church this evening. It's very good to see you all here for our Wednesday night
service. Please find your seats, take a hymn, and go to hymn number 292. We'll get
started tonight. Hymn number 292, "His Way With Me." Hymn number 292, "He Found Your
Place." We'll begin singing together on that verse. "Would you live for Jesus, and be
always pure and good," is how this begins. Hymn number 292. Sing it out together now to our
singing this evening. We'll go before the last thing on the service, so if you would by
that. Heavenly Father, the Lord, we come before you this evening. We give you thanks for giving
us the safety and the opportunity and the help to be in church this evening. We just
ask, Lord, your blessing upon us as we lift our voices together and as we come into this
time of worship, that we would be attentive to the hymns and lift them up to you as best
as we can. And Lord, you would also just prepare our hearts for the preaching. And Lord, we
thank you for bringing Pastor Corbin Russell here to preach for us tonight. And we just
pray, Lord, for our pastor. You would make him feel better and just give him health
so that he may come back and go back to regularly preaching to us. And we just ask that you
fill Pastor Corbin Russell with your Holy Spirit and that you'd give him power and
unction to preach your word to us, help him preach clearly, and just give him the words
to speak tonight. And that, Lord, everything that's said and done would give back the honor
and the glory that you deserve for it. We thank you for it. In Jesus' name, amen.
Hymn number 288 is next, number 288, I am resolved. Hymn number 288, 288, I am resolved.
This time we're going to go over the bulletin, so if you need one, raise your hand, somebody
will give you a bulletin as soon as they can. If you have your bulletin, open it up. In
the left corner, we have service times. Below that, church, soul winning times. And at the
bottom, salvation and baptisms for the year. On the right side, once again, happy birthday
to everyone that had a birthday this month, and also happy anniversary. Everybody had
an anniversary this month. And at the very bottom, if you are interested in cruise missions
trips organized by Brother Kevin Rowe, independently of the church, he has provided cost and itinerary
details near the small town soul winning restoration maps, which are right over there. On the back
of the bulletin, all ladies and teen girls are invited to a baby shower in honor of Peyton.
It'll be Sunday, July 13th from 2 to 4 p.m. at the church building. Cake and refreshments
will be provided. Bring a dish to share. Nurseries only preferred. And please RSVP to Mrs. Jenny
Acconoscio. Below that, join Brother Caleb Acconoscio for a soul-winning marathon in
Denver, Colorado on Saturday, July 26th, 20 to 5. A sign-up sheet is available for those
interested in participating. For more details, please speak to Brother Caleb or email the
church and we'll just forward it to Brother Caleb. Amen.
All right. Upcoming events. Take a look at those when you get a chance. And in case people
are wondering, yes, Pastor Anderson is not going to be preaching tonight, we do have
Brother Corbin, you know, who was able to come down and preach for us while Pastor Anderson
is dealing with an illness. So right now he is sick. So please continue to pray for him
throughout the week and hopefully he'll be back on Sunday. But if not, we'll have somebody
ready to row. Amen. All right. So winning time. If you got somebody
save on Monday the 7th, starting on my left-hand side, raise your hand and let me know how
many numbers. All right. Sweeping through the room. Four. Is that four? Four for Brother
Alex over there. Any other salvations for Monday? Tuesday. Four. Anybody else? Wednesday.
One over here, Brother Matt. Six. Brother Alex. Two right over here. What's that? Navajo
what? How many did you get saved on the Navajo Nation? How many? You got 26 saved? Or was
it 27? What you got? Anyways, I doubt you got 26 saved in one day, brother. But that's
not what he's talking about. What he's talking about is we do have a Navajo trip coming
up, and we're letting you know right now so you can put in your two weeks if you need
to to get the time off. And it's going to be this month from the 26th to the 27th. It's
going to be an overnighter, correct? All right. We don't know exactly where we're going yet,
but we're definitely having an overnight trip. We obviously enjoyed the last overnighter
that we had in Flagstaff, so Pastor is trying to do something similar again. So hopefully
you guys can join us for whatever's coming up. It'll be on the Navajo Nation, so winning,
and it'll be on July 26th through the 27th. It's an overnighter, so if you're interested,
we will have more information for you this coming Sunday in the Bulleted. Is that what
we got? All right, anybody else for Wednesday? Going once, going twice. All right, Brother
Daniel. From your hymnal with Psalm 19. If you don't have an insert, please raise your
hand and one of the ushers will get you one. We'll sing it on that verse together.
Hymn number 460. Hymn number 460. It's been a few years since we sung this song, so if you know it
and you remember it, please sing it out with me and help those around you. 460 from Every Stormy
Wind. Hymn number 460. From Every Stormy Wind that blows. 460, sing it out. Remember this song, it
knows the tune well. Very good. All right, let's go back to that first verse. Now they got the
hang of it. So from every stormy wind that blows, sing it out now. This time we're going to pass the
offering in place, and as we're passing around the offering in place, please turn your bibles to 1 Kings
chapter 19. 1 Kings chapter number 19. Chapter 19, "And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done,
and with all how he had slain all the prophets with the sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger
unto Elijah, saying, 'So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of
one of them by tomorrow about this time.' And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life,
and came to Beersheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went
a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree, and he requested
for himself that he might die, and said, 'It is enough now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am
not better than my father's.' And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel
touched him, and said unto him, 'Arise and eat.' And he looked, and behold, there was a cake bacon
on the coals, and a cruce of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, 'Arise and eat,
because the journey is too great for thee.' And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the
strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. And he came thither
unto a cave, and lodged there. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him,
'What doest thou here, Elijah?' And he said, 'I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts,
for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars,
and slain thy prophets with the sword. And I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life to
take it away.' And he said, 'Go forth and stand upon the mount before the Lord, and behold,
the Lord pass by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and break in pieces the rocks
before the Lord. But the Lord was not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was
not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after
the fire a still small voice. And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his
mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering inn of the cave, and behold, there came a voice
unto him, and said, 'What doest thou hear Elijah?' And he said, 'I have been very jealous for the Lord
God of hosts, because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars,
and slain thy prophets with the sword, and I, even I, only am left, and they seek my life
to take it away.' And the Lord said unto him, 'Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus,
and when thou comest, anoint Heziel to be king over Syria, and Jehu the son of Nimshai shalt thou
anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-Mehola shalt thou anoint
to be prophet in thy room. And it shall come to pass that him that escapeth the sword of Heziel
shall Jehu slay, and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. Yet I have left
me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which
hath not kissed him. So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing
with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth, and Elijah passed by him, and cast
his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, "Let me, I pray thee,
kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee." And he said unto him,
"Go back again, for what have I done to thee?" And he returned back from him, and took a yoke
of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto
the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for the blessing of being in this church this evening, Lord.
