If you have a book there, why
don't you let Jacob use that, and you've got kids in the chair. Hymn number 341 in the Gadsby
hymn book. 341. This hymn will be, if you can
use the tune, all hail the power of Jesus' name to this tune.
341. We'll sing this one, and I've got another one we'll sing
if there's any requests for him, we'll take that as well. Hymn
number 341, a tune of All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name. Lord,
hast Thou made me know Thy ways? Conduct me in Thy fear. And grant me such supplies of
grace that I may persevere. And grant me such supplies of
grace that I may persevere. Let but Thy own almighty arm
sustain a feeble worm. I shall escape secure from harm
amid the dreadful storm. I shall escape secure from harm
amid the dreadful storm. Be Thou my all-sufficient friend
till all my torments shall cease. Guard me through life and let
my end be everlasting peace. Guard me through life and let
my end be everlasting peace. Amen. Turn now, if you would,
just over to the 345. Again, 345. It's over one page
of mine, but maybe cross the page. 345. Christ knows and keeps his sheep.
This will work to the tune of Blessed Be the Tide that Binds. Hopefully, I remember the tune. My soul with joy attend while
Jesus silence Such music yields as what my
shepherd speaks. I know my sheep he cries. My soul approves them well. Vain is the treacherous world's
disguise. and vain the rage of hell. I freely feed them now with tokens
of my love, but richer pastures I prepare and sweeter streams
of love. Unnumbered years of bliss I do,
my She will give. And while my throne unshaken
stands, shall all my chosen live. This tried, almighty hand is
raised for their defense. Where is the power can reach
them there, Or what can force them thence? Enough, my gracious Lord, Let
faith triumphant cry. My heart can on this promise
live, Can on this promise die? Does anybody have one that you'd
like to sing in the other hymn books? Or this one? Or 414? 414 in the old school hymn books? Jesus, Thou art the sinner's
friend, such I look to Thee. Now in the fullness of Thy breath,
O Lord, remember me. Remember thy good word of grace,
remember Calvary. Remember all thy dying growth,
and then remember me. Thou wondrous advocate with God,
I yield myself to Thee, while Thou art still. Oh, Lord, remember me. I owe my guilt to Thee, O my
body, Thy salvation. And in my all-abounding grace,
O Lord, remember me. Howe'er forsaken or distressed,
And when I close my eyes and think of you, Then, O my great Redeemer God,
I pray remember me. Anybody else got one that you'd like to say? 2.6 in old
school. You know this one, bro? More
love to Thee, O Christ, more love to Thee. Hear now the prayer I make on
bended knee. This is my earnest plea, More
love, O Christ, to Thee, More love to Thee, More love to Thee. Once earthly joy I craved, sought
peace and rest. Now the alone I seek, if what
is best. This, O my prayer, shall be more
love, O Christ, to Thee, more love to Thee, more love to Thee. Then shall my latest breath whisper
thy praise. This be the parting cry my heart
shall raise. This simplest prayer shall be
More love, O Christ, to Thee, More love to Thee, More love
to Thee. Alright, go ahead and get back
into our exposition. We'll look at a few more verses
here before we adjourn and have lunch. Again, looking at the perseverance
or the preservation of the saints, we've seen so far through a few
of these verses that one of the things about the child of grace
is that the Lord is with them in supplying all their needs
that they might continue and flourish, be strong, endure until
they die or He comes back, whichever comes first. And so, turn with
me now, if you would, over to the book of Ecclesiastes. If you're still in Psalms, go
through Proverbs and you'll hit Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes chapter
3. Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Let's look at verse 14. It says, I know that whatsoever
God doeth, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it, nor
anything taken from it. And God doeth it that men should
fear before Him. That which hath been is now,
that which is to be hath already been, and God requireth that
which is past." Now, I stand open for correction if this not
be true, but when I look at this, I think that that which is past
is that which God has purposed and decreed from all eternity.
