you. The. The desire to preach God's Word does not leave one just because
they retire and move off somewhere else. Our dear brother, Pastor Gene
Harmon, has the same desire today that he has had for the last
38 years. And I share that with you because I've encouraged him
to start writing. He's got things going through
his mind today as far as things to preach, just as much as he
did when he and Judy had to move away. And it was good that they
did. They're with Shelly. They're
close by. She's able to take care of them. But I wanted to
share that with you because it is his desire to continue in
the ministry in one way or the other. So I've asked him to start
writing more, and he has. He wrote an article. It's in
today's bulletin, and I'll use it for today's devotional time.
I was actually going to use it for the conference. I actually
asked him for the conference, so he sent me this. And again,
our Lord works things out in such a beautiful, wonderful way,
and sometimes He just shows us His sovereignty in all things.
Gene wrote this article not knowing what I was going to preach on
today, So as we read it, I hope it is brought to your memory
when I preach the message the Lord laid on my heart. Gene writes
this, titles his article, Is Believing a Work? Pastor Gene writes, all of God's
enlightened children and the majority of all professing Christians
know that God plainly declares in his word that his sovereign
grace and the salvation of his people and the works of man cannot
mix. That's in Romans 11, 5-6. But
ungodly, self-righteous preachers, in an attempt to deceive their
hearers into believing in the lie of universal redemption,
tell them that believing is not a work. But God says it is. During His public ministry, while
here on this earth, some unbelieving Jews asked our Lord Jesus this
question, What shall we do that we might work the works of God?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God,
that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." That's in John 6,
28 and 29. Our Lord did not say, This is
the work of man must do. No, He said, This is the work
of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. He did not
say, This is what God is trying to get man to do. God never tried
to do anything. No. He said, this is the work
of God that you believe on Him in whom He has sent. Brethren,
unregenerate men and women do not want to believe that Jesus
Christ, the God-man, established a perfect righteousness for His
chosen people by His perfect obedience to the sovereign will
of God the Father. They do not want to believe that
Jesus Christ by Himself purged the sins of His promised children,
obtaining eternal redemption for them. They do not want to
believe that by his death Jesus Christ reconciled his people
to God the Father while we were yet his enemies and that we shall
be saved by his life. They do not want to believe that
Jesus Christ is on his sovereign throne of power giving eternal
life to as many as God the Father gave him. Why? Because in our
unregenerate state, all of Adam's posterity hate the Christ of
Holy Scripture, and those who love and worship the Christ of
Holy Scripture read it in John 15, 18-19. Brethren, Jesus Christ
is the true and living God, the exalted God-man who is Lord over
all, who works all things after the counsel of his own will.
I beg my readers to lay these words of our Master to heart.
This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath
sent. Will you bow with me in prayer,
please? Holy Father, we come before you
this morning with thankful hearts, thankfulness that you have not
left us to ourselves in the darkness that we once walked in, but yet,
Lord, by your love, a love that you have had for us from before
the beginning of all things, a love that you have set upon
a people. And by that love, you have sent
your son, our savior, to be our substitute, giving us life, quickening our spirit, giving
us a new spirit, one that believes the Lord Jesus Christ in who
He is, God Almighty, in what He's done. He saved His people. And what He's doing right now,
sitting on His throne, ruling everything according to His counsel. We know, Lord, that there was
a day when we did walk in that darkness and loved it and would
not come to You. And we thank you, Father, for
your love in bringing us to yourself. Lord, I ask for you to be with
me this morning as I stand before your people. As Pastor Gene stood
before your people for almost 38 years, doing, Lord, what you have given
us to do, and that is to comfort your people. Comfort ye my people,
saith the Lord. There's only one comfort in this
world that we walk in, and that is our Savior, the Lord Jesus.
