Have I on earth beside thee? Whom in heaven but thee? Savior, Savior, hear my humble
cry. While on others thou art calling,
do not pass me by. All right, go back with me to
Matthew's Gospel, chapter 11, that Brother Samuel read to us. Matthew 11. Many, if not most, have heard
this before. Not the exact same message by
any mean, but yet it is. But there are no sweeter words
uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ. No more wonderful words than
these right here that he said. In verse twenty-eight, let's read
that again, he said, Come unto me. all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Come unto me." What
is it to come to Christ? And I hope, what I hope, my prayer
is that everyone in here would come to Christ this morning. even if you have already. We
need to come to him today. Today. What is it to come to
Christ? Who may come to Christ? Who will come? How do we come
to Christ? What does that mean? And then
what if we do come? What then? What is it to come
to Christ? To come to Christ. not a physical
move. Brother Scott Richardson said
this years ago. He said, come to Christ, but
don't move a muscle. What it means to come to Christ
is to need him, like hunger and thirst, like being poor. You need a handout. Our Lord
said this, blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness. What's that? Christ is righteousness. Christ. How will they be filled? He says they will be filled by
Christ. Christ in you. Christ in you. To come to Christ is to need
him. To come to Christ is to believe
him. Faith. Faith. believe that he and he alone
can and must meet your need. You need him, and to come to
him is to believe that he and he alone must, can and must meet
that need, that he is able. Paul said, I am persuaded, I
believe from the heart that he is able. to keep that which I've
committed. You see, there's the faith. Folks
go hunting for this and that and the other, you know. People
hunt for churches. We're looking for a church. Well,
there's one on every corner, so to speak. But if God Almighty
will cause you to start searching for Christ, when you do find
and hear the message of Christ him where he is where he. Your searching is over. You've
come to Christ you've come to crack and to come to Christ not
only is to need him not only to to believe him but is to leave
everything and everyone else. To come to him. Everyone in here
left something and perhaps someone. Perhaps someone in here left
an unbelieving mate or spouse or children or whoever, parents. You had to leave them to come
here to hear Christ, to worship Christ. You've left all else
to come to him. And that's what our Lord said.
Any man would come after me, let him deny himself. forsaking all others. We leave
the world. We leave the world to come to
Christ. And God has to show us that there's nothing in this
world. It's vanity. And show us the
beauty that is Christ, the glory that is Christ. To leave or to
come to Christ is to leave self, like we just said. Family, friends,
personal desires and ambitions and so forth. If Christ is made
to you altogether lovely, your true need, then you won't, it
won't be a sacrifice to leave anything or anyone else. Not
at all. To come to Christ is to leave
religion. Everyone who hears, you know,
see Christ would come into Jerusalem on occasion. and preach. But
most of the time, majority of the time, he was outside. Outside
of the camp, you see, they hated him, they rejected him. Religion
is full of people and religious leaders, but they rejected the
truth. They rejected Christ's truth.
And so if you were going to go to Christ, you had to go to him
outside the camp. You had to leave organized religion
that the vast majority of the people were part of, bearing
his reproach. If you followed Christ, you'd
be hated just like he was. It hasn't changed. Things haven't changed. Man hasn't
changed. We go to him, we go to him and
have to leave religion. Christ is not in all this mess
that goes by the name of religion today. I'll give you the test, I'll
tell you how you may know. Is Christ getting all the glory? Is he really? You listen, you watch. Is God, is Christ getting all
the glory or are men sharing it? Are men getting it? Are people being pointed to Christ? and Him only for salvation. Are they exalting, glorifying,
honoring, preaching Christ and Him crucified preeminently? Or are they pointing to what
you may be, what you may become, what you must do and so forth?
