Chapter three, Revelation chapter
three. I, uh, I'm amazed as I read through
here, the value of keeping politics and community issues out of the
pulpit. And the value is we will not
face a reprimand from God. If we look at these churches
in this chapter 2 and chapter 3 that received a reprimand,
and we're going to look at those tonight, just quickly going back
over them, but they received a reprimand for forgetting this
one issue in the pulpit, and that was preaching Christ and
Him crucified. That was the issue in every case
that meant God said, I have somewhat against thee. Now the best I
can do, the best we can do, is to never have God ever say that
about us here. Lord help us, because he's the
only one that can, he's the only one that can make us faithful,
he's the only one that can keep us on the straight path. But Lord help us never to succumb
to anything else any other doctrine, any other teaching, any other
formality, any other keeping of days, keeping of service,
except Christ and Him crucified. That's the only thing that will
encourage the saints and that is the only thing that will bring
in the lost sheep. And that just has to happen. And here it is.
There's five churches, I believe, out of the seven that the Lord
had somewhat against them. And if you look at what they
were going on, they had missed that most vital point. They had allowed other things
to come in. and to take precedent over the
word of God, over the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
there's nothing has precedent over that. But when people allow
that, now we see that in the Old Testament, when people begin
to portray their God, just like in these churches, portray their
God as very unimportant. These other issues are more important
than the issue of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we begin to see
Israel in the Old Testament, when we see Judah in the Old
Testament bringing the worst of their flock that they couldn't
sell as sacrifices, they're saying this represents my low opinion
of God. And when we see these seven churches
and several of them are reprimanded by Almighty God, they're saying
we have a little opinion about God because this is taking precedence
over that. In this chapter three, I want
to begin reading with verse seven, and we've dealt with some of
these verses in here, and by no means, by no means. I read or heard the other day
that in the oil wells, the major oil wells in the United States,
and I'm sure it's this way around the world, the major oil wells
in the United States, that without any help, they're able to get
30% of the oil out of those wells. Now that's a whole bunch left
in the well. And they, oh it was Steve Doyle was telling me
this, and they've worked out a plan of getting carbon monoxide,
carbon dioxide down in there and making an emulsion and bringing
it out. But they'll never be able to pull out more than 70%
of the oil in all of these reserves. Now that's just kind of the way
I feel about these verses of scripture. You'll never be able
to pull out all that's in these verses of scripture. At best,
if we could get 30% of what is here, we just count ourselves
thanks to God for what he's allowed us to see. Now in verse seven,
unto the angel or the minister, the pastor of the church at Philadelphia
write, and then this is his credentials. This is how he revealed himself
to this church as he has in all of these churches. He reveals
himself in a most powerful way. It's never, never diminutive. It's never, they used to call
me Normie. I like Norm better. When I was
seven, that fit, you know. There's never do we find that
diminutive terms used about the Lord. He's always exalted and
he always describes himself as so grand and glorious and high
and lifted up. And that's what he wants us to
realize about him, that he is all glorious and he is high and
lifted up. And that our view of him is worthy
and will not be tempted by giving in to those other things that
come along. If our view of God is grand,
then we'll not be tempted to give in to the other doctrines
that people count so valuable. He is the most important one. And he leaves that to us. He explains that to us. He shares that with us. So he
reveals himself here, he is he that is holy, he that is true,
he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth,
and shutteth and no man openeth. And then he says, I know thy
works. Behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man
shall shut it, for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept
my word, and hast not denied my name. Now, that could be said
in many ways, but the most important and the most obvious way is,
when the doors were open, when the doors were open, my name
was exalted. When the doors were open, the
gospel was being proclaimed. And when the doors were closed
and the saints were out from the assembly, they didn't forget
the value of the great God of this word. Didn't forget it. Now, sometimes we're challenged
and we find that things come along. And I don't know about
you, but I'm so glad that he has so much to say about his
sovereignty because if he said it once, I'd probably forget
it. things come along, but he says so much. He reminds us so
much, so constantly does he remind us about his sovereignty and
about his greatness that we're just always bathed with that. We're always, we're just always
brought to our attention. So whatever comes along, we're
still, that's brought to our attention. And he says here,
I have a door. I've opened the door. No man
can shut. And I shut doors that no man can open. I'm all powerful. I am all strength. I have no
weakness whatsoever. I can never be second guessed.
