End Times — Leonard Ravenhill

As we go on our way, we certainly will remember to pray for you. Sometimes when I go to a place, they say, we're glad to see you're back. They don't often say they're glad to see my face, but they're glad to see you're back.

But again, we shall remember to pray for you, and I'm sure you will pray for us. I want to read some verses now from the 17th chapter in the Gospel as recorded by Luke, and reading from verse 20. Luke chapter 17, reading from verse 20.

The Kingdom of God and the Coming of the Son of Man

And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, neither shall they say, Lo, here, or lo, there, for behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

He said unto the disciples, The days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and ye shall not see it. They shall say to you, See here, or see there. Go not after them, nor follow them.

For as the lightning that lightneth out of the one part of heaven shineth unto the other part of heaven, so shall also the Son of Man be in his day. But first must ye suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. In that day he which shall be upon the housetop, and is stuck in the house, let him not come down and take it away. He that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

Remember Lot's wife. The text is just so sweet, very simple, and yet to me very provoking words. Remember Lot's wife. The disciples were watching Jesus, excuse me, disappear. For the second time in less than fifty days, they were losing him.

The Apparent Failure and Ascension of Christ

He taught them to pray, Thy kingdom come. And there wasn't a sign of it. He finished the first part of his ministry in a circus act. They put a faded, torn robe of a heathen king on him. They put a reed in his hand, and they put a crown of thorns on his head, and they pushed him around.

Pilate to Herod, Herod to Pilate, Caiaphas handled him, everybody handled him. And he who said, pray thy kingdom come, ended on a scaffold. Very difficult for you and I to appreciate this. They'd invested all they had on him.

They'd given up fishing businesses. One of them gave up a career as a government official. And it all ended in apparent failure. And then suddenly he appeared to them, and now again he's disappeared. He's literally going up in the sky.

They're watching him go. They didn't believe him the first time. He said, if I die, I rise again. I have power to lay down my life. I have power to take it up. But they forgot it. And apparently they were going to forget this.

They'd forgotten again what he said, because Jesus said, if I go, I will come again. And as he went up, reversing the law of gravity, because he had power, they heard a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son.

They heard the voice of the angels saying, this same Jesus shall also come in like manner as you're seeing him go now. So there is the voice of Jesus, I will come again. There is the voice of the angels, he will come again.

And then the great apostle Paul said that Jesus would come. And so we have this threefold certainty. You know, tomorrow something like, I think 50 million letters will be crossing America. Mine are always late.

The Two Comings of Jesus Christ

But they'll be crossing America, about 50 million. And every one of them bears the mark of the birth of Jesus Christ. He came once, and not many people anticipated his coming, and he's coming again. But the two comings are very different.

The first time he came, nobody saw him come. The next time, every eye shall see him. The first time, he was escorted with a mere handful of angels. The next time, he's coming with ten thousand of his saints.

The first time he came, he came to poverty. The next time, he's coming to pageantry. The first time he came, he came to misery. A house with wall to wall dung, and cobwebs for curtains. And animal urine smelling all over the place.

And only the heat of the animals to heat the building. The first time, he came to misery. The next time, he's coming to majesty. The first time, he came as a lamb. He was led as a lamb, but not next time.

The next time, he's not coming as a lamb. He's coming as the lion of the tribe of Judah. The first time he came, they put on his head a crown of thorns. We sung that majestic hymn of bridges twice this week.

We could have sung it tonight. I love it. I never get tired of it. Crown him with many crowns. The lamb upon his throat. The first time he came, he came as the king of the Jews. The next time, he's coming as the king of kings and the lord of lords.

The first time he came, he never traveled out of that tiny little country that we call Palestine. The next time he comes, he's coming in the language again of Isaac Watts, that Jesus shall reign wherever the sun does its successive journeys run.

The first time he came, he came to die. The next time, he's going to raise the dead. The first time he came, he came to redeem us. The next time he comes, he's going to reign over us. It was Charles Wesley who taught us to sing the hymn, Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild.

And I think we've overdone it a bit. Jesus wasn't always gentle, he wasn't always meek, he wasn't always mild. One day he turned to the Pharisees and he said in the morning, it will be foul weather, you say.

