reading at 96 and I'm going to
begin reading at 97. Psalm 119 and we'll begin at verse 97. It is good to be here this evening
and we ask God to bless as we open the scriptures and as you
know all of this great particular psalm, Psalm 119, is all about
the Word of God. And that's going to be my subject
this evening, the Word of God. And so let me begin reading at
verse 97. And I will say this, I think
these words or more accurately, should be attributed to the Savior,
to the Lord Jesus. Only he could speak these words
to perfection. And you'll understand what I
mean as we read through this little section here, 97 to 104. He begins this way, he says,
oh, how I love thy law. And he did. Our Savior loved
the word of God. Of course, David did too. He's
the sweet psalmist of Israel, but none has ever loved the word
of God like the Savior. He says, it is my meditation
all the day. The word meditation means it's
the object of my focus. In other words, I just keep my
mind saturated with the book of God. And wouldn't that be
good for all of us if we could do that, just keep our thoughts
on the scriptures and But we acknowledge the fact that
when we read the word of God, there are lots of times when
our minds wander. You have that problem? I'm sure you do, your minds wander. But the Lord Jesus, he didn't
have that problem. And indeed, he could say in all
truthfulness that the scriptures They were in the focus of his
mind and of his heart all day long. He just kept himself just
saturated with the scriptures. He says this in verse 98, thou
through thy commandments has made me wiser than mine enemies
for they are ever with me. You say, how would the Lord Jesus,
how could he be made wiser? The scripture says that he grew
in wisdom, he grew in stature and in wisdom as that perfect
man. And I would have you notice this,
and I was paying attention to this as I reread this again before
I came to the service this evening. He speaks of, the psalmist speaks
of three groups of people. In verse 98, he speaks of his
enemies. Verse 99, he speaks of all my
teachers. And then in the 100th verse,
he said the ancients. Our Lord Jesus, of course, he
excels everyone. He says in verse 98, Thou through thy commandments
has made me wiser than mine enemies, for they're ever with me. And
that was obvious as you read through the gospel narratives
that the enemies of our Lord Jesus were, they were always
there. They were always outing him,
always against him, always in opposition to him, till finally,
of course, they were successful in taking him before the Roman
government and having him executed, but even that was according to
the purpose of God, that he be crucified. But he says of these
enemies, he said, they're ever with me, but he says, you've
made me wiser than my enemies. And then he says this in verse
99, I have more understanding than all my teachers. And here's the reason, because
thy testimonies That's what I focus on. That's my meditation. You think of our Lord as a young
man growing up, all the teachers that he had, and yet he was wiser
than all of them. The scriptures in Luke, the second
chapter, record how the Savior, when he was 12 years old, went
to the temple in Jerusalem And he's talking to the men who were,
they were supposed to be wise men, teachers and professors
and that sort of thing. Our Lord Jesus was wiser than
all of them. And the reason is because thy
testimonies of my meditation. And I would say this to you and
me. If we were to have understanding
of the scriptures, then we've got to spend lots of time in
the word of God. We've got to just saturate, and
I keep using that word, but really that's exactly what this is saying.
We need to saturate our minds and our hearts with the scriptures.
Because every day it's like our minds are saturated with things
other than the scriptures. and they don't really benefit
you or me spiritually, but the scriptures will. God's word. Focus in on the word of God. Thy testimonies are my meditation. And then he says in verse 100,
he said, I understand more than the ancients, more than those
who are older and supposedly wiser. Age doesn't necessarily
bring wisdom. We hope it does, but it doesn't
necessarily have to. But if you would be wise in the
things of God, give diligence to spend lots of time in the
scriptures. He therefore says in 101, I have
refrained my feet, I've kept back my feet from every evil
way in order that I might keep thy word. You remember earlier
in this Psalm, he says in verse 11, thy word have I hid in my
heart that I might not sin against thee. And then he says in Psalm,
Or in verse 102, he says, I have not departed from thy judgments. I've stayed with the scriptures.
