 And one of the most humbling things we can do for our Lord Jesus and for his kingdom is to have him call us and do any kind of service for which we are all unquantified and unworthy and it would have gone so much better if he would have done it himself but he's chosen people like you and I to do it. And it's our desire that when this weekend is over for some strange reason some heavily visitation upon our hearts we can do it better than we would have done it if we would not have been here. And so we ask the blessing God upon each one that is present. And this is not a voice of accomplishment that is speaking. You will find out before the service is over that it's an extremely weak vessel that is sharing these few thoughts with you in these next 45 minutes. The phrase the way of the cross as we have it here in the board behind me is not found in the Bible as far as I know with those exact words. But the truth and the concept are certainly found there. There is a way of the cross and as was said here in this introduction there is a Calvary Road. And there was one wrong before Roheshin wrote that book with that title. We have in our English Bibles phrases like this we've already heard this one tonight the preaching of the cross from 1 Corinthians 1-18. The Bible speaks to us about the offense of the cross in Galatians 5-11. I'd just like you to think about some of these phrases. I'm not turning to these verses tonight. The Bible speaks even more specifically about the death of the cross that's in Philippians chapter 2 verse 8. But I'd like you to turn tonight to Colossians chapter 1. And here's another phrase that will then introduce for us our thoughts for this evening. And we'll read verse 20 here. Having made peace. And this is only part of a long sentence here. And having made peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him I say whether they be things on earth or things in heaven peace through the blood of his cross. The way of the cross is more than a historic drama that occurred on a hill far away outside of Jerusalem. It is more than a conflict of conscience because of the terribly large discrepancy between Christ's holy standard and one's very very faulty example of it. That is a well understood meaning of cross in many evangelical circles. It's that conflict of conscience because we didn't live up to it. And it crossed our will and it violated the way we would have done it. And so that's the cross there that somehow has to make up this difference between what I would have wished and thought I should have been doing and what seems like God would have expected. But the cross is more than that. It is more than the holy will of God in stark contrast to our human persuasion to our natural tendencies. Something must happen to us on the cross. We must participate with what happened on the old rugged cross. That's not something that took place many years ago. It's something that must take place tonight. It needed to take place throughout the day. We'll need to take place this weekend and when this meeting is over. This work of the cross, the way of the cross is a way of life. We find Paul's understanding of this way of the cross in the book of Philippians. And your Bible is very close to that right now. You were in questions one in Philippians chapter three gives us this testimony of Paul in verse seven. But what things were gained to me those I count in loss for Christ. You ain't doubtless I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and to count them but dung that I may win Christ and be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. It's interesting he speaks of the resurrection here before he speaks of his death but this death of the cross this way of the cross this preaching of the cross that is foolishness is what happens to you and I if there's ever going to be a resurrection if there's ever going to be in your experience of mine the evident power of the presence of God the evident anointing of the Lamb of God upon us is because it was a death first and then what results to that when self is gone and the carlomene is not fighting and there's no resistance to the divine will what happens after that is the work of God in our hearts Christ was brought forth from the dead there was a tremendous power that brought him forth but it was his decision to bow his head and die and after that happened the renting of the rocks and the graves opening up and the Lord Jesus coming forth what was power that was way beyond anything that this world has known and it's when you and I make that surrender to Christ it's when we you and I have yielded to God it's when you and I have taken that way voluntarily and volitionally and intentionally when in the midst of that same thing there was another option and I think one of the reasons why we don't experience that broken and contrite heart is because we have too many other options that are available to us especially in our time there's so many things we can do besides surrender and yield this thing completely to God there's so much more we can do but but Christ also had more that he could have done but he thought his head and died so something must happen to us on the cross has happened to Paul here and he chose to do it he wanted to do it it was his pursuit to do it it's what he followed after to do it's the goal he set before him and this is not something that happens to you and I once and yes there might be that Christ's experience when there was a true consecration made a total abandonment of ourselves there may have been that Christ's movement in your life my life when God did a work in us that had not been complete as it should have been prior to that that could very well be but that is not the end of what you and I have to experience I could ask you tonight are you and I completely consecrated to God and there's probably no one here that would want to try to answer that question and certainly no one who's a spiritual man would answer that in the affirmative and I'm going to tell you why it's because you have not had enough experience yet to answer that question yes there's a lot that you've given to the Lord there's a lot of decisions you've made there was a tremendous