The Forgotten Commandment — Jim Van Gelderen

First Peter chapter one if you turn in your Bibles to first Peter chapter one last night. We talked we ended with the grace of God, and we're gonna pick up where we left off, and I'd like to speak On a passage of Scripture that deals with the grace of God.

I'd like to introduce the message this way if we could tonight it might be a help to you to understand a little bit of the perspective. I have a little study habit when it comes to a new passage of Scripture and a few years ago I was assigned the topic of personal separation to preach and I thought well immediately I'm just going to go to first Peter chapter one.

And I'm just gonna deal with those few verses there. And so I've got a little study habit. What I'll do is I'll get my analytical Greek New Testament you say what's that? That's for everybody who took Greek and forgot it.

But anyway, I get my analytical Greek New Testament out it parses all the words and I I mark my imperatives. The Greek language they have what they call the imperative mode which is a command and there's also another Situation that's like an exhortation and those two forms.

I'll mark them. I I want to know what God wants me to do with this passage of Scripture. So I always like to find out what the commands are. When I came to first Peter chapter one, I honestly thought well, this is gonna be great.

I am sure the first command in the book of first Peter is gonna be be holy and I thought to myself boy. That's gonna be great preaching to be able to get up and say, you know. The first command and the book of first Peter is to be holy and you know, I began to mark the imperatives.

You know what? I found out it's not the first command. It's the second and It's the third. I Discovered something folks and I don't want you to miss this. I'm entitled the message tonight the forgotten commandment.

I Learned something and that is there's no way in any way in any measure. You can obey the second and third command to be holy if you do not obey the first command. We might call it the forgotten commandment and I believe there's a lot of dear Christians who endeavor to be holy.

They try to obey the second or the third commandment here in first Peter without obeying the first commandment and you know what? It never works. So in a moment, we're gonna find out what this forgotten commandment is because I believe it's so helpful and Understanding perhaps a lost dynamic in some Christians lives and maybe they wonder why they see so see seem to be so unable To to live in accordance with God's holy standard.

The Commands of First Peter 1

Well, let's begin reading here in verse number 13. We're going to read it and a moment. Some of you will figure out what the forgotten commandment is part of the problems is a semantic issue. Which we will try to settle tonight verse number 16.

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you. At the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children. Not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, but as he which hath called you as holy.

So be holy in all manner of conversation because it's written be holy for I am Holy. Perhaps you've wondered in the past as we mentioned I think two or three nights ago I had you raise your hand for how many of you had made a decision for Christ in the past.

That you wholly intended to keep and maybe you did for a week or two. But in the long haul you ended up retreating on that decision and going back to the way you live before you made that decision for Christ.

Maybe you've wondered why that has occurred. Maybe you've wondered why your attempts to be holy have been so So failing in their long-range effectiveness. Well, let's look tonight because I believe this forgotten commandment is it's it's a wonderful commandment.

Let me just say it's it's a wonderful commandment to obey. And I Absolutely have been stirred and thrilled by this passage of Scripture and I hope it'll do the same to you three things tonight. Number one, we're going to look at the mindset which precedes the forgotten commandment.

Then we look at the mandate which is the forgotten commandment and thirdly We'll look at the might which comes from the forgotten the obedience to the commandment now. Look at all first of all in verse number 13.

I'm gonna get technical just for a few moments. I hesitate to do that. But we're gonna get technical for a moment and we're gonna use a little English grammar here and then we'll go on. But the first two verbs you find in verse number 13 are what we call participles.

Most the time participles are always hinging upon a main verb. Both of these participles Literally are grammatically connected with the forgotten commandment the main verb the command and as a result of their command their connection to a command.

They little they literally take on some command force themselves. And so let's look at those two because in a certain sense the obedience to these two commands Provides the atmosphere sets the table if you will to effective obedience to this forgotten commandment.

Girding Up the Mind for Biblical Thinking

Now the first one says In verse number 13 wherefore gird up the loins of your mind. That literally is the idea of girding up the loins of your mind is what we might call. It's an event. It's a crisis.

The verbal tense bears this out girding up your loins is not a process. It's it's an event. It's a point in time. Now one of the problems with this imagery is that probably very few in this room have ever seen anybody gird up their loins.

