Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow | part 4 (Pastor Jeff Shipley)

Now I want you to pay attention. It wasn't anything in Israel wasn't their military size.

We're gonna be in Daniel chapter 6 this morning. Daniel chapter 6 and I'll be honest with you. I said this on the Facebook. But in 30 years of pastoring I have never ever Preached out of Daniel chapter 6 and the reason why is it's one of those familiar Nursery rhyme tales, that's what it's been.

Given over to it's the little Daniel and the Lions dance. It's usually a little white face guy with a little white puffy hair and the little lions are smiling saying hello. You know to the kids and everything when really that is not the biblical Understanding of it.

That's not the biblical understanding of the biblical understanding of it was this was a common practice in Persian Empire and others as well of Mass execution. This was a grotesque way To be executed.

We're going to get to more of that in a second I also want to point out this the year is about 538 to 536 BC and this is Darius there are two other. Darius is within Persian history, of course. The most famous one was the last one defeated by Alexander the Great in 331 BC but this particular one only ruled two years and he was more of a governor than he was an actual king.

As he's ruling Cyrus and you can once again, I think I put it on your notes Cyrus Cylinder if you got to go back in history a little bit God said you people are going to be sinning against me. I'm gonna have a kingdom come and take you prisoner you're going to be there 70 years and then you're going to get to come back and once again recorded in Scripture and once again Archaeologically.

Historically, we see that Cyrus from the king of Persia made a decree that all Captured peoples could go back to their homelands. And so I always love seeing that and seeing God work in his sovereignty.

Daniel has been in Babylon now Persia and he served the courts of kings as ambassadors as Counselors as wise men and as he's serving there. He's about 80 years old. So older people while still dangerous behind the wheel can serve a purpose he really can and Daniel's one of those guys just because you're retired don't mean you're not supposed to be working for the Lord now.

All right. What I want to talk about today is how do we mature? How if you're a believer in here if you're a believer in this room and you have the desire To hunt the desire to grow and mature in Christ.

I'm gonna tell you it's going to take some bad times you see faith cannot develop in the vacuum of opposition there is going to be things that come in that will cause you to have to grow and This development the problem with it is it's this it's like our fighters that we trained if you don't sweat in The gym you're gonna bleed in the ring.

You have got to go through the crucibles of life as a believer. To develop your faith your faith won't develop in This petri dish that we call church. It has to be under scrutiny. It has to be under Opposition it has to be under trials in tribulations or to never grow and I'll tell you if you're not faithful in the little things.

You're never gonna be faithful in the big things. I always love listening to a certain genre of Christians today I I call them prepper Christians, you know these guys that every time you know. There's my phone has been blowing up since the Eclipse the earthquake and what was the other one?

To what? Yeah, the thing of Iran and oh my gosh. Let's load up we got to go live in the woods with our AR -15s. Because the right around the corner. Let me tell you something slim if you can't live for Jesus Christ in an air-conditioning building and a 40-hour week job.

You won't crack to think you're gonna be able to live and survive in that type of environment. It ain't gonna happen. Okay, so dial down the Rambo now. I'm all into Wolverine, but The reality of the idea is you've got to be faithful in the little things before you can be Faithful in the big things.

So let's look at some opposition. Daniel chapter 6 starting in verse 1. It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 governors or satirize to be throughout the whole kingdom and then over them three high officials of whom Daniel was one.

To whom these satirize would give an account so that the king might suffer. No loss. Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satirize. Because an excellent spirit was in him and the complete King planned to set him over the whole kingdom.

Guys, let's talk about some types of opposition. Let's talk about first one that we deal with. Whether it be in our personal lives or even at work is and I know you women don't have to deal with us. But us men have to deal with jealousy.

You know what? I mean We have to deal with jet like I I was sitting here and I saw Robert Bond shoes this morning and I was like Oh my gosh, you know. There's some and they go so good with his slacks and his shirt his makeup and hair were done.

Just right wait. We have to deal with Christians with some jealousy now you're sitting there going. Oh, that's not it's not me. Let me tell you friends if you have a home of peace. If you have a life of peace people will be jealous about that.

Mark my words, we'll get to that more in a second. It says that Daniel became distinguished above all the other officials, let me tell you the other thing in dealing with people is skim. Now, you know why these guys did not like Daniel.