opportunity given you and who knows what kind of business and what kind of political system or what kind of opportunity there may have been for you and you surrendered that but there are things before you in life before myself that we have not yet surrendered we have not had those opportunities they have not yet come to us we we did not we did not yet know what that might look like when it does come and so we were careful about saying that yes yes everything is everything is gods because there's a test coming and we don't know what it is but it will soon be here and so sometimes we write we write these four words these four little short words that if you are a note taker it'd be well well worth your remembering the four words are one alter many trips just think about those four words our brother Kurt Wagoner has tried to help us understand that our spiritual transmission transformation does not take place at the foot of the cross foot of the cross there the soldiers rolled dice there there was gaming there was wagging of heads the bible says there were muckings and railings it says in various of the gospels though as that was happening some wept as a sword pierced through their soul but you and I are not only carrying a cross and we don't simply fall down at the foot of a cross it must be our intention and the position of our faith to die on that cross the way of the cross is the holy testimony for those who've experienced that and the rest of us need to experience it too so at three points tonight the first one is what is the way of the cross and this has already been introduced to us in the opening comments and introduction and welcome and in what we've said here our text speaks of the peace peace by the blood of his cross our peace and that is because of the blood of the cross but it is ours by faith by believing by voluntary identification i'm going to get back to classions one again when we started and read a bit more here of a very very long sentence from paul starts at verse 19 i'm not going to read the whole sentence i'm going to stop before the sentence is finished the long sentence starts in 21 but maybe we begin reading verse 19 would you follow in your bibles for please the father than him that's in christ should all fullness dwell and having made peace to the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him i say whether they be things on earth or things in heaven and you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind but wicked works yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight if you continue in the faith rounded and settled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you have heard in which was preached to every creature which is under heaven whereby paul and made a minister who now rejoicing my sufferings for you and fill up that which is behind of the fictions of christ in my flesh for his body's sake which is the church and i think we will stop reading there it's a very long sentence the preaching of the cross is the message of the gospel peace and it's not only the message of the gospel peace it is the life of those who believe the gospel peace the way of the cross is a life of peace now we have that in our english bibles two times and roman's chapter 10 that beautiful passage there about the preaching of the gospel calls of the gospel peace there you at the Ephesians chapter six that record of the christian's armor we have the gospel peace our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace outstanding thought the gospel gospel peace is more than a gospel pacifism it's even more than non-resistance and let me explain to you why because the christian life is not the absence of bad fruit the christian life does not consist of the wrong things that we don't do we're not a christian because we don't smoke we're not a christian because we don't wear a miniskirt we're not a christian because of some improper thing that we're not doing we're christians because of that powerful force and blessing of god upon us that moves us to do his will we're christians because of the fruit that's produced there we're christians because there's a dove abiding here we're christian because the holy spirit is upon us we're christians because we're the image of christ in this world we're christians because the lamp has light in it we're christians because there's a living flame in our hearts that's why we're christians and so this gospel of peace is more than simply refraining from grabbing a sword or a rifle or an m and m15 it's more than simply refusing military service it's far more than that you didn't have to be a christian to do any of that during the vietnam war i was working in a hospital in the state of new hampshire and many atheists were given an unresistant status we're given a pacifistic exemption from war because they did not believe in taking human life it made none of them christians because of it there was nothing christian about their lives whatsoever but they were too humanistic to take us down a person's life and and that is does not make a christian out of any of us but pull out in front of them when they're coming out of the parking lot and listen to that horn blow and get them irritated about something you'll find out the peace is not there but what happens if in the christian church that's the way it is and the irritations of life and the and the unexpected and uninvited circumstances that come up and the effect that it has on us why does it do that because this peace the way of peace they have not known the way of the cross is the way of peace the way of the cross is a way of peace i'd like you to turn now to Ephesians chapter two it's very close to where we're cautions we're reflections Ephesians two is very close to there i'd like to begin reading if you will in verse 13 but now in christ jesus you sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of christ for he is our peace who had made both one that broken down the middle of war partition between us having abolished his flesh the entity even the law of command was contained in ordinances ford to make of himself of twain one new man so making peace and that he might reconcile both of them to god