All right, brethren, let's go
to 1 Samuel 21 and hold your place there. I want you to also
turn to Mark chapter 2. Mark chapter 2. The Lord and his disciples were
walking through a cornfield on the Sabbath day, and they were
hungry. And they began to pluck corn
and to rub it between their hands and take the husk off and to
eat this corn. And in Mark 2, verse 23, it says,
And it came to pass that he went through the cornfields on the
Sabbath day. Luke says it was the second Sabbath
after the first. That's Christ. He's the second
Sabbath after the first. when you think about the creation
Sabbath or the Sabbath given in the law. They're the first. Christ is the second Sabbath
after the first. He taketh away the first. Fulfill
the law in every regard that he may establish the second.
And he is the second. He's the rest of his people.
And it says in verse 23, And it came to pass that he went
through the cornfields on the Sabbath day. He and his disciples
began as they went to pluck the ears of corn. And the Pharisees
said unto him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that
which is not lawful. Christ and his disciples were
hungry. They were hungry. They had a
need. And so in love, in mercy to them,
Christ began to pluck corn and gave them corn to eat, told them
they could eat corn, they began to pluck it and to eat. But the
Pharisees only saw the letter of the law being broken. they
saw the letter of the law being broken. It didn't matter to them
that Christ and his disciples were hungry. It didn't matter
that they had a need. The Pharisees weren't concerned
about love and mercy, only the keeping of the letter of the
law. The letter of the law. Verse
25, and he said to them, have you never read what David did
when he had need and was hungered? He and they that were with him
how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar,
the high priest, and did eat the showbread, which is not lawful
to eat, but for the priests, and gave also to them which were
with him. And then the Lord declares the
point that we're going to see in our text right here. He said
to them, the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. And you could include the whole
law of God in that right there. The law was made for man. The Sabbath was made for man,
not man for the Sabbath. Therefore the Son of Man is Lord
also of the Sabbath, and He's the Lord of the whole law, our
Lord Jesus. Now let's hear how the Lord made
this point in Matthew's account. Turn over to Matthew chapter
12. How did he make this? He just
said a few things I want you to see here. He said the same
thing basically, but then in verse 5, he said, Matthew 12,
5, he said, or have you not read in the law how that on the Sabbath
days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath? He said
they profane the Sabbath and are blameless. But I say unto
you that in this place is one greater than the temple. Christ
is the one the law declares. He's the one that the law shuts
his people up unto. The end of the law is Christ.
He's the one greater. He's the one everything in the
temple and the ceremony, everything pictured him. He said, but if
you had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. You would not have condemned
the guiltless, the guiltless. The works of the law are not
commanded merely for the purpose that we perform them in the letter. Now think about that statement. The works of the law are not
commanded merely for the purpose that we perform them in the letter.
They teach in the newness of spirit of the law and the essence
of the law teaches us to love needy sinners. That means sinners
in need. Sinners. Sinners. That's the fulfilling of the
law. God made the Sabbath for man. He made it to give man a
day where he could rest. He made it for man to give him
a day of rest, to be merciful to man. And the whole law was
given for man. It was all given for man to show
God's people our need of Christ. And it was given to show us the
love of Christ. and His mercy toward us who are
the needy sinner, and to show us what it is to love and be
merciful for Christ's sake. Now typically, in type, the Sabbath
day shows God's love and mercy in Christ to His people. That's
what the Sabbath day typified. God's love and His mercy in Christ
toward His people. Christ Jesus is the Lord of the
Sabbath. He is our rest. Our Lord Jesus
Christ came and fulfilled everything that was written in the law and
in his perfect obedience. That was his love to us. That
was like him plucking an ear of corn off of that vine and
giving it to his hungry disciples. Christ Jesus came down, and He
is the bread. He came down and fulfilled everything
for His people and for God, that God might be just to give us
freely the bread of life, eternal life in Him. And there's rest
when He does that. That's our rest. And He's the
righteousness of the law for His people, and He showed us
that mercy and love by fulfilling all of the law for us. so that
we can rest in him through faith. So that's the purpose of the
law. Mercy out of love, that's the
purpose and essence of the law. Christ's disciples were hungry.
