Better Days Ahead! Romans 8:18-25

Bro. Jesse Byrd preaches “Better Days Ahead!” from Romans 8:18–25, reminding listeners that no matter what we face now, God has something greater ahead, and our present struggles cannot compare to the glory to come.

Message preached on March 22, 2026.

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Rose 18. Rose 18. It says, for our remedy that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature made, for the man's manifestation of the Sons of God. For the creature was made subject to man, not literally, but by reason of him who is subject to the same and hope. For the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption and to the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole thing is grown up into the pain together to them. Not only they, but ourselves also, which are the first fruits of the Spirit. Even we are self grown in ourselves, waiting for the adoption to wit and redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. But when a man sees it, why does he get hopeful? But if we hold for that, we see not, then do we with patience wait for this word? Father, we thank you again for this opportunity we have to preach our word this morning, God. So thank you for many blessings of the soul of God. God will have you this morning when we want to attend it. I pray God for the blessings. I pray God with a blessed spirit. I ask you this morning, God, we want this with spiritual streets. Father, thank you, Lord, you ask us to be today we pray. Amen. Better days ahead. We have a news flash this morning, bringing news that Christians are not managed in this world. Never have been and never will be. Amen. So this morning we've got to come to terms. You're not going to be the most liked person in the world, you're going to be the most talked-about person in the world, but it's going to be for the wrong reason. So this morning we've got to understand that once we surrender to God and accept Christ our Savior, you become an enemy of this present world. As a Christian, I preach to be born again, we must be Christ-like. Jesus said in John 15, the book of John and chapter 15, that because the world has hated him, that it would also hate his followers, leading to death. At this point, you've got to know that most of all of his disciples was either martyred or killed by being a follower of Jesus. So as we go through these trials and tribulations in life this morning, we've got to understand that it's only the beginning, that the only time and the only way we're going to see better days when we stand before God in the resurrection. So as we go through these days again, the Bible tells us in the book of Job that a man born or a woman is few days and full of trouble. That means from the time you're born to the time you die, you're going to have trouble. So if you're not having trouble this morning, if you have everything going good, you have everything going your way this morning, you've got to ask yourself, am I born again this morning? Because the Bible says that Christians will go through suffering and persecution. But it tells us we look around this morning that it's hard for a Christian when we see the wicked prosper. It's hard for a Christian to see the wicked go on home. It's hard this morning as a Christian to see the wicked always gaining benefits, reaping benefits, good deeds. It's hard for a Christian this morning to look around and see that I go to church on Sunday mornings, I read my Bible, I preach, I pray, I go to Bible study, I know all these things that I'm supposed to do. And then we look down on the street and somebody don't even know who God is and they seem like they're more blessed than we are. It's hard for a Christian this morning to put and turn that as a Christian this morning, we're going to go through something. Because Jesus done it and we will it to as well. But as a Christian, Paul says this morning to be absent of the body, to be present with the Lord. This morning we see people that's not Christians seem like they benefited. They seem like they prosper. So we ask ourselves this morning, as a Christian, what do we have hope for this morning? As Paul said, once we die, we're going to stand in God's presence. That's all the hope we need this morning as a Christian to know that once we die, we're going to stand in God's presence. That's a blessing this morning to know that even though we suffer now, that one day we're going to stand before God and we're going to say it was worth it after all. All the things that we've been through, all the things that we lost, all the things that we gained, all the things that we watched die out. One day it's going to be worth it when we stand before God in God's presence. So it tells us this morning, we've got to understand that our scripture Paul is on his third visit at Corinth. Paul was writing these verses to remind the readers that he had been through a shipwreck, that he had been beaten, that he had been stoned, that he had been nearly killed, he had been in prison. All those things he was telling his people that was reading his writings was he was out to give them hope because all of his commitment this morning was to God. You see, this morning Paul went through all the things he can think about it. Paul had been state-bitted. Paul had built a fire, was nearly freezer, once a shipwreck. Built a fire and stuck his hand in the