Wednesday Night Bible Study with Pastor Jeff - John 15

Well guys we're gonna begin and once again a lot of people want to take their theology and cram it into John 15 and you'll see what I mean in just a second. Let's start let's start with verse 1. John chapter 15 verse 1 and yes.

It's the gospel of John Jerry Lloyd. What's she doing son? Man, I love you. It says this. I am the true vine and my father is the vineyard keeper. Every branch in me that does not produce fruit. He removes and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so it will produce more fruit.

You already clean because the word I've spoken to you Remain in me and I in you just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine. So neither can you unless you remain in me verse 5 I am the vine you are the branches the one who remains in me and I in him Produces much fruit because you can do nothing without me verse 6 if anyone does not remain in me He has throwed aside like a branch and he withers they gather them throw them into the fire and they are burned.

The Meaning of Fruit, Remaining in Christ, and John 15 in Context

Hellfire brimstone. Hey pastor John. Hey, brother John. Um. Yeah, my staff is awesome. Couldn't do anything without them. Awesome. Most awesome people in the world. Okay. So here's the deal. Are y 'all ready?

And for those of you that aren't used to my teaching stay with me after I say this, okay. All right. Here's the deal if you were a Christian. But have fallen away. You have been cut off from the family of God.

And you will be gathered up and thrown into hell. Okay, that's that's just the way it is. That's what it says right here. Any branch that does not bear fruit is cut off. Gathered up after he withers and thrown into the fire see if you don't stay Absolutely perfectly in the will of God your entire life.

You're going to hail hail fire and brimstone. Is that what that means guys? I know this is the delay and this is how I usually teach on Wednesdays, but. Is that what this is talking about? Somebody answer.

But if you do not remain in God You're going to be cut off. Burn up thrown away and go to hell forever. Nope, Jenny Hart says no. Well, she's in Memphis. It Mississippi. Julie's from Georgia. So Kimmy I love you.

Nope. Nope. So everyone's saying no, is it? No, sir. Okay, so Can someone help me out here? I mean cuz that's what I just read. Nah, okay nutbush chick says now trick question. Stephanie says Johnny Armand says no, man.

Y 'all are some strong Armeniasts. Yes, sir, read him Bob. Look at those guys. I Say no. All right. Well, actually I agree with all of you. First of all understand this Harmonutix is the most important thing.

That's not true the Holy Spirit's most important thing but on the concept of man harmonutix is extremely extremely important. This is how we get hey Justin. If you bear no fruit, you're not a Christian.

Okay, so if I backslide and I'm not bearing food fruit I quit being a Christian. There's Karina. But so harmonics basically is this and there I have my own harmonautical laws, but We're just going to we're just going to talk about them for a second.

And I'm not going to get exhaustive on this but there's some things that you've got to remember. Okay, number one Harmonutix basically is a harmony in which truth can be gleaned. And it's it's a legal saying as well as the theological saying any literary saying really or any literary field.

Harmonutix basically is a set of rules in which to glean from the text that which the author intended you have to Focus on certain things first of all to who is speaking and to whom are they speaking?

What is the background of the text? What is going on? Language of course means a lot and but one of the things in theology is if it Violates your interpretation if it violates a doctrine. Then what you're reading is still correct, but your interpretation of it is wrong.

Once again, this is why we have so many denominations. We have just been reading well last night Hebrews 10 and We read John 14 a couple of days ago, and and we've been in Ephesians 1 we have just from three different sources that just declared pretty emphatically that a believer is saved forever that Christ died once and for all that his sin is expitiated it is been a Payment and atonement has been made.

So yes, it is definitely easier to do this in person, but that's okay. You have to put it with all these other doctrines. Well, one of the other key elements and charges said it is context. Okay. First of all understand that these last chapters of John remember about 50 of John.

Historically or chronologically is the last week of Jesus. That's it. The first part of it was leading up to but the entire Last half of John is all taking place within one week okay, and so Jesus as we know he's sitting here and he's talking to the disciples and He's telling them and he's telling about the other he's talking about the Holy Spirit coming and they're like what?

You know, they do not get it and Then he talks about the try you nature of God and then he says the last part of 14 get up. Let's leave this place and as they're walking along. I'm sure they were walking along and there's a Grapevine there.

