Come down. Christ is now. All right, go with me. Psalm
thirty seven. I know the bulletin says first
Corinthians. But do not believe everything
you read. Only believe what God has written
honestly. His word is settled in heaven. We we a lot is cast into the
lap, but. I hope this is of the Lord's. Leadership, we intended one message
from this last Wednesday night. We. Started in this, and by the
way, let me remind you that we will have a service this Wednesday
night. OK, don't anyone be confused. It's Wednesday after next. No
service. We will have services Wednesday
night. Lord willing, we will finish the rest of this chapter
so you can read it. And I intend to do it. To finish it on Wednesday. But
this has grown into two part, three part message. It's such
a wonderful song. These messages on this song,
this song is a message of great comfort. To the Saints, to believers. But on the other hand, it's a
message of dire warning to those to the unbelievers, to the world,
scriptures divides all people into two to. Two categories. Sheep the Lord talks about sheep
and the goat. There's no in between sheep goats
he talks about the Saints. And then there's the world. As John remember John said we
are of God and the whole world life in wickedness. Scriptures
especially here talks about the righteous. And the wicked. Talks about the just. And then
the unjust are workers of iniquity. Now. At the outset. God's sheep are sheep because
he elected them. He chose them. They don't make
themselves sheep. God's saints are just that. They've been sanctified. Set
apart. by God set apart father son Holy
Spirit have sanctified them made them to differ set them apart
the righteous talks about the righteous. Are those who are
made righteous. By Christ's righteousness imputed
and imparted the just. Are those who have been justified. God that justified justified
by God. And by Christ blood. Right. Then the goats in the world and
the wicked those who are called. Evil doers are those outside
of Christ. Those are without Christ. And
no matter how good they may seem to us. No matter how moral they may
seem to us. No matter how devout, how sincere
they may seem to us. God is a discerner of the thoughts.
God looks on the heart. He knows all men. He's not unjust. And. This thing of being in Christ
is not just a legal standing. It's a state of being in the
heart, life. And those outside of Christ,
if we knew what God knew about them, we would call them evildoers
also. You see why I said that? No one can charge God with being
unjust. God looks on the heart. We've
often said that you If you take that woman that you
know that seems real moral and tender and gentle and kind and
so forth, seems like a sweet, kind person and never do anybody
wrong. Such as your old grandmother
or somebody. And you start telling her about
the true God. You start telling her what scripture
says about her. And then watch the endman to
come out. You see God sees all that God
knows God knows the private thoughts and so forth. May look good to
us. God knows. So you see when God
and when God. And on the other hand a believer
may not appear to average person you know they seem just like
anybody else. There's a new man. That God sees. In Christ are the just, out of
Christ are the unjust. In Christ are the righteous,
out of Christ are the unrighteous, evil-doers, workers of iniquity. Throughout this psalm, the Lord
tells us of a new earth and a new land wherein dwelleth righteousness. And who will dwell there? are
the righteous. The inheritance and I look this
this caught my attention talks about the new earth talks about
the new land talking about this the new paradise the Lord. Got
prepared going to create. He said you rejoice over there
and saw Isaiah sixty five you rejoice in that which I create
new heavens and a new earth. You're going to rejoice. And
verse nine. of Psalm thirty-seven says they
that wait on the Lord shall inherit the earth. Just wait. It's coming. Just wait. Those that look for
those that watch those Paul said who love his appearing. That's
what it means to wait on the Lord. Those who look to him believe
him trust him. Verse eleven says. Yet a little
or verse eleven the meek shall inherit the earth. The meek,
not those who earn it, not those who take it, but those who receive
it. By his grace, they receive it.
The meek, not the proud. All of God's people that knew
earth are going to be humble. And he starts this on this earth
on this plant the humble that's the first thing he does you know.
