Alright, brethren, Isaiah 51. The word begins here, Harken
to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord. Last time,
we saw the saints among the children of Israel were in darkness. The
chapter before ended with some of God's saints being in darkness.
And Christ told them to trust in the name of the Lord. That
whole chapter before was Christ speaking. And he told them, trust
in the name of the Lord and stay upon their God. And then there
were those who claimed to be following after righteousness,
but they really had lit their own fire and was walking in the
sparks they had kindled. And the Lord told them, he said,
walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that you've
kindled, this shall you have at mine hand, you shall lie down
in sorrow. Now here our Savior continues
to speak. He continues to speak. And he
says, hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye
that seek the Lord, ye that seek Jehovah. Now this is Christ speaking. Three times in this chapter he's
going to say, hearken to me. or at least three times, he's
going to say, hearken to me. Today, we're going to look at
just this first one right here. I've titled this, Hearken to
Christ. Hearken to Christ. Now, who's
he speaking to? He says, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the Lord. Now, right before this,
he spoke to two kinds of people in that last chapter. And both,
if you were to talk to them, Both of them would have claimed
to be following after righteousness and seeking Jehovah. Both of
them would have said that. They were following after righteousness. But one was following after a
righteousness of their own hand. That's what he meant by the sparks
you've kindled. One was following a righteousness
of their own hand, their own light, sparks they had kindled. The other those that were in
darkness. The other were following after
righteousness by seeking the Lord our righteousness. They
were following after righteousness by seeking the Lord our righteousness.
Now the question I want to ask is which one are you? Which one
am I? Did you kindle your fire? Have
you encompassed yourself with sparks? You know, men will say,
well, here's how men will put that. Some will be as brazen
to say they regenerated. They were born again by something
they did. But here's where a lot of folks
will say, they'll say, well, the Spirit regenerated me. But
then it was up to me to choose Christ or to reject Christ. So
I accepted Jesus. The Lord said through Paul, this
is only what I learned of you, received you the spirit by the
works of the law or by the hearing of faith. It can't be both. It's one or the other, it can't
be both. Either we were regenerated and given faith by the Lord,
by his grace, or it's all of our works, but it can't be both.
It's one or the other, it can't be both. How have you walked? to this day, and to this day,
how have you walked? Somebody will say, well, the
spirit helps me walk. Spirit helps me walk, but it's
a co-effort. I have to do my part. We have
to do our part. There's a brand of religion that
preaches pretty close to everything we preach, except for when it
comes to sanctification. And they say, well, the spirit
helps me, but now we have to do our part. That's the works
of the law. Nothing else. That's the works
of the law. No man will ever obtain righteousness or holiness
by the works of the law. Not one. Not one. Paul said in
Galatians 3, 5, he therefore that minister to you the spirit
and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the
law or by the hearing of faith. Again, it can't be both. It's
one or the other. Either salvation is all of God's
grace through faith, all of Christ, or it's all of man's works. But
it can't be both. It can't be a mixture. It's one
or the other. Here's what Christ says to His
people. Here's what He says. Here's what
the Master says. He says, you who follow after
the Lord our righteousness alone, you that follow after Christ
alone, seeking the Lord our righteousness alone, who seek the Lord to be
your light in the darkness. This is the Word right here. He's speaking this word right
here, in our text, and this is how He gives you light. He told
you to trust in the name of the Lord, step on your God, and then
He says, hearken to me, and He's going to give us light. And this
is how you'll have light, right here, by what He's saying right
here. He says in verse 1, look unto the rock which you're hewn,
and to the hole of the pit which you're digged. Look unto Abraham
your father, and unto Sarah that bared you. He's saying, look
back to Abraham and to Sarah. What they were in themselves
is what we are as we come into this world. What they were in
themselves as they were born into this world is what we are
in ourselves as we were born into this world. And however
the Lord saved them is how the Lord saved me and you and everyone
He saved. That's why he's saying look back
to Abraham and Sarah. Now, let's look at this. First
of all, what condition did the Lord find Abraham and Sarah in? Where were Abraham and Sarah? They were in Ur. They were in
a land of idolatry. Well, what about Abram? What
shape was he in? He was as lifeless as a rock.
