Matthew chapter 5 now. Matthew
5 is commonly referred to as the Sermon on the Mount, the
Beatitudes, the blessings. We've looked at this many times,
but not nearly enough. We've looked at each one individually.
We have done messages on each Beatitude one at a time. I intended
to go through all eight Beatitudes, but I didn't get very far when
I was studying. There's just too much, too much,
and we need to slow down through it a little bit. Verses 1 through
5. This is what we're going to deal with tonight. Seeing the
multitudes, he, our Lord, went up into a mountain. And when
he was set, he sat down, his disciples came unto him, and
he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, Blessed are the
poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed
are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are
the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed. What does
it mean? What does it mean to be blessed?
Well, the word is often used and abused in this world, isn't
it? You see it everywhere, like God's name. Men and women have
it on their tongues, on their bumpers, on their t-shirts, on
their skin. Blessed, the Bible definition
means happy. It means well off. What is it
to be well off? What makes you happy? As with
every truth of God, every truth, what God says and what man says
is opposite. It's opposite about everything. Unbelieving, materialistic world
says health and wealth are the blessing. Fame and fortune are
the blessing. A religious world. which is worldly,
says the same thing. Satan's seat, it's called, the
religious world. So this is what they offer to
the world, health and wealth gospel. Across the page, if you'll
notice, in chapter 4, our Lord was being tempted by the devil.
And the devil took him up into the mountain and said, all these
things I'll give you. And this is exactly what the
God of this world tempts and entices and promises the world
through religion. And they fall for it hook, line,
and sinker. If someone doesn't know God,
if someone doesn't know Christ, health and wealth will be a curse
in the end. It will rise up in the judgment
against them. James spoke of that, didn't he?
Weep and howl, he said, ye rich men. The rust or canker of your
gold and silver will rise up into judgment against you, didn't
it? Over and over, he said. But the true child of God, a
Christian, I'm going to use that term. It's a Bible term. I hate that men have so abused
that blessed term. It's our Lord's name. The true
child of God, the Christian, he esteems health and wealth
as blessings. And they are. They come from
God. But you know where they came from. And you give Him all
the honor and glory for them. And you appreciate them more
knowing that your Heavenly Father gave them to you. Knowing that
you don't deserve any of them. But He's so good and so merciful.
And so you give Him thanks for everything. Yes, these things
are blessings. And yet, though, the child of
God, he esteems health and wealth as a blessing, but he esteems
sickness and poverty as a blessing. In Psalm 90, which I constantly
tell us we need to read it over and over again, he said, Moses,
make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted
us. Make us glad. And David said
over and over again, he said, before I was afflicted, I went
astray. But now I've kept thy word. It's
good for me that I've been afflicted that I might learn thy statute.
Afflictions are blessings. The story of Job and his friends
is a perfect example, isn't it? The average person would see
Job sitting there in poor health, who's lost all of his earthly
goods, even his family, his health, his material thing. And these
three men, they've lost none of those things. They're healthy
and wealthy and all these things. Who's the blessed man? Who is
the Lord's blessing and going to be a blessing to others through? Who? Job. Our Lord was rich beyond our imagination. We'll
know someday what he left. And for our sake became poor.
There's never been a poorer man on the earth than the Lord Jesus
Christ. Was he happy? Was he blessed? He is that blessed man in Psalm
1. He is in it. In Psalm 72 it says that all
the earth will be blessed in Him and by Him. He's the blessed
Lord. He's the blesser. He's the one
that does the blessing. And He's the blessing. If you
have Him, you don't need anything else. Really, now, really. We'll know that someday. We're
going to walk on streets of gold, and we're not even going to notice
them. Why? We'll be looking at the pearl
of great pride. We'll be looking at Him. So here in the Gospel, the Lord
tells us what it is to be blessed. Okay? I hope we listen. There's
going to be two or three parts to this. The first one is the
blessed poor and mourning and meek. Verse one, every word is
significant. I love, don't you love God's
word? Every word, everything it says,
every gesture our Lord made, everywhere he went, everything
he did and said has infinite significance. See in the multitude. He sees all. Our Lord's eyes
upon all. He sees all. He that made the
eye, shall he not see? He that made the ear, does he
not hear? Yes, he does. Everything. And he went up into
a mountain. What mountain is that? Do you
remember Isaiah 2? In the last days they'll come
to the mount of the Lord. That's where they'll be at. Mount
Zion. Mount Calvary. You remember that?
