Well, it's been good to be in God's house today. I could leave right now and say I've been blessed, but I don't ever feel right hardly until I open up the Word of God and see what He has to say from His Word. And this morning I'd like for you to turn in your Bibles, if you have them there, The book of 2 Timothy chapter 4, 2 Timothy chapter 4, I want to look at the verses 1 through 8, 2 Timothy 4, and it's in that King James Bible in your pew on page 710 if you want to use that Bible, 710. 2 Timothy chapter 2, Second Timothy chapter four, I'm sorry, verses one through eight is where we'll be reading from. I'm not quite ready to read yet, but you hold it in place there. Does anybody know this morning, if you saw me standing here with my phone this morning, I'm curious if anybody in here knows or don't know what I would be doing if I was going like this right here. A selfie. A selfie. I want you to know everybody from the youngest age of probably I've seen all the way down to about five years old to I've seen grannies taking selfies with these things right here. We've got them on these phones. We've got them on iPads and everything else. And we're obsessed with taking selfies today. It seems we are very in love with how we look. But selfies, this morning I've got a message the Lord has been dealing with me on and I've titled it, Selfie Religion. And don't be ashamed this morning if you've taken a selfie. I'm not here to preach against you taking your picture. But I was reading through the news and I found several instances of selfies gone wrong. You may have seen in just last week, it was on the headlines of the news, a 36-year-old California man, he picked up a rattlesnake and held the rattlesnake up to take a selfie with it. The rattlesnake bit his hand. The man is now laying in the hospital and he may lose his hand, and if he does not, he will at least lose several fingers. He said that he made a mistake by taking that selfie. This past May, an 18-year-old Romanian teenager, she climbed up on top of the roof of a train to take what she called the ultimate selfie. She wanted to share with her Facebook friends Things went awfully wrong when she grabbed a hold of a live wire on top of that train, which sent 27,000 volts of electricity through her body, setting her on fire and burning 50% of her body. And she laid in the hospital for a day before she died. In August of last year, a family from Poland, they were visiting Portugal. They climbed the top of a well-known high cliff in Portugal to take a family selfie. As they lined up on the edge of the cliff to get that ultimate family selfie as close as they could, the mother and father fell backwards off of the cliff and plunged to their death while taking a selfie as their two six- and seven-year-old children watched them perish. We are a self-absorbed selfie world today. That is just a few of the instances of the hundreds that I found of selfies gone wrong. You not only have these types of cases, but you have those that have trespassed on federal lands or on landmarks to take a selfie and has been arrested. We have men that's committed crimes and taken selfies and been caught when they posted on Facebook. We are obsessed with taking pictures of ourselves. It's a self-absorbed selfie world. Well, perhaps you're wondering why your pastor this morning is preaching about selfies. Well, I'm not really preaching against the pictures, but I am preaching about selfie religion. If you look there in your text in 2 Timothy chapter 4, I want to look at the first eight verses. And let's read that text together. The Bible says, I charge thee, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. Preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry, for I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I fought a good fight, I finished my course, I've kept the faith. Henceforth there is 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. Father, thank you for the reading of your word this morning. I'm praying now, Lord, that you anoint me here for a few minutes, God, to preach this message you've been burning in my heart this week, God. May it do a mighty work in this congregation today. Lord, keep me hid, let you be visible for it's these things I ask in the precious name of Jesus. And amen. Well, in our opening text we have, of course, the Apostle Paul, that old true servant of the Lord. He called himself an apostle of Christ and a servant. He always claimed himself to be a servant. The Apostle Paul is writing to his young son of the faith, Timothy. We know that he had Timothy under his wing. He took him on his missionary journeys and taught him the ways of preaching and being a missionary. He had a pretty good upbringing from his mother and his grandmother. And Paul recognized those qualities in this young man. But Timothy was being shaped and molded into being the pastor that he would become. Paul, writing this text, is an old man now. He knows his time is about to come. And he says that the time of his appearing there, he said that, he's ready to be offered. The time of his departure is at hand. So he knows he's fixing to meet Christ. through death. Paul is going to be let out of that Mammerton prison, taken out of the city. His head is going to be laid on a stump and he's going to have his head removed. It's going to be cut off and he will perish, but he will go and be in the presence of the Lord. And Paul knows this is happening. He's been prepared for it. He's trying to prepare Timothy to take his place. It's Timothy's time now. This young man must stand up and preach the Word. This is his charge to him as a preacher. Back