My family has been farming for generations I guess, my granddad did, my great-grandpa
did, my dad did, it's been five generations or six maybe, you know what I can think of.
I was on a tractor now seven years old turning dirt, you think about a seven-year-old kid
a day you wouldn't think about putting them on a tractor.
Times were different then and that's what we've done to survive, farming, I enjoy it
but I don't enjoy it as much as I do tell people about Jesus Christ.
Things that were important were not important anymore, things that were not important back
then.
The most important now, God has blessed me to call me a preacher, I stand amazed, a common
guy like me a high school degree, didn't go to church probably six times in 20 years,
how he can give me a sermon, how he will give me everything I need to say.
When I was in my 20s I felt like God was leading me to preach and I said something to Pam about
it that night and I came home, I felt like the Lord might be calling me to preach and
I look back now and I thank God for his grace that he waited almost 30 years to call me again
and that time he was not going to take no for an answer.
He called me home to show me home and sent me back here because I didn't want to come
back I want to cross that river.
By the grace of God's sin and Jesus Christ to the cross I can speak His words through
what Christ done on the cross for us, the thorns pushed down his head, the lashes on
his back, the nails, two hands and feet, beard torn out, but most of all it was a broken heart
but he done it out of love, he sacrificed himself, he comforted by a land of splendor
that he didn't have to save a dying world.
You cannot do enough good works to get to heaven, you live through the spirit of Christ.
I'm blessed with a good woman.
One went tonight, I'm sitting there supper and she very calmly said that night of supper
she said, I prayed for you for 28 years, she said I prayed that God would show himself
to you in a way that you had no doubt, and when he speak that you had no doubt, but her
prayers were answered 28 years of them, but I got to go see Jesus Christ, my prayer was
answered, and when he speaks to me this day I know his voice, it's been a wonderful work
for my dad, it's the greatest blessing in the world, and I think how blessed I am sometimes
that my earthly father, I get to work beside him, my heavenly father, I couldn't have
done anything better, I've been so blessed.
