Good morning. We'll be in Psalm
86, 1 through 13. Psalm 86, 1 through
13. Bow down thy ear, O Lord. Hear me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul, for I am holy. O thou my God, save thy servant
that trusteth in thee. Be merciful unto me, O Lord,
for I cry unto thee daily. Rejoice the soul of thy servant,
for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou, Lord art
good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them
that call upon thee. Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer
and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of
my trouble, I will call upon Thee, for Thou will answer me. Among the gods there is none
like unto Thee, O Lord, neither are there any works like unto
Thy works. All nations whom Thou hast made
shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord, and shall glorify
Thy name. For Thou art great and does wonderful
things. Thou art God alone. Teach me
the way, O Lord. I will walk in Thy truth, unite
my heart to fear Thy name. I will praise Thee, O Lord my
God, with all my heart, and I will glorify Thy name forevermore. For great is Thy mercy towards
me, and Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. Let's pray. Our merciful Heavenly
Father, thank you so much for bringing us together to be here.
Thank you so much for the blessing of your mercy upon us. Thank
you for the promises of your word, the hopes of salvation
that you give us through faith to our hearts. Thank you for
the promise that you would never leave us or forsake us. Thank
you, you are our strength and our shield. Lord, I know all
things happen at your hand and for your purpose. I would pray
that you would increase our faith and forgive our unbelief. We
ask in Christ's name, amen. In your hardback hymnal, let's
sing hymn number 75. Abide with me, fast falls the
eventide The darkness deepens, Lord with me abide When other
helpers fail and comforts flee Health of the helpless, so abide
with me. Swift to its flows, heads out
like little days. Earth's joys grow dim, its glories
pass away. Change and decay in all around
I see. O Thou who changest not, abide
with Thy presence every passing hour. What but Thy grace can foil the
tempter's power? Who like myself, my guide and
stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, oh,
abide with me. Hold thou thy word before my
closing eyes. Shine through the gloom and point
me to the skies. Heaven's morning breaks and earth's
vain shadows flee. Thank you, Adam. That was such an appropriate
hymn for this message. if you'll open your Bibles with
me to the first chapter of the Gospel of John, John chapter
one. John the Baptist has just identified
the Lord Jesus as the Christ, the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sins of the world. And some of John's disciples,
believe what they heard him say. And they left John and started
following the Lord. And in verse 38, we read, then Jesus turned when
he saw these men following him who had been previously following
John the Baptist He turned and saw them following and saith
unto them, what seek ye? And they said unto him, rabbi,
which is to say, being interpreted master, where dwellest thou? I've titled this message, essential
questions and they both come from this one verse. One question
is asked by the Lord and the other question is asked by these
disciples. Of all the important questions
in life and the potential consequences of the answers to those questions,
I cannot think of two more important questions for you and I to consider
for ourselves. For the consequences of the answers
to these questions is eternal. It's eternal. The destiny of
our immortal soul being determined by the answer to these questions. What seek ye? Where dwellest thou? 300 times in the New Testament,
our Lord, as we saw in the first hour as the teacher, Yes, he's
the Christ, yes, he's the Messiah but he uses the means of teaching.
And 300 times he teaches by asking questions. A very effective method
of teaching, by the way. I'm not very good at it. I have
more of a tendency to tell people what they're supposed to do rather
than... ask probing questions, thought-provoking
questions but it's a much more effective method for us to be
asked a question that we might consider for ourselves what the
answer to that question is. John chapter 5, our Lord goes
to the pool of Bethesda and he finds a man that's been crippled
all his life, 38 years. And he's been waiting there by
the pool for a miracle from God. And out of all of the halt and
blind and crippled people that were there, the Lord identifies
one individual and says to him, wilt thou be made whole? Wilt thou be made whole? And
the Lord asking that question in order to get him to confess
that He had no man to help him. Yes, Lord, I want to be made
whole, but I can't do it. I'm dependent upon someone else.
