Alright brethren, let's turn
in our Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 7. 1 Corinthians chapter
7. Our subject tonight is a word
for believers married to unbelievers. A word for believers married
to unbelievers. But I hope we'll see the gospel
as we look at this. Let's begin in verse 12. But
to the rest speak I, not the Lord." Now, you remember Paul
said this earlier. It means that our Lord did not
speak this when He walked this earth in an express command. We don't have it recorded in
the four Gospels. But this is the Spirit of God
speaking through Paul, the Spirit of Christ speaking. So if you
want to know what Christ has to say concerning Believers married
to unbelievers, this is where you find it. Right here. It doesn't
mean that Paul's just giving some advice. It means he's speaking
by the Spirit of God. Christ right here has given us
that word through Paul. And we'll see that a little bit
later when we get to another part of the chapter. But go on
reading now, verse 12. If any brother, this is a believer,
any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased
to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And the believing woman, who
hath a husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to
dwell with her, let her not leave him." You see, this goes for
the husband as well as for the believing wife. And then he says,
verse 14, "...for the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the
believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing
husband. Else were your children unclean,
But now are they holy. But if the unbelieving depart,
let him depart. A brother or a sister is not
under bondage in such cases. But God hath called us to peace,
and the marginal reference says in peace. He's called us in peace. For what knowest thou, O wife,
whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether
thou shalt save thy wife? Now when God makes a sinner a
new creation, the Spirit of God enters and He makes you a new
creation. The believer now has got a pure heart, he's got a
holy heart. That new man within you, Christ
in you, is a holy new man. And so our desire from then on
is we start wanting to please the Lord. We want to know what
pleases Him. And we want to please Him. We want to honor Him. The
Scriptures tell us this, in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails
anything nor uncircumcision. The circumcision, the Jews, they
held to the lie that a man is saved by his works. Paul said
that doesn't avail them anything. But even if you are in the uncircumcision,
you hold to the belief that you're not saved by your works. You
know the doctrine of grace. If your heart hadn't been made
new, that won't avail you anything either. What avails then? A new creation. God making you
a new creation, giving you a new heart with a new will and a new
desire and a new motive to seek Christ honored and seek Christ
glorified. Believers fail. We fail miserably. In fact, we only see ourselves
as failing. But God is successful in His
grace. And when He gives you a new heart,
you have a new heart. You have a new motive for everything
you do. You have a new love, new desire,
and you even have new fruits which are by the Lord Jesus Christ,
which He works in you and brings forth from you. And the saints understood this.
The saints at Corinth understood this. They knew what Paul meant
when he said, if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.
He's a new creation. He's something entirely new.
God made something new in that sinner that was not there before.
And in that new man, he said, old things are passed away. All things have become new. And
all those things are of God. They're all of God. But here's
what they didn't understand. They thought that even when it
said old things are passed away, they thought that even applied
to their civil unions in life and to their relationships to
their masters and what have you in life. They thought that when
they heard the believers not under the law, it would be like
saying, okay then, I don't have to obey the law of the land anymore.
I'm not under the law. And they even thought this in
their marriages. So you had here, you had these believers now who
they were not believers when they married. Neither was their
spouse. But now they're believers and
they're thinking now, well, should I just Should I put her away?
Should I divorce her? The believing wife thinks, should
I leave him now, since he's not a believer? Old
things are passed away, all things become new. And Paul's teaching
us here, or the Holy Spirit rather is teaching us through Paul,
that when two unbelievers are married, and then one is later
regenerated to faith in Christ, The believer should continue
honoring the covenant of marriage with the unbelieving spouse.
They should continue married to the unbelieving spouse. Now,
first of all, the exhortation is to stay married. It says there
in verses 12 and 13, if a brother has a wife that believes not
and she's pleased to dwell with him, she loves him, she's He's
a good wife and he's a good husband to her. She's pleased to dwell
with him. He says there, let him not put
her away. And the woman which hath a husband
that believeth not, if he be pleased to dwell with her, let
her not leave him. Now, this scenario is not of
a believer marrying an unbeliever. You understand that? This is
not a person who's been regenerated by God's grace and now They're
trying to determine, well, is it okay for me to marry a believer?