Oh God, help us not to depart. And here's the reason David,
the psalmist, and even our Lord Jesus as a man, here's the reason
there was no departure from the word of God, for thou has taught
me. There's a big difference between
being instructed by man and being instructed by God. He said, this
is the reason I stay with the scriptures. God taught me. And I'll tell you, if you're
instructed, if you're taught by God, you're well taught. Well taught. He says in verse 103, how sweet
are thy words unto my taste. You know, he not only found sweetness
in listening to the word of God and reading the word of God,
but also feeding upon the word of God. Our souls have got to
be fed. And the best food there is, is
the word of God, and as we read the word of God, and as the Holy
Spirit is our teacher, the word of God is sweet. It's delightful. In fact, he says, yea, sweeter
than honey to my mouth. And then he says, through thy
precepts, that is through thy word, I get understanding. You want understanding? Get in
the scriptures. The spirit of God teaches us
through the word. And he says, therefore I hate
every false way. As God the spirit enables us
and as he enlightens us to the word of God, the gospel of God's
grace, the gospel of redemption, the gospel of saving, mercy,
then we can better identify every false way. We don't study false
ways. We study the true way. That way
is the way of grace. It's the way of Christ Jesus.
It's the way of salvation by his substitutionary death. And
as we get that in our minds and in our hearts, as the Spirit
of God puts it in our minds and in our hearts, we'll hate every
false way and we'll be able to identify the false ways. And
the reason lots of people are so easily led astray is because
they don't stay in the Scriptures. If you would stay true to the
Word of God, If you would stay true to the gospel of God's redeeming
mercy, stick to the scriptures. Stick
to the scriptures. Well, may the Lord bless as we
meet together tonight. Before I forget it, there's a
couple of sheets of paper here on the table to sign up for the
celebration that's Not this coming Sunday evening, but the next
Sunday evening. And we'll look forward to a joyful
time together then. And so you can look and see what
needs to be signed for that time of joyful remembrance
and thanksgiving of the faithfulness of God to us, to Nancy and myself. Give thanks for 50 years of wedding bliss. So thankful to
God for a faithful wife. What I consider to be the ideal
preacher's wife. And I'm so thankful for and will
enjoy celebrating together. Well, let's bow our heads now.
It is with great thanksgiving, our Father, that we bow before
you and we're remembering with gratitude the fact that you have
given us this Word, the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures,
which we read are able to make one wise into salvation. Lord,
you have not remained silent, but you have given to us your
word, and we have no need of anything else. This is our rule
of faith. Everything we believe is from
this book, and we take all teaching, all preaching, and we lay it
down beside this very straight stick. and anything that is in
the least way contrary to the record of God, then we will hate
it as being a false way. For this book teaches us of salvation
by grace alone, received by faith alone, a salvation accomplished
by Christ alone. And Lord, we cherish the book
of God. And all of us tonight, we have
our Bibles open. We're looking in the Scriptures. And we ask you to speak to us. And if you speak, it'll be through
the book. It will be by some other means. The Spirit of God uses the the
word of God to minister to our poor hearts. And so it is with
a desire to be fed. It is because we're hungry for
the scriptures that we gather together tonight. And all of
us together, young and old, we look into the word of God and
we say, speak Lord. My servants are ready to hear.
And may we do as David did, as our Lord Jesus did, not only
hear the word of God, listen to the word of God, and read
the word of God. Oh God, let us feed on this book. Feed us with manna from heaven. Our hearts shall be satisfied.
