Take your Bibles and turn back
with me to 1 Samuel chapter 2. 1 Samuel chapter 2. And my text will be found in
verse 9. Text is found in verse 9. Scripture says, and he will keep
the feet of his saints. And the wicked shall be silent
in darkness. For by strength shall no man
prevail. And we have before us tonight
this prayer of Hannah. And I know this, that every believer
in Jesus Christ, we all read this, we identify with everything
this woman prayed. With everything she says. She
says, my heart is enlarged. My heart is enlarged. I rejoice
in the Lord. My horn is exalted. What is she
saying? I rejoice because Christ is exalted. The word horn has to do with
strength. My strength is exalted. She rejoices in Thy salvation. She rejoices in the salvation
of the Lord. She rejoiced in His holy character, His attribute
of holiness. There's none holy like the Lord.
There's none besides Him that's holy. When you think of the holiness
of God, you think of the justice of God. And why do we praise
God for His justice? Because God is not only just,
He is also our refuge from that justice, isn't He? He's just,
but listen, He's a rock. He's a refuge. We rejoice in
that. Every believer is humble. Talk
no more exceeding proudly. Let not arrogance come out of
your mouth. In this the heart of every believer
we have no arrogance, we have nothing to be proud of, nothing
in self to rejoice in. So what do we say to ourselves?
Don't let any of that come out. Why? For the Lord is a God of
knowledge, and in Him and by Him actions are weighed. We rejoice
in this, the bows of the mighty are broken, and they that stumbled
are girded with strength. Which are you? The mighty? We
were. What did He do with our bow? He broke it. We stumbled. And what did He do? He girded
us with strength. Isn't He gracious? They that
were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those that are
self-righteous, what are they? Empty. And they that were hungry have
ceased. In other words, there's no more work for us. We've ceased
working for bread. My Christ is the bread of life
for us. They that are barren have born seven, and they that
have many children are wax feeble. Lord killeth and maketh alive,
he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up. He maketh poor
and he maketh rich, he bringeth low and he lifteth up. He raised
up the poor out of the dust and lifted up the beggar from the
dunghill and set them among princes to make them inherit the throne
of glory. For the pillars of the earth
are the Lord's and he has set the world upon them. Every believer
can identify with this prayer. We were the beggar and the dungheel.
Isn't that where God found you? It's where He found me. I thought
I was rich and what did He do? He made me poor. He showed me
my poverty. And then He exalted me to sit
upon the throne. Where are you tonight? Aren't
you seated with Christ? Scripture says that we are seated
in the heavens with Christ. Every believer, we know this,
we know we were dead, Lord killeth, and what do you do? Maketh alive. You that were dead, you now live. This is the work of the Lord
and we rejoice in His salvation. And so then this promise, this
promise found in verse 9, which we're going to look at tonight,
the keeping of our feet. The Lord promises His saints
He will keep the feet of His saints. This is a promise. And
as we look at this promise, we must be reminded that all of
the promises of God in Christ are yea and amen. Isn't that so? Name one promise
that's not yea and amen. This is one of them. This is
one of them. The promise that shall not fail. It is a promise that cannot fail,
it is absolute, and it is unconditional. In other words, it is not dependent
upon the object to keep it. It's not the Lord shall keep
the feet of His saints with their cooperation. No, it is simply
this, the Lord shall keep the feet of His saints. But I want you to see also that
this promise then is only limited in one capacity. In scope. The Lord shall keep the feet
of only one group of people. The promise is intended for only
the saints. Only the saints of God. That
is the keeping of the Lord is only for the saints. But inside
of this group, it is all inclusive. If you are one of His saints,
it does not matter in what condition you are in. The promise is to
you. It is all inclusive to all the
saints. It is not confined to poor and
needy saints or just the hungry and thirsty saints, but includes
the whole family of God regardless of our present condition. How
often does our condition change? How often does our circumstance
change? But you see that this promise
is not contingent upon your circumstance or even your feelings about it.
It has nothing to do with you. It is the promise of God for
you. Regardless of where you are in
this life. I want to, by the grace of God.
Tonight, I want to show you this. I want to show you, first of
all, who the saints of God are. Very important since it's only
to this group. You have to know who they are.
