And the truth we can be found When, O Saints, as you sing, Your prayers are made. You'll find relief when you kneel and call his name. It's all right. It's all right. He gives me life. He will answer when the call is made, my call. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. I will never fear the night. It's all right. with the Lord. When my steps are getting slow, and it's time for me to go, and my body bends beneath the toll It'll be alright, for the Lord will call my name. It's alright, it's alright, through the storms He gives me light. It's all right when I talk with the Lord. On that resurrection morning, when the redeemed are gathering in, I'll be in that royal number. here I am The war, the shipwreck, the fallen land. There were nine, he and I, but he left the fold to fly. Born to a lost family, here I am. ♪ We're capable to stomp it and we rise up in the air ♪ ♪ Endless time that us with steadfast love ♪ ♪ Will be changed from here to there ♪ ♪ Where there'll be no grief nor pain ♪ ♪ Perfect peace and joy shall reign ♪ At last I shall proclaim, Lord, here I am. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am. I'm the one, the shepherd lamb, the folded lamb. There were nine. Oh, I'm near a lost land, and here I am. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am. I'm the one, the shepherd led, the bow and arrow. ♪ There were times he denied ♪ ♪ But he left the fold to find ♪ ♪ One little lost lamb and here I am ♪ ♪ I love you Lord ♪ ♪ Oh your mercy never fails me ♪ ♪ In all my days I've been held in Your hands ♪ ♪ From the moment that I wake up until I lay my head ♪ ♪ Oh, I will sing of the good days of my life ♪ ♪ All my life you have been faithful ♪ ♪ All my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ With every breath that I am able ♪ ♪ Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God ♪ ♪ You have led me through the fire ♪ ♪ In the darkest nights ♪ ♪ You were close like no other ♪ ♪ I've known you as a father ♪ ♪ I've known you as a friend ♪ ♪ And I have lived in the goodness of your love ♪ ♪ Oh my life you have been faithful ♪ ♪ Oh my life you have been so, so good ♪ ♪ Every breath that I am able ♪ ♪ Oh I will sing of the goodness of God ♪ All my life you have been faithful. All my life you have been so, so good. With every breath that I am able, oh, I will My life was all trouble My life was all trouble Then I cried out for mercy It was then I prayed through Oh Lord I'm so happy I'll stand with the few. I've started forever, and I mean to go through. ♪ I've wanted forever to be with my Lord ♪ ♪ With my dear Lord ♪ ♪ These will be a mansion ♪ ♪ A mansion ♪ ♪ All shiny and new ♪ ♪ All shiny and new ♪ ♪ I've started forever ♪ ♪ I've started forever ♪ ♪ And I mean to go through ♪ Oh Lord I'm so happy ♪ That I learned to pray ♪ I'm headed for heaven ♪ I'll stay with the few ♪ I've started for heaven ♪ I've started for heaven ♪ And I need to go through this love for you. ♪ I've started for heaven. That ought to be an exciting thing. Ought to stir us and move us. I remember when I was a boy, Even somewhere the next day that I was excited about, I could hardly sleep. I'm just excited about it. You ought to be excited, because nobody knows the name or the hour, but he's a coming. I'm going to be looking for him, don't you? I'm glad that I don't have to die even to go to hell. Thank the Lord. Good to be back this evening. It's been good to see you here. We just thank the Lord for the privilege of thanking him for this morning. We need him tonight, we need his help, we need his touch. Let's come up and all of us just be obedient unto what he'd have us do. And if we're all obedient, even then the Lord will be well pleased with what goes on in this place tonight. Amen, so anybody now, even a word on your heart, even just an object of prayer. My troubles seem to swell. And when I've reached the end of me, and my faith is getting weak, oh, I hear a sweet voice whisper, just bring your own. Now, just bring your own. The Lord understands when you're looking for an answer. God always has a plan. And when the burdens get so heavy and my son is getting old, In the throne room of my Savior I find a sweet role in my mind ♪ And when my cup is overflowing ♪ And he fills it to the brim ♪ What a blessed consolation ♪ I can bring it all to him ♪ I just bring it all to him ♪ When no one understands for an answer. God always has a plan. And when the burdens get so heavy, and my son is giving me my whole house to flee, it isn't knowing I can bring it home again. I am the one who will set you free. I am the one. I am the one. I was lost in darkness, and I began to pray. Then Jesus came to me on that lonely day. He said, child, I know you're sorry. All that you have done, just preach to me, God, you're I am the Lord. I am the Lord. You're out on the tree. I am the