Thank you, Susanna. Let's go
back to the Old Testament. And once again, this morning,
we'll find ourselves in the book of Zechariah. And we're in chapter
number 10. So if you would make your way
to the next to the last book of the Old Testament. And we're
trying to preach our way through this marvelous book. In fact, I would call it the
Gospel According to Zechariah because it's a book full of good
news for the people of God on the surface and literally it's
about the Lord bringing the Jews back from Babylonian captivity,
establishing them in the city of Jerusalem, giving them instructions
to rebuild the temple, which they are, as we get to chapter
10, they're finished with that, and then go back to worshiping
the Lord by means of the sacrifices that He ordained. You see, there
is no drawing near to God. There is no true worship. without
what the Bible calls the blood of the covenant. There's got
to be the shedding of blood. Without the shedding of blood
is no remission of sins. The blood of our Lord Jesus,
that's what paid our sin debt in full. When he, as our representative,
when he hung between heaven and earth, when earth wouldn't have
him and heaven couldn't have him, Our Lord Jesus, bearing
in His own body all of the sins of all of His people of all of
the ages, all of the wrath of God fell on Him. And He absorbed
it all. He took all the hell that we
deserved. He satisfied God's justice. And therefore, our debt was paid
and God said, In his death, God then said to death, release him
and let him go. He's the successful savior. And
God raised him from the dead and he ascended and he reigns
evermore. And so this really is what the
book of Zechariah is about. And literally, again, it's the
restoration of the Jews back to Jerusalem and God building
his Jerusalem, the physical city, through the efforts of Zerubbabel,
and others that he used to build the city, but there's a deeper
meaning. And I trust that you know this,
that whenever we go to any portion of scripture, we're always looking
for the Lord Jesus Christ. We're looking for the grace of
God. We're looking for the manner
by which God saves unworthy folks like you and me. And it's through
the death and the resurrection of his son. And so here's what
the book is about spiritually. The Lord is building, he is building
his temple. It is a spiritual temple. And
he is doing the work. It isn't a work that we do. We
can't build the temple. We can't build the house of God.
We can't build a spiritual dwelling place for the Lord. Only He can
build Himself a true church. And He goes out into the world
and He finds people like you, and people like me, people who
are watching now, and people all over the world. He finds
us as great stones in a quarry. in the quarry of the world, and
He digs us out by His marvelous grace, and He chisels us, He
works on us, and He makes us to be righteous in the Lord Jesus
Christ, and He fits us into this spiritual building that He is
building, and our Lord will be successful in building the true
temple of God that is the true church of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, as we arrive in Zechariah chapter 10, We're continuing
to look at a message that the prophet of God began back in
chapter 9. These are gospel promises that
he makes to folks like you and me. And he says this in verse
1, and I've already dealt with verse 1 before, but I want to
deal with it a little bit more. where he's told, he tells, Zechariah
tells the people to ask for grace, that is, ask for the reign of
God, ask for the blessings of God, ask for the spiritual fruits
of the Spirit. So he says, ask of me. Ask of
me rain in the time of the latter rains, so the Lord shall make
bright clouds and give them showers of rain to every one grass in
the field." We've got to understand our natural condition right here. We are as in a parched wilderness
where there is no water, there is no rain, there's nothing to
refresh our souls. And the Lord says, to ask ye,
he asks this through his preacher, through his prophet, ask of the
Lord for rain. What is it that you need this
morning? I mean, deep down in your soul.
Now, if the Spirit of God has begun to work within you, you
are beginning to ask for spiritual blessings, spiritual gifts. You see, that man, that woman,
that boy, that girl who really means business with God, and
you truly ask in your heart, Oh God, would you show me mercy?
