Take your Bibles and turn back with me to Hebrews chapter 11. Before the message, we'll go to the prayer again. Len made mention of his niece. She's going in for bypass surgery. Is it tomorrow? Tomorrow. And he asks prayers for her. God be gracious. Give the doctors wisdom and skill. Give her healing. Ask your prayers for me. I was in the study and I was just opening my notes. I had been busy writing the summative notes that I send out and open up my notes It looked foreign, so it looked like I said, man, who wrote this?

I need the grace of God to preach this gospel, and I pray that this message would be comforting and the spirit of God would use it as I intend it, that God would strengthen our hope, our hope, Faith and hope are things that go together. And I long for us, you that believe, and I know this, if our faith is strengthened, then our hope is strengthened.

And I pray that God give us some things that, in his word, he's given many things, that we should anticipate, that we should expect. This expectation is not an evil thing. There is an evil expectation. But, matter of fact, that's what the word hope means, expectation.

And I pray that God would give me liberty to preach this to you by the power of His Spirit. Pray for our family members. Let's not neglect and remember those in our family who are lost. God may be merciful and gracious to reach down and touch them. Pray that God be gracious to do that. Remember to pray for his men wherever they are preaching the gospel. They need your prayers as well as I do. Pray for those in our congregation who are sick. Is Kathy all right? Is she sick? She's in Florida. She's in Florida. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. She's staying warm. All right.

Pray for those who are not with us for whatever reason, sickness or for other reasons. Let's go to him in prayer. Gracious Father in heaven, we bow ourselves again, seeking mercy. Father, I come to you. I have no strength in myself, no ability in myself. I ask for power and strength of thy spirit.

Give me liberty that I might declare the gospel this evening to those who long to hear it. And I might declare the gospel and that the power of the Spirit might take it and apply it to the hearts of your people. I pray this night for those that are sick, those who are suffering in the body. Think of Lynn's niece.

We do ask for your hand of mercy and healing. Father, we recognize that healing only comes from thy hand. And we pray for it, those in our congregation who are sick. those who are suffering in the body, those who are suffering in the mind, afflictions, oppressions, difficulties, temptations. We pray that you would deliver us out of them all.

We pray you do this in the name of Jesus, our Savior. We have no merits in ourselves, Father, no goodness to claim these things. only by the power and blood and righteousness of thy son. Let his name be exalted. Let his name be proclaimed as all the source of our hope and salvation. I pray that you would do these things we have asked for in Jesus' name and for his sake. Amen.

I take your Bible to turn to Hebrews chapter 11. I've entitled this message, The Expectation of Believers, The Believers' Expectation. And I would get this from Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 10, but let's read back in verse 8. Scripture says, By faith Abraham, when he was called to go into a place which he should after will receive for an inheritance, obeyed.

And he went out not knowing whether he went. By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. Now, last time we looked at those verses and we saw that Abraham is an imminent type of every believer. The faith of Abraham is the faith of everyone who is a true believer in Jesus Christ. As Abraham by faith was called of God, we know this, that we who believe are called of God.

We could not believe had God not called us from death to life. Had God not quickened us and given us faith We could have never believed. And so, as we believe, we give glory to God who called us. As God commanded the light to shine out of darkness, that shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

That's the calling. The command of God's grace. And not only do we who believe are called, we obey. When the gospel comes in power and demonstration of the spirit, everyone who is called to believe obeys that calling. This idea that the spirit of God can be resisted is a foolish notion. Now the call in general goes out to everyone. God says He commandeth everyone everywhere to repent.

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. But I know this according to Scripture, that unless that word is accompanied by the power of the Holy Spirit, it will lie dormant on the hearts of men, or it will be choked out, or there's no earth, there's no root in it. But when it falls on the ground that the Spirit tills up, the good ground, it is then this Word takes root and life springs up. When the Spirit calls us to life, a man lives.