when I was ordained in this very church and I stood here and the preacher read off the charge to me and he read these passages of Scripture right here. And I agreed on that day that the day if it ever came that I would deny preaching the Word of God, if a day ever came that I would fail to rebuke and to exhort and to have long-suffering and patience and endure and be like an evangelist. If the day ever came that I would not do that, that I would give up my ordination papers, I would leave this church, I would go home and I would never stand behind a pulpit again. I made that agreement when I was ordained to be a preacher of the gospel and I stand by that today. If I ever not preach the gospel, I have no business to stand behind this pulpit and neither does any other man. Paul and Timothy probably had no idea how bad it was going to be 2,000 something years later. They probably had no earthly idea that things would get the way they are today. Paul told Timothy in verse 3 of our text, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. He didn't say, Timothy, buddy, one of these days this might happen. Perhaps this could happen, so I want to warn you. He didn't say that. He said, the time will come Timothy, it's coming. There's nothing you can do about it. Men are going to go down. Men are going to defile the Word of God. They're going to get out of the doctrine. They're going to get into apostate and heresy. And they're going to leave God's Word. And people are not going to endure sound doctrine. They can't stand it. They won't be able to stand it. And if ever a time has come when men can't stand to hear the doctrine of Jesus Christ, it's this day we live in today. It's this day right now. Now I'll be honest with you this morning and tell you I grew up in a blessed time. I grew up, I believe that without a doubt I was in that last generation that really knew what it was like for a church to be on fire for God, that really knew what it was like to have that old time religion, that knew what it was like when the man of God got up and stood and said, thus saith the Lord. I believe I was in that last generation because I've seen it crumble ever since then. I've seen over the last few years, 20 years or so, as I've watched the church go down. I've watched the membership dwindle. I've watched the pews become empty. I've watched the lives of Christians that once stood firm and took their families to church and they said, you get out of bed this morning and you go to Sunday school. They don't do that anymore. You know what they do? Do you want to go today? I don't want to go today. Okay, honey, you lay there and that's okay. Get up and eat you a Pop-Tart here in a little while. Turn on the TV and watch that. That's what they do today. Kids today are telling their mom and dad, I'm not going to church today in my day. If I ever uttered the word that I did not want to go or I was not going to go, you can better believe I'm going to hear the jingle of a belt buckle and the strap of my daddy's belt coming down to get me out of that bed. You better believe I would have heard that. I'll never forget the many times that I've laid there as a child and I thought, boy, I don't want to go today. And knocking on that door, get up, it's time for church. And if I laid there two or three minutes later, boy, the next thing that door would come flying open, get out of that bed, you're going to church. I am so glad that I was drugged to church when I was a kid. I wouldn't take nothing for that all my life. I'd give up everything. Just to have that. Friends, these kids today that are growing up in places they don't even know what it's like to go to church. Their parents wouldn't take them to church even if they wanted to go. They're too lazy to get out of bed. They've got other things to do. And people today that say, I'm a Christian. They say, I'm a Christian. You can go around and knock on doors this morning and wake people up and say, have you been saved? Are you a Christian? I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian. And they'll lay in that bed today. Or they'll go out and eat here in a little while. They'll go to the movies today. They'll go out and shop today. But they won't show up in the house of God. And so I feel like I was in that last generation of folks that knew what it was like to grow up in sound doctrine and theology. And we can sit back all day long and wonder, well, I wonder how it got this way. I wonder when things started happening this way. I just wonder, you know, why this morning Paul was telling Timothy that this thing was coming. He said it will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. Why do you think 43,500 people today down in Texas going to Lakewood Church will go there, pack their cells into a basketball arena to hear a man get up and stand and preach about health, wealth, and prosperity and not open the word of God until he's done and pick out a passage of scripture to say you've been at church? Why would 43,500 500 people flocked to a place like that today to hear that message. You know why? Because it's selfie religion. I want to hear how good I am. Look at me. Aren't I handsome? That's today's religion. I want to hear how good I am. I want the man of God to get up and to promote my sin or to say my sin's okay or what I'm doing doesn't matter. Anything goes today. That's what people want today. They want to be petted. They want their sins petted. They want to hear they're a lost sinner bound for hell. We don't teach that here. If CNN comes in here and they say, Pastor, would you interview with us and let me hear what you have to