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Luke chapter number 14 and verse number 25.

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I prayed this afternoon and said, Lord, what

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is it you want me to preach?

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And I'm not exactly sure why the Lord

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directed me here.

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Matter of fact, just last night I was

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in a camp meeting over with Pastor Barrett

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and his fine folks at Zion Hill, and

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I preached on this very theme.

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And normally I'm very cognizant of the fact

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that maybe a couple of people were there,

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but I just can't get it off my

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heart, so I hope it'll help you tonight.

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Luke 14, verse 25.

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The Bible says, And there went great multitudes

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with him, and he turned and said unto

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them, If any man come to me and

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hate not his father, and mother, and wife,

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and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, in

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his own life also he cannot be my

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disciple.

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And whosoever doth not bear his cross and

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come after me cannot be my disciple.

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But which of you intending to build a

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tower sitteth not down first, and counteth the

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cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it,

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lest happily, after he had laid the foundation

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and is not able to finish it, all

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that behold it begin to market, saying, This

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man began to build, and was not able

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to finish.

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Or what king, going to make war against

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another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth

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whether he be able with ten thousand to

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meet him that cometh against him with twenty

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thousand.

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Or else, while he is yet a great

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way off, he sendeth an ambushage, and desireth

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conditions of peace.

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So likewise, whosoever he be of you, that

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forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot

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be my disciple.

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Tonight from Luke 14, I want to preach

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on this subject.

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Go back to your seat.

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Thank you very much.

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You may be seated.

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Let's bow our heads and hearts and pray

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and ask the Lord to bless our time

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together tonight.

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As we do with the subject, go back

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to your seat.

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Now, Father, I simply humbly pray tonight that

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you would empty me of myself.

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Fill me with the Holy Spirit.

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I pray I would not say one thing

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that would dishonor Christ.

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And I pray I'll say everything with boldness

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that you've laid upon my heart.

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Help these, my friends, as they listen.

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Help me now as I preach the unsearchable

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riches of the Word of God.

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And we'll thank you for what you'll say

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and do, for it's in Jesus' name that

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we ask it and pray.

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Amen.

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Let's just suppose tonight at Franklin O.

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Baptist Church that when Pastor Norris was in

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the pulpit just a moment ago introducing me,

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that during his introductory comments, let's just suppose

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I was not even here and I was

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not going to be the speaker tonight.

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And let's say that Pastor Norris looked everybody

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square dab in the eyeballs and said, ladies

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and gentlemen, what a privilege we have tonight.

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Tonight in the flesh we have none other

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than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself who will

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walk through the double doors of this church,

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grace up to this pulpit with a suit

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and tie on, clip a lavalier mic to

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his tie, get behind this pulpit and preach

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the faith of the Lord.

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Now, I'm telling you one thing.

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If Jesus Christ were to walk in these

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back doors and were to physically, thank God

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He's here tonight in spirit and in truth,

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but if He were to physically get in

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this pulpit tonight, I can promise you one

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thing about our Savior, there wouldn't be anybody

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swinging from the chandeliers, nobody would be doing

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cartwheels, I don't believe we'd be shouting from

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the aisles, but I think we'd all be

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on our face before the thrice holy God

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of the Bible.

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And if Jesus got in this pulpit and

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began to preach, I don't know a lot

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about maybe the Lord Jesus Christ more than

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I'd like to know a whole lot more,

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but I do know one thing about His

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preaching.

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If He were preaching tonight, there wouldn't be

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one person looking at your watch.

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There wouldn't be one person rubbernecking and turning

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around and looking at the clock there in

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the balcony.

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There wouldn't be one person doing their manicure

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or fixing their false teeth or combing their

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hair.

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There wouldn't be but one person digging their

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nose or passing notes.

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I'm telling you, if Jesus got in this

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pulpit, you would sit at the edge of

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your pew with bated breath and you would

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be magnetized to the ministry of Jesus Christ.

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And let's just suppose that He were preaching

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in this pulpit tonight and He said, tonight,

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ladies and gentlemen of the Franklin Rowe Baptist

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Church, I'm going to preach on the subject

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of discipleship.

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I'm going to preach on the subject of

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what it really means to sell out, to

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spit in the eye of the devil, to

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stomp on the world, to turn your back

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on friends and family as it were and

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sell out to be a true blue dyed

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-in-the-wool New Testament Bible disciple.

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And let's just suppose that Jesus preached on

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being a disciple of Himself tonight.

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Now, by the way, if there's any area

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of our churches that we are lacking in

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in fundamentalism, it is discipleship because it takes

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more than wearing a WWJD bracelet on your

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arm in the grocery store to be a

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follower of Jesus Christ.

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You are not a follower of Christ with

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your lips.

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You are a true follower of Christ with

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your life.

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That is why Jesus told the self-righteous

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hypocrite, the scribes and Pharisees, that ye draw

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near unto me with your mouth, but your

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hearts are far from me.

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So let's just suppose Jesus preached on discipleship.

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And let's just suppose as we continue the

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analogy that He said, now we're to the

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invitation.

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I want you to stand with your heads

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bowed and eyes closed reverently before the Lord

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and the pianist and the instruments begin to

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play.

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And let's suppose that Jesus gives this very

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simplistic, very basic and very generic invitation tonight.

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Jesus is speaking and here's what He said.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the Franklin Roe Baptist

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Church, if you really want to follow me,

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if you really want to be a New

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Testament disciple, if you really want to sell

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out and do what's right and be a

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true blue Christian, I want you to step

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out of your seat.

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I want you to come bathe these altars

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in prayer and in tears.

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And I want you to fall in your

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faith and beg and ask and plead the

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God of the Bible to fill you with

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His Holy Spirit, to give you the power

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and the Holy Ghost wisdom to be a

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true blue disciple.

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I do not believe.

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I do not believe that if Jesus gave

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an invitation like that, I don't believe there'd

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be two people left in their seat in

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the building tonight.

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Anybody that has any brain matter between their

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two God-given earlobes tonight, I believe they

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would sincerely be on their faith.

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I know I'd be on my faith.

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I hope you'd be on your faith.

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I'd want my wife to be on her

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faith.

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I know our preacher would be on his

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faith.

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I know these deacons would be on their

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faith and the Sunday school teachers and the

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Christian school teachers.

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I believe everybody in the building probably would

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leave their seat, would fall on their face

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and say, I really want to be a

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disciple.

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But here's the problem.

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I can see how you live and hear

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what you say, but there's only one person

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tonight that really knows the intentions of your

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heart.

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The Bible says in 2 Samuel 22, the

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eyes of the Lord run to and fro

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throughout the whole earth, beholding the evil and

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the good.

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Psalm 11 3, God is upon His holy

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throne.

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His eyelids try the children of men.

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Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 9, the heart is

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desperately wicked and deceitful above all things who

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can know it.

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I, the Lord, search the heart.

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I try the reins of men to see

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whether they be good or whether they be

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evil.

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Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verses 13 and 14.

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Let us hear the conclusion of the whole

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matter.

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Fear God and keep His commandments, for this

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is the whole duty of man.

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For God shall bring every work into judgment

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with every secret thing, whether it be good

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or whether it be evil.

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And I may be able to see you

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tonight and say, you know what?

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That person is so sincere.

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Their intentions are clear.

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Their motivations are pure.

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And that person, that man, that woman, that

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teenager, that little boy, that little girl, man,

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they really want to tell out and they

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want to be a disciple.

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But I do not know your heart as

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does the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And what an embarrassing predicament you'd find yourself

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in tonight.

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If Jesus were preaching this sermon on discipleship,

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if Jesus were giving this invitation and the

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altars and the aisles were flooded with people

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falling on their face before God saying, I

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really want to be a disciple.

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There's no doubt in my mind.

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Hear me well.

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There is no doubt in my mind that

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there would be people in this church who

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would be on their face and God would

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come to you and you would lift your

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face and look him eyeball to eyeball.

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And in front of everybody in this building

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upstairs and down tonight, Jesus Christ would honestly

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have to look at you and say, you

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know what?

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I know what the real intentions of your

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heart are.

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I know what your real motivations are.

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You're just here because everybody else is here.

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You really don't want to be a disciple.

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So why don't you just go back to

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your seat?

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And if I think the truth were told

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on many of us tonight, we are not

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that interested in being real, dyed in the

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wool, New Testament disciples.

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I want you to look in your Bible

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if you would, please, because Jesus did something

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quite interesting.

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He spun around on his heels, looked a

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multitude in the face and basically told them,

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just go back to your seat.

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Let me show you what I mean.

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Look in your Bibles, please.

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Luke 14, verse 25.

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And there went great multitudes with him and

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he turned and said unto them, If any

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man come to me and hate not his

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father and mother and wife and children and

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brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life

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also, he cannot be my disciple.

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So somebody says, well, wait a minute, Brother

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Locke.

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H-A-T-E, hate.

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I didn't think God was a God of

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hate.

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Well, you know the character of God and

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you know the character of Scripture well enough

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to know that God's not talking about bitterness.

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He is not talking about pride and prejudice.

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He is not talking about divorce.

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He is not talking about church wit.

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He's not talking about sawing people's heads off

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and shooting people with guns.

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That's not the type of hatred that he's

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talking about.

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Please understand that the word hate in your

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New Testament Bible, Luke chapter 14, is a

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comparative word.

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It is comparative terminology.

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For example, I'll give an analogy.

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I'll start a sentence.

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You finish the sentence.

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Guess what we see every Sunday afternoon of

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the world?

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Sunday afternoon drivers.

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And if there's one thing I cannot stand

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and dislike, it's Sunday afternoon drivers.

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Because I'm telling you, not only do I

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like to preach fast, I'll be honest with

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you, I like to drive fast.

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I like to do everything fast.

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I'm always in high gear.

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Ninety miles to nothing.

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From the time I get out of bed

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to the time I go back, I'm telling

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you, my brain is just a running.

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And my wife tells me I twitch while

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I'm sleeping.

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And so I'm still fast even when I

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sleep.

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And when I get behind a Sunday morning

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driver or a Sunday afternoon driver, I'm telling

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you, it crinkles me up to no end.

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But here's what happens.

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It's 70 miles an hour on the interstate.

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And we get behind some little fellow who's

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going 27 miles an hour on the interstate.

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And I mean, he's just a putter.

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And I mean, he's sweating because he thinks

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he's wide open Jeff Gordon.

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And so we get behind him and we

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rip over into the other lane and we're

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hollering and screaming and yelling out the window.

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And we throw that thing in low gear

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and we fly past him going about 87

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miles an hour.

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We pull over into his lane and we

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zoom right on by him.

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And he looks at his little old wife

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and he says, honey, that fellow passed me

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like I was sitting still.

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Now let me ask you a question.

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Was the little fellow sitting still?

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No, he's going 27 miles an hour.

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But his speed compared to my speed made

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it seem as if he were sitting still.

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And Jesus said your love for him ought

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to be so great.

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You ought to be so sold out to

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the cause of Christ tonight that your love

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and your zeal for Jesus Christ would be

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so huge that your love for anybody else

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would seem as if it were hastened.

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Little Susie was playing in a sandbox one

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day in the back of her house.

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Her mother went out there and she had

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three little dolls.

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And I mean little Susie was weeping a

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bucket of tears.

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Big, huge tears streaming down her face.

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And her mother came out there and she

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just gently grabbed her and said, Susie, what's

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wrong?

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She said, Mama, it's my dolls.

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She said, well, Susie, what's wrong with your

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dolls?

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She said, well, there's nothing wrong with them.

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She said, but I feed them all the

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time.

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And I change their clothes all the time.

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And I comb their hair all the time.

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And she said, Mama, I love them and

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I love them and I love them.

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But they never love me back.

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And if you want to be a real

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disciple tonight, you better write down number one,

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that first and foremost, you're going to have

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to love Jesus Christ more than any other

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person, more than your spouse, more than your

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children, more than your preacher, more than yourself.

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And Jesus said, you need a good old

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fashioned revival of falling in love with Jesus

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Christ, the Son of God.

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I got news for you, friends.

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It's not real popular, but I'm not running

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for office tonight.

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I'm trying to preach the Bible.

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I think if everybody at Francisco Baptist Church

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would fall in love with Jesus Christ, it'd

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fix a lot of problems at home.

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It'd fix a lot of problems in school.

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It'd fix a lot of problems in the

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community.

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And bless God, it'd fix a lot of

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problems in a local church.

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Did you know the Bible says, only by

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pride come a contention.

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And if we just get out of love

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with ourselves and fall in love with the

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blessed Savior, Jesus Christ, I'm telling you, it

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would fix a lot of the problems that

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we have.

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You know, it's one thing to say, well,

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I love Jesus more than my wife.

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You know, I've got the most submissive wife

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on the face of God's earth, honestly.

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Been married six years, and I could not

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be and would not be where I am

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in evangelism if it were not for my

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dear wife, Melissa.

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She is the most submissive lady you've ever

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met.

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It's honest truth.

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Last time we got in a fight, she

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came to me on her knees.

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She said, if you don't get out from

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under that bed, I'll beat the living devil

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out of you, you little brat.

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But I'll be honest with you.

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You know, sometimes it might be easy to

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say, well, I love Jesus more than my

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wife.

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I love Jesus more than my preacher.

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I love Jesus more than my mama.

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I love Jesus more than my father.

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But wait just a minute.

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The verse doesn't stop there.

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Notice what your Bible says, please, again, in

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verse number 26.

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If any man come to me and hate

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not his father and mother and wife and

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children and brethren and sisters, yea, the word

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means furthermore, and his own life also, he

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cannot be my disciple.

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You say, but Brother Locke, you just don't

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understand.

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I know, I know the Bible says that

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we're supposed to raise our kids in the

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nurture and the admonition of the Lord.

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And I know I shouldn't let little Junior,

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little Judy watch certain things on television.

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And I know I shouldn't let my daughters

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dress all worldly and sleazy and things like

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that.

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And I know what the Bible says about

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that.

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But you know, Brother Locke, I don't want

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to deprive my kids.

