John 17 again. John chapter 17. My text is one
verse. I like to read it first and we'll
look back over the chapter just briefly. The title of my message is Double
Kept. This will really be a treat to you. It was for me. It'll
be better than bouillon. It's going to be good. John 17
verse 12, our Lord's praying to his father in his high priestly
prayer. And he says, while I was with them in the world, I kept
them in my name. Those that thou gavest me, I
have kept and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition
that the scripture might be fulfilled. The Lord Jesus Christ has kept.
He is keeping, and he shall keep his sheep. Who is that? He's speaking here, we looked
before, in this portion, we'll read later in verse 20, he's
speaking concerning all of them, he's not praying just for those
11 that sit in there with him, but he's speaking about his sheep
throughout time. Of old, of that day, of the days
to come, which is us, and maybe there's gonna be some generations
after us, I don't know. But he's speaking of all of them. Who are those people that he
hasn't lost any, that he's kept in his name? Who are those? Look in verse two, John 17, verse
two. It says, Thou hast given him
power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life, that's
being kept, to as many as thou hast given him. Lord Jesus Christ
is going to keep those in His name, and He's going to keep
them, and He's going to lose none that are given to Him. Those that are given to Him.
It says in verse 6, John 17, 6. I have manifested thy name
unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world. Thine they
were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.
I gave the word to them, I've kept them, and they've kept you
word that I gave them. and you gave them to me." Verse
9 says, I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but
for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine. Those
are people given to Christ. Verse 11, and now I am no more
in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine
own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one
as we are. Christ has kept his people, and
he's keeping his people, and he kept them, and he prays to
the Father. He said, Father, I'm coming to
you. I've kept them while I was with them, and I'm coming to
you, and you keep them, because they're one. We're in his hands. Many years ago, a faithful man
got up and preached, and they started that slogan for Allstate.
You're in good hands with Allstate. He said, that's blasphemous.
They don't know that, and they don't mean it that way, The pride
of man just goes unseen. We're in his hands. That ought
to comfort us. We're being given to him. He's
kept us in his grip. And that ought to terrify those
that hate him. Verse 12, while I was with them in the world,
I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gavest me, that's
who I've kept. and none of them's lost, but
the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled.
Kept and kept. The Lord said, I've kept them
in thy name. Those that thou gavest me, I've kept. You ever
prayed and you kind of said the same thing a couple of different
times and you kind of stop and you don't want there to be awkward
silence. So you say something you've said before, you've heard
somebody else say before. That's a vain repetition. Our
Lord does not pray in vain repetitions. that every word's precious. And
I was like, I wonder why he said it that way. And it ought not
be that we have such a good idea and such a good understanding
that we stand up and say, that's wrong, or somebody wrote it wrong,
or the translators in King James Times messed up. Maybe we ought
to just sit back and say, I wonder what the Lord meant by that.
Maybe he'll teach us something. Maybe I don't know everything,
and I may have to go look some stuff up. He might be pleased
to show me something. I remember reading in Galatians
1 when Paul said, I marvel that you so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel,
which is not another. Those two anothers, you remember
that? Those are different words in it. And he said, you called
to something different. It's not close to being different.
It's wildly different. Those two anothers, they mean
different things, don't they? He says first, here's the first
kept, verse 12. While I was with them in the
world, while the Lord walked this world, with these 11 he's
standing next to right now. He said, I kept them in thy name. That's the first kept. I've kept
them in thy name. Tereho, that's the Greek. It
means to guard, to keep them from loss, keep them from injury.
