5 Things I Know & 5 Things I Don't Know from the Bible

The difference between what we know and what we don't know comes down to scripture.

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And yes, the title is Five Things I Know and Five Things I Don't Know From the Bible. I don't know if anyone has ever asked you that question. Some of the questions I have at the end were actually asked of me, so I will actually bring those out. But the New King James Version has 31,102 verses in it. Not 31,103, not 104. 31,102 verses. God said that's all you need. We heard from Jonathan it is a word of God. It's actually God-breathed. So some of the things that I don't know, obviously God said you don't need to know. Because everything I need to know is in 31,102 verses. I am not there to question God. And I have spent the last 45, 50 years studying those 31,102 verses, and guess what? I still have to study 31,102 verses. Because as it says, it is the living word, and even its meaning changes to us over time. If it doesn't, you have to wonder if you're growing.

So let's go to it. The five things I know. I know what I know, and I know what I know, and I know that I know them. The first one is, the seventh day of the week is the day of worship of God. I know that. It is called the Sabbath. It's not called the seventh day of the week. A few times in the Bible it's called the Sabbath, which Sabbath means cease to do. It's there. It's in there. As a matter of fact, it is over 150 times brought out the Sabbath. In the Bible, compared to eight times the first day of the week is mentioned. 158 times. I think that kind of should give us a clue of which is a day that God wants us to worship. You can even look in the book of Acts. You might find this interesting to make that we find in the book of Acts, and you can do your own study, or ask me if you're going, I can't find all those. You can find that Paul kept the Sabbath 85 times in the book of Acts that he mentions.

Did he mention keeping the first day of the week as a day of worship? You have to show me that one. Haven't seen that one. Go with me to Genesis 2. I'll tell you why I know what I know, and I know why I know that I know it. It's Genesis 2, verse 2 and 3. Bible says, Thus the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished, and on the seventh day God ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day because he was so tired. No. He rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and set it apart, sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made. And you must know that this is the very first of creation. The Sabbath, the seventh day, is not the Jewish day.

It's not. Because he created it, there was no Jew on earth. Matter of fact, they didn't show up for over 2,500 years later. Was a Jew on planet earth. So did he create it for Jews? Created for all mankind. He just had to pull them aside and say, here, I want you to keep this. Just like he's pulled you aside, otherwise you wouldn't be here today. And he said, I want you to keep this. Mark 2 and verse 27. Jesus Christ said that what? The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. Was that mean? Well, in the Greek word for man, here was his chance. Here was his chance to clear the field. About those Jews.

According to many scholars today, he should have said the Sabbath was made for Jews. Not Jews for the Sabbath. But he didn't. Christ knew what he was talking about, and he said the Sabbath was made for Greek word anthropos. Anthropos. You know what anthropos means? Mankind. Mankind. Not Jewish.

Number three in that section of the first one, the third verse, is Isaiah. Isaiah 66. So here we have the Sabbath was created before man.

We was created and recognized by God in the flesh when he came 2,000 years ago. And then in Isaiah 66, he says it's going to be in the future. And it's going to be kept in the future. Isaiah 66 and verse 22. Well, let's go to 22. For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will, shall remain before me. Talking about the future. Means I will do this. This is going to be done. So shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall come to pass that from one new moon or one month, one month to another, from one Sabbath, yes Sabbath, to another, all, let me get this, all, not Jews. It doesn't say all Jews. It doesn't say Jews. It says all. All. Flesh shall come to worship before me. Make it any plainer? Don't think so. And if you read the entire chapter, the last chapter of Isaiah, as Isaiah explains as almost as much as anyone, Ezekiel's up there with him, about the coming kingdom of God. So much of his book is focused on that. And he ends up telling that it's going to come to be. When Christ is coming back and there'll be a new heaven and a new earth, and that people will worship one Sabbath to another. That's how I know it. I gave you three scriptures of the first thing I know, that I listed, of one of the five things that I know. The second thing I know is Christ is the only way for salvation. I know that. Do you? Obviously you do. You're here. There is no other way. I can't go out and join one of these sects or religions that says, you just have to find your way to God. There are many ways to God. Maybe it's Buddhism, Hinduism. Maybe it's isms. You just... there's no just one way. That sounds almost racist. That there's only one way. That you have to look at this Jewish preacher who came through. Oh, and that's the only way. That's what some people bring up. But if you believe that what John Anson said, that this is the Word of God, this book has the Word of God. It doesn't just contain the Word of God. It is the Word of God. Because there are many books that contain the Word of God, but this is the only one that is the Word of God. That I know. John 14 and verse 6, he says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And that no one comes to the Father except through me. You believe in Christ, you have to believe this Word. There is no other way. You want eternal life, you will follow Christ. He has the Word. In fact, there are many that came to him. And he'd say, follow me, as he says to us. Do we? We try to. Can we all do a better job? Yeah, we all can. That's why we're a work in progress. And God appreciates when we're working on ourselves, because he's working with us. That's why we had the Holy Spirit. But there's another one in Acts 4. Go back to Acts. Acts 4. Acts 4 and verse 12 makes it pretty clear, as Peter and John are talking and preaching. This isn't Paul. This isn't the man who comes along later. This is comments made by the disciples. And in verse 12, it says, nor is there salvation in any other, as they were talking about Christ. They lived with him for three and a half years. They knew. They saw him die. They saw him resurrected. Nor is there any other is salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given among men by which you must be saved. Pretty definite. You can't say, I claim Andy Deamer. I claim Chuck Smith.