I'll always have my way. I like that about God. I'll always
have my way. His way is holy. His way is truth. His way is the way of all love.
I'll always have my way. Behold, I will make them of the
synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews and are not, but
do lie. Behold, I'll make them to come
and worship before thy feet. And know that I have loved thee.
Now it may be by the seat of their pants and by the cuff of
their collar, but he will make them. They will be made to do
that. He's God, and he will make all
come and bow their knee to the Lord Jesus. I love that passage
over there where it says, I have 7,000 who have not bowed the
knee to Baal. What's that mean? I have 7,000
bowed their knee to me. 7,000 have bowed their knee to
me. They have not bowed their knee
to Baal. And then he says here, I'll make them to come and worship
before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee. I like that. To know that I have loved thee. Now that love is so particular
and so eternal and so gracious. And it's a love that God's people
just can never forget. And you know what? I never have
to ask God, do you really? No, never once. Do you really love
me? It is such an enticing, it's such a captivating
love that God's people never have to ask him. Now, sometimes
we have to ask ourselves, do I love him? But we never ask,
does he love me? It is just so plain, so truthful
in the scriptures that he loves his people from eternity all
the time and has never forgotten his people and will love them
with an everlasting love. That's from beginning to end.
Now, he says here in verse 10, because thou hast kept the word
of my patience, now that's where I want to talk here just a little
bit about those other churches that we've gone over. And the
Lord had a problem with them. The Lord had a reprimand against
them. He says, I have someone against
me. And if we look at every one of those churches, we will find
that what the Lord had against them was that they allowed other
things to take precedent, other doctrine to take precedent over
Christ. I like what is mentioned in a
book, Under the Shadow of the Broad Brim. It's the biography
of Charles Spurgeon. And there's a chapter in there
that his ministry, and it speaks volumes about the guy who wrote
the book, because it seems like he has been around people that
didn't have this. But Spurgeon's ministry was Christocentric. Now that means Christ was the
center of his ministry. But if you have to write a chapter
on that, it speaks volumes of what you have met with in your
life. That he's the oddity, and these
are the normal. Well, that should be the other
way around, shouldn't it? Christocentricity should be the
norm in the churches, and the other should be the oddity. but
only in the churches that believe in the grace of God is Christ
the center. Men are the center. You just
watch it. Men are the center. It's manocentric
in these churches that don't exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and
don't have him as the center of their worship, the center
of their faith, the center of their hope. Then man is the center. Now notice here with me as we
back up just a little bit, chapter two and verse four, the church
at Ephesus, and there's no grander book in the Bible for most to
read than the book of Ephesians. That's just a good book. Now
here's the reprimand against the church at Ephesus sometime
later. In Revelation chapter two and
verse four, nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee because
thou hast left thy first love. Now what is the answer for that?
How could that be prevented? And if it is happening, how can
it be restored? Christocentrism. Christ the sinner. Preach Christ. Preach Christ
and Him crucified. Preach Christ as the only hope.
Preach Christ as the only way. Preach Christ as the only truth
and the only hope. Preach Him as the only sure foundation. Preach Him in His sovereignty
and His grace and mercy. Preach Him in His work of redemption
on the cross. Preach Christ and this issue
will not be an issue in the church. God's people will not have this
charge against them by God Almighty. You've left your first love.
What is that? You've skipped out on God. Skipped out on him. You've taken up other issues
and we could have all kinds of issues come up. We went over
that a little bit about that and we'll look here. Look at
the next one. Chapter 2 and verse 12. The angel of the Pergamos Chapter 2, verse 13, I know thy
works where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is, and thou
holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in
those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain
among you where Satan dwelleth. But I have a few things against
thee, because thou hast them They're them that hold the doctrine
of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before
the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols,
and to commit fornication." Now, I don't believe that they were
talking about immorality here. It's not what his issue is. The
issue is that they had allowed the teaching to come in that
made other things more important. Now, if they're more important
or even equal, We have a problem and we're going to get this charge
brought against us. This charge that you have kept
to the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balak to cast a stumbling
block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed
unto idols and to commit fornication, to become obsessed interested
or looking toward other things than the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
that could be public issues, that could be politics, that
could be any, all kinds of things, or just go through a systematic
theology and you could make a doctrine out of everything in there. And
if you wanted to, you could carry it to the point that it's taken
supremacy over Jesus Christ. So he says, I got this against
you, and what's the solution? Just get back to preaching Christ.
