Acts chapter 4. Go to Acts chapter
4 with me. I was just reading this. We haven't studied the book of Acts for
about 17 years. We may just do that. I don't
know, but I was reading it for myself. This is the story of
the early church. how the Lord formed His New Testament
church. He's always had a church in the
Old Testament. But this is the New Testament
church, how it was formed in Jerusalem is where it started.
There are people just like you and me in the world who worked
jobs, lived in the city and outside the town. This is how the Lord
called them all, every single member of the church. Every single
person the Lord saved was saved one way, through the preaching
of the gospel. Because the gospel is the power
of God and salvation. And these three phrases, or two
word phrases, jumped out at me as I was reading these. Acts
chapter 4, look at verse 33, with great power. Well, let's
go up to verse 31. In verse 31, when they had prayed,
the church was assembled there, the place was shaken. Oh, may
the Lord shake us up out of our lethargy and complacency. They were assembled together,
you see, and they were all, verse 31, filled with the Holy Ghost.
We're going to see what that means in a minute. They spake
the word of God, the apostles, with boldness. The multitude
of them, every one of them that believed, were of one heart,
one soul. Neither said any of them that
aught or any of the things they possessed was his own, but they
had all things common, that is, what's mine is yours. And verse 33, here it is, with great
power. gave the apostles witness of
the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon
them all. Great power and great grace. And in the next chapter, chapter
5, it continues. In verse 11, it also says in
verse 5, but verse 11 says, great fear. came upon all the church,
the whole church, all of them. Great power was given to the
preaching of the gospel. Great grace was upon them all. And then great fear, great fear
upon all the church. Great power. Man has no power
at all. Power means ability. Power means
the ability to do whatever. God alone has power. All power. Christ said that didn't
he? All power is given unto me in
heaven and earth. Meaning no one else has any power
or ability to do anything at all unless the Lord gives them
that ability. All power. Our God, all power. The Scriptures talk about His
Word being the Word of His power. We read there in Psalm 145 how
that God created everything. Now this is power. He spoke. Now I can create something, you
can create something out of something, but He just spoke everything
into existence out of nothing. That's power. The word of His
power. The gospel is called His power.
We're going to see that in a minute. And then it says in verse 33,
great grace was upon them all. Great grace and then great fear. So let's, let's look at these
things just a little bit. All right. Look with me. First
Corinthians chapter one. First Corinthians chapter one.
It says great power was given the apostles. to give witness
of the Lord Jesus Christ, His resurrection. 1 Corinthians chapter
1. Now look at this. 1 Corinthians 1. Verse 18. Paul just said, I preach
Christ, the gospel. Verse 18. The preaching of the
cross, which is the gospel, is to them that perish foolishness.
This talk of a Man being so sinful, he's going to die, he's going
to go to hell, but he is dead in sin. And God is so holy that
he's going to punish man for that sin unless he has a blood
atonement. That's the gospel. And this modern
world, that is so barbaric and so archaic. So old-fashioned
and even religion has toned it way down to take away the offense
of the crowd. They said, under us which are
saved, verse 18, it is the power of God. The power of God. Look at verse
23. We preach Christ crucified. We
really do, don't we? That's the gospel. He is the
gospel. "...Unto the Jews a stumbling block, unto the Greeks foolishness,
but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
the power of God and the wisdom of God." Look at chapter 2, verse
4. Paul came and he said, Chapter
2, verse 4, my speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, that is, impressive intellect and impressive
words of man's wisdom or what would impress men. No, no, no.
He said in verse 4, it was in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. And we're going
to see what that means when the Holy Spirit power of God, the
gospel is the power of God. When the Holy Spirit comes upon
a man to preach, it doesn't make him speak in a ridiculous way
and make people wallow all over the ground and make people act
like fools. No, no, no. The gospel is the
power of God and the wisdom of God. We don't act like fools.
We've been fools all our lives until the gospel comes and gives
us this wisdom from God. Power of God. The gospel. You
see that? All right, now go with me to
Acts chapter 2. We'll stay here a little bit. Acts chapter 2.
