Then I knew this song will sing,
hallelujah, and a Savior. Then I knew this song will sing,
hallelujah. You ever really want to sing
Well, you will when it comes. We're all going to sing the great
shout, hallelujah. Praise the Lord. 1 Peter 1. We'll look at chapter 5, first
of all. Chapter 5. And Lord willing,
we are going to look through this whole book in the
next several gatherings together.
But chapter 5, Peter tells us why he's writing. He tells us
the purpose of his writing. Look at verse 12, by Silvanus,
or Silas. He sent this letter by Silas,
a faithful brother unto you, I suppose. I have written briefly,
exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God,
wherein you stand. That's what this whole book is
about, the true grace of God, as opposed to what some call
grace. And we're going to see how chapter
1 is grace bestowed, chapter 2 is grace tasted. Chapter 3
is grace exhibited. Chapter 4 is grace tested or
tried. And chapter 5 is grace perfected
or glorified. This is the true grace of God. You know, salvation is by grace.
For by grace are you saved. Through faith. But that's not
of yourself. That's grace. Salvation is by grace. Grace
means a gift, doesn't it? It's not a gift offered. There's
no such thing. It's a gift bestowed. Grace bestowed. God's saving grace is not an
offer. It's an act of God for His people. It's a work of God for His people. It's a work of God in His people. It's not an offer, it's an act.
You're saved by grace. God's work. Christ's work. The Spirit's work. Okay? And
that's why everything is going to be to the praise of the glory
of His grace. His grace. And He said in the
ages to come, He's going to show unto us the exceeding riches
of His kindness toward us through Christ. His grace. through the
Lord Jesus Christ. Let's look at verse 1. Peter,
an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers scattered throughout
various places. Look at chapter 2, verse 11. Strangers, he calls them and
us. Dearly beloved, I beseech you
as strangers and pilgrims that you abstain from fleshly love.
Strangers. Strangers. God's people are not of this
world. They're strangers. They're pilgrims
in this world. They're passing through like
the children of Israel. They're passing through. They're
not of this world. And like Paul went to Athens
to preach one time, Acts 17 we looked at. And they said to him,
the people there said, you bring strange doctrines out of here.
You preach a God that we don't preach. Strange doctrine. We want to hear what this strange
doctrine is. You all are strange. That's what
he means by that, strangers. They have a strange belief, a
strange God, strange doctrine, and they're pilgrims, strangers,
wandering. Verse 2, elect. Elect. according to the foreknowledge
of God. God chose them before the world began. Foreknowledge
means that God set His love upon us, God's people. If you're one
of His elect, He set His love upon you. In Amos chapter 3,
God said this of His people, Israel. You only have I known. of all families on the earth. Meaning, I set my love upon you. I chose you, set my love upon
you. It's an everlasting love. Know,
to know, to enter into a special union and relationship with Him
like Adam knew his wife Eve. That's exactly what that word
means, people. That's exactly what that word
means. In Amos 3, he said, you only, verse 2, have I known of
all the families on the earth. And in another place, our Lord
said in Matthew 7, many will say this and that to me, and
He said, I never knew you. Meaning, I didn't foreknow you. I didn't love you. And whom He foreknew, He did
predestinate. And whom He did predestinate,
you like this? He did call by our gospel. And whom He called, He justified
freely from all things. And whom He justified, He glorified. They see Christ's glory and someday
will be glorified with Him, in Him. elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit. How do you know
they're His people? How do you know they're elect?