This is just a small example. They were hungry and in love
he fed them. And right after that there was
a man who was, I believe it was a man with a withered hand and
the Lord went in there on the Sabbath day and healed him. It wasn't breaking of the Sabbath,
it was actually the fulfilling of it to show mercy and love
to needy sinners. That's what the whole law is
teaching us. Now, let's go back to 1 Samuel 21 and let's look
at this in David. It says in verse 1, Then came
David to Nob. This is where the tabernacle
was at that time. This is where the priests were.
He came to know to Elimelech the priest. And Elimelech was
afraid at the meeting of David and said to him, why art thou
alone and no man with thee? Now, there's a lot that's been
written and a lot that's been preached about David sinning
in this passage. And there's plenty of sin in
it. David was running from Saul who
wanted to kill him. David, we could speak of him
being in unbelief. We could speak of him not waiting
on the Lord. All of that's true. David lied to Elimelech in his
passage. David took the sword of Goliath,
who he had slain before, by God's grace. David had no power to
do that, but the Lord gave him grace to face Goliath, that giant,
and with a sling and a stone, he slew that giant. And that
sword was kept there. And David, he didn't have a weapon. He said, give me that sword.
None like it. And you could liken that to leaning
on the arm of the flesh. Because he's looking to this
sword, whereas before he trusted God and just used a sling and
a stone. And then he fled in fear to an enemy king. He went to Achish. He went to
the land of Goliath. taking the sword of Goliath as
if they weren't going to know whose sword that was. And they
did. They knew who he was immediately
when he came there and he feigned madness and all of that. But
what's amazing is the Lord used this account of David when the
Pharisees accused him of breaking the law. Now the Pharisees had
to have known this scripture. They did search the Scriptures,
and they had to have known the Scripture. They had to have known
that David lied in the Scripture. And I doubt, when he said, if
you've not read about David, and he gave the account of this,
they knew right where the Lord was talking about. And I doubt
that they heard anything else the Lord said, because they were
thinking about, David broke the law just like you did. He lied
and broke the law just like you did. That's what they were thinking
about Christ. But why did Christ not mention
any of David's sin? He didn't mention any of David's
sin. Why did Christ commend David as being no lawbreaker? That's
why Christ used this passage, to commend David as being no
lawbreaker. It was because David, and what
he did here, he was providing the holy showbread for his hungry
men that were with him. And that's what Christ was doing
in that cornfield that day, but that's what Christ did for his
people by his work on the cross. Now, David is a type of Christ.
We know that. David is God's anointed king.
At this time, he had already been anointed. Christ is King
of Kings. He's the Son of David after the
flesh, but the Son of God after the Spirit. He's the God-man,
King of Kings. Saul wanted to kill David for
no reason. The devil, the Pharisees, they
wanted to kill our Lord Jesus for no reason whatsoever. And
David is leading his men, just like Christ is leading his people.
And his men were hungry. His men needed mercy. They needed
David to provide for them, just like we need Christ to provide
for us. Now, they had been three days
without food. They had come out. They had fled
from Saul. And David says here, it's been
three days since we came out. Three days they've been out in
the wilderness, and they haven't eaten. These fellows are hungry. They're hungry. And you just
picture David now. David hid them somewhere. He
hid them. And they're hiding out. And he
told them to wait. I'm coming back with bread. You
wait right here. And you just picture these men
now. They're sitting there waiting. They're watching. They're hungry.
And they watch David go into the house of God by himself. all by himself. Now first of
all, in that, I want you to remember, Christ accomplished the work
of redemption alone. He did it alone. Now Limelech
the priest was afraid when he saw David and he said to him,
why are you alone and no man with thee? David's men watched
him go into that holy place alone to represent them. Christ said
he went into the house of God. He said David went into the house
of God. And David went into the house
of God. Elimelech the priest said to him, why are you alone?
Why are you alone? David would normally have an
entourage with him. He was one of Saul's men. And
here he is alone. Now, why does it say Elimelech
here is the priest, and when Christ talked about this, he
said Abiathar the priest? You know, men like to use that
as being a discrepancy in the scripture. Well, they were father
and son, and they were both priests. And their names are used interchangeably
because they're one. They're one. Abiathar was high
priest, and then his son, Elimelech. Christ Jesus is the King and
He's the High Priest of His people. He's the King, pictured in David.
