If I were to ask you right now, if you died right now, would you go to heaven? Do you know your answer? There may be people here say, well, I'm going to hell. Maybe some of you think, well, I hope I go to heaven. Maybe some of you say, I know I'm going to heaven. Well, then my next question is going to be, is on what basis? I'm very serious about this. On what basis are you going to go to heaven? If you know you're gonna go to heaven, what is your basis for that? Don't estimate, just... I'm gonna guess probably half of you know. To be able to say it to somebody. If you think you know, I'm not gonna call on you, if you think you know, raise your hand. If you're not sure, raise your hand. It's a pretty important question to answer. A lady did that to me from Chicago in the past. She told me that, she said, you don't believe how many pastors don't even pass that. They don't have the right answer. This is preachers. This is Christian preachers. What's your basis? Yes, I'm going to heaven. Well, why? What's your basis for that? Y'all know if you went out, you just go out anywhere. I was baptized. Y'all know that. Most people are going to say, I was water baptized. I mean, a lot of them are. And then you say, no, no, I mean, what else? Well, I go to church. I'm a member of a church. Y'all know that. And then if you ask them one more time, well, I mean, what qualifies you as a Christian? What's wrong with you? I mean, that's happened two or three times. They finally look at me and go, what's wrong with you? I mean, I just told you. I mean, I've been baptized. I go to church. I'm a member of the church. I give. I serve in my church. I'm a deacon. I'm a whatever it is. There's only one answer to that. that is satisfactory. It has nothing to do with anything you've done. It's all by your faith, and it's your faith and trust in that Jesus Christ died on the cross, he was buried, and rose again. That is the only ticket. There's no other ticket that's gonna be any good. I don't care how good you are. And I'm very thankful for that. I'm thankful that Jesus Christ died on the cross. It's very important. Only the King James says the cross. He died on the cross. Very important how he died. He was crucified. He died. Did anybody kill him? Who killed Jesus? Nobody. I take my life. I pick it up. Nobody takes my life. That's why it's a sacrifice. It wouldn't be a sacrifice if they killed him. I used to be mad a long time ago, but anyway, all kinds of people, but not anymore. Glory to God. So that's the answer. Why are you thankful? Why are you thankful? What's the first thing you think about? Family. I'm thankful I have a nice family. I got a nice church family. There's not any person that you asked me to do something for you, I wouldn't do it. Any of you. You call me up and say, hey, can you do this? I'll be right there. Right? And I think you'd do it for anybody else. I think so. Friends, I'm thankful I got pets. I'm thankful I got electricity. I'm thankful I got a warm place to sleep. I thank you I come home to a house that's not in all turmoil. Remember that preacher a long time ago told me, he said, he said, I just want a boring life. And I thought, man, he said, no, he said, all I want to do, all I want to do is come home and sit down in my chair and then have something to eat, wash the dishes, maybe read, maybe watch a TV program and go to bed in peace. And I thought, he's an idiot. Well, after you live a while, That ain't a really bad way to go, is it? Just to come home? I mean, it gets rough. And you can be the same way. We'll talk about that in a minute. I'm very thankful for electricity, I really am. Are you? Go with that sometime and see how you like it. 1 Thessalonians 5, 18. 1 Thessalonians 5, 18. First this, five. No, that's not the verse I want. Where's the verse that talks about, in all things give thanks? Am I? I thought it would. Oh, there it is. I think I was having a stroke there for a second, anyway. I have been preaching before and actually go blind for a little bit. I have actually been standing here and I can't see. But I can see fine right there. Things happen, you know, the enemy does stuff to you. He does stuff to you. And everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Now there's a very important word right there. It's I-N. It ain't F-O-R. For everything gives, oh, it didn't say for everything. You gotta get your mind right here. In everything give thanks. In everything give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. There's a very, there's a very, there's a very big difference in thanking him in, you know, in versus for. In, for. Because a lot of y'all are going through something, are you not? How many of y'all wished you in a better, no, don't raise your hand. There are people in here that wish you in a better spot right now, right? You wish it was a better spot. You might have made it through Thanksgiving and you could have suffered through it. I don't know how it all went for everybody. But you're in a spot, you don't really like where you are. Are you supposed to give God thanks for that? Yes, and everything. We prayed this morning. How many of y'all, I think it was Alan that did, I don't know, we sort of tag teamed a little bit, I think. But how many of y'all, you get in a really bad spot, and you think the whole world is over. I mean something really bad happened, and all of us have had bad things happen. Have we not? It's all over. God doesn't love me. He's forgot about me. He don't care about me. How could