Brother Henry, unfortunately,
is not able to be here this morning. Doris had a little virus, actually,
which on the heels of that surgery I was of some concern. She's
much better now. She's home again, had some fluids,
and is doing fine. But Brother Henry sends his love
to you, and I feel a little like the fellow called up to pinch-hit
for Babe Ruth. But Lord willing, we'll have
the same Christ to worship this morning. This portion of Scripture
that Brother Sammy read in Isaiah 30, it was my intention to begin
in verse 18. When I first saw I came across
this passage of Scripture. When I was greatly troubled about
a matter and I didn't know what I should do. And you've been
there. God's people are going to have
adversity and difficulties and troubles and trials. And this
was a great comfort to me. And I want to read these few
verses here from 18 through 21 and listen to it in that context. And the next time, perhaps you're
in that situation, perhaps it will comfort you, too, is a great
comfort to me. Verse 18 says, And therefore, will the Lord
wait. And he may be gracious unto you when he doesn't give
us just what we want, when we want it, he's waiting for a reason. And it says that he may be gracious
to you and therefore he'll be exalted, he's going to get more
glory if he waits to do what's best for us in the end. And that
also that he may have mercy upon you for the Lord is a God of
judgment. He's a God of justice, but he's
a God of truth and of covenant. He does everything according
to plan. And blessed are they that wait for him. Now, if you
want to get in more trouble, go ahead and do something before
you have the leadership of his spirit. And it's sort of like
running headlong off the cliff. It'll it won't come to any good.
You see, verse 19, for the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem.
his people come and sit under the word. And then they'll weaken
them or whatever's troubling you and whatever's causing this
turmoil in your life. If you come and sit under the
word, you get some comfort from it. It'll help us. And he'll
be very gracious unto thee at the voice of your cry. He'll
hear you, you know, come and sit under the word and cry unto
him in your trouble and he'll hear you. And when he does, he'll
answer you. And though the Lord give you
the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall
not thy teachers be removed into a corner anymore, but then I
shall see thy teachers." What will happen is if you come and
sit under the Word and be patient and wait, sooner or later, the
Word or the one who teaches it or preaches it is going to say
something. And you know what will happen? Then this is what
you'll get in verse 21. And then your ears shall hear
a word behind you saying, this is the way that you should walk
in it. When you turn to the right of
the left, you no longer stand there going, what am I supposed
to do? Where am I supposed to go with it? You'll see the way you make it
clear to us. Now, I hope that's a blessing to you. That was I
was going to make the whole message that. And and then I got to study
in it. And what happened was, as your
pastors taught you, I read verse 18. Start. I sat down to study.
The first thing I read was. And therefore, Brother Paul's
taught you when you see a therefore, find out what it's there for.
So I backed up here till I got to verse eight. And this is what
I read, Now go write it before them in a table, and note it
in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and
ever. Isaiah was told to put in writing what God would have
him say. And aren't we glad? Aren't we
glad? Aren't we grateful that God recorded
his word? And why was it recorded? Well,
it says there in that verse the phrase for ever and ever. God's
word is a testimony forever and ever to all men at all times,
so that man is without excuse. God puts a conscience in a man
and puts the word out here so that everybody's without excuse.
Nobody's going to be able to arrive at the judgment and say,
well, I didn't know about the Lord Jesus Christ. I didn't know about
sin. No, we're told, aren't we? And it's a forever testimony,
his word. But secondly, you see, he had it recorded like this
for the sake of God's people. God's recorded word provides
the answer to all questions, the solution to all problems,
and the cure for all ailments. And when those things come to
God's people, you see the phrase here, that it may be for the
time to come. You know what the time to come
is? Listen to me here. Everybody in here who knows the
Lord Jesus Christ, there was a day when you didn't know him.
There was a day when I didn't know him. But then there was
a day, there came a time, I heard the Word preached, and I knew
Him. I knew Him from the Word. So
you see, he had Isaiah record this, because there's going to
come a time when some of God's sheep are going to hear it and
go, this is the day when I see Christ. That makes sense, doesn't
it? You see, the eternal benefit
is much greater than just our little daily troubles and trials.