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I don't want them to stand out and

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look like a bunch of goons.

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Well, go back to your seat then.

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Just go back to your seat.

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If we're not going to sell out and

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get right with God and live a Bible

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life, then we might as well just go

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back to our seat, close her down and

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make this thing a movie theater because it's

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plenty big enough.

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I'm telling you, you're going to have to

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fall in love with Jesus more than you

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love your kids.

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You're going to have to fall in love

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with Jesus more than you love your boss.

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You're going to have to fall in love

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with Jesus, hold on to yourself more than

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you love you.

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Can I be real honest with you about

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something?

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I know some of your hair is going

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to part right down the middle.

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You're going to think I'm wicked.

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But you know I love myself tonight.

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You know that?

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I love myself.

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And if you tell me you don't love

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yourself, you're the biggest liar this side of

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the lake of fire, friend, because I'm telling

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you everybody in this room loves themselves.

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I got news for you.

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The Apostle Paul had struggles with his flesh.

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And if Paul had struggled with his, I

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promise you, Greg Lark's going to have struggles

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with his.

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That's why he said in Galatians 2.20,

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I am crucified with Christ.

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Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ

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lives within me.

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And the life I'll have now live in

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the flesh.

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I live by the faith of the Son

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of God who loved me and gave himself

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for me.

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He said in 1 Corinthians 15.31, I

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die, not monthly, not yearly, not biweekly.

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He said, I died daily.

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The Apostle Paul got up and every time

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his little feet hit the floor, he looked

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in the mirror and said, Paul dropped dead.

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You're not in control today.

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God is.

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And that's why Paul could say in Ephesians

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5.18, and be not drunk with wine,

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wherein is excess, but be filled, dominated, dictated,

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overrun, controlled by, be filled with the Spirit.

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Let me ask you a question.

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How can you be filled with the Spirit

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if you're filled with yourself?

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And the obvious answer is, you cannot be.

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And my greatest enemy tonight is not the

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liberals.

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My greatest enemy tonight is not the New

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Evangelicals and the Robert Shulers and the rest

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of Benny Hens and all the other crooks

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and charlatans on TV.

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My greatest enemy is me.

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Your greatest enemy is sitting with you tonight

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in the pew.

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And before you poke your spouse, I'm talking

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about you.

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Somebody said the only reason the Pope thinks

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he's perfect is because he's not married.

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Bless God if he's married, his wife would

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tell him different.

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Amen.

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Because nobody's perfect this side of the glory

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land and will never be perfect until we

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drop this robe of flesh and rise and

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kick up glory dust in the sky.

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We'll never be perfect.

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But I'm telling you, we need to have

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some people who fall in love with Jesus

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Christ, who get out of bed every morning

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and they read the Bible and they pray

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and they give and they go and they

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work and they love Jesus Christ.

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And I'm telling you, if you'd fall in

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love with Jesus, it'd fix a whole lot

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of the problems you've got in your life.

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I believe if we just fall in love

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with Jesus, I believe Dr. Bottlestopper's office wouldn't

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be so overrun like it is nowadays.

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I believe if we just fall in love

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with Jesus, you can pull your teenagers off

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of Ritalin.

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I believe if we just fall in love

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with Jesus, that we wouldn't have to worry

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about a bunch of pills and a bunch

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00:15:52,710 --> 00:15:54,530
of Dr. Ragamuffins and going to a bunch

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of sociologists and psychologists.

541
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I'm telling you, if you'd just fall in

542
00:15:57,870 --> 00:15:59,890
love with Jesus and it'd fix a whole

543
00:15:59,890 --> 00:16:01,390
lot of the problems that you've got down

544
00:16:01,390 --> 00:16:02,210
at the homestead.

545
00:16:03,570 --> 00:16:04,590
And here's what Jesus said.

546
00:16:05,410 --> 00:16:07,810
If you want to be a disciple, you're

547
00:16:07,810 --> 00:16:08,790
going to have to fall in love with

548
00:16:08,790 --> 00:16:11,290
me more than you love any other person.

549
00:16:11,910 --> 00:16:12,570
But you know what?

550
00:16:12,590 --> 00:16:13,670
The text doesn't stop there.

551
00:16:13,990 --> 00:16:15,170
Let's keep reading in our Bibles and notice

552
00:16:15,170 --> 00:16:16,370
what happens now in verse 27.

553
00:16:17,610 --> 00:16:21,450
And whosoever doth not bear his cross and

554
00:16:21,450 --> 00:16:22,550
come after me...

555
00:16:22,550 --> 00:16:24,370
Now, I'm not real smart, but I don't

556
00:16:24,370 --> 00:16:25,890
like to think myself real stupid either.

557
00:16:25,970 --> 00:16:27,850
If the Bible says we're supposed to come

558
00:16:27,850 --> 00:16:30,230
after Him, then obviously there's a place whereby

559
00:16:30,230 --> 00:16:31,210
we're supposed to go.

560
00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:33,050
Obviously, He's leading us somewhere.

561
00:16:33,290 --> 00:16:34,130
Matthew 10, 38.

562
00:16:34,210 --> 00:16:35,710
Let a man deny himself, take up his

563
00:16:35,710 --> 00:16:36,970
cross daily, and follow me.

564
00:16:37,030 --> 00:16:38,290
So notice what He says, verse 27.

565
00:16:38,710 --> 00:16:41,310
And whosoever doth not bear his cross and

566
00:16:41,310 --> 00:16:45,250
come after me cannot, Jesus says, cannot be

567
00:16:45,250 --> 00:16:46,530
my disciple.

568
00:16:46,530 --> 00:16:48,210
You've been around preaching long enough to know

569
00:16:48,210 --> 00:16:48,650
outlines.

570
00:16:48,830 --> 00:16:50,270
I like to do everything with P's or

571
00:16:50,270 --> 00:16:51,910
Z's or D's or Q's or R's.

572
00:16:52,090 --> 00:16:52,770
And so you follow me.

573
00:16:53,030 --> 00:16:54,350
Number one, you need to fall in love

574
00:16:54,350 --> 00:16:55,710
with Jesus Christ more than you love any

575
00:16:55,710 --> 00:16:56,230
other person.

576
00:16:56,550 --> 00:16:57,770
Number two, if you want to be a

577
00:16:57,770 --> 00:16:59,630
real, true, blue, dyed-in-the-wool New

578
00:16:59,630 --> 00:17:01,390
Testament disciple, then you're going to have to

579
00:17:01,390 --> 00:17:02,870
fall in love with Jesus more than you

580
00:17:02,870 --> 00:17:04,190
love any other place.

581
00:17:05,270 --> 00:17:06,329
Did you know if you get revival in

582
00:17:06,329 --> 00:17:07,650
your heart, you'll be willing to do whatever

583
00:17:07,650 --> 00:17:08,710
it is that God wants you to do?

584
00:17:09,510 --> 00:17:10,869
Did you know you'll be willing to go

585
00:17:10,869 --> 00:17:12,290
wherever it is that God wants you to

586
00:17:12,290 --> 00:17:12,450
go?

587
00:17:13,670 --> 00:17:15,630
You'll be willing to wear whatever it is

588
00:17:15,630 --> 00:17:17,109
that God wants you to wear You'll have

589
00:17:17,109 --> 00:17:18,530
this little phrase that I've had for six

590
00:17:18,530 --> 00:17:19,490
years now in evangelism.

591
00:17:19,730 --> 00:17:21,390
Where He leads me, I will follow.

592
00:17:21,530 --> 00:17:23,030
What He feeds me, I will swallow.

593
00:17:24,150 --> 00:17:24,849
I'll tell you something, friend.

594
00:17:25,710 --> 00:17:27,930
We've saved all of our messages on full

595
00:17:27,930 --> 00:17:29,350
-time surrender to the kiddos.

596
00:17:30,090 --> 00:17:31,430
And I'm just as bad as everybody else.

597
00:17:31,690 --> 00:17:32,190
You know what we do.

598
00:17:32,610 --> 00:17:34,190
Brother Adams, we get up at school and

599
00:17:34,190 --> 00:17:35,550
we get the little chapel platform down there

600
00:17:35,550 --> 00:17:37,250
and we slap the lapel mic on and

601
00:17:37,250 --> 00:17:38,750
all the kids get there and they're all

602
00:17:38,750 --> 00:17:39,270
tired.

603
00:17:39,550 --> 00:17:40,570
They're popping their bubble gum.

604
00:17:40,870 --> 00:17:41,710
They're worried about getting demerit.

605
00:17:41,810 --> 00:17:42,950
They're not worried about some guy preaching.

606
00:17:43,190 --> 00:17:45,030
And so we get in there and we

607
00:17:45,030 --> 00:17:47,890
go to Romans chapter 12 I beseech you,

608
00:17:48,010 --> 00:17:50,430
therefore, brethren by the mercies of God that

609
00:17:50,430 --> 00:17:52,510
ye present your bodies a living sacrifice wholly

610
00:17:52,510 --> 00:17:55,010
acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service

611
00:17:55,010 --> 00:17:56,690
and be not conformed to this world but

612
00:17:56,690 --> 00:17:58,210
be ye transformed by the renewing of your

613
00:17:58,210 --> 00:17:59,610
mind that ye may prove what is that

614
00:17:59,610 --> 00:18:01,670
good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

615
00:18:01,810 --> 00:18:03,610
And we shoot the old gospel gun and

616
00:18:03,610 --> 00:18:05,230
we tell young men and young ladies give

617
00:18:05,230 --> 00:18:06,090
Him your life.

618
00:18:06,290 --> 00:18:07,270
Give Him your life.

619
00:18:07,610 --> 00:18:08,570
Surrender to the will of God.

620
00:18:08,730 --> 00:18:09,570
Surrender to the will of God.

621
00:18:09,650 --> 00:18:11,150
And we ought to preach like that to

622
00:18:11,150 --> 00:18:11,590
teenagers.

623
00:18:12,230 --> 00:18:14,170
Because teenagers ought to surrender their life to

624
00:18:14,170 --> 00:18:14,670
the will of God.

625
00:18:14,790 --> 00:18:15,570
But wait a minute.

626
00:18:16,590 --> 00:18:19,070
We've saved all of our messages on surrender

627
00:18:19,070 --> 00:18:20,090
to the kiddos.

628
00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:21,950
When I know a bunch of moms and

629
00:18:21,950 --> 00:18:23,690
dads who need a good old-fashioned message

630
00:18:23,690 --> 00:18:24,430
on surrender.

631
00:18:25,010 --> 00:18:26,970
Somebody says, well, how come kids ain't living

632
00:18:26,970 --> 00:18:27,450
for God?

633
00:18:27,510 --> 00:18:28,730
It's because mom and daddies ain't living for

634
00:18:28,730 --> 00:18:28,870
God.

635
00:18:28,930 --> 00:18:29,310
That's why.

636
00:18:30,110 --> 00:18:30,970
Do you know if you study the life

637
00:18:30,970 --> 00:18:32,190
of John the Baptist you'll find out he

638
00:18:32,190 --> 00:18:33,370
had the personality of a rock.

639
00:18:34,590 --> 00:18:36,130
John had no personality whatsoever.

640
00:18:36,250 --> 00:18:36,910
But he didn't care.

641
00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:38,870
You think I wear wild clothes.

642
00:18:39,250 --> 00:18:40,530
Buddy, I ain't ever wear...

643
00:18:40,530 --> 00:18:43,370
I ain't ever wore black leather pants and

644
00:18:43,370 --> 00:18:45,210
a double-breasted camel hair coat and a

645
00:18:45,210 --> 00:18:46,810
big old beard and great big old hair

646
00:18:46,810 --> 00:18:48,310
sticking out with locust legs coming out of

647
00:18:48,310 --> 00:18:48,650
my mouth.

648
00:18:48,810 --> 00:18:50,010
Now, that sounds pretty good if you're a

649
00:18:50,010 --> 00:18:51,150
missionary to the motorcycle gang.

650
00:18:51,210 --> 00:18:52,450
But bless God, not in a Baptist church.

651
00:18:52,790 --> 00:18:54,970
And old John had the personality of a

652
00:18:54,970 --> 00:18:55,270
rock.

653
00:18:55,410 --> 00:18:56,910
But I'm telling you, Jesus said there was

654
00:18:56,910 --> 00:18:59,050
never a man who was greater than John

655
00:18:59,050 --> 00:18:59,590
the Baptist.

656
00:19:00,210 --> 00:19:01,470
And old John mounted the pulpit.

657
00:19:01,590 --> 00:19:03,930
I'm telling you, he preached and sweat and

658
00:19:03,930 --> 00:19:05,790
jumped all over the place like a Bartleman

659
00:19:05,790 --> 00:19:06,710
Bailey circus class.

660
00:19:06,890 --> 00:19:08,330
And the people enjoyed it, except for the

661
00:19:08,330 --> 00:19:09,250
scribes and Pharisees.

662
00:19:09,670 --> 00:19:10,670
Because he pointed them out and said, you

663
00:19:10,670 --> 00:19:12,770
bunch of snakes, you bunch of vipers, you

664
00:19:12,770 --> 00:19:14,090
bunch of wicked low-down, good-for-nothing,

665
00:19:14,190 --> 00:19:15,130
yellow-bellied compromisers.

666
00:19:15,310 --> 00:19:16,350
He said you need to get saved and

667
00:19:16,350 --> 00:19:16,990
get right with God.

668
00:19:17,130 --> 00:19:17,950
And they didn't like that.

669
00:19:18,070 --> 00:19:19,670
By the way, they still don't like that.

670
00:19:20,450 --> 00:19:21,550
And you can always pick them out.

671
00:19:21,650 --> 00:19:23,030
Sam Jones says, you throw a rock into

672
00:19:23,030 --> 00:19:25,230
a pack of dogs, the one that chases

673
00:19:25,230 --> 00:19:25,930
is the one you hit.

674
00:19:26,190 --> 00:19:27,230
And I always know who I hit in

675
00:19:27,230 --> 00:19:28,830
the Baptist church because they're the first ones

676
00:19:28,830 --> 00:19:29,610
at the tape table, amen.

