When Hope Is All Gone, Help Is on the Way — Greg Locke

I leaned over just a moment ago between the two specials and said, this is a wonderful, wonderful Wednesday night crowd. And I praise the Lord for you being here. And it's an encouragement to me to see that your pastor is encouraged.

When I was at the Ambassador Baptist College, they taught me, and well so, and I've lived by that for the past few years that we've been in evangelism, that when you go to a revival meeting, you do not gauge the success, if you will, of a revival meeting by how big the offerings are, by how big the crowds are, by how many people are saved, by how many converts are baptized, or anything like that, by how many times you preach.

Nothing like that whatsoever. But I was taught in Bible college that you gauge the success of a revival meeting by if the pastor is encouraged when you leave or not. Because if the pastor is not encouraged, but rather discouraged, you've done a pretty sorry job as an evangelist.

But if you can encourage the pastor who knows his people, you see, you might come forward and I might think to myself, wow, that's wonderful. But the pastor knows you, he sees you on a weekly basis. He knows those in the congregation who are visitors.

He knows those who are faithful, those who are not. And so if I can be an encouragement and I can uplift his hands as they did Moses in the Old Testament, then I feel that I have done a successful job as an evangelist.

And so although I'm here for the entire flock to preach, I'm here to encourage your pastor specifically, because it's often well been said that you are the flock, your pastor is the shepherd, and the evangelist is the sheepdog that comes in once a year, bites everybody on the ankles.

Well, I appreciate your pastor allowing me to come here this week. I enjoyed my time in May. I've enjoyed my time this week. You've been faithful to the meetings. We appreciate that so very much. You've been responsive.

The Spirit's been good. And I praise the Lord for it. Let's get right into our sermon tonight. I was in the center today asking the Lord to give me something fresh and anew. And I saw a few things from Mark 5 that I've never seen before.

And certainly the message to go right along with the last song that was just sang, God's Refiner's Fire. New message to me. New message to you. Hoping to be a blessing. Let's stand, please, out of respect for God's Word.

Mark 5 and the Three Hopeless Situations

You will notice there are 43 verses in this chapter. Now, don't get afraid. I'm not going to read all of them. As a matter of fact, by way of a text, we're only going to have one verse. But I probably will preach through just about all 43 verses.

You say, Brother Locke, that'll take a long time. I'd like to remind you, we went through four chapters last night in 45 minutes, so I can believe we can handle 43 verses, all right? Mark 5 and verse 1 will be our text tonight.

Mark 5 and verse 1. The Bible says, "...and they," that is a reference to Jesus and His disciples, "...and they came over unto the other side of the sea into the country of the Gadarenes.". And tonight, I want to preach a simple sermon entitled, When Hope is All Gone, Health is All the Way.

Thank you very much. You may be seated. Let's bow our heads in hearts and pray. And let's ask the Lord to bless our time together tonight. When Hope is All Gone, Health is All the Way. Now, Lord, I pray tonight that You would help me as I preach the unsearchable riches of the Word of God.

And Father, I plead the blood of Jesus Christ tonight and claim the victory that Your Bible promises that we have. And I pray, dear Lord, that You would help me as I preach the Word of God. You would help these, my friends in this congregation, as they listen to the Word of God.

And Lord, tonight, as I've often prayed, I often pray and plead with You that You would make me just a little bit like liquid and pour me out upon this congregation. And Lord, I don't want to come with man's wisdom and with powerful speech.

Father, as the Apostle Paul said, I want to come in the demonstration of the power, the fullness of the Spirit of God. And so, Lord, tonight, I pray that You would help me as I preach. Lord, You've been with us tonight in our singing and the choir and our fellowship.

Lord, we've enjoyed our time together. And Father, tonight, I pray that around the Word of God, we would have a very, very profitable time. That You would do for us tonight what my sermon cannot do. And Father, I'll be careful to give You the praise.

And I know, based upon Your Word, that You will and that You want to do great things. And so, I'm asking that You will, and I pray it in faith, trusting that You will. And I ask it tonight in Jesus' name, Amen.

A Nation Surrounded by Hopelessness

Just yesterday, I was watching the news over in the trailer and found out, and you heard, I'm sure, that at the Martin Luther High School there over in East New York, there was a young man who walked into a public school and began to shoot up a few people.