The Word is where we need to turn when that time comes. Now,
why don't we seek the Lord through His Word? Why don't men everywhere,
why don't all people just go, yeah, that's what I need. I'm
going to go sit under the Word and hear that. Why don't we cry
unto the Lord right away at the first sign of trouble? Well,
because we're dead in trespasses and sin. You see, verse 9 says
that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that
will not hear the Word of the Lord. We're rebellious people
by nature. We are not by nature looking
for the Lord Jesus Christ. We're not looking for salvation.
I wasn't looking for it. Well, when it came to me, it
was like a bolt of lightning out of nowhere. I wasn't looking
for Christ. But like, you think Paul was
riding down the road to Damascus looking for the Lord Jesus Christ?
No, he's looking to go kill some people. The light came out of
heaven and blinded him. You see, the day came. The time
came. But it had to come that way because Paul was a rebel.
And so were we by nature. Why do we have, you see there
it says lying children? Why do we have lying children?
Any of you have got children that can talk, how much time
do you spend teaching them? Now honey, when you get in trouble
in school, just lie about it. I don't want to know what you
really did, just lie to me so I don't really know how bad you
are. We don't spend any time doing that, do we? We spend all our
time trying to teach them to tell the truth. Why is that?
It's by nature they lie. And do you know why they lie?
For the same reason that chickens have chicks, that eagles have
eaglets, cats have kittens, and lying adults have lying children. They're just like us. And it's
vital. That's why it's vital to raise
our children in the spirit and admonition of the Lord, because
the tide of everything is going the other way. Let me give you
this illustration. It's real cute. At 13th Street,
when you're five years old, you get to come out of the nursery
out into the congregation and sit in the services. And to a
person, those little ones are so excited because they think
you're going to be big people now. And they think it's so wonderful. And this one lady had said, kept
telling her little one that Pretty soon, you're going to come out
of the nursery and come in and hear, going to be taught about
the Lord Jesus Christ. He was so excited that after
just a few weeks out there, riding home from church, he said, Mama,
he said, you know, he said, I think I'm ready to go back in the nursery.
I've learned enough about the Lord Jesus Christ. And I tell
you, it makes us chuckle, but he isn't. You see, they come
into the world not caring about the Lord Jesus Christ, and not
wanting to know anything about it. Left alone, we nor our children
will seek Christ or his word. What will we do? Look at verse
10, what we'll do. We will not hear the word of
the Lord, which what we'll do is say to the seers. Now, a seer
is a teacher, and you'll understand this better, and a prophet is
a preacher. So listen to the verse that way
now. We say to the teachers, Don't teach us. Don't teach us.
And we say to the preacher, the gospel preacher, don't preach
unto us right things. Don't teach unto us and preach
unto us true things. Speak unto us smooth things. You know what smooth things are?
Flattering things. You know, you're not that bad.
You got a spark of good in you. You know, it's all right living
and doing the best you can. That's pretty smooth, isn't it?
Sounds a whole lot better than dead and trespasses and sins,
doesn't it? And what we say by nature is
prophesy or preach deceit. That is, lie to us. Don't tell
us what we need to hear. Just lie to us. And all you've
got to do is watch these fellows on TV. Who's that lady that walks
up and down? She's a comedian. And all she
has to do is say smooth things and lie to people. That's what
we're looking for by nature. Why does God provide teachers
and preachers? Well, if He didn't, we're blind
by nature, aren't we? We don't see. And what He does
is He saves a few and gives them more light than others so that
they can expound the Scriptures to us. Tell us what God's saying
in the Word. It's the way He's ordained to
do it. He started with Abraham and has been a preacher in every
generation since. And aren't we glad we've got
Paul Mahan. Boy, what a day when Rocky Mount
was sent Paul Mahan to preach the gospel. My, my, what a day. By nature, we're not looking
for a teacher or a priest or a son of God. Natural man is
religious, but does not seek truth as is revealed in the Word.
By nature, we seek flattering words, smooth things. We want
to hear what we like. You see, our Lord said, I am
the way, The truth and the light, he said, I'm the way, right?
