John 2.15, this is not a passage
that you hear too many sermons about or
messages on the radio, but this is part
of the Bible.
Do not love the world or anything in
the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of
the Father is not in him.
What's in the world?
What is the world?
For everything in the world, dash, the cravings
of sinful man, the lust of his eyes,
and the boasting of what he has and
does, comes not from the Father, but from
the world.
The world and its desires pass away, but
the man who does the will of God
lives forever.
I want you to notice, if I can
shut the fan off, that what the world
consists of is three things here, spiritually speaking.
Three atmospheres, three philosophies, three currents, if you
will.
Notice the desires or the cravings of sinful
man, that's our fallen nature, the lust of
his eyes, and the boasting of what he
has and does.
In other words, a vain display of life.
But notice the middle one, the lust of
his eyes.
Eyes have desires that here are likened to
something almost separate from our consciousness.
Of course, they're linked together with the soul.
The cravings of sinful man, yes, the boasting
of what he has and does, the vain
display of life, but also the cravings of
sinful man.
Now, there's two main passages into your soul.
To get to who you are and to
stir you one way or another, there's the
ear gate and the eye gate.
People become Christians when they hear the gospel
through their ear gate.
Wives who have unbelieving husbands are told to
witness to their husbands, who are not Christians,
not by so much what they say, which
would mean the ear gate, but by the
way they behave themselves, that their sweet and
chaste behavior would have an influence on them
through the eye gate and the ear gate.
But to reach a person and to be
affected by the world around us, there are
two main ways, and that is the ear
gate and the eye gate.
And in the era that we live in,
we're not living in the 1700s or the
1800s when people did not understand this and
it wasn't sophisticated because of advancements and television
and movies and the Internet, which we'll get
to.
Advertisers especially understand how easy it is to
get to someone's attention and move their will
by going through the eye gate.
Now, the Bible tells us that there is
a look that kills.
Not the way someone looks at us, but
the way we look at something and then
what happens once that spark is lit.
The Bible tells us that there is a
look that can deceive.
You know the verse that you hear people
say, seeing is believing?
Well, not exactly.
Because in Genesis 13, we find out that
Abraham was being so blessed that he and
his nephew Lot could not live in the
same land.
The land could not sustain them.
So Abraham said to Lot, pick where you
want to go, even though you're the younger
man and I have priority over you.
Pick where you want to go.
And the Bible says that Lot looked up
and saw that the whole plain of the
Jordan was well watered like the garden of
the Lord, like the land of Egypt towards
Zor.
In other words, he lifted up his eyes
and he looked north and then he looked
east and then he looked west and then
he turned around and he looked south because
Abraham had said, just choose what you want.
And the Bible tells us that Lot went
by what he saw with his natural eyes
and he gazed on something that attracted his
attention.
The only problem is about one verse later
it says, and Lot lived among the cities
of the plain and he pitched his tent
near Sodom.
Lot ended up in a homosexual hotbed.
Lot ended up going to a place that
was going to cost him dearly, that he
barely escaped from when God was going to
destroy two cities, Sodom and...
But how did Lot end up there?
He ended up there by a look that
deceives.
He didn't pray, he didn't ask God's leading.
He just went by what he saw and
I want to tell you that there is
a look that deceives.
Not everything that looks good is good.
Not everything that looks lovely ends up lovely.
There are a lot of situations and there
are a lot of people and there are
a lot of relationships that look wonderful, but
if you and I don't pray and don't
ask God's mind concerning it and look in
the Scriptures to begin with to find out
if they're verified by the Bible, we could
get into a heap of trouble.
Now this look that deceived happened to deceive
a righteous man, for the Bible in another
place calls him righteous Lot.
Righteous Lot, who was deceived by a look
and you don't even want to know the
story about when God was going to destroy
Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham knew that his
deceived nephew was there, living there and he
got to the place where angels were sent
there to try to warn him and get
him out.
But the men of the city were so
brutal and so aggressive that they wanted to
sexually molest the two men that they thought
were men but were not angels and Lot
had been so contaminated or twisted by his
stay in that place that looked so nice.
I was stunned as I read it again
recently that he said to the crowd that
had gathered around the house wanting those men,
send those men out, that Lot said to
the crowd, I have two daughters that are
virgins, please don't touch these men.
