Luke chapter number 8. Luke chapter number 8. Probably as much as any other text in the Bible. You've heard this portion of Scripture preached on. I don't know how many times I've preached on it. I used to write it down and make a mark every time I preached on something. I thought, well, why'd I keep doing that? I never got an answer. So I just quit. I'll write down where I preached today in case I went back there again. I was wondering, you know what? All these evangelists I know, they just come in and they say, have I ever preached that message here? I just tell them all no. No. Must be the Lord laying on their heart. They didn't even think about it. chances are great I can't remember it no way. Amen. It's a story about a man that has gone what we call slap dab crazy. You ever seen anybody like that? Have you ever seen anyone that you'd have said that man is slap dab crazy? I don't really know what that means unless it's just the extreme of being crazy as far as you can go in craziness. Slap, dab, crazy. I think that's what this man was. This man left home. He left friends. He left everything that really would have meant something to him. And he got off into something. He got off into something that just made him slap, dab, crazy. Now, please don't come up to me at the church and say, That's really not a real word. Because I've made it a real word. Actually, there's, I don't know, is that a real word? Systemary? Systemalism? Dab? A little dab here, a little dab there? No, that's not what, a little here, a little there, but maybe one of them other Bibles might say a little dab here, a little dab there. I don't encourage you to go get one to find out. As a matter of fact, I had about four or five versions in my office where people that had them Bibles got saved. And I gave them a real Bible, a real King James Bible. And they started walking out and said, oh, you don't need that no more. Give me that thing. And the other day, I was going through a bunch of my books and everything in there. And I thought, man, I need some room in here. Something's got to go. Well, you always get rid of whatever you ain't using that really don't mean much to you. Have I got to say more? This man went crazy. And here we are tonight as we look at this, you know the story. The Lord come across the sea and rescued this man, changed his life. The maniac of Good day. And I'm just filling in and we'll stand for the reading of the text in just a minute, in just a minute, when we get to where we're going to. But the story is that Jesus came to where he was. And while Jesus has come to talk to a man, there's demons that's wanting to talk to Jesus. Now, I've heard people say before, That makes me kind of nervous whenever they start hearing about voices talking to them. It don't make me kind of nervous. It makes me real nervous. I'm going to get away from them. I don't want to have no association, you see, but they might have something to say. Oh, they got something to say. It just ain't none of it profitable. They ain't none of it good for instruction. Ain't none of it good for reproof. And so as the Lord's come to help this man, now he's having to talk to another group. And they asked him, they asked him this, they asked him, they said, they besought him that he would not command him to go out into the deep. This deep, this deep is something, ain't talking about deep water. We're talking about a deep place of torment. How many of y'all believe that there is a deep place of torment? If you need a hell, you need a hell. If you need a word for that, it's called hell. I was getting the cart ahead of the horse right there, wasn't I? It's called hell. They didn't want to go before their time. Can I tell you, if they didn't want to go then, they wouldn't want to go when their time did come. And I'm going to start reading in verse number 32, if you'd like to stand with us. And we're going to ask God to help us and give us a little something from the Word tonight. And I'm hoping that you'll leave here tonight with more evidence if you're saved. If you're saved. More evidence More proof than what you had before you came in. I like what Brother Gary said. He said he got saved and they've been the same. I got saved and I hate to say this. There was a time, Brother Daniel, I got out of church. I backslid on the Lord and I got out of sleep. I got out of church. But can I tell you this? I never forgot about the day I got saved. I never looked back, Brother Gary, and said, even though I'm living in my sin, even though I'm doing all these things I wish I'd never done, I never looked back and said I wish I'd never got saved. But I promise you tonight I'll look back and say all the stuff I did when I was out of church, I wish I'd never done them. Me and three more. I look back now, I look back now, Brother David, and I say, I wish I'd have never done none of them. Verse