Good morning, brothers and sisters.
For our call to worship this morning, let's turn to John chapter
6. And we'll begin there in verse
35. John chapter 6, verse 35. And Jesus said unto them, I am
the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. But
I said unto you that ye also have seen me, and believe not.
All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me, and him
that cometh to me I will no wise cast out. For I came down from
heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent
me. And this is the Father's will which has sent me, that
of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should
raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of
him that sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and believeth
on him may have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at that
last day. Our most heavenly Father, we
thank you again for the time you've given us here. Lord, for
raising up the candlestick here at this place. Lord, we'd be
so bold as to ask you to let it abide here many, many more
years. We know that all your promises are yea and amen. You
said where two or three are gathered in your name, you're here amongst
us. Lord, we'd ask you to be here and cause your word to go
about effectually. You've also promised, Lord, that
I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. Bring
that to our remembrance, Lord, when we suffer, when we struggle.
Cause us always to look to you, the first cause. There's many
among us, Lord, that struggle, that have infirmities. Be with
us, Lord, we know that if you will, you can heal our infirmities. We'd ask that you'd be with our
brothers as they travel, bring them back safely. We'd ask for
the brothers to bring forth the message this morning that you'd
be with them. We thank you for the first message, Lord, cause
it to go forth. We thank you for all these things
to a most holy and perfect name. Amen. Number 44 in the Spiral Hymn
Book, number 44. Let's all stand together again.
? Precious Savior, friend of sinners
? ? We as such to thee Spirit, dwelt within us With
that love that cast out fear Patchless Savior, let us know
Thee, as the Lord our righteousness. Cause our hearts to cleave unto
Thee, come and with Thy presence bless. Open now Thy precious
treasure, Give to us a gracious measure,
Tis Thyself we want to know. Come and claim us as Thy portion,
Let us all find rest in thee. Leave us not to empty notions. We would find our home in thee. Please be seated. Adam's going
to bring special music. The sands of time are sinking The dawn of heaven breaks The summer morning I've sighed
for The fair sweet morn awakes Dark, dark hath been the midnight
But day spring is at hand And glory, glory dwelleth In
Emmanuel's land O Christ, He is the fountain
The deep, sweet well of love dreams on earth that I've tasted
more deep I'll drink above there to an ocean's fullness His mercy
doth expand And glory, glory dwelleth In
Emmanuel's land Oh, I am my beloved's And my beloved is mine brings a poor, vile sinner into his house of wine. I stand upon his merit. I know no other stand. Not even where glory dwelleth
In Emmanuel's land The bride eyes not her garments But her dear bridegroom's face I will not gaze at glory, but
on my King of grace. Not at the crown he giveth, but
on his pierced hand. is all the glory of Emmanuel's land. The land is all the glory of Emmanuel's land. Good morning. Let us go to the Lord in prayer.
In our hour of need. That we we hear of the Lord. Father God, we come before you.
In the name of your son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Who you have
sent? To be our propitiation. To be
a savior. and to be our all. Father, we
come before you in this hour of need, and I say of need because
we need to hear from you. We need to hear from your word,
from your spirit. We need to hear of Christ. We
pray that you might bless this hour, that you might bless us,
your word, that you might bless every church that preaches the
gospel, the church in Clearwater, the church in Pennsylvania. May
the messages be clear, God glorifying and centering the gospel of grace
in Jesus Christ, whose name we pray. Amen. Let us go in to Hebrews chapter
three, we're going to be looking at Hebrews chapter three this
morning. And Hebrews is a great epistle,
great book of the Bible, teaching a lot about Christ, very centered
on Christ, very Christ-centered letter that God has given us.
Originally written to Jews who had heard the gospel, a church
that wasn't the gospel, but that was going through some persecution,
due to the gospel and sometimes where some may be considering
going back to Judaism, going back to the old law, going back
to a system because they were receiving lots and lots of persecution
for the gospel. In Hebrews, even though we're
going to be studying chapter three as an introduction, I'm
going to tell you that it starts in a special way. In the beginning,
Hebrews says that God spoke with us. It says God at various times
and at various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the
prophets and has in these last days spoken to us by his son. He's spoken to us by his son.
