Good morning. Let's open this
morning's service with hymn number 62 from your hardback hymnal,
number 62, Crown Him with Many Crowns. Let's all stand together. Crown Him with many crowns, the
Lamb upon His throne. Hark how the heavenly anthem
drowns all music but its own. Awake, my soul, and sing. of Him who died for thee, and
hail Him as thy matchless King through all eternity. Crown him the Lord of love, behold
his hands and side. Rich woods yet visible above,
in beauty glorified. No angel in the sky can fully
bear that sight, But downward bends his wandering eye at mysteries
so bright. Crown him the Lord of life, who
triumphed o'er the grave, who rose victorious to the strife
for those he came to save. His glories now we sing, Who
died and rose on high, Who died eternal life to bring, And lives
that death may die. Crown Him the Lord of heaven,
one with the Father known, one with the Spirit through Him given
from yonder glorious throne. To Thee be endless praise, For
Thou for us hast died. Be Thou, O Lord, through endless
days Adored and magnified. Please be seated. We've come here today to acknowledge
the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord of Lords and King of Kings. What we just sang is our hearts
desire to to crown him. The religious world speaks of
making Jesus Lord of their life. They don't know that he already
is. God has made him to be Lord over the living and the dead. So whether you're a believer
or an unbeliever, Christ Jesus is Lord, and he reigns sovereign
over your life, and he will do with you whatsoever he wills.
And no man can stay his hand, and no man can say unto him,
what doest thou? The child of God rejoices in
that. We rejoice in knowing that the
Lord is sovereign and that he's in control. and that he has nothing
for his children, but that which is good and that which will glorify
him. So the Lord would give us his
spirit to bow before him and do what we just sang, crown him,
crown him, the Lord. We're going to be looking at
some scripture in Psalm 118. If you'd like to turn with me
there in your Bible, Psalm one, 18. Look with me, if you will, at
verse 23. This is the Lord's doing and
it is marvelous, wonderful, overwhelming
in our eyes. It's the Lord's doing. And God
give us eyes to see what he is doing and a heart to make what
we see marvelous, wonderful, praiseworthy. That's why we're
here, isn't it? Let's bow together. Ask the Lord's
blessings on our time. Our merciful Heavenly Father.
We dare not come into thy holy presence without pleading the
blood and righteousness of thy dear son. For all our acceptance
before they. Truly. The work of salvation
is your work. It's the Lord's doing. And it
is marvelous in our eyes. Lord, we pray that you would
make it more marvelous today. We pray that we would be just
caught up in wonder as we reflect on and think about and rejoice
in and believe on all that the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished. And Lord, that we would cast
our crowns at his feet. and be enabled by your spirit
to offer to him glory and honor and power and worship. We ask it in his name. Amen. This is the Lord's doing, and
it is marvelous in our eyes. What is his doing? Salvation
is his doing. All of salvation is his doing
from before time ever began in the covenant of grace when God
according to his own goodwill and purpose chose a people. That was the beginning of our
salvation. When he loved us with an everlasting love, having placed
us in Christ and having forever seen us in the Lord Jesus Christ,
salvation is of the Lord. That's his doing. And we wonder
at that. Here's why we wonder, Lord, why
would you choose me? You see, some will respond to
the doctrine of election with, that's not fair. And the child
of God, in his eyes, it's a wonder. A wonder that God would choose
anyone, and most especially, a wonder that God would choose
me. It's wonderful, marvelous, beyond
our comprehension in our eyes. What is it that the Lord's done?
What is his work that he's doing? Well, the work of redemption.
The work of redemption on Calvary's cross when the Lord Jesus Christ
bore in his body the sins of his people, shed his precious
blood and offered himself, not to us, but offered himself to
his father to satisfy all the requirements of God's holy justice
in order to secure the salvation of his people. That's the Lord's
doing. That's the Lord's doing, isn't
it? And it's marvelous in our eyes that the Lord would actually
accomplish everything necessary for our salvation all by himself.
That he wouldn't require us to make any contribution to what
he's already done. Oh, how marvelous is that in
our eyes. It's the Lord's work. Salvation
is of the Lord. When God's pleased, to send his
spirit in power and give us ears to hear the truth of the gospel
and cause us to rest all the hope of our salvation, not on
anything that we've done, but on everything that he's already
accomplished. And he gives us his spirit and
births us into the family of God. It's called the new birth.
