Sing the second verse as the
last. This is one of my favorite. Pearls that the poorest may wear. None of you ladies can afford
pearls, can you? Not real one. You can this one. All right,
let's sing that one. Verse two. Oh, the unsearchable
riches of Christ, who shall their greatness declare? Children's luster our lives may
adore, pearls that the poorest may wear. Precious, oh, precious, wealth
that can never be told. Now back to Ephesians 1. Ephesians chapter 1. God's Word becomes more and more
real and precious with experience. His Word becomes real and precious
with experience. As you see the promises of God's
Word fulfilled through experience, it makes it more real to you.
It becomes the real living Word of God. as the promises are fulfilled
in your life. You see them clearly come to
pass. He honors his promises. Even
trials and afflictions, you go through those, the word of God
is more real to you and precious. I was just talking with Barbara
on the phone, Jeanette and I were talking with her on the phone,
and she was relating some passages of scripture that were so dear
to her in these last few days, and she could hardly talk about
it without without weeping, saying how dear and precious the scriptures
were to her during all of this. You see, this is the spirit of
God bearing witness with our spirit that we're his children.
You can quote it all. You can quote it. You can know
it. You can know the doctrine until
you experience the reality of it, until it bears witness with
your spirit. That's when it really means something.
And Ephesians chapter 1 is one of the most familiar portions
of scripture in all of the Bible to me, and probably to you. Grace people, for lack of a better
term, believers, but grace people have to qualify as believers,
don't they? Those who believe and know and love sovereign grace,
the God. who is sovereignly gracious and
merciful. They know Ephesians 1 very well
and love to hear it preached from, very familiar to us. But here, just the last couple
of days, after reading this, it has become more especially
blessed and real to my heart as a result of a recent experience.
In light of the meeting that we had the other night, I began
reading there, and verse 3 just explains it
all. It just made my heart well up,
thinking what God has done for me and for us here. Verse 3,
look at it. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings. in heavenly places in Christ. He has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings. My, my. God has blessed us. Oh, how he has blessed us. If
I had a title to this message, it would be a toss-up between
three things, Terry. Pick one. Eeny, meeny, miny,
moe. God hath blessed us. Oh, how
God hath blessed us. That or blessed with all spiritual
blessings, or heavenly places in Christ. Heavenly places. This is a heavenly place. And
look at verse 1, all right? Let's just go down through here,
and I'm going to be brief tonight. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ
by the will of God. This is one way he's blessed
us with the knowledge of his will. And what is that? That we know that all things
are by his will. Right? That's a blessing, isn't
it? That we know. All men and women don't know
that. They think it's up to man's will. They actually think. Men
and women are so ignorant and so in the dark that they actually
think that eternal life has something to do with our fickle will. God's
blessed us. We know all things about the
will of God, by his will. Read on. And he says, he's writing
this to the saints, and I remind you, as I remind you over and
over again, you have to, you need to know to whom the portion
of scripture is written, to understand it, don't you? You need to know
to whom this is written. These are letters. And every
one of them begins with a salutation, and it names the people, the
persons, people, which is that he's writing to. He names them,
or he qualifies them. And as I've said so often, I
believe that this is the leading error in our day, or the cause
for all this error. are applying the word of God
across the board to everybody, without exception. They are taking
verses like this, according to how God has chosen us in Christ
before the planet, and applying it to every Tom, Dick, and Harry.
And it does not apply. They are taking 1 Peter 3 and
2 Peter 3, and they are saying, God is not willing that any of
us should parry. So everybody is out there thinking God is
not willing that they should Well, that's just not written to everybody.
