OK. Preacher said put it on, putting it on. Do I have to turn it on, too? Yes, sir. Boy, I do everything, don't I? Amen. We're awfully glad to be here. Got my wife with me tonight, Miss Gayle. That's my wife, Miss Gayle, right there. She'd like to stand up and say something, but I'm not going to let her. I guarantee she don't want to stand up and say anything. She's shy. All right. Acts chapter 28 verse one, it says that when they were escaped, when they knew that the island was called Melita, Napoleon had just wrecked the ship. And it's torn in a million pieces and they're getting, some of them swam to shore, some of them got through on broken pieces of the boat, but they all made it to shore. But they were almost all killed. The storm almost killed them. And then the soldiers turned around and wanted to kill them all. And man, they almost lost their life two or three times during this forage here. It says, and the barbarous people showed us no little kindness, for they kindled a fire and received us every one because of the present rain and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat and fastened on his hand. That's not a good thing, when a viper fastens on your hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom though he escaped the sea, he yet venges, suffers not to live. Boy, people are quick, ain't they? He said, obviously he had this coming. Obviously that sucker had been living like the devil and now he finally got it. Verse five says, he shook off the beast into the fire and felt no harm, howbeit they look when he should have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly. But after they looked a great while and saw no harm come to him, they changed their mind and said, he was a god. My soul, boy, you can go up and down in a hurry in this world, can't you? In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island whose name was Publius, who received us and lodged us three days there, I think it was, courteously. I want to preach about that for a few minutes tonight. Now Paul had been run through the ringer. Paul suffered, buddy. Paul had been through some things. He was shipwrecked and almost killed, nearly drowned. He was beaten with rods, 39 lashes, I don't know how many times. He was stoned left for dead, probably was dead, outside the gates there. He was jailed, had to slip down a wall in a basket, run for his life. Paul had been through the ringer. He'd been through some things, brother, most of us wouldn't have the guts to go through. He'd been through a lot of stuff, and any of those things he went through could have killed him. All those things were dangerous. But he made it, he survived. You'd think after surviving all these things, that simply building a fire would be a pretty tame thing to do, wouldn't you? But he's building a fire that almost killed him. I mean, the beast fastened on his hand, and really, he should have died. It was a poison beast, poison snake. He should have died. You'd think building a fire wouldn't be no big deal. But buddy, as soon as he built the fire, out come the serpents. And buddy, light stone to him. You'd be surprised tonight how much trouble you can get into in this community if you try building a fire. You get this church right here, if you start getting people on fire for God and start seeing souls saved and lives changed and things turned around, you'd be surprised how much trouble you can get into right here in this town. So I'm gonna preach for a few minutes and I won't be long. What do they say, like Elizabeth Taylor's fifth husband, I won't keep you long, amen. I won't keep you long. I wanna preach about that for a few minutes on the danger of building a fire. I will say number one, brother and sister, their greatest need was a fire. Jeremiah said he wasn't gonna preach, but there was a fire shut up in his bones and he had to go. They said about John, they said he was a burning and a shining light for God. These boys had the fire. They had, brother and sister, they had the real deal. I will say tonight, our greatest need is a fire. These people came in there and they had needs, they were torn. from the shipwreck. They were bleeding. They were hungry. They were needing they needed medicine. But you want the first thing they did? They build them a fire. Right decision. They were in bad shape. They were tore up all kinds of things wrong. But their greatest need was for somebody to build a fire. Somebody to get the cold out of them. Somebody to get them warm. They wanted a fire. You say, Brother Jim, I got some big problems tonight. My marriage in trouble, I got money trouble, and I've got health trouble, and we got kid trouble. No, brothers, to be honest to God, tonight your biggest problem is you need a fire. Your biggest