with me to Luke chapter 10. This
is where Jean-Claude, Brother Jean-Claude
is going to be preaching from. Luke chapter 10. Grateful to have him and his
wife Wendy. We've had a wonderful It's wonderful, just absolutely
wonderful. Start here at verse 17 down through
verse 24. And the 70 returned again with
joy. And up in verse 1, the Lord appointed
70 also and sent them forth two by two before his face into every
city and place whither he himself would come. And the 70 returned
again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto
us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld
Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you
power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power
of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding
in this, rejoice not. that the spirits are subject
unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written
in heaven. In that hour, Jesus rejoiced
in spirit and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent
and has revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed
good in thy sight. All things are delivered to me
of my Father. And no man knoweth who the son
is but the father, and who the father is but the son, and he
to whom the son will reveal him. And he turned him unto his disciples
and said privately, blessed are the eyes which see the things
that you see. For I tell you that many prophets
and kings have desired to see those things which you see and
have not seen them, and to hear those things which you hear and
have not heard them. Good evening all. I hope you
will not think that it is out of tradition only that I say
it is a great joy and sense of privilege that I will bring the
word to you that we are with you. It's good for Wendy and
I to be here, and it's been a few years. We try to work out how
many. I know that four years ago I
had two hours in Crossville, but not here. That was all I
could earmark. But this time we made sure to
stop by, and it's already been a blessing. And I realize I've
been coming for quite a long time, because even Donnie can
say my name properly. Well, we just worked out before
the meeting that it was 2001. Because that's when our brother,
Obi, came to visit us. And that was just two weeks before.
Something like this, anyway. So, yeah, we were, I was a little
younger. And anyway, thank you very much
for many of you who support the work in prayer. You know, when
you go out in Africa, well, I love Africa, it's great, but in Haiti,
it's very dangerous, so you always dance, but people are behind
and pray. And this is really a sort of
encouragement Basically that's why I put pictures on one site
on the internet so people see the pictures and they pray for
the work. And it's been quite a Quite thrilling. There is an old couple in Michigan. They've been to Africa, so I
know what we're talking about. And they asked me for my schedule
before I leave. And then they work out the time
difference in order to pray for the business of the day. Well,
I had to explain to them, very often it's kind of upside down,
but they say, well, the Lord knows anyway. And it's very encouraging,
very encouraging. Anyway, I've not come to speak
about myself, but if you'd like to open your Bible to a passage
which was read to us. And the verse, Luke 10, and the
verse really, which will be the center of our thoughts is, nevertheless,
do not rejoice that the demons are subject to you, but rejoice
that your names are written in the book of life. And this is
a source, the fountain of true joy. There's a lot of joy. We have a lot of joy to be here.
It's good to see old friends, or friends of old, I should say,
rather. But there is some other joy. And that little joy is derived
from that. So, we have read the passage,
so I will not go through it again. But I will start by seeing how
this word of the Lord is really central. Now, in the 20th century,
there was a pastor in England who was very well known. I'm
not going to give you the name. And he was very influential. He was one who basically brought
back into the limelight the beautiful doctrines of grace or the truth
of grace, as I like to say. And this was a man who was invited
to preach all over the country and in other countries. He even
preached in France. I was not a believer then, but
the man was really well-known, greatly used of the Lord. a whole
generation of preachers came out of his ministry and people
were used to teach us when we were younger. For instance, the
work, Your Press, is actually something which came out of his
ministry or his influence. So somebody who is really in
the limelight, very simple man, very well-known man, but a man
who grew old and one day, he was more, not quite bedridden,
but bedroom ridden. And his friend of his was himself
a pastor, who is now actually quite old, and who was going
to be his biographer later, visited him and he was a fairly young
man then, and he said, how can you cope with that? You've been
all over the world. People read your books. People
phone you. Pastors come and ask you advice,
and people revere you, and all these sort of things. Now, you've
been preaching to thousands for years, nonstop. How can you cope now? Being stuck
in your bedroom, you get up in the morning, not too early, and
you kind of shuffle out of bed, you've got two, what do you call,
not night dress, the dressing gowns, because you're very cold,
you can't get warm again, and you shuffle to the radiator,
you have a little bit of kind of breakfast, because you can't
eat really much, you read a few things, and then you go back
to bed, because you're very tired. How can you cope? You have been
there, and you're down there, And the old man looked at his
young friend whom he loved, and he quoted that verse. Do not
rejoice that the demons are subject to you, but rejoice that your
name are written in the book of life. And the old man, ready
to depart, had his priorities right. And this is what we want
to do. by looking at this passage. The
first thing we need to look at the context. Sometime before,
Jesus has kind of gone more specifically on the way which was going to
take him to Golgotha. If you read in Mark, for instance,
he set his face toward Jerusalem and in a way, more than maybe
obviously than the rest, there was nothing which could stop
him. Well, nothing could stop him right from the eternity past,
but there, you see, we could see it. And it was probably bearing
on him very, very strongly because Luke says that actually his disciples
didn't dare come near him. It must have changed his complexion.