That's not what we're dealing with here. Look at 2 Corinthians
6 verse 14. Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers, Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers. What fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? What communion hath light with
darkness? And that applies to other things
besides just marriage, but it does apply to marriage. Now,
it's best if a believer does not tell an unbeliever that a
qualification, a prequalification for her to marry him is that
he has to be a believer. If you're a believing woman,
you don't want to tell an unbelieving man that. I've seen three or
four of them just say, all right, what's it take? You want me to
be baptized? I'll be baptized. You want me
to make a profession? I'll make a profession. Brother
Henry Mahan gave the best advice I ever heard on this. He said,
you want to meet somebody who knew the Lord before they knew
you. That's the best advice on that. Find you a believer. Now
our text is speaking of two people who married while in unbelief. They married while in unbelief.
And then later, God gave one of them life. Brought them to
Christ. Gave them right, made them righteous,
see they're made righteous in Christ and saved them by His
grace. Now he says here, if the unbelieving spouse is still pleased
to abide with you, then abide with them. Don't put them away,
don't get a divorce, abide with them, continue with them. Now,
then he gives the first of two reasons. He's going to give us
two reasons, but here's the first reason. It's because the unbeliever
is lawfully married in a covenant of marriage with that unbeliever. They're lawfully married, and
they've got legitimate children to care for. Look now here at
verse 14. For the unbelieving husband is
sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified
by the believing husband, else were your children unclean, but
now are they holy. Now, I believe like does more
to discover darkness. So I'm going to preach the light
on this, but let me give you a little bit of error that's
preached on this. People use this passage to try
to say that when you're both in unbelief, You're outside of
any kind of covenant with God, but then when God saves a believer,
that believer then makes that unbeliever to suddenly be brought
into a covenant with God, and likewise the children. God's
the only one that's going to bring you into a covenant with
Him. That doctrine makes men to replace
the old covenant infant circumcision with now they've replaced that
with infant baptism. saying that's just to carry over
now to the new covenant. Old things are passed away. All
things have become new. God puts us in Christ. And that's how we're brought
into this union with Christ in the everlasting covenant of grace
in His family. And that circumcision of the
infant, when they were just an infant, helpless by their father
is a picture of what God does in the heart in regeneration.
And that's when God brings you into covenant with Him. Read
Romans 2. He's not a Jew which is one outwardly.
Circumcision is not that in the flesh. No, no. He's a Jew which
is one inwardly. Circumcision of the heart by
God. So we praise God for that work.
Men don't bring one another into this covenant. So what's He saying
then by this? Well, I'm going to go around
a long way to explain this, but let me give you the brief answer
right now. Just briefly, he's saying, Husband, you married
that unbeliever unto you. You married her unto you. You
separated her unto you. You put her in a covenant with
you when you married her. Look here, this word sanctified by, The
word by is often translated in the scriptures unto. Unto. That's what it's often translated. And I'll show you why the word
sanctified is used. But let me just give you, let
me give you for our sake, our language, this is what you could
translate it as. You could write it down there.
The unbelieving husband is married unto the believing wife. The unbelieving husband is married
to the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is married unto
the believing husband. They're lawfully married. That's
what he's saying. Lawfully, legally married. Hebrews
13 verse 4 says this. You mean they were lawfully married
even though they were both unbelievers? Hebrews 13 verse 4 says, Marriage
is honorable in all. In the bed and the fowl, God
ordained marriage. It's ordained by God, and it's
so even if it's to unbelievers. They may not regard it as holy.
They may not have a clue what it means. But before God, it
is an ordained union that He sanctified, He made, He ordained
it. Now, in Hebrew language, this
is what we would put it as, espoused unto. That's the Hebrew language,
espoused. Read it that way. Here's why
we don't put them away. For the unbelieving husband is
espoused unto the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is espoused
unto the believing husband. The Jews used the words espoused
and betrothed and sanctified almost interchangeably when it
came to their ceremonies of marriage. When you're talking about marriage,
they use the words espoused and betrothed and sanctified interchangeably. Interchangeably. Why? Well, why
would you use sanctified? Well, just look at the picture. When you've singled a girl out
and you've engaged her unto you, what have you done? You've separated
her out from all the other girls, haven't you? And you've said,
this one's mine. And when you enter that marriage
covenant, she's lawfully yours. That's what he's talking about
here. Now let me give you the whole process that the Jews,
why Paul here being a Jew, raised a Jew, why he's using this word
sanctified. Alright? A man espouses, he engages
a woman to himself. Alright? He espouses her to himself.
