Savior, like a shepherd lead
us, But we need Thy tender care. In Thy pleasant pastures feed
us, For our use Thy foals prepare. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us Thine we are. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
Thou hast bought us Thine we are. We are Thine, do Thou befriend
us, Be the guardian of our way. Keep thy flock from sin, defend
us, seek us when we go astray. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
hear, oh hear us when we pray. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
hear, oh hear us when we pray. Thou hast promised to receive
us, poor and sinful though we be. Thou hast mercy to relieve
us, grace to cleanse and power to free. Blessed Jesus, blessed
Jesus, early let us turn to Thee. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
early let us turn to Thee. Early let us seek Thy favor,
early let us do Thy will. Blessed Lord and only Savior,
with Thy love our bosoms fill. Blessed Jesus, blessed Jesus,
? Thou hast loved us, love us still ? ? Blessed Jesus, blessed
Jesus ? ? Thou hast loved us, love us still ? Be saved, we'll
sing hymn number 337. 337. Teach me thy way, O Lord, teach
me thy way. My God in great support, teach
me thy way. Help me to walk or ride, more
by faith, less by sight. Lead me with heavenly light. Teach me thy way. When I am sad at heart, teach
me thy way. When earthly joys depart, teach
me thy ways. In times of dire distress, in
failure or success, teach me thy way. When doubts and fears arise,
teach me thy way. When storms o'erspread the skies,
teach me thy way. Shine through the clouds. Through sorrow, toil, and pain,
make thou my pathway plain. Teach me thy way. Long as my life shall last, teach
me thy way. Prayer my Lord be cast, teach
me thy way. Until the race is run, until
the journey's done, until the crown is won, teach me thy way. Romans 16, we'll finish up Romans
tonight, God willing. Finish it up. I'm gonna read just a few of
these beginning verses and then move down to verse 17. I commend
unto you Phoebe, our sister, which is a servant of the church,
which is at Shingria, that you receive her in the Lord as becometh
saints and that you assisted her in whatsoever business you
have need of. She has been a secure of many
and of myself also. Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my
helpers in Christ Jesus, who have for my life laid down their
own necks unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the
churches of the Gentiles. Likewise, greet the church that
is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Apennines,
who is the firstfruits of Asia. Greet Mary, who bestowed on us
much labor. Salute Andronicus and Junia,
my kinsmen, my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the apostles,
who also were in Christ before me. Now, down in verse 17, Now I beseech you, brethren,
mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them. For they that
are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly,
and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
For your obedience has come abroad unto all. I am glad, therefore,
on your behalf, but yet I would have you wise unto that which
is good and simple concerning evil. And the God of peace shall
brew Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you. Amen. Timotheus, my workfellow,
and Lucius, and Jacob, and Socipiter, and my kinsmen salute you. And
then verse 23, Gaius, my host. First time we hear him mentioned
in verse Corinthians 1. He had a church in his house.
And the whole church saluteth you. Erastus, the chamberlain
of the city, saluteth you. brother. The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. now to him that is of power
to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of
Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which
was kept secret since the world began, but is now made manifest
by the scriptures of the prophets according to the commandment
of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the
obedience of faith. To God only wise, be glory through
Jesus Christ forever. Amen. Our blessed Lord Jesus, who is
our great God and Savior, the glorious Redeemer, the glorious
Savior, who we look for your appearing. And when you appear,
Lord Jesus, we'll be with you forever. We thank you for your
precious word. There's nothing like your word
on this earth, and not anything remotely like it. And it's got
such life, and power, and comfort, and assurance, and instruction,
correction. And Lord, we thank you for it.
And I thank you for those that's gathered out this evening, for
those who are listening, those who are watching. God bless them. Lord, bless our time together.
And Lord, enable me to Open the Scriptures to our understanding.