And thank God, nobody was killed that day, but several people were injured. I'm sure you heard today just in your state, in a neighboring town just a few hours from here. It was a madman who walked into a law school and blew three people out into eternity, one of them being the dean of the school, one of them being one of the school trustees, and one of them being a student, and several other people were injured.

No doubt everybody in this room will remember with antennas going off in your mind just a few years ago when we had Columbine. Just a few years ago when we had the deal over in Arkansas. And it seems now that if you begin to read the papers, you'll find out that probably every state in America is in a mess.

I just got back from Ghana, West Africa, and I'm telling you there's things over in Africa that I won't share with you, that I won't take time. And I talked to the missionary, and he told me some of the things that he was struggling with.

And I talked to pastors all over this country and around the world, and they tell me of the struggles and the temptations and the trials and the hardships that they have in their churches. Did you know, ladies and gentlemen, statistically, now you can make a statistic, say anything you want to, but statistically, did you know that we as professing evangelical Christians, if you will, have a 75 divorce rate in our churches?

In churches, we have a 75 divorce rate. And I think to myself often, I wonder why in the world America is so messed up. I mean, why are our marriages so shaky and so rocky? Why are our kids serving the devil?

Why is it that it seems like there's no hope at all in America? You see, I pray for revival every day. I preach about revival just about every night or every week of my life. And I do believe, as I said last night, I believe it wasn't a sermon, that it is not that God will revive America.

That's not the point. The point is that God can revive America, but I'll be honest with you, you start reading the magazines and you start watching television, you start flipping through the sunlight, you start looking at the computers and you start reading and you start studying, and I'm telling you, you're going to come out with a pretty bleak and dismal picture of the country that we're living in.

You think back to September 11, everybody in this room immediately knows exactly where you were and what you were doing that day. I was at the Carter Grove Memorial Baptist Church in Hazel Green, Alabama, just a little tiny place.

I was up that morning getting some things done in the office. It was probably about 9 o 'clock or so, and I didn't know anything about it. I hadn't turned the TV on that morning. I hadn't listened to the radio.

About 10 o 'clock came, and then about 10 .30 came, and by then it had long since happened. And so I was in the office doing some things, and I was wondering that morning on the telephone why everybody I talked to just seemed kind of serene, you know, kind of bleak.

And I thought to myself, man, nobody's happy about anything today, you know. And so then I called my mom, and I was talking to her just happy-go-lucky, and she said, you hadn't watched the news this morning, had you?

And I said, what do you mean watched the news? She said, go back to the trailer. I'm telling you, I went back to the trailer, and I turned it on. And to my amazement, I saw those airplanes flying to those buildings.

And immediately I thought about my brother that lived just about 35 miles or 45 minutes or so away from those very powers in the military. And I thought to myself, I wonder how he is. Tried to call him.

You couldn't get through on the line. And I remember that night, I thought there'd be about three people show up. And I'm telling you, they packed the doors of that church, and we had a prayer service, and everybody in the entire church came forward.

And we got on our face, and we wept and swallowed and cried like a bunch of babies over our nation. And I preached that night from Psalm chapter number 11, where in the world do we go from here? And we'll never forget the tragic event of September the 11th.

And I'm going to be honest with you, it doesn't take a rocket scientist and a brain surgeon to figure out that there are some things in America that just seem. I remember about a year and a half ago, I was preaching in this very state.

I'll not tell you where, because it was rather close to here. But I was preaching in this state, and the pastor and I went over to a man's house. And he wanted me to talk to this man about the Lord. You know, sometimes an evangelist comes to town, and they think that he can say things differently than the pastor.

And so, every evangelist that's ever been in that church has been over to this guy's house, suddenly to the Christ. And I'm telling you, he's the reprobate I've ever seen once. I remember I walked in the house, and he was sucking on his cigarettes, watching his wicked television programs.

And he didn't even care. I mean, the smoke was just abyllum. I mean, that television just trusted 90 miles an hour, but he didn't turn it down. He didn't turn it off. And I said, sir, I'd like to talk to you about the Lord.

I said, would you mind if I walk over and turn the television off? He said, that'd be fine. I walked over and turned it off. Put the little flames out. You know, it wasn't smoking so bad anymore. And I started talking to him.

I pulled my little pocket leaf Testament out, started giving my testimony, started telling him about my life. And you could see a tear trickle up at that man's eye and dribble down his face. And you could tell he was trying to hold it back.