And they're humble the rest of the day. It's a it's a long work
and. We were talking last night. Davises and us how that our greatest. Problem. It will be to the day
we die our greatest source of trouble But the meek and the Lord has,
he knows how to humble. To me, you get lifted up in pride,
you're one of his. He will bring you down. You can
count on it. The meek. The upright, verse
18, says the upright. The upright. The Lord knoweth
the days of the upright. Their inheritance shall be forever. Upright, straight up. Heart,
mind, walk. They might like Christ, that's
why. Verse 22, it says such as be blessed of him. Who's going
to inherit this earth? Those blessed of him, those chosen
by him. See, when a man dies and he writes
his will, he he is the one who decided who gets it and you can't
earn it just because you're born doesn't mean you're going to
get it. Oh no, I read a book one time,
pretty good book, pretty interesting. This man had a lot of money and
had a lot of sons and daughters and every one of them were rotten
to the core. And they wanted this old man
dead so they could have his inheritance. Well, when he died, he left it
all to one of the servants. who was loyal to him. Well. See, the meek, the blessed, those
blessed of the Lord, that's who that's who's going to inherit
this, not those who think they got it coming. But those who've
been blessed is the man whom thou choosest. Who chose our
inheritance for verse twenty nine says, who shall who shall
inherit this kingdom? Verse twenty nine, the righteous
shall inherit the land. The right verse thirty four.
Says wait on the Lord those that wait on the Lord and keep his
way. Who's going to inherit this land those that keep his way? Those that believe. Lay hold of his way. Don't you love God's way? And
what might that be? right, not what it's a who. Don't you love salvation in God's
way? Huh? Those that lay hold of his way.
All right, go back to verse 11. So that's who's going to inherit
this new earth and this land and so forth. Verse 11 is where
we pick up. He says, The meek shall inherit
the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. These
blessed ones, oh, blessed are the peacemakers, they shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace. These are the ones whom
God hath reconciled." Over in 2 Corinthians 5, it says, "...he
hath reconciled us unto himself, broken down the enmity." Those
whom God Almighty reconciles or makes peaceable toward himself. through Christ. He is our faith. Right, that's what breaks the
heart, truly, of every believer, seeing that Christ actually bore
our judgment and our wrath. I was talking to one of the brothers
the other day about the hardest thing, the most impossible thing
for us to take is the blame. When we don't feel like we deserve
it right. If you feel like you've been
wronged and don't deserve it. It's impossible to take the blame.
That's exactly what Jesus Christ did. All of it. When he went
before our accusers. His accusers on our behalf he
opened his mouth. That's impossible to me, but
he did it. He became us. He took our blame. My, my. The chastisement. Here it is. Here's the gospel.
The chastisement of our peace. The whipping that we deserved. He took it. Laid on him. The
Lord laid on him the iniquity of a son. Well this is what God Almighty
uses to reconcile us to himself to make us peaceable. He breaks
our heart the first thing God Almighty does to a rebel is break
his heart. Break his heart bend his knee.
Bow his head. Her head. It says these verse. 11 says, shall delight themselves
in the abundance of peace. Oh, they delight. Don't you delight
in Christ? And they shall delight in this
eternal, wonderful peace. Peace with God. As we say, that
begins when God Almighty breaks this old proud rebel's heart.
and reconciles us. And it begins when God Almighty
lays hold of that rebel by his word, like old Jacob. Oh, blessed is he that the God
of Jacob for his help. You see, God doesn't wait on,
our God doesn't wait on us. He comes to us where we are and
like old Jacob wrestles with us. Rotten fellow, wasn't he? He
wasn't any better than Esau, really, was he? Well, who made
him to differ? What made him to differ? God. God loved him, set his love upon
him. And God Almighty came and took
old Jacob, wrestled with him, and the first thing he did was
demanded of him repentance. What's your name? What's your
name? Jacob is my name, and so I am.
That's what Esau said about him, didn't he? That's Jacob's name,
and that's exactly what he is. Well, Jacob said that too. Jacob's
my name. Well, who's your God now, Jacob?
Thou art. Thou art. What's your hope, Jacob?
What's your hope, Jacob? In you. In you, in Christ. And then this old son of Jacob,
begins this life of peace with God. He's no longer a rebel.
He's at peace with God. Peace by Christ, peace by reconciliation
in his own heart, peace of mind. He has that peace of mind, peace
of heart, peace with God's people until finally, listen to this,
in Isaiah 57 says this, It says he enters into peace,
he rests in his bed. When it's all over, this old
son of Jacob rests in his bed, enters into peace, eternal peace,
R.I.P. That's where we get that, rest
in peace. Rests in his bed, the Lord takes
him away, the righteous, from the evil to come. And he's walking
in his uprightness, walking in his uprightness. Who is upright? Christ is upright. Made like
him, perfectly. And he's walking now in that
uprightness. Go back to our text here in Psalm 37. He says, They
shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. In that new
earth there will be nothing to disturb the peace. Nothing to disturb the peace.