And that is the perfect way for God to have spoken. That is,
he has spoken to us through the son. And that's his final word. His perfect word is through his
son. And he acknowledges that in the
past he's used prophets. And in chapter one talks about
angels, talks about how Christ is superior, he's better than
angels. And now in chapter three, he's
gonna talk about that he's better than Moses. Moses was a very
revered person for the Jews. They held him in very high esteem,
higher than Abraham and perhaps higher than the angels themselves.
He was the one that got used to bring the law. So there was
great respect for Moses by the Hebrews. But now in chapter three,
he's gonna compare the Lord Jesus Christ to Moses. Let us go now to Hebrews chapter
three, and we'll begin in verse three. We're gonna see what this
letter has to teach us regarding the Lord Jesus Christ. in comparing
him to Moses. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers
of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of
our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that
appointed him as also Moses was faithful in his house. So we
begin here saying, the beginning of the chapter saying, therefore,
wherefore, holy brethren, he's addressing the believers, he's
addressing that church and the church in general as holy brethren. When we hear holy, we sometimes
cannot Comprehend, cannot relate, but as your bulletin points out
this morning about a paradox, we are holding Christ. God the
Father sees us wholly separated from this world and sanctified. He sees the burden wholly. And that is the only way God
can see us is if he's gonna have communion with us. He has to
see us holy. He has to see us in Christ. The reason why we don't see ourselves
holy is because we are holy. Meaning that because we've been
born again is that we have the spirit of God, we're able to
see our sin. If we weren't chosen, if we did
not have a new birth, we would be unable to see all this sin
that we see every day in our lives. But we keep looking to
Christ, don't we? As we see that sin, we don't
stay looking at that sin. We don't, we cannot allow that
sin to dictate or to, for us to dwell in that sin. What we
do, we look to Christ. Who is the one who takes away
that sin? Who is the one who paid for that
sin, the punishment and towards God the Father, towards that
sin of ours. So we are holy burden. He refers
to us as holy. We're separated. And when we
hear holy, we also think about something that we can attain,
right? Isn't that what comes to mind? But in reality, holiness
cannot be attained by our efforts because holy is, something that
is attained only by grace. It's attained only by the Lord
Jesus Christ giving it to us. And we're gonna look at Timothy,
2 Timothy talks about that. In 2 Timothy, we're gonna find
chapter one, 2 Timothy 1.9. We're gonna be looking
at a lot of scriptures this morning. 2 Timothy 1.9 says, that the law is not made for
the righteous man. I'm reading out the wrong one.
That was 1 Timothy. Let's look at 2 Timothy. He,
I mean, who has saved us and called us, that's the Lord Jesus
Christ, with a holy calling. He has called us. He has separated
us. This holy calling really is before
the foundation of the earth, isn't it? The holy being separated
is really started before the foundation of the earth when
the Lord Jesus Christ agreed to save us to the Father, to
be our surety. Not according to works, so this
is not a holiness that is attained by your behavior, but according
to his own purpose, that's very important, according to his own
purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before
the world began. So this is happened before the
world began, we were separated. In Hebrews also, we go back to
Hebrews in chapter 2, 11, talks about this also. It says, for
both he that sanctifies, this is the Lord Jesus Christ, both
he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified, that's us, the
believers, are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed
to call them brethren. Jesus Christ is not ashamed to
call us burden. Why? Because we are in Christ. We are new creatures in Christ,
and he is the one that sanctifies us. So both he that sanctifies,
who sanctifies us? The Lord Jesus Christ sanctifies
us. And we are one with Christ, and
that's why we are his burden. We are his brothers. We are partakers. We continue in in verse one of
chapter three of Hebrews, it says, holy burden partakers of
the heavenly calling. This call is a holy calling. This call is a heavenly calling. We've been called to heaven and
we are called by him who calls us. And John, this heavenly calling
is an irresistible call as we know. It's a calling that we
have that comes from heaven, it comes from Christ. We are
partakers of that heavenly calling. He's talking to the Christians.
