Alright brethren, Isaiah chapter
50. Isaiah 50. I want to begin here in these
last two verses that brother Greg just read. And here's why. This is Christ's word to you. Christ's word to you. Now there's
not every scripture you can say that about. to everybody. You can't say this is Christ's
word to you concerning every scripture. But this scripture,
I can say that because He gives two types of people here and
everybody who hears this will fall into one of these two types
of people. He said there in verse 10, Who
is among you that feareth the Lord? This is a believer. He
has reverence for the Lord. He's given a fear of the Lord
in your heart. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth
the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness? This is
not the permanent state of his child, but this is where we are
sometimes, in darkness. That walketh in darkness and
hath no light. Here's his word to you. Let him
trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God. Here's
the other group. Behold, all ye that kindle a
fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks, walk in the
light of your fire. And in the sparks that ye have
kindled, this shall you have of mine hand. You shall lie down
in sorrow. Now everyone who hears this word
falls into one of these two categories. So this is Christ's word to you. Christ's Word to you. These 11
verses right here is Christ Jesus speaking. This is the Son of
God speaking and He's declaring His sovereign, unchangeable love
and grace toward His elect, toward His bride. That's what He's declaring
toward all His children. And I pray this morning the Lord
will make us hear this. If you're lost, I pray He would
give you light and make you hear. And if you are one that fears
the Lord and is walking in darkness and has no light, I pray He would
give you light, His light. Now, Isaiah 49, we saw, we heard
Christ describe Himself as the husband of His church. We heard
him declare he's the husband of his elect church. He describes
his church as the bride, as the mother of all his children. And
he promised that he would produce his children. He promised that. They would come from far, from
the West and from the land of Sinai, which is the land of sin. But now, when he delivered St. Isaiah with this gospel, they
were in captivity. They were in Babylonian captivity. Is anybody here in darkness? Anybody in captivity? Well, this is what they said
because of that. He gave them all these promises
and promised that the Lord is the covenant that He was going
to produce His children and told them what He would do. But they're
in captivity. And so they said in Isaiah 49.14,
but Zion said, the Lord hath forsaken me and my Lord hath
forgotten me. They blamed the Lord for their
darkness. They blamed the Lord for their captivity. They said,
the Lord has forsaken me. My Lord has forgotten me. Now, here's the first thing we're
going to see. The first thing we see. We see
the cause of our separation. Here it is. Here's the cause
of our darkness. Our separation right here. This
is the faithful husband. This is the faithful father.
This is the Lord Jesus Christ, the everlasting father, the husband
of his church. This is Christ speaking. He says
in Isaiah 50 in verse one, thus saith the Lord. And he's speaking
this to the children. He says, thus saith the Lord,
where is the bill of your mother's divorcement whom I have put away? He didn't want to know all the
second causes and the third causes. He asked one question, where's
the divorce papers? Where's the divorce papers I
gave to your mother? There were none, because he didn't
give her a bill of divorcement. The next word has to do with
the children. If a man was in debt, he could
sell his children to his creditors. And he asked this, or which of
my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? He had not sold any
of his children. He owes no man anything. And
he had not sold any of his children. Now catch the next word. Here's
the cause. Behold, for your iniquities have
you sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother
put away. Nobody can blame God's sovereignty
for Adam's fall. Nobody can blame God's sovereignty
for Adam's fall. Did God purpose it? Did God know
it was coming to pass? It was all in the purpose of
God. It was all overruled by the sovereign hand of God. But Adam sinned willingly. Nobody
can blame God's sovereignty for our own sin. We can't blame God
for all mankind falling in Adam. Man sinned. And no believer can
blame God when God chastens us for our sins. We sin willingly. Listen, condemnation. Condemnation
is not the cause of God's electing, predestinating grace. That's
not what causes men to be condemned. That's what saves people. If
He hadn't chosen and predestinated some, none would be saved. That's
not what condemns men. Any sinner who perishes in unbelief
earns condemnation by his own sin. Listen, Romans 6.23, the
wages of sin is death. That's earned. The wages of sin
is death. God's electing grace, His predestinating
grace, that's not the reason some perish and are condemned
forever. Man's own sin is the reason.