Acts chapter 2. You know, power means force. It means might. It means to be
able to do something that cannot be resisted. That's power. Irresistible
power. All right? Now the Scripture,
I love this Scripture, and many of you do too. In Psalm 110,
verse 3, it says, Thy people shall be willing. When? Can you quote the rest of it?
in the day of thy power." Our Lord said this, you will not
come unto Me that you might have love. Didn't He? He said that
to a group of people who were gathered around Him, who came
to see Jesus, who came to get their bellies filled, and came
to see miracles, which describes modern religion to a T, what
they can get out of it. And He said to those people all
around, you will not come unto Me. They were there. No, they didn't
come for Him, to worship Him. They come for all the festivities
and all the excitement, all the signs and wonders and all the
things they could get. It just made them feel good.
They'd like to hear Him, but He said, Thy people shall be
willing in the day of thy power. They will come. Christ said,
No man can come unto Me except the Father which hath sent me
draw now. God's people come to Christ.
How? By the preaching of the gospel,
what I'm trying to do right now. And it's not by might. It's not
by power. I cannot convince anyone to believe
God, to come to Christ, to confess Him. I cannot do it no matter
how loud I preacher, how soft or whatever musics play, and
that's not, it's by the Spirit of God who takes the gospel of
Christ crucified and convicts of sin. Alright, let's look at
it. Acts chapter 2. You know the
story, don't you? Acts chapter 2. Look at verse 21. And he said, it's Peter's preaching. It shall come to pass that whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. And Paul
wrote in Romans 10, how shall they call on him whom they have
not believed? How shall they believe in him
whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
That's what it said. And please God by the foolishness
of preaching to save them that believe. It's the call, the call
of the gospel. Okay. Whosoever shall call. on the name of the Lord. And
Joel 2.32 is where this comes from, which said, As many as
the Lord our God shall call. That's who's going to call. Nobody's
going to call on the Lord until He calls them by the gospel. This is the power of God. You
will not come. You cannot come. Why? For they are to trespass against
them. When Christ came to the grave, to the cemetery that day,
there were many graves there, and he called one man, Lazarus,
come forth. And he that was dead came forth. Somebody said if he hadn't called
Lazarus' name, everybody in every grave would have come forth.
But he did. He called that man. He came to
call him from death to life. from darkness, from the tombs,
to be with Christ, enlightened. Now here's the gospel. Verse
22, ye men of Israel, hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, ye
men of, ye women of Franklin County, Hear these words, Jesus
of Nazareth, a man approved of God. A man approved of God. God
has never said that about any human being. There's not a just
man on the earth, Scripture says, that doeth good and sinneth not.
There's none that doeth good. No, not one. By nature. Is that
what the Scripture says? That's what God's Word says. And God is true. Jesus of Nazareth, a man. approved
of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs. Talking
about power, this man had power over everything. Principalities and power. He
had power over the elements, over the animals, over the sea,
over the wind, over the hearts and minds and wills and souls
of human beings. Why? Because this is God manifests
in this place. This is not that Jesus, that
men, you know, must let be their Lord. No, sir. This is the Lord
over heaven and earth who made this planet, who walked on this
earth, looking for His chosen ones. And He's calling them by
His power. The great shepherd of the sheep.
I am come to seek and to save that which was lost, my lost
sheep. And he said, and when he finds
it, he puts that sheep on his shoulder and takes them all the
way back home to the praise of the glory of his power. His glory. He didn't have to
come. If he was going to save anybody, he had to come. Anybody
was going to be saved, so he came. No mere man. We don't preach Him as a man.
We preach Him as a man, but not a mere man. We preach Him as
God-man. He was God before He became a
man. They said to Him one time, You're
just a man. You make yourself to be God.
You got it all backwards. Isaiah 59 says, Judgment is turned
way backwards. He wasn't just a man who made
himself God, he was God and made himself a man. Jesus of Nazareth proved by miracles
and wonders and signs, even his enemies said, no man can do what
you do except God be with you. Which God did buy him in the
midst of you, as you yourselves know. Verse 23, Him being delivered
by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have
taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. That right
there is Isaiah 53 in one verse. Who killed Jesus of Nazareth?
