Call of the Wild

You understand that the title of today's sermon is...what'd you say? Call of the Wild. Yes. It's the title of the great literary work written by Jack London. Wow! Almost, I guess... a hundred years ago. He was writing in the 20s. We're almost there. But any of you, have you read Call of the Wild? Anybody? Oh, okay. There's my little friend in the back. Oh, two of them back there. Oh, there's Colby, too. Okay. Colby's a resident, done everything, been there in such a young age. He's a regular Forrest Gump, I think.

Yes. You may make a great writer someday of fiction.

The book Call of the Wild was written because Jack London spent time up in Alaska, spent time traveling most of his life. And he wrote with such great depth and understanding of the times and the places. In Call of the Wild, I won't go through that, but it's a story of a dog who was a part St. Bernard, part collie, who was raised by a very rich people, or brought up that way, until he was actually kidnapped and sold and shipped up to Alaska to work on these sleds that pulled freight people, all these various things. And it was a drastic change for a small dog, as he was taking very good care of at home. But when he was sold, he was beaten, he was starved, he had to fight through such adversity to stay alive, at which time then he was thrown in with these other dogs to learn to pull these sleds across the frozen tundra of Alaska.

And it was a great struggle. And the dog's name was Buck, and all the dogs kind of in the story were actually named, from Spitz to, I think, David, to various names that they had in this book. It's been decades since I've read the book, but it did make an impact on me when I was a young man.

And so, this incredible dog named Buck survived, and not only thrived as he began to take on adversity because he rallied to the point every time that he became eventually leader of the dogs, to a time that he was actually traded and fought over by various people who treated him harshly, until he actually did find an owner that took him by force and carried him back, treated him well.

And at that time, he was gone, his owner was actually killed.

Yeah, let's see if that works. It's not. We'll put it through. I don't know what happened.

But at that time, Buck, when he was with his owner, had been spending time with some wolves.

Yeah, you better put the battery in. I guess. Well, that's Chris. He's always ready. I have connection. Very good.

And so, Buck then, after he found his owner killed by some Indian warriors, after exacting revenge upon those warriors, he turned and went and joined a pack of wolves.

And the book kind of made you, and there's actually movies made of it, if you want to see none of the movies that I've seen of that compared to the book. It's mostly not. But it actually told how Buck answered his primal call. And instead of going back to live with humans, he went back and led the wolves. As he went to join the wolves, they actually attacked him, at which time he defeated the whole pack of wolves and became their leader.

The reason I bring this up is that in the book, it actually helps you to understand that Buck answered his primal call because he didn't want to go back. He realized this is his destiny, and that he answered the call of the wild, and that's where he felt, finally, at home.

I bring that up because I was reminded of this a few weeks ago when I was in St. Lucia. I baptized a man named Callistus Robert, which I had been counseling with. It's funny because he made that statement that day on the beach where I baptized him, and that's what made me put the sermon together and think of Call of the Wild. Because he said he came in, as Dwight had talked about, he came into the truth, began to understand as God was working with him decades ago. So he wanted to follow God's way that he was led to, but he just kept going off the path.

He went through many trials and tribulations over the last 30 years until he stumbled upon a good news magazine of ours. And then he saw the broadcast over there, and he started to attend church almost a year ago. And eventually his wife came. And he has hardly missed since then, so he wanted to counsel baptism, so I had a chance and opportunity. He was a policeman for decades, as Bill can even attest to. So that's like, and so he's seen a lot over the 30 years. But when we counseled and he knows his Bible, and he was very enthusiastic, and when we baptized him, he came out and he said, you know, this finally, I'm home. This is where I needed to be. I've just been putting it off all the time, finding my way. He answered as he said, God's call finally. And so that's what this sermon is about today. It's about a calling, a calling that is unique to the people in this room, that is unique in this world, even as Dwight brought out. It is different. As Callistus gave me the example of, he said, now I don't feel like a square pig in a round hole, because I know why I'm here and know what I need to finish my life, to finish this run with. God's calling is a primal call. I don't know if you understand that. Hopefully you can. Hopefully you can. It is the fulfilling of the image of God. God made us in his image, and he also desires for us to act like him, be like him, and eventually be just like him in all aspects. Joe Kovacs wrote in his book, or is written in his book, The Divine Secret, that the ultimate destiny of mankind is started by the calling, a calling of God. A few weeks ago when I was here, the last sermon, we talked about the Old Testament, and how we can actually look and see that for the 4,000 years covered in the time known as the Old Testament, there was more choosing than there was calling. God chose these people, but upon the gift of the Holy Spirit from the Old Testament to the New Testament, there begins a mentioning and the reference of a calling first.

