Morning. We'll be turning to Genesis chapter
37. Genesis 37. Title of the message, Jacob's Generations. We're gonna get a genealogy here
of Jacob, his offspring. We've been seeing that quite
a bit already throughout time that we've been looking at the
life of Jacob, but somebody else is gonna come on the scene. Here
in Genesis 37, we're reading verse one. And Jacob dwelled
in a land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of
Canaan. These are the generations of
Jacob. I know something of being a stranger in a land. And we're
just sorry sons of Jacob's, aren't we? Our Lord, he refers to himself
more throughout the scriptures as the God of Jacob than any
other name. He's the God of Jacob and him
being the God of Jacob and me being a son of Jacob. I'm interested
in this generation. I'm interested in what he has
to say. I want to know about Jacob's generation. Back in chapter
36, there at the beginning of it, we see the beginning of Esau's
generation. And there's 43 verses to it. There in Genesis 36, verse one. It says, now these are the generations
of Esau, who is Edom. He's his twin brother, but he's
dirt, isn't he? Red dirt. He come out red. He's
earthy. And it goes on for 43 verses
of accolades, 43 verses of, of louding and, and praise of all
these Dukes. This is our, our, our grandchildren,
they're Dukes and there's Kings and these Kings, they reigned
and, and they seem to just get grander and grander as the time
goes on, doesn't it? For a long time. Every passage
of scripture is profitable and it points us to Christ and you
can go through chapter 36 and you can study these names like
Esau's wives names and boy what they meant. And it shows us clearly,
we have a love for this world by nature. It shows us clearly,
outside of the grace of God, we're utterly unable to do anything. We can't do anything. But I want
you to see this. This is what I want us to pick
up. Maybe the next time we go through Genesis, we can spend
a lot of time in chapter 36, but for now, All these things
of Esau's generations listed in great detail, isn't it? 43
verses. And then you see here in chapter
37, verse 1. Jacob dwelled in a land wherein
his father was a stranger in the land of Canaan. And these
are the generations of Jacob. You ready? Joseph. Joseph. I am more certain today that
this is the Word of God than I've ever been. I was yesterday,
I was years ago. This is God's Word. And then
every time I read it and I look at things and I'm just, I know
more. I know better. This is Him. This
is true, isn't it? I think the Lord will show this
to us this morning. I think it'll be joyful for you
too. It makes me happy. Makes me happy. Do you remember
how many sons Jacob had? He had 12, didn't he? 12 sons.
None of the other 11 are mentioned here. This is the generations
of Jacob. Only one's mentioned, Joshua. Joshua. These are the generations
of Jacob. I'm sorry, Joseph, not Joshua.
Joseph. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph. There's more
written in Genesis about Joseph than anyone else. Anyone else
from right now, whenever we saw his birth, he was born of Rachel. But from here on until the end
of chapter 50, we're going to hear Joseph mentioned over and
over and over again. And he's a wonderful picture
of Christ. Unlike many of the Lord's people
that we read about. And if there was a book written
on Kevin Thacker, there's a whole lot that would be wrote about
that's negative. All the bad things that happened, all the
bad decisions they made, all the horrible things they did.
But not Joseph. Joseph has nothing recorded about
him that's negative. Do you know that? It's every
bit positive. Of course, he was no different
than me. He's no different. He's a sinner saved by grace,
just like us. But the Lord didn't tell anything
amiss about Joseph. We'll see this through the rest
of Genesis as we go on. It'll take us probably a couple
months to get through it. He was the eldest son of Rachel.
He was the preferred son. He was the favorite. The Lord
said of Christ, he's mine elect, my son who I'm well pleased.
Joseph, he was despised of his brethren. Our Lord, he came unto
his own and his own received him not. Isn't it? He was cast
into a pit. We're gonna see that happen.
Our Lord, he condescended to this earth, this sin-cursed earth
for us. Joseph was sold, those descendants
of Ishmael, for 20 pieces of silver. Christ was betrayed by
one close to him. for 30 pieces of silver, wouldn't
he? Joseph, he goes into Potiphar's
house. He's sold into there. Potiphar
buys him, in charge of everything. And he was tempted day in and
day out, day by day, it says, by Potiphar's wife. And he said,
well, am I going to sin against God and be ashamed of my master? Of course not. He didn't cave
in to temptation. What about our Lord? Satan tempted
him, took him up high. He said, I'll give you everything.