Lord. We'll set you free. When I heard you cry, have mercy on me. I am the one. I am the one. I'm down in the valley. I love Jesus for He is great. He says, child, don't be discouraged. Don't be afraid. For, Lord, I am without a doubt in love. I am in love, Lord. ♪ Out of the tree ♪ I am the one ♪ Who will set you free ♪ When I heard you cry ♪ Have mercy on me ♪ I am the one ♪ I am the one Look with me in the book of Micah, if you'll look there. If you pray for my voice this time of year, I don't know what happens to it or where it goes. As soon as I get back home, I'll just give you my heart tonight. I know the Lord. I'm going to read this as you give it to me. I certainly, tonight, I don't have the ability, I don't have the power to make it up on all of you. I've got to have evil. In the book of Micah, chapter number seven. Amen. Micah, chapter number seven. God's your place. Go down to verse number seven. You pray for us tonight. Micah 7, verse 7. Therefore, I will look unto the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. What a blessing. Rejoice not against me, O my enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. When I see it in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. Go read those two verses again. Therefore, I will look unto the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation. Thy God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy. When I fall, I shall arise. When I see it in darkness, the Lord shall be a light Unto me. Help me pray tonight, if you would. Thank you, Jesus. God, the time, the privilege, the honor that it is to be here. I pray, Lord, and I plead with you, not for help tonight. Lord, I know who I am, God, and what I am. I know, Father, how unworthy, Lord, that this old being that I live in is. Lord, we desire your help tonight. Desire your presence. God, we desire your power. Lord, we need you, God, above everything else. Lord, we've got to have you. I pray, Lord, you'd speak to us. Speak through us, Lord. Give us the words to say. Lord, I pray. Thank you, Lord. Help us now, God, I beg you. Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Appreciate the Lord tonight. Amen. My voice goes out while this mic's on. Tracy just cranking up so I know I give you my heart tonight. We could've stopped in verse number seven, talked about how we could look unto the Lord. I could have just rejoiced for a while on that. Being able to have somebody to look to and to call upon, but not just to call on, but to know that he will hear us. That in itself is enough to rejoice in. That ought to make all of us happy. That ought to bring us all to our feet. That ought to make all of our hands go up. to know that the God that made all of this, you can call on him and know that he will hear you. Amen. We talk about it a lot, but the old psalmist wrote, amen, that this poor man cried, have the Lord. heard him, ain't that amazing? I could understand the Lord wanting to hear the prayers of somebody that was more dignified than I am. I could understand the Lord wanting to hear the prayers that had clouded his ear to somebody that maybe had a better reason than me, maybe lived in a fine home, Maybe I've never seen or stepped out on Him. But God will incline His ear unto me and you. I'm glad that He will hear us. But on the going down in the verse number eight, He said, when I fall, I shall arise. We better. It's not, honey, that we are, amen, above anything. But when we fall, that's the key part. We've got to get up. Amen, want to talk to you a little bit. He said, when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. Want to talk to you on sitting in the dark. Amen, sitting in the dark. And my mind wondered this evening, what can the Lord do in the dark? I believe God, he'll do his best work in the dark. You know how I know? Well, you walk out the doors and look around, and honey, before any of this was made, she was dark. Before God ever began to speak, and we know all this, but brother, his spirit moved upon the face of the deep, and he seen that this world was dark. It was void and without fault. Honey, God is able to work in the dark. Aren't you glad for the help? I'm glad he can move in the dark. Old Solomon said that the Lord will dwell in the darkness. Amen, he does. Some real good work in the dark. We'll get loose in a minute. He said, when I sat in darkness, maybe I'm the only one, maybe you've never been there. Maybe nobody else has ever been in a place, honey, where I knew God, I knew I saved, I felt his presence, but found myself just a sitting in the dark. Like every light had ever been shining around me and in me, had been turned off and I found myself in the dark. Amen. I don't have the time. We don't have the time today to talk about all that God can do in the dark. the disciples was out on the sea. I don't know, I've never been