Here, he's not speaking of Abraham being as solid as a rock, founded
on the rock. He's saying, look back to him,
he was as lifeless as a rock. His heart was as stony as a rock. A stony heart. He was an idolater
just like the rest, a guilty sinner, dead in sin. That's what
he was. Listen, Joshua 24, 2. Thus saith
the Lord God of Israel, your fathers dwelt on the other side
of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham
and the father of Nacor, and they served other gods. That was the case with Abraham.
Just like his father, he served other gods. What about Sarah? The Lord says right here, she
was a pit of corruption. She was a pit. That pit was a
place where they would put prisoners and the pit was just an open
hole in the ground. That's all it was. Rain could
come in. They had to go to the restroom
in the pit. They slept in the pit. They lived
in the pit. It would fill up with muck and
mire and all the filth from them and they had to live in it. That
was the pit. That's the picture of the pit.
Sarah was a pit of corruption. So was Abraham. Her barrenness
was not only in her womb, brethren, her barrenness was what she was
in her soul, in her sin nature. It's the same with everybody
the Lord saves. He said, now you look back. You
look to Abraham dead as a rock. You look to Sarah the pit of
corruption. Look back now, look. He said, this is the rock from
which you were hewn. This is the pit from which you
were dug. That's what he said. What he's
saying is, what they were in their sin and their vileness
and their wretchedness and their corruption, that's what you started
out as. You and me and everybody God
saves came into this world the same way, brethren. We came into
this world the same way. Look at the world in which we
live. Look at the world in which we live. It's the same as it
was in Noah's day. God saw that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. That's what
every person is that has not been born of the Spirit of God.
That's what every person is in whom God has not created a new
spirit, a new man. I'm talking about the one that
the world brags on that's the finest in religion, that is blameless
as far as men can see, and that looks like he keeps all the law.
I'm talking about that one. He's in no better shape than
the worst, vilest one in the gutter. that every imagination
of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And
that was so of me and that was so of you. And that's so of everybody
God saves. That's how we come into this
world. The heart, the heart, this is the problem. Some people
think that means, well, it's not as bad if it's just the heart.
They look at the outward and they say, well, that's terrible.
But it's not as bad if it's just the heart. Well, if you go to
the doctor and he says, you're fine everywhere, all over, but
your heart, your heart's about to blow up and about to explode.
You're about to have a heart attack. Be pretty serious, wouldn't
it? This is what God says about our natural heart. The heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can
know it? That means nobody can know it.
Me and you can't even know it. That means a man whose heart's
desperately wicked. might take on religion, and might
live in religion, and might do all the works of the law, and
might look so holy to the natural eye, and that man can't even
see his need of Christ himself, because his deceitful heart has
deceived him into thinking he's righteous by his own hand. That's
so of me and you, brethren. Is it the same with you? Listen,
Abraham and Sarah didn't make themselves be born again. Abraham
and Sarah, they didn't make themselves righteous. They didn't even have
the law. They didn't have it. They didn't
make themselves holy. Their hearts were a stone and
they themselves were a pit of corruption. That's what he's
declaring here. The thing that keeps me knowing
right now, and this is so of everybody born of the Spirit
of God, the thing that keeps me knowing right now that I cannot
trust the works of my hand to gain acceptance with God, the
thing that keeps me knowing right now is my own sinful nature that's
still with me. It is nothing but a hard rock
and a pit of corruption. And I can see that and I get
glimpses of it sometimes more than others. But that's what
it is. Alright, here's the next question.
Why does God have us look back to this rock from which we were
hewn and this pit from which we were dug? Why would He have
you look back to Abraham and Sarah? Because however they were
saved is how He saves all His people. Well, how were they saved? The next word, for I called him
alone. It means I called him and I did
it all by myself. He didn't help me. I called him
by myself. And it also means this, he didn't
call everybody else in his family. He called Abraham. When the Word
comes to you, it's going to come to you personally. And when the
Word comes to you, it's going to come by the Lord alone, by
Christ alone. Who said this? Christ said, I
called him alone. Christ is the one speaking. He
said, I called Abraham alone. Abraham wasn't seeking Christ.
