Here in this first chapter of
the book of Galatians, in the first verse, Paul says, An apostle not by
man, neither by man. That is, it was not an accident
that Paul was an apostle. It was on purpose. It was according
to the purpose of God that he was an apostle. He wasn't elected
an apostle by the other apostles. He wasn't chosen by a group of
men, a committee, an organization. But he was an apostle not of
man, or not of man, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ. and God the Father who raised
Jesus Christ from the dead. So when we read scriptures of
this nature and find out who the author of them is, Paul was
the physical means that God used to express His mind. All things of the Word are given
by inspiration of God, and they're all profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, instruction in righteousness,
that the man of God may be perfect or complete or mature. So what
I'm trying to say is that we've got to give great value to what
this man says. great value must be placed upon
the words that comes forth from this ready writer. And here is what he says. He says, But all the brethren
which are with me unto the churches of Galatia, this is part of the
salutation or greeting unto those that he is writing to. In particular,
of course, it is applicable to every believer in Christ Jesus,
but primarily the letter was written to this particular church
at Galatia because of their problems and their troubles, and Paul
writes to set them straight. But anyhow, He says, Grace be
to you, and peace from God our Father. And I think I've reminded
you of this before, that grace is always first. Peace is not
first, it's grace first. Now, if you'll remember that over in the book of Titus,
or the book of 1 Timothy, it says that we were given grace
in Him, the foundation of the world, before the world was. As a matter of fact, grace is
older than man. Grace was given us before we
ever was in Christ Jesus. So grace comes before peace. There can be no peace with God
or the peace of God apart from the grace of God. So it's grace
be to you and peace. And where does it come from?
It comes from the triune God, from God the Father and God the
Son and God the Spirit. Grace be to you and peace from
God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ. who gave Himself
for our sins. Now, when we were saved, the
thing that attracted us first to the salvation of God was what
Christ did. That's what first attracted us.
That's what first centralized our interest in this that we
call the gospel. We come to some understanding
of this blessed sacrifice, this blessed man giving himself and
forgiving us of all of our sins, past sins, present sins, and
sins to come. He loved us and gave himself
for us. We were attracted to what he'd
done. And it was only shortly after
that we become infatuated with his person. We talk about the
person and the work of Christ. You cannot separate the two.
You can't separate the person from his work. But we were first
attracted to him by his work. The apostle Paul, you remember
when he says there in the book of 1 Corinthians, he said, when
I come among you, he said, I'll not be concerned with your
knowledge and your psychology and things of that nature. But
he said, to me, all of this is Christ and Him crucified. He said, I preach not myself,
but Christ and Him crucified. Christ, that's the person. And
Him being crucified, that's the work. We're attracted, though,
to the crucifixion first, and then we're drawn to the person. The person of Christ. who He
is, the blessed God-man. When we were attracted to the
work of Christ, I don't think that there was any of us or many
of us that understood who He was like we understand who He
is now. We didn't understand that He
was God and man in one person, did we? But we understood it
as we were drawn by the Spirit to focus our attention on His
person. Who is He? Who is He? Who is
this man? We found out He's a God-man. He's God and man in one person, who gave Himself for our sins,
for this reason, that He might deliver us from this present
evil world. We're in this world. We're in
the world. We live and move and have our
being in God, but we live and move and have our being in this
world. We're in this world. We're involved
with it. But we're not a part of it. We're not part and parcel of
this world, this world in all of its flap and all of its veneer
and all of its trash. We're not part of that. We're in it. but not part of
it. He delivered us from us. Our
objectives now is to the honor and glory of God in Christ Jesus. That from this present evil world,
according to the will of God, our Father. And that's the will
of God for us. Folks say, well, I wish I knew
what the will of God was for me. Well, part of the will of
God for you is that you're not part of this world. You're a
citizen of this heavenly kingdom. You have come to know the King
of the kingdom. He's translated you from the
kingdom of darkness and placed you in the kingdom of light.
