1 Samuel, the book of 1 Samuel. What does the Gospel of Christ
mean to you? Now, Christ is the gospel. And the gospel is Christ. So
when I say gospel, I mean the story of, the person, the work
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ crucified. Christ our
Lord and Savior. All that He is and all that He
did for us and is for us. Christ is the gospel. The gospel
is Christ. And the preaching of the gospel,
the hearing of the gospel is merely telling about and hearing
about Christ. What does the gospel mean to
you? What's it worth? Now, this is just a fact. Christ
is either all or He's not. Our Lord said this, he that loveth father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me. He that loveth son or daughter
more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his
cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall
lose it. He that loseth his life for my
sake shall find it. I just told you the whole meaning
of this story. If you didn't know, you now know. Two old milk cows in a cart,
but they have a heavy burden. They have a heavy burden. The ark of God here in this story
is the key. Like Wednesday night, the ship. The ark of God here in this story
is the whole key. If you go back to, well, you're
in chapter 3. This is the first mention in
1 Samuel of the ark. In verse 3, 1 Samuel 3, 3 says,
the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord. There was
a tent. The tabernacle was set up in
Shiloh. Shiloh was where Joshua set up
the tabernacle. There's no permanent temple right
now. And that's where the Ark of the Covenant, the Ark of the
Lord was. It says, verse 3, the lamp of
God went out in the temple of the Lord where the Ark of God
was, where Samuel was ministering before the Lord. So that's where
it was. That's where it was. Now this
ark of God. Now go back with me to Exodus
chapter 25. Exodus 25. And if I'm not careful, we'll
spend our whole time here because I did in my study. I started
studying this ark and I couldn't quit. It was such a blessing. The ark is not a thing. Although it was a box, a man-made
box, it represented a person. See, salvation is not in a thing
or a place, it's in a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord
plainly tells us not to use symbols, any symbol, any symbol at all
in worship. Don't do it, He said. The only thing, bread and wine,
is the only symbol, and that represents Christ. But you eat
that and it's gone. So you can't worship it, can
you? And that's why I said that. Don't use anything because you'll
end up worshiping it. You'll think it's something.
You'll think, if I have this thing, it will keep me from evil. That's exactly what Israel did. And it didn't. It killed them. But Exodus 25,
the ark is spoken of throughout these chapters given to Moses
by the Lord, the ark. The ark of God was a wooden box. Now look at it, verse 10. They
shall make an ark of shitham wood. Now, that wood is like
our locust. It's impervious, or cedar. It's
impervious to decay. Make this box out of shitham
wood. It will not decay. It will last
indefinitely. This ark now represents the Lord
Jesus Christ. He was a man. He was made a body. A body hast thou prepared me,
he said. He was made flesh, bone of our
bones, flesh of our flesh, but without sin, no decay. He would not die of natural causes,
can't. There's no sin. This represents
the humanity of our Lord, a man, bone of our bone, flesh of our
flesh, but much more. And it gives the dimensions of
it. Verse 11, overlay it with pure
gold, cover it with gold. Now, gold is a God-given thing,
isn't it? You just dig it. You don't alter
it. You burn away the dross, but
it sits there. Gold is brilliant, isn't it? Gold is lustrous, isn't
it? Gold is hard, isn't it? Hard,
isn't it? Hard. Gold will last forever. That's His deity. He's God-man. The ark of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what this represents.
If you noticed with me, every time it refers to the ark, it
doesn't just say the ark. A box. Never. Never. Always says the Ark of
God, Ark of the Lord, Ark of the Covenant, Ark of the Lord
of Hosts. Very reverent, fearful, honoring terms. It's not just a box. This is
the receptacle, the container, the vessel where God is. And that man that walked this
planet is not just a man. That's the ark of God. Ark means a coffin, a coffer. Ark means a receptacle. It means
a vessel. In that ark was hidden something. Inside that ark was hidden something,
man's natural view. What was it? Anybody know? The
covenant, the Word, God's written Word. All the treasures of God's
wisdom and knowledge was written down and put in a book and put
in that ark. If you could open it up and see
inside, you would see the greatest treasure known to man, God's
Word. Are you with me? I'm not talking
about a thing, I'm talking about Christ. In Him dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead in a body, all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge, and the mind of God, the will of God, the purposes
of God, the promise of God, the wisdom and knowledge, the glory
of God, the way to God was that ark. It was not a thing, though. It was a person. The truth of
God was in it, the way to God, the way to worship God. And in
Christ are hidden, hidden of the world what revealed to his
people. Most of you knew what this ark
was before I started telling you. You could have stood up
and told-our children could have stood up. I asked them and they
could have stood up. Wesley, your young children could
have stood up and said what seminary professors do not know. If I
had asked them what that ark was, they would have said, Jesus
Christ. In Christ, He had all these treasures.
