There in Psalm 84, is it? And he said, I was glad when
they said unto me, it's time to go worship God. Glad hour. 1 Timothy, chapter 1. 1 Timothy, chapter 1. As I said, we'll be going through
this, Lord willing. on Sunday nights and Wednesday
nights, unless we feel led to stop at some point and deal with
something else. I had reasons for doing this.
You know, you could. You could just
open it up and turn to any book and start preaching or reading
from it and going through it to be profitable, but I like
to feel led to do so. And I had reasons for going through
First Timothy, number one, I believe is, I can relate to this. This
is the wise counsel of a faithful, old and faithful minister of
the gospel, whom God greatly blessed, to a young preacher,
a young pastor, Timothy. I can relate to young Timothy.
He was young, and that is a detriment to preaching the gospel. It really
is. Paul had to remind him. Don't let anybody despise your
youth. Preach with authority and boldness. People do, no matter
what you do or how bold or eloquent or whatever you are, people do
despise your youth. It's human nature. Older men
don't want to listen to a young man. Most of them aren't worth
listening to, I'll say that. But Timothy was young, and Timothy
was timid. Remember there in 2nd Timothy
1, I believe it was, he said, don't be ashamed of the gospel,
Timothy, you be bold. Timothy was timid, maybe from
meekness, but very timid. He was pastor of a great church,
at least a minister there for a good while, Ephesus, and he
felt so insufficient for that task. As do every one of God's
men, they feel insufficient to pastor three people, let alone
Three hundred and three or however many, a thousand and three. So
I can relate to young Timothy. And Timothy, obviously, according
to the things Paul dealt with, he was living in an age of great
opposition to the gospel. There was great opposition to
everything that was true in the gospel. And that's our day. And thirdly, Paul encourages
and warns young Timothy about the heresies and the things that
are going on in that day and how he would have to deal with
them. And he talked to him about personal
watchfulness. Take heed unto yourself. That's
a powerful verse for Timothy. All of us, but preachers in particular,
strict adherence to doctrine over and over. Like I say, he
said thirteen times in these two epistles. Doctrine. Doctrine. Or throughout the epistles,
but several times in these epistles. Doctrine. And the necessity of
order in the church. He deals very, very specifically. with how things are to be dealt
with or how things are to be ordered and how things take place
in the church. So we need all of these things.
Ministerial, he told Timothy to take heed unto yourself. That's
the first thing he said to him and to the doctrine. Ministerial
integrity and Honesty is a thing of the past. Isn't it? It's a thing of the
past. And I want to know what it's
all about because I want to be one. And doctrinal purity. That's a thing of the past. Doctrinal
purity. You don't hear much doctrine,
period. Let alone purity. Doctrine in
all of its purity. and biblical church order. I
know there are a lot of people that like to think they have
it right, but they don't do it in context, right? A lot of people like to make
orders, but I don't believe it's in love and the biblical Christian
way. So all of these All throughout
the first Timothy and it's intermingled with some of the clearest exposition
and definition of the gospel you'll ever hear. We're going
to find it in verse 2. We're going to find the gospel
in verse 2 in three words. Paul says the gospel in three
words in verse 2 right over the starting gate. This is a blessed
portion of scripture. So let's look at it together.
First Timothy 1 verse 1. Paul. He doesn't use his credentials,
does he? Now, Paul had a degree. You know, Paul would be the equivalent
of a D.D. and M.D. of an M.A. and B.A.
and all that today. He was one of the most learned
and scholarly men of his day. He didn't use them, did he? One
time he did talk about it, didn't he, Rick, over in the Philippines.
He said, yeah, I went to school one time. You know what I think
about it? It's got to be yes. That's what
he said. That's exactly what the man was
saying. One man who had organized religious training, and that's
what he said about a stand. And I'm just sorry. I'm sorry
if these educated people get mad at me for saying things like
this, but I don't think there's any place for it in the pulpit.
God may overrule. He may give a man some knowledge
and so forth, and he does. I've got many books on my shelves
written by Dr. Gill, Dr. This, Dr. That. But
don't let any man take titles to himself. I believe that's
unbiblical and unscriptural. We've got one physician. Nobody's
a doctor. We've got one great physician.