God never puts away one that he has everlastingly loved. He
never puts away one he everlastingly loved, but he will chasten us. And when we sin and we're chastened
by the Lord, we can't blame God. We can't blame his sovereignty.
We can't just say, well, God's sovereign or I wouldn't have
done this. We cannot blame God's sovereignty for our sin. It's
entirely our own fault. This is the word of the Lord.
Behold, for your iniquities have you sold yourselves, and for
your transgression is your mother put away. She separated herself
from me, he said. She, by her sins, went away from
me. That's what he's saying. Now
listen to our sovereign savior here. Listen to these questions.
Verse two. Wherefore, why was it when I
came there was no man When I called, was there none to answer. Why
is that? He came unto his own and his
own received him not, the scripture said. He said, why? Why was it
that when I came and called, no man of his own will answered
me? No man of his own will came to
me. Why was that? He said, is my
hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? He said, is it
because I was unable to redeem my people? Is that the cause? He said, or have I no power to
deliver? Is it because I didn't have power
to regenerate and to call my people to myself? Is that the
reason nobody came to me when I called? Absolutely not. Christ is sovereign God over
all. He said, behold, at my rebuke,
I drought the sea. This is Christ speaking. He said,
at my rebuke, I drought the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness.
He said, their fish stinketh because there's no water, and
doth for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness,
and I make sackcloth their covering. The Jews blamed Christ for not
speaking plain enough. You remember that? They came
to him in Solomon's porch, and they said, how long dost thou
make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us
plainly. Was it that Christ was not plain
enough in his preaching? Is that why some didn't believe?
No, he's the prophet who always makes the word affectional in
the hearts of his people through this gospel. He says in verse
4, that wasn't the reason. He said, the Lord God has given
me the tongue of the learned. that I should know how to speak
a word in season to him that's weary. He wakeneth morning by
morning. He wakeneth mine ear to hear
as to learn. Well, if our sovereign Savior
is not to blame, who's to blame? Why is it that the gospel goes
forth, this general call goes forth, just like it was when
Christ walked the earth and he said, if any's thirsty, let him
come to me. Why is it nobody came to him of themselves and
of their will? Why did they didn't come to him?
Listen to John 5.40. John 5.40, the Lord said, ye
will not come to me. That's the cause. You're not
willing. You will not come to me. He said in Matthew 23, 37. He
said, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets
and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I
have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not. That's the reason. You see, God elected some, and
He predestinated some to the adoption of children, and Christ
redeemed them by His blood. And the Spirit of God calls them,
and they affectionately come to Him. He's not saying He was
helpless to call anybody. He's saying, but when I just
left it up to you, He said, no sinner is willing to come to
Christ. Sovereign power. His sovereign
power. That's not the reason men reject
Christ. It's due to the sinner's own
sin and unbelief. He said in John 3.19, this is
the condemnation. that light is coming to the world.
And men love darkness rather than light. He didn't say men
love darkness more than they love light. He said men love
darkness rather than light. They love darkness instead of
loving light. Because their deeds were evil.
Everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to
the light, lest his deeds should be made be reproved. When a sinner has a will to come
to Christ, it's because he's made willing by Christ. And when a sinner's made willing
to come to Christ, it's to the praise of the glory of God's
grace. That's what made him willing
to come. God elected who he would, chose whom he would. predestinated
us into the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself. He
regenerates us, gives us life by the Spirit of God, and He
draws His people to Himself. That's how sinners come to Christ.
In Psalm 110.3, God the Father said to His Son, the Lord Jesus,
He said, thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. It's the power of our Lord Jesus.
He gets the glory. Psalm 65, 4, you're familiar
with this. He said, blessed is the man whom
thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee, that he may dwell
in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. He not only
chooses us and causes his people to approach unto him, he makes
you dwell in his house. He makes you satisfied with his
gospel, satisfied with Christ, so that you won't go away, you're
gonna stay there and dwell in his house. That's what he does.