And now you're not of this kingdom of darkness. You're here, but
you're not of it. To whom be glory forever and
ever. I marvel. I'm amazed, Paul said. I'm amazed. I'm astounded at
you fellows. that ye are so soon removed from
him that called you." Man has got to be called. A believer
must be called. He must be called by God the
Holy Spirit. But you're removed from him that
called you into the grace of Jesus Christ unto another gospel. I'm amazed. I'm amazed at you
people. He said, unto another gospel,
and he immediately corrects what he said, which is not another. There is only one gospel. There
is not the gospel of the Baptists and the gospel of the Presbyterians
and the gospel of the Pentecostals, just one gospel. And any other
gospel which are not gospels are false gospels. That is all
they are to us. Plain as the nose on your face.
Which is not another, but there be some that trouble you. There
are some that are in your midst that are causing you trouble
and would pervert the gospel of Christ. So he makes this announcement
now, hard language, strong language. But though we, including himself,
he said, if I come along now and change my mind about what
I've already said, I'm not to be believed. But we, or another
angel, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto
you than that which we have preached unto you. Let him be damned."
Let him be accursed by God. God cursed the man. That's what
He said. God cursed that man that preaches
anything unto you under the banner of the gospel, anything other
than Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
the Son of Man, one person, and what He did on your behalf by
His doing and His dying. And involved in all that is this
blessed truth. When God saved you and when God
saved me, this will answer a lot of questions. When God saved
you and when God saved me, was it an accident or was it on purpose? Now, that's the sum and substance
of all the questions that can arise from this business of salvation
is answered right there. When God saved you, was it an
accident or was it on purpose? Bless God, it was on purpose.
It wasn't an accident. It was on purpose. If God did
it, it was on purpose. As we said before, so I say now
again to you, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than
that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade
men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If
I yet please men, I should not be a servant of Christ. But I
certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of
me is not after man." I'll read these two verses and quit. 15, 16. He talks about his past
experience there, that once he held the same views that these
people held. He said, you heard in my conversation
in times past in the Jews' religion, how beyond measure I persecuted
the church of God and wasted it. I was an enemy of God, the
true and the living God, and tried to do away with the people
of God, and profited in the Jews' religion above my own equals,
he said, as far as the religion of the Jews, why, he said, I
was head and shoulders above everybody else, being more exceedingly
zealous of the tradition of my fathers. But, he said, but, but,
but, when it pleased God, not when it pleased Paul, The salvation
of Paul was not according to his free will. If Paul's will
had not been overcome by the will of God, Paul would have
still been chasing these Christians, trying to kill them. It was by
the will of God. When it pleased God, in God's
time, it says, when it pleased God who separated me from my
mother's womb, and called me by His grace, not according to
who I was or what I had done or who my parents are, but according
to His sovereign grace. To do what? To reveal the Lord
Jesus Christ in me, that I might preach Him among the heathens. And immediately I conferred not
with flesh and blood. I'll quit there. If you remember, those of you
that were here on Wednesday night, I talked to you about the charity that never failing.
Now the hymn that we just sang is what I was talking about,
if you remember right. Love. Charity means love. It's that charity of 1 Corinthians
chapter 13 that that hymn depicts. I'm not going to preach on that.
I talked about that Wednesday night, but it's the charity that
sought me. Charity. Remember I said charity
never faileth? That's the charity I'm talking
about. That charity that sought me. That charity that bought
me. That charity that preserves me. That charity that keeps me. That charity that calms my fears. That charity that helps me in
every hour of every day. That charity that never leaves
me nor forsakes me. That's the charity that never
faints. That's the love that never fails.
