1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,640 Come on, give that to the Lord. Come on, give that to the Lord. 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:10,000 He's worthy. He's worthy of all praise, honor 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,000 and glory. There's no praise that he's not 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,120 worthy of. Amen. 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:18,680 Amen. Amen. 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:26,760 I was, I was committed to being good about Brother Frederick and 7 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:35,560 Brother McGee has opened a door that if he were not now Doctor 8 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,360 Frederick, I would probably not tell you to ask him this the 9 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,280 next time he is here. I was not aware until yesterday 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,680 evening that you would have a water slide. 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:53,840 And I just want you to ask him. Look him up on Facebook, Bombard 12 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:00,440 his Facebook page and ask him to please tell the story of his 13 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:07,240 experience on a water slide. And when he tells it, if he is 14 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,840 gutsy enough to tell it on Facebook, I will watch and I 15 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:16,440 give you my word that I will clarify any misinterpretation. 16 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:23,360 I I was present, I was there. I know what happened and, and 17 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:30,960 well, I so hope he's watching from Mount Rushmore today. 18 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,800 He's I hope he took time out of his. 19 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,360 Well, I'll know because if he's watching, he'll be texting my 20 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,840 iPad. I am so thankful today to be 21 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:44,800 here. I talked to brother Frederick 22 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,680 the other day and I said, you know, is there anything, can you 23 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:49,680 help me out? Is there anything I should know 24 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,320 about preaching in Mount Carmel? And, and he said, he said, well, 25 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,320 I can, I, I can tell you something to preach. 26 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,720 And I didn't trust him. I just didn't trust him. 27 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,120 I, I said no, he honestly, he spoke very highly of this 28 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,080 church. I have never been here. 29 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,640 It is my pleasure to make your acquaintance. 30 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,920 I, I, I asked permission for this before I did it. 31 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:25,400 I asked Sister Don McGee today I said it will it be OK if I, if 32 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:33,640 I, if I tell that I am an Andy Griffith show fan and she said, 33 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:37,040 if you will tell it, you will get, you will get more people 34 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:44,720 undivided attention. And I, I said to her, I said, 35 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,880 well, I'm going to read something in kind of my ice 36 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:52,800 breaker to, to the that I think will tie to my sermon. 37 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,760 And I, I really do want us to sing that song. 38 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,640 Just give me a little bit. I'm, I'm just getting 39 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,600 comfortable. I mean, pastor, pastor told me 40 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,720 to act like I was at home and Bishop told me to act like I was 41 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,560 at home. Now I'm apartment to throw water 42 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,360 or pour water out on the carpet or I'm apartment to do about 43 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,440 anything if I'm at home. So you really don't want me to 44 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:15,480 act like I'm at home. But I I, I said to them that I 45 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:20,240 would both Sister McGee, Pastor McGee, Bishop McGee, I would I 46 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,840 would try to refrain from speaking in the voice of Ernest 47 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,800 T Bass today while I'm while I'm preaching. 48 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:36,000 So in an attempt to to not do it while I'm preaching, I'll just 49 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,400 get it out of the way. It's me, it's me, It's Ernest T. 50 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,120 If I had a soldier, I'd have wove that you. 51 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,840 No hunt, beware. Open and close, no credit. 52 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:58,080 And she is a nervous wreck right now because when I ask my lovely 53 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:03,120 bride to greet you, she is afraid that I will refer to her 54 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:10,880 as my mother figure, but I will not. 55 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,880 This is my girlfriend. This is my lifelong girlfriend. 56 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,279 We, we got married 30, almost 31 years ago. 57 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:27,960 And, and I was 12. Not really. 58 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:32,240 But I want, I want my wife to stand and greet you today and, 59 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,880 and, and, and bless the Lord. And again, I this is not my 60 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:40,640 mother figure. Not going to do any voices. 61 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:20,680 Amen, Amen. Amen. 62 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,000 I want you to do something for me today before we, I'm going 63 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,600 to, I'm going to slow down. I have thoroughly enjoyed praise 64 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,720 team and musicians. Of course, I have to tell you 65 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:36,200 that I, I, I mean, I give honor to brother and sister McGee and 66 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,760 brother and sister McGee, but I also give honor to brother and 67 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,760 sister Mason and brother and sister Mason. 68 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,720 These y'all, these are some of my favorite people. 69 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,720 So they're they're some of my favorite people. 70 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:52,680 So, but I am going to slow it down just a little bit of my 71 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,600 half brother Jerry Mason. Help me, help me sing an old 72 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,360 song today. We're going to sing an old song. 73 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:02,760 But I want you to do something for me today. 74 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:10,200 I want you to think of one thing that you know for a fact God has 75 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,000 done in your life. I want you to just think of 76 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,280 something. He healed your body. 77 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:17,800 He delivered your soul. He set you free. 78 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,160 He, he delivered you from alcoholism. 79 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,200 He delivered you from addiction. I just, I just want you to think 80 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,000 of one thing. Everybody, are you thinking 81 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,600 about one thing? I just just one. 82 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,800 I don't want you to think about a dozen or two dozen. 83 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,440 I just want you to think about one thing that you know God did 84 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,640 in your life. Now, would you give him adequate 85 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:41,200 praise for that? Oh, come on, come on, Will you 86 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:46,160 give him? See, they told my Mama. 87 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:49,640 They told my Mama, abort that baby because he's going to be 88 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,000 born dead. You don't want to give birth to 89 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,280 that baby. But my Mama said, no, I know a 90 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:58,760 God that's bigger than that. See, the doctor told me I got to 91 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,040 trache you when I had a baby at home. 92 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,400 I got to trache you. You're going to die of this 93 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,840 sickness. I got to, I got to. 94 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:06,600 And I said, no, I don't want to do that. 95 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,800 I want him to pray. I know God is able. 96 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:16,480 Oh, come on, I, I, I know I'm just, would you give him 97 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:19,040 adequate praise? Would you just give him the kind 98 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,240 of praise that he deserves? The doctor said no. 99 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:27,760 The banker said no. The lawyer said no, but God 100 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:37,920 stepped in. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 101 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:43,240 Hallelujah. It got good. 102 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,600 It got good. Brother Mason's going to help me 103 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,200 sing this song because I don't have a lot of singing voice, but 104 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:50,800 he's going to help me sing this song. 105 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,160 And you worship the Lord with a little song that says only Jesus 106 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:09,520 can satisfy your soul. Holy Jesus can't satisfy by your 107 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:12,520 soul only. He. 108 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:24,440 Only He can touch and cleanse your heart and make you. 109 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:33,720 He'll give you peace. He'll give you peace you never 110 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:46,960 knew, sweet love and joy in hell you do. 111 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:53,480 Only Jesus. Only Jesus can satisfy. 112 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,120 Your soul. Do it again, Brother Mason. 