and sing hymn number 272. 272. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name. On Christ the solid rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand. When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace. In every high and stormy gale, I anchor holes within the ground. On Christ the solid rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand. His oath is covered, let his blood support me in the whelming flood. When all around my soul gives way, evening is all my hope and stay. All Christmas fall is Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand All other ground is sinking sand When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found, Dressed in his righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne. They sated we'll sing hymn number 334. 334. Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart, Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art. Thou my best thought, my day, Braving or shaping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my truth, I ever with Thee, and Thou with me, Lord. Thou my great Father, I thy true son, Thou in me dwelling Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise, Thou mine inheritance now and always, Thou and Thou only, first in my heart. I, King of Heaven, my treasure Thou art I, King of Heaven, my victory won May I reach Heaven's doors Galatians, chapter 2. I'll read down from 12, verse 12 of chapter 2, down to verse 17. Oh, verse 11, excuse me. Start at verse 11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed. But before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles. But when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision, or the Jews. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compelst thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, not by the works of the law. For by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners. Is therefore the Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. Our Father, our blessed, blessed Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, you're the great God blessed forever and ever. You're the great and high potentate. You're the only potentate in this whole universe. You're the one with all the power, with all the right, with all the authority, with all the salvation, with all the grace, with all the mercy, and with all the love of God. You have it, Lord Jesus, and you give it to us so freely, so fully, and we're so thankful, truly thankful in our hearts for what you do for us and are doing and have done for us in this world. And our Savior, we look forward to the day when this world and all that's in it is destroyed by fire, and we'll go forever to be with our Lord Jesus Christ. be conformed to his image once and for all. Oh, what a blessed, blessed, blessed day that'll be. And our Father, I thank you that you've given us this time to meet together. And I pray that you would enable me to feed your sheep, to edify your people, to cause myself to be a blessing to them, for they're certainly a blessing to me. And so, Lord, teach me from your word that I may Teach them from your word. And Lord, when Brother Luke comes, when Luke Coffey comes to preach Sunday, God be with him in a mighty way. Lord, be with him. Give him great liberty. Give him freedom of thought. Bless him to preach the gospel in great power. And Lord Jesus, we pray for our brothers and sisters even now are in great files, great fights of affliction. And you know who they are. Forgive us of everything that's unlike you. Bring glory to yourself tonight through this blessed word of God. In Jesus Christ, our name we pray, amen. Number 10 in our course book. Number 10 in our course book. There's two verses in here. The chorus is not in here, but we'll sing it anyway. you There is coming a day when no heartaches will come No more clouds in the sky, no more tears to dim the eye All is peace forevermore on that happy golden shore What a day, glorious day, that will be. What a day, that will be, when my Jesus I shall see. When I look upon His face, the One who saved me by His grace. When He takes me by the hand And leads me to the promised land, What a day, glorious day that will be! There'll be no sorrow there, no more burdens to bear, No more sickness or pain, no more parting or dare, And forever I will be with the one who died for me. What a day, glorious day that will be. What a day that will be When my Jesus I shall see When I look upon His face The One who saved me by His grace When He takes me by the hand And leads me to the Promised Land What a day, glorious day that will be. You know, our elder brother sits on his throne. Our elder brother. Our older brother, he's promised he's gonna come and get us. Got lots of places for us to live in when we get there. Lots of places, lots of places. I wanna talk about being justified by Christ alone, being justified by Christ alone. The argument or the blame that Paul had laid on Simon Peter And I told you last week that Peter he's sitting at this two tables in this building wherever they're at He's sitting there eating with Gentiles eating with us like we was having a meal back here, and he said down eat with us well a bunch of Jews came in sitting down by James and They came down there spy out their Liberty and And Peter, when he saw them come in, he got up and moved over with the Jews and sat down with them, fearing them of the circumcision, afraid of them, man-fearing spirit. And he never said a word against Christ, never said a word against grace, never said a word against justification by Christ alone. But look what he says in verse 14. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, that was what they done. And what he was saying was, when he went to that Jewish table, uprightly according to the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, if you, you're a Jew, you're sitting here with Gentiles and living like a Gentile. eating Gentile food and not like the Jews do. So by the very action that you committed, by moving from one table to the next, you're compelling the Gentiles to live like a Jew. So he made such a mess of the gospel. He said by that act, he was telling the Gentiles, you got to be like me. You need to leave that table yard and come over here because us Jews have more. We got more holy. We got the law. We got Moses. We got everything we need. We got the ceremonies. We got the rituals. We got the Sabbaths. And you all don't have that. And boy, it really upset Paul. But they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel. And you know really what the truth of the gospel is? Paul, when he wrote the Roman letter, he says this, we have proved before, both Jew and Gentile, all are under sin. All are under sin. And God said in Romans chapter 12 that he made no difference. Excuse me, Romans chapter 10, there's no difference in Jew or Gentile. Christ is all and in all, and that He made no difference in them when whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord." If you're a Jew or a Gentile, it made no difference. It made no difference if you call on the Lord. And oh my, and I tell you there, there's no difference. Now listen to me, truth of the gospel, there's no difference between a Jew and a Gentile, how they're justified before God. And Peter, leaving the fellowship of the Gentiles, when the Jews came, he, by his actions, was saying, there is a difference. There is a difference. When Christ said and God said, there is no difference. There is no difference. And two things, here the apostle, or Paul says, shows the purpose of the law, and then he examines it. And then he shows us that justification is alone through Christ alone, through faith alone. And up to this point, neither Jew or law or faith had ever been mentioned before, except when he said, I destroyed the faith. And they said he destroyed the faith that came out of it. And when he talks about the faith that he wants destroyed, now he preaches, he's talking about the analogy of the faith, what we actually believe, not our personal faith. But now look what he says here. The apostle brings in faith. He brings in the law face to face. And in doing this, we're brought to the issue of justification. And what is justification? And how is it obtained? By Christ alone or by law? By law and Christ? look what apostles the Apostle says here in verse 15 and he says you know he says you could you know you really made a mess out of things Peter you to be blamed and he says we the Jews live as do Jews we who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles now what does he mean by this he was Jewish born Jewish bred and All Jews are brought up under the law, brought up to observe and revere the law of Moses. Now when we're talking about the law of Moses, we're talking about every ritual, every dietary law. We're not talking about Ten Commandments. We're talking about every sacrifice, all the altars, the priesthood, every feast day, every Sabbath day, every holy day, and all the things that they thought was the greatest thing that they could possibly have. And he says, we were Jews born and bred. We're Jews by nature. He said, over in Philippians, he said, I was a Pharisee of Pharisees. When you talk about a Pharisee, I was a Pharisee of the Pharisees. They thought they was something. I was above them all. Above many, my equal in my thought. And oh my, they was raised in their heritage, in their culture, their custom, and their habit from childhood. Oh my. The Jews based their salvation on Moses and all the sacrifice. I heard somebody say one time that they had 633 different laws that they have to keep. And then our Lord said that they added some to it because they weren't satisfied because there wasn't enough to it. How would you like to figure out 633 things that you had to do to be justified before God? Not 631, not 632, 633. How would you like to face that? Huh? I don't even like facing myself, much less 633 things that I have to do. I'd hate to go by their dietary laws. That means I couldn't eat sausage, I can't eat bacon, I can't eat ham. I can't eat any of those things because the Jews can't do it. I love fish, but the Jews can't eat fish. I love shrimp, but the Jews can't eat shrimp. They can't do it. If it's got a scale on it, they ain't allowed to have it. And I'll tell you what, every time they sin, they had to automatically go get something to suffer a