Morning everybody. I'd sent out
a, I don't know if any of y'all received it, I think it went
out. Maybe I didn't. Bonnie Terrell had sent us a
note to the church here. I'll set it on the back table
if nobody got a chance to read it. I thought I've done stuff this
week and it turned out I just thought about doing stuff this
week. I may not have sent that to you. looking this morning at the pea
and tulip i went to go through my notes and i realized i don't
have much notes like i don't have hardly anything written
down it's just text just what the lord says and i think that'll
be a blessing but we've been looking at tulip as a sunday
school lesson so we're learning things just getting back to Plainness
and I thought you know you could somebody could say I hope the
windows of heaven are opened up in the super fluidity of God's
manifold blessings throughout time are bestowed upon your heart
What John say he said if you say you sin he'll forgive you
sin If you say you ain't sin you calling God a liar you either
believe him or you don't We're playing it now I won't
be playing I'll be playing tulips what we've been looking at total
depravity from head to toe, from molecule
inside and out, every thought, every deed, every good thing,
every bad thing, we're wrong. We ain't like God. He's holy. We ain't. He has to reveal that
to us. It's not a doctrine that we give
mental assent to. We have to be made that. And
those that are that way, well, who's going to be saved? Well,
without condition in those, because they're all the same. They're
all the same clay, same lump. The Lord was pleased to make
some vessels of honor, just because he wanted to. And for those that
he chose to do so, out of his good pleasure, his good will,
he bought them. And to call yourself a Christian
is a mighty bold statement. That's what we looked at Wednesday
night. If you didn't catch the service, go back and listen to
it. Ain't it nice? Did he pay a price for that?
For giving lip service to God's work? God killed him. Killed his wife. Is that serious
enough for us? The Lord paid for that. For somebody
to be a brother or sister in Christ, the cost of that was
the blood of God himself. Those are words, we can't enter
into what that means. But it's magnificent. And it's
serious. Of those that were worthless,
had no worth in them, have nothing in them that conditioned God's
response. But God loved them anyway, wanted
to, and he bought them. Sent his son here to be the propitiation,
the accepted bloody sacrifice. He irresistibly calls, you can't
stop it, I can't stop it. You can't make it happen, I can't
make it happen. Which is good news, I can't mess
this up. I've talked to several brethren
this week and I think, I don't know whether I'm, I think I'm
doing more harm than I'm doing good. I'm serious. I may, maybe
I'll quit doing what I'm doing. I don't, I don't think, and I
get so down and I'm like, I'm, I'm just, it's just, it's worthless.
Let's throw it away. Huh? And I thought, you know
what? Can't mess it up. God's not mocked. We ought to
learn. Fred Evans preached on that last
Wednesday. I didn't know it. There's several of them. Paul Mayhem
preached on the lies and everything else. I ain't talking. I talked
to Fred after. But God's not mocked. Man sows
sparingly, you'll reap sparingly. If you sow wheat, you ain't gonna
get corn. It's that simple. And well, I ain't blessed. Well,
but mocked also is translated disappointed. And I thought,
have you ever been disappointed? Have you ever been let down?
Maybe one time. God has never been, I can't believe
that happened. He's never been disappointed.
If he makes something or he tears something down, that's exactly
as he purposed it. And through that, that irresistible
grace for those people had nothing in them and he's bought them
because he loved them because he wanted to. He sent his son,
he draws them. against their will, with their
full consent. I love the way it's worded. You'll
thank him. You'll thank him. Just like children.
My guy has teenagers. And there's things that dad does
that people don't like. Wait till you're 30. You'll thank
me. I thank my parents. Now, those that the Lord's done
all this, if that's all we get, then this is it. We're of all
men most miserable. That's what scriptures say, right?
This is it. We just have good head knowledge,
and we're either going to turn into worm food or we'll perish
in our sins. The blood of Christ means nothing. It ain't worth
anything. But we have a pith in this tulip,
and this isn't chronological. This isn't how the Lord made
it come to pass, but it's kind of how we experience it. He shows
us we're depraved. There ain't nothing in us. He
shows us that Christ is righteousness. All judgment's been settled.
We're irresistibly drawn to him. And then we are P, perseverance
of the saints or preservation of the saints. Yes, it's both.