What by nature are we looking for? Look at verse 11. What we
want the preacher to do is get out of the way. Is that clear
right there? It says we want the preacher
to go get out of the way. Don't get in that way. Get out
of the way. Get out of the way. Look at the
next phrase there. Turn aside from the way. Cause,
is this clear? Cause the Holy One of Israel,
the Lord Jesus Christ, cause him to cease from before us. Ever had anybody come here and
hear the gospel for a little while and then leave? You know
why they left? Because Paul wouldn't get the Lord Jesus Christ out
from in front of them. And folks will hear a lot of
things, but not going to hear that. That he's sovereign, that
he's righteous, he's holy. He's a substitute for sinners.
Folks aren't going to hear that by nature. We wouldn't either,
unless the Lord gave us a heart to hear it. And then it says,
wherefore, in verse 12, wherefore, thus saith the Holy One of Israel,
because you despise this word, because you won't hearken to
this word by nature, and trust in oppression, that is, fraud. You know, when somebody gets
up and doesn't tell you the truth, that's fraud, isn't it? And let me tell
you, we may have all these CEOs and all these corporate boards
defrauding us. Let me tell you where the greatest
fraud in this world is, and that's with men standing in the pulpits
of so-called churches in this land. They're lying on the Lord
Jesus Christ. And by nature, we trust that
fraud and perverseness, that is, turning aside from anything
but Christ and stay there staying on him. You see what this is
like and what it leads to. Let me read verse 13. It says,
Therefore, this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to
fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking cometh suddenly
at an instant. And he shall break it as the
breaking of the potter's vessel, which is broken in pieces. He
shall not spare, so that there shall not be found in the bursting
of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or take water withal
out of the pit." Now, let me tell you what this is all about.
What those two verses are saying is this. If you were dying of
thirst and there was a vessel full of water here, common sense
would tell you what you do is you drink it, right? I mean,
any sane person would do that, right? But you see, we're so
full of sin. We're such liars and such so
self-deceitful. Do you know what we do? I don't
know whether it's because we didn't fetch the water, whether
we didn't buy the jug, make the jug or didn't buy the water.
I don't know what the reason is, but by nature, it's always
the same. Do you know what natural man
will do with the jug of water? Take it and beat it until it's
smashed and the water runs out on the ground. You say, that's
crazy. We are crazy by nature. Crazy. We're not looking for the path.
We're not looking for the right way. We're looking for the smooth
way, easy way, the deceitful way. Don't tell me I'm a sinner.
My sister one time, this breaks my heart to use this illustration,
but when I was first redeemed, I was so excited and I wanted
to tell her who Christ was and how wonderful this was and everything
else. And finally, She heard what I was saying, and she turned
around, and her daughter, who was about 12, was sitting on
the couch over there, and she said, You mean to tell me that
she's a sinner? And I said, Yes, sis, but there's
the Lord Jesus Christ who can save her. And she put her finger
in my face and said, Damn you, and damn you, don't you ever
talk to me about the Bible again. And it's been 25 years, and I
haven't since. But I tell you, except for the
grace of God, that's me wagging my finger in the face of God
saying, I don't want to know who Christ is. Tell me anything,
but don't tell me that. And the picture here, the other
picture about the Boeing wall, is that there's a rock wall and
the enemies out there are assaulting us. And all we have to do is
just rest, just sit down behind the wall and rest and we're safe.
But you know what we do? Oh no, that's not good enough
for us. We got to pile all our own stuff on top of the wall.
And we keep piling it up, piling it up, and we're doing the best
we can, and I got perfect attendance, and we just keep piling up until
finally that wall starts to bow, and then you know what it does?
It just all collapses out. And the self-righteous are revealed
one day for what we are. And we're at the mercy of the
enemy. We're at the mercy of our sin then. As opposed, you
see, this is a good illustration, because what is a wall but rocks? And who's that rock? The Lord
Jesus Christ. The vessel's full of what? Water. It's not by accident these two
things are put down here. It's the water of life and the
rock Christ Jesus. All we got to do is get behind
the wall, admit who and what we are, and get Christ between
us and the wrath of God. All we have to do to have our
sin put away is be in Christ. On the other hand, we need a
righteousness, all we have to do is drink of the water of life.
Oh, no, we'd rather see him crushed at Calvary, broken. So look at
verse 15 here. For thus saith the Lord God,
the Holy One of Israel, the only way you'll be saved is in returning,
that is, repentance and in rest shall you be saved. You see that
it's not doing, it's not anything we do. No. It's in just repenting
of what we do and then resting in Christ, and we'll be saved.
