There we go. Genesis chapter 5. We've got
Brother Don Martin with us from all the way from Lexington, Kentucky.
We're thankful to have him. Say hi in between services, get
to know him a little bit. Genesis 50. We're going to be
looking at verses 22 through 26. I thought for the time being,
this will be our last message in Genesis. We'll be finished
up. Maybe come back to it again.
I look forward to maybe decades down the road going through it
again. I entitled this, A Shore Visit. A Shore Visit. Here in verse 22, it says, And
Joseph dwelt, Genesis 50, verse 22, And Joseph dwelt in Egypt,
he and his father's house. And Joseph lived an hundred and
ten years. And Joseph saw Ephraim's children
of the third generation. The children also of Matre, the
son of Manasseh, were brought up upon Joseph's knees. And Joseph
said unto his brethren, I die, and God will surely visit you
and bring you out of this land and to the land which he swore
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath
of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and
you shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died, being
110 years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin
in Egypt." What are we reading here? Is this just a real quick
end? of this story of Joseph and Moses
was just head riders cramp and had to just get that last couple
verses in. Because we had the story there
of Jacob, we saw the burial of Jacob and then a long time, a
good many while, he saw the third generation, he saw some great
grandchildren. And that's not even, all the things that took
place aren't even mentioned. And it just says well, Joseph
said, it's time for me to die, I'm gonna die. God's gonna visit
you. And that's it. And they embalmed
him and put his bones in a coffin. What are we reading? All throughout
this book, as we've been looking at Joseph, he's been just a great
type of Christ in many ways. We can't find anything bad to
say about him. This man had an incredible life. I mean, not
just as a believer, of stories of what the Lord brought him
through and what the Lord taught him and how the Lord used everything
around him to keep him and prove his word. Not just those things,
just as a human. Just as a human. You've bumped
into people that have seen a lot and done a lot and they've got
a good story, don't they? Have an incredible life. Joseph was
the favorite son. He was the firstborn of that
loved wife. That bride that his father loved.
He was the firstborn of her. So much so the favorite that
he was made a coat of many colors. What a beautiful thing that is.
He was a dreamer of dreams. He had these visions that not
the Lord had given him, but his brethren bowing down to him,
making obeisance. That didn't make him happy, but
it was so God gave him a dream. Mom and daddy was okay with that.
And then he said, well, I have another dream. The sun and the moon is
going to bow down to me. And they said, wait, that's us.
They didn't like that either, did they? He was sold into slavery
because of this, because of this hatred by his brethren. Sold
to another country, given another name, given another language,
given another culture to learn. Never complained. He was put
in the house of Potiphar, and he withstood all that temptation
of Potiphar's wife, because he believed God, and he would not
bow. And so he was cast into prison
because of that, on trumped-up charges, on lies. And while he
was in that prison, he interpreted the dreams of someone else. It
was a butler and a baker, wasn't it? A baker, he made things of
his hands. He produced something. And he
said, Pharaoh's gonna have your head. But that butler, the servant,
the one who just served, just took out the garbage, just cleaned
the floors. He said, you're gonna get everything
back in this time. Don't forget me. And then they
forgot him. Everything he said come to pass
because he believed God and the Lord had gifted this man. And
that butler went back to where he was and forgot him. He didn't
complain. He didn't whine. And then finally,
Pharaoh had a dream. And then that butler remembered
and said, hey, I know a fella. A couple years later, what, long
time sitting in a jail cell. He said, let's get Joseph. So
they brought Joseph up, and Joseph interpreted the dream of the
king. He said, let me tell you what that means. You're going
to have seven years of famine. It's going to be bad. But before
that, you're going to have seven years of plenty. So we're going
to put back. And then everybody's going to have to come to us.