Abraham was not seeking Christ. He was an idolater. Christ came
seeking him. Christ came seeking him. Acts
7.2 says, the God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham. That's
who Christ is. He's the God of glory. The God
of glory appeared unto our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia,
that's Ur, before he dwelt in Canaan. The Lord came to him. Christ came to him in spirit.
He came to him and he preached the gospel to him. That's what
Paul said in Galatians. He said the gospel was preached
unto Abraham saying, in thee shall all nations of the earth
be blessed. And the reason that was the gospel
is because when he said in thee, he meant in the seed that's coming
from your loins, Abraham, and that seed is Christ. Galatians
3.15, that seed is Christ. And it's in Christ that all God's
elect are blessed all over this world. That's how in Abraham
all the nations of the earth was blessed because Christ came
through him. See, it was by the power and
by the grace of God that Abraham was hewn out of the rock of human
depravity. Christ hewed him out of the rock
of human depravity. He didn't do it himself. He didn't
break himself from that rock. God hewed him out of that rock.
Christ hewed him out of that rock. And not one of God's children
hewed ourselves out of that rock of depravity. We have to be hewed
out of that rock by the Lord alone. By the Lord alone. Sarah
didn't muster up the strength and crawl up out of that pit
of corruption. The Lord came and lifted her out of that pit
of corruption. He came and lifted her up. The
Holy Spirit regenerated Abraham and Sarah. He gave them life.
He said, I called him along. He gave them faith to believe
God. He granted them repentance from trusting in themselves,
to trust Christ. So it is with everybody He quickens. Go with me to Ephesians 2. We
haven't looked at this in a while. We need to look at it on a regular
basis. Ephesians 2, 1. It says right before this, and
I like to point this out because it's so important, God raised
Christ, it says, and made him the head over all things to the
church that he might fill all in all. And the next word says,
and you hath he quickened. It was Christ that called Abraham.
It was Christ that called you and me. You hath equipped them
who were dead in trespasses and in sin, wherein in time past
you walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedient. among whom also we all had our
conversation in time past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature
the children of wrath, even as others." How do we get out of
that rock of depravity? How do we get out of that pit
of corruption? But God But God, who is rich in mercy, for His
great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in
sin, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace you are
saved. And He raised us up together,
and He made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ, that
in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of
His grace and His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. He did
that. He says, Nick, by grace are you
saved through faith, and that's not of yourself. It's the gift
of God, lest any man should boast. We're his workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good work. He did it. He did it. You know
what Abraham and Sarah said? They said the same thing Hezekiah
said. They said the same thing me and you say. He said, behold,
for peace I had great bitterness, but thou hast, in love to my
soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption, for thou hast
cast all my sins behind thy back. That's what, when he calls you,
that's what you say. Lord, you lifted me out of the
pit of corruption. You cast my sins behind my back,
behind your back. Well, so there you have, now
they've called the faith. Well, how did they continue walking?
How do you and me continue walking? However they continue, that's
how we're gonna continue. So how did they continue walking?
Next word, the Lord said, and I blessed him. And I blessed
him. God calls his people, and he
blessed his people with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
when he chose us in Christ. That's when He first called us
and blessed us, and there wasn't a single spiritual blessing He
left out. He blessed us with all spiritual
blessings according as He chose us in Christ Jesus. That's what
Ephesians 1, 3 tells us, and you know why? He blessed us with
all spiritual blessings by choosing us in Christ. You know how He
did that? By choosing us in Christ? Because
Christ is every blessing. Christ is everything we need. He is every blessing we need
to be accepted of God, to be saved. Now when He called Abraham,
He blessed him. When He called him personally,
He blessed him. He blessed him to behold the Lord Jesus Christ.
and blessed him to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That's
what he did. That's where the blessings were.
