Thank you, Scott. I want to ask you if you'll open
your Bibles with me to the book of Jonah. Jonah, one of those
short books in the end of your Old Testament, in between Obadiah and Micah,
I think. Jonah, chapter 2. Everyone knows
the story of Jonah, but few understand the meaning of it. Jonah as a
type of Christ is in the belly of whale. The Lord Jesus tells
us that the story of Jonah is his story. It is a picture It
is a sign. A sign points to something. When the Pharisees insisted that
the Lord prove himself by performing a miracle and showing them a
sign, the Lord Jesus said, no sign will be given unto this
generation. It is a wicked and adulterous
generation that seeketh after a sign. What is our Lord saying? Don't look for physical manifestations
to prove God, believe his word. The Lord Jesus says the incarnate
word of God was speaking the truth and they wanted proof.
How oftentimes men want some proof that what's being said
is true. They want that proof to be given
them in an experience. They want that proof to be given
them in a feeling. They want that proof to be given
them in a sign. The Lord said no sign will be
given unto this generation except for the sign of Jonah. who spent three days and three
nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of Man spend
three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." There
can be no question as to what the meaning of the book of Jonah
is. Jonah's story is pointing to what the Lord Jesus would
do in accomplishing the salvation of his people. Now Jonah is in the whale. All that Jonah says in chapter
two of the book of Jonah are words that can be best understood
as they relate to what the Lord Jesus went through when he was
hanging on Calvary's cross. We only have a few brief statements
made in the scriptures as to what our Lord said. Audibly,
while he was on the cross. Seven brief sayings, but we know
that he was there for three hours and we know that during that
three hours he was lifting up his soul in prayer to his heavenly
father. And I have no doubt that these
words would have been in his heart and mind as he sought his father during those
three dark, dark hours. In verse nine of Jonah chapter
two, well, let's look at verse eight briefly. They that observe
lying vanities forsake their own mercy. A lying vanity is a false gospel.
A lying vanity is a message of salvation that requires you to
do something in order for God to be able to save you. That's
a lying vanity. A message that says peace, peace,
when in fact there is no peace. A message that requires you to
make a decision, perform a work, have some knowledge, acquire
some education. lying vanities. They that observe
lying vanities forsake. They forsake their own mercy.
There's no mercy in a false gospel. There's no mercy in a works gospel.
There's no mercy in a freewill gospel. The mercy of God can
only be found in a gospel that gives to the Lord Jesus Christ
all the glory for having accomplished all the salvation all by himself. They that observe, they that
look to a message that requires something from them in order
for God to be able to save them, they forsake their own mercy. There's no salvation in that
message. But I, Verse nine, but I will
sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving. Jonah's in the belly of a whale. You know, we read stories about
Daniel and the lion's den, the three Hebrew children in a fiery
furnace. We can have some imagination
as to what that will be like, because we know what lions are
like, and we know what fire is like. But if there's anything
in the Bible that I have no ability to conceive of, it would be spending
three days and three nights in the belly of a whale. And yet,
I would sooner understand that than I would understand what
the Lord Jesus went through when he bore our sins and suffered
as our sacrifice before God. we can't comprehend what he went
through. So thankful that the Lord doesn't
require us to understand it, he requires us to believe it,
to believe it. And the Lord Jesus is offering
up thanksgiving and we offer up thanksgiving, why? I will
pay that that I have vowed. The Lord Jesus made a covenant
with his father before time ever was, and he's declaring here
that he's going to fulfill what he has vowed. He's going to fulfill
his promise. And then we have this statement,
salvation is of the Lord. If you are a sinner in need of salvation, I believe
that you will find comfort and hope in these words. And in the words that I hope
to speak over the next few minutes to elaborate on this simple,
concise, comprehensive statement, salvation is of the Lord. A dear friend asked me recently
what barely barely meant. We know that all scripture is
given by inspiration of God, and it's all profitable. Every
word of it, it's all God-breathed. But when the Lord pauses and
says to us, verily, verily, truly, truly, what he's saying is, pay
special attention to what I'm about to say, because I'm going
to condense into a brief statement much of what I've been teaching
at large, and that's what barely, barely means. Truly, truly, I