Well, the Holy Spirit sets them apart. In verse 2, they're set
apart unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
He says grace is unto you, grace, all grace, saving grace, electing
grace, loving grace, keeping grace, preserving grace. Preserving
grace, inheriting grace, teaching grace, keeping grace, all grace,
the God of all grace. Grace is for you, God's people,
God's elect. And they're separated by the
Spirit of God. Remember Paul said, bound to
give thanks, I wish God for you brethren, beloved of the Lord,
because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Holy Spirit, set apart, and belief of the
truth, whereunto He called you by our gospel to the obtaining
of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Set apart by God, His
people, His chosen ones, by the Spirit of God to be in Christ, His obedience. This is what this is primarily
talking about, that you He is made unto you wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. He is your obedience. And sprinkling
of the blood of Christ, like the blood was put on the doorpost
and lintel of the children of Israel, not the Egyptian, not
everybody, but God's chosen people, God's elect, have been chosen,
foreknown, foreloved by God before the world began, and put in Christ,
and His blood, His obedience, His righteousness, His shed blood
was applied to them, and they're kept. So he says, Grace unto
you. And, you know, obedience does
mean that they're taught of God the Father, and verse 14 says
they are obedient children. They're obedient children. They're
taught of God to obey His will, His commandments. They're not
disobedient, but obedient. He says in verse 3, "...Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." Does this
sound like Ephesians 1 to you? Sound like Colossians 1? That's
because it's the same gospel. The story is the same. The message
is the same. Amy asked her what she was going
to teach. Our young people this morning,
she told me, I said, well, you just taught that last week. She
said, I know. Well, is that all you know? Yes, it is. Christ. Oh, blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, which, or who according to His
abundant mercy, much mercy, great mercy, have begotten us again
unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Begotten, that means born again. The last, well, the 23rd verse
says, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God. And he said in verse 25, this
is the word which is by the gospels preached unto you. God's elect. people who were chosen by Him
and loved by Him and put in Christ before the world began. In that
covenant, in time, they are known, they're set apart by the preaching
of the gospel. They're called out by that gospel.
And it's not only just they believe it, but they've given a new heart. They love the truth. They're
born again, a newborn, a brand new creature. They've got an
old man that's still there, but they have a new man, brand new,
begotten of God. Not of blood, not of the will
of the flesh or the will of man, but of God, born of God, born
by the Spirit, born by the preaching of the gospel, a great mystery,
but it's so, unto a lively hope. lively hope, living hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Our religion is
not a dead religion because our Messiah is not dead. It's not
just a dead letter of the law. It's not dead doctrine. It's
a living person. All of our salvation and what
we're doing here today is worshiping a living Lord. It's lively. It's not lively in the sense
that the world, especially modern Pentecostal charismatic religion,
they'd come in here and say, this place is dead. Well, it's kind of like that man, that
gathering demoniac, Crying out and shouting and rolling
and doing all that looked just like one of these Pentecostal
people. And when the Lord came and revealed
Himself to him and in him, it says he was found sitting. He hadn't sat in years. Clothed and in his right mind. What mind is that? He's worshiping
Jesus Christ. He's got his mouth shut. for
a change. He's had his heart open for a
change. And he's worshipping God in spirit,
not with the flesh, not with his hand, but in spirit and truth. And he's rejoicing in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And all this flesh is just that flesh. God's people, God's not
worshipping men's hands. He's worshipped the Spirit and
the truth. And he's worshipped through the
gospel, the preaching of Christ. It's lively hope. It's only called
hope because we're not, having arrived yet, we're not there
yet, or have we? Oh no, Paul said we have. We're
seated with Him in the heavenly, seated with Him by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ. See, it's a living hope because
we have a living Lord. And he said, because I live,
you live also. And we're chosen to an inheritance. Christ is the heir. Christ is
the one deserving an inheritance. And here's salvation. And here's
the truth. Here's the gospel. Being an heir,
you're an heir not because you deserve it. You're an heir not
because you've worked for it. If you get anything, why do you
get it? Because you're the son of your
father, right? You're the daughter of your father or mother. Because
they lived and earned all of this, okay, and because they
die. You don't inherit something until
they die, do you? You've seen these bumper stickers,
people say, they say, I'm spending my children's inheritance. You
see that? Do you have one of those? Maybe you ought to. But you're
not an heir because you deserve it. You're not an heir because
you've done anything. You're an heir by virtue of being
a son or a daughter of your parent. They earned it all. And we're
not heir because of anything we do. We don't have this inheritance
because of anything we've done, but because of what Christ has
done. Because he lived and because he died. You know what I'm reading
this morning? I'm reading his last will and
testament to his people. I'm reading the will to God's
people. We have an inheritance. But verse
4 says it's incorruptible, undefiled, it fadeth not away, reserved
in heaven for you. It's not a corruptible thing.