It's not in saying or in what it is you see in quietness and
confidence. That's in being still and trusting the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's where we'll have strength. There is victory. Our victory
is in the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, Christ is the solution.
He is salvation. He's the answer. But what is
it that we'll say to that? Natural man, when you get up
and say salvation is in Christ, just rest in him. Be confident
what he's done already. You know what our answer is?
Look at the last phrase of verse 15. You would not. By nature, we won't, will we?
No, we won't. But you said in verse 16, no,
no, I will not have him reign over me. No, no. For we'll flee upon horses. And
therefore, you will flee and will ride upon the swift. Therefore,
shall they that pursue you be swift. It is only the fool who
thinks you can outrun his sin. I don't care how long we live,
no matter how many good things we try to do when we come to
the end, you know, it's going to catch up with us, our sin. And we either have somebody who's
taking care of that sin for us or we're going to have to pay
for it ourselves. And doesn't matter how fast you flee, it's
going to catch up with you. And then look at verse 17, it
says, and the excuses we give says one thousand shall flee
at the rebuke of one and the rebuke of five shall you flee.
What that means is, can you imagine an army of a thousand men standing
here and one enemy soldier comes over the hill and they all break
and run? How would you like to go back
to the king, Sammy, and say, well, you know, we ran away. They are mighty and powerful.
And he says, how many of them were there? And you say, one. He said,
how many of you were there? There was a thousand. You think
that excuse is going to stand up? The next phrase is that there
was a hundred, the whole army, a hundred thousand strong, and
it was five fellows came over the hill and they broke and ran.
And that's the way it's going to be. Our excuse for not being
in the Lord Jesus Christ is going to be as foolish as that is.
You can't outrun your sin. You better rest in Christ. He'll
take care of all our enemies. He'll put it away and it'll be
done. And here's the result of it. If we won't be in Christ,
here's what happens. The last part of verse 17, till
you be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain or as an
instant on a hill. Now, here's the illustration
there. Back in those old times, if a person rebelled against
the king, you know what the king would often do? He would take
a hilltop or a mountain and he'd just shave it clean. Cut down every tree, every shrub,
make it barren. And if there was a tree tall
enough in the middle of it, he'd leave that tree and strip all
the branches. If there wasn't, he'd dig a hole and bring a pole
and stick it on top of that mountain. And you know what he'd put there?
He'd hang the leader of the rebels. He'd hang him there. You know
why? As an example to those, a warning
to those who would rebel against this king. Now, have you got
the picture? This is what we are by nature.
We're liars. We don't want to hear the word. And in the end,
we flee from our sin, but we're caught and we're punished. We're
dealt with. And therefore, in verse 18, now
we had to understand all that to get to this place. All right.
And therefore, verse 18, will the Lord wait that he may be
gracious unto you? He's going to wait. What's he
going to wait for? The Lord won't wait. He will
wait. Because we need him to wait. I'm glad that the Lord didn't
call me 31 years ago. He waited. Because if he called
me 31 years ago, I was running from a sin, but I had no answer
for it. I had no place to hide, no refuge,
no wall to stand behind. I didn't have any righteousness
of mine at all. If he had called me 31 years
ago, I was a goner. I'd have run headlong into hell,
into the abyss with no hope and no help. But he waits. He waits. You know, by rights,
you don't got to be right if he came and just slew us all. Slew us all the day we were born.
We come forth from our mother's womb, speaking lies, don't we? But he waits. He waits. Why does
he wait? Look at the next phrase. He waits
that he may be gracious unto you. If he can do, he'll do something
for you you don't deserve. He'll give you a righteousness.
Yes, he will. And then it says, and therefore
he'll be exalted. He'll be exalted when his people
are saved. And also he waits that he may have mercy upon you.
That he won't give us what we do deserve. For the Lord is a
God of covenant. He's a God of justice. He's going
to execute justice. He really is. He's going to punish
sin. But I tell you what, he made a covenant. He made a covenant
with Adam, which said, in the day you eat thereof, you'll die.
And all sons of Adam die, don't we? He keeps that covenant. But
oh, he made a covenant with Christ where he said, son, you go down
there and live a perfect life. And I'm going to wait on some
of them until I send my spirit to reveal who you are to them.
