How to Lead a Soul to Christ — Abner Kauffman

Opening Greeting and the Call to Lead Souls

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Would you turn your Bibles to 2 Corinthians, the first chapter, with me? I'd like to use a few verses here to greet you. And I would like you to read with me as I read them. I'm not going to use Paul's exact words here, but I use this portion here for a reason.

Paul’s Greeting and the Meaning of Sainthood

Paul wrote to the Corinthian church and he always, when he wrote them, he always greeted them with beautiful words. Wonderful meanings behind the words. And I'd like to greet you that way this evening.

Paul said, unto the church of God. May I say unto the church of God, which is at Raresburg. Or unto the young people which are in the Pilgrim Conference and all of you together here tonight. I'd like to give you this greeting because it is the best, the greatest or through the greatest that I can give a greeting tonight.

We often stand up and we say, we greet you in the name of Jesus. And you know, we don't realize the powerful effect that that greeting should have. The name of Jesus in the Amish church. When I was a boy, we had a practice that when the name of Jesus was mentioned, when we were standing, we bowed our knees.

And it was it was a I realized it became a form. And maybe didn't. Well, it's certainly to me, but I was there didn't mean what it should have. But I would like to say that our spiritual needs, if not our physical needs, ought to bow at the name of Jesus.

Too often they bow because of other things. And Jesus is we just handle the word so freely. Tonight, I would like to use Paul's greeting when he said this, and I'd like to paraphrase it a little bit. To the church that is at Raresburg, to everyone here tonight who is a saint.

Yes, a saint. Those that words I remember the time when those words shook me when somebody said a saint. I thought, what are they talking about? I didn't realize in a sentence that it was quite so steeped in Catholicism because saints shook me up as something that we something that's way gone and passed.

But Paul uses these words. And a saint is a sinner. Saved by grace. That's what a saint is. He said this way, called to be saints. Them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints with all that in every place.

Call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours. Grace be unto you and peace from God the Father. From God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. All the words ring to me tonight.

Now Paul said if we preach in an unknown tongue we should translate. But I translated first. And then I preached probably to some of you in an unknown tongue. But I love those words. They ring from my childhood on.

And I would like to use the next, the next, no, I'm in, I'm sorry, I'm in 1 Corinthians. I thought I was in 2. But it's about the same thing. I'm going to turn to 2 Corinthians the first chapter because that's the verses I wanted there.

In 2 Corinthians we have a lot the same words. Where he says grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.

God’s Comfort and the Husbandman’s Experience

Now I'd like to use verse 4 because of my message tonight. He uses this verse and I'm going to tell you tonight frankly, last evening before I preached I said my message is simple and it's straightforward.

And tonight I trust it was. And tonight the message is not so simple. There is a lot of people make this message very simple. And yet it is. So I'm a little perplexed on how to handle it. But in verse 4 it tells us who comforteth us, this God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercy and the God of all comfort.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation that we may be comforted or that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble. By the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. I'd like to tell you something brethren and sisters tonight.

And I use the word quite freely, brethren and sisters. I am asked to preach tonight, to teach or to talk and just simply show us in a short time how to lead a soul to Christ. And if I can't call you a brother and a sister tonight, I can't continue on because I don't believe you will be able to.

I don't believe you will be able to. Because you're going to handle something that needs to be the timity. Paul wrote this way, the timity, the husbandman must first be made partaker of the fruit. And in this message that is so very essential that the husbandman be first partaker.

He has to taste, to experience. Alright, now I thought I could. Tonight saved my voice quite a bit. How many of you went down to the basement last night and got one of these? I'll tell you something, young people.

I wish I could see hands going up all over the place tonight. Maybe you have one. If you have one with you, turn to page 20. Read it and you have the message for the night. Now I never saw this before tonight or before last evening.

I took it home, drove home last night yet. And I took this in my study this morning. And I started going through this. There is not any man's thinking necessarily in here. Except what God probably gave to a man to put into a scriptural balance so that we don't become confused.

And I appreciate it. Now I could tell you, well, if you want to know how to lead a soul to Christ. If you want to know what is expected, how he should look at it. We could turn to 20 here tonight and maybe I could read it.

You know, I did something the other Sunday that I never did in my ministry. I read a message. I did not make many comments on it. I just read the message. I didn't read much in the Bible. I read a tract.