You know why they did because the old days of hey you owe me 20 The king wants 10 guess who the other 10 comes to now here comes a man of integrity. Here comes a man of character who's going to be set above.

Everybody else and if something's wrong in the account, they don't know personally. But because of the man's character and how he presents himself. They know he ain't gonna be down with stealing. They know just by his reputation.

He's gonna not want to join the boys club, he ain't gonna want a taste. He's going to want something different and let me tell you Christian when you're different in this world. When you are sitting in a room full of folks and you're living your life.

Differently than the rest of the world. They're gonna be jealous of it and they're gonna hate it. I promise you this now look what they said in verse 4 now. Then the high officials and we're going to say governors sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom.

But they can find no ground or complaint or any fault because he was faithful. And no error or fault was found in him. It doesn't mean he was sinless. What it means was if he had this job to do this is the job He was gonna do and he wasn't gonna cut corners.

He wasn't gonna play favorites. He was gonna do what he was called to do then verse 5. I want you to watch this. Then these men said we shall not find any ground or complaint against this Daniel. Unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.

You know one thing I tell you. My entire Christian life my number one thing that I deal with is the insecurity of abandonment and. And I don't like someone trying to pump me. I just I just you know what I mean but there's this one phrase that will just Man set me off.

I'll be ready to fight in a heartbeat. Watch this. I thought you were a Christian. Have you ever had someone say that to you? Oh my gosh, try being the pastor of this church. We got Pastor Joe side to all the pastors.

We got folks come up and go. Hey, man, you know. Can I have some money cuz I gotta Get some gas to go to my grandmother's funeral. No, man, you tweak it. You want to fix right? No, we can't give you no money.

We'll feed you. We'll feed you right here right now. We'll take care of you, but we ain't gonna give you no cash. Oh, I thought y 'all were Christians. You know, I mean not really but you know. The entitlement just man just crawls all over me.

These guys sat there and they said we can't find any fault with Daniel as a man and in his job. What we're gonna have to do is find a way that his beliefs will contradict the world. Now if you are a Christian that it should not be a hard job to do.

If you are a Christian there should be an abundance of evidence. To convict you of serving your God. Here's the other thing you have to deal with. People's egos. Oh my gosh, you know what I mean? Do y 'all no one else knows what I mean?

People's egos good Lord if I want to get developed in my faith. One of the things I'm gonna have to face is the arrogance and ego of the world. What do I mean by that? I mean this and I want all my pastors who are watching this to focus on this.

We live in a world and some of you in this room believe this. Come here. We live in a world Where we say follow the science which by default should be repeatable and Demonstratable but we live in a world Where every form of higher education all the way down to the nursery school.

Teach that the universe came from nothing. Y 'all like yeah. You cannot be that stupid. I'm a high school dropout. I can take nothing and we can't even find nothing. You know what? Nothing is it's nothing people think nothing.

Is space? No, that's something. In the beginning there was nothing no space. No light. No time nothing yet out of that Came the multitude of creation. I keep begging and asking the world just from a point of Curiosity how in the world did all this happen?

Well, we just evolved from what? Well from a little but where did that come from. Well it came from but where did that come from you see our human minds cannot Comprehend that before the awesomeness of creation.

There was nothing. You see man's ego ladies and gentlemen, and we have to fight that constantly and loud voices. We have to struggle with the ego of humanity now. Listen to me some of you people in here are trying to figure out whether there really is a God.

Some of you in here you want to believe but you're like, there's just not enough evidence. Okay, cool. Explain the sentient reality that you're sitting there right now, and this is real. Explain just for a second that your thought processes are Understanding the words that are coming out of my mouth and that language in that thought prop.

Where did that come from? Well, it came from no. Because lions and tigers and bears ain't got it. We were created in the image of God. And if you want to build your faith Understand this that the ego and arrogance of man saying there is no God is One of the things that we're gonna have to fight in my friends.

It's going to get bigger est and bigger est. Yes, I said that on purpose. Here's the other thing you're gonna fight look at verse 7 all the high officials of the kingdom the prefects the satiraps the counselors and the governors are agreed.

You know one of the ways you're going to develop your faith through opposition is You're gonna be in the minority. Are you comfortable being in the minority? Oh Bull Bull. Man, we're a social structure.

