Psalm 33. Psalm 33. I listen to preaching occasionally,
and often quite blessed by it. I
was definitely blessed by hearing Brother Chapman preach from this.
I called him. I was on the way to the hospital
on Friday, and so I listened to a message going and coming.
And sometimes I listen to a man preach from the text I'm going
to preach from. I generally turn to my pastor first, always. And then at this time, I listened
to Brother John, who I told, John, you're one of his star
peoples, John. He preached just like him. And
I told him what a blessing it was, and I said, I hope I can
preach with half that much liberty. I told the people, I told him
I was going to tell you about that message, but not until after
I preached it. Psalm 33 is a psalm of praise
and a psalm of joy. Rejoice as that began. It's to
be sung. All the psalms were written as
songs to be sung unto the Lord. The Lord with joy and enthusiasm. All the Psalms are both prayer
and praise, aren't they? If you've read them, you know
you have. Both prayer and praise. When we praise the Lord, we're
giving Him all the glory and honor. We're worshiping Him.
And it's not something you can drum up. I've never quite liked
the term praise leader because you really can't cause somebody
to praise the Lord. Only the Holy Spirit can do that.
You know that? So this is what I keep telling
us all. Prepare before you come here.
Pray. Ask the Lord to enable you to
worship in Him. And I won't have to tell you.
Lift up your voice. John won't have to tell you anything.
You'll do it. You'll do it. Rejoice, it begins,
in the Lord. Rejoice. He is Lord. Our Lord
is Lord. He really is. He reigns. He rules over the kingdom of
heaven and the kingdom of men. Our Lord is not doing what men
let Him do. He's controlling everything and
everyone. That's peace. That's cause for
sin. Rejoice in the Lord. Jehovah
is the name. Anytime you see capital L, capital
O, capital R, capital D. That's Jehovah. That's the God
of the Bible. That's the God of Abraham, Isaac,
and Jacob. Jehovah means eternal, self-existent
one, meaning not dependent on anybody, anything. He always
has been as He is. I am. That's our God. And He's the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. Oh, happy is he that the God
of Jacob for his help. Jacob. He's a covenant God. That's what that means. Covenant
God. The counsel of the Lord stands
to all generations. The thoughts of his heart, nobody's
going to change it. Our God doesn't change. Lord,
rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice
if you're in the Lord. What did Paul say in Philippians
3.3? Or Philippians 3, 9, is it? Yeah. Oh, He said, I want
to win Christ and be found in Him. Isn't it? Like being in
that ark. As in the days of Noah, Christ
is coming back. Well, I want to be found in the
ark like Noah. I want to be moved with fear
and be found in that ark. Christ pitched. Don't you? Covered. Rejoice if you're in
the Lord. I was going to show you just
on these two pages how many times it talks about in the Lord. Like
Ephesians. In the Lord. You know what that
means, Ron family. You know what that means. That's
your hope, isn't it? That's your desire. That's your
heart's desire is you want to be in Him. Rejoice in the Lord. If you believe Christ, trust
Christ, you're in Him. He's in you. Rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice. He says in verse 1,
Praise is comely. It's fitting. Beautiful. It's a thing to do for the upright.
The righteous. Those in Christ are righteous.
Those in Christ are upright. Verse 2, Praise the Lord with
heart. Sing unto Him with a psaltery. An instrument of ten strings. You know there's some Denominations
that don't believe in using musical instruments in the worship service?
Well, you might as well throw the Psalms away. It commands
it. I saw an advertisement one time
by the so-called Church of Christ. It said, if you can find anywhere
in the New Testament where musical instruments are used. I wanted to collect the money,
because in Revelation it says they're harping on harps. But the Bible's the same in the
old as it is in the new. And it's not two different Bibles.
God's the same. He's worshiped the same way,
old or new. He hasn't changed. This is a
command. Command. Use musical instruments. Now, Brother Chapman, I might
quote him several times. But musical instruments can help
worship service that can help in the scene, as long as it doesn't
overshadow it. As long as it doesn't cover up
the message. As long as you don't go away being impressed with
the instrument and not the message that you've just sung. And this
is the thing. We play with fear. No, we play
with reverence. We don't want people to go away
thinking, boy, isn't she a wonderful pianist. We want to go away them
saying, isn't he a wonderful Savior? It's different. And God's given
a skill. He's given these women skill
to play, hasn't He? And that's what they're to do. That's what you're supposed to
do. Why did God arrange or purpose
for you to take piano lessons when you were a little girl in
Alabama? Why? One reason. Not for your own enjoyment. Why
did he impress upon me to start playing the guitar when I was
10 or 11 years old? Why? One reason. To do it under him. There's people all over, very
skillful. People play the guitar and admire their playing ability.