And it was marvelous. I just, I couldn't. Yes, I should be able to say I could believe it. But it was, it was beyond my expectation. The response that it brought in the hearts of the listeners. It was not my writing.

I had nothing to do with it except to stand at the pulpit and read it. It was a tract about hell. And I saw brethren and sisters sitting in the congregation there with tears running down their cheeks.

Scripture, the Gospel, and the Rejection of Mechanical Methods

I think sometimes we, we think a message has to come from a certain person to make it authentic or powerful. That's not true. The message has to come from the word of God. Be flowing from the spirit. From the throne of God and through the messenger.

And then it will have its power. And I just looking at this, God's plan for salvation. We could go over it very quickly. If you want to, we could turn to Isaiah and read, come now and let us reason together.

Out of this little booklet. Come, let us reason together. Sayeth the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall become white as snow. You know, we could reason. And often with a sinner, you have to reason.

Because he doesn't understand. It is to the natural minded man foolishness, Corinthians tells us. He cannot understand it. It is to him foolishness. Because he is natural minded. And he can't understand it.

But tonight, I'd like to take us into some areas that go further than just. I guess I thought, what am I doing? What am I doing standing in front of a group of people like this? Looking out across a fairly large group of people tonight.

And telling you how that you should lead a soul to Christ. What am I doing? But you know something? I believe God does not have a concrete method. God didn't put this thing in a box and say, this is how you do it.

And I'm so afraid. I'm so afraid, dearly beloved. That when we come down and we get into these. Into a lot of this literature that's going about how to win souls. We find a little box. And then we're supposed to say, well, you go to a certain place.

And you tell the person this and that. And then you get them on their knees. And then you can walk away and shout hallelujah. And the person is left to wander around in darkness. I don't appreciate that.

I said something last evening about some of this cheap grace that is being preached. I say, brethren and sisters. I don't appreciate that. There's going to be ministers that are going to have to answer before God.

Of this cheap thing. And I don't even like that expression. But that's about what it is. Tonight I can't do that. And maybe with the time that I have. I would like to rather than tell you what scripture to use.

I'm going to tell you. Look at some of these. I've just been going over this. I couldn't default it. And I'm not here tonight to preach this little tract. But really what it is. It is just scripture. It's not some man's thinking or some man's reasoning.

And I appreciate it. So I'm going to let it that way. All right. I'd like to turn first of all to Isaiah chapter 45. The Old Testament. When you preach about Jesus Christ. You think the Old Testament.

When I was converted. Soon after I was born again. The Old Testament just for a long time. Remained sort of dead. Oh I love to get into Romans and Ephesians. And the book of John. The pistol of John. And some of these.

And it just seemed to. Oh it just thrilled my soul. And the Old Testament seemed just like. Well. Oh you poor people in the Old Testament. And I'm sorry you were in that. That old form and old church.

I'm so sorry. You want to get into the new. But you know God worked in the Old Testament. Not a whole lot different. Than he does in the new. Yes. The administration of it was different. In fact he tells us.

Paul writes in Corinthians. That that administration was glorious. So much that Moses face shone. But he said if. If that. If that administration which was glorious. Was put away. How much more glorious.

Is the administration that we have today. I'm glad I don't have to stand up here. And tell you young people. How that you're to butcher. The goat. The sheep. The heifer. The pigeon. Whatever it may be.

And how to lay out the altar. I'm glad I don't have to go through that. But you know they did it by faith. And we could go into the Old Testament. And we find scriptures. That just show a beautiful picture.

Of God's desire. And a prophecy of the perfect sacrifice. That was going to come. And I'd like to say. Lest I forget it. If you. To exercise. What we preach tonight. To lead us all to Christ. Do not be afraid.

To use the Old Testament. Because I believe there is things in there. That open up. Wonderfully. And beautiful. I was asked. Just the other week. Well I say the other week. Last week. I've got a call from a brother.

A minister from another constituency. And asked me if I would come. Next summer. Next spring. To their church. And preach for six messages. On the book of Esther. Now I have. I don't know. Probably. I don't know if you've heard.

Messages in the book of Esther or not. Some people. Know that I have a very fondness. Of the book of Esther. A great love for it. And I have preached. Quite a few messages from it. But I said when he told me.

