Escape or Endure? | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Psalms 55:1-8, Job 14:1, Matthew 10:22, 1 Corinthians 13:7, James 1:12

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if you have your bibles and would be so kind if you're physically able to stand in honor of reading the word of god the book of psalms chapter 55 and verse number one let me share on one side of this bad news and on the other side of this good news i received word this morning at church that our dear bishop well i knew him is hank cook many knew him as henry cook unexpectedly passed away last night he has family ken kenfolk here at this church and brother cook was a tremendous man of god a tremendous preacher that never stopped going he never stopped going but the cook was an inspiration to everyone as long as you've got breath in your body you ought to be preaching you ought to be teaching there is no retirement there is no retirement from this occupation and he preached and traveled although he was well up in years our paths crossed and he'd be going somewhere to indiana to preach a revival help somebody out we do pray we do pray for the cook family this morning we're sad on one side but on the other side he received his graduation this morning for to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord oh what a blessed hope that is what a blessed hope psalms chapter 55 and verse 1 a psalm of david of psalm of david give ear to my prayer o god and hide not thyself from my supplication attend unto me and hear me i mourn in my complaint and make a noise because of the voice of the enemy because of the oppression of the wicked for they cast iniquity upon me and in wrath they hate me my heart is sore pain within me and the tares of death are fallen upon me fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horror hath taken have overwhelmed me and i said would you say those three words with me and i said you know reaction determines results and i said oh that i had wings like a dove for then would i fly away and be at rest lo then would i wander far off and remain in the wilderness selah i would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest i want to minister today and um i do want you to know how strong i feel about this i want this to be a message this morning i want this to be a message that through the year of 2022 you'll refer back to this message and it will be some a message of a standard it would be a message of um he said this would happen or i'm not surprised at this i want it and the only way that can happen is two things to happen and that is the lord to help me and that is for you to receive it but on this first sunday of 2022 i want to minister on to you on this subject escape or endure escape or endure father i love you this morning thank you god for your love and for your kindness thank you lord for all that you've done in this congregation these are your sheep you bought them with your blood you placed your name on them and you filled them with your spirit they do not belong to me god they are your property i am simply here today father is an under shepherd to bring them your word oh spirit of the living god move across this place today let chains be broken let lives be mended let eyes be opened in jesus wonderful name we pray amen amen you may be seated before i get into my message today um most of you realize if you've attended church here any length of time that once a year uh the carpenter hammond ericsson family take a a 10-day vacation that takes us away on a sunday and i promise you if my family could afford if all 13 of us could afford to fly back home um on the sunday they would all they would all join me i have a very hard working family and i appreciate all their love and their devotion that they give to the work of god and to the house of god amen that's right and uh if you could just understand one thing with me the average day on vacation the average day on vacation there's probably spent i think we i think one day i think new year's day we were in a four-hour unplanned staff meeting because after all when you you got them all there you know and uh we didn't plan it but we sit around the breakfast table and we started dreaming and and we started casting vision of all the different departments of the church and then on an average day it's about two hours that we just sit around and we talk about how that we can make first apostolic church or want to make first apostolic church a more god-pleasing church a church that can reach the broken and be open to the broken so once one more time i know you did it spontaneous but would you give would you give our family um they worked so hard they worked so hard escape or endure here we are with another year complete and a new year before us a new year that god alone knows what lies ahead only god alone knows what lies ahead there's one thing certain about life and you might can help me finish what i'm about to say there's one thing certain about life is that it is uncertain that's a certain thing about life is that it is it is uncertain 2021 was filled with you have a congregation of this size 2021 was filled with unexpected help scares sister callaway unexpectedly as i have said is saying goodbye to two of her sisters um there were things about 2021 that we saw coming right and there were things that we didn't see coming there were people in 2021 that surprised me on a good note but then there were people in 2021 that disappointed me but after all when the shout the music has died down welcome to life welcome to life job said it this way in job 14 verse number one i think this really sums up life man that is born of a woman is a few days and full of trouble welcome welcome to life as humans in our flesh it'd be all right to say amen to this we have a tendency a desire to escape our current uncomfortable situations of