Open your Bibles up to Galatians
2. Galatians 2. The name of the message is the
truth of the gospel. Now, what's the truth of the gospel? Well,
justification in Christ alone, right? That fact that our salvation
is in and through Christ alone and by his precious work. He
must be magnified. That's why Paul said, I'm determined
to preach nothing but Christ and him crucified. And our great
God, he moves in mysterious ways, doesn't he? He does. He moves
in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform. And we saw in our
last study that Peter let the flesh get the better of him,
remember? he was sitting there eating with his Gentile brethren
and some Jews prominent Jews came up from sent by James came
up from Jerusalem and he disassembled himself which is he removed himself
sitting with the Gentiles while they were eating and he went
off to the side and he was you know he had influence in the
church and because he did that the other Jews that were there
disassembled and even Barnabas too but isn't it amazing that
that our Lord allowed this to happen for our learning, and
even for Peter's learning, too. So here we are now, 2,000 years
later, we're reading this, and we're looking at this portion
of Scripture authored by the Holy Spirit of God, and it speaks
to our hearts as believers. And again, this letter has one
of the keystones of the New Testament, which again is justification
in Christ alone. And we're now approaching the
heart of the epistle. Only in chapter two, but the
next few verses after what we're gonna look at this week, and
we're gonna start next week, it's actually the heart of the
gospel. Again, it's all about justification in Christ. And
by faith, we believe on Christ, by God-given faith, and we're
justified. But we're justified in him. It's
what he's done that justifies us. And again, this is the heart
of the epistle. I believe justification in Christ
is the heart of the gospel, to be honest with you. Because without
justification in Christ, we have nothing. We are just poor, wretched
sinners. That's all we are. So it's a
keystone of the New Testament. And here Paul is gonna give an
answer in the upcoming scriptures of the age-old question, how
shall a man be justified before God? Well, how can we be justified
before God? In Christ. Only in Christ, nowhere
else. See, that's why it's so important,
right? That's why, again, it's a keystone of the whole New Testament.
And it ties in so much with the New Testament teaching that our
salvation is in Christ and Him alone. And the entire scope of divine
revelation gives an answer to that age-old question, how shall
a man or woman be justified before God? And who's the book about? The Lord said, the law and the
prophets they testify of me. Right? So it's all about Christ. So there's no salvation outside
of Christ. And Paul, remember he's battling the Judaizers,
right? who are questioning that salvation is in Christ alone.
Actually, they're not questioning it. They're against it because
they're saying, you've got to do this to be saved. And now here, now he's
going to start dealing with Peter disassembling from the brethren.
How would we feel if we were all sitting there? Just picture
us there. We're sitting there with Peter
and Paul. We're all a bunch of Gentiles. And here's Peter. We're like, wow, there's Peter,
man. And again, he had Again, the ground's level, but
he was a man of God. He was known to be with the Lord,
so he was one of the apostles. And they'd be like, wow, look,
Peter's eating with us, talking with us. They'd be thrilled,
wouldn't they? And all of a sudden, when these other Jews come, he
gets up and walks away. How would we feel? We'd be like,
what's going on, Peter? Are we not good enough to eat
with you? Are we not saved by the same
blood? And see, this occurred after, this occurred, and this
is important, this occurred after Paul and Barnabas were given
the right hand of fellowship that we saw earlier in this chapter.
This occurred after that. So Peter, after Paul had went
up and met with him, had come down to Antioch, which again,
remember, is the center for the Gentile church. just as Jerusalem is the center
for the circumcision church. But they're all one. There's
no division. Paul was okay with that division, but he never wanted
division within the body. Never. Never division in the
body. There's never one elevated over
the other. There's never. We were talking
about that last night, Dave. There's never. It's all level.
It's all level. We're all brothers and sisters
in Christ, saved by the same grace, given the same mercy,
and washed in the same precious blood the Lord Jesus Christ. Now let's read this with that
in our minds. Let's read this where Peter is reproved by Paul. And again, this has high significance
because this could have either meant the shipwreck of the church
or the survival of the church. Right? Because if he had divided
himself and Paul hadn't said anything, then there's no unity
between the Jew and Gentile, is there then? And that's what
Paul was going at, is that we have to be united in Christ. And these Gentiles are justified
exactly the same way you are, Peter. Right? You and I are justified the same
way Peter, Paul, John, All the Jewish converts are justified
the same way we are in Christ. There's no difference, beloved.