Christ said in John 8, 56, He said, He's speaking to some children
of His, some Pharisees that were born in Israel. He said, your
father Abraham, your natural father Abraham, rejoiced to see
my day. And he saw it and was glad. That's why I said to you in the
first hour, In the Old Testament, saints were given faith and they
saw Christ far more than folks think they did. Christ said,
He saw my day. He rejoiced to see it. And God
blessed him through faith. God blessed him with righteousness.
With Christ's righteousness. That's how He blessed him. Go
to Romans 4. That's how He blessed him. When people say to you, when
they say have a blessed day, this isn't even on their mind.
This is not what they're talking about. This is what God says the blessing
was. Look at Romans 4 and verse 1.
What shall we say then that Abraham, our father, as pertaining to
the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified
by works, he hath worth the glory, but not before God. Nobody's
going to glory before God in their work. For what saith the
Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it
was imputed to him for righteousness. That's how he was saved. Look,
but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. The one that's
working, verse four. To him that worketh is a reward
not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh
not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith
is counted for righteousness. Here's the truth though. No man,
not any man is able to ever even enter into the riches and the
blessings that Lord Jesus Christ is, that He is, and that He gives
to us by giving us His righteousness and His holiness. No man can
enter into that, what a blessing that is, until we're convinced
that we don't have any righteousness or holiness of our own. That's the only time you're going
to start seeing what a blessing God's given you. As long as we
think we have a righteousness or a holiness by our hand, we
don't find our blessing, only in Christ. Well, the Lord continued
to bless Abraham and Sarah. He led them everywhere they went. He led them everywhere they went.
Now, I want you to consider this. If He hadn't kept blessing them,
they'd have perished in their sins. And you and me would too. When they left earth, we saw
this three or four years ago, over in Genesis, when they left
Ur, they went to Haran. That's not where the Lord told
them to go. They went to Haran and they stayed there for five
years. And they'd have stayed there for longer. But the Lord
came to him and told him, come out, leave your family, and go
to Cain and go to the land, I'm going to show you." He didn't
even tell Abraham where he was leading him to. He made him walk
by faith. He made him walk trusting the
Lord to lead him. He hadn't told me and you where he's leading
us to either. We know where we're ultimately going to end up with
him. But right now he's leading you
and he's teaching you to walk by faith. Trust him to lead you. And that's what he taught them.
But you see, brethren, if he hadn't given them more grace
and come to them and spoke to them and called them out of Haran,
they'd have stayed in Haran. See, he blessed them and kept
them walking by faith. The Lord commanded Abraham to
leave his family, but he took them with him to Haran. The Lord
separated his father by death. Don't you know when that happened,
that was sad? That broke their heart. Abraham's father died. And the Lord gave Abraham and
Sarah grace after that to leave their kindred. Then later, God sent a famine. God sent that famine. Christ
sent that famine. That was darkness to them. What
did He say to us in the chapter before? When you're in darkness,
you trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon your God. Don't look from Christ. When
providence, when you look around and you see what's coming to
pass, and it looks really bad, it was a famine. Don't judge
by providence what you ought to do. You're going to make a
fatal mistake. You look to trust in the name
of the Lord and stay upon your God. That's what He said. But
Abraham looked to the providence. He said, there's a famine, we've
got to do something. And they went to Egypt. They
went to Egypt. And when they got down there
to Egypt, Sarah was so pretty, Abraham was afraid they were
going to kill him and Pharaoh was going to kill him so he could
take his wife. And Abraham told Sarah, we're going to lie and
tell him you're my sister. And Pharaoh took her. And she
spent the night at his house. And he would have married her
if it wasn't for the Lord preventing it. That was God giving more grace
and calling them out of Egypt. He did that. See, he said, I
blessed him. I blessed him. The same with
you and me, brother. The only way we're going to keep
walking is the Lord blessing us. Because you and me, we judge
by providence and we end up in Egypt. And it's only the Lord
that brings you back. Well, God blessed him. He blessed
him so that he defeated all the kings and delivered Lot. Remember that? He blessed him