And that's our experience as believers. We know this, that when we were called, what else could we do but obey? And we obey. That's exactly what Abraham did when he was called. That's what we do. And not only this, we sojourn. Every believer that goes through this life, we live the same way we started, by faith. We're called to faith. We obey the gospel and believe. And from that moment on, we sojourn through this life with one object. Faith in Christ alone. Not by law. We don't begin by faith and end by law. We begin by faith. We live by faith. And we're going to die by faith. In this text, remember, he said these all died in what? Faith. This is how we live.

Now then, as we see this text now, We see something else about Abraham is that Abraham not only lived by faith, he looked for something. He looked for something. Look what he says in verse 10. For he looked for a city whose builder and maker is God. We live by faith on the promises of God, yet like Abraham we have not yet received The full measure of these promises, have we?

We have what Paul says, we've been given a down payment. He says this in Ephesians 1, the earnest of the Spirit, which is nothing more than what? A down payment. We have this life, this righteousness, this new nature. We have all of these things that God has given us through faith, and yet we know this. It's not yet full. It's not yet complete in our experience. It's complete in the eyes of God, isn't it? It's already done in the eyes of God. We know this was finished before the foundation of the world, in the eyes and mind of God. But in our experience, it's not yet. And so what do we do?

This is what the Scripture says we hope. Hope. Look at Romans 8. Look at Romans 8. Verse 24. It says, For we are saved by hope. We are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is what? It's not hope. If you've seen it, That's not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for it? But if we hope for that which we have seen not, then we with what? Patience. Wait for it. Wait for it. Now this word, when I've entitled this message to believers, expectation, I want you to understand that's what hope means. These words are interchangeable. I googled this. Google is wrong. I put it out there. This is what I said, what's the difference between hope and expectation? This is what Google put out there.

It said, or AI, it said this, that hope is, it's not substantive. It's, mutable. It's movable. Whereas expectation is something fixed. Well, the word translated in scripture, hope, is not the hope that we think it is. It's not a wish. It's not something that fluctuates. These two things are exactly the same.

One's hope is one's expectation. So when I use that word tonight, I want you to, I'm going to interchange these two, expectation and hope. So Paul said we are saved by expectation. Isn't this what faith does? Faith hopes. It expects something. It expects God to fulfill the promises that he made. That's what hope does. We're not just observers.

Abraham, Scripture says he went out not knowing where he is going. But you pay attention. Abraham did not go out blindly. Now he didn't know which direction God was going to lead him on this earth. He didn't have any clue. which way he was going to go next. But he did not go out blind.

True faith is not blind faith. Abraham's faith rested on the promises of God and so do all true faith. True faith do not rest upon the whims or opinions of men. Now some men believe blindly. They just do. Have you ever met somebody who says, well, why do you believe that? Well, my mama believed it. My daddy believed it. Why do you attend this church? Well, that's where my family goes.

They're blind. They just blindly follow. Unquestioning, with no evidence, nothing but a gut feeling, a vain imagination. Well, they take somebody's word for it and they believe it with no evidence. This is not faith. It's not God-given faith. Why? Because God's given faith is not presumptuous. It's not presumptuous. In other words, I don't expect God to give me something that he didn't promise.

I expect, faith expects God to give us exactly what He promised, nothing more and nothing less. And our faith is not blind, but it rests on the sure foundation and evidence of God's Word and the revelation of God in our own hearts. Over there in Romans 8, if you still got that there, Romans 8.

And verse 14, it says, for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Tonight, are you led by the Spirit of God? Is it presumptuous for you to say you're a son of God? Is it presumptuous to say, well, if I am led by the Spirit of God, Paul says this, you are the sons of God.

This is not presumptuous. And notice this, we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. And the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. And here's the result of that. And if children, then what heirs? Heirs of God, and join heirs with Jesus Christ, if so be we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together.

You see, we're not bystanders in this. This is what we hope for and what we anticipate are based on the Word of God and the Spirit of God bearing witness in our own hearts. We're not blind believers, but witnesses of the grace and power of God. Aren't you a witness of this? You that believe are. You're a witness of this, that you were saved by the grace and power of God.

