Well, we're going to find out
that Philippi was just a colony. It was a colony of Rome really.
All these cities that they started were colonies. Do you know what? We're a colony of heaven here.
Because you know where our citizenship is? It's in heaven. Isn't that wonderful? Oh my. So open your Bibles to the book
of Philippians. The name of the message is Citizens
of Heaven. Citizens of Heaven. Now I was
gonna, I had planned on preaching on verses 27 to 30. This always happens. And at the
start of the week, I had penciled this in for these four verses. And I got talking to Derdits
on the phone. And he said, oh, we just finished
Philippians. And I said, oh, I'm just about
finishing chapter one. I'm in verses 27 to 30. And he
goes, oh, that verse 27 is just incredible. And he says, it talks
about our citizenship being in heaven. And so I started looking
at it. This can be a two part message
on this verse. Today, we're going to look at
the citizenship. And then next week, we'll look at the rest
of the verse. But it's just amazing what's here before us. It's incredible. I'd never seen it before. And
Jim, we were talking about that yesterday, how the Lord just
lights up portions of scripture. And it's absolutely incredible.
There's so much packed into this verse. Now the Philippian church,
the saints at Philippi, they were suffering from within. The Judaizers were within the
church, just the same as the Galatia. And they were also suffering
from without, though. Their own countrymen were persecuting
them. Remember, they were Romans. Now,
citizenship to a Roman was highly held, extremely in high value. And along with that citizenship
came certain privileges too. Certain privileges of being a
Roman citizen. We have privileges being citizens
of heaven, beloved, in and through Christ Jesus, our Lord. It's
amazing. And so Paul's writing, think
of this too. He's writing to the Philippian
church. And they would understand the aspect of citizenship more
than maybe some of the other Gentiles because of the high
esteem of citizenship held in Rome. And so I believe they could really
grasp this very quickly due to that. And I believe that the
Holy Spirit had Paul pen these words so that they would understand
it more too. And have you ever noticed that
the Lord uses common things in our lives to explain himself
even? I'm the way. When you plan a
trip, you plan a way to go, right? I'm the door. How many doors
in one day did we walk through? Yeah, so many, right? Going through
a door now is not the same for me. It's like, oh, this is...
Christ is the door. Just let that be reminded to
yourself, too. Every time you go through a door, Christ is
the door. He's the way, right? He's the door into heaven, isn't
he? So we go out these doors, we go outside. There's a destination. He's the door through whom we
must pass through. in order to be with the Father.
Right? It's amazing. This is the God
of the universe and He's speaking in things that we would understand.
I'm the shepherd, you're the sheep. Well, the shepherd cares
for the sheep, doesn't he? Watches over them with his own
life. Oh my. My, oh my. Our God is so good. So they were
facing persecution from within and without. Now let's read verses
24 to 30. Our text will be verse 27. It
says this. Nevertheless, to abide in the
flesh is more needful for you. In having this confidence, I
know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance
and joy of faith. That your rejoicing may be more
abundant in Jesus Christ for me, by my coming to you again
only so that word only that attaches it to the verses that preceded
it right he's still in the same kind he's still in the same thought
the vein of thought is still the same Only let your conversation
be as it become of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come
and see you or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that
you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together
for the faith of the gospel, and in nothing terrified by your
adversaries. No matter what happens in this
world, don't be terrified by it. Don't be terrified. God's in full control. He's in
absolute control. Right? Absolute control. Which is to them an evident token
of perdition. So folks persecuting us for what
we believe is an evident, look at this, token of their perdition,
their condemnation of where they're at. But to you of salvation and that
of God, For unto you it is given in on the behalf of Christ, not
only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. Having
the same conflict which you saw in me, and now here to be in
me. So the verse we'll be looking
at, we'll be looking at the first portion of verse 27, but I'll
be referencing it for us to read. Let's read it again. Only let
your conversation be as becometh the gospel of Christ, that whether
I come and see you or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs,
that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind, striving together
for the faith of the gospel. Remember in the book of Acts
study so far we've been doing there of one accord. That's what
Paul's bringing forth here, that you may be of one accord, one
spirit, the spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, that
you may be of one spirit, one accord, standing fast in the
truth, the truth of the gospel, which is the Lord Jesus Christ
came to save sinners. Right. And he did it alone by
his by the sacrifice of himself and the shedding of his precious
blood to redeem us from our sins. And then he rose again for our
justification. Right. See the word only again at the
beginning of verse 27? This again connects Paul's statement
that the assurance which he has that he will be given his freedom
comes from the fact that the Philippians need his ministry.