And secondly, I want us to see how the Lord will fulfill this
promise. In what way will He fulfill this
promise? So first of all, who are the
saints of God? Well, the word saints means simply this, sanctified
ones. That's what it means. It means
holy ones. All the saints are sanctified
ones. They're sanctified, as we're
going to see, not by their works or by their obedience, but by
God. You that are the saints of God,
tell me what part you had in that. At what point do you add
your work into this matter of being a saint? Well, the answer is it's not
our work. We who are saints recognize this.
It is not our work. It is the work of God alone.
I want us to show us three things about these saints. First of
all, they are sanctified by God the Father. They are sanctified
by God the Father in sovereign election. They are set apart.
consecrated by the decree of God the Father. Over in Jude, Jude verse 1, it says this, Jude
the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that
are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ
and called. You who believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, you who are called, you recognize this, that you were
preserved in Christ. You were represented by Jesus
Christ. But before that, we must recognize
the root of our sanctification is of the Father. The Father
sanctified us in this matter of election. We're sanctified
by the Father. The election of the Father then
precedes our preservation in Christ and our calling of the
Spirit. Paul tells us this truth, but of God. Are you in Christ
Jesus? You who are sanctified by God
the Father, you're sanctified in this way that God has put
you into union with His Son and made Him to be all your wisdom,
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. You're put in Christ. It was the love of the Father
that sanctified us and put us there, and it was the wisdom
of the Father that planned and purposed our holiness and salvation. You being a saint was no accident.
It was purposed of the Father. You were sanctified. You were
made a saint by the sovereign election of the Father. In Jeremiah
1 and verse 5, he tells him, he says, Before I formed thee
in the belly, I knew thee. And before thou camest forth
from the womb, I sanctified thee. This is the work of God the Father. Every time I hear men rejecting
the sovereign election of the Father, they make His election
conditional on something. They make their sainthood conditional
on something. To me, it is the most grotesque
thing. For I know that had God not set
me apart, had God not purposed that I should be holy, I would
have never been holy. I would have never come to Him.
Had He not chosen me, I never would have chosen Him. This is
what saints know about themselves. And I tell you the truth, that
all who are not sanctified by the Father in election and put
into union with Christ, get this, there is not anything they can
do to make themselves saints. There is nothing they can do
to sanctify themselves. Nothing. Was there anything Esau
could have done to sanctify himself? No. We know this, that only those
chosen of the Father are sanctified. They're sanctified by the Father.
Secondly, we are sanctified by the Lord Jesus Christ. We are
sanctified by the work of the Son. Now we were sanctified in
Christ before the world began. We were set apart by the Father
in union with Christ. So then when the Son became our
surety, He became a surety of the covenant of grace in and
from eternity. It was always the purpose of
God that all His saints This was the eternal purpose of God
in sanctifying us was that we should be made holy. That's the
purpose. Some of the covenant is in that
that by Jesus Christ, we should be made holy. That was his plan. That was his decree. Therefore, as Jesus came into
the world as a man, We were sanctified by His obedience and death. We were made saints. We were
sanctified, made holy by His obedience and blood. Consider His obedience. Was it
not holiness? He was perfectly holy. in obeying the law of God, and
by His obedience, we who He represented were made
holy, righteous. Secondly, we were sanctified
by His blood. When He bare our sins in His
own body on the tree, He was doing this so that we should
be made holy. Behold the Lamb of God as He
suffered the justice of God for our sins so by His righteousness
and blood we are forever sanctified. We are sanctified. Go over to Hebrews. We'll look
at a couple of places in Hebrews. Hebrews 13. Hebrews 13 verse 12. Wherefore Jesus also that he
might sanctify the people with his own blood suffered without
the gate. And so by faith we see that Jesus
Christ then as God ordained him to be. All our sanctification. You see, we're made saints by
his offering, by his blood offering. Isn't that true, that Christ
is all my sanctification? Can we say that? Yeah, I can
say it, because the scriptures are very clear. He is all my
sanctification. You know, when he said, but of
God are you in Christ Jesus, who of God has made unto us wisdom.