sacrifice for themselves. And then he says, we're not sinners of the Gentiles. He says, we're not sinners or raised as sinners as the Gentiles. Now look what he says over here in Ephesians. Look over here in Ephesians chapter, I think it's chapter two. Read over to your right in Ephesians chapter two. Look what he says here in verse 11 and 12. Chapter two, verses 11 and 12. Wherefore remember, now he's talking to the Ephesians, these are Gentile people. Wherefore remember that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, that's what you are by nature, who are called uncircumcision or unclean by that which is called the circumcision, the Jews, the circumcision made in the flesh by hands, that at that time you were without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise which they had, having no hope, and without God in the world." But now look what he says in verse 13. But now, this makes a difference. But now, in Christ Jesus, you were far off. You know how He brought us close to Himself? By the blood of Christ. Brought us right up to Him. Brought us right up to Him. And oh my, if we were, you know, when our Lord Jesus Christ, Simon, the Pharisee, invited him for dinner one time, invited him to come and eat. And he's sitting there eating at Simon's table, and they reclined at a table, and he's sitting there eating, and Mary, Mary came in. And she got down at Christ's feet, and she began to weep. She began to cry. Hears lots and lots of tears, and they fell all over his feet. And then she took her hair, and it was so long, which was her glory, and she dried his feet off. But you know what Simon said? If this man were a prophet, he would know what manner of woman this is, a sinner. That was the awfulest thing for a Pharisee and a Jew to do is have anything to do with a sinner. I was a sinner. And they called them transgressors of the law of Moses. I want to show you something. I just saw this today. Look over in John chapter 9 with me. John's Gospel chapter 9. I was looking at this today. Thought this is what he's talking about, Jews by nature. You know, this is the story where the man that was born blind, Christ opened his eyes. Well, the Pharisees, it upset them to no end. It bothered them. Called him a sinner, give God the praise, call Christ a sinner. And you know, that's the unpardonable sin. When you attribute something that Christ does, flesh and as a sinner, then you blaspheme the Holy Ghost. You blaspheme what Christ has done. You blaspheme Christ's work. You blaspheme Christ Himself. And that's what they did. And oh, look what it says down here in verse, let's see, in verse 26, look what he said. No, in verse 25. He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not. One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see. Then they said to him again, What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes? He said, I answered them, I've told you already, and you did not hear. Wherefore would you hear it again? We also be his disciples? Then they reviled him and said, Thou art his disciples. but we are Moses' disciples. The man, and we know that God spoke unto Moses as for this fella, we don't even know where he's from. That's how they thought about Christ. And if you think they thought that about Christ just because he fellowshiped and saved sinners, you imagine what they'd think about people like us, people like us. And oh my, And the law was given to the Jews only. And let me tell you something. The only thing we had to do with in the law is the Ten Commandments. We, God never gave us the law. We don't have those ceremonies. We don't have those rituals. They were never, never required of a Gentile, never required of us. The only thing we're required of is the Ten Commandments. And that's why he said he wrote them on our hearts. And neither our conscience will meanwhile accuse or excuse us. And a fella told me, he said, what do y'all, how do y'all discipline the church? And I said, you know, committing adultery and lying and all that kind of stuff. I said, I knew that stuff was wrong when I was lost. You know how I knew I was lost? Because my conscience told me what was wrong. And my conscience, if I do something, it would excuse me of it or condemn me of it. And God wrote that law on the Gentiles' hearts. We know lying was wrong when we was a boy. We know stealing was wrong. We know abusing our parents and being rebels against our parents and demanding our rights. We didn't know all that stuff was wrong. We know it wasn't right. And our nature is such a state that I've said it so many times, if your parents was to leave and say, now, go all over the house, but don't go in that room right there, and don't get in that dresser. They'll get in that room, and they'll get in that dresser the minute you get down the road. Why is that? Because we know what's wrong. And we've gotten, and I'm telling you again, the only thing that we've ever had to deal with is the Ten Commandments, the moral law, what they call the moral law. But there's never given any of those Sabbath days, holy days, feast days, dietary laws, we've never had to deal with any of those, never have. And the law was given to the Gentiles