Get off of this point. Preacher, teachers, get off of
that Balaam stuff. It's just causing heartbreak
in the church, and people are going home. It saddens me when
I see people coming out of their church, and they're just having,
they just wish they hadn't been there. Just saddens me. And you can see it all over.
People coming out of church, they're no better off, they're
worse off coming out than they were when they went in. But God's
people, God's people come out. I saw him again and he's big. I saw him again and he's a redeemer
that redeems. He carries through on his promises.
He's not weak and mealy mouthed and trying to get anything done. He's doing everything according
to his purpose. And I'll tell you, I can go to
my car and say, I enjoyed that. That was pretty good. Enjoyed
that. I saw a view of God that made
him great again. Now we have to deal enough in
this world with the teeny tiny people talking about a teeny
tiny God. We meet them every day. Their
view of God has shrunk up. But oh, what a joy it is to be
able to go to the car and say, I saw my God big again. Now, turn with me, if you would,
to chapter 2 and verse 20. Notwithstanding, I have a few
things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants
to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
What is that? We went over that. We just named
a few of them. As we went through there, you know, making gods
out of all kinds of things and serious things. I mean, the building,
making a god out of the building, making a god out of the day,
making a god out of all kinds of issues, making a god out of
the Lord's Supper, making a god out of baptism. In their place,
they are wonderful to observe and to declare the gospel with.
But outside of that, Make them prime premier then we're wrong
and we will face this reprimand. I have someone against you and
I'll tell you what, when God says that to his church, it's
serious. What's the answer? Get back to
where you started. Get back to what the church at
Ephesus, the letter they were sent to begin with. Oh, read
it and get back to it and never leave it. And if something should
come along, get back to it. And these reprimands will not
be faced. The two churches that have no
reprimand, they have a view of God. They love him. They love preaching him. They
love declaring him. They love to see the activities
of God among people. And nobody can go home and say,
well, I won that one to Jesus. We just go home and say, God
saved his people as appointed. It tells us there, he is, he
is saving, he is calling out. There's people, God saves those
he has appointed at the appropriate time. Acts 13, 48, those who
are ordained to eternal life believe, and God saves daily. those who should be saved. My
goodness, he gets the glory in it. We just are thankful that
we got to scatter a little seed, just a little seed out there,
and thank God that he used it for his glory. And then we read
here in chapter 3 and verse 1. Chapter 3 and verse 1 says, I
know thy works thou hast to name that thou livest and art dead. How in the world could a church
be told this by God when Peter confessed, thou art the Christ,
the son of the living God. How could the church be dead
if Christ is the son of the living God? Well, we stepped aside and
picked up other issues that we felt were valuable. We stepped
aside and picked other traditions we thought were valuable. We
stepped aside and picked up other doctrines that we thought were
valuable. And the Lord Jesus Christ comes
along and says, I reprimand you. You say you're alive, but you're
really dead. And if we follow this on down,
we find those in who really know Christ, they're dying as a result
of it. They're not dead, but they're
dying. This is an issue. And the Lord Jesus Christ says,
repent, get back. How do we get back? preach Christ
and him crucified. If we need an example, just go
to Paul. What did he spend his time preaching? And if he wrote a letter to Corinth,
what was it that needed to be corrected? Get back to Christ. You've got into the Lord's Supper,
you've got over here, you've made issues out of this, you've
made issues out of that, and here it is. Get back, and these
issues will be non-issues. Non-issues. If we look here,
we find in the book of Revelation chapter three, verse 16, This
church at Laodicea, I used to just hear this, you just wonder
what it was, the age of the Laodiceans. My goodness, there's no such
thing, but there are churches. that are like the church at Laodicea. And I'm not talking about, I'm
not talking about, neither did God talk about those weird off-the-wall
religions that are coming up and creeping in. That's not what
he's talking about. This church at one time held
forth the word of life. He's talking about a sovereign
grace church at this point. He's not talking about some man-created
church Those going out two by two to win their proselytes?
