The Glory Is Departed — Harold Vaughn

Good to be with you here today been looking forward to a good time here. Believing God to speak to my heart as well as to everybody else present. I'd like to do something for you. We brought some of these books called the price and power of revival by Duncan Campbell.

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All right. I wonder if we might be able to stand and have a moment of prayer together. Would you please stand and let's have a moment of prayer together? Was that encouraging here and brother Ralph's the tour this morning or what?

Well, God's still doing some good things and I believe it's not over yet that God wants to do more good things. But you know before the doctor can prescribe the cure he's First has to find out what kind of poison you've already swallowed and we need to find out the antidote.

But we got to find out the problem. So I want to talk to you from my heart this afternoon. God put this on my heart some weeks ago to speak to you from the book of 1st Samuel. So let's pray and bow our hearts for just a moment.

And could we give God permission to speak to our hearts here this morning, please? Would you just open up your heart and invite God the Holy Spirit to come and speak to you personally now? Heavenly father.

We're thankful for the good works of God. Lord, it's a it's like a cup of cold water and a thirsty land when we hear about good things that you've done and are Doing and I have any father we're anticipating blessings here this hour.

So Lord, we open up our hearts to you. We invite your spirit to come and do his office work and I heavenly father. Would you speak a clear word to our hearts? We're thankful for the speaking voice of God and I heavenly father.

We pray that you might speak with a voice. So as to raise the dead and I heavenly father that your reviving presence might be our portion now. We open our hearts we anticipate and we thank you for what you're going to say to our souls.

Ichabod and the Departure of God’s Glory

We give you praise in Jesus name. Amen. You may be seated. What was it that gave birth to Ichabod grandson of weakness corruption and indecision? First Samuel chapter 4 in your Bible we find the story of one nation's fall from glory.

This is the tale of an ancient nation's venture into the postmodern world. Their punk rockers had come of age and occupied positions of leadership in influence. I believe there's a frightening similarity between the story in the state and the churches of America.

There's no doubt a lesson here for nations for local churches for families and for individuals. One Samuel chapter 4 begins by the arch enemy of God's people the Philistines going to battle with the Israelites.

And in that very first battle 4 ,000 Israelites were slain. The elders of Israel conspired together and they said why is the Lord snit in us today before the Philistines now? They didn't ask God why they had lost the battle.

But they asked each other what the problem was and the consensus was let us stretch the ark of God out of Shiloh. That it might come and save us. They had the mistaken notion that if they could just get that external Symbol the ark of the Covenant if they could just get that external symbol in the camp.

They thought all would be well. Well, the Bible tells us when they sin and got the ark and it came into the camp and all Israel gave up a great shout. Which just goes to show it's possible to have a good deal of excitement without God.

Well, the Philistines were a bunch of Superstitious pagans they were the type that would be running the psychic hotline if they were reincarnated today. And when they heard that tremendous shout they understood that They are could come into the camp and they said why these great gods that have delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt Are coming to the camp and they were absolutely terrified.

They thought that Israel's God was confined to that box. The Philistines said let's quit and let's get out here and fight like men. Let's we become enslaved. So they went to battle the second time this time 30 ,000 Israelites were slain.

Hathnai and Phinehas were killed and the ark of God was taken. Well, the Bible tells us in verse 13 that Eli said by the wayside watching for his heart trembled for the ark of God. I want to tell you that Eli might have been an undisciplined man.

Eli may have been an unfit parent, but the Bible does say that his heart trembled for the ark of God. There was a soldier that escaped from the battle scene. He came and he told Eli what had happened.

He said we've suffered a terrible defeat. Hathnai and Phinehas your sons are dead and the ark of God has been taken and when Eli Comprehended that the ark of God was taken he fell off his seat and seat backward and his neck broke and there he died.

Let's pick up the story here in 1st Samuel chapter 4 and verse 19 notice what it says. And his daughter-in-law Phinehas wife was with child near to be delivered and When she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead.

She bowed herself and surveilled for her pains came upon her and about the time of her death the women that stood by her said Fear not for that was born a son, but she answered not neither did she regarded and she named the child Ichabod saying the glory is departed from Israel.

