Alright brethren, let's go back
there to Romans 15. Now having quoted Scripture,
having quoted Psalm 69 to show us Christ, how that the reproaches
of them that reproach God the Father fell on our Lord Jesus
Christ. So having quoted that Scripture,
Paul says in verse 4, for whatsoever things were written aforetime
were written for our learning that we through patience and
comfort of the scriptures might have hope. We have quite a number
of students in this congregation and I think all of us here at
one time or another have been a student If you had a really,
really important class, vital, vital class that you were taking,
how do you think that you would do in that class if you never
read the textbook? The most important thing we can
learn, the very most important thing that sinners like us can
learn are the things of God. And this is the textbook. This
is the textbook. When we go through life as believers,
everything God is bringing into our life in providence is the
test. It's the exam. And we will not
be able to pass the test if we have not read the textbook. and
studied it and are very familiar with it. The Bible is the most
valuable word in the world. This word, the scriptures are
the very word of God. It's the living word. This word
is alive. You who believe know something
of that. It's hard to explain what that
is, but you that believe know what I'm talking about. This
book is alive. And this book abides forever. Think of how long this word has
already abode. This word will never cease to
be. When all other books are burned
up and all other forms of learning are totally destroyed by God,
this Word will still abide. This is the most valuable Word
there is. Turn over to 1 Peter chapter
1. Nothing can do for a sinner what
this Word can do. No other book can do what this
Word can do. 1 Peter 1 verse 23. Peter says, we're born again. Born again. Not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible. What is that? By the Word of
God, which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh is as
grass, and the glory of man is the flower of grass. We get nothing
from our flesh. Nothing. The grass withereth,
the flower thereof falleth away, but the word of the Lord endureth
forever. And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached unto you. That's why preaching is so important. It's because when it's preached
in truth, you're preaching the very Word of God. The very Word of God. To not be under the gospel, to
not be hearing the Word of God preached, is to really truly
say, I don't really care what God said. There's some things
that's a lot more important to me. Listen to this. Wherefore, seeing that this word
is the most valuable word in the world, wherefore, lay aside
all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and
all evil speakings. He is saying, let nothing come
between you and the word of God. the preaching of the gospel.
Nothing. Lay it all aside. Well, you just
don't know how I've been offended. Don't matter. You need this Word. I need this Word. Lay everything
else aside and as newborn babies, as harmless babies, desire the
sincere milk of the Word. Hunger for the Word that you
may grow thereby. if so be that you've tasted that
the Lord is gracious. Look over at 2 Peter 1. Now this
word gives life, brethren. This is the word by which the
gospel is preached. This word gives life. Now look
here at 2 Peter 1.16. Somebody will say, well, how
do you know that's the word of God? I don't believe it's the
word of God. Listen to this right here. Verse
16, We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made
known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from
God the Father honor and glory, when there came such a voice
to him from the excellent glory, saying, This is my beloved Son
in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from
heaven, we heard it, Peter said, when we were with him in the
holy mount. Now surely, Nothing could be
as valuable as being in the mount of transfiguration and hearing
with your ear and seeing with your eyes as Christ Jesus was
transfigured in all his glory and God spoke from heaven, this
is my beloved son. Surely nothing could be more
valuable than that. Verse 19, we have also a more
sure word. this book right here. We got
something more sure than if you stood in the Mount of Transfiguration
and beheld that with your eye. We have the word of God. Listen,
it's the word of prophecy. Where to you do well that you
take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. That's
what, as this word goes forth to you and it's entering into
your ears, it's like light shining in a dark place. This is the
light. The word's the light. You're the dark place. I'm the
dark place. And this light shines in until
the day dawns and the day star arises in your hearts until Christ
Jesus, the S-U-N of righteousness arises and the day dawns and
you have light. That's why we heed this word.
That's why we're here to hear this gospel preached. So that
day star arises in our hearts, Christ the Son of Righteousness.