We lift up our pastor to you, Pastor Anderson. Lord, we pray that you would bring healing into
his body, Lord, and raise him up. Lord, and also we ask a special blessing upon Pastor Russell.
We thank you, Lord, for him coming up here, short notice, to preach unto us. We pray you
continue to bless him and the great work that you're doing down at Straight Paths Baptist Church.
We pray now, Lord, that you bless the preaching of your word through Pastor Russell and give him
utterance to teach unto us the things that we need to hear. We ask all these things in Jesus name,
amen. Amen. So as always, it's great to be here preaching for you folks. It's always a privilege
and as often I'm up here because Pastor Anderson's not doing well, so as has been mentioned,
please continue to pray for him. I know he's feeling under the weather, so you're definitely
going to want to preach for or excuse me pray for him because if he doesn't get better, there's a
good chance he might just have to keep putting up with me from time to time. So hopefully that's
you know maybe that's why I'm here to motivate you to pray more. You know I guess you kind of
wonder why is this happening. Maybe it's so that you will draw closer to God and pray and say please
keep pastor healthy so we don't have to have that other guy come up here. All right, but and of
course I'm joking. I can be you know pretty self-deprecating, but that's because there's
just so much material to work with. But anyway you can think about that one and get back to me later.
We'll get into 1 Kings chapter 19 here. It says in verse 1, "And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah
had done with Ahab. He had slain the prophets with a sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger
unto Elijah, saying, 'So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as a life
as one of them by tomorrow at this time.'" So it's kind of hard to talk about 1 Kings 19 without
talking about 1 Kings chapter number 18. We won't take the time to read all that tonight. I'm sure
a lot of people are already familiar with everything that takes place in that chapter. Of course that's
where you have Elijah and that great revival where he gets the prophets of Baal together
and they make those sacrifices on the altars of stone and of course you know he's mocking the
prophets of Baal and then he prays that prayer and calls fire down from heaven and Israel repents
and they you know say the Lord he is God and of course there's that great scene at the end where
you have Elijah gathering all the prophets of Baal and killing them. You know he takes him down to
the river and just has a you know a bloodbath down there with the prophets of Baal and this
really upsets Jezebel. That's why she's saying if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by
this time tomorrow basically saying I'm going to kill you. You know just as you've killed the
prophets of Baal that's what I'm going to you do to you. So when he hears this message it says there
and he went and when he saw that he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba which
belongeth to Judah and left his servant there but he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness
and came and sat down under a juniper tree and he requested for himself that he might die
and said it is enough now oh lord to take away my life for I am not better than my fathers. And I
love this story about Elijah this chapter because it makes him so relatable. You know the Bible
tells us that Elijah is a man of like passions so we know that you know he's a man like us but you
don't often see you know men of God you know these preachers these prophets you know when they're at
their low points you know obviously we do see that in other places but this is a particularly low point
for Elijah in his ministry and I like it not because he went through a low point but just
because of the fact that you know we've probably all been through low points you know if we live
long enough we're all going to have highs and lows in life and especially if you're in ministry
or just serving God you know fervently in a local church like so many of you are here
you know you're going to have highs and lows you're going to have low points
and you know we can look to the scriptures for comfort we can look to these other examples and
we can see even other men of God other you know servants of God who have gone through low points
in their life and make no doubt about it this is certainly a low point for Elijah when you're
requesting that God would kill you or requesting that you would die obviously you're going through
a low point and what I like about the story is that if you really kind of pay attention to some
of these details we'll see that what we often need in our low points is not you know some great
you know I hesitate to use the word charismatic maybe supernatural is the word I want to use
there some great powerful thing from God what we really want in our low points is just to know that
God is with us that God is near us that God you know is on our side and God is not done with us
and I think that's kind of where Elijah is in the story and if you pay attention you'll see that
but what I find interesting here is that you know he gets the death threat basically from Jezebel
in chapter number two saying hey I'm going to make your life like one of the lives of the prophets
and then it says in verse three that he saw that he arose and he went for his life so he's running
for his life he's running to get away from being killed but then after he goes just a day's journey
into the wilderness then he's praying that God would kill him so it's kind of like well which
is it Elijah you know do you want to die or do you not want to die because he's running for his life
and then a day later he's asking that he himself might die and you wonder why that is you know why
is it that he was at this point asking to actually be killed you know actually asking God to take his
life and you know I've thought about that and the only thing I can really come up with is that maybe
he's seeing his own shortcomings he's kind of seeing because he does say there at the end
I am not better than my father's right and it's kind of an interesting way that he that he put
that there he didn't say I'm worse than them he just said I'm not better than them. So I think
that Elijah was a very ambitious individual I think there was you know he wanted to accomplish
a lot of things for God and of course he did that obviously chapter 18 is a great testimony of that
there's other things that he did but he is a very ambitious person and so when he has this kind of
this this falter faltering here when he falters when he maybe loses faith a little bit when he
runs from Jezebel fleeing for his life maybe it kind of dawns on him that that might have been
a bit of a mistake now i don't know that it was necessarily a mistake but it could be that you
know maybe he wasn't being as bold as he was just the day prior right i mean think about the arc
here right because he's doing this great revival right he's turning the the hearts of the people
back to god he's slaying all the false prophets god is answering his prayer mightily by bringing
down fire from heaven this powerful miracle i mean this is a high point and then you know later in
that same chapter he calls you know he sees the rain coming he warns ahab to get back he outruns
ahab's chariot right he's just all these miracles are taking place so he's having this great
revival in his in his ministry he's at a high point and then just you know as soon as he hears
jezebel's death threat all of a sudden he's at a very low point and so i kind of wonder you know
why isn't he requesting to die in this in this you know just a day later after fleeing from her
