I think we've sung that hymn
before. We sang it at 13th Street where I grew up. One word I would have changed,
life is offered unto you. I didn't catch that, John. I would have changed that. The
Lord doesn't offer life, He gives life. He creates life. But the
message is good. Look. Luke and Liam. Go back to Judges 13 now. Judges 13. This is the story
of a certain man. I love it when Scripture talks
about certain men and women. A certain man and his wife chosen
by God to hear His voice, to see His glory. And that describes most people
in this room. You're not here by your own choice. You're not here by your own will. The lot, Scripture says, is cast
into the lap. You say, what am I going to do? But it says the whole disposing
thereof is of the Lord. And so you're not here by your
will, by your choice, or by chance. You're here by divine appointment. And how blessed you are. How
blessed we are that the Lord has brought us here in spite
of ourselves. If left to ourselves, if left
to our will and our flesh, we would not be here. We would not. So how blessed we are. Look at
verse 2. It says, there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of
the Danites, whose name was Manoah. I'm just going to call him the
man from here on out, and his wife, the man and his wife. And
his wife was Barah and Baranah, a certain man, and Manoah, the
man and his wife. Now, her name is not given. That's
the reason I want to just drop his name. The man and his wife. Her name is not given. She's
unknown to us, but the Lord sure knew her. And that's the only
important thing, and the Lord knows us, so all else don't.
But like the rest of the children of Israel, look at verse 1. The
children of Israel did evil again. again in the sight of the Lord.
Children of Israel were God's chosen people, but they were
sinners, weren't they? And that's us. And they did evil
again in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord delivered them into
the hands of the Philistines to war against them and to trouble
them. My, my. But God must have loved
and chose Manoah and his wife because of three things he did
for them. And he's done these same three
things for many in this room, if not most. How blessed we are. It says in verse 3, the angel
of the Lord. Now, we've preached on this several
times. And I think it was just a couple
of years ago. I didn't even look. I didn't care. I didn't care
if it was two months ago. Because it was either Dad or
Gabe, one, mentioned, just briefly mentioned Manoah in their message
and made me go back and read it. And I was just smitten with
it again. So I hope the Lord will bless
it again. We need that. The angel of the
Lord here in verse 3 that we read about all through this story,
the angel means messenger. And I believe, and I'm quite
sure that this is another appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm
quite certain of that. Verse 18, it says, The angel
of the Lord said to Manoah when he asked him his name, Why do
you ask thus after my name, seeing it is secret? And the word is
wonderful. And if you go to Isaiah 9, 6,
where it says, Call His Name Wonderful, it's the exact same
word. Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Call His Name Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting
Father. Same exact word. My name, He said, is secret. It's wonderful. And then in verse
19, When Manoah offered that kid
upon the rock, the angel did wondrously. Manoah and his wife
looked on. They looked on what the angel
did, the messenger did. In verse 20, when the flame went
up from the altar, the angel got right into that flame of
that lamb that was being burnt as a burnt offering unto the
Lord, the angel of the Lord got right in that flame and ascended
up to heaven in that flame. Now, no ordinary angel would
dare get near that sacrifice. Not Gabriel, not Michael, no
angel at all. This had to be the Lord Jesus
Christ. And Manoah himself said, we've
seen God. We've seen God. An angel of mercy
is who this was, sent to two sinners with a message of mercy
and salvation, a message of life for a look. We sang that. Look
and live. And the Lord spoke to these two
certain sinners. He spoke to the woman first.
Do you notice that? He spoke to the woman first.
Why did He do that? Because God hath chosen the weak
things. A woman is called a weaker vessel.
In this case, she certainly wasn't weaker in faith. She was stronger
in faith. Nevertheless, the Lord calls the woman the weaker vessel.
And God had chosen the weak things to confound the things that are
mighty. And the Lord spoke to this woman. And He said to her
in verse 3, the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman
and said unto her, first thing, Behold now, thou art barren. And this whole story, don't think
about the story itself so much as what it represents. Alright?