out on a boat. I can only imagine how scared and how afraid they were. When they could look and and see a wall of water headed towards him. Amen, but it was dark out on that boat. It was dark, it was daylight. Oh, and Jesus put him on the ship. Amen, but they got in the midst of the sea, and it was as dark as it had ever been for them. Everybody all right today? But thank God, it might have been dark to see them, but he knew where they were. And he'd come a-walkin' on the tops of the waves. He does his best work. Worth that pain. On the old barren Bethlehem. Out in a little old stable. Out in real dark. A man wonder what to do. But there's a little old virgin that give birth to the savior. He does his best work in the dark. It was dark for 400 years. God was speaking and God was talking. But all of a sudden, I thank God last to begin the chant. Good work in the dark. Moses said, Amen, God. I know I'm scattered. God, begin to give them. I feel like somebody's already ready to go home. Amen. God, begin to give them. Amen, the ten commandments. Amen. And God told the children of Israel, he said, God spoke out of thick darkness, and here's what he gives me. Oh, listen, honey, it is mistreated, it's throwed around, but if there's ever a light that's gonna shine in darkness, it's this, the word of a kingfish, and dwell among us, the Aseans, all the light you'll ever need. I wish we'd free up a minute. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be alive. I don't know if you've ever seen it, but honey, man, when it's dark, you'll make stuff out of nothing. When it's dark, you'll make a mountain out of a molehill. When it's dark, the things that used to wasn't scary will make you afraid. When it's dark, honey, when you look out the window, the things that looked so innocent in the daylight will now look like they want to kill you. I know what it is to sit in the dark. I know what it is to be in the dark. I believe some of y'all's here now. Amen. I said it the other Sunday. I'll say it one more time. I wonder what more that he's got to do. I wonder what else He's got to do. I know it when I get in the darkness that he's already brought me out of time and time again. I wonder what more that he's got to do to prove himself, to prove to you that he is who he says he is. And man, I never have understood how weak we are. And man, we can shout one Sunday and be in the dark the next. But through it all, he's God, no matter what. What can you do in the dark? What can he do in the dark? I wonder tonight. I'm afraid sometimes when Paul and the sons of Shannon and things is good and things is well and God's answering our prayers. Amen, we love him. But in the dark we feel like he's not the same God either. Amen. When I see it in the darkness, oh Lord, help us tonight. I'm fixing to sit down and close my eyes and block Young's health and preach a little while. Amen. Young's might as well just free up. Amen. If we don't get a little bit of liberty I'll tell him boys not to worry about coming this week. Because where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. I said there is liberty. Where the spirit is, the power will be there. And people are dying. I said never die. Their lives are sitting in the dark. They're quitting in the dark. They're throwing it down in the dark. The churches are sitting in the dark. The preachers are in the dark. The deacons are in the dark. But honey, we don't have to stay that way. God was able to say, let there be light. And there was light. You reckon a certain God that spoke it all into existence is the same God right now? I believe He is. It breaks my heart. Those people used to have a song. They used to have a testimony. They used to have a zeal. And they're sitting in the dark tonight. Those people that have felt the power of God They've been loathed to their soul, and they're sitting in the dark. Oh, but listen. There is a light. Let me tell you how I know. Jesus got over there, and he told them, he said, I am the light of the world. But he didn't leave it that way. What did he say before he ascended back? Ye. You are the light of the world. Well, get on over. I believe it's about Matthew chapter five. Don't hold me to that. Amen. But he said, to let your light so shine before me that they may see your good works and glorify your father, which You can't measure dark. The less light you have, the darker it'll get. People have got so blind today, we don't even know when it's dark. Well, they've got a rail, they've got flashlights, and they measure that in lumens, ain't that right? They've got them up to 21,000 lumens. I've seen them advertise at Waukega and it pitch dark and turn the light off and it's just like daylight again. But it does not take the place of the sun. Brother, we've walked in with little old broke. Barry's has been my class. He'll try to shine