Because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband and she said the glory is departed from Israel. Phinehas wife was a woman of keen Spiritual perception and when she got the report that the ark of God had been captured by the pagan Philistines.

She knew in her heart that God had abandoned her people. She and she named her child Ichabod, which means literally where is the glory or the glory is? Departed. So we have to ask ourselves this question.

What was it that brought about the departure of God from the land? What were those things that were present that caused the glory to depart. What gave birth to Ichabod? I want to give you six Scriptural historical preludes to Ichabod from the book of first Samuel the notice prelude number one.

An Unconverted Priesthood

Is that there was an unconverted? priesthood in Israel. Look in chapter 2 and verse 12. Keep your Bible handy. Chapter 2 and verse 12 notice first of all an Unconverted priesthood. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial.

They knew not the Lord. Half my in Phinehas were sons of the high priest, but they were also sons of the devil sons of worthlessness. Half my in Phinehas were scandalous in their habits. Reckless in their lifestyles and profane in their hearts.

May I say to you that half my in Phinehas were not carnal. Half my in Phinehas were not backslidden. Half my in Phinehas were lost. And my friend if it's possible to have sons of the devil in the home of the high priest of Israel.

It's entirely possible to have sons of the devil in the best of Christian homes and in the best of Christian churches. I remind you that the devil was present in the upper room when Christ celebrated the last table.

Judas Iscariot he left all for Christ. Judas Iscariot followed Christ. He ate and drank at the table of Christ. He cast out demons in the name of Christ. He called Jesus Master. He kissed the door of heaven and then he fell headlong into hell.

Why. Because he was the son of perdition and half my in Phinehas the Bible says they knew not the Lord. Now they knew about God, but they did not know God. Half my in Phinehas had heard their father pray.

They listened as he talked. But the scripture tells us he that doeth righteousness is righteous. Even as God is righteous and he that practices sin is of the devil my friend. How many people have accepted Christ who have never accepted Christianity as a way of life?

There are scores of people that put some sort of a demon faith. Cerebral faith in the Son of God that show no evidence is all that they've ever been born of the Spirit of God. William Gernal the old period and said say not that thou has royal blood in thy veins.

Say not that thou has royal blood in thy veins and are born of God unless thou can prove thy pedigree by daring to be Holy, I want to tell you there was an unconverted priesthood that produced an unconverted Constituency.

The blind were leading the blind. The whole crowd was in the ditch. Suffice it to say it's possible to have a profession of faith without the possession of eternal life and before the glory. Departed from Israel.

Unfit Leadership and Corrupt Worship

There was an unconverted priesthood. But notice prelude number two, there was an unfit leadership an unfit leadership in place. It's been said that everything rises and falls on leadership and God has appointed leaders in churches.

They're called pastors. God has appointed leaders in homes. They're called husbands and fathers. But notice what had happened in Israel before the glory departed in chapter 2 in verse 17. Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord for men abhorred the offering of the Lord.

The Ark of God was being carried on unsanctified Shoulders. Half nigh in Phinehas had profaned the priesthood. These boys had no respect for proper worship. They were not satisfied with their appointed portions.

So they begin to arrest and rob the worshipers of the offerings that they had brought to Jehovah God. If you read his verses 13 through 16, you'll find it was a custom in those days when people would bring their offerings they would burn the fat and they would put the meat in a boiling cauldron.

The Servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged flesh hook would reach down into that boiling Cauldron and whatever came up on the flesh hook was the appointed portion of the priest. But half nigh in Phinehas were not satisfied with this portion and they begin to arrest the worshipers before they could even offer the offering To God and say give it to us for all and they would say if you don't give it to us We're gonna take it by force and because of their wicked corrupt behavior It caused men and women to despise the offering of the Lord.

It was the corruption of Eli's house that caused men to despise the offering of the Lord. But I want to say that half nigh in Phinehas We're merely the tip of the iceberg. The real problem was granddaddy Eli look in chapter 2 in verse 23 as Eli Tries to reason with his children and he said unto them Why do you do such things for I hear of all your evil dealings by all this people?

Nay, my sons for it is no good report that I hear you make the Lord's people to transgress. Now Eli mildly rebuked his children in essence. He shut his eyes to their sin. Eli was a father a judge and a high priest yet He used none of his authority to correct his children.

