Turn to Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8. I'm just going
to read one phrase from this chapter. As a matter of fact, one part
of a verse. Romans chapter 8 and verse 31. The last phrase. If God be for us, Who can be against us? Now, I could ask, have you ever
really read that? I'm sure you have. But I ask
you, have you ever really read that? This is not the summary of this
great ending to this chapter, we might say. It's not the ending
at all. Paul goes on, of course. but
he is coming to a great crescendo here at the end of this chapter.
This is not the summary, but it is a question asked in light
of what he's just said, because we see, what shall we then say
to these things? Not what I'm about to say, but
what I've just said. If God be for us, who could be
against us? And then he goes on to define
exactly what he means in quite a lot of detail. Yes, sir. I want to ask you a question. When
you read this passage, do you think of the enemy and all these
things as being against you, and then God is working them
together for your good? If and when you do, you are wrong,
and you will miss the blessing of what this says in your experience. When he says, if God be for us,
he's not saying maybe God's for us, maybe God's not. Because
what he's already previously said to the people he's talking
to, God is definitely for them. The if is not a connection to
God, it's a connection to the last part of the statement. If
God be for us, who can be against us? The answer is rhetorical. No
one can be against us. No matter what they perceive.
And no matter what I perceive in the circumstances, none of
these things or people can be against us. Because God is for
us. Not working these things out
for our good, but because all things work together for good
to them that love God, to them who are the called according
to His purpose. Wherever you're at as a believer,
God ordained you to be right there at that time for your benefit. That's what this is saying. And I'm glad Paul says we know
it. I'm glad he didn't say we feel it. I don't always feel it. But I'll
tell you this, by the grace of God and by His Spirit, as God
is my witness, I know it's true. Here's why. The God who is for
us reigns over tribulation. The God who is for us reigns
over distress. The God who is for us reigns
over persecution. the God who is for us reigns
over famine. And sometimes I think, though,
in our conduct, in our walk, and in our thoughts, we forget
that. Well, we believe God reigns over
all, but then we think of these things coming against us. He
says if God be for us, who can be against us? Isn't that what he says? And
yet we read into it what we think it ought to mean. And usually
we do that so we feel a little better about ourselves. I'm not supposed to feel so up
about this. Yeah, you are supposed to feel
so up about this. Because if God be for us, who
can be against us? He's the God who reigns over
famine. He's the God who reigns over
nakedness. If you got clothes on your back,
God gave them to you. If you don't, God took them away
from you. Now, if you don't like this God,
if you don't love this God, you got no part in all of this. Because
we know all things work together for good to them that love God.
To them who are the called according to His purpose. What about before
I love God? You've got no right to think
that way. Before you He is, but you've got no right to think
that way if you hate God. He is the God who reigns over
peril. If I ever find myself in peril,
God put me there. Circumstances didn't put me there.
He put me in the circumstance. He's the God who reigns over
the sword. No weapon formed against thee
shall prosper. And I heard men say that back
years ago and I got kind of angry with them because I thought they
did. And I didn't realize those men were right because they were
talking about God in this thing, not me in this thing. God help
me. so dull, so hard of hearing,
so interested with self and my own personal circumstances to
realize, no, they're not my circumstances, they're God's circumstances. If God be for us, who can be
against us? He's the God who ordains death. He's the God who ordains life.
And He kills and He makes alive at His good pleasure. Now that's
just who God is. He's the God who ordains angels,
who ordains principalities, who ordains powers. He's the God
who ordains the present and the future. All these things Paul
mentions. Though they are or we see them
as against us, but guess what? He's already said if God before
us Who could be against you? It's God before us who can be
against us the heights are sustained by his decree Nothing neither
their height The heights are sustained by his decree The debts
are sustained by His degree. No matter how high you think
you or a circumstance or whatever it is may go, God's the one who
holds it all together. No matter how far you think you've
fallen, no matter how far down you are, no matter how downtrodden
and distressed and in peril you are, God holds it together. He
could as easily do one as the other. It's all according to
His wise, sovereign purpose. The heights are sustained by
His decree. The depths are sustained by His decree. So if God before
us, who could be against us? And this God, Paul says, loves
us in His Holy Son. Look at it, verse 35. Who shall
separate us from the, and then he wanted to say the power of
God? That's certainly true, is it not? That's not where it's
at. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? See, God doesn't just love us
in Christ, though he does. He loves us by Jesus Christ. The love of Christ. Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Shall those things separate us from what? Not just the purpose
of God, he's mentioned that, yes, but the love of Christ. Because we're so prone to think.