The Lord Jesus told Nicodemus, except you be born again, you
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. How can I be born again? How
can I go back into my mother's womb? Oh, no, Nicodemus. That
which is of the flesh is flesh. That's not what I'm talking about,
which is of the spirit. The flesh profited nothing. It's
the spirit that give us life, right? And this is the Lord's
doing. It's marvelous in our eyes that
God would arrest us on our road to destruction, knock us off
our high horse and reveal Christ in us and give us faith to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ. It's the Lord's work and it's
marvelous in our eyes. Lord, why would you, why would
you condescend so far into the pit of sin to make yourself known
to someone like me. Why would you do that? It's just,
it's beyond our comprehension, isn't it? It's the Lord's doing,
and it's marvelous in our eyes. Do these things marvel you? Do
they cause you to just bow and worship and praise and say, Lord,
You, you've done it all and you get all the glory and how the,
the plight and plague of sin and unbelief causes us every
day, all day to take our eyes off of Christ, to find ourselves
trying to, trying to satisfy our needs and our desires with
fleshly things and the spirit of God. Is so merciful. To correct us. And to bring us
back to cause us to want to hear about the Lord Jesus Christ and
want to believe on him and rest in him. And this is the Lord's
doing. If the Lord didn't keep his sheep
on a leash, we would go over the cliff. We would go over. It's the Lord's doing. It's the
Lord that stops us, isn't it? It's the Lord that keeps us.
believing and keeps us coming. It's the Lord's doing. It's marvelous
in our eyes. Lord, don't leave us to ourselves. Don't leave us to ourselves.
And that he would present us faultless before the throne of
God. And we'd be able to stand in
the presence of a holy God without sin, without fault. That's the
Lord's doing. If we're going to be brought
into glory, he's going to have to carry us, isn't he? He's going
to have to usher us in. He's going to have to open the
gates of righteousness. Look at our text, verse 19. Open to me the gates of righteousness
and I will go into them. I will praise the Lord. Now that's the Lord Jesus Christ
saying to his father, open to me the gates of righteousness.
He is all our righteousness before God. He's the only one that ever
satisfied the demands of God's holy law. His works went before
him to recommend him to God. And, uh, and God was satisfied
with all that he did and the gates open up the gates of righteousness. And now those gates are open
for us. And the Lord Jesus Christ, according to John chapter 10,
He is the gate into the sheepfold. And when we read of that new
Jerusalem in the book of Revelation coming down from heaven, and
remember the scripture says it had 12 gates. So what's that
a reference to? Well, that's a reference to the
12 tribes of Israel. Three gates on the north side,
three gates on the south side, three gates on the west side,
and three gates on the east side. all of which were of one pearl. The Lord Jesus Christ is that
gate. He's the pearl of great price. And so the Lord from all
four corners of the earth, from every nation, tribe, and people,
he gathers together his people and brings them in. Yes, the
12 gates representing the scattering of God's people, but all one
gate, one way, one pearl. No man can enter in other than
through Christ. This is marvelous in our side,
isn't it? Look at verse 20, this gate of
the Lord into which the righteous shall enter. The righteous, the sinless. How can I be righteous? Only
be found in him. I know you're probably tired
of me making this statement, but it's so true. So true. The child of God is being reminded
right now of their unrighteousness as we talk of our righteousness,
don't we? And here's the truth, all the
righteous, all that are righteous before God, all that are found
in Christ, not having their own righteousness, which is by the
law, but that righteousness, which is by faith in Jesus Christ,
the faith of Jesus Christ, actually is what that scripture says. All the righteous believe themselves
to be unrighteous. and all the unrighteous, every
one of them, no exception, everyone outside of Christ, believe themselves
to be righteous. They believe they have some righteousness
that will earn them favor with God, that will give them some
standing with God. Do you believe yourself to be
righteous or do you believe Christ to be righteous? Our righteousness
deserves filthy rags, aren't they? All the righteous, all
those in Christ, all those looking to Christ alone for their salvation
will enter in to this gate. Look at verse 21, I will praise
thee for thou hast heard me and art become my salvation. Christ has become my salvation.
