Alright brethren, let's go to
Ephesians chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4. Our Lord Jesus is the head of
the church. He's ruling, reigning over everything
in this world. Ruling in the midst of His people.
in the hearts of his people. Christ is the head of the church.
He fills all in all his people. The Lord Jesus does. It says
in Ephesians 4 verse 8, wherefore he saith, when he ascended up
on high, he let captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Now
that He ascended, what is it? But that He also descended first
into the lowest parts of the earth. You see that? He descended
first into the lowest parts of the earth. He that descended
is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that
He might fill all things. He's the one filling, he fulfilled
all that he promised the Father, fulfilled all the law and the
prophets, and he's filling all things in his church. Christ fills the pulpit with
his pastor. He fills the pulpit with his
pastor. He said here in verse 11, and he gave some apostles.
We wouldn't have had apostles if Christ hadn't have given them.
He gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists
and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints.
That doesn't mean you're going to be perfect in this world.
That means he's going to shut you up to Christ so that you're
perfect in him. That's what Paul said, that we
may present every man perfect in the Lord Jesus. That's where
we're perfect. for the perfecting of the saint,
maturing of the saint, for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ. The church is his body. You think
he's gonna let something happen to his body, to one of his members? And he's going to keep this work
going until we all come in the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, that is, to the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, until his
body is complete. He fills the pulpit with his
pastor. He has to fulfill all scripture,
all prophecy. He said in Jeremiah 3.15, I will
give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed
you with knowledge and understanding. He sends His preacher. He gives
His preacher. He fills His preacher with the
message to preach. He gives Him the message to preach,
to grow His people in true doctrine, to warn His people of false preachers. That's the job of a faithful
watchman. Christ fills His preacher with
that message to preach. He said in verse 14 that we henceforth
be no more children. Tossed to and fro, cared about
with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning
craftiness whereby they lie awake to see. You might not notice
a man is a false prophet. He's using, it's the slight of
men, they're using cunning craftiness. We're gonna see here in a little
bit, Apostle Paul gives a warning about Gnostics. Where'd he get
that message? Christ the pastor. You know that's
what the word shepherd means? It means the pastor. He's the
bishop and shepherd of our souls. He's the chief shepherd, the
chief pastor, the pastor who's God. He gave Paul that message.
He gives his preacher the message to preach. You know, when we're
blessed by the preaching of the gospel, we don't have a problem
saying, oh, the Lord blessed me, the Lord did that. But when
that message comes and rebukes us, We have a tendency to say,
oh, that's just a preacher preaching. Well, it might feel like a gut
punch to you when the Lord rebukes you. But I'll tell you this,
when you discover that the Lord used his preacher to warn you
and saved you from walking off a cliff, saved you from being
deceived by the slight of men and their cunning craftiness,
you'll be thankful for that gut punch. That's right. I had a wise preacher told me
one time, he said, you'd be safe to regard it as Christ preaching
to you rather than just your pastor. You'd be safe to regard
it as Christ preaching. You know what the Hebrew writer
said? He said in Hebrews 12, 25, see that you refuse not him
that speaketh. For if they escape not who refused
him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, but
we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. You mean he's speaking
right now from heaven? Every time he sends his preacher
with the gospel and fills him with a message, it's Christ speaking. Every time. Christ our head fills
the pew. He adds to the church daily,
such as should be said, and He fills the hearts of His people
with His Word, makes it effectual in their heart. He said here
in verse 15, but speaking the gospel in love, this is in contrast
to the false preacher who's not preaching the gospel. He's not
preaching Christ the truth, but we're speaking Christ the truth
in love. so that we may grow up into him
in all things, which is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole
body is fiddly joined together and compacted, that's cemented
together by that which every joint supplies according to the
effectual working, to Christ effectually working in the measure
of every part. He said up there before, he said,
we're given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. He's giving the measure and he's
working effectually through the preaching of the word to grow
his people. He's filling us inwardly. Christ is. So that there's an
increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. That's
Christ doing that through his preacher and his people. He's
teaching us in the heart. Turn over to Colossians 2. Let's
hold your place here and just turn to Colossians 2, just a
few pages to your right. This is where Paul warns us of
Gnostics. This is exactly what he's dealing
with here. Colossians 2.18, he said, let no man trick you, let
no man beguile you of your reward of the gospel of God's grace.