Oh God, would you show me grace? Oh God, would you reveal the
Lord Jesus Christ to my innermost being? That person who asked
of the Lord those things, the Spirit of God has begun to move
upon the heart. Because you would not ask for
those things were it not for the fact that the Spirit of God
has triggered within you a desire to be whole, to be saved, to
be right with God. You cannot mean business with
God without the Lord taking the initiative in you. And we've
got to learn that. If you are to be dead serious
about eternity, about the salvation of your soul, about the glory
of God in salvation, If you're in earnest about the Lord Jesus,
to know Him, whom to know is life everlasting. Remember, our
Lord said this in John 17, this is life eternal, that they might
know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast
sent. Ask the average person, ask the
average preacher, exactly what is eternal life? And they'll
fumble and mumble about the question because most of them don't know
the answer. The answer is, here's eternal
life to know God, to know the Lord Jesus Christ. And you know, in the book of
Philippians, the second chapter, here's what Paul said, his longing
was to know Christ and the power of His resurrection. That's what
life is. And if you really mean business
with God, If from your heart you say, O God, O God, send the
rain of your grace upon me. Lord, Lord, I pray that you would
send the rain, the R-A-I-N, the rain of the glories of Christ
Jesus. May it flood my soul. If you're
really in earnest about that, the Spirit of God has caused
you to desire that. Because you're not going to come
up with that on your own. You remember what the Lord said
through Jeremiah? He said, you shall seek me and
you shall find me when you search for me with all your heart. You see, here's what I fear.
I fear half, most people are half-hearted worshipers. They're not really meaning business
with God. You're not searching with all
your heart. Many years ago, I had a lady tell me, I had quoted
this verse just like I did to you this morning, probably 20
years ago, I suppose. And she came up to me and she
said, I'm seeking the Lord, but I can't find him. I said, the
Lord said, you shall seek me and you will find me when you
search for me with all your heart. I said, you're searching with
all your heart? She said, I try to. I said, if you search him
with all your heart, you'd find him. You'd find him. Say, how
do you know that? That's what God said. Most people,
it's a half-hearted search. Oh, that the Lord would close
in upon us with his almighty sovereign grace and cause us
to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
then all these other things will be added to us. Seek the Lord. So he says here,
ask of the Lord rain. Seek of the Lord. Where's rain
come from? Above, right? and every spiritual
blessings comes from above. James chapter one says that. Every good gift and every perfect
gift come from above. Well, then you better ask him
who is above all. You better ask of the God who
rules the world. You better ask of the Christ
who's been exalted by virtue of his successful work of redemption. Ask, he said, and you'll receive. That's what he said. He said, knock and it'll be open
to you. That's what he said. He said,
seek and you'll find. That's what Christ said. And you can go to the bank on
what he says. So ask, ask for grace. Ask for Christ. Ask for revelation
of God to your heart to show you how God can be just and justify
the ungodly. I spoke to an individual week
before last. Had to go to a doctor. got talking
about religion, and the doctor said, well, you know, God's all
love, he's all merciful, and I said, well, he's got a lot
of love, he's got a lot of mercy, but I said, you better first
be talking about the holiness of God. God's holy. God's righteous. And the doctor
said, I don't know much about that, but I know he loves everybody,
and most everybody, people who are good are all gonna go to
heaven. No, that's not right. That's not right. I'll tell you
who's going to heaven. People who seek and find Christ
Jesus. Now you listen to me. Our Lord
said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh unto
the Father but by Me. I tell you, it's high time preachers
stood up on their hind legs and preached Jesus Christ crucified,
buried, risen again, exalted on His throne. We've got to tell
people who Christ is. Folks don't know. And life's
in Him. Salvation's in Him. Heaven is
due to Him. and what he did. That's why we
spend so much time preaching the Lord Jesus Christ. You gotta
know him. You don't need to know me. You
don't need to know about our church, inner workings of our
church, all of those things. You need not, and you don't need
to know denominational rules. We're Baptist, but we're not
ruled by any denominational headquarters. Read the article I put in the
bulletin this morning. We're just trying to preach the
gospel of Christ. Every time I get up here, that's
what I'm endeavoring to do, because I want you to be saved. I don't
want you to perish in your sins. I don't want you to die and go
to hell. My job's to warn people. I'm like a signpost. A signpost
is only as good as the clarity of the message that's on the
signpost. And this signpost points you
to Christ. Behold the Lamb of God that taketh
away the sin of the world. Is that clear enough? The Lord
said, look unto me, not look to the church, not look to baptism,
not look to the Lord's supper, not look to your works, look
unto me and be you saved. All ye ends of the earth. Well,
why should I do that? The Lord said, because I'm God.