say unto you, listen now. And in God's word, there are
a few of those statements. We read from our Lord's words
on Calvary's cross, it is finished. The whole of the gospel is condensed
In that brief statement, it is finished. Paul tells us in the book of
Colossians, Christ is all and in all. And there again, we have
one of those statements that summarizes comprehensively all
of scripture in one brief statement. The prophet tells us our God
reigns, our God reigns. And in that brief statement,
we have a description of the sovereignty and of the power
of the God that we worship. Here, Jonah from the belly of
the whale speaks one of those kind of statements. A statement that summarizes everything. A statement that, if believed,
will give great hope and great comfort to anyone that needs
to be saved. Salvation is of the Lord. Now, I don't want you to read
all the words right now, because you'll miss something if you
do. But if you can scan with your eyes the outline of this
message, you'll find it in your bulletin this morning. And perhaps
later you can go back and read it word for word. But an outline of this message
is right there in your hands this morning. It's a simple message. Salvation is of the Lord. The Lord gets all the glory for
every part of our salvation. He did it all in conception,
in execution, in application, and in culmination. Those are my four points. Salvation
is of the Lord. Now, someone might be thinking
saved. Men mock that term. They do. You hear religious people mocking
it. They talk about when they got saved. You hear unbelievers
mocking it as if it was just something that was related to
people who were concerned with higher things, pie in the sky,
by and by. I heard someone say one time,
that guy is no earthly good because he's too heavenly minded. And
those are the kind of people that mock what it means to be
saved. When the truth is, the more heavenly
minded you are, the more earthly good you'll be. That's the truth. The more heavenly minded you
are, the more earthly good you will be. And if God has put on
our hearts a need to be saved, saved from what? Saved from the
penalty of sin. The wages of sin is death. Saved
from the wrath of God. Saved from eternal judgment.
That's real. I've got to be saved from that.
Saved from the power of sin. Sin has such a grip that A person
who's not safe from it cannot believe. They can't believe. They're blinded by sin. And then
even after the Lord opens the eyes of our understanding and
breaks the power of sin and enables us to believe, I need the power
of sin to be broken, that I not fulfill the lust of the flesh. I need to be restrained. I'm
a sinner. And I need the hope. I need the
hope of knowing one day that the very presence of sin, the
memory of sin, the idea of sin, the thought of sin, the consequences
of sin, the very presence of sin will be gone, gone forever. I'll never know anything about
it. I'll not have any memory of it.
I'll see him as he is and I'll be made like him. Perfectly righteous,
sinless, inexperienced. We are that way now in faith.
But oh, to have that to be our experience. I need to be saved. Let the world mock all they want
what it means to be saved. Lord, save me. Lord, save me. Now what Peter prayed when he
was drowning in the sea, Lord, save me. Is there a prayer that
the believer prays more often? Lord, save me. Save me from myself. Save me from Satan. Save me from
this world. Save me from my sin. If we're to be saved, God's going
to have to do every bit of it. You have to do every bit of it. Lord, you can't look to me to
do my part because I'm not gonna do it right, I'm sure of that.
I'll mess it up. If you count on me to do any
part of my saving, I won't be saved. That's what Jonah's saying. Jonah's three days and three
nights in the belly of a whale. And he knows that if there's
any way for him to be saved from that place, the Lord's gonna
have to do it. The Lord's gonna have to, he
had no way of getting out. And he declares salvation is of the
Lord. It's of the Lord in conception.
In conception. Before there were stars in space, before
there were angels, before there was anything other
than our self-existent, eternal, self-sufficient God who needs
nothing and needed nothing then. Now, that's beyond our comprehension. An eternal God who always is,
But that's what I am means. When he gave us his name, when
he gave Moses his name at the burning bush and he said, I am,
that's what he was declaring. I am the self existent one. I am the eternal one. I am the
one who created all things and was himself never created. And all that you see in creation
came long after me. For all of eternity past. And we can't even speak in terms
of that without using words that refer to time. When we say eternity
past, the word past has to do with time. We can't even express
it in proper language. But here is our God. And just as far back as our minds
are able to go, which isn't very far compared to how far back
he goes, was the covenant of grace when
God the Father elected a people. God the Son entered into that
covenant promise with his Father and agreed to be their surety.