You know if it said put on the shoes of your mind you immediately you know imagine yourself putting on your shoes. Or comb the hair of your mind. I'm not saying those would be good analogies. They probably wouldn't be but you immediately you can think of that.

Unless you have some of these new hairstyles that never comb their hair, but anyway, that's another message. Actually, we might address that at the very end of the message, you know the I just stepped out of the shower look.

But anyway, we'll just leave that alone. Well, anyway, I'm almost tempted to go to rabbit trail, but I will restrain myself as difficult as it may be. But but you know, we were used to some imagery but but girding up the loins.

That's not one. We're really used to so let me help you with this illustration. It was the mid 1960s. My father went around the world really traveled around the world to see missionaries. With two of his preacher friend ended up in the country of India.

During the language riots some of you may be familiar with the language riots the best analogy here in the u .s. Would probably be some of the civil rights unrest. We had in our sick in the 60s some of the war of Vietnam War unrest some of those kind of things.

But India was trying to come up with a national language and and the people whose language wasn't picked Basically got upset and rioted. That's a simplistic version of the of the language riots. And so My dad and these two preacher friends were in India and they came across a group of men rioting.

I guess the women don't riot in India just that men do so. There's a group of these men and they were they were writing so they took up their 35 millimeter cameras. You remember those those those old those huge beasts, you know, I used to call cameras.

But anyway, I took out the 35 millimeter and they began as good American tourists. They began to snap pictures of these rioting Indian men. You know some good footage for a slide shows and that kind of thing and and so they're taking their pictures and all of a.

Sudden the men Indian men lost interest in rioting and became very interested in these three American tourists. And one preacher said the other one. Let's get out of here and My dad and his two preacher friends they took off and my dad told me later.

He said we would have been in huge trouble except for one thing. The men had to gird up their loins. So they these long flowing flowing robes and they had to reach down they had to grab the robes had to wrap them around tie Them off so their legs were free to pursue the American preachers and believe me by the time they had done that my dad and his Two friends your preacher friends were long gone.

Now the imagery here has got it says gird up the loins of your mind. This is what I'm going to call the commencement of Biblical thinking or the beginning of biblical thinking sometimes for teenagers.

They think of commencement as an end. But actually it means a beginning. Okay, I hate to tell you that but when you come to commencement you just started but anyway. So the commencement or the beginning of biblical thinking now folks.

Let's just think about this for a moment every single spiritual problem that you have and every single Spiritual problem that I have comes from wrong thinking. See wrong thinking always precedes wrong action.

People who act incorrectly do so because they think incorrectly. One Christian writers called the battle of the mind battle before the battle and but we all understand that wrong thinking produces wrong action.

Right produces right action now. So what is preaching? You know preaching is primarily preaching is Confronting not just wrong action. It is confronting the wrong thinking behind the wrong action. See so preaching is taking the truth of God's Word and it is confronting our erroneous wrong thinking.

Okay. So here we are in the pew. I know this has happened. It's happened to me. You're sitting there and someone opens up the word and they begin to preach and all of a sudden you realize, you know I don't think right.

I know it's not good English, but I don't think right and You're confronted there with a decision and you can either at that point Reject Bible thinking and continue to embrace your wrong thinking or you can reject the wrong thinking and Embrace Bible thinking and when we're confronted with truth and we reject the wrong thinking and embrace Bible thinking.

We are girding up our loins. In other words, we're taking wrong thinking processes that are encumbering Christian progress that are hindering our movement forward that are slowing us up in the race of races and We're pulling it up out of the way and those wrong thinking processes no longer uncover our Christian progress.

See that's girding up your loins. It is that point at the end of a message where you say No to wrong thinking. Yes to right thinking sometimes you walk an aisle. Sometimes you'll get on your knee. But whatever it is rejecting the wrong embracing the right by the way that can happen a personal Bible study.

It can happen when you're listening to a sermon tape. It can happen when you're reading a book that is basically preaching in print. That's what a lot of books on the table. That's preaching in print.

That's what that's that's happened to me. Sometimes I'm reading a book and all of a sudden it's like the Lord opens my eyes and I say, you know I have been thinking incorrectly. That's wrong thinking now.

I see why I have an inconsistency or problem here. Okay, that's girding up your loins. That's the beginning. That's the decision. That's the crisis that's the point in time where you make a decision that's going.

