and I want to give you a thought this morning that, has been among our really I would suggest reading Romans chapter 8. I mean just what a great encouraging chapter in the Bible. But I'm just going to draw one little thought out of one verse and give you a thought that I've got this morning. So it's going to be Romans chapter 8 verse number 31. The Bible says, what shall we say then to these things? if god before us everything we need for the inner man we find it here church and so I thank you for that and more operate here for the next few minutes as we take a look at the word of god that you speak the hearts were made we grant you the liberty to work in our hearts as you see fit out of this verse where it says, What shall we say then to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? And I want to take one little article, really, is what it is. It is a word, but it's an article. And really, the message is going to be a small word with a big impact. And it's one of the biggest words that's a part of our vocabulary that really maybe we don't think about, and it's the word, if. So I want to give you a few thoughts this morning on that small word. Really, we don't understand, I think a lot of the time, just how big of a word this is in our lives. And in this particular verse, the Bible says, who can be against us. And I don't know about what you think about that this morning, but that's a big if. Amen. And I'm thankful that for those of us who were saved, amen, been washed in the blood, saved by His grace, amen, not of works lest any man should boast, I'm thankful that this if has been answered and the fact that God is in fact for us. I don't know about you, but I thank God that in a world of tribulation and a world of uncertainty and all these things going on, I mean, the more you look at the world stage, The more thankful I am that God is for us. Amen. We just read yesterday how Iran's launching missiles or launching drones at Israel now, and I'm just here to tell you the world is heating up. If you can't see that, I don't know what to tell you, but the world's heating up. We're getting closer to the end, and I'm glad in the middle of all that that God is for me. Let me tell you, young people, God is for you. Amen. And I would like for you to know also that I'm for you too. And hopefully your parents are for you. But I'm glad above all that, man, when it seems like nobody's for me, I'm glad that God is for me. Amen. And I'm glad that I'm on His side. But I'm just saying in this verse, if God is for us, who can be against us? And the answer to that is nobody. It goes on to say, what shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or peril? None of these things shall separate us from the love of God. We're more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. Why? Because God is for us. And not only is He for us, but He's in us. But on the flip side of that question, can you imagine the thought this morning if God be not for us? Man, I'm just saying, the word if there, the flip side to that question is a big if. Amen. I would hate to know that I had God against me. And so, with that in mind, and just as a springboard verse, I want to take a look in the Word of God this morning on some places where this Word plays a big role in our lives. But let me say first of all, just to do with this little word, if, a few characteristics about this word. The first thing that I would like to say about the word if is it's a conditional word. It's a conditional word. It lays forth a condition to be adhered to and abided by. Amen. The word if. You know, we used to grow up, or we used to grow up, when we were growing up, you know, I remember one particular time, Brother Jeffrey's here this morning, my brother, what we did one time, I don't know what boys, there's a reason that women live longer than men. I know y'all seen all those pictures, you know. There's a picture of a woman with her daughter and they're taking a picture. Y'all seen that in the oceans in the background? And down in the bottom corner in a very small picture, you see a dad loading a little boy into the end of a cannon. Have y'all seen that picture? And it says, no wonder women live longer than men. Amen. Anyways, if y'all haven't seen that, it ain't too funny. But I remember years ago, man, we took all the parts off the bottom of a skateboard and we went in the woods behind our house, man, and there was a steep hill down to the creek. The landing spot was a creek. So, we didn't think about this is what I'm trying to say. But we just thought it would sound fun if we took all the wheels and all that stuff off and we're going to snowboard down to the bottom. Now, what's going to happen when we get there, we have no idea. But when it came to stuff like that, you know, you remember this growing up, we'd stand there and say, well, if you do it, I'll do it. And the first volunteer would step up, and I remember Jeffrey took off, man, and it ended up bad, as you might imagine. But you know what? After he did it, we did it too. Because if you'll do it, I'll do it. I'm just saying it places a condition upon your life if you live according to this word, if. Amen? When it comes to the marriage that you're in this morning, do you realize that there are conditions in your marriage? Amen. If you do them, if you keep up this vow that you've made. Now in mine and Anna's case, the only vow that I made to her is to be her help