Remember last week we looked and he said, I desire to go to
heaven, but it's more needful for you if I stay on this earth
to minister to them. What a heart! What a heart. And as one commentator, John
Gill said, I think it was, he was willing to delay, not that
he had any control over it, because he knows he has no control over
it, but he's willing for the Lord to keep him here because
it's more beneficial to the Philippians. Isn't that amazing? My oh my. And so he's assured. Remember
salvation when he said, we'll come to my salvation. Remember
that was deliverance. And that means deliverance from
the bonds that he was currently in. Right? So he believed that
he would be set free if the Lord willed. He always brings that
forth. If the Lord wills that he should
be released one day to be able to minister to them. And since
their need of Paul's ministry is the only reason, that's the
only reason he wants to remain on this earth, is because he
knows for the saints of God, it would do them better than for him to go to glory right
away. My, what a heart. Do you see the heart he has for
people? Do you see the heart he has for sinners? And the heart
he has for God's people? Oh, it's amazing. It's happened. Their hearts, is not their hearts
knit together in love like we have here? It's amazing. Their
hearts are knit together. Just like ours. It's wonderful. It's amazing, beloved. And it's
God that's done that. It's God that's done that. My, oh my. He believes it would
be better for him to stay in the Philippian saints, it would
do them well to receive his ministry of preaching the gospel with
an open heart, and that they would obey his spirit-given exhortations. Because remember who the true
author of this word is. It's not Paul. He's the penman,
isn't he? It's the Holy Spirit of God.
So therefore, these words are not just written to the Philippians,
they're written to all believers of all ages, aren't they? See,
we have to remember that. And they're kept for our learning and for our example. Oh my. So Paul desires that they would
grow in their Christian experience by the power of God, the Holy
Spirit. And Paul seeks to encourage the
Philippians. Have you noticed how encouraging
he's been through this? This whole book is a book of
encouragement. It's wonderful. He's seeking
to encourage the Philippians, who just like Paul, they desire
that he would be able to visit them again. And you've heard me say this,
and I've talked to countless preachers, and it's so true.
When we're off somewhere else preaching, our hearts are here.
I'm praying for Travis. I'm praying for you guys. And
my thoughts are here. It's amazing how that happens.
It's amazing how that happens. But the only way he's going to
be able to visit the Philippian saints again is if it's God's
will. And he's resolved, right? We've seen that. He's resolved
and settled in that truth. Paul had a pastor's heart. We
can see it here. He had a pastor's heart. He was
an evangelist. He was a church planter. But
he had a pastor's heart too, didn't he? He loved the saints
of God. He loved them. He showed it. It was manifested. We can see his concern for them
here. Remember, this church was started when he was in Philippi. This church comprised of the
Philippian guard. Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shall be saved. Do you believe? Do you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ to the saving of your soul? Scripture
says thou shall be saved. It's settled. Isn't that wonderful?
It's settled. Oh, what peace that can give
us as believers. What peace that can give us.
And Paul knows that the Lord will provide and protect for
the church. We were talking about that yesterday,
how the Lord has provided for the church here and protected
the church. It's been absolutely incredible to see. And he's taking
such good care of us. It's been amazing. And their hearts are united in
the gospel. as well as through trials. Remember,
Paul's experienced a lot of trials on his own, so he knows what
these Philippian believers are going through when they're being
tried for their faith. He knows. Oh my. And our Savior, He's not a Savior
who doesn't know what it means to be persecuted, is He? No. No. Our beloved king's sister
was persecuted for no reason at all. Absolutely sinless. My oh my. So Paul's desire is that he would
be with them. That he would see their faces
again. That they could have collective joy together, right? Like we
have when we get together. You ever notice that? It's collective
joy. We love being with each other.