maybe it's because he's kind of coming to the realization that he's lost a little bit of faith
he's very discouraged you know he's he's kind of come up short here i don't know exactly but
what i like about this is that whatever the reason he's asking to die god doesn't call him a crybaby
or a whiner or tell him to just suck it up you know god understands what he's going through
that he's having this real low point in his life and he actually comforts him right because he
goes and he lays down in that juniper tree he requests that he might die and then it says in
verse five and as he lay and slept under a juniper tree behold then an angel touched him and said to
him arise and eat he didn't say get over it you big baby you know quit whining you know be a man
you know and obviously that's not what he was doing necessarily but god understands that he's
at a very low point in his life that he's going through something and god is there to allow him
to rest to allow him to recover to recuperate and even you know helping him telling him hey arise and
eat and then it happens again and he looked and behold there was a cake baking on the coals and
a cruise of water at his hand and he did eat and drink and drink and laid him down again and the
angel lord came again the second time and touched him and said arise and eat because the journey
is too great for thee and what I want us to understand tonight is that when we go through
low things or low points in our lives when we go through hardships and difficulties you know that's
often when God is going to comfort us you know God is there to come alongside us even if you know
perhaps it's not the case here with Elijah but if it is even if it's the result of some kind of a
shortcoming or maybe even some kind of a sin you know maybe we've failed in some way when it comes
to our service for God you know God is not giving up on us God does not quit on us in fact God wants
to comfort us and encourage us and tell us to keep going God wants to strengthen us and help us to
get back in the saddle to get back in the fight and to not quit okay because there's obviously
a lot of work that still has to be done at the end of the chapter we already know he's saying you
need to go anoint this guy you got to go anoint this guy they're going to slay all these you know
prophets this and this is going to happen I've got more work for you to do but notice you know God
already knows that all needs to happen even at this point in the story he's but when he sees Elijah
in this in this low point in his life he's saying you know get some sleep here's a cake here's some
water have seconds you know and and we're going to get through this thing you know God has a lot
of work for all of us to do you know we can accomplish great things in our lives but the
fact is is that if we serve God we're going to have highs and lows there's going to be great
difficulties great trials that we go through we're going to have very low points in our lives we have
to understand that just because we're going through a low point God is not giving up on us
God's not angry with us you know i'm sorry to quote joe smyer's there right but you know
there's a grain of truth you know a little bit in that one well i better slow down and think about
i just said you know God isn't necessarily going to try to discourage you or you know God's not
going to kick you when you're down basically you know God wants to keep us in the fight and if you
would go over to second Corinthians chapter number one second Corinthians chapter number one i know
we all know these verses but i just want us to read them again so we can be reminded of the God
that we serve you know that God obviously is a God that wants us to work God is a God that wants
us to accomplish things and do things in life wants us to serve him but God also understands
that we're human and that we have faults shortcomings we're going to have low points
so the Bible says that God is a God of comfort if you look at verse three in second Corinthians
chapter number one it says in verse three blessed be the God even our father Lord Jesus Christ
the father of mercies and the God of all comfort who comforts us in all our tribulation that we may
able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted
of God so it's a little wordy there in verse in verse four but what he's saying you know God
comforts us when we go through tribulation God comforts us when we go through things
so that you know part of the reason maybe why God allows us to suffer and go through things
is so that we'll be able to comfort others that are in any trouble you know sometimes God will let
us go through things so we'd be a more empathetic person right so that we can you know extend that
same comfort to other people to know what you know other things that people might be suffering
right that we might be able to comfort them when you're in a trouble by the comfort wherewith we
ourselves are comforted of God you know God allows us to go through things God comforts us in our
low points so that when we see others go through those things or in low points themselves we can
encourage them and say hey you know I went through something similar let me share some scriptures
with you that comforted me during that time let me help you to get a perspective that you know I
gained for having gone through something right if you would go over to second corinthians chapter
number seven second corinthians chapter number seven the bible says in psalm 34 the righteous cry
and the lord heareth them and delivereth them out of all their troubles you know God delivers us when
we go through troubles the lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such
as be of a contrite spirit you know we have hardships and difficulties when we suffer losses
and setbacks in our lives God hears us and God delivers us and in fact the bible says those are
the times that God is nigh unto us and often the irony is is that when that's when we feel like God
is the most distant from us we often ask you know why am i going through this you know why is God
allowing this trial or this affliction or this low point to come my way you know we might start
questioning is it some sin that I've committed? You know, and maybe sometimes it is. You know,
that's always a good question to ask. You know, sometimes it's just life. You know,
that's just the way life is. Sometimes that's just the nature of being in ministry. Sometimes
that's just the nature of serving God. You're going to serve God. You're going to be fervently
serving God in a local church, you know, behind the pulpit, you know, in the pew, wherever it is.
You're going to stick with it. If you stick with it, you're going to go through things.
You know, you're going to see people betray. You're going to see people turn their backs on you.
You're going to witness attacks. You might even be the, the, the target of an attack.
And it might, you could feel sometimes when you go through those things,
like where's God in all this? You know, why isn't God, you know, stepping up and doing something?
Right? Well, you know, that's when actually God is the closest to us often is that when we go
through those things, we have that broken heart. When we're contrite, the Bible says God is nigh
unto them. The Bible says many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth them
out of them all. The Bible says the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a
contrite heart God thou wilt not despise. It just reminded me of Elijah tonight. He's
praying and saying, "I'm not better than my fathers, just kill me." He's just going
through this low point in his ministry. He's being chased down by that wicked Queen Jezebel
and receiving those death threats and he's ready to just call it quits. You know what?
