(February 1987) 04 - the Time of the End — Ray Lowe

God's doing a lot of good things while we're here. Now, the wise Solomon said in the writing of the Proverbs, that when you correct your child with a rod, he starts crying, don't quit, because you're delivering his soul from hell.

So your crying ain't gonna make me quit. How many wants to go to heaven when this thing's over with? Amen. Now, I probably preach a little different message than you hear in a lot of places. But the reason I do is because we're living in the end time, the last day.

Prophetic Signs of the End Times

All the prophecies that God said in this book, all the things that God said was gonna come to pass, they're coming now. They're not going to come, they're coming now. And ever since I was saved in 1963, just a few months after I was saved and called to preach, I was saved in August of 63, called to preach in October of that same year.

I quit my public job in February of 64 and started fasting and praying. So a preacher came through town and taught me that if you'll fast and pray and seek God, that He'll reward you for it. And I did.

I went on a seven-day fast, the first one I ever went on. I turned green. My daddy called me a fool. But praise God, it was the beginning of God revealing some things to me, and I didn't ask for it. I didn't ask for it.

I was not seeking that. I was seeking to go out and tell others. I had been delivered from a life of an alcoholic at the age of 23. I came out of the army at the age of 20, a total wreck, because of alcohol and sin.

And I had been delivered, like I say, from a real life of sin. When I got saved, I had such a zeal to go tell others. I went on the streets with tracks. I'd leave my job in the morning at 8 o 'clock, go home and clean up, get me a bottle of tracks, pockets full of tracks, and I'd go to the square in the town that I lived in, meet folks on the street and hand out tracks.

At that particular time, I was going to the Thomaston Church of God. I got all the Church of God people to bring all their old literature, Christian literature. I took that literature and rolled it up like the evening news, and I went from house to house.

I liked to went to jail for doing it because I started putting it in mailboxes, and I learned you have to have stamps on stuff you put in mailboxes. I liked to went to jail for doing that, but I had a zeal.

I want to tell others that the same Jesus who set me free could set them free. But I started fasting and praying. As I began to fast and pray, the Lord spoke to me, told me, said, quit your public job, give your life to me and fast in prayer.

I'm going to show you some things concerning the latter day. The first thing, one of the first things that God ever showed me, the first thing that God ever showed me was I saw, I saw in the heavens, I saw a figure come down out of the heavens that I, you know, we've got these pictures painted of Jesus, and this is what I saw.

I saw a figure that all the things that we, you know, all the pictures of Jesus, they basically look the same. Well, this is what I saw. I saw a Christ coming down out of the heavens, just, just, just easing down.

And as I looked into the heavens and saw it, I thought it was Christ. It had all the resemblance of ever pictured I'd ever seen of it. And I watched him till he set his feet on the, on the earth. And when he set his feet on the earth, it was like once he went down, you know, behind the trees, I couldn't see him from where I was.

I had to travel from where I was to where he was to see him. Now you listen real close. Okay, when I got to where he was, when I got to where he was, I realized then that it was not the real Christ. It appeared that he was.

But a voice said to me, and you listen close, a voice said to me, follow that man. And I began to follow this Christ, this, this, that I thought was the real Christ. And I followed him and I began to watch him.

Now I already knew that it was not the real. You say, how did you know? I don't know how I knew, but here's a lesson that I was fixing to learn. As I followed this Christ that I thought was a real Christ, I had already been reading and studying the word for months on my face in a little church where I were and spent eight, nine hours a day with my face in the Bible, fasting and praying.

I'd already learned enough of the word of God that I watched this Christ. And here's where I begin to pick up something. I begin to watch him do things that was contrary to the word of God. Now, first of all, I knew by the spirit that it was not the real Christ.

But God has a system of checks and balances. That's the spirit of God in the word of God. Is that true? You never take the word alone and you never take the spirit alone. They always go together. Okay.

I begin to watch him and I begin to realize then that this, that I thought was the Christ was not the real. You know who he was? The antichrist. The next thing I see, I saw myself and another preacher walking down this road together.

We were on like the left side of the road and on the right side of the road was a group of people. And I was made to know that this man, he was a preacher now, but I was made to know that this man was a false prophet.