problem is you need to be on fire for God, doing something for God, and be excited about what God's doing for you. I get tired of seeing, I go everywhere, and people don't have no fire no more. You go in there and you see boys sing songs and you couldn't slide a cigarette paper between their lips when they sing. They won't open their mouth, they won't sing for God, they're ashamed of the Lord. Somebody needs to build a fire. As I travel around the country and I know Brother Charlie knows more about it than I do and Brother Joel and some of these others, as we travel around the country I see no greater need in Baptist churches than for somebody to build a fire. I'm telling you, I've never seen such a cold bunch in my life as you see around the country. People in church won't sing, people attending without joy, people serving God without zeal. The big thing now is knowledge. Everybody going to Bible school, everybody got knowledge now. Listen, if you have to choose, you ought to have both. But if you have to choose zeal over knowledge, you take zeal every time. I'm sick and tired of seeing people that know everything and just deader than four o'clock in the morning. Amen. You take the zeal. Christians are cold. If you can sing tonight at the cross where I first saw the light, brother, without anything going on inside you, you need to build a fire. If you can sing in the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore, and nothing inside moves. You need to build a fire. You're cold. I tell our kids that. You need a little fire. You need a little shout. We sing a poem. And when my body is in the grave, don't think that I'll be there. I won't be dead but living. in the place Jesus went to prepare. Woo! If you can sing out with no joy, you need a fire tonight. If I don't stir you up, you need a fire. Brother and sister, I said their greatest need was a fire. If you can hear those songs without excitement, you need a fire. You know what Baptists have done? The man that fell over in the wilderness, it was bread from heaven. And they gathered it, and they gathered it, and they ate, and they ate, and it sustained them through the wilderness. And you know what they told Moses one time? They said, we're tired of this light bread. Light bread? It fell down from God out of heaven? Light bread? They said, we're tired of the light bread. You know how bad this is? You've heard everything, you've seen everything, you've done everything. You got used to the light bread. That's the problem. Brother and sister, this life will dampen your fire, boy. One of your biggest jobs as a Christian is to keep your lamp burning. They used to have a race over in Greece, and they ran that thing all night long with torches. And everybody carrying a torch, and they didn't care who won the race. The object wanted to come in first. The object was to finish with your torch still burning. If you could finish that thing right on out with your torch still burning, I want to go home to heaven with my torch still burning. I don't wanna go in dead, dried up. I want my fire burning when I get there. Brothers and sister, this life will put your fire out, boys. Sickness will take your fire. A money trouble will get your, boy, when we was in Bible school, I'd come in, we didn't make no money as it was, but I'd come in, boy, wore out, ready to go to Bible school that night, and my wife holed up about four envelopes. She said, where we gonna get the money for these? Boy, you talking about sucking the joy out of you. We didn't have money for any of them. Money trouble sucked the life out of you. Family trouble. You'll see somebody who'll take your fire for God. Get around your family. Get around your kinfolk. They'll suck the life out of anybody. Get around that bunch. That's why I don't go to family reunions. Say why? Because my family be there. They called me. They called me over there after I got surrendered priest, they called me over and asked me to come over and do a wedding for my nephew. I said, I don't want to go. They'll all be together over. I said, I don't want to go. They said, well, it's your nephew. You got to do it. It's your nephew. You need to go do it. So I said, All right, I'll come. I'm telling you, I knew what it'd be like. I didn't get in the building. They was already fighting in the back of the church. I mean fist fight. And that was the women. The men hadn't got to it yet. That's what my wife said here tonight. She knows I'm telling you the truth. They're knocked down, dragged out, pulling hair when we got there. You're talking about taking the life out of you. They'll take the life out of you. But brother, sister, it's up to you to keep it burning. The world's watching. The world's watching you. They want to know, is it