I'm so glad that Brother Frank
in his prayer specifically mentioned some of those things that you
are aware of going on in the lives of your people, this gathering
of believers in this place. We know some of the things. We
know some of the sorrow and some of the grief that you are going
through. And our hearts are burdened for all of you and for our brothers
and sisters who are in a time of trouble. I started a message
here about a month ago down at Grace Fellowship, and I started
it this way. My grandfather died of cancer
in 1967. I was in Okinawa in the service. I couldn't even come home to
his funeral. By the time I found out about it, by the time the
Red Cross notified me, my grandfather, who was the dearest person in
my life, he was my hero, he was my idol, and he had already been
buried. Jackie went. We were married.
I hadn't been able to get her overseas yet. She went and represented
me and her at his funeral. My father died of cancer in 1976. He was 64 years old. He was a year younger than I
am right now. His brother, my Uncle Walter,
died of cancer. My Aunt Faye died of cancer.
Walter and Faye had three boys, basically me and my two sisters,
their ages. All three of them boys had cancer.
I've had cancer twice. Adam's had cancer. Our son Aaron's
had cancer twice. Aaron's wife Michelle, her mother,
died of cancer. Our daughter Amy, her husband
Gene, his father, died of cancer just two years ago. Carrie, our
daughter-in-law, her mother, Becky, died of cancer. I know
a little bit, and us as a family, we know a little bit about suffering.
We know a little bit about the grief and the sorrow that you
are going through, this suffering. Brought to the Scripture back
in Isaiah chapter 40, verse 1, our Lord speaking through Isaiah,
and Isaiah said, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, comfort
ye my people, saith the Lord. And I thought when I read that,
where is comfort? How are we comforted? How are
we comforted in these times of sorrow and grief and suffering?
In times of tears, in times of bodily pain and disease and sickness? How are we comforted? It's not
in the things of this world. Contrary to what religion says
in our day, it's not in health, it's not in happiness, it's not
in beauty, it's not in wealth. Those things will not comfort.
Not when your heart is broken, not when you're weeping tears
of sorrow and pain. So where is comfort? Where is
comfort? Turn to Romans chapter 8, the
portion that Brother Frank read, the first scripture that he read,
verse 18. Paul dealing with this in this
letter to the church there at Rome. He's writing to believers. He's writing to those saints
there at Rome, those that have been called by the grace of God,
called to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, those for whom the Lord
Jesus Christ came, those for whom He died. That's who he's
writing this letter to. It could be written to you in
this place tonight. Take this letter and go home. This is addressed
to you. It's addressed to you. And Paul said in this letter
to these believers, dealing with this subject of comfort in a
time of sorrow and grief and pain, and you all know about
it. All of you know about it. And
if you don't know about it, you will know about it. And remember
this when that time comes, when the Lord visits you with this
time of kind of trouble. He says in verse 18, writing
to these believers, he said, I reckon. We don't hear that
word used anymore. You know, when I was a kid, everybody said
that. You remember that? Everybody said, I reckon so,
I reckon this or that. But in the Word of God, that
word is a mathematical term. It's a sum up. I sum up. I calculate. I come to a conclusion by an
orderly manner. I reckon. Paul said, I reckon
that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Paul said, I
reckon. This is what comfort is. I reckon. And he goes on and he says, these
sufferings. You see, that is plural. It's
not singular. It's not one time in your life are you going to
have a broken finger. It's not one time in your life that you're
going to have an ingrown toenail or a bruise on the back of your
hand. This is sufferings. Sufferings, plural. There are
many of them. And they come often. And you
know that. You know that firsthand, all
of you. All of you here know that firsthand. But Paul said,
I reckon, I sum up, I come to this conclusion. I come to this
conclusion that these sufferings, plural, many of them, and they're
outside. They're outside of believers.
Paul's writing to believers. And he said, I reckon that these
sufferings that are outside, that have to do with your loved
ones, have to do with your family, have to do with your dear brothers
and sisters in Christ. We know something about that
suffering. We know something about that sorrow and the grief.
