I sing my Saviour's wondrous day, He conquered when he fell, Tis finished, said his dying breath, And shook the gates of hell.

Hymn 168, Tunes 4, 240.

Sing, all ye nations, of God the King! He conquered them, He fell. Jesus' image set his dying breath. and show the ways of love. His image now in mem'ry rise, The dreadful work he's done. And shall his sovereign throne arise, His kingdom is become, Most her sure foundation lay, All glory and renown.

When through the ripples of the land He flows to raise the crown, Lofted at His Father's side, Sincerely called, Yes, Lord, To heav'n and earth his hands divine, The heavens o'er me fall. Sinks from His perfect design A weightless head of crowns And all the sands of darkness hide The temple of Israel.

Let us read together from the Holy Word of God in the Prophecy of Isaiah chapter 63.

Isaiah chapter 63

Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah, this that is glorious in his apparel? travelling in the greatness of his strength, I that speak in righteousness, mightier to say. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that trelleth in the wine-fair? I have trodden the wine-press alone, and of the people there was none with me. For I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked, and there was none to help, and I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me, and my fury had upheld me. and I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them, according to his mercies, but according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses. For he said, Surely thou art my people, children that will not lie. So he was their Saviour. In all their afflictions he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them, and he bared them and carried them. or the days of old, but they rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit. Therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them.

Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people saying, where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? Where is he that put his Holy Spirit within him? that led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them to make himself an everlasting name, that led them through the deep as a horse in the wilderness that they should not stumble. As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest. So didst thou lead thy people to make thyself a glorious name.

Look down from heaven, and behold, from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory, where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels? And of thy mercies toward me, are they restrained? Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not, Thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer, thy name is from everlasting. O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways and harden our heart from thy fear? Return, for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance, the people of thy holiness, have possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary. We are thine. Thou never barest rule over them. They were not called by thy name.

May the Lord bless the reading of his own precious word and grant unto us a spirit of real prayer.

Almighty, most merciful, and eternal God of heaven, whose name is from everlasting. And as we read, O Lord, in thy word, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. O Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever. We desire to bow before thy great majesty. We desire to bow before our heavenly father, I said, Lord Jesus, whatsoever you ask in my name, I will do it. So we come to thee, our gracious and eternal Father, and we beseech thee in the name of Jesus Christ that thou wouldst have mercy upon us, that thou wouldst receive us graciously, that thou wouldst guide us by thy counsel and afterward receive us unto glory.

We pray that thou hast put forth thy spirit with the word, and make the dead to hear, that thou hast opened the eyes of the blind, and thou hast stopped the ears of the deaf, and caused those that are dumb to speak. Lord Jesus, when thou wast here upon earth, thou didst all these things. Thou didst literally cause the deaf to hear, the blind to see, and the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk. and they'll cast out devils, and we pray that they will come and do these wonderful things in the day in which we live, that there may be signs to follow the preaching of the word, that the stronghold of Satan may be pulled down, and the kingdom of our Lord Jesus may be set up in the hearts of sinners. Lord, let thy work appear.

unto thy servants and thy glory unto their children we do humbly beseech thee show us thy ways teach us thy paths and that enable us oh lord to cast all our care upon thee and to have that sacred realization for he careth for you lord we we do thank thee that we have a great high priest who was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. We thank thee that he knows what sore temptations mean, for he has felt the same.

So we come to thee, Lord Jesus, and we pray that thou wouldst have mercy upon us, and that thou wouldst grant light and life and liberty in our souls, and that thou wouldst graciously guide us in that way, and that thy word may be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. We pray that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God our Father and the sacred fellowship of the Holy Spirit may rest and abide upon us.

All we do pray, most blessed spirit of truth that thou wouldst Come and open the word of truth to our heart and to our understanding here this afternoon. Come and make the word a living word, a powerful word. We may have the application of that word into our hearts, into our souls.

We pray that most blessed spirit of truth that thou would truly convince us of our sin. reveal unto us the glorious person of our Lord Jesus Christ. We read in thy word, for God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. We pray that it may be so as we gather round the word of God this afternoon and as we gather round the table of the Lord that we may be favoured with thy wonderful presence and love and mercy and grace.