This represents the story of salvation. This is what the Lord
comes and says to every chosen man and woman that He speaks
to. Every certain woman. Every woman
that the Lord saves, He comes to and He says this. The first
thing He says to them, the angel of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ,
He said, My sheep, hear My voice. He comes to every single woman
He's chosen and says, You're barren. You're fruitless. You can't produce anything, can
you? This was not an insult, it's just so. He's not adding
insult to injury, is he? She knows she's barren, but he's
reminding her, you have nothing, you are nothing, you're empty,
you're fruitless, you can't produce anything, you have no life in
you, do you? That's what the Lord, through
the preaching of the Gospel, first says to every chosen woman. You're dead in trespassing sin. You don't have life. But you're
going to have life. Because I've come to give you
life. I've come that you might conceive
life. So we're not born of blood or
the will of the flesh or the will of man, but born of God.
Born of incorruptible seed, the Word of God that liveth and abideth
forever by His Word. She heard the angel of the Lord
tell her that she was barren. And our Lord told Nicodemus and
tells us, you must be born again. Christ must be formed in you.
Christ in you is your hope of glory. And you can't do it. Only
God does. But he says, Thou shalt conceive.
Listen to this. I just tried to quote it to you,
but let me quote it to you fully. Peter said this in 1 Peter 1.
You're elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
through sanctification of the Spirit, under obedience and sprinkling
of the blood of Jesus Christ." That's what these two people
are going to be a part of, this lamb, this kid, this burnt offering.
"...Grace unto you, and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His
abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope."
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And he
goes on to say, you're born again, not of corruptible seed, but
of incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abideth
forever. That's what he came to tell this
woman. You're barren, but you're going
to have life. You're going to have life. In verse 6, we'll
not deal with this Nazarite. That's maybe another message. about Samson. If you want to
hear it, tell me. Maybe we'll look at it. Verse
6, the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God
came unto me. Now she doesn't know that this
is the Lord. She doesn't know that it's really
an angel of the Lord. Neither did Manoah. But this
man, who came to them with this wonderful message of life, of
hope in a time of captivity and great sin and misery. This man
that came to them with such a wonderful message of hope and deliverance. He talked about a Deliverer coming
and life will be given them. The woman and the man esteemed
this angel, though they thought it was just a man, they esteemed
him so highly. They esteemed him so highly.
Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, they didn't know that
was the Lord. They just thought it was a preacher.
But because his message was so wonderful, and they wanted him
to stay with them that night, they didn't know it was the Lord.
I said, stay with us. Will you stay with us? And I
just read in Hebrews 13, it says, Be careful to entertain strangers.
Some have entertained angels unaware. Some of you had the
privilege to have men in your house, preachers of the gospel,
and the Lord calls them angels. Because this is how you hear
the gospel. This is how the Lord is pleased. to bring the gospel
to every chosen sinner. And when you hear the gospel,
you're so grateful, aren't you? So grateful. And she ran to her
husband and said, a man came unto me, a man of God, came unto
me. His countenance was like the
countenance of an angel of God, very terrible. But I asked him
not whence he was, neither told me he, me, his name. But he told
me what to do. Told me we'd have a child and
told me what to do about it. She told her husband. You know,
often the Lord speaks to a woman first and then to her husband. As a matter of fact, in my experience
as a member of the church, it's probably, when you say most
of the time, it's a woman first. That's just the way it is. The
Lord used my wife to bring me to hear the gospel. Right, Tammy? And on and on it goes. That's
most of the time. That's the way it is. The Lord
often speaks to a woman first, who then goes home to tell her
husband. There are several in here, I
believe. Like I said, I'm one of them. The woman at the well. Do you remember her? The woman
at the well. The Lord appeared to her. What
did she do? She dropped her water pot and
she ran and told whoever she could find. And then that came
and they heard the Lord and they believed. That's the way it is. So here's what I'm trying to
tell you ladies. Run home and tell your husband
what you hear tonight, okay? I'm serious. I'm very serious. If your husband's not here, I'm
very serious. You go tell him what you heard tonight. The Lord
may use that. He did with Manoah's wife, with
the woman. He did with her. You run home
and tell that man. Well, in verse 8, she told Manoah,
her husband, and the man entreated the Lord, called on the Lord,
said, Oh my Lord, Let the man of God, which thou didst sin,
come again." I want to hear him myself. The man entreated the
Lord. He called on the Lord. The Scripture
says, Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Oh, that our unsaved spouses
would entreat the Lord. Huh? Oh, that they would entreat
the Lord. Call on the Lord. If they would,
Lord save them. God heard Manoah. God heard the
man. Verse 9, God hearkened to the voice of Manoah. He heard
him. Will the Lord hear us, sinner?