We know something about laying there on our beds at night and
our heads on our pillow, wet with tears, weeping over loved
ones. He said, I reckon, I sum up,
I come to this conclusion that these sufferings that are outside,
that we all go through in this life, and these sufferings that
are within, this struggle that we have within, this struggle
that we have with the old man. God's given us the greatest gift,
the most amazing blessing in all of His creation. He's given
us to see His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. He's given us to flee
and lay hold of the Lord Jesus Christ. What an amazing blessing. And yet, and yet, this old man
rears its ugly head even oftener than daily. By the minute, by
the second. And we struggle with the old
man. There's a commercial on TV and
there's these things going on and somebody will say that these
things just pop up and they'll say, well, I never saw that coming.
I never saw that coming. I say that a hundred times a
day. Where'd that come from? Where'd that come from? I know
where it came from. It came from old Dale. It came from me. And
we have these struggles. We have these sufferings. Without
those of you, my goodness, I've known some of you. I've known
Tara since she was born. I've known who she was. I've
known her dad. We was boys together. We was
boys together. At 13th Street Church. I've known
him all my life. And I know a little bit about
the suffering she's gone through. And where's comfort at these
times? Paul said, that these sufferings,
and he goes on and he says, at this present time, right now,
not what you suffered last week and last year, what are you suffering
right now? What are you going through right
now? What's the Lord been pleased to visit you with today? Well,
Paul said, whatever it is. Whatever it is, I reckon. I come
to this conclusion. By grace, I come to this conclusion.
That the sufferings of this present time This present time, right
now. Now tomorrow, there'll be another
present time. And tomorrow there'll be another
suffering, because it's sufferings. This is a continual thing. This
goes on and on and on. Our Lord dealt with this here
in His public ministry. He said in John 16, verse 33,
in the world, in the world you shall have tribulation. But here's
the comfort. Be of good cheer. Do we know
something about that? At these times of suffering and
pain and sorrow, we have good cheer. We have good cheer. The
Lord said, I've overcome the world. You and me, I and you,
overcome the world. We have good cheer. We have good
cheer. Paul said, I reckon, I reckon,
I sum up, I come to this conclusion, that the sufferings of this present
time And here it is. Oh, they're not worthy. They're
not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed
in us. Can we get a hold of that? Glory
that shall be revealed in us. In us. I, in 2 Corinthians chapter
12, fall right into that church at Corinth. And you know this
story. It's one of them. I don't know that the right word
is favorite. say one Scripture is more favorite
than another, but I guess we could say the Lord has blessed
it more to my understanding or to my blessing me. And Paul said
right into them believers at Corinth, he said, I know a man
above 14 years ago. Whether he's in the Spirit or
out of the Spirit, I can't tell. But he said, this man, he was
caught up to the third heaven. Caught up to the third heaven.
I don't know if he's in the Spirit or out of the Spirit, I can't
tell. But he said, this man heard and seen things. And the Word
of God said it's unlawful. It's not possible. Paul said
it's not. Paul's talking about himself.
The Lord brought him up to wherever that is. The third heaven. And
he said, I saw a thing. This is Paul. This is Paul that
can take these mysteries of God. And God gave him the ability
and the grace to write these things down. And here 2,000 years
later, somebody that worked in the steel mill for 40 years can
pick it up That's what that means. That's what that means. And this
man, brilliant man, that God used to write the bulk of the
New Testament, 14 books out of the New Testament, this man wrote.
Paul said, I'm not able to tell you. What do you think Paul saw?
Paul saw that glory that was revealed in those Old Testament
saints. I believe he saw Moses. I believe he saw Moses up there
fellowshipping with the Lord Himself. I believe He saw Isaiah. I believe He saw Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob. I believe He saw Noah. I believe
He saw those men. I believe He saw Jonah. I believe
He saw those men in that glory that's going to be revealed in
us. One of these days, when the Lord's pleased to remove our
tent and to bring us into His presence, then we'll know and
in that glory that's going to be revealed in us. That's what
Paul's saying here. I reckon. I reckon. And I can't
say this to you that are going through these difficult times.
