I appreciate the good singing and good preaching that we've already heard. If we went home right now, we'd have to say it's been good to be here. Good to be in the Lord's house, amen? Listen, I don't hear as well as I used to. And a lot of the songs I really have to listen to and I don't catch all the words. But if you'll notice, I shout anyway. Because I know they're good. I had a friend that went and preached in Kentucky. And they had a deacon's roll here, about four guys, and they shouted during the whole sermon. And he got to preach along everybody, and he was preaching out of Revelation, he got to shout along there, and preach along through there, and he looked, and none of them had their Bible there. Their Bible, some of them had it open to Peter, some to John. They didn't even have it open in the right place, but they were shouting everything he said. And he said, this pack of idiots here said they ain't even following along. And he asked the preacher about that church. He said, none of them had their Bibles all the right place. He said, none of them can read. Woo! He said, they just want to be in on it. Amen. That's kind of me tonight. I just want to be in on it. Amen. All right. Well, I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm going to start easy tonight and get you out of here at a good time. If you turn your Bible to 2 Timothy chapter 4. Amen. 2 Timothy chapter 4. I think I'll go along there. Brother Mike's already preached on everything, so there really ain't nothing left to preach on tonight. That's good, that's good preaching. Amen. I was listening to somebody, and y'all have heard all these things, everybody's heard these things, but somebody, and no offense to anybody in the building, might be blonde, but. These folks were flying overseas in one of these big four-engine jets, and they was about halfway across the Atlantic, and one of the engines went out, and they felt a big thump, and everybody got scared. The pilot came on, he said, don't worry, we have lost one engine, but it's no problem, we can land this thing with three. But he said, the only thing is, now it's gonna take us an hour longer to get there with three engines. And they just went about 10 minutes more, and the second engine went out, boom! Everybody shook up and they said he said don't worry. This is your captain He said I can land this thing with two engines, but now it's gonna take us two hours longer to get there And then if they didn't go 15 more minutes boy, they heard another thump and the captain said I'm sorry report We've lost our third engine. He said we only have one left and But he said, I can land this thing with one engine. He said, all the problem is now, he said, it's gonna take us four hours longer to get there. And there was that little blonde girl sitting back in the back with her friends, she said, my soul, I hope we don't lose that other engine, we'll be up here all day. Amen. Amen. Amen. If you got your Bible tonight, turn to 2 Timothy chapter four, Second Timothy chapter four, we'll start in right there. Father, we do thank you for your mercy and dear God, Father, we know, dear God, that this will amount to absolutely nothing without your touch. Father, we need you. I pray, dear God, you'd help us to have it. I pray you'd help us to preach. I pray you'd give folks the ears to hear, dear God, what you'd have them to hear. And dear God, we're here for revival. I pray, dear God, Father, that you'd help us to have one. Dear God, we need it. We need a revival any time you see us, Father. I pray, dear God, you'd send us a little taste of that tonight. Forgive us where we fail you, I pray, dear God, in the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Help us out, dear God, I pray. Amen. All right, if you got your Bible there, I'll tell you that I had you turn to 2 Timothy chapter four, and I think I'll just stay there. 2 Timothy four and verse five says this. Paul's about ready to leave here. He says, but watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. That's a great verse right there. He says for a pastor to do the work of an evangelist. I've never seen him say for an evangelist to do the work of a pastor. Amen. So as you travel up and down the road, keep your nose out of other people's business, amen? Amen. And I don't even know if we got a van that's here. I'm just throwing that out for good measure. Amen. I'm now ready to be offered at the time of my departure is at hand. Paul's leaving. He's about to be killed. He don't know when, but he could die any day and he knows it. He said, I've fought a good fight, I've finished my course, I've kept the faith. He said, henceforth there's laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. Paul's fixing to leave. He says, do thy diligence to come shortly unto me. And you'll see over there in verse 21, he said, do thy diligence to come before winter, because it's getting cold. Verse 10 says, redeemeth hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica, Cretias to Galatias, Titus unto Dalmatia. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is propped over me for the ministry. Antiochus have I sent to Ephesus. The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. Paul's getting ready to go, and he knows he don't have much time. He don't know how much time, but he knows it's short. And he knows he ain't gonna be around here much longer, and he asks for two things. He asked for the Word of God, and he asked for his cloak to keep him warm. That's all he asked for. He said, do thy diligence to come before winter. He wanted that cloak before it got wintertime. He wanted that thing there, and he didn't know. Paul asked for his cloak. He didn't want to be cold. and he's about to be killed, I'm now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure's at hand, and two things he requested, the word of God and his coat. Now listen, you and I are all leaving here. We're gonna leave by death, some of us are gonna go by death. I don't intend to, I intend to go to rapture. Because I intend for it to happen tonight, amen? and say, why are you looking at it? Because that's the way he told me to look at it. Amen. Some will leave by death. Some will leave by rapture. It's trumpet sound. But we're all going to leave here. But while we're here, while we're here, we need to stay on fire for God. While we're here, we need to keep a little heat in the boiler and not cool off, brother and sister. We need to do that. You remember when you first got saved? And I'll never forget the night I first got saved. Not only the burden lifted, but man, I couldn't wait to get to church. I couldn't wait to hear the songs about heaven. I couldn't wait for the next meeting. I liked preaching. We went everywhere listening to preaching. Me and my wife first got in church, we went everywhere listening to preaching. We couldn't get enough of it. You remember that? That's what you've got to keep burning. That's what you've got to keep in your bullpen right there. They're not going to believe you. The world's not going to believe you. They're not going to believe you if you're not excited about it. They're not going to believe you if it still don't bring a tear to your eye and a shout to your lips every now and then. They're just not going to believe you. Brother and sister, we need that. That's what you've got to keep burning. Things cool off if they're unattended. We was raised in an old house over in Tennessee, and we burnt wood and we burnt coal in the wintertime. And we had an outhouse out back. Me and my wife, when we got married, neither one of us had a bathroom in the house, in our houses. They said they had three bedrooms and a bath, and we had two bedrooms and a bath. And it went to the outhouse out behind the house. Matter of fact, that was my job and my duty. Hey man, when it come a big snow, make sure we shovel a path to the outhouse. Very important place there. But we was raised out there like that. And at night, my daddy let that fire go out. And they didn't burn fire all night. And man, we'd get under quilts, we'd get under blankets, a big old feather bed. We'd be toasty warm. But man, I'm telling you, the next morning you get up, put your foot out on that old linoleum floor, and I'm telling you, it would stick, that piece of coal. I'm in cold. And that house, that fire be unattended, that thing go out, and that house will get cold. Your church should do the same thing, brother and sister. Your church should get that way after a while, if you don't tend the fire. I spend half my time in our church cheerleading. I try to preach, I try to preach something, give them something to feed them, but I'm always out there cheerleading. I'm not the brakeman on this train. When it gets rolling, I'm the fireman. I'm gonna throw the coal to them. I didn't get there to get out, I got there to get in. I like it. Your church should do that. One of the brothers, I think it was a Brother McAfee's church, I'm not for sure, but one of the brothers told a story about a church he went to when he was a kid, and he said it was on fire for God. He said, man, I'm telling you, he said they shouted, they sang the praises of God, people get saved, people come to the altar and weep. He said up behind the pulpit, they had a big sign that said, where there's no vision, the people perish. He said that sign was up there, and he said, man, one year after about 30 years, he just wanted to go back. And he went back to take a look at that old church again. And he said, man, it was a blessing to get there, but when he got there, he said the yard was growing up. And so the windows was knocked out, and they hadn't had church there in 20 years. It just fell apart. He said he still wanted to go inside and look one more time. And he went inside and looked, and he said everything was run down. Half the pews were gone. And he said up over that pulpit, that sign was still there. But said, been so long ago, said the W fell off of it. And it said, here, there's no vision. The people perish. I'm telling you, you let your church cool off a little bit, brother and sister, you don't tend the fire at your place, it'll cool off there too. Amen. A marriage has to be tended. It has to be worked at. If it don't, it'll cool off. And you husbands, you guys, man, you're big talkers before