That's what's going to happen. He said, that's wonderful. You're
in charge of everything. And so for seven long years,
Joseph ran the whole country. He's the boss. And then the famine
came. And he's still the boss. Nothing's
changed. But if you're going to eat, you
have to go to Joseph. If you're going to live, you
have to come and ask Joseph for bread. Boy, what a picture. He
believed God. He believed God and the interpretation
that God gave him. And he faced that king and told
him the bad news that that king didn't want to hear. And he provided for everybody,
and his brethren came out of necessity. And boy, he provided
for his brethren, didn't he? He provided for his whole family,
and through this process of gently revealing to them what they had
done, and being tender to them, and not killing them, but being
kind and weeping for them, he brought, through his provision,
the wagons that he sent and the message that he sent, so you
say exactly what I said. I'm going to bring my whole family
back. You bring my father, too. And I'm going to put you right
in the land of Goshen, in the very best pot of land you can
get. And everything's going to be
provided for you." Gave him a king's return, and then Jacob died. Years later, Jacob lived and
died, and they had a king's burial for him. Whole country shut down. Long time, couple months, to
honor this man of God. He wept for him. And then his
brother said, well, now that daddy's dead, you're going to
kill us. He wept for him again. He said, what's wrong with you?
You meant all this for evil. That's true. God meant it for
good. Oh, what faith to have, believing
what the Lord would do. And he dies after this compassion
that remained steadfast for his brethren the whole time. He dies
speaking of the exodus. He said, I'm going home to God,
but God will surely visit you. But you get my bones out of here.
You get my bones out of here. Out of 13 chapters, there's 50
chapters in Genesis, 13 chapters mention Joseph. Have something
to do concerning Joseph. Now, I just skimmed over the
top. Out of all those things, which one would I pick if I wanted
to really show the faith of Joseph? If I wanted to show the faith
of a believer, Everybody talks about faith, don't they? Well,
my faith, and this faith, and I had faith, and I didn't have
faith. This perfect, just wonderful
picture of Christ, which would I choose if I wanted to exemplify
a believer's faith? God-given faith. Turn over to
Hebrews 11 with me. It don't matter what I think.
It don't matter what I think. Turn over to Hebrews 11. Here's what the Holy Ghost moved
the writer of Hebrews to speak concerning the faith of Joseph.
Hebrews 11 verse 21, we looked at this before. By faith Jacob,
when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph and worshipped,
leaning upon the top of his staff. Do you remember that? Whenever
he blessed those sons of Joseph? And then he went on to bless
his sons. And he said, every one of y'all is wicked, except
Judah. That's rough, isn't it? No, that's a great act of faith. To tell mankind the truth about
mankind. To tell mankind the truth about
God that the elder will serve the younger. He's preaching Christ
to them, wasn't he? Here in verse 22, By faith Joseph,
when he died, made mention of the departing of the children
of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones. This man's
110 years of walking, born into a family that believed God, grew
up with a family that believed God, the Lord revealed Himself
to him. It was a picture of Christ a
hundred different ways. And God records in His precious
Word for us. I'm going to tell you about the
faith of Joseph. When he died, he made mention of the departing
of the children of Israel. That's one. And he gave commandment
concerning his bones. That don't sound like 110 years
worth of living, does it? God says that's the best part.
He said this is precious. This is precious. Of all the
things to display the faith of Joseph, this is what the Lord
was pleased to mention. Now, instead of looking at this
like it's a math problem, let's ask God to teach us something
in it. Let's learn from this. Not just sit back and admire. Lord, teach us in this. It says,
by faith, Joseph, when he died, he made mention of the departing.
That word departing in Greek is spelled E-X-O-D-O-S. We spell it U-S. Exodus. He made mention of the Exodus
of the children of Israel. and gave commandment concerning
his bones." How would he, speaking of the Exodus, because that wasn't
going to happen when Joseph said this another 430 years, and commanding
his bones to be taken back to Canaan, how could that be an
extraordinary extraordinary act of faith? The event in life that's remembered
and spoken of for ages to come and we're talking about this
morning. How could that be? Let me ask this question first
before we see what the scriptures say. What is faith? What is faith? It's a gift of
God. We know that. The Lord has to
give faith. But what is it actually? People
talk about it all the time. Well, you gotta have faith. Okay.
Where do I get it? Well, it's a gift of God. Okay,
well, what is it? Ain't that important? I want
the young people in this building. As the Lord gives us the privilege
of having young people around us, I want them to be able to
answer this question. This is not complicated. There
is not a theological dissertation that needs to be taken in a three-part
course to explain what this is. What is faith? What is God-given
faith? It's this simple. It's believing
God. It's believing what He says.