Let no man reward you, deceive you, and trick you from turning
you from Christ. In a voluntary humility, a vain
humility, and worshiping of angels. The Gnostics had a bunch of problems,
but the Gnostics claimed to be intellectually elite. They thought
salvation was in a degree of knowledge. And they thought they
saw things and knew things nobody else knew. And they said this
world is so evil and so wicked, everything in the material world,
that Christ could not have been made of a woman or he'd have
been a sinner. It was as if he was made of a woman. And so it
was as if he was made under the law, it was as if he was made
sin, it was as if he was made a curse for us, and it's just
as if you've been saved. That's their message. So they claimed to have light
nobody else had, to see things nobody else could see. And so this was there to show
how humble they were. They said, we're so sinful, we
can't approach unto God, we have to approach through angels. Through
angels. Worshipping angels. Paul said
here, he said that's not their problem. He said their real problem
is, it's not that they can see, it's that they're proud, vainly
puffed up by their fleshly mind, and they can't see by faith.
intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed
up by his fleshly mind, and not holding the head, from which
all the body, by joints and bands, having nourishment ministered
and knit together, increases with the increase of God." Now
don't just think about Gnostics and think about self-righteous
will-worshippers. Brethren, that's our problem.
Most of our trouble come when we take our eye off Christ and
we start looking at things we can see here below. That's where
most of our trouble comes from. Just like Peter, when he was
walking on the waves and looking to Christ, he was fine. But when
he turned and started looking at those waves, he started sinking
down. It's not beholding Christ the
head with the eye of faith. We become puffed up in our fleshly
mind. and we don't behold Christ. It's
from Christ that all spiritual nourishment is ministered. He's
feeding and growing and teaching and knitting together His people
and making us increase with the increase of God. It's Christ
doing this. Go back now to, or look down
at Colossians 3.1. Here's what the Lord exhorts
his saints to do. This is what he said through
Paul, rather than looking at things you can see with the carnal
eye, he said, you behold Christ, look here, verse one, if you
risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where
Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on
things above, not on things on the earth, For you're dead. Your life is hid with Christ
in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall
you also appear with him in glory. Turn and behold the head, look
to Christ the head, and trust that he's really the head of
the church. He's really filling all in all. Now let's go back
to Ephesians 4, and I want to point out a few things to you
that this will help each of God's saints. This will help me, it'll
help you, it'll help God's preachers. This will help us. This will
help us, and here's what I want you to get. Here's the key to
it all. Eternal salvation. Eternal salvation, including
salvation every single day from right now till we're with Christ
in glory. It's by Christ our head. And
it's through lowliness, it's through him bringing you lowly
and meek to trust Christ to do the saving, and to trust him
to do the saving for your brethren, and to do it through this means
of the preaching of the gospel. That's how we're saved. That's
how we're saved. From the first moment he calls
you till he brings you home to glory, we're saved by Christ
our head, ministering to us through the preaching of this word. Now
I want you to see first of all, the Spirit exhorts us here to
endeavor to keep unity of the Spirit. To keep the unity of
the Spirit. And I want you to notice in what
Spirit He exhorts us to do this. Look in Ephesians 4.2. He said,
with all lowliness and meekness. with long-suffering, forbearing
one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit
in the bond of peace. Lowliness and meekness does not
mean that you walk around acting all broke down and oh, I'm just
such a sinner and all trying to, no. It means trusting Christ
ahead, bowing to him, trusting him. That's what true humility
does. That's what true lowliness and
meekness does. The first motive he gives us
here to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit and the bond
of peace is that all God's saints are one in Christ with Christ
in us, with God our Father in us. He says here, there's one
body. Just think of that, brethren.