And the Lord asked him that question to bring out that answer. When blind Bartimaeus cried,
Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy upon me, the Lord stopped. and ask blind Bartimaeus, what
would you have me to do for you? Oh Lord, that I might see. You
might think, well that was an obvious need but you see how
the Lord asks us questions to get us to confront. God never
asks questions because he doesn't know the answer to them, that's
obvious. He's omniscient, he knows everything,
he knows our hearts better than we know our own. But he uses
this method of teaching. I suppose the educators, we have
some in our congregation here and philosophers would refer
to this as the Socratic method. The Socratic method of teaching.
Ask a question and get the student to answer the question. And educators trace that back,
of course, to Socrates, 400 years before the Lord Jesus. But it
goes back a whole lot further than that. Right after the fall,
When Adam sought to cover his nakedness by sewing together
fig leaves and hiding himself from God, what did God say? Where art thou, Adam? Oh, it's so wonderful how the
Lord gets us to confront our real need by asking us a question. He's being thronged by a crowd. Many people touching him. And he stops and says, who touched
me? He knew who touched him. He knew
who touched him. Just like he knew where Adam
was. What was he doing? Identifying that poor woman with
an issue of blood who came forth and admitted. And the scripture
says, and she told him all the truth. As a result of him asking
that question, who touched me? The disciples said, Lord, what
do you mean who touched you? All these people are touching
you. No, virtue has gone out from me. Someone touched me in
faith. Who was it? He knew exactly who
it was. Saul saw. "'Why persecutest thou
me? "'Who art thou, Lord?' "'I am
Jesus, whom thou persecutest.'" Oh, I'm so hopeful the Lord will press to our hearts a question. Our hearts are deceitful. We're able to deceive ourselves
and we're able to deceive others. But if God Almighty presses a
question to our hearts, we will not be able to deceive him. If he says to us, If we hear
His voice, not just the voice of a man like yourself, but if
we hear His voice saying to our hearts, what seek thee? What are you looking for? What
do you want? And if He's able to put into
our hearts, O Lord, where dwellest thou? Where do you abide? The answer to those questions
will have eternal consequences. If we're seeking anything other
than the Lord Jesus Christ and we belong to Him, He will
see to it that we're disappointed in that pursuit. and cause us
to say with these disciples, Lord, where dwellest thou? We
seek lots of other things, don't we? The unbeliever, and we've seen
it time and time again, will come seeking Things that
eventually they become disappointed with and they become disillusioned. If a man becomes religious seeking
something other than the person of the Lord Jesus Christ and
where it is he abides, they'll eventually leave, they'll eventually
quit, they'll eventually become disillusioned and disappointed. What seek ye? Those who are after the flesh,
the scripture says, do mind the things of the flesh. How oftentimes
men become interested in religious things and in spiritual things
in order, as the Lord said to those 5,000 that followed that
he fed miraculously, he looked at them and he said, you seek
me. that you might have your bellies
full. And we know the belly is a picture of the flesh and it's
a very strong, it's a very strong thing in all of our lives, seeking
things to gratify the needs of our flesh. The Lord said to those
5,000, he said, if you want to be my disciples, you take up
your cross and deny yourself and follow me. That wasn't what
they were seeking. They weren't seeking the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were seeking the temporal
benefits that he had to offer them. Turn to me to 1 Corinthians 1.
1 Corinthians 1. Look with me, verse 22. For the Jews require a sign. Now the Jews, representative
of those who are religious, they're looking for evidences
and by a sign it doesn't just mean some sort of miraculous
sign. He means a feeling, an experience,
a benefit of some sort that might affirm the promises of God. I need to have circumstances
in certain order in order to know that this is of God. I'm not going to take God at
His word. I need a sign. I need a sign. And many will even refer back
to Gideon. Remember when God spoke
to Gideon and Gideon wanted a sign and he put out a fleece, a lamb's fleece. fleece and on the ground and
he said Lord if this message is from you then wet the fleece
and not the ground and so the next morning Gideon got up and
he took the fleece and it was soaking wet with water from the
dew but all the ground surrounding it was dry and the scripture
says that Gideon wrung out a whole bowl of water But he was not
yet convinced and so he put the fleece out again the next night
and he said, Lord, this time I want you to make the fleece
dry and all the ground around it wet. And the Lord gave him
that sign. And the next morning the fleece
was dry as a bone and all the ground around it was wet. And I hear people today say,
well, you know, you need to put out your fleece. You need to
put out your fleece, you need to require God to give you a
sign in order to affirm his will and purpose in a particular area. The sign of Gideon's fleece has
already been put out. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
Lamb of God. He came in the full anointing
of the Spirit of God. The full power of the Word of
God was poured out upon him. And on Calvary's cross, when
he bore our sins in his body upon that tree, he emptied himself
He emptied himself and became a sacrifice for sin that the
water of his grace and the water of his word might be taken from
him being parched and dried. His tongue cleaved to his mouth. He said, I thirst. Why? Because
Gideon's fleece was being fulfilled. That's the sign. so that the
water now can go out from him to the surrounding ground. Oh, don't be tempted to try and
test God by putting out a fleece. The fleece has already been put
out. Believe God. The Jews require a sign. No sign will be given unto you
except the sign of Jonah, who spent three days and three nights
in the belly of the whale. What was the Lord talking about?