But it's noise in God's ear if it's not under him. Play with an instrument, a psaltery,
an instrument of ten strings, four strings. John plays on a
four-string instrument. The bass, the big bass? Four. Banjos, five. Okay. John plays
on a four-string instrument, five-string instrument. I play
a six-string instrument. Jeanette just played 230 strings.
And she hit them all. She played skillfully. We're
to do everything with the best of our ability. Why? God deserves
it. We're to sing to the best of
our ability. Yes, we are. Say, I can't sing. Can you make a noise? Can you
make a noise? Play skillfully. We're to play
skillfully. We're to do that as the best of our God-given
ability, with a loud noise. Now, I've been in services, and
Ron and Tammy went to Mexico with us. And there's some that
play, they let anybody play anything they want to play, any old time
they want to play, and they don't have any business playing. I
mean, I've heard them get up there anywhere even close to
the key that they're supposed to be on. Don't need that. If we're going to play, let it
be skillfully and with a loud noise. You see, it's like singing. It exhorts one another. When you all play these preludes,
I know other people enjoy it, but nobody enjoys it like I do.
It really prepares my heart. You'll notice I'm singing along
while you're playing. I'm singing. And it never fails. They always ask me, what prelude
do you want me to play? I said, you pick it. Because
it never fails. Whatever you pick, I want to
sing it. So they study, don't you? You
look and see what the text is, and you try to pick something
that goes along with it. That's something. Keep playing, sisters. Verse 4, the Word of the Lord.
Now here's why we praise and rejoice and sing unto the Lord. Here's the first phrase. What's
the first thing He said? The Word of the Lord is right. Oh, the Word of the Lord. What would you take for this? The Word of the Lord. What's
this mean to you? Right, isn't it? The longer I
live, the more right it is. About everything. Right about
God. Right about man. It's right. It's good. It's righteous. The Word of the Lord is right.
What is the Word of the Lord? Jesus Christ. The righteous. It's right. All His works are
done in truth. Talk about praising and rejoicing. First of all, in His Word and
in His works. Well, that's one. That's Christ. That's His person. That's His
works, isn't it? His Word is right. He said heaven
and earth will pass away, but not one word of mine will fail.
It's right. It's truth. His works. Everything He does is right.
Everything He says is true. Brethren, believe on Him. Believe
Him. Trust Him. Don't trust or believe anybody
else. But you can trust Him fully. They who trust Him fully find
Him holy, stayed upon Jehovah. The Word of the Lord is right. His works are done in truth.
Verse 5, Here is this person. He loves righteousness and judgment.
Oh, there is no justice in our world today, is there? All the wrong in it. All the
injustice. But God is right. God is righteous. Shall not the God of the earth
do right? He does. And He's doing it all. Know this
for your own peace. That whatever is being done in
the world, God's doing it. That's right. You just wait. Keep saying that, don't I? He
says, you just wait. You're going to see. Like Psalm
73, he was all tore up about everything around him. And he
went into the sanctuary. He sat down and got peace. He
said, I understand now. I understand. Just wait. You're
going to see. You're going to see the wicked. Oh, you're going
to see what it's all about. Verse 5, you see, in spite of
all the injustice unrighteousness and sin and evil, the earth is
full of the goodness of the Lord. Goodness of the Lord. Goodness. Mercy is the word in
the margin. That's good, isn't it? Goodness
of the Lord. What did the Lord say to Moses
when Moses asked him to show him his glory? What was the first
thing he said? I'm going to make all my goodness pass before you.