Bless the sick, Lord, we pray. We hold up to you our dear sisters,
Pat and Diane, and others of our congregation also that are
experiencing frailties of this body. And we know that the body
is marvelously made, And Lord, you who made it, you can heal
it. You can make these who are sick
to be well or not. Your will be done. But we ask
for these ladies and for all of our, the sick ones of our
congregation and for all of us when we get sick, that we would
remember that our God does all things well. And nothing happens
outside of his good, sovereign will and purpose. And while we
may not understand or know what you're doing with us, you know
perfectly well. You from the beginning ordained
the end and all things in between. And so we look to you, Father,
and we ask for grace when it's our time to suffer. We ask for
strength, strength emotionally. strength spiritually, and then,
if it be your will, strength physically. We thank you for
all things, because all things work together for good to those
that love God, indeed to those who are called according to your
purpose. We're so grateful for Christ
Jesus, our Savior, and this book of God tells us of him. and of
His sacrifice, of the offering of Himself, once, once for all. And when He died for us, suffering
the wrath of God in our stead, Lord, we're so thankful for a
great Savior. And that He who laid down His
life for us, took it up again, went back to glory, seated right
now at the right hand majesty on high and he prays for us,
he intercedes for us. And we have a great, great elder
brother in the Lord Jesus Christ and he is not ashamed to call
us his brethren. And so we go further into this
service now with thanksgiving for Christ and We ask that you'll
speak to us through the word. For Christ's sake, we ask these
things. Amen. Let's go back to John chapter
17 this evening, John chapter 17. And here's my subject, the
gift of God. the word, that is the gift of
the word of God. The scripture speaks quite a
bit about the gifts that God has given to us. Our Lord Jesus,
and you'll remember this passage, of course, in John chapter four,
he told the woman at the well, if you knew the gift of God,
if you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, give
me to drink, you would have asked of him. and he would have given
thee living water. In Romans chapter five, the Lord
talked about the gift of righteousness. Romans chapter six, for the wages
of sin is death. but the gift of God is what? Eternal life through Jesus Christ,
our Lord. The Bible keeps in front of us,
before us, these gifts of God. Indeed, the apostle said in 2
Corinthians 9, he said, and it's in the context of giving of our
gifts, of our offerings, of our money, to support the gospel
of God's grace. He then said, thanks be unto
God for his unspeakable gift. There is a gift that is so much
greater than any other gift that the apostles spoke of it as being
the unspeakable gift, the gift of the Lord Jesus. Indeed, Isaiah
said that, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. God gave His Son as to His flesh,
as to His human nature, our Lord was born. He's the child who
was born. But as that one who is equal
with God, God gave Him. God gave Him, the Son who was
given. We read in Ephesians chapter
two, how that grace is a gift and specifically faith is a gift. Do you have faith? Do you believe
tonight? Are you resting in Christ Jesus? You look to nobody else but that
one who came down from heaven and satisfied God's justice by
His bloody death upon the cross of Calvary. Do you believe the
Lord Jesus? Do you have faith in Him? Well,
the scripture says, for by grace you say through faith and that
not of yourselves, what is it? It's a gift of God. It's a gift
of God, not of works lest any man should boast. Don't boast
of your faith. You didn't have it and you wouldn't
have it unless God gave it to you. And then we read, Excuse
me, in Acts chapter 11, verse 18, how that God granted to the
Gentiles repentance unto life. You didn't have repentance either.
What is repentance? It's an about face. It turning
from everything else to that which is infinitely better. That's
Christ Jesus. We turn from sin, we turn from
idols, we turn from our dead works. All those religious works
before we were brought to see the gospel, they're all dead
works and we repent of, we turn away from them. We don't have
any confidence in those things for our acceptance with God.
We turn from those things to the Lord. And repentance is a
gift. God grants it to us. And that's
the reason we read in James that every good gift and every perfect
gift comes from above. And the Lord gives us all of
these gifts, but here's the one I want to focus on tonight is
the gift of his word. Do you understand, do you recognize,
and I'm sure you do to a degree, and so do I, but we don't fully
appreciate this, that which you have right now. Here we are,
all of us looking in the Scriptures. Do you realize this is a gift
from God? He has not remained silent. He has spoken to us. He speaks
to us through this book. He doesn't speak, I know in the
Old Testament, He spoke through dreams and visions and angelic
visits and that sort of thing, but He doesn't speak by those
means anymore. He now speaks through this Word
of God as the Holy Spirit gives us understanding of it. Oh, God
is still speaking. He speaks through this book.
That's why the Savior says here, look in John 17, look at verse
14. He says, I have given them thy
word. I gave it to them. You didn't
earn it. I didn't merit it. These men,
they didn't do anything to get the word of God. Christ said,
I gave it to them. You who are vitally interested
in the scriptures, There was a time when you may have had
some passing interest in the Bible, and you maybe took an
oath with your hand on the Bible, put your right hand on the Bible
and raised your left hand, maybe in court or something like that,
and you had a measure of respect for the Word of God. But when
the Spirit of God came to you in great power and authority,
all of a sudden, this became to you the Word of life. and
the word of righteousness. And you understood as you had
never understood before, this is the word of God to you. And our Lord Jesus said, I have
given them thy word. No wonder in 2 Timothy chapter
four, Timothy says, received these words of instruction from
the Apostle Paul, he said to that young preacher, preach the
word. That's the way, preach the word.
Not preach out of a comic book or preach out of some other source
that a man might lay hold of. I've probably told you this before.
