Amen and amen. Church, if you got your Bibles and I hope you do, James Chapter 4 is where

we're going to be. We're going to pick up in verse 13. We are, like it's been said, we're in the

12th week of this long series in the book of James, and I know the last few weeks have been pretty

intense, and this week, hopefully you're just going to be inspired. I'm in a good move, which is really dangerous.

This thing can turn into a lock-in in a second, man, we can be here all night, all right?

But you ain't got nothing else to do.

You're here.

Where were you, think about this, where were you on May 20, 2000?

May 20, 2000.

How many of you weren't born yet? May 20 of 2000. Anybody? Oh, that's adorable.

We love you. God bless your vision and flexibility. Enjoy that while at last. Anyway.

So May 20th, 2000. I have no idea where I was, but I know where Dr. John Piper was.

Dr. John Piper was standing on a stage at this event called One Day in Nowhereville Midwest somewhere, and he was

preaching to thousands of college age kids. And about three months later, I was somewhere in Athens,

Georgia, because that's where I was living. I was doing college ministry there with the

Baptist Student Union at UGA. And about three months after this, I got a bootleg copy,

which was probably illegal, but it was for the glory of God, but I got a bootleg copy of Dr. John Piper's sermon that day.

And it changed, it changed something in me.

I was sitting there doing Bible study with a bunch of UGA students, a bunch of former, I mean, future national championship people, back-to-back national champs.

They didn't realize it yet, but whatever. We were there together. And he gets up and he doesn't

fit in at all. Like passion's running by a guy named Louis Gigler, everybody's cool, everybody's so cool.

And here comes Dr. Piper. And he ain't cool. He's awesome, but he's like pleaded khakis and kind of funny looking glasses.

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