All right, brethren, 2 Samuel
chapter 2. We saw last time, it says here
verse 4, the men of Judah came and there they anointed David
king over the house of Judah. David going up there to take
his throne is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ ascending to
heaven to God's right hand as king of kings and Lord of lords.
Let me show you that. Jeremiah 23, what the Lord said. Let's look at this. Jeremiah
23. This is what the Lord said and this
is what is being pictured in David. Jeremiah 23 and verse 5. Behold the days come, saith the
Lord. that I will raise unto David
a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, and
shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In his days, Judah
shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And that takes
in all his elect, Jew and Gentile. And this is his name whereby
he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. He's that prince
of peace Isaiah spoke about when he said of the increase of his
government and peace there should be no end. Upon the throne of
David, upon his kingdom to order it, he's ordering it, to establish
it, he's establishing it. in judgment and justice from
henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
will perform this. That's Christ Jesus. The men
of Judah came and they anointed David king. Now you know God
had made David king from eternity and then when David was alive
Samuel had been sent of God to anoint him and it said the spirit
of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. And then, in
our text, the men of Judah came, and they bowed to David, and
they publicly acknowledged he is the king. And God gave them
one heart to submit to David as king, and David made a covenant
with them. All that pictured Christ. God
set up Christ from eternity as the king. When Christ came, God
anointed the most holy. That's what Daniel said would
happen. God poured out the spirit, came down on him like a dove,
and God declared he's the prophet, priest, and king of his people.
And Christ accomplished. He established his kingdom in
righteousness and in mercy by what he did, and then he ascended
to the right hand of the Father. And he's calling his people to
himself, gathering his people like the men of Judah came to
David. All of that typifies him gathering his people to himself
through the preaching of the gospel. Now today we're going
to look at the message from the king. The message from the king. It says here, David's first act
as king. It's the first thing he did as
the king. Verse 4, and they told David,
saying that the men of Jabesh-Gilead were they that buried Saul. Now,
let me give you some background. Forty years before, King Saul
had delivered these men from an attack by the Ammonites. The
Ammonites had attacked the city of Jabesh-Gilead, and King Saul
delivered them. And so when Saul and his sons
were killed, The Philistines took their bodies to Bashan and
hung them up for everybody to see. And these men, in gratitude
to Saul, they risked their lives and they went into the land of
the Philistines and recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons
and they brought them back. You can look back up at 1 Samuel
31, verse 12. 1 Samuel 31, 12. All the valiant men arose and
went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his
sons from the wall of Bethshem and came to Jabesh and burnt
them there. And they took their bones and
buried them under a tree at Jabesh and fasted seven days. Now, these
men, as you see from this, were very, very loyal to Saul. That's what we see in these men.
And by this deed that happened, They appear to be some of Saul's
most valiant soldiers. This was like the special forces
of that day. They weren't gonna leave a body
behind. They went in and got the bodies of their king and
his sons and brought them out. These were some valiant soldiers.
They would have been with Saul probably in the front lines the
whole time Saul was pursuing David. And David knew all of that about
these men. He knew all of that about these
men. What these men did in retrieving Saul's body could have been viewed
as hostile to David. If somebody's that loyal to the
former king that they risked their lives to go bring their
body back, they might be disloyal to the new king. But when they
told David what these men did for Saul, and how he had brought
back Saul's body and his son's body, David sent messengers unto
these men and to tell them four things, four things. This is
the message from the king. These four things will make up
our division. The first thing is David gave
God the glory. He told these men through these
messengers that God was to be praised for what they did. He
said here in verse 5, And David sent messengers unto the men
of Jabesh-Gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the Lord,
that you have showed this kindness unto your Lord, even unto Saul,
and have buried him. He said this was the blessing
of the Lord. And then he interceded for them before God, that God
would continue to bless them. Verse 6, And now the Lord show
kindness and truth unto you. And then thirdly, David promised
that he himself would show kindness to them because of this. Verse
six, and I also will requite you this kindness because you
have done this thing. And then fourthly, he comforted
and he encouraged them. In verse seven, therefore now
let your hands be strengthened and be ye valiant, for your master
Saul is dead. And also the house of Judah have
anointed me king over them. This is the message of the king.