me. I don't know what Brother Charlie had going on that day, but he lost the vows, and so the only thing I vowed to do was to be her help me. And so now the only, I mean, she remembers that. Because not within 20 minutes of us being up on a Saturday, she's looking for something for me to do. And if I ever buck that, she says, just remember you vowed to be my helpmate. Amen. That's a condition placed upon our marriage. And Lord knows I don't even remember what she vowed to me, so I can't use that against her. She don't know either. Amen. But you know, I'm just saying this word places a condition upon your life. Your life is lived according to conditions. You know, if you show up to work, you'll get paid. And it's an amazing thing. You go to work, you get paid. Why? Because that's the condition. Amen. I'll say this about the word if also. It's a convicting word. And listen, I don't suggest living in this place, but you know, I look back on my life sometimes When it comes to a lot of things, when it comes to my physical, carnal life, amen, all that sort of thing, I look back on my life. But also when it comes to family, when it comes to relationships, and when it comes to my walk and my service for God, I look back on my life and sometimes I say, man, if I had just done that, Y'all ever do that? If you look back and say, if I had just made this decision earlier, if I had made the decision to give my life to God at an even earlier age, or if I had done this, there's no telling what life may have turned out to be. And I'm telling you what that word brings a lot of the time is it brings conviction. Man, I think about, I have a young man stuck in my mind right now, I don't know his name, but I'm telling you, I remember one day, as clear as almost, it was almost an audible voice, I walked past this guy sitting on a curb somewhere, over towards the house, and the Lord laid on my heart, you need to go talk to him about me, give him the gospel, and you know what I did? I went out, I got nervous, and I didn't do it. And you know when I look back on that now, I say, man, what if, What if I had just stopped and given him a... He may have gotten saved right there on the spot. Maybe he wouldn't have. I'm just saying that this word brings conviction. Amen. Now let me say this. It often brings no victory to live your life in the what ifs. Because there's a million things that might have happened or might happen, might come to pass. But I'm just saying sometimes it brings conviction. Amen. Let me say this also, not only is it conditional, and it is a convicting word, but it's also a consequential word. Amen. And this is something I think that a lot of people need to grasp, and a lot of Christians need to grasp, is the consequences of our choices. Amen. You know there are consequences for choices. If the speed limit sign says 55, And you're going 75. There's a consequence to pay for that. I lose most people with that. Two speeding tickets within one hour will cure you from speeding. And I don't know what it is about my life, but every time I get involved in something like that, Brother Charlie's with me. I have no idea. And if you ever want a negotiator for a speeding ticket, do not, do not, do not let it be Brother Charlie. He will make the ticket worse. Amen. And I'll spare you all this. Y'all can get with me. I'll tell you the whole story to that after church. But I'm just saying that day in my life, the speed limit was 45 and I was going 60 and I got pulled over and I paid $300 later. I mean, I'm just saying that there are consequences associated with actions that we make or decisions that we make and actions that we take. And this applies to your walk with God. I mean, there's nothing we can do that will separate us from His love. Aren't you glad for that? Amen. There is nothing I can do since I have been saved, there's nothing I can do that will ever change the fact that I am His child and the fact that He will always love me. But there are things that I can do as His child that will affect my fellowship with Him. And we won't go through all the things that that might be, but he said, if we walk in the light as he is in the light. Notice that word, if. We have fellowship one with another. I'm just saying it's a consequential word. And this is just my introduction this morning, but let me say this last of all to do with the introduction. It's a word that's associated with choice. A verse we, a lot of people have hung in their houses, and that's a very famously quoted verse, is Joshua 24 15, where the Bible says, and if it seem evil unto you, to serve the Lord. And then at the end of the verse, whether the God you served, the God of the Amorites, and whose land you dwell, the God of your fathers, and at the end of that verse it says, choose you this day. who ye will serve. And I'll tell you, since Genesis chapter 1 all the way till now, what God always offers is He offers a choice. Young people, if you want to serve God, you can. And adults alike, if you want to walk with the Lord, you can. You have that choice. Don't let the world tell you how uncool it is to be a Christian and to stand for God because you have the choice to live for Him. And I'm telling you, the consequence and the result of living for God is a life of joy and peace and happiness. Not a bed of roses, but joy and peace, fellowship with God. And that's a choice that you have. if you'll do it so. With that in mind I want