Welcome for the Gospel Podcast, where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people. I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and we're finishing the summer sermon series. It's flown by. I can't believe it's over already. Five weeks, five sermons, and I hope that it has been a blessing to you. Thank you for all of your feedback. It's been so helpful. We actually take that and review it as a team, and we'll use it to inform the decisions we make for next year. So we really appreciate uh hearing from you guys as our ministry teammates and partners and those experiencing hopefully the benefit of for the gospel and wanting to continue to see it be a benefit. Today, Adrian Rogers is our preacher. The sermon is When Faith Seems to Fail. Adrian Rogers was the pastor of Bellevue Baptist in Memphis, Tennessee for decades. He is with the Lord now, kind of a legend in Southern Baptist circles, just a faithful Bible preacher, very reputable, a man of character. He served as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention multiple times. But one thing about Adrian Rogers, when you listen to his preaching, it may remind some of you of like a Chuck Swindall or a John MacArthur, where just steady, faithful exposition of the Word of God. No frills, no gimmicks, no silliness that just takes you off into some crazy uh avenue of theology or application. Like, that doesn't make sense, or that's not what the Bible's saying, or you just took that and ripped it off to do what you want and say what you want. Adrian Rogers just stuck to the Word of God. And in this sermon, when faith seems to fail, he addresses some truths that are going to help those of you who maybe are ready to throw in the towel. He'll also help those of you that go through these waves. Maybe you're kind of an up and down type of person where it's just you're faltering and then you're not. You're faltering, you're not. Maybe you're going through something where you're going, if God is really good, then why won't this happen? Or what do I do when this door doesn't open? Or what do I do when I'm waiting on the Lord? And I think this one pairs nicely with last week's sermon from Piper on the sovereignty of God, because it's the sovereignty of God that you rest upon when your faith seems, it won't fail, but it seems like it's not working. Where is God? Why isn't this happening? And Adrian Rogers, in his classic way, shifts our eyes onto the Lord Jesus Christ and to the truth of his word. And I just know, I know this one will bless you. And if you've never heard of Adrian Rogers, I think today it will be a sermon you remember.
SPEAKER_01We've been talking about faith. We're in a series of Bible sermons entitled Champions of Faith. You can't live the Christian life apart from faith, for the Bible says clearly, plainly, uh that we live by faith. The just shall live by faith. Lord Jesus said, according to your faith, be it unto you. The writer of Hebrews says, apart from faith, it is impossible to please God. So we need not only to possess faith, we need a faith that possesses us. But what happens sometimes when faith seems to fail? Sometimes we pray, maybe we're going to have an outdoor event, and we say, Lord, give us beautiful weather. And the bottom falls out. Has that ever happened to you? I mean, it turns everything into a swamp. And you prayed and you asked God for it. Sometimes you pray and you say, Lord, I want to marry that man. Give him to me as a husband. And he marries your best friend. You say, Lord. On a more serious note. Sometimes we have a loved one who's sick. And we come to God and we say, Oh, God, heal my child. Lord, heal my wife. Heavenly Father, touch with your healing hand. And they don't get better. They get worse. And it seems like some greedy malady is just eating away at those that we love the best. And we see them wind down to the grave. And we have tried to believe. We've tried to trust. And faith seems to fail. We're ready just to throw in the towel. So what's the use? It's not working. Have you ever been there? Hold on. You may be. Times come sometimes where the answer doesn't come exactly as we think that it ought. Sometimes trials, temptations, tribulations, heartaches, tears, fears, they come. And faith doesn't seem to remove them. Now, actually, that's why this 11th chapter of Hebrews is written. Because there were some who were ready to throw in the towel. There were some who were ready to hang it up. They had been serving the Lord, and there was great persecution. Actually, to get a running start on Hebrews chapter 11, you need to go back to Hebrews chapter 10, verse 36. For the writer there says, you have need of patience, that after you've done the will of God, you may receive the promise. You need to learn to endure. Let's look here in Hebrews chapter 11 and look here at some of the amazing victories of faith. Let's look in verse 32. Now, the writer of Hebrews chapter 11, who I personally think was Paul, but I wouldn't go to the mat with you about it. Look in verse 32. And what shall I more say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jepthi and of David also and Samuel and of the prophets. Now listen to this: who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword. Out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead, raised