Let us commence our service this
afternoon by singing together hymn number 167, the tune of
St. Ethelwald, 58. Come all harmonious tongues,
your noblest music bring. Tis Christ the everlasting God,
and Christ the man we sing. Hymn 167, tune St. Ethelwald,
58. O come, O come, O come, O come, O come, ? Your loudest music ring ? ? Tis
Christ, the everlasting God ? ? And Christ, the man we sing ? Help our eternal friend To take
away our guilt Sing the hymns of sacred love And fell his monsters
spilt A loss of cruel spin When deep
into his side And the rich blood of the poor
Lord, their fathers' weapons do. The weight of sinning did all his bosom grow. And now takes on all my fears. and the glory of his chosen. Down to the strait of death he
bowed his awful head. Yet the hour goes to him and
me, When that himself is dead. ? Now all the glory's fair ? ?
The cross and hands no more ? ? The heritage self makes at his name
? ? O'er the heavens above ? ? Let the Redeemer sit
? ? High on His Father's throne ? Her father pays his vengeance
fine, And smiles upon his son. The mistletoe is shined With
uncreated rays, And there's His saints' and angels' eyes Let us read together from the
Holy Word of God in the Gospel according to Mark and chapter
14. We'll commence the reading at
verse 53. Mark's Gospel chapter 14, commence
reading at verse 53. And they led Jesus away to the
high priest, and with him were assembled all the chief priests
and the elders and the scribes. And Peter followed him afar off,
even into the palace of the high priest, and he sat with the servants
and warmed himself at the fire. And the chief priests and all
the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death
and found none. For many bear false witness against
him, but their witness agreed not together. And there arose
certain and bear false witness against him saying, We heard
him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands. And within three days, I will
build another made without hands. But neither so did their witness
agree together. And the high priest stood up
in the midst and asked Jesus, saying, answerest thou nothing?
What is it which these witness against thee? And he held his
peace and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him
and said, Unto him art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am. And ye
shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and
coming in the clouds of heaven Then the high priest rent his
clothes, and said, What need we any further witness? We have heard the blasphemy,
what think ye? And they all condemned him to
be guilty of death. And some began to spit on him,
and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, and the servants did strike him
with the palms of their hands. And as Peter was beneath in the
palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest, and
when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him and said,
and thou also was with Jesus of Nazareth? But he denied, saying,
I know not. neither understand I what thou
sayest. And he went out into the porch
and the cock crew. And a maid saw him again and
began to say to them that stood by, this is one of them. And
he denied it. And a little after that they
stood by, said again to Peter, surely thou art one of them,
for thou art a Galilean and thy speech agreeth thereto. But he
began to curse and to swear, saying, Oh, no, not this man
of whom you speak. And the second time the cock
crew, and Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto
him before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon,
he wept. May the Lord bless the reading
of his own precious word and grant unto us a spirit of real
prayer. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,
which is and art and art to come, from everlasting to everlasting,
thou art God. We are a company of poor sinners,
O Lord, And we desire to bow before Thee, the only true God,
and to worship Thee in Thy Son, Jesus Christ. For, Lord, this
is the only way we can come, for we are born in sin and shaped
in iniquity. And we desire, O Lord, a spirit
of confession of our sins, of our unrighteousness, of our uncleanness,
the corruption of our heart. As the prophet of old declares,
from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, wounds
and bruises and putrefying sores, there is no soundness in my flesh. Gracious God, how true these
words are. There is no soundness in our
but we do thank thee that we can come in the name of Jesus
Christ. We can plead his precious blood,