And it's properly meant to keeping his eye upon them. We looked
at that Sunday, didn't we? To guide them. I've kept my eye. I guide them with my eye. It's
not just keeping an eye out. It's different, isn't it? I've
kept them. Kept them. I've guided them. I got to thinking
about the areas that the Lord keeps us this week. And I fully
understand he keeps us in all things. And things seen and unseen
and everything. I understand that. But I just
wanted to sit down and I wanted to just ponder, how does he keep
me? He does, I know he does. Maybe
I ought to examine that so I can thank him for it. How does he
keep me? I thought, well, he keeps me
physically, doesn't he? He feeds me. I ain't starved
to death yet. He fed those, but that great
multitude came to him. He was up in the mountain, and
his disciples sat down, and it was the Jews' Passover there
in John 6. And he looked up, and a great company come, 5,000
men, not counting the women and children. 5,000 people came,
and he looked at those 12, and he said, Whence shall we buy
bread that these may eat? There's probably 10, 15, 20,000
people there, humans. And he looks at the 12 and he
said, when shall we buy bread? That means where we're going
to go to get the bread. Which grocery store do you want
to go to to feed these people? Cash, you made a lot of meals. 10,000 people showing up. Which
restaurant you want to take them to? And they were calculating
without Christ, weren't they? And I said, we got 200 penny
worth of bread. We can't feed nobody. What are
you talking about? We can't hardly feed us. How are we going to
feed them? And then one of them popped up,
Andrew, didn't it? Peter's brother. And he said,
there's a lad here, he's got five barley loaves and two small
fishes, but what's that? That's all we have, Lord. Two
sardines and five biscuits. You gonna have to keep us. We
can't keep ourselves. And he said, make them in, sit
down. Y'all walking around, you're acting nervous. Calm down, sit
down. He took him loaves, and he gave thanks, and he distributed
it, and he took those fishes, and same thing. He blessed it,
and broke it, and scattered it out. And when it was all done,
he said, take up the leftovers, that nothing be lost. Well, we
can get a good count of it. And they gathered 12 baskets
full of the fragments. 12 baskets. Them people needed to eat. 5,000
men needed to eat, and them 12 needed to eat, and our Lord needed
to eat. He was a man like I am. And he provided for it. He kept
them. Nine meals, they'd have been
in a lot of trouble if they missed nine meals. They said, what are
we going to do? Sit down. Give him a little sardines. He kept them. That's just in
the food, isn't it? What about clothing? We need
to have clothing. You can survive a little ways
without food and inclement weather, buddy. You've got about three
hours. You better have the right clothing on. Israel walked through the
desert for 40 years, and those leather sandals they had did
not wear out. They didn't have to go to a cobbler
and have them resold, and, well, that's buckle broke. I can refurbish
these. These are real good sandals.
They're made out of leather, and I can take the parts and fix
them. It was not needed. It was not needed. He reminded
them. He said, have I led you 40 years in the wilderness? pillar and the fire, and I was
with you the whole way, and I guided you. That's what we was looking
at. He guided them. He kept them. To guide them is to keep them.
That's his responsibility. He took on that task. He said,
I've led you 40 years to wilderness. Your clothes are not waxed old
upon you, and thy shoes not waxed old upon thy foot. Your covering
is good. It ain't gonna tarnish. Now,
we're just looking at the physical. We're looking at the spiritual
a little bit. But the covering he gives us spiritually, it ain't
gonna wear out. Not that robe of righteousness he gives. He
was sending out those 70, two by two, they went out. And he
said, the harvest is truly great, but the laborers are few. Pray
ye therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth
laborers into his harvest. Pray for young people to come
up, preach this gospel and call out his elect, do it. He said,
go your way. How are they going to hear unless
you go preach to them and go preach to them. He said, behold, I'll
send you forth as lamb among wolves. He warned him that ain't
gonna be easy. I ain't sending you down to Disneyland
for a couple of years. Go get your feet rubbed and some
back rubs and stuff. And no, he said, you're lambs,
I'm sending you to wolves. Now go on. He said, carry neither
purse nor script nor shoes. He said, don't take a wallet,
don't take a lunchbox and don't take shoes. I'll keep you. I'll keep you." His prophet Elijah
went and he put it in his heart to pray that there would be no
rain. And it didn't rain, and everybody got hungry, and it
was bad. And he sent a raven that was
next to a brook, and Elijah just kicked back and said, well, that's
where the Lord had me. He said, sit down. I'll send
ravens of bread and meat coming in the morning and bread and
meat coming in the evening. And he sat there and ate. How long
did he sit there? 7,000 years. No, the brook dried
up. Well, the Lord's moved me. The brook's dried up. He went
and found some old widow woman, a Lord plate. The Lord took care
of him, didn't he? But he told those seven, he said,
carry neither purse nor script nor shoes. You just go preach. I'll feed you on the gospel.
