Let's take our Bibles and turn
with me now to 1 Corinthians 9. 1 Corinthians 9. I'd like
to read verse 16. 1 Corinthians 9, verse 16. The Apostle Paul makes this statement, for though
I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of, for necessity is
laid upon me. Yea, woe is unto me if I preach
not the gospel. The Apostle Paul was taught the
gospel by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Now, Paul penned in
Galatians 1, 11 and 12, but I certify, I make known, you brethren, that
the gospel which was preached of me is not after man, it means
it wasn't from man, for neither I received it of man, that means
I didn't hear it for the first time. I didn't hear it spoken
from a soul instructor as from just a man. First time I ever
heard the gospel. Paul said, it wasn't man, I didn't
receive it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation,
that is by the powerful conveyance of the mystery of Jesus Christ. I was taught the gospel by the
Lord Jesus Christ. First time I ever heard the gospel
preached, he said, I heard it from the Lord Jesus. It says that Paul was on the
road to Damascus. You know, there's debate on when
was Paul converted. Some said, well, it might have
been when he went to the third heaven. It might have been when
he was in Arabia. The Lord spoke to Paul on the
road to Damascus, blinded him, had him led into Damascus by
the hand. sent a preacher over there, Ananias,
and the Lord had revealed to Ananias who Paul was. He was
a chosen vessel unto me. And Ananias referred to Paul
as Brother Saul, Brother Saul. A few days later scales fell from
his eyes and Scripture says he was baptized. When was he converted? When it
pleased the Lord. I can safely say that. Paul said,
I was taught the gospel by the Lord Jesus Christ. And now scripture
bears out that Paul was a preacher of the gospel. That's what we
just read. 1 Corinthians 9, 16, Paul says,
For though I preach the gospel, And in fact, if you turn over
to verse 19 of that same chapter, he said, I preach it being free,
look at verse 19, for though I be free from all, from all
men, yet have I made myself servant unto all that I might gain the
more. I'll tell you that just for the
sake of time, Paul had been accused of being a preacher You know,
you're just doing this for money. You're doing this for honor.
You're doing this to bring praise to yourself. And you can read
this in 1 Corinthians 9. Paul had told them, he said,
I have the freedom, I have the freedom to refuse anything from
you, these Judaizers that are accusing him He said, I have
the freedom. He said, God called me to this
ministry. I'm free from all men. He said,
I have the liberty. He wasn't bound by restrictions,
by pressures. Boy, I tell you how that can
happen. Paul had been called. I got to
thinking about what the Lord had called him to and what he
was going to suffer. the beatings, thrown in the deep,
I mean, the trials, I mean, just what he went through, what the
Lord taught him through those sufferings. He said, I'm a free
man. I've made myself a servant unto
all. He said, but though I preach
the gospel, the gospel of God's grace, gospel of pardon to sinners
through the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, I have nothing to glory
of. I don't have any room to glory. I have no ground to boast. I
have no ground to boast before men. I have especially no ground
to boast before God. I'm His servant. I'm called. That's what Romans 1-1 says,
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated
unto the gospel of God. Though I preach the gospel, I
have nothing to glory of, for necessity is laid upon me. He said, God Almighty commissioned
me and He said a heavenly, and I looked that word up, necessity,
this is distress, a heavenly distress, constraint is laid
upon me, a needs be, a heavenly distress, A needs be is where
I am. In fact, he said, woe is unto
me if I preach not the gospel. I'm exposed to severe chastisement
if I preach not the gospel. If a man claims to be a preacher
and he dies, not preaching the gospel. I'm going to deal with
it in just a minute. How do I know I'm preaching the
gospel? That's what I've named this. Whoa, if I preach not the gospel,
how do I know? And I'm going to ask you this
question in just a minute. How do you know that what you're
hearing is the gospel? Because I'm going to tell you
something. If you die not believing the gospel, if I die not believing
the gospel, I'm going to hell. And if you die without a new
heart, you die without a new heart for the gospel, you're
going to hell. You're going to hell. Woe is
unto me if I preach not the gospel. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9
verse 17, he said, For if I do this thing willingly,
what thing? Preach the gospel. If I do this
thing willingly, I have a reward. So what he said, If I do this
thing willingly, verse 17, I have a reward. You know, I know, you
know, I won't go into all the, you know, false, you know, people
think they're going to have, because all their works, their
crowns are going to be so high they won't be able to balance
them. They're going to be so high in heaven. Paul told what
his reward was. Look at it. Look at verse 18.