his glorious righteousness, his precious blood that cleanses
us from all sin, his glorious righteousness that covers our
nakedness and fits us to stand in thy presence. We pray Most
gracious Lord for that sacred sense of our eternal Father's
love in our hearts. God so loved the world he gave
his only begotten Son. What a precious gift, as the
dear Apostle himself says, thanks be unto God for his unspeakable
gift. And we think of the words of
Jesus, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto
the Father, but by me. And whatsoever ye ask in my name,
I will do it. Gracious Lord, we thank thee
for that wonderful name, power, grace, and love of our Lord Jesus
Christ. We thank thee that he came upon
this sinful earth as a man, lived as a man under the woman under
the law made of a woman oh most gracious lord what a glory there
is in the in that condescension he took upon him the form of
a servant and was made in the likeness of man of sinful man
and yet he was without sin he lived a holy life a sinless life
He fulfilled and honoured and magnified thy holy law to redeem
us, to deliver us from the curse of the law, from the bondage
of sin and Satan. Lord Jesus, we desire, as we
sung in our opening hymn, we desire a spirit of thanksgiving
that we might harmoniously join together in praise to thee for
thy sacred glory. for that fullness that there
is in thee. In thee dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily, and thou art full of grace and truth. Lord Jesus,
thou art the heavenly storehouse, the bank of faith, and we desire
to come to thee this afternoon hour and to truly worship thee
in spirit and in truth. We desire to be led by the Spirit
of God For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are
the sons of God. We desire, like that dear woman
of old, if I might but touch the hem of his garment, I shall
be made whole. And Lord, that is our desire
as we come together, to touch the hem of Jesus' garment, to
draw from that sacred fullness that is in him. The fullness
resides in Jesus our head, and ever abides to answer our need.
My Beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. Help us to follow Thee, help
us to serve Thee, help us to live unto Thee. Give us this
afternoon those sacred drawings of our Heavenly Father, for none
come except the Father draw. We think of those beautiful words,
yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore,
with loving kindness have I drawn thee. Oh, to know that sweet
drawing unto the Lord Jesus, and to know that spirit of faith,
to lay hold of that hope that is set before us in the gospel,
to believe and to believe in, to rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory. Oh, grant us clear views of the
glorious person, of our precious Redeemer. Help us to follow Him,
help us to serve Him, help us to live unto Him, help us to
present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto Thee,
which is our reasonable service, and that we be not conformed
to this world, but may we be transformed by the renewing of
our mind that we might know what that good and perfect and acceptable
will of the Lord is. Lord, we do pray that thou wouldst
visit us with thy great salvation even this afternoon. Be with
us as we gather round the table of the Lord and grant thy sweet
presence and thy love to be shed abroad in our hearts. We think,
O Lord, Dear friend and brother who expects to sit down at the
Sheboygan this afternoon for the first time, we pray that
thy presence may be felt there, and a spirit of love and union
may be known and felt among them. And that we pray, Lord, for thy
servant there, in his weakness, that thou would strengthen him
and help him and encourage him. And we pray, most gracious Lord,
that would look upon us as a church and as a congregation. Grant
us that spirit of love and union and communion, one with another. Grant, most gracious Lord, that
we may be enabled to speak to one another, to have that converse
one with another. It may be with us as it was with
those two dear disciples, did not our heart burn within us. And as thou hast said in thy
word, they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and
a book of remembrance was written. May that be a means of grace
unto us here, that we may be enabled to speak to one another.
We pray, most gracious Lord, that thou in thy precious mercy
was blessed the little ones, the children, We love to see
them and hear them in the house of God, and we pray that thou
wilt richly bless them in their young and in their tender years.