real? They want to know, does it really make you happy what you got? They want to know, does it make you happy on Monday like you act like it is on Sunday? The world wants to know, is it real? Boy, do you keep your fire burning. Worse than you need a place to live tonight and money in the bank and good health, you need a fire in your church. More than you need college or marriage or children. You need a fire in your church. Brothers and sisters, I used to talk about a good wife, I'll go thank God for a good wife, but I'm telling you what, more than you need a boyfriend or a girlfriend, you need a fire in your bones for the Lord. You need to get your fire burning. And some of you, if you're ever gonna get married, you're gonna have to lower your standards a little bit. Amen, just look around, amen? It's a miracle I got married, and it's a double miracle I got a pretty one. But somebody like your boys, all your boys looking for Barbie, you know, and you're not exactly Ken, if you know what I mean? Besides that Barbie can't cook. I preached this church up in Missouri one time and a little girl came up to me a lady. She was almost my age and she little slim blonde girl, you know, she looked like Barbie. And she said, hey, Brother Jim. She said, I want to introduce myself to you. I've never met you before. She said, I'm Barbie. And she was. Her name was Barbie. And she said, guess what? I can't cook a lick. I said, I told them you couldn't. Amen. Folks, hey, Brother Jim, one guy said, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And a deacon said, you can't say that in here. He said, I can't help it. I got religion. He said, sit down, shut up, you didn't get it here. Amen? Listen, brothers, we don't need any more dry, dead, dried up Christianity. My soul, we need something that's real. I tell the girls in our church, if your boyfriend hadn't said amen or shouted by halfway through the service, get up and get away from him. He's a wiener. He's a nerd. Get away from him as fast as you can. He got no fire. You hear something bumping tonight you marry him you hear something bumping tonight. He'll have you get up go answer the door Old-timer said build a fire in the pulpit and folks to come watch it burn Brother says you build a fire in your church and in your community and folks that get curious our churches need it I'm talking about my church our churches need fire brother and sister. Why would anybody want what you got I? if it didn't make you happy. If you sat through church service and never smiled, no expression, why would anybody want what you got? Hey, try that with your wife and see how it works. Try that with her. Oh, you sure seem like you have a nice wife. Oh, she's wonderful, most beautiful thing I've ever seen. That won't fly with her. Well, you better show a little excitement when you say that. Brother and sister, why would anybody want what we got? I won't preach about that for a few minutes tonight. I don't say, number one, the greatest need was for fire. That's what we need worse than anything else. But I'll say this secondly, there's a danger in building fire. Did you see that down there, brothers and sisters? Verse three, I believe it was, he gathered the bundle of sticks and put them on the fire. And when he put them on the fire, the Bible says the serpent came out and took a bite out of him. I'm here to tell you, if you build a fire in your church, the devil's gonna come out. And if you're not willing for that to happen, you better not build a fire. Brother Sidney, he's coming out. Did you know that viper was in the wood all the time? He was in that wood when I picked it up. He was in that wood all the time. He had always been in that wood, but he was comfortable there. But when they put him on the fire, put the wood on the fire, he wasn't comfortable anymore. And buddy, he came out and bit. The devil don't care how many times you meet. The devil don't care how many songs you sing, he's not gonna give you any trouble, but when you start seeing souls saved and lives changed and people praising the Lord, buddy, he's coming out. He's comfortable, as long as nothing's going on. Brother and sister, there's a danger of building a fire, the devil gets teared up. He didn't have to buy it earlier, he was comfortable where he was. Devil don't care how big your church is, he don't care how many people you bring in. He don't care how often you meet, as long as you don't build a fire. I heard a church up in, I think it was a Presbyterian church, and their pastor wanted them to get excited about church and to say amen, praise the Lord, that's all right. But they wouldn't do it. So that week he gave them all a helium balloon. Gave them all wonder seats. He said, now if you hear something about heaven you