So he now makes a beeline towards Golgotha. And at the same time,
he begins to unveil more specifically to his disciples what must happen. The son of man will be betrayed
and he will be put to death. He's preparing them in this way
for their ministry of preaching the gospel. And this ministry
must come, must kind of, yeah, come, flow out of his own work
of redemption, his own work of atonement. But from that, all
their ministry of preaching the gospel right to the end of the
world, he's preparing them for that. And already at the beginning
of chapter nine, we read that he sent 12 of them to preach
the kingdom. And then, he teaches while they're
gone, he teaches what sort of consecration, what sort of motivation
you really need to have and how much it costs to follow his calling. You find that at the end of chapter
nine. And then in chapter 10, He sends,
as it was mentioned, 70 of his disciples before him in order
to preach the coming of the kingdom of God. And then these men come
back and they're over the moon, as we say. You say that, I guess? Yeah, I mean, they're just exuberant.
They can't believe. They're filled with joy and a
great joy. Why? Because their mission has
been a success. We understand that, don't we?
Yes. Only this afternoon, or was it
this morning? I can't remember. We're on a
different time scale. young lady from Ivory Coast,
and she's been converted very recently. And she spent two weeks
in Strasbourg, France, and she was able to talk to another African
about the Lord. And she couldn't wait to tell
me. She was kind of bubbling, you know, this is it. Well, they're
coming back in great joy. And you know that, maybe not
as much as you'd like, but still, you know what we're talking about.
And these men, even in their wildest dreams, would not have
imagined what they've lived. The fact that what they did was
really something which had an impact. And it is in this context
of a successful preaching visit or preaching program that Jesus
rejoices himself and then he warns his disciples. and we want
to look at his words. And the first point, the first
thing we want to see is the subject of a great joy. Subject of a
great joy. Jesus does not kind of warns
or sort of upbraids his disciples because they rejoice of the fact
that evil spirits have been beaten. No, no, he doesn't say you ought
not to do that. He's not a kill joy at all. That's
the religious people who are, not Jesus. It's a subject of
a great joy to see evil retreating. And I'm quite sure that you desire
that for your environment, don't you? It seems it's getting darker
and darker every day. Well, it's a subject of great
voice, joy. And let us not, let not our prudence,
our decency, rob us from the joy of preaching the gospel,
or sharing the gospel, or gossiping the gospel. We need to be rejoicing. We need to be rejoicing people,
not in the way of the world. You know what I'm talking about.
And sometimes, We try to be so right, so theological, so, you
know, we don't want, I mean, there are people who go to crazy
extremes. And we don't, well, you know,
I'll put it this way. This is the way I do it in Africa.
You never find false $15 bills, do you? If there's a false thing,
there's a true one as well. Isn't there? Yeah, there is. And we must really focus on that
true joy. So, the fact that evil, somebody's
converted, evil is retreating, the soul has been taken out of
the kingdom of Satan, if we may say so, into the kingdom of light,
well, man, you've got to rejoice, otherwise something's wrong with
you. And I wouldn't say you, I'd say us. You understand me.