Give me the umption, Lord, to speak of Him and of His salvation. Salvation is of the Lord and
of the Lord alone. In His name I pray. Amen. Turn with me, if you will, this
morning to the letter of Colossians chapter 3. Before we look into our text that we've
been looking into in the book of Philippians, I want to read
something here in Colossians. Folks, there is no slack. of
instructions on how we should be walking in this world. Proverbs 16, 19, we read this,
better of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the
spoiled with the proud. In Micah 6, verse 8, we read
this, He hath showed thee, O man, what is good, and what doth the
Lord require of thee? but to do justly and to love
mercy and to walk humbly with God. Our biggest enemy is self. It's
pride. We were speaking about this in
our Bible study this morning. During the Lord's, instituting
the Lord's Supper, the table of remembrance, Our Lord is serving
His disciples right there at that table, and these men began
to bicker, began to have strife between them over who was going
to be the greatest in God's kingdom. They were sitting, as Bill wrote
in his article, with the greatest that ever will be, the greatest
that ever is, at the very table with him, and they were bickering
about which of them was going to be better. Now what do you
think that was all about? Was that not all about pride? and I'd have been right there
with him. If it were not for the grace
of God, folks, each and every one of us would be right there
with him. Our biggest enemy is self. It's
our pride. Kathy and I were talking about
this last Monday. Pride breeds stubbornness. When you think better of yourself,
oh, no, no, you can't be right. No, I'm right. I'm not saying
we were talking about that about each other, but we were talking
about other discussions with other people. Or being stiff-necked,
pride breeds being stiff-necked, which is the same thing as stubbornness.
Or a haughty spirit, which is the same thing as stubbornness.
Folks, this is the nature of our flesh, to be prideful. Look what I did. See how good
a job I did? Look at all the good things that
are going on for me because I'm doing this and I'm doing that. In a way, I'm ashamed to sit
there and display something on my mantelpiece that says I did
something good at one time, a trophy or whatever. Look with me, if you will, at
verses 5, Colossians chapter 3. Mortify. Put to death, in other
words. Repress. Try to hold back. Therefore, your members which
are upon the earth, our body, our minds, our thoughts, our
doings, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil, conspicuous,
and covetousness, which is idolatry. For which thing's sake the wrath
of God cometh on the children of disobedience? In the which
ye also walked some time when ye lived in them. But now, ye also put off all
these, anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication
out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing
that ye have put off the old man with his deeds, and have
put on the new man, which is renewed in the knowledge after
the image of him that created him. Where there is neither Greek
nor Jew circumcision nor circumcision, barbarian, Sathenian, bond nor
free, but Christ is all in all. Put on, therefore, as the elect
of God, holy and beloved bowels of mercies. kindness, humbleness
of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one and another, and
forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any,
even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these
things, put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And
let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also
ye are called in one body, and be ye thankful. Let the word
of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns, spiritual songs, singing with
grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word
or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God and the Father. by him. Now if you would turn
over to Philippians chapter 1. Just a few pages to the left.