He sure will. Everyone that calls upon Him
in truth, the Lord will, in sincerity and in truth, In the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ, Lord, save me. Lord, save me. A sister was busy with us one
time recently, talking to us about her husband. She sat in
these services and heard the Gospel and said she would hear
him out in the garage wailing, she said. wailing, crying unto
the Lord to have mercy on a sinner. I believe he did. I know he did. The Lord saved a sinner that
asked for mercy. Every single one. She heard him all the time wailing.
And I remember him saying, well, you reckon the Lord would have
mercy on a sinner like me? The Lord did. The Lord took him
shortly thereafter. The Lord hearkened to the voice
of Manoah. The angel of the Lord came again
to the woman. He came to the woman. I hope you don't take this for
granted, ladies. I hope you don't take this for granted. He keeps
coming back to you. I hope you don't. This is too
precious. It's too rare, too valuable,
it can be taken away awfully easily. The Lord came back to
the woman again as she sat in the field, but no, her husband
was not with her. And what did the woman do? She
ran back home to tell her husband. What did she tell him? What did
he tell her? The same exact thing as he told
her the first time. And people, I don't have anything
new to say to you tonight. Some of you heard this message
three or four times from me, let alone other men. I don't
have anything new to tell you. But the right to say the same
things to you is not grievous to me. This is what rejoices
my heart. I say with Manoah, would you
send the man again? Tell me the same things. I want
to hear the same exact Gospel message. Tell me the same thing. You know, the Lord came to Mary
Magdalene, out of whom He cast out seven devils. And then our
Lord was crucified and arose. And you know who He appeared
to first, don't you? Mary Magdalene. What did Mary
Magdalene do? She ran home and told her disciples.
Come, he's here, he's back, and they believe not. Believe not. As I said, God has chosen the
weak things. You know, we have this treasure
in earthen vessels. I'm just a man, I'm a weak man,
I'm a sinner, no better than you, no stronger than you. We
have this treasure in earthen vessels, but the excellence of
the power is of God, not of man. When Manoah arose, verse 11,
he arose and went after his wife. Can a man follow a woman? If
she's following Christ, he should. He needs to listen to her. He
needs to listen to her. Manoah, the man, had a godly
wife. He had a believing wife. He sure
needed to follow her, didn't he? She was a strong believer. We're going to see in a minute.
So Manoah arose and went after his wife, followed his wife,
and came to the Lord himself and said, Art thou the man that
speaketh unto the woman? He said, I am. I am that I am. Like our Lord said to the woman
at the well, when she said, When Messiah has come, he'll tell
us all things. And our Lord said, I that speaketh
unto thee, am. Dropped her water pot. Are you the man? The angel of
the Lord just repeated, the Lord Himself repeated back to Manoah
all that He said. Verse 12, Manoah said, Let thy
words come to pass. How shall we order the child?
How shall we do unto him? And the angel of the Lord said
unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman, let her beware. She may not eat of anything that
cometh of the vine, either let her drink wine or strong drink,
or eat any unclean thing. All that I command her, let her
observe." And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray
Thee, let us detain Thee, stay with us, tarry with us, till
we've made ready a kid for Thee. He's talking about fixing him
supper. He said, would You stay and eat
with us? will kill a kid and you eat with a... And verse 16,
the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, though thou detain me,
I will not eat of thy bread. And if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew
not that he was an angel of the Lord. And Manoah said unto the
angel of the Lord, what is thy name? that when thy sayings come
to pass, we may do thee honor. The angel of the Lord said unto
him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?"