Love's involved. Turn with me to the first chapter
of the book of Job. Job chapter 1. I thought yesterday As I stood
up here before this vast throne of people, all the seats in this house were
filled with people. All the chairs were filled. Chairs from the other building
brought over as far as you could see to my right. fine opportunity this would be
for me just to take advantage of this captive audience, take
advantage of this young man and this young woman's right to have
this service, and just go on and preach for about forty minutes, because it's not likely that
will ever be filled again in my lifetime. It's not likely. It might be, but it's highly
unlikely to have a congregation that big in this building to
hear the Word of the true and the living God. And He has so much more to say. God has so much more to say than
I have to say or anyone else has to say. And it would be more
of a privilege for us just to meet from time
to time to honor and to glorify and to thank Him. Well, over
in the book of Job, Let me read from the sixth verse
of the book of Job. It says, Now there was a day
when the sons of God came to present themselves before the
Lord, and Satan came also among them. Now, this was a, I guess, a spatial
general assembly. This was a time when the sons
of God, and I think that pertains to the angels of God and all
intelligent spirits, When the angels of God and all intelligent
spirits, the stars, the moon, the sun, from the vast part of
the universe, all come together at a spatial, highly significant
time. They came together, they made a A festival, it was
a season of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a time of festivities. It was a great field day. And all these angels came to
make a festival to the honor of Jehovah God. And Satan was among them. That's
the bad news. That's the bad news. Satan was
among them. I was with a fellow here recently,
and we were talking about... I thought I was talking about
the gospel. That's what I thought I was talking
about. It didn't seem to make any impression
on him. And, of course, I knew that myself,
My know-how, wherewith, or my personality, my ingenuity would
not impress him. He wouldn't be impressed by me,
a sinner saved by the grace of God. But I thought I would take
the opportunity talk of Him, of the true and living God, and
it might please God to open His eyes that He might see. Well, that did not take place at that
particular time. Maybe it will. I don't know. We're to give an answer, aren't
we? We're told and commanded by God
to give an answer for the whole that lies within us to anybody
that asks. Whatever opportunity we have
is to give an answer as to our salvation that is in Christ Jesus
our Lord. And I tried to do that in a way,
I don't know whether it was for a selfish reason. It's hard to know when you're
purely motivated to do something. for the glory of God or do something
for the attention of yourself. There's so much flesh in us that
it's hard to know whether we're doing it for the glory of God
or whether we're trying to promote ourselves. We could if we would. Be like the apostle and say,
we preach not ourselves, but Christ crucified. Well, anyhow,
I don't know that it helped this fellow any. But I did tell him
this as I walked away from his porch. I got to the end of his
porch and I came back. And I said, well, let me leave
you with this thought then. He said, what's that? And I said,
I'm going to do something to you right now that the devil
himself won't do." He said, what's that? I said, I'm going to leave
you. I said, the devil won't do that,
but I'll do that. I'm going to leave you. Now,
I don't know whether he got the gist of that or not, but I told
him that. I said, I'm going to do something
to you that the devil won't do. What's that? I said, I'm going
to leave you. I'm going to leave you. It says that these angelic
spirits, all these intelligent spirits
conversed in a general assembly, in a festival of praise and honor
to Jehovah God. But it says Satan was among them.
Satan was among them. He'll always find him there.
I always find him there. Satan was among them. If he's
not anywhere else, he's sure to be where the sons of God are,
and I'm sure he's here today. The twelve apostles, they had
a Judas among them. And wherever the sons of God
gather, and wherever the church of the Lord Jesus Christ gathers,
He's sure to be there. Satan's. He's among them. Well, He comes in as a devil,
and He goes out as a devil. The Convocation, the Festival
of Honor is no help to Him. His doom is sealed forever. He knows. His end. And He is
going to make hay while the sun shines. So He comes in as a devil
and He goes out as a devil. How vicious this devil is! The Lord said unto him in that
seventh verse, He said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Notice now, our God said to the
devil, From whence comest thou? Which says that the devil himself
must give an account of his whereabouts. God said, Where have you been? What have you been doing? What
have you been up to? Give account of yourself. Listen. If you don't learn anything from
what I've said this morning, if you learn this, it'll be profitable. You learn that the devil cannot
go a step from his door without divine permission. He can't move
an inch from where he abides without the divine permission
of God Himself. And remember this, he is God's
devil. He is God's devil. He's not equal
with God. He's God's devil. God gives him
employment. And Satan answered to him, he
said, Well, I'm going to and fro. I'm here and there in the
earth. He's always busy. I'm here, I'm
over there. I'm down there, I'm up here. I'm very busy going to and fro. He's never quiet and he cannot
be still. He's very active. As a matter
of fact, Peter said he's like a roaring lion going in and about
seeking who he may destroy. Well, God said this. He said unto Satan, Hast thou
considered my servant Job? In all your going here and going
there and your activity, have you ever thought about this fellow
over here? Has his name been mentioned in the conversations? Has someone pointed him out to
you? Have you detected something about
this fellow over here, my servant Job? First off, he called him
my servant. He's my servant. We're servants. We're servants of God. He made us servants. What a contrast
and a parallel! We are servants of God, and at
the same time, we are kings and priests of God. Servants of God,
yet kings and priests. My servant Job, have you considered
him? And I will tell you this, God
gives Job this high character. There's nowhere else in the Bible
do I know of, offhand, as I reminisce, as I think back, that God, from
His own mouth, gives such a high character to a mortal man as
He gives to this man Job. He said, Have you considered
my My servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth. Think of that! There is none
like this fellow over here. There is none like him. Have
you ever considered him? There is none like him on the
face of the earth. My servant Job. That is a high
honor, isn't it? None like him. He has an honor and a distinction.