We are going to make it to the end to be conformed to his image.
And we're preserved. We have perseverance and just
like you can vegetables and you wait for it. When that goes,
it's good. Take the ring off of it, put
it on the back shelf in the dark for 30 years. Them beans are
going to be fine. I don't know if y'all have canned
vegetables, but Google it. It's a good process. We're preserved.
We're canned. We're kept. And I thought again,
just as we look through this, I want to cover this point. There's
so many verses I thought of, and this isn't an all-inclusive
list, but I thought of what the Lord told Malachi. He said, I'm
the Lord. I change not. You change? You
get disappointed? Discouraged? He said, I don't
change. God ain't like us. You know that? I'm so discouraged and down.
Well, God ain't like me. Ain't like you. He doesn't change.
And because of that, you sons of Jacob, you bunch
of hill-catching supplanters, worms, because he don't change,
you sons of Jacob are not consumed. Are not consumed now, and you
ain't gonna be consumed. We made it through today, what
about tomorrow? Well, we need to start learning that the Lord's
words everlasting. And we believe him, we'll see
it later on. And John 10, he said, my sheep
hear my voice, I know them and they follow me. That's just simple. There's sheep and there's a shepherd
and all the sheep converge as a herd animal together, shoulder
to shoulder, and together they walk behind the shepherd. It's
a magnificent thing to watch. In sheep and in people. Well,
I don't think it's that way. I don't care what you think.
God says his sheep follow him. He said, I bring my people together. I give unto them eternal life
and they shall never perish. Neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand. They ain't going to die and ain't
nobody going to undo it. Now this is what we call, I went
to a math course one time, this is a progressive course. Stage
one, if you didn't get stage one, you cannot get stage two,
okay? You ain't gonna make it. We build
on these things, right? And so this Sunday school, we've
been going through this tool that we've been building on these
things, and if you're totally depraved and the Lord's irresistibly
called you by his grace and Christ is all your payment and your
hope and everything, he's gonna keep his people. He said, I gave
them everlasting life and nobody or nothing's going to pluck them
out of my hand. My father, which gave them me, which unconditionally
elected a people. The father picked him. He gave
him to me. That's my inheritance. He's greater than all. No man's
able to pluck him out of my father's hand. And he said, I and the
father's one. We're the same. That's who saved us is God. That's
good news. Not a man, and not a preacher,
and not a creed, and not some old writing from 400 years ago.
God saved His people. It said in Ephesians 1, according
as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before Him. That's the end state. The presence
of God, that place He went to prepare for us, atonement. at
one month. That's a big deal if you wasn't
at one. And a lot of people don't care. They've never been at war
with God. And I tell them they're at war with God, and then they
get mad at me. Well, they are. That warfare needs to be accomplished.
We'll be before him in love. I thought of Ruth. Remember what
Naomi told Ruth? Ruth's pacing the floor. Oh,
what's going to happen? Sit down and stop. Knock it off. She said the man will not rest.
He will not be in rest until he hath finished the thing this
day. He ain't gonna stop. He ain't
gonna forget. This ain't gonna get misplaced
on his desk. Where y'all want to eat lunch
at? Want tacos? It's fine. Calm down. Lord's on his throne. If we know
him and if we believe his word, Don't calm down too much, go
sleep, okay? You take naps at home. Stay with it. Look at Ephesians 2. This is gonna be one of them, like,
I remember Henry preached for 35 minutes. He said, all right,
now let's turn to my text. Ephesians 2 ain't my text yet, but we'll
just look at it. Ephesians 2, verse 4. But God, who is rich in mercy,
His great love wherewith he hath loved us, even when we were dead
in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. He's made us alive
and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. It doesn't say he's going to
make us sit in heavenly places, does it? It's already done. Old brother Greg said, he said,
we're going to get the glory and we will realize we've always
been there. My daddy said, that's something you take to the bank.