He was going to bow to you. Everything was his anyway, but
he was tempted in all points, just like we are in everything,
yet without sin. He resisted sin and the sweat
drops of blood, didn't he? He was always about his father's
business. Joseph, he was cast into prison because of Potiphar's
wife for a sin he did not commit. Christ went on that cross at
Calvary. for this sin that he didn't commit. For me, for you. Joseph came
out of that prison. He was in prison there because
of his wife. He came out of that prison the most powerful man in Egypt
and all the land. Christ came out of that grave
a victorious king. And if you want anything to eat,
if you want anything to drink, if you want life, if you want
protection, You don't have to go through Joseph in Egypt. You
want corn? You have to go to him. Our Lord
came out of the grave. You want life? You want something
to eat? You want food? Anything it is, you have to go through
him. Only him. All of Joseph's brethren, all
11 of them, wicked, ornery, just mean, but they were saved and
they were preserved solely because of their brother. Isn't that
our story? The day will come when it will
be said of the children of God, those sons of Jacob, well done,
my good and faithful servant. There's no condemnation. There's
no record like we'll be like Joseph. There's no record, nothing
bad. Everything you did was right.
Can you imagine? I can't even read it. It's so,
but I can't. Why don't, English language doesn't
have words to describe what that'd be like. I don't know, but it's
so, it'll happen. No negative reports whatsoever.
It says there in verse two, he's feeding the flock with his brethren,
doesn't he? It says, these are the generations of Jacob. Joseph
being 17 years old was feeding the flock with his brethren. He said, you go in this world
and preach. That's who he's talking to. And he said, lo, I'm with
you all the way. And he said in two by two, you go preach.
He said, I'll be with you while you're preaching. When you feed
my sheep, Peter, I'm gonna be with you. He was feeding the
flock with his brethren. Christ is the good shepherd.
He came and he laid down his life for the sheep. Christ is
our great shepherd. That's the one that rose again,
we read in Hebrews 13. The great shepherd, he come out of the
great. And our Lord Jesus Christ is the chief shepherd. and he's
returning to receive us into glory. That's what we read in
1 Peter 5, isn't it? That's him. These are the generations
of Jacob. Joseph, being 17 years old, was
feeding the flock with his brethren. And the lad was with the sons
of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph
brought unto his father their evil report. He was in this world
with all of us illegitimate children of Adam, born, conceived in sin,
born in sin, come from the womb speaking lies. He was right there
with them. But Joseph, he brought onto his
father their evil report. He wasn't just tattletaling.
That wasn't what this was. He was morally upright and his
brothers were not. That's what happened. He came
to his father and he said, they're committing an evil. We don't
know what that evil was. That's good, because it's fitting
to me. If they had said what it was, I'd be like, well, it
ain't me. I didn't do that. He come to his father and told him
their evil report. David wrote of our elder brother.
He said, thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness. Therefore,
God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above
thy fellows. Joseph was a straight shooter.
Not for personal gain, not for personal benefit, not for gossiping,
not for tattletaling. He went and gave an evil report
because his brethren were evil. He told his father plainly. We
don't know what those brothers were doing, but their sin was
exposed to the father. Some of you've had siblings growing
up. I did. You ever had a sibling tell mommy
or daddy on something you did? It's true. What's the first thing
we do? Get mad. We get mad at everything. Get mad because we're caught.
That's why we're mad. And we're afraid of punishment,
aren't we? Is that your experience? When the Lord sends a Holy Ghost
to us and convicts us of sin, we start hearing about these
things. God's holy and I'm not. What? I'm no sinner. I love that
article at John's. When he was 20 years old, he
made a profession of faith. Somebody said, oh, you ain't
a sinner no more. Or they said, you're a sinner saved by God.
He said, oh yeah, I'm not a sinner anymore. And he said, then Lord saved
him. He said, I've been a sinner ever since. That's a good thing, isn't
it? It says in verse three. Now Israel loved Joseph more
than all his children because he was the son of his old age
and he made him a coat of many colors. There was no question
about it. There was no misunderstanding.