He stands alone. Job stands alone, none like him. Have you ever considered him?
Yeah? Well, the devil said, well, let me
finish reading verse 8. Have you considered my servant
Job? There is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright
man. One that fears God and one that
hates evil. Oh, if we ever get to that place,
we'd be fine. Well, it doesn't matter whether
we'd be fine or not. That'd be the will of God for
us, is that we're to love Him, we're to fear God. That's reverence
God. Reverence God, love God, serve
God, honor God, live for God. That's what that is, fear God.
And hate evil! Hate evil! Hate evil! Oh, that we might hate evil,
have the attitude of Job towards evil. If we had that attitude,
we'd have the attitude of God Himself towards evil. God says,
I hate the workers of iniquity. I hate them. You said, does God
say that? Is that really in the Bible?
That's really in the Bible, that God hates the workers of iniquity? Now listen, and He's angry with
the wicked every day. Not once a year, but every day
God's angry with them. And the prophet said, I hate
what God hates. I hate evil. And we ought to
hate it because it's our sin. It's our sin that caused Him
to suffer. There would be no suffering of
the Lord Jesus Christ if there was no sin to suffer for. We're
sinners full of it. And we hate it. And if we don't
hate it, my soul, we ought to hate it. Have you ever considered
him? He's a perfect and upright man,
one that fears God and hates evil. And then Satan answered
the Lord and said, Job, fear God for naught. Hast thou not
made a fence around him, and about his house, and about all
that he hath on every side? Thou splest the work of his hands,
and his substance is increased in the land. His substance is
cattle, his sheep, his oxen, his men's servants. But put forth
thine hand, he says, right now, and touch all that he hath. And
he said, he'll curse you to your face. And the Lord said unto
Satan, he said, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power, all
that he hath is in your hand. And he put that only in there.
See that next word? Only. Only. That changes the
whole thing, doesn't it? Only. Put forth only upon Himself. Don't you touch Him. Put not
forth thy hand. Don't touch Him. The power is
in your hand. Do what you want to, but don't
you touch yours. Well, you know what happened. You know the story. I've told
you time and time again, and you've read it over and over
and over. But turn down now to that 21st verse of this chapter. 20th verse of this chapter. Now,
this is the end result of the news that this surviving servant, of his kinsmen and clansmen brought
to him, about seven sons and three daughters, died almost instantaneous, stripped of all of his wealth. Everything taken from him. And
this is what happened. Job arose and rent his mantle.
That is, his robe. He just got it like that and
tore it off and let it fall to the ground. And he shaved his head and he
fell down upon the ground and he worshiped. He worshipped God, everything
taken away from him, everything that the man had, all that he'd
worked for all his life. You've heard folks talk about,
well, I've lost everything. I've lost everything. You ask
me how I am, how do you expect me to be? I've lost everything.
I worked all my life to accumulate what I've got, and it's been
taken away from me. And you ask me, how do you feel?
My child's died. My wife's died. I haven't got a penny, and here
I am by myself. And you ask me, how I feel? Here's
how Joe fell. He fell down on the ground. I think he just got down on the
ground and laid down, put his face right in the dirt from whence
he sprang, and he worshipped God. He worshipped God. To worship God is to praise God. To worship God is to thank God. And that's what he did. That's
what he did. And this is what he said. Naked came I out of my mother's
womb. And naked shall I return thither."
Well, naked I came out. That's the way I come into this
world, he said, was naked. He said, I didn't have anything
when I started out. When I came into this world,
he said, I didn't even have a garment to cover my back. All I had to
sustain me was my mother's love. That's all I had. He said, naked I come out of
my mother's womb and naked I shall return. He came forth naked and
he expected to go back to Mother Earth the same way he came in,
naked. One time a fellow who was inquisitive
in regard to spiritual things, He knew of a man of God, and
he made it his business to cross this man of God's path at a certain
time, at a certain place. And he said, under this man of
God, he said, Will you answer this question for me? God said,
If I can, I will. He said, This is the question.
