Romans 14

This morning. We're going to be in Romans chapter 14, if you want to turn there and get ready for as we read through that, that be great. But I also want to rev reference Romans chapter 7. The Apostle Paul talks about his own life. Talks about the life that is before us and verse 13. You says how that has, then what is good become death to me certainly not but send that it might appear sin was producing death in May through what is good? So that's an through the commandant might become exceedingly. Sinful for. We knew we know that the law is spiritual, but I am Colonel sold under send. That's quite a statement for Paul to say about himself. The Apostle Paul. I am carnal. Soul Anderson. Do you know any carnal people today? Do you know anybody that has send in their life? There's a lot of churches today for losing a lot of churches today. That would look at certain people and say we don't want them in our church because they're sinful.

That's true. You know, that's true, right? In fact, many times we do it ourselves individually, the people? We look at them and said, there's no way I'm not. I'm not sure in the gospel with them and the sinful people. The ones that are pretty much up front with it because, you know where they are. Us Christians who have been Christians for a. Of time. We can cover it up pretty good. Can we not? I'll answer that. Yes, we can.

Here's what I want us to do. I want everyone. Who is not simple to stay seated and everybody who is sinful to stand up and walk out because we don't want you. Just kidding. I have to be the first one out of here.

Who did Jesus come into this world to seek and to save?

The sinful the center's he didn't come for the healthy, The Physician isn't here for healthy people. Write, the physician is here for the unhealthy. You're sick. You should go to the doctor lbs into Falcon house sick. Am I a mean you got a little scratch? I wouldn't worry about run to the doctor for that. Unless you're prone to getting serious infection. There's all things that we need to look at in our own life. But we cannot judge other people. Their lives in comparison to our life. That's the wrong standard. We compare people, we judge ourselves in comparison to where we know that Jesus Christ is and where we need to be. Anything else? Cheapens what Christ has done for us? Paul says, he look at my life. I'm Colonel verse 15 and goes on her own services for what I am doing. I do not understand what I will to do that. I do not practice. But what I hate that I do, anybody have a problem with that this morning in their own hives. Got I know what you want me to do, but I'm not going to do this other thing and I don't really want to do that. But that's what I do. I want to do what you want me to do about it. The battle in that. If then I do, what I will not to do. I agree with the law that it is good. But now it is no longer. I who do it, but send that dwells in Bryan, all that in me. That is in my flesh. Nothing good, dwells. If nothing good dwells in the Apostle, Paul's flesh. What dwells in your Flesh of My Flesh?

We got a lot of kids today who have Idols? They have Idols sport, Idol's music. I'm whatever. They they look up to these people. We need to have Jesus as all right. Light by the same as wrong as wrong to have those too. But Jesus out of your number one, I do. That's who we ought to be trying to emulate this Jesus. Not a football player basketball player, singer, whatever, whatever you want to make your idle to be. Jesus have to be alright, we ought to be striving to emulate him. Not the world. That's what he saying. First 18 for, I know that in me, that is in my flesh. Nothing good, Wells for the Willows, in the order will express it with me, but how to perform, what is good. I do not find for the good that I will to do. I do not do, but the evil I will not to do that. I practice. We're also in that boat right now. If I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it. But sin that dwells in. I find an a law that evil is present with me. The one who Wills to do good. Brighten the light in the law of God, according to the inward, man, but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members Wretched, Man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death. I thank God through Jesus Christ. Our Lord sold. In with the mind. I'm by myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sent you think, I know what I need to do. But the body is a little weak and doing it. The body wants to have Pleasures for itself.

In scripture tells us that we cannot serve God and the world ones going to take over our life. So, when we look at ourselves, we realize that we're all sent it and we all are. We also need to understand that. Then we need a judge ourselves. According to God's standards of where Jesus is as he hangs on that cross perpendicular to heaven.

The perfect. Plumb line. To compare ourselves to. Now, we can compare ourselves to one another. And we can look pretty good compared to other people in our eyes. It may be that person were comparing ourselves to his is comparing themselves to us and they look pretty good next to us in their eyes.

It's funny how that works. Isn't it? We don't to really see ourselves. The way we really are. We see ourselves in a way that we perceive ourselves to be. Paul is looking at himself there Romans chapter 7 as he knows, he is. It's an illustration for us to apply to our life is a listen. I know what this body is prone to do. What this body desire. I know my heart. My desire is to serve Jesus but there's other things in my life. But I'd be more important. Then God, from time to time. And when we do that, those things become. Our God. I smoked just a little bit this morning and the early service on preference and conviction. Do you have conviction in your life? Is your conviction? Truly a conviction. Or is it a preference? A conviction is something that you would lay your life on the line for?