Listen, I don't know what God's going to do in Providence. I don't know what he'll do within the next hour. I have no idea. Abraham didn't either. He didn't know if God put him this way and all of a sudden he didn't know if God's going to turn around and make him go this way. He didn't know. You know what? I don't either. I don't know. But I don't have to. We don't know what God's going to do in Providence.

Now, I do know some things. I know this, we are to expect trouble. I don't know, I'm a slow learner. I am just a slow learner in this, because every time trouble comes, I'm surprised. I'm just surprised. Why in the world is this happening to me? It's probably the first question that comes out of my head.

And yet I am told, in this world you shall have tribulation. But, be of good cheer, I've overcome the world. We know we're to have pains and sorrows. I know that the world will hate us. I know that it hates our gospel, even because it hated our Lord first. And this knowledge is not a gut feeling. It's not a gut feeling. I don't have to have a gut feeling about this. Most times, I'm blindsided by it. I know this because God says it. And then, therefore, we should what? We should expect it. We should expect it. So faith True faith does not look at the circumstances or the signs of the times. Faith is not founded in feelings and opinions and imagination.

Faith that is of God is fixed on one object. One object. One hope. One joy. one expectation to receive all the promises of God. And faith is not blind in this. Our faith looks only to Jesus Christ alone. That's what faith's object is. And so all of our hopes of receiving the promises of God are absolutely 100% dependent upon Him. All of our hope rests in Him just as much as all of our faith does. It rests in Jesus Christ. Therefore, we who believe are then to expect to receive all that God promised because of Him. Because of Him.

Thus, we are as sure to receive heaven as Abraham was. Abraham was not blind in this, but in faith, trusting Christ, he expected and looked for a city whose builder and maker is God. So true faith sees that God has prepared for us a city. Do you see that? Do you anticipate this? that God has prepared for us a city, a heavenly city, an eternal city, an immutable dwelling place. How do you know that? Because that's what Jesus said. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. Has he done that yet? Hasn't done it yet.

Yet every believer is to anticipate it, expect it. You can't help but read in the scriptures. Believers at that time were sitting on the edge of their seat waiting for Christ to come. I mean, at times, Paul said, you know, they thought they missed him. They thought that he had come already, and they missed it. Paul said, you know, don't worry about that. When he comes, you'll know it.

You don't have to guess. But here we are, we're 2,000 plus years removed. Most of us are not sitting on the edge of our seats anticipating His coming. We should. We should expect His coming. If He doesn't come Himself, He will come and take us to Himself. That was His promise, that where I am, you may be also. So what are the expectations then of true faith? We saw what true faith is, and true faith expects to receive the promises of God. Now, what are these expectations?

Abraham looked for a city. And I know this, that God promised Abraham a physical seed, and that his physical seed should have a physical city. And we know that took place because that was to be an imminent type of something spiritual. But Abraham was not expecting to see that city, that earthly city. Matter of fact, he knew that he would never see that physical city. He knew that. So then what was he looking for?

He was looking for a heavenly city. A spiritual city. Not one made of earth whose builder Maker is God, a heavenly city. So every day of his life by faith he walked, fully anticipating to enter into that possession of a heavenly city. He was a rightful heir and joint heir with his seed. So what is the lesson for us? Let us then who believe by faith, we should expect to receive the same city.

I can't tell myself this enough. This world is not our home. I'm glad to be a citizen of this country. I mean, it's a free, the freest country that there is. But really, I'm not a citizen of this country. I have another citizenship. It is a citizenship of heaven. I'm a citizen of a kingdom that Christ has prepared for us.

And we should live every day expecting to receive it. This expectation of faith is no presumption. Believer in Christ, why then do we by faith expect to receive this from God? If we have faith, then we must believe that God is and the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. If we have true faith, do we not believe that God is the rewarder of them that seek Him? So true faith then expects this, eternal life. Eternal life. Not based on our merits, but the merits of Jesus Christ alone. Are we being presumptuous to say such things? That our home is heaven. That's our home. Is that presumptuous? Is it presumptuous to believe and look for this eternal life?