677
00:19:29,830 --> 00:19:31,190
Well, I just got a bone to pick

678
00:19:31,190 --> 00:19:31,530
with you.

679
00:19:31,730 --> 00:19:32,710
Well, pick on, dear friend.

680
00:19:32,850 --> 00:19:34,050
But guess what I found out about the

681
00:19:34,050 --> 00:19:34,630
life of John.

682
00:19:36,370 --> 00:19:38,590
Old Zacharias couldn't speak for a while when

683
00:19:38,590 --> 00:19:40,130
he found out that his wife Elizabeth was

684
00:19:40,130 --> 00:19:40,730
going to have a baby.

685
00:19:41,230 --> 00:19:42,810
God said his name won't be Zacharias.

686
00:19:42,810 --> 00:19:44,030
His name's going to be John.

687
00:19:44,270 --> 00:19:46,590
And when Zacharias began to speak and he

688
00:19:46,590 --> 00:19:48,310
told those people his name's going to be

689
00:19:48,310 --> 00:19:49,810
John, guess what the people said?

690
00:19:50,890 --> 00:19:54,410
What manner of child ought he to be?

691
00:19:55,250 --> 00:19:56,370
The preacher, I read that the other day

692
00:19:56,370 --> 00:19:56,890
in my devotions.

693
00:19:56,950 --> 00:19:58,030
I thought to myself, what a claim.

694
00:19:58,990 --> 00:20:01,910
What manner of child ought he to be?

695
00:20:02,650 --> 00:20:03,770
I'll tell you what kind of kid he'll

696
00:20:03,770 --> 00:20:04,010
be.

697
00:20:04,770 --> 00:20:05,850
They'll be the kids you make them.

698
00:20:06,770 --> 00:20:08,390
If they love God, it's because you love

699
00:20:08,390 --> 00:20:08,750
God.

700
00:20:09,250 --> 00:20:10,890
If they love church, it's because you love

701
00:20:10,890 --> 00:20:11,230
church.

702
00:20:11,710 --> 00:20:12,990
If they love the man of God, it's

703
00:20:12,990 --> 00:20:14,250
because you love the man of God.

704
00:20:14,350 --> 00:20:14,870
I'm going to tell you something.

705
00:20:15,030 --> 00:20:15,910
It's not real popular in the day and

706
00:20:15,910 --> 00:20:17,050
age in which we live, but you want

707
00:20:17,050 --> 00:20:18,610
a sure way to have your kid take

708
00:20:18,610 --> 00:20:19,530
a man of God and hate church?

709
00:20:19,690 --> 00:20:21,710
Just rip your preacher off every Sunday afternoon

710
00:20:21,710 --> 00:20:22,550
when you're down at the restaurant.

711
00:20:23,190 --> 00:20:24,030
Just tear him all to pieces.

712
00:20:24,170 --> 00:20:24,870
I'll tell you one thing.

713
00:20:25,030 --> 00:20:26,110
I just don't think he's doing a very

714
00:20:26,110 --> 00:20:26,550
good job.

715
00:20:26,710 --> 00:20:27,990
And bless God, I could do a better

716
00:20:27,990 --> 00:20:28,890
job than Brother Norris.

717
00:20:29,130 --> 00:20:30,830
Well, apparently God didn't think so, big shot,

718
00:20:30,890 --> 00:20:31,970
because he put you out there and put

719
00:20:31,970 --> 00:20:32,830
him up here now did he?

720
00:20:33,530 --> 00:20:34,450
And I think we ought to get behind

721
00:20:34,450 --> 00:20:35,010
the man of God.

722
00:20:35,150 --> 00:20:36,090
I think we ought to take care of

723
00:20:36,090 --> 00:20:36,530
the man of God.

724
00:20:36,670 --> 00:20:38,130
I think when his tires start getting slick

725
00:20:38,130 --> 00:20:39,070
on his car, you ought to buy him

726
00:20:39,070 --> 00:20:40,610
some new tires, or bless God, put a

727
00:20:40,610 --> 00:20:42,050
Mercedes-Benz in his parking lot, amen.

728
00:20:42,290 --> 00:20:43,270
But I think we ought to love the

729
00:20:43,270 --> 00:20:43,730
man of God.

730
00:20:43,890 --> 00:20:44,950
And I think we ought to support the

731
00:20:44,950 --> 00:20:45,330
man of God.

732
00:20:45,490 --> 00:20:47,770
And I'll tell you why teenagers mouth off

733
00:20:47,770 --> 00:20:49,590
at the preacher, it's because mom and dad

734
00:20:49,590 --> 00:20:51,170
behind the preacher's back mouth off at the

735
00:20:51,170 --> 00:20:51,390
preacher.

736
00:20:52,570 --> 00:20:53,790
Now, I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, we

737
00:20:53,790 --> 00:20:55,170
don't need to just preach on surrender young

738
00:20:55,170 --> 00:20:56,210
people, surrender young people.

739
00:20:56,410 --> 00:20:57,850
We need to preach on surrender all of

740
00:20:57,850 --> 00:20:58,370
God's people.

741
00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:00,590
I know a bunch of people right now

742
00:21:00,590 --> 00:21:01,770
who would be on the mission field from

743
00:21:01,770 --> 00:21:03,770
Ambassador Baptist College if mom and daddy could

744
00:21:03,770 --> 00:21:05,010
just cut the cords and let them go.

745
00:21:06,210 --> 00:21:07,770
If that just cut the cords and let

746
00:21:07,770 --> 00:21:09,490
them go, you'd say, brother, I can't understand.

747
00:21:09,970 --> 00:21:11,730
I've had this kid and I love this

748
00:21:11,730 --> 00:21:12,950
kid with all my heart and I just

749
00:21:12,950 --> 00:21:13,930
can't let them go to the mission field.

750
00:21:14,030 --> 00:21:14,770
Well, go back to your seat then.

751
00:21:15,850 --> 00:21:18,050
Just go back to your seat.

752
00:21:18,770 --> 00:21:21,110
Because if you love your kids more than

753
00:21:21,110 --> 00:21:22,770
you love the will of God, you cannot

754
00:21:22,770 --> 00:21:24,870
be my disciple.

755
00:21:25,890 --> 00:21:27,210
Are you going to love Jesus more than

756
00:21:27,210 --> 00:21:27,870
you love your place?

757
00:21:27,990 --> 00:21:29,430
While we're on this little particular thing of

758
00:21:29,430 --> 00:21:30,470
a place, let me say this.

759
00:21:31,270 --> 00:21:34,150
There is one, count them, one place.

760
00:21:34,970 --> 00:21:37,450
There is one place tonight in this century

761
00:21:37,450 --> 00:21:39,890
and it has been since New Testament days

762
00:21:39,890 --> 00:21:44,830
that Jesus Christ has organized, has sanctified and

763
00:21:44,830 --> 00:21:45,950
has put His blessing on.

764
00:21:46,050 --> 00:21:48,570
Did you know there is only one major

765
00:21:48,570 --> 00:21:51,890
organization today whereby God puts His stamp of

766
00:21:51,890 --> 00:21:54,990
approval and that is the local New Testament

767
00:21:54,990 --> 00:21:56,490
church of Jesus Christ.

768
00:21:57,050 --> 00:21:58,150
And did you know if you fall in

769
00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:00,590
love with Jesus, you'll fall in love with

770
00:22:00,590 --> 00:22:01,390
a local church.

771
00:22:02,210 --> 00:22:04,050
I'm sick of the way people treat local

772
00:22:04,050 --> 00:22:05,170
churches in the day and age in which

773
00:22:05,170 --> 00:22:05,550
we live.

774
00:22:06,010 --> 00:22:07,390
And I please tell you, this ain't a

775
00:22:07,390 --> 00:22:07,950
lodge hall.

776
00:22:08,770 --> 00:22:09,850
This ain't a moose lodge.

777
00:22:10,430 --> 00:22:12,350
This ain't a 3D movie theater or an

778
00:22:12,350 --> 00:22:12,930
IMAX.

779
00:22:13,390 --> 00:22:14,490
This ain't a bowling alley.

780
00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:16,130
This ain't a worship center.

781
00:22:16,530 --> 00:22:17,930
This ain't a family life center.

782
00:22:18,250 --> 00:22:19,710
You ain't coming here so everybody can see

783
00:22:19,710 --> 00:22:21,290
your clothes and see your new haircut.

784
00:22:21,630 --> 00:22:23,050
You've come to the house of God so

785
00:22:23,050 --> 00:22:24,690
we can worship God in spirit and truth

786
00:22:24,690 --> 00:22:26,050
and the preacher can get in the pool

787
00:22:26,050 --> 00:22:27,590
pit and bow his back like a Benny

788
00:22:27,590 --> 00:22:29,030
Rooster and preach the devil out of all

789
00:22:29,030 --> 00:22:29,270
of us.

790
00:22:29,310 --> 00:22:30,530
That's why we come to church, friends.

791
00:22:31,530 --> 00:22:32,830
I'm sick and tired of these churches.

792
00:22:32,910 --> 00:22:34,530
They say, well, just come as you are

793
00:22:34,530 --> 00:22:36,130
and you'll leave as you were too.

794
00:22:37,810 --> 00:22:39,310
You'll leave as you were.

795
00:22:39,310 --> 00:22:40,430
I thank God for a church that's got

796
00:22:40,430 --> 00:22:40,990
some standards.

797
00:22:42,070 --> 00:22:43,510
I thank God for a church that's got

798
00:22:43,510 --> 00:22:44,310
some dress standards.

799
00:22:44,730 --> 00:22:45,810
I say, that's not real popular in the

800
00:22:45,810 --> 00:22:46,490
day and age in which we live.

801
00:22:46,890 --> 00:22:48,390
They say, oh, just let everybody wear what

802
00:22:48,390 --> 00:22:48,950
they want to wear.

803
00:22:49,170 --> 00:22:50,350
Just let them use what Bible they want

804
00:22:50,350 --> 00:22:50,690
to use.

805
00:22:50,850 --> 00:22:52,050
Man, get you a bunch of diesel sniffing

806
00:22:52,050 --> 00:22:53,830
cigarettes sucking mophead quartets up there and let

807
00:22:53,830 --> 00:22:55,090
them beat around with some bass guitars and

808
00:22:55,090 --> 00:22:56,830
on some drugs and it'll bring the people

809
00:22:56,830 --> 00:22:57,090
in.

810
00:22:57,250 --> 00:22:58,210
Yeah, and what you get them with is

811
00:22:58,210 --> 00:22:59,190
what you'll keep them with too.

812
00:22:59,950 --> 00:23:01,170
Now, I'm telling you, we need some old

813
00:23:01,170 --> 00:23:01,790
-fashioned standards.

814
00:23:01,990 --> 00:23:03,470
Hey, I'm telling you, you ought to give

815
00:23:03,470 --> 00:23:04,350
God your best.

816
00:23:05,210 --> 00:23:06,310
I don't think you ought to come to

817
00:23:06,310 --> 00:23:07,690
church in your Bermuda shorts and your little

818
00:23:07,690 --> 00:23:08,610
pink flamingo shirts.

819
00:23:09,150 --> 00:23:10,310
I think you ought to dress up.

820
00:23:10,710 --> 00:23:11,810
I think you ought to look nice when

821
00:23:11,810 --> 00:23:12,410
you come to church.

822
00:23:12,550 --> 00:23:13,810
You say, well, you don't put preaching and

823
00:23:13,810 --> 00:23:14,210
God in the middle.

824
00:23:14,290 --> 00:23:15,330
And bless God, we need somebody in the

825
00:23:15,330 --> 00:23:16,070
middle every now and then.

826
00:23:16,850 --> 00:23:17,950
Because I'm sick of the guilds of not

827
00:23:17,950 --> 00:23:19,090
having revival in local churches.

828
00:23:19,150 --> 00:23:20,030
And I'll tell you why we don't have

829
00:23:20,030 --> 00:23:20,870
revival in local churches.

830
00:23:21,050 --> 00:23:22,790
It's because we treat this place just like

831
00:23:22,790 --> 00:23:24,230
we treat our little boss's house.

832
00:23:24,390 --> 00:23:25,890
We treat this place just like we treat

833
00:23:25,890 --> 00:23:26,910
like some old little house.

834
00:23:27,030 --> 00:23:28,170
We treat it like it's a garage.

835
00:23:28,490 --> 00:23:29,710
We treat it like it's no big deal.

836
00:23:29,910 --> 00:23:31,930
No, this is the local New Testament church

837
00:23:31,930 --> 00:23:33,230
of Jesus and we ought to treat it

838
00:23:33,230 --> 00:23:34,350
like a local New Testament church.

839
00:23:35,290 --> 00:23:36,170
People come to church.

840
00:23:36,270 --> 00:23:37,610
They wake up, you know, church starts at

841
00:23:37,610 --> 00:23:37,830
11.

842
00:23:37,910 --> 00:23:39,070
So they get up about 1053.

843
00:23:39,510 --> 00:23:39,890
Yeah, it is.

844
00:23:42,950 --> 00:23:43,850
I'm glad we go to heaven.

845
00:23:43,970 --> 00:23:44,330
There'll be no.

846
00:23:46,470 --> 00:23:47,450
So they reach up and they hit that

847
00:23:47,450 --> 00:23:48,810
little button, S-N-O-O-Z-E,

848
00:23:48,910 --> 00:23:50,090
snooze, because that's what you want to do.

849
00:23:50,290 --> 00:23:51,610
And finally, you wake up at 1058.

850
00:23:51,750 --> 00:23:53,930
You say, honey, we're going to be late.

851
00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:54,970
We got to get to church.

852
00:23:55,090 --> 00:23:55,710
So you jump up.

853
00:23:55,730 --> 00:23:56,690
You don't even brush your teeth.

854
00:23:56,930 --> 00:23:58,050
You don't even comb your hair.

855
00:23:58,210 --> 00:23:59,390
You don't even put no deodorant on.