life we have a we have a way when things are uncomfortable we want simply to choose the route of escape we don't we don't like the environment that we're in we don't like the situation we don't like the circumstance that we're in and we tend when the things are not set just right in our lives we tend to want to escape how can i change the scenery i don't like the chapter of my life how can i change the situation how can i escape from this i don't want to be here we um have a tendency to want to run and get away from the season we want to we want to speed god up we want to to speed it up it's much like the archived service how you can sit down now when it's when it's live you can't do this but when it's archived you can speed it up you can you can you can bypass this and bypass that and i'm fearful in life that sometimes we get in scenes and chapters that we don't like and we try just to speed it up let me let me escape let me run and get away from this season and when we do this church we join the ranks of the spiritual escape artists you know sometimes we are like houdini we are spiritual escape artists we're trying to find a way i don't like this season that i'm in right now i don't i don't like i don't like this season i'm i'm an adolescent and i want to be a teenager i how can i how can i be a teenager now and i'm i'm a teenager but i want to be married and i'm i i'm i'm i'm i'm this and i'm dad and and then as seasons of life go you find your life you find has come upon you and guess what happens then what you once wanted to escape from you try to go back and get into it because you don't like the season of your life we joined the ranks of the spiritual escape artist like jonah jonah was a an escape artist jonah had deep rooted bitterness to the ninevites there was something about him he was prejudiced he had deep rooted hatred that seeked on the inside of him he hated the very name of the ninevites he hated everything about them so when god said you go to what you hate what did jonah do jonah ran jonah ran and can i tell you when god has something in your life to develop you you never run to something better you never run to something better something better is not out there if god has that iceberg if god has that obstacle if god has me in a season and let's just get real today let's just get real today seasons doesn't change because you talk in tongues and seasons doesn't change because you ran an aisle thank god for all of that seasons they don't change because your emotion peaked and you got some kind of an emotional high there are seasons of your life that you just have to understand god has me here for a reason this uncomfortable circumstance and situation god sees something in me that needs to be developed god sees something in me i don't need to escape from this scene in my life i need to learn how to endure seasons of my life jonah decided that he would run and that he did and as jonah ran jonah ran or should i say escaped and he traded listen to this now listen to this jonah traded a storm on the inside for a storm on the outside you see god knew not only did the ninevites need to be saved but jonah needed to get right with god jonah had a prejudice in him he had a hatred in him for the ninevites and god wanted his prophet to understand that god loves all people god loves whosoever will jonah had this hatred he couldn't stand the name he couldn't stand stand even the sound of their name and therefore there was a seething hatred on the inside of him and god said i know how to fix that i know how to fix that you need to go to the very thing you hate but jonah didn't jonah decided to be an escape artist got him a boat went to the vacation land of tarsus but god said if that storm won't wake you then i'll have a storm on the outside that's why on many times church listen to pastor this morning many times when you try to escape seasons of your life you end up worse than what you were if you just stayed where you're at jonah i guarantee you when they threw him overboard and he thought for a split second that he was going to die and drown i guarantee you he would have traded dealing with what was on the inside more than what was on the outside of him are you going to endure and i hope today this message is something that you tie a rope to and come back to it because it's not if uncertain seasons come in 2022 it's when they come it's not if the scene in my life turns ugly it's when it turns ugly and i hope to god and the holy ghost that when it turns ugly you remember on the first sunday morning january 3rd you heard a message that said i'm not going to run from this i'm going to endure this and watch god do a marvelous work would you give the lord a hand to praise right now living for god living for god is not all about unexpected bonuses living for god is not always about prosperity in certain materialistic ways living for god is not clean not always about clean health reports but living for god can be summed up in matthew 10 22. listen listen to the words of jesus that talk about the church of the rapture generation jesus says here's what it's going to look like in matthew 10 22 and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake stop believing the fairy tale that the senate and the congress and the white house is going to have a great revival stop believing the fairy tale that one day everybody's going to fall out on wall street speaking in tongues stop believing the fairy tale that all of a sudden god's going to cover the earth with this unbelievable glory that is going to happen in the millennial but it's not going to happen pre-rapture here's what it looks like pre-rapture and ye shall be hated of all men why for my name sake that name of jesus is going to place you in a category that the world doesn't have to know your name they doesn't have they don't have to know where