I'm God and there's none else. Look unto me. So ask, ask God
for grace. Ask God for revelation of Christ
to your heart. So I don't understand all of
these doctrines. I'm with you. You'll learn. But
now we're talking about the way of grace. Now we're talking about
the way of salvation. You'll learn. You'll learn. So I call upon you to ask. Ask. But you won't ask. unless the spirit of God triggers
that in your heart. And therefore, I call on God
to do something for you. God's got to get your attention.
And I'll tell you what, if you have any sense, and you got plenty
of it in the natural realm, but if God gives you any spiritual
sense, You'd say, Lord, whatever it takes, teach me. I want to
be a student of the scriptures. I want to be a student of the
Lord Jesus Christ. I want you to teach me about
your grace. Teach me. You reckon you could
ask that? Lord, teach me. That's what he
says in verse one. Ask for the rain. Ask for the
rain. The showers have got to fall upon you from heaven. It's
not dependent upon you, it's dependent upon God. Lord send
the showers, showers of blessings we plead. And then the second thing I wanna
point out to you, ask for grace, the second thing is found in
the second verse, forsake your idols. Look at verse two. For the idols, that is, the men
who've been preaching a false god to you, they've spoken vanity. What is vanity? Vanity is really
nothing. It's nothing. It's air. And most preachers today, you
know what they're preaching? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing to hang your soul on.
It's just shallow. There's no depth to it. There's
no emphasis on the grace of God. There's no emphasis upon the
person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ. He said the idols
that spoke in vanity and the diviners, they've seen a lie
and they've told false dreams. Now being honest with you, They
comfort in vain. They try to comfort people, but
there's no comfort in the words that they say because there's
an emptiness in their message. You see, there's no emptiness
in the message of grace. It's full of Jesus Christ and
Him crucified. It's full. It's full of the sovereign
grace of God, of what God does for sinners. But false preachers,
They can't give you any comfort. They comfort in vain. That is,
that supposed comfort that they give, it won't last. It won't last. Let me put this
literally first. Let me put it in the context
of what the book of Zechariah is all about. Back before they
were taken into Babylonian captivity, the Lord raised up some preachers,
some prophets, who warned of coming judgment. And among those
was a man by the name of Jeremiah. And he warned that judgment was
coming. In fact, look with me back in
Jeremiah, look at chapter six. Let me just show you a few verses
here. Look in Jeremiah chapter six. He warned. He warned. Look at Jeremiah chapter six. And here's the Lord speaking
through Jeremiah to the false prophets. Look at Jeremiah chapter
six, and I don't have time to read all these verses, but I'll
start reading at verse 11. Book of Jeremiah chapter six. Now remember, Israel was taken
into captivity in 586 BC, okay? The writings of Jeremiah preceded
that. He's warning. He's warning of
coming judgment because the people had swallowed idolatry, hook,
line, and sinker. Some of the kings, Manasseh and
his son, Ammon, after him especially, Ammon brought back this idolatry. Everywhere he established it.
Now, then Josiah took over, but idolatry was settled into the
country. And when he died off, the people
eventually went right back to idolatry. And Jeremiah would
write, and I'll show you some verses in a minute, he would
write, the judgment coming if you don't turn to the Lord. And he exposes the false prophets. All right, you there, Jeremiah
6, look at verse 11. Therefore God says, Jeremiah says, therefore I'm
full of the fury of the Lord. I'm weary with holding in. I
will pour it out upon the children abroad and upon the assembly
of young men together. For even the husband with the
wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days,
and their houses shall be turned unto others with their fields
and wives together. For I will stretch out my hand
upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord. In other words,
God says, I'm going to bring judgment. If the people didn't
turn from idolatry, the Lord threatens the certainty of judgment. Look at verse 13. For from the
least of them, now he's talking about the false prophets. For from the least of them, even
to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness. Is
that not identical with the false preachers of today who are getting
wealthy off folks? at robbing widows' houses." You've
seen them on television. And from the prophet, even unto
the priest, everyone dealeth falsely. They have healed also
the hurt of the daughter of my people, just slightly, saying,
peace, peace, everything's all right. They're saying, Jeremiah's
trying to stir you people up with threats of, don't listen
to him, everything's going to be alright. It's kind of like what this person
told me. God loves everybody and He's full of mercy, so He's
going to take all good people to heaven. Look at verse 15. Were they ashamed when they had
committed abomination? No. They were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among
them that fall. At the time that I visit them,
they shall be cast down, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord.