And they're going to believe on you. And then I can have mercy
on them. And then I'm going to call them
home and Because a way that you can be gracious to them, you
live to perfect. I'm giving that righteousness. And therefore,
when they come to me, they'll be our children. They'll be my
children. He'll wait. So therefore, what
should we do? The last phrase, blessed are
all they that wait for him, wait for him, wait for him. Don't
seek some other solution. Don't don't get tangled up in
any other religion or all these other things. Just wait on him.
Wait on him. And I'll tell you, that's the
watchword in every case. Wait on him. Listen, maybe there's
somebody here this morning. Say, I don't know the Lord Jesus
Christ. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know who
you're talking about. I'll tell you what, don't come down front
here and shake hands with Paul and run through the water up
here just because you're scared. No, wait on him. But while you're
waiting, ask for this mercy. Ask for this grace. Wait on him. Now, where do we wait? Where
do we wait? Verse 19, For the people shall
dwell, they shall wait in Zion at Jerusalem. You know what that
is? That's the place to worship. I'll tell you, just because he
hasn't revealed himself to you yet, don't go running out of
here and go looking for something else. He's here. You've found
the place where God shows mercy and grace to his people in this
country. It's right here. Just wait. Wait. What else should
you do? He said, You'll weep no more if you stay right here.
And he will be gracious unto you at the voice of thy cry."
Is that what it says? No, it doesn't. I left a word
out. Do you know what it is? To be very gracious. You know
anything better than being gracious? Being very gracious. Now, let
me see if I can make an illustration here. You know what I got in
my pocket? I've got in here two dollars. Does anybody want that
two dollars? Anybody want this $2? Does anybody
want this $2? You got a little head up here
going like that. As soon as I come down, I'm going
to give you this $2, Amber, okay? It's going to be all yours. She's smiling. How about if I said, I got $1,000
here. You know what? I know who would
want that. I don't know who in here has
got the biggest debt and who wants it settled the most. But
a thousand dollars wouldn't hurt, would it? The one who would want
the thousand dollars is the one who wants it very much. You know why you didn't want
the two dollars? It wasn't very much to you, was it? Not to mention
the fact that it might actually embarrass you to raise your hand
in church. Only a little child would do that. What's the scripture
say? Come unto me as a little child. Unless you do, you're not going
to come at all. And you're only going to come
when you need him very much. And when you realize you need
him very much, you know what he'll be? Very gracious. Isn't that sweet? Isn't that so sweet? He said,
you sit under the Word, I'll cause you to weep not, and then
I'll be very gracious unto thee. What do you have to do to get
that grace? at the voice of your cry. When we finally come to
the place where we're tired of me looking at me looking at Danny
or Sammy and going, those two rascals, I tell you, they're
scallywags. And we're reading in the scripture about that woman
that had five husbands. And that's Bathsheba bathing
up there on the roof. What was she expecting to happen?
When we stop looking at them and start looking in here and
going, I am the man. I'm the one. I'm the wicked one. I need help. Lord have mercy. You know what Bartimaeus saw
when he cried? Thou son of David, have mercy
on me. And you know what they did? They
said, shut up. You're making a commotion. You
be quiet. Yeah, and he did right away,
didn't he? No, like a little child, he just went, Thou son
of David, have mercy on me. He cried again, didn't he? And
what happened? The Lord turned and he was merciful. And he saw. And that's when you'll
see. That's when you cry unto him.
What's the proof of that? Look at the rest of the verse.
It says, He will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of your
cry. That's when he shall hear it.
Well, he hears it and then it's all up to you, right? Then he'll answer you. Then he'll
answer you. He'll answer you then when you
cry. In verse 20, and though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity and the water of affliction, we don't go through, is it all
happiness and roses and sweetness after that? No, it's not. No, there's going to be trials
and trouble, right? And there's a truth in that. If you know
Christ, it's not going to be easy from then on. There's going
to be trials and trouble. But that's not what this verse
is about. Now, you stay with me and this will bless you here.