113 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:18,160 One more time, Do it again. Your soul and the only heat can 114 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,680 touch your heart, cleanse your heart and heal me. 115 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:34,000 Can raise your soul. Can give you beauties you should 116 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:40,920 never do. Sweet, sweet love and joy and 117 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:49,320 heaven to only Jesus only. Jesus. 118 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,160 And satisfy. Your. 119 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,600 Soul. I want you to do this with me. 120 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,640 I want you to ask God to open your heart and let you receive 121 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,880 the Word of God today. I'm going to ask Him to open 122 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:07,360 mind and I'm going to ask Him to give me clarity, and I'm going 123 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:10,240 to ask Him to help me deliver the Word the way He wants it 124 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:12,600 delivered. But will you ask God to help to 125 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,440 open up your heart and let you receive the healing balm of 126 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,120 Gilead? Will you, God? 127 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:21,840 I pray today Lord, that you will remove error and distraction. 128 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:24,720 From my mind. I pray today, God, that you will 129 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,120 give me direction. You will help me to not just 130 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,360 preach the Word, but you will help me to. 131 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,440 Minister in the Spirit today I pray God that you will open our 132 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,400 hearts and our minds. I pray that you will help us to 133 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,480 receive the Word of God as only you can deliver it. 134 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:46,160 Lord in Jesus name in Jesus. Name Amen. 135 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:47,120 Amen. Amen. 136 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,800 God bless you. You can be seated I I know that 137 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,560 it's very possible you may be accustomed to standing for the 138 00:10:53,560 --> 00:10:56,800 word of God. I'm going to read my text as I 139 00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,360 preach today. So I'm, I'm not going to have 140 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,480 you stand for the whole reading of the text, but I read 141 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,600 something early, early this morning. 142 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,680 There's something about having to preach in a, a pulpit that's 143 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:14,880 not your own that wakes you up early in the morning. 144 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,720 I, I can't explain it. It just wakes you up early in 145 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,800 the morning. And and I read a little excerpt 146 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,320 from an article of It's about That Andy Griffith Show. 147 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,320 But Ernest T Bass has left the building. 148 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:33,240 He's not here. But on the final day of filming 149 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:40,120 The Andy Griffith Show in 1968, the atmosphere on set was far 150 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:45,320 from celebratory. Andy Griffith, usually composed 151 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:49,800 and warm in front of the camera, quietly stepped away from the 152 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:56,240 sound stage once the last scene was wrapped, according to crew 153 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,240 members who were present. He walked down the familiar 154 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:04,800 corridor at Desilu Studios, turned corner and disappeared 155 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:09,240 behind a row of trailers. Have you ever had to put on a 156 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,840 good front in public when you were broken in private? 157 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:18,120 He disappeared behind a row of trailers. 158 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,600 Moments later, someone heard soft sobs. 159 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:27,920 Griffith had broken down in private, overwhelmed by the 160 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,320 weight of saying goodbye to something that had defined 161 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,800 nearly a decade of his life. For eight seasons, he had played 162 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,320 Sheriff Andy Taylor, the calm, wise father figure of Mayberry. 163 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:45,920 But the relationships that developed behind the scenes had 164 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:50,480 they had grown much deeper than those written into the scripts. 165 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:55,600 You and I probably all know Don Knotts who portrayed the high 166 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,960 strung Barney Fife, and that's saying it politely. 167 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,360 He had departed the show after a few seasons, but he returned 168 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,600 occasionally and maintained a close bond with Griffith. 169 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,680 Ron Howard, who played Opie, later recalled how Griffith 170 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:17,040 became a real life mentor. Francis Babier, or Aunt Bee and 171 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,200 George Lindsay and the rest of the cast had become like 172 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,720 extended family members to Griffith. 173 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,400 Griffiths emotional connection to them was rooted not in 174 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:33,240 fiction, but in shared years of longing, long work days and 175 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:38,640 laughter between takes, and even the rare honesty that can exist 176 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:43,280 between people when they create something meaningful together. 177 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:50,440 The moment that triggered his tears was not a scene in the 178 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:56,480 show, but the silence that followed the final cut. 179 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,840 The absence of movement on set, the way everyone slowly lowered 180 00:14:02,840 --> 00:14:07,360 their scripts and avoided eye contact, created an emotional 181 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:10,200 vacuum. Jack Dodson, who played Howard 182 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,800 Sprague once, shared that nobody wanted to be the first to speak. 183 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,960 He said this. It's as if Andy had given us the 184 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:24,800 permission to feel and then took it all with him when he walked 185 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,160 off. That day, Griffith's dressing 186 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,560 room remained closed for nearly an hour. 187 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,600 Only a lifelong friend and manager approached the door, 188 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,240 placing a hand silently on the door but choosing not to knock. 189 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,280 When Griffith finally returned to the stage, his eyes were red, 190 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:47,360 but he carried himself with grace hurting on the inside. 191 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,720 He carried himself with grace on the outside. 192 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:56,280 Without saying much, he moved from 1 cast member to the next, 193 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,320 hugging each tightly. According to Ron Howard, who was 194 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:03,400 just 14 at the time, Griffith held him the longest. 195 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,560 He He whispered. You're going to be all right. 196 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,480 You've got this in you, Ronnie, Howard said. 197 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,640 That meant everything, meant more than anything to me. 198 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:20,080 Griffith had been hesitant about ending the show, and he just 199 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,280 recognized that chemistry was changing and Don Knotts was 200 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,480 doing more film roles and Ronnie Howard was beginning this and 201 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,560 outgrowing the Opie character and the tone of television 202 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:37,080 itself was beginning to change. And he said this in an 203 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,320 interview. My greatest fear was that 204 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:45,720 nothing else I ever would do would ever carry the same heart. 205 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:50,960 It's a soul breaking. It's a it's an inner man 206 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:51,680 breaking. Are y'all? 207 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,120 I'm not boring you yet, am I? I mean. 208 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,440 I'll, I'll, I'll. Continue till I bore you. 209 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,320 But I'm pleased. I don't want you to be bored 210 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:03,240 this fast, Andy said. I didn't know if I'd ever get to 211 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:09,360 feel that kind of warmth again. Not just in front of a camera, 212 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,840 his quote in quotes. Not just in front of a camera, 213 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,960 but I didn't know if I would ever feel that warmth again in 214 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:20,400 life. After the wrap, the cast and 215 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:23,960 crew gathered for a quiet dinner at a local studio adjacent 216 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:27,480 restaurant. There were no speeches, no 217 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:33,360 formal farewells. Andy Griffith held or kept a 218 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,800 handkerchief in his hand the entire evening. 219 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:44,000 George Lindsay would later say. I think he was still crying on 220 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:51,160 the inside may not mean much to you yet, but I think that it 221 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,560 will in a moment because I'm going to read to you from a 222 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:58,080 chapter in your Bible. I'm going to read from a book 223 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,960 that is written with tears of a broken heart. 