And so I began to talk to him. And I got to the bottom root of the whole issue. I know why he acted the way he did. I know why he wouldn't listen to what any of the preachers said. You see, about two or three years earlier, he had a real, real bad run-in with his wife who would steal his wife.

They were not divorced. They were separated. And she removed from him their two little boys and one little girl. And that broke his heart. He blamed it on God. And he didn't want to have anything to do with God, the church, the Bible, the preacher man, or anything else that even smelled of remission.

So I remember I looked at that man and I was talking with him. And I said, sir, and I called his name. I said, would you mind that before we leave, I said, would you mind if I got on my knees right here beside this couch and prayed for you and your son?

And I'll never forget in a million years when he said, he said, Billionaire, he said, I wouldn't mind a bit if you did that. He said, but I don't really see what the need is. He said, just to be honest with you, I believe my family situation is just a little bit too hopeless for God to think.

The Demon-Possessed Man in Mark 5

And you know, if you study Mark chapter number five, everybody preaches on the maniac of Gadare. And I'm going to mention it tonight. But did you know, ironically enough, in my study today, I saw something I've never seen before in these 43 verses.

Did you know there are three situations in one chapter? We always hear about the one, the guy who was crazy and folded his mouth and went around naked every day. But we always hear about the one. But did you know in 43 verses of Mark chapter five, there are three hopeless, gizmo and horrible situations.

And Jesus stepped on the scene and took care of every single one of them. I want you to look at your Bible as number one, if you would, please. Mark chapter five, go to verse number two, would you? Mark chapter number five and verse number two.

If you're taking notes for sake of an outline, I want you to see number one. The first situation was hopeless because of the devil. It was hopeless because of the devil. Look, please, in verse number two.

And when He, that Jesus, was come out of the ship, immediately, if you study the Gospel of Mark, you will find out that 72 times in 16 chapters, the word immediately or straightway is used. It is a book of expedience.

It's a book where Jesus got things done very rapidly. And so it says, when He was come out of the ship immediately, there met Him out of the tombs. A man with an unclean spirit had His dwelling among the tombs, and no man could bind Him.

No, not with chains. Why? Because He had been often bound with fetters and chains. And the chains had been plucked asunder by Him. And the fetters broke it in pieces. Neither could any man tame Him. Verse five, and always...

Notice that word in your Bible. And always, night and day, He was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cunning Himself with stones. You know the story very well. Matter of fact, the last time I was here, the first service I preached on a man who got the devil preached out of him.

And if there was ever a man who heard a message that got the devil out of him, it was this man right here. Here's a crazy lunatic of a man. Now, there's several things I do know, but I'll be honest, there's several things I don't know about this gentleman.

I don't know, number one, how old he was, and I don't think it really matters. I do not know, number two, how long he had the demon, and I don't think it matters either. But I do know, by way of context, that he had him for a long time.

Say, preacher, how do you know? Because according to the Bible, everybody knew this man to be this way. Everybody had washed their hands. He had been kicked out and ostracized from society, and nobody wanted to be around him whatsoever.

And you can see that town thinking to themselves, you know what, there's no hope for that dirty rat right there. Let me tell you a few graphic things about this man. Here was a man, the Word of God says, was filled, not with one, not with a hundred, study your Bible, but at least a thousand demons.

And more than likely, it was a lot more than that because the Bible says whenever the demons came out of his body and went into the home, the Bible says there were 2 ,000 of the swine. 2 ,000 kings. And so here's the man.

Every thought, every action, everything he did, every place he went was completely dominated, controlled, directed, and dictated by one person. It was the very man himself. It was the devil. And he was under the dominance, and he was under the control of the devil until Jesus Christ stepped on the scene.

But you see, the devil made this man do some very, very interesting things. Can you imagine a man who had thousands of demons in and out of his body, controlling his mind, controlling his actions? Luke tells us that this man ran around, excuse me, but it's what the Bible says, he ran around naked.

He ran around with no clothes on. Profaned himself in front of the men, in front of the women, in front of the little boys and the little girls, and people couldn't even go down to Walmart and over to Kroger's and down to Ryan's and down to Shoney's because they were scared that man was going to come streaking, running through the streets naked, and they didn't know what in the world they were going to do about it.

And so they got 9 -1 -1 and they called the sheriff and they said, Sheriff so-and-so, you're going to have to do something to incarcerate this wicked man. And so they put fetters on his legs. They put shackles and fetters on his hands.