Give me the wisdom, the understanding, the Holy Spirit to deal with
these things. And Lord, we pray. Pray for our
brethren that are sick, who are weak, who are frail. Pray for
Brother Doc again, for our dear friend Doc and his wife. Pray
for Dave and his wife. And Lord, we know that you'll
restore them. They'll be strong again. If it
pleases you and brings glory to you, forgive us of everything
that's unlike you. Please have mercy upon our families,
sons and daughters, children, grandchildren, and
even our great-grandchildren who are growing so fast. Forgive
us, O Lord, of everything that's unlike you. Have mercy on us,
please, for Christ's sake. Amen. Number 26 in our course book. Number 26 in the course book. Come ye sinners poor and needy,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore. Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity, love, and power. Come ye thirsty, come and welcome,
God's free bounty glorifies. True belief and true repentance,
every grace that brings you nigh. Let not conscience make you linger,
nor of fitness calmly dream. All the fitness ye requireth
is to fill your need of him. Come ye weary, heavy laden, lost
and ruined by the fall. If you tarry till you're better,
you will never come at all. I will arise and go to Jesus. He will embrace me in his arms. in the arms of my dear Savior. Oh, there aren't 10,000 charms. As I read these verses tonight,
you notice that he talked about a lot of saints, a lot of people. He talked about some women, commended
those women greatly. Women had a notable presence
in the scriptures. Several of them did. Mary Magdalene,
Mary the mother of James, Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus
Christ, Martha, so many women, and here he's talking about how
these, and the first thing he said about Phoebe was, our sister,
our sister. And look what he said about her,
as a servant, she's a servant. She is a servant. That's what
she is, she's a servant. And Priscilla and Aquila, first
time we meet them is in Acts. When Apollos came preaching and
all he knew about was the baptism of John, Priscilla and Aquila
took him aside and taught him the way of God more perfectly.
And he learned, all he knew about is John. And they took John and
started at John and start preaching unto him the Lord Jesus Christ
and what the gospel was. And I tell you, these people
were blessings, blessings to the Apostle Paul, blessings to
the churches where they were. And I tell you what, he always
talks about, he said down verse three, my helpers in Christ,
my helpers in Christ. And oh, not only that, but look
what else they've done, who have for my life, for my life, laid
down their own necks. They put their selves in jeopardy.
their lives in jeopardy, unto whom I not only give thanks,
but also all the churches of the Gentiles." And they were
helpers in Christ. And, oh, they were a blessing
to Him and a blessing to many others, and laborers together
with Him. They were laborers together with
Him in the Gospel. And what a blessed thing it is
to be a laborer in the Gospel with anybody. with anybody. I've often said if the Lord was
to raise somebody else up and I got to sit down, I'd be the
best church member they ever had. You talk about praying for
them and encouraging them and commenting on every message,
that's the best I ever heard. That's the best I ever heard.
Henry Mahan used to say that about his son Paul, said about
a lot of preachers, said, boy, that's as good as, I never heard
any better. If he'd do that, what an encouragement somebody
say that to you. But oh, he would have that. And
then, you know, all praise and all glory for all the things
that these people were to the Apostle Paul and for all the
churches that they were involved in. He says that, you know, all
of us are nothing. It's God that gives the increase.
God's the only one that can do anything for us. He's the only
one that whatever gifts and whatever grace we have, they're the Lord. They're the Lord. And I'll tell
you another thing he said about all these people, those that
are in the Lord are those that are in Christ. He said they're
in the Lord or else they're in Christ. And that's where everybody
is one way or another if they're a believer. And I tell you, Paul
is, you know, he talked about being grateful one for another.
He said, I'm so grateful for the saints of God, grateful for
what God has done for them. I give thanks for them. And oh
my, you know it, whatever we have, God gave it to us. Whatever
gifts we have, whatever grace we have, it's of the Lord. And
it's always, always commendable. to be grateful for one another
and to love one another. And that's why Paul's talking
about all these people. And you know, I read how many
he mentioned here, and if I'm not mistaken, it was 14 or 15
people he mentioned. Now, you think about your name.
What if your name was in the Bible, is written in the Bible? Would that be a blessing to you?
These folks are gone. They'll never read their name.