There's a church up there in Almond. They had a series in their Sunday
school classes watching the Andy Griffith Show. That was their
mode of instruction. And they said, there's so many
of life's challenges that you'll learn to deal with through the
Andy Griffith show. Well, you might learn some things
like that, but you're not going to learn the gospel because Andy
Griffith didn't know the gospel. Barney Fife didn't know the gospel.
All the rest of them together didn't have a thumb, what do
you call that thing? Thimble, thank you. A thimble
full of knowledge of the gospel. If you're gonna learn about God,
if you're gonna learn about who he is and his justice and holiness
and righteousness and grace and all of these other attributes
of God, you're gonna find it out from his book. And Christ
said, I've given them thy word. And if you're gonna learn about
yourself, don't go to read some books about, well, how we're
all really good people and we all have really good intentions.
Go to the book of God and you'll find out you're a rebel. You're
born a rebel. You're born in sin. You're ungodly
by nature. I know as we judge goodness,
we're good people, but as God judges goodness, none of us are
good and none of us can do good. There's only one who's good,
that's God. And it's as we get in the Word
of God, we find out we're sinful people, we're not fit for God's
presence. And then as you get into the
Word of God, we find the remedy to our disease. Our disease is
the leprosy of sin. The remedy is the blood of the
Lord Jesus, our Savior. He says, I've given them the
Word. No wonder Paul then said, preach the Word, Timothy. Preach
the Word. And the Lord in Isaiah chapter
55, he gives us this assurance. As the word of God goes forth,
he said, my word goes forth out of my mouth, it shall not return
unto me void. Neither the written word nor
the incarnate word will return to God void. The Lord Jesus,
the Word of God, he accomplished everything God sent him to do.
And this book that we have before us tonight, it will also accomplish
the purpose of God. It cannot fail. Let me show you
a couple of passages of scripture. Go over to Acts chapter 12. Let's
go to this one, and I'm not gonna read too many verses here. And
actually, I'd ask you not to read too many verses, at least
right now. You can read this when you get home. I'll tell
you the story. Herod, who's the king, he killed
James with his sword, cut off his head. It's kind of a test
case. He wanted to see what the people
thought about that. And hey, the people in Jerusalem
and around about said, that's good. Didn't like that preacher
anyway. And so he decided he'd flex his
muscles a little more and he arrested Simon Peter, put him
in prison. And as you know the story, while
Simon Peter was in prison, the angel of the Lord came to him
and took him out. The doors miraculously opened
and the angel of the Lord took him all the way out to the street.
And Simon Peter, he went where the people of God want to go.
where other believers are. That's exactly where, where do
you, where is it that you want to be? Where is it that I want
to be? I want to be where God's people are, don't you? And that's
what Simon Peter Wayne, one goes, and he went there and he knocked
on the gate, gal came to the gate and said, where you need?
He said, hey, I want to come in and worship with y'all. She
said, I don't even know who you are. Cause they thought he was
in prison, had been praying for his release, never believed that
the God would act, that God would actually answer their prayer.
We're real pitiful people, aren't we? We'll ask God for something,
then if he answers our prayer according to the way we asked
for it, we're just absolutely shocked. We ought to ask in faith,
believe it. But anyway, he goes in, finally,
they let him in. He tells them all that's happened.
Meanwhile, this King Herod, he goes back to Caesarea. That's
where his palace was. Now, let's pick up reading at
verse 20. Acts chapter 12, verse 20, are you there? Acts 12, 20,
and Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon,
but they came with one accord to him, and having made Blastus
the king's chamberlain their friend, they desired peace. They'd
kind of been upset with him, but he had quite a bit of authority,
and so they've come, they've made peace, because their country
was nourished by the king's country. And on a set day, Herod, He put
on his royal apparel. He sat on his throne and made
a great oration unto them. Just showing off, flexing his
kingly muscles. Verse 22, the people gave a shout,
saying, it is the voice of a God and not of a man. And he didn't
correct them. He didn't say, wait a minute,
I'm just a man. Let God arrest it. He just gloried
in all this adulation and congratulations and stuff that they were heaping
on him. In verse 23, immediately, the
angel of the Lord, who led Peter out of prison, has another job. He smote him. because he gave
not God the glory. And he was eaten up of worms
and gave up the ghost, verse 24. But the word of God grew. You can't
stop the word of God. I don't care who you are. You
can be a king. Thank you, a big shot. You got
all kinds of power. I already cut off the heads of
one of the preachers. one of the Sons of Thunder, one of Zebedee's
boys, James. Now the only ones left is John.
