The Holy Spirit

Date
Aug. 20, 2017

Transcription

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[0:00] A great distinction. The man and James, do you know what that was? The brother of Jesus. The brother of Jesus Christ. Even though the Catholics don't think they had any more kids.

[0:12] Here's proof, right? Two of the Bible writers were brothers of Jesus. Judas and James. Yeah, they had children from Mary.

[0:28] That's a woman of Mary. After Jesus was born, they had all those kids. They had girls, too. And I told the names of girls. Boys, boys, boys. James and Josie's.

[0:40] The two of them Bible writers. Just a normal family. James, chapter 4.

[0:56] One verse. Number 5. Number 5. Number 5. We preach about the Holy Spirit. More in time. James 4 and 5.

[1:08] Do you think that the scripture sayeth in heaven, the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? I want to explain that this morning.

[1:21] It doesn't sound good. Lust is usually a huge, bad sense. And envy is usually a bad thing. And yet, it's the Holy Spirit that's talking about it. It can't do anything about it.

[1:31] So that is going to be the basis of our message this morning. You ever read scriptures over and over and into what they've been? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[1:42] Actually, it's the mind of God. We have the Bible. And your mind and God's mind. You're never going to understand everything. Don't get discouraged if you read something and say, wow, what does that mean?

[1:57] He's never going to get it all. He wants you to study it. He wants you to go listen to it preached and talk. He wants you to work at it. And you will know more and more and more as you will get over in pride.

[2:10] You'll never get it all. This is one of those verses that I just never did understand. James 4 and 5. The scripture says that the spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.

[2:26] I thought, now, lust is a bad thing. We all know what lusting happens no matter what we need. Envy seems like a bad thing. And yet the spirit that dwelleth in us, that word dwell is always used for the Holy Spirit.

[2:44] It dwells within us. Yes, sir. But the Bible does not capitalize the S on spirit here. Sometimes it does. It means Holy Spirit.

[2:56] If it's a little letter, it usually means the human spirit, body, soul, and spirit. The part that contacts God and can talk to him, that's your spirit.

[3:08] Your spirit gets saved when you get saved. Amen. So that's the other thing. It's a little S. But it seems like the Holy Spirit's me.

[3:22] And yet lust. So I don't know. I just never have really upstool. And then I ran across a circle of Dr. Jack Hiles a while back.

[3:39] And he thinks he's got it figured out. And I like what he said. And I'm going to tell you most of what he said. And I'm going to keep studying in case he's wrong.

[3:51] But I like this interpretation of this word. And I think you will, too. Now, I know this much. The word lust doesn't have to be a bad lust.

[4:03] In the Bible, it simply means a strong desire. So it could be a good lust, a good desire. As Brother Hiles thinks it does mean that.

[4:15] He said that the Greek word for lust, in this case, means to strongly desire something that someone else has, but is rightfully yours.

[4:26] I know a lot of things like that. Go on with me.

[4:36] You've got it. I want it. It's mine. So think of the Holy Spirit. Wanting something you have, but don't sin.

[4:49] That's what the preacher said that means there. Therefore, it causes envy. Now, did you know that the Bible says God is a jealous God?

[4:59] Is it a sin then? Yes. Not if it's God doing it. Because he can't sin, can't he? If you know the word envy here, it's the same word.

[5:11] It's like a jealous. So if you have something, the Holy Spirit wants, and it's rightfully his, makes him jealous. He wants it back.

[5:23] And it's not a sin if God's jealous. Okay. We got that nailed down. I didn't hear a single person said, no, I don't believe that.

[5:38] All right. Now then, let me tell you the two or three things that Brother Howell said that this means. He says, the Holy Spirit is inside you.

[5:49] He dwells in you. And there are some things that you have, you've got to take possession of, that's rightfully his. And he wants it back.

[6:00] He's jealous about it. All right. First thing, he lusts, strongly desires, for you to just acknowledge him. He deserves to be acknowledged.

[6:16] When's the last time you thought? No. Yeah. How many times have we gone through the day and pillowed our head at night and really thought about the Holy Spirit one time?

[6:29] I don't know what it is, but it's easier to think about God than you. I don't ever go very long without thinking of one of them. But I have to admit, sometimes I stop and I say, Holy Spirit, my goodness, well, I've been an hour and I didn't talk to you and I won't apologize.

