Indeed, the God we serve can do anything. How many of you are thankful that your God is all-powerful? All-powerful. Praise the Lord for that. We have such a wonderful staff at the Christian Law Association, and I want to confess to you, I get credit for things in our ministry that I didn't do. Other people didn't. In fact, I get credit for things I didn't even know we did, and people come up and thank me for it. And it's because of this wonderful staff. And you heard from Brother Cluth this morning. And Michael, I'd like you to come up. This is Michael Adams, one of our lawyers. And Michael's just an outstanding young man, a great lawyer, a great lawyer. And I should tell you this. He scored so high on his boards to try to go to law school that when he got them back, every Ivy League school came after him and said, wow. He said, no, I'm called to be a Christian lawyer. Boy, God has really used this young man. I'd like him to give you a word of testimony, tell you a little bit about his background. These are the men every day who are on the phones, in court, doing the things that need to be done. Michael, this is Michael Adams. Brother Gibbs is very kind. I don't deserve an introduction like that, but I'm thankful for it. I'm a legal missionary, part of the Christian Law Association. And people may ask, what is a legal missionary? Well, it's something to do with legal, and we're sent by churches just like yours to be missionaries to Christians, God's people all over the country and all over the world. And it's our honor to do it. It's the greatest honor of my life to be a legal missionary. I was born in a Christian home, and I went to a Christian school that one day was in a bit of trouble. and we called the Christian Law Association, and they were able to keep our Christian school going. I was born in North Carolina. I know that's not thought of as well as Virginia around here, but that's okay. It's a close second, I think. If you could see our phones every day, and that's every single day, we get emergency calls from pastors, and thank you, Brother Shelton, for having us here, Pastor. We sure appreciate that. We get emergency calls from businessmen, Christian school teachers, from public school teachers, government workers, no matter the sphere of influence you have in your community, we're there for you. You may ask, what can we use you for? Well, imagine you try to invite somebody to come to church here today, and your boss or your coworker told you, you're not allowed to do that here. Well, you are allowed to do that in many, many cases. And we're there. If you want to get a little bit more information about it, give us a call. We can send you that information. We can help you know your Christian rights, your religious freedom rights in our country. Every single day, we're inundated with calls from all of these people, from moms and dads who are just told you're not allowed to tell your children these things anymore in America. How many of you understand you have the right to tell your children, especially you're commanded to train up your children in the way that they should go according to scripture. You're commanded to do it. I'm thankful again to be a legal missionary. We're here for you and we are at no charge. And that's the biggest difference between our ministry and many other organizations out there is they'll charge you or they'll ask you for information. We don't do any of that except try to help you the best we can. We're so thankful to do it. We're here to actually also help you As you know, the Bible commands us to be lighthouses in our community, to be lights and salt in our life. This church is a lighthouse in this community and you are the light commanded by Jesus Christ himself. And we're here to help you do that. We're so thankful to be able to. God's been so good, hadn't he? Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you, Michael. Seth, this is a young man, been in our ministry with a lawyer now for 13 or 14 years. Seth, is that right? And by the way, their new song leader here is from Troy, Ohio. They would have played you guys in football probably in high school. He's from Carlisle, Ohio, not very far away. And he's just a great young man. His father was and is a youth pastor for how many years now? 43 years he's been a youth pastor. And let me tell you what's interesting, their church is full of people who say, I want my kids to have the youth pastor I had. I want the experience of how he taught me to win souls, how he taught me to live godly, how he taught me to study my Bible. And that youth pastor has now, and that has repeated itself four or five times. This is Seth Krause, great young man, And just a great privilege to have him in our ministry. Seth, give us a testimony, would you please? Good evening, Church, and thank you for having us. Thank you, Pastor. I thought maybe Dr. Gibbs had told you something on lunch, because I'm known to travel a little quicker than the speed limit sometimes. But yeah, as Dr. Gibbs said, I grew up in a Christian home. My mom was actually pregnant with me when my dad started in the ministry. And he's been a youth pastor now for 43 years. He's had opportunities to go and pastor many, many times, but he feels called to the youth ministry. And so I grew up in the youth ministry. It's kind of neat. My oldest daughter is now in my dad's youth ministry. And my wife and I work in there when I'm not traveling. And so my second child, she starts in the youth this coming year. And then my son, he's got a few