I know you do. I know you remember it perfectly.
You could recite all my poems. I can't. But I'm reminding you. He went up into a mountain, that's
where you'll find him. And when he sat down, oh my,
did he ever ascend on high and sat down? John, did he not? He
who was rich became poor. He who descended was, or he who
ascended is first descended in the lower parts of the earth,
but boy did he ascend on high. Led captivity captive, sat right
down at the mountain of God, the right hand of the majesty
of God. What a verse, John. And he sat down and his disciples
came unto him. Look at Mark 3 with me. I love,
love, love this. I remember the first time I read
it, I just wanted to jump up here. Mark chapter 3. Our Lord
went up into this mountain and sat down, and His disciples came
unto Him. And He opened His mouth, and
He's teaching them. That's who He's speaking to.
That's who came to Him. That's who this sermon was directed
to. You understand that? That's right. The multitude heard Him, but
they didn't hear. Who did hear Him? His people. Who's hearing this tonight? Who
came to Mount Zion to hear from our Lord? God's people. Here, Bethel here, and Bethel
in Spring Lake, and Bethel in Madisonville, Bethel, the Mount
Zion that's all over the world in little places. Mark 3, I love
this, I loved it. Verse, let's see, verse 13. into a mountain. Mark 3. He goeth
up into a mountain and calleth unto him whom he would. And they came to him. You know
why you're here tonight? Because he called you here. You
would not be here. You're not here because you decided
to. You're not here because you made the decision to, the choice
to. You're not here because you're
a good Christian. You're here by the grace of God.
By the sovereign mercy and grace of God who called you, said,
Teresa, you come to my house tonight. I've got something to
tell you. The flesh lusts against the spirit. We cannot do the things that
we would. But our Lord said to Simon Peter, I pray for you that
your faith fail not. Well, how does faith grow and
not fail? The word. So he brings us. Who's
going to come to Christ? All that the Father giveth them
shall come unto Him. Who comes? Those that He calls
by name. His sheep. Brings them into the
fold. Read on. It says in verse 13,
They came unto Him. And verse 14, And He ordained
twelve that they should be with Him. You know why the Lord has called
you? Because he loves you. He wants you. I can say this
about his people. He desires to have you with him. Father, I will that they be with
me where I am, that they might behold my glory. Isn't it good? The flesh pulls, the world pulls.
We want to go here, we want to go there. The flesh, and the
Lord says, nope, you're coming to my house. Go back to the text. And he opened
his blessed mouth and taught them. Oh, may he teach us. Who does he teach? Who does he
teach? His children. His children. In Isaiah 54 it says, All thy
children, verse 13, all thy children shall be taught of thee and great
shall be the peace of thy children. And our Lord He changed it, he didn't change
it, but he added something to it in John 6.45. He can do that,
you know. We can. He wrote it. And he said
in John 6.45, They shall all be taught of the Father, and
every man that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh
unto me. Why are you here tonight? You've come to hear from Jesus
Christ. It's because He loved you. Because He brought you.
Because He called you. And He's teaching us. The Holy
Spirit. Verse 3. Here it is. Blessed. You can say blessed, but I don't
know when men started doing that. Blessed. It's alright. I'm going to say it either way.
Blessed are the poor in spirit. For theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. I read Martin Lloyd-Jones today on this Sermon on the Mount
and he brought to my attention that this is the first thing
he said and also the last thing he said of the blessing. In verse
3, blessed are the poor in spirit, theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
In the last beatitude, verse 10, blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness. For theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. And I've got an article going in Sunday's bulletin by
him on this subject, very short. And what he's saying here from
the beginning and then the end of these blessings is that we
need to realize this is not our kingdom. This is not our world. He wasn't of the world and he
said you're not of this world. They don't serve it. No man can
serve to master. This is not where you belong.
