and 19 with me again, 2 Peter
1, 18 and 19. Simon Peter writes, This voice
which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the
holy mountain. We have also a more sure word
of prophecy, whereunto you do well, that you take heed as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and
the day star rise in your heart. Now, I'm quite sure that most
everyone in here has thought, has said this to themselves as
I have. I wish if only the Lord would
speak to me, I mean really speak out loud. To me. Just just. Speak to me. Show me a sign, a special sign. Is anybody beside me ever thought
that how many times? David said that one time, David
said. He said, it's time for you to
work, Lord. They've made void your law, in
other words, do something. And another place, David said,
oh, that I would rend the heavens and come down, come now. Right
now, Lord. The disciples. Said basically
the same thing when the Lord was leaving, they said to him. Show us the father. Just show
us the father. Let's have a special. John, they
went up on that mount and they saw him. And yet. That wasn't. Even that wasn't
enough. Show us the father and that'll
suffice. So we're not alone when we say
that, you know, the Lord would only speak to me. And. At the end of this, well, in
the middle, somewhere in this message, I want to try to answer
the question, why doesn't God speak out loud? Why doesn't God speak out loud
to us, audibly to us? Does that interest you? The Lord said to his disciples
there in that John 14, when they were so Frightened, he said,
Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father
in me? He said, The words that I speak
unto you, I speak not of myself, but God gave me. These are the
words of God. He's saying, and he said, Have
I been so long time with you and you haven't known me? the words. The Lord held up his
word to his disciples above everything. He said, all that I've told you
is the word of God. The word of God. Later, he's
praying to his father and he says in John 17, I have given
unto them the words that you've given me. And they, listen, and
they have received them, and they know surely that I came
out from thee, and they have believed." Why? The words, the Word, the Word
of God. What you have in your lap, if
God is pleased to use it, is the power of God. And he says he upholds all things
by the word of his power. He upholds all things by the
word. This is our subject. In a few
minutes, I'm going to try to answer that question. Why doesn't
God speak out loud? Everyone would like for him to.
We all think that. If only he would, then I would
really believe. I would really quit worrying.
I would be free from fear, I'd have such peace if he'd just
speak out loud to me right now. Well, all right, let's go back
to the first verse here in 2 Peter, all right? Simon Peter, servant, slave,
apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious
faith. with them that have obtained
that doesn't say attain but obtain that means it's been given to
you. It's given unto you to believe this like like means the same
the faith of God's elect all God's people believe the same
yes they do. There are no denominations in
his church. It's just the church. They have this like precious,
that means it's rare. Everybody doesn't have it's rare,
it's hard to find, precious means it's invaluable. How much does scripture say about
faith? Over and over and over, doesn't
it? Faith says we live by faith, we're justified by faith, it
says we walk by faith. In other words, we're going to
live in this world by faith, not sight. Faith. In what? Who? In God. We can't see him, though. In
his word. In his word. This is the word
of God. This is the word of God. Faith cometh how? By hearing. Hearing what? A voice from heaven. The Word of God, faith, faith
is confidence, faith is trust in the Lord, faith is peace,
faith is strength, faith is hope, faith is... We live by it. Where does it come from? Here in the Word of God. Nowhere
else. It doesn't come anywhere else.
It does not come anywhere else. What do you need by how much
faith do you have. How much faith do I have. Our
Lord said to his disciples. If you had faith. They had faith. He gave them faith. But he said
at the time it was so small. It wasn't even the size of a mustard
seed. They had it. He gave it to him. He said, you believe in God.
You do. I revealed him to you. You believe also in me. All right. Faith cometh by hearing the word.
Look at verse two. Grace and peace be multiplied
unto you through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. Grace. All grace. Faith's a gift. Hope is a gift, grace. Strength
is a gift, grace. Wisdom comes from above. Courage,
patience. Name something that we have that
we don't receive that's not by grace. And it all comes from
who? The God of all grace. Grace and
peace. Peace. peace of mind. That's freedom
from fear and worry. Peace of heart. Freedom from
guilt and shame. Peace. Where does it come from? The God of all grace. From looking
to Christ who made peace. He is our peace. He is our peace.
