We're going to deal with a whole
new section. A whole new section. And I want
us to go back just a moment and remember some things. There's
seven parallel sections. Remember they're like roads running
parallel. We've been through four of them.
The first one was when our Lord Jesus Christ was walking in the
midst of the candlesticks. You know, as clothed in a golden
girdle, hair white as snow, In his hands he had seven stars
and he sent messages to the seven churches. When he first come,
he said, he first come, then ever I shall behold him. So we
have his coming, what he does, and then he goes back to glory. And that lasted through chapters
one through three. And then in chapter four, through
chapter seven, you have the vision of heaven. And the seals, you
know, the door was opened in heaven and John went up there
and he saw that seven, that book with that seven seals and the
Lord Jesus taking that book out of his hand and opening those
seven seals. And as we dealt with those seals
that were open, God's will, God's purpose in this world, his decree
being carried out. Then we had the seven trumpets,
seven trumpets of woe. And we finished up the seventh
trumpet Last year, I mean last week before last, but look what
it says there in verse 19 of chapter 11. That started in chapter
eight and went down through verse one. And here's the last thing. Heaven's opened again now. And
the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen
in his temple the ark of his testament, lightnings and voices,
thunderings and an earthquake, and a great, great hail. For
the Lord's people, it's a glorious thing. For those outside of Christ,
it's the judgment. And here we're gonna start the
fourth parallel thing. This goes from verse one all
the way through chapter 14 down to verse 20. And all of these
sections, every one of them that I've went through, we have Christ's
first coming, we have what happens to his people while they're on
this earth, what goes on in their lives while they're on this earth,
the things that they go through. And then he ascends back to glory,
and then the judgment comes. And we're gonna go through the
same thing again, but it's gonna go in a different way. And here
we start in another dispensation, another parallel passage. And
John takes us back in his vision, he takes us back to the birth
of the Lord Jesus Christ and his ascension again. Now let's
start reading here in chapter 12 and verse 1. And there appeared
a great wonder in heaven. Now it's got to be a wonder. It's got to be really something
for heaven to say it's a great wonder. For God to say that. For God to say it's a great,
great wonder in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun
and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 stars. And she being with child cried,
travailing in birth and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder
in heaven. And behold, stop and look at
this thing, a great red dragon, having seven heads and 10 horns
and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part
of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth. And the
dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be delivered.
for to buy her child as soon as it was born. And she brought
forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of
iron. Her child was caught up unto
God and to his throne. You know, and it doesn't end
until we get to chapter 14. I want you to look in chapter
14 and verse 14. See where this thing ends at. Told you, with Christ coming,
this is His birth. And then it's the, back in glory,
He's ascended. And He said, I looked and behold
a great white cloud, and upon the cloud, one set like unto
the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and His
hand a sharp sickle. He's fixing to harvest, make
harvest in this world. Now, we'll see judgment again. Well, in these chapters that
we're gonna deal with this evening and start here in chapter 12
and go through chapter 14. We see the great opposition,
those that hate Christ, hate the Lord Jesus Christ, hate his
people. First of all, you got the dragon.
I mean the dragon. That dragon is Satan, there's
no doubt about that. Then you got over here, I think,
in chapter Verse 13, you got down here in verse one of chapter
13, you got a beast. There's two different beasts
now. One comes out of the sea and one comes out of the earth.
These oppose Christ. And I stood upon the sand of
the sea and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and 10 horns, and upon his horns 10 crowns, and upon
his head, listen to this, the name of blasphemy. And then look
down. In verse 11. And I beheld another
beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb,
and he spake as a dragon. And then you got Babylon. So
you got all these people opposing Christ. And then you have the
men with the mark of the beast. And the rest of the book, as
we get through it, we'll see all of those and what happens
to them that oppose the Lord Jesus Christ and his people.
Now I want to give you a brief outline of chapter 12, if I can. The dragon, he is pictured here
as seeking to destroy this man-child, destroy the Lord Jesus Christ.
He always has sought to destroy the Lord Jesus Christ. He fails.