you get married. See if you can keep tending that fire after you get married, amen? Say those same things after you get married. It might be a help to her down the road, amen? I tell the folks in our church, it took five boxes of chocolate candy for me and my wife to get married. I finally told her don't send me no more of it. I can't eat it, amen? Amen. Folks say they get married, after a while things cool off. And the wives say, well, this ain't like dating. This ain't fun like dating anymore. No, it ain't like dating. Those homies dating, you didn't hardly order nothing. Now you order everything on the right side of the menu. And you eat all, oh, I'll just take, and when you're dating, you say, I'll just take a little bite of yours. When you get married, a little while, she'll eat hers, I'll eat hers. Yeah, things are different, amen? How do you go from riding down the road looking like one body with two heads? How do you go from that to about four or five years of marriage and all of a sudden you're here tonight, your foot's touching me, you're burning me up. How do you go from that to that? I tell you what happens, it cools off. It just naturally cools off if you don't tend that fire. You have to tend it, you gotta work at it. Old folks used to say marriage is like a horse and buggy. It's often separated by a wagon tongue, amen? Got a lot of truth in that too, amen. But those things will cool you off where you may begin to get cold, brother and sister. People forsaking the work. He said, they all forsaken me. That, man, that'll cool your fire. Amen. When people leave the church, you don't have a good reason for leaving the church. They just leave the church. Man, that'll take the fire out of your boiler in a hurry. That'll cool things off, amen. I hate that. I hate it. People forsake. Trouble. He said, Alexander the coppersmith up here caused me a lot of trouble. Family trouble will cool your fire. Life trouble will cool your fire. Just the things you go through day by day will cool you off. Well, this ain't fun anymore. When the commode don't work, you can't get it to flush, and you jiggle the handle for 10 years because he won't fix it. Things cool off. Amen. And let me tell you girls something. I mean, I would give you some advice. My wife would give you the same advice. You and your husband move to your house one day? Don't move in until it's finished. Don't do it. They'll never put up that other piece of tree. They'll never finish that wall. Don't move in until they finish it. Sickness come along. Boy, I bet some of you have been going through it. I know some of y'all's family been going through it. We've been praying for some of y'all's family. We've been praying for people around. I know some of y'all been going through it. Folks in my church have gone through it. Boy, you talking about taking the fire out of your boiler, all it takes is doctor hold up one x-ray to the light and say we have a problem. Buddy, I'm telling you, that'll take the fire out of your boiler in a hurry. It'll cool you off. Standing alone will cool you off. He said, oh, everybody forsook me. I was by myself. He said, but the Lord stood with me. He's the only one that helped him out, amen? There's women all over the country. I know I sound like I'm on the men tonight, but I pastored for 30 years, so I know what I'm talking about. There's women all over the country tonight, and they'll be there Sunday, Wednesday night, they'll be there Sunday night. They'll be dragging their little kids in the church by themselves, because he won't go. Grandma will be taking your kids to church because you married a loser. You're married to zero. Brothers and sisters, those things, they're standing alone, will cool you off. Well, you know what Paul wanted? He wanted his coat. He said, I want the parchments. I want the word of God. But he said, I want my coat. Say, why? He didn't want to get cold. He didn't know how long he'd be there. But whatever time he had left, he said, I don't want to be cold. I don't want to be cold. Woo! I don't know how long we got. I know it won't be very long. I know Jesus is coming. I know sometimes you get tired of hearing it and you want to see it, but I don't want to leave here cold. I want to be on fire for God when we leave here. Bring my coat. I don't want to leave here cold. I want to say number one tonight, and I'll be real quick. I don't want to get cold toward this Bible. Man, the preacher preached about it a while ago. sleep sometimes just a little bit here whoops I forgot my Bible and you get in what you can get in I don't want to get cold toward the Bible man this thing has given us everything we got I would never want to get cold toward this book I love this book Paul said there bring me the parchments Study to show thyself approved unto God. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read. The first sign you're getting cold is lack of Bible reading. Some of you haven't read your Bible today yet. Your problem is you've gotten cold. You've got cold toward the Bible. That's your problem. Everybody has their spells, brother and sister, but you can't lay this Bible down and have God's direction. It'll get to the point where it won't move you anymore. The preacher just preached a great message. He preached the word of God to you. It didn't move you, did it? During the invitation, did you notice it didn't move you? It moved that one and that one and that one and that one. It didn't move you, did it? You'll get cold toward that thing. It won't move you anymore. I remember my first one I got in the fourth grade at elementary school. The Gideons came by and gave us all a New Testament piece. Opened that thing up and got home, read a couple words, and I said, whoa, that scared me to death. I knew somebody wrote that book besides me. I knew somebody high on the chain wrote that book. And that thing scared me to death. I knew it was different, amen? The preacher would preach it. We'd go to church, we first got saved, the preacher would preach it, wow. Man, people, it would change their lives, it would make people weep, it would make people cry. You don't see that from the Word of God like you used to. You know what the problem is? You've gotten cold, totally. I don't wanna leave here cold. I heard of a girl, I heard of a girl who was in college, They had required reading. And she had a book she had to read. She had to finish it and give a report on it, or she wouldn't get her passing grade. And she read that. That is the bored-est thing she ever read in her life. She couldn't read, but about three pages at a time, she put it down. She said, this is the bored-est mess I ever read in my life. And after a little while, she met this fellow at school. But he's an older guy, and she really liked him. She fell in love with him. One of the girls told her a little bit later, she said, you know that book we're reading? She wrote that book. She went back and read it again. This time she read it all the way through. And then she picked up and read it all the way through again and again. She couldn't get enough of it. But the problem of the difference was she fell in love with the author. When you fall in love with the author of this book, it's hard to put it down. It's hard to leave it alone. There's instruction in there. This book will tell you how to live. Tell you how to prosper. Tell you how to marry. Amen. You'll marry you a good Christian girl, boys. You'll quit looking for Barbie. Find you one that loves God. Barbie can't cook. I don't care if you have to get you one way 400 pound wine right there in the middle of her head. If she loves God and can cook, that's a win. Amen. I must admit, I was attracted to my wife because she was pretty. She still is. And why she wanted to lose her like me, I have no idea, but I'm glad she did. But you be sure, pretty's okay. If you can find you a pretty one that loves God, get her. Get her. Hey, you find you a pretty one that don't love God, try to win her to the Lord. Who knows, you might win you one. But if you can't, leave her alone. Amen. Tell you how to raise your kids. There's hope in this Bible. There's hope at this altar. When you go to get married, there's hope in this book right here. What God has joined together, let not man put aside. When you go down to the hospital, there's hope. Read that Bible right there. You want people to walk, they want to hear the word of God. That's what they want to hear. When it comes time to go to the cemetery, they want to hear that dead in Christ arise first, then we which the latter remains be called together with Him in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. They want to hear about this book. There's rebuke in there too. I will say that not a just man on earth would do good and sinneth not. All our righteousness is a filthy race. Boy, that's a rebuke. He said, why call you me Lord, Lord? He said, why call you me Lord? Do not do things I say. That's right. That's it. Why you call him Lord? I wouldn't want to get called toward that. You say, Brother Jim, that offense, people told me before my church. I mean, they were visitors. Thank God it wasn't my regular members. Probably some of them, too. But he said, your offense is offensive. I said, so? It offends me. Half my preaching offends me. You don't understand when a preacher gets a message together. He gets it once when he prepares it, then he has to listen to it again when he gives it to you. Yeah, it is offensive. It's what God has saved. Somebody told me one time, they said, yo, you're not the best preacher in the world, brother Tim. I said, no, you ain't the best church member either. Amen. It'll see you through. It's hope for tomorrow. There's no Christian I know that don't regularly read this book. You may be saved. You may be religious. You may be a church member. You don't read that regular you might be saved but you're not a good Christian say what's proper is in you've got cold Toward this Bible. I don't pay when the Lord comes back if he shouts tonight. I don't leave here cold toward that. I Want to be on fire for I won't be in my Bob Today something else. I don't want to be cold toward the church house I'm not talking about the church the body of Christ. I I know a little bit of Bible a man, but I'm telling I still have a love for the church