaching? She never has. But I blame her for a lot of things she's not guilty of. Hey, can I tell you something? I would tonight that all you teenagers come back tonight with a big list of people you all are going to pray for this week. Wouldn't that be good? How many teenagers, young people, have got a lost love with a good friend or cousin or relative? Maybe your brother or sister is not saved. Would you raise your hands? Won't you all get a list started tonight? Won't you all pray through January? Pray for some of your friends to get saved. It might be a year. It might be two years. It might be ten years. Oh, what's the old orphan man over in England? Mueller. George Mueller. I prayed all his life for his brother to get saved and he died. George died. Brother didn't get saved. George's brother was coming by the casket. And when he came by the casket, they said he fell down and grabbed the edge of the casket, bowed his head on George Mueller's body and said, Oh God, have mercy on me and save me. God saved him after he died. I tell you this quick story and we're out of here. Used to church be up here. I was preaching the pulpit up here on a Sunday night. Young lady, teenage girl named Kim was coming to church here at that time, and she had had her brother on prayer list here for a long time. Name was Tom. I never will forget one night before church started. She ran up to me. I'm telling you, she ran up to me, Brother Ralph. She said, Brother Reggie, Brother Reggie, Brother Reggie. I said, What, Kim? She said. And her and some other teenagers had been praying at the altar for lost folks before church ever started now. That's back when we used to have church here. She said, I was praying and God just told me that my brother's out in the parking lot in his car, and if you'll go talk to him, God will save him. I'm like, why did he tell you to go talk to him? I said, but I knew that girl was serious as death, buddy. I'll tell you, she'd been praying for him for weeks and months and months and months. She said, Reggie, I'm telling you, God told me he's out there in the parking lot, and if you'll go talk to him, God told me He'd save him out there this evening. What are you going to do? You know what went through my mind? Lord, if I go out to your parking lot and he's not there, that girl's going to be devastated. Lord, if I go out to your parking lot and he decides to whoop me, I'm going to get whooped. Now it's going to be bad either way. He was big. I didn't hardly know the boy. He always looked sour to me. He didn't look like he liked nobody hard. But that was my perception. It wasn't true at all. Brother Queen, it's the honest truth. I said, OK, Kim, I'm going to go out there. But I said, you get them girls and you start praying. I'll never forget, I walked right out this door, right out there in that parking lot. Parking lot's full of cars out there. I'm looking for him, I'm looking for him, I'm looking for him, and I cannot find that boy nowhere. I looked and I looked, I couldn't find him. I just started back coming up the sidewalk of this church house, right there at that sidewalk, and she, she had sneaked up on me. She had sneaked out the door, and just as I was coming back in and started to say, Kim, I can't find, she said, Reggie, in that little bitty car behind that truck, hunkered down in the seat behind the steering wheel. You can't hardly see, but he's there. I was like, oh no. I said, Kim, go pray hard. Now you listen to me. Never will forget this till it be 150. Walked out there, this little bitty old blue car, little bitty old thing. He's six foot something, great big old guy. He's just sitting there like a big bullfrog. I walked up to them, and I'm thinking, uh, uh, uh, uh, what am I going to say? And I walked up beside him. Car windows rolled down about halfway. I said, Tom, how you doing? He didn't even look at me. He says, OK. I said, Tom, I tell you what, I'm just going to be honest with you. I come out here and talk to you about the Lord. You ever thought much about where you're going to spend eternity at? This is God's truth. I can still see his face. He turned straight to me, looked me in the eye, and started crying and said, I think about it all the time. I said, Tom, don't you want to be saved? He said, I'm going to get saved right now. Hit that steering wheel, open that door up before I can hardly get out of the way, and fell on his knees in the gravel, and I fell on my knees in the gravel, and we prayed, and God saved him right there. That's praying for the lost, folks. That sister loved that brother, and he turned out to be one of the nicest guys you've ever known in your life. He'd do anything for you, just big old gentle giants is what he was. You go home. Have a wonderful day. Pray with somebody before you go and pray for a lost right now. Let's start praying for the lost. Okay. I ain't preaching mean to you. I love you. I just want us to start praying. Amen. Start praying for the lost. You have word of prayer and you're dismissed.