As God is working with people. Matthew 22 and verse 14, Scripture we all know, many are called, but few are chosen. Chosen. God calls a lot of people, but not many really want to follow God. Not many are laid out or preferred to follow Him and put Him first in their life. God knows that. He also knows who to call to give them that opportunity at this time for a unique calling, because eventually, as we know the plan of God, everyone in this world will be called. Calling. We have people in this room today, where their job is usually referred to as more of a calling.

What does that mean? If you've ever talked to any social workers, you realize that you had better love your job if you're going to be a social worker as you're trying to help people that are down and out. Your pay scale is very low, and so it's not a job. A calling is usually not a job that you do just for the money, because it's not about the money. It's about helping people. The nursing profession, which we have people working here in the nursing profession, anymore today they're paid fairly well, but they don't do it just for the money. You got to want to help people. You got to want to put aside the desire to have things your way and try to work with people. I'm not one that could really want to work in a hospital. I'm not one that particularly likes to be around blood. I'm not one that likes to have to deal with difficult people who are sick and who are hostile to you. Annie could probably tell that fact, because I've been in hospitals enough where I know it and go visit people. That it's a difficult job. It's a calling that not everyone wants to do. The job of a minister. It's definitely a calling. You don't do it for the money, and you don't do it so you can have eight to five hours. You get calls at night. You have to take care of things in the morning. You have to do whatever. You're on call like a doctor, sometimes like a nurse. You're on call, but you do it because you want to help people. If you're not a people person, as we say even up at the home office, then you probably don't want to get into the ministry because the brethren are not only family, they're your customers. If you look at it business-wise, you're to take care of them. You serve them. They do not serve you.

So, as you can see, there is a calling of different types in the world that I know, 150 years ago. All the small communities, as the one I live in, Deerfield Beach, it was quite a change, 100-150 years ago, even in Florida. There were little communities and towns as there was across the entire United States. And every town, a little community, usually had either a bell that's set up in the church or they're set by the store.

And they would ring that bell so the whole community could hear, and that means there was trouble. Someone needed help. And you heard that sounding of the bell, and you answered the call. You came, whatever you were doing, you dropped what you were doing, and you came into the town to see if you could help, because the next time that bell may be rung for you.

And so everybody pulled together. They answered the call. God's way, as we heard in the sermon, Ed, is not man's way. It is different. Most people do not realize that. I had that very poignantly given to me this week at the conference. I had a phone call from 305 Miami area, and I was told, as I had had quite a few emails and communications with the chaplain, Martin, who is a chaplain at the prison where LeMay Soulette, as you all know that we baptized last year, and I had sent and asked for the Passover to be kept.

Gave them instructions of what needed to be done, and I got a call here, since we had Passover in this room that night, I got a call about 5, 30, or 6 o'clock that night saying they were not going to let him keep the Passover.

And there's nothing I could really do about it. So I said, I'll have to handle that. So God makes a provision in His Word about the Passover so important that you can even keep it 30 days later. So I wanted to make sure I did everything I could to have Him be able to keep the Passover tonight. It's actually 30 days from the time. Full moon tonight, in case you have not seen it, should be beautiful. So it's time, as it was Passover night, that we kept it one month ago. When I was instructed by the chaplain there that he would not be granting my wishes, that he decided that he didn't really want to give L'Amé Sous L'Et the symbols of unleavened bread, a matzo that he actually had there.

He said he had them. And grape juice, since they do not allow alcohol in prison, is the symbol. And I said, well, is there anything I can do? And he said, no. I said, well, what is the reason? Because I've asked, I gave plenty of time, I offered to take that down myself, which would have been yesterday. Take it to the prison and bring it in. And he said, no, that's not allowable. And I said, well, you know, he said, because you are not part of a legitimate religion. He said, you, I studied your church, and I do not recognize it as anything that is really legitimate.

