I like that last verse, O Lord
my being in absolute sway. All right, back to Matthew 25. This message is very relevant to what we've been
studying through the Revelation. We've been studying Revelation,
and you may remember our Lord in Matthew 24. gave a brief five
minute summary of all that we have been studying in the revelation,
right? All right. And those were, all
of that was a revelation to his disciples. You remember his disciples
came to him and said, Lord, tell us. Privately they came to him. It was a private conversation
between his disciples. the Lord and his disciples, all
right? Well, this, chapter 25, immediately follows all of that. OK? So we're right in the middle
of Revelation, so it's necessary that we look at this and not
lose sight of this, what he says here. Because he tells us who
his true disciples are here in chapter twenty five. He tells
that and he uses three different parables to illustrate who his
true disciples are who they are that have the seal in their forehead. Who they are. Who God's people
are. I'm interested. All right now chapter twenty
four. You remember this the Lord said
of the end times in verses thirty seven through thirty nine as
the days of Noah were so shall also the coming of the son of
man be. Whereas in the days that were before the flood they were
eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage till the
day that Noah entered into the ark. And they knew not totally
totally unprepared totally unexpected. So, this here tells me that this was a time of prosperity,
all right? The time right before the flood,
days before the flood, the time of prosperity, right? Eating,
drinking, marrying, giving in marriage, that's the time of
prosperity. So much so that they weren't concerned about. And I'm certain I'm certain that
most professing. Do not think about. Now, I don't
care what they say. I'm certain that the average
professing Christian does not think about, look for, or look
forward to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Things are
too good. I'm certain of that. But I'm
not talking to them that I'm talking to us. What about us? Things are mighty good. All right. Chapter twenty five
now right after telling us. Of the events surrounding his
coming. He gives three parables. The
difference between true disciples and false. And he's still talking
to his disciples, he's not talking to anybody else. Right? And he's still talking to his
disciples. All right, chapter twenty five, verse one. Then
shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins which
took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Now you
know this story, don't you? You know this parable. Ten virgins.
He's talking to his disciples. Ten virgins. And they had lamps. All of these are a type of professing
believers. All right? Five of them Now,
sum it up for you. Five were wise, it said, because
they had oil. Five did not have oil. They were
foolish. Verse five. Verse five says,
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. All right? Believers have been
waiting on Christ to return for nearly 2,000 years. It's been a long time, as far
as we're concerned. Each generation of believers
has been waiting on him to return. And sometimes believers get lazy
and slothful and indifferent at times because the Lord tarries
in the words of Scripture. Especially in Vanity Fair. You
know, Vanity Fair is really going strong. If the merry-go-round
and all that is just really going full tilt, then you, you know,
oh well. But now, wait a minute, when
the cry is made, when the cry is made, it said here, verse
6, at midnight there was a cry made, behold, the bridegroom
cometh. When the cry is made, now the
cry is made around here twice a week. Wednesday and Sunday. Christ made. Bridegroom coming. We're reminded of that at least
twice a week. Go out to meet Him. Then we quickly
remember. It's been Vanity Fair, hasn't
it? I've been going around and on that merry-go-round. And then
verse 7 says, All those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
They all had lamps. I think that. I had laughed so
I'm wearing a good. Now I have a question. So I'm wearing
a good. What was the key? What was the key? Oil. What was the difference? Oil. All right, what's oil? It says
when the bridegroom's return was near, five of them with oil
trimmed their lamps. They were ready. They went into
the marriage. Five without oil. They missed him. They missed
him. I can't think of anything worse to think about than missing
Christ. All right, what's oil? Nearly every time oil is mentioned
in the Scriptures. What is it? Nearly every time.
What? Go ahead. Holy Spirit. All right. Holy Spirit. And he's called the Spirit of
Truth. He's called the Holy Spirit. Christ said, when the Holy Spirit's
come, he'll lead you and guide you into all truth. He said, he'll take the things
of mine and show them unto you. Christ said, he'll bring to remembrance
all things that I've said. He'll give you a memory of Christ
lead you and guide you into all truth. Now, somebody without
oil, somebody without oil is somebody
who's ever learning but never, listen very carefully now, ever
learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth. Now, that just doesn't apply
to, I'm not talking Arminians, there aren't any in here, right? This is us, professing
disciples, all right? This is somebody who's heard
the gospel for years. Years. Heard the gospel for years.
