And I want to continue that subject
this evening. We have in our hands the full revelation of God. This is the word of the living
Lord. And when it comes to the Bible,
I certainly would never put one book above another or one chapter
above another or even one verse above another. It's all God's
Word. It's all inspired of the Lord
and laid out in an orderly way. God hasn't He hadn't been silent. God has spoken. The scriptures are given by divine
inspiration, all of them. God has, by his miraculous providence,
he's preserved the word through all these years. Without error, without men watering it down. Though many have sought to stamp
out the Scriptures and do away with the Scriptures, yet it stands
to this day. But it'll always stand, because
Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but not the Word of God, not
the Scriptures. And here's what we know about
the Bible. And we're just students, aren't
we? We're just students of the scripture. There's nobody in
here an expert on the Bible. In fact, there are no experts
on God, no experts on all of his attributes. No one knows
all the intricacies of what the divine trinity involves. We're lost, when we come to the
study of God, we're lost in our own nothingness before the all-sufficient
and all-glorious God. And what we do, we just bow down
in worship, don't we? We say, Lord, I know so little. I know so little. But I know
this, I know you're God. There is nobody else like you. No God like you. And I know I'm
a miserable sinner. And I'm deserving of everlasting
separation from you. I believe what the book says
about me. And I believe what the book says about Christ Jesus,
that He's all. He's all to be known, He's all
to be studied. He's all to be believed. And
this is what our Lord Jesus said to the Pharisees. He said this
to the Jewish leaders. He said, search the scriptures. And here's what he meant by that.
You do search the scriptures and they did. They did search
the scriptures. And he said, for in them, you
think In the study of the scriptures, the Old Testament scriptures,
in them you think you have eternal life. But this is what they missed.
He said, these are they that testify of me. That's what they missed. They
missed the Son of God. So they missed the life of the
book. They missed the message of the
book. They missed the one who is revealed
in the book of God. And we know, I know, and you
know, that if we have read the scriptures and we haven't observed,
we haven't studied, we haven't seen the Lord Jesus Christ in
all the scriptures, We've missed him. And it's our own weakness. And I must confess there are
scriptures that I've studied, I've read, and I haven't seen
Christ Jesus in them yet. You get to some of the more obscure
passages, you say, where's the Savior in this? And I know he's
there. And I'm not making light of the
scriptures, I'll expose my own weakness and my own limitations. And we say, Lord, reveal to me
the Son of God here. Show me the Lord Jesus. But we
do know this, for all that we don't know, and there's a lot
we don't know, we do know this, the message of this book is, the Lord Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. And that's the message that I
wanna sound forth always, always. Had a lady talk to me not too
long ago and she said, you know, Brother Jim, she said, I'll tell
you what blesses me about your messages. I said, well, first
of all, I'm thankful that God uses my messages to be a blessing
to his dear people. I said, what is it? She said,
every one of your messages, you always set forth Jesus Christ
and him crucified. And she said, if I were asked,
would you give me a tape or a CD or a DVD? If somebody said to her, would
you see to it that I get a copy of a message where Brother Byrd
preached the gospel? She said, I could just go to
the CDs I've got and cover my eyes and just pull one off the
shelf. And she said, I'll know you're
preaching. I know what the message is about.