in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby and came and preached peace to you that were far off into them that were nigh we see the cross there in verse 13 made nigh by the blood of christ that was from the cross now in this greek language in which his bible was written he is our peace it says here but but is he our peace is he my peace and if there's no peace there he's not my peace if i don't have peace in my heart he's not my peace if i don't respond to the difficult and not invited things in life in a peaceful way a non-resisting way not fighting those circumstances if i can't do that then christ is not my peace there's something about walking with jesus there's something about the way of the cross that i have not learned but what does peace mean he is my peace and this is kind of like a math problem in the greek language the word peace means of two one turning two into one and i'm going to show that to you in verses 13 14 and 15 we have that greek definition three times in these three verses verse 13 made both one he made both one and while i'm doing this little exercise you ask yourself what does he mean by the both what are the two that are made one look at verse that that was there was 14 i should i missed verse 13 here i i'm yes well it was it was 14 that i wanted jeth made both one verse 15 says for in making in himself of twain one new man so making peace of twain making one and verse 16 he says and here is i was wrong it's 14 15 and 16 verse 16 says onto god and one excuse me but reconcile both onto god in one body both one this these are definitions of peace in the greek language what does that mean what is the both well we we have gained a tremendous growth in the christian life when once we have learned something when we have learned that there's no accidents with god when we have learned that these details and these experiences and circumstances and unexpected events that we never would have chosen we never would have invited them we never would have wanted that in our lives when we come to the place where we understand that god was back there god is doing something with that maybe god wasn't the cause of it but god's planning to use it maybe god didn't design for this to ruin you or affect you or destroy you or but give you that loss or give you that upsetting experience but god is choosing to use it and when we take this thing instead of fighting against it and resisting it and and defending ourselves that we're going to get out of this somehow and we're going to prove it to the rest of the world who we are and we're going to let them know we don't deserve this and when we get the place we see that god was here doing something in my life and i come over to god and i say your will is my will and i come to god and i choose for myself what god has chosen for me to experience and these two become one and peace comes another way it's a decision a volunteer decision and that moment and christ made a lot of decisions here that he did not make here and decisions he made back here did not take care of what was coming up in front here yes christ man outstanding decision in the temptation in the wilderness for 40 days but all that surrender and all that you lose to god was revisited when he made another trip to the altar in gassemine he did it all over again it's so do you and so do i and those that have learned to do that have learned to do it on time and have learned to do it without that resistance and fighting against god and knew there was time for us to give that whole will and surrender that entire purpose over to what god is designed for my life right now and you and i have no idea who's watching the bible says that we're in this arena and men and angels are watching over us to see what we're doing and you thought you're out here and it was a traffic accident you thought you're out here and it was a mistake the banker made and you thought it was out here and a customer took you across you thought it was out here and someone wrote you a bad jack and you thought it was just simply some happenstance in life and you're in an arena and their grandstands are filled with people watching you and it's god's holy moment in your life in my life and how we respond to that and someone's looking on and you know who's watching your wife you know who's watching your children and your grandchildren and your neighbors and they know all about it and then how you're responding how i'm responding and when we get to the place we realize that god's involved in this it makes a tremendous difference the bible does speak of the way of peace though it does not speak of the way of the cross it speaks of the way of peace the way of peace is the way of the cross for us to live in peace with each other means that the same thing has happened to both of us wait a minute has happened to both of us almost almost but listen again it must have happened to one of us doesn't matter who it is it's in this audience you might be the most irritable and difficult to handle person any possible to live with if anyone that lives in your street you might be the most difficult person to handle in this assembly tonight if you run into someone who lives the gospel of peace there will be order and harmony between you and that person no matter how you have mistreated no matter how you have spoken against no matter how you have defrauded no matter how you have damaged and endangered another person's life if that other person is yielded to christ is under the authority and the authority of god and living in the gospel of peace all will be well between you and it takes one person to bring peace to a very unsettled situation and that's you and that is I that's what christ has called us when a man's ways please the lord he can even his enemies to be a peace with him and here's a spiritual experience that very very few people are living tonight how can this experience this way of the cross be my own how could we experience it this way of peace it's not a physical death for most of us at least not right now though we're willing for it to be that and as we heard already this evening the death of christ ended on the wood ended on the old rugged cross the death of christ stopped