As by then, my temperature went up a little bit. I had to walk outside of our meetings and take this outside so I could actually hear it. I talked to him, went into scripture. He said, you believe in the Old Testament theology, and you believe all these things are necessary for salvation, like keeping the Sabbath, like Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread. And I said, no, for salvation, no, that's not. And I went in to explain, and I said about the Old Testament theology. I'm sure you, because he told me he had a master's in theology from Liberty University.

And I said, well, I'm sure your founder and other college, Jerry Falwell, would have tested the facts since he knew his Bible well, that 1 Corinthians covers the Passover well in a Gentile church. And Paul kept, as the disciples did in the New Testament, this is the same Passover that we are asking because we follow Christ. This is the same example. And he said, well, I have to accept the Jews because it's their religion, and I will accept the Muslims because of what they do because of Ramadan.

But yours, I just, I believe that you are not legitimate.

So I said, well, perhaps not in your eyes, but we are a Bible following church. This is what we keep. If it's in the Bible, we keep it. If it's not in the Bible, we do not keep it. I think we follow Christ that way. Christ did not keep Christmas. He did not keep Easter. He did not do these other things that the world's religions keep. So if that makes us not legitimate, then I guess we're not. But I am asking you, as a favor to me, a fellow pastor, one who is called to take care of people, I'm asking you to do not deny this man communion during one time. One time, you don't have to be there. All you have to do is give him the symbols. He walked by. He said yes, but he may tell other people. And then, actually, I'd have to get into working with people who worship the moon, people who worship Wicca, and I have to do all these things. So he got himself into this place, and so he's just going to have to adjust.

I said, thank you. I'd like you to take that to prayer and see if you could help us. I'm going to ask you for help. I'm asking you to help this man. And he said, I'll tell you what, going on for a few days, I'll think about it, and then you can get back and call me on Tuesday. And I'll let you know if I change my mind, at which time I called him two or three times, never answered my call, and sent him an email, didn't answer those either.

So we are different. We are different, brother. This is not, except for some children in here, this is not your mama's religion. Okay? This is not the religion down the street. This is not even your typical Sabbath-keeping church. This is a church that we believe Jesus Christ built, and He is the head of this church, and we follow His Word. And we also believe that you just don't decide. I think I'll go down to this church down here and become a member. It's not what we see in the Scripture. That's what I want to talk about today. Now, I feel for LeMay, and hopefully tonight, by some strange effect, by prayer, somebody may take him a matzo and some great Jews, but I'm not counting on it. So, as Paul did appeal to Rome, I did call our church attorney to see, and he was checking out the statutes of the Florida law, to see that religious rights, even prison, were not violated because you would not believe what they do for other religions in prison. So, are you convinced of your calling? For those of you who have been baptized, did you feel like it was a calling? Did you recognize it was a calling? For those who have not baptized, I hope you realize that it is a calling because before there is a calling, before there is a walk, there has to be a calling. A calling to a different way of life, one that you're willing to stand and follow God, above family, above even government authority.

I'd like you to turn to John 15. I'll read from the New King James. John 15. John 15 and verse 16. Christ is speaking to his disciples, but he's also speaking to us. And nobody doubts that no matter what church you're into because this was written, as he describes later, to those who would follow him. And in chapter 15 and verse 16 says, He says, You don't have to do anything. You don't even have to obey the Bible.

Well, I agree with him, with his Bible, but that's not my Bible. Obviously, he has a different Bible because of these scriptures. And even when I would lay them out, he just said, well, it doesn't matter. It does not matter.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain. So it isn't one thing like I'm done. It's like you're going to bear this fruit and the fruit will remain until what? Your time is done.

That whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you according to his will, not always ours. Like you turn back to John 6, why we're in this in the book of John. John really covers this. I just want to make my point here. I'm not trying to degrade or downgrade Liberty University or the chaplain or anything else. That's not my job. You know, he's got to follow what he was taught. And basically, brethren, we have to follow what we're taught from this Bible. And so I make no apologies, but I also have told you for the last four and a half years since I've been here. If I teach something other than this Bible, and I cannot prove it from the Bible and teach it as doctrine, it's your job to correct me. It's your job to help me make sure I don't wander off the path. And that is why we're here, because that's what family does. And we are family. John 6, verse 44, No one can come to me and lest a...what? Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written to the prophets, and they shall all be taught by God. Brethren, I'm your teacher, I'm your pastor, I'm your shepherd, I'm here to help. But you are taught by God, whether it's from my mouth or through the Holy Spirit or your reading. And I tell people, what does the Bible say?