It's Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I said, well, I'm thankful
to God for that. If we miss the Son of God in
our worship service, here we are gathered together tonight,
and we have the scriptures open for us. If we miss the Lord Jesus,
If we miss him crucified. And when we talk, when the Bible
talks about the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, it's talking
about the doctrine of substitution. He died in the stead of his people. Those God gave him before the
world began. He died as the substitute. He
died in the stead of his people. And we, in preaching Jesus Christ
and Him crucified, we preach satisfaction. He satisfied the
justice of God when He died. He satisfied God. Think of this,
nothing else could ever satisfy a holy God. but the death of
the Lord Jesus Christ to save his people from their sins. Nothing
could, all of the Old Testament sacrifices and rivers of blood
flowed. The Jewish altar was busy, the
brazen altar was busy from morning to evening. and numberless sacrifices. Animals died. Here people brought
their animals and the priests sacrificed them. He put the carcass
up on the brazen altar having caught the blood and all of these
animals died, but all of them together could never put one
single sin away. Not one. That's what it says
in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4. But this man, this man, He offered
one sacrifice for sins forever. And then he sat down at the right
hand of God. He did the work that God gave
him to do, substitution and satisfaction. And I had a preacher say to me
one time, he said, these are the notes that I hear in your
message. He said, I hear this note of
substitution and satisfaction every time you preach. And I
said, I hope you always will. I hope you always will. This
is the way the apostle Paul summed up his ministry and the ministry
of every man who would dare to stand behind what the old timers
used to call the holy desk. Because they had some understanding
that when you stand behind the pulpit and preach to people who
are bound for eternity, you better tell them the gospel truth. We preach Christ crucified. That's what Paul said. That's how he summed up his ministry. He went so many places, three
missionary journeys, he established all these churches, he admonished
all of these people of God, and he essentially condensed all
of his ministry and all of his message down to these few words,
we preach Christ crucified. I read something years ago about
a church over in England. They built a new building, and
they had a kind of a cobblestone walkway up to the building, and
somebody put an archway over top of it. And they put up the
words, We Preach Christ Crucified. And somebody said, well, maybe
we need some greenery. And so they planted some ivy. And things went well for a while. The message rung out, we preach
Christ crucified. And that's what they did. And
the writer said, and the ivy grew. It does that, doesn't it,
Bill? The ivy grows. We have ivy growing
out here. And I'll tell you, if he doesn't
whack it back, it'll just grow up the building, grow up over
the building. And so he keeps it trimmed back
nicely. But as it said, the ivy grew
and before long it covered the word crucified. So all they had
was we preach Christ. And that seemed to be indicative
of the way the ministry was going because they stopped preaching
Christ crucified because the blood offended people. And so
they just preach Christ as an example, as a good man, as a
healer, as one who's generous, as one who took care of the sick,
as one who looked with love and affection upon those less fortunate. And the story goes, the ivy continued
to grow. Before long it even covered the
word Christ. So all that was left was we,
we preach. And they did preach. They preached
kindness. They preached live by the golden
rule. They preached love your neighbor
as yourself. They preach forgive one another.
They preach feed the hungry. But no Christ and no Christ crucified. Before I go further in this story,
let me say this. We must preach Christ crucified. Our message is not just Christ. That's not shocking to you, is
it? The message is not just Christ, but Christ crucified. That's
the message. Because if we don't preach Christ
crucified, there's no salvation, there's no redemption, there's
no forgiveness. It's what the apostle said in
Ephesians chapter one, speaking of the Son of God. He said, in
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins. Don't leave out the blood. Without
the shedding of blood is no remission of sin. The life of the flesh
is in the blood. God said, I gave it to you. I've given it to you on the altar
and make atonement for your souls. For it's the blood that makes
atonement, reconciliation with God. The Lord Jesus, He was a
wonderful teacher and healer and all of those things, but
that's not how He saved us. It was by His bloody death. That's
what satisfied God. That's what put our sins away.
He was manifested to take away our sins. And he did that by
his crucifixion. Well, the Ivy grew up over crucified. They stopped preaching that.
Grew up over Christ. They stopped preaching Christ.
And then the Ivy continued to grow. And the writer said pretty
soon it even covered over preach. All that was left was we. Poi said they continued to meet
and people met once a week and had bingo downstairs and had
a wonderful time. The ladies met together and they
all quilted and they'd give it to the poor, give the quilts
to the poor. They did things for the less
fortunate. All they had left was we. Actually,
all they had left was nothing. Nothing. Let me ask you this. What is
our reason for existing? Why do we exist? Somebody said,
you know, most churches are a poor man's social club. Is that what we are, a social
club? Is that what this is all about? That's not our purpose. Our purpose
is to exalt the Son of God in His redemptive character. Our purpose is to sound out the
grace of God. Our purpose is to glorify the
God that made us by bragging on His Son. I don't know whether there will
be any conversions, I don't know whether God will save anybody,
but I promise you this, when we exalt Jesus Christ and Him
crucified, it pleases the Father. It glorifies God. It magnifies
the Lord. And I do believe that is the
number one issue, to glorify God. That's what most of the
catechism said. What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him
forever. You're not going to glorify God.
