Here tonight on the Lord’s day, we could spend our afternoon and evening and no better way than studying a portion of the word of God. I will not tell you something that you do not already know. We just remind each other things that we’ve studied all of our lives. Peter reminded brethren, the things that they already knew in second, Peter chapter one, he was strengthening them and he continued to preach the same message over and over and over again in Joshua chapter 24, verse 15, a well known versus scripture where Joshua said, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. He wanted to know who they were willing to serve you. And I know that once you serve the Lord or we wouldn’t be here tonight, not only that, when you look at Joshua’s life, three generations deep serve the Lord. You think about your family, my family, the next generation, the third generation. Well, they be serving the Lord. We hope and pray that that is the case. Our dear brother led all of our thoughts in prayer. Do I have one, a father reminded all of us of striving to strengthen our immediate families. And of course, encouraging others that are round about us in the church of our Lord. When we look at our lesson and I, we’re going to look at be looking at a man that is truly great among those that are born of women, …

A faithful Christian, whether they dig ditches, whether they fly an airplane, whether they are the president of the United States, it makes no difference. You want them to be a faithful, dedicated, faithful member of the Lords. I’ve driven to Memphis, Tennessee, many, many a time grew up down at west Memphis, Arkansas, glad to get away. But I grew up there. I’ve been across the oldest, the O I’m trying to think of the bridge Hernando de Soto bridge. That’s the old bridge going into Memphis. Then about 1972, three, they built a brand new bridge. But when you go across those bridges, they are supported with pillars, strong pillars, many years go and Linden. And the children when our daughter, son, and daughter were little boys and girls went down to Florida and CR my uncle going back, went around new Orleans, going across that long, long bridge down there. And Louisiana, as the longest bridge you’ve been across in my entire life. And I did not have any great plans of going across that bridge. I kept thinking if a barge hits this bridge, we are done for. And I found out that that wasn’t unusual for barges to hit the bridge barges where hit the bridge at the Mississippi river. That’s true up at K row. It’s true. All, all of these bridges across the country. Now, the reason that so many of them are able to stand is because of the support. Now, I …