Right? Brother Worthington said, we
can call ourselves nurses. Paul did. As a nurse, cherishes
her children. If you want to take a title,
say, I'm a nurse. That's not very manly, is it? Nurses are women. And for the
most part, Paul didn't use those titles, did he? Dr. Paul, Reverend,
Most Right, Reverend, Holy Father, Dr. Paul. Well, that sounds good
to the flesh, doesn't it? Now, Paul, no flesh is going
to glory in God's presence. Now, he said, I'm an apostle
of Jesus Christ. Now, this meant something to
young Timothy. In other words, what Paul was
saying to this young preacher, you need to sit up and listen.
The term pastor carries some authority with it. It carries
some credentials with it. God used it, God gave it, said
men have this term and so forth. But it doesn't mean anything
to most people. And rightfully so, there aren't
very many true pastors. And an apostle, now an apostle
back then was an ignominious term. I mean, shameful. If anybody
heard somebody was an apostle, they were all scouring the earth.
Apostle? Killing. It didn't mean anything
to the average, you know. They didn't run around touting
the fact that they were apostles. But to the church, she said,
to this young man, she said, I'm an apostle. And you need
to understand this thing. There were three qualifications
for being an apostle. Down here, there's a local so-called
church organization, and they have a sign up, you know, on
the corner where a man parks his car that says Apostolic Corner. Have you seen that on 220? And
I'd tell them to their faces if they were here. apostolic
corner where somebody who thinks they're an apostle gets to park
his limo there is whatever you're at. There are no more apostles,
people. No more. I'll show you. I'll
tell you why. Three qualifications for apostles. Number one, they had to see Jesus
Christ with their eyes. Number one, they had to see him,
actually see him personally. And any man living say that he's
seen the Lord yet. No. No. No. We say, what about
Paul? On the road to Damascus, Paul
saw him. We say he saw a light. Have you
ever read 1 John 1? God is light. Christ is light. And the light shone in darkness. Darkness, everybody else didn't
see it. Paul did. All right, he saw him. Not only
did you have to see Christ personally, but you had to receive personally
from him, from the Lord Jesus Christ. He had to call your name
and say, John, you're going to be an apostle. John, John, I
want to send you, you're going to be my emissary, my ambassador. This is what you're going to
do. They had to receive their orders from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Apostle Paul did that, or had that, several times. Remember,
you were showing that to me in Acts where it said, Paul, the
Lord came back to him another time and said, Paul, you stay
right there in Corinth. Don't go anywhere. Stay right
there. I have much people in that city. Chosen vessel. Number three, they had to receive
special gifts. Special gifts. Now, I don't mean
all that stuff, but they had to receive special gifts. Laying
on the hands of sick people, I'm talking blind folk now, had
their eyes restored. Deaf people heard. Even dead
people were raised by these apostles. They weren't just going around
blowing bad breath into people's faces and they falling down.
I can do that. After the service is over, I
could easily do that to any one of you. You would fall over readily. I blew in your face. But that's
special gifts they were given. Languages. Why? Why was it tongues? That doesn't mean gibberish.
That doesn't mean that at all. It means languages. Like you
said in Acts 2, every man heard the glorious works of God preached
in their own language. Why? The gospel had to be spread
rapidly. Christ said the harvest is white.
Fields are white when harvested. Labors are few. He had to give
a special gift. Go. It's urgent. Right? The church was being established.
They weren't seminaries. They weren't schools. They weren't
all of these things. There wasn't time to... That's
the only sense in which these schools are good, to equip men
in certain areas, teaching them languages. Walter Gruber went
to school to learn the Mexican language and so forth. He'll
tell you right now, though, he learned most of it on the field
down there. And Walter doesn't call himself doctor either. Can
you imagine Mother Gruber saying that? Well, three things. There's no reason. There's no
reason to have apostles now. There's no need. No need. Why? Well, Peter said, we've got a
more sure word of prophecy. See, the Bible was not written.