house. Whoo. I like the local I Understand what the body of Christ don't give me that I heard that I know what I'm talking about. I But man, do I love the local church. I think it's a vehicle God uses to get most of his work on this earth done. It's through a Bible-believing local church. The Bible said, upon the first day of the week, the disciples came together. The Bible said, not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together. I wouldn't want to live without a good church house. I know churches, people. But boy, look where they met. Look where they got married. Down to church house. Look where a bunch of them got saved. Down to church house. Look where a lot of them got their lives changed. You didn't get your life changed at home reading the Reader's Digest. You got your life changed down to church house because some old leather-lung preacher would let you have it, amen? That's where you got your life changed. Boy, I thank God for the old church house. Amen. Don't cool off toward the church. It's getting harder and harder, Brother Mike, to find the old-time religion. The modern stuff is dead at four o'clock in the morning. Brother George was talking about his programs and things. He's about like me. He's about programming the time. I don't have much use for it, man. Everything we do is just scatterbrained. We don't even have an order of service. We don't know what we're doing. We don't know who's gonna do what next. We don't even know what's gonna happen to ourselves. Maybe. I've been in churches where you want to sing a special, they say, well, we've already got a couple. We've already got our program. Maybe tomorrow night. Hey, we're not that way. You come to our place, the Lord put a touch on you, you want to sing, we'll put you in if it's in the middle of preaching. Don't cool off for the church. Look what God's given y'all. Some of you here probably from different churches. Brother Jordan's church is here. Man, God's gave y'all a good place. He's gave you a man of God. He gave you a preacher. He gave you fellowship. He gave you brothers and sisters. They love you. They pray for you. They meet together. They sing and shout. Man, thank God. I wouldn't want to cool off toward this place. I still love the old church house. And I probably told you this. I've told you everything I know. But there was an old church in Minnick, Tennessee. And you drive by over there today, and it's on the ground. The foundation's rotted out of it. And the windows have been busted out years ago. They haven't had church there in 40 years now, probably. But the foundation's just sunk on the ground. And the boards are rotting around it. And spiderwebs and weeds are just growing up all through it. It's gone. But brother, sister, I'm telling you, it don't look like much. But there's a day, about 40 years ago, there's a day they had a revival there in Tennessee. And that building was full. It was painted. It was pristine. Every bench was full. The windows was raised. People were parked all around the church, sat down in the grass, listened to the preacher through the windows of the church. It was full. Little old community over there of about 40-something people, they had 65 people I mean, it was all people getting saved outside, people getting saved inside. Boy, you look at it now, it don't look like much, but boy, there was a day. I still love those old churches. I love those old church houses. Let me ask you, why'd you get out? Why are you thinking about getting out? Why don't you find your way to the altar tonight before your fire goes out? You should find your way to the altar tonight if you're not reading your Bible. Before you get cold. I don't want to leave here cold. I don't want to leave here cold toward God's people. Lost or saved. I don't want to get cold toward the lost. I don't want to get cold toward God's people either. It's easy to dismiss them. These people in here, they're not perfect. Amen. Some of them aren't real bright. Some of us preachers are not real bright. But you don't know where they've been. You don't know where they came from. You don't know where God's brought them from. Don't you, yeah, don't you cool off on God's people. I've heard people at church a couple times, it didn't take long to straighten it out either. I've heard them say, my soul, look at that, you people coming to church. But I never let me hear that. I'll be on you like I'd be on an ape. Amen. These people aren't perfect, but you don't know where they come from. We've got little old kids they bring in on a van every now and then. Nobody's encouraging them at home. When little old kids come in, we try to tell them about the community. Ain't nobody putting that in a goofy picture, they call it. They just stand in the lines. It's the awesomest looking picture you've ever seen. They give me one every week. Here, brothers, I'm going to do this for you. You can't tell what it is. Nobody's taking their own stupid pictures of football for free. They're saying mommy's proud of you. Mommy's proud of you, girl. Nobody's doing that for them, little old bus kids. You don't know where they came from. Well, he should quit