to life again. Now, if it just ended there, we'd say, sign me up. That's the kind of life I want. But there is another two words here that some of us may not like. And others. And others, listen, were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others had a trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth. Well, something must have been wrong with them. They must not have had faith. Oh. Notice verse 39. And all these having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise. God said, What do they get on their report card? A plus. How did they do it? By faith. Did they escape? No. They did not escape, they endured. Some escaped by faith, some endured by faith. All had faith. But sometimes it seems like faith seems to fail. I want to give you three propositions this morning so that you will have a mature faith. Many people have a superficial faith and a superstitious faith rather than a strong faith and a spiritual faith and a biblical faith. So if you're about ready to throw in the towel, if you prayed for your child and your child to get well and you're ready to quit coming, by the way, we have people. I always as a pastor, I see them. I see them in church. They're doing fine until the crisis comes, until the bottom falls out. And they quit. They don't endure. They don't continue. They say, in effect, it's not working. And so they quit. They have an immature faith. Sometimes a superstitious faith. Alright, you ready for three principles? Number one, mature faith believes in the supernatural power of God. Now that means if God doesn't do it, it is not because he cannot. Look again in verses 32 through 35. And what shall I more say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthi and of David also and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens, women received their dead raised to life again, and others were. Stop right there. Now all of these are supernatural. Supernatural deliverance. And friend, we all love those stories. We have learned them from childhood. Daniel in the lion's den. Don't you love the story of old Daniel? They said, Daniel don't pray with throw you in the lion's den. He prayed anyway. They threw him in the lion's den and God gave the lion's locked jaw. Gets his Old Testament out and begins to read between the lions. We love those stories. We love the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They said, bow down to the pagan idol, or we'll cast you in the fiery furnace. They said, We're not going to worship your filthy idol. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are thrown into the fiery furnace. They wouldn't bow, they wouldn't budge, but they wouldn't burn. The king looks in the fire furnace, he said, I thought we threw three guys in there. There are four in there. And the fourth is like the Son of God. And Jesus walked through the fire with them, and they came out, the Bible says, without the smell of smoke in their clothes. I can't even go to the barber shop without the smell of smoke in my clothes. What a mighty God they served. David and Goliath. And David slew Goliath. We've heard that story. Since we were children, Goliath over nine feet tall. Everybody else was afraid of Goliath, not young David. David was just a kid. Hadn't even begun to shave yet, I don't believe. The Bible says he was fair and of a ruddy countenance. Everybody else thought that Goliath was too big to hit. David thought he was too big to miss. Everybody else was thinking, look how much bigger the Goliath is than we are. David was thinking, look how much smaller Goliath is than God is. And God gave David the victory over this giant. We love those stories. We love the story in the New Testament of Simon Peter being cast into prison by wicked Herod. An angel comes in and leads him out of prison. And the angel says, Wake up, Simon, get dressed. That is, we're not sneaking out. We're going out in class. The door is open, and he walks out of that prison. Great jailbreak. As a matter of fact, as you read the Bible, Simon Peter had more difficulty getting into a prayer meeting afterward than he had getting out of jail. We love those stories. I love those stories. And I'm going to tell you something. If you have walked with Jesus for a long time, every one of you have a story like that. Where God miraculously, supernaturally, inexplicably worked in your heart and in your life, and no way to explain it apart from God. And you say, Praise God. The supernatural power of God. Now I'm telling you, mature faith believes in the supernatural power of God, and don't ever say there's something God cannot do. God can do anything, anything, anything, but fail. God cannot fail. Now, that's a mature faith. So if you think I'm trying to explain away the miraculous in this message, you missed the whole thing. The writer of Hebrews gives all of these illustrations. Mature faith believes in the supernatural power of God. Got it? Say, got it. Okay, now. Number two, mature faith bows to the sovereign purposes of God. Now there is God's supernatural power, but there's also God's sovereign purpose. Sometimes God's ways are mysterious, but that doesn't mean they're weak. Notice again, beginning in verse 35, women received the dead, raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. And others had a trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sown asunder, they were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and in mountains and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise. Now, we love the exciting victories, but sometimes they don't seem to come. The Bible says, and some were stoned. Zachariah, the prophet, uh, was stoned to death. Stephen was stoned. I have a son named Stephen. Or you say he must not have been uh right with God. No, he was filled with the Holy Ghost. Simon Peter was filled with the Holy Ghost and got 3,000 souls. Stephen was filled with the Holy Ghost and got perhaps 3,000 stones. Both of them filled with the Holy Ghost. Verse uh 37 says that some were sawn in two. Sawn asunder. Most likely that refers to Isaiah. Isaiah was put in a hollow tree, according to tradition, by the king, and the hollow tree was then sawn down. He thought that would be a way to mock God's prophet. Can you imagine being cut in two with a cross-cut saw? The other says they wandered about in skins and so forth. You see, the ancients used to make delight and fun out of torturing godly people. Early Christians were sometimes dressed in animal skins and then turned loose in the woods so the dogs would bay after them in the hunt. Sometimes they were fed to the lions. Go to Rome sometimes and go to the Colosseum. Go to the Circus Maximus, where bloodthirsty crowds would sit up there and say, Bring on the Christians! Bring on the Christians. And they would seal their faith with their lives. I've read the Book of Martyrs. I've read where Christians would be sewn up in bags with poisonous serpents. They would be tied to the beaches at low tide, so when the tide would come in, they would drown slowly. Warren Wearsby said, you'd better not try to get your theology from circumstances. If you do, you'll come to the conclusion that God doesn't love you. If you get your theology, listen. If you get your theology from circumstances, you will come to the conclusion that God doesn't love you. Let me give you an example of that. In John chapter 11 and verse 5, the Bible says clearly and plainly that Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. That's John 11, verse 5. No ifs, ands, and buts about it. Jesus loved them. Now Lazarus gets sick, and then he dies. In John chapter 11, listen to this now. And Jesus said unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead and I'm glad. Did I hear right? In verse 5, he loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. Lazarus is dead. And I'm glad. Now, friend, if you tried to reconcile those without knowing the whole story, you'd say, hey, there's something very confusing here. You see, God has not promised. God had, well, let me just back up and say, God had a greater plan for Lazarus, didn't he? Yeah. You see, God has not promised that we would not know difficulty. As a matter of fact, what he has promised is we will know ultimate victory. That's the reason that some of my, well, one of my favorite books in the Bible, if not my favorite, is Romans, and one of my favorite chapters in Romans is chapter 8, and some of my favorite verses in Romans chapter 8 or verses, uh, Romans 8, verses 35 through 37 that ask a question: who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? As it's written, For thy sake we're killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. He doesn't say you're not going to have these things. Don't get the idea that somehow these things happen to those who don't love the Lord. No, these are things that happen to the victorious. You see, friend, he has promised never to leave us, never to forsake us, but he has not promised that we will never have difficulty. Now, if difficulty comes, you may be ready to quit. That happened to John the Baptist. You know, John the Baptist was a great man. I suppose the greatest compliment ever played to a human being was paid by the Lord Jesus of John the Baptist. You know why Jesus said of John the Baptist? Not a greater born of woman. Pretty good compliment, right? Not a greater born of woman. Yet John the Baptist had a spell of doubt. John the Baptist was perhaps ready to hang it up, ready to throw in the towel, ready to quit. Why is this? Well, John the Baptist had been out there by the River Jordan preaching. He had a rock for a pulpit, a babbling brook for a choir. And as Dr. Lee used to say, he ate honey, but he didn't preach it. He preached repent. Called some of them a bunch of rattlesnakes. He said, Come to God. And he's pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ. He was not a doorsman. He was a rugged prophet, a man of God. But then he's taken and put in prison. Can you imagine John the Baptist now in prison? Some dungeon? Some damp, smelly dungeon. Soon he's going to have his head taken off. Now he's a man of God. He had been preaching a victorious Christ. A Christ whose winnowing fan was in his hand, blowing away the chaff and burning it. Baptizing with the Holy Ghost and with fire. A Messiah. And now he's in prison. And he's wondering if he can heal the sick. And raise the dead. And I've been true to him. Why can't he get me out of prison? And he said, he sent some people. You can hardly believe this is John the Baptist. He sent some messengers to Jesus. And said, Would you go ask him if he's really the