You're the one body of Christ and members in particular. That's
so of all His people, whether they're saints already in heaven
with Him, or those that are here right now on this earth. There's
just one body, and Christ is the head of that one body. There's
one Spirit, even as you're called, in one hope of your calling,
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who's
above all and through all and in you all. Now don't forget
that God our Father is in Christ and Christ is in all his people
that are born of him. That's why the Lord Jesus said
to his preachers when he sent him out, he said, he that receives
you receives me. And he that receives me receives
him that sent me. And conversely, he that despises
you despises me and despises him that sent me. His people
are one with Christ, and His preachers are one with Christ.
So that's the first motive, but I want you to notice what He
says next. This is why I pointed out to you, He said, with all
lowliness and meekness. Christ accomplished our redemption,
the redemption of all His people. He accomplished our redemption
through lowliness, by coming down, by descending first. That's
how He accomplished our redemption. Look here, verse 7. I'm sorry,
let's just look down the first line. It says, now that he ascended,
what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of
the earth? You know this, I've said this
so many times, with God, the way up is down. You got first
come down, we got to first come down. And that's what Christ
did, that's how he saved us, brethren. Christ is God the Son,
he's equal with the Father, equal with the Holy Spirit, But you
know what he did? He came down. He first descended. He was made of a woman, made
under the law, came down in the lowest parts of the earth. Listen
to Hebrews 2.9, we see Jesus who was made a little lower than
the angels, for the suffering of death. That's why he came.
We see him now crowned with glory and honor. He came that he, by
the grace of God, should taste death for every single chosen
child of God. That's why he came. He came down
and took flesh and was born to die, to lay down his life. That's
what he came for. He descended first, He came down,
and He made Himself of no reputation, He took the form of a servant,
and He was obedient to God His Father, trusting His Father to
make good on every single promise the Father made to Him. That's
what He was doing the whole time He walked this earth. And then
He went down lower. He descended lower. He hath made
Him sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. And then He descended lower.
He's redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been made
a curse for us. For it's written, cursed is everyone
that's hanging on a tree. Then He descended further. His
body was buried in a grave. You'll talk about the least now.
You'll talk about descending. You'll talk about humbling yourself
in lowliness. And what did he do? What did
he accomplish by that? He did just what he said he'd
do in Daniel. He finished the transgression for his people.
That's what he did. He finished the transgression.
He made an end of sins. He made reconciliation for iniquity. He brought an everlasting righteousness. He sealed up the spirit of prophecy. He fulfilled the law and the
prophecy. And He entered into the most holy place, made a new
way for us, consecrated it through the veil, and He's right there
now interceding for His people as the head of the church, as
the preacher, the king, the high priest, the one who's walking
in the midst of His church and saving His people. He's right
here, right now, just as real as He was when He walked this
earth. We think of heaven as some far off place, and we think
of all this distance, but brethren, our Lord is God omnipotent, God
omnipresent, God with us, that's who He is, and He said, I'll
never leave you, I'll never forsake you. He's with His people, He's
in His people all the time. Now, I want to secondly, let's
dial it in now. Let's look here a little more
closely and be sure we get this. Christ accomplished redemption
by lowliness, by humbling Himself, by descending, by coming down
and trusting the Father. That's how He saved us. You know,
He defeated the devil by trusting the Father. That's what He did. Christ made Himself the least.
Do you know what He did by doing that? Do you know what He did
by making Himself the least of anybody that ever came? Anybody. Period. Do you know
what He did by that? He highly exalted God the Father. Why? He's trusting the Father.
Everything He was doing was trusting the Father. That's what He was
doing. And that highly exalted God the
Father. Now look at verse 10. Because
of this, God also has highly exalted him. Verse 10, he that
descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens
that he might fill all things. That's what Philippians 2.9 said. Wherefore God also hath highly
exalted him. He highly exalted God by submitting,
by coming down lowly, by trusting the Father, and by accomplishing
this salvation for his people. And wherefore God also highly
exalted him. And he's given him a name above
every name. Look back at Ephesians 1.20.
What's that mean for you and me? Look here, look back here
at Ephesians 1.20. This is what he wrote in Christ when he raised
him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the
heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might
and dominion and every name that's named, not only in this world
but also in that which is to come. That's exactly what Paul
preached to the Colossians. He said he triumphed over principalities
and powers and made a show of them openly. He did it. And now
he's above all power, principality, every name that's named in this
world and in the world to come. But not only that, look at this.