This is staying. Okay. Now now we'll go to the second part of syphil here. Which sets in a certain sense sets the table for this truth. It says wherefore gird up the loins of your mind. Lily the idea is having gird up the loins of your mind.

It says then be sober. That's in what we call the present tense, which means it is constative or it is continuative. It's see sobriety is not an event. Sobriety is not a crisis sobriety is a condition.

Okay. So what he's saying here is he's saying when you're confronted with wrong thinking embrace, right? Thinking reject wrong thinking and then what he's saying is be sober is maintain it. He's changing pictures to sobriety.

No, what he's saying is do not let the inebriation of wrong thinking Invade your brain. Don't let the drunkenness of wrong thinking processes slow you up any longer. Maintain the right thinking now friends.

Scripture Meditation and Perseverance

How do we maintain right thinking Psalm 37 verse 31? The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide, you know memorization puts the Bible in your brain. But it is meditation that puts the Bible in your heart and God very clearly.

We know although the verse thy word have I it in mine that I might not Against thee or God see very clearly God teaches us when you put God's Word in your heart. The psalmist says none of your steps will slide.

You know, there's two kinds of Christians. Christians who fall and slide and Christians who fall and get back up. The just man falls seven times and rises up again. In fact in the very psalm where it says the law of God's in his heart.

None of his steps will slide. It says the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. He delighted in his way though He anybody know the next word fall. He shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord.

Uphold with him with his hand. Now friends. There are two kinds of Christians. Christians who fall the Lord upholds them they get back up. Christians who fall and slide and the difference is simple those Christians who put God's law in their heart are the Ones who get back up and the ones who don't put God's law in their heart slide.

I Have never whenever I've asked a teenager who said well Before it didn't last every time I've asked him after that decision. Did you put God's law in your heart? None of them have ever said yes. Because if they'd have said yes, they wouldn't have slid.

We all fall some get back up some slide. And the difference is very simple folks. It's all depending on whether or not we are in the habit of putting God's law in our heart on a daily either reviewing passages.

We've already members memorized chewing on them or are putting new new passages into our heart and mind. Now it is in that atmosphere in Which this forgotten command it works. It's in the atmosphere of rejecting wrong thinking embracing right thinking putting the right thinking in our hearts through memory meditation.

Maintaining it chewing on it. Embracing it making it our thinking. And I find sometimes in a very practical sense. Sometimes taking a passage of scripture and trying in your mind without a piece of paper to come up with a sermon.

Really does help you meditate. So that's perhaps just a little tip there but number one we've got the the the Biblical thinking that precedes this forgotten commandment. Now, let's move on to the biblical mandate.

Hope as Expectant Reliance on Grace

Which is the forgotten commandment now? We see very clearly it says wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober or being sober and now says and hope. Now one of the problems with the word hope that's the forgotten commandment.

I know some of you saying hope. I Mean, how does that work? You know, one of the problems is is because we in America we use hope differently. Then the Bible uses hope. Now, let me use an illustration if I can because I think all of us Understand hope in the way I'm about to use it because this is the way we use it in life.

Just kind of round we don't even think about the fact. It's different in the Bible theologically. Okay, I hate to admit this but I guess I I I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I like Chicago White Sox. I like anything Chicago.

I am a fan I have been since I was a little boy and What one of the things about the the Chicago Cubs. Being a Cubs fan. One of the one of the blessings of being a Cubs fan is you learn how to cope with disillusionment early in life.

See the Cubs are not one of those teams that just lose see that's the way the White Sox were they just they were just Okay all the time until last year and That was the White Sox. Okay, they were they were different than the Cubs the Cubs.

They lose in style. They get your hopes up before they lose and They're just experts at that. They know how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. That is the Chicago Cubs and They just know how to do it.

So over the years, you know 1969, you know, they were up ten games going to September. They lost at the Miracle Mets. Some of you Atlanta fans remember that because the Mets Beat the Braves in the playoffs.

But anyway, that's a long time ago 1969. Some of you remember that Hank Aaron was still around those days. But anyway, so I go back to that. I remember back there. Okay, I know that dates me but about two summers ago.

The Chicago Cubs were doing real well. You know, I'd see some Cub fans and they say hey look at those Cubs. I've said have you looked at your calendar? I said it's July. You know, no Cub fan gets excited in July.