I can't say this. Just read it. Just read what
God said through this man Paul. He said, I reckon, I reckon,
this is the conclusion of the whole matter, I reckon that the
sufferings that you're going through out there, outward, those
are your loved ones, your parents, your mother, your father, sister
and brother, your children. Is there any grief like going
through the grief of a child? Any grief like that? Is there
any sorrow like that? Did David ever weep so loudly
as when he heard that Absalom had been killed? Absalom, my
Absalom. There's no grief like the grief
in a family. Grief of a son or a daughter. Paul said those sufferings that
are outside and those sufferings of this grappling and wrestling
and fighting with this old man and these things, these feelings
and emotions Anger and fear and all these things. I think it was John Newton. I'll
try to recite this poem. I hadn't considered doing this,
but it's a good poem. John Newton, I think, wrote this
poem. "'Tis a point I long to know. Oft it gives me anxious
thought. Do I love the Lord, or no? Am
I His, or am I not? If I love, why am I thus? Why
this dull and lifeless frame? Hardly sure can they be worse
Never heard His name. If I turn my eyes within, all
is dark and vain and wild, filled with unbelief and sin, can I
deem myself a child? If I pray or hear or read, sin
is mixed with all I do. You that love the Lord indeed,
tell me, is it thus with you? Yet I mourn my stubborn will,
find my sin a grief and thrall. Could I grieve for what I feel
if I did not love at all? Could I joy His saints to me?
Choose the way I once abhorred? Find the times that promise sweet?
If I did not love the Lord, Lord, decide this doubtful case. Thou
who art Thy people's Son, and shine upon this work of grace,
if it be indeed begun. Let me love Thee more and more.
If I have loved at all, I pray. And if I have not loved before,
help me, Lord, to begin this very day. Struggles without. Sorrow is without. This is weeping.
This is tears over those things going on outside you and those
things going on inside. It's a struggle. It's a battle.
But Paul said, I reckon. I reckon that these sufferings
at this present time, they're not worthy to be compared to
the glory that's going to be revealed in us. That's me and
you. In us. I drew me a little diagram here.
It's as primitive That's what you'd expect out of Dale. And I've got a little fulcrum
here, and it's a balance. It's a little scales. You know,
a scales is perfectly balanced on a fulcrum right there, like
that. I've just got a little line across this thing. And I've
got over here at the left, I've got a little tiny dot over here
on this side of the scales. And I wrote above it, Sufferings,
and I put an arrow down. This thing goes down. That's
what Paul's talking about. I reckon that the sufferings
of this present time, oh, there they are. There it is down, it's
tilted down, it's grievous, it's sorrowful. And then I drew another
diagram, and over here on the other side of this, I drew a
block this big. I drew a block this big, and
I wrote on it, the glory that shall be revealed in us. And
I put a big arrow going down, just like that. These sufferings,
oh, they're grievous. They're tough. It's tough times.
It's tough times. You all know about it. Your pastor's
going through a grievous time. A grievous time. But Paul said,
in a way of comfort, I reckon that this suffering for this
present time is not worthy to be compared to the glory which
shall be revealed in us. 1965, I was 20 years old, and
I got drafted. Down here somewhere, and you
know what? I can't believe it. This is how you lose it after
you get a little older. Frank, you'll know about this
one of these days. I don't remember where the Ventura Hotel was.
It's either there on the block where Burger King is or the next
block up above Paramount. But there was a big hotel stood
there. I mean, it was the biggest building in Ashland. Wasn't it,
Charles? I believe it was the biggest building in Ashland.
And everybody went there and took their physical for the service.
That's where you went. Everybody was drafted. You went
to the Ventura Hotel. I mean, people, this was 1965.
Vietnam was full-blown war, 1965. Everybody wasn't in school. Everybody wasn't married and
had kids. Everybody got drafted. I ain't drug old Dale down there. And I remember, I'm scared to
death, buddy. I mean, scared to death. Well, we walked in
there, and one of the things they do, got you in a big line. I mean,
there may have been 100 people there that day, and you just
walked through, and you come through the door. Here's a line
all the way winding around through the room. And up there in the
front of the room, there's the scales. The scales was a big platform
and it had a great big arm that went up. And it had a dial. It
was that big. And this thing went to 300 pounds. 300 pounds. And you stepped up
there. It was part of this. How much did you weigh? All these
things was part of it. You'd step up there. I weighed
155 pounds. Can't believe it. I weighed 155
pounds. There was a big old boy there. I mean, he was a buster.