And in Luke 22, 35, later on, they come back. And he said,
when I sent you without purse and script and shoes, lacked
ye anything? They said nothing. Nothing. David said, physically, I've
seen this come to pass. He said, I've been young and
I've been old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
nor his seed begging bread. I have. I've said, Lord save
some poor folks. He's put in the hearts of others
to take care of those that didn't eat. You ain't gonna go hungry
around me if I got beans and rice. We might have just biscuits
and sardines, but we were gonna be fed. Why? Because there's
love for the brethren. There's a heart there, there's
love. He provided all their food, he provided all their clothing,
and he provided all their shelter. And I thought of this. I don't
think I'm wrong, but I was thinking on the good things. Not a boat
sank. Boats sank. Boats have always
sunk. not one for the Lord's people
on it. Paul was on a ship in a storm for two weeks, and they
rammed the bow of that boat right into Malta, and the back of it,
the stern broke off, right as they stepped off on the shore.
It served its purpose. Noah's family and all those animals
and all that treacherous water that came and all that, that
ark failed not. That shelter from the storm didn't
fail. Jonah, he had a unique boat. It was a whale. through
the storm. And that whale didn't drown.
That whale didn't have a heart attack. It didn't have a broke
bone and have to go somewhere else. It went exactly where the
Lord put it. That shelter went the whole way. Those cities of
refuge never failed anybody. Get in them. Get in. Well, you
got here and we changed our minds and we like that, fellas. We're
gonna let you go back to it. And that didn't happen. It was a
shore shelter. And for their bodies. physically. The Lord performed so many bodily
miracles, didn't he? He told those two disciples of
John that was in prison. He said, you go tell him what
you see in here. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are
cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have
gospel preached to them. So I've done these things. Raised
Lazarus from the dead, didn't he? All sorts of healings, he
cast out all those demons. And he said, and blessed is he,
whosoever shall not be offended in me. Does that make you mad?
Don't make me mad. I ain't offended in that. I'm
happy. Good. And not preventing harm to come
to our fleshly bodies. I thought of Peter. Judas Iscariot
came with that multitude when the Lord was betrayed. That son
of perdition, we'll touch on it at the end. So easy to just
dwell on those things, isn't it? Tell me about that one betrayed. Satan will help you find the
Antichrist all day long. Let's look to the, let's look
to the Christ. But Peter was there and here
comes Judas and that great multitude. And I said, Lord said, who are
you looking for? I said, Jesus and I said, I am.
And they just fell flat on their backs. They got up again. He's who you look for. It ain't good common sense to
make them just run for the hills or bow. They had it in their
heart that day was against him. And he said, I've told you that
I am. If you therefore seek me, let these go their way. You don't
take me, take me. But these ones, these 11 sitting
right here, you let these go their way. That the saying may
be fulfilled, which he spake of them, which thou givest me,
I've lost none. Right then, that great multitude,
you know what happened? Peter took out a knife and cut
off the ear of Malchus, didn't he? And the Lord kept Peter physically
right then from being put to death immediately or captured
right then. And that sinful act. It says the band and the captain
and the officers of the Jews, they took Jesus and bound him
and they led him away. And those 11 stayed right there. Peter
cut a man's ear off. The Lord kept him. He said, let
these go their way. Then Peter acts a fool, right?
And I thought whenever they went in to get Osama bin Laden, if
he said, all right, you can take me, but now all these criminals
here, you let them go. And then one of them wounded
a soldier. You can let him. No, I ain't going to let him
go. Killed a lot of them. How did Peter escape out of there?
How did him live? Lord kept them. He kept them. They were his.
He ain't going to lose a one. Not a one. Physically, in every aspect,
the Lord keeps his people. Spiritually, we're kept. We're kept. He said, Simon, Simon,
behold, Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you
as wheat. Well, doesn't he desire everybody on the face of the
earth? He's got most of them, don't he? You're one of my people. And
the demons know that, like them sons of Sabaoth. They said, Christ
we know and Paul we know, who are you? No, you. As he desired,
he may sift you as wheat, but I prayed for thee that thy faith
fail not. And when thou art converted,
there's no possibility that his faith is going to fail. The Lord
prayed for it because he's keeping him on his hand, protecting us,
guiding us. And he said, and When thou art
converted, strengthen thy brethren. I'm gonna prove to you what I
just said, and whenever it's proved to you, it's gonna hurt,
you're gonna weep bitterly. And then when you get the lesson
and your brethren say, I'll never deny it, but hold it easy, buddy,
come on. Let me tell you about who man is and who God is. I'll
keep myself. No, you won't. No, you won't.