He's the High Priest, pictured in the High Priest here. And
He's one with God, His Father, just like a limeleck and a biathar
were. He's one with God, His Father, and He's one with His
people. And by what Christ has done in making us kings and priests
unto God by His blood, we're one with God our Father in Christ
Jesus our Lord. And he one with us. Now Daniel's
men watch him and he goes along in there and he's going to bring
them bread. That's what he's going is to
provide them bread. Christ came alone to fulfill
the law of God. He came alone to fulfill the
law of God. And he did it for God and he
did it for his people. And there was no man with him.
Just like David's there by himself, no man was with him. He saw that
there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessor.
This is Isaiah 59, 16. He saw there was no man, wondered
that there was no intercessor, therefore his arm brought salvation
unto him and his righteousness, it sustained him. He said, I've
trodden the winepress alone and of the people there was none
with me. Christ did this work entirely alone. He did it alone. Now, there was a man there named
Doeg, and I want to go ahead and say this because this is
important. This will help you see Christ in this, but it's
important for the passage. Doeg was there. He was one of
Saul's men, and Doeg betrayed David. He betrayed Elimelech.
You look down at verse 7, it said, Now a certain man of the
servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord. And his name was Doeg and Edomite,
the chiefess of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul. Now we
don't know what the second causes were that detained him there,
but we know who detained him there. It was the Lord. The Lord
had him there. The Lord had him there on purpose.
He was there by the sovereign hand of God detaining him there. That's why he was there. And
Doeg heard what was said between David and Elimelech, and he went
to Saul. He's trying to get points with
Saul. He was looking for personal gain,
political motive, and he went and he told Saul. But when he
went, he implied to Saul that Elimelech had entered into a
conspiracy with David against King Saul. That was a complete
and total lie. We're going to see here, that's
not what happened. Later you can read it and Elimelech
says to Saul, I knew nothing about you and David being at
odds. I didn't know anything about
that. It wasn't treason on Elimelech's part. Doeg's the one that went
and lied to Saul about that. And so Saul slew 85 priests. 85 priests, including Elimelech. Now, Judas was pictured in Doeg. Judas was detained by the Lord,
and he and the men who crucified our great high priest and our
king only did what God determined before to be done. Doeg only
did what God determined before to be done. This was God's purpose.
It was his purpose. Now, so let's get back here to
Elimelech and David. And I wanted you to know that,
that it was Doeg who told this lie that Elimelech had conspired
with David. That was not true. Now, Elimelech
asked David why he was there alone in verse 2. And David said
to Elimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business,
and hath said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business
whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee. And I
have appointed my servants to such and such a place. Now, of
Christ we know this, the Lord Jesus was sent by God the Father
to do business for God our Father. We know that is true. Our Lord
said, I must be about my Father's business. And that's why Christ
came. But now concerning David, wasn't
David lying? Wasn't he lying? Wasn't this
just breaking the letter of the law here? He just lied to Elimelech. Well, yes, according to the letter
of the law, David lied. He did. But the Lord Jesus didn't
mention that. The Lord Jesus didn't mention
that. You know, Christ appeared to break the Sabbath law. He
appeared to break the law, but he was fulfilling it in love.
He was fulfilling it in mercy. He was providing bread for his
people. That's what Christ was doing. It was love, it was mercy
to provide for his hungry disciples that day in that cornfield. Just
like it was his love and mercy providing the bread of life for
his people on the cross. Now surely the Pharisees knew
this scripture. Surely they knew it. They would
surely have thought, well David broke the law. Why are you using
David as the example? He lied and broke the law. But the Lord knew David's heart
that day. I've read a lot on David here.
And you know, he just flat out lied, he's an unbelief, what
have you. The Lord knew David's heart right here, just like he
knew Rahab's heart. And Rahab flat out lied, and
he had despised. That's what she did. But the
Lord had James record it, it was an act of faith and love.
