Let's open our Bibles now for
our scripture reading to Genesis chapter 17. Genesis 17 will begin in verse
one. And when Abram was 90 years old
and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am
the almighty God. Walk before me and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply
thee exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face, and
God talked with him, saying, as for me, behold, my covenant
is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name
shall be called Abraham, for a father of many nations have
I made thee. And I'll make the exceeding fruitful,
and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy
seed after thee, and their generations for an everlasting covenant,
to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. And I will
give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land wherein thou
art a stranger, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting
possession, and I will be their God. And God said unto Abraham,
Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore. Thou and thy seed after thee
in their generations. We'll end our reading there.
Let's bow together. Our Father, we thank you that
you are God Almighty, that you are God alone, that there's none
beside thee, that there's none can stay thy hand, that you always
do your will in heaven and earth, the seas and all deep places.
And Father, we are so thankful that it is your will and your
purpose to save a people through the sacrifice, through the obedience
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, I pray that this
evening you would enable us to exalt his name, that you enable
us to exalt the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Father, that
you give everyone here a heart to believe him. as we see him
lifted up, that you cause us to be drawn to him, that we believe
in him and rest in him and trust in him. Father, I pray that you
would enable us to exalt the name of Christ our Savior, that
your people would be taught and comforted, edified, have their
hearts strengthened to continue this journey here below. And Father, enable us to exalt
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ because It's right. It's right
that we would lift up his name, glorify, magnify such a savior
that would save such sinful men and women as we are. Father,
we're thankful for this place that you've provided. Father,
I pray you'd always preserve it as a place of worship, a place
where Christ is preached and he's worshiped, where your people
can gather together in peace and love and with with unity
of heart, unity of spirit, with one goal and one purpose in mind,
to exalt the name of Christ our Savior, to preach his gospel
to our generation. And Father, we pray for those
that you brought in the time of trouble and trial. We pray
for Tammy, her sister. Father, we pray you'd heal, that
you'd comfort the heart. We continue to pray for our brother
Deep Parks, that you'd Father, we pray you'd heal his body.
And we especially pray that you'd give grace for the hour. You
have promised that your grace is sufficient. We pray you'd
give him and his family grace that is sufficient for these
dark hours. And others that need you especially.
Father, there are so many. It's easy for us to see in this
flesh we are a poor and needy people. Father, we look to thee
to supply our every need. to heal, to comfort, to lead
and guide and direct. All these things we ask in that
name, which is above every name, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
amen. All right, I've titled the message
this evening, Covenant Theology. You know, theologians love to
use big words like that, covenant theology. Covenant theology means
this. It means that the God of the
Bible, is a covenant God. God being a covenant God simply
means this. What God does in time is what
God purposed and promised he would do before he created anything.
Now there are two covenants. The writers talk about so many
different covenants. A covenant with Adam, a covenant
with Noah, a covenant with Abraham, a covenant with David, a covenant
of grace. There are only two covenants.
There's the covenant of the law and the covenant of grace. And
all these other covenants that are talked about here are pictures
of those things, the covenant of the law and the covenant of
grace. Now, God made the covenant of
the law with Adam, with man. Do and live, obey and live, disobey
and die. Well, man could not hold up our
end of the covenant, could we? Adam disobeyed God. We cannot
obey God. Adam fell. When he fell, we all
fell in him. Adam died spiritually. When he
died, we all died in him. So all men are under the condemnation
of the law because of the covenant of the law. But thankfully, there's
a second covenant, the covenant of grace. Now, the covenant of
grace is not a covenant between God and man. The covenant of
grace is a covenant that God made with God. This is a covenant
that God made with himself between the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit before God created anything. And in that covenant,
you know, a covenant is a promise. In that covenant, God made a
promise that he would save the people that he elected to save
by his grace. That he would save them through
the merits, through the sacrifice of his son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
God come into flesh. And all, now that was God's promise.