He's gonna keep you. You remember these things. You
teach your brethren. Strengthen thy brethren. He keeps
our faith and he keeps it because he's the author and finisher.
In Hebrews 12 it says, Wherefore seeing we are also compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us
run with patience. How do you run with patience?
I usually have to keep me while I'm running, while I'm being
patient, while I run. You have to run with patience. Run with
patience. The race that's set before us,
looking unto Jesus, looking to Him, the keeper, the guide. Remember
what we looked at Sunday? How does somebody guide you?
Well, they go first, they're the forerunner, and you just
follow the back of their head. Look unto him, the one that's
keeping us. He won't lose one. The author and the finisher of
our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the
cross. Pick up your cross. I'm gonna
have to be on one, not the one he was on. I may get crucified
upside down in his body. Spiritually, there's no condemnation. He's bored of that. He's bored
of that wrath. Who cares what man can do? Kill the body, he
can kill the soul. He endured that cross, despising
the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have
not resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Neither have I,
neither have you, and we never will. keep ourselves, and strive
under blood, and sustain ourselves, and guide ourselves. He has,
He is, and He forever will. That's him. We just look to him.
How are we gonna look to him? He has us in his grip. And he's
bold. And just like Gomer, he's gonna
put those thorns in the way, he's gonna put those walls in
the way, whether that's in the mind or the body or providence
or whatever, to turn us to look to him. Because he's the keeper. He keeps us. That's what we read Sunday. Walk
about Zion. You've lived through this. some,
ain't you? You've been down this path of
thorns and walls and getting corn and running out of corn.
Walk about Zion and go around about here and tell the towers
thereof. Go remember those things. Look at it. Watch it. Mark ye
well her bulwarks and consider her passes that ye may tell the
following generation. For this God, this Keeper of
Kepem, is our God forever and ever. He'll be our guide, He'll
be our keeper unto and beyond death. That's Him. 1 Peter 1
says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to His abundant mercies hath begotten us again
into a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you All this stuff we're going through
now, that's just the Lord's will that He's pleased to do to bring
us to Him. Who are kept. 1 Peter 1.5. Who are kept by the power of
God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed at the last
time. All the days of our lives until
this body of death kills off and we see Him. Right then at
that moment, I get it. There he is, seeing face to face. What keeps us from selling out
and being just for ourselves? His power. We are kept by the
power of God through faith. We're kept by his grace. We're
kept by his faithfulness. Now physically, I read that to
you, I read it to you spiritually. I've been young and now I'm old,
and I've not seen the righteous forsaken. I've not seen his seed
begging bread. Spiritually, I've never seen
the righteous forsaken. Those that the Lord's worked in, now
there's those that go out from us because they never were of
us, but the ones the Lord keeps, they stumble and they fall down
and they scuff their knees, get sand in their eye and they cry
a lot, they got to be picked up and carried, and I've seen Him keep
them the whole way. and I've never seen him begging
bread. I've never seen him begging for Christ to see him, to know
him, to have his presence with him. We want it, we get hungry,
and he knows when to feed us. I've never seen one starve to
death spiritually. It ain't happened. All that's
while he's with us. Look here in our text, John 17. I have back to the text in my
notes, and I didn't have you turn anywhere. John 17 verse
12. While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gavest me, I
have kept, and none of them is lost. That's for perpetual present
tense right now. Those that you gave me, those
that I have kept, while I was with them and those that I keep
now, none of them is lost. He says keep twice, that's the
second keep. Phulaso is the Greek, this was
beautiful. It means properly to prevent
escaping. He's kept us physically and everything,
you name it, just list the category, I try to keep it simple. Spiritually
he's kept us, what's needed spiritually, all spiritual blessings have
a place in him and he's kept it. What he's given, it ain't
gonna go away, that's so. Boy, that's precious. Those that
thou gavest me, I have kept, and none of them is lost. I've
prevented them from escaping by implication to preserve. I've
preserved them. They ain't getting away. They're
mine. That made me happy. That made
me happy. Psalm 34, he said, he keepeth
all his bones, not one of them is broken. That scripture come
to pass too, didn't it? It seems like every one of them,
everything he says comes to pass, don't it? Look to this self and look to
this flesh, look to this world and get so distracted. Lord said
so, it's going to happen, I know that, you know that. Not a bone's
going to be broken. Not a bone was, in the body.