and he delivered Lot. And when Melchizedek met him,
why don't you look over here at Genesis 14. When Melchizedek
met him, here's what he said. Genesis
14, look at verse 18. And Melchizedek, king of Salem,
that means king of peace, brought forth bread and wine. And he
was the priest of the Most High God. And he blessed him. Look at there. And he blessed
him. And he said, Blessed be Abraham of the Most High God,
possessor of heaven and earth. And blessed be the Most High
God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. See, Abraham
didn't do it. The Lord did it. He blessed him
and he gave him tithes of all. You know what that was a picture
of right there? A lot of folks think Melchizedek
was the Lord Jesus. I know this, I know it's a picture
of what Christ is doing for us right here, right now through
the preaching of this gospel. That's what it pictured. That's
what it pictured. Christ Jesus, our King of Peace,
Christ Jesus, our Great High Priest, is come to us today with
the bread and the wine of the gospel. How you gonna get out
of the darkness? He said, you trust in the name
of the Lord, step on your God. And Christ comes and he says,
hearken to me. Hearken to me. Look back to the
rock from which you were hung. Look to the pit of corruption
from which you were dug. I called Abraham and Sarah and
I blessed Abraham and Sarah. This is how he gives you light.
He gives you the bread and the wine of the gospel. He reminds
you that you've been blessed by the most high God. that is
the possessor of heaven and earth, and He delivered your enemies
into your hand. He makes you to know this. And
then right after that, the Lord came to Abraham, Genesis 15,
verse 1, the Lord came to Abraham in a vision, saying, Fear not,
Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward. I am
your shield and your exceeding great reward. The Lord has come
to you. He's come to you preaching the
gospel, declaring the same thing. Fear not, I'm thy shield and
thy exceeding great reward. That's what he's telling us in
our text, brethren, right now, right here today. Christ, our
Melchizedek, is coming forth and saying, fear not, I'm your
shield and I'm your exceeding great reward. See brethren, we're
sinners saved by grace. Being saved by grace. Every step
of the way. We sin, we make our mistakes
like Abraham and Sarah did. We fall and it's left to ourselves. we would be dead as a rock and
fall right back into the pit of corruption. But the Lord keeps
on blessing you. He keeps on blessing you for
the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is our righteousness. If
you believe not, if we believe not, yet he about us faithful,
he cannot deny himself. He said, I'm the Lord, I change
not, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. His grace and
his love is in Christ, therefore it never change. This is what
we read in Job 33.18. Here's how He blesses you. He
keepeth back our soul from the pit and our life from perishing
by the sword. to bring back our soul from the
pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living. That's exactly
what our text is clearing. When you compare the end of chapter
50 with the beginning of 51, you see how when it shines in
the darkness, you see how he enlightens us with his light
through this gospel. That's what he's doing. Well,
how did they grow in faith in every grace? How did they grow? Look at the next word in our
text. Isaiah 51, down to verse 2, he says, and I increased him. I increased him. When they erred,
don't you think of this now, when they erred and they went
to Egypt, and God called him out of there, God turned the
heart of Pharaoh through all that and used The Pharaoh of
Egypt, who's their dire enemy, God used him to send them out
of there with sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants,
and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels. He came out of there
with riches provided to him by the Lord using Pharaoh. You see,
now listen, God does increase us in temporal things. Those
were temporal things. And He does increase us in temporal
things. Whatever you have, He gave it in this life. But the
picture there is how He keeps increasing you with these spiritual
blessings. That's the picture there. Each
time our Lord delivers us from a trial, from the darkness, He
increases us in faith. He makes you a little more willing
when you hit the darkness to trust in the name of the Lord
and step on your God. He gives you patience. He works
patience to it. He increases you in hope because
He's done this for you time and time again. And He makes us trust
Christ more and trust ourselves less. That's the spiritual blessings
He's given us through these things. And then we see this most in
how the Lord produced a child in Sarah. Abraham and Sarah messed
up. They went to Hagar. Where'd they
get Hagar? Where'd they get Hagar? When
they left Egypt, it says the Pharaoh gave them men servants
and maid servants. Hagar was an Egyptian. That's