That's when God comes to him and says, "Hey, arise, eat, sleep, eat some more and we're
going to get through this thing." God is with him through this entire journey that
he takes. If you look there in 2 Corinthians 7 verse 6, it says, "Nevertheless, God, that
comforts those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus." So God, again,
he comforts us in our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them that are in trouble
by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted. We just read that. But then here
in 2 Corinthians 7, you see that they were comforted by the coming of Titus. Titus coming
to them was a comfort. And maybe it's because Titus could say, "Hey, I know what you're
going through." Maybe he could comfort them because of some of the experiences that he
went through and the comfort that he also was comforted with. Go back, if you would,
to 1 Kings chapter 19. So again, he has this real low point in his ministry, real low point
after all this. Think about how bold he was. And he's sticking his finger right in the
face of Ahab and saying, "You're the one that's troubling Israel. He's slaying prophets.
He's doing all these great works. He's very bold, public, just putting himself out there.
And he's seeing great deliverance from God, great prayers answered. But then just so quickly,
he's in this low point. And this is just the nature of serving God. That's the way it's
going to be in the Christian life. And again, God is there to comfort him, to help him when
he's at his lowest. He draws nigh to him. And then we see that Elijah has something
in mind here. And I think from here on out, we kind of see what it is that Elijah really
needs. And I don't think it's a mystery to him what he needs. I think he kind of knows
what he needs. And that's what he's kind of doing here in the rest of the story. He's
kind of going after that. It says in verse eight, "And he arose and did eat and drink
and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Orib the mount
of God." Now Orib is Mount Sinai. It's just another, it's just an interchangeable name.
I'm not going to take the time to prove that, but that's just a fact. So he's actually
going back to Mount Sinai where God first came down on the mount and spoke unto the
children of Israel. If you remember in Exodus when they came out, that was one of the first
major things after the Red Sea crossing where millions of people heard audibly the voice
of God. There was the darkness and the lightning and the thunderings, like the presence of
God was on Mount Sinai or Mount Orib. So you can kind of see what's compelling Elijah to
go there. Well, he knows that's a place where God in times past, the times of his fathers,
had previously come down and his presence had been there. So to me it just kind of seems
like what Elijah really needs is not some great miraculous prayer answered. He doesn't
need God to just fix all his problems. What he's really after is the presence of God.
What he's really after is just being closer to God. I think that's his motive here. Now,
that might not be the proper interpretation of the scripture, but it's certainly an application
of the scripture. He's at a low point. God's comforting him, and he just says, "You know,
I want more of the same. I just want to draw closer to God at this low point when I'm going
through this difficulty." So he goes back to a place where God is known to have shown
up in a very powerful way, in a very significant way. It's interesting that he goes there to
that place because, of course, that reminds us of Moses. Moses is a man who really also
desired the presence of God, who obviously was used very mightily by God, very powerfully
by God. But also, I think more than anything, Moses, who is known as the friend of God,
was somebody that just more than anything just wanted to be near God, just to be close
to God himself.
I'll just read you from Exodus 33, verse 12. Now Exodus 33, you're kind of deep into
Moses's ministry. You know, we've already seen all of the plagues of Egypt, the Red
Sea crossing. I mean, so many miracles have taken place when you get to Exodus 33. And
it says in verse 12, "And Moses said to the Lord, 'See, thou sayest unto me, 'Bring up
this people, and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me.' Yet thou hast
said, 'I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.' Now therefore
I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I may know
thee, that I might find grace in thy sight, and consider this nation is thy people.'
And he said, so God responds and says, 'My presence shall go with thee, and I will give
thee rest.'
He's saying, 'Who are you going to send with me?'
And he's saying, 'I'll be with you.
I'll go with you.'
And he said unto him, 'If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.'
This always kind of gets me in the feels a little bit whenever I read this.
This is just the heart of Moses.
He just wants the presence of God.
He's saying, 'Look, if you're not with me, I don't want to do any of it.'
More than delivering these people, more than fulfilling some great work for God.
I just want to know that you're with me, God.
That's the heart of Moses, and I believe that's the heart of Elijah as well.
This is a place we all need to come to in our lives.
We at some point need to make sure that we desire God for ourselves in our lives.
A lot of the young people in this room need to come to a point in their lives where they
want a walk with God for themselves.
They want to know God for themselves.
They want to know the Word of God for themselves.
They want to serve God out of their own desire to serve God.
Not because their parents drag them here and they take them soul winning and they're kind
of maybe shuffled into these things.
Look, I'm not saying that's the case for every single young person, but it wouldn't shock
me if there's some young person in this room tonight who's just going through the motions.
Who's just going along, maybe even just counting down the minutes, the days, the years, whatever
so they can be out on their own and just kind of forget the things of God, forsake the church,
just forsake the things of God.
You're going to get to a place in your life, whether you like it or not, where you're going
to want God more than anything.
Hopefully it comes before some extreme low point in your life where some sin comes down
on your, or judgment comes down on your head.
We ought to desire God, we ought to want God even more than we want to do great things
for God.
Because obviously without the presence of God, we lack the power of God.
Jesus said without me, he can do nothing.
So we need to desire God in our lives.
Young people, and of course that goes for anybody at any age, you know, we should all
come to a place where we want the presence of God for ourselves, we want to have a walk
of God that's genuine and real for ourselves and no one else.
I think that's what Moses wanted, and I think, you know, that's what we see with Elijah.
He's going back to Orib, he's going back to Mount Sinai, because he just wants to draw
closer to God, and if you pay attention to some of these other details, I think you'll
see that.
Verse 9, "And he came forth thither into a cave and lodged there, and behold, the word
of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts, for the children of
Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets
with the sword, and I, even I only am left, and they seek my life to take it away."
So he's saying, I'll tell you what the problem is, I'll tell you what I'm doing here, it's
because I'm running for my life, and I'm scared, and I'm disappointed in other people, I'm
trying to do all this great work, and other people keep letting me down, they've forsaken
my covenant, they've thrown down my altars, they're forsaking God, you know, he's just
very frustrated, right?