He knew they were special.
I'll send up my daughters, you can do
what you want with them.
And it all began by him just looking
and going by what looked good.
There is a way that seems right to
a person and looks right, but the end
is destruction.
There are relationships that look good, there are
girls that look pretty, there are guys that
look like their GQ, there are situations of
all kind that look good to the natural
eye, but I want to tell you something,
they're not good, there is a look that
deceives and you can stare at it and
if you only see it in your natural
eyes, physical vision doesn't always see the spiritual
trap.
But there is an attraction in looking at
something that looks good even though dangers and
spiritual pollution follows.
Don't tell me that this isn't powerful because
Satan used it against Jesus.
The Bible tells us in Matthew 4 verse
8 when he was tempted, he led Jesus
up to a very high mountain and he
let him see and showed him all the
kingdoms of the world and their splendor.
He tried to appeal to that eye gate
in Jesus and said, look what I'll give
you, look at the glory, look at the
glory of it.
But Jesus was too wise, too righteous, perfect
righteousness to fall for that trap that Lot
fell for.
So I want to tell you there's a
look, young people, that deceives.
Don't tell me it looks good.
You got to ask God if it is
good.
All in favor say Amen.
It's not only that, because of the power
of the eye gate, there is a look
that can detonate an explosion.
There is a look that can detonate a
sexual explosion.
The Bible tells us in 2 Samuel that
a man who had been chosen by God,
who had a heart after God's heart.
So I want you to notice, not only
righteous Lot, but now King David.
You don't find many finer than that.
In fact, Jesus wanted to be called and
chose to be called Jesus son of David.
The Messiah was the son of David.
But when his armies were out fighting, the
Bible says that David went out for a
walk on the roof when he couldn't sleep.
And when you can't sleep and it's late
at night, and with all the stuff that's
around us today, I never realized the importance
of a prayer that I heard prayed by
that blind lady who wrote books a hundred
years ago.
I can't think of her name right now.
No, it's not the songwriter Fanny Crosby, it's
somebody else.
No, but she prayed this very spiritual woman,
and I read in her diary, Lord, not
only give me a safe night, but give
me a pure night.
And David went out for a walk, and
here's what the Bible says.
From the roof, he saw a woman bathing,
naked.
The woman was very beautiful, and David sent
someone to find out about her.
Now, I don't have to elaborate that there's
a wiring between our eyes and our sexual
passions.
That's one of the ways people can be,
to use an expression in the street, be
turned on.
It doesn't matter how godly you are.
If you look long enough, you can be
turned on.
But you detonate something that you have no,
we have no idea what it can do.
The look at this woman, the eye gate
being taken up by her, by David, must
have then formed thoughts, which then led to
fantasy.
In other words, when the eye doesn't see
it any longer, it still has taken a
picture of it.
And the picture can be lodged and brought
up at the will of the person, and
that's what forms fantasy, where you play the
pictures that your eyes have taken in.
Now, how strong must be the power of
the eye gate to detonate an explosion, when
the king of Israel, anointed by Samuel the
prophet, slayer of Goliath, psalmist of Israel, anointed
of God, he sends a messenger to find
out about her.
Now, he has his own family, but this
eye stuff makes you get crazy.
He not only sends a message and finds
out that she is Bathsheba, the wife of
Uriah the Hittite, who is fighting for him
at that moment, one of David's warriors, he
sends another messenger.
How crazy is this?
He sends a messenger to get her to
come to him to stay the night, so
that he can have intercourse with her.
And it all began with a look.
But you know the story doesn't end there.
She becomes pregnant from a one night stand.
He calls home the husband to try to
cover his tracks.
The husband, who is not even a Jew,
is too loyal to David to go and
sleep with his wife, which David was hoping
so that he would forget the days and
everything and think the child was his.
So David ends up with a situation where
he has to send him back to the
battle.
And now, because of this eye gate and
the passion that it ignited, he sends a
letter in writing and tells his general, attack
this certain place, withdraw all the troops except
Uriah.
He puts this in writing that somebody else
could see.
But you see, the eye gate can trigger
and detonate an explosion, which brings a kind
of madness on a person.
Insane.
And all of us are susceptible, because it's
in the Bible that it happened to David,
it could happen to you or me.
And don't say I walk too close to
God.