But a man left to himself, a man left to himself, No sinner can
come to Christ. None can. No sinner is willing
to come to Christ. Not any. And no sinner can make
himself dwell in the Lord's house and be satisfied. He can't do
it. Listen to John 6.44. The Lord Jesus preaching to that
multitude. And He said, No man can come
to Me. except the Father which has sent
me draw him, and I'll raise him up at the last day." As to the
praise of God's grace, and that He makes a man come, and when
He does, brethren, He gets all the glory. He said, this is what
He said, it's written in the prophets, they shall be all taught
of God. That's speaking of everybody
that God chose to say, He shall teach every one of them. The
Father shall. And this is the result. Every
man therefore that hath heard and hath learned, been taught
of the Father, he comes to me, Christ said. You see, here's the point our
Lord making right here. When our Lord in Romans 9, when
the Spirit of God said to Paul, He said, God of the same lot
make some unto dishonor. God didn't have to do anything
to make them dishonorable. He just left them to themselves.
We all sinned in Adam. And so we come forth hating God
and wanting nothing to do with God. Pharaoh first hardened his
own heart and then God hardened his heart in reprobation. All
God's got to do is leave a man to himself. But if you're going
to be saved, if you're going to be saved, if you're going
to come to Christ and believe Christ and be willing to trust
Christ, it is all the work of God and He gets all the glory.
In other words, The sinner that is saved, God did it, and God
gets the glory. And the sinner that perishes
in his sin, it's nobody's fault but his own. Listen, give me
a scripture on that. I'll give you the rest of that,
Romans 6, 23. The wages of sin is death, we
earn it. But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So brethren, be sure to
get this now. We're going to move to this second
point, but I want you to get this. That same unwillingness and that
same hatred of God was in the heart of every sinner God elected
to save when we fell in Adam, due to our fall in Adam. That
same enmity was what our heart was. The carnal mind is enmity
against God. That's all our carnal mind was.
We were unwilling to hear the gospel or believe the gospel
and couldn't make ourselves willing. Every child Christ saves became
guilty before the law of God in Adam. And due to Adam, we
had a corrupt nature that was dead in trespassing and sin and
couldn't do a thing. Now, we've seen the cause. There we are. Now I want you
to see the sovereign, unchangeable love of God in our Lord Jesus
Christ. I want you to see His sovereign,
unchangeable love. This is the love and grace of
Christ our husband, the love and grace of our everlasting
Father. Look at verse 5. He said, The
Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither
turned away back. Now, go with me to Exodus 21. This reminds us of the willing
bond servant. The Lord God hath opened mine
ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. Look
here in Exodus 21. Exodus 21. I found that this
is instructive right here. That right after declaring to
the children of Israel the moral law and telling them they were
to have no idol gods, the very next word in the scripture is
about the willing bond servant. Because the willing bond servant
is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a picture of Christ. Look here. When a Hebrew servant
was bought, he served for six years. In the seventh year, he
would go out free. But while he was serving his
master, his master gave him a wife, and
the wife bore children. Well, the wife and the children
stayed with the master. He went out free by himself.
But look here in Exodus 21, verse five. And if the servant shall plainly
say, Christ said, he gave me the tongue of the learned, he
speaks plainly. If the servant shall plainly
say, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go
out free. Then his master shall bring him
unto the judges. He got to go before the law.
It's got to go before the law. Christ had to be made under the
law. He went to the cross under the curse of the law. He said,
and he shall also bring him to the door, unto the doorpost.
He's going to be brought to a piece of wood, just like a cross. And his master, the one who's
over him, like God the Father, That's who Christ came to serve.
His master shall bore his ear through with all. His master's
going to pierce him. He's going to pierce him. He's
going to nail him. Hammer the nail through his ear
into that wood. And he's going to open his ear.
And he shall serve him forever. He shall serve him forever. Christ
said in our text in verse 5, Isaiah 50 verse 5, the Lord God
The master who I love, my father, hath opened mine ear, and I was
not rebellious, neither turned away back. In eternity, God the
Father chose a bride for Christ. He chose a people He would save,
who is the church, the elect church, and He gave them to Christ
to be His bride. And Christ entered covenant to
redeem us. He entered covenant to bring
us to glory, perfect in His righteousness, perfect in His holiness, perfect
in His wisdom. having been redeemed entirely
by Him. Christ loved God His Father,
and He loved His bride, and He loved His children, and He would
not go out free. But He made Himself the willing
sponsor. He was willing to become the
servant, to serve for His people. But in our text, in that first
verse, we find his bride separated from him due to our sins. He declares he didn't give us
a bill of divorcement though. Now, don't you think about this.