I'm eternally resting in Christ. And, you know, in that same. Let me just bring this up over
there, and I said fifty seven that I just quoted to you. That
was Brother Joe's epithet. Remember the text at his funeral. Someone else is dead. So the
way. Well, the last verse of Isaiah
fifty seven says, though, there is no. Peace. To the way. There will not be. Say if my
God. No peace said my God to the way
none. The unbroken. Proud rebel. Unbent knee the unbound head
the unbelieving heart no peace not now not ever. But our Lord said. And so. This is what our Lord said, there's
no peace, not now and certainly no eternal peace. And since there's
no peace, alcohol, we looked at this the other day, alcohol
and drugs will be on the increase in search of peace. Lawyers,
psychiatrists abound, doctors, educators, counselors, tele-evangelists
on the increase. trying to give peace, peace,
when there is no peace. Our Lord said, no peace, but
the righteous. Don't you have peace? Isn't there
peace by believing, trusting Christ, huh? Huh? There's no peace like this peace. There's no real peace. And our
Lord said, in my peace I give unto you. Peace with God. And he said, My peace, I leave
with you. Leave with you and give unto
you. And no man, he said, will take it from you. Isn't that
good? Don't you delight? And don't
you look forward to that eternal rest? Well, look at verse 12.
He says the wicked plots against the just, lashes upon him with
his teeth. Christ is the just one, right?
Well, these people are just If I just like him as he is, so
are we. And this world and Nash on him,
the Lord, you see the context here, people, the Lord here is
the Lord Jesus Christ. Right. That's who we. That's who we look to, that's
the one who's governing this whole thing. That's the one who
the. These people he's talking about
look to. He's the one that's overseeing
all of them you said. Certainly this all applies to
Christ but in the content. This is talking about the people
of God in Christ who look to him. All right they are called
the just. the jet over the revelation says
that him that is filthy be filthy still. And him is just. He just. Right. And I need to keep saying this
I said this Wednesday night I need to start it out by saying who's
just who's righteous. My works of righteousness which
we have done right. I need to keep having to clarify that. Throughout the whole, I'm not
going to do it. Those that do are unskillful. They're using
milk only. You understand that? Okay. I'm
not going to keep explaining that. I'm not going to answer
to anybody who accuses me of anything like that either. We're led by the Holy Spirit.
You don't depend on me. All right, he says here, the
just, they plot against the just and gnash upon him with his teeth.
Did our Lord say they hated me? They'll hate you. If they loved
me, the just one, they'd love you. But they don't. They plot. Well, verse thirteen says the
Lord shall laugh. I've always wanted to do a message
on the laughing Lord. There's several times and scriptures
it mentions the laughing Lord you know any of them. Very familiar
scripture here's one of them. And I know where it's found Psalm
two. Talks about the heathen raging
the people imagine a vain thing let's break their bands asunder
cast their cords from him he that said it in the heavens shall
laugh. Men decide what they're going
to do. Men can't do anything but what the Lord allows them
to do, which fulfills his purpose. And this is for our peace and
our comfort, Sister Nancy. No one can do anything, especially
to God's people, apple of his eye. They couldn't touch Christ,
could they? Touch not mine anointed. They couldn't touch him till
his time was gone. Could they? couldn't touch you. No man takes our life from. I
feel. Same true of us. Well the Lord
shall laugh and over there in proverbs one you remember. Proverbs
one says because you've said it not my counsel. stretched
out my hands you refuse said it not all my counsel then he
said I will laugh when your calamity come I will mock when your fear
come you'll call and I want to answer. Remember that the laughing Lord.