What is a surety? Everything that God requires
for them to be saved. All of their righteousness, all
of their justification. That's what David meant when
he said, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. I shall not
be in want of anything. He provides it all. He provides
it all. That's what a surety is. The
Lord Jesus said, I'll be their surety. The third person of the
triune Godhead entered into that covenant promise. And here again,
we're using words describing time. Was there ever a time that
this promise was not? No. It's an eternal covenant
of grace. Eternity in the Bible means it
never had a beginning. The conception of salvation is
of God. What am I saying? There was a
solution before there was a need. There was an answer long before
there was a question. There was a savior long before
there was ever a sinner. Salvation is of the Lord in its
conception. Turn with me to 2 Timothy chapter
one. 2 Timothy chapter one. Look with me at verse eight.
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,
this gospel is by the power of God." Paul said, I'm not ashamed
of the gospel. Verse nine, who, speaking of
God, half past tense, saved us and called us. He saved us before
he called us. Let your religious friends and
family members talk about when they got saved. Sometimes we even might refer
to our calling as our salvation. When the Lord, we don't talk
about being, we don't say we got saved as if it was some sort
of a, you know, experience. But sometimes believers might
say, you know, when the Lord saved me. Well, he saved you
in eternity past. He saved us at Calvary's cross
when the Lord Jesus finished the work of redemption. Yes,
he saved us. in the effectual calling of grace.
He continues to save us and one day he will save us all together
when we're with him in glory. Salvation is of the Lord. Let us not get caught up in when
salvation happens. It's of the Lord. Who does the
saving? That's what's important. Not
when did I get saved or when was I saved or when was I called? Who does the saving? Who has saved us and called us
with a holy calling not according to our works but according to
his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ before
the world began. Now that phrase before the world
began is a reference to eternity. Eternity. No time. This covenant of grace is an
eternal covenant, conceived, if you will, and there again,
our language is so limited. When I say conceived, we're using
a word that has a time reference to it. But the conception of
our salvation is of the Lord. It's of the Lord. who but God could conceive of
a salvation that would maintain the justice of a holy God without
compromise and accomplish at the same time guilty sinners
who deserved the wrath of God. Who could have conceived of such
a plan, such a way, but for the Lord Jesus Christ to bear our
sins and accomplish our righteousness himself. Salvation's of the Lord. You
look around at religion and you listen to all the opinions of
men when it comes to what salvation is throughout all, I'm talking
about all flavors of religion. And you will see that men have
conceived and contrived all sorts of ways to be saved. The only, the only message that actually
saves was conceived of God. It's the only message where mercy
and truth can meet together and where righteousness and peace
can kiss each other. And that happened at Calvary's
tree. The gospel was not God's response
to the fall. The gospel was long before the
fall. Now, we bear, and I say that
we because I believe that Adam was more than just our federal
head. He was more than just our representative. He was our seminal
head. We were in Adam. So what Adam
did, we did. in the same way that we were
in Christ. So that what Christ did, we did. You say, well, I don't wanna
be responsible for something that another man did. Well, then
you're not gonna benefit from what another man did. We bear the full responsibility
for what we did in the garden. God said, don't eat of the tree,
we ate it. We raised our fist in rebellion.
We were deceived by the serpent. We disobeyed God. And we died. We fell. Our God, though he bears no responsibility
for it, we bear the full responsibility of it. ordained it. He purposed
it. Our God was determined to show
forth more of His glory out of love, out of pure love
for His people. He was determined for us to know
Him more fully than what Adam could ever know. Adam knew that
his existence was completely dependent upon God. Adam knew
that God was his creator. Adam knew that God was all-powerful.
Adam knew that God was other than he was. But what Adam knew
about God was nothing compared. Nothing compared to what God
reveals to a sinner and what God revealed at Calvary's cross. All the glorious attributes of
God were on full display at the cross of Calvary. Adam could
know nothing about the holiness of God like we're able to see
of his holiness as a result of what the Lord Jesus did at Calvary's
cross. Adam could know nothing about
the mercy and grace of God. He didn't know anything about
mercy and grace. He didn't need mercy. He didn't need grace. Adam knew that God loved him.