you're from they hate you for one singular name and that is the name of jesus but how do we counter the hatred of the world not by going and finding some mountain to build us a commune not to getting away and shunning the world but the bible said you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake but he not that escapeth but he that endureth to the end shall be saved come on church there's a season the world's going to get ugly but you can't quit you've got to endure to the end how can we endure how can we endure the world will hate us for that name's sake but how can we endure well first corinthians chapter 13 and verse number seven as a matter of fact if you're familiar with the bible you know that first corinthians 13 is called the love chapter it is that it is that chapter in between telling how to operate the gifts and paul talks about having love and he says in chapter 13 verse 7 that love beareth all things love beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things how can we endure to the end is that in the midst of the ugly scene somebody has got to love god in the midst of a doctor's report that tells you there's a spot on your liver somebody has got to love god in the midst of a layoff slip and a bankruptcy and a foreclosure and someone walking away from you come on now you can either try to escape from that or you can stand up and say if i can love god i can endure anything if i can just love god i can bear up under anything if i can just love god love will give me the hope of my tomorrow if i can just love god the bible tells us in the book of james chapter 1 verse 12 james one of my most favorite books in the bible very practical and it's an easy read i love the book of james the bible simply says in james chapter 1 verse number 12 blessed is the man that endureth temptation blessed is the man that endureth temptation you ever thought about instead of feeling sorry for yourself when you're going through a trial have you ever thought about looking yourself in the mirror in the mirror of the morning and saying man what a blessing is coming my way instead of complaining about how hard it is and how difficult it is of looking up and saying the sun is going to shine again i'm going to have the wind at my back i may have it in my face right now but i'm going to have the wind in my back because i am not going to escape i am going to stand right here and i'm going to endure a young popular apostolic young man who's raised by godly mother and father revivalist revivalists great people but this young man silently in his mind began to want to escape begin to want to escape the bible studies somehow in his mind he didn't like the sound of the bible studies his dad was giving he could not as he was in a public school he seemed not to be able to balance and understand that what he was being taught on wednesday night and sunday mornings and sunday night was a far greater value of what he was hearing at his school but underneath him was his choice and all of us today all of us today have the option endure escape all of you today you say brother carpenter i'm not waiting for an ugly situation to be in my life i'm sitting in your congregation this morning i'm in the midst of it i don't know when it's going to end i don't like the scene of my life i don't like things about my life i thought i liked what i was getting into but after i got into it i see now that i wish i'd never made this decision in that decision but can i tell you something this morning all of us hold within us the decision do i run or do i stay do i escape and look for a brighter day somewhere else there isn't a brighter day outside of jesus said there isn't a brighter day outside of jesus there isn't a brighter day outside of the church there isn't a brighter day outside of the bible you can hang it up you'll never find that brighter day the world will promise you joy and deliver you grief the lord the world will promise you a lot and deliver very little this young man this young man decided that he would escape from his convictions he decided in his mind that dating out of the faith wasn't wrong he escaped from the father's principles of the word he escaped and began to date out of the faith wasn't long after that fornication entered into this young man's life but once again he had found a place to escape the fornication was it was was hidden until the day that his girlfriend said to him these words i'm pregnant now there's no escape now it's only a matter of time that we have to break the news to my mom and dad it's only a matter of time that everybody in the youth group is going to know it's only a matter of time that everyone is going to find out what has happened what do you do young man what do you do mom and dad what do you do now i submit to you they would not have been the first couple they would not have been the first mom and dad to have left the ministry because they felt embarrassed that they had to get up and lead a church and tell a church how to raise their family when the old adversary would haunt you and oh i i'm just i can't i can't i hate him did i make that plane i hate him i hate his voice i hate his voice today because his voice comes along he is one that will tempt you to get into sin and tell you that nobody will find out and after you get into sin he'll then turn around and says everybody knows oh i hope this is a message on this third day of january 2022 i hope this is a message that you'll take home in the month of july you'll say listen can you remember what pastor taught us on that first sunday morning would have been the first mom and dad to have resigned to church would have been the first young man what are you gonna do family i'll tell you what they did they decided we'll dig our heels in and we'll endure this can i tell you it's not easy but it's worth it oh i wish you'd say it