me up in the darkness. But there's nothing that can take the place of the sun. There's nothing that can shine as bright as the sun. We've got to the point, in the gospel of John, he said the light shined in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. You sit in the dark for a while. Hey, man, you get up and turn your light on. Hey, this is what you'll do. You sit in the dark, Paul. Hey, man, you turn the light on. It brightens your skin. You'll draw up. That's right, Bill. Honey, when the light of the gospel begins to shine, I can watch people. I watch them scream. I watch them grow. It hurts them. They don't want it. But I say, if you don't want that, Lord, give me that. If you don't want no life, Lord, shine a little on me. I'll take all I can get. I want to make it to glory. It's over with. What I said in darkness, what I said in darkness, God help us today. Help us, Lord. Amen. What I said in darkness, have you been there? Are you there now? I keep coming back to this. I have the last few weeks. Amen. If God's answering our prayers, we'll love him. But if he ain't giving us what we want, we don't love him much. Amen. When God has a movement in our life, we love him. But the very minute we pray and he don't answer, I won't go back to the dark. It's lonely in the dark, ain't it? It's lonely in the dark. Oh, but when the light's on, Blake, I can see you. I can see Nicky. And man, y'all with me. If we ever need the light on, it's right now. We ever need to lie down. It's the day that we live here. My brother talked about revivals of old this morning. And we look at that, I confide to you. Amen. They talk about thousands getting saved. Amen. We say, oh, that was the end. If we could get out of the park, we could see it right now. We can see it one more time, but we've got too many distractions I figured this would be sweet. As I said in the darkness, but he wasn't satisfied there. I bet you I don't ever want to be satisfied in the dark. I've been in the dark before, but I wasn't happy about it. And I begged and pleaded with the Lord until I got back out there. Glory be. I've never seen such a pitiful day. In a man where people love the darkness, they love the people. Ask anybody how they're doing, and anybody that's walking in the lifeline, they'll say, oh, God's been good to me. But now you say you're doing all right. They'll give you every sob story. Every day, man. Tell you how bad they got it. That sounds to me like somebody's in the dark. I have no reason to hang my head today, and you don't either. Well, God ain't answering my prayer. Are you in hell? Are you in hell? Are you burning out of hell? We've got to reach and walk in the light. I pray, help us Lord, help our church. I said it this morning, but when the church gets right, everything else will fall in order. I hear that, I feel it. You don't have to tell me your thoughts, I just heard it. I've told you over and over, I care enough about my church, I care enough about these hoes, I care enough about the lost ones that need to come in and get bullied. To stand up and make you, if I gotta make a smile every time I get up, I say, Lord, help me make them angry. Move us to change. Move us to do something. Well, thank you, Jesus. I'm gonna be your pastor, amen. Brother, we'll go out in the world. Nobody can speak to us. We're lighting all the heads off. Amen. Everybody that looks at us, we're mad. Oh, and then we'll turn around and say, won't you come go to church? Somebody make us mad. Let me go tell him what I think. God makes them get liberated. This is an unruly evil. I'm gonna preach a little while. Somebody say something we don't like, and we gotta run our mouth or die. Where if the light was shining the way it should, it'd say just leave it alone. We've set in the dark so long the order has got way on line. The order in the home and the order in the church. The lights quit shining so long that we made up our own order. The poor woman's the boss. Now she runs everything. Well, I've heard them say, I don't need no man. That ain't how God designed it. God set the home in order long before he ever did the church. And we've been sitting in darkness so long. I love you women. Until we rose up above the man. And we're calling the shots. Hey, y'all carry me. For God's sake. And me, I ain't got enough backbone. Praise the Lord. You can look at me, man, if you want to. We're sitting in the dark. Church orders got plum out of line. Well, let me get back on the home for just a minute. Now, y'all can tell your mom and dad what they gonna do. Youngins tellin' Mom and Daddy where they gonna go. Hey man, did you ever thought if Allen said it, Gordon Lewis said it the other day, I wish they'd bust every ball and break every bat. I seen some yesterday down at Price's Creek store. It might have been Friday. Somebody said, we gonna see