God's angry with some people. And they are, apparently. And here's the worst part of
it, is that lying on God Almighty. I would get angry, John. I'd
get angry if somebody stole the letter I wrote to my wife and
applied it to themselves. I'd get angry. I'm just a puny
man. Well, God wrote this book to some certain people, and it
doesn't apply to everybody. The blessed God it does apply
to the saints. That's the way he qualifies them
very well, to the saints. The world says there are saints
and there are sinners, don't they? That's what they say, don't
they? It's two different people. Like
the Jews, you say there are Jews and there is the world. There
are Jews and dogs. And most religious people say,
well, there are saints and there are sinners. Well, this isn't
written to sinners, then. It's to the saints. We see how ignorant and foolish
men are. To the saints. What does that
mean? It means to be sanctified by
Christ. Pope, whatever his name. Pope. John Paul doesn't canonize
us. That's what canonize means. You
know that, don't you? Don't be ignorant of that. When
they canonize somebody, it means to make them sane. Think about that. We can make
somebody a saint. Utter blasphemy. God makes people
saints. The word means sanctify. How
are we sanctified? By some edict in Rome? No, by
the body of Christ, the scripture says it, doesn't it? Doesn't
it, John? We are sanctified once and for all by the body of Christ.
Christ said in John 17, I sanctify myself that they also might be
sanctified. Sanctify them through the truth,
thy word is truth." By the which will we are sanctified, once
and for all, by the body of Christ. Sanctified. Both they that are
sanctified and he that is sanctified are all one. It's one to sanctify. Read on. To the saints, by the
will of God, that's how they are sanctified, which are at
Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. It's all the
people of God who are sanctified. That's another word for believers
in Christ Jesus, to the faithful, to the believer. Why does anybody
believe? Look at verse 19. Because God operates on verse
19. We know what is exceeding greatness
of his power to usward who believe according to the working of his
mighty power. We believe. Why aren't you caught
up in this religious mess, Henry? And why do you believe the truth?
It's according to the working of God's mighty power. Isn't
it? You know that. You've been bled. You understand. Say, Henry, made so by God. Verse 2, Grace
be to you and peace from God our Father. Grace and peace from
God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. It's all of grace,
isn't it? We're going to go down through
here and see grace, grace, grace, grace, the riches of his grace,
the riches of his grace. It's all of grace, isn't it?
By the grace of God, I am what I am. Let's don't ever forget
that, especially in light of what we went through. Don't forget
that. By the grace of God, we are what
we are. We know what we know. We are
where we are. If it wasn't for the grace of
God reaching down and picking us up out of the pit, We'd be
right in that pit with the rest of them, wouldn't we? It's all
of grace. And he says, Grace unto you. He reached down and God plucked
you as a bran from the burning. A bran from the burning. In the
midst of all that wood and fire and no lamb. Grace and peace. Peace, how? We have peace with
God by the blood of Jesus Christ. peace with a God who otherwise
should be angry with us. He's angry with the wicked. That's
what the Scripture says. He's angry with the wicked every
day, and I'm wicked. But I have peace, though. Why? Grace. I said, go hand in hand. Grace and peace. It's by God's
grace I have peace. It's by God's grace he sent Christ
to make peace for me, by his chastisement of Christ. Read
on, verse 3, "'Blessed be God, and blessed be the God and Father
of our...' This reminds me of Psalm 103. "'Bless the Lord,
O my soul, and all who are with me, bless his holy name. Bless
the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Blessed
be the God of...' Paul must have been reading Psalm 103 when he
wrote this. "'Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ.' who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessing, as well as physical. That goes without saying. That
just goes without saying. We're talking about some little
higher things here, things that are higher and things that are
nobler than just a car and a house. Oh, sure, he's blessed us with
those things, abundantly. But we're talking about things
that are higher, things that last, eternal things. Things that are
seen are temporal, and things that are not seen are eternal.
Those are the real blessings of God. God can bless you abundantly,
spiritually, and you do not have much physically. People down in Mexico are examples
of that, numerous examples of that, of the true blessings of
God upon the people. See, riches bring a snare. Riches aren't necessarily the
blessings of God, and that's what this religious generation
is saying, isn't it? The riches are the blessings of God. No,
it might be a curse of God. Psalm 73 says that, doesn't it?
He said, They have more than I could want or wish for. Lot got the well-watered plains
of Sodom, and Abraham said, What do I get? God said, Abraham,
I am not exceeding great portion and reward. You get me? For eternity. When Lot barely
escapes with his life, you're in the rock. You're on the rock,
on the mountain. Blessed be the God and Father
of ours who has blessed us with all spiritual blessing. Where
are these spiritual blessings? Whether in heavenly places or
things in Christ Jesus, all spiritual blessings are in
Christ. Every good and perfect gift comes
down from the Father, and it comes through the one who doles it out. Christ.
