Morning brethren. Let's go to
Judges chapter 15. Judges 15. Now remember that the Lord tells
us back in chapter 14 verse 4 that Samson wanting to take a bride
from the Philistines was of the Lord. His parents tried to talk
him out of it, but he wouldn't be turned away from his purpose
to take a bride from the Philistines. And the Lord tells us in verse
4 that it's because the Lord sought an occasion against the
Philistines. For at that time, the Philistines
had dominion over Israel. They had the rule over Israel. And what the Lord is showing
us is what we are by nature. By nature, we are under the rule,
the dominion of the Philistines, of a fallen, ruined, sinful nature. That's what we are by nature.
We are a fallen, sinful, ruined, corrupt people. who cannot save
themselves, whose works are wickedness, whose works are violence, whose
works are corrupt, and by our works we cannot save ourselves. And this is what the Lord is
showing us throughout scripture. And this again is brought to
our attention here in Samson, the judge, the savior of Israel. And so We see here that in Samson,
when we're looking at Samson, because you see things and sometimes
you think, why is this man doing this? He's just a man. And yet he's doing these boastful
things, these glorious things that no man should be able to
do. And yet God had a purpose. So when you look at Samson, remember
he's not just a private citizen. He's not just a man who's doing
his own thing. The Lord is using that man and
the Lord is speaking to his people. He's teaching his people that
he is the judge, that he is the savior of Israel. He's the savior
of his people. Over in Isaiah 33 verse 22, we're
told the Lord is judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our King. He will
save us. And so, we're to be turned to
look to the Lord. Like we'll see here with these
Philistines, they do works. They try to imitate the works
of God. They try to do things to deliver
themselves from wrath and destruction. And what the Lord is showing
his people here is, no, you're not going to deliver yourselves
by your works. Look to my servant because I
want to show you here the gospel. I want to show you Christ that
he is our peace with God. He's the one that reconciles
us sinners, fallen ruined sinners to holy God. That's why the father
sent his son to save his people from their sins, to save those
who trust Him, who believe Him, who look to Him for salvation. God saves His people by faith
in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Not our works, not our works.
And so, remember this as we look here at Samson and what we learn
here in this. Now, let's just adjust this here. All right, so not only do the
Philistines in this chapter fail to accomplish their will, but
we'll see that God is accomplishing his will. He's doing what he
is purposed to do in destroying the enemies and saving his people. And one of the things that we
see in salvation is that our salvation always includes the
destruction of our enemies, the destruction of those who would
destroy us and take us down to hell with them. And so, in Samson,
in his will and capture, because he allows himself to be taken,
we also see here a beautiful picture of our Savior, who allowed
himself to be taken by wicked men, who would do to him what
they thought they would do to him, but through that, he accomplished
our great redemption, our great salvation. So, in the early part
of this chapter, we're gonna see repeated attempts by the
Philistines to deliver themselves from the wrath of Samson, who
is the judge of Israel. If you look down in verse 20,
we see that Samson, in chapter 15, Samson judged Israel in the
days of the Philistines 20 years ago. years and they try to save
themselves by their own works. Now in verse one we're told it
was a happy time, it was a good time, it was the time of wheat
harvest. And if you remember from our
study in Ruth, the barley harvest, that was the grain for the poor
people, while the wheat was the expensive grain, that was the
grain of the rich people and Samson was likely a partaker
In this wheat harvest, he worked his father's field. He plowed
that field, and so it's wheat harvest, and he's feeling good.
And he decides to take a kid from their animals and bring
it to his wife and be reconciled to his wife with the sacrifice
of this kid, this baby goat. But when he gets there, he finds
things are not as he would, because again, God had a purpose. He
purposed to use Samson to destroy the Philistines, their rule over
his people. And so he gets there and he can't
reconcile with his wife because his wife was given to another
man. And the father says in verse
two, he said, I thought thou had utterly hated her. Therefore
I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer
than she? Take her, I pray thee, instead
of her. Now what this man is trying to
do is entangle Samson in sin. For the Jews, they weren't to
take the sister of your wife. It was incest. And the Lord tells
him in Leviticus 18, he said, do not do as the people that
do in the land that you're going to. Don't do that. Don't be like
them. What they do is wicked. What
they do is sinful, don't do as they do. And he's trying to entangle
Samson from his purpose. Had Samson done that, he would
have been turned from the purpose that God had purpose to do with
Samson in destroying the Philistines. We see a picture in this of the
Lord Jesus Christ, who came in the flesh according to the purpose
and will of God, and to turn him from his purpose What did
Satan do? He tempted him in the wilderness.