He was talking about the resurrection. That's the sign. That's the evidence
that we have. And it's the only sign. God affirms
things in our lives, through our circumstances, you know,
fine, but be very careful. because discerning things by
your circumstances can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. You can see something
in something that God never intended to be there but you were looking
for it and so you found it and you got your answer. It's very
subjective, isn't it? God's word and God's promises
are not subjective, they are objective. And what is God saying? Believe me, that's the sign. Believe God, believe the revelation
that God has given to us of Christ and what he accomplished on the
cross. And the evidence of that accomplishment was his resurrection.
That's the sign. We have all the evidence that
we need. The Jews seek a sign. They're not seeking Christ. They're
looking for God to prove himself. They're looking for God to give
them something extra other than what he has already spoken in
his word. Oh, how evil that is. We've all done it. The Greeks seek after wisdom. Oh, Greek philosophy and Greek
knowledge was so ingrained as much or more than it is in our
culture. You know, men increased in knowledge
but become fools in their hearts toward God. These Greeks were
so proud of their philosophers. Look what Look what the Lord
says in verse 20 or verse 19. I will destroy the wisdom of
the wise and I will bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent. Where's the wise? Where's the scribe? Where's the
disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world? For after the wisdom of God,
for after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew
not God. No amount of wisdom, no amount
of knowledge, no amount of philosophy, no amount of education, no amount
whatsoever of any brain power on our part will bring us to the knowledge
of God. This is a work of grace. It is not by our effort. No, some of the sweetest, most, some of the believers that I
feel the most intimidated around The believers that I feel, I
feel unclean around some believers. They're just so sweet and they're
so in love with Christ. And oftentimes they're the least
educated people in the church. You see, there's no correlation
between the two. Nothing wrong with education
as far as the benefits that it might provide in this world.
But in no way do they offer any benefit. As a matter of fact,
they are a hindrance. They can be a hindrance. Because we depend upon what we
think we know. Now I'll make foolish the wisdom
of this world. The world by wisdom knew not God. The world by knowledge,
by wisdom, by education, by study, cannot know God. Therefore, God
uses the foolishness of preaching. That's what we're doing right
now. We're preaching. And the world considers this
foolishness. And an unbeliever would come in and sit among us
and think, I'm not going to sit here and listen to a man preach
at me. Oh, child of God, I hope you
don't feel preached to hat. It's what I'm preaching to you,
I'm preaching to myself. But that's the way the unbeliever
thinks, isn't it? That's the way the world thinks. The child
of God wants to be preached to. Oh, tell me what God says, preacher. Don't leave me any room for interpretation. Don't give me any wiggle room.
Don't leave the opinions up to me. Tell me, thus saith the Lord,
tell me exactly what God says, because I want to know what God
says. And if what you say, I can see it in the scriptures, what
God says, I know the truth. Truth set me free. Oh, don't
believe it because I said it. But if what I'm saying is consistent
with what God said, Then, what seek ye? We'll have a little plaque up
on the back wall, I put it up there a few years ago to remind
me of what those Greeks said in John
chapter 12. Sirs, they came to the disciples
and said, sirs, we would see Jesus. We're seeking him. The Lord told those who were
seeking a sign, they were seeking some sort of material blessing.
Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the
Son of Man has no place to lay his head. If you're seeking me
for some temporal profit that it might provide you, seeking
me might actually to be just the opposite. What seek ye? Men seek a lot
of things. Men, who wants to go to hell? Nobody wants to go to hell. Men become religious thinking,
well, it's going to help me to avoid judgment. Problem is they don't look to
the Lord Jesus as the one who satisfied the demands of God's
justice and fulfill the demands of God's law, they look to their
religious activities as a work to that end. The Lord said to these disciples,
what seek ye? Are you seeking just some temporal
blessings? Are you seeking a sign? Are you
seeking wisdom? Are you seeking knowledge? Are you seeking, what
seek ye? It's a good question, isn't it?
For us to ask ourselves. Say, well, preacher, I need peace. I need peace. And here's what
God says, thou wilt give him peace. perfect peace whose mind
is stayed on thee. You see, if we're going to seek
peace, we've got to seek Christ. All the blessings of God come
with the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have peace with God through
the Lord Jesus Christ. My peace I give unto thee, not
as the world gives, Not just the absence of conflict. No,
the gospel in seeking Christ, it might increase your, matter
of fact, it will increase your conflict with yourself. You're
not gonna know you had an old man until you get a new man.
And when you get that new man, you're gonna have a conflict
within yourself and you're gonna find yourself saying with Rebecca,
why am I thus? And the Lord's gonna say to you,
because there's two nations within you, you got two natures now,
and they're gonna be warring against one another, and the
flesh against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh
the rest of your life. Well, I don't want that. I want the
absence of conflict in my life. I want to experience the peace
of God. Well, to have the peace of God,
we have to have peace with God. I can only come in the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ, who himself is the Prince of Peace. You say, well, I want eternal
life. Well, this is eternal life, that they might know thee, the
only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. So Christ
is life eternal. He is life eternal. My sheep
hear my voice and they follow me and I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. What seek thee? Are we seeking
a sign? Are we seeking wisdom? Are we
seeking temporal pleasures and profit from God? Are we seeking just eternal salvation? We're seeking Christ. I need to have my sins forgiven.
Who can forgive sins but God? But that you might know that
the Son of Man has power to forgive sins upon the earth, I say unto
thee, take up thy bed and walk. I say unto thee, forgiveness
can only come in Him. Wisdom? Christ is our wisdom. Turn with me to first You have
your Bibles, I think, still open, maybe to 1 Corinthians 1. Look
with me at verse 30. Verse 30, but of him are you
in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption, that according as it is written,
he that glorieth, letting glory in the Lord. I need wisdom. I need true wisdom. I need righteousness. I need an acceptance before God.
I need forgiveness. I need peace. I need hope. Oh, all of the blessings of God
come in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. I've told this story a couple
of times over the years. I'm gonna tell it again right
now. I love it. Very wealthy man. had a son that
he loved dearly. And this man and his son loved
collecting very rare, expensive art. And they spent many years
going around the world buying and collecting art. The son died. The father was
grieved and eventually he died. And the father had put, had a
will. And so they had an auction. All this priceless art was going
to be auctioned off. An auctioneer gets up and he
holds up a portrait of the son who had died before the father. And he's asking for And everybody
there was there for the good stuff and everybody there thought,
well, we don't even know who that is. That's not a famous
painting. Finally, there was a butler in
the back of the room. He knew who that was a portrait
of and he raised his hand and made a bid and bought that portrait
of the son. At which point, the auctioneer
dropped the gavel and said, the auction is over. And everybody
in bewilderment thought, what is he talking about? It's in
the will of the man, the old man, that whoever purchased the
picture of his son got it all. And so the auction's over and
the butler gets everything. Such a clear picture, isn't it? What seek ye? All the blessings
of God are, as the scripture says, yes and true, yea and amen,
sure and certain in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And here's the... If we're seeking
Christ, we'll not be satisfied until we awaken his likeness,
if we're seeking him. The second question is, where
dwellest thou? These disciples didn't Didn't
do like the Pharisees and say, who gave you this authority?