It's tangible. It's worth something like a gold bar. The work's done. Christ said it's finished. Just
think about that for 70 years. And we get our tail feathers
all riled up over every little thing, like a bunch of little
scared children, which we are, we're his children. I want to
rest, I want to grow up just enough to believe him, don't
you? Just enough to rest, just enough to have peace and knowing
he preserves his people. Verse seven, that in the ages
to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness
towards us through Christ Jesus, whereby grace are you saved through
faith that not of yourselves it's the 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 over in Ephesians 4 he says grieve not
the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed you're sealed
we'll look at Ephesians 4 verse 30 Think of who this is speaking
to, he's talking to you. Who's that? I don't know, whosoever,
I'm gonna preach to him. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby
ye are sealed unto the day of redemption until the Lord comes.
Look back in Romans 8. We're reading all this to lead
up to one verse and we're almost there. Romans 8, verse 31. What shall we say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us? I thought this week we had a
war of northern aggression in this nation. Y'all call it civil
war, I think, out here. There was believers on the north
and there was believers in the south and they prayed to God,
didn't they? They petitioned God. Who could
be against us? Well, we'll be against ourselves
most of the time, ain't we? Who's your biggest enemy? Oh,
get me a list. Me, I'm the biggest enemy, right? And then those petitions turned
into praise, didn't they? I just, I know, I've experienced
it. And they said, Lord, you're right,
and we're all wrong. In the North and in the South, and believers
did. Lord, keep us. You preserve us as you promised
you will. We're against ourselves. It seems like everything else
is against us. But if you're for us, none of this matters. This
nation don't matter. That piece of paper over in Washington
don't matter. What I think, what anybody else
says or does don't matter. You being for us, that's what
matters. What shall we say to these things? If God be for us,
who can be against us? Verse 32. He that spared not
his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything
to the charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Who
is he that condemneth? It's Christ that died, yea, rather,
that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from
the love of Christ? Tribulation? Distress? persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or peril, or sword. As it is written, for thy sake
we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep for the
slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded
that neither death, no matter what, cancer, I don't know, everybody's
scared to death of cancer nowadays, or something else, whatever can
kill you, I'm persuaded that whatever causes death, and you
know what happens a lot? I was thinking for about five
years ago, folks who used to be here, life gets in the way,
don't it? Can life separate me from Christ? Can I just get so busy with T-ball
and kids and dogs and walks and hikes and vacations and Hawaii
and this and that and the other and college? Can that separate
us? I'm persuaded that neither death
nor life Life can't get in the way, nor angels. We don't even
know what they look like. They're stouter than we are.
Nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come. The government can't do it. Everybody's scared to
death of the government. I've seen people cuss the government
up one side, down the other, and then solely trust them for
their health care and their payment whenever they're old, for their
retirement. A little contradictory, ain't it? Don't make much sense. They can't get in the way of
this. Oh, what if a government comes in? God's on his throne. Somebody needs to remind us of
that. What about things that ain't happened yet? Nor things
present, whatever's going on now, nor things to come. Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creatures shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What if aliens show up? Let's preach Christ to them.
That's a good idea, isn't it? He says over in Romans 11, the
gifts and calling of God are without repentance. When he's
come to us convicted, we ain't nothing but sin. I have no hope.
And all our hope is Christ. And he's irresistibly called
us to do that, brought us to himself. And he says, this ain't
ever going to change. What I've given you, not knowledge,
understanding. I ain't going to take it away.
Well, I've been in this business since birth. I've been around
this preaching of this gospel. I didn't know it for a long time.
I had the faculties of it. I had the doctrines, the plural
of it, in my head and argued it as hard as I could go. Lord
used that to cut my teeth, I guess, but then he saved me. But I've
seen so many people stand on this for decades, even, and then
go away. Stop. Terrifying thing, isn't it? Lord,
is it I? Is that going to be me? Oh, we cry out, God, keep me.
He has to. I can't preserve myself. I can't
persevere. I have no power in and of myself.
