Please open your Bibles to 1
John chapter 2. 1 John chapter 2, we're going to
be looking at verses 7-14 today. I was considering, yesterday
I was speaking with one of the brethren in another place. We were talking, and you know
if a brother or sister that Christ died for is in a fault, If they're
stumbling, if they're staggering, or they're doing something we
don't understand, there's three different ways we can handle
it. First way is we can either side with them. And if we side
with that brother or sister, it may be in a great fault. We
risk the chance of it coming out that they are in a great
fault. And that'll hurt our reputation, hurt our name, bring reproach
on the gospel. Or we can take sides against them. And if we
take sides against one of our brothers or sisters that Christ
died for, we run the risk that they were right. Or it wasn't
that large of an error and we hurt her name, we bring reproach
on the gospel, and that's not good, is it? So what are we going
to do? We can't take sides for or against.
That's our nature. We've got to pick something,
not for or against it. If we treat that brother or sister
like they're a sinner saved by God's grace and His grace alone,
all the while remembering, being humbled, that's all I am. I'm just a sinner saved by His
grace. What is my hand capable of doing
if He took my hand off of it? And we come to Him in kindness.
We come to Him with love, long suffering. We bear that suffering. We bear. We come to them that
way. When it's something we don't
agree with, we don't understand, we don't like, or it is a serious
error, we still treat them the same. We can't go wrong, can
we? Can't go wrong. Alright, 1 John 2, verse 7. Brethren, I write no new commandment
unto you, but an old commandment which ye have heard from the
beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard
from the beginning. Again, a new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the
darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He that saith
he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even
until now. He that loveth his brother abideth
in light. and there is none occasion of
stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother
is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whether
he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes. I write
unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for
his name's sake. I write unto you, fathers, because
you have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you,
young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto
you, little children, because you have known the Father. I
have written unto you, fathers, because you have known Him that
is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young
men, because you are strong. And the Word of God abideth in
you, and ye have overcome the wicked one." Today we will see
how John puts this into perspective for us. He reminds us of these
commandments given to believers and then gives examples to make
it very clear. Make it very clear for us. And
then finally, at the end of this, the Apostle stirs up our pure
minds. He encourages us. All right, verse 7, 1 John 2,
7. Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment,
which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word
which ye have heard from the beginning. What does John mean
by an old commandment from the beginning? Well, it's old. This commandment's old because
it's from the beginning of this letter. That's only a chapter
away, but he just had told them, didn't he? He's written this
to us in this epistle about the Word of Life, about our Savior. He's declared God's holiness,
that He's just and the justifier. Why? He provided His own propitiation. The Lord gave us an advocate
in Christ, and that's the satisfaction to God. He provided both of those. And John lays out the proof here
we have salvation. Beginning of chapter 2, this
is our assurance. This is how we know. Leaving
on the Son of God, loving Him, loving our brothers and sisters
that Christ died for. Those that are given a new nature
to believe God, to love Him, to love those He died for, they
have a desire to walk in that light that He provides. Walk
in His holiness. Look to Him. Now the other way
this commandment is owed, it's owed to the beginning of this
book. But it's owed to the beginning of our salvation. When the Lord
first spoke to us, that first love we had with the Master,
when we saw, when He made us to see what He did for us. He
laid down His life for us, how holy He is. That first thought
of liberty in the person and work of Christ. We see our liberty
in Him for the first time. We didn't first love a doctrine.
We didn't first love a ritual, a ceremony. We didn't first love
an idea. We first loved a person. We first
loved a person when we truly first loved. In that moment our
heart saw that love we have for Christ because He first loved
us. And it's His love that is magnified
and then we swiftly love those that love Him too. We see Christ
in them. They have the same Father I have.
I love them. This commandment is old because
it's from the beginning. of the Scriptures back in Genesis. That saving grace and mercy of
our Lord has not changed from Adam to us sitting here today
and however long the Lord lets this earth keep spinning. Nothing's
changed. The commandments of believing
the Lord, loving Him, loving our brethren, they've never changed.