he do this to me? Well, he didn't let it happen to me. You know, all these different things. And then once you get all through it to the other side, all of a sudden it's all roses and butterflies. You go, man, it's great. God knew exactly what he was doing. We talked about a couple of weeks ago, there's this person we know that he tried and she tried, whoever it was, to get this job, tried to get the job, same job, over and over and over, didn't get it. Upset I tried to get that tried and nobody cares I mean I can't get the job whatever and all of a sudden guess what happens to the people who got those jobs They went to India not the people but the jobs did You think maybe God might be looking out for him Yeah, but in your middle of it, you don't think so You know what's going on? This is terrible. I mean what I deserve this and y'all know how that is God sees God does love you and He does care about you. He gave His own Son for you so that you could have eternal life for crying out loud. Anyway, that's a key difference. I'm so thankful. 1 Timothy 2, 1 Timothy 2, 4. Flip your page or whatever. Who will have all men to be saved. 1 Timothy 2, 4. and to come unto the knowledge of the truth, who will have all meant to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. God's will is all of us, every human being he made gets saved. That's his will. Everybody should make that choice? No. That's his will. And then to come to the knowledge of the truth, God, He has rescued us from sin. He's rescued us from hell. He's rescued us from the lake of fire, which is two different places. Right, Travis? Two different places. We all have, as a believer, in trusting what Jesus Christ did for us, we all have an eternal home in heaven because Jesus Christ's blood paid for your sin. paid for in full. His death on the cross, He buried and rose again on the third day. We have to trust in what He did for us. The Bible says, has everybody sinned? What are the wages of sin? Death. But we have a gift from God, the gift, eternal life. Everybody's sinned. No exceptions, except for Jesus Christ didn't. I'm thankful for this. Matter of fact, you'll like this. Can I chase it real quick? Can I say who told me this? Yes, I can. I'm just looking around, checking everybody out. some had a good question. It's a very good question. It was a very good question. I love it when y'all ask me good questions. This person said, can I remember correctly? I don't have my phone. Can you remember, Ron, what you asked me? You got your phone with you? Tell me what you asked me. What'd you ask me about the angels? Here's a question. See at some point we're going to get resurrected bodies after rapture and then we're going to be in heaven and we're going to be replacing the angels who've been cast out in Revelation. We're going to replace them. And so all the angels are men. There's no male angel in the Bible, there's no male apostle, and there's no female apostle. What did I say? There are no females. I said it wrong. There are, I said it wrong. There are no, it must have been the drugs I took this morning. There, I can't find. What'd you put in my coffee this morning? I can't find my, anyway. There are only male angels. There were only male apostles. And the question is, well, when you, as a woman, as a believer, when you get a glorified body, and it comes up to, and it joins your soul and spirit in heaven, where the angels, well, isn't it gonna be a conflict? Because now we're gonna have a female angel. Can anybody answer that question? Or am I the only smart one in the room? Are you afraid to? That's why I make the big bucks, right? We're never going to be angels. Angels are angels. We're human beings. You're going to have a female glorified body? I'll have a male glorified body? I don't know what the trends...anyway, that's how it's going to be. They probably won't be there. Glory to God! But that's a good question, though. It gets you thinking a little bit, doesn't it? Right? We good with that? All right. Glory to God. Thank you. Back on track. Romans 4, 6. Romans 4, 6. Help me, Jesus. Help me, Lord. It might be that this first day I wore a suit in like six months. Maybe my suit's messing me up today. Romans 4, 6. Even as David also described the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. That's me and you if we believe. Man, check this next one out, verse 8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. You, as a believer, will never have sin charged to you ever again. You, as a believer, will never have sin charged to you again. Will you sin again? But it's not going to be charged to you. Never. If you just think about that, that's something to be thankful for. You're still going to hurt people, you're still going to hurt yourself, but it's not going to be charged you because Jesus Christ took that sin on the cross, nailed it to the cross. Be thankful for that. Impute means to charge, to attribute, to set to the account of. all of your sins have been paid for as a believer. If you're not a believer, you're going to have to pay for them. You will die as a non-believer entrusting what Jesus Christ did, and you'll go to hell and you'll get to pay for your sins for eternity. And you'll never pay for them. You'll never pay for them. They'll be in hell for a while, and then like a fire after the white throne judgment. And you'll be there forever paying for the sins, that all you had to do was just trust in what Jesus Christ did for you according to this Word of God, the