Oh. Oh, okay. Okay, great. Yeah, no, no. Whatever you're comfortable with. So, Kevin was just telling me you just had open heart surgery, or you're about to? I'm about to, I'm on the 26th. Okay, my name's Tony. I'm Jim. Jim, and this is Kevin. Kevin, nice to meet you, man. How you feeling? My heart infraction's at 25-27%. I'm having many heart attacks every day. Every day? Every day. I'm on a 12-hour... Would it be better if you sat down or leaned? I'm on a 12-hour nitro. Okay. Nah, man, I've had... Alright. I'm sorry, your first name again? I'm old. I'm Jim. Jim. Jim. Yeah, pretty easy to remember. Yeah. Yeah, even for a knucklehead like me. Not to mention, I'm from up here, but I got a southern accent. Oh, okay. Alright. So, Jim... I've encountered that a few times up here. It's where... Well, man, my wife showed me this house for 10 years. Picked it up. Had three boys that were born down in the south. I'm sorry, one boy that was born here, raised in the South, and two others, one born in Atlanta, one born in Little Rock. So, Jim, do you have any particular spiritual beliefs? Just Christian, man. Okay. I mean, I just want to round about prayer to seek God's wisdom and careful placing where the surgeons put their knives. Yeah, sure. smooth cuts and wrap up. They're only giving me a 10% chance of coming out of this. So my guess is, I mean, I think this is a really important conversation and we definitely want to pray for you. Do I think I'm going to die? Well, if they're giving you a 10% chance, yeah. So my question for you Jim is, If that were to happen, of course, our hope is that it doesn't. But if that were to happen and you were to stand before God and God asked Jim, why should I allow you into heaven? What would you say? Because honestly, God, you really should? It's one of the most honest answers I've heard out here. Why is that? Why is that? Because I've been nothing but a low rod drug dealing, not all my life, but gang-banging type of person. That's just what I've always been into, what I've always done. And now that I'm getting older, that shit just don't work for me anymore. So Jim, I want to give you hope. Thank you. I want to give you hope. And there is hope, okay? So Jim, the Bible says it's appointed once for a person to die, and then the judgment. When we die, we are going to stand before God. We are going to give an account for our life, and he's going to judge us, not according to how we see ourselves in the mirror or how we compare to anyone else, but according to the law that he's written on our hearts, a law that you've already admitted that you've broken, like the rest of us. The Bible says, Jim, that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. I have sinned. The good news is this, though, Jim, that God the Father sent His Son to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, truly God, truly man, without sin. He lived a life of perfection for some 33 years. that the three of us can't manage for 33 seconds. Yet, even though he knew no sin of any kind. he voluntarily went to a Roman cross where he suffered and died a death he did not deserve to take upon himself the punishment we rightly deserve for our sins against God. Have you ever been in a courtroom? I mean, all the things you, okay, all right. So let's say, Jim, and this will just take a minute, but I just really wanna drive home what I just shared with you. Let's say, Jim, instead of stopping for prayer for this open heart surgery, and you said it's Monday? Yeah. Monday? Yeah. Instead, you parked over here so that your car would be out of the way so you can go over there and rob the shell. I'm not suggesting you would do that. I'm just painting a picture, okay? You've never been into the Bible. Yeah, right. I'm not suggesting you would. I just want to paint a picture of you in a courtroom, okay? Sure, right. I mean, I'll tell you exactly what I would tell the Lord. What? Lord, I've done a lot of shady shit in my time. I've broke the law. I've been the rules. I've even been your glory. You really shouldn't honor me in heaven. You really shouldn't. I don't deserve it. There are other people who are in this life that have it way worse than I do, and they deserve it way more than I do. All I want to do is see my grandchild one more time. See my 16-year-old boy one more time. Move my son out of his house as we can. My wife, she has MS and she can't even, she won't get through a week without me. And her parents are getting older and they can't take care of her. It's just, it's really shitty that I'm putting her, that my body has put myself in this condition because of my hardened lifestyle. And it is because of a hardened lifestyle that my body is this way. You know, I mean, I actually, I was turning the corner to go to the pharmacy right down the street here and pick up my insulin and my 12 hour nitro and yeah, I got nitro that lasts every 12 hours I have to take. And so yeah, it just, It bothers you. Yeah. Jim, if you put your hope and your faith and your trust in Christ alone for your salvation, Jim, that may not, that's not a, I'm not gonna make any false promises that you're gonna wake up Monday, okay? But the promise is far better, that instead of standing before God to be rightly judged for your crimes against Him, Instead of seeing your sin, He