Morning, everybody. Quick note in the bulletin, I
put in a copy of that financial statement for you all to see. As I've said every other time,
I would treat it as my own, because it is. If you have a vested interest
in having a gospel in this place, look at it. If you don't understand
it, I'm available by text, phone, and email. I'd be glad to sit
down and talk with you about it. And I emailed that out yesterday. In the bulletin also, those two
articles of clays, it says copied. Whenever I cut and paste sometimes,
if there's upside down commas, as the Australians say, I like
to put it that way. But the parentheses, or the quote, to just say end
quote, the beginning and the end, and I didn't catch that.
And Kimberly was working some overtime yesterday, and she wasn't
able to review the bulletin. So I don't like making mistakes. If I want to do a job, I want
to do it well. Let's begin turning to Jeremiah
23. We're going to be in 1 Timothy, but Jeremiah 23. This morning
we're going to turn quite a bit, see what the Lord has to say.
There's a great magnitude, a weight that comes with telling eternity
bound men and women of who God is, what he has done, what he
is doing, and what he's going to do. If somebody's going to
stand up and say those things, you better be right. I had better
be right. So I'm going to tell you what
he says. That way I have to be right.
I want to go over some words this morning in this Sunday school,
some words you've probably heard before. I hope you've heard them.
You may know what they mean. I hope you do. But if not, if
somebody doesn't know them or never heard them, I'll tell you
today. There's three words that typically describe man uses to
describe the Lord of who he is. He is omnipresent. Omnipresent. That means he's
everywhere at once in all places. That ain't like man. And we have
a real hard time understanding that, because it's so much not
like us. God is omnipresent. And that's a comforting thing,
because he told us, Lo, I am with you always. I don't mean
to matter if I'm going real fast on an airplane, or sitting in
a cave, or a place where self-service isn't. It doesn't matter. And that's to me, and that's
to you, and that's to other believers. He's omnipresent, he's everywhere
at once. And you know, that's completely
contradictory to let Jesus into your heart. If he's omnipresent, he's already
there. He says he turns the king's heart, that's the good kings
and the bad kings, just like a river of water. He just, like
he opens a floodgate here and closed one there in an irrigation
system, he moves it just as he sees fit. He's there too. Can't
let him in a place he already is. And I said, oh, don't push
God away. How can you? He's everywhere. Look here in Jeremiah 23, verse
23. Am I a God at hand, saith the
Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret
places that I shall not see him, saith the Lord? Do not I feel
heaven and earth, saith the Lord? I feel it. Nobody can hide from
me. And that's what the heathens
want to do, because they don't understand these things. And that day of judgment,
the scriptures say they're going to cry for the rocks and the
mountains to fall on them. Put me in a cave. Get me away
from this man. Been running from him their whole
lives. Now he's there in person. They don't want anything to do
with him. But our Lord's omnipresent. There's no running from him.
They asked David, they said, where is your God, David? Where's
everybody? I wish I could ask this state
that. These people that profess to be Christians, they're all
over. I ask them where their church
is, they don't have one. Where's your Bible? They don't
own one. I got some commentaries of some fictional books that
talk about Jesus or something. Where's your God? They don't
have answers for those things. Where's God? Is he a few steps
behind you, trying to play catch up? Is he reactive instead of
proactive? That's like Job's miserable comforters.
They said, what did you do to make God do this to you? There's
things going on right now in this room. Look around. What did you do to make that
happen? Was God reacting? He's proactive. He wills it before
time. And he's not surprised. Everything comes to pass just
exactly in its time. We'll look at that next hour.
In its time. It's his times. His times. He's omnipresent. He's all over and he's omniscient.
Turn over to Psalm 139. Psalm 139. All of the Lord's providential
grace that He's given to me, it was in His perfect wisdom,
and it was for His name's sake. All the Lord's grace that He's
given to you who believe. It was perfectly wise, and it
was for His name's sake. It was for the glory of His Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, the thrice holy God manifest in a body. It's for His glory, and it's
for our good. Look here in Psalm 139 verse
one. I, O Lord, thou hast searched
me and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting
and my uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassed
my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my
tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it all together. Thou
hast beset me behind and before and laid Thine hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high. I cannot
attain to it. David says, Lord, you know all
things. You know the words of my tongue.