And here's what I saw. I saw him with so much control over those people. He had such power over those people that he could say the word at his command. They would stop dead in their tracks and they could not move until he gave them the permission to move.

And as he began to do this, he could almost stop me. He'd give the command and I'd almost, I'd have to, you know, make myself keep going because he had such power and such authority. So it would almost make me, bind me in my tracks to where I couldn't move.

And I saw then the coming of a false prophet ministry that was going to deceive the very elect. That's what the Lord spoke to me. There shall arise false Christ and false prophets that shall show great signs and wonders that if it were possible, and I think those words have been added, they shall deceive the very elect.

And that was 1964, brother and sister. This is 1987. We're in a time that the things I saw then I'm seeing take place in the church today. I want you to read with me tonight. First, this is not what I'm going to preach on, but I got to read this before I preach on what I preached tonight from Daniel 11 and verse 32.

I just want to spend just a minute here, just a few minutes laying some groundwork for what we're going to talk about tonight. Daniel 11, verse 32, and such as do wickedly against the covenant, shall he corrupt by flatteries.

How many knows what the word flatteries mean is the word of God? You ever looked it up in Hebrew? Look it up. It means undue praise. It's giving praise where it's not due. It's patting you on the back when you don't need a pat on the back.

Okay, shall he corrupt by flatteries, but the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits. Now, in this area right here of a strong people coming forth, God has gave me some deep insight and revelation.

Now, I don't know what all the future holds, but I do know one thing. There will be a church standing when Jesus returns that the gates of hell will not be overcome. How many believes that tonight? There will be an overcoming church when Jesus returns.

I don't care what comes on this earth. There's a people coming forth that's going to be strong. Now, verse 33 says, and they that understand among the people shall instruct many. Now, God has opened the door of this church of God in Stone Mountain for me to fulfill this scripture right here to pass on to you the understanding that he has passed on to me, that you can become part of that strong people that God is calling for in these last days.

There's a people coming forth, brother and sister. This is going to have the backbone of a saw log and the boldness of a lion with the power over demons and devils to stand once again like the church is supposed to stand.

And I'm here to instruct you with what God has instructed me with. Now, I want you to look at verse number 37. This shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any God.

For he shall magnify himself above all. But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces and a God whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold and silver and with precious stones and pleasant things.

Now, you'll have to study this to get this, but it's there. I don't get up here and preach something that I had done my homework on. But here, Daniel is focused in on two things. Number one, he's focused in that there will be a people that's coming forth that's going to be strong.

Number two, he's focused in on a particular time. It's called the time of the end. And he's focused in on something happening here. It's a time that there is a spirit in the land that begins to be a replacement.

It takes the real and replaces it with something else. Now, you cannot understand the book of Daniel unless you also understand the book of Revelation. Because Daniel was told to seal the book. If the Lord had let Daniel, he would have told us more.

But as he began to write and explain what he was saying, he said, seal the book. And it will not be opened until the time of the end. Is that right? And to understand what Daniel saw, you've got to understand the book of Revelation.

Now, in this area of places, the true God with a replacement, God has given me some insight. Now, what you do with it, I don't know. But I want you to know, brother and sister, we are in the last days.

Jesus is coming again. How many believe that tonight? The book of Revelation, John. But you've got to also understand there's four more books that he wrote. And all four books was received at the same time he wrote the Revelation.

That's the Gospel of John, John 1, John 2, and John 3. All of them are the results of the visitation of John on the Isle of Patmos. Now, I don't know if you ever noticed this or not, but John is the only writer that uses the term Antichrist.

No other writer in the book uses that term. Now, you're like me. You probably take that word anti and like me for years, you believe that that meant anti means against. And it does. But that's not all it means.

Place of, institution for. OK, watch out for the spirit of Antichrist for the spirit. John's the one says, try the spirit said you have no need that any man teach you. The Holy Ghost will teach you. You receive that anointing.

You receive the right spirit and he will teach you. John's the one wrote him. No, he'll testify of the Christ. John wrote all these things. John, John, the term W .O .R .L .D. World in the first epistle of John.

The word world is used. I believe it's 26 times and then one to others. It's used one time put together, did not use this term that John used or John used it more than all the other writers. I think it's as much as three or four times more than all the other writers combined.