You're not going to worship God. You're not going to honor God
unless you honor His Son. And you honor His Son, God will
honor you. You dishonor His Son, God will
dishonor you. You speak highly of God, God
will speak highly of you. You own Jesus Christ, the Lord
of glory, the Savior of sinners. God will own you as being one
of His children. You confess Him before men, Christ
the Savior. He said, I won't be ashamed to
confess you before my Father. You ashamed to confess Christ
the Savior. He said, I'll be ashamed of you.
This is our reason for existing. That's why Paul says here in
verse 15, he says, 1 Timothy 3, 15, he says, if I tarry long
that thou mightest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in
the house of God, which is the church of the living God. This
building is designated for worship. This is where the church meets,
but this really isn't the church we are. We're living stones in
the body of Christ Jesus and he's the head. Watch it, which
is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the
truth. Pillars in big buildings back then had various inscriptions
on them. I tell you, we have an inscription
upon the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it's this, we preach
Christ crucified, and we hold up the truth. We're not ashamed
of the truth, because it's the only thing that'll set men free. And our Lord Jesus is himself
the embodiment of truth. He said to Thomas, Thomas who
said, Lord, we don't know where you're going and we don't know
the way. He said, Thomas, I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the
life. No man cometh unto the father
but by me. Pilate looked at him and said,
what is truth? Man alive, fella, he's standing
right in front of you. but he was blind and he couldn't
see. And then in the next verse, the
last verse, here's what Paul does. He gives a summary of what
I'd call true religion. He says, and without controversy,
let's talk about the truth, he says. We're the pillar and the
ground of the truth. Let's talk about the truth. Without
controversy, beyond all argument, great is the mystery of godliness. A mystery, something's gotta
be revealed. I know today people think that
they can, if they learn John 3 16 and maybe even commit Psalm
23 to memory, then they've got a grasp on the whole Bible. And they think believing Jesus
is easy. It's easy, it's falling off a
log. Yeah, the gospel is so simple. In fact, there's a tract that
says, God's simple plan of salvation. It's easy, nothing to it. Well, I'll tell you what, it
took the Lord of glory in his infinite wisdom to devise the
way whereby he could bring those back to him who were far off
due to our sins. took the wisdom of God. It took
the Lord of glory coming down here, veiling His deity with
human flesh, and living and then dying to satisfy God. God poured out His wrath on Him
because He bore all the iniquities and all the sins of His people.
You think it's an easy thing to be saved? It took the Lord
Jesus Christ to lay down His life to put our sins away. Easy to be saved? I don't think
you know what being saved is. I don't think you comprehend
what it means to be delivered from sin and all of its effects. You think you can make a decision
and you'll be saved? You'll make a decision, you'll
be rescued? You'll make a decision, you'll
put your sins away? It took the son of God's blood
to put sin away. That's how great the debt was. That debt he took upon himself. Great is the mystery of godliness. I'll tell you what's gotta be
revealed to us, because a natural man just doesn't receive the
things of the Spirit of God. Wouldn't it be refreshing to
hear some preachers on the radio, preachers on TV, be kind of refreshing
to hear them say, listen folks, we've been hearing about decisional
regeneration long enough. It's time somebody start talking
about the need of the Spirit of God to reveal the truth to
us. Wouldn't it be refreshing, wouldn't
it? for somebody to brag on the Lord
Jesus and say, what he did was effectual to the salvation of
all of his people when he died. Oh, that'd be refreshing. You
hear some preachers say, oh, the sovereignty of God's grace.
He'll be gracious to whom he'll be gracious. That'd be refreshing.
No, I tell you, this religious generation's got a little bitty
God. who can be manipulated by man's
great big will. And man has made an idol out
of his own will. And the idol's gotta come down.
