Luke 13:25 — Bob Bruton

The Last Opportunity to Respond to the Gospel

So we bow our heads and have a word of prayer for a moment, please. Once again, with our heads bowed and our eyes closed, we wish to remind you that we've come together for what we call another gospel meeting.

We're so grateful to have the building, have the facility, and so grateful to be able to invite you to come, and we're so grateful that you've come. Some have come for one reason or another. Maybe someone called you on the phone.

Maybe it's just your habit to come to meetings with your wife or your husband or your family. And sometimes, maybe we've been coming for years and we just take everything for granted. I'm going to ask you tonight to pay attention and listen as though this is your first time that you've ever come to a gospel meeting.

And I'm going to ask you to listen as though this is your last time to come. May I ask you, with your heads bowed and eyes closed, may I ask you in love, dear friend, what if this was the last opportunity?

And tonight, when you left this building, your decision will seal your destiny. I'm going to ask you to listen tonight as though this were the case, for it may be for someone near. Listen and ask God to help you to believe.

In fact, why not just decide now, I'm going to believe what the Bible says tonight, and I'm going to do what the Bible says. If you do, dear friend, this could be the great turning point of your life.

It could change the entire course of your life and make a new person out of you. But I don't know who is saved and who is not. Only you know your spiritual condition and relationship before God, and the choice will be yours.

May God help you to make the right decision tonight. Now, our Father, we pray that as we look into Thy Word that the Spirit of God Himself shall speak to each of our hearts. To those of us who are saved, we pray that He will just seal it up that much more as far as salvation is concerned, and we might take on new dynamics, new dimensions tonight in our own Christian life.

And that those of us, those here who are unsaved, who are lost and in their sins, we pray that tonight might be the time in which they say, yes, to Christ. I'll not be lost any longer. I'll trust Him and save you.

May the Spirit of God do His work in our hearts tonight, we pray in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. You have your Bibles turned with me, please, to Luke, chapter 13. Luke, chapter 13 and verse 25.

A Christian Testimony That Draws the Lost

Before we read this verse, I'd like to tell you a little story I heard recently of a minister, not a minister, but a businessman rather, who was a Christian businessman. And one night on the way home from work, he decided rather than riding the bus, he would just walk home.

It was such a lovely night, and so he was walking home from work. He knew there would be quite some time before the evening meal was ready, and he wanted to relax. And so as he was walking home through the neighborhood before he got to his home, he passed a little church building on the corner there that was having church services.

And of course, this businessman, not being a Christian and not being a church goer, and knowing very little about what the church stood for except of the basics, you might say, that he learned in Sunday school, his childhood days came back to his mind.

And he said to himself, Well, I have a little time before I have to be at home. I think I'll just slip in the back of the church building here and sit down and listen to the service that's going on. And so the businessman, who wasn't a Christian, came in and slipped down quietly and sat down in the back seat.

And it so happened that it was one of those meetings where people were giving testimonies. And so one person stood and gave a testimony, and he says, Well, I'm having a terrible time down at work for the cause of Christ.

I'm being persecuted. People are bothering me. I'm not being promoted. The workload is doubled, and everything is going wrong. Please pray for me. And he sat down. Another dear person stood up. The lady said, I'm having lumbago in my back, and my back is aching.

I haven't had a good day. I haven't had a day without pain for years. Please pray for me. And the testimony went on and on and on, and everyone that stood up that gave a word of testimony really was testifying to something that was wrong, some pressure that they were having in life.

And then they said, Please pray for me, and sat down. Finally, after the minister had delivered the message for the evening, he saw the businessman back in the back, and of course the businessman hadn't said a thing, just sat and listened.

So the preacher made his way down the aisle and got to the back door before he dismissed the audience, and then he caught the businessman right by the hand, and he said, Say, you're a visitor, aren't you?

He says, Yes, I am. He says, You're a Christian? He says, No, I have enough troubles of my own already. And you know, friends, I think sometimes that we as Christians, we reflect such a negative testimony that the world looks at us and they say, I don't want to be like them.

I recall before I was saved, I used to watch my mother, my dear mom, and all of you dear friends here, and all you would do is read that Bible and sit in these church pews and sing these songs, and you never did anything that had any fun to it.