It's man who makes the difference. See, man is, we mess things up,
don't we? We mess things up, beloved. We
really do. And just a recommendation for
next week, because we're going to get, again, we're going to
get into the heart. We're going to get into the keystone, the
heart of the gospel of this book. Just read ahead if you can in
your free time. Just read Galatians chapter two
a couple times, if you'd like, and it'll give us a better understanding
for what's coming up. It's just incredible. Let's read
verses 11 to 14 right now in Galatians chapter 2. When Peter
was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was
to be blamed. For before that certain came
from James, he did eat with the Gentiles. But when they were
come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were
of the circumcision. See what's happened here? The
fear of man. Fear of man. That's why we're not to fear
man, beloved. Fear he who can destroy both body and soul in
hell. Fear God. Right? And for the believer, that's
not a slavish fear, that's a reverent fear. My, this is my God. He's king. He's over all. My. He separated himself, fearing
them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled
likewise. So he has some influence, right? Peter has some influence.
He's an apostle. While the other Jews just follow along with him.
And even Barnabas, now think of this. I was thinking about
this. Here's Barnabas who was given the right hand of fellowship
with Paul and was Paul's right arm. And even he's wandering
off. He knows better. He's been with
Paul ministering to the Gentiles. Now think of how they would have
felt without, oh dear Barnabas, what are you doing? See, we don't think that way,
but people, we know humans, we think that way, don't we? What's
wrong with me? Why is he doing that? See, we
gotta look at the emotions, the human emotions, too, of how the
Galatians would feel about this. They would be hurt. They might
not verbalize it, but they would be hurt over what happened. And it says here, insomuch that
Barnabas was also carried away with her dissimulation. That
means separation. They separated themselves. And
it brings forth in the Greek a slow separation, kind of like,
well, we need to be over here, boys. So there's now a distinction,
isn't there? When there shouldn't be. There
shouldn't be at all. And then it says, but when I
saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the
gospel, I said, Peter, before them all, now look at this. Paul's
not having no private conversation. He says it before all the believers.
He says, Peter, you're wrong. You're wrong. You're not walking
according to the truth. That's what he's saying here.
We'll look at that a little bit later. He's saying, you're not
walking straight. You're walking crooked, brother.
You're walking crooked. My. He said, but when I saw that
they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I
said unto Peter before them all, if thou being a Jew livest after
the manner of Gentiles and not as do the Jews, why compelst
thou the Gentiles To live as do the Jews. Well, Peter doesn't
live as a Gentile. See, they got grave clothes,
beloved. They got grave clothes on, like we all do. Like one
of our preachers said, we're all recovering Pharisees, aren't
we? Right? They got these grave clothes
on. Peter sees those prominent Jewish guys coming up from, and
they're believers, and he sees them coming up from the church,
and he's like, oh, I gotta go over here. I can't let them see
me. Eat with them, Gentiles. They're
your brothers, Peter. That's what Paul's bringing forth.
They're your brothers in Christ. And he's going to bring forth
in the latter part of this chapter, they're your brothers in Christ
and they're justified in Christ just like you are. So he says,
why are you compelling them to live as a Jew when they're Gentiles?
They don't compel you to live as a Gentile. Right? Remember what it said
in Scripture? That when the Gentiles heard that the news was for them
too, they rejoiced! They were like, oh, praise God!
This is for us too! They were so happy, beloved!
They were so happy, they were ecstatic! My! And now remember, too, Paul was
raised up in a Jewish religion. He knew all the traditions. He
knew everything that way. And look at this. He's a man
raised up for this purpose, right? He's the apostle to the Gentiles.
So he's actually raised up at this time to deal with this situation. Isn't that amazing? You know,
God saves us just in time, right? And we are to minister to our
generation. Isn't that amazing? To our generation. The reason, you know, I used
to say this. I used to say, I wish I was born
150 years ago when Spurgeon was alive. Because I really like
his preaching, right? I do. And I was like, oh, I wish. But
no. That wasn't God's purpose. God and His sovereignty had me
born in 1964. That was when I was to be born. And now I see. that
he was preparing me my whole life to be here with you all.