It was being written by the apostles at that time. The Bible was not
written. Peter, while writing it, said,
now we saw some wonderful things. Oh, you should have seen what
I saw, Paul did. If you'd have saw what I seen. Oh, he said,
it was glorious. But he said, no, you can't trust
that. But you can trust the sure word
of God. You have a more sure word of prophecy. You do well
to take heed of that. So these credentials, these gifts, healing,
languages, and so forth, were credentials for these ambassadors
of Christ, these apostles of Christ, so that men everywhere
would see the power of God and sit up and take notice and listen
to them. They were credentialed. Well,
you mean you come from God? The works that I do bear witness. They could have seen it. And
while they saw them actually heal people, raise people from
the dead, people said, whoa, now wait a minute, this has to
be from God. Maybe they are from God and they listen. Okay? What's
my credential? What tells you I'm filled with
the Holy Spirit? You better not listen to me unless I'm a man. What's my credential? That I
can babble? I do too much of that. Now that
shows me to be a man, a vain babbler. What are my credentials? What's any true preacher's credential? It's how closely I state this
right here. Try the Spirit. How do you try? You've got a
rule book. You've got a book to go by. You don't have to take
my word for it. Thank God. You don't learn what you learn
from a man, or that is, he gives it to you. But the Holy Spirit,
through that man, through the preaching of this faithful preaching
and teaching, verse by verse, teaches you himself. You himself. And you can look it up for yourself.
I like that. I'm not in bondage to any man,
that whatever any man tells me, I don't have to take it as a
preacher. I better not touch God's anointed. No, I can look
it up in the book and say, well, that's what, yeah, that's what
it says, or that's what it doesn't say, and find out for myself. Remember when the people said
that to the woman at the well when she came back? Remember
they didn't believe her? Remember, they came back to Christ
and heard for themselves. They said, now we believe not
because of what you said, because we've heard ourselves. Right? You don't have to have a pope.
You've got one most high potentate. Right? You don't have to have
a father to absolve your sins. You've got one father which is
in heaven. Go right to him. Go straight to God, John. Not
me. You'll just feed my wicked ears
full of things. Oh boy, he did that. Don't go
to me. Don't confess your... Don't go
to Mary. You got one mediator. You go to Christ. Mary can't
do anything about your sins. Why would I want to go to Mary
and have her just take him to Christ? Why don't I just go to
Christ instead? I don't need a middle man. Things get weak in the middle
man, don't they? They get their little share,
don't they? Mary gets her little bit of glory. little piece of
the pie and go straight to Christ. Cast all my care on Him, not
Mary, not this man, right to Christ. Right? He'll take care of it. He'll
take care of it. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
I better hurry, by the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus
Christ. And that's what I was saying.
It came through the commandment of God, of Christ. I do want you to notice this.
It's very important. Right off the tip of Paul's pen,
buddy, every word inspired by the Holy Spirit has eternal wisdom,
divine wisdom, power, honor, glory, eternal consequences. It needs to be said and heard. Every word is in order, divinely
ordained for the foundation of the world. I just can't tell
you enough. that this is not the thoughts of a man. This is
God speaking. He says, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by
the commandment of God our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. Do you
catch that? Do you catch what he's saying
there, right out of the bat? God's people do. They hear it.
They hear it. You see, they that are unlearned
and unstable twist the They get them all kind of perversions
or translations, they call them, translate their perversion of
the Bible, and they explain away what they can't explain. Right,
Stan? Get you a new international,
or whatever you want to call it, new international perversion,
and follow that. Unlearned, unstable. You know
what that says in verse one? That's saying Jesus Christ is
God Almighty. That's exactly what he's saying.
That's a good place to start teaching a young preacher, isn't
it? Buddy, you ain't going to... Don't get up behind the pulpit.
Don't get behind the podium. Don't even open your mouth unless
you establish in your mind and your heart who Jesus Christ is.
He ain't no pitiful failure. He ain't no poor murder. He's not somebody that just came
to show you the way. Tried all he could do, and now
the rest is up to you. You get that straight in your
theology, buddy. Right out of the bat. He is none
other than, He's very God. I like that term in the Scripture.
Very God. A very God. I mean, He's God. Not part God, not just son of
God. He's God. Get that straight,
buddy. Why is that necessary? Why is
that necessary to believe? Because He is. Because he is. If you want to write Jesus Christ,
you have to believe in the one that's God. Right? It's Jesus that loves everybody.
