All right, we're gonna be in
2 Peter 3. 2 Peter 3, verses 8 and 9. 2 Peter 3, 8 and 9. And our title is, The Long Suffering
of God. The Long Suffering of God. And
we're gonna look at God's timing, and then we'll look at long suffering
to us. All right, so God's timing. Now
the hope of the believer is that Christ will return for us just
as he said. He gave us the down payment and
earnest whereby we know that we are his and that he died for
us and he gave us life by his spirit whereby we know him and
are brought from darkness into light and we know the Lord God
now and in John 14 verses one through three. That's an example
of the promise that he shall return for us. There's many,
but this is one in John 14, one in three, it says, our Lord says,
let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also
in me. In my Father's house are many
mansions. If it were not so, I would have
told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again. and receive you unto myself,
that where I am, there ye may be also." So this is our hope
and our belief. The hope that we have isn't just
for this life only, but also we hope and believe that we are
blessed in Christ in the life to come. Now if you turn over
to Hebrews 10, Hebrews 10, and I actually want to start in verse
34 at the end, Hebrews 10, 34, at the end there
it says, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better
and an enduring substance, cast not away therefore your confidence,
which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience,
he says, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive
the promise. For yet a little while, and he
that shall come will come and will not tarry." Now hold your
place there because we'll come back to Hebrews 10 in a bit,
but you know that's this promise of Christ returning for us and
bringing us home to himself and into heaven where the Lord himself
is seated on the throne of God This is right where the scoffers
attack, right? This is, in 2 Peter he says,
this is where they're going to attack and this is what they're
going to make fun of or at least cause doubt in our minds. It's around the seeming delay
of the Lord to come for his people. There were many that supposed
that the Lord would return in that generation. And so there's
scriptures that seem to indicate, at least there's scriptures that
show that the early church did think that it would be soon.
And you could see how the apostles labored to show that it's not
necessarily coming as soon as we think. So in 2 Peter 3, 3
and 4, Peter warns us, therefore, that before Christ returns, there's
going to be scoffers who are observing the fact that it's
been a long time since Christ was here, and it's been a long
time that that's passed. And so they use this length of
time to cause doubt in the minds of the believers. And it's like
the subtlety of the serpent who worked in doubt into the minds
of Eve and tried to cause her to doubt the word of God. Now,
Peter says in 2 Peter 3, verses 3 and 4, he says, knowing this
first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking
after their own lusts and saying, Where's the promise of his coming
for since the father's fell asleep all things continue as they were
from the beginning of the creation and When you think about it the
Lord warns us he tells us that in the last days It's going to
be a very very trying time. It's going to try the this this
earth and the people that are in the earth and so If you can
believe, even for us, it's going to be a trying time. He says
in Matthew 24, verse 24 and 25, he said, There shall arise false
Christs and false prophets, and they shall show great signs and
wonders, insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. So there's going to be a lot
of time that passes. And then here comes along false
Christs and false teachers that are showing great signs and wonders. And so a lot of people are going
to be taken away with these these false signs and these lying wonders. Turn over to 2 Thessalonians
2 2 Thessalonians 2 and we'll pick up in verse 7. You know,
we shouldn't think that we're not going to be tested. We shouldn't
be so cocky and think, well, it's not going to move me. I'm
going to be fixed and firm, secure in Christ. You know, I'm not
going to be moved by whatever comes. And the scriptures take
a lot of care. The Lord takes care to prepare
us so that we know that these things will come so that we're
not taken unaware and that we're not Troubled in our minds and
allow the doubts that come up because we ourselves Inflict
ourselves with doubt ourselves. You know, we don't even need
others to give us doubt We ourselves can work up doubt and so in the
final days whenever these final days ultimately come They will
be intense and they will be difficult for many people and Paul says
in 2nd Thessalonians 2 verse 7 For the mystery of iniquity
doth already work Only he who now letteth, or he who prevents
it, will let, or hold it back, until he be taken out of the
way. And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with
the brightness of his coming." Alright, so there's going to
be an evil spirit over the minds and the hearts of the people,
until the Lord return and take him out of the way. Even him
whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs
and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness
in them that perish, because they receive not the love of
the truth that they might be saved. And for this cause, God
shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie.