John's brother's dead. He said, well, I'll get Simon
Peter next, put him in prison. And he thinks he's got all kinds
of power. No, he don't have all kinds of
power. And God killed him. And the Word
of God just kept on going. I love that. The Word of God,
it's always successful. And I was sitting in the office
a while ago, and this verse came to my mind. Look at 2 Timothy
chapter three. 2 Timothy chapter, I'm sorry, chapter
two. 2 Timothy chapter two. And again, he's writing to this
young preacher, Timothy. He says in 2 Timothy chapter
two, look at verse seven. He says, consider what I say
and the Lord give the understanding in all things. He says 2 Timothy
two and verse eight, remember that Jesus Christ of the seed
of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel.
And that's the reason he says, I suffer trouble. as an evildoer,
even under bonds, even put me in jail, they put me in shackles. But the word of God's not bound. You can't bind the word of God.
You can kill his preachers. You can bind his preachers. You
can bind up all the apostle and throw him into prison. But the
word that he has proclaimed, you can't reel it back in. It's
out there. And it's gonna do its job. And
it did its job on you, didn't it? And it's still working in
you, that which is well-pleasing according to the purpose of God.
And our Lord Jesus over here in our text in John 17, he tells
these men, I've given, or he speaks to the father and he says,
I have given to these men thy word. Thy Word. My friends, this is the book
that God has given to us. It's survived attacks of every
kind, but it still continues. It spans the centuries of time. The first books of the Bible
were written roughly 3,500 years ago. The last book books of the Bible written about
2,000 years ago. So we're talking about 40 different
writers over a period of about 1,500 years wrote these 66 books
that we know make up the Word of God. There's just no book
like it. It crosses the barriers of age. Children read the Bible. Here
we are tonight, we have children here. These children are reading
the same Bible we're reading. It's no different. It spans ages. From the youngest to the oldest,
we all read the same book. It spans nationalities, it's
been translated into over a thousand different languages and dialects
and that's just the ones that we know about, probably many
more than that. Hey, I don't read any books written
in Japanese, even translated into English or any other languages
that are translated into English except a few theology books,
maybe, but I'm not too interested in books written in another language.
But I'm interested in this book, and it's been translated into
a bunch of languages. It's so unique, and I don't read
any books, I don't even know of a book that's 2,000 years
old. I would think that any information
in a book 2,000 years of age would be archaic. It's out of date. It's obsolete. But not the word of God. Not
this gift. Not this gift. It crosses the
barriers of status, education. Judges read this and prisoners
read this. Teachers read this, and students
read this. It's just the unique book. Masters and servants, there are
presidents who read this. And paupers who read, read the
same book. The same book. And every writer
of the Old Testament and the New Testament, they all write
about one person. The Son of God. It's utterly
amazing. And most of them were not contemporaries
of one another. You know what I mean by contemporaries.
They ain't right at the same time. And here they are spaced
out over 1,500 years and you put them all together and you
say, my, my, they all tell the same story. They're all bragging
on the same Savior. The gift of this book is absolutely
miraculous. and the way God has preserved
it. Need to appreciate this book.
Need to consider this book, the book of books. It's said to be
the word of God, the word of God. That's an expression found
primarily in the New Testament. God means the divine one. the
Trinity or the tri-unity. The great creator has given us
a permanent record of himself. This is God's book. This is God
communicating himself to us. And of course he tells about
our situation, what happened in Adam. And he tells us about
salvation in Christ Jesus. It's called the Word of God. And you need to hear this, this
book and our Savior are so much in union that they both have
the same name. They're both the Word of God. If you're talking about this
book, it's the Word of God. If you're talking about Him who
came from glory, He's the Word of God. In the beginning was
the Word. The Word was with God, the Word
was God. The same was in the beginning
with God. And the Word was made flesh and
dwelt among us. And we beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth. This book and our beloved Savior, are so joined
that they both got the same name. Both got the same name. This
book is said to be in the Old Testament, the word of the Lord,
all capitals. That is the word of the ever
existent God, the word of Jehovah, the word of God who saves. And
this book is said to be in the New Testament, The word of the
Lord, capital L, lowercase O-R-D. That means master. That means
owner, the owner of all things. This is the word of the master. This is the word of the possessor
and the disposer of all things. This is the word of the sovereign.