What is my reward then? Verily, that when I preach the
gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that
I abuse not my power in the gospel." Paul said, if I do this thing
willingly, if I have a heart to preach the gospel, I have
a reward. And here's my reward. And you
that know Him, here's your reward. You that believe the gospel,
This reward is that I've been given a heart for me to freely
preach it, and here's your reward, that you can believe it. That's
a reward. That's a gift. That's a gift. That's a gift of God. Faith. It is a reward to believe on
Christ. What a reward. Here's my reward. My reward is that by the grace
of God I rest in Him. What a reward! Because man by
nature doesn't. Man by nature is bound up trying
to do, trying to do, trying to do. Here's my reward. It's a reward to know Christ
in grace. It's a reward to forgive one
another. It's a reward to love God's people. He said, my reward is that the
gospel of Christ is without charge. That I can freely preach without
there being any bondage and feeling of soul. This is modern day religion. Now you preacher, if you don't
straighten up and fly right, I'm going to tell you something. We'll cut you off. Paul says, woe is unto me if
I don't preach the gospel. Our old brother Henry said, woe
is unto you, you don't believe it. Paul said, I'm free. I'm free from all men. It's a
reward to know that God has called me, kept me, taught me, and shall
keep me until the end. What a reward! Now back in 17
verse 9, chapter 17, he said, but if against my will, he said,
now if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward. Here's the reward.
The gospel is freely preached. That's the reward. He said, but
if I against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto
me. I'll tell you the one passage
of scripture that I can think of that best describes what Paul
was saying. He said, if I preach this willingly,
I have reward. But if against my will, there
was a prophet named Jonah. He was a prophet of God. He was
a prophet called of God. Jonah was a prophet. And Jonah
knew God. And Jonah was told by the Lord
to go to Nineveh. That's where the Lord told him
to go. And Jonah decided, I think I'm going to go to Joppa. That's where I'm going to go.
So he bought him a ticket, got in the boat, went down to the
bottom, went to sleep. And about halfway across the
water, God raised up a storm. And you know the story. And they woke Jonah up. And Jonah
told them who he was. And they tried to row harder,
get him out of that mess. And Jonah said, it's no use. Your only hope is to throw me
over. There's a beautiful picture of
the gospel there. Lord willing, I'll preach that
another time. You cast me out into the deep. You put me in
the deep. And you know what happened? A
whale swallowed him. Three days later, Jonah made
this confession. He said, Salvation is of the
Lord. And that whale vomited him up. And do you know where
he went? When he came out of that whale,
he went to Nineveh. He went to Nineveh, exactly where
the Lord told him to go. Now Paul, back in 1 Corinthians
9, 17, he said, if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward.
But if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed to
me. He said, a stewardship of the
gospel has been committed to me. an administration of the
gospel, an appointed time. I'm an ambassador for an appointed
message, an appointment. He said, I've been called by
God. I heard that flip in the channels yesterday and today.
I told you before, I can't stand it. I come across these religious
channels and I stop. I want to listen. And I heard a guy say, he said,
I was in the middle of a... He was a singer. He said, I was
in the middle of a performance. And he said, God knocked me down.
