And as we pass by, I think of
you and I. I think of water and I think
of you and I. I think of water and I think
of you and I. All right, back to the Hebrew,
to the 3rd. Sunday night, we began looking
at the high priest in the book of Hebrews, and all the way up
to chapter... all the way up through chapter
9, at least, chapter 10, this high priest really dealt with
it. It is vital. It's important. I've spent ten chapters here
in the New Testament dealing with the high priesthood. Now,
this was an Old Testament Jewish office and ordinances that they
went through, this high priesthood. Why do we study this now? Why is this important? Why do
we look at this today? So, nearly 2,000 years after
the New Testament was written, 1,500 years. Well, since the
Scriptures say that God never changes, Malachi 3 and 6 says
God never changes. It says, I'm the Lord and I change
not. Since Scripture says God never
changes, since Scripture says And when enough time, we'll look
them all up. But the scripture says we must worship God in spirit
and in truth. In other words, there's a true
way to worship. Scripture says there's one way. It's not up to everybody's opinion.
And everybody's just doing the best they can, and whatever they
think is right, and everybody tries a different way, and all
it gets to God. No. Just one way. And one way
to approach God. One way to worship God. All right?
One faith. Ephesians 4 says there's one
faith. One way to believe. All right? All right? So there's one way
to worship God. And that's the thing, God never
changes. Right? He doesn't change. Scripture
says he's the same yesterday, today, and forever. All right?
One way to worship God is one way he's there. It's the way
God first, the way God first told men to worship. Right? The way God first told men and
women, human beings, to worship. And that was, and remember it's
looking at these three things, a high priest, a tabernacle,
and a sacrifice. Remember that? In Exodus 28? In Exodus 20, 40 and on, God
instituted a high priesthood, a tabernacle, and a sacrifice. Everything in the tabernacle,
furniture, everything. Everything about the sacrifice,
everything about the priest, Now look, every stitch of clothing
you wear, these three things, all right? This is still how
we worship God. This is still how we worship
God. We've got to have a covenant, a place to worship. We've got
to have an offering, someone to go to God for us and offer
this sacrifice. We've got to have sacrifice.
It's blood. It's got to be blood, man. It can't be a substitute.
It's got to be blood. All right? You notice I'm not
wearing robes now. Oh, I am wearing robes when I
take them off. You can't see it. It's a robe
of past righteousness. But I'm not a priest. I'm not wearing robes now. Because
there's one person who still feels all three of these things
forever. Jesus Christ. These three are
one. These three are one. These three
things are in one person. And that's why God instituted
these things from the very beginning. Right? That's why God set up
the priesthood and the tabernacle and the sacrifice. Christ said
it. Moses wrote it. of nations. Jesus, Moses was Exodus' king. Christ was heroes of nations. Everything he was writing was
about that. Because these aren't things that
we could take and have religious ceremonies and try to look and
act religious. No, they're pictures and types
of Christ, our high priest. Jesus Christ is all the religion
in the Bible that we need. He's the only person anybody
ever knew. He's the only mediator. We don't
pray to Saint this, Saint that. You don't ask me to pray for
you, although I will, but my prayers don't involve anything.
The Son of God, Scripture says, is the one mediator between God
and man. We are the manifest Jesus. We don't go to this saint, that
saint. We don't go to his so-called mother. She's a sinner who needs
him to go to her just like we do. All right? Now the reason
God first instituted this way, listen to it, the reason that
God first ordained this way, that is, a priest, a tabernacle,
blood, one man only, that is, one man, a high priest, one man
only by a blood sacrifice, was to go into a holy room. You remember
the tabernacle? Yeah, we're not going to get
back there by the second. I can see that right now. But
in the Old Testament, they had this, it was a tabernacle, all
right? It was a tent, is what it was. Everything significant. Remember,
we did a study on it. You had to have a court where,
outside the tabernacle, where the people were, and then you
walked in. inside of the tabernacle. There's
another courtyard, okay? And that's where the priests,
the common priests, were meddling around, doing this and doing
that, whatever God told them to do. And you walk in the tabernacle
itself, And you have the Holy Place, and that's where the candlestick
lies, and the table of showbread, and the outdoor entrance right
before you go into the Holy of Holies. Remember that? That was
another little room about 15 by 45. The Holy Place, and there
was a big basket, a big bowl that separated the
Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. Okay? I'm in chapter 9 now, so
we're into that holy, holy place. One man went. Alone. Nobody else was allowed in there.