They were all over the place still are to this day and Jesus goes a high teaching moment. I am the vine and my father is the vineyard keeper. Every branch in me that does not Produce fruit he removes and prunes every branch that produces fruit.

First thing you need to realize is this God is paying attention to everything whether you're producing fruit or not producing fruit. You are being pruned by God. Can you say sanctification because that is what we're talking about here is Those that even do produce fruit are still being pruned.

God is it work in them? Okay. Now look at verse 3. Everybody just look at verse 3 just for a second. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. What? What does that mean? What is it?

I'm totally lost. What's that mean? Well Jesus is once again taking in hormonal context to whom he is speaking. He is talking to his disciples and he's telling them. That's what I was trying to say. John says something similar Matt Matthew 3 10.

John says John says something similar Matthew 3 10. Well, let's run over to Matthew 3 10 since Brother Jonathan is a theologian of extraordinary nature. Let us look Matthew 3 10 let's say. Even now the axe is ready to strike the root of the trees.

Therefore every tree that doesn't produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So John the Baptist is saying the same thing. Wow continuity in scripture. Absolutely. Good job, brother Jonathan.

So One of the things that these folks are struggling with and The great majority of People were struggling with was who is the identity of Christ and was Christ linked to Israel or was Christ linked? To something else and one of the things that had to be driven home is is the Exclusivity of God can only be found no longer in sacrifices a religion or whatever else.

That the only way and that's what he said in John 14 the only way to find God was through Jesus Christ now. Those that are already clean from the word received that word and if you keep going here It says remain in me.

To remain means you have been placed. Remember that positional idea that we've been talking about. Now the disciples were they still clueless about 800 different things? Absolutely, you know Peter at one point said thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God and three senses later Jesus looked at him and said get thee behind me Satan.

Because Peter had the arrogance actually take Jesus to task. So he says remain in me and I and you just as the branches unable to produce fruit by itself. It remains on the vine. So neither can you unless you remain in me?

I am the vine you are the branches the one who remains in me and I and him produces much fruit. Because you can do nothing without me if anyone does not remain in me. He is thrown aside like a branch and he withers.

Have you ever thought about this? When you read about the seven churches of Revelation those churches in whom? Jesus specifically addressed by name the Church of Evidence and Pergamos and all those other churches.

Can I ask you a question? Where are those churches today? There don't exist at all. None of them. They don't exist. The Church of Jerusalem does not exist the Church of Rome. Sorry. Catholics does not exist.

Right. In other words those local identities No longer exist now if you look at some of those churches in Revelation, you know. It says you are doing great things. Jesus like man I'm so proud of you, but you've done this you have left your first love.

Several times over my life as a pastor I've been asked to come to certain churches and sit down with the pastor and Kind of explain to him maybe what is some of the things he could do or the church could do as a whole to kind of revive the church and It's amazing.

I went to one church. I've shared this with my church people. I went to one church and They had water fountains now this church back in the 70s. They were running probably about eight nine hundred and Sunday school.

Okay. They were just blowing and going and that area of town was Definitely the upper middle class area or middle class area of that city at the time and man. They were just going gangbusters. I mean absolutely gangbusters.

Well, this was about six seven years ago and now they're running maybe on a good Sunday 50 and all of those 50 people are over the age of 70 and it's amazing. That they had this building or actually it was more it was a complex.

They had a three-story Sunday school building they had gymnasium sanctuary chapel administrative offices they had everything you could think of. Plus one and it was 40 people in this little built in this huge massive Sanctuary and there was 40 people there kind of sad so one time.

As we were talking to these folks, I was just walking around and I was walking down the hall and They had a water fountain system and one of the water fountains was about You know three feet high and the other one was about five feet higher.

Probably lower but you understand one was for kids one was for adults. And so I just happened, you know, I just being Jeff I'm just fiddling and pushing and the lower one didn't work and I asked the guys like Yes, you don't have many hobbits or children running around here this one doesn't work and this is what he said.

Oh that one hadn't worked in 30 years. We never used it. So there was no need to even fix it. Now this is the same church that the front doors to the sanctuary. Had the wood had swollen and the doors would not open and they said well We don't you we don't use those doors.

So we never saw the need to fix them. Now, let me explain to you their financial situation. They had I think at the time around two point two million dollars in the bank. Their property was probably worth anywhere from I could be getting these numbers wrong, but seven to ten million dollars.