Lived out here around Grayson somewhere. And we all couldn't
wait until he got on that scale. I mean, we'd take our turn, and
we'd hide in the back of the room and watch him. And he went
up there, and he stepped on that scale. 300 pound, that needle
went bang, just like that. It hit 300 pounds. I thought
it was going to knock it off there. And they couldn't wait. And they went and found a feed
grain scale in an old feed store. One of them had steel wheels
on it, and they rolled it out. 420 pounds. I mean, he was a
big boy. Tall, too. I mean, he wasn't just big like
me. He was a big boy. But I thought
of this when I reckoned that the sufferings of this present
time, there's these sufferings, and then that glory that the
Lord has intended to bestow on us. Bang! That thing goes the other way.
Is that comfort or what? Do we get comfort from that?
That's the only place there's comfort. It's in the hands of
our great God and Savior. There's comfort nowhere else.
Nowhere else except in the Lord. Now look right across the page.
right across the page at verse 28. And there I say again, this
is one of my favorite portions of God's Word. I shouldn't say
that it was my favorite, or one of my favorites, but I should
say the Lord has used this in a greater way to comfort me.
Now you, what He uses to comfort you, the Lord will roll you His
nugget out there on the floor when it's your time to go through
the valley. But He's rolled this big gold nugget out and said,
Dale, this is your nugget. And I've jumped on this thing.
And I love this portion of God's Word. These four verses, just
these four verses right here. And Paul says, now remember the
context here, I reckon that the suffering of this present time
is not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed
in us. Now, we know. We know something about that
that he mentioned over there in verse 18. We know about these
sufferings. They're not worthy to be compared. We know that.
We've got a grasp of that. God, by His grace, has showed
us that. But we also know this. All things, all things, old Paul
Morton, all of you know Paul Morton, I think, attends down
at Grace Fellowship. Paul's going to be 96 if he lives
to this fall. He's going to be 96. And Paul,
whenever that word's said, he said, what part of all don't
you understand? He said, what part of all is
not clear to you? It's all things. We know that. We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God. Now we know we love
Him because He first loved us. He loved us in eternity past.
He gave us to the Lord Jesus Christ. He was the surety for
all those people that God gave to Him in eternity past. And
in time, He came and He represented all those people. He died for
all those people that the Father gave Him. And He worked out a
perfect salvation for those people. Those people are going to hear
the gospel. And the Spirit of God is going to cross their path
and give them faith to lay hold of the Lord Jesus Christ. They're
going to flee to Christ. And He's going to keep them by
His grace and by His power, by His all-sustaining power. All
things work together for good to them people that love God,
to them who are called according to what? His purpose. His purpose. I can't ever pass
this portion of Scripture And those of you that are my age,
or even younger, you know this story. It's a story. It's about a man. It's about
two men. But it's about the truth. Way
back there in about 1950, many of you knew Rolf Barnard. I knew
Rolf Barnard. He scared me to death. He had
eyes that he'd look across and he'd lean across that person
and look right at you. And in my eyes, you remember
that, Sharon? He'd look like he was looking right through
you, right into what you thought yesterday. He's frightening in
his voice. He's piercing and everything.
He's holding a meeting down at 13th Street. He's way back there.
Henry was just a young man. Henry was 24 years old or something. Sitting right there on the front
row down at 13th Street. No, down at Pollard. I'm sorry, down
at Pollard. So Rolfe was preaching along and just for an illustration,
he said, Pastor, can you quote Romans 8.28? And Henry's sitting
there probably about as scared as I was. He said, I think I
can. He said, stand up. Quote Romans
8.28. Henry got up, you know, and he's
telling this story. He said, and we know that all
things work together for good to them who love God. Sit down.
And he said, he sat down and he looked up there at Rolfe and
Rolfe was just glaring over that pulpit, just staring a hole right
through him. He said, is that all of it? Henry said, no, that's
not all of it. He said, do you know the rest
of it? Henry said, I think I know the rest of it. He said, get
up and quote all of it. And Henry got up and he said, and we know.
All things work together for good to them who love God, to
them who are the cause according to His purpose. And if any of
you ever heard Ralph Barnard bell her out, purpose! Get a hold of that and it will
unlock the whole Word of God. Everything God does, He does
on purpose. We know. We know. All things work together for
good. There's where comfort is. There's where comfort is in the
heart of a believer. Do we understand it? No, we don't understand it.
Do we even see the completion of the purpose of God? We may
not. We may not live to see it. It
may not be for us. It may not be for the one going
through the trial. It may be for one of these little ones.