fire and put wood on it. You see, Paul had been through it. But Paul wouldn't have let his faith waver. This morning, as we look around, we go through up and down the life. We go through the good, we go through the bad. But we've got to be like Paul every second of our life. We've got to give thanks to God because we know that the suffering has a meaning behind it. I'd rather suffer now temporarily than suffering. So this morning, I'll take all the sufferings we've got that the world has to offer. Give me all the sufferings this morning. Because the Bible says that this body that we're living in is just a pilgrim traveling through, that we're not going to be in this body forever. So all these temptations, all these trials and tribulations, all these diseases, these sicknesses, all the deaths we have in our families, I'll go through these now because I know that it's only temporary. That one day it's going to be standing for God, and He's going to give us a resurrected, glorified body that nothing can harm never again. So give me my suffering now so that I can enjoy it in the end. How many of you as Christians this morning can say, Thank God for my suffering? That's not like praying. God, thank you for the prayers that you gave notes to answer to. That's not like saying, God, thank you for shutting doors that I didn't need open. You see, when you are a true prayer warrior this morning, when you pray these prayers and thank God for your suffering, that means you're on the right track this morning. I thank God daily for me going through my suffering and me getting tempted and tried because I know that it's going to be worth it once I stand. All it's doing is making you stronger. You see, the more we go through things, the more humble we become. If you are a child of God this morning, when you lose things, you will thank God because it's going to draw you closer to God. When you get sick, you're going to thank God because you know that you serve a great position. That you do anything but fail. You see, this morning we've got to understand Paul is telling the believers that the end result is going to be worse. So we look at our scriptures one in verse 18 that talks about it's not even close to the end results. The glory ahead is so much greater than our existing condition. Once we make it to heaven, we're going to look back and say, suffering, what suffering? Because I dare you because of God. And because all these things I suffer for, God was making me stronger in my walk with him. So when we make it, when we get through these things, how many times in your life this morning have you gone through things and now you've overcame it? You look back and say, suffering, what suffering? It was worse. It made you become a better Christian. Well, when you lose things, you start praying more. When you get sick, you get more deep in your prayer life. When you have a deadly end, you get closer to God. You see, God allows these things to happen for you to make a decision. Many people turn away from God when these things happen, but as a true Christian this morning, when we lose, we don't count the losses, we count the gains. Because if we count about losses this morning, if we put our losses on a scale and put on the other side our gains on a scale, the gains would outweigh the losses of 10 to 1. Maybe a hundred or a thousand to one. Just like it is with our blessings. We can count curses all we want, we can count all these problems, but if we start counting upon blessings, nothing can compare to the blessings God has given us. You see, we've all been blessed this morning. So we can't look at the bad things. When we get to the bad things, we talk about the good things in our bad things. That even though I struggled last week, God made me through it. It made me a better person. We've got to understand this morning that whenever we have God, we have it all. It doesn't matter what we go through, God is going to be with us. But it says, Paul says, this condition of the world is because of the fall of man. In the beginning, you see, if we didn't have sin in this world, we wouldn't be the Savior. If we didn't have sin in this world, we wouldn't need Jesus. If we didn't have sin in this world, everything will still be perfect. But because of the fall of man, we've got sin in the world, so now we need a Savior. So it tells us morning that this suffering we go through is just for a temporary time. And the coming future will be much greater than the misery of this present time. As we go through this suffering, I look back and I say, God, if you would have given me everything that I wanted, if you would have healed me, if I would have never got sick, I wouldn't go pray like I did. If I would have all the money in the world, all the things, all the power in the world, would I be praying to God this morning? None of us would pray to God. If we had everything we wanted in life, what do you think the Bible tells us that God is going to supply your needs, not your wants? Because God knows that if I give you everything you want, you will come to me one time and get everything you want, never come back again. That's why God supplies our needs. Our wants is nothing but human flesh. Human flesh is steady mourning, steady warning. But our spiritual life is in need this morning because if you're not born again, the Bible says that you have no life and you are considered dead in