And look, if you're going to serve God in any capacity, you're going to be, basically
you're going to be ministering unto people, I mean, that's what the ministry essentially
is, right?
We're preaching the gospel to the unsaved, we're preaching the word of God to God's people
trying to get them to change, trying to get them to, you know, write their ways and get
right with God and grow in the knowledge and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But guess what?
They don't always do that, do they?
They don't always get saved.
You know, you have this burden for them, you know, family members, friends, just even people,
just random strangers, you just have a burden for these people to get saved.
And it doesn't happen.
Sometimes, you know, if it's people, you know, it takes years, if ever.
And you know, it can feel like people just are disappointing you, letting you down.
You know, you serve people in the local church, you do things, you know, a lot of times it's
a thankless job.
A lot of times people do things that frustrate you.
Guess what?
That's just kind of the way life is.
That's the ministry.
I mean, with Elijah, you know, it got to the point where, you know, they're seeking his
life to take it away.
And he's, you know, really just wanting to know that God is with him, I believe.
That's why he's gone to where he has.
Look at verse 11.
"And he said, 'Go forth, stand upon the mount before the Lord.
And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great strong wind rent the mountains, and break
in pieces the rock before the Lord.
The Lord was not in the wind, and the wind went after the wind an earthquake, but the
Lord was not in the earthquake, and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not
in the fire, and there after the fire a still small voice.
And that's the title of the sermon by the way, a still small voice.
So God tells him, notice the way this plays out though in this verse, right, because God
says before he sends anything, right, before the earthquake, before the small voice, before
the fire, before the great strong wind, he tells him to go.
He says go and stand upon the mount before the Lord.
So the command comes before any of these, you know, elemental things take place, right.
But Elijah, if you notice in the story, doesn't get up and go right away, right, because it
says after the still small voice, which was the last thing, and it was so when Elijah
heard it, when he heard the voice, that he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out,
right.
So God tells him in the beginning, hey, go out and stand in the mount and then God sends,
you know, all these different things.
He sends the great strong wind.
He sends the earthquake.
He sends the fire.
Now, I don't know about you, if God sent any one of those things, I'd be like, what's this?
Like, this is pretty cool, right?
I'd run out there and say, what's God doing, right?
But here's the thing, Elijah has already seen all these things.
Elijah already knows what it's like when God sends fire from heaven.
He's already seen God break rock, you know, burn up rocks.
He's seen God do great powerful things.
It's already happened.
He's already seen these things recently.
He's already seen great miracles, the power of God.
He already knows it.
So he's not really compelled by any of these things to get up and do as God told him.
God said, get up, go forth, and stand upon the mount, right?
Get out of your cave, pick yourself up.
I want to show you something.
And when he doesn't, you know, and then God starts sending these things, but Elijah is
just kind of like, been there, done that.
I got the t-shirt, man.
Look, here's the thing.
If you serve God with your life, you're going to see some things.
You're going to experience some things.
And a lot of people already know that's the case.
You're going to see people get saved.
Look, you're not going to probably ever see fire come down from heaven.
Maybe.
I don't know.
We're not Pentecostals here.
But you're going to see things like the fire of God's Word make you fervent, light a fire
under you.
You're going to have a fire burning in your heart and your bones for the Word of God.
You've seen that.
You're never going to see a great strong wind that breaks the rocks and pieces.
But I know if you serve God and you go out with your Bible and you preach, you're going
to see God's Word, which is likened unto a hammer.
He says, "It's not my word like a fire and like a hammer that breaketh rock and pieces."
You go out with God's Word, you're going to see it do some things.
You preach God's Word, it's going to do some things.
You get up and preach the Word of God.
Heart preaching works.
You get up and you start preaching the hammer of God's Word.
It's going to break up some stony hearts.
You serve God, you're going to see that.
You're going to see a lot of these things take place.
And look, obviously the literal physical miracles that Elijah got to see are amazing.
But you know, it's no less a miracle when God, by the power of His Word and the Holy
Spirit moves in the heart of one of His children or some unsaved person, and they either get
saved or get rid of God.
That's just as amazing to me.
You know, it's always, you know, I'm never shocked by it.
I'm never surprised that it works, but I'm always amazed by it.
When you go out and you just preach the gospel and someone believes it and gets saved.
I'm going to say that's the power of God.
That's God's, you know, word working like that hammer breaking through and getting through
to that person.
You know, I don't have anything for the earthquake and I don't know what analogy to make there.
Right?
Maybe, you know, God will shake up your theology, right?
You'll see that.
You'll see people who have wrong doctrine, they're mixed up on things.
And then God's word gets a hold of them and just, you know, kind of slaps them around
and shakes them and gets them out of that Zionism, that, you know, pre-trib rapture.
It straightens them out on the homos or whatever, you know, we see that stuff.
There you go.
It's right there.
Right?
But look, what I'm saying tonight is that sometimes, sometimes, sometimes in life, even
after you've seen all those things, the only thing you really want to hear is that still
small voice.
You know, it's great to see God get people saved.
It's great to hear the preaching of God's word and see people's lives be changed.
It's great to get right doctrine and get straight down on these things.
But you know what?
Those things aren't always going to sustain us through the highs and lows of life.
What we really need and what we should really want is to hear God's voice and to know that
He's near and He's close.
Now, obviously, I'm not saying we're going to literally hear a still small voice.
If you're one of these people who says, "God told me," I don't know what to tell you.
You might be suffering from delusions of religious grandeur or something like that, to think
that God just speaks to you.
I've known my fair share of pastors, thankfully not Pastor Anderson, who's preached quite
the opposite, that have said such things.
"Well, you know, God told me," and then it doesn't work out or something.
Like, "Well, God did a psych move or something, right?
It didn't work out."
You know?
But God doesn't speak to you like that.
And here's the thing, you know, and whenever I bring that up, I like to park it on that
for a minute, because it bothers me when people have this holier-than-thou attitude, "Well,
God speaks to me.
Well, God told me," and not chapter and verse, just, you know, "God told me to do this and
go there and say that," and blah, dah, dah, dah, dah.
Like, there's so much holier that God speaks to them, but nobody else.