And we have a picture here of the message that our Lord Jesus
Christ, the king, sends to his people. And I want us to see
this. First of all, David sent messengers
to these men and gave God the glory for blessing them. He said
in verse five, He sent these messengers and he said, blessed
be ye of the Lord, that you've showed this kindness unto your
Lord, even to Saul, and have buried him. Now this message
that David sent, he's not saying they had earned a blessing from
the Lord because they showed this kindness. He's saying it
was by being blessed of the Lord that they showed this kindness.
David sent a messenger to these men giving God the glory. He
sent a message to them declaring it was the blessing of God that
gave them the strength and the wisdom and the valor and the
courage to go in and do what they did. God's people, we only
believe and we only do any good works by the blessing of the
Lord working in us. That's what Brother Art just
read. It's God which worketh in you both to will and to do
of his good pleasure. That's essentially what David's
telling them. God worked in you both to will
and do of his good pleasure. That's why you went and recovered
these bodies. When we first believe, our Lord
Jesus Christ, the King, is faithful to send his messenger and teach
us that this faith we have now is the gift of God's grace. He's
faithful to teach us that. And then throughout our lives,
Christ Jesus is faithful to keep us from being puffed up by any
good thing that you might do. He's faithful to keep us from
being puffed up by continually sending his messenger to declare
to us The reason you did it is you were blessed of God. God
gets the glory. God gets the glory. Any good
spirit we have, any right spirit we have, the Lord gave it to
us. And any good work that we've done, the Lord worked it in his
people. Matthew 5, David said here, blessed
be ye of the Lord. In Matthew 5, our Lord Jesus
Christ, our King, is speaking. He's preaching. And he declares
in his beatitudes what the blessing of God does in his people. And
this is what every believer is in their new man. This is not
what we're trying to attain to be. This is what, these are the
blessings of God that he gives you in the new man. and the things
that he causes you to be able to do as you go through the life
of faith. Verse three, blessed are the
poor in spirit. You're not poor in spirit to
be blessed, you're blessed by God, that's what made you poor
in spirit. For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are
they that mourn, for they should be comforted. This is God's child
made to see we don't have any reason in ourselves to boast,
to see our sin so that we're poor in spirit and we mourn.
Blessed are the meek, those that trust the Lord alone. Who did
that? Christ did that. For they shall
inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness. Why do you hunger and thirst
after righteousness? When you're hungry and thirsty,
what does that mean for your physical body? You don't have
any food. You haven't eaten. You don't
have food. You don't have water. You don't have any. The reason
we hunger and thirst after righteousness, we don't have any. We don't have
any. We're seeking it from the Lord
Jesus, and it's God who blessed us to have that hunger and that
thirst. They shall be filled, he said. Blessed are the merciful.
What made you merciful? God's showing you mercy. They
shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God. Who gave you a pure heart? The
blessing of the Lord. Blessed are the peacemakers,
they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which
are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is a kingdom
of heaven. If you're persecuted, God worked
that good work for you. That's a blessing, that's what
he just said. Blessed are you when men shall revile you and
persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsely for
my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad
for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets
which were before you. So this is the first thing Christ
our King continually does for his people. He comes and he keeps
teaching you and me every blessing we have. Any good work we do
is by the blessing of God. He keeps you knowing what do
you have that you did not receive. We don't have any reason to glory.
Everything is the gift of God's grace, even worked in us by the
power of God. by the power of God. Now secondly,
the message the king sent was to tell them that he interceded
for them with God for God to continue blessing them. He said
in verse six, and now the Lord show kindness and truth unto
you. He's praying to God. That's his
prayer to God for them. David did for these men. Now
don't forget these men, these men had been enemies to David.
And these men, as of yet, we don't know if they're loyal to
David or not. They appeared very loyal to Saul, risked their lives.