He used this term called world was John talking so much about the world. I'll tell you why, because God had opened the book to John that he had closed to Daniel. OK, God had give John some understanding in some areas that Daniel had, but God wouldn't let him write it.

And Daniel and John are talking about the same thing. Daniel, the 11th chapter, he says he will replace the real God with another God. Play with God, just replace him, move him out and in his place, something else.

OK, and in John's writings concerning the one or maybe 85 percent of the times that John used the term world, it's the word cosmos, which means world system. Now we fix the preach. I want you to turn with me to a scripture that I've already used.

Divine Order and the World System

In the book of Isaiah chapter nine, you already. You want the truth or you want tradition? You're going to get the truth where you want it or not tonight. And I'm not going to hush for your strong crying, either.

We're headed somewhere. This thing's coming on down. Praise God. I'm thrilled and out of what God's doing. I was there nine and six for into us a child is born unto us. The son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Council, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace of the increase of his government and peace.

No end. Those words that should be has been added upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to notice that word, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from hence forth, even for that one night.

I'm going to preach on those two words, judgment and justice, but not tonight. I'm going to preach on this word right here tonight, found in verse seven of the increase of his government and peace. There shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it.

I'm going to preach on divine order. Now we're coming. And when I say we're coming, I include myself and I hope and pray you. We're coming in this hour back to divine order. Now catch the word, not order, divine order.

How many wants to come to divine order? Now, the reason we're going to come to divine order is this where you will accept this or not. But a lot of the things that we're calling God today is of the cosmos.

What we call order is not the order of this book of the Holy Spirit. It's of the world system. We was warned by John over and over and over. Why did we get the message? John was writing to the church, sent off that island to turn the church back around.

She had already began to go away from divine order. So he come off that island with a message talking about the world, the Cosmo, the world system. Something had already began to take place. The church had began leaving divine apostolic order.

This apostolic order today, not to read it and really read it. Look at it. What is the order of the book of Acts? It's the Holy Spirit in control prayer meetings. You know, they were baptized with the Holy Ghost.

They were controlled by the Holy Ghost. They were sent by the Holy Ghost precision with the movement of the Holy Spirit. Off the church, get mad at me for preaching that we claim to be Pentecostal and reject the order of the book.

But we do. You know why? Because we feel threatened by God's order. I like it. Come to divine order. Why is it so important? It's the bridge. Won't you talk to us about financial blessings and all this kind of stuff?

That's what's wrong with you now. True prosperity has been replaced with a prosperity. That's not God. But John, what's that system? Amen. You're in the world, but you're not of it, not controlled by it.

Amen. Now, here's why it's so important that you listen to me tonight. All the systems of man are going to malfunction in the last day. When it blew was the most intellectual wisdom, hundreds and hundreds and thousands and thousands of hours of research of the most brilliant minds that has ever walked this earth.

It malfunctioned. All the systems of men, we brag about in this country of having the best system, same system that the Romans had. 2 of the Roman Empire got the same craving and lust for sports and worship of sports as the Romans did.

Built on greed and selfishness. 10 in this nation than any nation on this earth. But we got thousands of people on the streets tonight. We can't feed. One of the topics of the state of the union address of the president was we got to do something with the street folks.

We got to do something with the homeless. I'm going to tell you something. You ain't seen nothing yet. You ain't seen nothing yet. I read just yesterday and today. I read it twice that the man says the man that setting in any company that thinks he's got, um, got it.

That he's secure for life. He said, it's no longer true in America for companies. That's been the mainstream and the main workforce of this nation for years. All of the systems are going to malfunction.

But the one that God has put in on hallelujah, going to say Herman Talmadge said before he died about 15 years ago, he said, there's no way democracy can survive. He said, because democracy will only work when men are not greedy.

Amen. Are we a greedy bunch? How many is glad tonight? You're involved in something that's not going to malfunction. Hallelujah. This is why you got to come to divine order. This is why you can't depend on the system anymore.

I don't mean everybody quit their jobs. No, I ain't preaching no foolishness like that. That means though, don't you trust in it? Don't you believe just because it's been a security for you for years.