It's got to fall. Dagon's gotta fall. Without controversy, great is
the mystery of godliness, and here's the first one. God was
manifest in the flesh. Every birth of a living child
is a marvelous thing, a miraculous event, no question about it,
because it brings into existence a soul that will never die. But never, never since Eve gave
birth to her firstborn son, even to the last baby who'll ever
be born in this world, never has there been another birth
like the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. He whom the heavens couldn't
contain joins himself to our flesh. He dwelt in human clay and grew
in stature and wisdom and in favor with men and God. What a great mystery. And this time of year, the world's
talking about baby Jesus. That one lying in the manger. That one whom Mary held in her
arms. She wrapped him in those swaddling
clothes. And she gave him nourishment
from her own breast. And she looked down into the
face of that baby that looked just like any other baby. And
she knew, remembering the word of Gabriel, this is the Son of
the Highest. This is that holy thing that the Spirit of God conceived
in me. when he overshadowed me. God manifest in the flesh. The word was made flesh, John
said, and dwelt among us. And we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth. Because he was a man, he is able
to suffer, bleed, and die. And die he did. That's why Paul
said to the Ephesian elders, feed the church of God, which
he purchased with his own blood. That's why Paul, when he wrote
to the Ephesians, he said, husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved
the church. and gave himself for it, to wash
it, make it pure, spotless. You see, Christ's death as the
God-man is of infinite value to God for the satisfaction of
his justice because that one who was born in a manger and
grew up and died on a cross is God of very God, and still really
a man without sin. He's justified in the Spirit.
The Spirit of God, you see Him active throughout the life of
our Lord Jesus. He was there at His conception.
Spirit of God overshadowed Mary. He was there at His baptism.
When our Lord Jesus at age 30, the Spirit of God took a bodily
form A dove. The scripture says he had the
Holy Spirit without measure. Here's an astounding scripture.
Look at Isaiah 11. Isaiah chapter 11, and I was
looking at this again this afternoon, and I've got to preach on this
passage pretty soon. But notice what the prophet of
God says in Isaiah 11 verse one, and there shall come forth a
rod out of the stem of Jesse, a branch, capital B, shall grow
out of his roots. Here's the Messiah growing up. And here's his anointing, the
spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom. and understanding, the spirit
of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear
of the Lord, and shall make him the spirit of God with him, shall
make this man Jesus of Nazareth to make him of quick understanding
in the fear of the Lord. And he shall not judge after
the sight of his eyes. That's the only way we can judge,
but he's not going to judge that way, because he looks deeper
than the outward expression or the outward appearance. He looks
on the heart. Neither reprove after the hearing of his ears,
but with righteousness shall he judge the poor and reprove
with equity for the meek of the earth. he shall smite the earth
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall
he slay the wicked. Here's his administration of
authority and government. I'll just read on, and righteousness
shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of
his reins. And here's his amazing grace. This is the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ. The wolf shall dwell with the
lamb, The enemies of the gospel. Spirit of God gives them a new
heart of faith. And all of a sudden they dwell
with the lambs. A Saul of Tarsus, arrested by
sovereign grace. That one who was the enemy of
the lambs, he becomes a friend of the lambs. And the leopard
shall lie down with the kid. The calf and the young lion and
the fattling together and a little child shall lead them. You know
who that little child is? A preacher of the gospel. Thou hast hidden these things
from the wise and the prudent, revealed them unto babes. Revealed
them unto babes. The cow and the bear shall feed.
Their young ones shall lie down together. The lion shall eat
straw like the ox. The sucking child shall, the
newborn believer, the sucking child shall play on the hole
of the aspen. The weaned child shall put his
hand on the cockatrice den. The serpent, the old serpent
can't harm God's people. You see, this is the amazing
grace of God. And here's our Lord Jesus, filled
with the Holy Spirit without measure, who gave Him strength,
wisdom, and proved that He's deity by the works that He did. And when our Lord Jesus died,
the scripture says in Romans chapter 8 and verse 11, the Spirit
of God raised Him. raised Him. He justified Him. Our Lord was acquitted of all
guilt. Our guilt charged to Him, put to His account. I said this
when I quoted this morning, Isaiah 53 verse 6, all we like sheep
have gone astray. We've all turned everyone to
his own way. And the Lord Jehovah hath laid
on Him, made to meet on Him the iniquities of all the sheep.