It may be for one of these little ones. We've done a study in the
book of Ruth back two or three years ago. Many of you was down
there and heard this study that we brought. And I started this
book and I said, way back there, I mean way back there, Abraham
come up out of Ur of the Chaldees. You remember that? Abraham brought
his nephew Lot with him. And they both become herdsmen
up there in the land of Canaan. After a period of time, there
were so many. God blessed them so materially. There was goats
and sheep and cattle, so many that it was overgrazing the land.
And Abraham's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen got in a battle, got
in a scuffle, you know. And Abraham went to Lot and he
said, this ain't right. He said, now you choose where you're going
to go and I'll go the other way. And old Lot looked down there
towards Sodom, that wicked place. There was grass down there tall
enough that an elephant could graze in it. He said, I'll go
down there. Abraham said, okay, I'll go the other way. And Lot
went down there. You remember that story. And
Lot was down there for a period of time and then God came down
there to judge that place. And He spared Lot and two young
daughters. And they left that place and they went to a little
town called Zor. And the next recollection is recorded in God's
Word is those two girls were fearful that there wouldn't be
an heir. Do you remember that story? And they got their dad
drunk and each of them went in a different night and went in
and lay with their father. Both of them conceived by their
father. And one of them, one of these girls conceived and
bore a son. His name was Moab. And he left and he became
a rascal. I mean, he was a rebel. And a
whole tribe of people sprung from him. And they warred and
battled and fought with everybody. And this went on for 800 years.
And 800 years after this awful thing that happened, all things
worked together for good to them who loved God, who they were
called according to this purpose. 800 years later, there was a
little girl born way up here next to Jerusalem. a little girl
named Ruth. And Ruth, in the purpose of God,
was going to be found by a man named Boaz, whose mother was
Rahab the harlot. You remember when the nation
of Israel came out of captivity down there in Egypt? They'd been
down there for a number of years. They'd come out. They wandered
around in the desert for 40 years because they wouldn't obey God's
command to go in and take that land. And all those men that
were over 20 years of age that left Egypt died in the wilderness.
And when the last one died, God told Joshua, He said, go in and
claim the land that I've given you. And Joshua sent spies in
there. You remember that story? And
they came to a harlot's place. And her name was Rahab. And she
hid those men up on the roof of her house. Up there in the
stalks of flax that was drying up there. And before they left,
she said, will you be merciful to me? And they said, we'll be
merciful to you. She said, to all those that you love, She
said, let this scarlet thread out of this window. All you love,
you bring them here because there's not going to be safety anywhere
except where this scarlet thread's hanging out of the window. When
we come through in judgment, we'll spare whosoever's behind
the scarlet thread. Picture of Christ. That scarlet
thread that's woven throughout the whole Old Testament. That
woman Rahab, she fell in love. When Israel come through and
God delivered that place, they spared that one woman, Rahab
the harlot. And she fell in love with a man
named Salmon. A Jew named Salmon. And they
married. And they had a boy named Boaz. He was a kinsman redeemer. And him and Ruth got together.
And that was King David's great-grandmother, great-grandfather. And it's in
the lineage of our Lord Jesus Christ. Purpose. Purpose. Don't end the story down there
with Lot and that incestuous relationship with that young
daughter, probably 14 years old. Don't end the story there. As
awful as it is. And as awful and as sorrowful
and as grievous as these trials are. Don't end the story there. Wait on the Lord. Wait on the
Lord. Be of good comfort. He'll cure
your heart. Cheer your soul. Wait, I say, on the Lord. That's
what he's talking about here. Purpose. God does everything
that He does. He does on purpose. Verse 29,
for whom God did foreknow. Did He foreknow us on purpose?
Did He foreknow us on purpose? He sure did. Everything God does,
He does on purpose. We had Brother Mark Daniel down
and preach for us this morning. And he dealt a little bit with
this time thing that we get so hung up on. Earl Smilin, he was
there. He knows what I'm talking about.
And it's difficult, difficult because we're linked to this
thing that we are. We can't fathom eternity. We can't fathom eternity past
and eternity that way. And sandwiched here in the middle
of the eternities is this little span of 6,000 years that we call
time. But God always loved these people.
God's people was always in the Lord Jesus Christ. He always
foreknew. He foreknew us. However long
eternity is, we was always in the mind and purpose of God.