to look at a few things this morning. And I'll try to be aware of the time but I want to take a look at some big ifs. in every life here some big U.S. So we're turning our bibles a little bit so just get your thumb ready to turn a man and we're gonna look at a few verses the first one I want you to turn to the second chronicles chapter number seven I'm pretty sure most of us can probably quote this verse but I still wanna take a look at it we're gonna talk about the first if this morning that impacts all of our lives second chronicles chapter number seven verse number 14. And what we're going to do is we're going to spiritually apply this verse here. Amen. But this is a big if. 2 Chronicles 7, verse number 14, the Bible says this, if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. And so when it comes to the ifs of our life, the first if that I would like to draw out of this verse is the if of seeing God work. The if of seeing God work. Can I ask you this morning, you want to see God work? Now, I'm not talking about, you know, sometimes what we get caught up in is emotionalism. I mean, I'm all for shouting, I'm all for that, but sometimes all that is is just emotionalism. I mean, if you shout, I want it to be the Lord making you shout. But the truth is this morning, when it comes to our lives and it comes to our church, I pray and I believe with all my heart for everybody here that we have a concerted, unified desire to see God work. Amen. I want to see God move. I want to see God answer prayer. I want to see God save our kids as Colton prayed a minute ago. Amen. I want to see God change lives. I want to see God put marriages back together. Amen. I want to see God build our church for His honor and glory. I mean, we just want to see God do something. Amen. I'm tired of seeing what man can do. I want to see what God can do. How do you do that? Well, we get a formula laid out here. If my people, he said, if you want to hear from heaven, if you want me to hear your prayer and forgive your sin, in other words, if you want to see me move, the first step is if you do these things, and the first is humble yourself. And I believe it laid out maybe the hardest one for us to do, and that is to humble ourselves. Amen. But the most Christlike thing you can do is humble yourself. You want to see God work? If you'll do these things, He said, I'll hear from heaven, I'll forgive your sins, I'll heal your land if you will humble yourself. And it's sad to say that we see fewer and fewer and fewer church people who are willing to take this first step in seeing God move, and that is the step of humbling themselves. Especially when it comes to our relationships with each other. You know the hardest time to humble yourself is when you're right. Amen. I won't give any more marital examples. Amen. But there's been times I'm sitting there saying, this ain't working. But I'm right. But we ain't getting nowhere. Amen. And I realize in the middle of that thing, look, Jordan, let's just humble you. Be the helpmate you're vowed to be. Humble yourself and you'll see things get better. And let me just tell you when it comes to most things we get in such a wad over, it don't matter. Most things I hear people being mad about don't amount to a hill of beans when it comes to eternity. So what do you do in those situations? Humble yourself. Take the low road. Amen. If we humble ourselves. And then he said, Seek my face. Amen. Those that seek me early shall find me. Amen. And turn from their wicked ways. Confess it. Get over your sin. Start living for God. And he says, If you will do these things, you will see me do the things that you want to see me do. Humble yourself. Seek my face. Turn from your wicked ways. Amen. I'll heal your land. I'll work in your family. But we need to understand that there are conditions placed upon our lives and there's consequences for choices that we make. There are marriages in turmoil this morning because neither husband nor wife will humble themselves. There are churches who are literally split in two because of this step right here, humbling yourself. of the year for seeing a movement also see a move those who want to see a work and I thank God for working in our church I thank God for them and listen and about nine about numbers and about numbers and god knows I just wanna see god was not telling you see god build families and build homes and I love seeing the change take place in the life of somebody who God is working on. I want to see God work. Amen. Don't you want to see God work? Well, he said, if my people, if you'll do these things, there's a spiritual promise here that he will hear our prayers and he will work in our lives. Amen. Let's look at the next one. Look at John chapter 12. john chapter number 12 am in all of this is a healthy this morning but look at this one, John chapter 12, verse number 32, the Bible says, and I, this is Christ speaking of himself here, and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. Now we know this is a reference to the cross when he was raised from the earth on that torture rack. Amen. He said he would draw all men unto himself. Matthew chapter 11, he says, Come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in spirit. Amen. But I'm telling you what this if is. It's the if of showing Jesus to the world. The if of showing Jesus to the world. That's a big if in your life. We see another promise here. He said, if I be lifted up from the earth, we'll draw all men unto myself. Amen, and I'll tell you what most of the problem is, man, we like, us Christians, man, we like to just harp on the wickedness of the world and all the things going on, amen. Let me tell you something about the world. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to do. Amen, I don't expect anything else from the world. But what's our job? Part of the reason the world is the way it is, is because the church has dropped the ball when it comes to showing Jesus to the world. And I'm here to tell you this morning, if we don't show Jesus, who will? If we don't lift Him up, who will? If we don't tell Him, who will? And the answer to that question is this, nobody will. Now listen, I know this world, when they stand before God, the Bible says that they'll be without excuse. I understand all that, but I'm telling you, how is your lost family going to know? How are your co-workers going to know if you don't show them Jesus? Show them Jesus. Amen. If you work with the public, man, y'all show them Jesus. Man, when they show up, show them Jesus. Amen. My wife works in a public school and I'm telling you what those little kids need on a 99% basis. They need somebody to show them Jesus because in their homes a lot of the time, He is not being shown. Now let me break this up a little bit when it comes to showing Jesus to the world. This is more than just telling them about Jesus. And I believe in telling them. But we're talking about walking the walk, not just talking the talk. Let me ask you this. If you never said anything about Christ, what could the world learn from you about Him? So what do you mean? If the world looked at the way you conducted yourself and lived your life and never spoke five words to you, would they know anything about Jesus? Are y'all with me this morning, amen? Like a calf staring at a new gate, amen? Amen, what do the people who work around you every day know about Jesus because of the way you live your life? a member of the gym floor here he mentioned the church years ago of the head of a banner across the back of their church and maybe we'll do this one day, but How do you make Jesus look good? This world doesn't need to hear Christians complaining about everything. That ain't making, that ain't showing Jesus to nobody. Ah, well, I tell you, President, man, stop complaining, show them Jesus. Amen. The if, man, what are you doing with this one right here, showing Jesus to the world? Let's look at a couple more. Look at Luke chapter number 9. Luke chapter number 9. I'm just saying this word plays a big role in our lives. Amen. And when I think about these things, the one that God convicted me about the most when it comes to these things is what I talked about a minute ago. It's a conditional word, but it's a consequential word. All these things, we're faced with the choice of doing or not. Amen? You can do it, or you can not do it. You can see God work, or you can not see God work. You can show the world Jesus, or you can not show them Jesus. It's up to you, it's up to me. I hope that drives home in your heart this morning, amen? Luke chapter number nine, look at verse number 23. This is a hard one right here. Luke chapter nine, verse number 23. The Bible says, and he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it." The next thing that I see is the if of sacrifice. Christ looked at these disciples and he said, listen, if any man will, and by the way, those two words, any man includes all of us here, all of us who are saved, he said, if you will, deny yourself. A lot of us are off the boat there. And take up his cross and follow me. He said, if you'll make the sacrifice. Amen, if you'll take up your cross. And let me just say this. This is the if of sacrifice, but it's also the if of service. And I know this is the truth about all of us. We're all serving something. Amen. We're all serving somebody. For some people it's their own flesh. For some people it's their job, whatever it is. But can I tell you that there is no better life than serving Jesus Christ. There is no other life. I mean, you may find happiness somewhere for some while, amen, doing something you enjoy. I do the same thing, man. I got those things myself. I like to deer hunt. I like to play golf. Both of them make me mad half the time, amen. But you know what? I'll enjoy that thing for a little while, and then it goes away. But let me tell you, the joy of sacrificing and the joy of serving Jesus, that joy never goes away. Can I tell you that the joy of serving and the joy of being a sacrifice for Him, that joy remains, amen, even through the hard times and even in the storms. The joy! What joy of serving, amen! What joy of living for God! If you will. If you will, God's not gonna make you do anything. Amen. I love seeing young people make this choice. I love seeing young people realize, and listen, I know they may not know everything. None of us do. Amen. Man, when these young guys, Colton, man, I love him saying God's called him to preach, man. Bryson. Amen. I don't know what God'll end up doing with them, but I'll tell you this, man, you'll never make a better choice. You'll never make a better choice. And plus, most of the time when these young boys get up and preach, they do a better job than most men I know. They do a better job than me. Bryson got up and preached that message about Joe, man, and I'm sitting here. Will you