224 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,160 I want to read to you today from a book that is written from a 225 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,680 wounded spirit to the media team. 226 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,560 You can place my title slide at any time. 227 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:18,880 My title today will be When My Soul Needs a Doctor When my soul 228 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,319 needs a doctor. This book that I will read to 229 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:25,760 you from is is is Jeremiah is overwhelmed by the destruction 230 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,960 of Jerusalem, the sin that had produced such destruction, the 231 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:35,120 suffering which followed and the memory haunts Jeremiah as he 232 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:39,320 writes to us. It's pressing in on his soul. 233 00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:43,600 This book is written with the tears of a broken heart and a 234 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,400 wounded spirit. But in the middle of this book, 235 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,360 in the middle of this chapter, in the middle, in the middle of 236 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:54,760 the ashes, in the middle of his lament, there's the key, the 237 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:58,640 secret to where we're going. In the middle of his lament or 238 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,880 his lamentation, in the middle of his lamenting, something 239 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,960 seems to turn and hope walks into the room. 240 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,200 Hope seems to rise up out of nowhere. 241 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,680 Just just let me get comfortable. 242 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:15,320 Is that all right? I know I stand between you and 243 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:19,440 food and a water slide and I know somebody is dying to text 244 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,080 Brother Frederick and ask him, but give me, just give me a few 245 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:28,000 minutes. Many years ago when I was much 246 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,560 younger and I, I would not even want to dare go back and listen 247 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,200 to this sermon because I'm sure that I, I, I, I just, I'm sure I 248 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,800 just botched it all up. But I, I preached a title, not 249 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,360 from this passage, but I preached a title that said, 250 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:48,920 please hold while I speak to my soul, because there are times in 251 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:54,640 your life that you need to have a doctor look at the problem 252 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,400 that's going on in your inner man. 253 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:03,680 There are times in life that you need a doctor to look at the 254 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,320 inner person of you. And, and when the Bible talks 255 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,120 about the heart or the soul of a man, it's not talking about the 256 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:13,160 thumper. It's talking more about the 257 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,360 thinker. It's talking about the inner 258 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:17,280 man. It's talking about that deeper 259 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,040 personality that it's that, that, that the Bible said we 260 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,680 have heart, soul and mind and, and, and, and we know that the 261 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,920 soul is the seat of our personality. 262 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:31,000 It's the seat of our emotions, of our feelings, our affections, 263 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:36,440 our appetites, our desires. It is your soul that needs a 264 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:40,120 doctor when you are addicted to cigarettes or to alcohol. 265 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:45,360 Can I, they said pretend like I'm at home. 266 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,240 I mean, I come in the other night and and a young man's been 267 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,800 coming to church off and on all of his life. 268 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,840 He's my age. That's why I said a young man, 269 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,640 he came in and he said, pastor, I'm three weeks cigarette free. 270 00:19:57,640 --> 00:20:00,240 I said, well, what, what did you, what did, what did you do? 271 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:01,960 What did you try? Are you using this? 272 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,440 Are you using that? He said no, I just got to coming 273 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,200 to church and I just got every time I smoked a cigarette. 274 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,400 I, I felt a little bit of guilt raised up in my soul and he 275 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,880 said, I told the Lord, if you want me to quit, I'll quit. 276 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,760 But you got to help me because I'm only doing this for you 277 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,080 because I really want, Oh, come on, he said. 278 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:26,960 I really want the cigarette. He is now 15 1/2 weeks cigarette 279 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:31,160 free without any trouble, not even bought a pack and looked at 280 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:31,760 it. Why? 281 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,600 Because he knew that a doctor needed to deal with something 282 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,720 that a specialist couldn't handle. 283 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,600 Now I want. To tell you, it's going to take 284 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,960 us a little bit to a little bit to get to the good part, but the 285 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:46,520 good part's not going to take very long. 286 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:48,880 It's going to take us a little bit to get there. 287 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,480 But it's worth the walk. It's it's worth the journey, 288 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,040 Brother Mason, she said to me at general conference, she said. 289 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,840 I said I'd like to have one of those milkshakes from over 290 00:20:58,840 --> 00:20:59,840 there. At, at at at. 291 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,160 The the pharmacy at Phoenix Pharmacy and she said, what do 292 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:05,240 you want? Are you sure you want to walk 293 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:07,200 all the way over there? I said I've already had one of 294 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,200 the milkshakes. The milkshake is worth the walk. 295 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,080 I mean, a, a bad peanut buttermilkshake is worth the 296 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,920 walk, but a good peanut buttermilkshake is worth the 297 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,040 walk twice. I mean, I said, I'll walk uphill 298 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,600 both ways. We're going to walk a little 299 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,040 bit, but we're where we're going. 300 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:25,280 It's going to be worth where we're where it's going to be 301 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,560 worth the time. Your mental reaction to life, 302 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:33,480 the activity of your mind, the will and the character of your 303 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:37,840 person often times needs a doctor to evaluate it. 304 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,400 And I got to tell you that there's not a doctor in this. 305 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:47,120 This world that can do what you. And I got to get negative in 306 00:21:47,120 --> 00:21:49,880 order to get positive. But lamentations that I am the 307 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:53,960 man that had seen affliction. Jeremiah is physically, 308 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:59,200 emotionally, spiritually broken. The suffering shows on his skin. 309 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,640 The suffering shows in the weakness of his bones. 310 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,200 The suffering shows he is surrounded. 311 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:09,640 He's hedged in like a prisoner buried alive in his. 312 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:13,560 So let me just read it to you. I I am the man that had seen 313 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,800 affliction. Lamentation 3 One through 20 I 314 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:18,680 am the man that has seen affliction. 315 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:23,440 By the rod of his wrath He hath led me and brought me Into 316 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,920 Darkness, but not into light. Have you ever felt that way? 317 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:32,520 Surely against me he is turned, He turneth his hand against me. 318 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:36,480 All the day my flesh and my skin hath made me. 319 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,800 Old. He hath broken my bones. 320 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,840 Let me paraphrase a little bit. This experience has taken a toll 321 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:48,200 on me physically. I am I am aging beyond my years 322 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,400 because of the stress that I have lived in in my life, the 323 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,320 unknowns in the medical and the and the the the the lack of 324 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,560 provision in the financial I'm. I'm getting older ahead of 325 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,480 myself. The suffering has aged me in 326 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:07,800 advance of my years physically. Jeremiah says I bear the scars 327 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,000 of this traumatic experience and traumatic walk that I have. 328 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,760 My bones and my skin reflect my affliction and my worry. 329 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:20,600 Let me get to verse 5. He hath builded against me and 330 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,840 come past me with Gaul and travail. 331 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:29,400 He had set me in dark places as they that be dead of old. 332 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,800 They've been dead a long time. He had hedged me about that. 333 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:39,560 I cannot get out. He had made my chain heavy also. 334 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:45,080 When I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 335 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,320 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone. 336 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,920 He cut stones to hedge me in and to block me. 337 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,520 He hath made my path crooked. Walls have been built against 338 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,600 me. I am shut in by bitterness and 339 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,280 sorrow. I feel hedged in like a criminal 340 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,960 in heavy change. I feel caged like some kind of 341 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:15,000 wild animal. No freedom, no escape possible. 