Lord, we do pray that we may know those divine drawings of our heavenly Father, drawing us unto his best beloved and all-glorious Son. For none come except the Father draw. May we feel the living reality of those precious words. Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore, with loving kindness have I drawn thee. or that we might know the sweet reality of those words here, that the love of God may be shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.

We do pray that they will remember us as a church, that they will graciously grant that we may truly love each other, serve each other, and bear each other's burdens. We think of those that cannot be with us, we think of Ellie, Pray that thou wouldst be with them there at Ripley. We think of Jacob and Inika. Be with them where they are. And grant that we may truly meet together in spirit and in truth.

And that we pray, Lord, that thou in thy great mercy would remember our brethren, the deacons, and grant them thy divine help and strength and guidance in all matters. And Lord, we pray that thou wouldst graciously Remember the whole of our congregation and work mightily, powerfully and effectually. Any that can't gather, we pray that those be with them where they are and undertake for each one. We seek thy richest blessing then, Lord, upon us as a church and as a congregation. And we pray that there may be those that shall be constrained to give the word of their testimony We do humbly beseech them.

Lord, we pray to be delivered from the temptations of Satan, from the power and dominion of sin. And we pray, most gracious Lord, that thou wouldst fulfil that wonderful promise that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. Lord, do come here this afternoon and lift up that glorious standard of the cross of Christ. of the suffering saviour, of the precious blood that was shed, of the holy law that was fulfilled and honoured and magnified and divine justice satisfied in that glorious atoning sacrifice, in that precious blood.

And we thank thee that he rose again for our justification and he's ascended up on high, he sitteth at thy right hand and we come to thee in his holy name, and we plead with thee that thou wouldst graciously have mercy upon us, that thou wouldst show us thy ways and lead us in thy path. Remember the young of the flock, put the fear of the Lord in their hearts in their young and tender years.

Remember, Lord, the young friends and have mercy upon them bring living faith in Jesus Christ that they may become true followers of thee and of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Remember, Lord, we pray all in the midst of the journey of life that thou wouldst give grace and wisdom and guidance and direction in all matters.

Remember those that wander, wander from the ways of truth and love. and cause them to return, we do humbly beseech thee. There is nothing too hard for thee. Thou art able to do abundantly more than we can even ask or think. O Lord of hosts, O God of Israel, O thou that dwellest between the cherubim's shineful, we do humbly beseech thee. Let us see thy goings in the sanctuary. Let us see thy power and thy glory as thou usest to be in the sanctuary.

Lord, we pray that thou in thy great mercy would remember those of us that are now in the evening time of life's journey. Remember us with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people and visit us with thy great salvation, that we may be prepared for that great change which must come.

Do hear us, Lord, we humbly pray thee, we thank thee for all thy tender mercies, thy loving-kindnesses that have passed before us in the way. Remember all thy servants as they labour in word and doctrine. Set them free, set them at liberty. Send out thy light. Send out thy truth. O Lord, we do beseech thee.

And O Lord, we do thank thee above all for the wonderful glories of our Lord Jesus Christ. that profound mystery of godliness of God manifest in the flesh. We thank thee that most gracious Lord for his holy life, for the law fulfilled, magnified and honoured in his glorious person and sacrifice. We thank thee that he died for our sins and rose again for our justification.

Oh, that we could behold the glory of that Saviour that is now passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God. Come and touch one's lips with the live coal from off the heavenly altar. Come and open thy word to our heart and to our understanding. We ask with the forgiveness of all our many sins, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

Let us now sing together hymn 584. The tune is Judah 475.

Jesus lived and loved and died,
rose and lives to intercede,
and with Zion on his breast,
he has said he'll ever rest.

Hymn 584. tune judah 475.

O come, O come, O come, O come, O come,
? In excelsis Deo ?
? Gloria in excelsis Deo ?
? From the shadow of the grave ?
? Peace on earth, goodwill to men ?
? I am divine ?
? Oh, how precious thou art ?
? How precious thou art ?