That's how we live. And that's what I hope you will enjoy next week when we get into Matthew 18, as that is written. I think Christ looked down and knew that the church would need those teachings at that time, at this time. It is written by the prophets, and they shall all be taught by God. Therefore, everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. Comes to me. Because this is not a typical, as you would say, Christian religion. Do we follow Christ? Yes. Are we authentic Christians? Absolutely, because we're going to follow what Christ did, and we're going to follow His Word and His Bible.

Then John goes down, as he's describing what Christ was saying on that day, and he goes down to verse 65 of the same chapter, 6, and verse 65. And he said, Therefore, I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it has been granted to him by my Father. It is a calling, a calling by God to understand why you're here, what this calling is about, and what your destiny is, and how Jesus Christ made that possible for each and every one of us. I'd like you to turn over to Hebrews now. Hebrews, as I'm just giving certain verses that will teach you. Hebrews 3 and verse 1. Hebrews 3 and verse 1 says, Therefore, holy brethren, and that's what you are, sanctification, set apart. That's what holy means. Holy, set apart for a special purpose. Holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling. We are all partakers of that calling that came from above. You can't come to Christ unless God calls you. It's that simple. And I'm just giving you two or three scriptures, but there are dozens, dozens that confirm that. Brethren, you are unique. Those who follow God, you are unique in this world. You are unique in the religious world.

But so was Jesus Christ and the disciples. All you have to do is read your Bible, and you find out just how unique they were. Unique to the Jews who hated them! Yet, people today consider us, well, all you must be Jewish. Absolutely not. Not even close, is what I say. Because the one difference is a big difference when it comes to the Savior.

Brethren, I hope you will not be offended by this saying. As a matter of fact, I talked to another elder in Ohio yesterday. He was asking me what I was giving a sermon on, so I kind of told him and gave him some rough things. And he goes, I don't think they will. He said, I'm from California. No, nothing offends people in California, hardly. I said, yeah, I imagine so. But brethren, you are spiritual freaks. Anybody ever been to one of these shows and see a freak show? And it's like, ooh, you know, you see a four-legged man or a two-headed person or whatever you see, it's a freak show. In the religious world today, we are a freak show because we actually do what the Bible says to do. Not normal. But he says, you are a peculiar people because it takes that to make a stand. And some people, we've lost a lot of people over the years from the church because they did not want to be a freak. They wanted to be like, I want to be like everybody else. Yes, absolutely. But the thing they lose, it is unique. It is a unique calling. And that's why I asked you last time to just go back and read the Old Testament. Go from Genesis to the end of Malachi and see how many people were truly called or chosen. That it lives in there. It's a few handfuls. Not a lot of people because as most people, they can't do this. And that's why I say, I'm your freak show leader. Okay? I'm as freak as anybody. Okay?

And I want you to think about that because I heard that word mentioned the other day about... It was referencing LeBron James who used to play here for Miami Heat. Now, he's in Cleveland. And they were looking at it. The commentator was looking and saying, look at his ability. He plays guard. He plays center. He says, he's six foot eight, 260, 70 pounds. He plays like a guard. He said, he's a physical freak. And that's what made me realize most people would want to be that physical freak. And when they understand God, they will understand and they will want to be a spiritual freak because we're not called to be like the rest of the people. There's a uniqueness to us. Abel. Enoch. Noah. Abram. Ruth. Hannah. Elijah. Moses. Peter. Paul. Freaks. You. You're a freak along with them because you're going to follow God.

Are you prepared to be a freak for the rest of your physical life? Because in the spiritual realm, there are no freaks.

God cast the freaks out millions of years ago and cast them out of his heaven. So there is harmony in heaven. And at one time in the future, there will be harmony on this earth. And he expects his freaks of today to be prepared to teach this world and be at the same plane. I'd like you to turn to the 2nd Thessalonians. 2nd Thessalonians 2.