856
00:23:59,530 --> 00:24:00,750
You got the same socks on you've had

857
00:24:00,750 --> 00:24:01,570
for 43 weeks.

858
00:24:01,770 --> 00:24:02,990
Your wife comes walking out of the house.

859
00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:04,350
She's all disheveled and all wrinkled.

860
00:24:04,350 --> 00:24:05,450
She's got rollers in her hair.

861
00:24:05,610 --> 00:24:06,990
She's got one naked kid over here.

862
00:24:07,170 --> 00:24:08,530
She's got a half naked kid over here.

863
00:24:08,750 --> 00:24:09,870
And she's got a diaper on top of

864
00:24:09,870 --> 00:24:10,150
her head.

865
00:24:10,330 --> 00:24:11,470
Or the baby's caught all over.

866
00:24:11,690 --> 00:24:12,810
And she's got milk spit all over.

867
00:24:13,050 --> 00:24:13,850
Nobody's had breakfast.

868
00:24:14,130 --> 00:24:14,970
Nobody's had devotions.

869
00:24:15,210 --> 00:24:16,490
And then everybody's running around the house.

870
00:24:16,630 --> 00:24:18,070
Just a couple more minutes of church time.

871
00:24:18,190 --> 00:24:19,210
And they throw one on the hood.

872
00:24:19,390 --> 00:24:20,290
They throw one in the trunk.

873
00:24:20,470 --> 00:24:21,310
And old papa's out there.

874
00:24:22,190 --> 00:24:23,750
We're going to be late for choir rehearsal,

875
00:24:23,890 --> 00:24:24,070
baby.

876
00:24:24,150 --> 00:24:24,730
Get in the car.

877
00:24:24,850 --> 00:24:25,890
And he comes down there and throws that

878
00:24:25,890 --> 00:24:26,590
thing in high gear.

879
00:24:26,750 --> 00:24:28,170
He rips her high heel off the bottom

880
00:24:28,170 --> 00:24:28,630
of her shoe.

881
00:24:28,790 --> 00:24:30,430
And they slide in the church, 90 miles

882
00:24:30,430 --> 00:24:30,750
to nothing.

883
00:24:31,010 --> 00:24:32,350
They come whipping and flipping in the back

884
00:24:32,350 --> 00:24:32,530
door.

885
00:24:32,530 --> 00:24:33,750
They sit down in the back row and

886
00:24:33,750 --> 00:24:37,070
say, I'm here to worship God.

887
00:24:37,150 --> 00:24:38,150
And I don't believe a word of that

888
00:24:38,150 --> 00:24:38,510
garbage.

889
00:24:39,650 --> 00:24:41,010
I think if you're here to worship God,

890
00:24:41,070 --> 00:24:41,870
you ought to comb your hair.

891
00:24:42,550 --> 00:24:43,770
I think if you're here to worship God,

892
00:24:43,830 --> 00:24:44,530
you ought to do what's right.

893
00:24:44,610 --> 00:24:45,410
You ought to dress what's right.

894
00:24:45,630 --> 00:24:46,650
Some people come to church.

895
00:24:46,830 --> 00:24:48,470
If it's turkey season, somebody's about to go

896
00:24:48,470 --> 00:24:49,010
stick their head on.

897
00:24:49,070 --> 00:24:49,950
Thing's sticking up just like you.

898
00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,080
I get the pretty low down and sorry

899
00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:57,180
Christians who would dress right to get a

900
00:24:57,180 --> 00:24:59,040
paycheck, but they won't dress right to worship

901
00:24:59,040 --> 00:24:59,360
God.

902
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,120
I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, I believe

903
00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,060
we've got to fall in love with the

904
00:25:03,060 --> 00:25:04,020
place of the local church.

905
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,240
Did you know if some of us gave

906
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,060
our bosses the same excuse for not going

907
00:25:09,060 --> 00:25:11,620
to work, that we give God and the

908
00:25:11,620 --> 00:25:12,760
preacher for not coming to church?

909
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:14,840
You'd be on welfare tonight.

910
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,420
He'd have fired your tail 10 years ago,

911
00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:18,560
and you know it hands down, he'd have

912
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:19,880
fired you and kicked you off the job.

913
00:25:20,740 --> 00:25:21,980
I think I've learned something hard way about

914
00:25:21,980 --> 00:25:22,400
badness.

915
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,260
We do what we want to do.

916
00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:29,000
You say, well, brother Locke, Wednesday night prayer

917
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:29,280
meeting.

918
00:25:29,780 --> 00:25:31,340
It can't be that big of a deal.

919
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,800
There's a program that comes on Wednesdays that

920
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:34,780
I just got to watch.

921
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:35,940
We'll go back to your seat, big shot.

922
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:38,280
Let's go back to your seat.

923
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:39,820
Well, brother Locke, you don't understand.

924
00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:42,220
My kids play t-ball.

925
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:42,740
Hello.

926
00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:44,920
Ain't nothing wrong with t-ball.

927
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,340
Nothing wrong with a nice little soccer league.

928
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,520
And I'm telling you, if you let your

929
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,600
kids get devoured by sports and you let

930
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,480
them have their mind filled with sports, sports,

931
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,300
sports, and they don't care anything about preaching

932
00:25:55,300 --> 00:25:56,680
and they don't care anything about the house

933
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,440
of God, then just go back to your

934
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,200
seat because you cannot be a disciple of

935
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:00,800
Jesus Christ.

936
00:26:01,620 --> 00:26:02,800
And I'm telling you, we need some people

937
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,600
who will just sell out to the cause

938
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,540
of Jesus Christ and fall in love with

939
00:26:06,540 --> 00:26:09,600
God's place rather than their place.

940
00:26:10,220 --> 00:26:11,660
Well, brother Locke, I just bought this new

941
00:26:11,660 --> 00:26:12,020
bass boat.

942
00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:13,080
Well, glory to God, I hope you did.

943
00:26:13,140 --> 00:26:13,880
Take me fishing sometime.

944
00:26:14,220 --> 00:26:15,960
They say, well, but I got to pay

945
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:16,460
for it.

946
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:17,920
And in order to pay for it, I

947
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,160
got to miss Sunday morning church so I

948
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,500
can work a few extra hours.

949
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,420
Well, Mr. Boat Lover, go back to your

950
00:26:24,420 --> 00:26:24,620
seat.

951
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,180
Because if you love your boat more than

952
00:26:28,180 --> 00:26:29,760
you love the things of God, you cannot

953
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,020
be my disciple.

954
00:26:33,060 --> 00:26:34,500
You know why it's quiet here tonight?

955
00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:36,640
Because you know what I'm preaching is coming

956
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,840
out of red letters in your Bible.

957
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:39,960
And I think a lot of times we

958
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,220
have the idea that being a disciple of

959
00:26:41,220 --> 00:26:42,580
Jesus Christ is just a little flippant thing.

960
00:26:42,660 --> 00:26:43,820
Well, I'm going to be a disciple.

961
00:26:44,060 --> 00:26:45,360
No, it's more than what you say with

962
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:45,840
your mouth.

963
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,540
It's how you live your life 24 hours

964
00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:49,040
a day and seven days a week.

965
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:51,400
God, give us some people who will sell

966
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,140
out to Jesus Christ and do what's right.

967
00:26:55,420 --> 00:26:57,160
December the 27th of this past year, I

968
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:58,420
boarded a jumbo jet and flew to Ghana,

969
00:26:58,500 --> 00:26:58,900
West Africa.

970
00:26:58,980 --> 00:26:59,960
I've been on the mission field four or

971
00:26:59,960 --> 00:27:00,420
five times.

972
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:02,440
To make a long story short, I had

973
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:04,820
the greatest hit of my life on the

974
00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:05,260
mission field.

975
00:27:05,620 --> 00:27:06,360
I went over there.

976
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,340
We had six days of services and they

977
00:27:08,340 --> 00:27:09,380
preached me 14 times.

978
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,000
I'm telling you, we had a glory time.

979
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:12,240
And I'll be honest with you.

980
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,400
Brother Wallace knows this.

981
00:27:13,580 --> 00:27:14,620
He's been all around the world.

982
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:17,180
Whenever you go overseas, you've got to have

983
00:27:17,180 --> 00:27:17,620
an interpreter.

984
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,000
And for him, that ain't a big deal.

985
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:20,280
But when you preach like me, buddy, that's

986
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:21,280
a real big deal because they got to

987
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:21,920
keep up quick.

988
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:23,680
I'm telling you, you better put some extra

989
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,460
quality on because them jokers don't jump out

990
00:27:25,460 --> 00:27:26,360
when I hop in the pool for you.

991
00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:28,260
And I'm telling you, this guy was the

992
00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:30,940
best interpreter I ever had in my life,

993
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:31,320
honestly.

994
00:27:31,860 --> 00:27:33,700
I've never had an interpreter that was so

995
00:27:33,700 --> 00:27:34,840
thorough in what he said.

996
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,480
Brother Jesse, by the way, I preached in

997
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,180
his church before last year when I was

998
00:27:39,180 --> 00:27:40,380
here for the revival with the Robertsons.

999
00:27:40,580 --> 00:27:41,480
And he's good about this.

1000
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,340
Whenever you can use an interpreter who's a

1001
00:27:43,340 --> 00:27:45,320
preacher, preachers think like preachers.

1002
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:46,920
So he knows where I'm going before he

1003
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:47,920
can get there and so they can preach.

1004
00:27:48,020 --> 00:27:50,040
Well, this guy was 21 years old.

1005
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:51,020
His name was Old Drew.

1006
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,540
And I'm telling you, he was a preaching

1007
00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:53,080
machine.

1008
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,340
If I rub my forehead like that with

1009
00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,240
my handkerchief, he rubbed his forehead like that

1010
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:57,740
with his handkerchief.

1011
00:27:58,820 --> 00:27:59,940
If I kicked up my leg and got

1012
00:27:59,940 --> 00:28:01,280
excited, I threw up a hand like that,

1013
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:02,180
he kicked up his leg.

1014
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:03,600
If I hit the pulpit, he hit his

1015
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:03,880
pulpit.

1016
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,360
If I held up my Bible, he held

1017
00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:05,740
up his Bible.

1018
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,600
I'm telling you, he mirrored not just what

1019
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,300
I said, he mimicked all my actions.

1020
00:28:09,980 --> 00:28:11,780
And I'm telling you, we had a wonderful

1021
00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:12,040
time.

1022
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,200
You talk about going over a limit this

1023
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,380
morning with 1300 and some people.

1024
00:28:15,460 --> 00:28:16,300
And I praise God for that, man.

1025
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:16,720
That's wonderful.

1026
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,340
But I'll tell you something, we had 500

1027
00:28:18,340 --> 00:28:19,260
first time visitors.

1028
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:21,760
Can you imagine Deacon selling some cards out

1029
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:22,200
like that?

1030
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:25,240
Usher sending out some visitors cards, 500 first

1031
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,560
time visitors, 225 public professions of faith.

1032
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:29,760
I'm telling you, God came down.

1033
00:28:29,820 --> 00:28:30,540
We had a great meeting.

1034
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:34,240
On Wednesday night, I was preaching.

1035
00:28:34,980 --> 00:28:36,800
And I was preaching from Philippians chapter number

1036
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:37,020
two.

1037
00:28:38,060 --> 00:28:39,840
And while I was preaching, there were several,

1038
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,320
I believe it was two or three, I

1039
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,200
think it was two Muslim men who were

1040
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,140
to my left in the back.

1041
00:28:44,220 --> 00:28:45,280
I knew they were Muslims, had the dark

1042
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,140
sunglasses on, had the little robes on from

1043
00:28:47,140 --> 00:28:48,080
their neck all the way down to their

1044
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:48,600
toes, you know.

1045
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:50,160
And they had the little beanie hats, had

1046
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:50,760
the little canes.

1047
00:28:50,820 --> 00:28:52,900
And you just knew they were there to

1048
00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:53,580
start a ruckus.

1049
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,620
Now, I don't believe in preaching mean just

1050
00:28:56,620 --> 00:28:57,060
to be mean.

1051
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,600
I don't believe in just saying things just

1052
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:00,740
to offend people, but I don't believe you

1053
00:29:00,740 --> 00:29:01,400
got to trim your sails.

1054
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,340
I think you got to be the same

1055
00:29:02,340 --> 00:29:03,180
everywhere you go.

1056
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,140
People tell me I preach fast.

1057
00:29:05,220 --> 00:29:06,760
Well, I preach fast in Mississippi just as

1058
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:07,960
well as I preach fast in Tennessee, just

1059
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:08,880
as well as I preach fast in Ghana,

1060
00:29:08,980 --> 00:29:09,280
West Africa.

1061
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:10,460
I think a man ought to be himself

1062
00:29:10,460 --> 00:29:11,120
everywhere that he is.

1063
00:29:11,260 --> 00:29:12,360
And I don't believe in trimming your sails.

1064
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:13,580
I don't believe in putting a bit in

1065
00:29:13,580 --> 00:29:13,880
your mouth.

1066
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:15,540
I'm not preaching for money and I'm not

1067
00:29:15,540 --> 00:29:16,200
preaching for meetings.

1068
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:17,260
Matter of fact, I'm trying to get out

1069
00:29:17,260 --> 00:29:18,060
of a few of them, but I'll be

1070
00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:18,560
honest with you.

1071
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:19,680
I believe you ought to be the same

1072
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,800
everywhere you go on God's earth.

1073
00:29:22,260 --> 00:29:23,560
So I wasn't going to trim my sails

1074
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:24,820
just because there's a couple of Muslims there.

1075
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:25,500
So here's what I said.

1076
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:27,100
I looked over at my interpreter out of

1077
00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:27,680
the side of my mouth.

1078
00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,060
I said this, Oh, Drew, say everything.

1079
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,160
Say everything that comes out of my mouth.

1080
00:29:34,060 --> 00:29:35,200
Some guys were back there and I said,

1081
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,160
Jesus Christ is God.