What's that? That's Christ, the goodness of
God. And I remind you, the worst thing
man has ever done was when they took the Son of God and made
a bloody piece of meat out of Him. That was the goodness of
the Lord. That was God's great goodness, His work of redemption. Man's worst work was God's greatest. And that's something. And he
wrote about it in the Word from Genesis till it happened. Verse 6, By the word of the Lord
of the heavens made all the hosts of them by the breath of his
mouth. Who made the heavens? Who made the heavens there? God
did. The Lord did. Jehovah did. Who? Who is Jehovah? Christ. Doesn't it say that? Doesn't it say in John 1 that
the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, that without Him was
not anything made that was made? The Word was God, His God. Doesn't
it say that? Didn't Paul say that in Colossians
1? That by Him were everything made that is made. That means
He's Jehovah, isn't it? We're Jehovah witnesses. Let's
go to their door. At one time, one of the brethren
wrote a track on Jehovah's Witnesses, best I ever read, and I thought
about going to that so-called Kingdom Hall and putting them
on everybody's windshield. But I thought, I ain't going
to put my ... I'm not going to throw the children's bread to
doubt. Let them come here and hear it. The Word of the Lord, He made
the heavens and all the host of them by the breath of His
mouth. The God in whose hands I am. When man lived, it's because
God breathed into him. That's how it all started. That's
how life began. When the Lord Jesus Christ fashioned
this man out of clay in His image. Yes, the image of Jesus Christ.
He's the image of the God in man. And he fashioned this man
and this woman, and he said, breathe. He became a living creature,
upright, righteous, beautiful, image of Christ, angels. Look,
he looks like our Lord. And that's when life begins in
you. Breathe on me, breath of God. Fill me with life anew. And He's the God in whose hands
our breath is. He gave you breath, and you know
when it's all going to end? When He takes it away. So you
just be still. Be still. You're going to live
as long as He says for you to live. And He's going to take
your breath, and it's not going to be an awful thing. It's going
to be the most wonderful thing that's ever happened to you in
your entire life. Verse 7, he talks about him gathering
in his creation, made the heavens, then he made the earth. He gathered
the waters of the sea together. You remember the earth was, waters
covered the earth and he gathered it together in heat. Verse 7
says he laid them up in depth in storehouses. Brother Chapman
again, he brought this out so well. He said the Lord waters
the earth, doesn't he? This planet is called the blue,
they call it the blue planet. Why is that? the wonderful water
of life. It's the only one that has it.
And by the way, they're still looking for it everywhere. They're
looking everywhere, trying to find an old dried up lake. Boy,
if that isn't man's wisdom. Let's find a planet somewhere
that's got a dried up lake on it so we can prove God's not.
See, there's life up. No, there's not. You're not going
to find water. Right in the middle of water
and looking for water. Now, isn't that a good illustration? Water, the water of life, it's
all a picture of God. And he scooped it all up like
you and I pour water in a bucket. And it happens it's the earth,
like grasshoppers to him. He made the earth, ball of it,
and he scooped the waters together like you and I pour water in
a bucket. All the oceans, two thirds of the ocean of the world,
water. Salt, water. Salt, better not
get on that. Salt? Read that in the scripture. Anyway,
in storehouses, how is this earth watered? Ocean. Yes, ma'am. Sun, moisture goes
up, fills those clouds. Yes, sir. Storehouses. We ever
going to run out of water? No, sir. Not as long, he's got
enough water to last. Springs run among the hills and
so forth. So he says, the one who gathered
the oceans together with his hands, verse eight, let all the
earth fear the Lord. Isn't this a God to be feared? Let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of him. He spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast.
He spake, it was done. Victum factum. Said, done. What power is that? Talking about
the word of the Lord, the word of His power. Created all things
thus. Beat. I've made a few things, and it's
taken me... I have to have something to make it with. have to have
some raw materials to make something with, don't you? Bread, whatever,
you know? You got to have something to
make. My God, there was nothing. Well, how'd they make it? Bee.
