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I don't know how many times you have accepted Christ as your lord and savior.

But what I can tell you is the first time you were truthful about it, really meant it was when you got saved.

Sometimes we make deals with God or we try to make deals with God.

Lord.

If you get me through this, then I'll serve the rest of my life.

My father did that, he talks about that in his life a few times where he made those deals with God and wants to situation, got back to normal.

He went right back to the way his life was in.

We do that many times.

We want God to help us get out of our problems and out of our trials.

In the moment.

We get back to normal.

We just want to forget where God has brought us.

I want you today not to forget what God has done in your heart what God has done in your lives.

Trials and tribulations come our way.

We talked about those some things last week and Romans chapter 12. Today.

We're going to be in Romans chapter 13, but it Romans 12:2 biblical pattern that we need.

That is related to Doctrine and two Duty.

We when we become a member of a church.

We are agreeing to obey by the doctrine of that church in the polity of that church.

Now whether you like or doctrine or don't like her doctor, that's her problem.

We have some beliefs here at the church that other churches may not have I don't believe according to the word of God that you can work your way into heaven.

I don't believe you can earn your way into Heaven, by your way, into heaven.

I believe that the only way to get to heaven is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Believing in him.

That's it.

Otherwise, why did he die in a cross if you and I can earn it or we can buy it, there was no purpose for that for him to die in a cross.

That's just foolishness right there.

And if God didn't know that, then who is God.

But I believe God understands.

And the plan is there for you.

And for me to follow him yesterday.

I had the privilege of doing a funeral service and burial funeral.

Burial.

It was at the gravesite, the whole, the whole thing yesterday about 3:30.

So I was dressed up in a suit and tie.

You know what the weather was like yesterday about 3:30.

So by the time I was done, I was dressed up in a swimsuit and tie because I was wet all the way down to my socks.

That's how warm it was.

But in spite of the warm in spite of all that, there was a joyous time, a man who would have turned it 98 in July, July 5th, is his birthday.

You would have turned 98 in July and some in from the area may know the Thompson family Leslie, Thompson, big monument in Elmwood Cemetery for the Thompson family and everybody is buried there so far around in a circle by the spot, but here's a man who grew up in the area went into the military.

What became a lieutenant got out and got his own business car dealership was in Boston from what I understand in this car, dealership retired at the age of 75 move to Florida.

He move from Florida to Sedona, Arizona, and that is where he passed away.

What's so great about that?

Wasn't?

What are you?

What's the point?

The point?

Is that 8 years ago? 8 years ago he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior 8990 years of age.

At the time.

He said that the Lord is his strength in the Lord is his God.

Turn Up played off of that.

I had my plans of what I'm going to say, what I'm going to do.

And I met the family for the first time yesterday at the graveside and the grandson is Sherry with me.

What's going on.

There's some scriptures that they found in and their grandfather's Bible that he had Mark.

They're going to share those three scriptures, and they were perfect scripture.

Great scriptures for the whole aspect of the meeting and the Gathering at, for family and friends.

His face showed through in the scriptures that he used.

On the side of one of the scriptures.

There was a note that said, when he accepted Christ as his Lord, and then as his savior back in 2014, he accepted Christ.

With this purpose, the older we get the harder it is for people to accept Christ as your lord and savior.

Why?

Because we think we understand, we think we got it, figured out.

We think our way is better and we be in to make the word of God.

Fill our lives.

Instead of worrying about our lives fitting, the word of God.

So the grandson got up and everybody who got a beneduce themselves as who they were in the old grandson, number one from the daughter, number one and the whole scenario 99 children that he had all the great, all the ranch and all the great grandchildren and there was a group of people there quite a few.

I was impressed.

They told me when I was speak, so I got up to speak and I stood at the podium and I said, I'm Reverend Clyde mccaskill.

I'm Leslie, Thompson's brother.

And the Lord, when I said I was his brother.

In the Lord.

And I use that of all the things that they had shared all the things that they were where they were headed.

They had no idea what it where I was going.

I said, I'm his brother.

But when I said in the Lord, they understood, here's a man at 89, 90 years of age, changing his life and realizing he needed Jesus.

Can you imagine?

89 how many scripture says suffer?

The little children to come unto me and that we need to have faith as of a little child.

This guy is been through a lot.

He's been through the, the word Japan and and all those things in his life.

That wasn't part of his life, a lot of things that he learned, he was very successful.

And worldly, stands great business car business, and retirement was awesome.

All of his children, had nothing to say but good things about their dad and grandkids nothing but good things.

And what they all talked about was his faith in Jesus because he began to share with them.

There was a point in time where they couldn't go to church anymore for whatever reason, so they started watching church on television.

And, you know who we tuned in to on a Sunday morning?

Charles Stanley.

And they liked him, they listen to him and that's where he understood.

His need.

For a savior.

His daughter got up and his daughter sent shared the fact that you know how she goes, you know, how those televangelists are ministers.

They they always got to share that gospel message at the end of how to how to get saved.

So when I shared what I had to share.

At the end of all that I said, and, you know, those television ministers, share that gospel, message of Salvation.

And here it is.

Well, I wasn't going to let that opportunity go by here.

It is believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

What do we do?

If we confess our faults?