Amen. All right. You can rise again if you'd like. No, that's all right. Just remain seated. Thank you. I'll tell you, I'm like all of you just sitting here absorbing All of this is just amazing. It's amazing. Now, I'm not surprised about any of it. I'm not shocked about any of this. It's obvious, and I know the church has already been good to the pastor, and when I heard the report, and talking to Brother Michael Adams and Brother Josh earlier, and some of the things the church has done, and I'll tell you, church, you have done yourself proud. You have, and I say that and use that word in the right way, and that's just such a blessing. And this day, when there's so much conflict between the pulpit and the pew, and such a distance, they were singing a while ago about gulf about a chasm that has been breached. Thank God this is great. And we've been blessed by it. Thank you, Pastor. That's the way to do it. That's the way to do it. Amen. I'm glad you had the privilege to follow such a man of God where you can do that. And so we're just honored to be able to get in on this. It's really been great. And so, I know you're excited and have experienced great things with Brother Rusty and Ms. Seal, and we rejoice with you in that. And yet, you ought to be excited about your days ahead. I know Brother Rusty would want you to be, just to be looking for even greater things that have ever been done before. And so you have every reason to be excited about this man of God that no doubt God in his providence sent you. And he knows that, you know that. No accidents with God, but in his providence, this man of God's here. And I'll tell you, I know you're gonna be blessed. I just wanna say I'm humbly blessed to be here tonight. I'm glad for the first time my wife to be able, and it is my first wife. Let me have a drink. Donna is with me tonight, and I'm so glad she could come and be here and be a part of this service. I know she's disappointed. She's wanting to hear somebody that could really preach. Anyway, you may have to answer to her in a little while. But anyway, I'm glad she's coming. And we have several friends from the North Mississippi area here. And we're blessed by seeing them as well as other less important places across America. But anyway, always good to see Brother Josh. Thank you for your work here and what God's doing. We're blessed to be able to help Brother Michael Adams, Brother Mark Waddington, their families in the ministry, we're honored to be able to co-partner with them. And so the Lord is good, amen. So I'm honored and humbled. I told my wife coming down, I said, I came here for the first time 46 years ago, 46 years ago. Now I can tell the way some of you are looking at me. You say, Brother Runny, you don't look old enough to have been here 46. I know it, I've aged well. But I remember coming here 46 years ago as just almost a young boy. And as a little boy, I remember hearing Tammy. Where's Tammy? Hearing Tammy. And I just admired him and looked up to him so much. And boy, here we are, 46 years later. Some of us have aged well. Some of us have aged well. Amen. All right. Good meal tonight. Thank you for all of that. God bless you. The book of Daniel chapter six. The book of Daniel chapter six. I'm sure there's more preaching scheduled and I will try to be mindful of that. But it's a real honor. Brother Wampler has already spoken. And I did love Dr. Ed McAbee. He changed my life. The Lord changed my life, but God used Brother Ed McAbee in my preaching ministry. And I told Brother Joey earlier, I guess, I can remember the first time hearing Dr. McAbee, and I was just overwhelmed. I'd just been preaching a couple of years, and I said, Lord, I want to preach like that. The Lord said, son, you can't handle that. And so he was right. I couldn't have handled it. But anyway, precious memories. Thank God for some great men of God that have gone on. But they're not all going on. There's some great men of God in this place tonight. I'll assure you of that. I know many of you. There's some great men of God here, and we have reasons to be encouraged. I know things are in a mess in America. We know that, and even across our churches. But I'll tell you, there's still reasons to seek God and pray for revival, and I do. I still pray for revival. And I know God can do some great things for us yet in these days. Amen. Daniel six. I know you're familiar with this great chapter of the word of God. And I know you're familiar with the man Daniel. And there's probably I'm not going to say anything tonight about him that you haven't already heard. but just to encourage you in looking at this man and some truths about him. And we'll just try to bring out from this great Daniel chapter number six. If I had a title for the message, I would call it this, Daniel had a secret. Daniel had a secret. Now, it's not so much that Daniel's secret was a real secret in the sense that nobody knew about it or that nobody had ever seen it. You've watched Brother Rusty and his dear wife for years and somebody might use that terminology and say, well, they've got a secret. And as has already been said tonight, holy and humble. I'll tell you that describes them perfectly, doesn't it? And so maybe that's their secret. You can have a secret. You can have a secret that's not so much hidden from everybody, but it's so personal and so real and so precious to you that it has made a difference, it is making a difference, and it will make a difference in your life whatever comes your way. Whatever comes your way. I don't know that Daniel saw what was coming, coming his way. But