smoking. Well, he should. Now, he should. But you don't know how hard he's fought it. Pray for him. Do a little more talking to God than you do to everybody else about him. Amen. Amen. You don't know how hard he fought it. You don't know how hard he tried. We got a guy in our church, man, the first time he came in, earrings in both ears, and I think something up here, and all kind of weird things going on, and he looked pretty rough. James, remember that? Oh, I dare not say the last name, but it starts with an M. You know him, don't you? He came that morning, boy, that morning he walked that aisle at the invitation. He got saved. He got saved all over, boy. They said, he needs to cut his hair. I said, just leave him alone. Let God work on it a little bit. God said, we're supposed to be fishers of men. But God said, you catch what I clean. Amen. Let him do the cleaning. He came back Wednesday night at church, and he had me a Ziploc bag. Why, I don't know. But all his jewelry's in that Ziploc bag. He said, hey, why isn't this no more, Brother Jim? I said, praise the Lord. He said, I'm giving it to you. I said, thanks. Well, she should dress better. Yes, she should. But I don't know if it's her first time or two here, maybe it's the best she can do. You let God work on them a little bit. You let God do something then. You know, the last time I looked, you wasn't exactly perfect. Matter of fact, last time I looked, you was in pretty bad shape yourself. You've got time to work on them. I'll tell you what, you'll come to love them. You said, I'll do whatever you told me about to do. For the wrong sins, one of the best friends me and my wife ever had, Mike McCarroll, one of the best friends me and my wife ever had over at our church. Brother Steve Mitchell, one of our best friends in the church, and I could go on and on and on, Ron Chase on, right down the line. We lost six of them during COVID. Six people you couldn't do without. Six people we loved. I preached, I preached five funerals in six weeks there. And then a couple more later, every week we had a funeral with somebody we loved dearly that just broke our church's heart. I wouldn't ever, I wouldn't ever want to get cold toward them. Don't take them for granted. Hey, don't you take them for granted. God put them here. God brought them into your life. Boy, you thank God for them. I want to leave here cold toward God's people. Bitter. Bitter. You know, we really are like a dog. Born, ain't got our eyes open, don't know nothing. Living like a puppy in there, they are not men. Then we get old, my age, we just settle in Portugal, growl at everybody that comes by. I don't want to get cold toward his people. Brother and sister, I wouldn't want to leave here cold toward the old story. 1 Corinthians 15 talks about how Jesus died and was buried. And that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. You say, Brother Jim, well, everybody knows it. No, they don't. No, they sure don't. Everybody don't know it. Tell how he came. Tell what he did. Tell him how he died. Tell him how he rose. That's why we're here today, because he rose. That's why kids have Easter dresses on Sunday, when we have Easter, because he rose. It's a worldwide celebration. That's why we sing, up from the grave he rose. It's the greatest story that's ever been told. Don't you get cold toward that? How he left the ivory palaces of heaven. How he took a beating for you and shed his precious blood for you. How the stone was rolled away. Tell him how he's coming back any day now. I love to tell the story to those who know it best. I seem hungry and thirsty to hear it like the rest. If I didn't steal hunger and thirst for that story, I'd find my way to the altar. Lord, I've gotten cold toward the old story. Don't move me like it used to. We sing, oh no, the old story will never grow old. How Jesus died to save my soul. Oh no, the old story will never grow old. That story will never grow old. I will say this and I'll quit. I don't want to get cold toward his promises. Promise of reception. He said all that the father gives me should come to me and he comes to me. I'll know why it's cast out. You come take him with a clean heart. You come take him with a pure heart. You believe in him and faith. You come take him, he'll take you. You come trust him as savior, he'll take you. Promise of supply. But my God, just apply all you need, court is rich in the glory of Christ Jesus. Man, don't ever cool off on your gratitude. I know this sounds bad, but our church, when we got up there, you know that little board of banners you used to put on the wall? You better put them up there, because it's embarrassing nobody's at Sunday school. But when I first got there, brother Mike, on that board, last week's offer was $150. And they started me preaching over there for $25 a week. And that's when I started preaching at Our Benefactor Church for $25 a week. And we wanted to build a building and add on to our building. It was going to cost us, oh, $300, $400 a month. And a guy said, an old deacon told me, he said, we're already paying $150 a month for this fellowship hall. We can't afford no more. I thought, my