there but it did not begin there the death of christ began long before that and you say when did the death of christ begin and at least at least what he was 12 years old and it began at least that far back and that's where this death began but that's not where it ended and you now don't know where our death will end we only must be sure that it has begun and we don't need to decide what it quits we need to decide that it started we need to decide that this death has begun in my life and we don't need to be worried about where it's going to take us we only need to decide that it's over within my life I I am finished it is finished because I am finished suddenly we voluntarily choose to experience as paul did and as many other saints of god have done the death of the cross that results in perfect peace is a position of faith it becomes ours the same way that all spiritual power and all spiritual life becomes our own we heard about it we read about it in the bible we heard it and and these ears of faith believe what they heard faith comes by hearing and we hear this way of peace we see how people live that know how to respond to those the most extenuating circumstances that could come to a person's life and we wonder how they ever did that and we say if they can do it then christ wants it for me and and that's where faith is born but we choose to but we want that to happen to us and and it doesn't come until that happens to us we heard about it we see it in the life of our lord jesus and we desire it and we cannot go on without it and we're not going to stop here we're not going to get off our knees until we're satisfied that god heard our prayer you're going to do it to us that's the way faith comes that's the way surrender comes that's the way the way of the cross comes to our daily lives and then we bow our hearts when god chooses to answer that prayer we see that in jesus when i was after three and i see that clock i'm not going to let us finish this but in i was after three jesus was brought as a land to the slaughter that his sheep before his ears is dumb so he opened it not his mouth he was taken from prison and from judgment who shall declare his generation he was cut off from the land of the living and for the transgressions of my people was he stricken and he chose to do that and i choose to do that now our lord jesus left us that example and there was no resistance come out of christ and there were no words and no defenses and he could have brought plenty of baptizations that would not have even needed to stand there but he opened not his mouth i see it inflicted in chapter two when he made himself a new reputation and that's a that's a difficult expression of you people that learn english to know how to understand but if you read it in greek or read it in spanish it makes perfect sense the spanish just says that he say days behold he see mesmo that is he just imagine jesus having a container and this container is his own life and jesus took this container and anything that was in it and he dumped it all out he emptied everything out of there that was in there and that that in greek language is called the canosas the complete emptying of himself steven did that back there in chapter seven of ax steven did that when you dumped him upside down everything came out there was nothing more in there he emptied himself and the reason why we fight and resist and demand for ourselves what we think we have to have is because we're not emptied we're important and we're defending and we want people to know it and i'm in charge of this and who do you think you are and don't you know who i am and that's self-emptying and we didn't learn that from jesus he poured that out you do anything to jesus you want to do you can put thorns down in there you can smite and pull the beard off and you do anything to him the self-emptying of christ and then in the garden of gethsemane not my will but thine be done this is the story of our lord jesus this is how he lived and how can we see that how can we see that in it without saying dear god is that in me dear god you see in me what you saw in your son is that part of my life part of my testimony his death through self his life of brokenness a choice to live as he did in total humility and surrender with no resistance to the divine will with no carnal effort to fight against our circumstances and refuse to yield in the difficult intersections of life's journey you know those yield signs or intersections you come out there there's a yield sign and you yield there or there are terrible consequences if you don't and life is filled with those intersections those intersections of not only interstate 81 and pennsylvania turnpike either there's intersections with your wife intersections with your job and your customers and your employees there are intersections and there's a yield sign there and we surrender to that we bow our head and we say yes lord we bow our head and said no fight that's what god does in our hearts now my wife has shared this with me our difficulty does not come from the uninvited stresses and pressures of life it does not become because something difficult has happened to some great loss or some finance or some health issue or some accident or some fire or is hazard those are not our problems our problem in life and where we lose our peace is our resistance to those circumstances we can yield we can bow our hearts we can put our heads into the empty flower barrel and sing the doxology we can stop the murmuring and complaining we can stop the irritations and the anger in the voice life has not been for me what i deserve is the way we tend to think that is not the way of christ and that's not the way of the cross we don't experience a true resurrection until we have learned to die accept it it's over no one knows me anything it's just fine just like this you know i i'm sorry but we don't have time to give you illustrations i don't have time i was preaching in the states one time in fact that was in the state of pennsylvania quite a few miles from here but it was in pa it was a time of year when ladies are canning peaches now uh my wife will not be able to understand this illustration and our girls