I said I would love to. The book of Esther. Is a book that opened up to me. One time when I was having meetings. And it has been a thrilling book. To me ever since. And it doesn't even have the word God in it.

But it's such a beautiful type. And I could. And I. And I say no. I say I. I believe that a minister. Or a person. Can spend time in that book. And preach one message. After the other. And he can bring out.

Well it's a little bit like. Pilgrim's Progress. You know I'm often challenged. When I ask people. Young people especially. Did you ever read. Pilgrim's Progress. Well yeah we did. What did you get out of it.

Well it was this boy. That was. Or this man. This young man. That was traveling. He wanted to get to a certain city. And he had some hardships on the way. Whoa whoa whoa. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Wait a minute. John Bunyan. When he wrote. John. John Bunyan. When he wrote that book. He was filled. I believe. With a tremendous. Spirit. Of God. That. That made him. And. Oh what could I say. Gifted him.

To bring that book. If. If you ever read. Pilgrim's Progress. Do it in the spirit. Because there are tremendous. Lessons in that book. I used to think. It's a book for young people. I mean. Like children.

You know. But I say. We took that book. I told the church. At home. I'd like to study. Pilgrim's Progress. In a midweek service. And they got me to teach it. And I love it. I love it. Because it's deep.

Looking to God’s Salvation

And that's how the Old Testament is. In some of the prophecies. That are brought out. Isaiah. Chapter 45. Verse 22. I'd like to use a. One. Or maybe just a verse here. And I'm going to bring some things out tonight.

Like I said. I'm not going to necessarily. Go into a lot of scripture. But I'd like to bring some things out. Tonight. That I think are very. Essential. Very needful. And some things. That are not needful.

When we. Feel moved. To talk to a person. About the Lord Jesus Christ. And when we have. This glorious opportunity. To sit down with them. And feed them. The manna from heaven. Isaiah. Chapter 45. I'd like to read.

Verse 22. Just one verse here. Look unto me. And be ye saved. All the ends of the earth. For I am God. And there is none else. I said last evening. When we talked about the hope. That lies within us. And how that we should speak to.

Every man. I said. We need. To be very careful. Dearly beloved. Tonight. That we do not become. Respecter of persons. You know. Sometimes. When we think. Of going out. With the. With the Bible. Or we going out.

With the good news. Then we sort of. Think. Who we ought. To work with. But God. Thinks. Different. And he's going to lay. Someone. So. On our doorstep. That we may have. Never thought about. And it's a real challenge.

He says here. For. Unto all. The ends. Of the earth. You know. I don't know how. I can't see how. You can go further. Unto all. The ends of the earth. All right. This is the promise. Of promises. That the Lord.

Gave to Isaiah. Here. Where he said. Look unto me. And be ye saved. Look unto him. And be ye saved. And be ye saved. It lies. This lies. At the foundation. Of our spiritual life. How simple. Is that direction.

A Faithful Example That Directs Others to Christ

Noah. I've seen this. Done already. And I went to God. That Christians. Would practice this. In the spiritual sense. But I remember. Some years ago. Here in Lebanon County. When I was a boy. There was a farm sale.

And there was an old. Farmer. That lived not far. From our place. At this farm sale. And he stood up. In the barn hill. Now most of you. Probably acquainted. With farm sales. And barn hills. He stood up.

In the barn hill. And there was a whole crowd. Out there in the field. The auctioneer. Was selling. I was probably about. Eleven years old. Twelve years old. And this. Old farmer. Was rather a jokester.

He lived neighbors. Not too far from us. And standing on the barn hill. He started looking. Up in the sky. And then he pointed. His finger up there. Like this. Up in the sky. And the crowd. Down there.

One by one. Saw him. And started looking. Was it. Was a. Was a beautiful. Sunny day. And they were looking. And after a while. When you look. The whole crowd. Was looking. The auctioneer. Was trying to sell.

And people were looking. And up on the barn hill. Stood my old neighbor. Now I'd like to use. A lesson on that. What do you expect. These people. Are going to look for. And that's what. I appreciate about.

These words. Look. So that those. That want to see. What you see. Will know how. To direct their eyes. There was nothing. In the sky. But it just. Taught me something. That went through me. Or kept with me.