About what? Whatever He says. I believe what
He says about me. There's none good. No, not one. I was talking to my pastor yesterday
about apologetics and I used to just sit and talk and talk
and talk and talk and argue and plead. I was in laundry rooms
and I was in living rooms and I was everywhere else and I mean
a thousand times I fought the doctrines of grace and I was
an apologetic because I wouldn't apologize to nobody. I was right. That's a problem and God saved
me. All that stuff that wasn't the preaching of the gospel,
it profited absolutely zero times. It was not profitable. If you
get in my living room, well let's pull the scriptures out and let's
talk about this. This is not a discussion, this is a declaration. A discussion won't do anything
but encourage debate. The gospel is to be declared.
And it took me a decade for the Lord to teach me slowly that
that's how He saves sinners, because you know what? That's
what He says He's going to do. By the foolishness of preaching,
some sinner, we'll see next hour, just the worthless of the worthless,
the head harlot in town, the leper, is going to find where
bread is and he's going to go tell other people and say, there's
bread out there and it ain't my business if they eat it. I
hope they do, but I'm just going to eat the bread and say, well
I told you, I hope you listen. One beggar told another beggar where
he found bread. That's it. That's it. And faith believes
what God says. I wasn't looking for Him. He
found me. He wasn't lost. I didn't figure
this out. I didn't come to the knowledge
of the doctrines of grace. God revealed Christ to me and
in me. I didn't pick the right church.
I was the sinner and God saved me. Because that's what His Word
says. I was an infant in a field covered
in my own blood and nobody wanted me. They didn't have the common
courtesy to kill me. They threw me out in the woods. And He come
by and He put His robe over me. And He had compassion on me.
And He had pity on me. And He clothed me and adorned
me. And He keeps me. Because that's what He says.
And because of all that, He gets all the glory and I believe that
because that's what He says. Let's just believe in what He
says. People get mad. I've lost a lot of friends because
I tell people, well, that's what God says and people don't want
to hear it. My job is to make them hear.
That's the Lord's business, isn't it? Faith is not believing in
God. The devil is believing in God.
It's not believing there's one God. They tremble. It's not believing things about
Him, but believing Him. His Word, His promises, and His
work, and His work is sufficient. He did it all, and it's all done.
It's all finished, and it's all glorious. It's magnificent. And
we've just got to wait until the end. We just got to ride
time out. Ain't got no other choice. We
don't understand it all the time. There's things I read in this
scripture, I have no idea what it means. And I don't know what
I don't know. There's things I think I know,
and I got a little bit of understanding. I see through a glass dimly,
and then in 10, 15 years, I'll read that again. I say, well,
that's what that means. The more I read, the more the
Lord shows me, the more I understand. I don't know nothing, but I believe
Him. It may not be the total understanding,
but my explaining it isn't conditional to this. It's not my experience
of it. It's just believing. I don't
have to go through these things. I just believe that's what He
said. I believe God. That's called saving faith. Saving
faith. Joseph spoke. It says in Hebrews
11 verse 22, By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of
the exodus, of the departing of the children of Israel. He
just made mention. The Lord's going to bring His
people out. That's it. That's extraordinary
faith. Why is that so simple? What does
that mean? There's a covenant made and it's
God's covenant to an undeserving people. Turn back to Genesis
15. This is the Lord speaking to
a man named Abram. He's about to change his name
to Abraham. Genesis 15 verse 12. And when
the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and lo
and horror of great darkness fell upon him. He wasn't clicking
his heels and doing cartwheels and saying, oh how I love Jesus.
The Lord got him down low. You ought not talk about those
things. Why not? That's what God does. That's
His Word. I ought not be afraid to tell what God says. He got
him down in darkness. And He said unto Abram, verse
13, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in the
land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall
afflict them four hundred years. This is going to happen, Abraham.
