Can I ask you something?  If you were to depart from Him, where would you go?  “Thou alone hast the answers of eternal life” (John 6:68).  Amen?  Where am I going to go?  Am I going to go to the world and their wisdom?  Am I going to create my own gods and then when they fail and fall down before Jehovah, like Dagon, make it my responsibility to prop my god up?  We’ve got a world today trying to prop their gods up, still trying to make stands for foolish ideologies and philosophies.  Living their lives in fear and anxiety.  Isn’t it great to know the truth?  And it has set us free, hallelujah!  Aren’t you glad you haven’t received the spirit of fear but of love, power, and a sound mind, when the world is trembling at the thought of the loss of everything.  We don’t fear the loss of everything because we possess nothing.  You can’t lose it if you don’t possess it.  If it’s not yours, it’s God’s; amen?  Whatever He wants from me, He can have.  My life, my family’s lives, every material blessing.  The Lord gives, the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord, hallelujah!  Is that Who you believe in?  If you do, you can be persuaded.  I don’t believe we’re going to be able to stand in this coming hour if we’re not persuaded.  Make up your mind now when you’re not in the throes of turmoil and pain.

I just came back from a few days in Florida.  We went down for the Formula One race in Miami.  It’s now becoming like one of the premier events in the world as it pertains to “see and be seen.”  You’ve got to be somebody or think you’re somebody or know somebody who knows somebody.  There are people who are at the race in Florida for the morning sessions who flew to the Kentucky Derby and then back to the race.  And I’m watching all of these people, and I’m listening to people, and it was kind of like going to a preacher’s meeting, but they don’t ask how many people attend Sunday school.  They want to know who you work for.  “How did you get here?  Who are you?”  Now, I know there had to be a whole bunch of famous, powerful people that we walked by.  But if you don’t know them, they don’t have any influence over you.  Amen?  They don’t get one moment of my mental energy.  I don’t have a lot left, saving it for important things.  But I was watching the vanity of it, the peacocking of wealthy and famous people.