You need God's grace every day of your
life, every hour of your life, because everyone
is capable of anything.
If we know anything from the Bible, we
know that.
The only looking, I'm only looking, I didn't
do anything, I'm just looking.
It never stops there by necessity.
And the eye gate is for certain sins,
the detonating device, especially sexually, also with covening.
The pictures stay in our mind.
The will is then won over as the
fantasies take control of our inner person.
And once the emotions are won over and
the will is won over, now action is
going to happen, what happened with David.
David gets Uriah killed.
And that is what God has to chasten
him for.
And it all began, the whole series began
with one look at a woman bathing, walking
on your roof.
And then the judgment that came on his
house and the trouble that came in his
house and his multiple wives, you don't want
to know.
And it all started, brothers and sisters, with
one look.
No wonder the Bible says in Psalm 119
verse 37, Turn my eyes away from worthless
things, preserve my life according to your word.
No wonder Proverbs 4.25 says, Let your
eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly
before you.
Listen to what God says.
Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your
gaze directly before you.
My wife pointed out to me the other
day, even if you're watching the news or
something on an educational channel, you can't hardly
watch now with your grandchildren, my grandchildren, because
the advertisements would pollute you.
Doesn't have to be the story, the program.
You can be watching the evening news.
When the advertisements come out, it's Katie bar
the door.
And why do you think, don't you understand
the power that there is in the eye
gate?
The advertising industry has fine-tuned this, the
seductiveness of it.
But the godly man wrote, Let your eyes
look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before
you.
Now, David definitely gets out of control and
starts with just a look.
And let's admit it before we move on
and I close, the number one plague in
our country today, we all know what it
is, and that's pornography.
A leader of two major denominations told me
that they have pulpits empty at the highest
rate ever because of pastors who have bit
the dust, some by discouragement, some through marital
problems.
But they said, You don't want to know
what this computer stuff has done.
The ministers are hooked on the internet.
The ministers.
I just was in Springfield, Ohio.
I mentioned earlier today a pastor who picked
me up, said to me, Open your heart
to me and tell me what I can
pray for you and your church about.
Tell me how I can pray for you.
And I opened my heart.
I said, Brother, what are you facing in
your church?
What are you facing in the school?
Because he was a kind of chaplain to
the school.
He said, The number one thing in the
school, the internet.
The kids looked all scrubbed clean, but that
internet, it has a voice, it calls them.
And he said, In my own church, a
guy running, a deacon running a bible study,
a weekly bible study, 26 men.
He just asked them the other day, Open
up, men.
Come on, it's totally confidential in terms of
names and all of that.
How many of you in the last few
weeks or months, I forget what it was,
watched pornography on the internet?
24 out of 26 in the bible study.
In the bible study.
These are not the folks who have no
appetite for God's Word.
These are the folks in the bible study.
So, the eye has the ability to rivet
our attention.
And then, it has desires of its own
and it has a wiring system with our
emotions and our will and our inner soul.
And it pollutes the person, pollutes the family.
And that's why in a certain proverb or
psalm, I can't think of where the reference
is, but I'll have it for you next
Sunday.
The writer says, I think it's in a
psalm, he says, and I will set no
evil thing before me.
The sign of our allegiance to God is
I will set nothing evil before me.
I will not look at something that's evil
because that's the way I show that I
love you because you're a holy God.
Oh, how many want to live a life?
Come on, all of us.
How many want to live a life where
you set nothing evil before you?
Come on, lift up your hand.
Set nothing evil before you.
And we live in a day now.
This is not the 1800s.
This is not the 1900s.
I was watching something on the History Channel
about the turn of the century and when
they first had moving film and all of
this and I saw people going to the
beach in 1910.
Are you kidding me?
They were more covered now than the way
people are walking on Fifth Avenue.
Did you ever see those old bathing suits
they wore?
And, ladies and gentlemen, because it cuts both
ways because there's sensual clothing for each gender.
Women, if you wear clothes to attract the
lust of the eye of a man, the
Bible says that if he sins in his
mind because he takes in through the eye
gate what he sees, does the Bible indicate
whether you are a participant with him?
In other words, Jesus said, you heard it
written, thou shalt not commit adultery, but I
say that if you sin in your mind
with a person, speaking of this eye gate
and fantasy business, well, if the clothes were
worn to be seductive, you could be fornicating
and being an adulteress without even knowing it.