Guilty. And the wrath of God fell on
him. That immense, immeasurable anger of God against our iniquities,
it fell on the Son of God. So much so that he said, my God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And he died. He died. That's the penalty for sin. He
died. but he was raised again by the
Holy Spirit. That's his stamp of approval.
That's God's stamp of approval. Everything this one did, he did
to satisfy me. And God says, I am satisfied. Raised him from the dead. He's
justified by the Spirit. And in his justification, we
see our justification. We're acquitted from all guilt.
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It's Christ
that died. That's what he said. It's Christ
that died. You can't bring any charges against
me because there are no charges. I don't have any sin. He put
them away. He separated them from me and
all of his people as far as east is from the west and buried them
in the depths of the deepest sea. No charges against us. You know what we have? A perfect
righteousness. Boy, you know about that. A perfect
righteousness. And you know, I know the Bible.
speaks in metaphorical language, a robe and a coat, but this isn't
a pasted on righteousness. This isn't a righteousness that
merely covers our filth. We're made the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus. He is the Lord, our righteousness. You know where my righteousness
is? At the right hand of God. That's where He is. And as long
as He's there, I'm there. Because I'm there in Him, just
like you sang a while ago. That's our union with Christ
Jesus. Justified in the Spirit and seen
of angels. Seen of angels. He created them. And my suspicion is, The angels were the very first
of God's creation. That's what I think. I may be
wrong. I've been wrong a time or two
before, but that's what I think. I think the angels were his first
creation. And since all things were made
by the Son of God, when they were created, they
were looking at their creator. And then they watched as he created
everything else. They saw him in his pre-incarnate
glory. They saw him. And they beheld
him through the Old Testament, the angel of the Lord. They beheld
him on numerous occasions take the form of a human being. They
saw him in amazement go down and he spoke to Abraham face
to face as a man speaks with his friend. And they must've
thought, what is this? And they saw him go after Lot
and take him by his hand, said, we're getting out of this city. And they watched as Balaam, he'd
been hired by King Balak of Moab to pronounce a curse upon Israel.
Boy, he's trying his best to pronounce a curse against me,
and he's riding on his ass. And that ass didn't want to go,
and he kind of switched him, and the ass takes off out to
a field. And man, Balaam switched him again, and then the ass got
in between two walls, and the ass saw the angel of the covenant,
the angel of God. The angel of the Lord, he saw
Christ Jesus. He saw the Son of God. And the
ass just went over hard against the wall and crushed Balaam's
foot. And man, he took out his staff
then. He's just gonna beat that ass
to death. And that ass saw the, he saw
the angel of the Lord. And he just fell down, the ass
did. and turned around and said to
Balaam, why are you beating me? And then the Lord opened Balaam's
eyes and he saw the angel of the Lord have a sword in his
hand. You'd be dead except that ass
you was riding. He saw what you didn't see. He
saw the glory of that one who had the sword. Because as it
says in Isaiah 1, the ass knows its owner. He knew his owner. And it goes
all the way through the Old Testament. Angels beheld him so often. He'd come down and talk to men.
And then, then, they saw him step off his throne. and go down to earth. And they
watched in amazement with whatever kind of understanding they had
as he robed his deity in human flesh. When he is born, one of
them preached the good news of joy And then all of them, the whole
sky was filled with them as they sang the praises of their Creator. And as with Him all through,
He was seen of angels, they watched Him. When he was tempted of the devil
40 days and 40 nights, having been led of the Holy Spirit out
into the wilderness, angels came and ministered to him. What'd
they do? I don't know, but they ministered to him, what it says.
And when he is in the garden of Gethsemane, he sweat, as it
were, great drops of blood. The angels came then. They arrested him and took him,
and he said, I could right now call 10,000 angels, because they're
just sitting on ready. They'd be here just like that
to deliver me. But how then would the things
written of me take place? I must die. And when he died,
angels guarded his body. And when he arose again, an angel
said, why seek ye the living among the dead? And when he ascended
back to glory, two of them told the disciples, why stand ye gazing
up into heaven as though you'll never see him again? This same
Jesus shall so come again in like manner as you've seen him
go. And he went to glory and the
angel said, open the gates. The king of glory is coming in. He's coming in in victory. He's
coming in triumphant. And they watched as he was seated
at the father's right hand. And they heard the father say,
let all the angels of God worship him. And they did. And they still do. The elect
angels and the fallen angels, they have to obey his will. He was a saint of angels. And then he was preached unto
the Gentiles. Is that a mystery? Boy, I tell
you, it's a great mystery. It's a mystery he would be preached
to us. Why should you be privileged
to hear the pure gospel of grace when there are millions who will
never hear? Billions who will never hear.