He fails. You know, he says down here,
In verse 6, in the woman, chapter 12, and the woman fell into the
wilderness, had her place prepared for God. And I tell you what,
God prepared her a place. And he fails, and he fails, and
he fails. And look in verse 10, he says
here, and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now salvation
comes. Now salvation comes. And he persecutes
this woman that brought forth the Lord Jesus Christ. And look
what he says down here in verse 13. And when the dragon saw that
he was cast under the earth, he persecuted the woman which
brought forth the man child. persecuted her, persecuted her. And to the woman were given two
wings of a great eagle that she might fly into the wilderness,
into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times
and a half a time from the face of the serpent. And the serpent
cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, still
trying to get her, that he might cause her to be carried away
of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened
her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out
of his mouth. And listen to this now, and the
dragon was angry, angry with the woman. Went in to make war,
since he couldn't get the woman, couldn't destroy the woman, look
what he says. He went in to make war with the remnant of her seed.
Who are those? Those that keep the commandments
of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. He can't destroy
the woman, so he goes after God's people. Goes after God's people.
And I tell you what, and he's gonna get, you know, and I don't
know about you, but I'm certainly grateful that God has got control
over him. I certainly am thankful for that.
But in these first six verses, that's all I'm gonna deal with
tonight. Try to give you a little outline there. We see this symbolic
picture here. And the picture describes some
things. And what does this picture mean?
There's three characters. Three characters in these first
six verses. Three characters. You got the
woman. And that woman represents the church of the Lord Jesus
Christ, symbolizes the church. And I tell you, and then the
church, you got the church, and then you got the dragon, and
then you got the Lord Jesus Christ. And you got the child, and then
you got the dragon. You got those three people. But
these, first of all, this picture means it's these first three
characters, the woman, she represents the church, symbolic of the church.
I want you to see with me an Isaiah 54. Isaiah 54. You know, God, you know, we're
viewed as the bride of Christ. Christ is the groom. And God's
always viewed the church as a woman, always viewed her as someone
that brings forth children. And this is what God says, you
know, about the church. He said here in verse 1, Isaiah
54, saying, O barren, you're never barren, you never have
any children. break forth into singing, cry aloud, that thou
didst not travail with child, for more are the children of
the desolate, that's talking about the Gentiles here, than
the children of the married wife, Israel, saith the Lord. And then
he says this, you enlarge the place of your tent, You go, God's
gonna enlarge and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation.
Spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes. So he's talking here about we're
bringing forth children and God's elect. Now look over here in
Isaiah 66. And look in verse seven. He's talking about Zion now. Before she travailed, she brought
forth. For her pain came, she was delivered
of a man child. Who hath heard such a thing?
Who hath seen such a thing? Shall the earth be made to bring
forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at
once? For as Zion travailed, she brought
forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth and
not cause to bring forth, saith the Lord? Shall I cause to bring
forth and shut up the womb, saith thy God? Rejoice with Jerusalem
and be glad with her, all you that love her. Rejoice for joy
with all you that mourn for her. See, it's a woman that you may
suck and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation. that
you may milk out and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
For thus saith the Lord, behold, I will extend peace to her like
a river and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.
Then shall you suck, you shall be born upon her sides and be
dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforted,
so will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones
shall perish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be
known unto his servants, and his indignation towards his enemies.
So he's talking about us being the church, and the children,
and God calls our tent to enlarge. He brought forth a lot of children
in his church, And I'll tell you something about the church.
I talked about her. The church is the same in whatever
age it is. The church is the same. We're
all one, chosen in Christ. God views us all as one. We're
chosen in Christ. And he talked about that tent.
We're all in the same tent. God has us as a vineyard. He
said there's only one vineyard. And then he calls us a family.
There's only one family. And Abraham's the father of all
believers. And you remember when we talked
about the olive tree? One olive tree. One elect race
on this earth. One royal priesthood. One holy
nation, he calls us. One people of God's possession.
