5/7/23

It not only are you worthy but you have called us worthy. To be your children as well. We thank you we thank you. And we are honored to be called yours.

Or there's nothing. Quite like spending time in your Daddy's lap.

We just, thank you. It's, you allowed us to do that. You allowed us to get closer than a brother.

We praise you. Thank you. Put love in our hearts. Put a spring in our step.

When you give us the ability to love each other and to accept love from other people, we're so grateful that it Just to be up here in, in be able to worship. You doesn't seem like nearly enough. just seems like,

Maybe there's more, we could give you but I think about what we're giving you, we're giving you what you put in our hearts. Maybe that's what we need to do all the time. I love you Lord. I praise you and I thank you for this day and these days to come And I ask for your blessings to continue in Jesus name. Amen.

I love you.

Wonderful. Wonderful van. At Warner graduation.

Not old.

Praise the Lord.

That is wonderful.

All right.

Price of Lord, if we let the kids go. Are are some of you push them that way? Yes. Okay, good. I so bored.

Oh hey. Good morning.

Christ, the lord.

Good morning, how are you?

Praise the Lord.

Well, first of all, I want to I want to thank Sue. Sue. That was on standby for me since Friday and was preparing to teach today. If I could not And I'll put her in an awkward place as I have done a couple people over the years when I thought I might not be able to see and she was juggling her job and trying to get ready for today. And that's kind of a hard place to be to get ready to teach God's people and pray and do that, and do your job at the same time and try to go to different directions. And then, at the last minute, I said, I am. Okay, I believe I can handle this. I got this. So that that's a tough place to be in all seriousness. I appreciate her being able to deal with that. Thank you. So she was going to deal with some prophetic thing. Since you know, we're going to have her back to do that in some way shape or form as soon as possible cuz we need to do that. We got a lot of things stirring in that direction and she's very good at what she does.

Down at the flooring in humility trying to be as humble as possible. Look up Sue for your salvation through last night.

What? Shut down. Cutting in and out cuz it's too high. That better. Am I cutting in and out? Still not cutting in and out very good. Thank you. But anyway, we appreciate her art to do that through. You can look up now I'm going to do it.

We need to separate them because Mike and Maureen are back in town. I don't know who's doing it but I would I would bet money on it.

Fahrenheit. Call Adrian. I'm very grateful.

Hey man, we're in First Peter. 3:1 this is out of the New Living Translation this morning in the same way. You wives, must accept the authority of your husband. I want to pray now and dismiss.

Thank you. And even if some refuse to obey, the good news, Godly White lives will speak to them without any words. They'll be won over by observing your pure and God bless you. I'm going to keep going. As far as that first part and we're going to get into the last part of that passage there. But as far as the first part of that, Peter was not worried about being politically correct and he's not going to be worried about being politically correct in the last part either. Now, and he's not worried about hurting anybody's feelings, right? Here is only put yourself in this. You got to, you got to listen to the whole thing. The only thing he's concerned about right here, it's about people coming to the Lord. As he's riding this, the only thing he's focused on his people being safe, so, he's writing this. What he's looking at is particularly right here, he's looking at wives that are special here, being saved and husband said, or not, he's trying to get them saved. Is he not? So, when he's riding this, please think they're going to be won over. By the way, you're showing Christ through the way you treat your husband. That's always saying right here. He's not interested in people being selfish and anybody's feelings being hurt. You know, when these guys wrote These thing, the thing that they were looking at

Or was that people lived? A selfless life. They were not thinking ahead to the United States of America where everybody live for themselves in the church and all we cared about with ourselves.

He was not envisioning a day when the gospel was taught on television. And all that was taught. It seemed like, was how to get ahead and how we could find out how I was blessed. And it didn't really matter about you, just let me make sure I get blessed and I get what I want.