say about sodomy or homosexuality, do you think I'm going to stand here and say, we just don't discuss that here. We don't cover that. There's too much negativity here. Today, I think that we should be more gentle and kind and loving to people and lift them up. Because that's what's going on in churches today. Men are denying the power of God. They're not standing on firm doctrine. They're not teaching theology. They could care less about the souls of the people in their congregation. But, buddy, they like their billfolds. They like their pocketbooks. They like their checks coming in. They like their books flying off the shelves. They like their CDs being bought and their television shows being watched. But they could care less about your soul that's going to hell. through selfie religion. We live in a world today where people would rather hear about how to get rich than how to get saved. They'd rather see their kid grow up to be a baseball or a football star than to see their kid grow up and be saved and go to heaven when they die. They'd rather hear all that stuff. Paul gave Timothy the answer to it there in that latter part of verse three. Look what he said. He said, but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers Having itching ears. Y'all's had itching ears, right? I'm not the only one that's ever had an itch in their ear. I mean, one of those is so bad you can't hardly stand it. I mean, it'll drive you crazy. If I could find a railroad spike and jab my ear and scratch it, I would do it. I mean, bad. It's awful to have an itching ear. These people don't have a physical itching ear. They have a mental and spiritual itching ear. He says there, they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. after their own lust. They have a lust itching in their ear to be pampered and to be loved and to be told how wonderful they are. I mean, they want to hear how good they are, how beautiful they are, how successful they can be. It's a selfie religion. That's what it is today. And Paul was warning Timothy that that day will come. It's here. They can't handle Paul says there to Timothy, he said, reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. I was talking in Sunday school today about those words of doctrine and theology and how if I was to get up here this morning and say, I'd like you to open your Bibles today, I'm gonna teach some doctrine and theology. People would be looking around like this. I probably come to the wrong church today. That's the way people do when you hear those words doctrine and theology. But I want you to know what Paul is telling Timothy here is get in the doctrine of Jesus Christ. You teach it. You preach it. And you do it. And exhort it with all longsuffering and doctrine. That word reprove right there. You know what that means? That means to convince someone of their faults. To convince someone. Now it is my job as a preacher of the gospel to convince you of your condition. How do I do that? The way Paul told Timothy to do it. By exhorting it with long-suffering and doctrine. Where does that come from? The Bible. That comes from the Word of God. It doesn't come out of my best-selling book, which I don't have, by the way. It doesn't come from my thoughts up here. It's not something I've made up. It's not my whims. It's not my fancies. It's not what I desire. It's what God says. And so when I get up here and preach, it's my job to tell you this is what God says. This is His doctrine. This is the doctrine of Christ. This is His theology. This is what He means for you to do. This is how He wants you to live your life. This is what He expects of you. That is my job. Until a person is convinced, until they are reproved that they are a sinner and convinced of that fact, they cannot be saved. You cannot be saved until you're convinced you're a lost sinner. How do we do that? Oh, you're just so loved today. You're so beautiful today, that suit on you looks marvelous. That's not how you convince somebody that they're a lost sinner bound for hell. That's lifting them up, puffing them up, and making themselves feel good. That's that selfie religion. You see, we are to reprove men from this Bible, the Word of God. You must reprove and convince someone that they're a lost, hell-bound sinner. When I stand behind this sacred desk and I preach from this God-breathed, God inspired every single word of His truth. I believe every word of this Bible from the Holy Bible on the front to the end in the back. I believe every single word of it. I believe it's the truth. And I believe God inspired men to write down what He's told them to say. He gave them unction by the Holy Spirit to write down the Word of God. And I believe every word of it. I don't believe there's a contradiction in it. There may be something there that you don't understand. It's because you don't have the understanding of it yet. But there's not a mistake, there's not an accident, there's not a contradiction. And the word of God must be preached. And if a person that's living in sin, if they come in here, no matter what your sin may be, you may be a liar this morning. You may be a thief. You may be a drug addict. You may be a drunkard. You may be a pedophile. You may be a homosexual. You may be a gossiper. You may be any of these things today. You might have that sin in your life. And if you could come into this church this morning and sit on one of these pews and the man of God opens up the Word of God and he doesn't mention sin, he doesn't mention the fact that you're a lost, hell-bound sinner, and that you need to repent of those sins, if you can sit on that pew and feel good