He is my salvation. Salvation is a person. It's not
a doctrine. It's not a decision. It's not
a work. It's a person. The Lord has become my salvation. There was a time when he wasn't
my salvation. My salvation, either I wasn't interested in salvation
or my salvation was was wrongly placed in something else and
someone else. But now. Now the Lord has heard
my cry. He has put into my heart. This
is the work of God, which is marvelous in our eyes that the
Lord would cause us to pray. Prayer doesn't make the work
of Christ effectual. It's the work of Christ that
makes prayer effectual and he puts it into our hearts to cry
out to him. Lord, look, look, turn over a
couple of verses to verse 25. Look at verse 25. Save now. I beseech thee, O Lord. O Lord, I beseech thee, send
now prosperity. Today is the day of salvation.
Not tomorrow. Well, I think I'll think about
this. Scripture never tells us to think about it, does it? Scripture
tells us to believe. believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And faith says, Lord save me right now, right now. You see,
we're not looking back to an experience that we may have had
valid or bogus for the hope of our salvation. You know, whatever
it was, we're not looking back to that. We're not saying, well,
I, I got saved. I prayed this prayer and God
saved me and I, you know, and I got all that settled. Salvation
is a current experience, isn't it? Lord, I need to be saved
right now. Now's the only time you know
for sure. You see, you can't have any real assurance that
whatever that experience was yesterday was real. And you have no hope for tomorrow.
So this matter of salvation is current. It's just right now. Lord, right
now, save me. Have mercy upon me. And in crying
out to the Lord, the gates are open. We walk through. I will praise thee, verse 21,
because thou hast heard me and are become my salvation. The stone which the builders
refused has become the head of the corner. Now I told you what
that means as far as the building with the headstone being cast
out by the builders and that stone which the builders rejected
has become the head of the corner. That stone is Christ. And the
Lord Jesus Christ is referenced to as the stone many, many times
in the scriptures. You remember when the children
of Israel were in the wilderness and they were at Mount Horeb,
which is another name for Mount Sinai, which is the mountain
of the law. That's where God gave the law
to Moses. And there was no water there.
And the Lord showed Moses a rock. And he told Moses, he said, you
take your rod and you strike that rock. And Moses did. He struck the rock with the rod.
Now, Moses is a picture of the law. The rod is a picture of
God's judgment and God's wrath. And the rock is a type of Christ.
First Corinthians chapter 10 makes it clear that that rock,
which followed them throughout the wilderness, was Christ. And when Moses struck the rock
with the rod, water came out of the rock. The Lord Jesus Christ
was struck by the rod of God's justice on Calvary's cross. And
the only hope we have for, for water, for life, water is life is from, is from what he did
on Calvary's cross. Now, sometime later in numbers,
I think chapter 10. The children of Israel are murmuring
again. And they're away from Mount Horeb now. They're in another
place in the wilderness and there's no water. And that same rock,
the same rock that was at Horeb, all of a sudden, it's just there. It followed them throughout the
wilderness. It was there. And Moses said, what do I do? And the Lord said, speak to the
rock. Speak to the rock. And Moses was so angry at the
murmuring, because they were threatening to kill Moses and
Aaron. You brought us out here in the wilderness. We're going
to die out here. And Moses said, you stiff-necked people, let
me show you what I can do. And Moses took the rod and he
struck the rock twice. Water came forth. The people
were saved. And God said to Moses, because
you did not believe me, you will not enter into the promised land.
Now, does that have to do with Moses salvation? No, it has to
do with the law, not being able to enter into the promised land.