That's extremely premature and So September 1st, hey, how about those Cubs? I'm thinking have you seen it September 1st? Don't you remember 1969 10 games up over the Miracle Mets and they lost? Hey, listen, that's nothing.

You know, it's just September 1st September 15th. How about the Cubs? They got two weeks left everybody anybody can do it. They can. And then on the last Saturday of this season, they swept the Pittsburgh Pirates and they clinched they clinched Their a playoff spot and I said no problem.

The Braves will beat him. You say that's an unusual way to be a fan, that's the only way you can cope with a Cubs fan. You hope you just expect the worst. Amazingly, they beat the Braves. I couldn't believe it.

Then they went on to face the Marlins. I said no problem. The Marlins will beat him. And then those Cubs did it. They went up three games to one. They were one game away from the World Series. And I knew I shouldn't do it.

I knew it was a bad deal. I knew I would live to regret it. But I got my hopes up. I said the Cubs are going to the World Series and even better. They're gonna play the Boston Red Sox which neither happened.

And then of course in fine style the Chicago Cubs choked and lost to the Marlins, etc. I don't even know what happened. I think the Yankees and Marlins ended up playing but You know, my hopes were dashed, you know friends.

That's the way we use hope. Some of you right now that are college basketball fans. You may have one when I'm not but one of you may have a hurt team and you're thinking I hope that team wins. Well, what do you mean by that?

Shoot me if they don't know. No, that's not what you mean. You know, I said, I hope the Cubs win the World Series. I can guarantee you. I did not mean shoot me if they don't. As no Cubs fan would do that unless they wanted to commit suicide but See, so we look at hope.

We just look at hope differently, but you know friends that is not the Bible concept of hope. You know what the Bible concept of hope is it is don't miss this. I love it's the Edmund Hebrews definition.

He's a commentator. I love it. It's two-word definition. Here it is Expectant reliance. Expectant reliance now, I got a question for you. Did you today expect? Did you today rely because if that you did not you're in disobedience and I will tell you you will not in any measure be able to be holy.

See, this is an absolutely essential command. You must hope. Expectantly rely you say well preacher. Expectantly rely on what. Well, let's go back to our passage notice what it says. Be sober and hope to the end that literally means with abandon.

So folks this hoping is to be without any reserve totally with abandon. Totally given to to it. It says in hope to the end for the grace. That is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ now won't deal with that phrase completely except to say that the word brought unto you is in the present tense and Although there may be a future aspect when it talks about the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ or maybe talking about a present revelation.

Through his word. I won't deal with that phrase except to say that this grace because of the verb beyond it. It has a present tense aspect to it. The grace that is right now being brought unto you. Okay, so what are we supposed to hope with a bit.

Unreservedly, what are we supposed to expectantly rely for the Bible says grace. Now here's the problem many times in our Christian experience. Grace is nothing more than a nice theological word. You know friends grace ought to be something that thrills your soul.

You know a lot of times we think grace ended when we got saved. May I tell you grace began when you got saved, you know. The gospel didn't stop when you got saved. The gospel started when you got saved and part of the gospel is grace.

Now what is grace now? Let's think about this from what is grace? Well, one of the best ways to understand a biblical concept is to see it in context. So let's use a verse of Scripture that we're all familiar with.

2nd Corinthians 12 9. The Lord Jesus is saying is quoted as saying to Paul after he prayed three times for the thorn of the flesh to be gone he says my Grace is anybody know the next word. Sufficient for thee my sister for my strength is made perfect in weakness now friends.

Well, if you'll notice those two statements our Lord made are parallel. There's a personal pronoun my then there's a noun then there's a verb then there's an adjective then there's a preposition. Then there's an object of the preposition.

They're parallel by the way kids see English is important. Okay, and that exciting. Okay, so, uh, they're parallel now folks. I want you to think about this for once. 2nd Corinthians 12 9. What is parallel with grace?

My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength. And then interesting that grace and Strength are parallel concepts. Well after the Lord makes those statements Paul gives his commentary and here's where he says most gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmity literally my Strengthlessness my weakness what going for my infirmity that the power of Christ power is the same Greek word strength.