repeat that? And I'm telling you, hard times will come because of serving God. But there'll never be anything that'll bring you more joy. If you'll do it. All right. Well, we got a couple more here. Hey, man, I hope y'all are getting some help from this this morning. You see, when it comes to the point of this message is when it comes to our Christian life, thank God that God's all-powerful. Thank God He can do anything He wants to do. But I'll tell you, when it comes to a lot of the things you want to see God do and see in your life, He leads it up to you. Amen? We're not predestinated to anything other than to be conformed to the image of His dear Son. We're not Calvinist He leaves it up to you. John 14, we'll get our next one. John 14, if you will, if you will, if you will, amen. Man, this is a tough one right here. John chapter 14, verse number 15. This is a big one. John chapter 14, verse number 15, the Bible says, if ye love me, keep my commands. The if that we see here is the if of our sincerity. Amen. And growing up, I'm telling you, being in church my whole life, you learn about people. And I'll tell you, just from seeing people in my whole life of being in church, I'll tell you what I've seen. I've seen people keep the commandments. Not all of them, but for the most part, man, I've seen people, man, they're trying to do right. I mean, they're trying to bring it all in, and then they find out they can't. I mean, we're all flesh. And so I've seen young people grow up and all they know to try to do is keep the commandments, keep the commandments, keep the commandments, keep the commandments, keep the commandments. But there's a key part of their life missing. If you love me, if you love me, if you love me, And I'll tell you the only way you will be sincere, and listen, I'm not talking about keeping the commandments for salvation. This is spiritually applied to living for God, living right, that sort of thing. I'm telling you the only way you'll ever be sincere in those things is not by doing what the preacher said, not doing what your mom, I mean, listen, hold on kids, do what your mom and dad say. Lord, Brother Jordan said I didn't have to do what you say. Amen. Y'all tune that part out. But I am saying this, I am saying that little Christian kids grow up. Amen? They grow up and they become adults. And they've kept the commandments all their life. But I'll tell you what breaks my heart is to see people who do that and they get to a place and they realize that they've never fallen in love with Jesus Christ. Listen, I don't serve God like I should. None of it. I mean, I mean, listen, that's just the case. We all fall short. But I'll tell you this. I love him. I'll tell you what draws me back to want to live right as I love him. And maybe soon, I don't know. I'm always thinking, well, what are we going to do next? One of the things that the Lord has laid on my heart is teaching on the doctrine of biblical separation. Amen. Because God has called us to be separate from the world. That's still in the Bible. But I think a lot of the time we get the wrong idea of what that means. You see, not only are we to be separated from the world, but we're to be separated unto God. And we get the first part right. We're separated from the world. There's all these things we're not doing that they're doing, but we never separate ourselves unto God. And so then we're just keeping the commandments without loving Him. And I'll tell you what that brings about. It brings about bitterness towards Christianity and church and God Himself. If you don't mix it in with loving God... Amen? Because I love Him, it doesn't grieve me to try to live a life different and separated from this world. Because I love Him. You want to be sincere? Love God. But I'll tell you this, if you do love Him, there will be fruit of it. Amen. I don't have time to delve off into that. But let me just say this, if you love Him, keep his commandments sincerity , will get two more this morning and I really wonder of these two home look at first on one we all know this first first john chapter one We would just go all the way to church tonight. Y'all don't wanna do that, do you? No, you don't, okay. The if of our sincerity. Look at 1 John 1, verse number nine. We probably could all quote this verse. The Bible says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And here what we see in this verse is the if of our sins. I'll go back and say when it comes to God's part, I'm glad that He's faithful and He's just. And He forgives our sins and He cleanses us from all unrighteousness. And as far as eternity is concerned, amen, those sins are taken away. When He sees me, He sees the blood of the Lamb. He sees me as worthy, not as I am. But in the context of 1 John 1, we're talking about walking in the light. We're talking about being in fellowship with God. And I'll tell you what sins will do. Sins will interrupt your fellowship with God. But if, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just. So you know what you do? You hit your knees and say, Lord, forgive me. Forgive me for being a liar. Forgive me for this. Call out the sin. Confess it to God. Reveal what's in your heart. Search me, O Lord. Try my heart. See if there be any wicked way in me. And if we confess those things, He's faithful and He's just to forgive us our sins. And in a moment, you can be restored in the fellowship with God. we confess our sins. And