And people, like Ephesians 1, There's not one mention of one
earthly thing in this chapter. Not one mention of one carnal
or fleshly or earthly thing as being a blessing from God. Here's
what you get. Not one. No mention of them. Spiritual
things. Because that which is flesh,
all flesh is what? Grass. All these earthly things
will perish. Parents, in fact, you ought to
give them your inheritance now. Well, verse 4, it says, we're
given an inheritance that fadeth not away. It's reserved in heaven
for you. We have a reservation, a reservation
in heaven. Don't you love that story of
old brother Barnard? I'm going to tell it again. Brother Barnard,
he loved to sing, but he couldn't sing. But he sang anyway. He
sang that song, A Sinner Like Me. It made a joyful noise. But he said he always wanted
to sing. And he dreamed one time that he went to heaven and he
heard that angelic choir. And he said, oh, there was such
music to his ear. And he said, oh, I'd love to
be in that choir. Oh, I'd love it. He looked and he saw a sea
of faces. As far as the eye could see, a sea of faces singing that
heavenly song, Grace. And he said, look, he saw a vacant
chair. He said, I'm going to make my
way up there and sing with this choir. And he made his way all
the way up there and he got all the way up through there. And
he got to that chair and it said, Ralph Martin. And he got right
there and just started singing. Reserved. Preserved in heaven
for you, verse 5, who are kept by the power of God. Kept. This
is preservation. Preservation. God preserves His
people. They're kept by the power of
God. Kept by His sovereign power. As our Lord said, I give unto
them eternal life and they shall never perish. They're in my hand,
and they're in my Father's hand, and no man shall pluck them out
of my hand. No man. He said, I will in no
wise cast them out, and they can't get out. Don't you like
that? Are you saying once in grace,
always in grace, preacher? That's exactly what I'm saying.
Let me make that very clear. I'm saying once in the grace
of God, always in the grace of God. Yeah, but, but, but, but,
but, what? Don't you love that? Kept by
the power of God, His sovereign power, kept by the power of His
gospel, kept by Christ Himself through faith. This is how you
know they're kept. They keep believing. They die
in the faith, ready to be revealed in the last time. Now, he says,
and we're waiting on that redemption, the manifestation of the sons
of God. He says in verse 6, oh, how you
rejoice, you greatly rejoice. Oh, most in here do, don't you?
Rejoice in what you've heard so far, the gospel of our salvation.
You rejoice. Even though now, for a season,
for a little while, if need be, verse 6, you're in heaviness
through manifold temptations, trial of your faith. You greatly
rejoice In God your Saviour, you greatly rejoice in His salvation,
don't you? You greatly rejoice in this Gospel. You greatly rejoice in the Lord
Jesus Christ. In Him, you greatly rejoice,
don't you? Greatly rejoice. This is how you know God's people
too. The hope and rejoicing of the
hope unto the end. They're going to be rejoicing
in the gospel until the day they die. That's how you go. It never
grows old. It's always brand new. It's always
new. Good news to a sinner. You rejoice in Him, though for
a season. A little while, if need be. You're
in heaviness through manifold. That's many. Various. Trials,
temptations, tests for a season, if need be. It's just seasonal. Seasonal. But all of God's people
go through various, many continual trials and troubles. God sends
them. If need be, it says. If need
be. As you've heard it said, if it
be. Whatever it may be, if it be,
it need be, or it wouldn't be. Right? All things working together
according to His will and His purpose for good. If it be, whatever
it be, whatever we go through, it needs be or it wouldn't be. God doesn't do anything needlessly.
It's all good. It's all according to his purpose
that he purposed in Christ before the world began. Everything about
you, down to the number of hairs on your head. You've certainly
got your days numbered, your trials numbered, the severity
of it, the kind of it, every one of God's people. But these
trials are heavy, aren't they? They're heavy. And everyone in
here, every one of God's people have gone through and go through.
Don't you feel like sometimes you're constantly under some
kind of heaviness? You know what I'm saying. And verse 7 says it's a trial.
