Hezekiah was a king greatly,
greatly loved by the Lord. He started reigning as a very
young man. And then the king of Assyria
went on the war path and had a huge, huge army. And he destroyed
a lot of nations and a lot of kings. And he sent one of his
Generals, Sennacherib was the king, and he sent one of his
generals to tell Hezekiah, said, you just well give up now. You
just well give up, because there ain't been no nation able to
stand against us. We've destroyed every nation
that's come. We've destroyed all their gods. And Isaiah was the prophet at
this time. Isaiah was his prophet, and the
prophet in Israel. And he was a wonderful king.
And I want you to look over here in chapter 36. Let me show you
something in verse 1 through 5. This is the way it sets up. Rabshakeh, the captain, the general.
Look at these first five verses. Now it came to pass in the 14th
year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against
all the defense cities of Judah and took them. And the king of
Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem under King Hezekiah
with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of
the upper pool in the highway of the Fullersfield. Then came
forth Ahazekiah, sent men out to speak to him. Eliakim, Hezekiah's
son, which was over the house of Shabna, the scribe, and Joab,
Esau's son, the recorder. And Rapsha said unto them, say
ye now to Hezekiah, thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria,
what confidence is this wherein thou trustest? I say, sayest
thou, but they are but vain words. He's putting words in Hezekiah's
mouth. For I have counsel and strength
for war. That's what you're gonna say.
On whom now thou doest trust, that thou rebellest against me. So he sent this messenger, sent
this general to trouble them. And look what he says here in
verse 13 of chapter 36. Now this messenger from king
of Assyria, Then Rapture stood and cried with a loud voice in
the Jews' language and said, hear ye the words of the great
king, the king of Assyria. Thus saith the king, let not
Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver
you. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying
the Lord will surely deliver us. See, don't let Hezekiah make
you trust in God. These are some strong words.
And the Lord will surely deliver us, this city shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria. He said, don't believe
Hezekiah when he says you. Hearken not to Hezekiah, for
thus said the king of Assyria, make an agreement with me by
a present, and come out to me, and eat ye every one of his vine,
and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one of the
water of his own system. If you'll surrender to me, He
said, I'll let you live, I'll let you stay. So here's this
general, this captain, all these, comes with all these threatening,
blasphemous words. And they were troubling words.
Troubling words. Fearful words. Threatening words. Boastful words. Words that would
make anybody, I mean he had an army there with almost 200,000
men outside this place. And so here comes this great
warning, this great trouble, this great scary words that this
man has said, and he said it loud in the Jews' language so
they all could hear it. And don't trust in anything Hezekiah
can say to you. Don't believe your king. An old writer said, trouble has
been said to be the divine diet for the new man. And it is profitable. It is profitable. It don't taste good, but it's
profitable. But here's the cause of the trouble. Here's the cause
of the trouble. And it says in verse 14 here
of chapter 37. And Hezekiah received the letter
from the hand of the messengers and read it. And Hezekiah went
up unto the house of the Lord and spread it before the Lord. that sent him a letter. This king had sent him a letter.
It was a letter, only a letter. But this letter was a messenger
from Satan sent to bring him down, to affect him, to buffet
him, to put him in fear, to put him in anxiety, to put him in
worry. And all of God's people, all
of them, from the king down, receives this letter sometimes
from Satan himself. You keep Jeremiah, Isaiah, excuse
me, and look with me over in 1st, 2nd Corinthians, chapter
12. Look with me in 2nd Corinthians,
chapter 12. You know, everybody, we get these messengers occasionally. In fact, we often get them, Job
got a really bad letter. from the messenger of Satan.