But oh, greater love hath no man than this, than he laid down
his life for his friends. Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us and gave his son to be the propitiation
of our sins. The fall was ordained of God
in order that God might display more of his glory and more of
his grace, more of his love, more of his power. more of his
sovereignty, more of his immutability, all the glorious attributes of
God, which are to our, our blessing. God's not just showing forth
his glory to show forth his glory. God's greatest glory is at the
same time, our greatest good. This is out of his love for his
people that he did this. The gospel was conceived of God in order to show forth the glory
of Christ. In order for us to see that we
were not able to do in the perfect environment of the Garden of
Eden. Can you just imagine what the
Garden of Eden would have been like? There was no sin, there
was no conflict, there was perfect peace. I mean, you're talking
about utopia. It was perfect. The animals laid down together,
the lamb and the lion laid down together. Adam and Eve had no
shame, no sorrow, no suffering whatsoever. The Lord Jesus, when he came
into this world, the Bible says, suffered the contradiction of
sinners. Here we have God Almighty, the
one who's holy, the one who's harmless, the one who himself
is separate from sinners, the one who knew nothing about sin
by experience, bearing our sins. and in contrast
to the garden, suffering the wrath of God and the full judgment
of hell in the worst environment that the world has ever known. That's the full display of hell.
What we see at Calvary's Cross is all you want to know about
hell. God the father forsook his son
and poured out the full fury of his wrath on Christ. And the
Lord Jesus Christ accomplished in that place what we could not
do in the garden. God allowed the fall, purposed
the fall. to show forth the fullness of
his glory. What conception, what love, what
mercy, what grace. This gives us a window into the
heart of God. Why'd you do it? Because of his love. God's love
for his people is the first cause of our salvation. The Bible tells
us that. Those whom he did foreknow. And that word foreknow doesn't
mean that he had a cognitive knowledge of them, it means that
he loved them. Those that he did foreknow, he
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son. And
all that he did predestinate he called, and all that he called
he justified. The first cause of that golden
link of salvation, that golden chain, the first link, is the
love of God. The love of God. And the fall
was part of the expression and demonstration of His love. And
the struggles that we have in this world, and the sin that
we bear in our bodies, and the evil presence of Satan himself
and all the challenges that we go through in this life. Though
we bear the full responsibility of all of it, God has purposed
it out of love that we might see more of his glory. When do you see most of God's
love? When do you see most of His care? When do you see most
of His tenderness and His mercy and His grace? Is it not when
you're in trouble? Is that not when the Lord, is
it not our trouble that drives us to Him? Things go well and there's no
problems and no trouble and oh, how soon and easy it is for us
to lose sight of Him. This salvation's conceived of
God, and it's conceived through pain. It's conceived through
the pain that Christ suffered, and it's conceived through the
pain that we suffer. Salvation is of the Lord. It's of the Lord in execution.
We know that. There was only one way that we
could be saved. Father, if there be any way this cup can pass
from me, let it be nevertheless, not my will, but thy will be
done. No, there was no other way. There was no other way.
A perfect sacrifice had to be made. A lamb that was spotless,
a lamb that was sinless, had to bear all the shame and all
the sorrow and all the separation for sin, that sin deserved, in
order for God to be satisfied. And the execution of salvation
was accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn with me to
Psalm 69. Psalm 69. We know that all the Psalms are
messianic. Some of them so clearly, so gloriously. Psalm 69 is one of them. It's
so It's not something veiled. It's not something we have to
search out in order to see the meaning of it. It's right there,
jumps off the page of God's word. Psalm 69, here's our Lord Jesus
at Calvary's cross during those dark hours. when he is interceding
on behalf of his people. Save me, O God, for the waters
are coming to my soul. I sink in deep mire where there
is no standing. I am come into deep waters where
the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying. My throat
is dry and my eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that
hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. They
that would destroy me, be in mine enemies wrongfully, are
mighty. Then I restored that which I
took not away. The Lord Jesus restored what
we took away. We took away our hope of salvation. We took away the light and life
of God by our sin. And the Lord Jesus restored that
which he took not away. Oh, God, thou knowest my foolishness
and my sins are not hid from thee." He said, well, that's
not Christ. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. That's Christ. Oh, he didn't
commit these sins overtly like we do, but he owned them as his
own and he bore the full shame of them and all the sorrow of
them and the full penalty of separation from God as a result
of sin. The death of hell itself he suffered
when he was made sin for us. Who knew no sin that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him? This is the gospel. This is what
Christ has done. Let not them that wait on thee,
O Lord, Oh Lord God of hosts, be ashamed for my sake. Let not
those that seek thee be confounded for my sake. Oh God of Israel. He's praying for his people.