We're in such a world of L-U-V, love, that we think when something
bad happens, and if somebody ordained that thing bad to happen,
then they must not love me. God help us and deliver us from
that kind of love. We're so surrounded by it and
it's so much a part of our old nature, our old psyche, that
we always want to think love always equals G-O-O-D feelings,
good feelings. How well things are going for
me. But Paul puts it this way and he quotes from the Old Testament,
as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long.
We're accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Why do men, for
the most part, the general, why do they raise sheep? To eat. To eat. To clothe not the sheep,
but to take the wool from the sheep and to clothe themselves. Now God Almighty is pleased to
feed on His wise, sovereign purpose and clothe Himself in majesty
and honor and glory, even it means when we're accounted as
sheep for the what? For the slaughter. And then He says, nay, in all
these things we are not just overcomers. We're not just conquerors. We are more than conquerors. It's almost like Paul and God
didn't even give him the word here to describe it. He just
has to say more than conquerors. He said more than conquerors.
How? Oh, here's how it is. Through him that loved us. More than a conqueror. What does
it say? His truth, God has willed that
His truth even triumph what? Through us. Paul said we're a
sweet smelling savor of life and the life to some folks. But
what are we also? We are a saver of death unto
death unto others. And let me tell you something,
when God Almighty makes you because the gospel is housed within you,
vouchsafed within your heart, mind, and soul, and you express
that to someone who is an infidel, they're gonna see you as death
too. And they're gonna hate you because as natural men and women,
we don't like death. We want life, but even the life
we want's not the life that God's ordained. Exactly. Is it? Not as natural men and women.
And then he goes on with, for I am persuaded that neither death
nor life nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, and then he just kind
of sums it up, nor any other creature. Now what is a creature?
It's a thing that's made by the Creator. It's a thing that's
in the sovereign control of the Creator. Right? So if God before us who can be
against us. Nor any other creature shall
be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord. Do you understand that if you
have a part in this, God loves you. And he loves you with a
love that we really still yet don't comprehend in its fullness.
where I think at best I can, it's like little glimpses. I
noticed this morning when I went out and finally the skies had
cleared and it was still dark. And I seen the stars and out
of the corner of my eye, Joe, I caught a little flash. I suppose
it was a meteorite or whatever. But Mason, I caught that. But
it was that glorious, like that. But it was still glorious. And
then it was gone. It was gone, but it was still
glorious nonetheless. That's kind of the way God's love is. But even more, God's love is
no mere emotion to us. That's the way we think about
love and emotion. Now, I'm not going to say there
is no emotion in God's love, but it's not mere emotion. Emotions can change. Even God
sometimes is angry, Joe. Right? God one time said, it
repented me that I made man. I'm going to wipe him out. I'm
not here to try to define all the theological ramifications
of that. Our God is one God and he's forever
eternal. He changes not. And yet he said,
I'm going to destroy man. All that's true. All that's true
at the same time. Amen. Aren't you glad God's love
isn't just an emotion? Because what about if he felt
bad about you one day? And we'd be gone. We'd be gone. Think about it. But here's what
Paul says. God's love in Christ wrought
against Christ the very judgment that was due us. Look at it,
the first part of verse 32. What shall we say to these things?