number, well, let's go back to verse 31. And he besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep. And there was there an herd of many twine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them, and he suffered them. They asked, would you allow us to go into them hogs? I ain't going to try to sound ugly about this, but in the Old Testament, swine is an unclean animal. Do you think Jesus cared anything about a hog? I promise you, he didn't eat none. Peter, let it be known. I ain't never, I ain't never partook of nothing unclean like that, Lord. And don't intend to. The Lord has straightened him out. I'm glad God's given us liberty to eat a hog. Anybody want to shout right there, just go ahead and hit yourself. Amen. Some of y'all look like you can shout right there. That's all I know. That's all I know. I know I can. And he suffered them. Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked. And they that fed them saw what was done. I want you to remember that. They that fed them saw what was done. They fled and they went and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what was done and came to Jesus and found the man out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid. Father, I pray that you'd help us. God, thank you for the sweet breeze of heaven we've already felt tonight, this morning, your presence. Thank you, Lord. God, forgive us, I pray, for being just a bunch of old rotten sinners. God, forgive us for trying to put on a big facade, making people think we all right. And we ain't all that. But God, what we are is a bunch of sinners in need of a Savior. And I need you, Lord. And I pray, God, that for every step I took that was out of the way, I pray you'd forgive me. Every thought that I've had, I pray that was out of the way, I pray you'd forgive me. Every word I've spoken that was out of the way, I pray you'd forgive me. Helpless tonight, I ask you, oh, God, To say things that will bless you. Say things that will please you. Help the sheep. I pray. Feed the sheep tonight, oh God, please. Feed the sheep. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. And amen. You can be seated. Thank you. So many times we read this text and we look at it and we think about how this man, this maniac, had a transformed life. And he did. All he needed was just to get at the feet of Christ. We think about this text so many times. And it's real easy for me and for you to think about maybe some friends. So I wish the Lord would come by and see them. Maybe some family. Sure wish the Lord would come by and see them. Maybe a mom and dad. Maybe a son or daughter. Maybe a brother or sister. Sure wish the Lord would come by and see them. But we know for a fact that He will come by and see somebody. He come by where I was on a Thursday night. In the month of January, coming up, I'm fixing to have an anniversary. Almost without fail, every anniversary, every spiritual anniversary that I have, Joey Crawford's the first one that'll text me and say happy birthday. Almost without fail. Joey used to go to church here and now he's got a family and lives up in Blackshear and got a house full of young'uns and I'm glad he's in Blackshear. Amen. Wow, that boy. But we see here that this man had some things that Jesus talked different about. The book of Mark, the book of Matthew, this story's told. But right here in this text, something happens that I want to look at that really doesn't have to do with this man. But it has to do with some people that's watching what happened. Verse number 34, the Bible said, and they that fed them, talking about the hogs, saw what was done. The Bible said they fled and went and told it in the city, in the country. the hogs had all just died. It would be like me and you watching our herds of money run off into the ocean. And nothing you can do about it. You can't go down there and herd them back up out of the water. They're not in there on their own power. They're in there because of the driving force of demons themselves. Now, I'm not here to talk about the devil. I don't think you ought to give him no kind of glory. Best thing you can do if you've ever been out in sin, just say, thank God for getting me out of it. The old song says, I once was lost in sin, but Jesus took me in and did a little light from heaven fill my soul. He bathed my heart in love and wrote my name above. Thank God. Thank God. just a little talk with Jesus made me whole. I look at this text right here. The Bible said, when they that fed them saw what was done. I wondered why it was that they didn't go back out into town and out in the country and said, hey, y'all remember that maniac that we used to hear screaming and crying and carrying on? Y'all remember that guy over there? You know who he was. He was a crazy man. He done went slap, dab, crazy. He done robbed two or three banks in town. He was on all kind of dope, all kind of