And look what happens here. We all, I'll tell you, from all
of God's people, from the king, from everybody down, receives
these letters sometimes. And he received this messenger,
this letter. And it's just a letter. But look what Paul says here
in verse seven. He had been called up to the
third heaven and he came back down. And he had seen paradise,
he'd been up to paradise, that place where the Lord Jesus said
he'd take that thief off the cross and said, you'll go to
be with me in paradise. So he was there where the Lord
Jesus was and he got this great vision, this great thing that
happened to him. And he said, listen to what he
said in verse seven. And this is what happens, this
way man is, unless I should be exalted above measure through
the abundance of the revelation, Now he said, I'm subject to be exalted. I'm subject to think more of
myself than I really am. I'm more to have my head swelled
up and feel really good about myself, be full of pride. But
he said, lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance
of the revelations that was given to me. Now notice it says given
to me. Who gave it to him? God gave
it to him. God gave it to him. And look
what he says. There was given to me a thorn
in the flesh. Now whatever this thorn was,
we don't tell us. The messenger of Satan to buffet
me. Now listen to this. Lest I should
be exalted above measure. God's gonna keep us down. He's
not gonna let us It's like one fella got out of the pulpit one
day and somebody told him, said, boy, I believe that's the best
message I ever heard. And he said, I want to be the
first to tell you. He said, you're late. Satan's already told me.
And that's what happens to us. Our head gets big. And look,
look what he went on to say. From this thing, I asked the
Lord three times, three times, that it might depart from me.
And he said unto me, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going
to do it. You know why? My grace is sufficient for you.
You'd be exalted if I didn't do this to you. You'd think more
of yourself than you ought to think. You'd be a proud, arrogant
apostle if I didn't do this to you. And he says, my grace is
sufficient for you, and my strength is made perfect in your weakness.
And you know all of the Lord's people's gonna go through this.
Even our Lord Jesus Christ especially. Our Lord was tempted of Satan
40 days and 40 nights. How would you like, he didn't
eat nothing, drink nothing, and every day, every day, every day
of those 40 days and 40 nights, Satan himself, not a devil, not
a demon, Satan himself, went to our Lord every day and assaulted
Him, and assaulted Him, and assaulted Him, and assaulted Him. And so I tell you what, if it
could happen to our Master, And then he told Simon Peter, he
said, Simon, Simon was full of himself. He said, Lord, I'll
go to jail with you if you go into jail. And if you die, I'll
even die with you. And you know what? Oh, he was
feeling so good about himself. And our Lord said to him, Simon,
you know what's fixing to happen? Satan sought to sift you like
wheat. But I prayed for you. If I hadn't
have done that, your faith would have failed you sure as anything.
And so I tell you what, that's this thing that's gonna happen
to us. And oh, I tell you, and that's
why the apostle said, think it not strange concerning the fire
trial, which is to try you. Then he said, if it's necessary,
1 Peter 1, 5 said, if it's necessary, that you go through manifold
temptations and trials. He says that the trying of your
faith, being much more precious than gold, though it be tried
with fire, that much more precious than gold, that it may come forth
to the praise and glory and honor of Jesus Christ. That's what
God does. He gonna try his people. But
here's what happened to him. Go back over in our text now. Go back over in our text. I know
some people right now going through some tough, tough things, and
they always will. And what happened was, this was
an attempt to destroy his faith. And that's what Satan wants to
do. He wants to destroy somebody's faith. He's not out here in the
honky-tonks. He's not in bars. He's not in the drug trade, that's natural
to man. You know where he's operating
at? He's operating in the realm of religion. Every time you find
him in the scriptures, the first place you find him is he's deceiving
our mother Eve and lying to her. Next place you find him, he's
in heaven itself. And he said, I will, I will,
I will, I'll send him up the most high. God said, you won't,
and he throwed him down. And in the next place you find
him, he find him speaking to God over Job. So I tell you what,
every time you go to church, he goes with you. Every time
you open the Bible, he opens it with you. Every time you try
to pray, he's there trying to keep you from praying. I'm serious,
I mean listen, there's these spirits out here in this world
that they're there to keep us as far away from Christ as we
can, away from His Word, away from prayer, and everything else
is spiritual. And oh my, but this was an attempt
to destroy his faith. Look what it says back up here
in verse 10 of chapter 37. This is what this This messenger said, thus shall
you speak to Hezekiah, the king of Judah, saying, let not thy
God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be given into the hand of the king of Syria. He said, and
oh my, behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly. And you think you're
gonna be delivered? Have the gods of the nations
delivered them which my fathers have destroyed? As Goshen, Haran,
Reshep, and the children of Eden, which were in Tezla, sir? Where's
the king of Hamath, and the king of Arfat, and the king of the
city of Serebim, Hina, and Iva? So he's told him, wherever we've
been, we've destroyed every god, we've destroyed every king, we
have put him to shame. And oh my. And that's what he
said, now where's your God? He said, where was their God?