And it says here, that which has been is now, and that which
is to be hath already been. And my mind goes back to the
verse, known unto God are all His works, the end from the beginning. God knows all things. Why does
He know all things? The end from the beginning. Is
it because He's a clairvoyant? Is it because He's looking down
the corridor of time to see what will happen because He can see
into the future? No, God knows all things, the
end from the beginning, because before the beginning, He predestinated
all things that will be. That's why He knows all things. If you take any other view of
God, and His knowing all things, then you are a God, you have
a God who is a God of reaction, a God who is a responding God,
a God who is not in control of all things. Things are happening
that He did not know, did not see, or did not plan, and He
is reworking them to fit into His overarching plan. Now, I
don't find that in the Scriptures anywhere. I find every detail
of everything is under His control and has been decreed and purposed
by Him and providentially is being brought about by Him. That's
what I find in Scripture. Brethren, I just... and I don't... I have a lot of... I have a lot
of... Patience and compassion with people that believe different
than that. I have to because I were one. I was one of those types. I preached
that. I stood in pulpits. I stood in auditoriums and in singing venues
whenever I traveled and sung. I stood and I proclaimed these
types of things, so I must be compassionate and patient, knowing
that it is the Lord who teaches and changes the mind. But I have
a very small place for that type of doctrine. I have a very high
intolerance for any kind of teaching or doctrine that belittles our
God to a God who doesn't know anything except He looks forward
and sees what we do. A God who is let to do whatever. This let God do this, let God
do that, give God this. Brethren, either God is God or
He is not God. And what does that have to do
with our preservation or perseverance? If your God is such a little
God that He is not in control of all things and bringing all
things about by the power of His own sovereignty, the power
of His own might, if He is not that kind of God, then how can
you look at any of these scriptures of promise that He will keep
you and be able to trust Him? If He's a God that lets people
be the arbiters of their own life, if He's a God that allows
people to be the determiners of their own destinies, if He's
the God that allows people to, by their free will, choose to
do this or choose to do that, irregardless of Him and irregardless
of anything else, if He's a God like that, then that God is easily
controlled, that God is easily disregarded, And that God cannot
do what He wants to do, because man is more superior. And if
you have a God that you say, God is sovereign, and it's more
sovereign that God can let you do all those things, and He turns
around and makes it for His good. That is the most foolish nonsense
that I've ever heard. You're either sovereign or you're
not. If you've given up that sovereignty, you've given up
that sovereignty. And whoever is the hinge pin that makes it
work, that person is the one who is in charge. We have been
brainwashed. We have been programmed. We have been disillusioned. We have been given wrong information
all these years by man's tradition, by man's religion, This Scripture
does not bear out those things unless you have that presupposition
that comes from man's doctrine. You will not get that if you
have just these Scriptures and the Holy Spirit teaching you.
It will bring you to the fact that God controls all things. And He says here this very thing. He says, I know that whatsoever
God doeth, it shall be forever. Nothing can be put to it. Nothing
can be taken from it. V. 15, "...that which hath been
is now, and that which is to be hath already been, and God
requireth that which is past." God requires everything that
He has purposed to take place. Now the Bible teaches this, brethren,
and we'll look at this as we get into the New Testament on
down the road here. The Bible teaches that He has
predestinated each and every child of grace to be conformed
to the image of Christ. Predestinated. Remember we talked
about that word. Predestinated. That means their
destiny has been determined beforehand. Determined beforehand. That's
what predestined means. He determined beforehand. You
didn't determine beforehand. He determined. God has predestinated
us to be conformed to the image of His Son. That means that work
will not be completed that He predestinated until it's completed. It will continue. It will happen. He says right here, He requires
that which is past. What was past? In the past, God
predestinated your conformity to Jesus Christ. And He says
here, that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever, and nothing
be put to it, nor taken away from it. You cannot take away
that God has predestinated some to be conformed to the image
of Christ. They will be. That's the promise
of God. And again, if your God is a wishy-washy
God that cannot do for Himself but must rely upon man, then
how do you know He's going to keep that promise? What if by
will of man somebody says, we don't want that and we don't
think that? Then God predestinated that guy to be conformed to the
image of God, but he just didn't want it. He didn't choose it.
He didn't pick it. He didn't raise his hand. He
didn't walk the aisle. He didn't open up the door of
his heart. He didn't accept me. He didn't receive me. He didn't
trust me. He didn't believe me. He didn't repent and come to
me. I can't save him. If that's your Jesus, that's
not the Jesus of Scripture. If that's the Jesus that's being
preached and taught from your pulpits, you have the wrong Gospel,
you're in the wrong church. There's only one Gospel. Paul
said that any other Gospel besides that Gospel, any other Gospel
besides the Gospel is a false Gospel. He said, let them be
accursed. But so often our heart strings
pull. Let God be true and let every
man be liar, brethren. Let us be looking to Him and
Him only as our source of not only knowledge, but as our source
of life, our strength, what keeps us. Any comments on that? Amen. It's a gracious promise.