Years. Years. But then when asked to
tell you, maybe, what the gospel is, they might not be able to. You
think there's anybody like that? Or somebody who heard the gospel
for years, Paul talked of the Galatians, the whole book of
Galatians. He starts out by saying, oh foolish Galatians, who have
bewitched you? Who, who, who? I'll give you
an illustration. My father, after pastoring so
many years, this one man who sat under his preaching for well
over 30 years, His mother passed away. And he came to my father. Well,
dad came to visit him, you know, at the visitation there. And he was standing around his
mother's casket. And he said, she was such a good
woman. He said, you know, Henry, and
that's got to count for something. No oil. Hadn't learned a thing. I heard an old preacher so-and-so
the other day, and boy, he said some good things. Man, you learn
nothing yet. Can't tell a difference between
a wolf and a sheep. So that, you know, that applies
to some. And without oil, too. What is
the Holy Spirit in Galatians 5? Galatians 5 talks about something
which the Holy Spirit gives us, endows us with, things. Now, it says the works of the
flesh are manifest, and there are these things. And then it
talks about something of the Spirit. What of the Spirit? Several
things of the Spirit. Go ahead, say it, somebody. Fruit. All right, that's oil. fruit
of the Spirit. All right? If the car doesn't
have oil in it, it won't run. Right? Who puts the oil in? The owner of the car. All right?
The Holy Spirit comes and puts His fruit within believers. And
this is, very simply, faith without works. Not to have the oil, not
to have the fruits. Faith without works is to believe
in words. It's to believe, to be a hearer
of the word. Oh, that's good. Oh, Ezekiel. In the book of Ezekiel, if you
want some good reading, start reading the book of Ezekiel.
I have to get through with Isaiah. I recommended Isaiah last week. Ezekiel, in the book of Ezekiel
said, and the Lord warned Ezekiel and said, now they're going to
think you're a good singer. They're going to say, oh, you
sing real good, and you sound real good, and they're going
to like you and everything, but they're not going to do a thing
you say. That's sad, isn't it? That's
all good messing. They're not a doer. All right,
so that's without oil. Romans 8, turn to Romans chapter
8. We quote, I quote, Romans chapter
8, all the time, verse 1. Don't you love Romans 8, verse
1? Can you quote it without looking
at it? No, no, no, don't look at it yet. Have you already looked
at it? Could you have quoted that without looking at it? There
is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.
Is that it? No, it's not. No, it's not. That's not it.
That's not all of it. That's half of it. Let's not
be guilty of doing what we, what our minions are guilty of. Right?
All right? Now, there's the key. There's
nobody going to do the second part who doesn't, is not found
in the first part. Right? All right? There's the next part. Who walk
not after the flesh, but after the spirit. That means, now that
means following the leadership of it. under the influence of
the verse fourteen for as many as are led by the Spirit of God. Now that's sons of God. Isn't
that right? So this oil is the leadership
of the Holy Spirit. All right, now what's the first
fruit of the Spirit there in Galatians 5 verse 22? Good for
you. Amen. The first one he mentioned.
Good. No. No. No more. No. No. What did Christ say his commandment
was? When he talked about, I've got
one commandment. He said, This is my commandment. This is it. What? No. What did John talk about? Here's
how you're going to know. You've passed from death unto
life. Have you? No. Little children, John said, let
us not love in word only, but in deed and in truth. All right? And then the Lord
illustrates this. All right, back to Matthew 25.
The Lord illustrates this in verse 15. Matthew 25, verse 15. He says, now there's a man traveling
into a far country. And we'll not read it all. But
this man gave talents to each of his servants. He gave, verse
15 says, to every man, every one, according to his several
ability. All right, every man he gave
talent to. According to the wisdom in him,
he gave five to one and gave two to another and gave one to
one. Poor fellow. All right, this is, and you don't
have to turn, but over in Romans 12, and first, a good way to
remember this, Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12 deal with the
same thing. The gifts of the Spirit. The
gifts of the Spirit. Alright? And in Romans 12, he
says we have gifts different according to the grace that's
given to us. We all have gifts. Every man.
Didn't I say that? Every man. Oh, I can't do anything.
Then you're not His. I can't do anything. Then you're
not His. every man. Every servant and
give and give some a lot. Some several some one thing. All right one thing and then
he talks about well whether what it might be is in a different
some preach some ministry or that is waiting on others waiting
table teaching. Exhortation can be as much as
a smile. Exhorting, giving is a real gift. Some have been given financial.