They didn't save them. And that's what they said to
David. They said, David, where's your God at? We got ours, we
hang him on this cross. We put him on the wall. We put
him in a picture. Put him on the back of our cars.
We put a crown of thorns on him. Put three crosses out in our
yard. Put three crosses in front of our church. We got to let
people know. Where's your God? David said,
listen, you carry yours with you wherever you wanna go. Then
he said, our God's in the heavens. And he hath done whatsoever he
pleased. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name be glory. And now listen, look over here
in Psalm 42 with me. Oh, have you ever experienced
this? Look in Psalm 42. See if you've ever experienced
this. Oh, my. Oh, it was an attempt
to say, oh, listen, don't trust your God, don't trust Ezekiel,
don't trust anybody. Because I'm going to get you.
No God's ever saved anybody yet. Where I've been, he said. But
look what David says here. He's talking to himself. Do you
ever talk to yourself? Listen to this, David's talking
to himself. He said, oh, why art thou cast
down, O my soul? He says to his soul, why art
thou cast down? Why is your soul hurting so bad? And look what he says, why art
thou disquieted in me? You're stirred up, there's no
peace, there's no quietness in me. And look what he goes on
to say, hope thou in God. For I shall yet, for I shall
yet, when this thing's over, I shall yet praise him for the
help of his countenance. And in the margin that says for
the help of his countenance, his presence, his salvation.
And then he said in verse six, oh my God, my soul is cast down
within me. Therefore I'm gonna remember
you. I'm gonna remember you from the land here and the land there
and the land over, even over up on the hills, I'm gonna remember
you. And so this was an attempt, this letter that he got, was
an attempt to destroy his faith. Don't trust in God. And it was
also to take away his inheritance, take away what God had blessed
him with. You know there in verse 13 he
says, where's all these kings at? In verse 12 and 13 he says,
where's all these nations, where's all these kings at now? He said,
I took their crowns, I took their nations. He said, you know what
I'm gonna do? I'm gonna take your crown off
of you. I'm gonna take your throne away from you. I'm gonna take
your dwelling place, I'm gonna take Jerusalem away from you.
Where are these kings? You think you're gonna stand
up against me? Nah, oh my. He said, I'm gonna take everything
that belongs to you. You think you got a throne? I'm
gonna get it. And oh my. And it also was to
bring him into bondage. You know, when we have these
things happen to us, it'll bring you into bondage, anxiety. You
say, well, believers don't have anxiety. If you ain't never had
any anxiety, bless your heart, I'm happy for you. I wonder how many of us here
take anti-anxiety tablets. Anti-depression pills. Fear,
anxiety and fear make him worry. Oh Lord, this king, he's outside. Look at that army out there.
Look at that army out there. Look how powerful they are. And everybody knows what he said,
he spoke in the Jews' language. And I tell you, when these troubles
come, they'll bring us into bondage, anxiety, and fear, and worry.
The enemy of our souls are laboring, laboring, to bring us, oh my,
to the same end. Our adversary, the devil, goes
around as a roaring lion, seeking who? He may devour. And they sent this letter to
Hezekiah. And he received that letter from
the hand of the messengers there in verse 14 again. Now this letter
may come in a beautiful, beautiful envelope. It may come, it's embossed
in this beautiful envelope. It may be a precious envelope. You start reading it and it's,
flowery and flattering, but then when you get to the
end of it, get halfway through it, get to what it's got to really
say, then it brings such bitterness, such bitterness. He that flattereth
his neighbor spreads a net for his feet. What did he do with
this then? What did he do? What do you think
this man's gonna do? You think he's gonna surrender?