It got so bad that God could not speak directly to his own high priest of his covenant people. And in verse 27 of chapter 2 you'll find that God sent a man of God a prophet to warn Eli about His wicked ways and not only that God sent a child by the name of Samuel on the very night when he met the Lord to deliver a message of impending doom and judgment and the Lord told Samuel in the quiet of that night because Eli's sons have made themselves vile and he restrained them not.

God said I'm gonna judge his house Forever for the iniquity that he knoweth about now I want to tell you that Eli when Samuel came and he forced him to give him the message and he didn't hold anything back.

And he told him what was going to happen. I want to tell you that the severity of judgment was so bad that both of his sons were going to be killed. All of his descendants were destined to die a premature death and his own priestly authority was going to be revoked and Yet when Eli got that message that terrible message, I want to tell you he didn't punish.

He didn't reprove and he didn't remove his children from leadership my friend. There was no attempt to reform no attempt to set his house in order and I believe that Eli's example ought to serve as an example on how not to raise a family and as an example on how not to carry on a ministry.

An Unfit leadership was in Israel before the glory departed my brethren. Are you walking worthy of the vocation wherewith you have been called? But follow if you would in chapter 2 in verse 20 through to that.

Abandoning God’s Moral Law

There was no respect for the moral law of God before the glory departed from Israel. No respect for the moral law of God. Look in chapter 2 in verse 22. Now Eli was very old and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel.

How they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Now notice if you would it says they laid with women. It doesn't say they laid with a woman. No. No, they laid with women plural.

This was not a one-night stand. This had become a way of life. Half nigh in Phineas were committing adultery with the women who had come to bring Jehovah God Sacrifices and offerings. May I say to you my dear people that before God abandons the people they first of all abandon his Standards and God's truth is non-negotiable.

Not everything is up for grabs my friend. There are some absolutes. There are some black and whiters and I want to remind you that the Ten Commandments were not written in sand. They were etched in stone and even when Eli didn't remove his sons from leadership the people should have stood for the truth and Kicked the bums out.

No respect for the moral law. They tell us today that 77 of the American people do not believe in the concept of absolute truth. I heard now that 50 of Evangelicals no longer believe in the concept of absolute truth.

Well, I want to tell you if you don't believe in absolute truth. You're absolutely unsaved. I mean, there's no way in the world we can dismiss God's moral code and God's moral standards which are absolutely Universal now my friend.

Is there not been a wholesale revolt against the moral law of God in our culture? I was at my mother-in-law's some time ago. I was flipping through the cable remote. We're not spiritual enough to have a cable in our home.

So I was at her house and I was flipping through and I happened on MTV moron television and as I flipped in I got there just in time to hear the mission statement of MTV and here's what they said. The goal of MTV is to rid the world of racism.

Prejudice so far so good. But number three, the goal of MTV is to is to rid the world of intolerance intolerance. You understand that tolerance is the only virtue left in a totally corrupt society. In judges every man was doing what was right in their own eyes.

But the Bible says woe be unto them that call good evil and evil good my friend. Is there not a spirit of lawless lawlessness in the land when one out of every 13? Americans are in touch with the criminal justice system.

One out of 13 in touch with the criminal justice system. My friend morality is not a matter of personal choice. Well, the idea is well what's right for you is true for you and what's right for me is true for me.

Had a fellow that teaches at Oglethorpe University come up and tell me about the students that he's getting from the public schools of America how. They're absolutely indoctrinated and have sold out to this idea idea of moral relativism.

So he's trying to shake them back into consciousness and he said to his class one day. He said it's what Hitler and the Nazi regime did in Germany in seeking to exterminate an entire race. Killing six million people was it right.

And you know the class to a man Responded and said what Hitler and Germany did was right for them because what's right for you is true for you. And what's right for me is true for me. There was a Jewish boy in the class and the professor looked at him and said son being of Jewish descent.

Was what Hitler did in seeking to exterminate the Jews was it right and that Jewish boy? Said before the class to the professor what Hitler did and what Nazi Germany did was right. It was right for them my friend when the question had been to say that young boy listen son if our government came up with the final solution and Figured out that the the way to read the proud world of problems is to ethnically cleanse all people of Jewish descent.