At that point, he gives her a pledge. He gives her a pledge, a token,
that this is a contract that cannot be broken. Just espousing. This is like marriage. It can't be broken. I've espoused
you to me. And this was called betrothing
her unto himself. David espoused his wife Michael
to himself using a pledge, by a pledge, by betrothing her to
him. You can read it in 2 Samuel 3.14 at your leisure. Now, in
some cases, once they were espoused and he had given her this pledge,
betrothed her, then it was a long time before they married. A father
would espouse his virgin daughter to a man and there would be a
betrothing there, a pledge given, but they'd wait until she was
grown until she married the man. It would be a long time. But
when that pledge is given, that's unbreakable. It's unbreakable
then. The spouse is considered sanctified
unto him or sanctified by him. She's set out, she's brought
out, and she's his now. She's going to be his wife. That
meant she's lawfully his wife. Now, you get what I'm saying? They used that word, a spouse
betrothed and sanctified, all interchangeably when it had to
do with that with the process of marriage like that. And so
she was, from the time she's engaged to him, she's, and that
pledge is given, that's unbreakable. All it needs now is the consummation,
they need to be, the marriage consummated, that's it. Alright,
now the best example we have of this is Christ and His bride. You knew where we were going.
You know where we're going to see this. Christ and His bride,
His elect. Now go back to Hosea 2. I want
you to see this again. You've got to have spiritual
eyes to see this. You know that. Hosea 2 verse
19. Remember there Christ speaking
to His elect church, His true Israel. He said, I will betroth
thee unto Me forever. This was eternal. This is what
He did in eternal covenant of grace. And when He espoused her
to Himself, He said, I will betroth thee unto Me forever. What's
the pledge He's going to give? God's given His bride to Christ,
His elect people. Set her apart, given her to Him.
Now, what's Christ going to betroth? What's the pledge He's going
to give to assure her that she's betrothed to Him forever? And
it's unbreakable. Look here. I'll betroth thee
unto Me in righteousness and judgment, in loving kindness
and in mercy. It means I'm going to go to Calvary's
tree and I'm going to establish righteousness for you. I'm going
to justify you from all your sins. And at the same time I'm
doing that, I'm going to be showing you loving kindness and mercy.
I'm even going to betroth thee unto me in faithfulness, he said,
and thou shalt know the Lord. I'm going to come to you, and
I'm going to bring you to me, and I'm going to give this pledge
in your heart, and I'm eventually going to bring you into my house
with me, and this marriage is going to be consummated. You
see what I'm saying? So, when you look at Calvary's
tree, you look at the cross. Now, this was espoused, this
Bible was espoused to him from eternity. But you look at Calvary's
cross and you see his pledge, you see the betrothing he gave
was what he went accomplished on that cross at Calvary when
he fully redeemed us from all iniquity. And he did it in judgment
and mercy. and He made righteousness and
peace kiss one another. Now, He married our nature to
Himself and He made Himself one with us and us one with Him.
When He united our nature with His Godhead, He came in human
flesh and made us one with Him. That's why it says, both He that
sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one. What happens when a husband and
wife or when she's separated out to Him and they lawfully
enter the marriage covenant, they become one flesh. They become
one. Well, another betrothing He gives
to us is this. He gives us a pledge in our heart
when He saves us, when He calls us and makes us a new creation.