And look, I've known people that have sat under that kind of preaching, and they, you
know, they actually have, you know, some brain cells to rub together in their head.
They're not so high and mighty, they're thinking, "Well, God doesn't speak to me like that.
I've never, I've never heard God speak to me like you're saying He speaks to you."
So, you know, and unfortunately, sometimes those people, they're not, they don't just
see the force of the tree and say, "Well, it's because that person might be a little
crazy," or that person might think a little too highly of themselves, and what they actually
walk away doing is saying, what they walk away saying to themselves, "Well, I must
not be that special.
I must not be as holy as that person.
I must not be as important as so-and-so because God speaks to them, but not to me."
Okay, so don't mistake me tonight when I'm saying that we want to hear that still small
voice.
I'm not saying that if you listen very quietly, you're going to hear some literal voice.
You're not.
Okay?
How does God speak to us today?
It's through His Word, right?
"God, who in sundry times and diverse manners spake in times past unto the fathers by the
prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son," right?
The Lord.
And the Lord, Jesus Christ, is the Word, right?
So that's how God speaks to us, is through His Word.
"God, by the power of His Holy Spirit," might bring some Bible verses to mind.
But when is God going to do that?
Probably when you're listening.
Probably when you actually want to hear what God has to say.
That's when a Bible verse is going to come to mind.
Or maybe it's when you're reading your Bible.
You're just kind of going through your Bible and all of a sudden a particular verse just
really speaks to you.
And I mean there's been verses like that for me where it's just like, and look, I'm not
saying this is available to anybody.
I know there's been verses for me.
I'm sure many people could testify, those that regularly read their Bible, that there's
been times where they've read, you know, particular verses in the Bible that, you know, that verse
just kind of sticks with you.
It almost becomes like a theme verse, like the God, and I believe that's God speaking
to you.
I believe that's God trying to get something across, trying to show you something.
But I like the fact that he wants to hear that still small voice.
God says go out on the mount.
I want to talk to you about this situation that you're in.
And so he sends all these things, the earthquake, the wind, the fire, and Elijah says, "Nope,
I've already seen all that.
What I want to hear is that still small voice."
And the reason why it's a still small voice is because the only way you can hear a still
small voice is if it's close to you.
If I begin to whisper, you have to get closer to hear what I have to say.
In order to be heard by somebody in a still small voice, you have to have that proximity.
He could yell whatever it is he has to say, Elijah, from another mountain peak or something
like that.
The first time he came down to Mount Aurob, he had no problem being heard.
There was trumpets sounding long.
They heard the voice of God, millions of people, amazing story.
God can be heard.
Again, I believe that's why Elijah is here because he knows that's where God has shown
up.
That's where God has spoken before.
That's what I want to hear.
I want to know the presence of God, not just the power of God.
We serve God.
We'll see some things like Elijah.
We'll see great things done.
We'll see great works done.
But look, when you're going through that low point, that's not what we want.
That's not what we need.
What we need at those low points in our lives is to know that God is near and to have the
comfort of the scriptures, the God of all comfort speaking to us and comforting us in
our tribulations.
So he goes out and hears this and when Elijah heard it, he said, "That's what I've been
waiting for."
He wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entering of the cave.
And behold, there came a voice unto him and said, "It's about time.
What took you so long?
You know, wouldn't I tell you 10 minutes to get out here?
Why didn't you come out when I sent the fire?
Why didn't you come out when I sent the wind?
Obviously, you know, it says the Lord was not in these things, but no doubt they're
from God.
I mean, they're miraculous.
What, the earthquake wasn't enough to get you out here?
God's not surprised by any of this.
God knows what Elijah wants and needs.
He knows what he's after.
I think he did these things to get him to come out and when you think about it, what's
he really doing in the story?
Because he asks him the exact same question, right?
He says, "What do I start here?"
That's the same question he just asked, but he's already gotten an answer, right?
He asks him when he gets to Mount Orbe, he says, "What doest thou here, Elijah?"
And Elijah, you know, makes his case known.
He lets him know everything that's, you know, we read it.
You know, they're breaking down your altars, I'm the only one left, they're seeking for
my life, everyone's just turning on you, turning on me, I'm the only one left, I'm very jealous
for you, and it just seems pointless and hopeless and fruitless.
I don't know, you know, what else to do.
Very discouraging moment, but he tells him, "Hey, go out," right?
What he's trying to do here is trying to get Elijah to get a new perspective, right?
Because if he's just in this cave, you know, he's just kind of in there, he's just kind
of dwelling on his own thoughts, he's not seeing, you know, the big picture as it were.
He's just kind of in there and closed in his little cave or whatever, just kind of dwelling,
brooding, upset, you know, maybe getting a little bitter, but God, you know, brings him
out, draws him out by giving him exactly what it is that he needs.
That's still a small voice, lets him know, I'm still here.
I haven't left.
I haven't quit on you.
I understand you're jealous.
I know where you're coming from.
I get your frustration.
I understand you're at a low point.
Just come out of that cave.
And when he does, he asks him the same question, except now, you know, he's got a different
perspective.
Now he's kind of picked himself up, got out on the mount there, maybe some beautiful view,
maybe some panoramic scene out before him.
And he said, verse 14, "I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts because the children
of Israel have forsaken thy covenant and thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets
with a sword.
And I, even I only left and they seek my life to take it away."
So his attitude hasn't exactly changed, same answer, but at least now God has been able
to at least get him out of that hole that he's in, that depression that he's in, that
cave that he's in, and get him to maybe see things a little differently.
And it's not until after that Elijah hears that still small voice that God is now ready
to send him on his way and tell him to get back to work.
There's nothing wrong with going through a low point, folks.
There's nothing wrong with being disappointed.
There's nothing wrong with being hurt.
There's nothing wrong with feeling like it's futile and feeling like you're the only one,
feeling like nobody else cares.
God gets that.
It's natural.
It's going to happen.
Look, you're going to feel disappointed because people are going to disappoint you.
You're going to feel betrayed because guess what?
People are going to betray you.