That's serious and the laughing Lord what's the old saying we
have he who laughs lasts. Men and women young people are
laughing at God's day. It's mostly the fault of these
foolish preachers who have made God a laughingstock to our generation,
right? I blame them. That's what Isaiah
said when he wept. He said both prophet and priest
are profane. They're making a mockery of God
and God's word and the whole world laughing at this God they
call God, a God who cannot say. God's who less than man is. And
the whole world's laughing and mocking. But God says, I will laugh. And he who laughs
last, laughs best. The Lord shall laugh. Scripture
says, God will have the last laugh. Verse 14 says, The wicked
have drawn out the sword, and bent their bow, and cast down
the poor and the needy. to slay such as be upright of
conversation. I immediately thought of our
Lord when they came out against him with sticks and stones. You
remember that in the garden? Oh, I love that story, don't
you? You see, all of our confidence, all of our strength, all of our
courage, our faith is in him. We can be bold and courageous
and fear not and so forth if we look into him. The disciples
were bold as long as he was in front of them. Peter took out
his sword. While the Lord was standing there,
he took out his sword and was going to take on everybody. As
soon as the Lord, Sammy, smite the shepherd, what did they do? They took our eyes off of him.
But we looked to him and said, I am the Lord. Fear not, I am
he. Without him, we can do nothing.
But our Lord came, I love that story in the garden, he came. They came out against, with sticks
and stones, they're going to take God. Barbara, they're going
to come lay hold on God with sticks. He's laughing. Huh? I got him laughing. Man is going to do this, going
to do that. He that sits in the heavens laughs. And our Lord
went out in front of them and said, You come out against a
thief with sticks? And one last display. Oh, I love
this story. One last display of who He is. Jesus. Who do you think? Jesus.
You think I'm just Jesus? One last display. With a word,
Martin Luther wrote that hymn. One little word shall fail him.
John, don't you love that? He said, I am. And a whole bunch
of them hit the dirt. We don't need to defend ourselves
or take matters into our own hands. It's in the heavens. They
draw their bow. I'm going to get you. Who are
you? Who are you? You see that? Oh, my. Remember that they grow up, draw
out the sword they did against our Lord, and the same with a
bend the bow to cast down the poor and needy. Verse 15, a sword
shall enter their own heart. Their bow shall be broken. I
told you that story about John Warburton, didn't I, going to
hear Brother Gatsby preach? Maybe you don't remember that,
and I'd like to tell it again. This goes well with John Warburton,
a young rebel, like I was, mocking, scoffing at the message. And
he went to hear William Gatsby preach, and he was intending
to make fun of him. He and a buddy of his, they were
going to go make fun of this silly, stupid preacher. And God ended up breaking his
heart through that silly, stupid preacher. who was not a silly
stupid man at all wise man. Bold man but the Lord broke overburdened
heart. Through the very one he intended
he drew his bow. That man's a fool. I'm the fool. I'm the fool. And both will be broken. Now,
I'm not looking for a 16 a little. Well, I like this, it says in
verse. Verse. Yeah, verse 16, here it
is. It says a little that a righteous
man is better. A little that a righteous man is
better than the riches of many wicked. A little. Remember this. OK. Better is little with fear of
the Lord. You remember that? Than great treasure and trouble
therewith. Better is little with the fear
of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better.
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches
of many wicked or many riches of the many wicked and most are
rich and increased with good. I look at our society now and
I never cease to be amazed at the affluence or the wealth of
the society we live in today. It just has never been a society
in history like this. It is, you know, the average
price of a home, $150,000 to $200,000. And it goes up from there and people
are buying these left and right, three, four, five hundred, one
million dollars and on and on. Are you amazed at that? And I look at our society, rich
beyond imagination, and I can't help but think this, I always
think this, what are they going to do? What's everybody going
to do when it all comes crashing down? What are they left with? Spend
their lives working for what comes crashing
down? Huh? What are you left with? Now, here's the fact of the matter. Those who have Christ have all. And if they take away everything
you have, they can't take away from you these unsearchable riches. And, Nancy, you have an inheritance
that's laid up for you. This is all there is for the
world. And when they lose all they have, they've lost it all. But here it is. true riches to
you. Let them take away everything.
Who takes away? Who? The Lord gives and who? The Lord gave. We came into this
world with what? Nothing. We came in this world
naked. That's what Job concluded. Naked
I came and naked I'll return. And we're going to go out of
here with nothing. Nothing. We're going to lose
it all. Everything in this life. Relationships. Possessions. We're going to lose it all. We
came in here with nothing. We're going to go out with nothing.
Boy. Christ is all. Huh? It's not
a fairy tale. That's reality. Death is real.