Listen to Ephesians 1.14. He says there, you were given
the Holy Spirit of God. You were sealed with the Spirit
of God. which is the earnest, that's the pledge, that's the
betrothed, I don't know the word, the betrothing that He gave to
you, His pledge He gave to you, the earnest, the pledge of our
inheritance, until He comes for that which is His purchased possession. It's lawfully His. You understand
that? And then at last, when the Lord
brings us home with Him to glory, It's called the Marriage Supper
of the Lamb. Look at Revelation 19, 7. Revelation 19, 7. I hope our young people see this
and see that you didn't realize that it's just like everything
else in life. Most everything, every kind of
tradition and every kind of civil thing in life, it's just a Usually
it's a bad knock-off of something that came from God and His people. And that's what marriage is.
Marriage was ordained by God, and it was a picture of Christ
and His bride, all the way right up to we're brought to glory.
Look here at Revelation 19, 7. Let us be glad and rejoice and
give honor to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His
wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. The fine linen
is the righteousness of saints, given to us by Christ. And He
said unto me, Write, blessed are they which are called to
the marriage supper of the Lamb." What happens after a wedding
is consummated, the service, the ceremony is over, you have
the supper, you have the reception. And that's why he said, we'll
be called to this supper, this marriage supper of the Lamb.
Celebrate this wedding, this feast. But for a long time, what
were we? We were the unbelieving spouse,
weren't we? For a long time. Did He put us away because we
were the unbelieving spouse? We were dead in sin. Did He put
us away? No. Why didn't He? Why didn't He
put us away? Because He espoused us to Himself. because He betrothed us to Himself,
because He married us to Himself, and therefore we were lawfully
His wife, so that He was bound to us not to break that covenant. Now, listen to this same language. That's what we see here in our
text. Paul is saying the reason you don't want to leave her is
because You've married her to yourself. You're lawfully married
to her. You went through this process. You espoused her to
you. You betrothed her to you. You married her. She's lawfully
yours. That's why you don't want to...
She's your wife. That's why you don't want to
put her away. You've made her your wife. You've made him your
husband. Now look here. I want you to see this language
though in Jeremiah 2.1. Do we need to read our text again?
Let me read it to you while you turn in there. Our text says this, if any brother
hath a wife that believeth not, don't put her away, he says,
because the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and
the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. Now look here,
Jeremiah 2, let me get there, Jeremiah 2, and look here at
verse 1. Over the word of the Lord came
to me saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem." Now, he's
speaking there to literal children of Israel, but this is a picture
of all God's true Israel, and this is what we were like in
the garden, in Adam, before we ever fell. when he had espoused
us to himself. Look, go cry in the ears of Jerusalem,
saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness
of thy youth, the love of thine espousals. See that word? I remember when you were married
to me, first married to me, When thou wentest after me in the
wilderness, in a land that was not sown, you were holiness unto
the Lord. You were sanctified unto me. You were espoused unto me. You
were lawfully married unto me. That's what he's saying. But
we sinned in Adam and we fell. But even though we did and became
the unbelieving spouse, that didn't change the fact we were
still married to him. So let's go back now. I want
you to read our text. Have I lost everybody? Are you
with me? Are you with me? All right, go back to 2 Corinthians
7 and look at verse 14. He says, So don't put away your
spouse, because the unbelieving husband is lawfully married unto
the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is married unto the believing
husband. You see that? She's set apart. She's sanctified. Not that you're going to be internally
sanctified or outwardly sanctified or that you're entering any kind
of covenant before God because of a believing spouse. It's just
simply this. You entered a covenant. She's
married to you. That's it. Why don't I put her away? Because
she's lawfully your wife. He's lawfully your husband. And
all of that pictures how that even though we fell and we were
the unbelieving spouse, Christ didn't put us away because we
were His. We were spouse to Him. Get that? Get that? Look at the next word,
verse 12. He says, "...else if you weren't
lawfully legitimately married, your children would be illegitimate."