No, because God himself has promised it. Go to John chapter 3. Look what our Lord Jesus Christ here says. He says in verse 14, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. This is speaking of the price of eternal life, the price of our salvation, the death of Jesus Christ and the grounds of our salvation. Now verse 15, here is the result of this offering that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have what?

Eternal life. And here's the effect, here's the motive, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Do you believe? Do you believe on the Son of God? Then listen to this. You have eternal life. When we die, what should we expect? Should you expect anything less than eternal life? You shouldn't.

Look at chapter 10 of John. Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us about his people, those that believe on him. John chapter 10 in verse 27, he said, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. I give unto them eternal life. And they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. You that believe, should you expect anything less or hope in anything less than eternal life?

You shouldn't. Why? Because it is given to you. It's purchased for you, and it is freely given to you. And who can take it from you? Our Lord Jesus Christ said, no man is able to pluck you out of my hand. And so true faith also then should look for this. We should look to receive not just eternal life, not just heaven, but everything the blood and righteousness of Christ is purchased. Everything. So that this expectation of faith is not out of pride or glory, self-glory. You see, all the merits of our eternal life and heaven are grounded in the work of Christ.

No believer ever expects eternal life and glory based on his own merits. That's presumption. That's not hope. That's presumption. Every believer constantly confesses our sins. We confess that we are poor and bankrupt of any merits and all we deserve is the judgment and wrath of God. That's all a believer confesses. We confess it of ourselves that we deserve none of these things. None of these things. can be hoped for based on our merits. Yet our expectation of being made heirs of heaven rests solely and completely absolutely on the merits of the Savior so that we who live by faith behold the great love of God and we seek no glory and praise for ourselves but only for our Savior.

Go to Colossians. Look at Colossians with me real fast. Colossians. Chapter 1. The Apostle says here, giving thanks unto the Father, the Father of electing grace and electing love who put us into union with Christ. What does he say? Give thanks? Is that not reasonable? We should give thanks to the Father? Why? Listen, which hath made us qualified to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. That light there is the work of the Spirit to shine the light of the glory of God in our hearts so that we cling to Christ, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, in whom we have redemption.

Here's how. Here's how you can anticipate it. Here's how you can expect it. His blood. God made us meet by putting us in union with Christ and by the grace and power of the Spirit. He delivered us from darkness, the power of sin and darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son. What did you have to do with that? Any of that. Did we have anything to do with that whatsoever? Nothing. Now, should I doubt it? If God has done it, should I doubt that he has done it?

He hath delivered us. From the power of God translated us in the kingdom of his dear son. in whom we have redemption. It's not presumption to say I'm redeemed, is it? If God has delivered me, if God has made me qualified and Christ has died for my sins, is it presumptuous to say I am redeemed? I am redeemed by the blood of Christ.

Listen to this. What about my sin? the forgiveness of sins. Even God took that into account. Even the forgiveness of sins is no presumptive thing to see that God by Christ has made us qualified for heaven by no work or merit of our own but by His own grace and power. And having redeemed us through the blood of His Son, we can expect this. You can expect forgiveness of sins. You can expect forgiveness of sins. Isn't this what causes us to doubt hope? Isn't this what causes us to doubt heaven? To doubt our redemption? Isn't it our sin? This is what drives me to say, how can these things be? is my sin. Go to 1 John chapter 1. Look at what John says about the gift by the merits of Christ here. 1 John chapter 1 verse 8.

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. What believer ever said that? Listen, I've heard people say that, but I've never heard a believer say it. I've never heard one called of God, redeemed of Christ, ever say that they were without sin. I've heard a lot of people say that, they just weren't believers. The truth's not in them. Period. Walk away from those people. That holiness movement, that's just a lie, another lie. The truth's not in them. Here it is, here's us, that believer.

If we confess our sins. Now what believer does not confess their sins? Isn't that what we did at the beginning? When God the Holy Spirit exposed us, what's the first thing we did? We confessed our sin. We had nowhere to go. We, by grace and power, we fled to Christ because we knew His blood alone could forgive us our sin.

