I want you to go with me this
evening to the book of Numbers. And I'm actually going to begin
in Numbers chapter 24. And I'm just going to read a
few verses and then I want to talk to you about the death of
the righteous. Numbers, and I'm going to begin
in chapter 24. few verses to you here in just
a little bit, but most of you will recognize this as being,
everything's kind of centered around a man by the name of Balaam. Balaam was a, he was a prophet,
and he was a prophet for a hire, as are most preachers today.
He followed the money, And an ungodly king had harked
him to pronounce a curse upon Israel, which God would not let
him do. He could not curse the people
that God had blessed. Listen, God has blessed His people
with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ,
and He did that before the world was made. Nobody can curse God's
people for God has blessed his people in Christ. This man, Balaam,
he was a very unusual man. In fact, sometimes he speaks
as a man with great integrity. Sometimes he speaks as a man
that should think, well, he can't be bought. He can't be bribed. He speaks as though he was not
an hireling, though that's exactly what he was. He was a hireling. You know, sometimes it is difficult
to unmask a false prophet. Sometimes it isn't money that
they're after, A lot of them go after the money and you see
them on television. They're talking about wealth
and health and talking about the millions of dollars that
they have and the new jet that they want to buy and so forth
and so on. That's true with many of them,
but that's not true of all of them. There are many false prophets
who live very meager lives and they deny themselves any kind
of financial prosperity, live in poverty, live in need. So sometimes it's hard to diagnose
him as being a false prophet, at least when you first are confronted
with a false prophet, you see, he may stand valiantly for creation and yet despise the sovereignty
of God's grace, as many defenders of creation
do. You know, there are religious
theme parks and museums in the United States that many people
go to and they'll buy tickets and make contributions to them
and I'll leave that to you, to your own conscience before God. There's an institute down in
Florida where they have a school of translations or museum, I
should say, of translations where you can go. The Wycliffe Bible
translators have that school and you can go tour it and I
suppose support it and that sort of thing. There's Noah's Ark
here in our state. that a lot of people visit and
buy tickets to. There's the Museum for Creation
or the Center for Creation, whatever that's called. I just, I can't go to those places. And it isn't because I deny creation. I believe creation. It isn't
because I deny the reality of the ark that Noah built. I believe
the biblical description of that ark. And it isn't that I'm not
thankful for the translation of the Bible into our language,
and I'm certainly appreciative of the authorized version, which
is the King James Version. I'm thankful for all of these
things. But these people have no interest
in the gospel of God's sovereign grace. I just don't want to rub
shoulders with them. You know, this week, what is
it, May the 5th, I believe, is the National Day of Prayer. I
can't join with other preachers around here and let's have a
National Day of Prayer. You say, you don't think our
nation needs prayer? Oh, we need prayer, but it isn't... Remember this, prayer doesn't
change things, and prayer doesn't change God. We need the God to
whom we pray to change things, if He's pleased to do that. But
I just cannot cooperate with men who have no love of the gospel
of particular redemption, of the effectual substitutionary
work of our Lord Jesus Christ. I have no interest in doing anything
that will in any way benefit them. They stand against that which
I, the gospel that I love. And actually I consider them
to be false prophets. That's what they are. They're
false prophets. I just don't want to have anything
to do with them. Now, you do as you feel led. I can't beat
your conscience. But you see, understand this.