One God. One consummation. And as he read
the night, he called us a peculiar people. That peculiar means that
we're his possession, that we belong to him. And he treats
us like we're the apple of his eyes. And I tell you what, here
on this earth, when you think about it, now you think about
it, you think about the Lord's people, here on earth, the church,
God's people, are considered insignificant. I mean, they really
are insignificant. You see how the church started
out. The first person you find that mentioned that walk with
God was Enoch. Only Enoch. And then when you
got down to Noah, Noah and his eight of them were saved in the
ark. They've always been insignificant. The world goes on like they don't
even exist. And I tell you, people get on
the radio and they advertise their place, oh, we're not the
best and all that, but I tell you, we're gonna do this, that,
and the other, and I tell you what, but here we have God's
view of His church, the view of His people. God has a different
view of us than the world does. I mean, you think about it, we're
absolutely insignificant in this world. How many of God's elect,
you know, the only people that know anything about God's people
is God's people. The only people who know where
God's elect are, God's elect. And that's why the lives people
can go anywhere where God's people are, and God's children are,
and he can fit again. You know why? Because we're all
the same one. We all belong to one another.
And we all belong to Christ. And we're insignificant on this
earth, absolutely insignificant. Oh my, you know you go in and
tell somebody, say I'm a preacher, oh I'm a preacher too. Well,
God saved me, well, I'm saved too. You know, you can't mention
religion without somebody saying, well, I don't want nothing to
do with it. One or the other, they're either
gonna be religious or they're gonna say, well, I'd just as
soon not talk about it. But I'll tell you what, here
we have God's view of it. Look what he said in verse one.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven. And what does he say? He said, a woman, a woman. Look what she looks like in God's
sight. She's all glorious. First of all, she's clothed with
the sun. Oh, the sun. She's clothed with the sun. How
bright is the sun. And that sun represents the glorious
righteousness of Christ that shines, that shines on us. And
God views us as this great sun shining down on this woman. And
then look what else it says. And the moon was under her feet. You know, the world out there,
but God says here, the moon's under her feet. What does that
mean? The moon's her footstool. The moon's her footstool. Now
what does that mean? You know, the moon has no light
of its own. The moon has no light of its
own. The only time you see the moon, it's a reflection of the
sun. That's all it is. And the only light you and I
have is the reflection of Christ on us. And here, he says, the
moon is our footstool. And I tell you, and she has dominion. Look what it says. Look what
it says. See, God gave her dominion on
this earth. And upon her head a crown of
12 stars, 12 blessed stars, like the apostles and like the the
patriarchs. And when you see those crowns,
those crowns symbolizes that she's victorious. You read tonight,
a crown of righteousness given to them that love him. A crown
of righteousness, crown of life to them that wait upon him. And
she was with child. She was with child. And she brought
forth Christ as concerning the flesh. Now I want you to understand
this. Christ was born of a virgin, but the church God gave Christ
to the church. And according to the flesh, he
was born, born after the son of David. And I tell you, she
brought forth Christ as concerning the flesh. Now, I'm going to
tell you something. You know, when Christ was promised
in Genesis 3.15, And you go through the Scriptures and you see the
promised seed all the way through. God made promises of His seed
coming, Christ coming. And He started with Seth. Out
of Seth came Israel and all the 12 tribes of Israel. And then
there came Abraham. And then there came Isaac. And
then there came Jacob and Esau. And out of all those people,
God had Seth, Then he had Abraham. Then he comes along and he has
Israel. And he protects his seed all
the way down through history. And all the time in history,
they're trying to kill the Son of God. They're trying to destroy
the Son of God. Satan works again. The first
time that you find Satan working, you know where he's working at?
To stop the birth of the Son of God. To control the human race. He
appeared to the first two people that God made on this earth and
the first thing he did is he lied on God. And he's been lying
on God ever since. And he wanted to do his dead
metal best to keep Christ from coming into this world. And Christ
come into this world, and then he had David. And God told David,
he made a promise to him, David, I'll tell you what I'm gonna
do for you. I'm gonna give you a throne, and your throne is
gonna last forever and ever and ever and ever. And when they
preached on Pentecost, they said, David's in his grave. We can
go where he's buried. But David had a son. God made
him a promise that he gonna be on his throne. So Christ came
according to the seed of David, the son of David, he came into
this world, and he came into this world to save his elect. But that seed was protected from
the time that God purposed for Christ to come to this earth.