Well, I was wrong. You know I was wrong, but I didn't know I was wrong, and I thought that being a Christian would be terribly boring, and there would be no fun in it. And you know, this is the way that many of the world looks at Christianity.

They see the negative side, and they say, Well, you have no fun. You're living without life. You don't drink, smoke, or chew or go with those that do. You don't go to the nightclub. You don't go to the movies.

You don't go to the dances. You don't go to all these things. All you do is sit still. Well, I like to tell you, dear friend, tonight that the only life worth living is the life in Christ, knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior.

And I think these are great days in which Christians are living. I think this is the best time in life to give a testimony for the Lord and unto the Lord to the lost people of the world. I believe the unsaved people are searching, and when they meet Christians with a difference, with a different life, and with a smile on their face, and a spring in their step, they'll listen to them, and they'll hear them out.

The fact of the matter is, we are not doing many of us like we ought to. Now, I think we ought to turn the tides tonight. In fact, we're going to do so in the Scriptures, and instead of looking at the child of God, we know what we have.

I want us to look at the unsaved and see what they don't have. Will you do that with me tonight? And if you're here unsaved, I want you to hear every verse of Scripture that we read. You see, we're on the winning side.

God is God. Creation demands a creator. Design does demand a designer. A plan demands a planner, and our own God-consciousness demands God. And the Bible here proves that God does exist, and we are on the winning side.

We're going to win, and we don't have to be ashamed about it at all. And dear friend, if you're unsaved, you're going to lose. All the things in life worth having and worth enjoying, you don't have. And all the things in eternity that's worth having, you don't have either.

The Unbeliever Without Entrance to Heaven

Now, number one, we're going to share with you about nine things tonight, or ten if we have time. Ten things that the Christ rejecter is without. Now, I'm going to ask you, yes or no, are you a Christian?

Well, the majority of you can say, oh yes, thank God, I'm a Christian. Well, my message to you tonight should be one that will seal it up and just make you shout and happy as far as being a Christian is concerned.

But if you're an unsaved person, if you're lost and in your sin tonight, I want to share with you ten of the most important things in life and death that you don't have. And all of what's left isn't worth having if you miss these things.

Number one, Luke chapter 13 and verse 25, when once the master of the house is risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us.

And he shall answer and say unto you, I know ye not from where you are. Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and have drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you, I know ye not from where you are.

Depart from me, all ye that workers of iniquity. This verse tells us that the unbeliever, the lost individual, has no entrance to heaven. He's without, this is number one, he's without an entrance to heaven.

Now, I've traveled quite a bit, and I know what it means to pull up to a motel or a hotel and have an open bedroom, an entrance that I can go into and rest. And the Scripture teaches, and as far as the Christian is concerned, in the book of Revelation, that when we leave this life, there is an entrance to heaven, the doors will be opened.

And I believe we can take John's translation from earth to heaven in Revelation chapter 4 and verse 1 as a type of the experience that every believer will experience when he leaves this life if the Lord doesn't come first.

And the first thing that he sees is an open door to heaven, and he sees a throne, and he sees one that sat up on the throne, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he sees all the description of a beautiful, glorious, eternal heaven, and it's all his forever.

Now, I want to share something with you. I'm no doctor, nor surgeon, nor have anything to do with medicine, nor life, nor death. But I have talked to a number of doctors and, just recently, a Dr. Cooke, who is the head doctor of the hospital in Berrienston, Michigan, where our brother Charlie Williams labors for the Lord, and he verified this after I have talked to a number of other doctors.

They tell me that when a person dies, that there are two ways of determining death. One, by the heartbeat, and the other, by the brainwave. In fact, in New York City, at this very time, there's a legal battle going on between some company and some other company to determine what is death.

When does a person die? When the heart beats, or when the brainwave stops, or when both together stop? For instance, if you had a $100 ,000 insurance policy, and this insurance policy lasted until noon a certain day, and your heart quit beating at five minutes till twelve, and your brainwave continued till five minutes after twelve, and if you were not dead until both stopped, my friend, you'd be out of business.

That's why it's a contract, isn't it? If the law says that both have to stop. And so, I had this conversation with a friend, in fact, with Dr. Cooke, and he told me the same thing that a number of other doctors have told me, that there is definitely the beginning of the death experience, and an ending of the death experience, and usually there's about 30 minutes to an hour difference.

