That cat, you know, is out there, I'm getting the cat, and hears me open the door, well, it's freezing, I don't care, I'm getting that cat, you know, and then, and then Gene sits there, and she said, come on, it's cold, I gave her a lecture, I said, you know something, this is what's wrong with the world today, nobody, you know, there's stuff that's wrong, but nobody's willing to fight for their principles, and what's right, and what ought to be done, and this is why the whole nation, why our country, why everybody, nobody has anything to fight for any longer, and I found something, you know, and that door is staying open, she's okay, and she piles on blankets, she goes to bed, but about two or three in the morning, I hear the crunching, this time I sneak out, I jam that thing in there, it hits on the other side, and then I go running back, shut the door inside, and then my dog, I hear it barking upstairs, took everything, you know, got a blanket up there, went down to it, got in a box, and I won, big time, but the, put that thing at, in my car, and I drove across the Santa Ana Riverbed, over across, you know, the other side of Norton Air Force Base, drove way out of nowhere in Nowhereville, and in there, and I looked at Cat, and I opened the thing up, and I let it out, and it gets out, trots off a few steps, looks at me, and just went off, but I, and I went back home, I got into bed, and I can remember about four -thirty in the morning, this, I get in there, my wife says, now she can go to sleep, but she's still a little awake, and I'll never forget it, she says, you great white hunter, you, and the, just showed how little she understood the triumph that had happened, but you know, the thing is, that thing had hung around, and it mocked you, and it ridiculed, and it ate up everything, and it beat up everything, and it just, we just let it go, and let it go, and let it go, until something that's stacked inside, and all of a sudden, the determination, that's it, that's done, that, this is what Paul is saying, in a sense there, he's looking there, and he says, until something happens within you, he says, you reckon it dead, but he says there, you've got to, something's got to stomp within you, where the sin behavior, the nature, the character, the attitude, the vocabulary, whatever it may be, that it's, it's just like the cat, our sin nature, it struts around, it mocks us, ridicules us, you know, as human beings so often, that's what sin does, breaks us down, we'll never get along with it, never fits in, but it's always lurking around, sort of a thing, just mocking, reigning, ridiculing, and here Paul, he looks there, and he says, listen, if you want to know a victory in your life, there's got to be that sense of battle, you know, we'll go to war, on the other side, and we will lay our life on the line, in war, we will do many things, that are worthy things, so where whatever we got to do, we'll do it, we can put our foot down a lot of ways in our life, but Paul says, until you do that over sin, I think one of the reasons the Christian world today is in as much trouble as it is, is we have given up on sin, we just, we just live with it, we just tolerate it, it ridicules, and mocks, and hangs around all of our lives, so many times, so easily, and we, we kind of took a few shots at it, we were upset, and Lord, take it away, and Lord, I'm sorry about this, and we still let it dance around, it still has a place in our life, we can go on for years, and we can be angry at our wife, angry at our husband, we can have tempers, we can have desires, we can have a lust, we can have, you know, something towards pornography, but well, I mean, it embarrasses me, and it, yeah, and I, God, I wish you could take this stuff away, and I, and the way I am towards my children, or the way I am in this area of my life, or that, we look at it, and we, we, you know, we, we get upset, and we want to shoo it away, and it, and when it ridicules us, and it mocks us, but oftentimes, nothing rises up to where we know what it is to be up all night long, before God, weeping over it, or longing, or going to battle, Lord, this is not going to reign in my life, I wanted something transformed within me, you tell me it's so in heaven, I want it on earth, let not sin, therefore reign, this is this concept, that, that we look there in the Christian life, I think one of the reasons, the way the church today, we, we're so lukewarm, we're so user -friendly, we just kind of given up, and oh, well, let's just all get together, and love God the best we can, but we don't talk much about sin, and going to battle against sin, and really dealing with sin, because we've almost given up on the topic, but here the Bible has, and then the Christian, the true Christian should never do that, I should be one, that with a great longing, if I want real victory in my life, that I reckon the old man to be dead, Jesus did an awesome job, to get the job done, to do such a thing, that I could be forgiven, and I could, then my sin could be reckoned, and it ought to be an awesome thing to my heart, that I can enjoy the benefits of it, but it ought to be the noblest battle I would ever be in, the one, if I say, oh, if man, if all go through this, to fight for my marriage sometime, when it's in trouble, or to help this, or to go to the ends of the earth for this, or to go to put my life on the line here, to fight this, how much more ought I be willing to be somebody, that my foot goes down, and I say, this is not going to rain within me, and I think until we look at it this way, we'll be victimized by it, and mocked by it, it'll hang around, it lurks around, and it ridicules, and mocks, and beats us down, but then he goes on, interestingly enough, and now with his next word, verse 13, he says, neither yield you your members, now isn't this something, first he says, reckon yourself to be dead, and he said, now he comes back, and he says, just to hit it again, he says, let not sin therefore rain, I said, now yield, it's how you, you ever been to a carnival, or something, where you go, and they give you one of these mallets, and you know, a head little pops up, and you're supposed to hit it, and then it pops up another, you know, you're just banging, you know, all over, you know, trying to see how many times you can hit it in a minute, or something, there's these little games, it's like, you got it there, but as soon as you hit it down here, it's going to pop up, it's going to find another place, where, where it can work, and then you knock it down here, and it finds another place, and you, and the guy, they're just going to hit it once, as if sin, I'm just going to take a shot at it, if it doesn't come back, great, but here, the concept here, almost a lifelong battle, potentially, there of somebody that is determined, I'm going to reckon it dead, number one, number two, I'm going to go to, to battle with it, with all my heart, it is not going to reign as king in my life, I don't care how I've got to sit before God, what it is to weep, and to pray, that God help my marriage, help my home, help my spiritual life, my walk, I'm toying and tinkering with it, instead of, with all of the, my heart longing for victory, and when I long for it, as I would long for anything worth it in this life, this is the greatest longing in all the world, and then I, and then I'm not, and then he goes on, he says, neither yield, neither yield to it, first you reckon it dead, then you don't let it reign, he says, neither yield, and you're wondering there, what do you have to do to finish it off, you remember, I remember as a kid, they used to have these monster movies, you know, that always had a sequel, you know, it was like the blob, if you ever remember that, I remember that as a kid, have you ever, you know, this Martian ooze or something gets in, lands in the planet, and it starts rolling around, and everywhere, it just gets bigger and bigger, and then because it's destroying everybody and everything, they got to try to stop it, but they couldn't stop it, and the blob just gets bigger and bigger, it's rolling over houses, consuming, you know, anybody and everything, as they did this back in the 50s, or you know, something, and somebody accidentally sprayed it with some, something cold, and they realized, cold stops it, and so they get, you know, the whole world comes down on this blob, and you know, to freeze the thing, and this huge battle, this, the whole movie is trying to freeze this blob, and then finally they freeze it, and then the biggest planes in the world come and pick this thing up, and they're taking it to, you know, the North Pole, and dropping it there, or something, but just as the plane takes off, and at least this little teeny drop of ooze goes down, and you realize, sequel, you know, sort of a thing, I mean, it's like, it's coming back, there's another movie already in the works, you know, and, and here this, I mean, Paul has this concept here, in the sense there of a battle that, yes, the sin is there, but you learn to fight it, and if you learn to fight it with all the heart, yes, there'll be sequels until you go to heaven, but if you learn the formula, then you just don't let it have a place.