This is not where you're going to be forever. I'm taking you
out of there. You're in my kingdom now. So
we need to keep that in mind. Lest we lust after this place,
he said. All right. Best are the poor
in spirit. You know, there are very few
of God's people today that are materially poor. and some in Africa, and some
in Mexico, there's nobody in this room that's poor in the
truest sense of the word, materially. Not one. Not one. Poor means
to have nothing. And I doubt if anybody in here
has ever been to the point where you've had nothing. Not a dime
to your name, not any food, and not any prospects of eating anything.
Nobody in here. Our Lord, because our Lord is
so good, He said in Psalm 37, He said, I've never seen the
righteous forsaken or his seed begging bread. They're not going
to do it. In His Sermon on the Mount, He
said that you see the birds? Sparrows? They don't sow. But the heavenly Father feeds
them. And He does all of His people. One time, I used to get
many beggars come here asking for help. And as our Lord said,
we try to just give it. And many of them are, they're
not that down and out, they're professionals at it. But anyway, many times I ask them, you go
to church anywhere? Oh yeah, I remember that. And
you're here asking for a handout? You're a beggar? And those people
won't help you? What kind of place is that? I
tell them, if you were a member here, you're not going to be
without. If you're one of God's people,
you're not going to be begging for bread. Because the Lord is so good.
But this poor in spirit, very few of God's people are truly
poor materially, but all of God's people are poor in spirit. All
of them. God does not have one child who
is not poor in spirit. Poor in spirit. What does that
mean? Well, we're going to see in just a moment, but speaking
of material riches and being poor and rich and all that. Most
of these old folks in here remember a time when you had very little.
You weren't poor. You know, people brag about their
poverty. They do. I was poor. Well, I was poor
and poor. Well, I was dirt poor. Oh, come
on. Come off of it. Africa, Mexico,
that's poor. You've been there, haven't you?
That's poor, isn't it? Kelly? But anyway, you remember a time
when you had very little. These older couples that had
very little, you just had, me and I started, when we were starting
out our marriage, we had a little 500 square foot apartment with
hand-me-down furniture. Our couch was propped up on bricks
and orange shag carpet in the 70s, you know, that was beautiful.
We thought it was beautiful. The couch had a throw on it,
a slip cover that had some orange flowers all over it. We were
so pleased it just matched our carpet. And bricks propping up
the couch and all that. We were happy as hogs in mud. We had the gospel. We couldn't
wait to get there, could we? We had brethren, many brethren
we'd love to meet with and hear the gospel. Had a mighty good
preacher and we were very thankful for. We had food in the fridge
and we had each other. Very few troubles, very few worries,
very little strife. Where did these things come from?
Stuff. Like Abraham and Lot, remember?
They had strife when they had so much stuff. That's not riches, is it? It
just brings trouble. It just brings worry. Worry how to get it, worry how
to pay for it, worry how to keep it. Our Lord said moths and rust
and thieves can just take it away. Oh, my. Riches are deceitful. Our society
is too rich to be poor in spirit. It's too rich. Poverty of spirit
is like we're going to see here. Well, let's look at it. To be
poor in spirit means like poor poverty. True poverty is to have
nothing. I mean nothing. No prospects
of anything, of producing anything. It means you need everything
given to you. You need a handout. You need
someone else to give from their bountiful, gracious hands to
you. You don't have anything. Anybody
poor in spirit? We all are. By the grace of God,
we are what we are. Believers. Children of God. Completely a gift. Undeserved
favor. By the grace of God, we are what
we are. By the grace of God, we have what we have. What do
we have? I'll never forget when I first
read this and memorized 1 Corinthians 4. What do we have that we have
not received? Nothing. And you know what though? It's just loaned to us. It's not to keep. We don't get
to keep anything. But Christ... Job said this, naked I came in
this world. You know you were fine when you
came in this world. You had somebody to take care
of you. You're talking about poor. When you were born in this
world, you were naked, blind, filthy, polluted. You need somebody
to wash you, somebody to feed you, somebody to clothe you,
somebody to take care of you. And for the next 15 years, somebody
provided everything, took you everywhere, provided for you.