Men who are false preachers and false prophets, they may fight
valiantly for the deity of our Lord Jesus, for His virgin birth,
And they stand for His virgin birth. They take a great stand
for His birth. They'll stand for the inspiration
of the Scriptures. And they'll fight you over it. And yet they speak openly of
man's will being free and of God's will being bound. And they
speak openly of a general redemption. They say He redeemed everybody
and whether or not it is a good redemption is up to you if you
add your faith to it. I'm not going to rub shoulders
with anybody who believes that. And I'm not going to give them
a dime. They're not going to get any of my money. I'm that adamant. You say, well,
you're hard-headed, aren't you? Well, I reckon I am. I guess
I'm stubborn. See, you can stand for creation,
six days creation, and I believe that. I believe that. But there
are people who believe in creation who absolutely believe in a general
atonement that really saved nobody. I can't cooperate with them. And you see this man, Balaam,
he was such a man. He said a lot of good things,
but he didn't say the good thing. He didn't set forth the good
gospel. In fact, he ultimately influenced
Israel into idolatry. This man, Balaam, there's a lot
I could say about him, and I don't want to get tied down too much
on this, but he reminds me of a character in Bunyan's book,
Pilgrim's Progress, Mr. Facing Both Ways. A person who seems to have some
understanding of God and the Word of God, And yet really,
he had no understanding whatsoever. In chapter 24, he speaks eloquently
about our Lord. Look in 24-15. He took up this parable. And
you'd think he's a true prophet, the way he talks. He took up
this parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor had said, and
the man whose eyes are open had said, he had said which heard
the words of God and knew the knowledge of the Most High, which
saw the vision of the Almighty falling into a trance, but having
his eyes open, I shall see Him, but not now. I shall behold Him,
but not now. There shall come a star out of
Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite
the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. And
Edom, all of his enemies, shall be a possession. Seir also shall
be a possession for his enemies, and Israel shall do valiantly. Out of Jacob shall come he that
shall have dominion, and he shall destroy. him that remaineth of
the city." And I can say amen to that. Well said, Balaam. Well said. Back up to chapter
23. Look what he has to say. Chapter
23. Look at verse 19. He said, God is not a man. that he should lie, neither the
son of man that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not
do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall
he not make it good? And we'd all say amen to that.
Behold, I have received commandment to bless. and he hath blessed,
and I cannot reverse it. He hath not beheld iniquity in
Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is
with him, and the shout of a king is among them. He hath not beheld
iniquity. He sees no wickedness in his
people. He says he has not seen perverseness
in Israel, any mischief. God sees nothing in his people
that troubles him. And I say, that's right. That's
right. He sees us in the Son of God. He sees no wickedness in us.
He sees no perverseness in us, though we know we're full of
wickedness and perverseness. But the eyes of God's justice
beholds us in God's Son. who redeemed us. He paid the
price of our salvation, our redemption. We're forgiven of all sins, past,
present, and future. He doesn't see these sins. He
doesn't mark them for judgment. Judgment has already taken place
upon the Son of God. There's no condemnation that
can come to those who are in Christ Jesus, those in whose
stead Christ died. And then go back up just a little
bit to chapter 23 and verse 10. Watch what he says. He says,
who can count the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth
part of Israel? He said it's so many of them.
Well, John said it's a multitude which no man can number. And then he says this, and I echo these words. He said,
let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his. Isn't that what you want? Don't
you want to die the death of the righteous? I don't want to
die the death of the unrighteous. I don't want my last end to be
like the last end of the unrighteous. I want to die the death of the
righteous. And let my last end be like his. And yet Balaam, he did not die
at the death of the righteous. And His last end was not like
the end of the righteous. He died the death of the ungodly. He died the death of the unrighteous. I'm not going to spend any more
time on Balaam, but I do want to use those words, let me die
the death of the righteous, and the title of the message is the
death of the righteous. See, it matters not how I die
or when I die or where I die. What matters is this. Will I
die the death of the righteous? Will I be righteous in the eyes
of God? That's all that matters. And
those who are in Christ Jesus by God's ordaining grace. Those who are in Christ Jesus
by redeeming grace, we were in him when he died, in him when
he was buried, in him when he raised again, in him when he
ascended. Those who are in Christ Jesus,
who is himself the Lord, our righteousness. We will die at
the death of the righteous. And our last in will be like
his. Look at another verse with me.
Psalm 116. Alan read this to us just a little
bit ago. Psalm 116, verse 15. David said this in this psalm
of worship, in this psalm of praise to the Lord. He says in
Psalm 116, verse 15, precious in the sight of the Lord is the
death of His saints. You know, in the Word of God,
we find several precious things that are mentioned. Precious
faith. Precious blood. 2 Peter 1, precious
promises. The psalmist said the thoughts
of God toward us are precious. And of course, the Lord Jesus.