It's a trial of your faith. Faith must be tried, Jews. We
don't walk by sight. It's easy to say you believe
by sight, and it's easy to say you believe when everything's
going well. Right? And that's false religion. I've got to say it because that's
the difference. They say, God wants you to be
healthy, wealthy, and wise. And then when something bad happens,
God doesn't want that to happen. That's what they're saying. No,
no, no, it's the opposite. The truth is the opposite. God's people God's purpose is not for you
to be physically healthy all the time and materially wealthy
and happy all the time. No, it's the moral of your sin.
It's to be rich toward God in faith. It's to know something
of the unsearchable riches of Christ, right? And He sends these
trials to make us trust Him, to look to Him, like the children
of Israel. Bring them out. He's bringing
them out, showing them that you don't want to stay here. It's
a trial of your faith. And you don't know true faith
until it's tried, like a boat. You can put a boat on a farm
pond. Boy, it looks good, doesn't it? But until it goes through
a storm, deep waters, you don't know if it's true. See, this
is true faith. When something bad happens, here's
true faith. When something evil, what the
world calls evil, happens, and the Lord takes someone, or the
Lord sends some terrible trial, and religion says, God didn't
want that to happen. No, here's saving faith. Here's
the faith of God's elect. This bears testimony to God and
His grace. They say, like Job, no, no, no,
the Lord sent all, even my enemies. Everybody died and the Lord did
it. Everything that happened, the Lord did it because He's
the Lord. And everything He did to me has
got to be good or He wouldn't have done it. That's faith. How can you say that? Because
I believe God. That it shall be even as He has
said. And I'm just waiting and we're going
to see. The trial of your faith, you
see, is more precious than gold. Saving faith is more precious.
It's precious faith that Peter in the second letter says to
you who have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness
of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. It's precious, so precious. People think things are precious.
No, people. Salvation is precious. Precious. More precious than gold. It's
perishing. Though it be tried with fire,
our faith is going to be tried with fire. I want to preach so
badly on those three Hebrews in the furnace. So badly. Threatened to go and put you
in the fiery furnace. Says that about seven or eight
times, the fiery furnace, the fiery furnace, the fiery furnace.
They said, okay. I got to go on. Fire. Painful. Fire is painful. Everyone
in here had been burned. The son of the grave had been
burned. Your flesh, what's it do? It burns your flesh. It's
painful to the flesh. It burns away the flesh, and
it's painful. This is meant to burn away the
dross, the flesh. It might be found under praise
and honor and glory at the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, whom,
having not seen, you love. Do you not love the Lord Jesus
Christ? No? In whom, though now you see
Him not yet believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full
of glory. The joy you can't put into words
and full of glory. Oh my, receiving the end of your
faith. The reason for all this is the
salvation of your soul. Paul wrote of the glorious manifestation
of the sons of God. He said, you just wait. It's going to be wonderful. Brother
Cody walked into glory to a thundering ovation. Not, you know, not to his praise
and glory, but to the great love and happiness of God's people
and the Lord Himself when one of His own comes home. The end of our salvation, the
salvation of our soul, the end of your faith. Which salvation,
he goes on in verses 10 through 12, To say the prophets inquired
of and wrote about, and those that preached the gospel preached
from those. They didn't know. It says when
they were writing their prophecies, which were of Christ, they didn't
really fully understand. They knew it was the Christ to
come. I love thinking about David sitting out there on the hillside
writing Psalm 22. Psalm of the Cross. My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? I gave my cheeks to them that
plucked the hair, my back to the smiters. That never happened
to David. But he's writing that. And the
Spirit of God is telling him to write that. That's the Psalm
of the Cross. And he says, I know this is talking
about Christ. When He's coming, I don't know.
Psalm 23. The Psalm of the Shepherd, he
started writing that. He couldn't write fast enough.
He said, I know, like Job said, I know my Redeemer liveth and
He's going to stand on this earth. And Job said it and David said
it. I said, I don't know when that's going to be, but I know
it's going to be. And then those that came preaching
the Gospel said, He's here. He's here. We told you. David
told you. Isaiah told you. Moses told you. He was coming. He came. And we're
telling you this, He's coming again. Though the whole world
says, where is the promise of His coming? We don't see Him.