Including you would that be right for us? Do you see where we're at my friend? We've been being brainwashed to the point to where there's nothing right and there's nothing wrong. When I went to school we had the three R's reading writing and arithmetic.

Now the three R's are reduce reuse and recycle. We might have a generation that can't read and write, but they sure can multiply. Outside of marriage you know they tell us that 14 million Americans meet the diagnostic criteria for alcohol abuse disorders.

Over 33 million Americans age 12 and older have tried cocaine. 3 .5 million children of people today in America have used heroin. Nearly a hundred million have smoked marijuana. Nearly 12 million have used a date date rate drug called ecstasy.

And over 5 million people in the United States Are on Ritalin. 4 million of them children. You realize that for every kid that gets diagnosed with a DB Adult discipline disorder that for every child that gets diagnosed with a DD.

It puts a quarter of a million dollars in the pockets of the psychologist. We'll never drug our children into behaving right and I want to tell you my friend that these are all all Indications of a lack of respect for the moral law of God.

When there's a mainstreaming of pornography when there's a legitimate Legitimizing of sodomy a condoning of adultery and the aborning of the unborn it's a blatant revolt against the moral law of God. But my friend what about the blatant compromise in liberal churches against the moral law of God?

You know we don't hear much about this. It's almost a taboo to even break up anything along this line. But I listen to this. I just got this little last week a Seattle priest Has become a Muslim while also retaining her clergy status in the Episcopal Church.

Her local bishop has described the development as exciting. I look through Jesus, and I see Allah explained the Reverend and Holmes Redding to the Seattle Times. Which reported that Redding puts on her Islamic headscarf on Fridays and a clerical collar on Sundays?

She has denounced Christianity as a world religion of privilege. But she still sees Jesus as her Savior even if not divine and plans to remain both a priest and an Episcopal. I Got news for you. Allah and Jehovah are not the same people.

Blatant compromise. One mainline denomination allowed Aaron Swenson to retain his or her status as a minister even though he She or it had a sex change operation. Wouldn't you think that the right-wing activist who want us to call the secular corporations and want us to Call the Congressional switchboard to protest the moral decline would have something to say about the Absolute moral insanity that's been going on in some of the churches for decades.

Wouldn't you think they would want us to picket and protest and boycott? Liberalism but not a single word. And I want to say that my friend when we're trying to hold the secular world and the Government to a standard that we're not willing to hold people who named the name of Christ to the standard it's duplicity and it's hypocrisy and it's time to repent.

One major denomination would not make a written statement condoning homosexuality or People living together unmarried because they didn't want to reduce the faith to a list of do's and don'ts so goodbye ten commandments.

You know my friend when the American people When the American people cannot define marriage as a union between a man and a woman for life. We're not at a crossroads. We're a long ways down the wrong road and you say well Harold you shouldn't be up there using those examples.

You shouldn't be up there gay bashing friend. I'm not gay bashing and if you think anything I say is rough. You ought to check out the urban renewal program that God implemented at Sodom and Gomorrah and see how he dealt with that situation.

The Salvation Army gave benefits to homosexual partners before Walmart. Of course. They were made since thank God. But let's bring it down to this right here, what about the rank compromise and conservative churches.

Let's just bring it right down here with us a little closer home here. You know, you know, the narrow way is not narrow enough for some people and they want to make the narrow way. More narrow than it already is.

But my brethren, there are others who want to make the narrow way broader than what it already is. The rank. Compromising conservative churches. The Bible says the time will come when they'd rather. I didn't do her sound doctrine.

But they're gonna heap to themselves teachers having itching ears. My wife and I were going down the highway. We had this dilapidated sense a sanctuary up on the side of the hill had a spray-painted sign.

Handwritten sign and it said church for sale easy terms. Church for sale easy terms in that case. It was the building for sale. But my friend is it not a move on today to sell out the truth of God for the sake of some sort of contrived unity or acceptance.

Are we not living in a time when men have stopped contending for the state for the faith and started campaigning for acceptance? Can I tell you not everything is compatible with the religion of Jesus Christ.

Not everything is compatible. My brethren George Gallup said only 10 of professing Christians say their beliefs affect their lifestyles. What about the music the media and the magazines who knowing the judgment of God.