Okay, they were they were doing great financially, right? Their pastor was a good guy. He was a very good guy. But he was there basically to hold little old lady's hands and help him into the grave he preached and it was usually a very good three-point sermon on the blood of Jesus or Calvary or something like that as I talked to him and I listened they always had a reason for what they did.

But what they were concerned about was getting young people in that was their goal is to get young people in the church. And I asked him I was like brother. Are y 'all producing any fruit? And this is what he said to me.

Well, we don't have any visitors in other words in his mentality y 'all listening this in his mentality producing fruit. Meant bringing people through the door church. Let me tell you something. Okay, if you got five people in the room and none of them are visitors yet.

There's still no fruit being produced something's wrong. It's not new people coming in the door that produces fruit your Spiritual life, where are you? The church is not made up of new converts. The church is made up of who it is right now new converts of tomorrow.

You're sitting there looking at the end result and the causality of where you're at is an unrepentant heart and a non-fruit-producing church and you want to sit there and go. It's the neighborhood black people have moved in.

And you know when black people move in the Holy Spirit moves right on out, right? Come on y 'all. Now there are two churches that we talked to. Said something like this. This is what the chairman of the Deacons said of one church.

He said this I don't care. What God's will we had asked these two churches or actually I didn't ask but it's been suggested. That one of these churches sell and the two churches move emerge and then use.

Use that money to hire a black pastor because the neighborhood was about 90 black now. Okay, I mean personally I think you preach the gospel it don't matter where you are and what color you are. Holy Spirit will produce fruit through you but whatever and this is what the chairman of the Deacons one of those church said he said I don't care what the will of God is.

My mother grew up in this church. My mother died in this church and we will never merge with anyone. I was chairman of the Deacons Ichabod. Listen to me listen to me. Bearing fruit is the responsibility of the church today.

Quit trying to go out and win the world for Jesus when you haven't even cleaned up your own mess, right? Pastors if you are looking at your church and you were measuring growth. By how many people are coming in the doors you are doing God's people a serious Disservice.

The true measurement of maturity is found in the growth. Sanctification of the people that are already there and if you encourage your people where they are to grow. Everything else takes care of itself.

Quit trying to be a TV preacher quit trying to keep up with First Baptist. Quit trying to build yourself up based upon the number of chairs you fill. See let. Your people grow in mature and by default that maturity in the Holy Spirit.

They will bear fruit. Y 'all will bear fruit together and growth will be a an effect of that causality. Guys, the fruit that's being talked about here is not walking out telling people about Jesus. That's an effect of obedience to Christ.

Absolutely, but the effect has to come through first of all remaining in Christ and letting him be the Central point, you know, how many programs are out there? You know, how many books are written for churches on?

How to be a Great church in the Millennium or how evangelist. I actually read a book called how evangelism works. Evangelism is not a sentient being. Evangelism does not work. That's not what the Holy Spirit works.

God's people work. Evangelism is not a living thing. You want to bear fruit? You want your church to grow? Measure and change the paradigm in which you're seeing that growth has the person who is a Four year old Christian.

Are they still where they were at four years ago? If they are you are failing as a leader in church. You are failing to grow. It's the same thing as I hear from Christian parents all the time. Oh my gosh.

I raised my kids in church. I don't understand why they are atheist dope-smoking, you know tree hugging hippies now. Because you weren't supposed to raise them in church. You were supposed to raise them in the Word of God.

Why do we think we can take God's Word and God's plan and come up with plan B and think it's gonna work. There's only plan a that's the only plan there is you remain in Christ. And he will remain in you and you will produce much fruit.

Forget you qualifying what kind of fruit you ain't a fruit inspector. Okay quick while trying to qualify God's fruit. Okay, whoever God brings through that door whether it be 40 old women or whether it be 5 ,000 people.

Measure the paradigm of you as a pastor by the spiritual growth that's happening in your flock. Not so many people you don't even know their names or where they're at. All right. Verse 9. Let's move on.

Sorry. Hey, oh man. I haven't been looking at the comments. Hey guys everybody. I'm sorry. I haven't been what. Hey, there's Tim. Hey, there's Kaylee. I love Jazzy. All right. Here we go verse 9 as the father has loved me I have also loved you remain in my love if you keep my commands.