[6:45] I won't fellowship with you a little while. Just because he doesn't talk back and he's silent doesn't mean he's not there. And another thing that we know about him, he's very sensitive.

[7:00] Very sensitive. You can drive him away. He can be offended. He can be grieved. And you need to be careful about grieving the Holy Spirit because you need him and he's power and right.

[7:14] So, he wants to be acknowledged. Did you know that 1 Corinthians 6, 19, when it tells you that you don't belong to yourself? What? No, you're not. That you're not your own.

[7:27] For you're bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your blood and spirit which you belong to hell. You don't own you. Remember the fellow on the plane was asked to join the car gang?

[7:39] He said, I can't do it. These hands don't belong to me. And they said, what do you mean they don't belong to you? That's not my name. Well, who's are they there? Who's over here?

[7:51] Yes, sir. Right? I wonder if we have taken over our own bodies and the Lord is jealous about that because he owns us.

[8:05] We don't even acknowledge him. We don't acknowledge him as the owner of myself. Then he desires our fellowship. He wants us to acknowledge him as a friend. He is a wonderful friend.

[8:20] Have you learned to do that some? We talked about that part here in this church several times. Have you learned that you shouldn't ignore him? It's right to talk to him like it's right to talk to God.

[8:35] Oh, I've heard people say, Marley, you're not supposed to pray to Jesus. You're not supposed to pray to God in Jesus' name. Therefore, surely you're not supposed to talk to the Holy Spirit. God have mercy.

[8:48] Sounded just like one of them. Yeah, that's not right. They told Dr. Rice that one time. He said, Well, I'm a member of the family and they're not jealous of each other.

[9:00] They don't like I talk to each other. And they don't like I talk to each other. He sees us talking to other people and never to him. He sees us spending copious amounts of time with our digital toys and never taking time to dwell with him and his word.

[9:23] He sees us reading newspapers and never reading the Bible. He sees us lusting with worldly thoughts.

[10:01] He wants us to lust after spiritual things. He wants us to acknowledge him. Most of all, I guess, he longs to do God's work through us and he sees us trying to do it in our own power.

[10:15] Did you ever get frustrated in your job or the Lord or in the church? It seemed like you were just standing in your way. Ted, do you ever feel that way? It's very common.

[10:26] And preachers feel that way too. What we need to learn is that God wants to work through us and it's hard to do that. It's hard for us to turn loose and let him do it.

[10:40] You've got to learn to yield and then just wait and let him do it. But he wants to do that. He wants to do your work through you. It's so much easier. It works much better.

[10:51] It feels much better. He wants to do your work for you. And he's envious about that. Well, my mom, just before she died, she fell at the time in her head.

[11:03] Blood blew in her mind and her brain and she developed dementia because of that. It was not, it was not Alzheimer's. It was just dementia from the fall. And my sister was a caretaker.

[11:17] Mother got sort of, she just didn't think straight, you know. She might put mustard in a pie or something.

[11:28] She might be careful. She was always wanting to cook. I mean, she's been cooking for about 70 years. And it would be time for a meal, water, sitting there, cooking and getting it ready.

[11:42] If she comes in, I'll do the answer. I need to cook this meal. You're doing all the work I need to do. Well, I couldn't let her do that. No, tell her what she come up with.

[11:56] And they had to eat that stuff. She meant what she wanted to do the work. That somebody else would do it.

[12:08] She had a strong desire to do the work. She wanted to say, Wanda, now you let me take care of this. Let me mix this and boil this and cook this.

[12:22] Let me do it for you. And the Holy Spirit is the same way. He sees you going about your business. Sometimes making a mess and saying, And he said, I wish you would let me do it for me.

[12:39] I wish you would let me do it for you. I want to tell you something. I can't preach. I have learned a long time ago, brother, he'll leave you and just stand here all by yourself if you don't acknowledge him.

[12:54] That's can't be. And I start in about Tuesday every week and I say, now, Lord, I've got to bring something. And don't you dare let me stand up there without you.

[13:07] I'll make a mess here at the top. So Tuesday, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday, I'm saying, now, Holy Spirit, listen, don't you leave me. I've got a happy Sunday morning.

[13:20] This message won't preach itself and I'm not able to do it. And those people don't want to listen to another human being talking about spiritual things. They want a spiritual blessing when they come down.