years, which I think my dad's going to retire before he gets there. So I'm joking. My son's a little wild sometimes. So I was saved at the age of eight. I was saved in Vacation Bible School. And I told this a few weeks ago, but there were four of us that were saved that day. And one of them was a good friend of ours that passed away from cancer at the age of 21. And so we were thankful that he got saved as a child. And then the other two, one was my best friend, who is now a deacon at the church we grew up in. And then the other one was my brother-in-law, who is now my pastor. And so we all got saved at Vacation Bible School together, and it was a good time. I went to a Christian college for undergrad, and then I went to a Christian law school, Regent University, here in Virginia Beach in Virginia. And so then I got out of law school. I started working for a law firm in Ohio. And I had reached out to Dr. Gibbs. Our church had supported him. I had heard him speak when I was at Tennessee Temple. I'd heard him speak many times. And I always liked the thought of both, you know, the Christian side and the law side. But I lived in Ohio and they were in Florida at the time. I reached out and just said, hey, if you guys ever need an attorney in Ohio, let me know. I'm happy to help you guys. And so one day I got a call and he was traveling through and I met him at a Skyline Chili, which is one of his favorite restaurants. You guys probably never had it. And he said, won't you come with me and try this out a little bit? So I went on a few trips and then about nine months later I left and started with CLA and it's been incredible. We have the privilege of helping churches and Christians and people that often are in their darkest times or scariest times, and we get to come in and help them and do it free of charge, as Michael said. And so we consider it an honor to do it, and it's our ministry. And we thank churches like this and pastors like this. We couldn't do it without you. So thank you. Amen. Keep these young men in your prayers, if you would. When he says every day we get calls, it is every day. Every Sunday we get a barrage of calls of churches that have been threatened or sued that Sunday. And America's off in a strange direction and prayer is God's command. Preacher, thank you for letting us be here on this anniversary. If you have your Bibles, please turn to the book of Mark, the book of Mark, chapter 16. For the next few minutes, I want to talk to you about what's priority one with God. priority one with God, and that is to win souls to Jesus Christ. You realize every person you'll ever meet everywhere has a soul, and that soul is either gonna be in heaven or hell for eternity. The reason that you're saved is somebody shared the gospel with you. Somebody told you about Jesus Christ and what he did at Calvary, and about how as a free gift from God, the gift of God, life eternal, and you trusted Jesus Christ, that's the reason you're here. But out there is a world of people that don't know about Jesus Christ. It amazes me as we travel America, we come up to people and say, have you got any idea how you get to heaven? And we're in truck stops and courthouses and all different kinds of places, motels. Got any idea what you gotta do to get to heaven? and say, no, not really, I guess just be the best person you can and hope for a good outcome. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible is very clear. And one of the things I love about your ministry, if you have been clear on the gospel, clear as to what we're supposed to do to get saved. Listen to what Jesus said in the book of Mark chapter 16 at verse 15. And he said unto them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to Every creature. Now, would you mark this down? That's a command. That's a command. Every one of us is under this command. And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel. Proverbs 11 verse 30, you know this by heart, he that winneth souls is wise. The reason that I've started preaching on this more is because our churches now have wonderful Christians in them who aren't trying to win souls. They're good people, they believe in Jesus, they believe in salvation. But when we ask them, when is the last time you handed a gospel tract to somebody, or you sat down took them to the Bible and said, listen, you have a soul. You need Jesus Christ. What we have found in our lawsuits, and this is a staggering outcome, and our statistics match all the other groups, in our churches, fundamental Bible-believing churches, less than 6% of the people ever witness. That means 94% of the people are sitting in the bleachers, not telling people about Jesus. But of the 6%, only 4% ever do it faithfully, every day, faithful to Jesus Christ. We have a world out here that needs Christ. I was just over in the Orient before we came here. Boy, they talk about that 1030 window, and indeed, there is such a need for the gospel over there. But we need the gospel in our homeland. We need the gospel spread everywhere we go. I want you to write three things down tonight First of all, we do soul winning because it's commanded. There is no such thing as a good Christian who doesn't witness for Jesus Christ. It's a sin not to witness. He didn't say, I'd like you to consider going into all the world. He said, go ye, that world right out there, and preach the gospel. Yeah, but wasn't that addressed to like Preacher, Brother Shelton? Yeah, that was addressed to him. Well, that was addressed to you, Brother Gibbs, right? Absolutely. It