And then, it will be foul weather today because the sky is red. In the evening, he said, it will be fair weather, the sky is red. Oh, you dumb hypocrites, he said. Can you see, can you read the sky and not read the sign of the times?

I think he'd say that very same thing if he came back to us. Sometimes I think the only thing that we learn from history is that we don't learn from history. That's the most prophetic condemnation of humankind.

We do not learn from history. I'm getting quite old. This week, I have a birthday. I was thinking tonight, I was in a house a few years ago and it was my birthday, I was 46. The man in the house said, well, anybody in this house gets a dollar for every year of birthday.

And so he gave me a packet with 46 dollars in. I thought I might have got a hundred like that this week, I didn't get one. But anyhow, I'm old enough to remember World War I, before it and after it. I'm old enough to remember that that majestic catastrophe ended at 11 o 'clock in the morning on the 11th day of the 11th month, 11 months from the signing of the armistice with Turkey and 11 months from the time that Al-Ambi entered into Jerusalem.

Do you think that God was trying to tell the human race in 1938 that we were entering into the last hour of human destiny? A sequence of five 11s again. The war terminated at 11 o 'clock in the morning on the 11th day of the 11th month, 11 months from the signing of the armistice with Turkey, 11 months from when Al-Ambi entered into Jerusalem.

The Last Days and the Midnight Hour

People say to me often, as I guess they do to other men, well, well, well, do you think we're living in the last days? And I say definitely not, we're not living in the last days. Well our pastor says we are, you better give him a nudge, he's been asleep a long while.

We're not living in the last days. Some of you realize that this book, the church was born in the last days. The book of the Revelation speaks about things which will shortly come to pass and they were written 2 ,000 years ago.

And as it says, John is continually saying, little children, it is the last time. And in the wonderful, fabulous book of Hebrews we study to some degree this week, it begins, God who at sundry times and in divest manna spake unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days, 2 ,000 years ago, then on God's clock I suggest you tonight, it's not even five minutes to the midnight hour.

It's not even one minute to the midnight hour. I believe we're living right on the edge, just before the final stroke of the clock that will bring Jesus Christ back. An event in history that didn't matter too much to us was the war in 1967.

One of the signs of the end of the age is when you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, has it ever been more surrounded than it is tonight? When you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, look up, your redemption draws nigh.

1967, less than three million Jews fought more than 30 million Arabs, and the Jews licked the Arabs. Somebody asked the chief rabbi how it was that they accomplished one of the greatest wars in history, one of the greatest military upsets in history, in six days.

The devout old rabbi bowed his head and said, have you forgotten the scripture says, What does it say? They shall fall by the edge of the sword, 21, verse 24 of Luke, you don't need to look at it. Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

And the Jews, pardon me, the Gentiles have been treading down Jerusalem since Nebuchadnezzar 2 ,500 years ago. Moshe Dayan is certainly not a devout Jew, he rather makes fun of religion. He's only got one eye but he seems to see quite a bit.

And he walked up to the wailing wall, those last stones, the remnant of Herod's temple, and put his finger on one of those stones and said, this is the hour of the Jew, this is our holy of holies, I'm not a religious man, this is the holy of holies.

This is where the saints were, this is where the patriarchs were, this is the most sacred place on earth for the Jews, we've got it and we'll never surrender it again. And I don't believe they ever will.

I believe that began the countdown to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. When you see Jerusalem trodden down of the Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles, and when it's released, that sets the alarm clock for the end of the age, and it started in 1967.

There were as many angles to the return of the Lord Jesus Christ, theologically, prophetically, as there are spokes in a wheel, and one can never cover them a night like this. You could spend a whole night about the Antichrist, you could spend a whole night concerning the Jews.

Maybe the most dramatic race of people, remember again, and I remind you of this, that God was married to the Jews, and he divorced the Jews, and he's going to remarry the Jews. Now I believe, and I think my dear friend David, I noticed that little Texan just came in, and I believe he shares this view, that this is not only the midnight hour for America, it's the midnight hour for the world.

There are some frightening days ahead of us. In the 12th chapter of Hebrews there, that there is coming a period in human history when everything, economically, socially, religiously, morally, everything that can be shaken will be shaken, but the kingdom that cannot be shaken will remain.