really like, Do you hear something that really stares you up? He said, just turn that balloon loose and let her go. And said, when we see that balloon go up, we'll know, woo, it's on. He said his church service got over, 80% of them still had their balloon. I mean, preaching about heaven, you can't let a balloon go. Man, I'm not talking about running the aisles. If you could just let a balloon go. We found out early on in our church, brother and sister, that God loves praise. You say, Brother Jim, that's just the flesh, that praise. Well, what are you in, Goob? You're gonna be in the flesh till the Lord comes back. You might as well enjoy the ride. You might as well get the praise in God and enjoy it. The average Baptist church on the walls of Jericho will still be standing. Nobody's shouting, nobody's saying nothing. Now listen, brother and sister, I don't like trouble any more than you like it. But in our church, honest to God, we're gonna build fire. We're gonna keep a fire going, and I'm telling you, we've had our share of trouble through the years. We tried to have camp last year, and we had a terrible time at camp. Had some guy, I won't go into all that, but I mean, man, we had all kinds of trouble. We thought we were gonna get sued, this and that. Just a mess, and what happened? The devil wasn't comfortable. We're gonna, I don't like trouble, but we are gonna build fire. By the grace of God, we're going to stir something up. We're going to blow on the coals. I am not the brakeman on this train. I'm the fireman. I'm going to cheerlead. I'm going to throw a coal to it. We're going to try to have a fire in our church. Everything in the world, brother and sister, will hinder your church. Everything in the world will happen when you try to have revival. The brother was talking about how many things have happened this week already to knock people out of revival. I'm telling you, you build a fire down here, and people, I'm telling you, the devil ain't gonna like it. You'll have your share of trouble. There's a danger in building a fire. We had a couple in our church that stayed in there for a while. He came up to me one day. They had a few problems, you know, like everybody does. It's just life. He came up, he said, brother Jim, we're leaving, going to another church. I said, why? He said, we ain't had nothing but trouble since we come here. He said, as soon as we got in church, he said, the car broke, and we're trying to do right, and the kids do this and that. And he said, bro, Jim, honest to God. He said, ever since we've been here, he said, we've been up one hill and down another, and up one hill and down another, up one hill. And I said, bro, that's just life. He said, well, we're tired of it. We're going to go to church where there ain't no trouble. And they found one, too. I was down at the hospital just a few days after that and watching one of our folks that was in real bad shape. And I watched the heart monitor. And that thing was going, beep, beep, beep. You know what I found out? That's normal. Beep. Up one hill, down another. Up one hill, down another. That's normal. He said, I want to go in church where there ain't no trouble. Well, you can do that, buddy, but there's no heartbeat there. It's better than 4 o'clock in the morning. They don't have no trouble down here at the cemetery tonight. Because they're all dead. Everything in the world will hinder you. Brother Jim, how can we stop this trouble in our life? Put out your fire and go to the house. That'll take care of it. Brother and sister, there's gonna be trouble. Put it out. By the way, don't look for trouble. It'll find you. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. I got some young preacher friends. They go out looking for trouble. Look, you don't have to hunt it. It'll find you. You just live right for God. It'll find you. You won't have to hunt. I will say, brother and sister, there's a danger. and building a fire, the serpent came out. And I will say thirdly, get ready. You're gonna get bit. I'm telling you, you are going to get bit. You get bit in your own church. But you get bit. Trouble in our church usually starts in a nursery or the kitchen. I don't know where it starts in y'all's but ours usually starts in a nursery or the kitchen. I don't know if I say I don't know. Let's say who's in the nursery kitchen all the time. I don't know why it is. But that's where trouble always start. It started our campus past year in the kitchen. Knock down drag out in the kitchen. So what is it? I don't know when we can get along. Brother and sister, you get ready, you're gonna get bit if you serve God. Some of you, if you get on fire for the Lord here, boy, and you go after souls, and you invite people to church, and you see souls