You say the Jews did, the Gentiles, the Roman soldiers. It pleased
the Lord to bruise him in the script. Him being delivered by
the determinate counsel, the will, the purpose of God before
the world began, Scripture said, he's the lamb slain before the
foundation of the world. And most false religion says
he came, you know, to try to save people, and he died as a
martyr just to show us how much he loved. No, no. He came as
a substitute. He came as a sacrifice. He came sent by God to do a work,
and He said it's finished before He even went to the cross. And that's what Isaiah said,
He shall not fail or be discouraged. What's He going to do? Daniel
wrote, He's going to bring in an everlasting righteousness.
He's going to put an end to sin and iniquity. He's going to bear
their sin in His body on a tree. His people, not everybody. If
Christ died for every single individual, everybody's saved.
Why? Because it's the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that
cleanses. That's payment for sin. He didn't
make a payment for sin for everybody's sin. But whoever He died for, their
sins are gone. Sin payment. The determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God, for whom He did foreknow,
He did predestinate. Whom He did predestinate, He
called. How's that by the gospel? The
gospel's not an offer. The gospel's not trying to get
people to believe. The gospel is a pronouncement.
Hear ye, hear ye, thus saith the Lord. Peter stood up this
day and didn't ask anybody to do anything. When it was all
over, he didn't have an altar call. He didn't ask anybody,
will you accept? No. He just declared Christ who
He is and what He did. And that's what we did. That's
how you know the true preacher of the gospel. He doesn't call
on men to do something for God. He calls on men to tell Him what
God's done for us. The gospel is a pronouncement,
a declaration. And the Spirit of God takes a
debt. And I've heard this argument. Well, how are you going to get
people to come? I'm not. No one can. I don't want somebody
to come because I convinced them. Because if I do, that means somebody
else can unconvince them. But what God does shall be forever. The gifts and calling of God
are without repentance. All right? He said, you have
taken with wicked hands and crucified and slain. But God raised him
up. Verse 24. What did he do? And Peter goes on to say, he
set him at his right hand. Hebrews 1 says, when he had... Don't you love this? Don't you wish you could holler
this right now, John David? When he had by himself did what? herds our sins. See, this gives
Him all the glory. And it's our only hope. If there's
anything left for us to do, if it depends on us in any way,
my will, my power, I'm a goner. See, we're saved by power and,
brother, we're kept by power. What power? The gospel. And I hear people argue, how
are you going to get people to come if you don't get an altar
call and ask them this and that? Peter, after he preached, he
didn't ask anybody to do one single thing. After he just declared
Christ crucified, buried, risen, seated at the right hand of the
majesty on high, Peter sat down. And everybody, 3,000 people were
kicked in their heart. And they asked Him, they came
begging Him, what are we going to do? We've killed God. We've rejected God. And he went on to quote David
in Psalm 16. He would not suffer thy holy
one to see corruption, and that's Christ. He was buried, but he
did not, his body didn't decay. He was risen. He was raised from
the grave. Verse 31, verse 32. This Jesus hath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses. Now, you read with me in chapter
4, remember? Read it again. It says, With
great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of
the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, when we talk about power,
and men love to throw this term around, women, talk about powerful men, and
I hear women, feministic, women say, I'm an empowered woman.
You heard that? Oh, brother. Power. You're talking about power.
Our Lord, as we already said, had power over all flesh, principalities
in power, rulers, the spiritual wickedness in high places, the
elements, the wind, the waves. I've just read, and reading the
psalm, you'll see everywhere, the waves and the winds obey
His power. But He said this, No man takes
My life from Me. He stood up before him. No one
can kill me. No one. He said, I lay it down. I die when I decide to. Now what human beings say that? And he said, I have power. When I lay down this life, I'll
pick it up again. I will die when I say so. And
when it's time, I'll come out of the grave. Now, whoever can say that is
God. Life. He has life. God says,
I kill, I make alive. Are you with me? This is just
another scripture, Sister Jania, that proves without a shadow
of a doubt that Jesus Christ is God. He says, I kill, I make
alive. Christ says, no man taketh my
life from me. I lay it down." And he said, I'll take it up again
in three days. He said, you'll see. So he said here in Acts 1, verse
3, it says that Christ showed himself alive after his passion
by many, by his crucifixion, by many infallible proofs. Romans
1. It says, it declares the gospel,
it says, the gospel concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, let me
not misquote it, which was made of the seed of David, declared
to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness,
by the resurrection from the dead. Beyond a shadow of a doubt,
this proved that He is. The resurrection from the dead.