Through my years. How people. Want to follow. Something that's. Interesting. And if you. And I. Can make. That look. That we turn. Gobbered. If we can make. It seem. In our daily walk. In life. You have taken.

Your first step. In leading a soul. To Christ. That. Is the first step. You say. What do you mean. Now. What were you talking. Standing on a barn hill. No. What I am saying. Is this. The first step. To leading.

A soul. To Christ. Is that he may. Look at you. If you don't. You have failed. Your mission. You have failed. Your mission. Surely. The creation. Surely. The creature. Should look. At the creator. Surely.

The creature. Should look. At the creator. We have looked. Elsewhere. Long enough. And it's time. That we look. Alone. To him. Who invites. All our expectations. That we look. Alone. To him. Who gives us.

The promises. For our salvation. And dearly. Beloved. I know. I could give you. An ABCD. Type of thing. Tonight. I thought of that. So much. What should I. Say. And they asked me. Show me. How to lead.

Someone to Christ. What should I. Say. And I thought. Well. Number one. Do this. Number two. Do this. Number three. You know. That's a little bit. How some people. Brethren. And sisters. I would like to say.

I'm not going to. Number. Tonight. But get your own hearts. And your eyes. And the gaze of your soul. On Jesus. So that your life. Is followed. By that which you see. And you have made. A tremendous. Step in leading.

Someone to Christ. I'm going to give you somewhat. My own experiences tonight. I thought about this. And thought about that. Whether I want to give you. My testimony. Of how I got. Converted. And I thought.

No. I'm not. Just forget that. But I'd like to tell you. A few things about it. Number one. When I was a boy. Twenty. Twenty one. Twenty two years old. I worked. For one of your people. Many of you here.

Know who it was. Clarence Burkholder. I worked for him. In the butcher shop. And on the silos. Clarence was a man. That would not push me in a corner. He would not force me. Claire was a young boy. He would come into the area.

He was worked up. He was up at his uncle's farm more than down at Clarence. Because I think he got along up there a little better up there than he did with Clarence. And the reason I say this is because Clarence.

Had some of these people come in that they called each other saints. I'm not judging you Claire. I'm not too sure where your opening was. But I know what mine was. And some of these people would come into Clarence's place and they would talk about the Lord.

And I'd be working there out in the butcher shop and they would come out and ask me. Abner, how's things with you and the Lord? Oh, I used to wish they'd left me alone. Just stay away. Just stay away.

But I believe, brethren and sisters, the Lord was working in my heart. Even though it wasn't anything done for another seventy years. I believe it was His working. Now what I'm trying to say this for is, dear people.

When you think of leading someone to Christ. Just remember this. That you can ruin your ability to be used as a vessel of God by something you do callously. Maybe five, ten years before the Lord ever lays the opportunity to you.

That our life is a walk of consistency. Which we profess to believe. I'm sometimes tremendously astonished at the many people in the United States of America. Tonight, today, they believe in the Bible.

And their life's walk condemns the very fact they said. And I say, be careful. You might be asked. You might be watched. Somebody follows you. You might not realize it. You might feel like my girls were.

You know, when I come to a place like that, I sat at a bench here. And I have a problem. And people say, well, I just can't hardly believe that. But I sat here at this bench up here. This evening before I got up, and my stomach was just going, grr, grr.

I was just all shook up. My girl said, just before we got here, daddy, my heart's starting to pound. Are we always there? I said, how would you like to preach? I'll tell you something, brethren and sisters.

I would like to say you better. You better tremble, not at people, but at the Word of God. And I say, to preach the Word of God across the pulpit to a group of believers is one thing. But to preach and teach the Word of God to a group of unbelievers is something else.

It's something else. I have preached at the campus of State College already, where they asked me to come in and preach on the campus. And there was professors sitting out there in the audience. And I literally shook in my shoes.

I'll confess that. Maybe I have fear of man. But I say, brethren, I believe we ought to tremble with the Word of God. Because it is something we cannot afford to handle in a careless way. We cannot afford to mix it with our thinking.

But to let God work it out through us. And that's what makes it important. And when we think of winning the soul for Christ, I'd like to emphasize again and again and again, don't you separate yourself from the power that comes from God through the Word.