Now, I'm not saying that one is the heartbeat, and the other is the brainwave. I can't say that. I'm just imagining that. I have had doctors tell me that in the hospitals, one reason they roll the corpse of a person who has died as quickly as possible to the morgue down in the basement, so when they go out of that twilight zone, there's usually a temporary secondary coming back to life.

In other words, a person dies. Everything stops as far as outward appearances are concerned. They lay that corpse out on a bed, they put the sheet over the corpse's head, and roll that corpse away. And that individual seems to go into a twilight, sleepy zone.

And about 30 minutes later, they say, not always, there comes a time in which just briefly this corpse wakes up. And there's a reason to believe that one is the gradual backing out of this life, and the other is the gradual arrival to the eternal state.

And I've had more than one preacher tell me, who had been doctors and had made studies of this, that you can always tell the believers from the unbelievers, for the believers die with a smile on their face.

And there is never a recapitulation 30 minutes later. But when an unbeliever dies, while he may not know he's dying when he's going into this 30-minute twilight zone, the reason they roll that corpse out of the hospital so no one can see it as quickly as possible, is because if he wakes up there at the other end of this little stage of time, and he sees the caverns of the damned, and he realizes that he's in hell, he screams to the top of his voice before he drops over.

Now, I've been in occasions where I've seen this happen. And Dr. Cook told me a year ago, he says, Bob, I've seen hundreds of these experiences. And he says, every time I see it, it shatters me down to my toes.

And he never wants to see it again. And I visited people in hospitals, and I've seen dear Christians lean back on the pillow and just smile like they'd seen the Lord, and off they'd go. I'll tell you, dear friends, all the tribulations that all the Christians ever experienced in the life and history of the church combined are not worth the privilege of an open door to heaven the moment we leave this life.

Okay, I'd be happy to sacrifice it all to know that one of these days when I breathe my last, when they snap the lid on my casket, oh brother, Bob is going to be absent from the body and present with the Lord forever.

Amen? Amen. But the scripture says that the unsaved person has no door. The door is shut. I mentioned St. Cloud Penitentiary in one of the sermons recently. I went to visit a dear friend in the penitentiary in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and they have four rows of doors you go through.

And I'll tell you, by the time they open one door and you go through it, and they clunk that door behind you, and then they open the next one, you go through, they clunk that door behind you. By the time you go through these four doors, my friend, you're in jail.

And you know you're in jail. And I look back, you know, and I hope those fellas don't go off duty. I'll tell you that. You get that I'm in jail feeling, and you want to begin to see those doors open up.

Can you imagine what life will be like when that time comes and the doors to heaven are closed? John says, and the gates were open. But the unsaved person, while you may have everything in this life, when the time comes, there will be no entrance to heaven for you.

Rejection of Christ Without a Cause

Now, number two, John chapter 15 and verse 25. John chapter 15 and verse 25. We see a second without as far as the unbeliever is concerned. John chapter 15. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their heart, they hated me without a cause.

Without a cause. You know what this means? This means that every person who lives and dies and goes to hell will go there without one justifiable reason. Did you know that? When you end up in hell, you cannot blame God for a moment.

God has opened the door. God has provided the way. And there is not one thing that the Lord Jesus Christ has ever done to you wrong. Not one bad thing. Everything that the Lord Jesus has ever done for mankind, it was done good and for the benefit of the human race.

And we cannot stand and point one finger of accusation to God or to the Lord Jesus Christ. And yet, because of the sin of the human heart, the scripture says they hated him without a cause. They had no cause to hate him.

That is, the cause was not in the Lord Jesus Christ to hate him, but the cause was in the wicked heart of man. Dear friend, tonight you do not have one reason in the world for rejecting Jesus Christ as your Savior.

The reason you reject him is because sin and the antichrist have found your heart and you cannot stand and confess Christ apart from the exercise of your will examined and encouraged by the Holy Spirit.

You cannot do it. I have been in testimony meetings before where I have seen a person stand and give a good, clear-linking testimony of conversion to Christ. And right next door, right beside that person, or right nearby, here is a person who professed to be a Christian.