Death is real. Verse 17 says, The arms of the
wicked will be broken, the Lord, but the Lord upholds the righteous. Things that people trust in will
be broken. Riches, material things, pleasures,
relationships will be broken, but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. Holds up. Going to hold us up. If we lost everything, it would
be a temporary trial. It really would. Don't let me
act like or sound like it wouldn't be tough. Well, he's going to
go on to tell us we won't be begging bread. No, sir. Children of Israel didn't,
didn't they? Did they work jobs? Barbara,
did they stop and go to work somewhere part time? Where'd
they get the bread? Where'd they get the bread? same place you got your bread.
Kroger didn't provide it. God did. Huh? You mean you're
the breadwinner, aren't you? No. You're the bread receiver
and the bread distributor. I give, says the Lord. It would
be tough. It would be a trial, but the
Lord holds him up. My grandfather, my father's father,
live in the depression they went through the depression they lost
their home. They had a home and they lost it and they had to
live on a rich man's farm and he worked as a caretaker on his
farm and he had three children. Plus number brothers and sisters
that also had to live with him too they lived in a ramshackle
place on a man's farm they didn't miss a meal. Didn't go without
clothing. My dad. He said we didn't know
we didn't have anything we were kids we didn't know we didn't
have anything. And my father's father was a
believer the Lord took it all. My mother's father. Lord blessed
him greatly he was working at the steel mill in Birmingham
Alabama and when the depression hit he kept his job all the way
through didn't lose his job. But it would be tough if the
Lord holds up. Lord holds up, as he does in
all trials, all, all trials. Listen, we're, we're cast down.
Let me just, I love this. Don't you? 2 Corinthians 4, this
is one of my favorite, one of our favorite passages, says we're
troubled on every side. And I'm not stating that we're
talking Like a super believer or whatever and saying I'm without
trouble. No, there's things that trouble
me. Don't they you? You with me? We're trouble on
every side. There's trouble all around us,
but not in distress. I'm not going to start taking
drugs. We're perplexed. I don't understand. Why this, Lord? Why that? That's
not the way I would have done it. I don't understand why the
Lord does what he does, but he does. Perplexed, but not in despair. I don't understand. But I believe the Lord knows.
Not in despair. Persecuted. David over and over
through the Psalms says, Lord, why don't you do something? Look
what they're doing. Then he's saying, look what they're
doing to us. We're your people. Over and over, he kept saying,
Lord, we're your own. Look what they're doing. Look
what they did to him. He said, this is the way it is. He's reminded,
it's the goodness of the Lord for us to be persecuted, and
we won't stay here. Trials, troubles, tribulations
are weaning us from this world. We're persecuted, but we're not
forsaken. Our Lord was despised and rejected
of men, but accepted by God. Which do
you want? Who do you want to love you? Think of that. He was despised
and rejected of men, but God said, I'm well pleased in him. Persecute, but not forsaken,
cast down. I get down cast, don't you? I
look at you, I know you. You know, we've been together
a good while now. And you, some of you, you wear your emotions
on your sleeve, your face, you're so readable, Deborah. Nancy. Me too. And We get cast down. I can see it on your face when
you come in here. You see it on mine. David got cast down. He said
it four times in one psalm, didn't he? Why art thou cast down within
me, O my soul? What was his hope? That was it. Hope thou in the Lord. I will
yet be strengthened, he said. I will yet be Encouraged, I will
get hope, hope in his mercy. My, my, he'll hold us up. This
gospel's what holds us up, isn't it? The good news of a Lord on
the throne. Verse, uh, go back to the text.
Verse 18 says, the Lord knows the days of the upright. And
I'm just taking each verse because every verse is wonderful. The
Lord knows the days of the upright. You don't know your days. Days. But he does. Right? Our days are numbered. We don't know, but he has them
numbered. Ron, he has our days. This is
the oldest book, recorded book, in this Bible, God's Word. And
he says this, man's days are determined. The number of his
months are with God. He has appointed his bounds that
he cannot pass. Days. It's just days, and boy,
the older you get, Brother Henry, years are just days, aren't they?
Last night, John said something about being out of high school
for seventeen or eighteen years now. It's been thirty. Honestly, he said, John. Double
that. John, you're over 50, you graduate
when you're 30. We've been there days on boom.