Don't you believe you can put your foot trust in it. Now you've got to put your trust in God. I said, you better put your trust in God. Why? Because everything is going to fail. Look in the revelation, brother and sister.

What is John saying? He's seeing the fall of Babylon. What is Babylon? It's a system. It's the mouth. Fuck. John begins to see the malfunction of Babylon. Why does Babylon begin to malfunction? As far as commercial Babylon is concerned, I'll tell you why.

The Bible says no man will buy her merchandise anymore. Why is it such a crusade in this country now to buy American goods? Buy American goods, buy American goods. They're devaluing the dollar right now to try to get folks to buy American goods.

Quit buying those Japanese cars. Quit buying those Singapore clothes. Quit buying that Arab oil. Amen. What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong. The system is going to malfunction and it's going to fall.

But there's an order that will not fall. And it's the kingdom of God. Hallelujah. There's a woman riding on the back of a beast, which means she's supported by the beast. That's her support. That's her beast of burden or her support.

What happens? What happens to religious Babylon? I'll tell you what happens. The beast gets tired of riding. Hallelujah. And turns on her. Kicks off of her back and says, you hearted Jew, I ain't riding you no more.

I've supported you. I've kept you up. I've kept you afloat. You've rode free. You've rode. Amen. But the Bible says God puts it into the heart of commercial Babylon, whom the beast, the harlot, the false church is riding on.

He puts it in her, in the heart of the commercial Babylon to turn on the beast. And she begins to destroy the whore. What does commercial Babylon do to the woman that's riding? He takes off, cuts off her.

So depending on that world know how. It's coming down, brother and sister. You ain't heard TV preachers baguette revival in 1970, May of 1970. I had just closed in this town, a three week revival, a 21 night revival.

That thing got so big. I moved up the highway, went and bought a tent, moved up the highway three or four miles. Set that tent up. We stayed there five more weeks. God was moving. Man, money was rolling.

Folks were being healed, saved. Revival was moving. It was just glorious. What God was doing right in the middle of it. Holy ghost say to me one night is not stood in the pulpit. I will not supply your need according to the rise and the fall of the market.

I'll supply your need according to my riches and glory by Christ Jesus. It means a whole lot now. I don't know what the stock market's going to do. It's going to crash one day, but I do know one that ain't going to crash.

It's the kingdom of God. It's God's order. It's God's system. Can you say amen? Like this. I didn't think you was going to hear such as this tonight, did you? I ain't. Don't you worry. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't stop me up here now.

Nobody but the pastor. Function. Functions. There'll be a people on this earth with an answer, with a word. Something won't fail. How many of these has the word that won't fail? Hold me three years to watch three years into three years.

It's going to take three years for it to begin to really roll. He showed me it was going to begin to happen. This is why it's so important that Stone Mountain Church come to divine order. Because I'm going to tell you something, folks.

It ain't going to be like you said tonight. Always. It ain't going to be like it is tonight. Always. You say, how you know, preacher? I don't stood in God's council room. I don't heard that voice too many times.

What's it going to be like by the Lord? We are coming back to where God is going to be real again. God's going to be real. God's going to be real. It's not religion. It's reality. We need a lot of big hands.

You believe that tonight? We must come to divine order. How do we do it? Well, if the government is on his shoulder, like the Bible said, then. Isaiah 9, the Bible says he's going to order it. That means he's going to.

The word order there in the Hebrew means arrange. It's the same word used for the world system. The word system means an orderly arrangement. The difference is, is God arranges it, or God orders it, or God sets it up, or God ordains it, or the world sets it up.

A lot of difference. Whether you want to accept this or not, there's a lot of stuff we call him God. It's not God. It's the antichrist's replacement for God. It's a replacement. I hope you're here tonight.

I hope you're here the night that I preach on the house of prayer. There's been a replacement, brother and sister. Amen. I don't know about the church of God, but my last pastor was an assembly of God.

And I was friends with the state officials. I do electrical work. And I mentioned one day I was an electrician. So I wound up wiring a house for the state secretary. We become real close friends. We've done a lot of talking.

He, we got real close. He said to me, I had not went all the way in the semblance as far as credentials. He said, brother, if you're going to go all the way, you better go now. He said, because we're turning fast to education.