You know, as long as the disciples were in the presence of the Lord,
they were at peace. They were free from fear. As
long as they could hear him, his word, they didn't have to
worry. They didn't have to worry. He
says, I'm leaving. Oh. He said, the words, the words,
I've given you the words. Put them in your heart, and it
will spring up when you need it. The words, the words I've
spoken of here. Precious promises. Look at the
next thing. His divine power has given us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness. His divine
power, the word of His power. God Almighty, through His word,
has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. You got a question you have a
question anything pertains to any matter you have it anything
where we going to find the answer. Has given us. All things that pertain unto
life and God's in this life and one to come. Living here how
we going to make it. Tells. How are we going to get to God?
He tells us. He tells us all things that pertain
to life and government. And look at this. Through the
knowledge of Him. Verse two, through the knowledge
of God and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Through the knowledge,
verse one, this faith, this knowledge of Him, our righteousness and
our Savior. Grace, peace, All the answers
and all are in knowing him. Knowing him. Who is all in him. Verse four, he says, and are
given unto us by his power are given unto us exceeding, exceeding
great and precious promises. Promises
that exceed anything you have ever heard or even can think.
exceeding great and precious. These are so precious that at
a time when there's nothing and no one else will do you any good
whatsoever. There's this precious this and
you'll think when you need that this is the most precious and
invaluable But there is nothing else you need but these precious
promises. That's what you say. And there
will come a time in every believer's life. There is in the beginning,
when you come as a guilty sinner, don't know if you're going to
be damned or saved, and you hear these precious promises. That's good news. You mean complete
pardon. The iniquities are gone, remembered
no more. My past is wiped out. Christ
put away my sin. Yes, that's the promise. And
God can't lie. Oh, that's so precious. To you
that believe, he is precious. Amen. So he says here that by
his divine power, by God's sovereign power, we have these wonderful
promises. Exceeding great and precious
promises that you might escape. You might be made like him. Escape the corruption. The destruction. The bondage and so forth is in
this world. Think about this for a minute
with me, OK? God's word, we have this word by his power. This
is God's word. I want to talk to you a little
bit about This that you have in your lap this morning. This
that you believe and all your hope and peace and so forth comes
from. Reading and here we have this
word, this book you have in your lap is a miracle in itself. The fact that we have it is a
miracle of God by his divine power, how it was written. This
thing was written on skins and animal skins. started thirty
five hundred years ago to be written on animal skins, which
have long perished. Afterward, in the New Testament,
it was written on paper, pulp. But those actual original manuscripts
are gone. They found a few rolls. You've heard of those dead sea
scrolls, haven't you? But the fact that we still have this
is by God's sovereign will and power. This was written, the
last entry in this book was nearly
2,000 years ago. Where are the books written by
men 2,000 years old? Anybody got one sitting around
that you read? 2,000 years old? The last entry in this book was
nearly 2,000 years ago. It was written over a period
of time, over 1,500 years. 1500 years, 1500 years by nearly 40
different men, most of them didn't know each other. Most of those
men did not know each other. It was written in a dead language,
Hebrew, Hebrew, nobody speaks Hebrew anymore. It's gone. There's just a few Hebrew scholars
out there, but nobody speaks it. They don't speak that in
Israel now. They don't speak Hebrew, they
speak Greek. When Alexander the Great came through, everybody
started speaking Greek. And nobody speaks Hebrew anymore.
This was written in Hebrew. But it's translated in over 190
languages. Forty different men, most of
them didn't know each other. And it tells the same exact story. In every jot and tittle, over
a period of 1,500 years, everybody's story exactly coincides, agrees. Men have tried to destroy this,
led by the God of this world. They've tried, powerful men and
nations, whole nations, kings have tried to destroy it. They
can't. They haven't. They've burned.
thousands upon thousands of book they can't get rid of it. Why? Well, God said, forever, O Lord,
thy word is settled in heaven. It's written. Just as soon as
they destroy it, God has them write another copy. That's what
they did to Jeremiah. Remember, they destroyed it,
and God said, write it again. They destroyed it and Moses broke
the Ten Commandments. God said, write it again. Put
it in that, John, put it in that ark and seal it up. They'll never
touch it. It's there forever. All the writers tell the same
story. What do they tell? What's the
story of this book? This is all about Jesus Christ. God Almighty wrote a book and
in it this whole book. Is all about the sun. The son
of God. God's beloved son. You have any. You have any pictures of your
family home. How many. Grandparents. Pictures your grandchildren you
have whole album. I guarantee you, you have a whole
album from cover to cover. It's just them. Right? Nobody else. That one grandchild.