Adam's fall, the Lord didn't mention that he'd ate that fruit,
did He? He said, you ate the fruit. No, he didn't say that.
He said, you hearkened unto your wife. What's that mean? He listened to her. He didn't
believe God. He didn't love the Lord. His wife was a child of God and
she was overcome in a fault, wasn't she? A serious fault. That's stumbling. That was the
only fault she could have been in. The only rule. One rule.
But did Adam go in and he overlooked that fault? Did he walk in backwards
to cover her nakedness? Did he try to cover her sin?
Did he pray for her? Did he point her to the Lord
whenever she was in folly? No, he joined her in his folly,
didn't he? What happened? He fell in the
garden. He realized he was naked. And the Lord slew a lamb. He
had a propitiation. The Lord provided a propitiation.
That was the first thing on this earth to ever physically die
was that lamb. The Lord cut it up and he clothed Adam in that
robe that the sheep went for. God loved him first. When that
work was completed, Adam believed God and he loved his brethren. How did he love them? He said
Cain and Abel, didn't he? Cain and Abel came to the Lord
with a sacrifice. Nowhere between Adam leaving
the garden and those two boys bringing a sacrifice are we told
that they were taught to bring a sacrifice. How'd they know
to do that? Adam preached to them. That man
that he was born, created morally innocent. That's why he lived
900 and some years. He had sin, but not as much as
I have. Oh, could you imagine the under...
Would you want to sit at that dinner table? Listen to Adam preach to you?
That would have been something, wouldn't it? Them boys heard.
They knew what it was. They knew what that covering
was, that lamb slain was. They told him, turn over to Leviticus
19. It's this commandment that John is
writing about. It's an old commandment from the beginning of Scripture. Leviticus 19 verse 18. We need to see this. Loving one
another is not a new thing. Leviticus 19.18, Thou shalt not
avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. I am the Lord. We will see this here in a few
more minutes, but some may say, well, that's to thy people. I
have to love my brethren. I don't have to love non-believers.
Look down at verse 34. Leviticus 19.34, But the stranger
that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among
you, and thou shalt love him as thyself. Why? For we were
strangers in the land of Egypt, and we had a God, didn't we?
He saved us. He may save them too. That changes
our attitude, don't it? But this is nothing new. Believe
Christ, love your brethren. Same thing then, isn't it? We
see that this old commandment was from the beginning of John's
letter, it's from the beginning of our generation, from the days
of old, but it was older than that, before Adam. It was before the beginning,
before our beginning. God Almighty chose a people to
save and make them like His perfect Son before He ever made this
earth. He loved us with an everlasting love and He says, I'm the Lord,
I change not. That well of love that He has
is deeper than time itself. Everlasting. Alright, back to
our text. 1 John 2, we're looking at verse
8. Again, a new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the
darkness is past and the true light now shineth. But John just
said that this is an old commandment. And I just went through ten minutes
of telling you how it was an old commandment. Why is he saying
it's a new commandment? Why in this verse is he taking
the exact same thing and calling it new? It was newly explained
by Christ while He walked this earth. Let's turn over to John
13. Remember John is writing these
things in 1 John because he learned all this whenever he was experiencing
the gospel that he wrote. John 13, 34. A master speaking saying, a new
commandment I give unto you, that you love one another, semicolon. Separates two ideas. Here's the
example and the guidance for loving. A new commandment I give
unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you, that ye
also love one another." That qualifies it. We read in Leviticus
19 that this is not new. Deuteronomy 6.5 tells us this
is not new. Why is John now saying this is
new? Because now we know the love of Christ. He's quantified
it and qualified it in our hearts. He said, I give you commandment,
love one another. And then He reminds us, as I
have loved you, ye also love one another. We can't love one
another unless He loved us first. We have to have it. He loved
us, now we can love our brethren and we have the ability to love
our brethren because Christ dwells in us. He has loved us. Alright, back to our text. 1 John 2 verse 3. I'm sorry,
1 John 2, we'll look up in verse 3. 1 John 2, 3, And hereby we do know
that we know Him if we keep His commandments. He that saith,
I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and
the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word in
him, in me, in you, children of God, the ones that have been
made to know Christ, His love for us, Whoso keepeth his word
in him verily is the love of God perfected. It has reached
its end goal. Hereby we know that we are in
Him. Our daily bread of Christ is new every morning. His blessings are new day to
day. The assurance He gives us is
new. Because we need it fresh constantly. I needed assurance
yesterday. Today, I need assurance. Tomorrow,
I need assurance. What's that assurance come from?