1082
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:40,040
I don't know what he said, but they

1083
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:40,360
said amen.

1084
00:29:40,460 --> 00:29:41,160
So I guess he said amen.

1085
00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:44,240
And I said, Allah is not God.

1086
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:45,240
He said it.

1087
00:29:45,580 --> 00:29:47,000
Allah has never been God.

1088
00:29:47,060 --> 00:29:47,460
He said it.

1089
00:29:47,540 --> 00:29:49,640
I said, Confucius is not God and Buddha's

1090
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:50,060
not God.

1091
00:29:50,140 --> 00:29:51,740
And I went through a whole big, long

1092
00:29:51,740 --> 00:29:52,480
list of everybody.

1093
00:29:52,700 --> 00:29:54,880
And I said, Jesus Christ is the only

1094
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:55,680
way to heaven.

1095
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,800
And the people knew that they were there,

1096
00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,700
but it was a calm, coolness, a great

1097
00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:01,540
spirit till the next morning when I got

1098
00:30:01,540 --> 00:30:01,840
in the book.

1099
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,300
At 1030, I was preaching on the subject

1100
00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:04,980
from Luke 16.

1101
00:30:05,260 --> 00:30:06,140
Very simple subject.

1102
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,560
What the Bible has to say about a

1103
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,140
place called hell.

1104
00:30:08,620 --> 00:30:09,400
I preached it last week in a tent

1105
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:10,080
meeting in North Carolina.

1106
00:30:11,220 --> 00:30:13,700
And while I was preaching, a truckload of

1107
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:14,980
Muslims came pulling up to my left.

1108
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:16,640
I'm not talking about a little 1986 Toyota

1109
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:16,940
truck.

1110
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:18,620
I'm telling you a BFI dumpster, buddy.

1111
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,820
I mean, it was packed full of Muslim

1112
00:30:21,820 --> 00:30:22,080
men.

1113
00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:24,440
They come piled out of the cab.

1114
00:30:24,540 --> 00:30:25,600
They come piled out of the back.

1115
00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:27,060
They got out of the catalytic converter.

1116
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,120
They got out of the ashtray.

1117
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,300
They got out of the tailpipe.

1118
00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:30,500
Let's God, they were everywhere.

1119
00:30:32,060 --> 00:30:32,840
And I'm going to tell you the truth.

1120
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,020
I sat in a pulpit and I was

1121
00:30:35,020 --> 00:30:36,240
preaching on what the Bible has to say

1122
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:37,060
about a place called hell.

1123
00:30:37,980 --> 00:30:39,420
And preachers, they started right here on this

1124
00:30:39,420 --> 00:30:39,980
side of the tent.

1125
00:30:40,820 --> 00:30:42,180
And about 25 or 30 of them went

1126
00:30:42,180 --> 00:30:43,020
all the way around that tent.

1127
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:44,660
Dark sunglasses, little beanie hats on.

1128
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:46,640
Had their nice little old robes.

1129
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:48,140
They had little books.

1130
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:49,140
I guess they were Korans.

1131
00:30:49,420 --> 00:30:50,340
Had the little staffs.

1132
00:30:50,740 --> 00:30:52,300
And one by one, they lined up 25,

1133
00:30:52,460 --> 00:30:54,120
30 of them all the way around that

1134
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:54,280
tent.

1135
00:30:54,340 --> 00:30:56,240
There must have been 250, 260 people in

1136
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:56,560
that building.

1137
00:30:56,820 --> 00:30:58,640
And I'm telling you, it was almost as

1138
00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,460
if there was tension.

1139
00:30:59,580 --> 00:31:00,500
You could have cut it with a gold

1140
00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:02,360
butter knife and everybody in that building know

1141
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,060
we was about to get blowed up.

1142
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,420
Because it was after September 11th.

1143
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:07,900
And I knew why they were there.

1144
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:09,800
It's because I said something about all of

1145
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,300
them the night before.

1146
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,260
And there they were, lined up all around

1147
00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:13,620
the tent.

1148
00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:16,400
And I thought, well, if I'm going to

1149
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,740
go out, we're going out with a bang.

1150
00:31:18,780 --> 00:31:19,020
Amen.

1151
00:31:21,500 --> 00:31:23,380
So I changed my sermon in mid-gear.

1152
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:25,900
You know, you can always tell the devil's

1153
00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:27,160
crowd when you start preaching on the blood

1154
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:27,820
of Jesus Christ.

1155
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,260
Hey, if you ever get some dope smokers

1156
00:31:30,260 --> 00:31:31,880
and some rebel rousers that show up at

1157
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:33,880
a meeting, just start singing about the blood.

1158
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:35,860
And I'm telling you, they'll run for the

1159
00:31:35,860 --> 00:31:36,820
mountains and for the rocks.

1160
00:31:37,060 --> 00:31:38,880
And so I started preaching, what can wash

1161
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:39,660
away my sins?

1162
00:31:39,820 --> 00:31:40,920
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

1163
00:31:41,140 --> 00:31:42,400
What can make me whole again?

1164
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:43,680
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

1165
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,060
And I started preaching on the blood of

1166
00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:45,260
Christ.

1167
00:31:45,460 --> 00:31:46,660
And I must have preached for 10 or

1168
00:31:46,660 --> 00:31:47,220
15 minutes.

1169
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,880
And they all stood there and they were

1170
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:49,340
stoned.

1171
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:50,340
They were stone faced.

1172
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:51,360
They didn't move.

1173
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:52,860
I don't even know if they breathed.

1174
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:54,440
And I thought every one of them's got

1175
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:54,840
a gun.

1176
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,700
Every one of them's got a detonator tied

1177
00:31:56,700 --> 00:31:57,260
to their legs.

1178
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,340
They're going to blow us all to kingdom

1179
00:31:58,340 --> 00:31:58,660
come.

1180
00:31:58,820 --> 00:32:00,000
I kissed my wife goodbye.

1181
00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:01,260
I'll never see her again.

1182
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:02,320
It's over with.

1183
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,020
So I might as well have myself a

1184
00:32:04,020 --> 00:32:06,040
glory fit and just preach myself to the

1185
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:06,540
grave.

1186
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:08,080
But they started leaving.

1187
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:09,880
This one left.

1188
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:11,380
So three left.

1189
00:32:12,340 --> 00:32:13,300
Five, six, seven, eight of them left.

1190
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:14,600
They got a little truck.

1191
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,480
The two of them stayed.

1192
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:20,980
And they wrapped right in the back.

1193
00:32:21,380 --> 00:32:23,540
Two teenage boys got up and ushered them

1194
00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:24,360
down and gave them a seat.

1195
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:26,840
I had about 15 minutes left of my

1196
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,060
sermon.

1197
00:32:27,700 --> 00:32:29,000
I continued preaching on the blood.

1198
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:31,240
I continued preaching about the fact that there

1199
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:32,320
is a hell and there's only one way

1200
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,540
out of hell and that's King Washington, the

1201
00:32:33,540 --> 00:32:34,900
Red Royal Blood of the Crimson Calvary.

1202
00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:36,400
And I preached and preached and preached on

1203
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,760
that for about the next 15 minutes.

1204
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,100
I said, ladies and gentlemen, I want you

1205
00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:41,220
to bow your heads and close your eyes.

1206
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:42,500
And through my interpreter, here's what I said.

1207
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,740
If you will renounce your religion, if you

1208
00:32:45,740 --> 00:32:48,540
will renounce Allah, if you will renounce Buddha,

1209
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,700
if you will renounce all of that stuff

1210
00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:52,180
that you've heard all of your life, if

1211
00:32:52,180 --> 00:32:53,860
you will turn from your ways, if you

1212
00:32:53,860 --> 00:32:56,340
will trust Jesus Christ today, if you will

1213
00:32:56,340 --> 00:32:58,040
trust Him and Him alone as I preached

1214
00:32:58,040 --> 00:32:59,280
this morning, it gets you to heaven.

1215
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,280
I said, I want you to stand right

1216
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:01,940
now to your feet.

1217
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,140
And without a second's hesitation, both of those

1218
00:33:04,140 --> 00:33:07,440
two fully garbed, fully robed Muslim men stood

1219
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,100
to their feet, pulled their glasses off their

1220
00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:11,660
face, bowed their head.

1221
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,680
And as I prayed to an interpreter out

1222
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,760
loud, those two Muslim men, as long as

1223
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,120
30 and 40 other people that were in

1224
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,520
that tent, out loud prayed to receive Jesus

1225
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,340
Christ as their personal savior and out loud

1226
00:33:22,340 --> 00:33:25,000
renounced Allah and the Muslim religion.

1227
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,380
I want to make sure I've seen them

1228
00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:28,140
fellas after the service.

1229
00:33:29,060 --> 00:33:29,960
You got to understand, when you're on the

1230
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,940
mission field, people want to touch you.

1231
00:33:34,140 --> 00:33:35,280
If you go over to Africa, they want

1232
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,300
to see if what you got's real.

1233
00:33:36,740 --> 00:33:37,640
I mean, they're rubbing it.

1234
00:33:37,980 --> 00:33:40,440
I mean, they're grabbing, they're pulling, they're choking,

1235
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:41,200
they're all over.

1236
00:33:41,220 --> 00:33:42,180
They wouldn't let me carry anything.

1237
00:33:42,340 --> 00:33:44,940
I mean, precious, dear, dear people.

1238
00:33:45,340 --> 00:33:46,940
And they packed that building every night.

1239
00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:48,520
I made my way through them.

1240
00:33:48,580 --> 00:33:49,120
Excuse me, folks.

1241
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:50,020
Excuse me, I didn't see these fellas.

1242
00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:50,700
Excuse me, pardon me.

1243
00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:51,020
Excuse me.

1244
00:33:51,180 --> 00:33:52,140
I got back to the back doors in

1245
00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:52,340
Tucson.

1246
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,260
I looked at them and I said, fellas,

1247
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:54,980
I appreciate what you're doing.

1248
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:56,360
They both went to a university and man,

1249
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:57,060
they had very good egos.

1250
00:33:57,880 --> 00:33:58,940
And I said, man, I said, I appreciate

1251
00:33:58,940 --> 00:33:59,740
what you fellas have done.

1252
00:33:59,980 --> 00:34:00,860
I said, did you mean that?

1253
00:34:00,900 --> 00:34:02,180
And they said, yes, we meant that.

1254
00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:03,240
And I said, well, what does that mean?

1255
00:34:03,260 --> 00:34:04,320
And they said, well, you know, our family's

1256
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:04,920
not going to like it.

1257
00:34:04,940 --> 00:34:05,600
And that's quite obvious.

1258
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:06,780
By the way, if you start in a

1259
00:34:06,780 --> 00:34:08,540
Muslim religion, you'll find out if somebody renounces

1260
00:34:08,540 --> 00:34:10,199
that in terms of Christ, buddy, they'll have

1261
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:11,000
a funeral for you.

1262
00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:13,520
They'll go ahead and just count you as

1263
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:14,179
a dead man.

1264
00:34:14,739 --> 00:34:16,080
They'll go ahead and count you like you've

1265
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:17,560
never even been born, like you're not even

1266
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:17,920
around.

1267
00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:19,139
And I said, fellas, what does it mean?

1268
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:20,340
I said, our family's not going to like

1269
00:34:20,340 --> 00:34:20,440
it.

1270
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:21,940
The university and our professors are not going

1271
00:34:21,940 --> 00:34:22,300
to like it.

1272
00:34:22,420 --> 00:34:23,460
Our friends are not going to like it.

1273
00:34:23,540 --> 00:34:24,239
And so I looked at them and I

1274
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:25,300
said, well, is it worth it?

1275
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,639
And I'll never forget.

1276
00:34:28,139 --> 00:34:29,940
God lets me live a thousand years.

1277
00:34:30,620 --> 00:34:32,639
But one of those dear black gentlemen looked

1278
00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:36,620
at me and said, he said, sir, to

1279
00:34:36,620 --> 00:34:41,620
find the truth makes everything worth it.

1280
00:34:43,460 --> 00:34:44,400
And you know what I saw that day

1281
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:45,300
in Ghana, West Africa?

1282
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:47,400
Disciples.

1283
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,400
People who were willing to pay a price

1284
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,860
for what they believed.

1285
00:34:54,060 --> 00:34:55,679
And do you know why people in Murfreesboro,

1286
00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:57,720
Tennessee, more specifically at the Franklin O.

1287
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,060
Baptist Church live such flippant lives sometimes when

1288
00:35:00,060 --> 00:35:00,820
it comes to the Bible?

1289
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,840
Because it didn't cost us anything to live

1290
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:03,760
for God, that's why.

1291
00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:07,060
But you let the ACLU and those other

1292
00:35:07,060 --> 00:35:09,560
wicked, vile, ungodly organizations that have been built

1293
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:10,380
sat on the belly of hell.

1294
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,040
You let them have their way for a

1295
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:12,200
while.

1296
00:35:12,460 --> 00:35:13,860
And buddy, we'll find out who the real

1297
00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:15,100
Christians in this building are.

1298
00:35:16,260 --> 00:35:18,620
We'll find out one day who the real

1299
00:35:18,620 --> 00:35:21,400
Christians were and who those who just really

1300
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,120
didn't give the slip of a wooden nickel

1301
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,040
about the grace of God.

1302
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:24,900
Just a little bit.

1303
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,260
Hey, the church is always for us through

1304
00:35:28,260 --> 00:35:28,820
persecution.

1305
00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:31,140
I promise you one thing, if Jesus carries,

1306
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:32,780
we're going to go through a boatload of

1307
00:35:32,780 --> 00:35:34,100
it in the next few coming years.

1308
00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:35,980
If you think we're in the midst of

1309
00:35:35,980 --> 00:35:37,980
revival, you're crazy tonight.

1310
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,440
If you think this nation is getting closer

1311
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,140
to God, you're crazy tonight.