Until he should come as what? The seed of the woman. Oh my. And he's seen as the David
according to the flesh. Let me show you that in Romans
chapter 1. Look at this. Look in Romans
chapter 1. You know, God protected that seed all the
way. Not only that seed which was
Christ, it tells us in Galatians, that seed was Christ. And the
seed of the woman, But then Christ has a seed, which is all his
elect. But look what it said here in
Romans chapter one. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,
called to be an apostle, separated under the gospel of God. which
he had promised before by the prophets in the holy scriptures
concerning his son Jesus Christ our Lord, now listen to it, which
was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. And that's
what it meant, but he was the son of God who came of the sin
of David. And all right, back over here
in Revelations 12, I hope I can And this child, this seed of
the woman, look what it said in verse two. And she being with
child, cried, she was crying out, she was in pain, she was
travailing in birth and in pain to be delivered. And so this
mighty child that's gonna be born here is Christ our Lord,
made after the seed of David, but he's Christ our Lord. And
I tell you, she's gonna be, she's gonna have a great time having
this child. But look what this child's gonna
do now. Look down in verse five. When
this child's born, look what he's born to do. And she brought
forth a man child, listen to this, who was to rule all nations. With a rod of iron. And oh my,
where was he gone? He was caught up unto God and
unto his throne. Shows you who this man-child
was and what he's gonna be like. And then, oh my, he's caught
up into heaven to the throne of God. And God, he said, he
sat on his hill, holy hill of Zion, his blessed king. And then
look at the work that he does once he comes into this world.
In verse 10, not only did he come, born into this world a
man-child. And I heard a loud voice in heaven
saying, oh my, what's going on? Now is salvation come. Why? Because
that man-child's come. And strength and the kingdom
of our God, it's here. And the power of his Christ And
then he cast down the accuser of our brethren, which accused
him day and night before God. Now has come salvation. Now comes
strength, the kingdom of God, and the power of his Son and
all of his authority, all of his blessed authority. Now let's
look at this dragon. We see the woman. Oh, she's beautiful,
glorious. God sees her. Clothed with the
sun, bright, shiny. in the righteousness of Christ. The child's born, great pain
to be born. And then look what it said, here's
another wonder in heaven. And there was a great red dragon. Dragon. You know who this dragon
is? It's Satan himself. Look in Revelations
20, 20. 22 excuse me this Satan himself. It's a it's no doubt about that
this great dragon Look what he said And he laid on on that on the
dragon that old serpent which is the devil and Satan and Bound
him a thousand years, so he's described as Satan the dragon
the devil and Satan And here he's called a dragon. Why is
he called a dragon? Because he's got great, great
strength. And he causes terror. And he's
called a great red dragon for fierceness, for his cruelty,
for his meanness, for his hatred. And then it tells us here that
he has seven heads. Seven heads and on those seven
heads. He's got seven crowns on those
seven heads, and he's got ten horns Now I want you to notice
something that those crowns cannot last And I'll tell you what those
crowns are that means that he's got a false dominion Christ got
one crown And the crowns that his people have, they throw at
his feet. But Satan wears his crowns. He wants everybody to
see what power he has. And then he has those seven,
those ten horns, showing how strength he's got, and the power
he's got, and how destroying he is. He's called the God of
this world. That's what he's called. And
these crowns are not his by right, and one of the day, God will
take every one of them off of his head. But I want you to see
a couple things with me about what we're fighting here. Look
in with me in Ephesians. Ephesians chapter 2. You know, talking about this
great dragon. You know, he's the god of this
world with a little g. With a little g. And he said here in verse two,
wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this
world, now listen to this, according to the prince of the power of
the air. The spirit that now works in
the children of disobedience. The prince of the power of the
air. Do you see a prince around here in the air anywhere? You
go outside, you ain't gonna see no prince in the air. This is
a spiritual being that's got great power. He's a prince and
he's got some power. And now look over here in chapter
6 in verse 12. Look what it says over here. For we wrestle not against flesh
and blood. Oh no, we're not fighting flesh
and blood. No, no. But against principalities. against powers, against the rulers
of darkness of this world. There's a darkness out here.
There's principalities in this world. There's powers and demons
and all that working in the world all the time. All the time. And we're warned against spiritual
wickedness in high places. So that's what we're doing. And
that's one other place I want to show you. So we're fighting
against principalities and powers. You know, in Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress, old Bunyan was walking, a Christian was walking along.