is precious to those who believe. But that's a list of things that
are precious to us. But have you ever thought about
this? What is it that's precious to God? I know what's precious
to us. What about God? What does He
call precious? And the answer is, There are
two things, actually two people, that he speaks of as being precious. Number one, his son. And number two, his people. That's what's precious to God,
his son and his people. And here we read, precious in
the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. What is
precious? That which is of unusual value. That which is exquisite to God. That which is valued, that which
is God's valued treasure. Only His Son and only His people. He doesn't speak of the earth
as being precious to Him. He's going to destroy it. He doesn't even speak of heaven
as being precious to Him. It's going to be renovated too. And certainly He doesn't speak
of the wicked as being precious to Him, for they're going to
perish. That only which God considers
precious, of unusual value as His treasure. You know, a treasure
to us is that which we put a great value upon. It's dear to us. It's something we hold in the
greatest of esteem. A treasure. What is God's treasure? What
is valuable to God? I want to know that. And the
Bible says His Son is valuable to God. That's His treasure.
That's what's precious to God. I don't know what He is to you,
but He's precious to God and you better honor Him. and his people are precious to
God. Turn to 1 Peter 2. Look at 1 Peter 2. Joe back in the office read to
us from the first chapter of 1 Peter talking about the precious
blood of the Lord Jesus. Let's look into the second chapter
and see what God says is precious to him. Chapter 2 of 1 Peter,
verse 4. He's speaking of Christ, to whom
coming as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, rejected
of men, but chosen of God and precious. He is of exquisite
value to God. Ye also, as living or lively
stones, are built up a spiritual house and holy priesthood to
offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Wherefore also it is contained
in the Scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a cheap corn of stone,
elect, precious. And he that believeth on him
shall not be confounded. Our God holds His Son in the
highest honor. He is the Father's treasure. And therefore, I think we can
draw this conclusion. Therefore, if you want to honor
God the Father, you've got to honor God the Son. In fact, that's
what it says in John chapter 5. He that honoreth not the Son,
honoreth not the Father who sent Him. You can talk about God. You can talk about all of His
attributes. You can talk about God the Father,
the Creator, the Preserver, the Sovereign. There are many things
you can say about God the Father, but unless you preach God the
Son in His redemptive glory, you've not honored the Father. And consequently, God's not going
to bless the message. He that honoreth not the Son
honoreth not the Father that sent Him. You see, a man can
speak about the greatness of God, the various attributes of
God, and talk about the love of God, and the grace of God,
and the mercy of God, but if he doesn't honor the Son of God,
If he doesn't give him that place that God the Father has given
him, that place of exaltation, God's given him a name which
is above every name. We better honor that name. We
better exalt him and preach his gospel, preach his completed,
finished work of redemption. If we don't do that, we've not
honored the Son, and if we don't honor the Son, we haven't honored
the Father. No matter what a preacher says.
And he may preach creation and I'd say, amen, I believe in creation. But if you hadn't preached redemption,
you hadn't honored God. There are a lot of people who would
bite you over creation. And listen, I believe in the
creative glories of God too. But I could preach a whole message
on creation. and talk about what God did literally
those six days, and after I do that literally, if I have not
exalted God the Son in His redemptive work, in His bloody death and
sacrifice, I have not honored God. We've got to be careful. Preachers can say some good things
without saying the good thing, which is Christ Jesus and Him
crucified. Brother Jack Shanks and I, years
ago, when I was pastoring in Texas
and I was visiting him, he said, Jim, I want you to go with me
to hear this man. He said, I've known him for years
and years. They had gone to school together
in Houston. I can't remember the name of
that school now, but anyway, they attended that. Dave Pledger
attended and several other preachers. He said, I want you to come with
me and hear this man. He said, he's getting very elderly. And we went to hear him. It was
a very poor message. He didn't speak of the glories
of Christ Jesus, didn't speak of the sacrifice of the Son of
God or the righteousness established by our Lord Jesus through His
death, putting away of sin. He just didn't honor the Son
of God at all. And after the service, I was
riding back to Jack's house with him. He said, you know Jim, you'd
think a man that old would be so in love with the Savior that
all that he would want to talk about is the Lord Jesus Christ
and what He had done for him. He said, boy, he missed it, didn't
he? I said, yeah, he did. He missed it. I was in Roanoke, Virginia. I
was pastoring in Rocky Mountain. Went to hear a man that I knew
in Roanoke. And he got up and announced his
text, that passage in Acts chapter 2. He said, I'm going to speak
tonight The Apostles' Doctrine. The Apostles' Doctrine. And he preached. And he talked
about the Apostles. Their lives, their calling, their
commitment. Went to Fox's Book of Martyrs
and talked about their deaths. but he didn't preach on the apostles'
doctrine. He preached on the apostles. And as we were leaving, one of
the dear ladies of our congregation was in front of me as we were
making our way back to the vestibule, greeting this preacher that I
had known. I met him in Mount Airy, North
Carolina, back in the early 70s. He was a sweet man, a dear man. And this lady in front of me,
she asked me, she said, Pastor, do you think it'd be okay if
I ask him a question? I said, sure. I give you my permission. And she said, you know, she called
him by name, said, it's good to see you again. He said, it's
good to see you too, Barbara. And she said, I'll tell you,
when you announce who's your subject, you're going to preach
on the apostles doctrine. You had me on the edge of my
pew. He said, good. She said, I have
one question for you. He said, what's that? She said,
why didn't you preach to us the apostles doctrine? He missed it. I saw a little tear come in his
eye. He said, I'm sorry. You don't owe her an apology.