Let's be careful. In fact, the whole passage, if
you really spend time dwelling on it, it's a breeze of great
joy. And Jesus rejoiced with his disciples
because in their success, he can see the fulfillment of the
promise of salvation which was given right from the beginning
of the world. In Genesis 3.15, we have the
first expression of the gospel and the first sort of announcement
of salvation. The fall of man in sin has been
a great victory for Satan. But in this context, God comes
and says, one comes which will crush your head. You will damage him. but not
so much, but you'll be crushed, you see? So when Jesus listens
to his enthusiastic disciples, he can see this promise being
accomplished, coming to pass. Sure, the work of salvation itself
is his work, and no one can take part in that. It's not possible. Otherwise, he wouldn't be the
Christ. No, but it is his, but precisely, and he's going to
accomplish that fully at Golgotha, but that was precisely the message
he had sent his disciples to preach, to bring the gospel. Look at verse nine, and heal
the sick who are there and say to them, the kingdom of God has
come near to you. You know, all these years it
was, it welcomed, Now he's here. And they had to announce that
in words and in actions. The miracles, healing people,
that was not to make them whole. No, because these guys, they're
dead now. But it was to point to him. He
heals the blind man, why? Because he's a healer? He's a
healer. But no, it's because he's the light of the world,
so much more than a healer. He feeds 5,000. Why? Because
he's a baker? Because he's benevolent? He's
Mr. Gates of the first century? No. It's because he's the bread of
life. You see? Raises Lazarus because
he's the resurrection and the life. So, that was exactly the
message they had to give. And he gave them the power to
do so. And this was... exactly what
he sent them to do. But the fact that Jesus thinks
of this promise of victory is clear. when he says, I saw Satan
fall from heaven like lightning, like lightning. It is not, here
in this passage, it's not question, there's no question of walking
literally on serpents and, you know, scorpions and things like
this. No, I mean, there are silly people who try that and I think
one in your country, well, he did it once and that was it.
But, you know, good for him. No, it was not that at all. Jesus
can see the victory of the work which he's going to accomplish
in Jerusalem, a work of atonement which is going to be preached
in the whole world until the end of days. And when the last
loved one will be in, there's no need for another day. Not
another day, not another hour. You see, he can see that. advancement of the kingdom of
God by the preaching, by the proclamation of the gospel of
salvation, which is in Christ, it is a defeat of evil and of
the evil one. This is what Paul says. And we
often miss that. Romans 16, last chapter of Romans,
verse 20. And the God of peace. Now he's
talking about salvation. There's no peace apart from salvation,
isn't there? He said, and the God of peace. Romans 16, 20. Oh, you listen. The God of peace will crush Satan
under your feet shortly. Now, God will do it under your
feet. It's not cooperation. It's an
operative mode. This is how it does it. You go
out and you share the gospel in words and in life, and God
crushes the evil one. Isn't that wonderful? It's a
subject of great, great joy. Absolutely great joys. God will
do it under your feet. And it is the mission of Paul
Look in Acts 26. Acts 26, the last time Paul explains
how he came to be called, and verse 18, starting at the end
of verse 17, and verse 18. I will deliver you from the Jewish
people as well as from the Gentiles to whom I now send you to open
their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, from the power
of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and
an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me."
Well, if I don't rejoice at that, I need to be seen, I need to
be checked. Really, so a subject of a great
joy. Now, this is a question to us. Do I place the source of my joy
in the fruits of the power of the gospel and in the gospel
itself when the fruit are not there? By that I mean, I rejoice
if I see people come to the Lord. when I preach or when I share,
but if nobody comes, shall I rejoice? It's not a full joy, you understand,
because we want to see people come to the truth, but still,
we rejoice that there is a gospel, and that there is a Christ, because
there could have been none. Do I see the preaching, the declaration
of the person and work of Christ as the powerful weapon, which
makes Satan fall as a lightning from heaven. Do I see that? And
you know, I think there is a lot of unbelief, hidden unbelief
in the word. Oh yes, we believe in the Bible.