That's how God created us. It's hard to be in the minority. It's hard to be able to say I must obey God rather than man. That's hard. You know what it takes it takes faith. That's how it grows that opposition comes against you and you've got to at that moment.

Say I'm gonna choose God rather than man and you're gonna have all the arguments and listen to this all the lies that very Statement that they said to the king that very statement was a lie. Daniel was one of the governor.

He was one that one of the head guys in there and they said all king. Everyone's in agreement with this. Daniel's like not me. Not me. Let's keep reading. I Bubba Bubba Bubba Oh King verse 6 then all the officials and satire apps came by agreement to the king and said to him Oh King Darius live forever.

All the high officials kingdoms the perfect satire apps the councils the governor's agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, well that sounds familiar wear a mask that whoever Makes petition to any God or man for 30 days except to you Oh king shall be cast into the den of liars liars.

Lions, you can't trust them lines, man. Maybe I got four gazelle. No you didn't guys. Here's something we got to understand. Here's something we try to understand for 30 days. You know one of the oppositions that I have to struggle with Is the enticement of sin and here's here's the two lies sin will tell you.

Number one that you can do it and stay in control. That's a lie. And here's the second one. It's only for a little while. Let me tell you something sin will cost you more than you want to pay and keep you longer than you wanted to stay.

It will rape your soul and make you hollow and devoid of a life of peace. You will be waiting constantly for the other shoe to drop because you know, you're living in rebellion against God. But instead of going and repenting and finding that peace you're gonna keep doing it and hiding it.

I Know what I'm talking about. I bear the scars in my life for the failure of repentance. Then the question becomes what do you do about it? Repent for the kingdom of God's a hand. What is repentance pastor?

I feel sorry for what I do. That's not repentance. Repentance is stop it and Turn away from that sin and by default turn towards God. You're not in control. I promise you how many of you the first time you did?

I'm sure we don't have any people in here who did drugs. Yeah, right. How many of you sat there I can remember the first time I smoked a rock. I'll never forget this. I was nervous, but I wanted it, you know, I was nervous, but I wanted and this in my I promise you.

This went through my brain. I'll just do it once and I'll put it down. Nope it don't work that way. How many of you are in recovery? When you go well I'll just drink this one time. This is what I had a guy tell me pastor I don't want to drink all the time, but every once in a while to calm down and to be part of the crowd.

Just have fun. You're playing with it. You see your ego is the problem to actually think that you can control something that nobody else in the world Can with an addiction problem? You're that great. You're falling down a road well, and you'll do this.

Well, I won't drink anymore. I we have a lady in this room. I wanted to smack smack her silly. She said well. Yeah, I'm not gonna drink anymore. I'm just gonna smoke. So that way because weeds not my problem alcohol is you cannot be that stupid.

You cannot be that stupid. You actually think that trading one friend sin for another is gonna fix the sin problem my friends. The only thing that fixes the sin problem is this. Reject every call of the world and follow God in God alone to build your faith.

You've got to face these adversities. So how do we face them? How do we face them? And this is the last point? How do we face? These things to grow our faith. Well, I'm gonna tell you it's gonna take those moments.

Do you know what I'm talking about? Some of y 'all you especially you young ins. You don't really know what those moment those moments to you are as little Johnny didn't like your Valentine heart. You gave him or I'm sorry that was showed my age didn't respond to your text right or someone dissed you on the What's the Instagram cart thing or whatever that thing's called, you know, will you take the pictures and they go away, you know?

Whatever. If you by the way, if you're an older man and you're doing that stuff. Okay, dude. Stop it. Grow up. Yeah, Nancy. Good God. I Mean, you know chicks are different, you know, but anyways verse 10 read with me verse 10.

So here's what's going on. They convinced the king to sign a law that you could not ask. You could not seek you could not do anything to find help or peace from anybody other than the king. But just for 30 days.

What's it gonna hurt? Here's what Daniel did verse 10. You see it was one of those moments. He was there. He was there. When Daniel knew that the document the law had been signed watch what he does he immediately Got to the First Baptist Church.

No. Immediately he got angry and no. Immediately. He said I have rights. Nope. When Daniel do the document had been signed he went to his house. Where he had his windows in the upper chamber open towards Jerusalem he got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as He had done previously.

