Thank you, Jeanette and John.
Turn with me now to the book of Acts chapter 11. Acts chapter
11. This verse struck me as I was
reading the Word just for my own enjoyment. And we've looked
at this eight or nine or ten times over the years, but it's
been at least a dozen or more years since we have looked at
it. The Lord sent the Gospel to Antioch, this
Greek city, and He sent preachers there to preach the Gospel, and
Barnabas was one of them. In verse 18, it says they heard
these things, they glorified God, and they said, to the Gentiles
granted repentance unto life. And they that were scattered
abroad because of persecution, we looked at that Wednesday,
they traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch preaching
the Word to none but the Jews only. And some of them were men
of Cyprus. Barnabas was Cyprus and Cyrene. They came to Antioch
They spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus. This is who they preached, the
gospel of Christ. And the hand of the Lord was
with them. And a great number believed and turned unto the
Lord. What's salvation? It's for Him
to turn you from this world, from yourself, from your idols,
from sin. Unto the Lord. Turn your eyes
to Him with your heart. Then the tidings, verse 22. The
news came unto the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they
sent Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch. Who, when
he came, it says, and had seen the grace of God. He was glad. He was so glad. And exhorted
them all with purpose of heart They would cleave unto the Lord.
He was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and faith, and much
people was added unto the Lord, he said. They belonged to him,
so he sent the gospel to call them unto himself. Then Barnabas
went to get Paul, or Saul, and they came back to Antioch, and
they stayed there a whole year with the people. So it says in
verse When he came, he had seen and seen the grace of God. He
was glad. And he preached and exhorted
them to cleave unto the Lord. He saw what God had done for
these people. That's what that means. He saw
the grace of God. He saw what God had done for these people.
What He had done in them and to them. The grace of God seen. It made him so glad. It made
him so happy. And it makes me happy. I look
around this room and I see the grace of God. I see the grace
of God, what God has done for and to and in many a few, if
not most. And it makes me very glad. I
see not a change of life. The Lord doesn't change your
life per se. He gives you life. We read there in Ephesians 2, Hath he quickened who were dead
in trespass to them? So, but there is a change of
lifestyle, a drastic change. And the grace of God saves someone. It's a drastic change. A new
heart, new mind, new walk, new talk, a new purpose, a new direction. And that's what I see when I
look around, and I see in many of you, and I want to see it
in some others. I pray. I pray for everyone. Grace, as you know, isn't an
offer. Grace is an act of God. Grace
is the work of God. Grace is something God does to
someone, for someone. by Jesus Christ. Grace is favor. Hannah was writing to us about
William Sabrina and Kingsport and how the Lord spared them
and spared their house during all that flood. You know, all
the devastation and destruction, the Lord did all that. He brought
a wonderful message on that. But anyway, the Lord spared that
dear couple. And I wrote back and said, yes,
God's people are His favorites. He shows favor to His people,
unearned favor. That's what grace means. You
don't deserve it. You read with me there, He quickened
you, had mercy upon you, loved you, even when you were dead
in trespasses. Grace is unearned favor. It's a gift. Grace means gift. Hannah, her name means gift.
That's why we named her that. She was a gift of God. Doctors
said, you cannot have children. Well, the Lord says, I give life. I make a life. And He did. And
He gave us this gift. Oh, the greatest gift of all
is the gift of God's grace. And this grace is in His Son.
The unspeakable gift. Grace means a gift. It means
a gift bestowed, not offered. Grace means divine influence
on the heart. That's what grace meant. The
gift. Repentance is a gift. You know, for a human being to
say, I'm sorry, I'm wrong, It was my fault is impossible, especially
to God. It's the goodness of God. It's
the gift of God to lead you to repent and to show you that everything
that's ever happened to me is my fault. Forgive me. You know, as soon as a person
says, and God has to do that. And as soon as he gives this
gift to repent, you know, as soon as he says, I'm sorry, you
know, he'll say, forgiven. All things. Wiped out. Like he never done it. Like it
never happened. That's grace. Repentance, faith, to believe
the unbelievable, to believe, to see clearly God. To see clearly yourself. We don't
see ourselves. We don't see ourselves for what
we really are until God opens these blind eyes and we say,
look at you. Like the prodigal son, he came to himself. What
does that mean? He finally saw himself. Like
everybody else saw him. But he didn't see. Why? He's
blind to himself. The Lord had to bring him to
see himself. And upon seeing what his father's mercy and love
and grace and goodness to him, and seeing himself, what all
he had done to God, to everybody, he brought him to himself. What
did that do? It brought him home. And before he could get his little
prayer out, the father said, Bring the best robe. Grace is the power of God unto
salvation. It's not an offer. Grace is the power of God. Ephesians 1.19, you read it with
me. If you believe it's according
to the greatness of His power. You've heard my story so many
times, but it's my story. Do you tell your story over and
over again? Well, I do too. I marvel. This is the praise
of the glory of His grace that in the day of His power, His
gospel, He broke this proud rebel. And now I believe. I didn't believe.
