I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. (2 Timothy 4:7)

In our first text for this morning, Jesus asks, "For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether [you] have enough to complete it?"

Incredibly enough, we saw this parable being acted out not too long ago right before our eyes in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by none other than Oral Roberts!

You see, Oral announced one day that Jesus came to him as a vision 600 feet tall and told him to build a hospital tower. It was going to be a massive and glorious hospital - one of the largest in the world.

Some civic leaders in Tulsa said, "Please, Oral, don't build this tower. We've already got too many hospital beds; we don't need any more." But Oral has a lot of clou…