They put a muscle on his mouth. And they threw him in the drunk tank. They threw him in jail overnight. But by the power of the devil, he would break those chains, he would break those fetters, bend those bars, and go streaming and flying like a wild lunatic, a wild crazy man back up into the mountains.

And the Bible says he lived in the mountains and in the tomb. I don't know about you, but I don't have a whole lot of friends that live in cemeteries. And if you've got a bunch of friends that live in graveyards, I'll tell you one thing you need before tomorrow morning comes up, friend, I'll tell you what, you need some new friends is what you need.

If you've got friends that enjoy hanging around death and enjoy hanging around darkness and blackness, you need some new friends. This guy right here had no friends. He was up there all by himself. He'd jump up on a gravestone and the moon would be full and he'd howl like a wild coyote on the back side of the desert somewhere.

He'd foam at the mouth and had long, greasy, stringy hair. His beard was all full of mucus and I'm telling you, he'd had a bath in weeks and months. And I mean, he sunk to high heaven and his eyes were bloodshot.

He was the most wicked, vile, ungodly man in all the countryside. And so I can imagine, they know all the trustees and all the people of the county got together one morning over a cup of coffee and they said, you know what?

We're going to have to figure out how we're going to help this man. And so his chef said, well, you know, I've already tried to incarcerate the dirty bum and he can't get incarcerated. He's got some kind of weird supernatural strength.

You know, he goes into a phone book. He's got an answer on his chest and he can break through the bars and all that kind of stuff. And so he's got some kind of Superman strength and so I don't think there's anything I can do.

And if anybody's open for suggestions, I'm willing just to take a few. And so all of a sudden, Dr. Bottlestop would raise his hands and he says, you know what? I bet if we put that guy on Ritalin, that'd help him a little bit.

I bet if we got him a prescription and we took him down there to the, you know, the psycho ward, I bet if we put him in a straitjacket for a little while, I think we could probably help him. And he said, well, Dr. Bottlestop or Mr. Psychiatrist, if you think you can help him so much, why don't you go out there and try to diagnose his problem?

And so I can see Dr. Bottlestop where he gets his little glasses together, you know, and he gets his little suit and tie and he gets all fit, shine and polyestered up and he grabs his little fold up couch.

You know, this guy can't talk to anybody unless they're laying down. And he took it up under his arm and he started climbing up the mountain. And finally he gets up to the top of the mountain and he pulls out his little pen and he pulls out his little paper and he makes sure he gets his little watch just right.

You know, those fellas get paid by the hour and they're not going over time, that's for sure. And so he lays his little watch down and he says, now, Mr. Crazy Man, there's one thing I don't want you to do and that's have one of your little spells.

Don't spit on me. Don't salivate on me. I don't want you to say anything stupid and I want you to just sit there on that little couch and tell me all of your problems. And I know Mr. Wild Man, everybody thinks you're crazy, but you know what?

It's probably because your daddy used to be a smoker when you were younger. You know, you probably got that smoke still in your head or something like that. I bet your mama spanked you one or two times when you was a kid and it probably warped your mind.

And I know a bunch of kids that had a good warped mind, that's for sure. And you know what? You know, your daddy probably said something to you one time or maybe your Sunday school teacher said something that really upsets you one day.

And so I understand why you act like this. And I understand why you fall with the mouth and why you run around naked and why you act like a crazed lunatic. And I know the rest of the world doesn't understand this, but let me just write you a little prescription.

And I believe I can put you on some medication that'll help you. And so the guy said, Mister, I'll tell you what, I won't help more than I can see straight. And if you think you can help me, let's do it.

He picks up that cot, puts it under his arm. He walks down hand in hand with that psychotic and they take him over to the store. And I mean, they seal him up on every kind of drug you can imagine. He takes a pill in the morning.

He takes a pill at night. He takes a pill to eat. He takes a pill to keep that down what you just ate. He takes a pill to go to sleep, wakes up at three in the morning and takes another pill so he can go back to sleep.

And I mean, he's popping pills for about three weeks. And all of a sudden, a crazy man's spell comes on him again. And he realizes, hey, Dr. Bottlestopper couldn't help me at all. So they pull that big group back together.

And he says, listen, I've opened for suggestions. Dr. Bottlestopper and the Ritalin crowd couldn't help him. Somebody's going to have to figure out something to do with this man. So all of a sudden, the grandmaster of the Masonic Temple raises his hand.