They'd been pursuing David to kill him, but David did the best
thing that could ever be done for these men. He interceded
with God on their behalf. He prayed for them. He pictures
Christ, our King, who continually intercedes for his people with
the Father. Christ is continually interceding
with the Father for his people. Christ interceded for his people
even when we were enemies. He prayed for us even when we
were enemies. David prayed that God would show
them kindness and truth. This word kindness is also translated
mercy. It's translated goodness. It's
translated pity. Truth is also translated righteousness,
faithfulness. It amounts to David praying,
the Lord show them the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what this prayer
amounts to. We see in David how God gives
us kindness and truth, how he gives us mercy and righteousness. This is how God gives it to us.
David's the king. He was sovereign to be able to
send this message from Hebron all the way to Jabesh Gilead. And Christ our King, this is
how we get this message. Christ our King is sovereign
to send this message all the way to his people. This is how
he's gonna show his people kindness and truth. He's gonna send the
gospel to them, because he's the king, sovereign. David interceded
for them with God. That's how they're gonna be given
this kindness and truth, this mercy and righteousness. Well,
Christ our King, he's our priest too, and he intercedes with the
Father that the Father show us mercy and righteousness. And
he does it by praying the Father give us his righteousness. That's
where the mercy and the kindness is, the Father giving us Christ's
righteousness. And then Christ is the prophet.
David sent these messengers to preach, to declare to these men
this message from the king. Christ sends his preacher, and
he declares the good news, and that's how God shows you kindness
and truth. Here's what I want you to get
from this. Christ is our king, he is our priest, and he is our
prophet. He is the mercy and truth of
God for his people. He's the kindness and truth of
God for his people. He said plainly, I am the truth.
And it's in him that all God's mercies come to us. He's mercy
and he's righteousness. It's in Christ crucified that
mercy and truth, that is mercy and righteousness, have kissed
in harmony. He said in Psalm 85 10, mercy
and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. That's what David's praying for
them. that they be given mercy and
righteousness. God promised that righteous king.
We just saw that. And God said he would execute
judgment and justice in the earth. And David typifies that king.
David is showing kindness and truth to these men. He's showing
these men mercy and righteousness. That's what Christ accomplished
for God and for his people on the cross. He's the head, he's
the substitute, he's the representative of his elect. And Christ upheld
the law in righteousness for God and for his people. He fulfilled
all truth for God and for his people. Why? Because you can't
do it. And I can't do it. He did it
for his people because we couldn't do it. He obeyed God in righteousness,
and we obeyed God in righteousness in him. All God's elect did.
And he satisfied justice. That was upholding the law by
bearing the curse for his people, the wrath of God. And by His
intercession for us, Christ our King interceding for us like
David's interceding for them, God shows us kindness and truth. He shows us mercy and truth,
mercy and righteousness. How does He do this? He shows
you mercy by coming to you when you're an enemy of God. And giving
you, doing for you what he did for that jailer we saw this morning.
Giving you faith, giving you life and faith in Christ. And
through that faith, he gives you righteousness. He gives you
truth. He gives you Christ's righteousness.
so that you have been saved by the mercy and the truth of God.
And He never stops doing this. Psalm 98 1, O sing unto the Lord
a new song, for He hath done marvelous things. His right hand
and His holy arm hath gotten Him the victory. The Lord hath
made known His salvation, His righteousness, that's His truth,
hath He openly showed in the sight of the heathen. He hath
remembered His mercy and His truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of earth have seen
the salvation of our God. Where? In Christ crucified. Mercy and truth preserve the
king. His throne is upheld by mercy.
You know, it's the spirit of the Lord that put in David's
heart so that his first act he did as king was to show these
men kindness and truth. by sending them the messengers,
telling them, you did this by God's blessing. And I'm praying
for you for more of God's blessing. And by the message he sent them.
And why did the Spirit give David the heart to do this, the very
first act as king? Because it pictures Christ our
king. It pictures Christ our king. Whoever lives to make intercession
for his people. Listen to this. This is speaking
of Christ's throne. This is speaking of Christ's
rule as our king right now, right now. It says, justice and judgment
are the habitation of his throne. Mercy and truth shall go before
thy face. Mercy and truth. Blessed is the
people that know the joyful sound. The people that are blessed are
you that hear this joyful good news that God's have mercy on
you. He showed kindness to you. How?