I mean, I believed in my head. That's what my parents believed.
That's what I grew up believing. I believed in my head. Yes, I
believe God is sovereign and all that. But I, you know, I
went down. I didn't love it. I didn't want
it. But I left. And you know what I'm going to say
next, don't you? But God. It's by grace. I wouldn't have come if God hadn't
been gracious to me and said, Almighty love, get a hold of that man, that
boy. Save him from destroying himself. He belongs to me. Bring him home.
That's power. That's power. It's glory. It's God's glory. The praise
of the glory of His grace. It's His glory. When Moses said,
Lord, show me Your glory, He said, I will be gracious. To whom? I will be gracious.
Sovereign grace. But He said, I will be gracious.
That's glory. That's glory. That God would
show grace to somebody that didn't want it, didn't ask for it, didn't
deserve it. Oh, that's glory. and His Son, to know and believe
and follow Jesus Christ, to fall in love with the love of the
Lord Jesus Christ, He that hath the Son hath life. And it can't be taken away. I
give unto them eternal life. Why? Because He gave unto you,
you read, He gave to the church, He gave to His people, His Son. He gave them to Him and Him to
them. And they're one. And nobody can
ever separate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus.
He's their husband. He's their Hosea. And they're
gone, wherever one of them. And they try to get away, but
He goes and gets them. He will not give them a bill
of divorce. And when it's all said and done,
he's going to bring every one of them back to the Father and
say, here they are, here are the children you gave me, and not
one of them missing. Here's my bride. Look at them now, without
spot, without blemish. And the only one in heaven who
has spot and blemish is one who has scars in his hand. It's not a blemish, it's a beauty
marking. Ephesians 2.8 says, By grace
are you saved. Saved from what? Wrath. Very few people saying
this today. If you stand up and tell the
world that God sends these things, these floods, these hurricanes,
these droughts, these disasters, all these people that died, God
did it. You tell them that? They'll hate you for it. But
it's true. Isn't it? And one of these days, God in
great wrath is going to destroy this blood.
And that's a fact. God doesn't destroy those He
loves. God doesn't destroy those that believe on His Son. And the reason they believe is
because God loved them. set His loved one, and gave them
to His Son. They were saved from destruction. Psalm 103 says, Oh, bless the
Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy
name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, forget not all His benefit, who
forgiveth all thy sins, healeth all thy diseases, and redeemeth
thy life from destruction. Bought you with a price. To keep
you from destroying yourself. To keep Him from destroying you.
That's grace. Save us from destruction. Save
us from sin. Save us from the God of this
world who holds people captive. People laugh and scoff at that.
They mention of a devil holding people when all the while they're
in his captivity. And I'll tell you who's laughing.
He is. If you belong to God, he's going
to have the last laugh. And it takes one mightier than
the God of this world to take captivity captive. By grace,
he's saved. No one and nothing can save us
from destroying ourselves, save us from the power of the God
of this world, the prince of the power of the earth, but God.
His grace. We are saved from this world.
This world is a sinking place, people. Lord willing, Wednesday
night we're going to look at Noah and the ark. Anybody want
to see that with me? I've been thinking about it lately. When it was all said and done,
you know, there was only one thing seen on the face of that
earth. There was no earth. It was a flood. It's easy to
see now how God could send rain and flood this whole world. It's
very clear. There was only one thing that
rose above that flood and the whole world was destroyed. One
thing seen. The Ark. And that Ark is Jesus
Christ. And everybody in that Ark was saved. Saved from this world. Saved from despair. If you look around and you listen. Did you read the articles in
the Bulletin? The last article? You read, you see, you hear all
that's going on. all these disasters and so forth.