Will you tell me what life is? The man of God, give me an answer
to this question, tell me what life is. Well, the man of God
just kind of looked at him, paused for a moment or two, and walked
away. Well, this particular man who
was interested in an answer to his question made it his business
to cross his path again the next day, and he said to him, he said,
yesterday I asked you a question, and you did not give me an answer. I asked you to please tell me
what life is, and you just didn't say a word, but you walked away. Well, this fellow said, by walking
away, I was hoping that you'd get the answer. The man said,
how could I get the answer when you walked away? He said, you
were there and then you were gone. He said, that's the answer
to what life is. You're here, but you're gone. That's the answer to it. You
live and it's inevitable that you die. That's what life is. Life's living for a little bit
and eventually dying. It's appointed. God appointed
it that way. Sin entered in. And by one man's sin, all die. And we're all going to die as
a result of sin. Well, that was A pretty good
answer, I thought. That's my answer, the man said,
to what life is. We come and we go. Naked I came in, and naked I
shall go out. Job said, life is so short. That's what he's talking about.
It's so short. It's so brief. I've said it a
hundred times. I've said, where has my life
gone? You've said it to yourself. Here
I am, 70 years old, I'm 60 years old, I'm 75, 80 years old. Where's it gone? Where's it gone? Huh? Short. Short. Job recognized that. Life is short. There's brevity
in this life. Life is short. Job says, I came
and I shall return. That's how short it is. Oh, listen. Job was really saying,
why should I worry myself about what I lost? only going to be here a short
time, only going to be here for just a little bit. In light of
the eternities to come, it's not even one day. If one day
is a thousand years to God and a thousand years is a day, we
haven't lived a day yet. And Job says, why should I worry
myself about what I've lost? I'm only going to be here for
a short time. What need have I of all these
camels and all these she-asses? What need do I have of them?
Thirty thousand camels, right? Five hundred yoke of oxen. That's another thousand. And five hundred she-asses. That was his wealth. Not counting
seven daughters and three sons. Lost them all. You know that the more things
that a man has, the more he has to look after. The more you got,
the more trouble you got. Oh, I wish I'd win a million
dollars. You're wishing yourself on a lot of trouble. Oh, I wish
I had this I wish I had this big farm with a great big house
with five bedrooms, and I had a tractor, and I had two horses,
and I had this, and I had that, and I had fields of corn and
hay. Yeah, I'd just ask them for trouble.
The more you got, the more trouble you got. Just remember this. You come
in naked, and that's the way you'll go return. That's what
God put this in the mind of Job. That's the reason he could say,
naked I came in and naked I'll return. Blessed be the name of
God. He gave and He took away and
blessed be His name. I can get along without them.
Don't have to have them. These things just cause you more
trouble. Job seemed to say, I'm here. I'm here for only a short
time. No need to fret, no need to worry. When these things that I have
are taken away, I come and go, and let me be satisfied if the
other things come and go as well. Let me be satisfied. The hardest thing for a man to
do as a believer is to be content. Is to be content wherein? the state and condition and circumstance
that he's in. Hard to be content, isn't it?
You've got this, you have to have something else. Discontented,
aren't we? Listen, Job seemed to comfort
himself by making that statement, naked I came into this world
and naked I shall return. He got some comfort out of it. He said, what is really saying
in his mind, or at least I believe he was, is that I am not now
poorer than I was when I was born. When I was born I was poor. I didn't have nothing but a mother's
love. That's all I had then. I had nothing then, not even
a garment to cover my back. only had what the love of a mother
provided for me. I was helpless then, could not
do anything for myself. So Job says, however poor I may
be, I am not as poor as I shall be, for naked shall I return
to mother earth. I have but little now, And I
shall soon have less than that. Oh, my soul. Old Job is something
else, wasn't he? Ah, listen, it's a wonderful
thing, though. Remember I told you that I found
them two words out of one? Every time I think of it anymore,
I say it. When I think of the word wonderful,
I say wonder, w-o-n-d-e-r, In a dash, F-U-L-L. Wonderful! Makes it bigger to
me. Wonderful. Isn't it wonderful
when God helps us to live above what we have and above what we
have not? Isn't that a wonderful thing?