And he told me, he said, I want you to preach for me. And I'm
not going to let you up unless you agree to it. He said, so
I agreed to it. And I thought, yep, you're right. I got mad. And I kept flipping. Let me tell you something. God's
people are willing in the day of God's power. And when God
Almighty calls, you're going. And Jonah did this. Jonah was a prophet and he did
something against God's command and he paid for it. Paul said,
woe is unto me. If I don't preach the gospel, you may go through this life
and have just an indifferent attitude toward the
gospel and die like that. And God may just allow you to
do that. But I'm telling you, if God calls
you, you won't have an indifferent attitude about it. Believe me,
you won't. Paul said, for though I preach
the gospel, I have nothing to glory of. Necessity is laid upon
me, yea, woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. God's people
are not indifferent to the gospel. When it's preached, they hear
it. When the gospel is preached,
they bow to it. They will. They will. They may
have an indifferent eye, but not God's people. Paul said in Galatians 1.18,
For though we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel
unto you than that which we have preached, let it be a curse.
Now, I want to get to the heart of this, and I won't labor it
long. If any man preach any other gospel,
if any man preach any other gospel, obviously there's another gospel.
There's another message. It's another gospel. They accused
Brother Scott of that, didn't they? Glenn, you told me that.
They accused Scott when he left his church. They said, you're
preaching another gospel. Well, let's see if he was. Let's
just see. Another gospel denies that man
was totally ruined in the fall. Another gospel denies that man
was totally ruined. Look at Romans 3 verse 19. The
scripture says, Now we know that what things soever the law saith, It saith to them who are under
the law that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty before God." Now, here is what another gospel
declares, that man is really not guilty. He'll say, well,
I would say that he's probably done something, but he still
has the ability. He's still got enough in him
to where he's able to accept. He's still able to respond. Another gospel declares that
man has a free will. That's what I'm saying. Another
gospel declares God desires and waits upon you. That's another
gospel. All the world is guilty. Now, if a man is truthful, somebody would say, I would like
to accept the Lord Jesus Christ, but guilty! I want to give my heart to guilty! I want to seek the Lord. Guilty! The law says that all men are
guilty. Another gospel says man can. The scripture says man's guilty.
And that ends it. That ends it. Another gospel
denies that God's will is supreme. Another gospel denies
God's will. It denies election. Why do I
make, look at 2 Thessalonians 2.13. Why do we make much of
election? Well, number one, God said so.
2 Thessalonians 2.13 says this, but we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you. Brethren beloved of the Lord,
because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth. They
said, why do you read that scripture so long? Because it is so precious. We thank God that God Almighty
elected you. Another gospel denies that God
Almighty has a people that He is going to save. They said he
wants to save everybody, not the gospel. Another gospel denies particular
redemption, that Christ died for the sheep. He said that. Another gospel says he died to
make it possible. But then you're coming right
back now to works. If He made it possible, what's
going to make it effectual then? Your choice? Your work? When the Scripture says it's
not by works of righteousness that we've done, something's
wrong here. Another gospel denies irresistible grace. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. Him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out. Thy people shall be willing. Psalm 110.3, in the day of thy
people, thy people shall be willing. What's going to happen? I'm going
to give you a new heart. I know the gospel denies preservation
of the saints, that they're kept by the power of God. Now Paul
says if any man preaches that man is not totally ruined in
the fall, that Almighty God did not elect a people, if any man
preaches that God did not do that, that Christ did not die
just for his elect, that the Spirit of God does not irresistibly
give a man a new heart, draw him, any man denies that God
Almighty must keep a man. That's another gospel. Any man
preaching any other gospel than that which we've preached, let
him be accursed. God Almighty is going to deal
with it. Well, knowing that the gospel
is the power of God unto salvation, then I'm going to ask myself
this, and I want you to listen in. I've got four questions.