That's his covenant. That's what God says I'm going
to do before he create anything. Then God created Adam. all the
events of human history as they unfold, they're simply God keeping
his promise and doing what he promised he'd do, saving his
people by his grace. And I point that out so we'll
know this. God never reacts to what men do. You know, men don't
do something that was unexpected and God has to change his plans
and react to this, He's not always just up there constantly pulling
levers and trying to keep men from derailing his plan. God
never reacts to anything that men do. This is a mystery that
only God could do. Men act of their own free will,
and when they do, they do exactly what God purposed for them to
do before he created anything. That's the way it is. All the
events of providence, everything people do, change in weather,
just everything you can think of that happens in God's creation
is simply God carrying out his will and his purpose and his
promise to save his people by his grace that's in Christ Jesus. And all the events that we read
about in history, all the events that happened to us today, all
those events, they have to happen exactly the way that they've
happened. in order for God's people to
be saved. Now we don't understand that
most of the time, do we? God does something and I mean,
look as hard as we can, just squint at it as hard as we can.
We cannot see how is it God's gonna bring good out of this?
How is it even possible? We don't see it most of the time.
But I tell you this, when we get to glory and we see things
like God sees them, We're going to look and we're going to see
God did everything perfectly. Everything happened just exactly
like it should happen. We'll see in that day, our God
has done all things well. And he worked them together to
accomplish the redemption of his people and to glorify his
son in doing it. That's covenant theology. That's
why God does everything that he does. Now in our text tonight,
God reveals his covenant of grace to Abraham. This is a covenant
of grace that glorifies God and the salvation of his people.
And this promise is not just made to Abraham, it's made to
all of us who believe. I'm going to give you a few points
here on God's covenant of grace. Number one is this, it's God's
covenant. It's God's covenant. In verse
two, God says, I will make my covenant between me and It's
my covenant. Verse four, he says, as for me,
behold, my covenant is with thee. God's covenant is God's covenant. And he does all of the work to
fulfill this covenant. The terms of this covenant are
all fulfilled by God. Man does none of it. This is
God's covenant. And God says in this covenant,
Abraham, I will multiply thee exceedingly. In verse five, he
says, at the end of verse five, for a father of many nations,
have I made thee? I'm going to, but he doesn't
say I'm going to do this, does he? Abraham doesn't even have
a single child yet. And God speaks in the past tense.
I have made thee a father of many nations. This is, this is
constitute. In verse seven, he says, I will
establish my covenant. between me and thee. I'm gonna
fulfill all the terms of this. In verse eight he says, I will
give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land whereon thou
art a stranger. All the land of Canaan for an
everlasting possession, I'm gonna give that to them and I will
be their God. They're not gonna choose to make
me their God. I will be their God. See that's God promising
grace to his people and then God doing all the work. to fulfill
his covenant of grace. He fulfilled all of the requirements. See, God's covenant is not made
between God and men in the sense that God says, well, I will do
this if you will do this. We already saw that didn't work
with Adam, did it? It's not gonna work. God doesn't say, you know,
if you do this right, then I will do this right. If you hold up
your end of the bargain, then I'll do this. Men and God aren't
in this thing together. This is God's covenant, and God
fulfills the covenant of grace. Here is how God's covenant of
grace reads. I will, and you shall. God says, I will save you, and
you shall be saved. I will give you life, and you
shall live. I shall bless you exceedingly,
and you shall be blessed. I will, and you shall. I will
keep you. and you shall be kept. That's
God's covenant of grace. That's how the contract reads.
I will, and you shall. And you know what? That kind
of covenant is the only covenant that saves a sinner. I mean,
a real sinner now, that's the only kind of covenant that can
save a dead sinner. It's God doing all of the work.
It's God making a promise and then God keeping it for his people.