[13:31] They want to feel like they've been with God and God's book for them. Now, you don't do it personally like you did with most of them. You use preachers now.

[13:42] You speak for them. And that's my job and I've got to do it but I can't do it without you. Never preach your worth his thought. No, the feeling of having to preach without God helping you.

[13:55] Brother, once you do it, you don't ever want to do it again. It's tough stuff. So what's the difference between you and you? You teachers, don't you think maybe you might need him to help you too?

[14:09] You soul winners, don't you think you might need him? He wants you to acknowledge him, your dependence on him, your need for him. He longs to fill you and empower you for your work.

[14:22] Maybe marriage would be a little better if you ask him into it. Maybe your job would be a little better if you ask him to know what you can work. Maybe those people that you're not getting along with, he can work that out for you.

[14:35] We don't acknowledge him and use him and let him help us. And he's jealous about that. He wants to do it. Well, how long has it been since you missed a meal or stayed up in the back?

[14:50] Begging the Holy Spirit from power. You haven't done that anymore. That's what I'm talking about. He's jealous about that and he longs for you to do it.

[15:03] He's saying, don't neglect me, don't ignore me, acknowledge my presence. You always notice the Father and you always notice the Son, but they put me in charge and I'm here to help you.

[15:14] You need to let me help you. So that's what Brother Howell said it means. And number two, he says he longs to comfort you. We all need comfort sometimes.

[15:30] Four times in John 14, 15, and 16, the Holy Spirit is called the comfort. He longs to comfort us when the diagnosis is not good.

[15:43] Our friend, Brother Bray, has learned that his cancer is all over us. And we want to comfort him.

[15:55] We want to tell him, Brother Bray, but we can't do anything like the Holy Ghost is inside. and he longs from what Gene Bray to say, I don't know how to face this.

[16:09] I mean, I must be comfort to the end. I've never come up to him before. Holy Spirit, I need help. And that's where he excels. When you invite him end to conquer, we don't have to do.

[16:24] Sometimes you're going to need him to. Yeah. Somebody mistreats you, you don't know how to tell everybody. Maybe your husband. you don't know what to say.

[16:36] Save the Spirit of God. Save the Spirit of God. Now, don't be surprised if he hits him over the head or something. That'd be okay, too.

[16:47] Now, he has to think like that. He'll fix it for you. You know, I found myself like, tonight, evening, over that little girl, just get over my plastic.

[17:01] I don't know how to take it. I don't understand. I mean, I don't know about that. You don't know what I'm about that. A little seven-year-old girl, in fact, she was eight years old.

[17:11] It was old yesterday. She told her parents, I want to show you a trick. She was coming down to the grassy area on her bicycle and somehow the wheel turned and threw her over the thing.

[17:26] She didn't get run over a car. It was not another person involved. She went over it right there.

[17:37] It didn't even break the skin. But inside, it tore her it. they didn't know that she was bleeding out.

[17:50] They called the emergency medical technicians and they gave her mouth to mouth and so on. That's not what she needed. She needed somebody to open her up so that they stopped that bleeding and didn't know what was going on.

[18:07] So the girl died because they didn't figure out what it. not even four eight years old and showed him I'll be dad and you trick on the bicycle now watch her get killed.

[18:22] I had four little girls folks and some of wreck bicycles too. Remember when the barn was teaching me how to ride in a bicycle.

[18:38] We didn't have no train wheels on that big one of the old and she can ride and she says come on I'll teach you that huh? I'll be your trainer. So she gets her little sister on it and she's holding the bike while she lets go.

[18:56] She thinks that's the way to you. Need to win about 30 feet wham that's what that little She just wrecked her back.

[19:07] And it's been hurting me now. I don't know the people right. I wish I could walk up to them and say I don't know how you feel.

[19:17] I don't know how you stand this. I know a God that don't want them. I hope they know them. I hope they are Christians.

[19:28] don't know their name. She's had one little preacher in this town she and he both of them.

[19:40] The Holy Spirit is an expert in things like that. Yes he is. An expert. I used to preach that by theory because we didn't have any problems in our world.

[19:53] Until one day the doctor looked at my wife and said it's cancer. A whole new system of my relationship with the Lord began then.

[20:06] And I learned by experience that the Holy Spirit loved for you to call him into that situation. He excels in that. She is in the hospital and I go home with the kids to sleep and come back the next day.