God's eyes. That if you are living without God this morning, you are dead in this world. You will born this world, you are part of the problem this morning. If you're living without God, because you're spiritually dead. Nothing that's dead can have life unless you call on Jesus this morning. So it tells us this morning that without sin, we will be perfect. The Bible says this morning that if a man says that he's without sin, he's calling God alive. And the truth is not in it. So it doesn't matter what we do, no matter how good we live, we're all still sinners this morning, saved by the grace of God. The Bible says this morning that we've got to repent of our sin. If I get saved six, eight years ago, this October, if I got when I got saved, if I thought one second in life that once I got saved, I will never sin again. I'd be calling God a liar. If I thought for one second that if I got saved and to live like the devil out of hell, I'd be calling God a liar. Because the Bible says that we've got to be on fire for God and live for God and mirror what God is doing for us in our hearts. So the Bible tells us this morning that with we have sin, we have a problem. Sin is the worst disease that mankind has ever come in contact with. I don't care about cancer, I don't care about diabetes, I don't care about hycholesterol, I don't care about none of that. AIDS, none of that. The worst disease we've ever come in contact with in human mankind is sin this morning. Sin eats at you until you can't do nothing about it. Sin keeps spreading, keeps snowballing, starts all small, it gets bigger and bigger. Starts inside, works its way to the outside. Vice versus may start on the outside, works its way to the inside. If we don't deal with sin this morning, then we can't get over sin. I don't care what you do this morning, you will never defeat sin without calling on Jesus. So tell us this morning, let's think about it. We thank Jesus this morning by his precious blood and his righteousness that he paid for at Calvary, that we can have a perfect ending in our story this morning. You see, if it wouldn't have been for what Jesus done on the cross of Calvary, we wouldn't have a way to heaven this morning. If it wouldn't have been for Jesus shedding his innocent blood for you and I this morning, we wouldn't have a way to get to heaven this morning. If it wouldn't be for Jesus this morning, you wouldn't be able to talk to God the Father. Jesus says he's the morning to be the middle man this morning. There's a gap this morning between humans and God that nothing can fit in between. Nothing can fill that gap. Only Jesus this morning. Think about it this morning. If you went to court, would you get somebody that had never had a trial, would you be comforted with them? Or would you be comforted more comfortable with somebody that's the best defense law you can get? This morning, when we have Jesus Christ, we have the best defense law you money can get. Anything blood can buy. We have the best law this morning because Jesus knows everything about us from the top to bottom. He knows that you're evil. He knows that you hate it. He knows that you're jealous. He knows that you're in it. He knows that you're greedy. He knows that you have a lust this morning. That's why he's the best defense attorney we can get, because he knows everything about us this morning. We don't have to tell Jesus anything about us. He knows everything already about us. We can live in 125 and God still knows about us. We could be born and never open our eyes in this world. God still knows about us. This morning we have Jesus this morning putting the case for us to die because he is seated at the right hand of the Father. So we think about it this morning. Adam's fall brought sin. Jesus' death brought hope. You see what I'm telling you this morning? When Adam was born in this world, created in this world, he gave into sin. Adam and Eve and the serpent got us in the shape we're in now. But by his sin, he gives us death. Because, like I said, if we don't accept Christ, we're born in sin, we're going to die in sin. But if you call on Jesus this morning, by Jesus dying, he gives us all the hope in the world this morning. As the Psalm says, all my hope is in Jesus this morning. Do you have your hope in Jesus this morning? Many of us is but a hope in the sunshine. Many of us is put a hope in jobs. Many of us have put a hope in our families. But that hope doesn't last because you can see what's going on. The Bible clearly tells us hope is for the unseen. This morning we have hope in Jesus. I hadn't thought Jesus, but I felt Jesus. I don't know what Jesus was like killing us because I know what Jesus does for me. Because I know when I stand in heaven, then we'll see the Son and the Father. So it doesn't matter what color it is, it doesn't matter what he looks like. I know what Jesus done for me, what he's done for you. And no other mankind can do it because he was perfect and the Son of God. Sin brings death and Jesus brings life this morning. Then secondly tells us, let us rejoice in verses 22 and 23. It says, Nobody looks to suffering, but in order to reign with Christ, we must suffer now. If you want to reign with God this morning, if you want to walk those streets of gold, you want to walk and go through the further gates of heaven, if you want to see God face to face, you've got to go through suffering now. So I don't care what nobody tells you or how blessed you're going to be, that is true to a point, but you're also going to suffer. So I may face backgrounds from that, but I can care less because God is a God that blesses, but God is also a God that gives wrath. God is also a God that's going to put you, let you go through trials and tribulations, but let you suffer to see where you stand with him this morning. God is willing to see this morning where you stand at this morning. The Bible clearly tells us that we should rejoice because we're Christians. 