I said, look, man, I got 23 years ministry. I've got a proven ministry. He said, that ain't gonna make no difference. He said, there'll be an island assembly of God church. You'll have to have a degree to have credentials.

Brother, we're in serious trouble when we take the wisdom of men. They're encouraging their preachers now to take a course in psychology. Psychology is not a thing in the world. It's one of the most modern sciences revealed.

It's a study of human behavior. A man outside of Christ can never tell you why you behave like you do. Cause he don't understand. You've got to send nature causes to happen. And a psychologist. If nobody stayed, you'd lay your, you'd lay your read on any table.

You want to lay it on. It ain't a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist will ever give you the right answer. Cause he don't understand God. He don't understand sin. He don't understand the devil. He don't understand none of this stuff.

I'll tell you what you do since you probably won't be back after the night. You read the 11th chapter of the book of Isaiah. The Bible said that you'll come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse. And seven spirits is going to rest on it.

Spirit of wisdom, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might. Not wisdom, not knowledge, not might, not judgment. The spirit of wisdom, the spirit of knowledge, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might.

We don't need wisdom. We need the spirit of wisdom. We don't need knowledge. We need the spirit of knowledge. We don't need might. We need the spirit of might. We don't need counseling. We need the spirit of counsel.

Can you say man? And if thing outside of those seven that spiritual might spiritual counsel spiritual knowledge spiritual understanding spiritual judgment Spiritual spiritual spiritual. It's the seven spirits of God.

It's the seven spirits that the seven eyes of God Amen, it's the economy of God. It's a government of God. Anything outside of that is a babbling. It's out the world. It's not what the church needs. It's not what man needs.

We need God. We need the Holy Ghost. We need the power of God. Can you say man? I don't need a psychiatrist or you don't need your preacher to study psychology. You need him on his knees somewhere in a prayer room that when you stand before him or set before him Praise God with a problem.

He can discern and see what's wrong and tell you thus All This thing is a God. It's going to replace the ministry of the Holy Spirit With a ministry of education. Oh, that's great. It's an abomination.

His education our enemy. No. But it will not solve man's problems. If it would God never sent the Holy Ghost to the church. Somebody say man and boys is good. It took a long time. But the devil. The spirit of Antichrist has replaced a lot of things.

I'm gonna taste some more things. He's replaced. He's took out. See the Bible said that word Antichrist is the substitution for. Okay. Even means one place anointed are false anointings. Did you know a lot of God's people can't tell the difference in charisma and the anointing.

There's a lot of difference. Do you know a lot of God's people can't tell the difference in the personality of man and the anointing of a man? Boy, he sure I sure enjoyed that. Yeah, but did it minister to you?

Did it meet your need? Did you leave with your knees supplied? Say man, it's not eloquence of speech. We need its power and anointed speech that we need. We must come to divine order and that's what I told you.

I preached here the first service. Structure that's order. I Told you you gotta you gotta have the right rod in your hand to measure by which is the Word of God or which is Christ. He is God's pattern.

Christ as the Pattern for Spirit-Led Order

Now Jesus was both God and man. He did not do what he done on this earth as God. Neither did he do what he done on this earth is man. Okay. Well, what did he do it? How did he what was he what kind of figure was Christ on the earth now?

He was the Son of God the same thing. The Bible calls me and you. What is that? He came unto his own his own received him not but as many as received him to them gave he the power. The right or the authority to become the sons of God the Bible said in Romans 8.

They did a lab by okay the same way he operated on this earth. Not as God not as just a register man. He operated as the second Adam a play that you and I could have. Well, where's he above us? He's the firstborn.

He has a preeminence. Jesus under tutors and goodness until the time appointed the Father. Appears at the Jordan River to be baptized of John. He's baptized of John in the Jordan River and the Bible says the Holy Ghost Descends upon him in the form of a dove and the next thing the Bible says.

There's a voice speaks and said this is my beloved son in whom I am well-pleased. Next thing the Bible says he was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. Another variety says he was driven with a spirit that don't mean God took a whip.

What was his steering wheel? He drove him in the Holy Ghost took over now. He was not under tutors and governess anymore. The Holy Ghost was at the wheel and the Holy Ghost says go into the wilderness.