where she came from. You say, well, if they hadn't
went to Egypt, they wouldn't have had Hagar, and he wouldn't
have made this mistake. God was ruling the whole thing. God put
Hagar right there in the camp with them. But he left them to
themselves, and what did they do? They tried to produce the
child themselves. If he leaves you to meet ourselves,
we will try to produce the works ourselves. We'll try to increase
ourselves, and we'll boast about it, and left our deceitful heart
that we can't know we think we had done it. Now God won't leave
you there. Abraham tried to produce that
child, and it was sin. That was sin. You know what it
produced? Remember the other night we saw
in Romans 7, when we were in our flesh, all we brought forth
was dead fruit? That's what the picture is with
Ishmael. He was a living child, but God rejected him. He said,
you send him away. I'm not receiving him. That was
dead fruit. Dead fruit. That's a picture
of mine and your works under the law right there. That's what
that is. That's all you're going to produce is dead fruit. Well,
how was the promised child produced? God produced that child. God
produced that child. They were too old. God waited
until they were so old that it was evident. He produced that
child. And every fruit God produces in you and me, He said, I increased
Him. That's what I think. I increased
Him. Go to Galatians 4. I'm gonna give you the, you don't
have to take my word for that. I'm gonna show you here. I would
want you to just take my word. Let me show you right here, Galatians
4.21. Tell me, ye that desire to be
under the law, oh, but now we're not justified by the law, but
by the law we're sanctified. Tell me, you that desire to be
under the law, do you not hear the law? Do you not hear it? The man who's trying to say he
wants to be sanctified by the works of the law is confessing
without knowing he's confessing it. But to you that have spiritual
discernment, you ought to hear that as him saying, I don't have
a clue what this book means. That's what he's saying. Do you
not hear the law? For it's written, Abraham had
two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman, But
he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh, but he
of the free woman was by promise. God produced that child. Which
things are an allegory, for these are the two covenants, the one
from the Mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is pictured
in Hagar. He said, verse 26, but Jerusalem,
which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all. That's
picturing. Where's Christ? He's in Jerusalem
above. And He's the one that produced
the fruit in Sarah. He produced Isaac. And He produced
you. He generated you. And He increases
your fruit. He's the one that produces all
your fruit. And He said, but as then, I'm sorry, verse 28. Now we,
brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise, produced
by God, increased by God. As then, he that was born after
the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even
so it is now. You're not going to put a will
work monger together with a person trusted in the free grace of
God and never expect them to get along. It's like trying to
put oil and water together. And the one that's going to do
the persecuting is the one that's born after the flesh, trusting
their works. That's what that verse says. Nevertheless, what
saith the Scripture, cast out the bondwoman and her son, for
the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the
free woman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman,
we're not children of the law, we're not children of our own
works, but of the free, of Christ, I promise. Stand fast, therefore,
in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Now here's the last
thing. Go back to our text, Isaiah 51. And all I'm going to do is read
this because I hope by now that's all I really need to do is just
read this verse. Here's what Christ is telling
us. When He said hearken to Me, here's what He's telling us.
He's telling you how He called and how He blessed and how He
increased Abraham and Sarah. And here's why He's telling it
to you. because this is what he's going to do for me and you.
For the Lord shall comfort Zion. He will comfort all her waste
places. He will make her wilderness like
Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness
shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. That's
why he's telling us all this. So next time, brethren, when
you have light, Or when you're in darkness, either way, you
trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon your God. Christ
has made His people righteous. He has blessed us with all spiritual
blessing. He's given us faith to trust
in the name of the Lord. Trust Him. Trust Him. He promises
right here He's going to keep us and bless us and increase
us and He shall do what He promised. Mark it down. Mark it down. All right, brethren, we're going
to serve the Lord's table.