You know my words before I speak them. He tells that of his people. He said, but I'm going to make
you ask. I'm going to do it. You're going to ask. But before
you open your mouth, I'm going to already answer it because
I put the words there. I know your words. He knows all things.
He's everywhere, but he's omniscient. He knows everything. There's
nothing that could be known that he doesn't know. If he's everywhere, always with
his people, whether we want it or not, always with everybody,
If he's all knowing and all wise, does that just mean that God
is really observant? Is he everywhere and sees everything,
and so he's wise enough, because he knows all that and he sees
everything, you can see stuff going on, can't you? And you
can say, well, that's gonna happen. If I pick this glass up and I
let go of it, and that second you see me let go of it, you
know what's gonna happen, right? Is he piecing all these puzzle
pieces together and out of just a really high IQ and good data
and information, he can see the future and predict what's gonna
happen and come to pass? God forbid. That's what people who
falsely or wrongly understand predestination. They say, well,
God looked down the annuals of time and he saw who would pick
him and who wouldn't pick him and the ones that picked him,
that's the one he chose. That's a soothsayer and a fortune teller.
That's a lie. That's somebody with a crystal
ball. That's make-believe. No, no. Where's your God, David?
He said, our God's in the heavens, and he hath done whatsoever he
hath pleased. That means he always did do what
he wanted to do. Whatever happened, the pain that's
going on right now, that's what he's done. God did it. And whatever's
going to happen tomorrow, frown, or if it frowns upside down,
it's exactly because God wanted it to happen. Come on in. He's in the heavens ruling, reigning,
and doing whatsoever He pleases. If we could get that, instead
of giving lip service to it, and bow to the holy, omniscient,
omnipresent God, our lives would be a lot different. We'd act
a whole lot different. We'd organize our days a whole lot different.
We would praise and thank him. T-H-A-N-K. We would think of
him more, but with T-H-A-N-K, we'd thank him more, too. We
would. We would. It'd run through us.
And it does for those that the Lord works in. It's just so. He says he melts them. There's
no lukewarmness. He lights them on fire. He's
all wise. in His will, He's everywhere,
all the time, and it pleases Him, is exactly what He does.
Not what pleases us, what pleases Him. Not our ways and our wisdom,
His ways and His wisdom. This omnipresent God, this omniscient
God, one that's everywhere, one that knows everything, is also
an omnipotent God. Some people pronounce that omnipotent,
some people pronounce it omnipotent. And if they know what it means,
they can pronounce it any way they like. We're buddies. He's all powerful. What he wills, he does. And what
he does is what he willed. And he has the holy power to
do so. That's why he's God. He's the sovereign of the universe.
In England, they have a sovereign in name only. They have a king
right now until his kingdom comes to an end. Then what's on the
docket is the next king unless something else happens. May end
up being a queen. Who knows? That's what they had
before. But they have one in name only. And our Lord, He is
Alpha and Omega. He's the beginning and the end.
We have a sovereign, almighty, holy God. And we are to give
glory to His name. Because of His mercies towards
us, we ought to. We should give glory to His name
regardless. But because of His mercies towards us, that's how
we have a heart to glorify Him. And because of His truth sake,
His name's sake, because of Christ our Lord, our Savior, the one
who willingly shed His blood and gave up the ghost, knowing
everything, was everywhere he manifest himself in the body
and he shed his blood and he gave up his ghost for his people
suffering the wrath of God. God turned his back on God knowingly. That didn't catch him off guard.