342 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,680 I I feel like the dead that my the my world has already buried 343 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,160 and forgotten, he said. I feel buried alive in my 344 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,120 circumstance. Y'all are looking at me in a 345 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:29,240 wrong tone of voice like you have never been named where you 346 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,520 felt like you were buried alive. The world was closing in on you, 347 00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,320 he said. I cry, I beg, I plead, I pray 348 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:42,200 again and again, but it seems my prayers are shut out of heaven. 349 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,320 But the spell Tim spell used to sing. 350 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,960 There have been times when I felt like my prayers didn't even 351 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:52,040 even reach the ceiling of the room where I knelt to pray. 352 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:56,440 I want you to know that every one of us somewhere has walked 353 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,920 in a path where we felt like that. 354 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:03,440 The world was closing in on us and our prayers were 355 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,080 unanswerable. In fact, it felt like God did 356 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,280 not even hear us. Jeremiah said. 357 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,800 I travel an enclosed way, like a tunnel. 358 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:18,440 My paths are crooked so I cannot see around the corner of the 359 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,360 next bend. I don't know what my tomorrow is 360 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:25,600 going to bring. I feel like I am surrounded. 361 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,880 And if that is not enough, Brother Alex Mason, if that is 362 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:36,840 not enough, he was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion 363 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:41,520 in secret places. He had turned aside my ways and 364 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:46,440 pulled me into pieces. He had made me desolate. 365 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,680 He hath bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow. 366 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:56,640 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 367 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,880 A bear waits for me at around every bend in the road there's a 368 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,440 bear, or a lion, or some destructive creature, or some 369 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,680 destructive circumstance, or some destructive problem that 370 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,640 I'm not going to know how to get through. 371 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:17,440 I am become a target. For every painful arrow there is 372 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,720 trouble. People awaiting me, waiting to 373 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,800 attack me, waiting to tear me into pieces. 374 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,320 Life. Is tearing me up. 375 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,800 I was. In I, I was a derision to all my 376 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,200 people and their song all the day. 377 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,800 There is no hope from others, no help from others. 378 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:42,960 They say it's all my fault. I got 6A man's. 379 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,280 Everybody says it's my fault, I'm the problem. 380 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,600 It's it's, it's, it's my fault. Nobody understands my dilemma, 381 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:56,320 nobody feels my pain, and there's certainly nobody around 382 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,280 to pat me on the back and offer me sweet counsel and tell me 383 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,640 that everything is going to be all right, Jeremiah said. 384 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:04,360 He has filled me with bitterness. 385 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,440 He has made me made me drunken with Wormwood. 386 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,120 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. 387 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,520 He has covered me with ashes. Bitterness has entered my heart. 388 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,280 I am intoxicated with the poison of bitterness. 389 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,680 I am covered with the ashes of yesterday's fires, and thou hast 390 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,760 removed my soul. Far. 391 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,960 Off from peace I forget prosperity and I said my 392 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,960 strength and my hope is perished from the Lord. 393 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:39,320 I will never survive this trial, I said to myself. 394 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,520 It is over for me. There is no hope. 395 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,640 My strength has been sapped by my suffering. 396 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,640 Hope has been buried alive in this tomb of despair. 397 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:54,120 But verse #19 starts to turn a different corner. 398 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:58,040 Remembering mine affliction and my misery. 399 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:03,720 The Wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in 400 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,920 remembrance, and is humbled in me. 401 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,040 Walk with me, just a little, he said. 402 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:13,960 My flesh and my skin bare the toll of my worry and my 403 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,600 affliction. There is no escape. 404 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,120 There is no peace. There is no voice from heaven. 405 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,600 There's no sounding symbol or tinkling brass. 406 00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:28,080 There is nothing that seems to break the silence of my despair. 407 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:33,080 Jeremiah is telling us about a soul that is crushed under the 408 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,320 weight of sorrows. His prayers feel blocked, shut 409 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:41,120 out of heaven. His tomorrow looks darker than 410 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:46,160 his today, and his today already looks darker than his yesterday. 411 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,640 He said a bear waits for me at every bend. 412 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,120 Some new trouble awaits to tear me apart. 413 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,240 Bitterness has intoxicated me. Hope feels perished. 414 00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:02,760 Jeremiah says my strength and my hope is perished from the Lord 415 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,720 Church. Will you be honest with me 416 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,720 today? There are moments in like, can 417 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,800 we just be honest with one another? 418 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,400 There are moments in life. There are moments even in the 419 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,680 walk of a child of God. There are moments in life when 420 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:24,000 the soul can bleed without ever leaving a mark on the outward 421 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:27,480 skin. You can smile, but your soul is 422 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,920 hemorrhaging. You can wave and grin and play 423 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,480 the part, but you are dying on the inside. 424 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:39,560 My question for you today is, Sir or ma'am, brother or sister, 425 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:45,560 do we fall in our frustration? Do we die in our dilemma? 426 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,240 I come to tell somebody in this house there may not be a soul 427 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,960 doctor. On the outside, but there is a 428 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:59,400 soul doctor on the inside. I'm feeling a little more 429 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,920 comfortable right now. I'm feeling a little more 430 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:08,200 comfortable right now. Many, many years ago, a a 431 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,640 minister friend, an evangelist, stopped by our church and he 432 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,480 started unloading the trunk of his car. 433 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,000 Now, when an evangelist is scheduled and they unload the 434 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,640 car, you don't worry when they're supposed to just be 435 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:27,000 stopping by to say hello and they start emptying the trunk at 436 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,640 the front door. You start getting a little bit 437 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,400 nervous because you're not sure whether they're suitcases and 438 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,480 coffee makers coming out, because that's all that matters, 439 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:35,880 your suitcases and your coffee maker. 440 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,920 You don't know what all is getting ready to and and he 441 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,160 starts setting boxes out and he carries them into these open the 442 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,040 door for me. I don't don't make me do all the 443 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:45,880 work. So he carries the box in, goes, 444 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,120 gets another one. I'm looking. 445 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:48,440 Because I don't. Know what he's doing, but the 446 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:55,200 McGee he he come out with these boxes of scraps of leather, he 447 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:57,960 no, if it had been him, I don't know when we were in trouble. 448 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,960 He come out with these boxes of scraps of leather and he started 449 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,920 he started pouring them all over the front of the church. 