He's not talking about the Roman church. He's talking about a
church that at one time was the church that preached the gospel
of God's free and sovereign grace and didn't flinch when they did
it. They didn't have to back up to
anybody. But now, look what's happened
here. Oh, we've got some people in
here, and you know, it's just a little hard to preach that
to them. They might be offended. If we forget about the offering
plate, we can preach anything. If we do, if it's in God's hands,
and he takes care of the expenses, and he touches hearts to do it,
we can preach anything. And if people don't want to come
in, that's their business. But if we have to get them in
to keep the budget, we're in trouble. We're in trouble. We're in trouble. My goodness. I like that old man. He came
in here two or three times, and he says, you know, you don't
take an offering. No, sir, we don't. Well, what can I do? And I said, well, there's a box
on the back if you want to go over there. Don't have that issue. So we
can preach freely and without reservation. And we're not dependent
upon the passing of the plate. And I pray to God, this church
may have been serious. They built them a brand new building
and they had to have the budget met every Sunday. So what do
we have to do? We have to get more people in
and teach them tithing and get them to giving. And then we get
our building paid off. Oh my goodness. It's a miracle
when we sold that old building for what we paid for this. That's
the way it should be done. Not put anybody in debt. Now
I'm not going to say that churches can't go into debt over building
a building. But if it's dependent upon gold
from Egypt, we're in trouble. Gold from Egypt. We've got to
get the Egyptians in here. Then we're in trouble. So it
says here, the church at Laodicea, under the angel of the church
at Laodicea, these things write the amen and faithful and true
witness and beginning of the creation of God. I know thy works
that thou art neither cold nor hot. Turn on your TV and listen
to some of the channels that preach, and you'll find out exactly
what this verse is talking about. All it is is plabber. There's no substance. And very
seldom do you find anybody even reading the Bible. He says, you're
not cold and you're not hot. You're just lukewarm. What does
that do? That attracts the leeches. We used to go swimming in what's
called Sucker Creek. I've been by there since I grew
up. I said, how in the world? We should have died by being
in that place. That's killer water. That's terrible. It was warm, come right through
the meadows and other places where the cattle were, leeches
in it. We'd go down there, so hot, we'd
just get in that and you couldn't see. I mean, someone's under
the water this far, you couldn't see them. I wonder, how in the
world could you swim in that stuff? But here it is, all these
bugs in it. It's lukewarm water. Lukewarm. And here it is, a church. What did they forgot? Christ. Christ. They had, for some reason,
they had to give up so they could continue. They must have built a building. Must have been. They must have
had a debt. They had to put up with a lot
of nonsense. And before you know it, the nonsense
becomes the norm. Now he goes on here. I don't
want to spend my time here. We've got that to go to sometime.
Thou say'st thou art luke, so then because thou art lukewarm,
neither cold nor hot, I'll spew thee out of my mouth. Because
thou say'st this, I am rich and increased with goods and have
need of nothing. Oh my goodness. Help us Lord,
never get there. Because we are weak and needy
creatures, and we are in need of Christ. Every day. We can't skip a day, can't skip
an hour, can't skip a minute. We are weak and needy creatures,
sinners saved by grace, and never, Lord, ever let us say we are
in need of nothing. Oh my goodness, how terrible. What a statement about where
they are and what they believe and what they're teaching and
what's going on in the Bible classes and what's going on.
Mutter, mutter. Terrible. And that's what happened
here. Now, this church over here, they're
abiding by the word of my patience, the church at Philadelphia. Oh,
they got the word, and the word is mighty and powerful and comforting
and caring, and it just holds them in. It's their vine that
they can sit under. It's their that they can sit
on. It is their umbrella, the word
of God. And it says, the word of my patience,
which is just another name for the gospel. If you look in the
scriptures, we find God's patience was tried, but he did not destroy
the world after Adam and Eve sinned. It's the word of his
patience. And he did not destroy all at
the time of Noah. There were eight that survived.