1312
00:35:42,540 --> 00:35:44,160
And if you think all of a sudden,

1313
00:35:44,780 --> 00:35:47,840
spontaneously, everything's going to turn around overnight, you've

1314
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,580
been reading the Reader's Digest, but you've not

1315
00:35:49,580 --> 00:35:50,540
been reading this Bible.

1316
00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:52,220
And one day, we're going to find out

1317
00:35:52,220 --> 00:35:55,100
who the real New Testament disciples in this

1318
00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:55,740
building are.

1319
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:57,660
Now, I'm telling you, if you really want

1320
00:35:57,660 --> 00:35:58,620
to be a disciple, then you're going to

1321
00:35:58,620 --> 00:35:59,780
have to fall in love with Jesus more

1322
00:35:59,780 --> 00:36:01,760
than any other person, more than any other

1323
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:02,080
place.

1324
00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:04,700
But lastly, let me please say this, if

1325
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:06,080
you look in your Bible as we close,

1326
00:36:07,060 --> 00:36:10,780
verse number 33, the Bible says, so likewise.

1327
00:36:11,060 --> 00:36:11,880
Look me in the face just for a

1328
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,120
moment, I'll explain to you why Jesus said

1329
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:13,980
the phrase, so likewise.

1330
00:36:14,620 --> 00:36:15,640
He talked about two felons.

1331
00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:16,900
If you're taking notes tonight, you write them

1332
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:17,080
down.

1333
00:36:17,180 --> 00:36:18,420
One of them's a builder, one of them's

1334
00:36:18,420 --> 00:36:18,840
a battler.

1335
00:36:19,300 --> 00:36:20,520
One of them began to build, but he

1336
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:21,820
didn't have enough money to finish, so people

1337
00:36:21,820 --> 00:36:22,420
laughed at him.

1338
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:23,720
One of them was a battler.

1339
00:36:23,820 --> 00:36:25,300
He had 10,000 soldiers, and he thought

1340
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:25,940
he was a big shot.

1341
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:26,860
He was going to kill a guy that

1342
00:36:26,860 --> 00:36:27,880
had 20,000 soldiers.

1343
00:36:28,260 --> 00:36:29,500
And so he came against it, but he

1344
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:31,040
found out about halfway when he was going

1345
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,220
over the valley and through the woods to

1346
00:36:32,220 --> 00:36:34,220
his grandmother's house, he found out that 20

1347
00:36:34,220 --> 00:36:36,220
,000 men were about twice as many as

1348
00:36:36,220 --> 00:36:36,580
he had.

1349
00:36:36,660 --> 00:36:37,780
He was linked two to one, and he

1350
00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:39,080
thought for sure he's going to be dead.

1351
00:36:39,380 --> 00:36:40,740
And so he sent in an ambassador.

1352
00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:42,160
That's what the word ambassador means.

1353
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,960
He sent a FedEx boy, a postal service

1354
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,820
man, somebody from the postal service, from the

1355
00:36:46,820 --> 00:36:47,340
post office.

1356
00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:49,060
He sent him over there in desired conditions

1357
00:36:49,060 --> 00:36:49,440
of peace.

1358
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:51,380
Now, Jesus said both of these men were

1359
00:36:51,380 --> 00:36:51,700
foolish.

1360
00:36:51,820 --> 00:36:52,020
Why?

1361
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,120
One of them was a builder, but he

1362
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,140
didn't sit down and count how difficult it

1363
00:36:56,140 --> 00:36:56,940
was going to be to build.

1364
00:36:57,140 --> 00:36:58,620
And the second one was a fighter.

1365
00:36:58,860 --> 00:37:00,640
He was a battler, but he didn't sit

1366
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,780
down and count the difficulty of the battle

1367
00:37:02,780 --> 00:37:05,180
that was surfacing on the battlefield and Jesus

1368
00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:08,840
said both of these men were very, very

1369
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,680
foolish.

1370
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:10,080
Why?

1371
00:37:11,620 --> 00:37:13,140
Because one of them made a hasty decision.

1372
00:37:13,220 --> 00:37:14,180
Let's build, let's build, let's build.

1373
00:37:14,260 --> 00:37:15,400
He didn't realize how difficult it was going

1374
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:15,820
to be to build.

1375
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:17,980
One of them made a hasty decision.

1376
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:18,820
Let's fight, fight, fight.

1377
00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:19,640
Let's battle, battle, battle.

1378
00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:21,560
But he didn't realize how difficult the battle

1379
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,140
was really going to be and how bloody

1380
00:37:23,140 --> 00:37:23,940
it was really going to be.

1381
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,200
And you know what Jesus said?

1382
00:37:25,580 --> 00:37:27,580
He answers the question to why we have

1383
00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:29,720
so many status quo Christians in our churches.

1384
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:31,940
Why so many people go up like a

1385
00:37:31,940 --> 00:37:33,620
rocket and come down like a meteorite.

1386
00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:35,740
Well, they start out well and they end

1387
00:37:35,740 --> 00:37:36,200
horribly.

1388
00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:38,060
They have a little saying in golf, it's

1389
00:37:38,060 --> 00:37:39,840
not how you drive, it's how you arrive.

1390
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:41,100
And we got a whole lot of people

1391
00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:43,360
who drive, drive, drive, but they don't arrive

1392
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:43,880
very well.

1393
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:44,780
They fizzle out.

1394
00:37:44,860 --> 00:37:45,620
Why is that?

1395
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:46,880
Jesus tells us why.

1396
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,240
Because sometimes we come to the altar and

1397
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:52,480
we make a hasty decision that we're going

1398
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,300
to sell out and we're going to do

1399
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:54,960
what's right.

1400
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,160
But you know what we don't do?

1401
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:58,760
We don't sit down and count how difficult

1402
00:37:58,760 --> 00:37:59,780
it's really going to be to live for

1403
00:37:59,780 --> 00:38:00,380
Jesus Christ.

1404
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:02,740
If you think this thing is going to

1405
00:38:02,740 --> 00:38:04,220
be a bucket full of roses, I've got

1406
00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:04,800
news for you.

1407
00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:05,560
It's not.

1408
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,120
Thank God for His blessings.

1409
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,300
Thank God for answered prayer.

1410
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,460
But I'm telling you, we're on a battlefield

1411
00:38:12,460 --> 00:38:14,660
24 hours a day, seven days a week.

1412
00:38:14,900 --> 00:38:16,740
This ain't a Sunday school picnic and we're

1413
00:38:16,740 --> 00:38:18,320
not on a cake walk tonight and we're

1414
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,260
not dancing around the mulberry bush and we're

1415
00:38:20,260 --> 00:38:22,060
not playing Skip to Malu, my darling, and

1416
00:38:22,060 --> 00:38:23,180
hopscotch and marbles.

1417
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,500
I'm telling you, we are in a battle

1418
00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:27,520
for Jesus Christ.

1419
00:38:27,660 --> 00:38:29,160
And I think it's time God's people put

1420
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,280
their warfare on and we spit in the

1421
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,800
eye of the devil and we don't retreat

1422
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,420
and we hope not back up, pack up,

1423
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:35,920
slack up, or shut up till we've been

1424
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:37,200
taken up by the glory of God.

1425
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:38,600
And let the liberals hear what we've got

1426
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:38,920
to say.

1427
00:38:39,140 --> 00:38:40,440
Let the modernists hear what we've got to

1428
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:40,660
say.

1429
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:42,360
Let the new evangelicals hear what we've got

1430
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:42,640
to say.

1431
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,660
And bless God, even let the fundamentalists hear

1432
00:38:44,660 --> 00:38:45,400
what we've got to say.

1433
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,300
Because I'm telling you, we need some Christians

1434
00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:49,440
to take a stand.

1435
00:38:50,140 --> 00:38:52,260
And who will say, listen, it may be

1436
00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:53,460
difficult to live for Christ.

1437
00:38:53,660 --> 00:38:55,320
It may be difficult to have my kids

1438
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,100
in a Christian school.

1439
00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:57,980
It may be difficult to pray every day

1440
00:38:57,980 --> 00:38:59,580
and to read my Bible and to go

1441
00:38:59,580 --> 00:39:00,660
to church three times a week.

1442
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,420
But bless God, I'm going to do what's

1443
00:39:03,420 --> 00:39:03,860
right.

1444
00:39:04,380 --> 00:39:05,700
And if we just have some people do

1445
00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:08,060
what's right, a whole lot of things around

1446
00:39:08,060 --> 00:39:09,340
here would be a whole lot better than

1447
00:39:09,340 --> 00:39:09,900
what they are.

1448
00:39:10,460 --> 00:39:11,880
But notice what he says as we close

1449
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:12,240
again.

1450
00:39:13,340 --> 00:39:17,620
So likewise, verse 33, whosoever he be of

1451
00:39:17,620 --> 00:39:20,760
you, that forsaketh not all that he hath,

1452
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,260
he cannot be my disciple.

1453
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,740
Lastly, you're going to have to fall in

1454
00:39:25,740 --> 00:39:28,580
love with Jesus more than you love any

1455
00:39:28,580 --> 00:39:29,900
other Christian.

1456
00:39:31,820 --> 00:39:33,140
You know, Bill Gates has a lot of

1457
00:39:33,140 --> 00:39:33,640
money tonight.

1458
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:36,520
But I'll remind you, the Bible says in

1459
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,120
the book of Psalms that riches make themselves

1460
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:39,300
wings and fly away in the morning.

1461
00:39:40,940 --> 00:39:42,800
And Bill Gates can have every cotton, pick

1462
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,560
and dime in the world, but give me

1463
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:46,520
a handful of hungry people who want the

1464
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,180
power of God upon them and we can

1465
00:39:48,180 --> 00:39:50,400
turn Murfreesboro upside down for Jesus Christ.

1466
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:52,740
What do you really want tonight?

1467
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:54,680
You want possession?

1468
00:39:55,580 --> 00:39:56,060
Have them.

1469
00:39:57,460 --> 00:39:57,860
Prestige?

1470
00:39:58,260 --> 00:39:58,820
Have it.

1471
00:39:59,540 --> 00:40:02,820
Power, fame, fortune, friends, family, pat on the

1472
00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:03,060
back.

1473
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:04,620
You can have it all.

1474
00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:09,320
But the Bible says you cannot be my

1475
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:09,700
disciple.

1476
00:40:10,740 --> 00:40:12,960
And did you know tonight, tragically enough, one

1477
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,580
of the great reasons we're not having revival

1478
00:40:14,580 --> 00:40:17,960
is because the spirit of covetousness has pervaded

1479
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:22,220
our independent Baptist churches by leaps and bounds.

1480
00:40:23,060 --> 00:40:25,120
Everybody's got to have the biggest, the fastest,

1481
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,000
the brightest, the better.

1482
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:28,820
Everybody's got to have this, that, and the

1483
00:40:28,820 --> 00:40:28,940
other.

1484
00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:30,540
Now, if you've got money, hey, that's a

1485
00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:31,080
wonderful thing.

1486
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,320
There's nothing wrong with having things, but there's

1487
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:34,680
much wrong when things have you.

1488
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:36,680
And might I please say to you tonight

1489
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,620
reverently, if you're sold out to Jesus Christ,

1490
00:40:38,660 --> 00:40:39,680
you probably won't have the biggest.

1491
00:40:39,940 --> 00:40:41,080
You probably won't have the best.

1492
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,320
You probably won't have the fastest.

1493
00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:44,420
And we taught our kids work, work, work,

1494
00:40:44,540 --> 00:40:45,640
get to the top of the totem pole.

1495
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:46,720
It doesn't matter who you hurt.

1496
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:48,080
Materialism, materialism.

1497
00:40:48,220 --> 00:40:49,220
You've got to have things.

1498
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:50,900
The grass is always greener on the other

1499
00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:51,480
side of the fence.

1500
00:40:51,540 --> 00:40:53,120
That's because it grows over the septic tank.

1501
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:55,880
And they've got to mow it just like

1502
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:56,380
you did.

1503
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:58,500
Last night on the way to camp meeting,

1504
00:40:58,660 --> 00:40:59,140
guess what I saw?

1505
00:40:59,220 --> 00:40:59,820
I saw a cow.

1506
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,420
That big old Betsy cow was sitting in

1507
00:41:02,420 --> 00:41:03,740
the midst of about 50 other cows.

1508
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,080
And all them cows just content just to

1509
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,420
eat that grass that was ankle high.

1510
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,800
And when I drove by and honked the

1511
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,200
diesel horn at the cow, guess what it

1512
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:10,420
was doing?

1513
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,180
Sticking its head through that old barbed wire

1514
00:41:12,180 --> 00:41:15,080
fence over in somebody else's farmland eating what

1515
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:15,600
they had.

1516
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:17,980
And isn't that just like a bunch of

1517
00:41:17,980 --> 00:41:19,520
Betsy badness in our church?

1518
00:41:20,740 --> 00:41:25,180
Always getting more, getting more, getting more, getting

1519
00:41:25,180 --> 00:41:25,500
more.

1520
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:26,980
I remember when I was a little kid,

1521
00:41:27,020 --> 00:41:27,920
you know what my granddad used to tell

1522
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:28,540
me when I did that?

1523
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:30,580
I went to a grocery store called Bill

1524
00:41:30,580 --> 00:41:30,900
Crooks.

1525
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:31,420
Ever heard of it?

1526
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:32,400
It's Kroger's now.

1527
00:41:32,700 --> 00:41:33,500
I don't know why they called it Bill

1528
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:35,200
Crooks but the prophecy came true because he

1529
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:36,160
ended up being one and he went to

1530
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:36,380
jail.

1531
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,320
But nonetheless, so Bill Crooks had a toy

1532
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:40,620
aisle in his grocery store and I'd go

1533
00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:41,500
in there and I'd say, Daddy, I won't,

1534
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:42,740
Papa, I won't see this and Papa, I

1535
00:41:42,740 --> 00:41:43,600
won't see this and I got to have

1536
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:45,840
this and I'd go through this and my

1537
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,300
granddaddy told me something I never understood.

1538
00:41:47,420 --> 00:41:48,520
I never understood it for years.