because he had a secret, because he had a secret, it made him do the right thing. And we need some men and women and people of God, young people as well, that'll do the right thing here in the 21st century. Whether it's out in the world or in the church, wherever it might be, do the right thing. Because this man's life is what I call a perfect picture of a man's life that glorified God. A man whose life glorified God. If they can put that on your epitaph, on your rock one day when you die, he or she glorified God, enough said. Enough said. That's what our lives ought to consist of when it's all said and done. Enoch, it's said about him, that he had this testimony. that he pleased God. And there are numerous other phrases, I'm sure, that we could find from the Word of God that would be appropriate and would be very praiseworthy. But I thought about Daniel tonight as a man who glorified God. So I want to talk about him for a few minutes. I want to say that Daniel had an advantage. Daniel had an advantage. Look in chapter 6 and verse 1. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 princes. which should be over the whole kingdom, and over these three presidents, over these three presidents, of whom Daniel was first. Daniel was first, that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the kings should have no damage. Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him over the whole realm. I want to say that Daniel had an advantage. It said that he was first, but it also said that he was preferred. I like that word preferred. Is it not obvious that from time to time God just raises people up and puts them in prominent and powerful places? Whether it's in the political world, where it was with Daniel, or whether it's in the spiritual world. I've been preaching almost 50 years. My wife and I, in fact, this past March, celebrated 50 years in marriage. And so we've watched a lot of things come and go through the years, and even ministerial-wise. And I've watched God raise up some people over the years. And the only thing you can say about them, whether it's an Ed McAbee, or whether it's a rusty silver tooth or others I could mention here or across the land. You just have to say God just kind of raised them up for a particular reason, for a particular purpose, at a particular time. And some of these were very common people in their own right. But God put his hand on them. God used them and God raised them up and gave them what we might call an advantage. Now, that advantage does not mean that life is going to be easy going all the time. There are some people here tonight who we would say are advantaged. But they've had to fight hell by the half acre to get where they are. Advantage does not mean That you get always the preferential treatment. It doesn't always mean that life is easy. It doesn't mean that things are always going to come easy. But it does mean that God has raised some people up in significant places at significant times. In fact, in strategic places. and strategic times, just as right here in the book of Daniel. The Bible says that Daniel was preferred. It says that he had an excellent spirit. an excellent spirit. Good night. Do we not need a good dose of that here in the 21st century? I'll tell you something that's always good to pursue is an excellent spirit. You know, be right doctrinally, sure. Have the right Bible, of course. Stay with the truth, always. But I'll tell you, you can do all of that and have a bad spirit and ruin it for everybody. If you can't carry a King James Bible with the right spirit, then just keep your mouth shut about it. You drive more people away with an old ugly, mean spirit. Nowhere in the Bible does it say, Brother Kerry, that a man has to have a bad spirit to have the truth. In fact, he said we ought to speak the truth in love. Amen, a good spirit, an excellent spirit. And so this influenced the people around him, all the way from Nebuchadnezzar to Belshazzar and now Darius. All of these saw something so special and significant about this foreigner, about this Hebrew, about this man didn't even belong there where he was, but he keeps climbing the ladder. and God just keeps using him. Amen. If you can't do much of anything else, you have a good spirit. You might be surprised where God would take you if you had asked God to help you get a good spirit. Don't make me mad preaching on this. Wouldn't that be terrible, Brother Rusty? Get up here with a bad spirit, preaching on having an excellent spirit. Yeah, you heard me, I said it. I better get another one. Oh, me. He had an advantage, but he had an adversary. Verses four through nine, we don't take time to read all of that and deal with that, but look in verse four. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could not find. but they could find none occasion nor fault for as much as he was faithful. Wow. Let's not only have an excellent spirit, let's be faithful. I'll tell you, the older I get, the more I appreciate faithful. If you live long enough, you'll see people falling out by the way. You'll see some good people falling out by the way. You'll see people and you're questioning and wondering, why in the world did they fall out by the way? They had all the advantages. They had all the reasons to stay true and stay right. How could you fall out by the way? But they do, but not Daniel. Not Daniel, it says that he was faithful and neither was there any error or fault found in him. So they did what? Verse five, then these men said, we'll not find any occasion against this Daniel except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Now