He wasn't surprised by it. We get surprised by stuff. We
get frustrated by stuff. Not the Lord, not the Lord. His
anger gets kindled. I'll tell you that. There's some
things that I think, I thought the other day, I said, there's
things that make me mad, things that make you mad, get you fired
up. And we're evil. If it makes me mad, what you
think God thinks about it? If it's a righteous judgment,
if it's true and it's opposite of this word, if somebody says
something or does something or preaches something that's opposite
of this word, that lights me up. I want to do them people listen
to my favor and go fist fight them in the parking lot. They
break their jaw so they can't lie on God no more. If that makes
me mad, how you think God feels about it? It's a frightening
thing. Where's your God, David? Where's
your God? He's with me always. He's my
whole armor, and he's all and in all, and he's completely powerful,
the only power, and he's holy, and he's on his throne right
now and forever. His holy high command has never missed a day
of work. ever. Now we know that on a Sunday
at 9 57 a.m. I want to remember that on a
Tuesday evening at 2 42 p.m. Don't you? I want to know that
when I get up to work on Thursday morning. Don't you want to remember
that? I want you to. How do we know this? How do we
know these things? How do we know that we know these
things? We praise him. We praise him. We don't just
The Lord ain't an 800 number hotline that we bellyache to
all the time. Now that's not what takes place, but that's
murmuring. That's murmuring. I want to stop that. And I want
to thank him. I want to go from petitions,
from asking what I want and what I think, what I want to have.
Lord, would you please let this happen? Lord, here's how I think
things ought to go, because like he needs my guidance. And just thank him. Don't ask,
I don't want to ask, me, I'm talking about me. I don't want
to ask any questions. I don't want to give any influence
or guidance. Let me give you a suggestion,
Lord. Maybe you ain't thought about this. Just thinking. That's what his people do. That's
what that new man, that new creation in us does. Now we're trapped
in this old body of death. The new creation, if there's
a new creation there, that's required. That's what it's going
to do. Psalm 115. I'm going to scare you here in
a minute, and I'm going to say we got to our text, but I'll go quickly. Psalm
115, look at verse 17. Psalm 115, 17. The dead praise
not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence. Dead people
don't thank God. Well, I thanked Him one time.
No, don't have a tenor of life, a creation that's ever thankful.
The dead don't have that. They don't thank God. Now, they
bellyache to Him, and they complain about everything, and they carry
on. We do that some. We do. They
don't earnestly think. Not at the end of that crater.
You ever come to your pure mind, come back to your right mind,
and you go through it? Believers do. We go through all
that. We hurt. Job rent his clothes and shaved
his head and covered in sackcloth. That ripped his clothes. Ah,
just screaming. Tore all to pieces. And that
lasted just as long as the Lord allowed it to last. And he said,
blessed be the name of the Lord. The dead praise not the Lord,
verse 18, but we will bless the Lord from this time forth and
forevermore. Praise the Lord. Don't you want
to? Wouldn't you like to just thank
Him for absolutely everything that comes to pass from here
on, from this time forth and even forevermore? Thank you,
Lord. I've took everything from you,
I've killed your children, I've burnt your houses down, all your
silos are empty, and the only thing I've left you, Job, is
a wife that's sitting there telling you to cuss God and die. Ain't
much of a helpmate, huh? Thank you, Lord. Thank you. That sounds good in practice,
and it sounds good on a piece of paper, but when it comes to
fruition, there's a whole lot of, the faith the Lord gives
will only prove to the end if it proves to the end. I want
to be made faithful to the end. Do you? I want to be conformed
to them as a Christ. Do you? I want to thank him. Do you? We do. Lord, I believe. Same thing. Help my unbelief.
Lord, I thank you. Help my belly aching. Cut it
out. Make me thankful. Because you're
omniscient, you're omnipresent, and you're omnipotent. All power.
All power. There's only one place that a
man will worship, and that's before the throne of a sovereign,
almighty, holy God that does what he pleases, when he pleases,
with whom he pleases. Anything else is plotting and
positioning for self-gain and self-needs. To Agaw, it's manipulation. There's worship and there's manipulation. That's it. There's praise and
there's mutiny. Whatsoever he's pleased, that's
what he's done. Whatever pleased him, that's what he did. Whatever
pleased him tomorrow, that's what's going to come to pass.
Now let's look at our text. First Timothy chapter six. 1 Timothy chapter 6. I'm going to look at a word here.
It goes with omnipotent, omnipotent, before we get the word. It's
not used very much at all. It was used greatly in the United
States when I was a child growing up, between about the ages of
five and 11, something like that, late 80s, early 90s. This was
used a lot in faithful gospel churches, and maybe that day
will come again. I want to influence it. It's
a good word. It's called potentate. Potentate. 1 Timothy 6, verse 15. Which
in his times he shall show. 1 Timothy 6, verse 15. which in his times he shall show
who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings, the Lord of
lords, who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no
man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen nor can see, to
whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen. What's that start with?