I think four. Let's see. Five. I've got five quick questions. Am I preaching the gospel? Am
I preaching the gospel? Because if I'm not preaching
the gospel, woe is me. And if you're not believing the
gospel, woe is you. Is the gospel Number one, is
the gospel that I preach, is it true according to the Old
Testament? 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse
1 to 4. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 1 to
4. The Apostle Paul says, Moreover,
brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto
you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand, by which
also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I have preached
unto you, unless you have believed in vain, unless there is a vanity,
an unbelief in what you say you believe. For I delivered unto
you, first of all, that which I also received. He said, I was
taught this by the Lord Himself. how that Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried and that
he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. Now let me
tell you something. Nobody in this world denies that
Christ died. Nobody denies that. Everybody and their brother says,
Christ died on the cross. And they'll say, He died for
our sins. They'll say that. But Paul said, that's not what
I said. I said that He died for our sins according to the Scriptures. Buried, rose again according
to the Scriptures. The Old Testament Scriptures.
That was the Scriptures that there were. Whenever the Lord
came here and He called His apostles out and He called Paul out later,
He penned the New Testament. But according to the Scriptures,
look at Luke 24. When our Lord was risen from
the grave, Luke 24, and a couple of His disciples were walking
on the road to Emmaus, Luke 24, verse 13, And they were talking. And Luke
24, 13, and behold, two of them went that same day to a village
called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem, about three score
furlongs. And they talked together of all
these things which had happened. It came to pass that while they
communed together in reason, Jesus himself drew near and went
with them. And they began to talk. And here,
look at verse 25 to 27. After they talked for a while,
then He said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe
all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered
these things and to enter into His glory and beginning at Moses
and all the prophets? He expounded unto them in all
the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." The Old Testament Scriptures. Always. exalted the Lord Jesus
Christ and in type, we beheld His death, His resurrection. What did Moses, beginning at
Moses, look at Exodus 17. Exodus 17. Exodus 17, verses
1 to 6. Here's what the Old Testament
said concerning His death. Exodus 17 verse 1, And all the
congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the
wilderness of sin after their journeys according to the commandment
of the Lord, and pitched in Rephidim. And there was no water for the
people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide
with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And
Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? Wherefore do you
tempt the Lord? And the people thirsted there
for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, Wherefore
is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill us
and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried
unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? They be
almost ready to stone me. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders
of Israel in thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take
in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee
there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock,
and there shall come water out of it. and the people may drink.
And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." God's people must drink in themselves. They're nothing but just chiders. Chiders against God and chiders
against His people. And deserving in themselves,
in their attitude, of condemnation. They deserve that. You imagine,
read time after time after time, their picture of God's spiritual
Israel. You think of their attitude.
Think of the attitude of these people. Is it worthy of condemnation? Yes. But God is merciful. They were thirsty. And the only
slaking of the thirst of God's people is that the Lord Jesus
Christ is smitten and the water, the water of life came from Him
that was smitten. How did He die? He died according
to the Scriptures. He died that His people might
drink of Himself. How did He die? Look again. Let's look over it in numbers. Chapter 21, a few chapters over
here. Numbers 21. How did he die? According
to the Scriptures. There would be no end to finding
him. I'm just going to read another one or two here. Numbers 21,
verse 4 to 9. The people journeyed from Mount
Hor by the way of the Red Sea to accomplish the land of Edom.
And the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the
way. And the people spake again against God and against Moses. Wherefore, have ye brought us
up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?" I'm telling you,
I read this and I think, that's me. That's me by nature. That's
me. That's my attitude by nature.