And then he said, but this is not just a one-time thing, is it? This is a constant thing. We are in constant confession. I can't help it. I mean, I go through, if I am conscious of myself, I'm consciously aware of my sin constantly. But this is my hope. If I confess my sin. Listen to this. He is faithful. He is faithful and just. Those two things are necessary.

God could not be faithful to forgive my sins if He was not going to be just. But because of the blood of Jesus Christ having already paid for that sin, He is just to be faithful to forgive me of my sins. Now why is He forgiving me? Is that dependent upon my repentance? Is it dependent upon the number of tears that I cry? Is it dependent upon anything that I have done? Yet, faith knows this, that because of Christ, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. When we say things like that, it's then religion will come in and say, well, see, you're just encouraging people to sin. Said no believer ever. Nobody is encouraged.

That's what Paul had to deal with at the end of chapter five in Romans, wasn't it? He said, where sin abounded, what? Grace did much more abound. And so what's the natural inclination of that? Well, then you're just saying, Paul, they can just sin as they will. What did he say in chapter 6? He said, shall we sin that grace may abound? Is that what we're saying? When I'm saying you should expect forgiveness, am I saying that you should just go ahead and keep sinning?

God forbid! How can we who are dead to sin in Christ live any longer therein, seeing what He paid for our sins? It is the desire of the believer to be absent from sin. And yet every believer knows that he is not yet absent from this old nature. You know that? You don't just know it, you live it, you feel it. The Word of God declares it.

Paul said, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? At the end of Job's trial, what did he say? Behold, I am vile. The more we grow in grace, the more we understand the vileness of this corrupt man that still abides with us. And so what's the hope of the believer who is constantly bombarded by the guilt of his sin? And what's the purpose of that guilt? The purpose of that guilt is to bring us to Christ. And what do we find there? What are we to expect at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ every time? What do you expect? What do you hope for?

The forgiveness of sins. Now, this is not blind. This is not blind faith, is it? Did you just not read it? If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. I know many times you're brought into despair. Sometimes you say, how in the world can God forgive me? I've gone too far. I've fallen too much. Surely now he'll abandon me. How can we say such things and call that humility? You know what that is? It's unbelief. Isn't it? Isn't that the opposite of expecting God to do what God promised to do? It is. And every believer that's forgiven, why are you forgiven? What is your hope of being forgiven? Is it not only the work of Jesus Christ? You know on the last day when God separates the goats and the sheep? You remember when he said to the sheep, come, you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you. When I was hungry, you fed me. When I was naked, you clothed me. When I was sick and in prison, you visited me. What's the answer of the righteous? What's the answer? When did we do any of that for you?

They never can see any of that in themselves. Even standing in the presence of our Redeemer, they cannot see any hope in themselves. That's good because there is no hope in yourself. The reason they receive the Kingdom of God is because of Christ. and not their works. What do the goats say? The goats say, when did we not do those things for you? The goats expect forgiveness of sins based on a presumption that their works are sufficient to earn it. The believer hopes in forgiveness of sins solely based upon the work and blood of Jesus Christ. And so then every believer is to expect a heavenly city. Every believer is to expect eternal life. Every believer is to expect forgiveness of sins.

Why? Because this is all built upon the foundation that God established. He looked for a city whose foundations and builder and maker was God. What's the foundation of your soul? What's the foundation of your hope for these things? It's not in yourself.

Our hope is in the immutable, changeless will of God and work of Christ. We're going to receive these things because God has willed it. You can anticipate this. You can hope. You can have confidence that you, believer, are going to receive these things because God, who cannot change, has willed it so. Look at Romans 8. I'm going to move on. Romans 8. Look at verse 28. We know. Oh, here we go. Paul's expecting something. He's anticipating something. He's hoping in something. He has confidence.

We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. To them who are the cold, According to what? According to His purpose. You that are called to faith, you are called according to what? His purpose. You love God? According to what? His purpose. His purpose.