He's praying for his disciples. He's praying for those who are
left in confusion as a result of their circumstances. Lord,
don't let them be ashamed. Because for thy sake I have borne
reproach, shame hath covered my face. I am become a stranger
unto my brethren and an alien unto my mother's children. The Lord Jesus had physical brethren
birthed into this world by Mary and Joseph. They didn't believe
him. He has spiritual children. who he's praying for, that in
their unbelief that the Lord will restore them, the Lord will
save them. Salvation is of the Lord. This
is the execution of salvation. And here's proof that the Lord
quotes this. When he cleansed the temple and
chased out the money changers, he quotes verse nine. or the
disciples remembered what was written in verse nine, for the
zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of
them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. When I wept and chastened
my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. Everything he
suffered on Calvary's cross was to his shame and to his reproach. It wasn't until his resurrection
that the glory of what he accomplished was known. Go tell my disciples. I've risen. I've conquered death. I've destroyed the works of the
devil. This is the execution of salvation being of the Lord. In the perfect obedience of his
life, he fulfilled the law. In the sacrificial atonement
of his death, he bore our sins and put them away. He made himself
an offering for sin to his father. And the father saw the travail
of his soul and the father said, I'm satisfied. This is the execution. The conception of salvation is
of the Lord. The execution of salvation is
of the Lord. The application of salvation
is of the Lord. Nicodemus, except you be born
from above, you cannot see the kingdom of heaven. The spirit is like the wind.
He listeth whithersoever he wills. He blows in whatever direction
he wants. And no man can control him. Now some will be fatalistic about
that and say, well, salvation's of the Lord. I'll just have to
wait and see what he's going to do for me. Others will rebel
against that and say, that's not fair. God owes it to everyone
to give everybody a chance. Well, believe that all you want.
It's not true. Others will realize that if they're
going to be saved, God's gonna have to do it, and they're gonna
plead for mercy. Lord, save me. Salvation, Lord,
is of you. You've got to do it. Lord, you've
got to make me willing in the day of your power. Lord, you've
got to open the eyes of my understanding. And if you notice in your outline,
I put revelation as an execution of the salvation of the Lord
before revelation. We have the revelation of the
gospel made in God's word. And the reason I wanted it to
be in that order is because there are some that would say, or at
least imply, that you have to be educated into the kingdom
of God. You have to learn certain things
You have to achieve certain knowledge before you can be born again. Now, call upon the name of the Lord
and you shall be saved. And how should they call upon
him in whom they've not heard? In whom they've not believed,
I'm sorry. And how should they believe on him in whom they've
not heard? And how should they hear without a preacher? Yes,
there is a message of salvation that we have to hear. And without
the preaching of the gospel, no one will be saved. God uses
the foolishness of preaching to save them which believe. You're
not gonna just wake up one morning without ever hearing the gospel
and discover that you've been born again. God uses the means
of his word, the means of revelation. But the truth is that you haven't
effectually heard the message of salvation until you've been
born again. You're not gonna get educated
into being born again. You're not gonna learn certain
theology and have some sort of knowledge of the Bible before
you can be born again. Men in their pride think, well,
you know, I just need to learn more. The preaching of the gospel.
We've been trying to do that this morning. I believe the Lord's
enabled us to make some things clear about the gospel. And if
a person was here and they'd never heard it before, the first
time hearing it would be sufficient for the Lord to birth them into
the kingdom of God. He doesn't require us, well,
you know, you just got to sit and learn and get, you know,
get better educated before, no. Faith comes by hearing and hearing
comes by the word of God. Salvation's of the Lord. Regeneration,
revelation. And revelation's gonna come from
God's word. Now, we speak, we make a difference
between inspiration and revelation. I'm not saying that we're not
often inspired, yes, but theologically speaking, there's a difference
between inspiration and revelation. Inspiration, when we use that
word, we're talking about what God did to 40 particular men,
holy men of God, who wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit
over a period of 1,500 years, 66 books, They were inspired by the Spirit
of God to write the words that we have in the Bible. That's
divine inspiration. The Bible is finished. We don't
add another word to it. We don't take another word away
from it, any word away from it. It's complete as it stands. For someone to say, well, I got
a word from God that's not in this book, is to claim that they
have access as these 40 men had through the miracle of inspiration. Now, one more thing about inspiration.