That won't even get you a coffee across the street. It's less salvation. So it is by Emmanuel, God in the flesh, that we will have salvation. And it's by his name.

We do not baptize you in any sect or denomination of this world. But into that name, into the understanding that he gives us. Number three of my five things I know from the Bible, is that God's seven annual holy days are God's roadmap for the world's salvation. That's why we keep them. It helps us to understand. He talked to them and referenced them in a language they would know. Harvest. You have a farm. You have land. You grow things. Grow animals. You have crops. You understand the land so much more. You understand the Bible sometimes even more than other people. Because I have people in Fort Lauderdale that have never even been on a farm before. I asked them about something. No, I've never been there. Okay, that's not their fault. I wasn't born on a farm. Born in a city. Most of you were probably born in a city in a hospital. I was too. But I moved at seven years of age to a farm. It helps you to understand because you know exactly there was a time that you sold your crops. There was a time that you harvest. There's a time you didn't harvest. A time you didn't plant.

Farmers and people raised on the farm understand that. You understand about animals. You understand about a lot of things because it's closer to nature than concrete is.

But here, God gives us seven annual holy days.

The first two are about the first of the first fruits that we understood. It was all about Christ. That's been fulfilled. Then we have the third one that we all celebrated a week ago, tomorrow. It's about that first crop that you come in, that first harvest that you bring, which is a smaller one because you don't plant all your stuff at first. You plant it and you have to stagger your crops. But here, it's that first fruit that you get to eat. It's that first lettuce you get to go pick. It's the crops that you've gone through the winter and now you get fresh stuff. It's smaller, but boy does it taste good because you've been a long time without it. That's the first of the three of the holy days. Then it gives us four more, but they're in the fall. They're about the big harvest. It's like what you've waited all summer to have. It's all the rows of corn that you've planted. You'll be ready to harvest them and bring them in, or the beans, or the hay, or anything else that you're going to lay up for the winter. So God gave that to them to understand. And He also makes it clear to those He is calling now to understand exactly why He gave that that way. It's not clear to everyone. You know the words, oh that's those Jewish days. You know, that's those Jewish things. No. He helps us to understand. The last four of those holy days have not been fulfilled yet.

We'll be in time. We all look forward to that. But God also realizes that great harvest is when the entire earth, the population will actually have a chance to understand. God to worship God in a place that is safe. Not with bombs going off, not with drought going on, but a really, really beautiful place where grass is growing and the animals all live together. It's almost like a fantasy. But it's His, and it's a real fantasy. It's a real thing that's going to happen. Most people think that's a fantasy.