This book, God Almighty. As one begotten, well-beloved
son, and he wrote a book about him. Pictures, Old Testament pictures,
types, symbols, pictures of his son. Look, isn't that picture
of my son? Isn't he beautiful? And this story of Jesus Christ
is the story of our salvation. Jesus Christ is the Savior, God's
Savior, our salvation. This whole book is about Him
who is God, our Savior. Jesus Christ, God that manifests
in the flesh. Look down at verse 16. Peter
says this is not a fable. He said, We have not followed
cunningly devised fables. He went on to say, Holy men spake
as they were moved, the Old Testament prophets. They were moved by
the Spirit of God. You remember the Ethiopian eunuch. He was reading Isaiah 53 and
the Lord sent Philip to him and he said, The eunuch said, I don't
understand what I'm reading here. Isaiah wrote this as he's talking
about himself, or who's he talking about? And Philip said he and
Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and Moses and all of them are
talking about one person, Jesus Christ, the son of God. Our Lord,
in whose hands all things are, our breath and all our ways,
and the only Savior, the only one whereby we, human beings,
mankind, sinful creatures, can be with God someday or ever.
That's what this book is about. Who? That's who this book is
about. That's right. To Him give all
the prophets witness, the prophets and the apostles. The foundation
of it all is Jesus Christ. That's the story of this book.
Peter says, this is no fable, read on. He said, when we made
known unto you, they went out preaching, making known, declaring
the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's what
they went out telling, the power They went out preaching a God
with all power, a son of God with all authority given into
his hands. It said over in Acts chapter
5, I believe it is, it says the Lord gave the apostles great
power to bear witness of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
You see, the Lord Jesus Christ of Scripture is indeed Lord That
means he's in sovereign control of all things. He said, all authority
is given unto me. That's the truth. It's not just
religion. That's the truth. Christ, a person,
a real person, a man who walked this planet, that was the God
who made this planet and is now sitting, reigning and ruling
over this planet. with it in his hands. And he
said, all authority is given unto me in heaven and earth.
Come unto me. This is no fable, Peter said.
This is no fable. When we made known unto you the
power and the coming of our... He came. This is the King of Glory of
whom David wrote in Psalm 24. Open up the gates, the King of
Glory is coming in, King of Kings, Lord of Lords. Who is He? Who
is He? It's the Lord Jesus Christ, that's
who He is. He came riding into Jerusalem
on a donkey one day, and they said, Who is this? It's the King
of Glory. It's of whom David wrote, of
whom the prophets wrote, of whom God wrote. King of kings, Lord
of lords, this is the Lord of whom Malachi said will suddenly
come to his temple. And who will abide the day of
his coming? Like fuller's soap or finer's
powder. Come with a sword. This is no
weak pitiful Jesus in man's hands. He came with men in his hands. engraving on the palms of his
hand. He came. This is no weak Jesus who can
only do what men let him do. This is the one who will work
and who will let him. This is the one who has all authority
over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as God has given
him. This is he, Peter said, he has all power. We made known
unto you the power and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
said, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. We saw him. John said, of whom we have seen
him. John wrote this. He was another
witness. He said, we've heard, we've seen
with our eyes, we've looked upon, we've handled life. The God in whose hand, the God
in whom we live and move in heaven. Life. We handled life. We looked
into the face of the Son, S-U-N, of righteousness. We saw God,
whom no man can see or hath seen. We saw Him. God. This goes along well with
last Sunday's message, doesn't it? Who is Jesus Christ? Every
message we preach is who is Jesus Christ, isn't it? Every message
we preach, we have no other message. Peter said, I'm a messenger,
apostle of Jesus Christ. He's the message. We're out to
declare who Christ is, who he is, what he's done. That's the
radio message, wasn't it? Who he is, what he's done, where
he is now, what he shall do. He's coming again. This is no
fable. It's no fable. Peter said we saw him. John said
we saw him. Paul wrote of whom he was seen
of over 500 people at one time alive. He was dead, but he said,
I'm alive. You can't kill me. I'm God. We saw him go to glory in a chariot
of clouds. And he said, I'm coming again.
His majesty. Who is this? It's his majesty.