He is promised. Everything He's required in the
past, I mean that He has done in the past, said in the past,
that new covenant isn't a new covenant depending upon whether
you baptize your babies. That new covenant isn't dependent
upon how much Scripture you learn. That new covenant isn't based
upon the bread and the wine. That new covenant isn't dependent
upon a membership. It isn't dependent upon anything
except the work of Christ. That's what gets you into the
covenant. I had a discussion this week with my good friend,
James Guyot, and we've been talking about a few things, especially
in light of a lot of this Hebrew roots movement that's coming
up and a lot of this modern day Judaizers, basically what it
is, but it's all these law keepers that think that we're still under
the law of Moses and all this kind of stuff. And we were talking
about some things, of course there's always in the group of
discussion, there'll be your reform Presbyterians and this,
that come in that wants to talk about baby baptizing and things
like that. And my question to them was,
because they keep saying that the children are children of
the covenant. They're the children of the covenant. And they go
back to circumcision and how baptism has replaced circumcision
and that that covenant that God gave back there under circumcision,
He continues on today under baptism, and that they have that promise
just like they had back in the old days. And so I ask them just
one simple question. So is your child under the old
covenant or under the new covenant? If they're under the old covenant,
the old covenant is done away with. That is, and just so you'll
know where we're going after perseverance, we're going to
look at law and grace at the end of this. Because that's part
of, the doctrine of grace has to do with the child and his
relationship to the law and grace. Okay, so that's where we'll be
going the next few weeks. But anyway, so kind of in preparation
for that, talking with other guys and we're discussing a few
things. But anyway, I asked them if it's the old covenant, then
that's been done away with. If it's the new covenant, if
your child is under the new covenant, they're only in the new covenant
by election and the work of Christ alone. So which covenant are
they under? And then nobody has an answer
to that. None of them has an answer to that. They want to
keep going on how the covenant, it's the new covenant, but the
new covenant has its ties in the old covenant, and they want
to keep going back. Jesus said, you have died to
one to be married to the other. The Scriptures say that Jesus
put away that Old Testament. He nailed it and all of its stuff
onto the cross that you might be married to this other one. And so, how many people, even sovereign
grace believers, They say I'm married to Christ and imputed
righteousness alone, and all the while they're looking over
the shoulder at the beautiful, alluring wife of the past in
the law. That's for another day to discuss,
but we see that... I don't even know how I got there.
Somebody want to get me back on track? We get so wound up
in so much stuff and we get so burdened down by man's traditions,
we forget what the Scriptures is clearly teaching in its most
simplistic thing. Not you, Christ. I mean that's about as simple
as it can be. It's not you, it's Christ. And
so here again we see that God has done all these things and
is requiring everything, and it's everything at His hand.
Turn with me, if you would, over to the Romans of the Old Testament,
and that's Isaiah chapter 46. Well, Isaiah, not necessarily
46, but Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 46. Look with me, if you would, down
to verse 4. Well, let me just start in verse
3. Harken unto Me, O house of Jacob. Now, who's that talking about?
It's talking about the people of God, right? Okay, we're the
house of Jacob. Harken unto Me, O house of Jacob
and all the remnant of the house of Israel. It's saying the same
thing. The house of Jacob, the house of Israel is the same thing.
Spiritually speaking, we're talking about the same thing. Which are born by Me from the
belly, which are carried from the womb, even to your old age
I am He. and even to whore hares will
I carry you. I have made and I will bear,
even I will carry and will deliver you." Now, for you young kids,
you probably don't know what he's talking about when he says
whore hares. H-O-A-R, whore hares, that means gray hares. Brother
Larry has whore hares among us. Very few. Poor hairs, it just means, it's
just another way of saying to your old age. That's what that's
saying. And some people get gray hairs at very young ages, like
Brother Larry. He's very young, but yet has
gotten gray hair. I have a good friend in the town.