It's wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. But
if he cannot, his desire is that they would contend for the faith
once delivered to the saints, that they would stand in Christ
in one spirit in unity. In unity. So Paul in verses 27
to 30, considering the possibility that he might not see them again,
he admonishes them to walk in Christ. People say, well, I want
to hear about some practical Christian living. Well, here's
some right here. Walk in Christ. Right? Walk, trust in Christ. Just trust him. I guarantee it's
the hardest thing for you to do. Why do we, why? Why do we get
so worked up? Because of the flesh. God's in full control, isn't
he? I gotta keep, I have to keep telling myself, is that true
with you guys too? I saw what happened last night.
God's in control. He's in control. Praise God for his mercy, eh?
Praise God for his mercy. Oh my. So he has admonished them to
walk in Christ. They've received Christ by God-given
faith, given to them by the Holy Spirit of God, and they've fled
to Christ, haven't they? And they're resting and trusting
in Him, but they're being persecuted for what they believe. Now let's
read this again. Only let your conversation be as it becometh
the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you or else be
absent, see whether I'm with you or whether I'm not. And this is true for us even
in church and outside of church, right? Right? I may hear of your
affairs that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind, striving
together for the faith of the gospel. This is why I love hearing
when you guys talk to other folks about Christ, I get lit up. It's
wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. We're
striving together for the faith of the gospel, beloved. My, oh,
my. So Paul's bringing forth that
we as believers, as born-again, blood-washed saints, are to conduct
ourselves in the churches, in churches, in homes, in personal
lives, in a way that is becoming of the gospel. We're new creatures. We don't live like we used to.
We're new creatures in Christ. We have a new master. The old
master was self. The new master is Christ. You
see? That's why Paul said, for me
to live is, and remember that's his testimony, for me to live
is Christ and to die is gain. We seek now, Brother Brian, you
talked about it yesterday. We seek now to serve him. Now we seek to serve him. We
desire to serve Christ now. Did we want to do that before
we were saved? I wanted to be as far away from
a church as I possibly could. And now here I am, a servant
to you guys in the church, but more so a servant of Christ,
like you, which we all are. We all are servants of Christ.
If you're born again, you're blood washed, trusting and resting
in Christ, then you're a servant of Christ, like me. Isn't it
wonderful? There's no hierarchy, is there?
We're just a bunch of servants. But but you ever notice we're
willing servants, aren't we? Remember, like remember the fellow
in the Old Testament, if he wanted to stay with the master bore
my ear. You say, bore my ear, Lord, bore the ear of my heart. Oh my. And we're marked. People talk about a mark in the
future. We're already sealed and marked with ownership of
God. Did you know that? Sealed with
the Holy Spirit of God. That means marked in the Greek.
Tell somebody you're already marked. They'll do a backflip
if they're religious. Oh my gosh. Yeah, we're already
marked. We're sealed as God's property.
Isn't that amazing? We're sealed as God's property.
That's what that sealing of the Holy Spirit is. It's a mark of
ownership. Oh my. Did we ever imagine that
before we were saved? Be in wonder, beloved of God.
This is truth. Sealed with the Holy Spirit of
promise. Marked. God says, you're mine. You're mine by creation. You're
mine by love. With an everlasting love, I've
loved you. And you're mine by purchase. Christ said, I shed
my blood to purchase the eternal souls of his people. Oh, my. What a wonderful truth. So we're
to stand fast in that truth, aren't we? We're to proclaim
it to a lost and dying world that Christ is the only Savior
of sinners. The only one. There's no other
one. but Christ Jesus our Lord, who's God incarnate in the flesh.
Oh my. So we're going to conduct ourselves
again in churches and homes and personal lives in a way that
is becoming to the gospel. You know, religion messes stuff
up so much. It makes it a duty. We were talking
about that yesterday. It makes it a duty, right? You
have to do this. Do you know what the believer
says? I want to do this. It's the opposite, isn't it?