Knowing this first, no prophecy of the scripture is of any private
interpretation. That means this scripture is
not of man. It's of God. Look, that's what
he says next. For the prophecy came not in
old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. In other words, every word of
the Holy Scriptures is the very word of God. It's the Word of
God. He used men, holy men that He
made holy, that He separated. He used men as vessels, just
like you pick up a pen or a pencil and write your word out. He used
men to write His Word, but it's God's Word. It's not the Word
of men. It's God's Word. And yet this
world esteems this Word as worthless. as worthless. Eternity bound
sinners, sinners who are going to stand before Almighty God
in judgment, spend countless hours reading fictional books
about nothing. Those are the idle words for
which God said every man is going to give account in the day of
judgment. Read fictional words that are
of no profit, turn around, spend all this time telling some other
sinner about this fictional story they read. Idle words. Idle words. No profit. Imagine the horror in the end
when God makes sinners to know that they had the priceless word
and they esteemed it. is absolutely worthless. Imagine
the horror. I've titled this the most valuable
word. And here's why this is the most
valuable word. It's given, number one, for our
learning. For our learning. Number two,
to give patience and comfort of the scriptures. And number
three, to give hope. to give hope. That's why this
is the most valuable word. First of all, the scriptures
are for our learning. Verse 4, for whatsoever things
were written aforetime were written for our learning. Now what does
Paul mean by whatsoever things were written aforetime? Whatsoever
things were written aforetime. What's he talking about? Well
in his day, he was talking about the Old Testament scriptures.
the Old Testament Scriptures. Because in his day, the New Testament
had not been fully written yet. God was using men like Paul and
Peter and James and John to write the New Testament, but it hadn't
been completed yet. So he's talking about, Paul's
talking about the Old Testament Scriptures. But when we read
this and we read whatsoever things were written aforetime, for us,
it means all the Scriptures. All the scriptures. Now when
he says whatsoever things were written, that means everything
in God's word is for God's people and it is profitable. There's
nothing in this word that's unnecessary or superfluous, it's extra, it's
all profitable. Every bit of it. Listen to, or
turn with me, 2 Timothy 3. 2 Timothy chapter 3 verse 15. Paul says, he's talking to Timothy
and he says, From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus. That's why this is the most valuable
word. This Word is able to make you wise unto salvation, which
is through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God and is profitable, all of it. For doctrine, that's teaching,
or we might say for our learning. It's for doctrine, it's for reproof,
It's for correction, it's for instruction in righteousness
that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all
good works. That's what this Word does for
those God blesses it to. This is what it does for us.
It's profitable. Profitable. Now what does God
make His people learn from the Word? This Word is for our learning. What does He make us learn? Brethren,
in everything we're taught in this Word, we learn everything
in Christ. It's to learn Christ. Over in
Ephesians 4 verse 20, Paul said, You've not so learned Christ. If so be you've heard Him and
have been taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus. They were
doing something contrary to the Scriptures and He said you've
not learned that from Christ. If you've heard Him and have
been taught by Him and found that the truth is Him and in
Him. And that's it brethren. We learn
Christ by hearing Him. We learn Christ by being taught
by Him. And we learn that Christ Himself
is the truth. He is the truth. And we learn
all that through this Word. Through this Word. The Lord Jesus
is Himself the incarnate Word. He is the incarnate truth. He
is the Word in human flesh. The truth in human flesh. The
Word, capital W-O-R-D, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and truth. Christ said, I am
the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but
by me. If we went back and And we looked
at verse 14 and 15 here. We are learning that we are to
bear the burdens of the weak brethren. We are to bear their
burden, bear their errors, bear their infirmities, bear with
their sins. And how did we learn this? We
learned that we are not supposed to try to judge their heart and
judge their motive. Why do they think they have to
eat on a certain day? They have to eat a certain thing.