Judgment on Nations and Churches

I said at the Southern Baptist Convention, I got there once, I'm sure the only time I ever will, but somebody has to shake the dry bones. And I said, if I gave you a paper and pen to ask you to sign on that piece of paper, what or who you think is the greatest enemy to America, you could start with the devil, finish with the Democrats in between, have divorce and drink and dope and I don't know what, and you'd miss it entirely.

Because I'm convinced tonight, with all the power of my being, should I die five minutes from when I finish preaching, I'd answer to God with a clear conscience that I believe the greatest threat to America tonight is God.

I remind you, he divorced the Jews, he's left them alone for 2 ,000 years, five times in the history of the world, have almost been annihilated, and God has let them be kicked around like a football, they've been imprisoned and ostracized and penalized and victimized, and God looks on and doesn't bother.

You see, one day they took the Son of God to the cross, and as he went there he said, please just let me say one thing to you, you're not stealing my life, I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it up.

And I want to tell you something, you're not rejecting me, I'm rejecting you, your house is left unto you desolate. For 2 ,000 years God hasn't bothered with the Jews. They may hold their money back to the world, they may control the movie industry, they control banks, they control most of TV, and what have you got?

But as regards the blessing of God, he's totally ignored them. If God walks out on the nation that he married and then divorced, what makes you think that almighty God, the holy being in eternity, is dependent on America or England tonight?

The most frightening scripture almost in the book of the Revelation, it's a terrible book, takes you to the edge of the hell and you see millions there in torment, it takes you to heaven and you see the vastness and wonder of it.

But it also says this concerning a church, if you go so far and you don't repent of your sin, I'll remove your candlestick. And I remind you again of one of the most brilliant and modern American writers, Francis Schaeffer.

Francis Schaeffer says in his book Debt in the City, which he says again, dealing with Romans 1 through 3, God has redected the cities of America already, they're tolling hoses at him. We break God's law, does he have to keep weeping God we trust?

And legalize abortions. And they've state out there, I forget the name for a moment, has legalized prostitution in the so-called Christian country. We've more drug addicts, we've more perverts, we've more divorces, we've more illegitimate children, we've more kids with VD under 16 years of age than any country in the world.

I've lived in some of the subculture of New York and walked it at midnight, walked it at midday, and been there in the mayor's special research into drug addiction and who controls it in America. And yet when you've done, when you've told me that America has reached the bottom of the pile, when you've told me of the threat of communist power, and Breed's nephew's laughing on his plane going home tonight, he's got everything he wanted.

The dollar has never been more fixed, but he managed to pull another one. They still owe America 1 .5 billion dollars from the last war, but he said, I want 400 million of credit, we'll pay you in about 30 years.

And he got the finest terms, and he sold us some gas. But I noticed the other day, Senator Jackson said, we buy this, whatever it is, 100 cubic feet, say, per argument, we buy it for 70 cents, and they're going to generously sell it from Russia at $2 to us.

The grain bins across the nation are empty tonight according to HHMPY. That's why you pay so much for your steak, we get it all for Russia at a cut price. We have no gas. At the end of the street there is a gas station, no gas, a big sign.

We've no meat. We're at the bottom of the pile lower than we've ever been in the history of America. We've no morality. We haven't much of a government right now according to Watergate either. But when you've told me the worst, and when you've counted the last bomb that Russia has, and the last bullet, and the last menace, and if you like you can steal and cheat on the secret plans they have for destroying America.

And when you've said it all, I'll tell you there's one thing worse than the whole accumulated threat to America tonight, in my judgment, and that is a thick church in a dying world. I read you this scripture from the 17th chapter, Luke, briefly.

Lot, Abraham, and the Seduction of Materialism

Jesus out in front of him, his disciples, and immediately behind them are the Pharisees, and under pressure from these men, they're asking, what shall be the sign of thy coming and the end of the age?

And Jesus says certain things, and then with three words he throws our minds back 3 ,000 years to three people. Because if you remember Lot's wife, you must remember Lot. If you remember Lot, you must remember Abraham.

The story begins in the 11th chapter of Genesis. It goes right through to the 19th chapter of Genesis. In the language of Charles Dickens, it's a tale of two cities. It's a study in two attitudes. It's a man who refused to be mesmerized by the materialism of the world, and it's another man, as we would say, a Christian, and he fell for the whole thing.