Every believer believes that Christ is all my wisdom. Don't
you believe that? He's all my wisdom? When some
lost person or someone who professes to believe and they think, when
you say that Christ is our wisdom, they think that wisdom is something
they get by academic learning or by this, that I can be wise. A believer simply knows this,
that Christ is all my wisdom. My wisdom doesn't come by academic
understanding. My wisdom is Christ. He's the
wisdom of God. He's all our wisdom. He's all
our righteousness. What believer doesn't believe
that Christ is all my righteousness? He's all my righteousness. When
the lost person says, well, Christ is our righteousness, he's still
going about trying to establish his own righteousness. He thinks
righteousness is something that he has to contribute. Believers don't believe that.
Saints of God don't believe that. We know this. He's all my righteousness. What about redemption? Is he
not all our redemption? Lost people think of redemption,
they think that there's some price they gotta pay. Some penance
they gotta do. But the believer simply knows
this, Christ is all my righteousness. And so then we go to the last,
sanctification. Christ is all my sanctification. He's all of it. I dare not add
or try to contribute to that sanctification. You there in
Hebrews, look over a couple of pages. We know this one pretty
much by heart in verse 10. This confirms both of the things
that I have just told you, that you who are saints have been
sanctified by the Father and you've been sanctified by the
Son. Look at verse 10. By the witch will we are sanctified. What will is that? It is the
will of God. He's speaking about the will
of God. Christ said, I came to do thy will, O God, by the which
will? By the will of God, the will
of the Father, that you be sanctified. You are what? Sanctified. And
then secondly, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. How many times are we sanctified?
Once. Every high priest standeth daily,
ministering often the same time, sacrifices never take away sin.
But this man, after he'd offered one sacrifice for sins, forever
sat down in the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting
till his enemies be made his footstool, for by one offering
he hath perfected forever them that are what? Sanctified. Those who are called by the Spirit
of God. We're gonna get to that one in
just a minute, but that's it. Sanctification then is the work
of God, and we see that. You are saints. You are saints
of God. By the will of God, by the blood
of Jesus Christ, you are sanctified ones. And thirdly, sanctification
is the work of the Spirit. We by nature would dare not confess
that by nature we are holy ones. We are not born holy, we are
born unholy. We are born unclean. We are born
unrighteous. When we come into this world
there is no experimental union between us and Christ. We have
not experienced any union. We have no confidence that there
is any union between us and Christ because we've never experienced
it. We had no love for God, no faith
in Christ, and no hope of making ourselves saints. No hope of
it. But God who chose us, sanctified
us in election, The Son redeemed us with His precious blood, has
also purposed to sanctify us by the power and grace of the
Holy Spirit. We who were sanctified by the
election of the Father and the blood of Christ, when we came
into this world, we had not yet been sanctified. But when God the Holy Spirit
at the time of love comes to every believer, it is at that
moment You are experimentally sanctified. You now experience what has already
taken place. Now, I didn't know it. I didn't
know I was sanctified. I didn't know I was chosen. I
didn't know I was redeemed until the moment the Spirit came in
power and made me a partaker of the divine nature. What Peter
says of this, he says you are made partakers. You might be
partakers of the divine nature. And so when he, this is what
it is to be born again. At the time appointed the Spirit
of God, what the Spirit says has quickened us from the dead. Many different Analogies God
uses to show what He's done. Right? Quickened from the dead.
You who were blind, you now see. You who were lame, you now walk. What God has done is given us
a new heart. He's given us a new mind. He's
given us a new will. All three of these things consist
in this. He's given us a new nature. And this nature is created after
God in true holiness. I know this, once I was without
any hope of righteousness, but somebody came and preached the
gospel to me. This is the means God uses by which this comes.
He preached the gospel to me, opened my eyes to see my sin
and need of Christ. And I know this, there were many
people that heard the same message I heard. And yet God in grace
opened my eyes. God in grace gave me faith. Gave me love. Have you believed on the Lord
Jesus Christ? Friends, this is the evidence
of us being saints. Faith is the evidence that you've
been chosen. Faith is the evidence of you
being redeemed. Faith is the evidence of your
calling. Faith is the evidence of your
salvation. It gives us faith. By this we
may know this, that we are the saints of God. We are the saints
of God. And so then, you saints, you
sanctified ones, you that have been made holy by the will of
God, the blood of Christ, and the power of the Spirit, listen
to what God promises you. Back to your text, look at it. Here's the promise of God to
you. He will keep the feet of His saints. He will keep the
feet of His saints. Without exception. Without exception. All of His elect, all of His
redeemed, all who are called shall be without exception be
kept by the power of God and none shall fail to enter into
heaven. And I want you to see that this
is not conditional upon you. Just not. It is the promise of God to his
saints. It is the oath of God to His
saints. Now, you as saints of God are
not ignorant of this. You are full of trouble. Just because you are saints,
as the world sees saints, they think saints are somehow floating
above everybody else. Somehow saints are exempt from
real difficulties and only those people who are real sinners go
through real difficulties. You must be a real bad sinner
if this is happening to you. That's not what believers know.