1 Peter 4.14 says, if you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye. So if I suffer by being a Christian, guess what? I'm still happy. Amen. If I suffer by following Jesus, guess what? I'm still going to follow Jesus. If I have to lose these worldly things to follow Jesus, I'm willing to give it up this morning because I want to be on that good side of what God calls us for. This morning you've got to understand that we rejoice because of suffering. I thank God this morning for everything that He's allowed me to go through in my life. 38 years. And I thank God for it this morning. Because I know without this suffering I've been through, I wouldn't know where to stand at this morning. I thank God this morning for the suffering we went through in Lambda Grove, because Lambda Grove wouldn't be what Lambda Grove is this morning without us suffering. I thank God this morning for the suffering through my walk with God because I know now what I stand with God, and I'm going to be more closer to God now than I've ever been in my whole life. You've got to understand this morning that when we suffer, we should be rejoicing. Thank God for it because God is a great position. We can't blame God if He's going to heal from a sickness. We can't blame God if we're going to heal from a disease. Because I'm not worried about the physical flesh. God is not worried about the physical body. I've got to be healed spiritually and die today and know I'm going to live with God forever. This physical body is going to fade away and go back to Jesus. The Bible says, thus you come out, thus you shall return. Naked you come out, naked you shall return. So nothing in this life we can carry over to the other side. The only thing you carry over is where you stand at and we go before God. That's the only thing we should be worried about this morning. So it tells us if you suffer because of the following Jesus, you are blessed this morning. That's why I tell people all the time, I can have the worst day in the world and I'm still blessed. I can have the worst week in the world, I'm still blessed. I can have the worst year of my life and I'm still blessed. If you are a follower of God this morning, then you too are blessed this morning. Don't you let the devil tell you otherwise. Don't let the devil show you otherwise. Don't let the devil show you new boats. Don't let him show you a new vacation trip. Don't let him show you all that because it doesn't matter what we go through. If I'm a child of God, I'm blessed this morning. Thank God for his blessings this morning because no man can do what God has done for us. So it tells us this morning that we're too blessed to be stressed. I shared last week I was a bill of ground back when he was young, a preacher. He said he was too blessed to be stressed, too anointed to be disappointed. This morning, if you are a child of God, you're too anointed to be disappointed with your walk with God. You have too much gone good for you to worry about the little bad things behind you. If you are a child of God this morning, you know that one day this place we call home is no longer going to be home. And as a Christian this morning, we're looking forward to that because we know that it's going to be a time where we don't get distracted by the devil. How many times have you ever been reading your Bible or praying as a devil distraction? All the time. I'm going to stop what I'm doing sometimes say, help me, God, I've lost my train of thought. The devil's trying to distract me. But when we stand before God in a glorified body, there'll be no more distractions by Satan. You see, Satan runs all over this world. Everywhere you go, Satan. In this world, he's there. But the Bible says that Satan will never gain access back to heaven again. Once he got key God, he can't go back again. So this morning we've got to understand when we get in our resurrection, the resurrected body and the glorified body. We've got to understand this morning that when we stand in God's presence, there'll be no more sickness, there'll be no more distractions, there'll be no more depression. None of those things that we bring happen to this world this morning will make it to heaven. Thank God this morning that we have to be blessed this morning and knowing that the devil can't follow us to heaven. So it tells us this morning to help us, we must understand this. Just as a mother has labor pains, once that day being born, the labor pains is gone, and you see the joy of this baby's eyes. Same way it is with a mother. Same way it is with us in the walk with God. We may be going through the pains right now, groaning, and going through these pains. But the moan that we stand before God, those pains will be remembered no more. You can talk about all these women, you can ask all these mothers this morning. They may talk briefly