You think he's gonna throw up his hands and I ain't nothing
I can do? You think, well, I guess I just will take what I've got
and go out there and throw myself on his mercy. No, no, what did
he do with it? Look what it says there in verse
14. And Hezekiah received the letter
from the hand, the message and read it. And Hezekiah went up
under the house of the Lord The first thing when he heard
this thing in verse one here of chapter 37, it came to pass
when King Hezekiah heard it that he went in his clothes, covered
himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. That's
where he went. When he got this letter, he went
under the house of the Lord. Oh my, and what did he do with
it? He took that letter and spread it out, laid it before the Lord. He unfolded that, took it out
of the envelope, and laid it out. Said, Lord! He's a loader! He's a messenger
from Satan! He's a great army! He's a great
enemy! He's a powerful person! He's
some powerful people! He spread it before the Lord.
He went into the house of the Lord. Oh my. This enemy said, well, we're
going to destroy his faith. He didn't even come close. He laid that letter before, he
spread it before the Lord. Oh, when you got troubles, when you
got heartaches, when you got fear and you ain't got anxiety
and things are going wrong, listen, take it to the Lord. Spread it
before the Lord. And this solemn act, this was
a solemn act. He went before the Lord himself. And this revealed his faith in
God Almighty. Trials are sent to prove our
faith, to prove it. God knows we got it. But every
once in a while, they don't think we got it. It's not like we'd
like for it to be, so he gonna prove it. He go, sometimes he'll
do it just to prove it to somebody else that you got it. Huh? Oh, listen. Circumstances don't make us what
we are. They reveal what we are. When
God puts you in a situation, and how do we react to that situation?
It's not the circumstances that makes you what you are. The circumstances
reveal what you are. You got a whole bunch of stuff
going around on you. How are you going to deal with
it? I've told you this before. Brother Henry Mann lost a son
in Vietnam. That had been over just a few
days. Just a few days. Came home. And a man asked him. At the funeral
says, where's your God when your son got killed? He said the same
place he was when we killed his son, on his throne. Now that's what I'm talking about.
He took it to the Lord. What else you gonna do? What
else you gonna do? Huh? Oh my. He didn't spread
it before the face of heaven. but before the face of the all-seeing,
all-knowing, all-powerful God of heaven and earth. He that
comes to God must believe that He is, and He is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek Him. And oh, look at it. His thoroughness,
He spread it. Now look what He says when He
done this. Look what He says. The first thing out of His mouth.
Verse 15. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord,
saying, O Lord of hosts, O Zedekiah, he thinks he's got an army. Lord,
you're the Lord of hosts. You've got an army that can't
be numbered. The number of an army that's
above all, listen, you're the God of heaven and earth. The
Lord of hosts. God of Israel. And where you
live, you believe between the cherubims. Over that mercy seat. Thou art God, and you see how
that's capitalized? Both of them. Even thou alone. And oh, you're the God of all
the kingdoms of the earth. You is the one that made the
heaven and the earth. The first thing he started doing
is just telling God what God is. God knows who he is, but
the best language you can use in prayer is to tell God all
night and start talking about how great he is. And you know
then when you start doing that, your troubles just start fading
away. Look what else he says. Lord,
O God, incline your ear, O Lord. Listen to me. And hear, O Lord. Open your eyes. Lord and see
now he won't don't hear what to see what I say and what I've
said and what I'm doing he said but listen here are the words
of Sennacherib and here's the here's the kicker he has sent
to reproach the living God he thinks he's got me whipped but
he's tackling you Just like David when he went up there and all
those fellas started making fun of him. Goliath, that nine foot
giant, standing out there. And he had a staff about that
big around. He stood in front of whole armies
of Israel and said, anybody come down and beat me, come on. How's
the little old shepherd boy? God sent him from the shepherd
from out of the hills taking care of his sheep. Go check on
your brethren. He went over there and everybody
was trembling over Goliath. And David said, well, who is
this uncircumcised Philistine that even dares to speak to God
like this and dare to defy the armies of Israel? He's not defying
Israel, he's defying God. He said, I'll go down and face
him. And they whipped him, oh, you proud, you're a proud man.
You're an arrogant little, who do you think you are? David got
him five stones. You know what those five stones
were? Man's depravity. Oh, Goliath was a depraved, arrogant,
proud man. He said, Davis said, I'm one
of God's chosen. He believed in unconditional
election. And he got him some particular
redemption. That's the first. And then, you know, the death
of Christ and then perseverance. He went out there with them five
stones. And he only used one of them. One all the time. He grabbed
that thing up, whap! He said, is there not a cause?