Where'd you come from? They didn't say, well, we want
to know where you're leading us. No, they said, where dwellest
thou? Where do you abide? That's what that word dwell,
right now. If we're seeking Christ, we'll
seek him in the present tense. You can't seek Christ yesterday
and you cannot seek Christ tomorrow. Now is the day of salvation.
Now is the acceptable time. Faith can only be experienced
in the present tense. Right now. How do I know if I'm
seeking Christ? I'm not just looking back over
the history of of the Bible, trying to decide for myself whether
or not it's legitimate. I'm not putting God on the test
to see where he's going to take me. I just want to know where
he is right now. Lord, where dwellest thou? Where
do you abide? Where are you right now? Because
I just want to be where you are. That's what seeking Christ is. He is our daily bread. The Israelites tried to gather
up manna in the wilderness and have enough left over for tomorrow.
And they woke up the next morning and the manna was full of worms.
Why? Because you can't have Christ
for tomorrow. You must seek him daily. It's a continual thing. And that's
what faith does. Faith just keeps looking for
Christ and looking to Christ and hoping in Him and wanting
to know more of Him. Where dwellest thou? Well, where does the Lord Jesus
dwell? Where does He dwell? Tricia and I were talking to
a couple just the other day They were telling us about their pastor
and how he is so interesting because he
relates the Bible to current events. And he explains why things
are the way they are in the world and what's going on in the world
by using the Bible. Truth is, what you go to the Bible to look
for, you're going to find. You're going to find whatever
you're looking for. You can use the Bible to justify anything. And I said, well, they had just
found out. They asked me what I did. That's
why the whole conversation came up about their preacher. I didn't
ask about their preacher. But they wanted me to know they
have a church and how much they liked their pastor. And I said,
well, I said, I just try to preach verse by verse through the Bible
and make a beeline to the cross quickly as I can because in the
volume of the book it is written of him. Where does he abide? He abides in his word. He abides
in his word. We go to the Bible, we're looking
for the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's revealed himself. He's not only the author of the
scriptures, he's the subject of the scriptures. He's revealed
himself in his word. Paul said, I determined not to
know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified. You know how orchestra will tune
their instruments before they prepare to play. And there was
a fellow on the, cello and he just kept strumming the same
note over and over and over again. And the conductor finally said,
man, what are you doing? And you know how confusing that noise
is when everybody is at one time trying to tune their instruments.
And the fellow on the cello said, he said, well, they're all looking
for the right note. I found it. I found it. And that's what men do. They
go to the Bible. They're looking for something. They don't know
what they're looking for. We found Him. He has revealed
Himself in His Word. And we just keep playing the
same note over and over and over again. And God's people love
that note. It's the sweetest sound to their
ears. Preacher, don't tell me about
what's going on in the world and how to fix the world. What
I need to do? Tell me about Christ. Preach
Him to me. Because He's who I'm seeking.
He's who I need to know better than I do. He's my life. He's my Savior. I just want to
know what He's done and who He is and how He's revealed Himself
in His Word. And I hate it when men talk about
the Bible having practical application. Nothing is more practical than
the gospel. Nothing is more practical than
Christ. As you receive Christ Jesus,
so walk ye in him. How did we receive him? We received
him in faith. And so we walk by faith, not by sight, looking
unto Jesus, who himself is the author and the finisher of our
faith. So the Lord says, what seek ye? What are you looking for? A lot
of people seeking a lot of things. God's Word, from the very beginning,
let there be light. And there was light. Oh Lord,
this world, is without form and void and darkness is upon the
face of the deep. Lord, would you send your spirit
and cause light to shine in this dark hole and reveal the glory
of Christ to me? Cause me to find my hope and
my life in him. You see how pointed this question,
you see how important the answer to this question is? The Lord is saying to you and
to me exactly what he said to those disciples of John the Baptist.
What seek ye? What seek ye? I have to ask myself
that question. What am I looking for? Not only is the Lord hidden and
he is hidden. He's hidden in his word. It's
called a mystery, the mystery of the gospel. And only by his
grace can he be revealed. But he's also among his people. We've come here this morning.