Why you? Why me? And is not the answer to be found
in the sovereign purpose of God even so, Father, but so it seemed
good in thy sight? Why were your ears opened? Why
did you hear the joyful sound? Jesus saves, Jesus saves. Preached unto the Gentiles. By the way, here's part of the
mystery also that God would use preaching to save them that believe. Listen, this is the mighty weapon
the church has got, the preaching of the gospel. It's the battering
ram. We go against all the forces
of evil that are absolutely opposed to the gospel of grace. And we
do it with the word of the Lord, the sword of the spirit. This
is the battering ram against all evil, the preaching of the
gospel. And this is what we're supposed
to do. And if we start doing something else, we think, well,
you know, we can kind of improve on this. Let's not do so much
preaching. Then we've lost our power. This is what God called us to
do. Preach Christ in His two-fold character as God and man. Preach
Him as the only an all sufficient sacrifice for sin? And I'll tell you, he is preached
by every faithful preacher. Every God called preacher preaches
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I pray for all of them. Whether
I know them or not, I pray for all of God's servants. And then
watch this quickly, believed on in the world. Is that a mystery?
Well, it sure is. It certainly is. I don't hope
men ought to believe him, but nobody will believe him apart
from the effectual sovereign grace of God. It's like Peter when he had been
preaching to Cornelius and his household. He went back to Jerusalem
and kind of give a report to the Jewish leaders. They said,
where you been? What you been doing? Well, I've
been preaching to the Gentiles. What you been doing that for?
And he told them all that had happened. And they said, then
hath God granted repentance to the Gentiles also? Yeah, it's
like those Gentiles Paul preached to earlier. The Jews rejected
the message. The apostle Paul said, well,
I'll just turn to the Gentiles then. And the Gentiles said,
we're so happy to hear that. And the scripture says, and as
many as were ordained to eternal life, that's who believed. Believed only in the world. It's a miracle if you believe
Christ Jesus. You're a miracle of grace. You're
a living, breathing, talking, walking miracle. If you have
cast all your soul's salvation upon Christ Jesus, it's a miracle. We sing this song, I Know Whom
I Have Believed. Couple of the verses go like
this, I know not how, this saving faith to me, he did impart. Nor how believing in his word
wrought peace within my heart. I know not how the spirit moves,
convincing men of sin, revealing Jesus through the word, creating
faith in him. That's what he does, he creates
faith in him. You didn't have faith. He created
faith. He gave you faith. That's why
I say you're living, breathing, walking, talking, miracle of
God. If you believe the gospel of Christ Jesus, believed on
in the world. Because you see, by grace you're
saved through faith. And that not of yourselves, it's
a gift of God, not of worthless to any man should boast. And
then lastly, received up the glory. This is his exaltation. Paul is taking us from his incarnation
to his exaltation. Why was he received up to glory?
Because he finished the work the Father gave him to do, and
he sat down. He sat down at the right hand
of the majesty on high as our representative, as our surety. As that one who is the forerunner
of God's elect, He's received gifts. He's received
gifts from men. Yea, for the rebellious also. He's received the gifts of grace
and glory and he gives it to his people. Freely. Freely. Earned and purchased
by his own shed blood. And as He was received up to
glory, we were received in Him. We were risen with Him because
we died with Him. When He ascended, we ascended
with Him. And we're seated in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. It's every believer's great joy
to know where Christ is, having finished the work of redemption,
and to have this blessed assurance when we leave this old world,
boy, absent from this body, present with the Lord. And we comfort one another with
these words, We leave here, we're going to be with Christ Jesus.
I tell you what Paul said, to die is gain. Our brother gained
glory. And all that that involves, to
see the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a mystery of
godliness. Let's sing a closing song, shall
we?