You hear all the dire news, the financial this and China and
Russia and Korea and Israel and everybody's worried about all
that. He'll save you from despair. He'll save you from fear, that
men fear. He'll save you from anxiety. And Isaiah 8 says, they look
to the earth and all is darkness and dimness and anguish of spirit,
but the people that were once in darkness have seen a great
light. That's Christ. You have light
in your dwellings, this dwelling. You have light, the light of
the glory of God and of faith, the work of Christ, because we
don't need to fear these things, Sister Bonnie, why? Because God's
doing it. We fear Him, therefore we fear
nothing else. Right? Don't we have little tinges
of fear when you hear news like this is happening, this, that's
happening? The only way you can possibly endure is by faith,
like Hebrews 11. You believe God did this. I may
not understand completely why at the moment, but I know He
did it and I just trust Him. And go to sleep. You're saved from fear, saved
from wrath. Look at Ephesians 1 again. Go
back there. place in God's Word that more clearly defines and
declares grace than Ephesians 1 and 2. I know you love it. It's your favorite, isn't it?
Right now. If I was reading something else,
it would be your favorite. But it really is, isn't it? And
it's not an it. It's a him. It's a person. It's our gracious God and the
gracious gift of His Son. Nowhere is salvation more clearly
defined and declared than in Ephesians 1. It talks about God's
will. It talks about God's purpose.
It talks about God's covenant. It talks about God's grace. To
the praise of the glory of His grace and grace. And 2 Timothy
1.9 says His purpose and His grace was given It was purposed
for God's people before the world began. And it was in Jesus Christ. Gave them to Christ. Come do
this work. Did He do it? You know what He
said on the cross, don't you, John? It's finished. He said
it before He went to the cross. I'll finish the work you've given
me. In fact, it was good as done when God said it before the world
began. And Paul can't preach the gospel
without talking about God's sovereign electing grace. Peter can't write
a letter without saying in verse 2, Grace to you, peace from God
our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Then who's this to? The
saints. Sacrificed, saved, faithful in
Christ Jesus. Verse 3, Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places. And here's the first
thing. Here it is. This is where you
start preaching the gospel. According as He hath chosen us
in Christ. Christ is the elect. Isaiah 42,
Behold my servant, mine elect. He was his beloved son. There
is only one. Before there was a heaven or
earth, there was his son. And he said, and he purposed
this kingdom of people as the stars of the sky and gave them
to his beloved chosen son to come down here and do this work
to save them. And he said, well please, Isaiah
42 says, for His righteousness' sake. And I got the quote there. It's John's doctrine. The only way God could do this,
be just and justifier, is to make Him to be sin. for us, you were dead in sin,
to make Him to be sinned, to punish Him for what you've done,
and make Him to be sinned for us who knew no sin, that we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him. He gave to us what He did, well,
please, for His righteousness, and gave to Him what we did. Punishment. Wrath. Saved us from
wrath. Why? Because he spared not his
own soul. The soul that sinneth shall surely
die. Christ said you won't die. You believe me? You won't die.
Why? Because Christ died. I don't get tired of saying those
things. That's the gospel. He is the gospel. Oh, my. Where am I with the gospel? Oh,
according to his chosen us in Christ before the world began
that we should be holy and without blame before him. We can't make
ourselves holy. We can't, we can't undo. We can't
we're blank. We're we got things we're to
be blamed, but he's going to present us. Unblameable. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God today? Anything? Woman, where are thine
accusers? Doth no man accuse thee? She
looked around. No man, Lord, neither do I. Verse 5, it says He's predestinated
us under the adoption of children. Predestined. Predetermined destiny. I love that. Don't you? Everything
about me, everything about you down to the number of hairs on
your head is predetermined by God. You can't change it. And you know what we're going
to be like? Well, we're going to be like
Christ. Just like Him. Brother Scott Richardson once
said, if you knew what God knows, He would order your life exactly
like He ordered. He wouldn't change a thing. All
the hurt, all the pain, all the sorrow, all the suffering, all
the sickness, all the sadness, all the trouble, everything. Everything he took away, he said,
that's good. He did it good. He done all things
well. You are predestined. You are
predestined. If you trust Christ, everything
about you, your sons, your life, tomorrow, the hour you wake up,
what you're going to have to eat has already been predetermined. The lot is cast in the lap, but
what? The whole disposal thereof is
of the Lord. And the world doesn't like that.