Oh, they're legalists is what they are. You don't know their
heart. I don't know their heart. There's
one that does. How did He teach us that? He
went to Christ and said, He's the judge. And He will make His
child stand and He's the only one that can do it. See, if we
learn something like this, we have to go to Christ to learn
it. How do I learn not to try to judge the heart when I don't
know the heart? I go to Christ and remember He's
the only one that can judge the heart. He knows the motive. And
He's able to make His child stand. He goes a little bit further
and he says whether a man's in error and he's eating certain
things that he doesn't have to eat or whether he's strong in
the faith and knows that he doesn't have to eat special meats. The
kingdom of God is not meat and drink. But what do you learn? You learn that the kingdom of
God is righteousness. Where do you behold that righteousness?
In Christ. The kingdom of God is peace. Who's our peace? The Lord Jesus
Christ. The kingdom of God is joy in
the Holy Spirit. Where does this joy in the Holy
Spirit come from? What is it? It's Christ. Our
all. What I'm getting at is everywhere
He went. Then He gets to Romans 15 here and He says, We that
are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not
to please ourselves. Let every one of us please his
neighbor. Let every one of us do what's
good for our brother. Because, where did you learn
this? For Christ, please not himself. We're always going back to Christ,
aren't we? We're always going to Christ to learn everything
in this book. And what about if I'm reproached? What if men take everything I
say and twist it into something evil from an evil motive and
just throw it back in my face? Just remember, bear their burden. bear their infirmity, and bear
their reproach. Because even Christ said, Father,
the reproaches of them that reproached you, it's fallen on me. And He
bore it, that He might save His people from our sin. So what
I'm getting at here is, when you learn anything in this Word,
you're learning it by Christ, and in Christ, and from Christ. Everything is learned in Him. Everything. You divorce any kind
of teaching in the Word of God from Christ, you're just teaching
moralisms now. We have to be taught it in Christ
so that we see we're not saved by anything we do. We're saved
by Christ alone. But we learn from Christ how
we ought to walk in this world. You don't go to the law given
at Sinai and learn how you are to walk in this world. You don't
learn it there, because that law teaches no love. It doesn't teach the spirit of
love. It shows no mercy. None of that. Where do you learn that? Where
do you learn love and mercy and long-suffering and forbearance
and all of these things? Christ must teach us the rule
we're under. And we learn it from Him, how
He deals with us. That's how we learn these things.
And how are we going to effectually hear this Word and have an interest
in this Word? Because in the season of His
love, when it pleased God, in the hour appointed from the foundation
of this world, we hear Christ speak. He speaks in the heart
and He commands us, an effectual command, when He says, take my
yoke upon you and learn of Me. You know, there was a time you
and I hated this Word and we didn't want to hear anything
about this Word. And then all of a sudden, one
day, over a little time, you began to find yourself wanting
to read this Word. And you found yourself actually
hungering to read this Word. Couldn't wait until you could
get home and there was some quiet time where you could sit down
and read the Word. Hear the Gospel preached and
look the Scriptures up. and go back and forth and look,
I used to love when I got that little bitty, Henry Mahan's commentary
used to come, it originally came in a little box and it had all
these books in it, six or seven books in it. And I would take
those books in just the very beginning of being able to hear
anything and I would open those books and you would, he'd have
the verse so you could read the verse and then he'd have commentary
on it. and he'd have some scriptures
to look up. And I'd take it and I'd read the passage, and I'd
read what Brother Henry wrote on it, and then I'd look those
scriptures up. And my heart, I just remember,
my heart was just overflowing. I can remember reading it going,
that's exactly what it says. It's what it says. And I could
understand it. I was rejoicing in it. That's
when Christ has commanded you affectionately. and said, take
my yoke upon you and learn of me. I'm meek and lowly in heart. I'm not going to scold you and
whip you and deal with you harshly. Come, sit down under this kind,
loving master and hear him teach you the word and you'll find
rest for your souls. Well, what do we learn of Christ?