They read their name when it was written to them, but they
read their name, but in the scriptures. But I tell you, we're to love
one another, and every work of faith and labor of love is saying,
Paul's saying to these people, I love you, I appreciate you,
I appreciate your faithfulness, I appreciate your faithfulness
unto our Lord, and to me, and to me. You know, it's a wonderful
thing, it's a wonderful thing to be grateful for one another,
grateful for one another. and to one another, to one another. You know, for their work of faith
and for their labor of love, that's what they did for their
labor of love. I appreciate you. Look what Paul
said over here at 2 Timothy chapter 1 and verse 16, talking about the house of Onesimus,
and he named all these people off here. He talked about his
own kinsmen. He talked about his own kinsmen
back here in Romans 16. But look what he said here in
verse 16, verse 2 Timothy 1, 16. The Lord give mercy unto
the house of Onesimus, for he oft refreshed me, often came
and was a refreshing to my heart, to my soul, to my mind, And was
not ashamed of my chain, not ashamed of me being held in prison. But when he was in Rome, he sought
me out very diligently and found me. And this is what he said,
the Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord
in that day. That's when we really need it,
in that day. And in how many things he ministered
unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well. Oh, how he's talked
about this man. He said, he sought me out. I
was in Rome. I was in jail. He wasn't ashamed.
And he come to visit me and refresh me and took care of me when I
was in Ephesus. So I'll tell you to be commended. But still, let me say this. We
got our names. They got their names written
in the Bible. They got their names written in the scriptures.
But we're better off than they are. You know why? Because our
names are written in heaven, and they're written in the book
of life. I'd rather have my name written in the book of life than
to have my name in the Bible. Oh, you know, Christ put our
name in the book of life. And once it was there, listen,
our names was in the book of life before you and I ever came
into this world. Before God ever put Adam in the
Garden of Eden and he fell, God had our names in the Book of
Life, because it was the Book of Life of the Lamb, slain from
the foundation of the world. Oh, my. And I'll tell you something
else about these saints of God. The people of God are also an
affectionate people, affectionate people. Look what he says down
here in verse 16. Salute one another with a holy
kiss. The churches of Christ, Romans
16, 16. Salute one another with a holy
kiss, the churches of Christ salute you. God's people are
affectionate people. Four times, four times, he exhorts
us to greet one another with a holy kiss. He calls it a holy
kiss. And that's distinguished from
anything that would have to do with his flesh. Peter called
it a kiss of charity, a kiss of love. And oh, he calls it
a holy kiss. And I tell you what, and you
know, it's common among relatives to kiss one another. My son,
bless his heart, he's 54 now. And every time we get around
one another, we go kiss him one another. And one time he got
up, and he was just a little boy, he got up to go to bed,
and he, of course, he come and kissed me. And then he went around
and kissed about everybody in the living room because he was
asleep. He kissed all the preachers that were sitting there and everybody.
But, you know, that's why we're to greet one another with a holy
kiss. And what's a holy kiss? It's
something that God gives you as an affection and a love for
one another, and there's nothing wrong with kissing a brother
or sister on the cheek. Not a thing in the world wrong
with that. And I've been doing that for years. And I'll tell
you what, and a lot of people will ridicule it and criticize
it, but oh, there's a genuine, a genuine affection between believers. And they really practice it in
the early, early church. And you know what makes us so
precious to one another, have great affection for one another,
and why we genuinely love one another is because we all have
the same doctrine. We all have a common doctrine.
And I'll tell you, God's people have a deeper affection for one
another than the natural people could ever have, ever have. It'd be impossible for them to
have a genuine affection like we do. And I do know this, if
a person's a stranger to the affection that believers have
one for another, they may not have the love of Christ in them. LORD SAID, THIS IS THE COMMANDMENT,
NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU, THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER HOW
MUCH AS I HAVE LOVED YOU. AND BY THIS SHALL ALL MEN KNOW
THAT YOU ARE MY DISCIPLES. HOW? BY THE LOVE YOU HAVE ONE
TOWARD ANOTHER, ONE TOWARD ANOTHER. NOW, LET'S START HERE IN VERSE
17 AND GO THROUGH THE REST OF THIS CHAPTER. Now, I beseech you, brethren.
The last time we heard this, I beseech you, brethren, is in
Romans 12, 1. He said, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies
of God. And here he says, I beseech you.