Isn't that amazing? That's incredible, isn't it?
It's absolutely, and he was preparing you all to be here today, and
we rejoicing in the gospel together. That's amazing. That's amazing. So Paul was a man raised up by
God for this situation, to meet the Galatian crisis that was
occurring here with the Judaizers, and also now with Peter. And
just in the same case as Joseph and Moses and Samuel and David
and Elijah and Daniel, the crisis depended upon the work of one.
They were raised up to meet the crisis in that situation, weren't
they? That's what they were. Paul was raised up to be the
apostle to the Gentiles, to bring the gospel to the Gentiles. And
one commentator said this, one man called, gifted, and equipped
and sent of God to meet the need of the church is raised up by God at a crucial
time. And all these men were raised
up at those times to deal with the crisis at that
time. You know, God has little use
for communities and corporations and all these things. It's incredible. His greatest
works in the history of mankind have been wrought by single men.
Look at Paul. Look at David. Look at Solomon. He uses single men. Look at Brother
Henry. Look where Brother Henry was
raised up. And all these preachers being influenced by his preaching. It's incredible. You talk to
most of the grace preachers, and the two men we're going to
have come up, they were both influenced by him. They were
used by... Henry was used by God to show
them the truth. It's incredible. It's absolutely
amazing. So Paul was called alone. There
was no big financial backing behind him, was there? None. There was no big corporation
behind him, no society or party behind him, no religious order
behind him. Eventually he had Barnabas, but
even they ended up splitting up, but they're rejoicing in
heaven right now. They're not disputing about nothing
anymore. That's the thing I always have
to chuckle. There's different personalities down here on earth,
and they get all worked up. And look at Paul. Paul's the
same man. Barnabas is the same man. They get all worked up,
and they end up separating. Oh, they're rejoicing together, singing
praises to our King right now. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that
amazing? Things are always reconciled at home, aren't they? Oh my,
it's wonderful. It's so wonderful. So what was
it that Paul was so boldly and singularly stood for on this
occasion here? Well, we're going to see he stood
for justification by Christ alone and through Christ alone. And
he's even bringing that forth before Peter. Why are you trying
to make these Gentiles live like Jews? They have no idea about your
customs. As a matter of fact, Jew and Gentile despised each
other. The Gentiles at least would trade with them. And the
Jews looked down on the Gentiles. So you can see how that would
be ingrained in them. And how now, in Christ, they're both
one. You can see how some of the Jews
who came out of that religion would still have grave clothes
on. See, I always say, let us have grace with these guys, because
we'd be doing the same thing if we were in their boots. We'd
be doing the same thing. So like Luther and Calvin and
Knox, Paul stood alone in this time of great urgency. And again, he stood for justification
by Christ alone. The worksmongers had crept in,
the church, right? They crept in the church, unawares,
quietly, secretly. And they said, you got to do
something to be saved. In this case, it was you have to be circumcised
to be saved. Paul said, no, that ain't true.
He opposed them. He preached the gospel of God's
free grace to them. He preached the one true gospel,
right? In and through the Lord Jesus Christ. Through His perfect
sin atoning work. That's the only way we can be
saved. Is by the perfect sin atoning work of Christ. No other
way. Nor the way. We can't save ourselves. We have
no ability to do that. We can't save no one else either.
But that sacrifice to Christ is complete. It's perfect. It's
perfect. And we're redeemed by the shedding
of His blood, beloved. The life of the flesh is in the
blood, right? Scripture declares. He shed His blood for us. He
gave His life for us. My. And Christ, you know Christ is
all that matters in salvation. He's all that matters. There's
nothing else that matters but Christ. He's all that matters in salvation.