God has to do it. God has to do it. Well, let's
turn to my text. Philippians 1. I want to touch just very briefly
on the first five verses, but verse six will be your take. Philippians 1 verse 1. Paul and Timotheus, the servants
of Jesus Christ. What a blessing. People talk
about, well, it's a little work, right? I've preached to a lot
more people than a bunch of people I know preach to. That's a big
work. It is. But the Lord said, despise not
the day of small things, didn't he? He wasn't lying. What happened
in Philippi? Well, Paul's down there by the
river preaching to some women. Lydia heard. Paul got put in
jail. And then he preached to the jailer,
didn't he? Started out small, didn't see that coming. Boy,
what's now? God sent Paul and Timothy to write this letter
to the saints in Philippi. There's a work there. God sent
his messenger there. You reckon Nineveh was happy
about that? When they sent Jonah? Or was they mad? Did the king
of Nineveh say, we had a good thing going until you showed
up, Jonah. Why don't you get out of here? God broke their
heart, he melted them, didn't he? He melted them. Paul and
Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in
Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons,
that's the pastors and those that help. Now let's read verse
two. Grace unto you, you want that? Anybody interested in that? Grace unto you and peace. from
God, our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Not peace
from a man, not grace from a man, not a blessings from some guy
in a weird man dress. This is from God. Grace and peace. Paul wrote 14 books, and 12 of
them start this way. Grace and peace. Grace unto you
and peace unto you. That's always the order. Mankind
wants peace, but they don't want to trifle with grace. Everybody
wants comfort. This comes from God, and this
is the order he gives it. He's gracious, and then we have
peace with it. I thank God upon every remembrance of you, always
in every prayer of mine, for you all making requests with
joy, with joy. They were happy about it. They
had something to be happy about. There was joy for your fellowship
in the gospel. We're in the same boat. We're
in the same fellows in the same ship, ain't we? What if we ain't
in the same boat? Then we're not in the same boat. Ain't complicated. Takes God
to make us believe it, doesn't it? If we're knit together, we're
inside the walls of that ark, it's in the gospel. And we're
together. I don't like the kind of shoes
you wear. Okay, well, we'll get over that. I don't like the brand
of car you drive. Who cares? Jonah's just real
hard to be around. Yeah, I'll be all right. You
just have him come down and preach to us. It'll be fine. We look over those things. Love
does that too, don't it? You know what happens? You fall
in love. Remember that? When you first started dating?
Everything's wonderful. Your fellowship in the gospel
from the first day until now. That new creation was there,
and that new creation's been there because God didn't take
it away. It's the same. And then that new creation, new
words start coming out of that mouth. You start talking plainly
and you stop putting your idols in your mouth. The Lord puts
his word in your mouth. What he says. It's so. In verse six, being confident
of this very thing. that he which hath begun a good
work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. I have
only a couple points here. I'll try to do it in eight minutes. I'm gonna be brief as I can.
My outline is what the Holy Ghost led Paul to write. My God here,
my dividing of the word is what he said. God calls that a miracle. Paul would have the gospel preached
to him. You believe that? Just saying what he said. Remember?
Remember? Remember? Remembrancers? Let's
believe him. Let's hear him. Verse six, being
confident. Being confident. Paul's confident. I'm confident. You know, no way
of wording that. Paul has faith, doesn't he? Oh,
it's faith. Now, let me tell you what faith
isn't only. Faith is not only believing God
is able to save sinners. Faith is not only believing that
there is a God. Faith is not only believing that
he's sovereign. Faith's not only believing in
Tulip. Though all those things exist, we will if God gives us
faith. That article there in the bulletin,
David's article, how simple that is. Tulip without Christ is just
a dead flower. I don't want to show up to judgment
with dead flowers, do you? I want to show up with God's
Son. His blood. That's what's needed. Paul's
confident. Faith is simply believing God
will do what he said he will do. And not going but, but, but,
but, but. He said it. Good enough for you? Good enough for me? Believers
are happy about that. That's the emotional experience
that comes with faith. Faith believing that God's gonna do
what he said he's gonna do. And then the emotional experience
with that is contentment and satisfaction. You've had that happen in Providence,
things not going your way and you get so frustrated and flustered
and frustrated. And you think, well, the Lord's
on his throne. He's not frustrated. This is exactly as he pleased.
Contentment. Satisfaction. Being confident in this very
thing that he, All of the confidence of Paul and all of the confidence
of the saints of God throughout time rest in a person. Being confident of this very
thing, that he, that he, not in a creed, not in a synod, not
in experience, not in longevity. You may rest in those things,
but I ain't talking about that. I'm speaking like Paul is here
to saints. I'm talking to those that have a new creation in them.