But somehow, We don't really believe that it can do all the
work. And then we bring gimmicks. Even if they're nice gimmicks,
they're still plus. The Word will do the work with
the Spirit of God. And only the Word. It doesn't
mean that we should be like monks and not have fellowship and not
have friendships and things. No! But the Word is what does
the work. and it is a subject of great
joy. But let's move on, because we need to see a solemn, serious
warning. A serious warning. Jesus rejoices,
and yet at the same time, he brings a very serious warning
to his disciples. Yes, the victory of the gospel
is subject to great joy, but The servants of the gospel, and
that is every real Christian. There's no sacerdotal caste in
the church. There's not a priesthood special,
those who stand in the pulpit. No, no, no, never. Even though
sometimes we tend to act as though there is. This is our sinful
weakness. No, all the believers are called
to declare the gospel. And this is the victory. But these servants of God, when
they come in, they must be on their guard. They must be very,
very careful. Yes, the preachers, but also
all of us when we go out in the world. Why? Why is this? Well,
it is that in this powerful and victorious work, you and I, we
bring one element of a great weakness into it, and that is
myself, ourselves. Every time a preacher of the
gospel stands up, every time you go wherever and share or
gossip the gospel as the word is, Every time, without exception,
we bring with ourselves someone whose whole bent, natural bent,
is to bring attention on himself. And there's no exception. The
one who thinks he's free from that is foreign. And we need
to be very careful about that. And you know, it's so good. I
tell you, you're here on the pulpit, and somehow you surprise
yourself. You'll tell me, Donny, you've
known that, and those of you who preach. Somehow you surprise
yourself saying something real, real good. You know, you say,
wow. And so, but, you know, there
may be somebody who's been kind of asleep and, you know, kind
of counting the flies on the ceiling. So you engineer to kind
of go around the house and come back to say it again. so that
really they see you're a great preacher. And you know, well,
you probably can have the same sort of anecdote. This is so awful in a sense.
So the Lord sees that and the Lord warns his disciples because
in their words, he has detected kind of shades of this spirit. Now, we listen to them. The demons, well, I use a different
version, but the demons themselves are subject unto us in your name. Isn't that what they say? Lord,
we rejoice because even the demons are subject to us in your name.
And Jesus can detect that. Now, let's be generous. Let's
be generous. The fact that the demons would
be subject to the Lord, well, that's kind of normal, isn't
it? But to them, they never thought they could see that. And they're
really out of themselves. It's a real miracle. It's taken
them the whole nine yards further. But Jesus knows man, and he knows
what is in man. And he can see that this little
unto us, this little us, so kind docile, will not take long before
it takes a preeminence, if only the occasion arises. He can see that. not very long
before. You go in chapter 9, and they're
walking on the road, like we could walk on the road, well
you don't walk too much in this country, but you know what I
mean, and so on. And they're walking on the road,
they're next to the Son of God incarnate. And what are they
talking about? You know, who was the greatest
among them? Isn't the monster always there?
He is. And Jesus knows exactly what
is said. And he warns them in love. Because
the disciples could have said quite easily, Lord, even the
demons are subject in your name. And it makes sense, it stands.
It's perfectly understandable. But there is this little unto
us. And it appears so harmless and insignificant, and yet it's
so, so dangerous. And you know what it is. We know
exactly what it is. It's so easy to focus one's sight
on my work, my service, my ministry, my talents, my this and my that,
and all sorts of things, you see. How easy it is to make all
things turn around me. Okay, I'll leave that. Even the things, the most holy
things. We lived through a time in England,
and in England there was a time when people will actually claim
that others were unbelievers just because they were using
a different version to theirs. Which would be my case, because
I'm using a different version to yours. You know, even the,
well, sacred thing in a sense, the word of God is used to be
above somebody else. We know what it is. And it is,
it's so easy to justify these things because this self is so
avid of attention, of being the center. And Jesus is very, very
aware of that. But this temptation, so real
and so universal, is exactly the temptation which made Eve
fall in the garden. Exactly the same one. It is the
heart of idolatry. It is a deification of God. It's taking God and bringing
down from the throne and putting the creature at the place. The devil comes near the woman
and he finishes by contradicting openly God in her presence. But by which door does he come?
By which door does he come in? Just by bringing the woman to
forget who God is and who she is. It's so subtle. Right from the first question
of the serpent, we can see there's a seed of criticism against God. We can sense it there. And the
woman should have immediately sort of centered the whole discussion
around the center of everything, which is God. And she should
say, well, no, I mean, you're mad? He's God. He's altogether good. How can
you doubt anything like this? No, we are only creatures. He
is God. We're creatures. And he's the
one who is sovereign. He's the one who called the shot.
Now, you shut up and be done. Well, if she'd done that, a lot
of problems would have been avoided. But, well, We do what you did
most of the time. And this was really the same
temptation to forget who God is. Because instead of that,
the woman answers, and you will recall the passage in Genesis
three, she answers nearly well. Has God forbidden that you should
eat? And she says, no, no, we can
eat. But of the fruit of the tree,
which is at the center, tree of good and evil, God has said
that we should not eat nor touch of it. Well, God didn't say that. Now, to eat you need to touch.