saved, and your church starts growing, and things start happening, buddy, you're gonna get bit. Don't run from it. Everybody gets bit. Brother and sister, somebody's gonna get bit. Paul got bit, you know why he got bit? He was closest to the fire. He's the closest one to the fire. You know who get bit right here? The ones closest to the fire. Those sat back there and cool off, they ain't gonna get bit. Buddy, the closer you get, the more danger you're in, you're gonna get bit. Don't get in the ministry if you can't take a lick. My soul, I've never seen such a bunch of sissies in my life as we're raising in this country right now. a bunch of dead gum girls in this country right now. They can't take a lick. We used to play baseball and stuff. And our old coach was a corporal out of the army most decorated outfit in World War Two. I mean, buddy, he was tough. We get out there and hurt. I mean, blood going everywhere. He said, Get up, rub some dirt in it, boy. Keep moving. So what is it? I was uncalled for man, we felt bad. But he taught us to be tough. I'll tell you that. This a battlefield. Not a rose garden. Don't get into ministry if you can't take a lick. If you get your little feelings hurt every time a preacher says something that don't agree with you, you are a sissy. I'm telling you. God help you. These men right here, you think Brother Charlie hadn't took some licks? You think his brother hadn't took some licks? You think Brother Coley hadn't took some licks? You can't get in the ministry without taking a lick. You'll get bit. Somebody'll bite you. These men took it. We got some little lightener loafer Christians these days that think they shouldn't get bit. Brothers and sisters, toughen up, son. We're in a generation now where everything offends everybody. Well, you can't say that word, Brother Jim. That's offensive. So and so. I'm offended you call me a hillbilly. I'm an Appalachian American. God's people, brother, sister, yes sir, bite you. We got in our church up there and the Lord started staring around. Boy, he started staring around. People's getting saved. People's coming to church. Our little church of 30 went to about 70. And that 30 that was there, that always ran it and always operated the thing always had their way. Suddenly one night, they got out voted in the business meeting. And buddy, all 30 of them got up left one night. Man, you're talking about feeling like a success. I felt like a biggest I felt like a 1010 with the one rub down. I said, man, I've turned a church of 40 into 10. Thank God, but then we had about 30 more people. So we still had church. But brother, sister, for every one of them that left, God sent four people in their place. I'm telling you, say, well, the fire was burning. It was on. Say, what was it? What'd they do? They left there. They talked about me. They talked about my family. They talked about our church. They run me down. They run everything down. Say, what up, Brother Zip? Oh, man, you can't do something for God without getting bit. So what? You get bit every now and then. Brother, sister, everybody gets bit. Toughen up some. Endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. I think y'all got something going on right here. And brother, sister, as this fire burns, it gets bigger and bigger, some of you are gonna get bit. What are you gonna do, pout and go home? Man, this is your church. Brother's talking about be faithful to your church, stay in it. Say, brother Jim, what do you do if you get bit? Right there, verse five. Look at verse five. And he shook off the beast into the fire and felt no harm. You been bit? Shake it off. Ain't no big deal. You ain't the only one. Shake it off. But Brother Jim, you don't know. Shake it off. It ain't no big deal. You ain't gonna die. Shake it off. Don't carry that thing around the rest of your day. Shake it off. Get over it. Get past it. You're not the only one that's ever been bit. Say, Brother Jim, they talked about me. Why ain't you ever talk about anybody? I talk about people all the time. They talk about me, I talk about them. You say, Brother Jim, that's not very Christian. Well, pray for me. Haven't you ever talked about anybody? Everybody, well, they talked about me. Well, who are you? The fourth member of the Trinity? You know, that's all some people remember about serving God is that time they got bit. That's all they remember about church was that time they got bit. God saved their kids there, put their home back together there, changed their life, started blessing them with money to pay their bills, good to them in everything they'd done, and then somebody down the kitchen offended them, said their casserole didn't look up to Paul. And all they remember about that church that time, that woman said