That's it. It's all wrapped up in Him. He's
all that matters in the salvation of man's eternal soul. And any
other refuge other than Christ is a false refuge. It is a false
refuge. No matter what people say, it's
a false refuge. Any message that man claims to
be good news that adds something to Christ's finished work is
bad news. It'll damn your soul. It'll damn
your soul. But there's salvation in Christ,
isn't there? My, it's not bad news, it's wonderful news. It's
the best news I've ever heard in my life. And he's, again,
he's all that matters in the salvation of a man or woman's
soul. He's all that matters, the Lord Jesus Christ. There's
nothing else that matters. And sinners, think of this too,
sinners, such as you and I, are justified in Christ, by God,
in Christ alone. See, that's the opposite of what
we think naturally, right? Because man, I've said this many
times, I'm going to say it again, and I'm going to keep saying
it, man is wired to work. In our natural state, we think
there's something, you know why? Because we don't have, you know,
and I was thinking about this, you know why we're like that?
Because we have no understanding of who God is. So we're left to our own selves
in our natural state. And we think, well, it's up to
me then. And then when we start to feel that spirit wooing us,
the Holy Spirit wooing us to Christ, drawing us to Christ,
right? We see, oh Lord, thou art great. Thou art merciful. Because I
can't do nothing to save myself. Absolutely nothing at all. You're
wondrous. You're wondrous. Oh my, it's
so true, isn't it? And then, you know what? Even
after the Lord saves us and regenerates us, we just keep saying, you're
wondrous. You're amazing, Lord. You're
incredible. Oh, he's so amazing. So we're
justified by God freely in Christ. Freely. Nothing in us, nothing
dependent upon us, nothing good in us to merit that. And this was Paul's message.
salvation in Christ alone. Turn, if you would, to Romans
chapter 3. We see this brought forth in Romans chapter 3. This
truth brought forth very clearly in Romans chapter 3, verses 19 to 26. Very clearly
we see this brought forth. Romans chapter 3, verses 19 to
26. Now we know that what thing is
soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law.
So who's under the law? All of us. Every single human
being's under the law, right? Except those in Christ now. Now
we're not under the law anymore, are we? But we're in our natural
state. This is talking about our natural state. We're all
under the law. That every mouth... Why? That
every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty
before God. See, men don't believe that.
Men don't believe they're guilty. Men and women They don't believe
they're guilty before God. You know how I know? Because
I say, well, I'm a good person. Ask someone if they're a sinner
and find out why. You're either going to get a good reaction
or a bad reaction, depending on who you're asking if they're
a sinner. If you ask a believer if they're a sinner, say, yeah,
I'm a sinner saved by grace. If you ask an unsaved person
if they're a sinner, you might want to duck. You might get some verbal abuse.
But there are no sinners down the street, right? Or there are
no sinners in prison. Oh my! But look what this scripture
says there. It says that all the world might
become guilty before God. Everybody is guilty before God.
were born dead in trespasses and guilty before God. Look at
that. And look how clear this is. Okay, so those Judaizers
were saying you have to be circumcised to be saved, and that's the law.
They're using the law, right? Look at what it says here. This
is marvelous. Look at verse 20. Therefore by the deeds of the
law, the doing of the law, right? The doing of the law, there shall
no flesh be justified in his sight. No one can be justified
in God's sight by the doing of the law. It's so clear, isn't
it? So clear. So clear. Right there. For by the law is
the knowledge of sin. See, I didn't know what sin was
until God revealed himself to me. Is it so for you? Until I saw that law and I was,
oh, I was guilty in every single one of them. Just put a checklist
beside every single one of them. Oh my. And if I didn't do it, I thought
it. See, that's when the Lord spiritualized the law, remember?
When he spiritualized the law, everyone's guilty. Oh my gosh,
everyone's guilty before God. My, oh my. Look at this though. But now the righteousness of
God without the law is manifested. That's Christ. Be witness by
the law and the prophets. Remember? The law and the prophets,
they testify of me. Look at this. He's the righteousness
of God, beloved. Even the righteousness of God,
which is by faith of Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all them that
believe. For there's no difference. Look
at that. The Jews and Peter were making
a difference, weren't they? By dissimulating. God says there's
no difference between my people. They're all one. They're all one in Christ. Doesn't
matter if your faith is weak or strong. You're all one. That's why it's so important
what Scott said about the level ground. It's so important. Again, we preachers aren't to
vault ourselves up. We're servants to the church. We're servants. You know? And we're all servants.
I was telling Dave last night, we were talking and I said, I
said, I can't do what I do without you all. Praying and giving and
keeping the church going, right? Isn't it amazing how we're, every
single one of us is needed within the body of Christ? Every one
of us is important. Isn't that amazing? It's wonderful.