was addressed to you, too. Every single one of us is commanded by God to be a witness. Isn't it amazing? It's a sin not to witness, an egregious sin. Now, I know people who would never drink, never swear, never look at profanity, but somehow they got comfortable with not witnessing. You say, well, witnessing is not just my thing. No, if you're a child of God, it's your commanded thing. Every one of us is commanded by scripture to be a witness for Jesus Christ. And we've never had nicer tracks, we've never had better training materials, and we've never done it less. We have forgotten that it's commanded, absolutely commanded. A man called me one day, a pastor, And he said, Brother Gibbs, I have a real problem. It was up in New England. And I said, what's your problem? He said, they passed a law to stop me from witnessing. I said, they passed a law? I said, well, listen, we're running into those laws everywhere we go. We're getting them stopped. But he said, no, this one was directed at me. I said, what makes you think it was directed at you? He said, well, when they passed it, they put my name in the law. And they said, this is to stop this preacher from going out there and witnessing. I said, I kind of wonder. Send it to me. Let me look at it. Well, he sent it to me. And sure enough, his name was in the law. Stop him. I called him back. I said, listen, this is so flagrantly illegal. We will help you. It'll be our honor to help you. He said, I'd sure appreciate it. I said, but let me call the attorney general up there and talk to him first. I called the attorney general in that state, and I said, You know this is illegal. He said, yeah, I know, I know. I said, why in the world did you do it? They said, we can't explain it. This fella is absolutely, and these were his words, like Superman on steroids when it comes to telling people about Jesus Christ. Everywhere he goes, he's witnessing. Now, before he came to our state, we were happy. We had a happy community. People didn't worry about where they went when they died. Everybody thought, we're okay. But boy, did things change. He won the local Catholic priest to his faith. Boy, did that ever turn things upside down. That got in the newspaper. And so we passed this law to stop him. And all I could keep thinking, preacher, is would anybody pass a law to stop me? Would I be witnessing with such fervor that somebody would say, we got to stop that? I said, well, it's illegal. He said, yeah, I know. I've read your stuff. You guys are going to get this overturned, but we're just trying to slow him down. I said, wow. I'm glad to come up here and get this changed. I told this pastor, I'll meet you at the airport. I landed in his community. I came off the plane. There was a man standing with a little card with my name on it that he was there for me. And the church had sent out the most invalid person I've ever seen in an airport. The man holding the card was crippled in the extreme. He was all bent over, and he was looking at me like this. And when he would walk, he would drag his one leg. I thought, my goodness. What was that church thinking when they sent him to pick me up? This precious man, they shouldn't have done that. I walked up to him and I said, I'm David Gibbs. He said, I know, I'm here to help you. I said, well, listen, the church should have sent someone else. You've obviously got some real physical problems. Why don't we call the church and ask the pastor to get somebody else out here? He looked at me and he said, Brother Gibbs, I am the pastor. I said, you're the pastor? You're Superman? He said these words to me. I'm very damaged goods, but I'm a good soul winner. He said, never in my life did anybody ever want me on their team. But when I got saved, God put me on his team. And I get the privilege of playing first string. And I get to hand out tracks to people, and win people to Christ every week. He said, how do you hand out a track? Your hands are all gnarled up. He said, they rub stickum on my hands. And I reach up here and I get a track. And I hold it out to people. I have terrible tremors in my hands, shake. Sometimes the track falls loose. People are so kind, they run up to grab it and help me. And then I give them the track. He said, Brother Gibbs, it's a command. I said, well, I think God understands if you can't do it. He said, I don't want God to understand. I want to obey. He said, Brother Gibbs, this world is dying and going to hell. And I get the privilege of obeying God's command to go into all the world and give the gospel. He that winneth souls is wise. Now, let me just take the flip side of that. It's the folly of a lifetime, the foolishness of a lifetime to not try to win souls. We got that law overturned, but I'll never forget that man as we were working our way out of the airport. I said, did you want to sit down and rest? He said, oh no, with all these people here getting their luggage and everything, I want to be there where I can reach them. He gave every person in that luggage area a gospel track. He gave everybody we crossed in that airport. We were going out and he had somebody driving him. He said, stop here where we gotta pay for our parking. I wanna be sure I get to witness to these parking attendants. He said, I just do it to everybody, because they all have souls. And I get to hand out this gospel tract. When's the last time, with a fervor, you did it? Yeah, but Brother Gibbs, again, it's just not my thing. It is your thing if you're a child of God. because it's a command. And