I love it. I love that God is God, don't
you? And all things... Brother Gabe just hammered this. All things work together for
good, according to His purpose. Verse 5, adopted, we're adopted. Verse 6, to the praise of the
glory of His grace. You see that? Everything's to
the glory of His grace. And He's made us accepted in
the Beloved. Not rejected, accepted. Accepted in the Beloved. Not
cast out, brought in. If I don't get to look at Noah's
Ark, Noah went out, and it's such a wonderful picture of Christ. He gathered His people. He said,
Come unto Me, all you that labor and have related. All of you
that are tired of trying. Are you tired of trying? Christ said, Come unto Me. I'll give you rest. But anyway, Noah was standing
there and he didn't have to go out and beg and plead with those
animals to come. He just said, come! He stood
at the door of the ark and said, come! And they started coming. They started coming. And there were two skunks. Two skunks. We've been feeding
a stray cat. Believe it or not, we've been
feeding a stray cat as if we need another cat. It came up
to our porch. It has a bobtail. You know what
we named it? Bob. Anyway, Bob's coming up
and we've set our affection on Bob. We feed him and feed him
and feed him. Well, one morning I woke up and
looked out there and it's a skunk eating Bob's food. Who wants
a skunk? And then the next day it was
a possum. Whew! Well, Noah's waiting. Come! Maybe somebody said, you're not
going to let those skunks on here, aren't you? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. They get on here the same as
you do. By grace. Come on. You don't believe that
happened? There's a couple of skunks sitting
in here. That's right. You don't need
Him. The church doesn't need Him. No, but he needs God. She needs
Christ. Same as you do. Accepted. Accepted. Why? In the Beloved. Not for your sake. For Christ's
sake. And you get everything Christ
had come to. Oh, my. It says, verse, predestinating
grace, it says, in verse 6, wherein he hath made us accepted in the
beloved, in whom we have redemption. Bought with a price through his
blood. Redemption. We can't redeem our
lives. We can't undo anything we've
ever done. Some people use that term, I'd
like to redeem myself. You can't. You can't undo anything. Try as you may, you'd like to.
Wouldn't you like to undo your past? Oh, I'd like to take that
back. I wish I'd never done that. You're going to say that tomorrow
about something today. But you can't. But one way you
can be redeemed, precious blood. Redeemed. Blotted out. You're
not your own, he said. The forgiveness of sins. Forgiveness. This is forgiving grace. Redeeming
grace. Forgiving grace. Forgiveness
of sins. According to the riches of His grace. You know, frankly,
those that come to God by Him, those who come and ask, God forgive
me, please. They come for Christ's sake,
please. I'm sorry. I'm wrong. I did this against you and everybody. Please forgive me for Christ's
sake. He will frankly, freely, forever, finally forgive you
every single thing you've ever done in your life and not done. You know, the sins of God's people,
believers, are worse than the sins of unbelievers. Listen to Brother Chapman's message
from Kingsport on why God allows believers to sin. The sins of
believers are worse than the sins of unbelievers. You sinned
against mercy. You sinned against knowledge.
You know what you're doing. You sinned against love. You
sinned against such grace. You sinned against mercy. Do
you know what? He still forgives you. He goes on to talk about verse
8. He made known His, verse 8, He's bounded toward us in wisdom
and prudence and made us wise unto salvation. He made known
unto us the mystery of His will. According to His good pleasure,
which He purposed in Himself, His will, His will. Some of you
were in religion and you really thought that you had a free will.
You really did, didn't you? John, didn't you? You were at
that place. up on the corner of North Main Street, you and
Earlene, you really did feel like that man had a free will. You had a will. Did you make
a profession back in that? Well, you know, you thought,
I accepted Jesus and I did this. That's what you thought. But
God. abounded toward you in love and
mercy and grace and made known unto you that this wasn't your
will at all. That that was wrong. That was false. You didn't even
know God. You didn't even know Christ.