[20:25] Midnight or so you've got to help me. Something's wrong with me. I'm numb. My legs are numb. I feel funny.

[20:36] I feel like I'm dying. Put that one on. Try that one. Paul's mother lived near us. I got her up and brought her down to stay with the kids and let them kneeling before our couch.

[20:53] All of them. I took off the 25 miles to St. Louis Hospital. We live in a suburb. And I'm thinking, what are you doing?

[21:07] Lord, I don't understand this. We're trying to serve you. What more can go wrong? She's got cancer. She's had it cut out. We're facing that.

[21:18] Now she's dying. In the middle of the night, she says they don't know what's wrong. And I'm sailing up Interstate 55.

[21:31] I'm getting rocked. I come to Corona Avenue. Never forget it. I'm fuzzy to God. And I come over that little where the eggs is over that bridge.

[21:48] And peace just fell over me. The Holy Spirit said, I'm so glad you asked. Because I sailed this.

[22:01] And I drove the rest of that 10 miles knowing that everything was okay. knowing that I hadn't got to help them figure out what to do for them.

[22:17] I used my chemistry training. I had eight hours of chemistry in college. And these nurses running around, they couldn't get a doctor.

[22:31] And by phone, one of them said, well, she has technique. The doctor said, she has technique. That means that when we cut out her thyroid man, we've got her parathyroid too.

[22:43] We thought we left a little there. And they regulate calcium in the body, and she has no calcium. And that's technique, not tetanus, but something else. All she needs is administer some calcium.

[22:58] And that girl told me all this as I went in the room and she said, we take the guy bag. There's several kinds of calcium.

[23:09] And I said, I call a calcium. You ever calcium carbonate that's a calcium. It's got a large, it's got a large percentage of calcium in it.

[23:21] You can't give straight metals. You have to have a compound. And I said, you got any of that?

[23:33] She said, yeah, that's cool. I went with her. She said, here it is with her. I said, what's up in her? I look like a doctor, man.

[23:51] Yeah, right. And they got the, you know, the little IV starting. I stood there and watched and she started getting there.

[24:03] Doctor started to care. I didn't know.

[24:19] I didn't know. When I was 18 years old, in a chemistry class. God used that one day. But he did.

[24:31] Holy spirit excelled in things like that. She got well and it wasn't life threatening.

[24:45] We thought it was. She just didn't have the calcium in her blood. And since we learned that her parathop wasn't gone since that day you were 43.

[24:58] Every day she has two calcium pills. Every day since that day. The doctor told us that it's okay. She'll live a normal life but she don't have anything to regulate her calcium.

[25:10] You got wood in there every day. She's got these old long calcium people. The Holy Spirit do that. He takes care of all of us in the day.

[25:23] He's begging you to let it comfort you. Don't sit around and let your heart bleed break. Just say Lord I need help.

[25:34] I need the comforter right now. need somebody to help me. He will. Look to him before I should go to him. He'll take care.

[25:45] Number three. Brother Howell said that he's long to teach us. You know why you understand that Bible? Because the author of that Bible teaches you that Bible.

[25:57] How many of you remember before you saved that Bible was a closed book you didn't understand it? Do you also remember that soon after you saved it started to make sense to you?

[26:08] The author of that Bible came to live inside you. And he started teaching you that Bible. And he wants to do that.

[26:19] Get your Bible down and say Lord teach me something today. I need something that I don't know don't have help me now. Boy you start understanding the thing.

[26:30] I'm telling you. Tom alone is a great preacher that's not having but he said I always quote Psalm I said he flies hundreds of thousands miles every year and said there was a lady sitting in the seat next to me and she would stand and pulled out a book and start reading and it was one of my books he said he said blew down the lace one of my book and he said I thought oh man that's interesting this lady is reading my book perfect stranger so he said well

[27:37] I thought I was asked her how she liked the book said do you enjoy that book she said well I can't understand much and here's what she said according to him I hope before I die I can meet the man that wrote this book and asked him to explain a couple of things can you believe that wouldn't you love me men sitting by the way I wrote that book and he said we spent that fight with asking questions at time part of the illustration the Holy Spirit we're reading his book we don't understand what he said I wish I had the author of this book you do you do he wants to teach number four he lusts to leave he long