Messiah? Oh, John. Would you go ask him if he's really the Messiah? Or should we look for somebody else? Now remember, this is not, this is not an ordinary man. This is not a six or a seven, friend. This is a ten. This is the one that Jesus said, not a greater among men than John the Baptist. Let me tell you something right now. Never mistake the moment for the man, okay? This wasn't a whole John the Baptist, but he had a sinking spell. He had a doubt. Now I want you to listen to what Jesus says to him. Matthew 11, verses 4 through 6. Jesus answered and said unto them, these people who came with John's question, go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see. The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached unto them. And now look notice this. And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. Now, John, let me tell you something, son. I can open blind eyes, I can unstop deaf ears. I can cleanse lepers, I can raise the dead. Now, John, don't get offended at me. Friend, I want to tell you something. If you've prayed and asked God to do a miracle for you and he's not done it, it's not because he can't. Amen? It's not because he can't. It's not because he's unlimited. And it's not because he does not love. And don't you pout at God. Don't get offended. A wise man once said, faith is not receiving from God so much what we want as it is accepting from God what he gives or what he allows. That is faith. Therefore, you need to have an if-not clause in your faith. We mentioned a while back Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednica. And the king says, Look, if you don't bow down to this image, you're going to be cast into the fire furnace. Now give me your answer. Here's the answer, Daniel chapter 3. Beginning in verse 16 and going through verse 18. Shadrach, Meshach, and Nebednego answered and said unto the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. That is, uh, we don't have to study about it. If be so, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But now notice this, verse 18, but if not. Now, if those words are not underscored in your Bible, they really ought to be. But if not, be it known unto thee, O King, that we will not serve thy God, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. Now, they said, our God is able. And we believe he will. But if he doesn't, it's not because he's not able. And we're not going to bow before your filthy image. Notice they had a subtle faith. They didn't say, well, let's huddle about it. Their mind was already made up. They had a sure faith. Our God is able. But they also had a steadfast faith that even if he doesn't, even if we're turned to bacon in that furnace, we're not going to worship your idol. Our God is able, but we know that if he doesn't, we're still not going to worship your idol. Are you ready to quit just because God doesn't do the thing that you ask him to do? You'd better have an if-not clause in your faith. It doesn't mean that your faith is weak, it means that it is stronger than ever. God, I know you're able, but if you don't do it, Lord, I'm going to serve you anyway. I'm not going to make bargains with you. Sometimes we don't understand why God does things. What I'm talking about is a mature faith bows to the sovereign purposes of God. Let me give you another example. Wicked King Herod took James, put him in prison, and killed him. Everybody thought, boy, that was a good thing to do. So he took the big guy, Simon Peter, put him in prison, but he's going to kill Simon Peter also. And God miraculously delivered Simon Peter. I already told you the story. How he walked out of there and the jail gates just swung open and all of that? Good question. Herod takes James and puts him to death. Herod takes Peter and he's delivered from prison. You explain it. Was James wrong and Peter right? Did God love James? Peter more than he loved James? No. God has some sovereign purposes in life. Are you willing to let God be God? Are you? Are you willing to have an if-not clause in your faith? Are you willing to dwell among the and others if necessary? That's not to diminish the supernatural power of God. You say, Well, I want faith to escape. I hope you have it. But if you don't, do you have faith to endure? I want you to have faith to be healed. But if you don't, do you have faith not to be healed? And still serve God? And praise God? Say with old Job, though he slay me, yet will I trust him. I will serve you no matter what. Habakkuk 3, verses 17 and 18. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labor of the olive shall fail, and the field shall yield no meat. The flocks shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my salvation. Now here's the third and final thing I want to say to you this morning. Listen, mature faith believes in the supernatural power of God. We never diminish the supernatural power of God. Number two, mature faith bows to the sovereign purposes of God. It lets God be God. Number three, mature faith is based on the settled promises of God. Every promise of God is yea and amen in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now notice, Hebrews 11, verses 39 through 40. And these all, those who escaped and those who endured, these all, having obtained a good report through faith, receive not the promise. That