He was trying to make everyone think he was a Christian, and he was gripping the table, he was gripping the bench, and he could not get up. Why? Because Satan had him down. And this is what it means in 1 John chapter 4, in verse 1.

But it says, greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world, speaking of the Spirit. And when God saves an individual, the Spirit of God comes down into that individual, and he breaks the chains that bind him, and he sets him free, and he gives him a message, and he's got to speak out for the Lord.

What about you tonight? My friends, you don't have one cause to ever hate the Lord Jesus or reject him, and yet you still live. Why? Because of sin. Now let's hurry on. Romans chapter 1, in verse 20. Romans chapter 1, in verse 20, and we see a third thing that every Christ-rejecter in this world is without.

Without Excuse Before God

And by the way, you dear Christians here, I hope you write these references down, because this will put a spring in your step, and a song in your heart, and a victorious dynamic at the job or anywhere else.

You don't have to be the loser. You're on the winning side. It's the unbeliever that's the loser. He's without all the things that count. And when they begin to sneer you and laugh at you and make fun of you, you just remember they have no entrance to heaven.

They have no cause to hate Christ. And in Romans chapter 1 and verse 20, we see a third without. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

They not only are without a cause to hate Christ, but the Bible teaches that there's coming a time, it's called the judgment, the great white throne judgment. And every Christ-rejecter that's ever been born into the human race that died rejecting Christ is going to have to stand before that great white throne judgment.

And before that great white throne, it says, and the books were opened and another book was opened. And I believe in the books are recorded all the sins of each of us, except those of us who are Christians.

And over in the book over here is recorded all the believers. And I believe the scripture seems to teach that every person individually is going to have to take his turn to come across the front and stand before that throne, naked before God, as far as sin is concerned.

And the book is going to be opened and the name is going to be sought out. And your name will not be found in the book of life. There'll be no Christians there. They'll be behind the throne on the winning side.

And then over on the other side, the books, the volumes are going to be opened and your name will be found. Oh yes, here it is. And every sin of word, every sin of deed, and every sin of thought will be recorded and it will be amplified.

And you will have to bow your head and agree with God, the son. Yes, I'm a sinner. Yes, I'm worthy only of death and hell and the grave. I deserve to go to the lake of fire. And you'll have to take sides with God against yourself.

You say, well, that isn't fair. Oh yes, it is fair. God has fully revealed himself to mankind by the things which we see, it says here in Romans 1 20. I put Yosemite National Park last year. I told you, I think about the bear.

Creation Reveals the Creator

They had a bear down there robbing garbage cans. People had food on the table, you know, and the bear would come around and when people would go to the meeting, he'd just eat up all the sweet stuff, the hams, the burns and things of that nature.

I went down there and I saw one fellow as the bear came around to his little dining area there, he just picked up a garbage can lid and a knife or something and started beating on the lid like that, you know, and the old bear got all rattled and he took off.

So a few minutes later, this bear was over at another little place and the people had left and they had a nice, beautiful basket there and there was this bear in there carrying everything all up. I said, now that's not fair.

About 30 or 40 of us had gathered around there watching that bear just devour all this sweet food. And old brother Bob was going to be the hero, you know. So I went and got this lid of the garbage can and I got myself a stick and I went over there and I started beating on that thing and that old bear paid no attention until I got just about as far as from here to that clock.

And that bear turned around and roared at me and he chased me for a country mile down that road. And he almost caught me. That's the thing. My children were laughing and just, my whole dad being chased by a bear.

There he goes. I was going just like that through the trees at Yosemite National Park. My wife still laughs at me. That night when I went to bed, I stacked up chairs in front of the door and I put her on that side.

So as that bear came in, I was going over the wall. But you know, on a rainy day, when you see bear tracks, you don't have to see the bear. You know there's a bear around. We don't have to see God to know that God is there.

He's revealed himself. Creation. I asked a young man one time when he got up at a summer youth camp, I said, Johnny, or marriage camp rather. I said, Johnny, how'd you find yourself this morning? He said, well, I just got up, opened my eyes, threw back the cover and there I was, he said, lying right in bed.

And you know, you don't have to look very far to see creation. All you've got to do is get a good, nice rest, wake up in the morning, open your eyes and look around and it's all around you here. Creation demands a creator, dear friend.