You didn't even know yourself. You didn't know anything about
salvation. You didn't know the Bible. You didn't know anything. But God
abounded toward you with wisdom and knowledge and opened the
eyes of your understanding to show you this isn't your will. It's God's will. And now you're
thankful. Now you're grateful. Now you
know whose will it is. And you're so happy. And verse 10 says, He gathered
us together in one all thing. The dispensation of the fullness
of time might gather together. That's what He said in chapter
2. He gathered us together. See people, this is grace. That's
what all this is, is grace. Oh my, verse 13, you believe,
you trusted in Christ when you heard the gospel. The gospel
is the power of God unto salvation. You must hear the gospel. Why
do we preach the gospel? Because woe is unto me if I don't
preach the gospel. Woe is unto us if we don't hear
the gospel. The gospel is the power of God
unto salvation. There's only one purpose for
the church, and that's to preach the gospel. And look at verse 18, it says,
"...the eyes of your understanding are enlightened, that you may
know what the hope of His calling is, and what the riches of the
glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what the greatness
of His power to us who believe according to the working of His
mighty power." See, Barnabas came and saw the
grace of God. Grace seen is obvious to others,
usually before it's obvious to the person, the one who receives
the grace. And I have a wonderful privilege,
honor, to preach this gospel of God's grace, and every now
and then, just every now and then, And Barnabas, when he saw
it, he was so glad. It made him so happy. Every now
and then, I see it. And usually, it's seen by others
before that person sees it. Grace before grace, my pastor
used to call it. Eyes open, ears open. Paul one time came in Acts 14,
it says that Paul came to this place and there was a man who
was crippled at Lystra. He was impotent. In his feet
he was crippled from his mother's womb and he never had one. And
we're all born dead in sin and without faith, we don't walk
by faith, we walk according to the course of this world, even
as others. And I look in the face of young people and even
older people and I don't see any light there, blind. And I
preach and you hear me, I holler and then I get soft and you say,
I can't hear you. I try my best, but it ain't up to me. But every now and then, I'll
be preaching and I see some eyes open. I see some ears open. And Paul came to this place,
and this young man was lame on both his feet, and it says he
looked at, beholding him, and perceived that he had faith to
be healed. In other words, Paul saw in his
face hope. This young man had heard that
Paul had healed others, that Paul had gone to other places,
and other people just like him had been healed. And he's laying
there and he's looking at Paul like, you reckon me? You reckon the Lord would do
something for me? I don't think so. Surely not. Not me. And Paul
looked and said, stand up! He looked at that young man.
The Lord's working on that young man. Stand up, young man. Stand by faith. Stand on the
Lord Jesus Christ. Get up and confess Christ. I may be wrong, but I believe
someone in here the Lord's been working on and they may be shy
or don't think they're ready or whatever to confess Christ.
Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you? Grace seen is obvious. Obvious
to others. You know, when you pass from
death unto life, it's pretty obvious. From darkness to light. Acts
chapter 2, and I'll close with this. Acts chapter 2. We'll go
back to... I want you to look at this. In
Acts chapter 2, this happened to 3,000 people. 3,000 souls. Same thing. Same
exact thing happened to 3,000 people. Peter stood up and preached
the gospel. He didn't ask anybody to do one
thing. He didn't have an altar call.
He didn't say, won't you please accept Jesus. No, he didn't.
That's not the gospel. That's a denial of the gospel.
To ask people to accept Jesus, Here you go again, Preacher.
You need to understand. You need to understand now that
all this is going on in religion today is a false gospel, and
full of false converts, and many are going to stand before God
someday, and we've done this, we've done that, we've accepted
Jesus, and I never knew you. All those who accepted Jesus,
let Him in their heart, let God be God, you know, and all that. That's them taking the credit
for it. That's them getting the glory
and the soul winner. I want them to Jesus. No, you
didn't. You made them two-fold more of
the child of hell than they were to begin with. But Simon Peter
didn't ask anybody anything. What did he do? He preached Christ.