Why? What was this all about? It's
all a picture of our holy God. How holy God is. That God is
unapproachable. Hebrews, now I'm in chapter 12,
it says, in Hebrews, let me look it up, it's with Hebrews 12.9,
our God is a concerning power, unapproachable. There's another
scripture that says, he dwelleth in light which no man can approach
unto. God is, but I say, holy, holy,
holy, holy that the cherubims cry out in Isaiah 6. They cover
their face, they cover their feet. God's too holy for sin for man
to approach. He can't have anything to do
with sin. He's too holy. All right? That's what this all
represents. So we've got to have somebody
go forth and say, there's got to be a holy man. There's got to be a holy
man. Turn to Psalm 23. What's in Psalm
23? And I know we're not going to get through verse 6 now, because
we need to look at this. Psalm 23. This is what this This is why this Holy of Holies watch. And you know, inside that Holy
of Holies, when he got baptized, that high
priest would go once and offer an atonement of how he takes
the blood of an innocent animal, the blood of a man, and go in
there, he better not go in there without murdering him. He'd rather kill him. It happened.
He'd go in under that bed and there was a, there was something
in there, holy moly, called a heart. Heart of the Covenant. And there
was a lid on top of that ark. And that's Christ. That's a picture
of Christ. He's within the holy place of
heaven. He's the... He'd go in that,
and that lid on top of that ark was called a mercy seat. And that high priest would take
this blood and pour it on that mercy seat. It was a box about
seven or seven feet. He'd take that blood, that lamb,
and pour it on that mercy seat, and it would run down and cover
all of it. And it was in that box. There was a copy of the
Ten Commandments. that represented the lie of God
which the people had broken. And what that blood represented
by covering it over there was the blood covering the broken
heart, covering their iniquity. Now have you seen the picture?
Right? This all is a picture of the
Lord Jesus Christ, who alone can make this sacrifice. Who
alone is this holy man? Who alone is our high praise? Who alone in the holy of holy
place, the very presence of God himself, and poured his own precious
blood on the mercy seat, covering our sins with it. And that's
the reason God says our sins are our own, they're covered
under the blood. Well look here at Psalm 24, and
it asks this question. Those three. Who shall ascend
into the hell of the Lord? Who shall stand in his holy place? See that little joke? Who shall
stand in his holy place? What are the three requirements?
Heathen have clean hands. Now the scripture says about
our hands that they're filthy, they're sinful. Right? These hands, the hands
of every human being that's ever lived, have sinned. They're full
of sin. They're quick to sin, to do sin.
God said, he's got clean hands, alone, can't get into my presence.
Read on, it goes further. Not just your good deeds, your
perfect deeds, but he's a man of pure heart. In other words, someone who has
an absolutely sinless, perfectly pure heart. They have no sin
within them, a pure, sinless heart. Jeremiah said the heart, talking
about the natural man and woman, is the sepulchre of a man who
is desperately wicked. You can know it. It's difficult. All right? This is the only person that
can get there, see? The only person doing it. All
right? Now, this is excluding—the first one excluded that one.
The second one made him a bandit with a pure heart. Look at this.
He has not lifted up his soul in the bandit. In other words,
his whole life, his soul has been spent for the glory of God.
Nothing vain, no useless purpose, all for the glory and the service
of God, all his and her life. And never snore in the secret.
See there? Never said anything, not one word has come out of
his mouth but good and praise and thanks. Now, who here, who
shall ascend under this holy name? Huh? Look down at, uh,
and it seems hopeless. Well, it is. With man, it's impossible.
Well, look down at verse, uh, 7. Lift up your heads. Don't
be bowed down. Lift up your heads, all you gays.
Lift up your everlasting doors. Who's coming in? Who's walking
in the holy place? The king of glory. No man. Who is, who is that? It's the
God man, John, Christ. You see, that's a picture of
Christ, the King of glory, the Holy Man, clean hands, a pure
heart, never lifted up his soul in the vain that he was sworn
to secretly. All right? Back to Hebrews now, let's get it.
This is why the priesthood was established. You see, understand? This is why there was a high
priest, the tabernacle, the holy place, because God was holy. And God prescribed a certain
way to come to him, to have him as a priest and blood sacrifice.