truth, and just trust in that. Well, how many of y'all got saved and got all goosebumps and felt all good when you got saved? How many of you got saved and felt nothing? How many of you got saved and felt nothing? According to the Bible, you gotta feel something to be saved. See, y'all been lied. You've been misled. Your emotions will lie to you. There's nothing wrong with feeling something. You're saved by faith in what Jesus Christ did. That don't give me goosebumps. I just trust in what he did. I know it and believe it for a fact. I know that. And by that belief and trust in faith alone, I am saved. You ain't gotta feel something. There's a girl who told me a long time ago, she'd been a pretty good girl, you know? She married as a virgin. I mean, like, really no overt sin. And she said, I feel so bad. Oh, y'all got testimonies of how sorry y'all were. How bad you were, and how you were an alcoholic, a drug addict, and a pornographer, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then I didn't do any of that. I don't really have a testimony. Oh, yes, you do. Oh, yes, you do. You see how we measure it? It's like, how bad is it being for God to save me? It ain't gotta be bad for you at all, just trust and believe what He did. I can sit there as cold as a cucumber, as cool as a cucumber, and become a Christian that you'd never even know right there. Salvation is instantly, it's instant. It's not like three weeks from now, you don't work your way into it, glory to God. The knowledge of the truth, the knowledge of the truth to come to the knowledge of the truth, this is after salvation. You ever wonder why God saved you? You ever wonder that? Why'd he die for me? What am I supposed to do with my life? You ever wonder that? You ever look at yourself, you're shaving or putting makeup on, and you're looking and going, man, why did I deserve this? Boy, I do. I sure don't deserve it. I deserve to be in hell. It's where I deserve to be. When I die, it's where I deserve to be with the things I've done. Knowledge of truth. Why did he save me? What am I supposed to do with my life now? You ever think about that? And if you don't think about it now, you will as you get older. You'll be thinking about, what do I need to do with my life? I gotta do something. What am I gonna do with it? Amen? Go back to 1 Thessalonians 5, 18. First Thessalonians 5, 18. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. In everything, not for, you gotta get this in your mind, not for everything, in everything. You're going through the roughest time of your life right now. Everything's falling and crashing and burning. God, I thank you that you're with me. You're never gonna leave me. You got me covered. I'm trusting you no matter what happens, no matter what they say, no matter how big the wind, no matter how strong the wave, I'm trusting you in everything. That's God's will for you. You're not supposed to run from your trouble. Right? Who likes to run from trouble? Come on, y'all tell the truth. You know, it takes a heck of a man to run into a big mess. I'm not like some actors on TV, how they run right in. No, it takes a different kind of man to do that. We want to run from it, right? Get away from it. I don't want to get in any kind of mess like that. Let me try to avoid it. Let me get out of it, do the best I can. I want to avoid confrontation and conflict. But I was talking to a guy in church this morning, and I ain't gonna say who you are, and we're talking about how husbands and wives, you know, how we react, interact, whatever. And do y'all know, who should I ask first, the husbands or the wives? I'll ask the wives first. Do you think that your husband likes confrontation? Do you think your husband will try to avoid confrontation? Let the recording show, I'm just checking, making eye contact, just checking everybody. You know why your husband sometimes doesn't talk to you like he did a long time ago? He's trying to avoid confrontation. That's a fact, Jack. Sometimes I don't need it. I don't want confrontation, so I know that if I keep my mouth shut, that avoids quite a bit of confrontation. Now, I'm taking, I mean, it's different in here, but I mean, you know, look at that. Right? Nobody likes that. Who in the world, who in here would, yeah, I love confrontation. There's something wrong with you. There's something wrong with you. But you need to understand, wives, you need to understand maybe why your husband sometimes shuts down. I got a call from a lady in another state talking to me about this. and I was trying to help her. And she was saying, my husband, he won't talk to me. He used to talk to me, and now he don't even talk to me anymore. He's quiet. And so I said, you know, I do have a certain degree of wisdom. I mean, not what I need, but I said, well, why do you think that is? Why do you think that? She says, well, It might be me. And I'm rejoicing now, because that's how, in other words, if I got a problem, when you like it, if you came to me and I figured it out on my own, you ain't got to tell me what I did wrong, right? Don't you like it better? And so we talked about it a little bit, and so we addressed the issue, and it worked out. I think it's working out better. Sometimes it's hard. It's hard to be a husband. I don't know which is harder to be. I've never been a wife, but I don't know which is harder. Do y'all know which is harder? Anybody wanna trade? No, God made me this way and that's how I'm made. We understand all that, but it's, you