once again, there is no such thing as a good Christian who doesn't obey that command. We witness because it's commanded, commanded. Write number two down. We witness because we love the Lord. Number one, we witness because it's commanded. Number two, we witness because we love Jesus Christ. John 14, verse 15. If you love me, keep my, what's the next word? Commandments. Jesus said the test of love is do you keep my commandments? Well, here's the command. Go and tell. How much do you love him? Oh, I love Jesus. There's a test. Obey. If you love me, keep my commandments. Mercy. I was traveling with a pastor one day, and it was kind of the middle of the night, about two or three in the morning. And he said, Brother Gibbs, can I share something with you? I said, sure, sure, what? He said, a while back, I read the story about D.L. Moody and how Moody committed to one soul each day to get saved. He wouldn't go to bed that night until someone trusted Christ. And he did that for years. And I thought, you know, I wonder if I could win one each day. one person each day. So he said, I asked the Lord to let me win one person each day. And he said, for the last seven years, I've not missed a day. Now, I'm a pastor, and I'm not counting people that got saved in our services. I mean, I've asked God for one person out there each day. I said, wow. I said, now, preacher, just between you and me, we're friends. Have you ever missed a day? He said, no. No, not in seven years. And he said, right now it's a new day, and I'm on a soul patrol. I'd never heard that word. I said, what's a soul patrol? He said, I'm looking for souls. And he said, I ask God to use me. He said, I have asked because I love the Savior, what he did for me, and I want him to do it for others. What he's done for others, he'll do for you. He said, I get to witness because I love Jesus Christ. He said, in a minute, we're going to get off here and buy some fuel and get some snacks. And everybody who travels with me knows my favorite activity in the middle of the night is to eat unhealthy food. I just enjoy stopping. And he said, pray. Help me pray that I get to witness to somebody. I said, yeah, I will. I said, now, you're squaring with me here. You've not missed a day of winning somebody to Christ in seven years? He said, I give you my word. Wow. Well, we pulled off, got some gas. Beautiful, real high lit up gas mart. We walked inside. There was only one lady there standing behind the counter. We gathered up the stuff we wanted to eat, walked up and put it on the counter. And then this dear friend of mine, a black man, decides to witness. And he did the most terrible job I've ever seen. He looked at the girl behind the counter and he said, are you ready to die? It's the middle of the night. And there's nobody here but us two and her. And I thought, what happened to my name is Dave, what's yours? Are you ready to die? And the girl's eyes got to be the size of watermelons. I mean, her eyes lit up. He said, well, I don't mean that bad. He said, are you ready to die right now? He said, you're making it worse. What happened? Don't you know the Romans wrote or something? Then it scared me, because that girl looked at us, and real slow, she reached under the counter. I thought, oh, no, no, no. She's got a gun under there. I know it. She's going to shoot us with a gun, because you don't know how to witness. And I'm standing here. At my funeral, they're going to say they didn't know the Roman's road. They didn't have a gospel track. She reached real slow under the counter, and then she brought it back up, but it wasn't a gun. It was her Bible. She had a Bible under the counter. And she said, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. She said, I'm saved. I'm born again. I'm on my way to heaven. I am ready to die. But I've always been saying, I wish somebody would try to witness to me. Why doesn't somebody care what happens to me? I would just like somebody to try to witness to me, even though I'm saved. Phew, I breathed a sigh of relief. And she said, this was wonderful that you did that, but I know I'm on my way to heaven. Then something happened I was truly not ready for. Suddenly, there's another lady behind us. How she got there, I don't know. She said, well, she may be ready to go to heaven, but I'm not. And when she spoke up, I liked to come out of my shoes. Where did you come from? She said, my mother just died the day before yesterday. And on my mother's deathbed, she begged me to trust Christ, and I told her no. She said, I haven't been able to sleep. She said, I'm down here because I can't sleep buying milk for my kids' breakfast. and I'm not ready to die. She may be, but I'm not. Would you pray with me? This big, tall black man said, I'm in the right place, I just got the wrong lady. It wasn't you, it's her. And the girl behind the counter said, oh, this is wonderful, wonderful. That black man never asked that lady to get on her knees. She dropped to her knees and said, could you pray with me? I'm ready. I'm standing there saying, I've never seen anything like this. I mean, you can't get people to bow in church. We're bowing in a gas mart. And he led her to Christ on her knees right there. Now two truck drivers walk in. They see the lady on her knees. They see the girl behind the counter who's crying uncontrollably. They walked up and said, is this a stick-up? And the girl behind the counter said, oh, no, no, no, no. This is not a stick-up. It's not a stick-up at all. This man come in here and asked me, was I