Flattery won't get me nowhere, huh? All right. Won't get me
out of anything. I have a good friend that I grew
up with in Bristow, and he just, I think he's like a year older
than me, but at like 30-something, he almost had full-headed gray
hair. And even now, I've got a good friend down in Coweta. He's a couple years younger than
me and he's got a head of gray hair and everything. So, you
don't have to be old to have gray hair. However, it is speaking
of old age is what this means. But here we see, now we're talking
about here in a physical sense, we're seeing that. But whenever
we look at that in the spiritual application, it is we are the
house of Jacob, we are the house of Israel in the spiritual way,
and from the time that we are born physically, I would say
from the time we're born physically until the time we die physically,
that God keeps us. You say, well, I thought that
only happened after you're quickened. No, brethren, listen, the Lord
has been, I love the phrase my Aunt Judy said one time in passing,
and I thought about that, pondered on that, and I thought it to
be true. She was talking about how grateful
she was to the Lord for saving her and things, but she said,
as she's learned, that He has been saving her her whole life.
And I believe that that's true. You know, the legal aspect of
salvation was something that took place because of what Christ
did. However, experientially, we don't know of our salvation
until we've been quickened and told the gospel. But before that,
God has kept His people even up until that point. He has kept
them from the time that we're born until the time that we die.
He has kept us. I could have been a lot worse
than I was. But God kept me from that. Some
He may not do that, but to me He did. So the Lord does that
in a physical sense, but in a spiritual sense, we see that He carries
us and He will bear us and deliver us. He will keep us up. And right now you're saying you're
taking physical application and putting spiritual, or excuse
me, you're taking something physical and putting a spiritual application
on that. You guys, you sovereign gracious are always spiritualizing
everything. Okay? I want to take you to the New
Testament before too long. We're going to see that the Old
Testament bears out the same news as the New Testament. if
you have eyes to see these things. But this is spiritually speaking
as well, that we will be held until we die. Look with me if
you would at Jeremiah 32. We'll look at this one and one
more, and that will conclude the ones that I've got for the
Old Testament. And if anybody has any other Old Testament passages
and everything, if you want to send those to me this week or
mention them to me here in a little bit, I'll write them down. We'll
go back and we'll talk about them maybe next week before we
get out of the Old Testament. But if not, we'll move on to the
New Testament, because there's a whole lot in the New Testament
that we can definitely go look at. But look with me, if you
would, at Jeremiah chapter 32, and we're going to look down
at verse 40. Well, I tell you what, even better,
let's go back up to verse 38. It says, and they shall be My people and
I will be their God. And I will give them one heart
and one way that they may fear Me forever for the good of them
and of their children after them. And I will make an everlasting
covenant..." Now this is where these covenantal people get off
base on this and where they make things like that. and I will
make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn
away from them to do them good, but I will put my fear in their
hearts that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice
over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus
saith the Lord, Like as I have brought all this great evil upon
this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I
have promised them. And so we see here that the Lord
has promised to make an everlasting covenant and not turn away from
them, but to do them good, and He will put the fear in their
hearts. See, that's one of the things about apostasy is someone
who apostatizes doesn't have the fear of the Lord. They don't
have the fear of the Lord in them. But yet here, the Bible
says everyone who is a part of this new covenant Anyone who
is a recipient of the works of the New Covenant, the
Lord is going to put the fear of God in their heart. They're
going to fear Him. They're going to continually
fear Him. And He says, I'm not going to turn away from them.
If you can be saved and then lost again, then that would mean
God would have to turn away from you. To be lost is to be separated
from God. to have no spiritual life in
you. And so, for God to turn away
and to remove His Spirit would be what would make you lost again. Also, you would have to go back
and erase the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for you.
You would have to go back and change in the everlasting covenant
when God gave you to Jesus and Jesus said, I will be their surety. I will be their substitute. You
will have to go back to the everlasting covenant and step in and say,
whoa, whoa, wait a minute. There's going to be a time where
I'm going to change my mind, so don't count me in. You see,
I know that's silly. I know that sounds silly. And
it may even be theatrical to some. But listen, that's what
has to be done for you to be removed from this covenant. That's
what has to happen for you to be lost again. is you will have
to have the Spirit of God pulled from you. You will have to have
God turn away from you. You will have to have the blood
of Jesus removed from your account, His obedience taken away from
your account, His imputed righteousness removed. And then you will have
to make a segue somewhere in that discussion among the Godhead
on who's going to represent who and say, no, that's not going
to happen. That's the only way that you
can be lost. after you've been chosen to be saved. And none
of us here can do that. And I would probably venture
to say none of us here would want that, right? Again, I ask
the question a lot of times to people who don't believe the
doctrines of grace. And I asked them, I said, now
that you're saved, Are you mad about the fact that
God sovereignly saved you without asking you? Do you regret the decision? Do you regret that? Do you want to go back on that? I don't find anybody that truly
does. I will make an everlasting covenant
with them that I will not turn away from them. I will make..."