And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge. And
afterward they shall come out with great substance. And thou
shalt go to thy fathers in peace. Thou shalt be buried in a good
old age." The Lord told Abraham. He told him and said, go outside
and look up. You count those stars? That's how your seed,
singular, shall be. And Abraham believed God. He
was old and didn't have a child yet. His wife was old and wasn't
able to have children, but he believed. He said, well, I don't
know how this is going to take place. And he said, take your son, your
only son, the one you love, take him up that hill and you kill
him. Isaac said, Daddy, we've got the fire, we've got the wood,
we've got all these things, we're going to worship God. Where's the land?
God will provide himself a land. How? I can kill you and he'll
bring you back. I don't know what he's going
to do. I have no idea, son. But it's going to happen because
I believe him. I believe what he said. How did Joseph know
to tell about this exodus? About this 400 years and the
Lord's going to bring you out and he's going to judge that
people that was mean to you? His great-grandpa, Abraham, told
his grandpa. And his grandpa told his dad.
And his dad told Joseph. Now what's our responsibility
that the Lord so clearly lays out all throughout the Proverbs
and everything else? He said, you take His Passover.
The Passover took place at the end of that Exodus, wasn't it?
And the Lord said, you're going to honor the Feast of the Passover.
You're going to keep this. And I'm going to tell you the
reason you're going to keep this. It's a token. It ain't that this Feast
does something. This is not the Jews Passover.
This is the Lord's Passover. He said, you're going to do this
for the sole purpose when your children say, Daddy, why are
we doing this? And you say, God's faithful to bring his children
out, son. but it had to take some innocent without spot or
blemish to die and shed blood and we didn't have to see it
God had to see it because it's lamb he provided something's
got to die for you to live and spiritually that something is
the Lord Jesus Christ he had to come and die for us and and
that sacrifice that mercy seat had to be accepted to God or
you want to die and go to hell forever I'll cry to him. The Lord said that's the whole
reason we got the Passover. Tell your children about it. And so
what's Joseph doing? He's telling his brethren, remember,
they'd heard it too, but they probably forgot. Remember? Remember? Most translations get
you, your pastor tells you to get you a King James Version
Bible. Don't get nothing else, don't get nothing commentary
in it, that's why I'm here. Lord be with us. But sometimes
I'll look through other amplified versions or whatever and most
times it's absolutely terrible and it's blasphemous. It's not
an error, it is heresy. There's a difference. Sometimes,
a broke crock will be right twice a day, won't it? Sometimes they
hit the nail on the head. I love Isaiah 62 verse 6. There's an American Standard
Version that reads this, I've set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never hold their peace,
day nor night. Ye that are Jehovah's Remembrancers. Jehovah's, God's Remembrances.
And this says, you just tell what he said, remember? Remember
what the Lord said? I forgot, me too, and I had to
go look it up. Remember what the Lord said? We ain't coming
up with nothing new. That's what the Lord's prophets
do. They just say what the Lord said. They didn't say what they
said. That's what His ambassadors do now. His preachers in this
day, if they're His people, they speak according to this Word,
and they just tell you what the Lord says. What was Joseph doing? Just saying what God said. He's
going to visit His people. He'll bring you out. And whenever
that happens, you get my bones out of here. Take my bones with
you. What is that covenant going to
accomplish that he made with Abraham that Joseph is telling?
Look back in Genesis 50, verse 24. And Joseph said unto his brethren,
I die and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this
land into a land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob. What's he going to do? Bring
you out of Egypt. out of Egypt. When the scriptures
that speaks of those two witnesses that they fall in the street,
they're witnessing what the Lord has and when they're done with
that witness, they're going to fall on the street and their
bodies are going to be left in the street. It says in Revelation 11, their
dead bodies shall lie on the street of the great city which
spiritually is called Sodom and We think Gomorrah. No. Sodom
and Egypt. Revelation 11 verse 8. Egypt. Where also our Lord was crucified. That's this whole old nature. That's this whole old world.
Every bit of it. That's Egypt. That's us in religion
or us in the prostitution place or us in the drug house. It don't
make a difference. It's us outside of Christ. We'll see next hour.
It's death and destruction. That's what Egypt is. And the
Lord shall surely visit his people and bring his people out of Egypt. God's gonna save his people.
