Well, this morning I found out that I was going to be sharing, so it's always good to submit.

Hey, it pays really good dividends. I used to joke around and tell Keith, does it pay any more to be nice?

And he'd look at me and smile

big and say, yes. And it does. It pays more. So, but anyway, in thinking about what the

Lord would have me to share this morning, I told him in first service, we've been doing ministry

things now for pretty much 30 years. And sometimes you look back over that period of time,

and you think about what you've learned. And it's like Brother Hagan used to say,

after that amount of time, you just stumble across a few things, you know. You just happen across

things and you realize you've learned

some things after that many years. And, but what happens is after doing that, you forget what

things were like when you first started. You forget what it was like the first time you ever

really believed for anything or how difficult that was or what it was like to stand or what it

was like to have to exercise your faith. And like I said, first service, I said, I remember the first time we did anything with an airplane.

And Keith started studying about airplanes.

And we'd watch these videos by John and Martha.

And they'd tell these parts of an airplane and stuff and they'd say the flaps.

And I'd go, flap.

What is a flap?

Or they'd say a rudder.

And I'd go, I didn't know the propeller from the rudder.

I didn't know the flap from the altimeter.

And some of you don't.

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