with me it's not easy come on say it with me it's not easy now shout it but it's worth it come on it's not easy but it's worth it can i tell you enduring is not for wimps enduring is not for people that have to have their name called and have to be petted and pampered it's not for those kind enduring is for the man and woman that knows it god has got something better in my future i'm going to endure this what do we do mom and dad decided i'll dig my heels in say it again it's not easy but shout it but it's worth it my mother and dad decided they'll dig their heels in and the mother told me she said brother carpenter for one solid year i cried every day of my life for one solid year oh you need to run well you need to get away from people no no no no no no i'm going to endure this she said brother carpenter i cried every day for one solid year if i have this correct on this young man's 18th birthday his mama asked him the question son what would you like as a gift and his answer came back i would like to be as far away from this place as i could run i'd like to be as far away from this situation i'd like to be as far away as a mom and dad a pastor and his wife that stood their ground as a young 16 year old boy that grew up quick and hard early morning job before school a short school day so that he could go back to the factory and work and support a baby he endured a lot he overcame a lot he endured a lot and i am not dare advocating you are to sin that grace may abound but praise be to god there is life after a mistake there is life after a mistake that young man stood his ground better way to put it he took all the talk he endured all the sniggers he endured all the whispers he endured all the things that ugly people will do to you he walked back into the youth group he walked back into the prayer room sometimes with a baby on his hip he came back to the house of god he lived for god and today this is a many-year-old story but today there is a young man of god a powerful pastor pastoring a revival church all because he decided i'm not going to escape i'm going to endure this and god is going to make a way i wish somebody would just say it's not easy but it's worth it this will be too close to home but what about a young 23 24 year old pastor that thinks he knows about pastoring that thinks he's got it all after all he's 23 years old but through a series not of moral mistakes just a lack of wisdom of how to treat god's people through a series of that that young man sets in a little office that's no bigger than eight by eight and takes a pen and writes a letter that he'll step out and read to that congregation of resignation he'll write a letter of resignation he'll tell those handful of people there he's glad to have been their pastor for the last year and a half but he feels like that he needs to move on but that young man will call another man of god in his life by the name of mike bingham and he'll say brother bingham i've got my resignation letter you're the evangelist coordinator put me back in coach i'm ready to play only for mike bingham to say to me what makes you think you'll be any happier on the evangelistic field than you are right now and he preached to me about standing the ground and staying where you're at can i tell you today many of us have run from situations that we look back years later and we wonder what would have happened if i had just stayed in the muck in the mire and dug it out i wonder what god could do and the evening before i was going to read my resignation letter he told me he said i'll tell you this he said get ready for haunting years he said you'll live haunting years of wondering just what god could have done had you stayed in maryville tennessee i'm not pinning a rose on my my coat today but i'm here to say to god i'm so glad that i endured rather than escaping because it's much better if you'll just endure some momentary seasons of your life i'm telling you in the holy ghost god has got another chapter for you he is the author and finisher i don't like where i'm at right now you don't know the end friend he's the author and the finisher of your faith come on now come on is somebody ready to endure today i'm not ready to escape i'm ready to stay in the choir i'm ready to stay at my camera i'm ready to stay at the sound i'm ready to stay teaching sunday school i'm ready to stay at fac i know we don't like the situation but i'm ready to stay let me get back to my text let me get back to my text for a moment why did david write psalms 55 i'm complaining i'm moaning i'm hated and then he said i'll tell you what i'll do i will take the wings of a dove i will take the wings of a dove and i will fly away i will escape i will escape that's what i'll do psalms 55 and verse that's what i'll do i'll get out of this house that's what i'll do i'll get out of this job that's what i'll do i'll get out of this i don't need to be treated this way i'll get out of here that's what i'll do i will oh that i had wings like a dove well then would i fly away i'd be at rest oh i get some rest from this chapter i get some rest from this thing i fly away from here and i tell you there's three types of wings mentioned in the bible the wings of a dove which represent escaping or the wings of an eagle that talk about fighting you can either have flight or you can have fight you can either develop wings of an escape artist you can navigate yourself around this and say to myself then will i be at rest but would you please look at verse 7 where rest represents lo then i would wonder far off and remain in the wilderness the wilderness says i don't know where i'm at the wilderness is never developed the wilderness are never complete never content the wilderness is always searching i don't know about you but i don't like where that dove takes me i don't want to be a wanderer i'm tired of