In imputing the righteousness of Christ to you through faith. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of thy countenance. He'll never take his light from
you. He'll keep you in his light. In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day. Nobody else. We're not rejoicing
in anybody else. In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day. And in thy righteousness shall
they be exalted. Not our own. In his righteousness
we'll be exalted. It's the only way God can receive
us. For thou art the glory of their strength. That means simply
to say he gets the glory for being our strength. He's the
glory of our strength. And in thy favor, there's his
kindness and his mercy, our horns shall be exalted, our strength
shall be raised up. For the Lord is our defense and
the Holy One of Israel is our King. That's what's being pictured
here in David. You know, when we think of intercession,
one, it's what Christ did for us on the cross, laying down
His life. But then we think of Him praying for us on our behalf,
and that is intercession. But it is His life, it is Christ's
life at God's right hand that is our advocacy with the Father.
It's exactly what Paul meant when he said to us, God commended
His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us. much more than being now justified
by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him." Listen
to this reasoning. Why? For if when we were enemies
we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more
now being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. Because
His life at God's right hand He says, who is He that condemns?
It's Christ that died, that's risen again, who's even at the
right hand of God, who makes intercession for us. He said
in Hebrews, He's able to save them to the uttermost that come
to God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for
them. It's His life there. Listen,
if He laid down His life for you when you were an ungodly
rebel against Him, He justified you if he did that. And now that
he's given you a heart of faith and reconciled you to him, you
will be saved by his life because he's your intercessor. He will
show you mercy and truth the rest of your days. He will give
you mercy and righteousness, and it's his. It's his. The mercy to you and the kindness
to you is to do what he did in the beginning and remind you
You've been blessed of God. It's not your own. He told them,
you didn't do this deed. You're not righteous by this
deed. The Lord did this in you. And I pray the Lord continue
to show you kindness and truth in Christ Jesus. That's where
he does. Now thirdly, David promised to requite them for this kindness
as well. He says here in verse 6, and
I also will requite you this kindness because you have done
this thing. Now Christ not only intercedes
for us with God as our mediator, praying to God to continue to
bless us. being merciful to us, and showing
us our righteousness as Christ, and doing what's right for us
in this earth. He not only intercedes for us,
it's also Christ as our mediator, who is the one who comes and
shows us the kindness and the truth, who is the mercy and the
truth to us. Just like David said, I prayed
this for you, and he said, and I'm also going to requite this
for you. Well, Christ is the one interceding for us with the
Father, and he's also the one who comes and gives it to us.
He's the mediator. He's the mediator. And think
about what a gracious king we have. Think about this amazing
grace right here. David began this by saying, the
reason you did this is you've been blessed of God. The Lord
blesses you. And He gives you some strength
and He gives you some faith to do some good thing in His name
for His cause, for His child, for His people. He gave you, He blessed you to
be able to do that. It's all of His grace. It's His
power working in you. He did it. And then He comes
and requites you. He comes and repays you for the
good thing that you did that He worked in you. That's amazing
grace. You get that? He did it. He gave you the grace to do the
work. And then he comes and requites you for what he made you to do.
These men didn't do this work seeking recognition. That's not
why they did it. They did it simply in gratitude
to King Saul because of what he'd done for them, delivering
them from the hand of the enemy. And by God working in us, showing
us kindness and truth, showing us Christ Jesus, revealing his
love in Christ Jesus, God's children are motivated by the love of
God in Christ Jesus. That's our motivation. That's
why we do what we do and everything we do, because he's already justified
us freely. He's delivered us from sin through
the blood of his son. We're not doing anything because
we're seeking a reward. We're doing it because we've
already been rewarded. He rewarded us double for all
our good works, for all our sin. He rewarded us with righteousness
and holiness, mercy and truth. So these men, they didn't do
this to be recognized. And these men were not the ones
who commended themselves for this good deed. They're not the ones that commended
themselves for this good deed. It was the king. It was David
the king. He commended them. And it's God
our father and his son, Christ our king, who commends his people. He commends his people. He does
all the work and then he commends his people. Isn't that amazing?