That's not what they were thinking about. What they were thinking about was the kingdom of God, and how does live a life in such a way that it portrayed Christ? So when you listen to this, that's the mindset. You got to have if you're not going to think that way, then after we get through, you can go back to your old mindset and be selfish. and I don't think by the way that that last comment or anybody in this room, Was it 3? I still talking to ladies right here, but you guys can listen, then don't be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles expensive. Jewelry or beautiful clothes, you should close your sales instead with the beauty that comes from within the unfading beauty of the gentle. And quiet Spirit, which is so precious to God. Now, this has been. So misinterpreted, it didn't say, like, unfortunately, some people, I believe misinterpreted, he didn't say, women couldn't make themselves look nice. He didn't say women couldn't wear makeup in my opinion. He said, don't let that be the thing that makes you pretty. All right? He said that the thing that makes you pretty be your inward Beauty. Little little tip from a man who has been married, 43 years. If I can just pass this alone, guy's mental, it ladies. This is where you don't have to listen, it's just that came spontaneously. This morning, just spontaneously this morning is my wife was putting on her makeup on the way here and she said oh my so and so is not in my bag. My something something, something bag it must have fell out this morning before I got in the car 00. I say spontaneously will you know what? It is. Such a good thing that you're not like most other women and you even need that. None of the things that are in that bag or even needed by one beautiful without it.

I wasn't putting other Ladies down, I was just elevating my wife and saying that you don't need it. And when you're married to a woman that's beautiful on the inside, as all of us men that are married in this room are Oh, good job, man. Good job. A few ladies are a few ladies, back to make sure they got a name in there. Then you can say that.

And I'll tell you something else. A smile makes everybody twice as beautiful or handsome. Does it not? And it comes from the beauty that is of the lord inside. I wish I could remember that sometime. I looked in the mirror and I got a man. What happened to you? Your smile, you know, she's just so intense about the things that are bothering us to things that are facing. It just remember to let what's inside Us in the Lord, come out.

Amen.

I'm going to throw this in while we're on this, because what I'm doing is I'm taking the interstate, of course, and they've got these little rest areas and last week was, was pretty intense. As we went into, we talked about that, which is perfect has come and I never thought on that and that was one of the hardest things I've ever told on. And yet, it was one of most enjoyable subject I've ever taught on will now being on the interstate going 85 miles an hour. We are slipping aside into the rest area just for a moment. But we are talkin about some things that are very very important and in, and that we need to do God's way before we get back into the third line of the inner plane, okay? Okay. About the family, about raising kids. You'll see as we go along right now, we're talkin about the family on mountain men, or women that are married for just a minute. As we're talking about inner beauty. As we're talking about, you don't have to wear makeup and just try to be beautiful. It's fine to do it but you don't that's not does not need to be the origin of your beauty. That doesn't mean ladies that you can just Rest in your wife for your husband that you do need to take a moment just to look good for him. And I'm going to throw men in there to me and just run around the house and nothing but your T-shirt with three holes in it and I'm not going to say what else. Just you, it's okay to put on a pair of pants for your wife around the house on Saturday. She might appreciate that just a little bit. If you wore deodorant on the weekend.

Herndon post for me.

Okay. Back to women, verse 5. This is how the Holy Women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husband. Now, the men are listening again, for instance are obeyed, her husband Abraham and called him her master. You're her daughter's when you do what is right without fear of what your husband's might do. Now that goes both ways, guys. We need to give our wives reason not to fear what their husband might do. That's on us. Better. Amen. In. That would be very appropriate, right there.

In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Oh, here we go. There's something in there for us. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together, it takes what it Listen to this.

It takes a while to treat your wife with understanding why? Because it takes a while to understand women How long? I don't know. I've only been married those 43 years when I get to the point where I understand women, I'll let you know.

Note, if he's not in the room, that's true. And I do take Liberties. When she's not in here, know she is normally too busy. That's right to listen to the video. That's true. So I might speak differently than if she were in here, but I'm also speaking plainly. I don't understand. Okay, I'm just kidding now, in case she does listen to this, let me be serious again. It is our job to slow down and understand our wife. Amen. I mean on a daily basis to take time and listen to what she's saying because me and Skippy plea that you can't put men or women in the same category because we're not all Cookie Cutter the same. But take the time, not just to hear words men but to hear what she means. In those words, this is what we would expect my wife to do the same way men. Not what is she saying? But what does she mean live with her according to understanding and if you still don't understand in this is not a joke anymore. Ask God to help you, you understand her? Because, yeah, you know, we are. Some of us are from Venus and some of us are from Mars. If we remember the old book that somebody wrote, we are from different places in the way we think and to get along. Some people don't understand that and then get married out of romance and after a few years, they realize they can't communicate and I can't understand each other their own two different wavelengths. So they just say we weren't for each other and they divorced and they try again and again, and again and again, without taking the time to understand.