I want to serve Christ. I want to hear the gospel. It's
the opposite of religion. It's the opposite. I get to read
my Bible because I want to. I get to be with God's people
because I want to be with God's people. My, oh my. See the new creature? That wasn't true of us before
we were saved, was it? I can tell you, I can tell you
from experience, the last thing I ever wanted to do as an unsaved
man was talk to a bunch of Christians. Or even be around them. That
was the last place you'd find me. And here I am. There's no other place I want
to be than with you all. That's a miracle of God. And
you know what? I'd have kept going that way
if God didn't intervene in my life. Oh, and save my soul. It's the
same for you, right? See, if God hadn't intervened
in our life, if he hadn't saved us, if he hadn't regenerated
us and given us faith to believe in Christ, we'd still be walking
that same path. But praise be to God, here we
are together, rejoicing in the Savior. Charlie, that's a miracle,
brother. It's a miracle. Isn't it, Travis? It's incredible. And here we are, loving to serve
God, wanting to serve God, wanting to be with the people of God.
Carolyn said, I wish I could just sleep at church and have
you come and preach every day. Oh my, wouldn't that be wonderful
if we could gather every day together? Oh my, just tell me
when. Oh my, but wouldn't it be, it'd
be wonderful, wouldn't it? Oh my goodness. So he's admonishing the Philippians
to stand fast in unity in Christ. and live a life that's according
to your profession of faith. Right? See how religion messes
it up so much? Oh, you gotta do this, you gotta
do that. What's the first thing when your mom told you, because
I know what happened with me, when your mom told you she made
you nice, fresh baked cookies, and my mom would leave the cookie
thing on the counter there, she said, Wayne, don't touch those
cookies. And she'd go in the other room.
You know what the first thing I wanted to do? I wanted to grab
them cookies. And she'd come back. And of course,
you don't think of this as a kid. Well, if I take two, there's
two blank spots there now. Wayne, you took some cookies.
And she'd chuckle. She'd chuckle because she knew
I couldn't do it. But isn't that true? My. But if she had to take the cookies
out and said, here Wayne, here's a couple of cookies, then the
desire to take them is gone, isn't it? Oh my. God gives us a gift, doesn't
he? Salvation through Christ. And
now we want to serve him. We willingly serve him by the
power of God the Holy Spirit. And he works that in us even
more. God the Holy Spirit works that, that we just continue to
desire Christ more and more and more. He said he won't speak
of himself, he'll point us to Christ. Oh my, we see it, don't
we, beloved? It's wonderful. And Paul's not only doing this
with the Philippian church. If you read his letters, he's
continuously admonishing the believers to just walk in Christ. Just trust Christ, no matter
what comes. You know, I've noticed this in
this letter already. And in the other Pauline epistles
we've studied so far. And I love this. And Peter and
John do the same thing. They just point you to Christ
right away. Right away. Go home and read
the first chapter of 1 Corinthians if you want. And take note of
how many times Paul mentions Christ. Now that's a letter of
correction, right? But what does he do right off
the bat? Christ. Ding. Remember Norm said the
musical tuning fork points them right to Christ. And then he
corrects them. Gets their minds focused on Christ
first and foremost. Because that's what they needed.
That's what they needed, beloved. That's what we need. That's why
gospel preachers, we just keep putting Christ before their ears.
Because he's the one thing needful for all of us, isn't he? for
all of us. Oh my. Now let's start in this
verse here, look at this. It says, let your conversation
be as it become of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come
and see you or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs that
you stand fast in one spirit with one mind, striving together
for the faith of the gospel. Oh my, I went on, it's already,
oh my goodness. See the word conversation there
in our text? It deserves special attention because today it's
a word that refers to discourse among two people or more. But
at the time of the authorized version being translated, it
meant manner of life. It meant manner of life or behavior.
Now this Greek word is only used twice in the scriptures. This
Greek word that's underlying conversation is only used twice
in the scriptures. It's used here, and it's used
in Acts 23, verse one, where Paul, and it says, and Paul earnestly
beholding the council said, men and brethren, I have lived in
all good conscience before God until this day. Now the word
live is what he uses. where he uses that Greek word.