Put the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom, into
their hearts. We do humbly beseech of thee. And we pray for the young friends,
each one of them, that they may be blessed of thee, led and guided
and directed by thee, and that Thou would bring them to living
faith in Jesus Christ, to know Thee, to serve Thee, to follow
Thee in their day and in their generation. Be with them in all
the paths of providence. Guide them, O Lord, in their
education and in their, any future employment. May they see Thy
hand going before them and may it please Thee to grant them
a partner in life's journey, one that fears thy name, that
they may walk together in the bonds of love. Oh, do hear us,
Lord, we humbly pray thee. Remember the prodigals. There
are those, O Lord, that have wandered away from the ways of
wisdom and truth and righteousness. We pray that thou wouldst lay
hold of them. nothing too hard for thee, nothing beyond thy
power. O gracious God, have mercy upon
them, work in their hearts, cause them to return. We do humbly
beseech thee for thy great namesake. Remember this village and the
surrounding villages and hamlets, gather in precious souls from
this district, into the sanctuary. Lord, we watch for them, we wait
for them, and we pray that thou wouldst appear, that thou wouldst
make bare thine holy arm in the gospel, that thou wouldst pull
down the strongholds of Satan and set up the kingdom of our
Lord Jesus in the hearts of sinners, that thou wouldst give us hearts
to receive them. Hear us, Lord. We humbly pray
that that we may see Zion's offspring come. Lord, we pray for our dear
friends in Holland, that thou would bless and be with them,
our dear brother and sister there. Remember dear Ina at home and
undertake for her. Remember us each for good. O
Lord, we do beseech thee that remember us with the favour thou
bearest unto thy people. and visit us with thy great salvation. We pray, most gracious Lord,
bless each one in the midst of the journey of life. There are
those, O Lord, that are married and have children, and we pray
that thou would bless and be with them and guide and direct
them and bless their little families. And remember those, O Lord, have
no families that are in the midst of the journey of life and we
lovingly commend them all to thee and to the word of thy grace
which is able to build them up and to grant them an inheritance
among them that are sanctified. May it be their chief concern
to be found in him. O gracious God, do incline thine
ear, do remember each one, in the troubles and trials and afflictions
and sorrows of life's journey. Remember those of us that are
in the evening time of life's journey and graciously be with
us and guide us safely unto thy heavenly kingdom. And as the
dear apostle says, to grant an abundant entrance into that heavenly
kingdom. Lord, we do pray that thou in
thy great mercy would remember thy Zion, may bear thine holy
arm in the gospel, send out thine light and thy truth, return in
thy power and in thy glory as thou usest to be in the sanctuary. Wilt thou not revive us again? O Lord, we do humbly beseech
thee. We thank thee for every mercy
of thy kind providence. We thank thee for all thy goodness
that has passed before us in the way. We thank thee for the
everlasting righteousness of Jesus Christ, our only hope to
cover our nakedness. We thank thee for the precious
blood of the Lamb that cleanses from all sin. We pray that thou
wouldst come and touch one's lips with a live coal from off
the heavenly altar. We ask for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. Let us now sing together hymn
number 156. The tune is Saint Matthew 271.
I'll read the first verse. And then we will sing verse two
and verse five. If dust and ashes might presume
great God to talk to thee, if in thy presence can be room for
crawling worms like me, I humbly would my wish present, for wishes
I have none. All my desires are now content
to be comprised in one. Hymn 156, sing in verse 2 and
verse 5. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
Alleluia, Alleluia, ? It's time for us to go away ?