He tempted him to bow down to be turned from his purpose and
to serve Satan rather than serve God and do what God had purposed
him to do. And Christ wasn't turned from
that. Thank God he wasn't turned from his purpose because he loves
his people. He loves the people whom the
Father gave him and he loves his Father and he always does
the will of the Father. And so Samson wouldn't be turned. And Samson said concerning them
in verse three, now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines,
though I do them a displeasure. And Christ did that. Christ did
Satan, our enemy, a great displeasure in binding him and going into
his house and taking from him the precious treasure of the
Lord, the people of the Lord. delivering them from bondage
and death and ruin by his blood redemption. Now Samson, to do
a displeasure to them, he takes foxes, 300 foxes, he ties two
tail to tail, puts an ember between them and sets it on fire and
lets them loose into the cornfields of the Philistines. And they
go through catching fire and burning up the corn, which is
their food for them and their animals. And it burns up vineyards,
and it burns up olive trees. And the Philistines now, their
attention is had, and they're angry. And it says in verse six
that they went up asking, who hath done this? And they answered,
Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite. That's the father-in-law.
Because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion,
and the Philistines came up and burnt her and her father with
fire. Now fire pictures judgment. Fire is a picture of judgment,
the judgment of God against sin. It's the picture of what God
will do to sinners. And remember, Samson used fire
to bring judgment on the Philistines. And now the Philistines try to
affect the works of God. They try to do the same thing
as Samson did in bringing judgment with fire. Our Lord tells us
that In hell, the fire is not quenched. And what he's saying
there is there's no escape. There's no putting it out. There's
no satisfying the wrath of God in hell. You cannot deliver yourselves
from the cords the grave. You can't deliver yourselves
from hell. You cannot deliver yourselves
from the wrath and judgment of holy God. We're not going to
do it. And God is going to judge the
people, those people who are not his, with fire. Paul tells us in 2nd Thessalonians
1 verses 7 through 9, and to you who are troubled, you who
are troubled by your own sins, You who are troubled with the
sin of this world, you who are perplexed and tried and weary
and worn and afflicted, Paul says, rest, rest with us when
the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels
in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and
that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence
of the Lord and from the glory of his power." Paul says, He
reminds us it's those that obey not the gospel, those that will
not come to the Lord Jesus Christ who will be destroyed with the
fire of God. Doesn't matter what their works
are, doesn't matter what they try to do to deliver themselves
from the wrath of God, they shall be destroyed with flaming fire. Judgment will be brought upon
them. And so the wicked are not going
to escape the wrath of God and the day of judgment. Before I
go on, let me just say, isn't this what the woman was trying
to avoid back in chapter 14 when her wedding guests came and said,
we're going to burn you with fire and burn down your father's
house upon you if you don't tell us what this riddle means. And
so what did she do? She betrayed her husband to avoid
the wrath and anger of man. She didn't go and tell Samson
what they wanted to do. so that he would deliver her,
she went and betrayed him. She betrayed him, and though
she postponed that judgment for a little while, it was just that,
just a little short while. And all those who would betray
Christ, who would turn from Christ, who will not hear him, who do
not believe what God has said concerning our salvation, all
those who refuse him and continue in their own works to deliver
themselves, They shall be burned with fire. They shall come into
the judgment of God. The Lord is continually showing
us, don't turn to your own wisdom. Don't turn to your own works.
Don't try to save yourselves. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ. Look to Him whom I have sent. He is the salvation of my people. And all who look to Christ, all
who come to Him, all who believe Him, shall find rest and peace
for their souls with holy God. God is reconciled to his people
in the Lord Jesus Christ. So to deny him, in order to get
along with the world, you may delay your troubles for a little
bit, but soon that day is coming, that day of judgment is coming.