Man. Woo! That was a pretty big list, wasn't
it? You know, do we go home now and
put that list up on the wall and check each one off as we
do it? You know? I'd like to do that. What happens, though, when I
come to the point where, oh, I can't mark that one. Oops. My thoughts weren't good enough
to do that. What a list. What a list we just
read. Could it not be said that this
is more than I can bear? My flesh is weak. I fall a thousand times in a
single hour. In the flesh we are stubborn,
stiff-necked, prideful. I pray, Lord, that it might please
you this morning to teach me. Teach me. No matter how hard the lesson
might be, to be humble in your sight. Once again, Paul is writing in
response to the love gift that the church at Philibi had sent
him. The love that they had for him
was a two-way street. Love just works that way. After he writes with praises
for the wonderful fellowship, He then makes a very bold statement
of where the glory lies for their love for him. You'll recall that
they sent him gifts while he was in prison in Rome. Paul had
a large part in bringing the church in Philippi together. The Lord used him in a great
way to preach the gospel to those people. You'll recall in Philippi
was the Philippian jailer. the seller of purple, and others who were brought to
the Lord. They sent him gifts when they
had heard that he was in prison. And Paul, instead of writing
back to them and building them up for what they had done, he
makes a very bold statement in here in verse 6. Read with me
if you would. Being confident. Paul has just
thanked them and told them how they were in his prayers, how he appreciated their fellowship
in the Gospel from the first day until now, and now he says,
being confident, I am confident, he says, of this very thing,
that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ. This is my title for this morning's
message, A Good Work in You. Notice it is declared to be something
done by someone else. Paul didn't say, I thank God
for your works. He didn't say, I'm confident
in your ability to do things. He said, I am confident in the
one who began a work in you. It was not the praise for your
works, but a praise for him who began the good work. And it was
a work began. It was started. And then there must have been
something else before the work began, right? In other words,
if it began, then that means before it began, there was something
else going on, wasn't it? Do not the Scriptures declare
this? In Mark chapter 10, 18, and Jesus
said unto them, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one that is God. Paul is exactly like you and
I, folks. His faith was in Christ. God
used Paul in a great way, just as He used Don Fort in a great
way, just as He used Gene Harmon in a great way, and just as He
uses all His people in a great way. But all of His people are the
same. We are all sinners saved by grace. Our Lord tells us there are none
good. That may be a little hard to
stomach. Paul knew just as well as any
that the weakness is of the flesh. He declares in the third chapter,
verse 3, we don't need to turn there because we'll get to that
eventually, but he declares this, he says, For we are the circumcision
which worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and
have no confidence in the flesh. Our confidence is the one thing
that is sure and true. Right here. God's word. This very book that talks about
our King, Christ Jesus the Lord, and Him crucified from page,
from the beginning of the book to the end. We believe God. In 1 Timothy 2.13 we read this,
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because
when ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us, ye
received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth the word
of God, which effectually worketh also in ye that believe. I am
confident that he who made the promise, they shall be my people,
and I will be their God. That's a promise. That's a promise
that some of those who were born of Adam Some of those who were
chosen before the world was, He will be their God. And they
will be His people. There are no empty seats in heaven.
Everyone for whom God the Father or God the Son died for on that
cross shall come to Him. That's what God's Word says. I am confident that He who made
that promise shall perform it. Secondly, we want to take notice that this
good work in you was started and it will be finished by something
or someone that is other than you. And there's two points here.
The first one, there is no good work in you before, but now there is. You might say,
John, How can you say that to me? How
can you tell me that? I do many good things. I serve
the poor. I give money to the church. I
show up on Sundays. I pray. How can you tell me there
are no good works in me? There are many who do good work. There are many that do good things.
What about Mother Teresa? Can you tell me she had no good
work in her? John, are you going to tell me
your wife, there's no good work in her? John, are you trying to tell
me that there's no good work in my grandmother, that sweet
little lady that I've never seen argue or anything ever? John, are you trying to tell
me that my mother, there was never any good work in her and
all the good things that she had done for me growing up as
a child? John, are you going to tell me
that my father, who worked every day of his life till the day
he died to raise me and give me all my needs, are you telling
me that there was no good work in him? Are you going to tell me, my son, who gave his life for the country. There's no good work in him,
my daughter. Can you tell me that? How can you say there are
none good? Turn over to the sixth chapter
of John, if you would. Oh, how well the world knows
these words. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish but have everlasting life. How many times have we spoken
this very word here in this pulpit The key phrase is, whosoever
believeth. I'm not the one. I'm just telling
you what thus saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, there are
none good, no, not one. So here's the question for you. It's not, is John, are you trying
to tell me there is none good in my grandmother? The question
is this, do you believe God? I read for you just a moment
ago in Mark 10, 18, and Jesus saith unto them, why callest
thou me good? There is none good but one, and
that is God. That's God's word as much as
anything else that we read in this book, is it not? Can we
believe one part of this book and not believe the whole thing?