This is paramount importance for you to understand because
Christ gets the glory. There's two reasons in scripture,
two reasons in the word of God where a believer is excused for
divorce. There's two. There's two. Oh, men will get upset that you
say that. It's in the Word of God, and
it's important because both of them give Christ preeminence.
They give Christ glory. Number one is fornication. Christ said, whosoever shall
put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth
her to commit adultery, and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced,
commiteth adultery. That's the first cause, fornication. The second cause is abandonment. Listen to 1 Corinthians 7.15,
if the unbelieving depart, Files for divorce and leaves.
Let him depart. A brother or sister is not under
bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace. Free
to marry. You can't make somebody else
stay. You can't make somebody else
do, put something in their heart to do. If they leave, they've
left. You can't stop it. Somebody will
say, well, how in the world does that glorify Christ? Every one
of God's elect did those two things to Christ, and he did
not put us away. We committed fornication against
him, and we abandoned him, and he did not put us away. He said,
where's the bill of your mother's divorcement? In eternity, the Lord Jesus betrothed
His bride to Himself. That's the same as what Scripture
calls espousing. That's what we would call an
engagement. But with God, that's already like being married. That's what Christ did to us
in eternity. In eternity. Now, Gomer is the picture of
God's elect in scripture. Gomer is. God told Hosea, his
name means Savior. God told Hosea the prophet, he
said, you go down into a land of whoredoms and you marry a
harlot. And he went down there and married a harlot. He really
did that. He really did that. And after bearing him several
children, she went back to her lovers. You see Christ's bride,
he came down to marry, to betroth, to espouse to himself. We're
the harlot. We played the harlot. You're
the harlot. You're guilty of fornication,
guilty of the whole law of God, and so am I. We abandoned Him. We left Him in Adam. And then
we came forth going away. We like sheep have gone away.
We all went astray. We left Him. We abandoned Him.
Christ would not give us a bill of divorcement. He said, I love
you with an everlasting love. I love you with an everlasting
love. You think about somebody that
you know that sinned. and it just turns your stomach
how they've sinned. Have you put them away? Have
you decided you have nothing else to do with them? Aren't
you thankful Christ didn't do that to you? Christ didn't do
that to his people. You see, he really is the righteousness
of the law, we're not. We condemn our own selves by
the way we respond to sin. Because we're not the righteous
ones in ourselves. He's the righteous one. We're
Gomer. She bore Hosea a few children,
then she went back to her lovers. We went back to our lovers. But
Christ, this is what he said, where's the bill of your mother's
divorcement whom I've put away? Or which of my creditors is it
to whom I've sold you? He's going to make his bride
and his children know his love for us. Go with me to Hosea chapter
2. I want you to see this. This
is what he's going to make his children know and his bride.
He's going to make us know this right here about him. He said,
if I left you to yourself, you'd have never come to me. Why is
it when I called, nobody answered? He said, if I'd left you there,
that's where you'd went. But I didn't put you away. Look
here, Hosea 2, verse 19. He said, I will betroth thee,
espouse thee, engage thee unto me forever. I will betroth thee
unto me in righteousness and judgment. That will and bond
sermon had to go before the judge. Christ had to go to the cross.
He's betrothing us to himself in righteousness and in judgment. The law had to be honored, the
law had to be fulfilled, it had to be kept, and all our sin had
to be put away. He had to die under the justice
of God. And he said next, and in loving
kindness and in mercies. It's only in Christ crucified
that God is just to be merciful to his people. He had to satisfy
the law for us. Look, I will even betroth thee
unto me in faithfulness and thou shalt know me, thou shalt know
the Lord. Christ our prophet is going to
be faithful to bring this gospel to every one of his elect bride
and he's going to make us hear him and make us know him. He's
going to make all his children be born of him through this gospel.