ya at church Sunday. No, little Johnny's gotta play ball in Bristol. Sounds to me like somebody is a-sittin' in the dark. It had to have been an atheist to come up with travel ball. Cause they can't believe in God. They'll drag their babies all around the world. Drag them from town to town and state to state. But they can't dare, that's why some ain't here today. But they can't dare bring them down to the house of God. They'll meet God with that one. So why interrupt it? It'll stand when it's burned in hell. It took me a minute, but I feel like the weight got lifted. We're sitting in the dark. Church is dwindling. People ain't faithful. People don't care. They're unconcerned, and they're sitting in the dark. Now, young'uns, they'll act like a bunch of monkeys outside. Ain't no thing wrong with that. Yeah, man, when they come in the house of God, they the same bunch of monkeys in here as they was outside. I got people yesterday evening, and boys, I'm telling you, boy, that's a fightin', wasn't it, Christie? That's a fightin' and a beatin' and a knockin' each other down. That's fightin', they're out there. But it does not sound good to look in here. I don't see them wallowing. I don't see them fighting. Why, honey, this is a holy place. This ain't a playground. It ain't a jungle gym. Man, this is the house of God. We forgot how to dress. We forgot what we're supposed to look like. Ain't that right? We've come to the day where you run into your church folk at Engels and you all out there. They'll look like any other old Jezebel running around. Well, help us, Lord. You've heard me say this, but Tracy, you can dig me up when I die. These two tattoos on my body, I wish they wasn't there, but they are. You won't find another one. Now, preachers lie. Sounds to me like somebody's in the darkness. Well, you're getting there a little too straight. I hope they hear it, that's all right. I'm gonna do my best to pray for him. The boy that's pastoring the church, I used to pastor it. Amen, amen, you run into him out in public and he's got a pair of short britches on up to here. Got his flip flops on and running around. Hey, listen, we supposed to love. It's more than actions. And if we don't look the part, sure, it's more than looking. But it starts with how we love. And I realize, I realize that, man, that we can... If you live back in the heart of where nobody can see you, You get out on your porch and wear whatever you want to wear. I live right beside it, 19. You have to go up there and think. See me going to the yard and driving by, running around, I'll turn my shirt off. Amen, if you live in a holler where nobody can see you, I don't see a thing wrong with you. Ain't nobody looking at you when you get in the shower. Some of these don't like you. Hey man, up in the hell, here we are sitting in the darkness. I remember I was out in sin, doing things I ought not do. Me and Abbey was just jacking up. I went down there to Parker's to get a load of mulch. Had my shirt off. Daddy was working down there then. I loaded that mulch. Daddy come over there. He said, if you don't, if you don't put that shirt on, I'm gonna wad you up and throw you back in that truck. You know what Charlie did? I put my shirt back on. Too hot for that preacher. How hot hell is. Too hot for that, back in how hot it was when Jesus stepped down and come out with the keys. But they said we are supposed to leave. And the brothers fell apart. But now we've got blessings. We've got dresses now. And if they get up real fast, you'll see everything they got. And they wearing it in the church. Look how holy we are, we got our dresses on. And they can't praise the Lord, because if they did, it'd come up to here. I don't know why some of y'all are dying on me. I don't understand why we can preach on grace and some will shout, and I get right on into the truth. And some will say, you're a liar. I don't understand that, do you? I believe the truth will stand when it's all over. And we're all sitting in the dark. I realize that I'm under a little scrutiny, so as my wife shows my children, ask him how many times she's come prancing down those steps on Sunday, and I'd say, you might as well go change that. I can't tell you how many times that lip's run out that long, as she's stomped back up People come in the church now looking in your way You don't have to go to the dance club to see nakedness anymore. A lot of times you can just go to church. I won't lie, don't you? I won't lie. He said to seek ye after your past. I won't bury it. I realize it's We can have a dress down to our ankles and still be in the dark. You can cover up your nakedness and still be in the dark. But you cannot be in the light and look like the world. You can't do it. It's a brain revival. Order in the halls got from mixed up. Hey man, they'll take off on Super Bowl Sunday night