that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but
have pleasure in unrighteousness. So it's going to be a very trying
time and all the world is going to be deceived by these things. Only the Lord's people, they
shall be preserved because the Lord's going to keep their hearts
and they're going to endure to the end. They're going to believe
and continue to believe and trust that the Lord shall return for
them. Now back in Hebrews 10, Hebrews
10 38. Remember he was saying you have
need of patience. And that's because it's going
to be a very trying time. So what the Hebrew writer says
is very appropriate for us. He says in verse 38 Hebrews 10
38 now the just shall live by faith. But if any man draw back
my soul shall have no pleasure in him. We are not of them who
draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving
of the soul. And see, that's the distinguishing
mark of the believer. That's the distinguishing mark
of the child of God. They're not going to apostatize
from the faith. They're not going to be deceived. They may be tried. They may be
proved. It may be hard and difficult,
and they may be weak at times and cry out to the Lord and begging
him for confirmation or begging him for light and to strengthen
their faith and to help them through the trying times, but
they're not going to depart from the Lord. They're not going to
commit that unpardonable sin, which is Believe in the Lord, not believing
him, not trusting him. So the Lord, because the Lord
keeps his people, he's going to keep his people's hearts.
He says he'll return for them. That means he's also going to
keep our hearts. But we receive the warning because
there's many who profess Christ and they're getting the warning.
It's going to be tough. It's going to be difficult. Beg the
Lord, keep looking to the Lord, don't trust your own strength,
trust the Lord that He is able to keep you and it's going to
be difficult. And so look at 2 Peter 3.8, it's
the first verse in our text. 2 Peter 3.8. But beloved, be
not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." So, no matter
the intensity of the deception, no matter the call to abandon
our hope and trust in Christ, no matter what the scoffing or
the ridicule is that comes, the Lord's people will remain faithful
to Him, And that's what we see here in this verse. And we're
to understand that God's time isn't on our timetable. He's
not working to what we think it should be. And when we think
he should return, it doesn't go by what we think. The Lord God himself has determined
when he will return for his people. And there's nothing that we can
do to provoke God or get him to change his mind. He's going
to return when it's time to return. And that's what Christ says in
Matthew 24, 36. I'll read it. So we set ourselves up for a
very severe trial when we think we know when the end's gonna come. Sometimes,
especially if you like to speculate and think of these things, we
set ourselves up for a great trial if we think, well, you
know what, this is when it's gotta be, this is when the Lord's
gonna return, even if it's a window of time, but if we, as soon as
we begin to think that we know when the end is, and if we give
a day or something like that, we automatically, you know it's
not gonna happen at that time, at that day, because it's not
gonna be when man thinks it is, but probably in a seemingly peaceful
time is when it may come. But we're men, and so we're wrong. We're just wrong. And so don't
trust your own sight because even if things do get bad, the
Lord is always able to slow things down. You can always look back
at the Tower of Babel. It would have been over pretty
quick, but he came down and separated them. He brought confusion and
separated them and not delayed it, what, about 4,000 years now?
It delayed it a great deal of time. And we'll see because the
Lord is faithful and bringing all his people to salvation.