But now they're legitimate. He's not saying now they're legitimate
because you suddenly believe. He's saying they're legitimate
because you're married when you had your children. They're legitimate. When the believer was an unbeliever,
let me just say it again. He entered covenant, marrying
that unbelieving wife to himself. He pledged to love her till death
parts them. So that's still binding, though
he now believes and she doesn't. That's still binding. Since his
marriage is lawful, his children are legitimate children. But
now, listen to this. Paul knew this. The Spirit of
God gave Paul wisdom to know this. Now, if he tells a believer,
okay, the Lord saved you, sent you, married, and now you're
yoked with an unbeliever. All right, now, if that believer
goes out and he goes, I'm divorcing my wife. The world is standing
by him and says, why is that? Well, when I was married to her,
I was an unbeliever, and now I'm a believer. So our marriage
before, it wasn't even legitimate. It wasn't even legitimate. Well,
then they're going to say, so you're saying your children are
illegitimate? And so Paul says, no, your marriage
was legitimate, and so are your children legitimate. So don't
put that spouse away just because you believe. Now you have the
care of these children and that bride that you engaged. You ought to love them more now
than you did when you married in unbelief. That will make you
love them even more than you ever did. Certainly not want
to put them away. You see, it was that thought
that led, that thought of, now I'm a believer so I can divorce
my wife or put her away. That's what ended up leading
to places where monks just left their wives and went off into
monasteries and all those kinds of things. That's what it led
to. We don't do that. You love more
now. Love more. Now here's another reason a believer
is not to leave an unbeliever. The reason a believer is not
to leave an unbelieving spouse. Verse 16, For what knowest thou,
O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou,
O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? Now, we were the unbelieving
bride of Christ. Remember, like I said? Yet He
loved us and He didn't put us away. What did He do for us?
He provided for us. He kept us. He loved us to Himself. He sent
the Gospel to us. He did everything necessary to
make us to hear of Him and know Him and rejoice in Him. He loved us to Himself. That's
what He did. It's the goodness of God that
leads thee to repentance. He loved us to Him. He said,
I'll never leave thee and I'll never forsake thee. You know
how how vile we were to Him. You know what? This here is talking
about a bride or a husband, unbelieving bride or unbelieving husband,
who is pleased to dwell with you. We weren't pleased to dwell
with Him. We didn't want to have anything
to do with Him. We hated Him. Now, our carnal mind was enmity
against God, and yet He said, I'll never leave her and I'll
never forsake her. I'm going to bring her to myself.
Remember how I did? I'm going to bring her into the
wilderness and I'm going to woo her to me. I'm going to speak
comfortably to her. I'm going to bring her to me.
And that's what he did. So he says here now, you remember
this too, he used believers to draw you to him. He used a believer
to preach this gospel to you to draw you to him. And so he
says likewise, now you that are a believer now, God might use
you as an instrument through which he draws that unbeliever
to Christ through the gospel. Look at 1 Peter 3 verse 1. 1
Peter 3 verse 1. He says, He says, You wives, be in subjection
to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also
may, without the word, be won by the conversation of the wives,
while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Does that mean God's going to
save somebody without the gospel just by making you behold somebody's
chaste conduct? No. Let me see if I can illustrate
it. I know a couple who were married as unbelievers. And the
Lord later saved the wife, but He didn't save the husband. And
she didn't leave him. She stayed with him. And every
chance she got, she kept tracks around her house and everything
else, so wherever he was in the house, he could pick something
up and read it if he was sitting there. She didn't force him to
do it. She just had him out there for him. If she was cleaning
the house or something like that and he was home or something,
she would, if she didn't try to beat him over the head with
it, force it down him, but if she could turn on a sermon on
DVD or cassette tape where he could hear, she'd do it. She
brought him to hear the gospel every chance she could get. And
she loved him. Tried to be a good wife to him.
She tried to put food on the table and clothe his kids and
everything else. And the Lord saved him. About
40 years into their marriage, the Lord saved him. That's the
story of my mama and my daddy. I know that works. I've seen
it. I've seen it. That's what he's talking about.
He's not going to do it without the gospel, but he'll do it with
the gospel. He'll use you as an instrument.
Oh, I'm glad Christ didn't put us away. Aren't you? I'm glad He didn't. He used believers
and He loved us to Himself. He brought us, He worked everything,
brought us to Himself. He might use you to do the same.
Now lastly, lastly, but if the unbeliever departs, the unbeliever,
if they just depart, now listen to this, verse 15, but if the
unbelieving depart, let him depart, A brother or sister is not under
bondage in such cases, but God hath called us in peace, or to
peace. Now, as much as we can, we're
to live peaceably with all men, even if you're a believer yoked
with an unbeliever. Scripture says, let us follow
after the things which make for peace. things wherewith one may
edify another. That means you might have to
bite your tongue. Might have your will crossed. Might have
to be in subjection when you don't really want to be in subjection.