And I'm not saying that in a light
way.
And I'm saying, I hope you understand this
is with tenderness, but we're talking about dynamite
here.
We're talking about dynamite for all of us.
Look at the scandals of the last 20
years in Christendom.
Worldwide known preachers just thinking they could put
sunglasses on and ride somewhere and not be
found out.
Imagine the drivenness, the risk from this eye
gate business.
Let me close.
There's not only a look that can deceive
and a look that can detonate an explosion,
there's a look that can discourage.
Remember when Peter was called by Jesus, he
was walking in the water and they said,
Lord, if it's you, call us to be
with you.
Jesus said to Peter in the boat, Come,
Peter.
And Peter got out of the boat and
started walking on the water.
Now, Peter made a lot of boo-boos
in his life, but we better be careful
how we judge him because I don't see
any of us walking on water.
But the Bible says in Matthew 14, listen,
verse 30, When he saw the wind, he
was afraid and began to sink.
And he cried out, Lord, save me.
And Jesus said, You of little faith, why
did you doubt?
Why did he doubt?
If I could reverently answer from Mr. Peter,
he doubted because he looked at the wrong
thing.
If he would have just kept his eyes
on Jesus and not looked at that wave
and the wind.
You know, beside sexuality and all of that,
there's looks.
When you look at the situation and you
look what people are doing, and you look
what folks are doing, and you look what
people are saying, and you look at people's
attitudes.
If you don't keep your eyes on Jesus,
you can want to quit running the race
and even being a Christian.
Why do you think in Hebrews 12, after
the great chapter 11 on faith, the Bible
says about running the race of faith, looking
unto Jesus.
What unto Jesus?
Looking unto Jesus.
In other words, as we go through life,
we got to keep our eyes on Jesus.
Somebody say Amen.
Got to keep our eyes on Jesus.
But Pastor Simba, you know what they're doing
over there in that church?
I know, but look, I've been that way.
And when I look away, I get despondent.
I get discouraged.
I got to keep my eyes on.
Yeah, but you know, you got to know
what's going on.
I don't want to know what's going on
if it's going to discourage me.
Let me be ignorant.
Let me just keep my eyes on Jesus.
I remember years ago visiting in Florida and
I was staying at a home.
They were watching Christian television.
This is one of the, before the PTL
scandal.
And I remember being in this home and
the people just watching and I was surprised
they were watching and so into it because
it was so stupid.
And it was so ludicrous and it was
so fake.
It was so phony.
But you know what?
So I was polite because I was close
to the family in a way.
So I sat and watched it one day
with them and I couldn't take it.
The acting, the using of the Lord's name
in vain, the financial scams they were running.
I got so discouraged that one, that first
day that I jumped up out of my
seat.
I said, I'm just going for a walk
and God knows the exact street I walked
down I can see myself in the blazing
hot sun.
And I just walked down by myself with
tears running down my eyes and I said,
God, if this is Christianity then what am
I trying to do?
I was much, much younger then and just
struggling on Atlantic Avenue my wife and I
trying to do the work of the Lord.
I couldn't look at it.
And whenever they turned on I didn't want
to look at it because, and it wasn't
even because it was nasty.
It's because some religious things are so fraudulent
that if you look at it you get
cynical and critical and you take your eyes
off of Jesus.
You know what they're doing over there?
I'm telling you, I mean, we have to
know certain things and God gives us a
spirit of discernment but you can so major
in ugly things that you take your eyes
off the Lord.
I have to be careful when I do
that traveling now because I run into things
and I see things that if I just
dwelt on it and looked at it too
long I would really get discouraged.
Boy, you've got to keep your eyes on
Jesus.
Come on, how many want to keep their
eyes on Jesus?
I want to keep my eyes on the
Word of God and I want to keep
my eyes on Jesus.
That's what I want to do.
Carol, if you would just begin to play.
Let's play that song we sang earlier today,
Jonathan, whatever key that was in.
I'll teach it to them.
Sweet Wonder.
Let me close.
There's not only a look that deceives, a
look that detonates, a look that discourages.
Oh, let us fix our eyes on Jesus.
Hebrews 12, 2.