Yesterday, I needed a Savior. I need a Redeemer. I need an
Advocate, a Substitute. What do I need today? Lord, forgive
us of our sins. I need a Substitute. What's going
to happen tomorrow? Am I going to get everything?
I'm going to get my life squared away and everything's going to be
good tomorrow. Nothing bad is going to happen. I ain't going to do nothing
wrong. Nope, same thing. It's got to be new. It's got to be
fresh every day. Alright, first John 2, verse 8. Look at verse
8 again. And a new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the
darkness has passed and the true light now shineth. This love is true in Christ and
it's true in His sheep. Those that are made like Him,
those that will be conformed to His image. Because of that,
Because it's true in Him, because it's true in us. Because He shed
His love abroad in our hearts. Darkness is passed away and true
light shines. The darkness of the law is passed. And the liberty of the love of
Christ shines through. That darkness of sin that reigned
over us is passed and the light of God's holiness shines. Darkness of death is passed and
the light of life is given to us. That's what shines. Shines
through our Redeemer forever. We're freed from those things
and given liberty through the life of Christ. From darkness
to light. He that saith he is in the light
and hateth his brother is in darkness even now." They don't
know they're in darkness. They're in darkness even now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none
occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother
is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whether
he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. A person
that says They love God. They love the gospel. They believe
the doctrines of grace. And they know them. They can
quote them back and forth. But they do not love their brothers
and sisters in Christ. They are still stumbling around
in darkness and self-righteousness and self-love, self-exaltation. It's still got a hold of them.
But he that walks in the light, there's none occasion of stumbling
in him. That's what we looked at in the very beginning. If
we walk in the light of God's grace, knowledge and truth in
Him, and we treat our brothers and sisters, not just the way
we want to be treated, the way we have been treated. The Lord's
been so long suffering to us and we're kind and gentle and
patient. There's no occasion of stumbling. What are you going
to stumble on? Nothing. I love you. It's fine.
It's okay. No occasion of stumbling. But
if we're bitter, all those other bad things, that's stumbling
around in darkness, isn't it? It's just the darkness still
on us. And so if we have a brother stumbling in darkness, what do
we do? Don't give him occasion. We still be kind and put his
light on him, don't we? Alright. If we adore someone,
love them thoroughly, and someone else adores them and loves them
inside and out, we're on the same page. If we're not busy
looking to one another, if we're busy looking to the Lord and
trying to hear of Christ, that's my desire. What news do I want? I want news of Him. Teach me
something new today. Be fresh today. Be alive to me today.
And someone else is doing that. Now we're together. We're on
the same page. Fellows in the same ship, ain't we? We may not
see eye to eye on every detail in serving another person, in
caring for them or honoring them, but the intent's the same. the
intense the same. And that bonds two people that
love the same person. I was in England years ago and
I met a man in London from Lexington, Kentucky. Bumped into him. I've never seen this man in my
life. That's a big town. One person. And I met him from Lexington,
Kentucky and I got goosebumps. You're from Lexington, I'm from
Kentucky. You know Todd Norbert? That's the first thing I said.
What if he didn't know Todd? He wasn't real kind to me either.
He told me which way the door was for me to leave. But what
if he'd known Todd? Never met him in a whole other
nation. There ain't nobody else in that
nation alive as far as I was concerned. Well, wouldn't that
have been something? You think we'd have bonded? You
think I'd have minded sharing a motel room with that man? You
think I'd have cared what color his tie was? That's my brother. Hug him. Get a hold of him. But
does this apply to believers only? If I truly believe Christ, love
Him, love my brothers and sisters in Him, believers, do I curse
everyone else that does not believe? Do I cast them away? Don't talk
to me. Don't judge me. Don't speak to
me. You don't believe God I believe
in. You can just go down there and set banks on fire. Do what
you want. Get away from me. Do I have a
bad attitude towards you? Turn to Matthew chapter 5. We looked
at this just a little bit earlier. We'll sit a little deeper now.