ready to die? And he didn't do a very good job of witnessing to me, but I know what he meant. And I am ready to die. I got saved years ago. And I had my Bible here, so I got my Bible out And I was telling them I'm ready, but this lady here, her mother just died, and her mother begged her, and she told all the details. I mean, if you know women, when they get on the phone, give every detail there is. Mercy. Those two truck drivers stood there and said, and she just got saved? And that lady on the floor that's on her knees said, oh, I just wish my mother'd have seen this. And the one truck driver said, could you pray with me too? How do you have a revival in a gas mart with people asking to get saved? What he said over and over was, Lord, we love you. We want to keep your commandments. Finally, he got their names and addresses. He said, I'm going to have a pastor call you because you need a church home. They all hugged our necks. We walked out to the car, and I told this black pastor, I said, I've never seen anything like that. He said, that's because you never asked. You never asked the Lord to use you. You have not because you asked not. Do you love him enough to be the witness he's commanded you to be? We witness because we're commanded. We witness because we love him. Periodically, I'll see my pastor friend. The last time I saw him, I said, how many years has it been? He said, David, it's now 16 years. I said, you haven't missed a day. He said, Moody didn't miss a day for 50 some years. No, David, God's not missed a day. God wants to use you. Wow. It's commanded, and we do it because we love him. Write the third thing down. We do it because we love people. We do it because we love people. I ask you this question. How can you say you care about anybody if you don't tell them about the gift of God? How can you say you care? There's, in Las Vegas, Nevada, a very famous act that's been there for decades called Penn and Teller. These guys are magicians, and they're very famous there. And one day, somebody came up and said, boy, there's these people witnessing outside your act and wanting to tell people about Jesus, and I'll bet that just riles you, and you hate that, don't you? And Gillette Pence said, no, I don't hate that. He said, you don't hate that? He said, no. He said, why? He said, well, if you really believed that the Son of God died in your place, and if you really believed that what he did on that cross was to pay for your sins, and if you really believed it's a free gift from God, if you'll just ask him to save you, He said, if you really believe that, he said, how much would you have to hate people to not want them to know about it? How much would you have to despise people not to tell them about the free gift from God? Whoa. How much do I hate people? I don't hate people, Brother Gibbs. We're commanded to love people. That's the fruit of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace. Long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, faith, hope. We love people, and why don't we tell them? Why don't we tell them? Well, I'm not good at it. Can I help you here? Nowhere in the Bible are you commanded to be good at it. That black pastor was the worst witness I've ever seen. But he witnesses, and God uses it. He said, David, my voice shakes. He said, my hands tremor. He said, when I start witnessing, perspiration just breaks out on my forehead. But I'm commanded to do it. And I love the Lord, and I love people. Wow. It was a Wednesday night at my home church. And it is probably the most memorable church service I've ever been in in my life. I don't remember what our preacher preached on. I don't remember what songs the choir sang. I don't remember any of that. But I do remember the altar call, because it changed my life. The pastor gave an altar call. When they sang a second verse, a young man, college-age student came to the altar. He was crying uncontrollably. Uncontrollably. I don't mean he was sniffling. Tears were just pouring down his face. And he was breathing heavy. They tried to console him at the altar, and finally our preacher went down, our pastor. He said, Toby, what's the matter? He said, I want to be forgiven. Preacher said, forgiven for what? He said, for not witnessing, for not telling people about Jesus. My pastor said, I didn't preach on that tonight. Now everything got really quiet. We could hear their conversation. Why, why? How did this happen? He said, I work as an orderly at the hospital here in town, the big city hospital. He said, I'm working my way through college, and I'm one of the men that wears a white coat and pushes you on a gurney wherever they tell me to take you. He said, I'm just an orderly. But he said, in our hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, there was a man who worked for a chemical company. They manufactured very dangerous chemicals. One of the chemicals they manufactured had the properties that if it touched water, moisture, it would ignite in a literal flame. And he said one day he was at work and he knew this stuff was dangerous. They used it commercially to get things extremely dry. And he saw a test tube full of that chemical sitting there on a rack. And without permission, he put a cork on it and stuck it in his pocket. He stole it. He took it home. He put it in a dresser drawer because he didn't want anybody to get at it. But a week later, he had a party at his house, and his friends, they were drinking. Pretty soon, he needed something to liven the party up. And he remembered that