gotta, it's hard. We don't like, and so here comes trouble. There it is. And I don't wanna deal with that now. I'll be at work. or some of y'all, something happened in church, I don't wanna deal with that, right? That's how we all go, but that's not what we're supposed to do. We need to talk it out and work it out, amen? I don't. If you can be like a lot of people, you blame everybody else, right? You blame somebody else for your troubles, amen? If you're always blaming somebody else, you're the problem. If you're always blaming somebody else for your problem, then you're the problem. It's work, it's this, it's him, it's her, whatever it is. No, it's probably you. Glory to God. That applies to me as well. We have to deal with the problems. You know, Satan's pretty good about getting in our business, ain't he? He does a really good job. He does a great job. He does a great job at that. He's a destroyer. He'll destroy you, your marriage, your family, your church family, your relationship with God. He's trying everything he can to do to destroy that. And he can get you in all kinds of good what you think are good positions You think that you're doing the right thing, but the devil's deceived you and tricked you into coming in his court You didn't even know you over there Would y'all a volunteer did work for the devil? No, you wouldn't but he still gets you in his field he still gets you Right in there. That's why it's deception. That's why you're deceived. You don't see it We talked about that a couple of weeks ago. Pretty good about that. I will admit to you, I have let Satan come in my house. I have. I have. I've let him come in. Y'all let him come in your house before? But you thought you were doing a good thing, didn't you? I ain't gonna give you any examples. Not while Brenda's in here. or my family's in here, but yeah, we do things, we let things happen. We let him come right in on a house, he just destroys your house, and you let him right in there, let your guard down. I give some of mine, when things are really going good, when your life is really going good, do you read the Bible more or less? Huh? Less. When your life is good and you got plenty of money and everybody's having your sex, everything is good. Plenty of food, man, all kinds of good stuff, everything's great. Your 10, I would suggest to you that as a normal, non-superspiritual person, you probably don't read the Bible quite like you did. But now, when it hits the fan, when the wheels come off, where do you run? I said, I gotta get my Bible, I gotta get my Bible. See, you know where to go. You let your guard down. Do you pray more when things are good or when things are bad? As a general rule. When it's bad, y'all be truthful. When it's bad, this is hurting, that's hurting, and this messed up, and that messed up, and she's upset, he's upset. You pray more when things are bad. When everything's good, you open the door, come right on in, make yourself at home. Too much TV, too much Facebook. I told y'all Facebook is the devil's playground. He's right there, baby, he's right there. I can't believe, why can't we take vacations like they do? They're in Hawaii. I can't believe, look at that new car they got. They got a new car too. That car cost $60,000. Look at the pictures, look at them, they're on the beach, right? Y'all look at that and you, do you feel good about it? No, you have envy. How can they do this? Why can't I do that? Y'all work it out. If you try to be friends with me on Facebook, it's not gonna happen, so I have to have Facebook. It's a long story, but anyway. I'm still your friend. I'm your friend. I'm your friend, but you know, whatever. Too many extracurricular activities. Golfing, hunting, working on cars, hobby work, just working. Some people just working. is how they mess their families up. You can work too much. You put too many hours in, you really can, and all those kind of things. And I guess probably what I just talked about, you allow Satan in your house when you, lots of times in your home or your marriage, when you avoid conflict. That's on demand. Remember, we're not thankful. We're thankful in everything, not for everything. We're thankful when God carries us through trouble. And I know some of y'all have been through stuff way more than I would ever dream of, but you're still here. You're still here. You made it through. And how many of y'all are better people after going through something really bad? How many of you think you've become a better person after going through something terrible? That's about half of you. Because you got through it and you're like, man, look what God did for me. Look what He did for me. If you just be thankful for that, thank you, God. We talked about this before. You might be coming, going someplace and have a traffic jam and get right over here, you're running late. You know, God might have figured, He might have known there's going to be a car wreck in front of you. Let's send them that way. You don't know. I don't know. We blame God for so many things and we don't give Him credit for nearly enough. Trust me on that. We know how it ends for us as believers. You ever get mad because you got a zit? Right? Right on top of my, wherever it is. Nose. I got a sore throat. You don't like that? I was sick all last week. I didn't complain, did I? And what good does it do? I still got a little bit of something happening, but why complain about it? Just suck it up. Go with it. I'll get over it. I will get through it. Well, I got