I implore you. I beseech you. And he, again,
he calls them brethren. He calls them brethren. He's
not, you know, this epistle's written to the Roman believers,
the Roman church at Rome. And what he's saying is, mark
them, pay attention to them. And if somebody comes and causes
divisions and causes offenses, contrary to the doctrine which
you have learned, avoid them. Watch out for them, stay away
from them, avoid them. Because if you don't, they'll
end up talking to you and troubling you and bothering you. And what
he's talking about, be on guard. You better watch out now for
those who create dissension and division among you. And there's
people that do that. There's people that do that.
I was talking to Todd today, and when I was with Tim James,
I preached on 2 Corinthians 5, 21 out in North Carolina about
10 days ago. And you know, when you deal with
2 Corinthians 5.21, God made him to be sin who knew no sin.
How in the world can you explain and deal with what Christ is
to be made sin? Only God can do that. But that
makes me stand in awe and wonder. That's one of the things. How
do you explain God who is manifest in the flesh, God who is eternal,
God who is Christ who is equal with God. How do you explain
him being made sin? How do you explain that? It makes
me stand in awe and wonder. He had no sin, he did no sin,
he never had sin in his whole life, and he still didn't have
any sin on the cross. The only sin he had was what
God charged to him from us. And he died because of that sin
that was on him. And oh my. And I tell you people,
Tim said, I know a lot of men that still argue over 2 Corinthians
521. Always argue about it. Always
debating about it. Always trying to tell them what
it means. But oh, I know a particular pastor
that if you ever talk to him, the first thing he'll ask you,
what is your view on 2 Corinthians 521? cause division over one
verse of scripture cause dissension over one verse of scripture and
oh my if they're if they they cause dissension and opposed
to the doctrine and teaching that you've been taught If you've
been taught the gospel, if God's been pleased to teach you the
gospel of the grace of God, if God's been pleased to show you
that you're in need of Christ all day, every day of your life,
then you are blessed of God. And don't let anybody ever bring
anything contrary to the doctrine that you've been taught. And
I tell you, and he's also talking about everything that he wrote
in this epistle to these people. And here's some of the things
that he taught. And this is some of the things that we won't let
nobody interfere with it. No flesh is justified by the
law. Nobody is justified by the law. How are they justified? Freely
by the grace given us in the Lord Jesus Christ and by faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. righteousness. No man's got a
righteousness of his own. The only righteousness a person
can have in this world is the righteousness that God gives
us in Christ. And oh, my. And it's never, never
by words. Abraham believed God, and God
said, You're a righteous man, Abraham. And when you believe
God, God said, You're a righteous man. You're a righteous man.
And then he said also this, he said, here's one of those points
of doctrine. Reckon yourselves to be dead. Dead to what? To sin. Dead to sin. And alive under
God in Christ. And oh, the foundation, here's
another thing, the foundation of our hope is in the sovereign
grace of God. Ain't that what He said? It's
not of him that willeth, it's not of him that runneth, but
of God that showeth mercy. children not being yet born,
neither have done any good or evil that the purpose of God
according to election might stand, God said, I'll have mercy on
whom I'll have mercy. I'll have compassion on whom
I'll have compassion. Oh, my. The only foundation of
our hope is the sovereign grace of God and sovereign mercy. And oh, I tell you. And you know
how faith comes? You know how faith comes to a
believer when God saves him, and how it keeps coming to him
after God saves him? Faith cometh by the preaching
of the gospel. Faith comes by hearing, hearing,
hearing. And I, when he says you're hearing,
I mean, that word hearing means also understand what you're hearing,
understand it. And oh my, and then he talked
about charity. Houston read this in our men's
meeting last Sunday night. He read all of chapter 13 of
1 Corinthians. And he talked about charity,
and he talked about love. And he says, you give love to
the Jew and to the Gentile, to the weak and the strong. And
I'll tell you what, remember last week, a couple of weeks
ago, I said, follow after, follow after. those things that make
for peace. Follow things that'll make peace.
For unity, make things for unity. And for edification, build one
another up in the faith. And if anybody comes to teach
contrary to these things and so many other things, avoid them.