Stand ye in the ways and see. Watch it. Ask for the old paths. I wish somebody would ask for
the old paths. The old gospel. The old book. The old preaching. Ask for the
old paths. Where is the good way? You see,
the old preaching, the true preaching of the Word of God is the good
way of salvation in Christ. This person I talked to said,
everybody who tries to do good is going to heaven. Now, you
don't find that in the Bible. In fact, I asked for a reference
for it. And the doctor I was talking
to said, well, you know that's the way it is. I said, I know
that's not the way it is because the Bible says there's none that
doeth good, no not one. Do your works, stay with me,
do your works have anything to do with your salvation? Do your
good works, let me qualify that, do your good works, works which
you think are good, Do they have anything to do with your standing
before a holy God? Now just mull that over for a
few seconds. And let me say this, because
I was thinking about this. They have as much to do with
your standing before God as your evil works do. Now think about
that. Because both those are true statements.
Your works don't have anything to do with that. It's not all
people who try to do good go to heaven. Let's ask for the
good way. The good way is the way of grace.
The good way is the way of substitution by Christ. The good way is the
cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's the good way. There's an old song some of us
used to sing. The way of the cross, where does
it lead? Home. Home. The way of the cross leads home.
The way of works leads to hell. The way of be baptized and wash
your sins away, that leads to hell. The way of walk the aisle
and make a decision for Jesus leads to hell. The way of grace, the way of
salvation, the way of the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the way of
the blood, the blood, the blood. That's what leads home. You got
that? And I keep trying to drive that
in. I hope God will drive it into your heart. He said, ask for the old paths,
where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest. Where? For your souls. But they said, this is sad. We're not interested in that. We will not walk therein. We're not interested in the old
past. We like the new religion. We like the modern songs. We like the new Christianity.
It's do good and we'll all go to heaven. Like a friend of mine,
he was on a flight and sat beside a person. This person found out
he was a preacher. And I said, well, you know, here's
my idea of religion. There are many doors into heaven.
It doesn't matter, it's the Baptist door and the Catholic door and
the Mormon door and the, name several other religions. All
these doors going into heaven. He said, you know what I think?
And this person said, what do you think? My preacher friend
said, there's so many doors, I believe you're gonna fall out. How many doors into heaven? How
many doors to God? How many doors to salvation?
Christ said, listen to him. Would you listen to him? He said,
I am the door. I don't know how anybody could
confuse that. I am the door. By me, if any
man enter in, he shall go in and out and find pasture. Look over at chapter 14. Well,
I tell you what, for the sake of time, go back to chapter 4.
Let me show you what Jeremiah said. Chapter 4. Here's what the Lord said to
Jeremiah. He said, verse Jeremiah 4 or
5, Preach or declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem and
say, blow ye the trumpet in the land. He says, lift your voice
and cry. Gather, gather and say, assemble
yourselves and let us go into the defense city. Let's go somewhere
where we'll be safe. Set up the standard towards Zion. Retire. Don't stay in Jerusalem. That's what he's saying. And
here's the reason. This is what he said, "...for
I will bring evil from the north and a great destruction." The
Assyrians. Look at verse 7. The lion has
come up from his thicket and the destroyer of the Gentiles,
he's on his way, Nebuchadnezzar is on his way. He's gone forth
from his place, from Babylon. to make the land desolate, and
the city shall be laid waste without an inhabitant. Look what
he said, look down in verse 10. Then said I, ah, Lord God, surely
thou hast greatly deceived this people in Jerusalem, saying you
shall have peace wherein the sword reacheth unto the soul.