And he's going to make us know him. But now stay there with
me in Hosea. There we are. We're gone away,
played the harlot, but he brought Gomer. He took everything from
Gomer and began to take away everything that was pleasant
to her, and all the gifts he had provided for her, and he
brought her out into the wilderness, and he stripped her, and he said,
and there I'm going to allure her. I'm going to speak comfortably
to her, and I'm going to allure her. And you know how he did
it? He brings Gomer to the slave block, and she's on the slave
block, and people are bidding for her, but nobody wants her.
Nobody wants her because she's not valuable. That was us, brethren. That was us. That's you and me. That's every sinner God saved. And if you're too good for that,
then you're too good for God to save you. He said, I didn't
come to call the righteous. I came to call sinners to repentance.
And look what happened. This is how he allures us. This
is how he speaks comfortably to us. This is how he shows us
his love. It never changes. Hosea 3 verse
1. Then said the Lord God, the Lord
unto me, go yet, love a woman, beloved of her friend, yet an
adulteress. according to the love of the
Lord toward the children of Israel, that's his people, all over this
world, who look to other gods and love flagons of wine, so
I bought her to me, he said. In our text, Isaiah 50, Christ
declares what He endured to pay the price to buy us. Here it
is, right here. Go back in our text. This is
how He accomplished our redemption. This is how He bought His people.
Isaiah 50 and verse 6. I gave my back to the smiters,
and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face
from shame and from spitting, for the Lord God will help me. Therefore shall I not be confounded. Therefore have I set my face
like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is
near that justifieth me. Do you see how he is glorifying
the Father and what he's doing? This is perfect faith, brethren,
as he's bearing the sin of his people and declaring God just.
That's what it took to fulfill the law. That's perfect faith
and love right there. That's the fulfillment of the
law. Who will continue with me? He's near that justifies me. Who will continue with me? Let
us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him
come near to me. Behold, the Lord God will help
me. Who is he that shall condemn
me? Lo, they shall all wax old as a garment. The moth shall
eat them up. Brethren, Christ bore the cross
because he loved his father, he loved his bride, he loved
his children. That's why he went to that cross. He gave his face to shame and
spitting. He set his face like a flint
because he loved his father, he loved his bride, he loved
his children. Christ trusted the father to
help him in perfect faith. He trusted the father would justify
him once he had satisfied justice on behalf of his people and declared
God just. God would raise him up. And he
did all this in perfect faithfulness to God. All of that is what God
requires of you and me, and we couldn't give it to him. Every
bit of that. Verse 9, Behold, the Lord God
will help me. Who is He that shall condemn
me? That's His perfect faith. And
that one offering, brethren, that one offering justified His
people forever. That one offering made His people
the righteousness of God. He's the only one God's pleased
with and He's pleased with His people and His Son. He's pleased
with Him. He's the faithful one. Now, Here
is Christ's word to these two kinds of people. Here is His
word to these two kinds of people that are hearing this right now.
First of all, to you that fit this description of a harlot
that have nothing good in you whatsoever, He says, verse 10, who is among
you? that feareth the Lord. You have
reverence for Him because of what He's done. You obey the
voice of His servant. He's made you willing to obey
Christ's voice, to obey the voice of the Holy Spirit, and to obey
the voice of His messenger, His preacher. And yet you walk in darkness
and have no light. Are you in darkness? Are you
in a trial? Are you chastened? He says do. Let him trust in
the name of the Lord and stay upon his God. Was he going to
give me life first? No, that's not what he said.
He said trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon God. But
I don't feel like I'm saved. Did you feel like you were saved
when you was lost? Did that make you saved? Well,
feeling like you're lost when you're saved don't make you lost.
Feeling's got nothing to do with it. What's the book say? He said,
stay upon God. Trust the Lord and stay upon
Christ. When Israel was in bondage in
Babylon, you know, God's saints were in bondage too. They were
in darkness too. And if we know ourselves, if
we know ourselves, We know God's true saints played the blame
game just like the reprobate did. Just like the unbelievers
did. If we know ourselves. That's
why the Lord sent this message to them. That's why He sent it.