You will say, well, you're a Frenchman, you try to split hairs. Maybe. Because it's logical, if you
eat, you touch. So she replaces the logic of
a created being and puts it in the place of the word of God. So she's displaced God, and she's
put herself to the same level. Exactly the same thing. And it's
a little something, you will say. Really, no big business? Well, look the big business.
All we see in ourselves and around us comes from that. And this
is this little unto us, this little additive from the woman.
So, we can let that on the side. It's just the same as the little
unto us of the disciples. And there's not much time going
from this, God has said what he has not said, and she sees
the fruit and the fruit is good and she takes it and eats it
and there we are here. You see exactly this, a little
slip, so logical and yet such tragic consequences. And this
is what Jesus sees in his disciples and in love, he rebukes them,
he rebukes them. It is therefore the same dynamic,
this little us, which is absolutely gigantic, and the demons themselves
are subject unto us, unto us. That doesn't belong there at
all, no. Because the gospel has come,
the message of salvation in Christ has come precisely to put to
death this little unto us. In the proclaiming, in the sharing,
in the spreading of the gospel, we bring this little us with
us, always, always. This is why we need to watch. Do not rejoice that the demons
are subject unto you, but rejoice of something else. And this is
what we want to see. Thirdly, the secret of power. The secret of power. But rejoice
that your names are written in heaven. We need to watch, but
we need to rejoice at the same time. Rejoice on what? What does Jesus mean here? Well, he's just bringing back
to the real center, his disciples, real source of salvation. Do not rejoice, my friends, of
what you can do for the Lord, but rejoice of what he has done
for you. This is a gospel, isn't it? And
if you don't rejoice, there's something wrong. There's something
wrong. Not with the gospel, of course. No, what God has done,
your preaching, your sharing, your evangelism, your ministry,
your miracles, do not write any name in the book of life. Impossible,
it's already shut. They only serve as pointers towards
the real savior, who is Jesus Christ himself, you see. So therefore,
we must not put stock in these things. men will follow you,
men find you really great, where will that take them? Where will
that take them? On the great day of reckoning,
on the great day, will they stand by you as defenders, as the parakletos,
like the spirit or like Christ in the heaven? No. The Day of Reckoning will show
that. So that will lead them nowhere. And you know, even unbelieving
men, even unsaved men can have talents. They can have gifts. Yes. For instance, do you think
that Judas was the only one who stayed with Jesus while the Seventy
went away? No. No, he went. And Judas preached the gospel.
And he preached the gospel like the 69 others. And he healed,
like the others. No difference. How do I know
that? Well, the guy was with him, didn't see no difference.
Isn't it? Exactly. No, but for Judas, he
had these gifts. And nothing to the eyes of men,
nothing distinguished him from the other disciples. And yet,
he lacked one thing. the useful thing, the thing that
cannot be taken away, to have his name written in heaven. He
didn't have that. And Jesus, in redirecting the
sight of his disciples, he just tries to bring them to taste
of the real joy, which is his joy, his joy. Because what do
we read just afterwards? And the word here is, and immediately,
Immediately, Jesus is kind of shaking with great joy in the
spirit. It's like if his spirit kind
of wraps his heart and he's taken up in joy at the same time. Exactly that. So what does he
rejoice in? Just of what the Father has done. and that he has done that by
grace, that actually he has hidden these things to some and he has
revealed them to others. And Jesus rejoices. And today,
the disciples of Jesus come to the world and they kind of apologize
for this great divide. No, Jesus rejoiced that God works
by grace. because it is written in heaven. Yes, Father, indeed, I rejoice
and worship you and I praise you that you have wanted it so. Isn't that beautiful to see? Absolutely. It is not something,
a work which is founded on the wisdom of man because God has
hidden these things from the prudent and the wise. and he's
revealed it to others. And Paul says, try to think brethren,
that among you who have been called, there's no many wise,
no many powerful people, no many people gifted. No, not at all. No one is really wise according
to the flesh. Why? So that no one should glorify,
should glory before God. Because God, it is his work and
it is his glory. And indeed, the Corinthians,
they were glorying in themselves. I am of Paul. I am of this and
I am of that. And some were even more spiritual.
I am of Christ. They were no better because they
were bringing Christ to the level of Paul, Apollos and Cephas.