Well, look at verse 17 on that ark, and here I'm doing it. Verse
17, make a mercy seat of pure gold. A mercy seat. Oh, John,
let's dwell here a few years. This is where God dwells. This
is where God said, I'll meet with you. Verse 22, I'll meet
with you there on the mercy seat. Verse 20 says, cherubims were
made and they hovered over the mercy seat. They covered the
mercy seat with their wings and their faces looked toward one
another. God said, make these two angels, these two cherubs,
attach them to that ark and have them both looking with their
wings touching each other and looking at one another down upon
as if looking into, beholding and amazed by this mercy seat. Peter wrote about this glorious
gospel of our God. He said, this gospel is things,
are the things which angels desire to look into. Do you want to know why we preach
the gospel every time? If you don't know, you must not
know the gospel. He said, which things angels
desire to look into. Gird up your loins, he said.
This mercy seat was a covering. This mercy seat was a lid that
covered what was in there. The Law, the Covenant, the Word
of God. You remember when Moses came
down from the mountain and the people had already broke it.
Before it was written, they were already breaking it. And he came
down and saw they were all naked and exposed and breaking the
law. And Moses, what did he do with
those first tables? What did he do with them? Threw
them down on the ground and broke them all. Broke it to show, you've
broken every one of these. Before they were even written.
Before there was a law. The man broke it. From the garden
till now. Broken. And God said, write another
set of tables. Don't let anything happen to
it. Make it complete. And put it in that ark. And put
a lid on it. So you'll never be broken. The
unbroken law. Kept safe in that ark. That's Christ. You're complete
in Him. He kept the law. He's our law
keeper. He says, put a lid on this. Shut
it up. with this mercy seat. And this mercy seat was the place
where all of the animal sacrifices, all the blood from bullocks and
goats and lambs and turtle doves, they would take the blood of
these innocent sacrifices. The people weren't innocent.
Poor people bring turtledoves, some bring a lamb, and they take
this blood, and the high priest, one man, would go into the Holy
of Holies, where this ark was, beneath the veil, and pour out
this blood on the mercy seat. What's he doing? What's this
all about? Well, he's taking the death, and that blood is
a clear sign that that animal died. The life of the flesh is
in the blood. The soul that sins shall surely
die. And the only way your soul can pay for what it's done is
to die, unless somebody does it for you. Substitute. And it
would take this blood of a substitute and pour it out and cover that
mercy seat, and it would run down and cover that whole bar.
So it's all covered. It's all atoned for. Pitch, propitiation,
expiation. It's done away. They broke the
law, but no, it's complete, it's covered, it's paid for, it's
atoned for. God said, when I see the blood,
I'll fast over you. That's the work of the Lord Jesus Christ
on Calvary's tree for His people. He kept the law. Righteousness
imputed. He died as our sin payment, our
punishment, not an offer. He obtained eternal redemption
for His people. He is the mercy seat. Christ
is the mercy seat. I go back to 1 Samuel chapter
3. You know, I thought about this.
Why do they call it a seat? Nobody ever sat on it. You ever
thought about that? Why do they call it a seat? Seat
also means a place where everything meets. Our Lord said, this is
where I'm going to meet you. I tell you, who didn't sit on
it and rest? God did. Christ did. Sat on it. His work's finished. He's our rest. So this ark, it
says, the lamp went out in the temple where the ark of God was. The lamp went out. And you know what the gospel
is called? It's called the light, the knowledge,
of the glory of God in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. The
glorious gospel of the blessed God. Paul said, I'm separated
into the gospel of God. He called it the gospel of Christ.