Well, I glory in my infirmity that the power or the strength of Christ. Will a tabernacle in me is the idea there? Okay, so most gladly therefore glory my furries the power of Christ I may rest upon me.

Okay, so so don't don't miss this. He didn't say a word about grace. Why? Here the Lord says my grace is sufficient for thee my strength for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Then Paul says wonderful.

I'm gonna glory in my infirmities that the power of the strength of Christ may rest upon me. He says nothing about grace why because it's very clear Paul saw them as synonymous concepts. So hopefully this help us the grace of one aspect of the grace of God is the strength of Christ.

In fact, it's the first of Scripture. We used a couple times this week. In fact, let's try it again I can do through which. That is grace. It's Christ strengthening. Now. Let's just see if we're on target with this definition at least in the in the realm of Sanctification we recognize that's the strength of Christ that the grace has some other Concepts with it, but but we're talking about the walk the Christian walk.

Look what the Apostle Paul says in first Corinthians 1510. He says by the grace of God. I am what I am. And his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain. For I labored more abundantly than they all yet.

Not I but the grace of God that was with me. Now notice what Paul says for by the grace of God. Let's just put in our definition for by the strength of Christ. I am what I am now mark this. Paul knew That that God's grace was Christ Strengthening him to be what God wanted to be so grace is the strength of Christ to be what God wants us to be.

But you know it doesn't top there goes on. He says I labored more abundantly than they all yet. Not I but the grace of God that was with me. So grace is the strength of Christ to be and grace is the strength of Christ to do.

What else is there? Being and doing. See so he's helping us earn so what in the world are you and I when wake up in the morning? What are we supposed to do? We're supposed to get on our knees and say Lord I'm Expecting your grace.

I'm Depending on it Lord because I'm weak. I can't do it. I am weak. I'm powerless and Lord has based on your word. You say your grace is sufficient. It's more than enough. Your strength is made perfect in my weakness.

Well, Lord, I'm weak. And so I'm expecting your grace your strength today. I'm depending on it Lord. I'm expecting it. You know friends. That's what he commands us to do. See so hope unreservedly with abandon.

For the grace of God the strength of Christ. That is right now being brought in you friends. It is not the Bible does not say God's grace will be sufficient. It does not say God's grace has been sufficient.

It says God's grace is sufficient. It is in the eternal present tense. You know, sometimes we're gonna need all hard make your grace sufficient the Lord saying it already is. What you need to do is expect it to be what I said it is Sufficient.

Okay, so say okay, I think I've seen that and no no no missus folks obviously hope is a cousin to faith. Isn't that significant that the first two things talk about in a rejecting wrong thinking embracing Bible thinking.

Maintaining Bible thinking it is that Atmosphere, which I'm convinced. What does it does it nurtures faith? It nurtures expectancy it nurtures dependence so the next step after that is simply is to expectantly depend upon God in Christ's strength.

God's enabling grace to enable us to Be what we ought to be and to do what he wants us to do. Okay, so we've used 1st Corinthians 1510 and 2nd Corinthians 129 to forge a Bible definition out of context about the word grace.

Grace as the Strength for Sanctification

Now that understanding we now move To a very important third point and there's some parallel to what we dealt with on Romans chapter 6. This is just coming at it from a little bit different perspective.

There's still a very important part and that is going to be of course what we might call the obedience. Look if you would please at verse number 14, it says. There's one I'm gonna call biblical might.

First one was the biblical mindset. Number two biblical mandate number three biblical might in verse 14 it says as Obedient children. So what it's saying simply saying is this or children who are marked by obedience.

So the idea here folks is once we get a hold of okay, we reject the wrong thinking embrace, right? We put God's law in our heart. We expectantly rely upon Christ's strength to be what we ought to be and to do what we ought to do the next thing that is going to happen is obedience.

See, you know a few years ago I was walking through a gymnasium and one of our team members was just beginning Sunday school to the church and He said kids. He said how many of you if God speaks to you this morning you'll obey him.

About 30 40 kids there four kids raise their hand that morning. I got to preach. I wouldn't normally do this, but I sensed from the Lord. I needed to. I said young people I walked behind. I didn't plan on it.

I would just walk behind while our my team member asked how many of you out here would God spoke to you this morning. You'd obey him. I said four of you out of 40 raised your hand. I was preaching on this passage description.