The Lord did say you'll have peace if you return to me. And then verse 11, at that time
shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, a dry wind
of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people,
it's coming not to fan but to cleanse. Even a full wind from
those places shall come unto me. Now also will I give sentence
against them. Behold, he shall come up as clouds
His chariot shall be as a whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us, for we're spoiled. O Jerusalem, wash thine heart
from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy
vain thoughts lodge upon thee? Look at verse 18. Thy way and
thy doings have procured these things unto thee. It's because
of you. You want to know why judgment's
coming? The Lord says it's because of you. It's because of your
idolatry. You have forsaken the only true
God and the way He's to be worshiped by a sacrifice, and you're now
bowing down to man-made idols. God said, look at verse 18, this
is thy wickedness, because it is bitter. Watch this, because
as it reaches, how far does it reach? All the way to your heart. You've just swallowed everything
that's false, false religion. God said, I'm gonna send judgment. And the false preachers went
out saying, peace, peace, peace, peace. There's no peace. Don't you listen to these voices
that say, you know, because God's a God of love, all except the
rapists and the murderers and the perverts, everybody else
is gonna go to heaven. That's not true. That's not true. I got a question for you. Are you
washed in the blood of the Lamb? That's who's going to glory.
Are you saved by the grace of God? Has God revealed the glories
of His Son in your heart? Do you see the beauties of Christ
Jesus? Christ Jesus who came from glory,
the God-man, born of a virgin, lived a perfect life, died on
a cross to save His people from their sins, died to satisfy divine
justice that demands death for sin, Is He your confidence? Is He your hope? That Savior
who died was buried and who rose again, who ascended back to heaven
and whoever reigns in glory, He freely gives His grace and
His mercy. Is He your hope? Not these idols. They can't help
you. They can't help you. Go back
to my text. All right. Here's what these guys did, they
comforted in vain. Verse two, the middle of the
verse, they comforted in vain. Therefore, the Lord says, my
people, they went, they went their way as a flock, they scattered
the flock. And they were troubled because
there's no shepherd and nobody tell them the truth. And God said, verse three, mine
anger was kindled against the shepherds. And I punished the
goats. The word goats here stands for
those who are the leaders of the idolatry and false religion. God says I punished them. For
the Lord of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah,
and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle. And he's
talking about now the people of Judah. Judah, one of the 12
sons of Jacob, remember? In Genesis chapter 49, when Jacob
gave promises to all of his sons, things that were going to happen
to him, he especially isolated Judah. And in the New Testament, we
find that Our Lord Jesus, he came forth, he is a priest, but
he didn't come forth from the tribe of Levi, because that's
where the priest came from, right? Tribe of Levi. Our Lord didn't
come forth from the tribe of Levi. He came forth from the
royal tribe, and the royal tribe's the tribe of Judah. Because you
see, the tribe of Judah pictured the true people of God, the Judah
of God. And it says here, he hath made
him or them as his goodly horse. Now look at verse 4. Out of him,
out of Judah. Somebody's coming forth out of
Judah. In fact, he speaks of it as having
already happened. Out of him came forth, number
one, the corner. The corner. Ron read to us there
from Isaiah 28. He talked about a chief cornerstone. The cornerstone is what holds
a building together. It binds it all together. And
in years gone by, the chief cornerstone was an emblem of beauty in that
building. Our Lord Jesus Christ came forth
from the tribe of Judah. He is the cornerstone, the chief
cornerstone, Psalm 118 says that. Psalm 118 verse 22. He's the chief cornerstone. And
he's the beauty of the whole building. Who do you think keeps
the church of our God together? Who unites it all? Who redeemed
them all? Who's the foundation? Who's the
beauty of the church? Our Lord Jesus Christ. He come
out of Judah, out of Judah. Psalm 118 says, the stone which
the builders rejected, he'd become the head of the corner. The head
of the corner. Our Lord Jesus binds the church
together. He is our strength. He is our
support. He knits the church together.