Let there be light. Be a tree. It's boom. That's power in it. That's how
you oppose everything. That's how He reigns and rules. That's power. Whatever He says
happens. That's power. That's Christ. He reigns. He rules. He just
speaks and it's done. He commanded and it stood fast. John, I couldn't help but think
of one of our favorite verses. He gave commandment to save me. How do we say the word of His
power? My preacher and others tried
to do something with me. They couldn't do anything with
me. Nobody could do anything with
me. But God one day spoke the word. Repent. Believe. Come. Bow. Call. And I do. Praise His holy name. I never would have if He hadn't
spoken the word. I'm not His power. It's not up
to me whether I raise my voice or not or have liberty or think
I do. It's completely up to Him to
speak. If He speaks, it's going to stand
fast. If He tells you Believe. You're going to believe and you're
going to hold fast. You're going to stand on the
rock of Christ Jesus and no one is going to remove you. Give
the word. That's why we call unto Him for
our loved ones that we have such a burden. Lord, speak. Please
speak. Would you speak to them? Please? I can't. Speak to them. If you
speak, if you say it, it will be done. Verse 10 and 11. Lord bringeth
the counsel of the heathen to nothing. He maketh the devices
of the people of no effect, or fetid relevance. Oh, we got all these devices
down. They're worthless. We'd be better off without them.
Really? Really? One thing, though. One thing. All this stuff gets in the way.
It gets in the way. You bring the counsel of the
heathen. What's the counsel of the heathen? That's the counsel
of the ungodly. That's the wisdom of this world.
That's what man thinks is right when it's wrong. That's what
man thinks is wisdom. It's foolishness. That's what
God said. Man says this is true. No, it's
not. It's completely the opposite
of the truth. Whatever man says, this is the way I think, it's
wrong. That's what God said. For God's sake. Man promises
you something, it's a lie. It's a lie. When God promises
you something, it's the truth. He can't lie. Who are you going
to believe? Don't you love this song? Isn't
this your favorite song? The counsel of the Lord standeth
forever. The thoughts of His heart to
all generations. The counsel of the Lord. What's
the counsel of the Lord? Christ, he's the counselor, isn't
he? I'm going to counsel you. Buy
the truth and sell it not. But don't come with money. Come
without money and without pride. Redeem the time. Come to Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you'll have life. Counsel the Lord. Standeth forever. Christ standeth forever, sitteth
forever at the right hand of God. The thoughts of his heart
to all generations. What are the thoughts of his
heart? What did he say to his people? I know my thoughts towards
you. Thoughts of peace to bring you
to an expected end. And the thoughts of the Lord,
whatever the Lord purposed in His mind before the world began,
it comes to pass. All generations. The works of
the Lord known unto Him are all His work from the beginning of
the world. And He wrote it down in it all. Helen, you and I were
texting about the Word of God, man fulfilling, doing exactly
what God said He would do. It's amazing, isn't it? We read
the news, it's not new at all. There's nothing new under the
sun. God has already said it. If you read this book, you'll
see what's going to happen next. God's already wrote it. Man's
the same. Every generation. Oh, blessed, verse 12, is the
nation whose God is the Lord. Blessed is the people whom He's
chosen for His own inheritance. Blessed is the nation whose God
is the Lord, spiritual Israel. This nation is not a Christian
nation. It's a heathen nation. Israel
over there is not God's people. His people are spiritual people,
and it's a new nation, new kingdom, kingdom of God, kingdom of heaven,
kingdom of Christ, His dear Son. And they're His people. How are
they people? Born of blood? No. Will of the
flesh? No. Of God. They're His people. Listen to what He says in 1 Peter. He said, right after He talked
about the stone, the rock, He said, you're a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. purchased
a peculiar what the god you believe is peculiar to this world john
and i were just going back over the message will be at the first
one have that the world this talking about a holy god fire
judgment right christ bloody cross they really do think that
we're so strange The new, this new and modern
gospel is what's strange. The fire that people bring, so-called,
to the altar is strange fire. Like, laid to have in a bayou
is what it is. It's not the fire of the cross
of Christ. And we were talking about that.
People think it's strange. No, it's not strange. It's as
old as God is. The truth is strange. It's going
to become stranger and stranger the more people go away from
it. In the last days, you'll be falling away from the truth. You're a peculiar people. Why? You should show forth the praises
of Him who hath called you. Are you with me? Somebody said,
you always say that. It's because I want you with
me. I want you to hear this and rejoice
with this. It's all the same. What I just
read Peter wrote is what David wrote. It's all the same. A chosen
generation, a royal priesthood, a people called out of darkness. Look at verse 13. The Lord looketh
from heaven. He beholdeth all the sons of
men. One time, David said this in
the flesh, but he said it for our sake. The Lord recorded it.