We was always in the Lord Jesus Christ. He was the Lamb slain
from way back there, from the foundation of the world. Why
was He slain? In the purpose and mind of God. Because of me. Because of you. He's always known
us. He's always loved us. For whom
He did foreknow, He did predestinate. Did God predestinate us on purpose?
Did He purpose for us to be like the Lord Jesus Christ? That's
what He says here. He predestinated us to be conformed
to the image of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord
Jesus Christ is the firstborn among many brethren. He has the
preeminence. He's always had the preeminence.
And He will always have the preeminence. This foolishness that people
talk about getting their crowns in heaven because of these pitiful
things that we strive to do here on earth. That's foolishness.
He's the preeminent One. Everything that we ever are or
have or will ever be is because of His grace, because of Him
in us, doing in us. We're going to be predestinated
and conformed to the image of our Lord Jesus Christ. And He's
the firstborn among any brethren. Verse 30, Moreover, whom He did
predestinate, them He also called. Did He call you on purpose? Was
it on purpose that He called you? Did He call you on purpose?
Always in the mind of God? Always? Can you get a hold of
that? I can't. But I just know it's
true. Always in the mind of God. At some time, as we call time,
at some time, He was going to cross our path with the Gospel.
And He was going to give us faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
what I'll need to hear. That's what will save my wretched
soul. He will. And He gives us the faith to
lay hold of Christ, to flee to Christ, to cling to Him and trust
in Him and rely on Him. He called us on purpose. And
whom He called, then He also justified. Did He justify us
on purpose? It's all on purpose and it's all on God's purpose.
So I reckon, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed
in us. He justified us. He makes us
righteous. How in the world can I be righteous
before God whose pure holiness? How can I be righteous? In His
Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Nowhere else justified us, made
us righteous in the Lord Jesus Christ. And He did it on purpose.
And whom He justified, them He also glorified. And that gets
back to this that we're talking about. This glory that's going
to be revealed in us. That Paul couldn't even talk
about. That Paul couldn't even describe. It's so magnificent. that these sufferings, and at
the time we go through them, you know, you know what I'm saying,
you've been there, you are there. These sufferings, they're grievous,
they're painful, they tear your heart out, cause you to weep,
sob over loved ones and over ourselves, what we are, rebellion
against our Heavenly Father and our neglect to go to Him in prayer
and look for Him in this precious Word that He's left us. But we're going to be glorified.
These things are not worthy to be compared. What shall we then
say to these things? Here's the conclusion of the
whole matter. What shall we say to these things? If God be for
us. If God be for us. Is God for
us? That's a word I wish that weren't there. I think the translators
have missed this here. If. That's a word that we use
and it has this particular meaning to it. There's a possibility
that it won't happen. There's a possibility that it
can't. If I say, if I can tomorrow, I'll come over and help you mow
your grass. Very good possibility I won't be there. Very good possibility
I won't be there. Because I can't bring it to pass.
Seeing that God's for us, or absolutely God is for us. God
is for us. Who can be against us? Who can
be against us? What can be against us? There's
nothing that can be against us. Turn over here to the last two
verses in this chapter and we'll close. Verse 38. For I am persuaded, Paul said,
I'm persuaded, that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature. If I haven't covered everything,
if I've missed something, I'm going to cover it here. Any other
creature, any other thing in creation, none of it shall be
able to separate us, me and you, from the love of God which is
in Christ Jesus, our Lord. There's where comfort is. No
place else. Don't look for it any place else.
These knotheads on television that are telling you these things,
turn them off. Take your shoe and throw it right through the
TV. They're lying on God. This is what He said. This is
what He said. The sufferings of this present
world are not worthy to be compared. But we're going to have them.
We're going to have them nonetheless. And there are many, and there
are often, and there are grievous. And they're sorrowful and want
to shed many tears in this walk here below. But be of good cheer
to God's people. He's overcome the world. He's
overcome the world. And everything He does on purpose.
He calls us. He loves us. And in His time,
He'll remove us and bring us to Himself. That's where comfort
is. Nowhere else. It's been at least
63 months. Since I've heard Brother Mike
sing this song, I talked to him this afternoon on the phone and
asked him if he was able to sing a special. And he's going to
close the service with this song. I've longed to hear this. Ever
since I've talked to him this afternoon, I've wanted to hear
this song. Thank you.