Now listen to this, listen to this same verse in the Greek
literal Bible, Acts 23.1. Now Paul here uses a specialized
word, a specialized Greek word. which is directly connected,
as I said, with the city of Philippi and the citizens there. Because
Philippi was a Roman colony. And the pride and privilege of
Roman citizenship was very prominent. Turn, if you would, to Acts chapter
22. It was very prominent. It held weight to be a Roman.
It held weight. We're going to see it here in
Acts 22. This power and this privilege
comes with the fact of being a Roman citizen. Look at this
in Acts chapter 22, starting in verse 24. Do you know that
it was illegal to imprison a Roman soldier without having a conviction? You couldn't just toss him into
jail there had to be a legitimate reason for casting him in jail. Look at this in Acts chapter
22. The chief captain commanded, verse 24, the chief captain commanded
him to be brought into the castle, this is Paul, and bade that he
should be examined by scourging. Oh my, here we go. That he might
know wherefore they cried so against him. So he wanted to
scourge Paul until he told him Why, why are these Jews crying
against you? Without even, he was going to
use scourging to get that out of him. He could have just talked
to him, couldn't he? Paul would have willingly told
him, I'm preached Christ and him crucified. And as they, they bound him with
thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, look at this,
is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned? He dropped the R word. Roman. That's a citizen. And look at
this. When the centurion heard that
he went and told the chief captain saying, take heed what thou doest
for this man is a Roman. And the chief captain came unto
him and said, art thou a Roman? And he said, yea. And the chief
captain answered, with great sum obtained I this freedom.
Now, He either paid to become a Roman, this fella, or he served
to become a Roman. Either way, it cost him. That's his chief captain. Now
look at this. And the chief captain answered,
with great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, but I
was free born. He's born a Roman. Now watch
this. Then straight away they departed
from him, which should have examined him. And the chief priest who
was, or the chief captain, who was afraid. Oh man, they tied
up a Roman. They tied up a freeborn Roman.
Do you see the weight? Do you see the weight of the
citizenship being brought forth before us? Oh my. And the chief captain also was
afraid after he knew that he was a Roman, because he had bound
him. You weren't even supposed to
bound a Roman citizen without there being a sentence delivered.
They're afraid. And the only reason they're afraid
is because he's a Roman. So we see the weight and the
privilege and the power that comes with being a Roman. Now
Paul's writing, these Philippian believers were Roman citizens. They were part of the empire.
Oh my. Actually, Philippi was like a
little Rome. It was so popular amongst the Romans. My, oh my. Let's look at verses
17 to 21. Turn to Philippians chapter three. Philippians chapter three. we will see a contrast before
us of the saved and the lost, and this picture of citizens
of the world as compared to citizens of heaven. So Paul is addressing
the saints of God in Philippi, again, who live in a Roman city,
who are Roman citizens, and he's writing to them from the capital,
right? He's writing to them from Rome.
And he brings before them the fact of their higher privilege
because of their heavenly calling. Now look at this in Philippians
3 verses 17 to 21. Brethren, be followers together
of me and mark them which also, so walk as you have us for an
example. For many walk, of whom I have
told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are
enemies of the cross of Christ. Now, here he's talking about
citizens of the world. Look at this. Whose end is destruction,
whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame,
who mind earthly things. Now, those are citizens of the
world. We were amongst them at one time, weren't we? But God saved us. Now look at
this, for our conversation is in heaven. From whence also we
look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change
our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto men, his
glorious body, or like unto the glorious body according to the
working, whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. So see, in verse 20, for our
conversation is in heaven, that Greek word there, that Greek
word there is used in a noun form in the Greek, In verse 27,
it's used as a verb. It's used as a verb. Now this
Greek word, this Greek word, listen to the
translation of this. Philippians chapter three, verse
20. Listen to this in the literal Greek translation. For our citizenship. Conversation is citizenship. In verse 27 of chapter 1, he's
talking about citizenship. In the Greek, it's citizenship.
Isn't that amazing? Oh, my. And I love what says,
for our citizenship exists in the heavens. From once also we
are awaiting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. That's in the Greek
literal Bible. And I love what Weiss brings
about with this Greek word in his translation. He says this
in Philippians 3.20, for our conversation is in heaven, or
as one could more fully translate, for the commonwealth of which
we are citizens has its fixed location in heaven. We're citizens
of heaven. Well, we're here on this earth.