Faithful was. Faithful was walking along, and
he had something got on his shoulder and began to talk to him. He
said it began to make suggestions to him. And he said, I didn't
know what voice it was. He said, I couldn't tell if it
was my voice or Apollyon's voice. He said, do you know? He said,
I know, but he said, Apollon was Satan himself. Satan was
on his shoulder making suggestions to him. And you know where he
ended up when he made those suggestions? He ended up in Downton Castle
and couldn't find a key to get out. But I'll tell you what,
you don't have to live very long in this world before you don't
have somebody whispering in your ear, you can do this, you can
do that, you can do something else, you know you can get by
with this, you can get by with that, and you can get by with
something else. Watch the thing today about a preacher who killed
his wife. Poisoned her to death. You know
why? They won't be married anymore.
Well, just divorce her. Don't kill her. Everybody wants
to do that. They want to get rid of the wife. You know, but that's what I'm
telling you. The spiritual wickedness is what made him do that. What
went on in his mind? It surely wasn't God. It wasn't
the Spirit of God. That was that spirit of darkness. He wasn't wrestling against flesh
and blood. He was wrestling against spiritual darkness, spiritual
wickedness, and the spiritual wickedness won out. And I tell you that we ain't
no match for the devil. I know that without a shadow
of a doubt. I ain't no match for myself. I can't even control
me. People get up and tell you all
the time, you know, that you gotta fight the devil, fight
the devil. I tell you, the devil, God saved me from that man. He
said, he is a man, he's a strong man armed as long as he keeps
his goods, they're safe. until a stronger man arm comes
up and destroys him and takes him away. How does he keep us? He keeps us with lies. He keeps
us with pride. He keeps us with self-righteousness.
He keeps us with our religion. He keeps us with our experiences.
He uses religion to get you a Bible, get you a cross, and he's got
you right where he wants you. We're no match for him. And God comes along and he said,
listen, I'm going to assault that strong man's arms. I'm going
to destroy his lies. I'm going to tear down his righteousness. I'm going to tear down their
pride. I'm going to tear down their experience. I'm going to
tear down everything that they hoped and trusted in and may
God brings them down and when he gets done with them, they're
tickled to death that he got them out of that big house. Ain't
that right? Oh my. So this great red dragon,
Satan, I tell you, and look what our Lord said over here in John
6, 44. Excuse me, John 6, 84. John 8, 44. I'll get it right
in a minute. John 8, 44. Look what our Master
told these people. He's talking to Jews now. He's
talking to religious people. He's talking to people who don't
know God. They said, well, we never were
in bondage. Our Lord said, if the Son makes you free, you're
being free. Well, we're never in bondage.
We've never been in bondage. I've never been a sinner, that's
what people say. And oh my, look what he gets
down here and he tells them. He said, in verse 43, why do
you not understand my speech? Even because you cannot hear
my word. Listen to this now. Ye of your father, the devil. God, you're of your father, the
devil. And listen to this, and the lust of your father will
you do? What was the lust of his father? To destroy Christ?
To destroy his church? To destroy his people? And listen
to what he said, he was a murderer from the beginning. Who did he
murder? He murdered Adam and Eve. He murdered them. Destroyed them. And look what
it says here. And he didn't abide in the truth.