He's talking about the believers. He's talking about us, the elect
who are called. So he says that we are partakers
of this holy calling or this heavenly calling. Consider, this
is very important. If we were to have a title, to
this message is consider Christ. Consider Christ. Consider the
apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, who
was faithful to him that appointed him, and also Moses was faithful
in all his house. So here the writer of Hebrews
is telling us all of us to consider Christ, to consider the apostle. This is the only time when the
Lord Jesus is referred to as apostle. An apostle is somebody
who's called, who's sent with the authority of the sender.
That's what an apostle is. He's sent with the authority
of the sender. In John 8, we hear the Lord Jesus Christ, in John
8, 28, it says the following. John 8, 28, it says, then he
said Jesus to them, when he lifted up the son of man, then you shall
know that I am, that I am, that you should know that I am. This
is not, we know that he is the Christ. We know that he's divine. We know that he, that he and
that I do nothing of myself. This is Lord Jesus Christ himself
saying that he does nothing of himself, but as my father has
taught me, I speak these things. So he is comes with the authority
of the father. And then verse 29 says, and he
that send me, that is the father is with me. The father has not
left me alone. He's never left him alone. We
know the only time where the father has left the son has been
due to us. The only time that the God the
father has left Jesus Christ alone is when he took upon our
sin at the cross. He took up our sin and he could
not look on sin. He had to punish sin. judged the Lord Jesus Christ
as he was carrying our sin. The Lord Jesus Christ took ownership
of our sin. And that's the only time that
he left them alone. But at this time, the Lord Jesus
Christ says that the father has not left me alone. For I do always
those things that please him. The thought that God the son
always does what pleases the Father. In John 12, if we go
to John 12, we also see how the Lord Jesus Christ is the Apostle
of the Father. He's sent of the Father. He's
sent with the same authority as the Father. In John 12, 47,
says the following. And if any man hear my words
and believe not, I judge him not, for I came not to judge
the world, but to save the world. He that rejects me and receives
not my words has one that judges him. The word that I have spoken,
the same shall judge him in the last day, for I have not spoken
of myself, The Lord Jesus Christ has not spoken of himself, but
the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment. What I
should say and what I should speak, and I know that his commandment
is life, everlasting. This is eternal life that he's
talking about. Whatsoever I speak, therefore,
even as the Father said to me, I speak. The Lord Jesus Christ
is the perfect apostle. He represents the father. He
comes to us and shows us the father, shows us God. And the
very next word in that verse in Hebrews says that he's not
only the apostle, he doesn't only represent the father, but
it says that he's the high priest of our profession. There he changes
hats, the same person. Now he represents us before the
father. So he does both. He represents
God towards us, and he represents us before the father. He's our
perfect high priest. In Hebrews 4.14, we read the
following. We say, seeing then that we have
a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, meaning
that he goes through the heavens. Jesus, son of God, let us hold
fast our profession, for we have not a high priest which cannot
be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, but was in
all points tempted like we are, yet we are of sin. So he was
tempted in all things like us. The Lord Jesus Christ became
a man and took on this flesh like us and is able to understand
us and is able to represent us. And verse 16 as a conclusion
to this, let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace. That's how we come boldly to
the throne of grace, through Jesus Christ, that we may obtain,
what things? Mercy. This is what we obtain,
mercy and find grace to help in time of need. What is our
time of need? Always. We are always in time
of need. We are always in need of grace. We are always in need of mercy.