Guys, you know how you in those moments when I'm gonna tell you parents number one word. You need to know Christians number one word you need to know to grow consistency. Consistency, well, I don't know why my kids were in rebellion.

I brought him up in church. Stop being stupid. Okay, God never said bring him up in church. He said bring him up in the admonition of the Lord. Well, they're three they can't read right? They're seeing God's Word through your life.

And when you're inconsistent, they're gonna be inconsistent when you're rebellious towards God's Word. Why are you shocked when they're rebellious towards you that you school didn't teach him to talk you did.

School didn't teach him to eat. You did take school didn't teach him how to act. You did well pastor, but I can't deal with the public schools. Listen to me. If you're being a consistent godly parent eight hours is not a threat to the sovereignty of my God in the consistency Of the Christian life in my home.

It ain't. You have to be consistent if you're not doing it before the trouble you're gonna fail when the trouble shows up. It's in those Moments right there where the whole world can go to chaos where everybody's running down the street saying Oh my god.

The sky has fallen that the child of God can show the integrity and consistency of a life pass. To stand up and say I'm still gonna follow Jesus that no matter what happens. I've already sown the seeds of faithfulness in my life now.

Here's how most Christians the three ways you can choose to react number one is panic. You ever seen those kind of Christians? Let me be honest with you. We've all been at some point in our Christian life those kind of people.

They're just panic. They're fearful. Okay, it's just plain fear and something happens like oh my gosh. Oh my gosh I might call the pastor do that. We got it. It's chaos running everywhere dogs are sleeping with cats.

It's total pandemonium then we're sitting there going. Why is the world scared to follow us? Well, I promise you if this building is on fire and Cody Buckler who's a fireman goes Oh my god, we're all gonna die.

That's not gonna inspire a whole lot of leadership. Okay. You can roast dude, but I'm finding the back door or I'm making one but I'm getting out of here, right guys. We can react with panic. Here's a big one guys Walt Disney Supports gay rights.

Animals right? I'm more gay rights. What do the Christians do? Let's boycott them. Why. Well, we're gonna make a stand. We're gonna make a statement. No, you're gonna look like an idiot. Why are you a surprised and panicked when the world acts like the world?

When lost people behave as lost people, why do you go into a panic? There is not a need to be panicked. Here's the other one people do they go pride. Let me explain not that kind of pride the real pride.

Here's what people do Christians. They don't make me bow my knee to know God other than Jesus Christ. I'm gonna keep my 1611 King James Bible. And I'm gonna put sandbags in front of the door and ain't nobody gonna tell me my family what to do.

I Gave my life to Jesus Christ. I'm voting for Donald Trump and I'm just gonna tell you that's the way it's gonna be. It ain't nobody gonna tell me different. You know, here's what's funny a lot of people sometimes associate that with faith.

But it's really not and I'm gonna tell you how, you know the difference you see you can sit there and go. I'm gonna choose to follow Christ. I don't care what anybody says or you can choose to say I'm gonna follow Christ.

I don't care what no one's gonna say. What's the difference between the pride and the reality is the prayer that comes along with it if you? Sit there and make a declaration. That nobody's gonna tell you what to do.

That's more rebellion than it is obedience. But you see when you bathe it in prayer. When you encourage your brothers and sisters in Christ when you have a kingdom mindset that the glory of God is more important than your Rebellion and what you want to be known for when God is first in your second.

That's the difference between good and bad and then licensed prayer guys. Why is it and I'm hitting me too not just y 'all. Why is it that we want to react first in the praise second? Daniel just got set up.

By the majority by everyone. What did Daniel do? You're doing well, he was 80. So it's probably what huh? Right. Oh, you signed it in. Okay, and he goes up and he ain't scared. He opens up his windows.

So everybody can see now he ain't sitting there going come at me, man. No, he's gonna consistently be with the same kind of godly character. He already has been and he's gonna open the windows and pray guys.

You got to control your fear in those moments. Now now let me explain this to you and I'm almost done. Hang in there. Feet the goal for the Christian is not the absence of fear. Okay, it's not the absence of fear.

You don't win no battles without the absence of fear. Is Mike in here. What a Nancy. Well. Whose fault was Sharquita? We got a lot of people out. Sharquita's gone. Where's where's Stephen Carter? He's going to all right.