I'm not preaching dead doctrine. Salvation is not to believe doctrine. Salvation is not to believe the
Bible. Many people say that. Oh, I believe the Bible. Oh,
do you not? It's a living person. It's a
living Lord. It's a relationship with that
living Lord. You live in Him and He lives
in you. You live with Him. You walk with
Him. You talk to Him. And He talks
to you. How? He's the living God. We believe
in a living God. Okay? A living Lord. Salvation is life from the dead.
It's in a person. It's not a doctrine. You don't
come to the knowledge of the doctrine of grace and you say,
no, no, no. The devil believes in the doctrine of grace. It's
in a person. Did you read the article? You
didn't have time to read the article unless you got the email
about Jesus Christ. How do you explain Jesus Christ? He's a living person. A living
person. And if he did what Scripture
says he did, he's true in it. It's true. Go back to Acts chapter 3. Peter preached Christ
high and lifted up, Christ crucified, And then Christ reigning and
ruling over all. And He did it again in Acts chapter
3. In fact, that's all they preached
was Christ. Everywhere they went. Look at this. I love this. This
is my story. Acts chapter 3. Peter and John
went together into the temple. See, that's where God's people
go. The hour of prayer. What's prayer? What's prayer?
It's going through the motions? Is it just hail Mary, mother
of grace? That doesn't get above the ceiling.
Prayer is calling on God to do something, the living God, to
thank God for what He has done. In verse 2, a certain man lame
from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate
of the temple, which is called beautiful. This is me. That's
me, right there. That's you in it. Well, not you.
A certain man, an elect, predestinated man,
That very day, two gospel preachers are coming walking to that temple,
and this man is going to hear them preach gospel. And he's
lame. It means he can't walk. In so
many years, you would not find me walking through that door.
No way. You would not find me walking
with God. You would not find me walking by faith. You would
not find me walking with the people of God into the temple
of God to worship God. Not interested. This is me. And the gate is called beautiful.
I saw no beauty in Christ that I should desire. I saw no, I
had no love for God's people, for the worship of God, for the
word of God, for Jesus Christ. None. But God sent a gospel preacher
on a certain day to a certain man. Look at it. He's asking alms. You heard my story. I just wanted
a job, so I came back to church because I wanted a job. Seeing Peter and John about to
go into the temple, verse 3, I asked alms, and Peter fastened
his eyes upon this man. Man, I remember. I'll never forget
it. You'll never forget the day,
or the time, the general time when God opened your eyes. You
may not be able to trace it back to a particular hour. You don't
need to, okay? But you do know a general time
when He began to open your eyes and open your ears. You were
hearing for the first time. He's talking to me. Peter fastened
his eyes on John. I'm talking to you. One time a man met my father
back at the door. You know how we preachers stand
there and greet people. And the man came back and he
said, well, you sure stepped on my toes today. And Dad said,
well, I missed. I ain't aiming at your toes. I'm aiming at your heart. And when God takes a word, a
gospel, and pierces the heart, oh, man. In verse 5, Peter fastened his
eyes upon Him with John and said, look
at that, look at that. He gave heed unto them expecting
to receive something. Verse 6, Peter said, silver and
gold have I none. I'm not going to give you any
money. I don't have much. But such as
I have, give I to you. I'm going to tell you about Him
who is the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ. The knowledge
of which is greater than silver and gold. I'm going to tell you
about the silver of his redemption, the gold of his deity. In the
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. Now look at
it. He took him by the right hand,
lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received
strength. Now this is a man that never
walked in his entire life. His legs had atrophied. He was
lying there. He could not walk. He would not
walk if he could. Look out. Immediately. Look at it. Verse
8. He's leaping up. Not just staggering. Leaping up and walk. What did
he do? Where did he go? He entered into
the temple. What's he doing? Walking? Leaping
and praising God. And the people came and he was
right there with the disciples. I know he had his arms around
them. People used to come here to the
study to see my car down there. and come here asking for financial
assistance. It happens nearly daily. It's
diminished some, but they still come. Yesterday, a woman came
here and came in to study and was asking for help. And at the time, I just didn't
have, I think I had $1 in my wallets. Last week I had $100,
but I had $1. And I said, I just don't have
much money. I'm sorry. But as such as I have,
I give unto you. I thought of this. And I began
to talk to her about Christ, about the gospel. I said, Lady,
the one thing you need, I said, this money, if I had a bunch
of money to give it to you, you'd just go spend it on who knows
what. I said, that's hard for me to know who's being genuine
and who's not. There's people that do this for
a living. You know that? There are people that are beggars
for a living. They go from church to church. I'm telling you the
truth. I've seen it so many times. And
I'm not callous toward the poor, and I want to help. And you and
I need to give to whoever and whatever. Because he that lendeth
to the poor, lendeth to the low. But I've seen it too many times.