That's what the world does. The world wants to take that
very verse and say, for God so loved the world, see there, he
loves all the world. But those of you who have had
the revelation of Jesus Christ and Him crucified revealed to
you know that that's not the key phrase. The key phrase is,
whosoever believeth. The world can take that very
verse and do whatever they want with it. We know that God's telling
us that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish. And that
means believing all of His Word. In the beginning was the Word,
the Word was with God, and the Word was God. That's His Word. Thus saith the Lord. You either
believe that or you don't believe anything that God says. You see, folks, the good work
is believing God. It's not what you're doing with
your hands or your minds in this world. It's believing God. All of God's Word. And we would not believe God
if it weren't for His love for us. The truths of God are enmity
with natural man, as we see in God's Word. Is that not what
it says? The truths of God are foolishness
with the natural man. Is that not what God's Word says?
We can neither know nor understand the truths of God's Word. Is
that not also what He says in His Word? For God is spirit and natural
man is spiritually dead. Dead in trespasses and sin. Is
that not what God's Word says? I'm telling you here this morning,
our only hope is that God Almighty will do
a good work in us And it's called being born again, which is another work, another
way to describe the work of God that only He can perform. We
must be given life where there was death before. And life can
only come one way, and that is through Jesus Christ the Lord.
Look at verses 41 through 51 of this sixth chapter of John,
if you would, please. The Jews then murmured at him,
because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, is not this Jesus,
the son of Joseph? Look how they make him a man.
Well, that's okay. But you've also got to make him
God, because he is God in the flesh. He's 100% man and 100%
God. Absolutely, all the fullness
of the Godhead dwelleth in him bodily. Isn't this the son of
Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that
he has said, I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered
and said unto them, murmur not among yourselves, no man can
come to me except the Father which hath sent me. Draw him,
and I will raise him up the last day. It is written in the prophets,
and they shall be all taught of God. Every man, therefore,
that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. That's another way, a little
bit more in-depth of saying, all that the Father giveth me
shall come to me. Is that not correct? Yeah, yeah. Not that any man hath seen the
Father, save he which is of God, verse 46, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
he that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am the bread
of life. Your fathers did eat manna in
the wilderness and are dead, for this is the bread which cometh
down from heaven. that a man may eat thereof and
not die. I am the living bread which came
down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give
you is my flesh, and I will give it for the life of the world."
The Lord Jesus Christ laid down His life. He shed His own blood. He gave Himself as the substitute
for His sheep that we would live. His perfect blood paid the price
for our sin. He was the one who knew no sin,
who walked this world perfectly in every way. He knew no sin,
but was made sin for our sakes that we would be made righteous.
But not righteous in what we would do. Righteous in Him alone. We have
no righteousness of our own. Our righteousness is in Christ.
Aren't you thankful the Lord looks down upon us and sees His
Son instead of us? Especially in today's world?
Especially as the way John walks around today? It doesn't get
any better. Oh, how I would love to get better. But it ain't gonna happen until
I leave this world. Until the Lord takes me home,
I will deal with the flesh and the sin of it. God helped me
to do that. Helped me to stand in my weaknesses.
You know what else the Lord tells us? He says, in your weakness, I am made strong. Aren't you thankful for your
weakness? You can see his strength, can't you? Our Lord shed His perfect blood. He paid the price for our sin.
Not the sin of all mankind, but the sin of His chosen children,
the people who were chosen from before the world was. He says, all that the Father
giveth me shall come to me. Why? Because what God does is
always perfect. And laying down His life, shedding
His blood for His people, perfectly took care of the problem for
Him. If it was for the whole world, the whole world would
be saved. That's how perfect God's blood is. It irates me to hear the world decry that
God shed His blood for the whole world, but the whole world won't
accept it. That makes the blood of God ineffectual.
It's as though it's something common. It's not worth anything.