The difference between mercy And grace, mercy would be God
withholding what we deserve, what the Lord Jesus Christ received
at the cross. And grace is receiving what we
don't deserve, our salvation, everlasting life, communion with
the Father, all the blessings, heavenly blessings that are all
in Christ. They're all by grace and we've
received mercy in the forgiveness of our sins. So all of this we
are receiving through a high priest that was touched, right? It says that he was touched our
infirmities, but was at all points tempted like we are and without
sin. Sometimes we say, well, he doesn't
understand me because he never fell. Well, actually, when you're
tempted, what is more difficult? To fall? or to resist. When you're
tempted and you really, you resist temptation like the Lord Jesus
Christ did, who went through it all because he survived it. We don't survive it, but he survived
it. He went through the entire temptation. We don't go, we receive a partial
temptation or a temporary temptation because we fall, but the Lord
Jesus Christ never failed. So it's a lot harder not to fall
into temptation than it is to be tempted and to fall. So we
have a high priest. In Hebrews 10 talks in verse
19, having therefore brethren, again talking about the brothers,
boldness to enter into the holiness by the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way which he has consecrated for us through the veil that
is to say his flesh and having a high priest over the house
of God let us draw near with a true heart of full assurance
of faith notice there's nothing here about our behavior there's
nothing here that tells you that you're coming to God based on
my goodness, based on my behavior, based on my faithfulness. Nothing
here. In that previous passage, there
was nothing about that. In this passage, there's nothing
about that. You're drawing near to God because
you have a high priest. Having a high priest over the
house of God, let us draw near with a true heart with full assurance
of faith. Our assurance, our faith is in
Christ and what he has accomplished. And it says, having our hearts
sprinkled from evil, from the evil conscious in our bodies
washed with pure water. So our fellowship with the father,
our coming to God, coming to the chair or the mercy seat is
not based on our faithfulness whatsoever. It's based on Christ. It's based on this high priest
that we have. Going back to our text in Hebrews
3, it says that he is the apostle. and high priest of our profession,
Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that appointed him. So
we are looking, we are considering not our faithfulness. If you
consider your faithfulness, there's nothing but discouragement is
in there. But it is telling us here, exhorting
us here, not to consider yourselves. is telling us to consider the
apostle and high priest as a representative of God the Father, our representative
before God, our high priest, Christ Jesus, who was faithful
to him that appointed him. He was faithful to God, the Father,
in our behalf, wasn't it? In our behalf. It says that he was faithful
just like Moses. The comparison here was that
Moses was faithful on all of his house. And Moses was a picture
of Christ in the Old Testament. And he was faithful. Notice that it says his house.
Whose house? This was not Moses' house. This
was the Lord Jesus Christ's house. That's whose house this was.
So Moses was faithful. And we see that in Numbers 12.
We look at Numbers 12. We see verse six through eight. It says, hear now my words. If there be a prophet among you,
I, the Lord, will make myself known to him in a vision, and
I will speak to him in a dream. He's talking about all the previous
prophets. He's not talking about Moses.
In verse seven he starts talking about Basil. He says, my servant
Moses is not so. He who is faithful in all my
house. With him I speak mouth to mouth,
even apparently, and not in the dark, speeches and similitudes
of the Lord, meaning he speaks clearly, and shall he behold
Wherefore, they then were not afraid to speak against my servant
Moses. They were speaking against Moses. And this is a story in chapter
12. It was Miriam and Aaron were
speaking against them. So he's saying that he was faithful. Moses was faithful. Notice the
comparisons where the Lord Jesus Christ is both apostle and high
priest. Moses was the representative
of God to the people, but he was not a high priest. It was
Aaron who was a high priest, right? But here, the Lord Jesus
Christ is fulfilling both roles as apostle and high priest, both
of them. And even though Moses was faithful,
Jesus was faithful also. But in verse 3, it says that
for this man The Lord Jesus Christ was counted worthy of more glory
than Moses. in so much as he who has built
the house has more honor than the house itself. The Lord Jesus
Christ is the builder of the house. At the time, it was the
Israel, right? The chosen people. Now it is
both Gentiles and Hebrews. It's the church of God, the elect. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
builder. He receives more glory. And of
course, Hebrews itself, if you study Hebrews, and the Lord Jesus
Christ is exalted. And he receives more glory than
the book of Hebrews could ever express. Because it's expressed
to us, sinful men, right? The Lord Jesus Christ deserves
more glory than we could ever give him. In this lifetime or
the next, we will spend eternity glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ
and it will never end. It will not be enough. He is
worthy of all praise, of all glory forever and ever and ever
and ever. We cannot comprehend this. We cannot, with our limited minds,
with our sinful self, in this side of eternity, we cannot comprehend
who the Lord Jesus Christ is fully. We can praise him forever,
we can honor him forever, and there's still more that he deserves. Meaning we can never ascribe
to him enough glory. We can never ascribe to him enough
honor. Not now and not ever. So he is
more than we could ever express and he's more than anyone can
express or ascribe honor and glory. So he is faithful as Moses
was, but Moses was a member of the house and the Lord Jesus
Christ is the creator. He's the builder of that house. So he receives more glory. He's
infinitely more glorious than Moses could ever be. inasmuch
as he who built the house has more honor than the house. And
Zechariah, we're gonna go to Zechariah now, verse six. Zechariah six. He's talking about this house.