Because it is Jesus Christ. The Word was made flesh. And the Word was God and God was the Word. And I believe that's what we have the pleasure of handling. Yet, in all seriousness, sometimes it causes us to tremble.

Now, we were talking about a look heavenward. You know, this look does not require, it requires neither wit nor wisdom at that point. When I think of my experience, and please pardon me, but I'm going to go back into mine.

When I think of my experience of coming to the Lord Jesus Christ, my wisdom of what I needed, and I guess I could tell if Brother Lloyd Martin or Brother Ivan Weaver or Brother Paul Landis was here, they would probably say he was so ignorant.

I was. I was 30, 29, 30 years old, and I was so ignorant in the Word. And when those men came, I'll never forget it. I had been so desperate for help, and I was told to stop reading, you're getting confused.

And then these men came to my home. I had finally told Brother Ivan, I need help. He had talked to me, and he saw that I was at my, oh, I don't even like to use the word wit's end, because my wits were gone.

But I was at the end of myself, and I confessed, and I told my wife, I don't know what more to do than to end it all. But God do. And I testify to you tonight, dearly beloved, if there's a soul that God has out there, and don't, if you feel the mood to go talk and pray with that soul, I tell you tonight.

But people that longed. I remember Brother Ivan coming to me on a Friday morning after a week of about five days where I was just struggling. I would put my welding hood down and weld, and I would cry that my welding hood would blot out with tears.

And I didn't know why. I didn't know what to do. I knew I was going to hell, and I had no idea. He said, now wait a minute, Abner. You were to tell us how to reach a soul. I'm telling you. I'm telling you.

I'm telling you. Let us get a burden in our heart for souls. Well, I'll tell you something. There was one working with me. He came to me on a Friday morning, and he said, Abner, do you have a problem?

I said, what do you mean? He said, you have a problem, don't you? I'd like to help you. I said, I want your help. You see, a sinner doesn't know what he needs. He can't help himself. He knows there's a vacuum.

And I remember I preached a message at Roxbury some years ago, and God gave me that thought, and it's stayed with me ever since. I believe every human being has inside there a pulse for something. I use that expression.

And I've said already that that vacuum is God-shaped. May I say Christ-shaped. And we try to fill it with drugs, yes, with work, with plain clothes, but none of them fit. Because the vacuum is Christ-shaped.

And that vacuum, I didn't know how to fill. But someone did. And I marvel as I think that back, that Brother Ivan came and said, can I help you? But you know, I was so steeped in traditionalism that I wanted no help from the Mennonites.

I don't want the help from those people. I have a strange belief. I don't want any help from them. But come Saturday before noon, and I praise God to this day that we used to have a crew coming up to clean on Saturday morning.

I'm so thankful God had it all ordained. Yes, I believe, before the foundation of the world was laid, God had it all laid out. And that day, Ivan was supposed to work. And come about 11 o 'clock, I went to Ivan and I told him, I said, Ivan, I've got to have help.

If you can help me, please. Well, you told me that this man was coming to preach there in North London. And he said, if you want me to, I'll bring him over this afternoon. And I just couldn't. And finally I said, well, bring him over.

I figured it can't get any worse. So I went home. And I was at home with my wife. And I was walking the floor. And I went out to the barn. And I smoked one cigarette after the other. So I could just see myself walking up and down in that barn, wishing I wouldn't have told him.

Hoping they'll come. Hoping they'll forget me. Wishing they'll come. And just being torn apart. I couldn't pray. I didn't know how. He said, what? You didn't know how to pray? And you were a church member?

Oh, yeah. I could pray. If I went to poop and took the mark. But it wasn't that high. No, it didn't even go that high. It just fell right to the ground. Brethren and sisters, I am telling you this not because it was myself.

But I'm telling you that you might understand what some people need when they need Christ. I remember when that car drove in the lane. One of the greatest shocks I went through is when he got out of the car.

And every one of them had a Bible. I thought, what did I get myself into? You may think it's strange. But to me that was like a living sword. Well, I can't fight with that thing. What did I have that Bible for?

I wanted to talk to him about the church situations. After all, the churches, they've got a problem and there's fighting going on. And there was a split. And my wife and I, my dear little son and my daughter, what am I going to do with them?