Thou givest me praise and fame, Christ has shown me mercy. And I am with my Father, and I am with my Mother.

Greatly feeling to need the Lord's gracious help I would direct your attention to the chapter we read Isaiah chapter 63 and we'll read verse 9 for our text. The prophecy of Isaiah chapter 63 verse 9 in all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them In his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bared them and carried them all the days of old.

In all their afflictions he was afflicted. Just as the Apostle Paul, he says in the Hebrews He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin. The Lord Jesus, He knew the afflictions of His people.

My mind in meditation yesterday, it was drawn very much to that word that we have in the in the book of Exodus concerning the children of Israel in their great trial and trouble in the land of Egypt. And we read in Exodus chapter 3 and verse 7, and the Lord said, I've surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt. and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters. But it was this little clause that drew me, for I know their sorrows. I know their sorrows, and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of the land, unto a good land and a large, unto a land flown with milk and honey.

But it was that little word, for I know their sorrows. I know their sorrows. In all their afflictions, he was afflicted.

I know in the beginning of this chapter, the first six verses, it's a very solemn prophecy concerning the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we read of him here, who is this that cometh from Eden with dyed garments from Bosra, this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to say.

And then this question, wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-flour? And then I've heard godly people mistakenly interpret this as being the first coming of Christ and it cannot be so friends he says wherefore art thou read in thine apparel and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine I have trodden the winepress alone and of the people there was none with me and this is the revelation that it's the second coming of Christ for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all their raiment.

And I've heard some interpret that as being the blood sprinkled, being the blood of Christ, but of course it's not. It's the blood of his enemies, of those who he's trampling them in his fury. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come, they're both the same day. the day of vengeance, the year of the redeemed. It's the second coming of Christ. The year of the redeemed because he will gather his children unto himself. The very first act in Christ in the second coming is he will send his angels to the four corners of the earth and he will gather his elect unto himself. That's the very first, you see, and it's the year of my redeemed. when those that were redeemed at Calvary shall then meet the Lord in the air, and they shall be forever with the Lord. But those that know him not, it's the day of vengeance.

And he says here in verse 5, I looked and there was none to help, I wondered that there was none to uphold. Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me, and my fury it upheld me. and I will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury and I will bring down their strength to the earth. It's a solemn day, the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ when he comes to judge the world in righteousness. It's a very solemn thought, isn't it?

The hymn writer says, see the judge our nature wearing. The son of man shall sit upon the throne of his glory. And before him shall all nations be gathered. Literally, everybody from the beginning of time to the end of time will be gathered before the Lord Jesus Christ. It's called what the old Puritans use, the grander size. The grander size is when Jesus will sit to judge the world. in righteousness, and the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all nations that forget God in that great and solemn day.

But then we move from verse six into verse seven, I will mention the lovingkindnesses. That's a very beautiful word, the lovingkindnesses of the Lord. God is love, infinite love. eternal love, almighty love. That's that lovely word, we quoted it in prayer. Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee. I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that he hath bestowed on us. the great goodness toward the house of israel which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses his loving kindnesses you think of that lovely hymn hymn number nine his loving kindness oh how great the loving kindnesses of the lord

And then there is this beautiful word in verse 8, for he said, surely they are my children, children that will not lie, so he was their saviour. So this is the glorious person of the Lord Jesus Christ, so he was their saviour. In all their afflictions, he was afflicted. And the angel of his presence save them. It's a wonderful expression isn't it, the angel of his presence. I think it's the Lord's servant Jacob when he was travelling in this wilderness journey and he speaks himself of the angel that was with him, the angel that guided him, the angel that directed him.

and it's a wonderful thing you know friends when we are enabled to remember all the way the Lord our God hath led us and in the blessing of Joseph from Jacob in Genesis 48 and we read in verse 16 the angel it's written with a capital a why because it's the glorious person of our Lord Jesus Christ, the angel which redeemed me from all evil. Bless the lads. So the Lord Jesus is referred to as an angel. An angel is a messenger. Of course he's not a created angel. He's the eternal son of the eternal father and the angel that delivered me. He guided him. He directed him.