God will help you understand. Live with each other and treat each other with understanding. As you live together, she may be weaker than you are in some areas. But I found out that she may be stronger than you are in some areas to, but she is your equal partner in God's Gift of new life, treat her as you should. So, your prayers will not be hindered. There's a very valid, very true principal right there that we always want to stop and go over. If there's no other reason because of pride in our lives, if there's no other reason to get it right and come together and make sure there's no off between you. Don't want your prayers to be. How often do married folks? Right now come to some things about being single. Although, I'm not the best teacher for that at this point in my life and I guess I never will be, but far as I know, as far as I know. Cuz we pray that we'll both be together until the day we die. We want to go to heaven at the same time. So,

Make sure that the sun doesn't go down on your wrath. If for no other reason that your prayers aren't injured. Husband and wife have the ability to pray together like no other people and praying. Unity is your one heart or you're supposed to be of one heart. And you can pray for your children, right? For your grandchildren. Like, nobody can don't neglect that. Don't neglect that ability to agree together.

the scripture and in the, in the

King James that talks about the woman being subject to the man and that word there ever first. It actually in the Greek is hoopa tasso and it really refers to a military term. I don't know if anybody out here, still reading this morning from the King James or the new King James. But when it's talking about the woman being subject to hit me, it's the word. That means arranging troops under the command. Of a leader. And if a leader is leading well, I found that a woman doesn't mind that it's not putting a woman down, it's under the command of a leader that you don't mind following that you're happy. I'm happy if I've got a leader that's leading well I don't mind following a leader like that to you but men when when it says, the woman is the weaker vessel. Here's the here's the key there. It says give honor to the weaker vessel because in the, in the King James because what I found is mention to bully those, they perceive as weaker. And that starts in grade school long before it talks about marriage. It's still at this still true out there. Interested in the business world is true about women bullying bullying other women. You see somebody's weaker than you.

So in marriage, if the woman is the weaker vessel, in respect to how we're defining it here. There's this tendency in the natural to bully that person. But not in cry. Let that never be named in Christ. let that vessel be honored as a vessel that is priceless on the shelf that you protect at all cost that you yeah, me and you do everything from walking on the outside of the sidewalk because that's just something that comes Natural to you as a man or men were taught things like that, but you look after that woman, you know, you moved her in danger, it's just natural. Wherever that is your Daddy might not have talked to you that. And that thing might not leap up in you to do that. But you find out how to do things like that to get around. You watched a man that does know how to do that, and you begin to protect that woman in every way you open those doors for it. It's some woman says, I don't need you to do that. Fine, don't open the door for her anymore.

You keep on doing it for women that appreciate it, so many things to say there, but we got so much ground to try to cover today while I'm up here. Lonely 4 ft hose out.

Proverbs 22:15. Out of a five foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. The rod of discipline correction administered with Godly wisdom and loving. Kindness will remove it far from him. I said this before but I'm going to I'm going to say it again and I believe this to be true. I don't know if I gave this to call to put up on the screen or not. But this is, this is me. You can tell by the volume of a parent's voice whether or not they are administering, correction with Godly wisdom and love and kindness. A lot of raising the voice means that the parent is frustrated. It doesn't understand or use the authority correctly. That's a long one but I'm going to say it again in case you was wanting to write that down. Is this may not necessarily the Lord. You can tell by the volume of a parent's voice. Whether or not they're administering, correction was Godly wisdom and love and kindness. A lot of raising. The voice means that a parent is frustrated and doesn't understand or use Authority correctly. The more you have to just raise your voice and I won't do it in here cuz I don't want to frighten anybody, but I think I know how to do it and I did it when I shouldn't have when you have to try to get somebody to do about you.

That means you're just so frustrating, you don't know what else to do. That's all you. If that's the only thing that you have is yelling. And you're frustrated, you don't know what else to do to get them tonight.

if you'll start out, though, In a way of giving them discipline, I'm telling you, you know, this Rod of discipline is it going out of Vogue anymore because there's been so much of you. To me, when you start getting away from this area right here, you start getting into that an area of abuse. There's not any other area that God, created or discipline, or maybe, maybe some of this when they're very young or something. But that's it, it's still there.