1539
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,280
I mean, I always thought my granddaddy would

1540
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:51,020
be a pretty wise guy.

1541
00:41:51,140 --> 00:41:52,080
I mean, I thought he was Solomon, you

1542
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,340
know, wisest man he ever lived.

1543
00:41:53,940 --> 00:41:55,040
He'd say, right there in the middle of

1544
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:56,040
the grocery store, he'd say, now hold your

1545
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:56,400
hands out.

1546
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:57,260
He's a little bit crazy.

1547
00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:58,420
He'd say, now hold your hands out.

1548
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:00,980
I'd hold my hands out.

1549
00:42:00,980 --> 00:42:01,640
I know what he's talking about.

1550
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:04,920
He'd say, now, Greggy, he called me that

1551
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:05,540
but he don't know that.

1552
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,880
He'd say, now, Greggy, he'd say, now sit

1553
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,460
in one hand and walk in the other

1554
00:42:11,460 --> 00:42:14,300
one and see which one fills up quicker.

1555
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,460
And I thought, what was that?

1556
00:42:18,140 --> 00:42:20,260
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

1557
00:42:20,380 --> 00:42:21,580
In one hand, walk in the other, see

1558
00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:22,480
which one fills up quicker.

1559
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,460
I thought, that's real good theology, that's all.

1560
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:25,600
Then I grew up a little bit and

1561
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:26,400
I understood what he meant.

1562
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,540
My granddaddy was saying, you can go through

1563
00:42:28,540 --> 00:42:30,320
life and walk and walk and walk and

1564
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,700
walk and be none the better for it.

1565
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,600
And I see so many of God's people

1566
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:35,880
that strive after more money.

1567
00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:38,140
They strive after bigger things and faster things

1568
00:42:38,140 --> 00:42:39,860
and brighter things and more arrayed things.

1569
00:42:40,020 --> 00:42:41,600
And they want the things of the world,

1570
00:42:41,780 --> 00:42:43,280
but do you really want the power of

1571
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:43,700
God tonight?

1572
00:42:43,860 --> 00:42:45,100
And do you want to be a disciple

1573
00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:45,920
of Jesus?

1574
00:42:47,460 --> 00:42:48,360
I'll give you this illustration.

1575
00:42:48,540 --> 00:42:49,520
We close when we go home.

1576
00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:51,940
My wife and I, as much as you

1577
00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:53,460
know, the church gave us the money towards

1578
00:42:53,460 --> 00:42:54,880
it and we appreciate it, but our old

1579
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,300
truck, the 1995 F-355, so good for

1580
00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:00,040
that, we had to have a new one.

1581
00:43:00,980 --> 00:43:02,720
Our trailer, the gross weight on our trailer

1582
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:03,800
is 18,000 pounds.

1583
00:43:04,340 --> 00:43:05,680
And after all the shopping at Cracker Barrel

1584
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:07,000
that my wife's done with the boys' barracks,

1585
00:43:07,020 --> 00:43:08,980
it weighs about 25,000 pounds full tonight.

1586
00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:11,780
And when our truck broke down, I thought,

1587
00:43:11,860 --> 00:43:12,960
you know, that's much too heavy for my

1588
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,040
wife to carry around on her back.

1589
00:43:14,100 --> 00:43:14,960
And so, you know, we're going to have

1590
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:15,460
to get something.

1591
00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:17,680
And you can't have a BMW, you can't

1592
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,320
have a Volkswagen, you can't have a motorcycle

1593
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,080
or a twin bicycle to carry something that's

1594
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,860
40 feet long, double slide out, 12 foot

1595
00:43:22,860 --> 00:43:25,100
high, 8 foot wide, and weighs 25,000

1596
00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:25,400
pounds.

1597
00:43:25,500 --> 00:43:26,640
I said, you've got to have something dependable.

1598
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,220
So I prayed, Lord, I need a truck.

1599
00:43:29,060 --> 00:43:30,640
I need a real truck.

1600
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,020
That's why I bought a Ford.

1601
00:43:32,340 --> 00:43:35,580
And so I said, Lord, I was praying

1602
00:43:35,580 --> 00:43:39,020
and God reminded me of a good, God

1603
00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:40,820
reminded me of a good pastor friend of

1604
00:43:40,820 --> 00:43:42,760
mine in Rockford, Illinois at the North Love

1605
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,280
Baptist Church, Pastor Paul Kingsbury.

1606
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:45,820
He said, I'm a wheeler and a dealer.

1607
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:46,760
He said, I can get you a deal

1608
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,000
anywhere in this world.

1609
00:43:48,100 --> 00:43:48,600
I said, all right.

1610
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:49,240
So I called him up.

1611
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:50,460
He said, I got a Ford man in

1612
00:43:50,460 --> 00:43:50,940
my church.

1613
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,140
He'd be glad to sell you one.

1614
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:53,120
He said, I'll have him call you.

1615
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,500
What about two days later, the cell phone

1616
00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:54,700
rang.

1617
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:55,300
I said, hello.

1618
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:56,260
As you customarily do.

1619
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:57,820
And he said, Mr. Locke, he said, this

1620
00:43:57,820 --> 00:43:59,400
is Bob so-and-so at such-and

1621
00:43:59,400 --> 00:43:59,880
-such a place.

1622
00:44:00,060 --> 00:44:01,120
He said, I understand you need a big

1623
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:01,560
Ford truck.

1624
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:02,180
I said, yes, sir.

1625
00:44:02,180 --> 00:44:03,580
He said, I got one on the lot

1626
00:44:03,580 --> 00:44:04,220
just for you.

1627
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:06,740
He said, it's a brand new 2002 Ford

1628
00:44:06,740 --> 00:44:08,720
F350 V8 Power Stroke diesel.

1629
00:44:09,020 --> 00:44:10,140
He said, it's a four by four.

1630
00:44:10,140 --> 00:44:11,340
It's got four doors.

1631
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:12,700
He said, it's got everything.

1632
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:13,320
He said, it's loaded.

1633
00:44:13,420 --> 00:44:14,320
It's got the Lariat package.

1634
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,180
It's all leather, six-way directional chairs.

1635
00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:17,840
It's got two built-in custom alarms.

1636
00:44:18,060 --> 00:44:19,160
It's got the chrome wheels.

1637
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,620
He said, this is the Cadillac of trucks.

1638
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:22,520
And I said, good.

1639
00:44:22,620 --> 00:44:24,300
I ain't interested because I know how much

1640
00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:24,660
it costs.

1641
00:44:26,020 --> 00:44:27,260
He said, just let me send you the

1642
00:44:27,260 --> 00:44:27,720
spec sheet.

1643
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,460
I said, all right.

1644
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:30,360
Send all, send all.

1645
00:44:30,820 --> 00:44:31,960
So he sent me the spec sheet.

1646
00:44:32,580 --> 00:44:33,620
I pulled the fax off.

1647
00:44:34,820 --> 00:44:38,540
Fifty two and a half thousand dollars.

1648
00:44:40,710 --> 00:44:44,130
After I gained my composure, I called him

1649
00:44:44,130 --> 00:44:45,350
back and I said, you know, you can

1650
00:44:45,350 --> 00:44:47,370
buy half a house for $52,000.

1651
00:44:48,330 --> 00:44:50,570
I said, there's no way on this world.

1652
00:44:50,690 --> 00:44:52,710
I'm going to spend 52 grand on a

1653
00:44:52,710 --> 00:44:53,010
truck.

1654
00:44:53,150 --> 00:44:54,430
He said, well, I have you priced a

1655
00:44:54,430 --> 00:44:54,910
used one.

1656
00:44:55,130 --> 00:44:56,490
I said, yeah, I went over to Alexander

1657
00:44:56,490 --> 00:44:57,010
Ford Mercury.

1658
00:44:57,210 --> 00:44:58,030
I said, they had one.

1659
00:44:58,190 --> 00:44:59,810
It was two years old, had 45 and

1660
00:44:59,810 --> 00:45:00,770
50,000 miles on it.

1661
00:45:00,890 --> 00:45:02,190
I said, it was a bare basic truck,

1662
00:45:02,310 --> 00:45:04,090
had no four doors, had no four by

1663
00:45:04,090 --> 00:45:04,290
four.

1664
00:45:04,350 --> 00:45:05,330
All it had was the diesel.

1665
00:45:05,610 --> 00:45:07,450
It had regular old interior.

1666
00:45:07,690 --> 00:45:08,990
I said, it was a basic truck.

1667
00:45:09,050 --> 00:45:09,710
He said, well, they won't.

1668
00:45:09,710 --> 00:45:11,870
I said, they wanted $30,000 for it.

1669
00:45:12,150 --> 00:45:12,670
He said, I'll tell you what.

1670
00:45:13,690 --> 00:45:15,050
He said, if you buy this truck, which

1671
00:45:15,050 --> 00:45:17,530
by the way, had 30 miles on it,

1672
00:45:17,610 --> 00:45:19,590
brand spanking new.

1673
00:45:20,290 --> 00:45:21,290
And to the glory of God, and the

1674
00:45:21,290 --> 00:45:22,310
grace of God, it's in the parking lot

1675
00:45:22,310 --> 00:45:23,750
tonight, hooked to my 40 foot travel trailer,

1676
00:45:24,030 --> 00:45:25,890
because when I leave here, I'm out of

1677
00:45:25,890 --> 00:45:27,050
here, because I got to start opening the

1678
00:45:27,050 --> 00:45:27,730
revival tomorrow night.

1679
00:45:27,790 --> 00:45:28,270
It feels very bad.

1680
00:45:28,290 --> 00:45:28,850
It's Bible college.

1681
00:45:28,890 --> 00:45:29,610
You know, we're down in Minnesota.

1682
00:45:29,850 --> 00:45:33,110
So while you're, I'm going to be down

1683
00:45:33,110 --> 00:45:33,470
that road.

1684
00:45:34,350 --> 00:45:35,310
But it's sitting out there.

1685
00:45:36,150 --> 00:45:37,230
So he said, I'll tell you what.

1686
00:45:38,130 --> 00:45:38,950
He said, I want to be a blessing

1687
00:45:38,950 --> 00:45:39,530
to your ministry.

1688
00:45:40,550 --> 00:45:44,030
He said, I'll sell you this truck for

1689
00:45:44,030 --> 00:45:45,170
considerably less.

1690
00:45:46,290 --> 00:45:47,770
And you can buy that brand, that user

1691
00:45:47,770 --> 00:45:49,230
that you saw over at Fort Alexander.

1692
00:45:49,590 --> 00:45:50,890
So you do the math.

1693
00:45:51,670 --> 00:45:54,370
I stole that truck for $29,000.

1694
00:45:55,770 --> 00:45:57,610
God gave me a 52 and a half

1695
00:45:57,610 --> 00:45:58,470
thousand dollar truck.

1696
00:45:58,550 --> 00:45:59,930
And I'm telling you, he said, well, you

1697
00:45:59,930 --> 00:46:00,510
need to pray about it.

1698
00:46:00,570 --> 00:46:01,230
I said, yeah, hang on.

1699
00:46:01,390 --> 00:46:01,850
Lord, do I need to?

1700
00:46:01,910 --> 00:46:02,790
Okay, I'll be up there tomorrow.

1701
00:46:02,910 --> 00:46:03,010
Amen.

1702
00:46:03,490 --> 00:46:04,950
So I got an airplane ticket.

1703
00:46:05,010 --> 00:46:05,290
Boom.

1704
00:46:05,330 --> 00:46:06,510
I made a beeline up there.

1705
00:46:07,070 --> 00:46:08,090
I took one of the fellows from the

1706
00:46:08,090 --> 00:46:08,770
children's home with me.

1707
00:46:08,810 --> 00:46:09,630
Then I grabbed that truck.

1708
00:46:09,630 --> 00:46:11,630
I'm telling you, I sat down in that

1709
00:46:11,630 --> 00:46:11,850
thing.

1710
00:46:12,330 --> 00:46:13,710
Couldn't even see over the dashboard.

1711
00:46:15,470 --> 00:46:16,650
I sunk down in that leather.

1712
00:46:16,810 --> 00:46:17,650
I felt so out of place.

1713
00:46:17,730 --> 00:46:18,930
I felt like a ham sandwich in a

1714
00:46:18,930 --> 00:46:19,530
synagogue, man.

1715
00:46:19,550 --> 00:46:20,130
It just didn't fit.

1716
00:46:20,670 --> 00:46:21,710
And I sit in that thing.

1717
00:46:22,170 --> 00:46:24,650
And I said, oh, what a truck.

1718
00:46:25,130 --> 00:46:26,850
I said, man, this is three trucks.

1719
00:46:26,990 --> 00:46:27,310
Glory.

1720
00:46:27,610 --> 00:46:29,550
And then I had a shouting chicken spell

1721
00:46:29,550 --> 00:46:30,990
all the way home.

1722
00:46:31,770 --> 00:46:33,150
I had to have windshield wipers on the

1723
00:46:33,150 --> 00:46:33,530
inside.

1724
00:46:33,630 --> 00:46:34,750
And then I was just shouting and yelling,

1725
00:46:34,850 --> 00:46:35,810
having myself a good old time.

1726
00:46:35,870 --> 00:46:36,810
I came back here to Murfreesboro.

1727
00:46:36,910 --> 00:46:37,590
I hooked that thing up.

1728
00:46:37,790 --> 00:46:38,810
I threw my wife in and I said,

1729
00:46:38,810 --> 00:46:40,210
let's go to Danville, Virginia.

1730
00:46:40,350 --> 00:46:41,710
As we went to the Brush Harbor Baptist

1731
00:46:41,710 --> 00:46:43,670
Church, I was meeting Brother Robertson up there.

1732
00:46:43,870 --> 00:46:45,170
And on the way by him, I passed

1733
00:46:45,170 --> 00:46:46,430
him because he drives a Chevrolet, amen.

1734
00:46:46,650 --> 00:46:48,010
And I pulled into the parking lot.

1735
00:46:49,850 --> 00:46:51,310
And I pulled up in the parking lot

1736
00:46:51,310 --> 00:46:52,650
and I got all unhooked and everything.