And it's the most unlovely and disrespectful. I'll admit it
and I'm embarrassed to admit it, but you that know him, know
it so. We're the most disrespectful people. Child against the Lord. Why did you bring us here? You
brought us up here to kill us? There's no bread, neither is
there any water, and our soul loatheth this light bread. And
the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people. They bit the
people, and much people of Israel died. Scripture says, Therefore
the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we
have spoken against the Lord, against thee. Pray unto the Lord
that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for
the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee a fiery
serpent, set it upon a pole, and it shall come to pass that
every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. You know this. I've brought this
out so many times. Moses was told, You take a piece
of brass You form a snake. The snakes that were biting the
people. That's a picture of sin. The people were dying. Make a
brass serpent, brazen serpent, lift him up. Our Lord said this. Our Lord revealed this. He said,
as Moses lifted up the serpent, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up. How did he die? He died being
made sin. He died according to the Scriptures, smitten. Moses took Moses' picture
of the law. He was made a curse. We broke the law. We deserve,
we deserved the curse of the law. And there was Moses, a picture
of the law, and the law smote him. and water. How did He die? He died according to Scriptures.
Sin was biting the people of God. How did He die? He died
being made sin. He died for them, made what they
are. One more, Isaiah 53. How did
He die? Isaiah 53, 4 and 5. How did He
die? Here's how he died according
to the prophets. Isaiah 53, for surely he had
borne our griefs, carried our sorrows. We did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God, afflicted, but he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him and with his stripes we're healed. How many places did you find
in those scriptures that God waited on men to do anything? Do I preach the gospel? Well,
is what I'm preaching, is it consistent with the Old Testament
scriptures? Paul said, I declare unto you
the gospel that I received, the gospel that I've preached unto
you, the gospel of what you saved. It's how Christ Jesus died for
our sins according to the Scriptures. And He was buried. I'll just
read if you've already turned from Isaiah 53. He was buried
and rose again according to the Scriptures. Isaiah 53, 9 to 12
says this is how He died and was buried, raised. He had made
His grave, Isaiah 53, 9, made His grave with the wicked. with
a rich in his death because he had done no violence. Isn't that
what 2 Corinthians 5.21 says? He hath made him sin who knew
no sin. What does Scripture say? He made
his grave with a rich in his death because he had done no
violence. Neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. Did God bruise a just man? He bruised a just man who was
made a curse. just in Himself, but He stood
as the substitute of His people. He put Him to grief and spared
me. When thou shalt make His soul
an offering for sin, and He shall see His seed, He'll prolong His
days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
What's the pleasure of the Lord? Of all that the Father has given
me, I should lose nothing. but should raise it, he said,
the pleasure of the Lord is going to prosper in his hand. He shall
see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. For by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their
iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a
portion with the great, he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he hath poured out his soul unto death, numbered with
the transgressors, and bear the sin of many, made intercession.
for the transgressors. How would he die? He died according
to the Scriptures. How was he buried? How was he
raised? The Lord said, this is how I
was buried, this is how I was raised. For as Jonas was three
days and three nights in the belly, so shall the Son of Man
be three days and three nights. in the heart of the earth. He
was raised according to the scripture. His body saw no corruption. No corruption. Why? In himself,
he's just. Secondly, does the gospel I preach
give all the glory to God and exclude man's works? Ephesians 2 verse 8 says, For
by grace are you saved through faith, And that not of yourselves,
it's the gift of God. Romans 3.20 says, Therefore by
the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight.
I want to ask you this. Is the gospel that I preach,
is it according to the scriptures? Is the gospel you believe according
to the scriptures? You find any hope in anything
you've done, and that's not the gospel. My hope is built on nothing
less than Jesus' blood and His righteousness. Thirdly, does
the gospel I preach proclaim a sure salvation by God Almighty
or is this just a possibility? What I'm saying is, is this an
offer? Is this an offer for you to accept
or is it a proclamation of a finished I quote this so many times. John
10, 15 and 16. John 10, 15, 16. Look at it. As the Father knoweth
me, even so know I the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep
and other sheep I have. Now listen to this. My question
was this. Is the gospel I preach, is this
a sure salvation. And other sheep I have which
are not of this fold. He's talking to Jews. What he's
saying is, I've got some sheep that are Gentiles. They're not
of this fold. Them also I must bring. They shall hear my voice. There
shall be one fold and there will be one shepherd. Now let me ask
you this, is salvation an offer or is salvation a sure thing? The scripture sets forth that
the Lord Jesus Christ saves His people. John 10, 27, 28, My sheep hear My voice. He didn't say, I pray they do.