That's how you know. That's how you know. Spirit-filled
preaching. Everybody likes to talk about
that, don't they? How may you know? Christ said it. He said the Spirit will take
the things of mine and show them unto you. He'll not speak of
himself. Wherever the Spirit of God is, the people of God
are not talking about the Spirit of God so much as the Christ
of God. Because the Spirit bears witness
of Christ. And so does the witnesses that
God Almighty sends. He's not left himself without
a witness. And who do they bear witness of? Christ. He's the Savior. We're going
to see this here in a moment. To come to Christ so as to leave
religion, to turn from idols, all this man-made stuff. And
what about religion today? Is it truly, truly taking the
scriptures and searching and looking word verse by verse,
line upon line, precept upon precept? And in them, Christ
said, they are they which testify of me. Is Christ being brought
out? Huh? Well, wherever he is, that's
where he is. That is, wherever he's being
declared, lifted up, that's where he is. That's where he is. So it's to leave religion to
come to him. If people see Christ as all they
need, they're all and in all, He's all they need. That sounds
real simple, doesn't it? How do you know where Christ
is? It's where He's being preached and the people want to hear Christ. If people don't want to hear
Him, want to go after others, Christ is not there. Christ said,
if I be lifted up, I'll draw who? My people. My people. Well, I've lost some
of you. You need to come to Christ this
morning. I mean today. Today's the day of salvation.
Don't take it for granted you have. To come to Christ is to come
to Christ. He said, come unto me and nothing
and no one else. Was salvation. We come to Christ
as our, and many things, there's so many descriptions of our Lord,
offices, works of our Lord in scripture. He's called prophet,
priest, king, Christ, mediator, and so forth. We come to Christ
as our prophet. There's a bunch of people running
around, they love to call themselves prophets, don't they? Don't they? They've got a school, a school
of the prophets. All these people love to talk about being, I don't
need a prophet. Do you? A prophet is someone
who tells us future events, things that haven't happened. Over in
John chapter 4, there's a woman and a whale. And she said, talking to this
man, man, this preacher was standing in front of her. And she said,
well, when Christ has come, he'll tell us all things. She knew
what scripture said, that there'll be a prophet raised up. Him,
the people will hear. She said, when Christ has come,
he'll tell us all things. Christ said, I that speak unto
thee am. And we don't look for another
prophet. And any feller, feller, woman who comes along, calls
herself a prophet or prophetess, don't need you, go home, thank
you. He's told us all things. My prophets,
our prophets told us all we need to know. Don't need an extra
revelation, Mr. Joseph Smith, Moroni, that angel,
Mormon. Don't need an extra revelation.
The revelation of Jesus Christ is all I need. Thank you. Besides,
he said, if you add one word or take away one word, you're
judged. Come to him as our prophet. That
woman did. Come to him as our priest. I
have a priest that I confess to, and he's not in any little
booth. He's not a sinful man. He's the
great and high priest. You know, people feel a need.
Why do people go into those booths and confess all their perversion
and suffering to a man behind them? Why do they do that? Huh? Well, not only is it tradition,
but people feel a need to confess their sin and their guilt, thinking
that, you know, confession is good for the soul. Well, it is
if you confess to the right person. It won't help you to confess
your sins and your guilt and so forth to a man. He can't do
anything about it. And he better keep it a secret.
If he doesn't, you're worse off than when you came in, aren't
you? Only Christ can and will remove
that sin and the guilt that goes with it. There is no removal
of guilt. People have guilt, so they have
to confess it. You know, confess it. There's
only one person that can remove the guilt because he removes
the sin. How's that? By paying for it. Guilt removed, sin forgiven,
paid for. See, sin is against God. That's
why repentance, confession of sin, is to God. Against thee
and thee only have I sinned. And who can forgive sins but
God? So who do we confess to? God. Who's God? Christ said, I am. So I have a priest. Oh, I'm thankful I have a priest.
I confess to him. We need to confess to him. Do
you have guilt? Do you have sin? Who doesn't? You better confess it right now. If I regard iniquity in my heart,
he won't hear me. So what do you do? Confess it
to our priest. He's our priest. He's our king.
We come to Christ as king. King. There was a man hanging
on a cross right beside the Lord. He said, Lord, he was about to
die. He was about to die. He was about
to go out into a realm that he didn't know anything about, eternity,
some kingdom or realm. And by the grace of God, he saw
that man hanging on a cross, that crucified one, as his king. And he said, Lord, remember me
when thou comest into thy kingdom. And we come into this morning.
We come here this morning and we come, I hope, from the heart
saying the same thing to the Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, I've
heard about your kingdom. Would you remember me? Can I
come in? Can I be a part of your kingdom?
Thy kingdom come. Can I come? I hear these people of yours,
these Israelites, are going to the promised land. Can I go too?
Who decides? I'm going to preach a message.