Take your hat off when you say that. Take your shoes off. We're
talking about his majesty. The regal and royal king of glory,
a son, a crown prince of glory, his majesty. We saw him. We heard
him. Peter said, I've got to hurry.
It's good what's said so far, isn't it? Good? Verse 17, he
says, He received from God the Father honor and glory. That's
because he's honorable. That's because he's glorious.
That's because he's lovely. God sees all together love. This
is my son. I love the thought that God admired
his son so much. God who doesn't speak, didn't
speak for so long, spoke out loud. Couldn't contain himself,
Nancy. This is my beloved son in whom
I'm well pleased. Give Him glory. Give Him honor.
He's worthy of it. Oh, and if only you knew why
He came for you, you'd do that. I'm going to make you know. I'm
going to make you know. And you'll be singing about Him
and Him only from here on. Verse 17, when God said, up on
that mountain, we were there, He said, in verse 18, We heard
this voice when God said, this is my son, my beloved son, and
whom I am well pleased. We were there, Peter, James,
and John, chosen by the Lord to go up on that mountain, elect,
God's elect, chosen by him to go up on the mountain to see
Christ's glory. Boy, if that isn't a picture
of every believer. This people have I chosen that
they might know me. Well. He said we heard this voice
out loud. Simon Peter said we heard him.
What did they do when they heard from God speak out loud what
happened? Hit the dirt. The voice of the
Lord breaks cedars. The voice of the Lord causes
cows to give birth. The voice of the Lord parts of
water. The voice of the Lord is power.
The voice of the Lord, scripture says, thundereth. You get the
dirt, buddy, of your flesh. You get the dirt. Fear. That's
what they did. The people of old heard it thunder
and said, don't let him speak to us. Said to Moe, you go speak
to him. Scared him to death. And what
did God say? When they went up on that mountain,
what did He say? One thing. Again, the same thing. This is my beloved Son. You hear
Him. I'm not going to speak to you
except through Him. Hebrews 1 says, God at sundry
times in divers manners spake unto the fathers by the prophets,
but hath in these last days spoken to us by Son. in sunlight by
his son. God came down. If you're going
to hear God, hear me. He said, if God heareth my word,
God's word, the words I speak are from God. OK. All right. We hear from him. All right.
But he left. Now, what are we going to do?
God's not speaking out loud. The son of God is seated in the
right hand of the majesty on high, where he ever lives to
make intercession for, having obtained eternal perdition, having
purged our sin. That's worth saying again. There he sits. Now, where are
we going to turn? Who's going to speak to it? He
wrote a book. He wrote a book. And Peter said, we have a more
sure Peter was there. He heard that voice. He saw him
and he says, this is something more sure. More sure, I don't understand,
Peter, I don't understand. He says, you do well to take
heed. He said, look at this, I love this. He said, you do
well to take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place.
This world is full of darkness. People are in ignorance and darkness,
groping for answers, aren't they? Men love darkness rather than
light. This is a light that shines in
a dark place. Sheds light on everything. He
said, you do well to take heed as a light that shines in a dark
place until the day dawn. Don't we use that term all the
time? It just dawned on me. Well, it
just suddenly dawned on me what something the truth or something.
Well, it never occurred to me, Barbara. It just dawned on me,
he says, until the day dawn. What day? The day star arise
in your heart. What's that? Who's that? What's
the day star? You see any stars out there today? They're out there. Zillions of
stars. What do you see up there? You
see anything at all? One thing. One star. One bright,
burning, the rest of the stars, most of them burn out. But there's
one that remains constant under whom we live and whose circuits
is from the end of the earth. day unto day utterest speak,
as a strong man to run a race, Psalm 19. What is it? The Son. God, now this is no mere coincidence,
that all flesh lives because of that bright and morning star.