Inspiration doesn't mean that these men just closed their eyes
and blindly moved, the spirit of God blindly moved their hands
and wrote the scriptures. God, we read the Bible, you see
the personality of different penmen. God used the personalities
of different men to write the inspired, inerrant Word of God. We believe the Bible is that.
We don't claim to have inspiration beyond what Scripture gives us. We do, however, have the same
Holy Spirit that these men had. And he reveals to us what he
inspired to them. So the revelation of the gospel
is part of our salvation, salvations of the Lord in its execution. in the work that the Lord Jesus
accomplished at Calvary's cross, in the regenerating work of the
Spirit of God, in the revelation revealed to us from Scripture,
and in our sanctification. Salvations of the Lord. I was listening to a sermon that
had been preached back in the 19th century, said, well, how'd
you listen to that? Well, it was written out and somebody
was reading it. There's sermons on Sermon Audio
you can read from 19th century preachers. And this preacher was dealing
with the subject of the new birth and how it was a work of God's
grace and that we were dead in our trespasses and sins and unable
to believe. He was a Calvinist. But he made
this statement in the message. He said, now, at this point,
we're going to differ a little from the Armenians. And I thought, Armenian is a person who thinks
that one has the ability to make a decision. to be saved, which
takes the whole salvation being of the Lord and put it into the
hands of man. Now either salvation's of the Lord or it's not. And
it's not a little difference. We're gonna differ a little bit
on this point from our Arminians? No. A freewill Arminian gospel
is another gospel and it won't save. It won't save anybody. It's a message that gives man
the glory for his own salvation. Salvation's either all of God
or it won't save. Salvation's of the Lord in its
conception. Salvation's of the Lord in its
execution. Salvation's of the Lord in its
application. Praise God. Salvation's of the
Lord in its culmination. If God doesn't keep me from falling
away, I'll fall away. If he doesn't renew my faith
every day and feed me with his daily bread, I'll die. And the more we grow in grace
and in the knowledge of Christ, the more we see our need for
grace today than ever before. The more we see more of our unbelief,
and the more we see of the wickedness of this world and our sin, and
we cry all the more, Lord, you've got to sustain me, and you're
gonna have to send your angels to get me. I can't get there. When you've ordained that time,
when I draw my last breath, and it is ordained of God, The moment
of our death is purposed of God. Lord, you're gonna have to come
get me. And you're gonna have to find me in Christ. When the
Lord Jesus said, I am the way, he wasn't saying I'm gonna show
you the way or I'm gonna let you follow me in the way. No,
I am the way, I'm the only way. You're gonna have to be found
in me to get there. I'm the only one allowed through
the gates of heaven. No one else can get in. And unless
you're in me, you'll not get there. Salvation's of the Lord. Not
like, well, we're gonna get better and better, we're gonna get progressively
better, and someday we're gonna be like Enoch. We walked with
God and then he was no more. That didn't mean that Enoch got
better and better, and all of a sudden God said to him, you
know, let's just go on to my house. We're closer to my house
than we are to yours. Oh, no. The Bible says Enoch
had to be translated before he could get into heaven. He had
to be translated. Be ye not conformed to this world,
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind in Christ
Jesus. We've got to be translated into Christ. He's the way. The
culmination of our salvation. Salvations of the Lord. In its conception, God conceived
it. In its execution, Christ achieved
it. In its application, the Holy
Spirit applies it. And in its culmination, God gets
all the glory, and when we get there, we're gonna offer up to
Him all the praise and all the glory, for we know that the only
reason we're there is because salvation was of the Lord. Scott, would you come lead us
in a hymn? number 53 in our hardback teminal. Let's stand together.