liquor. He wasn't nothing but a liquor head. Just an old liquor head. Ain't none of y'all never been one. That's why you didn't say nothing. Just an old liquor head. I know what an old liquor head is. Just an old dope head that the Lord Jesus went specifically for to change his life. To change his life. To change his life. Would he change your life? Don't you think he deserves more if he changed your life? Don't he deserve more than just... I say glory to God. What if he left you in that horrible pit you was in? What if he left you in that mess where he found you at? You might not have gone too deep out there. You might not have been one of them that just barely survived it. But friend, you was on the very road that them that died on it was on. You was in the very direction that they was on headed that way. But God, who is rich in mercy, came by your way, rescued you, rescued you. Showed you some grace, showed you some mercy. Hey, I'm just saying tonight, they wasn't even worried about him. They didn't have a good hallelujah. They didn't thank God. They didn't care that the man could go home to his family. They didn't care that he could go home to his children. They didn't care that if it was in November he could have got a job and went to work and bought some Christmas. They didn't care. All they cared about was what they owned. all they cared about was a bunch of hogs I've always liked to watch them if you go up interstate 95 heading up here towards Brunswick just before you get to exit 22 there's always a couple on the side of the road rooting out there on the right-hand side of the road. Tyler, you seen them? They rooting in that mess that you were living in. Hogs trying to root you out. Trying to get you to a place where you could get rescued. Oh my goodness. I was going to Jacksonville the other day just before I got to the Nassau and Duval County line over on the right-hand side of the road. There was at least a half a dozen, maybe more, Little old pigs about this tall on the side of the highway. I said, well, if they get spooked and try to go across the road, they'd be scorching for somebody. Probably a buzzard or a crow. Buzzard ain't, he won't never make through that traffic. I'm just saying, I'm saying that here this man was that had been changed, his life's turned around. Listen to me, it might not seem like a big deal in the world that we're living in, and I hate to say it, but in most places, in most churches anymore, when somebody gets saved, they don't even make a big to-do over it no more. But we used to, didn't we? Huh? They don't even care. They don't care that he can go home to a wife, children, maybe a mom and daddy. Wouldn't it have been something if he could go home and say, Daddy, I just want to thank you for praying for me. That Thursday night, Brother John, that Thursday evening, I'm sitting in that house right by myself and I'm sitting at that table And I was sitting there and I was looking at my Bible for the first time and I don't know when the Holy Ghost of God come by where I was. And I couldn't tell you what I was reading and it really don't make no difference. But I know this. I was sick of sin. I done had me a week full of sin that I didn't want to be around no more. I done seen things I didn't want to see no more. Done things I didn't want to do no more. You listen to me. I'm just telling you. I was just sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, tired, sick of sin. You've got to get there. You ain't going to just walk into church and just act like everything's OK. You're just putting on the list of forgotten. That boy went home, that prodigal son went home because he was sick of his sin. The reason that many of us are in here tonight because we got sick of our sin. The reason that you keep your children in church And don't give them an option to miss church. I forgot who was talking about that earlier, about letting them decide on things. Little old children having to decide on things. No. They're children. They're children. Until they're 35 or so. Something like that. I don't know. Whatever age group the Lord says it is, I don't know. But I'm telling you, I sit there and I have a look in this book and I have a stick of my sin and I'm asking God to help me. And I'm telling you the greatest help that God can give me and give you in a time like that is to break our hearts from where we are. He did, Sister Darlene. He broke my heart. I remember calling my dad because I knew my dad prayed. He was also my pastor. I knew he prayed. And I'm telling you, Brother Frank, I couldn't even say nothing to him except I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've embarrassed you. I'm sorry I've humiliated your name. I'm sorry that you had to hear about me around town. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I got to the place where I couldn't even say it no more. Through the tears and through the weeping, I couldn't say it no more. But in my heart, brother James, in my heart, I was sorry for going where I went and doing what I did and having to admit. They didn't care about none of that. They didn't care. A lot of that crowd I hung around with, they didn't come looking for me to see if I was okay. They didn't care. You got friends, you got friends out there saying you quit hanging around them, they won't come find you. They won't bring you another drink. They won't bring you another pill, another joint. They won't bring you nothing. They won't bring you nothing but more heartaches and more bad news and more sin to associate. It was that kind of friends you had. I'm trying to find somebody that knows where I'm at right here. That's exactly how those old friends were. I literally remember, I literally remember one of the friends that I had never called, never checked on me, never come to the house. But I seen him in the store one day while I was getting gas at the gas station. And he said, hey, where you been? I ain't seen you in a while. I thought, that's the best he's got right there. That was the best he had. As far as he'd know, I could have been dead. And he called me friend. I was a scapegoat. I was an excuse for him to get out of the house. Some of y'all know what I'm talking about right here. I was the reason for him to get away from his family. Edward needs some help. I don't have to go deep into that, do I? Y'all know what I'm talking about? I'm just talking about how sin does. I'm talking about the excuses that the devil will lay out there. And if you ever get to the place where you start listening to him, I'm telling you, you'll be just like them. They didn't care. All they cared about was their hogs. But there was some proof about this man that God has laid in the book that we can see how he changed his life. They told me, they told me, brother, When I left my job, they said, you won't never last. They said, you won't never last. You know why they say that? You know why they say things like that? Because they see people that don't last. They see people that send it for the money. So what do you do if the money comes? I guess I've got to double up on scrapping. Huh? I guess I got to go in there and break my welder out. Knocked the desk off of it. That's what it done before, wasn't it? One preacher said, if I couldn't live out of an orphan place, I'd die. It might be real wise to learn that you are better off not to try to live. Just in case. I thank God for what church does for me and my wife. I'm telling you, God has been so good to us through this local church. But I'm just saying right here, the Bible says that when they that fed them saw what was done, they fled and went and told it in the city and in the country. They didn't say nothing about the blessing of a man's life being changed. Is there anybody in here tonight that maybe somewhere along the way somebody told you, I'm glad that now you're living for God? I've heard it. I've heard it. Brother Frank, you ain't been saved that long. You've already heard it. Every one of us has heard it one time or another. Somebody said it. Boy, sure I'm glad you're in church now. Sure I'm glad you're serving the Lord now. Sure I'm glad you gave your life to Jesus. Sure I'm glad. I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad. Thank God I'm glad that you're actively serving God. Some proof of a changed man. Proof that things are different now. It's different now since Jesus saved my soul. It's different now since He made me whole. I'm just saying God makes all the difference in the world. Say not for me. Church is boring. Church just bothers my mind. It used to do mine the same way. I wasn't wanting to pour the Word in. I was wanting to pour Thank you for not asking for details. Thank you. I want you to notice, number one, this man now, they didn't care about this, but now he can rest. He ain't been resting. He's been crying and screaming and hollering and carrying on night and day. There's no rest in that. I mean, that'll wear you out. That'll just wear you out. It's like shopping all day. Does anybody know about that? Trying to find somebody that can get in here with me a little bit. Hey, man. I saw some hands upstairs. Ethan was... Ethan, you a shopper? Oh, I thought I saw your hand go up, son. You scared me right there. I think it's mostly ladies does that, Ethan. Leave it alone, son. Go to Harbor Freight, get what you got to have and get out of that place. Amen. We just got a brand new one here. We're happy about it. Amen. I'm just saying, hey, hey, now he's resting. He's resting. All the turmoil, all the confusion, all the problems that the devils out of hell was doing and putting in his life, now he can rest. Thank God. Thank God. And I ain't never got over that. I ain't never got over that. I'm telling you. I'm glad. I'm thankful