An act of faith and love. And the Lord used David as an
example of love and mercy, fulfilling the law, though it appeared he
broke the letter of the law. That's what the Lord's using
David to declare. Here's what I, and I won't be
dogmatic on this, but here's what I think is so. David has
no motive whatsoever to lie to Elimelech, to tell him, and this
is a lie, he's saying, I'm on the king's business. But he has
no motive to tell Elimelech this but one, there's one motive he
has for doing this. Well actually two, they're one
in the same though. One, by not telling Elimelech
that he's running from Saul and Saul's against him and wants
to kill him. If Elimelech gives him bread, Elimelech won't be
guilty of treason because Elimelech knows nothing about it. is protecting
Elimelech from treason. He can give David this bread
and he won't be committing treason because he knows nothing about
David's business. And also, if Elimelech and David
said it's because he wants Elimelech to give him the bread, so he
can provide bread for his hungry men. That motive's love. He did this for Elimelech and
for his hungry men. Now, in it, we see a picture
of Christ. Listen to this now. The Lord
Jesus knew no sin. He never sinned. He is the truth. You know, you can see a type
in contrast here because our Lord, when he was led of the
Spirit into the wilderness, and he'd been there 40 days, and
he was hungry. And the devil said, why don't
you just make bread out of these stones? And our Lord had worked
miracles. He had fed men, but he would
not work a miracle and feed himself. He would not obey the devil in
that. He would not be tempted by him. He was tempted in all
points like as we are yet without sin. But here's another picture
that we see of Christ right here in David. David became sin to provide bread
for his men. David went in there and spoke
this lie, which was a breaking of the law, to provide bread
for his men. When it came time to fulfill
the law for God and his people to bear the condemnation on the
cross. Christ Jesus willingly was made
sin for his people. That he might bear our guilt
and our curse and put it away. That he might give us the bread
of life. Are you with me? Is that clear
what I'm saying? Just like David went in there,
David is becoming guilty about what he's doing. But he's doing
it to provide bread for his people. And our Lord Jesus Christ willingly
was made sin for his people that God would be just to pour out
judgment on him that he might provide the bread of life for
his people. That's the love toward God and
his people by which Christ fulfilled the law. That's how he gave us the bread
of life. And Christ used David as the example of fulfilling
the spirit of the law, which is love and mercy. That's what
our Lord's using David for, to show. He said he did it for him
and his men. Christ did what he did for himself
and for his people, for God and for his people. Now, the next
thing here, by grace, because of what Christ has done, Christ
is the holy bread of life who made his people holy, who made
us alive forevermore. He is the holy bread of life. That means he's life. That means
if you have life, you're holy and righteous and will never
ever be otherwise. That's what life is. It's to
be completely without sin. Sin is death. Righteousness,
holiness is life. If you have spiritual life, it's
because you're righteous and holy. And if you have it, it's
because Christ made you righteous and holy. He's the bread of life. Now watch this verse three. David
said, now therefore, what's under thy hand? Give me five loaves
of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. David here
commanded this. He's the king. He's anointed
king. He didn't come in there and say, will you please give
me some bread? He walked in there and said,
give me five loaves of bread. Give it to me. He commanded it.
The Lord has commanded the salvation of his people. Five's the number
of grace. Remember, Christ fed the multitude
with five loaves. Five's the number of grace. God
elected us by grace. Christ redeemed us by grace.
The Spirit regenerates us by grace. We're saved by grace.
Five's the number of grace. And he's the holy bread of life,
verse 4. Now listen to what, and the priest answered David
and said, there's no common bread under my hand. There's no common
bread. There's nothing about Christ
that's common. His redemption's not common. His atonement's not
common. It's not universal. It's a particular
redemption of a particular people. There's nothing about Christ
that's common. He said, there's hallowed bread. There's holy
bread. There's holy bread. He said, if the young men have
kept themselves at least from women, and David answered the
priest and said to him, of the truth, women have been kept from
us about these three days since I came out, about these three
days since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are
holy, and the bread is in a manner common, David said, Yea, though
it were sanctified this day in the vessel, so the priests gave
him hallowed bread, for there was no bread there but the showbread
that was taken from before the Lord to put hot bread in the
day when it was taken away." Christ is the hallowed bread.
He's the bread of life. Our Lord Jesus said that in John
6. He said, except you eat. He said, I'm the bread that came
down from heaven. The bread that the Father has given you. The
bread pictured in the manna. The bread pictured right here
in the showbread. Except you eat my flesh. You
have no life in you. He's the bread. He's the life.