But I'm here to tell you, for the next 50 years after that,
somebody's doing all those things for you. And then he's going
to take it all away in the end. Then what? If you've got Christ, you won't
miss a thing. In fact, he's going to give it
all, not this stuff, but things unspeakable, spiritual things. Poor in spirit means to have
nothing, to need everything, to be everything given for you,
everything done for you. Poor in spirit means, and you've
heard this so many times, You know, brothers, am I poor? Are you poor? Do you really think
you're poor in spirit? Do you really? Are you as poor
as you want to be in spirit? Do you mourn over your sin like
you ought to? You do mourn, but do you? We pray a lot more if
we mourn more. To be poor in spirit means I
am nothing. I am nothing. I'm a nobody. I have nothing. I have nothing. He came to redeem the poor. The
poor have the gospel preached unto them, which is redemption.
We have no redeeming qualities. We have nothing to redeem our
past life, all this sin, all this... We can do nothing. We need everything
from above. A man can receive nothing except
it be given him from above, every good and The perfect gift comes
down from above, doesn't it? We don't accomplish anything. Whatever it is that we attain
or obtain or accomplish, it's gone one day. It's going to be
gone. Completely gone. It's like we
never did it. Oh, but what He does for us,
to us and in us, is forever. He rebuked the church at, well,
first he commended the church at Smyrna because he said, I
know your poverty. He said, but you're rich. You
just don't know how rich you are. We just don't know how blessed
we are to be hearing what we're hearing right now. when the world,
especially false religion, is hearing the exact opposite. God
wants you to be rich and healthy. God doesn't want bad things to
happen to you. That's not the God of the Bible. These things really don't do
us any good. What does us more good than anything is God's trials
and tribulations and troubles. We learn more from those than
anything else. We do. Oh, to be poor in spirit means
to need mercy. Mercy means not getting what
you deserve. Oh, my. Do you need mercy? To be poor in spirit means to
need grace. Every grace. The grace of faith. The grace of repentance. Oh,
the grace of wisdom. It's to need forgiveness. It's
to need pardon. Anybody need pardon? It's to
need wisdom. It's to need... Lord, I need
wisdom. I'm a fool. I have been a fool. I still act like a fool. I will
yet act more foolish. I need wisdom from above. Help
me quit being a fool. I need wisdom. I need righteousness.
I don't have one. I don't have any. Will you give
it to me? sanctification, set me apart
Lord, make me Thine, I am Thine O Lord. And redemption, wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, redemption. Oh, we need Christ
don't we? We need Christ. So he says, blessed
are the poor in spirit. Do you see your calling brethren?
This is what it means to be poor. God has chosen the weak things. God has chosen the foolish things.
God has chosen things that are not. Nothing. That nobody is from
nowhere. Oh my. Theirs is the kingdom
of God. Theirs is the kingdom of God.
I was going to turn to Luke 14. where it says that he made a
marriage. Remember the parable of the marriage
supper? And he went out, there's a marriage
going on, the king's son is going to be married. Come, the king's
son has bid you come to the wedding of God's son. And they all with
one excuse, with one consent, began to make excuses. for not
coming to see the Son of God who came from heaven down to
this despicable place. Not going. I've got some dirt
I need to plow. And he was angry. And he said
this. Here's what he said. Go out into
the highways and the hedges and you find the poor, the halt that
can't come. unless you bring them. And the
lame, pick them up, compel them. You know what compel means? Pick
them up. Bring them. Sit them down at
the marriage supper of the lame. And those that were bidding the
rest of them are not coming in. Do you see how beholding we are
to our Lord? We are all Mephibosheths. We
wouldn't be here. This would mean nothing to us.
Like it does to the world. Nothing. They have to bribe people
with things to come and worship God. Not God's people. They're
poor in spirit. And they're so beholden and so
thankful that He has fetched them. by His grace and mercy
and brought them in. They're just grateful to be there.
Theirs is the kingdom of heaven. And I can't rightly comment on
that one, because I hadn't seen or heard completely the things
that God had prepared for them that love Him. Look at the next
thing. You see why I didn't get too
far? That's all right. We could dwell on that. Verse
4, blessed are they that mourn, that shall be comforted. God's
Word is so perfect, each thing follows the other. Each thing
goes with the other. Each blessing is connected to
the other. If you're poor in spirit, you
mourn over it. Blessed are they that mourn.