I hope and pray that the Lord has put it on each of our hearts
to be here, to seek him. He said, where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them. This is the place where the Lord's
pleased to show forth his grace and his glory to sinners, where
the gospel's preached, where his word is opened. This is where
the windows of heavens are opened. This is where the breaking of
the bread, you remember those disciples who who insisted that
the Lord, Lord we say, come into our home and in the breaking
of bread their eyes were opened and they beheld Him. So we come
to this place and we open God's Word and we break His bread and
all throughout the Old Testament, all the solemn assemblies and
all the feast days and All these things that were practiced by
the Old Testament church were for the purpose of God coming
down and revealing himself to his people. And so the Lord told
Moses, he said, you make this ark, which is a glorious picture
of Christ, and you put on top of the ark a golden mercy seat. And you put over the mercy seat
the cherubim. And on the day of atonement,
you go into the holies of holies and you put the blood on the
mercy seat. And here I will meet with you. And so every time we come together,
we have the promise of the angels of God, taking the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ and putting it on the mercy seat. And God
says, and the Shekinah glory of God, the presence of God. Oh, how we hope and pray that
we will know him when we come together. If we're seeking Christ,
we're gonna be where he's promised to be. He's promised to be in
his word. He's promised to be among his
people. What a blessing Thomas missed
when he wasn't with the disciples, when the alarm peered onto them. We just read in 1 Corinthians
1 that he uses the foolishness of preaching to save them which
believe. How profitable, how glorious
is the preaching of the gospel to our salvation? Where dwellest thou? I'm answering
that question. The Lord dwells in his word. He dwells among his people in
the preaching of the gospel. And he dwells in heaven. Set your affections on things
above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. When
the Lord Jesus Christ ascended back into glory, the Father said
to him, sit thou here at my right hand until I make all thine enemies
thy footstool. What's the Lord doing right now?
The Holy Spirit is causing the elect of God to do what Mary
did and sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ and look to
him and listen to him. You're not here to listen to
a man. You're here to hear, as Cornelius said, we are all here,
H-E-R-E, to hear, H-E-A-R, whatever God has commanded thee to tell
us. That's why we're here. Amen?
We're here to hear. The Lord comes down from heaven. and the power of his spirit. Why? We come into this world at enmity
with God because we're sinners. And so when the father said to
his son, sit down here at my right hand until I make all thine
enemies thy footstool, he's talking about those who are by nature
at enmity with God, brought to faith in Christ to sit at his
feet and choose that one thing that is needful, to hear the
voice of the Savior. These disciples said, Lord, where
dwellest thou? Where are you? We just want to
be where you are. Well, he's in the heavens. And he was received back into
glory because he accomplished the work that he came to do.
The father gave him his rightful place on his throne because he
was successful in accomplishing the salvation of his people.
He put their sins away once and for all. We have a reigning,
sovereign, successful Savior who is our surety before God. He's our advocate before the
Father. And we set our affections on things above where Christ
is seated. He is seated. You know all those
Old Testament sacrifices and ceremonies that we read about
in the Old Testament? There's one, you know, there
was the showbread, and there was the table, and there was
the labor, and there was the ark, and there was all these
things. There's one piece of furniture
conspicuously missing in the Old Testament temple. There was
never mention of a chair. Never mention of a chair. Why? Because the priest could never
sit down. Their work was never finished. They were constantly
slaying animals and shedding blood. What is the one most conspicuous
piece of furniture in heaven? It's the throne of God. And our Savior is sitting on
it. Why? Because he's finished. When he bowed his mighty head
on Calvary's cross and cried, Father, into thy hands, I commend
my spirit. It is finished. It's finished. He finished the
work. He did everything required for
the salvation of his people. He did not return to his father,
Boyd. He accomplished the purpose for
which his Father sent him. Two questions, brethren. And
I pray the Spirit of God will press these questions home to
my heart, to your heart, daily. What are you looking for? What
is it you really want? What seek ye? that we might respond. Lord,
where dwellest thou? Right now, where are you? I need
thee. I can't think of any more important
questions. Our Heavenly Father, thank you
for your word. We ask, Lord, that you would
be pleased now to Bless this table to our hearts, that as
we receive the bread and the wine, that we might have our
hearts set on thee. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Adam? 512? Let's stand together,
and Adam's gonna come and lead us in number 512. I'm not really familiar with the
way this tune goes here.