And though you live and move and have your being and all things
from that S-U-N that burns pure, you can't get near it, you can't
look upon it without being blinded What a picture that is of the
Holy Son of God who came. And he says, you listen to this
word until God, who caused the light to shine out of darkness,
will shine in your hearts to give you the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. until
it finally dawned on you by the grace of God. Hey, you know,
Christ is all. Hey, this is all going to be
burned up. Hey, I'm flesh. He's God. Hey, I'm undone. I'm complete in Him. It just
occurred to me, thank God, This is all going to melt away in
a fervent heat. By whom? Whom He shall destroy with the
brightness of His coming. The world's not going to perish
because the sun's going to burn out or fall. It's because the
Son of God's coming. Will it? Well, I just never knew. Now I know. And he who said all things, I
have ordained, predestined, and worked all things after the counsel
of my own will and by my own power. I the Lord, who Jesus
Christ, do all these things." Now, well, there is nothing else. Well, he wrote a book. Why? Here we go. Why doesn't God speak
out loud anymore? Why not? Number one, there's
several reasons, many that I won't give, that I don't know. But here's number one. Nothing
more needs to be said. Right? People that say that wish
God would speak out loud, if you'd look real closely, if you
dig and search and ask, he does speak to you, doesn't he, Jeanette?
He does, just as really as if it were out loud. Doesn't he?
Doesn't he, Nancy? Doesn't he? Just when I needed
him most, he does speak. There's nothing new needed how
firm a foundation you saints of the Lord is like sure promise
is laid for your faith in his excellent exceeding great word
what more can he say to you than he had said to you who he's all
what else does he need to say at all. Say it done everything's working
according to what what needs to be said. We have the prologue. We have the main body. We have
the epilogue. We have the finished story. It's
finished. He said you don't need to add
any words. Perfect. A perfect word. Why doesn't God
speak out loud? Because he said no more. That's good enough.
God spoke in the last days, spoke through his son. in these very
last days and he said you hear him and then Christ said the
Lord Jesus Christ said this he said when he left he said he
that heareth me will hear through you. Didn't he? Why didn't he speak
out loud? Because he said he was not going
to. He said so. I'm not going to speak anymore.
I wrote a book. They have Moses in the prophets
our Lord said. Let me read. Oh, no, but if one
wrote. The word. God doesn't speak out
loud, God wrote this book because. Well, Paul said we have this
treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power might
be of God and not man who wrote this that you're reading right
now with Simon Peter. Right, Simon Peter wrote it. It's amazing what this, you can
just stop, stand and dwell on every word that's written here.
Who's Simon Peter? A fisherman? Now wait a minute, a fisherman
wrote this? This profound word, this deep
mysterious, glorious word, this powerful word that just gives
me a fisherman. No, no, no. It came through him. You know, holy men spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. No, this didn't come from Peter.
This is God's Word. See, we have this treasure in
earthen vessels that you will know clearly. This is how you
know this is. How do I know this is God's Word?
Because a fisherman couldn't write this. That's how. How do I know this is God's Word?
Because a plowfella, a fellow there plowing twenty-four yoke
of oxen, a shepherd, a man who's sitting on a hillside all day
watching sheep, he can't write things like this. That's how it is. This has to
be of God. No man could write these things
except God told him. Right? And oh, my, I'd love to go on
with that a little bit. How do we know it's God's word
because of the holiness of it? This is a pure word of God. Oh, it's so holy and pure. The words of men are so corrupt,
so full of. This is pure, holy, it's good. This is good. This book is everything
about this book is good. Everything he says is good. The
wisdom of it. far exceeds, oh it makes foolish
the wisdom of this world, the power of it, the beauty of it. You know about every single clever
or wise saying that man has, I guarantee you if you'd search
it out, you'd find it came from this book. The beauty of it. Why doesn't God speak out loud?
Because if he speaks to me, it doesn't speak to you. You didn't
hear it, did you? But now he wrote a book and we've
all got it. The same word. Leaving no doubt, Brother Henry,
you're reading the same thing I'm reading. God's word, God
says the same thing to you, he says to me. And that removes all pride, doesn't
it? God spoke to me. He didn't speak
to you? No, he didn't. In fact, he hides
these things from the wise and prudent, and it reveals it to
plowboys, service station owners, truck drivers, to show us that
it's a revelation. I speak to whom I will. You are not going to figure this
thing out. I speak. This is the voice of the Lord.
This is my word. And you'll read it till you're
blind. And you'll remain blind till
I open your eyes. It's my word. What man knoweth the things of
a man, say him, he revealed them. It's even so. God doesn't speak
out loud because we all have the same word. No different word
from God. No different word. It's always
there. It's always there. If he spoke to me out loud yesterday,
what about today? He might not speak to me today.
It's always there in the middle of the night, in the morning,
in the day, any time. Go, Lord, I need you to speak
to me. OK. And he does. What does he speak? The same
blessed promises. They don't change. It's the same. Yesterday, today and forever.