And you know, that's just exactly what God did. The father, chose
a people to save. He said, is my will to save these
people. But now in order for the father
to accept those sinful people, they can't come into God's presence
as they are. They've got to be made righteous. They've got to
be made holy because that's God's character. God will not accept
anything less. So God, the son in time came
to earth as a man, as a man made under the law, he fulfilled every
requirement of God's law, in every jot, in every tittle. Not
only did he keep it, he did it gleefully. He did it joyfully. He honored the law and magnified
it. I got to tell you this little
story. We have this week, Jan and I have our great nephew,
he's four years old, staying with us. I was telling Claire
about just before service, He'd been with us since Monday. Finally,
today, he decided he's going to have a battle of wills with
Aunt Janie. And it didn't take him long to
figure out he's not going to win. And she told him what he
had to do. And he did it with this look
on his face. He did it, but you know, that's not exactly obedience,
is it? Not in here. You think what it took for the
Son of God to save the likes of you and me. You think how
He had to grate on His last nerve to live in the cesspool of sin
all around Him. You think what He suffered. We've
been studying there in Matthew, just as He thought about it,
just as He thought about being made sin, He swept great drops
of blood. He told his disciples, pray with
me. I'm afraid I'm going to die for him. Get to the cross. He's
thinking about this. And he didn't obey his father. He didn't go to the cross ever. He went joyfully. He honored the law and magnified
it. He made his people righteous
in his obedience. He died to satisfy justice for
them. So there's nothing keeping them
from God. He made them the righteousness
of God in Him. Now that happened 2,000 years
ago. God's people are born into this world, and they're born
dead in sin, aren't they? I mean, they're dead in sin.
So the Holy Spirit comes, and He applies what the Father purposed.
He applies what the Son purchased to their hearts and gives them
the new birth through the preaching of the gospel of Christ. Somebodies
tellin' people who Christ is, And the Holy Spirit moves, and
He gives life where there was none before. He gives faith in
Christ where there was none before. And they believe. They see. They say, I see. And they believe. See, that's God doing all the
work in salvation, and man doing none of it. That's why God's
covenant is sure. Alright, number two. God's covenant
is a covenant of grace. We didn't read these verses,
but look over verse 18. Genesis chapter 17. And Abram said unto
God, O that Ishmael might live before thee. And God said, Sarah
thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his
name Isaac. And I'll establish my covenant
with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him.
And as for Ishmael, I've heard thee. Behold, I've blessed him
and I'll make him fruitful. I will multiply him exceedingly.
Twelve princes shall he begat, and I'll make him a great nation.
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. Now remember
in Galatians chapter four, we looked at this last week. Paul
told us that Ishmael represents the covenant of works. Isaac
represents the covenant of grace. Well, the covenant of works can't
save anybody. There's nothing that's established
there except wrath and damnation. Now, Abraham asked, he loves
Ishmael. This is his son, he loves Ishmael.
He asked God to bless Ishmael, and God did. He blessed Ishmael
physically and materially. He blessed him greatly. He made
a great nation of this man. But God says, I'm gonna give
these material blessings to Ishmael. I'm gonna establish my covenant,
my covenant of grace with Isaac. Isaac is the child of promise.
Isaac is the picture of salvation by grace. Isaac was produced
by God. He's not produced by man. He's
produced by God. Isaac was born by the power of
God. He wasn't born by the power of flesh like Ishmael was. Isaac's
born by the power of God, born to a mother that's 97 years old.
Isaac is the product of God's grace, not man's works. That's
why the covenant is established with Isaac. And all of that,
you see, that's what salvation is, isn't it? Salvation is by
God's grace. It's a free gift God gives his
people. It's not something that they earn by their works. He
gives it to them freely. Christ earned it. God gives it
to his people freely. Our salvation is accomplished
by the power of God. Not by our power, but by the
power of God. And you know, that's the only
way salvation can be sure. If salvation is by grace. Let
me show you that Romans chapter four. I've told you so many times,
I like a sure thing. Well, there's nothing more sure
than salvation by grace. Romans four verse 16. Therefore,
it is a faith that it might be by grace to the end that the
promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which
is of the law, but to that also, which is of the faith of Abraham,
who is the father of us all. See, that's why I told you earlier,
God's covenant is not just for Abraham. It's for everybody who
has faith like Abraham. It's everybody who believes God
like Abraham did. It's everybody who God has saved
the same way he saved Abraham, by grace. And that's the way
every believer will tell you they've been saved. They've been
saved by God's grace alone. And this is what makes salvation
sure. The Lord did all the work. He hasn't left one work left
for you and me to do in order to be saved. He did it all. It's already finished. And instead
of making us earn it, work to deserve it, he gives it to us
as a free gift of his grace. Because his covenant is a covenant
of grace. Now here's the third thing, look
back in our text, Genesis 17. God's covenant is a specific
covenant. God's covenant is not a covenant
that concerned every son of Adam. God's covenant was a covenant
with God. And it concerned Abraham. It wasn't for everybody now,
it concerned Abraham and only Abraham. In verse two, God says,
I'll make my covenant between me and thee. This is for you,
Abraham, for your seed after you. God's not making this promise
to as many men as will decide to believe him like Abraham believed
him. God's not making this promise
to just everybody who might decide to bow to him and submit to him
like Abraham did. This covenant, this promise of
grace is to a specific person. is specifically to Abraham. He's
the one that's concerning and he's the one who will be blessed
by it. In God's covenant, this promise of grace is to every
believer. That's the Abraham spiritual
seed after him. If you believe God, this promise
is to you just as surely as it was to Abraham. God's speaking
audibly to Abraham. You think of that. But if you
believe God, you trust Christ, this promise is to you and as
sure to you as it was to Abraham. You think about that. Where's
Abraham now? He's with the Lord. You believe
Christ, you're gonna be there one day too. That's how sure
this thing is. It's a specific covenant to a
specific people. The father chose a specific people
to save. He didn't choose X number of
sinners to be saved. It's first come, first served.