Does this sound familiar? Jacob, the angel of the Lord,
Christ, came to Jacob and wrestled with him one night. And Jacob
asked him his name. He said, Why are you asking my
name? What's your name? This is the Lord. My name is
secret. My name is wonderful. So Manoah
took a kid with a meat offering and did as the Lord told him,
offer it unto the Lord. And there was a rock there. There
was a rock there. And he offered it upon a rock
unto the Lord. A kid. A rock. A lamb. A rock. He slit that lamb's throat
and poured out that blood. offered that lamb's body as a
burnt offering unto the Lord. And it says, the angel of the
Lord did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on. And what they saw was, when the
flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, the angel of the
Lord entered into that flame of the altar, and Manoah and
his wife looked on. They're gazing at them. Salvation is in a look. Salvation is in a look. Back
in Numbers 21, when the people were bitten with fiery serpents
and they were dying, and the Lord told Manoah, you
fashion a serpent of brass like unto the serpent that bit the
people. And the serpents were sent by
God because of their sin. And they were dying because of
their sin, rebellion against God, from this serpent bite.
And this is a picture of sin, Satan and sin, and how
our sin against God was going to kill us unless we
have a substitute. Alright, the people were bitten
by these fiery serpents. And the Lord told Moses to fashion
a serpent like unto the serpent that bit them, like the sin. A serpent of brass, and hold
it up on a pole. And the Lord said, everyone that's
bitten, everyone that's bitten, when he looketh, shall live. Just look, and you'll live. Everyone is bitten. Our Lord said, look unto Me and
be ye saved. All the ends of the earth. Everyone. If you're bitten, look unto Me
and all the ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for I am God. There is none else. There is
no Savior. Look. Looking unto Jesus. Hebrews 12.2. Sin. The author and finisher
of our faith. Scripture says He was made sin
for us who knew no sin. The sin that bit us. The sin
that will kill us. God made Christ to be sin and
put Him on Calvary's tree and hung Him up. And there's life
for a look. Just look. I have a message from
the Lord. Hallelujah! A message unto you
I give. It's recorded in His Word. Hallelujah! It's only that you look and live. Look and live, my brother, live. Look to Jesus Christ right now
and live. It's recorded in His Word. Hallelujah! It's only that you look and live. I have a hard time doing." But
thank God, he said, hallelujah, he said, look, I can do that. I can do that. Look. Not do,
look. Because it's done. What does
it mean to look? Manoah and his wife looked on.
They looked on. To look means to have a need. Like a beggar. Blind Bartimaeus
was blind, but he was looking. He was blind. He couldn't see
anything. But he heard Jesus of Nazareth
was passing by. He didn't know where he was,
but he was looking. And he cried. It's to look as
a beggar for need. It's to look with desire, with
longing, like the woman Lord, help me. Lord, help me. It's to look with total dependence
like a dog looks to its master. Have you ever thought of how
dependent a dog is? Huh? A dog would die without
you. A dog depends on you for its
food, for its water, for its freedom, for its direction, for
its safety. It's protection. A dog depends
on you. A dog doesn't protect you. You protect it from killing
itself. Like a dog looks to its master.
That's what it means to look. Look unto me, the Lord said.
Look unto me and be you saved. Oh, the ends of the earth. Well,
they looked on. And the angel of the Lord, and
they fell on their faces to the ground. The angel of the Lord,
verse 21, did no more appear to Manoah and his wife. Like
our Lord Jesus Christ, he went back to glory. He'd been gone
a long time now, hadn't he? But he said all that needed to
be said, didn't he? He did all that needed to be
done, didn't he? Huh? Anything more needed to
be done? Did the angel need to tell these
two anything more? Did they need to see anything
new? No, no. They saw all they needed to see.
They saw the burnt offering. They saw the Lord accept it.
They heard His voice. Nothing more needs to be said. Neither do we need anything else.