Listen to Romans 2, 28. He's not a Jew which is one outwardly,
neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh,
but he's a Jew which is one inwardly. Circumcision's that of the heart
in the spirit, not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but
of God. He that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord, for not he that commendeth himself is approved,
but whom the Lord commendeth. And the Lord commends His people.
He commends His people. God's children don't go around
commending ourselves. We seek too much of our sin to
commend ourselves. Christ makes us know it's by
God's blessing. That's the only reason we did
anything, as we all. We have nothing to boast of.
Christ said, he said this too. He said that in the day of judgment,
he said his people won't even recognize the good works we've
done. Look over at Matthew 25. He said in the day of judgment,
while the self-righteous always come in themselves and they always
see their good work, but God's people, we see ourselves sinners. And so we're not boasting in
ourselves. Matthew 25, 37. He said, Then
shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee
hungered and fed thee? This is those he made righteous.
or thirsty and gave thee drink, when saw we thee a stranger and
took thee in, or naked and clothed thee? Or when we saw we thee
sick or in prison and came unto thee? And the king shall answer
and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as you've
done it, unto one of the least, not the greatest, the least of
my brethren, you've done it to me. Perhaps these men that reported
this to David, perhaps they did it thinking that this was not
a good thing at all. Like I said before, if somebody
is loyal to Saul to risk their life to save his body, they could
be a threat to the new king. So maybe they reported this to
David because they didn't see this as a good thing. But the king recognized it as
a good deed. He saw it as a good deed. When
Christ walked this earth, you know the apostles did not recognize
the good works that Christ commended as good works. They didn't recognize
the good works that Christ commended as good works very often. They
saw those men giving great sums of money in the offering basket.
Now they thought that was commendable. And they didn't even pay any
attention to that widow with the two mites. She just gave
two pennies And the Lord said those Pharisees gave out of their
abundance. They had a lot left over. They
really didn't give much percentage wise. He said she gave everything
she had. She didn't have a thing left
over. A few times they were even critical of good works that Christ
commended. They thought within themselves
that it would have been better if that alabaster box of ointment
had been sold and the money given to support the poor. But Christ
our King always sees the good works in his people. He worked
them in his people. And he never forgets them. He
never fails to commend his people. Jesus said, let her alone. Why
trouble ye her? She's wrought a good work on
me. You have the poor with you always.
Whenever you will, you may do them good. But me, you have not
always. She's done what she could. She's
come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial. Verily I
say, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout
the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken
of for a memorial of her." Christ said, wherever my gospel is preached,
this woman's going to be commended. She's going to be bragged on
for what she did. Child of God. No good work that any of God's
children do for his namesake in ministering to your brethren
or in his cause in any way, no good work will go unrecognized
by the Lord Jesus. He said, God is not unrighteous
to forget your work and labor of love, which you have showed
toward his name and that you've ministered to the saints and
do minister. Now don't forget, We only do anything good by the
blessing of the Lord. So we don't have anything to
glory in. And Christ keeps letting you know that by the message.
And two, it's only by His intercession and it's only by Him coming and
giving you the kindness and the mercy and the truth. But when our Lord has worked
in His child, He will commend his child. He's going to encourage
you. He's going to strengthen you by commending what he worked
in you. So let us not, me and you, let
us not be unrighteous to forget the good deeds of our brethren
that they've done toward Christ's name and ministering to his people.