You see, the law had already struck Christ once. We don't
strike Christ with the law. We don't strike ourselves with
the law. The law's been fulfilled. The law's been satisfied. What
do we do? We speak to the rock. I prayed unto the Lord and he
heard me and he's become my salvation. That's all we do. The law's already
satisfied. But Christ is that rock. Paul tells us in the book of
Corinthians, he said the children of Israel drank from the same
spiritual rock, and that rock was Christ. You remember on Mount
Horeb when Moses wanted to see God's glory, he said, Lord, show
me thy glory. Well, Moses, you've already seen
the dividing of the Red Sea. You've seen the 10 plagues in
Egypt. You've seen the death angel. You've seen, you know,
the manna come from heaven. All these things have been had
been demonstrations of the glory of God. And Moses said, Lord,
I want to see your glory. I want to see you. And the Lord said, there is a
place near unto me. There is a place near unto me
that I can put you and I'll cover that over. And it was a cleft
and a rock. It was a cave in a rock. And the Lord put Moses in that
cave and he covered up the cave and God caused his backside to
pass by that cave. For the Lord said to Moses, no
man can see my face and live. And what's the Lord saying to
us? Christ is that rock that Moses was put into. And we don't
know what God's going to do in the future. You and I have no
idea what the Lord is going to do tomorrow. I mean, had the
last three months not been sufficient evidence of the fact that we're
not in control of things? We don't know what God's going
to do. The hope of our salvation is not believing that God's going
to do something for us in the future. That's not what faith
is. We don't know what God's going to do in the future. We
can say, well, if I just believe hard enough, I can force the
hand of God to make him do something. No, you can't. Faith is looking
at the backside of God, not the face, not the forward movement
of God. It's looking at what He's done.
Faith is looking back 2,000 years. That's the backside of God. Faith
is looking what Christ accomplished on Calvary's cross. Faith is
looking back further than that. It's looking back before time
into the covenant of grace and believing that God slew the Lord
Jesus Christ as the lamb slain before the foundation of the
world. that everything that God required was satisfied by Christ.
That's faith. And Moses was spared in that
rock, wasn't he? The Lord told the children of
Israel, when you build an altar, don't hew the stones. Don't take stones and use your
hammer and chisel and dress them up and make it look beautiful.
You take raw stones and stack them up together And on that
rock, you'll make your sacrifice. For as soon as you put your hand
to it, you've defiled it. You know what that's a picture
of. You see, religion's all about All about dressing up the gospel,
isn't it? It's all about making it, you
know, packaging the gospel and making it more appealing to man
and making yourself more appealing to God by putting your hands
to what Christ has done. And the Lord said, as soon as
you put your hand to it, you've defiled it. Don't do that. Religion is most clearly Babylon
is a type of man-made, free-will, works religion, all throughout
scripture. And it started with the Tower
of Babel, didn't it? What happened at the Tower of
Babel? Men had one language. They came together. They said,
let us build a city to ourselves, to our own glory. And let us
build a tower in this city that will reach up into heaven. And
what did they have? They had brick for stone and
slime for mortar. That's what they had. Now this
is significant because what were the children of Israel doing
when they were in Egypt? When they were in the bondage
of Egyptian religion, under the law, what were they doing? They
were making bricks, weren't they? That's all religion does is make
bricks. God said, when you make an altar,
don't make it out of brick. Don't make it out of hewn stone.
Make it out of a raw rock, a rock that like that rock in Daniel
chapter two, that was cut out of the mountain without the hand
of a man. That rock is Christ. We can't put our hands to what
Christ has done in order to make what he did more appealing to
God. As soon as we put our hand to
it, we've defiled it. So they had. brick for stone,
and they had slime for mortar. Now, you know what that slime
is? It's tar. Tar. Now, this is in the middle of
Babylon. You know, some of you all have
been to that region of the world. It gets pretty hot there, doesn't
it, Logan? 120, 130 degrees, and what do
you think tar is going to work as mortar in that kind of heat? The whole thing's going to come
tumbling down, isn't it? But that's the same word that's used
to describe what Noah used when he pitched the ark inside and
out to keep the floodwaters of God's judgment out from God's
church. The ark was Christ. Noah and
his family is the church. The rain of God's wrath is the
judgment of God against the sins of the world. And it was the
pitch. It was the slime, it was the
tar that Moses put on the inside and the outside of the ark. That
word means covering or atonement. That's what it means. And so
the tar is a picture of the work of Christ on Calvary's cross
covering us. from the judgment of God, keeping
out the wrath of God's judgment, protecting us. Works really good
as a water sealant, doesn't it? Doesn't work good at all as a
mortar. But what do we see in religion today? Men, they talk
about the atoning work of Christ, and they mix the atoning work
of Christ with the bricks that they fashioned with their own
hand, and they call that a city and a tower. which reaches up
to God, and God calls it Babylon. And Babylon will be destroyed.