This is the word of the king. And Ecclesiastes 8 verse 4 says,
where the word of a king is, there's power. And who may say
unto him, what doest thou? That word power in Ecclesiastes
8, 4 is mastery, authority, dominion. This is the book of the one who
has all authority. He doesn't ask for authority.
He's got it. He's got it. In fact, this book is said to
be quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. But
if you read there in Hebrews chapter four, that's also talking
about the one who came from heaven, the incarnate word. He's quick
and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. This book
is said to be the word of truth. The word of truth. What is the
word of truth? Ephesians 1.13 says, it's the
gospel of your salvation. The only one book that's the
word of truth, that's this book. I enjoy reading theology books,
doctrine books, things of that nature, but None of them deserve
the title, The Word of Truth. You know why not? Because they're
written by men. Fallible men. Now, did God use
men to write this book? Yes, he did. He used 40 different
men to write this book. But he inspired them what to
say. In other words, the words didn't
originate with them. The words originated with God. It's the word of truth. And the
scripture says in Romans chapter 10 in verse eight, it's the word
of faith. It's the word to be believed.
Now, hang on now, you gotta hear this. You know better off if
you don't believe it. That's right. You gotta believe
this book. Not just merely say, well, I
believe the Bible's the word of God. Believe the message of
this book. Believe him of whom this book
is all about. It's the word of faith. Read
sometime at your leisure in Hebrews chapter two and also the first
part of Hebrews chapter three of those Israelites who could
not enter into the land of promise. One reason is given, a belief. They didn't believe God. They
had the word of truth. They had God's word. God had
committed to them the word of God, the words that Moses wrote
under divine inspiration, what the prophets wrote, but they
didn't believe the word of God. They believed what the elders
and And the old rabbis thought they believed the traditions
of men rather than believing the word of God. And in not believing
the word of God, they died in unbelief and perished in their
sin. And you will too. You will too. If you don't believe this book. This book is a word of faith.
And this book is the word of righteousness. Hebrews 5.13 says
that. It's the word of righteousness.
What is the word of righteousness? It's a message from God who demands
that we be righteous, that we be justified, that we be perfect
before him. And it's a word that tells us
of that one who came down from heaven, who is the Lord, our
righteousness. You can't be righteous yourself,
but that's what God demands. But there's one who came down
here and established righteousness for all of his people, for everybody
who believes him, by his obedience unto death, even the death of
the cross. And this book is said to be in
2 Corinthians chapter five, the word of reconciliation. Preacher,
I want to be reconciled with God. This book tells you. This is a word of reconciliation.
It's a word of atonement. Without the shedding of blood,
there's no remission of sin. There's no salvation without
the remission of sin. That's the reason in the Old
Testament Scriptures, every writer takes painstaking, gives painstaking
attention always to the blood of the sacrifices. As you read
through the Bible, it's always the blood that's kept before
people, and it's the blood before the Lord. Because without the
shedding of blood, there's no forgiveness. There's no remission. There's no righteousness. And
then, This book is said to be the word of life. Philippians
2.16, Paul said, holding forth the word of life. That's what
I hold forth to you tonight. It's the word of life. We're
dead. But this is the word of life.
Anybody need life? This is a book of life. And in
the hands of the Holy Spirit, Oh, I tell you, he brings about
miraculous. He raises the dead using this
book. In Acts 13, 26, this is the word
of salvation. And to top it off in Acts 14,
verse three, this book is said to be the word of his grace. This book. The Word of God, it's
the Word of Grace. And if you're looking for the
Word of works, you're not going to find it in here. If you're looking for the Word
of what you've got to do in order to please God, count beads, say
prayers, walk the aisle, make your decision, all of these things,
be baptized, take the Lord's supper, you're looking for something
to do. No. Now, this is the word of His
grace. But boy, I tell you, if there's
anybody interested in grace, whew, this book's full of it. It's saturated, I'll use that
word, it's saturated with grace. If anybody needs a savior, this
is saturated with the blood of Christ Jesus. It's the gift of
God's word. Boy, what a book. What a book. Well, let's sing a closing song
tonight.