you know the story. They got the king, they flattered him into making a decree. that nobody could pray, send up a petition to any God or man for 30 days. In verse seven, except you, O king. So the king in verse eight, it says in verse nine, King Darius signed the writing and the decree. Now if you live for God, you'll get under the scope. You'll be in the scope. And the devil's got snipers scattered everywhere. and constantly searching and looking. In fact, the devil himself is like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Daniel had an advantage, but he also had an adversary. He had an enemy, multiple enemies in actuality, and so they're coming after him. They're coming after him with everything they have got, and so he had an adversary. Thank God he had an advocate. He had an advocate. I like what it says scattered throughout chapter number six. Look, let's just kind of jump from verse to verse. It says in the last part of verse number five, against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Then if you will look, Look in verse number 10, and it says, Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, his windows opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God. Look at verse 11. Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. Then look in verse 16. Then the king commanded, they brought Daniel, cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, thy God, whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. And then look, if you will, again in verse 20, the latter part. O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lion. And then in verse 22, Daniel says, my God, my God, has sent his angel and has shut the lion's mouth. And then in the latter part of verse number 23, it says, because he believed in his God. And then in verse 26, the old king said, I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom, men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. All of these references tell us that Daniel had an advocate, his God, thy God, my God. Finally, he just said it, the God of Daniel. Amen. The only way the people of Babylon, the Chaldean people, eventually the Medes and Persians would know God is through this great man of God who glorified God with his life. You can do that and make a difference in the world in which you live. Amen. If the only people that know that you know God are the people inside this building, you've missed it, dear friend. It's the place where you go to school. It's the place where you go to work. It's the place where you do your business with people. They need to know that you know God, that God is your advocate. Amen. All right, he had an advantage. He had an adversary. He had an advocate, but he had an addiction. He had an addiction. Here's a man who is addicted to God. If I could say it that way, but I wanna say it a little different way. Daniel had a secret. Let's go back quickly to verse 10, and it says, now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house and his windows being opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed. and gave thanks before his God as he did aforetime. He was addicted. He's just doing what he is addicted to doing, and that is pursuing God, seeking God. On his knees, the Bible makes clear here, at least three times a day, before he left for work in the morning, he would kneel down and pray When he come home for lunch, I don't know if he called the camel driver to pick him up. Maybe he rented an Uber camel or something like that. And went home for lunch and prayed. And then when he come in in the evening, the Bible said three times a day that he prayed. Don't know how long he prayed, but he prayed. Daniel had a secret. What is Daniel's secret? Well, it's not just that he prayed. They knew that he prayed and that's what they're gonna use against him. But the Bible says that Daniel has some things here in verse 10. It says, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house and his windows being opened in his chamber and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God. Look what he had. He had enough. He had enough to get him through this most difficult of situation. I know that no doubt he'd been through some others. But the Holy Ghost has chosen to, just as with the three Hebrew men in chapter three, it revealed what they went through. and how that they were cast into the fire. Because as we've all said and preached and know, that they wouldn't bow. And then they're given a second chance, they wouldn't bend. And they said, we're gonna burn you, and they wouldn't even burn. They wouldn't even burn. And so the Lord allowed them to go into the fire. And you may have to go into the fire. But I've always said, and I haven't been in a literal fire, but I've been in some fires of Satan's making. And as much as I dislike that, but I discovered that I would rather be in the fire with Jesus than out of the fire without Jesus. Amen. Amen. What's his secret? I wanna talk about his window. I wanna talk about his window for just a moment. Say something about his window. Daniel had a secret, this window. You know what a window is for? You know how windows use, many uses. I would say that this window was a secret. It's not a magical thing, not a miraculous thing, not a unique thing. A lot of people had a window. But it has to do with how you use what you have. I'm talking about his house. I'm talking about his chamber. I'm talking about his knees. I'm talking about his God, but I'm talking about his window. and there are things that you have. And other people may have it, but how are you using