And it came with this. Well, there's nothing in here about what the other church ought to do. And you say, well, you were ignorant. Amen, I was ignorant. And a lot of people you meet today in the streets are ignorant.

Here I'm going again, just getting away from the notes. I like to say this, brethren and sisters. That confidence when you see, that confidence when you see a person. I'm sorry, I think that was a fly.

That confidence when you see a person who is longing for satisfaction to that vacuum in his soul. You can only answer as you carry this book. I'm sorry, I don't want to be amusing. Please. I threw back and I pulled that fly in my mouth.

I'm sorry. But I don't want to be amusing. I'm on a serious subject, brethren and sisters. So tonight, when I tell you, you need the experience, young people, of Christ in your heart. If you want to win a soul, you also need to have the word of God.

What does it take to bring a soul to Christ? It takes a person that is feeding on the manna of his word. The preciousness and having had, oh my, the experience of that. All right. One of the first how to's.

Teaching the Gospel and Avoiding Strange Fire

I'm going to turn to Matthew 28. I was going to give an answer about coming here tomorrow morning. I said, I don't believe I'm going to come. But after all, I'm going to feel I have to come back and finish this message.

In Matthew chapter 28, verses 19 and 20. I'd like to bring this out. Jesus, well let's look at verse 18. Jesus came and spake unto them. But then he said in verse 19, and it's a well known verse. Go ye therefore and teach all nations.

I'd like to say tonight, brethren and sisters, that I believe one of the main operations in leading a soul to Christ is in instructing a man or a woman that they may know the truth of God. Some years ago, two girls who came out of what we call the Jesus movement and another boy told me he wished I would come and talk to them.

And I went over to another home over in Belleville and these two girls were sitting in the room and they were sitting on sofas. They had their legs underneath themselves. Sitting there like they were in a meditation.

You know what this modern meditation form is. And they were strumming guitars. And I walked into the room and started to talk to them. And I asked them questions. And I said, do you believe that you are born again?

And they looked at me, I don't know whether we're born again or not. But we know that we have Jesus. And I kept asking them things and I found out that it was a strange fire. A very strange fire. And I'll tell you, brethren and sisters, I cannot repeat often enough to you tonight.

You watch that you don't throw embers or firewood or fuel on a strange fire. We've got a lot of strange fire going around. And Brother Irvin talked about the sons of Eli and the strange fire. And we've got a lot of teaching and a strange fire coming out.

Where people, and I wanted to talk on that tonight. Where people come out with an emotionalism that is not solid on the Word of God. Be careful of that. I'll just have to rush on. Therefore, it says to teach all things.

To teach the all things. Let's not forget that. You cannot just go and run them through a program and walk away. Bringing someone to Christ is not just merely showing him the forgiveness of the blood of Jesus Christ.

The forgiveness of sin. But it's to show Christ as Lord and Master of His life. If you don't believe that, I'm afraid you're seeped in Calvinism. And we've got too many of us boarding so close to that thing that it scares me.

The Gospel as Information, Truth, and Faith

Alright. The Gospel according to Isaiah is, Incline your ears. Do like my dad's mules. Set your ears forward. Listen to what's happening. That's what the Gospel is according to Isaiah. And come unto me here and your soul shall live.

Those are the words of Isaiah. The Gospel is good news. To hear some preachers, you would think that it's some sort of an emotional medicine. To excite you in your brains and in your body of emotionalism.

But it's good news. And you know what news is? The Gospel is news. It is nothing of that kind. It is news. It is therefore information. And I believe that we underestimate that information. The information that is needed.

There is instruction in it concerning matters which men need to know. The Word of God. Let's not forget that. I see too much of this easy salvation plan. Now I'm not, I don't want to be overly critical.

But I say, brethren and sisters, it is no wonder that we hear these men who say, well, last evening we had a meeting and about a thousand responded to Christ. And about 40 came to the inquiry room. And about 50 or 60 of them received the deeper work of the Spirit.

And they go on and on and about 25 of them received the baptism of the Spirit. I'm going to tell you something, brethren and sisters. I fear that type of spiritual boasting. Is that what we call it? And we mark it down in our tabloids, in our books, in our tablets.

And we mark it down and we keep the charge, or these accounts to ourselves and we keep adding them up just like we do at a cash register at the end of the day. I say, brethren and sisters, our heart needs to go deeper than all that.