that you didn't live like I lived. I'm thankful that you ain't done what I've done. But I'm just going to say this. While I was out there, there was no rest. Spent all my money. Spent everybody else's money. I hate to get too descriptive. I've got a wife and children in here. I told my wife, I told my wife, we got married, I said, hey, I'm just going to let you know these things about my past you don't want to know. She said, amen, right there. I think I just heard her say amen again. She still said amen. It's only time she says amen. But thank God she'll say it once in a while, amen. I'm just saying, what's out there to brag on? Nothing. What's out there? You say, but what else so bad out there? John said, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. Stay away from the world. As wicked as Herod the Great was, the only place of safety that there was for Joseph and Mary and for the baby Jesus was to go into Egypt. Because nobody looks for Jesus there. He's rested. Mark 5. 5 says always and always. And always. I guess you could say he wasn't sleeping. And always. Night. Day. He was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones. Brother Mark McGee, he's preached on that so much here about how people, just young people, just get into that world where the devil starts cutting themselves. I'm telling you, young people, you get around people doing that. And I know somebody is going to say, somebody needs to be a witness to them. Yeah, that mom and daddy is probably going to stand before God because they didn't take him to church. But I'm telling you, most of the time, young people are not spiritual stable enough to rescue the perishing. The Lord will make a way. You live right before them. You live right before them. You let them watch you living for Jesus. Somebody calls me and starts gossiping about somebody. I say, what do you do? I change subjects. Sure was good talking to you, but you know, I got to go. Where you got to go? Bathroom? Theater? Whatever. I got to go because I don't want to hear you talking about people no more. Gossiping. I'm just saying you live right before them. And they will pick up on it. Rest in. I want you to notice there's proof in that. Verse 35. The Bible says that he was sitting. He was sitting. You know what you do when you're sitting? You're resting. You're resting right now. That's why it's real hard for all of us to get something at a time like this because we're resting so the temperature got real nice and warm in here and it's real hard to sit there and not go... I try to make it sound like I'm just doing jaw exercises or something. really yawning. You know, they never had to do that. Just, you know, dad saw you. Hey, stop making noises. I told Faith the other day, when that was in church, I said, we got to get something to eat. I said, my stomach was growling. She said, was that your stomach? When you can hear your stomach growling in church, you should have eaten something for church. If it wasn't nothing but a cheese cracker or a sardine. Are you with me? He's yawning. I can't tell. No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. I love Ethan. I just like to pick at him. I do. Resting. And then there's reverence. Because he ain't just sitting in a chair on the front porch. He's sitting at the feet of Jesus. I wanted to go to church. Sister Barbara got off the phone on a Thursday. And I cannot tell you what took place in my life. on Friday and Saturday. I cannot tell you. I know I went to work because I was taught that you work. But I remember the Sunday when I showed up over here. And I've been trying to show up ever since. And that's been about 38 and a half years ago. And God's made a way for me to do things for Him that I never dreamt would have ever happened. Not that I would get any recognition. Don't deserve none. Don't want none. But it's all for Him. Sitting. Not standing. When I get done, I got done this morning. Folk come up and say something to me. They were standing beside me. They didn't come up and reverence me. They just want to tell me something. He was sitting. Not standing. Standing. Brother Daniel, he could have been just inquiring. But he was sitting. There was reverence. He got to the lowest esteem that he could get. He wasn't sitting beside. He was sitting at the feet of Christ. He got down to the lowest point, Brother Darnell, that he could get because he knew who was worthy and who wasn't. How come they didn't tell that? How come they didn't? I'll tell you why. Because that other dealt with their money. That other debt, have you ever noticed in the world we live in right now? Money. You ain't got to say amen right now because I know how, I know how touchy this subject is. Even some of the best Christians I've ever met, when it comes to money and making a decision about it, it drew a line in their life. I've met preachers, brother Gary, that