So he knows how to trouble man, how to slow man down, how to
trip him up and slow things down so that it doesn't just wind
out of control and get out of control. And we see this even
when we look at Saul. If you turn over to 1 Samuel
13, we see how we as men and women who are doers and we want
to see things get done, we see how we bring trouble upon ourselves
when we think, all right, enough's enough. It's too late. Let me
take things into my own hands. We do things because things aren't
working on our timetable. And so 1 Samuel 13 8, it says,
Saul tarried seven days according to the time set that Samuel had
appointed. But Samuel came not to Gilgal,
and the people were scattered from him. And what this is talking
about is that Saul was a newly he's a he's a new king you know
he's he's he's just come into the role as being king and he
actually went out and attacked a garrison of the philistines
and now they're coming back to pay him back for what he did
and so the people at first were excited And they gather to him,
but now Samuel hasn't showed up. The prophet, the judge, he
hasn't showed up yet. So the people are starting to
get worried and they're trickling away, going back home. And Saul's
getting worried about this. He's looking at this and saying,
oh, my numbers are dwindling. I've got to do something now
to make something happen. And in verse nine, it says, Saul
said, bring hither a burnt offering to me and peace offerings. And
he offered the burnt offering. And it came to pass, that as
soon as he had made an end of offering, the burnt offering,
behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him,
that he might salute him. And Samuel said, What hast thou
done? And Samuel said to Saul, Thou
hast done, oh, verse 13, Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done
foolishly. Thou hast not kept the commandment
of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee. For now would
the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel. forever. And so the lesson in that for
us is, as I was saying earlier, it may be trying and there will
be scoffers that arise and say, don't you see the Lord's not
coming again? He's not returning for you. Don't you see these
signs, these wonders? This is now our hope. This is
our creator. This is our God. These are the
things that we're to follow after. And when they do that, when those
who don't love the Lord do that, that's when the Lord will return
and say, what have you done? You have done very foolishly. So don't be turned away and look
to the signs and wonders and whatever deception comes. Continue
to look to the Lord. Don't fall prey to the deception.
Christ is going to return at his appointed time. And we don't
know when that is, so don't put a stumbling block in your way
by determining in your mind when it has to be. Don't don't put
that stumbling block in your mind because it's not going to
happen the way you think it's going to happen. And when it
doesn't, you're now setting yourself up to hear what the scoffers
say and be more likely to listen to what they're saying. And because
of this, our prayer should be exactly as the Lord taught his
disciples to pray, saying, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. We don't know what the Lord's
will is, but we pray that his will be done because we know
and trust that his will is perfect. It's right. What he does is right. And we can rest and content ourselves
that he does what what is right. So while we're here, we ought
to labor in prayer, praying for one another, praying that the
Lord would would strengthen our heart, knit it to his, knit it
with one another, and that we would serve our God and our brethren,
because Whatever is coming on the earth, it's going to come
whether we want it to or not, whether we're ready or not. So
the best thing we can do is know the Lord and rest in him and
be one with him, because then whatever it is, Will be prepared
because we're kept and held by him by his spirit giving us life
and comfort and hope in him Christ said in Luke 13 24 He said strive
to enter in at the straight gate for many I say unto you will
seek to enter in and shall not be able right and you see that
that that picture in scriptures where it shows us in revelation
that the Lord Christ first is going to reap His people. He's going to take His people
to Himself, and then the world's going to know that they've done
very foolishly, and they're going to cry out and say, what about
me? And the Lord says, it's too late now. Now comes the destruction
I've promised that's going to come upon the end of the world,
and then they'll be gathered together. like the branches that
are to be cast into the fire, and that's what will happen to
them. So don't cast away the hope that you have. As the Hebrew
writer said in Hebrews 10, don't cast away your hope. We have
great recompense of reward. Trust Him. This is the Lord we're
speaking about. We can trust His word. We can't
trust man's word, but we can trust the word of the Lord. All
right. That's our hope. Our hope isn't
in knowing when He's coming. Our hope is knowing Him and resting
in Him. So we want to be found in Him
and know Him. That's what we want to take care
to do. Now let's look at the long-suffering to us. Peter says
in verse 9, 2 Peter 3.9, the first half of it, He says, the Lord is not slack
concerning his promises. Some men count slackness, but