In his times. In his times. What are the Lord's
times? That's who it's speaking of.
This is the Lord's times. And he's speaking in languages
we understand. He's omniscient or omnipresent.
That's not just everywhere right now at once. That's throughout
time. That's like, y'all seen that
movie, that man that did math? and it's actually my dad's cousin,
related to a beautiful mind. He kept doing math and he was
so good at it, he went crazy. There's some nonlinear inverse
equations you can do and you really start getting, by the
time you get a handle of it, you've lost the handle of everything
else. You go nuts. If you sit and think about that,
the Lord's everywhere, all at once, throughout time. He's the
same yesterday, today, forever. We can't even, you'll go crazy
thinking about those things. his times. What's time? He gives
that for us, don't he? Before there was time was his
time. Before there was time, Christ
was the lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Time
didn't exist. There wasn't no such thing as clocks or days
or nights or anything. And He was as He is. The Lamb. That was Him. We read in Genesis
1, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and
the earth was without form, a void. Darkness was upon the face of
the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
There's nothing there. It's void. And God said, let
there be light. And there was light. And he saw
the light, and it was good. And God divided the light from
the darkness. And he called the light day, and he called the
darkness night. And the evening and the morning were the, you
ever got a hold of that? The first day. There were no
days before that. There never was a day. The Lord
was. Correctly, that's how we understand
it. He is. That's how we would say it. Our brains can understand
it. He was then. And he said, I'm gonna make a day. And that
was the first day. And you know what? There'll come
a time there's a last day. Maybe it's today. We woke up this morning. This is it. There'll never be
another day. That's it. Just gonna be eternity. What
a thought. He called that the first day.
He made time for a purpose. Turn over Galatians 4. Galatians
chapter 4. He made that first day, and he
purposed that last day on purpose. When God does something, he does
it on purpose. Whatever happens today, God willed on purpose. If we get that, it'd be good,
too. I wanna get that. Galatians 4, verse 3. Even so
we, when we were children, we were in bondage under the elements
of the world. But when the fullness, completion,
of time, It doesn't say the fullness of time, it says the fullness
of THE time, THE time, was come. Right on time. And this is what
time was for. When the fullness of THE time
was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under
the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, that
happened and time passed. before the foundation of the
world. It had to come to fruition, it had to come to pass, it had
to take place. But when the Lord said, that's what I'm gonna do,
it was done. It was done right then. Because ye are sons, God
hath sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying,
Abba, Father, Father, Father. Well, we cried, Father, and then
we became sons. That is not what that says. Says,
because you are sons, because this is what God purposed before
time, this is why he made time, you're gonna call out to him.
And I'm gonna put my spirit in you, and then you're gonna call.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son. And if a son, then
an heir of God through Christ. Oh, buddy. The time of that hour,
we saw that throughout John, didn't we? Mary come to our Lord
and said, hey, they're out of wine. this wedding. And he said,
woman, what do I have to do with you? You know, my hour's not
yet. He kept talking about that hour. My hour's not yet come.
My hour's not yet come. I'm looking at that hour. Well,
I'm gonna say, father, take this cup from me that this hour don't
come. He said, that hour's why I showed
up. That's my job. I came to do my job. No, I didn't
come to talk about my job. I didn't come write a book about
what doing the job is. I came to do it. That's the hour. That's a time, isn't it? And
now, where is he at now in this time? Hebrews 10 says, this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, one sacrifice,
sat down on the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting,
that word expecting means awaiting, it's Hebrews 10, 13. From henceforth
awaiting till his enemies be made his footstool. Where's your
God, David? Sitting. He's not pacing. He's
sitting, waiting on those enemies to be made his footstool. What's
that mean, to all the enemies of death and Satan and all of
those we conquered? Well, yeah. And us, who were enemies, to
the last saint that's an enemy of God, hating God. Not that
they figured out the gospel, and then, well, well, I knew
it all along, and I found it now. You were an enemy. He says so, and he conquers. And he works in them, and rules
them, and keeps them to the end, and makes them just like his
son. That's a time, isn't it? From
henceforth expecting, till his enemies be made his foes. What
about my times? It's their time. This is for
my children. My children, all the children in this place. I'm
gonna preach to them for a second. It's their time out there. Right now,
it's our time. We know that from the movie,
don't we? What about my time? I live in time. David said in
Psalm 31, I trusted in thee, O Lord, and I said, thou art
my God. My times are in your hand. What time? All of them. While I'm sleeping, while I'm
awake, while I'm happy, while I'm sad, while I'm obedient,
while I'm disobedient, when I'm an enemy and when I'm a faithful
servant, truly looking to Christ, all of it is in his hands. Doesn't
that make you wanna look to him and praise him and thank him?