just to watch the game. I told you the other day, there ain't a ball team in this world that was able to reach down where I was. There ain't a ball team on this planet that was able to call to me when I was in the hell that I was living in. He's worth living for. He's not worthy. Everybody grin real big. Well, the home's got out of order. Let's move right on to the church. I moved right into the pub pit. Listen, I ain't the boss down here. Go with me. I ain't the boss. And you ain't neither. I love you. I love you. I love Tracy Henson. I don't believe I can make you mad. But it's my understanding you was right here when they built this place, wasn't it? Praise the Lord, he's been here that long, and don't make him the boss. Good deacons, God's given us, and I thank the Lord for them. They ain't the boss. That's where we've got trouble in the church for the day. And we've done left God on the outside. And the deacons have got more worry about money. How we gonna do this? How we gonna do that? Amen, I'll done left God off. I'd rather have a handful in the light than a house full of darkness and have the power of God. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank God, brother, we've been in the church world, sitting in the dark, and we've been going on vacation, calling mission trips. I believe that the gospel needs to be preached all over our world. Only they'll go on these little mission trails. Man, why are there two piece in their bikinis? Hands out a couple gospel tracks? You know what I mean? Sound like somebody's in the dark. Don't take nothing to get them out. All it takes is somebody saying one wrong thing, somebody looking at them the wrong way, somebody not shaking their hands, somebody not hugging their neck, and they'll quit and they'll walk away. I told you the other day, people's gonna follow a dead man. All right, straight off to heaven. Here we are now, honey. Ain't no where drinking's not a sin. There ain't no fornication's not a sin. They'll go to the club on Saturday, and get in the choir on Sunday. They'll be shacking up, and we'll let them teach Sunday school. They'll live like hell out there, and we'll put them in office in the church. In the name of the Lord. Help us, Lord. I said this the other day. Amen, buddy. That's why they say you ought not preach on other churches. I don't want us to get in that shape. I'm gonna pray for you. Absolutely. But I want to warn us, we don't need to get in that shape. I told you the other day, God's blessed us. As far as believing how we believe, this is probably one of the biggest churches in the county. There's a lot of good men still preaching, still preaching the gospel in its entirety. But it seems like the churches are getting fewer and fewer. People are leaving, going after a show, going after this, going after that. Well, they even give us something for our young people to do. We got them all together yesterday, what a blessing it was. But I tell you, if you intend on coming here, let me tell you what I'm gonna give them babies. Every Sunday morning, every Sunday night, every Wednesday night, every first Friday, I have all intentions. We'll play, we'll play volleyball, we'll run and we'll jump. I'm gonna listen to me before anything else gets done. I'm gonna tell them babies, I'm not just selling dog dishes. Praise the Lord. Let's all take a trip, we'll go have church in case it's cold. That'll be good, I'd like to have a meeting in one of them old churches. Just a good time to vacate. They'll ride go-karts, they'll go down to the restaurant. Amen. I've seen it, I've been there, I've done it. Well, amen. Riding go-karts looking like a Harley, looking like the world. Amen. Oh, amen. Let's go to Cage Cove and pretend like we're holy. I told you this a hundred times. But if you want to dress any way you want, if you want to live any way you want, you're more than welcome to come here. But don't tell nobody where you're going. Cause if you're cussing one man in the tent, come on down to Cherithbrook and go with us. You bringing a reproach upon us, brother. Ain't that right? Well, you've come so far now, Dustin, they call it self-righteousness. That's true, brother. You're just being self-righteous. You're taking it too far. Come on, brother. Do I think I'm the only one that believes right? No, I don't. That's serious, brother. God's still got plenty. I believe that I'm looking over a pretty decent crowd that still wants the truth. You reckon 40 years ago a man had to get up and tell people to look like the church? Now we'll take the influencer's word for it. And you let somebody on Instagram tell us to shave our head, and honey, they'll get shaved. This is the new trend, ladies. Shave your head. People, women, they be walking around bald. But you let God's word come tell us how to walk, how to live. I just don't believe