You will remain in my love just as I have kept my father's commands and remain in his love. I have spoken these things to you so that your joy in you may be full and your joy may be. Now I just want to talk to Christians for a second if you're a non-christian just hang on, okay.

Just hang on and if you die before I finish this next and it sucks to be you. But for all of you that are Christians listen to me for a second the reason. Some of your joy is gone. Let me put it to you in Baptist vernacular.

And I remember when I got saved and all this and it was so awesome like this and then people will say Oh, well, yes, the honeymoon stage is over. What the heck is a honeymoon stage in Christianity? I don't see that that sounds like another one of those little milquetoast church made-up things to explain away someone's Reluctance to repent.

Okay, you see Joy is a state of being okay. It's a state of being it's not an emotion. Okay, happiness is an emotion. Joy is a state of being. All right, so now. Understand there's miss Linda Johnson.

Hey, miss Linda God. You always reminded me of the quintessential southern lady. Yes, you always were you just little itty-bitty sweet little southern lady, I don't know why but that's what I always thought but anyways.

The reason sometimes our joy seems to be fleeting. It's not because you haven't You know done your devotions or you didn't pray the right prayer or you need the Holy Spirit to refill you again. Or any of that other stuff?

Okay that it's about obedience. All right. Five kids I raised I Loved them still do with all my heart. I was telling someone the other day. Everybody says I'm supposed to love my grandchildren more than my kids.

It hadn't happened yet. I love my kids. I mean my granddaughter she's cute and everything and I do love her. But I still love my kids more. I would take Josiah over her any day of the week, but maybe I'm weird.

But anyways loved him with all my heart. But here's one of the things I did. I Was consistent in that love and that consistency also meant Putting him in timeout. Okay I ain't gonna lie. I whooped their rear ends, right?

But it was never done out of vengeance or hate. You see I loved them and I spanked them. And During that time our relationship was not what it was prior to that. But after they got a whipping I always sat him down and talked to him and told him I love him and gave him a hug right and our relationship was restored guys.

Some of you have been being spanked by God. And You feel like you need to do something else other than go back and do what he told you to do at first. Remembering once again the church in Revelation. He says hey you want to repent from where you have fallen and go and do the works you did at first in other words Obey now.

I know this is difficult To preach about because it's so simplistic. But that's because God knows we're sheep and he needs us to be simple. I'm telling you right now Obey, it's just that simple. Obey if you're one of those dorks out there that sits there and goes well I can go on the lake and I can be close and intimate with God on the lake.

I don't need to go to a church. Well a couple of things number one. You can't go to the church. The church is People's okay, you can be part of a church, but here's the second thing. Without accountability and someone in your life.

You are gonna go bonkers. Okay, you are gonna be unstable. You have got to have Accountability in your life. You want your joy to be full? Obey, you're gonna need help with obeying and that's what brothers and sisters and Christ are for.

There's Wayne Thorne. So Guys, it's important that you obey. And it's also important that you have people with you to help you obey. All right, keep going now listen to what it says verse. What is that 13?

No one has greater love than this that when someone should lay down his life for his friends. I'm a big we have several of them on tonight. There's two police officers on here tonight and We have nurses and and and you know a fireman and all that stuff.

And and I love you guys you first responders you police that are Stormtroopers and just kidding, but I love you guys. Okay? But I'm sorry verse 13 is not written for your fallen memorials. Okay? Not that that's not great love, okay, I get it it is but do you actually think Harmonetically Jesus is referring to police officers and firemen right here.

No, it's just not. It's it's not you're gonna have to grow up a little bit, okay guys. Greater love hath no man that when he lay down his life for his friend in context. You are my friends if you do what I command you I'm gonna give you a saying it's called Kilkishy a modem.

Oh, it means this look for an opportunity. To die, you know, I drove into my kids heads growing up is that they had no value in worth. Except for that which they do and that which they were attached to.

I know that sounds weird in today's time. Okay. But I taught them the greatest value you have is how you serve. The greatest value in what you have is how you sacrifice what you give not what you receive not what you declare is yours.

But that what you give away. I remember my daughter God bless her little heart she and Josiah and Joshua and I were at an ice cream store and Josiah I can't remember it was Josiah or Joshua. But you know they were like three and four years old and I got him an ice cream cone and they're walking out of the store and we all get in the car and Yeah in the van there and Ashley gets in the front seat.