He called it the gospel of the blessed God. People all over talk about gospel
this and gospel that. That's the gospel truth. Don't
ever say that. Don't ever say that about anything. It's one gospel. And it's the
glorious gospel of the blessed God. Don't ever use that term
like gospel. But it's the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God as seen in the Lord Jesus Christ. Well,
the lamp went out. What's that? That's the Word. Thy Word is a lamp under my feet,
a light under my path. The entrance of thy word giveth
light. The light of the knowledge, the
glory of God. Where? The gospel. Crying. The lamp went out. There were
two fellas, Eli's sons. They were crooked, wicked fellas. All they thought about was their
belly and so forth. They were crooked, wicked fellas
and they were supposed to keep the lamp burning. Eli is to bring
the sacrifices and pour the blood on the mercy sick. And these
common priests, Hophni and Phinehas, were to keep the lamp going,
keep oil for the lamp. It went out. What's that tell you? That's
what's happened today, people. We've got a bunch of corrupt
fellows not preaching the Word of God. What is the Word of God? It's the ark. This whole thing
is about the ark. God killed 80,600 people altogether
because of that ark. It's all about this ark, what
they were doing with it, what they're not doing with it, toying with
it, playing with it, acting like it was, you know, acting like
they believed in it, but they didn't. God killed 80? God did. And they all wondered, why is
all this trouble happening to us? All these hemorrhoids. That's what hemorrhoids are.
Mice in the land. All these troubles that infect
us. The whole land is full of all
these troubles. It's because of what you've done
with the Gospel. Now, I'm telling you the truth
here. If you've never seen this, this is enlightening. Chapter
4. Now, look at chapter 4 with me. The lamp went out. People were
in another dark ages. And more Bibles, but less truth.
More Bibles, more preachers, but less men preaching the Scripture,
the Word of God. And they may be preaching the
Bible, but if they're not preaching the gospel of Christ, they're
not preaching. You ought to find about every
single preacher of God, every time he stands up, he says, I'm
determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. It's all about the ark. It's
not a thing to be messed with. This is our life. This is the
way to God. This is the way we're accepted. This is the way God
will atone for our sins. We've got to hear this. Us and our children, we've got
to know. Chapter 4. You know what the last plague
in Egypt was before the Lord slew all the firstborn and brought
His people out? Anybody know what the last plague
is before He slew the firstborn and brought His people out? I'm
talking about darkness. Darkness. You say it was so thick
you could feel it. Can you not feel it? It's palpable. It means you can
feel it. We're in such a dark time. Romans 1, I was going to read
all that that he's talked about. They weren't thankful. They didn't
give God the glory. They changed the truth of God
into a lie. And their understanding was darkened. And they became
filled with all sorts of things. God gave them over. That's our
society. You can feel it. They couldn't
even see each other. We're so polluted and vile. You can't see it. You can't see
it. Darkness. Literally, young people wear
what? Dark clothing. Skull and crossbones all over.
Is this funny? Dark. Why? Because of the Nelson. And we've got it in this land,
but people are toying with it. and mixing it with false religion.
Chapter 4, the people of Israel got in trouble. The Philistines
were after them. Verse 3, the elders of the people
of Israel said, Why has the Lord allowed us to be smitten of the
Philistine? Wherefore hath the Lord smitten
us today before the Philistine? Let's fetch the ark of the covenant
of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that when it cometh among
us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemy. Let's get
it and bring it here, and we'll set it down And it will deliver
us. You hear anybody saying, Lord,
save us. You hear any of these Israelites?
These are supposed to be the people of God. Worship Jehovah. The blood. Apparently, Eli is not making
a blood atonement anymore. Lamps out. And they said, Oh, let's get
it. We're in trouble. Let's get it.
And it will save us. We're not saved by corruptible
things, but by the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ, by a person. And they got in trouble. The
gospel is not a thing to save us. And the gospel is not something
that you toy with and something you only use when you get in
trouble. Christ is life to his people. We don't order our lives, we
don't order our worship around our lives. We order our lives
around worship. It's a communion. It's a union.
It's a knowledge of a person, a fellowship with a person. It's
a unity. It's a husband and wife relationship.