1737
00:46:52,770 --> 00:46:53,490
Boy, I was so excited.

1738
00:46:53,690 --> 00:46:54,630
And I sat there waiting on him.

1739
00:46:56,110 --> 00:46:58,310
He pulled in about 35 minutes later.

1740
00:46:58,710 --> 00:46:59,950
Boy, we had the service the next day.

1741
00:47:00,010 --> 00:47:01,290
And I'm telling you, that thing got on.

1742
00:47:01,390 --> 00:47:02,990
God began to work, started saving people.

1743
00:47:03,110 --> 00:47:04,390
And on Monday morning, I got up and

1744
00:47:04,390 --> 00:47:06,150
I said, honey, I know that truck don't

1745
00:47:06,150 --> 00:47:07,230
even have a thousand miles on it.

1746
00:47:07,310 --> 00:47:08,530
I said, I'm going to go give it

1747
00:47:08,530 --> 00:47:09,730
a nice old wash.

1748
00:47:10,130 --> 00:47:11,130
You know how it is with new cars,

1749
00:47:11,490 --> 00:47:12,770
especially when they're dark colors.

1750
00:47:12,850 --> 00:47:13,350
Mine's black.

1751
00:47:13,450 --> 00:47:14,810
And man, when a vehicle's black, it gets

1752
00:47:14,810 --> 00:47:16,190
dust all over and pine needles and all

1753
00:47:16,190 --> 00:47:16,390
that stuff.

1754
00:47:16,430 --> 00:47:17,230
So I said, I'm going to go wash

1755
00:47:17,230 --> 00:47:17,350
it.

1756
00:47:17,870 --> 00:47:18,910
I should have stayed in the bed, but

1757
00:47:18,910 --> 00:47:19,670
I should have gone out there.

1758
00:47:19,670 --> 00:47:19,830
Why?

1759
00:47:20,370 --> 00:47:21,670
I said, Brother Robertson, I said, you got

1760
00:47:21,670 --> 00:47:22,070
a sponge?

1761
00:47:22,110 --> 00:47:23,150
He said, no, but I got a hand

1762
00:47:23,150 --> 00:47:23,290
mitt.

1763
00:47:24,110 --> 00:47:25,290
He said, you just dip that little hand

1764
00:47:25,290 --> 00:47:26,550
mitt in there, you know, wax on, wax

1765
00:47:26,550 --> 00:47:27,670
off, and you just scrub your truck.

1766
00:47:28,070 --> 00:47:28,610
I said, all right.

1767
00:47:28,850 --> 00:47:30,090
I got out there, man, I was skipping

1768
00:47:30,090 --> 00:47:31,710
through the air, wide open like Batman, flipping

1769
00:47:31,710 --> 00:47:32,290
all over the place.

1770
00:47:32,370 --> 00:47:33,330
I was over the top, over the bottom,

1771
00:47:33,430 --> 00:47:34,210
over the knees.

1772
00:47:34,410 --> 00:47:35,150
I was on the left, I was on

1773
00:47:35,150 --> 00:47:35,330
the right.

1774
00:47:35,470 --> 00:47:37,150
Had myself just a jolly time with a

1775
00:47:37,150 --> 00:47:39,210
brand new, right off the lot truck.

1776
00:47:39,450 --> 00:47:40,770
Every only thing new in my life.

1777
00:47:41,870 --> 00:47:43,590
But I didn't realize that, and he didn't

1778
00:47:43,590 --> 00:47:45,650
either, that in that glove, there was a

1779
00:47:45,650 --> 00:47:46,950
little hole about the size of a quarter.

1780
00:47:48,090 --> 00:47:49,410
And I didn't take my class ring off.

1781
00:47:50,430 --> 00:47:51,250
Oh, you done it too, huh?

1782
00:47:51,590 --> 00:47:54,750
And I was on the back side of

1783
00:47:54,750 --> 00:47:57,390
my wife's side, on the passenger side, on

1784
00:47:57,390 --> 00:47:58,770
the back door, that big four doors on

1785
00:47:58,770 --> 00:47:58,870
it.

1786
00:47:58,870 --> 00:48:00,550
And boy, I was about to adjust a

1787
00:48:00,550 --> 00:48:01,590
scrub-a-dub-dub.

1788
00:48:01,990 --> 00:48:04,430
I mean, just having myself a scrub.

1789
00:48:04,730 --> 00:48:06,430
Just this way, this way, all over the

1790
00:48:06,430 --> 00:48:06,670
place.

1791
00:48:07,250 --> 00:48:09,330
And I pulled that glove off, and I

1792
00:48:09,330 --> 00:48:10,570
kicked that little stick it up my hand,

1793
00:48:10,630 --> 00:48:13,070
grabbed that thing, sprayed it down like a

1794
00:48:13,070 --> 00:48:13,330
cowboy.

1795
00:48:14,470 --> 00:48:15,410
And I didn't see him.

1796
00:48:16,430 --> 00:48:17,550
And I don't know where he came from.

1797
00:48:18,270 --> 00:48:19,630
But somehow or another, when I was on

1798
00:48:19,630 --> 00:48:20,990
the other side of that truck, O'Zorro

1799
00:48:20,990 --> 00:48:21,930
came riding into town.

1800
00:48:22,010 --> 00:48:25,550
It went, right across the brand new black

1801
00:48:25,550 --> 00:48:28,030
paint job of my brand spanking new 2002

1802
00:48:28,030 --> 00:48:28,410
truck.

1803
00:48:28,410 --> 00:48:31,110
And I'm telling you, my heart went, and

1804
00:48:32,740 --> 00:48:34,640
I thought, my new truck.

1805
00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:36,900
Now, Brother Robertson, it wasn't his fault.

1806
00:48:37,180 --> 00:48:37,620
He didn't know.

1807
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:38,660
I don't have any hard feelings towards a

1808
00:48:38,660 --> 00:48:39,020
dirty bum.

1809
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:40,640
But nonetheless, I took the paint off.

1810
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:43,740
And I turned the stick it off.

1811
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:44,900
And I went and looked at it.

1812
00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:45,680
And it was one of them ones that

1813
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:46,760
was in the paint too, but you can

1814
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:48,100
see it when you rub your finger across

1815
00:48:48,100 --> 00:48:48,360
it.

1816
00:48:49,020 --> 00:48:50,540
And I went in the house, and I

1817
00:48:50,540 --> 00:48:51,360
had my hands in my pocket.

1818
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,380
I had a big smile on my face.

1819
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,120
And Melissa said, what'd you do now?

1820
00:48:54,260 --> 00:48:55,300
What'd you do now?

1821
00:48:55,380 --> 00:48:56,220
What'd you do now?

1822
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:58,060
I said, I do nothing.

1823
00:48:58,140 --> 00:48:59,180
She said, well, go ahead and spill the

1824
00:48:59,180 --> 00:48:59,420
beans.

1825
00:48:59,420 --> 00:49:01,460
I said, well, if you know that brand

1826
00:49:01,460 --> 00:49:02,760
new truck God just provided, ain't got a

1827
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:03,740
thousand miles on it, blah, blah, blah.

1828
00:49:03,820 --> 00:49:04,300
I went to the whole deal.

1829
00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:04,880
She said, yeah.

1830
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,220
I said, I just got my first real

1831
00:49:07,220 --> 00:49:08,560
beard scratch on it.

1832
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:11,640
She said, are you happy about that?

1833
00:49:11,980 --> 00:49:12,660
I said, no.

1834
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:14,880
She said, well, are you mad?

1835
00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:16,480
I said, nope.

1836
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:18,540
She said, well, why not?

1837
00:49:19,380 --> 00:49:20,360
I said, I'll tell you why not.

1838
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,280
When I was standing out there, and when

1839
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:24,720
I stepped back and washed it off and

1840
00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:27,000
saw that big Zorro scar on the side

1841
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,420
of my truck, I do not, you hear

1842
00:49:28,420 --> 00:49:28,620
me?

1843
00:49:28,780 --> 00:49:30,360
I do not believe God speaks in an

1844
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:30,840
audible voice.

1845
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,080
If you have dreams, you better quit eating

1846
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:35,520
kibosh before you go to bed and quit

1847
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,420
watching David Lettermouth and Oprah Winbag and the

1848
00:49:38,420 --> 00:49:38,780
rest of that stuff.

1849
00:49:38,860 --> 00:49:40,240
I'm telling you, God don't speak that way.

1850
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,100
He don't speak through audible visions and dreams

1851
00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:44,680
and barking like a dog and signs and

1852
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:45,680
wonders and all that kind of stuff.

1853
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:46,820
He speaks through the Bible.

1854
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:48,760
But I do believe the Holy Spirit can

1855
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:49,660
impress your heart.

1856
00:49:50,220 --> 00:49:51,540
And I do believe when He lives in

1857
00:49:51,540 --> 00:49:52,980
you, He can speak to your heart.

1858
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,380
And I'm telling you just as sure as

1859
00:49:54,380 --> 00:49:55,920
I know that puppet made out of wood,

1860
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:56,960
and it is, because I just hit an

1861
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:57,140
amen.

1862
00:49:57,380 --> 00:49:58,800
I was standing in front of that truck

1863
00:49:59,500 --> 00:50:01,260
and the Holy Spirit said to me when

1864
00:50:01,260 --> 00:50:02,500
I saw that big scar on the side

1865
00:50:02,500 --> 00:50:04,580
of my truck, here is exactly what God's

1866
00:50:04,580 --> 00:50:05,700
Spirit said to my heart.

1867
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:07,760
It's a truck, son.

1868
00:50:09,180 --> 00:50:11,640
It's a stupid truck.

1869
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:14,780
You know, there's a bunch of people in

1870
00:50:14,780 --> 00:50:15,220
this room.

1871
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:17,860
You'd be a whole lot closer to God

1872
00:50:17,860 --> 00:50:19,200
tonight if you just realized that house you

1873
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,480
live in is just a stupid house.

1874
00:50:21,580 --> 00:50:23,000
That car you have is just a stupid

1875
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:23,380
car.

1876
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:25,560
That swimming pool you have is just a

1877
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:26,860
stupid insurance liability.

1878
00:50:27,220 --> 00:50:28,880
I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, if you

1879
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:32,100
just understand that your stuff is your stuff

1880
00:50:32,100 --> 00:50:34,180
and fall in love with Jesus Christ, I

1881
00:50:34,180 --> 00:50:35,480
believe we can have revival tonight.

1882
00:50:36,540 --> 00:50:37,600
And Jesus said, you really want to be

1883
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:38,040
a disciple?

1884
00:50:39,100 --> 00:50:40,320
Then number one, you better fall in love

1885
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:41,380
with me more than any other person.

1886
00:50:42,020 --> 00:50:43,180
Number two, you better fall in love with

1887
00:50:43,180 --> 00:50:44,000
me more than any other place.

1888
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,160
And number three, you better fall in love

1889
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:47,220
with me more than any other possession.

1890
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,560
Because if you do not, ye cannot be

1891
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:51,540
my disciple.

1892
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:53,920
And wouldn't it be an embarrassing thing for

1893
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:58,150
Jesus tonight to say, just go back to

1894
00:50:58,150 --> 00:50:58,510
your seat.

1895
00:50:59,510 --> 00:51:00,210
Your heads are bowed.

1896
00:51:00,250 --> 00:51:01,130
Your eyes are closed, please.

1897
00:51:01,230 --> 00:51:02,170
Thank you tonight for listening.

1898
00:51:02,170 --> 00:51:03,890
Thank you for letting me preach my burden.

1899
00:51:06,950 --> 00:51:08,310
And I'm honest, that's what it is.

1900
00:51:08,350 --> 00:51:08,810
It's a burden.

1901
00:51:08,950 --> 00:51:09,970
Because this is my local church.

1902
00:51:10,010 --> 00:51:10,730
I love you people.

1903
00:51:11,370 --> 00:51:14,410
You're my friends, my family, my fellow laborers

1904
00:51:14,410 --> 00:51:15,230
together with God.

1905
00:51:17,670 --> 00:51:19,110
And if I'm going to support this church

1906
00:51:19,110 --> 00:51:20,330
and tie it to this church and tell

1907
00:51:20,330 --> 00:51:21,870
everybody all over the world about this church,

1908
00:51:22,650 --> 00:51:23,810
I believe as well as you do and

1909
00:51:23,810 --> 00:51:25,510
as well as the preacher does that we

1910
00:51:25,510 --> 00:51:26,290
need the right kind of church.

1911
00:51:27,390 --> 00:51:29,010
And the right kind of church is filled

1912
00:51:29,010 --> 00:51:30,530
with disciples.

1913
00:51:32,250 --> 00:51:33,610
You know, disciples don't have any trouble filling

1914
00:51:33,610 --> 00:51:35,230
up a bus strap over on January Street.

1915
00:51:36,970 --> 00:51:38,810
Disciples don't have any trouble singing in a

1916
00:51:38,810 --> 00:51:39,010
choir.

1917
00:51:39,150 --> 00:51:40,370
This is for the fun of it on

1918
00:51:40,370 --> 00:51:42,550
Wednesday night because the preacher asked them to.

1919
00:51:43,770 --> 00:51:45,230
Disciples don't have any trouble showing up for

1920
00:51:45,230 --> 00:51:46,170
Thursday night visitation.

1921
00:51:47,470 --> 00:51:49,850
Disciples don't have any trouble tithing and praying,

1922
00:51:50,410 --> 00:51:52,350
being faithful, having family altar.

1923
00:51:52,870 --> 00:51:53,950
That's just what disciples do.

1924
00:51:54,570 --> 00:51:55,530
I want you to stand right now to

1925
00:51:55,530 --> 00:51:56,310
your feet if you would, please.

1926
00:51:56,370 --> 00:51:56,850
Your heads are bowed.

1927
00:51:56,890 --> 00:51:57,450
Your eyes are closed.

1928
00:51:57,530 --> 00:51:58,870
The instruments are playing all over the building.