Turn with me to Ecclesiastes 7. If you're truly poor, Ecclesiastes
7, right after Proverbs. When's the last time you've read
this? It had been a while for me, and I'm glad I did. But Ecclesiastes
7, if you're truly poor in spirit, if you mourn, you will mourn
over your poverty. If you're wretched, he told the
people at Laodicea, he rebuked the church at Laodicea. He said,
you're rich and increased with goods, and you have need of nothing,
and you don't know. You've lost sight of the fact
that you're wretched. Miserable, poor, blind and naked. The Lord still has to give us daily
eyes to see that. Make us poor and spiritless.
We can be lifted up in pride. But He rebuked them. You know, if you're wretched,
you know what you'll say? You know what you'll say? You'll
mourn. You'll say, Oh, wretched man that I am. Who shall deliver
them? You'll need this gospel. You'll
need what you're hearing right now. And you'll never quit needing
it. If you lose sight of that, you're
a wretchedness. Blessed are they that mourn.
Ecclesiastes 7, look at this, verse 2. It's better to go to
the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
For that's the end of all men. What's that? Mourning. The living
will lay at the heart. That is, alive unto God, not
dead in trespasses. Sorrow, verse 3, is better than
laughter. For by the sadness of the countenance
the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the
house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
This world, this generation is laughing their way to hell. They're laughing, making a mockery
of God, laughing at believers and laughing at the truth. God
says when they call, it's going to be a day, they're going to
call me and I'm going to laugh. Verse 5, it's better to hear
the rebuke of the wise than for the man to hear the song of fools. Would that we mourn more. I was going to have you turn
to 1 Samuel 30. I'll just tell you what it was
about. David. Oh, David and his men were out
somewhere and they came back. And the Ziklag is where he was.
And they came back and the enemy had taken their wives and their
children captive. And said they wept because they
kept not weeping. And brothers and sisters, Our children are captives. Your wife. We need to be mourning about
this. Jeremiah 9, he said, let's call
for the women. Let's take up some mourning here. Wouldn't we all mourn? We're
more serious. Can you be joyful and mourn? Oh, yeah. Our Lord did. He's
a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. But joyful, happy. They never knew he was sorrowful
until he told them in the end, he said, now is my soul sorrowful
even unto death. The thought of God forsaken him. But they never knew that before.
He was always cheering them up. We have good cheer. But he was
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Useless laughter
and joking and cutting up and all that. They did it and we do it and
we ought to do less of it. We ought to be more serious about
this thing. There's people dying. Our children. Our grandchildren. The Lord's
not saving our young people. And they're getting older and
they're going out to college and they're going out in this world. And I don't
see anybody confessing crime. And it worries me. Serious matter. Go to the house
and morning. We said. That's the way the more. That's going to say something
about Facebook. I'll go ahead and say it. All
this display of ourself and our children and very little talk
of our Lord and the kingdom of God and no witnessing going on. It's a disappointment. Believers. You've got a medium there. You've got an opportunity to
say something. This world is looking at it.
Tell them about a message you heard. Tell them about this message. I had a lady get mad at me because
I reproved her and warned her about not bringing her children
to more services. She got mad and left. It's something serious, isn't
it? Blessed are they that mourn. They'll be comforted. You need
some comfort now? What comforts us? You tell me.
When do you get more comfort? Where do you get more comfort?
And when do you get more comfort than when you come here and sit
in this place? Brother John prayed down there and studied it. We've
been out in the world. We feel dirty and we feel dead and we
feel cold and dry. You don't have to feel that way
all the time, you know that? You can live and pray without
ceasing. But anyway, we do, don't we?
And we come dragging in here, and the Lord is so blessed and
so merciful and so gracious. He comforts us again. When we
might have spent half the week giving Him very little thought,
and yet He said, I know my thoughts toward you. Would that our thoughts
were more toward Him. But here it is. Listen to this. 2 Thessalonians 2. Listen, let
me just read it to you. Oh, how I love this. In 1 Thessalonians,
he says, the Lord Himself is going to descend from heaven,
the voice of an archangel, the trump of God, the dead in Christ
shall rise. Your dad is coming out of that.
Your dad and my dad are coming to meet us. Woo! Who wouldn't want to look forward
to that? Our Lord, we which are alive and remain, be caught up
together with them in the Lord, to meet the Lord in the air,
and we'll be forever with the Lord. Comfort one another with
these words. When you see all these things
happening, lift up your head. Redemption is drawing nigh. Things
are looking bad. Nope. No, they're not. Not for the
believer. It never looked better. But I'm going through this, I'm
going through that. Everything is working together for good
to God's people. The call to coordinate is perfect.