450 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,480 He said I got a friend who makes leather covered furniture and 451 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,880 these are the scraps and he said I could have all of these and he 452 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,920 said I just happened to like leather. 453 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,400 Now y'all got to understand I like leather. 454 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:20,640 Cowhide deerskin, Buffalo, water Buffalo, lizard alligator. 455 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:22,640 It doesn't. Matter what it is crocodile 456 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:26,240 ostrich, I like all of it I, I I I happened to and then I said, 457 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:27,560 what are you going to do with all this? 458 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,560 He said, well, I thought maybe you might want some of so 459 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,240 brother McGee, I, I, I mean, I know a good deal when I see it. 460 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,320 And I walked down and picked up a few pieces and I, I, there was 461 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,280 one that had a brand mark on the outside of it. 462 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:41,160 And I, I picked that one up with the brand mark on it. 463 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,360 And I said, I want this one right here. 464 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,080 You can have everything else, but I want this one. 465 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,400 And he said, that's the one that you can't have. 466 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:51,520 I said, well, you told me I could have any. 467 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,760 He said he thought I misspoke. He said, so you lied. 468 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,760 He said, no, I didn't lie. I misspoke. 469 00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,880 He said, that's the one you can't have. 470 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,720 He said, I want that because of the brand Mark. 471 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,480 But listen, my friend, I took that piece of leather and I 472 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,200 said, I said, just let me hold it a little while. 473 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,560 I said I got something going on in my mind and I in my spirit 474 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,120 and I'm thinking about something and I, I turned, I got to 475 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,640 thinking about that branding day, that day that that old 476 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:19,160 steer, that old cow was led down to the. 477 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,240 Barn and they. Took a poker, they took a, they 478 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,960 took a hot iron out of the fire and they stuck it on his. 479 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,960 Rump. Or on his hide they it sends the 480 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,560 hay and it burnt the flesh and the, the old cow squealed out in 481 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,640 pain. He wasn't normally a squealer, 482 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,880 but you put that on my hide and I'm going to squeal. 483 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,960 He squealed out in pain. And I got to thinking about what 484 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,080 all that that meant to him. And then I got to rejoicing a 485 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,440 little bit because I realized if that old cow got out of the gate 486 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,640 and somebody found it two or three miles down the road in the 487 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,200 middle of the night, they can look at the brand and they can 488 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,600 say, well, this belongs to old Farmer Jones down here. 489 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,720 I can take this cow back. I can, I can return turn it to 490 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,480 the pasture. I can, I can put him back in the 491 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,600 barn because I know who he belongs to. 492 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,040 And I got to I, I was feeling bad for the cow. 493 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,480 And then I, I got to feeling good about it, like it, I mean 494 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,440 it, it was all for his good. But I turned the leather over. 495 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:15,000 Listen to me. I turned the leather over and 496 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,320 looked at the brand mark on the inside of the flesh. 497 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:25,160 And the brand mark on the inside of the flesh was just as clear 498 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:30,960 and just as clean and just as. Obvious and just as perfect as 499 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,360 the brand mark on the outside. I want somebody to hear me today 500 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,000 when they Almighty God touches your life. 501 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,200 You can rest on it, honey. You can bank on it. 502 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,960 Sir, the mark goes all the way through the flesh. 503 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:51,600 It's like a cowhide branding. His calling cannot be erased. 504 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:56,240 His mark cannot be overridden. You may leave the fence. 505 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:01,200 You may scrape at the mark, you may try to hide it under this or 506 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:06,000 under that, but you need to hear me that the singing mark of the 507 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,960 Holy Ghost on your life is forever. 508 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,960 Years ago when I was a boy we had a man his name was Jim Ross. 509 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,440 I can tell you because he's he's deceased now so he can't get mad 510 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,639 at me. His name was Jim Ross He was on 511 00:34:23,639 --> 00:34:27,400 the FB is most wanted list. My dad baptized him in Jesus 512 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,760 name. Jim got the Holy Ghost. 513 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,920 But he couldn't live it. He just couldn't walk with God. 514 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:32,800 He just. He just. 515 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,800 Called my dad and time after time he would call my dad and 516 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,040 he'd say preacher. I'm drunk and I, I, I, I, I 517 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,280 don't know what to do. And my dad would say, you know 518 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:42,960 how much you got in the house? You got any alcohol? 519 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,440 Yeah, I got there. I got 1/5 of this. 520 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,400 And I got, I got this, I got a pint of that. 521 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,400 And I got, I don't want to sound like I know too much about it, 522 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,480 but he said, I, I got this and I got that. 523 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,639 And dad would say, pop a tab, take a top of it. 524 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,960 I want to, I want to hear you pour it down in the sink. 525 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,320 And he would get Jim settled down and and and Jim and I don't 526 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,920 know what makes me do this. I'm, I'm and dad would say, you 527 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:03,800 know, you're running, you're running Jim, you're running from 528 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,920 God. You're trying to hide. 529 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,920 You're you're trying to get away from, from the God's already 530 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:08,960 marked your life. You're more. 531 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,040 And my dad said to him one night and I was sitting, I was just a 532 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,720 boy, but I was sitting there at the table when I heard my dad 533 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:18,720 say, Jim, I'm telling you, it doesn't matter where you go. 534 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:23,480 It doesn't matter what you do. You will always be marked by the 535 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:28,000 hand of God and God watch this, watch this. 536 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,400 About a year later, Jim called him, I believe it was Southern 537 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,760 Arizona. If I'm wrong, I'm not wrong by 538 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:35,320 much. I believe it was Southern 539 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,320 Arizona. And Jim called him. 540 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:39,080 He said, Preacher, you were right. 541 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:40,440 He said. You were right. 542 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,760 Dad said, what are you talking about? 543 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,400 Jim, it's 2:00 in the morning. You woke me up out of sleep. 544 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,880 What are you talking about? I was right, he said. 545 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:52,600 I was sitting on a bar stool. I asked for another another fill 546 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:56,840 of the glass and a man walked in and sat down beside me. 547 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,240 And said, what are you doing here? 548 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,600 You don't belong here. You belong in God's house. 549 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,560 You look like a child of God, he said. 550 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,640 I'm telling you, preacher, there's a mark in my life that 551 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:16,360 runs all the way. You can leave the fence, you can 552 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,320 scrape at the brand mark, but you'll never get rid of it. 553 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:25,560 You can deny the goodness of God and you can go AWOL, but your 554 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,680 soul has been marked by the power of God. 555 00:36:35,450 --> 00:36:38,730 Good God Almighty, I got, I got to get where I'm going. 556 00:36:41,690 --> 00:36:44,650 Jeremiah is not just lamenting pain. 557 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,280 To get back to my text, Jeremiah is not just lamenting pain, but 558 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:53,120 he's crying out for healing. Jeremiah is looking for an 559 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,400 answer and cannot find any place to go because Jeremiah is 560 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,240 learning that in this life there is no real soul doctor. 