"On the Come Up From Underwater"- Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III

50:20 to 2 Kings 6. And in the sixth chapter of the book of 2 Kings, beginning at verse 1, we find the words of our text for this message. It reads from the message translation of the 11th century, vowed Hebrew, Masoretic text. It reads, one day, the guild of prophets came to Elisha and said, you can see that this place where we're living under your leadership is getting cramped. we have no elbow room give us permission to go down to the Jordan where each of us will get a log we'll build a roomier place Elisha said go ahead one of them then said please come along with us he said certainly he went with them they came to the Jordan and started chopping down trees as one of them was felling a timber his axe head flew off and sank in the river oh no master he cried out and it was borrowed the holy man said where did it sink the man showed him the place He cut off a branch and tossed it at the spot The axe head floated up Grabbed it, he said The man reached out and took it You may be seated in God's presence I want to put a tag on this text And for a few moments with your prayers I want to talk about on the come up from underwater on the come up from underwater i gotta shout out the annette reed jordan ministry y'all are just amazing thank you so much i'll say more later but i've got to shout you out right now on the come up from underwater have you ever been the life vest helping others but now

52:26 you're the one drowning. You're underwater and it feels like you're sinking. J. Cole testifies because I've been strong so far but I can feel my grip loosening. I feel that. Have you been there where all of your life you've been the strong one but all of a sudden your grip is loosening. You didn't feel J. Cole. DMX puts it this way. See, to live is to suffer, but to survive, well, that's to find meaning in the suffering. I'm slipping, I'm falling, I can't get up. I'm slipping, I'm falling, I gots to get up. I park here parenthetically because already I'm in somebody's Kool-Aid. I've called out your flavor, and if you're honest with yourself, you understand what it means to feel like the life vest for others but now you are in a crisis where you are underwater and overwhelmed and it seems to be no one recognizes that they should now allow you to reap all that you have sown. I'm simply suggesting that every now and then we find ourselves underwater overwhelmed than in a crisis. That's what was happening. My sisters and brothers in August of 1964, Freedom Summer, you've heard of it, I'm sure, was underway in Mississippi. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had gone down to Mississippi in order to change the game in the very belly of the Jim and Jane Crow beast they had gone down to Mississippi Mississippi that had already the year before shot in the driveway of his Jackson Mississippi home the late great Medgar Evers Mississippi that was known not just for lynching but for the riding of the Ku Klux Klan

54:33 And so when these daring and courageous, bold, brilliant, bad young people went down to Mississippi, they went there to organize and mobilize, to educate and emancipate. Because don't forget, it's 1964. There were no voting rights protections for black people. And as a consequence, you know what they would do. they would shut down voting sites at the last minute. You know what they would do. They would play games to suppress the vote. Oh, I'm talking about today. Let's go back to 1964, Mississippi. There in Mississippi in 1964, there was no protection of the right to vote in what is supposed to be a democracy. So there was hypocrisy in the practice of American democracy.

55:32 It was fascism on full display. That was happening in 1964. But wait, it's August of 1964. Schwerner, Goodman, and Cheney, who had come from the north down south, had been murdered already in June. Please don't miss this. The fear is real. The struggle is real. But on top of all of that, my sisters and brothers, not only are they living every day under the threat of terror, but on top of that, they are hemorrhaging money. As a matter of fact, they have run out of money. The bank account is empty. Persons have gone to jail, but there's no bail money to get them out. I'm letting you know they did all of this for us to get the right to vote. They did all of this.

56:27 They put their lives on the line because they recognized the value of the vote. Y'all going to catch this in just a moment. So they organized in the face of oppression. They mobilized in the face of being threatened by terror. They found themselves doing all of that, but now they are underwater financially. Please don't miss this. They've gone to Mississippi to be a life vest of liberation, but now there is no one helping them. They are caught in a catch-22. They have no money. There are persons who have gone to jail, and they find themselves underwater. I hang out right there because my sisters and brothers, every now and then, that's where we all find ourselves. no matter who you are, how big your Bible is, there will come a time where the life vest that you have used to help others will not work when you find yourself underwater and overwhelmed and in a crisis. That's where they were and that's exactly what's happening in our text. In our text The Bible lets us know that the people of God know the prophets in the school of prophets, really a seminary that was divinely designed to train young up and coming prophets for ministry.