it. You reckon when we stand before God and the books is open, you think Facebook will be one? Reckon when we meet the Lord and the books will be open, God will say, hold on a minute and have to pull out his iPhone and open up Instagram. We're getting quiet now. You know what's gonna be open on judgment day? He ain't gonna look and see how many followers you got. He ain't gonna look and see how many, thank God, how many recipes that you put on Pinterest. He ain't gonna see out any Bible verses that you've got on Instagram and posted. He's gonna see if your life looks like this. He's gonna see if what you've done looks like this. Praise the Lord. Boy, we started off rough. I feel all right. I don't wanna be sitting in the darkness. Preached the meeting down there years ago. Me and Lee, it was rough from the get go. I mean, it was just, I don't know what you call it, dark. Well, there's a little girl got up the same one night. All she had on was a look like you had sprayed her t-shirt on out of a can. Him in a pair of leggings. You already know how I feel about that. She got up to sing and they put the track in. She started singing. Had a ring you could leave a bull hanging out of her nose. Standing up there, boy, she was letting it rip. People's assuagin' snot. I mean, there's a cryin'. And I was sittin' just about where you are, brother. I thought, Lord, have mercy. They gonna run me off in a minute. There's a cryin'. I'm goin' on, and she finally quit her cattle haulin' and said, hey, my brother said, come on and preach to us. Well, I got up there, you coulda heard a pin drop. It's a sad day when people care more about a show than they do the truth. We've traded morals for immortality. We've traded standards for a show. Amen. But listen. I don't care what the church up the road does, what the church down the road does. All I can do is just pray for them. But honey, in this place, I want us to have all the heart that God will give us. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Lord. Coming home yesterday. Looked over across the road, there's a big old cross. And I thought, boy, that looks good. And I looked right under it, and there's a liquor store. Boy, they'll stamp Jesus on anything. That's holy, that's Jesus. Amen. Everybody all right? I ain't done yet. Some of us need to go home and clean out the closet. Some of us need to go home and look in the mirror and say, Lord, do I look like you? Paul said to examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith. God, help me look in here. And say, Lord, does that look like you? Next time that you start to run off at the mouth, thank Him in it. Lord, what do you want me to do? You might find out that when we clean everything up and get back in the light, God might be a little more apt to do what you want him to. Thank you, Jesus. I'm just gonna hit from all of it while we're here. We'll get in the choir and sing about the goodness of God on Sunday. Amen and then we'll turn the radio on Monday. Then we'll talk about him and the fornicating and getting drunk. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, and few there be the time, for the longer time goes on, the fewer there's gonna be. But God will always have people that wanna walk in the light. Help us, Lord. Used to be a time, Paul, my men could call them by name, and that hit the altar. Matter of fact, that's what the New Testament says to do. To rebuke before all. That all might fear. You have to hang me. If I say, Nicky, you ain't right, I just used you as an example, but you still know what to do. We used to call out people for being unfaithful. We're not dressing right. Man wants to get up there and call names. You talk about sending the crowd. God and Daniel and Jack, he's gonna preach him today. But if the Lord ever gives you something to tell me, tell me. Cause we all in this thing together. Thank the Lord for letting me come all the way back around to my thought of many ago. People put the preacher up here and his wife and his family, they ought to live like this and look like this and act like this and do this. When really, the same standard that you're putting on me and my wife, you need to live up to your faith. Same standard that you laid out for everybody else, it's easy to do this. It's easy for me to point a finger at Dustin and Daniel, Paul, and say, oh, even look at them, look what they're doing. Hardest part is pointing a finger back at this. Now we're raising up a bunch of coddled, spoiled babies in the house of God that cannot stand the truth. Paul said, I fed you with milk and not with meat because you wasn't able to bear it. Now people are getting mad at the meat. All they want's a bottle stuck out of their mouth. All they want's a pacifier. Honey, we can't expect to feed any new babes if we're on the bottle of ice. Praise the Lord. Ain't too