Because I think this all the time. One time, David looked
around. It was just so bad all around.
Things were going so bad. He said, Lord, it's time for
you to work. You remember that? It's time for you to work. They've
made voyager law. Look what they're doing to you.
Lord, don't you see what they're doing to you? Yeah, he sees. He sees. He sees it all. He hears it all.
He's not in a hurry. He's merciful. The disciples
want to call down fire from heaven. Let's kill these fellows. Hang
on. One of them might be the Lord's elect. Let's not kill
him. We want him to die. But we want
the Lord to save him. Oh yeah, He sees. He sees all. He sure does. The Lord looketh
down from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men
from the place of His habitation. He looketh upon all the inhabitants
of the earth. No darkness to Him. Verse 15, let's go on. It says, He fashions their heart
alike. I love Proverbs 22, I believe
it is. The king's heart is in the hands
of the Lord. like the rivers of water, he
turneth it with his river. That's Proverbs 22 and 21. The king's heart, he turns it
with his river. Men's hearts are in the Lord's
hand. The preparation of the heart and the answer of the tongue
is of the Lord. That's power, isn't it? I'm so
glad. I'm so thankful. The world says
that you're God that makes us a puppet. If God is in absolute
control of everybody, that makes us like puppets. I don't want Him to turn loose
of me for one minute. I don't want Him to turn loose
of anything. When God takes His hand off of
something, All hell breaks loose. He is watching. He is the hearts of men. He considers
all their works. What does He say about man's
works? What does God say about man's works? What does He say?
Evil continually. The thoughts of his heart, his
imagination, only evil continually. God knows. This is a good person. Not by nature. No way. None.
You know. Verse 16. There's no king saved. Now he's going to talk about
salvation. Now he's going to talk about salvation. Talk about
creation. Created all things by the Word of His power. Works
of creation. The works of providence. Marvelous.
God's to be praised. Now we're going to talk about
salvation. Salvation of a soul. Who can do that? One. It says there's no king
saved by a multitude of hosts. There's no strength in numbers. No strength in numbers. There's
strength in one. There's only strength in one,
and that's the Lord. They that are with us are more
than they that be against us. You know why? Because the Lord
is with us. No strength in numbers, no king saved by Motu and Hos. This nation is not going to be
saved because it's the most powerful military on Earth. Boy, if that
isn't a delusion. I've been reading about the war
in the Pacific. My father was in it, right in
the middle of it. That's a wonderful story. There was an Elijah out
there in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He can't die. Everybody died all around him.
Send him to Israel, Godspeed. I've been reading about the Pacific
War, when they bombed. The experts say if Japan had
just pursued that, if they'd just gone past Hawaii and just
started bombing the United States, West Coast, California, and all
that, if they'd just continued that, They'd have taken this
country. It was not prepared. This country
was not... We didn't even believe we'd ever
be involved in it. Our army wasn't ready. Nobody
was ready. Who stopped them? Who stopped
them from going any further? God. Jesus Christ did. Why? Why did he spare this nation?
Why did he keep Germany from taking over England and Ireland
and Scotland? Why? The gospel. His kingdom. That's why. Why couldn't that
little, one little sailor out in the
middle of the ocean and all those, why couldn't anybody drop a bomb
on him? That's God's preacher. And nearly
everybody in this room is an indirect result of that. That's
our Lord. It's all good, isn't it? It's all going according to his
purpose. Drop that bomb here, drop it
here, drop it here, drop it here. Nope, not there. That'll be it. No king saved by multitude of
hosts, a mighty man is not delivered by his strength. Not by might,
not by power, but by my spirit. A horse is a vain thing for safety. Neither shall he deliver any
by his strength. There's not a horse that can
run fast enough. Vain thing. Oh, how men put their
hopes in technology. All God's got to do is take away
electricity. Just flip a switch. Just flip
a switch. No devices. No nothing. Then
what are you going to do? Trust the Lord. Verse 18. Now look at the eye
of the Lord. The eye of the Lord is upon him
that fear him. Upon them the hope and his mercy. I love this. I love this. Bonnie Stanley, your husband,
his text at his funeral was Psalm 147, 11. The Lord taketh pleasure
in them that fear him, and in them that hope in his mercy.