58:00 That's what it was about. It was a prophetic guild, a school, if you will. And the school was growing and it was growing so much that they felt the need now to build a bigger facility. And so that's what's going on. They are down at the Jordan River building a bigger facility. And all of a sudden an axe head flies off of a handle into the Jordan River. Please understand in that culture iron was very expensive. It was not necessarily new, but it was expensive. Iron cost a lot of money. This prophet, this prophetic student had borrowed an ax in order to participate in the constructing of a new community. Y'all going to get this in just a moment.

58:55 He recognized that he was a part of something bigger than himself. And this young student prophet said, I'm going to borrow in order to make sure I can contribute to the construction of this community. And understand it was a heavy debt that he would find himself in. Because check this, in biblical antiquity when you were in debt, you could end up enslaved to the one that you owed. That's what you find in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. And so when the axe head flew off the handle and went into the water, don't miss this. He knew that he was in trouble because he had borrowed it. That's why you see the exclamation point as he hollers out to Elisha and says, It was borrowed. It was on loan to me. I did not own it myself.

59:54 I had to borrow it to contribute to the construction. I hope y'all are getting this. He's saying in essence, now I'm in debt and I'm in trouble because the axe is underwater. The axe head is underwater. Watch this. While doing something good, something bad happened to him that left him underwater. Please don't get it twisted. Just because you're doing good, just because you're doing right, it does not mean that life will not go wrong. Just because you're doing good for people, it does not mean that life will not turn bad on you. And that's what's happening right now. The text lets us know that axe head is at the bottom of the Jordan River. In a real sense, this prophetic student will testify that you can be walking in your calling and lose your axe head.

1:00:54 You can be doing what God has called you to do and lose your axe head. You can find yourself underwater and overwhelmed and in a crisis. Who am I talking to that wants to go ahead and say God is already speaking to my situation through you, Pastor Haynes, because the bottom line is I came to church looking one way, but I'm feeling another way because I'm in a crisis, I'm underwater, and I'm feeling overwhelmed. Well, understand I'm using with intentionality the language of underwater because you know what it means to be underwater financially. It simply means that what you owe, watch this, is a whole lot more than what your item is worth. And that happens.

1:01:45 It means you're underwater. I told y'all on the first Sunday about the beautiful lemon car I had back in the day. Do you know it reached a point where I literally owed more money on that car than it was worth when I sold it. And so I ended up underwater. Don't y'all look around like I'm not talking to somebody because the bottom line is when you're underwater and overwhelmed, you will find yourself in a crisis. That's exactly what this text says. It happens with what? Your mortgage. It can happen with your car and you find yourself drowning in debt. Uh-oh, I think that's where I want to hang out because debt is something that will happen for a lot of reasons. And sometimes we're in debt because of a system that is set up to prey on the vulnerable. In a real sense, it's a system that crowns the greedy and crushes the needy.

1:02:47 To use the language of William Augustus Jones Jr., I'm letting you know, we find ourselves in debt because certain communities are targeted by economic predators like payday and car title loan stores. They show up on certain sides of town. Ain't no payday loan store in Highland Park. Ain't no payday loan store in certain communities. They target certain communities that are underbanked and under-resourced. And as a consequence, they charge these high interest rates. And before you know it, you're in a crisis because you're overwhelmed and you're underwater. Preach, Freddie. I'm doing the best I can. It happens, my sisters and brothers, not just with systems, but also, please don't miss this, with credit card systems.

1:03:43 Yeah, let me hang out with systems because if you get one of those high-interest credit cards, and please hear me well, my college students, and that is they love to target college students with these high interest rate credit cards that they will give you and it looks like on the surface everything is cool only to discover that when you pay the minimum payment at the end or beginning of the month after a while what you pay down on the principal is hardly anything at all as your debt continues to go up Can I talk to somebody who's dealing with college loan debt? College loan debt that basically is debt from going to school. You went to school, but you had to either scholarship your way through school or get a loan to get your bills cleared. And for somebody listening to me right now, you still owe college loans.

1:04:44 And those college loans, watch this, though you pay the minimum every month, It feels like you owe more now than you did when you graduated. I'm simply saying you can be overwhelmed and underwater and in a crisis. It happens when a medical bill is sent to a collection company. And before you know it, your credit is under attack. And so as a consequence, because of the fact we don't live in a nation where everybody has access to quality health care, we don't live in a nation where we have Medicare for all. We don't live in a nation where we find ourselves with what? The right to health care. It's a privilege for those who can afford it and not a right for every citizen. And as a consequence, you, if you're not careful, may be one health emergency from being underwater, overwhelmed, and in a crisis.