561 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,680 There's not one available to us. There's there's not one that we 562 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,160 can get access to. He says I, I need one, but I, I 563 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,520 can't seem to find one. Now, in our world we have 564 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,480 neurologist and we have psychotic and we have 565 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,520 neurosurgeons and cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons and 566 00:37:20,720 --> 00:37:24,160 vascular surgeons and pulmonologists and allergists 567 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,920 and immunologists and orthopedic surgeons and rheumatologists. 568 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,160 And are y'all getting the picture here? 569 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,880 We got internists and we got family medicine practitioners 570 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,520 and, and we've got hospitalists and we've got hematologists and 571 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:41,520 oncologists and, and hematology specialists and hematologists. 572 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,200 Oncologists, especially where they're, where they're locked in 573 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,640 together, we've got endocrinologists and 574 00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:50,040 diabetiologists and, and gastroenterologists and 575 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,600 hepatologists and I can go on. We've got, we've got colorectal 576 00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,520 surgeons and dermatologists and, and we've got, we've got 577 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,360 ophthalmologists and optometrists and retina 578 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,280 specialists. And we've got I'm, I'm a, I'm a 579 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,040 try to hurry here. We've got audiologists, we've 580 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,240 got gynecologists and obstetricians and urologists and 581 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,160 reproductive endocrinologists and pediatricians and pediatric 582 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,800 subspecialties. And we've even got dentists and 583 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,040 oral surgeons and, and orthodontists and, and general 584 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:21,040 surgeons and trauma surgeons and plastic surgeons and 585 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,480 radiologists and, and, and, and, and it goes on and on. 586 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,120 Pathologists and anesthesiologists and 587 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,280 geriatricians and, and palliative care specialists and 588 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:31,400 are y'all getting the picture here? 589 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,840 We got all of these doctors, But Jeremiah said, I cannot seem to 590 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:40,400 find a doctor for my soul. It's not my heart that is 591 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,720 hurting. It's not my brain that is 592 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:45,440 broken. It's not my leg that has a 593 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,800 fracture. It's not a bad back. 594 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,040 It is a broken soul. I do not know where to turn. 595 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:56,360 I want you to know, today there is not known to man in this 596 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,160 world. We do not have an X-ray of the 597 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:02,200 soul. We do not have access to an MRI 598 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,120 of the soul. There's no imaging of the soul 599 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:09,800 not no diagnostic tool. There is no soul doctor, no soul 600 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,200 medicine, no soul ointment, no soul surgery. 601 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,320 There are surgery centers everywhere, heart centers, 602 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,600 birthing centers, cancer centers, burn centers, rehab 603 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,640 centers, foot centers, eye centers, babysitters. 604 00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,320 There are specialists for every part of the human anatomy. 605 00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:32,040 But there's not a soul center on any corner that has a doctor's 606 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:35,600 emblem on it. And Jeremiah is saying I just 607 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:40,600 need somebody that will step into my soul and will look 608 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,600 around in the deep place. Of my life. 609 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,800 I just need somebody that can walk through the corridors of my 610 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:57,000 it's that Jeremiah that said, is there no bomb? 611 00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:03,640 In Gilead, is there not a fix for me somewhere? 612 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,120 Is there not something that I can lean on? 613 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,520 Is there not, is there not something somewhere I've come to 614 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,240 tell somebody today? We're almost there. 615 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,240 We're almost to the peanut butter milkshake. 616 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:17,160 We're we're all Brother Mason. We'll next we're two weeks from 617 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,080 now. Well, a little over a week from 618 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:19,680 now. We'll be there. 619 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,000 We're almost to the peanut butter milkshake. 620 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,840 But I want somebody to hear me today that Jesus is the bomb, 621 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,600 not the bomb, the bomb. Jesus is the salve. 622 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:34,440 He is the sole Dr. I want somebody in this house and I 623 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,400 know it's probably listen, your pastor is one of my favorite 624 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,120 preachers. If you don't like his preaching, 625 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:43,360 you don't like preaching. He's one of you are beyond 626 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,040 blessed. He is a preacher of preachers. 627 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,680 He he has he and I know that this may not be. 628 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:50,880 That's all right. Give him honor. 629 00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,560 He deserves that. He is a preacher's preacher. 630 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,840 But I want somebody in this house to hear me that you might 631 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,040 feel like an eagle in a chicken coop. 632 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,680 You might feel like you were born for more than what you're 633 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,840 living. You may feel like you're living 634 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,640 beneath your calling. It might feel like you're 635 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,440 scraping your beak in the mud and on the rocks, pulling 636 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:17,360 feathers out in frustration, just trying to fit in in a 637 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,000 chicken world. But I've come to tell somebody 638 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,280 it's time you see what is flying over. 639 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,440 It's time you understand. That there may not be a soul 640 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:32,120 doctor down here at the corner, but right here in this house 641 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,240 there is the specialist of the soul. 642 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,200 Somebody needs to declare I will not be affected by a chicken 643 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,480 world. Matthew 16 and 26 reminds us 644 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,600 that no gain in this world can minister to the soul. 645 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,240 Only Jesus can satisfy your soul. 646 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,680 Lamentations 3 and 21 said this I recall to my mind. 647 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,440 Therefore I have hope. Here we are. 648 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,520 We're at the we're at the peanut buttermilkshake. 649 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,400 We're standing outside the pharmacy right now. 650 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,800 We're at the peanut buttermilkshake, he said. 651 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,880 This. This comes to my remembrance. 652 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:15,760 I recall it to my mind, and therefore I have hope in the 653 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,440 darkest hour. Hope is not wishful thinking. 654 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,560 If you're writing it down, this is it. 655 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,160 I want you to get this. Hope is not wishful thinking. 656 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:32,120 Hope is remembering truth. I'm going to give you that again 657 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,480 so you didn't miss it. Hope is not wishful thinking. 658 00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,920 Hope is remembering truth. When the doctor tells me there's 659 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:45,200 nothing they can do, I may be devastated in my flesh, but if I 660 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:50,160 remember that he is the great physician, therefore I have 661 00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:56,840 hope. In the darkest hour, hope is not 662 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,400 wishful thinking. It is remembering truth. 663 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,120 In the darkest moment of your circumstance. 664 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:06,320 Hope is remembering that Christ died for the lost. 665 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:11,000 Hope is remembering He bore stripes for my Lord have mercy. 666 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:16,080 He bore stripes for my healing. He was wounded and bruised for 667 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:19,480 my transgression. He came from heaven. 668 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:27,680 To Earth just for me. And watch this, watch this. 669 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,800 Do you all understand? I trust that you do that it is 670 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,640 by the mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed. 671 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,680 I'm going to help you with hope a minute. 672 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:43,920 I'm just I'm just getting to where I need to be. 673 00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,760 It is the. Mercies of the Lord that we are 674 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:54,680 not consumed. It is God saying in my mercy I 675 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,960 will give them better than they deserve. 