We've gone through these things countless times. Some have been
given the gift of earning power, and so they should give more
abundantly. Mercy, either show it with mercy,
with cheerfulness. Ask somebody. Just lighten the
place up with their presence. And the next thing is let love
be without assimilation. In 1 Corinthians 12, the same
thing. It talks about the various gifts, giving, whatever it may
be. It says one's given a spirit of wisdom and so on and so forth. All right. Well, to make this
long parable short, One man chapter twenty five one man versus twenty
four and twenty five the one that had the one down. One down. First twenty four the Lord he
which had received the one talent came and said Lord I knew the
I knew the. That our heart. Reaping where
that's not so gathering where that is not strong I was afraid
I hid my talent in the earth. And here it is, here it is again. And what is this fellow? Who
is this fellow? In other words, he got a talent and he didn't
do anything with it, did he? He didn't do anything with it. Who is this fellow? This is a hard-shelled Calvinist
is what this is. It's an old hard-shelled cow.
It's the fellow who believes God is sovereign. Yeah, I believe
God is sovereign, and I'm not responsible. That's right. God is sovereign
in everything. By grace, you say. Don't talk to me about works.
I believe Ephesians 2, 8, and 9. I believe with all my heart.
I don't rightly know what verse 10 says. Right. That's what this is. I
believe by grace we say through faith that not of yourselves
the gift of God not of works unless any man should bow. I
don't know the next verse. Which says we're his workmanship
created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath foreordained
we should welcome him back. You can't have 8 and 9 without
10. You can't have Romans 8 and 1
without just half of it, right? Romans 8 and 1 without verse
14. So this is a man who believed God's sovereign, but he never
did anything for anybody. He had something he could have
done, something, anything, anything. One talent. One talent. Well, all right, verse 30. In
this same chapter, verse 30, the Lord said, cast him out. Out of darkness, there'll be
weeping and gnashing of teeth. But, but, but, but I trusted. You're here and I'll do it. Weeping. When the Lord talks about weeping
and gnashing of teeth, and He's talking to His disciples. We better pay attention. So Jesus was nothing but love
and all that. Weeping and gnashing of teeth. I mean, horrible, horrible
scene. Oh boy. Well, then the Lord gives
this final solemn scene that we read about the separation
of sheep and goats. And then we're going to see what
separates sheep from goats. It's final. Now that's there's
three parallel. Here's the third one. Solemn scene. Separation of sheep and goats.
Talks about he's going to line up all nations that are going
to stand before him. On his right hand, that's the
hand of blessing. Like old Jacob got. Like Joseph's
sons, one of his got, you know, as opposed to the other. That's
the hand of blessing. lined up on the right hand. All
right, what makes the difference? Here in verse thirty-two, it
says, Before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats. Separation, division, divided,
the difference. What makes the difference between
sheep Well, by grace, number one, it's
grace. And grace, who make a difference? It's like the Lord said about
the Israelites. I love you. He said, God made a difference
between you and the Egyptians. They didn't look like they were
much different. And God made a difference between
them. He chose them. He elected them. All right? By grace. That's what makes the difference.
In faith. All right? Now, James says, what does James
say about this thing of faith? Faith without work. Paul said, talking about faith,
Paul said, and nobody wrote more strongly about being justified
100% by faith, which is a gift of God, the whole book of Romans.
He gets up to chapter 12. Chapter 12, verse 1, I beseech
you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies
as living sacrifices, holy, well-pleasing to the Lord. This is a reasonable
service. And Paul says, Faith does what? Worketh by love. Faith worketh by love. John said,
now this is two or three witnesses, John said, and they all learned
this from the Lord. John said, We know we pass from
death unto life because we love the brethren. All right, this
is what the Lord is illustrating here to the sheep. All right,
here he separates. What separates sheep from the
goats? All right, we read it. Did we read it? How do we know
that the sheep are sheep and the goats are goats? Verse 34, Then shall the king
say, or this is my theory. Then shall the king say unto
them on his right hand, Sheep, come, ye blessed of my father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. Now there's what made the difference,
chiefly, ultimately. God made them sheep. God blessed
you. He blessed the father. When did
he do it? When did he make them his sheep
before the foundation of the world? All right, is there a period
at the end of that sentence? No. Four. This is how you know I
was hungry and you fed me. How do they know? Well, they're
called blessed. That's by grace. And they proved it by works. They write it. They were saved
by God's blessing them. That's grace. Before the foundation
of the world, eternal grace. They proved it by work. Work,
all right? Verse 35 and verse 36, it said,
I was hungry, you gave me meat. I was thirsty, you gave me drink.