Isn't that amazing? And again, the use of the specialized
verse in verse 27 of our first chapter, only let your conversation,
that's citizenship in the Greek, be as become at the gospel of
Christ, that whether I come and see you or else be absent, I
may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit,
with one mind, striving together for the faith of the gospel.
So it teaches us that we're citizens of heaven already. Isn't that
amazing? We're already citizens of heaven.
We don't have to wait to become citizens of heaven. We are citizens
of heaven. That's amazing, isn't it, Brother
Brian? That's incredible. And the fact that we are citizens
comes from above. It has a heavenly origin. It
doesn't come from anything we do. Just because someone bows their
head and repeats a prayer doesn't mean they become a citizen of
heaven. Like false preachers say, well now you're part of
the family of God. There's no Holy Spirit regeneration
there. Now will God's people cry out
in prayer after we're saved? Absolutely we will. But it comes from above, doesn't
it? The Holy Spirit's still working today, isn't he? He still moves. He still regenerates. And you
know what? We have a heavenly destiny. That's
as sure as the sun rising. Oh my. And we live in this world
knowing that truth now. We live on this earth in the
midst of ungodly people. We tell sinners of a savior in
heaven who can save them from their sins if they but trust
him. Right? We don't constrain the word,
do we? No, he said, go out in the highways and byways and compel
them to come. Jim brought up yesterday, go
and preach the gospel to every creature. Yeah. Out it goes. We don't constrain it. And God
moves as he wills and takes it and uses it and regenerates his
lost sheep and gives them faith to believe. Isn't that marvelous?
It's marvelous. And we're but safe sinners. That's
all we are. And the saints are reminded that
as a colony of heaven on this earth, we're to live our lives
on earth, representing our sovereign God and representing our savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. And we're born again, blood-washed
people. Think of this, we're subjects of the heavenly King.
We're subjects of the heavenly King, Brother Travis. My, oh
my, it's amazing. It's absolutely incredible. And
it's God who's made it so. Again, it's nothing we've done.
It's God that made it so. Now I'm writing to the Philippians
who have been saved. the earthly counterpart to them
trusting in the sovereign God, the sovereign king, the earthly
counterpart that was against it, that was actually Antichrist,
because anything against Christ is Antichrist, was the fact that
the subjects of Rome, the citizens of Rome, were not only obliged
to obey the laws, which were, We're obliged to obey the laws,
aren't we? Right? But to them, it was a
political duty. See, serving God and seeking
to do the will of God in our lives, not a duty to us, is it?
It's a privilege. It's a privilege. But back then,
it was a political duty. But not only to obey the laws
that were made in Rome, but also to worship the emperor. Do you
see what happened? When those Philippians turned
to Christ, his Roman citizens, they're saying, we're not worshiping,
he's just a man. We're worshiping the one true
God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the only savior of sinners. Do you
imagine the stir that cost them? No wonder their countrymen were
worked up. No wonder the Roman citizens were worked up, right? No wonder they were mattered
and wet horned at him. Oh my, what? You don't believe
Caesar's God? Nope, I don't believe. There's
only one God, and he's not that man there. He's the man Christ
Jesus, who's now living in heaven, risen from the dead for my justification. Oh my, he's the Lord Jesus Christ,
the only savior of sinners, and if you but trust him, he can
save you too. Oh, isn't it wonderful? My, oh
my. My, oh my. So rejoice, beloved
God, and let us serve our great God with joy and with worship
and with adoration, giving him all the glory, honor, and praise,
because it's he who has bestowed this wonderful privilege upon
us that we are now citizens of heaven. And how does this come
about? Someone might ask out there. How does this come about?
Well, let me tell you quickly. By God the Father giving his
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, God incarnate in the flesh, the second
person of the Trinity, the word of God, to come into this world
and to die in the ruined place of sinners. And he did it. He cried, it is finished. He
accomplished the work that God sent him to do. Then he rose
from the grave, right? He rose from the grave for our
justification. Oh, and how are we saved? By
the precious, precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And
we say glory to his name. Glory to his name. Brother Travis,
can you close us in prayer?