God had put all things under his feet and gave him to be the
head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness
of him that filleth all in all. Talk about safe. Every one of his elect that he
redeemed are a member of his body and he's going to fully
call in everyone. That's what Paul means in Ephesians
4 when he said he's going to keep this work going till we
all come to the knowledge of the Son of God, to the measure
of the fullness of the stature of Christ, till his body is complete.
The only way we're going to be saved. Now you think about this
now. The only way any sinner will
be saved is by the Lord Jesus sending him the gospel, giving
him the Holy Spirit, and making him first bow down to Christ
and trust Christ to save him. Ain't that how we start? It's
by him giving you a heart to bow down and submit to Christ
and trust Christ to do the saving. Well, how are we going to be
saved every day from then to the end? It's by trusting Christ,
the head of the church, to fill all, to nourish us and grow us
up in Him and do the same for our brethren. And you're gonna
do it through preaching. Now lastly, I wanna end by giving
you an illustration that our Lord, that shows us our Lord's
able to do this. He's able to do this. He's able
to minister nourishment and save his people. You remember when
the disciples, the apostles, they were arguing over who would
be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And they're arguing. They got into an argument over
this. They're arguing with one another. The Savior's right there.
Christ is there. And they're arguing with one
another over which of them will be the greatest in the kingdom
of heaven. And what they're doing is they're saying, I know the
way better. I know I do these things better
than you do. And I serve the Lord better than
you serve the Lord. And just arguing and bickering
and exalting themselves over each other. And the Lord said to him, he
said, the devil has desired you that he might sift you as wheat.
He's asked my permission that he might sift you. And Christ
was saying, and I'm the head over you, and I gave him permission.
That's what Christ would tell him. The devil can't do anything
but by permission. Christ would tell him, I've given
him permission to sift you. The devil is the father of pride. And He wants to see Christ's
people exalted in pride. That's what He wants. That's
what He wants. Our flesh is nothing but pride.
It don't take a lot to get us puffed up, vainly puffed up in
our fleshly mind. And by nature, we will not submit
to Christ. By nature, we will not have this
man reign over us. Christ told them this. He said,
He that's least among you shall be greatest in the kingdom of
heaven. We know that's Christ. He's the one who made Himself
the least. How'd He do it? How come He's the greatest? Because
He made Himself the least. He came down lowly. And then God our Father raised
Him triumphantly. But in His pride, when the Lord
The Lord is the shepherd. He's the pastor. He was Peter's
pastor. And when the Lord told him this, Peter argued with him. Peter
argued with him. No, that's not going to happen. Rather than first submitting,
rather than first ascending, rather than first lowering himself
in meekness to trust Christ to save him, Peter first began to
try to exalt himself. They might do it, but I won't
do it. Peter, it's written in the scripture,
but, but, but, but, but. I won't do it. arguing with his
pastor, arguing with the shepherd and bishop of his soul. He pushed
back, just kept pushing back. Then in Gethsemane, you think
of that whole great army of soldiers that came, and we're talking
about a lot of soldiers. And Peter, he gonna show the
Lord. I'm gonna show you, he's still
not submittin' to the Lord. I'm gonna show you, I won't deny
you. And he pulled out his little
old fisherman's knife and he cut the soldier's ear off. The devil was winning. The devil
was sifting him. But the devil was just doing
what the Lord would have him to do. Peter picked that ear
back up, put it back on the soldier and said, Peter, put your sword
up. I must submit to my Father and
drink the cup He's given me. You see, he made himself the
least. He's doing just the opposite of what Peter was doing when
he drew that sword to cut off that ear. And then, just like
the Lord said he would, when Peter wasn't expecting it. You
see, when he saw that band of soldiers, he thought, this is
the test right here. This is the test. I'm going to
show the Lord that I'm not going to deny Him. But see, the test
comes when you don't know the test has come. And the test came
when a little maid around a fire said, aren't you one of his disciples?