Stranger, you took me in. Naked, you clothed me. Sick,
you visited me. In prison, you came unto me. These are very
simple, common courtesies of life, aren't they? food and drink,
shelter, visiting somebody sick. It's nothing. I mean, that's
nothing. Really, when you think about
it. Because all these things we have such abundance. Sometimes
I get, I feel absolutely guilty when I open my refrigerator.
Do you? whether you would if you went
to another country. I open my closet, I don't have
any time to tell my wife, this is sinful. I got shirts in there I haven't
seen for years. Good shirts. Haven't we got so
many, we got so much stuff. We can have a garage, sell our
garage and not miss it. It's funny because it's true,
isn't it? We all know it's true. It's true. It's true. It's true.
We got so much food and drink, we could empty our freezers and
we could feed Franklin County for a week before the freezer
would run empty up. Is that so? It sure is. Nice cars and nobody in here
doesn't have an automobile without air conditioning. If you do,
you just haven't had time to fix it. Good car. Go visit. Take somebody
somewhere. Loan it to somebody. And the Lord said these blessed
ones were those that did it. They were blessed. The Lord said,
Come. Come. Inherit. Because this is what
you did for me. I'm not adding anything if I
added anything to this. You fed me, you hung me, you
clothed me, you took me in. And what was their response?
Now here's their response in verse thirty-seven through forty.
It says that they said, I don't rightly remember ever. Why you hadn't done anything.
And really when you think about it, it's nothing. Like I said,
because we have so much. And we do a little bit, maybe,
and it's nothing. So we don't ever even think about
it that we're doing this thing. Lord, when do we do these things?
He said, if you've done it to the least to one of these my
brethren, you've done it unto me. Now the ones that did these things,
listen very carefully, the ones that did these things didn't
think of them as works. They were doing them, but that's
not works. I'm not doing it because I'm
supposed to do it. I'm not even thinking about it
like that. Oh, I ought to have, I ought to be doing it. No, it's
not works. It's a blessing. blessing. And you know they were
already blessed? Look at verse 21. Go back to
verse 21 of that illustration, verse 21, of the fellows that
used the talents. Look at this, verse 21. He said,
You've been faithful. Well done, thou good and faithful
servant. You've been faithful over a few things. I'll make
thee... The Lord does a few things. You've been faithful over a few
things. And that's what we think of it.
What have we done? Not much. Do what you can. All right. A few things. I'll
make you ruler over many things. Look at this. Enter thou into
the joy of the Lord. Verse 23, the last line. Enter thou into the joy of the
Lord. You took me in. I know it was
fun. It was joy. It wasn't work. It
was a joy. It wasn't work. It was a blessing,
an infinite high honor and privilege, an inestimable blessing and joy. I got the joy. But you slaved
over that. Oh, no, I've got joy out of this. See, the blessed ones, the blessed ones, Don't think
of it as work. They're being blessed. And the
ones that didn't do it, they're missing out on the blessing.
And consequently, they don't have any joy. I'm trying to get away from myself,
but I'm everywhere I go. Boy, if I just go home and that's
the only person I ever spend any time with is myself, what
am I going to act like? I ain't going to be no joy. There ain't going to be no blessing.
And now quit laughing. Our Lord said you might not go
into glory. I'm not adding a thing to what
he said. He's separating sheep from goats,
and he said, here's how you tell. These took me in. These never
did. These fed me. Never did. Never
did. Turn over to Luke chapter 6 with
me. And the sad thing, the eternally sad, is you might miss Christ,
but the sad thing here is you're missing a blessing. I don't believe
some have ever experienced, and I sure ain't preaching to anybody
in particular, but boy, the shoe fits where it's, the gospel shoe. But I really don't believe this. I believe there's some that have
not experienced the joy of casting your bread. Our Lord said it's
truly more blessed to give than to receive. Our Lord never lies. I tell you, one word of His has
infinite glory, and virtue, and wisdom, and health, and joy,
and comfort, and peace, and encouragement, and it's right. It's just right. It's the best. It's clean. It's
pure. One word from Him. He says it's more blessed to
give than to receive. You'll get a greater blessing
than anything you've ever received in your life by giving. And he
said, cast your bread on the water. Cast your bread on the
water. You just stand back and wait
and you're going to see it after many days. And you'll marvel at how it comes. A bird will bring it. Something
like that, totally unexpected. And you'll know, you'll know
who brought it, who sent it. You'll know. That's a joy, that's
a blessing you'll never experience unless you say it. There it goes. And you don't do it for that
reason. Luke 6 verse 38, look at this. Luke chapter 6 verse
38 says, No, that's not it. Oh, I'm in John, no wonder. Luke
chapter 6, verse 38. This is a real blessing. Give,
and it will be given to you. Good measure. Oh, but I can't
afford it. You ever said that about your
children? Never. House is not clean. We never said that in our life
about having the children over. Give and it'll be given to you. How much? Good measure. How much
is that? Press down. Shaking together. Running over. Look at this. Shall men give unto your bosom?