It does me. That's when that time's gonna
come, the Lord's gonna work in his people. And he said in Ezekiel
16, he gave a picture of an aborted baby out in the field, and he
said, you're in your own pollution. You're in your own blood. And
that's what we were doing before, wasn't it? Even I was in the
right place with the right preacher and the right doctrine and all
that stuff. And it was still my blood. I always covered myself
in my own works. We'll sit next hour. I had my
own furnace where I was making sacrifices. The Lord said, I
came to you in your own blood and your time was a time of love. I loved you first and I covered
you. You didn't have enough sense
to be covered. You couldn't cover yourself. You couldn't do anything.
Just lay there and die. They said, I washed you, and
I cleansed you, and I adorned you, and I fed you, and I took
care of you, and everything. And what did children do? Do
you remember being a child? Do you remember being a teenager? I was brilliant
when I was 15. I mean, they probably should
have made some statues out of me. I was a genius. And them
silly people that ruled me and had to rule over me, I'm surprised
they kept the bills paid. I mean, they kept me in food,
and a house, and insurance, and vehicles, and all that. But other
than that, they didn't know nothing. Then I aged a little bit. That time of love came. 1 Timothy 6, 15. What's the Lord gonna do in his
times? Well, all times his, we know what he has done, what's
he gonna do? What's God gonna do? 1 Timothy
6, 15. Which in his times, he shall
show. He's going to reveal. He's going
to show. He's going to put on display for admiring the blessed
and only potentate. The Father is going to take the
blessed and only potentate right when He wants to, and He shall
show Him. And everybody's going to see
the potentate. What's potentate? It means a couple different words
combined together. Ability, power, and soul authority. It's not, it's not a, he says
only potentate, but the word itself, it means the authority,
the power. There's no other power, but this
power. There's, there's no, nothing
else is able. I mean, to do anything, you ain't
able to take your next breath, except for this one. It's able,
this potentate and all power. If there's any power it's given
from above. I know what the Lord told Pilate,
Pilot said, don't you know I got the power to kill you? He said,
you don't know nothing about power. The reason your ATP production
is going on in your cells is because my father's pleased so.
That's why it all comes from above. This is the sole authority.
Omnipotent. Omnipotent. Potentate. That's
what it means. All power. All power. Turn to
Philippians 2. Now hurry, Philippians 2, verse
5. This is almost, I pray this for
you, I pray this for me. I want this mind in me. And the
mind in the New Testament refers to the whole of me. Philippians
2, 5, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus,
who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be
equal with God. but made himself of no reputation, and took upon
him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which
is above every name, his only potentate. Not chief potentate,
only, not one of many, only. that at the name of Jesus, every
knee should bow, and things in heaven, and things of earth,
and things under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. That day will
come in the Lord's time. He's speaking of that final day,
what we're concerned of, when Christ will be shown, the potentate
will be shown, and A-double-L-all, every tongue's gonna confess
that's Lord. I saw it on a billboard down
at the farmer's market the other day. Jesus is Lord. What's that?
He meant it to people. Put a bumper sticker. They said
in that day many people will say Lord Lord. I said apart from
me I don't know you I want to know him. I want him know me. He has to know me for me know
him, but I want to know it I do and every every needs gonna bow
and every tongue is gonna confess in that day That's what brother
Henry said salvation is a damnation is the truth discovered too late
Do we praise him now or we give him our list of demands and wants,
needs, and desires. I want to praise him. I want
to bow now. I want that tongue to confess
he's Lord. Lord, you're omnipotent, you're omniscient, you're everywhere,
you're everything, and you're doing everything as you please,
and it's right, because you're holy. I want to say that in truth.