about yourself and leave out of these doors unsaved, then I have failed in my job as a preacher. I failed in my job as giving what God said to do in His Word. If you've not been reproved and convicted of that this morning, I've not done my job. Now, I can't convict you, but through God's holy, precious Word, through the power of the Holy Spirit, through the preached Word of God, that is how men are convicted today. They're not convicted with the selfie religion. In fact, they're made to feel like, well, everything I'm doing is just fine. I'm okay. I'm as good as that guy right over there. And that's what a lot of the selfie religion is. We compare ourselves to other people. Well, I'm doing much better than they are. I'm doing pretty good. I'm a pretty good guy. I mean, I've not killed anybody. I've not done anything bad, and I feel pretty good. And if I got up here and preached a message this morning, and you walked out here thinking, boy, I'm really somebody. I'm something. And you failed to realize how big God is and how powerful He is and how holy He is, then I failed. We might as well go down to the comedy barn down there and set up and put a steeple on the top of the comedy barn and go in there and tell jokes and say we've had church today because that's about as good as it's going to do you if you don't feel the reproving and the convicting. That next word Paul used there talking to Timothy was rebuke. That word rebuke there means to charge someone or to express judgment upon them. Don't you judge me. That's what everybody says today. Even the lost people today, that's their biggest thing. Judge not, lest ye be judged. That's what the Bible says. Don't you judge me. Friends, they've taken the Word of God, they've taken it completely out of context. Friends, we must judge sin. Period. We must judge sin. It's wrong. This is what God says about that sin. And God says it's wrong. And therefore, if God said it's wrong, it's wrong. It doesn't matter if you think it's okay. It doesn't matter if I think it's okay. If God said it's not okay, it's not okay. It's a sin. And if you're committing that sin, you are committing a sin against God. And you must repent of that sin. Instead, we sit around thinking, well, I'm a pretty good guy, you know. But Paul said to rebuke them. Express judgment about that sin. Tell them that they're a lost, hell-bound sinner. Wake that person up because one of these days it will be too late if we pet people's sins. If we let them think that it doesn't matter what you do, it's okay. Go ahead and shack up together. Oh boy, that touched some spots on some people. You go talk about shacking up today. Families today, that's all they know. They don't even consider getting married. We just move in together. Move in together, have some kids, whatever. Shack up together. Friends, it's wrong. It's wrong. But men of God today will not say anything about it. There's some people right here that would join this church today if I would allow them to join, knowing that they live together. But we don't allow that. Because that's not right. That's living in sin. And so if I say, well, that's not right. Well, they get mad. What do you mean? We love each other. Well, get married if you love each other. That's what the Bible wants you to do. A man and a woman joins themselves together and they become one. They get married. They don't shack up. The shacking up means, you know, if this don't work out, I'll just leave and everything will be okay. That's what that means. Friends, it's wrong. It's wrong. So Paul says, what do you do? You rebuke them. You express judgment upon them. Don't pet their sin. And then he uses another word there. Good doctrinal word. Paul uses that word exhort. That means to invite. and to call near is what that word exhort means. How do we do that? Like he said, he said, do that with long suffering and doctrine. So how do you invite someone to be saved? You tell them about Jesus. You give them the doctrine out of the Bible. This is what God says about a lost sinner's condition. Here's how he says that you can rectify that problem. The Bible says repent. Repent and trust Jesus as your Savior. That's how you get saved today. And by the way, repentance is not works. I know preachers won't even say the word repent today because they think they're going to hurt somebody's feelings. They think somebody's going to say, well he's preaching, it works salvation. Jesus said repent. All through the Bible, it was repent. Peter told them, repent. They said, what can we do about this? He said, repent. What does that mean? That means you've had a change of mind. You've changed your mind about your sin. You realize you're a lost sinner, and there's nothing you can do about it except trust Jesus as your Savior. It's one step. It's not a work, I've got to repent, I've got to work, get myself right, and then I'm going to ask God. It's not what it is. It's an immediate turn from your sins toward the Savior. That's what repentance is. And friends, I want you to know that's part of it. So Paul uses that word exhort and use it, use the Bible, use it with doctrine, long suffering. And that's what we must do to see men saved. They got to be convinced they're sinner. Their sins must be charged to them and told to them that it's wrong, that you must repent of that. And then they must be invited to trust Jesus as their savior. You must be invited to that. You know, sadly, people would rather fill up a mega church today. They'd rather fill up all these feel-good, ear-scratching, rock-and-roll flesh show going on. Well, we could pack this place out. You know what we could