Why didn't he? Because he don't have the truth
in him. Not one truth is in this person. And when he speaks a
lie, he speaks of his own, for he's a liar and he's the father
of a liar. And so that's what he's like,
what our Lord said. So that's what, you know, wouldn't
it be awful for Christ to say, your father's the devil? And
he told him over in Timothy, he said, you know, they're taken
captive by Satan at his will. And so back over here in Revelation,
let me go back over here now. And so here's this great red
dragon having seven heads. Oh my. Christ has one. We have one head. He's got seven. I mean he wants everybody to
know how powerful he is, how great he is. Ten horns to go
around and beat people and be cruel to people. Seven false
crowns on his head. And then it says there in verse
four, and his tail drew third part of the stars, did cast to
the earth, and the dragon stood ready before the woman, which
was ready to be delivered. Now watch this, to devour her
child as soon as it was born. Do you all remember when the
Lord Jesus was born? Herod told the wise men, he said,
now you come back, you know, they follow that star to where
he's born. He said, when you go down there, you come back
and tell me where he is. I want to come and worship him,
too. Well, they didn't come back. So you know what he did? He sent
a bunch of soldiers down there, and every child in that area, he killed every
child under two years old. If you had a two-year-old child,
one-year-old child, he'd come in your house, he would take
it out, and he'd kill it. You know why I did that? I got
to kill this one, this born king of the Jews. There can't be no
king but me. And who was that standing there
like that? That was this great red dragon to devour the man-child,
to devour Christ when he come into this world. And I tell you,
look what it says here then in verse four. And his tail drew
the third part of the stars and did cast him to the earth. You
know, when Satan fell, he dragged with him one third of the stars
of heaven. Those are all angels, fallen
angel, evil spirits. And you know it says, look in
Jude, you know I could show you two or three places, but it says
here, you know it talks about that God has these dark spirits,
these spirits are held under chains to be reserved until the
day of judgment. Look here in Jude in verse six. I think it's verse six. Yep. Now here's what we're talking
about. And the angels, which kept not their first estate, And that first estate's the same
thing as a principality. It didn't keep where they was.
But left their own habitation, they left glory. Satan took them
out with him. He hath reserved an everlasting
change under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Now
what that means is, is that Christ, these people, these demons live
in darkness. And Christ has power over them,
he's got a chain over them and they can't do anything or go
anywhere and do anything to anybody until God lets them do it. And
I tell you what, one thing you don't want is God to let Satan
loose on you. He turned him loose on Adam,
look what happened. Turned him loose on Job, look what happened.
And then God, then God here says back over here in our text, She
brought that man child, and our Lord Jesus Christ, he's the one
that's gonna rule all nations. He's gonna rule with a rod of
iron. And he was caught up to heaven, caught up to be with
God. And this woman, which is, like
I said, the church, she fled into the wilderness, and that's
where we are. Would anybody say we're not in the wilderness?
We're in the wilderness. And I'll tell you what, she had
the place prepared of God. God's got a place prepared for
us. Right here is one of the places He prepared. He prepared
this place. He prepared this building. He
prepared healers. He prepared the preacher. He
prepared His Word. He prepared us a place to live
in this wilderness. God prepared us a place. And
you know why you're coming here? I'm going to get out of the wilderness
for a few minutes. I'm going to go up there where that cloud
keeps us of a day, and the light keeps us of a night. And know
that God should feed her. Who knows who feeds her? God
does. And you know what that 2,203
score days is? I don't know. And don't care. But I know he prepared a place
for us. He's going to feed us, and we're in this wilderness
until he calls us out. Ain't that right? Well, I hope
that made sense. I hope that come out right. I
tell you, this is a task. It's a task for me. I know if
it's a task for me, I know it's a task for you to listen. And
now I got four more points. I love you, no I don't, I sure
love you and I pray the Lord to keep you. Our Father, oh blessed
be your holy, glorious, blessed name. Oh Lord, you've got us a place prepared
and we're prepared, you prepared it, you feed us, you protect
us, you keep us, you brought us out of that darkness, Brought
us out from that power of sin, power of darkness, saved us out
of it. Brought us into that blessed
light of the Lord Jesus Christ. Brought us into that glorious
salvation that's in the Lord Jesus Christ. Brought us to that
place, enclosed us with that glorious sun, that righteousness
of our Lord that shines shines, and we can't see it shining,
but Lord you can. You can see what bright it is,
and how glorious it is, and how pure it is, and how glistening
white it is in your presence. And Father, bless these dear
saints. Thank you for the day. Thank you for your word. Thank
you for your people's faithfulness. And Lord, I pray for those who
haven't been to the services. I pray for them. Lord, it's not
what I think about them or what they think about me. But Lord,
it's what God thinks. God's view of them. Lord, burden
them. Move on their hearts to come. Be in the services. Hear the
gospel preached. Hear Christ honored. Be with
the people of God. Be with the family of God. Be
with the sheep. God grant it for Christ's sake.
Protect your people now and keep them for the Lord Jesus' sake.
Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lord, for saving
my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me thy great salvation, so rich and free. Well, good night and God bless
you. Lord willing, I'll see you Wednesday.