wandering i'm tired of wandering here and there i want stability in 2022. i want my life to get on a course then i understand that i overcame that mountain i'm so glad that i came up this side of the mountain because there was a view that i could not see while i was up here and if i had turned around i would have never have seen what god wanted to show me oh i don't want to be a wonder be in the wilderness where you at where you at at 40 i don't know hey same person where you at at 45 i don't know hey same person where are you at at 50 i don't know where you at at 60 i don't know god help any of us today that your goal in life is to draw a social security check god help us all that our goal in life is to reach an age where we do nothing may your goal be if may your goal be that once i retire from this job i'll have more time to work for the lord i'll have more time for god the reading of the word were you at 70 i don't know i'm just in the wilderness i'm just wondering i i see i seek the route at least resistance that's why sometimes a church change is not what you need i've seen people get hurt or so called get hurt some people call re rebuke hurt and the first thing that strikes their mind as if they hold the ace card in a card game i'll get you back i'll get you back i'll go join another church you know you only hurt yourself because you never learn how to stay somewhere and endure you're just always in to escape it instead of looking at an obstacle in 2022 and saying why me why don't you look at it and say i wonder what god's going to do with me through that three types of wings you can either choose the wings of an escape artist dove you can sk you can choose the wings of an enduring eagle or you can choose the wings that are in the presence of god you ever wondered in the tabernacle the holy of holies what canopies the ark of the covenant there's a canopy that is made over the ark of the covenant that canopy is made by cherubim wings jesus said to israel how many times would i have gathered you as a mother hen doth her chicks under her wings but you would not you see if a mother hen gathers you up under her wings you're stable you're there till the storm passes by you're there till your storm passes by you're there until you realize you pastor a forgiving church that's willing to forgive you for a few unwise decisions you made you're there until you realize that there may be a few people that will always remember your sin but as a whole there's a youth group that'll love their arms around you and love you back into the body of christ you're there when you preach your first sermon a few years later and you know there's some folded hands and some judgmental people but as a whole there's a loving body of christ that's so glad that you made it over the hill and so glad that you allowed god to develop you oh could we pray for a moment could you explode in prayer right now come on should you explode in prayer today come on do it do it come on do it church enduring or escaping enduring or escaping oh i wish somebody would stand to their feet and just pray as loud as you can this morning oh musicians come come on oh yes oh god i love you lord i love you lord i love you lord come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on something's about to break right now something's about to break right now something's about to break almost something's about to break right now come on i feel it in the holy ghost god is going to move right now oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh hey mama mama come on come on let's keep this right now come on let's keep this right now let's don't let it die back down let's don't let it die back down because we can escape by not paying attention we can escape by when we start getting uncomfortable what's getting a little uncomfortable that's right that's right that's what you need you don't need a church where you're comfortable oh my god okay come on just a little bit more just a little bit more come on just a little bit more and then it's the holy ghost here the holy ghost here at 11 30. let me just my thoughts my plans is to have you in this altar in five minutes would you give me your undivided attention for just just five short minutes do you know why david wrote psalms 55 his own son absalom had been disloyal to his of his own daddy his own son absalom who was an egotist maniac of appearance any man any man that makes his once a year haircut a city-wide event oh yes excellent so appearance driven that he made his annual haircut a city-wide event wow what an egomaniac come watch me get my hair cut but david loved that boy you know it's sad sometimes we often love what's killing us i don't know if you got that or not we absolutely sometimes love what's killing us the bible says love not the world it's killing us the bible says the love of money is killing us david loved that boy that boy would grow up to overthrow his daddy's kingdom that boy would grow up to steal the hearts of the men of israel and lead a rebellion that 20 000 israelites would die but in the midst of that isn't it amazing we're always trying to save what's killing us absalom has run his own daddy out of town his own daddy and then stretched a tent on top of the king's house and slept with his daddy's wife to prove that he was this this what i've done cannot be repaired don't ever worry about david coming back but when the battle was sent forth david had this thing and david said be gentle with absalom be gentle i'm tell you something we got some things that's killing us we need to kill it this morning we don't need to pat a cake with it anymore we don't need to excuse it anymore we need to flat out bring it to the altar and put it under the wings of his presence today and we need to flat out kill it today david the very thing that's killing the very thing you love is the very