wouldn't go to churches and preach if they didn't get enough money. That's why I like old Bill Sonny Talbert, say. Bill Sonny. You know Bill Sonny? Boy, precious brother. He told me, he said, he said, preacher, I go to a lot of churches. He says that sometimes, he said, my offering's been $25 for the week. That's hard to imagine. Now, you better know this. I know preachers that wouldn't have done that. I went to hear a preacher preach one time in a little small church. And I believe it surprised the preacher when he got there and saw the size of the church. And he was supposed to come back the next year and that pastor was all excited about it. But for some reason, he got his dates mixed up and he couldn't come back. And he ain't never been back. You remember that? I do. I take note of stuff like that. I take notes whenever somebody is raising their self above. One preacher said it like this. He said, what we do is we forgot what the job of a shepherd is. Can I define it to you in a way that you might not look at it normally? A shepherd is just a nasty man. Because he's a working man. He smells like sheep. He don't smell like he just bathed every morning bright and early. He's having to sit out in the hot sun and he's watching over them sheep and he's having to listen out and he don't get to sleep and rest real good at night because his job is to give his life for the sheep. I've met a lot of pastors I met a lot of prayer preachers. Boy, when they got way up there, they was counting dollars before they ever got to the meeting, much less left. God knows how to deal with that stuff. The reverence, he was sitting at his feet. And then I want you to notice something else right here in verse 35. The Bible said that he was clothed. You know what he done? He had a new robe. We see him resting. We see him giving reverence. Now we see him with a new robe. He's clothed and in his right mind. And I know, I know, I know. I'm old. You can say amen right there if you want to. Hey, Bo, say amen. You want to say amen? A little nervous about that, huh? Amen, son. Amen. He's a Jew. Joe, do you think I'm old? Yeah. Sure. I'm old and old school. I don't like the new kind of clothes they come out with. And when I was younger, this age, this age, I'd wear anything they'd hang on a mannequin. I'm telling you. I'm going to tell you. My daddy would see me by the James and he'd say, my lord, son, I can't believe, did you buy that? Surely somebody just gave it to you. I didn't have the heart to tell you no, sir. You did. Made a bit of killing right out there. A hog slaughtering right out there is what it had been. But I'm old school now. And one thing that happens when you get older is that you realize All that new stuff ain't necessary. It is a big waste of money. An older gentleman I used to work for, I always noticed he always wore a hat with no name on the front of it. And if you like them, you can find them at Dollar General for $3.50. One of my favorite stores right there next to Harbor Freight. $3.50 for a hat. I ain't paying $25 for a hat that's got a word up there that I can't pronounce. I don't know what it might be saying. Might make me nervous. I'm not advertising. That old man I used to work for said, hey, son, I ain't wearing nothing with nobody's name on it and advertising for free. I thought, wow, that's pretty good thinking right there. A lot of people, they got to pay to put a billboard up. I've got to pay to get TV time. And young people today, they've got to have a shirt on that says, Akarongabongi or whatever that is. I don't know what the name of that is, but y'all know what I'm talking about. Y'all know what I'm talking about? You don't know? Anybody? Say it again. Abacrongabongi. Abacrongabongi. That's what I said, I thought. Y'all know, you know where I'm at. Now you just a nervous young man right here tonight and he ain't agreeing to nothing over here. Hey man, I ain't wearing... Old school. How can I rest knowing my family might have needed something that I spent foolishly on when I could have been spending on my family? I got new robes. I got a new outfit. It's called Christianity. I'm not ashamed of it. Brother Andrew, we need to wear it proudly. Our neighbors, our friends, they're watching. Where I live, one way in, one way out. Unless you're on foot, running from the law, any man. Better be able to jump a good fence, all I got to say right there. My neighbors watch me go out to church and they watch me come in. They watch me go out and they watch me coming in. They don't say this, but I guarantee you they're wondering what goes on in our church. And every one of them knows where our church is. And it might take a while to win them. But all I got is time. I'm not in no hurry. I'm just going to put on my robe, and I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I just want to say this tonight. If there's one thing they should