676 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:05,120 See, they deserve to die a miserable death in sin. 677 00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:13,200 They deserve to be sold on the. Auction block of sin, but I'm 678 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,360 willing to pay a debt I didn't know to cover a debt they 679 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:23,360 couldn't pay. It is the mercies of God it is 680 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,240 only by the mercies of God that we are not consumed. 681 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:29,320 One of the most powerful and and I've been in some powerful 682 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,920 prison services. I I I prison prison ministry is 683 00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,440 a heartbeat of mine. I I sister Julie asked me the 684 00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,040 other day how many men at Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in 685 00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,400 Carlisle have been baptized in Jesus name since you've been 686 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,320 going down there? And my last count was over 325 687 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,960 men baptized prison ministry. Listen, listen, it's a heartbeat 688 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:55,120 of I love prison ministry, but one of the most powerful moments 689 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,080 that I ever experienced in a prison service was packed, 85 690 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,480 men packed in a room that they told us we could never have over 691 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:07,480 5560 at the very most. And I gave the microphone to my 692 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,680 father-in-law. He said, I just want I just got 693 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:11,320 one thing to say. You're preaching. 694 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,080 I just got one thing to say. My father-in-law walked out with 695 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,760 the microphone. He said, I need one of you. 696 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,640 Now it would have got in trouble if I didn't know he did this, 697 00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:22,480 but he said I need one of you, you men to give me your coat. 698 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,640 One of them took his coat off and my father-in-law put his 699 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,040 coat on. Now it's against the rules. 700 00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:30,880 I understand it's against the rules, but it's been a long time 701 00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:33,000 ago and the statute of limitations is run out. 702 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,480 He put his coat on and with a microphone in his hand, he said, 703 00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,280 in a minute I'm going to lay this microphone down and I'm 704 00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,280 going to lift my hands in this prison coat because I want to 705 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:50,960 know what it feels like where I was supposed to end up, He said 706 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:54,320 I should have been locked up. I should have been thrown away. 707 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,440 The keys should have been locked on me. 708 00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:01,280 I've done enough in my past for God to hate me from now. 709 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:05,000 Till eternity I should have been locked up in here, said, I just 710 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,640 want to feel what it feels like to praise God where I should 711 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,160 have been. And he laid them. 712 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,400 There was no preaching after that. 713 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,160 When a man will say I'll praise him from where I should have 714 00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:21,320 been, I want somebody to know that it is the mercies of God. 715 00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:29,160 Lord help me, I got to. I got to get to a close. 716 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,480 It is the mercies of God only, but the mercies of God. 717 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,280 God saying I'll give you better than you deserve, that we are 718 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,360 not consumed. But there's a piece that I want 719 00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:42,040 you to understand. That's all good. 720 00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,400 And we shout about that. But this ought to bring more 721 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,560 hope and more shout to your shout. 722 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:58,760 His mercies are new. His mercies are new every month. 723 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:04,280 His walk with me just a minute. His mercies are new every 724 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,880 morning. The mercy of God did not go 725 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,840 bankrupt over yesterday's use. You see, this morning God got up 726 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,680 before the sun rose and God said, I need to put a little 727 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:19,480 more mercy over here on the shelves of the storehouse 728 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:23,200 because I got somebody at First Apostolic that's going to need 729 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:26,840 to come in and I'm going to lay a little more mercy up here on 730 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,320 the altar rail. Because somebody is going to 731 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,960 walk in and they're going to know that they deserve to die, 732 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:37,600 they deserve to be broken. Their soul is a mess and nothing 733 00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:40,160 that they have sought out has been the answer. 734 00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,280 But I am going to put a little new mercy out. 735 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,960 I'm going to spread a little more mercy. 736 00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,320 His mercy. God did not run bankrupt. 737 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,760 His compassion did not run out yesterday, he said. 738 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:56,200 Let me just a little bit more out. 739 00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:00,440 I'm headed to a close. Every earthly alliance in this 740 00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:05,800 entire world is temporary. Somebody asked me the other day, 741 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,360 what do you think about what's going on in the world? 742 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,640 It's a mess, but it's been a mess for a little while now. 743 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,840 And it's not the end yet, because it's going to be all 744 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:15,160 right in the end. And if it ain't all right, it 745 00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,360 ain't the end. And so, and I believe the end is 746 00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,400 coming. But the UN is temporary. 747 00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,960 NATO is temporary, but God's mercy is eternal. 748 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:27,960 I wish somebody would speak to your soul right now. 749 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,200 I wish somebody would remind yourself of his faithfulness. 750 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,160 I wish somebody would just say out loud what you thought of a 751 00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,920 little while ago when I said, think of one thing that God has 752 00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:38,720 done. Listen to me. 753 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:41,440 You got to latch on to hope. Hope is not wishful thinking. 754 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,680 Hope is remembering truth. You know that God brought you 755 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:47,480 out of that valley. You know that God delivered 756 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,320 y'all. Come on, you know that God did 757 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:50,920 it. I wish you would speak to your 758 00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,120 soul. I wish you would. 759 00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,400 I wish you would preach to your soul just a little bit. 760 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,160 Remember. Where are you? 761 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:02,880 Hebrews 1618 through 19. Hope is an anchor of the soul, 762 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,200 that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God 763 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,240 to lie, we might have a strong consolation who have fled for 764 00:49:09,240 --> 00:49:12,640 refuge to lay hold upon the hope that is set before us, which 765 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,560 hope we have as an anchor of Yeah, of the soul. 766 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,040 Come on. Which hope we have as an anchor 767 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,720 of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth 768 00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:30,400 into that within the veil behind the the finish of these walls, 769 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,120 behind the baseboard, behind the finish, especially around the 770 00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:39,560 perimeter foundation. It's got concrete in it and 771 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:42,520 there are bolts driven down into the concrete before it's set. 772 00:49:43,240 --> 00:49:46,920 They're put into wet concrete. They stick up high enough Bishop 773 00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,920 McGee, to come up through the sill plate and just above the 774 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,800 sill plate they'll put a washer and then a lock washer and then 775 00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,880 a nut on it with some loctite and that is called an anchor 776 00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:59,680 bolt. The purposes of the purpose of 777 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:09,440 that is when the storms come and the winds blow, the building is 778 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,160 going to stand. The builder said I've got to 779 00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:14,440 anchor this. Do you know that God gave you 780 00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,360 some things? I've got to quit, but God gave 781 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:18,680 you some things. If you will lean back and 782 00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:23,720 remember truth. If you'll reach back and 783 00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:27,720 remember truth, Abraham. Abraham hoped against hope. 784 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,360 Abraham hoped against hope. Why? 785 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,680 Because even when the soul said give up, the spirit said hold 786 00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,680 on, against all odds Abraham still believed. 