that ugly thing about me. God help us. The apostle Paul healed people. He started churches. He cast out devils. He probably brought Eutychus back to life when he fell out of the church there. Say, why did Eutychus fall out? Because he sat in the window, and there was more of him hanging out than there was hanging in. And you'll fall out, too, when you get more out there than you got in here. They said that's why they called him Eutychus. They said, Eutychus, too, if you fell that far. Paul did all those things, brought people back to life, healed everybody he got around. Man, he saw some stuff. James, you imagine saying, Paul, tell us about your ministry, what God did for you. And Paul said, well, I remember at one time I got bit. I never get over that. It shouldn't have happened. All I was trying to do was serve God and I got bit. You'd be surprised how many times we hear that in our office. My soul. God help you toughen up. Did you know people are out of church all over the country and bitter? Because they got bit one time and they couldn't get over. They couldn't shake it off. Couldn't get up. Shake it off, boys. Shake it off, girls. Man, we got something to do for God here. We ain't got time to sit around and be bitter. Just shake it off. Churches are split because somebody couldn't shake it off. We had a church up in our hometown. Well, it's not in our hometown, but next town over. And it's a Troy Baptist Church. And they got into a fight in the church. Somebody offended somebody. They couldn't shake it off. And they were throwing songbooks across the aisle at each other. And the Old Bond County Sheriff's Department had to come down to church when church let out at seven o'clock and set and stand in the door and keep them from fighting in the parking lot on the way to their cars. So what happened? Call some big suck baby couldn't shake it off. And I'm telling you, some of them are 300 pound men. And they're suck babies. They can't shake it off. Amen. People out of church and bitter all over the country. So they get bitter. You know what bitterness is, don't you? Bitterness is you sitting across the table from somebody you hate, and you're drinking poison and waiting on them to die. But it ain't gonna happen. It's gonna kill you. It'll kill you. It ain't gonna kill them. People out of church, brothers and sisters. Why? Couldn't shake it off. Our church at Kuckelberg, when I was a kid, they split the church. over, you know what, the ladies this time, over whether to put up a sheet for a Christmas play or to buy a nice curtain. And they split the church over it, honest to God, split the church over it. You talking about couldn't shake it off. Listen, get back in the battle, sister. Get back in the battle, brother. You're not the only one that's ever been bit. You're not the only one that's ever been hurt trying to serve God. Say, Brother Jim, they said something offended me. So what? So what? Get back in the battle, sis. We need you. I wanna say this lastly tonight. I did that pretty quick, didn't I? I wanna say this lastly tonight, brother and sister. If you do get bit, you're gonna get bit. But if you do, shake it off. Don't carry it around. And brother and sister, above all, don't do this. Look at verse six. How bit they looked when he should have swollen, don't swell up. If you got hurt, your feelings hurt, don't swell up. I've seen Baptist sit there, sat there and bat their eyes like a frog in a hailstorm. No expression whatsoever. Say what happened? They got bit and they swelled up. Brother, sister, I'm telling you that will get your joy, that bitterness will get your joy. The mark of a real Christian is that they don't swell up. Some of you sat here tonight, got bit somewhere. Say, how do you know? Because you're saved. You've been saved, somebody got you bit somewhere. Well, don't stay bitter over it. Some of you didn't shake it off, did you? Some of you may have swelled up, didn't you? At one time, you may have even quit, didn't you? Brother said, I'll tell you this, you'll be miserable. You'll lose your joy until you learn not to let that thing bother you. Don't swell up. Man, I couldn't count the times Brother Charlie, somebody's hurt my feelings at church. I mean, it's hard to hurt my feelings, really, because I don't, it just don't bother me like that. But people said things that hurt my feelings. They said things that hurt my wife's feelings. My soul, if I swelled up every time somebody hurt our feelings, I'd be 800 pounds. We got a Mennonite up at our place. His name is, I think it's Eloi Mass, but I'm not sure if he's the right one. But he told a preacher friend of mine, he raises goats and sheep. He raises both, and my daughter raises both. And he said that sheep have a natural lanolin in