We read in Genesis 32 verse 24, And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. In Hosea that man is called the angel, the messenger. In the minor prophets he's called the messenger of the covenant. is the glorious person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. When he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him. And he said, let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

the angel. He said to him, thy name shall be called no more Jacob but Israel, for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men and hast prevailed. You see, prevailing prayer, wrestling prayer, can wonders do bring relief in deepest straits. See that Jacob was in deep straits there. He was travelling back to the promised land from the house of Nahor. And it had been told him that Esau, his brother, was coming with 400 armed men to destroy him. And obviously there was great fear. There was great fear. Jacob's mother sent him. because Esau was vowing his death. He was 20 years there, under many trials from labour. And now he's returning home. And the Lord had promised him in Genesis 28 that he would not leave him until he had done that which he had spoken to him of. Lord would never leave him. So Jacob had these promises that the Lord would preserve him and that he would return to his father's house. And of course the Lord did. He sent all those droves and the women and the children before him, the droves of animals. And then he himself was left alone and he wrestled. And the Lord, you see, In all his afflictions, the Lord was with him. In all his troubles, in all his trials, the Lord was with him. In all their afflictions, he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity, he redeemed them. And he bared them and carried them all the days of old. You know, he bared them and carried them.

It's clearly revealed in Holy Scripture that the Eternal Father gave to his only begotten Son the Church, the whole Church of God before the foundation of the world. They were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. And they were given to Christ. And it was because of this people that were given to Christ that he became a man. took our nature, lived here upon earth in our nature, became bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh to redeem and to deliver and that he passed through tremendous sorrows on the behalf of his people, passed through terrible temptations, he suffered at the hands of the Pharisees, of the Jews. He was taken by the hands of these wicked men, the Romans and the Jews, and they crucified him.

And yet in all their afflictions, he was afflicted. As the Prophet says here in the Prophet Isaiah, he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed in all their afflictions he was afflicted.

You know we have that beautiful word in the second epistle to the Corinthians and in chapter 5 and the Lord he speaks there or the Holy Spirit is left on record for us and it says in verse 19 in 2 Corinthians 5 to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God for you could easily put there because it says for he hath made him who his son Jesus Christ God manifest in the flesh he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him he that knew no sin was made sin. See Christ knew no sin. We read in scripture he did no sin. Sin is any transgression of the law of God and Christ never transgressed the holy law of God. But he was made sin. When our heavenly father laid upon him the iniquity of us all, in all their afflictions. He was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them.

You know, friends, it's a very precious thing when we pass through afflictions and troubles and trials and the Lord draws near and the Lord blesses our souls. The Lord reveals himself in love and mercy unto us in our afflictions. in our troubles, in our trials.

And the angel of His presence saved them. And how the angel of His presence, so wonderful, so precious, upholds us in the midst of the deepest and darkest trials.

We should never forget in the Song of Solomon, those precious words they were to me when the Holy Spirit when I was in the midst of affliction and trouble and trial and the Spirit of God revealed unto me the glorious person of our Lord Jesus Christ. When Christ was revealed in the midst of all my utter helplessness and insufficiency, there was a sacred revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. And he was made so unspeakably precious.

And then, you see, the angel of his presence saved them. It's when you at your weakest and darkest, and in some of those deepest trials that you've walked in, but when the Lord appears, when he makes himself precious, when you feel his presence, and then you wouldn't change a thing when you feel his presence. You wouldn't change the trials, the troubles, the perplexities, because of where it's brought you to the end of self and safe in the arms of Jesus.

It's that lovely word in Solomon's song, come with me from Lebanon, my sister, my spouse, look from the top of the manna. You know, you look forward in faith, in that precious faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and then you have peace, then you have peace.

In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. His love to his people, mine's an everlasting love, it's an eternal love, it's an unchanging It's an almighty love. It's the love that took Christ to Calvary. It was that love that gave his life a ransom for all to be testified in due time. It was love that caused him to do that. In his love and in his pity. His love and pity. We just read in Exodus, I know their sorrows. The Lord knows our sorrows. He knows our temptations. He knows what sore temptations mean, for He has felt the same. And so, He feels for us. It's really what He's saying here. He feels for us in His love and His pity. He redeemed them. You think of the love and pity the kindness and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, when he gave his life for ransom for all, when he passed through those sorrows which we cannot even begin to describe, the depths of the sorrows and grief, the pain of our Lord Jesus.