I believe there's a lot of people in church today, they won't serve God, they won't shout, they won't lift their hands, they won't say amen, not that it's all about that, but I'm just saying, especially, somebody said this at the men's meeting last week, he said, I believe the reason people are so quiet in church is because they're dealing with a load of unconfessed sins that they feel guilty over. and I'm telling you that you'll build and build and build the U.S. remains in five seconds and the blood can be applied , forgive you if we confess our sins if we can pass He said, I was in church one time, and you'd have to know how Brother Earl preached, he said, and the preacher asked, he said, how would you like if we rolled down the projector screen here and we displayed every sin that you committed this week for the whole church to see? And Brother Earl said, if you give me about five seconds, you can put them all up there. He said, if I get in the fix, I can repent in a hurry. Amen. But you know what? That's the beauty of the blood and that's the beauty of God's forgiveness. Amen. When you hit your knees and you confess that thing, God will look at you and say, what sins are you talking about? I don't remember them anymore. If we confess. Amen. Y'all okay this morning? I mean, I get, we all get it, I get sin in my heart, and I won't do nothing about it. And I'll get down and try to pray for other people, and the Lord will speak up and say, oh, hold up now, you need to deal with this first. That's what the Holy Spirit does, he sent to the world to convict. And comfort, I understand all that. But man, you want freedom when it comes to serving God, freedom when it comes to prayer. Confess those sins. Turn from your wicked ways. Amen. I'm glad God gave us a way to deal with our sins on the spot. I don't have to wait for anybody to kill a goat or a lamb, man. I can do it right now. He is our sin offering. What a blessing. Last, last, last, and I want you to get this one. Man, can't you see how big of an impact this little word has? The consequences that are associated with it, the conditions, the choice. Mark chapter 8, verse number 36. The Bible says, for what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul. And I'll tell you, this is the biggest if that's in the balance for all of you today. And it is the if of your soul. Amen. And I'll tell you what God cares about more than anything else in this world. He cares about your soul. Amen, I'm glad, man, that day as a 13-year-old boy, I think about it from time to time. Man, I believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. He kept His promise. He saved me. And I'm telling you in that moment, Jesus Christ saved my soul. Amen, aren't you thankful? I'm signed, sealed, delivered until the day of redemption, amen. I'm kept by the Holy Spirit of God. I know that I have eternal life. And the biggest if that's in the balance in this world today is the if of men's souls. Can I tell you this this morning? You can be in church your whole life and lose your soul. Amen. You can go on visitation. You can sing in the choir. You can do all the things and lose your soul. Amen. I'll tell you where God saved me. God saved me off the end of a church pew. Raised in church my whole life, knew the answers, but my soul was lost. Amen. What about your soul? It asks a question here, what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? The answer to that is it won't profit him anything. There's a scriptural example of this in Luke chapter 16. The Bible says, and in hell the rich man lifted up his eyes. You know what he did? He gained the whole world. The Bible says he was in torment in those flames. And he lifted up his eyes and he saw Lazarus and he pleaded with God. He said, Lord, if Lazarus could just dip the tip of his finger and cool my tongue. say was that an illustration of this in illustration somebody gain the whole world and not been woke up in hell payment there's a world out there and again the whole world but one day you can have everything this world has to offer if you die without Jesus Christ But it don't have to be that way. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus. Notice that if there. And shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. There's a big if. Amen. If's a consequential word, it's a conditional word, it's a convicting word. Amen. How are you doing in these areas in your life this morning? The if of sincerity, the if of service and sacrifice. If we'll do it. How about the if of your sin? Amen. I got good instruction as a young boy. Keep short accounts with God. Don't let it grow. Confess it, forsake it, repent of it, turn from it, get back to Him. Amen. Let's pray this morning. I wanna thank you for your mercy and your grace. And Lord, I pray, above all things, Lord, if there's somebody here this morning who's never come to know you as their personal Lord and Savior, Lord, that you would convict them and show them their need for the Lord Jesus. Lord, that they'd come to know you as their personal Lord and Savior. Those of us who are saved, Lord, maybe we take this little thought, maybe run it through the word of God. Maybe see areas that we need to get right with you about. Our love, our sincerity, our service, Lord, and allow You to work in our lives. And we thank You, God, for Your goodness to us. And even so, come, Lord Jesus, in Your precious name, I pray these things. Amen.