You know, people, they do this. That's how they live. And so
I began to talk to her. I said, Lady, You need Christ. You need Him. You'll spend this money and everything
in this world. You're going to lose it all.
But Christ, you need Him. I said, why don't you come hear
the Gospel? I said, we're going to meet tomorrow.
He said, I'll be there. I'll be there. Every time I say,
now lady, I've never had one person in all my 35 years, I've
never had one person come after giving them something, come back
in thanks to hear the gospel. Not one. Is she here this morning? No, she's not. See, no man can come. No man
will come. And you can hand out and hand
out and hand out and promise this and promise that. That's
not what people need. That's not what brings people
to Christ. It's the gospel. It's the power of God. So this man, you found him in
the temple after he heard the word from these preachers of
the gospel. And look at the next thing in Acts chapter 4. It says,
great grace was upon him. The gospel is great grace, isn't
it? To have this gospel, the true gospel. God, it's a great
gift for you to hear what you're hearing this morning. It's a
great gift that God has bestowed upon you to bring you here and
not to that Catholic building. Great grace. We sing about amazing
grace. You know, by grace you say, what
does that mean? Grace is not an offer. Grace
is not something God throws out there for every human being to
see what they'll do with it and accept it. No! Grace is something
God does to us. Something God does for us. Something
Christ did for His people on Calvary's trip. The wages of
sin is dead, but the gift, the grace of God is eternal life
through Jesus Christ our Lord. By Christ saving us. It's nothing you can
do to save yourself. It's something He must do. And
He does it for whom He will. And if He's done it for you,
great grace is falling upon you. Great grace. Grace means unmerited
favor. Grace is something, an act of
God. What He does. The gifts of God. in calling of God without repentance.
Repentance is a gift of God. It takes the power of God to
make a human being say, I'm wrong. I'm sorry. Forgive me. It takes the grace of God, great
power, and grace is His power, to make a hard heart break over
sin. A hard head to convince a hard-headed
sinner that he has no goodness, no worth, no ability, no nothing.
Take great power. And the gospel is the power of
God. And it's grace if he does that. Grace. The gift of repentance, of faith. It's not of yourself. It's the
gift of God. Do you believe God? Do you really? I mean God of the Bible. God
of the Scripture. God who is God. Do you? You know
how few people really do? That's a gift. Faith is a gift. Do you love
that God is God? Do you love that God is God and
man is not? Do you love that God has complete
control of your destiny and you have no control at all over it?
Do you love that? Do you know how few people do?
Most people hate that. They really do. They really do. Do you love that? Do you have
a desire to come back and keep hearing this? Do you know that salvation is
the mercy of God and nobody deserves it? What we all deserve is for
God to just cast us out right now. Destroy this whole place.
Do you believe that? Do you know how few people believe
that? It's a gift. It's grace. Brother, we love that word mercy,
don't we? It just jumps out at us. Everywhere
we read it, mercy, mercy, mercy. One song. 136. It says 26 times. Don't we love it? The world thinks
that's redundant. Why do I keep saying that over
and over again? Because if His mercy doesn't endure forever,
I'm gone. Do you love the sound of mercy? You're going to keep
coming to hear the same thing about mercy? Are you really?