Lord willing, I may not get to it, but if I'm over in, where
is it? Judges. John, do you like the
book of Judges? Chapter 7, I believe, 6, where
Gideon chooses his men. God does. Out of thirty two thousand. Three hundred. And I'll give
you a little clue who went in. Who God said would. They didn't they didn't. What's
the word. Apply. Who went in was who God
said. He said as many have given away
I might not get to it here. But he said, as many as I say
shall go with you, Gideon, the same shall go with you. And as
many as I say shall not go with you, Gideon, the same shall not
go with you. Lord, can I go? It's who you say goes. The only reason you cry or come
is because he's said to him, the difference between that one
thief hanging there that saw his king and asked him to be
included and the one who was cussing him and died and was
left out of the kingdom, the difference was the sovereign
electing mercy and grace of God. It's the same with us. Because
we're all thieves, stealing God's glory. Haven't given Him, come
short of the glory of God. My, my. We come to Christ as
our God and our King. Our God and our King. King, look
at verse 27. He said right before this, he
said, All things are delivered unto me of my Father. All things. All power. The last thing he
heard or his disciples heard him say was this. All power is
given unto me and heaven and earth. Go. Here he says, All
things are delivered unto me. Come. What do you need? I'll tell you
who has it. Whatever it is. Joseph. He has the storehouses. You see,
the king has put him in charge of all things. You know that
story. Over in Genesis, Christ is the
king. Our king. Everything belongs
to him. What do you need? You go to him. He has it all. It's his to dole
out. Or is he the measure of the grace
of we go to cry we come to cry as a reason. It says come the
reason we say come and go sounds like somewhere you've been. Come always Jenny come always
implies that it's something you're doing right now. I know country people say, well,
he come over the other night, but that's bad grammar. He come over and we know he came,
he went, they go, but come now, today, right now, we come to
Christ as Savior. Listen, you don't need a Savior
this morning. I don't need a Savior this morning.
Lord, save me from myself in this preaching. Lord, save me
from ignorance. Save me from flesh. Save me,
Lord, from sin. It's killing me. If you leave me alone, if you
don't save me, I'm going to go under. My sins are going over
my head. Save me! When? Now! Save me from
my thoughts. My mind's wandering. Lord, I'm
thinking about who knows what. What are you thinking about?
I don't know. God knows. And you have no control over
it, do you? No control over it. You try to get my thoughts on
you. Lord, save me. Sin. Satan. Satan that desired
you. Who? Not just Peter. You and
you and you and me. Satan that desired you. To sift
you like wheat, like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour,
and he's devoured a world of people better than that. Lord,
save me. Come in as our Savior. Save me
from the world. Two people over twenty went into
the Promised Land. Two! There were two or three million
that went out of Egypt, and they saw for 40 years, glory, glory. Two people here, two people,
two adults went into the Promised Land. Why? It says they were overcome by
the world. They were passing through. They
didn't have here any continuance. They were passing through, but
passing through, Nancy. Vanity Fair got a hold of them.
Look. Look. Oh, she's beautiful. He's beautiful. They took their
eyes off the altogether lovely one. They're rock. Oh, I've got
to have that. And they said, oh, I've got to
go back there. God was not pleased. Perished
in the wilderness. Perished where? In the world.
Barbara, in the world. They were overcome by the world.
How am I going to overcome the world? How am I not going to
be overcome by the world? He said, Who is he that overcometh
the world, but he that believeth? Believeth what? The Lord saved
me. We can't. Satan, when he came
to Christ, he tempted him with three things. He said, miracles. Causes stone me may break. Then
the kingdoms of the world. Look at all this stuff, I'll
give you all this stuff. Cast yourself down from the show
yourself who you are. And Christ was soothed. Overcame
him. And the world. And he said. Be a good cheer. I have overcome
the world. You can't. You can't do it. I did. Come unto me. Are we getting it? We need it
today. Come unto him. I like Brother
Sammy sitting there. We were talking about how Right
now there's hundreds of thousands of people sitting in an arena
watching. Little go-karts go a mass car
same thing you. Care less about God that Christ
that worship. Who cares. Who makes us if given
a choice. overcome by and we were talking
about saying that I would talk about how we like cars as much
as anybody. I wish I wish we didn't know what we do we like
cars still like cars we like cars we were kids didn't we didn't
let Nancy you Steven and Sammy. I did too. I've had as many cars
or cars and most people have a lot. Why am I not overcome by, taken
by, why is it that I'm not consumed with it? It's not my life now. The mercy of God. I can still
be overcome by. Lord save me. Lest I be overcome by the world.