There was no children trying to figure out who was the favorite.
Jacob loved Joseph the most. It says so. It was plain. He was his father's favorite.
What'd our Lord say? Twice he opened heavens up. And
he said, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased. This one right
here. The ancient of days. It said
he was his son of his old age. The ancient of days is the one
that made this coat of many colors for him. Made him a special coat,
a coat of royalty. Code of distinction. He made
a difference in him. Verse 10 there says, I'm sorry,
Isaiah 61, 10. It says, I will greatly rejoice
in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my God, for he hath
clothed me with the garments of salvation. He hath covered
me with the robe of righteousness. That's what he's made. That's
what he put on us, isn't it? As a bridegroom decketh herself
with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with jewels.
That's what he's done for us. Fathers made us a coat. The son had a coat. But he was
made sin for us. That's what he was made. And
he knew no sin. Innocent. No guile in him. That we might be made the righteousness
of God in him. The brothers hated it. Why come
he gets a coat? Does people hate because the
Lord made you righteous? Does that offend man's wisdom
and his dignity and his will? You mean I ain't righteous already?
That's what the father made him. Verse four says, and when his
brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,
they hated him. and they could not speak peaceably
unto him. If there's somebody you hate,
it's hard to say something nice, isn't it? It's hard to. They couldn't do it. When we're
unregenerated, we have no new creation in us, and we hear that
the Lord Jesus Christ is gonna get all the glory. He's preferred
more than anybody. He gets all preeminence in everything. Can't even say something nice
about that. Get mad, don't we? And we hated
him. Well, I never hated him. Well,
he ain't dealt with you yet. Because Christ is holy and he's
favored of the Father, Adam's offspring hate him. And that's
every one of us by nature. Every one of us. Before the Lord
works in us and dwells in us and abides in us, we hate God. We hate that the Lord Jesus Christ
gets all the glory because we've done so much good things. Can't
you stand it? Christ is also hated because
he's our prophet. Natural man can't stand him because
he's holy, and natural man can't stand him because he is the capital
P prophet. And if we're gonna have any knowledge,
if a man or woman's ever gonna have any understanding, if you're
gonna get a good handle on a book of the Bible, if you're gonna
have any wisdom, he must give it and him alone. He's the only
one. It comes by revelation. Look
here in verse five. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told
his brethren, and they hated him yet the more. He's preeminent. I don't like that. That means
you hate him. I have dreams. Don't y'all wanna
hear about my dreams? He had a dream and they hated
him yet the more. And he said unto them, here, it's one word,
Hear, it's a commandment. Hear, I pray you, this dream
which I have dreamed. Did they stick their fingers
in their ears and say, I don't want to hear it? Too bad, you're
going to hear it. If the Lord Jesus Christ, the
preeminent one, the holy one of Israel, if he comes to his
brethren who despised him and he said, hear, that means he
gave you ears to hear it. I don't want to hear it. You
can't keep from it. In Revelation 19 it says, I heard
as it were the voice of a great multitude as the voice of many
waters. Y'all remember that video I sent you of that creek next
to the house? Me and Kim would go down next to that creek when
it was about 15 feet deep and scream at one another. Couldn't
hear nothing. She was talking to that video. Couldn't hear
it. I was talking to her. There's the voice of mighty thunderings
saying, hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. God's
on his throne. He's holy, he's just, and he's
gonna get all the glory for it. Now you're just gonna hear it.
What a blessing it is to hear it in this lifetime. Almighty
God's gonna make everybody hear it. Every knee's gonna bow. Every
tongue's gonna confess, he's Lord. And they'll say, that's
right, now depart from me. And if he reveals that to us
now, we praise him now. The life you have in you this
moment, Bob, you're already living an eternal existence. You have
life in you now. You're just gonna pop out of
this seed and we'll go down to that grave and be with the Lord
right then. Be with him in spirit. That's
something, isn't it? Let's see what that dream was.
He said, you're gonna hear it. Verse seven, for behold, we were binding
sheaves in the field. And lo, my sheaf arose and also
stood upright. They were buying up all that
grain, wrapping them things around, sticking them up, said dry out.