We can't do anything for him. He's not God. He plays hockey
for the Boston Bruins. Jesus Esposito, or whatever his
name. He used to play baseball for the Cleveland Indians. Who
was it? Jesus Alou, you know. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is everywhere. But the Lord Jesus Christ now
is God. This is another one of the many
clear proclamations of the Deity, of the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Deity, Jesus Christ, is God in human flesh, which is our hope. You see that, verse 1? That's
our hope! I quote it all the time, and
I want you to look at it with me, Isaiah 25. It's one of my all-time
favorite verses in all the Scripture. next to the other three million
that I like. It's our hope. The fact that
Jesus Christ is God is my hope. If He was just another man, He
can't save me. If He's just another prophet,
He can't save me. If He's just an angel, an angel
couldn't even save me. If He's just the Son of God,
like old Kenneth Copeland says, You're as much a son of God as
Jesus Christ is. If He's no more powerful than
I am, He can't save me. I can't save myself. Why do I need to go to somebody
to seek my equal? I've got to have a stronger than me, stronger
than He. Isaiah 25 and 9, and it shall
be said in that day. What day? The day of salvation.
Lo, this is our God. We've waited for Him. He'll save
us. This is the Lord. We've waited
for Him. We'll be glad and rejoice in
His salvation. This is our God. We've waited
for Him. Right? God came down to save
people, save men and women. Why? A man can't save himself. A man can't save himself. Let
me preach this in such a way that our young people can understand
it. Jennison, I'll pick on you. Do
you know why God, you ought to know, your teachers taught you,
why Jesus Christ had to come down here? Why he had to be God
and man? Stephen, Kevin, all of you, Luke,
do you know why Christ had to be God and man? You've got to
know that. You've got to know that. He had
to be God because God only, only God can satisfy His holy law. God requires us to satisfy or
live His law perfectly. He wouldn't be God if He didn't
require that, right? He's a just God. He's not a Savior
and a just God. He's first a just God, holy God,
just God, and a Savior. And he said that there's none
righteous. God looked down upon men everywhere to see if there
were any righteous. He said there's none righteous.
No, not one. Do you remember when the angels
went into Sodom? And Lot was pleading, or Abraham
was pleading with the Lord and said, Lord, if you find fifty,
will you spare fifty righteous men? Will you spare that city?
He asked for fifty. Forty? And on down the line,
down to ten. Just ten? Lord, if you can find
ten! Estimates have it that that city
had millions of people inside of it. About like San Francisco.
Same kind of city. Same things went on there. No
worse. Ten? Just ten righteous people? I won't destroy it for ten. What
happened? He destroyed the city. There's
none. You say, well, Lot was righteous.
Oh, no, no, wait a minute. Lot committed incest with his
daughters just a few days after he was out of that city. If he
was truly a real believer like he should have been, he wouldn't
have been in Sodom to begin with. He packed up his family and got
out of Sodom real fast. His daughters sure weren't, were
they? His wife sure wasn't. None righteous, no, not one.
None! God says, we're going to have
to be righteous. Didn't He? He cannot just up and forget
what we've done. We've got to be righteous. So
God says, nobody can do it. And you're right to say by saving
them. Or save us, or we perish. Here I come. No is written of
me in the volume of the book to do thy will, O God. Christ
came. God. It shall be said in that
day, God is with us. This is our God. Who's this baby? Simeon? It's God. God's come. I don't see how a baby can do
anything. Just wait around. Just wait around. A baby can't
do anything. A man can, though. A man like God can save us, can
live the righteousness of the law perfectly. And he did. He
did, thirty-three years old, a little younger than I am. And
a man, he stood before the mocking, jeering crowd of all the human
race and said, Somebody find one flaw in my character. If
anybody can find one flaw in my character from the day I was
born to the day I'm about to die, then I am not the Christ. One person come forward. They
tried, and their witnesses didn't agree, to finally pilot the great
judge. He was trying his best to find
something in this man. And Polly, he said, I can't find
anything in him. I've tried. I've listened to
this rumor. I can't find anything in it. Satan, how about you?"
Now, he's the great accuser. He can look into the hearts and
lives of people. He knows. What about you, Satan? Found nothing in him. Psalm 17.
Now, what did you read the other day? Found nothing in him. Satan. Get thee behind me, Satan. Get
thee behind me. All right, here stands this man.
He's more than a man. He's God. God looked down from
heaven, twice said it from heaven, said, That's my son. I'm well pleased. A man approved
of God. Do you see why God had to come
down? Jennifer, you understand that a little bit? Andrew, a
little bit? Why did he have to be a man?