I have a conviction that if somebody was to break into my house and try to hurt myself or my family. I would lay my life on the line to protect them. That's my conviction. That's what I think and I hope I would do. I never have had to do it.

But I'm telling you the day that that's my conviction. But if that happened and I take care of the house and I run it's no longer a conviction, is it? Because a conviction, I would have stayed there and I would have fought. For them. Jesus had a conviction for you, and for me, he laid down his life even in a moment in time in life, where he could have called Ten Thousand Angels to remove himself from that death on the cross, but he didn't. He wanted to pay in the store all the suffering.

We live in a crazy world today of pandemics and rules and mandates and all these different things that are going on. And we're going to say, well this is a, this is a conviction or this is not a conviction.

And we can talk about the mask mandate or we can talk about the vaccine vaccine, mandate, whatever, and I'm standing before you today. So, you know what? That doesn't even matter to me. But here's the thing. Here's what I I hear. We'll just use go with mask. That's a simple thing, right masks. I have a conviction. I'm not going to wear a mask until you got to take a flight to Florida where it's nice and warm. And on that airplane, you got to wear mask. but you do, how do you get to Florida? Guess what your convictions? No longer a conviction? It's a preference. And that's a simple thing while I'm, maybe not for somebody but the same is true in our life and other areas. I will do this. This is my conviction until it becomes more convenient for me to do the all there to get what I want. I'll do that, but then I'll go stand back on my conviction and it's not a conviction anymore. I'm afraid that our nation are people in our churches, have lost their convictions. And their convictions have turned more into preferences.

And I think that happened many generations ago. And I think it's going to get worse as we go forward.

Remember the conviction that our nation wants? What I had. I'm not saying everybody but we had a conviction stores were closed on Sundays. That was a pretty good conviction. Wasn't it until you needed a gallon of milk? And you didn't have a cow out back. Someone stores begin to open up on on on Sundays.

I have a job in a grocery store when I was in high school in the military Town, Killeen, Texas, Fort Hood Army base. Those who may be familiar with that. It was a Dry Town, a military town, a Dry Town, in order for them to get out, how they had to go out of town to get it.

So, I'm working in this grocery store and they change the town from being a dry town to a wet town. They begin to allow their grocery stores to bring in alcohol and sell alcohol. this is the big news in the day, and I'm 15 16, 17 years of age at this point, working in the grocery store. And my father says to me, the store is going to start selling alcohol. What are you going to do?

What, what, what do you mean? What am I going to do? Well, you going to stay working there. Yeah, I'm not drinking it.

I'm just backing it. I guess touching, it's no wrong, but I'm not to be disrespectful, but I'm not going to be drinking it with people buying it. They're buying it anywhere. Anyway, elsewhere. Argyle is with dry town. I don't have them. I know they had a battle there. If you're over yet. They have been for years. But I knew people in Argyle that could drink pretty good. I worked with a lot of men. Fort Miller company. Right. Hey, just because it's dry in this town doesn't mean it's dry in your house. I just because somebody has a conviction without even touching the stuff over looking at the stuff. I can't see it. It's I don't look at it. It's not real.

We got some crazy convictions where our conviction ought to be. What is it that God wants for me. Where is it? Is this something I'm willing to die on. Is this the hill? I'm willing to lay my life down on. Paul said you don't want a little bit messed up. Go with me to Romans chapter 14 looking for answers 1 through verse to this morning. As we begin there. There's a lot of things that are said about the church in the society around us Society outside of our little gathering here. This morning those who are with us this morning those who may not gather with us at all. Have a higher conviction of what a Christian ought to be than usually we do. You going to ask them what what does a what does a house with a Christian that they see you messing up? And they know you're messing up, your not being what a Christian ought to be the world. Most that. They may not live that way, but they have in their mind, what the direction is go somewhere along the line. They were taught. Tomorrow's. Hey, we lost a little bit. Haven't we? Lost it in how we react to one another. Our society is upset families or upset at man, our police officer a law enforcement officer are getting barrage with people who don't like them.

When did that change? When is that when they started being abusive?

I'm going to give you my opinion. Okay, my opinion. I heard the lady on the news the other day. She got arrested for doing something wrong. She, she did something wrong. And because of that, she got thrown into jail and and because being put into jail for a then she lost everything.

And none of it was her fault.