it? See how Daniel used what he had. And think about this window. You know from a window, you get a view. Boy, how profound is that? Somebody ought to write that down. I mean, good night, somebody ought to write that down. You get a view. You know what, I think Daniel had a view. I think Daniel's view Daniel had a proper worldview. They talk about that in the political realm, in the cultural realm, in the secular world, in the religious world. What is your worldview? Now, some people haven't taken their head out of the sand long enough to have one. But you can't live that away, folks. We can't live that away. We need to have a proper approach, whether it's to ministry, whether it's to serving God, as pastors and pastoring, you need to have a window that will give you a worldview, that will give you a view that will be different than the worldview of the Democrats and of a lot of other people in the culture in which we live. What is your world view? How do you see the world? How do you think Daniel saw the world? I think Daniel had a good world view and he's got it and he's gonna get some more. In fact, God is gonna give him such a view of the world as in actuality he's already done over there in chapter two. when the old king had a dream and he couldn't figure out what it was all about, and it's this big image, and it's gold, and it's silver, and it's bronze, and it's iron, and this would certainly help Daniel to have a real worldview. I heard Brother Bill Allen preach years ago on what is this world coming to. And he dealt with some of that in the book of Daniel. And then he finally come to the conclusion, it's not so much what this world's coming to, but it's who's coming to this world. What is your worldview tonight? What do you see as far as this world is concerned? It will help you to understand why you need to be sold out, lock, stock, and barrel to the Lord Jesus Christ. We are the only hope. We are the only hope. We as God's people are the only hope that this world ever has of knowing God and of having any hope of revival or a move of God in this world. Our worldview. How do you see this world? I see this world like you do. I see this world going to hell at a million miles an hour. I see a world that is divided, a world that is apostatized. I see a world that hates Israel. And as long as that stuff goes on, this world's gonna continue to reap the sorrows of hating God's chosen people. What is your worldview? You don't even have to have a television. I don't know that you have to have a newspaper to have a worldview. But you need a Bible. And if you'll read this book, you'll discover that God has a worldview. He wants us to know what's going on. He tells us in this book, by the way, this is the only book that tells us where we've been. and where we're going, and in fact where we are right now. This book, have you read II Timothy chapter 3 lately? Have you read I Timothy chapter 4 lately? Have you read these scriptures where the Lord, or Paul, or some of these tells us where we are right now in the 21st century. It's not like somebody found this book and all this, it's been here all these years. And he said, know this, this know also in the last days, perilous times are gonna come. And the first thing he said was, men shall be lovers of their own selves. And everything else follows. Wow, with a window, you can have a view. That may be one reason Daniel stayed by the stuff. He knew where things were going. It'll also give you not just a view, it'll give you a vision. It'll give you a vision. I like what it said there concerning Daniel and the fact that he had his windows open toward Jerusalem. toward Jerusalem. Not that he found a window looking back in some other direction, north, south, or in a different direction, but he had his window opened toward Jerusalem. Now Jerusalem's several hundred miles away. He could not see the ruins of the temple. He could not see that city that had experienced so much demolition from Nebuchadnezzar. Temple destroyed, we know that the walls were torn down, eventually built back by Ezra and Nehemiah and those. But I'll tell you, he could not forget. He could not forget where he come from. He could not forget what was in his past. The truth that had been instilled in him. Did you know when he got to Babylon, in Daniel chapter one, he was already prepared for Babylon. It wasn't like he had to come up with something, oh, what are we going to do? Man, when they put a sweater on him, put him in the University of Babylon, big B on the front, I can see him now pulling that thing, I'm not wearing this. I'm not wearing this. And they put him in the chow line and they're gonna make him eat all that old ungodly stuff, whatever it was. And he said, no, no, I'm not gonna eat that. Not gonna eat that. And so he sits down and they set up a bottle of wine or beer or something there beside me. I'm not drinking that. I'm not drinking that. And so he worked out a deal with the king's man and said, look, we'll just eat this old stuff. And he said, and check us out after a few days later. And so he did, and you know the story. And he and his friends were in better shape physically. They had a glow and a glory about them that the king's men did not have. What I'm saying is Daniel was ready even as a teenager. And we need to make sure our teenagers are ready when they go out here in the world. And Daniel never forgot where he came from. When Daniel got to Babylon as a teenage boy, he already had convictions and he had beliefs. And if you want to use that unusable word, he had some standards about him for the glory of God. when