Same verse. Why? Same God. Same hope. He taketh pleasure. He looks
on them that fear him, that hope in his mercy. What's your hope?
You believe this God is righteous and holy and just. You do, don't
you? But you believe He is merciful,
don't you? Where is His mercy? How is He merciful? In Christ. The mercy of God is in Christ.
You know that. The eye of the Lord is upon them,
the eye of love, the eye of grace, the eye of mercy upon them that
fear Him. The Lord knoweth them that are
His. This is the foundation of God's He chose them. When? Before they were born. In a covenant. This is Jehovah. Long before
the world began. He chose you. You're not amazing. Why? He's saying good in His sight. The good pleasure of His will.
Because He pleased to make you His people. He chose you. Of
all the people. in Grundy, Virginia, or Boyd
County, Kentucky, or Franklin County, Virginia, or Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, or Kernersville. Where in the world is that? Think about that. It shows you. It shows you. I thought about
this. You know, the Lord's eyes upon
all His people at all times. I went to that concert. I told
you about that concert. My granddaughter was in it. How
many, would you say there were a hundred and some kids? Maybe a hundred and fifty. Big.
Big. Lots of kids. You know who I
was looking for? What? That's my girl. Hey. That's my girl. You know what?
I love your children like that too. I really do. I went to a
basketball game. Over Benjamin Franklin. I went
to a basketball game. I was on one boy. That's my boy. That's Max. He just scored. I have pity on
the others. Hope the Lord's merciful to them. My eye was on him. I know him. I love him. That's the Lord.
or is merciful. Oh, he's tender mercies over
all. He's good to all. His rain falls on none just as
well as the judge. But his eye is on you. And he's not going to let anything
evil happen to you. He's not going to do it. I can't
do, I can't keep something happening from him. I can't keep it from
happening to my granddaughter. God can, and he does. And whatever
happens, he did it. And it's good. It's right. That's
how this all started. Boy, if that doesn't make you
praise Him. If that won't make you praise Him, nothing can. If that won't make you rest,
nothing can. He's going to deliver you, verse
19, from death. All our lifetime we're subject
to that bondage and that fear of death. Christ said, fear not.
You believe in Me, you'll never die. Joe didn't die. He didn't die. He didn't die. He just didn't. Christ's not
a liar. Keep them alive in famine. We're
in a famine, aren't we? You're not. You're not. You're eating fat
things. Wine over the leaves. What's
that? Where's that found? Isaiah 25. In this mountain shall
the Lord make His feasts. What feasts? His body and His
blood. Oh, we're not going to have famine.
We're feasting. Aren't we, sister? Feasting. His body, His blood. Oh, He's
going to keep you alive. Keep you alive. That's how we're
kept alive. The Gospel. Now here it is in closing. It
sounds like every psalm we look at, our soul waits for the Lord. Our soul. We're one, aren't we? Souls? It doesn't say souls.
It's God's Word, pardon me. It doesn't say souls. It's soul. Our one soul. All of us are together
in His body. Our soul waiteth for the Lord. We're waiting on the Lord in
Providence in His Word and worship and waiting for Him to come. He's our help. Remember that? But not your trusted princes
or the son of man in whom there is no help. Remember that? No help. He's our help and our
what? What's shield mean? We don't need to wear a shield
now. We are. We were, we are, and we always
shall be. What? He's our shield. Thou only makest me to dwell
in safety. A horse is a vain thing. A shield
is a vain thing. This is not a vain thing. To
trust the Lord. It's His glory. Trust Him. Trust Him. When the next thing
happens, people, it's coming. Yes, it is. There were nine plagues
in the Old Testament. 999 coming. 10. He's our shield. That'll make you rejoice. Our hearts shall rejoice where?
In Him. Him. Not in our church. Not in
our faith in Him. We trust in His holy name. What's
His name? Lord. What's His name? Jesus. Savior. That's what He
is. That's what He does. Christ.
Messiah. The one that's coming back for
His people. That's what He is. That's what He does. That's what
He's going to do. And it ends with this. Verse
22. Let thy mercy... There's a brief prayer in it.
Let thy mercy, O Lord, your kindness, your goodness, your mercy in
Christ. Oh, Lord, be upon us according
as we hope in thee. All right. Brother John, you
come, please.