in castorica would not understand this illustration but you people here in this audience will ever one of you understand this illustration and so i was in a home for invited to home for dinner and there were two ladies in the home and the one was complaining to the other and she said i went to the market today to get peaches and she had a certain kind of peach that she wanted to buy and they didn't have that kind of peaches the kind of peaches she needed to have and just had to have and and because it was a special thing for her it was not available and she couldn't get it and she just cannot have it she cannot have it at peach i thought to myself dear lady please take your peaches home and enjoy your peaches if i could have your peaches because to rica i don't care what kind they are bring me your peaches but but here we are we we're so used to life the way it has to be and life the way i deserve it and life the way i've become accustomed to it and life the way my culture said it's got to me and life the way others are doing it and we think we deserve that we didn't learn any of that from christ it's not the way of the cross don't let our Costa rican girls hear you fuss about your peaches don't come to Costa Rica and do that there's something seriously wrong in our hearts practically the way of the cross is submission to the divine will is choosing moment by moment what god has chosen for me is resignation under the trials of life is another trip of mount mariah placing another choice offering upon the altar there it is what romans 12 calls a living sacrifice is a life of total consecration to god that's what this is it is life under the mercies of god i beseech you brethren by their mercies of god i want to speak about that just before we close their mercies of god i like you think about that you mean as your illness in your wife mercies of god you mean that financial loss mercies of god you mean god was there with mercy i beseech you for the mercies of god it's a voluntary offering i don't know if it was abram's offering abraham's offering if it's isaac's offering on mount mariah i think of jacob's offering a jabak i think of joseph offering in potter's house i think of two missionaries in a flippin jail at midnight and the offering they put on the altar there i i think of what they did is they're resisting those circumstances and fight against those furred backs and those awful stocks and the hymns in the prayers at midnight and there's no peace until i've learned the way of the cross and the power of the lord jesus is non-resident in my life i've chosen to die and i've chosen what god has chosen for me he that saves his life will lose it and who the loses life will find it just a few words yet of personal testimony the year was 1969 it was june i was chosen the ministry i was 21 years of age my wife was five months pregnant with our first child a few months later all the ministers of the congregations in our state had a meeting together that was in newland states they had a meeting don't invite me to come and they contacted the bishops of the state of pennsylvania that were in charge of those churches and asked if they would ordain me to be the bishop of the churches and in the state of ramon they didn't want to be connected with pennsylvania they wanted a local bishop so the bishops asked me if i would go to college you get an education because they didn't want a non-educated bishop so i took college entrance exams i was planning to go to emc emu now sometime after that i was silenced from the ministry and began a very very difficult journey in my life i've been called to a responsibility bishop three times in my life i'm not going to take time to tell you what happened the first two times these things happened to me and i always had a way out of it i could fight through it get through it try again make an adjustment make a change try a different church we'll do some way to get we'll get through this somehow we were dairy farmers with three years of drought each year in the summertime was the worst drought in the year before i rented more land we borrowed more money we tried to put in more cows we're gonna make up for the lost losses the last year we rented more land than ever had the biggest loss of any year tried by finances tried by working more than hours tried by renting more land tried tried we moved to costa rica there seven weeks the death of a son i braced up to that i'm gonna face this i'll get through this no one's gonna find out how much this hurts me i can make it i'll get through this somehow and then a short time after the most devastating thing that's ever happened in my life the fighting did not help and i had the resources to resist it there's nothing i could do about it i was a total failure there was no way to explain it nothing i could do would change it and i fell on a rubbish heap and there i broke there i lost and there i died and there was no fight anymore and god was trying to do that all the time that's what god wanted all the time that's what god wanted through all those years that's what god wanted to see you say well that's that was that was pretty rough day and that was a real quick journey and i didn't take it take you along very closely there but i was preaching a few years ago and in the state of Tennessee and an agent bishop there that i deeply respect came the last night of the meetings he walked with me when the service was over and i want you to be listening right now real closely he said by the day all you've experienced a lot of trials in life but i want you to know something the most severe test that you're ever going to face is still before you i want you to be prepared for it i want you to trust god in it you're going to have a very very difficult thing coming up in your life here your most severe test has yet to come surrenders a way of life it's living before a continual yield sign the yield sign is always there and there's only one person that can do it that's you you and i'm a sealed i've experienced things in the last eight months there's some of the most difficult things that i've ever gone through this past week was very difficult especially monday we've had the biggest financial