You turn to Jeremiah Chapter 18. We're going to continue with the Potter and the Clay.

Last week we talked about lessons from the clay and this week we're going to talk about lessons

from the Potter.

Jeremiah chapter 18.

By the way as you're turning let me just tell you as Brady said that James Robeson is going to be here preaching next week.

James is a good friend of mine. I met James first. Debbie and I were trying to figure it out

about 22 years ago and he helped me get started in the ministry.

So he also taught me to play golf.

So which sometimes he takes credit for and sometimes he does it.

But anyway, I just hope that you can be here next week and let's have a great service and I believe he'll have a good word from the Lord for us.

You know I was thinking this morning about these, heard a story one time about two immigrants

that moved to America and one of them spoke the language and one of them didn't

and they tried to get work and they couldn't get work and they just kept going and

going across the states and couldn't get work and they finally end up in Texas and they just could not get any work and so they decided to rob a bank.

That was their last alternative, you know, and they robbed the bank, they got split up, separated, and then they got

caught by one of those West Texas sheriffs.

And this West Texas sheriff said to the one who spoke English, where's the money?

He said, I don't know because he took the money and I don't know what he did with it.

And he said to him, where's the money?

And he said, he doesn't speak English. He said, well you tell him, you ask him, where's the money? So he said to him in his language, you know, where's the money? Where'd you hide the money? And he said, you tell him, I'm not going to tell him. So he said, he him I'm not going to tell him so he said he's not

going to tell so the West Texas sheriff pulled his gun out

cocked it stuck it up to his head and said you tell him if he doesn't tell I'm

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