What? Yeah. That's an amazing statement
of faith. That's the truth, isn't it? The
Lord shall surely bring us out of Egypt. Now that's a three-letter word,
isn't it? Out. What's out mean? It means not
in. Did the Lord bring us out of
the way we used to think? That's called repentance. Gave
us a new way of seeing things. We turn from ourselves and turn
to Him. Right? To turn from something
to turn to something. Now pay attention to me. Don't let me
lose you. He brought us out. Does that mean we stay half in
and half out? No, He brought us out. Does that
mean He brought us out but I still have fellowship with those that's
in? No, He brought us out. You know what I'm saying? I know
it seems overly simple, but God has to teach these things. We're
not half in the ark and half in the water. He brought us into
the ark. Come, you and your whole family.
And He sealed us in there. We're pitched within and without.
We're inside of Christ. Not halfway. It's yes or no. That's important. He brings us
out of Egypt, out of religion, of man worship, whether it's
in church or on a bass boat, it don't make a difference. And
He will surely do this. Those that are His Israel, those
that are sons of Jacob, it's going to happen. Period. Take
it to the bank. This is an old gospel. Did you
know that? Joseph ain't saying nothing that
Joseph Murphy down in Texas ain't saying this morning. Joseph here
ain't saying nothing. Make a list. Paul Mahan, my pastor
and your pastor. Ain't nothing new. God's going
to do this. He was pleased to do it. He has
a people and he's going to save them. That's it. That's an old
gospel. Brother Fortner said that one
time. He said, I'm not a Protestant. I didn't, this wasn't born, my
religion's not Protestant religion, it wasn't born out of the Catholic
Church. And he said, I'm not reformed. He said, there's never
been anything to improve on from Adam. When the Lord slew a lamb
and covered Adam and Eve, that's been the gospel from then until
now. There ain't nothing to make better. We weren't born out of
something else, we're born of God. Joseph's telling the same
thing, same thing. Well, how is this going to happen?
If the Lord spoke this, and He's going to visit us, and we're
Egypt and in Egypt, He's got to bring us out of Egypt. He's
going to have to surely visit us. Look here in verse 24, And
Joseph said unto his brethren, I die, and God will surely visit
you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which He sware
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath
of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you. He
says it twice. Here's the oath to take. God
will surely visit the sons of Jacob. Hands down. Well, hold on now. They still
got 430 years or 386 years or however many, a whole bunch of
years. These 11 brothers ain't gonna
be alive. They're gonna physically die. They ain't gonna see that.
They can't take his bones out. Their bones are gonna be bones
too. That's not what Joseph's talking about, is it? He's talking
about a divine visitation. God shall surely visit the sons
of Jacob. Not everybody. Sinners. Sinners. He came into the world
to save sinners. Call his name Jesus for he shall
save his people from, he's going to save from something, their
sin. That's what it's going to do.
And when did that divine visitation first take place? Way before
time. Before it was ever possible for
us to get visited. Did you know that? The Lord looked
on his people and he said, I know my thoughts towards you. That's
why he told Abraham, he said, I'll establish my covenant between
me and thee. Who's going to establish this
covenant of visitation? God is. between thy seed after
thee and their generations for an everlasting covenant." That's
infinite. That means it always has been
and shall always be. We can't enter into that. Go
to a math class and then try to write a ten-page paper on
infinity. You'll go crazy. Our brains can't comprehend it.
There's not words to describe it. It's an everlasting covenant. That's what Peter said, for as
much as you know that you're not redeemed with corruptible
things of silver and gold from your vain conversations received
by tradition of your fathers, but you're redeemed with the
precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot
who verily was foreordained. That visitation, the premise
on which this is right, was foreordained before the world was, and was
manifested in these last times for you. What's that mean? He
came. Todd read a scripture, and he
said, I got to think, he said, I wrote that down in my notes,
and I thought, man, I wonder if they get tired of hearing this. And he said,
I don't get tired of reading it. He said, if they get tired
of it, it's your fault. He said, that's your problem, ain't mine.
That's precious. This is wonderful. Before time, before this world
was, there was an everlasting covenant. And then in time, Christ
came to this earth. He was bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh, born of a woman like me. And He lived for His
people and He bore that wrath for His people. And He died for
His people and He was risen again for His people. And He intercedes
for His people right now. And then, that was 2,000 years
ago. I wasn't born yet. I still wasn't on the scene.