But to those who believe in this word, it's not. He gives us an example of that, if you will join me, in Zechariah. We hear this at the Feast of Tabernacles almost every year. Hopefully it's brought up. And it's in the 14th chapter of Zechariah. And in case you have any doubt, the 14th chapter pictures Jesus Christ's return. What's going to happen on that day, the day of the Lord? And in Zechariah 14 and actually the end of verse 5, he says, Thus the Lord my God will come and all the saints with you. He leaves no doubt what this is about. And then he goes on to tell what the land will be like. And everything that has to be overcome in the world in Zechariah 14. And then it comes to verse 16. After everything has been set, and all the armies are put down, and now the blessings will be upon the beyond the whole earth. As it will see, prosperity is the reaper and the sower will have to watch out for themselves. It's going to be so abundant that you got so much that it's just growing so fast. And there's so much food and no one's going to starve. No one and everyone has things in abundance. And then he comes and tells us in chapter 14 verse 16, it shall come to pass that everyone who has left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem. Well, that's basically the whole world that he has to come back and put down. And those who are left shall go up from year to year to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feasts of tabernacles. The last two holy days, everyone's going to come up and keep the feasts tabernacles on the entire earth. And they're all going to be celebrated because they have abundance. No problem at all.

And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. No rain at all. Not a drop. So can you imagine those nations? Can you imagine the border of those nations? Grass up to here, cows out to here, skinny as could be, and just dirt, sand. Because there's nothing. They don't get any rain. Christ was an incredible teacher, and he teaches in the millennium too. He teaches that this is what you get if you disobey. Prosperity is what you get when you obey. You'll be so rich in food compared to nothing.

Because without rain you have nothing. It's an easy thing because for three years there's no... when the two witnesses are about, they find out what it's about. There's no rain. They learn that lesson, and then all of a sudden you've got this prosperity. So these are things I know I can look because I was raised on a farm. And I know when you get the rains and everything here, and I'm not in the millennium yet, but I know the smell of new grass. I know the smell of a garden when you walk out in it and you can harvest these things. And the world will know. Is he hard on you and say, all right, I'll just strike them down with lightning?

No. He says, you need to learn. You need to learn. He has mercy upon them. And he says, look at your neighbors. Wouldn't that be embarrassing if you were sitting there in your farm and you got green, green, green, green, green, brown? Because everything's dead. That's his way. That's his way of teaching. And it'll be taught that way. And so the next thing you know, they'll want to come up to the Feast of Tabernacles because they get to have all this food. They have to have this feast and celebration and enjoy life.

Finally, number four of the things I know from the Bible. The Ten Commandments are not arbitrary. The Ten Commandments are not arbitrary. Not random. They're not really optional. And that's what the Bible teaches. You want to enjoy life? This is what you should do. As a matter of fact, in Luke 18, 18, there was a man who came to Christ, a rich man, and said, what must I do to have eternal life? And then tells him about the Ten Commandments, and he starts listing them.

He said, all these things I've done for my youth. Oh, but you like one thing. You like one thing. But in all the movies and books and stories you read, you very seldom see that portrayed. When someone says, how do I have eternal life? Well, keep the commandments. Which, which I hope none of you would say that.

But God, they're not arbitrary, so I have to keep them. What about if we make a deal? I'll keep nine. You just give me one. I guess you could call it like a tithe of the commandments. You just give me one that I can just break, and then I'll keep all the other nine.

Won't that be good? That's 90 percent. God says it's not that way, is it? It's not that way. He wants, he says, to keep these so that you may have life and live it more abundantly. Just keep my word. That's why he gave them. And he said, I set before you life and death, choose life. He's always about life.

He's always about wanting us to have prosperity. That's what this is about. It's amazing because you hear so many say, well, the commandments have been done away with. God's law has been done away with. The commandments have been done. I hear it all the time. If I go to a moody radio while I'm traveling, if you've ever done the moody radio, because there's occasionally a good historical teacher or I learned a lesson, here yet, a person or later, some guy's going, nah, the law's done away with.

Nailed to the cross. And yet, that's not what it's about. As a matter of fact, go with me to Matthew 5, that credible sermon on the Mount that Jesus Christ gave. Matthew 5, verse 18. Remember, verse 17, it says, do not think that I came to destroy the law and the prophets. Just exactly what people say that he did. He did away with that old law, prophets and the law. He did away with that law. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill, to fill it up.

Hmm. For surely I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot, one tittle, or one iota, the various small symbol, will by no means pass away from the law till all is fulfilled. That I know. He said it. It came from his mouth. He wrote it, and he said, I'm not doing away with the law. The law is good for you. And yet, there are so many people that say, I don't want to be tied down by that old law. As I have mentioned many times before, I'll be redundant again. No one which of the Ten Commandments do you want Sharon not to keep?

You don't mind if she steals from you? No.