We're talking about the word of his patience. He was patient
with Noah and his wife and their three sons and their wives. He
had every right in this world of destroying everything and
never starting again. But by the word of his patience,
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Word of his patience,
the gospel. He did not destroy Israel in
the wilderness, so these many times you tested me. My goodness,
they were a rat thing people. They bit the hand that fed them.
They bit the hand that freed them and they did not destroy. I don't know how many judges
we find in the book of the judges, but he didn't destroy Israel
during the time of the judges. Oh, those guys. Those guys, and
so often they're used as a type of the spiritual body of Christ. Oh, they have a revival. Got
someone in to preach and got them all going and going. And
before you know it, they're off over in the wilderness here doing
their own thing, that which seemed right in their own eyes. And
lo and behold, oh God, we're having a terrible time here.
Send somebody else down here so we can have a revival meeting.
And he'd send them a judge. He could have smushed them every
time. Could have, but the word of his
patience. He was patient with, what is
it? These people, somewhere in this group of people is the manner
in which I'm gonna bring my son into this world to save my people
from their sins. The word of his patience. And
he did not call lightning down even though he was encouraged
by his own disciples. Calls lightning to fall on these
ding-a-lings. Man, he stopped. He didn't give
in. The word of his patience. And
he didn't destroy those who came to arrest him. He made them eat
dust. They went home when they had
a brown spot on their lip for the rest of their life. They
knew they'd been manhandled, or I should say God-handled,
that day. They'd been put down. But he
did not destroy them. He could have. He could have
called 10,000 angels to destroy those. That's what he told the
Apostle Peter. Don't you know I could call legions of angels?
I could have. But the word of his patience,
the gospel, is far more valuable. And then he didn't destroy the
Roman Empire at the time of Pilate's weakness. Pilate's weak need. He succumbed to those rebellious
Jewish religious guys and gave the Lord Jesus. Now that's his
eternal everlasting purpose to redeem his people, but he could
have just went like that with Pilate and that whole Roman Empire. But the word of his patience,
word of his patience, the gospel. He hasn't destroyed the world
yet. A whole bunch of people in the Mississippi River Valley
thinking it might happen. But he hasn't destroyed the whole
world. He could have. My goodness, there's enough went
on yesterday in California to push it off in the ocean. He could have just went with
the San Andreas Fault and drowned the whole state. And the rest
of the United States, about three quarters of them said, hey, Riley,
good job. The word of his patience, his
gospel. He's patient with his people.
He's patient with rebels, rebellious people that someday he's going
to get the word of God to and they're going to be brought into
his fold. He's patient. The long suffering
of the Lord means salvation. He did not destroy you and he
did not destroy me when in such rebellion against a thrice holy
God he had every right to. But he brought us under the sound
of the gospel and he broke rebels. We took that flag and cast it
at his feet. Oh, the word of his patience,
the word of his patience, as he brings out here in Revelation
chapter three and verse 10, the scripture says, because thou
has kept the word of my patience. What is he saying? You preach
my word. You've talked about evil and
that's what it is. We are required. required, required
to preach depravity, total depravity of man. It's required. We're
to preach falling in Adam. We're to preach there is no one
that is immune to the great snake bite of sin. It has gone through
and it has poisoned every one of us and it will surely bring
death upon every one of us. But the word of his patience,
I have found a ransom. Keeping from going down into
the pit, I found a ransom. Oh, we didn't think there was
any hope. I heard a message one time on Brabus. It just made
the chills come over me. He turned Brabus into every lost
elect one, hearing the judgment. Guilty, guilty, guilty, knew
it was him. And then the ransom was taken
and the guilty was set free. And that's every one of God's
sheep. The guilty set free, the ransom
is taken to the cross. Now notice here it says, I also
will keep thee in the hour of temptation. That shall come upon all the
world to try them that dwell upon the earth. Now I was thinking
about that this afternoon. We're not talking about a specific
time. We're talking about what goes on every day. the hour of
temptation. Now that word temptation means
a whole lot more than well you know I've been thinking about
having a drink and I haven't drank for about four months now
and I'm thinking about not drinking and pretty soon you succumb to
having a drink. Now that's not what he's talking about. This
is like being in a courtroom. He's going to prevent us from
the hour of temptation. Now the greatest statement that
the Lord Jesus Christ ever made to a house full of people was,
what think ye of Christ? Question. Now that's the temptation
that comes on all the world. And there's a whole bunch of
those folks that say, he ain't much. Oh yeah, he's a good teacher.
