The one that says, the hill of
Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets. That means church. A thousand sacred sweets, meaning
little foretastes of glory divine. I'd be dissatisfied this morning
with a couple of sweets. A couple of sweets. Go back to 2 Corinthians 4 with
me. And I asked Brother Gabe for
us to remain seated because in the meeting this week, we must
have sung 4,333 songs. Slight exaggeration, but it seemed
that way, and we stood on every one of them. And I'm going to be standing
all week preaching. I want to sit down. I want to stay seated. But I stood, every one of them. As you know, and as we say so
very often, God's Word is written mostly to God's people, especially
the epistles. They are letters, letters not
from men, but though men were the pen, that
God is the writer. Letters from God to his church,
what the Spirit saith unto the churches. Most is written to God's children
and the church, and God, as a faithful Father, reproves, rebukes, exhorts,
instructs, comforts, consoles, Encourages and so on. Chastens. The Word of God is full of. Warnings. Proof, rebuke is full
of promises. Did you read the article about
John Flavel in the bulletin? Wonderful one. Wonderful. Grace of God. so that we won't presume and
yet not despair. But God's Word to the unbeliever,
to the person who has not closed with the Lord Jesus Christ, by
that we mean the one who has not truly bowed to and repented and
believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. It has nothing to say but that. bow, repent, believe. But to the church, to God's people,
the church which is in the tribulation period, the church is in the tribulation
period. For those of you who know something
about the argument millennial reign and
all that, you know how they talk about, like to talk about the
tribulation period. How that some say that when Christ
comes, he'll come to this earth and reign a thousand years and
there'll be a tribulation period after that or before, I don't
know what, before or after. I don't know because I don't
believe that. I believe the church has been in the tribulation period
all along. Because our Lord said, you must,
through much tribulation, enter the kingdom of heaven. And in
the Revelation, Brother Stan, it says, who are these who are
dressed in these white robes? And that angel said, those that
went through tribulation. Tribulation means troubles, trials,
persecutions, affliction. And Psalm 73, David, who was
no stranger to trouble, his whole life was full of trouble, tribulation. He wrote in that Psalm 73, he
says, the waters of a full cup are wrung out to God's feet.
Waters of trouble. While the earth, most folks are
not in trouble, as other men, he said. Who sends this trouble? Who sends these trials? Who sends
this tribulation? Who is behind it? Who does this? God does. God does. Why? Why does God send trouble? Why does God send trouble? Well, we're going to see that
in a moment. But look at verse 8, and this is the Apostle Paul
and Silas and Timothy. And Thomas, and John, and Jane. Well, Jane's already been killed.
Several of them have already been killed. Trouble. I mean, deep trouble. And he, back there, I read to
you, he said, we always, well, here, he always bear about the
body, in the body, the dying of the Lord's scars. Paul literally
bore a scar. As many of you bear scars from
surgery and this and that and the other, he bore scars for
being whipped, beaten, stoned, and so forth. And over in chapter one, he says
we have the sentence of death in our sins, meaning we're dead
men. We're dead. But he said that
doesn't bother him. To be absent from the body. He really believed what our Lord
said about, don't fear them that kill the body. After that, there's
nothing more they can do. Fear God. He really believed
Christ who said, He that liveth and believeth in me shall never
die. He believed this. Paul believed this. Silas, Timothy,
the rest, do you? Do we? I asked Brother William that yesterday. We're going to leave this place. Some sooner than others. Paul
says we're troubled. Troubled on every side. Trouble all around us on every
side. You remember the parable our Lord spake of the house built
on the sand, the house built on the rock? Remember he said
the house being the person built here or there. The rains descended. The rains. These are trials that
come from God. We know it's from God. Couldn't
come from anywhere else. God did this. Like Eli said,
it's the Lord. Trials. Rain comes. Descends. Says it floods us in. Troubles
in this earth. Trials at work. Trials in your
family. Troubles. Trials out in the world.
Trials living in this earth, you're just going to have trouble.
This is a world full of trouble. And he said in the wind, and
you think, why is that happening? Where does this come from? What's
the purpose of this? Troubles within. Thoughts. And our chief source of trouble It's this awful thing called
sin that just troubles us all the time, on every side, within,
without, up, down. That's a believer. Troubles. But he said we're troubled, but
not distressed. You ever been in distress? A person in distress, let me
give a good illustration of that. A person that's drowning, that's
going down, been down a couple of times, come back up, swallowing
water, They are, they're in distress. If somebody, as one gasping for
air and for help, distress. You nurses have seen people in
distress, haven't you? He says we're troubled, but we're
not. We shouldn't be in distress.