For whom He did foreknow, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Will this fail? If God purposed you to be conformed to the image of his son, shall this fail? If God purposed your confirmation to his image of his son, to be his glory, will that fail? Can it? Can that fail? No. Will this not happen because of our failures? Will this not happen because of the hatred of men and devils? No. God purposed it, and He will accomplish it.

Moreover, Paul said, more than this, whom He predestinated, Him He also called. And whom He called, He also justified. And whom He justified, He also glorified. Wait a second. All those are past tense, and yet do you feel glorified? Are you yet glorified? I've not experienced glorification yet. Yet God, who purposed it, said it's already done. I was called before I was called. I was justified before I was justified. And I was glorified before I'm glorified. Why?

Because all of this is according to the will of God. You see your hope? You should anticipate this because God willed it. God willed it. What shall we say to these things, if God be for us, who can be against us? We'll look at one more passage. Go to 2 Timothy chapter 1. Look at this. 2 Timothy chapter 1, look at verse 6. Paul writing to Timothy, he said, Wherefore I put thee in remembrance. How does he do that? By the word of God, right? You put him in remembrance. For what purpose?

That thou stir up the gift of God. He was a minister of the gospel and he would have him stir up that gift of the ministry which was in thee by the putting on of my hands. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be thou partakers of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.

Listen to this, who hath saved us and called us, which was first, Do you see your hope? Your hope is this. You were saved long before you were called. And then He called you. Not with just any calling. Look at this. He called you with a holy calling. not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus when? Before the world began.

May God the Holy Spirit stir our hearts not to fear or despair, but rather by the power and grace and sound mind may God by faith give us the same hope of Abraham to expect God to give us what God promised to give us, not based on our works, but according to His own grace, His own will, His own blood, His own righteousness. That's my hope. That's my anticipation that I should receive these things, that I should have all spiritual blessings. Why?

Because the Father gave them to me in Christ before the world began. I should receive heaven because Christ merited all that God required. And let us by faith always be expecting and looking for the kingdom wherein dwelleth righteousness. Better yet, wherein dwelleth the righteousness of Jesus Christ. We'll give you an illustration and I'll close. When God gave Israel the land of Canaan, He promised, He swore to them that they would go in and conquer the land.

Remember, they sent ten spies into the land. And they came back with a report, and they said, wait, there's giants in the land! The walls are huge and thick! And eight of those men said, we cannot take you. Two of those men said they could. Those eight thought it too presumptuous to think that they could take that kingdom. Two men thought it not presumptuous because they had a promise.

Believer, it is not presumptuous to think that God is going to give us what he promised. The kingdom of heaven is ours. Eternal life is ours. Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption are ours. And I presumptuous to take those things by faith, to receive them by faith. Why? Because they're not dependent upon me. I did nothing to merit them and I can do nothing to keep them. I can do nothing to earn them. I believe them because God said by Christ I should have them.

It's not presumption to live every day expecting God to give us what he promised. Now don't expect God to give you what he didn't promise. Health, wealth, prosperity, all that garbage. God never promised you in this life those things. Religion is presumptuous, isn't it? Isn't it presumptuous to think that they can merit the favor of God?

You know what happened to those other men afterward when God rebuked them and told them? He said, I told you could have the land and you didn't believe me. Now, you're not going to get it. You know what those guys did? They then flipped and said, well, now we're just going to go take it. Presumptuous. God said, you're not taking it. You know what they did? They went up there and they died. This is religion. Religion presumes upon God to have these things by their works, by their will, by their power. We don't presume any such thing.

We expect these things by grace, by the grace and power of God. Now, how often should you expect this? How often did Abraham expect this? He walked every day looking for a city whose builder and maker is God. May God set our affection on things above.

Why? That's where our life is. That's where our hope is. That's where our salvation is. It's above. It's not based on these things. May God comfort us with this. May God give us a heart of full assurance of faith. resting on the merits and blood of our Savior Jesus Christ. Let's stand and be dismissed in prayer. Glenn, dismiss us in prayer, please. We ask you to forgive those who have not been able to do this. We ask you to forgive those who have not been able to do this. We ask you to forgive those who have not been able to do this.