Verses 12 through 13 says this, and speak to him saying, thus
speaks the Lord of hosts, saying, behold, the man whose name is
the branch and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall
build the temple of the Lord. Even he shall build the temple
of the Lord and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule
upon his throne. And he shall be a priest upon
his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both. This is talking about the Lord
Jesus Christ, that he is the builder of the temple, he's the
builder of the house. Verse four says, every house,
back to Hebrews three, Since every house is built by some
man, meaning somebody builds a house. But he that builds all
things is God. He's talking about Lord Jesus
Christ being the builder of this house because this is a spiritual
house. This is not a physical house
whatsoever. This is a spiritual house. And
in Ephesians 2.10, it talks about this house also. And it's special
in Ephesians 2.10 says, for we, that's us, the believers, the
elect, we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do
good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk
in them. So we are his workmanship, this
new birth that the believer goes through when he's regenerated
This is of the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the workmanship. He, we
are created in Christ Jesus. So in verse five, it says a contrast
between the Lord Jesus Christ and Moses. Remember that Moses,
Jesus Christ was the builder of the house. Now in verse five,
it says Moses was faithful as a servant. It says Moses verily,
was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony
of those things which were to be spoken thereafter. So he is
a servant. What is the Lord Jesus Christ?
Verse six, but Christ as a son of his own house. Huge difference. Moses being a servant, The Christ
being a son, this is a position, this is the nature of Christ
is that he's the son, he's the heir of the house. He's not just
a servant, he's the heir of the house. And when it says for the
testimony of those things which were spoken thereafter, that
is talking about the gospel. That is saying that Moses also
testified about Christ. that he was testifying of Christ. In Deuteronomy 18, it says the
following. Deuteronomy 18, it says in verse
15, this is a prophecy regarding the Lord Jesus Christ. This is
Deuteronomy 18, 15. The Lord your God will raise
up to you a prophet from the myth of you. of your brethren,
like to me, meaning like Moses is going to bring up another
prophet. He's going to come like of your brethren, meaning of
the Jews. He's coming as a Jew. Like me, to him you shall hearken. This is the prophecy. We shall hearken to him. According
to all that you desire of the Lord your God in her in the day
of the assembly saying let me hear again the voice of the Lord
my God neither let him this great fire anymore that I die not and
then verse 17 says the following and the Lord said to me they
have well spoken that which they have spoken and I will raise
them up a prophet from the brethren like you And I will put my words. This is again the Lord Jesus
Christ is being an apostle of the father. He says he will put
my words in his mouth and he shall speak to them and all that
I commanded it and it should come to pass that whosoever would
not hearken my words which he shall speak in my name. I will
require of him. This is Moses. Preaching about
prophesying about the Lord Jesus Christ. This is why it says a
prophet. This is why, for instance, when
John the Baptist, when the Jews were asking John the Baptist,
are you Elijah? And then they say, are you the
prophet? And that's what they're asking. That's what they're referring
to. They're referring to this prophecy here regarding the prophet. And it is the same as the woman
in the well was talking about. She was expecting a prophet.
In John 5, we find the following. In John 5, we find in verse 46 and 47, we find when he heard
that Jesus was come out of Judea of Galilee, he went with him
and he besought him that he will come down and heal the son. This
must be the wrong one. I'm reading in John 4. It's John
5, 46. John 5, 46. For, this is the Lord Jesus Christ
speaking, for you have believed Moses, you would have believed
me. He's talking to the Jews, right?