You owe God an apology. You missed out on a golden opportunity
to preach the Apostles' doctrine, but you decided you'd preach
the Apostles'. Do you think any preacher of
the Gospel wants himself to be the subject of your message?
No. No. And I was right behind Barbara
and I stepped up and I hugged him. He said, Brother Jim, do
you still love me? I said, I love you. But you missed
it. You missed it. I'll tell you
something, God's Son is precious to Him. We had better honor Him. And I say to preachers, if there's
a preacher listening to me, and there probably isn't, but if
there's one, some leaders of churches who are watching, I
say this, if you want to honor God, you honor His Son. And if you honor His Son, He'll
honor you. That don't mean you're going
to have a lot of people who will listen to you or a lot of people
who are going to come hear you preach. But this is all important to
God. And this has got to be all important
to us. Jennifer called me a couple of
days ago. Her mother-in-law passed away. And her preacher, the mother-in-law's
preacher, He had heart surgery, open heart surgery, quadruple
bypass, I think it was, so he couldn't preach the funeral.
She asked me if I had anybody who'd preach the funeral. I said,
I'll take care of it myself. Why would I do that? Don't you
have enough on your plate, preacher? I got lots on my plate, but I'm
never too busy to preach the gospel to people. Tell people
who God is. Tell people who Christ is. Tell
them who He is and what He did and why He did it and where He
is now. That's what we're supposed to do. That's what we love to
do. We love to preach the apostles' doctrine. Doctrine. The teaching
of the apostles. What was the teaching of the
apostles? What was the doctrine of the
apostles? The person and work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's their doctrine. And you
read through the book of Acts, they preached Christ crucified,
buried, and risen. That's who they preached. The
victorious Lamb of God. Not one who made an attempt to
save His people, but who saved us from our sins by His substitutionary
sacrifice on the cross of Calvary. And I say preacher, deacon, elder,
leaders of churches, if you want God to honor your ministry, you
better honor His Son. And I'll tell you what else is
important to God. Not only His Son, but His people. His people are precious to Him.
Look with me in Isaiah 43. Isaiah 43. Look in verses 1 through 4. See,
you can say a lot of good things. I mean, things that are truthful
and yet not preach the gospel. And I fear that many men do that. They say factual things, things
that we would agree with. But if they don't get into substitution,
they've just wasted somebody's time. If they don't get into
the satisfaction by God of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ,
if they don't get into finished and full and accomplish redemption,
nothing of any real value was said, nothing was done, because
the Spirit of God won't be there. The Spirit of God will be where
the Son of God is exalted. I promise you that. You say,
well, we don't have many people. We have as many people as God
would have us to have. No more and no less. And I'm
thankful that God has anybody listening. I'm thankful that
there are some people who believe this gospel, who want to, with
me, exalt the Lord Jesus the way the previous two pastors
did. That's what we're all about.
We've not set out to build the biggest church in Boyd County.