When we're young, we think somebody says 10 years from now, you think,
oh, it's an eternity, 10 years. Wow. But man, the older you get, bam,
isn't it? Days. He's numbered, and so he
says to us, teach us, and here's the prayer of the believer, teach
us to number our days, that we might apply our hearts to what?
Wisdom. What's that? Who's that? Paul says, oh, that
I would consider all this but done, that I might win Christ
and be found in him. As a stupid man is so stupid,
here is the stupid, foolish, and I use that word, Catherine,
because it it's the most ridiculing word I can think of. Stupid. There's a stupid saying that
man has. He who dies with the most toys
wins. You ever heard that? Sure you
have. Clever, isn't it? Isn't that
cute? Some guy riding along got that on his bumper of his big
old truck. How cute. What a fool. When you die, you lose all those
toys. And you lose your soul too. What a ignorant fool. He who
dies with the most toys loses. Our Lord said that he that loses
his life for my sake wins. Wins what? I haven't seen. It's going to
go on to say that in this very song. Quoting Isaiah, I hadn't
seen. You hadn't heard, Paul did, Paul
came back, Dan, Paul came back. And that's why he could say with
the utmost confidence, this is a bunch of dung here. He said,
I heard things. You're working for a dung. When
there's riches in God, beyond description. Eternal thing. Oh, my. So he says here in our text,
Psalm 37, and I got to quit. I'm enjoying it. Sometimes I
don't. Last Sunday, I didn't enjoy preaching
at all. And I want to. I do. I want to enjoy the food, too.
Sometimes I don't. Sometimes it's just for you.
Obviously, several of you enjoyed it, and I'm glad. But I'm enjoying
this. When I don't quit, it's not because
I'm trying to make you miserable. It's because I'm enjoying it.
And it says, The Lord knows the days, verse 18, of the upright.
Their inheritance shall be forever. They shall not be ashamed in
the evil time. The days of famine, they'll be
satisfied. They'll not be ashamed. The evil time. What's the evil
time? It's now. It's now. It's the most evil
time ever. Perilous times. The reason I
say we all, may the Lord give us a burden for our children.
This is the most, this is ten times worse than the sixties.
Isn't it? We think about Sodom, that was
one little city. Now it's everywhere. The Lord
has obviously lifted his hand off of this world. And it's all over but the shouting. I mean, it really is. And it's
evil. And man's glory is in his shame
now. They shall not be ashamed. Man's
glory is in his shame. They've turned God's glory into
shame. They now call, this is how corrupt
and evil the times are now, they now call evil good, and good
evil, don't they? And man is an utterly shameful
creature, but he has no shame, isn't he? Man is worse than a
beast. Man does what animals don't do,
and he's not ashamed of it. It's an evil time, Sam. They will he says they'll not
be a shame. They're not a shame are you shamed
of this gospel. Are you shamed of this God who's
sovereign. Are you ashamed of. This is true
the gospel. He shamed of me. Paul said to
Timothy don't be ashamed of the gospel or me. Well. That's good. If you're not ashamed.
That's good. And you won't be ashamed. And
when God Almighty parades this evil world before him. Make it. Start naked. And ashamed. Totally ashamed. Recalling everything they said
and did. That's the word that died not.
memory. Son, remember, God's people will
be standing clothed. It occurred to me the other day,
Brother Henry, it occurred to me the other day, why do these
so-called holiness people wear black? God's people in heaven are wearing
what color? Shows how ignorant they are.
They'll be clothed, standing over next to Christ, unashamed. Holy, righteous as He is. Clothed
in His righteous, white garment. Unashamed. Why? Why? Mercy and grace, that's why.
While everybody's ashamed. And they'll perish like the fat
of lamb, consumed by the Lord. two groups. Those who are blessed
of the Lord, those who are cursed. Those who are righteous in Christ,
those who are unrighteous. Those who are just, justified
in him, those who are unjust. Those who are made like him,
a good man. We're going to look at the next
thing is a good man the perfect man that gives you trouble that.
Don't let it OK did you come back and we'll see what that
means. Good the perfect man. Steps are
ordered and the end of that man's piece. Whatever it means I want
to be that. Don't you good man perfect. Evil doer. Evil doer. Oh, may the Lord bless it is
a man whom he chooses who's on the Lord's side. OK, well, again. Let's sing hymn number 474 and
stand together. We'll sing the first and last
verse.