If you would have believed Moses, you would believe me. For he
wrote of me, Moses wrote of him. But if you believe not his writings,
how should you believe my words? So meaning that they did not
believe Moses. And that's why they did not believe
the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. They understood not Moses. In
verse six, again, Christ is as the son, not a servant. He sees
his own house. He owns the house. Going back
to Hebrews chapter three and concluding here, but Christ,
a son over his own house, this is his own house. whose house
we are. We are his house. The church
is his house. We are his house. And it says
that in 1 Corinthians 12, I'm gonna read that quickly. 1 Corinthians
12, it says the following, 12, 17. If the whole body, no, let me
see, 12, 1 Corinthians 12, 27. Now you, it's talking about the
Christians, talking about us, talking about the elect. Now
you are the body of Christ and members in particularly. We are
members of Christ. We are his body. The house of
God is the Christians here. We gather here. This is the temple,
but this does not equal the temple of the Old Testament. Now, Lord
dwells inside of every believer, inside of every elect. That's
where the house of God really is. And we are his church. The
members of the church are the church. This building here is
where we gather, but we are the church. In Ephesians 1.22, it
talks about that as well. Ephesians 1.22, it says the following. It says, and he has put all together
under his feet and gave him, gave Jesus, this is the father
giving Jesus, to be the head over all things to the church,
which is his body. This is the body of the Lord
Jesus Christ is the church, the fullness of him and that fills
all in all. The Lord Jesus Christ dwells
among his children, among his elect. Verse 219 also says the
following. It says, now therefore, you are
no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints and the household of God, and are built upon the foundation
of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief cornerstone, Jesus being the chief cornerstone, and in
whom all the building fitly framed together grows to a holy temple
in the Lord, and whom you also are built together for the habitation
of God." This is the habitation of God, the believers are, through
the Spirit. The Spirit dwells in us and is
in us, and that's how we are to be the house of God. But going
back to Hebrews chapter three, It does tell us what are we to
do. And it's talking about Christians. It's not talking about unbelievers,
right? It's talking to us. It's talking to believers, meaning
that we are to consider Christ. Our life should be a life of
consideration of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are many, many
distractions that Satan sends to us. And some of them are clearly
distractions. Some of them are not so clearly,
right? They may be good distractions,
right? Good teaching, doctrines, church,
things that are good. But we are not to consider those
things as we are to consider the apostle and high priest of
our confession, Christ Jesus. This creature is admonishing
us to keep on considering Christ, keep on considering the apostle,
the one sent, the high priest, our representative, consider
our profession of Jesus Christ, consider his faithfulness, who
is faithful to him, who appointed him, right? So we need to consider
Christ, not just a savior, not just a one time thing, not just
looking to him for salvation at one point in our lives, but
continue considering Christ, considering the apostle, considering
the high priest, because Jesus himself in the gospel, he says,
learn of me. He speaks about learn of me,
right? And I think the context was that
the Jews were learning the scriptures, that Jews used to even memorize
whole books of the Bible, whole Pentateuch, some of them did.
The whole first five books of the Bible, memorized. And they
were thinking that in them there was life. And we have that today
still, right? We have people that, that almost
worship the Bible and memorize the Bible and just see that they
think that studying the Bible is the end of it. But studying
the scriptures is not the end. It's just a means of knowing
Christ, of knowing Christ more. So it's telling us here, it's
not telling us to consider Our faithfulness is not telling us
to consider your faith. It's not telling you to consider
your behavior. It's telling you to concentrate,
to consider Christ Jesus, who was 100% faithful to the Father,
who Christ Jesus himself is our faithfulness. He is our righteousness. He is our all. and we need to
continue considering Christ as long as we live and not just
a one time thing. Father God, we come before you
this morning thanking you, Father, that you have allowed us to look
into your scriptures. We thank you that you have provided
Christ. We ask that you might make us
consider Christ, give us eyes to see Christ, help us continue
considering Him in all His facets, in all His glory, and give us
a love and devotion for Christ as we need it, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray this,
amen. Let's close with hymn 186. 186, let's all stand. The church is
one foundation.