thing that's killing you he wrote the 51st he wrote psalms 55 in the midst of being hid out in a cave because his own son was seeking his life you know there is no trouble two minutes to go if we could be transparent with each other there's no trouble like family trouble david said in the midst of his family trouble man if i just had wings of a dove i could fly away from this mess and i could be at peace david thank god you didn't because they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as an eagle they shall run they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint now i ask you to begin in this sermon to let it go with a record book that you praise the name of jesus christ i wonder today as this altar is stretched forth with a heavenly canopy of the wings of the almighty god my season may not change but if i can just get under his wings this morning everything is going to be all right i'm going to come to this altar today to tell god and to tell my brothers and sisters in christ i am going nowhere i am going to walk to this altar today maybe my wife in hand and my children and it is a sign of jehovah god i am not going anywhere i am staying right here and then it is a sign to my brothers and sisters in christ i am stay here how many would like it to be written in the heavenly book that you stepped out of your seat this morning and gathered down here in this altar here they come thank you here they come if you would i've got a feeling the altar is going to feel if you would move up as close to the first step of the altar as you can because i am going to endure i am not going to escape i am going to endure i am not going to escape god here i stand under the canopy of your wings today the altar may be filled come on the altar may be filled just fill it up today i knew you would that's just the kind of people you are come on i'm saying it to you god oh god oh god i'm here today on the lord renew your stress and to renew right here we knew i hear you were saved he's ordering is oh believe it i believe now i'm going gonna wait on you jesus i'm gonna wait on you jesus i'm gonna wait on you jesus and i'm not turning back now no i'm not turning back now i'm not turning back now i'm not turning back my side i'm gonna wait on you jesus i'm gonna wait on you jesus i'm gonna wait on you jesus i can't turn back i'm gonna wait on you jesus gonna yes i am and turn back down hear your worst on the lord oh this is he's honoring yourself you've got away is and your promise still stands great is your faithfulness your faithfulness i'm still in your hands and this is my confidence you never failed your promises your promise still your faithfulness still stands your promise still and i'm gonna wait on you jesus your faithfulness they're going to continue to sing they're going to continue to sing in just a moment 20 22 two two would you break off in twos right now and would you just pray one for another because i'm telling you one can put a thousand to flight but two can put ten thousand to flight one can endure so much but two can endure so much more come on break off into twos right now pray loud enough that you can hear yourself pray that's it that's it that's it oh that's it that's it oh those of you watching online right now join with me oh you're gonna endure this you're gonna endure the sickness brother fry sister fry you're coming back to the house of god god's gonna heal your body god's gonna touch you brother sister fry you're coming back to the house of god oh god's going to touch you brother croucher god's going to attack you brother croucher i am a young man i am a young man i have a calling of all my life i am not a quitter i am not an escape artist i will mount up with as eagles i will walk and not paint come on get under his wing this morning oh i feel the holy ghost i feel the holy ghost i feel the holy ghost in here the spirit of endurance is here there's young men that have made mistakes there's young women that have made mistakes explode in prayer we need your perfume we need your anointing we need your vaccine come on 2022 come on come on come on we're gonna let the anointing is falling right now there's some people that have overcome failure you're vaccinated lay your hands on people pray for them this morning yes my year my year 2022 my year i'm ready i'm ready i'm ready i'm ready come on sing praise team see joyce here bees is here thank you lord oh yes god my god oh my god is my year oh god the end of time will be marked prayer meeting tonight at 5 30. the end of time will be marked by one thing instead of trying to figure out the chip or the not chip and who the antichrist is just read the black and white for the time will come when they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears the time will come when they will not endure sound ain't going to pastor a church i got to pull a rabbit out of that i'm not going to pastor a church but i got to tell you what you ate for breakfast and what your social security number is and where you drove last you know the church i want a pastor in the end time folks can sit down and say that's going to be a holiness doctrine that's going to be a hole in this bible study tonight instead of oh i've heard it i've heard it i've heard it and heard it heard it it's i need to hear it again oh is he going to get on baptism in jesus name you better believe i am because you need to hear it and somebody else needs to hear it i want to endure sound doctrine and again i close simply with this if this message could simply be the message of all messages that you'll look back on this and say he told me i needed to react when your suitcase is brought out of the closet and you write your resignation letter you better see what enduring will do god bless you y'all the greatest group of people i love preaching to you god bless you dismissed in jesus name