Can God lie? Can God break His promises? Then that's a pretty good promise,
isn't it? "...I will not turn away from
them to do them good. They shall not..." They shall
not. Not might not. They shall not
depart from Me. Now, the next time you have somebody
that says that, well, God may not ever walk away from me, but
I might walk away from Him. Has anybody ever heard that?
Has anybody ever said that? Well, I haven't said that, but... In doctrine, I can... perceive
that there's been people that have said that because there
are Arminians that believe you can lose your salvation. Well,
Brother Larry can attest to that. He grew up in a religion that
basically believed that kind of thing. Tell them, well, God made a covenant
and said you shall not depart from Him if He's yours and you're
His. Didn't He just say, I will be
their God, they will be My people? They shall be My people and I
will be their God and I will give them one heart and one way
that they may fear Me forever. I will make an everlasting covenant
with them that I will not turn away, but I will put My fear
in their hearts that they shall not depart. See, people believe
too many charlatan preachers that tell them that they can
be lost again. See, the issue isn't once saved, always saved.
It's once saved. If you've been saved, you're
not going to lose that. Alright, last verse and we'll
dismiss. Ezekiel chapter 11, please. Ezekiel chapter 11. Look with me, if you would, at
verse 19. And I will give them one heart. Give your heart to Jesus. How
many times have you heard that preached? You turn that on the
TV or on the radio. If you'll just give your heart
to Jesus. Give your heart to Jesus. What
does God say? I will give you a new heart. He didn't ask for you to give
Him your heart. He said, I will give you a new
heart. Why? Because there's something
wrong with the old one. There's something wrong with the old
one. The old one don't want me. The old one don't like me. The
old one won't obey me. The old one won't love me. The
old one won't trust me. The old one won't turn away from
their own righteousness. But this new one, this new one
that I will give you, it will. And I will give them one heart,
and I will put a new spirit within you. If you'll just receive the
Spirit of God today, brothers and sisters. Is that what the Scriptures teach?
He said, I will. Mark down the I wills. I will. Give them one heart. I will put. Not offer a new spirit. I will
put a new spirit within you. Why a new spirit? I thought we
were regenerated. No. Re-generate means to generate
over again. There was nothing to re- to begin
with. Nothing there to begin with.
Never was there. Ever was there. All the way back
to Adam was never there. He was created of the earth earthy.
He was natural. The man from heaven was spiritual,
but that which is of the earth is earthy, and he was natural
of the flesh. Those who are of the flesh, all
they do is the things of the flesh. They produce the fruits
of the flesh, the works of the flesh. All they can do is flesh,
and they cannot please God. Adam could never please God.
Why? Because he was of the earth earthy, he was natural, and he
was of the flesh. That's pretty plain to me in
Scripture. He was not spiritual and lost
his spirituality. He did fall and bring sin and
death into the world, but he was never a born-again man of
God. He was never that. The only thing
that's born again is that which is born from above. And he will
put a new Spirit within you." Look what else he says, "...and
I will take the stony heart out from their flesh and give them
a heart of flesh." Why? That. There's that word again.
That word, that. So that. There's a purpose why
God is giving a new heart. He's not reworking the old heart.
He's not patching it up. not regenerating the old man. He's putting a whole different
one in there. One who is born in righteousness and holiness. One that is born that the Bible
says cannot sin. And what does He say? He says, one heart, put a new spirit within
you, take out the stony heart from their flesh and give them
a heart of flesh that they may walk in My statutes and keep
Mine ordinances and do them." Why does a person persevere?
Because God took out the stony heart and put in the spiritual
heart. The stony heart was taken out.