God, he'd turn over in his grave. We paid over $5,000, $6,000 a month for 10 years. Never late. Always had the money in the bank. Paid off over a million dollars worth of notes at a church in one of the poorest counties in Arkansas. We have no rich people in the church. Say, who did that? God did that. We're not smart enough to do that. We're not bright enough to do that. When COVID hit, when COVID hits, we just fall back. We had a bank come up with $30,000. And I said, can we afford it? They said, yeah, let's get it. They said, let's pay cash. Let's don't even break it down. Let's just pay cash for it. We paid cash for it, less than $20,000 a bank. COVID hit the next week. 85 of us got COVID on one Sunday. I mean, back when it was killing people in Nevada, the first one that came through. 85 of us got sick one Sunday. We didn't have church for two weeks. Nobody was well enough to have church. We couldn't take up an offering. We didn't know how we were going to pay the bills. I said, boy, we should be having $30 back then. So we told people, I said, just look, we can't take up an offering. We can't meet. I was sending little sermons out on the telephone. And I said, gave the church address, said, if you want tithes, just send it to the church. That's all we needed to do. Man, that thing went on. We finally got back in church, but a year later, I started getting scared. Ms. Lissette, our secretary, never called me. She never said, well Jim, we're in trouble. She never called me. And I called her, I said, how are we making it, sister? She said, well, we have $220,000 in the bank right now. I said, what? I said, who did that? Don't ever lose your gratitude for what you've done. And don't ever cool off toward what God's done for you. It may not have been $220,000, but ain't he done a bunch for you? Worth a lot more than money. Worth 10 times more than money. Look what he's done for your family. Look how he puts you together. Look how he helps you. Worth a lot more than money. Don't ever cool off your gratitude toward him. Amen. His supply. Don't ever cool off on his promise of a land and a mansion the kids were singing about a while ago. Don't cool off on that. In my father's house are many mansions. We'll soon be there. I can't wait. I'll fix the clothes. I'm going to circle the runway one more time and then we'll land this thing. Anybody in here remember that? Yeah, there's the old folks, yeah. They'll have us in a home later, amen? But he said every day he would go up there and put his face on that glass. All candy was behind glass when I was a kid. He put his face on that glass and he looked at all the bright red, gold, yellow wrappers, all that chocolate, caramel, peanut, nougat, all that good stuff. But he never could buy one. And the old store owner watched him do that for months and months. One time his heart just broke. And he went outside and got that little boy. He had his face pressed on the glass. He took him inside, and he said, look, son, you can have one of everything in that. You can have one of everything. You know what he did? He didn't pick up a piece of candy. He just stuck his hand out like that in a maze. And he said, no more glass. No more glass. God said, now we see every glass of coffee. Don't ever let the old story grow old We are going home, and I don't want to get cold before I leave here It'd be something it would be something I It would be a great day. I probably shouldn't tell this again because I think I told it on a Navajo reservation, but it's still worth telling. And I just got in trouble for this at my church. When we did, we played a game called hide and go look. And we said, yeah, we will go look. We came around behind the corner, and one person would hide, and he'd get hidden. And six or eight of us would be seekers, and our front porch And if you can find that belt before they did, you reach out and pull it out, and anybody you can slap with that belt before they heard I come to play, you can give them a lift for every year that goes on. Oh, it was fun. My kids at my church played the other day, and one of them got nine stitches. I'm still in trouble with that. But they didn't do it right. But anyway. We would run in like crazy. But the hider always had to help the seekers. And he would walk around in the Mountain Deer and the Barnyard. And he'd walk around and he'd say, you're getting warmer. And we'd start that way. He'd say, you're getting warmer, warmer, warmer. You're getting cooler. And he'd turn. Now you're getting warmer, warmer. He'd say, you're running hot. You're burning up. And man, you knew it was close. You'd reach and you'd pull that thing out and away you go. But if you walked past it. He said, oh, you're getting cooler. You're getting cooler. You're getting colder. They say, you're cold as ice. We ask you tonight, while you're seeking, if the Lord will let you, church, have you cooled off a little bit? What do you say about the Red Hawks? What do you say? Well, they were Red Hawks, but lately they've Won't you just come tell him about it, you don't need me, you don't need anybody, won't you just come tell him about it? He'll help you, he helped me.