But Manoah, bless his heart. I like that. Manoah knew that
it was the angel of the Lord. And Manoah said unto his wife,
We're going to die. We shall surely die. Because we've seen God. We've
seen God. Once again, this is what Jacob
said there in Genesis 32. After Jacob wrestled with the
Lord, the Lord wrestled with Jacob. After that meeting, the
Lord left. Jacob said, I've seen God and
my life is preserved. I'm living. I'm still living. There must be hope for me. Gideon. Gideon. The Lord came to Gideon. And
Gideon said, Alas, I've seen God. And the Lord said unto him,
Fear not. Peace. You won't die. This is
the same Lord, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and
forever. But I tell you what, everyone
that really sees the Lord is going to do what Noah did. and
his wife are going to fall on their faces. Everyone that really
meets the God of the Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ, everyone
that really meets the Lord Jesus Christ is going to fear Him and
is going to think, He's going to kill me. Fear of the Lord
is the beginning of wisdom. And if someone doesn't say that,
if someone is really People, until a person sees God, the
living and true God, the holy, just, who by no means clear the
guilty, and Christ, our God who is a consuming fire and the sovereign
Christ, until they see Him, until they really hear His voice, they're
going to sit and hear and they're not going to hear a thing, and
they're going to be unmoved and unshaken and unworried and unbelieving. They're going to go out this
door saying, good sermon, preacher. I know it's so because it's some
that hear sit time and again, that's all. It's a good sermon
preacher. They go home just as lost as they did before. But
if a person ever really meets the God of the Bible, ever really
meets the Lord Jesus Christ, if they ever really hear His
voice and understand the reason Manoah said, God's going to kill
us, because Manoah knew he was a sinner, just like the rest
of the Israelites. He's a sinner. Manoah wasn't
better than anybody else. He's an Israelite. He sinned
against God. And he thought, I'm a sinner,
I deserve to die, I've seen God, He's going to kill me now. And
anybody who has really seen the God of the Bible, this is the
first thing, the conclusion they come to. I don't deserve to live.
God's going to send me to hell. That's why that was Hooker Stanley
that was moaning and groaning. He's going to kill this old sinner.
I've got good news for you. Everybody thinks that. There
ain't no way God's going to kill you. No way. Now those that presume, those
that don't fear, those that have no fear of God before their eyes,
He just might kill you. He just might. The gospel message. The Lord
used this woman to tell this man the truth, to preach the
gospel as good a gospel message as anybody could ever hear. This
woman started to entitle this, The Gospel Preached by a Woman.
This is one of the greatest messages ever preached. One of the shortest
in all the Bible. Here's what she concluded. Here's
what she told her husband. who feared that the Lord was
going to kill them both. We've seen God, and we're going
to die. But she said unto him, verse
23, his wife said unto him, if the Lord were pleased to kill
us, send us to hell, he would not
have received a burnt offering and a meat offering in our hands. If the Lord were pleased to kill
us, If the Lord God, who is a consuming fire, were pleased to kill us,
He would not have sent His only Son to this earth to be a sin
offering, a sacrifice, and a lamb slain for sinners who call upon
Him for mercy. He would not have sent His Son
to suffer the fiery wrath of hell for whosoever that believeth. He wouldn't have done that. And
whosoever believeth, the Scripture says, is accepted. Accepted in the beloved. The
fire fell on that sacrifice, that kid. And the Lord accepted
that the way, how that Manoah and his wife knew that the Lord
accepted that burnt offering was, the angel got in it and
ascended up to glory. The fire didn't fall on them,
it fell on the Sacrifice. And the angel went up into it.
And the fire of hell fell on the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary's
tree. And if you look to Him, if you
believe Him and trust Him, God's not going to kill you. He killed
His Son. He that spared not His own Son,
how shall He not with Him freely give us all things? Who shall
lay anything in the charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies.
Who is he that condemns? Christ should die. Christ should
die. And though we are sinners, and
though God is a consuming fire, God accepted Christ's sacrifice
on behalf of every single sinner that just looks. Every single
sinner that says, I sure hope He did that for me. I hope He
won't kill me. I've got good news for you. There's
no way He's going to kill you. No way He's going to cast you
out. Then she said, if God were pleased
to kill us, He would not have received the burnt offering. Christ wouldn't have come to
be made a burnt offering, a sin offering, made sin for us. God wouldn't have accepted His
sacrifice on behalf of sinners if God were pleased to kill us.