To bring you out of this world and get the world out of you.
So that you'll have your heart, your mind, you're set on affection. So you won't look at things that
are temporary. Soap bubbles. Stuff. Give your soul for stuff. Wish I could use the word I want
to use. Manure. Dung. Paul said, I've lost all
this, but it's just dung, he said. The excellency, the knowledge,
the unsearchable riches of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm ready
to depart. Comfort one another. But 2 Thessalonians
2, you know, oh my, do I love this. He said, brothers and sisters,
we're bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved
of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you.
There it is, election. Yes, sir. That's how it all started,
John. It didn't start with you. It
started with Him. And He said before the world
began, I'm going to save John Davis. Not this man, not that
man. Kelly Penridge. Sally Ann Miller. Not this woman. Not that woman. Not that one. I'm going to pass
her down. I'm going to give Egypt for her ransom. She's coming.
Who is she? She's from Kernersville. Where? She's one of God's children.
She's coming. I'm going to bring her. Boy,
is she going to appreciate my sovereign election. A nobody from nowhere. with nothing,
and Christ became your own. Oh, we're bound to give thanks
because God has from the beginning chosen you to save you through
sanctification of the Spirit, set apart, belief of the truth,
whereunto He called you by our Gospel. There's but one Gospel.
You heard it Sunday morning. You've heard it tonight. All
this other stuff is not the Gospel. You know that, don't you? Our
gospel, the gospel, the gospel of God concerning God's Son.
And it goes on to say, and belief where he called you by our gospel
to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. And
he goes on down, verse 17, to say, comfort your hearts. and
establish you. May God comfort your hearts and
establish you in every good way. Oh, how blessed to be poor in
spirit. Blessed are they that mourn.
He said, they will be comforted. And we read there in Luke 6,
they're going to laugh. That's what he called it. He said, laugh. They're going
to laugh. deal with being meek, but I'm
stopping. I hope I leave you wanting for
more. But I love this Psalm 126. I'll
never forget when I first read this. I told you, some of you may not
have heard this, but there was an old man in Sillicog, Alabama,
Henry Breedlove. He worked in a cotton mill. for
50 years in the hot part of South Alabama. Faithful. And he was a preacher. There
weren't enough people at this little country church in Sylacauga.
Y'all been there. There weren't enough people to
support him full-time, so he had to work full-time in that
cotton mill and to prepare messages and come preach. What he a dear
man. You remember him? Oh, I loved
that man. Henry Breedlove. I have such
fond memories of him. As a child, we'd go down there,
we'd take our vacations, go to Sylacauga, Alabama. I wasn't
happy then, but now I'm so grateful my parents took me to Sylacauga,
Alabama. And there sat Henry Breedlove,
and my dad would preach with zeal from on high to a handful
of people. And Brother Henry, I remember
this like it's yesterday. And he'd go to all the conferences
everywhere. And he'd sit on the first or second row, he couldn't
get close enough. And my dad or Ferrell Griswold
or somebody would say something and he'd just laugh. I remember as a child, my parents
made me sit on the front row. And I remember thinking, I didn't
hear that joke. Why is he laughing? I know now. Psalm 126, when the Lord turned
our captivity. We were like them that dream.
This is too good to be true. I must be dreaming. Somebody
pinch me. Then our mouths were filled with
laughter. Those that are poor. Those that
mourn. You're going to laugh, like I'm
doing right now, except more and more. And then they said
among the heathen, the Lord hath done great things for them. This
is why I'm laughing, the Lord, because the Lord chose me. Boy,
that's something to be happy about. The Lord hath done great
things for us, whereof we're glad He turned our captivity,
turned our poverty into riches. He turned our mourning into laughter. He comforted us. Never cried,
never mourned again. One of these days, Margaret,
you and Mac, me and Mindy, Joe and Nancy, I always believe we'll
be together at the feet of our Lord Jesus Christ, laughing,
smiling, no more tears. No tears. No tear. Joy unspeakable. Now who wouldn't
want that? Stand with me.