I said young people. Can I just tell you something you can just take first Peter chapter 1 and cut it out a Bible because it won't work. It won't work until you are willing to be a child who is marked by obedience.

See hoping for grace. Doesn't work unless we're hopeless to obey. See it presupposes that we are children Marked by obedience and friends. Let me just simply say if you're not willing for for God to make the decisions about what you listen to if you're not willing for God to make the decisions about what you Watch if you're not willing for God to make the decisions about your lifestyle issues.

You can just mark it down. You are not you're gonna fail the grace of God. You're gonna miss out on God's grace. This passage of Scripture is written to people who are saved who are children aren't by obedience.

So very clearly we see that the next thing that comes out of this is obedience if you're after all if you're expecting grace supernatural strength from God Christ to Enable you to be what you ought to be and to do what you ought to do.

The next result is it's so that we can do what we ought to do, which is obedience. Now that obedience tonight we'll see Flushes out in three different ways. And let's go ahead and look at those three different ways here in first of all in verse number 14 It says as obedient children not fashioning yourselves.

According to the former lusts in your ignorance. Now, hang on for a moment folks. Look at that word fashioning. In fact, we alluded to this on the least commandment message. This is the same word found in Romans 12 to conformed.

So don't miss this. What God is simply saying is when you get a hold of grace when you start obeying the forgotten Commandment you get a hold of hoping for grace. Expecting relying on God's grace to do what you ought to do be what you ought to be the first thing God says it's and that will result in your obedience is a godly appearance.

Now let me read a definition of the word fashioning or conformed and. And It's very interesting. It says the act of assuming an outward appearance pattern after some certain thing an appearance or expression Which does not conform and is not representative of one's inmost and true nature.

It refers here of the act of a child of God assuming his outward expression the habits mannerisms dress speech Expressions and behavior of the world out from which God saved him thus not giving a true expression of what he is.

You know what you want this word fashioning or conformed? You know, it means it means being on the inside which you're not on the outside. Now what God is simply saying folks is that if we're saved blood-bought born again on our way to heaven on the inside.

We ought to look like on the outside. Well, you know somebody said wait a second for sure. Hey in their Bible verse It says, you know now God looks on the inward but man looks on the outward or you know, it's in their Bible verse like that.

You know folks have your thought about this. That's all man can do is look on the outward. You know, every Christian out here is a walking billboard for salvation. Are you advertising correctly or not?

See when the outside does not represent what's going on the inside. We're not a good very good advertisement, are we? That's all man can see man can't see your heart. And so what this I remember what years ago had a guy got an argument with me.

He didn't like this outside emphasis. He thought for sure that you know that you can study this word out in the Greek and I will tell you it has Absolutely nothing to do with the inside it has everything to do with the outside.

Now what I'm simply it's not that God's not concerned about the inside. We know he is but he's also concerned about the outside. So what God is simply saying is listen when you get a hold of grace, it's gonna change the way you look.

It's gonna change the way you act. It's gonna listen, you know a couple nights ago. I guess it was last night I gave that illustration about that kid who was just not right with God. His father was broken about it took the right course of action.

The kids took in a 180, you know that kid's hairstyle changed when he got right with God. He put a part in his hair and now he he doesn't look like he stepped off some rock group. Now I'm not saying you got to have your partner hair because there are some styles, but I will tell you That we are I'm sure one of our guys on our team.

Some kids says, you know, you're pretty cool for a comb-over. Well, I'm a comb-over. I said, oh, that's what I am. I as I'm a nerd man. I'm a comb-over. I got a part in my hair, you know, I'm. When we're out ministry 50 of the crowd and some of you were here in 92 remember this 50 of the crowd is lost.

Do you know that that my hair looks just like it looks now and you know that kids when they look at me. They realize this guy is not in I Wear a belt shock of shocks. They can't believe it. They're looking at me.

I got a belt. I kid guys got a belt. I haven't seen one of those a long time. He's wearing socks, you know, he combed his hair. Man that guy's out of it. Do you know what friends? It is an insult to the gospel that I would have to look like the world in order to win.

Win kids with it with the gospel. You know what here I am I look like a nerd preach the gospel and kids get saved. We're in Fort Walton Beach just four weeks ago. We had 65 kids step out to trust Jesus Christ.