as long-suffering to us-ward. So while haters of God, they
look at the length of time and the delay of the Lord as a mark
that he's not coming, he's not who he says he was, he's not
going to return for you. Just join yourselves to the rest
of us and be one with us. Though they see this delay as
a mark that He's not coming, believers see it and understand
that this is a mercy of the Lord, that we've not been left out,
that He didn't come and wrap it up a whole lot sooner, and
we just never were. But rather, He's delaying this
to bring all His people that He loved from eternity into the
fold with Christ. The Scriptures reveal to us that
God loves His people, and because of the love that He has for His
people, the Father sent the Son. He sent the Son because He loves
the people. As it says in John 3.16, For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever, or those believing in Him, should not perish, but
have everlasting life. So Christ didn't come to make
us lovable. He came because God loves his
people, right? And for those who don't know,
I believe you all know, but Christ is speaking to Nicodemus, a Jew. And so when he says world, that
God so loved the world, he's showing that it's not just for
the Jews that Christ is coming, but for all His people, among
the Gentiles as well, scattered throughout the world from every
tongue, tribe, nation, and people, the Lord is drawing out those
that He loves and bringing them to Himself. So Christ came because
God the Father loves His people. That's why He came to save us,
so that we would not perish with the rest of the world. Man thinks
that he can control and manipulate God, right, by his will and his
choice. And we call them will-worshippers
because they're worshiping their will as though their will is
the deciding factor. Their will is God and not God. So they deny God his ability
to choose and they give all the power and the glory to themselves
by saying, well, I've decided that I'm going to follow Jesus,
or I've accepted Jesus into my heart. But that's not the language
of Scripture. Scripture doesn't talk about
what we do for Christ and how we've accepted Him. The Scriptures
talk about God receiving us in His Son, that God brings us into
the fold, into His family, in love, in grace, in mercy because
of the Son. So it's all our hope, our confidence
is in Christ. He did everything necessary for
our salvation. And the scriptures teach us that
God chose his people in Christ before the foundation of the
world was ever even laid. The scriptures tell us that everything
was settled. It says in Hebrews 4.3, it says,
the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
They're already done. It's already determined how everything
will be in the mind of the Lord we're not changing any of that
we're not we're not influencing God and getting him to to change
his mind to now bring us in and save us or to to be done with
us and and and to just throw us away the works are done in
Christ so we were chosen given to Christ from the very beginning
and the scriptures reveal that our names are written in the
Lamb's Book of Life our names are already recorded in his book
so There's no possibility that the people of God are going to
fall away even in the grand delusion. His people won't fall away. In
Revelation 13, 8 it says, And all they that dwell upon the
earth shall worship the beast, whose names are not written in
the book of life, of the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. The wicked, yes, they're going
to be lured away by whatever deception comes, and they're
going to follow that and believe that, but Christ's people, their
names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life, He promised, He
shall keep us and He will return for us and bring us home to Himself. The scriptures teach that God
chose His people back there in eternity, not because He saw
we would believe, But the foreknowledge of God is a knowledge of, I knew
you. You're mine. I chose you. I knew
you before you ever were created. Before you knew me, I knew you. I chose you. It's a very sweet
love that God has for his people. And it's meaningful. It means
something. It's not a, I wish I could save
you. I wish I could help you. I wish
I could do something for you. That's no love. That's a meaningless,
worthless love when it comes to salvation. If God can save
you but doesn't and let you go to hell even though he loves
you, what good is his love then? It's meaningless. It doesn't
do anything for us. But we see that the love of God
moved the Lord to send his own darling son to take upon him
the likeness of our sinful flesh to go and be spit upon by those
who hated him and treated him wickedly and foolishly and did
Very horrible things the Lord they beat him and they struck
him and they mocked him and he did that all For the love of
his people because he looked to the end of what he was doing
He saw all he saw his beloved bride whom he loved and he willingly
laid down his life For her to make her his own to purchase
her and to make her His wife forever and ever to put away
her sins and it says elect that we are the elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father and Through sanctification
of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ, grace unto you and peace be multiplied." So,
we see how the Lord there sends a spirit that sanctifies us,
that separates us from all the other tares, from all the chaff.