787 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,120 So you can still believe. See, Abraham believed God when 788 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,520 there was no reason to believe. Abraham believed God when his 789 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,640 age said no. Abraham believed God when his 790 00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:50,880 circumstance said no. Abraham believed God when time 791 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,200 said no. But Abraham held on. 792 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,600 I've come to tell somebody you are not a misfit. 793 00:50:56,720 --> 00:51:01,080 You are marked by the master. Do not pay the bully. 794 00:51:01,240 --> 00:51:05,160 Learn to stand up and declare the word of God. 795 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,640 Learn to stand up to the bully and say when the enemy comes in 796 00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:13,920 like a flood, the Spirit is going to raise up a standard 797 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,600 against him. I wish somebody would would 798 00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,320 preach to yourself today and declare from the. 799 00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:25,400 Song earlier No weapon formed against me is going to prosper. 800 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,000 Give me, give me two more minutes. 801 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:37,800 They're going to start playing now. 802 00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:39,840 This is an order. They're going to start playing a 803 00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,160 little bit louder every 30 seconds. 804 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:47,840 So I know my 2 minutes. I want you to look at what Hope 805 00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:53,880 did in the scripture. When the soul needs a doctor and 806 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,760 you remember truth, Lord have mercy. 807 00:51:57,320 --> 00:52:01,600 I want you to look at what Hope did after 38 years for the Mason 808 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:09,480 the paralytic is healed. Anybody in here know how long 38 809 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:13,280 years feels like? After 38 years, the. 810 00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:18,960 Paralytic is healed, the leper is cleansed, the lame do leap, 811 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:23,400 the blind do see the issue of blood was. 812 00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,360 Stopped. The dead are raised alive. 813 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:32,360 The withered hand is restored. The bent back is straightened. 814 00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:36,280 The sick are made whole. The multitudes are fed. 815 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,560 The storm is stilled. The empty Nets are filled. 816 00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:43,560 The. Lost coin is found, The lost 817 00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:46,480 sheep is discovered. The prodigal comes. 818 00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:52,280 Oh my God, the prodigal returned home, and by hope Jesus is 819 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,280 alive. I've come to tell somebody you 820 00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:59,640 need to hold on to some hope. You need to reach back and get a 821 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:07,200 hold of some truth and remember. I'm closing. 822 00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:08,840 I'm closing right here. They're going to sing in a 823 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,800 minute. Why art thou cast down, Oh my 824 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:16,280 soul? Why art thou cast down, Oh my 825 00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,040 soul? And why art thou disquieted 826 00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,080 within me? Hope. 827 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,760 Remember truth in God. Hope. 828 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,800 Remember truth in God, for I shall yet praise him who is the 829 00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:31,560 health of my countenance. And my God. 830 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:36,000 Why art thou cast down? Oh my soul, You need to remember 831 00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,800 some truth. It's time for somebody in this 832 00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:40,760 house. I don't know what you may be 833 00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,840 going through. It may only be one person, but 834 00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,760 I've come to tell you. I've come to Mount Carmel today 835 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:51,120 to tell you that somebody needs to say to your own soul, 836 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,080 Remember what? God has done. 837 00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:56,000 It's time to preach to your soul. 838 00:53:56,240 --> 00:54:00,720 Anchor your soul in hope. You have been walking this road 839 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,800 too long, Sir. You have been letting the enemy 840 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:08,000 call the shots too long, ma'am. It's time for somebody to 841 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,400 declare. Yeah, though I. 842 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:14,360 Walk through the valley of the shadow of death. 843 00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:20,800 I will fear no evil, for thou art with thy rod and thy staff 844 00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,200 they. It's time for us. 845 00:54:24,240 --> 00:54:27,000 I wish somebody get up on you out out of your seat and come to 846 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:29,160 this altar today. I wish somebody would come up 847 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,440 here and just lift your hands and declare. 848 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:37,560 I shall dwell in the house. Of the Lord forever, today, 849 00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:39,000 right now. Listen to me today. 850 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:43,360 God bless those that have come today, right now, right here in 851 00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:50,240 this house, the only soul doctor that there is. 852 00:54:54,800 --> 00:55:01,320 Bishop right here, right now, the only sole deliverer that 853 00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:05,480 there is, is in the house. That doesn't mean he didn't show 854 00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,000 up in Terre Haute. It doesn't mean he didn't show 855 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,440 up in Michigan. He admit that he's everywhere at 856 00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:20,040 all times, but the only sole Dr., the only healer of your 857 00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:21,920 lament. Is in this. 858 00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:34,880 House There is a balm in Gilead. His name is Jesus, and he's 859 00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:42,800 present in this Gilead. Today, somebody that's not come 860 00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,160 to the altar, those that are at the altar keep praying and those 861 00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:46,840 that are worshipping keep worshipping. 862 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,760 But somebody that's not at the altar, hear me. 863 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:53,400 Hope is not fragile. Hope is not fragile. 864 00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,600 Hope is the anchor of the soul. Hope is not a feeling. 865 00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:01,680 Hope is a weapon. And today, Hope is calling your 866 00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:07,600 name. I wish somebody else would come 867 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:10,080 to this altar. Bring your weary soul. 868 00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:15,480 Somebody that's willing to let it be known that nobody knows 869 00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:19,360 what I'm going through in private, nobody knows what I'm 870 00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:23,760 dealing with when no one is there and I need. 871 00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:30,160 God. I need God. 872 00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:39,360 I need God to reach down. I need God to reach. 873 00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:55,120 Down in the. I need God to reach. 874 00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:59,960 Down in the depths of my spirit. I need God to reach down into 875 00:56:59,960 --> 00:57:05,280 that hidden place. I'm not trying to make a 876 00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:10,280 spectacle of me. I just need God, the only soul. 877 00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:14,560 Doctor, that there is. I need God to reach in. 878 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:26,960 I need God to stay. They brought the sick man to 879 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,400 Jesus. They brought the sick man to 880 00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:33,680 Jesus, and Jesus said Thy sins be forgiven thee. 881 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,360 They got mad about it. Why? 882 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:37,960 That's not why we brought him here. 883 00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,480 And Jesus said, which is more difficult? 884 00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,080 Which is easier? Which is more? 885 00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:45,120 Difficult. Should I heal him of his sins or 886 00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:49,120 should I cleanse him? If I can heal his soul, you can 887 00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:51,720 bank on the fact I can heal his body. 888 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,840 I want you to know that the Soul Doctor is not. 889 00:57:56,040 --> 00:58:04,560 Only locked to the soul. Those unknown doctors questions, 890 00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:11,560 those answers that we do not have, can be found in one visit. 891 00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:18,520 One visit to the soul doctor. One time. 892 00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:24,520 Go ahead and sing, please. One time I kneel in the presence 893 00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:27,800 of the soul mender. See. 894 00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,200 He's here today. He's 3. 895 00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:45,920 I remember remembering truth, how you sustain me. 896 00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:51,480 When you sat in to. Save. 897 00:58:51,480 --> 00:59:01,960 My life if I knew them. What I know now I would be. 898 00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:06,880 Still and let you, I let you work you. 899 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:16,520 Oh Jesus, I was tossed. In the water, Lord. 900 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,880 But I never. Went under you. 901 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:26,400 You were always tired. Oh, Jesus.