God's people say, we do. They say, we don't hear Him.
Let Him speak and we'll believe Him. He has. He does. And we
hear Him. Oh my. Verse 13, so He says,
gird up the loins of your mind. Gird up the loins of your mind.
Back then, they wore long robes. If they were doing any work or
walk or run, they would gird up, tie up their clothing about
them so that there wouldn't be a hindrance to them. So they
could walk freely. So they could run if need be.
So they could work. But we've got a race to run.
Gird up the loins of your mind. When you gird something up, you
keep some falling out. There's a girder in it. He said,
gird up the loins of your mind. Don't you let your mind run wild. Don't let it go after the things
of this world. Be sober. Have your mind set
on one thing. Your mind's eye set on one thing.
Don't look to the right. Don't look to the left. Gird
up the loins of your mind. And don't let your mind go wild. Don't listen to all the voices. Don't listen to the noise and
pestilence. Gird up the loins of your mind. How? The girdle
of truth. Are you with me? So many voices. There's never been more voices
than today. Everybody's got something to say. Gird up the loins of
your mind with this truth. You listen to what your fathers
say. You listen to what our Lord's saying. And don't listen to anybody
else. You hear me? I didn't say that.
The Lord said that. Because your mind will run wild.
You'll lose it. You'll lose your mind. Gird up.
Be sober. Don't be inebriated with anyone,
anything or anyone. Be intoxicated with anything
or anyone. Why? Because you're going to
lose it. And hope, verse 13, hope to the
end for the grace. See, that's what this is about.
True grace. The grace of God that's to come
to you, the gift that's to be brought unto you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ. Oh my, there's not enough time
to talk about this. But as obedient children, look
at these verses, as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves
according to the former lusts. Chapter 2, he says, they think
it's strange. You don't run with them through
the same excess of riot and all that. Chapter 4. But obedient
children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts
or desires or longings in your ignorance, but as He which hath
called you is holy. Holy means consecrated, separated,
set apart for God. Be ye holy. in all manner of
conversation. Be holy, as it is written, be
ye holy, for I am holy. You say, I thought God's people
are holy in Christ. Well, they are. They're complete
in Him. They're perfect in Him. They're
righteous in Him. Yeah. Well, then why does He tell us
to be what we already are? What He's saying here is, and
He said this is what the preacher of the gospel in chapter 4 of
Ephesians said, that we might grow up into Him and all things.
Grow up into the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
in all things. Be like Him. You're in Him. You've got a new man in Him.
Be like Him. Or you tell your son, you're
going to tell your boys already, be a man. Well, he is a man. That's what he is. But you tell
them anyway, be a man. Act like a man. Don't act like
you're of this world. Put that old man down. Put on
that new man. Be holy. I'm holy. Read on. Because, and it says
in all manner of conversation, that's why, because if you call
on the Father, verse 17, who without respect to persons judgeth
according to every man's work, past the time of your sojourning
here in fear. People, there's no other way
to look at that. than what is written. Barnard
used to say, he doesn't say what you think it means, he says what
it says. Thou God seeth me. Past the time. Every man's work. Aren't you
glad that Christ did the work for us? Aren't you glad that
even our works are under the blood of Christ? Pass the time of your sojourning
here in fear. For as much as you know, you
know this, you weren't redeemed with corruptible things, silver
and gold. And your vain conversation at
former religion you had and morality you thought, you know, God surely
accepts this. No, sir. Accepted and abloved. That vain religion you have received
by tradition from your fathers, passed down to you. No, no. You're
redeemed one way. You're bought with one thing,
with a precious blood, verse 19, with the precious blood of
Christ. Sins put away by Christ, who
is the Lamb without blemish and without spot, who barely, truly
was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but manifest, revealed
in these last times for you. Who? You. Who? Verse 21, who by Him, another
place Paul said, by Him I say, not who decided, but who by Him
do believe in God. Our Lord kept telling His disciples
that, reminding them, didn't He? You didn't choose me. I chose
you. But you should bear proof. I've
come for you. I've come to reveal the Father
for you. No man knows the Father but the Son, and He to whom the
Son will reveal. I've come to reveal the Father to you. I've
chosen you. I call you friends. Why? Because you are my friend. Everybody's
not. But if you know who God is, who
Christ is, believe the true God and the true Christ, you do it
by Him. He gave you this grace, this
faith, saving faith. God that raised Him up from the
dead, and He raised you too with Him, and gave Him glory, and
you're glorified with Him, that your faith and hope might be
in God. What's your hope of salvation?