He says, you know what? I bet I can help him. I bet if I can get him up there to sell a bunch of candy for crippled children, I bet that would help him. That would get his mind off of his problems and get his mind off foaming at the mouth and running like a naked man.

And if we can get it done at the stoplight to stop people and wear a Shiner's hat, then I think that'd probably do some good. And so he puts his little apron on. He gets his little billy goat and he comes riding up there.

And he's got his funny little trash can hat on with a broom sticking up the side of it. And he walks up there and he says, now, Mr. Crazy Man, don't have one of your little spells. He says, don't have one of your little fits.

He said, we in the brotherhood down on the bottom of the mountain want you to know that we want you to become an honorary member of the Masonic Temple. What we'd like you to do is come in there and go through all your little rituals and all your little routines and all your little religions and put a little sword to your chest and all that kind of stuff and wrap a little mask around your head.

You know what I'm talking about. Some of you probably been in that before. And so you go through all this little ritual and you go through all this little routine. And he said, well, OK, I'll try. And so they get down there and he gets a little Masonic Bible and they give him a little Masonic ring.

And they tell him one day when he dies, they're going to toss the grain on either side of the grave. And they go put him in a Masonic grave. And they talk about him being a member of the brotherhood. And they pat him on the back and they say, now you're a Mason.

But all of a sudden, about 24 hours later, he throws another fit and he goes nuts and he goes running through the Masonic temple and tears everything they got up. And they said, hey, pal, we don't want you in here anymore.

So they couldn't help him either. And so the sheriff gets back down there and he calls another meeting one morning. He said, fellas, I'm open for suggestions. Dr. Bottlestopper couldn't help him and the grandmaster of the Masonic Lodge couldn't help him.

We're going to have to have some help sometime. And so all of a sudden, this little squirrely figure stands up in the back and says, my name is Norman Vincent Peale. And I do believe I can help this fella because I wrote a book on the power of positive thinking.

And if we can get this guy not to focus on his problems, rather to focus on everybody else's problems, we can make this guy realize that life is worth living. And so Norman Vincent Peale and his bad toupee goes crawling up to the top of the hill and he walks over there and he says, Mr. Crazy, naked lunatic man.

Now, don't have one of your spells and don't jump out on me and don't lash on me. And by the way, here's the man the Bible says cut himself with stone. Don't we call that sadomasochism? Here's the guy who cut his body.

He was bleeding like a stuck pig. He was naked. He foamed at the mouth, long, greasy, stringy, nappy hair. Here is a crazy man. And so Mr. Peale says, well, you know what? You probably had a bad childhood.

You know, you probably have bad dreams at night. You probably have to still sleep with a nightlight. Do you have that kind of problem? And he probably bowed his head and said, you know what, Mr. Peale?

I do still have that problem. Although I live up here in darkness and I live up here in the dungeons and the tombstones. I'll tell you, to be honest with you, really, I still have to have a nightlight, you know?

And you know, I think really what my problem is, Mr. Peale, is, you know, up until the time I was 27 years old, I was a bedwetter. And so because of that, I've got a warped mind. And so I'm not able to think right.

And so that's why I run around naked. And that's why I'm wicked at the day and wrong. And that's why I'm undaunted. And so Mr. Peale says, now, listen, don't focus on your problem. Focus on what's wrong with everybody else.

See the good in you. See the inner self. See how wonderful you are. See what a great, dynamic person you are. Look into the mirror. Give yourself a big cheesy grin and say, Mr. Wild Man, there's nothing wrong with you.

It's the world that has the problem, not you. And so for a while, it seems real good. He reads through the book, Norman Jensen Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking. And it seems like that power has been real positive in his life.

And all of a sudden, about two weeks goes by, and the wild man has another crazy thing. And I mean, he just gets to foaming at the mouth, rips his clothes off again, runs around like a wild man, and a lunatic.

And the crowd says, listen, there's no hope for this guy at all. We don't want him at church. You can't keep him in jail. He can't keep a job. His family don't want him. There is no hope for this man.

So they call another council meeting. And they get around in there, and everybody gets together this time. They're all putting their noggins together. They said, you know what? This man probably needs a good dose of religion.

This man needs something to focus in on that's kind of God-like. And so one of these liberal, modernistic, New Evangelical preachers stands up, and he says, you know what? I believe I can help this guy.