And now here we are joined together. So there's no difference. Look
at this. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of
God. That means everybody. All there means all. It doesn't mean
some. It doesn't mean the guy down the street or the guy in
prison. It means all. Everybody's a sinner. Whether
they admit it or not. See that? And then look at this. And come short of the glory of
God. Being justified freely by whose grace? by God's grace. We are justified freely by God's
grace, beloved. This is wonderful news. And see,
this is Paul writing these words. The same one that's withstanding
Peter, right? Remember that too. This is Paul
writing these words. being justified freely, wow,
by his grace, oh, how great is his grace, through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus, through the precious blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It's wonderful. Whom God has
set forth. See, God set forth Christ. God
sent Christ. He sent him forth, beloved. We
didn't send him forth. God sent him forth. To what? To be a propitiation for our
sins. That's wonderful. Whom God has set forth to be
a propitiation through faith in His blood, all that blood,
all the blood of Jesus Christ, cleanses us from all sin. To
declare His righteousness. Whose righteousness? God's righteousness. Christ is the righteousness of
God. Isn't that wonderful? That's
our Savior. That's our, He's our righteousness.
He's the Lord our righteousness. We're clothed in His righteousness.
It's wonderful. Wonderful. for the remission
of sins that are past for the forbearance of God. How long-suffering
has God been with us? And how long-suffering is He
still with us? See, we're plagued by unbelief, aren't we? And somebody
said, ah, Vicki once had somebody say, well, I don't struggle with
unbelief. I said, look out. And it wasn't
a few years later. That she was plagued with worry
and all kinds of stuff. You just don't say stuff like
that. Not that God's going to get you
and all that. I'm not talking that way. I'm not saying. But
God teaches us, doesn't He? In love. He shows us our need
for Him desperately. Desperately. Oh, it's incredible. I need Him more now than I've
ever needed Him before. Is it so for you? More now than
ever. More now than ever. To declare
I say at this time his righteousness that he might be just and a justifier
of him which believeth in Jesus. He's a just God and he's my justifier.
Isn't that wonderful? So for you if you're a believer
too. Last week we looked at how Peter had come to Antioch. Let's
go back to Galatians chapter 2. He come to Antioch. Paul withstood
him to the face, confronted him over separating from the Gentiles. when those important Jews came,
and we know the flesh, definitely the flesh got the better of Peter
there. It got the better of Peter. He believed that we were justified
in Christ alone. Just his flesh got carried away.
He had the fear of man in him. Oh, may it never be so for us.
May we not fear man. May we fear God and move forward. Marching before, or marching
behind actually, behind our King. He's the one marching, isn't
he? We're marching to glory, beloved. Forgetting the things
of the past, right? We're going to move forward.
And move forward. My, oh my. And isn't it amazing
again, as I said earlier, I was really contemplating this. Isn't
it amazing that God allowed this to happen? Now, it shows us that
even the best men are but men. Doesn't it? Here's Peter. You know, he stuck his foot in
his mouth a few times. Well, so have I. Right? Here, the flesh getting the better
of him. Well, it's gotten the better of me too before. It's
a battle every day, isn't it? My, oh my. Even good men can
be wrong sometimes, which is the case with Peter here. Let's
read verses 13 and 14 again. And the other Jews disassembled
likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away
with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked
not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto
Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the
manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compelst thou
the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? Now the probable origin of the
Antioch practice of Jew and Gentile eating again was the result of
Paul having gone up to Jerusalem and then giving them in the right
hand a fellowship and saying, well, the Gentiles are our brothers.
So then again, here comes Peter coming down and he just starts
eating with the Gentiles, right? Because at Antioch now, they
said, well, we got the right hand of fellowship from Peter,
James, and John. Let's just eat together, brothers.
Let's eat together, sisters. Right? Doesn't matter if we're
Jew or Gentile. We're one in Christ. My. They knew now that the Mosaic
economy had been set aside. There's no restrictions for them
now. Now they can eat as one, because there are one in the
body of Christ, right? There's no division between Jew
and Gentile in the body of Christ. No. Paul writes that we're one
in Christ. And we're all complete in Christ.