Where's all your faith? Really? Now, it's in God. It's in Christ. Christ alone. All your faith, all your hope,
Christ is all our hope of salvation. Now, see, you have purified your
souls in obeying the truth. Made righteous by believing. Not doing. Don't you love...
Let's go into Romans. Let's go over there real quick.
There's not enough time. Paul one time preached all night.
I ain't going to do it. I ain't going to do it. I'm determined
to not preach more than 35 minutes. I'm 33. I've got to go. Purify
your souls. He said you're redeemed, you're
justified by faith, not works, by faith, by just trusting Christ. Pure. Made holy, unblameable
through Christ. By the Spirit, through the Spirit,
Him revealing Christ to you and born again unto unfeigned love
of the brethren. John wrote of this, that there's
a true love, a true love, not a fake love. It's unfeigned love,
true love, sincere love of the brethren. By this shall all men
know you're my disciple. Christ did. You really do love
the brethren, though the world hates them. We're going to look
at this in Peter. You're going to be persecuted
for the truth. If you're not, you're not telling the truth.
This whole book is about that. But the brethren, oh, you love
the brethren because you love the same God. You have the same
Father. And you love one another. So
he says, see that you do that. See that you love one another
with a pure heart, fervently, actively. Don't just say it.
Show it. Do it. Express it. Servants want
to know, true love, being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever. You're not born of some silly
decision you've made, or even of your faith, but by the powerful,
life-giving Word of the living God, the gospel of our salvation.
All flesh is grass. All the glory, all the works
of man, says the flower of the grass, the grass withereth, and
the flower thereof falleth away. Everything in this world and
everyone in this world is going to perish. But now the Word of
the Lord endureth forever. Aren't you
glad, people? Aren't you glad that when our
bodies are laid, the bodies of our loved ones are laid in the
grave, We're not going to see them again on this earth. We're
not going to see them again. We're not going to tell them
how many years it's going to be. We're going to be with after
them. We lay that body in the grave. But they believed God. They believed Christ. Their hope
was in Him and your hope was in Him too. Aren't you glad?
Where do you get your hope? Where do you get your peace?
Where do you get your comfort? Where do you get your assurance
that you're going to see that person again? Where do you get
your comfort in that heaviness which you're going through? Where
do you get it? Right here. The Word of God. Job said this, I know this is
going to happen, worms are going to destroy my body, but in my
flesh I'm going to see God. My eyes are going to see, not
another. And we're going to see one another. How do you know
that, preacher? Because God said so. Well, who's going to be there?
Those that trust Christ. Not work, trust. And so you can smile. The Word of the Lord endureth
forever. He said heaven and earth will
pass away. Everything is going to pass away, but not one word
of mine shall fail. Not one promise I've given you.
Not one thing I've said to you is untrue. It's all true. You can rest your soul right
there. In fact, you ought to. The Word
of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the Word. which by
the Gospel is preached unto you, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Stand with me. Our Heavenly Father, thank You
for this blessed, blessed Word, blessed promises. We are kept
by Thy Word. We are born again by Thy Word.
We grow by Thy Word. We feed upon it. Comforted by
Your Word. Oh, how we thank You for Your
Word. And that Word was made flesh. We don't merely trust the Bible,
but we look to Christ who came and was made flesh. The Word made flesh and walked
among us. Paul, the promises of God we
see in him. So true. Yea, amen. to the glory
of God the Father by us. We know and believe and are sure
that He is to Christ our hope, our salvation. And because He
lives, we live also. Raised from sin and death. Oh my, how we thank You for Your
blessed Word. Enable us to continue to walk
by faith and look to Christ Enable me to continue to preach this
same gospel to the praise of the glory of Thy true grace. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.