He went to that cross, made us. You who believe in this room,
he has made us and he gave his face and they marred it. He gave his back and they scourged
him. He gave his side, they pierced it. He gave his hands and they
nailed it. He gave his feet, they run them
through too. but not a bone. Why? He said, at bride, at church
that's mine, they're bone of my bone, flesh my flesh. That's
us. We're his bones. And ain't no
one of them gonna be able to escape or be broken. You ain't
getting away and you don't wanna go nowhere. And we're just fine
with that, ain't we? Oh to grace how great a debtor.
Robert Robinson wrote that. Daily I'm constrained to be.
Let that grace now like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee,
prone to wonder. What's the cry of that man that
wrote that song down? Bind me to a fetter. I read that
before everybody showed up. It's a handcuff. That's what
that is. You handcuff me to you, Lord.
Why? Because I'm prone to wonder.
I know me. I'll escape. Like Peter, Lord, I'll never
leave you. Ooh, something shiny. Squirrel. And I turn and run. I've watched
me do it. You bind me. You keep me. You
keep me from escaping. You preserve me. Prone to wonder,
Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart. Oh, take and
seal it. Seal it for thy court to love.
We ought not jump off the Armenian train and be scared to tell people
to give their heart to Jesus. If he gave you a heart, you're
gonna give it to him. It's yours, Lord, take it. You
keep it. I'll ruin it. He's faithful. He said, I kept them. I kept
them. I kept them in their body, I
kept them in their spirit, and I'll keep them forever. They
ain't getting away from me. What's the context of that? We need
kept, don't we? While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gavest me, I
have kept. I've kept them in every way you can keep them,
and then I've kept them forever. And none of them is lost, but
the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
The son of perdition. Judas was physically kept, and
he seemed to be the ranking member of the apostles, didn't he? But
he was not kept spiritually because he was not given. And he had
clothes on, his shoes didn't wear out, and he had food in
his belly, and he had money to get around on, and those things. I also never recorded his preaching
that anybody's ever saved by. But he was not given to the Lord
to keep. That's why it wasn't kept. But
the Scriptures might be fulfilled. Which one? My own familiar friend
whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his
heel against me. Psalm 41.9. How would he say
something like that? I'll tell you what, he said,
that's my friend. Judas wasn't no friend to him, but the Lord
was friendly to him, wasn't he? He provided him shelter, provided
him food, provided him clothing, protection. Carnally, we do those
things for our friends, for our families, don't we? As good to
Judas as the Lord was, he was the betrayer. How good has he
been to mankind? Who's without excuse? All mankind's
without excuse, isn't it? Come! Come! He delights to show
mercy! Sinners! That's all we are! Ah! I know that. I know. I know! We'll all deal with that
next week, or I ain't that bad, or I already did that when I
was a kid, or something. What a friend. What a friend we have
in Jesus. People don't care. Now, he went around and said,
one of y'all is a devil. You're going to betray me. And each one, a
friend of mine's beat up pretty good for this. Am I the Judas? I don't want to fulfill, don't
you ask that. The apostles went around the
table and said, Lord, is it I? Lord, is it I? Lord, is it I? Peter mouthed off a lot, didn't
he? And the Lord said he was gonna deny him. Peter said, Lord,
is it I? Everybody didn't say, Lord, is
it Peter? He said, Lord, is it I? Thomas doubted and doubted
and doubted. I just don't think it's gonna
work out. He's just a Debbie Downer. Doubted all the time. They didn't go around and say,
Lord, is it Thomas? He never did seem too strong of a believer
to me. What about James and John? They wanted to fist fight everybody.
They're ruffians, man. They're just too harsh. They're
not tender enough to be your disciple, to be one of your apostles.
It's gotta be one of them. Lord is it James? Lord is it
John? Sons of Thunder? They didn't ask that. Likely,
Judas was the most respected out of the whole bunch. He's
the only one that had an additional duty. I thought too, how frightening.