Believe on Christ. He's the life. And keep believing
Him. Don't start eating the bread
and then go eat some garlics and leeks from Egypt. Eat nothing
but the bread. Christ. That means don't look
to your works at all. Look to Christ only. Only. There's no bread but Christ the
showbread. That word means the bread of
faces. It's before the Lord all the time. That's what's the whole
deal with the showbread. It's before the face of the Lord.
And the Lord looked upon the showbread because He looks upon
Christ Jesus, His Son, and He's well pleased with Him. And you
and I partake of the showbread by faith. We eat Christ by faith
that we might come and be accepted before God's face. It's the only
way we can be accepted. It's through faith in His Son.
And there was no old bread there. When he's saying here that they
had just taken the hot bread, you know, this was a Sabbath
day. This was a Sabbath day. That's
when they would replace the bread. And they would put hot bread
in a place, a new bread that was put there, and then the priest
could eat the old bread. But there wasn't any old bread.
Just the show bread was all that was there, the new show bread.
And it was only for the priests, but they couldn't eat it until
it was been replaced with a new bread. Well, Christ is the new
bread. He's the only show bread, and
he's never old. He's never old. He keeps himself
new in the heart of his people, and he keeps his people renewed
to behold him and partake of him and feast upon him. His mercies
are new every morning. But Elimelech said to David and
the men that they had to be holy. They had to be holy. And David
said, of a truth, women have been kept from us about these
three days since I came out, and the vessels of the young
men are holy. He said, about three days since I came out.
Christ was in the grave three days, and he came out. And when
he came out, of that grave, every one of the elect children of
God that he justified by his death came out of that grave
in Christ Jesus, holy, holy, perfected forever by that one
offering. And in the new birth, the Holy
Spirit enters in. And when the Holy Spirit enters
in, there's life. There's a new holy man created
in the image of Christ. And Christ abides in us. He is
in his people, and we're in him, and it's in separable union with
each other, and that's how we're holy. That is how we're holy. Christ worked for us and in us.
He made us holy, spiritual virgins. That's it right here. They've
got to be kept from women. The picture there is He's made
you perfect and pure like a spotless virgin. That's the picture. Revelation
14.3. Let's look at this. Revelation 14.3. Whenever John saw the 144,000,
that's just a It's a definite number. That's
the point there. And God has a definite number
of elect people. It doesn't mean He only has 144,000.
It's a definite number. And Christ has a definite number
of people. It's called a number no man can
number. But it's a definite number. He
won't lose one of them. Every one of them will be accounted
for. But look what He saw. Verse 3, the end says, They were
redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not
defiled with women, for they are virgins, that is, spiritual
virgins, made so by the sin-atoning blood of Christ and by the Holy
Spirit creating a new holy man within us in the new birth. These
are they which follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth. These were
redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and
to the Lamb. And in their mouth was found
no guile, for they were without fault before the throne of God."
Why did Christ say nothing about David's sin? Christ uses David in this passage
that we looked at as the example of somebody who fulfilled the
law. Why does the Lord say nothing about David's sin? Because David
was sanctified, he was holy, he was righteous, he was a spiritual
virgin by Christ being his surety, by what Christ would do for him
and did for him and what Christ did in him. That's why Christ
didn't say anything about his sin. He, David, was without fault
before the throne of God. And Christ had put all his sin
away. He had no guile because he had
a holy heart created by God. That's the heart in which is
no guile. The carnal man is still in you and me, the fleshly man.
It's not so. But that new man, no guile, no
sin. That's the new spirit with which
we worship the Lord Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth. And he
was robed in Christ's righteousness. And what David did right here,
David performed the spirit of the law by showing mercy to his
men. That's why Christ is holding
David up here. Christ commends David because
he glorified Christ. That's why he's using David as
the example. In Matthew 12, 7, the Lord said,
if you had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy. That's what
the Lord told him. I will have mercy, not sacrifice.