What happened in Babylon after when the Lord looked down and
he saw what men were doing? He confused their speech, didn't
he? That was the beginning of the,
what are there, 7,000 languages in the world today? Yeah, there
are. There's 7,000 languages. And
that was the beginning of it. So that everybody's talking and
nobody's understanding what they're saying. What a picture of religion. You see, they don't have the
rock. They've got bricks that they've made with their hands
and they've got the atonement that they're using for mortar
to hold together the works of their own hands and it's nothing
but mass confusion. you listen to this religious
opinion and that religious opinion and everybody's got a different
opinion what is the listen to Deuteronomy chapter
32 he is The Rock. His work is perfect. All his ways are judgment, a
God of truth, without iniquity, just and righteous is he. He is the Rock. And in other
places, scripture says that our rock is higher than their rock. You see, everybody's got a rock,
don't they? Moses prayed, lead me to a rock
that is higher than me. You remember when Jacob was fleeing
Esau on his way to Laban's house and scripture said he went to
Bethel and he made there a covenant and a promise with God and the
scripture says he used a rock for a pillow. I mean, I can't
think of a more unlikely thing to use as a pillow than a rock.
But that's what he did. What's that? You see, this is
all figurative language, isn't it? This is understanding the
scriptures. This is rightly dividing the Word of God. That rock was
Christ. He's the one that we rest in. He's the one that we put our
head down on. He's the one that we're able
to to sigh relief and say, oh Lord, this is marvelous in my
eyes. Salvations of the Lord, you've
done all of this. This rock, the Lord, when the
Lord asked Peter, whom do you say that I am? Thou art the Christ,
the son of the living God. Blessed art thou, Simon Barjon,
for flesh and blood has not revealed the son to you, but my father,
which is in heaven. And upon this rock, What rock? The confession that he just made
that Jesus was the Christ, the son of the living God. The rock
which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. It is a stumbling stone to those
outside of Christ. Why? Because Christ gets all
the glory for done all the work all by himself. And man's self-righteous
will not have that. They're going to make some contribution
to their salvation. Peter upon this rock, the Lord
wasn't talking about Peter. He was talking about the confession
Peter made. I shall build my church and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it. You know, I grew up thinking
that that was a picture of sort of a medieval castle up on a
hilltop surrounded by a moat. You know, that there's the church
and it's not going to be destroyed. No, that's not what the picture
is at all. No, the gates of hell shall not
be able to prevail against it. The church is not sitting on
a hilltop with a moat around it, protecting itself from the
world. The church is in the world, storming the gates of hell with
the gospel, and God has captive, behind the gates of hell, some
of his children that are going to be brought out by the preaching
of the gospel. The gates of hell shall not be
able to prevail against this gospel. I'm going to set captivity
captive. I'm going to make them, those
that are, you see, you're the captive to Satan, you're captive
to Christ. No in between. It's one or the other. And the
Lord said, this gospel is going to storm right into the pits
of hell and bring my children out and make them bow and make
them love and make them submit and make them deliver them. Deliver them from the making
of bricks for the hope of their salvation. Give them a rock for
a pillow. The stone go back with me to
our texts, the stone, which the builders refused. Men that are building the city
of Babel aren't interested in this stone. Why? Because they're
interested in fashioning bricks and using slime for mortar. The stone which the builders
refused, God has made to be the head of the corner. Everything
rests on him. He's that rock, the rock of ages. And this is the Lord's doing. And it's marvelous. It's wonderful. It's captivating. It's, that's
my liberty. That's my freedom. That's my
hope. This is the day which the Lord
hath made. You know, we're so oftentimes we're
like the children of Israel murmuring, complaining. Every time we complain
about something, we're raising our fist to God and saying, God,
this is, we're accusing God of wrongdoing. You know that, don't
you? You do know that. You child of God shamed of it.
You know, shame on us for what we do it. This is the day the
Lord has made. Be thankful in all things for
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. Rejoice
in the Lord always. What do we have to rejoice in?