And then for us and our generation of people, we're to preach to,
He comes in the Holy Spirit. and visits us. And He shall surely. You ain't going to miss one.
And abounds towards us and reveals all these things. And what we
are and the Egypt that we are and the glory of His person and
His work and our love of Him because He first loved us and
our need of Him because we're needy sinners. And we're great
sinners and we have a great Savior. And He reveals all this stuff
to us. And He shall visit His people. It's going to happen. If He takes my tongue out of
my throat, He'll raise up a stone or a jawbone of an ass to talk
to Him. He'll do anything He wants. It's
going to happen. That gives me confidence. I can't mess it up.
I can't mess it up. That's my worry, isn't it? When
that Holy Spirit comes and visits us, that's what happened to Sarah
in Genesis 17. Remember, she laughed. The Lord
said, she's going to have a baby. He told Abraham, she laughed.
He said, why is she laughing? She laughed again afterwards.
She said, Lord's made me delight. She's laughing now, this isn't
possible. And then by the end, because she was his, it says,
God said to Sarah, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed
and thou shalt call his name Isaac and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and his seed after him.
That was the promise. Life was going to be in Sarah.
What happened? Genesis 21, and the Lord visited
Sarah. He visited. You reckon he just
happened to use the same word? I don't think so. He visited. And he said the Lord said unto
Sarah as he had spoken. And Sarah conceived to bear Abraham
a son of his old age at the set time of which God had spoken
to him. Why is all that right? How could
it be that the Lord would be pleased to save a people, as
unworthy people, and bring us out of such things? Not halfway,
out from one thing to another. How could that be just? How can
God be a just God and a Savior? That's important. The legitimacy
of this gospel is important. It ain't just that it happens
to be good news. This has got to be holy. Holy. There in Genesis
50 verse 24. Here's the ticket. And Joseph
said unto his brethren, I die. How is it going to be? And, you
see that colon, and? What come first is death. Joseph
said, I die and God will surely visit you and bring you out of
this land into the lands which he swore to Abraham and to Isaac
and to Jacob. He said, I'm the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. And because Christ, who Joseph
pictures, died, I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. You know, the man Joseph, not
the picture Joseph, the man Joseph, he wasn't born in Egypt. Did
you know that? He was brought to Egypt, but
he wasn't born there. He was born in Canaan. He said,
you take my bones back and you bury me at home. Child of God, you physically
were born here, but that new creation in you, it ain't from
here. It ain't from this dirt. It ain't from Adam. That's born
of God. That's a new creation. That's
from above, isn't it? That faith that comes with it,
that's from above. Turn over to 2 Corinthians, I'll let you
go. 2 Corinthians 5 Verse 17 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17, Therefore
if any man be in Christ He's a new creature. Old things are
passed away. Behold, all things are become
new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself
by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation,
to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. not imputing their trespasses
unto them, and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ, just as Joseph was. As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's name, be ye reconciled to God." How could that be? For he hath
made him sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him." Abraham didn't understand how
it could be that he's going to have this great nation, but it
was so he believed God. Joseph didn't understand how
400 years from now his bones were going to come out of there
and the Lord was going to bring people out of Egypt through the Exodus,
but he believed God because God said so. You understand that. The Lord said, there's therefore
now no condemnation. You are righteous and holy. It
sure don't look like it, does it? And it sure don't feel like
it, but he said so. You know what that's called? Great faith. Great faith. Ain't complicated, but it's great
because God gave it. That's why it's great. Let's
pray together. Father, thank you for this word.
Lord, thank You for this everlasting covenant You made in Your Son
for an unworthy people. Thank You for visiting us, Lord,
and revealing Christ to us and who He is and what He did. We
know You shall save Your people, Lord, but we ask that You save
Your people. Use us to simply tell the Gospel. to proclaim where we found bread
and what the Lord did for us. Forgive us for what we are, Lord.
Forgive us our unbelief and be with our brethren that aren't
here with us and our brethren all throughout this world, Lord.
There's so many in trial and heavy burden that you've sent
and give them comfort. It's because of Christ we ask
it. Amen. All right. We'll take about a 10-minute
break and meet back.