And here's the worst, here's my biggest, our biggest, Lord
save me from myself. I can't do anything with me.
Can you? You ever say this to your teenager?
What am I going to do with you? Barbara, I remember my dad saying
that to me. What am I going to do with you?
And he tried. Nothing. He couldn't do anything
with me. He's the only one who can. And it's still the same. I can't do anything with me.
Can you? Who can? Lord save me from myself. Would you do something with me?
Do something about me? Huh? Self. Self. We come to Him. My, my. We come to Christ as
our Father. We come as a little child. He
said, come unto me. We come to Him as our Father.
He said, you need to come as a little child. Their children
don't know much, do they? Christ is our wisdom. We come
to Him, Lord, help me out. I'm ignorant. I'm still ignorant.
Forty-some years old. Fifty-some years old. Sixty.
I'm still ignorant. Seventy-some. Lord, would You
be wisdom to me? Wisdom? Our Father knows best. You know that, don't you? Always
does. He still does. He hath seen me, Christ said,
hath seen the Father. We come to Christ, our Father,
as protection. I told you about that story,
didn't I, when we were living in the trailer, when we were
trailer people, and we were living right out here, and the worst
light, thunder and lightning storm that I've ever experienced. I guess it was because it was
the first one I was living in a trailer and heard it, because
you're living in a metal box, you know, a thunder and lightning
storm. Your whole house shakes, and
it's a lightning rod. But we were in that trailer,
and at the time, my parents were with us at the time. It woke me up as just as just
horrendous thunder like work woke me up and I think Hannah
came in she was just a child well not a whole nine years old
and she came to me scared. Well I got up and went in the
living room and there my dad stood as I scared. The truth be known, I was glad
my dad was there. He didn't seem too scared. But
you know what? I bet he was. The point is, father, dad, save
me. Protect me. I can't protect myself. I can't protect my children.
I can't protect my children. They're going to get out in that
car doing 70 miles an hour. And the majority, young people,
the majority of fatal crashes by teenagers is a one car crash,
meaning they're going too fast and either talking on the cell
phone or adjusting the radio and a wheel goes off the road.
The majority of them, one wheel goes off the road, they're not
experienced enough to correct it, and they're killed. Too fast. Too busy. You hear me, Anna?
I may save your life if you listen to this. Elizabeth? You hear me? Lauren? There's a reason for those speed
limits. Is it okay for me to say that, parents? You better
hope they hear me. Going too fast. Too busy. Your business is to pay attention.
As it is now. It might save your eternal life. But why did I say that? We can't protect them, can we,
Margaret? We're going to put them out in that car. It doesn't
matter if it's a Volvo with airbags or seatbelts. It won't save them,
will it, Nancy? Lord, watch over them. Please. If you don't, save their
souls before they go to be with you. Come on to me. You said a past
thing. This ain't a one time thing.
This is a daily thing. Come to him, Teresa. Beg him,
Lord. Restrain Blair. Come now. Today's the day of salvation.
She is hearing this message today. Is this serious? Oh, my. Come unto me. Christ says, come
unto me. Come to him as our physician.
Our physician. We all have leprosy. Our children have leprosy. The
Lord doesn't do something about them. They're just going to rot.
I've got friends, you do too, who have children in jail. rotting
away, getting worse and worse. The Lord doesn't save them. Come
unto me. Come unto me. The time was a
dying man. Any woman in here with an issue
of blood still have an issue? Come unto me. The only one, and
she suffered many things of other position, so-called. Boy, he
took care of the issue. He took care of the issue. Come
on, who may come? That's my second point of five. Are you worried? What could I have left out in
all that? Who may come? Look at our text. He says, oh,
ye that labor a heavy laden. He didn't say Dan Ogle may come.
Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad he didn't say
that? That means I can't go. Dan, you
better be glad, too, because there might have been, I guarantee
you there's another Dan Ogle. Guaranteed. Many of them. He
didn't qualify it, did he? No names are mentioned, no qualifications
are mentioned except this, all that labor and are heavy laden. All ye that labor. I'd love to
preach this to the world, but I'm not preaching it to you.