We who are saints know this, we are not exempt from trouble.
We are not exempt from trials and afflictions that are common
to man. Everyone who is called to faith
and life in Christ, from the moment you begin to believe,
you have conflict. It is at that moment your warfare
begins. Everyone who is called to faith
has afflictions and troubles and persecutions. The saints
of God are suffering people. Saints of God are suffering people,
Jesus told us, our Lord told us in this world, you shall have,
you will have without doubt, tribulation. No, this. The world will hate
you. I don't understand why I'm often
confused when people don't like what I'm preaching. I'm just
confused. For the life of me, I can't understand
why they don't. Dummy. The Lord told you that they would
hate you. They hated me before they hated
you, and they will hate you. They will hate you. But you saints of God, consider
that your troubles are not accidental. Your afflictions, every one of
them, are of the hand of God, your Father, the one who sanctified
you, the one who purposed to save you, the one that saved
you, and the one that calls you, the one that keeps you. Everything
you face is ordained of God. Zechariah 13 in verse 9, he said,
I will bring a third part through the fire, and will refine them
as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. I'm not a goldsmith, I don't
know much about metals, I just know this, if you're going to
purify gold, you melt it. You put it under extreme heat,
and you melt it, and the crud comes to the top, and they rake
it off. That's what God says He does
with His people. And listen to what everyone who's
tried gonna do. They're gonna call on my name and I'm gonna
hear. They're gonna call on me. Consider if you never had trouble.
I can't imagine a life without trouble because I'm sure of this. How often would I call upon God
if I had no trouble? See, it's necessary for His children. So that we should call on Him.
And listen, His promise, I'll hear you. And listen what I'm
going to tell you. He said, I will say. It's gonna comfort you. Listen, you're then in trouble. You've been put through the fire.
God says, I'm gonna do it just so you call on me. And when you
call on me, I'm gonna hear you. And this is what I'm gonna tell
you. Here it is. It's my people. You're my people. Isn't that
comforting? You're my people. You're my saints. You're my children. And listen
to this, I am your God. Isn't that sufficient enough? What else do you need? If God
is your God and you are his son, what do you need? What do you
need? Yet I know this about ourselves. I need to constantly hear this
promise he's gonna keep. I need to constantly hear him
say it. I am, I am Asaph. In Psalm 73, very often. I say with Asaph, I know God
is good to Israel. I know it. My soul knows it. To them that are of a clean heart,
God is good. But I look in the mirror and
I see this. But as for me, as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nigh well slipped. Often we are brought to this
point by trouble and affliction to say within our souls, surely
there is no hope for me. A pastor friend of mine was preaching
this similar subject and he was using himself and oftentimes
he has doubts, fears. He was being honest with his
people, not setting himself up as to be some superman. He was
being honest. What Asa feels, I feel. What
David felt, I felt. And someone came up to him and
said, well, you know what? Maybe you shouldn't preach the
gospel. If you doubt like that, you shouldn't preach the gospel. That's arrogancy, friends. I
stand in doubt of somebody who has no difficulties or trials
or troubles. You name me one saint of God
that didn't. In scripture, I can't find one. They all had troubles. They all
doubted. They all had fears. What's the comfort then of those
who have fears? Here it is, listen. The Lord
will keep the feet of his saints. Now this word feet has two things. One is spiritual, the
other is experimental. He's talking about feet. What
he's talking about is our standing. Our standing before God. God
shall keep my standing. And second of all, it has to
do with our walking. walking. God will not only keep
me in my standing but he will keep me in my walking. First
of all, our standing. We know this as believers in
Christ that Satan and all the foes of this world are set against
us. I'm not going to take the time
to read it but if you go to Revelation chapter 12 you read about that
the woman Satan had found himself cast down to the earth, and he
went to persecute the woman. You know the woman is the church,
the saints. And the scripture tells us that
she was given two wings of a great eagle, that she should fly away,
that she should not be, that she should be nourished in the
wilderness. and flee from the face of the serpent. And you
remember the serpent cast out of his mouth a flood so as to
carry her away. And the scripture says the earth