And they said, mine stood up. upright. And behold, your sheaves
stood round about and made obeisance unto my sheave." What's that
mean? It bowed down. All of your sheaves, my sheave,
was exalted. And everything you had, all your
work, all your doing, all your thinking, it fell prostrate.
It reverenced. You know what that means? It
worshipped. It worshipped my sheave. That's the Lord Jesus
Christ speaking in there. Everything you've done, all your
good works, and all your laboring for the Lord, and we're doing
God's work, you're gonna throw it away, you're gonna bow down
to the Almighty God. That's what's gonna happen. Verse
eight, and his brethren said unto him, shalt thou indeed reign
over us? Who do you think you're talking
to? That's physically in this world,
right? If I were to talk to my two older
brothers who were born before I was, And I said, hey, y'all
gonna bow down to me. It wouldn't go over too good,
would it? Well, I can't stand him because
he's the favorite. I can't stand because he's the one that has
dreams and everybody listens to. And now you're saying you're
going to be the boss. You're going to ruin, right? We will
not have this man reign over us. Does that sound familiar?
Nobody's going to tell me what to do. I'm a freeborn man. His brethren said unto him, verse
eight, shalt thou indeed reign over us, or shalt thou indeed
have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more
for his dreams, comma, and for his words. I don't like that
you had them dreams. I really don't like what that
dream's about, but I sure don't like you telling me about it.
Did we look at that two Wednesdays ago? The Lord was despised and rejected
of men, wasn't he? He was hated in the world. Why? Remember what it was? because
of what he said. He didn't mad at nobody because
he fed 5,000. That's free meal, I love free
lunch. He wasn't mad at nobody because
he healed their boo-boos. Well, I'm aching all over, that'd
be great. He wasn't mad at nobody because he raised Lazarus. Well,
if I was to slip by past him and die, he could bring me back.
He was mad because he said he was God and he has preeminence
in all things, that he's exalted. And because of what he said,
because of these sayings, They hated him. What's that say? They
hate him yet the more for his dreams and for his words. Verse nine, and he dreamed yet
another dream. That was to all those that was
his peers or his subordinates that we understand. Like he was
the firstborn of Rachel, right? That was who Jacob came and labor
for seven years and he didn't get her. And then he did get
her after seven more years. But there's some other children
born chronologically before Joseph was. But that was with the wife
he loved. That was his son. That was the
son he had hoped for and the blessed having that Jacob wanted
with his wife that he had. And so he said, well, okay, we
know daddy liked Rachel more than my mommy, but this is gonna
be a hard thing. This whole time, Jacob's fine
with all this. Do you know that? Isaac's fine with all this. Abraham
would have been fine with all this. Noah would have been fine
with all this, because that's them, right? Verse nine, he dreamed
yet another dream. And he told it his brethren and
said, behold, I've dreamed a dream more. And behold, the sun and
the moon and the 11 stars made obeisance to me. All of creation,
everything, that thing that rules this earth by day, and the thing
that rules the earth by night, and it rules the tides, and it
rules the seasons, it rules everything. And all those stars out there
in the universe are going to honor me. Past, present, future
is going to honor me. Verse 10, and he told it to his
father and to his brethren, and his father rebuked him. Jacob's
a man, like I'm a man. And he said, what do you think
you're doing? All right, hold on now. Everything's fine when he was talking about
them brothers. You talking about me? Are you saying we're blind? That's what the Pharisee said,
wasn't it? The Lord said, if you's blind, you wouldn't have enough sin.
Me? I understood the doctrine until that became a person and
I got to see him eye to eye. His father rebuked him and said,
What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy
mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to
thee on this earth? Well, hold on now. Now we're
going against tradition. Now we're going against position
that I already have, isn't I? He's on his throne until I disagree
with him. Isn't that right? An unregenerate
man can believe in fatalism. I told you that a couple of weeks
ago. It's perfectly fine. I believe God's on his throne
until something happens I don't really like too much. Well, hold
on now. There's been a mistake. I know y'all have never done
that, but do you rebuke God? What are you doing? Why me? Now that's when it's hitting
home to Jacob. It's coming to his front door.
A God that's far away, a God that's ruling and reigning over
somebody that ain't me is just fine. But when it hits home,
when it gets personal, that's when we have problems with him.