Joseph is in charge of the storehouses. He's one to decide. The scripture
says, where is it, 1 Corinthians 12, that he gives According to
the measure of the grace of Christ, he gives to each member of the
court. Christ is our Joseph. He has the storehouses of good. He decides who gets what. And
boy, he's liberal. I know somebody, well, his brethren
did. They went to Joseph and said, we just fill our sacks,
would you please? He said, got any wagons? Didn't they? You get what you,
whatever you bring is what he fills. That's a liberal, isn't
it? Whatever you bring is what he
feels. Try him. Bring a little cup, he'll get
a little cup. Bring a big basket. Oh, my. I dare you something. Martin
used to say, double-dog dare you come here some night just
totally empty, broken and empty, and say, Lord, fill me. Go home
full, running open. All spiritual blessings, life,
mercy, grace, pardon, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification,
redemption, glory. All spiritual blessings,
blessings we are experiencing right now. Well, I started to say, I don't
know about you, but I do. I know about you. I've talked
to you. But these blessings now far exceed any blessings that
we have in this life, even with our families and whatever it
may be. The blessings of the gospel that
we experience every now and then, even if it's just a taste, that
we've tasted some of the great and haven't drunk to the fullness,
just a taste of it is enough to make never had anything like that. Nothing tastes like that. We
sang there, oh, what a foretaste of glory to God. Some of you, I hear you say,
after a service, oh, so blessed. That's just like just a little
sip. Just wait. A foretaste. Don't you? He's blessed us in
heavenly places and things. Words interchangeably, places
or things. Heavenly places. This, the Church,
is a heavenly place. It's heaven on earth. You say
you go through hell at work, well, come get a little heaven.
May I be that familiar? Look over at Ephesians 3, and
it says that here. The church is a taste of heaven. It's where
Christ dwells. Where does he dwell? The heavens of heaven can't contain
him. You know what he says? He says he's in the midst of
the church. Doesn't he? He says, I'm right in the middle
of the church. He calls it his body. Christ in him does all
the fullness of the Godhead body. He's a heavenly body. This is
a heavenly place. Look at chapter 3, verse 15.
Paul says, "...the whole family of whom God the Father and Christ,
the whole family in heaven and earth is now." See, it's one
family. Part of it is in heaven, and
and part of it is on earth. The old writers used to talk
about the Church glorified and the Church militant. It's still
in the battle, military, militant, still in the battle, but the
Church is glorified. It's still one body. And there
in heaven, we're on earth, but it says we're seated with him,
though, as good as there. I've got a place, he said, I'll
go and prepare a place for you. It's there, it's good, it's certain
as it was already there. And he gives us a little dabble
of it every now and then to keep us from despairing. Oh, I've
quit, let's taste and see that the Lord is gracious. This is
what's waiting. John, go on to work. It won't
be long, now taste. Keeps you going, keeps you going.
Look over at Deuteronomy 12. We've seen this together before,
and it says this over and over again throughout Deuteronomy
12, 13, 14, 15, 16. You want a blessing, you go through
it. We preached a message on this one time. Either look that
up or just study the scripture. Everywhere it says, all the way
through these chapters, about five or six chapters, It talks
about this. Look at Deuteronomy 12, verse
5. Under the place which the Lord
your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name
there, even unto his habitation shall you seek, and thither thou
shalt come. Look at verse 7. before the Lord your God, and
rejoice in all that he put your hand unto you and your household,
wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee." Blessed be God according to his
blessing on us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
that he has called to put his reign there. Look over chapter
11 and 12. should be a place which the Lord
your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there." His
name to be exalted and dwell there. Remember when Christ said
in John 17, I have declared thy name and will declare it. Read on. "...cause his name to
dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you."
Verse 12, "...ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God." You
and your sons, look there behind you, Nancy Popper, right over
there. Deuteronomy 12, verse 12. You and your son and your
daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, the Levites within
your gate. The place God's chosen to put
his name there. You'll come, you'll gather, you'll
rejoice. He says you'll eat. On and on it goes throughout
Deuteronomy. You'll eat there. Good place to eat. Hey, you know
a good place I can eat? Yeah. Right on top of the hill,
above the Big River Bridge. Good place to be. Oh, my, what
a place this is. Psalm 89, David said, How amiable
are thy tabernacles. How amiable. Amiable. You find this place amiable?