Boy, when they say that, you don't think much of him. Oh,
he's a good prophet. You don't think much of him.
All those things, silly things people say about the Lord Jesus.
But if you can say from your heart, thou art the Christ, the
Son of the living God. And then hear the Savior say,
this Father say, you didn't get this out of a book. My Father
revealed this unto you. My Father in Heaven revealed
this unto you. Now that's not giving in to temptation. Being protected from temptation. All the world, their view of
God, their view of Christians, their view of God's people. Now
I don't blame them for having some terrible views about Christians.
They're some of the most unlikable. I mean the people who say they
are. They're some of the most unlikable people you've ever
met. But God's people who know the
grace of God have this in their heart. God's people who know
grace are gracious people. Gracious people. Gracious people. Not the common Christian who
want everything their way. Turn with me, if you would, to
the Book of Job, Chapter 1. Now please, I wish a friend had asked this
question, or made this statement. I have in front of my Bible,
this Bible was given to me by Nancy Lynn Wells, beloved wife
and beloved friend. Now, I'm going to read something
about Job's wife. Please, please. She is laying
a temptation in front of Job. And anybody can do this. I'm
going to protect you from temptation. That's what he said. I'm going
to protect you. Now notice here in the book of
Job, chapter 1. I know God knows what he's doing,
but I'd give anything if this is one of his friends that said
this. Just make it easier to read. Job chapter 1 verse 7,
and the Lord said unto Satan, whence comest thou? And Satan
answered the Lord. He said, from going to and fro
on the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the Lord
said unto him, Satan, hast thou considered my servant Job, that
there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright
man, one that feareth God? and a shoe of evil and Satan
answered the Lord and said death Job fear God for not. Hast thou
not made a hedge about him and about his house and about all
that he hath on every side and hast thou blessed the works of
his hands and his substance and increase of his land. But put
forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath and he will
curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan,
Behold, all that he hath is in thy power. And only upon himself
put forth not thy hand. So Satan went forth from the
presence of the Lord. And then it says here in chapter
2. Verse 7, so went Satan forth
from the presence of the Lord. He was given permission to touch
his body. And he smote Job with sore boils
from the sole of his foot into his crown. And he took a potsherd
and scraped himself withal and sat among the ashes. And notice
verse 9, then said his wife unto him, dost thou still retain thine
integrity? Curse God and die. Was he tempted? I'm thankful God protects us
in the hour of temptation. Protects us. Now notice over
here. Well, I thought I marked it.
Verse 22. Verse 22 of the second chapter. First chapter. Verse 22 of the
first chapter. In all this, Job sinned not,
nor charged God foolishly. He was able to deal with temptation. When this church at Philadelphia
was put into temptation, I'm glad from what we read here,
I'm glad that nobody said in that church, is it worth it? Is it worth it to stick it out?
Is it worth it to preach the gospel? Is it worth it to put
up with this? Is it worth it to put up with
the heat? Is it worth it to put up with the Jews? Is it worth
it to put up with religion? Is it worth it? It doesn't appear
that anybody in there said that. They just knew there's only one
way. That's the narrow way. There's
only one way, preach Christ and him crucified. I know there are
people in town don't like it. They've got their religion and
they got their ceremony and they got their, all the things that
go with it. They've got their self-righteousness. Righteousness, which comes by
the law. I know it, but we can't give up. Can't give up. Can't give in. And the apostle
Paul shared with us, though I or an angel from heaven. should
bring any other gospel. Let him be silenced. Let him
be silenced. Let him be silenced. Oh my. We, I didn't know what it was
to have Alzheimer's. I don't know when that disease
was identified. But my friends, I have the potential
for having Alzheimer's. And when that comes, you silence
me. Don't let me be here and say
anything against the God of this word. Don't. Don't. All right. Well, our time is up. And we'll
pick up here after camp. I want to spend a little time
on that city of my God, which is New Jerusalem. That's so good.