But I look at that, and I'm like, what? I don't hear, Mary. You don't have to keep any of me. You lie to me anytime you want. Oh, yeah, you commit adultery? No problem. I mean, think about it. It's asinine to think you want to do away with the law. How about your kids? You want to raise your kids? Ah, now you just lie all you want to. I'll go out and murder somebody. It just does not make sense at all that you should want to do away with, but they would agree, as my neighbor did one time, a preacher put a sign out there, and he put a sign in his front yard and said, the Ten Commandments are kept here. I wanted to go by there and mark out and put nine because he didn't keep the Sabbath. And they don't have a problem with the other nine. They just have problems with the one the day in which you worship. That's the only one. They'd be happy to keep the other nine all over it. But Christ said, no, why don't you keep them all? You keep them all. I'll read number five of my things that I know from the Bible. God is in charge of the world events. God is in charge of world events. There's not anything that goes on that God doesn't know. God is in charge. Now, some people go, where is God? He's exactly where he's always been. Well, where was God when I need him?

He may have been saying, I've been waiting for you for a long time.

These are the things that we must understand that this Bible teaches us. God's here. He's always been around. And he was around before we ever showed up. And he'll be around long, long, long, long after we're in the grave. And even when we're resurrected, he's still going to be hanging around because he's eternal. He's going to live forever. He always has. We can have eternal life, but we're never going to be eternal. We can have eternal life. We may live forever, but we have never lived forever. Only he and Christ have always lived.

But he's offering us eternal life so that we can live our life from here on out for eternity with him. He's that much of a loving God. So let's look at... Let's go back to Proverbs. Proverbs 19 verse 21. There are many plans in a man's heart. Have you had plenty of plans? I have. I've had all kinds of plans down through the years. Ever since I was a kid, I had plans. Didn't always work out. I thought it was my fault. But it says, nevertheless, the Lord's counsel, that will stand. It's him. He makes the decision. We can make all these plans, but unless it's God's will, it won't happen.

Even when we mess up, he can just kind of... He's like a GPS that I get on the wrong street. He says, turn right, recalculating. And then he brings me in. He gets me there. God will get us there, but sometimes we want to take a wrong street. We don't understand. That's God's plan, is you, here, now, me, in the kingdom, I'm going to get you there.

And he'd like you to take a straight route. But hardly any of us do. We just... Yeah, it's like 95. There's just too many exit ramps. There's too many exit ramps in this world. So if God's path is to get to the kingdom of God on Highway 95, we have to stay off the exit ramps, because he wants to get us there.

But boy, some of those exit ramps have those signs that look so good. Oh man, there's that food. There's like anything you could want out there. This is what God wants us to do. Follow Him. Get to the kingdom the easiest way possible. And only He knows that way. So we can have all the plans we want, but He wants us to have that.

The only pagan king in the Bible to write part of the Bible was who? Nebuchadnezzar. Very good. Nebuchadnezzar. He's only the pagan king that ever wrote for the Bible. But was he a pagan? Was he a pagan at the end? Talk about that. Go with me to Daniel. Daniel 4. Now in chapter 4 and verse 17, he says, this decision by the decree of the watchers and the sentence by the word of the holy ones in order that the living may know that the Most High, he does what? What's that word? Rules. Rules. Commands. Overseas. In the kingdom of men.

He does it. He doesn't. He's still in charge. I don't care who's present. He's in charge. I don't care who is the king in some other country. I don't care because I know who is the ultimate ruler. And Nebuchadnezzar had to find that out, didn't he? Now, God says, I want you to understand that, and if you can, as he says, and he gives it to whomever he will and then sits over it the lowest of men. He says, they're not the greatest, but I still let them do it. But what about us?

If we will learn that he is over everything, we won't get Ben out of shape over who wins an election. We won't get Ben out of shape over what's going to go on here, because he's still going to make sure it all works out. Yes, according to his plan. But if we can't learn that, and some of us are very hard-headed, I raised my hand first, okay?

If you do not believe me as a pastor, believe my wife, she can tell you I'm hard-headed about things. But this thing is so important to our psyche, to our vision of the future, to everything that if you can't understand that he's in charge of everything, and nothing happens without his okay that he allows to happen, maybe you do need to eat grass for seven years. Maybe we do need. Is it possible for us to ask God, well, I'd rather not eat grass. Help me to understand that you are the ruler of the universe, and everything is under your control.