1:05:50 I'm preaching. Y'all just not feeling me yet. I'm simply saying that every now and then we find ourselves in a crisis, underwater, and overwhelmed. That's a horrible thing. It happened because of systems. systems. It's set up in a capitalistic system to prey on those who don't have in order to pay those who do have. Y'all not getting this thing. I'm letting you know this ain't no democracy. It's an oligarchy that is run by the have-gots at the expense of the have-nots. I'm trying to preach. I hope y'all will help me in just a moment. And so if you're not careful, you'll be underwater. you'll be overwhelmed and you'll be in a crisis. That's exactly where we are. But the shout of the text is, and here it is, that when you are about that life and building something, if God's presence is with you, God will be your source to give you a resource so that you can experience a come up out of being underwater.

1:06:58 I think that's my thesis for right now. And that's what I'm going to unpack in the moments that we have. Understand that if we want to experience a come up from being underwater, the text lets us know. And I love this first part because the text says, here it is. Sometimes we get pushed by what's problematic and, and, and, yeah, I'll go with that. We get pushed by what's problematic into new possibilities. Thank you. some of us are where we hadn't planned on being, not because we worked for it, but because life went to life in, the math wasn't math in, and before you know it, you got pushed into doing something you never saw you're doing.

1:07:57 You get pushed into doing something you had not planned on doing. I'm talking to somebody. God is so amazing that God will take what is problematic and use it to push you where God is trying to get you because of what God has placed inside you. Okay, okay. I got to make this real plain. This is really good. So I have to admit. I have to admit and don't hate. Celebrate and maybe you'll get to participate. I have to admit that I for years, I mean years, years was dreading because I grew up, what, 70s on the hill of the 60s. And when I was in at Bishop College, I had this big Afro. I mean, it was fly. I had a big old Afro, y'all. I had a big old Afro.

1:08:49 And so I thought life would always be like that. That have this big Afro. I mean I mean it was it was like like I was doing Michael Jackson I mean I had a big afro y'all and then the 30s hit mid 30s hit and all of a sudden nature started giving me a haircut I wasn't asking for and it was an uneven haircut it was like it was clearing back here and pushing up there and And I'm doing everything I can to hold on. Like I'm trying to hold on, Doc. Can you relate to me right now? I'm trying to hold on even though it's leaving me. And not saying goodbye.

1:09:40 And so here's what happened. Finally, my barber said, Pastor, it's over. because I would go to him every Saturday because I wanted to be fly for church every Saturday I'd go to the barber needing to be fly for church and when I get to the barber he would do everything he could and then Penny one Saturday he said pastor it's got to go I said man man man so he took it off and uh when I got home oh man I got home they they dogged me they dogged me real bad and uh uh but then then then more i got used to it and and the next thing i know albany's saying daddy you looking younger I sure is, I sure is.

1:10:39 I'm looking younger. And then I had to ask, you know, some boys, okay, how do y'all handle this? And so Antonio hooked me up with this wonderful product called Dare to be Bald. It's for black men. Dare to be bald. And so this morning, this morning, check this. I'm in D.C. Catch a 5 o'clock flight to get here because I want to see y'all. and so I mean I'm sleeping minding my business getting ready to get on this 5 a.m flight and and I just you know done the shaving and stuff and this thing it feels so good oh my god it feels so good but but there was some irritation some irritation and and there was no shine because the razor had taken the shine but oh I put that dare to be balled on and and as I got ready to squeeze here it is ready to squeeze the tube do you know what happened that tube said hold on hold on hold on you you're squeezing too hard this thing is hurting me I said you can't talk to me it's too early to be talking I can't be hallucinating I got to get back to the church to preach and the tube said no Shakespeare said there are sermons in stones Jesus said If these hold their peace, the rocks will cry out.

1:11:56 So if sermons can come from stones and rocks can rejoice, you're going to get some theology from a tube. I said, well, what's up? And the tube then said, you are squeezing me and it hurts. I said, but you don't understand. You got something in you that can't get out of you unless I put the squeeze on you. You were not made to keep it in you. You were made to release what was placed in you by the one that made you. And the only way it can get out of you is you've got to get squeezed. Come here. Because somebody came to church and life has been squeezing you. It's because God has a purpose inside of you. And God knows that it will not come out of you unless you get squeezed. Who am I talking to that's saying, you know what, come to think of it. If I had not been through this, I wouldn't have had this come out of me.

1:12:53 If I had not had my heart broken, I would not have been open to what God wanted to do in my life. If I had not gotten fired from that job, I would not have been set free to open up this business. If I had not had folk come at me who I did not sin for, I wouldn't have known what God had placed in me to elevate me in the very face of those who came for me. Sometimes you gotta get squeezed.