I believe down at my church, we've got just what he needs. And so it's okay if you think you can help him. And so, you know, he goes back to the house, and he throws back his little Don Juan suave hairdo.

He gets his nice little outfit on, and you know, those guys don't believe in red ties. And he gets his little backless collar on, and he gets his little nice, pretty cross necklace, and he puts it around his neck with his nice little bracelet, his little anklet, you know.

And he goes walking up there with his NIV Bible, and he walks up to the top of the hill, and he sees that little crazy man over there, and he says, hey, Mr. Crazy Man, I noticed you don't have any clothes on.

He said, well, don't that make you feel bad? Because most of the people in my church don't have any clothes on either, and so you'll fit in real good at our Baptist Church. And he says, so you can just come on down, and you can just kind of sit right in.

You can kind of sit in the back row. Everybody else does, and so it's not a real big deal. And there's not a real lot, a whole lot of red hot preaching down there. You know, you can live any way you want to, and you can do what you want to, act like you want to, run around with who you want to.

You can still holler and scream and act like a wild animal for all I care. It doesn't make any difference, but I do believe if I could get you down there, I'll tell you what. How about on Sunday morning, you come walk in the aisle?

And he says, when you walk the aisle, I'll put you through the baptismal dunking booth, and I'll dunk you down. He said, I bet the whole town will show up to see you get baptized. He said, I'll tell you what let's do right now.

He said, how about let's get down on our knees? Would you like Jesus to save you? Oh, I'm telling you what, sir, I'd love for somebody to do something for me. I need some help. I'm tired of not getting any sleep at night.

I'm having all kinds of problems, and I'll tell you, my life just seems like it's hopeless, and I don't mean to have these fits, and I don't mean to have these spells, and I don't mean to run around like a drunken lunatic, and like a wild animal with no clothes on, and so I need some kind of a help.

And so he says, well, just repeat after me. Dear Lord, dear Lord, I know I'm a sinner. I know I'm a sinner. Come into my heart and save me. Come into my heart and save me. In Jesus' name, amen. In Jesus' name, amen.

And so the preacher goes back down to his nice little liberal church, and on Sunday morning, all of a sudden, guests are on the back row. Mr. Naked Man comes walking up, and he comes walking all the way down the aisle, and the preacher takes him by the hand, and he says,.

And so they take him up there, and some of the other churches across town put out early, because they heard he was going to get baptized. And so they all come in there, and they put that old wild, stringy, greasy hair up in that banditry, and they dip him down, and everybody shouts to victory, and everybody's all the way so excited.

He says, now, if you just learn to give a little bit of money in the offering plate, and if you just learn to sing every now and then when we open up a hymn book, and we don't open the Bible much around here, but if you learn just to grunt every now and then when I say something good from the newspaper, then you'll fit in just right.

And I do believe a little reformation will help you. And it did for about six weeks. And he sits there in that church, and every time the plate came by, you know, he had a few nickels and dimes that he scratched up out of the graveyard.

Somebody left when his visitors were dead kinfolk. And so he picked it up, and he threw it in the plate and made him feel real good about himself. Man, made his heart just feel like it was swelling on the inside.

After about six weeks, one morning, he was sitting in church, and man, he had one of his spells, and he's so unglued in that liberal church, and they never heard anybody shout anyhow, so it scared him to death.

And so he got up and ran down the aisle. I mean, he was slipping like a ball in a Bailey Circus clown. He jumped up in the baptismal booth. He jumped all over the place. He ripped up the songbook. He foamed at the mouth, pulled his clothes off right there in church, and everybody couldn't believe it.

Wow, man. So what they said? They said, go back up under there, man. Psychiatrist tried to help you. Wasn't any help for you. Preacher tried to help you. No help for you. Grandmaster of the Lord tried to help you.

No help for you. All these people tried to help you. The sheriff tried to help you. Everybody wants to help you. You don't want no help, mister. Go up there. And then he's hardly taking to himself. You know what I feel?

I'd like to have somebody help me. I feel like somebody to put their arms around me and love me and have concern for me and care for me. And he walked up there. And so all day long, the whole crowd got together.

They began to bump ideas around. Finally, they couldn't come up with anything. So they put up some ticket signs. Got some big old poster boards and big old black letters. They wrote, no hope for the crazy man.

And they put them outside the church. They put them outside the Capitol building. They put them outside their public schools and their private schools and their places of pure repute. And they put them outside their non-suspectable grocery store.