But oh, how I love to hear about the power of God's blood for
me. Through His blood I have salvation. What about you? Why? Why do all that the Father
giveth Him come to Him? Because what God does is always
perfect. He cannot fail. Our Lord Jesus
sits on His throne right now, ruling and interceding on behalf
of His loved people. As we saw in Bible study this
morning, He told Peter, He says, I pray for you. The devil wishes
to sift you. to come in and move you around,
but that's my devil, is what he's saying. He says, I got a
noose around him. He's just like a barking dog.
He can't bite, because I'm praying for you. This is the one, the very one
who's sitting on this throne right now, who began a good work in you. It's not you. It's not what you
have done. It's not what you can do. It's
what He has done. He is the author and the finisher
of our faith. Isn't that not what the Lord's
Word says? There you go. It brings it right back to this
very point, doesn't it? Do you believe God? That's His
Word. If He's the author and the finisher
of it, then it's not something that I can give to Him as a gift.
It's a gift that He gave to me. All the good instructions that
we read about in Colossians, the good works that we try to
follow, are a result on our belief, our faith in His truths. I want to do those things on
that list that we read. I want to be the good person
that the Lord has instructed me to be. But that's not where my faith
is. That's not where my confidence is. Just as Paul says, I am confident,
he did not say, I am confident in you, I am confident in Him. The good work in us is believing
in the truths of God's words. In Ephesians 2.8 we read this,
For by grace are ye saved through faith, through belief, And that
not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. Not of works, lest any
man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained,
that we should walk in them. Now look over, if you would,
with me at verses 24 through 29 of this very same chapter
that we're in in John chapter 6. When the people therefore saw
that Jesus was not there, our Lord had just fed 5,000 on the
hill, He had just done the miracle of feeding 5,000 with just a
few loaves and a few fishes, they went looking for Him. And
when therefore they saw that Jesus was not there, neither
His disciples, they also took shipping and came to Capernaum,
seeking for Jesus. And when they had found Him on
the other side of the sea, they said unto Him, Rabbi, When camest
thou hither? And Jesus answered them and said,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me not because you saw
the miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves and were
filled. Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that
meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of Man shall
give unto you, for him hath God the Father sealed. Then said
they unto him, What shall we do that we might work the works
of God? You'll recall we read this in
Pastor Gene's article. Pastor Gene didn't know what
I was going to preach on. He didn't know what verses I was going
to use. Then said they unto him, What shall we do that we might
work the works of God? And Jesus answered them and said
unto them, This is the work of God. It's God's work in us. It's not something we chose to
do because we thought we got smarter one day and said, I'm
not going to do that anymore. It's what God does in His people.
He gives them faith and He gives them life to believe on Him. This is the work of God that
you believe on Him and whom He has sent. Did you notice our
Lord did not answer with the instructions for their own walk?
Did you notice that He didn't say, oh, here's the work that
you need to do, and He didn't go through that whole list that
we just read in Colossians, did He? No. He said, this is the work of God
that you believe. No, he answered with the work
of God, and that work is to believe on him whom he hath sent. Now third and lastly, I want
to point this out. We read again in our text, he
who began a good work in you will perform it. This word perform
means this, it means to fulfill further. Did you know, fulfill
further. You can fulfill something, right?