So Samson used fire. And the Philistines, what did
they do? They tried to calm Samson's anger and wrath by using fire
also. They were trying to mimic the
work of the judge. They tried to put an end to what
Samson was doing by getting there first and putting to death with
fire his bride and the father-in-law who gave her away. And we see
this in scripture that it doesn't work. In Egypt, when the Lord
sent Moses and Aaron to speak to Pharaoh, saying, let my people
go, and they began to do some works to show that the Lord had
sent them, what did the Egyptian magicians do? They repeated,
they tried to mimic those same things. And for a little bit,
they were able to repeat them up to a certain time. But did
it work? Did it help Pharaoh in any way?
Not at all. In fact, it says that the Lord
hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he would not hearken to the word
that was spoken. When we try to do the works of
God, by trying to do something to deliver ourselves, by work
that we do, all it does is harden the heart and make us twice as
fit for the judgment of God. It just makes it worse for us.
So they tried to execute judgment using fire like Samson, and they
tried to calm his anger down to get him to stop judging the
Philistines, but he didn't. He didn't turn from it. And this
is a picture of works religion. This is what we do, what man
does, men and women try to do in works religion, to save themselves
from the wrath of God, to turn the wrath of God. They try to
do something good. They try to do a good work. They
try to be different in order to turn God from his purpose
of bringing wrath on the wicked. doing your best by the law of
Moses, trying to be good, or trying to act as you think a
Christian acts, to make yourself, to bring yourself into salvation
by what you've done, trying to be as good as you can be, all
it does is bring the judgment and wrath of God upon you. That's right, it just, it doesn't
save. Doing good works is not what God is telling His people
to do. If you will do the work of God, believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ. Look to Him. That is what God
has purposed in sending His Son. Trust Him. Seek Him. Cry out
to Him, Lord, save me, a sinner. Deliver me, Lord. Have mercy
upon me. Be gracious to me for Christ's
sake. Turn me from my own way and purpose
and turn me to Christ. Give me faith, Lord. Pour out
your spirit upon me. Deliver me from death. Deliver
me from these vain works that cannot save. Turn me to the way
of Christ. These works that man does to
propitiate God only brings the wrath and anger of God upon them. They don't bring peace. If you
would establish peace with God, Stop doing. Stop trying to save
yourselves. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is why the Father sent Him into the world. This is why the
Son of God robed Himself in the weakness of flesh and gave Himself,
fulfilling the purpose of God, obeying Him in all things, sacrificing
Himself as the Lamb of God to deliver His people from the wrath
of God. He gives peace. He establishes
peace between God and men. we're told in 2nd Corinthians
5 19 that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing
their trespasses against them because he laid them on Christ
the Lamb of God all his people their sins were put on him and
the chastisement Isaiah says the chastisement of our peace
is was laid on Him. Those stripes were our stripes. That death was our death. That
wrath and punishment was my wrath and punishment. But for God's
love, for His purpose of grace, He laid them on His Son and poured
out His wrath on the Son, that I and you who believe in Him
should go free from the wrath of God, to be delivered, because
Christ propitiated the wrath of God for us. He settled the
debt with the justice of God. He reconciles his people to holy
God by his blood. Listen to Romans 5 verses 1 and
2. It says, therefore being justified, it's done, it's a work already
done, by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ. The Spirit reveals faith in us,
manifests living faith in His child, which looks away from
self and looks to Christ, believing Him. And that's where God gives
us faith. You that rest in Christ, have
peace with God, by whom also we have access by faith into
this grace, wherein ye stand and rejoice in hope of the glory
of God. It's a work of God's grace, not
a work of our sinful hands. We don't save ourselves, God
saves us by Christ. If you would be delivered from
the wrath and judgment of God, he says, believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. believe on him and you
shall be saved. So all the Philistines did by
burning the wife and father-in-law of Samson was bring more wrath
upon them. Samson said in verse seven and
eight, back in Judges 15, Samson said unto them, though ye have
done this, yet will I be avenged of you and after that I will
cease. And he smote them hip and thigh
with a great slaughter and he went down and dwelt in the top
of the rock Edom. So he had done that purpose for
which he came to do. They didn't deliver themselves
by trying to do the works of God, by trying to do their own
good work in burning his wife and father-in-law. He still judged
them. He judged them for their works.