Neither would He have showed us all these things. What things
have we seen? Are you kidding me? Do you know that most people
don't have a clue what Noah's Ark is? Most people don't have a clue
what the woman's seed is. Most people don't have a clue,
do they, about the smitten rock? Most people don't have a clue.
The book of Ruth, and on and on it goes. Most people don't
have a clue about the things of Scripture. But what has the
Lord shown us? And our children. I could preach
a message from Emma's notes. I could preach a message. Her
notes are so meticulous. Meticulous notes of all my messages.
These kids are learning the Gospel. The Lord is showing us wonderful
things from a child. Scriptures are able to make us
wise unto salvation. Oh, how the Lord has showed us,
huh? He showed us Himself. Most people
don't have a clue about God. They think God is like a man.
Man is a God. How blind can you be? What has
God shown us? He has shown us Himself. God,
holy, sovereign. Most people think you let God
be God. Are you kidding? How blind can
you be? What has God shown us? This is
the first thing God has shown us. Oh, how He has shown us. How many messages have we heard?
Glorious messages, wonderful messages of our sovereign God
reigning and ruling, rejoicing our heart, giving us peace, giving
us comfort. How many messages? And most people
don't have a clue. That's the reason there's no
fear of God before their eyes. God has shown us all these things. He's shown us Himself. He's shown
us ourselves. Most people think that there's
something they can do to earn heaven. You know that? Most people
think it's their faith that's going to get them to heaven. Oh, what all God has shown us. Shown us ourselves, how we're
sinful, barren, hopeless, helpless, chosen, redeemed, preserved. Oh, God has shown
us the Lamb. Ask the average person their
hope of heaven, and it will begin with, I. Every time, I. But ask every single redeemed,
every single one that God has shown Christ and Him crucified,
and they'll all give you the same answer. It's the blood. It's the blood that makes the
atonement for the soul. Why will God pass over you in
mercy and not wrath? Why would He pass over you? Because
He sees the blood. We ask our children that. We teach them that from a child. Oh, what all God has shown us.
The Lamb. Shown us His Word. The truth. Shown us His glory. No, God is
not going to kill us. He wouldn't have showed us all
these things. Nor, and she concludes, a three-point message, nor would
He, as at this time, told us such things as these. He wouldn't
have told them. God, who cannot lie, has promised. She said He wouldn't have promised. Husband, he wouldn't have promised
us that we're going to have a child if he's going to kill us. Why'd
he come tell us he's going to give us life if he's going to
kill us? Huh? And didn't our Lord Jesus
Christ say, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt
be saved. He that believeth on the Son hath life. He said, I give unto
them all that the Father giveth me shall come unto me. And him that cometh unto me I
will no wise cast out. And I give unto them eternal
life, and they shall never perish. He wouldn't have said that if
he didn't mean it. He said, I go to prepare a place
for you. If it were not so, I would have told you. I promise you. I promise you. There's life in
the Son. Whosoever believeth on me is saved. Promise after
promise after promise. Look. Believe. Promise of mercy. Promise of grace. Promise of
peace. Promise of pardon. Promise of forgiveness. Promise
of access to the Father. Boldness to enter in by faith. The Lord can't lie. He wouldn't
have told us this. He can't lie. He doesn't give
false hope. He doesn't give false hope. You
can depend on Him. You can believe Him. You can take Him at His
Word. He's not going to kill us. Well, right after she preached
that message, she had a baby. She could see. Oh, would that
God would do that. Go home and tell your husband,
okay? And maybe he'll start wailing. Maybe he'll start wailing. He
needs to hear this. He needs to hear this. Maybe
the Lord calls someone in here to hear it tonight. I pray it
so. Stand with me. Our Lord, how we thank You for
Your blessed Word. Thank You for the Gospel of our
salvation. Thank You for Christ and Him
crucified. Thank You for sending Him to
be made sin for us. Thank You for laying on Him the
iniquity of us all. Thank You for lifting Him high
up on Calvary's tree Whosoever believeth on Him would not perish,
but have eternal life. Thank You for the blessed promises.
Promise after promise after promise, O Lord, enable us to take You
at Your Word. We pray in Christ's name, Amen.