diabetes, and I got arthritis, and I got this. There are people sitting in this church that have overcome three cancers They're sitting right here in this church. They've had cancer in the brain, cancer in the pancreas, and cancer in the lung. And they're sitting right here in this church as survivors. What do you got to complain about? Not much. Amen? Thank God. Thank God. Remain thankful in everything. The Bible says, without faith, what? It's impossible to please God. Faith is important. Faith in what He did, His death on the cross, I'm going to beat that in you. If you leave here and you don't ever accept Christ, it's something you deserve to go to hell. I'm very serious you're going to hear the gospel over and over and over and over and you gotta decide every time When I say that see the difference in teaching and preaching when you're teaching you're trying to give knowledge to somebody Like pageant needs lots of knowledge, right? Bring chocolate today But see preaching the difference is you're forced to make a decision That's see I could I could preach just like this just very calmly just raise my voice You know, it's up to you. Jesus Christ died for you on the cross. He was buried and rose again the third day. If you have faith in what he did for you, you have eternal life. What do you choose? See, right now, some of y'all got to decide that. I guarantee somebody has to decide that. And so, when it's all said and done, if you end up in hell like a fire, you're going to remember this day and say, I had a chance to choose 1127 on December 1st and I denied it. Write that down in your Bible. You probably ain't got a Bible, but write it down. You had a chance to choose. Why would you not choose eternal life? Why would you not? Maybe you'll come back as a goat or something, I don't know. I mean, I actually talked to somebody, a real life person who believes in reincarnation. I actually had a conversation. When I started talking about the scriptures, they got a little angry with me. I wonder why. That's not my, see your job, Your job when you talk about the gospel is not to make their mind up, and if they refuse you or reject you, that's not on you. You gave it out, and then it's up to them to decide. Please give them a chance to decide. What does Psalm 100 verse 2 say? Psalm 100 verse 2. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Know that the Lord, he is God. It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves. We are the sheep. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless his name. The Lord is good, His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endureth to all generations. That's a pretty good verse right there, I might add. We must choose to be thankful. How many of you ever get anxious? Like you feel like you've had four cups of coffee, You know that little that little flutter in your chest like Get anxious Can't sleep How many of you have trouble, you know, don't raise your hand. I just got man. I'm just always restless. I can't sleep I got restless leg. I have a hard time sleeping Worry we pray about worry today I think of all the times I've worried. How much time have I wasted worrying? 90% of the time it never happens. And I worried and worried and worried and worried, thought about it, scratched my head, rubbed my, what's my, what do I have up there? My shingled eye over here, worrying. And it came to nothing. Came to nothing. Nothing. Worrying didn't help it either. Didn't do anything about it. It didn't make it better. Just made it worse. You ever get on edge sometimes? You know, you ever get your teeth on edge? Does that irritate you? Or depressed? That's my biggest, my biggest struggle is depression. It just, man, it gets all over you. It grabs you, snaggles you all up. Hate it. I hate it Depression. Oh, you're so happy in front. Oh, I'm happy I can I can do what I got to do, but that don't mean I don't still struggle You you get it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah ask her. Yeah Nobody loves me. Nobody cares about me. I just wish I was dead. I mean y'all come on I'm the same. I'm no different any y'all What's the point in it Could this be because I'm not being thankful? Could it be because you're not being thankful? Could thankfulness fix some of these things? Could it? Because he said, in everything give thanks. Maybe our lack of thankfulness is affecting our emotions and even our physical bodies. Maybe. I don't know, maybe. You ever thought your life was wasted? You ever thought your life was wasted? How much time you spent doing this? I'm telling myself right here. Man, if Brenda would just, or she, if Gary would just fill the blank in, which we won't put in it, just fill the blank in. If my wife would just do this." That's not going to solve your problem. Probably you and me. Man, if they would just do this, I'd be happy. No, it's not going to make you happy. It might make you happy for a few minutes. You ever just plain unhappy, just unhappy in general? Yeah, sometimes. Could it be you're not thankful enough? Could it be you're not thankful enough? In everything, give thanks. In everything, give thanks. That's too much pressure on me. Bitterness. Y'all know anybody that's bitter? Is it you? It gets deep into your mind, deep into your soul. See, complaining, you're complaining about, like, your knee hurting or your head hurting, you know, that's a complaint. I'm hungry, I'm complaining. But bitterness is down deep. Bitterness is more of a general, it's just sort of