Now this leads us to another picture here. When he goes to
the Rock Edom, we see another beautiful picture of what our
Savior did in delivering his people from their sins. Verse
9 says that the Philistines went up into the land of Judah, and
they were going to take Samson. And the men of Judah come and
ask what's going on. And they tell him. And so they
say, well, we'll go up. We'll speak to him. And we'll
bring him down to you. We'll bind him. We'll bring him
down to you and turn him over to you. And you judge him according
to your law. And you put him to death. You
do what seems right to you. And so they bound Samson, in
verse 13, with two new cords. And that proved to be a vain
thing, because when the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, he
just snapped them like they were nothing. They just disintegrated
off his arms and he turned and destroyed these Philistines. Look at verse 14. When he came
unto Lehi, which means jaw, the Philistines shouted against him.
They began jawing against him. They began speaking against him. And the Spirit of the Lord came
mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became
as flax, that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from
off his hands. And so whatever Judah and the
Philistines conspired to do together here against Samson, it didn't
work. It didn't work. He broke free
and he conquered his enemies. Now, in this, we see this most
sacred picture of what Christ has done for us. On the night
in which he was betrayed, he negotiated the deliverance of
his people. He told them, if therefore you
seek me, let these go. He delivered his people. He set
them free. They didn't get arrested. They
weren't taken. They scattered and went their
own way. And Christ willingly allowed
himself to be bound and taken by the Jews, the people of Israel. They took him, and they bound
him, and they had a mock trial themselves before turning him
over to the Romans to do to Christ according to their law what they
thought right, which would be to put him to death. John 18
verses 12 and 13 says, then the band and the captain and officers
of the Jews took Jesus and bound him and led him away to Annas
and Caiaphas who were the high priests that year. And then they
did this mock trial of Christ. They made up things and they
found him guilty and they turned him over to the Romans to do
to him to put him to death according to their law. And they bound
Christ with two pieces of wood and they sentenced him to death
by crucifixion. And there on the cross he died
under the wrath of God, bearing the sins of his people as the
Lamb of God to propitiate the wrath of God, to put the wrath
of God which was against his people justly for their sins.
Christ paid the debt for them as their surety. He answered
to the justice of God on your behalf, you that believe him,
you that have no hope and confidence in your flesh. Christ put that
away. He dealt with the wrath of God.
He paid the debt that we owe to God. And he was buried in
the grave, but the cords of death could not hold him. Hell could
not destroy him. He delivered himself, he broke
free, and was raised again from the dead, and there conquered
all his enemies, his and yours, whose hope is in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Turn over to Acts chapter two.
Acts two. Here we see the purpose of God
in this. Just as we see the purpose of
God in taking Samson, it was to destroy the enemies of God. Acts 2 verse 23 and 24, and just
stay in Acts for a moment. Him being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, Ye have taken, and by wicked
hands have crucified and slain, whom God hath raised up, having
loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that he should
be holding of it." Just like those two new cords that bound
Samson's arms, Death could not hold Christ. He just snapped
him right off of him. And he was raised from the dead.
Now look at Acts 4. Acts 4 verse 25 through 28. Who by the mouth of thy servant
David has said, why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain
things? The kings of the earth stood
up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and
against his Christ. for of a truth against thy holy
child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate
with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together
for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before
to be done. Men meant what they did to Christ
for evil. They tried to destroy him. They
tried to put the judge of Israel to death, to deliver themselves,
and it didn't work. In the process, Christ crushed
the head of the serpent. He destroyed our enemies. Death hath no more victory. The
strength of sin and death is dissolved. He put it away. He
took away the sin of his people. He made an atonement for our
sin. and he pleased God, he propitiated
God, he paid the debt, he settled all that we owed to God, and
now in him we are righteous before God. We that believe on him are
accepted and received of the Father, and we are brought into
the family of God to know him, to have peace with him and fellowship
with holy God. Believe on him. And Christ, having
made remission for our sins, having paid the price that was
necessary to deliver us He does not leave His people in darkness,
but He gives them light and life and salvation in His glorious
person by His Spirit, regenerating us and giving us peace with God,
making us to know who God is, making us to know what God has
done for us in Christ. Now, we're told of Samson that
not only was he free, but there's three things at the end of this
chapter that I want to speak to you about. Three blessed things
that the Lord does in salvation. Look at verse 15. First, he goes
on conquering his enemies. He delivers his people from death
and darkness. Look in verse 15. He found a
new jawbone of an ass. and put forth his hand, and took
it, and slew a thousand men therewith." Now this word new means moist. In other words, this ass had
recently died. It was walking upon the earth
and now it's dead, only recently, and with that jawbone, he slew
a thousand Philistines. The second thing I want to show
you is that in verse 17, he cast away the jawbone out of his hand
and called that place Ramath-Lehi. And then third thing we'll see
is being great with thirst, he cried to the Lord because for
God's glory. God had just given him a great
victory over all his enemies and now he was expiring. He was thirsty and he was going
to pass out and the Philistines would have come upon him and
seized upon him and killed him. I was just looking at a video
on the Weather Channel that said that in Arizona there were two
people there that rangers came upon that were hiking and they
were nigh to death. They were about to die. One of
them they said was passing out from thirst. That's how thirsty
they were and so they airlifted them out of there. That's how
thirsty he is. Could you imagine slaying a thousand
men? and how thirsty you would be.