When it's all filled up, then that's it. It's like those folks
about the 144,000. Well, 144,000 has probably already
been filled up. I mean, that's not it. God chose a specific people to
save by name, individually, specifically, and those people shall be saved. It's the covenant. I will and
you shall. God's not trying to save as many
people as might decide to accept him as their personal savior.
God promised to save a specific people and he's going to save
those people. That's God's promise of grace
to them. I will and you shall, you shall,
you specifically, you who believe and you know it's going to happen.
You know what's going to come to pass. because God always keeps
his promise. All right, here's the fourth
thing. God's covenant is a saving covenant. This covenant promises
to save many. God's grace can't be kept in
some small storage facility somewhere. God's grace is boundless. There's an endless supply of
it. God's promise, this is something now. This is a large promise. When God promises grace sufficient
to save all of his people, that's a large promise. That's a bunch
of grace. When God promises grace sufficient
for the hour, he's not promised always to heal. He's not promised
always to deliver, has he? But he's promised grace sufficient.
Well, that's a bunch of grace. We're a needy people, aren't
we? That's a bunch of grace. There's plenty. There's plenty. There's plenty to go around.
God will never run out of grace. This covenant that God is talking
to Abraham about, he's talking about a large number of people.
God didn't tell Abraham, you're just going to have one son. He
said, Abraham, you're going to have so many descendants. You
can't count them all. In verse two, he says, I will
make my covenant between me and thee. and I'll multiply thee
exceedingly. In verse four, he says, as for
me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father
of many nations. Not just one son, not just one
nation, many nations. Verse five, neither shall thy
name anymore be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham. For a father of many nations
have I made thee. And I'll make the exceeding,
and I'll make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee.
This covenant God's talking about is talking about saving a bunch
of people. And just, it's a number no man
can count. Now this is talking both about
Abraham's spiritual descendants and his physical descendants.
Both of them. You can't count them all, can
you? They're everywhere. Now remember this, God's covenant
is a covenant between God and God. God's covenant is made with
one. He made it with his son. But
it's a covenant made for the benefit of many. It's a covenant
between God and God, but it's concerning God's elect. And that's
a number no man can number. The Father chose a people to
save. God is so gracious. He's so loving. He's so merciful. And God chose
a people to save. He chose a number of people that's
so many we can't count them. That's how gracious God is. But the sin of those people has
to be put away by just one sacrifice for sin. In three hours on the
cross, the Lord Jesus Christ saved that entire number. No man can number. His person
is so precious. His blood is so precious. His,
person is so powerful in three hours, he endured an eternity
of hell and put away the sin of his people. All of God's elect,
all of their sin of all of that innumerable people by just one
sacrifice. The obedience of one man, the
Lord Jesus Christ was enough to make all those people righteous,
perfectly righteous. The blood of Christ is so pure,
it washed all of God's elect white as snow. Now that's what
God promised to do in His covenant of grace. And God fulfilled everything
necessary in that covenant. He did all the work and all of
God's elect benefited. They all benefited equally. And
I'll tell you, When the Lord is pleased to reveal that to
us, you know what we'll do? We'll worship. God starts talking
to Abraham, and look in verse 3. And Abram fell on his face. When he heard God say, I'll make
my covenant between me and thee, I'll multiply thee exceedingly,
he started understanding about God's covenant of grace, and
he fell on his face in worship. And you and I are never going
to worship until we see that. We're in God's hand to do with
as he pleases and whatever he does is just and right. If he purposed to save us by
his grace, he's pleased to reveal his son to us and in us. We'll
do the same thing our father Abraham did. We'll fall on our
face and worship. Then here's the fifth thing.