1:13:24 So watch what happens. Text says that they're in, I love the message translation, they're in cramped quarters. Meaning they're outgrowing where they are and they got to move someplace else. in life if you're growing there's some stuff you outgrow in life if you're growing there's some people you outgrow let me help you right quick I'm not being snobbish I'm not saying be snooty and a snob but some people grow in different directions you're you're growing this way they're growing another way. Don't get upset because of their growth in a different direction. You just keep on growing because you're being squeezed to bring out of you what only God put in you. And God did not put in them the same thing God put in you. So you've got to not trip if those situations shift.

1:14:39 Okay. Okay. I thought that was good, but I'll keep it moving. So the text says they're in cramped quarters putting a squeeze on them they say Elijah Elisha this thing is too small we need to go to the Jordan and build oh my god this messed me up they went to the Jordan River ain't no accident stuff happens at the Jordan River at the Jordan River in Joshua chapter 3 and 4 God made a way out of nowhere at the Jordan River because the Bible says that the people of God when they got ready to cross the Jordan River that was swollen at at at but swollen between the months of March and April and God said here's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna make a way out of nowhere but you got to put your feet in the water first I like that because every now and then we claim that we're waiting on God and God is saying no I'm waiting on you to put your feet in the water because once you put your feet in the water then I'll make a way out of no way and the book says they crossed the Jordan on dry ground that happened at the Jordan River but wait since that didn't get you at the Jordan River in the book of second Kings the Bible lets us know that Elijah the mentor of Elisha would get ready to go to eternity and the book lets us know that Elijah used his mantle to hit the Jordan and cross the Jordan River on dry ground because his mantle made a way out of no way Elijah goes up to heaven in a chariot of fire and the book lets us know his mantle falls on Elisha Elisha picks up the mantle Hits the Jordan River And crosses on dry ground Because the Jordan was a place of God Miraculously making a way out of no way I'm not even done

1:16:44 The Bible lets us know Naaman in chapter 5 Is a great general and army leader But the book lets us know He's got leprosy And the prophet Elisha says You need to go down to the Jordan And dip seven times And the book says he dipped seven times. If I was an old school preacher, I am. I'd go there right now. I can hear Magruder sing. And he went down one time. But when he came back up, it was still there. He went down a second time. And it was still there. He went down a third time. And he was still there. He went down a fourth time. And it was still there. He went down a fifth time. It was still there. He went down a six time he still had it but on the seventh time he came No

1:17:44 that happened at the jordan at the jordan the bible lets us know a way was made out of no way at the jordan new life was giving healing took place at the jordan they said we're going to the jordan to build my question is what are you building and where are you building it Okay, let me talk to y'all because they seem not to be getting there. What are you building with your life? Where are you going to build it? Wait, and who are you building it with?

1:18:27 Okay, okay. Y'all seem to be with me. What you building? Where you building it? Who you building it with? That's the challenge all of us have. our lives ought to be about building something but you're building and the text says they go to the Jordan in order to build and when they get to the Jordan to build I love what the text says they they get there and and construction starts taking place and when construction starts taking place all of a sudden one of them swings the axe the axe head flies off the handle goes into the Jordan river doing something good and something bad happened doing what's right and something went wrong they got pushed into purpose only to receive a prescription I love this a prescription this is my second point right here if you're taking notes okay this is a prescription ha for deliverance because they're underwater underwater in a crisis overwhelmed and and and here comes the prescription it's gonna mess you up prescription is he cries out master Elisha it was borrowed Elisha said where did it go in the water he says but because you cannot have liberation without a strong sense of location. If you don't know where you went underwater, I can't do my part to get you up out from being underwater. Location will help you get to your liberation. Where did you lose it?

1:20:24 Where did you lose it? I wrote down some places that we often lose it. So let me just go ahead and give you what I wrote down just in case y'all looking funny because you cannot liberate what you refuse to locate. Before restoration, you've got to locate the loss. Where did it fall? Where did your financial stability fall? Where did your savings disappear? Where did the credit card balance begin? Where did the business begin hemorrhaging money? Where did the dream become unsustainable? Where did the relationship between income and spending break? Where did fear take over? Where did shame enter? Where did you stop asking for help? Where did the generational pattern begin? Where did it fall? You've got to identify the place of loss. Preach, Freddie, I'm doing the best I can because I'm simply letting you know you've got to know where your money is going. You need to know where the debt began. You need to know what the interest is doing.