But there's a look that actually brings destruction.
Now listen to me as I close.
Never could rhyme these things when I preached
but all these words from D came to
me today.
Deceive, detonate, discourage, destruction.
Oh, they were so happy in the book
of Joshua when God promised that if they
just obeyed Him and marched around the walls
of Jericho, Joshua fought the battle of Jericho
and the walls but came tumbling down.
It's a good song.
Except that God said this.
This city is so polluted.
This city is so given over to stuff
that you don't want to know.
Do what I tell you but you're not
allowed to touch or possess any of the
silver or any of the gold.
In other words, there are certain things that
you can't be around and have if you're
going to serve me.
Look at me, everyone.
Face me and look at me.
There are certain things that God says, Jim
Simbala, you can't touch that.
You can't have that.
You can't go there.
It doesn't matter what the world says.
In our walk with the Lord through the
Bible and through the leading of the Holy
Spirit, there are certain things that God just
puts off limits.
But the problem is, brothers and sisters, is
that many of the things that God puts
off limits, they are very attractive and let's
admit it.
Things that God says you can't have sometimes
have a tremendous appeal to the eye.
So they fought the battle of Jericho.
They obeyed God or they thought they did.
And everybody was high-fiving each other and
everyone was happy that they were victorious because
this was one of the first battles they
fought when they came over the Jordan River
to possess the land.
Moses had died.
Joshua was in charge.
Well, then they came to this little place,
Ai.
Strange word, strange town.
Ai.
And they said, this is nothing.
After Jericho and after what God did, we'll
fight this battle.
Just send a few men.
Send one little company of guys.
Just, hey guys, take out that town.
Remember the Lord is with us.
They fought the battle of Ai and they
got whooped.
They got beat and chased all the way
back to where they came from.
They had never experienced defeat.
They had never known defeat.
Coming in, out of the wilderness, they had
won every battle and coming across the Jordan
River, they had won the battle of Jericho
and God had told Joshua, nobody will be
able to stand before you.
But they got whooped bad.
Joshua, unlike him, one of the few faulty
moments in his life, acted like a baby
and started saying, why did we even come
into this land?
Why didn't we stay in the wilderness?
Why didn't we stay this?
And the Bible says, he laid down on
his face a prostrate before God and he
just lamented the whole situation and God rebuked
Joshua.
One of the few places where you see
Joshua not on the right page.
God said to Joshua, would you please get
up?
What are you doing on the floor?
There's no mystery to this.
Somebody's played dirty.
Somebody's kept something that I told them they
can't have.
That's why you lost.
Because when you keep dirty things, you can't
have victory in me.
Brothers and sisters, do you realize that?
You know, I was preaching at a church
in fact in Nashville one day and I
was stunned by the fact that when I
said that, like people have this idea of
the good Lord and just everything is going
to work out, doesn't matter how I live.
Well, listen again.
You can't keep dirty things and have God
supplying victory for you.
You break fellowship with Him when you hide
dirty things.
Do you all get that?
So that I won't be guilty for any
of you on judgment day.
Do you all get it?
The Lord is with you when you are
with Him.
That's what was told to King Asa.
But to be with the Lord, I know
what the Lord being with me is, but
what's being with the Lord?
It's being against what He's against and being
for what He's for.
And I'll never forget as I was preaching,
the audience was stunned like what?
You mean I have to be against certain
things because the Lord is?
You mean I have to be for certain
things even though it's not in my culture
because the Lord is?
Yeah, exactly.
What do you think?
The Lord is a master card that you
just pull out and use whenever you feel
like.
This is a relationship we have with the
Lord.
You've got to choose.
Did you hear?
You've got to choose.
You've got to come over the line.
Who's going to be for the Lord?
There's a line.
Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, will enter
the kingdom of heaven, Jesus said.
Many will even say, we not cast out
demons in your name and prophesy in your
name?
They had a spiritual ministry and the Lord
will say, depart from me.
I never knew you because you were into
dirty stuff.
So God told Joshua, we'll straighten it out
this way.
Just get everybody lined up and we'll start
drawing lots or however God decided to reveal
who the culprit was.
And there was a man named Achan and
he must have been shaking in his boots
or maybe Achan thought they'll never find me
out because that's what the eye gate does.
It makes for secretiveness.