Verse 13. It says, But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief of the truth, to which he called you by our gospel for the attaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, continuing the calling. He chose us, but there's a calling. Acts 2. If you'll go back to Acts 2 with me. Acts 2, on that day that we will talk about in Pentecost, Acts 2 and verse 38. And Peter said to them, Repent, let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and your children and to who all are far off as many as the Lord our God will call. It's a calling, and it's a unique calling.

Go back to 1 Timothy. 1 Timothy, if you will. It's quite interesting. 1 Timothy 1. Excuse me. 2 Timothy 1. 2 Timothy 1.

2 Timothy 1. Actually, in verse 9. Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace. It's his wisdom. People go, I wonder why he called me? Don't ask that question. Just say, thank you for it. Thank you, God, for making me a freak.

Because it is great, and someday the whole world will see it this way.

And I wanted to be blunt here, because it's not just about salvation. That's a gift. But it's about our destiny. And I want you to understand, perhaps you never have, you brethren, those called. You, you freaks, you unique individuals, those set apart, sanctified. You have been called to rule the universe. You have been called to rule the universe.

Not now, but when it's time.

Not many churches teach that. Very few, as a matter of fact. Very, very few.

But it's in Scripture. And I hope, during the last four years, I have taught you that many times and turned to all those Scriptures in Romans 8. All the Scriptures throughout the Old and the New Testament.

I want you to think about today, as we begin to wrap this up, because this is part one. Part two is next week. Part two is about the called. Not the calling, but about the called, and what our responsibilities are. But I tell you that we will be rulers of the universe, because I can back that up with Scripture.

And I give that to you because where there is no vision, the people perish. And sometimes, being freaked, you need to have vision. Because you do stand out. You are different. Brethren, we are the prototype. I want you to think about that. We are the prototype. We're the first fruits. Christ was the first of the first fruits. He was the original model. Now we are the prototype. What is a prototype? Dictionary says it's a sample, a model, a product built to test a concept or process. It acts as a thing to be replicated or learned from. An original, our first model of something from which other forms are copied or developed. Remind you of Christ. We are to be like Christ. He was the original. We are the prototype. People are supposed to see what God is doing in us as a walking, talking example of Jesus Christ. Is it easy? Absolutely not! If it was easy, everybody would do it. But God knows it's not that easy. An original type serving as a basis or standard. The dictionary says about prototypes. Those who come ahead. Does anyone know who Ken Sailors was? Ken Sailors. He was the original model or prototype in 1934.

Any of you that has ever watched or even if you flipped by and saw a channel on TV and you saw a basketball game. All those followed Ken Sailors. Basketball was created in this country in like 1890, 1891. But by 1934, it was all played the same way. But in 1934, this freak brought something to the forefront they'd never seen before. And the writers and the coaches just had an absolute fit and said, that's not right. It just doesn't look right. Something's wrong about it. Ken Sailors was the very first man in a game that performed a jump shot. He left the ground and put the ball over his head. He shot. For the 40 years before that, basketball was here.

Nobody jumped. You waited and you did this. Now, nobody does the other and everybody shoots a jump shot. But in 1934, they wanted what and they actually looked at him and wrote articles and said, it's not possible that somebody can shoot a ball and be accurate, leaving the ground. That's stupidity.

And it was stupidity until 1943, when Ken Sailors was the MVP of the NCAA tournament and took his team to the championship. And after that, people started shooting jump shots. A prototype. I'll give you that example. Another one is, who invented the light bulb?

Thomas Edison. Was he the first? He invented the light bulb in about 1879. But in 1800, Guy and A. Humphrey Davy hooked up a battery and actually made this carbon-type material light up. He was followed 30 years later by a man by the name of Swan that also made something light up.

But Edison, 1879, created the incandescent light bulb. And if you go back and see the little light bulb today that he invented, you, as a matter of fact, there's one over here on the other side. Where is it? Naples or Fort Myers? I think it is. You can see one of his little light bulbs. A little bitty thing about a 2-watt light bulb is what he made. Very small. It was a prototype of what we see today. He finally got a light bulb. As a matter of fact, his very first light bulb he tried in some place burned for over 79 years straight. Don't you wish we'd followed that prototype a little bit more? We wouldn't be buying a light bulb. That bulb is cool. But then they couldn't make money on him, could they?