In Matthew 5, I was studying through this and I was looking
up a commentary on it. My dad had underlined this passage. I can tell by His actions whenever
He was on this earth that He heard it. He didn't just read
it. He didn't just listen to this
right here. He heard it. I could tell. There was proof
in His actions. There was proof there. Matthew
5 verse 43. ye have heard that it hath been
said thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy but I say
unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to
them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you
and persecute you there's a semicolon again linking two thoughts that
go hand in hand verse 45 that ye may be the children of your
father which is in heaven that being Given that love, now you
can know that you're a child, a free child of that King of
Kings. That's what that means. That ye may be the children of
your Father which is in heaven, for He maketh the sun to rise
on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just
and the unjust. For if ye love them which love
you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans do
the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, What do ye more
than others? Do not the publicans do so? It
ain't nothing to love somebody you already love. Ain't no suffering
there. You just love them. Publicans
do that. Heathens do that. Our enemies
do that. They love their parents. Those
parents love their children. Be ye therefore perfect, even
as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. I didn't write this
in my notes. If we love them which hate us, how is that acting
like Christ? We hated Him. He loved us, He
came to us, saved us, did a work in us while we were still yet
in our sins, didn't He? We didn't want nothing to do
with Him. That's how He treated us. That's the example. What could make a person on this
earth be kind to a mass murderer? What could make me be patient
and gentle and forgiving and long-suffering to Osama Bin Laden?
That's the most recent one I've come up with. Could I be kind
to him? Could I be gentle and long-suffering? What would make me do that? If
the Lord has done a work in me, He could do work in anybody.
The Lord saved this wretched sinner that hated God and hated
the Gospel and hated everything in this world as a child of wrath,
mad at everything. He could save me. Do you think
He could save him? Of course He could. Now all of a sudden,
he ain't so mad over everything, are you? He ain't a child of
wrath no more. The Lord might save him. There's a child of
God that has served the president that we have right now. Someone listening to this down
the road won't know who I'm talking about. You all probably do. There's
a man that has served the president right now that's sitting in office.
Years ago, I personally served the man that's running against
him this fall. I may not have told you all that.
I was in the same boat. Same kind of job. I served the
man that's running against him. One served now. Now, most people
in our country, they fall on one side or the other. Me, in
this day, they love one of those men running for president, and
they hate the other one, whichever one it is. They love one and
hate the other. But what if a man overheard me talking to my friend
about the Lord whenever I was serving him, and he heard something?
What if that brother that has served this one setting now,
he'd forgotten left a bulletin laying somewhere on a counter,
and that man had walked by and picked it up and read something,
and the Lord used that to teach him the gospel? Either one of
them. What if that happened? Would
we hate him then? If I ain't on the same political
platform I'm on, what if you heard the gospel, would you hate
him? Can the Lord teach him the gospel? That'll set the tone. That's the baseline of the song
that's being sung, isn't it? Paul wrote, once were some of
you. Ain't no different, am I? I wish I could be given the grace
to love all men. To see every person on this earth
is in need of Christ and they just might be His. That made
me my brother or sister walking up and down the street. Down
there in La Mesa today. One of those poor, pitiable teenagers. That may be a sheep. That may
be a child of God. He shed his blood for her. How
am I going to treat him? That is true love. You men are
required to love your brides as Christ loved the church. In
practice, that's not possible. We can't do it. That's impossible.