he got there and he never departed from them. And so he goes to his house and he gets on his knee and he looks back toward Jerusalem and he still got memories of the truth that he was given as a young boy when he was told how this wall was created. I'm sure they had their own philosophies in Babylon as to how the wall came into existence. But Daniel got beyond all of that and he would look at Jerusalem and I can remember he would think of the truths that I was taught as a young man that prepared me to face this culture and this world in which we're living. Oh, how we need that in this day and time. We're sending our young people out like sheep to the slaughter. Many of them are not prepared. Thank God some of them are. And I just rejoice when I look at this choir tonight and these young people. Know what they've been through, what they've experienced, what they've had handed to them down through the years. Yet that's not true everywhere. That's not true. Greaves me sometimes as a pastor. I've been where I'm at 44 years. My brother, I can't lay the fault if there's failure. I can't lay it on the previous pastor. And it grieves me sometimes. I feel like maybe a lot of times I have failed, but I don't want to fail. I want to tell them the truth. I keep waving this Bible in front of them. God, and I keep trying to live. We try to stay scandal free and tied to the truth, and we've tried to go in the same direction all these years. Sometimes you have to stop and look back at those heroes of the faith that helped us in the yesteryear. Many of them have gone home to be with Jesus, but they're not forgotten. Their legacy lives on in you and me. And we're living today in some victory because of many that encouraged us and inspired and blessed us because they were faithful, because they had that excellent spirit. He's got a good vision and he keeps looking back. He's got some ventilation too. He's got some ventilation. Raise the window. If there's a breeze blowing, if there's a breeze blowing, catch that breeze as it comes through. Catch that breeze. Let me tell you something. You're gonna need a window sometimes to be able to raise and get a little ventilation. You're gonna need a breeze sometimes. You're gonna need a breeze. I'll tell you, we live in a hot, dry, weary land, spiritually. Maybe physically, geographically, and all of that too. But right now, the drought is more serious in the church and the spiritual world than it is across our land. There are places already, I don't know how it is right here, where they've already issued burn warnings. And these things, because of the drought conditions. You're gonna get in some dry time. You're gonna need to use that window for some ventilation. And I'm gonna tell you, it's good when that breeze comes through. You know, by the way, I'm not just talking to be talking here. You know, by the way, that the church Got started with a breeze. Now, some say, well, it got started for that. Let's don't argue about that. Let's don't argue about that. Bear with me, bear with me. In Acts chapter number two, for you, whatever that is to you, God showed up in a very unusual way. Oh, there was some fire. There was some different sounds, but I'll tell you, there was a sound of a rushing, mighty wind. And you know how it came? Suddenly. Suddenly. And I'll tell you, if you got a window, get the window raised, and there'll be times when you need it. And God will know. God will know! to put in your life for the moment, to bring a little breeze your way. It may come in the form of a song that somebody sings and you weren't even suspecting, you weren't even suspicious that God was in the house. And he showed up and that breeze, that breeze come through. And I think I can go on now. I think I can go on now. I wonder how many times Daniel knelt at that window, and as he's looking and he's carrying the burden of the day, and maybe he's weary already at lunchtime, and about that time a breeze comes through. Oh, yes. Thank God for the breezes that have come my way in the form of people many times that just had the right word to say the right thing at the right time. A window is not only a place of view and vision and ventilation, but for him, it made him vulnerable. Made him vulnerable in the sense that people could see him doing what he's doing. Now listen, brethren and sisters, you sell out to God, there's gonna be some vulnerabilities in your life. Our Savior experienced that. Let me tell you something, when he walked up Calvary's Hill, and even before, when he walked up Calvary's Hill, and he laid down on those beams, and he spread his arms, he became vulnerable. to seem like everything the devil in the world had to throw on him. And he did that for you and me. Now you listen to me. Keep a good spirit. Keep an excellent spirit. But if you develop an attitude, I don't have to put up with that. Really? You're not gonna put me through that. Really? Are you sure? Are you sure? You know what they did to our Savior? You know what they did to him for you and for me? He became very vulnerable. They stripped him. They spat on him. They nailed his hands and his feet to a cross. He didn't need 10,000 angels. He could have even after they nailed him, ripped the nails. He got off that cross and mutilated that whole mountainside. But he became vulnerable. Tell you something, preachers, it's a very vulnerable place right here. They call it a lonely place. They call it a lot of things. It's a very vulnerable place. You're putting yourself out there. You're giving it your all. And if you're not giving it your all, you need to resign, get