She's the girl so she gets the front seat. That's just the way it is. She gets in the front seat and I look over and she doesn't have her ice cream. My like where's your ice cream, baby? And this is what she said.

Well the door hit Joshua's hand and knocked his ice cream out of his hand. So I gave him mine so he wouldn't be sad. So what did I do? Got out of the van took her back in that ice cream store and bought her whatever she wanted see.

Because she had learned the lesson out of love. She had learned the lesson to sacrifice to love is the greatest aspect of identity. That we as a family ie the church can have. How does God tell though?

How does God tell us the world is going to know who we are? Is it really gonna be by our stupid signs holding up going. God hates fags? Really? God hates hypocritical Pharisee stiff-necked godless heathens to you heretic.

Is it going to be because God says that we're against abortion man? They're really mad about abortion down there. Whoo go church. No, that's not what it says. It says God the world is gonna know that we are genuine Christians when they see the love we have.

One for another now abortions wrong. Okay, homosexual is wrong. Okay I get that but us being known for what we're against rather than what we're being known for Ie God in each other is so jacked up. It's not even funny.

No wonder the world calls us hypocrites because we are we have mirror Indictments and when we look at the world and see our own filth and try to get mad at them to somehow assuage the guilt. We have. Listen to me.

Love God with all your heart with all your soul and all your mind and love your police on your fellow believers. Some people want to say neighbor like the guy next door. No. It means your fellow believer the one who walks along with you as yourself.

And if you do that, you're doing good. You don't have four hundred thousand verses memorized. Okay, learn them. You don't understand all the doctrines of Scripture. Okay, learn them. You're not doing everything you should be doing.

Okay. Obey, but the height of that obedience must come in the love you have for God in the love you have for each other. Listen to me. One of the things that fires me up man. You talking about chap in my backside is when I see a group of people who call themselves Christians and they're usually the ones.

They're usually the ones that look like they're the holiness. But they start making fun of or they start Ridiculing someone who is very low in the process of sanctification. I'll give you a specific example.

I had a When I came to Whitten. It was it was in pretty rough shape, okay. It's good church. That's a few good people in it, but it was in rough shape well the chairman of the deacons and the chairman of the pulpit committee who was also a Christian counselor and a deacon and a Sunday school teacher.

About six months after I'd been there God had started moving in the lives of some people and some things had started to change and. This guy had shown up at the church and he was married to a Filipino woman.

So this guy says Hey, brother Jeff, can we go to lunch now? We preachers know that when you invite us to lunch. It ain't cuz you love us. It's because you have something to get off your chest good with that.

It's a free lunch. So you guys pay so I went and this is what he told me he said Pastor I Just love what's going on right now, but we got to be a good example to the world. We can't have a mixed couples woman singing in the choir a what a mixed couples woman.

That that little brown girl. She don't need to be singing in the choir that that's going against the Word of God. It says don't be unequally yoked now. You have to understand at that moment my head almost exploded, okay.

And I wish I'll be honest with you. I wish I could tell you that I behaved in a very spiritually mature manner. But I got a little fired up to be honest with you. And it wasn't what he said. It was the manner in which he said it and the arrogance that came along with it.

I saw with all of my eyes and heart. I saw a high priest Pharisee sitting right in front of me and I lost my Jesus with him a little bit. No, I didn't hit him or yell at him or anything, but I told him that wasn't gonna happen.

Okay, he said well, I think we're gonna have a problem. I said well tell you what Sunday. There'll be two microphones on the pulpit. You can have one and I can have one and we can have this discussion.

That's the only way we're gonna have this discussion. Conversations over and next Sunday he left and he hadn't been back since now. Why I say that is this. When you claim to love Jesus and you hate. Dislike will not fellowship with a brother and sister in Christ because of their skin color.

That's sin. Just like the street walking whore that's sin. You're Gossiping little hypocritical mouth. That is just as much sin as any other sin. But even that's not the problem. Here's the real problem.

All right, you haven't borne fruit in so long. You can't even recognize the thorns that are covering your own soul. And you have no joy. Now I'm not saying this to fuss at you, well, yeah, I am but I'm not saying this to be mean.

What I'm saying this is to go back to right here. Listen to it so that your joy May be in you and your joy may be complete. First John tells us no man who hates his brother. No man who hates his brother can be a child of God if you say you love God.