As Chris is a fan here of Star Trek, he admits it. Are you a freak? Are you a tricky? Yes, yes, he likes that. He knows it. If there's anything I ever want to know about Star Trek, I can go over there. Okay. So if I can use a phrase with Star Trek, we be in the prototypes, we be in the freaks, we be in the firstfruits. Brethren, we have been asked to boldly go where few have ever gone before. Think about that. We have been asked to live as Christ on this earth, and most people say what? All I need is a...let me see...Jesus Christ! Right? Just say the name Jesus Christ. That's all I need, His name. You can find Him in the bathroom stalls, a little pamphlet. Just say, Jesus is your Savior. Sign it right here and send it into us, and you'll be saved. And they call us freaks? Right?

Brethren, we have been asked to boldly go where very few have gone before. Jesus Christ, the disciples, and those called. We are to represent Christ. We are to follow that. And you know what we're supposed to do? We're supposed to do it with a smile. And we're supposed to, as Christ said, I came that you may have life and live it more abundantly. Brethren, that's what it's about. And that's the hard part sometimes.

Like Christ before us. Remember you've seen the example? Christ was, and this was a prototype, and I want you to understand this because I don't want you to give a... Wow, I've not heard that before because, basically, I've never heard anyone say it before.

Jesus Christ was part human and part God when He walked this earth. And for 33 years, He was part human and part God. His human part was ruled by a bigger part, which was God because He was born with the Holy Spirit, and He was full of the Holy Spirit from birth. He came before us. He was that original model. We are the prototype because, brethren, whether you think about it or not, when you receive His Holy Spirit, you're part human and part God. Because the Holy Spirit is the very essence of God. It is actually God's, and He makes that perfectly clear in the Scripture. It's not your Spirit. It's His Spirit that He gives us. And any Christ tells us exactly what it will do for us. The only problem with that and why we're not just like the model is we're the prototype because we have to prove that you can use this human body and be ruled by the Spirit, by God's Holy Spirit. And some of us do it better than others, and some of us have really good days of doing it, and some of us have very bad days. Mine included.

Now, on some days, I've got a lot more of God in me than I do the human. Other times, and more times than not, I have more human than the God part. And Jesus Christ said, it's possible. And He wants us to understand. We must be focused. We are, brethren, the first of our kind. The first of our kind. There's a world coming where everyone who ever lived is going to have a chance, and they will be able to know that there was a prototype before them. Before they're given the task to live as we live today.

Philippians 1 verse 6 says, He who has begun to work in you, He's going to see it through. He's going to see it through.

You know, this is not Mission Impossible, what He's been called us to do. But some people view it that way. They get up in the morning with that.

Oh, I can't do this.

It is impossible for me to live godly in my environment, in my neighborhood, in my family.

And so they go on a date.

And it's their thing's own, right? Except we're not like that, you freaks. Because we've been called to a mission that's possible. Because with God, it's not us that's going to do it. It is Christ in us with that. Nothing is impossible. We have to start, as I used to say, when a guy would, you know, have to be, you know, a little more soft and kind when I was, my sister told me one time when I was about, well, maybe you just need to explore your feminine side a little more. I said, I don't have a very big feminine side. So maybe you need to. See, we need to explore a little more of our God side when we handle problems and what we're going to deal with this week. Because He's called us. See, it's not possible with them. It's possible with us. Because He's called us. Last Scripture, and we will end here. Like you go to Ephesians, because it sets up next week's sermon, if you will go to Ephesians. Oh, this is such a powerful verse. And this is where we will start next week. Ephesians 4.

Verse 1. Ephesians 4 and verse 1. Therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, why? Paul was in prison at the time, one of the prison epistles. He said, I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called. And next week we will start with that verse, and we're going to see what the responsibility of the called is. So I hope you will be back here next week. I want to spend my Sabbath with you. I don't want to spend it anywhere else. I don't want to go into God's Word.

We have a calling. He's given us.

Let's not disappoint. Let's make sure and make our election, our calling, and our election sure.

See you next week.