? So long as I could get a place ? ? I'd tell the crowd to wait
? My heart rejoices in the world
of Christ, where love and righteousness flow. It shall be the hour of my soul,
and with it all am beginning. Christ is born. ? O come all ye faithful ? ? Joyful
and triumphant ? Great E. feeling to need the Lord's gracious
help and direct our attention to the chapter that we read,
the Gospel according to Mark, chapter 14, and we'll read verses
60, 61, and 62. Mark, chapter 14, verses 61,
62, and 63. sorry friends, 60 to 62. And the high priest stood up
in the midst and asked Jesus saying, answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness
against thee? But he held his peace and answered
nothing. Again the high priest asked him
and said unto him, art thou the Christ? the Son of the Blessed. And Jesus said, I am. And ye shall see the Son of Man
sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds
of heaven. Very solemn, sacred scene we
have here of our Lord Jesus standing before the leaders of the Jews. It says he came unto his own
and his own received him not. And it says in Isaiah 53, a man
of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And what sorrows he had
to pass through as we were reading together here, how that they
mocked him. And some began to spit on him
and to cover his face and to buffet him. And when we consider
just how great this man is, we tried to speak of it this morning,
the man, this man, and we consider that he is the eternal son of
the eternal father. And how he was treated here upon
earth, despised, rejected of men, despised and rejected. And here the high priest and
how he speaks to the Lord Jesus, trying to trip him up, And they
couldn't get any witnesses to agree. It says in verse 59, but
neither so did their witnesses agree together. So they couldn't
charge him. They couldn't crucify him properly. All he wanted to do was to destroy
this holy, this righteous, this pure, this undefiled man, the
man Christ Jesus. And the purpose of their bringing
him before them was to find some guilt with him. Pilate, he said
unto them, I find no cause of death in him. And of course there
wasn't any cause of death. They couldn't find true witnesses
to witness against him. And those that came forth and
said that, he said that I will destroy this temple and build
it in three days and they accused him of some terrible thing but
there was this is true what he did say the temple he said we
have heard him say I would destroy this temple and that is made
with hands and within three days I will build another made without
hands And of course he wasn't speaking of the literal temple
at Jerusalem, which of course they considered to be holy. He
was speaking of his own human nature. The temple is the dwelling place
of God. The human nature of Christ is
the dwelling place of God. And the word was made flesh and
dwelt among us. That is translated often tabernacled. He dwelt among us. And we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth. And this is what they were seeking
to do. And this was indeed the predeterminate
counsel of God. That they would destroy this
temple. They would crucify the Lord of life and glory. But they were fulfilling what
was determined of God beforehand. See, he would rise again, though
he died. Though this temple of his sacred
human nature was crucified and he did die, it was all a voluntary
act. Christ said to them, you could
do nothing against me, except it were given you of heaven.
There was nothing that could be done against you. When Peter
smote off the ear of Malchus, the servant of the high priest,
and the Lord Jesus said, put up thy sword into thy sheath,
the cup that my father had given me, shall I not drink it? You see, he was willing. He was
willing to suffer, to bleed and die. He himself said, Father,
if it be possible, let this cup, this tremendous cup of suffering
and sorrow and grief, let this cup pass from me, but not my
will, but thine be done. What a mercy if you and I know
something of that sacred spirit and mind of Christ. not my will,
but thine be done. It's a great mercy, my beloved
friends, to be brought willing. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power, not my will. You know, my mind, it just
goes to these sacred ordinances of God's house and believers'
baptism. view the right with understanding.
Jesus' grave before thee lies. Be interred at his commanding
after his example rise. You see, not my will, but thine
be done. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And then we have the sacred ordinance
of the Lord's Supper and the words of Jesus to his followers. This do. Do you love him? Do you desire to love him? To
follow him? To live in obedience unto him?
Oh that the Lord may give you that mind, the mind of Christ,
not my will. It may be your will is not to
do these things. but the will of the Lord is that
you should. And if you love me, to keep my
commandments, all that the Lord would grant that we, these things
may lay with weight upon your heart and mind and give you that
willingness. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power, when the love of Christ is shed abroad
in your heart, and to follow him. to follow the Lord Jesus. And the high priest stood up
in the midst and asked Jesus, saying, answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness
against thee? But as he already said, the witnesses
did not agree. And if you're in a court of law
today, if the witnesses do not agree, then you will not be convicted. In the mouth of two or three
witnesses, it says in Holy Scripture, what is it which these witness
against thee? But he held his peace. You think
of this, but he held his peace, and then you think of those words
in Isaiah, at 53, he was led as a lamb to the slaughter. And
as a sheep before her shearers is done, so he opened not his
mouth. He opened not his mouth. He was
wounded for our transgressions. One hymn writer, I believe is
Joseph Swain, how willing was Jesus to die. There was a willingness
with that one thing in in view, the redemption of his church.