God's covenant of grace is a changing covenant. In verse five, he says,
neither shall thy name anymore be called Abram. but thy name
shall be Abraham. For a father of many nations
have I made thee. Now God revealed his covenant,
his promise of grace to Abram. But this covenant changed everything
for Abram. Before God revealed this covenant
to Abraham here at this time, everybody called Tira's son Abram. But when God revealed his covenant
of grace to Abram, he changed his name to Abraham. And his
name has changed. This is what it means, a father
of a multitude. Now it sure didn't look like
it at the time, did it? Abraham still didn't have a son. Sarah's
still not pregnant. Doesn't look like she ever could
be. And for a year after this, Abraham still had no son. For
a year, Abraham would go to town and somebody would see him and
snicker and say, hi there, father of a multitude. And they'd turn
to their buddies. What a name for a childless old
man that can't have any children. He changed his name to the father
of a multitude. But Abraham was the father of
a multitude, wasn't he? Because that's what God made
him. And the Lord Jesus Christ saved his people so completely. Scripture says, we're made the
righteousness of God. Man is so convoluted and dead
in sin, we somehow make degrees of righteousness. There are no
degrees of righteousness. You either are or you're not. You're
either perfect or you're not perfect. So if you want to say
it this way, if you believe Christ, you're as righteous as God himself.
Made the righteousness of God in him. And when Christ died
for his people, he made everything new. Just like Abraham, us who
believe, we got a new name. No more are we called the sons
of Adam. No more are we fallen, dead in
sin. Jeremiah said, this is the name wherewith she shall be called,
Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord, our righteousness. Now I know it
may not look like it when you look at us in the flesh. People
might look at us and snicker and say, hi there, the Lord,
our righteousness. Hi there, Jehovah Sidkenu. That's quite a name for such
a sinful person, isn't it? But you know what? That's exactly
what God has made, past tense, already made his people, made
them to be the righteousness of God because the Lord Jesus
Christ fulfilled every requirement. We couldn't fulfill one of them.
Christ fulfilled all of them. He was made sin for God's elect.
He took it away from them. put it away by his sacrifice.
So he made his people righteous, changed them in every way, didn't
he? That's quite a covenant. Then
the sixth thing is this, God's covenant is an everlasting covenant. God made this covenant, this
promise between God and God when there was nobody but God. So
that tells us it has to, all the covenant has to depend on
God, because there was nobody else to make the covenant with,
except God. And God knew he would keep his
promise. God knew nothing will stop his
will from happening. So in the mind of God, God's
people were saved. They were righteous, they were
justified before God created anything. And they were, they
were. And we're using some big theological
terms tonight, covenant theology. Here's another one for you. Eternal
justification. That'll turn some people on their
ears. Eternal justification. And this is what that means.
God's elect were justified before they were ever born. Because
justification is the work of God. It's not the work of the
flesh. Eternal justification, people
get all bent on slavery, but I'm telling you, I love it. I
love it. Because eternal justification
is the only way a sinner can be justified. Because God can't
change. If God sees you as justified
right now, He's always seen you as justified. Because God can't
change. And someone will say, well, you
can't say that. Then that means, you know, Christ,
you know, sacrifice is not necessary. There's got to be a sacrifice.
You know, there are people who say, no, nobody was justified
until Christ died on the cross. Hang on a minute. In the mind
and purpose of God, that happened in eternity. That's why Christ
is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Yes, there must
be a sacrifice in time, but God will see to it. God will see
to it. It's going to happen. And then
they say, what about our faith and repentance? You can't say
somebody's justified in that and believe God. God'll see to it. God'll grant
repentance. The Holy Spirit will give faith.