We don't want to. But how did Christ's love come
to us? He put us under the sound of the Gospel. That's my chief
responsibility in my home, is that woman and them four children
hear the Gospel, because I know it. That's my chief responsibility. Why would I walk in this world
as an offense to strangers? What if they were the Lord's
children? I wouldn't be offensive to my children. Why would I spew
hate and divisiveness to somebody else? They might be His. Alright,
1 John. Back to our text, 1 John 2. I'll
try to hurry. 1 John 2, verse 10. He that loveth his brother abideth
in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
As we walk in light, considering our natural condition, considering
the grace of God towards us, if we look to Him, we don't stumble.
I find that to be so. When I'm going through trials,
I stumble, I stagger, I waver. But when I'm brought down in
those trials, I look up to my Savior. Then and only then do
I not stumble. Only when I look to Him, there's
no wavering. He doesn't waver. Right now in
this current trial, I've stumbled a lot. I've had no peace. I worry about every detail, the
order of service, are we going to sing? When can we eat together
again? How many legally can we fit in
this room? Those things have been concerns. That's me stumbling.
I mean, that's a responsibility I have. That's my job, is to
sit down and figure this stuff out for you, to serve you, so
that when you show up, you ain't got to worry about it. That's
mine. But while I do that, I'm stumbling, ain't I? The plowing
of the evil is wicked. But when I look to the Lord's
Word, when I'm made to see Him, nothing else matters. Oh, Lord, come to us today and
show us that. Teach me. Make me look to Him. These shoes
don't fit right. Oh, Christ died for sinners.
Them shoes don't matter, do they? Who got elected? Oh, Christ died
for me. All of a sudden, I don't care.
He'll control who's in that throne we got over in D.C., won't he? Nothing else matters. It's a
lot of fliction and only for a moment. Especially when I consider
what he's done. Now here's the contrast. I labored
that. Here's the contrast. Verse 11.
1 John 2.11. But he that hateth his brothers
in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whether he goeth,
because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. It looks good on the
outside, but on the inside there's darkness. Quickly, Paul wrote
to the church at Corinth. He said, if I perform miracles
and I don't have love, I'm nothing. If I understand all the mysteries
and I can preach better than anybody you ever heard, and I
have the strongest faith, strong faith, move mountains, but I
ain't got love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I have on
this earth to those in need, I give my body as a martyr for
this gospel. and I don't do it in love, I
ain't done nothing. Let's look over chapter 4, verse
7. 1 John 4, 7. On the outside,
everything looks wonderful. Everything's just right. It does
not help us any at all. It's only bodily exercise. You
might as well go do push-ups. It'd be better work for you. 1 John 4, 7. Beloved, let us love one another
for love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and
knoweth God. I need to be reminded of what
the Lord has done for me every day. And that's what John's doing
here. John's reminding us. These statements
might be offensive to some, but they're in love. This is true
kindness. Exhortation is a sweet thing
when we are used to be perfected in it. When it's accomplished
its end goal. It's that perfected we looked
at earlier. Then it's sweet, isn't it? When it brings us to
know what's our end goal. To know Christ, believe Him, love Him,
love our brethren. Then it's sweet. That correction
is precious. And we have that assurance that it's from God
and will be sustained by Him. Alright, 1 John 2, 12. I write unto you, little children,
because your sins are forgiven to you for His name's sake. John
is telling us all this stuff. He's speaking to believers because
your sins are forgiven. We are brought to remember Christ
and then that turns our hearts. That's where the change comes
from. Seeing him ever before us makes it easy to bear fruit.
And when we focus on his love for us, our love just comes out. I was thinking, most folks here
got a whole bunch of oranges this year. That orange tree makes oranges.
That's a powerful statement, isn't it? Do you ever hear that
orange tree groaning, grunting, laboring, trying to make oranges? No, they just come out. It's
natural. That's what the nature is. That
love of Christ put in us, it just comes out. That's the fruit.
Spiritual fruit just grows. That's what it's instinct is.
And then there in verse 13, finally John addresses us where we are
in our walk of life, where we are in our growth of grace. He
said, I write unto you, that's active or present tense. I write
unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you young men because
you have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you little
children because you have known the father. Verse 14, I have
written unto you. I've told you before. I have
written unto you fathers because you have known him that is from
the beginning. I have written unto you young men because you
are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have overcome
the wicked one." He says there, we'll look at these three things
he addresses and then I'll wrap it up for you. Little children,
now these are not physically young people, but those that
are babes in Christ. Those that know the Father. I've
never met a small child that likes to be called a little child.