That'll never happen. We've not set out with a goal
to have so many people in church and so many members and enlarge
our facilities here. That's not our goal. Our goal
is to exalt God and His Son. That's our goal. And if you're with me, wonderful. If you're not, There's the exits. There's nobody
holding you hostage. That's not too hard, is it? Well,
I say his people, God's people are precious to him. Look at
Isaiah 43, verse one. But now, thus saith the Lord
that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel,
fear not, For I have redeemed thee. Don't be afraid. He redeemed you. He didn't try
to redeem you. He didn't put you in a redeemable
state. He actually redeemed you. He
bought you with His blood. He said, I've called you by that
name. That's the effectual call of
the Spirit of God. God said, you're mine. I own you. Therefore, when thou
passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the
rivers they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through
the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle
upon thee, for I, or because I am the Lord thy God." That's
the reason these things are not going to happen. You're not going
to be destroyed. I'm the Holy One of Israel. I'm your Savior.
I gave Egypt for your ransom, and Ethiopia and Sheba for thee. I've raised up nations and taken
nations away just because of you. And I want you to notice in verse
4 here, three powerful words. If you don't have them underlined
or circled, and you don't mind underlining or circling your
Bible, you ought to circle these. He says, since thou was precious
in my sight. Man, I circled that. God says we're precious to Him.
And look at this, thou hast been, I circled this word, honorable. That's what God says about His
people. My people are precious and they're honorable. And I
have, and I circled this one, I have loved thee. Therefore, I will give men for
thee and people for thy life. You're precious to me. You're
valuable, God says. You know what he calls us? His
jewels. The Lord Jesus is coming back
someday to gather his jewels unto himself. Well, what do people
do with jewels, man? They lock them up in a safe?
Hey, go down here to one of these stores and buy them big safes,
you know, and put their jewels in there. We don't have anything
like that. We don't even have a lock on
our jewelry boxes. Nancy's Jewelry put it all together. Well, they call it mainly costume
jewelry. It's not very expensive, but
some people have really expensive jewelry. Let me tell you something. We
cost the Lord a lot. We're expensive. Not because
of the value in ourselves, but because of the value He put on
us and the value that the justice of God demanded. at price that
the justice of God demanded. We're precious. We're His treasure. Because He loved us with an everlasting
love. And we're honorable. You know
who we are? Do you know who we are? We're the
bride of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're the people that God's going
to put on display in eternity for all the world to see as we're
robed in the righteousness of the Lord Jesus having been washed
in His blood. And He's going to put us on display. We're trophies to His grace. Honorable. Do you know what we
are? We're the children of God. That's
who we are. We're adopted into His family.
We're honorable unto God because of the destiny that awaits us. We're going to be with Christ
and like Christ. We're precious. We're honorable. You know, to be honorable among
men, you've got to be somebody. Unfortunately, So-called honorable
in society today are the actors and the actresses and the sports
heroes and the congressmen and the senators who are all a bunch
of corrupt people, as far as I'm concerned, as far as I can
tell. Not much to any of them, I don't
think. And daily we read of these great
honorable people We read of them and their perverseness, their
lack of respect for God. My personal opinion, I probably
shouldn't even say this, but I think they're pretty much the
scum of society. That's what I think. The whole proverb, the scum of
every pot rises to the top. It's sort of like that. That's
the honorable in society, but that's not who's honorable to
God. And I'll tell you, if this would ever get a hold of us,
it'd be a real blessing. We're precious. We're honorable
unto our God. And He loved us. I don't think anybody loves me,
preacher. Hang on a minute. You may not have very many who
love you, but there's somebody whose love makes up for all the
rest and then infinitely multiplied. The love of God in Christ Jesus
for you. Don't you wallow in self-shame
and self-pity. You're a child of God. You're
a child of the King. Look at the robe you wear. God
has clothed you with the robe of salvation. He's put on you the garments
of righteousness. He's given you a bath in the
blood of His Son. I know in yourself and in myself
we're nothing but in Christ Jesus. We're precious and honorable
and loved to God Almighty. And I'll tell you this, look
at Psalm 49. Look at Psalm 49. Look at verse 8. It says, For the redemption of
their soul is precious, and it ceases forever. You know what
that means? The redemption, the blood redemption
of our souls by Christ Jesus is precious to God. And it doesn't have to be repeated.