If not, let me eat grass for how about a week? I think I'd learn in a week if I had any problems. But this is so important that God wants us to understand that he does rule. Finally Nebuchadnezzar had to understand that, and he was the most powerful ruler on the earth at the time. And yet God said, I want you to learn that. So those are the five things that I know from the Bible.

You may have, you have your own five. Those aren't the only ones that you absolutely, positively know from the Bible. But now I want to give you five things, and these are a lot of questions that people ask me that I either get in on an email, I get phone calls, I get a text, and I can honestly say, I don't know. I don't know. Because it's not in the scriptures, which means for me to answer these, I need to write my own scripture. Right? Because there's 31,102. So for me to answer these, because it's not in there, then I gotta, I gotta write five, five more scriptures. Take away, don't add. That's what he said. He said don't take away, don't add.

First one, five things I don't know. Who the two witnesses will be. Okay, now other people have said they know. Well, right? You look it up on, you either Google it or look it up in on some of the other search sites, and you will find that they have it. It's very simple, and the majority of them will agree on these two people, Moses and Elijah. It's going to be Moses and Elijah. Even though they did, and they've been in the grave all that time, God's going to bring them back because they were seen in a vision by Jesus Christ and three disciples. Is that in the Bible? No. No. You can go to Revelation. You can look all over in Revelation. As a matter of fact, I have it so many times in here. Revelation 11, the two witnesses. That's what it says under my chapter there. I can't find a name. I can't find a name. I can't even get one of them.

It's not in there.

Second one. What day Christ will return? There we go. What day will Christ return? There is even a theory now or a hypothesis that's going around that they know exactly the day, and the day is Pentecost. He's coming back on Pentecost. I can't find that. Can you? 2031. 2031. No, the day. What's the odds? I need to know because if you'll go with me to Matthew 24. Matthew 24. Andy went through this a little while back. Matthew 24 and verse 36. But of that day and hour no one knows not even the angels in heaven, but my father only. No one knows the hour of the day. Now, this has always been interesting to me because there's always this big debate in the theological world. Which book was written first? Matthew or Mark? And some want to say Mark was written first. And some want to say that Matthew was written first. My personal speculation... No, that was the last one written. Was that Matthew was written first. And I do that because when you look at the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you realize as you read through, there are added perspectives all through there. So when you read Matthew, it gives you this pretty clear picture. He really does a great job on the Sermon on the Mount. But then you go to Mark and you find some added stuff there. And then you go to Luke and there's more added stuff. By the time you get to John, who writes 40 years after everybody else, there's a bunch of stuff in there. So that's how I... But it's because of this verse that I first came across. I think that Matthew was first. No, I'm not going to bet my salvation on it. Won't even bet Mary's next haircut on it. But we just read Matthew. Go with me to Mark. Mark is whose account that we believe it is? Peter. Peter's account. They didn't know if he could even read or write, but he was able to. They think that John Mark actually wrote for him and copied this down when he was in prison. But here is... Mark's or Peter's account of it in 13 and verse 32. Jesus Christ is saying this. He was there. Added perspective is the only reason I'm reading this verse from the other one. Because something is added here. That really helps us to see. But of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor what you're saying, the Son. Nor the Son. That wasn't in Matthew. Not even Jesus Christ. And he was God in the flesh. But only the Father. So how can anyone say they know the day? You can't. You can't say that. Most likely you have one out of 365 chances.

I'm not getting all bent out of shape over those odds. Because it doesn't matter. I know what I have to do.

Number three. Number three. Things I don't know from the Bible. And this is to answer a question. If you will be in the kingdom of God.

And I've had people ask me that. Do you think I will be in the kingdom of God? How would you answer that? I don't know. Well, I hope I am. We all hope we are. We're going to try to do. But I can't answer that question. It's not in there. In fact, it's not even in here. Where? I can look all through here. Mary Smith is not in the kingdom of God. No. I would pick that up. But what does 1 Peter 4 and verse 18 say? What does it say? Now, if a righteous is scarcely saved, barely saved, so why would I worry, why would I think about you if you need to read this scripture? It means we have to do the best we can. And you know the beautiful part about it? We have a merciful God. We are a very forgiving God. But He's not forgiving if you don't take your calling seriously.