is, they haven't received it as yet. God having provided something better for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect. Now, what does that mean in plain English? God has such a wonderful plan. And God is working on that plan. And it includes not only these Old Testament saints and these early Christians, but it includes all of us. One of these days, God's going to bring it all together. And God is going to fulfill his promises to them and to us. God will keep his promise. God cannot lie. God cannot fail. And these people had faith, and if they did not have the answer in their hand, they had it in their heart, and they're basing their faith on the steadfast promises of God. That is, they had an eye to the future. Sometimes we expect too much of life and not enough of God. We measure life by eat, drink, and be merry. And then the stock market caves in. And craters. And some people jump off buildings and so forth because that's where the faith was. Friend, even the good things of this life are going to ultimately fail you. I don't care who they are. You fall in love and get married. Sooner or later you may sit in an empty family room looking at pictures on the wall. Life is fickle. If you're looking for everything in this life, you're not going to find it. You need to rest on the great eternal promises of God. If things go upside down on you, and all of your money is lost, remember that's not your greatest treasure anyway. If you never ever become known and famous, it's what God thinks about you that really counts. If you have a loved one in Jesus who dies, there's a homecoming in heaven. God has not forgotten his promises. God gave the land of Israel to Abraham. And every grain of sand belongs there in the Holy Land. To Abraham and his descendants. They don't have it now, but they will. Jesus said, Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Be meek today and see how much of it you get. I'm not saying don't be meek, but it's yet to come. We pray for our loved ones to be healed and they die. Was that prayer lost? No, it was heard. Those in heaven are whole, we are sick. They're made like the Lord Jesus Christ. You get an average prayer meeting. What are we praying for? We're praying for the sick more than we're praying for the lost. More interested in keeping the saints out of heaven than the lost out of hell. Jesus is praying, Father, I pray for those whom thou hast given me, that they may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory. We are the bride. He's the bridegroom. Don't you think the bridegroom wants the bride with him? So Paul said, for me to die is gain. We get things upside down sometimes. Sometimes people look around and they say, Well, the church is failing. There's scandal, and there's this and there's that. Friend, listen to me. Jesus said, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ is not dead, and we're not presiding over the funeral of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The promises of God are yea and amen. I'm going to close this message this morning talking about the supernatural power of God, the sovereign purposes of God, and the steadfast promises of God by reading to you something that was sent to me in the mail. One of our listeners sent this. Written, one of the most poignant things I've ever read. I want you to listen to it. Now I want you to excuse me for reading something a little long. Here's what this man says: Why I follow Christ. Are you listening? I've not seen clearer statistical evidence that fewer Christians die of cancer than non-believers, or that they are immune in greater degree from the diseases that afflict the human race. Some of the kindest, most selfless persons I have known have had more than their share of bad health. The fact that they belonged to Christ did not insulate them from disease. Therefore, I will not follow Christ for promised healing. I will not deny or dispute evidence of restoration of health. I will rejoice at every recovery from what seems to be hopeless, threatened death. I will not hesitate to pray for recovered health for my loved ones and acquaintances. I will set no limits on what God may do. But I will not follow Christ for promised healing. I see no sign that Christians escape disaster and accident more often than others. I've helped dear friends empty muddy water out of dresser drawers and new appliances after a disastrous flood. I remember as a child taking clothes to a widow with five children whose house had burned to the ground. A bullet makes no detour around the body of a believer. Therefore, I will not follow Christ for any promised protection from disaster. I will not scoff at amazing survivals, nor deny that Providence has and continues to work for the good of God's own. I will continue to pray for protection from wicked men and tragedy, but I will not follow Christ for promised protection from accident or catastrophe. I do not observe that Christians and especially are especially favored with prosperity, like James. We've all seen the rich oppressing the poor. And justice is rarely perfect in this world. The psalmist has said that he had not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed baking bread. And in the deepest needs of this life, that is certainly true. But all of us have known people of