The marvelous work of God. And in Providence, however difficult
the providential circumstances might be that the Lord's ordained
for you and me to suffer this day, this is the day he's made
and he made every part of it. And he made yesterday and he's
going to make tomorrow. And whatever he deems necessary
for each of us is what will be in that day. And what's God say? Rejoice and
be glad. This is the day the Lord has
made. How can we do that? Save now here, here's the, here's
the believers cry, Lord, save me, save me from my complaining. Save me from my, from my disquieted,
dissatisfied, rebellious, unbelieving spirit. Save me, save me from
myself, Lord. I'm the one I need to be saved
from. Save me from my sin. Save now, I beseech thee. Lord, I'm pleading with you.
I've got no place else to go. Oh Lord, oh Lord, I beseech thee,
send now prosperity. And he's not talking about financial
gain. He's talking about being prosperous
with God. How is one prosperous with God? He's able to enter
in to the presence of God. He's able to come before the
throne of grace boldly, confidently. That's being prosperous. Blessed be he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the
house of the Lord. Are you able to bless God right
now? Just, just thank him. Just rejoice in him. Say yes. What's your saying preacher?
I see that it's what God has said. That's all I'm saying.
Just saying what God said, aren't we? Thus sayeth the Lord and
the, and the, and, and the believer with faith just says, ah, yes,
yes. Amen. Lord saved me. Blessed as he that cometh, blessed
of God. was the Lord Jesus Christ who
came in the name of the Lord and accomplished the salvation
of his people. God is the Lord. That's such
a simple statement, but it's so glorious, isn't it? Our God
is in sovereign control of everything. God is the Lord. I can rest there. I can rest
there. How can I know God? In Christ. In Christ. That's how we know
Him. God is the Lord which hath showed
us light. The Lord Jesus said, I am the
light of the world. There's no light outside of Him.
And the scripture says, if they speak not according to the law
and the testimony, in other words, those false prophets who don't
preach from God's word, they don't preach the gospel. It is
because there is no light in them. It's not that the false
preachers and false churches have a glimmer of light. We have
just a glimmer of it. It's because they have no light.
You see, the light is only found in Christ. Only found in Christ. God is the Lord, which has showed
us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords.
Bind the sacrifice with cords. Yeah, I don't know. Scripture's
not clear. But I suspect that maybe they had to wrap Rope around
the extremities of people that were being crucified. To hold
him there. Other than just having the nails. In their hands and feet. The
Lord Jesus Christ is bound to that cross one way or the other.
And he stayed there until he satisfied. God's holy justice. And put away the sins of his
people. He was bound to the altar. with cords. Hebrews chapter 10 says, and
we have an altar. We don't have altars here. We don't try to create altars
for men to look at and come up to and think that they're doing
something for God. Christ is our altar. And you
come to him in your heart through faith. You don't walk an aisle,
you don't kneel at a statue, you don't come to an altar, you
come to Christ. He is our altar. And the scripture goes on to
say in Hebrews, those who serve at the altar have no right to
this altar. Speaking of those false priests
who work in religion. God is the Lord which hath showed
us light, bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns
of the altar. Thou art my God, I will praise
thee. Thou art my God, I will exalt
thee. Oh brethren, we have reason to
rejoice. We have reason to praise God. If we had If we really had faith,
we would not just praise him for our salvation, but praise
him for everything. Lord, this is not comfortable.
I don't know what, but I know you're doing it. And I know you
have a purpose in it. I know it's all for my good.
I know it's for your glory. Lord, I'm going to praise you.
That's why the scripture says rejoice in the Lord always. And again, I say, rejoice, rejoice. We've we're so blessed. We're so blessed. Oh, give thanks. We should be a thankful people. I've shared this with you before,
that passage over there in Thessalonians that says, be thankful for all
things for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you. You look up that verse and the structure of the language
is not be thankful for all things for it is God's will that you
be thankful for all things. The structure of that verse is
be thankful for all things for all things are of God for which
you ought to be thankful. You see the difference? The Lord's
not saying be thankful because that's my will that you be thankful.
The Lord's saying be thankful because everything you're experiencing
is my will. What a blessing. What hope. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord
for he is good. He's good. He's got nothing but
good for us. I know the thoughts that I have
for you. Thoughts of good, thoughts of peace, not of evil. I am going
to bring you to your expected end sooner than you think. That's a good thing. Our Heavenly Father, forgive
us our murmuring unbelief and give us salvation in Christ to
rest our hope and to be thankful, rejoicing always in him. For it's in his name we pray.
Amen. Yeah.