She lost everything and it was everybody else's fault. She lost everything. She admitted to doing wrong. Yes, I did wrong, right, there it is. I did this. Here's the consequences. That's the rule, that's the law that the way it was when we change those laws. They've changed those who lost to where we can do wrong.

And get away with it.

What we been doing that. Full time in Christianity. Amen. Do you know what to do? Right? And does not do it to him? It is fun. And that what scripture says. No, The Who him who know what to do? Right? And does not do it to him. It is send I shared this illustration this morning as well. when I was, 13, 14 years of age. My father had resigned the church and Alva, Oklahoma. We were moving to Canton, Texas, to a church in Canton, Texas. He got 100% call to the church in Canton, Texas. My last night and Alva, Oklahoma. I went. Do a dance. Independent fundamental, premillennial bible-believing, King James only 1611, Son of a Preacher was not supposed to do that. I went to a dance at the Methodist church across town.

Strike tool. I didn't ask my father. That's no, it's not. No.

I didn't ask him cuz I just asked me where out with some friends. That was a truth.

I went to the dance. I came back where you been. I was some friends. That was a truth. We move the next day. I was out with some friends. My point is we have some ideas in our heads, in our minds that hey. Hey, here's a conviction. Okay, we don't dance. Right, I understand some of those rules with y.

Boys and girls dancing together. Okay. Yeah this there's some emotions that come forth from some of that, right? But listen. Here's the thing. If I'm watching you dance or if I'm wishing, I could ask if I've already committed that in my heart.

What have I done? Scripture gives us. Hey don't don't commit adultery. But if we've committed adultery in the heart and in our mine, if we're looking on a woman, a person, a guy could be both sides.

With without a spot in my heart. I've already committed to God. See in this thing about law. Here's the rules Grace. He's raised the bar a little bit. Why? Because there's more he's given us and you and I need to be at work. So I want to make this statement. Did I send my going to that? Dance as a 13 year old kid. Yes, I did. By going to the dance or am I dancing? Not necessarily. Bye-bye being with my friends in the Methodist Church.

No. I said because I was not truthful. With my father. I went against what I knew, his desire in his wishes were. What does it matter? It matter to me? Because all and I can't even dance. Okay, I mean if I do the shopping cart, I got that thing down.

I can do the sprinkler. I guess that's all I got guys. And that's only from watching you guys at dances. Well, you don't know what you miss, not dancing with your wife. My having said I haven't danced with my wife. They don't jump to conclusions. Nobody said, I haven't danced with my wife. I'm just very seldom. Have you seen me dancing with my wife?

Set. Timer 2. And you know what? I like it.

I've even had other women asked me to dance with them. You know, my answer was no way Jose. Not necessarily know what and I don't know. Thank you, my aunt. I don't dance, I dance with my wife. I don't dance with anybody else's wife or any other woman. I did dance with my daughter at her wedding. Okay, the father daughter dance. That was part of that, but that's just sort of moving you.

I learned that watching Gomer Pyle.

The point is we we began to come up with some things that we think are convictions and when they come to light, would we die on those things? We would not. So they're not convictions. Are they? They become preferences. Nobody says verse 1, verse to, I gotta move on or I won't get done. Like, I didn't this morning, verse 1, chapter 14, enrollments receive one who is weak in the truth or in the face, but not to dispute over doubtful things for One Believes. He may eat all things but he who is weak eats only vegetables is your week.

God's word said it didn't. Is that the point? That's not the point? The point is I just did what I should have done, making fun of those who just want to eat if that's what you want to eat. Have fun. I like a little salad every now and then with my venison.

I'm not going to force my venison on you because I think you're ridiculous in control. Now, if you're eating vegetables, all the time and drinking soy, no, you say listen if this is your conviction, this is your convictions live by it, but If you're willing to give up that conviction for something else, it's no longer convicted. It's a preference. And we, as people But we want, to be honest. We have more preferences and we have convictions, I would die for my family, but you know what? I haven't had to yet. So where's my proof in that? You know, what else I would die for her. I would die for somebody to accept Christ as their lord and savior if that's what it took, but I haven't had to do that yet. So, how do I know? Jesus died on the cross. He did it. And he had Ten Thousand Angels. He could have calls ahead. Come get me out of this mess, guys, but he didn't do it. You know, why? Because he looked at you and me. He saw our need, they said they need help. They need salvation. For one, Brazilian for One Believes. He may eat all things but he was weak eat, only vegetables.