Now let me throw this in right here for less. I forget it. God ain't gonna be your spare wheel no more. Neither is God gonna be your co-pilot. He's gonna take the controls over brother and sister. Hallelujah, he's gonna become your steering wheel.

Can you say man? Hallelujah, hallelujah. How many tired of driving how many's not ready to get in the backseat and let the Lord start doing the driving? How many's ready to give the controls over the hill and you be the co-pilot and let him be the pilot?

Oh glory to God that's shouting ground. You don't made a mess trying to drive. Anyway, won't you give it somebody knows what to do. He went into the wilderness. To start divine order in that wilderness.

Before he could come out He had to come to order himself the things that won't take time to mention everything. But he proved that his body would not be his master. Is that true Bible? His hunger would not dictate to him that he would never act independently of his father.

Only do and for 40 days, you know people talk about Jesus in the wilderness because it says that that's what he was hungry. They think if you fast and if it's God, you don't ever get hungry. That's a bunch of malarkey.

Wouldn't be no sacrifice. I mean if you don't eat breakfast that ain't the meal you need to fast. Hey, man, I Passed every day breakfast. That's that. I know I went 21 days one time just drink a few drops of water.

And I'll guarantee you the first 10 days. I sail like a eagle. But the next level I couldn't either to before Toothpicks and they tasted good proved before he was to go out instead of church in order.

He was set in order. He mastered spirit stir and let him take control. He takes over the steering wheel. Amen, and you begin to walk out of the flesh and walk in the spirit in the power of the Spirit.

Hey, man. Number one first and that's what I've tried to deal with for the last few nights. Number one. Divide order visual to set their house in order is our master and not the Holy Ghost. We call him Lord Lord.

But don't do the things he says. But then that calls him Lord. Lord ain't going into the kingdom. That's them that do as well. Got you happening. He walked out of that wilderness. Headed somewhere. Malachi said the Lord whom you seek shall sudden to come to his temple.

Now all for the Gospels record Jesus going to the temple. Except there's a difference in John's records. He's the only one there's two cleansings of the temple. Matthew Mark and Luke. Records the cleansing of the temple at the end of the ministry of Jesus.

John is the only one notice. Here's John again. John is the only one that records the cleansing of the temple at the beginning of the ministry of Jesus. None the rest of them do. Jesus left the wilderness in obedience to Malachi.

The Lord whom you seek shall sudden to come to his temple. He walked out that the wilderness led by the Holy Spirit on his way to the temple. Okay, he was in order. He had been set in order. He had submitted himself to the rulership Amen of the Holy Spirit.

Giving glory to nobody but the father. Is that true? How many knows what Jesus said? It's not me. It's the father. It's not mine. It's the father. It's not me doing it. It's the father. They're not my miracles.

They're the father's. He was submitted. He was controlled by he was led by the Holy Ghost. Amen that come on him in the Jordan River the way to the to the temple. John records he was invited to a marriage of Cato.

You ever wondered why stand at the marriage of Cato when the woman said to him Master they're out of wine. He looked at her and said my hour is not or has not come yet. Why did he say that? Because Malachi said he's got to go to the temple have the willness on the subjection.

In divine order the Spirit of God his father. He walks to watch Jerusalem. Headed somewhere. Where was he headed to the house of prayer to do what what had the house of prayer become a den of what a Den of what a den of thieves in a house of what?

Merchandisers. If we ain't there, we'll never arrive there. He didn't get him out of wet noodle to set the house of prayer in order. He didn't get him a wet noodle. Said well y 'all please quit doing this and you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Let that go on in the house of God. Oh How dumb we are. He made him a whip walked in. He kicked them tables over. He walked them preachers upside the head. He burnt their hind blistered their rins. Amen, oh, but we're that wet noodle generation.

God bless your heart. You need to quit doing that and straighten up brother. That day's over with the party's over the Redeemer's come back to Zion the Lord's returned back to his temple. He's gonna set his house in order.

I said he's gonna set his house in order. Well, he said his idea doesn't set himself in order. He set the house in order the public house the corporate house then. He walked through that land setting people's lives in order.

Establishing priorities. Establishing ordering the hardwares now this true values. He said that he set the order for values. Is that right? He taught us that a man's most important possession is not what he lives in not what he drives.