Christ crucified, buried, risen, seated, exalted, reigning and
ruling, and Simon Peter sat down. That's what Christ did. Sat down
at the right hand of the Majesty on high. Expecting His enemies
to be made His footstool. Expecting every single person
He died for to come to Him. Expecting the Holy Spirit to
go round Him up. He's coming. Well, you've got
to ask Him. No, you don't! Fetch him! David said to two
of his powerful, strong men. A fellow who can't walk? You
don't ask him to come. He can't. Fetch him! What did he do? He'll never believe. He's steeped in religion. If
God gives a word, He will. And that's what I'm hoping for. She's lost. She's gone. You know,
she's hoping, oh no, no, no, no, no. He's able to say to the
uttermost, them that come unto God by him. How do they come
to God? No man can come except the Father which hath sent me. See, grace is power. Where am I? All these 3,000 people
heard the gospel of a reigning, crucified, reigning Christ. And then they said in verse 37,
every one of them were pricked. They repented. They said, what?
Men and brethren, what shall we do? What are we going to do? He said, repent. And be baptized. Repent. What's repentance? Son to God. God. Lord. Just forgive me. Is that hard? Well, it's impossible unless
the Lord does it to you, but it should be. He's not telling
you to do anything. Just repent. I'm sorry. And be baptized. Every one of
you. Every one of you. In the name
of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sin, you receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost. What's that? Assurance in Christ that He did
this for you. Deny Him, He'll deny you. Confess
Him, He'll confess you. He said the promise is to you
and to your children. The promise is to you and your
children. The promise. Oh, isn't that a
blessing? And to all that are what? You
got any children far off? Nearly every couple in here has
children far off. We were sitting in that study,
those men, I looked around me and every single man in there
had lost children. Everyone, including me. My granddaughters. Every one
of them are far off. What's their hope? What's our
hope? I was a far off. And there was a group of me and
Tammy Jo sitting in a study on 13th Street praying for what?
Lord, bring him. What happened? Here I am. Far off in the depths of depravity. Here I go again. But God. This is grace. This is the true
grace of God. The grace that calls you. The
grace that brings you. The grace that saves you. We'll
keep you safe. You can't keep yourself. But
He can. He does. Look at it. It says
in verse 40, with many words, He testified, exhorting, save
yourselves from this untold generation. You know He's not saying save
your soul. He's saying come out from among them. What are you
doing? Quit following everybody. They're
going down the road of perdition. Come to Christ. You go with the crowd and you'll
die with the crowd. Come out from the bee's separate.
Come to Christ. And with many other words, he
testified. And it says in verse 41, this happened to every one
of them. They that gladly received his
word were baptized. Same day, 3,000 sold. Verse 42,
and they continued, they continued. You know what happens when God
saves somebody? You know what you'll see? You'll see somebody get in that
pool and confess Christ. Yeah, I see eyes open, ears open
here. I see repentance and hear it. I'm just a sinner. You reckon,
God? I reckon. Well, I want to confess Christ. Would you baptize me? The sinner
the better. You see people confess Christ?
You don't have to beg them. Why would you do that? They need
to beg me. Would you please? I want to confess
Christ. Okay? Okay. You'll see them continue. You'll see them continue to come.
And continue to come. They're sheep now. You can't
drive them away. Goats, you can't get goats to
come. Sheep, you can't. They don't leave. So many times,
if the Lord blesses us My dad used to say, when the food's
good, people hang around the table a while. I've been here
all day long, and I think, I'm ready to leave. Y'all ready?
I'll turn the lights out and still hang around. I'll go downstairs,
get in my car, and I'm still hanging around. They continue. They keep coming. I don't want
to go away. So many times some of you say,
I don't want to leave here. I have to go out there and face
it. They continued fellowship and
breaking bread and prayer at the Lord's table and calling
on the Lord. Fear, verse 43, fear came upon
everyone. They all believed and were together,
had everything in common and went on down saving gladness
and singleness of heart, praising God. The Lord added to the church. Back
in our text, and let me close with these words, and this is
what I'm trying to do this morning, preached the grace of God. Acts
11, look at it again. In verse 23, it says, when Barnabas
came, he had seen the grace of God. He was so glad. So glad. Nothing would make us happier,
would it, people, than to see someone trust Christ. Oh, man. And He exhorted them all, and
I'm exhorting you, that with purpose of heart, that they would
cleave to the Lord, that you would lay hold of Christ, that
you would cleave, lay hold, hold fast your confidence in Christ, steadfast
to the end. prayer and my exhortation to
you. Okay. John, you come.