We have differences. Do we not? We have different and how we dress, we have differences and what we drive. We have different than I found this out this morning. How many watch Nascar? Come on, Chris. What's the best car in the NASCAR race? The one in front. That's a cheapskate answer, but that's true.

Anybody else, NASCAR? Come on, whose NASCAR people were they all in the first service? Pawleys? What's the best car? The one that wins. Okay. Let me buddy else. You're not working with me this morning. They went they were on it this morning. All are rednecks were in the first service. Where is Chris Brown? Is he?

He said, the Chevy. So, how about I? Somebody else at Toyota somebody else on board, right? You know what I saying? I don't care.

So, those who? Believe it's the best. Car is the Chevy should only be driving Chevys, right? But that's our conviction. Those who think their best cars to be driving a Toyota. That's your, that's your conviction than you need to follow that, through all the way through or it's not a conviction. You know what? I drive the cheapest I can find at the moment. I have driven all time. You heard last week. I had a Mercury bobcat in college. I went from a Mercury Bobcat to a Plymouth Fury. In case we needed a place to live. We had our own little traveling trailer. Right? Right there. I mean, wife asleep in the back seat. It's down. I can sleep in the front seat, fully stretched out. We can sleep in the trunk. If we wanted. There's enough room in the trunk. Plymouth Fury 3 two-door coupe about 20 ft long.

You drove that path. I didn't drive that. And when we got a different car, we bought a Ford Ford Fairmont 1978 Ford. Fairmont drop the Plymouth Fury car lot. We got this other car. The guy goes outside to pull out for the Plymouth Fury and it wouldn't even start. We knew that. We knew that the car was sketchy. That way, it wasn't the battery because if you want to just order what you can catch it and it start again.

So I'm like old boy cars. Not going to start. You know? And I didn't tell him it wouldn't start. I didn't tell him. It's perfect shape. They saw what they were getting, they went and got it. Wouldn't start that change the price on the Fairmont now.

We drove out of there as quickly as we could and that Ford, Fairmont. Do that thing to New York. That's the car that we had when we first got here. Got rid of that card. Had a Buick Regal. Got rid of that car had a Monte Carlo 73. I think. I bought a another car got rid of that car. Got a lot of cars. Just about every brand there is. I'm not loyal to a brand. I don't have a conviction about which car I buy, or don't buy. Well, y'all am I American? I can always afford American. Not even American cheese. Sometimes. Right, we have these convictions. They're fine. Autabuy American. Okay. Let me come to your house. Let me look at all the knickknacks. You have in your house. Are they all American? There goes your conviction. You see how easy it is to lose a conviction. It's not a conviction. If it's not solid through and through. We come to Christ. We accept Jesus as our Lord and savior, people see a change and you they see something different about you and all of a sudden there. They're bringing up the past. While I remember back when you use that was, then this is now. Why? Because if you become some conviction in your life, and you may not do some of the things that you used to do, you've made a change, the change is not from where you were the changes from where you are today to where you're going to be.

Preference or conviction? Paul say, listen in my life. There's a lot of things going on. We have differences. We have these issues. Look at verses 5 and 6 of Romans 5:14. One person who seems one day above another, another esteemed everyday, like Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. Letting each want, be fully convinced how in his own mind.

Not somebody else's mind, verse 6, he who observes the day, observed it to the Lord in he who does not observe the day to the Lord. He does. He, he who does not deserve the day to the Lord. He does not observe it. He who eats to the Lord for he who eats eats to the Lord. For he gives God. Thanks, and he who does not eat to the Lord. He does not eat and give. Thanks to God. Why are you doing what you do? Where are we at? All? I'm saying this morning is weed. We have what we call convictions that really aren't convictions when it's not convenient for us. What is dying on the cross wasn't convenient to Jesus? Why is it that we gather together on Sunday mornings to worship as a body of Believers? It's because that's what we're used to doing. What if we decided? Okay, we're not going to worship on Sunday. We're going to worship on Saturday. Some people do that. Who's right? Who's wrong? I mean, there's some days. I wish we were worship on on, on Saturday and there's other days. I'm glad we worship on Sunday. We'll watch the different Saturday was a Sabbath. What is Sunday? Sunday is the Lord's Day. Why is it the Lord say? It's because it's the day that Jesus rose. From the grave. This is the day, the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad it somewhat. At a teacher in college and Bible College who was a missionary to Iran. They got out when? Dial Al Ayatollah. Got in trouble. Dave had to come back to the States been home ever since from there. But to begin teaching a college class admission class in college. He said they went over to Iran. Their idea was to do things over there. Just like we do in the state church was on Sunday. Nobody was coming. You know why? Nobody would come to church on a Sunday and I ran. They all worked.