will see instead the righteousness of His Son covering you, and He will grant you forgiveness, and He will welcome you into His heaven, not because you're good, Jim, but because of the goodness of God who would allow His Son to die for sinners like us, Jim. Jesus said, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. And you wanting to see your children again, you wanting to help your son move, you wanting your wife not to be burdened, Jim, those are all fine and noble things, okay? But Jim, what you need to want more than anything else is to be reconciled to the God you've spent your life offending. What you need to want more than anything else, Jim, is to close your eyes and open them to see Jesus' arms open wide saying, Jim, welcome into the joy of your master, your home. And God will do that for you, Jim, if you will but put your faith and your trust in Christ alone for your salvation. There's nothing you can do to earn it or deserve it. Jim, you'll never be worthy of it. No one is. You said earlier that there are people more worthy than you. Jim, no one is worthy. That's why Christ came, because we're unworthy. God saves not because of who we are, but in spite of who we are. Not because of what we've done, but in spite of what we've done. That's what makes His love so amazing, that He loves the unlovable, Jim. And so is Kevin, and so is Tony. Because we've all sinned against Him. And if He gave all of us what we deserve, we'd all go to hell, Jim. But that doesn't have to be your lot. That doesn't have to be your end. Put your faith and your trust in Christ alone, Jim, and He will save you. He will forgive you, and He will adopt you as a beloved son, never to let you go. That's not the truth according to me. That's according to Him. According to Him. Yes, sir. And that's where hope lies. Yes, sir. Receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and your Savior. Yes, sir. And if you don't wake up after that surgery, you'll be in the presence of the Lord. And if you do wake up after that surgery, then you will live your life for Him, not to earn His love, not to bribe the judge, not because you're afraid of losing His love, but because you're so grateful for the love He showed you. Right. Because He'll give you a new heart. He may not give you a new pound of meat in there, but he will give you a new heart. You think with me absorbing my twin at birth that, you know, all my, all my body parts are four times the size of a rather of a smaller human, you know, and like my heart's four times the size of yours, brother. My liver is four times the size of yours. I got four kidneys. I got two. I got lungs the size of horse lungs. Sorry. That's all right. It's okay. I'm not going to be perfect. I'm going to tell you that because I can't be. But you know what, Jim? If you put your faith and your trust in Jesus Christ, when you go to be with him, you will be perfect. You'll be given a new body. There will be no pain. There will be no suffering. There will be no nitro. There will be no insulin. And you will worship constantly and forever at the foot of your master. Thank you, sir. What that requires of you, though, Jim, is that you put your faith and your trust in Christ alone for your salvation. And He'll save you, Jim. No matter what Monday looks like, Jim, He'll save you. And He'll forgive you. And He'll love you as a beloved son forever, Jim. Forever. Father, I'm so thankful that Jim stopped. I'm so thankful, Father, that you allowed him to hear the gospel today. I'm thankful, Father, that he understood before he even stopped what he was facing, not only on Monday, but in eternity. Father, while we do not know what Monday holds, you do. You will be good if he survives the surgery. You will be good if he doesn't, because you are good. Father, I pray that Jim would receive your son as his Lord and his Savior. That you would cause him to be born again to a living hope, Father. That whenever he dies, whether it's Monday or a thousand Mondays from now, that he would close his eyes for the last time here on earth and he would open them to see the Lord. And that he would be welcomed into the joy of Jesus forever and ever. So please, Father, I ask, Lord, that you would change this man's heart. Your word says that you will take a person's heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh, and you will put their spirit in them. And I pray, Father, you would do that for Jim, for your glory, and for his eternal good. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you, gentlemen. God bless you, Jim. Kevin and Gary go to Coram Deo, which is up on 53rd and and 274. Yeah, and then I'm at West High I'm at Grace Fellowship Church, which is, you know where the Walmart is off of West Kimberley? Yeah. Yeah, just about, you know where Harlins is? Yes. Yeah, just past Harlins and Hickory Grove. Right. Yeah. So, you know, after you recover from your surgery, stop into Coram Deo or stop into our church. More important than where you go to church is where you're going to spend eternity. That's right. Make sure you're with Christ. Yes, sir. Turn to Christ and live while God's giving you time. Thank you, sir. Give me a hug. God bless you, Jim. God bless you. Thank you for the privilege of praying for you today. And we'll keep praying for you, Jim.