Why couldn't God just come down like an angel? Pick up his people and go on
back to heaven. Come on, folks. Great, massive,
mighty Spirit, you know, just swoop up his people and take
them up into heaven. Why did God have to come down and look
like an ordinary man? Why, Sammy, why didn't he tell
everybody who he was? Why did he have to look like
a man? There's nothing beautiful about him. Why did he have to
look like a man? He had to look like me. Douglas,
he had to be like me. Infirmities, encompassed about
with infirmities aflame. Tempted, and he had to be tempted
like me. Right? In all points, yet without
sin. And then he had to die like me.
He's pointed unto me and wants to die. He's a man. He's got
to die. Why? Anybody out there asking
these questions? Why? Why do you have to die? Why do you have to become a man?
Why? Cause I'm a man and I have to die. I've sinned against God. God says soul that's in it must
die. There's no amnesty. God just doesn't say, well, you've
sinned, but I forgive you. No, they have to be paid for.
Right? Paid for. I'm losing you. I'm losing you. I'm talking to
somebody in here, young people. God had to become a man. Pay
for those sins. Pay for those sins. Be punished.
See, God can't punish Himself. And man can't satisfy. God can't
suffer. Man can't satisfy. But God and
man can do both. That's the gospel. God and man
can do both. Indeed, He came down as God,
lived the law perfectly, came down as man. God saw him as a
sinner and killed him. Why? I'm a man. And then somehow,
now this is the mystery of it all, he took what he did and
put it on me. Put it on me. God made him. Would somebody like to come up
here and expound on 2 Corinthians 5.21, please, for me? God made
him to be sinned. To be sinned. Martin Luther said Jesus Christ
was, as it were, the greatest sinner to ever walk on the face
of the earth. Oh, you say, well, I thought
he was perfect. No, God made him sin. Polly, when God saw
Jesus Christ on the cross, he saw the ugliest, homosexual,
pervert, rapist kidnapping, rebel, atheistic, witch, poor-mongering,
ugly, drunkard, vile, wretched man. All of them rolled into
one. Sin. You know how much God hates
sin? He's going to have to burn a
whole universe up to do away with it. Men, women, and children. To do away with this principle
called sin. Well, it says, thank God. He
took all the sins, or sin that's in you, and rolled it all up
in one big heavy weight and laid it on His shoulder. That's the
reason, oh, nobody can describe this, that's the reason Christ
in the garden trying to be made sin. Right at that point, being
made sin. Everything that his nature recoiled
against. And he sweat, as it were, great
drops of blood. The thoughts of facing the wrath
of God Almighty against sin. The full, undiluted, full-fledged
wrath of God Almighty against sin. And he sweat blood. And
he said, I'm going to die right here if you don't take this cup
from me. And the angels came and ministered to him. But finally,
he went to that cross and six hours, it took six hours. You
know, he's the omnipotent God, Terry. If it wasn't a great mighty
work, he could have just hung there a millisecond and said,
it's over. Six hours. Not only that, but
so the whole scripture would be fulfilled. Every word that
he uttered on the cross was written in the scripture. God made him to be sin for us.
Who knew no sin? That we might be made righteous
to pristine holiness, to where we can stand angels and the heavenly host.
Anybody find anything in me? Think about that. Anybody, devils
and angels alike, condemn me? Who is he that condemns? Christ died. Christ died. That's me. I was
crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Here I
am. It's not I. Christ is living in me. My, my. Which is our hope. You see that? I'm not going to take my time
going through this book, folks. I've got no deadline, no schedule.
I'm going to take my time. That's verse 1. That's verse
1. He's God. He's man. He's Jesus. He's the Christ. He's our God,
our Savior. Why? It's our hope. You don't
have a hope unless he's Joe Parks. Unless Jesus Christ can save
you, buddy, you ain't gonna be saved. Right? There's not another. There's none other name given
under heaven whereby we must be saved. Right? It ain't John
Paul. It ain't Paul Paul. Paul Edward. It ain't so-and-so. It ain't
Mary. Jesus Christ. Unless he did what
he did for you and got the job done, you're a goner, buddy.
You're on your road to hell. You know that? And you'd have
to say you're getting what you deserve. What do you hope, Joe
Farr? What do you hope? Christ. He's
more than a man, isn't he? He's not a martyr. He's not a
failure. I'm here to tell you, Jesus Christ,
the work that he did was a resounding success. Because he said it in
the scriptures, he said someday he's going to bring all his people
before God Almighty, everyone he died for, everyone God loved.