How did it get here? They have proven that it did not come by an evolutionary process. It has been here and when it got here, it had to come all at one time. It came because God the creator spoke it into existence.

That's why. A plan demands a planner. Design demands a designer. Look into the human eye. I went to the doctor about a year ago and I bought some glasses and I had my eyes examined and the doctor was looking through my eyes and he was saying, ooh, ah, ooh, ah.

I said, doctor, I'm going to pay you, but I didn't think it was going to be that much. And he says, the reason I'm saying that, Mr. Bruton, is because the most beautiful thing in life is the inside of a human eye.

Man could not design such a thing. Look at a flower. Study the heartbeat of a human being, the blood pressure, the nerve cells, the lungs, the system of reproduction, a number of things, and you cannot deny that there's a design and man is really just sneaking up on it.

He's just learning about it. It's been here all the time. Design demands a designer. Plan demands a planner. And every human being that's ever been born in the human race knows that there is a God somewhere.

He has a God consciousness. The Bible says so right here. Crucia says, no God. Don't fool yourself for a moment. There's no such thing as a 100 pure, thoroughbred atheist. Every man knows that there's a God, and he's without excuse.

Without Strength to Please God

Man will not come to God, the scripture says. He doesn't want God. Well, let's go on. Romans chapter 5 and verse 6. There's a fourth thing that every Christ rejecter is without. First of all, without entrance to heaven.

Secondly, without a cause to hate Christ. Thirdly, without excuse. No but God's at the judgment, at the great white throne judgment. You'll have to take sides with God, and you'll be glad to do it. All the evidence will be on God's side, and you'll have no excuse whatsoever.

And then in Romans 5 and 6, but when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the undone. What does this mean, when we were yet without strength? It means without strength to do good.

Now, we have strength. I have strength to stand here and talk to you, and it takes strength to sit there and listen. But it means without strength for man, as far as man is concerned, to do anything that pleases God.

All of the energy of mankind is spent running from God, and getting deeper and deeper in sin, and man with his strength looks back, and he shakes his fist at God, and says, no God, I don't want you in my life.

Go back. I'd rather do it myself. That's what it means. Now, there may be someone here tonight that says, oh yes, I have a little strength. There's a little good in every man. I talked to a man this afternoon that told me that there's a little bit of God in everyone, and man has a dynamic within himself to do right or to do wrong.

I said to myself, that dear brother hasn't read Romans chapter 5. You don't have one ounce of strength to please God in your own ability. And all the strength that you'll ever have, you'll spend going the other way until God, by the Spirit, reaches out and gets you, and pumps the information into you, and pumps the energy into you, and gives you the strength to turn around and say, oh God, I surrender.

I'll not run any further. I'll not go the other way. Here I am. Take me and use me for your glory. I believe that what you say about your son in the Bible is true. That's conversion. And the Scripture says that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.

Isn't this wonderful? Before we were ever born, before we had ever committed one sin. Some people say, well, you know, all of my past sins are washed away. Now I've got to be careful for the future, for if I sin anymore, I'll lose my salvation.

Listen, when Christ died on the cross, you hadn't committed one sin. They were all sins. And 2 ,000 years ago, He died for all of your sins. The sins that you have committed, the sins that you have committed today, and the sins you're going to commit tomorrow.

Christ died for those sins. And He says, here's the salvation. And my friend, if you're trying to work your way to heaven or buy your way to heaven or reform your way to heaven or be good or do good or any other way to earn or merit salvation, stop where you are.

It's hopeless. We are without strength to please God. This is what it says. Romans chapter 5 and verse 6, For when we were yet without strength, had you taken sides with God on this matter and confessed, God, I can't save myself.

I have nothing to offer. All that I have to offer to you is the sacrifice of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what He wanted to do. Not faith in self and self-confidence, that the modernists say, but turning from self to God and saying, Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe.

And if He paid it all, there's nothing left for me to pay. I'm just going to let Him pay the ticket and claim it and be justified. A person is without an instance to heaven, without a cause to hate Christ, without excuse, and without strength to do good.

Without Christ, Hope, and God

Now turn in your Bible to Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 12. Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 12, and we see two, actually three, of the most pitiful without in the Bible. Ephesians 2 .12, That at that time ye were without Christ.