Well, it's a young church Labor Day. Everybody's gone. Whatever these people every morning at 630 they show up at our gym and they're Lifting weights, right putting on squats doing the deadlifts, you know.

Now they've been doing this about six months and they've gotten stronger. Ask Sharquita. She'll go look at my muscle. I'm like, oh, yeah, that's great. Here's how they've done it. They've lifted the same weight for the last six months and they've gotten stronger.

They've increased it. They've increased it. Guys, if you want to grow You're gonna have to increase and here's the scary part the fear gets worse. The fear grows the more you mature in Christ. The more the fear if it costs you more grows and it's scary.

I ain't gonna lie to you. It's scary. I had little kids and everything right? I'm sitting there watching them. I'm going. Oh my god. It's a larva. And it's ugly that was pastor Josiah it's a larva and it's ugly and there's child molesters out there.

It's ugly and He's gonna have to face this world. I Had fears about that, you know, wait till you have a daughter. Oh my gosh, I should go out to play. I'd have a 308 sitting out the window going. It's that little kid talking to her, you know, I mean, that's where you want to protect them, right?

I never shot a little kid. All right that you know of but it's. You want to protect them, right? You get scared guys. Here's what you got to do. You got to face that fear. I had a dream when I was a little kid a reoccurring dream and it was this white pasty looking dude with all these Hypodermic syringes stuck in him and every night he would just follow after me, you know.

And I'd be like, you know now I'm sitting there going he's sick. What's he gonna do? I mean, he's got syringes on. But back then it was the scariest thing in the world. I was like 11 12 years old and I remember I was dreaming and I was sitting at the kitchen sink doing something.

There was a window right there and I looked up and he was facing me on the outside of the window. And it scared the fire this was still while I was asleep and I can remember going what? Like that and I woke up in the hair on.

I never felt this before the hair on the back of my head was stiff. It was thing and my heart was beating and I was sweating, you know, I never had that dream no more. When you're afraid of something sometimes Christians in those moments.

You got to sit there and go do you worse cuz I ain't moving. Sometimes you've got a face and you've got to quit using emotions and manipulation and Bryce brash talking somebody you gotta do here I stand.

I don't know what's gonna happen but I ain't moving and in those moments when you have that moment you start to grow in your faith because the Resistance gets a little bit more. Here's I'll go down to verse 16.

Here's pastor Jeff's biggest biggest weakness. Yes, I got one. So Daniel sits there says I ain't gonna bow down. I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna do the same thing I've been doing so they all go tattletale on Daniel.

Oh king. We found a guy. You know that Daniel of Judah you like so much. Yeah, he's praying to his God. The Kings like oh my gosh, that's not good and he was actually he didn't want to throw Daniel in there.

But in verse 16 the King commanded Daniel was brought and cast in the lion's den the King declared to Daniel. May your God whom you serve continually Deliver you. Hmm. I'm scared to be abandoned, you know.

Some of y 'all don't have that fear. We call it abandonment issues. Whatever. I don't you don't have to put a title on it. I don't like being left behind. I Don't it's happened. By a lot of very important special people in my life starting with parents.

No, I feel insecure by myself. Sometimes unless I'm in the woods, then I'm happy but I feel insecure being by myself. I'm sure no one else in here struggles with that, but I do. Daniel Was abandoned. As a righteous man.

Not just to his death but to a horrible death and the Bible says there in verse 16 He cast him in the lion's den and he said declared to Daniel. May your God whom you serve continually delivered you. Here's what one thing I do to help me.

When I'm abandoned. Physically, yeah, it hurts. But I'm abandoned from this world to the hands of God. Even the heathen Persian King knew that he said may your God whom you serve continually delivered.

He's my safe space. You know, I know you generation whatever it is nowadays. Need a little closet with carpeted walls and a bunny rabbit to pet for you to feel safe or what? God. If there's ever a dude that goes into one of those Bellevue's right down the street, but guys.

We sit there we have abandonment issues from the world from people. We love from people we care about. But you're really not abandoned. You're abandoned to God. You're being left behind and You're gonna let God show you how much he loves and cares for you didn't this.