chemical. So he went back and got it and walked out by his friends in the living room. And he held it up, and he said, you see this? This is really powerful, dangerous stuff. They said, what is it? He said, I'll show you in a minute. They said, well, can you handle that? Is it dangerous for us? He said, no, I can handle it. We make it at work. He took his friends out into the living room, into the kitchen, pardon me. And he had them stand around him in a semicircle by the sink. And he took that chemical and uncorked it. And his friend said, now, what are you going to do? He said, just watch this. You won't believe it. He took just a few grains of that chemical and pinched it. and threw it at the water in the bottom of the sink. Pow, like that, the thing went off in an explosion. The people jumped. They said, whoa, that's amazing. Do it again, do it again. And so he did. They didn't jump a second time. Then he decided, what I'm going to do is pour about a gram's worth in. And he leaned forward, slightly drunk, to pour just a little out of the tube. And he lost his balance, and his whole hand with the water went down. test tube, every bit of it, into the water. There was a violent explosion. It pushed his body back. It went up and burned the ceiling in the home. And a bunch of it came up dry on his skin. Now he's writhing in agony. He's badly burned. And he has this chemical on his skin, and it's flickering in flame. He's on fire with this chemical. They raced him to the hospital, where the boy from our church was working. He said, we ran out and put him on the gurney and strapped him down, and a nurse stopped us and said, hold it, we gotta put more straps on him. He was in such pain, he was pulling everything loose. He said, we took him to the surgery suite, and he was still pushing so hard, she took the boy from our church and said, lay over his knees, you gotta hold him down. Toby, don't let him get loose. put the other boy over his ankles. The doctor came running. The man was screaming. He had pulled his head up off the gurney, was looking at the boy from our church. And here's what he said, in God's name, son, I'm in hell. Can you hear me? I'm on fire. I tell you, hell is real. I'm in hell. You've got to help me, please. I'm begging you, help me. I'm in hell. The doctors who came running, one of them was a Christian. He said, hold him tight. I got to cut this off. I can't give him any more painkiller. It'll kill him. For an hour, they cut. For an hour, all he kept saying is, I'm in hell. Can't you hear me? In God's name, I'm on fire. Finally, he lapsed unconscious. The doctors finished what they could. The man never survived. They took him away. And the boy from our church was leaning up against the surgery suite wall. And the doctor, who was a Christian, came over and said, are you okay, Toby? He said, I've never seen anything like that. He said, I know. And as the doctor pulled his surgery gloves off, he looked at the boy from our church and said, What you saw tonight is absolutely nothing, nothing compared to what hell is going to be like. Toby, they're going to scream forever. And not even God can help them. Toby began to cry uncontrollably. The doctor said, what's wrong? He said, my mother. She's gonna scream like that. My friends, my brother, almost everyone I know, that doctor looked at me and said, son, if you love them, you better tell them. We witness because it's commanded. We witness because we love the Lord. And we witness because we love A friend of mine is a wonderful author. His name is Mark Cahill. We've had the privilege to defend him numerous times. He wrote a book and the title is The One Thing You Can't Do in Heaven. One thing you can't do in heaven is win somebody to Christ. It's done. Right now is the time. And you can be a witness. Right now is the time you can tell. and give them a gospel tract, or be a witness for Christ. It's commanded. We do it because we love the Savior, and we do it because we love people. Gillette Pen is right. How much would you have to hate people, send them off to a Christless eternity, when we have the answer through the shed blood of Jesus Christ? It's called Winning Souls. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Bow your heads. Father, what a privilege to be here tonight for this church's anniversary. What an honor, what a delight, how we love this church, how we love Brother Shelton and his family, how we love the history of this church, but God, What this church is about as a lighthouse is giving the gospel, letting people know about the Savior. And Father, I'm not responsible for anybody else, but I'm sure responsible for me. Do I love you? Will I obey the command? And do I love people enough to want to tell them about Jesus Christ? Father, tonight in these closing minutes, It is priority one with you. Heads are bowed. Let me say, Brother Gibbs, God spoke to my heart tonight. I want to be a better witness than I am. My heart's been touched. If that's true, hold your hand up right now. Hold your hand up high. You've got your hand up. I want you to get up out of your seat and make your way to this altar. This service is going to be over in mere moments. Would you come right now? You didn't raise your hand, but I should have. You come too. We do it because it's commanded. We do it because we love the Savior. And we do it because we love people. Oh my, my. Pastor's gonna come and lead us in prayer. We have the privilege to obey and the privilege to tell people about the free gift of life everlasting, Pastor.