That they which do such things are worthy of death not only do the same but have pleasure in them that do them. They tell us that pornography used to be a 10 10 million dollar business about 40 years ago.

It's now a 15 billion dollar industry in the United States of America. I just got the statistic that 68 million search engine requests each day. Go on the internet from our country for pornography. 2 .5 billion.

Pornographic emails are sent every day. I was in a prayer meeting with an 18 year old a kid one day and he Said this he said I refuse to entertain myself with those things that killed my Savior. I Refuse to entertain myself with those things that killed my Savior brother.

We become so desensitized. There's nothing I could say that was shocked Embarrassed or calls a blush or even a flush a face because our culture has gone gone down the wrong road. My brethren Pastor called me the other day and he said I've got a woman in my church.

He got on a chat room. I've never been on a chat room, but brother. What does that say about? Fellowship with God and fellowship in the local church when church members in Bible-believing churches get on chat rooms and spill their guts to total strangers.

He said why she got on a chat room and within two weeks they were mailing photographs and within four weeks She had abandoned her husband and children and shacked up with a guy. She didn't even know. My brethren this happens every day in churches like yours and in churches like mine.

Then the problem is no longer out there how easy it is to bash of the sin on the left. But brethren, I'm I believe the chickens have come home to roost. How often do we hear something like this. Somebody comes to the pastor and said wait, you know pastor I believe that God wants to be happy.

Don't you I Mean, how you gonna answer that and you know, God wants to be happy pastor. And I don't love my what made anymore and I I believe God wants me to get a divorce. Have an evangelist friend that went into a Christian bookstore.

Which they really ought to change the name and I looked up all the books on divorce and couldn't find one against it. Couldn't find one against it, but yet the Bible says what God has joined together.

Let no man put asunder. When the God-ordained institution of matrimony goes by the wayside. There's an inevitable breakdown in the social order and my brethren the breakdown of the home is the mother of all evils.

You said well Harold, don't you know we're under grace? I've had a grace awakening. Yeah, I believe what we got going on is a grace distortion. A grace distortion. You see grace my friend does not override the moral code.

Y 'all with me on this point right here. And grace does not Obliterate the consequences of wrong choices. Grace does not give me freedom to sin. Grace gives me the power not to see it. That's what grace is all about.

Rebellion Against Parental Authority

No respect. No respect for the moral law. But notice before the glory departed what happened with God's people. There was rebellion against parental authority. Rebellion against parental authority. Look in chapter 2 and verse 25.

Eli a Plague with his children. Look at what it says verse 25 chapter 2 if one man's sin against another The judge shall judge him, but if a man's sin against the Lord who shall entreat for him and get this notwithstanding.

They hearken not unto the voice of their father get that they hearken not unto the voice of their father. Eli refused to discipline his children and Eli's children refused to obey their father. Rebellion begets rebellion and rebellion against God ordained authority is passed on to the next generation.

You see when we violate God's God's law and rebel we shouldn't be surprised that our offspring Will rebel and take you to an extreme farther than we ever imagined possible. I was in the Sam's Club the other day and this kid had on this t-shirt.

You know you're taking a big risk to read the t-shirts and I I took a chance and I read it and it said question authority. Question authority. Who's the ultimate authority. God. That's a recipe for anarchy.

But you understand that rebellion is not a light thing according to the Word of God. Because the Bible says the rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. The Bible never says murders is the sin of witchcraft.

The Bible never says adultery's as the sin of witchcraft. The Bible never says Sodomy's as the sin of witchcraft, but it does say that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. You see rebellion rebellion.

Why is it so satanic? Sin is a crossing the line. It's going beyond the boundaries that God has established. But rebellion is a refusal to come back within the bounds once we discover. We've exceeded them.

Half my infinites were living in sin. I was bad enough, but they refused to come back within the bounds. They hearken not to the voice of their father friend rebellion against a Parental authority. God's design for the home.

God appointed leadership is a prelude to Ichabod. God has placed authorities over us for our protection. But when we move out from under that protective covering we're exposed to tremendous heart hurt and harm that God never intended.

I read that four million parents. Were beaten by their children in a single year in the United States. Well, we're all time hearing about child abuse, which is heart horrific. And what about parental abuse.