And all this is a picture of Christ, who is the only one who
can go to God forever. All right? That's it. God is
hopeful. He's the only man chosen by God. The high priest was chosen by
God, set apart. All right? Okay, look at verse
17 of chapter 2. Here it said, if we looked at
this, He said, in all things it behooves him to be made like
unto his brethren. He's called the firstborn among
many brethren. That is, God has a people, has
sons. Remember back there, it became
him in bringing many sons to the Lord. That includes females
to children, many children to the Lord, all right? Christ is
the firstborn of these elder brethren, all right? It behooved
him to be made like unto his brethren. How's that? Flesh and
blood. As the psalmist said, as a type of Christ, a body has
got prepared me. Christ came as our high priest,
and he was wearing something. A body, to perform this, to perform
this office of high priest. He had a body. He didn't wear
fancy robes. Nobody recognized he was being
holy. He didn't have fancy robes on,
he didn't wear a crown, he didn't do anything. He just wasn't a
manly man like the rest of the people over there at Cologne.
That's the reason the Pharisees and scribes addressed him when
they looked down on him and said, well, who are you? Well, he's
the great high priest. One time he was standing in front
of that so-called high priest, remember? And he addressed him and they
slapped him. Little did that high priest know
that he's standing in front of a true high priest. And if he's
going to keep out of hell, it's going to be that one he slaps. It's not the robes he's wearing,
it's the life he was living. It's called a robe of righteousness.
The life of righteousness which he was wearing, and all those
robes that the high priest wore, everything about them are typical,
or typify, or picture Christ's perfect life. All right? His characteristics. All right?
Read on. It said, for he took a body like
unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful, he came because
he's merciful, and faithful high priest, in faith pertaining to
God. faithful high priest in things
pertaining to God. Now, Aaron wasn't faithful. Aaron failed miserably, remember?
Aaron made a golden calf. He failed miserably. He was supposed
to be the high priest, and he failed miserably. But Christ
never failed. He never failed. Faithful. He
performed his duty of happiness, every jot and tittle of it, to
perfection. And that's when God said, and
we are pleased with him, I would say anything he would ask. You
know that? We don't. Faithful. In things
pertaining to God, so that is the worship of God, the sacrifice,
and so forth. To make, and this is why I came,
to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. That's a
big word, reconciliation. What it means is make a blood
atonement, make a sacrifice, a peace offering. God is angry
with the wicked every day, yet his blood pacifies the Lord toward
his people. All right? They have died. Their blood has
been shed. They have paid for their sins,
not consented, but insubstitute. See that? The innocent died. Now that verse 19, it says, "...and
that he himself had suffered being tempted." He's able to
suffer being tempted. He was tempted. Now I want you
to turn over to chapter 4. And it's impossible not to quote
other verses in Hebrew. It all goes together. Now look
at chapter 4 of Hebrews, look at verse 14. Seeing then that we have a great
high priest, a singular. And these young men are called great
high priests. A great high priest, a priest
is in the Holy of Holies, but he's passed into the heavens.
Jesus is sent down. Now that's an over-fascinating
profession, we know. We have not an high priest which
cannot be touched in the field of authority, but was in all
points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Now, man has it all wrong. Preachers and all these fellows
that are supposed to be able to help people, you know. They
send them off to some, I call it cemetery, not cemeteries,
cemeteries. They'd send them off to this
place and shut them up, hold them up. Some go to monasteries,
some go to seminary, same thing. And they hold them up and separate
them from the world. And all they do is read and study,
or I think, and what have you, in preparation for the ministry.
They're isolated from kin and sinners. And then when they come out,
they're supposed to be able to help people that go to the job, and all they
do is bombard them with skin anticipation. And they live in
isolation, not tempted. And they're supposed to come
out and help everybody. They don't know what skin is. How
can they help anybody? How can they help the average
man on a level two? And they've never been through
what they've been through. Hmm? You can't imagine what somebody's
going through if you haven't imagined what you're saying.