And he was about to pass out from that, and he cries to the
Lord, and it says, verse 19, but God clave in hollow place
that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout, and when
he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived, wherefore
he called the name thereof, Enhachoreh, which is in Lehi unto this day. And Enhachoreh means the spring
or the well of one who cried. one who cried." Now, these pictures,
these three pictures are a reflection of what our God does for his
people in salvation. It's what the Lord does for us.
First, he seeks his lost sheep. He sought you. You didn't seek
God. He sought you, and he brought you under the preaching of the
gospel. He brought you under the sound
of His voice, that you should hear the word of salvation, that
you should be turned from dead vain works that cannot save,
and turned to the living Christ, the living God, the living Savior
who saves His people from their sins. And so He raises up the
church, and He gives the church the word of Christ. And they
preach that gospel. and though they are but like
an ass, though they are but the jawbone of an ass, because that's
what we are, the church is, we are but the jawbone of an ass,
and the Lord in his hand is able to effect the deliverance of
his people, to bless the heart of his people, to deliver them
from the bondage of sin and death, and to take them out of that
darkness and bring them into light, to feed them, to bless
them with that glorious gospel word We're nothing special in
ourselves. We see the preacher of the gospel
here. We also see the men and women who give their lives, their
resources, their time, their funds to cause this gospel word
to go forth, that it might be used of the Lord to bless his
people in the world. And so we're nothing special
in ourselves, but in the hand of almighty God, he's able to
work salvation for his people. And so by the preaching of the
Lord, by the preaching of the gospel of the Lord, Jesus Christ,
and what he's done, the Lord slays the Philistines, though
they be many, the Philistines of our hearts, all the sins,
all the bondage, all the death, all the foolishness, all the
vain things, he puts those things to death and turns us to Christ,
turns us to him. Secondly, it says the casting
away of the jawbone in that place he called Ramath Lehi. That word means the height of
the jawbone. In other words, what Samson's
saying is that ass, when it was alive, didn't do anything near
as mighty and special as what it just did in the hand of the
judge, of the Savior. There's nothing more that we
could do that is more glorious than to be used of the Lord to
preach this word, to declare this gospel word. From that height,
from being used of the Lord to preach the word, it's only down
from there. It only goes down. If I became
the president of the United States of America, I would be stepping
down, stepping down from what the Lord has done. If any of
us are turned from God's purpose in giving of ourselves to declare
this word, we're stepping down. we're turning away from that
which is most precious. And so that jawbone, when that
ass was upon the earth, whatever it did, carrying things, carrying
people, plowing, whatever it was used for, it didn't do anything
near as effective and as special as what it did when it was dead
in the hand of Levi, in the hand of Samson in Lehi there. And so We see here the greatness
of our God who could take the jawbone of an ass and slay the
Philistines in the hearts of God's people and deliver them
from their enemies that would destroy them. And then third,
this spring of water, it is the regeneration of the indwelling
of the Holy Spirit who comes in and gives us life, who raises
us from the dead, and refreshes us, and turns us from dead works,
and gives us life and hope in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not only
gives us life, but preserves us unto the very end. Turn over
to John 7. John 7. We'll end in John 7,
verse 37 through 39. In the last day, verse 37, that
great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any
man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. He that believeth
on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water. But this he spake of the spirit,
which they that believe on him should receive. And so that's
what our Lord does. He brings the gospel. He blesses
that gospel, making it effectual to our hearts, to our ears. And
he pours out the spirit. He regenerates us, gives us spiritual
life, raising us from the dead, whereby we hear the word of our
Savior and we believe him. And we're filled and refreshed
with his spirit who keeps us. and blesses us, filling us with
all the spiritual blessings of God in the Lord Jesus Christ. So remember, brethren, we cannot