It's a fatherless child relationship. And it's constant. It's not a
thing. It's a person. And verse 10 says that Philistines
fought Israel and smote them and every man in his tent, and
they fell 30,000 footmen. And later on, when that ark came
to Beth Shemesh, he read it with me. Those people had it, and
they began toying with it, and opened the lid, and God killed
50,700. That's 80,700 people from messing with this ark. And
this is a real story. Superstition. It's the truth.
It all has to do with how men and women treat the Gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. God killed her. What was it? Swords. Sword. Scripture says
that swords are God's sword. God said, I kill. Anybody dies,
I do it. And the judge of the earth does
right. And whoever got it, had it coming. So what about kids? They just took them to glory.
Wasn't that merciful? But the judge of the earth does
right. And he said, men are my sword. That's what God said. And he killed them. He used me,
but God killed them. Why? Because of the gospel. Now Eli, the old priest here,
when the ark was taken, verse 11 of chapter 14, Eli heard the
noise and they took the ark, the Philistines took the ark
away. And a man came to Eli and told
him. Now Eli was 90 years old, verse
15. He was 90 years old. Chapter
4. His eyes were dim. He couldn't see. And a man came
to him, verse 16, and Eli said, What is it? What's done? And
they said in verse 17 to him, they said, It's a great slaughter
among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas,
are dead. Now, you know he loved his son. And they said, the ark of God
is taken. And verse 18 says, it came to
pass when they made mention of the ark of God, he fell backward,
broke his neck, and he died. Verse 13 is what I wanted to
read also. It says, He trembled. His heart
trembled for the ark of God. See that? It came, Lo, Eli sat
upon a seat by the wayside, watching his heart tremble for the ark
of God. When they took the ark of God, his heart trembled for
the ark of God. Do you tremble when you hear
what the modern world is doing to this gospel? I'm asking the truth now. Examine
your heart. Do you tremble when you hear
what this world is doing to God's gospel? That's why this story is written.
If you don't, you don't know the gospel. If you think modern Christianity
is Christianity, you must not know the gospel. Mindy and I were Christmas shopping
the other day. We were in TJ Maxx. I do it all
there. It takes me about an hour. But
anyway, I was looking through there. There's a book of jokes.
You know, I like a good joke as well as the next man. A good
clean joke. I picked up this book of jokes,
okay? I started reading it. That's cute. That's funny. It
made me laugh. And in there, somebody wrote
a joke about Jesus Christ. In the middle of His blessed
name, Jesus... I don't even want to say it. I curse Jesus blank Christ. I get smokey. It's like a lot
of stuff in my throat. Does that do that to you? And this is a result of false
religion. You know that? False preachers
getting up. No fear of God. God's not holy. He's not going to punish anybody. Jesus loves you. It's okay. Say what you want
about Him. Do what you want with the gospel. Take God's name in vain, even
little children. It doesn't matter. God loves
you. And they're dropping like flies. People are dropping like
flies daily. Why? Because of what they're
doing to God's truth. And if that doesn't smite you,
it was worse than if my mother's name was there. If my dad's name
there, Wesleyan, had said, used his name, it wouldn't have been
as bad. But my Lord Jesus Christ. Does that not smite you? Do you tremble at the thought
of losing this gospel? Many cities have had the gospel
and it's gone. He was trembling. Literally,
to this man will I look, he that is poor and of a contrite heart,
and trembleth at my word. Lord, don't take this gospel
from us, please. I'm not just shouting and preaching.
This is life. And people are dying left and
right because of what they're doing to God's truth. It's a
holy thing. It's a righteous thing. It's
our life. It's supposed to be bloodshed. It's supposed to be
the worship of God. And they took it and mixed it
with their Dagon. Remember that story? They put
it in there with Dagon. All right, let's get to these
two cows. Chapter 6. I can't shout this loud enough.
I can't make this serious enough, people, because we're in a dark
days. We're in a dead time. We're in a place where people
are toying with God. They're toying with God's gospel,
and God is angry. And they don't see it. It's so
dark they can't see themselves. They can't see what's happening.
We look at mass killings. People, I'm not callous to that
at all. I'm not callous to that at all.