He's confident in a person. He's confident in the Lord. Being
confident of this very thing that he, which hath begun a good
work in you. Who began the work? I know a
bunch of people that found God. I know some sinners that God
found that was lost. There's a difference. There's
a difference. God began the work. He's the
initiator. He's the one that kills and makes
alive. That means he quickened, he gave
life. There was death there, and then we were born again as
a new creation. That seed germinated. That seed
was broadcast in the preaching of the truth, not of a false
gospel, of a true gospel. And Lord watered it, and he made
it increase, and there's a new creation there. Who started that? God did. God did. If it begins in grace, it will
end in glory. Watch it. Watch it. God began
the life. He began the work, the good work
in you. That's what we read in Ephesians
2. For we are His workmanship. He's the potter, we're the clay.
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before
ordained that we should walk in. What kind of work is this?
It says there, He hath begun a good work in you. A good work. Now let's be honest, if there's
anything good, where does it come from? There's none good
but God, that's what He said. So if it's a good work, it had
to originate with Him. It wasn't sitting on a shelf
and we got our spectacles out and found it. He came to us and
He started the work. What is a good work? About 600 messages ago, we started
out here in 1 John. We've been at this a little bit
now, ain't we? You remember what the theme of
1 John is? Believe on Christ, love your brethren. Believe Christ,
love your brethren. Believe Christ, love your brethren. Who's my
brethren? I don't know, but love them. Pray for them. Believe Christ, love
our brethren. That's good work, isn't it? Who
started that work? The Lord did. Jeremiah 29 we
read, for I know the thoughts that I have that I think towards
you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give
you an expected end, to make you persevere and preserve you
until you may just like Christ in his presence. That's the work
he began. That's what he began. Where does
this work take place? I know it's a simple, but these
words mean things. being confident of this very thing, that he which
hath begun a good work in you. In you. This work of God, the
saving and preserving of his people, it's for a people. Those
people are sinners. Now, we can agree to all this,
but God has to make it effectual for you. It's not giving mental
assent and saying, that's accurate, that is correct. According to
this legal document, that's the most logical outcome. He has
to do that work in us, in you. The guy with a PhD in theology
went to the Lord at night and he said, hey, Nicodemus, you
gotta be born again. He didn't know what to think,
did he? God's gotta do it, it's gonna
happen in you. Not on a piece of paper, not on a dry erase
board, not on a chalkboard, not on a billboard, not on a bumper
sticker. Lord's in the people business,
in you, you. Brother Todd said that years
ago, he might got somebody else. The righteous always think themselves
to be wicked, and the wicked always think themselves to be
righteous. God said, are you a sinner? Through
and through. The Lord's right. He can be just
when he speaks against thee and thee only have I sinned. It's
not just that I've sinned, I've sinned against the holy God. He's right,
I'm the wrong one. Now, are you holy? Well, I'm
as holy as Christ is holy. He's my righteousness. He's my
sanctification. He's my redemption. Don't feel
like it, but that's so. My only hope. Is it yours? The outside's gonna change some
because there's a heart work. Do you know that? The heart has
to happen first, and then everybody wants to clean up the outside,
maybe the inside will get better. Don't work that way. The Lord starts
inside, and then if he's been merciful to us, we're gonna be
merciful to other people. If he's been loving to us, we're
gonna be loving to other people. If he's forgiven us, we're gonna
forgive other people. Because that's in us. There's a new creation
in you. That's so. That's so. If our lives are unaffected at
all by this gospel, we've just heard it in a year. We haven't
heard it in a heart. If a plant don't come out of the ground,
you don't have crops. You get it? The field looks different
come mid spring. Knee high by the 4th of July
is what corn is. Something takes place. Some a
little, some a lot, that's the Lord's business. But now something's
gonna take place, isn't it? The dog's gonna know, the neighbor's
gonna know. The kid down at Albertson's gonna
figure it out, because he ain't throwing bags at him and cussing
him all the time. He said, well, I'd like to be a bagger in the
Lord's grocery store. Something's different, isn't
it? Not just cleaning up outside
the cup, there's a new creation. And we confess we're sinners,
and we confess that Christ is all righteousness, and we're
holy in him. all the way to the end for his people. Now, if you can leave that, I
was talking to somebody yesterday, people retire and then they move
to where the gospel's not. And I was like, well, did you
shun your children? Did you divorce your wife? Why didn't they? Because they love their wife
and their children. Well, that's hard. You better, hell is finding
out truth too late. We ought to be told now. That's
so, isn't it? But he that shall endure to the
end, the same shall be saved. Gotta ride it all the way to
the end. How am I gonna do that? How can
I? If left to myself, if anybody's
gonna leave, I'll be the first one. If anybody will say this
couldn't be real, it's too good to be true, it's make-believe,
whatever kind of thought you can have and depart from the
true and living God and depart from the gospel, I'd be the first
one going. How am I going to keep myself?