And you hate your brother. You're a liar. Those aren't my words. Those are God's words. Let that sink in for a second if you say you're a child of God, but hate your brother in Christ for whatever reason God calls you a liar and that should send some chills down your soul.

It should it should. Guys, if you remain in Christ, you have a new paradigm in which to see things. Listen, look, this is a paradigm right now. I Can see this big White thing right here, right? But everything is a blur and I put these on all I can see it clear my view changed.

Nothing changed in reality. The reality is God has a church family and it's not made up of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, it's just not it's made up of those who have been regenerated and redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

Our job is brothers and sisters in Christ is to love them. It is the mark in which God said the world will know us and if you lack joy in your life I'm telling you, please Write this down. Write it on your bathroom mirror if you need to if you need the love and joy of Christ back in your life again.

Listen repent. Obey and then serve something other than yourself. You go serve something other than yourself. I promise you this your joy Will start to be revealed again. You. Some of the most miserable people I've seen are people that sing in the choir and preach on the pulpit.

They're just miserable. They're miserable. Don't talk about ministry serve. Go scrub a bathroom floor. Go take your hair and wipe the feet of somebody else. Go do something and debase Yourself and lift somebody else up if your entire Christian experience is looking at.

Oh, this world is such a terrible place. If that's all you can see man, you've got to be miserable. But man when you see the love and power of God moving through the lives of so many people. Man you start serving that.

Your whole paradigm will change. All right hurt. I gotta hurry. All right, watch this. You are my friends if you do what I command. I do not call you slaves anymore. I'll let hear this again. I don't call you slaves.

Anymore because a slave doesn't know what his master is doing. I have called you friends because I have made known to you everything I have heard from my father. You did not choose me remember our study you did not choose me, but I chose you.

I Appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain so that whatever you ask in my father's name He will give you this is what I command you. Love one another after everything in 14 chapter or 15 chapters.

He boils it all down to this. Three words after all this after I've taught you everything for three and a half years get ready. This is my command love one another. That's it. Love one another. Going out and winning the world for Jesus that will be an effect of the causality of your love.

Obeying God will be an effect of the causality of you loving God. Everything will roll back to the power in which you can do certain things will be how you love God and that will by default cause you to love your Brothers and sisters in Christ, which will cause your joy and everything else to be full.

Serving Christ Through Obedience, Love, and Fruitfulness

All right. I'm gonna stop here at verse 18. I Will decrease so God will increase. Amen. Amen. Amen. Listen if some of you. Whatever church you go to I don't care what it is. I don't care if it's a mega church small church medium church.

Whatever it is. Find a ministry first. Talk to your pastor. Give him a shot. Okay, talk to your pastor and say hey look man I want I want to get. I want to get in the game here. If you ever played football and sat on the sidelines.

You know. You had your helmet on sit right by the coach because you wanted to go in right a good pastor Wants guys to go in the game. All right, so go and talk to him. Figure out what you do. Well, every one of you does something.

Well, okay, you have gift skills and talents. Okay gifts from the Holy Spirit skills from life talents from from the abilities God gave you. Okay, take those to the pastor and sit there and go. Hey, man, I want to get in the game man.

I Need an infusion here. I need to get in there strap that bonnet on and I need to crack a few heads. What can I do in this place now? I understand because I have people ask me this all the time. Well, you know my pastor, you know.

He wants me to sing in the choir man, and okay go sing in the choir. Go back to him and say now what go back to him and say now what now what now what now what and every time I don't remember who said this.

If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Kurt Cobain that said if you're faithful in the little things God will make you faithful. Oh, no, that was Jesus in one of his parables guys if you stay faithful. Here's what pastors hate.

Oh, I'll do that. I remember this one guy in church. We were getting this get grass cutting bid and he was like, well, I don't think we should pay that much money. I don't think we should pay people to cut the grass.

We should volunteer to do it. I was like, all right put a volunteer list together. Oh. Right, shut up go sit down. Guys be that person. Okay be that person be the guy who's gonna stand the gap and says a coach put me in.

I'm ready to play if you still can't find things to do. Okay, if you still can't find things to do find a ministry somewhere that is working and go work. Don't have visions of going to Vietnam. I've had a young man tell me one day God called him to go to Vietnam to be a secret trained missionary.