No, not me. And three times he denied the
Lord. You see, brethren, all of that
right there is what we're doing to Christ. Whenever we push back
against his pastor, whenever we push back against our brethren
and try to exalt ourselves as being more faithful than our
brethren and worthy to be the greatest in the kingdom, when
we're being critical, we are exalting ourselves. We're not making ourselves the
least, we're not humbling ourselves, we're exalting ourselves. pride,
puffed up by our fleshly mind. We're trying to save ourselves.
Now listen to me, there's nobody I know that professes to believe
Christ, none of you. I wouldn't say it. None of us
would say, well I think I'm saved by my law keeping. You wouldn't
say that. You know better. You've been
taught better. But you know that's exactly, it's no different. We're
doing the same thing. When we're pushing and pushing
and trying to have our way and do this, that, and the other,
no different than saying, I'm saved by my works. I'm going
to show you I can keep myself. That's what Peter was saying.
You see, when that kind of thing happens, perhaps we think we're
being defenders of the faith. We're not being defenders of
the faith. We're showing how little faith we really have.
That's what that kind of thing is. I want you to turn over to
1 Peter 5. I thought you said you were going
to give us an example of how the Lord is able to work this.
Well, is Christ the head of the church? Is Christ able to minister
and nourish His children and grow us up? Christ was ruling everything
that came to pass with Peter and those apostles. He was ruling
every bit of it. Every bit of it. Christ gave
the devil permission to sift them. He gave the devil permission
to get them all worked up over one another and at odds with
one another and trying to exalt themselves. The Lord gave him
permission to do that. And the Lord Jesus interceded
for them so that their faith didn't fail. That's the only
reason Peter and the apostles' faith didn't fail is Christ was
interceding for them. And Christ came to Peter and
he restored him. He came and restored him. You remember that
time when he came and restored him. He said, Peter, do you love
me more than these? That's what he was saying before. That's what we're saying when
we're being critical or we're pushing back and we're saying,
I love you more than others do. And the Lord said, now, Peter,
do you love me more than these other apostles love me? He said,
Lord, you know. You knew I was going to deny
you. You know everything. You know. You know my heart.
You know. And Christ did all that to humble
Peter. That's why he did everything
he did was to humble Peter, to teach Peter, Christ is the head
of the church. Christ is the Savior of the body.
Christ is the one ministering to each of us and growing us
and keeping us and shall save us to the end. He was doing it
to teach Peter that. And you remember what the Lord
told Peter? He said, Peter, when you're converted, you teach your
brethren what I've taught you. You strengthen them. That's what
he was saying to them when he restored them. And he said, now
you feed my sheep. You go tell them what I've taught you through
this. You see, all these troubles are necessary. It's necessary
because it's through this that Christ is going to make His preacher
a preacher. It's through this that Christ
is going to save His people and teach us He's really saving and
His grace is sufficient. And the Lord taught Peter. And
brethren, I'm telling you, that's what the Lord's doing in every
trouble we face in this world. If you're a child of God, that's
what the Lord is doing for you. Just what He did with Peter and
those apostles. Now I want you to turn over to 1 Peter 5. I'm
going to show you here now. Christ made Peter get the lesson.
So this is years later and Peter writes now, and to the preachers,
He was a preacher at the time, he did all that. And to the preachers,
this is what he wrote. You know what he's going to say
here? He's going to say, submit to Christ, preach Christ, and
trust Christ to save his people. Pray to him and trust him to
save his people. Watch how he says it. 1 Peter 5, 1. The elders
as preachers, pastors, bishops. The elders which are among you,
I exhort them, also an elder and a witness of the sufferings
of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is
among you, taking the oversight, not by constraint, but willingly,
not for filthy lucre, not because you're trying to get rich, but
of a ready mind, neither as being lords over God's heritage, but
being examples to the flock, And when the chief shepherd,
when the chief pastor is come, that's what the word shepherd
means. When the chief pastor is come, you'll receive a crown
of glory that fadeth not away. And then to every believer, Peter
says, submit to Christ our head. Trust your pastor to him. Trust
him to correct your pastor. Submit to Christ our head by
submitting to your pastor. Look here in verse 5, 1 Peter
5, 5. Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves to the pastor. That's
what he's saying. He's saying what the Hebrew writer
said in Hebrews 13, 7. Obey them that have the rule
over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls.