It's a little fellow that started off in Ur of the Chaldees, and he was nameless and homeless and wifeless and childless, positionless, possessionless, and he got on the Guinness Spiral, you know, rags to riches, log cabin to White House, super edition of it, and he climbed up and up and up until he became the mayor of a city, and a judge, he sat in the gate, and then judgment came, and he ended where he began.

He ended nameless, wifeless, almost childless, positionless, possessiveness. He had nothing to cover him. And not only is it true that we do not learn from history, we do not learn from the tragedies in the Word of God.

I don't know, we'd be smarter than we are. Isn't it strange that concerning one of the most fantastic things in history, that Jesus cuts it off by saying, remember Lot's wife. Who in the world is interested in Lot's wife?

Why did Jesus say, remember Lot's wife? Was she wicked? All women are wicked. I mean, well, sure they are. You say, what about men? Doesn't the Bible say, men shall wax worse and worse? Oh yes, evil men are waxing worse and worse.

If you knew some of the schemes to rot and destroy the youth of America tonight, you wouldn't sleep for the next four nights and you'd take all the barbiturates you like. They'd never have effect on you.

If you knew the cunning of hell to destroy our generation, we'd be scared. Evil men are waxing worse and worse. What about women? Oh brother, they've been getting worse ever since Adam's rib to women's limb.

Put that in your notebook. Right. Oh yes, they're getting worse. Their situation is getting worse and worse. Why remember Lot's wife? Oh, she wasn't more wicked than anyone else. If Jesus wanted, he could have chosen some other wife.

Wife of, maybe, Samson. Maybe the wife of Ahab, Jezebel. He isn't choosing someone who's exceptionally wicked. He's choosing somebody, in the language of the word of God, that he or she who is often reproved and hardened her neck was cut off suddenly and without remedy.

Where did he get his wife? I don't know. Would you like to suggest he got his wife in Ur of the Chaldees? All right, I'll accept that. If he got his wife in Ur of the Chaldees, she was a member of the world's first missionary party, because Abraham was the first missionary in history.

And even though she lived against this colossal spiritual figure and was a member of the world's first missionary party, she perished. Maybe he didn't get his wife in Ur of the Chaldees. Maybe like so many men in the Old Testament, he got his wife by the side of a well.

And I can see him rushing in one day and saying to his uncle, I want to tell you something. And he said, you told me. Told you what? You've fallen in love. I've seen men like you before. You've just fallen in love.

That's all there is to it. Oh, but you've never seen a woman like this. Oh, Uncle Abraham, in fact, she's such a vision. I'm just not sure if she's an angel or a woman. Well, there's one thing for sure.

No man goes looking for a witch. He may get one, but boy, he doesn't go looking for one. She's so beautiful. And I can hear the old man saying, wait a minute. Do you remember where she comes from? Remember this.

She's one of the lesser breeds without the law. She's heathen, as we would say. This thing won't work. Dirty. Love is not only blind, it's deaf. It doesn't take any heed. And the story goes on. It tells how these men prospered.

The hand of God was on them. And one day Abraham calls his nephew Lot, and he says, Lot, look, I want to talk to you a minute. I was looking from the hilltop there, and your herdsman was striving with my herdsman about a piece of territory.

Now, this isn't Christian, as we would say. Why don't we settle this thing? If you want to take that side of the valley, I'll take this. And if you take that, I'll take that. And he says, oh, Uncle Abraham.

You see, there was one thing Uncle Abraham did God didn't want him to do. He went into Egypt. And the young fellow had big eyes. And he saw Egypt and its flesh pots and its prosperity and its gilt and its gold and its glitter.

And when Uncle Abraham says, which side of the valley do you, well, who's going to live on that mountain? Pooh. There's no grass there much. And not only this side of the valley has green grass and beautiful water, but there's Sodom.

And he pitched his tent towards Sodom, that's all. Oh, he got his eye on the main church. Boy, I'll make some millions here pretty quick. And Uncle Abraham said, you want that side of the valley? He said, yeah, yeah, I'll take that side of the valley.