have been concerned with, it was about how God helped a man. For me and you, when you see somebody get saved, are you excited? When you see somebody get their life turned around, don't it just stir us? When somebody gets excited about God, they ain't even got to get excited. Just get excited. I can sing, get up here and get excited. I get excited. And if I get excited, you ought to get excited. If you get excited, I'm going to get excited. But if you never get excited, I don't know why. I don't know what would stir you. I know this. These folk here didn't get excited. Are you listening? They didn't get excited. You know what they did? They went and told about how the hogs died. I don't care about the hogs dying. If they die, hang them up by the hills and let them go through the line. A week later, there'll be a pork chop. But if one man's rescued out of hell, If one woman's rescued out of hell, if one young person gives their heart to Christ. I'm telling you, we ought to be embracing them. We ought to be throwing our arms around them. We ought to be saying, thank you, Lord Jesus Christ. Please take care of them. Please protect them. Please put a hedge about them. Please keep them safe. Don't let the devil get a hold of them. Don't let that crowd discourage them. Don't let, don't let, don't let, don't let those religious Pharisees just try to tell them to don't get excited about God because they're not. But just let them jump in all the way and get on fire for God. That's what I want to do. That's what I want to see happen to John Owen. That's what I want to see happen to him. He's got great potential. Brother Bradley. Great potential. Brother Alex. God can use these young men. God can use these young men. Listen, do you think it ain't no big deal, Peyton, standing up here playing the guitar? That's a big thing. That's a big thing. I'm thankful for that. Amen. I get mad when he don't. Amen. Did you get up here tonight? Okay, I think be mad. This, I'm just saying, let's serve the Lord together. This year is gone, ain't nothing we can do about what's passed. But tonight, fourth, we've got proof. We're at rest. We're giving reverence. And you got a brand new robe. From the day you got saved, he gives you a new name. Let's just use it, let's use it, let's use it and tell people about Jesus. Amen? Let's all stand together. I got proof that Jesus done something for me. I got proof. Why? Because I'm at rest. Because I'm giving reverence. I've got a new robe. I've got a new robe. Churches are the battle, Brother Gary. Churches are the battle. And I'm going to tell you something. Not only are churches in the battle, but it's the battle for the preachers. Because if the preacher is preaching on something, If the preacher preaches that you ain't resting, you say, well, see, no, I'm resting. Not doing nothing don't mean you ain't resting. If the preacher says, hey, you're not giving the Lord reverence, how come you didn't raise your hand? How come you're daydreaming? How come you're looking? You say, well, how does he know what I'm doing? And the preacher gets up there and preaches on that, the dress that you got. I don't see, I don't see a Christian outfit, I see a worldly outfit. I was looking at a, I was looking at a, a church, just, not regularly brother Jeff, but just, I went across the church one time. They had a band across the front, big platform. About four or five different color lights, zooming in and going in and out and all that kind of stuff. And I don't know how many musicians was on that platform. Guitar players. drummers, I mean, just not one person, not one person was addressing that if you'd seen him walking down the road, you thought that might be a Christian. See, why do you have to look at somebody and think? Well, the Bible said he was clothed and in his right mind. I watched old brother Leo Wales Every time he comes to church, and I know what you're going to say, he's old school. Thank you, Brother Leo. Thank you for being old school. Because everybody in here lives long enough, they're going to be old school too. Every time he comes in here, he's got a jacket and a towel. Brother Ron, you've got to look real hard to catch him with that one. Real hard. Say, that don't mean you're a Christian. But it makes you stand out, don't it? It makes you stand out. Look at this boy right here. In my eyes, maybe not yours, but in my eyes, he looks sharp. How old are you? Eleven? Oh, fifteen, I'm sorry. I knew you wasn't 11. I knew you wasn't 11. I thought you was 13. Fifteen years old. Thank God. When God's done something for us, it's going to show. And somebody's going to go to town and tell it. Let's give them something good to tell. Don't try to be ugly. Try to love them. Try to love them. But be a difference. Make a difference in this world. You work with somebody that needs Christ. You know somebody that needs the Lord. Amen.