There are many people all over the world laboring to get to
heaven, trying to keep the Sabbath, their morality, their works,
and so forth of righteousness, laboring to get rid of sin and
guilt, you know, trying to atone for their past, trying to pay
for their past, trying to undo their past or present. Christ said, You quit labor. You young people,
let me talk to you one more time. OK, you're going to labor your
labor to find yourself in the world. You'll spend. You're going to go out, you're
going to try to find yourself, that's what we say, try to find
yourself, you know what you'll find when you find yourself.
You'll find trouble. Trying to find true love, trying
to find true love, trying to find a husband, trying to find
a wife, what you'll find is trouble if you don't find Christ first. Is that right? I'm sure of you. If you don't find the man who
loves Christ, you've got nothing but trouble, trouble. You'll find labor to find a career
and what you'll find is can't wait to get out of the house.
Can't wait to get out of the house and find myself and find
my career. So what you'll find is you'll
be going to work for 60 years and you'll earn your work all
day long every day just for a few hours of rest. And you'll turn
over all your paycheck to the power, well, sorry, Ron, the
telephone company and the bank and all of that. Won't you turn
it all over and you'll have very little left. In the beginning,
you won't have enough gas, you won't have enough to pay for
a hamburger, you won't have, you'll sit in the house and do
nothing. When all you were home, somebody
paying for everything. And you thought you had it bad.
Couldn't wait to get out so you could pay for it all. If that
isn't stupid, what you will find is a lifetime of labor, work. It's hard work until you reach
70 years old and you can quit, unless you're Henry Swords. When you won't quit, you still
got to make money, pay for Roberta's thing. I'm just kidding. Well, here's the fact of the
matter. Work, work, work, work, work. Can't wait to get out so I can
work. Work, labor. Well, that's dumb, isn't it? If all I had to do was go sit
in the classroom for six hours a day and then come home and,
you know, do a couple hours of study and sweep the floor and
then go play. Wouldn't that be wonderful? Labor. Labor. Well, but there's people laboring
in religion, laboring in work, laboring, laboring, laboring.
A lifetime of working to achieve morality or righteousness or
trying to get God to have favor upon you won't work. like working in this world, a
lifetime of work, and then you end up in a nursing home and
you give it all to somebody else, and they spend it, and in your
dying days you don't get any of it. You just lay there with
tubes in you. What was it all for? Why'd you work so hard? That's
the way it is. Well, Christ says, Come unto
me. Oh, you that labor, and are heavy
laden, heavy laden, weight. You ever read heavy laden? That
means a burden, carrying a heavy burden, bearing this heavy burden
of weight. It weighs you down. You know
what depression is? People suffer depression. You
know what it is? It's guilt. That's behind it all. That's
right. God said there is no rest for
the wicked. They don't know what it is, and
they become weighed down, depressed. Depressed. Guilt. It's against God. There's only
one place to remove that burden. Come unto me, Christ said. Cast
your care upon Him. the weights, guilt, sin, the
world, all your responsibilities. We have them. Kelly, we have
them. We're fathers and husbands. We have them, and we're to assume
them. He says, come unto me. Cast all your care upon me. What we realize is we weren't
bearing it at all. We weren't bearing it at all.
Come unto me today. Come unto me. Who will come?
Christ said this, you don't have to turn. He said, no man can
come unto me. He said to some, you will not
come unto me. But you might have not. You will not. He said, no
man can come unto me. John 6, 44. No man can come unto
me except my Father draw him. Draw him. He said that twice. thirty seven and John six forty
and right now but said that's why. All that and who will come. All that the father giveth me
he said shall come and I know this is what he said. He said
no man can come under me except the father which is sent me draw
him. Well over in Jeremiah he said.
I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness
have I drawn thee." I want you to get a hold of this now. If
you've come to Christ, all these things we're talking about, prophet,
priest, king, lord, savior, god, king, father, wisdom, so forth,
protection. If you have and you do, you must
be loved by God. If you're not going to another
another priest and you see Christ, you must be loved of God. All
that the Father with everlasting love and he gave you to Christ. All that the Father giveth me
what shall come. That's good news, and if you
have come and do come, Who will come? All that the Father loves,
all that the Father draws, all that the Father gives to Christ,
they will come. Oh, that's the good news, isn't
it? Did you hear that? So if you see a need of Christ
and you believe Him and come to Him, all these things, you've
been loved, you've been drawn, you've been given to Christ.