I'll have mercy. You wouldn't have condemned the
guiltless. And I don't have a doubt the
reason he used David right then as the illustration, because
the Pharisees knew the scripture. They would have said, well, you're
using a man who was guilty. He wasn't guiltless. Oh, yes,
he was. Yes, he was. for the Son of Man's
Lord even of the Sabbath day. Love showing mercy, that's fulfilling
the law. It's not sacrifice. It's not
keeping the letter at the expense of the needy, at the expense
of mercy. Love shows mercy for Christ's
sake. It wouldn't be keeping the law to enforce it at the
expense of one in need. Now, tell me what you mean by
that, Clay. Well, Moses brought the children
of Israel out of Egypt. And he led them 40 years, and
not one of them was circumcised. And God had commanded Abraham
430 years before that all the males were to be circumcised. But God wasn't angry with him.
There was a greater commandment in force right then. Love and
mercy set aside the law of circumcision. Love and mercy did it. God commanded
they come out of Egypt in a hurry. They came out of there in haste
and they were to go to the promised land. They had need to flee from
Pharaoh's harm. That's what he commanded them
to do. And it would have been unbearable pain for them to have
been circumcised and have to march through that wilderness
and try to run from Pharaoh. And God set it aside in love
and mercy to them. In love and mercy to them. Love
fulfilled the commandment. On the Sabbath day, the Lord's
disciples plucked ears of corn and they ate them. But the Lord
said they did no wrong. They did no wrong. They had a
need. They needed to eat. They were hungry even though
it was a Sabbath. Love fulfilled the law of providing
bread for hungry sinners, though it appeared to some that it broke
the letter of the law. The reason God gave the Sabbath
day was for man. He gave it to show man mercy.
And whenever He made it so every man, even beasts, could rest. Could rest. Have a day just rest.
And we have turned that into a work. And men take the law,
which is to show us the love of God in Christ Jesus and what
he's done for us, and just will kill one another with the letter
of the law. when the whole point of it is
to show love for Christ's sake, mercy for Christ's sake. He's
our rest. He's our rest. In love, Christ
provided us bread, and He's continuing to provide needy, hungry sinners
life. He did it by laying down His
life for us. and in the holiest of holies
to represent us to God, just like you pictured David's men,
watching him go into that holy place by himself. We've seen
Christ go into the holiest of holies by Himself. And just like
David told his men, I'm coming again, I'm bringing the bread.
Christ said, I'm returning, and I'm the bread, and I'm coming
to give you life eternal. That's what we're waiting for.
That's what we're hoping for. And so as we're going through
this Sabbath day of rest, perpetually resting in Christ through faith,
in love and mercy, we're trying to feed each other the bread
of life, Christ Jesus, through this gospel, and restore with
this bread, and be merciful with this bread, and encourage one
another to keep looking to Christ, keep following Christ, and he's
the one who keeps feeding you and keeps you following after
him. That's the whole purpose. It's a new law we're under. It's
the law of grace. We walk by faith constrained
by His love because we see Christ. We're not trying to just kill
with the letter of the law anymore. He gave it. He said, I'm the
Lord of the Sabbath. He gave the law for his people.
He fulfilled the law for his people. He's the bread that he
gives each of his disciples himself. And it's his love and mercy to
us that makes us keep showing love and mercy to one another.
That's the rest we have in Christ. I pray the Lord will bless it. Our Father, we thank You for
this Word. Lord, thank You that You overruled the sins of Your
people, that You kept them looking to Christ and following after
Christ. You overruled the sins of Your
enemies, and You recorded it in Scripture for us to give us
these beautiful types of Christ to instruct us, to teach us. Lord, let us Let us understand, give us an
understanding, and help us to see that how our Redeemer suffered
for our sake, suffered silently for our sake, how that He was willingly made
what we are, that He might make us one with You. Lord, help us
to Walk by faith in Him and truly, truly help one another
that are hungry and fallen and needy by giving the bread. Make us to be used in your ministry,
Lord, to feed and nourish one another with this bread from
heaven. Lord, we know we can't do anything, but we ask you,
Lord, to give us the grace to preach your gospel, to speak
of these things to one another, keep each other in remembrance, to be willing, Lord, to become
guilty that we might provide bread for one another. Forgive us, Lord, for our sins.
Forgive us for our unbelief and fear and running from Saul's
in this world. Lord, make us more faithful. Make us trust Christ. Thank you,
Lord, for all you've done for us. It's in his name we ask it.
Amen.