an internal hatred. I mean, just, I don't, you probably, I can think right now of probably three or four people that I know that are just bitter. They're just bitter. And I find myself talking to them less and less, and one, I don't even call anymore. Because I don't want to deal with it. If your whole life is just so screwed up, I mean, don't put it on me. Everybody else is wrong, no matter what. Some of these people you say, it's never their fault. It's always somebody else that's done something to them, and they just can't seem to get over it. Right? They can't get over it. They're just bitter. And you can tell because it's how they respond back to you. You go, man, that's a pretty mean thing to say. I told one person, I said, man, you're mean. You're just mean. Everybody you talk to, you're just mean. Whatever I say to you, you twist it around and make it bad. I don't look at any of y'all as being bad. You know what I mean? But some people just see all they see is bad in other people. That's all they see is bad. I don't want to be wrong. And Allison even quit, she transferred her job one time from the bank because they were just, remember that? Our daughter, she said, I can't deal with it. And so she went to, she changed positions because all the people where she worked were just bitter, just complaining, griping and moaning. It's catching, it's contagious. Get it on you. Oh, that might be like a demon. Maybe. A little bit demonic bitterness on you. Just got to hold it in a grudge all the time. They end up seeing hurt everywhere. They see hurt, they're bitter, everybody hurts them, or they see hurt over here, they see hurt over there, and it's a terrible place to live. They just put hurt on people. I know people like that. And I think probably the three or four I'm thinking of right now, the problem I think is they just don't know how to forgive. They've never learned how to forgive. And that grudge just burns and burns and burns and smolders. And I've told y'all, Jesus forgave you for all your sin. I don't think any of y'all have done anything to me bad enough greater than what I've done to Jesus. If He can forgive me, I should be able to forgive you. And when you forgive, what do you do? How do you do it? You apologize? Okay. Let's say, what could you do? You call me a bad name, and you know, I mean, you really made me mad. You really made me mad, and so then I said something ugly, and I realized I need to be a bigger man. I couldn't apologize. Now, what I need to say, Joey, I'm sorry for what I said. Will you forgive me? Period. Period. not that but you know if you hadn't said that to me see you just killed everything you killed it all you blamed him joey i'm really sorry what i said but if you hadn't said that i'd have never said that to you what kind of apology is that apologies i'm sorry so you got to be you got to be a man or a woman to say that i'm sorry for what i said to you um will you please accept my apologies no one is only because what he says what he did you just say i'm sorry and then he says, I forgive you. That's it. There's no more walking around asking, like, qualifying. That's not an apology. Amen? It might be the truth, right? Because I probably wouldn't have...let's just take it as it is. If he said, man, you're a sorry scoundrel, lied about me, whatever he did, I caught you with whatever it was, whatever. And then I could, that made me mad. He even lied. I can still say I shouldn't have said it, even if he lied, even if he lied to me. If I spoke out of turn, I mean, I can always confront him and say, you don't lie about me. We talk about it, but I'm sorry for what I said, period, period. Maybe it's all y'all need today. Make your life a whole lot better. And I promise you'll feel better I promise when you do an apology like that, you will feel better. You just say it and walk away. Amen. Glory to God. Business is like a common cold. Kick the bucket. Kick the poinsettia. It catches, man. It catches people. I don't want to be friends with somebody like that. I don't want to be around them. It just bothers me too much. I'm most thankful for one thing. I am most thankful, and I've said it about 12 times today, I will say it again. I'm thankful for the salvation that's provided me by the Jesus Christ dying on the cross, Him being buried in the tomb, Him coming back to life three days later. All my sins are forgiven, past, present, and future, and I have eternal life by the fact He conquered death by raising His own body back to life. That is what I'm most thankful for. And you should be most thankful for that yourself. You got a family, you got all that right. That's eternity. That's eternity. That's not like now till you're 85 years old. One day you as a believer will be in heaven with Jesus. One day you will be. He's promised that. It's eternal. It's not by works. Not by works. By grace you've been saved through faith. Not of yourself. It's the gift of God. It's the gift. Not it works. Otherwise we'll start bragging about it. Look what I did. Look what I did. You didn't do anything. 2 Corinthians 5. 2 Corinthians 5, 6 and 8. 