And Uncle Abraham says, well, that's all right. You see, if he'd been a gentleman, he would have said, Uncle Abraham, you're the older person and you should make your choice. It's not my privilege. I would still be in awe of the Chaldees, but for your kindness, you choose that side if you want.

Abraham said, so I have to go away. And the Lord said, and I like the way the Lord talked to him. He said, Abraham. And he said, here I am. He said, go back and stand on that rock you're at. Look north, south, east, west, all, A-L-L.

All the land that thou seest, I'll give it to thee. But my nephew's just taken all this territory. No, no, no, he hasn't. He just borrowed it. I'm going to give you the whole. And he gave him the boundaries of the area where he was to inherit.

And they're still going to inherit that, the Jews. And Uncle Abraham went up the mountain. And Lot pitched his tent towards Sodom. He did his banking and his business there. He got involved there. He became very important there.

And God said, this isn't good. I'll have to upset this business. And so you have a battle of five kings against four. And they came and invaded the city. And they threw a rope around the neck of Lot. And they dragged him out of the city.

And they took his cattle and they took his treasures. And somebody ran after this wonderful man, or ran up the hill and said, Abraham, they've taken your nephew, Lot. Use a phrase David used this morning.

Old Abraham might have said, let him stew in his own juice. I've been warning him a long time. He's getting backslidden. He's not worshipping God. He never comes up the mountain and offers sacrifice and talks about things spiritual.

It'll do him good. Instead of that, Uncle Abraham took over 200 servants. He was a rich man. And he went and rescued Lot out of the hand of his enemies. And as Abraham and Lot were coming down the road, they met this mysterious, majestic, marvelous Melchizedek.

And immediately Abraham saw him. He fell to his feet and he worshipped him. And he offered him tithes. The young man didn't. He was in a hurry. Thanks, Uncle Abraham. I've got to get to business again.

I lost all my property and I'll have to get... No, Abraham worshipped and he offered tithes. But the young man didn't offer any tithes. He was far too busy. Is it true? Far too busy. He went back to business.

Recovered some of his losses. But he didn't merely go and pitch his tent towards Sodom. He went and lived in Sodom. And as bad as it was that he went and lived in Sodom, the trouble was Sodom got into him.

Abraham was on the mountain communing with God. This man is getting more and more involved, extending his territory, deepening his investment, feeling more success and security. Two daughters were born to him.

And he married them off to Sodomites. We've changed the word for Sodomy. It's a dirty word. And we try and make it a bit smoother with homosexuality. England has legalized the damnable thing. And America's pushing to legalize it.

And I've got news for you teenagers. You'd better live very near to God because there are days just up the road, and I expect to see them anyhow, that are going to be the most terrible days in history.

Abortion, Sexual Immorality, and Judgment

Because you don't legalize abortion. You don't take living babies out of living women. And what are we to do with the living babies? Mind your own business, the government says. If somebody buys them for dog meat, do you wonder your dog licks his lips?

You say men wouldn't be as bad as that. If they'll take living babies out of living women, they're bad enough to do anything. And we're a Christian country. We're not a communist country. And we've legalized abortion.

Nevada's legalized prostitution. Some of the filthiest films ever shown are being shown now. We've reached an all-time low in morality or immorality. And you don't break God's laws. God watches the divorce courts of America and England every day, and marriages are broken, and kids are tossed around.

I think there's about 20 million battered between fathers and mothers that are restless. What do you expect to inherit in the next generation? Sodom and Gomorrah. England and America, for they're the modern Sodom and Gomorrah.

You see, you can preach your heart out. Kids in America don't care a hill of beans. Those kids who may be going to hell, what do they care? They laugh at the preachers. Talk, nudge each other. I'll tell you one thing, going around the world, you never find heathen children that are rude.

They may not be educated like you are. Some could hardly say they're ABCs, but they sit up mouth when you tell them the gospel. It runs in your ears now to some of you kids, and you'll land in hell unless you repent anyhow.

He not only picked his tent towards Sodom, he went and lived in Sodom. He married his children after Sodomite. And do you know one reason that God blessed this amazing man Abraham? You'd hardly guess.

Because of his tithes and offerings. No, no, no, no. God said this. Abraham, he knows how to take care of his children. Do you know how to take care of yours? I was in a church a few years ago on the west coast, and after the morning service, a man came up to the front with his son.