Well, through the preaching of the Scriptures we learn that
Christ Himself is the Lord our righteousness. That's the first
thing that we're going to learn and the focus the rest of our
days. Christ is the Lord our righteousness. Jeremiah 51.10 says, The Lord
hath brought forth our righteousness. Come, let us declare and sign
the work of the Lord our God. See, the Lord brought forth our
righteousness by sending His Son into this world. Scripture
says, Whom God hath set forth. The Lord hath brought forth our
righteousness because Christ He set forth. What did He set
Him forth for? to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission
of sins that are passed. To declare how God can remit
sin and do it in a way that's righteous. He said, to declare,
I say it this time, his righteousness that he might be just and the
justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. The most important
question that you and I need answered is how should a man
be just with God? Who can bring a clean thing out
of an unclean thing? How then can a man be justified
with God or how can he be clean that's born of a woman? Do you
know the answer to those questions? Where am I going to find the
answer to that question? How can a holy God pour out justice
upon a guilty sinner like me and at the same time give me
eternal life? How can He do that? Romans 5.21, look there with
me, Romans 5.21 says, As sin hath reigned unto death, You
see, sin entered in and we couldn't stop it. It reigned. And sin
reigned unto death. Even so, and you can put there
for might, you can put shall, Romans 5.21, you can put even
so shall grace reign through righteousness. Not through sin,
through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. In Christ, grace reigned and
righteousness reigned. In Christ, truth reigned, justice
reigned, and grace and mercy reigned at the same time. At
the same time. All God's elect were crucified
in Christ. We died in Christ so that righteousness
and truth reign supreme. God's just. And at the same time,
by dying in Christ, the law is satisfied toward His people,
so the law has nothing else to say to His people, and God teaches
us Christ is all our righteousness, and we learn that at the same
time that He crucified us, grace and mercy reigned, because it's
in Him that we're made alive. That's how you can find the answer
to that question. How can a man be just with God?
Only in Christ. Only in Christ. What else do
we learn from this Word? Well, when we behold the necessity
of God sending His own Son into this world to justify His people,
that teaches you and me we are so sinful and so ruined that
we are incapable of doing anything to save ourselves. If we could
do one thing to save ourselves, God would not have sent His only
begotten Son. He sent His Son because His people
can't do anything. We can't save ourselves. And
the Lord Jesus came forth and He did the work. And when you
behold Him and all what it took for God to make His people righteous
and holy, when you begin to behold Him in the context of Christ
and the holiness and righteousness of God, you begin to learn, I'm
just the opposite. I'm sinful. I'm ruined. I'm incapable. Here is what a
man needs to learn. Verily, every man in his best
state is altogether vanity. I tell you when we will stop
pointing the finger and condemning and accusing and blaming and
setting ourselves over others, when we learn that everything
about us, the very best things about us are nothing but vanity. We're as an unclean thing and
all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. We all do fade as
a leaf and our iniquities like the wind taking us away. And Christ has to reveal this
to us. We can't even acknowledge our sin until he teaches that
to us. We've received not the spirit
of the world but the spirit which is of God. that we might know
the things that are freely given to us of God. That's the only
way you know this gospel. The only way. He has to give
you the Spirit of God and teach you that everything God has given,
everything you've received, God gave it and it's all free. It
didn't cost you anything. It cost His Son everything. Why
does it have to be this way? because the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness
to him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned." A natural man can't know these things. He won't look
into these things because they are foolishness to him. But not
only that, he can't. He can't. I think I told you
all this one time. I had a young friend that the
Lord had just given him a new heart, taught him the gospel,
and like all of us, he was talking to an older fellow, but he was
wanting to tell him what the Lord had taught him, and he was
hoping the Lord, you know, make Him rejoice in it too. Tell Him
how God is sovereign, how He elected His people unto salvation
and Christ came and laid down His life for those people and
put away their sin and made them righteous and how the Spirit
comes and gives you life and faith and just going on and on
declaring how it's all of God. And this older gentleman said,
I just can't believe that. And my young friend said, see
there, you agree with me. I thought that was the best thing.
I just can't believe that. He said, you agree with me, you
can. Sure can. Secondly, God gives
His children patience through comfort of the Scriptures. It
says there, the things that were written were written for our
learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures.
What is godly patience? Godly patience is much more than
just putting on a good outward appearance in difficult times.