If God before us, who can be against us? And now he's gonna
give us some foundation why he that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up for us all. Do you see that? That's where
he starts, Joe. Yes, he initially begins with
the great sovereign eternal purpose of God, but he boils all this
thing down to what? Something that happened in time.
when He delivered up His Son for us all. And that was God's
love in Christ and the love of Christ for us. Because Father
and Son, as some have said, metaphorically speaking, struck hands in a covenant. The Father said, here's the people
that needs redemption. And I want them redeemed. The
Son said, I'll take care of it. Something along that line. I'll
take care of it." So the Father delivered up the Son. Think about Christ was made flesh. That's a condescension in itself. God the Eternal Son, God Almighty
stooped and now has taken upon himself a body, a human body,
and a human nature forever just to benefit worms of the dust
like us. My words can't describe that. Christ made flesh. that sin might
be judged all the way to full condemnation. And that's what
he said in the first part of the chapter, chapter eight, verse
three. For what the law could not do and that it was weak through
the flesh, God sinned in his own son in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. Whose flesh?
Christ's flesh. God judged sin fully right there
in the flesh of Jesus Christ our Lord. Boy. And not only that, and I'm not
going into the deep, he was made a curse. Because it's written,
cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree. The gravity of that
goes no less that he was made flesh. He wasn't pretend. He
wasn't make believe. He was made a curse just as much
as he was made flesh. It says he was also made sin.
I can't define that, but I thank God for it. Why? Because God's love in Christ
would guarantee that we all would have everything we needed. Now
notice, He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up
for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us all things? If He did that, and that's the
crux of all the purpose of God, everything God had purposed in
eternity, and we say pass, but it's not even, but in eternity
came to fruition, Joe, at that cross at Calvary, and that everything
else that takes place after that, even unto eternity, was all based
upon what took place at that cross at Calvary. If God be for us, who can be
against us? God suffered his son to go through
what Joe just preached to us he went through. because He was for us. And He
let wicked hands do that. Who could be against us? Huh? Who could be against us? And
yet how easily I forget that. How do I know I forget that?
I look back at what I did yesterday. I look back at what I said yesterday.
I look back and look at how I conducted myself yesterday. How soon I
forget God's love in Christ is not only
that, it's actively engaged. God is actively engaged in justifying
us, and Christ is actively engaged in staying at our defense. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect, it's God that justifieth. He's still there,
in glory with his son seated at his right hand, actively justifying
us. But what if, if God be for you,
who can be against you? Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even
at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for
us. And he doesn't make intercession
for you. One, he makes intercession for us as our advocate. Right? And you know what an advocate's
there for? When you've screwed up. When you messed up. Go back and
look at 1 John, last part of the chapter, and the first part
of chapter two. He says, little children, I write
these things to you that you don't sin. Put forth an effort not to sin. And if any man sins. Yeah, exactly. We have an advocate. It didn't
say if you confess. No, it says if any man sin, we
have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. That's
why you confess, because He's up there advocating. That's why
He brings you down low. The heights of the death, Joe,
whatever it is, in my greatest days and in my worst, if God's
for me, who can? be against me. But it's even more than that.
See what God, that is this God I've been talking about, see
what this God did for us. He engaged in our eternal blessing
in eternity. He decreed it would be this way.
Do you see it? Let's read it again. For, verse
29, whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate conformed. Read it that way too. Take that
to be, He didn't predestinate to be, He predestinated conformed
to the image of His Son. In God's purpose, we were conformed
to the image of His Son in eternity. That's what this says. For whom
He did foreknow, He did. Did, see the dids, did foreknow.
Is he foreknowing us? We could say that's true, but
here that's not what he said. For whom he did, as if it's an
accomplished thing, Joe. For whom he did foreknow, he
also is predestinating. Is that what he said? No, did
predestinate, conformed to the image of his son, that he, that
is the son, might be the firstborn among many, what brethren? We were the brethren before we
ever knew we were the brethren. He held us as the surety as his
brethren before, Neil, we ever were brethren in fact, but we
were in God's purpose. Moreover, moreover, whom he did
predestinate, them he also called. Whom He called, them He also
justified. Whom He justified, them He also
glorified. And not only that, God called
us into very love for Him. And that's where He starts in
this great crescendo. Verse 28, and we know that all
things work together for good, but then He says, to them that
what? Love God. Now we didn't start
out that way. But bless God, thank God, every
one of these people will be brought to that. Look, and we know that
all things work together for good to them that love God, and
then he gives this qualification of who it is that loves God to
them who are the called, according to his purpose. We love God, not in abstract. any more than God loved us just
in abstract. Aren't you glad God didn't just
love us in abstract? Mason, He loves me in the very
circumstances that brings me to my lowest place in this world.