It ceases forever. It's done with. You can't be condemned. You can't
be judged. That's already happened to the
Savior. And so back over here in that passage in Psalm 116,
it says, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His
saints. That's precious. Tell you what,
when we die, When we have a loved one die, a dear friend, companion,
spouse, father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, when we
experience the death of a loved one, we wouldn't hardly say that's
precious. That's painful. But you see, we don't view things
as God does. This is what God has determined
for all of His children, to be with Christ someday in glory. I can't get upset with God for
taking away somebody that I love a great deal, because He loves
them a whole lot more than I do. How can I get upset with God?
How can I get mad at God for taking one of His children home
unto Himself? The death of one of the saints
of God, that's precious to Him. That's a treasure to Him. It's
valuable to Him. What is death? Well, death is,
of course, it's the result of sin. We know that. I know the
world would give a different definition. To the family, death
means a vacancy at the dinner table, a loved one gone. To the physician, it's a patient
who's lost. To the biographer, it's the final
chapter. To the newspaper, it's another
obituary. To the insurance company, it's
another claim that's going to be filed. To the theologian, death is the
separation of the soul from the body. I know this, it's the result
of sin. I swear everybody's going to
die. And I know it's an act of God too. You'll live as long
as God's ordained for you to live, then away you go. It's the separation of the body
from the soul. The soul is the immaterial us,
the seed of affections, the seed of understanding. It is the immaterial,
real self. The body is just a tabernacle
for the soul. And so death is the separation
of the tabernacle from the soul. or the separation of the soul
from the tabernacle. Body goes back to the ground,
soul goes back to God who gave it. And death is the end of life
on earth and the beginning of an eternal existence somewhere. Well, what makes the death of
a believer precious? It's precious because, as I said,
God doesn't view things the way we do. Here's what the Apostle Paul
said, for me to live is Christ, to die is gain. Not too many
people speak of death as being gain. You know how men speak
of death? We experience a loss in our family. Well, I understand what you're
saying. But for a believer, it wasn't a loss. It was a gain. It was a gain. To leave this world of sin and
to enter into a world of righteousness, that's gain. To leave this body of flesh and
enter into the presence of the Son of God, that's gain. To leave this temporary state
and enter into an eternal state, that's gain. to leave this world of sorrow
and enter into a world of endless heavenly bliss with Christ Jesus,
that's game. That's the reason John Bunyan,
when his family gathered around him and his kids and wife and
is all crying and all that sort of stuff, the way we do too,
He just said, don't weep for me. What are you crying for me
for? He said, weep for yourselves.
You're the ones that's got the problems now. I'm about to leave
all mine behind. The death of God's saints is
precious because of the blood that redeemed us. We belong to God. And I'll give
you this last question. What about the death of an unbeliever? Ain't nothing precious about
that. I had a preacher friend of mine,
he told me, he said, this elderly man who did not attend his church,
but the man died, A daughter attended his church, and she
was an adult herself. Her father was quite elderly
and was quite an ungodly man. She's standing by the casket,
the preacher. This preacher friend of mine
was standing beside of her. And he heard people, several
people come by and say, Well, I'm thankful he's out of his
misery. He died a slow death of cancer. Very painful. They'd say things
like that. I'm glad your dad is out of his
pain. I'm glad your dad is out of his
misery. Your dad is better off. The preacher
said several people said that. And he said she leaned over to
me and whispered to me, my dad's not better off. He's in hell. The real misery has just begun. Just begun. Listen to me. Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord. That's what we read in Revelation
chapter 14. I want to die the death of the
righteous. And I'll tell you what, if you're
interested in dying the death of the righteous, here's what's
required. You've got to be righteous. You've got to be righteous. And
there's one person in whom you stand before God in His righteousness,
and that's our Lord Jesus, the Lord our righteousness. And in
His righteousness, we stand forever. And it doesn't matter what happens
to this body. We're righteous, and our last
end is gonna be a good end. And it's not going to be a final
chapter. It's going to be our entrance
into eternity, a blissful eternity with our Lord Jesus to be with
Him forever and ever. And that will be glory for me
and for all of the people of God. Get your song book. Let's
sing this last song. Number 505. Oh, that will be
glory for me. And we'll just sing all the stanzas. Number 505. Oh, that will be
glory for me. Let's stand together.