about labor pain, but they'll really give the joy of that baby's face, his or her face over labor pain is in the day of the week. Same as it is with a Christian. When we stand before God, I tell people all the time, it's been up and down, it's been rough going through these things as a Christian. But I look back and watch my journey this morning and I wouldn't trade for nothing this morning. Because all we know this morning is that every day is getting better and better. We are one second away, one heart either way, from standing in God's presence and God saying, Either well done or depart from me. That's what we've got to understand this morning. So it tells us that we must understand that there's coming a day that in our glorified body that we will be perfect. Now, everybody this morning wants a perfect body. People spend millions and millions throughout the world, throughout our time, trying to get a perfect body. Make or make or face suits. All these things they try to get to look better in this body. But little do they know they put all this time, all this money, all this makeup, all these things in this body. That when we draw the last breath of the soul apart from the body, this body that they put all this money in is going right back down in the ground. Right back in the ground is going. But you think about this morning, if you put all your time in salvation, all your time in praying, all your time in your spiritual growth, you're gaining something that the devil and nobody else can take away from you. That's what we should be focused on this morning. But it says that we'll have a glorified body. Then thirdly tells us our greatest part is our hope. Our tomorrow will be greater than our yesterday. Think about it this morning. Yesterday was a bad day. You could have done more for Christ than what you did. I remember you could. I could too. Everybody living in this world could have done more yesterday than what they did for God. You could have prayed more, you could have witnessed more, you could have read your Bible more, you could have meditated more. We could have done more yesterday than what we did for God. But you see, our tomorrow is better than yesterday. Because we know as a Christian, we should be praying. God help me. Do more today than I did yesterday. Get me do more tomorrow than I'm going to do today. Always help me get closer to you. And I can tell you this morning: the closer you live to God, the more God hears that prayer this morning. Amen. How many times have you been praying? God going down the road, setting your house, wherever you may be, you pray with God and you just feel the Holy Spirit telling you that I'm here with you. The Holy Spirit leads you to the next step. The Holy Spirit shows you the next way to go. That's how you know that you get closer and closer to God. This morning, I try to feel like that God is closer to me now than He's ever been before. Because I pray to God now. I study with God. I talk with God. I try to do everything involved around God. Sure, we lost friends. Sure, we lost people on jobs that don't like talking anymore. Sure, we lost people at church that don't like talking to them. But that's okay. Because I know that it's going to be better when we stand before God. God, I'm worried about pleasing you the Lamb man. How can we as Christians this morning be worried about pleasing this sinful world that's never going to change? It doesn't matter if sin come in in the beginning, sinful the all the way to the end. There ain't nothing you can do to change this sinful world that we're living in. But all you can do this morning is be that light that God needs you to be. Shine your light this morning so others can see Christ in them. So it tells us morning, my friend, I have hope today in Jesus. I'm looking forward this morning to being in the direct presence of Jesus. Looking face to face to God. Not worried about what's going to happen. I'm looking forward this morning to making it to heaven, knowing that I won't have to ever worry about dying again. Worried about getting sick again. Worried about not feeling good again. I'm looking forward to that day this morning, being able to worship Jesus without getting frustrated, without getting distracted, without getting disturbed. I'm looking forward this morning to walking with Jesus. That he knows the way. How do we know Jesus is where we need him to be? Because Jesus says, I go away and prepare a place for you. That where I am, there you may be also. So Jesus is doing it, so we know that it's going to be perfect. You look around this world this morning, the world's perfect. The conditions. People ain't perfect, but the world's still good. God created the earth, put the sun in a perfect spot. That we're not getting burned up, we're not freezing to death. God knows that. Ain't no man do that. God knows that. God knows when to blow the wind. God knows when to open the skies and let rain fall. God knows when to do it, what he does, and how he does it, and when he does it. God knows all these things this morning. So we've got to understand, you've got to put your hope in God this morning. Hope in God and nothing else. In Lamentations 3 and 21, it tells us. Jeremiah, Jeremiah lost his way with God. He says, This I recalled my mind, therefore, have I hope? But he found his way back. How did he find his way back? Because he gave his heart back to God.