I want to be big. Wherever I'm at, I want to be
bigger, don't I? But what a blessing it is to be a child. You parents
know that. What a wonderful thing it would
be to be 10 years old. No worries, no strife, no real
problems, is it? It's nice to be a child. That
weight of responsibility is not there, it's only comfort. Rules
and regulations are not expected of you, only liberty. This is
a great time to foster joy and love in them. But believers,
like little children, may not know how everything works. They
may struggle with understanding the difference between justification,
sanctification, redemption, regeneration. Those are all big words. I don't
know what they mean. But they know who their Father is and
they trust Him that He can handle whatever those things are. That's
knowing the Father. What more is required for eternal
security? Well, I understand this doctrine.
You don't have to. It's alright. You know the Father. You have
His heart. You have His love. When I was five years old, I
worried myself to death how my dad was going to pay taxes that
year. Isn't that a shame? I didn't know what taxes were,
really. I don't half know what taxes I owe now. That was foolish,
wasn't it? How hurtful was that to my father? He stayed up late at night. He
was sorting that stuff out and I didn't trust him, did I? How shameful
of me. I hope I can be a little child
and trust my father. He addresses their young men. These are the
ones that are strong in faith. They have strength and purpose
in what they believe. Drawing rights to them, he says,
you've overcome the world. That's a hard thing to do whenever
you're strong, and start to get some wisdom to you. Cast this
world aside while you're in your prime. You have some worldly
knowledge, you've got some wisdom, and you've got the energy to
tackle success. You cast it away. Overcome the
world. You've got a chance to make something
of yourself, but you've overcome those things. That's not as important
anymore. The Lord's made His young men to see their strength
is not this flesh or in our motivation. Those that's got a little bit
more power and strength and understanding than those little children, they
know it doesn't come from themselves. Our strength and our wisdom is
the Word of God that lives and abides in us. Young men in Christ
are brought to know, as David wrote in Psalm 119, wherewithal
shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according
to thy word? Those strong young men start
to understand, how am I going to do anything? I need to heed
the Lord. and they start heeding. Little
children know their father and see his strength. Young men,
they've been grown in grace some, and they have some strength,
and they have some knowledge in Christ. But here it says fathers.
Here's the believer that's been grown in grace and knowledge.
They have known their Savior for some time. They've walked
with Him through many storms of life, and they're steady,
and they're consistent. They're not given to the cares
of this world as easily as they once were. As cares those worlds
start dimming. They grow strangely dim, as we
say. Brother Mahan wrote this, Most children refuse to learn,
most young men are occupied with other pursuits, and most older
people excuse themselves because they're weary. We don't grow old in Christ. We grow in faith, we grow in
wisdom, we grow in grace, We don't grow old in Him. David
wrote in Psalm 103, "...who satisfies thy mouth with good things, so
that thy youth is renewed like the eagles." Now, out of those three things,
young children, little children, young men, and fathers. I read
through that the first time. I was like, I'll start sorting
where am I at? I know you all didn't do that.
I did. Where am I at? I'm so thankful the Spirit moved
John to write it this way. Not only does this apply to men
and women that only know the Father, that's the babes in Christ. It applies to young men, those
that's been walking for a little bit with them, and it applies
to fathers, those that's spent a long time underneath the sound
of the Gospel. It addresses those. It also addresses
us when I act like a little child. I can look to this, have comfort. It addresses me whenever I'm
like a father. When I'm steady, this is to me. Whenever I'm right there in the
middle, it addresses me. We don't always act like we ought
to, do we? Rarely do we. But it speaks to
us whenever we're in our greatest weakness, and it speaks to us
when we're in our greatest strength, and it speaks to us when we're
bland. And what does it say? Love Christ, believe Him, love
your brother. That's it, isn't it? I hope that's
a comfort to you. Let's pray together.