Who's giving it? Well, God is. But through means,
with the same measure, the same measure you meet with all, it'll
be measured to you. He's come. He's come back. I really can't afford this, but
here you go, and here you go. I know Oral and those idiots
say, you know, but they, please, we're not even in the same universe. We're not talking about it. They're
talking about doing that to mercenary men. They're saying, if you'll
do this, just, you know, invest. Investments is what they're talking
about. Now, our Lord said this in Luke 6. Give. Give. It'll be given to you. Don't
have it to you. I gave it to you. I know you
have it. Why do you think the Lord had
us give on the first day of the week? Because there's nothing left
on the seventh. What do you give after you think of it? Nothing.
First, fruit. My daughter and I were picking
grapes today. You know what the best fruit was, the biggest?
The greatest, most beautiful club ball, the very first one.
First, first. The best. The best. You're the
best. Not left over. Not left over. Well, who are the happiest folks
that you know? Who are the happiest people that
you know? People that you think, well, they just seem so blessed,
so happy. Why? They've experienced this joke.
Huh? They're the most faithful, they're
the most generous, they're the most helpful. They're blessed
spiritually. John said this, he said, I wish
above all things that you would prosper. that your soul would prosper,
and your spirit and your material possessions would prosper, and
all things, that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even
as your soul prospers. The Lord is not unrighteous to
forget labors of love, and he blesses spiritually Those who
meet out a lot and give and give and give, they're blessed. They're
blessed. Both spiritually, they seem to
be the strongest, the happiest, the most comforted, the most
settled, most at peace, settled, grounded, settled, and material.
I'll give you some illustrations. A young newly married couple,
believers. When they first got married,
they lived in an 800 square foot apartment. 800 square foot. That's not much bigger than that. From right here to the fabric.
That's it. Not very big. 800 square foot. Well, the Lord saved them, both
of them. They rejoiced in the gospel so
much. Faithful to every service. Wouldn't
miss a service. They filled up that little apartment
with every person, every saint coming and going. They were begging
people to come in and grace their little apartment. A room where you don't sleep,
you didn't sleep. Laying down, you had to stand
up to sleep. And 20 years later, they live
in a mansion with friends and influence all over the place. You know, it's a true illustration. A young divorced woman, a young
divorced woman, and that's a difficult trial to go through. The only thing tougher than that
is having a child go along with it. A young divorced woman with
a child living in a rented house alone in her forties. God teaches her the gospel. She
fills her little rented house with all of God's people. And
whatever she can do for anybody, she does it. God gives her Prince
Charming. She marries a saint, gives her a mansion, a bigger
family, more happiness than she's ever had in her entire life. Is that not right? Everybody
in here knows who I'm talking about. Wonderful husband, bigger family,
joy, happiness. Why? Because I was hungry and
you took me in. I was thirsty and you gave me
drink. I was a stranger. You put me
up. Now, I'm going to return my favor. And you'll never outlive the
Lord. Lonely? Take in one of my saints, and
I'll give you a lifetime confession." Well, this is what the Lord said. See? Have I added anything? Have I added anything? Have I
taken it out? We could take this out of context,
genuinely take this out of context and spiritualize it away, but
our Lord didn't do that. Didn't you have, Bill and Evelyn
were over at your house one day. Nobody will ever have Bill Clark
in their house again. The apostle called up to your
house, Bill Clark. I'm as serious as I can be. I'm serious as I can be. People
brag on the prophets and the apostles and don't think anything. We've got imminent saints of
whom the world is not worthy to walk in this planet right
now. Work to have that jewel in your home. We'll
never have, nobody will ever have the opportunity to win, ever. Walter Grubin. He may never be back to this
country. He's sending Cody instead. Walter Grubin. What can you say
about Walter Grubin? Oh my goodness gracious. And
I'm not even talking about Evelyn and Betty, Betty Gruber. Lydia, you put them all together
and they might match up to Betty Gruber. Man, joy, blessings, blessings