He still loves me in that circumstance. He brought it upon me for my
good. Whether I understand it, He didn't
say, for we understand how all things work together for good.
He said, we know they do. We count it so because God says
it so. We believe Him. We don't believe
our feelings. We don't believe our emotions.
We love God, not in abstract, but we love God for what He did.
Do you see that? For what He did. What He did
cannot be separated from who He is. Now do you see where I'm
going here? There are a lot of people that
want God just to be God, save them, take them to heaven, but
they don't want to love God for what He did. You reject. You hate what God
did. You hate who God is. Somebody said, you don't have
to believe all that. No, you've got to love the God who did this.
When you find out that's who God is and he did this, you're
going to say, that's who God is. And that's just the way it
is. You don't like what God did.
You don't like God. And it's worse than that. You
don't love what God did. You hate who God is. And I'll tell you, it's even
tougher than that folks. Those who love God for what He
did, we love God for what He is doing. Now, when I say this, God knows. But if He takes that woman right
back there away from me today, I must love Him for it. Love Him in it! Love Him because
of it! Why? Because if God be for us, Who can be against us? Separated from my love? Maybe
so. But you know what? That don't
mean spit when it comes to acceptance before God. But separated from
God? That means everything. God's people love him for what
he did. God's people love him for what he's doing. Living faith cries out this,
even though it might still mourn and scrape itself with a piece
of a broken pot, the Lord gave, the Lord takes away. But it's
not just some stoical, oh well then, that's the way it is. No
sir, the Lord gave, the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name. of the Lord, even as the tears
stream down your face. That's not how faith ought to
be. That's how faith is. Now, if it's anything else, call
it what it is. Like that one fellow said, Lord,
I believe. Help thou my unbelief. Quit doubting, oh, I don't know
if I really got faith or not. If you really don't know if you
got faith or not, you're not saved. I'm telling you right now, if
you don't know if you got faith or not, you're not saved. I don't
care who you are out there in this little bitty group, but
when God Almighty gives you faith, you're gonna know it. You're
gonna believe Him in spite of yourself. You're gonna believe
Him in spite of your tears. You're gonna believe Him in spite
of your pain. You're gonna believe Him in spite of your trouble.
And you're gonna love Him even though the flesh in you hates
Him. Now can you relate to that? You're
going to love him, even though the flesh in you hates him for
it. The world, the religious world,
anti-Christ Christianity, has to convince them, that's the
devil making me think that thought. No, that hatred for God, that's
me, deep down inside me. That's the real Walter Pendleton
in Adam. But that one that cries out,
oh, the Lord gave, the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of
the Lord. That's the new man God creates in us. And I will ask you a question.
Don't become too frightened when you don't know the answer right
off. But if you can't relate to the answer I give you, you
ought to be frightened. Now, you hear what I just said.
I'll ask you a question. If you don't know the answer
right off, don't be too frightened just because you don't know the
answer right off. But when I give you the answer, you best be afraid
if you can't relate to the answer I'm going to give you. You must
think you know something, though I know someone. Let me ask you
a question. the hallmark of the elect, because
all this is summed up as the elect, all these people, right?
Foreknown, predestined, and then he calls it the elect. Who shall
lay anything to the charge of God's, here's the summary, Neil,
the elect. But here's the question, what
is the hallmark of the elect? Do you know what the one hallmark
in this passage, the one hallmark of all the elect is? Something
that can be seen, at least by the elect person, something that's
going to be experienced and known as real. Do you know what it
is? I'll tell you what it is, the calling. Predestination is,
but to me, words. It is words, glorious words.