All that's to be destroyed, and he brings us to himself by separating
us unto the gospel, so that we will hear the gospel, we will
be fed through the gospel, we will feed upon Christ, we're
gonna hear him and believe, because he gives us everything necessary
for our salvation. In Romans 8, 29 and 30 it says,
for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate, to be
conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate,
then he also called. And whom he called, then he also
justified. And whom he justified, then he
also glorified. And that tells us that the promise
is going to come to fruition. He's going to glorify us when
he raises us up from the dead and gives us a body in the image
of his son Christ. We'll be glorified. So he has
to return for us. He can't leave us there in the
dust. forever. He will return, as you
said. And in Romans 3, 24, we understand
how this is possible. How can God be just to us and
justify us? How can he deal with our sin
and yet, in love and in mercy, receive us to himself? But in
Romans 3.24, it tells us that being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Okay,
so God isn't looking to us for our righteousness, for us to
do something in religion. He's looking to His Son, Jesus
Christ, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in His blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission
of sins that are passed through, and there's that word, the forbearance
of God, the longsuffering of God. God waited and sent the
Son. He didn't destroy us all in Adam,
but he sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to do that work of salvation.
He was longsuffering all those years till the Son should come.
And now that the Son has come, he's not going to end it before
it's time. He's going to ensure that all
his children are brought to hear and to know this glorious salvation
in Christ. And it's to declare, I say at
this time, his righteousness, that he might be just and the
justifier of him which believe it. in Jesus so that we see and
understand that Christ shed his blood to reconcile us to the
Father. He died in our place so that
we don't have to die that eternal death that we could never pay
off that sin debt. Christ paid the sin debt. He
became the shorty of his people and that's why we rejoice in
him. So all this work of salvation.
God designed it. God planned it. God executed
it. And he's going to bring it to the end. He's not going to
give up on it part way and just say, well, forget it now. I'm
just I'm angry and it's over. He's not going to just trash
it all. He's going to bring it to to its end purpose. So back in Romans 8 31 and 32. What shall we say then to these
things. If God before us who can be against us. He that spared
not his own son but delivered him up for us all. How shall
he not with him also freely give us all things so that now brethren
We have fellowship with the Father. Christ has reconciled us to God.
He's not angry with us because our sins are put away. They've
been dealt with. The price is paid. He paid it
in full with His own blood. And so there's fellowship. We're
not separated from God anymore, but we are now brought nigh or
brought near by the blood of Christ. And in 1 John, the apostle
tells us in chapter 1, verse 3, they heard this news. This
was revealed to them. The Spirit of God showed them
the mystery that was not easily seen in the Old Testament scriptures,
but he made it known to them. And so understanding now the
revelation, the mystery, They declare it to us and they tell
us we now have fellowship with God not based on our works But
because of the work of Christ because of what he did and it
says that which we have seen and heard declare unto you is
that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship
is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ so that so one
are we now with the father and the son all things are ours in
him everything that he has he's given to us as an inheritance
in the sum because the son has received all things he's done
all these things for us and so Peter calls us now in our text
beloved beloved Because we are now the loved of God. We are
brought into his family through adoption. Listen to the beautiful
description that Paul gives of us in Ephesians 1 verses 4 and
5. He says that it's according as
He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world.