You know what day they had Church? Thursday. How weird is that? Gather together for church on a Thursday. That was the day that they had, that people were off.

If you're going to sell shoes, you got to look for people who don't wear them to sell them. Two pretty much, right? Cuz if you come to my house and try to sell me shoes, I'm going to take you up in my closet or no show you my four pairs of shoes my five pairs of cowboy boots and say okay. What do I need? You're going to try to sell me something. I don't have. And I'm going to say, okay. Well, let me take you down to the basement and show you what I got down there. I got all the boutonniere in the basement. What do I need? What you need some sneakers? Okay. I got about three pairs of sneakers.

But let me tell you if you're walking around today and open toed shoes sandal type shoes with no socks. That's what I'm going to try to sell you. Jamal dogs. Some boots is going to keep your feet warm and be a seller on a day. Like today, expecially, if I stand outside with you for awhile, come out here. Let's just look at the beautiful sunshiny day. I know eventually we're going to break down. I'm going to make some changes. We all do there's some boots in my in my closet. I probably need to get rid of but I don't want to because someday I'll wear them again. There's some suits in my closet. I need to get rid of but I don't want to because someday I'll try them on and when I try them on and find out that they then I'll get rid of them.

We've been blessed. We have so much that God has given us.

And we don't use it for his honor for his glory. Go to verses 7 through first 9. If we wrap this up this morning. 472 verse 9, for none of us lives to himself. No one dies to himself for if we live, we live to who the Lord. And if we die, we die to who the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die. We are the Lords to hear that this morning. Do you know Christ as your lord and savior whether you live whether you die, If you are a child of God, guess what your head is. He's not going to throw you away. You're his. We are all created in the image of God.

We are all listen to me. We are all God's children.

But we are not all a child of God.

That's our choice. We are created in the image of God. We are his children in His image, but for him to be my Abba, Father, I've got to say yes, Lord, I believe and the moment I say. Yes, Lord, I believe. Guess what? I'm his. You know what? I did that? I did that when I was seven years of age. You know why it did at 27 years of age. I was raised in church. I was taught everything that I needed to know about believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. And then one day, there was a burden in my heart. Say, I need to make that choice. It was on a Sunday night, Sunday night, regular Sunday, night, service. What you had church on Sunday night? Yes, we did. That was a conviction in our household. Write, Sunday, morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, any time that there was something going on. You were to be in the house of God.

Sitting on the front row, Sunday night, my dad preaching. I used to sit on the front row with it. As he was preaching slightly to myself. Repeat the words that he was saying when he was preaching. in the same heart motion that he would I would make an emotion pound the pulpit but I would inside Maybe that's why I'm where I am today. I think that has a part to do with it. Sitting on that front roll gave an invitation, he gave an invitation and every service. Just as I am.

I took a step forward. I took us that back of wolf. What am I doing? 70? So they took, I need Jesus, took a step forward. Two steps back. Next thing. I knew I was at the altar, seven years bass, crying my eyes out. Why? Because I wanted Jesus in my heart and in my life at 7 years of age. My dad come down and dealt with me. Here's what he says boy. That is his endearing name to his son's boy. What do you need? And I told him I needed Jesus and he prayed with me shared with me. How to accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and I did that. And guess what? I haven't lost in since I haven't always been what I needed to be in those next few years. 21 years of age. I got it right with God again. Finally, after my 14, what I call my 14 years of wilderness wanderings. What is a seven-year-old do wrong? Other than disobey mom and dad. Not always tell the truth, right? My 14 years old. In this one. He's finally, I came back to okay, Lord, whatever you want me to do.

And you know the rest of that story I shared that with you. Here. We are today, as I said a few weeks ago, and somebody got a kick out here. I am killing it man, right? Some days, it's killing me. I wouldn't have it. Any. I I knew what I was getting into the question. Then the thing that we had our desires are all different. Right. You may like Your coffee with all that extra stuff in it. Fine. I'll take mine black. I bet I never drink coffee till I moved to New York. You guys change me.

I'm an iced tea drinker, make my own iced tea. I drink that a lot. I drink a couple of cups of coffee a day. Maybe four at the most 2 in the morning, maybe to a little later in the day. And then that's pretty much. It may be evenings. We have Bible study. I'll drink a cup of coffee. But how we drink? As I don't really care. What you put in your coffee. Don't put it in my coffee. Don't sneak some stuff in my coffee. Trying to think it's funny because I'll spit it out and pour it out. I used to put cream and sugar in my coffee. And then I got tired of waiting at Stewarts were people to get out of my way.