If Paul said we're not in distress, neither should we be. We're not
even, we're not going through, Tam, we're not going through
a fraction of what he was going through. Boy, the trouble they
went through, Stan, and he said, but we're not in distress. Oh,
no, we're not going to act like, you know, like this is it, it's
all over. Why? Why was he not in distress? He knew who sent it, who sent
the trouble, who's on the throne, whose hands he was in. Read the
next line, he says, we're perplexed. Paul's the one that wrote, we
preach in part, we know in part. We see through a glass dimly. We see through a glass dimly,
don't we? We read this word and we see,
but it's really very dim. And we're perplexed. We don't
understand. We don't understand. Why, Lord? Why? Why? Why? Why?
We ask that. Why? The first and oldest book
in Scripture is the book of Job. And that's what they spent 40
chapters doing. Didn't they? Job was all right. Job was just fine. Job had peace. until his buddies came along
and they started asking, now why? Why is this happening? And Job thought, well, I don't
know why. And then Job cursed his day and
the fellas started pointing their fingers at him and he pointed
them back and just on and on it went. They tried to ask why.
Why? They were perplexed. Perplexed. Don't understand why. The disciples were perplexed
all the time. Remember when John was beheaded?
John, the greatest man born of woman. John, they thought. Boy,
don't you know they felt like miserable preachers when they
went to hear John preach. They'd get in the background
and say, yes, John, preach, John, preach. James and all of them,
they felt, oh, we can't preach like him. Preach! Oh, Lord, use
him. Open his mouth. And then, his
head cut off. Oh, Lord, why would you stop
that voice? They were perplexed then, weren't
they? And they were really perplexed when the Lord himself said, I'm
going to go to Jerusalem and they're going to kill me. Oh no, and that's when Peter
said, Lord, no, no, no, no, no. Be it far from me. Get behind me, Satan. They didn't understand. Perplexed. But look at the next time. He
says, but we're not in, not in despair. Despair means without
help. Despair. Have you ever despaired
of something? Despair. No hope. No help. It's
all over. Oh, no. I don't have any answers. I don't have any help. I don't
have any comfort. Oh, no, no, no, no. Paul says
we're not in despair. We don't understand. We're perplexed. We're finite creatures like a
dog. I don't understand what my master
is doing, but we're not in despair. Why? How? How come, Paul? Because
he knows what he's doing. They never did understand. They
never did understand what the Lord would do. Get in the boat.
Okay. They cross the ocean. And He
do something. He said, Get back in the boat.
Where are we going? Back to the other side. Okay. And where are we going? Samaria.
Well, let's go this way. Or going wherever in the He said,
let's go this way. Lord, this is a shorter route.
No, no, no, no. We're going this way. OK. They never did understand what
he was doing. Later on, they did. Not in despair. Why? He knows what he's doing.
Abraham, take your son up on the mountain and kill him. You know all the questions with. Do you know if you. Know he saw
clearly like. How you rejoice to see my day
Christ said and he saw it and he was glad. Lord thank you for
sending me up there to kill Isaac. Perplexed but not in despair
No hope, we have hope, hope in Him. You know one word will cure
all despair? Listen to me. One word will cure
all of our despair. It's the word that God used to
open my pastor's blind eyes. One word. Purpose. God's doing all things on purpose. Just rest right there. Purpose. No action. Nobody and nothing
is in control of anything. Nothing has any bearing. Nothing
has any bearing on anything. God is reigning and ruling. Heaven, earth, work in all things we say that
all the time. We preach that all the time.
This is for our comfort Barbara. This is our chief source of comfort. Is it not? God reigns. I mean it really does. Your breath
is in his hands. I told Brother William, I said,
Brother William, you're the greatest living example I know of how
that man's days are determined. We thought you were gone years
ago. What do we know? Man's days are determined. His
months are with the Lord. His bounds are set. He cannot
pass. Nothing you do can make you live
one second longer than God has determined. That's not fatalism.
That's Bible. Not in despair, persecuted, he
says, verse 9, persecuted by Satan. God's people are persecuted
cheaply by Satan. Yes, sir, we're not wrestling
with flesh and blood. That's not what this is about.