Thanks be to God, he meets us where we are. Thanks be to God,
he doesn't say, okay. And we said, leave our country.
And he said, all right, and leave. Where he is, we're bought with
a price. And he's loved us with an everlasting love. And he comes
to us, he meets us where we are, he deals with each one of his
children, one-on-one, and you're just gonna have to deal with
it. That's a medicine he has, you're just gonna have to swallow
it. And he does not leave us to ourselves, he doesn't leave
us to our thinking, he doesn't leave us to our own ways. That's
good news. Now, it's uncomfortable, but
you'll be all right. If he's coming to convince you of sin,
you'll be all right. If he's going to convince you of his
righteousness, you'll be okay. Convince you that all judgment's
been taken care of and the judge of the earth does right, you'll
thank him. You'll thank him. Turn over to
Matthew 22. I think this will help us. Matthew 22. Jacob was upset because he was
the dad. And if he's going to be the head son, he loved him
the most anyway. So I'm kind of going along with all this. This is nice. This is fine. And
he said, I had another dream. You're going to bow to me too.
And he knew exactly what he meant, didn't he? We have to put those
things away, the Lord will make us. Here, Matthew 22, verse 41.
Matthew 22, 41. While the Pharisees were gathered
together, Jesus asked them. He come to them saying, what
think ye of Christ? Whose son is he? He grilled him. They had an answer. They say
unto him, the son of David. We paid attention in our Bible
study classes. He's going to be the son of David. And he saith
unto them, how then doth David in spirit, the Lord spoke through
David, he moved his hand to write those things, didn't he? He was
one of God's prophets. How did David in spirit call
him Lord, saying the Lord said unto him, my Lord, because he
hadn't been born yet. Set thou my right hand till I
make thine enemies thy footstool. If David then called him Lord,
how is he his son? Look at verse 46. How could David
say something like that to his great-grandchild or great-great-grandchild
or great-great-great-grandchild? He's the elder. We put a lot
of emphasis on eldership, don't we? Look what the Lord does. Verse 46 says, And no man was
able to answer him a word, neither does any man from that day forth
ask him any more questions. Like, I don't know, I'm going
home. He's asking hard questions. I don't even know how that could
be. When the Lord works in you, that respecter of persons starts
going away and it's going to work. Start first because me
respecting this person. I respect this person more than
I respect any other person. I can promise you that. And then
we say, well, no, we can't just, we can't do that because of daddy.
We can't do that because of mommy. Now we can't offend because everybody's
saved. Everybody's saved. You know how
many people I know that's like, that's going through horrible
trials and divorces and things like that. All the people I know,
it wasn't their fault. Maybe one or two. That's somebody
else's fault. Why? We respect our persons,
don't we? What did the Lord say? His mom and his brethren came
and said, hey, there's a big old crowd in there. We need to talk
to him. Go send word to him. And he said, in Mark 3, who's
my brother? Who's my mother? Who's my brethren?
Right here they are. He goes on to say with the cost
of discipleship, what's that gonna be? If you don't hate your
mother and father and sons and daughters and wives and the position
of you being a father, me being a father, position of being an
uncle or grandchild or whatever, you don't forego all that, you
ain't gonna be my disciple. That's what it was meaning by.
We don't go mean and hate our mother and father because the
Lord saved us. Of course not. Obey your mother and father,
be kind to them, respect them. But that position gotta be put away,
or he ain't gonna be his disciple. He's gonna have to work that
in us, isn't he? But he's talking that there, a physical Jacob,
gonna have to lay down some things, because the dream his son had.
And us physical people, because we live in this world, we're
gonna have to put away those things, the Lord's gonna do it in us,
and give all praise and glory to the Lord, all that. But he's
speaking also, the Father's gonna glorify him. The father honors
the son, doesn't he? Read in Isaiah 9, he said, Now
there's a triune God and three distinct persons, and the three are one.
And if somebody has a good handle on explaining that to you, I'd
recommend you don't listen to them. Our puny brains can't wrap around that. But he, so the father gave him
honor, didn't he? Turn to John 17. John 17, verse four. Christ is praying here to the
father and says to John 17, four, I have glorified thee on earth.