their skin, and it's a healer. He said they can scratch theirself on barbed wire or cut theirself, and he said they have a natural lanolin in there that'll heal theirself up when they go on down the road. He said a goat don't have that. He said if that goat nicks itself bad enough, and if you don't get some antibiotics in him quick, he said he'll swell up and go out there and fester and die. just swell up and die. He don't have that land. He can't get over it. He can't heal itself. So brother Jim, well, I'm still mad. Which one you won't be? You'll be the old goat. Or you won't be a sheep. Brother and sister, what this country needs tonight, honestly, God, we're trying to start revival night. If we have revival, what we need is to build a fire. We need to build a fire that'll make you wanna be faithful to your church and faithful to your pastor. We need to build a fire that'll make you wanna shout and praise the Lord. We need to build a fire that'll make you go out those doors and hunt souls for Jesus Christ. That's what we need. If we're gonna have revival this week, we need to build a fire tonight. Tonight'd be a good time to start. What this country needs is some Christians who'll build a fire. The Bible says stir up the gift of God that's in you. Some Christians who can take a lick. Paul said, about all that that happened to Paul, I just told you about a while ago, the beatings and the jailing and all. He said, for our light affliction, it's but for a moment. Paul said, it's a light affliction. We need some Christians who'll build a fire, stir up the gift. We need some Christians who can take a lick, our light affliction. And we need some Christians who can shake it off. He said, forgetting those things which are behind. Reaching forth, the brother says, he said, forgetting those things that are behind. He said, we press toward a mark for the prize of the high calling of God. Oh, man, shake it off. Yesterday's yesterday. Let's start over tonight. You want to? Amen. You say, Brother Jim, why do I need a fire? Well, fire keep you warm. But do you know what? Do you know what your kids can warm by your fire? No. Do you know you can build a fire right there that might warm those on your pew? There's a bunch of people that may be depending on your fire tonight. We had a we had a family of home when I was a kid. And their name was climber. I don't mind telling that here. Their name was climber. And they was poor. We was all poor. We picked and chopped cotton over in Tennessee. So we was grown. All of us did. And it wasn't our cotton, somebody else's. We picked and chopped that cotton. I mean, we getting $3 100 is what we got. If I worked all day, I could make $6 if I worked hard. But that's all we had. That's what we had to live by. But we as a family down the road, they was poorer than we was. And all of our friends were poor. They're all cotton choppers, cotton pickers. And my mama, sometimes she'd need to borrow a cup of flour, or a cup of sugar. She sent me down a row with a bowl to get it. And sometimes one of our neighbors would come down a row with a bowl, they borrow something from my mama. Just that's what neighbors did back then. And you go where she said, I'll make you a shortbread. I'll make you a sweetbread. If you'll go there and borrow a cup of sugar, I take off dinner. But mama, you know, she say, she said, Don't go down the climbers. Go here, here, here, any of those neighbors. And we had to walk a mile to get to any of them. She said, but don't go to the climbers. She said, they got less than we got. She said, don't go to the climbers. She said, they don't have enough to keep herself alive, much less be any help to us. So she said, don't go down there. I wonder tonight, if I was trying to get warm by your fire, if you'd have enough fire to keep yourself alive. Or if I could borrow a little from you. I wonder tonight if I could maybe boost a little off of your fire. Or have you just got barely enough going to keep yourself alive? Can your kids warm by your fire? Is the fire still burning like it used to burn when you got saved? Can anybody warm by that fire? She said, don't bother them. They ain't got enough for themselves, much less to be any help to you. I wonder tonight if the Lord would say that about me and you. Some of you need to come tonight, maybe get your shout back. Maybe you've lost your excitement about serving the Lord. Maybe it's become light bread to you. I don't know. Somebody may just come and say, God, help me build a fire. Somebody may just come tonight and just need to get over something in your past that you've held against yourself and the devil's held against you. Maybe you just need to come shake it off tonight and get over it. God spoke in your heart, would you come?