Oh, yesterday I read where you said my sins were gone. Oh, I've
sinned again. Let me read it. I need to hear
it again. Read it! There it is again. Oh, thank God for the written Word. Huh? He might the heavens are
brass, but the book is open. You see that? This keeps us from
listening to voices. God doesn't speak out loud because
there are counterfeits. There are counterfeits, right? Just like the men who counterfeited
the miracles of Moses. It really happened. And so people
say, well, that ain't nothing, that miracle of Moses. Look here.
I heard God speak, a man said. God spoke to me today. Really? No, God's people say no, he didn't. If they speak not according to
the law and the testimony, he didn't speak not. He said to
Jeremiah, who heard me say that? Remember chapter 23, John, where
he said, they say unto them, God loves you, you have peace
and no harm. God says, who stood in the counsel
of the Lord and heard me say that? Read it. Tell me where
it says that. Brother James used to say, Scripture
please. That's the test. God spoke to
me. Did he? He didn't speak through
this word. He didn't. This is the word of
God. And to keep us from listening
to strange voices. And listen to this. We all hear
it if he blesses us. If God blessed our brother's
prayer this morning, that he would be with us and bless us, and we hear it together, we hear
him speak together, like the three apostles up on that mountain.
Heard that voice and saw his glory. You know, everything's
more precious and wonderful when you're with somebody in concert. and congregation when you're
huddled up together. Heaven, we're going to hear him speak.
He is going to break his silence and never be silent again. He's
going to speak out loud. We're going to touch Him, Nancy,
Him whom we have not seen and loved. We're going to handle
Him. We're going to hear His precious, precious voice. But
until then, we all huddle up like sheep and say, Oh, Lord,
our Shepherd, speak. And He speaks. Did you hear it?
He spoke to me. Did you speak to me? Yes. Wasn't
it wonderful? It's like going to a concert.
What beautiful music. And oh, isn't that glorious?
It just chills up my spine. Did it do that to you? Yes. Isn't
that a wonderful song? Yes, I love it. Let's sing again.
Everything's more wonderful together. You go out there alone, all you'll
find is loneliness. You go out there alone, all you'll
find is darkness, fear, worry, distraught, you'll fall, you're
in a ditch. Come back here, our Lord said.
Come to the light. Come to the light. Come. Come
to me. I'll give you rest. The first
thing our Lord said when those disciples, when he came back,
peace. Peace. You go out there and you'll find
turmoil. You come where he speaks, you'll find peace. Perfect peace. And on and on we could go. And
here's another, and my last. God wrote this book and doesn't
speak out loud anymore. We wrote this book for us, so
we will continually resort to it. Continue. This is the only help, our only
hope, and I'm going to keep dwelling on this for my sake and yours. This is the only place we're
going to find any, any, any, any, any, any, any faith. Faith cometh by hearing. any strength, any peace of mind,
any peace of heart, any. It all comes right here. How
can I accept some man? Tell me. Accept the Lord to speak. I'm lost, but the Word finds
us. I'm sinful, but the commandment
is clean. I'm ignorant, but the Word instructs
me. I'm blind, but the Word makes
me see. Oh, my. Oh, I'm so upset. The word comforts me. It's all
right there. As we looked at Wednesday night. Listen up. Quit thinking about
this and that and the other. Isn't this the only time when
we're actually able to forget the past? forget all our worries,
forget, isn't it, all our fears, if the Lord gives us ears to
hear. It's the only time. And we come
in here, and we go out of here thinking, it's going to be all
right, isn't it? Why? Because we're in His hands. He's Lord. He is all. It's all
about Him. OK. You come back Wednesday night,
and we'll do it again, because you need it. I need it. All right.
Brother Gabe, come, please. Him number five hundred and sixty
one and let's stand together. To the tune of bless be the time. Five hundred and sixty one. How gentle God's commands, how
kind His precepts are. Come cast your burdens on the
Lord and trust His constant care. While provenance supports That
saints securely dwell That hand which bears all nature of Shall
guide his children well Why should this anxious load Dreads down
your weary mind, Hates to your heavenly Father's throne, And
sweet refreshment mine. His goodness stands uprooted
Down to the present day, I'll drop my burden at his feet and
bear the storm away. Thank you.