You're going to feel these things because these things are going to happen.
What's God going to say?
Don't let that happen but don't feel that way about it.
That's nonsensical.
God lets us go through these things and when we go through these low points, that's when
he draws close and he gives us what we need most, scripture.
So if you're feeling distant from God, if you're feeling far away from God, I'd ask
you, are you seeking that still small voice?
If you're feeling like it's pointless, it's fruitless, if you're thinking about quitting
and throwing in the towel, let me ask you something, when was the last time you listened
for that voice?
When was the last, have you spent any time in your, Mount Orib, have you spent any time
in your cave?
I mean, the small, still small voice could have come, you know, at the juniper tree.
You know, God did send an angel and he helped him on his way, but it's not until, you know,
40 days later when he's up on some distant mountain that God finally speaks to him, because
then it's evident to God that that's what he really wants and that's what he really
needs, wants to hear.
He's sincere.
You know, we want an answer from God sometimes like this, you know, we think it's, you know,
God's Burger King or something.
My way, right away.
I don't know if that's, I haven't eaten Burger King in years, but is that still the thing?
I don't know.
Maybe it's a different motto now.
It used to be your way, right away.
Or is that Subway?
It doesn't matter, right?
But it's that mentality.
We want it now.
We want it our way as quick as we can.
That's not how God always works.
You know, God wants us to be patient.
God wants to, and God wants, will speak to us through his word when we're actually listening
because then we'll actually do what he wants us to do.
You know, we'll say, "Oh yeah, I really want to hear what God has to say."
But God knows our hearts.
And we can, you know, we can come to church and look the part and play the part.
You know, we can go through the motions, but God knows our hearts.
And if we're, you know, inwardly discouraged, disappointed, let down, defeated, I challenge
you tonight, go to your Oreb, wherever that is.
Find your Mount Sinai and get in this book and let God speak to you in that still small
voice.
It's there.
It might not be on this page.
It might not be on the next page.
It might not even be in that chapter or that book.
But if you stay in it long enough, because think about the picture, right?
He had to climb a mountain just like Moses did.
Moses, the friend of God whose face shown when he came back down.
Yeah, but first he had to go up.
We know a little bit about mountains around here.
You know, every morning, you know, I go for my little walk and I can see the mountains
and you know, that's, you know, that are off in the distance there from where I live.
And there's some, you know, Sabino Valley, it's a pretty tall, there's some tall peaks
up there.
And I think, you know, it'd be really cool to hike up there.
Then I think, would it be, you know, would it really, like you guys all went on that
Mount Humphreys, right?
I was like, man, I'd love to go do that.
And I'm like, but would you?
Because I've done that hike and it's like, that's a test of fortitude.
I mean, that's like, I'll tell you, it was cool when you got to the saddle, but that
was quite frankly, one of the most miserable experiences of my life.
Both times that I did it, you know, I dream of a day where I'll be able to do it and actually
enjoy the hike, right?
But you know, that it takes effort to get there and that, you know, this is what Elijah
did.
He's like, well, I want to get with God.
I want to go where God is.
Let me go to that mountain.
Let me climb up that mountain and wait for God's still small voice.
It took some effort on his part, right?
He even, you know, the angel even said the journey's too far for you here to eat this,
drink that, get some more sleep.
And then he goes in the strength of that meat that God gave him 40 days before he even gets
to the mountain.
So God hasn't spoken.
I don't feel like God speaks to me.
How much Bible are you really reading?
And even if you are, would you really do what God tells you to do?
If you actually read something in the Bible that you said, "Well, I've got to fix that."
Would you actually do it?
You know, Elijah had to get his perspective changed.
He wants to hear from God, and God says, "Okay, I'll speak to you in that still small voice.
I'll draw near.
I'll comfort you in this low time, but you need to come out here on this precipice.
You need to come out of that hole.
You need to come out on the mount here and let me show you something.
And I'm going to speak to you, and I'm going to give you some things to go do."
You know, you hear that still small voice, you know what it might say?
Like okay, it's been long enough, right?
You might hear it.
"You need to go to church.
They have church on Sunday night, too."
And I'm preaching to the crowd right now.
I'm preaching to the choir, excuse me, because it's Wednesday night.
"You need to go soul winning.
Read more Bible."
You know, those are the basics, right, the fundamentals.
But it might be something else.
You might get in some other passages and you walk away.
It's not verbatim, but it's kind of like God saying, "You need to be nicer to your
wife.
You need to be more patient with your children."
Or whatever it might be.
I don't know.
Maybe get that sin out of your life.
Maybe that's what God would end up saying if we actually sought him in his word, that
still small voice.
And maybe that's why a lot of people never bother to listen, because they don't want
to hear any of these things.
They don't want to hear, "Get that sin out of your life."
They don't want to hear, "Start soulening."
They don't want to hear, "Fix your marriage."
They don't want to hear, "Be nicer to your kids," or whatever it is.
They don't want to hear, "Go to church."
They don't want to hear, "Serve me."
They don't want to hear those things.
And they know that's what God's going to say, because that's what's in his word.
So I guess that's the difference between reading God's word and actually having it speak to
you.
When you get to the point where you're like, "Whatever it says, that's what I'll do."
You want me out on this mount?
As long as your voice is there, I'm ready to go.
What is it?
What do you want me to do?
You want me to preach?
I'll preach.
You want me to go?
I'll go.
Whatever you want, God.
Look, when you get to that place in your life, that's when God will begin to speak to you.
That's when God draws nigh.
And we know the story.
And he said, and he gives them his explanation after he comes out of that cave, and the Lord
said to him, "Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus.
And when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria, and Jehu the son of Nimshi,"
I'd love to preach about that guy, "shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha,
the son of Shaphat of Abel and Mahola, shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room, and
shall come to pass, that him that escaped with the word of Hazael shall Jehu slay, and
him that escaped with the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay."
Right?
So basically, he gets him out there, and he's finally listening.
He's got Elijah the Tencent, and once he's saying, "Go, go anoint this guy, go anoint
that guy.