You and I are soul. Man is a living soul. And there's
a war going on for souls. And our chief adversary is someone
we cannot see, someone much wiser than we are, slicker than we
are, full of guile. Knows human nature better than
we know. Knows us better than we know us. And he is our arch
enemy. Always has been, always will
be. And we can't, we cannot, we are no match whatsoever. We don't even really know what
he's doing. But I'll tell you who does. And he laughs. I tell you who
does. I love the story of Job. Don't
you? Don't you love that story? I was talking to a fellow on
a railroad one time about that, some religious fellow, who said
God's people never go through trials and all that. God doesn't
want that to happen, you know. And I brought up Job, you know.
He didn't want to hear it. He didn't want to hear it. Well,
I do, don't you? What was Job's comfort and peace
and all that? Finally, when all the dust settled,
what was Job? God said, straighten up now.
I'm going to tell you something. I'm going to tell you why all
this is happening, because I'm God. And I don't give an account
of my matters to anybody or anything. Just know this and just rest
right here. I'm God. And Job said, oh, I've
spoken. I just should have kept my mouth
shut a long time ago. And he got peace and comfort.
And knowing God persecuted by Satan, well the story of Job,
the reason I brought that up, is that Satan came and presented
himself to the Lord. And as he must do. And the Lord was poking fun at
him. Have you considered my servant Job? Considered him. Satan scripture says is a roaring
lion sick of him and he made the Bible Satan that desired
the Peter our Lord said to shift you like we. Can't touch it. Why. Right here. He can't touch it
it's the same with all of God's people. Satan knows Satan can't
say Lord. You put a hedge about him I can't
touch him. You put a hand about Sherry Anderson.
Lord, I can't touch her. He knows. He knows who we belong
to. He knows when we're his willing
captive. He knows. He knows when we're
his willing captive. So we do his bidding. And he
knows when we're the Lord's captive. He knows. He knows when someone's
taken out from under him. Yes, sir. So that's what he's all about. We're
persecuted by the world. Satan's. Domain. He's the god of this world. We're
persecuted by his children. His ministers. Their angels of
righteousness seem. Our Lord said you shall be hated
to his disciples. You shall be hated. Of all men. And I'm my namesake in this world. If you were of the world, the
world would love its own, but because you're not of the world,
the world will hate you. They hated me, they'll hate you,
because you're not of this world. That's what he said. Prepare
to be hated. Don't wonder when people hate
you. Wonder that they don't. But he said, you are persecuted
and persecuted by this old man inside. The Lord leaves that old fellow
there for a reason. Years ago when a dog would, a
farm dog, would kill some livestock, attack and kill maybe like chickens,
I had this problem with my dog, Abner, at first when we had chickens. And the old practice back then,
to teach that dog a lesson was to take a chicken that it killed
and tie it around that dog's neck and leave it there until
it just became so obnoxious to that dog. Leave it on. He had
to carry it around all the time to make it understand what it
had done. until it you know you imagine
all to it how to go I hate chickens. I don't ever want to see a chicken
again. Why did I do that? And we bear about this body of
death. And what Romans 7 says John Paul
says who shall deliver me from this body of death. It stinks
to me. I want rid of this. Why did I
do that? That makes sense. Who could have
got rid of who who makes us aware of this? God. God. Until finally one day. Oh. Oh, my. So this old man persecutes
us. It's a good it's good for us.
Lord, please get rid of this sin in me. Well, it's enough
to know, my child, that I have paid for it. And you're not under
the dominion of it, but you're going to smell it from here on
out. Is that not wisdom, Jeanette?
Wisdom. It'll make you want to drop this
old body, won't it? Be done with it. Like David,
I quoted, Oh, I'll behold thy face in righteousness. I'll be
satisfied when I awake with thy likeness, when I get rid of this
stinking thing called me. Only a believer understands that. Because he says we're persecuted
but not forsaken. I'm with you, he said. And I got in a hurry. Let's go
on down. He said we're cast down. Psalm
42. This is a psalm that I'm talking
to a dying woman. A dying believer. And I told
her to read this psalm. Privacy. Her own privacy. Read this psalm. And why, it
says, David says twice in that psalm, Why art thou cast down
within me, O my soul? Hope thou in God. Hope thou in
God. We have a sure hope. It's in
an unseen God. That's what faith is a substance
of, evidence of, things not seen. That's what we look at, Paul
said. Verse 18, we look at things not that you're seeing and not
saying, because they're eternal. And so he says we're cast down,
but we're not destroyed. We're not destroyed. You cannot
be destroyed. Nothing here can destroy the
believer. Nothing. Nothing can destroy
the peace of the believer. That's what Romans 8 is. Romans
8, all the way through. Who shall separate us from the
love of God? Who? What? Shall distress? The tribulation, death, and all
that, He goes on to do. None of those things separate.