opened up and helped the woman. And then it says this, that the
dragon was wroth with the woman and made war against the remnant
of her seed which keepeth the commandments of God and have
the testimony of Jesus Christ. Friends, we are at war. But I want you to know that in
the midst of all of this conflict, we, like this woman, are kept
safe. Kept safe. Our standing as saints
of God in Jesus Christ is kept. Like this woman, we are given
two wings so that Satan in no way can touch our standing before
God. The flood that came out of his
mouth was accusations against the church, against God's anointed
people. But be comforted, none of his
accusations shall ever reach you. They shall never reach you. Remember the Lord in dealing
with Satan concerning Job, how he gave him power over his family,
over his property, over his earthly goods. And God said, you can
take everything he has, just don't touch him. And Satan said,
aha, if I take all of his stuff, surely he'll curse God. And you
remember what happened, took all of his stuff, killed his
children and everything. And he would not curse God. But Satan said this, ah, skin
for skin, let me just take his hell. And God said, sure, but
you can't take his life. Can't take his life. Now, God
removed that hedge around Job and his body and caused his soul
to fear and doubt and Job was moved to say many things inconsistent
with faith. I'll tell you what, Job was in
pain, and he said some things that were pretty horrible. You know what Job says? I'm righteous,
I'm righteous, and yet look what God did to me. He complained
and murmured. Satan would have sought not only
to drain his life but long to move Job from his standing before
what he wanted him to do That was his desire. That's what his
desire is for you His desire is to move you from your standing
before God. I But we see that none of the devices
of Satan, not even the sin of Job, was able to remove him from
his union with Christ. And neither is anything able
to remove you from Christ. Why? He will keep the feet of
his saints. He will keep your standing before
God no matter what. Let this promise now come to
us who are set on Christ. To us who are chosen in Christ
by election, redeemed by the blood and called by the Spirit,
nothing, nothing shall move you from your standing before God. Our Lord Jesus Christ said this,
I know my sheep, they hear my voice, and I give unto them eternal
life. And what's the result of that?
I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. Paul made this in Romans 8. He
made that declaration. He said, you know, I was going
to say these things. If God be for us, who can be
against us? Name one thing be against you. that is able to
remove you from the love of Christ. Name it. Anything. No. What about accusations of sin?
Well, it's God that justified me. Rather, it's Christ. There's no condemnation because
Christ died for me. So then the question is, who
can separate me? Who can remove me from my holy
standing before God? The standing that God the Father
purposed. The standing that Jesus Christ
purchased. The standing that the Holy Spirit
imparted to me. Who can move me from it? He said
neither height, nor depth, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor any other
creatures, just any, just name it, angels, nothing, shall remove
me or separate me from the love of God that's in Christ Jesus. That's what he means when he
said he'll keep the feet of his saints. Nothing shall remove you from
your standing before God. Give you an illustration of this.
Remember Joshua, the high priest, Zechariah? Go to Zechariah. I'm not going
to get done to the rest of this, so just go to Zechariah. Go to Zechariah chapter three. Zechariah chapter 3 and look
at verse 2. And the Lord said unto Satan, here's Satan, he's
standing at the right hand here of Joshua ready to rebuke him,
ready to accuse him before God. And here the Lord Jesus Christ
said unto Satan, The Lord rebuketh thee, O Satan, even the Lord
which hath chosen Jerusalem rebuketh thee. Is this, is not this a
brand plucked out of the fire Now look at old Joshua. Now Joshua
was clothed with filthy garments and stood before the angel. Joshua was a high priest. He
was supposed to have white robes. Here he was, filthy. What did that have to do with
his standing before God? It felt like it was really a
grave issue. Satan thought it was a point
by which he could remove it. But the Lord Jesus Christ here
intervening, He answered and spake to those that stood before
Him, saying, ìTake away the filthy garments from Him.î And unto
Him He said, ìBehold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass
from thee, and I will clothe thee with the change of raiment. And I said, let them set a fair
mitre on his head. So they set a fair mitre on his
head and clothed him with garments, and notice these last words,
and the angel of the Lord stood by. You know what that means?