loss in this period of time that i've ever had in my life i know it's like to lose two-thirds of all the dairy cows and two-thirds of all the heifers to brucellosis the infestation and the herd i know it's like to see a earthquake shatter the buildings and kill the animals i know it's like to see robbers come and take whatever they choose to take i know it's like to have health problems i know it's like to have all kinds of difficulties and wrecks and things like that but the past eight months the largest loss we've ever had in life what do you god want what does god want there why does god do that i will tell you that this is what i have done back about nine months ago i was doing some numbers there and do some things there at the desk and i felt the lord speaking to me and it said something like this to me dale uh are you are you sure dale isn't this uh isn't this just a little too close to your heart dale isn't this something that i should put my finger on not going to my knees right there and told the lord that he has every right to touch anything he wants do anything he wants to do as long as it helps me and others it's okay whatever he does and so things begin to happen one two three four things happen within a couple of weeks not all the same thing but wait a minute that's only part of the story the way of the cross will not destroy you god is not trying to take it away from you not trying to make it difficult for you he's not trying to ruin you he's it's not going to ruin you yield to god there's only one thing that's going to happen the mercies of god he's set by the fire of seven-fold heat as he watched by the precious sword in closer event with the searching gaze as they heated it more and more he knew he had ore that could stand the test at your life and he wanted the finest gold to mold as a crown for the king to wear set with gems with a price untold so laid our gold in the burning fire that we feign would have said him nay and he watched the dross that we had not seen and it melted it passed away the gold grew brighter and yet more bright but our eyes were dimmed with tears we saw but the fire not the master's hand in question with anxious fears yet our gold shone out with a richer glow as it mirrored a form above that bent with a fire that was seen by us with a look of ineffable love can we think that a police is loving heart to cause us a moment's pain oh no but he saw through the present cross the bliss of eternal gain so he waited there with a watchful eye with love that was strong and sure and his gold did not suffer a bit more heat that was needed to make it pure that is all god will ever do in your life and yielded to him that will turn out for his glory and yielded to him will be for your good and yielded to him will be a testimony in a light in your life and and you need to realize tonight that the reason we fight and resist these scenes of light is just for one reason and if you get this tonight you got the whole message and you can forget everything else we do it because we think we're qualified we fight and resist to get angry and we get irritated and we murmur in fuss because we think we were qualified to do it and we know how to do it when if we all knew and realized we were completely incapable and we're completely dependent and we can't do a thing without God and we give you this illustration as I close so you understand how weak and absolutely incapable we are and when yielded to God the tremendous strength that's in heaven happened yesterday in the airport in Miami and I don't ever like to travel through Miami airport especially not with a wife that's in condition mine is and she walked for nearly a mile in the Miami airport yesterday we had to do something in the airport that I don't like to do we had to change from one airline to another airline in that airport came in an avianca and leaving in America concourse d the monitor said gate 36 at least a mile away from where we were I checked that monitor my wife was coming behind me she has a roller bag so she can lean use that for a walker and she leans on there and trudges along behind me so I go down the next corner and look back to see if she's still there to go on because I want to try and find it and maybe get there before the gate closes and to keep the door open for my life to come so that's the way we do business and I was way out ahead there and and and down the down way down the line it says concourse d and when you get that you get that 200 meters down there and then the sign says concourse d that much further ahead and I was going on and going on and going on the wonder why we're ever going to get the concourse d and about that time I felt this topic on my shoulder I turned over and looked here was a young lady standing panting she had been running and she was panting she was trying to catch me she said sir way back there you dropped your passport I looked at this passport when did I drop it I don't drop passports I'm a traveler I'm experienced with that I don't drop passports but wait a minute there's only one I was carrying two oh she said another girl came running up behind she was panting she had been running she said here's the other one and the girls were gone I don't know where they went I don't know where they were Miami airport has thousands and thousands of people there's not one person there for this time to pick up passports and run down concourse d and find someone who lost it how they knew who the person was that dropped it what they knew to what to look for I have no idea also I know as the next thing was to go through a screening area and I would have reached for the passports and they would not have been there helpless vile week we signed tonight and that's out in that song right before I spoke spotless damn with God and see full atonement be hallelujah what a savior and so it's not because we can do it it's not because we have the capacity we've been there we were gifted we can handle these things that's the way it is why do we resist why do we fight what he did is all for us and his mercies every day rich towards us he'll supply everything we need doesn't someone need to make a trip to the altar tonight may god bless you