Scarcely. Barely. Number four. Things I don't know. If I have entertained angels unaware. Do you remember that scripture? Let's go there. Hebrews 13. Hebrews 13 verse 2. Hey, 1st tells them, let brotherly love continue. Then He says, Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some of you unwittingly entertained angels. Anybody here know? Has anybody here? I don't know. Maybe you have. I know I've seen some wonderful miracles through people that have helped me. But I can't say they're an angel. Maybe you have. Is anybody here? No? Keep waiting. Waiting. Waiting. Okay, I think that's enough time. But what does this verse tell us? Unwiddly? I mean, we didn't know. They didn't know. And what did He tell you before that? Don't forget to entertain angels. That's strangers, right? Oh, sorry. Yeah, strangers. What does that mean? Entertain strangers. Does that mean you, you know, did you take your guitar out and you play it out on the street so you can entertain angels? I mean, strangers? No. Well, what does it mean? Entertain. They knew what it meant for hospitable people. They would actually take them in. They would actually do things. Like the Good Samaritan, he told that story. That was even your enemy, my brother, my neighbor. So, does that put a burden on us? That means anyone we meet, we don't know. It might be. God may bring someone in. I don't think they're going to appear as the two did in Sodom, do you? I don't think a couple of Brad Pitt-looking guys are going to come into your, you know, your place and go, oh wow, that's a beautiful looking man. No. But he's telling them, let brotherly love continue, the context of that. We need to show that love to people and even others.

Finally, my fifth. And I've had this by at least six people. Can you tell me, pastor, when will I die? When will I die? Yes. When is it? Do you know when you're going to die? Um, jump out on 95 and do 140 and you may, I could probably tell you. You're going to, if you don't die, you're going to jail. But Psalm 39, Psalm 39. Now you may say, well that's silly. No, that's people's real questions that they have. Psalm 39, verse 4. Lord, make me to know my end. Boy, like to do that, wouldn't you? Or would you? Lord, make me to know my end and what is the measure of my days, that I may know how frail I am. Boy, we're frail. We are so human. Just close the car door on your finger once and you say, I am so human. Verse 5, Indeed, he says, you have made my days as handbreaths. And my age is nothing before you. Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Not vapor. At best. Do we need to worry about when we're going to die? No, we need to worry about how we live. How we live tomorrow. I have made it a habit. Quite a long time now. First thing I do when I wake up, my eyes in the morning, I thank God he gave me another day. See how that changes. And then before you go to bed at night, this doesn't require you deep prayer. It requires you talking to God. Say, thank you for bringing me through another day. You'd be amazed for those of you who are parents and grandparents, you ever get tired of your children or grandchildren saying, thank you? I don't think so. What do you think God is about?

And even Moses said, Psalm 90 and verse 12, number your days. He got to number 120. He knew when he was going to die. He was in great health. He could have ran two marathons. He was just the greatest of health. God says, no, you're done. I'm done with you. He was 120 years old and he was in perfect health. And God said, you're done.

Don't you want to be in just like Moses? And when God says, you're done, he'll take you. He'll take you. This, this is what's important. Not when am I going to die. I spent the last hours with a guy and he was, he was afraid he was going to die. And he was. He just didn't know how much time. And he kept asking me the last week for he died. How much time? I said, how would I know God is the one here? But he was so scared because he had lived away from God for so long. And he just started coming. He wanted to come back, but he would just had to fight himself.

And I remember the last time I saw him. He said, I'm, I'm afraid to go to sleep. That I won't wake up. Brethren, don't be that. Don't do that. Don't fear like he did. So no matter what you read, no matter your health, don't fear death. God's in charge. And if he's not done with you, he's going to keep you around. Maybe longer than you want, but he's going to keep you around. Because his, his goal, his vision is for you to make it in the kingdom of God and spend eternity with him. So I hope you will, the next week or two, make a list, like I did, of five things that you know. And when you write them down, it'll amaze you of what you can recall when you need to recall. And then don't worry about the things you don't know. Have a great week. I look forward to the Bible study. Hope you will really, really search. Hope you have all the answers. So that way I hardly have to say a thing next week. Andy?

Chuck was born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1959.  His family moved to Milton, Tennessee in 1966.  Chuck has been a member of God’s Church since 1980.  He has owned and operated a construction company in Tennessee for 20 years.  He began serving congregations throughout Tennessee and in the Caribbean on a volunteer basis around 1999.   In 2012, Chuck moved to south Florida and now serves full-time in south Florida, the Caribbean, and Guyana, South America.