And he said in that same chapter in John, he said, I will in no,
by no means. I will in no wise. All that the
Father giveth me shall come unto me, and him that cometh to me,
I will. I said there were no sweeter
words spoken by the Lord. These are just as. I will in no wise. From the worst harlot to a dying
thief, all manner of sin shall be forgiven. How do we come to Christ as a
sinner? We come in prayer. Nobody can come for you. You've
got to come. Young people, you've got to call on the Lord yourself.
You've got to call. You hear that? Are you listening
to me? I want to see that you're listening to me. You've got to
go home and get in your closet and ask the Lord to reveal himself
to you. You're not going to get in that
glory by your mama or your daddy. You're not going to do it. He's
dealing with you personally. Pray, Lord save me or I perish. Come to him in the word. That's
what we're doing this morning. Congregation, Christ is where
his people are, where two or three are gathered. And we come
continually. Peter said, to whom coming? To
whom coming? It's not a one-time thing. I
need Christ now more than I did in the beginning. The Lord revived me in the midst
of the years. I need him now more than ever.
What we needed him in the beginning, but we're rotten, no good centers.
We need him now because we're rotten, no good center. Helpless,
poor and needy. We will need him to the day we
die because, you see, we're the same yesterday and today, our
nature. And tomorrow, thank God, he's
the same yesterday, today. forever, and we can come to that.
Old sinner, young sinner, come to me. And what do we find? What
then? We come to Christ. What then?
He said, I will give you rest. I will. No one else. Not the church, not activities,
not marriage, not career, not this, not that. I will. give you rest. Rest. You know, the older you get,
about one of the most, one of the sweetest things in life is
what, Jenny? You're lying on your head. Sleep.
Rest. Young people, sleep! I remember,
I remember when I was growing up and Sunday afternoons my parents
would always take a nap and I thought, That's the biggest waste of time
I've ever in my life. When I get old enough, there's
no way I want to take a nap. It's the middle of the day. Nap? These old people are laughing.
Why is that? Why does it all of a sudden because
you're working, work, work, work, work, work, work, so your kids
can play. Work, work, work, work, work.
And the sweetest thing of all is rest. And especially if you've got
things to do. And it never ceases to do, doesn't
it? It never ceases things to do by the time you get something
built or whatever you've got to start fixing it. Don't you? It never ends. It never ends. Work, work, work, work, work.
But the sweetest thing of all, if you've got a project, you've
got things to do, the sweetest thing of all is when it's finished. It's finished. I've never lived
in a finished house. I'll be glad someday. I can rest. I mean, there's nothing to do.
Just rest. Yeah, rest. Well, this is the
thing in salvation. spiritual things. Everybody's
looking for this and that and the other. Christ is coming. We ought to. We're coming here
because we want to. We're not coming here to try to make God
pleased with us. We're coming here because He
is. We're not coming here to try to earn
God's favor. We're coming here because Christ
earned God's favor. We're coming here to rest. We're going to leave here and
go to work. We're coming here to rest. Come unto me. He said, I'll give you rest.
Your search is over. It's done. It's done. Finished. You'll breathe spiritually. You'll breathe a great sigh of
relief. You come to Christ and say, Oh,
I'm glad it's over. And someday, Nancy, we will,
all of us collectively, in glory, sigh it's over. Rest forever. And we'll play in the fields
of the Lord, his children. All right, let's just stand and
I'll dismiss us in prayer, OK? Stand. Our Lord and our God, thank you
for those sweet words, wonderful words of life you uttered. Come
unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give
you rest. Lord, may we take thy yoke by
your grace and mercy. May we come to thee, take your
yoke upon us and learn of you, learn of your heart and mind
and will and spirit, your great work, finished work. Find rest,
rest for our souls. Lord, we pray for our young people. Spare them, Lord. Protect them. Watch over them. Restrain them.
If it is Thy will, saving purpose, constrain them by Thy love to
come to Thee. May they bear the yoke in their
youth, for the evil days come nigh. Lord, save them from this
world, this untoward generation, and us, Lord, all of us. Save
us, Lord, or we perish, all of us. We come to Thee this morning. We ask these things. for thy
glory's sake and thy name's sake. Amen. You're dismissed.