only, and that's why the Jews despise Gentiles, they're given to the Jews only. And I, Paul, was a law keeper until Christ made known unto him. After the righteousness of the law, I was blameless until, until. And he says, now, there's only one thing I want to know. I want to know Christ. I want to win Christ. I want to be found in Christ. And I want to have his righteousness, not my own. I won't, that's what I won't. He went from being a Pharisee to bound to Christ. All right, now look what else he says down here. In verse 16, we who are Jews by nature, not sinners as the Gentiles, not heathen as the Gentiles. Then look what he says, knowing that a man justified, verse 16, by the works of the law. We know this. We know that a man is not justified by the works of the law. But by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not justified by the works of the law. For no flesh shall be justified by the works of the law. And there's these works of the laws, the things that I told you about. And oh my, and there's different ways that we define the word law. We use it in a lot of different ways. There's the natural laws, the law of gravity, laws enacted by Congress, but law in the scriptures means several things. And the Old Testament Scriptures, it reveals everything. Isaiah 8, 20 says, if it's not according to this law, according to this Word, that's because there's no light in them. And Paul, look over in 1 Corinthians with me, chapter, I believe it's chapter 14 maybe, in verse 21. And you know how many people there are, they're still trying to keep the law. When Joe Terrell first started going up, and everybody first started going up to Iowa, up in Iowa, they have what they call Netherland Reformed, and Dutch Reformed. And you talking about law keepers, they would come in your house and examine you in your house. And if they found anything wrong with you, And you think about somebody superior enough and feels good about their enough to come into your house and sit in your house and examine you in your house and tell you what you can have and what you cannot have, what you can wear and what you cannot wear. And then when they find out that you've done something that they don't approve of, then you don't get to take the Lord's table, because you're not worthy. How would you like somebody to do that that way? And then if they find the television, they'll dethrone you, put you out. You think they ain't still law keepers? Lots of them. Lots of them. That's why James says Moses is priest every Sabbath day. Moses is still priest. But look what he said here. First Corinthians 1421. What did I say? 1421. Yes. And look what he says. In the law it is written. Talking about the scriptures. This is out of Isaiah. In the law it is written. with men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people and yet for all that that will and yet for all that will they not hear me saith the Lord I'm gonna bring somebody speak to them in a language that's what happened on their Pentecost but now back over here in Galatians 2 we know we know we know There's some things we know. We know that the law of Moses, the law of the Ten Commandments was given on Sinai. And it came with thunder and lightnings and roaring. And he said, if anybody come even close to this mountain, kill them. God said, I'm so holy. I'm so righteous. I live on this mountain here. And the whole mountain thundered and shook. And he said, if anybody goes past that, oh my. And then we had, like I just said, I told you about our conscience, the moral principles that God put us in us. And there's several other laws mentioned in the scriptures. There's the law of sin and the law of death. You know when that started? When Adam sinned, the law of sin came in. And because of the law of sin, death came right along with it. Law of sin and death. And then there's the law of faith. He says this, he said, where's boasting then? Where's our boasting then? He said, you know, where's our boasting? When they start, Paul start preaching the grace of God. Where's our boasting then? By works? No! No, not at all. It's excluded. Works is excluded. How we, how we justified it. By faith in Christ. By faith in Christ. Oh my. And then there's the law of Christ himself. Oh my. Look what he said over here in Galatians 6, 2. And that's the law of love. There's a law of love. There's a law of faith. There's a law of so many. And these mean principles. Look what he says in verse 2 of Galatians 6, 2. bear ye one another's burdens, and look what he said, and so fulfill the law of Christ. What does that, now, Lord, mean when he says, by this shall every man know you're my disciples, because you'll have love one to another? That's how we're going to know. And then, oh, my, James talked about the royal law. But he says back here in verse 16, He says, we know that no justification is by the law. There's no way to be justified by keeping any law, by keeping the Ten Commandments, by moral principles. No way in the world can a man be justified by the law. And look what he says. You know, we know this from the law itself. You know why? Because it requires perfect obedience. Look what it says here, Galatians chapter 3. No, just 