The cause of God, the glory of God. And he killed that giant
with one little old stone. I had geese come in my backyard.
They come in there and they're the aggravating the stings. They're
the nastiest thing. I bought me a slingshot. And
I keep me a bucket full of rocks there. When I just walk out the
door now, they're shoom. But I've shot good things with
that slingshot, shoom, shoom. And that's what David does. I'll
tell you when something's bothering you. And that's what David did. He said, listen. And that's what
Hezekiah's doing here. He said, Lord, this Sennacherib,
do you know what he's doing? He's defying you. He's defying
you. Oh, there's no doubt He can whip
me. There's no doubt He could take Jerusalem. There's no doubt
that He could take His army and just destroy us in a moment.
But He said, Lord, it's not us they're after. They're after
you. They're after you. And then He goes on to say this,
in verse 18, of a truth, Lord, and this is true, The kings of
Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their countries,
and have cast their gods into the fire. But I'll tell you one god they
can't put in the fire. Listen to this, for they were
no gods. Oh, God knows what gods, he knows
who's God. For the work of men's hands,
wood and stone, therefore they have destroyed them. Now listen
to what he says, now therefore, oh Lord, our God, save us from
his hand. And here's the way that all the
kings of the earth may know that there are God, the Lord, even
you only. You let everybody know who's
God. You let everybody know who's the Lord. You let everybody know who's
running this world and everything that's in it. Oh my. He laid
the whole matter from beginning to end before the Lord. And here's the thing, and I know
this is hard to do, but this is what we need to do. When you're
dealing with the Lord, and you got troubles, and you're dealing
with the Lord, be definite in your dealings with Him. Be definite. If you got a specific need, you
got something definite, something real, some reality going on in
your life, be definite with the Lord. Don't talk in circles. Tell Him what it is. Lay your
heart out before Him. Lay your words out before Him.
He knows before you ask, but yet still, that's what you do. Be honest with the Lord. Be thorough
with the Lord. And you can be confidential with
the Lord. There's a lot of people you can't
be confidential with. But you can be confidential with
the Lord. And believe me, nobody will ever
know it but you in hell. Don't keep back nothing. Whatever
is trouble to you, take it to the Lord. Take it to the Lord. This is an old song. I looked
it up this morning when I thought about this. Take it to the Lord.
It's an old song, maybe some of you have heard it. If the world withhold from you
of his silver and gold, and you have to get along with meager
fare, just remember in his word how he feeds the little bird.
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there. If your body
suffers pain and your health you can't regain, and your soul
is almost sinking in despair. Jesus knows the pain you feel. He can save and He can heal.
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there. When your
enemies assail and your heart begins to fail, don't forget
that God in heaven answers prayer. He'll make a way for you and
He will lead you safely through. Take your burden to the Lord
and leave it there. And this is where a lot of us
is getting. When your youthful days are gone, and old age is
stilling on, and your body bends beneath the weight of care, He'll
never leave you then. He'll go with you to the end.
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there. Huh? Oh my. Not a better place we
can take it. Not a better place we can take
it. And oh my, well, do you reckon he won? You reckon who gave him the victory? Look what
happens in verse 33. Go to 33 and then look what the
Lord, the Lord answers his prayer. Therefore thus saith the Lord
Concerning the king of Assyria. He's not gonna come into this
city. He's not even gonna shoot an arrow there He's not gonna
come before with shields or cast a bank against it By the way,
which he came he's gonna go back the same way and he's not gonna
come into this city How come saith the Lord? For I will God
says listen to this now. I'll defend this city I I'm going
to defend it. And to save it, listen to this,
for my own sake and for my servant David's sake. David, the Lord's,
who the Lord come through. Listen to what God did now. Then
the angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians 185,000. They got up in the morning and
there was 185,000 dead people. God didn't have to do a thing,
but just send an angel. Scared them to death, scared
them totally to death. Oh, what was it that he said
that made God do this? He said, oh, I want you to know
that the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord,
even thou alone. And what did our Lord say to
us? Hebrews 13, 5 says, I will never, no never, never, no never,
no never forsake thee nor leave thee. Five times it says that
in one verse. God. Look in Isaiah 49. Look over here. This is such
a blessing. Look what he says here in verse
16. That's why David says, so my mother and father forsake
me. He said, you know what's going
to happen? He said, the Lord will take me out. The Lord will
come get me. The Lord will take me. They won't
take me, but the Lord will. Look what he said here in verse
16. He said in verse 15, can a woman
forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion
on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will
I not forget thee? Why not, Lord? Behold, I have
craven thee upon the palms of my hands. Thy walls, while I
build around you, are continually before me. Oh my. See, that's the thing about it.