No way. Now this scripture says that
Jesus Christ became a man. He took upon himself the form
of a man. The form of flesh. Without semen. Read down here. It says that
tempted in all points, yet without semen. Now he was tried, wasn't
he? Remember the devil? Trialed him
for forty days and forty nights. He said he was touched on the
field right in front of him. He wasn't isolated. He came down,
and that's when the Pharisees and the scribes said, why is
he eating the public and the sinners? Why is he mingling with
sinners? That's what you're supposed to
do. That's what the high priest is supposed to do. Be touched
on the field right in front of him. Look down at chapter 5, verse
2. You can have compassion on the
ignorant, those who have infirmities. That's
what Psalms says, you may be a little lower than your angels.
Well, so God became a man to be this high priest. He was touched
with the feeling of our infirmities. He knows what we're going through,
but listen to him. He says in verse 18, he's able
to succor them that are tempted. That word succor means to relieve,
it means to help. He's able to help. He's able
to help. He's able to relieve them of
their troubles. Relieve them from what trouble?
Physical sickness? financial troubles, this and
that. Well, yes, he is able to do that. He certainly is. But that's not
why he came. We've got troubles all right.
Our biggest trouble. But he's not picked it up. You
know what he was going through. It's the thing that troubles
you right now. What is it? Sin. sin, guilt,
relieve us from that. And Christ said, listen, Christ
said, man is born of woman's, the scripture said, man is born
of woman's a few days in full of trouble. Christ said, in this
world you shall have tribulation. He said, you must through much
tribulation. Christ didn't come to relieve
our lives with problems, oh no, not problems. But he came to
get rid of this one problem. That's the source of all our
problems. This one trouble. And to relieve... He's able to
help us. He's able to relieve us of this trouble. What is it?
Sin. Sin. Relieve us of the trouble
of sin. That's what plagues God's people.
Sin and guilt. You know, a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists,
sociologists, psychologists, these fellows and ladies that
people go to and pay lots of money to, lots of money. People go to them and all those
fellows, people do, persons do, is sit there and listen. You
ever seen an interview with an interview agent? Uh-huh. And
I just want to get someone to, yes, And I don't know, what do
you think? Well, I don't know, what do you
think? Well, I don't know, what do you think? Well, let's just
see what you think first. And they're just listening and
listening and listening. Why? They don't have any answers. And it's all said and done, who
are they blaming on? Their past. It's their past. And what they say, you don't
know. But every other person here, Mrs. Alley, you know, it's
not your fault. Guilt, everybody's feeling guilt,
trouble with sin. And they pay people big money. to try to get rid of this guilt
they're having. And so the psychiatrists do. They relieve them of their guilt.
It's all in the past. It's not your fault. You didn't
have anything to do with it. It's all your mama or your dad,
you know. It's a matter of health, isn't
it? Hey, big man, they can't help.
You know what the number one leading profession in suicides
is? Psychiatry. Go to a fellow to
help you with your marriage. He's been married five times,
he says. What can he do? He's not able. This man's able. He's able. But you know, he doesn't
relieve us of this guilt by telling us, he says, it's not your fault.
Listen, Scripture doesn't relieve us of this trouble by saying,
it's not your fault, blame it on your mama. He says, you're guilty. Guilty
as charged. Right? Right. Well, here's the
good news. This is what the gospel says.
This is how Christ redeems us of this guilt and this misery
and this trouble we've got called sin. He says, now, am I guilty?
We say, yes, through and through. I've had enough and I'm guilty.
I throw myself on the mercy of the court. Do I have the law
here? He says, I'm it. 1 John 3.1 says, If any man sin,
he will have an advocate, that means Lord. Who is he? He's Jesus
Christ the righteous. Well, what can he do when he's
with the judge right now? He's got connections. And he
goes, and the judge, he absolves us of all guilt. He says you're
guilty. The scripture says he took our
sins and his body on the tree and put them away. He paid for
them. Yes, I'm guilty, but no, I'm innocent. Why? It seems to
be painful. Where am I? He's able, that's
what I'm getting at. He's able to suffer to help them,
they're tempted. How? By taking our sins in his
body on the trip, all right? Remember he says, in the world
you're going to have tribulation, trouble, nothing but trouble,
especially with sin. He said, be in good cheer. I've
overcome it." We never will overcome it totally. We feel like it overcomes
us. But what does John say? Who is
he that overcometh? He that believeth Jesus is the
Christ. He whose hope is built on nothing
less than Jesus' blood and his righteousness. Who does not trust
anything that wholly leans on Jesus' life. That's how you overcome. We don't do anything to get rid
of our sin, our guilt, or whatever. He did it all. He did it all. He's a high priest. He can help. He is able, and he does just
that for his people. All right? In this chapter 3,
verse 1, wherefore, holy brethren? And he starts out chapter 3 by
saying, let's consider. Let's consider. As if we haven't
been all living. But let's consider and promote.