That's grace. That's grace. Great grace. It takes great power and great
grace to bring somebody to sit them down and tell them they're
a worm and no good. You can't do nothing that God
came for you anyway. And to make somebody love that
message. Great power. Great, great. And then look at
this. Boy, we could talk about grace
another hour. But in chapter 5, on the same page, is the story
of a man and his wife who were pretending, pretending to be lovers of and
supporters of the gospel. And they had everybody fooled
but God and Simon Pears. See, there are people in Acts
chapter 2 that sold things and did things. It says that those
that gladly received His Word were baptized and they continued
steadfastly. They continued. They kept coming.
They kept coming. They heard the apostles' doctrines.
They heard this Gospel over and over again. They kept coming
with fellowship. What was their fellowship? Around
the Gospel of Christ and breaking of bread and prayers and fear
came upon every one of them. And all that believed were together.
They were together. They weren't playing games. This
is what God had really done to 3,000 souls, men and women. But this man and his wife, they
had some property. To make a long story short, they
had some property. And people were selling things
and giving liberally and generously to the cause of the gospel because
there were thousands of people now. There were lots of poor
people. It wasn't required. You understand? The disciples
did not say sell everything you have and give. No, no, no, no. It was voluntary. And it doesn't
mean everybody gave everything they had. No, no, no, no. It
means people had lots left over and they sold something and gave
that. Well, this man and his wife, Seemed to love the Lord. Seemed to love the gospel. Seemed
to be supporters of the gospel. And they had some property. And
they together said, well, we don't have to give all of it.
No, they didn't. They didn't have to give it all.
Okay. But they pretended like they
did. And they kept back a portion of it.
Probably a majority of it. And they wanted everybody to
think that they'd given it all. Now our Lord did say this, except
a man forsake everything. It cannot be my son. Except a
man or woman forsake the father and mother, husband and wife,
son or daughter, houses or land, everything. If Christ is not
your all, he's nothing at all to you. And God's people He really
is. They're not playing a game here.
They're not making pretense. They're not trying to appear
to men to be disciples. And Simon Peter saw right through
it. He said, you're lying to the Holy Spirit of God. He killed him. And his wife came in, who they
were together in this, she came in later and Simon Peter said,
did you give the support? She said, yeah, we gave it up.
No, you didn't. You're lying. And here's the point. It says
great fear fell on the people that were true believers. See,
God's people really do fear God. You can tell by how they use
his name. They don't use his name. And let me warn you people,
don't say, oh my gosh. Don't say that. Somebody is going
to hear that and think you said, oh my God. That name is precious. Be very careful. Fear His name. You don't use His name in any
way but reverence and respect and thanksgiving and praise and
honor. You don't put your wife or your
husband or your children's name in a public place for people
to spit on it. And we sure don't do that with
our God's name. We fear His name. We fear His
person. We don't talk about Him. We don't
approach Him in any way but in reverence and respect and awe
and bow to Him in worship. Say, but God is love. Yes, He
is. Yes, He is. But God is first holy. We fear
His name. We fear His person. We fear His
word. We fear His truth. We fear His
Son. We fear missing God. We fear
being left out of the Kingdom. We fear sin. God's people don't
toy with sin, though we do sin, yet it gives us great grief and
it causes fear. Doesn't it make you fear when
you sin? When you think the thoughts that
you do? That's the fear of the Lord that's in all of God's people. It never leaves them. I fear
missing Christ. I don't want to miss Christ.
This is not a game. This is not pretend. This is not so everybody will
think I'm a good Christian. I want to be a Christian. Don't
you? I want to be a follower of Christ.
It doesn't matter what everybody else thinks. The only thing that
matters is what God thinks. And great fear fell on them all. I fear. And you need to fear
missing Christ. Because when this is all over,
there's going to be some people that seem to be disciples of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And we've seen many. I don't want it to be you. I
don't want it to be me. I can't fear for you. But if only God with great power
and great grace put this great fear in us, we will not depart. I fear departing of you. I don't want to depart. I don't
want you to depart. I started to have you turn, and
I will close it with this. In chapter 8, verse 8, it says
that they came to another town and preached, and it says, great
joy fell on the whole city. Let's just end it with that,
okay? I don't want to miss Christ. I don't want you to miss Christ. And I want you to have great
joy. Because, buddy, when Christ comes, it's going to be joy unspeakable
and full of glory. Whose glory? His glory. Because He did it all by His
power and by His grace. Okay, let's sing in closing.