Avoid them. Shun their ministry. Shun their
company. Shun their life. Just shun them. And then look what he says in
verse 18. For they that are such that cause
division and offenses curatory to the doctrine which you've
learned, for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ,
but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive
the hearts of the simple. The first thing you'll notice
about them is, is that they does not serve Christ. Christ is the
glory of Christ, and Christ is not precious to them. Christ,
they don't serve the Lord Jesus Christ. They don't worship the
Lord Jesus Christ. What do they do? Paul told them
over in Philippians, he said, whose God is their belly. And
that's what these, your belly, it means the lust of your body. You're seeking something to get
something to yourself that'll profit you some way, somehow. And oh my, they seek not the
glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, they don't seek the good of his
church. Oh no, they come along sow seeds of dissension and division. And look what he says, by good
words, good words, and all that word there means, oily words,
words. Holy, oh. And they come along here in fair
speeches. They come along with holy words
and reasonable criticism. Seem like, you know, somebody
come along, start criticizing something, say, well, that sounds
reasonable to me. Yeah, I think that may be right.
Oh, my. But unfortunately, when they
do that, they deceive the simple people who are not able to discern
their motives and their hypocrisy. If anybody does not seek the
glory of the Lord Jesus Christ more than anything else, then
there's something wrong, something very wrong. Me and Gabe was talking,
and I said, Gabe, I said, you know, the first thing, one of
the first things you learn when you learn the gospel, Is that
you make the glory of christ the glory of god to be the first
more thing foremost thing We preach the gospel and it's for
the glory of god first and foremost if anybody's saved after that
That's wonderful. That's good. That's I thank god
for it. But first and foremost god must
get all the glory He got to get the glory in making you know
who you are, making you know what you are, making you know
who Christ is, and making you know how God saves a sinner,
and He's the only one that can teach those things to you. And,
oh, they come along with their motives, their hypocrisy, and
look, they do it for their own belly. And what that means, they do
it for their own pride and their own recognition. And they feed
it, they feed it on their own belly. And oh my, when you hear
these fair speeches that divide the family of God, rebuke them,
avoid them, and mark those who make them. And I tell you, that's good sound
doctrine, that's what it is. And then look what he said about
these dear saints of God, verse 19. And he said, this is what
they heard about these believers over in Rome. For your obedience
is come abroad unto all. I am glad therefore on your behalf,
but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good and simple
concerning evil. Now their faith, you know, faith
affects our conduct and faith affects our walk. Faith affects
our manner of life. Faith affects how we view the
world. Faith affects how we treat one another. Faith affects how
we deal with the Word of God. And so this obedience that they're
talking about, it comes from faith. It comes from faith. And I'll tell you what, in this
here, oh my. We're not for the overruling
grace and power of our Lord Jesus Christ. God's people in this
world would never have any rest, never have any peace in this
world. But the Lord Jesus Christ rules and gives his people peace,
peace. Oh, my, and he talks about your
faith and your obedience abroad. Well, you know, their obedience
and faith, it went all over the world. And all the churches and
all the believers all over the world heard about those folks
at Rome. Heard about those folks at Rome. And, oh, he said, listen,
I'll tell you, and I'll rejoice over you. And look what he said,
I want you, I'd have you wise. I'm glad,
therefore, on your behalf. I'm thankful that your obedience
has come abroad unto all. I'm glad, therefore, on your
behalf. Yet, there's something I want you to understand. I want
you to watch this. I'd have you to be wise. I'd
have you to be able to discern under that which is good and
simple concerning evil. I want you to be wise. Our Lord
said, be wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove. I want you to be wise
under that which is good. I want you to understand that
which is good, and I want you to understand what's evil. He
said, I want you to be wise in these two things. And everybody
seems like they know what good is, but a lot of folks maybe
don't know what evil is. But that's what he's talking
about. And have you be simple, naive is what he's saying. Unaffected,
unsophisticated in the ways of evil and deceit. Don't use craftiness
in manipulating others. They're so unbecoming a believer,
so unbecoming a believer. And then look what he says here
in verse 20. Oh my, this is, I was reading
about this today. That means it's coming very quickly,
swiftly is what it means. And for, I don't care how long
we live, it's still gonna be very swiftly. And the God of
peace, the God of peace shall bruise
Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all. Amen. And now look at that where