It's a place where amies can come. Find it amiable. Amy is able to come and find
the place to eat. That reminds me of a . . . Do you all remember that sign that
was on that building the other night, right over here on your
left? Did anybody look up there and see it? Did you see that? It said, or it kept a sign up
there that said, Go out where the sinners are. Did you see that? Anybody? Did they? Well, I thought, my,
my. I think I will. If there ain't
none in here, I don't want to be in here. There was a little girl that
went home from church one day. Hannah, you were like that little
girl. Her name was Edith. Edith. And she went home from
church one day and said, The preacher found my name in the
Bible. He said, Edith? No, honey, I don't think so.
That's not a biblical name. Oh, yes, yes, dad. He found it. He
read where it said, This man receiveth sinners, and Edith
with them. Amenable. My name is Edith. My name is
sinner, he said. My name's in there. This man
received a sinner. Go out where the sinners are.
Come in here where the sinners are. Right? This man received
a sinner, and he is with him. That's the nameable tabernacle.
This is where God is worshiped in spirit and truth, from the
heart. The less you have on the inside,
the more you need on the outside. Right? The less you have on the
inside, the more you need to drum it up, the more preachers
are going to have to be a cheerleader. Come on, now! Come on! What's wrong with you? We're
dead! That's what's wrong. We worship
God in spirit and in truth. God's not worshiping with men's
hands, anyway. He's worshiping in spirit and truth. How does
he worship? When you hear the truth, you
worship. Don't you? And in spirit, where is the spirit
of God? Where is the spirit of God present?
It's where Christ is preached. That's what he said, didn't he,
Terry? In John 16, he said, He'll take the things of mine and show
them unto you. Christ is the truth. And those
that worship in spirit, where the spirit is, where the spirit
is moving in them, they hear the truth. And they rejoice. The next thing, they rejoice
in Christ Jesus. They worship in spirit and in
truth and rejoice. When he takes the truth, he shows
them Christ, who is the truth, and they rejoice in Christ Jesus.
The thing that gives him shouting ground is what he has done, doesn't
it? Who he is, where he is now, what
he has done. It's all right to shout, but
as long as that's what you shout about. Write him, person and
work of Christ, and put no confidence in the flesh. No confidence in the flesh. This thing, this paraphernalia,
nahushta. You remember that? What's that
name? Nahushta. A worthless piece of brass. Nahushta. Anything. The trappings of religion.
All the religion you need is this. That's all you need. The only
material necessary to worship God is a Bible and somebody to
preach it. Right? That's right. Oh, blessed be the Lord God who
has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. Is this a heavenly place to you?
Some of you have been in that mess before, haven't you? Ah, bless God, how he hath blessed
us. Why me? We ought to say, why me? 1 Corinthians
4, 7, is that it? Who maketh thee to differ? And
what hast thou that thou hast not received? Why me? Because down here in
our text it says, verse 4, according as he hath chosen us in Christ
before the foundation of the world. that we should be holy
and without blame, before him in love." He had chosen us, having
predestinated us. Read on. He chose to save us
and reveal the gospel to us. He predestinated us under the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself. Adoption of
children by Jesus Christ. See, Christ had to redeem them
by Christ to God. God loved them with an everlasting
love and set his love on them, and therefore he drew them with
cords of love, cords of a man who is Christ, to himself. He
drew them to himself. And why did they do all this?
Why did Christ choose me? This is a good pleasure as well.
It wasn't that he saw something more worthy in me or that there
was more material in me that he could work with. It's just he decided to. Why
did you do this, Lord? It's because I was pleased to.
That's what makes you praise God for election one. That makes
you praise God for election. God knows why you're in the election.
Praise God. Blessed be God who elected us. And you're one of the elect.
You're one of the elect if, listen, You want to know if you're one
of the elect? You're one of the elect if this gospel election
is blessed to you. That's how you know. He said,
My sheep hear my voice. He said, I call them. How? He
just declares his power. That's all he does. He doesn't
ask. When he calls, he doesn't ask anybody anything. He just
says, I am God. There's none else, doesn't he?