It's much more than that. It's not merely a calm disposition
in difficulties. Godly patience is willingly submitting
to God's will in all of providence as we wait on God to save. That's what it is. Our sinful
flesh may first react like we don't even know God and never
even heard of God, because that's all the flesh can do. But God
brings you to His Word, makes you hear the gospel preached,
makes you see it in His Word, and He settles your heart, and
He makes you patiently wait on God to work His will. And that's
by the Scriptures, brethren. And so patience gives us experience. When you wait on God, you go
through the trial and the trouble and you experience how God always
brings glory to Himself and good to His people. You looked at
this trial and this trouble and you thought, I don't see any
way possible that God could bring glory to Himself and good to
His people in this. Nothing about this looks like
anything could come out of it. And when you patiently wait,
and God brings you out the other side, hindsight, you look at
it and say, He always brings glory and good out of everything. The sin's my fault, whatever
it was, I'm not excused for that. But He overrides that. And He
brings you to behold. He's doing everything for the
good of His people. Everything. Everything. And after
you've experienced that, now you're going to be, he's going
to grow you a little bit. You're going to be a little more
mature because you've experienced it. So when the next trial comes,
oh, you'll be in your flesh at first and you'll act like you
just never even heard of God, but then he'll settle you down
with the scriptures and he'll bring you through that next trial.
And you're a little more patient because you already experienced
a little bit of a trial. And now you've got a little more
experience, a little more maturity so that when you face the next
one... Have you ever noticed old believers that have been
in the faith a long, long time? You take something that happens,
a new believer had been in the faith 10, 15, 20 years. You take an old believer right
there with him, same trial, he's been in the faith 50 years, 60
years. And this young believer is just, the world is coming
on me and I just don't know what we are going to do. We got to
do something. We got to fix it. And the old believer is just,
just wait on the Lord. Why? He's experienced it. He's
patiently endured a bunch of these trials. And he's seen God
work it over and over and over. And so he's got the maturity
to just say, just wait a little while. Just wait a little while.
This race we're in, and what I just told you is from Romans
5.3, you know that. It says we glory in tribulation. We glory in trial. Thank God
for the trial. Always thank God for the trouble.
Thank Him. Because tribulation works patience. And patience works experience.
That's maturity. And maturity works hope. It builds your hope. And hope
never makes you ashamed. And all of this is by the love
of God being shed abroad in our hearts. Now, this race we're
in, there's all different types of races. You got a sprint, you
got, you know, a hundred yard dash, and you got marathons. This race of faith is not a sprint. I've only run one 5K race in
my life. But what I saw in that one race
was I saw some people take off real fast, and it wasn't very
long, and they were at the back of the pack. And some of them
even dropped out. But those that just started out,
running at just a slow pace, but a steady pace, they ran the
whole race and never stopped. This race of faith is not a sprint. It's a marathon where you have
to pace yourself. That's why scripture says, run
with patience the race set before us. looking to Jesus the author
and finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before
Him endured the cross. He ran this race and now He's
seated at God's right hand. So run this race with patience
looking to Him. And God gives us patience by
giving us comfort of the scriptures. When we are in trouble And there's
times that your fleshly reaction is always going to be impatience
and unbelief. That's the only way the flesh
can react. But when God gives you some patience and settles
you down, He does it by giving you Scriptures. You might hear
it through the preaching of the Word and then go home and you
read the Scripture, but He's going to give you some comfort
in the Scriptures. What kind of comfort can make
me patiently run this race? What kind of comfort can make
me endure and know that this is going to work out for my good?
What kind of comfort does that? God says to His preacher in Isaiah
40 verse 1, He says, Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith
your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Cry unto her that her warfare
is accomplished. Her iniquity is pardon. She's received of the Lord's
hand double for all her sin. The comfort that we get from
the Scripture is we find out Christ has already accomplished
our warfare. He's already put our sin away.