That's for what it's worth with children. The second thing, the first main thing was doing things. God's way. The second grouping that I have here is keeping short of we can talk for hours on end. Any one of these I'm just trying to pull over and rest area, open something up and if you want to talk later, we'll talk I'll be glad to talk with you individually about any of these and we can go for as long as you need help. I'll give you what I've got.

Big short accounts with all people. You know what short account me, right? Matthew 5:23 of them. So if you're presenting your offering at the altar while you while they're you remember that your brother has something such as a legitimate complaint against you. Leave your offering there at the altar and go first. Make peace with your brother and then come and present your offering. And they said there's it's somebody has something against you. Why? What are you saying, is, if you have, you done everything that you could do to make it right. You got to ask yourself as you're bringing your gift, have you done everything, you could to make it right with that person. If you had the move on, that's all you can do. As much as it's within you, you live at peace with all men.

Now, when it, when we were talking about relationships with other people, In everything, you do with another person. Also, make sure that before you go to another person and try to deal with something that's heavy. The old, the old saying is make sure the bridge between you and them is strong enough to carry the load is awake. That you're trying to carry across that bridge, is it going to collapse the bridge? Have you built the bridge strong enough to go across? Whether you're married to the person or with your just getting to know the person is that bridge, strong enough. Have you taken the time to develop a relationship, that's made it stronger sometime. You may have to develop it over. Weak months, sometimes years before you can carry the weight of that thing that sometimes you don't have time to do it. Sometimes somebody, somebody is rolling out front of a car. You don't you have to break a couple of these things. We've already talked about. You have to break a couple of these rules. You have to yell at him, you have to use volume in your voice and you have to carry our way to cross ice Bridge. Even if you've never met him you understand what I'm getting. But in an interpersonal relationship you must wait I've had people walk up to me like I said last week and said I had to say, you don't know me like that. You have to, you have to make sure, you know, someone like that before. You try to carry the weight and even in a marriage, you don't just walk up and get into something we used to

When our children were younger.

We would come in at the end of the day, I'd come in having been in the office and what I would do most of the week with Council people all day long, I didn't sit there and read my Bible all day long. I cancel people and that would take a lot out of me because I poured my heart into the people sitting there. So, when I get home and come in a 36, walk in the door. How to hug Mikey is going to see my kids ask in a couple minutes with him and then I'd say he needs to spend time with Mama sit down eat and I go sit down on the couch with Kathy. And when the kids were very little, you couldn't really do this because they they didn't understand they were fine. All you can really do it. Got a little older guy over here, Mom and Dad needs some time together. We had to do that to keep building the bridge between us, me and Kathy, just the bridge of nothing important. As he has things, she needs to talk to me about. I had things I need to talk to her about that were important. Whether it was how we going to pay this bill or what are we going to do next? But first of all, it was just jibber jabber just spending time together just The bridge of the day had to be built back just in relationship. Even though I'm married to her before we got into anything heavy don't I can remember start going over this. I can't take anything else when I walk in the door. Now the world's could easily be reverse than they are now with Kathy working with special-needs kids, all day. And sometimes you know, having to do what she does. She has more stress on her life usually and what I do when she comes in, Honey. What can I do? What can I make you for dinner? Please come over here, sit down and rest. We don't get anything heavy. Right off the bat that thing has to be restored. But you have to the bridge on a daily basis, has to be secure before you get into anything heavy there you can say it. Yes, if you have to read the room, even if even in that regard, do you hear what I'm saying? Are you, are you going to really mess up your marriage or relationship with your kids that just came in from work or college or whatever? One of our from school? That was school today. We had to do on that test or what you do, and they just come in from school. Give them a break. You know what, you're not. You hear what I'm saying? Okay, that you didn't need that. I'm just going to keep going. If I don't see something in your eyes, I don't need it. That you're way ahead of me and that's normal cuz you probably are Isaiah 59:1. Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot stay or his ear dull that it cannot hear. But you're Nick Woody's have made a separation between you and your God and your sins have hidden his face from you. So that he does not here.

Our sin separates us from God, at the very time. He had planned something spectacular between us. Now, this is as important a thing as we would say any Sunday. Don't ever, ever, ever forget this. When it seems like God's not hearing your prayer, not answering your prayer, not giving you the peace that you require. Always, always, always.

Make sure there's not seeing in your life, that's keeping you apart from God.

Sometimes you go through life, you know, you've known the Lord a long time. There might be something your life you feel like well that's not that big a deal.