Christ said, I'll never leave you, no forsake you. And when
they kill you, what they've done is send you to Me. What I have
them do is send you to Me. We worry about this. We worry
about that. No, don't. No. We worry about it. And something
bad happens. And we're human. But who sent
it? We, above all people, must believe
that. Well, he said, look at verse
16. He goes on down to say, For which
cause we faint not, we're not going to quit, though our outward
man perish. And he is. He is. This outward man, this body,
is dying. It ought to be real evident to a. Man spends billions of dollars. To try to stay young can't do
it. To try to shore up what's sagging. To try to undo what cannot be
undone. Perfume. Boy, we don't have to be, you
know, we can take a bath and a few minutes later we're starting
to stink, aren't we? That tells us right there, we're
dying. We're a dying creature. Dying creature. The outward man
is perishing. Every day. It's clear. But the inward man. Are there two men? What kind of fool would argue
that? The inward man is renewed day by day. How? In the image of Christ. Back
in chapter 3, 18, it says we're changed into the same image from
glory to glory by the Spirit of God, not by
ourselves. Verse 16, he says, So the inward man is renewed
day by day. What renews you? Did you read
the article about eating the Word? Eating the Word. Eating the Word. Good food. This
is it. This is it right here. This is
how the new man is renewed. You go out in the world and the
world loves its own. The world loves that old man.
The old man loves the world. And what does it do? Drags you
down. Drags you down. Drag you down. And you come back
here. Oh, restore my soul. Renew me. Lift me back up. I'm so cast
down. My sin. Out of the world. Oh, say something to bring me
back up. The outward man perished. The
inward man is being renewed like a child in the womb. You know,
this is like, well, it's being born. A child in the womb grows,
doesn't it? A child grows in the womb, and
the more it grows, the more restless it gets, doesn't it? This ought
to be real fresh on the minds of two young
ladies in here, anyway. The more that child grows, the
more restless it becomes. Why? It wants out. It's in darkness. It wants out
in the light. Well, really, it doesn't know
what it wants. But it wants out. Kick in. Kick in. And in the
fullness of time. Life. More abundant. Whole lot
more. Now, life was created, Melanie,
back when conception began, right? When the seed was sown. Life. Abigail didn't know it. She was
alive. You knew it. Salvation is to be in Christ.
He knew it. He knows. It's pointless to try
to figure out when you were saved. Forget that. That's pointless.
Might as well try to figure out when you were conceived. But the mother knows it, doesn't
she? Oh, I feel so. That's life. Life is to be in Christ. And
we're in Christ right now. We're kicking. The older you
get, the more you stretch in it. What do you want? I want
to be clothed upon it. That's what Paul wrote then.
I've grown. I want out. Not out of Christ, but out of
this world and into His heart. Verse 17, he says, Our light
affliction. This is really my text. Our light affliction. Which is,
but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding eternal
weight of glory, our light affliction. And you've looked at this with
me so many times, but would you give me a few more minutes for
your comfort? Our light affliction. I know a couple of folks right
now that could really enter into this. Appreciate it. But our
light affliction. And now the things that we often
endure are not. We don't think they're light.
We don't think of pain when you're in real pain. It doesn't feel
like to you. Robert. But now, Paul, God, through the
apostle Paul, wrote this. Did he know anything about pain?
He knew very little of life without it. And he died a horrible death. He says they're like. Why? How could he say? Because they're
like in comparison to our past blessings. are outnumbered light. In other
words, you put things in the scale, this light weighing light. So our light afflictions, we
put the scale, you put a scale of our life and God just puts
blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing,
affliction, blessing, blessing, right? Everyone in here, I know something
about your life. Blessing. Blessing. Can you say that? I do well with murmuring and complaining.
I just do away with it. Like compared to how much more
have the blessings been, John, than the trials and tribulations?