He's already made His people righteous. And because God's
just, the justice that demanded Christ die on that cross for
me now demands God not let me go. He must bring me home. He must bring me home. And that
comforts His people. I don't know what's going to
happen. But I know this. God's going to keep me. He's
going to keep me. I know that. And you have these
fleshly feelings and in these trials they make you real to
and fro like a drunk man and you can't get any comfort. But
God brings you to this Word and He reminds you His mind is always
on you. You that are His. His mind is
always on you. His purpose is always unfolding
for you. His works are all being done
for you. And He's doing it that He might
keep you looking to Christ and bring you to Himself. So it doesn't
matter what you feel like. It doesn't matter what you feel
like. Listen to this. Martin Luther wrote, God's Word
shall stand forever. The Bible shall prevail. God's
Word shall stand forever. His truth can never, never fail. For feelings come and feelings
go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God. Nothing else is worth believing.
Though all my heart should feel condemned for want of some sweet
token, There's one greater than my heart, whose word cannot be
broken. I'll trust in God's unchanging
word till soul and body sever, for though all things shall pass
away, His word shall stand forever. And His word says this, those
He's loved, He never stops loving. Those He's been gracious to,
He never stops being gracious. Those He saves, He never stops
saving. The mercy of the Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him and His righteousness
unto children's children. Israel shall be saved in the
Lord with an everlasting salvation. They shall not be ashamed, they
shall not be confounded, world without end. How can I be sure
of this? Because the gifts and calling
of God are without repentance. He never takes it away. You see,
it wasn't based on something in you. for God to choose His
child and give us these gifts, so nothing in you is going to
make Him take them away. That's what grace is about. That's
what grace is about. Now, let me move on. I've got
to skip some things and just want to briefly give you this
last point. The Scripture, through all of this, God gives us hope.
He says there, Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written
for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures
might have hope. Tell you what it says about hope
in the scriptures. It's from the God of hope, it's
through the hope of the gospel, that God makes your faith and
hope to be in God. It's all of Him, it's in Him,
it's by Him. What is hope? It's a confident
expectation that God will give me the purposed end that He's
promised to give me. It's a confident expectation
that God shall give me the purposed end that God has promised to
give me. Listen to the words, Jeremiah
29 11, God says, I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith
the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you an expected
end. That's what our hope is. God's
going to give us what He purposed from the beginning. That's what
He's going to do. Blessed is the man that trusteth
in the Lord, whose hope the Lord is. Our hope is Christ. He's
our hope. He's our hope. And we have this
hope as an anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast, that has
entered into the veil, into the holiest of holies. And He's sitting
there now as a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
There's where my hope is. And so since all of this hope
comes by the Scriptures, you know what God's child says? Psalm
135, in His Word do I hope. I learn it all through this Word.
And so in this Word I hope. All my hopes in Christ. He's
seated at God's right hand. All my hopes in this Word. This is where I get all the learning
that I have. This is where I get patience. This is where I get comforted.
This is where I get hope from. God gives it to me through His
Word. Brethren, we have a lot right
now. We have a lot. You who believe God, we have
a lot right now. At this moment right now, we
are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus who loved us. right
now. At this moment, right now, Christ is reigning in the hearts
of His people and He will not allow our flesh to have dominion
over us again. We have that. Right now we have
eternal life. We have it now. But the best
is yet to come. The best is yet to come. Our
hope is looking for the day when our Lord Jesus Christ returns.
and we behold Him as He is and are perfectly conformed to His
image so that we have no sin, so that we can worship Him in
spirit and in truth perfectly. And we'll enter with Him into
glory and be glorified together with Him and everything that
He inherits, we're a joint heir with Him and it's all ours too.
And this we're hoping for. We're hoping for it. And so God
says, hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought to
you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Don't ever stop hoping. It's a sure hope. It's a hope
that will be fulfilled. So brethren, I pray God will
use this to make you see this word This preaching of the gospel,
the preaching of this word is the most valuable word there
is. I've tried to stress this to
my children from the time they were old enough to understand
what I'm saying. This word is the most valuable word you'll
ever come across. It's priceless. This Word is
how you learn Christ. This Word is where true spiritual
patience comes from. This Word is where all comfort
comes from. This Word is where our hope comes
from. And that makes this the most
valuable Word. I pray God will make you and
I know that. Amen.