save ourselves, though it seems to this natural wisdom to make
sense that, well, if I do good, then God will be pleased with
me. If I condemn others and I judge others and bring fire upon them,
doesn't that make me look like a Christian? Doesn't that say
that I've done what is good and right? No, all it does is make
me twice as fit for hell. We cannot save ourselves by our
works. God saves his people graciously in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. And he blesses us with the word
and he blesses us with the spirit. And the Spirit applies that precious
blood to our hearts, our guilty consciences, and comforts us
and gives us peace with holy God. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. Amen. Our gracious Lord, we thank you
for your grace and mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you,
Lord, that you've turned us from dead vain works that cannot save. and blessed us richly, abundantly,
overwhelmingly in the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, keep us looking
to Him, turn us from vain dead works to see the living God,
to believe Him who saved us and blesses us richly. We pray that
you would bless these people here, fill our hearts with joy
and gladness in the Lord Jesus Christ. Give us faith that ever
looks to him until that final day when we stand before you
faultless, robed in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Bless
your people. It's in Christ's name we pray
and give thanks. Amen. Come on in. Alright, here we go. Alright,
Claudia. We literally came in right as
we finished the first service, but we have another service now. OK, OK. I was going to watch
them with that Jen Bird. OK. I'm glad you got to see us.
I'm glad you did. We had fun. It was your birthday
party. Gary. Gary Fields. Oh, yeah. I've seen
you on Facebook. Yeah, yeah. OK. All right. Let's
go to the meeting. You guys are going to get jealous. You guys are going to leave.
You're all going to leave. You're all going to leave. You're
all going to leave. You're all going to leave. You're
all going to leave. You're all going to leave. All
right, let me now... Eric, I know you're busy. I don't
know how impassioned you are. Don and Johnny come here? Cross? So Don Cross has passed away
a couple years ago, but Johnny does. And I'm hoping he'll be
here. So her son Scott just lost his
leg. Really? Yeah, so he's in a wheelchair.
So they probably had trouble getting out this morning out
of the house on time, but hopefully they'll be here. So we'll bring
him in. In a few weeks, though, he hopes
to have his prosthetic. So what happened to Don? Well he he had um Alzheimer's
and some dementia there at the end and then he uh he was in
a nursing home right before covid and Johnny got him out thankfully
because still he was able to to be with family at and Johnny
in their house but when he expired so he has a couple years ago
but yeah so Johnny and Scott both are believers rejoicing
the gospel and they come here. I've known them a long time.
Oh good, that'll be nice. Long time. They'll probably be
glad to see you. Yeah, I'll be glad to see that. Thank you for the
message. Yeah, brother. I got so many quotes here. Let
me swing this thing around. Put this here. Oh, you know what? I can do this. So you're doing
a streaming video at that time? Okay. Yeah, I saw you on, I guess
on YouTube last night. There was a message, a couple
of messages on there, only two minutes and ten seconds long.
Yeah, so that's when, that's when, was it on YouTube? Yeah, Joe said, well he just
needs to remove it because it's not a complete message. The 210,
was it from Sermon Audio? Sermon Audio puts it up there
as like a little teaser, and then you're supposed to go, but
I don't like it on YouTube. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah,
but that doesn't give you a link. Just open it up. It just says
sermon audio, and I don't like it. So I might stop doing it.
It's confusing, right? There's a few things I have to
do, so I'm working on it. So they live about an hour north. They live pretty far away. About an hour, I think, they
live. No, I didn't know that. Ron is north from here? Yeah. Well, it's Ashe Grove in the
area. How far do you come from that area? I've come from way,
way, Way, way, way, way. You have
to hotel it last night to cut the air. No, no. I live about,
I live, you were north next to the Baptist Church area. Yeah.
Or the building down there, on that building. Yep. I live a
little bit back east of there. Okay, gotcha. I grew up in Springfield. Okay, yes, you're from these
parts. Yes, ma'am. Joe and I are from
Jersey. I'm from Jersey, too. Yeah, he's
from Jersey, too. That's true. So, Joe and I are
from Jersey.