If you belong to the Lord, they're going against God when they go
against you. That's what our Lord told us to Saul on the road
to Damascus. Why are you persecuting me? What our Lord was saying, if
you bother one of mine, you're bothering me. Thanks be unto
God, which always calls us to triumph in Christ Jesus. 1 Corinthians
15 57 says, God hath given us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ. Well let me show you one other
thing and then I'm done. Look over with me in Romans chapter
8. But you've seen, you know if
you're going to, I don't know what you're going through and
you don't know what I'm going through sometimes. But I tell you one thing, the
best place you can take it is to the Lord. Take it to the Lord. If your heart right now feels
the weight of its sin, the burden of its guilt, and you don't know if Christ
will accept you or receive you, oh, He will. Tell Him, tell Him,
Lord, I need you. Would you forgive me? Would you
have mercy on me? Would you accept me for Christ's
sake? Would you receive my soul? Would you? But look what he said
here, Acts 8 31. What shall we say then to these
things? If God be for us, who can be
against us? He that spared not his own son,
but delivered him up with us all, how shall he not also with
him freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. Now
listen to this. Who is he that condemns us? Who
can condemn us? It's Christ that died. Oh my. Not only did he die, but he rose
again. And not only did He rise again, He ascended to heaven
and sat down at the right hand of God. And while He's there
doing that, He's making intercession for us. So then He asked this
question, well, since Christ died for us, Christ is risen
for us, and God's justified us, nobody can deliver, save us,
charge us with any condemnation. He asked this question, who shall
separate us from the love of Christ? Who in the world can? We know God's not going to, because
Christ died for us. Will tribulation do it? Distress, oh my goodness, sometimes
we get so distressed, so distressed, and look what he goes on to say.
Or persecution, somebody not liking you, not saying things
about you and persecuting you. Famine, you don't get, the word
don't do anything for you. Nakedness or peril of the sort.
Oh, now, verse 37. No, no, no, in all these things,
in all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him that
loved us. And he said, I'm persuaded of
this thing. I'm persuaded beyond a shadow
of a doubt. that neither death, mine, my husband's, my wife,
my children's, that death, nor life, nobody's life is going
to keep me from Christ. Nobody's life is going to keep
me from worshiping Christ. My grandbabies, my babies, my
grandpas, my grandmas, but no life is going to keep me from
Christ. nor angels, nor principalities, that's our government and all
the things like that, nor powers, nor things present or things
to come. He said, because I can't think of anything else, I don't
care how high it is, I don't care how deep it is, and I don't
care what creature it is, shall be able to separate us from the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Spread it before
the Lord, Cast all your care upon Him. Why? Because He cares
for you. He cares for you. Our Father, in the blessed name
of Christ our Lord, thank you for allowing us to stand again
this time, this time of this privilege, this blessing, this
time of worship, this time we've gathered in your name. for allowing
me to speak, to allow me to deal with your word. And I pray that
the hands of the Holy Spirit, that it would be a fruitful,
effectual blessing to those that are here and those that are listening. Oh Lord, we need you and we want
you. And we lay out our hearts before
you. Our fears before you, our worries
before you, our anxieties before you. And Lord, we lay out this
congregation of believers before you. There's people here that
belong to you. You bought them, you paid for
them. You bought them with your blood.
You paid their debt. You paid all that they owed.
You paid it all. And Lord, I thank you. God, move
upon our hearts to love you more, to honor you more, glorify you
more, and do it for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. 267. Let's do 267. I think that's
what I want. 267. Or 167. Maybe it's 167. Let me
look here real quick. Nope. 267. Yeah. OK. All right, let's stand out. Stand
up and we'll sing this song together.