Double. Know what scripture says, Isaiah
42, we've received of the Lord's hands what? Double. For all our neighbors. David said, if I could number
them, I had more than I could number. Innumerable blessings,
blessings, blessings, blessings. Life compared to some people's
troubles. We were talking about hard work
yesterday, what hard work some endure here. Oh, man. Ain't none of us in Southeast
Asia and Vietnam down in a swamp or something being over 60 and
70 year old women being over picking up rice until you can't
straighten your back up and do it for 12 or 16 hours and go
home to a house full of 18 people. One room cabin. None of us have
ever been like that nor ever will be. We got it good. light compared to the troubles
of some. Very, very light. This country has so much to answer
to. Let it not be said of us that
we're murmuring and complaining like the children of Israel.
Don't do it. Don't ever do it. We're just not in trouble as
some are. They're very light. Besides,
God promised us that, didn't he? Men, the sweat of your brow.
That's what he said in the garden and it hadn't changed and never
will. Sweat of your brow. Women, you'll greatly, you'll
have troubles and sorrow in childbirth. Feminine problem and this and
that and the other and the problem with your children. God said
it will be and it will be because of sin. It's just going to happen. It's our lot. Our light affliction. And he says it's I'm going to
quit. He says it's for a moment. Would
you stay with me? Would you please stay with me
for a minute with God's word? I'm just coming for a moment.
He says it's just a moment. A moment. We've been here this morning
for God says it's just a moment.
A moment in time. Our brother, Gabe, worked this
all out for us. The scripture says a day is a
thousand years with the Lord. Twenty-four hours. A thousand years to God Almighty
is the equivalent of twenty-four hours. Break that down. One hour is
42 years. Deborah, you're much older than
42 years. Much. You're 42 years passed
by many moments ago. She says, go on. 42 years is one hour. 26 years
is 30 minutes. How old are you, Jennifer? 26? Boy, that's good. I'm glad. You've lived 30 minutes to God. That put in perspective, nine
months is one minute. You remember that, nine months
is one minute in the Lord's time. And he said, now remember that,
nine months is one minute, and I'm going to use the illustration
in closing. The Lord says, this thing is but for a moment. And it worketh for us. Romans 8, 28 is not to be quoted
when we die, but when we live. All things work together for
good. For us, Dan, all things work
for us. These things, but for a moment,
these light afflictions, but for a moment, just a moment in
the space of time, Works for us. Nothing's against us. It says the wind was contrary
to the disciple. They were about to see glory.
If those winds hadn't been blowing that way, they wouldn't have
seen the Lord coming strong and mighty on them, walking on water.
They wouldn't give anything for that now, Kelly. They wouldn't
give anything for that. They were so thankful that they
were about to sing. They were so thankful that the
Lord brought up that storm. Worketh for us a far, he goes
on to say, and this is going to build, and I've got it in
my mind, I have to holler it, worketh for us a far more exceeding,
far exceeding and eternal weight Meaning, the glory will far exceed
the sorrow. The glory will far exceed the
misery. The glory will far exceed the
sadness. The glory, the happiness, the
joy, the peace, the comfort will far exceed, far exceed. When God says far more, He says Heavens are higher than
the earth, far more exceeding. He said, I hadn't even seen,
ear hadn't heard, you hadn't even thought about it for a moment.
The far exceeding glory of this, far outweighed. He wrote in Isaiah
65, it's so glorious, the things of former things will not even
be remembered. It will never even come to mind.
You just forget all about it, forever. Just for a moment. And throughout eternity. Now listen to it. It's far exceeding
glory. He goes on to say things seen
are temporal. And that's what we need to look
past. Things unseen are eternal. Far
more exceeding eternal weight of glory. Now carry with me In
closing, John 16, John chapter 16, I'm going to use a good illustration. John chapter 16, OK? The Lord
says in his word, this thing, these light afflictions, they're
but for a moment, just a moment in time. Sixty seconds. And they work for us, for God's
people, for the church, the church of God that he purchased with
his own blood. which Christ redeemed. Far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Now, we're burdened
down, aren't we? We're weighted down with sin.
We've got this thing, this gravity called sin. I told you about always standing
up on my toes. You see me? See, I'm not like
that singer. I don't believe I can fly. No matter how I want to. I can't
get above. Look how we grovel here below.