do? We could turn off these lights and put up some black lights and some of those spotlights and the different colored things. We could get some long-haired, hippie-looking guys up here wearing shorts and playing guitars on the stage, some guy back here on a drum. Boom, boom, boom, boom. We could have a light show in here. You know what? People would come in here by the hundreds. We would fill up this place. You know what? They would leave out of here as lost as they were when they came in this place. Because you're not going to get doctrine and theology and long suffering and exhorting and rebuking and reproving out of something like that. A rock and roll flesh show does not work to bring men to God. Oh, people will go down. Who all in here wants to be saved? Raise your hand and do it like this right here and there. Oh, they'll be standing there raising their hand. Yes, I want to be saved. Ah, the boy, and they get all jumped up. They're in this rock and roll mood like this. Friends, you can go down to a country concert down at the Coliseum and get that same feeling. It's not Christ either. It's not the Holy Spirit giving you that feeling. It's a drum beat. It's a light show. It's the excitement of the people else in the congregation. It's not the Holy Spirit. And I have heard people, these children that may go to some of these things and they go and they attend and you hear back, well there was a hundred people that got saved at that thing. And every one of them they go back and they are no different than they were when they went and all they remember is the drums and the lights and everybody else that was going down and they followed them down. That's not the Holy Spirit friends. It's not the Holy Spirit. He says they have heaped upon themselves teachers. These teachers won't teach the truth. They won't do it. Verse 4, they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned in the favor. They don't want you to know the truth. If these people know the truth, then the bank account is going to run dry. If they find out what I've been saying up here is not the truth, then I'm going to be exposed. So they won't tell them the truth. They turn them away. It's a purposeful thing they're doing. They're turning them away from the truth. They don't want them to know. I don't want you to know that you're a sodomite and it's an abomination to God. I don't want you to know that. So I'm going to say everything's okay. It's good. You're fine. Go ahead. Serve in the church. They've got churches today allowing sodomite men to preach behind the pulpit and say that it's okay, that God doesn't care. Friends, that's an abomination straight out of hell is what that is. It's a sin. I want you to, those selfie religious people, I think of these crowds of people that are thrown into places like that to get themselves pumped up, and I can just see them all sitting around like this, sitting around in the pews. How good I am. Look at these 43,000 people today. I'm one of them. Look at me. I'm all right. And I see all this, and it worries me. It scares me. And you know what I think of when I think of this? I want you to think of this thing. If this helps you, I hope it does. It helps me. Imagine a little baby. Imagine, if you will, a little baby that's just learned to walk. I mean, you know how they are. They're waddling around there. They can barely keep up. It's like they're one of those weevils that wobbles, but they don't fall down. I mean, they're walking around. Imagine that little baby out in the field walking around and you're the one supposed to watch him. You're responsible for this baby. There's a big ol' open fire pit over here where they're burning garbage and trash and brush. Big ol' open pit and this little baby, he's walking around in the field. He's bounding around, he's giggling and laughing, he's got his patsy in his mouth, you know, and you're sitting there watching him. You're the one responsible for him. And here he comes. He's getting closer and closer to that fire pit. And he's just giggling and you're sitting over there. You're so beautiful. Oh, I love you so much. Yes, you are. You're the sweetest little baby I've ever seen. Oh, I just love you so good. And he keeps walking and walking toward that fire pit, that little baby. Oh, and you just keep on sitting there cooing and oohing and gushing over this baby. Oh, oh, you're so sweet and I love you so much. Oh, I'd do anything for you. I love you so much. And you watch that baby as he waddles over there and he goes to that fire pit and he falls off into that fire pit the whole time looking back and grinning at you. And you're just saying, you're so sweet. I love you. And that baby falls off in that fire pit. That is what's happening today to people. There's people sitting on church pews today and people are gushing and oohing over them and giggling and going on and letting them think that they're so good and they can save themselves because they're so good and they're so happy and everything. Oh, happy, happy, happy, that's the word. Everybody wants to be happy. But they're just like that little baby, falling off the church pews straight into the pits of hell. And we've got families, we've got teenagers, we've got children in this community today that are going to drop off in hell. If somebody don't stand up and say, this is what God says, you must know that you're a sinner. You're lost. You're hell bound if you don't do something about that. You're going to drop off into hell one day. But no, people's going to sit there. You go ahead, honey. You don't have to go today. You go ahead and sit there. You watch your cartoons. Go