As they that must give account. Who they give an account to?
To Christ, the head of the church. and obey them that they may do
it with joy and not with grief, because that's unprofitable for
you. I've seen my grandfather, no sooner he get home from preaching,
somebody call him on the telephone and start trying to wear him
out over something he said. And I've seen him sit and listen
to that and listen to that, until he just slid down the wall and
just sat on the floor and sat there and listened to it. To every saint then, Peter says
this. This is what the Lord taught
him through all of that. Peter says here, you submit to
Christ by submitting to one another. Submit to Christ by submitting
to one another and trusting Christ to teach one another. Look here,
yea, verse 5, yea, all of you be subject one to another and
be clothed with humility. For God resisted the proud and
He gives grace to the humble. Peter found that out, didn't
he? He learned that. Humble yourselves therefore under
the mighty hand of God, under Jesus Christ. You humble yourself
under Christ's mighty hand, as the head of the church, just
like he did the Father. That he may exalt you in due
time. Christ humbled himself, and God
also highly exalted him in due time. He said, now you humble
yourself to Christ, trust him to be the head, and he'll exalt
you in due time. Casting all your care upon him,
for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant, because
your adversary the devil as a rowing line walketh about seeking whom
he may devour by Christ's permission. And there's only one way you're
going to resist him. What Paul told the Colossians, you keep
your eye on Christ. Look here what Peter says, whom
resist steadfast in the faith, looking to Christ our head to
save you. That's the only way you're going
to do it. And listen, and as you're doing this, he says, and
don't you dare imagine for one minute that you're the only one
Christ is working this in. Don't you imagine for a minute
you're the only one suffering like you are, the only one that
he's working this in. He said, know this, the same
afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in
the world. He's doing it in your brethren too. And then Peter
declares what God in Christ our head shall do for you who are
his. This is what he will do for you.
Just what he did for Peter. Peter learned this by experience.
Look, verse 10. But the God of all grace, who
hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after
that you've suffered a while. He'll make you perfect. He'll
establish you. He'll strengthen you. He'll settle
you. To whom be glory and dominion
forever and ever. What did Peter learn? What's
the Lord teaching us? The Lord Jesus Christ is the
head of the church. He's the Savior. He's the head
of the church. He's the only one that can save.
He's feeding. He's nourishing. He's doing it
through this gospel. You submit to Him and you trust
Him. You believe He's sovereign. You
believe He's the head of the church. Submit to Him. Bow to Him. Trust Him. That's
what you do, brethren. That's what you do. We don't
have this problem right now. We probably will again. I told
somebody this week, I said, the church is a hospital. And hospitals
don't ever run out of patients. And when we get a little reprieve,
a little peace, we're going to have need again, and we just
keep preaching Christ. He's the physician. So you submit
to Him, trust Him, and speak this good news to one another.
Remember, this is what we're here for, to be a witness of
Christ, to speak and remind one another that Christ is ruling
everything that's going on. He's the head of the church.
That's what Peter did for them. He reminded them, Christ is ruling
it all. He's the head. That's what Paul
declared. Remind each other of that. And pray to Christ to work
the work in His people, in your brethren. Pray to Him. And wait
on Him to work. You're going to suffer a while.
He said, in lowliness and meekness with long suffering, You're going
to suffer a little while, but in a little while, after you
suffer a little while, and He's made you come to the end of you
and stop trying to butt, butt, butt, fix, fix, fix, and made
you submit to Him and just trust Him. That's the perfect end He's
going to bring you to. You'll have so much rejoicing
in your heart. And you know what will happen then? You'll give
Him all the glory and say, the glory and the dominion is His
right now and forever. What's your title there? Submit to Christ our head. Submit
to Christ our head. That's the only way we're going
to be saved, brethren, any of us. Submit to Christ our head.
I pray the Lord bless that. All right.