So, I just started drinking a bat black in eventually. I got used to that.

Remember Harold off, had him here a few years back and evangelist. Remain. I would take him out when he was here. He say with Harold, Dorie Wiley, wonderful guy. Wisdom college. Professor Bible college professor a pastor, the whole whole nine yards. Older gentleman. I took him first time I've ever seen. I had never seen this before, we went for breakfast. I got my coffee black. He ordered a hot cup of water.

The lady goes. You want a tea bag for that. Nope, just a hot cup of water.

Have you ever tried drinking a hot cup of water? Not good. Got to have flavor, right? But eventually, the more you drink a hot cup of water. Seizure goes down. I sort of like, send the more you get into it, the easier it goes down. It's just like Bible the more you get into it. The easier it goes that, we got to decide. What are we putting inside? Because everything that goes inside of us is going to come out of us. Go to bed. What is he say there? The last few verse versus was having to find. None of us live to himself in / 7, no one dies to himself.

Where's 94 to? This end Christ died and Rose and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. Is he, your lord? He's mine me quick little story and I'll close.

Peggy Cannon probably watching us this morning at home, but her nephew and his wife lost a little baby. Maybe read it on Facebook. It was posted on there at least on my sight while some will be 17 weeks old. I'm not weeks up at 17 weeks in in the womb. The doctors told them earlier that the baby had some issues. They should have ordered. They said no we're not going to our God is bigger than that. Our God can heal our God. Can take care or giving this to God. God's will be done. I'm so God bless them. Got pictures on there. We all just like any mom. Would your pregnancy pissed, pictures her and her husband in their their younger son and all these things that are there and I'm thinking this is tough. How did they do all that? Well, they have faith and trust in. God goes goes on down in that letter. Took quite a long post and she says, listen God, took our little baby home yesterday. This is like the 28th. Took a little baby home yesterday. 17 weeks in the womb. Took the baby home. She is in the arms of Jesus.

Will see her again, where they said. Oh, I'm sure they were sad where they better. I couldn't see any bitterness in the letter. I couldn't see them blaming God for, not taking care of it. Not providing. Not doing what needed to be done. They're praising God, that they had 17 weeks at that baby in their womb. Can you imagine?

How do you praise God for that? I guess it depends on where your eyes are focused. Amen. Are they? So I'm sure they are praying for them. What's your name from? God knows her name. Just pray for them. Pray for them that God continues to bless them and guide them in direct them and pray for others that read that that they don't get mad at God for them. So we're good at doing that. I'm going to get mad at job for you guys. Shouldn't treat you that way. Listen. This world is messed up. But there's a song that we used to sing. How's it going? If you don't know the song, if you don't know how it goes, right? This world is not my home. I'm just a passing through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. How about you? Where's your Treasures here? Moth and rust will corrupted. There, it'll be blessed. Give your Treasures to God. Look to him. Let him guide. You let him direct you. And when you do that, he will bless your list. And together. We closing prayer, Our Father. We thank you for who you are for what you have done. We lift up his family that I just mentioned, that had lost this baby bless them. Father God, show them your love, show their mercy and love to those around them that are probably really as well. From the loss of this may be expecting a wonderful time of rejoicing.

And yet knowing that the rejoicing is still there, but delayed till we get to heaven to be together with you. Father, I look forward to that day. I look forward to the day that we get to go to heaven. Not so I can meet my mom and not so I can meet my dad not so I can meet those who have died before.

I'm looking forward to going to heaven, so I can meet you, face-to-face. First and foremost. That's what it's all about. That is it, and then the rest is just extra blessing Beyond. But even if for some reason they didn't make it, I believe they did even for some reason they didn't make it when I get to heaven. I see you face to face. None of that matters. Because my face is not in those around me. My faith is in Jesus Christ, his word. Help us to live our life, pleasing to build one, another up, to encourage one another and to make our convictions, our convictions and not just our preferences. Working this out. Whatever works best for me at the moment kind of thing. You had a conviction to go to the Cross. Nothing. Got you from it. You did it. You die for whosoever Will. And for that. I thank you. And I pray. There's anyone here today who does not know you today is the day that they say. Yes, Lord. I believe believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Now expect the blessings of God to pour down upon you yet. I still try one tribulation in this world. There will be But she counsels blessings, look around and see what God has done. It will give the praise in Jesus name.