2 Corinthians 5, 6 and 8. Here's some else I'm thankful for. Therefore you should be too therefore we're always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body We're absent from the Lord for we walk by faith not by sight We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord One day when you die your body's gonna stay here. It might be cremated. It might be frozen It might be sharks might eat it whatever I don't know what's gonna happen to your body buried in the casket, but that's not where you are You're not your body. Thank God, you say, for that, right? Thank you, Lord. That's not who I am. You're a spirit being. You have a soul. Glory to God. And then one day, 1 Thessalonians 4, this ought to make somebody happy, 1 Thessalonians 4, 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, that's us, believers, concerning them which are asleep. that ye saw her not, even as others which have no hope. For if you believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trump of God, and the dead of Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be called up," called up together. It's not him coming down, the second coming. This is called up. She'll be called up. She'll be called up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. so we shall ever be with the Lord in heaven." That's pretty spectacular. That's pretty...I don't know how that's all going to work out. I don't have...I'm not sure about it. But let's go to 1 Corinthians 1550. 1 Corinthians 1550. Different people have different beliefs about it, but I believe it's in the pre-tribal rapture. I'm not going to argue with you about it. It's not a point of salvation. I will argue that part with you. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit corruption. Behold, I show you a mystery, Paul's mystery that was revealed to him of Jesus Christ. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when the corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that's written, death is swallowed up in victory. I've had several people, go back to verse 52, I had several people that say, some people say, and I'm not going to argue this either, some people say that twinkling of an eye is how fast you're going up to heaven, I mean the clouds. I don't believe that. I believe that's how fast you changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible we shall be changed i believe that's how fast we're going to be changed just like that your body's in the blink of an eye i i would be remember when jesus went to heaven how'd he go to heaven remember they watched him they watched they watched jesus They said, why he goes up into the clouds? I don't know this, and I'm not gonna argue with anybody about it. I just wonder though if it'd be the same way we're raptured. We might see, if we're still alive then, we'll see the dead. Hey, cool. Then there you go. I don't know, I don't know. But I believe that twinkling is how fast you're changed. Not gonna argue, just trying to, Learn. We're going to have glorified bodies at some point. Glorified bodies. Hope we can still eat, don't y'all? Do you think we'll be able to eat in heaven? I mean, I don't know. We won't have blood. I like eating, don't you? Wouldn't it be good to eat whatever you want, not have to worry about your sugar level or anything like that, wouldn't it? Whatever you want all you want all day long with I mean you got work to do too I know all but you got stuff to do. I mean, I just be awesome. Heaven's gonna be a glorious place Think about that Be thankful for that There are people who aren't gonna go there But don't feel sorry for them because they they made that choice Everybody has a choice to make thank God made the right one and the last thing before we do communion is is I am very thankful that we understand 2 Timothy 2.15. I'm so thankful that God has shown us, given us some glimpse of how to rightly divide the Word of God. I'm so thankful for that. So you don't get confused over here and get confused over this says this and this says that. Once you learn how to rightly divide the Scripture, I'm not an expert on it. Once you learn that, it just clears all this confusion you used to have, like, well, Jesus said this, but Paul said this, and Hebrews said this, and James said this, and I don't understand. Because once you learn how to rightly divide, it all makes, doesn't it? It all makes sense. It just fits together. You can see how the Bible's written dispensationally. For Genesis all the way. I might do a timeline next week. It's a little hard to do. We'll see. I like, I've never felt, by learning something about rightly dividing, this Bible means so much more to me now. So much more. Because I can read it, and I hear people talking, oh you don't understand, I don't fuss at them, but they don't know. They don't know. Thank God He opened our eyes, amen. Thank God for that. Father, we're so thankful for all that you've done. We're thankful for our salvation. We're thankful for all the stuff you've given us here that we have our lives here and electricity and homes and families and pets and good food. We're thankful for all that. We have jobs. Might not even like them, but we still got jobs. We can make money to have things that we like. We thank you for that. I thank you we got a nice church. Good church. Good people. Normal people. Father, I thank you. I like having a normal church. Glory to God. You know what I mean by that, Lord. Maybe you're the only one that knows that, but you know what I mean by that. Lord, I just thank you. Very little trouble. Glory to God. I pray we have your written word right here in front of us. We have our King James Bible right here in front of us. I thank you, Lord. Please remind us to be thankful in all things. Holy Spirit, please remind us to be thankful in all things. Please, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Glory to God. Glory to God.