Here's how it's going to be," he tells him to go.
But notice, he didn't start there.
He didn't catch him at the junior petri and say, "What are you doing laying down, man?
I've got people to anoint, I've got you to throw a mantle on this guy.
We've got kings to set up, we've got people to slay.
What are you doing?
It's time to get to work."
No, God said, "Well, here's my man, Elijah.
Here's my servant, here's my prophet, who's done this great work of God, and he's at a
very low point in his life.
Let me help him.
Let me feed him, nourish him, bring him up, give him a little bit of a break, and he'll
be back.
He'll be back stronger than ever.
Let me just help him through this time.
Let me help him get to a place where he'll actually listen to what I have to say."
That's what he wants, after all, is to hear my voice and to know that I'm near.
But, you know, when it's time to get to work, it's time to get to work.
You know, we're going through something, we're in a low point in our life, that's fine,
but at some point, we're going to have to, you know, get over it, and look, nothing will
help you get over it quicker than knowing that God's with you and God will see you through
these things.
Basically, you know, part of the lesson is, is that low points don't last forever.
That's why they're called low points, right?
You're low for a while, and that's just the nature of life.
You have these great, you know, mountaintop experiences, then you're down in the valley.
Just the way it works.
And look, God knows when we go through low points, God's okay with that, we just can't
stay there.
We don't need to draw an eye to God, go to John 14, because this is just such a great
passage.
So what's the point tonight?
What's the point of this sermon?
Is that we can hear the voice of God in His word, right?
That's kind of the illustration that's being shown us, you know, it's a literal story.
He's hearing the still, small voice.
God is speaking to him.
And God is speaking to him in a still, small voice, meaning he's near, close.
And he's close to Elijah at a time when, you know, maybe a lot of people would think,
well, I'm out of the fight, God doesn't want anything to do with me.
No, that's when God was actually his closest.
That's when God took the time to draw near to him.
And look, we have that same opportunity to hear that still, small voice through God's
word to, you know, to know the presence of God, not to just see and experience the power
of God, but to actually know the presence of God with us, that God is with us.
We quote it all the time, you know, "I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee."
Do we actually believe that though?
Do we actually believe the promise in James that if we submit ourselves unto God and resist
the devil, he will flee from you, and that if we draw an eye to God, he will draw an
eye to us?
Do we believe that?
We should, because that's the promise.
Look at John 14 verse 21, "I remember the first time this was shown to me early on in
my Christian life."
This is such a profound thing to think about, "He that hath my commandments and keepeth
them, he it is that loveth me."
How do you know you love God?
You keep his commandments.
You do what he says.
"Oh, I love you, God, yeah, you know, why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the things
which I command you."
"He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.
And he that loveth me shall be loved in my Father, and I will love him and will manifest
myself to him."
I mean, we're talking about something supernatural with God, I mean, this is something that not
everyone experiences.
Look, we're going to have a lot of great experiences that we share with anyone and everyone.
I mean, life in itself is full of experience, but not everyone gets to experience that.
That's not, you know, anyone can that wants to get saved and keep God's commandments and
draw an eye to God.
Look, they can experience, you know, the presence of God.
Obviously, it's not a literal physical manifestation, but it's just a knowing that God is near.
It's just a believing of the promises of God.
It's an assurance that comes to us through the Holy Spirit and through the Word of God
that God manifests himself to us.
And Judas saith unto him, not ascariot, that's definitely one you want to clarify, right?
Lord, how is it that thou manifest thyself unto us and not unto the world?
So again, that just speaks to my point that this is something that's reserved for God's
people, God's children.
What a powerful and amazing privilege we have to have God, in a sense, manifest himself
to us, to make himself known unto us, and to know the deep things of God.
Jesus answered and said unto him, "If a man love me, he will keep my words," just as he
said before, "and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and we will come
unto him, and make our abode with him."
Amazing.
You can draw an eye to God tonight.
And, you know, we looked at two examples, really.
We looked at Elijah mostly, but we mentioned Moses, right?
Two men that went to the same mount and drew an eye to God and heard God speak to him,
to them, face-to-face.
Moses won so much that his face shone, he had to put a veil over his face, he was called
the friend of God.
Elijah is hearing that still small voice, he goes on to continue to do great works for
God.
I don't think it's any coincidence those are the two guys at the Mount of Transfiguration,
abiding with Jesus, being manifest with him just as he's kind of saying here.
I mean that's how close they were with God, they were, that's a pretty, you're in the
inner inner circle at that point with the Lord when you're, hey I'm going to be transfigured
before my disciples, who's coming with me?
I bet a lot of hands went up in heaven, me, me, me, he's like no, I'll take Moses and
Elijah because those are two people I know that love me and I know that they love me
because they keep my commandments, they did the things that I commanded of them, they
were faithful in all their house, they served me, they loved me, they're going with me,
what an amazing privilege.
Well, you know, we might not get to experience that exactly, but my point is tonight, you
could get in God's word no matter how low of a point you are in life, no matter what
you're experiencing, whatever you're going through, whatever depression or just downheartedness
or disappointment you're experiencing, there is a God who is the God of all comfort that
wants to speak to you and he will if you'll actually go to hear what he has to say in
his word.
The answer might not come right away but you stay in this book and you're sincere, I promise
you, you will hear the words of God speak to you in that still small voice and you'll
have that comfort, you'll have that knowledge, that peace that comes from knowing that God
is with you.
Let's go ahead and close in a word of prayer.
Dear Lord, again, thank you for the great privilege we have in this life to draw an
eye to you, Lord, and to know the things of God and to hear you speak to us through your
word.
Lord, I pray you'd help us to avail ourselves of that, Lord, to take advantage of it and
to be people that love you and that do those things which are commanded of us.
We ask these things in Christ's name, amen.
All right, we'll go ahead and sing one more song before we are dismissed tonight.
Amen.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, please take your hymnals if you knew the words.
135, I know I am saved.
135, we'll sing this twice and be dismissed tonight.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, please take your hymnals if you knew the words.
135, I know I am saved.
135, sing it out now.
We are dismissed.