Behold my servant." That's all he said. He just declares himself.
It's the word of his power. Christ calls people the same
today as he did from the beginning. When Christ walked by and Matthew
was sitting there, he said, Matthew, follow me. He didn't ask him
anything. He said, get up, follow me. But Matthew did. He had no choice. Matthew later on said, I thank
God he called me. She's still sitting at that seat
of customs. He walked through Jericho, remember, and said,
Zacchaeus, get down from there. I'm going to your house. Well,
Zacchaeus didn't invite him into his house. He didn't let him
into his heart. Christ said, I'm coming in. Get
down, get home, I'm coming in. You're one of mine. That's how
he calls. And that's how you know if you're
one of his. You love that. You love that. I love that. He called us. He chose us. This is how you know if you're
one of the elect. If you need this gospel and love
this gospel more than anything else. If you need and love this gospel
more than anything else. That's how you know. This is
how you know you're one of the elect, if his words. If every word you see in this
book is just infinite wisdom, if his word is power, if his
word is powerful to you, I mean this doesn't come in word only,
it comes with You don't see visions and signs,
but you see his word. It's clearer than any vision. When you can see Christ more
clearly than some picture hanging on a wall, you can see. But you don't. Deborah and I
were talking about this, whether or not we try to imagine a picture
of Christ. Well, no, you don't do that.
You don't do that, because Peter said, whom having not seen, you
love. If you could imagine that description
in Revelation 1, then maybe you could. But how do you imagine
someone with a face whose countenance shines as the sun in all its
strength, and his feet as brass that burn in a furnace? But I've seen him just as clearly
as any picture. Haven't you? I have seen the
glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." What does he look like?
Glory! Glorious! Beautiful! Describe him! Beautiful! Beautiful! That's how you know you want
to be elected. His words are wisdom and power and glory to
your soul. Election, the very word, just
sounds sweet. Some people, Ron, some people,
when you say that word, that's what they do. I say it visibly,
come over people's countenance. God has an elect. But God's people, oh, it's like balm. It's like, oh,
like a big cold drink of what? Lactium. Huh? I'm serious. It's sweet. That's
what Christ said in John 7. He said, I've given them the
words that you gave them, and they received them. Not as the
words of men, but as in truth the word of God. Pre-old dreaded
P word. Gets music to my ear. Predestination. Whom he did foreknow, he did
predestinate. Don't you love the sound of that?
What about words like this? Come in his head. Just, just,
just. You say, go on, go on. Don't you? More and more, okay? Mercy. Grace. The word even sounds good
enough. Grace. Grace. They shall never
perish. He's Lord over all. Makes you
want to bow, doesn't it? What about Byron's word? Purpose! Did you see that all the way
through Ephesians 1? Purpose. Purpose. Verse 6, accepted in the blood. Man, this is music to the believer's
ears, isn't it? Music. That's how you know when
you're one of the elect, when his words are music to your ears. That's how you know. Can you
say that? I see some heads nod. Good. That's when the word comes,
not in word only, but in power. Then Christ said, He that is
of God heareth God's word. And it's like cold waters to
a thirsty soul. Good news from a far country.