It's certainly not as bad, a thing as low as Pastor leaves. Doing, you know, I see past really doing blah blah blah. I would, you know he seems to be all right with God.

I just laughed. So loud. Are you laughing at in my life?

They would have been better Bridge.

I always have to stop, right? It's the first question. We always have to ask. Is there something that I'm not allowing the Holy Spirit to deal with, in my life? Is there something that I'm overlooking that I just pulled over in the corner that I said is not a big deal? It's not a big deal, a consult just I mean there's several million Israelites that go in and take the City Jericho.

I mean, it's been awhile and they go in and he just this one guy takes this little bit of gold and silver. It takes a garment and he hides it in his tent. Add a bonus. Millions of people just takes this little bit. And hides it.

Dogs. Not going to notice. That is he I mean, you would think, I mean, just pull yourself back from the earth and think of all that God has to look at the whole universe, is God, possibly going to even be concerned with that thing under there. and because of that thing under there but was it 36 men died when they went and tried to take a, i

Cause of death of those men.

One more thing. Oh God. Doesn't care.

Just because he doesn't.

He was something immediately.

McCall's. God doesn't deal with in immediately there for the heart of men. In their heart, it's always said.

According to scripture verbatim, that's what it says.

Our hearts are always sitting to do with you because God doesn't immediately deal with sin like that. That doesn't mean he's not going to deal with it. If he doesn't deal with it, meet Lee like that.

Ananias and Sapphira. He doesn't always do it like that doesn't, it doesn't immediately bring us in before the church and say Hey, you lied. Imagine if every Sunday morning, the first thing that we did our god, did I wouldn't want to be a part of it at all, if God brought us instead, all right, one by one, let's come up and anybody that slide this week one-by-one Gunston. All right.

One by one. And if we stay out here and we'd lied,

we died.

Now I don't know. I don't know how that would work. I hope we don't come out of it alive every Sunday morning. But possibly be either a long and long we might lose one or two.

Pointy fingers.

I want somebody. Yeah, that color looks good on you.

I don't know how, I don't know how.

That was a sewage.

Always. Always, Our God loves us with all his heart. He is forgiving to the other most but don't treat them like, okay. God, doesn't love seeing any more than they ever did. He hates sin because he remembers what it has done to all of us.

Thanks 31. Please Carl

Revised standard. Let not many of you become many teachers, my brother and for, you know, that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. Wow, cuz we have had a lot of people teach lately. Wow! Imma give you that from a different version from The Voice. My brothers and sisters do not encourage a large number of you to become teachers because teachers will be held to a higher standard.

Why in the world would anybody want to teach? Wow, let me give you that from a different version. But not many of you be teachers my brother's knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. Why would you want to teach?

Let me give you a different version. My brother's not many of you should be teachers, you know that we who teach will be punished more than other people.

Let me give you one more version. Trying to find a nicer version my brethren. do not ye be made many Masters wedding that you take the more Doom You want to go back to an older version, so we didn't just make sure that I wasn't watering it down. So I went to Wickliffe translator

Okay, let's go on people at the feast next week, right?

Respond. You they're not even food and I'm staying here teaching, but you get the point right. We've been trying to encourage people in their gifting and see you can no more say, I'm not a teacher after I read that, then you could last week the Sunday, we called up people with that gifting and prayed over him. That doesn't change any more after I read that than I did that Sunday when everybody was happy to have their gift it's the same it doesn't change anything what it does and hopefully it puts more the fear of God and all of us. That's the truth of God. You don't play with that.

Now. You do realize why we teachers are judged more strictly.

Don't you? It is real simple it because

Everything that we stand at, eat your judged by all of your teaching.

Every word that you stands a t. E g g.

everything that I've ever stood up and told on, I will be judged by

And I have to keep remembering that.

Knowing knowing that I've made mistakes. I hope there's Grace for those, that things that I've been dogmatic about over the years. And wrong and would not receive God's correction on. Those are the things that I'm really. Trouble over if I don't get right before I die. I have to make sure that I listen to the Holy Spirit. There's anything there that I have not been listening to. if there's been any Pride, if there's been any kind of stood up and gone, Hey you. What? I've got the answer here. Let me get up and do this. And I'm staying this today because we do have a larger percentage for our little group, we have a larger percentage of people that are called and believe they're called petite than any. Republican apart of the matter how many people are here, where there's five or 5,000, we have a larger percentage. And I've got to make sure my responsibility to make sure you understand what you're doing when you get up here.