Good subject, isn't it? He says, partakers of the heavenly
calling, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling. Now
who is this? Look over Revelation 1. You know, men ignorantly abuse and misuse scriptures
for evil. evil purposes. Some do it ignorantly,
I believe. Like the Apostle Paul said he
did what he did ignorantly, but he obtained mercy. But people
look at scriptures like this, and they take them and abuse
them and go to sleep with them. Look at Revelation 1, verse 6. It says, God hath made us kings
and priests unto God, and his father. Who's the us? It's all believers. The old writer used to talk about
the priesthood of believers. And why is it? What's he talking
about when we're priests? He says, we're partakers of this
heavenly calling, this priesthood. We're priests. Well, we're not
the high priests. Nobody is the high priest. Jesus
Christ alone is the high priest, right? We better hang out a bit,
don't we? It just caught fire, didn't it?
Like burgers? Like cats. They never took any
blood in the holy place. Not all of them, buddy. One man. He did that. Right? They took all of it, and put
it in the barn, and the sacrificed it, and brought pots, and made
bread, and made candles, and this, that, and that. And that's
a picture of all the angels in the body of Christ, who walked
about the temple. Step right up. Look on the border,
cut down on it. I don't want to talk about it
anymore. You see that? Well, preach. And minister about
the house of God, the gospel teaching. If we don't have the
blood, we don't dare talk about it. We don't know anybody's sins,
and we don't take confession. Look at Hebrews, James, chapter
5. This is where we get to. James,
chapter 5. James, chapter 5. We do not confess
our sins to a mortal man. That's it. He's got sins of his own that
we can confess. You can't do anything about my
sin. He's got sins of his own. And he's got only one person
that's going to take away his sins, not mine. So we go to the
one person to confess our sin, and we're here at James chapter
5, and this is, I believe, where they get this. James 5 verse
16. Confess your faults, son of Jehovah. You can't trace the answer. And we're all guilty of this
sometimes. We like to tell each other sometimes just how rotten,
how bad we've been. Don't do that. It's so fresh,
you know. Confess your faults. That means I've been so ungrateful. I haven't been a good friend
to you. I haven't talked to you like
I want to. I haven't called you as I should
have. I haven't visited you as I should have. I haven't did.
See what I mean? I've been a solid believer, and
I'm sorry, but I want to make amends. Confess your sins, don't
confess your...atomize your sins, my man. You can't do that now.
Confessions of Christ. It's a high point. All right? Okay. Back to Hebrews 3 now,
and I'll wind this up. You know, good Lord, I make kind
of methods, I'm ready to denounce anybody, anything that's contrary
to His Word. Whether it be Methodist, Baptist,
Catholic, Christian, whatever it may be, not any one particular
denomination. They're all wrong. Scripture
says, let God be true, let Him be right. All those denominations
are man-made. As I've said so many times, I'm
not going to take that name back unless I have to decide. If you
don't follow a denomination or don't follow a man's opinion,
it's time to worship and that is what we do. All right? I'm
not making fun of people either. Methodists. Let's be frank with
Methodists. I have several angers against
these leaders of Methodism, the ones that espouse this Absolutely
the first one. You see what I'm saying? People. I'm sorry for you, but
it says blind leaders of the blind across spiritual and angular
worlds. Well, he says, consider the apostles,
the apostles. There are a number of apostles. Just like there are a number
of priests. There are a number of apostles. And I don't have
time to head the qualification of apostle, but there I am. The
Lord says, no more. Apostle means messenger. In Matthew
5 verse 3 it says, He's the messenger of the covenant, the Lord in
whom you seek shall suddenly come to his temple. Be a pastor,
be messenger of God, with the last word on the subject. The
messenger, you know, tells the message, doesn't he? Christ came
with the last word. All right, he's a high priest
of our profession. He's our high priest, who was
faithful to him that appointed him, God, as also Moses was faithful
in all his house. All right, now listen, very quickly.