The new one was put in. That has the capacity to do that. And they shall be My people and
I will be their God. That's a shall be. You want to know why they call
us hard shells? Have you ever been called a hardshell,
Brother Larry? I've been called a hardshell.
The word is actually not correct. Originally, when they started
calling people these names, it was hardshall. And it eventually
morphed into hardshell. But sometimes people, in a derogatory
way, will call you a hardshell, or a hyper-Calvinist, or something
to that effect. I firmly embrace that. Okay? But a lot of times we have to
define what we mean by that. They were called hard shalls
because they took these shalls, S-H-A-L-L, of God and trusted
them. If God said, I shall do this, I shall do this,
and they shall do this, they trusted that that's going to
take place because God said it would be. He shall save His people
from their sin. We trust that. So we know that
there ain't anybody on this world who dies and goes to hell because
somebody didn't get there in time to teach him. Nobody. Everyone will come. be taught of God. They shall
learn of the Father and come to Me. All that the Father gives
Me shall come to Me. And all those who come unto Me
I will in no wise cast out." Those are the hard shalls that
nobody wants to believe. But He says here, they shall.
as for them that they may walk in My statutes, and keep My ordinances,
and do them, and they shall be My people, and I will be their
gods." Now that's the testimony of God. It's not the testimony
of Mike Smith. It's not the testimony of Sovereign
Grace Baptist Church, although that's the truth we preach and
teach and we hold to that. But it's the testimony of Jesus
Christ. It's a testimony of God in the
flesh saying, this is what I have purchased and this is what I'm
going to do. It's His to do. And so we're thankful that the
Lord has made these promises and we trust Him to keep them
promises. It's not up to man. It's not a conditional salvation.
It is an eternal salvation with experiential understandings,
but it is an eternal salvation. I was saved from eternity to
eternity, and as Hebrew says, to the uttermost. And as we'll
see, there isn't nothing that's going to be able to separate
me from the love of God. There's nothing that's going
to be able to keep me from being able to continue in this experience
of salvation. or take away the legality of
that salvation. In no way. Alright, anybody got
any questions or any comments or any verses that's coming to
your mind dealing with that? Alright. Well, let's bow and
let's have a word of prayer and we'll dismiss and have some lunch.
Gracious Heavenly Father, we thank You so much today for Your
mercy and Your grace. We thank You for the Lord Jesus
Christ and we thank You for His blood that has cleansed us from
every sin. We thank You for the grace that
has been given to us even before the foundation of the world.
And Lord, we are so grateful that You have saved us from our
sin. And Lord, even now You keep us
from falling, from going away. And so, Lord, I just pray now
that You might let that be a comfort to these brothers and sisters
in Christ as they go their way, as they experience the sin of
the flesh throughout this week, Lord, that You might not only
convict them of that sin, but You might also in turn come and
comfort them that that sin has been covered by Christ and that
that sin will not hinder them from experiencing the love of
Christ because of who He is and what He has done. Father, we
know that we don't sin and have license to sin, that grace might
abound, but Father, we know and have comfort because You've told
us that whenever there is sin, You are faithful and just to
forgive us. that we've been cleansed from all unrighteousness and
been imputed a righteousness that is by Christ alone. And
so we look to that and hope that eternal life will be ours because
of what He has done and not what we are doing. So again, Father,
may that bring hope to those who are here today. Bless the
food that we're about to eat to the nourishment of our bodies
and the hands that prepared it. And Father, also, we lift up
the Hudson family to you even now, Lord. And we can only imagine
what they're going through as they deal with this and their
soon-to-be-born baby. And with Mary, as they fly down
to Houston even now, Lord, I pray that You'll be with them, be
with the doctors and the nurses and all those involved. Lord,
we know that You have determined all things, but Lord, we ask
You to grant grace and mercy, peace and comfort to Brother
Robert and to Sister Mary, to all their family. Lord to be
with their children as they go and stay with their grandparents
for an undisclosed amount of time Lord we just our heart goes
out to that and Lord I also pray for the Raising the funds that's
that's come up to help them with all the expenses that I'm sure
is going to be incurred Lord I pray that you would place it
upon the hearts of all your people that know that that they might
reach out and help and this brother and sister in Christ and this
need even now. And Lord, we just thank you again
for all that you've done and ask you to bless this day. In
Jesus name we pray. Amen.