it says, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Were it not for
the overruling power of our Lord and His grace, we'd never have
any rest or peace in this world. But the Lord Jesus rules His
people and He puts peace in the midst of His enemies. The battle's
the Lord, it's not ours. And the grace of our Lord be
with you. And oh my, he says in the God of peace. And he's
gonna bruise Satan under your feet shortly. Shortly, bruise
him, bruise him. And you know, look what our Lord
said over here. Keep Romans and look over in
John 1633. Look in John 1633. Look what
our master said over here. 1633 These things have I spoken unto
you That in me you might have peace not in the world You can't
have you our peace comes from Christ. He is our peace in the
world You're gonna have tribulation in the world. You're gonna have
trials in the world. You're gonna have trouble But
Bob be of good cheer. This is what he said. I'll overcome
the world I've already whipped the world. I've already beat
it. And that's what he says, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna take Satan and put him under your feet shortly. And
you know, back over here in our text, he said, the grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with you. And look what he says down in
verse 24. He mentions again, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
be with all of you. Amen. You know, we need, we need
grace a constant supply of grace. And Christ has to be the one
to give it to us. We need his grace that paid our
debt. We need his grace every moment
to believe. We need his grace to be able
to stand. We need his grace to be able
to live. We need grace to love. We need grace to persevere. And
we'll certainly need grace when we come to die. No wonder he
told Paul, my grace is sufficient for you right now, right now. Now look at these last three
verses. Oh, I love this. Look at a need
that we have. Now to him, now to him, God almighty,
power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching
of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery
which was kept secret since before the world." Oh, we all need this. We need to be established. Who's
the one that got the power to do that? God has the power to
do that. Christ has the power to do that.
To establish you. Establish you. Make you strong.
And then look what he said, because he says over in verse 27, to
God only wise. He's the wise God. He knows exactly
what we need and when we need it. And then look what this,
what it says there. Establish you according to my
gospel. You go back and listen to his
gospel. Listen to what he says about the gospel. And, you know,
the Gospel tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ did it all. He did it all, and He paid it
all. And, oh, the Gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ. Oh, that's how he establishes
us, by the gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ. And when he
talks about that mystery, that was the mystery of, well, God
was going to save the Gentiles and open the door to the Gentiles,
and it was kept mystery till God taught Paul about it. And
oh, this mystery. gospel being brought to the Gentile
for a bunch of dogs like us, but it's now made manifest. How? By the Scriptures, by the Bible,
by the Word of God, and the prophets. And why? How did it happen? According
to the commandment, God commanded this to do. According to the
commandment of the everlasting God. Oh, my. That's the voice that's going
to establish this. That's the one that gave us the gospel.
That's the one that brought Christ and the Lord Jesus to us. But
this message, this gospel, is according to the commandment
of the everlasting God. And listen to this, and now it's
been made known to all nations. What for? So that you will believe
and obey by the Lord Jesus Christ and come to Christ. And look
what he says, to God only wise, and here's where we are again,
be glory. Be glory, how? Through Jesus Christ forever
and ever. That's how God, our Lord Jesus
said, I came down from heaven not to do my will, but the will
of him that sent me. Father, glorify me with the glory
that I had with you before the world ever was. God's glorified
through Jesus Christ and the preaching of the gospel. Father, thank you. Blessed be
your holy name. We give thanks unto you. You're
the only wise God. And glory be to you. You're the
God that establishes us, strengthens us, settles us. You're the one
that taught us the gospel and brought us the gospel, that gospel concerning your son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, that you promised before by the holy prophets,
who is declared to be the son of God with power. And oh God,
we're not ashamed of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, because
in that blessed gospel, you showed us how righteous you are, How
righteous and glorious you are. And how you turned around and
revealed that righteousness to us in that very gospel. And saved
us through that gospel. Brought faith to us through that
preaching of the word. God blessed be your holy name.
We bless you and praise you and thank you. Oh Lord, while we
yet have breath and yet we have sense, we'll always praise you
and bless you. Thank you for your great mercy
and grace given us in Christ before the world began. Blessed
be your name. Amen. Amen. Well, I'll see you
Sunday, God willing.