Surviving Your Prison -- Part 1

I know what some of you are thinking right away, "Pastor, you have the wrong crowd.

I've never been to prison." Some ...

Don't raise your hand if you've been to prison or been to jail.

Don't raise your hand.

I know some of you have.

But how many of you have been close to going to prison or close to going to jail, or maybe should be in jail? Raise your hand if you've been close.

I was thinking about that.

You know, we have to survive our prison, and I'm not talking about a physical prison with bars, because there's a lot of types of prison, and we're gonna get into that in just a moment.

But I remember the closest I've ever been to going to jail was on my honeymoon.

[laughs]

Love will drive you to things.

No, I was on my honeymoon, and I'd just scraped up enough money.

I was really, really poor.

Really, really poor.

When I got engaged, I didn't give her a ring.

I don't even think I gave her a rubber band, but I gave her my love, and eventually got her a ring.

But I scraped up enough money.

My dream was to be able to go with my bride to Europe because that's where I grew up.

And my father left us a car, and, uh, you know, we tent- we, we slept in tents along the way.

One night at a hotel, ate ham sandwiches.

It was the cheapest, uh, uh, honeymoon that you could imagine, but it was a lot of fun.

And so I was driving the car with my wife, excited.

We drove up through Spain, into France, into Italy, and all the way up to Switzerland.

And so I'm driving in Switzerland with the tent in my trunk, showing my wife around.

And you know how many ...