Now we assume this because you're not saying that Christ rejected. You have rejected Him. You're without Him. You don't love Him. That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

I'll tell you if there's one thing that I praise God for every day in my life is that I have a hope. Not only a hope beyond the grave, dear friend, but I have a hope for today. The hope that my heavenly Father watches over me and nothing can harm me, nothing can touch me except my heavenly Father allow it for my ultimate good day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment.

My hand is in His, and I have a hope that He will lead me right through life. And the most pitiful people I have ever met are those who have no hope, trying to battle their way through life, bumping from one corner to the next, not knowing where to go.

They won't look to God. They can't get help anywhere else, and life is just a miserable thing to them. If you're unsaved tonight, you see, you can't come to God except through Christ. And when you reject Christ, you're saying, God, get out of my life, and you have no hope.

I have a dear friend who's with the Lord now in heaven. Until she died at the age of 82, I think it is, dear Mrs. McLeod was a wonderful, wonderful friend of mine, and they used to visit Mrs. McLeod before her husband, Charlie McLeod, died.

He was one of the old original pillars of the assemblies, churches in the Bay Area 50 years ago. A real man of God until he went home to be with the Lord about five years ago. And in the last three years of his life, he was an invalid all the way, confined to the bed, he couldn't turn over, he couldn't eat.

Dear Mrs. McLeod had to do everything for her, and she's in her eighties, late seventies and eighties. I used to drop by to visit Mrs. McLeod every two or three weeks just to kind of drop in and see how she was doing and see if there's anything we could do for her.

The young people of the assembly used to go over and cut her front lawn. If you teenagers want something to do for the Lord, go find some widows occasionally and cut the lawn and wash the windows and do a few things like that.

We used to go over to see Mrs. McLeod. One day I went to see Mrs. McLeod and she said, Oh Bob, come in, come in. Charlie was still alive at the time. And we went in, we used to go down the hall into the living room and sit and talk about the Lord and see how things were.

And Mrs. McLeod began to cry and she says, Bob, she says, it's been two times. I just can't go on another day. She says, heavens are brass, God isn't there. I pray and I pray and I pray and I just can't reach God and God has forsaken me.

She says, I'm almost ready to deny Christianity altogether. If God don't answer my prayers, if I can't guarantee that, how could I know that he saved me? Maybe he's not even there. And I've never met a dear Christian woman so low in the faith.

And we got down and prayed and I didn't know what to say. I just said, well, Lord, please reveal yourself to Mrs. McLeod. But I left a defeated young man that day. And I could give no hope to Mrs. McLeod.

Somehow or another, it was just too deep. She had worn herself out taking care of Charlie. The following week, I came back to visit Mrs. McLeod and lo and behold, she came bouncing to the door like a 19-year-old girl, smile on her face, this is happy.

I said, oh brother, something's happened. And she says, oh, Bob, come in. I have some of the most wonderful news. Now, an 82-year-old woman, and she walked with a spring in that step right on into the living room.

And she says, Bob, she says, God really revealed himself this week. Let me tell you about it. Next door neighbor, who isn't a Christian, however, used to keep a light on. And this light, if this light was on, it always meant that they were at home.

And so if Mrs. McLeod had any trouble with Charlie, all she had to do was pick up the phone and call the neighbor. But they had another light that they always turned on when they left. So Mrs. McLeod looked out through the kitchen window, and if that light was on, that means they were not at home, she'd better call someone else.

And one night, about two in the morning, Brother Charlie couldn't turn over, never could turn over. And Christine Chrissy, he called her late in bed right next to him. And he says, Chrissy, turn me over.

And Mrs. McLeod, she says, Bob, you'll never know how I felt all day long. And she took in ironing to make a living. Eighty-year-old woman taking in ironing for a living. Plus taking care of Charlie all day long in this hospital bed, a tall bed.

She says, Charlie, she says, I'm so tired I can't get out of bed. She says, I'm just going to lay in bed and take my foot and turn you over. And she reached over. Now, this sounds funny, but it's so pitiful.

She put her foot on Charlie, her hand, and she turned him over and she pushed him off the bed. Now, that wouldn't be too bad, but on the way down, he got one foot between the post and one foot between the mattress.