Let me know that you heard what I just said by saying, amen. All I need to know. I let me win this down here.

All right. Now, can we go until a little bit faster Lane here? Matthew 12:20 to this man who was blind and couldn't speak with route to Jesus healed a man so that he can both speak and see the crowd was amazed and asked, could it be that Jesus is the son of David? The Messiah When the Pharisees heard about the miracle, they said, no wonder, he can cast out demons. He gets his power from Satan, the prince of demons. Jesus knew the thoughts and replied any Kingdom divided by Civil Wars. Do at our family splintered by feuding will fall apart and if Satan is testing out, Satan, his divided and fighting against himself is on Kingdom, will not survive. And if I'm empowered by stating what about your own Exorcist, they cast out demons to. So they will condemn you for what you said. But if I'm testing out demons by the spirit of God, in the kingdom of God has arrived among you, but who is powerful enough to enter the house was strong, man, and plunger is good. Only someone even stronger. Someone who could tie him up and punters house. Anyone who isn't with me, opposes me.

Start that verse over because this is the verse I want you to pick. We Mark, anyone who isn't with me, opposes me. And anyone who isn't working with me, is actually working against me.

He's staying to the Pharisees. He's telling them.

That what they're saying is just dumb. To say that Satan would break up his own kingdom like that.

he say if he's saying, if you're not with Then you're against.

No, I know you've probably read that about 70 dozen times.

but here's what I want to make sure that we understand, There is no spiritual Switzerland.

And you know, even so even when I say that there are millions of people out there, that's a minute, I get up. I'm good to my family. I'm a good guy. I go to work, I make a decent living. I don't abuse my wife or my kids got a good retirement plan for taking care of all that. I've got good life insurance. I don't, I don't drink, I don't smoke around, everything's pretty good, there I go to church on Sundays.

I don't raise a stink about anyting. I don't try not to offend anybody. I'm not in any weird groups out there, you know, I'm not a terrorist or a good guy. Don't make any waves.

I'll just kind of neutral out here.

What did John?

What's up? Jesus said, if you're not with me, you're against me.

Let me take this a step further.

What I have to ask myself. Is what does it mean to be with him?

It doesn't mean being here this morning. Now that's a part of my growth is part of my diet. I need to be here. I know that you know that or you wouldn't be here, this is this is very important but that is the turn that around. That doesn't mean to be with him because there are a lot of people we could fill up this room. And that doesn't mean that I'm with him, are there for you. And I can't say that being here to be with him.

So,

what am I doing today?

That is proof. I'm with him because

I'm not with him. I'm against them. Let's make it, brought us a short. Of time. That's not fairly. Alright. What am I doing this week? Don't answer out loud as we said last week. There's certain times that I know you feel like your living room but don't do it now, What have I accomplished this week that if I had to stand up right now and tell everybody what evidence can I give that? Is proof that I'm with him.

Just from this week. Now least given us more than the three hours or four hours. I've been awake this morning, whatever it is. I'll take the whole week and just try and my mind goes through my Rolodex. If I'm of a certain age, go through computer files, if I'm younger than 40

All right. What proof can I come up with? that I'm with him, if I had to

You want to go with us now?

There's no spiritual Switzerland.

It doesn't mean that I've had to go out and 12 people save this week because that's getting legalistic and no, we're not talkin about that.