I have finished the work which thou gave us me to do. He said,
The firstborn among me, the brave one, the profitable son, the
profitable servant. And now, O father, glorify thou
me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee
before the world was. You're going to glorify me. I've
honored you. You're going to honor me. That's
what Joseph's telling them. He said, you're going to honor
me. In Isaiah 42, we read, behold, my servant. in whom I uphold,
mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth." The father looked at the son
and just delighted. He said, you're gonna rule everything,
all judgment's yours, quicken who you will. Isn't that something? Remember that coat made for Joseph?
He was given that coat from his dad, he made it and he gave it
to him and put it on him because he loved him the most. He loved
Joseph the most of all his brethren. The father honors the son, he
loves the son most. And what the child of God says,
amen, amen. That's right. It gets sweeter
than that. Look down at verse 23, John 17,
23. He says, I in them and thou in
me, that they may be made perfect in one. There's unity, there's
oneness. And that the world may know that
thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. Let's get a handle on that. The
son gets all preeminence, right? He's the firstborn among many
brethren. All glory goes to him. Everyone bow down and worship
him. And he says, the way that God the Father loves the Son,
it's the same way He loves you, because you're in me. That's unimaginable. Me, you. He said so. If He didn't say it, I'd be terrified
to say it. He says, and thou hast loved them as thou hast
loved me. That same love. Does that make
you hate Him? you. Thank you. Back in our text
there in Genesis 37. Joseph said all this and daddy
got mad. So I'd say that probably encouraged
the other 11 to be mad about it too. Wouldn't you think? Genesis 37, 11. And his brethren
envied him. Envied him. Jealousy is whenever
you've got something and I want it. I want to have one of those
too. Envying is I'm mad that you have
that and I don't think you ought to have it. Is that us? I don't think that's the way.
I don't think. Well, I think my heresy is it ought to be my
way. His brethren and his brethren
envied him, but His father observed the same. Have you ever lashed
out and said something you wish you wouldn't have said? You get
some news and you go, no! Hold on. I'm sorry. Let President
Thacker retract that last statement. Have you ever done that? Jacob
popped off and he rebuked him. He said, what are you saying?
I'm supposed to bow down to you? Who are you talking to? But it
says the father observed the same. That doesn't mean he went
through with it and all those things. That means he held it
in his heart. He held it in his heart. Those 11 brothers eventually,
because they were his brethren, because they were family, born
of God, they're going to bow down to Joseph, and he's going
to provide for them, and they're going to be loved by him. But
not yet. Not yet. But here, the father
observed the saying. Jacob observed the saying of
his son. That's the same wording used in Luke 2. If you've got
a marginal reference, got Luke 2, 19. When Mary, she kept all
these things and pondered in her heart. in there towards Antelope
too. She had his hand, she kept him
in her heart. And then down the road, like a two-edged sword,
it come back, didn't it? I see what he's talking about
now. Now I understand. Jacob said, I'm gonna be mad
for now. He kept him in his heart, kept him in his heart. As we
go through this life of Joseph, we're going to look at his garments
and look at him being offered up and all these other things
and him rising to the throne, the Lord prospering him. And
then as we go through our own lives, I pray we can keep these
things in our heart. Wouldn't that be good if on a
Thursday about 9.47 a.m., we was to think of these things
and think of the Lord blessing His Son and honoring His Son
and loving His Son. And because of that one that
we bow down to, He's gonna love us the same way. And He ain't
gonna let one of us slip by. not a one. There wasn't seven
and a half of them brethren showed up in Egypt, 11 of them did.
That'd be a good thing for us. All right, let's pray together. Father, we're thankful for our
great Joseph, our elder brother that's Diligent, never a cross
look, never a cross word, served you fully from the womb for us. Lived for us, willingly laid
down his life for us, rose again for us, and intercedes for us
now. What a God. Make us bow to him. Make us worship him. Thank you
for revealing him in us, Lord. We pray that we're long-suffering
and patient, and lay these things to heart as you call out your
people, our brethren that we don't yet know, or give us words
of wisdom and a spirit of understanding in it. Be with those that aren't
with us now. Those that are in trouble, body
and mind, that you've sent forward, give them peace and comfort then.
Because of Christ, because of his person and his work, we ask
these things. Amen. All right, we'll meet back
at 1030.