As it says in Isaiah, he was despised, rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we headed it where our faces from him so he was despised why to redeem us he was set at naught how to redeem us he suffered he bled he died you know that that sacrifice he offered on Calvary was a holy sacrifice the life he lived was a holy life and it was to redeem us from sin and satan's power and it was uh decreed and purposed by the eternal god the soul that sinneth it shall die and therefore he came to deliver his people from death to redeem them from death and the the means that were decreed and purposed by God was that he would give his own life.

That pure, that holy, that loving life that he lived here as a man on earth. He would lay down that life for his friends. I have power to lay my life down. I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my father. gave his life a ransom for all to be testified in due time. And that's what we come to testify as we gather around the word of God here this afternoon in his love and in his pity he redeemed them.

And he bared them, carried them all the days of old from before the foundation of the world he carried were given to him before the foundation of the world and he carried them all the days of old. And you know the Apostle alludes to that very beautifully in the Ephesians from before the foundation of the world. He said in Ephesians 1, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ according as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

Isn't that an amazing thing that we should be holy and without blame before him It was love, that having predestinated us onto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. It was entirely the will of God. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the belowing. You see, that we should be holy and without blame. It's an amazing grace, isn't it? We, the vilest of sinners, the most wretched of sinners, and yet loved with an everlasting love, and yet redeemed.

Christ is on everything to deliver us from sin and Satan's power. We just sung in that hymn together, how a hell shook when he rose from the dead. He destroyed death. And he that had the power of death, that is the devil. That's what Christ has done. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace. The forgiveness of sins. David says, doesn't he in Psalm 130, but there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. There is forgiveness. How? Through the blood of Jesus, in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace, wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself.

that in the dispensation of the fullness of times, ye might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in him." Even in him. In this glorious person of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. For he said, surely they are my people, children that will not lie, so he was their Savior. all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bared them and carried them all the days of old. He carried them, he bared them.

You know friends, nobody else could do this. None but the Son of God manifest in the flesh, was able to redeem the church. All of the sons of Adam, born by natural generation, are stained and died with the sin of Adam. That's what it means when it says born in sin. It's what is passed on from generation to generation. We receive from our parents a sinful nature.

For it means born in sin, a sinful nature. But this man, the man Christ Jesus, his birth was the only holy birth that ever took place. When Adam and Eve had children, it was after they fell into sin. So the whole of their posterity was born in sin.

But this man, the holy God man, he knew no sin. He didn't have sin in his nature. He was holy. That's why it says in Luke chapter one, the angel said, that holy thing that shall be born of them. He was holy, he was pure. He was holy and pure the whole of his life. He did no sin. He brought in everlasting righteousness for his people. He magnified and honored that holy righteous law that we have minimized and broken.

But he didn't, in all their afflictions. We cannot really overemphasize sufficiently that in the holy life of Jesus Christ, he had that holy nature. human nature. He himself being the son of God was without sin and he lived as a man here in the midst of sin and wickedness and evil.

I'm quite sure my beloved friends that that was a great part of his sufferings and that is why it says in Isaiah He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, because he lived in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. Yet he himself was holy.

And what the world hated about him was because he was holy. Because he was pure, righteous. You think of the what the Lord Jesus he encapsulates the whole of the law of God in those words when he says thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself that's the law that's exactly what the law demands that is exactly what Jesus did though he was despised and rejected men yet he lived a life that was pure and holy and righteous all together and men hated him because his holy life, his kindness, his love, his compassion, it revealed just how they lacked those wonderful things that Jesus did and the kindness that Jesus showed when he lived here upon earth.

They thronged him daily. They brought their sick, their afflicted. He didn't turn them away. He healed them. in his love, in his pity, in his kindness, in his compassion. In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bared them and carried them all the days of old.

He died for us in He rose again for our justification. His bodily ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.

May the Lord at his blessing.