Awful, isn't it? What happens in the church. Oh,
it's so encouraging for us today. Sometimes you think, well, what
am I doing in this congregation? They're all weird. I'm not talking
about this congregation, sure. But you know what I mean? Of
course, there's only one who is not. And then you read about the Corinthians,
you read about the fight in Philippi, and you think, oh, okay, we're
still in the same tradition, that's fine. No one knows a father apart from
the Son. So how do we know the Father?
Do we need experiences, second experiences, blessings, whatever
you call it? Do I need really to study? Do I need to go to
a seminary or whatever, become a theologian? Do I need a lot
of talents because I don't have them? Do I need that? No. Just a revelation from the Son
of God. because no one knows a father
apart from the son and those to whom he reveals him to them. And who is going to hear the
son? Well, only the one who's received the heart of a child.
And you know, like I know, that we don't have, even to the youngest,
we don't have the heart of a child. We've got so twisted and weird
and complicated hearts and have not known a parent yet who's
taught his children to say no. Isn't that right? Yeah. Not yet. So a child doesn't have the heart
of a child. He has the same as my heart.
See, no, he needs a heart which is given to him from above. Needs
to be born again, born from above, not born a second time, born
from above. Yes, be simply enough, simple
enough to rejoice in just the fact that your name is written
in heaven. That's it. That's it. And Jesus stops there. Jesus
stops there. the powerful ministries, the
victories, the eye of flesh can see that, and the glory comes
back to man, but it brings no assurance. Even a man like Paul,
he did so much, and yet he had to do always more. So how can
what he does please God when it doesn't please even him? You
see? No, there's no rest in that at
all. No rest at all. On the opposite, my name written
in heaven. And everything which is the foundation
for that, that is, my name is written from everlasting Lamb's
Book of Life, because from everlasting, the lamb is predestined as a
lamb to be slaughtered. So all the foundation, all this,
my name written in the Lamb's Book of Life, and all this, that
is all the eternal purpose of redemption, adoption, substitution,
all these beautiful names. And all these things, the eye
of flesh doesn't see. Just an illustration. The preacher's
preaching, and you're there listening, and you think, yeah, that's pretty
good. Yeah, that's good. And somehow
you say, well, I need to go back home, and I'll read that passage
again, and so on. But next to you, there's somebody
there, and you say, oh, OK. And at the end of service, you
say, but while this was going on, that soul came from the kingdom
of darkness into the kingdom of light, you don't know nothing.
Your eyes can't see that, you see. That's the work of God. That is the work of God. Only
the one to whom the sun reveals these things can grasp these
spiritual realities. Now you see somebody who is transformed,
not perfect, transformed, because you have the life of God in yourself. You know what it's all about.
You know what's happened. People from the world say, oh,
it's just going through a fad. Just wait a bit, it'll change.
It'll come back. They can't see it. So all these
things which come from man, they just say on that level. Even
preaching, even good preaching, cannot do anything unless God
sends His Spirit according to His calendar and then blows through
that and it just goes right in. You didn't see it? It's done.
Exactly this. Such a man who is dealt with
by the Spirit of God in the Word of God, having grasped by faith
that God has given him in Christ, He rejoices because he sees,
as Jesus, he sees the purpose of God, which is actually accomplished
before him, before his very eyes. So therefore, let us watch over
ourselves. Let's turn our eyes from our
so-called capabilities, gifts, powers, And let's fix our eyes
on our reconciliation with the Father, and that is only in Christ,
because of Christ, and through this power of the Spirit which
comes and gives life, that life which believes. Let us fix that. Do I have this? Am I proclaiming
this? Or am I taken by all these worldly
things, I would say. No, only the sun has done the
atonement, which writes our name in heaven, or has written. It's
difficult to be grammatically correct. Well, I'm not grammatically
correct, I know, anyway. But, you know, well, you're not
either, from what I've heard the last couple of days. But you see, it's all based on
Christ. But every time we take Christ
out, every time we even take Christ to ourselves, we bring
that us. Let us beware. Great joy, but
a solemn warning. And let us connect, really, with
the truth of this real power, which is in Christ in God. And may the Lord be gracious
to each heart tonight. And each heart, we can hear that
passage. And may He glorify His name through
all this. Amen. Psalm 115, verse 1 says,
Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory. Unto Thy name be glory. Thank
you. Thank you.