Adversity here, what it really means, adversity here means more
than trials and trouble. What adversity means is great
difficulty. Great, great difficulty. And affliction here, you may
have a center reference, it means oppression, suffering. And we're going to have some
suffering and some difficulty, OK? But that's not what this
is about. Do you see what this adversity
is? It's the bread of adversity. And this affliction is the water
of affliction. Now, let me take that word in
italics out of this and read it to you this way. and the Lord
will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction.
Who's the bread of life? The Lord Jesus Christ. Who's
the water of life? The Lord Jesus Christ. Now hear
this verse. Listen to this. You see, once
we realize who and what we are, we cry unto the Lord. He hears
us and He answers us. How does He answer us? What does
He do for us? What does He give us? And you
notice up there it says, the Lord will give. Who gives? Trials and troubles, if you got
them, who gave them to you? The Lord did. And they'll work
out for His glory and our good. Be rested. But that's not what
this is about. He gives those who cry out. His
answer is this. The bread of life is Christ.
The water of life is Christ. And the Lord give you the Christ
of adversity. And the Christ of affliction.
Who is that? Who is the Christ of adversity?
You know who that is? That's a man that was born of
a woman, came to this earth, and lived 33 years being persecuted
the entire time, being tempted by Satan. Just take this bread
and eat it, and I'll lay the world at your feet. He knew no
sin. Unlike us who just bend to temptation
ever which way? No. Without him, he lived without
sin. That's tough. He went through
this whole life without sin. That's adversity. You know what
affliction is? When the end came in 33 years,
you know what he did? A man who was perfect and righteous,
let a bunch of folks drag him into court, accused him falsely.
persecute him, drag him off, beat the flesh off his back,
tear the beard out of his face, mark him up a hill, and nail
him to a tree, and watch him die in the sun while they pierce
his side with a sword, with a spear. That, my friends, is a parable. As the Lord Jesus Christ. Who lived a perfect life for
you. And who died in your place, he became your substitute. That's
what he gave him. You see it, that's right. He
gives him to you. You say, well, is he mine to refuse? No, if
you refuse him, it's because you never knew him. Never knew
him, but if you see and you cry out for him, he'd be very gracious
to us because we don't deserve it, do we? No sirree. You say,
well, how do I come to find that out? You know how? Here's the
last of the verse. How does he give it to you? Up in the other
verses, what were the people doing? Don't tell us about that
man. Don't tell us about the Lord
Jesus Christ. Don't tell us about the way. Take us in this other
way, the broad way, the smooth way, the easy way. Lie to us
the way. Don't show me Christ. I don't
know what will happen then. Instead of taking those preachers,
you're saying, get them out of the way. You know what you do?
It says here, the last part of this, it says, He'll give you
Christ, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner anymore,
but thine eye shall see thy teachers. Instead of looking for every
reason in the world not to come hear the gospel, instead of refusing. No, no, you know what you do? I don't want Paul down there.
I don't want him out doing something. I want him right up here preaching
Christ to me. And I don't want to be as far
back as I can get. I want to be right up there just
going, tell me about the Lord Jesus Christ. Tell me how he
was gracious to me. Tell me how he's merciful to
me. Oh, he's so very gracious to me. See what he does? That's what that's about. And
then verse 21. And your ears shall hear a word
that you ever one time My daughter carries a little bitty thing
and we were going to let her walk up to Doris and Henry's,
about three blocks up there. And before she left, I told her
how to go and what to do and cross the street and all this
kind of thing. And about halfway across the backyard, I'm right
behind her going, Don, you go right here and you go left there
and you go right up on here. And she took off, you know, and
she got there and she's like, boy, I'm doing something. You
know what? She didn't know it, but I was running behind the
tree. I'd run behind the fence. And I mean, if a car had come,
I'd have run out there and snatched her up. And I was ready to run
out there and say, no, darling, you don't want to go left, you
want to go right. That's the picture here. Those to whom God
is very gracious, what he does in verse 21, your ears shall
hear a word behind you saying, this is the way. Don't get tempted
to go to the left and don't get tempted to go to the right. This
is the way. And I tell you what, God's people
know the way when they hear it. He puts His Spirit in our heart,
and we know the truth when we hear it, don't we? And we'll
not follow another. Once He's given us Christ, He's the answer. He's salvation. It's in Him.
Well, may the Lord bless His Word. And I'm going to bring you your
two dollars right now. you