unspeakable. We got a fella coming into this
town tomorrow. Well, in my house, I am a blessed,
I'm the most blessed person on earth. I'm not worthy to have him under
my roof. But blessed God, he's got a roof every time. I want you to turn and close
in John 15. Let's read these verses. Now, our Lord said, John 15, our Lord, gave this,
and my pastor preached on this. I'm sorry, John 13. John 13. The pastor preached
on this up at the Bible school this summer, and it got pretty
rough. Well, we ended up getting rough
with it. And this is what it reads here
John thirteen verse twelve after you've washed their feet. Now
what a despicable thing to do. And these people they had dirty
feet. Did you take a bath this morning
maybe right before you got here? You had shoes on, powder, and
Dr. Scholl's and all that. Your feet aren't dirty. But these
people that walk through, man, their feet. And you know how
ugly their feet are? My daughter's feet were pretty
when she was a baby, but they ain't not pretty anymore. The
older feet get, the more they walk, more calloused and corned
and twisted and toenailed, and the dirtier, stinkier, and awful
ugly feet. Aren't their feet ugly? Our Lord
of glory got down on his hands and knees and washed their stinking
feet. That like cleaning out a toilet. Think about the lowest job you
could do. And these idiots, these self-righteous,
pious Pharisees, they go through the motions of this. Act like
a false show of humility. You know what I'm talking about,
and ain't nobody's feet needs washing. They're just going through
the motions. Our Lord did something that needed
to be done, and it was the most menial task we could think of.
Now, look at what he said. He said, verse 15, I've given
you an example of what you should do as I've done unto you. Is this a recommendation, advice,
good counsel, or a command? The Lord never advises anybody. do this. He said, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, the servant is not greater than the Lord, neither
is he that sent greater than he that sent him. You know these
things. Look at this. Look at verse 17.
This is what I want you to say. If you know these things, happy
are you. If you don't, enter into the joy. Be careful to entertain strangers. I'm trying to preach this with as
much compassion and understanding and so forth. Our Lord is the
one that said this. He gave no contingencies. Listen
very carefully. Listen to my closing statement.
You always give great care, you weigh your words carefully, Vicki,
in your introductory remarks and your closing remarks. Let
me listen. All right, what's first said
and what's said at the last? Close it out. The Lord gave no
contingency. He gave no excuses. He gave no
stipulations. No, no, no, anything. No qualifications. No, well,
if you're this, then you, or if you have that, if you got
a big house, or if you don't have a hut, if you do have a
hut, if you're divorced, if you're not divorced, if you do have
children, if you don't, no. You see what I'm saying? But
if you own a house, if you rent a house, the car's nice, it's
not nice. Nope, it didn't. He just said, now this is cheap.
Isn't it? This is dope. Entering blessing, cursing, joy,
and misery. Those that, and Proverbs said,
those that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy, forsake
their own mercy. The Lord said, happy are you,
happy, happiest man on earth is going to be me tomorrow night. Yes, it is. Blessed man on the
face of this earth is going to be me. I'm going to be sitting
and looking at two of the most eminent saints that ever walked
this planet. And if their feet were dirty,
I wouldn't think of them now. Would you? Those feet have traveled the world over.
All right, I hope this wasn't too hard. I hope I've just said
what the Lord said. And this comes up, you know,
this sort of thing comes up just every now and then, that giving
and doing and so forth. But the Lord said, if you're
missing a blessing, you're missing joy and happiness by not needing
Let me say it. I mean, do it. Do it. Taste your
bread out there. Do it. No contingency. Do it. Stretch out your hand. When it's
withered, stretch it out. Give. Feed me. Feed me. Go on now. Feed me. What a joy. What a blessing.
All right, let's thank God. We're going to do. Of course, we did very good,
but they watched over us, you know, from time to time. It was
a safe business, of course, but it was a real thing. So, we're
back to our fourth year in the studio. Of course, we didn't
plan it, but that's the truth. I think we did a good job. We
did a good job, and that's all that matters, of course.