To be content with Him. To be content with Him. If we
have God, We have all things. All things are yours, he said. He said, if God be for us, who
can be against us? That's a mouthful, isn't it?
If God be for me, who can be against me? Ah, nothing. Ain't nothing under the sun.
The devil's the biggest enemy I got. And if he's on a string,
he's on a rope. He's on a chain and he can only
go so far. He can't harm me. Well, it's
a wonderful thing if he brings us to know ourselves as we are. Not as a husband says you are
and father says his children are, but to know ourselves as
we are in the sight of God. Well, naked I shall return, he
said. But still, listen, naked I came
into this world, and naked I shall return. Now listen, still, in
Job's mind and in truth, it's I. It's still I, isn't it? Naked I came forth from my mother's
womb, and naked I shall return to the dust. I is still I. He hasn't changed the I. He's
still the I. He's still the same now as he
was then. Job recognizes, if he doesn't
recognize anything else, he recognizes that the hand of Almighty God
is everywhere a helping, giving, and sustaining Joshua. He understands
that his time is in God's hands. We say, well, I talked to a fellow
here at the wedding. He said he's 82 years old, and
he talked about this and that, and he said, How old are you?"
And I said, well, I'm not quite that old. And I told him how
old I was. And he said, well, are you still
preaching here? And I said, yeah. Well, he said,
why don't you retire? Why don't you retire and enjoy
yourself and travel? Too old. Things pass me by. Too late in
the game. Travel. Go to Morgantown is a
big trip for me. Ain't that right? Well, I don't know what I started
out to say, but it don't make any... Hand to God is everywhere,
I know that. He did not say, This is what he did say. Naked
I shall return thither. He said the Lord gave. The Lord
gave. He did not say I earned it all.
He didn't say that I've lost everything that I have, my sons
and my daughters. I've raised them up the best way I knew how.
I got them fine clothes and I give a portion of my acreage, a certain
portion to them, and so many cattle, so many sheep, all of
it came from the sweat of my brow. I earned all that. I earned
it all. I've earned it all. He didn't
say, I earned it all. He said, The Lord gave. The Lord
gave it to me. You got anything that the Lord
didn't give you? I'd like to know what it was.
Oh, you've got all you ever hoped to get. It comes from the bountiful
hand of God Almighty. Huh? He did not say, though all
of my hard-earned savings are gone. He didn't say that. He didn't say all the cares and
the expense and the trials and the trouble of raising these
camels and these sheep and all of that, all the hard work I
did to keep them up. No, He said, the Lord gave them
to me. They were a gift, now gone. They were a gift by God, but
they're now gone. They were a gift from Him who
has the right to call them back. That's right. Oh, learn then
this morning that what we have is to be counted as a gift of
God. Where did it come from? It came
from God. And He breathed into Adam's nostrils
the breath of life, and he became a living soul. God gives life. God brought us into being. Everything
we are and have and hope to be, we owe to Him. He took His children,
all of His children, Now, if Job had been an unbeliever, the
first thing he would have said when they came and told him,
there came a messenger unto Job. And he said, The ox were plowing
and the asses feeding, and the Sabians fell upon them
and took them away. They have slain thy servants
with the edge of the sword. And I only am escaped along to
tell thee." Now, if he hadn't have been a believer, he would
have said, them Sabians, we need to organize a posse. We need
to arm ourselves with guns and knives and sticks and swords
and go after those murderous Sabians and destroy them and
kill them, rid them from the face of the earth. But he didn't
say that. He said the Lord gave. Sabians,
humanly speaking, took it all away. He said the Lord gave and
the Lord takes away. They lost his three sons, or
seven sons and three daughters. He said the Lord's taken them
away. The Lord took them away. It wasn't the Chaldeans. It wasn't
the Sabians. It was the Lord that took them
away. And Job arose, rent his mantle, shaved his head, fell
down on the ground and worshipped God and said, Naked I came out
of my mother's womb, naked shall I return. Thither the Lord gave
and the Lord hath taken away. So he said, Blessed. is the name
of the Lord. And that's the word that I leave
with you this very day. Whatever you have, the Lord give
it to you. And sooner or later, He'll take
it away. It comes and it goes. I come and I go. Let's stand,
we'll be just a minute.