But follow peace as much as you can. If the unbeliever insists,
though, that we forsake Christ, remember this too, the fruit
of righteousness. If there's going to be some fruit,
created by the incorruptible seed by Christ in that sinner. The fruit of righteousness is
sown how? Do you take out the Bible and
say, and wipe them upside the head with it and say, I wish
you'd just read this thing. No. You read to them if you can
read to them. Take them to hear this word.
It's sown in peace of them that make peace. Not just trying to
be offensive for the sake of being offensive. Trust it. The
world will be offensive if God starts working with him. Just
be as peaceful as you can be preaching it. But if that unbeliever
insists that we forsake Christ, And if we don't forsake Christ
and forsake His gospel and forsake His people, it's either that
unbelieving spouse or that unbelieving spouse is hitting the highway.
Either we leave Christ for the unbelieving spouse or that unbelieving
spouse says, I'm hitting the highway. If you don't, then you've
got to hit the highway. Because we cannot ever let anything
come between us and Christ. Nothing. Everywhere the Scripture
speaks about, you know, children obey your parents in the Lord. But now when the parents start
saying, you can't go hear that gospel preached. I got to go
with the Lord. I don't want to disobey my parents. I want to honor them. I want
to respect them. That's one exception. Remember Christ said, The foes,
a man's foes will be they of his own household. But he said,
if any man loves his dearest, nearest relations more than me,
he said, he's not worthy of me. And that's a cross, that's some
suffering, but he said, you got to take it up and bear it. Follow
him. Follow him. Now, when he says
that happens, the brother or sister is not bound to stay married,
nor are they an adulteress though they be married to another. The
two exceptions where divorce is justified are fornication
and abandonment because of the gospel. Because of the gospel. Now make sure it's abandonment
because of the gospel and not because we ran them off. See
what I'm saying? Abandonment because man will
not share you with the Christ. He says it's mere Christ, no
middle ground. It's justified. Now, God said
He's not going to make His child remain unmarried when that person
has abandoned them and unbelievers abandon them, left, who have
nothing to do. He can remarry. That's fine.
That's fine. But now, I want you to see this.
This just struck me at the last hour when I was working on this.
Even if an unbelieving spouse departs, or if a believer is
being divorced for another reason, Maybe it's not one of the just
reasons. But listen to this. Still remember this. God has
called us in peace. That's how He called you. He
called you in peace, didn't He? Here's what He's saying. Listen
to this. So long as there's no compromise on the gospel, you
still try to interact as peaceably as you can with that departing
spouse. You hear it? As peaceful as you
can, you interact with them. I think it's interesting here
that it's after speaking of that spouse departing that the Holy
Spirit moved Paul to write, For what knowest thou, O wife, whether
thou shalt save thy husband? Do you see that? It's okay, they're
going to depart. He said, But what knowest thou? Let me read it. Hold on. Look
at this. Look, he says, but God hath called
us in peace. For what knowest thou, O wife,
whether thou shouldst save thy husband, or how knowest thou,
O man, whether thou shouldst save thy wife? He's saying this,
don't forget how God called you, and don't forget whose you are,
and who you represent. And in this trying situation,
where your will's being crossed, and their will's being crossed,
and their tempers are flaring, and everything else, you still
try to Sow this truth as peaceably as you can, because you never
know. That just might be the hour when God gets their attention
and uses you to draw them to Christ. You mean even in something
that stressful like my spouse wanting to divorce me? Yeah,
even then. Even then. Don't you see that? You see how
He says that? God's called us, He called us
in peace. That's how He called us. And
He says, so you let them depart. Let them depart. Don't say, oh,
I'm going to divorce you, I'm going to beat you to it. You
let them depart. And remember, God called you
in peace. You never know. God just might call them. They
might look around and say, look how good they were to me even
when I was cussing them and leaving them and everything else. They
still just worried about my soul. I pray God will bless that. All
right. Eric, you come lead us in a closing here.