But Joe, I don't know how I can talk about having experienced
the predestination other than its connection to
the calling. I can't even express to you the
justification and the glorification. I can't do it in an experience
except in its relationship to calling. Because calling is something
we all experience. You see what I'm saying now?
What's the hallmark? The calling, yea, God's calling. See it? And we know that all
things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to His, that is, God's purpose. False Christianity touts their
action for God. The called touts God's action
toward them. False Christianity touts their
love. The called touts God's love. And John summarized it this way
in 1 John 4. First of all, verse 10, he said,
herein is love, not that we love God, but that he loved us and
gave his son the perpetuation for our sins. And then he goes
on to say, we love him because he first loved us. You see it? The false Christianity
says, well, I love God. I love the Lord. Until something
bad happens to them. And you know what they have?
They have a way of getting around that too now though. Well, the devil did
that. That was the devil that brought that. No, that's God
Almighty. He's the sovereign of heaven and earth. He rules
over all these things. There's not a heif that he's
not there sustaining it. It says Jesus Christ holds all
things together. By him all things consist. Amen. That's right. False Christianism. The Antichrist, his spirit is
here now. And anybody who doubts that,
doubts the word because John said his spirit's already been
here way back yonder. And he is a deceptively wise
critter. He knows how to bring talking
points that comfort the Adamic flesh and the Adamic mind so
it can say, I don't really need the truth about God. Just give
me something to make me feel good about God. The hallmark of the elect is
what? It's calling. Until God Almighty's called you,
you've got no reason to believe you have any part in this. And
unless God called you, you'll never have any part in any of
this. Never did? Never will. But, one more thing, one more
question. And I will say the same thing
about this question. Don't be too upset if you don't have the
answer right off. But if you can't relate to the
answer I give you to this question, you ought to be scared to death.
It'll frighten you within your soul. What is the hallmark of
God's calling? Is there a hallmark of God's
calling? Turn to 1 Corinthians 1, and
I will give you the hallmark to God's calling. In other words, is there one
thing that points out there is a called person. Yes, there is. Yes, there is. 1 Corinthians
1, look at what Paul writes, verse 18. For the preaching of
the cross, and you all know that. Anybody who hears me on this
tape at any other time, know this. We're not talking about
that piece of wood on which Jesus Christ hung. We're talking about
his substitutionary sacrifice on that tree at Calvary. That's
what we're talking about. For the preaching of the cross
is to them that perish, what is it? Foolishness. If the message
of Christ crucified is foolishness to you, then you are not called. I'll show you, I'll prove that
to you. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish,
it's foolishness, but to them which are saved, it's the power
of God. But now look, and let me go on
down, you can read the rest of it, see I'm not jumping the context,
but look at verse 23 then, but we preach Christ crucified. Unto the Jews, stumbling block.
Unto the Greeks, foolishness. And no matter which camp you're
in, if you're in that camp, you're perishing. It's not until God
Almighty first calls you, or I'll put it this way, He's gotta
save you first. He's gotta save you first. Look,
but we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews, a stumbling block,
unto the Greeks, foolishness, but unto them which are, uh-oh,
there it is. but unto them which are called. That worked out real good for
me, didn't it? That just kind of fell right in the message,
didn't it? No, no, this is what God's purposed.
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, no matter
what your background was and is, Christ, the power of God,
and the wisdom of God. There's the home. In other words,
the truth of Jesus Christ crucified governs everything about me. My thoughts, my intents, my desires,
it governs it all. Everything is in light of that
message. If there's something else you'd rather hear, and I
say this to each and every one of you, if I can look you in
the eye, if there's something else that means more to you,
then go find it. because you'll not find anything
else here other than that. God help us, Joe. Jesus Christ
and Him crucified. That's the crux of it all. Other things are glorious, but
they all eventually either point forward to or will point back
to. That lamb crucified. Even in glory in the new heavens
and the new earth, who's gonna be the light? The lamb. Lamb. Lamb. However you wanna
say it, he'll be the light of that city. We'll never forget
that he's the lamb, Mason. Even after we're totally in his
likeness, no more sin, no more suffering, no more death, no
more sorrow, we ain't gonna forget this. He's the lamb. We wouldn't
be here apart from Him. Do you see it? Now, if it's gonna
be that important then, you think it's not that important now?