I can't. Nobody else can keep themselves
either. Hebrews 10 says, now the just shall live by faith.
If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Buddy. But we are not of them
who draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the
saving of the soul. How am I, a dead dog sinner, nothing in
me for God to desire, and I've been bought with a price, how
can I make it to the end? Well, if he bought it, did he
get what he paid for, or did someone defraud the Lord? That ain't brain science and
it ain't rocket surgery, is it? It's simple. If it was bought
with a price, is he going to get what he paid for? Yes. OK. Yes, he is. He is going to
get it. He said, I'll lose none. I just
I thought I thought, what a man, what a man the Lord is. He set
his faith. Do you have any unfinished projects?
Have you ever started to do something and then you didn't get you?
Have you ever said you were going to do something and then you
didn't follow through? God ain't like us. He ain't a man that
he should lie, that's lying. To say you're gonna do something
and then not do it's a lie, God says so. He ain't like us. Look at this, verse six. Being
confident, how confident are we? Of this very thing, that
he which hath begun a good work in you will perform. Who's doing the performing? Him. I gotta keep myself, that ain't
your business. we'll see next hour just if we if we declare
God just and him showing mercy that ain't you no he's the justifier
not you you ain't on the you're not the judge you're not you
don't have a robe on you're not in the court we're the convict
convicts okay who's going to keep us he's going to and i can't
mess it up i can't get in the way ain't nothing no principality
no power no angel no nothing good no nothing bad no period
it's done He will perform it. How long?
Until the day of Jesus Christ. Until he comes back to this earth
as he said he's going to, and we look for him. We look for
him. All of mankind is trying not
to physically die, and they're trying to stop some kind of Armageddon,
or trying to stop some new world order, or some other conspiracy
theory that's a pacifier to stick in their mouth to make them,
oh, think it's okay because they've sinned against God. And they
don't want to face him, and that's deep down inside. And then that
new creation says, boy, I think he's coming. It has to be it. Children are
disobedient to parents, left, right, and center. This whole
world, I've about got ran off road three times coming to church
this morning. I live 12 minutes away. It's crazy. And I think this is wonderful.
Surely the Lord's coming, isn't it? Eve thought that. She said,
I got the man. Right there he is. She was wrong, but that's who
she was looking for. And that new creation looks for
him too. Why? Because he's going to perform it till the Lord comes.
Now, Jude, and I'll close. Get to Revelation and look left. Verse 24. Now, unto him that is able, to
keep you from falling and present you faultless before the presence
of His glory, with exceeding joy, willingly, with exceeding
joy, to the only wise God our Savior. Be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. Let's pray. Father, for your people that
struggle so much with assurance and the inward warfare that's taking
place, that old man that just troubles us so. Lord, as you see fit, make us
see the glory in your grace in Christ that he's done exactly
what he said he's going to do. And he's going to do what he
said he's going to do or make us believe Christ. Make us bow
to him and worship him and take our minds and our eyes off things,
this world and things, this flesh and the things inside of us and
our sin and look to him who's worthy to be honored. Who's worthy to be praised. Holy. related to us and willing
to save us, Lord, make that paramount in our minds. Give us that comfort
and forgive us for our unbelief, for not looking to Christ, not
believing on him, not believing what he said. Lord, I make all that to your,
the praise of your grace. Christ receives all preeminence
and glory in him. What a wonderful king and husband
we have. It's because of Him we ask these
things. Amen.