rough, is it, Jeff? I like it. Sittin' in the dark. We've sat in the dark. I've sat in the dark. Hey, man, I've been places and preached when I wasn't pastoring. Big places. Went in and preached and my flesh say, boy, this be a good place to be. They'd pay you good. Look at the crowd. And then I'd hear the Lord say, yeah, but you'd have to compromise. I'd rather just stay with him. I'm going to say this, and I'm not bragging on myself. Amen. I told the church a while back, don't give me a damn. I don't ever want anybody to say that I'm down here for any money. There's one reason I'm here. I want us all to walk in the light. Now with me. Now, honey. Church asked me to pastor one time. Amen. Amen. A few of the deacons said that you pray about. Even though you just pray about being a pastor, I prayed. Well, the chairman of the deacon board, even though you find that in that book. He said we ain't got enough money to pay him to feed them young ones. I've been preaching to him. I just call it like I see it, honey. Listen, if a man's after money, he's not a shipper, he's a hirer. I'd rather tell you the truth, with that all I have would be just two nickels to rub together. That's to give me the offering every single Sunday. I want to walk in the light don't you? I want to walk in the light. Bless you sis. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Some of us ought to go get our CD collection. Y'all carry me. Some of you need to do like Jonathan done the other day. Whatever it is, a hindrance, you destroy it. I kill it. It ain't worth losing that relationship with God. Praise the Lord. I'm gonna walk in the light. Amen. I don't want to walk in the light. I don't want to be sitting in the darkness. Thank you, Jesus. Everybody crying real big. Praise the Lord. If it comes between you and God, guess what? That's your God. Things are all right in moderation. We were talking about it yesterday. There ain't one thing wrong with him and playing ball. I enjoy it. He might have just about got too fat and crippled to do it anymore, but I enjoy it. I have fun. But if that comes to anything between us and God, that's a gone. I love to hear a dog tree. But if that comes between me and God, that's my God. Amen, I love to see a white tail coming through the woods. But if that comes between me and God, that's my God. Help us, Lord. We've got a lot of gods. Paul got to walking around at Mars Hill, and boy, they had a God for everything. And all the way down at the end, I believe it was the smallest one there, they said amen to the unknown God. Paul said, whom ye so ignorantly worship. They had a God for everything, but let's, amen, let's sow God in there too. We make gods out of money. We make gods out of boats. We make gods out of phones. We make gods out of TVs. We make gods out of tree stands. We make gods out of everything else. The mess just told the one god in there with it. He'll not play second fiddle or anything else. It's here. Watch the deal. Praise the Lord. I thought for sure, Clyde, that Lord got the dead in me on that scripture. I thought, boy, they'll shout tonight. You ought to. We ought to. Help us, Lord. I don't want to sit in the dark. I don't want to sit in the dark. I want to be in the light. I want to be in all of it. Let me tell you how bright he is. You know, that there's a land where there's no need for the sun, no stars to shine. This is how bright he is. He's the only light. I tell you, you know back in the Holy of Holies in Old Tabernacle, that there wasn't no windows. There wasn't no candles lit. That was it. That was it. We've got so used to artificial right now. Praise the Lord. Now, please don't get mad at me. But if you do, that's all right. Now, amen, brother, naturally, we're not satisfied with how we look, amen, and the tone and the complexion of our skin. You don't even have to lay in the light now. Amen. Now it's called Abel's self-canner and you can just rub it on. And you'll look like everybody else. Don't you know how you know? Praise the Lord, there's somebody that's been in the real light. They'll have a farmer's can. Y'all carry me. Praise the Lord. Oh, honey, now, we just want something out of the way as you get out of your tent. Amen. I'm getting above the head. I'm getting on in there on the spiritual side. But now, honey, we're satisfied. Amen. We're just looking like the world in here. Having a little artificial make us feel good. I want something real. I want something right. If you need to get mad, get mad. It's vanity. Naturally it's vanity. It's vanity. It's vanity. It's vanity. It's vanity. Praise the Lord. Ladies and gentlemen, if you're trying to look good, even for everybody else to notice you, there's only one man in your life that you can give everybody a blessing, and it's the one God gave you. I'm going to preach for a minute. I love you. Amen.