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He gave his hope back to God and said, God, I've wandered away. I've done things I wasn't supposed to do. I thought about what's supposed to be. But now I'm giving my heart full pledge to you. I'm surrendering my life to you. And now I'm saying, all my hope is in you. This morning, maybe you've lost your way in God. Maybe you've got a little bit off track this morning. But just as Jeremiah said, if you give your heart back to God, you can have that hope in your life again. You can have that joy in the morning again. The Bible says that whatever God gives us hope, it's exceedingly joyful. This morning I have hope that one day, when the world is, when my number's called, I'm going to stand in God's first. That's what my hope is this morning. It's not just living to be a hundred years old. It's not living to be a millionaire. My hope this morning is that whenever my number is called, I'm going to stand before God and He's going to say, Welcome in. So you've done just what I wanted you to do. Amen. Don't you got it, Paul? The Bible says that we'll have crowns of righteousness to our rewards for what we've done. You know, and we strive to get all these crowns. But my friend, this morning, you've got to take baby still. Before you get your crown, you've got to bear that cross. Before you get the crown and worry about how many crowns you got, you've got to make sure this morning that you've accepted God as your Savior. That's what you've got to do. You can't put the cart before the horse. You've got to put the horse before the court. And you've got to put your mind on God this morning before you get in any other direction and worry about anything else. Make sure you've been born again this morning. That's what we've got to worry about. Once we do that, everything else falls in line. You see, I tried to get ahead of God. I tried to tell God what I wanted to do, but I got saved. God, do this, do that. Help me do this, do this. But I ain't understand. God doesn't, we don't, we don't make God do anything He don't want to do. God is a God Almighty. So we've got to get in God's line. We've got to say, God, whatever your will is. But until this morning, God will give us mercies every day. He renews it every day. God knows that we are weak. God knows this morning just how weak you are. God knows this morning just what you're going through. God knows this morning that last Sunday you were just about to get saved. God knows this morning that last night, maybe you didn't know how you were going to make it to church this morning, but God made it away. God knows this morning, God knows your weakness. God's plan is in action this morning. Think about it. The only time we're going to reap the full benefits, we stand before God at the resurrection. That's when we're going to reap the full benefits. But right now we're just going through God's plan. You see, the initial stages have been set before us. You see, we talk about how good God is, but once we make it heaven, then we're going to see just how good God is. We talk about how heaven's going to look. But once we make it heaven, we'll know how heaven's going to look. This morning, I've got my hope in Jesus. In closing this morning. Will you trust Jesus today? Not tomorrow, but do you trust Jesus right now? This means this morning, if you're lost, you need hope this morning, today is the appointed time. This morning, if you've never received your hope, today is the appointed time. Paul identifies Jesus as our hope. Take heed to this this morning. If you're suffering because of you following Jesus, then you're blessed. The sufferings of this present day are not anything compared with the glory we're about to receive. This morning, my words to you is hold on to that hope this morning. Hold on to Jesus. Because once we hold on to Jesus, God's going to pull us through it. I'm a firm believer this morning because I got all my hope in Jesus. I never question what happened, never doubt what happened because I know that I'm a child of God. God's going to make a way for his children. God's going to find a way. And it tells this morning that you can put your hope in Jesus this morning. The Bible says this morning in a Jesus. We put a hope in the Jesus says that he is the light of this world and is no darkness. We put our hope in this morning in a Jesus that raises the dead. He told Jared's daughter that she's not dead. She's asleep. But he brought her back to life this morning. Maybe God sees you're dead in his eye. But God can bring you to life this morning. But you've got to call on him. You're not dead, you're just sleeping this morning. Call on Jesus. Let Jesus raise you from the dead this morning and bring light into your life. This morning you've got to understand that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, talking about us to God. This morning, do you know Jesus? All you've got to do this morning is to admit you're a sinner. Once you tell God, God I'm a sinner. Then you must believe in Jesus Christ. His dead, burial, and resurrection. Then you must confess him as Lord. That's the ADCs of salvation. Admit, believe, and confess. That's all you got to do. You ask God to come into your heart and think you should help you. That I believe everything you've done. I believe that you died on the third day you rose again, and I received the right hand of the Father. I confess you as my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. You pray that sinner's prayer, and that's God to come into your heart. Thou shalt be saved this morning. Will you put your hope in Jesus morning? Today's a day of salvation. Maybe this is your last opportunity. I know, brother, I know you say, brother, you preach it every Sunday. I still got an opportunity. Somebody lost the opportunity this morning. So this morning, you've got to understand that either you got your hope in Jesus this morning, or you got your hope in the world of things for to pass away. This morning's going to pass away one day, and we're going to stand before God. Where's the hope this morning? Let's pray. Father, we thank you again for the scriptures we thank you this morning, God. For everything you've done for us. The good, the bad, the trial, the tribulation, the suffering, the sickness, the losses, the gains, everything that we can think of this morning, God, we thank you for it. And Father, we pray this morning that I that we realize that I myself and the whole congregation realize this morning. That there's no problem too big that you can't fix. God, I pray this morning that we realize there are no sickness that you can't cure. I pray this morning that if anyone's in need of a saving, I pray that once we give them attention, they come down and accept you. God, maybe they call you the Savior, put down all their hope in you this morning. Father, we need you now more than ever. And I pray, God, that everyone upon the sound of my voice realizes that it's a dangerous game we're playing living without you, that we could end up in hell. We're only one heart lead away from eternity. God, I pray to realize it is the dance of salvation. We ask this in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.