Verse 7, In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sin, that Corwin, according to the riches of his They say,
wherein he hath abounded to all how he has abounded toward us
in all wisdom and prudence. Oh, my, so very many people are
ignorant of the most plainest and simplest and most elementary
and fundamental truths in all the Bible, aren't they? People,
they call themselves fundamental, and they are ignorant of the
very fundamentals of the faith, aren't they? They don't even
know what happened in the Garden, do they? How could you know anything
from there on out? Well, you can't. If you're not
dead, grace won't mean anything to you. The word live won't mean
anything to you. Mercy won't mean anything to
anybody but a sinner. I mean a dead dog sinner. Qualified. A dead dog sinner. Mercy won't
mean a thing. Oh, how God has abounded toward
not only the simplest truth. the simplest and the clearest
truth, yet he hath abound unto us. Scripture says he hath revealed
unto us and our children the secrets that have been kept hidden. Look at verse 9. He hath made
known unto us the mystery of his will. Scripture says a great light
has shone in darkness. Paul, when you see the truth,
is like It's like waking up, and it's exactly what happens
when the truth comes to you. Waking up. Ah, you say, I've
never seen that before. No, you were blind. We were blind. And the Savior, the same one
that came by Bartimaeus, gave us eyes. Great light. There are children, the Scripture
says, that walked in darkness and seen a great light. Nancy,
you were one of those people, weren't you? Nancy would have
played yours if she had been playing it. You probably did, didn't you,
Nancy? You played your guitar and thought you were as holy
as holy could be, didn't you? Despising the gospel when you
first heard it. The enmity reared up in you,
didn't it? But God, who is rich in mercy, chose you in Christ
for the foundation of the world. And he made known unto you the
mystery." Here's a mystery to you before. Now it's perfectly
clear, isn't it? Clear it up, hasn't it? Clear
it up. Vision. He hath abounded toward
us. We see things out of obscurity,
don't we? And he's abounded toward us and
to our children. Deborah and Vicki, Mindy, this
morning I walked downstairs. and is walking around. I want
everybody to do something before you leave here tonight. I want
you to go downstairs and walk in those classrooms, each one
of them. I'm serious. Especially if you've
never been in them. And you'll get a blessing. I'm
telling you, you'll get a blessing. You'll walk in. I want you to
walk in there. In Vicki's classroom and Edward's
classroom, there's red lines everywhere. The scarlet lines hanging out
of little doors, hanging out over walls, everywhere you look. In Deborah's classroom, there's
a huge, one whole wall is the tabernacle
in the wilderness, with all the furniture in it. You go down there and you want
to bless them. I just stood in there for the longest time. Go
in Mindy's room, and every book of the Old Testament is on the
wall with the type of Christ in each one. Oh, how he hath abounded toward
us. Hadn't he? Our children. Blessed be God. They ain't one
church in a million people, so-called churches. Every church has the
truth, but they're not one in a million so-called churches
that have just a portion of the truth that we have. Just go down
in our children's classrooms. There's enough truth in those
classrooms to save us all. Somebody go and listen to Deborah
preach. Teach on that tabernacle. She's as honorable as Deborah, who was judge of old. Yes, she is. We have a Deborah
in our midst. We sure do. Oh, my, have you
abounded toward her. Have you abounded toward her? Oh, how we need to thank him
for it. And I'll quit for this. Verse 10, he says, and it's all
according to verse 9, a good pleasure of his will, his good
pleasure which he purposed in himself. He just decided to do
it, that's why. And in dispensation of the fulness
of time, he gathered in one, gathered together in one, all
things in Christ. both of which are in heaven,
which are on earth, even in him, in Christ also, we have obtained
and inherited, being predestinated according to the purpose of God
who works all things at the counsel of his own will. We see the oneness of it all,
don't we? Wasn't there an old song one
time that said, Oh, the wonder of it all? Oh, the wonder of
it all. We see the oneness of it all.
It's all in Christ. The world, this book to the world,
is just so many mysterious, it's just many puzzling pieces. But we see them as pieces of
the puzzle. We see them as pieces that miraculously,
perfectly fit together, and we've seen the whole picture. Heaven,
a face. The world is puzzled by some
things. How he has abounded toward us in all wisdom. What's all
wisdom? Christ is the wisdom of God. We see the wisdom of God, but
we see Christ all the way through. Have you just been amazed as
we go through this book and how he just... Isn't it amazing? Blessed be
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, according as he hath
blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places,
Central Baptist Church, in Christ Jesus. according to the good pleasure of his will.
If we have reasons to bless him, don't we? All right, stand with
me and I'll dismiss it. Heavenly Father, we can't thank
you enough for passing by this, our grave, and calling us out
of darkness into your marvelous light. We can't thank you enough
for for calling us by your power and revealing your Son in us,
and time and time again being with us, opening your Word to
us by the way, by the broad way that leads to destruction. You
put us in the narrow way that leads unto life. Lord, thank
you. You put us there. Let us not take it for granted. Be thankless. Let us continue
to give you thanks. Unto you be all the glory and
honor and power and wisdom and strength and blessings. Our God who loved us and chose
us and put us in Christ, we thank you for everything in Christ's
name. Amen.