Moses was held in high honor by the Jews. Too high. Moses was held too high. Remember,
when Christ conveyed those views, and they kept saying, we have
Moses. He said, Moses, come to me. They
said, we have Abraham. He said, Abraham would just see
my day. He said, you're not older than
Abraham, you're not fifty years old. He said, before Abraham,
you're all my age. These are men. The whole book
of Hebrews is telling us Christ is infinitely higher and better
and greater. An angel starts out higher than
an angel. Moses, just a man. Moses, just a man. He's just
a sinner saved by grace, who had a high priest, and it went
down. See that? Look at it, here in
verse 3. He said, This man, talking about
Christ, was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch
as he who built the house hath more honor than the house. What
he's saying here is, Christ made Moses. The man who built the house is
one to get credit for it. The house was built, sir. The
house couldn't get any credit for it. Right? It's the architect,
it's the builder. We don't. And verse 4, every
house is built by some man, and he that built all things is God.
And isn't that a reference to Christ being God? Hmm? And it says in verse 5, Moses'
birth was faithful in all he had. He was a faithful man. He
was a diligent man. He was a God-called man. Yeah,
but what was it? A servant. Read on, for a testament. What did he testify of? What
did Moses testify of? Well, he said it. He loved Christ. He testified of Christ. Moses loved him, both sick, but
Christ as a son over his own house. He was the son. He was
son in the house. Back through time, a son's always
been the heir. A man could have three daughters,
and he had a son. He got it all. He's the son.
He carries on the name. Right? He carries on the name. He holds the name. He's the heir.
Christ is the son of his own house. Whose house? Look at it. Verse 6. Whose house are we? That is the church. The church
is the house of God, not this building. The reason we don't adorn this
building. Scripture says God's not worshipped with men's hands.
God's not worshipped with awkward show. Philippians 3 says true
worshippers worship God in spirit. The more you know of God on the
inside, The more we worship God in the Spirit, the less we have
to have compassion. We don't have to have candy, we
don't have to have this and that and the other. We don't have
to have object lessons. Christ is the object of that
lesson. Right? We don't. Christ is the Son whose
house we live. We're the house, the Church of
God, if, the if, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing
of the whole. And. We're in fact, we're not
happy with it. If you say that the temple of
the Holy Ghost, the place where God lives, where Christ said,
I'll be right in the midst of you. for his harvest, if we hold
fast with confidence and rejoicing in the hope, man unto the end. Now, we're going to deal with
that more fully on Sunday. But what is our hope? Christ. If we hold fast, that is, that
means hang on tight. And I'd be walking in some scary
place, and she would have her arms wrapped around my neck so
tight, she did not want to let go of me. I was her safe state,
he said. Little did she know, buddy boy,
little did she know, it wasn't her holding me, buddy. The fact
that she was holding on to me was not why she was safe, because
I was holding on to her. You see that? Nevertheless, she
held fast. I came back from England one
time, been gone a long time now. She was rather wishy-washy. Three
years old. She thought her daddy had left
her for good. Gone forever. Kind of reminds
me of Mary, you know, when the Lord drove her to the East Coast,
and we were hanging on Charlotte's airport, and she looked like
a leech. I said, you're choking me. That
was terrible. Honey, I'm not going anywhere.
I'm here now, and I will never leave you. I'll never leave you.
That's what Christ said, isn't it? For these people. And every one of us needs to
hold fast our hope, our confidence. I'm not going to get to heaven.
I'm confident that Christ is going to get me there. But I'm just going to hang on
right here, okay? I'm not going to let go of my
hope. You can have all this other stuff. Go wherever you want to
go, and go to whom you want to go. I've got some money I'm hanging
on to. That's about it. All right, let's
stand. Our heavenly fathers, we come
to you again in the name of Christ. We thank you, thank you, thank
you. We do indeed have a high priest. We have an advocate. a lawyer,
a substitute, a mediator, a brother, a friend, a lord and master. All things, Christ is all these
things for us. And we cling to him by faith.
And we ask that you would strengthen our grip Calls us
to look to Him more and more as years go by. Calls us to look
to Him by faith more and more, more strongly than ever before
as days go by. In a day when men and women are
looking to so many things, let us look to the Rock, Christ
Jesus. looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith. It's in his name we pray these
things and are met together. Amen.