Our Lord makes our cup runneth over. He doesn't just stop right
here, he just keeps on filling it. To fulfill further, or completely,
that is to execute by implication, to undergo, to accomplish, to
do, to finish, to make, to perfect, to perform. That's what that
word means. He who began a good work in you
will finish it. Not maybe, not might, not if
you do this or if you do that, but He will finish it. You know
why that's so good to hear for me? Because in my stumbling that
I walk through this world, I need to know that my Lord will not
let me down. He will come even when I need
Him the most. Paul is confident. Confident that this one who began
this work will accomplish it. I am confident that if you belong
to the Lord Jesus Christ, He will accomplish what He has set
out to do in you. In fact, I'm confident that whatever
His will is, shall be accomplished. Turn over to 1 Peter chapter
5, if you would, with me. Our walk, our want, our desires
have been changed. There was a time when my world
was all about me. And that world still struggles
with the new John. But oh, how I want to walk. pleasingly to my Lord. Knowing His love for me brings
me to the point of loving Him that I want to do things that
please Him. Isn't that what we do with our
fathers and our mothers? Don't we grow up in life doing things that make our dad,
make our mom pleased with us? I'm sad to say I let my parents
down as much as I let my father in heaven down. Our wants, our desires have changed. We want to be gracious. Why? Why do you want to be gracious
to anyone out there? Is it just because you want to
be good to somebody? That's the way it was before for me. Why
do I want to be? I want to be gracious to people because God
is gracious to me. I want to be gracious to those
that I come across because my Lord is gracious to me. One who deserves His wrath. Yet by His grace He saved me.
I want to be merciful. I want to be merciful to those
around me. Why? Why? Because my Lord was merciful
to me. He gave of Himself instead of
leaving me leaving me to stand for what
I deserve. I want to love. I want to love my wife, my family,
you. I want to love my Lord. Why? Because my Lord has shown me
what true love is. We have such a small little inkling
of what love is on this world. We love our children, we love
our parents, we love our family. And the Lord has given us just
a small little picture of the love that He has for us. I want
to love you and my Lord because He first loved me. Here in 1
Peter chapter 5 we see once again our great God's instructions
on how to walk. Look at verse 1 if you would
please. The elders which are among you I exhort, whom am also
an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also
the partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock
of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not to
be constrained, but willingly, not for filthy lucre, but of
a ready mind, neither as being lords over God's heritage, but
being in samples to the flock. And when the chief shepherd shall
appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away, Likewise, ye younger, submit
yourselves unto the elder. Ye, all of you, be subject one
to another, and be clothed with humility. For God resisteth the
proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore
unto the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due
time, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant, because
your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about,
seeking whom he may devour. Whom, speaking of that one who
walks about as a lion, whom resists steadfast in the faith, knowing
that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren
that are in the world, but the God of all grace, who hath called
us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have
suffered a while, Make ye perfect and establish and strengthen
and settle you to him be the glory and the dominion forever. Amen. Once again, we see where the
glory lies, don't we? Where's the glory lie? When it
comes to the fulfilling of this walk, our Lord wants us to walk. The glory lies right there in
verse 11. To Him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Amen? To glory. The glory is His and only His. He that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. He
purposed it. He will bring it to pass. who
or what can stay His hand. Turn back with me, if you would,
to 1 Peter 1, and I'll bring this to a close. 1 Peter 1. Our Lord has some wonderful words. about the Almighty right here.
Look at verses 13-21 with me if you would please. Wherefore,
gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end
for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of
Jesus Christ. As obedient children, not fashioning
yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance, But
as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner
of conversation. Because it is written, Be ye
holy, for I am holy. And if you call on the Father,
who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's
work, pass the time of your sojourn here in fear. For as much as
ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things of silver
and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ as the Lamb without
blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before
the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last
times for you, who by Him do believe in God that raised Him
up from the dead and gave Him glory, that your faith and hope
might be in God, that your belief. I have no doubt. I am so confident of this very thing that he, which
hath began a good work in you, will perform it until the day
of Jesus Christ. Amen. Will you stand with me,
please? Brother Mike Lesher, may I ask
you to lead us in closing prayer this morning? Dear Grace and Heaven and Father,
we love when you fill the grounds with moisture and teach us all
about Jesus. You're in full control. You're
right here because you will be. You think about all the multitude
that's counting, doing everything under the sun, but learn about
Jesus Christ. You're so blessed. Not that we're
any better than anybody. We're blessed by the grace of
God. We also love what you've done. You've done the work, God.
We don't have the work. You've done all the work. We
give you all the praise and honor in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Amen. Amen.