ahead and watch your videos. Go ahead and play those. There's thousands upon millions of people today that are on the edge of that fiery burning pit. And there are scores of men that will sit there and let them fall into that fiery pit without telling them about the Word of God. They're turning them from the truth. They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and they shall be turned into fables." It's no more than Grimm's fairy tales to them. It's no more than Aesop's fables to them. This Bible is nothing to them but some little book to say that they're a preacher. I'm the pastor here. You're beautiful. You're beautiful. Take a picture with me. Now, you may have come here this morning hoping to hear a feel-good, heartwarming, uplifting message. And you know what? There's times for that. And I love it when the Lord lays something like that on my heart. But you know what? Today was not that day. Today is the day that God is saying, you know what? We need a wake-up call in this nation today. We need a wake-up call in churches today. I mean, there's churches, you know, you may have come in here not knowing what to expect this morning. Maybe you just wanted to hear something like that, like I was talking about, something sweet and gooey and gushy and all. But I want you to know this morning, if I don't point you to the truth of what God says, I'm a miserable failure. I failed miserably. If you can leave here today and not even think about sin, I failed. I failed. I should not even come up here. If you don't want to know the truth, I can point you out at least 10 churches in a five mile radius that will let you come in and they will not tell you the truth. You can go to a Rock and Roll Flesh Show. I can point you to a church right now within seven miles of here that's a Rock and Roll Flesh Show this morning. If that's what you're looking for, I'll give you the address because they're there. But if you do do that, I want you to know this morning you're making a grave, grave mistake. A grave one. I must foolproof my ministry like Paul told Timothy to do and warn you with all longsuffering with all doctrine of the truth of God's Word and point out the realities of the error of selfie religion. Selfie religion. And I don't want to leave this service this morning knowing that there's somebody lost in here. I don't know. I don't know your heart. But if you are lost this morning and the Lord has been speaking to you and He's been doing that reproving And He's been showing you and convincing you. He's been exhorting you and inviting you. If you're sitting here today and you're in that condition, I want you to know the Bible says that today, now, today is the day of salvation. You don't know when you walk out this door that you have another minute of your life. I told you in prayer request as a man here two weeks ago, healthy, happy, everything going fine. And now we're going to his funeral today after church. So we don't have a guarantee of our next minute. Friends, if you're sitting here lost today, I want you to know you need to be saved. You must repent of your sins, trust Jesus as your Savior, and He will save you. I'm going to ask the ladies to come get the invitation song this morning. And I want us to pray together, and I want us to pray earnestly. This is not the time to be making plans. We've got plenty of time. It's only 1130. You can make it to the funeral home before the crowd, OK? We're not making plans for what we're going to eat here in a minute. What I want you to do is to examine your heart, first of all. If there's anything there that's not right with God, I want to ask you this morning to make things right with Him. You don't have to confess your sins to me, because there's one mediator between God and man, that man Christ Jesus. All you've got to do is talk to Him. He's faithful and just to forgive you of your sins. If you have a sin in your heart today, just ask Him for forgiveness. He'll forgive you. If you're lost today, ask Him to save you. Ask Him to save you. Let's stand together and let's pray if you have a need. If you want to come to the altar, I'd be glad to pray with you this morning. But let's pray. Father, we come to you today, God, laying it all out at your feet. Lord, we've done all we can. Lord, I pray that we've made a difference today, God, by telling what Your Word says. God, not my ideas, not my thoughts, but God, what You said. And Lord, You said that men must be reproved, they must be rebuked, they must be exhorted, God. And Lord, we're praying today for that one, maybe two, maybe three today in this service. that has a need, Lord, whether it's for salvation, maybe it's a backslidden condition, God, maybe they're not living the life that they ought to. God, would you help them today? Show them the need to turn things over to you, Lord, to make things right in their life. God, to restore that fellowship with you, Lord, if they've been walking out of your fellowship. Lord, we know once we're saved, we're always saved, but God, we know we lose that fellowship when we've got sin in our life. Would you restore that fellowship to those today that may need that? Lord, would they just ask you today to help them? And Lord, if there's one lost today, Lord, would you show them and convince them, God, that they must trust you as Savior before it's too late. Help us today, Lord. We're still praying. Everybody's praying today. And if you have a need, if you need to come to this altar, you come down and let me pray with you. If you have questions about anything in this Bible, you ask me and I'll try to help you. Anybody with a need today?