The deliverance of his church, his people from sin and from
Satan's power. And this was the only way it
could be done. And he says, not my will, but
thine be done. But he held his peace and answered
nothing. Again, the high priest asked
him and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? The Christ, of course, means
the Messiah. Christ means the Anointed One,
the Messiah. And Jesus said, I am. I am. You see, I am that I am. when the Lord Jesus was here
on earth. He's the Son of God. We find
in the Book of Exodus that beautiful word, twice in the Book of Exodus,
where he speaks of the Lord Jehovah, and he expresses it in that way,
I am. In Exodus chapter three, We read,
and God said unto Moses, I am that I am, written in capital
letters. That means the eternal God. It means the Lord Jehovah. I am that I am. I am the great
I am. I always have been, and I always
will be. I am from everlasting, to everlasting. And God said unto Moses, I am
that I am. And he said, thus shalt thou
say unto the children of Israel, I am Ascension. The great I am, the eternal God. It goes on in the Exodus chapter
6. And God in verse 2 And God spake
unto Moses and said unto him, I am the Lord. And I appeared
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God
Almighty. But by my name Jehovah was I
not known to them. And I have also established my
covenant with them. There's a connection here between
the name Jehovah and the covenant. The name Jehovah It is the name
that can be experimentally known by the Lord's people, and only
by the Lord's people. It means the self-existent, the
almighty God. I have also established my covenant
with them. That eternal covenant that was
made in the great I Am, between the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost. These three. Awam. These are the great I Am. I Am
has sent them. And of course what so disturbed
the Jews because he said I Am. I Am the Blessed One. I Am the One whom the Father
has sent. The Jews always understood from
the Book of Daniel And it was their understanding that the
Messiah, the great I Am, it says in Daniel chapter 7 verse
13, I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of
Man came in the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days
and they brought him near before him and there was given him dominion
and glory and a kingdom that all people, nations, and languages
should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting
dominion which shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which
shall not be destroyed." And you see, my beloved friends,
they believe that when Christ would come, the Messiah, that
this is who He is. So when Christ answered him,
I am, art thou the Son of the Blessed One? He said, I am. Goes
on in there in Daniel 7, verse 22, Until the ancient of days
came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High,
and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom. You see,
the saints possessed the kingdom. In verse 27, And the kingdom
and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole
heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most
High. whose kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and all dominions serve Him." You see, the Son of Man,
one like unto the Son of Man. And so when Christ answers here
to the High Priest that He is who He is, He declares Himself,
Jesus said, I am. And you shall see the Son of
Man sitting on the right hand of power. what is revealed in
Daniel chapter 7. You shall see the Son of Man
sitting on the right hand of power, coming in the clouds of
heaven. And he says, the high priest
says here in verse 64, you have heard the blasphemy. What think
ye? And they all condemned him to
be guilty of death and began to spit on him and to cover his
face. Oh, my beloved friends, the humiliation
of Jesus, the Son of God, rejected, despised, set at naught. You see, this is the path the
Saviour trod. And in some little measure, the
Lord's people have to walk the same pathway, a pathway of humiliation,
of sorrow, of sadness, And the purpose? To sanctify us. To separate us. Jesus said, I
am. You see, art thou the Christ,
the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am. And ye
shall see the Son of Man on the right hand of power coming in
the clouds of heaven. You see that? This is what was
prophesied by Daniel. prophesied by others of the prophets
that the Son of Man would come. And Christ here, he calls himself
the Son of Man. Most of the references to Christ
as being the Son of Man were spoken by Christ himself. And
as we said this morning, it's highlighted in his human nature
that the Son of God became bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh. He became the Son of Man. And He became the Son of Man
to redeem His people. We looked at Hebrews chapter
2 this morning. He was made little lower than
the angels for the suffering of death. He came, the Man of Sorrows and
acquainted with all the tremendous costs of our salvation, that
Jesus, the Son of God, had to suffer, to bleed, and to die
for the sins of his people. Or that we may have been able