That's why He sent it to you and me. Because we're out to
blame our chastening and our sin and our darkness on the Lord. This is the message the Lord
preached to them through Isaiah to give them His light. He tells
them, you stay upon Me. You trust Me. You believe My
Word. He'll give you light in time.
But true faith trusts Him even when you don't have light. Because
you believe the Word He's given. You believe the Word of the Lord.
That's so, brethren. The Spirit of Christ made them
stop playing the blame game. It made them see themselves as
the sinner. The Spirit of the Lord made them willing by His
power, made them come to Christ and confess their need and confess
Him. And He renewed them to know He's
their righteousness by blessing this message to their heart.
Christ made them know He's their sanctification because He wouldn't
let them go. He saved them. He kept them.
We're going to see that in the next few verses, in the next
chapter. He's going to tell them, look
back to Abraham. I saved him entirely. I did it
all. He's going to tell them. And
he said, that's how I'm saving you. He spoke affectionately in their
hearts and he said, you trust in the name of the Lord, you
stay upon your God. See, if you do this, if you trust
the name of the Lord when you're in darkness and you stay upon
the Lord when you're in darkness, it's only going to be by the
Lord making you do it. Just like everything else is
up to the Lord. Child of God, everything the Father did for
Christ when he bore the cross, Christ shall do for you as you
bear yours. Problem is, unless Christ is
in our heart and really given us reverence and taught us this
word to stay upon him even in the darkness, we won't bear a
cross. We'll leave. We'll get out from under it.
He's going to give His child the strength to bear the cross
because that's what He did. He's going to give you the faith
to trust in Him and know He'll help you in His time. He's going
to give you the strength to step on Him and set your face like
a flint toward Him just like He set His face like a flint
toward God the Father. And you can say this, You can
say what He said right there. If God be for us, who can be
against us? That's what faith believes. I
don't have to feel that. I see it in God's Word, and He's
given me faith to believe Him. He that spared not His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely
give us all things? That's His Word to me. That's
His promise. Who's going to lay anything to
the charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Who's
He that condemneth? It's Christ that died. Yea, rather
than it's risen again, who's making intercession for it? What
was Christ believing when He went to the cross for us? Believing
the Word of God. And He's telling us, you believe
My Word. We're more than conquerors through him that loved us. Nothing
will be able to separate us from the love of Christ. How do you
know that? Because his word tells me that.
Well, I just don't feel. It's not feelings. What Martin
Luther said, feelings come and feelings go. Feelings are deceiving. I don't know the whole, it's
in the bulletin. I need somebody to print the bulletin. Somebody
print the bulletin. Nothing else worth believing
but this word right here. Nothing else is worth believing
but this word. But look now, but in Isaiah's
day, those that didn't believe on Christ, they treated Isaiah
the same way they treated Christ when he walked this earth. You
better mark it down. How'd they treat Christ when
He walked this earth? He said, I called and they wouldn't come. They ended up killing Him. God
says to you who trust yourself, to you who go on blaming God
and blaming others and won't confess your sins to Christ and
trust Christ, He says, behold all you that kindle a fire that
come past yourselves about with sparks. Walk in the light of
your fire and the sparks that you kindle. This shall you have
of mine hand. You'll lie down in sorrow. Everybody
that hears this falls into one of those two categories. Either
we're entirely saved by Christ and even when we're in darkness
we just trust Him to save us and stay up on Him and do it
by His grace and praise Him because He alone made us do it. Or we're
walking in some pretended light that we kindled ourselves and
God promises everybody walking in the light of their own sparks
are going to lay down in sorrow at His hand. And I pray, with
everything in me, I pray that the Lord will make us of that
first group of folks that find nothing good in us and find it
all in Christ and just trust Him and trust His Word and believe
on Him. He'll never put away His people.
He showed us the greatest love there has ever been right there. He will not put us away. He's
going to save His people. And I pray He help you just believe
Him and stay upon Him even when you're in the darkness. There's
going to be darkness. Just mark it down. Stay upon
Him. I pray He bless that. Amen. Brother
Greg,