1:21:27 You need to know what obligations you have. You need to know what you actually possess and what you ain't got. You need to know what you owe. You need to know where it fell. Healing requires honest accounting. Y'all still not getting it before you can address financial trauma. You got to acknowledge it. Before you can change habits, you got to identify them. Before you can rebuild it, you have to identify the site of collapse. Show me where it went. I'm loving that right there. Show me where it went. And if you show me where it went, I can then send a prescription your way. You know what a prescription does. A prescription means that someone you trust, a doctor, gives you something on a paper and you go to the pharmacy, you hand that thing in, here's your shout right here. You don't even know what the prescription says. You don't know what the words are. You can't read the prescription, but you trust the doctor. And when you trust the doctor, the doctor then sends you to the right place. And then they put together a concoction. You don't know scientifically through what's in that stuff.

1:22:40 And yet you take the prescription because you trust the doctor. And I simply came to tell y'all today it's time to take the prescription and remember where you went to debt, where your finances went astray. You've got to remember where it all happened because once you know where, then who will step in and do what only God can do and make a way in your life. Seek first the kingdom of God and God's justice and all these things will be added unto you. Bring the whole tithe into God's storehouse. Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord. I'll open up the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing, and you won't have enough room to receive it. There's a prescription for your deliverance that's rooted, here it is, in the fact that you've been pushed. into new possibilities but that's this is my last thing and I'm done I love the text because the text finally tells me this and that is God after pushing you God after prescribing for you says just make sure you have the presence that gives you power that makes a difference here's what get to me at the beginning when they say this we're cramped we need to go to the Jordan Elisha can we go build he said yes will you go with us you didn't get that etymologically the name Elisha means God is my salvation and when you really break it down it's God is my freer.

1:24:34 The one who delivers me. The one who liberates me. The one who sets me free. They said, Elisha, we need your presence to go with us. We need the presence of God, my salvation. We need the presence of God, my liberator. We need God's presence before the crisis because if you walk with God before the crisis, God will be with you to help conquer the crisis. You didn't get it. If you learn to pray while things are calm, then God will keep you calm in the storm. God says if you have me with you now, I'll do something that will blow your mind. okay I see what's going on y'all y'all are saying okay hold on hold on hold on what about Freedom Summer 64 when they ran out of money John Lewis was there Freedom Summer 64 and I had the privilege of having a conversation with John Lewis it's also in one of his memoirs and John Lewis shares with me that when they ran out of money he said that night he was in jail and he talked to God And he said, God, I believe I'm here on your word doing what you've called me to do.

1:25:57 And you've allowed your people to run out. That's not like you, God, to let your people run out. Unbeknownst to him, while he's praying that prayer, it's August 1964. Harry Belafonte has called Sidney Poitier and says, listen, I'm concerned about the kids in Mississippi. I think they're running out of money. I think I'm going to stop right there. While John Lewis was praying here, Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier were talking over there. John Lewis, watch this, had never been to Sidney's house or Harry Belafonte's house. But God is so good that God will put you and your situation on the heart of the right people in the right place. And you may not get there, but they know exactly where you are. And y'all, what happened, they put together a fundraiser race, $60,000 cash money. And y'all, Sidney and Harry Belafonte go down to Mississippi.

1:26:59 They fly into Jackson. From Jackson, they fly, take a small plane to, I think it's Greenville. And when they get to Greenville or Greenwood, forgive me for messing up the name, They get there under the cover of dark, but somebody finds out they're there and they're following a car. That car gets run off the road, but somehow they are able to keep it moving and they get where they're going and they bring the necessary money that is needed to keep the movement going. Y'all didn't get this. $60,000 in 1964. That equates to a half a million. that equates to $50,000, $60,000, I mean $600,000 right now. They came up with $600,000 in our money and they brought it to those freedom fighters back then because when you're doing God's work, when you're doing God's will, God has a way of touching the white people, making a way out of no way.

1:28:04 I give it to you like this. I'm done. But here's the shout. The shout is that Elisha says, show me where the iron head went down. And the book says they showed him because they knew where they had lost it. And he takes, here it is, a stick of wood. And he throws the wood in the location where the axe head went down. The wood had power. Wood had power. The wood had such power that the axe head, like a magnet to iron, went up to the wood. And Elisha says, the wood has done its part. I need you to reach in and grab the axe head. It's called grace and agency. Grace when God does for you what you can't do for yourself.