I love that song, don't you? Because I feel it. Oh, in vain
we strive to rise. We're weighted down. But he says
now all this is going to be exceeding the internal weight of glory,
meaning glory will far outweigh all of this. The trial may seem
heavy and bring down dragging, but the glory will far outweigh
it. Have you ever had things heaped
on you and you thought that's enough, that's good enough? Like
your plate, John, when Irene comes. That's enough. That's
enough. Oh, OK, I'll have some more. Joseph Bredman thought that,
didn't he? We got enough that's sufficient. Bring the wagons. This is too good to be true.
Far outweigh, that's why that says weigh. Let me, now let me use this illustration.
A woman giving birth. This thing of us is like a woman
being, a child being born. A woman with child. And when
you first become pregnant, It's not a very heavy weight,
is it? And you go and you have ultrasounds
and all that, and you're so excited, though. And you say it, you know,
doctor said it weighed about half an ounce. And you're so excited. And then it grows. It begins
to grow. This inward child is growing. It gets a little heavier
now. Because it weighs a pound. And you're starting to feel it.
How do you feel? Oh, okay. He's a believer. growing in grace
and the knowledge of Christ, Christ in you, the hope of glory.
At first, this is great. Isn't this great? This is just
wonderful. How do you feel? I'm OK. And then it grows. And then, Melanie,
it starts weighing about six pounds. And then it begins to be a burden. Six pounds. And if you keep going. How much did him away Jennifer
I'm picking on you this morning seven. Some give Rebecca you
had an eight pounder didn't you. How much did Jennifer weigh seven. Emma has a child that weighs
seven pounds. The pain. Deborah, did you go
through much pain having Jennifer? She went, oh yes. They say, I don't know this from
experience. I saw it in my wife's face. I
didn't experience it. But they say it's the worst pain
imaginable. Was it? Excruciating. All right, look at this. Jesus Christ said that. In John
16, verse 21, he said, A woman, when she is in travail, hath
sorrow, because her hour is come. Mindy, I do remember when she
had been through travail or labor for a long time,
many hours. And the doctor, I asked the doctor,
how much longer do you think it'll be? He said an hour. I
said, great. Oh, boy, an hour. That ain't
long. I told him, I said, honey, it's
only going to be about another hour. She said, oh, an hour. Cut my head off now. An hour
to her at that time was like in eternity. I can't take it
another hour. Did you? I mean, you got through it? Deborah,
that excruciating pain you went through? Oh, it says, as soon
as she's delivered of the child, She forgot all about the pain. For joy that a child is more than it
was. Deborah, that horrible pain, was it worth it? Folks, would
you look sitting in the seat beside her. There was a six-pound
little girl in her belly, six pounds, seven pounds. I'm not
going to tell you say how much she was. But that little child
grew into a young girl. Oh, Sammy. What is Kelly worth to you? You
could not put it into words, could you? Far outweighs the sleepless
nights, right? How many sleepless nights did
you go through with her? She knows now. Would you do it
again? when you think when you stop.
You go through it all. But the women it doesn't stop
there. She grew into a young girl. And we watched her grow
into a young lady. And she has become a mother.
And then she goes through the same thing. What do you think
about Emma, Deborah? Now, was it all worth it? We're
not only talking about a daughter, but a mother with a child. And
if Emma has a baby, and that's one of God's own, and you're
sitting in a pew with about four or five of those around you,
it was a light affliction. And someday, I believe, by God's
grace, you're going to be standing in glory with these living souls
beside you, Jennifer beside you, maybe Emma beside you. Patrick
beside you. We just didn't go through anything,
did we? It was just a moment, wasn't
it? Can you believe this? Tar. You see that? Tar outweighs. It's just a light flicker. Just
for a moment. All you got to go through now
is, let's see, and pick on somebody else. Melanie, all you've got
to go through now is 42 more years. One more hour. Three score and ten, you're 30,
now everybody knows, old kid. Just one more hour, Melanie,
one more hour. I can't take it. Henry, you're
over 70. To get through it, God's grace
sufficient? One hour. For some, it's one minute. Charles, one minute longer. In
a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, change. And the glory will be changed
from glory to glory. Behold, it is done. Why wouldn't you look forward
to that? So don't worry about it, it's working for us, just
for a moment, and it far, far outweighs anything. All right,
Brother Gabe, let's sing a closing hymn. you. uh... uh... you I don't know. I don't know. uh... I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know. I don't know.