When we sin with our eyes, most always
there comes a secretiveness to it.
So his tribe was called then his clan,
then his family and sure enough, Achan stands
before Joshua and Joshua says, give glory to
God, Achan, which was another way of saying,
fess up.
And Achan said, when I saw in the
plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, 200 shekels
of silver and a wedge of gold, I
coveted them.
See, the eyes not only triggers lust and
sexuality, it triggers covetousness.
When we look at what other people have,
it can trip us up and we start
wanting what God never intended for us to
have.
I coveted them and I took them.
They are hidden in the ground inside my
tent.
A battle was lost.
Israel got waylaid because somebody saw something that
was just too beautiful to pass up.
It was.
It was too beautiful.
That's the symbol.
You didn't see that robe.
You didn't see that silver and that wedge
of gold.
I won't tell you the rest of the
story, but I have to.
The days of the law, rough commands.
I don't understand all of it, but I
got to tell it to you.
Am I right, Pastor Bogstaff?
Am I right, Pastor O'Neill?
They took Achan and his family and everything
he owned and brought them to the Valley
of Achor.
That word means trouble.
They destroyed the whole bunch.
His family suffered.
His wife, children, cattle, lost everything.
Just from one look at something that God
said, you can't have that, so why look
at it?
But you know what, brothers and sisters?
If we look long enough at something, it
can get under our skin.
You don't have to say amen.
It's the truth.
If you look at something long enough, why
don't you listen?
Remember that program that was on TV?
It was based on this.
Lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Now, what would that have to do with
you and me?
Nothing.
But they know.
I know people who are even Christians who
know more about the lives of movie stars
than they do their Bible because there's a
fascination.
They know what they wore to the Oscars.
They know everything.
They can tell you all the movies.
Now, movies, that's a whole other thing.
That's simple.
You're not legalistic.
Listen, I'm not legalistic.
I don't have one law for you here.
You have your Bible.
You have God.
I'm not your savior.
I'm not God.
Just another guy.
But boy, you would think with this truth
in front of us, we'd be thinking, wait
a minute, I have to pay money to
be tempted?
You don't even have to pay.
Just walk in the street if that's what
you want.
I wish I could end with an illustration,
but the ones I have, they're too convoluted
and they're too heartbreaking.
You know, my father-in-law, he died
with a secret he never told anyone.
Right, Carol?
He never told me.
He never told his wife.
He never told Carol.
He told me.
He said, I go to this with my
grave.
He said, I was traveling in the Midwest
and I stayed in Illinois somewhere, some out
-of-the-way town at a motel.
Remember when he used to tell us that?
And he said, I just thought, let me,
way out of the way.
And there, this was in the 50s, he
walked into where the pool area was.
And there was one of the most famous
ministers that he knew of that area in
the country sitting and cavorting with a woman
that was not his wife.
And he turned red, blue, told my father
-in-law, could I see you in your
room later?
He knew he had been caught.
He wasn't even going to try to make
a story.
So he went to my father-in-law's
room.
My father-in-law told me, he said,
Jim, God restored him.
And I've never spoken his name and I
never will.
I'll take it all the way to heaven
with me.
Because that's the way God is.
Oh, aren't you glad God is merciful?
God isn't like, oh, did you know who
I saw?
So if I remember correctly, the guy said,
you know, my wife hasn't been feeling so
good.
Affected our sex life.
And this sister in the church, she's just
so nice.
She's really sweet.
And it didn't start with like, a wink
and something physical.
But that's the danger of even being thrown
together for a long period of time with
someone.
Anything you fasten on for too long, watch
it.
Because it can detonate.
If you're here and you would like to
pray and talk to the Lord about anything,
but you feel your need, God, you know
the situation I'm in, I need protection.
I need to have victory over a look
that could discourage me because I'm in a
situation where I could easily be discouraged.
Lord, I don't want to look at things
and not see it the way you do.
I don't want to be deceived.
God, I certainly don't want to be detonated.
And God, I want you to keep me
from coveting things and following my eyes down
a road that leads to big time trouble,
shaming you.
Before I give further orders about how we
should pray or direction, I should say, if
anybody here would like me to pray for
them, I'll stay as long as you need
to.
Just get out of your seat as we
sing it again.
Just come down here and stand here, and
we'll pray together.