1:28:59 Agency, you still got to grab the axe head. grace God makes a way out of no way agency you still got to walk through the door grace God opens up a door and gives you a hookup for a job agency you got to have your act together and be prepared when you get to that job grace and agency oh man I lost y'all because you're trying to figure out how did wood attract iron I'm about to tell you I don't know because every now and then God would do some stuff that you have no words to explain every now and then God y'all can look back over your life right now and there's some stuff that took place you didn't plan it you didn't work for it you can't explain it yourself and all you can do is say I don't know God just did what God can do God just made a way as only God can make a way I don't know It's grace and agency Okay, okay Let me go to my old school saints And they're rejoining Because y'all gonna get this It was the wood It was the wood It was the wood That made the difference There was power In the wood Say through the wood and the water Water attracted the axe and the debt was all over because of the power of the wood.

1:30:37 Ah, there's one more piece of wood, an old rugged cross, a symbol of shame. That was a piece of wood. And at that cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light and the burdens of my heart rolled away, it was there by faith I received my sight. And now I'm happy all the day. I got to testify and I'm done. Let me testify and I'm done.

1:31:03 This month is always an interesting month for me. Last year, this time, I just had surgery. And earlier in the month is the anniversary of my dad's transition. So it's always a trip month. And so, Devin, here's what happened earlier this month. Matter of fact, the day of his death, I was just reflecting. And God is so good, God is so good that the last week my father lived, he said, I want you to come work for me at the church. And so I worked with my dad every day at the church. The last week, no one knew that he was about to transition. But every day I got up with him and went to work at Third Baptist Church. San Francisco, California. I'd get up excited because I was with my daddy. That made me happy to hang out with my daddy. Love my mama but I was hanging with my daddy. My daddy first hero for a male and so I'm hanging with my daddy every day and he made up a job for me taking inventory. So I'd take inventory as fast as I could because I knew the faster I got it done the quicker I could go see him. And so I'd get it done quick and then go see him. And I think it was Tuesday or Wednesday of that week that I went to see him. And so he said, you finished already? And so I said, yes, I'm finished. He said, okay, well, I've got to do this and I got a meeting. So why don't you go to Miss Jamison's store, which was down the street, go to Miss Jamison's store and get you something.

1:32:44 And so I'd been saving up some money because Miss Jamison had all kind of candy. It was our store in the hood in San Francisco, y'all. And so I left there to go down to Miss Jamison's. And mom, when I got there to Miss Jamison's store, I started getting this, this, this, this, this. I got all that stuff. I said, I got to get something for my dad because my dad has been good to me. So the only reason I have this job and this paper is because my dad's been good to me. So I'm not going to go just get stuff for myself. I'm going to get some stuff from my dad. And so I got all this stuff, put it on the counter. When I put it on the counter, Ms. Jameson then added the stuff up. I was $5 short. I did not have everything I needed. I stood there in my 14-year-old brain and began to think, do I take away the stuff I was going to give my dad because he wouldn't know it anyway? Do I take away that stuff?

1:33:39 And then I said, no, I'm going to take away the stuff I was going to enjoy myself. Ms. Jameson said, how much money do you have? I took it out of my pocket, put it on the counter. And Ms. Jameson then said these words. She said, oh, you're $5 short. I said, yes, Ms. Jameson, and I don't want to put anything back. She said, you ain't got to put anything back. Here's what you do. Sign your dad's name. He's good for it. And then she opened up the cash register and said, since you're getting some stuff for your dad, I'm going to give you $10. And so next time you come, you can enjoy whatever you want. But I'm doing this because of what you're doing for your dad. I said, wait, this means that you are not charging me the whole amount. All I got to do is sign my daddy's name. She said, yes, your daddy's good for it. So if I sign his name, then my bill is clear.

1:34:35 But she said, I'm going to do more than just clear your bill. But because of who you are and the generosity of your heart, Devin, I'm going to give you $10. Y'all going to catch this in just a moment. I'm trying to let y'all know if you know who your daddy is and you take care of your daddy and your daddy is on your spend that list. God is so good that God says, here's what you do. You just go where you're going. And once you get there, make sure you sign my name. I hope y'all know his name. I'm about to give y'all his name. Yahweh, Elohim, El Elyon, El Shaddai, Jehovah Jireh. The Lord will provide. Can I say his name? His name is Jesus. Can I say his name? Elohim. Can I say his name? Jehovah Shalom. Can I say his name? Jehovah Nisi.

1:35:27 Can I say his name? heart fixer, mind regulator, burden bearer heavy load shareer, rock and a weary land