[28:37] I get it some of the biggest message when I don't have this reason what have done you make your own decisions about which way to go what to do you like me you end up in a corner somewhere you need a leader you need somebody to guide you we need somebody that knows what's right around the corner knows the future so he makes the right decision he longs he lusts he wishes you better one of his main jobs is to direct our steps according to Bible never seem to need his direction when we go on day every day with all sorts of unknown decisions in front of us he's longing to be asked to help one thing about the Holy Spirit he never forces himself on you have to invite him so he just waits to you when

[29:37] I was 30 years old the Lord was telling me I'm your denomination you're going to have to get out and I said Lord I don't think that you can talk because I don't want to get out I mean I was spanked as a lady and that's all I've ever known I haven't been going to these churches since before I born my mother I don't want to get out all my friends have my college my everything my life he said it's going to go bad you can go down with it you got to get out I wouldn't do but I would pray about it Lord if you really want me to do that you got to show me it's like Brother Griffin I heard him preach that but when God tells me something he's got to get definitely sure

[30:39] I'm not going change anything and that's a good way to do it and so I said Lord I I not going to move! like this and give up all through 30 years ago was through that thing thing I said, you got to show me.

[31:26] He showed me. He showed me. They voted me right out. But there was an old lady junior old man in that church that I had gone. We followed each other. He said, Brother John, son of those other gentlemen.

[31:44] He said, you know what I like about you? I said, what? I told him you think about you. He said, you preach it like they did when I was born.

[31:56] That's a great comment. While I go back, you can go in conservatism, the closer you are to God. He never had change. And that's what's wrong with the church. Keep changing.

[32:10] And so they voted me out. I'm standing there, man. I'm thinking, oh, boy. And Brother my walks up. He said, where are you going to preach next time? I said, I don't have any place to preach by my hand.

[32:24] He said, yes, you do. I said, I do. He said, yes. You're going to come to my house. We're going to get as many people as we can. And in my living room, next Sunday, we're going to start an independent Baptist church.

[32:38] Amen. He said, he's been in that denomination long and I have. He'd been a deacon and treasurer for 60 years, 40 years. That very church.

[32:50] His tombstones out there were white on the ground his next moment. And God said, okay, little preacher. How do you feel about yourself?

[33:02] That old man has given up more than you ever thought I'd give up. And we's willing to do it just like that. And you're fighting me? I said, no, sir.

[33:14] And I became an independent Baptist. I don't want to leave the next Sunday. Because the Holy Spirit took care of me. He directed my steps. And he keeps on directing my steps.

[33:26] And he uses other people sometimes. But he directs me. If you ask him to. Down in Louisiana. And I know my work's finished where I am. I don't know what to do.

[33:38] Somebody's called. I said, won't you go see H.G. What's his name? Beach. I said, Beach.

[33:50] I was going to see Beach. He was the leading pastor in that part of Luther. And everybody looked up to him. So I went down here and see. Sat across his desk and said, I just need to know what the next step is.

[34:08] I just feel like I'm finished here. I don't know where to go. He reaches back and gets a letter. And he throws it down there from him. What are you talking about that? I look at it.

[34:20] And it's a church in North Dakota looking for pastor. I said, Brother Kenton, is that even in the United States? He said, Well, you imagine.

[34:40] This just came in. And the Lord said to show you this. The Holy Spirit's all in there. Come on. Brother Kenton, I'm going to go west or south. I didn't go.

[34:52] He said, well, check it out. I called the guy. Oh, he's just tickling to death. Anybody call him. I said, okay, I'll come up there and check it out.

[35:04] And all of a sudden I stayed there for three years and enjoyed the fire at New York. I mean, we enjoyed it. If that church, which was out in the little town, had been in Bismarck.

[35:16] We loved Bismarck. If that church had been in Bismarck, I'd probably still be there. But I visited everybody in that little town and built that thing as much as I could. And then a guy called me one day.

[35:30] And he said, Dad, well, I don't have any sons. A man has called me. Dad's probably a son-in-law. I said, yeah, which one is it?

[35:42] He said, Scott. He said, they just asked me to leave. He was assistant pastor and he did a few times.

[35:54] He said, I don't know what to do. I said, I don't know what to do. Come up here. Help me up here. He did.

[36:06] Y'all knew that. After you've been there, a year. I decided a time a week ago, I didn't know where to go.

[36:18] But, Scott stayed for a year and learned how to preach it. When you preach three times a week, you know how to learn how to get out of it.