Right? All of us. My. And the Jewish and Gentile Christians,
they welcome this opportunity of fellowship. They probably
loved it. They probably loved it. And we know they had unity together.
They had unity together. And look at verse 13 again. And the other Jews dissembled
likewise with him, so much that Barnabas was also carried away
with their dissimulation. Now remember the Holy Ghost had
taught Peter, by the vision on the housetop in Acts 10.9, that
there was nothing common. There's nothing unclean, right?
Remember? He had shown him that. How quickly we forget. How quickly
we forget, right? He showed him, you can eat any
meat. I gave it to you. I gave it to you. So he knew
then, he knew from that, that it was okay to eat with the Gentiles.
Because they would eat food that the Jews normally wouldn't eat.
But he's like, well now I can eat anything that way. Past the
bacon, right? Because they didn't eat pork
at one time. My, it's wonderful. He had freedom and liberty to
eat with them, but here comes certain Jews, and he just, the
flesh gets the better of him, off he goes. And you know, had
Peter been firmer in his liberty, he could have said, look, I have
freedom in Christ to eat with these folks. And so do you. But again, we see in this chapter
that the fear of man got a hold of him. And what a lesson here
for us. What a lesson here for us. We're
one in Christ, beloved. We come from all different places
in this country, right? All different walks of life.
And we're brought here together by the providence of God. And
here we are rejoicing in Christ together. Isn't it wonderful?
And so all this, even this occurring here, remember this too, even
this occurring here happened because for the furtherance of
the gospel. Right? Just remember that. Just remember
that. Because Paul is going to, in
the next few verses we'll look at next week, start next week,
Paul is going to get again to the keystone of the New Testament.
Justification in and through Christ alone. Because of this
happening, God in his providence allowed that to happen so that
this could be brought forth. Isn't that amazing how the Lord
even uses our failings? to teach us. Isn't it wonderful? You know, we don't grow on the
mountaintop as much as we do in the valley, do we? Right? is down here we really
need Christ. We really need him up here too!
But you know we're like, well things are going good and I'm
doing well. It takes a little dip in the
valley there for us to be reminded again, doesn't it? Oh Lord, I
need you all the time. I need you all the time. And
so it's amazing how God works, how he uses means and things that occur to
teach us, to teach us, and to draw us even closer to him. We
can't look for perfection anywhere but Christ, right? We can't. We're imperfect beings. We're
imperfect, but we look at the perfect one. We look at Christ,
the sinless one. He's our Savior. And see there
when it says, I want to bring this up quick, but it says, but
when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth
of the gospel. In the Greek, that means to walk straight.
They didn't walk straight. They were crooked, going off
the path. It means to-they didn't walk
straight, to walk a straight course. It speaks of straightforward,
unwavering, sincere conduct, in contrast to crooked, wavering,
and insecure course. Paul was-he was off the path,
wasn't he? He was in the weeds. Or not Paul,
I mean Peter. Peter was in the weeds. He was
off the path. And Paul says, You're not walking according
to the way the Lord called us to walk. See, this is also true,
and I want to bring this forth, because I think this needs to
be brought forth within our bodies, the little bodies we have as
believers, is that we're not to walk off course, beloved. The New Testament has so much
teaching of bringing us before Christ. And my problem, I don't
know if it's yours, but my problem is when I start to wander off
the path, right? Then I get in trouble. Right? See, but the New Testament shows
us this is for our learning, beloved. This is for our learning
that there's nothing we can do to gain salvation. There's nothing,
nothing that anyone can do. Justification's in Christ alone.
Now, Peter had to learn the hard way, didn't he? Amen. We all do. We all do. We all
go through things. You see? See? It's wonderful. It's just amazing. And again,
Peter's rebuke was in front of everybody. Peter was rebuked
by Paul in front of everybody. Paul didn't say, well, come along
over here. I'm going to take you in this
room and we're going to sit down with you and give you talking
to you. Paul just let it out. Because
these are his brethren, and he loves them. And Peter's offended
them. Oh my. Isn't it amazing how good
God is to us? How merciful God is to us? He's absolutely amazing, isn't
he? Absolutely amazing. Brother Travis,
can you close us in prayer?