If you're not with me, you're working against me. Jesus said,

Let me tell you a story when I was in 5th, grade. And fourth grade, I went to Morton Avenue School. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was a minority. I didn't even know I was a minority but I wasn't minority. And so in the fifth grade way things were, I lived on the border between I could go to three different schools and my father, moved us to a more affluent type School. And so, when I switched over there to the new school, I didn't fit in cuz I'd come from the wrong side of the tracks, supposedly, and my daddy, so mobile home. And so when they moved it, to the other store, will all these people. I lived in the mobile home, all these people didn't live in a mobile home, they lived on Nob Hill. And so, and mediately a lot of these guys didn't like me, cuz I wasn't worthy to be in their school. I didn't realize all that time. I just said that. And so does one guy took a disliking to me? Now I was a little scrawny guy at that point in the in life. Well, he went on to become a, he got a scholarship to the middle linebacker in college. Let me just tell you that. And so even the fifth grade He was he was a big guy. All right. He was a lot bigger than me but he acted like a middle linebacker in college even in the fifth grade. Okay. And looking back I didn't know it being but I think the other reason he didn't like me because as a little boy in the first through fourth grade always did, what do kids do? I send out Valentine's everybody in my class and so when I got to wear the 5th grade go to this school, William Williams height. I asked until Valentine to one class including all the girl. I didn't know that that was inappropriate at Williams and so in the process of doing that, I sent a valentine to his girlfriend. Will Jack the middle middle linebacker? Jack didn't like that. So he started saying, I don't know how to clear blue you up at the school when they start listen to begin school year but it was my next door neighbor when I grew up on the mobile home lot, buddy, and I've got in a fight one time. I don't know why, but we went to the back of the mobile home, lot in a fight,

And then he went back to his house and I'll be back to my house. I told my brothers, I said bring me my wrestling belt and went back to the house and brought me my plastic wrestling belt and I put it around me with the belt buckle. I get back to the border, the property line between me and so all year long he was beat me up after school. Beat me up after school and I managed to go a different way.

It's all came back to me this week. Needs a liver problem and went through soon and I'd walk home about a mile walking home through the city go home yet. Avoid Jack, a middle linebacker. And so finally the last day of school complete nothing. As he set up the last day of school, Call Nola.

Last day of school, all of the kids after school they get hold of me, there's a brick wall that all these kids, but I have a friend in the whole class and the ones I thought were my friends that day, they were not my friend and they all got around me and made sure. I couldn't go home and they shuffled me across the football field.

and,

I remember one of them grabbed my Crayola crayons.

And so I remember I took my glasses off your hands.

and this boy, you know,

and not, my whole class is a bunch of

now. Recent Chinese store. All those kids that we're not Circle.

Guess what?

I do not consider them. As a neutral.

Not for second. Not. when I looked back on that day, those kids were not neutral. There didn't know why they did not raise a finger. On a day when just two or three of them could have stepped up there and they were getting her back.

Stop that whole bloody mess. I didn't do it.

Guess what? things that we think we're just being neutral about

Jesus said,

you're not with me. You're working again.

You may think you're just standing around.

Working against. you may think that you're living in Switzerland, but you're

working gear.

Just saying, but that doesn't mean that I have to get involved in everything. Making everything that's wrong out there, right?

And I have to be moving Ward.

God in something that he's called me, too.

Don't you think?

And not only that. But if there's something in me, that's holding me back.

I can't just leave it laying there. Inside me either.

don't think that just because God is,

Using you or me? That, that means.

He is. Approving of a.

Wake me happy with everything in our lives.

Jackass.

No, not you. Jackass.

Becca.

Yo, you thought I was?

What I meant was that he used it cuz he cuz he's using you doesn't mean he's approved of you. Use the jackass in the Bible. Remember that time you spoke to one? That's all I put.

Are you home? You know the story of Balaam.

But we do things. McCall's.

We love God not just to be legal if it came in and I'll leave you with this story for the worship team this week. I start thinking about being a little boy again and When I was 7. Eight or nine. My daddy had a remote and I've asked if you knew what that was, my guess they still have them. Cuz ya'll said you did radio station came out to my father's business. And big Jeff came out there. I think I told you part of this story before Me, Maybe. Big Jeff, big Jeff really really big deal. Red headed guy chain-smoker work for Rave station about to do a remote and they did it all the way into the night. He was sitting out there doing his thing and he was trying to bring traffic to my father's mobile home sales, ad lights inside And I wanted more people to come out to my father's mobile home sales. So I went inside to my piggy bank,

Being, whatever about eight years old. I went inside my piggy bank. And I got all the money out of my piggy bank, that I've been saving, and I came back out and I had a hole in my pocket. and I,

And so I came out there and it was just a boxwood plant right out in front of boxwood long driveway. Where customers are boxwood and I, Let some of the coins all around this boxwood plant. And so the customers, when they come up and play outside and the kids know, so the kids will be up here and I'd go oh well look, I found a nickel. The kids would come over there and start looking around.

And so it created a stir among the kids because and so it is right next to Big Jeff on the radio. And so big Jeff.

Money tree and so he okay.

When we come back from commercial.

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9 long time ago. And so he goes