My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me, and
I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my house. Is the gospel
that I preach a proclamation of a sure salvation, or is it
left up to you? Fourthly, does the gospel I preach
meet a sinner where he is? Does the gospel that I preach
meet a sinner where he is, dead in trespasses and sins? Well,
you just listen to this verse. I'm going to just read Ezekiel
16, 6. And when I passed by thee, I saw thee polluted in thine
own blood. and I said unto thee, When thou
wast in thy blood, live. Yea, I said unto thee, When thou
wast in thy blood, live." Now let me ask you this. Does the
gospel that we preach and believe meet a sinner where the sinner
is? Romans chapter 3, verse 10 to
12, Tales of man's ability. People say, if you just seek
the Lord, if you just seek Him, if you take one step, you take
one step toward the Savior, my friend, you'll find His arms
open wide. Listen to what Romans 3, 10-12 says, as it is written,
this is out of Psalm 14 where he's quoting, There's none righteous,
no, not one. There is none that understandeth.
There's none that seeketh after God. They're all gone out of
the way. They're all together become unprofitable.
There's none that doeth good, no, not one. Who must initiate
the seeking? Who? God Almighty. If Almighty God does not seek,
you won't be found. But if He's yours, He said, I
will get you. And lastly, and listen to this,
knowing, knowing God's demand for holiness, for me to be accepted
before God, I must be holy. That's what Ephesians 1.4 says,
or 1.5, having predestinated us unto
the adoption of sons, that we should be holy, and without blame
before Him in love. Holy, holy, holy. Knowing that God demands holiness and knowing that I'm born guilty. If I'm guilty, that means I'm
not in myself holy. I'm not holy. I'm not holy. I'm an unclean thing. I don't do good. I don't seek God.
Now knowing, I must be holy. Knowing that Almighty God is
not going to accept one self-righteous act. He's not going to accept
it. And knowing that God Almighty
will by no means Clear the guilty. Here's my last question. Does
the gospel I preach, knowing all that, there ain't nothing
you can do in yourself. There's nothing you can do. You're
guilty. You're guilty. Does the gospel
I preach and believe give me any hope In the day, the day
and in the day of my departure and in the day I stand before
God, what hope do I have? In Exodus, oh, here again, it's
the same, you know, this is the gospel according to the scriptures.
Exodus 12, 13. You know how it was the night
of the Passover. The Lord said, you kill a lamb.
kill a lamb, and you take it and put the blood on the side
post on the lintel, and you get inside, and don't you come out. And he said in the blood, and
the blood shall be to you for a token upon
the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will
pass over you And the plague shall not be upon you to destroy
you when I smite the land of Egypt. Now let me ask you this. What assurance do I have? What assurance do I have? I know what I am. I know that all that I could
ever do is nothing but self-righteous rags, filthy rags. I know that God's just. I'm not going to accept Him because
I won't in myself, I won't seek Him. I don't have a heart to
in myself, I know that. But is there any hope that I
have that this right here, when He said, when I see the blood,
Is there any hope that I have? Here's the only hope I've got.
Number one, He said it so. Number one, He said it so. When
I see the blood, I'll pass over you. How can I know that I have any
hope in Him seeing the blood for me? Here's all you got and
it's all you need. I believe God. I believe God. He that believeth. Faith cometh by hearing. Hearing by the Word of God. I don't want to try to please
Him. I can't. But I can tell you this,
the Lord Jesus Christ did in my stead. And He died the just
for the unjust. I believe that the Lord Jesus
Christ is all of my hope. Lord, help me. Teach me. Lord, settle my heart. Thank
you for the grace of faith that would believe. Without faith,
it's impossible to please God. May the Lord bless these words
to our heart. Amen.