So Daniel's in there the king it says is scared to death he's feeling guilty. He's feeling remorseful. He doesn't want Daniel to be eaten, you know. He didn't want him to be a KitKat. And so he goes up to his room and he's like going.

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh, please please please whatever God he was praying to please don't let Daniel get eaten. So he goes up the very first thing in the next morning. He goes. Hey Daniel. Are you in there?

Verse 22. My God sent his angel to shut the lion's mouths and they have not harmed me. Because I was found blameless before him and also before you King. I have done no harm. I Love that found blameless.

What's a doctrine? What's that doctrine found blameless? Rendered innocent. And justified guys in those moments it may seem that you've lost and the others have won. But if you think about it just for a second, I just think about these people.

The wise men who had framed him probably were all up all night partying. The king was worried up staying up all night worrying, you know Daniel's friends were probably up all night praying the angel of God was all up all night Protecting him.

The only one that got a good night's sleep was Daniel in the midst of the lion's den. Because he had come to a point that in those moments. It didn't matter what it cost him he was going to choose to follow God and The last thing is this and the music people can come do their things.

There's a testimony to be involved here. When we lived when we moved to Wyoming. My church that called me up there said they'd pay me $25 a week to be the pastor 25 a week so obviously. You know Jeremiah Josiah, I'm gonna need some more money because they eat like pigs, right?

So I Had to go find a job. Now I'd been a transmission mechanic, but there wasn't a whole lot of those jobs up there. So I went to this place and they worked on hydraulics and they said do you know anything about hydraulics?

I'm like, yep sure do. Never worked in a hydraulic thing for my life, but my kids needed to eat now I didn't want to lie. I knew how hydraulics worked. I just didn't know how to work on. And so they hired me every day at lunchtime.

I Would go in the break room and I would open up my Bible. I'd eat my lunch and I'd read oh man. They hated my guts. Nobody liked me. Nobody liked me at all. No, I was all alone. No one. Right. I was sitting at the loser table at lunch.

Yeah, all the cool kids, you know like him they all was sitting there over there like being all cool. No one wanted to talk to me. Sorry, so I kept working there and you know what I did. I tried to do everything better.

Faster and more complete than everybody else and I didn't do it to get a raise. I did it because I was thankful for the job. But here's why I did it. I knew that I was never gonna overcome those folks with my words.

But my actions would speak volumes. Within a year. My table was the biggest table in the lunchroom. You know why. Because there were 12 people including a Jehovah's Witness that were sitting there. Every day.

Why. I opened up my Bible and I preached to them every day a couple of them got saved and I was able to minister to folks that I wouldn't been able to minister to in an air-conditioning Little church building.

Hey guys. Don't be afraid of those moments. Embrace them and if you embrace them with faith and consistent loyalty towards God He's gonna reward you with the greatest gift you've ever seen and that's watching someone else come to know the peace that you got.

If you're in this room, and you're not a Christian, you're not a Christian. I ain't talking about you walked in some stupid building and prayed some stupid prayer. I'm talking about. You truly are not sure or do not know where you're gonna go when you die.

I Can show you in Scripture where you can know for sure first. John 5 13 says these things have a written unto you that believe On the name of the Son of God that you may know you have eternal life. It's not a guessing game a roulette wheel.

God wants you to have the peace of knowing that you have a life everlasting. If you're not sure or you're struggling what that even means come down and talk to fat pastors, right? I'm the only fat one but come down and talk to us number two if you're in this room.

And you're struggling with a sin that that faith is so weak. You just can't in those moments you fold up like a cheap Walmart lawn chair. Hey, welcome to the party. You're not a scum. You're not a whore.

You're not a loser. You're not any of that other garbage. That your mind self abuse wants to tell you to somehow equal the scales. All you're doing is abusing yourself with guilt. That is not God's plan for your life.

If you need help with overcoming something the accountability of brothers and sisters of Christ who have been there. Some of them are still there but are willing to love you and help you and pray you through it with you.

That's why God invented the church it wasn't to judge how stupid you are it was to help you bind your wounds. Maybe you're in this room and you need to join something. So you'll have a level of accountability and authority other than your thought process.

Because it hasn't worked out well so far in your life. Whatever it is if God has spoken to you if you're a believer minister someone I'm going to ask you to stand and if God has Spoken to you this morning and you have business with him you come this morning as God leads.