Judas didn't fall into temptation. Did you know that? He wasn't
walking around doing everything right and somebody come to him
and tricked him and beguiled him and shook things fancy in
front of him. He went, he sought out the chief
priest and said, how much you give me? And he took the first
offer. He didn't even negotiate. Lord,
is it I? If an apostle that walked and
talked with a triune God and heard his voice speak to him
and heard him preach in human flesh, If he would willingly
forsake the Lord of glory, what's my hope? What's a sinner's hope? There's no different, Judas. I showed you the two caps, didn't
I? We are kept in this world in every way. We're kept from
escaping. We're kept from our own flesh
desires to serve ourselves. And we're kept eternally from
all harm. And we're kept from ever falling
away. And that's not just the 11, that's you and I who believe
now. Look at verse 20, John 17, 20.
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall
believe on me through their word. Now look at our text one more
time. Speaking of those standing there, those 11, and us now,
and the saints throughout time and any saints to come. What's
our hope of being kept? It's the Lord's doing. Salvation
of the Lord. That makes me happy, too. Look,
verse 12 again. While I was with them in the
world, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gavest me, I
have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition
that the scripture might be fulfilled. Those sheep that he will lose
none of. They're forever provided for
in every way imaginable, and they're guided, and they're preserved,
and there's no ability of escaping. We don't have the ability to
mess this up by ourselves. I can't get in the way. I love
reading that through Romans. Neither life nor death. Life
can't get in the way. Well, life gets in the way. We
say it all the time. Well, just life got in the way. That can't happen. I can't get
in the way. Who shall lay the charge to God's elect? Not even
me. Me accusing me don't matter.
He's kept me. He's the one that did it. And
that's for eternity. That's not for a 20 year term
life insurance policy. That's forever. Forever. That's a holy nature he's imported
to us. And when this body of death's buried and sin's no longer
present, The spirit in us, right now, that we have right now,
it will forever rejoice in the Lord that kept us. We'll say,
thank you, Lord. In keeping us, and shall evermore
keep us. We won't have the desire to escape
like we do now, because we won't have flesh, we won't have sin.
But we'll know he's keeping us, too, because it's his doing,
and we'll thank him for it. Isn't that something? I hope that's
a blessing to you. He's kept me, and I want him
to keep me. I ain't gonna get tired of asking him either. Ask
him all the time. Let's pray together. Father, what a king and lord
we have. What a redeemer. I'm in awe of his faithfulness
and his righteousness. Everything of his character,
Lord, and we we don't know what we don't know. We have no way
to measure the. Power of the Lord Jesus Christ
and keeping us in our day to day lives and. Give us a glimpse
of these things, Lord, we may rejoice. Give us a glimpse that
the spiritual keeping in the. Eternal keeping that we have.
We're going to be grateful and in all. of our Redeemer. Thank you for
this hour, Lord. Bless the world as you see fit.
Be gracious to sinful people that's prone to wonder. Forgive
us for what we are. It's in Christ's name that we
ask. Amen. Oh my, what a hope. Turn, if
you will, to hymn number 442, and let's stand together and
praise our Lord. Number 442. Praise Him, praise
Him, Jesus our blessing, His wonderful love proclaim. Hail Him! Hail Him! Highest Archangels in glory,
Strength and honor give to His holy name. Like a shepherd, Jesus
will guard His children. In His arms, He carries them
all day long. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer. Jesus. Jesus. Love unbounded, wonderful, deep
and strong. Praise Him, praise Him, tell
of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise Him, ever
in joyful song. Praise Him, praise Him, Jesus
our blessed Redeemer, heavenly portals loud with hosannas ring. Jesus, Savior, reigneth forever
and ever. Crown Him, crown Him, prophet
and priest and King. Christ is coming, over the world
victorious, power and glory unto the Lord belong. Praise Him,
praise Him, tell of His excellent greatness. Praise Him, praise
Him, ever in joyful song. unlockable to most people. We have some family there in
Maui and if you saw the news it's burning to the ground and
they've lost their boat and their home and the husband was in Oregon
with the son and the wife's there and they couldn't hear from her
for 24 hours and it was an already we've been wondering all day
if we'd hear from her and we got word right before we came
here and I thought man maybe the Lord he's from San Diego originally.
I offered our home to them, and I said, maybe the Lord kept them
to keep them. Burnt down everything you've
got, took everything, every memory you have, wiped off the face
of this earth just to keep them. And I got excited. So anyway,
I pray so. Thank you for this evening, Lord
willing, we'll meet again Sunday morning, 945, so you're dismissed. Thank you.