to meditate a little on that. As Isaiah says, he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities, Everyone
says, doesn't it, was it for crimes that I had done? He hung
and suffered there. Was it for me? Is that the question
you ask? Was it for crimes that I had
done? He hung and suffered there. Did he live for me? Did he die
for me? Did he suffer for me? Did he
rise again for me? Is that the question in your
heart today? Is that the question you desire
to know the answer to? that the Lord Jesus did these
things for me, and Jesus said, I am, and ye shall see the Son
of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds
of heaven. He will come a second time without
sin unto salvation. A second time. And you know,
friends, it's very clear in Holy Scripture that the Lord Jesus
only comes twice. He's been here once, when he
was made of a woman and made under the law, that he might
redeem them that are under the law. He came here once to live
and suffer and bleed and die for the sins of his people, and
then he's coming again. It says in the Hebrew, doesn't
it, he will appear a second time. And as far as I can see in the
whole of Scripture, it's only twice that the Lord Jesus comes
here upon earth. When he comes a second time,
and as it says here, sitting on the right hand of power and
coming in the clouds of heaven. And the Lord Jesus, he gives
us some very clear and some very solemn warnings concerning the
coming of the son of man in power and great glory we read in Matthew
chapter 25 and again notice and virtually every reference to
the day of judgment Christ is called the son of man when the
son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels
with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory And before
him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one
from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats. He
shall set his sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. You see, and then those on his
right hand, come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Come. Beautiful word, isn't it? We
touched on it this morning. Come, ye blessed of my Father. It's a gracious invitation. And it will be spoken to all
those that are on his left hand. Those that were chosen by the
Father and redeemed by the Son and sanctified by the Holy Ghost,
called by divine grace. There were those that were called
by divine grace like Samuel in their very young years. And there
are others like the dying thief who was called in the last moments
of his life when the Lord Jesus said, today shalt thou be with
me in paradise. Today. And they'll all reach
eternal glory. They'll all stand at the judgment
seat of Jesus Christ. But when he comes, he will say
to those on his right hand, come, ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world. The Apostle Peter, he says, to
an inheritance incorruptible and that faded not away reserved
in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation ready to be revealed at the last day. Come, ye blessed of my Father.
Surely, to a poor, dying sinner, what a sweet voice, what a wonderful
voice to hear. Come. Come, ye blessed of my
Father. Inherit. Inheritance can't be
purchased. By its very nature, inheritance
is given. And hence, the name here, an
inheritance, can't purchase it. It's already been purchased by
the precious blood and righteousness of Jesus, the Son of God. And
it's through His merits alone that any of us shall reach heaven. Come ye, blessed of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. And then if we look down, and
it says about those on the left hand, verse 41, then shall he
say unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into
everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels just
as that wonderful word come so beautiful so sacred so precious
so surely this awful word depart Depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. And these shall go away into
everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. What a solemn separation, isn't
it? We should ask the question that John Kent does in his well-known
hymn, How stands the case, my soul, with thee? For heaven are
thy credentials clear, Is Jesus' blood thine only plea? Is he thy great forerunner there? Is he? Did Jesus live for you? suffer for you, die for you. You may say, oh, that's just
what I need to know. It's just what I want to know.
Well, you keep seeking. You keep seeking. It's vital,
my beloved friends, that we have a personal knowledge of Jesus,
the Son of God, a revelation, our eyes opened, the light of
the gospel to flow into our heart, deliverance into our soul. It's
vital. It's needful, it's necessary. And the high priest stood in
the midst and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? What
is it which these witness against thee? But he held his peace and
answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him
and said unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? And Jesus said, I am. And ye shall see the Son of Man
sitting on the right hand of power, coming in the clouds of
heaven. May the Lord add his blessing
to these few remarks that we have made.