I didn't even get to verse two. Everyone whom the grace and the
mercy and the peace of God the shed have brought upon, he's
going to take them all before God Almighty and say, here they
are. Father? Father's going to say, are they
all here? Yes. Here they are, I and the children, which thou
hast given me, because this was your will, Father. This is the
will of the Father which is in heaven, that every one which
he hath given me I would lose." What? Nothing. But where's old
so-and-so? He was so weak. Where's old Henry
Soar? He was, I knew he wouldn't make
it. Where's Henry? Here. Well, Henry
made it. Well, what about so-and-so? He
was the most wretched one of the bunch. Surely he didn't make
it. I knew he was going to fall all
along. I'm right back here. How'd you make it? Christ. I wouldn't have made it if he
hadn't picked me up and carried me all the way. They're all here. Not one missing. Somebody said in heaven there's
plenty of vacancies, but no, I mean plenty of room, but no
vacancy. Plenty of room, but no vacancy.
I know I've told you that. I know I've told you that story
about Brother Barnard who dreamed he died one time. Brother Barnard
used to sing. He used to love to sing. And
I used to love to hear him sing. He didn't have much of a voice,
but I used to love to hear him sing from the heart. I'd rather
hear somebody sing from the heart than some beautiful lady walking
around the stage and smiling and putting on the red Wouldn't
you? Wouldn't you rather hear him
sit there and watch an old bald-headed ugly fella sing from the heart
than a pretty little lady who doesn't know the gods she's singing
about, strutting all over the stage? Brother Barney used to
sing. You know, he's the first one
I ever heard sing that song, a sinner like me. I was once far away
from the Savior, as vile as a sinner
could be. He sang that song, some of you
know, right before that great message, God's Sovereign Mercy,
or God's Bloodhound, one or two. And he used to love to sing.
He used to complain about his voice. People wanted to get him
to sing, but he wouldn't. He just said, I can't sing. He said, someday I'm going to
sing, though. And he said he dreamed one time he died and
went to heaven. And he said he heard a choir. Oh, it was the most beautiful
sound. He loved music, you know, he
heard the most beautiful choir. He heard a beautiful choir sing
a cappella. I heard one time at work, I was
all by myself on the job, in a little room, a little transistor
radio about this big was playing, about that big, horrible sound
to it, you know, crackling. And I think it was one of these
big choir somewhere in the famous choir was singing it is well
with my soul. Acapella. And I wanted to lay
on the floor and weep. Right there. And Martin said
he heard that beautiful choir singing. Oh, he said, that's
so beautiful. He said, I'd love to get in on
that. Oh, I'd love to get in on that. And he walked in. The
heavenly, there the heavenly choir, all robed in white, singing
just He chilled up his fry. He said he saw a seat. There's
a seat. There's just one. There's a seat
up there. He said, if I could just make
it up that seat. So he walked up that aisle. It took him a
long time. Excuse me, excuse me. And he walked up there, finally
got up to that seat, and there was a name on the back of it. Reserved for Rolf Barner. And he said he didn't take a
seat or most standing, but he stood in front of it. He began
to sing, and his voice had changed, and he sung with the rest of
them. See, there's plenty of room in
glory, but no vacancy. God has a people as the sands
of the sea and as the stars of the sky, but all those seats
have names on them. Plenty of room. Now, you want
to be in that glorious throng. God Almighty
is going to have to come save you, reveal Himself to you. His name was Jesus Christ. He
got the job done. Everybody He saved is going to
be that. I want to be that. All right. Stand with me. We just missed in prayer. Dear
Lord, we thank You, our Lord and our God, for undertaking
to do for us what had to be done. If you had not come, dear Lord,
we would surely perish. Thanks be unto God. This is our
God. Jesus Christ is God. He thought it not robbery to
be equal to God, and we think it not robbery of God's glory
to call Him God. But bow at His feet as our Lord
and sovereign King to the glory of God the Father. the salvation
of our souls, because He is our hope. He is our hope. My hope
is built, and I hope the hope of those in here are built on
nothing less than a shed in effectual blood of Jesus Christ and His
imputed righteousness. It is good news to this old sinner,
and we have met together in the name of that Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ today. Amen. You're dismissed.