Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Well, Pastor Robert invited me to come back twice a year and do all the weekend services, so now you're going to have to put up with me twice a year every year.

I like to find a good church in every big city that I can call home church and just run around and be with all my friends.

Dave, you saw Dave walk me up here. Dave and I have been married 55 years.

Fifty-five years. And the most frequent word in our house now is, huh?

Because I've got a little hearing problem. He's got a big hearing problem.

And I have to tell you this because it's hysterical. When you start, the hearing starts kind of going, you think that people said things that they didn't say.

And to me there's nothing funnier than that. And so a few weeks ago we were in the car and I was telling Dave about this minister in New York who had been caught having several affairs.

And he looked at me really. He got this really odd look on his face and I already started laughing. I'm thinking he has no idea what I said.

And so when I finally stopped laughing long enough, I said, what do you think I said? He said, why does he need so many bears in New York?

So I'll tell you the older you get, the funnier it gets, amen?

Father, I pray in Jesus' name that you'll bring out of me exactly what you want brought out.

I put it in and now you bring it out in the right order in Jesus' name. Amen.

Well, I've been teaching the word for forty-five years.

And the first five years I taught a couple of home Bible studies and that was like going to Bible school for me, learning and growing and learning how to deal with people and working for nothing.

I put my job and we needed a lot of money and we weren't receiving offerings or anything. I was just working for Jesus.

And those times are good for us because they purify our hearts. They teach us rather we're doing what we're doing to get something or rather we're doing it really forgot.

And then I went to work at a church and I worked there five years and I always say if you don't know how to come under authority, you have no business being in authority.

So I learned to come under authority and there was a lot of great times there but a lot of rough times too.

And then 35 years ago, God put it strongly on our heart with a lot of confirmation that we were to take the ministry and go north southeast to west.

The only problem was nobody knew me. I was on one radio station in St. Louis.

And so I didn't know anything to do but just obey Jesus the best I could. So I went to North St. Louis, South St. Louis, East St. Louis and West St. Louis.

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