A Missionary was telling me one day how his kid his rebellious child had come up and pushed it custom and Shoved it. You know what? I think I think it's time for the men of America to take a hormone shot and take control of their homes and get a little backbone and Quit acting like a bun is a bunch of feminized nuded wimps my friend.

It's high time the men of America took a stand. Can you believe what's going on? The Christian psychologists will tell you that rebellion is normal. I want to tell you that rebellion is neither normal natural or necessary.

We were in a church one time and some young people were acting up and my 11 year old son said he said dad if that's What being a teenager is all about. I'm gonna skip that part and you know what? He skipped that part.

Going up climbing fools hill is not normal. So in your wild oats is an abomination. And where in the world did we get to the point where we think rebellion which God said? Demonic is somehow is somehow Acceptable in the house of God.

If we can train a killer whale to take a fish out of the trainers mouth. Without taking the trainers head along with it. We can teach our children to sit in church and have respect. Things are so low now that if your children look decent.

Can carry on a conversation with an adult? I'm telling you people think they're exceptional children. I'm tired of people come up and say to me. Well, you know, you just have the most wonderful children in the world.

What do you mean because they didn't touch you out? You think this is something extraordinary? Rebellion against parental authority and keep the other. This guy told me his son had died his hair orange or purple.

I don't know what it was and had had more lead on him then. Case a buckshot and all this kind of stuff and he said that he didn't want to push him. Let me just say something to you men and women. Let me just say something to you.

If the world wants to go naked, we don't have to follow suit. And if the world wants to act like a bunch of lunatics God's people ought to have some sense of decorum and decency and modesty. And if the man of God in the house doesn't have enough backbone to do it.

He needs to get he needs to get get right with God my brethren. Rebellion against parental authority. I Come from Charlotte County, Virginia. So rural. We don't have a stoplight in the whole county. I didn't say the town the whole county you probably already figured that out, but I come to this remote part.

I got the report of report of two 15 year old stepdaughters who plotted and executed the murder of their mother and father. 15 year old girls killed. Their parents the ultimate expression of rebellion young people.

People in a conference like this, you'll never physically attack your mom and dad. You probably never even talk back. You might not ever even talk about your mother and father to somebody else. But I want to tell you the rebellion in the heart is just as serious in the eyes of God and before the glory departed.

Ignoring the Word of God

My friend there was rebellion against parental authority. But let me give you the fifth thing before the glory departed. They ignored the Word of God. They ignored the Word of God. Look in chapter 3 in verse 1.

Chapter 3 in verse 1. And The child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli and the Word of the Lord was precious in those days. There was no open vision. When the Bible says the Word of the Lord was precious that means the Word of God was rare.

It was scarce that God was not revealing himself at that time. When the Bible says there was no open vision. That means there was no prophet to consult to find the will of God. God had very little to say to Israel.

There was a famine of hearing the words of God and maybe one reason the Word of the Lord was so rare in those days was because. There was no need for God to say anything else to his people when they had not acted on what he had already said.

Understand these people knew the law. They did not have copies of the Bible in their home. They did not have it, but they understood the law. Today we have a complete Bible and this Bible is everything that God has to say to the human race.

My friend when they ignored the Word of God their sin was bad. But if we neglect the Word of God in our day our sin is even worse. They ignored the Word of God and the glory departed my brethren. Not just ignoring the parts you like brother.

If you do I'm telling you if we ignore the parts we don't like I'm telling you we're in trouble with God. You let a denomination a local church a family or an individual turn a deaf ear to God's reveal.

Will it won't be long before the glory departs. Brother God has plainly told us how to deal with sin toward him. He's told us to confess it and forsake it and judgment must begin at the house of God. We got too much preaching that strokes the emotion and too little preaching that strikes at the heart of our problems.

And my brethren I want to tell you it's high time for judgment to begin at the house of God. God's told us how to deal with sin toward him. He said confess it and forsake it. I was preaching in the Socialist Republic of Vermont and a lady came up to me after service and she said I have no sense of God.

I Feel so cold. I feel like God's a million miles away and she went on lamenting her spiritual condition and then she said. But I'm addicted to soap operas. I know I shouldn't do it by watch him all the time and she went on along that line and then she said but I Love the Lord and I said time out time out.