Let us not forget. Some people won't say thank you
to save their life. Christ said Thank you. Thank you, brethren. Be thankful
for them. Let us requite them with kindness
as David did these men, even if they be former enemies. These
men are still enemies as far as David knows. That's often how Christ requites
us, isn't it? He uses another believer to thank
you. or to do some good kind thing
for you. What a blessing. Think about
the blessing to be Christ's mouthpiece to go to a brother or sister
and thank them. What a blessing that Christ would
use you to do that or to do some kindness for them in the name
of Christ for Christ's sake. What a blessing. So it's just
astounding to me that the Lord works it in you It's all about
His intercession for you. It's all about His Spirit and
His grace. And then He commends you as if you did it. When we stand in glory, Christ's
righteousness is really our righteousness, brethren. It's not just God pretending
you did all the works. You were so in Christ that you
did all the works Christ did. And so when you're in glory,
you did everything Christ did. Now we're going to do what? We're
going to fall down on His feet and praise Him. But the reason
He receives us and commends us and He's going to rejoice over
His people as being faithful to him in all
ways when he's the one that worked it all. That's grace. That's grace. So let us be thankful
to one another. I want you to see this comfort
and encouragement. Verse seven, he says, therefore now let your
hands be strengthened and be valiant for your master Saul
is dead and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over
them. These men are going to need strength and they're going
to need valor because if they're going to submit to king, to David
as king. And here's why. One, it's a long
way from Jabesh Gilead to Hebron. They can't see David. They hadn't
seen all the Hundreds of men's that are with him. They had seen
the pump that's going on there They're just getting this message
in that a picture what we're getting. We don't seek Christ.
We're just hearing this message And here's another thing reason
they're gonna need strength Abner we're gonna see next time He
was saws general and he saw he wasn't gonna have authority anymore
And he went and took Saul's brother and set him up as king over Israel
and convinced all Israel, go after this king, don't go after
David. So if they're gonna stand with
David and come out from under the authority of Abner, they're
gonna need God's strength to stand with their king, David. But how are we gonna be strengthened?
What's your strength to stand with the Lord? Christ sends this
message. And there he is in glory. We
can't see him with the carnal eye, just like they couldn't
see David. The antagonist is set up. He's a false religion
and false men are going about setting up their king and encouraging
everybody to go after him and reject God's people. But Christ,
our king priest, sends his messenger to his elect. And He strengthens
our hands and He makes us valiant to stand by His Spirit by declaring
this good news to us. He said to them, your master
Saul is dead. And Christ comes and He tells
you, your master Sin is dead. He's dead. Christ conquered death. He conquered sin by His death. Your old man is crucified with
Him. Your old master is dead now. And he said, and Judah has anointed
me king. The men of Judah have anointed
me king. By hearing that the men of Judah did this, he knew
that the most influential blessed tribe was the one that chose
David to be the king. The equivalent for us is knowing
God raised Christ from the dead. We know that God, holy God, accepts
his son as the king and prophet and priest and the all needed
for his people. And so we know he's anointed
most holy. And these two things, brethren,
he has put away our sin entirely by his death and that he is our
righteousness raised to God's right hand. When He makes Himself
wisdom to you, there ain't another man on the topside of this earth
that's going to be wise, going to take the place of that wisdom.
And He'll make you trust Him for everything you need and know
He'll give you the valor to stand with Christ, come what may. That's
what He does. David didn't command these men
to do anything. He didn't tell them to do anything.
He just sent messengers declaring this good news to them. These men knew they had pursued
David, and they knew David knew about it. And instead of a message
of wrath, instead of a message saying, I'm going to get you
and I'm going to do this or that to you, he sent a message of
goodness and forgiveness to them. He didn't cut them off. Brethren. And he told them, not
only that, I'm not only praying for you, I'm going to do good
for you. That's how David won their hearts. They didn't expect
that. They realized David wasn't against Saul like Saul charged
him with. That was a false charge. And
they realized too, David's a merciful king. He's a faithful king. And that won their heart. It's the goodness of God that
leads you to repentance. the goodness of God. Although
we hated Christ, Christ our King showed us mercy and grace. He
showed us free forgiveness. the grace and mercy and forgiveness
of God for the sake of his son. Listen, grace, mercy, forgiveness,
ongoing, ongoing, when you know, just like they knew they had
pursued David, they knew they hadn't merited any of this, and
he shows them mercy and grace and forgiveness, the mercy, grace,
and forgiveness of God. You want to discipline somebody?
Forgive them and love them. That's the greatest discipline
there is, right there. The greatest discipline there
is. Well, if you know it, do it. If you know it, do it. And
that's how Christ our King rules. And that's the blessing we have
in Him, brother. That's the blessing we have in Him. All right, Brother
Greg. Thanks.