See, He wasn't waiting for us to choose Him and accept Him
as Savior. He chose us so that we shall
know, we shall hear of Christ and know that He loves us and
that He died for us and He brings us to Himself. He hath chosen
us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestinated
us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according
to the good pleasure of His will." If we worship any will, it's
the will of the Father. We worship Him because He does
what is right and just and holy, and it's a blessing to us because
we ourselves are sinners. darkness and that's where we'll
stay until the Lord draws us out of the darkness into the
light and we have fellowship with him all right in Romans
9 18 it tells us therefore at the mercy on whom he will have
mercy and whom he will he harden So it's all according to God's
choosing us and putting us in Christ. And Romans 9 21 says
hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to
make one vessel into honor and another one to dishonor. Now
listen closely to these next two verses because this deals
with the long suffering of God. And listen to how Paul words
it. He says in Romans 9 22. What if God willing to show his
wrath and to make his power known endured with much long suffering
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction. Now he's taking
a slightly different way he's saying God's you know in the
long suffering that he has for us he's long suffering to the
wicked not for their good but he's he's bearing with them long
they're going to be destroyed but he's bearing with them for
our good, as he says in the next verse, and that he might make
known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which
he had afore prepared unto glory. So we see that the purpose of
God being long-suffering to the wicked, who are vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction, is that he might be long-suffering, that
he might be merciful to the vessels of mercy, that he's determined
before that they would be brought into this kingdom, brought into
the light of the sun. It's to make known his riches
of glory to them, to the vessels of mercy. Alright, so now seeing
that, go back to 2 Peter 3.9. It says, the Lord is not slack
concerning his promises. Some men count slackness, but
as longsuffering to us word. Now that's the key word to this
verse, the us word. And carry that us through the
rest of the scripture and then you'll understand that his longsuffering
isn't for all men in the hopes that they would accept him and
be saved by him, but it shows us that he's being longsuffering
to us who are his, whom he loved from the foundation of the world
till we all, who are his, come into his kingdom, into the family
of God. So it says, but as long suffering
to usward, not willing that any of us should perish, but that
all of us should come to repentance. So God is patiently waiting till
his children are all born in the time that's appointed for
them to be born, and that the time when they are to hear, the
time of their love, when they should hear the gospel, and the
time when the Spirit should come upon them, and cause them to
hear that gospel, and to believe. So it's all in the patience,
in the work of God doing this for His people. Alright, look
at Revelation 6. I know we're going a little over,
but I want you to see this. In Revelation 6, we see an example
of this, where the Lord is being patient until we all come to
life, till we're all born and we come to know this. Revelation
6, verse 9. All right, Revelation 6, 9. And when
he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls
of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony
which they held. And they cried with a loud voice,
saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge
and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? And
white robes were given unto every one of them. And it was said
unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until
their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be
killed as they were should be fulfilled. So God's not forgotten
us. He's not forgotten all his faithful
servants that shed their blood that laid down their lives under
the Old Testament. All the early believers in the
first century who who died under cruel death. The Lord's not forgotten
what they went through. He's going to avenge their blood. But he's long suffering to the
wicked, those vessels of wrath fitted to destruction until all
his children should be born and come. And if it pleases him that
we should lay down our lives and die as martyrs, if that's
the Lord's will, until the end is all done and it's wrapped
up and the Lord's done with the work because all his people will
be saved. So. The point is that in the
face of the strongest illusion, when all the world is falling
away and listening to the scoffers and being taken up with the grand
illusion, the Lord's people will be kept by the Spirit of the
Lord. They'll remain faithful and they'll confess Christ, believing
that he shall return as he said he's going to return. And pray
that the Lord strengthen us and strengthen his people in that
day because it will be intense. But the Lord will keep his people
and they'll remain faithful to him because it's according as
his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto
life and godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called
us unto virtue and glory. So I pray the Lord will bless
that to our hearts and Maybe we'll need that word ourselves
or maybe it'll be for another generation. But we trust the
Lord and don't don't listen to the foolish that say, yeah, you
know what? He's not coming. He is coming. He's returning.
He's promised us he will fulfill his word. He'll return for his
people. Let's pray. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for your word, that you are faithful. Lord, we know that
the word of man is not faithful. We know that we are Fools, and
Lord, we do foolishly, but we're not trusting in our own strength
and in our own resolve. Lord, we're looking to you to
keep us, keep us faithful, keep us looking to you, secure us
in Christ. And Lord, we look forward to
the day when you return and pray that you would keep our hearts,
Lord, and keep us looking to you. And Lord, we pray that you
come. Come quickly, Lord. We pray this
in our Lord and Savior's name. Amen. All right, so we're a little
behind, so just take about 10, 12 minutes, and then we'll begin
the next service. I did find it and I gave it to
her.