He made sure it happened. He didn't tell these boys to
get the robe and get the crown and then just walk away. He stood
by and made sure it was done. What in the world, believer,
do you have to do with your standing before God? Nothing. Your standing was something
God purposed. Your standing was something Christ
purchased. And your standing is something
the Holy Spirit has given you. And listen, he will keep your
standing before God. This is my hope. This is my hope. And the last thing it means this,
our feet are not only for standing, but for walking. Every saint of God is born again
of the spirit. We have the incorruptible nature,
but we do not deny that we still have this old man of sin. This causes our doubts, this
causes our fears, this causes our calamities. When we are walking
by faith, we often stumble. We often fall. But know this, in our walking,
this is His promise that He will keep us in the way. He will keep
us in the way. I wrote this song down, I thought
it was good for me. It says, On Christ by faith I
fain would live. I really want to live by faith,
don't you? I believe, Lord help my unbelief. On Christ by faith
I fain would live. From Him my life my all receive. To Him devote my fleeting hours. Serve Him alone with all my powers. Christ is my everlasting all.
To Him I look, on Him I call. He will my priceless treasure
be in time and through eternity. Soon will the Lord my life appear. Soon shall I end My trials of
tears leave sin and sorrow, death and pain to live is Christ, to
die is gain. So as we saints walk through
this howling wilderness, we are very aware of our enemies and
we are surrounded by our foes. Though Satan cannot remove our
feet from the rock of ages, he may, in consequence, cause us
to stumble and fall into many foolish and hurtful lusts. Therefore,
the believer, as we walk, we should walk circumspectly, Paul
said. We should walk carefully. How
is it the believer should walk? By what rule? Simply this, faith and love. This is our commandments. This
is our commandments. It is the commandment of Christ
to every saint, believe on me. When? When did you believe on
Christ? In every situation, in every
providence, in light and in dark, to trust him in every way, to
lean wholly upon his strength to keep And we're to love. That's how we're to walk. We're to love the brethren. How am I to love you? As I'm
walking, how am I to love you? As Christ loves. You stumble with that. I do. I want to love you like that.
I want to believe. With all my
soul, I want to believe more. But I stumble, I fall, I fail
miserably. What is my hope in all my stumbling
and all my failing? What is my hope? God will keep the feet of his
saints all the way to glory. God's people do stumble and fall,
but he never leaves us there, does he? He never leaves us doubting.
When we doubt, what does he give us? He gives us faith. When we are unlovable, what does
he give us? He gives us love. This is my hope. As Peter said,
we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
ready to be revealed at the last time. kept. This is a promise. It's a promise to his saints,
sanctified ones, sanctified by the Father, sanctified by the
Son, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. And to his saints, he says, I'm
going to keep your feet. I'm going to keep your standing
before me. And I'm going to keep you all
the way to glory. I had to give you a little bit
of encouragement. I've seen this this week. I received
a call from a brother I have not heard in many, many years. Matter of fact, when he left,
it was it was very difficult. He left seemed he had left the
gospel. What I thought. I got a call two days ago from
this brethren. He said, you were on my heart.
And I thought I'd call you. And tell you, I still listen
to the gospel of Jesus Christ, I still believe. You know why
he still believes? Did it matter what I thought?
Did it matter what I felt? No, no, because God's promise
to him was the same promise he gave me. I will keep your feet
and you will not fall. That's his promise to you. And so when your feet and eye
well slip, listen, hold fast as promised. You know, Asaph
thought his foot had slipped, thought he'd fell. David said,
are you gonna forsake me forever? Of course not, David. Asaph, your feet are just fine.
You may feel like they slipped, but they slipped. Why, I'm keeping
them. I pray God will help you and
let you hold on to this. Find great comfort in it. It's a promise of God, isn't
it? What is it? Who cares if the
whole world burns? I said, I ain't gonna let your
feet go. Good news. Let's stand, be dismissed and
pray. Gracious Father, dismiss us with
your blessing, pour out your spirit to us. Thank you for giving
us this salvation. Thank you for giving us this
life and faith. I pray you'd make this word effectual
to the hearts of your people and see what great care you've
taken, not only to save us, but to keep us. this for your own glory, in Jesus'
name, Amen.