I have a new heart, I have a new creation. I want everybody in
this whole nation to say that. Don't you? Your loved ones? If
my enemies said that, guess what? They ain't enemies no more. That's what you used to be. Not
now. The Lord said, as lightning cometh
from the east and shineth into the west, so also shall the coming
of the Son of Man be. Like lightning coming out of
the sky. It's going to show forth. Show forth. Back in our text,
1 Timothy 6. If we know the Lord, I thought
about that too. People say, oh, well, sure, it's
apocalyptic and this and that, and we're in times, and if you
know Him, why would you want to stop that or slow that down?
Seriously, come on. If you do that, the Lord will
come. I hope. Maybe He will. That's what an
Israelite is trying to sacrifice them red heifers. People's up
in arms. Let them have at it. What if the Lord's just disgusted
with it? He says, this is the final day.
I'm coming. I already saved my people. Good. It's wonderful. I want to be where He is. I want
to be with Him. Be made like Him. 1 Timothy 6, 15. Which in
His times He shall show the blessed and only potentate, the King
of kings, the Lord of lords, who only hath immortality. He
is eternal life. You get that? I give them eternal
life. Well, what's that? Christ. Immortality is not a thing. It's
not a condition without an expiration. It's Him. He only is immortality,
dwelling in the light, which no man can approach unto. No
man's seen the Father. If you've gotten His presence
and you open your eyes, He'll kill you right then. He's light. If it just burned through us,
we'd perish. But Christ, who no man can see
or has seen the Father, he goes in the Father's presence. Well,
how can we be in the Father's presence? We're in Him. We're in Him, the
one who is love. Approach unto whom no man hath
seen or can see, to whom be honor and power everlasting, amen. Honor to this one, and power.
He has a power, yep, and we're gonna agree with him. He has
it all. Keep it, we're tickled to death.
And honor, honor. You know what honor there means?
Payment. Payment. Like a check. Payment. All dues. You pay your
dues. All dues. All payment goes to
him. Honor. All honor to him. Paul used that
same Greek word one page back there in 1 Timothy 5, 17. Let
the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor.
People say, oh, well, you got to respect them twice. That means
pay them double. What? That's crazy. It's what it means. Especially
those who labor in the Word and doctrine. Here's another place
the same word, honor, is used. We don't like that one as much.
I feel weird saying it, but that's what Paul wrote. The Lord used
it. Here's another one. Here's another place. Honor,
same way it's used. Ye are bought with a price. Ye are bought with
a honor. Ye are bought with a Christ.
1 Corinthians 7.23. That's what the word means. You're
bought with an honor, an honor. It's not so we think of pride.
I'm bought with a price. Well, those went down and coins were
laid down. It's counted out or weighed in
the balance or something we can understand. You're bought with honor. It's
right. It's just. Did I make it more
precious? This isn't a legal transaction.
This isn't a theological, logical dissertation that we're given.
God bought a people with honor with his son who's honorable. Now, this omniscient, omnipresent,
omnipotent, potentate, I thought of Jude, I just had now wrote
down there for a long time and I took a walk. And all I could
think of was what Jude said. Now unto him that is able, that's
the potentate, ability. Now unto him that is able to
keep you from falling and present you faultless before the presence
of his glory in that light, with exceeding joy, because he wanted
to, willingly, not begrudgingly, to the only wise God our Savior. Be glory and majesty, dominion
and power, both now and ever. Amen. Let's pray again. Father,
thank you for this word. Lord, thank you for your promises
in Christ. They are yes and amen. How thankful
we are, Lord, and we've been bought with His honor. What a
thought. How majestic this is, your will. Lord, make us believe your word,
what you say, what you said He's gonna do, your promises, and
make us ever mindful of them, that we remember this is for
Christ's glory, and it's for our good. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for forgiveness. Thank
you for the blood of your son. Thank you for where he is now
and the things he's going to do in his people and for his
people. Forgive us, Lord. Forgive us our doubting, our
murmuring, our disbelief, and be with us always. As you said you would. It's because
of Christ. Because of this potent hate,
we ask these things. Amen. All right, we'll take about
a 10 minute break. Meet back.