He cements the church together. He keeps the whole assembly together. He's the foundation upon which
every The believer rests. Watch it, out of him, out of
Judah, came forth the corner, number one, the corner, and secondly,
out of him, the nail, the nail. Look over in Isaiah 22. We need
to take the time to look at this. Isaiah chapter 22. Isaiah chapter 22. Look at verse
22. And this is speaking of Christ.
Isaiah 22, 22. And the key of the house of David
will I lay upon Christ's shoulder. So he shall open and none shall
shut. He shall shut and none shall
open. And God says, God says, I will
fasten him as a nail, a nail in a sure place. And he shall
be for a glorious throne to his father's house. If we had time
to do a little word study, we'd find out that the word nail basically
refers to two things. Number one, a spike that held
a tent in place. You go out, you go camping, you
don't have an RV, you know, so you start off with a tent. First
time Nancy and I went camping, we went, we had a tent to go
camping. Got to the tent site, the campsite
rather, Guess what? Didn't have the spikes to hold
the tent down, because you got one in every corner. Had to go
all the way back to get them. Well, that's the first meaning
of this word nail. That would secure something in
position. And you know, you go out and
pitch a tent, and okay, you stretch that rope down here, here, one
over there, and one over there. Now it's sturdy. Let me tell
you something, our Lord Jesus Christ is the nail that God has
driven down into the foundation of eternity. And he's the one
who holds the church of our Lord Jesus Christ securely in place. He's the nail in a sure place,
in a sure place. But secondly, there's a second
meaning to the nail. Back in these days, now we're talking about 500 years
or so, 450 before the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, when
somebody built a house, a simple house, right in the middle, there
was a post. And to that post, they would
nail in a special nail, a big spike. and they would hang on
that spike everything of great value to them. Maybe pots, pans,
utensils, necklace. That's what adorned the house,
that spike in the center column. Let me tell you something, our
God has a spike, he has a nail in the center of the house, in
the center of his true church. And on that nail hangs all of
the purpose of God, all of the salvation of sinners. That's
Christ our Lord. And God has nailed him in a sure
place, in a show place, For you see, He's the glory of God. The glory of God is seen in the
face of our Lord Jesus Christ. And here's what we do. And oh
may God give you grace to do this. We hang our very souls
on that nail. That's the most precious thing
we've got. Not your stocks, not your bonds,
not your house, not your car, not your money. The most precious
thing that you are, that you have is your soul. Oh, hang your
soul on Him. This nail that God's nailed in. God help you to do it. But I'll give you something else,
even more precious than that. God hung our souls upon Christ
Jesus in old eternity. He hung my soul upon Christ. And now by the grace of God,
I also do the same thing, but I'm saved because God hung me
on his son. He hung me on His Son and then
He hung His Son on a cross. Through His hands were nails. Through His feet was a nail. God hung us on Him and we hang
our souls on Him. Have you hung your soul on Christ? And quickly, Back to our text. Out of him the battle bow, he
fights our battles for us. Think of Israel at the Red Sea. Oh, what are we gonna do? Here's
this body of water in front of us, and in back of us is the
Egyptian army. Lord, what are we gonna do? Moses said, just stand still. Stand still! Just stand still. See the salvation of the Lord. The Lord's gonna fight for you,
because He's the captain of the Lord's hosts. He's the captain
of our salvation. He fought every enemy that His
church has. Say, preacher, Satan too? Oh,
He fought him at the cross and defeated him. What about my sins? He fought with them and he washed
them away in his blood. Every enemy our Lord defeated
at the cross of Calvary. You're more than conquerors,
more than conquerors through him who loved you. He's the battle
bow. And then one last thing quickly,
out of him every oppressor together. What in the world does that mean?
Well, just like these other things are dependent upon Christ, he's
the corner, the chief corner, he's the chief cornerstone, he's
the nail, he's the battle bow, he's the one who brings all the
oppressors out. You say, what does that mean? Well, who's the first oppressor?
Satan. He brought him into the garden,
didn't he? That serpent didn't wind up in the garden by mistake
or by accident. He's there because God's got
a purpose. And Adam will do what he did,
and then his representative act caused all the rest of us to
fall in order that God might manifest His greatest glory,
which is the salvation of sinners through the death of Christ.
And you know, You know how our Lord Jesus came to die? You know
one of the steps involved in his death? There had to be a
traitor. Guess who chose him? Our Lord
chose his own betrayer. He chose the oppressor of himself. Because all of them did what
God ordained to be done. Because Christ had to die for
our sins according to the scriptures. You see, Zachariah's a book full
of good news. Good news for sinners. Well, I reckon we ought to sing
a closing song.