And I was standing here, and I looked straight in his eyes. He was a huge, huge man with a big, big son. They thanked me for the message, and I thanked them. We had a wonderful move that week. They had to take petitions down in the church.

God filled the place. People were wonderfully saved. At the end of the week, the man came again, and he said, Sunday night, I want to thank you for this week. It's been very wonderful. And I said, well, fine.

By the way, I haven't seen your son around. Oh, no, no. He's been very busy this week. Very busy. He's a very gifted boy. He can pilot our family plane. You should see him handle our speedboat. We were on vacation, and he managed the whole business.

He's a great boy. Straight. A student. All the girls like him. He's the best boy in the high school there. Everybody likes him. But I said, he hasn't been to church one night. No, no, no. He's very busy.

I said, why didn't you make him come to church? Make him come to church? Well, I said, what does he weigh? About 200 pounds? Big boy like that? I suppose when he's 19. I didn't know he was still in school.

I said, 19? 19? He's only 40. I said, he's a huge fellow. Why didn't you make him come to church? Make him? Do you know what he weighs? I don't care what he weighs. I said, he's got a man's body and a boy's brain and a boy's emotions and a boy's soul.

Why don't you make him come to church? Oh, I don't push my ideas on him. Does he go to school? I just told you he's a straight A student. He's a wonderful boy. You mean to say you don't have a single problem with that boy?

Well, he said, we do have one. You'll be amazed what it is. Do you know he can't get up in the morning? You can't get him out of bed. I said, well, fancy that. An athlete. Too, too big, muscular boy and he can't get out of bed in the morning.

He said, as a matter of fact, the other morning I couldn't get him out. I took a wet sponge and rubbed it on his face. I said, boy, you're cruel. He said, yesterday morning he wouldn't get out. I got hold of the bed and I tripped the bed and flopped him on the floor.

Oh, I said, what a cruel father. What a cruel father. Well, what do you want me to do? I said, you don't believe in pushing your ideas on him, you say? You wouldn't make him come. Why make him go to school?

You should go in his room in the morning and say, John, excuse me, but I'm in a business and I know you don't want to go to school and it's all right, my dear boy. I just wonder if you'd like your eggs sunny side up and how much toast you need and whether you want coffee.

And then at 11 o 'clock, what would you like, Mountain Dew or Coke or Pepsi? And then at 12, what would you like, steak? He said, are you crazy? I said, no, are you? I think you are. You don't know how.

Oh, my boy, his head. I must develop his head and look after him. But his heart. Abraham knew how to take care of his children. There is a law that was mentioned before. It's a moral universe and God established that law.

And you can't break it. But whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. If you sow a thought, you reap an act. If you sow an act, you reap a habit. If you sow a habit, you reap a character. If you sow a character, you reap a destiny.

You train your children. I made up my mind years ago. I asked my sweetheart that if my boys did not follow the Lord, I would not preach until they did. I'm not going to rescue your kids from hell if mine are going.

I'm not going to tell you how to train your family if my children are prodigals and rebels. They're all on distant mission fields tonight. The three of them, thank God. He knoweth how to take care of his children.

Do you? Some of you know where your pedigree cat is at 10 o 'clock at night, but you don't know where your daughter is. You discipline in other areas, but not this area. You'd be amazed if I were to ask you tonight for a show of hands, which I wouldn't, not because I'm afraid that I won't, but if I asked you for a show of hands, how many people here have a family altar?

That every day the Word of God is open, and Daddy kneels and prays, and he protects his family before they go out. With the waking, whatever time I wake, I usually get up early in the morning, before the dawn.

The first thing I try to do is, like Job, cover my precious boys so they can pray for themselves. And the first thing I do is say, Lord, now, thank you for this day. I worship you. Put your hand on Paul, on David, on Philip.

Keep them this day. Yeah, the steps of these men are very interesting. Wasn't it David this morning, was it, talked about a friend, what a friend we have in Jesus. You know, I'm convinced in my heart, as I look at the aggregate reports of iniquity and sin and vileness, and David could tell you quite a lot about the Mafia if he would, but he won't, and he's sensible.