integrity who have not prospered. Therefore, I will not follow Christ for promised freedom from physical want our hope of affluence. I'm not sure that Christians have stronger personalities or fewer neuroses than non-believers. I do know that there is no bitterness like religious bitterness and no arrogance more insufferable. I have watched Christians suffer emotional and mental disabilities. And though it may seem heretical, I am not sure that I would really enjoy living in the same house with either the Apostle Peter or Paul. Not like that. God wills that the mind of Christ be formed in us. And there's no doubt in my mind that the Christian's attitudes and actions will be improved by his Christianity. But I will not follow Christ for any promise of personality enhancement or perfection. Why then follow Christ? Why become a disciple of Jesus when life may become more complicated, as he's so often warned? For one reason alone. Are you listening? In Jesus we behold the face of God. He is the truth, the everlasting truth, God in the flesh. I know that in this, that in his life, death, and resurrection, I am reconciled to God, the giver of life. I believe that nothing can separate us from the love of God. He has all power and goodness, and I trust him and his promises. To him I offer my life, damaged or whole, brief or full of years, it matters not. He is the one certain thing in an uncertain world. He is to be worshipped. Not so something will happen to me or to the world, something already has happened to me in the world. But because he is God, who through Christ has reconciled the world to himself, he saves me. He is my justification. He is the center that holds. To worship the God of our salvation, to offer sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, that alone is our vocation. We offer our lives to God. Not so as to be healthy, wealthy, or wise, not even so to gain the strength to do great things for Him. We offer our lives to Him because He alone has claim upon us. God is not a means to an end. That was written by John C. Hutchinson, Jr. in 1981. And that was passed to me. Now, friend, that's one of the greatest things that I've ever read. When faith seems to fail. It may be that you're asking of your faith something that God never really intended for your faith. Real faith, listen to me. Real faith is to center your life on Almighty God. Mature faith. Mature faith believes in the supernatural power of God. Mature faith bows to the sovereign purposes of God. Mature faith is based on the stead, fast promises of God. And one of the greatest is this believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved. Simple and sweet. Wonderful promise.
SPEAKER_00I'm so thankful for voices from the past that still preach today, like Pastor Adrian Rogers, grateful for the ministry resources that we can apply and we can access because of technology. If you're looking for more resources, I would just look on YouTube and look up Adrian Rogers. You'll find a host of sermons. His ministry is still putting out good material, nicely edited, packaged really well, so you can just hear the truth and understand the truth. And if you're watching on YouTube, they have notes on the screen. It's actually really, really helpful. And I really appreciate what they're doing. Uh, for us here, we're gonna keep going next week on the podcast. And I pray that our resources continue to serve you and bless you this summer as well with these sermons throughout uh these last five weeks. Looking forward to where we're heading in the weeks ahead. I don't want to tell you just yet, it'll kind of be a surprise, but I'm gonna start what I believe to be one of the most important series I've really taught on the podcast. That's all I'm gonna say. It's gonna strengthen you and it's gonna play off a little bit of what we've heard this summer in particular. Thank you so much for watching. Thank you for listening. Thank you for praying. Thank you for all of your support as a 100% donor-supported ministry. We are grateful for all that you give and do to partner with us, and we want to steward that well to honor the Lord and to honor your faithfulness in giving. So thank you for that. If you're one of our gospel patrons, I hope the impact reports have been encouraging you as you see how much the Lord is doing through your faithfulness and through the efforts of our team here at For the Gospel. We're so grateful that we get to do this. If you're looking to partner with us, you can just go to forthegospel.org and click give, and we would love to partner with you and provide our monthly reports to you as one of our partners for that. Here we go. Next week, I've got a guest, and we're gonna be talking about loss and suffering and trials. He's a dear brother of mine, he's a friend, and he's one of our staff members who lost his baby girl this past year. And doctors were telling them to abort her all the way to the end. And we got to sit down and talk about it. I don't want you to miss it. Make a note next Monday. That episode of release, and it is gonna bless you and strengthen you in a wonderful way. Drew Bauer is his name. He's 24 years old, but he speaks with wisdom and experience well beyond his ears. Don't miss it. I'll be back next Monday with another episode. Keep on living for the gospel.