But brother, you're not justified when you believe God. You're
justified when God says you're justified. He just lets you in
on it when he gave you faith in Christ. That's all it is.
It'll happen. God's son's gonna offer the sacrifice
that'll put away sin. The Spirit's gonna come and give
God's people faith in life. You know why? God promised he's
gonna do it in eternity. Then he will. See, God's covenant
of grace is eternal. And we think of eternal as it
doesn't have an ending. Well, remember this, eternal
means it doesn't have a beginning either. And since it will never
end, the salvation of God's people is sure. God's not like you and
me. He's not going to decide one
day to change his mind and cast out the people which he foreknew.
He'll never do it. This is the eternal covenant.
He'll never cast his people away. Then here's the last thing. God's
covenant is a keeping covenant. In verse nine, God said unto
Abraham, thou shalt keep my covenant. Therefore thou and thy seed after
thee and their generations. This is what he's telling Abraham.
Abraham, you and your descendants, you're going to keep my covenant
because I'm going to keep you. See, I will and you shall. Abraham,
your descendants are going to be just like you. They're going
to be a sinful people. They're going to be weak in faith.
They'll turn for me at the drop of a hat. They'll run down there
to Egypt looking for something, you know, just like you did.
And Abraham, They will not deserve the least of my mercies. But I will be merciful to them
anyway. I'm going to give them this land.
I'm going to bring them to the brink of it. And they're going
to rebel against me. And they won't deserve it. But
I'm going to give it to them anyway. Because I promised to
give it to them. And I'm going to keep my word.
I'm going to keep my promise of grace, even though sinners
don't deserve it. because it's not going to depend
on the sinner. See, my mercy and my grace does not depend
on the sinner, on the character of the sinner, on the works of
the sinner. It depends on God. God says it depends on me. It
depends on my character. It depends on my work, the work
of my son. That's why I must be gracious
to them, even though they don't deserve it. They don't, but Christ
does. God promised to save a people.
And the very son of God came and he ratified God's covenant
with His own blood. Christ shed His blood and He's
sealed. It's just like those old kings
would get that wax and they put their seal in it. It's done. It can't be changed. The covenant
of grace is sealed in the blood of Christ. God the Holy Spirit
comes to the preaching of the gospel and gives God's people
life and faith in Christ. He gives to them what Christ
bought for them with His precious blood. But oh my. Those people are a
mess. I mean, they're a sinful people. They're weak in faith. They could
tear up an anvil. They'll turn from God and turn
to their self-righteousness even after they believed on Christ.
They'll come to the worship service faithfully and somehow turn that
into self-righteousness. Look at me. God's blessing me
because I never miss a service. They come to worship God and
turn it into self-righteousness. I mean, we're a mess. God takes his word and has it
preached to us to reveal his son to us. His son. It's all about my son. And we
want to argue about when it's unjustified. They're not going to deserve
the least of God's mercies. They can't keep their eye on
the ball. But God's going to keep them
anyway. Just like Israel of old, he's going to give his people
today the promised land. Not that land over there they're
fussing and fighting over. Heaven. He's going to give us
the promised land and we're going to walk over on dry ground. And
you know why God's going to do that? You know why God's gonna
give that to his people for an everlasting possession? Because
that's what he promised to do. That's what the Son purchased,
and that's what he's gonna give them. Covenant theology is a
pretty good thing if you keep it simple, isn't it? All right,
let's bow together. Our Father, oh, how we thank
you for your covenant, your covenant of grace that saves your people
in spite of who we are and what we've done. But it's all because
of the person and the work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Father,
how we thank you. And how I pray, Father, that
you'd be merciful. That you'd be merciful to people
here. You promised you're gonna save your people by your grace.
Father, I pray you'd be gracious to us here. To each one of us
here, as we leave here, Father, that you would grant us faith
to believe the Lord Jesus Christ. Quit trusting our works of the
flesh, to quit trusting in the power of the flesh, and trust
wholly and completely in our Lord Jesus Christ. It is in his
name, for his glory we pray, amen. All right, Sean.