you a job, make an honest living. You may not sweat it out like some people do. You may not run the aisle like some people do, but you give it your all. You reach down deep. By the grace of God, you go down deep. You go down deep. You have studied that book. You've entered that pulpit. And you're standing before the congregation. I don't care if it's three or 300. And you give it your all. And when you do that, You become vulnerable to every form of criticism that's out there. You become vulnerable to every kind of joke that can be made. You become vulnerable to all the criticisms that can be thrown your way. But he's worth it. He's worth it. He's worth it. And let me tell you about Daniel. He knew exactly what was going on. He said there in verse 10, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, He went and did what he'd been doing. Just do what he'd been doing. Became vulnerable, probably assuming what was about to happen. Are you willing to do that? You others, maybe you're not a pastor, maybe you're not a preacher. Are you willing to make yourself vulnerable to this world so that you can accomplish something for God? You say, well, it might make me look weak. Oh, that's all right. The book of 1 Corinthians said God uses the weak things to confound the mighty. Sometimes in your weakness, maybe exactly where God has put you in order to, sometimes some hard and horrible things can happen to the pastor, to his family, and he's made vulnerable, He's made weak and he may be attacked and lied about, whatever it is, but sometimes in that weakness. I'm simply saying, men, ladies, young people, we must be willing to be made weak or whatever it is. God wants to make us in order to make us usable for his honor and for his glory. I'll tell you something else about this window. It gave him some vigilance. It allowed him to be watchful. It allowed him, not only to have the view and the vision we talked about, but he could be vigilant. To be vigilant, you're gonna have to look up and look around sometimes. And the Bible says that we need to be sober and we need to be vigilant because we have an adversary. We have an adversary, just as we've talked about. But you know what? In all of this, it gave him victory. It gave him victory. It looks like in the next few verses, uh-oh. Uh-oh. Somebody would have said, oh no. Did you hear what happened to Daniel? Oh, but I can tell you right now, bless God, I can tell you right now, that prayer, little prayer meeting he had every day got him in trouble, didn't it? Have you heard? I hadn't heard, tell me about it. Yeah. They caught him, didn't they? Yeah, they caught him. What'd they do? They're gonna put him in the den of lions. Oh, no. Oh, no. We'll never come out of this. We can never have victory in this. You know, the greater the victimization, The greater the degree and the depth of difficulty, the greater the victory. You know, we're still talking about things like the Red Sea, the parting of the waters. The Bible didn't say the Red Ditch. The Bible didn't say the Red Mud Puddle. It didn't even say the Red River. He said, the Red Sea. I submit to you, God never broke a sweat. Never broke a sweat. And water just started pouring. And in the process, the ground goes to getting dry. And there they march across on dry land. The most difficult thing I guess I've ever been through, and I'm not gonna go into all that with you, wrought the most spiritual blessing to my life, to our ministry. I thought, God, you are killing me. And I know my wife thought the same thing. We're going back 30 years or more. I talked to Dr. McAbee. In fact, I was with him right after some of that stuff happened, and you know, he just kind of grinned. He'd been to hell and back several times. And if somebody here right now, and you may be going through, and you think, this can't be God, be surprised. And the degree of the depth of your difficulty, is going to make the glory of God that much greater. And you'll live in some of that the rest of your life. Just as Daniel looked back at Jerusalem, I have some things I look back to in that it reminds me, wow, God, you got me through that. You got my wife and I, you got our church, you got us through that. Good night, Lord. You can do anything. You can do anything. Experience is not the greatest teacher. The Holy Ghost is the greatest teacher. But humanly speaking, don't put those experiences on a back shelf. Man, learn from them. If you succeeded through it, or if you failed, Oh, yeah. Yeah, you'll fail someday. You'll fail. You'll fall. In John 12, Jesus said, accept a corn. a little kernel, a little seed, wheat, grain, accept it, listen, fall. It'll never bring fruit. And when that sower went out to sow, it was within full intent that that seed fall. if it doesn't fall. If you fall in Christ, it's all right. You're gonna bear some fruit for the glory of God. One of my heroes in the Bible is a multiple failure, and his name is Simon Peter. Thank you, Simon, for being so human. It helps me. Daniel had a secret. Do you have a secret? It's not that people don't need to see it or know about it. In fact, they may need to see it. But it's so special to you, it's almost like a secret, and it's gonna help you face your tomorrow. He was ready for the day of life because he had been on his knees. at a window, looking toward Jerusalem, talking to God. Amen? Let's pray. Lord, take your word, touch hearts, bless the furtherance of the service. We've been touched already by what's happened. It's been so good. God, you've been so good to us tonight. We praise you and we thank you. In Jesus' name.