3.10. Look what it says over here. You know, the law requires, we know that we're not just, because the law itself requires perfect obedience. Look what he said in verse 10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse, for it is written, Deuteronomy 27, for it is written, curse it. is everyone that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." What he means is, boy, you've got to keep it all. You've got to keep it all. And I tell you, it requires perfect and perpetual obedience. The first time you break it, if you offend in one, you offend in all. And we know from the gospel which clearly states that we're complete in Christ. We're complete in Christ. We know that a man's not justified by the works of God, because we're complete in Christ. We're perfect in Christ. God made Christ unto us wisdom, righteous, sanctification, and redemption. And I'll tell you another reason why we know justification by the law, not by being good, not by saying, I'm keeping the Ten Commandments. No, no, no. We know from the gospel that it tells us that we're complete in Christ. And we know this from experience. We know this from our own experience. We have been convinced completely and fully and absolutely of the insufficiency of a human righteousness. We know that in this flesh dwells no good thing, nothing. And all of our righteousness is ours as a filthy rag. Oh, my. And we know, and look what else he says, I tell you, we know that we're justified by the faithfulness of Christ. Ain't that what he says? We're not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ. We're justified, what it means by this, by the faithfulness of Christ. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ, we sang the other day, I believe it was last Sunday, we sang, great is thy faithfulness, great, great is thy faithfulness. You know, Christ is the faithful and true witness is what he's called. He was faithful. to his father. He is faithful to his God. He was faithful and obedient in every way to his father. He is faithful to this word. Every jot and tittle of it, he kept the word. And I'll tell you, he took the Old Testament law and showed them that how that they thought there's going to be justified and showed them from the scriptures. In the Sermon on the Mount, he showed them so many times that this is what you all been taught all your life. But I'm telling you, this is what it really means. And he obeyed this word, he fulfilled this word, he was faithful to this word. The words that I speak unto you, They are life, spirit, and they're alive. Oh. He that heareth my word and believes on me has everlasting life. Oh, my. And then he was faithful to the law. You know, when he was born, they took him the eighth day and circumcised him. And then they took him at 40 days and offered him to the Lord as a firstborn from the womb. And our Lord Jesus Christ was 12 years old. And his mother and dad, they went up to Jerusalem for one of the feasts. And they were going back. And our Lord Jesus Christ sat there, 12 years old, teaching the doctors and the lawyers and all them, making them out. He just confounded them when he was 12 years old. And oh, his mother and daddy thought he was with some of the kin folks. They turned around, went a whole day's journey. Turned around, come back, and said, son, we have sought thee sorrowing. You've broken our hearts. We scared us to death. Our hearts were scared, and we were worried. We were just sorrowing over you. And our Lord said, wish ye not that I be about my father's business, 12 years old. That's what we're talking about. We're justified by His faithfulness. You know, faith, I love the idea and the truth that God gives us faith, gives us repentance. But faith did not die for me, Christ did. Faith did not obey the Word of God perfectly like Christ did. Faith did not obey God like Christ did. Faith did not fulfill the law like Christ did. And I'll tell you what, that's why we're justified by the faith of Christ, the faithfulness of Christ. You know, when he talks about our obedience unto righteousness, you know obedience unto righteousness is one that we look at over there in 1 Corinthians? It's the obedience of Christ. And I'll tell you, that's That's as plain as the nose on your face to me. And oh, now look what he goes on to say. We know we are justified by that faith. Now when we're talking about justified by the faith of Christ, not by the works of the law. We're justified by Christ and by the faith of Christ. You know why? He's the author of our faith. And he's the one that's going to finish our faith. He's going to see that it's complete. One of these days, we won't need faith anymore. That's what Paul said. That's what Peter said. He said, you know, faith has an end. Faith has an end. There comes a time when faith don't need to be. You don't need it anymore. But I tell you, there'll never be a time that we won't need Christ. When we get into eternity, we're still going to need Christ. We're still going to worship Christ. We're still going to trust Christ. We're still going to love Christ. We're still going to have him as the author and finisher. He's done it all, is what I'm saying. And I'll tell you what. And faith makes Christ its object. I mean, every time they hear the gospel, every time they feel like they're doing something wrong or saying something wrong or their flesh gets, you know, they turn around and look to Christ. Christ, give me mercy. Christ, give me grace. Christ, give me faith. Christ, hold me up. Christ, don't let me fall. Mm. Oh my, look what, look in, keep Galatians, and look in Romans chapter eight. Look in Romans chapter eight. I'm probably taking too long. I know I'm taking too long, but. Romans chapter eight, look what he says over here. The cross says in verse 33. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? Listen to this. It is God that justifies. Who in the world can condemn us? And this is what he deals with. This is where our faith comes to. It's Christ that died. Oh, he died to put away our sin. It's Christ that died. Not only did he die, but he's risen again. And oh, I tell you what, he's sitting at God's right hand, and he's interested in us in this world. All right, back over here now. Oh, we're justified, God, by His will, by the merits, by the blood of Christ, and it's called the faith of Christ because He's the author of it and the object of it. And then look back over in verse 16. Look what he says down the middle of the verse. Even we have belief. Even we. And the Galatians were Gentile. Even we. Who's he talking about? Even we Jews. And everybody that, even we have believed in Jesus Christ. Peter on the day of Pentecost, you know what he said? Sirs and brothers, what shall we do? believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and repent and believe the gospel. Oh my. And Paul when he is talking about he says we're not justified but through the through this man this man is being priest is the forgiveness of sins and by him you can be justified from all things from which you could not by the law of Moses. Oh my. We've been justified by the faith of Christ, not by works of the law. And I tell you what, when you start dealing with law, no flesh, no flesh works any way that you try to do it. By flesh shall no flesh be justified. And then he asked this question. This is one of them things that you just wonder what in the world it means, but yet I think I can explain it a little bit. 17. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, and we therefore, we ourselves are also sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. Now you got to go back to what Peter did. That's what he's saying. Peter, by your action, by your action, You're saying that Christ is the minister of sin to them Gentiles, but not to us. He's the minister of sin to them people, but not to us. We got the law. And by just doing that, he's saying that these Jews has got more than the Gentiles has. And so you're making Christ to be the minister of sin by that. God didn't know him, but look what he says. And oh, if we ourselves are found sinners like you treated those Gentiles, is therefore Christ a minister of sin? No. He came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. He said, God forbid that be impossible. Christ is the Savior from sinners. But what Peter did, he is saying that Christ He has to do something special for the Gentiles because these Jews has got something more than they do. And oh my, I'm going to show you this over in Luke 15 and then I'm done. Look in Luke 15. I want you to see this. 15, one and two. Oh my. He says, we're like the Gentiles without law. Look what he says. Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, this man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. What they accused him of is our gospel. This man receive us sinners and eat with them. That's what the enemies say. That's our hope. That's our salvation. That's our gospel. Go through there and find out what all them enemies said and everything they said about Christ is our hope. All right. Our father. Blessed be your name. Oh, Lord, I'm so grateful, so grateful you saved us from them works of the law that we tried so hard to keep for so many years. Tried to be justified by the flesh. Tried to do works that would make ourselves acceptable to you. Oh, bless your holy name. You brought to us the faith of Christ brought to us and showed us his faithfulness, his obedience, his righteousness. And Lord, we count ours but dung, count it garbage, count it filthy. Oh, we want Christ. We need Christ. We want him and we need him. And we thank you that you've made him real, alive and vital to us. And he's the author. He's the one that the author of our faith. And bless his holy name, one of these days he'll finish it and bring it to a conclusion. And we'll go be with him forever and ever. God bless these dear saints of God as they go home this evening, see them safely home. Give them a good night's rest. Bless them and encourage them. And help us to love one another and pray for one another for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. There's just something about that name. Master. Savior. Jesus. Like the fragrance after the rain Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Let all heaven and earth proclaim Kings and kingdoms We'll all pass away, but there's something about that name.