People are dying. There's about, what was it, five
people a second. Five people a second are dying
of something who's killing them. I can't see it. I can't see it. Not cows. It takes one, the man
that comes out to bring a cow to the slaughter and take it,
and they might look up. And they keep chewing, looking
down. God smote them, it said there,
with afflictions in their secret parts. Men and women are full
of... Romans 3 talks about being full of this thing. Well, Philistines wanted to get
rid of this ark. They thought, if we just get
rid of this ark, this is the whole problem with our society.
We're having all these troubles. And they acknowledged, Mary,
they acknowledged that this ark, there's something to it. They
heard about the Egyptians, and they heard about what happened
to the Egyptians, and what God did there. And had they not all
heard, yeah, so they thought, well, we've got our Dagon, we've
got our religion, there's something to this ark. And they had it
mixed together, Dan, they had it mixed together. They didn't
see why Dagon fell over and God knocked his head off. It's a
fish, by the way. Dagon was a fish god. But they
say, well, there's something to this. Well, let's do this.
Let's put images. Let's get rid of, try to get
rid of these things that are plaguing us. And by all means,
get rid of this ark. And let's offer some appeasement
to this God that's doing this to us. And people mix religion, mix
all sorts of traditions and superstitions
and anything they can come up with that's so perverted and
twisted the truth of God and mixed it with the truth so that
it doesn't even resemble the truth. People, there's one way
to worship God. There's one peace offering. There's one burn offering.
There's one trespass offering. What is it? Blood. And they had
this ark and none of them bothered to say, What is this ark? Not one single Philistine said.
None understand. None sought God. Not one single
person said, wait a minute, what is it about this ark? Are you with me? Not one of them
said, why is this ark? Why have they put this blood
on? What's that all about? Not one. But they said, if we could just
get rid of this ark and people our modern world thinks religion
is the problem with mankind. And I'm here to tell you they're
right. They're right. False religion
is the problem. It is the source of all the problems. It sure is. True religion is
not. The gospel of Christ is not.
But men and women think, if we can just get rid of God, get
rid of the law, get rid of all this talk about Jesus and heaven,
you know, let's imagine there's no heaven, no hell. Let's just love each other, right?
That'll work. Yeah. Get rid of all this. Isn't that what men do? If we
can just get rid of religion, our society - this is the whole
problem with our society - religion, they say. And I'm here to tell
you that's half true. I thought about this. Why didn't
they just try to destroy it? Stan? Why didn't they just try
to destroy it? Let's just blow this thing up. They couldn't do it. If they
tried, they couldn't get rid of it. Men have tried to get
rid of this gospel. They've wanted it gone for years
through the dark age. Let's put away this Word. Let's
see that nobody can have one of God's Word. You can't do that. Why? The one that wrote it, to
write another copy. They did this all down through
the years. Men would translate it, and men
would burn it, and they'd just do it again, and they'd just
do it again. Until finally it was written on the tables of
people's hearts, and you could take it away from them. But you
can't. It's right here. It's been planted. Well, they said, let's make a
cart. Here, we'll get rid of it. Let's make a cart. Verse
7 in the Philistines, verse, where am I? I'm in the wrong
chapter. Yeah. Chapter 6, verse 7. Let's make
a new cart and take two milk cows on which has come no yoke
and tie the cows to that cart. Bring their calves, take their
calves away from them. milking, nursing calves, young
newborn calves, nursing. And y'all, some people in here
know something about cows and calves. Margaret back there,
an old milkmaid, you know that. She knows all about milk and
cow. But they took these calves away from these two cows, and
they put on that cart this ark. And it says that no yoke had
ever been on these cows. They'd never pulled a cart. They'd
never pulled a plow. And these were two poor old mothers,
homebound. Their life was wrapped up in
their babies. And they put this ark on that
cart and bound them to it. No yoke, no man leading them. And they said, go. Are you with me? They said, tie these cows to that
cart, bind these mothers to that cart, bind them with cords to
that cart, bring their calves, their babies home from them.