[36:30] I said, yeah, he passed me that thing for a year. And then the Lord called him down here to help me. We've been together ever since.

[36:42] And the Lord had all that worked out. The beauty. I never knew the Lord wants you to be kind of. Scott did that here.

[36:54] And Don Long called Scott Griffin when they needed a pastor at this church. And they knew Pat Scott because he'd been out here and visited here before. And Scott said, no, I'm really not in here right now.

[37:06] I'm pastoring. But my father and all of that. Don Long contacts me. I said, well, that's the way we got together.

[37:18] See all those steps, how the Lord put all that together. Then I thought he'd never call me. I came up here, we stayed half a week, you know, kind of candidated. And then they were going to let me know.

[37:30] Well, he didn't let me know. Where are you, Don? There he is. He wouldn't let me know him. I kept waiting and waiting and waiting. What were you doing? He said he had a stack of, uh, uh, uh, what?

[37:46] Resurve. Resurve. Let me preach. He had a stack of resumes. He was trying to work his way through. Well, why wasn't mine right on top? Anyway, I thought he wasn't going to call me back.

[38:01] So I took another position down in Louisiana. I was in Arkansas. I took another position. I got in the car. Started down there to check it all out. Getting everything. I already told him I'd take it.

[38:13] We got 50 miles over Louisiana. Still in Arkansas. Just south of Little Rock. And the Lord said, where are you going? I said, I'm going, what do you know where I'm going?

[38:28] He said, you're supposed to be going to know what I'm going to say. I am. I'm going to say, what's up north of that book we do instead of watching to me? He said, have you got it?

[38:39] I said, they didn't want me. I had to hurry from him. He said, turn this car around and get yourself back home.

[38:50] I'm in charge of you. She'll tell you. I said, I just whipped off at a restaurant where I can get off the highway. She said, what do you do now? I'm going back home.

[39:01] I said, why? Because the Lord said, I'm going the wrong direction. I'm so, she said, okay.

[39:12] Came back home. It wasn't a day or two later. Home range. Hello, this is not home, remember me? No, I don't, Rax. It's been so long I forgot you.

[39:26] The church wants you to be pastors. See how the Holy Spirit works all that out. When you ask him to, God asks him to.

[39:40] But he leads. He wants to lead you. Goodness, he wants to lead you. I could go on and on with him. He just led every step of the way.

[39:53] Every step of the way. He can lead you in applying a sermon. He can lead you in reading your Bible and learning what you did. He can lead you in circumstances of your life. He's a still, small boy.

[40:05] If you're looking for him and listening for him, he's going to talk to you, period. In your soul. And you won't make some bad mistakes if you just ask him to lead you. Well, those are the three things that go over the other side.

[40:17] Lusting within remains concerning the Holy Spirit. Now, I guess that's what he means.

[40:30] I like that interpretation of what he means. I probably will keep studying this year that I agree, but who lies? Tell a man that's as old as he is, as well-used as he was.

[40:44] I just think he's probably right about what he said. When it says the Spirit that's in him lusteth to him. Now, one final thought.

[40:55] He wants everybody to join him in heaven. God is not willing that any should perish in hell, but that all should come to repentance.

[41:12] He wants everyone to have him with you. But he cannot break down your will. God made you with a free choice. Right.

[41:23] He will not violate you. You must come with him. But he will tell you when to come. You can only be saved when the Holy Spirit draws you.

[41:35] I can remember when I got saved, the Holy Spirit says, this time you get saved, I did. He will draw you and tell you when he wants you to save us.

[41:50] But you must say yes. Or he will take his flight. And one day he will take his flight and never come back. And you will have waited two days.

[42:01] Now, if you today feel like this thought here is for you, I'm not ready to go to heaven. I'm not sure I'm going to heaven. I'm not going to die. I've got plenty of time, but I'm not ready now.

[42:14] You may not have plenty of time. But if you're feeling like that, then I ain't mean for you to get saved. And you come when he calls. And you've got to say yes.

[42:26] And you come. Now, our church, we major on that. We want you to get saved when you leave. If you're not sure you're going to heaven you die, we're going to get you saved when you leave.

[42:37] Right? And I don't want to be a member here, but we're going to get you saved. So if you bow your heads, we'll finish this sermon. Amen. We have a welcome.