Now, come on now. Oh, we know it is. We know it
is. We know it. It is Christ crucified. And how do I know it governs
it? Look at what Paul said to the Galatians. Remember, they
were having some troubles. They were starting to get, somebody
come along, put the old shell game on them. Who do them? Look
at what Paul says in Galatians chapter 6 verse 14. But God forbid
that I should glory save in what? In the cross of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And you remember I said the truth
of Christ crucified governs everything about us. Here's where he says
it. Look. But God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the
world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. all the proper
perspectives will be properly perceived only as we're perceiving
and glorying in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. If my mind
ever does start to deviate a little from that, Joe, everything else
will fall out of perspective. It'll be misery, it'll be pain,
it'll be hopelessness. So as a believer, I gotta call
that what it is, don't I? Unbelief. Oh, God dragged me
back to the cross. More, dragged me back to Christ
and Him crucified. Look, by whom the world is crucified
unto me and I unto the world. Well, that's just Paul, he was
an apostle. Come on, he's an apostle. Look,
for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision,
but here's what avails, here's what matters, a new creation. This new creature looks to him
who created him. Clay Curtis used this phrase,
a fire that is kindled is like the fire that kindled. And I
like that phrase. And the new creature, the new
creation, that which God creates in us, that which loves God and
loves Christ, it's always going to look back to him who created
it. Always back, look for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision
availeth anything nor uncircumcision but a new creature. And here
it is, and as many as. So that means not one more than.
But thank God not one less than. And as many as walk according
to this rule. You see? Here's where peace resides. Peace beyond them and mercy and
upon the Israel of God. Again, I say the truth of Christ
crucified governs our thoughts, our intents, our desires, even
our very walk. It's like this. It raises us
up when we're brought low, and it brings us low when we raise
ourselves up. Is that just a simple enough
statement to kind of sum it all up? Let me say it to you again.
Get a hold of this if you can. Because this is not water, this
is what the scripture teaches. It raises us up when we're brought
low. Ain't nothing I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna try to crawl down to the dust today. I want my circumstances
to be just as miserable as they can be today. Huh? Now if you do, they got medicine
you can go take, it might help you with that. You know what
I'm saying. It raises us up when we're brought
low, but it also brings us low when we raise ourselves up. I'm asking you now the question,
two questions. Can you relate to that? That's
my answer to those questions. Can you relate to that? Has God
called me? Has God called you? That's the
question I have to answer for me and you have to answer for
you. You coming out, I don't know if I'm really saved. You
know what I'm probably gonna tell you? I don't either. I can't tell
you either. And you know what, I'm at that
place now, I've baptized so many people that's went away, I'm
about ready to tell most of them, I don't think you're saved at
all. Hang around about 20 years and let's find out if it's real.
Now I know that's not the proper attitude to have, but that's
the way I feel sometimes. Has God called me? Has God called
you? Only you can know that. We can
be persuaded of one another, why? Because of that kindred
spirit. Yes, I understand that. But I can't prove it to you. You can't prove it to me. Has
God called you? Has God called me? If He has, then God is for us. And if God be for us, Who can
be against us? Paul says, absolutely nothing. Now read with me, read it one
more time. And I'll close with just reading it. Romans chapter
8, listen to what he says. What shall we then say to these
things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared
not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It
is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even
at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for
us. Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword,
as it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for
the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded
that neither death nor life nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen. Amen. Thank God. Amen. Amen. Thank God. Father,
comfort us with these things, not only Lord, most low estate,
but even in our most lofty, especially Lord, in our most lofty perceived
state. Oh God, teach us you love us
no matter what. You love us no matter what, because
your love is all based upon the personal work of your son. I
thank you in his name, amen. Thank you, Joe.