Take their babies away, their love, their life. The thing they
live for, can't live without. And put that ark on that cart,
lay this burden on that cart with these two mothers pulling
it, send them away. And he said in verse 9, they
said, if it goes up to the coast where God's people are, if they
go straight up to where God's people are, God did this. This is the hand of God. If they
come home to their babies, Nothing to it. Ain't nothing to it. Do you understand this story? I started out this message by
saying, what does the gospel mean to you? If any man loved
son or daughter more than me, And so they did this. They did
so. Verse 10, they took these two
old milk cows and tied them to the cart, shut up their calves
at home. They laid the ark upon that cart. And the kind, verse 12, those
cows, Jeanette, you're with me, those
cows left their babies. and went straight
to where God's people were. And it says in verse 12, it says
they were lowing as they went. You've heard cows lowing for
their babies. We've had a few horses give birth
and had to wean them from their mothers. It's heart-rending.
It's heart-rending to hear them lowing. Oh, they're calling for
their babies, but they're not turning around. They're weeping for themselves
and their children, but they're not turning around. My mother, my father, my husband,
or my wife doesn't love this gospel. They don't believe this
gospel. There's only one gospel. And
it's that ark. There is no other gospel. I mean
plain and simple. It's the blood or it's nothing.
And my son or my daughter don't love this gospel. But give me
Christ or I die. And with great sorrow, come,
come with us. Loing, come with us. The ox knows his owner. And an
old milk cow knows where the crib is. And you know where we'll
find him? At the crib. At the crib. Oh, my. You know, I thought about this.
This box, this ark, had had so many
sacrifices made on Deborah that it was brown. You keep pouring
blood over something and that mercy seat was sealed. You couldn't
get up. And it had so much blood poured
all over it until finally, All that blood of all those animals
poured over it, it looked just brown. It was nothing you couldn't
see any gold. It was covered by the blood.
It just looked brown, kind of like badger skin. Alright, they had it on this
cart. And here are these two cows. Nobody leading them. Yes,
somebody is leading them. They are leaving their young. Where they don't know, but they've
got to go. Straight off, listening to their Father and Master's
voice. And they're pulling this heavy burden and lowering it
as they go. And people on the wayside, this was about a 50-60
mile trip, and people on the wayside watching this happen.
Where are they going? Why are they leaving their young? What's the big deal about that
brown box? What is all this? Well, they came to Beshemesh
and verse 13, those people were, verse 12, they went straight
to Beshemesh where God's people were threshing wheat and they
saw it, verse 13, they saw the ark and rejoiced to see it. They came to that field and when
those two cows got to that place, how did they know where to stop?
There was a big old stone there. And they came to that very place
right there where that stone was, and they just stopped in
their tracks. Traveling all that way. They
thought, we're here. We're here. We're where we're
supposed to be. God's people. And the people
that love the ark. The Ark of the Covenant, the
Ark of God. People that were waiting on it, needed to hear
about the blood atonement. It's here, it's here, it's here.
The Lord's Gospels come to us. And they got it down and put
it on a loft, they put it on that stone, and look what happened
to the cows. Verse 14, they claimed the wood
of the cart, chopped it up, and they sacrificed those two old
cows. Those two old cows lost their
life for that heart. What a way to die. What a way to die. Over in Hebrews
11, let me tell you this in closing. It talks about all of the people
who went through so much. It says, women received their dead raised to
life again. were tortured, not accepting
deliverance. And I started to read you an
account from Foxe's Book of Martyrs over a mother getting ready to
be burned at the stake, robbing with her children, standing there.
And they say, if you'll just recant. She said, I can't do it. I can't do it. What do you reckon the Lord would
do for somebody like that? Die for his cause? What do you
think? Women were tortured, not accepting
deliverance. They might obtain a better resurrection. Others had trial of cruel mockings
and scourging, bonds imprisonment, stones sawn asunder, tempted,
slain with a sword, wandering about. The world was not worthy
of them. Oh, but they obtained a good
report. Went on into glory. These two old cows. What does the gospel mean to
you? It's all or nothing. Christ is
all. Nothing at all. And you say, I know what you're
thinking. Well, I don't know what I would do if faced with
that choice. Well, some of you have made that
choice. family and friends or the world
or the gospel. Some of you have made that choice.
You've been faced with that already, right? And you will yet be faced
with that, I believe. And if it came time, real persecution
for the truth, if you belong to Him, I know what you'll do.
I know what you'll do. You'll say, give me Christ or
I'll die. Wouldn't it be wonderful to lay down your life for Christ?
He did. He did. Alright, John, let's
sing a closing hymn.